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A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, CONCEPTUALLY APPROVING THE
DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSFER OF DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS INCENTIVES
FOR OWNERS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY LOCATED WITHIN THE
PRIMARY/SECONDARY FLOWWAY OF THE COLLIER COUNTY
COMPREHENSIVE WATERSHED IMPROVEMENT PROJECT, SUBJECT TO
ADOPTION OF GROWTH MANAGEMENT PLAN AND LAND DEVELOPMENT
CODE AMENDMENTS.
WHEREAS, on September 27, 2016, under Item 11B, the Board of County Commissioners
(Board) approved the Collier County Comprehensive Watershed Improvement Plan, to reduce freshwater
flows to Naples Bay,restore freshwater flows into Rookery Bay,and rehydrate approximately 10,000 acres
of the Picayune Strand State Forest/South Belle Meade area; and
WHEREAS,on October 10,2017,the Board,via Resolution No.2017-183,approved the submittal
of the Multi-Year Implementation Plan to the Department of the Treasury, to obtain grant funding for the
Comprehensive Watershed Improvement Plan through the RESTORE Act, which was established in
connection with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; and
WHEREAS, on July 10, 2018, under Item 11H, the Board approved the project development and
permitting activities for the Comprehensive Watershed Improvement Plan; and
WHEREAS, critical to the success of the project will be the rehydration and flow of water within
the primary/secondary flowway in the South Belle Meade area,which includes a number of privately owned
parcels of land; and
WHEREAS, the Board desires to provide incentives for those private property owners who will
voluntarily encumber their land with a flowway easement or agreement to allow the flow of this rehydration
water across their property.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF COLLIER COUNTY,FLORIDA,that:
1. The Board conceptually approves the issuance of a transfer of development rights (TDR)
credit to private property owners located within the primary/secondary flowway of Collier County
Comprehensive Watershed Improvement Project who will voluntarily encumber their land with a flowway
easement/agreement to allow the flow of this re-hydration water across their property.
2. The Board directs staff to include changes to the Growth Management Plan with the Rural
Fringe Mixed Use restudy amendments to the Growth Management Plan including the following:
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a. One TDR credit may be approved for selected private property owners within the
primary/secondary flowway in the South Belle Meade area who will voluntarily
encumber their land with a flowway easement or agreement.
b. Property owners will be eligible to apply for the TDR credit for a period of two
years after adoption of the Growth Management Plan and Land Development Code
amendments.
c. The additional TDR credit does not require that ownership of the subject property
be transferred to the State.
d. Project specific agreement.
3. The Board also directs staff to explore funding for exotic removal and the long term exotic
maintenance on some selected/critical properties as an inducement to incentivize the property owner to
transfer the property to the state for the conveyance credit TDR that is currently available in the LDC.
THIS RESOLUTION ADOPTED after motion, second and majority vote favoring same, this
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ATTEST: 1 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
CRYSTAL K. KINZEL,CLERK COLLIER COI, - IA
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Attest as to �; *� Clerk WIL1 AM L. MCDANIEL, JR., • IRMAN
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