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GLOSSARY Comprehensive Plan: A community's (aw comprehensive plan is along -range policy document which provides a blueprint for existing and future development. The plan's goals, objectives and policies reflect the community's shared vision for its future and how it will meet the needs of existing and future residents, visitors and businesses. Florida statutes require all local governments in the state to maintain a comprehensive plan. Consistency: Compatibility and agreement with the comprehensive plan of the local government. Florida statutes require consistency between the comprehensive plan and the land development regulations. Density: This term describes the number of residential units allowed relative to the land area of a lot (usually calculated on a gross or net acre basis). Floor Area Ratio (FAR): This term describes a calculation of the floor area of all structures on a lot divided by the lot area. FAR describes the "intensity" of development and is expressed as a Floor Area Ratio numerical value. Intensity: This term describes the number of uses allowed on a lot in terms of concentration of activity. Intensity is usually measured through the calculation of floor area ratio (FAR) but the term is often used interchangeably with density, Land Development Regulations (LDRs): The LDRs are City's adopted regulations which specify the nature of each of zoning district and how development takes place within it. This is achieved by regulating things such as lot size, building placement, bulk or density, building height, lot coverage, and other development features. Mixed -Use: A development that includes primary non-residential and primary residential uses on the same development site, building or structure (e.g., residential, office, retail, public, and entertainment). Overlay: An overlay is a special designation that lies on top of a "base" or underlying land use designation in the Future Land Use Map. The overlay modifies the underlying district's requirements for that area only. Overlay Pop-up Outreach: A form of informal outreach `hat involves appearing at busy community locations such as a park, outside a store, or during a scheduled community event, to ask for input from a random sample of stakeholders who may not traditionally participate in the planning process. Town Center North Area: An informal reference to the part of the City encompassed by the Town Center North Overlay, as designated in the City's Comprehensive Plan. Town Center North Town Center overlays Overlay: An overlay of regulation that applies on top of the base land mc�'�r use districts, only in the area known as Tom Center the Town Center North area. (Distinct South from the Town Center South Overlay.) Zoning: Zoning categorizes the City's land into zones or "districts" shown on a map, and specifies the types of land uses that are allowed within each zoning district and the regulations that apply to those uses. re -Envisioning the Town Center North Overlay 112/28/2020 7