Amendment
Bill No. CS/CS/SB 482
Amendment No. 651451
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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1Representative Cannon offered the following:
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3     Amendment (with title amendment)
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5     Section 22.  Subsection (5) of section 420.615, Florida
6Statutes, is amended to read:
7     420.615  Affordable housing land donation density bonus
8incentives.--
9     (5)  The local government, as part of the approval process,
10shall adopt a comprehensive plan amendment, pursuant to part II
11of chapter 163, for the receiving land that incorporates the
12density bonus. Such amendment shall be deemed by operation of
13law a small scale amendment, shall be subject only to the
14requirements of adopted in the manner as required for small-
15scale amendments pursuant to s. 163.3187(1)(c)2. and 3., is not
16subject to the requirements of s. 163.3184(3)-(11)(3)-(6), and
17is exempt from s. 163.3187(1)(c)1. and the limitation on the
18frequency of plan amendments as provided in s. 163.3187. An
19affected person, as defined in s. 163.3184(1), may file a
20petition for administrative review pursuant to the requirements
21of s. 163.3187(3) to challenge the compliance of an adopted plan
22amendment.
23     Section 23.  The Legislature directs the Department of
24Transportation to establish an approved transportation
25methodology which recognizes that a planned, sustainable
26development of regional impact will likely achieve an internal
27capture rate greater than 30 percent when fully developed. The
28transportation methodology must use a regional transportation
29model that incorporates professionally accepted modeling
30techniques applicable to well planned, sustainable communities
31of the size, location, mix of uses, and design features
32consistent with such communities. The adopted transportation
33methodology shall serve as the basis for sustainable development
34traffic impact assessments by the department. The methodology
35review must be completed and in use no later than March 1, 2009.
36     Section 24.  (1)  The Legislature finds that the existing
37transportation concurrency system has not adequately addressed
38the state's transportation needs in an effective, predictable,
39and equitable manner and is not producing a sustainable
40transportation system for the state. The current system is
41complex, lacks uniformity among jurisdictions, is too focused on
42roadways to the detriment of desired land use patterns and
43transportation alternatives, and frequently prevents the
44attainment of important growth management goals. The state,
45therefore, should consider a different transportation
46concurrency approach that uses a mobility fee based on vehicle-
47miles or people-miles traveled. The mobility fee shall be
48designed to provide for mobility needs, ensure that development
49provides mitigation for its impacts on the transportation
50system, and promote compact, mixed-use, and energy-efficient
51development. The mobility fee shall be used to fund improvements
52to the transportation system.
53     (2)  The Legislative Committee on Intergovernmental
54Relations shall study and develop a methodology for a mobility
55fee system. The committee shall contract with a qualified
56transportation engineering firm or with a state university for
57the purpose of studying and developing a uniform mobility fee
58for statewide application to replace the existing transportation
59concurrency management systems adopted and implemented by local
60governments.
61     (a)  No later than January 15, 2009, the committee shall
62provide an interim report to the President of the Senate and the
63Speaker of the House of Representatives reporting the status of
64the mobility fee study. The interim report shall discuss
65progress in the development of the fee, identify issues for
66which additional legislative guidance is needed, and recommend
67any interim measures that may need to be addressed to improve
68the current transportation concurrency system that could be
69taken prior to the final report in 2009.
70     (b)  On or before October 1, 2009, the committee shall
71provide to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the
72House of Representatives a final report and recommendations
73regarding the methodology, application, and implementation of a
74mobility fee.
75     (3)  The study and mobility fees shall focus on and the fee
76shall implement, to the extent possible:
77     (a)  The amount, distribution, and timing of vehicle miles
78and people miles traveled, applying professionally accepted
79standards and practices in the disciplines of land use and
80transportation planning and the requirements of constitutional
81and statutory law.
82     (b)  The development of an equitable mobility fee that
83provides funding for future mobility needs whereby new
84development mitigates in approximate proportionality for its
85impacts on the transportation system yet is not delayed or held
86accountable for system backlogs or failures that are not
87directly attributable to the proposed development.
88     (c)  The replacement of transportation financial
89feasibility obligations, proportionate fair-share contributions,
90and locally adopted transportation impact fees with the mobility
91fee such that a single transportation fee, whether or not based
92on number of trips or vehicle miles traveled, may be applied
93uniformly on a statewide basis.
94     (d)  The ability for developer contributions of land for
95right-of-way or developer-funded improvements to the
96transportation network to be recognized as credits against the
97mobility fee through mutually acceptable agreements reached with
98the impacted jurisdictions.
99     (e)  An equitable methodology for distribution of mobility
100fee proceeds among those jurisdictions responsible for
101construction and maintenance of the impacted facilities such
102that 100 percent of the collected mobility fees are used for
103improvements to the overall transportation network of the
104impacted jurisdictions.
105     Section 25.  Paragraph (f) is added to subsection (3) of
106section 403.973, Florida Statutes, and subsection (8) of that
107section is amended, to read:
108     403.973  Expedited permitting; comprehensive plan
109amendments.--
110     (3)
111     (f)  Projects that are associated with new mixed-use
112community housing, research and development, manufacturing, and
113demonstration of technologies for improving energy-efficiency of
114residential and nonresidential uses and using an alternative
115source of water supply are eligible for the expedited permitting
116process.
117     (8)  Each memorandum of agreement shall include a process
118for final agency action on permit applications and local
119comprehensive plan amendment approvals within 90 days after
120receipt of a completed application, unless the applicant agrees
121to a longer time period or the office determines that unforeseen
122or uncontrollable circumstances preclude final agency action
123within the 90-day timeframe. Permit applications governed by
124federally delegated or approved permitting programs whose
125requirements would prohibit or be inconsistent with the 90-day
126timeframe are exempt from this provision, but must be processed
127by the agency with federally delegated or approved program
128responsibility as expeditiously as possible. For projects for
129which a completed application has been submitted prior to
130qualification of the project under this section, the memorandum
131of agreement may proceed concurrently with the processing of
132applications, and the timeframes in this section shall begin
133from receipt of certification of the project's eligibility.
134     Section 26.  The sum of $300,000 is appropriated from
135nonrecurring revenue in the General Revenue Fund to the
136Legislative Committee on Intergovernmental Relations for the
1372008-2009 fiscal year to pay for costs associated with the
138mobility fee study and pilot project program established in
139section 24 of this act.
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T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T
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148made by the act; amending s. 420.615, F.S.; revising provisions
149relating to comprehensive plan amendments; authorizing certain
150persons to challenge the compliance of an amendment; directing
151the Department of Transportation to establish an approved
152transportation methodology for certain purpose; providing
153requirements; requiring a report; providing legislative intent
154for the establishment of a uniform mobility fee methodology to
155replace the current transportation concurrency management
156system; providing legislative intent relating to mobility fees
157for certain purposes; requiring the Legislative Committee on
158Intergovernmental Relations to study and develop a methodology
159for a mobility fee system; providing study and fee applicability
160requirements; providing study requirements and criteria;
161providing mobility fee requirements and limitations; amending s.
162403.973, F.S.; specifying additional projects eligible for
163certain expedited permitting; authorizing concurrently
164proceeding with memoranda of agreement and processing of
165applications for certain projects under certain circumstances;
166providing an appropriation; providing an effective date.
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