Role/jurisdiction: Suburban/rural county; smaller review shop. Unincorporated county roads (Spring Hill, etc.) — the City of Brooksville handles its own streets; Weeki Wachee is nominal. Public Works / Engineering carries most of the transportation load: Traffic Engineering (signals, signs/markings, crash records, data collection, development/site plan review support) and Development Review (subdivision and permit review against the design guidelines) sit inside the Engineering Department; zoning/site plans run through Development Services (Planning & Zoning). The MPO is the bi-county Hernando/Citrus MPO, staffed within the county’s Building & Development pages.
Known starting points (resolved 2026-07-08 unless tagged):
- The county does publish a TIA methodology — a short Guidance for Traffic Study Methodology (effective 2019-08-01), linked below. Thresholds and methodology-statement pre-approval live there.
- Count and LOS data are published through the Hernando/Citrus MPO, not a county counts page.
- The county website was restructured (~2025): old
/departments/...URLs are still in search indexes but many 404 — use the/county-government/and/living-here/paths below. - Confirm FDOT vs. County maintenance per corridor — US 19, SR 50, US 41 and Cortez Blvd segments are state roads (FDOT District 7)
#status/verifyper corridor.
Collect (link each as found; date it)
- TIA/TIS guidelines: Guidance for Traffic Study Methodology Requirements for Roadway Operations and Concurrency (PDF) — effective 2019-08-01. Study triggered if any of: PM peak-hour trips ≥ 50 (latest ITE, fitted curve preferred); project trips ≥ 5% of the LOS D (county) / LOS C (state) AADT service volume from the FDOT Generalized LOS tables; or existing volume ≥ 90% of the adopted LOS standard. Methodology Statement must be approved by Engineering and Planning before study work (studies done first are “at the petitioner’s own risk”); study is two-part (concurrency + operations); pass-by capped at 10% unless the County Engineer approves more; ties into the Certificate of Concurrency process. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Parking study guidelines / parking code (with section #): Code of Ordinances, Appendix A (Zoning), Article II, § 4 — “General regulations for vehicles” (off-street parking space and access, plus loading standards) — Appendix A, Art. II on Municode. Shared parking is allowed where demands differ, with spaces set by the administrative official “after the submission of a parking study” — so a parking study path exists in code, but no county parking-study guideline document is published; scope it with Planning. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Traffic calming program/guidelines: not published online — no traffic calming program, speed hump policy, or criteria document found. Traffic Engineering lists “residential traffic control” among its duties, so a request-driven process likely exists — request from Traffic Engineering. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Complete Streets policy · Vision Zero / Safety Action Plan: no county-adopted Complete Streets policy, Vision Zero plan, or SS4A Safety Action Plan found for the county or the Hernando/Citrus MPO
#status/verify— request from the county/MPO. Closest published item: the MPO’s “Complete Streets: Policy and Implementation Guide Update” (2026) listed on MPO Counts, Studies and Reports. (checked 2026-07-08) - Roadway design standards / standard details: Hernando County Facility Design Guidelines (PDF) — uniform minimum standards for all public roads/streets, medians, drainage, driveways, sidewalks/curb ramps, and traffic control in the county; incorporates FDOT/AASHTO/FHWA/ITE references (FDOT 2007–2008 editions “or latest”; the posted PDF carries no revision date on its face — confirm currency with the County Engineer
#status/verify). Includes turn lane, driveway, sidewalk, and subdivision street sections. Linked from the Engineering Department page. (checked 2026-07-08) - Access management standards: no standalone access management policy found online. Working set: driveway/connection design standards in the Facility Design Guidelines (turn lanes; driveways; residential lots may not drive directly onto collectors/arterials), Code Chapter 24 — Roads and Bridges (Municode), and the ROW Use Permit process below. FDOT access permits govern the state roads. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Traffic count requirements (seasonal factors accepted?): count data is published by the Hernando/Citrus MPO — MPO Counts, Studies and Reports: archived Hernando counts 2009–2021 (PDF + map) and current Major Roadway Network LOS analysis with 2025 & 2030 LOS forecast dashboards (June 2026 postings). County Traffic Engineering also runs its own data collection — request recent counts directly. The 2019 traffic study guidance is silent on seasonal adjustment — confirm acceptance of FDOT seasonal factors with the County Engineer at methodology
#status/verify. (checked 2026-07-08) - Crash/safety dashboard: none published — no county or MPO crash dashboard found online. Traffic Engineering maintains crash records — request from the county (Signal Four Analytics requires agency login). (checked 2026-07-08)
- GIS / open data portal: Hernando County Central GIS — parcels, addressing, road centerlines, boundaries, aerials; downloads as shapefiles/GeoJSON plus ready-made PDF maps. (Server refuses non-browser clients — 503 to curl; confirmed live via search index + Wayback capture 2026-02-12.) (checked 2026-07-08)
- Signal timing procedures & maintaining agency: Public Works’ traffic control team maintains 85 signalized intersections, school zone signals/markings, and 400+ street lights — Road and Traffic Maintenance. Brooksville’s own Public Works page lists traffic signals among its Streets duties, so who maintains signals inside the city (and on state roads like SR 50/US 19) needs corridor-level confirmation
#status/verify. No signal timing procedures document published — request from Traffic Engineering. (checked 2026-07-08) - Development review process & submittal requirements: Planning & Zoning (Development Services) — zoning/site plan review; forms and fee schedules at Applications & Fees. Permit applications are submitted online (the county announced a transition to a new “Civic Access” online permitting system — confirm the current portal link when submitting
#status/verify). Engineering’s Development Review division reviews subdivisions/site plans against the Facility Design Guidelines; traffic methodology sign-off per the 2019 guidance above. (checked 2026-07-08) - Permit forms (ROW, driveway): Right of Way Use Permit — Public Works permit for work in county ROW; requires a fee plus a financial guarantee sized to the work (cash or irrevocable letter of credit), one-year responsibility period on the work; homeowner requests for residential driveway construction/modification are exempted from the heavier requirements. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Example projects (ours & public): ours live in the private vault (see callout below); no county-published example traffic studies found online. (checked 2026-07-08)
Contacts, review-comment history, and institutional notes live in the private vault — never on the public site.
See also: MOC - Agencies · Citrus County · Pasco County