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• on the Future Land Use Map, which includes agricultural, residential, recreational, conservation, public, and commercial and industrial land uses and their densities. The goals, objectives and policies are the most important parts of the Comprehensive Plan. Policies are statements in the plan which identify actions which the county will take in order to direct the community's development. As courses of action committed to by the county, policies provide the basis for all county land development related decisions—including plan amendment decisions. While all Comprehensive Plan policies are important, some have more applicability than others in reviewing plan amendment requests. Of particular applicability to this land use plan amendment request are the goal, objectives and policies identified below. As indicated in the following analysis, the proposed amendment is not consistent with plan amendment criteria, is not consistent with the objective of establishing a residential/commercial corridor along SR 60, will encourage speculation and discourage infill development, and discourages the compatibility of adjacent land uses. Future Land Use Element Policy 14.3 The most important policy to consider in evaluating a plan amendment request for consistency with the county's Comprehensive Plan is Future Land Use Element Policy 14.3. This policy requires that at least one of four criteria be met in order to approve a land use amendment request. These criteria are: • the proposed amendment will correct a mistake in the approved plan; • the proposed amendment will correct an oversight in the approved plan; • the proposed amendment involves a swap or reconfiguration of land uses at separate sites, and that swap or reconfiguration will not increase the overall land use density or intensity depicted on the Future Land Use Map; or • the proposed amendment is warranted based on a substantial change in circumstances affecting the subject property. Staffs position is that this land use amendment request does not meet any of the criteria of Future Land Use Element Policy 14.3. When the current Comprehensive Plan was approved on February 13, 1990, and updated as part of the county's Evaluation and Appraisal Process on March 17, 1998, the plan assigned commercial uses to commercial/industrial nodes. Those nodes were designated various sizes to reflect commercial demand and were established in certain areas to incorporate lands deemed suitable for commercial development. The subject property was considered for inclusion in the node at those times. When the comprehensive plan was adopted and recently updated, the subject property was not included in the node for the following reasons: • There was already sufficient land designated commercial/industrial to accommodate projected demand; • It was determined that including the site in the commercial/industrial node would produce a stip commercial development pattern along 58" Avenue. The county discourages that type of development pattern; • Given the shape (rectangular) and location (surrounded on three sides by residentially designated property) of the subject property, it was determined that including the site in the commercial/industrial node would adversely impact nearby residential areas; and JULY 119 2000 -111- BK 1 14 PG 1 2 7