TO: Board of County Commissioners
THROUGH: John A. Titkanich, Jr.; County Administrator
FROM: Patrick J. Murphy; Chief Long-Range Planning
DATE: July 1, 2025
SUBJECT: Indian River Land Trust, Inc.’s Request to Amend the County’s
Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map from R, Rural Residential
to C-3, Conservation-3 AND Rezone Approximately ±36 Acres from
A-1, Agricultural District to CON-3, Conservation District (2025-05-0015)
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BACKGROUND
The Indian River Land Trust, Inc. has submitted concurrent requests to amend the comprehensive plan future land use map from R, Rural Residential (up to 1 unit/acre) to the C-3, Conservation-3 (up to 1 unit/2.5 acres) future land use designation, and to rezone the same property from the A-1, Agricultural District (up to 1 unit/5 acres), to the CON-3, Conservation zoning district. The subject property is located approximately 1,300 feet north of 85th Street (CR 510), in the vicinity south of Concha Drive and Joy Haven Drive (both streets located in the City of Sebastian), and roughly 1.6 miles west of 66th Avenue. The area to be reassigned zoning and future land use designations consists of ±35.73 acres. The subject property does not have road frontage along a public thoroughfare and is currently maintained via an access easement running north-south from CR 510, through the parcel located immediately south of the Indian River Land Trust property.
The requested zoning district of CON-3, Conservation, is a step-down zoning classification from the A-1, Agricultural district in that it is a reduction in allowable land uses. The change in future land use (FLU) designation is also a step-down in intensity as the current FLU designation allows for residential use at one unit per acre, while the new FLU designation would require 2.5 acres to construct a single-family home. Multiple-family residential use is not permitted in either category.
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