§ 5.02.00. Concurrency management system.

A.

Generally. The purpose of this section is to ensure that public facilities and services needed to support development are available concurrent with the impacts of such development as required by the Okeechobee County Comprehensive Plan. All development orders and development permits shall be reviewed prior to issuance in order to ensure that the adopted level of service standards as set forth in Okeechobee County Comprehensive Plan for transportation facilities, potable water, sanitary sewer, solid waste, drainage, parks and recreation, and schools will be maintained.

1.

No impact fees shall be collected prior to issuance of a certificate of concurrency.

2.

A preliminary concurrency determination shall be made at the earliest appropriate stage of the development review process.

3.

A certificate of concurrency shall be issued prior to or concurrent with the approval of final site plan, final subdivision, preliminary plat or the functional equivalent.

4.

Final development orders may be restricted by condition of approval to ensure that public facilities necessary to achieve and maintain the adopted level of service standards are available to support the development.

5.

A certificate of concurrency shall remain valid for the length of time specified in section 5.04.01.

6.

Impacts shall be considered cumulative for applications within the same development that have not received certificates of occupancy.

B.

Application information. Each application for development order approval or development permit approval shall include a statement as to the number of units, the type of land use, the square footage for all nonresidential structures, and specific information required for the different public facilities as detailed in the sections below.

(Ord. No. 2009-04, § 1(Attch. 1), 12-17-09)