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DEC ti 1993 BOOK 91 In contrast, there are only 1,115 acres of R designated land in the County, less than any other residential land use designation. Except for 40 acres along 58th Avenue, all R designated land is located between C.R. 510 and the City of Sebastian. Approval of this amendment would reduce the amount of R designated land in the County to 956 acres. Approval of this amendment would affect the rest of the R designated land in the County. Since the subject property has similar characteristics to all other R designated parcels along C.R. 510, redesignating the subject property would likely result in redesignation of all other R designated parcels. This would eventually leave the county with no R designated land. While the R designation serves as a transitional designation from agricultural to urban uses, the large required lot size often makes development prohibitively expensive, especially where utility service is available. In contrast, the L-1 designation allows for more cost efficient, compact and affordable development. Concurrency of Public Facilities This site is located within the county Urban Service Area, an area deemed suited for urban scale development. The Comprehensive Plan establishes standards for: Transportation, Potable Water, Wastewater, Solid Waste, Drainage and Recreation (Future Land Use Policy 3.1). The adequate provision of these services is necessary to ensure the continued quality of life enjoyed by the community. To ensure that the minimum acceptable standards for these services and facilities are maintained, the Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Regulations also require that new development 'be reviewed. Policy 3.2 of the Future Land Use Element states that no development shall be approved unless it is consistent with the concurrency management system component of the Capital Improvements Element. For land use amendment requests, conditional concurrency review is required. _ Conditional concurrency review examines the available capacity of each facility with respect to a proposed project. Since land use amendment 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 land use designation. For residential land use amendment requests, the most intense use (according to the County's LDR's) 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 land use designation. The site information used for the concurrency analysis is as follows: 1. Size of Area to be Redesignated: 2. Existing Land Use Designation: 3. Proposed Land Use Designation: 4. Most Intense Use of Subject Property under Existing Land Use Designation: 30 ±159 acres R, Rural (up to 1 unit/acre) L-1, Low -Density Residential -1 (up to 3 units/acre) 159 dwelling units