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PAGE 37 GOP Number GOP Language Recommended Action Comments/Rationale Policy 5.1: In conformance with the review process for the Capital Improvements Element, the county shall maintain a five-year schedule of capital improvement needs for public facilities. Remove Addressed in separate Element. Policy 5.2: Proposed capital improvement projects shall be evaluated and ranked according to the following three priority level guidelines: • Level One - whether the project is needed to protect public health and safety, to fulfill the county’s legal commitment to provide facilities and services, or to preserve or achieve full use of existing facilities. • Level Two - whether the project increases efficiency of use of existing facilities, prevents or reduces future improvement costs, provides service to developed areas lacking full service or promotes in-fill development. • Level Three - whether the project represents a logical extension of facilities and services within the urban service area. No Change; if desired, can revise Keep policy as-is. Otherwise, revise/simplify policy to say the CIP projects will be evaluated and ranked according to the County's risk matrix. Policy 5.3 In order to guarantee provision of more than the minimum level of service, the county shall take the following steps: • begin planning and preliminary design for expansion when a plant’s Average Daily Demand is projected to equal or exceed its capacity within 5 years; • prepare plans and specifications for expansion when a plant’s Average Daily Demand is projected to equal or exceed its capacity within 4 years; • submit a complete construction permit application to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection for expansion when a plant’s Average Daily Demand is projected to equal or exceed its capacity within 3 years; and • submit an application for an operation permit for the expanded facility to DEP when a plant’s Average Daily Demand is projected to equal or exceed its capacity within 6 months. Revise Recommend: The County will comply with FDEP requirements for evaluating capacity and planning for future improvements as needed to provide sanitary sewer service at the committed Level of Service. Policy 5.4: The county shall treat sanitary sewer provision as an enterprise system which is financially self-supporting. No Change Policy 5.5: The County Utilities Department shall fund sanitary sewer capital improvements and expansions through user fees, capacity charges, developer’s agreements, assessments and other appropriate fees and funding mechanisms. No Change Policy 5.6: The county shall identify and pursue opportunities for state and federal funding for the improvement and expansion of utility services including septic to sewer conversion projects and sewer connections. No Change Policy 5.7: All improvements, replacement, expansion, or increase in capacity of county facilities shall be consistent with adopted level of service standards for facilities. No Change Policy 5.8: Consistent with the policies of the Future Land Use Element of this plan, provision of centralized sanitary sewer service shall be limited to the following areas: • Areas within the Urban Service Area; • Areas where the county has legal commitments to provide facilities and services as of the date of adoption of this plan; • Areas outside of the Urban Service Area where at least a portion of the site is contiguous to an Urban Service Area boundary as depicted on the Official Future Land Use Map or where located no more than 500 feet from an existing sanitary sewer line that is part of the county sanitary sewer system, or where an approved place of worship or camp/retreat use existed on January 1, 2016 and is approved for water and/or sewer service by Utility Services in conjunction with a utility construction/connection permit filed with Utility Services on or before June 30, 2016. These areas are subject to the following provisions: o The maximum density of such land shall be as shown on the Future Land Use Map, and the provision of centralized sanitary sewer service shall not be justification for an increase in maximum density; and o Any and all costs associated with connecting a property to the sanitary sewer system, including costs associated No Change