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- CODE OF ORDINANCES Title VIII COMPREHENSIVE PLAN The community development department shall ensure that the public hearing date for concurrent rezonings coincides with the date for the public hearing before the BCC for related comprehensive plan amendments. The community development department shall notify property owners of the public hearing for rezonings prior to the meeting of the Board. (b) The community development department shall, to the extent feasible, send courtesy letters to all owners of property involved in a land use amendment. This letter will state the date, time and general location of the area involved in the amendment. Surrounding property owners (SPOs) letters will also be sent for concurrent rezoning requests. This step may be waived for request involving more than five (5) percent of the total land area of Indian River County. as determined by the Community Development Director. (c) The community development department shall revise the comprehensive plan amendment agenda item presented to the Board of County Commissioners for consideration at the transmittal hearing to reflect the action taken at the first BCC meeting and include any comments from State and Regional Review Agencies geneFated by the DG.A.. (d) The community development department shall prepare and publish the standard public notice for concurrent rezonings Meebaeisms. The community development department shall also prepare a public notice for the adoption public hearing before the board. This public notice shall contain all information items contained in the notice prepared for the transmittal public hearing, including maps. This notice shall be published approximately five (5) days prior to the adoption public hearing. (e) The community development department shall prepare a land use amendment and rezoning sign and post the sign in the same manner as required for the public hearings before the planning and zoning commission. (f) The community development department shall present each item to the Board of County Commissioners. The Board of County Commissioners shall then make its final decision regarding each amendment request. The Board of County Commissioners will approve plan amendments only if at least one of the following criteria has been met: 1. The proposed amendment will correct an oversight in the adopted plan. 2. The proposed amendment will correct a mistake in the adopted plan. 3. The proposed amendment is warranted based on a substantial change in circumstances affecting the subject property. 4 The proposed Future Land Use amendment involves a swap or reconfiguration of a land use designation at a separate site or sites and that swap or reconfiguration will not increase the overall land use density or intensity depicted on the Future Land Use Map. (g) The community development department shall prepare an action letter to each applicant informing him of the final decision of the board. (8) The community development department shall forward the adopted comprehensive plan amendments to the DEC) and other State and Regional Review Agencies affairs. (a) The community development department shall, within ten 10 five (5) working days of the comprehensive plan approval, prepare a transmittal letter to the DEC) PGA for the transmittal of all approved amendments. The letter shall be accompanied by one paper copy and two compact disks (CD) or other similar format accepted by DEC) five (5) segies of the agenda item for each approved amendment, and five (5) copies of the executed ordinance amending the Indian River County, Florida, Code of Ordinances Page 9