let's get going okay not a problem it's fine all right all right good morning everyone um my name is Jonathan Paul I'm the principal of new Urban Concepts and we are going to present today the city of ovo's Mobility plan and Mobility fee and also discuss extraordinary circumstances um today is April 23rd 2024 uh this is a 9:30 a.m. Workshop we also have a workshop this evening at 6:30 p.m. um in the same location in City Hall it's also available streaming uh all this information we present today will be available on the city's website also for viewing uh and then there will be a link to a record uh recorded portion of this presentation with that I'm going to go ahead and commence um we are here today to discuss what's known as extraordinary circumstances this is a requirement adopted by the Florida legislature in 2021 they amended the impact fee act which is Florida statute 163 31801 as part of this act they have limited increases in Impact fees to 50% above the currently adopted rates um there's also another provision in step statute that requires Mobility fees to follow the same process as impact fees their calculations and methodologies are different but in terms of advertisement in terms of phasing and adoption the processes are the same um if there is an increase in an individual rate for a Mobility fee it has to be phased in over two years if it's less than 25% if the increase over the existing rates is between 25% and 50% it needs to be phased in equal increments over a 4-year period um there's one exception if a local government makes a finding of extraordinary circumstances if they develop a technical report for the fee and they also document the findings the date of that study cannot be more than 12 months old from the date of adoption um the dis the technical report we'll be discussing today was prepared as of September 2023 uh that is less than 12 months old from where we are today and also less than 12 months from the summer when it's the projected date for adoption statute requires that there's two public workshops that have to be advertised and held for the community um the first Workshop is this morning at 9:30 a.m. the second is at 6:30 p.m. this evening and Fin finally any vote for extraordinary circumstances will require a super majority or two3 vote of the city council to approve extraordinary circumstances um this workshop and this evening's Workshop have been posted and noticed on the city of oo's website and also on the city's um live stream for news events this public Workshop has also been noticed um per the city's requirements for public workshops in the Orlando Sentinel there is also a documented study that's going to go over everything that we're discussing today it is called the 2045 Mobility plan Mobility fee extraordinary circumstances study D dated April 2024 this is available from the city's planning department upon request it documents to find ings for Extraordinary circumstance it covers the data and Analysis presented today and it is based on the Mobility plan and Mobility fee technical report uh which was developed in September of 2023 also available upon request from the city so just in summary and we'll go over these in more detail in the presentation today these are the findings for the extraordinary circumstances uh for the city of avito to move forward with the adoption of a Mobility plan and a Mobility fee the intent of the mobility fee uh consistent with the city's adopted comprehensive plan is to replace its Transportation impact fee and the County's Mobility fee as well as policies related to Transportation concurrency uh the first finding is that historically since 1990 um the city of Ido has grown faster than the State of Florida in terms of population um I've used the State of Florida as one of the metrics for extraordinary circumstances uh there is no guidance in Florida statute there is no documentation or minimum requirements um but one of the things that I found in many of my communities is the state of Florida is recognized throughout the country as having extraordinary growth and if you've been growing faster than the State of Florida you've had extraordinary growth in your community uh We've also looked at uh in the future a Mobility study area which includes both the city and the surrounding communities or the surrounding areas of the city that may either Annex into the city or that have development that's going to come and travel into the city uh over the next 22 years within that projection out to 2045 the mobility study area population is increasing as fast as the State of Florida um we also looked at the potential for traffic traffic growth within that study area as well and it's also projected to increase faster than the State of Florida um the city as required by Florida statute has a developed a Mobility plan that Mobility plan identifies future uh improvements in the city and the mobility study area to meet the increase in travel demand from New Growth um so that's a the city's current impact fee is what's known as a consumption based fee it's just based on the cost of capacity the mobility fee is actually based on very specific projects um and a very specific methodology and it's a marked difference from the city's current Transportation impact fee and the County's Mobility fee um one of the other factors is that in many members of the public have experienced this there's been a significant increase in inflation this is also impacted the cost of construction of roadways sidewalks bike Lanes there's documentation that's shown that since the covid-19 um pandemic that inflation for construction cost has increased by more than 50% um one of the other findings While most of the mobility fees have increased the mobility fee does include programs um for the city to develop that would provide for a reduced rate for affordable housing for small retail businesses and also mixed use development and finally the the Streamline Mobility fee schedule is based on the most recent and localized data and it does reflect changes in factors um that we use to calculate fees that play into the extraordinary circumstances and each one of these will be detailed in further um as we go through this presentation so the city of Vito's Mobility plan and Mobility fees a is over the next 22 years for how people are going to move both within the city and within the surrounding areas the mobility fee itself is a simple transparent way for new development uh to pay for its impact to the transportation system a Mobility fee just like an impact fee is not a tax on existing development it is only assessed on brand new development that has an impact to the city's transportation system and the mobility fee is different from the the County's current or the city's current fee and that it does promote walking bicycling use of Transit micr Mobility devices such as Scooters or potentially golf carts in the future shared Mobility such as Uber and lft or should the city uh consider a bicycle share program and the Mobility plan also does recognize people are still going to drive their motor vehicles and there is still going to be a new Need for both New Roads roads and the widening of existing roads uh in the future so this Mobility fee covers all modes of transportation not just walking and bicycling these are the detailed steps in the technical report that was prepared by our firm um there's roughly 18 overall steps that go into developing a Mobility plan Mobility fee I'm not going to go through all these but they are detailed and documented in the technical report so the Mobility plan itself um features a number of improvements to on Street facilities such as existing on Street bicycle Lanes uh and also introduces a potentially new concept of a multimodal lane this is something that could accommodate a golf cart uh an autonomous Transit shuttle or even a Transit circulator uh within the city the primary focus in terms of multimodal Transportation people walking bicycling using golf carts using a scooter um for the city's Mobility plan is to provide what are known as off Street facilities these are roadways and improvements that are separated from the roadway travel Lane um such as a a multimodal way or Bicycle Way also known as a protected bicycle lane a sidewalk a shared use path a multi-use trail and then also what we're referring to as a multimodal way this is a off-road facility that would allow for golf carts for bikes for scooters and this is really a primary focus of the plan is most people feel safer bicycling outside of the actual place where vehicles are driving and they do so on off Street facilities so the Mobility plan does include a number of these Pro projects um the Mobility plan itself is really an amalgamation of several different overall plans the first of which is a streets plan and this identifies both streets to be widened in the future new roadways and additional improvements in terms of connectivity um if you've been in the community you realize that portions of um State Road 426 or County Road 419 are currently being widened to four lanes that Improvement would extend Eastward um just to the uh west of Lockwood into the future there's also proposals for extension of slavia Road over to uh State Road 434 in addition there are number of other connectivity improvements uh to roadways such as Franklin Geneva some of these projects are ongoing today some of these projects would occur in the future with new development and each one of these is further detailed in the Mobility plan there's also a multimodal plan which includes the shared use paths trails and bicycle facilities I was mentioning earlier some of these would be brand new facilities um some of these would be replacing existing sidewalks with a shared use path at least 8 fet wide or potentially a trail up to 12 ft wide and they are proposed throughout the City uh with a focus on connecting to the existing Trail Network that already exist within Ido and this is just an example of the Mobility plan um and options for Alexandria Boulevard today it is a four-lane undivided roadway with 5 foot sidewalks in the future or today um in the future the roadway could be narrowed to two lanes with on Street bicycle Lanes um it could also be converted to have a center raised landscape median with both a protected bicycle lane and a shared use path or in the future have a facility that would be adjacent to the roadways for golf carts and bikes um and then a wider uh sidewalk which would be either a shared use path or a trail in the future so the the Mobility plan projects um there's over a hundred of them provide flexibility um as each one of these corridors go through through further design survey um and evaluation of the existing right of way and utilities there's going to need to be some changes or some flexibility in terms of how these projects are handled and this is just one example of that on Alexandria Boulevard um another project that is included in the Mobility plan is to add the potential for an additional shared use pathway along Ido Boulevard from 419 all the way down to Mitchell hammock and these are just some different options that were included in the Mobility plan for how you would add shared use paths to OVO Boulevard um presently today there is a sidewalk along the roadway and bicycles share the travel Lane with motor vehicles in the future if there are shared use paths it would be available to people walking bicycling and potentially if the city elects to do so golf carts as well well um but that's something that will be evaluated further in the future Mobility plan also includes a number of intersection projects at Major roadways throughout the city and each one of these is detailed in the technical report there's also a proposal as new development um specifically commercial and office development along some of the major roads occurs that there's connectivity between those uses whether it be through existing parking lots or opening up existing accessways uh these are not intended to be new roadways but they are intended to promote connectivity between commercial developments along major roads in the city the plan also identifies uh filling in gaps and sidewalks so there would be sidewalks on both streets of a number of the major roadways within the city uh the dark blue line are existing facilities the light blue line are closing in the gaps in the side walk Network and finally there are a number of projects that have been discussed and evaluated um some within the city some within unincorporated areas that could Annex in the future and so the Mobility plan includes a future planning considerations map um each one of these projects has either some requirement to coordinate with another government body or neighborhood impacts that would have to be further discussed with the community workshops held and really the the idea is these are potentially good projects from a pure Mobility standpoint but that's not the only thing that the the city looks at it also looks at environmental impact Neighborhood Impact business impact so each one of these projects is something that the city May evaluate further in the future but these are not adopted projects and not adopted as part of the Mobility plan and the Mobility plan lastly includes several followon projects um for the city to consider terms of a bicycle master plan a sidewalk master plan these get into much more detail the mobility fee itself and Mobility plan are primarily focused on major roadways arterials and collectors um like a a Chapman Road a 434 and no V Boulevard but there are also a number of local streets within the city as well um that have access to schools need sidewalks or bicycle infrastructure so some of the one programs could be additional plans to address those um there's also a need to look at upgrading curb ramps so they're accessible to all members of the community um and then also adopting or considering a vision zero action plan to make the community safer for all users um extraordinary circumstances the first finding uh was looking at the growth in population historically comparing the city of Ido seino County and the State of Florida um Ovito experienced its highest growth um between 1990 and 2000 where population went from roughly 11,000 to 26,000 uh an increase of 131% um moving into 2000 and beyond that that rate slowed somewhat um but the City's population still has gone from 11,000 in 1990 to over 40,000 as of 2020 um um in each of those decades it grew faster than the State of Florida which has been recognized to have extraordinary growth as part of this plan we didn't look at just the city but we also looked at potential areas that could either Annex into the future or where people travel to and from in the surrounding areas on the study area includes all the unincorporated areas down to the Orange County Line it also includes areas up to Florida Avenue and to 419 out to the east uh and includes roughly the the city limits of Winter Springs and the Ovito mall so the analysis um the city's Mobility plan includes projects outside of the city limits it's also going to have an impact from development that occurs either that development annexes into the city in the future or it's approved by the county either way it's going to have an impact on the transportation system and so we looked at what's the growth in that Community um in that Mobility study area over the next 22 years out to 2045 um the growth is expected to be roughly 27% during that time frame Which is higher than the county but it's roughly in line with the state of Florida um and that's still fairly significant growth over the next 20 plus years of over 25% we also looked at projected growth in vehicle miles of travel this is how long um cars stay on the roadway within the study area it's expected to grow by 37% by 2045 on the State of Florida is growing by 29% again that's fairly extraordinary growth and that's one of the reasons that the city needs both a Mobility plan and a fully adopted Mobility fee to help pay for that new growth um the Mobility plan included a number of factors I'm not going to go into each one of these are detailed in the technical report but it does go into an analysis that shows one that there's a need for New Growth um or new Transportation improvements to serve new growth and that that new growth is not paying more than its share of the overall um cost of the Mobility plan projects and each one of these factors is detailed in over 200 Page technical report um one of the biggest factors beyond moving to a improvements based plan and identifying future projects is the significant inflation that's occurred um since the covid-19 pandemic and just between the second quarter of 2020 uh which is really the the start of the pandemic to the second quarter of 2023 which is roughly the time frame when the the study was completed uh inflation increased by over 50% and this has had a significant impact in terms of the city's ability to fund Transportation improvements and while the the rate of inflation has slowed down somewhat um it is still increasing at a faster rate than historically it has been and the final two factors are are part of the mobility fee discussion itself uh again the the study area um a Mobility fee is also an assessment on new development so that assessment is primarily within the city of Ido and then should areas within the City or surrounding um portions of the City Annex in the future the city would then assess its Mobility fee on new development in that area and this is the extent of that assessment area and also the um the study area for the mobility fee there's also another component that's known as a benefit District um the assessment area is where the fees are assessed and collected from new development the benefit district is where they're spent so they're primarily spent within the city of ovido but there are also projects that are outside of City Limits um many of them on County and state roads and the mobility fee is designed to allow the city to make contributions to the state or to the county uh to advance some of those projects identified in the mobility fa in Mobility plan um without this the city could just expend the funny the money within City Limits but because the mobility study area includes this entire area uh We've identified it as expenditures for future projects um this is a technical report that details both the Mobility plan and the mobility fee uh it's 200 pages in length there a lot of detail but everything that we've discussed today and the fee calculations themselves are documented in in this report which is one of the requirements for finding of extraordinary circumstances and one of the findings in one of the needs uh to adopt a plan and a Mobility fee we also looked at an evaluation of where trips start and where trips end within seino County with a primary focus on the mobility study area the area that you see in yellow is the mobility study area the area in green which is the city limits and the area in red is some of the zones uh which extend outside of both of those a portion of that zone in zone 43 is largely conservation in nature uh so there's really not a lot of trips being generated from there but the extent of the Zone goes out to that um that far and what we found um is largely the city of ofo functions as a downtown for Eastern seminal County that means there are a lot of members of the community businesses residents within Eastern seal County that travel to and from the city of Ido um on a daily basis roughly 50% of all trips that start in the city of Vito end in the city of avito meaning they don't leave the city limits they don't go out onto the county Network they don't go down into seal County or or other portions of seal County or Orange County they stay local to the community 18% of the travel is from the city of oito down into Orange County that reates to roughly 67% and then as I mentioned earlier um the city itself functions as a downtown so that area that you see in both the red and or the the Blue Area um 94% of all those trips that occur there stay within this area and go to and from the city of Ido so really the city of Ido is functioning as Eastern seminal counties downtown um in terms of the mobility fee one of the reasons we're going through this whole process is if the fees increase greater than a certain percentage um they're either limited and phased in or there needs to be a finding of extraordinary circumstance uh one of the unique factors of this fee is it is replacing the city's existing Road impact fee and the County's Mobility fee so we had to calculate what the fee would be from the city plus the county is sort of our Baseline to determine what it would increase in the future um the mobility fee is structured to be a even rate for all types of residential uses regardless of whether or not it's a a town home a villa a single family home an apartment they all pay the same rate per square foot so just in terms of what's commonly used as a metric as a th000 square foot of a residential unit the mobility fee would be 27 $2,728 um which is a reduction uh over the the current fee calculation um for single family residential use but when you look at combining the city's impact fee and the uh County's impact fee 40,000 foot dwelling unit this would be a th000 squ foot single family dwelling unit the city and the County's fees both have lower rates for multif family uses so there's not a whole lot of 1,000 square foot single family homes being built but if there was one being built they would pay $3,800 if the city had had a home come in that was 1,000 square ft the mobility fee would be 28% less more realistically within the city of Ido homes are generally 2,000 square ft and above so a 2200t house would pay a combined Mobility fee of $6,000 under the existing City Impact fee and the county Mobility fee that fee would be $4 4,358 that's an increase of roughly 37% um if the city didn't make a finding of extraordinary circumstances that 37% would have to be phased in Over a four-year period um likewise for the um for a 2700t single family home the mobility fee would be $7,500 um under the existing fees today it would be $5,200 and that is an increase of 42% once you get above 3,000 square ft the fee increases by more than 50% um so essentially the the city would be limited uh in terms of the maximum rate it could charge under statute at 50% and then any increase above 25% would have to be phased in Over a four-year period um with inflation averaging roughly 10% plus a year that's a potential for inflation to increase 40% over the four-year phase in Period so really it is is essential for the city to consider adopting rates at their fully calculated value today so that they can actually keep up with inflation as it continues to grow um for Town Homes the mobility fee for500 foot town home would be $4,000 um under the City Impact fee and the county Mobility fee it would be $2,800 that's an increase of 45% um for a th000 squ ft² apartment dwelling unit the city and County's fees today are $2,000 roughly under the mobility fee they would be $2,728 or roughly a 30% increase as you can see each one of the county and um City Impact fee numbers change based on the type of use the city's Mobility fee is the same $2,728 per th000 square ft so it makes it really simple to calculate really easy to understand and also really easy to implement but it does also result in increases that are above uh what those are today and would have to be phased in per statute um the city has included a affordable residential category which is permitted by Florida statute um the city would need to develop criteria and I believe they have some already for affordable residential they need to apply that to uh Mobility fees but the affordable residential rate which the county has today in its Mobility fee but the city does not have in its impact fee it results in actually a 44% reduction um so that's actually one of the few fees that's going down compared to today um the mobility fee for a hotel is projected to increase by 41% and for a um a mobile home residence which the city really doesn't have a whole lot of um it would increase by 97% for Community serving uses such as places of worship Performing Arts venues places of assembly the uh Mobility fees of 45% increase um for long-term care which is assisted facil living facilities or nursing homes it would increase by 24% and for private schools I would increase roughly by 15% public schools and charter schools are exempt from Impact fees and Mobility fees per Florida statute so this would just apply to dayc carees and private education uses um for industrial fees the the increase is not that much um there's a new outdoor commercial recreation think of uh tennis courts or or ball fields that actually charged uh for their use that there is a new category for that um indoor commercial Recreation a trampoline park a gym uh a dance studio is a slight decrease over the existing rates um the office Mobility fee increases by roughly 32% and medical offices increased by 19% so as you see in all these numbers the percentages vary fairly significantly and so some of these would have to be phased in over two-year period some of them would have to be phased over a 4-year period and others would have to be capped at 50% um the city has also developed a program for small retail businesses um which are are more local community-based businesses the city would need to Define criteria for that um there were a number of programs across the state developed uh during the co pandemic to help out small businesses and that's sort of where this concept came from and the city if they want to move forward with this and and aish a program could enact a fee that would be smaller for local based businesses um the retail Mobility fee for for standard retail use um is roughly the same and part of that is because the mobility fee um has changed out or switched out high impact retail uses such as Banks pharmacies restaurants um supermarkets which have a a much greater impact up to the up to 86% above the existing rates um as does convenience retail uh convenience retail and uh supermarkets are both impacted by the it or Institute of Transportation Engineers trip generation manual change so that was a pretty extraordinary difference between the old fees and the new fees today and finally the mobility fee includes a um category for um Quick Service restaurants or fast food restaurants per drive-thru Lane and also Banks um both Banks and fast food restaurants are getting smaller but they're also adding Standalone drive-thru either ATM machines or adding additional drive-thru Lanes um think of a Chick-fil-A with their their two lanes um there are some communities in Florida that are experiencing fast food developments that feature actually Four drive-thru Lanes so this Mobility fee would now assess a fee for that um per drive-thru there's a new fee for car washes which are popping up throughout the community uh there's an increase in Mobility fees for vehicle fueling um part of that is because of the it trip generation rate um the one fee that is a little bit lower is for the service of Motor Vehicles um such as tire repair or quick lube so with that just to to to recap extraordinary circumstances each one of those fees that I've highlighted if they're above 50% they can't be increased more than that um today if the increase in fees is less than 25% it has to be phased in over two years if it's between 25% and 50% has to be phased in over a 4-year period unless there is a finding of extraordinary circumstances um one of those requirements is the need study which is both the technical report and the extraordinary circumstances study um that study cannot be older than 12 months neither of those are there are two public hearings that need to be held and there is a super majority vote of the city council that's required and so just in conclusion the the study that we've um prepared and will be available on the city's website um the city of avido has experienced over the past 30 years growth that is extraordinary um and has exceeded that of the State of Florida um within uh the time frame that we're looking at between 2020 and 2045 the study area population will continue to grow as fast as the State of Florida if not exceed that of Florida um Florida has been found to have extraordinary growth that is an extraordinary circumstance um there's also extraordinary projected growth and vehicle miles of travel within the study area that's greater than the State of Florida um the mobility fee is based on a detailed needs analysis and the need specifically for multimodal projects to accommodate growth in the study area it's documented in the technical report um New Growth is not being charged more than its fair share and this is a big change from the current fee um that just says uh a home generates traffic that traffic needs so many miles a roadway to accommodate it here's their fee under this Mobility plan Mobility fee there are very specific projects aimed directly at new growth in terms of what their share of the cost is so that's a uh quite a big difference and an extraordinary change from how the current fee is calculated and is in keeping with uh current Florida statute um there's been a marked increase in inflation uh since the covid-19 pandemic uh that's increased more than 50% and it's projected to continue to increase um should the city phase in its fees uh those fees would be able to pay for less and less of the future growth and the future need for transportation improvements um the city's Mobility fee does include programs to provide a lower rate for affordable housing for small businesses and for mixed use development within the city and finally there are several land uses that because of changes to the it trip generation that are beyond the control of the city and these are nationally recognized um studies those have resulted in fees that exceed the 50% cap in Florida statute um had the city's prior impact fee or the County's Mobility fee been based on the same trip generation manual those percentages would not have exceeded 50% because they would have been more in line with what those new rates are so that is an extraordinary change from where the current fees are to where the fees are today so our recommendation is that the city council should adopt the mobility fee at the fully calculated rate based on the findings doc dou umented in the extraordinary circumstances study date of April 2024 and the data and Analysis in the 2045 Mobility plan and MOB Mobility fee technical report dated September 2023 both of which were prepared by new Urban Concepts um this will be the the first Workshop there will also be a second Workshop this evening um this presentation has been live streamed uh for members of of the public um it will also is being recorded it will be available for viewing on the city's website um and there'll be contact information for City staff should members of the public have any questions or that you know request the copy of either the technical report or the extraordinary circumstance study um once we've concluded the workshop and we've received feedback from the community we will then move forward with um development an update of the city's um ordinance uh to allow for a Mobility fee and we'll present this to the city council for a first reading um I believe sometime in May and then looking potentially for an adoption hearing sometime in June or July depending on schedules uh this year and with that that concludes my presentation um I don't see any members of the public available here today um at the workshop but if there are members that would like to reach out uh the contact information is available on the city's website this presentation is recorded and available for viewing um and we'd be happy to respond to any questions uh on the screen itself is my contact information information if any members of the public or development Community have any questions on either the mobility fee or the um extraordinary circumstances and with that that concludes my presentation and we thank you for viewing um and we are available afterwards uh to answer any questions thank you very much