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M - M Director Keating explained that while this is a 3 -part request, the rezoning portion will not be considered until the land use amendment comes before the Board for final approval after it comes back from Tallahassee. With respect to expanding the urban service area boundary to include the ±40 acres, Commissioner Scurlock pointed out that when we put in a core line for utilities along certain arterials such as Kings Highway, we seem to be illogical when it comes to land uses and favoring one side of the road over the other for utility service. He believed that major utility lines should extend to and serve the same amount of area on each side of the road. There are several of these situations in the land use designations with regard to allowable densities, SR -60 for example. Director Keating emphasized that it is always difficult to draw a line for boundaries. In this case, when the actual water and sewer lines are put down Kings Highway and available in front of the property, there would be more rationale for it to be considered in an urban service area there. Further, when development occurs to the property to the east of the road, there would be a rationale for increasing the urban service area. Commissioner Scurlock wasn't sure that the line should be drawn at Kings Highway just because it is a physical line that you can see, and Director Keating admitted there is no right or wrong when drawing these boundary lines. However, he felt it is important to remember that the urban service area boundary is not a permanent delineation. It is dynamic, and it is designed to expand when the need arises. Staff doesn't look at Kings Highway as being the ultimate urban service boundary. In fact, we make a point in the staff report here that this property very well may be a candidate for redesignation and expansion just through the normal evolutionary process of development occurring and the County looking at maintaining this residential allocation ratio. If more development occurs, we then can redesignate more land in the urban service area. Commissioner Scurlock just wanted to point out that the subject property where we are going to have to bring water and sewer is only 3 blocks to the south of Pinetree Park, which is designated to be serviced by water and sewer. He noted that Pinetree Park is pretty densely built. Director Keating stated that staff's position has been that if this property is redesignated, it will provide the justification to redesignate all the other property on the west side of Kings Highway. It will have an effect on the residential allocation ratio that we talked about earlier. It also is going 0V 1, 2 1911