Sector Planning

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Sector Planning
Joint PB/BCC Hearing March 10, 2008
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Why Sector Planning?

• To provide a vision for how a community sees
  itself now and in the future
• To support innovative and flexible planning and
  sustainable development strategies
• To allow for mid-range planning for areas smaller
  than a county comprehensive plan but larger than
  zoning, PUDs, or DRIs
• To address sprawl and incremental development by
  evaluating trends and shaping community patterns
• To evaluate impacts to regional resources and
  facilities

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Florida Optional Sector Plans

• Authorized by Florida Legislature in 1998
• Initiated by the local government in agreement
  with DCA
• Address large geographic areas, or sectors
  (minimum of 5,000 acres)
• Three phases
• Agreement
• conceptual, long-term build-out overlay
• detailed specific area plans
• Sector plan adopted as a comprehensive plan
  amendment eliminates requirement for DRI process

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Agreement

• Defines the geographic area
• Identifies planning issues to be emphasized
• Identifies requirements for intergovernmental
  coordination
• Includes procedures for public participation

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Geographic Area

• Encompasses approx. 15,000 acres of land
• Located north of Interstate 10, south of
  Barrineau Park Road and west of highway 29.

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Planning Issues

• Economy
• Determining an appropriate mix of uses to
  create a sustainable balance of
• population and employment growth
• Determining potential impacts on agriculture,
  tourism, military industries, regional products
  and permanent job creation

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Planning Issues

• Physiographic / Environmental Features
• Maintaining or enhancing sustainability of
  natural eco-systems/water management functions
  and aquatic systems
• Determining Potential impacts to
• Rivers, streams and wetlands
• Water recharge
• Water sheds
• Soils
• Wildlife including threatened and endangered,
  special concern and rare
• Habitat connectivity
• Native landscaping

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Planning Issues

• Land Use Development Pattern
• Large landowners in the Sector provide a
  significant opportunity to create sustainable
  Master Planned Communities.
• Avoidance of a continuation of sprawl
• The need to establish and/or maintain/protect
• Urban and rural communities with appropriate
  infrastructure
• Viable agriculture in rural communities, and
• Important eco-systems
• Sector vision planning and design that
  addresses
• A sustainable development pattern with a
  required mix of land use and a job/housing, and
  mobility balance
• Maximization of public infrastructure
• Compatible land use relationships and
• Avoidance of future blight

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Planning Issues

• Public Facilities
• Maximizing the efficient use of public services
  and facilities including
• Central water and sewer including relocation of
  the ECUA Main Street Plant
• Water reclamation and reuse
• Regional stormwater
• Well located and adequate schools
• Recreation and healthcare
• Public safety
• Other civic uses such as YMCAs, hospitals,
  libraries, government administration, civic
  centers
• State and Federal government
• Emergency preparedness including shelters
• Maximizing financial resources available to the
  County

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Planning Issues

• Transportation
• The need for an interconnected transportation
  network which includes
• The proposed interchange
• Roads (with a special focus on the proposed
  beltway)
• Bikeways
• Pathways
• Transit
• Access management
• Sector vision planning that addresses the issues
  above in a comprehensive manner and at the
  appropriate level of detail for the Vision
  buildout Overlay Plan and at the more detailed
  Specific Area Plan.

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Planning Issues

• Government Land Use Related Policies
• Consistency of the Sector Vision Plan with the
  adopted Comprehensive Plan, applicable LDCs and
  applicable sections of the Strategic Regional
  Policy Plan
• Affordable housing
• Economic development
• Emergency preparedness
• Natural resources of regional significance
• Regional transportation
• Historic resources
• Sector vision planning and design that
  addresses educational mechanisms that describe
• Sector Plan implementation process
• Reporting guidelines for development monitoring
  and reporting
• Standard development agreement
• Annual reporting procedures

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Planning Issues

• Affordable Housing
• Providing a balance of workforce and affordable
  housing for local employment
• Future development and infrastructure impacts
  on existing neighborhoods and infill
  opportunities throughout the County

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Planning Issues

• Intergovernmental Coordination
• The role of State agencies in the overall
  planning process including the review and
  approval processes
• Insuring that extra-jurisdictional impacts are
  addressed.

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Supporting Data and Analysis

• Escambia County has collected and provided
  preliminary data and analysis including
• Demographic and economic profiles
• Existing and Future Land Use
• Environmental data
• Archeological reports
• Roadway maps
• Escambia County Comprehensive Plan
• 2007 EAR Report
• County and Regional agency plans including
• WFRPC Scoping Report
• WFRPC Policy Plan
• TPO Plans

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Public Participation Process

• Initial Meetings
• 8/21/2007 - Sector Plan briefing to WFRPC
• 9/13/2007 - WFRPC agency scoping meeting
• 10/30/2007 - Stakeholder interview sessions
• 10/31/2007 - Stakeholder interview sessions
• 1/22/2008 - Explanatory Public Workshop
• 3/10/2008 - Escambia County BCC public
  hearing for Agreement approval

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Public Participation Process

• Procedures to ensure public participation
• TBD - Execution of Agreement between DCA and
  Escambia County
• TBD - Sector Profile Meetings
• - Public Workshop to confirm results of
  Sector Profile
• - Public Hearing _at_ Joint County
  Commission and Planning Board
• TBD - Trend Analysis Meetings
• - Community Values Public Workshop
• - Public Hearing _at_ Joint County
  Commission and Planning Board

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Public Participation Process

