Element 1 - DEFINITIONS

The following definitions shall be used in review or interpretation of this Comprehensive Plan. Where a definition contained within this section is different or inconsistent with the definition contained in enabling State legislation (§ 163.3164, F.S.), the definition contained herein shall be utilized.

Within this definition section, the use of [brackets] explains the context within which the defined word, or groups of words, is used.

Accessory Lodging Units: A lodge or other such rooming facility, under seventy (70) rooms in size, that is an integral part of an existing or proposed recreational facility or environmental resource and shall only be allowed within large projects and DRI's.

Activity Nodes: Commercial or mixed-use developments that meet the Commercial Locational Criteria (see Land Use Operative Provisions, Comprehensive Plan).

Acutely Hazardous Waste: Wastes designated by EPA as being significantly more dangerous in small amounts than other hazardous wastes. Wastes listed in Appendix B of "Understanding the Small Quantity Generator Hazardous Waste Rules: A Handbook for Small Business" EPA/530-SW86-019, September 1986.

Adjacent: To have property lines, or portions thereof, in common or facing each other across a right-of-way, street, or narrow water body.

Adverse Effect [upon a natural community]: Direct contamination, destruction, or that which contributes to the contamination or destruction of a natural community, or portion thereof, to the degree that its environmental benefits are eliminated, reduced, impaired, or where there is a resultant threat to its present or future function.

Affordable: Where monthly rents or monthly mortgage payments including taxes and insurance do not exceed thirty (30) percent of that amount which represents the percentage of the median annual gross income for the households which are classified as a Low-Income household, Moderate Income household or a Very-Low Income household. However, it is not the intent to limit an individual household's ability to devote more than thirty (30) percent of its income for housing, and housing for which a household devotes more than thirty (30) percent of its income shall be deemed affordable if the first institutional mortgage lender is satisfied that the household can afford mortgage payments in excess of the thirty (30) percent benchmark.

Agricultural Service Establishment: Establishments primarily engaged in supplying soil preparation services, crop services, horticultural services, sales and service of agricultural machinery, veterinary and other animal services, and farm labor and management service.

Agriculture: The production, keeping or maintenance, for sale or lease, of plants and animals useful to man, including but not limited to: forages and sod crops; grains and seed crops; dairy animals and dairy products, poultry and poultry products; livestock, including beef cattle, sheep, swine, horses, ponies, mules, or goats, or any mutations or hybrids thereof, including the breeding and grazing of any or all of such animals; bees and apiary products; fur animals (see Special Agricultural Use); trees and forest products; fruits of all kind, including grapes, nuts and berries; vegetables; nursery, floral, ornamental and greenhouse products; or lands devoted to a soil conservation or forestry management program. Agricultural activities conducted primarily for personal use are not included in this definition.

Airport Approach Surface [Airport Runway]: An area longitudinally centered on the extended runway centerline and extending outward from the end of the primary surface. The approach surface area and height restrictions are designated for each runway based upon the type of approach available or planned for that runway end, as follows:

Approach Surface Width: The inner edge of the approach surface is the same width as the primary surface. The outer width of the approach surface is prescribed for the most precise approach existing or planned for that runway end expanding uniformly outward to a width of:

• For a Precision Instrument Runway, a maximum width of sixteen thousand (16,000) feet.

• For a Non-Precision Instrument Runway other than a Utility Runway, a maximum width of three thousand five hundred (3,500) feet.

• For a Utility Visual Runway, a maximum width of one thousand two hundred fifty (1,250) feet.

• For a Utility Non-Precision Instrument Runway, a maximum width of two thousand (2,000) feet.

Approach Surface Length: The approach surface extends from the end of the runway primary surface for a horizontal distance of:

• For a Precision Instrument Runway, a maximum distance of fifty thousand (50,000) feet and reciprocal slope delineated as follows:

i.

The first ten thousand (10,000) feet with a slope of fifty (50) to one (1); and

ii.

The next forty thousand (40,000) feet with a slope of forty (40) to one (1).

• For a Non-Precision Instrument Runway other than a Utility Runway, a maximum distance of ten thousand (10,000) feet.

• For a Visual or Non-Precision Instrument Utility Runway, a distance of five thousand (5,000) feet.

Airport, Commercial Aviation: Means any area of land or water designed and set aside for the landing and taking off of aircraft and used or to be used in the interest of the public for such purpose.

Airport, Conical Surface [Airport Runway]: A surface extending outward and upward from the periphery of the horizontal surface at a slope of twenty (20) to one (1) for a horizontal distance of four thousand (4,000) feet. (FAR Part 77)

Airport, General Aviation: An airport facility which is designed, or constructed, or used for private business or individual use, and which does not accommodate regularly scheduled commercial air carrier flights.

Airport Hazard: Means an obstruction to air navigation which affects the safe and efficient use of navigable airspace or the operation of planned or existing air navigation and communication facilities.

Airport Hazard Area: Means any area of land or water upon which an airport hazard might be established.

Airport, Horizontal Surface [Airport Runway]: A horizontal plane one hundred fifty (150) feet above the established airport elevation, the perimeter of which is constructed by swinging arcs of a specified radii from the center of each end of the primary surface of each runway of each airport and connecting the adjacent arcs by lines tangent to those arcs. The radius of each arc is:

(1)

Five thousand (5,000) feet for all runways designated as utility or visual;

(2)

Ten thousand (10,000) feet for all other runways. The radius of the arc specified for each end of a runway will have the same arithmetical value. That value will be the highest determined for either end of the runway. When a 5,000-foot arc is encompassed by tangents connecting two (2) adjacent 10,000-foot arcs, the 5,000-foot arc shall be disregarded on the construction of the perimeter of the horizontal surface.

Airport, Primary Surface [Airport Runway]: An area located at each end of a runway which is longitudinally centered on each runway, extending two hundred (200) feet beyond each end of that specially prepared hard surface runway with the width specified for the most precise approach existing or planned for either end of that runway. The primary surface ends at each runway end for all runways without a specially prepared hard surface. The width of each primary surface is as follows:

i.

Precision Instrument Runways: One thousand (1,000) feet.

ii.

Non-Precision Instrument Runways: Five hundred (500) feet.

iii.

Public Utility Visual Runways: Two hundred fifty (250) feet.

iv.

Private Utility Visual Runways: One hundred (100) feet.

Airport, Runways:

i.

Other Than Utility Runway shall mean a runway that is constructed for and intended to be used by aircraft of a maximum gross weight greater than twelve thousand five hundred (12,500) pounds.

ii.

Precision Instrument Runway means a runway having an existing instrument approach procedure utilizing an Instrument Landing System (ILS), or a Precision Approach Radar (PAR). It also means a runway for which a precision approach system is planned and is so indicated by an FAA-approved airport layout plan; a military service approved military airport layout plan; any other FAA planning document, or military service military airport planning document.

iii.

Utility Runway shall mean a runway that is constructed for and intended to be used by propeller driven aircraft of twelve thousand five hundred (12,500) pounds maximum gross weight and less.

iv.

Visual Runway means a runway intended solely for the operation of aircraft using visual approach procedures, with no straight-in instrument approach procedure and no instrument designation indicated on an FAA-approved airport layout plan, a military service approved military airport layout plan, or by any planning document submitted to the FAA by competent authority.

Airport, Transitional Surface: These surfaces extend outward and upward at right angles to the runway centerline and the runway centerline extended at a slope of seven (7) to one (1) from the sides of the primary surface and from the sides of the approach surfaces. Transitional surfaces for those portions of the precision approach surface which project through and beyond the limits of the conical surface, extend a distance of five thousand (5,000) feet measured horizontally from the edge of the approach surface and at right angles to the runway centerline.

Altered Natural Communities: Natural resources which have been substantially affected by development but continue to provide some environmental benefit.

Alternative Energy Generation Facility shall mean a facility that utilizes Photovoltaic Solar Power to generate electricity. This facility may also have other equipment that is directly involved in the storage and transmission of electricity.

Alternative Transportation: Transportation alternatives to the automobile, which may include but is not limited to, walking, bicycling, and mass transit.

Antenna Cluster: A grouping of two (2) or more antenna towers, with a height of five hundred (500) feet above ground level, or greater, in an area consisting of a specified geographical location with established dimensions of area and height, where antenna towers with a common impact on aviation may be grouped.

Aquatic Preserve: Submerged lands owned by the State of Florida as identified in Ch. 258, F.S., which have been set aside in an essentially natural or existing condition for the benefit of future generations.

Arterial Road (Arterial): A route providing service which is relatively continuous and of relatively high traffic volume, long average trip length, high operating speed, and high mobility importance. The primary purpose of arterials is to provide service to major traffic movements; access to abutting property is a subordinate purpose. An arterial street (or road) is also typically characterized by restricted parking, access control, signals at important intersections and stop signs on the side streets, and typically distributes traffic to and from collector streets or roadways. Existing roads classified as Arterial are indicated on the adopted Roadway Functional Classification Map. Roads which are built or proposed subsequent to the adoption of the Comprehensive Plan shall be initially classified as Arterial only by action of Manatee County. Any such classification shall occur prior to the road being indicated on the Roadway Functional Classification Map as an Arterial. Any such added Arterial shall be subject to final functional classification by the Florida Department of Transportation periodically, pursuant to procedures identified in Rule 14-12, Florida Administrative Code.

Artificial Waterway: Dredged canal created by man in upland or wetland area.

Available: Per Florida Statutes, and as applied to the required connection to the Manatee County public sewerage system, "available" means that the public sewerage system is capable of being connected to the plumbing of an establishment or residence, is not under a Department of Environmental Protection moratorium, and has adequate permitted capacity to accept the sewage to be generated by the establishment or residence; and:

1.

For a residential subdivision lot, a single-family residence, or an establishment, any of which has an estimated sewage flow of one thousand (1,000) gallons per day or less, a gravity sewer line to maintain gravity flow from the property's drain to the sewer line, or a low pressure or vacuum sewage collection line in those areas approved for low pressure or vacuum sewage collection, exists in a public easement or right-of-way that abuts the property line of the lot, residence, or establishment.

2.

For an establishment with an estimated sewage flow exceeding one thousand (1,000) gallons per day, a sewer line, force main, or lift station exists in a public easement or right-of-way that abuts the property of the establishment or is within fifty (50) feet of the property line of the establishment as accessed via existing rights-of-way or easements.

3.

For proposed residential subdivisions with more than fifty (50) lots, for proposed commercial subdivisions with more than five (5) lots, and for areas zoned or used for an industrial or manufacturing purpose or its equivalent, a sewerage system exists within one-fourth (¼) mile of the development as measured and accessed via existing easements or rights-of-way.

4.

For repairs or modifications within areas zoned or used for an industrial or manufacturing purpose or its equivalent, a sewerage system exists within five hundred (500) feet of an establishment's or residence's sewer stub-out as measured and accessed via existing rights-of-way or easements.

Beach: The zone of unconsolidated material that extends landward from the mean low water line to the place where there is marked change in materials or physiographic form, or to the line of permanent vegetation, usually the effective limit of storm waves. "Beach", as used in the Coastal Management Element requirements, is limited to oceanic and estuarine shorelines.

Beach and Shoreline Access Point: Access to beaches and shorelines that are suitable for passive recreation, boat launches or other use by the general public. Small, unsuitable access points in environmentally sensitive areas are not considered beach and shoreline access points.

Best Available Control Technology [Air Pollution]: An air quality emission limitation, including a visible emissions standard, based on the maximum degree of reduction of each pollutant emitted which, on a case-by-case basis, taking into account energy, environmental and economic impacts, and other costs, is determined to be achievable through application of production processes and available methods, systems, and techniques (including fuel cleaning or treatment or innovative fuel combustion techniques) for control of each such pollutant.

A design, equipment, work practice, operational standard, or combination thereof, may be prescribed instead to satisfy the requirement for the application of this technology.

Best Management Practice: Method or combination of methods determined after problem assessment, examination of alternative practices, and appropriate public participation, to be the most effective and practicable means of reducing or preventing nonpoint source pollution to levels compatible with water quality goals. These measures could include both structural (e.g., sediment/debris basins, wetland impoundment of agricultural runoff, etc.) and nonstructural (e.g., street vacuuming, deferred grazing systems, etc.) approaches to abatement of nonpoint source pollution, and would vary on a regional and local basis depending on the nature of the problems, climate, physical characteristics, land use, soil types and conditions and other factors.

Bicycle Facilities: A general term denoting improvements and provisions made by public agencies to accommodate or encourage bicycling, including parking facilities, mapping of all bikeways, and shared roadways not specifically designated for bicycle use.

Bicycle Lane: A portion of a roadway, which has been designated by striping, signing and pavement markings for the preferential or exclusive use of bicyclists.

Bikeway: Any road, path, or way which, in some manner, is specifically designated as being open to bicycle travel, regardless of whether such facilities are designated for the exclusive use of bicycles or are to be shared with other transportation modes.

Biohazardous Waste: Any solid waste or liquid waste which may present a threat of infection to humans. The term includes, but is not limited to, non-liquid human tissue and body parts; laboratory and veterinary waste which contain human-disease-causing agents; used disposable sharps, human blood, and human blood products and body fluids; and other materials which in the opinion of the County represent a significant risk of infection to persons outside the generating facility.

Biological Treatment: A water quality treatment system that utilizes a design water pool in association with water-tolerant vegetation to remove pollutants through settling, absorption by soils and nutrient uptake by the vegetation.

Biological Waste: Solid waste that cause or has the capability of causing disease or infection and includes but is not limited to biohazardous waste, diseased or dead animals, and other wastes capable of transmitting pathogens to humans or animals. The term does not include human remains.

Boat Livery: A commercial establishment providing boat hauling or launching facilities, rental of covered or uncovered boat slips or dock space or enclosed dry storage space, rental or sale of boats and boat motors, repair and maintenance of boats and boat motors, or sale of marine fuel and lubricants, and accessory service uses, including onshore restaurants, hotels or motels, and sale of bait and fishing equipment. The term Boat Livery shall be deemed to include Marina, but shall not be deemed to include Boat Yards and Ways.

Boat Yard and Way: A premises or site used as an establishment for the provision of all such facilities as are customary and necessary to the construction, reconstruction, repair, or maintenance and accessory sale of boats, marine engines, or marine equipment, supplies, or services of all kinds including, but not limited to, rental of covered or uncovered boat slips, or dockspace or enclosed dry storage space, marine railways, listing or launching services. The term Boat Yards and Ways shall be deemed to include Boat Liveries and Marinas.

Buffer (Zone) [Natural Resources]: Area which shields a natural community or protected species habitat by prohibiting development activities and removal of native vegetation (see also Setback).

Capital Budget: The portion of each local government's budget which reflects capital improvements scheduled for a fiscal year.

Capital Improvement: Physical assets constructed or purchased to provide, improve or replace a public facility, and which are large scale and high in cost. The cost of a capital improvement is generally nonrecurring and may require multi-year financing. For the purposes of this rule, physical assets which have been identified as existing or projected needs in the individual Comprehensive Plan elements shall be considered capital improvements.

Class I Waters: Potable water supplies as classified and specified in Chapter 17-3, F.A.C.

Class II Waters: Shellfish Propagation or Harvesting water as classified and specified in Chapter 17.3, F.A.C.

Cluster Development or Clustering: is a development mechanism that offers alternative standards to permit the concentration of development on a portion of the site while keeping the overall density of the site within the maximum permitted.

Coastal Evacuation Area (CEA): The evacuation Level A for a Category 1 hurricane as established in the regional hurricane evacuation study applicable to Manatee County, as updated on a periodic basis.

Coastal High Hazard Area (CHHA): The geographic area below the Category 1 storm surge line as established by a Sea, Lake, and Overland Surges from Hurricanes (SLOSH) computerized storm surge model, pursuant to applicable law, as updated on a periodic basis.

Coastal Planning Area (CPA): Those portions of Manatee County which lie within the Hurricane Vulnerability Area (evacuation levels A, B, and C) as updated on a periodic basis. This area shall also include water and submerged lands of oceanic water bodies or estuarine water bodies; shorelines adjacent to such water bodies; coastal barriers; living marine resources, marine wetlands; water-dependent or water-related facilities on oceanic or estuarine waters; public access facilities to oceanic beaches or estuarine shorelines; and all lands adjacent to such occurrences where development activities would impact the integrity of the above mentioned land or water body.

Collector Road (Collector): A route providing service which is of relatively moderate average traffic volume, moderately average trip length, and moderately average operating speed. Traffic movement is a priority but there is a higher degree of land access than with an arterial road, allowing such a route to collect and distribute traffic between local roads or arterial roads and serve as a linkage between land access and mobility needs. A collector street (or road) is also one which typically collects traffic from local streets and which generally connects with Arterials, as defined herein. Collectors shall also be consistent with the definition of "Collector Road" contained in Rule 9J-5.003(15), Florida Administrative Code. Existing roadways classified as Collector are indicated on the adopted Roadway Functional Classification Map. Roads which are built or proposed subsequent to the adoption of the Comprehensive Plan shall be initially classified as Collector only by action of the County. Any such classification shall occur prior to the road being indicated on the Roadway Functional Classification Map as a Collector. Any such added Collector shall be subject to final functional classification by the Florida Department of Transportation periodically, pursuant to procedures identified in Rule 14-12, Florida Administrative Code.

Commercial: See:

• Commercial Use

• Neighborhood Serving Commercial Uses

• Community-Serving Commercial Uses

• Region Serving Commercial Uses

• Commercial Use, Intensive

• Commercial Uses related to Agriculture

• Commercial Size Limitation

• Small

• Medium

• Large

Commercial Size Limitation:

•  Small: Commercial establishments, or groupings thereof, which constitute no greater than thirty thousand (30,000) square feet of gross building square footage and are generally limited to neighborhood commercial uses (as defined herein).

•  Medium: Commercial establishments, or groupings thereof, which constitute no greater than one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) square feet of gross building square footage and are generally limited to neighborhood commercial uses (as defined herein).

•  Large: Commercial establishment, or groupings thereof, which generally contain no greater than three hundred thousand (300,000) square feet of gross floor area except in high access situations as described in Policy 2.10.3.3 of the Future Land Use Element.

Commercial Use: An activity carried out for pecuniary gain, excluding the rental, lease of any residential, or equivalent residential, dwelling unit. This terms shall also specifically include certain uses providing residential accommodation for individuals if providing nursing services as described in Ch. 464, F.S. Also including Recreational Vehicle Parks, retail, wholesale, personal and professional services, lodging, and office uses.

