Plain-English glossary · Land & entitlements
Concurrency
Concurrency is Florida's growth-management principle that public infrastructure — roads, water, sewer, schools — must have capacity for a development's impact at the time the development is approved. Where it applies, projects must show capacity exists or fund improvements, often via proportionate-share or mobility fees.
In plain English
Since Florida's 2011 growth-management reforms, jurisdictions apply concurrency differently — some kept transportation concurrency, others moved to mobility-fee systems — so the first question on a sizable project is which regime your county runs.
Concurrency review is a standard workstream inside site feasibility and development strategy: capacity constraints shape density, phasing, and sometimes whether the deal pencils at all.
Why it matters on a Florida build
A capacity problem discovered at site-plan review can add negotiated infrastructure costs to a project that was already priced. Scoping it before the land contract goes hard is the cheap version of that conversation.