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Transportation Concurrency and the Evaluation and Appraisal Comprehensive Plan Amendment Process. (B)
Explanation
Updates to the Comprehensive Plan for the Evaluation and Appraisal amendments must be finalized and transmitted to the State Land Planning Agency by May 1, 2013. Failure to transmit the required element amendments by the May 1, 2013 deadline will mean that the City can no longer amend its Comprehensive Plan. A key component of the update includes how the City will deal with transportation concurrency and the Transportation Concurrency Exception Area (TCEA).
There are major changes relating to transportation concurrency that the City must respond to concerning Chapter Law 2011-139. These are:
1. Transportation Concurrency Exception Areas have been stricken from Florida Statutes.
2. Transportation Concurrency has been made optional under the new law.
The City's Concurrency Management Element was first adopted in 1999 in response to the unintended consequences of a strict interpretation of transportation concurrency. Transportation concurrency required that, if a roadway had reached its capacity in terms of vehicle trips, no additional development orders could be issued because the new development would degrade the level of service on the road. Within the City, many of the roads (especially State roads) failed. This included portions of NW and SW 13th Street, University Avenue, and Newberry Road. The City was placed in a position of having to deny development orders. This happened as early as 1992 when the City began enforcing transportation concurrency. An early solution, known as a Transportation Concurrency Management Area (TCMA), that previously existed in State law was adopted by the City. Later, the provisions of TCMAs were changed in State law, and the City no longer met the requirements and the City repealed the TCMA.
By 1999, more roads, including Archer Road, NW 43rd Street, NW 34th Street, SW 62nd Bouleva...
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