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To provide for emergency access . the applicant is proposing an emergency access point in the north part of the development . The emergency access road connects to the north perimeter of the development, then heads back ( east ) to 82nd Avenue . The applicant will need to coordinate with Engineering staff and Emergency Services staff to ensure that the technical aspects of the design work, including the emergencv access roadwav construction standards and bridge needed at 82nd Avenue . are acceptable . The final design for the emergency access will need to be approved prior to the issuance of a land development permit for Phase I . 10 , Future Road Svstem Concerns and Comprehensive Plan Compliance : The general requirements applicable to special exception requests include compliance with the Comprehensive Plan ( reference 971 . 05 ) . Of particular concern to staff is this project ' s compliance with the Thoroughfare Plan component of the Comprehensive Plan . As proposed, the development has negative impacts on several potential future roadways west of 82nd Avenue . These roadways are 41st Street, 45th Street, and 49th Street. Because the site is in the Sebastian River Drainage District, no roadway grid exists across the site ( unlike similarly sized sites in the Indian River Farms Water Control District ) . On the County ' s Thoroughfare Plan Map . those roads are shown terminating at 82nd Avenue . While that is consistent with the County ' s 2020 future land use plan , it may not be adequate to accommodate post 2020 development . In the post 2020 period , thoroughfare plan roads such as 41st Street, 45th Street and 49th Street may be necessary to connect 82nd Avenue with 90th Avenue , even though such roads are not vet delineated on the Thoroughfare Plan . To address this issue , staff indicated through the Technical Review Committee process that the applicant needed to accommodate westward expansion of these roadways . Such an expansion could be needed if the area develops residentially rather than continuing with agricultural uses . Staff recommended that the applicant redesign the project to provide corridors through which 41st , 45th and 49th Streets could meander and be designed in a way that would not negatively impact the proposed development. It is the applicant ' s position that the absence of these roads on the County Thoroughfare Plan means that the project design does not need to accommodate these potential roadways . Staff contends that the planned development special exception process allows the County to consider such issues and that the proposed residential development itself could initiate changes in the area ( from agricultural to residential ) that could lead to the need for such roadways . 11 . Recreation Area Limitation within Agricultural PD ' s : Section 911 . 14( 2 ) ( a ) iii restricts the amount of area used for recreation within agricultural planned developments to 30% of the development, or 251 . 7 acres . Recreational areas include golf course . club house and other recreation facilities ( tennis courts ) or accessory uses ( driving range , etc ) to those facilities . On the proposed conceptual plan , the applicant has indicated that recreational areas comprise only 183 . 3 acres . or 21 . 841c . of the overall project . The applicant has not demonstrated to staffs satisfaction with itemized acreage amounts that the 183 . 3 acres includes all of the golf course , the driving range . the clubhouse site , the tennis facility and any other recreation related area. In addition, the applicant has indicated that the 183 . 3 acres does not include any lake area or perimeter buffer area, although the lake area is adjacent to all parts of the course and used to separate the residential area from the golf course . It is the applicant ' s position that the lake area never comes into play and therefore is not part of the recreation area . It is the staff' s position that the lake area is closely related to the golf course through the overall design and should be considered recreational area . April 17, 2001 29 BK 1 1 7 1B 9 17