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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. For both the current CL zoning and the proposed CG zoning, the most intense use (according to the county's land development regulations) is retail commercial with 10,000 square feet of gross floor area per acre of land proposed for rezoning. This rezoning request is exempt from concurrency review because the requested zoning would not increase the use intensity of the site. When new development is proposed for the subject property, a more detailed concurrency analysis will be conducted during the development approval process. 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/I, Commercial/Industrial, on the Future Land Use Map. Since CG zoning is allowed in the C/I designated area, the proposed zoning is consistent with the Future Land Use Map. Other than the Future Land Use Map, the goals, objectives, and policies are the most important parts of the comprehensive plan. Policies are statements in the plan that identify the actions which the county will take in order to direct the community's development. As courses of action committed to by the county, policies provide the basis for all county land development decisions. While all comprehensive plan policies are important, some have more applicability than others in reviewing rezoning requests. Of particular applicability for this request are Future Land Use Element Policies 1.17, 1.18, and 1.43. Future Land Use Element Policies 1.17 and 1.18 6 215