• Procedures to ensure public participation
• TBD - Vision Plan Concept Meetings
• - Public Workshop
• - Public Hearing _at_ Joint County
  Commission and Planning Board
• TBD - Large-scale Amendment for the Sector
  Overlay
• - Public Workshop/Community Forums
• - Adoption Hearing _at_ Joint County
  Commission and Planning Board
• TBD - Model Special Area Plan Meetings
• - Public Workshop/Community Forums
• - Adoption Hearing _at_ Joint County
  Commission and Planning Board

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Intergovernmental Coordination

• The Following State, Regional and Local agencies
  and jurisdictions will have direct involvement in
  the Optional Sector Plan process
• West Florida Regional Planning Council (WFRPC)
• Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
  Commission (FWC)
• Emerald Coast Utilities Authority (ECUA)
• Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT)
• Santa Rosa County
• Baldwin County (Alabama)
• City of Pensacola
• Town of Century
• Necessary Federal agencies

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Conceptual Build-out Overlay

• Designed Using the Oregon Model
• Where are we now? (Assessment, Values)
• Where are we going? (Trends Analysis)
• Where do we want to be? (Visioning)
• How do we get there? (Action Planning)
• Are we getting there? (Measure Progress)

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Conceptual Build-out Overlay

• Does Require
• Identification of
• Environmental Resources
• Regional Infrastructure
• Adoption as Component of Land Use Element of
  Comp Planwith Accompanying Goals, Objectives
  Policies
• Does Not Require
• Traffic Modeling
• Financial Feasibility (CIP)
• Environmental Surveys
• Conformity to 20-year Needs Analysis

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Conceptual Build-out Overlay

• Buildout Vision with no Date Certain
• Does Not Change Underlying Land Use Zoning
• No Entitlements
• Focus on
• Preferred Urban Form
• Building Blocks for that Form

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Conceptual Build-out Overlay

• Land Use Leads!!!
• Transportation Corridors and Multimodal
• Environmental Protection
• Major Infrastructure
• Development Principles, Design/ Performance
  Standards and Strategies

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Specific Area Plans

• Based on Conceptual Build-out Overlay
• Adopted as part of the Comprehensive Plan
• Subject to Concurrency Rules

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Specific Area Plans

• Does Require
• Traffic Modeling (as per 9J-2)
• Archeological Surveys (as per 9J-2)
• Environmental Surveys (as per 9J-2)
• Financial Feasibility (CIP)
• Submitted as Amendment to Comp Plan
• Consistency with Buildout Overlay
• Application of
• Goals, Objectives Policies
• Overlay PerformanceStandards
• Use of Urban FormBuilding Blocks
• Demonstrated Need forLand Use

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Lessons Learned

• Sector planning requires commitment and patience.
• Provide incentives to encourage better design,
  open space conservation, and public realm -
  place making.
• Vision must be unique to the area.
• Estimate infrastructure priorities early in
  process (beyond twenty years).
• Maintaining citizen support for original vision
  throughout build-out is critical to success.
• Plan must focus on graphic vision.

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Lessons Learned

• Plan must include trend analysis context for
  understanding the vision.
• Plan should address key performance design
  guidelines, not policy.
• Plan should lay groundwork for finance mechanism
  to implement vision.
• Best used in greenfield areas.
• Success strongly influenced by number of
  properties and property ownership patterns.

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Sector Plan Projects

• Optional Sector Plans
• Horizon West
• Bay County
• Palm Beach County
• Clay County

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Horizon West, Orange County
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Horizon West, Orange County

• Located in southwest Orange County
• 66,000 acre study area (38,000 acres in Orange
  County)
• Three counties, three cities, one special
  district involved
• First Florida DCA-approved sector plan
• A public-private partnership
• Used shared visioning and consensus building
  define and prepare the plan
• Implemented as a comprehensive plan amendment

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Horizon West, Orange County

• Village Land Use Classification requires all
  property to be developed into independent,
  self-sustaining villages
• Each village to be 1000-3000 acres and contain
  2-4 neighborhoods, with a mixed-use village
  center as prototype
• Each neighborhood to be approx. 500 acres with
  neighborhood school/park as focal point

Prototypical Village as Building Block
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Bay County

• 75,000 acres around West Bay in Bay County
• Public-private partnership initiated the process
  in response to proposed relocation of airport
• Aimed to guide growth and direct economic
  development while protecting critical natural
  resources
• Florida DCA-approved sector plan

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Bay County

• Plan calls for preservation of conservation area
  networks bordering West Bay and its tributaries
• Designed an industrial and commercial regional
  employment center complementary to airport
• Residential villages to be building blocks of
  neighborhoods, as urban villages and
  low-intensity villages

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Current Status

• Orange County
• Three villages and Town Center approved
• Bay County
• Second SAP in progress
• Palm Beach County
• Pending BCC transmittal.

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Sector Plan Process
1) Agreement

• Defines the geographic area
• Identifies planning issues to be emphasized
• Identifies requirements for intergovernmental
  coordination
• Includes procedures for public participation

2) Conceptual Overlay

• Includes a conceptual framework map
• Conveys design guidelines and principles that
  address urban form
• Identifies public facilities and natural
  resources
• Includes procedures for intergovernmental
  coordination

3) Specific Area Plan

• Minimum of 1,000 acres (within the sector plan)
• Identifies and analyzes the distribution, extent,
  and location of future uses
• Identifies public facilities and natural
  resources
• Addresses intergovernmental coordination
  procedures