EXPLANATION OF REQUEST: This item is the 2015/2016 annual update of the Five-Year Capital Improvements Schedule, a component of the City's Comprehensive Plan's Capital Improvements Element. The schedule is reviewed annually by the City to reflect the timing, location and funding of capital projects to achieve and maintain, over the five-year period, the adopted level of service standards for public facilities that are necessary to implement the comprehensive plan.
The update has been prepared in compliance with Chapter 163.3177, Florida Statutes, which requires that the Capital Improvement Schedule be approved by ordinance. (Note that the budget for the fiscal year 2015/2016, including capital outlays for the subject period, was adopted by the City Commission on September 15, 2015, by Resolution R15-110.)
With the 2011 legislative changes, local government are no longer required to submit the annual update of the Five-Year Capital Improvements Schedule to the state land planning agency (now the Department of Economic Opportunity) for review. Prior to 2011, the update had to be transmitted as a comprehensive plan text amendment to the former state land planning agency, Department of Community Affairs.
Other amendments to the Capital Improvements Element outside of the five-year schedule, such as policy changes, level of service standard changes, etc., are still subject to the state review.
The update comprises the five-year improvements plan of the Palm Beach County School District as required by the state. Local governments must also add transportation improvements included in the applicable metropolitan planning organization's transportation improvements program to the extent that such improvements are relied upon to ensure concurrency and financial feasibility. In compliance with this requirement, the update contains the I-95/ Woolbright Road Interchange Project.