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The Comprehensive Plan – Key to Concurrency

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What is a Comprehensive Plan?

• To guide the growth of a community over a 10 to 20 year period

• Contains 8 elements that should be consistent and coordinated– Transportation

– Land Use

– Water, Sanitary Sewer, Drainage

– Capital Improvement

– Parks and Recreation

– Conservation

– Recreation, Open Space

– Housing/Intergovernmental Coordination

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What is a Comprehensive Plan?• Land Development Regulations should be

developed to implement the Comprehensive Plan

• Comprehensive Plan is adopted by ordinance and amended by ordinance

• Amendments can only be done twice per year (Excluding the Capital Improvements Element)

Comprehensive Plan(Broad)

Land Development Regulations(Specific)

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How Does the Comp Plan Address

Concurrency?

• Clarified the ties between concurrency and Capital Improvements

Concurrency

Capital Improvement ProgrammingFinancial Feasibility

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Comp Plan Amendments

• 9J-5.002 (2) Comprehensive Plan Amendments must be accompanied by data and analysis to demonstrate – “the scale of public services that the local

government provides or is projected to provide as it relates to the level of capital improvements planning required”

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Plan Amendments

• All comp plan amendments must provide a traffic analysis to demonstrate …

– adequate transportation facilities to accommodate growth

• Non-DRI plan amendments

• Level of detail is still uncertain!

Source: Traffic Engineering Consultants, Inc.

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What would you do?

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Significance and Adversity

• No significance test as in DRIs

• Identify and mitigate for adverse segments

• Programmed improvements for short- term

• Planned improvements for long- term

Example of how mitigation could be calculated without significance test

New gary slide

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The CUTR Report Status ??????

• Final review and approval 2007??

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From the Draft CUTR Report• Impact area defined as each roadway

segment included in CMS where project trips are:

– equal or greater than 3% of the LOS C max service volume of the segment,

• up to a distance of 5-miles

• At densities and intensities identified on Future Land Use Map (FLUM)

• Short-term analysis (5 years) and

• Long-term analysis (at least 10 years)

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Cumulative Analyses• Three or more FLUM amendments submitted during the

same cycle affecting similar transportation links (DRAFT)

• Trip generation (calibrated to ITE rates) provided for all amendments

• Plots of traffic distribution

• Background growth with project traffic added