City of Coconut Creek - File #: ORD 2024-001

• File #: ORD 2024-001
• Name: Public School Concurrency Comp Plan Amendment (First Reading)
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed on First Reading
• File created: 8/15/2023
• In control: City Commission
• On agenda: 1/11/2024
• Title: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITIES ELEMENT OF THE CITY OF COCONUT CREEK COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO UPDATE SCHOOL CONCURRENCY STANDARDS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITY PLANNING OF BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA. (FIRST READING)(FIRST PUBLIC HEARING)
• Indexes: Amendment, Comprehensive Plan, Ordinance, Public Hearing, Public School Facility Planning
• Related files: ORD 2024-002, ORD 2024-001-2

Date	Action By	Action	Result
1/11/2024	City Commission

AGENDA ITEM REPORT
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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITIES ELEMENT OF THE CITY OF COCONUT CREEK COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO UPDATE SCHOOL CONCURRENCY STANDARDS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITY PLANNING OF BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA. (FIRST READING)(FIRST PUBLIC HEARING)

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BACKGROUND:
An Interlocal Agreement (ILA) establishing a public school concurrency program for joint comprehensive land use and school facilities planning governs Broward County municipalities, including the City of Coconut Creek, and the School Board of Broward County (School Board). Public School Concurrency is a growth management tool to ensure that public school facilities are available to serve new residential development by the time that new residential development starts to place demand on infrastructure.
In 2010, the School Board and the City amended the agreement to include a major update to the public school concurrency program, which required the City to amend its Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Code at that time. The most significant change was to the Level of Service (LOS) standard: changing it from 110% of permanent capacity (brick and mortar only) of each school to 100% of gross capacity (brick and mortar plus portables) until the end of the 2018/19 school year.
Anticipating the expiration of the 2018/19 LOS standard, the School Board and a sufficient majority of municipalities, including the City of Coconut Creek, approved a new LOS standard (as discussed below) through the Third Amended and Restated Interlocal Agreement (TRILA) for Public School Facility Planning, which the City Commission approved on December 14, 2017, via Resolution No. 2017-325. Residential development in the City has been reviewed under the new standard adopted in the TRILA since its approval in 2017. However, amendments to the City's Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Code are required for consistency with th...