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JAN 19 198& BOOK 70 FAc 6'i26 under analysis Section B) 1-7. This section also differentiates between right-of-way dedications/reser- vations needed along a project site's existing road frontage, and the newly dedicated roads created via plats. Dedications/reservations augmenting existing rights-of-way are treated the same as for site plan projects. Newly dedicated rights-of-way are not credited or compensated for because such rights-of-way are project related. To summarize, the proposed amendments codify dedication, reser- vation, and compensation arrangements already utilized by the Board of County Commissioners in a few specific cases. Protection of thoroughfare road rights-of-way from single-family development is new but necessary to save the County significant amounts of time and money for future road projects. The County's 6th Avenue road improvements project attests to the need for such protection. This protection also apprises single-family homeowners of future road needs so that appropriate setbacks may be applied now, to ensure that the normal open spaces and buffering typical of single family neighborhoods is preserved. Such long-range planning will help to ensure that single-family character and viability con- tinues into the future along thoroughfare roads. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends that the Board of County Commissioners adopt the proposed ordinance amendments. Planner Boling noted we now have no requirement for single family development to conform to RIW requirements, and he esti- mated the change would affect about 50 building permits per year. Chairman Scurlock believed we asked Public Works Director Davis to look at impact fees because we have underestimated the cost of acquisition of the RIW that the county wilt be required to pay for under the new legislation. Public Works Director Davis reported that he has reviewed what has been done in recent projects in the nine districts in the impact fee program. He did not feel Districts 1 and 2 will change. The CR 512 improvements near Sebastian will be the first construction project in, District 3, and we don't have the new figures right now. In Districts 5 and 6 where the Boulevard South project has been completed, staff found that the cost of the 6.4 lane miles of construction came out to be $612,000 per lane mile. The impact fee program had anticipated road costs at $385,000 and $286,000 in Districts 5 and 6; so, what they are finding is that the impact fees in Districts 5 and 6 relative to the actual lane mile cost are about half what they should be. 66