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MAY 0 51992 I B00K 8 compensate for any recommended expansion of the Urban Service Area boundary, to discourage the proliferation of urban sprawl, to ensure the separation of urban and rural land uses, and to maintain the relationship between the needs of the Projected population and the land uses depicted on the Future Land Use Map. Such changes shall then be considered by the Board of County Commissioners as proposed comprehensive plan amendments. Policy 1.37 was drafted in coordination with DCA staff. It is county planning staff's understanding that the DCA agrees that excluding the subject property from the urban service area was a mistake or oversight and that proposed policy 1.37 will ensure that the utility corridor issue will be addressed in a comprehensive manner. -Future Land Use Policies 20-2 and 2.3 Future Land Use Policies 2.2 and 2.3 give two criteria for including land in the urban service area. First, the area must be defined as urban or suburban. Secondly, and most significantly, the area must have public infrastructure such as central water and sewer, improved roadways, solid waste collection, drainage, police Protection, fire protection, educational facilities, and recreational facilities, in place, or programmed to occur. Since it has been established that major water and sewer lines are Programmed for installation along 58th Avenue, that indicates that public infrastructure is available to the subject property. To further comply with policies 2.2 and 2.31 staff has drafted new Policy 1.37. It is staff's position that these factors indicate that the proposed amendment is consistent with policies 2.2 and 2.3. -Future Land Use Policy 6.1 Among DCA's ORC report objections was a statement that the proposed request is inconsistent with Future Land Use Policy 6.1. This Policy states that the county shall not provide services or facilities which would encourage the development of agriculturally designated lands. As structured, Policy 6.1 is intended to prohibit the development of agriculturally designated lands. However, that policy was not intended to preclude redesignation of agricultural areas to a more intense land use category, if circumstances warrant it. In this case, staff's position is that various circumstances, particularly the planned installation of major water and sewer lines along 58th Avenue, warrant a change in land use designation for the subject property from AG -1 to R. Staff feels that the proposed change is not inconsistent with policy 6.1. -Future Land Use Policy 4.1 Another consideration with respect to this amendment re Future Land Use Policy 4.1. This Policy quest is categories shall be deli P cY states that land use designated in a manner which concentrates urban uses and discourages urban sprawl. Such a land use pattern depends on the projected population as well as the timing and intensity of development. The objective of concentrating urban uses is to prevent urban sprawl. Urban sprawl refers to scattered, untimely, Poorly planned urban development that occurs in urban fringe or rural areas. Urban sprawl typically manifests itself by leapfrog development, strip development, or large e single dimensional development. Designation expanses of low density, area is a technique to combat urban sprawl andto urban service development.promote infill 76