Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 424
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/10/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Transportation (Baker) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 8 - 9
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraphs (a), (h), and (j) of subsection (6)
    6  of section 163.3177, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
    7         163.3177 Required and optional elements of comprehensive
    8  plan; studies and surveys.—
    9         (6) In addition to the requirements of subsections (1)-(5)
   10  and (12), the comprehensive plan shall include the following
   11  elements:
   12         (a) A future land use plan element designating proposed
   13  future general distribution, location, and extent of the uses of
   14  land for residential uses, commercial uses, industry,
   15  agriculture, recreation, conservation, education, public
   16  buildings and grounds, other public facilities, and other
   17  categories of the public and private uses of land. Counties are
   18  encouraged to designate rural land stewardship areas, pursuant
   19  to the provisions of paragraph (11)(d), as overlays on the
   20  future land use map. Each future land use category must be
   21  defined in terms of uses included, and must include standards to
   22  be followed in the control and distribution of population
   23  densities and building and structure intensities. The proposed
   24  distribution, location, and extent of the various categories of
   25  land use shall be shown on a land use map or map series which
   26  shall be supplemented by goals, policies, and measurable
   27  objectives. The future land use plan shall be based upon
   28  surveys, studies, and data regarding the area, including the
   29  amount of land required to accommodate anticipated growth; the
   30  projected population of the area; the character of undeveloped
   31  land; the availability of water supplies, public facilities, and
   32  services; the need for redevelopment, including the renewal of
   33  blighted areas and the elimination of nonconforming uses which
   34  are inconsistent with the character of the community; the
   35  compatibility of uses on lands adjacent to or closely proximate
   36  to military installations; lands adjacent to an airport as
   37  defined in s. 330.35 and consistent with s. 333.02; the
   38  discouragement of urban sprawl; energy-efficient land use
   39  patterns accounting for existing and future electric power
   40  generation and transmission systems; greenhouse gas reduction
   41  strategies; and, in rural communities, the need for job
   42  creation, capital investment, and economic development that will
   43  strengthen and diversify the community's economy. The future
   44  land use plan may designate areas for future planned development
   45  use involving combinations of types of uses for which special
   46  regulations may be necessary to ensure development in accord
   47  with the principles and standards of the comprehensive plan and
   48  this act. The future land use plan element shall include
   49  criteria to be used to achieve the compatibility of lands
   50  adjacent or closely proximate to lands with military
   51  installations; and lands adjacent to an airport as defined in s.
   52  330.35 and consistent with s. 333.02. In addition, for rural
   53  communities, the amount of land designated for future planned
   54  industrial use shall be based upon surveys and studies that
   55  reflect the need for job creation, capital investment, and the
   56  necessity to strengthen and diversify the local economies, and
   57  may shall not be limited solely by the projected population of
   58  the rural community. The future land use plan of a county may
   59  also designate areas for possible future municipal
   60  incorporation. The land use maps or map series shall generally
   61  identify and depict historic district boundaries and shall
   62  designate historically significant properties meriting
   63  protection. For coastal counties, the future land use element
   64  must include, without limitation, regulatory incentives and
   65  criteria that encourage the preservation of recreational and
   66  commercial working waterfronts as defined in s. 342.07. The
   67  future land use element must clearly identify the land use
   68  categories in which public schools are an allowable use. When
   69  delineating the land use categories in which public schools are
   70  an allowable use, a local government shall include in the
   71  categories sufficient land proximate to residential development
   72  to meet the projected needs for schools in coordination with
   73  public school boards and may establish differing criteria for
   74  schools of different type or size. Each local government shall
   75  include lands contiguous to existing school sites, to the
   76  maximum extent possible, within the land use categories in which
   77  public schools are an allowable use. The failure by a local
   78  government to comply with these school siting requirements will
   79  result in the prohibition of the local government's ability to
   80  amend the local comprehensive plan, except for plan amendments
   81  described in s. 163.3187(1)(b), until the school siting
   82  requirements are met. Amendments proposed by a local government
   83  for purposes of identifying the land use categories in which
   84  public schools are an allowable use are exempt from the
   85  limitation on the frequency of plan amendments contained in s.
