Santa Rosa

County Local Planning Opportunities

Beckie Faulkenberry, AICPDirector, Community Planning, Zoning and Development DivisionCSEC Meeting, November 16, 2006

Opportunities

Location of Development

Transportation Encroachment Housing School capacity Natural resource

protection

Local Response to Opportunities Encroachment

2003 Land Acquisition Study

2003 Joint Land Use Study Land Development Code

and Comprehensive Plan Amendments

Land Acquisition Grant Projects

Formalized Intergovernmental Coordination

2006 Eglin AFB JLUS and Growth Management Study

(Local Response to Opportunities, cont.)

Small Area Plans Navarre Town

Center Plan (adopted)

Bagdad Waterfronts Florida Vision Plan (adopted)

Navarre Beach Master Plan (2002)

(Local Response to Opportunities, cont.)

Larger Area Plans Pace Area Plan

(underway) Rural Development

Plan (underway) Garcon Point

Protection Area (part of Comp Plan)

South End Tomorrow Plan (2003)

(Local Response to Opportunities, cont.)

Workforce Housing Housing Plan Housing Coalition Density Bonus SHIP, HOME,

HHRP (administered by WFRPC)

Building Industry Professionals

(Local Response to Opportunities, cont.)

School Capacity Interlocal Agreement Coordinate on FLUM

amendments School Facilities

Element and School Concurrency (2008)

Technical Capacity Improvements FIAM Paint the Region

Comprehensive Plan Opportunities EAR due 2007 80 acre limit on small

scale amendments Large number of

large scale amendments

Need for FLUM amendments to avoid sprawl and better develop corridors

(Local Response to Opportunities, cont.)

Natural Resource Protection More than 30% of wetlands

in public ownership Revised Tree Protection

Ordinance (July 2003) Nature Conservancy

acquisitions of IP land Partnerships acquiring

conservation and recreation lands around NAS Whiting Field

Garcon Point Protection Area Need for fine-tuning

(Local Response to Opportunities, cont.)

Transportation Local Plans

Comprehensive Plan Better Santa Rosa Plan 10-year Transportation

Plan Woodbine/

Chumuckla/5-pts PD&E

Local Funding Transportation Impact

Fees (adopted) 1¢ sales tax (not

approved)