For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APPLICANT. Person who applies to the city for a Development Order.
AVAILABLE CAPACITY. Capacity which can be encumbered or reserved by or committed to future users of a public facility or service.
CAPACITY. The ability or availability of a public service or facility to accommodate users, expressed in an appropriate unit of measure, such as gallons per day or peak hour traffic volumes.
CERTIFICATE OF CAPACITY. The document issued by the city indicating the quantity of public facilities that are available and reserved for the property described in the certificate, including any limits on uses, densities, and intensities of the approved development of the property, and containing an expiration date.
CONCURRENCY. The presence of adequate public facilities that meet the adopted level of service standard or will be available either no later than the impact of development, or within one year of the impact of development depending on the type of facility.
CONCURRENCY TEST. A comparison of the development's impact on public facilities to the capacity of public facilities that are, or will be, available no later than the impacts of development, or within one year of the impact of development, depending on the type of facility.
DEVELOPMENT. See F.S. Ch. 380.04.
DEVELOPMENT ORDER. Any order, permit or other official action of the city granting, or granting with conditions an application for development.
DEVELOPMENT PERMITS. Single family and duplex residences, new non-residential/multi-family (greater than duplexes), all other new construction, all commercial interiors, site work-infrastructure permit, demolition/house moving, foundation, additions (commercial, multi-family and all other non-residential), and any other permits designated by the city from time to time as development permits.
ENCUMBERED CAPACITY. Capacity for a project which is "set aside" for a limited amount of time (while the project is under review or connected to the time-frame underlying a preliminary development order).
FINAL DEVELOPMENT ORDER.
(A) Development of regional impact (DRI);
(B) All development permits except those exempted permits;
(C) Site plan; and
(D) Final subdivision plan and plat.
IMPACT OF DEVELOPMENT. For purposes of concurrency, the impact of development shall be determined to occur at the time the building permit is issued.
LEVEL OF SERVICE STANDARD. The number of units of capacity per unit of demand adopted by the city in the Comprehensive Plan.
MINIMAL IMPACT. A change in a use or development up to 1,000 square foot building expansion and that generates fewer than 20 additional trips per day. A minimal designation runs with the land for each parcel for which it is granted. A subsequent revision of such a parcel does not entitle subdivided lots to minimal exemptions in excess of the total exemption granted to the original parcel.
MONTH. For the purposes of this chapter, one month is determined to be 30.417 days.
NON-CONCURRENCY AFFIDAVIT. A document signed by an applicant which defers the application for a certificate of capacity, and the concurrency test, acknowledges that future rights to develop the property are subject to the deferred concurrency test, and acknowledges that no vested rights have been granted by the City or acquired by the applicant without such a test.
PUBLIC FACILITIES. Roads, potable water, sanitary sewer, solid waste, drainage, public parks.
RESERVED CAPACITY. Capacity which is removed from the "available capacity" list and is allocated to a particular project or parcel of land.
VESTED. Having the right to develop or continue development notwithstanding the Comprehensive Plan.
(Ord. 633, passed 2-18-93)