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residential uses with densities up to eight units/acre. In addition, that policy states that these residential uses must be located within an existing or future urban service area. Since the subject property is located within an area designated as M-1 on the county's future land use plan map and is located within the county's urban service area, and the proposed zoning district would permit residential uses no denser than eight units/acre, the proposed request is consistent with Future Land Use Element Policy 1.14. - Future Land Use Element Objective 4 Future Land Use Element Objective 4 states that Indian River County will reduce the number and length of trips by implementing a land use pattern which places employment centers near residential areas. Projections indicate that the medical node near the subject property will become one of the county's major employment centers. This occurrence is expected to generate demand for multiple -family housing. Allowing that demand for multiple -family housing to be filled on property near the node implements Future Land Use Element Objective 4. While Future land Use Element Policy 1.14 and Objective 4 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 plan policies and objectives. Based upon that analysis, staff determined that the request is consistent with the comprehensive plan. Compatibility with the Surroundina Area Staff's position is that granting the request to rezone the subject property to RM -8 will result in development which will be compatible with surrounding areas. Located near a medical commercial node, and bordering both Indian River Boulevard and other RM -8 zoned land, the site is more suited for medium density, multiple -family development than it is for low density, single- family uses. Multiple -family development on the subject property will be required to provide buffers where the site abuts a single-family use or district. More importantly, the surrounding development pattern indicates that the RM -8 district is the most appropriate for the site. Located near an employment center, a hospital, and various other medical uses, the site is particularly suited for the multiple - family and institutional uses permitted in the RM -8 zoning district. Since the M-1 land use designation allows multiple -family and single-family development with densities of up to eight units/acre, several zoning districts are consistent with the M-1 land use designation. In the past, the Board has not zoned all property with the most intense zoning district allowed under its land use designation. The Board has often placed the densest multiple - family districts along the border of a high impact use such as a major road, while reserving less dense, single-family districts for land bordering the multiple -family districts. In this way the intensity of the use of land is gradually decreased as the distance from the high impact use is increased. This strategy, which is consistent with the subject request, reduces the difference between the intensity .of use of adjacent lands, thus reducing potential incompatibilities. For these reasons, staff feels that the requested RM -8 zoning would be compatible with the surrounding area. 65 goon JULY 239 1996 ; : 641