Commercial Use—Community Serving: Commercial establishments, or groupings thereof, that in addition to serving day-to-day commercial needs of a community, also supply the more durable and permanent needs of a community (e.g., home improvement centers, furniture stores, movie theaters, bowling alleys, junior department stores, automobile sales). The uses may also include office uses for personal or professional services. Certain community-serving commercial uses may also be considered as intensive commercial uses.

Commercial Use, Intensive: A commercial use which is either:

• Carrying out the sale of large or bulky items (e.g., building supplies or heavy equipment), or

• Providing services other than those usually associated with the normally recurrent needs of a residential area (e.g., automobile body repair shops), or

• Engaging in a commercial activity normally associated with significant outdoor storage, adverse noise or other adverse sensory impact, or large amounts of heavy vehicular traffic.

Intensive commercial uses are typically community or region-serving in nature. However, many community- or region-serving commercial uses are not intensive commercial uses.

Intensive commercial uses may include certain retail trade, wholesale trade, personal service, or professional service uses which, by nature of either the customary operation of the use, or the manner in which such uses customarily utilize a site, are likely to have adverse impacts on adjacent or nearby residential uses. Retail or office uses may not be determined to be intensive solely on the basis of gross building area or level of traffic impact, or building height.

Commercial Use—Neighborhood: Commercial establishments, or groupings thereof, that serve the commercial needs of the neighborhood (e.g. food stores, convenience stores, drug stores, restaurants). The uses may also include office uses for personal or professional services.

Commercial Use—Region-Serving: Commercial establishments or groupings thereof which serve any or all commercial needs of a broadly distributed population and work force (e.g., regional malls, major recreational facilities) in addition to including community-serving and other commercial uses. Certain region-serving commercial uses may also be considered as intensive commercial uses. The uses may also include wholesale trade uses, all office uses, and office showroom uses or similar uses. However, region serving commercial uses shall not include bulk warehousing or uses for which distribution of goods to other than a residential end-user is a primary or major use.

Commercial Uses related to Agriculture: Retail, wholesale, and other commercial uses typically associated with agriculture uses (e.g., farm machinery service, agricultural supplies including feed stores).

Community-Based Non-Profit Organization: A private corporation organized under Ch. 617, F.S., to assist in the provision of housing and related services on a not-for-profit basis and which is acceptable to federal and State agencies and financial institutions as a sponsor of low-income housing. These organizations shall have a Board of Directors that is elected by residents of the corporation's service area.

Compatible: A condition in which land uses or conditions can coexist in relative proximity to each other in a stable fashion over time such that no use or condition is unduly negatively impacted directly or indirectly by another use or condition.

Complete Streets: Complete streets are those that adequately provide for roadway users, of all ages and abilities, including bicyclists, pedestrians, transit riders, and motorists, to the extent appropriate to the function and context of the street, within a connected roadway network.

Cone of Influence: An area around one (1) or more major waterwells, the boundary of which is determined by the government agency having specific statutory authority to make such a determination based on groundwater travel or drawdown depth.

Confined Feedlot: A concentrated, confined, non-aquatic animal or poultry growing operation for meat, milk or egg production, or stabling, in pens or houses wherein the animals or poultry are fed at the place of confinement and crop or forage growth or production is not sustained in the area of confinement, and wherein the animals have been, are, or will be stabled or confined and fed or maintained for a total of forty-five (45) days or more in any 12-month period.

Conservation Plan [Soil and Water]: A formal document, prepared or approved by the Manatee River Soil and Water Conservation District Board organized pursuant to Ch. 582, F.S., which outlines a system of management practices to control soil erosion, reduce sediment loss or protect the water quality on a specific parcel of property.

Conservation Uses: Activities within land areas designated for the purpose of conserving or protecting natural resources or environmental quality and include areas designated for such purposes as flood control, protection of quality or quantity of groundwater or surface water, floodplain management, fisheries management, or protection of vegetative communities or wildlife habitats.

Construction Permit [Air Pollution]:Written approval from the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation which must be obtained by the owner or operator of any new or modified air pollution source prior to beginning construction. The permit is sufficient to allow construction of the source, and operation while the new or modified source is beginning operation and conducting tests to determine whether the source is in compliance with applicable emission control standards.

Controlled Access Facility: A street or highway to which the right of access is highly regulated by the governmental entity having jurisdiction over the facility in order to maximize the operational efficiency and safety of the high-volume through traffic utilizing the facility. Owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have a right of access to or from such facility at such points only and in such manner as may be determined by the governmental entity (or as amended by § 334.03, F.S.).

Critical Habitat: Viable areas of habitation for Endangered and Threatened species as confirmed by appropriate jurisdictional agency documentation, or by reports which may be submitted by an applicant requesting a development order on a site containing an area of such habitation by Endangered or Threatened species. The extent of these areas shall have a definitive boundary which may vary in extent based upon the individual species, e.g., bald eagle's nest or pond harboring a protected turtle.

DACS Shellfish Harvesting Area: Coastal waters classified by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for the harvesting of shellfish. Classifications are based on bacteriological and sanitary surveys which define levels of bacteriological pollution and document all possible sources of pollution, both actual and potential. Waters are classified as follows pursuant to Chapter 5L-1, F.A.C.:

Approved: Normally open to shellfish harvesting; may be temporarily closed under extraordinary circumstances (e.g., red tides, hurricanes, sewage spills).

Conditionally Approved: Periodically closed to shellfish harvesting based on predictable pollutional events.

Prohibited: Shellfish harvesting is not permitted due to actual or potential pollution.

Unclassified: Shellfish harvesting is not permitted pending bacteriological and sanitary surveys.

Deepwater Ports: The ports of Jacksonville, Tampa, Port Everglades, Miami, Port Canaveral, Ft. Pierce, Palm Beach, Port Manatee, Port St. Joe, Panama City, St. Petersburg, and Pensacola.

Development: The construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration, relocation or enlargement of any structure; any mining, excavation, landfill or non-agricultural land disturbance, and any non-agricultural use or extension of the use of land. Includes redevelopment but does not include environmental preserve restoration taking place within environmental preserves.

Development Order: Any order granting, denying, or granting with conditions an application for a development permit.

Development Permit: Any building permit, zoning permit, subdivision approval, rezoning, certification, special exception, variance, or any other official action of local government having the effect of permitting the development of land.

Development Site: The property under consideration for a development, which may contain one (1) or more lots under single or multiple ownership, but processed under a single development application.

Disaster: Any natural, technological, or civil emergency that causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to result in a declaration of a state of emergency by a county, the Governor, or the President of the United States.

District Park: A park designed to serve the recreational needs of several communities or an entire county, and usually provides some areas and facilities that are resource-based. Typical facilities may include play apparatus, natural lands, natural trails, multi-use trails, nature center, boating, swimming, picnic areas and sports fields.

Driving periods of up to thrity (30) to forty (40) minutes may be required to reach a district park, which would, when possible, be located on the periphery of a large urban area. Each such park should be utilized by an average population of one hundred thousand (100,000) with a space allowance as defined in any adopted level of service standard. While fifty (50) acres may meet minimum requirements, a site size of one hundred fifty (150) acres or more is desirable. District parks serve several neighborhoods and may frequently be associated with junior or senior high schools.

Drainage Basin: The area defined by topographic boundaries which contributes stormwater to a drainage system, estuarine waters, or oceanic waters, including all areas artificially added to the basin.

Drainage Facilities: A system of man-made structures designed to collect, convey, hold, divert or discharge stormwater, and includes stormwater sewers, canals, detention structures, and retention structures, and stormwater treatment facilities.

Drainfield: A system of open-jointed or perforated piping, approved alternative distribution units, or other treatment facilities designed to distribute effluent for filtration, oxidation, and absorption by the soil within the zone of aeration.

Dredge and Fill: Dredging is the excavation, by any means, in the waters of the State. Filling is the disposition, by any means, of materials in waters of the state. The landward extent of waters of the State for dredge and fill jurisdictional purposes shall be determined as provided in § 17-4.022, F.A.C. Dredge and fill jurisdiction shall be as prescribed in § 17-12.030, F.A.C., and § 373.414, F.S.

Dry Lines: Pipes used for the transmission of wastewater, which are internal to a project site, and which are installed during initial construction but remain dry (i.e., not used) until an adequate off-site sanitary sewer collection system is available to take wastewater from the development site to the wastewater treatment plant.

Dwelling (Residential) Unit: A conventional or mobile, detached or attached structure constituting a single, independent, habitable unit used for, or intended to be used for, living, sleeping, sanitation, cooking, and eating purposes by one (1) family only, for owner occupancy or for rental, lease or other occupancy on a weekly or longer basis, and containing kitchen, sanitary and sleeping facilities not shared by any other such unit. Recreational vehicles shall not be considered as dwelling units. This definition may be subject to further clarification in any land development regulations implementing this Comprehensive Plan. As used in this definition, family shall be further defined by reference to land development regulations developed pursuant to § 163.3202, F.S.

Ecosystem Management Plan: A plan for significant, cumulative improvement to the ecological function of the drainage basin in which wetlands are proposed to be impacted by development. The ecosystem management plan shall demonstrate no net loss of wetland quality and function. To mitigate impacts, a combination of restoration, creation, enhancement, and upland preservation may be considered depending on the size, type, function, viability, and historic status of the wetlands proposed to be altered.

