Hillsborough Corridor Planning & Preservation Best Practices

• Anticipate and integrate new designations as technology evolves .

o Consider designating future Smart Corridors to focus investments in technology enhancements in these areas and manage right-of-way needs, using the emerging smart road classification systems. o Integrate FDOT Electric Vehicle (EV) Master Plan locations and possible locations on other County thoroughfares, to support expansion of EV charging stations. The State is developing an innovative funding program to promote such installations (e.g. “Green” Bank, Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) loan). o Montgomery County enacted a new policy and guidelines for permitting EV charging stations on the curb for homes lacking driveway and garage access. Consider developing a policy like this to ensure proper management of the right-of-way for this purpose along major corridors. • Increase network redundancy and designate vulnerable routes for management. o Designate routes vulnerable to flooding and other threats by assigning segments to categories shown in Figure 44 and associate the links with specific adaptation and mitigation strategies requiring additional right-of-way. o Designate priority routes lacking parallel relievers and/or connections to alternative facilities and increase redundancy of the network through strategies to provide alternative routes in the event of an incident or evacuation. • Establish a dedicated funding source for corridor management projects and acquisition of right of way. o Tallahassee - Leon County practices of interest include:  Established Blueprint 2000 Intergovernmental Agency with authority to approve the purchase of real estate for future Blueprint projects, including early acquisition of transportation right of way with sales tax proceeds.  Enacted intergovernmental agreement between Leon County, FDOT and the City of Tallahassee to allow proportionate fair share funds to accumulate in an account earmarked for the completion of major transportation projects, rather than spread throughout the community on smaller projects.  Leon County road impact fees are placed in a Countywide Road Impact Fee Trust Account for use on designated state roads. Money deposited into the trust fund account that is not immediately needed is invested by the county and city, and income derived from those investments go back into the trust fund. o Indian River County engages in ‘opportunity purchases’ for advanced right of way acquisition. When a parcel comes up for sale on a corridor planned for widening, the county may either purchase the whole parcel or a portion of the parcel and sell the residual. Funds for land acquisition come from a combination of traffic impact fees, a six-cent local option gas tax, and a one-cent county-wide sale tax. o Alachua County enacted a concurrency-based multimodal transportation mitigation program that provides funding toward a variety of multimodal improvements on planned corridors within its urban service area (urban cluster).

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