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Amend the City of Gainesville Comprehensive Plan Public Schools Facilities Element (B)
Petition PB-12-131 CPA. Amend the City of Gainesville Comprehensive Plan Public Schools Facilities Element for the Evaluation and Appraisal process.
Explanation
The purpose of this petition is to amend the Gainesville Comprehensive Plan for the Evaluation and Appraisal process. It will be packaged later in ordinance form for transmittal in April 2013 with other Comprehensive Plan elements.
The Public Schools Facilities Element was adopted in December 2008, and was amended on January 19, 2012 by Ordinance 110173, which made minor revisions to two policies. Most of the various changes proposed by this petition are needed for compliance with Chapter Law 2011-139 (the Community Planning Act), which was enacted by the Florida Legislature in 2011. With respect to public schools, the 2011 legislation considerably altered the requirements for public school planning. The most substantial changes are that school concurrency and the public schools facilities element of a local government comprehensive plan are no longer mandatory. However, intergovernmental coordination on public school planning is still required, and local governments that retain school concurrency must meet the applicable requirements of Chapter 163.3180, Florida Statutes.
Among the proposed changes are streamlined procedures and rules associated with school concurrency review and the reservation of capacity. Notably, the review process is expedited by allowing certification, by the City, of development proposals with impacts that are below a threshold that will be established annually by City and School Board staffs.
References to “permanent program capacity” are modified to read “program capacity” reflecting the requirement in the Community Planning Act that relocatables (portables) included in the inventory of capacity must be considered for school concurrency purposes. References to the “fin...
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