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The Board of County Commissioners (BCC) is now to review the attached LDR <br />amendment and is to adopt, adopt with changes, or not adopt the proposed amendment. <br />ANALYSIS <br />Site Plan Approval Process in Selected Jurisdictions <br />Recently, staff surveyed Brevard, Collier, Martin, Sarasota, and Saint Lucie Counties, <br />and the cities of Sebastian and Vero Beach regarding thresholds for staff level approval <br />of site plans. These jurisdictions were chosen because of their proximity or similarity to <br />Indian River county. <br />The jurisdictions surveyed exhibited a wide range of thresholds for staff -level approvals. <br />Generally, the smallest jurisdictions (municipalities) have relatively low thresholds for <br />staff level approval. Some county jurisdictions, such as Brevard, Collier and Sarasota <br />Counties, place no project square footage limits on what staff can approve. In those <br />counties, planning and zoning commissions and boards of county commissioners are <br />involved in project review only when a proposed project involves conditional uses, <br />requires public hearings (such as planned developments or where a rezoning is required) <br />or if there is some other substantive public interest issue at stake. <br />Martin county's current thresholds became effective on July 17, 2001, so information is <br />not yet available on the effects of that change on approval turnaround times. <br />COMPARISON OF STAFF APPROVAL THRESHOLDS BY JURISDICTION <br />Jurisdiction <br />Types of Site Plans <br />Turnaround <br />Type of Site <br />Turnaround Time <br />approved by staff <br />Time <br />Plan approved <br />by Planning and <br />Zoning <br />Commission <br />and/or <br />governing body <br />INDIAN <br />New impervious <br />4-6 weeks <br />New impervious <br />6-9 weeks <br />RIVER <br />surface up to 10,000 <br />surface greater <br />(currently) <br />Sq. Ft. <br />than 10,000 Sq. <br />Ft. <br />INDIAN <br />New impervious <br />4-6 weeks <br />New impervious <br />6-9 weeks <br />RIVER <br />surface up to <br />surface greater <br />(proposed) <br />150,000 Sq. Ft. <br />than 150,000 Sq. <br />Ft. <br />City of Vero <br />Nlinor changes to <br />1-3 weeks <br />New <br />8-12 weeks <br />Beach <br />existing projects. <br />development or <br />major changes to <br />existing projects. <br />City of <br />New impervious <br />2-4 weeks <br />Above 1,000 <br />6-8 weeks <br />Sebastian <br />surface less than <br />square feet of <br />1,000 square feet <br />new impervious <br />surface <br />Brevard <br />All projects for <br />4-6 weeks <br />All projects for <br />11-13 weeks <br />County <br />permitted uses (no <br />conditional uses <br />threshold) <br />All projects for <br />8 weeks <br />All projects for <br />24 weeks <br />Collier <br />County <br />permitted uses (no <br />conditional uses <br />threshold) <br />OCTOBER 23, 2001 <br />-58- <br />