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Approve an amendment to the Clearwater Code of Ordinances renaming Transportation Impact Fee to Multi-Modal Impact Fee in Appendix A - Schedule of Fees; amending the Clearwater Community Development Code by repealing proportionate fair-share and establishing a new mobility management system and a multi-modal impact fee; amending review criteria; providing for and modifying various definitions; and replacing various City Commission references with City Council; and pass Ordinance 8806-16 on first reading. (TA2015-10006)
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SUMMARY:
The 2011 Community Planning Act repealed certain concurrency requirements, including transportation concurrency. To address this change in state statutes, the Pinellas County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) created the Pinellas County Mobility Plan, which was endorsed by the MPO on September 11, 2013. Model code amendments were later provided to municipalities to integrate into their local ordinances. The Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners approved on first reading amendments to the County’s land development regulations in October 2014, with the adoption of their amendments anticipated to occur on March 29, 2016.
Substantial amendments are proposed within the Concurrency Management provisions of the Community Development Code (Article 4, Division 9) to be consistent with the 2011 Act and the County’s approach. Section 4-904, Proportionate Fair-Share Program is proposed to be repealed and replaced with a newly created Mobility Management System intended to be more flexible and focused on facilitating multi-modal transportation solutions. A new Section 4-905 is proposed to establish the multi-modal impact fee consistent with the County’s ordinance, which was renamed from the transportation impact fee. This fee provides for a tiered project review approach, where proposed projects that create a large number of new peak hour trips will have to provide a traffic study and/or a transportation management plan, whereas smaller scale projects that create fewer new peak hour trips will only have to pay the multi-modal impact fee.
In addition to the above, staff is also proposing the following:
• Code of Ordinances, Appendix A: Change the name of Transportation Impact Fee to Multi-modal Impact Fee and update the reference ordinance;
• Community Development Code Division 6: Revise review procedures relating to public facility impacts for Zoning Atlas amendments consistent with the mobility management system and change “City Commission” to “City Council” throughout ; and
• Community Development Code Article 8: Update definitions to reflect the proposed Mobility Management System.
The Planning and Development Department has determined that the proposed text amendment to the Code of Ordinances and the Community Development Code is consistent with and furthers the goals, objectives and policies of the Comprehensive Plan and the Community Development Code as outlined in the staff report. The Community Development Board (CDB) unanimously approved the proposed amendment at its regularly scheduled meeting on December 15, 2015. Second reading of proposed Ordinance 8806-16 will need to be delayed until after the county ordinance is adopted to incorporate the Pinellas County ordinance number, as the County does not provide an ordinance number until adoption.
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