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Comprehensive Plan Capital Improvements Element Objective 5: Local Government's Ability to Provide Required Services and Facilities Through 2030, the county will ensure that it is able to fund and provide required services and facilities. Policy 5.1: The county shall not approve land use amendment requests unless those requests are consistent with the concurrency management system requirements of this element. Policy 5.2: In the event that the planned capacity of public facilities is insufficient to serve all applicants for development orders, the county shall schedule capital improvements to serve developments in the following order of priority: ➢ Single-family units in existing platted subdivisions or on existing legal, buildable parcels ➢ Affordable housing projects ➢ New development orders permitting redevelopment ➢ New development orders permitting new developments where the applicant funds the infrastructure expansion in exchange for future reimbursement ➢ New development orders permitting new developments without developer participation Policy 5.3: The county shall extend facilities and services to serve areas only within the existing Urban Service Area or as allowed by Policy 5.7 of the Potable Water Sub -Element and Policy 5.8 of the Sanitary Sewer Sub -Element of the Comprehensive Plan. Policy 5.4: The county shall coordinate with other local, state, and federal agencies as well as private entities to create an efficient capital improvements schedule that provides the following general benefits while minimizing the financial burden of providing facilities and services: ➢ Reduction of overall capital and operating expenditures by the development of multi -use facilities; ➢ More efficient land use patterns and phasing; ➢ Reduction of overlapping, duplicating, and administrative procedures; ➢ Implementation of adopted physical, social, and economic goals and policies in a least -cost manner; Better coordination of public capital investment with private capital expenditures. Policy 5.5: The county shall continue utilizing enterprise funds for the provision of Sanitary Sewer, Potable Water, and Solid Waste facilities. The debt for enterprise funds is to be paid by user fees, capacity charges, and other appropriate sources. Policy 5.6: The county shall finance the capital cost of non -enterprise fund supported public facilities (e.g., roads, stormwater management, and parks) from current revenue, bond issues, impact fees, capacity charges, assessments, and other appropriate sources. Community Development Department Indian River County Supplement #_; Adopted November _, 2009, Ordinance 2009- 59