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) L <br /> Residential Area will not provide a solution to the <br /> aforementioned service need, and is not justified elsewhere <br /> as required under Article 2.2.14(a) of the Orange County <br /> Comprehensive Plan. • <br /> Furthermore, there are •currently no areas designated <br /> Agricultural-Residential within the Rural Buffer. At this <br /> time, the Agricultural-Residential zoning district is one of <br /> the permitted zones within the Rural Buffer. A previous <br /> proposal that would make Rural Buffer the only zone permitted <br /> in the Rural Buffer plan designation is before the Board of <br /> County Commissioners for review at this time. <br /> she introduction of the proposed node on adjacent property <br /> would make the Agricultural-Residential designation difficult <br /> to justify, since the node would bring densities, land use <br /> intensities and the potential for utility services - things <br /> that are contradictory ,to the requirements that an <br /> Agricultural-Residential classification would need to comply <br /> with. • <br /> It is also apparent that this Agricultural-Residential area, <br /> considered by itself, would still not carry out the intent <br /> and purpose of the plan. Such a designation could permit land <br /> • uses whose intensity could be higher than those proscribed by <br /> the Joint Planning Area Land Use Plan. An Agricultural- <br /> Residential designation would further compromise the <br /> consistency of the Rural Buffer as it is currently applied, <br /> • Since this would be the only property throughout the Joint <br /> Planning Area between the Towns that is not designated Rural <br /> Buffer. For example, the Agricultural-Residential Area, if <br /> approved, would be the only spot in the Rural Buffer where a <br /> residential density of one unit/acre could be applied instead <br /> of the current one unit/two acres. The proposed designation <br /> would create a spot designation that was not the intent of <br /> . the JPA Plan, and could create a precedent for other such <br /> cases throughout the Rural Buffer that would ultimately <br /> defeat the purpose of the buff e r altogether. <br /> ther. <br /> To summarize, the proposed amendment fails to qualify under <br /> the criteria set out under the Plan, does not carry out the <br /> • intent and purpose of the Plan, and would by its very nature <br /> create a significant policy shift away from the stated <br /> objectives of the plan. <br /> • <br /> • <br /> • <br /> • <br /> 13' <br /> • <br />