Questionnaire
Suggestions on the Biggest Failures of the Growth
Management System
State Growth
Management
- Inconsistency
of DCA from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and secretary to secretary
- Weak state
oversight
- No clear
direction from state plan to localities
- Lack of
incentive for smart growth and hurdles to sprawl
- State never
funded infrastructure trust fund
- Failure
to implement comp plan
- Failure
of the state to provide leadership in developing a state plan that integrate
the needs of urban and rural communities.
- Lack of
funding for state mandated local planning
- One size
fits all approach
- Growth
management plan not well implemented
- Not enough
expertise for state to provide technical assistance
- Lack of
policy framework and visioning at state level
- To much
bureaucracy
Regional
Growth Management
- Lack of
regional planning
- Regional
Planning Council DRI process
- RPC's are
weak
Local Growth
Management
- Weak at
local level
- Lack of
vision and recognition of market forces by local government.
- Lack of
enforcement at all levels
- Legislature
should but out of planning process
- Too much
developer/attorney influence in government
- Counties
to easily side step plans when developers with big bucks want to build
- Curbing
developer greed.
- Lack of
intergovernmental coordination
- Failure
of local government to implement plans
- Ability
of county commission to approve amendment contrary to growth management
plan
- Local governments
disregard growth management act and comprehensive plans
- Only partial
implementation of comprehensive plans
Concurrency
- Lack of
concurrency
- Traffic
Concurrency
- Education
Concurrency
- Local willingness
to weaken concurrency
- Failure
to make concurrency a tool in directing growth
- Has not
found a means of incorporating small town and rural areas
Sprawl
- Failure
to address Urban Sprawl
- Failure
to address coastal sprawl
- Leap frog
sprawl
- Too much
over development
- Failure
to protect agricultural land from sprawl
Environment
- Failure
to address environmental issues
- Allowing
growth on wetlands
- Destruction
of environmental areas
- Lack of
green space and urban parks
- Has not
identified ESLS and wildlife corridors
- Invasion
of Condo development in Everglades
- Have not
reduced sugar farming in Everglades area
- Ignore
ecosystem protection
- Delay in
solving the Everglades problem
- Wildlife
ecotourism protection is non existent
Citizen
Involvement
- Lack of
citizen awareness or participation
- Lack of
conflict resolution
- Government
doesn't use citizen recommendations
- No enforcement
tools for local residents
Zoning and
Land Use
- Urban service
boundaries are far to large to be effective
- Lack of
urban service boundary enforcement
- Not using
DOT to shape or limit growth
- Local zoning
- Lack of
mixed use development and walkability
- Traffic
congestion
- Lack of
multi modal transportation planning
- Failure
to recognize sustainability and include it as a fundamental goal in land
use.
- Exclusionary
zoning
- Lack of
integration between transportation and land use planning
- Inadequate
promotion of traditional neighborhood process
Miscellaneous
- To laden
with meaningless rules and not enough emphasis on real growth management.
- Failure
to make growth pay for itself
- Inadequate
transportation planning
- Working
with INS on illegal immigration
- Not realizing
the enormous influx of people coming into the state
- No attention
to design
- Total comp
plan build out accommodates 80 million people
- Failure
to stop huge public subsidy on development
- Water management
- Affordable
housing
- Traffic
- No devotion
to mass transit
- DRI Process
- Massive
amount of billboards
- Too many
loopholes
- Proliferation
of strip malls
- Lack of
quality development
- Almost
all development is approved
- Disney
- Weston
- Newcomers
are not required to pay for their impact
