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800K. 98 mf 866 6. Compatibility with surrounding uses: The project intensity, location, and screening is adequate to ensure compatibility with surrounding uses, such as the Council on Aging to the south. Furthermore, residential areas to the north and east are zoned RM -10, and have a mixing of multi -family and single family structures. 7. Public health, safety, and welfare: No adverse impacts on public health, safety, and welfare are anticipated since the project design meets all utility, environmental health, traffic, and drainage engineering requirements. 8. Orderly development: the project promotes orderly development by being designed to properly fit into the area roadway, utilities, and drainage network and by being compatible with surrounding uses. 18. Specific Land Use Criteria: The applicant must satisfy all applicable criteria for an adult congregate living facility for 21 or more residents. The group home specific land use criteria are as follows: (d) Criteria for group homes: Levels I, II, and III, residential centers, and adult congregate living facilities. Group homes shall be distinguished by their resident capacity as follows: 1. Level I group home or ACLF, up to eight (8) residents including caretaker(s) per shift); 2. Level II group home or ACLF, up to twelve (12) residents including caretaker(s) per shift; 3. Level III group home or ACLF, up to twenty (20) residents including caretaker(s) per shift; and 4. Residential centers or ACLF (not Level I, II, or III), twenty-one (21) or more residents including caretaker(s) per shift. (e) Those group homes or ACLFs whose residents are service - dependent persons requiring special protection or custodial care in order to meet their emotional and/or physical needs must meet all licensing requirements from the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services of the State of Florida. 1. The use shall satisfy all applicable regulations of the State of Florida and Indian River County as currently exist; 2. The approving body shall determine that the proposed use is compatible with the surrounding neighborhood in terms of intensity of land use. As a measure of land use intensity, the -expected number of persons per acre of the proposed use is equivalent to the number _of persons per acre allowed within the respective zoning district. The number of persons per acre within the zoning district can be derived by multiplying the density (d.u./acre) by household size estimates for that structure type. For the purposes of this section, the following household size estimates shall apply: single family homes, 2.5 person per dwelling unit; 47 AUGUST 20, 1996