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'ROOK. 8"1 53 Future Land Use Policy 3.2 states that no development shall be approved unless it is consistent with the concurrency management system. Section 910.07 of the County's Land Development regulations requires a conditional concurrency review for land use amendment requests. Conditional concurrency review examines the available capacity of each facility with respect to a proposed project. Since comprehensive plan amendments and 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 district or land use designation. For residential rezoning requests, the most intense use (according to the county's rums ) is the maximum number of units that could be built on the site, given the size of the property and the maximum density under the proposed zoning of the property. For commercial/industrial rezoning requests, the most intense use is retail commercial with 10,000 square feet of gross floor area per acre of land proposed for rezoning. As per section 910.07(2) of the Concurrency Management chapter of the county's Land Development Regulations (LDRs), projects which do not increase density or intensity of use are exempt from concurrency. This provision is particularly applicable to this county initiated administrative rezoning request since four out of the five major areas of change involve a reduction in density. This represents a decrease in intensity. Therefore, the proposed rezonings are exempt from the county's concurrency requirements. The fifth major area of this rezoning occurs along the commercial/ industrial node boundaries. Since these rezonings will decrease intensity as much as they will increase intensity, it is staff's position that there will be no effect on service levels for any public facility as a result of the changes along the county's node boundaries. Because these node related rezonings will address primarily split parcels, where some split parcels will be totally excluded from the node and other split parcels will be totally included within the node, the result will be no impact in intensity. Consequently, these rezonings also meet the no intensity increase concurrency exemption. Potential Impact on Agricultural lands and Environmental Qualit Because these administrative rezonings are being undertaken to implement land use plan changes which were adopted primarily to enhance agricultural and environmental protection, it is certain that these rezonings will have a beneficial effect on both agriculture and the environment. Consistency with the Comprehensive Plan Rezoning requests are reviewed for consistency with all policies of the Comprehensive Plan. Rezonings must also show consistency with the overall designation of land uses as depicted on the Future Land Use Map. These land uses include agricultural, residential, recreation, conservation, and commercial and industrial land uses. The goals, objectives and policies are the most important parts of the comprehensive plan. Policies are statements in the plan which identify the 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 rezoning decisions. While all comprehensive plan policies are important, some have more applicability than others in reviewing rezoning requests. Of particular applicability are the following policies.. 8