Text amendment to the Capital Improvements Element of the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan to delete the requirement for a positive evaluation at preliminary development approval.
Staff recommends denial of the applicant's request.
Staff recommends consideration of a substitute text amendment that would eliminate the requirement for a positive evaluation of preliminary approval and elimination of the negative track. Section 14-4.A.3.d. requires that preliminary development approval include a reservation of public facilities, a positive evaluation of public facilities without reservation of public facilities, or a negative evaluation of public facilities without reservation of public facilities. The intent of the ordinance is to ensure that the Public Facilities needed to support land development are available concurrent with the impacts of such development. An amendment to the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan establishing the negative track was adopted on October 27, 1992. The negative track allowed site plan approval for a period of two years during which the developer and the County had an opportunity to solve the public facility LOS deficiency.