Okaloosa County BOCC — August 16, 2016 — Access EC Rider TDP - August Draft Report — reading text

20 15 15 15 beyond the requirements of this LDC Provision of annual transit passes to 50% or more of building occupants 25 20 20 20 beyond the requirements of this LDC Mix of uses within one building AND NA 20 20 NA Mix of uses within one building provides retail and/or office on ground floor NA 10 10 NA AND offices and/or residential units on upper floor(s) Source: Fort Walton Beach Land Development Code: Development Standards City of Valparaiso Comprehensive Plan and Code of Ordinances Like the City of Crestview, the City of Valparaiso does not have goals, objectives, or policies relating to mass transit, as there is no mass transit system within the city, nor is one planned during the planning period. The Transportation Element of the comprehensive plan outlines the City’s objectives in maintaining consistency with the Future Land Use Map and the Future Traffic Circulation Maps. The plan highlights its supporting role in the participation in the county’s Five-Year Transit Development Plan, “especially in the numerical indicators against which the achievement of the mobility goals of the community can be measured.” The City also establishes participatory role in the development of the MPO 2020 plan “as they address establishment of transportation demand management programs to modify peak hour travel demand and reduce the number of vehicle miles traveled per capita within the community and region.” City of Valparaiso Land Development Code The LDC does not contain provisions for transit. The municipality uses a traditional roadway concurrency method established in FDOT’s Florida Highway Systems Plan Level-of-Service Standards and Guidelines ACCESS EC RIDER | Okaloosa County’s 10-Year Transit Development Plan E-15 Appendix E: Plans and Studies Review Manual. Where capacity is shown to be deficient, developers may use the following methods to maintain adopted levels of service:  The developer may agree to provide necessary capacity improvements to maintain levels of service. In such case, the planned activity must be modified to guarantee no degradation of existing capacity in accordance with subsection (2) of this section.  The planned activity may be reduced in scope so that demand does not exceed capacity.  The developer may petition the City to provide required infrastructure to maintain LOS using the processes outlined in Chapter 90 for such a request. This is to provide only an option for consideration by the planning and advisory board and city commission. Such a request, which must be financed from the general fund, can be granted only under the following conditions: o Planned activity will result in multiple benefits for the community whether economic, cultural, recreational, or social. o If such an expenditure is authorized, the resulting capacity improvement must be available to any other developer who may have been previously denied a development order for an identical capacity deficiency City of Destin Comprehensive Plan 2020 and Land Development Code As the first city in the state to adopt an MMTD, the City of Destin is a leader when it comes to promoting transit. The majority of the city is within the Old Destin MMTD or the Crystal Beach MMTD, as illustrated in Figure E-3. Figure E-3: City of Destin Multimodal Transportation Districts ACCESS EC RIDER | Okaloosa County’s 10-Year Transit Development Plan E-16 Appendix E: Plans and Studies Review The Comprehensive Plan extensively outline policies to promote higher densities, walkability, transit and redevelopment. For example, the Future Land Use Element has designated the special planning areas to enhance the Multimodal Transportation Districts with high density and intensity development thresholds that are transit supportive: Calhoun, Harbor CRA, North and South Harbor, East Harbor, Holiday Isle, Town Center CRA, Gulf Resort, Bay Resort, and Crystal Beach. The Future Land Use Element includes the framework for its incentive program for height, intensity, and density bonuses. The incentive program works in a three tiered system of regulatory measures to promote public-private partnerships and the comprehensive plan objectives for quality developments, particularly for major activity centers contributing to potential transit ridership. Tier 3 allows the highest building height and density thresholds for developments that provide a “public benefit”. Specific examples of "public benefit" promoted by the Tier 3 thresholds include “Creating and/or Reinforcing a Pedestrian Friendly Transit System.” The program establishes design standards for buildings, entryways, ground floor elevations, off-street parking locations, pedestrian walkways and linkages, bikeways, and street furniture that explicitly promote walking, bicycling, and transit. Like most municipalities, the City of Destin adopted LOS standards for its roadways, but has also adopted current and future LOS standards for bicycle, pedestrians, and