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• Awnw. ± 1.03 acres T.AAV Recommentiation., On October 25, 2000, the County Land Acquisition Advisory Committee (LAAC), voted unanimously to recommend that the Board of County Commissioners purchase the subject parcel. Principal Ben Purchase Purchase will allow County to minimize public access disturbance to natural areas that would otherwise occur, and will avoid a potential private land/ public access use conflict. The proposed acquisition consists of a 1.03 acre parcel adjacent to the south end of the Fischer -Sebastian River conservation property, on the west side of the South Prong of the St. Sebastian River (see attached maps). The —95 acre Fischer -Sebastian River property was purchased by the County in January 1997 with environmental land bond funds. The County is pursuing cost -share reimbursement for the Fischer tract under the State Conservation and Recreation Lands (CARL) program. Just recently, on August 22. 2000. the Board of County Commissioners approved an option agreement with the State for $605.000 in reimbursement. In exchange, the Fischer property will become a part of the St. Sebastian River Buffer Preserve. Closing of the reimbursement is expected by the end of this calendar year. In the meantime, under the direction of the County Commission, County engineering staff has obtained a Florida Recreational Development Assistance Program (MAP) cost -share giant to construct a public canoe launch facility on the Fischer tract, on the west side of the South Prong, just north of C.R. 512. During the past year, as County engineering staff proceeded to design the facility, it became apparent that purchase of the Proctor parcel would be necessary for practical design of the access. For that reason, staff obtained an appraisal of the Proctor parcel, and directed the county's acquisition consultant to negotiate a purchase contract. Since the seller recently executed a purchase contract, this matter is now being presented to the Board of County Commissioners for consideration. The County Land Acquisition Advisory Committee (LAAO), at its meeting on October 25. 2000. voted 12-0 to recommend that the Board approve the purchase contract. LAAC also recommended that Environmental land bond funds and Public Works project fimds be used to buy the property, as recommended by staff and explained in this memorandum. The 1.03 acre Proctor parcel consists entirely of uplands. The site contains scrubby flatwood vegetation; a number of fire roads transect the parcel. A 60 -foot wide County right-of-way easement, dedicated to the County when the Fischer tract was purchased, abuts the parcel to the west. North and east of the parcel is the Fischer -Sebastian River conservation tract. Although the Proctor parcel is located in the unincorporated county, it is an enclave, surrounded to the north, east, and west by land within the City of Sebastian. The Proctor parcel is zoned A-1, Agricultural District, up to one unit per five acres, and has a Future Land Use Designation of L-1, Low Density Residential, up to three units per acre. The property is owned by Craig T. Proctor. The current tax assessed value of the parcel is $8,760. Acquisition Cost-Shareprenerty lti:anagg�g� As previously indicated, the train purposes of the proposed acquisition are to allow for practical design of a canoe launch public access and to minimize impacts to native upland habitat on the Fischer property that would otherwise occur. Also, the acquisition will avoid an adjacent land use/ land management conflict that November 7, 2000 147 BK 115 PG 856