Is the Promise of Multimodal Transportation Concurrency a Lasting Legacy or a Flash of Green at Sunset?
By Whit Blanton, AICP Florida’s Growth Management framework depends on the alignment of statewide, regional and local goals through development of policies that guide public investment and private development activities. Concurrency – the timing of services and infrastructure commensurate with the impacts of new development – has been the analytical foundation for those policies for nearly three decades. Yet, Florida’s transportation concurrency system is a crazy quilt of methods, procedures, tools and strategies that, in actual application, is often poorly integrated with a vision for local growth, regional priorities or the policies between two or more adjacent local governments. Legislative initiatives like those introduced this year, and last year’s HB 697 requiring local governments to incorporate greenhouse gas reduction strategies into comprehensive plans, further muddles the picture. After 30 years, Florida is still searching for a coherent and strategic approach toward improvi
Related Questions
- What is a Transportation Concurrency Management Area (TCMA) and what is a Transportation Concurrency Exception Area (TCEA)?
- How and when does the county make a transportation concurrency determination for a proposed new development?
- Why do we have a red & a green, different flash lights on two wings of a plane?
