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BOOK Potable Water and Sanitary Sewer Sub -Elements One component of the comprehensive plan is the Urban Service Area (USA). Not only does the plan's urban service area limit urban development to appropriate areas where urban services can be efficiently provided, but the USA also delineates an area where the county will provide urban services. Future Land Use Element Policy 2.1 established the USA as depicted on the Future Land Use Map. Because roadways are easily Identifiable on maps, the boundaries of the USA were established along major roads. Following plan adoption, a question arose regarding the economic feasibility of providing utility service to only one side of roads whose rights-of-way contain utility lines. Prior to plan adoption, the county had not considered this factor. Subsequently, the county developed and adopted, and DCA approved, Future Land Use Element Policy 1.37. Future Land Use Element Policy 1.37 states that: By 1993, Indian River County shall conduct a corridor study for each roadway which serves as an urban service area boundary. A corridor includes road right-of-way and property within one-quarter mile of land area on both sides of the right-of-way. The Rings Highway Corridor is hereby designated as a high priority corridor study area. For each corridor studied, the analysis shall identify programmed infrastructure improvements, particularly water and sewer lines. Where water and sewer lines are planned for installation within the right- of-way of a roadway serving as the urban service area boundary, the study will examine the financial, environmental and physical impacts of providing urban services to land on both sides of the right-of-way. Based upon the study results, the existing urban service area designation and land use plan designation for lands within the corridor will be assessed, and necessary changes will be identified. Any identified changes shall address the need to reduce the size of the Urban Service Area boundary depicted on the Future Land Use Map in order to 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. In April, staff completed the corridor study mandated by Future Land Use Element Policy 1.37 (see attachment 2). Based on that study, a land use designation amendment request was initiated by the County. That amendment request involved expansion of the USA to include all land within a quarter of a mile from roadways for which utility line installation is programmed to be completed by 1995, as well as the fast growing 58th Avenue corridor which was designated a high priority in Future Land Use Element Policy 1.37. As proposed, that amendment would also have changed the land use designation of the land added to the USA from AG -1, Agricultural -1 (up to 1 unit/5 acres) to R, Rural (up to 1 unit/acre). On April 22, 1993, the Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing to consider that amendment. At that public hearing, concerns were raised regarding the proposed increase in density. Citing these concerns, 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 69