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CL: Limited Commercial District. The CL, limited commercial, district is intended to provide areas for the development of restricted commercial activities. The CL district is intended to "WO. accommodate the convenience retail and service needs of area residents, while minimizing the impact of such activities on any nearby residential areas. One principal difference between the CH and CL districts that is particularly applicable in this case is that the CH district does not permit education centers, including primary and secondary schools, while the CL district allows that use. ANALYSIS In this section, an analysis of the reasonableness of the rezoning request will be presented. Specifically, this section will include: • An analysis of the request's impact on public facilities; • An analysis of the request's consistency with the county's comprehensive plan; • An analysis of the request's compatibility with the surrounding area; and • An analysis of the request's potential impact on environmental quality. Concurrency of Public Facilities The subject property is located within the County Urban Service Area, an area deemed suited for urban scale development. Within the urban service area, the comprehensive plan establishes standards for: Transportation, Potable Water, Wastewater, Solid Waste, Stormwater Management, and Recreation (Future Land Use Policy 3.1). The adequate provision of those services is necessary to ensure the continued quality of life enjoyed by the community. To ensure that the minimum acceptable standards for those services and facilities are maintained, the comprehensive plan requires that new development be reviewed for concurrency determination. For rezoning requests, that review is undertaken as part of the conditional concurrency determination application process. As per section 910.07 of the County's Land Development Regulations (LDRs), conditional concurrency review examines the available capacity of each facility with respect to a proposed project. Since rezoning requests are not projects, county regulations call for the concurrency review to be based upon the most intense use of the subject property based upon the requested rezoning district. For commercial rezoning requests, the most intense use of a property varies with the zoning district. In the case of CL zoned property, the most intense use (according to County LDRs) is 10,000 square feet of retail commercial gross floor area per acre. With CH zoning, the most intense use of a property is 20,000 square feet of general industrial gross floor area per acre. The site information used for the concurrency analysis is as follows: 1. Size of Area to be rezoned: ±0.94 2. Existing Land Use Designation: GI CommerciaUIndustrial 43