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Comprehensive Plan Capital Improvements Element As shown in table 6.9, the county has a Municipal Service Taxing Unit (MSTU) and an emergency services district, each with a separate millage. Changes to the Capital Improvements Program With the recent downturn in the housing market, the decline of national and global financial markets, and the reduction in building permit activity, both anticipated county funds and developer funds have decreased and are expected to remain lower than projected in the prior year's Capital Improvements Program (Fiscal Years 2007/08 through 2011/12). As a result of the decrease in projected revenue and the associated decrease in projected demand for public facilities, the overall Capital Improvements Program has been scaled back. Consequently, a number of projects within the 2007/08 through 2011/12 CIP have either had their costs modified, have been deferred, or have had their time frame extended. None of the changes will impact development project concurrency reservations and only a few changes to the transportation section of the CIP directly impact capacities within the county's concurrency management system. Because of the downturn in the housing market, financial markets, and construction activity, it is anticipated that the capacity associated with these projects will not be needed until later dates. The specific concurrency related projects removed from the transportation section of the CIP are detailed in Table 6.10 and include roadway segments on 16th Street, 41St Street, 43rd Avenue, and 66th Avenue. At least two of the projects in Table 6.10, 13th Street SW from 43r1 Avenue to 58th Avenue and 17th Street SW from 58th Avenue to 27th Avenue, were partially reliant upon developers' financial contributions for their construction. The remaining funds for those projects were to come from county impact fees. Of the projects being deleted from last year's CIP and shown m Table 6.10, none have had their added capacity relied upon for vesting development projects for concurrency. On links that are associated with the deleted projects listed in Table 6.10, the available capacity ranges from 77 available peak hour, directional trips to almost 700 available peak hour, directional trips. With the downturn in the housing market, there are some development projects that previously had trips vested for concurrency but because of expiring concurrency certificates will now have or will soon have their reserved trips removed from the concurrency management system. This will add additional capacity back to County roadways and will likely further decrease the need for scheduling, financing, and constructing transportation projects in the County' s CIP. By deleting the transportation projects as shown, the county can utilize limited resources to complete Community Development Department Indian River County Supplement #13; Adopted November 18, 2008, Ordinance 2008-018 33