Review and Discussion

LAND USE-SMART GROWTH

Land Use Workshop Recommendations

February 28, 2003

 

 

These recommendations came from the workshop. They have been reorganized into the issue areas in the accompanying report. The link is through the designation at the end of the recommendation. For example, AIA means Land Use subsection A, recommendation 1A.

 

Each recommendation developed during the workshop has been worked into a recommendation format with this exception:

 

Items identified in “italics” do not appear as a separate recommendation either because they were moved, or more appropriate in a different workshop, or absorbed in a previous recommendations.

 

Build Out, Infill, Redevelopment

 

1.           Develop a ‘2050 Build Out Plan” to be adopted prior to the EAR and reviewed periodically (biennially)

a.            Identify and preserve opportunity areas for natural resource protection.

b.            Identify alternative development scenarios and fiscal impact.

c.             Identify grayfield, brownfield, infill, and readaptive reuse opportunities.

d.             Identify multi-modal transportation corridor and all infrastructure needs.  A1A

 

2.           Promote additional smaller neighborhood school campuses – geographically diversified, which are incorporated into the community plan including hurricane-sheltering opportunities.  A2A

 

3.           County will assess all proposed building plans for the potential of Hurricane Shelter Opportunities.  A3A

 

4.           Designate the MPO as the institutional vehicle to facilitate the coordination of cities and counties to implement smart growth principals.  B4A

a.             The MPO shall identify in the Unified Planning Work Program a task associated with the coordination of smart growth principals.  B4B

 

5.           To identify location and size of resource preservation areas based on the existing ecological models.  C6A

a.            These preservation areas should achieve 40%+/- of the area county.

b.             These should be of maximum functionality and this evaluation will be used to determine the range of incentives and the best application of the urban service boundary.

 

6.           Evaluate current densities based on build out plan to make recommendations on future development based on smart growth principals.  B5A

 

7.           Create a proactive approach to improve existing older communities to promote new urbanism concepts.  B5B

 

8.           Assure that existing/ongoing community plans are coordinated with the 2050 planning concepts.  F10A

 

9.           Create committees within the communities to implement the community plans. F10B

 

10.      Community group to balance the vote or input for change.  F10B

 

11.      Failure to provide affordable housing/any infrastructure costs everyone.  G11A

 

12.      Community has to solve the problems of providing infrastructure (affordable housing) not just new development.  G11B

 

13.      Lack of supporting functions in the downtown to encourage redevelopment. B4C

 

14.      Need leadership to step forward.  B4D

 

15.      Leadership in targeted areas to pave the way for redevelopment, good design standards and maybe salesmanship.  B4D

 

16.      Encourage development to buy land for engineering school with some incentive. G11C

 

17.      Need a specific plan for the future of the DR/GR.  C6B

 

18.      Need to make reassembly of lots in platted lands to make redevelopment easier for developers.  E9A

 

Economic Sustainability and Incentives

 

1.           Encourage commercial development on first floor – residential on second floor H12 A

 

2.           Design standards to make NIMBY fit into neighborhood better.  G11D

 

3.           Have we been selling urban sprawl? ?

 

4.           Balance of land use types.  Encompassed

 

5.           Development goes where it is easy to do.  Encompassed

6.          Incentives for redevelopment, relaxation of some codes where it makes sense, remove obstructions.  Encompassed

 

7.           By 2004, maximize local efforts by creating a task force to provide public education, concise direction, and legislative language to address the acquisition and reconstitution of antiquated subdivisions and platted lands.

a.             Create an incentive plan for this using the Army Corps of Engineers and WMD matching funds.  E9B

 

8.          Create a point-based value system that provides credits and rewards for implementing smart growth concepts.  F10C

 

9.          Review the existing County TDR system and amend to make it workable and financially feasible within the smart growth framework.  C6C

 

Community Appearance

 

1.           Taxes are low as an incentive to move here, maybe not enough.  ?

 

2.           Highway beautification, better regulations on big box development, etc. are now being done, so the situation is improving.  I14A

 

3.           Incentives for transfer of development rights are not there because Lee Plan provides for increased density.  I13A

 

4.           Government should subsidize impact fees for affordable housing.  G11E

 

5.           Higher impact fees may be an incentive for redevelopment.  H12B

 

6.           Sliding scale for impact fees based on sq. footage of home.  H12B

 

7.           Seek a continuing and cooperative effort to educate and coordinate community planning, comprehensive planning, and smart growth principals by requiring community/town meeting and/or better communication through “community planning committees” and government media access.  F10D