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accommodate the demands of new development. Previously, state law required that a roadway improvement necessary to serve a development project either be in place or be under construction prior to issuance of a development order (e.g. building permit) for a project needing that improvement. Besides those transportation concurrency provisions, state law also allowed issuance of a development permit for a project, where roadways impacted by the project would not maintain adequate service levels, as long as the needed roadway improvements were guaranteed by an enforceable developer's agreement or an executed contract to be under construction within one year of development order approval, or were included within the first three years of the local government's or FDOT's five year capital improvements program with the condition that minimum level of service standards for the roadways be maintained. As amended, the state concurrency law now allows local governments to approve development projects where existing roads are inadequate to accommodate additional development, but where necessary roadway improvements will be under construction within three years of issuance of a certificate of occupancy for the development project. The major difference between the previous state law and current law is this: under the previous law, a local government could approve a development project even if adequate roads to serve the project were not in place if the local government had requirements to ensure that adequate roads would be in place when the project's impacts occurred. Under present state law, a local government may approve a development project, where adequate roads to serve the project do not exist, even if the needed roadways will not be under construction until three years after issuance of the development project's certificate of occupancy --with no requirement to maintain minimum acceptable levels of service. To take advantage of the more flexible state concurrency law the Board of County Commissioners, in 1996, amended the concurrency management plan component of the capital improvements element of the comprehensive plan. Those amendments involved modifying the timeframe allowed for commencing construction of a needed roadway facility. The adopted plan amendment changed that timeframe from one year after development order approval (building permit issuance) to two years after issuance of a certificate of occupancy for the project. Also modified was the county's capital improvements plan which now lists committed commencement and completion dates for certain critical roadway projects. The proposed land development regulation amendment would update Chapter 910, Concurrency Management System, to reflect the 1996 plan amendment. *Proposed Concurrency LDR Changes The portion of Chapter 910 being modified parallels the plan amendment. The Chapter 910 change would allow for approval of a development project where adequate capacity to accommodate the project does not currently exist with the requirement that "delayed construction" of certain capacity improvements occur under the following conditions: 23 June 10, 1997 6001K 1 1 PAGE711