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amendment also makes some changes to the soon to be optional Agricultural PD requirements. Those changes include the following: • The open space area must be under the ownership of a single entity and maintained as open space in perpetuity. through a conservation and/or agricultural preservation easement. • The clustered lots must be grouped together in a compact. contiguous manner. • Golf courses are not permitted as part of Agricultural PDs. Caribbean Fruit Fly Host Plants As part of the Evaluation and Appraisal Process. the county added a policy restricting Caribbean Fruit Fly 'host ' plants in certain types of new development on agriculturally designated land. The existence of Caribbean Fruit Fly host plants near active citrus groves can adversely affect protocol approval of grove fruit. For that reason. the county adopted a policy that requires the following special conditions for Administrative Permit. Special Exception and/or Planned Development approN,al of projects on agriculturally designated land: Caribbean Fruit Fly host plants shall be prohibited on the subject site. That prohibition shall be enforceable through the county code enforcement board; and A deed restriction shall be recorded and established on the subject site. That deed restriction shall prohibit the occurrence of Caribbean Fruit Fly host plants on the subject site and shall be acceptable to the county attorney's office. Because many active citrus groves continue to exist within the urban service area. on non - agriculturally designated land. the proposed amendment expands these restrictions to those areas. The revisions related to Caribbean Fruit Fly host plants involve changes to Future Land Use Element Policy 6.5. Clarification of the Future Land Use Map This is a minor non -substantive amendment intended to clarify the Future Land Use Map. Currently, the comprehensive plan contains two maps (Future Land Use Element Figures 2.31a and 2.31b) depicting land use designations and the urban service area. Because these maps are difficult to read. the proposed amendment replaces references to those maps with references to a more accurate. more legible and larger scale version. The proposed amendment does not change any land use designation or urban service area boundary. The revisions related to clarification of the Future Land Use Map involve Future Land Use Element Policies 1.1 and 2.1; and portions of Sanitary Sewer Sub -Element Policy 5.8. and Potable Water Sub - Element Policy 5.7. Utility Service to Agricultural Areas With few exceptions. the extension of utility service outside the urban service area is prohibited. This amendment makes two changes related to those exceptions. The first change clarifies and ensures that any approved development or activity on agriculturally designated land (outside the urban service area) can receive necessary utility service if the lack of utilities is determined to be a health threat. March 20, 2001