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r <br />r -L <br />BOOK i9F"wE..03 d <br />OBJECTIVE 1 ADEQUATE TRANSIT SERVICES <br />The county will ensure that the availability of transit services <br />in Indian River County will not be decreased. <br />Commissioner Bird did not know why we even have to have this <br />element in our plan, and Director Keating agreed it is not too <br />applicable to our county, but the Growth Management Act requires <br />any local governments over 50,000 to do a mass transit and ports <br />and aviation element. He noted that we are not making any major <br />policy statements. <br />The Board reviewed the following policies, with Commissioner <br />Bird emphasizing that POLICY 1.2 calls for higher densities along <br />major transportation corridors, and if 1-95 isn't a major <br />transportation corridor in this county, he doesn't know what is. <br />POLICY 1.1: The county will not set level -of -service standards <br />f'or mass transit, since the county has no mass transit system and <br />therefore cannot establish criteria regarding headways, route <br />spacing, service areas, facility capacity, and other mass transit <br />standards. <br />POLICY 1.2: The county will, through the future land use <br />element, provide higher densities along major transportation <br />corridors in order to facilitate future mass transit provision. <br />POLICY 1.3: The county, after its designation as urban and <br />estiETishment of a metropolitan planning organization, will <br />prepare a feasibility study for establishing a mass transit <br />system. Upon establishment of a mass transit system, the <br />comprehensive plan will be amended to establish a mass transit <br />level -of -service standard. <br />POLICY 1.4: The county, upon establishment of a metropolitan <br />pTanni norganization, will study methods for protecting <br />rights-of-way and corridors for future mass transit roadways and <br />high speed rail. - NO FURTHER COMMENT ON THE ABOVE POLICIES <br />OBJECTIVE 2 COORDINATION <br />The county will ensure that all activities relating to mass <br />transit and paratransit are coordinated with the plans and <br />activities of the FDOT and other agencies. - NO COMMENT <br />OBJECTIVE 3 RIGHT-OF-WAY PROTECTION <br />By 2010 the county will provide for protection of future mass <br />transit rights-of-way and exclusive mass transit corridors within <br />the urban area and consistent with the Traffic Circulation <br />Element. <br />130 <br />r <br />_I <br />