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How do we provide for the public facilities needed to support our everyday lives?
In addition to the buildings in which we live and work, there is a need for essential public facilities that meet community wide needs through capital improvements.
Capital Improvements Element
Transportation Mobility Element
Potable Water & Sanitary Sewer
Public School Facilities
Recreation
Solid Waste
Stormwater
Public School Facilities
- Public Elementary School Zones
- Public Middle School Zones
- Public High School Zones
- Public Elementary School Concurrency Service Area
- Public Middle School Concurrency Service Area
- Public High School Concurrency Service Area
Transportation Mobility
- Air Facilities Locator Map
- Bicycle and Pedestrian Corridors
- City of Gainesville RTS Routes
- Express Transit Corridors
- Flying Ten Airport
- Future Highway Functional Classifications (2015)
- Future Number of Traffic Lanes (2015)
- Future Highway Functional Classifications (2030)
- Future Number of Traffic Lanes (2030)
- Future Transportation Corridor
- Gainesville Regional Airport - Clear Zones
- Gainesville Regional Airport - Ingress/Egress
- Gainesville Regional Airport - Existing Land Uses Within LDN Contour Lines
- Major Trip Generators and Attractors
- Projected Peak Hour Level of Service
- Proposed SW 20th Ave Area Transportation Modifications
- Rapid Transit Corridors
- Significant Bicycle Ways and Trails (Countywide)
- Significant Bicycle Ways and Trails (Gainesville)
- Transportation Mobility Districts
The New County Courthouse is an example of a capital improvement.
What is Level of Service?
Level of Service is a measure of the infrastructure capacity available to support future growth. All new development is required to meet Level of Service standards set forth in the Comprehensive Plan. This ensures that our infrastructure (including parks, roads, stormwater, potable water, etc) can support the additional use by the new development.
"All wastewater treatment and disposal systems shall meet or exceed applicable
federal, state, regional, water management districts, and local treatment requirements.”"
-Potable Water and
Sanitary Sewer Element
Policy 5.1
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County owned
Poe Springs Park
"County parks shall provide safe access for children, the elderly, and individuals with physical limitations in accordance with the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities
Act.”
-Recreation Element
Policy 1.3.3
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"Alachua County will ensure the protection of natural drainage
features, including surface water quality and groundwater aquifer quality and quantity recharge functions, from stormwater runoff.”
-Stormwater Management Element Objective 5
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Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is a high-capacity bus service that travels on exclusive lanes along designated routes. The system will be developed in conjunction with Transit Oriented developments and as density increases within the Urban Cluster.
Capital Improvements Element
This Element sets a policy framework for meeting the public facility needs of the community. This includes priorities for funding investments in physical assets, such as transportation facilities, parks and solid waste disposal facilities. The element sets “level of service” standards for such facilities to be maintained through projects included in the Capital Improvements Program, which is updated annually.
Transportation Mobility Element
This Element identifies ways to maintain efficient roadways, as well as opportunities to take the bus, ride a bike, or walk. This includes
plans for ‘bus rapid transit’ corridors (dedicated bus lanes with limited stops) in the urban core as well as park and ride opportunities from outlying areas in to major employment and
shopping areas to give people safe, efficient and convenient alternatives to always taking their personal vehicles.
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Potable Water & Sanitary Sewer Element
This Element ensures a safe, clean supply of drinking water and the sanitary disposal of wastewater by setting standards for facilities providing these services. In order to make efficient use of centralized municipal water and sewer facilities line and plant capacity, policies require that new development in the urban cluster connect to those facilities, and to control sprawl, policies limit extensions of water and sewer lines beyond the Urban Cluster.
Public School Facilities Element
The purpose of this required element is to set the framework for implementation of a uniform, district-wide public school concurrency system addressing the requirement that public school facilities needed to serve residential development be in place prior to or concurrent with the impacts of the development.
Recreation Element
This Element provides for both Activity based facilities, which include ball fields, playgrounds, public pools; and Resource based facilities, which include natural resource areas, such as hiking and biking trails, horse trails and boat ramps. The County partners with the municipalities to provide activitybased recreation programs. Resource based facilities are provided for by Alachua County Forever lands and County owned Poe Springs park, as shown on the right.
Solid Waste Element
This Element addresses how household garbage, hazardous waste, and recyclable items are disposed of, and promotes the recycling of solid waste and the overall reduction of the solid waste stream.
Stormwater Element
This Element sets standards for stormwater management systems in order to prevent flooding and treat runoff from development by filtering the pollutants to protect surface waters and groundwater.
