Fort Walton Beach Ordinance — 1757 Public School Facilities Element — reading text

maximization of capacity. Other considerations for amendinc concurrency service areas may include safe access ( includina factors such as the presence of sidewalks. bicvcle paths. turn lanes and sionalization. oeneral walkability). diversity and ceooraphic or man- made constraints to travel. The types of adjustments to school operations that will be considered in the City will be determined by the state standards on maximization of capacity. 4. Student Generation Rates: Consistent with the Interlocal Acreement. the School Board staff. workinc with the City staffs. will develop and apply student ceneration multipliers for residential units bv type and proiected Page 9 of 18 1757  price for schools of each type. considerina past trends in student enrollment in order to project school enrollment. The student aeneration rates shall be determined by the School Board in accordance with professionally acceDted methodolooies. shall be reviewed at least every two years and chanced. as necessary. These chanaes shall be adopted into the County' s Comprehensive Plan. 5. School Capacity and Enrollment: The Department of Education permanent Florida Inventory of School Houses ( FISH) capacity is adopted as the uniform methodoloav to determine the capacity of each school. Relocatables are not considered permanent capacity. School enrollment shall be based on the annual enrollment of each school based on actual counts reported to the Department of Education in October of each year in order to formulate the Capital Outlay Full Time Eauivalent ( COFTE) standards. 6. Concurrency Availability Standard: The City shall amend the concurrency manaaement systems in its land development reculations to reauire that annual monitorina reports provided to their aovernina bodies will cover schools as well as other concurrency facilities. all proposed residential units be reviewed for school concurrency at the time of final subdivision plat or site plan review. The city shall not deny a final subdivision plat or site plan for residential and residential mixed- use development approvals due to a failure to achieve and maintain the adopted level of service for public school capacity where: a. Adeauate school facilities will be in place or under actual construction within three years after the issuance of the final subdivision plat or site plan approval for residential and residential mixed- use development: or. b. Adeauate school facilities are available in an adiacent concurrency service area and the impacts of residential and residential mixed- use development can be shifted to that area: or. c. The developer executes a lea ally bindino development aareement to provide mitication proportionate to the demand for public school facilities to be created by the actual impact of the proposed residential and residential mixed- use development application subject to the final subdivision plat or site plan approval ( or the functional eauivalent)as provided in the Interlocal Aareement. In evaluatina afinal subdivision plat or residential or mixed use residential site plans for concurrency. any relevant proarammed improvements in the current year and years 2 or 3 of the 5- year schedule of imDrovements shall be considered available capacity for the project and factored into the level of service analysis. Any relevant procrammed improvements in years 4 or 5 of the 5- year Page 10 of 18 1757  schedule of improvements shall not be considered available capacity for the project unless fundina for the improvement is assured. throuch School Board fundina. throuah proportionate fair share mitiaation. or some other means. - Relocatable classrooms may provide temporary capacity while funded schools or school expansions are beina constructed. 7. Final Subdivision Plat and Site Plan Approval Standards: In the event that the School Board comments that there is not sufficient capacity in the affected concurrency service area to address the impacts of a proposed residential and residential mixed- use development. the followinc standards shall aPDly. Either 0) the site plan or final subdivision plat must provide capacity enhancement sufficient to meet its impacts throuah fair share mitioation: or ( ii) the site plan or final subdivision plat must be delayed to a date when capacity enhancement and level of service can be assured: or ( iii) a condition of approval of the site plan or final subdivision plat shall be that the project' s development plan and/ or buildino permits shall be delayed to a date when capacity enhancement and level of service can be assured. The amount of mitiaation reauired shall be determined by the Department of Education' s most current cost per student station applicable to Okaloosa County. Policy 1. 3. 