transit within their MMTD boundary. The City plans to increase its transit LOS from a level E to C in 2020 in the MMTD, as listed in the Table E-5. The adopted LOS for transit in the Harbor Boulevard/US Highway 98 East/Emerald Coast Parkway is also set to increase from LOS C to B in 2020, as shown in Table E-6. The City also uses multimodal performance measures to evaluate the progress towards implementing the goals of the MMTD, including transit ridership on all transit services within the city, LOS as applied through ARTPLAN multimodal LOS analysis, and connectivity of transit based on the proportion of major activity centers served by fixed-route bus service. Table E-5: Adopted Multimodal Level of Service Standards for Collector Roads Year of Adoption Bicycle LOS Pedestrian LOS Transit LOS 2006 C E F 2011 B C E 2020 B B C Source: Destin Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Element, Objective 2-1.2 Table E-6: Adopted Multimodal Level of Service Standards for Harbor Boulevard/US Highway 98 East/Emerald Coast Parkway Year of Adoption Bicycle LOS Pedestrian LOS Transit LOS 2006 E F E 2011 D D C 2020 C D B Source: Destin Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Element, Objective 2-1.2 ACCESS EC RIDER | Okaloosa County’s 10-Year Transit Development Plan E-17 Appendix E: Plans and Studies Review The Transportation Element requires developers to improve the roadway and provide transit stops as a way to support redevelopment objectives. Other objectives that promote and enhance transit performance include:  Reducing of automobile mobility and vehicle miles traveled per person in the MMTD.  Improving pedestrian and transit networks, increasing investments in sidewalks, cycling facilities and transit service.  Coordinating with Okaloosa County to increase transit service, and development of the TDP.  Continuing to dedicate or provide right-of-way or the provision of access to transit facilities.  Potentially providing financial contributions towards the costs of expanding transit service coverage.  Encouraging the implementation of private shuttle services as a component of planned development.  Working with the School Board to find opportunities to collaborate on transit and bus routes for citizens and students, including providing bus stops near proposed school sites during the final approval process.  Encouraging affordable housing, housing for special groups, and higher-density residential development along or near arterial and collector roads where future transit systems can more efficiently provide service.  Identifying where and when visitors, workers, and residents are more likely to use transit services. Destin’s Future Land Use map, illustrated in Figure E-4, shows the different zones. The pink areas represent mixed use and are located primarily along major arterials and along the beach. The area surround Holiday Isle is zoned for high-density residential. Figure E-5 shows the existing and planned transit services in the city. The purple route would parallel the existing service to the south of it. Figure E-6 shows an example of Destin Transit Stop Locations from the City’s Comprehensive Plan. ACCESS EC RIDER | Okaloosa County’s 10-Year Transit Development Plan E-18 Appendix E: Plans and Studies Review Figure E-4: City of Destin, Future Land Use Map Source: City of Destin Comprehensive Plan ACCESS EC RIDER | Okaloosa County’s 10-Year Transit Development Plan E-19 Appendix E: Plans and Studies Review Figure E-5: City of Destin, Existing and Proposed Transit Service Source: City of Destin Comprehensive Plan ACCESS EC RIDER | Okaloosa County’s 10-Year Transit Development Plan E-20 Appendix E: Plans and Studies Review Figure E-6: Example of City of Destin Transit Stop Locations from Comprehensive Plan Source: City of Destin Comprehensive Plan ACCESS EC RIDER | Okaloosa County’s 10-Year Transit Development Plan E-21 Appendix E: Plans and Studies Review City of Destin Land Development Regulations The City adopted MMTD design standards for the pedestrian network and the transit network. The transit design standards include:  Future transit stop locations.  Providing a sidewalk connection for all developments located within one-quarter-mile radius of an existing or proposed transit stop.  Requirements for a public ingress and egress easement for sites that have been identified as a transit stop.  Transit stop amenities.  Transit stop design that are one of three types: 1) curbside stops; 2) bus bay stops; and 3) queue jumper bus bay stops.  Minimum waiting area dimensions. Open space incentive program rules are specified in the LDC. Developments within the North Harbor, South Harbor, and Town Center Mixed Use districts, using the previously-mentioned Tiered Land Use System, can reduce their open space requirements from 25% to not less than 12% if they provide amenities such as a pedestrian information kiosk in conjunction with a mass transit pull off. Also, the total area provided for a transit stop will be given 100% credit for areas