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Update the Transportation Mobility Element of the Comprehensive Plan for the Evaluation and Appraisal Process (B)
Petition PB-12-132 CPA. City Plan Board. Amend the City of Gainesville Comprehensive Plan Transportation Mobility Element for the Evaluation and Appraisal process.
Explanation
This petition is the update of the Transportation Mobility Element for the Evaluation and Appraisal process. The update focuses primarily on changes needed for compliance with House Bill 7207 (Chapter Law 2011-139), which resulted in many changes to Florida’s growth management laws. It will be packaged later in ordinance form for transmittal in April 2013 with other Comprehensive Plan elements.
Some of the major changes in the legislation included: making transportation concurrency optional and striking all references to Transportation Concurrency Exception Areas (TCEAs) from state statutes. The City’s Transportation Mobility Element contains numerous references to the TCEA, transportation concurrency, and levels of service used to apply transportation concurrency.
Exhibit A-1 in the backup contains the revised Goals, Objectives and Policies for the Transportation Mobility Element. Exhibits B-1 through B-8 are maps to be adopted with the Element. The primary changes being made to the Transportation Mobility Element include:
1. Addition of new level of service (LOS) standards that reflect use of LOS for planning purposes but not for the purpose of transportation concurrency or concurrency management. Transportation concurrency is being rescinded as part of the Evaluation and Appraisal update.
2. Policy deletions, updates, and re-wording that reflect changed conditions since the last adoption of the Element.
3. Inclusion of a new Transportation Mobility Program that is largely based on the principles established in the former Concurrency Management Element and TCEA that tied land use, development, and transportation planning together to support a multi-modal...
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