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HomeMy WebLinkAbout14 - Comp Plan_Capital Improvements Element_Tab 14_01/14/2010 VILLAGE OF TEQUESTA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ELEMENT Goal: 1.0.0 Undertake actions necessary to: (1) keep present public facilities in good condition; (2) accommodate new development; (3) maximize the use of existing facilities and promote orderly municipal growth, and; (4) achieve adopted Level of Service Standards. Further, decisions to finance public facilities improvements shall be based upon the use of sound fiscal policy oriented to minimizing Village debt service liabilities. Obiective: 1.1.0 Capital Improvements will be provided to: (1) correct existing deficiencies; (2) accommodate desired future growth; and /or (3) replace worn -out or obsolete facilities. Policy: 1.1.1 The Village shall include all projects identified in the policies of the various elements of this Comprehensive Plan and determined to be of relatively large scale and high cost ($10,000 or greater), as capital improvements projects for inclusion within the 5 -Year Schedule of Improvements. Provision of Capital improvements so defined shall be implemented through procedures outlined in policies 1.1.2 — 1.1.4 and 1.4.1 — 1.4.4 of this Element. A capital improvements project is defined to include land and /or improvements, plus any studies oriented to defining the initial need for land and /or facilities. Policy: 1.1.2 The Village shall, as a matter of priority, schedule for funding any capital improvement projects in the 5 -Year Schedule of Improvements which are designed to correct existing public facility deficiencies, and or that are needed to maintain or meet adopted Level of Service Standards. In addition, the Capital Improvements Schedule shall list projects funded and implemented by other agencies that will impact the Village's ability to meet its Level of Service standards. Policy: 1.1.3 A Capital Improvements Coordinating Committee, composed of the Village Council Finance and Administration Committee, the Village Manager and the Finance Director, shall annually evaluate and rank capital projects in order of priority 72 i . T projects proposed for inclusion in the 5 -Year Schedule of Improvements through the Comprehensive Plan amendment process. Policy: 1.1.4 Proposed capital projects shall be evaluated and ranked in order of priority according to the following guidelines: • Whether the proposed project is financially feasible; • Whether the project is needed to protect public health and safety, fulfill the Village's legal commitment to provide facilities and services, or to achieve the full use and efficiency of existing facilities; • Whether the project prevents or reduces future improvement costs, provides service to developed areas lacking full service, or promotes in -fill development; • Whether the proposed project is consistent with plans of State agencies and the South Florida Water Management District. Objective: 1.2.0 Village expenditures in high hazard coastal areas shall be limited to 100% of those post- disaster improvements costs for facilities over which Tequesta has operational responsibility (e.g.: potable water systems and public streets and recreational facilities). Policy: 1.2.1 The Village shall expend funds in high hazard coastal areas for the replacement and renewal of public facilities over which the Village has operational responsibility. Policy: 1.2.2 The Village shall continue to expend funds to maintain existing facilities and services under the jurisdiction or Tequesta at their existing Levels of Service. Policy: 1.2.3 The Village shall coordinate with other agencies providing infrastructure and services in the programming and implementation of projects that impact the achievement of its adopted Level of Service standards. 73 f Objective: 1.3.0 Future development shall bear a proportionate cost of facility improvements in order to maintain adopted Tequesta Level of Service standards. Proportionate costs are defined to mean 100% of that amount necessary to assure that Tequesta Level of Service standards are maintained as a result of development approval for those facilities over which Tequesta has operational control. Polio The Village shall require new development to provide for local street, drainage, sewage collection, and potable water distribution system, recreation open space, beach access, and other capital improvements required to address their Level of Service impacts. Policy: 1.3.2 Defined Recreation Facility needs may be met by any of the following means: (1) on -site provision of public or private facilities; (2) dedications; or (3) fees in lieu thereof. Plan expansion for potable water and sewer systems shall be accommodated by charges administered by the Village and the Loxahatchee River District. Major road improvements shall be accommodated by participating in the County's Fair Share Road Impact Fee program. Solid waste collection and disposal improvements shall be accommodated by the fee schedule annually levied by the private hauler (Note: Tipping fees are levied by the Palm Beach County Solid Waste Authority). Policy: 1.3.3 Determination of needed public facility improvements shall be made prior to the time that a Building Permit is issued. Objective: 1.4.0 The Village shall manage its fiscal resources to ensure the provision of needed capital improvements at a level equal to, or exceeding, the adopted Tequesta Level of Service standards. Policy: 1.4.1 Prior to the issuance of certificates of Occupancy, the Village shall require that all public facilities are available to serve development