TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port Commission
FROM: Jason Yarborough, ICMA-CM, Interim City Manager
TITLE: An Ordinance of the City of North Port, Florida, Restating and Amending Chapter 66, Article III, Sections 66-66 to Section 66-72; Providing for Findings, Purpose and Methodology, Definitions, the Road Rehabilitation Program, Administrative Policies, the Construction Traffic Road Fee, Enforcement, and Fee Waiver; Repealing Sections 66-73 and 63-74.
Recommended Action
Continue Ordinance No. 2020-40 to second reading on December 8, 2020.
Recommended Action for Second Reading
Approve and adopt Ordinance No. 2020-40.
Background Information
The following provides a chronological order of events as well as information pertinent to the Road Maintenance Rehabilitation Program, the Road Rehabilitation Fund, and the Construction Traffic Road Fee:
> 2006: The Road and Drainage Department was concerned about the road deterioration which was occurring throughout many areas of the City. Therefore, the City contracted the services of Infrastructure Management Services to perform a study of the construction, design, and condition of the City's 813 miles of roads.
> April 4, 2006: Infrastructure Management Services completed the IMS Study of the construction, design, and condition of the City's roads.
> October 10, 2006: The City Commission adopted Ordinance No. 2006-30, establishing the Road Maintenance Rehabilitation Program, the Road Rehabilitation Fund, and the Construction Traffic Road Fee.
> 2016: The Evaluation, Appraisal and Review of the North Port Comprehensive Plan projected that the anticipated growth is expected to continue and place greater demand upon the City roads.
> Population growth, together with residential and non-residential development in the City, has increased dramatically in the last two decades, straining the adequacy of existing revenues to prevent, detect and repair wide-scale street and road deterioration due ...
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