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DEC o 7 1993 BOOK 91 FA,F 164 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 also requires that new development be reviewed. For land use amendment requests, this review is undertaken as part of the conditional concurrency determination application process. As per section 910.07 of the County's Land Development Regulations (LDR), 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 agricultural 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: t6.4 acres 2. Existing Land Use Designation: L- 1, Low -Density Residential -1 (up to 3 units/acre) 3. Maximum Number of Units with Existing Land Use Designation: 19 4. Proposed Land Use.Designation: AG -1, Agricultural -1 (up to 1 unit/5 acres) 5. Maximum Number of Units with Proposed Land Use Designation: 1 As per section 910.07(2) of the Concurrency Management Chapter of the County's Land Development Regulations, projects which do not increase density or intensity of use are exempt from concurrency requirements. This land use amendment request is exempt from concurrency review, because the requested land use designation would not increase the total number of potential units that the site could accommodate. It is important to note that there will be no effect on service levels for any public facility as a result of the land use amendment. In this case, a detailed concurrency analysis will be done in conjunction with site development. That concurrency analysis will address facility service levels and demand. Compatibility with the Surrounding Area As with any proposed land use change, it is important to assess whether or not this requested land use designation will be compatible with surrounding areas. Since the subject property is located at the edge of the urban service area, this request is essentially for an extension of the existing agricultural land use designation west and south of the site. Therefore, staff 62