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HomeMy WebLinkAboutComplete EAR November of 2007CITY OF CAPE CANAVERAL EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT NOVEMBER 2007 Page 1 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CITY OF CAPE CANAVERAL CITY COUNCIL Rocky Randels, Mayor Robert Hoog, Mayor Pro Tem Buzz Petsos, Council Member Leo Nicholas, Council Member Shannon Roberts, Council Member LAND PLANNING AGENCY Bea McNeely, Chairperson Lamar Russell, Vice Chairperson John Fredrickson Donald Dunn Harry Pearson John Johanson, 1st Alternate Ronald Friedman, 2nd Alternate Page 2 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 TABLE OF CONTENTS General Planning Acryonyms 6 Introduction 11 1.0 Community Wide Assessment 12 1.1 Changes in Population and Land Area 12 1.2 Location of Vacant, Buildable Land 13 1.3 Location of existing development in relation to the Future Land Use Map 14 1.4 Maps 17 1.5 Financial Feasibility of Maintaining Concurrency 18 1.6 Data and Analysis of Elements 20 1.6 a) Intergovernmental Coordination Element 20 1.6 h) Conservation and Coastal Management Element 31 1.6 c) Infrastructure Element 61 1.6 d) Transportation Element 73 1.6 e) Recreation and Open Space Element 85 1.6J) Housing Element 98 1.6 g) Future Land Use Element 118 1.6 h) Capital Improvements Element 138 2.0 Public Participation Activities 155 3.0 Assessment of Comprehensive Plan 173 3.1 Intergovernmental Coordination Element (ICE) 173 3.2 Conservation and Coastal Management Element 178 Page 3 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 3.3 Infrastructure Element 198 3.4 Transportation Element 212 3.5 Parks and Recreation Element 217 3.6 Housing Element 221 3.7 Future Land Use Element 230 3.8 Capital Improvements Element (CIE) 238 4.0 Applicable changes to Chapter 163, Florida Statute (F.S.) and Rule 9J-5, Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C.) 245 5.0 Special Topics 280 5.1 Assessment of the Future Land Use and Residential Coordination with the Brevard County School Board 280 5.2 Water Supply, Conservation and Re -Use Plans for Cape Canaveral's Projected Population 280 5.3 Evaluation of Coastal High Hazard Area Density Reduction and Property Rights 281 5.4 Assessment of Military Installations Compatibility 281 6.0 Major Issues 282 6.1 Future Land Use Element 282 6.2 Transportation Element 283 6.3 Housing Element 283 6.4 Conservation and Coastal Management Element 284 6.5 Parks and Recreation Element 284 Page 4 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 6.6 Proposed Public School Facilities Element 285 7.0 Proposed Amendment Considerations 288 Appendix A: DCA Letter of Understanding Appendix B: Visioning Plan Appendix C: 2007 Redevelopment Plan Page 5 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 A B C General Planning Acryonyms AASHTO American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials ACSC Areas of Critical State Concern ADA Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) ADT Average Daily Traffic (or Average Daily Trips) AICP American Institute of Certified Planners APA American Planning Association AVR Average Vehicle Ridership AWT Advance Wastewater Treatment Facility BLM Bureau of Land Management (US) BMP Best Management Program (or Practice) BOA Board of Adjustment BCC Board of County Commissioners BOCA Building Officials and Code Administrators, International CAA Clean Air Act (see also FCAA) CAD Compute Aided Design CAVE (Pronounced Cavie) Citizens Against Virtually Everything CBD Central Business District CCD Census County Division CDBG Community Development Block Grant CHHA Coastal High Hazard Area CIE Capital Improvements Element CIP Capital Improvements Plan (or Program) CMSA Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (see also MSA< SMSA, PMS) CO Certificate of Occupancy CRA Community Redevelopment Agency CUP Conditional Use Permit Page 6 4325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 D E F DHRS Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services DO Dissolved Oxygen DOE Department of Energy (US) DRI Developments of Regional Impact DU Dwelling Unit EAR Evaluation and Appraisal Report EC Enterprise Community ECFRPC East Central Florida Regional Planning Council EDA Economic Development Administration EIR Environmental Impact Report EIS Environmental Impact Statement EMF Electromagnetic Field EPA Environmental Protection Agency EZ Enterprise Zone FAA Federal Aviation Administration FAR Floor Area Ratio FCAA Federal Clean Air Act FCC Federal Communications Commission FDCA Florida Department of Community Affairs FDEP Florida Department of Environmental Protection FDOT Florida Department of Transportation FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency FHA Federal Housing Administration FHWA Federal Highway Administration FIRM Flood Insurance Rate Map FLUE Future Land Use Element FLUM Future Land Use Map FTA Federal Transit Administration Page 7 4325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 G H I L M N GFA Gross Floor Area GM Growth Management GIS Geographic Information Systems GLA Gross Leasable Area GOPs Goals, Objectives and Policies GPS Global Positioning System HOV High Occupancy Vehicle HTF Housing Trust Fund HUD US Department of Housing and Urban Development ICE Intergovernmental Coordination Element ITE Institute of Transportation Engineers ICMA International City/County Managers Association ISTEA Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act LDRs Land Development Regulations LOS Level of Service (traffic flow rating) LPA Land Planning Agency LULU Locally Unwanted Land Use MSA Metropolitan Statistical Area (see also CMSA, PMSA, SMSA) MGD Millions of Gallons per Day MF Multifamily MPO Metropolitan Planning Organization MUD Mixed Use District NIABY Not in Anyone's Back Yard NIMBY Not in My Back Yard NIMT00 Not in My Term of Office Page 8 4325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 N 0 P Q R S NRI Natural Resources Inventory NTHP National Trust for Historic Preservation ORC Objections, Recommendations and Comments PPB Parts Per Billion PWS Public Water Supply PPM Parts per Million PUD Planned Unit Development P&Z Planning and Zoning QOL Quality of Life RFP Requests for Proposals RFQ Requests for Qualifications RPC Regional Planning Commission RTPA Regional Transportation Planning Agency RV Recreational Vehicle ROW Right of Way SFD Single Family Dwelling SAD Special Assessment District SCAT Space Coast Area Transit Authority SF Single Family SJRWMD St. John's River Water Management District SLAPP Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation STPP Surface Transportation Policy Project SWSP Surface Water Supply Plan SZEA Standard (State) Zoning Enabling Act Page 9 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 T U V TAZ Traffic Analysis Zone TIF Tax Increment Financing TIP Transportation Improvement Program TDR Transfer of Development Rights TMA Transportation Management Association (also Transportation Management Area) TOD Transit Oriented Design TRO Trip Reduction Ordinance TSM Transportation System Management TSP Total Suspended Particulate Matter ULI Urban Land Institute USDA US Department of Agriculture USDI US Department of the Interior USFS US Forest Service USFWS US Fish and Wildlife Service USGS US Geological Survey USPLS US Public Land Survey VMT Vehicle Miles Traveled WHPA Wellhead Protection Area WMP Watershed Management Program Page 10 4325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Introduction The City of Cape Canaveral Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR), due on August 1, 2007 is required by Chapter 163, Florida Statute and Rules 9J-5 and 9J-11, Florida Administrative Code. The EAR is designed to be a planning tool which periodically assesses the effectiveness of the Comprehensive Plan. EAR based amendments to the comprehensive plan are generated from the EAR review and processed after adoption of the EAR. The last EAR and EAR based amendments were prepared in 1999. To address the requirements of Florida Statute and Rule the EAR has been broken down into the following sections: Intergovernmental Coordination Element (ICE), Conservation and Coastal Management Element, Infrastructure Element, Transportation Element, Parks and Recreation Element, Housing Element, Future Land Use Element (FLUE), and the Capital Improvements Element (CIE). The EAR is intended to accomplish several purposes, to include: • Identification of major issues through community meetings, • Review previous actions of the City in implementing the plan since the last EAR, • To provide an examination of the goals, objectives and policies within the Plan and to identify those which have been achieved and any successes or shortcomings, • An analysis of any changing conditions or trends and the use of new data, • New requirements mandated through Florida Statute and Rule, • To ensure effective intergovernmental coordination, and, • Identification of any special topics applicable to the City. Typically, the first steps in preparing the EAR is to hold community meetings and prepare a draft of the EAR based on public comments and required updates. Once a draft has been prepared a public hearing with the City's Land Planning Agency is held and any additional comments or revisions are incorporated into the draft EAR. The draft is then transmitted to DCA and final comments are received. The final EAR is produced after all comments and revisions are incorporated from the draft EAR. A public hearing with the City Council is scheduled to adopt the EAR and then transmitted to the DCA and other reviewing agencies. DCA will review the EAR and make a sufficiency finding. The last step in the EAR process is to prepare, submit and adopt any EAR based amendments. The entire EAR process may take up to 18 months to complete and any EAR based amendments are required to be adopted within 18 months of EAR sufficiency. Page 11 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1.0 Community Wide Assessment 1.1 Changes in Population and Land Area Geographic Profile The City is approximately 2 square miles with a population of 10,317 residents and is located on the Atlantic Coast approximately 50 miles east of Orlando. The City itself is highly accessible, just south of the Kennedy Space Center, Port Canaveral and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and north of Patrick Air Force Base and the City of Cocoa Beach. The Banana River, a part of the Indian River Lagoon System, forms the western border and the Atlantic Ocean is the eastern city boundary. Located within a three hour drive to Miami, Jacksonville or Tampa Bay, and within a forty five minute drive to the Orlando International Airport and Melbourne International Airport, the City demonstrates its central location to other major metropolitan areas in Florida. The close proximity to Port Canaveral, a deep water port which accommodates a variety of commerce through both cargo ships as well as passenger cruise liners, provides the City with some additional opportunities. The Kennedy Space Center, a source of national pride which symbolizes technological leadership, will provide for future opportunities yet to be realized. The City's economy is largely based upon activities of the Kennedy Space Center, the area's tourism, Port Canaveral operations and military bases. The City's economic reliance upon the activities of the Kennedy Space Center is evident based upon the number of high tech industries in the city. Tourism is seasonal; however, it is also related to the activities at Port Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center. There are increasing development opportunities at Port Canaveral due to their continued expansion into the cruise industry. It is anticipated that there will be positive spin-off activity occurring in the City. There is some uncertainty as to the extent or type of development that may occur as a result. The City also benefits from the influence of the Orlando market and the positive tourism and development activities generated from this area. The Kennedy Space Center, the cruise industry, Port Canaveral, military bases and other tourism and ancillary services provide most of the employment opportunities for the City. However, the employment stability of the Kennedy Space Center has varied by year and by program. Tourism and beach access is another vital attraction to the City. Tourism can be very cyclical and depend to a large extent on the health of the national economy. Port Canaveral has been expanding their cruise line operations by providing more terminals to handle additional passengers. The remainder of the County also thrives on the space industry and its ability to attract tourists to the area. However, to a lesser extent than in the past the need to diversify has taken hold to better manage changes to both tourism and the space industry. According to 2006 University of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research estimated numbers the City's population is 10,317. The City's population in 1999 was approximately 8,748, which indicates the City has grown by 1,569 people or approximately 15% in the last seven years. However, with that increase in population no new lands have been annexed into the City. Page 12 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1.2 Location of Vacant, Buildable Land Recently several large tracts of vacant undeveloped land in the northwest section of the City were developed to include: the Residence Inn, Country Inn and Suites, Cape Caribe, Puerto Del Rio, Bayport and Bayside. In addition, there are a few vacant office type buildings along the AlA corridor. The existing structures were built during a series of growth spurts that Cape Canaveral experienced in the past. This has created an unidentifiable architectural style or theme. Architectural consistency is a contributing component in creating a sense of community. The majority of the existing commercial buildings along the AlA corridor are small shopping plazas, restaurants and offices. According to the below tables, as of 2005, 50% or 689 acres of residential, 12.2% or 167 acres of commercial, and 11.7% or 161 acres of industrial land exists within the City. Additionally, there are 7.7% or 106 acres of vacant undeveloped land available, bringing the City's build out to 92.3%. It should be noted that while the table below uses the best available data from the Property appraiser, there is a discrepancy between the 1999 and 2005 data regarding the total number of acreage within the City. This may be attributed to the way institutional uses or roads were factored into the existing use calculations. 1999 CAPE CANAVERAL EXISTING LAND USE ANALYSIS Land Use Acreage % of City Residential 508.10 36 Commercial 79.78 6 Commercial/Manufacturing 74.55 5 Industrial 28.80 2 Public Facilities 59.10 4 Institutional 8.03 1 Roads/Right of Ways 173.05 12 Vacant 480.47 34 Total 1,411.88 2005 CAPE CANAVERAL EXISTING LAND USE ANALYSIS Land Use Acreage % of City Residential 689 50 Commercial / Manufacturing 167 12.2 Commercial/Manufacturing N/A N/A Industrial 161 11.7 Public / Recreation / Institutional 109 7.9 Institutional 44 Roads/Right of Ways 140 10.2 Vacant 106 7.7 Total 1,372 Source: Brevard County Property Appraiser 2005 Page 13 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1.3 Location of existing development in relation to the Future Land Use Map The majority of the City of Cape Canaveral is developed under 15 dwelling units per acre. The following density report is meant to identify, "residential hot spots" or areas of residential densities higher than 15 dwelling units per acre. In addition, this report shall discuss the remaining vacant land, redevelopment opportunities, existing densities and recently approved active site plans. The following "residential hot spots," or areas identified as having densities greater than 15 dwelling units per acre are: the areas within the presidential streets, mostly along the Ocean Shoreline and the southern portion; the area east of AlA and bisected by Seaport Boulevard; the area north of Washington Ave, south of Caroline and east of AlA; the area north of Caroline east of Canaveral Blvd and south of Chandler St; the area north of Canaveral Beach Blvd and south of Circle Blvd; and the area bisected by Columbia Dr. and west of Astronaut Blvd. These areas have been identified as being of a density over 15 dwelling units per acre and are more clearly distinguished in red on the attached Residential Density Map. There are other isolated areas that are developed at a density greater than 15 dwelling units per acre but are more isolated and would need to be addressed on a case by case basis. The table below is a compilation of acreage, units and density of recently approved and active site plans. The average density is 10.658. Also 2 unit town home development has a density of 13.9 units to the acre. The majority of the projects are between 8-12 units per acre. This would appear to be consistent with the tabulated results. Recently approved and active site plans Project Acreage # of Units Density Bayport 13 106 8.15 Bayside 10.42 100 9.6 Canaveral Woods 2.37 19 8.02 Central Canaveral 0.29 4 13.79 Madison Cay 3.28 19 5.8 Majestic Bay 2.89 29 10.04 Marie Ann Villas 1.29 14 10.85 Oak Park 4.15 40 9.63 Ocean Estates 0.91 7 7.69 Ocean Wave 4 0.18 2 10.99 Portside Villas 12 120 10 Perlas Del Mar 5.57 40 7.18 Puerto Del Rio 13.04 164 12.57 Puerto Del Rio III 16.19 240 14.82 Solana on the River 5.97 52 8.71 Villages 7 14.76 177 11.99 Page 14 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Total 106.31 1133 159.83 Average 6.644375 70.8125 10.658 * Note: A 50'x125' town home project is a density of 13. Source: Prepared by the City of Cape Canaveral The recent active site plans are all less than 15 dwelling units per acre. Many of the developments on the attached density map depicting 15 dwelling units per acre or more were approved and developed before the City of Cape Canaveral was incorporated. Some of these "high density residential hot spots" if redeveloped would redevelop at 15 dwelling units or less. Existing Land Use — 2005 Acreage* Percent of City Residential Single Family 115 8.4% Duplex 42 3% Triplex 5 .4% Quadplex 7 .5% Multifamily 520 38% Total Residential 689 50% Commercial 167 12.2% Industrial 161 11.7% Public/Recreation 109 7.9% Vacant 106 7.7% Roads/Right of Ways 140 10.2% Total: 1,372 100% * Acreage and land use data was provided by the Brevard County Property Appraiser. The Existing Land Use Table indicates that the majority of the City of Cape Canaveral is 92.3% built out. Only approximately 7.7% or 106 acres of the City remains vacant. Much of this vacant acreage is in the industrial M-1 areas. Again, this suggests that the majority of future development, not taking into account for annexations, will consist of redevelopment of existing developed lands. Redevelopment opportunities within the President's streets the shoreline area, Canaveral Boulevard, Columbia Drive and Caroline Street areas may allow for reduced density opportunities. However, While density reductions are possible as part of redevelopment in this area, present development trends west of Ridgewood Boulevard in the President's streets are increasing density. The trend is to replace one unit with two units or a net density of 13.9 units per acre. which would offset posible density reductions elsewhere. Page 15 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 The first attached map -entitled "Existing Land Use" that are attached shows the density for individual properties and by zoning category with number of units to acreage in large block areas that are broken down by natural boundaries like roads, water or projects. This map can help to further quantify the density in more general areas. The first map is "Density Residential Only". This map is intended to show only residential land use by a colored density range. As described earlier, the areas in red (densities greater than 15 dwelling units per acre) stand out. The second map which is intended to show number of units and acreage by zoning in large block areas that are broken down by natural boundaries like roads, water or projects. This map can help to further quantify the density in more general areas. The second map is the Future Land Use Map. Traffic on area roads within the City is still within acceptable levels of service even with vested development. With only 7% of vacant land remaining in the City, future development probably will not result in a deficiency to traffic levels of services. The City does need to remain mindful that development outside of City Boundaries also impact the local roadway network. Conclusion: The new development is developing at an average rate of 10.658 units per acre. Redevelopment will likely increase density in some parts of the City but reduce density in areas already over the 15 units per acre requirement. The development of vacant land will probably not result in the Level of Service to exceed the adopted standards for the City's infrastructure. The City may alleviate the pressures of development for traffic, water, sewer drainage and parks by striving to achieve new efficiencies in supplying those services. Page 16 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1.4 Maps • Existing Land Use Map: Categories) see Figure 7-1 • Future Land Use Map: see Figure 7-3 Page 17 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1.5 Financial Feasibility of Maintaining Concurrency Public facilities will be achieved and maintained through the five year planning timeframe in order to support financial feasibility by identifying Capital Improvement costs to address any anticipated deficiencies. The City uses several options to cover the expense of public facilities. Taxes, special assessments, impact fees, bonds, a revenue fund, a renewal and replacement fund and grants are some of the options. The ability of these funding sources to sufficiently fund the public facilities is discussed below and in the Infrastructure Element. Sanitary Sewer The City of Cape Canaveral operates its own advanced wastewater treatment facility and provides sewer service to all developed sections of the City. The City's collection system services 7,945 connections for a population of approximately 10,317. The collection system consists of 16.5 miles of gravity mains and 2.8 miles of force mains from 12 lift stations that pump to a 1.8 mgd Advance Wastewater Treatment Facility (AWT). To meet maintenance demands on the system each year funds are budgeted for repairing the sewer collection system. Ten years ago a problem an infiltration of groundwater was identified and since then several phases of maintenance and implementation has taken place. For the past seven years a $200,000 budget per year has been given for sanitary sewer lining and manhole rehabilitation. To date the Collection Division has contracted over 7 miles of relining its system at a cost of 1.1 million dollars. It is estimated that the program is 50% complete. It should be noted that in years 1998 through 2000 there were high flows because of infiltration/inflow issues. The City started a program to replace outdated pipe and as a result the flows were reduced. Drainage Currently, the City has adequate drainage facilities. Since 1999 the City has utilized baffle boxes at key points to improve water quality. Upgrading of facilities is done as needed. The City adopted a Stormwater Utility fee October 1, 2003 and a Stormwater Master Plan in late 2000, which had been continuously implemented since. Solid Waste Brevard County provides solid waste disposal services to the City. The Brevard County Central Disposal Facility has approximately ten years (2017) of permitted capacity and an additional sixteen years (2023) of capacity in the southern expansion area. The capacity of the facility handles Class I and III materials. Current LOS is 8.32 lbs/capita/day. Additionally, the City has contracted with Waste Management for the pickup and transportation of solid wastes within the City. The existing contract began in 2004 and runs until 2009. Potable Water The City utilizes the City of Cocoa's potable water facilities. Cocoa's system processes 10.5 billion gallons of water each year with peak flows of 43.3 million gallons per day (mgd) during summer time. Average daily flow increased from 22 mgd in 1990 to 28.6 mgd in 2006. The water Cocoa provides comes from three sources: 1) Well Field — Cocoa has 48 raw wells which Page 18 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 can produce a maximum 60 mgd, 2) Taylor Creek Reservoir - provides water from the reservoir blended with groundwater — with a capacity to store 4 billion gallons of fresh water and, 3) Aquifer Storage and Recovery Wells (ASR) — new technology which consists of 10 ASR wells in the Cocoa system. About 1 billion gallons of water may be stored 300 feet underground in the Floridan Aquifer or moved up during peak demand times. Natural Groundwater Aquifer Recharge The City coordinates with the St. John's River Water Management District (SJRWMD) on all new and redevelopment projects. Page 19 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1.6 Data and Analysis of Elements 1.6(a) Intergovernmental Coordination Element 1.6 Data and Analysis of Elements 1.6 a) Intergovernmental Coordination Element Introduction In order to provide adequate services and facilities for the citizens of our community, it is necessary that governmental entities cooperate with each other. This necessity was recognized by the Florida Legislature by the enactment of legislation requiring local government comprehensive plans. There must be coordination at all levels with various governmental agencies - both horizontally and vertically. This is true in planning for services and facilities as well as in implementing those plans. Intergovernmental coordination in the State of Florida has several agency levels as outlined in the following section. The Statewide Planning Framework The first level of the planning framework in Florida is the laws of the State and those state agencies responsible for carrying out these laws and planning functions. The Department of Community Affairs (DCA) is the state agency responsible for coordinating planning activities of local governments statewide. DCA also coordinates with the distribution of planning assistance grants to local governments. Completed comprehensive plans or amendments are sent to DCA for review of and compliance with Rule 9J-5 of the Florida Administrative Code and for consistency with the goals, objectives and policies of the State Plan. This agency also operates a statewide clearinghouse to encourage consistency between state and federally assisted programs. Once reviewed, the plans are filed and made accessible to those interested in planning throughout the State. The regional planning council is the second tier of the statewide planning framework. Florida is divided into regional planning districts. In each region, a regional planning council and agency are located. Regional planning councils function to serve the common interest of their region and often operate as regional development agencies. With the advent of mandatory planning legislation and the federal A-95 clearinghouse review process, as well as other planning and environmental legislation, these agencies have become involved in state -initiated review of local development plans and provide technical planning assistance to county and municipal governments as needed. The City of Cape Canaveral is located within the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council (ECFRPC) area. The Board is made up of two elected officials from each of the five member counties and additional representatives from counties or cities according to population levels. Cities can join independently of counties and receive separate representation on the Board. This region includes Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia Counties. Page 20 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 The regional planning council studies various issues relating to growth management within Brevard County and the City of Cape Canaveral. This information has been utilized in preparation of the Comprehensive Plan for the City of Cape Canaveral. The advantages of a regional planning council are that common problems can be analyzed and solved in a manner that combines resources and maximizes efficiency. Furthermore, the regional planning council serves as a forum for regional issues and provides a mechanism for the objective study of inter jurisdictional problems. This agency works primarily with county governments and offers technical assistance to the cities within the region as well. The third tier of coordination is made up of local governments. Cooperation within this level is the most important single factor in creating an effective intergovernmental planning process. Cooperation and communication between county and city governments can result in substantial benefits that may result in inter -local agreements that will benefit the residents of our area. Existing Methods of Coordination Currently, employees or members of the City Council and members of various city boards participate in intergovernmental activities. Some of the agencies with which the City is currently coordinating, or has coordinated with in the past, are shown in Table 1- 1, at the end of the chapter. The column entitled "Coordination Mechanism" indicates by number seven different mechanisms. The numbering system is as follows: 1. Regulation and/or enforcement 2. Formal reporting of data, program status, or activities 3. Binding agreement 4. Informal meetings and/or correspondence 5. Committee/Advisory Board 6. Information exchange 7. Training As issues are identified which can be best addressed on an intergovernmental basis, additional mechanisms may be developed to address these issues. An example of this is the way in which Brevard County and the municipalities within the County have worked together in developing their comprehensive plans and or plan amendments. The Brevard County Planning Department has been instrumental in coordinating meetings between the County and representatives of the various municipalities for informational exchange purposes. It is felt that representatives of the various municipalities for informational exchange purposes. It is felt that this has been an effective mechanism in dealing with growth management issues. There are other examples of good coordination. As detailed elsewhere in this Plan, the Cities of Cocoa and Cape Canaveral have enjoyed good cooperation over the years in their supplier -recipient water supply relationship as reflected in their current inter -local water supply agreement. Another example is where the City has been able to approach Page 21 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 the State DOT and obtain permission to carry out beautification improvements along the S.R.-AlA right-of-way. Specific problems/issues that could benefit from better intergovernmental coordination are inter -local agreements with Brevard County to provide funding for various capital improvements such as sidewalks and parks. Additionally continued coordination with the City of Cocoa Beach and the Canaveral Port Authority on various issues such as beach erosion and reuse water, traffic, recreation, land development, economic development and the environment. Regional agencies, such as the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council and the St. Johns River Water Management District, have also developed goals, objectives and policies. This plan has made an attempt to be consistent with those goals, objectives and policies. Several plans developed at the county or sub -county level were reviewed and/or utilized as a part of this Comprehensive Plan. These include the various elements of the County's comprehensive plan, the Water section of the City of Cocoa Plan, and the Brevard County Area wide Transportation Study. Problems and Needs As specific problems and needs within each of the Comprehensive Plan Elements which would benefit from improved or additional intergovernmental coordination are identified, means for resolving these problems and needs will be developed. Such problems and needs are discussed further in each of the other Comprehensive Plan elements, as applicable. Improved coordination between the State and Regional Departments including the Port of Canaveral is encouraged. Recommendations for Program Direction The City of Cape Canaveral should continue to send representatives to participate as members of the many governmental boards and agencies which help to establish guidelines and priorities for the implementation of the varying plans in effect. By subject area, some of the agencies, boards and planning programs which the City should be familiar with, coordinated with and/or be a part of include: 1. Land Use Planning a. Florida Department of Community Affairs b. East Central Florida Regional Planning Council c. St. Johns River Water Management District d. Brevard County Planning Program e. Cocoa Beach Planning Program f. Cocoa Planning Program (especially Potable Water) Page 22 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 2. Housing a. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development b. Florida Department of Community Affairs c. Florida Department of Children & Family Services d. East Central Florida Regional Planning Council e. Brevard County Housing Authority 3. Sanitary Sewer, Solid Waste, Drainage and Potable Water a. Florida Department of Environmental Protection b. Florida Department of Children & Family Services c. Brevard County Solid Waste Department d. City of Cocoa (Water Department) e. St. Johns River Water Management District f. Brevard County Water Authority 4. Conservation/Coastal Zone Management a. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers b. Florida Department of Environmental Protection c. Bureau of Coastal Zone Management (Florida Department of Environmental Protection) d. St. Johns River Water Management District e. Brevard County Natural Resources Department f. Brevard County Emergency Management (hurricane evacuation) 5. Traffic Circulation and Transportation a. Florida Department of Transportation b. Space Coast Area Transit Authority c. Metropolitan Planning Organization d. Brevard County Public Works Department 6. Recreation and Open Space a. Florida Department of Environmental Protection b. Brevard County Department of Parks and Recreation c. Brevard County School Board d. City of Cocoa Beach 7. Public Schools and Facilities a. Brevard County School Board Page 23 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1.6 Data and Analysis of Elements 1.6 a) Intergovernmental Coordination Element Table 1-1 Page 24 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 1-1 EXISTING INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION MECHANISMS City of Cape Canaveral, Florida Agency/Office Nature of Relationship Lead City Department(s) Coordination Mechanism Federal: Commerce Department Environmental Protection Agency Federal Emergency Management Agency Housing & Urban Development g p U.S. Coast Guard U.S. Army Corps of Engineers U.S. Postal Service State of Florida (Departments of): Community Affairs Department of State, Division of Historical Resources Decennial census, special data reports Regulation of variety of activities affecting environment including hazardous wastes Floodplain regulation and management Cooperation with County on Block Grant Funding Distress signals, incidents on open seas Regulation (dredge &fill); bridge construction; beach renourishment Coordination relating to addresses for new construction/ subdivisions Planning assistance (contact); Floodplain management; energy requirements Historical & archaeological resource issues Administration, Building Fire, Building Building Administration Police Building Building Administration, Building Building 2 1 1 3 1 1 2 1,2,3 6 Page 25 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 1-1 con't. EXISTING INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION MECHANISMS City of Cape Canaveral, Florida Agency/Office Nature of Relationship Lead City Department(s) Coordination Mechanism State of Florida (Departments of): Environmental Protection General Services Children and Families Services Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Law Enforcement (FDLE) Natural Resources Professional Regulation Revenue Transportation State of Florida (Other): Board of Administration Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission Office of Auditor General Regulation (dredge & fill, air quality, sanitary sewer), permitting, assistance Purchasing information and other services Regulation; enforcement Dissemination of vehicle registration and driver's license information Assistance in Criminal investigations; sets standards for police certification Regulation, information, permitting, assistance, Marine Patrol, aquatic preserve management Advance Life Services/ALS; Emergency Medical Services/EMS; Regulation, enforcement; occupational license regulation, enforcement Reporting S.R. A1A; maintenance, etc Investments/Finance Regulation, enforcement; licensing, wildlife rescue / protection, Safe Hunter Course Reporting Building, Sanitary Sewer Administration Police Police Police Building, Police Fire Finance Administration, Public Works Finance Police Finance 1 3 1 1 6 1 1 1,2 3 1,2,3 1,7 1,2 Page 26 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 1-1 con't. EXISTING INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION MECHANISMS City of Cape Canaveral, Florida Agency/Office Nature of Relationship Lead City Department(s) Coordination Mechanism Office of Insurance Commissioner Regional Agencies: East Central Florida Regional Planning Council St. Johns River Water Management District Brevard County: Animal Control Brevard County Correctional Center Civil Defense County Commissioners Drug Task Force Emergency Management Health Department (State Office) Housing Authority Library Services Metropolitan Planning Organization Reporting Regulation, reporting, Planning assistance Water resource planning and management; permitting of surface water management systems, consumptive use, well construction; Surface Water Improvement and Management (SWIM) Program Adoption of County Ordinance by City; enforcement by County/City Prisoner assistance and labor Emergency preparedness; 911 System, Agreement Local Option Gasoline Tax Revenue Distribution Law enforcement with representatives from City Police Hurricane Evacuation Regulation, enforcement; Restaurant regulation, rabies, infectious diseases Section 8 Rental Assistance Program Services/ maintenance of facilities Transportation planning including bike paths Finance Building, Administration Building Police Administration, Police Police Administration, Finance Police Police Fire, Police Building Administration Administration 1 2 1, 3, 5 1,3 6 2,3 2 3 3 1 3 3 5 Page 27 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 1-1 con't. EXISTING INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION MECHANISMS City of Cape Canaveral, Florida Agency/Office Nature of Relationship Lead City Department(s) Coordination Mechanism Mutual Aid/Fire/Police Shared services by interlocal agreement; Cooperation with Sheriff's Police, Fire Department Natural Resources Management Beach preservation, restoration, renourishment Planning and Development Services Department Property Appraiser's Office Public Works Assistance Brevard County Brevard County Public Management Association Brevard County/ Brevard Community College Space Coast League of Cities Florida League of Cities Cape Canaveral Volunteer Fire Department Keep Brevard Beautiful Census reports; reporting of current streets; house numbers of Emergency 911 System Recording of all building permits Administration Building Building Street sign fabrication; traffic signal Public Works maintenance; County roads City Managers / County Administrator; coordination / problem solving "Local Government Training Institute," seminars, employee training (planning stage) Brevard County Cities; coordination and problem solving Compile/distribute directory; coordinate response regarding pending legislation at State level; distribution of DATAGRAM (agreement); occupation license assistance (agreement) Provision of fire protection services Coordination of efforts; City Beautification Administration Administration Administration Administration Administration Administration 3 4,6 2 2 3 4 4 3 3 3 5 Page 28 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 1-1 con't. EXISTING INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION MECHANISMS City of Cape Canaveral, Florida Agency/Office Nature of Relationship Lead City Department(s) Coordination Mechanism Marine Resources Council National Organization on Disability Franchises: Florida Power & Light City Gas Co. of Florida AT&T Southland Communication City of Cocoa Canaveral Port Authority Public awareness, intergovernmental coordination scientific research, funded by State Legislation/grants; comprehensive planning assistance Problem solving/ coordination for benefit of handicapped Electric Service; 1/28/92 to 1/28/22 Natural Gas Service; 1/18/96 to 1/18/26 Telephone Service; 8/3/95 to 8/3/25 Cable Television Service; 9/15/94 to 9/15/99 Water Service; 9/21/94 to 9/21/24 Sewer Service to Port; 4/21/70 to 4/21/00 , Beach renourishment traffic, fire and police and reuse Administration Administration Administration Administration Administration Administration Administration Administration, Fire 5 5 3 3 3 3 3 3 Page 29 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Effectiveness of Coordination Methods The methods and mechanisms currently being used to further intergovernmental coordination between Cape Canaveral and the various other governmental bodies have been found to be generally adequate to meet the needs. It is important to maintain a balanced approach to the issue of whether or not there are already sufficient coordination mechanisms. It is easy enough to argue that because two entities cannot agree on the solution to a problem, that there is not enough coordination, or that the coordination mechanism is somehow flawed. However, in reality, some problems are of such a nature that irrespective of the coordination mechanism, mere coordination is not going to solve them. Sometimes it is more a matter of having the will to reach an agreement than a matter of exchanging information or discussing an issue. Page 30 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1.6 Data and Analysis of Elements 1.6(b) Conservation and Coastal Management Element 1.6 b) Conservation and Coastal Management Element Introduction Cape Canaveral contains and is surrounded by a number of valuable natural resources. All of these resources contribute to the quality of life for residents of the City, and many of them provide natural functions which are of particular social and economic value to the community. In order to preserve the value these resources represent, it is necessary to consider the value of these environmental features throughout the planning process. This area is part of the Florida East Coast Basin, a coastal estuarine system, and is also a component of the Indian River Lagoon system. It should be pointed out at the onset that the value of environmentally sensitive areas is not simply the loss of some "intrinsic" value or benefit, but also loss to the social and economic welfare of the community. The Conservation/Coastal Management Element is intended to provide information on the value of the existing natural resources in Cape Canaveral and to encourage their conservation and protection. It is hoped that through the use of this and other elements of the Comprehensive Plan, City officials will guide the growth of the City in such a way that a balance will be struck between the short-term benefits of altering natural systems and the long-term consequences of such actions. The following section provides a basic inventory of environmental conditions pertinent to long- and short-range planning The remaining sections point out particular development guidelines, and policies and objectives through which, if followed, the City can balance expected development demands with the need for preservation and conservation of the natural environment. Existing Conditions The City of Cape Canaveral is located entirely within the coastal zone. The City is bordered on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and on the west by the Banana River. This area is part of the Florida East Coast River Basin, which is essentially a coastal estuarine system made up of Florida's natural rivers and the Intracoastal Waterway. Natural Resources of the Cape Canaveral Area The quality of life in Cape Canaveral is greatly affected by the quality and availability of vital natural resources, such as water, air, soil, and light. Other natural resources are also important to the quality of life and must be maintained not only for the current residents of the area, but also for future generations. Once degraded, these resources are difficult or impossible to restore and, in most cases, essential or useful functions provided by these resources and are extremely expensive to duplicate by artificial means. Page 31 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Ecological Communities There are eight major ecological communities within Brevard County. These district communities are as follows: 1. Atlantic Ocean 2. Atlantic Beach and Dunes 3. Island Interior 4. Lagoonal Water's Edge 5. Lagoon 6. Atlantic Coastal Ridge 7. St. Johns River Plateau 8. St. Johns River Valley These communities represent areas of similar environmental conditions with respect to topography, water, soils, vegetation and wildlife. Each community contributes in varying degrees to the function of the whole natural system. Also, each community has a unique range of tolerance to man's activities. There are certain physical elements within each area which must be maintained if essential natural functions are to continue. The City of Cape Canaveral extends from the Atlantic Ocean community to the Lagoonal community. The first five communities listed above are found within the City of Cape Canaveral. Some major characteristics of these communities are shown in Table 2-1. Condition of Resources in the Cape Canaveral Area An additional factor pertaining to the natural environment of the community is the condition of its resources. Rule 9J-5.013(a) requires that the following natural resources, where present within the local government's boundaries, be identified and analyzed: 1. Rivers, bays, lakes, wetlands including estuarine marshes, and air, including information on quality of the resource available from and classified by the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation; 2. Floodplains; 3. Known sources of commercially valuable minerals; 4. Areas known by the local soil and water conservation district to have experienced soil erosion problems; and 5. Fisheries, wildlife, marine habitats, and vegetative communities including forests, indicating known dominant species present and species listed by federal, state, or local government agencies as endangered, threatened or species of special concern. Air Resources In general, air quality in the Cape Canaveral area is good. Those problems that have occurred are due primarily to ship pollution, the coastal fuels business and the two Page 32 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Orlando Utilities Commission and Florida Power and Light power plants which are located nearby. Individually, each of these plants usually meets state requirements. At times, however, wind conditions may cause the emissions from these two plants to augment each other, causing high amounts of particulate matter and sulfur dioxide to reach ground level. This infrequent condition, however, has not resulted in any serious threats to the health of area residents. Other potential and occasional sources of air pollution in the area stem from rocket launchings, cargo and cruise ships, fuel storage tanks, automobiles and brush/forest fires. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) maintains a number of air quality monitoring stations in the area. Upon request DEP will perform additional monitoring in the area. The station nearest to Cape Canaveral is the Merritt Island station. These stations measure the ambient air quality for areas which are monitored by them. Ambient air quality standards have been set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to Section 109 of the Clean Air Act. State ambient air quality standards have been developed by DEP. Upon request the Orlando area DEP station may also monitor conditions. Since Brevard County is not as highly urbanized as certain other counties in Florida, DEP does not monitor for all pollutants in Brevard County - it has only measured for total suspended particulate matter (TSP), which shows that TSP concentrations are well within acceptable limits. No data are available for air quality problems from poor traffic circulation, though it can reasonably be assumed that they too are within acceptable limits. An FDEP air quality monitoring station is located in Cocoa Beach adjacent to the former Freedom 7 Elementary School, approximately five miles south of the City of Cape Canaveral. While this station primarily measures ozone, it apparently monitors a variety of other air quality parameters as well. Water Resources As was stated previously, Cape Canaveral is bounded on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and on the west by the Banana River. There are no other natural waterbodies within the City. The Banana River is a component of the Indian River Lagoon system, which has been designated by the USEPA as an estuary of natural significance. The portion of the Banana River immediately adjacent to the City is classified by the State of Florida as Class III waters. Designated uses of Class III waters are wildlife. In addition, most of the Banana River has been designated by the state as an Aquatic Preserve (A-7) and as Outstanding Florida Waters. The portion of the Banana River adjacent to the City is both an Aquatic Preserve and an Outstanding Florida Water. Although the Banana River is technically a tidal waterbody, due to the distance from the nearest ocean inlet, tides are very small and are not a major factor in circulation in the Banana River. The limited circulation which does occur is primarily wind -driven. These conditions result in limited exchange of waters with other segments of the Banana River, Page 33 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 the Indian River or the Atlantic Ocean. As a result, the Banana River is a fragile, environmentally sensitive resource which is highly susceptible to pollutant loadings. In general, the best areas of water quality lie adjacent to undeveloped areas of the river. This would be off the northwest quadrant of the City due to the extensive vacant land there. However, south of that area, the water quality is generally poor, with some spots as seasonally degraded or eutrophic (near Cocoa Beach). It is only further out into the river that average to transitional quality water is found. In no part of the lagoon is the water rated excellent to good. The condition of the water resources of the area is a crucial importance in regards to both the preservation of the natural environment and the continued growth of the City. The City of Cape Canaveral beach is considered a bluewave beach. Pollution of open marine waters is of concern because of the operations of Port Canaveral (adjacent and to the north of the City). The most serious pollution problems at the Port are from flushing and cleaning operations on the vessels which dock there. Oil spills have occurred in the port vicinity but have been relatively minor. In general, however, the marine waters are relatively clean. Some degradation of the beachfront waters has occurred, due most likely to urban runoff entering from direct stormwater outfalls of nearby municipalities. The problem should be mitigated through increased controls of point and non -point sources in the urban areas. An additional water -quality concern is that of the effects of domestic sewage on the river and estuarine system which borders the City. The major pollutant sources degrading the quality of the water and threatening the ecosystem of the estuary are sewage effluent, which is discharged into the water body, urban stormwater drainage, and non point stormwater runoff. The City has obtained a MSW 4 permit, or DEP permit that is issued to demonstrate utilization of best management practices. The Cape Canaveral stormwater drainage system encompasses the entire built-up area of the City and discharges into the Banana River at 4 6 separate pipe outlets which are several blocks apart from one another. As would be expected, studies show that these discharges contribute to the enrichment (degradation) of the lagoonal waters. However, baffle boxes have been installed to remove sediment and other materials to counteract this potential degradation. The wastewater treatment plant has been upgraded since 1999 which has improved the discharge by upgrading to advanced wastewater treatment which discharges into the Banana River from the lower edge of the northwest quadrant of the City. Other important pollution sources are: pesticide residues, low dissolved oxygen problems, man -induced salinity changes, pollution from recreational activities, restrictions to natural flow, and dredge and fill activities. The impact of these other pollutants varies according to the type, and while negative, is not yet prohibitively so; nevertheless, attempts to reduce these pollutants would have a positive influence on the water quality of the River. Page 34 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 There exists a relatively large area of marine grass beds west of the City in the Banana River. Although the overall water quality has been degraded, many of these areas remain productive, and their value should not be overlooked. Seagrass beds play an important role as shelter for young fish and benthis macroinvertebrates; as a food source for invertebrates, fish and manatees; as an "anchor" for bottom sediments; by adding to the dissolved oxygen (DO) in the water; and as a mechanism for the assimilation of nutrients such as phosphates and nitrates. Additionally, these areas are valuable for water storage in times of flooding (though this capacity is limited due to the low-lying elevations of the surround uplands), and also help to maintain water quality as well as to provide wildlife habitat. The water -quality problems of Cape Canaveral are area -wide problems, and therefore, an area -wide framework is required in order to control and solve them. The City of Cape Canaveral has upgraded its wastewater facility to advanced wastewater treatment and the implementation of reclaimed water system will help to reduce discharges into the Banana River. The City is also coordinating with the St. Johns Water Management District to reduce stormwater discharge into the river. Floodplains Figure 2-1 at the end of the chapter displays the flood prone areas within the City of Cape Canaveral. As can be seen from the map, the areas adjacent to the Banana River fall within Zone SAE. The B zone consists of those areas between the limits of the 100 year flood and the 500 year flood. The AE zone are those areas subject to 100 year Flood. The areas adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean fall within Zone A9 VE. and Zone V10. The V zones are areas of 100 year coastal flooding with velocity (wave action), with the number indicating elevation. The VE zone consists of areas of coastal flood with velocity hazard (wave action). As noted elsewhere in the Plan, the areas of the City within the 100-year floodplain consist of beaches, dunes, multi -unit residential structures, vacant lots, park land, two wetlands, streets, some single-family housing, boat docks and ramps, vegetation, dune crossing structures, etc. The City's intention is basically to continue to permit such uses with limitations consistent with the purpose of protecting human life and property. Some of the areas are disturbed (by development) and others are natural (e.g., the wetlands and vacant lots). Generally, the soil types are suitable for typical types of development already found in the floodplain. Flooding is rare, generally caused only by a severe storm like a hurricane. The floodplain offers a variety of benefits -- e.g., natural modification of floods, maintenance of water quality, secondary aquifer recharge, support of flora and fauna, the presence of two biologically projective wetlands, provides open space and other recreation opportunities, and offers aesthetic and other intangible attributes of socio- economic value. Theoretically, it would be preferable that development not occur in the floodplain. However, much development already exists there, and further development there is inevitable. Under the circumstances, the City should allow controlled Page 35 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 development to take place while maintaining the functions of the floodplain to the maximum feasible degree. Minerals There are no known sources of commercially valuable minerals within the City of Cape Canaveral. Erosion No areas have been indicated which have experienced significant soil erosion problems other than beach erosion which takes place along the Atlantic beach. Beach erosion is caused by the development of a man-made port and jetty. Beach erosion is a direct result of a manmade port and jetty just north of the City. Fisheries and Marine Habitats Both the Banana River and the Atlantic Ocean provide fishing, crabbing and clamming for residents and visitors to the area. They also serve as marine habitats. These two resources are discussed in more detail in other sections of this element. See "Wildlife and Vegetative Communities" below for more information. Wildlife and Vegetative Communities The listing of wildlife in the Cape Canaveral area includes fishes found in the ocean and the lagoon, marine and land mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and birds. There are some stands of trees within the City, but none would be considered as forests. A listing of types of flora which may be found within the City follows the listings of animals. In addition, there is a separate listing for endangered, threatened, and species of special concern. Vegetation is a valuable resource. Naturally -occurring vegetative species have adapted and maintained their density along the various environmental gradients. The most severe influences are determined by salinity of air and water, temperature, constant wind, and adverse soil conditions. Vegetation performs the following functions: dune stabilization, river shoreline protection, reduction in air and noise pollution, inhibiting runoff, provision of habitat and food for wildlife, enhancement of aesthetic qualities, provision of resources for pursuits in education -recreation -research, reduction of wind and water velocity, and contribution to water quality through nutrient absorption. Population growth and subsequent increase in development has lead to concerns over the removal of native vegetation. The effect of this removal has manifested itself through noticeable changes in erosion rates, aesthetics, native vegetation density and water quality. Although not so readily visible, this removal has also affected the delicate ecological balance to a degree to warrant concerns over water conservation, air pollution and preservation of wildlife. Unfortunately, often after development, the site is severely Page 36 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 altered, and the conditions which allowed the initial flourishing of the native vegetation no longer exist. Table 2-1 (Summary of Ecological Communities) generally describes shoreline vegetation. The Banana River shoreline along the large tract of vacant developable land in the northwest area is not heavily vegetated, and there are few trees there. Along the southwest shore of the river, vegetation is fairly well wooded. The only wetlands in the City (according to USC&GS quad map) are small ones: the Hall Island bird sanctuary just off the southwest shore in the Banana River and a couple of acres on shore across from that "island." Along the southeast coastal beach area, generally development of multi -unit residential complexes has resulted in the elimination of some vegetation, except for plant growth along the dunes. Along the northeast coast, where development is less intense and some large vacant tracts still exist, vegetative communities are better preserved, and some tropical hammock phenomena exist. Table 2-2 lists native plant species that may be found in the City. Table 2-3 lists endangered, threatened and species of special concern that also may found in the City. The likely impact of future development on these shoreline areas depends mostly on the location. Impact will be minimal on the Banana River side because either there is little room for development (southwest area) or the plant growth is not particularly notable (northwest area). On the Atlantic Coast side, the shoreline vacant lots along the southeast are pretty much devoid of trees. There could be more impact along the northeast coast if care is not taken to preserve some of the wooded areas. To assist in the protection of flora and fauna, the City should work with the Brevard County Office of Natural Resources Management (ONRM) to determine what specific steps the City can take on that regard. Geographic Areas of Particular Concern In the land and water area within and surrounding Cape Canaveral, there exist several geographic areas of particular concern. These are areas that may have significance as conservation or preservation areas or areas in which alteration of the natural environment may cause serious environmental damage. The following areas are considered geographic areas of particular concern: 1. The portion of the Banana River which has been specified as a state aquatic preserve or wildlife refuge. 2. The marine grass beds located at the western shoreline of the City along the Banana River. 3. Seven archaeological sites — found in Future Land Use Map. 4. The beaches and dunes bordering the Atlantic Ocean. The first three of these geographic areas of particular concern have been designated as such for strictly preservation or conservation reasons. Note, however, that it is difficult to protect the seven known archaeological sites because they are all in the same general area of Center Street, and most, if not all, are either not physically identifiable or already Page 37 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 overrun with development. It is noted elsewhere in this Plan that the City will maintain a list of the sites to cross-check against any future adjacent development. The fourth area of concern, the Atlantic beaches and dunes, has been designated as such because destruction or widespread alteration of this natural resource will cause serious damage to the overall environment of Cape Canaveral. The hurricane flood zone has been included in this group to point out flood hazards. The Atlantic beaches and dunes extends from the mean high water line of the beach to the primary dune extending landward to the trough behind the dune. The beaches and dunes provide wind and wave protection, shoreline maintenance, wildlife habitat and shallow aquifer recharge. The soils are well -drained, with typical vegetation of sea oats, sea grape, railroad vine, yucca and some Australian pines. Wildlife found here includes mole crabs, coquina clams, blue crabs, sea turtles, and such bird species as brown pelicans, plovers, sandpipers, gulls, and terns. The particular environmental concern which relates to the Atlantic beach and dune system involves the increased potential for extensive storm damage to coastal property due to the alteration or destruction of the dunes. The dune slopes to from the ocean beach up to the highway and is covered with beach vegetation, which is highly tolerant to salt spray and varying moisture conditions. The destruction of this vegetation, by pedestrians or motor vehicles, would leave the dune unprotected from wind and wave erosion, thus having basically the same effect as actual destruction of the dune. Either of these occurrences would eventually result in a breach in the dune system and, in turn, would cause: increased wind erosion, allowing sand to freely blow to inland properties; runoff and erosion problems when heavy rains occur; and destruction of the natural dune system that buffer's upland property during times of severe storms and hurricanes. The dunes are also thought to play a crucial role in the prevention of severe beach erosion by replenishing the beach sand after storms occur. As has been noted elsewhere in this Element, the City has taken steps to protect the dune system by developing dune crossover structures. Efforts to vegetate the dunes have also been successful. To replenish the dunes, comparable sandy material from other sources can be hauled in. It has been found that vegetating and "re -stocking" the dunes has been effective in minimizing dune erosion. Beach erosion is also a problem, the city beaches have been designated by the State of Florida as severely eroded. As previously noted, periodic beach renourishment helps mitigate beach erosion. There are no coastal or shore protection structures. Sand fences and sea oats were placed along the ocean to help with these issues. Another environmental concern that should not be overlooked is the safety of structures built within the area designated as the hurricane flood zone. These are lands lying between the shoreline and the 100-year flood line that are subject to flooding by hurricane -driven tides on a statistical probability of a one percent chance to occur in any given year. This frequency represents an average; such a flood may occur several times within a short time span or may delay for a considerable period. Hurricane -driven tides are accompanied by severe wave action and are potentially far more destructive than Page 38 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 rising water associated with poor drainage. Development within the hurricane flood zone should recognize these intrinsic hazards and use appropriate construction techniques to minimize damage. Future storm losses can be minimized, but only if they are anticipated and planned for well ahead of time. The City participates in the National Flood Insurance Program. To quality for insurance under this program, all new residential construction must have ground flood elevations above the 100-year flood stage. Other uses have the option of either making ground floor elevations above this level or flood -proofing buildings to that height. Enforcement is accomplished by requiring compliance before releasing any federally -insured mortgage funds for new construction. Government Controls and Regulations Federal and state agencies provide a broad array of laws, administrative rules and programs of potential utility for achieving most coastal resources management goals. The range of management tools includes not only the rules and standards of regulatory authorities, but also incentive programs designed to guide the actions of individuals and organizations which are active in the coastal zone. A summary of the state authorities which have jurisdiction over particular activities is shown in Table 2-4. Table 2-5 provides a more specific outline of official state agencies and policies relating to each of the natural resources which have previously been identified. In general, the function of these state agencies is to prevent or reduce misuse of coastal zone resources; however, they cannot provide the close supervision of local growth necessary for efficient use of the coastal zone. The management of this growth can best be accomplished through local government controls, such as environment - related ordinances and planning, zoning and building codes. The building codes must correspond with State regulations for the coastal building zone within the coastal zone. The following sections of this element address the local policies and controls which are necessary for the conservation and protection of the natural resources of the coastal zone. Development in the Coastal Environment It is the common interest of both the public and private sectors to protect and preserve those natural resources which contribute to the quality of our environment. Many separate factors come into play in decisions regarding how to use coastal resources. The developer is concerned with economic feasibility and legal authorities. The recreationist and tourist are concerned with surrounding land uses and public services as well as the enjoyment of the environment. All of these interests are operating simultaneously and all of them rely on the same natural environment for fulfillment of their particular needs of interests. In most cases these interests compete, and in some cases, they may conflict. The resolution of these conflicts is the job of the City's government. Through consideration of the issues and adherence to environmental principles, building codes, land use controls and at times, simply the best judgment of elected officials, these Page 39 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 conflicts are resolved. It is through this process that the development of the coastal zone takes place. It is crucial that, in this process and in all development decisions, natural resources and the natural environment be considered. Characteristics of the Coastal Zone The land uses along the shoreline of the City are nearly all residential and recreational (e.g., passive enjoyment of the beach, access to swimming, boating and fishing). We have noted the existence of vacant lots and tracts, particularly along the northwest and northeast shorelines. There are a few light industrial uses including the City's wastewater treatment plant in the lower part of the northwest quadrant of the City. Residential uses are limited to a few condominium facilities along the southeast Atlantic coastline and Banana River. The situation described is depicted on the Existing Land Use Map in the Land -Use Element. At present, there is little or no conflict among shoreline uses. As far as the impacts of this land use pattern are concerned, many of them have been mentioned elsewhere in this Plan. Certain important impacts are: to the extent that residential development exists along the shoreline, there is an increased potential danger to human life and property from coastal storms, and there is an additional burden on the transportation and hurricane evacuation systems. Also, there is an added need for emergency services to cater to this population. There are a few areas in need of redevelopment. As with existing land use, the economic base of the coastal area is generally the same as that of the overall City. A discussion of the economy was included in the Socio-Economic Study, as a part of the overall Comprehensive Plan. The Existing Land Use Map in the Land Use Element shows the existing land uses. Currently, the water -related or water dependent uses within the City are few: i.e., the wastewater treatment plant, private small boat docks, the drainage system, private boat ramps, and beach access facilities. Analyses of the effect of the future land uses as shown on the Future Land Use Map are not expected to have as much greater impact on the coastal zone than currently exists. This is because those uses are likely to be residential in nature. It is not anticipated that development and redevelopment will have an impact on historic resources, as no historical resources or historic preservation areas have been designated. Seven archeological sites have been identified and the general locations have been mapped. Cape Canaveral has a stormwater management ordinance which limits runoff in new development. As further retention and detention areas are provided, it is likely that the amount of runoff will decrease, thereby reducing the overall influence of freshwater runoff and oil and grease allowed to flow into the river. Future impacts of development and facilities discussed in other elements of the comprehensive plan are included in those elements. Page 40 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Disaster Preparedness The City has adopted and disseminated a Disaster Preparedness Plan. This plan is a part of the overall Brevard County Emergency Management Plan for evacuation. As the entire City is located within the coastal zone, all persons in the City will be required to evacuate should a major storm threaten the area. All persons will be required to evacuate using S.R.-528, the Bennett Causeway. Early evacuation is to be encouraged. A Category 4 — 5 hurricane approaching Cape Canaveral from the east can cause tidal waves of 4-5 up to 20 feet. Since the elevations of the City are generally below this level, major flooding could occur. It is stressed that evacuation is the key to survival in severe weather conditions, when heavy flooding may be expected and that this evacuation must be completed before arrival of the main force of the storm. All persons must be evacuated. The actual number of persons required to evacuate, therefore, corresponds with the number of persons within the City at the time of evacuation. Projections of population were shown in the Socio-Economic Study, which is a part of the overall Comprehensive Plan. Brevard County is working on a hurricane preparedness study as a guide to local governments in their evacuation planning process. Using the methodologies described in Table 2 6, reflects pertinent evacuation demand data. The map following the tables. depicts the routes which must be used by persons in Cape Canaveral. The City uses the Brevard County Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan as a tool for hurricane preparedness. The County updates the plan annually and every four years it is reviewed by the State. Currently, the County plan is under state review. The evacuation planning process must take into account the needs of special populations which may be transportation disabled. It should be stressed that persons who may need assistance in evacuation should register with the Fire Department. This department maintains a file which includes the names and addresses of persons who may need assistance during an evacuation. The East Central Florida Regional Planning Council conducted a survey of behavioral response to the issuance of an evacuation order. According to this survey, residents would begin to evacuate at differing time intervals following an order to evacuate, with 100 percent of residents initiating evacuation within seven hours of issuance of the order. The results of this survey, in terms of percentage of population for each hour, are presented in Table 2 7, along with the resulting vehicle trip productions in Cape Canaveral for 1990 2000. Early evacuation in the event of a severe storm should be strongly stressed to the persons in Cape Canaveral. They should be urged to evacuate as soon as possible to prevent being stranded on the barrier island. Every effort should be made to encourage early evacuation in order to maintain or reduce hurricane evacuation times. Because of the location of the City in the coastal zone, no hurricane evacuation shelters are provided Page 41 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 within Cape Canaveral. Shelters are provided on the mainland in Brevard County. In addition, to these shelters, however, persons also use shelters in other areas such as in inland counties. The local telephone book has a list of these shelters. Since 1990, there was one (Erin, 1995) coastal storm directly affecting the City. In 2004 the City was hit by Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne, however only minor to moderate property damage was sustained. The area adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean within Cape Canaveral is in the V-Zone, as shown on the flood insurance rate map (FIRM). This zone will suffer inundation as well as destructive forces associated with wave action. The structures located within the City, including those in the V-Zone, have been constructed in accordance with adopted codes and ordinances. These regulations have been amended from time to time in response to improved technology and public awareness of the unique problems resulting from construction of manmade improvements within the coastal zone. Any redevelopment which may be required as a result of a major coastal storm will be carried out in accordance with regulations governing construction in the coastal zone. The coastal high -hazard areas are those designated as being in the V-Zone. For the most part, the developed portions of this zone contain multi -family residential development. Generally, such structures are constructed utilizing building codes stricter than single- family. Infrastructure within this area is mainly water and sewer lines connecting to these developments and local streets providing access to the developments. Therefore, little potential exists for relocating such infrastructure. The entire City is located within the coastal high hazard area. Recent legislation for high -hazard areas discourages public expenditure of funds that encourage increased densities and intensities. The beach and dune system associated with the Atlantic Ocean runs from the north city limits to the south city limits. The westward boundary of the system is the dune system, and the eastward boundary is the mean low water line. The major portion of the beach, within Cape Canaveral, has a variable width of between 25 and 10Q 150 feet. Measures which can be used to protect or restore beaches and dunes include the following: Planning Planting of vegetation along the dune system - Crosswalks at access points to the beach - Periodic renourishment of the beach It should be noted that the City has a "Beach and Dunes" protection ordinance (Chapter 102 of the City Code), which provides for the preservation of natural vegetative cover related to beaches and dunes. Section 637.44 of the City's zoning regulations requires that developments of four or more units provide adequate dune crossovers. Presently, the water -related or water -dependent uses within Cape Canaveral are very limited. There are no marinas or fish processing facilities. Also, there are no public boat ramps on the Banana River within the City (though private ramps, docks, and access points do exist). The beach area lies between S.R.