Emergency: Any occurrence, or threat thereof, whether natural, technological, or manmade, in war or in peace, which results or may result in substantial injury or harm to the population or substantial damage to or loss of property.

Emergency Response Plan [Hazardous Waste]: Contingency document which describes the location, quantity, and type of hazardous wastes being handled by a user; along with an organized and coordinated plan of notification, containment, and evacuation implementation policies in the event of an emergency.

Endangered and Threatened Species: Flora and fauna as identified by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's "List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants" in 50 CFR 17.11-12; Flora as identified by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services as specified by the preservation of Native Flora Act in § 581.185-187, F.S., and fauna identified by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in §§ 39-27.003 and 39-27.004, F.A.C. Endangered Species are so designated due to man made or natural factors which have placed them in imminent danger of extinction while threatened species are so designated due to a rapid decline in number and/or habitat such that they may likely become endangered without corrective action.

Environmental Preserve: A resource based preserve operated by the County for the primary purpose of environmental preservation and public enjoyment of environmentally sensitive lands.

Environmental Preserve Restoration: The restoration and/or enhancement of environmentally sensitive lands and the associated improvements specifically designed for the public enjoyment of the environmentally sensitive lands within environmental preserves. Environmental preserve restoration does not include any activities which require building permits.

Environmentally Sensitive: Lands which, by virtue of some qualifying environmental characteristic are regulated by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the Southwest Florida Water Management District, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, or any other governmental agency empowered by law for such regulation. Environmentally sensitive also includes all areas of habitat for threatened and endangered species and species of special concern, and includes all of the following vegetative communities: Mangrove swamp; coastal ridge; tidal marshes; seagrass beds; oyster beds; coastal streams; freshwater wetlands (swamps, marshes, sloughs, wet prairies, and heads); hammocks (mesic or xeric); pine prairies (pine flatwoods or dry prairies); scrubs (sand pine, scrubby flatwoods, and turkey oak ridges).

Equivalent Dwelling (Residential) Unit: A room, or group of connected rooms, suitable for habitation by an individual, related individuals, or roommates, without one of either kitchen or sanitary facilities, unless such facility (or facilities) is shared by another such room, or group of connected rooms. An equivalent dwelling unit may be defined as being quantitatively equivalent to some part or whole of a dwelling unit (as defined herein), for purposes of establishing compliance with this Comprehensive Plan. Such units shall include any group home facilities and foster care facilities licensed by the State of Florida, Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, except for any facility providing nursing services, as defined in Ch. 464, F.S., as a major component of its operation. Such units shall not include any farm labor camp or farmworker housing, as defined herein.

Erosion: Wearing away of the land surface by water, wind, ice or other geologic agents or by the activities of man, other animals, or natural catastrophes.

Evacuation Routes: Routes designated by county civil defense authorities or the regional evacuation plan, for the movement of persons to safety, in the event of a hurricane.

Exotic Species: A plant or animal species introduced into an area where they do not occur naturally. Also known as alien species, invasive species, and non-indigenous species.

Farmworker Housing: Habitable structures or dwelling units intended to be occupied by, and for which occupancy is limited to, farm employees and their families. Such uses occur exclusively in association with the performance of agricultural labor.

Final Local Development Order: For the purposes of this Plan, a preliminary development plan, preliminary site plan, preliminary subdivision plat, or where such development orders are not required for development of a project, a final development plan, final subdivision plat, or final site plan. If a preliminary or final development plan, site plan, or subdivision plat is not required for development of a project, the final local development order shall be defined as the building permit.

Terms used in the definition are as defined in the Manatee County Land Development Code on the date of adoption of this Plan.

Floodplains: Areas inundated during a 100-year, or other specified flood event or identified by the National Flood Insurance Program as an A Zone or V Zone on Flood Insurance Rate Maps or Flood Hazard Boundary Maps.

Floodway: Channel of a stream plus any adjacent floodplain areas that must be kept free of encroachment so that the 100-year flood discharge can be conveyed without increasing the elevation of the 100-year flood more than a specified amount.

Floor Area Ratio (FAR): Measure of intensity for nonresidential development. It is calculated by dividing the gross floor area of the nonresidential buildings by the gross nonresidential acreage (converted to square feet) of the development site. For vertical mixed-use developments in the County, and horizontal and mixed-use use developments along designated urban corridors (as defined herein), it shall be divided by the total gross acreage of the entire development site (including residential and nonresidential).

Foster Care Facility: A facility which houses foster residents and provides a family living environment for the residents, including such supervision and care as may be necessary to meet the physical, emotional and social needs of the residents and serving either children or adult foster residents.

Future Development Area Boundary: This boundary is generally established to designate on the Future Land Use Map the location for new residential and nonresidential development consistent with the adopted Land Use Concept in the Technical Support Document for the Manatee County Comprehensive Plan (May 15, 1989 ). Those lands east of the Future Development Area Boundary are intended to be preserved for primarily agricultural uses. The boundary is intended to serve as a means to provide an efficient use of land and public and private investment, and to contain urban sprawl. This line shall be consistent with the boundaries of the Water Supply and Wastewater Service Areas established by the Board of County Commissioners.

Goal: The long-term end toward which programs or activities are ultimately directed.

Greenway: A linear open space which may include multi-use trails and blueways established along either a natural corridor such as a riverfront, stream valley, or ridgeline, or overland along a railroad right-of-way converted to recreational use, a canal, a scenic road, or other route; a natural or landscaped course for linking parks, nature reserves, cultural features, or locally certain strip or linear parks designed as a parkway or greenbelt.

Gross Floor Area: The sum of the horizontal areas of the stories of all nonresidential buildings or portions of buildings on a lot, measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls, and from the center line of walls separating two (2) or more buildings. The gross floor area shall include, but shall not be limited to: basements, wall-less structures where business is transacted (e.g., garden centers and open air eating areas), elevator shafts and stairwells at each story, floor space used for mechanical equipment with structural headroom of six (6) feet six (6) inches or more, penthouses, attic space, whether or not a floor has actually been laid, providing structural headroom of six (6) feet six (6) inches or more, interior balconies, and mezzanines with structural headroom of six (6) feet six (6) inches or more. Gross floor area shall not include wall-less structures where business is not transacted, awnings, canopies, porte-cocheres, architectural buttresses, gazebos, roof overhangs, and interior parking garages and loading areas, as long as business is not transacted within.

Gross Nonresidential Acreage: The total acreage within a project, or part thereof, which is proposed for nonresidential lots or parcels, and which is also:

• Exclusive of all areas considered to be part of a project's gross residential acreage, as defined herein.

• Above the mean high water line or mean high tide of any naturally occurring water body.

• Occupied by any man-made water body.

• Wetland acreage subject to the jurisdiction of any local, State or Federal environmental review agency, provided that the jurisdictional wetland area is less than or equal to twenty (20) percent of total project acreage.

• Within any required setbacks from such jurisdictional area as required by Policy 3.3.1.5. of this Plan.

• Within any area reserved for protection of any threatened or endangered species, or species of special concern, including any setback from such species' habitat.

• Part of any proposed public facility dedicated to, and accepted by, Manatee County, or by the Manatee County School Board, or part of any private park or outdoor recreation area.

• Inclusive of local streets or other streets internal to the project.

• Occupied by any easement for any public or private utility, including those easements shown as P/SP (1) on the Future Land use Map of this Comprehensive Plan.

• Proposed as an open space area.

Gross Residential Acreage: The total acreage within a project, or part thereof, which is proposed for residential lots or parcels above the mean high water or mean high tide line of any naturally occurring water body, and exclusive of all areas considered to be part of a project's gross nonresidential acreage, as defined herein. The total gross acreage shall include:

• Any man-made water body.

• Wetland acreage subject to the jurisdiction of any Local, State or Federal environmental review agency, provided that the jurisdictional wetland area is less than or equal to twenty (20) percent of total project acreage.

• Acreage within any required setbacks from such jurisdictional area as required by Policy 3.3.1.5. of this Plan.

• Acreage within any area reserved for protection of any threatened or endangered species, or species of special concern, including any setback from such species' habitat.

• Acreage that is part of any proposed public facility dedicated to, and accepted by Manatee County, or by the Manatee County School Board, or part of any private park or outdoor recreation area.

• Local streets or other streets internal to the project.

• Any easement for any public or private utility, including those easements shown as P/SP (1) on the Future Land Use Map of this Comprehensive Plan.

• Acreage proposed for any church, or religious place of worship.

• Proposed as an open space area or community center.

Gross Residential Density: The total number of residential dwelling units or equivalent residential units within a residential project, or within a residential parcel contained within a project, divided by gross residential acreage (as defined herein), or in the case of Urban Corridors (as defined herein), the total number of residential dwelling units or equivalent residential units contained within a project, divided by gross acreage of the entire site.

Groundwater: Water beneath the surface of the ground within a zone of saturation, whether or not flowing through known and definite channels.

Group Home: A facility which provides a living environment for unrelated residents who operate as the functional equivalent of a family, including such supervision and care as may be necessary to meet the physical, emotional and social needs of the residents. Adult Congregate Living Facilities comparable in size to a dwelling unit are included in this definition. It shall not include rooming or boarding homes, clubs, fraternities, sororities, monasteries or convents, hotels, residential treatment facilities, nursing homes, or emergency shelters.

Hazardous Substance: Any substance which is defined as a hazardous substance in the United States Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980, as amended.