5.2: Options for providinc fair share mitication for any approval of additional residential dwellinc units that triccers a failure of level of service for public school capacity shall include the followino: 1. Contribution of. or payment for. acauisition of new or expanded school sites: and/ or 2. Construction or expansion of permanent school facilities: and/ or 3. Explore the creation of a mitication bank servinc the desianated areas based on the construction of a public school facility. Mitioation shall be directed to projects on the School Board' s Work Plan that the School Board acrees will satisfy the demand created by that development approval. and shall be assured bv a leaally bindina development aoreement between the School Board. the County. and the aDPlicant executed prior to the issuance of the final subdivision plat. site plan approval or the functional eauivalent. If the School Board acrees to the mitication. the School Board must commit in the acreement by placinc the improvement required for mitiQation in its Work Plan. This development aQreement shall include the landowner' s commitment to continuinc renewal of the development acreement for reauired mitiaation. until all impacts for public school facilities created by the actual development of the property are miticated. Page 11 of 18 1757  Policy 1.3. 5. 3 -- The amount of mitiaation reauired shall be determined by calculatino the number of student stations for each school type for which there is not sufficient capacity usino the student oeneration rates applicable to a particular type of residential or residential mixed use development and multiplyina bY the DOE costs per student station for each school type applicable to Okaloosa County. as determined bY the School Board. in addition to any land costs for new or expanded school sites. if applicable. OBJECTIVE 1. 3.6 -- FUNDING THE CITY. WITH COOPERATION FROM THE SCHOOL BOARD AND THE DEVELOPER. WILL COLLABORATE TO FIND MEANS TO ENSURE SUFFICIENT CAPACITY WILL EXIST TO ACCOMMODATE RESIDENTIAL OR RESIDENTIAL MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT AT THE TIME OF IMPACT THROUGH PROPORTIONATE FAIR SHARE. DEVELOPER CONTRIBUTIONS. PROJECT PHASING OR DEVELOPER PROVIDED FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS AS A WAY TO REALIZE THE COST OF NEW RESIDENTIAL AND RESIDENTIAL MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT IN REGARDS TO THE ABILITY OF THE SCHOOL BOARD TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE FACILTIES. AS NEEDED. Policy 1. 3. 6. 1 -- Once the School Board has determined how it will meet the anticipated enrollment demand when capacity has been maximized. includino available caDacity or lack thereof in contiauous concurrency service areas. then the City will collaborate with the School Board to determine the necessity to establish alternate fundina sources within next year' s cycle of the Work Proaram and Capital Improvements schedule adoption process. Uniform district-wide concurrency standards by school type must be maintained. This policy shall not be construed to obliaate or reQuire the City to fund the School Board Work Plan. OBJECTIVE 1.3. 7 - MONITORING AND EVALUATION FORT WALTON BEACH WILL STRIVE TO CONTINUALLY MONITOR AND EVALUATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FACILITIES ELEMENT IN ORDER TO ASSURE THE BEST PRACTICES OF THE JOINT PLANNING PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES FOR COORDINATION OF PLANNING AND DECISION- MAKING. Policy 1. 3. 7. 1 - The City and the School Board will coordinate durina updates or amendments to the Okaloosa County' s Comprehensive Plan and updates or amendments for lona- ranae plans for School Board facilities. Existina and Future Conditions Maps Locations of schools and the CSAs are depicted on PSFE Map A. Page 12 of 18 1757 Consistent with Section 163.3177( 12)( a).Florida Statutes. Map PSFE Map B the Public School Facilities element includes future conditions maps showina existina and anticipated schools over the five-year plannina period. No new schools are planned within Fort Walton Beach. Maps for the lona- term plannina period will be included after their upcomina adoption date. anticipated in late 2007. These maps will be aeneral over the lona- term plannina period and will not prescribe a land use on a particular parcel of land. Section 3. Adoption of Amendments to Intergovernmental Coordination Element Directions- The Comprehensive Plan of the City of Fort Walton Beach: 2008, codified as Volume III of the Code of Ordinances of Fort Walton Beach, and originally adopted as Ordinance 1401, is amended to include necessary amendments to the Intergovernmental Coordination Element in compliance with the Public School Facilities Interlocal Agreement adopted as resolution 2007- 03 on March 27, 2007. GOAL G1 -COLLABORATE AND COORDINATE WITH THE OKALOOSA COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD TO ENSURE HIGH QUALITY PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITIES WHICH MEET THE NEEDS OF FORT WALTON BEACH' S EXISTING AND FUTURE POPULATION. OBJECTIVE G1. 1 - SCHOOL INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT THE CITY WILL IMPLEMENT THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT PURSUANT TO FL. STA. 163. 3177 WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD. COUNTY. AND ADJACENT MUNICIPALITIES PROVIDING FOR THE CLOSE COORDINATION AND EVALUATION OF RESIDENTIAL AND RESIDENTIAL MIXED- USE DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS PURSUANT TO THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT AND TO ENSURE THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE CITY ARE FULFILLED. INCLUDING: PARTICIPATION IN STAFF WORKING GROUP MEETINGS. SCHOOL SITE SELECTION COMMITTEES. WRITTEN AGREEMENTS. ANNUAL JOINT WORKSHOPS OF ELECTED OFFICIALS ADDRESSING ISSUES OF MUTUAL CONCERN. COORDINATION OF GROWTH PROJECTIONS AND STUDENT ENROLLMENT. SUPPORTING THE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT.