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Comprehensive Plan Capital Improvements Element <br />Policy 42: The county shall conduct research to identify new sources of revenue for funding capital <br />improvement projects. <br />Obiective 5: Local Government's Ability to Provide Required Services and Facilities <br />Through 2020, the county will ensure that it is able to fund and provide required services and <br />facilities. <br />Policy 5.1: The county shall not approve land use amendment requests unless those requests are <br />consistent with the concurrency management system requirements of this element. <br />Policy 5.2: In the event that the planned capacity of public facilities is insufficient to serve all <br />applicants for development orders, the county shall schedule capital improvements to serve <br />developments in the following order of priority: <br />➢ Single-family units in existing platted subdivisions or on existing legal, buildable parcels <br />➢ Affordable housing projects <br />➢ New development orders permitting redevelopment <br />➢ New development orders permitting new developments where the applicant funds the <br />infrastructure expansion in exchange for future reimbursement <br />➢ New development orders permitting new developments without developer participation <br />Policy 5.3: The county shall extend facilities and services to serve areas only within the existing <br />Urban Service Area or as allowed by Policy 5.7 of the Potable Water Sub -Element and Policy 5.8 of <br />the Sanitary Sewer Sub -Element of the Comprehensive Plan, <br />Policy 5_4: The county shall coordinate with other local, state, and federal agencies as well as private <br />entities to create an efficient capital improvements schedule that provides the following general <br />benefits while minimizing the financial burden of providing facilities and services: <br />➢ Reduction of overall capital and operating expenditures by the development of multi -use <br />facilities; <br />➢ More efficient land use patterns and phasing; <br />➢ Reduction of overlapping, duplicating, and administrative procedures; <br />➢ Implementation of adopted physical, social, and economic goals and policies in a least -cost <br />manner; <br />➢ Better coordination of public capital investment with private capital expenditures. <br />Policy 5_5: The county shall continue utilizing enterprise funds for the provision of Sanitary Sewer, <br />Potable Water, and Solid Waste facilities. The debt for enterprise funds is to be paid by user fees, <br />capacity charges, and other appropriate sources. <br />Community Development Department Indian River County <br />58 <br />