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Comprehensive Plan • Capital Improvements Element • Evaluation and Monitoring Procedures To be effective, a plan must not only provide a means for implementation; it must also provide a mechanism for assessing the plan's effectiveness. Generally,a plan's effectiveness can be judged by the degree to which the plan's objectives have been met. Since objectives are structured,as much as possible,to be measurable and to have specific timeframes,the plan's objectives are the benchmarks used as a basis to evaluate the plan. Table 6.20 identifies each of the objectives of the Capital Improvements Element. It also identifies the measures to be used to evaluate progress in achieving these objectives. Most of these measures are quantitative,such as adopting land development requirements,which ensure the maintenance of the level-of-service standards, adopting a capacity monitoring system and others. Besides the measures, table 6.20 also identifies timeframes associated with meeting the objectives. The Planning Department staff will be responsible for monitoring and evaluating the Capital Improvement Element. This will involve collection of data and compilation of information regarding facility capacity, expansion,and new development permitted. This will be done on a regular basis. As part of the county's Concurrency Management System,the Planning Department will continually monitor the facility capacity to ensure that level-of-service standards will be maintained. Table 6.20:Capital Improvements Element Evaluation Matrix Objective Measure Timeframe 1 Existing deficiencies in county services and/or obsolete or worn-out facilities 2023 2 Land use density and intensity in Coastal High Hazard Area 2030 3 Level-of-service provided for county services 2030 4 Existence of appropriate Land Development Regulations 2030 5 Completion of the Schedule of Capital Improvements 2030 While monitoring will occur on a continual basis, formal evaluation of the Capital Improvements Element will occur annually. The formal evaluation and appraisal of the entire Comprehensive Plan will occur every ten years (dependent upon the schedule adopted by the Florida Department of Community Affairs). Besides assessing progress,the evaluation and appraisal process will also be used to determine whether the Capital Improvements Element objectives should be modified or expanded based on revisions to state statutes and changing conditions not identified and addressed as part of the annual CIE update. In this way, the monitoring and evaluation of the Capital Improvements Element will not only provide a means of determining the degree of success of the Community Development Department Indian River County Adopted ,2019,Ordinance 2019-_ 62 Appendix A - CIE Amendment