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Page 72 plan shall not place additional management policies or regulations on private property or adjacent landowners beyond those that already exist under federal, state, regional, and local plans and regulations. DEFINITIONS Capital improvements: Land, improvements to land, structures (including design, permitting, and construction), initial furnishings and selected equipment. Capital improvements have an expected useful life of at least 10 years. Other “capital” costs, such as motor vehicles and motorized equipment, computers and office equipment, office furnishings, and small tools are considered to be minor capital expenses in the County’s annual budget, but such items are not “capital improvements” for the purposes of the Comprehensive Plan, or the issuance of development permits. Concurrency: All public facilities needed to serve new development and/or a growing service area population must be in place at the time of initial need. If the facilities are not in place, a financial commitment must have been made to provide the facilities within six years of the time of the initial need. Such facilities must be of sufficient capacity to serve the service area population and/or new development without decreasing service levels below locally established minimum standards, known as Levels of Service (LOS). The impacts of development on public facilities within the County occur at the same time as occupancy of development authorized by a final development permit. The County shall issue development permits only after a determination that there is sufficient capacity of public facilities to meet the standards for levels of service for existing development and the impacts of the proposed development concurrent with the proposed development. "Concurrent with" shall be defined as follows: The availability of public facility capacity to support development concurrent with the impacts of such development shall be determined in accordance with the following: For roads: The necessary facilities and services are in place at the time a development permit is issued; or a) The necessary facilities are under construction at the time a development permit is issued, and the necessary facilities will be in place when the impacts of the development occur; or b) Development permits are issued subject to the condition that the necessary facilities and services will be in place when the impacts of the development occur; or c) The County has in place commitments to complete the necessary public facilities within six years. Development permit: Any document granting, or granting with conditions, an application for a land use designation or redesignation, zoning or rezoning, subdivision plat, short plat, site plan, building permit, special exception, variance, or any other official action of the County having the effect of authorizing the development of land. Final development permit: A building permit, site plan approval, final subdivision approval, short subdivision approval, variance, or any other development permit which results in an immediate and continuing impact upon public facilities.