City of Gainesville - File #: 100820.

• File #: 100820.
• Version: 1
• Name: Modification to City of Gainesville Urban Reserve Area and Statement of Services (B)
• Type: Discussion Item
• Status: Passed
• File created: 4/21/2011
• In control: City Manager
• Final action: 4/21/2011
• Title: Modification to City of Gainesville Urban Reserve Area and Statement of Services (B) This item is to hold a public hearing to discuss and adopt the five-year update to the Gainesville Urban Reserve Area and the accompanying Statement of Services.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/21/2011	1	City Commission	Approved as Recommended	Pass
4/7/2011	0	City Commission	Approved as Recommended	Pass

Title
Modification to City of Gainesville Urban Reserve Area and Statement of Services (B)

This item is to hold a public hearing to discuss and adopt the five-year update to the Gainesville Urban Reserve Area and the accompanying Statement of Services.

Explanation
The City of Gainesville Urban Reserve area was initially adopted by the Alachua County Commission in October 1991. A review of the Urban Reserve Area is required every five years under the Alachua County Boundary Adjustment Act (BAA), the Special Act adopted by the State governing annexation in Alachua County. The last review and update was completed in March of 2006. The County initiated the current 5-year update process in January 2011 by sending a letter requesting a written response, indicating whether the City of Gainesville was interested in revising its Reserve Area. The City provided a written response to the County in February 2011, stating our desire to change the currently adopted Gainesville Urban Reserve Area. The site and general vicinity of the Paynes Prairie Sheetflow Restoration project is the proposed addition to Gainesville's Urban Reserve Area.

Under the Alachua County Boundary Adjustment Act, an urban reserve area defines the territory where a municipality is allowed to annex. The reserve area designated for a municipality must meet the following criteria:

(a) Be adjacent to the municipality;
(b) Be urban in character or likely to become urban in character within the next 10 years;
(c) Be areas in which population growth should be directed so as to promote efficient delivery of urban services, including police, fire protection, solid waste disposal, potable water, sanitary sewer, drainage or flood control, parks and recreation, housing, street lighting, transportation and other services, and to encourage more concentrated urban development;
(d) Shall not contain areas outside the county in which the municipality lies, contain areas within the corporate limits of...