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vehicles will serve to bring in tourists that will spend money locally and assist the County in meeting its local tourism objectives and policies. While the referenced objectives, policies, and table are particularly applicable to this request, other Comprehensive Plan policies and objectives also have relevance. For that reason, staff evaluated the subject request for consistency with all applicable plan policies and objectives. Based upon that analysis; staff determined that the request is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan. Consistencv with the Countv Land Development Regulations Rezoning requests must be consistent with all applicable sections of the County LDRs, including Section 902.12(3) standards of review. A copy of those standards are included as Attachment 7 to this report. With this rezoning request, staff determined that the request is consistent with the LDR review standards listed in Section 902.12(3). Compatibility with the Surrounding Area The subject property abuts a small portion of the Vero Beach Outlets Mall at its north/northwest corner and more substantially abuts a conservation area to the north/northeast. Part of the portion that abuts the Vero Beach Outlets Mall includes 94th Drive which provides direct access to the subject property. A very small portion of the subject property near 94th Drive is behind the Vero Beach Outlets Mall and will have minimal impacts on that property. Should the rezoning be approved, the site design for a commercial recreational vehicle park could be developed to keep uses away from the outlet mall. In addition; the CRVP regulations require a minimum of a fifty - foot wide buffer yard with a type `B" landscape buffer strip and a six-foot opaque feature which will help to separate the commercial use from the uses eventually developed in the CRVP district. Property to the west includes CG, General Commercial zoned property which abuts the northern +/-40% of the property and RM -6, Residential Multi -Family (up to 6 units per acre) zoned property which abuts approximately 60% of the property on its west side. RM -6 zoned property also abuts the property to the south and to the east (small portion between Interstate 95 and subject property). As noted above, a minimum of a fifty -foot wide buffer yard with type `B" landscape buffer is required around the entire perimeter of recreational vehicle park. Once developed, the buffer will help to separate any potential commercial use to the west from the recreational vehicle park and any potential future uses within the RM -6 zone areas to the west and south. To the west, unimproved 94th Avenue and Sublateral D5 -N and a portion of unimproved 16th Street also provide an additional 60 -foot -wide buffer to separate potential future uses from any developed recreational vehicle park. Interestingly, the perimeter buffer yard requirement for a commercial recreational vehicle park is substantially greater than the buffer yard requirement between the CG, General Commercial zoning district (existing zoning) and RM -6, Residential Multi -Family zoning district. The buffer requirement between those zoning districts is a 20 -foot Type "C" Buffer. Given the existing CG zoning to the north and northwest, the C/I Future Land Use designation of the property, the buffer requirement around the entire recreational vehicle park, the large area of 78