Questionnaire Suggestions

Questionnaire Suggestions on How to Improve Florida's Current Growth Management System

Environment

Educate local governments on the importance of natural lands
Mandate stricter environmental protection
Protect environment from development and agriculture
Restrict coastal development
Emphasize preservation of open space and purchase more sensitive lands
Inclusion of Corps of Engineers Environmental Impact Statement in the growth management process
Apply water pollution standards to agricultural lands
Provide full funding to small cities and require an Environmental Assessment Report
Identify and protect important wildlife corridors
Raise the baseline for all plans for environmental protection

Transportation

Affordable Housing

Agriculture

Preserve agriculture at any cost
Developed areas and agriculture need to be separated
Institute an advalorem tax recapture provision for agricultural land that gets converted to nonagricultural use
Establish statewide urban development boundaries to protect agriculture and rural communities

Citizen Involvement

Allow citizens and easier way to sue for not following comprehensive plans
Allow those challenging plans or amendments to seek repayment of attorney fees when they are successful
More public education about planning
Improve avenues for citizen input regarding zoning issues by providing a more reasonable process
Allow people with a vested interest in the outcome to sit on the committee that decide the fate of growth management proposals
Requirement for a high level of public participation in the growth management process

Land Use and Zoning

Establish development and protection envelopes in regional plans
Require the adoption of urban service boundaries which can not be changed for 5-10 years
Change the process for changing land use amendments • Strengthen and enforce the urban service boundary
Remove all vested development rights
Incentives for urban infill
Require that limited building permits be equitable allocated among all land owner and not given to a handful of developers
Governments must find and allocate resources for infrastructure before permitting or say "NO" to new projects
Amend Rule 9J-5 to conclusively preclude use of multipliers greater than 1.25 in allocation land for residential use.
Eliminate use of suburban land use category in essentially rural and small areas
No more gated communities
Remove any consideration of property rights from land use planning and be prepared to fairly compensate when courts judge property rights have been abused
Permit only one house at a time
Have requirements to build true mixed use neighborhoods
Mandate use of population projections for land use planning

State Growth Management

Establish clear state policy plan
Require all state agencies to conform programs and spending
Loosen state review of local plan amendments within regional development envelope
Provide a dedicated source of state funding toward planning
Provide more state dollars for planning
Make planning something people want to do, not have to do (Provide incentives)
State funding to provide disincentives to urban sprawl
Limit legislative oversight
Improve state resources that reward smart growth
Strengthen state leadership and oversight
Improve communication between DCA and local government
Strengthen legal staff at DCA
Better technical resources from state
Make EAR process more negotiated with DCA and local around a table
Tighten concurrency requirements
Simplify growth management process
Eliminate DRI process
Need professional staffs, not political hacks
Change role of DCA from auditing comprehensive plan iscellaneous

Strengthen growth management restraints
Campaign finance reform
Limit Sprawl
Enhance enforcement and implementation of all plans
Stop grand fathering in plans and CDR's
Appoint water management district representative on regional planning council as well as DEP
More Educational programs for governmental staff
Enact water usage fee for water supply
Encourage stronger downtowns in terms of living areas
Introduce the "No Pain, No Gain" concept to public
Moratorium on all building for at least three years until very definite guidelines can be set up
Quicker rulings including greater responsiveness where differences exist
No state politician should be included to represent business interests at any hearings
Loosening the influence of developers, builders and large landowners
Reduce total population projected at build out
Greater use of technology
Developing benchmarking program to help us track our programs (like Oregon)
make system more responsive to individual citizens and small developers
Better school planning
Speed up permitting process and simplify it
Stop growth in undeveloped areas
Visioning requirements linked to future growth data