Fort Walton Beach Council agenda — 02-23-2010 Regular — reading text

performances as a positive contribution to the arts and entertainment. A more efficient process will help to foster economic revitalization and business proprietorship in the City. 2. BACKGROUND: 2. 1 May 2009, the City Council launched efforts to implement strategies for economic stimulus by encouraging business proprietorship, expansion and retention. Such measures have included the following: 2. 1. 1 May 12, 2009, City Council adopted Ordinance 1785, extending until March 30, 2012, the validity of any development order, including site plan approvals, certificates of concurrency, conditional uses, planned unit development plans and preliminary and final development plats, that would otherwise expire during the calendar years of 2009 and 2010. 115-  2. 1. 2 June 23, 2009, City Council Resolution 2009 -24 adopted establishing the Business Retention Ad -Hoc Panel to identify obstacles and opportunities to improve and stabilize the local economy by business retention and expansion. 2. 1. 3 September 8, 2009, City Council adopted Ordinance 1791, the Comprehensive Plan' s Economic Development Element. The purpose of the Economic Development Element is to establish a course for strategic economic development. The Element provides the foundation for encouraging entrepreneurship and small business activities including those listed in Ordinance 1823 ( attached). 2. 1. 4 September 8, 2009, City Council directed Staff to formulate recommendations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of existing advisory boards in consideration of the City' s 2009 strategies for economic stimulus. 2. 1. 5 November 10, 2009, City Council adopted Resolution 2009 -43 establishing an Economic Advisory Group to improve coordination between economic agencies, and implement the City' s economic development initiatives within the draft Economic Implementation Plan. 2. 1. 6 January 12, 2010, City Council approved on first reading an amendment package to the Comprehensive Plan which will establish economic planning strategies including Special Planning Areas. The purpose of the Special Planning Areas is to identify individual community and/or industry clusters and tailor objectives and incentives to each area. 2. 1. 6. 1 During public meetings on the Special Planning Areas, the Chamber of Commerce' s Downtown Merchants Committee requested changes to foster the arts and entertainment. The attached Ordinance 1823 addresses the majority of the merchant' s issues. 3. DISCUSSION: 3. 1 Fostering entrepreneurship and proprietorship re- establishes a sense of prosperity and is a key component of revitalization. Ordinance 1823 amends the Code of Ordinances in ways summarized below: 3. 1. 1 Chapter 8, Licenses and Business Regulations, is amended to establish a single administrative process for special events and temporary uses. Special events include parades, performances or historical displays, and temporary events such as farmer' s markets, temporary businesses and concession stands. Chapter 8 also establishes a permit process with criteria and an appeals process if an application is denied. 116-  3. 1. 2 Chapter 7, Leisure and Recreation Services, is amended for consistency with changes to Chapter 8 Section 3. 3. 1. 3. Chapter 9, Offenses, is amended for consistency with changes to Chapter 8 Section 3. 4. FINANCIAL INFORMATION: 4. 1 Adopting Ordinance 1823 has no immediate financial impact on the City. However, encouraging business proprietorship in commercial districts and tourism areas may assist to stimulate the local economy by increasing jobs and fostering special events which bring more visitors and shoppers to the area. 5. RECOMMENDATION: 5. 1 The City Attorney has drafted the attached Ordinance. Staff finds the request conforms to the Comprehensive Plan' s Economic Development Element and creates a more efficient permitting process. 6. ATTACHMENTS: 6. 1 Ordinance No. 1823 7. SIGNATURE BLOCK: 7. 1 Submitted By: ' Samantha D. Abell, Planning Manager 7. 2 Reviewed and Concur: Michael D. Beedie, P. E., City Engineer 7. 3 Reviewed for Agenda: o?/ T. Mearns rManager 117-  Page 1 of 1 Samantha Abell From: Toni Craig [ toni @tonicraig. info] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2: 40 PM To: Samantha Abell Cc: Michael Beedie; Carole Jones Samantha Final revised Ordinance, 1823 is attached. This version is legally sufficient. Thank you. Toni L. Craig Attorney at Law Fla Bar No 115444 850) 243 -6969 www.tonicraig.info 2/ 16/ 2010 - 118-  I ORDINANCE 1823 2 3 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF FORT WALTON BEACH, 4 FLORIDA, PROVIDING AUTHORITY & INTENT; AMENDING CHAPTER 8, 5 LICENSES & BUSINESS REGULATIONS, OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES 6 TO ALLOW CERTAIN TEMPORARY BUSINESS ENDEAVORS AND EVENTS 7 ON PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY, CITY, COUNTY, AND STATE 8 RIGHTS OF WAY, AND OTHER LANDS; AND TO ESTABLISH EVENT 9 PERMITTING PROCEDURES FOR SUCH ACTIVITIES; AMENDING CHAPTER 10 7, LEISURE & RECREATION SERVICES AND CHAPTER 9, OFFENSES, OF 11 THE CODE OF ORDINANCES FOR CONSISTENCY WITH EVENT 12 PERMITTING PROCEDURES OF CHAPTER 8; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT 13 AND SEVERABILITY AND SETTING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. 14 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF FORT WALTON BEACH, 15 FLORIDA: 16 Section 1. Authority & Intent 17 a. The authority for enactment of this ordinance is Chapter 166.021, 18 and other provisions of the Florida Statutes and section 2 of the City Charter. 19 20 b. The City currently has an administrative process in the Code of 21 Ordinances for permitting certain special events and - another administrative 22 process in the Land Development Code for temporary uses. Together the two 23 processes permit various outdoor uses, events, and activities such as parades, 24 special park events, sidewalk sales, exhibitions, displays, performances, fairs, 25 carnivals, bazaars, contests, rodeos, grand opening events for new businesses, 26 and seasonal holiday sales lots. Combining the two separate processes into one 27 streamlined administrative procedure will ensure governmental efficiency and 28 decrease the time for obtaining such a permit. A more efficient process will help 29 to foster economic revitalization and business proprietorship in the City. 30 31 C. Therefore, the City Council finds it is in the best interests of its 32 citizens and the community that the Code of Ordinances is amended to delineate 33 the activities and areas for such temporary and special events and to create one 34 Temporary and Special Event Permitting, process. 35 36 Section 2. Amendment of Chapter 8 of the Code of Ordinances 37 Chapter 8 of the Code of Ordinances is hereby amended as follows. 38 39 a. Section 8. 03, Carnivals and Outdoor Exhibitions, is hereby 40 amended as follows. 41 42 8. 03 GIRGUSES, 43 44 119-  it 45 G AA hiGh i a+ en maFket OE; any 46+ s 47 GF G- 2 49 48 Tax 49 8. 03. 02 -BU 5,; eE;s Tax PleGeept, Req uiredo. No . CT.seR E; h'alleGieGt. in the „ it., 51 eutdo ! 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