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CONSENT ITEM INDIAN RIVER COUNTY MEMORANDUM TO: Joseph A. Baird County Administrator DEPARTMENT HEAD CONCURRENCE: Stan Boling, AI Community Dev lop ent Director FROM: Roland M. DeBlois, AICP Chief, Environmental Planning & Code Enforcement DATE: March 16, 2015 RE: Preservation Pointes Property Owners Association's Request for Release of Certain Easements on Lots in Preservation Pointes Phases I and II (Timber Ridge P.R.D.) It is requested that the Board of County Commissioners formally consider the following information at the Board's regular meeting on March 24, 2015. DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS The County has been petitioned by the Preservation Pointes Property Owners Association (POA), on behalf of lot owners in Preservation Pointes Phases I and II of Timber Ridge Planned Residential Development (PRD), for release of 10 -foot wide rear yard conservation easements on lots within Preservation Pointes. The POA is also requesting that the County release its upland conservation interest (only) in a 25 -foot "utility/conservation easement and 25 -foot PRD perimeter setback and 6 -foot opaque screening" area on lots along the northern boundary of Preservation Pointes. The purpose of the easements release request is to eliminate unnecessary use restrictions on privately owned platted lots in Preservation Pointes, in light of the fact that a common area preservation tract within the development substantially exceeds a 15% native upland set-aside requirement set forth in the County's land development regulations. Because the conservation easements requested for release are not needed to meet County conservation requirements or PRD requirements, the Board may release the subject easements. The Board is now to consider the POA's request. ANALYSIS Preservation Pointes Phases I and II of Timber Ridge PRD consists of approximately 9.41 acres, +3.9 acres of which are set-aside in a Preservation Tract. The Preservation Tract is a common area dedicated to the Preservation Pointes POA, subject to a conservation easement interest in favor of Indian River County and the St. Johns River Water Management District. The Preservation Tract consists of approximately ±2.48 acres of forested wetlands and +1.42 acres of uplands. The +1.42 acres of conserved uplands in the Preservation Tract represents ±25% of the pre -development native uplands (± 5.64 acres) estimated at the time of development (in the mid-1990s).