§ 23-136. Definitions.

The following definitions shall apply to this division:

Building permit means an official document or official certification which authorizes the construction, alteration, enlargement, conversion, reconstruction, remodeling, rehabilitation, erection, demolition, moving or repair of a building or structure. In the case of a change in use or occupancy of an existing building or structure, the term shall specifically include certificates of occupancy and occupancy permits, as those terms are defined by the county land development regulations. The terms "building permit" and "certificate of occupancy permit" also mean those municipal permits which are equivalent to these county permits, regardless of the names by which they are called a municipality. Building permits shall include those permits which allow the installation or location of a mobile home or a recreational vehicle to or on a site or lot.

Capital improvements means transportation planning, preliminary engineering, engineering design studies, land surveys, rights-of-way acquisition, engineering, permitting, and construction of all the necessary features for any road construction project, including, but not limited to:

(1)

Construction of new through lanes;

(2)

Construction of new turn lanes;

(3)

Construction of new bridges;

(4)

Construction of new drainage facilities in conjunction with new roadway construction;

(5)

Purchase and installation of traffic signalization (including both new and upgraded signalization);

(6)

Construction of curbs, medians, sidewalks, bicycle paths and shoulders in conjunction with new roadway construction; and

(7)

Relocating utilities to accommodate new roadway construction.

Certificate of use means a certificate, required by appropriate authority under the provisions of the zoning ordinance, which authorizes the occupancy of a structure or premises and is required prior to the occupancy, change in use and under other specific conditions as outlined in the zoning ordinance.

County administrator means the county administrator and/or the county or municipal officials that he or she may designate to administer the various provisions of this division.

Expansion of the capacity of a road means all road and intersection capacity enhancements and includes, but is not limited to, extensions, widening, intersection improvements, upgrading signalization and improving pavement conditions.

Feepayer means a person commencing a land development activity which generates or attracts traffic and who is applying to the county, or to any participating municipality, for the issuance of a building permit or certificate of use for a type of land development activity specified in section 23-138(a) of this division, regardless of whether the feepayer owns the land which is to be developed.

Land development activity generating traffic means any change in land use or any construction or expansion of buildings or structures or any change in the use of any building or structure that attracts or produces vehicular trips.

Level of service means a qualitative measure that represents the collective factors of speed, travel time, traffic interruption, freedom to maneuver, safety, driving comfort and convenience, and operating costs provided by a highway facility under a particular volume condition, as set forth in the Highway Research Board's Highway Capacity Manual (1998).

Participating municipality means any municipality which enters into an interlocal agreement with the county to collect within the municipality the impact fees imposed by this division.

Road shall have the same meaning as set forth in section 334.03(23), Florida Statutes.

Site-related improvements means capital improvements and right-of-way dedications for direct access improvements to the development in question. Direct access improvements include, but are not limited to, the following:

(1)

Site driveways and roads;

(2)

Median cuts made necessary by those driveways or roads;

(3)

Right turn, left turn, and deceleration or acceleration lanes leading to or from those driveways or roads;

(4)

Traffic control measures for those driveways or roads;

(5)

Access or frontage roads that are not shown as planned county-built and/or publicly owned roads on the county's required access road map, as amended; and

(6)

Roads or intersection improvements whose primary purpose at the time of construction is to provide access to the development.

(Ord. No. 86-29, § 4, 10-28-86; Ord. No. 93-8, § 4, 3-25-93; Ord. No. 96-11, § 4, 7-16-96; Ord. No. 97-13, § 4, 7-7-97; Ord. No. 01-18, § 4, 10-23-01)