TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port Commission
FROM: A. Jerome Fletcher II, City Manager
TITLE: Discussion and Possible Direction on Citywide Mobility-Connectivity Study, Including the Mobility-Connectivity Plan and Mobility Impact Fee Rates
Recommended Action
Discussion and possible direction on Citywide Mobility-Connectivity Study, including the Mobility-Connectivity Plan and Mobility Impact Fee Rates.
Background Information
In Fiscal Year 2016, the City Commission gave direction to staff regarding Mobility Fees based on the following options:
1. Continue the implementation of the existing Transportation Impact Fee System;
2. Replace the Transportation Impact Fee System by opting into the Sarasota County Mobility Fee Plan and Fee Program, or;
3. Create an independent functionally equivalent Mobility Fee specific to the City of North Port.
The State of Florida through the Growth Management Act of 1985 required all local governments adopt Comprehensive Plans to guide future development. The Act mandated adequate public facilities must be provided "concurrent" with the impacts of new development. The introduction of concurrency focused on accommodating the impact of new development primarily by adding roadway capacity via new and wider roadways and had the unintended consequence of driving development away from urban areas where capacity was not available or cost prohibitive.
During the "boom" period that strained local governments' ability to provide the necessary infrastructure, many communities across the State started to deny developments or require substantial transportation improvements to meet concurrency. This promoted the Florida Legislature to enhance laws requiring proportionate fair share that allowed new development to mitigate its share of roadway capacity improvements and prohibited local governments from charging new development for "backlogged" and "constrained" roadways.
In 2011 the Legislature repealed the m...
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