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Caribbean Fruit Fly Host Plants The restrictions on Caribbean fruit fly host plants are necessary to protect citrus production, one of the county's largest industries. While these restrictions are currently in place on agriculturally designated land, many active citrus groves exist within the urban service area. The proposed amendgient expands these restrictions to include developments within the urban service area. For these reasons, the proposed amendment is reasonable. Clarification of the Future Land Use Map The Future Land Use Maps referred to in the policies of the comprehensive plan have a small scale, are maintained by hand, and are difficult to read. Those maps consist of different shadings and cross -hatchings laid over an 11" by 17" base map that is then reduced to letter size. In the past, those maps have generated confusion regarding land use designation boundaries. In contrast, the county has the ability to produce large scale, precise, computer generated, color maps. The proposed amendment ensures that the computer generated map will be the official county land use map and will be used to determine land use designation and urban service area boundaries. For these reasons, the proposed amendment is reasonable. Utility Service to Agricultural Businesses Although not changing permitted uses on agriculturally designated land, these revisions to the comprehensive plan increase the opportunities for approved agricultural businesses located outside the urban service area to connect to centralized potable water and sanitary sewer service. By allowing such connections, the proposed amendment will positively impact juice making plants, packing houses, and other agricultural businesses. The proposed amendment will reduce health risks and encourage agricultural businesses to ►ocate near the urban service area. The incentive to locate near the urban service area is the provision that, unless a health risk is involved, service can be provided only to approved agricultural businesses located within one mile of the urban service area. For these reasons, the proposed amendment is reasonable. Post -Disaster Recovery and Redevelopment Objective 7 of the Coastal Management Element and its associated policies indicate that the county shall complete certain tasks within certain timeframes. One of those tasks, the development and adoption of a Local Mitigation Strategy (LMS) as an annex to the County's Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan, has recently been completed. The proposed amendment revises Objective 7 and its policies to reflect that the LMS task has been completed. Therefore, the proposed amendment is reasonable. Arts and Culture The proposed amendment sets responsibilities for both the public and private sectors. These responsibilities are in the form of objectives and policies that call for cooperation and coordination between the county and cultural organizations, exploration of funding sources, determination of the economic and social impact of cultural activities, investigation into the feasibility of constructing a performing arts center, examination of Art in Public Places Programs, and development of an inventory of cultural assets. If these objectives and policies are achieved and implemented, opportunities to participate in arts and cultural activities will be enhanced. November 7, 2000 106 BK 115 PC 813