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37 RURAL BUFFER IMPLEMENTATION MEASURE MEASURES USED BY OTHER JURISDICTIONS Adequate public Facilities Definition It is a means of synchronizing development with the availability of public facilities needed to support it. Developments are not approved unless public facilities are available or programmed for construction. Application Since developments must have access to certain public facilities. the approval of developments is linked to the availability of those facilities. The questions of what facilities must be available, what constitutes availability. and how closely development approval is linked to avail- ability are answered in different ways by different juris- dictions. In Montgomery County. MD, developments will not be approved unless adequate water. sewer. educational. and transportation facilities are available or are programmed for construction. This obviously requires development. adoption, and implementation of various capital improvements programs as a pre-requisite to such a requirement being placed on development approval. The well-known Petaluma. CA growth management program contained a provision linking development approval with the availability of public facilities. In Petaluma. development had to occur where facilities were available. The connection was carried further in that extensions of facilities were contingent on a certain level of utilization of existing facilities. This links the availability of public facilities even more closely to development. Many further modifications are possible. A key element in each is that the development restriction must be related to active efforts to provide the required facilities. Agterencea planning, Zoning. Subdivision irk Montgomery County Maryland . Montgomery County Planning Board. May 1984