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2010 Florida Statutes
Transportation Regional Incentive Program.
Transportation Regional Incentive Program.
—There is created within the Department of Transportation a Transportation Regional Incentive Program for the purpose of providing funds to improve regionally significant transportation facilities in regional transportation areas created pursuant to s. 339.155(5).
The percentage of matching funds provided from the Transportation Regional Incentive Program shall be 50 percent of project costs.
The department shall allocate funding available for the Transportation Regional Incentive Program to the districts based on a factor derived from equal parts of population and motor fuel collections for eligible counties in regional transportation areas created pursuant to s. 339.155(5).
Projects to be funded with Transportation Regional Incentive Program funds shall, at a minimum:
Support those transportation facilities that serve national, statewide, or regional functions and function as an integrated regional transportation system.
Be identified in the capital improvements element of a comprehensive plan that has been determined to be in compliance with part II of chapter 163, after July 1, 2005, or to implement a long-term concurrency management system adopted by a local government in accordance with s. 163.3180(9). Further, the project shall be in compliance with local government comprehensive plan policies relative to corridor management.
Be consistent with the Strategic Intermodal System Plan developed under s. 339.64.
Have a commitment for local, regional, or private financial matching funds as a percentage of the overall project cost.
In allocating Transportation Regional Incentive Program funds, priority shall be given to projects that:
Provide connectivity to the Strategic Intermodal System developed under s. 339.64.
Support economic development and the movement of goods in rural areas of critical economic concern designated under s. 288.0656(7).
Are subject to a local ordinance that establishes corridor management techniques, including access management strategies, right-of-way acquisition and protection measures, appropriate land use strategies, zoning, and setback requirements for adjacent land uses.
Improve connectivity between military installations and the Strategic Highway Network or the Strategic Rail Corridor Network.
Funds paid into the State Transportation Trust Fund pursuant to s. 201.15 for the purposes of the Transportation Regional Incentive Program are hereby annually appropriated for expenditure to support that program.
s. 12, ch. 2005-290; s. 35, ch. 2006-1; s. 41, ch. 2007-196; s. 6, ch. 2008-114.