TRANSPORTATION CONCURRENCY: FLORIDA'S EXAMPLE

The Florida Local Government Comprehensive Planning and Land Development Act of 1985 called for local communities to develop concurrency-management systems that ensure that public facilities and services, including transportation, whose purpose is to support development, shall be available "concurrent with the impacts of such development." Although most local communities have been implementing concurrency requirements since their comprehensive plans were approved in the early 1990s, little empirical research has been completed to document how the concurrency requirements have been implemented. Florida and Washington are the only states to require local governments to implement transportation concurrency as a form of adequate public-facilities requirements. The effectiveness of such policies for planners in other states and local municipalities throughout the United States is documented. The results of interviews with policymakers and planners in 25 metropolitan planning organizations in Florida are presented. The interviews were conducted on the subject of implementation of concurrency-management areas and transportation concurrency-exception areas. The concurrency-management process is outlined, and benefits and criticisms of the concurrency-management system are discussed in light of interviews, a review of the statutes, and observations of the Transportation and Land Use Study Committee.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.3141/1685-23
• Summary URL:
  • http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=TRANSPORTATION+CONCURRENCY%3a+FLORIDA'S+EXAMPLE&author=R.+Steiner&publication_year=1999
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1685, Transportation Planning, Programming, Public Participation, and Land Use.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Steiner, R L
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 181-186
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1685
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Implementation; Interviewing; Local government; Metropolitan planning organizations; Real estate development; Surveys; Transportation planning
• Geographic Terms: Florida
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Research; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00781445
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309071119
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 5 2000 12:00AM