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<br />CHAPTER FOUR-ASSESSMENT OF CHANGES TO FLORIDA <br />STATUTES AND STATE AND REGIONAL POLICY PLANS <br /> <br />The changes to the State Comprehensive Plan, Chapter 163, F .S.; and Rule 9J-5 <br />affecting the City that have taken place since the adoption of the comprehensive plan <br />can be found in Appendices A and B. <br /> <br />Changes to the State Comprehensive Plan <br /> <br />Since 2000, when the City adopted its Comprehensive Plan, the State Comprehensive <br />Plan was amended by Chapter 99-378 to include policies related to urban policy in the <br />State Comprehensive Plan. <br />Goal (17) was renamed from Downtown Revitalization to Urban and Downtown <br />Revitalization. The specific goal language was modified to read as follows: "In <br />recognition of the importance of Florida's vital urban centers and of the need to develop <br />and redevelop developing 3nd redevoloping downtowns to the state's ability to use..." <br />The following policies 4 through 12 were added: <br /> <br />4. Promote and encouraqe communities to enqaqe in a redesiqn step to include <br />public participation of members of the community in envisioninq redevelopment <br />Qoals and desiqn of the community core before redevelopment. <br /> <br />5. Ensure that local qovernments have adequate flexibilitv to determine and <br />address their urban priorities within the state urban policv. <br /> <br />6. Enhance the Iinkaqes between land use, water use. and transportation planninQ <br />in state, reqional. and local plans for current and future desiqnated urban areas. <br /> <br />7. Develop concurrency requirements that do not compromise public health and <br />safety for urban areas that promote redevelopment efforts. <br /> <br />8. Promote processes for the state, Qeneral purpose local Qovernments, school <br />boards. and local community colleqes to coordinate and cooperate reqardinq <br />educational facilities in urban areas, includinq planninq functions. the <br />development of ioint facilities and the reuse of existinq buildinqs. <br /> <br />9. EncouraQe the development of mass transit systems for urban centers, includinq <br />multimodal transportation feeder systems, as a priority of local. metropolitan, <br />reqional. and state transportation planninq. <br /> <br />10. Locate appropriate public facilities within urban centers to demonstrate public <br />commitment to the centers and to encouraQe the private sector development. <br /> <br />11.lnteqrate state proqrams that have been developed to promote economic <br />development and neiqhborhood revitalization throuqh incentives to promote the <br />development of desiqnated urban infill areas. <br /> <br />12. Promote infill development and redevelopment as an important mechanism to <br />revitalize and sustain urban centers. <br /> <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach - <br />2005 Evaluation and Appraisal Report <br /> <br />Rev. 9/15/2005 <br /> <br />Page 68 <br />