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CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH 2007 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN EV ALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR)-BASED AMENDMENTS INTRODUCTION AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1. Amendments The City of Sunny Isles Beach's Comprehensive Plan is its blueprint for existing and future development. The Plan's goals, objectives, and policies reflect the City's vision for its future, and for how it will meet the needs of existing and future residents, visitors and businesses. The Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR) is a State-mandated update of the Comprehensive Plan. In order to be effective, the Plan must be a living document, one with the flexibility to adapt to changing conditions and needs. Although there are other opportunities to periodically revise the Comprehensive Plan, these revisions often occur as the result of outside development applications. In the daily hustle, it is unlikely that the City has an opportunity to step back and take a holistic look at how well the Plan is working, and how it might be refined to address community-specific issues and challenges. The EAR provides this opportunity. This report is comprised of 11 applications for amendments to the Sunny Isles Beach Comprehensive Plan based on the adopted EAR. The EAR was adopted by the City in September 2005, and subsequently found sufficient by the Florida Department of Community Affairs. These amendments are intended to: implement the recommendations contained in the City's adopted EAR; generally update the Comprehensive Plan and its goals, objectives and policies; address issues that have arisen since the date of the EAR, and; address subsequent changes in State growth management legislation. The proposed amendments are collectively referred to as EAR-based amendments. The City of Sunny Isles Beach, incorporated in 1997, encompasses 2.63 square miles of land and water between the Atlantic Ocean and Intracoastal Waterway in northeast Miami-Dade County, Florida. In 2005, according to the State of Florida's projections, the City's estimated population was 16,702. By 2015, its population is projected to increase to 20,520, and by 2025 it is projected to increase to 23,934. In 1998, the State of Florida revised the statutory requirements for the EAR to allow local governments to base their analysis on the key local issues that they are facing. In order to comply with these requirements, the City identified five key issues to address in the EAR and EAR-based amendments. These issues are: . Issue 1 - Land Development; . Issue 2 - Transportation Improvement; . Issue 3 - Intergovernmental Coordination; . Issue 4 - Affordable Housing, and; . Issue 5 - Mission Statement. The eleven staff applications contained in this report correspond to the Comprehensive Plan elements to which amendments are recommended, and the Monitoring & Environment Provisions. Only goals, objectives, policies and text for which amendments are recommended are included. Additions are denoted by underline; deletions by strikethrough. A brief Executive Summary of recommended amendments by Element is as follows. The Land Use Element is amended in order to address: Issue 1, "Land Development"; Issue 5, "Mission Statement"; update dates, timelines, and planning horizons, as needed; include interpretive text for all Future Land Use Districts within the City Limits on the Future Land Use Map, and; address growth management legislation enacted since the date of plan adoption. 1