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ORDINANCE 2007-038 Comprehensive Plan Capital Improvements Element present consistent with future growth. Maximizing the use of existing facilities and controlling urban sprawl will contribute to a cost-effective and efficient service delivery system. Using the county's official Future Land Use Map and Future Thoroughfare Plan Map, as well as the county's water and wastewater connection matrix, in planning for future locations of facilities will provide for efficient and orderly expansion of public facilities, provide for efficient growth in desired areas, discourage growth in undesirable areas, and protect environmentally sensitive lands. Development orders will be based upon the availability of adequate public facilities and services, which will provide additional support for the comprehensive plan. The objectives of the FLUE, Transportation Element, Parks and Recreation Element, Potable Water Sub -Element, Sanitary Sewer Sub -Element, and the Public School Facilities Element will be furthered by the extension of facilities and services in a logical and efficient manner. This will be accomplished by implementing and enforcing the adopted Capital Improvements Element and its corresponding Schedule of Capital Improvements. Successful and efficient implementation of those items will ensure that facilities and services will be in place concurrent with future development. If a capital improvement project is not included in the adopted Schedule of Capital Improvements Plan and the improvement is required to maintain adopted level -of -service standards, future development will be prohibited until the necessary facilities are in place. This, in effect, indirectly controls the timing and location of future development and, in turn, furthers the implementation of the Future Land Use and Transportation Elements' objectives. Directly affecting the timing and location of future development is the county's official Future Land Use Map, which graphically portrays the maximum land use densities/intensities for the county by the year 2020. As shown on the Future Land Use Map, allowable residential land use densities in some areas are as high as ten units to the acre in the urban service area and as low as one unit per twenty acres outside the urban service area. Commercial/industrial land use areas are depicted on the Future Land Use Map along the US #I Corridor and in nodal areas located along major transportation routes and intersections. A schedule of capital improvements (Appendix A thru D) is important to ensure that improvements to existing facilities and construction of new facilities are completed as needed. By establishing specific criteria for prioritizing projects and by scheduling projects based on projected need and available revenue, the schedule of capital improvements will ensure existing resources are properly allocated. This scheduling effort will also ensure that appropriate areas will be served by needed facilities, thus maintaining adopted levels of service. In addition to the components of this element, the county coordinates with the St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) and the various state agencies, such as the Florida Department of Transportation, when these agencies program facility or service improvements within Indian River County. The continuation of this coordination will ensure that the plans of state agencies and the Community Development Department Indian River County 28