Fort Walton Beach Council agenda — 09-11-12 regular CRA — reading text

Beedie, Acting City Manager From: Michael Beedie, Engineering & Utility Services Director Date: September 11, 2012 Subject: 2012 -20 Adopts 2012 CRA Plan 1. BACKGROUND: I. I. In 1977, City Council adopted Resolution 77 -38, creating a community redevelopment area in the City. Subsequent Resolution 96 -14 expanding the area in 1998. Also in 1998, Resolution 98 -10 adopted the 1998 CRA Plan. 1. 2. On December 11, 2007, Ordinance 1747 adopted the 2007 CRA Plan. 1. 3. In June 2010, the CRA Board of Commissioners and City Council approved the execution of a contract with The Gail Easley Company of Crystal River, Florida to revise the 2007 CRA Plan. The Gail Easley Company and the University of Florida Urban and Regional Planning graduate program completed the first draft of the Plan in 2011. 1. 4. In early 2012, staff presented the draft CRA Plan to the CRA Board. The Plan was then revised and presented to the CRA Board and City Council in April 2012, and approved on June 26, 2012. 2. DISCUSSION: 2. 1. Chapter 163. 360 of the Florida Statutes states that he community redevelopment plan shall: 2. 1. 1. Conform to the comprehensive plan for the county or municipality as prepared by the local planning agency under the Community Planning Act. 2. 1. 2. Be sufficiently complete to indicate such land acquisition, demolition and removal of structures, redevelopment, improvements, and rehabilitation as may be proposed to be carried out in the community redevelopment area; zoning and planning changes, if any; land uses; maximum densities; and building requirements. 2. 1. 3. Provide for the development of affordable housing in the area, or state the reasons for not addressing in the plan the development of affordable housing in the area. 2. 2. Staff finds that the 2012 Community Redevelopment Plan satisfies the requirements in Section 2. 1 above. 2. 3. Further, the Plan may be adopted if the City Council finds that: 2. 3. 1. A feasible method exists for the location of families who will be displaced from  Community Redevelopment Agency ENGINEERING & UTILITY SERVICES MEMORANDUM To: Michael D. Beedie, Acting City Manager From: Michael Beedie, Engineering & Utility Services Director Date: September 11, 2012 Subject: 2012 -20 Adopts 2012 CRA Plan the community redevelopment area in decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling accommodations within their means and without undue hardship to such families; 2. 3. 2. The community redevelopment plan conforms to the general plan of the county or municipality as a whole; 2. 3. 3. The community redevelopment plan gives due consideration to the utilization of community policing innovations, and to the provision of adequate park and recreational areas and facilities that may be desirable for neighborhood improvement, with special consideration for the health, safety, and welfare of children residing in the general vicinity of the site covered by the plans; 2. 3. 4. The community redevelopment plan will afford maximum opportunity, consistent with the sound needs of the county or municipality as a whole, for the rehabilitation or redevelopment of the community redevelopment area by private enterprise; and 2. 3. 5. The community redevelopment plan and resulting revitalization and redevelopment for a coastal tourist area that is deteriorating and economically distressed will reduce or maintain evacuation time, as appropriate, and ensure protection for property against exposure to natural disasters. 2. 4. Staff finds that the 2012 CRA Plan is in conformity with Section 2. 3 above. 3. FINANCIAL INFORMATION: 3. 1. The Resolution has no direct financial impact to the City. The indirect impacts include adopting goals, objectives, and strategies that require funding for certain community redevelopment initiatives, all of which would be funded out of the CRA fund. 4. RECOMMENDATION: 4. 1. This item is for information only, there is no recommendation at this time. ATTACHMENTS: Final 2012 CRA Plan 6 -20 -12 ( PDF) SIGNATURE BLOCK: Michael Beedie Skipped 08/ 31/ 2012 10: 38 AM Stella Jones Completed 08/ 31/ 2012 10: 42 AM  Community Redevelopment Agency ENGINEERING & UTILITY SERVICES MEMORANDUM To: Michael D. Beedie, Acting City Manager From: Michael Beedie, Engineering & Utility Services Director Date: September 11, 2012 Subject: 2012 -20 Adopts 2012 CRA Plan Tim Bolduc Completed 08/ 31/ 2012 11: 35 AM Carole Jones Completed 09/ 05/ 2012 10: 32 AM City Manager Completed 09/ 05/ 2012 11: 36 AM Community Redevelopment Agency Pending The City of Fort Walton Beach a a U N o T- N rCL H 0 V Q N O N T- 40N N 07 T N T ON to C to IL 9 U N T ON C LL i C d E S v to LO June 2012  2012 Community Redevelopment Plan Acknowledgements This 2012 Community Redevelopment Plan was undertaken by the City of Florida Walton Beach, with assistance from the University of Florida, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Gainesville, Florida. Mayor Mike Anderson, Council Dennis Reevs, Bobby Griggs jg, ce gillie gossom v Nabors C. H. Fort Walt` ., ach Staff P. E., A ng City Manager nt Services Manager la Jones, City Planner ossetti, CRA Coordinator University of Florida V. Gail Easley, FAICP, Instructor Kristina Wright Bowen Julie Hendrix Tanner Martin Robert Murphy Tamashbeen Rahman Sulhee " Sunny" Yoon Ivan Cabrera, Project Advisor City of Fort Walton Beach June 2012 p icet 14 ?  2012 Community Redevelopment Plan Executive Summary Introduction History of Fort Walton Beach The Built Environment of the Fort Walton Beach Economic Characterization of the Fort Walton B The Need for a CRA Plan Update 2 The CRAB Process Goals, Objectives, Use 2: Infr cture 3: Transp ation L es' Guidelines Component 5: ousing Component 6: Economic Development Special Projects City of Fort Walton Beach June 2012  2012 Community Redevelopment Plan The 2012 Update to the Fort Walton Beach Community Redevelopment Area Plan EXECUTIVE SUM The purpose of any Community Redevelopment A CRA) is to elimi lum and blight tion i the communi t' 163. 345 using strategies that promote reinvestment and re of the Florida Statutes states that, " Any co unic' ity, to the gr st extent it determines feasible... shall afford maximum opporti to with the so d needs of the county or municipality as a whole, to the rehabili edevelopment of the community redevelopment area by private enterpris implemented, are outdate hau Tax Incre ( TI nues pea in the CRA in FY 2007 -08 and FY 2008 -09 and have s ily decreas h ye ce. Property values have decreased more rapidly in the exp rea of the C ce F - 09, and according to the five year projections of CRA revenues, ownward tre fore t to continue before getting better. The downwar values and an increase in the number of vacant properties and yupdatethe foreclosures RA Board of Commissioners changing philosophy towards economic devness retention. This change in direction / philosophy resulted in the need for a7 CRA Plan to provide encouragement and support for business and economic ell as the physical development of the City. The 2012 CRA Plan Update also coincides with the recent adoption of a new Comprehensive Plan and the comprehensive revision to the Land Development Code. All three documents set the framework for the development of the City. Therefore, this 2012 CRA Plan update shall serve as a guide to future