Powhatan: Planning

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Powhatan Planning Funding Challenges An
Overview
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Planning Commission
Every locality shall by resolution or ordinance
create a local planning commission in order to
promote the orderly development of the locality
and its environs. In accomplishing the objectives
of 15.2.-2200 the local planning commissions
shall serve primarily in an advisory capacity to
the governing bodies.
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Major Responsibilities

• Prepare and present a comprehensive plan for the
  development of the county
• Zoning, Subdivision ordinances, and capital
  Improvement Plan (tools that implement the plan)

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Comprehensive Plan

• A long range plan for the development of the
  county
• Current plan was adopted in 1998
• To be reviewed, updated every 5 years
• Since 1998, Rt. 288 opened, Watkins Center
  opened, Transportation Act of 2007

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Capital Improvement Plan

• A five year plan for infrastructure (projects
  costing more than 5K), schools, water and sewer,
  parks and recreation, libraries, fire stations,
  other public buildings, fire trucks, etc.
• Unlike other counties, e.g. Chesterfield and
  Goochland, Powhatan does not include roads in the
  CIP (more on this later-)
• The CIP implements the comprehensive plan

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Affordability Of CIP

• Powhatan uses the services of Davenport and
  Company, LLC to analyze debt affordability and
  debt capacity
• Each year Davenport looks at the proposed CIP
  with the proposed 5 year projects identified by
  county departments and determines what amount
  can be layered in with existing county debt

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Key Debt Policy Ratios

• County uses 2 ratios for determining debt
  capacity Both have to be met
• Debt as a percent of total assessed value and
• Debt as a percent of the expenditure budget
  cant exceed 12 - this is the one that continues
  to limit capacity

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Projected 5 Year Debt Capacity Davenport and
Company

• Equals approximately 21 million
• With restructioning/refinancing of existing debt,
  an additional 5 to 6 million can be added
• Also, no new monies for debt service until 2012
  (2 cents in 2012, half cent in 2013)

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Approved CIP

• Shows approved projects approx. 21
• Total of all projects (funded and unfunded)
  presented to PC approx. 151
• Affordability of CIP is a critical issue for
  Powhatan

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Affordability of CIP(2004 CIP was 18.3 m)
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2010 Proposed CIP

• CIP presented to the Planning Commission shows
  for phase II facilities study
• New joint County and School Admin. Bld.
• New joint County and School Transp. Bld.
• New Public Safety Bld.
• Renovation/selective demolition of existing
  buildings to accommodate various departments

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Facilities Plan

• Three phases
• Phase I to be completed by 2013 37m
• Phase II to be completed by 2016 19.7m
• Phase III to completed by 2019 5m
• Total approx. 62m

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CIP Key Takeaways

• 5 million approved in FY 11 for design and
  pre-construction of joint Admin. Transportation
  buildings.
• No additional dollars shown in FYs 12,13, and 14
  why?
• No dollars are shown for other facilities (study
  is not available to the public
• No dollars are shown for schools in any of the 5
  years of CIP, yet school boards CIP shows 39 m
  for renovation of Jr. high, 2.9 m for buses and
  support vehicles?

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CIP Key Takeaways Cont

• 1.3 million is shown for FY 10 for purchase of
  land for an industrial park on Genito Road ball
  fields? Already have land donated for ball
  fields down the road
• CIP today is unaffordable cant meet current
  needs why are we adding costs?
• How many millions will be spent to bring water
  and sewer to the park from Rt. 60 and improving
  Gentio Road?

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CIP and County Roads

• Roads are not included in the Capital Improvement
  Plan (Other counties Chesterfield, Goochland,
  etc. include roads).
• VDOT has done 2 corridor studies at the countys
  request Route 711 Corridor Study Feb. 2006 and
  Route 60 Corridor Study Feb 2009
• Both roads are extremely important to the county

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Route 711 Study

• Identified over 45 million short term,
  intermediate and long term improvements
• Long term recommendations (by 2026) include
  widening of Rt.711 to a 4 lane divided roadway
  from Manakin Town Ferry Road to Rt. 288
• Keeping 2 lanes - 2 lanes, 4 lanes - 4 lanes and
  linking land use decisions with transportation
  decisions MPO boundary

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Route 60 Corridor Study

• Identified short term, intermediate and long term
  improvements of over 173 million.
• Long term recommendations are those that are
  intended to be implemented in 5 10 years
• Includes widening of Rt. 60 from Chesterfield
  line to Scottsville Road to 6 lanes and widening
  to 4 lanes from Pocahontas Middle School to
  Cumberland

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Level of Service (LOS)

• LOS is a qualitative measure of the operating
  conditions of a traffic stream on a
  transportation facility
• Ranges from A to F like your report card in
  school, A is the best, F is the worst

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Level of Service (LOS)

• 2005 data from VDOTs statewide planning system
  revealed 39 percent of the road segment miles
  tracked by VDOT in Powhatan County as being at a
  LOS D (approaching unstable) or are already
  unstable (E)

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Roads

• If we know that approximately 39 percent of our
  road segments miles in Powhatan are at a level of
  service D or below and
• The cost of improvements to two roads, Routes 60
  and 711 total over 218 million,
• What is the cost to improve the rest of our roads?

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Proffers

• County does not include roads in its proffer
  system (Chesterfield, Goochland, other counties
  do) Why?
• Proffers are contributions by the development
  community to help mitigate the impact of new
  families on public facilities
• In 2004, PC sent recommendation to BOS for road
  proffers nothing happened

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Impact Fees

• Impact fees were authorized for fast growing
  counties under the Transportation Act of 2007
• Powhatan does not have impact fees

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Public Water Sewer

• County withdrew from Cobbs Creek Proposed
  agreement was to meet future county water needs
• Countys pro rata share was estimated to be 42
  million whats the alternative and its cost?
• How will the countys two small waste water
  treatment plants meet future needs? Costs?

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Putting It Together

• Countys proposed CIP exceeds 150 m.
• Roads are not included studies for 2 roads show
  over 218 m for improvements VDOTs broke
  were on our own
• Pro rata share for Cobbs Creek 42 m
  alternative will be comparable or more
• Two waste water plants need expansion - ???

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Putting It Together

• When you look at the totality of needs for county
  infrastructure and
• The countys capacity to meet those needs
  (approx. 21 million over the next five years),
• You quickly realize the county has dug a huge
  hole where will the money come from?

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Edward Porter Alexander of Robert E. Lee

• Surely there never lived a man who could more
  truly say
• I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of
  my soul