-AlA and the Atlantic Ocean from the Page 42 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 north city limits to the south city limits. This area is approximately 1.9 miles in length. The City has an excellent system of beach access points with dune crossovers (see Beach Access Map). Currently, there are 20 public pedestrian access points with dune crossovers to the beach, including dune crossovers with ADA capabilities, but no point for emergency vehicle access. This system was developed in coordination with the Florida Department of Natural Resources. Many of the dune/beach access points interface with a street, and limited parking space is available at the edge of the streets, but there are no associated parking lots. However, private developments have substantial nearby parking. In 2002 the City established two new public beach access points at the Cape Caribe development and the Mystic Vista development. Existing infrastructure within the coastal area is of the same basic type (e.g., water lines, sewer lines, streets) as in the overall city. The demand upon, capacity of, and area served by the existing infrastructure is the same as those discussed in other elements of the Comprehensive Plan. Analyses which estimate future needs for those facilities are provided in the corresponding elements of the Plan. Relocation of the existing infrastructure from the coastal high -hazard area would be unrealistic (e.g., It is not reasonable to remove or replace such infrastructure as sewer and water lines, streets, etc., from places where it serves existing residential facilities). Therefore, the City should not consider relocation or replacement of such infrastructure unless it involves an emergency situation where it is economically feasible to do so. The potential for conservation of the small wetland across from Hall Island is good. The City could designate it as a Conservation Area. The City should also encourage developers to retain on the property as much of the wildlife habitat and vegetative communities as possible. There have been no known cases in the City of major problems with the existence of hazardous wastes. It is clear, however, that the small-scale producers of hazardous wastes - the average household - need to be further educated as to how to safely dispose of such wastes as pesticides, herbicides, paints, and similar chemicals because those types of wastes should not be disposed of with other trash garbage. The problem of a potentially large chemical spill; e.g., from a ruptured fuel storage tank, is a different matter. If such a disaster were to occur, clean-up experts would have to be involved on an emergency basis, along with the appropriate State and/or Federal officials. The City needs to work with other appropriate governmental agencies to implement disaster planning to handle large-scale problems with hazardous wastes. Page 43 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Emergency Water Conservation In the event of a severe water shortage, probably caused by drought conditions, the City should work with the Cocoa water system and the St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) to implement necessary conservation measures (e.g., limiting water use to certain types of uses). The City could assist by monitoring and enforcing the requirements of the SJRWMD. Page 44 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1.6 Data and Analysis of Elements 1.6 b) Conservation and Coastal Management Element Table(s) 2-1 through 2-5 Figure 2-1: Flood Zone Map Figure 2-2: Beach Access Points Map Figure 2-3: Hurricane Evacuation Route Map Page 45 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 2-1 SUMMARY OF ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES IN AREA COMMUNITY ATLANTIC OCEAN ATLANTIC BEACH AND DUNES ISLAND INTERIOR LAGOONAL WATER'S EDGE LAGOON DESCRIPTION SOILS VEGETATION This zone begins three miles east of the MHW line and extends west through the breaking surf to the MHW line Submerged Plankton, sarragussum, seaweed. Area extends from the MHW line of the beach to the primary dune extending landward to the trough behind the dune. Well drained sand and shells Dune grass, sea oats, sea grape, railroad vine, yucca, invasion by Australian Pine West of trough behind primary dune or west of AlA to 50' from lagoons at water's edge or natural wetlands contiguous to lagoon. Well drained sand and shells with thin organic layer Live oaks, scrub pine, cabbage palm, saw palmetto, wax myrtle, Invasion by Australian Pine and Brazilian Pepper Land area bordering lagoon to 50' inland. Poorly drained, nearly level, Saline to brackish soils with sandy loamy material Oaks at higher elevation with some cabbage palm, mangroves, black, red, white; Spartina grass in marsh areas; invasion of Brazilian Peppers. Banana River Lagoon Submerged Submerged Aquatic q Vegetation (SAV) Page 46 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 2-1 con't. SUMMARY OF ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES IN AREA COMMUNITY ATLANTIC OCEAN ATLANTIC BEACH AND DUNES ISLAND INTERIOR LAGOONAL WATER'S EDGE LAGOON WILDLIFE NATURAL Seabirds, brown pelicans, gulls and terns, marine life, bottle nose dolphins, shrimp shark, catfish whiting, mullet, seasonal visits by blue fish, king mackerel, Spanish mackerel, pompano. Maintenance of marine life, Moderation of Climate Mole crabs, coquina crabs, blue crabs, sea turtles, brown pelicans,cormora of plovers and pipers, gulls and terns Wind and wave protection for inland; Shoreline Maintenance; Maintenance of marine and wildlife; shallow aquifer recharge (dunes) Raccoons, opossums, song- birds, wading marsh birds like egrets and herons in wet areas Maintenance of wildlife; Shallow aquifer recharge in elevated areas. A variety of wading birds, brown pelicans, cormorants, species of anhieciesgas, gulls, sandpipers, water snakes, swamp rabbits, raccoons, alligators. Shoreline stability, Maintenance of water quality; Maintenance of wilFUNCTION i. Maintenance aMaintenance of marine life through propagation of juvenile stages Marine life: sea trout, channel bass, catfish, menhaden, mullet, shrimp, oysters, clams, birds, osprey, brown pelican, anhigas,nts, migratory water fowl, gulls, terns, bottlenose dolphins, manatee, alligators Maintenance of marine life, Moderation of Climate Page 47 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 2-1 con't. SUMMARY OF ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES IN AREA COMMUNITY ATLANTIC OCEAN ATLANTIC BEACH AND DUNES ISLAND INTERIOR LAGOONAL WATER'S EDGE LAGOON ELEMENTS ESSENTIAL TO NATURAL FUNCTION POST DEVELOPMENT CHARACTER Good water quality Dredged channels outside of port; pollution (oil residue and garbage) Natural beach profile, uninterrupted littoral drift; natural dune form; hardy vegetation; good water quality Jetties, cut man- made inlets; intense development of primary dune area; removal of fore dune and replacement with bulkhead; breaches of dune due to pedestrian activity Vegetation; good water quality Some areas heavily urbanized, with many wells affecting groundwater quality; native vegetation stripped or replaced Healthy and profusepr Some areas are mosquito control impoundments; many areas filled and elevated for residential development and stripped of natural vegetation Good water quality; natural circulation Some areas dredged for boat channels; spoil islands Source: Brevard County Planning Department, Brevard County Comprehensive Plan, Conservation/Central Zone Protection Element, 1990 Page 48 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 2-2 Native Plant Species, City of Cape Canaveral Generally, Area East of SR AlA West of AlA Trees: Trees and Shrubs Cabbage Palm (Sable palmetto) Cabbage Palm (Sable palmetto) Saw Palmetto (Serenoa repens) Saw Palmetto (Serenoa repens) Seagrape (Cocoaloba uvibera) Aloe Yucca (Yucca aloifolia) Coastal Willow (Salix caroliniana) Shrubs: Wax Myrtle (Myrica cerifera) Tallowwood (Xinerna americana) Oak (Quercus sp.) Running Oak (Quercus pumala) Brazilian Pepper (Schinus terebinthifolia) Wax Myrtle (Myrica cerifera) Red Mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) Coral Bean (Erythrina herbacca) White Mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa) Marsh Elder (Iva imbricata) Black Mangrove (Avicenna nitida) Austalian Pine (Casuarina equinquenrvia) Herbaceous: Punk -tree (Melaleuca quinquenrvia) Sea Puralane (Sesuvium sp.) Baccharis (Baccharis hamilifolia) Rattlebox (Crorolaria sp.) Blueberry (Vaccinium sp.) Clover (Desmodium sp.) Beach Croton (Crotan punctatus) Herbaceous: Blanket Flower (Gailardia pulchella) Fleabane (Ergeron sp.) Ragwort (Senecia sp.) Grasses: Aster (Senecia sp.) Wiregrass (Astida stricta) Periwinkle (Vinca sp.) Southern Sandspur (Cenchrua echinatus) Ground Cherry (Physalis heterophylla) Saltgrass (Distichlis spicata) Beachgrass (Pancum sp.) Grasses: Sea Oats (Unola pancultata) Codgrass (Spartina sp) Broomsedge (Andropogon sp) Vines: Sawgrass (Cladium jamaicense) Green Briar (Smilax sp.) Blackrush (Juncus roemerianus) Muscadine Grape (Vitis munsonana) Beach Morning Glory (Iponoea sp.) Vines: Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus Railroad Vine (Ipomoea pes-caprea) quinquefolia) Grape (Vitis sp.) Dodder (Cuscuta campistris) Clematis (Clematis sp.) Cactus: Prickly pear (Opeuntia sp.) Source: Ecological Investication of Four Mile Island, 1980, by Dr. John G. Morris, Department of Ecological Services, FIT Page 49 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 2-3 ENDANGERED, THREATENED AND SPECIES OF SPECIAL CONCERN Endangered Species Endangered Reptiles: leatherback turtles atlantic green turtle Atlantic hawksbill turtle Atlantic Ridley turtle Atlantic salt marsh snake Endangered Mammals West Indian Manatee Endangered Birds: wood stork peregrine falcon bald eagle piping plover roseate tern least tern Florida Scrub Jay Demochelys corlacea corlacea Eretmochelys imbricata imbricata Eretmochelys imbricata imbiricata Lepidochelys kempi Nerodia fasiata taeniata Mycteria americana Falco peregrinus Haliaeetus leucocephalus Charadrius melodus Sterna dougallii Sterna albifrons (Sterna antillarum) Page 50 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 2-3 con't. ENDANGERED, THREATENED AND SPECIES OF SPECIAL CONCERN Threatened Species Threatened Reptiles: Atlantic loggerhead turtle Eastern indigo snake Threatened Plants: inkberry (beach berry) prickly -pear cactus Fish Species of Special Concern snook brown pelican little blue heron reddish egret snowy egret Louisiand heron (tricolored heron) roseate spoonbill American oystercatcher burrowing owl Reptile Species of Special Concern: gopher tortoise American alligator Caretta caretta caretta Drymarchon corais couperi Scaevota plumieri Opuntia stricta Centropomus undecimalis Pelecanus occidentails Egretta caerulea Egretta refescens Egretta thula Egretta tricolor Ajaia ajaia Haematopus palliates Speoyto cunicularis Gopherus polyphemus Alligator mississippiensis Source: Ecological Investication of Four Mile Island, 1980, by Dr. John G. Morris, Department of Ecological Services, FIT Page 51 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 2-4 STATE AUTHORITIES IN COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT BY ACTIVITY Uses/Activities Subject to State sets criteria for State Permitting or State Planning or Management Local Regulation Management Implementation Developments of Regional DCA, HRS DEP, DBR, WMD G&F, DOS DEP Impact Non-DRI Construction/Operation Development in Areas of DCA, HRS DEP, DBR, WMD G&F, DEP Critical State Concern Power Plants/Energy Facilities DEP,WMD G&F, DOS, DEP Utilities/Pipelines Installations across submerged lands DEP G&F Transportatoin & Mavigation DEP G&F Projects/ports & Offshore Terminals Exhaust Emissions in DEP Atmosphere Commercial Docks/ Marinas DEP G&F, DEP Private Docks DEP Dredging/Filling DEP, WMD G&F, DOS, DEP Mineral/Shell Extraction DEP G&F, DEP Oil Exploration, Production & DEP G&F, DEP Transportation Sewage Treatment/Disposal DEP, WMD Discharges into State Waters DEP DEP, WMD Drainage Projects DEP, WMD G&F, DEP Impoundments DEP, WMD G&F, DOS, DEP Water Wells HRS DEP, WMD Page 52 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 2-4 con't. STATE AUTHORITIES IN COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT BY ACTIVITY Uses/Activities Subject to State sets criteria for State Permitting or State Planning or Management Local Regulation Management Implementation Solid Waste Management DEP SER Agriculture/Irrigation Forestry DEP, DF D&F, DF Practices Development in and DCA DEP DCA Evacuation of Hurricane Flood Zone Shoreline Erosion Control DEP Structures Beach Restoration DEP Beachfront Development DEP DEP Aquaculture/Mariculture DEP, WMD G&F Artificial Reefs DEP Mosquito/ Anthropod Control DEP G&F, HRS Projects Other uses/Activities Provision of Beach Access DEP Land Sales DBR Harvesting of Marine DEP Resources Boating/safety Navigational DEP Aids Historical Preservation DOS DEP Page 53 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 2-4 con't. STATE AUTHORITIES IN COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT BY ACTIVITY DEP Department of Environmental Protection HRS Department of Health and Rehabilatative Services DBR Department of Business Regulatoin DCA Department of Community Affairs DOR Department of Revenue DOS Department of State G&F Game and Freshwater Fish Commission WMD Water Management District DOT Department of Transportation ACS Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services RPC Regional Planning Councils DF Division of Forestry, Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Page 54 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 States Objectives General State Policy Responsible State Agencies Existing State Regulatory Support and Controls To preserve, protect, and allow public access and display of sites important to Florida history and archaeology State policy shall be to protect existing sites and to encourage local governments, to institute programs 1. Div. Of Historical Resources 2. Dept of Community Affairs The Bureau of Archaeological Research has responsibility to locate, acquire, protect and promote the location and preservation of historical sites and properties To create maintain and expand outdoor recreation and park facilities for the benefit of state lands for future recreation needs State policy shall be to acquire typical portions of the original domain of the state for the benefit of the public ; to discourage incompatible development within or adjacent to these areas; 1. Div of Recreation & Parks, DEP 2. Dept of Transportation. 3. Div of Forestry, Dept of Agriculture and Customer Services Div of Reek & Parks has authority to administer statewide outdoor recreation planning programs To protect the basic natural functions served by marine grass beds State policy shall be to prevent modification of marine grass beds except in cases shown not contrary to the public interest 2. Dept. of Environmental Protection. 2. Game Fresh Water Fish Commission Marine grass beds are managed by the DEP unless previously sold to private owners or transferred to municipalities Page 55 of325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 States Objectives General State Policy Responsible State Agencies Existing State Regulatory Support and Controls To insure wise use of our water resources. To State policy shall be to insure 1. Dept of Class III Waters are maintain the quality of these waters at a level that present quality is not Environmental monitored by the Dept Env. which will be suitable for water contact sports degraded Protection. Reg., DEPT of HRS, and local and propagation of fish and wildlife. 2. Div of Health, dept of Families and Children health units enforcement assistance is provided by the DEP Marine Patrol Services. 3. Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission To assure that these areas having exceptional State policy shall be to 1. Dept. of Thirty-eight preserves have biological, aesthetic and scientific values be set prevent physical alteration of Environmental been established throughout aside forever as aquatic preserves or sanctuaries aquatic preserves except as Protection. legislative action. Any new for the benefit of future generations prohibited by FS 258.42 2. Game Fresh Water Fish preserves must be approved by the Cabinet. Commission Page 56 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 States Objectives General State Policy Responsible State Agencies Existing State Regulatory Support and Controls Protection of the state's beaches from man State policy shall be to 1. Bureau of DEP, Bureau of Beaches & induced erosion; preservation of coastal dunes as prohibit construction seaward Beaches and Shores establishes the coastal natural hurricane barriers and as sources of of the primary dune line Shores, Dept of construction setback line natural beach replenishment material which would either induce or Natural resources after surveys and public accelerate dune erosion 2. Dept of community input Affairs, Flood Insurance Program 3. Dept of Environmental Protection Page 57 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 City of Cape Canaveral r LEGEND basettirriot4 HAMRA RIMER :94,IPpICT TO We YEAR FILOPP, .14ElASt MOOD NLEV,A,TIONS 17.FTEXIMIINED.. PIMP= TO MPLINEIATION rnms At) Of 1.6i14.1Ag. SHALLOW ELOOIL FLOOD Dirras OF 14 ET. 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PAN* ^ LrfNA AAR 829ASSID Fue Ain AEU AiwAAPARNAN Indy Fin. otooi Diatr tr-13-47 1.6 Data and Analysis of Elements 1.6(c) Infrastructure Element 1.6 c) Infrastructure Element Sanitary Sewer Sub -Element The City of Cape Canaveral operates its own advanced wastewater treatment facility and provides sewer service to all developed sections of the City. The major land uses served by the Cape Canaveral sanitary sewer system are residential, commercial and industrial. The system also receives all flow within Port Canaveral through a 21 inch gravity main at the north end of the City until April 2000. The collection network consists of force mains, gravity mains, interceptors, pump stations and lift stations. Figure 3-1 displays the major components of the collection and transmission system. The major lines included in this system are as follows: Force Mains 4" = 2625' 6" = 350' 10" = 4375' 12" = 3850' 14" = 2450' Gravity Mains 8" = 68273' 10" = 4250' 12" = 2095' 15" = 5938' 16" = 500' 24" = 2438' The overall system is considered in good condition and adequate to serve the needs of the city for over the next 10 years. The portion of the system in the north -central and northwest areas of the City, where most of the developable vacant land is located, currently operates well below capacity and thus has excess capacity to handle growth impacts without new construction. The wastewater treatment plant (originally built in 1966 and subsequently upgraded and expanded to present capacity) provides advanced wastewater treatment by the use of a complete mix activated sludge process. Wastewater is screened, de -gritted and then mixed with stabilized return sludge in the aeration tank. From the aeration tank, the wastewater is directed to the settling tanks, where the solids settle out, and effluent flows to the chlorine contact tank. The effluent is disinfected by the addition of chlorine, then de -chlorinated by the addition of sulfur dioxide, prior to the release to the Banana River. Excess sludge from the settling tank is pumped to the anaerobic digestion tank and is further treated. Table 3-1 shows how the projected demand on the wastewater treatment plant will steadily increase over the 10-year planning period based upon the growing population of the City. However, it should be noted that years 1998 through 2000 had high flows because of infiltration/inflow issues. The City begun a program to replace outdated pipe and as a result the flows have been reduced. These projections support the analysis in the following paragraph. The present design capacity of the treatment plant is 1.8 million gallons per day (MGD). Current average daily flow to the plant is 1.30 MGD. which includes approximately 100,000 gallons per day from Port Canaveral. In order to Page 61 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 calculate the average gallons per capita per day (gpcd), the flow from the Port was subtracted from the average daily flow and then divided by the estimated population. This equated to 109 gpcd. (Note that levels of service in Brevard County range from 100 to 110 gpcd.) Reclaimed Water System The City of Cape Canaveral has planned for and is in the process of constructed a new slow rate public access land application system consisting of a reclaimed water transmission/distribution system (constructed in four (4) phases) for public access irrigation of commercial areas and residential lawns, road medians and landscaped areas throughout the City of Cape Canaveral with an anticipated reuse capacity of 0.80 mgd and a reclaimed water transmission main to the City of Cocoa Beach's reclaimed water transmission system for irrigation of commercial areas and residential lawns (0.65 mgd) for a total potential reuse capacity of 1.45 mgd aadf. Phase I included the Cocoa Beach transmission main and transmission mains within Phases II, III and IV. Phase II consisted of commercial and residential lawns irrigation with an anticipated reuse capacity of 0.277 mgd and Phases III and IV have anticipated reuse capacities of 0.18 mgd and 0.06 mgd, respectively. Reclaim Water Lines Phase I: DI 16" 5676 LF C900 12" 7280 LF C900 10" 430 LF C900 8" 7137 LF C900 6" 1137 LF C900 4" 520 LF The City does have an emergency power plan to maintain the sanitary sewer system during storm emergencies. This includes a backup power generator for the treatment plant and one portable generator. Although the portable generator would have to be moved from station to station to operate pumps, the City cannot afford enough generators to operate all stations simultaneously. With regard to the discharge of effluent from the sewage treatment plant into the Banana River, the effluent is regularly monitored for pollutants according to State and Federal standards. The plant presently meets the requisite State and Federal standards. Drainage System Sub -Element The provision of municipal drainage service usually means assuring that adequate preventative measures are taken by a local government to prevent serious property damage or hazards due to heavy rains. In a coastal community like Cape Canaveral, it should also address minimizing hazards of hurricane -induced flooding. Soils and topography are two primary factors affecting drainage conditions. Soil is important because of the characteristics different soils have of absorbing or repelling water. Soils, along with topography, determine the drainage conditions on any given Page 62 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 parcel of land. In Cape Canaveral, the soils are almost entirely of one predominant type - -- one referred to as the Palm Beach Canaveral Association. It is made up mainly of sand and shell-like materials and has significant absorption capacity. This is an important factor in reducing drainage problems within the City. The topography of the City is the second factor affecting drainage conditions. Like most coastal communities, the City is divided north to south by a number of ridgelines. Ridgewood Avenue marks the City's eastern ridge. East of this ridge, elevations are 8 feet and gradually slope to the ocean beach. West of this ridge, the City is relatively flat and that is generally 8 to 10 feet above mean sea level. Elevations fall again at the western ridge of the City and gradually drop to the river. This western ridge extends the length of the City about 200 feet west of old S.R.