ORD-2003-147 - Amend Section IV-B-3 (Streets) to consider requiring bicycle facilities, sidewalks, and common access points concurrent with development projects that abut or adjoin roadways with approved access management plans.

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0 3 -,/ -IJ 7 Craig Benedict said that they put together a study with the Orange Grove Road Access Management System and they created some generic policies that have a universal application. There are ten different concepts that they would like to incorporate into the subdivision regulations and use them as policy considerations. If the County puts together a corridor plan for a specific road in its jurisdiction and it is adopted by the Board, then it would be a mandate. This item gives the opportunity to pursue a Roadway Corridor Master Plan Access Management Plan. In the absence of a Corridor Plan, you have these guidelines to use When the County is reviewing even subdivisions that may be in rural areas. Commissioner Jacobs said that DOT says that it will enforce an Access Management Plan if we adopt one. He asked if this was strictly something that will apply on Orange Grove Road at this point. Craig Benedict said that at this point, it would apply to Orange Grove Road. The specificity now applies to Orange Grove Road because that was an approved plan. The County gives that plan to DOT and DOT and the County both enforce it. Commissioner Jacobs said that the proposed process sounds time and effort intensive. He said that it would be more ideal to develop a set of standards that could be applicable anywhere. He asked how to make this more applicable Countywide in a more expeditious manner without doing an intensive study of every corridor. Craig Benedict said that it is hard to have general standards in a specific project. He agreed that it is very time intensive. There could be an analysis of some specific corridors in the County (i.e., US 70 Bypass or 70 Business). He said that the Board can direct Staff to look at some areas that are important to the County. No public comment. A motion was made by Commissioner Jacobs, seconded by Commissioner Carey to accept the Administration's recommendation to refer the proposed amendment to the Planning Board for a recommendation to be returned to the BOCC no sooner than January 26, 2004. VOTE: UNANIMOUS Craig Benedict said that this is just an update to the final plat sign-offs. This involves such areas as removing registered land surveyor replacing with professional land surveyor, which is the nomenclature that is necessary; requiring additional information about what lots are under common ownership; having some additional disclosure statements about lands that are part of our Biological Inventory; requiring setbacks that are in excess of the minimum requirements to be noted on there so that anybody that purchases the property does not have to do some extensive title search to find out if there was additional conditions put on a subdivision; resolution of approval — it can be noted on the plat; maximum impervious area requirements; environmental health statements; and adding a new certification statement concerning the Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance.