EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

MAYOR AND BOARD OF ALDERMEN

DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING & COMMUnity DEVELOPMENT

Date SUBMITTED:                         Ocotober 9, 2006

DATE OF WORKSHOP SESSION:  october 11, 2006

date of public MEETING:        N/A

 

To:                 MAYOR & Board of ALDERMEN

From:           Chuck Boyd, Deputy Director for Planning

RE:                  Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance (APFO)

 

 

PURPOSE:     This is a continuation of the discussion of the APFO.  At this workshop, staff will discussion some policy issues that need to be resolved in creating the text for the ordinance.

 

HISTORY:  This workshop is a follow up to the 7/19/06, 8/2/06, 8/9/06, 8/23/06, 8/30/06 and 9/20/06 workshops.  These workshops were intended to provide the Mayor & Board of Aldermen background information about two different APFO models.  Listed below is a summation of the previous workshops:

 

At the 7/19/06 workshop, staff presented basic information on what is an APFO, the facilities that can be associated with an APFO and the City’s history with the APFO.

 

At the 8/2/06 workshop, Mayor Jones & Rick Stup presented information concerning Brunswick’s APFO.  This model is based on Frederick County’s APFO.

 

At the 8/9/06 workshop, Jeff Bronow presented information on Howard County’s APFO.  This APFO incorporates an allocation system with sub regions.

 

At the 8/23/06 workshop, staff presented the Mayor & Board of the components of an allocation system including: sub regions, special allocations and development projections.

 

At the 8/30/06 workshop, Ray Barnes from the FCPS presented information on CIP process, School Construction Process and State Rate Capacity.

 

At the 9/20/06 workshop, staff presented information on how an allocation system could work.  Staff presented a detail explanation of how a 600 unit allocation would be distributed over a 4 year period.

 

At the 9/20/06 workshop, county staff presented information on how road component of the APFO works in County.

 

Staff believes that an allocation process would work well for the City of Frederick; the process of an allocation system is not new to the City of Frederick.   The City of Frederick’s Water Allocation Ordinance has been in place since 2002.  An allocation system gives a predictable method of determining the future growth of a municipality. 

 

 

DISCUSSION: 

 

Issues that will need to be addressed by the Mayor & Board of Aldermen:

 

Allocation Component

Exemption to APFO test due to size of development (5 residential lots of less)?

 

Is the purpose of the allocation component of the APFO to allocate all units approved by the Mayor & Board?  Or, if one area of the City is shut down does those units get reallocated to other areas that can handle growth? 

 

Schools

Do we allow for a buyout?

If a CIP project is two years out, does that get counted towards capacity?

Sunset provision for schools?

Testing for each level of school (E, M & HS)?

Does each test need to be only passed once?

 

Roads

Do we allow for a buyout?

If a CIP project is two years out, does that get counted towards capacity?

Impact fees

 

 

 

The following information is provided so that the Mayor & Board can review what will be presented in the annual report.  This information will be critical to determine the allocation and resolution for the following year. 

 

Annual Report to include:

            Available water to allocate

Sewer Capacity for all basins

            Pipeline

                        Residential

                        Non Residential

            History

                        Allocation

                        Permits

            Allocated units on hold and at what stage

            CIP projects

            Schools – schools that are closed

            Roads impact fees

                        Projects added

                        Projects deleted

                        Revised amount

 

 

 

 

Yearly resolution to include:

            Amount of water available

                        Broken down in EDU

                        Water available for non residential

            % of water to be allocated to

                        Residential

                        Non Residential

                        Special Allocation

            Revised road impact fee

 

 

RECOMMENDATION:  Staff has no recommendations at this time. 

 

BACKUP INCLUDED:          None

           

           

REVIEWED BY DEPARTMENT HEAD:    Charles W. Boyd 

 

CONCURRENCE BY:

                                                               Date                                                                       Date

FINANCE                          ________ _______        LEGAL       ________       ________

 

CITIZEN SERVICES                   ________ _______        FPD             ________       ________

 

DEPT. PUBLIC WORKS   ________           _______        PLANNING  ________       ________

 

ENGINEERING                 ________            _______        CIP              ________       ________