Dense Urban Land Area TCEAs and DRI Exemption

The Community Renewal Act (Senate Bill 360, Chapter 2009-96, Laws of Florida) designates Transportation Concurrency Exception Areas (TCEAs) in local governments qualified as Dense Urban Land Areas (DULAs). The Act exempts TCEAs from adopting the FDOT level of service standards for the Strategic Intermodal System. Each of the DULA cities is a TCEA pursuant to the Act. In each of the eight DULA counties, TCEAs include the non-rural area of a county which has adopted into the county charter a rural area designation or areas identified in the comprehensive plan as urban service areas or urban growth boundaries on or before July 1, 2009. There are two exceptions: Miami-Dade County in its entirety and designated transportation concurrency districts in Broward County.

The Act also exempts many DULAs from the Development of Regional Impact (DRI) review program. However, some DULAs are not exempt from DRI review including those areas within the Wekiva Study Area, within an Area of Critical State Concern and within 2 miles of the Everglades Protection Area. In order to assist statewide partners, the FDOT Systems Planning Office has mapped DULAs in non-DRI exempt areas.

• Relationship of DULAs to TCEA, DRI Exemption
• DULA Maps
• DULAs in WSA, ACSC and within 2 miles of EPA
  • Everglades Protection Area
  • Florida Keys Area of Critical State Concern
  • Wekiva Study Area
• DCA Notice on TCEAs in DULAs
• Working with TCEAs

   ACSC  -   Area of Critical State Concern
   DCA   -   Department of Community Affairs
   DRI   -   Development of Regional Impact
   DULAs -   Dense Urban Land Areas
   EPA   -   Everglades Protection Area
   FDOT  -   Florida Department of Transportation
   TCEAs -   Transportation Concurrency Exception Areas
   WSA   -   Wekiva Study Area