Hazardous Waste: As defined in 40 CFR 261.3., more generally defined as a waste, or a combination of wastes which, because of its quantity, concentration, physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics, may cause, or significantly contribute to, an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness or may pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly transported, disposed, stored, treated, or otherwise managed.

Hazardous Waste Generator: Any person, or site, whose action or process produces hazardous waste identified or listed in 40 CFR 261, or whose act first causes a hazardous waste to become subject to regulation.

Hazardous Waste Management Plan: A document providing specific procedures, objectives, requirements and other provisions for the systematic control of the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, processing, treatment, recovery, recycling, and disposal of hazardous waste.

Highway, Street or Road: General terms, denoting a public way for purposes of traffic, both vehicular and pedestrian, including the entire area within the right-of-way. The term street is generally used for urban or suburban areas.

Historic Resources: All areas, districts or sites containing properties listed as significant on the Florida Master Site File, the National Register of Historic Places, or designated by Manatee County as historically, architecturally, or archaeologically significant.

Hospital: Any establishment that offers services more intensive than those required for room, board, personal services, and general nursing care, and offers facilities and beds for use beyond twenty-four (24) hours by individuals requiring diagnosis, treatment, or care of illness, injury, deformity, infirmity, abnormality, disease, or pregnancy, and, regularly makes available at least clinical laboratory services, and treatment facilities for surgery or obstetrical care, or other definitive medical treatment of similar extent, and including the issuance of a Certificate of Need by the State of Florida. The term "hospital" includes a medical office building located on the same premises as a hospital facility.

Hurricane Evacuation Clearance: The amount of time specified in the Manatee County Hurricane Evacuation Plan Implementation Guide produced by the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council for the safe evacuation of hurricane vulnerable areas.

Hurricane Preparedness Plans: A document which specifies the safe and orderly evacuation of residents and employees when an evacuation order for a hurricane is issued, including the closing of all buildings for the duration of the hurricane evacuation order, prior identification of evacuation routes out of the area, appropriate on-site preparations, and coordination with Manatee County staff for building closings, security and safety measures.

Hurricane Shelter: A structure designated by local officials as a place of safe refuge during a storm or hurricane.

Hurricane Vulnerability Area: (See definition for "Coastal Planning Area").

Hydric Soil: Soil that is wet long enough to periodically produce anaerobic conditions, thereby influencing the growth of plants.

Idle Speed [Boating] Zone : A designated area within which it has been established that manatees frequently visit or reside and within which all motorboat operations shall exercise a high degree of care for manatee presence, and shall not, unless authorized by a valid federal or state permit, either intentionally or negligently annoy, molest, harass, disturb, collide with, injure or harm manatees and shall proceed at the minimum speed that will maintain safe steerageway.

Impervious Surface: Surface which has been compacted or covered with a layer of material so that it is highly resistant to infiltration by water, including surfaces such as compacted sand, limerock, shell, or clay, as well as most conventionally surfaced streets, roofs, sidewalks, parking lots and other similar structures.

Including: Inclusive of, but not limited to.

Industrial Uses: Activities within land areas predominantly connected with manufacturing, assembly, processing, distribution, or storage of products. Office uses are not precluded from classification under the term "industrial" when utilized in a broader sense.

Infill Development: The process of developing vacant or under-used parcels within existing urbanized areas that are mostly built-out and what is being built is in effect "filling in" the gaps.

Inflowing Watercourses: Hydrologic connections defined as areas of Florida Department of Environmental Regulation jurisdiction including but not limited to waterbodies shown on the most recent U.S. Geological Survey quadrangle sheets as having perennial flow.

Infrastructure Standard: A measure of the capacity per unit of demand for each public facility.

Intensity: (See Floor Area Ratio).

Intensive Commercial (Uses): (See Commercial Use, Intensive).

Intensive Recreational (Uses): Any commercial or noncommercial recreation use which, by nature of either the customary operation of the use, or the manner in which such uses customarily utilize a site, may have adverse impacts on adjacent or nearby residential uses or on natural resources. Such uses may be further defined and, if appropriate, be listed in any land development regulations developed pursuant to § 163.3202, F.S.

Land Development Regulations: Documented rules, standards and procedures contained in the Manatee County Comprehensive Zoning and Land Development Code or in any regulations developed pursuant to § 163.3202, F.S.

Level of Service: An indicator of extent or degree of service which is, or will be, provided by a facility. Level of Service standards, as used in this comprehensive plan, are targets or objectives with which compliance is required. Levels of Service are established using one (1) or more infrastructure standards and may also include use of one (1) or more performance standards.

Limited Access Facility: A street or highway especially designed for through traffic, and over, from or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no right or easement of access, light, or air, or view by reason of the fact that their property abuts upon such limited access facility or for any other reason. Such highways or streets may be facilities from which trucks, buses, and other commercial vehicles are excluded; or they may be facilities open to use by all customary forms of street and highway traffic (or as amended by § 334.03, F.S.).

Local Park: A local park is a "walk-to" or "short drive-to" public or private park generally located along streets people can walk or bicycle without encountering heavy traffic. It serves the population of a neighborhood/community in radius of up to one and one-half (1½) miles and should have at least two (2) acres for each one thousand (1,000) population or other space requirement as determined by adopted level of service standards. Its size usually ranges from five (5) to ten (10) acres and it serves a population of up to five thousand (5,000). Because the service areas of local parks and public schools often coincide, it is desirable for a local park to be contiguous to a public school, whenever possible. Both park and school serve the same basic population, share compatible land uses and contain recreation facilities that are mutually beneficial. Because recreation needs vary from one neighborhood to another, site design for local parks is flexible in order to meet the particular recreation needs of each neighborhood. Site design should also reflect the character of the neighborhood and incorporate compatible elements of both passive and active types of recreation. Typical facilities developed in the local park may include nature trail or access point to multi-use trail, play apparatus, recreation buildings, multi-purpose courts, sports fields and picnic tables. Additional facilities may be added, depending on the recreation demands of the neighborhood.

Local Road: A roadway providing service which is of relatively low traffic volume, short average trip length or minimal through traffic movements and high volume land access for abutting property.

Lodging Places: The use of land, structure or buildings for the provision of lodging, including, but not limited to, boarding, camps, dormitories and hotels/motels.

Lots of Record: For the purpose of this Plan, a lot of record is either a lot or contiguous lots which existed under single ownership at time of adoption of this Comprehensive Plan (May 15, 1989), and which are part of a subdivision, the plat of which has been recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Manatee County; or any parcel of land not part of a subdivision, that has been officially recorded by deed in the office of the Clerk; provided such platted lot or parcel was of a size which met the minimum lot area requirement for the zoning district in which the lot or parcel was located at the time of recording, or provided that the deed for the lot or parcel was recorded prior to the effective date of zoning in the area where the lot is located. Notwithstanding the above, all lots of record shall also be consistent with any substandard lot provisions contained in land development regulations developed pursuant to § 163.3202, F.S.

Low-Income Household: One (1) or more natural persons or a family, with a total annual gross household income which does not exceed eighty (80) percent of the median annual income adjusted for family size for households within the metropolitan statistical area, the County, or the non-metropolitan median for the state, whichever amount is greatest.

Low-Intensity Recreational Use: Any commercial or noncommercial recreation use which, by nature of either the customary operation of the use, or the manner in which such uses customarily utilize a site, does not have adverse impacts on adjacent or nearby residential uses, or on natural resources. Such uses may be further defined and, if appropriate, be listed in any land development regulations developed pursuant to § 163.3202, F.S., and shall specifically include golf courses.

Low-Temperature Solar Thermal Power shall mean the technology that utilizes solar thermal collectors to absorb the heat from the sun's rays and transfer it to a heat transfer fluid, such as air, water or antifreeze, which in turn transports it to the area to be heated.

Major Trip Generators or Attractors: Concentrated areas of intense land use or activity that produces or attracts a significant number of local trip ends.

Manatee Protection Plan: Guidelines for the protection of the West Indian Manatee formulated by the Florida Department of Natural Resources.

Marina: An establishment with a waterfront location for the dockage of watercraft in wet slips, and/or for the refueling of watercraft used primarily for recreation, and providing minor repair services for such craft, not involving removal of watercraft from the water or removal of an inboard or outboard engine from the watercraft. A marina may include on-shore accessory uses, including food service establishments, laundry or sanitary facilities, sundries store and other customary accessory facilities. A marina does not include facilities for boat or motor rental, or for mechanical or structural repairs (other than for minor repairs as noted above), or facilities for boat hauling. The term marina shall not be deemed to include a boat yard and way, or boat livery.

Marina-Type Uses: Any marina, boat livery or boat yard and way.

Marine Habitat: Areas where living marine resources naturally occur, such as mangroves, seagrass beds, algae beds, salt marshes, transitional wetlands, marine wetlands, rocky shore communities, hard bottom communities, oyster beds or flats, mud flats, coral reefs, worm reefs, artificial reefs, offshore springs, nearshore mineral deposits and offshore sand deposits.

Marine Wetlands: Areas with a water regime determined primarily by tides and where the dominant vegetation is salt tolerant plant species, including those species listed in Subsection 17-4.02(17), F.A.C., "Submerged Marine Species."

Mass Transit: Passenger services provided by public, private or non-profit entities such as the following surface transit modes: commuter rail, rapid rail transit, light rail transit, light guideway transit, express bus and local fixed route or demand-response bus.

