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1. Access roads leading to and from the development; 2. The paving and/or improvement of a thoroughfare plan roadway segment, where such improvement is necessary to provide paved access to and from the project, if the roadway segment is not scheduled to be improved within five (5) years from the time of the credit agreement, as shown on the adopted capital improvements program; 3. Driveways and roads within the development; 4. Acceleration and deceleration lanes, and right and left turn lanes leading to those roads and driveways within the development; 5. Traffic control devices (including signs, marking, channelization and signals) for those roads and driveways within the development. (C) No credit shall be given for improvements or right-of-way dedications unless such improvement(s) or dedication(s) meets an expansion need of the county's road network system and is identified either in the county's twenty-year transportation capital improvements program or in the transportation capital improvements program of a municipality participating in this chapter. (7) All required right-of-way dedications and/or roadway improvements which are compensable and made by a fee payer subsequent to October 9, 1992, shall be creditable against road impact fees otherwise due or to become due for the development that prompted the county or the municipality to require such dedications or roadway improvements. Such credits shall be determined as provided as set forth herein. (8) Credit for the dedication of non-site related right-of-way shall be valued on the date of the dedication at one hundred fifteen (115) percent of the most recent assessed value by the Indian River County property appraiser or, at the option of the fee payer, by fair market value establishedby an independent private appraisal approved by the county public works department and at no expense to the county. Credit for the dedication of right-of-way shall be provided when a credit agreement has been approved by the county administrator or his designee and when the property has been conveyed at no charge to and accepted by the county or, if appropriate, a municipality participating in this chapter in a manner satisfactory to the governing body to which the dedication is made. As part of the referenced county credit agreement, the applicant shall supply to the county at his or her own expense, the following: (A) A drawing and legal description of the land; and (B) A certificate of title or title search of the land. (9) To receive a credit for construction of non-site related road improvements, an applicant shall submit to the county director of community development a proposed credit agreement application pursuant to this chapter, along with engineering drawings specifications, and construction cost estimates prepared and certified by a duly qualified and licensed Florida Engineer. The county director of community development or his designee will coordinate review and approval of the application with the county public works director. The county public works director shall determine credit for roadway construction based on either these costs estimates or an alternative engineering criterion and construction cost estimate if the county public works director determines that such estimates submitted by the applicant are either unreliable, inaccurate or in excess of normal construction costs for such project. (10) Credit for non-site related construction is limited to capital improvements. A capital improvement includes engineering design studies, land surveys, permitting, and construction of all necessary features for any road construction project including, but not limited to: 20