-401 in the north, and slants inward to approximately 800 feet west of North Atlantic Avenue at the southern end of the City. The entire northwest portion of the City is west of this ridgeline and very gradually drops from 7 to 4 feet above sea level. The citizens of Cape Canaveral voted in 1966 to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds to fund a badly needed storm drainage system. At that time the City built a drainage system to serve the entire built-up section of the City. The components of the drainage system include catch basins, manholes, various drainage pipes, ditches, sub -drains, and pipes to the Banana River. The system is divided into several separate pipe networks, each of which drain geographic portions of the City. The system effectively drains the City under normal rainfall conditions. It is designed to handle a 5- year storm event by removing excess water within three hours of occurrence. Problems have sometimes occurred in localized areas, but these have been attributed to maintenance deficiencies in drainage pipe or catch basins. The present drainage system is divided into 7 geographic service areas covering the entire built-up City (about 67% of the entire land area), including all residential, commercial, industrial, public/semi-public, and other uses. The entire drainage conduit ultimately discharges into the Banana River. One-third of the City area (about 460 acres) is not served by this drainage system because it consists of large tracts of vacant land in the northwest and northeast sections. The zoning for about 80% of these large tracts of undeveloped land is nearly equally split between the residential and industrial categories; the remainder is zoned for commercial use. When development of these tracts does occur, it will be the responsibility of the developers to provide the on -site drainage infrastructure and to pay for connecting it up to the remainder of the City system. No portions of the existing system appear to be in need of major capital improvements. The overall assessment of system performance is that it is good. The City of Cocoa Beach adjoins Cape Canaveral for a short distance of about 2000 feet at the southwestern limit on the West Side of North Atlantic Avenue. Cocoa Beach has its own separate drainage system. Because of the topography and drainage features in that area, though some runoff from nearby Cocoa Beach lots will enter the Cape Canaveral system, it is minimal and has an almost insignificant impact on the City's drainage capacity in that area. Page 63 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Drainage from septic tanks is not an important problem in the City because as far as is known, there are currently less than 5 being used. Since the hydrogeologic environment is generally one of clean coarse sand and a shallow water table, it is rated poor for the natural attenuation of pollutants. There would likely be contamination problems if a septic tank were located near to a down -gradient well or close to other septic systems. Because most septic tanks are of small capacity, and sewage has a fairly rapid attenuation rate, the contaminant plumes are usually less than 200 feet. Nevertheless, the potential for contamination exists, especially in wet weather. Under these circumstances, the City discourages septic tank use and requires connection to the Public Sewer System where the sewer line is within 150 feet of the parcel in question. With the exception of the need for occasional cleaning of culverts and drainage ways, no current problems exist with the City's drainage system. However, there are some long- range concerns, which should be considered. These can be divided into three areas: provision of drainage improvements for future development; water quality problems relating to the urban runoff in Cape Canaveral; and potential hazards from severe weather or hurricane -related flooding. As the City grows, all of these concerns are likely to generate increasing attention. Since the basic drainage system was constructed in 1966-67, it is now over thirty forty years old and much development has occurred since then. Considering the projected future development within the City, there is probably very little excess capacity in the existing system, improvements, if any, should be made. The City has a great deal only 7% of developable land remaining. The anticipated increase in land coverage by homes, driveways and other impermeable surfaces could radically increase the amount of runoff that now occurs. Furthermore, the majority of this developable land is in the northwestern north and central portions of the City. where elevations are very low and no drainage facilities now exist. Two of the implications of increased development are as follows. First, as more land is developed, the total amount of runoff that is generated will increase. Secondly, runoff will be of a reduced water quality because in fewer instances will it run over vegetated areas, which have a filtering effect on pollutants and sediments. Instead, runoff will flow directly over impermeable areas and into drainage ways and receiving water bodies. In an effort to control the amount of runoff that will occur as further development takes place, the City enacted a Stormwater Management Ordinance. This Ordinance requires new development to retain the first inch of rainfall over the entire development on site. In the case where development exceeds 40 acres, the developer must also satisfy the requirements of the St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD). In addition, drainage facilities are required to be installed in new developments. Rather than direct runoff to water bodies, stormwater is first routed to retention areas. Only in case of severe storms when the retention areas overflow would the stormwater from these new developments flow into existing water bodies. In this case, however, the amount of contaminants would be decreased because the first inch of rainfall must be Page 64 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 retained on site. If the retention areas overflow, the contaminants would be diluted by the increased amount of water present. An assessment of this Ordinance reveals that it has been useful. Solid Waste Sub -Element Provision of solid waste disposal service in Cape Canaveral is accomplished through the use of private refuse companies. Currently, the City has a contract with USA Waste of Florida, for the pickup and transportation of solid wastes. The existing contract began in 1998 and runs until 200d. Currently, the City has a contract with Waste Management for the pickup and transportation of solid wastes. The existing contract began in 2004 and runs until 2009. At that time, the City will have the option to re -negotiate the contract and evaluate the performance of the existing company. Pickup for residential service is twice a week and once a week pick-up for recycling and green waste. Dumpsters used by multi -family residential, commercial and industrial establishments are emptied at a minimum of two times per week. The City has contracted with the City of Cocoa for billing all customers except special users who have specific rates established with the refuse company. Solid waste is transported to the Brevard County Solid Waste Disposal Station as required by County ordinance. All specifics concerning the provision of service and areas of responsibility for the two contract parties are clearly described in the agreement between the City and USA Waste. Under Florida Statute, Brevard County is a designated area for resource recovery. To comply with the Federal law on solid waste and resource recovery, the County built a solid waste disposal system at a cost of approximately $8 million. Based on a special legislative act, the County has sole responsibility for operation of all solid waste disposal facilities within its borders. The existing solid waste disposal system began operations in October of 1976. The system was designed to eliminate contamination of the water table by buried wastes. State regulations require a separation of five feet of earth or an impenetrable barrier between refuse and water, which was difficult to obtain using conventional sanitary land fill methods. Therefore, Brevard County utilizes a central shredding facility and a lined landfill. After the refuse is shredded, it is taken to the adjacent landfill and deposited on a plastic membrane. The liner was designed to funnel all leachate into a treatment system before it is returned to the ground. The County also recovers ferrous metals from the shredded material before disposal. According to Brevard County data, the County's existing Central Disposal Facility has sufficient capacity to meet the solid waste disposal needs of all of the inhabitants of Brevard County, indulging those of Cape Canaveral. Con idering a current City day for solid waste disposal, it is calculated that the City needs to dispose of 63,775 lbs. a day (31.89 tons) in solid waste which works out to 23,277,875 lbs. (11,639 tons) in the course of one year. The Brevard County Central Disposal Facility has approximately 10 years of permitted capacity and an additional 16 years of capacity in the southern expansion area. The capacity of the facility handles Class I and III materials. Currently Page 65 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 LOS is 8.32 lbs/capita/day. The City's contribution to the County landfill is assumed to be proportionate to its share of the County population. With respect to hazardous waste, the City does not have any companies which generate this type of waste in large quantities, but those that do must comply with State law in its disposal. The problem with small generators, such as the average household, is that they often do not know what to do with such wastes as solvents, poisons, pesticides, herbicides, etc. A program of education and provision of special services in this regard would be helpful and, hopefully, the City would encourage this type of effort. Concerning recycling, this is most effective if the recycling is done at the source. Recycling of such items as used motor oil, newspapers, aluminum cans, or bottles, etc., is sometimes done in the City, but a more significant effort should be encouraged. No problems with the existing arrangement for municipal solid waste collection and disposal are anticipated. The garbage and recycling collection agreement does include specific provisions for termination of the contract if the private company fails to meet the City's needs as defined in the agreement. The single concern that has been raised is the long-term ability to the City to dispose of solid waste and the need to begin more efficient methods of managing solid waste through the County system. The long-term security of the existing cooperative arrangements between the City and County appears to be insured by the institutional framework for providing solid waste disposal. Under existing rules and State law the County is the only organization which can operate a landfill within the borders of Brevard County. Furthermore, this landfill must meet the state resource recovery requirements. This kind of cooperation within the County to dispose of waste takes advantage of obvious economies of scale, and allows the efficient accomplishment of recovery of reusable resources. Although the City does not have to provide its own disposal operations, it still must share the cost of operating the countywide facility. At the present time, this cost is covered through a countywide tax on property owners rather than user charges to those using the controlled landfill. The costs of providing solid waste can be expected to increase in the future, and the City should cooperate with the County whenever possible to maximize efficiency in all solid waste operations. Potable Water System Sub -element The City of Cape Canaveral obtains its potable water supply from the system owned and operated by the City of Cocoa under an intergovernmental agreement. The City of Cocoa has supplied central Brevard County, to include Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Rockledge, Patrick Air Force Base and a large population of unincorporated central Brevard County. with high quality drinking water since 1957. Cocoa's drinking water system processes approximately 10.5 billion gallons of water each year, with a peak flow of 43.3 million gallons per day (mgd) during the summer. Average daily flow has increased from 22 mgd in 1990 to 28.6 mgd in 2006. Page 66 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Groundwater Wells Raw water comes from 48 wells in East Orange County. The well field can produce a maximum of 60 mgd. Cocoa is permitted to pump 26.07 mgd for average flows and 41.3 mgd for maximum flows. The Floridan Aquifer is the largest, oldest and deepest aquifer in the southeastern United States. It underlies all of Florida and is where Cocoa obtains most of its water supply. Taylor Creek Reservoir —A Surface Water Source The Taylor Creek Reservoir provides additional water supply to Cocoa's system with a capacity to store 4 billion gallons of fresh water. Cocoa is permitted to withdraw an average of 8.8 mgd and a maximum of 12 mgd. Water from the reservoir is blended with groundwater. Aquifer Storage and Recovery Wells Cocoa's ASR system consists of 10 wells and can store in access of 1 billion gallons of treated water stored 300 feet underground in the Floridan Aquifer during periods of low demand and recovered during periods of high demand. The Cocoa Water Department maintains the City's distribution system, and households and businesses are billed individually by the Department. The overall water system serves primarily residential and commercial uses. As the water distribution system is owned and operated by the City of Cocoa, the City of Cape Canaveral serves in an advisory capacity and monitors water service, reporting any problems or complaints to Cocoa. A review of existing conditions has uncovered no problems in the potable water service delivery system for the inhabitants of Cape Canaveral. Studies indicate that the system should have the capacity to supply all users, including those in Cape Canaveral, during the 5- to 10-year planning period. The City of Cape Canaveral, along with the other governments involved, should explore ways to conserve on water usage and to provide for water reuse. One measure already in place is a system -wide moratorium on providing meters for irrigation. A measure already taken to temporarily provide water in the event of a short-term supply interruption is an interconnect with the Melbourne water system and with the Titusville system. With regard to level of service standards, the City of Cocoa is using a figure of 264 gallons per household per day as a consumption standard based upon usage, and they are using a figure of 60 psi as a pressure standard. These figures should also apply to Cape Canaveral. operated by the City of Cocoa under an intergovernmental agreement. The City of Cocoa provides water to its own 20,000 residents as well as 1'10,000 residents combined in Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Rockledge, Patrick Air Force Base and a large portion of Page 67 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 unincorporated central Brevard County. Water demand in this service area has continued to increase as a result of population and economic growth. Cocoa's system processes 10.5 billion gallons of water each year with peak flows of /15 million gallons per day (mgd) during summer time. Average daily flow increased from 22 mgd in 1990 to 27 mgd in 2005. The water Cocoa provides comes from three sources: 1) Well Field Cocoa has 18 raw wells which can produce a maximum 60 mgd, 2) Taylor Creek Reservoir provides water from the reservoir blended with groundwater with a capacity to store 'I billion gallons of fresh water and, 3) Aquifer Storage and Recovery Well (ASR) new technology which consists of 10 ASR wells in the Cocoa system. About 1 billion gallons of water may be stored 300 feet underground in the Floridan Aquifer or moved up during peak demand times. Since 1990 the number of water meters connected to the system increased from'18,500 to in 1990 to 25.36 million gallons per day in 1996. The largest users of the water system are: Patrick Air Force Base Kennedy Space Center City of Titusville Port Canaveral averages 68 million gallons per month. _ averages32m;ll;o„gallo sro rt>, averages 17 million gallons per month. The City of Cocoa has been able to keep up with the water demand by expanding it5 floridan aquifer wellfields from 21 wells to 37 wells. There has been the development of an intermediate aquifer wellfield with 11 wells. Construction has started on the $30 million dollar expansion of the Claude H. Dyal water treatment plant to help meet future water demand. Currently the Dyal plant has a rated capacity of 1 1 million gallons per day. By the year 2000 demand is expected to exceed 15 million gallons per day. The Dyal plant is designed to treat ground water from the existing /1 8 wells, but because of concerns about saltwater intrusion, the St. Johns River Water Management District has limited any further expansion of the wellfields. The City of Cocoa will be utilizing the Taylor Creek reservoir located three miles from the Dyal plant. The reservoir, a surface water source, will be blended with ground water from the wellfields. According to a report by the City of Cocoa's engineering consultant, the Taylor Creek watershed annual runoff is 35 million gallons per day. The report estimates that the reservoir has a capacity to store 5 billion gallons of fresh water to meet future system demands. The City of Cocoa's water transmission system delivers water throughout Central Brevard in approximately 1,075 miles of pipe. Water is stored in three locations: 1. A 5 million gallon steel ground storage tank located at the Utilities Complex in the Tate industrial park in Cocoa. 2. There are 2 concrete ground storage tanks providing 'I million gallons of storage located next to S.R. 520 at the Banana River. 3. A 1.5 million gallon steel water tower located on U.S. 1 north of S.R. 520 Cocoa. Page 68 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Natural Groundwater Aquifer Recharge Sub -Element The area in which Cape Canaveral is located contains two distinct aquifers - the shallow water (surficial) aquifer and the deeper Floridan Aquifer. However, the City does not recharge to the Floridan Aquifer. The recharge areas for this aquifer are generally in the western part of Brevard County. According to the County 208 Area wide Waste Treatment Management Plan, many of the beach areas of the County are no longer able to use the Floridan Aquifer wells for most intended purposes because of increasing salt content. This high salt content was due to high concentrations of small diameter artesian wells withdrawing amounts of water from the Florida Aquifer, which were in excess of its safe yield. Most of the usage from these wells was from heat pump (air conditioning) purposes when the wells were previously allowed to flow continuously. Regulations have been adopted in the area to mitigate this problem by requiring the recirculation of water used for heat pumps. Cape Canaveral has a Stormwater Management Ordinance, which regulates the amount of stormwater runoff allowed from new development. The Ordinance requires that a request for approval of a preliminary plat be accompanied by a comprehensive study of the surface and storm drainage systems. The City requires that the first inch of rainfall be retained on site. However, this Ordinance should be strengthened to provide more detailed requirements for retention and detention of runoff plus the use of other techniques such as vegetation. The City of Cape Canaveral does not specifically regulate use of water from or recharge to the Floridan Aquifer. This is partially regulated by Brevard County through the requirement that water from heat pumps be recirculated rather than allowing the artesian wells to flow freely. Precipitation and runoff in the City recharges the shallow water aquifer. Tests have shown that the shallow water aquifer often has a high salt content probably as a result of encroachment from either the Banana River or the Floridan Aquifer. Careful drilling, however, sometimes permits the pumping of fresh water from this aquifer. The number of wells in the City connected to the Floridan Aquifer as opposed to the number of wells connected to the shallow water aquifer is not known precisely. However, the majority of the wells pump from the shallow water aquifer. It is likely that the Floridan wells number approximately 100, while there may be several hundred shallow water wells. Page 69 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1.6 Data and Analysis of Elements 1.6 c) Infrastructure Element Table 3-1 Figure 3-1: Sanitary Sewer Map (to be inserted) Page 70 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 3-1 Estimated Future Demand On Wastewater Treatment Plant City of Cape Canaveral, Florida 1998 - 2010 One-fourth Total Total Year Population Seasonal contributing City Flow Port Flow Flow Population Population (MGD) (MGD) (MGD) 1998 9,220 1,038 10,258 1.118 0.129 1.247 1999 9,360 1,075 10,435 1.137 0.137 1.274 2000 9,500 1,113 10,613 1.157 0.145 1.302 2001 9,700 1,150 10,850 1.183 1.183 2002 9,900 1,188 11,088 1.209 1.209 2003 10,100 1,225 11,325 1.234 1.234 2004 10,300 1,263 11,563 1.260 1.260 2005 10,500 1,300 11,800 1.286 1.286 2006 10,660 1,338 11,998 1.308 1.308 2007 10,820 1,375 12,195 1.329 1.329 2008 10,980 1,413 12,393 1.351 1.351 2009 11,140 1,450 12,590 1.372 1.372 2010 11,300 1,488 12,788 1.394 1.394 2011 11,450 1,526 12,976 1.414 1.414 2012 11,600 1,563 13,163 1.435 1.435 2013 11,750 1,600 13,350 1.455 1.455 2014 11,900 1,638 13,538 1.475 1.475 2015 12,050 1,675 13,725 1.496 1.496 Source: City of Cape Canaveral Public Works Department Page 71 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Figure 3-1: Sanitary Sewer Map Page 72 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1.6 Data and Analysis of Elements 1.6(d) Transportation Element 1.6 d) Transportation Element Introduction The purpose of this Element is to provide a long-range policy framework for the adequate provision of facilities to serve traffic circulation needs. The Element discusses the character of the existing circulation patterns in the City, provides goals, objectives and policies relating to transportation programs, identifies specific local improvement needs, and addresses coordinating mechanisms with area wide programs. Existing System The major focal point of the transportation network within the City of Cape Canaveral is State Route (S.R.)-A1A. This north -south highway is the only arterial within the City. At the north city limit, this route becomes S.R.-528, and south of the City it intersects with S.R.-520. Both of those east -west routes provide Cape Canaveral with access to the mainland and I-95. They also connect with S.R.-3 on Merritt Island and U.S.-1 on the mainland. Thus, S.R. AlA is E. from MP 2.110 to MP 3.132 at the north end of the City, the level of service is C. According to the 199-7 2007 traffic count conducted by the County Gam, the average daily traffic flows on A-1-A were 34,964 37,610 vehicles per day from SR 520 Center St. to North Atlantic Avenue McKinley on SR AlA and 32,897 38,1112 vehicles per day from N. Atlantic Ave. to SR 401. Both segments of A-1-A have an existing level of service, `D'. Center St, 30,197 vehicles per day from W. Central Blvd. to N. Atlantic Ave. and 30,107 from the northern limits to W. Central Blvd. Figure 4-1 illustrates the existing traffic circulation network within the City. The second most heavily traveled roadway in the City is a County road, North Atlantic Avenue, which goes north from S.R.-AlA to Port Canaveral. This street serves as a collector for the areas north of its intersection with S.R.-AiA. Based upon a traffic count conducted by the County Cry in 2006 1997, the approximate number of vehicles per day using this route is 8,450 8,560. The existing level -of -service on this collector is "C". Of the local City -owned, county maintained roads, Ridgewood Avenue and Central Boulevard are to most prominent. Ridgewood Avenue, which parallels the Atlantic Coast, is important in that it provides direct access to the beach area. Central Boulevard, which connects S.R.