What is “checkbook” concurrency?
The term “concurrency” means that the necessary public facilities and services to maintain the adopted level of service standards are available when the impacts of development occur. Chapter 163, Part II, Florida Statutes and Rule 9J-5, Florida Administrative Code require each local government to adopt, as a component of its comprehensive plan, objectives, policies and standards for the establishment of a concurrency management system. Said system shall include a program that ensures development orders and permits are issued in a manner that will prevent reductions in service levels below the adopted level of service (LOS) standards for the affected facilities. Up until March of 2004, Collier County addressed the above requirement by way of an Annual Update and Inventory Report, which is a comprehensive planning method of annually balancing the capacities of the county’s infrastructure systems against increasing levels of consumption. In 2002, citing rapidly increasing vehicle traffic
