City of Coconut Creek - File #: ORD 2024-002

• File #: ORD 2024-002
• Name: Public School Concurrency Land Development Code 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 CITY'S CODE OF ORDINANCES, BY AMENDING CHAPTER 13, "LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE," ARTICLE II, "SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS," DIVISION 1, "GENERALLY," TO AMEND SECTION 13-147, "PUBLIC SCHOOL CONCURRENCY," IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITY PLANNING OF BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA AND THE CITY'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. (FIRST READING)
• Indexes: Amendment, Chapter 13, Land Development Code, Ordinance, Public School Facility Planning
• Code sections: Chapter 13 - Land Development Code
• Related files: RES 2017-325, ORD 2024-001, ORD 2024-002-2

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

AGENDA ITEM REPORT
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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CITY'S CODE OF ORDINANCES, BY AMENDING CHAPTER 13, "LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE," ARTICLE II, "SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS," DIVISION 1, "GENERALLY," TO AMEND SECTION 13-147, "PUBLIC SCHOOL CONCURRENCY," IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITY PLANNING OF BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA AND THE CITY'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. (FIRST READING)

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BACKGROUND:
The City of Coconut Creek must amend Section 13-147, "Public school concurrency," of the City's Land Development Code to reflect changes made in the Third Amended and Restated Interlocal Agreement (TRILA) for Public School Facility Planning and to maintain consistency with the associated Comprehensive Plan amendments.
Broward County municipalities, including the City of Coconut Creek, and the School Board of Broward County (School Board) are governed by an Interlocal Agreement (ILA) establishing a public school concurrency program for joint comprehensive land use and school facilities planning. 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. Residential develop...