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In 2005, the Florida Legislature passed Senate Bill 360, mandating that concurrency be established for public school facilities not granted an exemption. School concurrency requires that a community’s adopted level-of-service standard for public schools be met, or a developer executes a legally binding commitment to provide mitigation proportionate to the demand created by the proposed development, before development orders are issued. The Florida Statutes require that local governments that have exceeded a certain minimum level of growth over the past five years, develop and adopt a Public School Facilities Element, which forms the basis for implementing school concurrency and other subjects addressed in the updated Public Schools Interlocal Agreement that was entered into between the School Board, the twelve municipalities required to implement school concurrency and Pinellas County. School concurrency in Pinellas County will be implemented using a development tracking system. This web-based application will be used to keep real-time data regarding the available student capacity in the Pinellas County School District and the number of student stations that are being reserved by proposed development.
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