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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. 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 land use designation amendment requests, that review is undertaken as part of the conditional concurrency determination application process. As per the Concurrency Management Chapter of the County's Land Development Regulations, projects which do not increase land use density or intensity are exempt from concurrency requirements. In this case, the request is to swap the land use designation of two properties that are the same size. That represents no change in land use density or intensity. Therefore, this land use amendment request is exempt from concurrency review. It is important to note that adoption of the proposed land use amendment will not have any additional impact on any public facilities or services. As with all projects, a detailed concurrency analysis will be done in conjunction with site development. That concurrency analysis will address facility service levels and demand. Consistency with the Comprehensive Plan Land use amendment requests are reviewed for consistency with all policies of the comprehensive plan. As per the county code, the comprehensive plan may be amended only in such a way as to preserve the internal consistency of the plan. Amendments must also show consistency with the overall designation of land uses as depicted on the Future Land Use Map. The goals, objectives and policies are the most important parts of the comprehensive plan. Policies are statements in the plan which identify actions which the county will take in order to direct the community's development. As courses of action committed to by the county, policies provide the basis for all county land development related decisions, including plan amendment decisions. While all comprehensive plan objectives and policies are important, some have more applicability than others in reviewing plan amendment requests. Of particular applicability for this request are the following objectives and policies. Future Land Use Element Policy 1.24 With respect to C/I node expansion land use amendment requests, the most important policy is Future Land Use Element Policy 1.24. That policy states that a Commercial/Industrial node cannot be expanded unless that node is 70 percent developed or unless otherwise warranted. One of the otherwise warranted situations involves a swap of land use designations. A 145