Minerals: All solid minerals which are contained in soil or water, including clay, gravel, phosphate rock, lime, shells (excluding live shellfish), stone, sand, heavy minerals, and any rare earths.

Mixed or Multiple Use: The mixture of more than one (1) land use within a single building, or within a single project in separate buildings, with such uses planned in a coordinated manner under a single master development plan. Land uses, which when combined constitute mixed or multiple uses, exclude parks, golf courses, schools, and public facilities (fire stations, utility substations, etc.). Land uses, which when combined within a single project constitute mixed or multiple uses include residential, commercial, industrial uses.

Mobile Home: Shall have the meaning set forth in § 723.003(8), F.S.

Moderate-Income Affordable Housing: Dwelling units which are sold or based for an amount which may be considered within reasonable reach of a moderate-income household. Value/cost of such units shall be calculated based upon an approved methodology.

Moderate-Income Household: One (1) or more natural persons or a family, with a total annual gross household income of which does not exceed one hundred twenty (120) percent of the median annual income adjusted for family size for households within the metropolitan statistical area, the County, or the non-metropolitan median for the state, whichever is greatest.

Myakka City: A rural unincorporated community in southeast Manatee County within the area described as follows: Beginning at a point which is the southeast corner of Section 13, Range 21, Township 36, then west along the south section line of said Section 13 to the southeast corner of Section 14, then west 1/3 (one-third) mile along the south section line of said Section 14, then north along a line parallel to the east section line of Section 14 to the north section line of Section 14, said north section line of Section 14 being also the south section line of Section 11, then continue north 2 (one-half) mile along a line parallel to the east section line of Section 11, then east 1/3 (one-third) mile along the east-west half section line of Section 11 to the east section line of Section 11, said east section line being also the west section line of Section 12, then east one mile along the east-west half section line of Section 12 to the east section line of Section 12, then south 2 (one-half) mile along the east section line of said Section 12 to the northeast corner of Section 13, then south one mile along the east section line of said Section 13 to the southeast corner of Section 13, the point of beginning.

National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS): Restrictions established by the Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to Section 109 of the Clean Air Act to limit the quality or concentration of an air pollutant that may be allowed to exist in the ambient air for any specific period of time. Those air pollutants for which standards exist are: carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide and total suspended particulates.

Native: Flora and fauna which naturally occur in Manatee County; not to mean naturalized or indigenous species which originate from outside the County.

Native Upland Habitat: A biological community that is found in similar physical environments. Influenced by similar dynamic ecological processes, such as fire or flooding and is dominated by native flora. Native Upland Habitat may include but are not limited to the following vegetative communities: hammocks (mesic or xeric); flatwoods (pine flatwoods or dry prairies); scrubs (sand pine, scrubby flatwoods, and turkey oak ridges); upland forest (pine-mesic oak, mixed hardwoods or temperate hardwoods).

Natural Drainage Features: The naturally occurring features within the landscape which accommodate the flow of stormwater, as well as, surface and subsurface water, such as streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands.

Natural Resource Reservation Area: Areas designated for conservation purposes and operated by contractual agreement with, or managed by a Federal, State, Regional or Local government or non-profit agency, such as: national parks, state parks, lands purchased under the Save Our Coast, Conservation and Recreation Lands or Save Our Rivers programs, sanctuaries, preserves, monuments, archaeological sites, historic sites, wildlife management areas, national seashores and Outstanding Florida Waters.

Neo-Traditional Development: A mixed use development allowing residential and commercial uses, having a minimum density of three (3) dwelling units per gross acre, and exhibiting many of the following characteristics:

• A discernible center which is often a plaza, square or green, and sometimes a busy/memorable intersection.

• A transit stop within the center.

• Buildings at the center are placed close to the sidewalk and to each other, creating an urban sense of spatial definition. Buildings towards the edge of the neighborhood are placed further away and further apart from each other.

• Most of the dwellings are within a five (5) minute walk from the center - approximately one-quarter (¼) of a mile.

• Contains a variety of dwelling types so that younger and older, singles and families and the lower income and upper income can find places to live.

• There are places to work in the form of office buildings and live-work units.

• Shops are sufficiently varied to supply the ordinary needs of a household - such as a convenience/corner store, a post office and an ATM machine.

• A small ancillary building within the backyard of each house - to be used as a rental apartment or a place to work.

• Elementary school, generally within one (1) mile, so that most children can walk from their dwelling.

• Small playgrounds distributed evenly throughout the neighborhood, approximately within one-eighth (⅛) of a mile of every dwelling.

• Thoroughfares/streets within the neighborhood form a continuous network and provide connection to as many locations as feasible to adjacent developments and thoroughfares.

• Thoroughfares/streets are relatively narrow and shaded by rows of trees that slow traffic and create an appropriate environment for pedestrian and bicyclist.

• Parking lots and garage doors rarely front on the thoroughfares. Garages and parking lots are relegated to the rear of buildings.

• Commercial buildings front directly on the sidewalk with parking lots to the side or rear of the buildings.

• Certain prominent sites are reserved for public buildings.

• Transportation connectivity—cul-de-sacs are avoided.

• Each neighborhood is a maximum ten (10) minute walk (one-half (½) mile) from edge to edge.

• Higher density of housing is located toward the center and often located above the retail space.

• Buildings are placed relatively close to the street, such that they are generally set back the equivalent of one-quarter (¼) the width of the lot.

• Most lots smaller than seventy (70) feet wide shall be served by a rear alley to access garages.

Net Residential Acreage: The total acreage within a project proposed for residential lots or parcels, including off-street parking areas, and also meeting the following limitations:

• Not subject to the jurisdiction of any local, state or federal environmental review agency.

• Not part of any recreational facility within the project or part of any public facility within the project.

• Not part of any natural water body below mean high water, or ordinary high water, as estimated at time of project review.

• Not part of any conservation easement dedicated to Manatee County.

• Not within any utility easement shown as P/SP (1) on the Future Land Use Map.

• Other limitations as described in land development regulations developed pursuant to § 163.3202, F.S.

Net Residential Density: The total number of residential dwelling units or equivalent residential units within a residential project, or within a residential parcel contained within a project, divided by net residential acreage (as defined herein).

Nonattainment [Air Pollution]: Any area not meeting ambient air quality standards and designated as a nonattainment area under § 17-2.410, F.A.C., for any of the NAAQS listed air pollutants.

Nonpoint Source Pollution: Water pollution that is not point source pollution, as defined herein.

Objective: A specific, generally measurable, intermediate end that is achievable and marks progress toward a goal.

Office Use: Shall mean any room, studio, suite or building in which a person/persons transact business or carries on a stated occupation or an office wherein the primary use is the conduct of business by professionals such as engineers, architects, planners, land surveyors, artists, musicians, lawyers, accountants, real estate brokers, insurance agents, and dentists or physicians' offices or other office uses. An office shall not involve manufacturing or industrial uses (see LDC for further clarification).

On-Site Sewage Disposal System (OSDS): A septic tank and drainfield combined for purposes of discharging wastewater.

Open Space: Any parcel or area of land or water which is unimproved, or is landscaped using plant cover and set aside, dedicated, designated or reserved for public or private use or enjoyment, or for the protection of natural resources.

Operating Permit (Air Pollution): Written approval from the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation which must be obtained by the owner or operator of any new or modified air pollution source subsequent to construction and compliance testing. This permit may be subject to renewal.

Outstanding Florida Waters: Surface waters which have been deemed to be worthy of special protection as identified in Section 17-3.041, F.A.C.

Overriding Public Interest: Actions required by local, state or federal government, necessary for the promotion of public safety, health, and general welfare.

Paddle Manatee: Manatee County's marked blueway paddle trail system for canoeing and kayaking area waters that has an accompanying guidebook.

Parrish: A rural, unincorporated community in northern Manatee County within the area described as follows: Beginning at a point which is the southwest corner of Section 20, Range 19, Township 33, then north 250 feet along the west section line of said Section 20, then east 900 feet along a line parallel to the south section line of said Section 20, then north 700 feet along a line parallel to the west section line of said Section 20, then west 50 feet along a line parallel to the south section line of said Section 20, then north 425 feet along a line parallel to the west section line of said Section 20, then east 2000 feet along a line parallel to the south section line of said Section 20 to the centerline of U.S. Highway 301, then south 725 feet along the said centerline, then east 450 feet along a line parallel to the south section line of said Section 20, then south 350 feet along a line parallel to the east section line of said Section 20 to the centerline of State Route 62, then east 400 feet along the said centerline, then south 250 feet to a point on the south section line of said Section 20, said south section line also being the north section line of Section 29, then one mile south along a line parallel to the east section line of said Section 29, said south section line of Section 29 being the north section line of Section 32, then south 1320 feet along a line parallel to the west section line of said Section 32 to the east-west quarter section line of said Section 32 to the center line of Fort Hamer Road, then south 400 feet along the said centerline, then west 800 feet to a point on the south right-of-way line on a curve of U.S. Highway 301, then north 375 feet to a point on the said east-west quarter section line of said Section 32, then west 1900 feet along said east-west quarter section line to a point on the west section line of said Section 32, then north 1475 feet along the west section line to the northwest corner of said Section 32, said northwest corner also being the southwest corner of Section 29, then north one mile along the west section line of said Section 29 to the northwest corner of said Section 29 which is also the southwest corner of Section 20, the point of beginning.

