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HOK Fh� r `756 • Conditional Certificates - these are certificates required for conceptual development orders; since no project approval is given at this stage, capacity does not need to be reserved. • Initial Certificates - these are certificates required for project level approval; at this stage capacity must be reserved. • Final Certificates - these are certificates required to obtain building permits; capacity must be reserved. These certificates are discussed in more detail in the concurrency management chapter (910) of the new land development regulations. As structured, the table relates the six facilities (water, sewer, traffic, solid waste, parks & recreation, drainage) subject to concurrency review to the three certificate types. In viewing the table, the last four columns on the right are extremely important; these indicate the facility availability possibilities that an applicant will confront when he applies for a certificate. For any one or all six of the facilities, the capacity needed by an applicant may: (1) be in place; (2) be under construction; (3) be committed or guaranteed by agreements executed by others; or (4) be not available. According to state requirements and allowed by the county's ordinance, these categories can be further simplified by considering capacity available if any of the first three conditions (capacity in place or under construction or committed) exist. Therefore, two principal conditions will exist when an applicant applies for a concurrency certificate; on a facility by facility basis, either capacity will be available or it will not be available. Given those circumstances, it is the county's responsibility as part of a concurrency review to identify those actions required of the applicant to reserve capacity that is presently available to ensure that it will still be available when he needs it or to provide additional capacity if capacity is not available for a facility. The table identifies those actions by number, with the numbers related to the actions shown at the bottom of the table. As reflected in the table, actions required by the applicant are specific and straightforward in those circumstances where capacity is available; where capacity is not available there are generally more options. ALTERNATIVES & ANALYSIS The required actions identified in the table are drawn from those allowed by the state's concurrrency rule, as modified in some cases by staff. The state rule, however, treats different facilities differently; according to that rule there are four options for water and sewer concurrency to be met, six for parks/recreation concurrency to be met, and seven for traffic concurrency to be met. These are reflected in the table. Whether all the various options for meeting concurrency which are allowed by state law should be allowed by the county is a decision which must be made. For example, state rules provide for the concurrency test to be met if the necessary capacity is under construction at the time of development order approval; no requirement exists for ensuring that the construction is completed. The county may want to be more restrictive and require that the facility is complete prior to issuing a certificate of occupancy for a project needing the capacity in the facility under construction. 50 M M M