What is a Transportation Concurrency Management Area (TCMA) and what is a Transportation Concurrency Exception Area (TCEA)?
Transportation Concurrency Management Areas (TCMA) and Transportation Concurrency Exception Areas (TCEA) are alternative concurrency management systems authorized by Florida Statutes to regulate increased traffic volume created by new development while also promoting affordable housing and redevelopment programs as well as development policies designed to control urban sprawl. These systems are used to manage growth-related impacts to transportation facilities on an area-wide basis rather than on a link-by-link basis. A TCMA comprises a compact geographic area with existing or proposed multiple, viable alternative travel paths for common trips. It supports the provision of more efficient mobility alternatives, including public transit, and features an area-wide level of service standard as the basis for the approval of final local development orders. There are two TCMAs, the Northwest TCMA and the East-Central TCMA . To maintain concurrency, each TCMA shall maintain 85% of its north-so
