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PAGE 82 GOP Number GOP Language Recommended Action Comments/Rationale Policy 4.1: The county shall use impact fees, capacity charges, assessments, developer dedications and contributions, to pay for infrastructure improvements and services needed to satisfy future needs while maintaining adopted level -of-service standards. No Change Policy 4.2: The county shall conduct research to identify new sources of revenue for funding capital improvement projects. No Change Objective 5 Through 2030, the county will ensure that it is able to fund and provide required services and facilities. Revise Revise target year consistent with Planning Horizon Policy 5.1: The county shall not approve land use amendment requests unless those requests are consistent with the concurrency management system requirements of this element. No Change Can retain but also generally duplicative with other Elements Policy 5.2: In the event that the planned capacity of public facilities is insufficient to serve all applicants for development orders, the county shall schedule capital improvements to serve developments in the following order of priority: • Single-family units in existing platted subdivisions or on existing legal, buildable parcels • Affordable housing projects • New development orders permitting redevelopment • New development orders permitting new developments where the applicant funds the infrastructure expansion in exchange for future reimbursement • New development orders permitting new developments without developer participation No Change Policy 5.3: The county shall extend facilities and services to serve areas only within the existing Urban Service Area or as allowed by Policy 5.7 of the Potable Water Sub-Element and Policy 5.8 of the Sanitary Sewer Sub-Element of the Comprehensive Plan. No Change Revise and update cross references Policy 5.4: The county shall coordinate with other local, state, and federal agencies as well as private entities to create an efficient capital improvements schedule that provides the following general benefits while minimizing the financial burden of providing facilities and services: • Reduction of overall capital and operating expenditures by the development of multi-use facilities; • More efficient land use patterns and phasing; • Reduction of overlapping, duplicating, and administrative procedures; • Implementation of adopted physical, social, and economic goals and policies in a least-cost manner; • Better coordination of public capital investment with private capital expenditures. No Change Policy 5.5: The county shall continue utilizing enterprise funds for the provision of Sanitary Sewer, Potable Water, and Solid Waste facilities. The debt for enterprise funds is to be paid by user fees, capacity charges, and other appropriate sources. No Change Policy 5.6: The county shall finance the capital cost of non-enterprise fund supported public facilities (e.g., roads, stormwater management, and parks) from current revenue, bond issues, impact fees, capacity charges, assessments, and other appropriate sources. No Change Policy 5.7: The county shall use general obligation bonds and other sources to raise the funding required to provide those public facilities that cannot be constructed with user fees, revenue bonds, impact fees, capacity charges, or other dedicated revenue sources. No Change Policy 5.8: Developments, which require public facility infrastructure improvements that will be financed by county debt, shall have their development orders conditioned on the issuance of the county debt or the substitution of a comparable amount of non-debt revenue. No Change Policy 5.9: Pursuant to state law, the Schedule of Capital Improvements may be adjusted by ordinance and not deemed to be an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan when the amendment relates to corrections, updates, or modifications concerning costs, revenue sources, acceptance of facilities pursuant to dedications which are consistent with the Comprehensive Plan, or the date of construction of any facility except transportation facilities enumerated in the Schedule of Capital Improvements. For transportation facilities, a delay in construction of a facility which causes the No Change