   86  163.3187. The future land use element shall include criteria
   87  that encourage the location of schools proximate to urban
   88  residential areas to the extent possible and shall require that
   89  the local government seek to collocate public facilities, such
   90  as parks, libraries, and community centers, with schools to the
   91  extent possible and to encourage the use of elementary schools
   92  as focal points for neighborhoods. For schools serving
   93  predominantly rural counties, defined as a county with a
   94  population of 100,000 or fewer, an agricultural land use
   95  category is shall be eligible for the location of public school
   96  facilities if the local comprehensive plan contains school
   97  siting criteria and the location is consistent with such
   98  criteria. Local governments required to update or amend their
   99  comprehensive plan to include criteria and address compatibility
  100  of lands adjacent or closely proximate lands with to existing
  101  military installations; or lands adjacent to an airport as
  102  defined in s. 330.35 and consistent with s. 333.02, in their
  103  future land use plan element shall transmit the update or
  104  amendment to the state land planning agency department by June
  105  30, 2012 2006.
  106         (h)1. An intergovernmental coordination element showing
  107  relationships and stating principles and guidelines to be used
  108  in the accomplishment of coordination of the adopted
  109  comprehensive plan with the plans of school boards, regional
  110  water supply authorities, and other units of local government
  111  providing services but not having regulatory authority over the
  112  use of land, with the comprehensive plans of adjacent
  113  municipalities, the county, adjacent counties, or the region,
  114  with the state comprehensive plan and with the applicable
  115  regional water supply plan approved pursuant to s. 373.0361, as
  116  the case may require and as such adopted plans or plans in
  117  preparation may exist. This element of the local comprehensive
  118  plan shall demonstrate consideration of the particular effects
  119  of the local plan, when adopted, upon the development of
  120  adjacent municipalities, the county, adjacent counties, or the
  121  region, or upon the state comprehensive plan, as the case may
  122  require.
  123         a. The intergovernmental coordination element shall provide
  124  for procedures to identify and implement joint planning areas,
  125  especially for the purpose of annexation, municipal
  126  incorporation, and joint infrastructure service areas.
  127         b. The intergovernmental coordination element shall provide
  128  for recognition of campus master plans prepared pursuant to s.
  129  1013.30 and airport master plans under paragraph (k).
  130         c. The intergovernmental coordination element may provide
  131  for a voluntary dispute resolution process as established
  132  pursuant to s. 186.509 for bringing to closure in a timely
  133  manner intergovernmental disputes. A local government may
  134  develop and use an alternative local dispute resolution process
  135  for this purpose.
  136         d.The intergovernmental coordination element shall provide
  137  for interlocal agreements as established pursuant to s.
  138  333.03(1)(b).
  139         2. The intergovernmental coordination element shall further
  140  state principles and guidelines to be used in the accomplishment
  141  of coordination of the adopted comprehensive plan with the plans
  142  of school boards and other units of local government providing
  143  facilities and services but not having regulatory authority over
  144  the use of land. In addition, the intergovernmental coordination
  145  element shall describe joint processes for collaborative
  146  planning and decisionmaking on population projections and public
  147  school siting, the location and extension of public facilities
  148  subject to concurrency, and siting facilities with countywide
  149  significance, including locally unwanted land uses whose nature
  150  and identity are established in an agreement. Within 1 year of
  151  adopting their intergovernmental coordination elements, each
  152  county, all the municipalities within that county, the district
  153  school board, and any unit of local government service providers
  154  in that county shall establish by interlocal or other formal
  155  agreement executed by all affected entities, the joint processes
  156  described in this subparagraph consistent with their adopted
  157  intergovernmental coordination elements.
  158         3. To foster coordination between special districts and
  159  local general-purpose governments as local general-purpose
  160  governments implement local comprehensive plans, each
  161  independent special district must submit a public facilities
  162  report to the appropriate local government as required by s.
  163  189.415.
