Title
Adoption resolution for the Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR) on the City of Gainesville 2000-2010 Comprehensive Plan (B)
A Resolution of the City of Gainesville adopting the Evaluation and Appraisal Report for the Gainesville Comprehensive Plan; stating the intent of the City of Gainesville to amend the Comprehensive Plan based upon recommendations contained in the report; and approving transmittal of the report to the Department of Community Affairs in accordance with Section 163.3191, Florida Statutes, providing directions to the Clerk of the Commission; and providing an immediate effective date.
Explanation
The City of Gainesville 2000-2010 Comprehensive Plan is a vision document for guiding the continuing development and evolution of the City. It is comprised of 15 elements that range from future land use, transportation, and conservation, to public school facilities and historic preservation. The ten-year planning horizon is reflected in the current 2000-2010 City of Gainesville Comprehensive Plan, the evaluation and appraisal of which comprises the Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR) and creates a foundation for development of the 2010-2020 comprehensive plan.
Per Florida Statutes, the City of Gainesville and other local governments are required to adopt an EAR approximately once every seven years. The EAR is prepared by the City Plan Board and analyzes the City's progress in implementing its comprehensive plan, accounting for changes in population, land area, development activity, and regional and state policy. The EAR combines this analysis with an updated vision for the future and provides recommendations as to how the comprehensive plan should be amended.
Staff has concluded that the proposed Evaluation and Appraisal Report on the 2000-2010 City of Gainesville Comprehensive Plan: reflects the major issues identified by the citizens of Gainesville, the City Plan Board, and the City Commission; meets the requirements of Section 163.3191, Florida Statutes for evaluation and appraisal of a comprehensive plan; and that it should be approved.
Please note that this item was originally heard by the City Commission on October 7, 2010. The motion at that public hearing was to approve Petition PB-10-97MSC which represented the final draft of the EAR document, and was passed 7-0. Per Florida Statutes the EAR must be adopted by resolution; the item is being reintroduced because the resolution was inadvertently omitted from the October 7 agenda packet.
Public notice was published in the Gainesville Sun on August 31, 2010. The Plan Board held a public hearing on September 15, 2010.
Fiscal Note
None.
Recommendation
Staff to City Commission - The City Commission adopt the resolution and transmit the EAR to the Florida Department of Community Affairs.
City Plan Board to City Commission - Approve Petition PB-10-97 MSC, and recommend that the City Commission adopt the EAR. The Plan Board voted 4:0.
Staff to City Plan Board - Approve Petition PB-10-97 MSC.