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BOOK PAGL616 Generally, traffic circulation is a major concern of residents located near large commercial projects. With respect to the subject request, several factors address this concern. First, the county's comprehensive plan and LDRs require that prior to development, all impacted roadways have sufficient capacity to serve development. Beyond -the existing county requirements, provisions of the DRI Development Order serve to mitigate impacts on the transportation system. These provisions include required on and off site road improvements, monitoring of levels of service, design for and promotion of potential transit services, and establishment of an employee ridesharing-program. Other potential impacts can often be mitigated through separation and planted buffers. Generally, county LDRs require development in the requested CG zoning district to provide a type "B" buffer with a six foot opaque feature when abutting single-family development and a type "C" buffer with a six foot opaque feature when abutting multiple -family development. Under the proposed land -use designation, all development on the subject property, including development on parcels where the subject property abuts the Wallace Acres single-family subdivision will have to meet this requirement. Several characteristics of the subject property and provisions of the DRI Development Order ensure additional mitigation of potential impacts on surrounding areas. Much of the land north of the area proposed for redesignation, although part of the DRI Project Area, will remain residentially designated. That area, consisting largely of wetlands, is undeveloped. The DRI Development Order ensures that that land will remain undeveloped, thus providing a natural buffer which ranges from 200 feet to 600 feet in width. West of the subject property is Vista Plantation. Residents of this development are currently separated from the subject property by the lateral "A" canal, 66th Avenue, and the -Vista Plantation Golf Course. The DRI Development Order ensures the following added protection buffers along 66th Avenue: 1. an additional thirty foot wide access easement for canal maintenance purposes; and 2. a type "D" buffer with a three foot opaque feature. South of the subject property, S.R. 60 provides approximately 136 feet of separation. Additional separation is provided by the special 75 foot wide S.R. 60 setback. Development on the subject property will be required to meet this setback, as noted in the DRI Development Order. Most land abutting the south side of S.R. 60, opposite the subject property, also must meet this requirement. Finally, the DRI Development Order requires the proposed development.to provide a type "C" buffer with a three foot opaque feature along all S.R. 60 frontage. Since land to the east is currently within the commercial/ industrial node and is zoned CG, granting the subject request would result in the continuation of an existing land use and zoning pattern.- Therefore, there would be no negative impacts associated with. the subject request on the adjacent land to the east. For _these reasons, the proposed remedial amendments are compatible with surrounding areas. Potential—rmpact on Environmental Quality The policies of.Conservation Element Objective 5 -and provisions of chapter 928 of the county's LDRs provide regulatory protection of wetlands, to ensure "no net loss" of the natural function of 50 October 25, 1994