for which development orders were previously issued_ Development orders for future development shall not be issued unless the Village has demonstrated either of the following: (1) Compliance with Tequesta Level of Service Standards; or (2) Provision of 74 1 . t needed public facilities in compliance with the adopted 5 -Year Schedule of Improvements. Policy: 1.4.2 In providing capital improvements, the Village shall limit general obligation debt to an amount equal to or less than 5% of the property tax base. Policy: 1.4.3 The Village shall annually update the 5 -Year Schedule of Improvements as a small -scale Comprehensive Plan amendment, in accordance with Florida Statutes. The results of this update shall be incorporated within a capital budget as part of the annual Village budgeting process. Policy: 11.4.4 Efforts shall be made to secure grants or private funds, whenever available, to finance the provision of capital improvements. Policy 1.4.5 Appropriate mechanisms will be developed and adopted with the South Florida Water Management District, the Loxahatchee River District, Palm Beach County, Martin County, Jupiter Inlet Colony, Jupiter Island, Rolling Hills Subdivision and Jonathan Dickenson State Park in order to assure that adequate water supplies are available to all water users. Prior to approval of the building permit or its functional equivalent, the Village of Tequesta shall consult with the Village's Water Utilities Department to determine whether adequate water supplies to serve the new development will be available no later than the anticipated date of issuance of a certificate of occupancy. Furthermore, the Village will be responsible for monitoring the availability of water supplies for all water users and for implementing a system that links water supplies to the permitting of new development. Policy 1.4.6 The Village shall incorporate capital improvements affecting Village levels of service by referencing the Capital Improvements Schedules of Palm Beach County, Martin County, Loxahatchee River District, State agencies, regional water supply authorities and other units of government providing services but not having regulatory authority over the use of land into its 5 -Year Schedule of Capital Improvements. The Schedule shall be maintained and updated annually. 75 t Objective: 1.5.0 Decisions regarding the issuance of development orders and permits shall be based based upon coordination of the development requirements included in this Plan, the Village land development regulations, and availability of necessary public facilities needed to support such development at the time needed. Policy: 1.5.1 Prior to issuing a development order or building permit, the Village shall use Level of Service (LOS) Standards adopted in the various elements of this Comprehensive Plan to review the impacts of new development and redevelopment on public facility provision. The Village shall not issue a development order or building permit which results in a reduction in service for affected public facilities below these Level of Service Standrads. A listing of LOS Standards is exhibited on Table CI -1. Polio The Village shall maintain a Concurrency Management Ordinance requiring that, at the time a development order is issued, adequate facility capacity is available, or will be available upon occupancy of the development, based upon the application of the Tequesta Level of Service Standards. Policy: 1.5.3 Proposed Comprehensive Plan amendments and requests for new development or redevelopment shall be evaluated according to the following guidelines as to whether the proposed action would: • Contribute to any condition of public hazard as described in the UTILITIES and COASTAL MANAGEMENT ELEMENTS; • Exacerbate any existing condition of public facility capacity deficits, as described in the TRANSPORTAION ELEMENT; UTILITIES ELEMENT; and RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE ELEMENT; • Generate public facility demands that may be accommodated by capacity increases planned in the 5 -Year Schedule of Improvements; and • Conform with future land uses as shown on the Future Land Use Map of the FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT, and public facility availability as described in UTILITIES ELEMENT. If public facilities are developer - provided, they shall accommodate public facility demands based upon adopted LOS standards. 76 t If public facilities are provided, in part or wholly, by the Village, financial feasibility shall be demonstrated subject to this element. Effects upon appropriate State agency and /or Water Management District facilities plans shall be evaluated. Obiective: 1.6.0 The Village shall maintain a concurrency management system to ensure that public facilities services to support development are available concurrent with the impact of development. Policy: 1.6.1 For sanitary sewer, solid waste, drainage and potable water facilities, the Village shall meet the following standards to satisfy the concurrency requirements: • A development order or permit is issued subject to the condition that, at the time of the issuance of a certificate of occupancy or its functional equivalent, the necessary facilities are in place ad available to serve the new development; or • At the time the development order or permit is issued, the necessary facilities and services are guaranteed in an enforceable development agreement, pursuant to Section 163.3220, Florida Statutes, or an agreement and development order issued pursuant to Chapter 380, Florida Statutes, to be in place and available to serve a new development at the time of issuance of a certificate