Florida Administrative Code › 41 - COMMISSION FOR THE TRANSPORTATION DISADVANTAGED › 41 - Departmental › Chapter 41-2 - COMMISSION FOR THE TRANSPORTATION DISADVANTAGED › Section 41-2.009 - Designated Official Planning Agency

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1)
				Metropolitan Planning Organizations shall serve as the designated official
				planning agency in urbanized areas. In areas not covered by a Metropolitan
				Planning Organization, agencies eligible for selection as Designated Official
				Planning Agencies include County or City governments, Regional Planning
				Councils, Metropolitan Planning Organizations from other areas, or Local
				Planning Organizations who are currently performing planning activities in
				designated service areas. Eligibility for continued designation by the
				Commission will be conditioned on the agency's resources, capabilities and
				actual performance in implementing the responsibilities and requirements of
				Chapter 427, F.S.
(2) Metropolitan
				Planning Organizations and Designated Official Planning Agencies shall include
				a Transportation Disadvantaged element in their Transportation Improvement
				Program (TIP). Such element shall include a project and program description,
				the planned costs and anticipated revenues for the services, identification of
				the year the project or services are to be undertaken and implemented, and
				assurances that there has been coordination with local public transit and local
				government comprehensive planning bodies, including input into the mass transit
				or other elements of local and regional comprehensive planning activities.
				Areas not required to develop a federally-required TIP shall report equivalent
				information in the Transportation Disadvantaged Service Plan.
(3) Each Designated Official Planning Agency
				shall provide each Coordinating Board with sufficient staff support and
				resources to enable the Coordinating Board to fulfill its responsibilities. In
				areas where a Metropolitan Planning Organization or Designated Official
				Planning Agency serves as the Community Transportation Coordinator and desires
				to utilize the same staff for the Coordinating Board, such agency shall abstain
				from any official actions that represent a conflict of interest, specifically
				in the evaluation process of the Community Transportation
				Coordinator.
(4) In consultation
				with the Community Transportation Coordinator and Coordinating Board, each
				Metropolitan Planning Organization or Designated Official Planning Agency shall
				develop and annually update, a Transportation Disadvantaged Service Plan. The
				Transportation Disadvantaged Service Plan shall be developed in a manner which
				assures that local planning agencies, responsible for preparing comprehensive
				plans, have the opportunity to review and comment on it, and shall not be
				inconsistent with applicable local government comprehensive plans, MPO long
				range comprehensive plans, transit development plans, and other local,
				regional, and state transportation plans. The Transportation Disadvantaged
				Service Plan shall be reviewed for final disposition by the Coordinating Board
				and the Commission.
(5) Consolidate
				the annual budget estimates of local and directly funded federal government
				transportation disadvantaged funds and forward to the Commission no later than
				the beginning of each state fiscal year.
Rulemaking Authority  427.013(9)  FS. Law Implemented
					  427.013(21),  427.015 FS.
New 5-2-90, Amended 6-17-92, 1-4-94,
					 3-10-98.