-AlA to Ridgewood, is the only major east -west route in the northern portion of the City. 2006 1997 traffic counts on Ridgewood Avenue from Young Avenue to Central Avenue where 1,959. and Central Boulevard showed the following respective ADT's: /1,7/11 and 3,526. The existing level -of -service for both roadway segments are `B'. on Ridgewood Avenue is C, while that on Central Boulevard is C. The recorded 2006 traffic counts on Central Boulevard, from SR A-1-A to Ridgewood Avenue were 3,947. Page 73 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 The Canaveral Port Authority and Brevard County installed a traffic signal at the intersection of North Atlantic Avenue and George King Boulevard where there is an this intersection to the north to provide better traffic flow to this area. In the past, the City and the County have also worked together to provide certain improvements on North Atlantic Avenue (e.g., traffic signal). The level -of -service criteria applied to describe traffic flow in this Plan are defined as follows. These 6 levels -of -service range from A through F: • Level -of -Service "A": Level A describes a free -flow condition in which speed is controlled by the driver's desires, speed limits, and physical roadway conditions while traffic density is low. Turning movements are made easily and maneuverability is virtually unrestricted. • Level -of -Service "B": Level B describes a stable -flow condition in which operating speeds are beginning to be restricted somewhat by traffic conditions. While drivers still have much freedom, they may feel somewhat restricted. • Level -of -Service "C": Level C describes a situation where speeds and maneuverability are more restricted by higher volumes, through traffic flow is still stable. Traffic conditions are still tolerable for most drivers and operating speeds are satisfactory. • Level -of -Service "D": Level D describes a traffic condition, which approaches unstable flow. Though operating speeds may still be maintained, high volumes cause frequent delays. Drivers have little freedom to maneuver, while comfort and convenience are low. Conditions can be tolerated for short periods of time. • Level -of -Service "E": Level E describes a condition of unstable flow with stoppages of momentary duration. The roadway is at virtual capacity (maximum volume). Speeds are slow and there is very little driver comfort or independence. Accident potential is high. • Level -of -Service "F": Level F describes a condition of unstable forced flow at low speeds with volumes above capacity. This condition often results from lines of vehicles backing up from a downstream restriction. Downstream congestion may cause prolonged stoppages. • The objective of the City is to have a minimum level -of -service standard C as defined above for all roads within the City. Realistically, however, given the difficulty of making rapid major roadway improvements due to design/construction time lags, intergovernmental coordination problems, and financing problems, it will possibly be necessary for the City to tolerate a less stringent minimum standard on certain roadways - i.e., S.R.-AlA and North Atlantic Avenue. Therefore, the City should adopt a Minimum Level -of -Service "E" for all roadways within its jurisdiction. Page 74 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 To determine whether the City's arterial and collectors were in need of expansion, peak hour demand (V) was divided by peak hour capacity (C) and the result was compared with a threshold V/C factor based upon level -of -service. Then if the comparison showed that the V/C ratio was equal to or less than the threshold V/C factor, there would not be a present deficiency requiring improvement; however, if said ratio was greater than said factor, there would be a present deficiency requiring improvement. Therefore, the following steps were taken to utilize this process: 1. Assign a peak hour capacity figure to the City's arterial and collectors based upon the Table of General Highway Peak Hour Capacities contained in DCA's Model Element, using level -of -service E as the capacity level. 2. Determine the Average Daily Traffic (ADT) count for each arterial and collector and multiply it by .1 to obtain a figure for peak hour demand. 3. Calculate a ratio (V/C) of peak hour demand (step 2) divided by peak hour capacity (step 1) for the arterial and each collector. 4. Determine the level -of -service standard for each arterial and collector. (The City is adopting level E as its standard). 5. Use the table of (V/C) threshold factor contained in DCA's Model Element and select a factor according to the appropriate level -of -service determined in step 4. above. 6. Compare the (V/C) ratio obtained in step 3. Above with the V/C factor selected in step 5. above. The comparison would show whether or not there is a present capacity deficiency. The above table shows that all All of the main roadways in Cape Canaveral are below capacity for level -of -capacity "E". S.R.-A1A, as the only arterial in the City, is *early at 92% 60% of capacity for the north half and 87% 68% capacity for the south half. S.R. A- 1-A has an existing level of service `D'. North Atlantic Avenue is at 54% capacity with a level of service `C'. Central Avenue is at 24% capacity and Ridgewood is at 13% capacity. Both have a level of service `B'. Of the three collectors, all classified a5 County roadways; all have an existing LOS of "C". The City has a policy of consideration for bicycle and pedestrian ways in the planning of transportation facilities, which has resulted in the construction of numerous bicycle and pedestrian ways throughout the City. As the City grows and there is greater potential for conflict between motorized vehicles and non -motorized vehicles and pedestrians, much care must be taken to provide effective and safe bicycle and pedestrian ways. Control of the connections and access points of driveways and roads to roadways is, and will be, accomplished by the City through application of relevant portions of the City Ordinances for Streets, Subdivision of Land, Zoning and Land Development. Table 4-1 identifies capacity, demand and deficiency on the major roadways within the City. At this time there are no deficiencies identified. Table 4-2 is accident frequency occurring at the nearest intersections as reported by Brevard County Traffic records. The number of accidents are relatively low, with the Page 75 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 majority of the intersections experiencing less than ten accidents over a one year period. The most active intersection where accidents occur is at SR AlA and (8) Jackson (22) and SR AlA and North Atlantic (18) 44)7 As noted earlier in the Transportation Data and Analysis, there are planned improvements for the intersection of SR A-1-A and North Atlantic. The planned intersection improvement will likely mitigate the relatively higher accident frequency. Table 4-3 projects future demand during the planning period upon the arterial and three collectors within the City. These projections are extrapolated from current traffic counts as adjusted by considering the growth of the City as reflected in population projections and the Future Land Use Plan. It is clear from this table that the two roadways in greatest need of attention for improvements are S.R.-AiA. and North Atlantic Avenue. To protect existing and future rights -of -way from encroachment, the City has applied, and will continue to apply, relevant portions of the City Ordinances for Streets, Subdivision of Land, Zoning, and Land Development. Mass transit is provided by the Space Coast Area Transit Authority (SCAT), an agency of Brevard County. There is one bus route within the city provided by SCAT that handled over 21,000 riders in 1996. The average number of riders per hour was seven (7) in the eit-yPlease see Figure 4-1. In order to assure the provision of safe and convenient on -site traffic flow and considering needed vehicle parking, the City has applied, and will continue to apply, relevant portions of the City Ordinances, such as those for Streets, Subdivision of Land, Zoning, and Land Development. Future Circulation Needs With regard to coordination of transportation needs, the City intends to work with the entities involved to achieve an optimum level of coordination. These entities include the Florida Department of Transportation (DOT), Brevard County, the Canaveral Port Authority, the City of Cocoa Beach, the Metropolitan Planning Organization, and the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council. FDOT has in its work program a SR- AlA corridor study that will include Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach and Port Canaveral. The results of the study should lead to needed pedestrian and roadway improvements. FDOT has completed the study but has yet to implement the results. The Brevard County MPO 2025 Long Rang Transportation Plan states planned improvements for the intersection of State A-1-A and North Atlantic Avenue. This is a relatively major intersection for the City of Cape Canaveral. The cost is estimated at $1,320,000. Additionally, there is a planned improvement for State Route A-1-A from 4th Street in Cocoa Beach, Florida to George King Boulevard in north Cape Canaveral. The project type is "reconstruct" with an estimated cost of $22,330,000. Transportation Table 4-3 indicates that both segments of A-1-A identified within Cape Canaveral will be close to capacity. The volume to capacity ration projected for the year 2020 is 0.97 for the segment from SR 520 to N. Atlantic and 0.94 from N. Atlantic to SR Page 76 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 401. The City of Cape Canaveral will need to work with Brevard County, the Brevard MPO, FDOT, and other appropriate agencies to ensure that adequate capacity exists for the planning horizon. At the County level, some thought has been given to the widening and improvement of North Atlantic Avenue; however, there are no firm plans for this and no funds have been budgeted. Considering the fact that major residential development has begun and is. planned in the northeast area of the City during the next five to ten years. It appears advisable for the City and County to work together in the near future to study the need for improvements, such as widening or other modifications for this collector. The City will be evaluating improvements to North Atlantic entailing 2 or 3 lanes with pedestrian access pending public input. With regard to Ridgewood Avenue, developer impact fees will be used to help pay for some roadway improvements such as a pedestrian way to Jetty Park in Port Canaveral. In addition, since this street Ridgewood Avenue provides access to the residential -tourist areas along the beach, one can expect additional traffic pressures upon it. Pedestrian traffic will also continue to increase in this vicinity, meaning the improvements for sidewalks and parking should be considered, in addition to bus shelters and bike racks. The Canaveral Port Authority will be relocating the east west section of George King Blvd. adjacent to the city's northern border. Undeveloped property along this roadway will have improved access to SR AlA via this roadway segment. Also, with the new development on North Atlantic a pedestrian way should be considered. Perhaps the biggest problem for providing roadway improvements is financing them. First of all, this depends upon the entity responsible for the facility. Nevertheless, cooperation to obtain sufficient funding often requires intergovernmental cooperation. To the extent that intergovernmental cooperation occurs, a wider variety of finding sources can be tapped. For example, in the case of SR-AlA, the State is responsible for the improvements; however, the City could cooperate by considering a transportation impact fee that could be used in part to help finance the SR-AlA improvements. In the case of North Atlantic Avenue, a similar situation exists, in that the County has jurisdiction over the roadway, but adjacent development in the City has a strong impact on that thoroughfare. Thus, the City and the County should work together to consider joint financing for the needed improvements; again, the use of transportation impact fees may be considered by both entities. Other financing options, which could be considered by the City, are the Local Option Gas Tax, general obligation bonds, and bonding of revenues. However, there has been discussion of the City of Cape Canaveral taking control of that portion of the roadway segment that is currently maintained by Brevard County. In addition to road improvements, the City will increasingly develop demands for transit services. Currently, transit services are provided to several areas of the city by a county agency called Space Coast Area Transit. Page 77 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1.6 Data and Analysis of Elements 1.6 d) Transportation Element Table(s) 4-1 through 4-4 Figure 4-1: Existing Transportation Map Figure 4-2: Future Transportation Map (as adopted in 1999) Page 78 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 4-1 Roadway Capacity -Demand -Deficiency Analysis (2005) City of Cape Canaveral, FL Average Allowable Roadway From To Daily Volume Capacity VC Ratio Adopted LOS Deficiency S.R. A1A 520 N. Atlantic 34,963 40,000 87.41 E No S.R. A1A N. Atlantic SR 401 32,897 35,700 92.15 E No North Atlantic George 8,484 Avenue SR A1A King 15,600 54.15 E No Ridgewood Avenue Young Central 1,959 15,600 12.56 E No Central Boulevard SR A1A Ridgewood 3,947 16,380 24.1 E No Source: Brevard County December 2006 ---- Brevard County Traffic Count Program Page 79 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 4-2 BREVARD COUNTY ACCIDENT ANALYSIS JAN 2005 - DEC 2005 PRIMARY STREET INTERSECTION STREET Number of Accidents ATLANTIC AV ATLANTIC AV SR A1A (Atlantic Av) SR A1A (Atlantic Av) ATLANTIC AV ATLANTIC AV ATLANTIC AV ATLANTIC AV ATLANTIC AV ATLANTIC AV ATLANTIC AV ATLANTIC AV ATLANTIC AV ATLANTIC AV SR A1A (Atlantic Av) ATLANTIC AV ATLANTIC AV ATLANTIC AV RIDGEWOOD AV ATLANTIC AV SR A1A (Atlantic Av) ATLANTIC AV RIDGEWOOD AV RIDGEWOOD AV ARTHUR AV ASTRONAUT BLVD 5 ATLANTIC AV 3 BARLOW AV 8 BUCHANAN AV 1 CANAVERAL BLVD 1 CENTRAL BLVD 7 CLEVELAND AV GARFIELD AV GEORGE J KING BLVD GRANT AV HARBOR DR 2 1 2 5 1 HAYNES AV 1 HOLMAN RD JACKSON AV JACKSON AV LINCOLN AV MC KINLEY AV MC KINLEY AV PIERCE AV ROOSEVELT AV SR A1A (Atlantic Av) TAYLOR AV WILSON AV 4 18 6 1 4 1 3 5 1 2 1 Page 80 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 4-3 Future Roadway Capacity -Demand Analysis (2020) City of Cape Canaveral, Florida Roadway From To Capacity - *Max Allowable Volume (MAV) Existing Average Daily Volume 2007 Future Average Daily Volume 2020 Volume to Capacity Ratio V/C Ratio S.R. A1A 520 N. Atlantic 34,500 34,343 33,500 0.97 S.R. A1A N. Atlantic SR 401 34,500 31,168 32,700 0.94 North Atlantic Avenue SR A1A George King 16,600 8,141 4,600 0.28 Ridgewood Avenue Young Central 15,600 2,614 4,100 0.26 Central Boulevard SR A1A Ridgewood 16,380 3,878 5,600 0.34 Source: Brevard County Metropolitan Planning Organization 2007 *MAV is the same for both current levels and 2020 projections Page 81 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 4-4 Current LOS* City of Cape Canaveral, FL SEG # Local Name From To Trips 100% MAV (ADT) ALOS Lanes U/R LOS Group LOS ADJ Current Operating LOS 335J SR A1A SR 520 N. Atlantic 34,900 40,000 E 4D U2 N D 335K SR A1A N. Atlantic SR 401 32,985 35,700 E 4D U1 N D 15 Atlantic N. SR A1A Gge King 8,127 15,600 E 2 UM N C 263 Ridgewood Young Central 2 15,600 E 2 UM N B 51 Central SR A1A Ridgewood 3,713 16,380 E 2D UM 2DY B *The information in Table 4-4 was provided by the Brevard County Transportation Planning Department in 2007. However, the information is an estimate only. Further analysis by Brevard County or the Brevard MPO was not available at the time ()Plata collection for the Cape Canaveral EAR. The information above was the best current available data. Page 82 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 City of Cape Canaveral • L I ; END MAMA 101.15t :PRINCIPAL ARTEREA.L 4 LANE COLIAKIN TREET-4 LANE COLLECTOR :611tEET LANE LOCAL wriurvr.,, HAM/ IDOSIIING MJ ecors .ottsirtivriD1J5jtio EXISTING LEVEL OF` SERVICE U PEAK HOCK C at w' Dmot HPRA rof tnaliMittat„ EXISTING TRAITK,' CIRCLIIATION Figure 44 LI Page 83 4325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 ter drA. I I InVO xruomc MEAN QRAPINIC a NM ENCII Ulan MILLER LEGG 4111•0190•010* $tat a, 0•001,0041144: • 444 AIXII Piet• Bad& -2.1719Ber7122 Iftc 4117-13213,7163 •••••••••••* jab Nd..114.017.170, De l 071347 SCALE: 0 500 1000 CITY OF CAPE CANAVERAL FUTURE TRAFFIC Figure 4-2 Al NflC LEGEND PRINCIPAL ARTERIAL - 4 LANE COLLECTOR STREET - 4 LANE COLLECTOR STREET - 2 LANE Ivey, Harris & Walls, Inc. PLANERS. ENGINEERS • LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS 631 Deems 789 ......V.• .n.. w., CV A20 !W 988.01 DATE: 12-09- 95 F:\PROJ\0098C.01\NAPS\FlG4_t:DM: rage T5'-F U1. 3LJ CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1.6 Data and Analysis of Elements 1.6(e) Recreation and Open Space Element 1.6 e) Recreation and Open Space Element Introduction It has been generally recognized that recreational and open space resources are a very significant positive aspect in the quality of life an area offers. These facilities offer opportunities to enjoy settings and activities that enhance living and provide a contrast to daily routines. In Cape Canaveral, where so much of the population have a greater than average amounts of leisure time, these recreational opportunities are especially important. The Recreation and Open Space Element of the Comprehensive Plan will address the adequacy of existing recreational facilities in the City and will establish proposals to meet existing and future needs in this area. The element will reflect City officials and the City Recreation board have generated information pertaining to the adequacy of existing and future facilities which the element will also recommend goals, objectives and policies to guide local officials in decisions, which relate to the acquisition, development and maintenance of recreation and open space resources. Since the mid-1950's, recreation has been widely accepted as a service to be provided by local governments. The basis on which public expenditures have been made is that physical and psychological benefits are derived through recreating, and therefore, to provide recreation is to encourage a more healthy and fit population. Aside from this rationale is the fact that demand for recreation field and developed massive programs to fill the nation's recreation needs. Similarly, local governments have become increasingly involved in this area in order to meet local, community and neighborhood needs. The willingness and ability of local electorates and the officials, who represent them of course, limit the extent to which public recreation can be supplied. It is also influenced by the specific needs of these local populations. In the following section, these needs and the adequacy of existing facilities will be considered; in later sections, we will examine potential ways of working within the present limitations and constraints to meet these needs. Analysis of Existing Conditions Character of the Population and Natural Setting The type and degree of recreation and open space facilities that a community should offer depend to a great extent on the character of the population to be served. Cape Canaveral's population has an average median age of 46 . This is due primarily to the family environment enjoyed by our population. One significant aspect of this is that families have an abundance of leisure time, and therefore, recreation needs are substantially greater than normal. Other socio-economic factors of the population which relate to the demand for open space and recreation are income, occupation, place of residence or density of residences of the population living in or near the City. A final factor which relates to population and affects recreation demand is the seasonal residents Page 85 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 who come to the area for several months of the year and thus are primary users of recreation facilities. The available and potentially available recreation resources of the natural setting of an area are a second major consideration that affects the type and degree of recreational and open space facilities that a community should offer. The Atlantic Ocean and beach and the abundance of natural coastal areas, rivers and lagoons in Brevard County represent extremely valuable recreation resources. The existence of these resources can offer a wide range of outdoor recreation opportunities and can often reduce the degree to which similar or related facilities are needed. The existence of these resources and their potential as recreation sites can also, however, require specific efforts by local government to take advantage of their availability. In order to make an assessment of current and future recreation needs, the two considerations discussed above should not be overlooked. Another most important consideration is the feelings of local residents concerning what recreation opportunities should be provided and which existing facilities have deficiencies. Existing Facilities Recreation facilities, which exist in the Cape Canaveral area, are listed and described in this section. In addition, a recreation inventory of the administrative and financing framework for recreation is reviewed. Existing Recreation Resources The major City -owned recreation facility is Canaveral Park. This is a five -acre park, which can be classified as a neighborhood park although it serves more as a central community park for the City because it is the only facility of its type. The City holds ownership of the park, which is located at the corner of Orange and Harrison Avenues. Facilities provided at the park include the following: two baseball fields; practice fields; basketball court; playground area; youth center; concession; athletic storage and scoreboard; and general storage buildings. The park also provides parking for approximately 30 vehicles. The second major recreation facility owned and operated by the City is the Cape Canaveral Recreation Complex. This facility covers 2.3 acres and is located at the corner of North Atlantic and Fillmore Avenues. This athletic complex includes five tennis courts with an enclosed viewing area, twelve shuffleboard courts, four racquetball/handball courts, a multi -purpose recreation center building and maintenance and storage building. During the last planning period, the City developed the ten acre Manatee Park and purchased and developed Banana River Park an additional five acres of park land immediately north of Manatee Park. The City is also seeking to acquire land in the northeast section of town to develop a neighborhood park. The latest park added to the Page 86 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 City's inventory is located at the terminus of Center Street in the southwest area of the City. This neighborhood park is approximately 0.10 acres. There is also a neighborhood park located on the West side of SR-AlA that has a play area for young children; this site is less than an acre. In addition to these facilities, the following recreation and open space resources were recorded in the recreation inventory and are felt to play an important role in serving the City recreation and open space needs. Ocean Beaches and Dunes This is the most significant of all recreation resources in the City and is discussed in other sections of this report. The seashore forms the eastern border of the City. Its primary uses on the portion within the City are fishing, swimming, sunning, picnicking, and passive recreation. In recent years, the City has implemented a program of building dune crossings at points of public access to the beaches. This program has been successful and only a few more crossings need to be built. (See Map 4-3 for beach access crossings.) Banana River This resource is discussed in more detail in other sections of this Comprehensive Plan. It forms the western border of the City. Its primary uses are for boating and fishing; and it also represents a scenic resource of the City. Plus, there are a few inlets where people can observe manatees and other wildlife. The Banana River has many private boat launch access points, some of which are briefly available, at times, to the average citizen. The city has purchased a 10-acre park that borders the Banana River. This property will be is a passive recreation area call Manatee Park and will offer a natural setting in which to view river wildlife. The city is also in the process of securing an additional 5 acres of property on the river to the north of the Manatee Park. This area will be called Additionally, the city purchased a five -acre tract of land and created the Banana River Park. This park and will offer a play field with wildlife viewing for our residents. Capeview Elementary School Facilities at this site, which is owned by the Brevard County School Board, include a playground area, athletic fields and unimproved open space. These facilities are available to the public after school hours and on the weekends thanks to the efforts of the Kiwanas Club. Responsible entity: Brevard County School Board. Page 87 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Bikepaths Bikeways have been developed along some of the streets within the City and an overall citywide plan has been developed to construct additional facilities. The responsible entity is the City of Cape Canaveral. Canaveral Cocoa Beach Pier This is an 800-foot fishing pier extending into the Atlantic Ocean. It is not within the City limits; however, it does serve citizens of Cape Canaveral. Cherie Down Park This is a community county park of approximately 7 acres located between Ridgewood Avenue and the Ocean, directly east of Capeview Elementary School. Facilities at this site, which is owned by Brevard County, include boardwalk and restroom facilities. Responsible entity: Brevard County. Kennedy Space Center and -the U.S. Air Force Museum, Patrick AFB, Cape Canaveral Lighthouse and the Kennedy Space Center This special facility is Each of these facilities are of special importance as the major tourist attractions in the area. Jetty Park This is a regional park at the northern limits of the City. Primary activities are fishing, swimming and picnicking. Facilities include picnic areas, a bathhouse, concession stand, fishing pier, campground, and a boardwalk along the beach. Because of its location, the park is of primary importance to the City; however, an admission charge, though minimal, greatly reduces its use as a neighborhood type park. The Canaveral Port Authority owns and operates this facility. and a major renovation is expected in the near future. Port Canaveral Harbor Deep Sea charter and party fishing boats are available. Dlayind Beac1. /Canaveral Natio a1 Seasho. This is a major wilderness area north of the City, but