  164         4.a. Local governments shall must execute an interlocal
  165  agreement with the district school board, the county, and
  166  nonexempt municipalities pursuant to s. 163.31777. The local
  167  government shall amend the intergovernmental coordination
  168  element to provide that coordination between the local
  169  government and school board is pursuant to the agreement and
  170  shall state the obligations of the local government under the
  171  agreement.
  172         b. Plan amendments that comply with this subparagraph are
  173  exempt from the provisions of s. 163.3187(1).
  174         5. The state land planning agency shall establish a
  175  schedule for phased completion and transmittal of plan
  176  amendments to implement subparagraphs 1., 2., and 3. from all
  177  jurisdictions so as to accomplish their adoption by December 31,
  178  1999. A local government may complete and transmit its plan
  179  amendments to carry out these provisions prior to the scheduled
  180  date established by the state land planning agency. The plan
  181  amendments are exempt from the provisions of s. 163.3187(1).
  182         6. By January 1, 2004, any county having a population
  183  greater than 100,000, and the municipalities and special
  184  districts within that county, shall submit a report to the
  185  Department of Community Affairs which:
  186         a. Identifies all existing or proposed interlocal service
  187  delivery agreements regarding the following: education; sanitary
  188  sewer; public safety; solid waste; drainage; potable water;
  189  parks and recreation; and transportation facilities.
  190         b. Identifies any deficits or duplication in the provision
  191  of services within its jurisdiction, whether capital or
  192  operational. Upon request, the Department of Community Affairs
  193  shall provide technical assistance to the local governments in
  194  identifying deficits or duplication.
  195         7. Within 6 months after submission of the report, the
  196  Department of Community Affairs shall, through the appropriate
  197  regional planning council, coordinate a meeting of all local
  198  governments within the regional planning area to discuss the
  199  reports and potential strategies to remedy any identified
  200  deficiencies or duplications.
  201         8. Each local government shall update its intergovernmental
  202  coordination element based upon the findings in the report
  203  submitted pursuant to subparagraph 6. The report may be used as
  204  supporting data and analysis for the intergovernmental
  205  coordination element.
  206         (j) For each unit of local government within an urbanized
  207  area designated for purposes of s. 339.175, a transportation
  208  element, which must shall be prepared and adopted in lieu of the
  209  requirements of paragraph (b) and paragraphs (7)(a), (b), (c),
  210  and (d) and which shall address the following issues:
  211         1. Traffic circulation, including major thoroughfares and
  212  other routes, including bicycle and pedestrian ways.
  213         2. All alternative modes of travel, such as public
  214  transportation, pedestrian, and bicycle travel.
  215         3. Parking facilities.
  216         4. Aviation, rail, seaport facilities, access to those
  217  facilities, and intermodal terminals.
  218         5. The availability of facilities and services to serve
  219  existing land uses and the compatibility between future land use
  220  and transportation elements.
  221         6. The capability to evacuate the coastal population prior
  222  to an impending natural disaster.
  223         7. Airports, projected airport and aviation development,
  224  and land use compatibility around airports, which includes areas
  225  defined in ss. 333.01 and 333.02.
  226         8. An identification of land use densities, building
  227  intensities, and transportation management programs to promote
  228  public transportation systems in designated public
  229  transportation corridors so as to encourage population densities
  230  sufficient to support such systems.
  231         9. May include transportation corridors, as defined in s.
  232  334.03, intended for future transportation facilities designated
  233  pursuant to s. 337.273. If transportation corridors are
  234  designated, the local government may adopt a transportation
  235  corridor management ordinance.
  236         10. The incorporation of transportation strategies to
  237  address reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the
  238  transportation sector.
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  241         And the title is amended as follows:
  242         Delete lines 2 - 4
  243  and insert:
  244         An act relating to transportation; amending s. 163.3177,
  245  F.S.; revising requirements for comprehensive plans; providing a
  246  timeframe for submission of certain information to the state
  247  land planning agency; providing for airports, land adjacent to
  248  airports, and certain interlocal agreements relating thereto in
  249  certain elements of the plan; providing an effective date.