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• 🟥 Economic: insufficient evidence to meet the need requirement. 
• 🟥 Agriculture: expands UDB by converting 14 acres of the protected Redland Agricultural area also classified as farmland of unique importance (USDA classification) without input of Ag Study. 
• 🟨 Agriculture: text change is requested citing proximity to RTZ and bifurcation by the UDB to override Redland protections. 
• 🟩 Economic: Increases supply of multi-family housing addressing critical shortage of units w/ access to public transit (BRT corridor) reducing need for personal vehicles. 

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• 🟥 Agriculture: will result in removal of ~239ac from Ag utilization.
• 🟥 Agriculture/Environmental: land is contaminated, remediation required.
• 🟨 Environmental: given areas’ immediate proximity to parcels designated Environmental Protection - may be beneficial to establish a private mitigation bank in a more critical location, e.g. in an area more conducive to CERP/BBSEER goals and objectives where competition for critical land parcels is high (e.g. Pennsuco/North Trail Basin areas).
• 🟩 Environmental: located within BBSEER implementation area. 

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• 🟥 Economic: Need has not been established.
• 🟥 Increase in declared uses: application has undergone a substantial revision and while the size of the application area has not increased - numbers associated with proposed uses have doubled.
• 🟥 Environmental: located within the West Wellfield Interim Protection Area and  the North Trail Wetlands Basin. DERM Memo dated July, 20 2023 states that the revised version of the application includes uses not compliant with the restrictions of section 24-43 of the MDC Code.
• 🟥 Environmental: Major conflicts with CERP and BBSEER- area is currently included in the BBSEER R3 (final round) modelling alternatives as a part of the BBSEER water preserve area. Additionally, the development is also located just N of and adjacent to the C-4 canal. The C-4 canal is currently utilised for conveyance in both R3 modelling alternatives.
• 🟥 Environmental: located within the core foraging area of the federally Threatened wood stork as well as USFWS consultation area for the federally Endangered Florida bonneted bat.
• 🟨 Environmental: applicant is intending to dedicate EEL land to the County. Original and revised covenants, however, leave the amount blank. 

• 🟥 Economic: Need has not been demonstrated..
• 🟥 Agriculture: will result in permanent removal of 163 acres of land from active agricultural production; potential to affect surrounding fallow Ag acreage
• 🟥 Agriculture/Environmental: land is contaminated, remediation required.
• 🟥 Environmental: Major conflicts with CERP and BBSEER; current (and last) round of BBSEER modeling includes use of the Kendall Rock Mine to the NW of the application area as a water storage feature and nearby canals, including the L-31, as conveyance features.
• 🟥 Environmental: located within the West Wellfield Interim Protection Area.
• 🟥 Environmental: located within the core foraging area of the federally Threatened wood stork, within consultation area for for the Endangered Florida bonneted bat as well as just east of the USFWS Florida Panther Focus Area.
• 🟨  Economic: 15% of the housing units is designated as “single-family”. We maintain that priority should be given to affordable, in-fill, multi-family projects.