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For these reasons, the proposed node reconfiguration represents a logical and rational land use plan change that will facilitate efficient land use within the county. tTTW_.� - - - • Besides node reconfiguration, the proposed amendment includes extending the USA boundary approximately one-eighth of a mile west, on the north side of SR 60. In terms of distance and area (29.5 acres), this is a minor expansion that will not encourage urban sprawl. The USA expansion, however, is important to the county's efforts to attract industry and increase employment. The proposed amendment would result in the creation of the first tract in the county that meets the minimum size; location and ownership requirements necessary to develop an adequately sized, viable industrial park. That site would consist of Subject Property 1 and the adjacent, industrially designated 36.5 acre tract at the northwest corner of SR 60 and 98th Avenue. For the industrial park to be developed, however, centralized potable water and wastewater service must be available to the entire 138.3 acre site. For these reasons, the proposed USA expansion will implement the county's economic development goals without encouraging urban sprawl. Concurrency of Public Facilities Except for the west 29.5 acres of Subject Property 1, both sites comprising this request are located within the County Urban Service Area, an area deemed suited for urban scale development. The comprehensive plan establishes standards for: Transportation, Potable Water, Wastewater, Solid Waste; Drainage, and Recreation (Future Land Use Policy 3.1). The adequate provision of these services is necessary to ensure the continued quality of life enjoyed by the community. To ensure that the minimum acceptable standards for these services and facilities are maintained, the comprehensive plan requires that new development be reviewed. For land use designation amendment requests,.this review is undertaken as part of the conditional concurrency determination application process. As per section 910.07(2) of the Concurrency Management Chapter of the County's Land Development Regulations, projects which do not increase land use intensity are exempt from concurrency requirements. For the subject request, the amount of land to be removed from a C/I node exceeds the amount of land to be added to another C/I node. Therefore, this land use amendment request is exempt from concurrency review because the requested land use designation changes would not increase the potential land use intensity that the sites could accommodate. Nevertheless, to ensure that the proposed amendment will not cause the provision of public services to fall below adopted levels of service, a concurrency review is included in this report. That review will focus on Subject Property 1, the property "receiving" the C/I designation and thereforer-potentially increasing its land use intensity. A concurrency review examines the available capacity of each facility with respect to a proposed project. Since Comprehensive Plan amendment requests are not projects, the concurrency review is based upon the most intense use of the subject property based upon the requested land use designation. Typically, for commercial/. industrial Comprehensive Plan amendment requests, the most intense use is retail commercial with 10,000 square feet of gross floor area per acre of land proposed for redesignation. In this case, however, the intent of the request is to allow development of an industrial park on Subject Property 1. That intent is consistent with the county's Overall Economic Development Plan and with the Comprehensive Plan's Economic Development Element. Proposed new future land use element policy 1.38 will specifically limit development of Subject Property 1 to industrial uses. For that reason, the concurrency review for Subject Property 1 will be based on industrial development of the entire 101.8 acre site. The site information used for the concurrency analysis is as follows: MARCH 18, 1997 93 BOOK 100 FACED