indirect access limits its importance. Brevard County OFF Roa Vehicle Dark This is a specialized facility for motor sports located in Sharpes. Page 88 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Kelly Park This is a Merritt Island park, which includes a boat ramp, playground and picnic facilities. Clear -take -Park This is Cocoa's extensively developed community park, which has complete facilities, including gymnasium, archery and a stadium. Private Recreation Facilities The importance of private recreation and open space facilities can not be dismissed as unimportant. While it is true that private facilities by their very nature limit the type and number of users, those facilities are still important for the following reasons: firstly, the people who are permitted to use them often do, meaning some small lessening of demand on public facilities; secondly, some facilities, though technically "off limits" to the general public, are still used to some extent by the general public. In the case of Cape Canaveral, there are a number of private residential developments which offer a variety of recreation facilities and services to their occupants; e.g., tennis courts, shuffleboard courts, swimming pools, meeting rooms, benches and tables for resting outdoors, boating, strolling areas which wind through natural vegetation, picnic areas, fishing, bicycling, and just plain open space, etc. In addition, there exist a number of business establishments, open to the public, which offer some of the above activities plus such things as fitness programs, bowling, game playing, etc., and there are acres of wonderful natural areas adjacent to residential development and adjoining the beaches and dunes, which are highly vegetated and inhabited by birds and other wildlife. These are super open space and wilderness habitats which, while on private property, are readily accessible to the public. Standards and Needs No two communities have the same recreational needs, and for this reason, it is difficult to determine a set of standards, which can be considered final and applicable for all areas. A city like Cape Canaveral, which offers so much in the way of natural outdoor opportunities due to the climate, the character of outdoor waterbodies, and "things to do" both within the City and nearby, should not have the standards as, for example, another city of similar size at great distance from such opportunities. Therefore, national, state or county recreation standards should not be applied in rigid fashion. The Brevard County Planning Department formulated recreation needs criteria, which help provide a context when considering park standards for Cape Canaveral. Table 5-1 shows standards, which Page 89 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 were developed as a part of these criteria. Brief definitions for the various facilities used in determining needs follow: Mini -Parks These are small parks that may be designed to serve as children's play area or as passive recreation areas. They are similar to maintained open areas along roadways but usually have some facilities such as paths, benches, or play apparatus. Their size and location are primarily determined by the availability of land. These parks often serve to support the function of neighborhood parks but should not be thought of as replacements for these. Neighborhood Park This is a "walk to" park with a service radius of about one-half mile. The facilities of the park should be geared to the needs of the residents of the neighborhood it serves. Typical facilities are: small play areas for preschool children, play facilities for older children; multi -purpose courts; multi -purpose fields; and area for baseball or open field games; and an area for passive recreation with benches or picnic tables. Neighborhood parks, as well as mini -parks, should be located on local streets and should be accessible without having to cross major roads. Community Park This is a "drive to" park designed to serve a number of neighborhoods, which together constitute a community. The total population served by this kind of facility depends on its size and the available facilities. A community park is larger and more complex than neighborhood parks and usually serves a radius of about three to four miles. A community park is often the focal point of many organized activities, such as football and softball league activities or intramural tournaments. These parks might include the following facilities: tennis and other hard surface courts; athletic fields; play apparatus area and community center building suitable for meetings and indoor sports and activities. Community parks should be located on collector roads. Special Facilities Special recreation facilities for particular activities are an essential part of the recreation system for an area. These type facilities include recreation complexes, recreation activity buildings, field houses, and many other single -purpose facilities, such as fishing piers, gymnasiums, and stadiums and golf courses. Open Space Recreation open space areas include any open and unrestricted areas in the City where citizens can walk freely. Open space areas set aside under Site Plan Procedure, cluster developments or other large residential developments would usually be considered recreation open space as would beaches or recreation areas which are not part of a Page 90 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 particular park facility. Conservation open space areas are of a similar nature, but their primary open space function is to preserve sensitive areas. These areas are set aside for the protection of natural features and for overall protection of the local environment and may include land or water conservation areas, aquatic or wildlife preserves, protected areas such as the ocean coastline, and various other environmentally sensitive areas. The beach space designation serves as both a conservation and recreation open space area as do most conservation open space areas. The current population in 2007 1947 is estimated at 10,317 8/192 persons. The parks in the City are: Cherie Down (County Park) with 7 acres, Canaveral Park with 5 acres, Manatee Park with 10.5 acres, and several other neighborhood parks. This brings the existing park lands within the City up to approximately 34 acres. The 34 acres includes Cherie Down Park, which is currently under consideration for acquisition from the County. Table 5-2, Existing Parks provides a list of all the City Parks. with less than adding up to approximately 2 acres for a total of 22 acres of park land. The City is not of sufficient size to support either a district or regional park - that size park is usually best provided at the County level. As outlined by the inventory of existing facilities, there exist so many other recreational opportunities (both public and private) either within the City or a short distance from it. These facilities include: the Atlantic Ocean and beach, the Banana River ecosystem, adjacent Jetty Park, school playgrounds and ballfields, private facilities associated with vacation development, etc. In short, Cape Canaveral has an unusually large amount of recreation facilities, especially private ones. The Florida Department of Natural Resources uses a guideline of one acre/1000 population for urban open space; in Cape Canaveral this standard is exceeded many times over merely by taking into account the many acres of open space available to the public on the beach areas; adding open space available at vacant tracts of land around the City plus that found on school property and in private residential developments contributes to its abundance. Nevertheless, the City might consider acquiring several vacant tracts throughout the community, particularly in the south, northwest and northeast sectors. Another factor to be considered is the present usage of the existing park and recreation facilities. City officials, who have long observed the degree to which these facilities are used, indicate that they are underutilized for the most part and that citizens are not complaining that the City needs to provide more such facilities. Because strict adherence to the Brevard County standards for neighborhood and community parks is too stringent in light of the broad spectrum of recreational opportunities available to the inhabitants of Cape Canaveral, the City considers the following level of service standard more realistic: 2 acres /1000 for all parks. Table 5-2 provides the existing parks within the City and their corresponding acreage. Table 5 2 5-3 projects park land needs for the 5- and 10-year planning periods based upon the realistic level -of -service standards proposed by the City. However, considering that these are less stringent standards than currently used by the County, and taking into Page 91 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 account the availability of vacant lots around the community, the City might consider adding to its park land. The City will strive to have three acres per 1,000 residents by the year 2014 2404-. Page 92 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1.6 Data and Analysis of Elements 1.6 e) Recreation and Open Space Element Table(s) 5-1 through 5-3 Figure 5-1: Parks Map Page 93 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 5-1 TABULAR SUMMARY OF RECREATION STANDARDS BREVARD COUNTY Type of Facility Facility Characteristics Maximum Distance From Home Age Group Maximum Population Served Minimum Desirable Acreage Neighborhood Park Community Park District Park Regional Park Special Use Park Neighborhood oriented; cater to small children; supervised play; contain equipment for small children only Serves several neighborhoods; organized group activity enjoyed here; might contain community center; offer full spectrum of activities and sports Promote cultural development Preserve a portion of the natural landscape; supplement recreational accommodations of the urban areas; act as open spaces to separate urban area; emphasize nature and sports Dedicated to one or a limited number of uses 0.5 mile with no major streets to cross 3 to 5 miles Serve entire urban area Serve entire urban area These criteria are dependent 5 to 12 years older than 12 years, but also may contain playground All ages All ages on the type of activity 3,000 10,000 Entire urban area Entire urban area in use. 1.5 acres/1,000 population 3 acres/1,000 population 640 acres 640 acres Source: Brevard County Parks & Recreation Department, 1988 Page 94 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 5-2 EXISTING PARKS Cape Canaveral, Florida Park Acreage Canaveral City Park Recreation Complex Bennix Park Veteran's Memorial Park Xeriscape Park Patriots Park Manatee Sanctuary Park Banana River Park Center Street Park Cherie Down Park* Total* 5 2.3 2.2 0.66 0.43 0.65 10.5 5.15 0.1 7 34 'Cherie Down Park is currently County owned, however City acquisition is under review. Source: City of Cape Canaveral, 2007 Page 95 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 5-3 REALISTIC FUTURE PARKLAND REQUIREMENTS Cape Canaveral, Florida LOS Projected **Existing Total Parks Deficit Year Standard Population Parkland (in acres) Goal (in acres) (in acres) 2acres/ 1000 2000 people 9,500 34*** 18 0 3acres/ 1000 2005 people 10,034* 34*** 30 0 3acres/ 1000 2010 people 11,300 34*** 33.9 0 3acres/ 1000 2015 people 12,050 34*** 36.2 -2.2 3acres/ 1000 2020 people 12,700 34*** 38.1 -4.1 'Please note that the population in 2005 is actually higher than projected by Shimberg. The actual population in 2005 was recorded at 10,317. However, the Shimberg information is being used to provide consistent data throughout the analysis. ** Includes both neighborhood and community parks. ***Includes Cherie Down Park (County owned - 7 acres) Source: City of Cape Canaveral, 2007 U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census, 1990 Page 96 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 City of Cape Canaveral "ttf,===77.1:1:14 %••••e7"7 fORMINNIMMINg M14 SMIE It** MIMS Figure 5-1 ..7.11/111111111111 f Yaa mummummaValagagalf 11..firoPANA (.4 17,== =LT 2.r;;;,,,•r••••••••••rril, .47M777771 "7.7.7.7.7.7a ,1111111;::: Page 97 4325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 11,71ANYTE: OCEAN LEGEND m SANANA 2ri ANATINE SAN titulary FAI4X. gc:JI PATIL10115PX fl BENI9113( PARK FpF1 CREWE DOWN poukk. CANAVEIM,L.iu pouix: virtritioes MtEtittlittA.L„ IPA= iI (MIK CMSCANAVEUtt, RECREATIONCEAUFEEK CENTER slam PAM, MILL LEGG CAVA Fbia01001040 & WW41.049404064414P Vikeitalot F4040 ° WW1= 0674211SBEI., 447,62SIBES vonwttilkiipppaft lob 70 DA* 07.1347 1.6 Data and Analysis of Elements 1.6(f) Housing Element 1.6 f) Housing Element Introduction The purpose of the Housing Element is to provide the information necessary to guide the public and private sectors in developing housing programs to meet existing and future housing needs. The document provides information on the general characteristics of the existing housing stock within the City and projects future trends in housing development. It also identifies housing needs and problems. Inventory Section 9J-5.010(1) (a) of the Florida Administrative Code requires that the housing element contain an inventory taken from the latest decennial United States Census or more recent estimates which include information relating to the number of dwelling units by type, tenure, age, rent, value, monthly cost of owner -occupied units, and rent or cost to income ratio. It also requires that information be included concerning the number of units, which lack some or all plumbing, central heat, and the number of units, which are overcrowded. Table 6-1, displays the results of the housing inventory, based on the 1990 2000 Census of Housing and other information obtained during the course of the inventory, based on the 1990 2000 Census of Housing and other information obtained during the course of the inventory. The table basically follows the format of 9J-5.010(1) in presenting the information required. Based upon the above two monthly costs tables, above approximately 1,100 1,167 households are burdened with 30% or more going towards rent or mortgage payments. According to the Brevard Housing Authority, there are no subsidized housing developments within the city limits of Cape Canaveral. There are no rental units currently subsidized by Section 8 Rental Assistance in the City. Thus, there is no government -subsidized housing in the City. According to the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (DHRS), there are currently no group homes licensed by DHRS in Cape Canaveral. The following table is a listing of mobile home developments within the City of Cape Canaveral, as licensed by the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (DHRS): Page 98 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Name of Mobile Home Park Home Spaces Recreation Spaces Cocoa Palms Mobile Court 97 0 Port Canaveral Trailer Park 48 19 Oak Manor Mobile Park 54 17 Mango Manor Trailer Park 12 39 Cape Canaveral Trailer Village 46 0 Sand Dollar Trailer Park 13 0 Carvers Cove Trailer Court 35 5 Hitching Post Trailer Ranch 100 0 Total /105 48 370 75 Currently, within the City of Cape Canaveral, there is still no historically significant housing listed on the Florida Master Site File, National Register of Historic Places or designated as historically significant by or in accordance with a local ordinance. contract rent for 12.5 percent of these rental units are from $300 to $1I/19 per month. The monthly housing costs for specified owner occupied housing units with a mortgage was. $699 or less for 17.2 percent in Cape Canaveral and 53.5 percent in Brevard County as a whole pay less than $699 per month. In Cape Canaveral the contract rent for 46 percent of these rental units are from $500 to $749 per month. The monthly housing costs for specified owner -occupied housing units with a mortgage was $799 or less for 42 percent in Cape Canaveral and 50 percent in Brevard County as a whole pay less than $899 per month. Affordability has been impacted by the run-up of property values and insurance costs. Housing Analysis Based on the information obtained from the Schimberg Center, a comparative analysis of the affordable housing demand was conducted from when the comprehensive plan was adopted in 1988 1999 to the present conditions. It was projected that the demand for housing in 1990 2000 was 1,991 5,065 units and the actual was /1,30z1 5,141 permanent occupied housing units as recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau. The 1995 projected housing demand was 5,581 units and the actual was 5,265 units. Although tThe City did not meet exceeded it's housing demand projections for 1990 2000 and 1995, by an the increase of 961 only 75 units (22.3%) (0.01%). Therefore, the projection of housing was significantly accurate. This is significant for this. small, beach side community. The projection of the future need and demand for housing units in Table 6-3 is based on data from the Schimberg Center and the U.S. Census Bureau and may be obtainable. Page 99 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Housing Units Projected The City will continue to encourage the development of affordable attainable housing. The City, however, cannot control the external factors of local, regional and national economics that affect the housing industry that may impede the development of affordable attainable housing. Table 6 d existing and projected income of owner and renter households. Table 6-4 depicts the existing and projected number of households by income range. Table 6-5 identifies the number of persons per household based upon tenure (owner/renter). Tables 6-6 and 6-7 evaluate owner and renter costs as a percentage of their income and based upon different income ranges. The greatest number of households of any category have a household income of 119% or greater of the Median Income and pay less than 30% of their monthly income towards home ownership. 77 units with an income of 20% or less of the median income pay 30% or more of their monthly income. The Shimberg data may need to be re evaluated for owner households income and percentage. More than half the owners had incomes under $10,000 paying over 30% on housing costs. This appears to be inconsistent with other income tables provided by Shimberg. Residential housing units constructed over the past seven years have averaged approximately $63,200 in construction costs. It should be pointed out that these figures include only construction costs and not the cost of land. When the cost of land is added, the prices for the units would probably exceed $100,000. It is anticipated that the general upward trend in housing costs will continue. Most of the units constructed will be middle income families. Residential housing units have significantly risen since the evaluation of the Housing Element in 1999. In the late nineteen nineties, average housing value ranged from the low to mid $100,000's. Today, the average condominium value is $234,460 and the average single family home is $244,010. That is an increase of over 100%. The median sales price in 2005 was $259350, compared to a statewide median sales price of $226000. The higher median sales price is indicative of the geography of Cape Canaveral. This beach -front community induces higher housing cost as market demands are met. It is not anticipated that there will be any demand for rural or farm worker housing in Cape Canaveral. Overall housing needs were shown in the preceding section. Over the past seven years, almost 65 percent of the housing units constructed were multi family units. This trend has reversed from the prior planning period due to a strong housing market. In 1990, approximately 56 percent of the occupied housing units were rental units. This figure is down from 1980 even though the construction of multi family units still out paces single family construction. This is also an indication of a strong economy that has low unemployment and affordable mortgage rates that has encouraged a trend toward home ownership. Table 6-2 delineates the additional number of residential units that have been constructed in the City from October 1, 2001 through January 31, 2007. During this time, a total of 1,375 residential building permits have been approved. Up until the year 2000, the City had a total of 5,141 permanently occupied residential units. With the addition of 1,375 Page 100 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 units, the new total is 6,515 residential units. This is a significant increase in approved residential building permits of approximately 21%. It is still not anticipated that there will be any demand for rural or farm worker housing in Cape Canaveral. The majority of the City is built out with approximately % 7% or 106 acres of remaining land available for development. The development trend for the City continues to be residential. The private sector housing delivery system: The private sector has been and is likely to continue to be the source of virtually all housing made available in Cape Canaveral. This is both because the private sector is the basic housing delivery system in Florida and throughout the United States and because Cape Canaveral has little subsidized housing activity - limited currently to a very small Section-8 Rental Assistance Program. It is clear that although the private housing delivery system may be complex, it works relatively efficiently and quickly to provide housing when and where it perceives the opportunity. In Cape Canaveral, just as elsewhere, the system involves many "players" variables, including: Property owners, developers, investors, builders, contractors, materials suppliers, real estate agents, lenders, engineers, architects, lawyers, insurance companies, planners, politicians, home buyers, renters, code enforcement officials, etc. In a way, the mechanism for the production of housing is a prime example of how the law of supply and demand works in our economic system. In a growing city like Cape Canaveral, there is a growing need for certain types of housing to provide shelter for the growing population, and the private sector seems willing and able to meet that demand. This should continue so long as funds are readily available to both developers and buyers. However, if interest rates go too high, history shows that there will be a slowdown in the housing delivery system because high rates will impede the use of needed funds. The direction of interest rates often depends upon Federal action and is beyond the scope of local influence. Another factor which may have a strong future influence on the production of housing is the State and local governmental regulatory environment; to the extent that regulations make it more difficult for the private sector to operate in providing housing, there will be problems in providing needed housing in a timely fashion, and there will be an added upward bias to housing costs. It should also be noted that the private system often has difficulty in providing decent, safe and sanitary housing for the lower -income spectrum of the population. It is true that older housing "trickles down" to some lower -income purchasers and renters, but usually that housing is not in standard condition. It is also true that mobile homes are sometimes a way for lower -income people to afford standard shelter. But certain public agencies need to be vigilant in finding a way to provide affordable housing when the housing needs of lower -income households are not being met. Processes or means of accomplishing housing conservation, rehabilitation, demolition, relocation, and historic preservation: We have noted the virtual non-existence of substandard housing in Cape Canaveral. This can be attributed to such factors as: owner upkeep of properties, the relative "youth" of the overall housing stock, and enforcement of the City Housing Code (which is the same as The Standard Housing Code). Page 101 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 The City has a very effective system of code enforcement for a community of its size. It employs panoply of nationally accepted standards, which have been included by ordinance in the Codified Code. And the The personnel involved in implementing these codes are experienced and capable (e.g., the head of the Building department has over 20 years of experience in building code enforcement). Among these Codes are the Standard Building Code, the Standard Plumbing Code, the Standard Mechanical Code, the Standard Gas Code, the Standard Electrical Code, the Standard Housing Code, and the Fire Prevention Code. As revisions to these Codes are issued by the authorizing agencies, they are incorporated in the City's standards, and the Codified Code is amended periodically to reflect these changes. Also, in 1988 the City adopted an Aesthetic Ordinance, which relates to the outside appearance of buildings, including residential structures. Additionally, the City has an Community Appearance Board responsible for assuring proposed developments meet the aesthetic requirements of the community. According to the head of the Building Dept., the City uses a "multi -check" approach to the inspection of properties: there is a Code Enforcement Officer who surveys the city on a weekly basis, checking for such things as abandoned vehicles, junk and debris in yards, vacant lots with weeds, and building which have an unattractive appearance, etc.: the Fire Inspector regularly checks the properties around the community for fire hazards; property inspections are made on a compliant basis; and the head of the Building Dept. is always vigilant for Code violations. A typical situation involves a complaint