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The goals. objectives and policies are the most important parts of the comprehensive plan. Policies are statements in the plan which identify the actions which the county will take in order to direct the community's development. As courses of action committed to by the county, policies provide the basis for all county land development related decisions --including plan amendment decisions. While all comprehensive plan policies are important. some have more applicability than others in reviewing plan amendment requests. Future Land Use Element Policy 14.3. however. is applicable to all plan amendment requests. For that reason. this section will begin with a discussion of how each proposed amendment is consistent with Future Land Use Element Policy 14.3. Following that discussion. there will be a section detailing how each proposed amendment is consistent with the rest of the comprehensive plan. Future Land Use Element Policy 14.3 In evaluating any comprehensive plan text amendment request. the most important consideration is Future Land Use Element Policy 14.3. This policy requires that at least one of three criteria be met in order to approve a comprehensive plan text amendment. These criteria are: • the proposed amendment corrects a mistake in the approved plan: • the proposed amendment corrects an oversight in the approved plan: or • the proposed amendment is warranted based on a substantial change in circumstances. The following table identifies which of Policy 14.3's criteria applies to each proposed amendment. PROPOSED AMENDMENTS CRITERIA Mistake 1 Oversight l Change in Circumstances Optional Agricultural PDs Caribbean Fruit Fly Host Plants Clarification of the Future Land Use Map X( acquired computer capability Utility Service to Agricultural Areas Post -Disaster Recovery & Redevelopment X (LMS completed) When the plan was adopted, oversights related to Agricultural PDs and clustering occurred. As detailed previously. public testimony before the Board described several reasons why required clustering of residential development on agriculturally designated land does not benefit the county At the time the plan was adopted, the county overlooked those facts, including the fact that the existing lot size pattern within one to one and half miles of the urban service area is currently dominated by lots of ten acres or Less in size. Overlooking those facts constitutes an oversight. For that reason, the proposed amendment making Agricultural PDs optional meets the second critenon of Future Land Use Element Policy 14.3 and is consistent with Future Land Use Element Policy 14.3 An oversight also occurred when the county included only agriculturally designated land when the county adopted Future land Use Element Policy 6.5 as part of the Evaluation and Appraisal Process. March 20, 2001