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• to provide land use controls for ensuring the separation of potentially incompatible activities, such as intense commercial uses, from established residential areas. The MED and OCR districts are similar in several ways. Both districts are designed to accommodate office use and limit retail uses. In terms of permitted uses, the major difference between the districts is that OCR allows a wider variety of office uses, while the MED district permits more retail uses: In this section, an analysis of the reasonableness of the application will be presented. Specifically, this section will include the following: • an analysis of the request's impact on public facilities and services; • an analysis of the request's compatibility with the surrounding area; • an analysis of the request's consistency with the comprehensive plan; and • an analysis of the request's potential impact on environmental quality. 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 (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. 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. For commercial rezoning requests, the most intense use (according to Future Land Use Element Policy 1.16 and the county's Land Development Regulations) is retail commercial with 10,000 square feet of gross floor area per acre of land proposed for rezoning. The site information used for the concurrency analysis is as follows: 1. Size of Area to be Rezoned: ±5 acres 2. Existing Zoning District: MED, Medical District 3. Proposed Zoning District: OCR, Office/Commercial/Residential District 4. Most Intense Use under Existing Zoning District: ±50,000 sq. ft. of Retail Commercial (Shopping Center in the 6`h Edition ITE Manual) 5. Most Intense Use under Proposed Zoning District: ±50,000 sq. ft. of Retail Commercial (Shopping Center in the 6`" Edition ITE Manual) June 20, 2000 43 0 BOCK.. PAGE.