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s � � <br />2. Potable water and sanitary sewer service are available to the <br />site. <br />3. The location of the site, at the intersection of 2 major roads <br />with other major roads nearby, indicates that the <br />transportation demands of urban scale development on the site <br />can be met. ' <br />4. The site abuts a major commercial/industrial node. <br />5. The site is across the street from land currently designated <br />M-1. <br />Since the site is suitable for urban scale development and <br />intensities, the proposed amendment is consistent with Future Land <br />Use Element Policy 1.13. <br />- Future Land Use Element Objective 4 <br />Future Land Use Element Objective 4 states that the county will <br />reduce the number and length of trips on county roads by <br />implementing a land use pattern which places residential areas near <br />commercial and employment areas. <br />The site is located near several employment centers including the <br />Vero Beach Municipal Airport, Dogertown, and the S.R. 60/58th <br />Avenue-Commercial/Industrial Node. Since the S.R. 60/58th Avenue <br />Commercial/ Industrial Node. is one of the county's fastest <br />developing nodes, it will soon become one of the county's largest <br />employment centers. Most people who will work in that node will <br />live in moderately -priced medium -density housing. The proposed <br />amendment places land designated for medium -density residential <br />uses adjacent to that node. Therefore, the proposed amendment will <br />increase the opportunity for people who work in the node to live <br />near their job, thus reducing the length of their trips to and from <br />work. For this reason, the proposed amendment implements Future <br />Land Use Element Objective 4. <br />- Future Land Use Element Policy 4.1 <br />Future Land Use Element Policy 4.1 states that land use categories <br />shall be designated in a manner which concentrates urban uses, <br />thereby discouraging urban sprawl. <br />By increasing the density of land currently within the urban <br />service area, as opposed to expanding the urban service area, the <br />Proposed amendment concentrates growth in the area designated for <br />urban uses. For this reason, the proposed amendment is consistent <br />with Future Land Use Element Policy 4.1. <br />- Future Land Use Element Policies 2.5 and 4.4 <br />Future Land Use Element Policies 2.5 and 4.4 state that the county <br />will encourage and direct growth into the urban service area and <br />areas near urban centers. Since the proposed amendment would allow <br />and encourage more development on the subject property, and the <br />subject property is within the urban service area and near an urban <br />center, the request implements Future Land Use Element Policies 2.5 <br />and 4.4. <br />- Economic Development Element Policies 8.1 and 8.5 <br />Economic Development Element Policies 8.1 and 8.5 address the use <br />of incentives, including increased densities, to reduce the cost <br />per housing unit and to encourage the provision of affordable <br />housing. By allowing increased density on the subject property, <br />the request would implement Economic Development Element Policies <br />8.1 and 8.5. <br />NOVEMBER 21, 1995 25 BOOK 96 FAH. 620 <br />