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• An analysis of the request's potential impact on environmental quality. Concurrency of Public Facilities The subject property is located within the County's 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. The 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 land use designation amendment and rezoning requests that result in an increase in density or intensity,that review is undertaken as part of the conditional concurrency determination application process. As per 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. This request is to eliminate the existing PD zoning of the subject properties and reestablish the zoning districts that were in place prior to approval of the River Bend PD with some locational changes. As such, the density allowed by the requested zoning districts will not exceed the density that existed prior to approval of the PD zoning. In fact,the requested overall density will be slightly less,because approximately 94.36 acres which had been zoned RS-3 and RS-1 prior to the current PD zoning are being rezoned to CON-2,a district which allows a transferable density of only 1 residential unit per acre. Because the small scale land use amendment is a swap of 1.79 acres of CII for 1.79 acres of L-1, there will be no additional density or intensity created by the land use amendment and rezoning actions. Even though the proposed rezoning will result in less density than would have been allowed by the subject property's zoning prior to approval of the current PD zoning, the proposed rezoning will result in an increase in density from the current PD zoning. While that PD zoning allows 650 residential dwelling units, the proposed rezoning would allow 1,029 units. For that reason, the applicant in this case submitted a conditional concurrency application. Along with that application, the applicant submitted a Traffic Impact Analysis report for the rezoning request. 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 land use amendment and rezoning requests are not projects,county regulations call for the concurrency review to be based upon the most intense use of the subject property under the requested land use and zoning designations. For commercial/industrial land use amendment requests,the most intense use(according to section 910.08(a)4.of the LDRs)is retail commercial with 10,000 square feet of gross floor area per acre of land proposed for redesignation or rezoning. For residential land use or zoning amendment requests, the most intense use(according to section 910.08(a)4.of the LDRs)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 or zoning designation. The site information used for the concurrency analysis is as follows: 8 157