Okaloosa County BOCC — October 5, 2013 — E - Request Letter & Supplemental Documentation for BWB DRI DO Amendment (1 of 3) — reading text

tract property lines. The tower does not emit noise, glare, odor, or pollution. It does not require a loading area, parking area or outdoor storage. Policy 4.4 Compatibility of adjacent zoning districts shall be considered during rezoning and land use plan amendments, considering potential maximum densities, intensities, and consistency of the potential land uses with surrounding districts, and the manner in which the land uses on the FLUM and the zoning districts result in an appropriate transition of uses, densities, and intensities (also see Policy 10.13). Consistency: — X YES NO N/A Analysis: The parent tract is zoned MU-1 with a FLU of MU-1 and is surrounded by mixed, recreational, and residential uses. The construction of the replacement tower will not increase residential units in the area or commercial square feet with in the DRI. The tower is proposed on a parcel with a non-residential use, recreation, and mild commercial uses, boat storage. Policy 4.5 Compatibility of redeveloped sites and structures with the surrounding neighborhood shall be achieved through the following measures: a. ensuring that residential development reflects the predominant housing type in the surrounding neighborhood to the maximum extent possible; b. recognizing that the redevelopment of an existing building may make it infeasible to adhere to current standards for building heights, scale, mass, setbacks, and orientation, the project shall nevertheless ensure that the development recognizes the predominant features of the surrounding neighborhood to the maximum extent possible; c. maintaining the established lot development pattern of the surrounding neighborhood through requirements that address land assembly, lot arrangement, lot area, lot dimensions, and lot configuration; d. ensuring that proposed conversions of residential structures to an allowable non- residential use are consistent with the established or planned character of the neighborhood, and do not introduce instability into the neighborhood; and e. ensuring that techniques identified in Policy 4.3 are incorporated into the site design during redevelopment to the maximum extent feasible. Consistency: YES NO _ xX NA Analysis: The tower is new construction and not redevelopment. Policy 4.6 Non-conforming uses and non-conforming structures shall be prohibited from expansion, except as may be essential and necessary to protect the public health, safety, and welfare. Land development regulations of the County shall continue to contain standards and procedures to ensure the limitations on expansion of both non-conforming uses and non-conforming structures. Consistency: _ YES , NO X NA Analysis: Objective 5 Historic and archaeological resources/districts of Okaloosa County, where designated, shall be protected through identification, classification, and regulation of development. Policy 5.2 The County shall require the cessation of land disturbing activities any time artifacts with potential historical or archaeological significance are revealed and shall require that the property owner notify the discovery of the artifacts to the Department of State, Division of Historical Resources. Consistency: x YES NO N/A Analysis: As a part of review for FCC approval, Crown shall apply for NEPA review which includes items of archaeological significance. Objective 6 Natural resources, environmental lands, and coastal resources shall be protected through identification, classification, planning and management, and limitations on use consistent with the degree of protection required. Also refer to Conservation Objective 3 and related policies, Conservation Objective 5 and related Policies, and Coastal Management Objective 1.2 and related policies. Policy 6.1 Public supply wellhead protection areas shall be protected from adverse impact through implementation of Conservation Policies 2.3 and 2.5. Consistency: YES NO x N/A Analysis: The tower shall not impact public supply wellhead protection areas. Policy 6.2 Environmentally sensitive lands, as defined in Conservation Policy 3.5, shall be protected through the process of development, redevelopment, land use plan amendments, and changes in zoning. Protection shall be provided by such techniques as limitations on density and intensity, clustering of allowable development on non-sensitive portions of a site, requirements for buffers to mitigate or eliminate impacts to environmentally sensitive areas, and site design techniques that are consistent with the environmentally sensitive areas. Determination of degree of protection required and the imposition of requirements to accomplish protection shall be part of the application and review process and may result in conditions on development approvals. Consistency: X__ YES NO N/A Analysis: The tower shall impact environmentally sensitive lands. As part of its FCC review, an environmental review and report shall be generated as it relates to flora and fauna. Policy 6.3 The protection of environmentally sensitive lands, as defined in Conservation Policy 3.5, shall be accomplished by one or more of the following techniques, based on the degree of protection required: a. limitations on development density and intensity; b. limitations on building placement, such as required clustering on the non- sensitive portions of the site; c. limitations on building coverage or impervious surface coverage; d. setbacks and landscaped buffers sufficient to provide protection to the resource; and e. evaluation of proposed plan amendments to ensure that they do not contribute to urban sprawl that fails to protect natural resources. Consistency: _ X YES NO N/A Analysis: The tower shall not impact environmentally sensitive lands. As part of its FCC review, an environmental review and report shall be generated as it relates to flora and fauna. While wetlands exist on the parent tract, Crown located the tower to avoid impacting the wetlands. Policy 6.4 In addition to protective measures in Policy 6.3, wetlands shall be protected by the following: a. For both tidal and non-tidal wetlands, the first 25 feet from the mean high water line or the ordinary high water line shall not contain principal or accessory structures except where state and federal permits have been obtained. b. For tidal-influenced wetlands an additional 25-foot buffer zone is imposed that shall not contain any principal structures (the total 50-foot buffer zone is measured from the mean high water line). c. A vegetated buffer must be established, either through retention of the existing native vegetation, planting of new vegetation, or a combination of both, within the required 25-foot or 50-foot buffer zones, provided that appropriate permits can be secured from state and regional agencies. Consistency: xX YES NO N/A Analysis: The tower shall not impact environmentally sensitive lands. As part of its FCC review, an environmental review and report shall be generated as it relates to flora and fauna. While wetlands exist on the parent tract, Crown located the tower to avoid impacting the wetlands. Policy 6.5 Borrow pit operations shall be permitted only where compatible with adjacent land uses with an appropriate 50° or greater buffer to be determined at the time of special exception, and when a reclamation plan has been approved by DEP pursuant to Chapter 378, Part IV, Florida Statutes. Removal of white sand from Okaloosa Island shall be prohibited at all times. Also see Conservations Policy 3.3. Consistency: YES NO x N/A Analysis: Policy 6.6 Development shall not be permitted seaward of the CCCL except where authorized by the appropriate state and federal permits that allow certain types of construction to occur to the extent that the natural storm buffering and protection capability of the dunes is not diminished. Consistency: YES NO _X NA Analysis: 10