Fort Walton Beach Council agenda — 11-22-05 ‎(regular)‎ — reading text

mO G) Orrl 0 ~~ Den J - 1< tJ r em G) o. ~ C;;o cn I'T1 m o f) 0 0 r c.:. rrl tJ N c.:. I N 0 -\ VJ I'> o. 00 tIIoo ~ REVISIONS PROJECT !\ lAME Wq~ I ~ ~I r ~ m en tII 0 ffi ~ t:I - i1zo - m 111!! BEACH COMMUNITY . BANKATM Moore Bassi jrl!ib~ I SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS n iJl; iJ · g - 0"," 0 = i I.. li:i:r m >> CLIENT NAME Zi:c ' BEACH~ pMMUNITY iiil. i , trJ I 01 ~~ K CON TALlAHASSEE S U DESTlN WWW./11001OO.. L UOIO TIN G ATlANTA  o CITY COUNCIL MEETING November 22, 2005 Regular Agenda Consideration of request to direct staff to begin the process of amending the Future Land Use Element of the Comp Plan reducing the number of neighborhoods from 13 to 11 CDS Director) Municipal Planning Board Recommendation: Approval (6-0) 11/ 03/ 05 Council Action 1st 2nd Vote: RG - 14 Agenda Item Number:  o Q CITY OF FORT WALTON BEACH MEMORANDUM Date: November 9. 2005 To: Joyce Shanahan, City Manager Thru: Missy McKim, CDS Dired~ From: Len ~ rtcherr, Planning Manager ~ Subject: PIa1to Reinvigorate Neig1borhoocI Plaming Effort and EI ta m Cormu1ications BACKGROUND: The City Council fS Strategic Plan for 2004-2005 includes a task assigned to the Community Development Services Department to development a plan that would reinvigorate the Great Neighborhood Partnership Program effort and enhance communications with the various neighborhoods in the City. The Strategic Plan tasked the Community Development Services (CDS) Department to development a plan that would reinvigorate the Great Neighborhood Partnership program effort and enhance communications with the various neighborhoods in the City. The process of reinvigorating the Great Neighborhoods Partnership ( GNP) program will include revisions to the boundaries of neighborhoods as currently defined in the Future Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan. The first step in the process is getting approval to proceed with the task of making revisions to the boundaries of neighborhoods as currenUy defined in t,he Future Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan. Amending the map Wll be considered a narrative amendment to the Comprehensive Plan. Staff proposes that the Municipal Planning Board acting as the Local Planning Agerq (LPA) recommend to City Council that the City initiate the process of amending the Future Land Element accordingly in the next round of major amendments to Directions anticipated to begin in March 2006 DISCUSSION: Staff has developed a process based on the following rationale: The GNP needs a long term plan to sustain interest in the program and increase attendance and citizen input at meetings  o Boundaries of the existing Neighborhoods may need to be realigned to more accurately reflect: commonly recognized " neighborhoods. and delete existing commercial- only neighborhoods Response to commercial- only Neighborhoods has been poor to zero Chance to change philosophy and integrate residential neighborhood areas with adjacent neighborhood- serving commercial areas(e.g. Eglin and Beal Parkway) Reduces meetings and staff time effort spent on non-productive Neighborhoods Objectives that could be