§ 98-2394. Responsibilities of planning and development department.

(a)

The department shall be the agency responsible for coordination of the city's concurrency management program. The following city and Miami-Dade County departments or their successors shall serve as the concurrency review agencies that shall assist the department in implementing this article. Except where otherwise noted, the departments listed shall be those of the city:

(1)

Water and sewers.

(2)

Recreation and community services.

(3)

Fire.

(4)

Miami-Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM).

(5)

Solid waste.

(6)

Streets.

(b)

The department shall regularly monitor the levels of service and available capacity of public facilities and services. The department shall also be responsible for maintaining and furnishing information, upon request, regarding capacities and levels of service of public facilities and services.

(c)

The department may designate geographic areas of the city where certain public facilities and services have sufficient surplus capacity to sustain projected development of specified types for one to five or more years as applicable to the service.

(d)

The methodologies to be used by the department in preparing concurrency proofs and in evaluating applications for development orders for compliance with the concurrency review criteria shall be contained in the land development code and/or the concurrency manual.

(Code 1960, § 32-204; Ord. No. 94-109, § 2, 11-22-1994; Ord. No. 99-71, § 3(32-204), 5-25-1999)