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Comprehensive Plan Transportation Element <br /> Government Infrastructure Surtax. Approved by County Referendum in November 2002 for a <br /> duration of 15 years , this surtax is levied at a rate of 1 percent and is applicable to all transactions <br /> subject to the state sales tax, with the exception of single transactions in excess of $ 5 ,000, which <br /> are exempt from the tax . <br /> The 2002/03 revenue from this surtax was $ 11 . 7 million. Although a portion of this revenue <br /> source is dedicated to transportation, the County uses most of this revenue for other capital <br /> improvements besides transportation. Transportation improvements in the current five-year <br /> transportation capital improvements program account for approximately 228% of the total <br /> revenue generated by this tax. <br /> • Transportation Impact Fees <br /> Transportation impact fees are county fees imposed on new development to cover the costs of <br /> anticipated roadway capacity improvements. The County' s traffic impact fee ordinance was <br /> enacted in 1986 . The fee is based on a formula related to the projected traffic impacts of <br /> proposed developments. Originally, the county established nine (9) separate impact fee districts. <br /> Each of the nine districts collected a different impact fee for each different type of development. <br /> There is now one county impact fee for each different type of development collected over three <br /> (3) traffic impact fee districts . The revenue must be spent for transportation system capacity <br /> producing improvements in the district from which it was obtained. Total impact fee revenue <br /> collected during FY 200VOA /05 was $3 ,994 ,582 . 39 32,844,618 .21 . <br /> Tables 4 . 8A and 4 . 813 summarize capital and operating revenues for all state and local financing <br /> mechanisms through the planning time horizon of the Comprehensive Plan. Total state and <br /> federal capital revenues through 202-530 are expected to be $201195 million. Total capital <br /> revenues for the county through 202530 are estimated at $24-1-461 million. This includes all <br /> impact fee and gas tax revenue sources for the county. It also includes enhanced revenues <br /> through 2030 in the form of revised impact fees continuation of the 1 -cent sales tax, and, <br /> beginning in 2010 imposition of the second local option gas tax. Operating and maintenance <br /> revenues for the county total an estimated $44251 .7 million through this same time horizon. <br /> ANALYSIS <br /> The transportation element analysis consists of several components . These components include <br /> separate sections for each of the different transportation systems. The first component of the <br /> analysis is the land use/transportation analysis. That component is an assessment of the present <br /> and future land use and transportation relationship. Other components contained in the <br /> transportation element analysis include: the traffic circulation system analysis, the <br /> bicycle/pedestrian system analysis, the aviation and related systems analysis , and the transit <br /> analysis. Much of the analysis of the transportation systems in Indian River County was <br /> performed for the development of the MPO ' s Long Range Transportation Plan approved in <br /> 20892005 . The results from the LRTP are incorporated here in order to ensure consistency <br /> between the LRTP and this Transportation Element of the Comprehensive Plan. <br /> Community Development Department Indian River County 51 <br />