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Home My WebLink About2001 10 01 Regular A Housing, Water, Sewer, Drainage, Aquifer Recharge, Capital Improvements COMMISSION WORKSHOP ITEM A CONSENT INFORMA TIONAL PUBLIC HEARING REGULAR X October 1,2001 MGRflw Special Meeting REQUEST: The Community Development Department requests that the City Commission and Local Planning Agency (LPA) conduct a workshop to review the recommendations of Land Design Innovations (LDI) for the Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR) based amendments to the Housing, Water, Sewer, Drainage, Aquifer Recharge, Capital Improvements, Recreation and Open Space and Intergovernmental Coordination elements/subelements of the City of Winter Springs Comprehensive Plan. PURPOSE: The purpose of this item is to solicit comments and recommendations for the EAR Based Amendments to the Comprehensive Plan from the City Commission and LP A, prior to formal consideration and transmittal to the Department of Community Affairs (DCA). CONSIDERATIONS: The Comprehensive Plan is the guiding document that identifies the future development patterns in the City and the services that will be necessary to meet the demands of future growth. The City's Comprehensive Plan was adopted in 1992 and was based primarily on data available as of 1990. The City is required by State Statutes to prepare an evaluation of the Comprehensive Plan and update the Comprehensive Plan with current data every seven (7) years. The City successfully completed the evaluation of the Comprehensive Plan, which was determined sufficient by DCA. The City originally had until September 26, 2000 to complete the update of the entire Comprehensive Plan, which afforded the Comprehensive Planning Coordinator eighteen (18) months to complete the task. The Comprehensive Planning Coordinator subsequently requested a six (6) month extension to complete the amendments by March 26, 2001, and the request was granted by the State. However, the Comprehensive Planning Coordinator left the City on March 26, 2001 without having completed any of the required updates to the plan. The Community Development Director reviewed the situation and immediately requested another six (6) month extension from the State to complete the EAR Based Amendments. In response, the October 1, 2001 Regular Agenda Item A Page 2 State extended the deadline to September 26, 2001 in a letter dated May 4, 2001; the State has no authority to issue additional extensions. Therefore, if the Comprehensive Plan updates are not completed by September 26, 2001, the State will no longer allow the City to process large scale comprehensive plan amendments. The Evaluation and Appraisal Report for the Comprehensive Plan identified that the entire document was poorly written and should be completely re-written as part of the EAR Based Amendments. This was an enormous undertaking that was further complicated by the resignations of both the Comprehensive Planning Coordinator and Current Planning Coordinator in March 2001. Consequently, a supplemental appropriation of $46,310 from the General Fund was approved to hire LDI to prepare the EAR Based Amendments to the Comprehensive Plan. STATUS REPORT AND ADOPTION SCHEDULE: A complete copy of the comprehensive plan, containing second drafts of all elements was distributed on September 11,2001. This submittal addressed and/or included the comments and recommendations of the City Commission, LP A and staff. Based on discussions by the City Commission and LP A at their August 20, 2001 workshop, specific elements of the comprehensive plan were originally planned for discussion over a series four (4) special meetings, the first and second of which occurred on September 13,2001 and September 25, 2001, respectively. At the September 25,2001 meeting, the City Commission and LPA decided to cancel Special Meeting 4 and consider all the remaining elements at Special Meeting 3. The revised schedule for special meetings is as follows: Special Date Elements Discussed Discussion Status Meetinl!s I 09-13-01 Population, Future Land Use, Complete Transportation 2 09-25-0 I Conservation, Solid Waste Complete 3 10-01-0 I Housing, Water, Sewer, Drainage, Incomplete Aquifer Recharge, Capital Improvements, Recreation and Open Space, & Intergovernmental Coordination Following the completion of the scheduled workshops, the plan adoption schedule is projected as follows: . November 7, 2001 . November 26,2001 . November 28,2001 . May 1,2002 . May 27, 2002 Local Planning Agency Public Hearing City Commission Public Hearing for plan transmittal Plan transmittal to DCA Local Planning Agency Public Hearing City Commission Adoption Hearing October 1, 200 1 Regular Agenda Item A Page 3 RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends that the City Commission and LPA REVIEW, RETAIN, AND BRING the complete draft of the Comprehensive Plan to the workshop for discussion, in order to provide direction to LDI. COMMISSION ACTION: