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M M M within a road right-of-ways yet prohibit land uses on one side of the road from connecting to those lines. - Consequently, planning staff coordinated with the County Utilities Department,, identified the location of all existing and planned major water and sewer lines,, and determined which lines were located in roadways serving as USA boundaries. In so doing, staff questioned the need for placing major water and sewer lines within rights -of -way of roads serving as USA boundaries. According to utilities staf f and consultants, there are several reasons why lines must be located where they are proposed. The principal reason for situating lines in the referenced rights-of-way is that alternative corridors have insufficient area to accommodate the subject utility lines. These corridors are already too congested. In conducting its analysis, staff addressed only those corridors for which utility line installation is programmed to be completed by 1995,, and the fast growing 58th Avenue corridor which was designated a high priority in Future Land Use Element Policy 1.37. Although the utility master plan provides for line installation in other corridors by 2010 (see attachment -5). staff did not consider these areas because of the longer timeframe. Consistent with the requirements of policy 1. 37, staff assessed the need to expand the USA adjacent to the road rights -of -way which are programmed to accommodate major utility lines where those roadways serve as USA boundaries. Through this assessment,, staf f determined that the USA boundary should be expanded one quarter of a mile f rom such roads. Staff determined that one quarter of a mile would be an appropriate depth for expanding the USA. This would provide suf f icient land to accommodate development,, but not so much as to produce urban sprawl. One area which is proposed as an exception to the quarter mile expansion is 9th Street S.W. (Oslo Road), from 58th Avenue to .74th Avenue. In this area, which is outside the USA# the boundary would be expanded to include a half -mile wide strip, (a quarter mile on each side) along that segment of 9th Street S.W. The subject property consists of 3200 acres. The entire subject property is currently designated AG -la, Agricultural -1 (up to 1 unit/5 acres) on the county future land use map. The request involves expanding the USA to include the subject property and changing the land use designation of the subject property to R, Rural (up to 1 unit/acre). This request will not affect the subject property's zoning which is A-1, Agricultural District (up to 1 unit/5 acres). On April 22,, 1993, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5-0 to recommend that the Board of County Commissioners transmit to the State Department of Community Affairs (DCA) a land use amendment that expands the USA, as recommended by staff, but which does not change the land use designation of the subject property. Existina Land Use Pattern The entire subject property is zoned A-11 Agricultural District (up to 1 unit/5 acres) and consists of groves,, ranchest various agricultural usest homesteads, and vacant land. All of the property is designated AG-li Agricultural -1, on the county future land use map. The AG -1 designation permits agricultural uses and residential densities up to 1 unit/5 acres. Since existing uses vary throughout the subject property,, each of the five non- contiguous tracts comprising the property is described separately below. BOOK 89 PgE JUN 22 1993