Pinellas County Concurrency Management System Roadway Designations and Transportation Management Plans

The following information pertains to County and State Roads in the unincorporated County. For information on local road conditions in municipalities, or municipal concurrency management systems, please contact the appropriate jurisdiction.

Concurrency Management Corridors:

• Congestion Containment Corridor. These include roads that operate with deficient levels of service where improvements may be planned or scheduled, beyond the next three years, to alleviate the substandard level of service conditions.
• Constrained Corridor. These roads are constrained from adding additional capacity. A roadway may be physically constrained or policy constrained. Physical barriers occur when intensive land use development is immediately adjacent to highways making roadway expansion cost prohibitive, or when a facility has reached the maximum through-lane standards. Policy barriers are based on concerns about the impacts of roadway expansion on the environment, neighborhoods and/or local communities.
• Long Term Concurrency Management Corridor. This designation only applies to US Highway 19. The designation represents a comprehensive approach to correcting existing level of service deficiencies over a planning period of up to 15 years that includes establishing project priorities, implementing a long term schedule of capital improvements and committing local funding resources.

Development within these corridors is restricted to 50 percent of the floor area/dwelling units allowed under the presiding zoning district. This threshold may be exceeded through the implementation of a Transportation Management Plan as submitted by the applicant and approved by Pinellas County. The amount at which the threshold can be exceeded is dependent upon conditions affecting the adjacent roadway, the type of development being proposed, the characteristics of the surrounding land uses and the extent that traffic impacts are reduced.

Transportation Management Plan:

Transportation management plans include strategies designed to improve mobility within concurrency management corridors. These strategies may include, but are not limited too, intersection improvements, sidewalk construction, joint access between neighboring properties, restrictions on roadway access, employer-sponsored ride sharing programs, and bicycle-related improvements such as storage racks and trail connections.

Information about Pinellas County's Concurrency Management System as it pertains to a particular site plan proposal is typically addressed during pre-application meetings held at the Development Review Services Department on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Questions about concurrency, including the use of transportation management plan strategies, may also be addressed by contacting the Planning Department at (727) 464-8200.