04-25-2005 Workshop
City of Aventura, Florida
2005 Comprehensive Plan
Evaluation and Appraisal Report
April 25, 2005 Commission Workshop
Bell David Planning Group and The Corradino Group
What is an EAR?
An Evaluation and Appraisal Report is a review of
the City's Comprehensive Plan.
- Required every 7 years
- Responds to changes in State, regional and local
planning requirements
- Gauges progress in achieving Comprehensive Plan
goals, objectives and policies
- Identifies changes to the City such as population
increases, annexations and changes in land use
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Identify Major Issues
As part of the EAR, the City must also identify
the major planning issues it is facing, and make
recommendations to amend the Comprehensive
Plan to address these issues.
- The City conducted a public workshop on the issues
to be addressed in the EAR on December 16, 2004.
- Based on this workshop, the City received a Letter of
Understanding from the State agreeing to these
issues. The purpose of this workshop is to gain more
input on these issues.
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EAR Recommendations
The EAR will result in a series of
recommendations for Comprehensive Plan
amendments. These recommendations are
intended to:
- Ensure that the Comprehensive Plan adequately
addresses the major issues.
- Update the Comprehensive Plan to address changes
in the City, and in State growth management
requirements.
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EAR Recommendations
The EAR based amendments may be may be
implemented through:
- New and/or amended land development regulations.
- The development of programs and initiatives intended
to achieve identified goals and objectives, and/or to
address specific challenges.
- Capital projects
- The development and implementation of more
specific neighborhood, redevelopment, or special
area plans.
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Issues
Based on the Workshop, six issues were identified:
- Development and Redevelopment
- Housing
- Emergency Management
- Transportation
- I ntergovernmental Coordination
- Quality of Life
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Development and Redevelopment
- Identify existing and projected development and
redevelopment that is occurring in the City, or that
has occurred since the Comprehensive Plan was
adopted.
- Review plans, proposals and projects that have been
prepared for particular areas (i.e. Town Center,
Hospital District).
- Identify unmet redevelopment needs, and the
redevelopment potential of underutilized areas
(including shopping centers along Biscayne
Boulevard).
- Evaluate the characteristics of development that is
occurring in the City (i.e. densities, Floor Area Ratios,
building heights, etc.). 7
Development and Redevelopment
( continued)
- Address the need to balance development and
redevelopment occurring in the City and in
neighboring jurisdictions.
- Identify the City's maximum potential build-out by
comparing what is allowed to current development.
- Identify key challenges that the City is facing in terms
of development and redevelopment, and strategies to
address these challenges
- Evaluate if, how, and where development and
redevelopment should occur over the next ten and
twenty years, the need for development and
redevelopment guidelines?
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Housing
- Identify strategies to ensure the availability of housing
for existing and future households of all income
levels, and to accommodate employees of existing
and future businesses.
- Evaluate implications of the diminishing rental
housing. stock that is resulting from condominium
conversions.
- Review available data to gauge the City's existing and
proposed housing needs.
- Identify the City's housing goals for the next ten and
twenty years.
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Emergency Management
- Describe the adopted standards for hurricane
evacuation times in the City, and the methodology for
developing these standards.
- Evaluate the consistency of these standards with
those of adjacent municipalities, and the City's
emergency management plans in a regional context.
- Evaluate roadway levels of service as related to
evacuation needs, particularly along Interstate 95,
Biscayne Boulevard, Ives Dairy Road and Miami
Gardens Drive.
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Transportation
- Evaluate the City's transportation system, including
pedestrian facilities, bicycle paths, marine facilities,
roadways, parking facilities, and transit routes.
- Identify specific transportation problems, including
congested areas, signage issues, and the lack
connectivity between different parts of the City and
with adjacent areas (particularly the area west of
Biscayne Boulevard).
- Identify and address strategies to better address
transportation needs and problems in the face of
continued development and redevelopment.
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Transportation
( continued)
- Study the implementation of new traffic concurrency
requirements.
- Review and address Transportation Concurrency
Management Area guidelines.
- Evaluate the potential for the provision of premium
transit services along the FEC (North) corridor.
Identify and support potential funding sources to
address the City's transportation needs through the
People's Transportation Plan and other sources.
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I ntergovern mental Coord i nation
- Identify the City's interlocal agreements with other
jurisdictions, and the effectiveness of the City's
intergovernmental coordination processes and
procedures.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the Interlocal
Agreement for Public School Facility Planning in
Miami-Dade County.
- Evaluate the implications of development and
redevelopment that is occurring in adjacent
municipalities on the quality of life of City residents,
and identify strategies to improve coordination to
address these and other issues.
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Quality of Life
- How can the City maintain and improve its quality of
life given on-going development pressure and
competing needs?
- Evaluate the City's inventory of parks, schools (public,
private and charter), and other facilities and services
important to the quality of life of existing and future
residents.
- Identify potential strategies to maintain, enhance or
improve these services as appropriate.
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Next Steps
. Develop the EAR
. Present draft EAR to Council
. Transmit draft EAR to DCA
. Present EAR for adoption by City Council and
transmit to DCA
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Schedule
. ISSUE IDENTIFICATION/PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT
Nov. - Dec. 04
. DEVELOPMENT AND PREPARATION OF DRAFT EAR Jan. - June 05
. PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED EAR
July 05
. TRANSMIT PROPOSED EAR TO DCA
Sept. 05
. REVISE PROPOSED EAR
Oct. 05
. PUBLIC HEARING TO ADOPT PROPOSED EAR
Nov. 05
. TRANSMIT ADOPTED EAR TO DCA
Dec. 1,05
. ADOPT EAR-BASED AMENDMENTS
Before June 07
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