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Board of County Commissioners
Mobility Strategy Update Work
Session November 17, 2009

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Presentation Outline

• Purpose
• Policies
• Senate Bill 360
• Issues
• Options
• Summary
• Next Steps

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Presentation Outline

• Purpose
• Policies
• Senate Bill 360
• Issues
• Options
• Summary
• Next Steps

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Purpose

• Explain how concurrency is addressed in the
  Countys Comprehensive Plan
• Discuss the relationship between concurrency and
  mobility
• Review options for addressing
• mobility

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Presentation Outline

• Purpose
• Policies
• Senate Bill 360
• Issues
• Options
• Summary
• Next Steps

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Policies
Comprehensive Plan existing goal Goal 2 A
concurrency management system and mobility
strategy that ensure that transportation
facilities are available to support land use
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Policies

• Objectives covered by Goal 2
• Objective 1 Levels of Service (LOS)
• Objective 2 Concurrency Management
• System
• Objective 3 Alternative Mobility Areas

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Policies

• Objective 2 Concurrency Management System
• Ensures that transportation facilities needed to
  support development are available concurrent with
  the impacts of such development
• Establishes procedures
• Addresses constrained and backlogged roads
• Provides for proportionate fair share

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Policies

• Objective 3 Alternative Mobility Areas
• Establishes 4 Alternative Mobility Areas
• Exempts Alternative Mobility Areas from
  concurrency
• Establishes procedures for addressing mobility

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Policies

• Objective 3 Alternative Mobility Areas
• Policy 16. The Alternative Mobility Area
  objective and policies shall apply to any
  Transportation Concurrency Exception Area
  designated within Orange Countys jurisdiction.

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Policies
Transportation Concurrency
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Policies
Alternative Mobility Areas
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Policies
Alternative Mobility Areas
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Presentation Outline

• Purpose
• Policies
• Senate Bill 360
• Issues
• Options
• Summary
• Next Steps

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Senate Bill 360

• Provisions of the law
• Plan amendments and
• rezonings
• Permit extensions
• Dense urban land areas
• Developments of
• regional impact
• Transportation concurrency exception areas (TCEAs)

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Senate Bill 360

• Transportation Concurrency Exception Areas
• State designated dense urban land areas as
  transportation concurrency exception areas
• Became effective in July
• Requires adoption of a Mobility Plan within 2
  years
• Current statutory
• requirements do
• not apply to newly
• designated areas

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Senate Bill 360
Transportation Concurrency Exception Area
designated under SB 360
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Senate Bill 360

• Mobility plan requirements
• Land use and transportation strategies to support
  and fund mobility
• Include alternative modes of transportation
• Transmit plan by January 2011 adopt by July 2011

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Senate Bill 360

• Status
• Legal challenge
• Single subject rule
• Unfunded mandate
• Differing interpretations of the law
• Legislature TCEAs are automatic
• DCA Local governments have to amend
  comprehensive plan for TCEAs to take effect

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Senate Bill 360

• Status
• Mayor put SB 360 implementation on hold pending
• Court case resolution
• Next legislative session clarification of
  legislation

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Presentation Outline

• Purpose
• Policies
• Senate Bill 360
• Issues
• Options
• Summary
• Next Steps

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Issues

• Alternative Mobility Area objective and policies
  were developed to encourage infill and
  redevelopment in urban areas
• Mobility guidelines were drafted to meet
  concurrency exception area requirements before SB
  360
• A policy was included to make mobility guidelines
  applicable in any area designated a TCEA

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Issues

• As written, policies are more suitable for urban
  infill areas not as applicable to the rest of
  the County

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Issues

• Current mobility policies
• Development required to meet mobility standards
• Number of standards required is based on traffic
  impact
• Mobility standards
• Intersection and/or signalization modifications
• Dedicated turn lanes
• Bus facilities, bus pass programs, increased bus
  service
• Bicycle lanes
• Construction or widening of sidewalks
• Ride sharing or van pooling programs
• Park and ride facilities

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Issues

• Current mobility policies
• Mobility standards (cont.)
• Streetscaping and landscaping that increase
  walkability
• Shading and weather protection over sidewalks
• Additional bicycle parking
• Removal of impediments to pedestrian movement
• Enhancement of Countys greenways, bike paths and
  trails
• Participation in a transportation demand
  management program
• Roadway projects that increase transportation
  network connectivity and/or provide alternate
  routes to reduce congestion
• Additional roadway lanes

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Presentation Outline

• Purpose
• Policies
• Senate Bill 360
• Issues
• Options
• Summary
• Next Steps

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Option 1
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Option 2
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Option 3
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Presentation Outline

• Purpose
• Policies
• Senate Bill 360
• Issues
• Options
• Summary
• Next Steps

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Summary

• Summary of options
• Option 1 No change
• Option 2 Remove policy making mobility
  strategies applicable to any designated TCEA
• Option 3 Amend mobility strategies to be more
  applicable in the Urban Service Area

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Summary

• With all options
• Concurrency remains in place unless the
  Legislature eliminates the concurrency
  requirement
• Mobility policies are an interim measure
• Policies will be superseded by Mobility Plan in
  2011

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Presentation Outline

• Purpose
• Policies
• Senate Bill 360
• Issues
• Options
• Summary
• Next Steps

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Next Steps

• Concurrency and mobility
• 2010 Legislative session
• Mobility Plan
• Comprehensive Plan
• amendment
• LPA in December
• Discussion with DCA
• BCC transmittal in January

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Board of County Commissioners
Mobility Strategy Update Work
Session November 17, 2009