Passive Recreational Use: Any public recreational pastime which customarily has no adverse impacts on a site and is generally conducted in such a way as to be compatible with natural and/or cultural resource protection. Uses may include natural lands, low impact camping, horseback riding, off-road bicycling, education/nature studies, sightseeing, scenic appreciation, fishing, canoeing/kayaking, hiking, swimming, wildlife management, or a similar activity, as well as those support facilities associated with said uses. Such uses may be further defined and, if appropriate, be listed in any land development regulations developed pursuant to § 163.3202, F.S.

Perennial Lake or Stream: A well-defined channel that contains water year-round during a year of normal rainfall with the aquatic bed located below the water table for most of the year. Groundwater is the primary source of water for a perennial stream, but it also carries stormwater runoff. A perennial stream exhibits the typical biological, hydrological, and physical characteristics commonly associated with the continuous conveyance of water.

Performance Standard (Infrastructure): A target or objective which defines or qualifies the desired or required state of operation of specific public facility, through the use of certain variable parameters which are associated with the public facility.

Person: An individual, group of individuals, firms, associations, joint ventures, partnerships, estates, trustees, business trusts, syndicates, fiduciaries, corporations, and all other groups or combinations.

Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Power shall mean the technology that uses photovoltaic cells to harness radiant energy from the sun and create electricity. These cells are often packaged into panels that can be mounted on a rack system, placed on rooftops, or incorporated into other building materials such as roofing materials, facades, and glass. Rack mounted PV systems typically consist of a large array of solar panels which are mounted to support structures which are physically secured in the ground.

Point Source Discharge: Release of degraded water through a discernible, confined or discrete conveyance, including but not limited to pipes, ditches, channels, tunnels, conduits, or wells. This term does not include return flows from irrigated agriculture.

Point Source Pollution: Water pollution which has as its source a discernible, confined or discrete conveyance, including but not limited to, any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants are or may be discharged. This term does not include return flows from irrigated agriculture.

Policy: The way in which programs and activities are conducted to achieve an identified goal.

Pollution: The presence in the outdoor atmosphere, ground or water, of any substances, contaminants, noise or man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological, or radiological integrity of air or water, in quantities or at levels which are or may be potentially harmful or injurious to human health or welfare, animal or plant life, or property, or which does or may unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life or property.

Port Facility: Harbor or shipping improvements used predominantly for commercial purposes, including channels, turning basins, jetties, breakwaters, landings, wharves, docks, markets, structures, buildings, piers, storage facilities, plazas, anchorages, utilities, bridges, tunnels, roads, causeways and all other property or facilities necessary or useful in connection with commercial shipping.

Potable Water: Water which is satisfactory for drinking, culinary, and domestic purposes and which meets the appropriate requirements of the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation.

Potable Water Facilities: A system of structures designed, constructed or used to collect, treat or distribute potable water, which includes water wells, treatment plants, reservoirs and distribution mains.

Primary Tributaries: Waterbodies shown on the most recent U.S. Geological Survey quadrangle sheets as having perennial flow which eventually drain into any permanent open water body.

Private Recreation Sites: Sites owned by private, commercial or non-profit entities available to the public for purposes of recreational use.

Programmed: Scheduled for construction in the Capital Improvements Program and Budget.

Project: Any land use or combination of more than one (1) land use, either existing or proposed, for which application for approval has either been submitted or is in the process of being reviewed, or which has been issued a development order. Cultivation or raising of agricultural or other farm or plant products shall not be considered a project unless either:

• The proposed or existing agricultural use is considered a special agricultural use, as defined herein; or

• The proposed or existing agricultural use is conducted along with uses other than residential dwelling units(s) for the family of the individual or individuals carrying out the agricultural activity.

A project shall also constitute a parcel or tract of land which is proposed or exists as a single development, with all portions of the parcel or tract being contiguous, except where divided by roadways, railroads, streams, rivers, lakes or utility transmission corridors.

Protected Plant and Animal Species: Collective grouping of endangered and threatened species and species of special concern as defined in this document.

Public Access: The ability of the public to physically reach, enter or use recreation sites including beaches and shores.

Public Facilities: Transportation systems or facilities, sewer systems or facilities, solid waste systems or facilities, drainage systems or facilities, potable water systems or facilities, educational systems or facilities, parks and recreation systems or facilities and public health systems or facilities.

Public Recreation Sites: Sites owned or leased on a long-term basis by a Federal, State, regional or local government agency for purposes of recreational use.

Public Supply Well: Any excavation that is drilled, cored, bored, washed, driven, dug, jetted or otherwise constructed to convey groundwater from a source bed to the surface by pumping or natural flow for use in a Public Water Supply System as defined in Ch. 17-22, F.A.C.

Receiving Waters: The surface water area into which point source pollution enters after appropriate water quality treatment.

Recreation: The pursuit of leisure time activities occurring in an indoor or outdoor setting.

Recreational Vehicle: A vehicular type unit primarily designed as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use, which either has its own motive power or is mounted on or drawn by another vehicle pursuant to § 320.01, F.S. The basic types of recreational vehicles are travel trailers, motor homes, camping trailers, campers and recreational vans.

Recreational Vehicle Park: A place set aside and offered by a person, for either direct or indirect remuneration of the owner, lessor, or operator of such place, for the parking, accommodation, or rental of five (5) or more recreational vehicles or tents; and the term also includes buildings and sites set aside for group camping and similar recreational facilities pursuant to § 513.01, F.S.

Regional Park: Regional parks are large, resource-based areas that serve two (2) or more counties and are usually within an hour's driving distance of the residents they serve. A space allowance of twenty (20) acres per one thousand (1,000) population, or other space requirement as established in adopted level of service standards, is preferred. The park should serve a population of five hundred thousand (500,000) and should range in size from a minimum of two hundred fifty (250) acres to as much as several thousand acres. Because regional parks are generally designed for resource-based activities, location is dependent upon the availability of high quality natural resources capable of being developed and used for outdoor recreation.

Typical facilities provided at a regional park include water-based recreation sites, camping areas, natural lands, nature trails, multi-use trails, picnic areas and other facilities not requiring intensive development. Parking areas are necessary support facilities and should be designed to minimize adverse effects on the natural environment. The most prominent feature of a regional park is that it provides recreational opportunities that, through the design and development of outdoor recreation resources and facilities, capitalize on the natural environment and promote an atmosphere of beauty and serenity.

Resident Population: Inhabitants counted in the same manner utilized by the United States Bureau of the Census in the category of total population. Resident population does not include seasonal population.

Residential Treatment Facility: A 24-hour residential program providing relatively intensive diagnostic or therapeutic services for its residents for alcoholism, drug abuse, mental illness, emotional or social problems, development disabilities or similar conditions. A residential treatment facility shall not be deemed to include a nursing home, hospital, assisted living facility, dormitory (although a dormitory facility may be included as a part of a residential treatment facility), family care home, or emergency shelter.

Residential Uses: Activities within land areas used predominantly for housing.

Right-of-Way: Land in which the State, a County or a Municipality owns the fee simple title or has an easement dedicated or required for a transportation, utility or other use.

Roadway Functional Classification: The assignment of roads into categories according to the character of service they provide in relation to the total road network. Basic functional categories include limited access facilities, arterial roads and collector roads, which may be subcategorized into principal, major or minor levels. Those levels may be further grouped into urban and rural categories.

Runway Protection Zone: Means an area at ground level beyond the runway end to enhance the safety and protection of people and property on the ground.

Rural Recreational Use: Any commercial or non-commercial recreational use, which by the nature of either the customary operation of the use or the noise impacts of such uses require that the use be located on a large parcel of land and is most appropriately located outside the urban area. Structures shall be limited to only minor or incidental buildings providing office and sanitary facilities except for game preserves where lodges containing no more than fifteen (15) rooms and incidental restaurant facilities serving only guests may be allowed. Allowed uses shall include, but not be limited to game preserves, gun and/or archery ranges, low intensity parks and off road vehicle facilities. This definition shall not include major attractor or intensive recreational uses.

Saltwater Intrusion: Inward movement of seawater within the groundwater aquifer system.

Sanitary Sewer Facilities: Structures or systems designed for the collection, transmission, treatment or disposal of sewage and includes trunk mains, interceptors, treatment plants and disposal systems.

Sanitary Sewer Interceptor: A sewerage conduit which connects directly to, and transmits sewage to a treatment plant.

Sanitary Sewer Trunk Main: A sewerage conduit which connects directly to, and transmits sewage to an interceptor.

Seasonal Population: Part-time inhabitants who utilize, or may be expected to utilize, public facilities or services, but are not residents. Seasonal population shall include tourists, farmworkers and other short-term and long-term visitors.

Seawall: Man-made wall or encroachment, except rip rap, which is made to break the force of waves and to protect the shore from erosion.

Septic Tank: A watertight receptacle constructed to promote separation of solid and liquid components of wastewater, to provide limited digestion of organic matter, to store solids, and to allow clarified liquid to discharge for further treatment and disposal in a soil absorption system.

Services: The programs and employees determined necessary by local government to provide adequate operation and maintenance of public facilities and infrastructure as well as those educational, health care, social and other programs necessary to support the programs, public facilities and infrastructure set out in the local plan or required by local, state or federal law.

Setback: Physical distance which serves to minimize the effects of development activity on an adjacent property, structure or natural resource; and within which it may be necessary to restrict activities for the area. Also, a required horizontal distance from the subject land or water area designed to reduce the impact on adjacent land of land uses or cover types located on the subject land or water area.

Shoreline: Interface of land and water in oceanic and estuarine conditions which follows the general configuration of the mean high water line (tidal water) and the ordinary high water mark (fresh water).

Short-Term Agricultural Uses: Agricultural uses located within non-agricultural future land use categories and zoning districts and projected to transition to urban/suburban development. For the purpose of this code, the term Short-Term Agricultural Uses shall not include confined feedlot operations, poultry farms and similar establishments used for the housing, exhibiting, displaying or keeping of Class I or II type wildlife as defined in Rule 68A-6.002, F.A.C.).

Single Boat Docking Facility: Structure used for the storage of watercraft which serves a single residential building containing only one (1) dwelling unit on a single building lot.

Site Plan Approval: The review, approval and certification of a General Development, Conceptual or other Site Plan for purposes of obtaining or implementing suitable zoning on a site.

Slow Speed Zone: A designated area within which it has been established that manatees are known to congregate. In a slow speed zone, motorboat operators shall not proceed at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent to avoid, either intentionally or negligently, annoying, molesting, harassing, disturbing, colliding with, injuring or harming manatees. Within any such zone motorboats shall be operated in accordance with legal requirements.

Solid Waste: Sludge from a waste treatment works, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility; or garbage, rubbish, refuse or other discarded material, including solid, liquid semisolid, or contained gaseous material resulting from domestic, industrial, commercial, mining, agricultural or governmental operations.

Solid Waste Facilities: Structures or systems designed for the collection, processing or disposal of solid wastes, including hazardous wastes, and which includes transfer stations, processing plants, recycling plants and disposal systems.

Special Agricultural Use: High impact and intensive agriculture uses or operations which may have objectionable characteristics such as noise and odor (e.g., confined feedlot operations, poultry farms or certain establishments for the housing, exhibiting, displaying or keeping of Class I or II type wildlife pursuant to Rule 68A-6.002, F.A.C.).

Solar Array. (See Alternative Energy Generation Facility)

Solar Field. (See Alternative Energy Generation Facility)

Solid Waste Transfer Stations: A facility for temporary collection of solid wastes prior to transport to a processing plant or to a final disposal site.

Special Waters: As used in this Comprehensive Plan, defines water bodies designated in accordance with Rule 62-302.400, F.A.C., by the Environmental Regulation Commission.

Species of Special Concern: Fauna identified in § 39-27.005, F.A.C., which warrants special protection, recognition or consideration because it has an inherent significant vulnerability to habitat modification, environmental alteration, human disturbance, or substantial human exploitation which, in the foreseeable future, may result in it becoming a threatened species; may already meet certain criteria for designation as a threatened species but for which conclusive data is limited or lacking; may occupy such an unusually vital and essential ecological niche that, should it decline significantly in numbers or distribution, other species would be adversely affected to a significant degree; or has not sufficiently recovered from past population depletion.

Stabilization: Methods which break the force of waves, protect the underlying soil from erosion, and consist of rip rap, routed vegetation or other similar appropriate material.

Stormwater: The flow of water which results from a rainfall event.

Stormwater Runoff: That portion of precipitation which is not passed into the soil by infiltration, evaporated into the atmosphere, or entrapped by small surface depressions and vegetation, and which flows over the land surface during, and for a short duration following any rainfall.

Strip Commercial: A form of nonresidential development organized in a linear pattern along the street and designed primarily for vehicular access. Strip commercial is characterized by the following:

• Sites are shallow in depth;

• Each site has its own driveway and parking facility; and

• Poor accessibility and circulation for pedestrians and bicycles.

Surface Water: Water upon the surface of the earth, such as in a river, lake, wetland, or ocean, whether contained in bounds created naturally or artificially or diffused. Water from natural springs shall be classified as surface water when it exits from the spring onto the earth's surface.

TSD: Technical Support Document for this Comprehensive Plan comprising data and analysis required pursuant to Rule 9J-5, F.A.C.

Upland: Land at a higher elevation, in general, than the alluvial plain or stream terrace; land above the lowlands along streams; land absent of wetlands.

Urban Corridor: The area encompassing the properties that abut the following roadway corridors (see Map M) within Manatee County's Urban Service Area:

• Manatee Avenue West (from 75th Street West to 34th Street West).

• Cortez Road West/44th Avenue East (from 75th Street West to 15th Street East).

• 53rd Avenue West/SR-70 (36th Avenue West to US 301).

• Tamiami Trail (US 41)/14th Street West (BUS 41) (from 26th Avenue West to University Parkway.

• 15th Street East (from US 301 to University Parkway).

• 1st Street (from 21st Avenue West to Cortez Road West).

Urban Service Area: The area identified in the Comprehensive Plan within the Future Land Use Map Series, which illustrates areas where public facilities and services, including, but no limited to, central water and sewer capacity and roads, are already in place or are identified in the capital improvements element. Such map be amended from time to time as determined appropriate by Manatee County.

Utility Use shall mean any of the following uses:

A.

Electric substations or distribution centers including transformer stations.

B.

Alternative Energy Generation Facility.

C.

Natural gas, oil or other petroleum product metering, regulating, compressor, control or distribution stations, and local office space incidental thereto and necessary for the operation of such station, but shall not include any storage facilities.

D.

Telecommunication facilities, including but not limited to exchanges, dial centers, or repeater stations. Telecommunication towers and antennas are not included in the definition of "Utility Use".

E.

Service or supply yards for any of the above uses, where such yards are less than one (1) acre in area.

Utility Use, Heavy shall include:

A.

Power generating facilities, including Low Temperature Solar Thermal, operating at a threshold above that specified in § 403.506, F.S., as may be amended.

B.

Major Electrical Transmission Corridors.

C.

Major sewage pumping facilities.

D.

Major potable water storage, control, or pumping facilities.

E.

Wastewater treatment plants.

F.

Water treatment plants.

G.

Major maintenance facilities.

H.

Solid waste transfer stations.

Vegetative Communities: Ecological communities, such as coastal strands, oak hammocks, and cypress swamps, which are classified based on the presence of certain soils, vegetation and animals.

Very Low Income Household: One (1) or more persons or a family, the total annual adjusted gross household income of which does not exceed fifty (50) percent of the median annual adjusted gross income for households within the State, or fifty (50) percent of the median annual adjusted gross income for households within Manatee County.

Viable [Natural Resources]: Capable of surviving and/or growing at a reasonably functional level.

Watercourse: Any natural or artificial channel, ditch, canal, stream, river, creek, waterway or wetland through which water flows in a definite direction, either continuously or intermittently, and which has a definite channel, bed, banks or other discernible boundary. Watercourse shall not include irrigation and drainage ditches constructed in the uplands which are not more than thirty-five (35) square feet in total cross section area and which normally has a water depth of no more than three (3) feet, provided they are not in and do not directly connect to Outstanding Florida Waters, Class I Waters and Class II Waters.

Water-Dependent Uses: Activities which can be carried out only on, in or adjacent to water areas because the use requires access to the water body for: waterborne transportation including ports or marinas; recreation; electric generating facilities; or water supply.

Water-Enhanced Uses: Uses which are not water-dependent but whose value is increased due to location along the water. Any such increase in value is unrelated to generally increased property values of waterfront property.

Water Quality: The physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of water which interrelate with the propagation of fish, wildlife, and all aquatic life.

Water Recharge Areas: Land or water areas through which ground-water is replenished.

Water-Related Uses: Activities which are not directly dependent upon access to water body, but which provide goods and services that are directly associated with water-dependent or waterway uses.

Water Wells: Wells which are excavated, drilled, dug, or driven for the supply of industrial, agricultural or potable water for general public consumption.

Wetland: Those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface water or ground water at a frequency and a duration sufficient to support, and under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soils. Soils present in wetlands generally are classified as hydric or alluvial, or possess characteristics that are associated with reducing soil conditions. The prevalent vegetation in wetlands generally consists of facultative or obligate hydrophytic macrophytes that are typically adapted to areas having soil conditions described above. These species, due to morphological, physiological, or reproductive adaptations, have the ability to grow, reproduce, or persist in aquatic environments or anaerobic soil conditions. Florida wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bayheads, bogs, cypress domes and strands, sloughs, wet prairies, riverine swamps and marshes, hydric seepage slopes, tidal marshes, mangrove swamps, and other similar areas. Florida wetlands generally do not include longleaf or slash pine flatwoods with an understory dominated by saw palmetto.

Wetland, Isolated: Wetlands with no apparent surface water connection to perennial rivers and streams, estuaries, or the ocean.

Wetland Survey: Delineation of the extent of wetlands as approved by the appropriate jurisdictional government agency.

Woodland Management Plan: A document developed by or in coordination with the Florida Department of Agriculture's Division of Forestry for areas containing commercially valuable forests, developing forests, or other valuable forested areas.

(Ord. No. 16-07, § 4(Exh. B), 9-19-16; Ord. No. 16-23, § 5(Exh. C), 9-19-16; Ord. No. 17-03 , § 4(Exh. B), 3-2-17; Ord. No. 18-17 , § 3(Exh. A), 6-7-18; Ord. No. 18-04 , § 5(Exh. C), 8-23-18)