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Comprehensive Plan Transportation Element state, and the federal government have purchased hundreds of acres on the north barrier island for conservation purposes. This land will have zero density. A third reason hurricane evacuation clearance times will remain adequate is that many of the new units to be constructed on the north barrier island will be in developments like Windsor and Orchid, which have a high number of seasonal residents. Many of these property owners will not be in residence nor contribute to the evacuation population during the peak hurricane season of late summer and early fall. The final reason that future hurricane evacuation clearance times will be adequate is that the Merrill Barber Bridge improvement provided significant additional evacuation capacity. One additional assurance that hurricane evacuation needs will not increase by 2030•-2040 is that the Future Land Use Element and the Coastal Management Element of this plan prohibit any increase in allowable density or intensity for land within the designated coastal high hazard area. These elements also prohibit nursing home type facilities in the coastal high hazard area. While these policy initiatives ensure that the at -risk evacuation population will not increase significantly and that evacuation facilities will remain adequate, the county should consider evacuation routes as priorities when awarding funding for new infrastructure such as roadway widening and ITS projects. Concurrency One of the most important issues with respect to the timing of transportation improvements is Concurrency. Concurrency is a principle established by the state's 1985 Local Government Comprehensive Planning and Land Development Regulation Act, which was relaxed at the state level in 2011 and remains a local requirement. project unless Generally, concurrency requirements together with effective capital projects planning and implementation ensure that the services and facilities needed to accommodate that a development project are available concurrent with the project's impacts. The Capital Improvements element of this plan establishes the County's concurrency management system. Of all the facilities subject to the concurrency requirement, transportation is the most important. It is transportation system deficiencies, more so than problems with other concurrency facilities, that have been responsible for .. ., affecting development project reviews and approvals throughout the state. Over the years, the state changed the concurrency law to make the transportation concurrency requirements more flexible. Besides establishing several flexible transportation concurrency options applicable under certain conditions, there are the to - ed e timeframe options for when development project required transportation facilities must be available to comply with the concurrency requirement. Current local concurrency regulations allow development projects to be approved subject to a condition that the necessary facilities needed to serve new development are scheduled to be in place or under actual construction not more than three years after issuance of a building permit -or its functional equivalent. Community Development Department Indian River County 109 APPENDIX A - Transportation Amendments