of occupancy or its functional equivalent. • A development order or permit is issued subject to the condition that the necessary facilities and services needed to serve the new development are scheduled to be in place or under actual construction not more than one year after issuance of a certificate of occupancy or its functional equivalent as provided in the adopted local government 5 -year schedule of capital improvements; or • At the time the development order or permit is issued, the necessary facilities are the subject of a binding excecuted agreement which requires the necessary facilities and services to serve the new development to be in place or under actual construction not more than one year after issuance of a certificate of occupancy or its functional equivalent; or 77 • At the time the development order or permit is issued, the necessary facilities and services are guaranteed in an enforceable development agreement, pursuant to Section 163.3220, Florida Statutes, to be in place or under actual construction not more than one year after issuance of a certificate of occupancy or its functional equivalent. Policy: 1.6.2 For transportation facilities (roads and mass transit designated in the adopted Village Comprehensive Plan), at a minimum, the Village shall meet the following standards to satisfy the concurrency requirement, except as otherwise provided in subsections (4) — (7) of this section. • At the time a development order or permit is issued, the necessary facilities and services are in place or under construction; or • A development order or permit is issued subject to the conditions that the necessary facilities and services to serve the new development are scheduled to be in place or under construction not more than three years after issuance of a certificate of occupancy or its functional equivalent as provided in the local government five -year schedule of capital improvements. The schedule of capital improvements may recognize and include transportation projects included in the first three years of the applicable, adopted Florida Department of Transportation five -year work program. The Capital Improvements Element must include the following policies: a. The estimated date of commencement of actual construction and the estimated date of project completion. b. A provision that a plan amendment is required to eliminate, defer or delay construction of any road or mass transit facility or service which is needed to maintain the adopted level of service standard and which is listed in the five -year schedule of capital improvements; or • At the time a development order or permit is issued, the necessary facilities and services are the subject of a binding, executed agreement which requires the necessary facilities and services to serve the new development to be in place or 78 under actual construction no more than three years after the issuance of a certificate of occupancy or its functional equivalent; or • At the time a development order of permit is issued, the necessary facilities and services are guaranteed in an enforceable development agreement, pursuant to Section 163.3220, Florida Statutes, or an agreement or development order issued pursuant to Chapter 380, Florida Statutes, to be in place or under actual construction not more than three years after issuance of a certificate of occupancy or its functional equivalent. Obiective 1.7.0 The following Capital Improvements Schedule, as it is annually updated in accordance with State growth management requirements, includes all projects scheduled to meet or improve the adopted Level of Service Standards during the five -year planning period, and other projects that further implementation of this Comprehensive Plan and its goals, objectives and policies. 79 VILLAGE OF TEQUESTA FIVE YEAR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT SCHEDULE 2008-2013 Project Project Name 08/09 09110 10/11 11/12 12/13 Category 2,4 Road Improvements $5,000 $5,000 $5,000 $5,000 $5,000 2,4 Architect and $10,000 0 $15,000 0 0 Engineering 2,4 Construction Pipeline $100,000 0 $150,000 0 0 4 Pathways $60,000 0 0 0 0 2,4 Roadway $200,000 0 $200,000 0 0 Improvements 2,4 Street Lights Conduit 0 $150,000 0 $150,000 0 2,4 Drainage $125,500 0 $350,000 0 0 Improvements 4 Mach /Equipment $26,000 $63,100 $47,700 $63,179 $193,184 4 Computer Equipment $99,500 $178,500 $112,500 $84,500 $96,500 4 Vehicles $25,000 $74,000 $75,000 $76,000 $52,000 4 Furniture, Fixtures and 0 $2,000 $1,600 $12,000 0 Equipment 2,4 Fire Vehicles 0 $32,500 $350,000 0 0 Project Category Codes 1 - Project necessary to achieve Level of Service 2 - Project will enhance ability to continue to meet Level of Service 3 - Project will enhance ability to meet Level of Service for Optional Element 4 - Project will further the achievement of Comprehensive Plan goals, objectives and policies. 80 VILLAGE OF TEQUESTA PROJECTED REVENUES 2008 - 2013 Funding Source 08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 Ad Valorem Taxes $5, 156, 000 $4,795,080 $4,651,228 $4,697,740 $4,791,695 Sales and Use Taxes $960,450 $893,219 $866,422 $875,086 $892,588 Franchise Fees $470,000 $437,100 $423,987 $428,227 $436,791 Licenses and Permits $229,525 $213,458 $207,055 $209,125 $213,308 Intergovernmental $752,140 $699,490 $678,505 $685,291 $698,996 Revenues Intragovernmental Revenue $292,990 $146,495 $142,100 $143,521 $146,392 Charges for Services $561,655 $522,239 $506,669 $511,736 $521,970 Unrestricted Investment $121,500 $112,995 $109,605 $110,701 $112,915 Earnings Rents & Royalties $116,910 $108,726 $105,465 $106,519 $108,650 Miscellaneous $85,596 $79,604 $77,216 $77,988 $79,548 81