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Sunny Isles Beach Comprehensive Plan April 13, 2000 Page 3 of5 Flexible: It will continue to evolve after its initial adoption through annual updates and five-year reviews. It will be adjusted to meet changing needs and circumstances over time. The City of Sunny Isles Beach Comprehensive Plan creates a Community Vision: It represents a consensus view of residents, property owners, businesses and civic organizations as to the primary objectives of the plan. These include: Strengthening a sense of Community through better-integrated and enhanced services to its residents, visitors, property owners and businesses. By developing and maintaining improved public safety, accessible and attractive public open space and recreation facilities, improved linkages between and among residential areas and local services, venues and programs for diverse and enriching cultural experiences, improved educational facilities and a high quality, well designed physical environment, a sense of community identity and pride can be fostered and sustained. Protecting and Enhancing the City's Coastal Resources through improved access, increased amenities for public use and restoration of natural environmental conditions along the beaches and shorelines that embrace the community. By preserving vistas and view corridors to the ocean and bay and creating greenways and shoreline walkways linking beaches and shores via access corridors to neighborhoods and visitor centers, the unique waterfront assets that best define the image of the City can be protected and enriched for all. Promoting economic opportunity and security through a strategic revitalization of the hospitality and service industries that form the core of the city's economic base. The City will seek to enhance the area's economic prosperity and accommodate a reasonable share of the region's economic growth as a means of assuring employment opportunities and livable wage jobs, raising personal incomes, increasing tax revenues and stimulating private investment in renewing the built environment of the City. By promoting a balanced range of resident income levels, increased year-round tenancy to support local businesses, enhancing education and skill-building opportunities to maintain employability of residents, supporting the renewal and redevelopment of obsolete visitor accommodations and retail service facilities and expanding the range and appeal of visitor attractions and resident leisure services and facilities, the City can offer its citizens, their children and others living, working in and visiting Sunny Isles Beach the benefit of a healthy economy. Forming an Urban Village and Town Center Strategy that unifies and preserves the best qualities of Sunny Isles' distinct neighborhoods while responding positively and creatively to the need for a true community center to focus the shared social and economic life of the city. This objective unifies all the elements of the Comprehensive plan into a collective identity for this new community. 3