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WORKSHOP MINUTES OF THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
ACTING AS THE LOCAL PLANNING AGENCY
MEETING HELD TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2008
PRESENT: Chairman Sills, Vice Chair Golden, Members Campbell, Dillard,
McKey, Morris, and West. Also present were Development Services
Director Shadrix, Planning Manager Wagner, Principal Planner
Fabre, and Deputy City Clerk Sibbitt.
ABSENT: Members Conkling and Rhodus were absent excused.
OVERVIEW OF EAR REQUIREMENTS
Development Services Director Shadrix explained that the purpose of the work
session is to do some preliminary issue identification. He stated this is a very
important endeavor and as a prior consultant he has had the opportunity to work
on a lot of Evaluation and Appraisal Reports. E.A.R. is where they identify the
issues of the community that are growth related and then decide how to update
the Comprehensive Plan to make it better. The Comprehensive Plan is supposed
to set the community's vision and in many places normally does not do that;
however, he is hoping to set a movement in Ocoee that would have the
Comprehensive Plan accurately express the vision of the community. After
identifying the issues, they will then identify what they need to do for the plan to
address those issues. Every cycle for the E.A.R. is at a seven year cycle. Mr.
Shadrix encouraged the board to think about things that they have noticed over
the years that they may have questioned as to why it was done that way and his
goal is to write down as many of those things that he can. There will also be a
community meeting on October 22,2008, to do the same thing. Once they have a
preliminary list they can create a general issues list that they can fit all the
comments under. They will then have a scoping meeting with the Department of
Community Affairs and the agencies that review comprehensive plan
amendments and have them comment on their preliminary issues list. Their goal
is to have a letter of understanding with DCA by December.
DEVELOP PRELIMINARY ISSUES LIST
After a lengthy discussion the board came up with the following preliminary issues
list:
~ Promote more Commercial, Industrial and Retail in the City (Strategic
Location)
~ Relationships between Bluford/50, McKey, Architecture; City Goals
~ Identify City Centers
~ Identify Redevelopment context that does not allow older areas to be out-
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~ Consider Transportation in design of City Centers
~ Gateway Identification as an important component
~ Downtowns (City Centers)
· Mixture of uses for dining, entertainment
· Pedestrian friendly
· Trails master planning
· Securing trails via development review
~ Interconnected Trail System connecting parks with other public amenities
~ Traffic
. Connectivity
. Network
· Signalization (Palm Drive)
~ Enclaves
~ Aquifer Recharge Protection
· Wekiva P&P Act inclusion
~ Identify Utility Service expansion
~ Septic reduction strategy
~ Recreation
. More athletic fields
· Community centers
· Parks (more active facilities)
. Parking
~ Securing park facilities via the development process using a master plan
~ Affordable Senior Housing (ALF's), etc.
~ Integration of Alternative Housing types
· Section 8, Hope VI, other programs
~ Increase in Reclaimed system & provision
~ Alternative Transportation
· Future Commuter Rail
· Intermediary Lynx routes
· Multi-modal plan
~ Education
· Satellite campuses
~ Workforce education
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> Expand efforts to attract educational institution
> Expanding medical campus .
> Cemetery - cleanup; location issues
> Future character
. Architectural standards
. Character typology
. Pattern books?
> Design standards
. General description of character
> Identification of market needs and supporting uses - hotels, etc.
> Address sprawl
. Auction
. Citywide
> Promote new Industrial & existing opportunities (Lt. Ind.)
> Tree Protection - mention more specifically in the Comprehensive Plan
> Identify re-development incentives
. Code
. Fees
. Evaluate other places
> Liaisons for key planning areas for issues
Mr. Shadrix reminded the board members that if they think of other issues they
should continue to send them to him. Vice Chair Golden inquired if there were
issues that Mr. Shadrix and Planning Manager Wagner had wanted to add to the
list. Mr. Shadrix stated they are stepping back and what they are planning on
doing is taking the categories that they think are issues that can strengthen the
community and use that to focus their energy at the right time into the right
Comprehensive Plan amendment. It is very important that the issues come from
the community.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting adjourned at 6:58 p.m.
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