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Comprehensive Plan Transportation Element In the future, the county should review and revise its regulations and add new regulations, where warranted, that provide for developer -provided safety improvements at intersections and project entrances. In addition, the county should adopt a comprehensive plan policy to evaluate and provide for new techniques in its departmental operations. Examples of such techniques include installing camera monitoring at unsafe intersections; participating in statewide ITS initiatives such as the "511" informational system; deploying white enforcement lights at major intersections; creating a subcommittee of the MPO to address safety and operational issues; and improving the visibility of signage and traffic control devices. At the state level, the Florida Transportation Plan contains a number of techniques applicable to Indian River County, including the adoption of construction and incident notification systems and engineering techniques that promote safety and discourage aggressive driving (such as raised center medians and access management techniques). These and other techniques have been applied in Indian River County during recent MOT construction projects on US 1, SR 60, and Indian River Boulevard. In addition to level of service, the County also considers safety when prioritizing intersection improvements. Together with the intersections listed above, other intersections will be considered as candidates for improvements based on the annual crash data collected. Multi -Jurisdiction Transportation Impact methodology Assessment Within all six of the jurisdictions in Indian River County, compliance with adopted roadway level of service standards is monitored through local concurrency management systems. Two of the jurisdictions in the county, the Town of Orchid (pop. 307) and the Town of Indian River Shores (pop. 3,722), have virtually no vacant developable land and do not plan to grow through annexation. In addition, these communities have few county roadway links within their boundaries. Therefore, concurrency management is relatively straightforward in these areas. The County's concurrency management system utilizes adopted City of Vero Beach Levels of Service. For the Unincorporated area, the County continuously monitors concurrency through an automated system that assigns background traffic and future trips to impacted roadway links. The system is linked to the county's permitting system and is updated whenever new permits are issued. Since the County issues building permits for the City of Vero Beach, projects within Vero Beach are also included in the County's concurrency management system. Recently, county staff and City of Sebastian staff initiated the process of evaluating the feasibility of integrating the city's transportation concurrency management system with the county's system. Although there are logistical obstacles to implementing a coordinated transportation concurrency management system with Sebastian, the county and the city have already begun the process of resolving those obstacles. Besides the county/City of Sebastian transportation concurrency coordination initiative, a countywide transportation concurrency system initiative has also been discussed. This discussion has occurred during the Interlocal Service Boundary Agreement (ISBA) development process, a process involving the county and all five municipalities in the county. Community Development Department Indian River County 54