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There are also larger community issues within the County that affect this area and property. Past growth of the County has been largely residential in nature with residential building permit values anywhere from three to four times the value of n6n-residential building peimits. In 1996 that ratio was approximately 2 to 1 residential to non-residential, and in 1997 the non-residential values may exceed those of residential building. There ratios are important because they indicate the general balance of growth and ultimately the health of the tax base and stability of tax rates. FACTORS AFFECTING ZONING One of the primary factors affecting zoning is the existing and planned infrastructure including water and sewer service. This area is currently served by public water through the City of Concord and public sewer service is being extended at this time. The area of the proposed rezoning will have immediate access to both services and they are sufficient to provide for the type development proposed. The other type of infrastructure affecting zoning is transportation. In the case of this proposal transportation includes both roads and the airport facility. An estimate of possible residential trips using existing zoning, and an average of possible non-residential trips using the proposed zoning is attached. These estimates, prepared by the 1V/PO Coordinator, Sarah LaBelle, show that development of the property at 3 units/acre would produce 12000 trips/day, and development of an industrial/business park could produce up to 55000 trips/day. There are a number of difficulties in using these estimates. The first is that the esiimate of non-residential trips has to be made by averaging a wide variety of land uses. These range from a manufacturing use of a site at 390 trips/site to general office use at 2460 trips/site. The other problem in analyzing these estimates is that all residential trips would be new, while some of the non- residential trips could be employees currently using these roads, or area roads, already who could be employed in the industrial park and thus replace their current trip with one to and from a new employer. The County and City of Concord staff are currently trying to address these issues by refining the estimates and increasing confidence in them. Traffic counters have ~'~n placed in International Business Park to get a more specific estimate of trips produced within a development that is similar to what is expected in this proposed development.