TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port Commission
FROM: Peter D. Lear, CPA, CGMA, City Manager
TITLE: Mobility Fee Presentation - City of North Port
Recommended Action
Discussion and direction regarding a City of North Port Mobility Plan and Fee Program.
Background Information
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 Florida's period of rapid growth local governments' ability to provide the necessary infrastructure was severely strained, many communities across the State started to deny developments or require substantial transportation improvements to meet the concurrency requirements. This prompted the Florida Legislature to enact laws requiring local governments charge new development only a "proportionate fair share" of its roadway capacity improvements and their impact on "backlogged" and "constrained" roadways, which in North Port's case includes the following:
Backlogged Roadways Segments Location
Price Boulevard Sumter Boulevard to Toledo Blade Boulevard
Constrained Roadways
Salford Boulevard Price Boulevard to U.S. 41
Sumter Boulevard Heron Creek Boulevard to Price Boulevard
Chamberlain Boulevard Allegheny Lane to Hillsborough Boulevard
Hillsborough Boulevard Chamberlain Blvd. to Cranberry Blvd.
In 2011, the Legislature repealed the mandated concurrency and enacted further restrictions on local governments to implement concurrency and to calculate "proportio...
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