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Update the Comprehensive Plan Conservation, Open Space & Groundwater Recharge Element, and associated maps in the Future Land Use Map Series (B)
Petition PB-12-61 CPA. Update the City of Gainesville Comprehensive Plan Conservation, Open Space & Groundwater Recharge Element, and associated maps in the Future Land Use Map Series.
Explanation
This element update is part of the required Evaluation and Appraisal of the City's Comprehensive Plan. It will be packaged later in ordinance form for transmittal in April 2013 with other element ordinances.
The update of the Conservation, Open Space & Groundwater Recharge is needed for compliance with statutory changes enacted in 2011 by House Bill 7207. Other proposed changes to the Conservation Element are for: consistency with other statutory changes enacted subsequent to the June 2002 adoption of the Conservation Element; increased clarity (including added specificity in some policies, and deletion of sub-policies that are not needed to meet the requirements of a given policy); and, reflecting updated data and current programs.
Updated maps in the Future Land Use Map Series (of the Future Land Use Element) that are associated with the Conservation Element are also needed. The updated maps reflect current city boundaries and updated and/or additional information (e.g., location of springs). They include a substantively revised Floridan aquifer recharge map that is consistent with the corresponding adopted map in Alachua County's comprehensive plan. Proposed for deletion from the Future Land Use Map Series is the Soils Association Map, which is to be replaced by reference to the General Soil Map - Alachua County Florida, that is in the Soil Survey of Alachua County (1985, United States Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service).
Public notice was published in the Gainesville Sun on June 12, 2012. The City Plan Board held a public hearing on June 28, 2012.
Fiscal Note
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