Fla. Admin. Code Ann. R. 41-2.009 - Designated Official Planning Agency

(1) Metropolitan Planning Organizations shall serve as the designated official planning agency in urbanized areas. In areas not covered by a Metropolitan Planning Organization, agencies eligible for selection as Designated Official Planning Agencies include County or City governments, Regional Planning Councils, Metropolitan Planning Organizations from other areas, or Local Planning Organizations who are currently performing planning activities in designated service areas. Eligibility for continued designation by the Commission will be conditioned on the agency's resources, capabilities and actual performance in implementing the responsibilities and requirements of Chapter 427, F.S.

(2) Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Designated Official Planning Agencies shall include a Transportation Disadvantaged element in their Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). Such element shall include a project and program description, the planned costs and anticipated revenues for the services, identification of the year the project or services are to be undertaken and implemented, and assurances that there has been coordination with local public transit and local government comprehensive planning bodies, including input into the mass transit or other elements of local and regional comprehensive planning activities. Areas not required to develop a federally-required TIP shall report equivalent information in the Transportation Disadvantaged Service Plan.

(3) Each Designated Official Planning Agency shall provide each Coordinating Board with sufficient staff support and resources to enable the Coordinating Board to fulfill its responsibilities. In areas where a Metropolitan Planning Organization or Designated Official Planning Agency serves as the Community Transportation Coordinator and desires to utilize the same staff for the Coordinating Board, such agency shall abstain from any official actions that represent a conflict of interest, specifically in the evaluation process of the Community Transportation Coordinator.

(4) In consultation with the Community Transportation Coordinator and Coordinating Board, each Metropolitan Planning Organization or Designated Official Planning Agency shall develop and annually update, a Transportation Disadvantaged Service Plan. The Transportation Disadvantaged Service Plan shall be developed in a manner which assures that local planning agencies, responsible for preparing comprehensive plans, have the opportunity to review and comment on it, and shall not be inconsistent with applicable local government comprehensive plans, MPO long range comprehensive plans, transit development plans, and other local, regional, and state transportation plans. The Transportation Disadvantaged Service Plan shall be reviewed for final disposition by the Coordinating Board and the Commission.

(5) Consolidate the annual budget estimates of local and directly funded federal government transportation disadvantaged funds and forward to the Commission no later than the beginning of each state fiscal year.

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Fla. Admin. Code Ann. R. 41-2.009

Rulemaking Authority 427.013(9) FS. Law Implemented 427.013(21), 427.015 FS.

New 5-2-90, Amended 6-17-92, 1-4-94, 3-10-98.

New 5-2-90, Amended 6-17-92, 1-4-94, 3-10-98.