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- CODE OF ORDINANCES Title VIII COMPREHENSIVE PLAN (b) The community development department shall make an initial recommendation on each amendment request. A staff report including this recommendation shall be prepared as an agenda item for planning and zoning commission review. (c) The community development department shall compose a title for an ordinance to amend the comprehensive plan. This ordinance shall be all inclusive, containing each individual request submitted for that submittal period. (d) The community development department shall prepare a public notice of the time, date, and place of the planning and zoning commission meeting at which the public hearing to consider recommendations on the proposed amendment will be held. This public hearing notice must will be published at least fifteen (15) days prior to the date of the public hearing. All public notices for concurrent rezonings will be scheduled for the same meeting as the public hearing for amending the plan. (e) The community development department shall prepare rezoning signs containing a copy of the notice of the public hearing and a location map. These signs shall be posted on the property being rezoned. Courtesy letters shall, to the extent feasible, be sent to all property owners within three hundred (300) feet of the land involved in land use changes, describing the location of the proposed change and the time, date, and place of the public hearing before the planning and zoning commission. This step may be waived for requests involving more than five (5) percent of the total land area of Indian River County, as determined by the Community Development Director. After the public hearing, the planning and zoning commission will make a recommendation concerning each comprehensive plan amendment request to the Board of County Commissioners. (h) The community development department shall send a letter or an e-mail to all applicants informing them of the outcome of the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. The next public hearing is the "transmittal" public hearing before the Board of County Commissioners. (a) The community development department shall send a notice of the public hearing notify -the secretary to the Board of County Commissioners (BCC) of the comprehensive plan amendments which have been received and identify the date of the public hearing at which the Board will review these amendments. (b) The community development department shall prepare an agenda item for each comprehensive plan amendment request. This item must include the recommendations of the planning and zoning commission. Also to be prepared is a resolution for the Board of County Commissioners to authorize transmittal of approved amendments to the department of community affairs for review. This resolution shall be accompanied by a brief agenda item outlining the amendment procedures. (c) The community development department shall send courtesy letters to all owners of property involved in the amendment. This letter must state the proposed amendment, a general description of the area involved, and the time, place, and date of the Board of County Commissioners meeting. This step may be waived for requests involving more than five (5) percent of the total land area of Indian River County, as determined by the Community Development Director. (d) The community development department shall, to the extent feasible, send all surrounding property owners within three hundred (300) feet of the subject property letters of notification of scheduled public hearings. This letter shall state that "no final action will be taken on this request at this meeting," and shall include a general description of the area involved, the time, place, and date of the public hearing. This step may be waived for request involving more than (f) (g) Indian River County, Florida, Code of Ordinances Page 7