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Marion County commissioners debate 'level of service' language, ask legal review
Summary
At a Jan. 9 workshop, Marion County commissioners dug into proposed transportation-element language about level-of-service (LOS) standards and concurrency, asked staff to check Florida statute compliance and directed consultants and counsel to return with clarified policy options and implementation steps.
Marion County commissioners discussed proposed wording for the transportation element of the county's comprehensive plan at a Jan. 9 workshop, focusing on how adopted level-of-service standards would be applied and whether the draft policy properly reflects state concurrency law.
The discussion centered on policy 211, which in part reads: "Adopted LOS standards shall be used as the criteria to measure the available capacity of functionally classified facilities that are part of the traffic circulation system. LOS standards shall not compel or require the county to widen or construct new roadways outside of the urban growth boundary to provide capacity to support new developments or to address the unmitigated impact of development from adjacent municipalities and counties." Commissioners and staff said the sentence mixes two different concepts'DOT functional classifications and the county's urban growth boundary'and could produce unintended consequences if left as written.
Why this matters: LOS and concurrency provisions shape when and whether the county must plan or fund road capacity improvements, and they affect developer mitigation…
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