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BOOK 99 PAGE 283 <br />requires buffering and landscaping that is more extensive than <br />that required of CL/CG conventional site plan developments. <br />All other size and dimensional criteria in the proposed PD zoning <br />district are either equal to or are more restrictive than the CL <br />zoning district standards, as previously described in this report. <br />eConcurrency of Public Services: <br />As per section 910.07(2) of the Concurrency Management Chapter of <br />the county's land development regulations, projects which do not <br />increase density or intensity of use are exempt from concurrency <br />requirements. By changing the zoning of the subject property from <br />CL to PD, various uses (department stores over 40,000 square feet) <br />currently not permitted would be allowed on the site. However, <br />because the most intense use of the property would be the same in <br />either district, changing the property's zoning from CL to PD will <br />not create additional impact on any concurrency facilities. For <br />that reason, the rezoning request is exempt from concurrency review <br />because the requested zoning would not increase the use of <br />intensity of the site, only change the form that commercial <br />development could take. <br />Concurrency, however, is an issue with respect to the conceptual <br />and preliminary PD requests associated with the PD rezoning. This <br />is addressed in the PD plan analysis section of this staff report. <br />*Consistency with Comvrehensive Plan <br />Rezoning requests are reviewed for consistency with all policies of <br />the comprehensive plan. Rezonings must also be consistent with the <br />overall designation of land uses as depicted on the Future Land Use <br />Map, which include agriculture, residential, .recreation, <br />conservation, and commercial and industrial land uses and their <br />densities. -Commercial and industrial land uses are located in <br />nodes throughout the unincorporated areas of Indian River County. <br />The goals, objectives and policies are the most important parts of <br />the Comprehensive Plan. Policies are statements in the plan which <br />identify the actions which the county will take in order to direct <br />the community's development. As courses of action committed to by <br />the county, policies provide the basis for all county development <br />decisions._ While all comprehensive plan policies are important, <br />some have more applicability than others in reviewing rezoning <br />requests. Of particular applicability for this request are Future <br />Land Use Element Policies 1.15, 1.19, 1.21, and 4.3; Economic <br />Development Policies 1.1 and 1.4; and Overall Economic Development <br />Plan objective 2.0 and policy 2.4. <br />- Future Land Use Policy 1.15 <br />Future Land Use Policy 1.15 states that the commercial land use <br />designation is intended for uses including: retail and wholesale <br />trade, offices, business and personal services, residential <br />treatment centers, limited residential uses and other similar type <br />uses. All commercial areas must be located within an existing or <br />future -Urban Service Area. <br />Since the subject site already has a commercial land use <br />designation and is located within the Urban Service Area, it is <br />consistent with Future Land Use Policy 1.15. <br />40 <br />OCTOBER 1, 1996 <br />