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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> county. Nor do they require that developers correct existing infrastructure deficiencies. <br /> <br /> All they do is to increase the likelihood that an acceptable level of service will be <br /> maintained in two of the county's critical infrastructure systems as we grow. The <br /> conceptual framework is to control coneurrency at the time of subdivision (and condo <br /> <br /> regime creation) but to get a commitment to do so at the (assumed earlier) time of zone <br /> change, too. Only water (in existing service areas) and transportation facilities are <br /> <br /> addressed, to keep it simple, but effective. <br /> <br /> <br /> The ordinances require that the cumulative impact of development (the proposed <br /> subdivision plus then-existing, approved subdivisions) be addressed. In essence, <br /> adequate infrastructure capacity has to be either in existence at the time of subdivision or <br /> <br /> a funded capital improvements program has to be in place to provide the capacity within <br /> a reasonable time (six years is proposed, but the term could be shorter or longer). If a <br /> <br /> developer wants to find some or all of the required facilities, he could sign a bonded <br /> agreement to do so. Or he could convince the county council to commitment to the <br /> needed facilities in the Six Year Capital Improvements Program (CIP), for example, by <br /> <br /> committing a portion of reasonably expected impact fee collections, reasonably expected <br /> general obligation bond proceeds, reasonably expected income generated by a tax <br /> <br /> increment district and/or reasonably expected Federal highway funding, to a specific road <br /> project. <br /> <br /> <br /> This converts the County Six Year CIP from its current status as an unconstrained "wish <br /> list" document to a "commitment to fund priority projects" document. An infrastructure <br /> <br /> capacity accounting system would be maintained by the county (not the developers) to <br /> account for commitments to supply transportation system capacity to particular new <br /> developments in a similar way that the department of water supply currently successfully <br /> <br /> accounts for commitments to supply water. The developers would pay for the traffic <br /> studies needed to document how much transportation system capacity would be needed, <br /> <br /> as they do now in the locale of the project. The county would still decide what <br /> improvements would need to be added to the system and when. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> 2 <br />