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r - ©EC BOOK 78 PAGE 527 ordinances, the planning staff is taking primary responsibility for the land development regulation section. Attached to this memo is a copy of the proposed format for the revised code of laws and ordinances. As proposed, the revised code will be organized into various titles, each of which will relate to a category of the code. Within each title there will be one or more chapters. The chapters, sections, subsections, and sub -subsections will then be organized in a manner consistent with the numbering system used in the Florida Statutes. - Consultants As with the comprehensive plan, the staff anticipates preparing the revised land development regulations almost completely in-house. There are, however, several areas where more specific • expertise is needed. These include: traffic standards, traffic impact analysis requirements, and computerized permit tracking system development. For these work activities, consultant ::services will be necessary. ,::'-Two sources of funds are available for these consultant services. he first source is funding' included in the planning department's =;FY89-90 budget for consulting.services;. ,the amount ud• a e• • d , available is $15,000." The �second-isource •. a ..` n. ? -- : t ..the state is providing the county with a $49,000 grant to assist in`.land developmentregulation preparation and the county has :'indicated that the money will be used to fund existing staff, :that.will free up $49,000 already budgeted for compensation of ;':existing staff. Two actions are needed to make the $49,000 .°available for consulting services. First, a budget amendment is needed to put the state $49,000 grant into the planning depart- ment's budget in the salaries and benefits line item; then, a budget amendment is needed to transfer $49,000 from salaries and benefits to other professional services: - Traffic Consultant In revising the county's land development regulations, one of the most important changes will be modifying the existing traffic standards and traffic impact analysis requirements. Not only will updating these regulations resolve problems with the exist- ing regulations; but revising these criteria will also provide• the necessary standards to address concurrency. In order to ensure that the revised traffic regulations are adequate, techni- cally correct, and legally defensible, the expertise of a traffic consultant is necessary. Since the county went through the consultant selection process and ranked firms in various categories for anticipated comprehensive plan work, consultants have already been ranked for traffic circulation. These firms would be available to do the traffic circulation work. for the land development regulations without going through the consultant selection process again. The top ranked firms in the traffic category were not used for comprehensive plan work because the county subsequently got a grant from DOT to prepare its traffic circulation element and had to go through the selection process separately for that grant. For these reasons the staff proposes that the Board of County Commissioners authorize staff to negotiate a scope of services and compensation schedule (not to exceed $15,000) for preparation of the traffic related portions of the land development regulations with Transportation Consulting Group, Inc. of Orlando, the top ranked firm in the traffic circulation category of the comprehensive plan consultant selection process. 22