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restoration includes removing all non-native vegetation and enhancing FNAI ' s LNA status by restoring the degraded natural areas . (See Exhibit C) 5 . Protection/Enhancement of surface water quality by addressing non-point pollution through enhanced stormwater treatment. Indian River county has adopted 3 directives furthering the protection or enhancement of surface or groundwater quality as listed below : a. Policy Objective 16, and Policy 16.3, directs the County to support land acquisition coastal conservation areas such as the area where the site is located. b . Future Land Use Element Objective 7, directs the County to adopt the St. John ' s River Water Management District 's (SJRWMD) goal for maintaining a stormwater Level of Service (LOS ) Standard based on pollutant load reductions and increase stormwater quality. Acquiring the Project site containing around 56 acres of wetlands will protect and enhance the adjacent Buffer Preserve 's C-54 surface water in two ways : 1 . Construction of stormwater detention systems on the two upland islands designed for physical outdoor recreational facilities for holding and cleansing urban storing storm water runoff before being discharged overland into the Buffer Preserves wetlands will assist in protecting the Buffer Preserves water quality. 2 . Acquisition of the Project Site also eliminates the possibility of an 87 acre regional shopping center being built over most of the site that is designated by Indian River County for Commercial Land Use and Zoning. A major development could have been approved on the site(by raising the commercial development over FEMA's minimum 100 ' Flood Elevation and disrupting the adjacent Buffer Preserve 's normal surface water flow from its natural overland drainage pattern into the Project site and possibly negatively impacting the Buffer Preserve ' s sensitive environment during major storms . Commitment to Amend Future Land Use Map & Zoning Change The City of Fellsmere within a year of acquiring the site will initiate a change to the County 's Land Use and Zoning designation of the site to a Land Use and Zoning category that limits the uses of the site to conservation, outdoor recreation, and open space. Project Site "FCT" Identified (Signage and Advertising) The City will ensure that the Project Site is identified in all literature and advertising as being publicly owned and operated as a natural conservation and outdoor recreation area. All advertising and publication in and about the park will also identify that the Project site was acquired with funds from the "Florida Communities Trust" (FCT) . SECTION III - NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES Soils — Not Applicable, project site under 500 acres. Natural Communities The property remains generally in a natural condition containing seven vegetative communities that were identified on the Fellsmere Trailhead Preserve Parcel in a field observation by Miller Legg and, in conjunction with the following documents , were used to develop a map on the dominant vegetative communities on site. • United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resource Conservation Service Soil Survey of Indian River County • United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS ) National Wetland 12