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tions, analysis, and conclusions, and developing an evacuation component. The final Barrier Island Analysis is consistent with the County wide traffic study prepared as part of the traffic impact fee ordinance study. As with the traffic impact fee study, the Barrier Island analysis included the assumption that existing land use plan densities on the island would be retained and that the transportation system would be designed to accommodate those densities rather than lowering densities to lessen the need for future transportation system improvements. Based upon the County's adopted minimum roadway level -of - service standards of "C" on an average annual basis and "D" in the peak season as well as the twenty year and buildout popula- tion projections for the island based on adopted comprehensive plans, the Barrier Island Analysis identifies roadway improve- ments needed within the next twenty years and at buildout, and it provides a twenty year capital improvement program for those improvements. The CIP reflected in the Barrier Island Analysis is consistent with the countywide CIP approved by the Board of County Commissioners and local governments in conjunction with adoption of the Indian River County Fair Share Traffic Impact Fee ordinance. As proposed, the Barrier Island Analysis will serve to meet the transportation plan requirements of the Hutchinson Island Resource Management Plan. In fact, the Department of Community Affairs reviewed the draft Barrier Island Analysis and notified the County that the study as submitted was acceptable. DCA did specify, however, that because the Barrier Island Analysis represented a joint study by the County and the barrier island municipalities there would need to be more specific agreements among the local governments and their method of funding. ALTERNATIVES & ANALYSIS The Barrier Island Analysis constitutes a transportation plan for the barrier island of Indian River County. As an assess- ment of both current and projected transportation and evacua- tion needs for the island, this plan identifies potential problems, outlines projected system deficiencies, and identi- fies needed capital projects. The roadway improvements needed by the year 2005, according to the Barrier Island Analysis, include widening of AlA in certain locations, improving major intersections, and adding four lanes of bridge capacity. For buildout, the study identifies the need for the widening of all of AlA, for improving intersections, and for adding another four lanes of bridge capacity. The Barrier Island Analysis constitutes one of two major alternatives for complying with the Hutchinson Island Resource Management Plan's requirement that infrastructure needed -to serve barrier island development be programmed for installation concurrent with development. The other alternative would be to reduce allowable densities on the barrier island to such an extent that major roadway improvements would be unnecessary. That alternative, however, was rejected previously by the Board of County Commissioners. Since the Board of County Commissioners had previously approved retaining the existing low densities planned for the barrier island and because the Barrier Island Analysis is consistent with results of the traffic impact fee study, the Barrier Island Analysis does not constitute a change from existing County policy. If the Barrier Island Analysis is approved by the Board, the principal implications will be a formal accep- tance of a transportation plan and capital improvements program 21 FCD 3 1937 Boor U� �c21