Fort Walton Beach Resolution — 07-03-Interlocal Agreement-School Planning — reading text

interlocal agreement is fully executed. No concurrency service area shall be amended without a showing that the amended concurrency service area boundaries are financially feasible and can be achieved and maintained over the five years of the Capital Facilities Plan. Concurrency service areas shall maximize capacity utilization, taking into account transportation costs, court- approved desegregation plans and other relevant factors. Concurrency service areas shall be designed so that the adopted level of service will be able to be achieved and maintained over the five five year capital facilities plan is financially years of the capital facilities plan, and so that the feasible. Concurrency service area boundaries shall be adopted in the County' s and Municipalities' comprehensive plans. d) The School Board staff, working with the County staff and Municipalities' staffs, will develop and apply student generation multipliers for residential units by type and projected price for schools of each type, considering past trends in student emollment in order to project school Page 12 of 35  enrollment. The student generation rates shall be determined by the School Board in accordance with professionally accepted methodologies, shall be updated at least every two (2) years and shall be adopted into the County' s and Municipalities' comprehensive plans. The school enrollment projections will be included in the tentative district educational facilities plan provided to the County and Municipalities each year as specified in subsection 3. 1 of this amended interlocal agreement. e) The County and Municipalities shall amend the concurrency management systems in their land development regulations to require that all new residential units be reviewed for school concurrency at the time of final plat or site plan ( or functional equivalent), using the coordination processes specified in Section 8 below. The County or any Municipalities may choose to provide an informational assessment of school concurrency at the time of preliminary plat, but the test of concurrency shall be at final plat. The County and Municipalities shall not deny a final plat or site plan ( or functional equivalent) for the failure to achieve and maintain the adopted level of service for public school capacity where: i) adequate school facilities will be in place or under actual construction within three ( 3) years after the issuance of the final plat or site plan ( or functional equivalent); or ii) the developer executes a legally binding commitment to provide mitigation proportionate to the demand for public school facilities to be created by the actual development of the property subj ect to the final plat or site plan ( or functional equivalent) as provided in Section 4. 2( t) below. However, this amended interlocal agreement shall not be construed to limit the authority of any Municipality or the County to deny the final plat or site plan ( or functional equivalent) for reasons Page 13 of 35 other than failure to achieve and maintain the adopted level of service for public school capacity. The County and Municipalities, in consultation with the School Board, shall also amend their concurrency management systems in their land development regulations to address public school facilities, so that the annual monitoring reports provided to their governing bodies shall cover schools as well as the other concurrency facilities. The following residential uses are exempt from school concurrency requirements: a) Single family lots of record for which an application for Development Order has been submitted prior to adoption of this Interlocal Agreement. b) Multi- family residential development for which an application for Development Order has been submitted prior to adoption of this Interlocal Agreement. c) Amendments to residential development approvals issued prior to adoption of this Interlocal Agreement which do not change the number of residential units or change the type of residential units proposed. d) Other uses as provided for in this Interlocal Agreement f) In the event that the School Board comments provided pursuant to Section 8 find that there is not sufficient capacity in the affected concurrency service area to address the impacts of a proposed development, the following steps shall apply. Either ( i) the project must provide capacity enhancement sufficient to meet its impacts through proportionate share mitigation; or (ii) the project 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 Page 14 of 35  final plat ( or functional equivalent) shall be that the project's development plan and/or building permits shall be delayed to a date when capacity enhancement and level of service can be assured. Options for providing proportionate share mitigation for any approval of additional residential dwelling units that triggers a failure of level of service for public school capacity will be specified in the County' s and Municipalities' public school facilities elements. The amount of mitigation required shall be determined by the DOE' s most current cost per student station applicable to Okaloosa County. Options shall include the following: ( i) contribution of or payment for acquisition of new or expanded school sites, ( ii) construction or expansion of permanent school facilities, and ( iii) mitigation banking. Mitigation shall be directed to projects on the School Board' s Five- Year Capital Facilities Plan satisfying the demand created by that development approval, and shall be assured by a legally binding development agreement between the School Board, the relevant local government, and the applicant executed prior to issuance of any building permit for the This project. development agreement shall include the landowner' s commitment to continuing renewal of the development agreement upon its expiration. 4. 3 The School Board, County and Municipalities shall use the processes and information sharing mechanisms outlined in this Agreement to adopt the initial public school capital facilities program and public school facilities elements, and to ensure that the school concurrency system is updated, the School Board' s capital facilities plan remains financially feasible in the future, and any Page 15 of 35  desired modifications are made. Updated public school capital facilities programs will be adopted by reference into the County' s and Municipalities' capital improvement elements no later than December 31 of each year. Section 5. SCHOOL SITE SELECTION. SIGNIFICANT RENOVATIONS. AND POTENTIAL SCHOOL CLOSURES. 5. 1 When the need for a new school is identified in the district educational facilities plan, the School Board will establish a Site Selection Committee for the purpose of reviewing potential sites for new schools and proposals for significant renovation and potential closure of existing schools. In addition to appropriate members ofthe School Board, the Committee will include at least one staff member of the County and a representative from the Municipalities most likely to be impacted by the siting of the new facility. 5. 2 The Site Selection Committee will develop a list of potential sites in the area of need. The list of potential sites for new schools and the list of schools identified in the district educational facilities plan for significant renovation and potential closure will be submitted to the local government with jurisdiction for an informal assessment regarding consistency with the local government comprehensive plan. Based on information gathered during the review, the Committee will submit recommendations to the Superintendent or designee. 5. 3 The following issues will be considered by the Site Selection Committee, the School Board, and the County and Municipalities when evaluating new school sites and significant renovations and potential closure of existing schools: a) The location of schools proximate to urban residential development and contiguous to existing school sites, and which provide logical focal points for community activities and serve Page 16 of 35  as the comerstone for innovative urban design, including opportunities for shared use and collocation with other community facilities; b) The location of elementary schools proximate to and within walking distance of the urban residential neighborhoods served; c) The location of high schools on the periphery of urban residential neighborhoods, with access to major roads; d) Compatibility ofthe school site with present and proj ected uses of adj acent property; e) Whether existing schools can be expanded or renovated to support community redevelopment and revitalization, efficient use of existing infrastructure, and the discouragement of urban sprawl; f)