§ 59.207. Roadway Level of Service; Exceptions and Mitigation.

(a)

The City of Orlando qualifies as a Transportation Concurrency Exception Area (TCEA), pursuant to Section 163.3180, F.S. and Rule 9J-5.0055, F.A.C., as amended. The boundaries of the TCEA shall be the corporate limits of the City of Orlando, Florida, at any given time.

(b)

Developments located within the TCEA shall be deemed to meet state requirements to achieve and maintain level-of-service standards for transportation. The City's transportation concurrency requirements shall not apply to developments located within the TCEA, except for such developments approved prior to the effective date of this ordinance, including Developments of Regional Impact as described in subsection (c) below. Developments approved by the City prior to the effective date of this ordinance remain subject to those transportation conditions established by said approvals, including, though not exclusively, the terms of applicable development orders/agreements. The City's transportation concurrency requirements shall not apply to the expansion of a development approved by the City prior to the effective date of this ordinance except as otherwise provided in said development approvals and applicable development orders/agreements.

(c)

Developments of Regional Impact located within the City shall mitigate transportation impacts consistent with their terms, applicable sections of the Florida Statutes and applicable development orders/agreements. As approved by the City, mitigation may include a combination of roadway, transit, bicycle and pedestrian improvements, as well as traffic calming and transportation demand management measures. The City's transportation concurrency requirements shall not apply to the expansion of a Development of Regional Impact approved by the City prior to the effective date of this ordinance except as otherwise provided in said Development of Regional Impact, applicable sections of the Florida Statutes and applicable development orders/agreements.

Roadways Level of Service Standards. Where an assessment of the actual level of service is required by the City for traffic impact analysis of a new development, or development under a Development Order/Agreement or a DRI, the default Level of Service (LOS) Standard for roadways should be as follows: 1) LOS Standard "E", or 2) If the roadway is operating at LOS "F" at the time of such assessment, it should not be significantly degraded by the traffic generated from the new development. Significant degradation occurs when the increase in vehicles per hour per lane (vphpl) exceeds the following percentages:

Limited Access Facilities

•	4 Lanes	29%
•	6 Lanes	18%

 

Arterials and Collectors

•	2 Lanes Undivided	56%
•	4 Lanes Undivided	34%
•	4 Lanes Divided	25%
•	6 Lanes Divided	17%

 

One-Way Roads

•	2 Lanes	25%
•	3 Lanes	17%
•	4 Lanes	15%

 

Constrained Facilities

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4 or 6 lanes

10%

 

(Ord. of 9-16-1991, Doc. #25096; Ord. of 11-16-1992, Doc. #26149; Ord. No. 2013-24, § 1, 5-6-2013, Doc. #1305061204)