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• This site is 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. The adequate provision of these services is necessary to ensure the continued quality of life enjoyed by the community. The comprehensive plan also requires that new development be reviewed to ensure that the minimum acceptable standards for these services and facilities are maintained. Policy 3.2 of the Future Land Use Element states that no development shall be approved unless it is consistent with the concurrency management system component of the Capital Improvements Element. For rezoning requests, conditional concurrency review is required. Conditional concurrency review examines the available capacity of each facility with respect to a proposed project. Since rezoning requests are not projects, county regulations call for the concurrency review to be based upon the most intense use of the subject property based upon the requested zoning district. The site information used for the concurrency analysis is as follows: 1. Size of Area to be Rezoned: ±11.4 acres 2. Land Use Designation: L-1, Low -Density Residential -1 (up to 3 units/acre) 3. Existing Zoning District: RM -6, Multiple -Family Residential District 4. Proposed Zoning District: RS -3, Single -Family Residential District 5. Most Intense Use Under Existing Zoning District: 68 single-family units 6. Most Intense Use Under Proposed Zoning District: 34 single-family units As per section 910.07(2) of the Concurrency Management Chapter of the County's Land Development Regulations, projects which do not increase density or intensity of use are exempt from concurrency requirements. This rezoning request is exempt from concurrency review because the requested zoning would decrease the use intensity of the site. Because the most intense use of the property would decrease, changing the property's zoning from RM -6 to RS -3 would not create additional impacts on any concurrency facilities. In this case, a detailed concurrency analysis will be done in conjunction with any new development on site. That concurrency analysis will address facility service levels and demand. With the subject property located in an area that is anticipated to be dominated by single-family, low-density development, compatibility is not a major concern for this request. Since land to the north and west is currently zoned RS -3, the request is for the continuation of an existing zoning pattern. Land ownership in this part of the county also decreases the chances of incompatibilities occurring. In this case, the owner of the subject property also owns most of the land abutting the site. - For these reasons, development of the subject property under the requested RS -3 district would be compatible with surrounding areas. JULY 279 1999 49 600K b�` PAGE 95 1