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Transportation System The property's east boundary abuts South Highway AIA. Classified as a Urban Minor Arterial road on the future roadway thoroughfare plan map, this segment of South Highway AIA is a 2 - lane paved road with between 100 and 115 feet of existing public road right-of-way. ANALYSIS In this section, an analysis of the reasonableness of the rezoning request will be presented. Specifically, this section will include an analysis of the request's: • Impact on public facilities; • Consistency with the county's comprehensive plan; • Compatibility with the surrounding area; and • Potential impact on environmental quality. Impact on Public Facilities The subject property is located within the Urban Service Area, an area deemed suited for urban scale development. Within the Urban Service Area, the comprehensive plan establishes standards for: Transportation, Potable Water, Wastewater, Solid Waste, Stormwater Management, and Recreation (reference Future Land Use Element Policy 3.1). Adequate provision of those services is necessary to ensure the continued quality of life enjoyed by the community. To ensure that the minimum acceptable standards for those services and facilities are maintained, the comprehensive plan requires that new development be reviewed for a concurrency determination. For rezoning requests, that review is undertaken as part of the conditional concurrency determination application process. As per section 910.07 of the County's Land Development Regulations (LDRs), conditional concurrency review examines the available capacity of each facility with respect to a proposed project. Since 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 rezoning district. As per section 910.07(2) of the Concurrency Management Chapter of the County's Land Development Regulations, projects which do not increase land use density or intensity are exempt from concurrency requirements. Since the current RS -1 zoning of the subject property potentially allows a maximum of 6 residential units on the overall property and the proposed RS-3/CON-2 zoning will potentially allow the same maximum number of residential units there will be no increase in density or intensity of development due to this rezoning request. Therefore, the subject request is exempt from the county's concurrency determination requirement. Consistency with Comprehensive Plan Rezoning requests are reviewed for consistency with all applicable policies of the comprehensive plan. Rezoning requests must also be consistent with the overall designation of land uses as depicted on the Future Land Use Map. In this case, the subject property is designated C-2, Conservation -2 (up to 1 unit/40 acres). Pursuant to Future Land Use Element Policy 1.7, the exact 189