by a tenant that the landlord has allowed an unsafe or unhealthy condition to develop. The City has at its disposal a full range of legal options to deal with violations (e.g., a building can be posted as "unfit for human habitation"; however, the City has a procedure for notifying property owners or occupants, and the primary emphasis is upon negotiating a solution with the violator rather than resorting to litigation. The Brevard County Health Dept. is also contacted in case of certain health hazards. As a positive incentive for property upkeep, the City sponsors an annual property -beautification award contest. Presently, City officials believe that their system has been effective in achieving correction of violations with a minimum of hassle, expense, and government involvement and in promoting the conservation and rehabilitation of housing. However, as the existing housing stock ages over the years, all cities must face the reality that some substandard housing will emerge. When this does occur, the City can evaluate the severity of the situation and examine such alternatives for housing conservation and rehabilitation as: a more stringent code enforcement program; the use of homeowners associations to promote neighborhood pride and upkeep; the organization of a housing services program; applying for Community Development Block Grant funding to develop a program or home improvement loans and grants involving leveraging through private - sector lenders. There are many traditional and innovative concepts, which could be pursued depending upon the needs and the interests of the City government and the residents. However, the City prefers that the private sector be the primary force for accomplishing housing improvement. Page 102 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 As far as demolition is concerned, if a property becomes so dilapidated that there is no alternative but to remove a structure, the City has recourse to enforce its Standard Unsafe Building Abatement Code, which involves condemnation and related procedures. With respect to relocation, it would only be used in situations where the City must acquire occupied property for a public purpose, resulting in the need to compensate the occupants so that they are enabled to move to decent, safe, sanitary and affordable housing, which would be provided in accordance with Section 421.55, Florida Statutes. It has already been noted that there is no housing in Cape Canaveral that qualified for the designation "historical". If such housing is identified in the future, the At this time there are likely homes located within the City that would qualify as "historically significant" and eligible to be registered with the Florida Master Site File, National Register of Historic Places or designated as historically -significant by, or in accordance with a local ordinance. Over the next five years, the City will develop a process for the designation of these historically significant structures. The City will work with the property -owner and appropriate authorities and groups to promote the preservation of such housing. Provision of housing to meet the needs of lower -income persons With respect to the provision of public housing as such, this is not likely to be a very viable option in Cape Canaveral. Even if the Brevard Housing Authority were to determine that a need existed for such housing in the City, Federal and State restrictions on the use of government funds for the construction of public housing on the barrier islands would probably prove prohibitive. Aside from that consideration is the fact that with a growing demand in the City for land suitable for new conventional housing, land prices would probably be too high for public housing sites. Mobile homes are a lower -cost alternative to conventional housing in Cape Canaveral. Already the City contains about 405 mobile homes, and while zoning restrictions limit the location of mobile home sites, the City does permit such housing (in mobile home parks). The anticipated means for accomplishing the items in FAC 9J-5.010(2)(f) 1. through 5. are as follows: 1. The City requires that developers provide certain infrastructure (streets, drainage, water, and sewerage) at the time of development. This will continue. 2. The City will continue to enforce its building and housing codes in an effort to maintain and conserve the existing housing stock so as to prevent the emergence of substandard housing. 3. The City will investigate methods of providing adequate sites for low and moderate -income families to the extent practical. However, given the current value of land in Cape Canaveral and rules at the federal and state levels to limit subsidies on barrier islands, it is possible that the siting of low and moderate income housing within Cape Canaveral would not be economically feasible. Page 103 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 4. The City will continue with its policy of allowing group homes and foster care facilities in residential areas. 5. The City will investigate the need for conservation, rehabilitation and demolition activities. If historically significant housing and neighborhoods are identified, the City will develop means of protecting them. The successes of this community have been in the continued availability of space, facilities and permissibility for affordable attainable and economical housing. The City continues to provide a climate conducive for the private sector to supply affordable housing. There are affordable attainable housing units located within the City. In addition, there are subsidized housing units in the City, the Palms East and the Oceanside complexes. However, there are no Section 8, subsidized housing units reported to be in the City. Whether or not having subsidized housing in an area is a success could be debatable. However, costs have remained affordable as compared to other beach communities in south Brevard. At the same time the City maintains an exceptional quality of life. Opportunities include the availability of residentially zoned land on both the Banana River and Atlantic Ocean. However, this availability Availability of vacant land for additional residential units are is. decreasing as growth continues. Normally development pressure will push for highest and best use. Undeveloped land near the Port of Canaveral; however, may encourage an affordable housing opportunity as the highest and best use with the proximity of several heavy industrial users nearby. Rule 9J-5.010, F.A.C. now requires the City to develop Goals, Objectives, and Policies to streamline the permitting process, utilize job training, and designate sufficient sites/density for affordable housing. The City currently has adequate land development regulations and permitting policies and residential zoning districts to accommodate affordable housing. The City does not have the resources to conduct job training and job creation programs, but would work with existing local agencies that have these programs. It seems that the rules of 9J-5 are vague as how the City can provide incentives to provide affordable housing or disincentives to build luxury homes. Most local governments operate on the premise that the private sector will provide for the market place. Which in some cases become the problem and not the solution. The City is a beach side community that has extremely beautiful vistas that are desirable and marketable. Rule 9J-5 recognizes that beach communities have a more difficult time in providing affordable living and thus allow beach side communities the opportunity to enter into inter -local agreements with local government on the mainland. The City may need to consider this route in order to meet the recommended affordable housing needs. Page 104 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1.6 Data and Analysis of Elements 1.6J) Housing Element Table(s) 6-1 through 6-7 Page 105 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 6-1 HOUSING INVENTORY (2000) Cape Canaveral and Brevard County, Florida Cape Canaveral Brevard County Number Percent of total units Number Percent of total units Year Structure Built 1999 - March 2000 62 0.00925 5162 0.0232447 1995 -1998 386 0.057586 17772 0.0800281 1990 -1994 324 0.05 26322 0.12 1980 -1989 1871 0.28 68720 0.31 1970 to 1979 1752 0.26 38617 0.17 1960 to 1969 1735 0.26 42097 0.19 1950 to 1959 467 0.07 17962 0.08 1940 to 1949 56 0.01 2625 0.01 1939 or earlier 50 0.01 2795 0.01 Total 6703 1.00 222072 1.00 Value Number % of Spec. Units Number % of Spec. Units Specified Owner -Occupied Units 935 100 117,287 100 Less than $50,000 53 0.06 7597 0.06 $50,000 to $99,999 563 0.60 57280 0.49 $100,000 to $149,999 218 0.23 27700 0.24 $150,000 to $199,999 76 0.08 13469 0.11 $200,000 to $299,999 25 0.03 7598 0.06 $300,000 to $499,999 0 0.00 2758 0.02 $500,000 to $999,999 0 0.00 735 0.01 More than $1,000,000 0 0 150 0.0012789 Contract Rent Specified renter occupied Units 2593 100 50,272 100 Less than $200 15 0.005785 1782 0.04 $200 to $299 43 0.017 1414 0.03 $300 to $499 770 0.30 10427 0.21 $500 to $749 1202 0.46 22047 0.44 $750 to $999 369 0.14 8022 0.16 $1000 to $1499 103 0.04 2669 0.05 $1500 or more 0 0.00 846 0.02 No Cash Rent 91 0.04 3065 0.06 Page 106 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 6-1 con't. HOUSING INVENTORY (2000) Cape Canaveral and Brevard County, Florida Cape Canaveral Brevard County Monthly Owner Costs Number % of Spec. Units Number % of Spec. Units Specified Owner Occupied Units With Mortgage 707 100 83,409 100 Less than $200 0 0 98 0.00 $200 to $299 0 0.00 447 0.01 $300 to $399 26 0.04 1611 0.02 $400 to $499 23 0.03 3464 0.04 $500 to $599 42 0.06 6472 0.08 $600 to $699 129 0.18 9474 0.11 $700 to $799 80 0.11 10631 0.13 $800 to $899 120 0.17 9523 0.11 $900 to $999 76 0.11 8135 0.10 $1000 to $1249 97 0.137199 14370 0.1722836 $1250 to $1499 72 0.101839 8270 0.09915 $1500 to $1999 35 0.049505 7024 0.0842115 $2000 to $2499 7 0.009901 2177 0.0261003 $2500 to $2999 0 0 723 0.0086681 More than $3000 0 0 990 0.0118692 Housing Deficiency Number Share of Units (%) Number Percent of Y.R. Units Lacking Complete Plumbing 26 0.400 590 0.300 Lacking Complete Kitchen Facilities 38 0.600 783 0.400 Lacking Central Heating 100 1.900 1,560 0.800 Overcrowding: 1.01 or more persons per room 100 1.900 5021 2.500 Source: Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing, 1997. Page 107 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 6-1 con't. Cost Burden by Income, Owner. 2000: Selected Monthly Owner Costs as a % of Household Income in 1999 by Household Income(Specified Owner -occupied Housing Units) Annual Income Ranges - Cape Canaveral of Income for Housing Cost Under $10,000 $10,000 -19,999 $20,000 - 34,999 $35,000 - 49,999 $50,000 - $74,999 $75,000 or more Under 30% 8 19 111 108 247 202 30 - 34.9% 8 5 35 10 9 7 35% or more 35 65 49 9 0 0 Not Computed 8 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 59 89 195 127 256 209 Source: Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing (2000) Page 108 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 6-1 con't. Cost Burden by Income. Renter. 2000: Gross Rent as a % of Household Income in 1999 by Household Income (Specified Renter -occupied Housing Units) Annual Income Ranges - Cape Canaveral of Income for Housing Cost Under $10,000 $10,000 -19,999 $20,000 - 34,999 $35,000 - 49,999 $50,000 - $74,999 $75,000 or more Under 30% 11 38 576 355 381 110 30 - 34.9% 0 73 88 0 0 0 35% or more 246 412 136 10 0 0 Not Computed 105 7 21 0 11 13 Totals 362 530 821 365 392 123 Page 109 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 6-2 Residential Building Permits, October 1, 2001- January 31, 2007 Year Single Family Duplex 3 & 4 family- multifamily 5 or more - multifamily Total 2001-2007 271 14 87 1003 1375 Source: City of Cape Canaveral, report of Building Permits, 2007 Page 110 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 6-3 Number Of Housing Units Required To House Projected Population City of Cape Canaveral, Florida Year Population Projection Total Year -Round Housing Units of all types -occupied Persons Per Household 2000* 8829 5141 1.71 2005** 10034 5907 1.7 2010 10891 6483 1.68 2015 11,666 6986 1.67 2020 12,393 7510 1.65 2025 13,054 8009 1.63 *Source: Year 2000 data is derived from US Census Bureau due to the fact that Shimberg data is only available beginning at 2005; 2005 - 2025 population and housing data is derived from the Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing. ** Please note that the population in 2005 is actually higher than projected by Shimberg. The actual population in 2005 was recorded at 10,317. However, the Shimberg information is being used to provide consistent data through out the analysis. Page 111 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 6-4 Projected Number of Households by Income Range, 2010 through 2025 City of Cape Canaveral, Florida 2010 2015 2020 2025 Area Medium Income Owners Renters Owners Renters Owners Renters Owners Renters Under 20% 111 245 126 259 142 271 157 281 20 - 29.9% 122 229 138 245 163 261 188 280 30 - 39.9% 144 187 166 193 192 205 225 218 40 - 49.9% 182 188 212 192 243 196 279 209 50 - 59.9% 180 176 207 182 239 183 272 186 60 - 79.9% 350 422 402 430 462 429 521 420 80-119.9% 628 579 696 584 771 572 832 573 over 119% 1350 718 1409 706 1505 687 1565 670 Totals 3067 2744 3356 2791 3717 2804 4039 2837 Source: Shimberg Center For Affordable Housing (2000) Page 112 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 6-5 Projected Number of Persons in Households, 2000 Cape Canaveral, Florida Household Size Owners Renters 1 to 2 2223 2089 3 to 4 276 392 5 or more 21 64 Totals 2520 2545 Source: Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing (2000) Page 113 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 6-6 Household Income by Monthly owner Costs As Percent of Income # and % of Owner Households (1990) Cape Canaveral, Florida Annual Income Ranges of Income for Housing Cost Under $10,000 $10,000 - 19,999 $20,000 - 34,999 $35,000 - 49,999 $50,000 Over Under 20% 0 61 51 75 209 20 - 24 % 0 8 21 65 20 25 - 29 % 0 0 24 0 0 Over 30% 502 30 67 29 0 Totals 502 99 163 169 229 Source: Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing (1997) Page 114 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 6-6 con't. Household Income by Monthly owner Costs As Percent of Income # and % of Owner Households (2005) Cape Canaveral, Florida % of Income for Housing Annual Income Ranges (% of Median Income) Cost <20% 20-29.9% 30-39.9% 40-49.9% 50-59.9% 60-79.9% 80-119.9% >119.9% Under 30% 25 35 60 97 104 229 471 1,150 30 - 39% 9 24 22 24 25 46 67 56 40 - 49 % 5 14 14 14 18 20 16 9 Over 50% 63 34 34 27 17 17 16 4 Totals 102 107 130 162 164 312 570 1,219 Source: Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing (2007) Page 115 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 6-7 Household Income by Monthly owner Costs As Percent of Income # and % of Renter Households (1990) Cape Canaveral, Florida of Income for Annual Income Ranges Housing Cost Under 10,000 $10,000 -19,999 $20,000 - 34,999 $35,000 - 49,999 $50,000 Over Under 20% 8 40 290 261 184 20-24% 0 89 245 31 0 25-29% 0 143 103 16 0 30% Plus 8 370 123 8 0 Totals 16 642 761 316 184 Source: Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing (1997) Page 116 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 6-7 con't. Household Income by Monthly owner Costs As Percent of Income # and % of Renter Households (2005) Cape Canaveral, Florida % of Income for Housing Annual Income Ranges (% of Median Income) <20% 20-29.9% 30-39.9% 40-49.9% 50-59.9% 60-79.9% 80-119.9% >119.9% Cost Under 30% 74 43 21 40 48 252 494 692 30 - 39 % 14 20 35 47 82 119 60 14 40 - 49 % 4 19 25 48 27 24 10 0 Over 50% 142 129 96 50 11 9 6 0 Totals 234 211 177 185 168 404 570 706 Source: Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing (2007) Page 117 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1.6 Data and Analysis of Elements 1.6(g) Future Land Use Element 1.6 g) Future Land Use Element Introduction The general intent of this Element is to develop a community policy statement to guide the future development of the City in terms of land -use relationships and patterns. The recommendations within this study are based on existing land -use relationships and patterns. The recommendations within this study are based on existing land -use characteristics, estimates of community needs and problems, and the desires of the citizens. The Future Land Use Map is to provide for a general plan for the City regarding future development. It is expected, however, that portions of it may change as conditions warrant. Analysis of Existing Vacant and Undeveloped Land According to the tabulation of land uses in May of 1996, 2005 there were a total of 1,/111.88 1,372 acres of land within the City. Of these, 106 acres (7.7 percent) were vacant. A portion of this land was individual vacant lots in already developed subdivisions. However, the bulk of the vacant land was in the northern section of the City. Some of the vacant land is located within the 100-year flood plain as is a significant portion of the already developed lands. It should be noted that there is a discrepancy between the 1999 and 2005 data regarding the total number of acreage within the City. there is a discrepancy between the 1996 and 1987 data. This may be attributed to the fact that roadways are not factored into the existing use calculations. However, you should notice in Table 7-1 there is a percentage change increase for residential, commercial and industrial uses from the? 1999 data. Currently, only 7.7 percent over one third (about 3z1%) of the land within the City is not developed. This is not representative of the situation with other communities in the north beach area where land has been more extensively developed. The majority of the vacant land is located in the northwestern area of the City. Currently, 12 percent 9 percent of the developed land is for commercial uses that have developed along S.R. -AlA. There is no defined central business district within Cape Canaveral. Additional commercial opportunities along North Atlantic will be focused on more as fewer commercial parcels are available. A new commercial/manufacturing use accounts for 8 percent of developed land and Industrial uses account for 11.7 percent percent of the developed land. For the most part, the heavy industrial uses are located near the northern City limit and consists mainly of oil storage areas and warehouses. Note that Policy LU-3.3 of this Element refers to land -use densities and intensities required by the City. These required densities and intensities are found in the Zoning Regulations of the City of Cape Canaveral. Page 118 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 In summary, the existing land -use pattern can be characterized as generally residential, primarily multi -family in nature. Commercial development, concentrated along S.R.- AlA, is primarily service and retail -sales oriented. The development of heavy industry in the area is mostly concentrated to the north of the City in Port Canaveral. Light industrial activity is also located on S.R.-AlA in the central part of the City. Among other things, the foregoing analysis helps describe the character of the City. Anolsis-of-E*Istine-Vaeant-antl-144+dewloped-hanfl d According to the tabulation of land uses, in May of 1996, there were a total of 14111.88 of this land was individual vacant lots in already developed subdivisions. However, the bulk of the vacant land was in the northern section of the City. Some of the vacant land is located within the 100 year flood plain as is a significant portion of the already developed lands. Soils Information pertaining to soils was taken from the Soil Survey of Brevard County Florida prepared by the Soil Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This report analyzes the various types of soils and soil associations in Brevard County. Table 7-2 was derived from this analysis and sets forth limitations of the various soil types found in Cape Canaveral. It should be noted, as pointed out in the soil survey, that proper use of soils information for planning purposes should include three basic steps. Step 1 is an overall study of general soil conditions within a large area. This step can be accomplished by applying information in Table 7-2 to the general soil map that accompanies this report (Map 7-2). Step 2 requires application of the information about the various soil types in Table 7-2 to a detailed soil survey. The third step is an onsite study. Once planning has progressed to the point of locating a specific use on a specific site, onsite investigations are necessary. Since soils are intermingled, even detailed soil surveys may include soils other than the major type specified in mapping units. These other soils may have characteristics which would adversely affect foundations, drain fields, roadbeds, and other uses. Therefore, it should be emphasized that the soil classifications as shown in Map 7-2 and discussed in the following pages are still general in nature. The information contained in this report is provided as a general indication of the soil characteristics in Cape Canaveral and should not be construed to be site specific. At the time that a parcel of land is to be developed Step 3 should be followed by the developer. The Brevard County Soil Survey rated soils in terms of limitations, restrictions, or hazards for many uses by considering properties of the soils significant to the rating. Table 7-2 shows the general soils limitations, restrictions, and hazards in building Page 119 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 construction, landscaping, sanitation, transportation, recreation, and other uses. It also describes the chief limiting characteristics of the soils. As can be seen from the table, the soil limitations are rated as slight, moderate, severe, and very severe. In the Soil Survey of Brevard County, Florida, these ratings are described as follows: 1. Slight — Soil properties generally are favorable for the rated use for limitations are minor and easily overcome or a modified by special planning and design. 2. Moderate — The soil properties are moderately favorable for a particular use. Limitations can be overcome or modified by planning, design, or by special maintenance. 3. Severe — Soil properties are so unfavorable and so difficult to correct or overcome that major soil reclamation, special designs, or intensive maintenance is required. 4. Very Severe — One or more soil properties are so unfavorable for a particular use that overcoming the limitations is difficult and costly. The degree of limitation is based on all soil characteristics which are considered to be pertinent, but only the most limiting characteristics are stated. Column headings, as described in the Soil Survey, are defined in the following paragraphs. 1. Dwellings are no more than three stories high and are supported by foundation footings placed in undisturbed soil. The features that affect the rating of soil for a dwelling are those that relate to capacity to support load and resist settlement under load and those that relate to ease of excavation. Soil properties that affect capacity to support load are wetness, susceptibility to flooding, density, plasticity, texture, and shrink -swell potential. Those that affect excavation are wetness, texture, and shrink - swell potential. Those that affect excavation are wetness, slope, depth to bedrock, and content of stones and rocks. 2. Lawns and Ornamental Plants and suitability of the soil are important considerations in landscaping home sites and many suburban business establishments and are significant in highway beautification and most recreational developments. Qualities of soils that most affect landscaping are available water capacity, depth to the water table, productivity, effective root depth, and susceptibility to flooding. 3. Septic Tank Absorption Fields a common means of sewage disposal, are used for homes in rural sections and in some subdivisions where rapidly expanding residential areas have outgrown existing sewer lines or where sewer lines do not exist. These systems, to function properly, must be installed on soils that have an adequate absorptive capacity and that are not affected by a high water table. Many soils that are poorly drained are highly permeable and absorb water rapidly if drained, but a normally high water table severely limits their use as septic tank absorption fields. Septic tank absorption fields may function well on these soils in dry Page 120 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 seasons. Soil properties that most affect these use of soils as septic tank absorption fields are wetness permeability, and the hazard of flooding. 4. Local Roads and Streets have an all-weather surface expected to carry automobile traffic all year. They have a subgrade of underlying soil material; a base consisting of gravel, crushed rock, or soil material stabilized with lime or cement; and flexible or rigid surface, commonly asphalt or concrete. These roads are graded to shed water and have the ordinary provision for drainage. They are built mainly from soil at hand, and most cuts and fills are less that 6 feet deep. 5. Campsites and Picnic Areas normally require only small areas suitable for camping equipment and outdoor living and for outings during which a meal is eaten. Limitations related to sewage disposal facilities and service buildings used in camp areas are described under previously listed columns. The selection of campsites and picnic areas generally is limited or moderated by other than soil qualities because campers and picnickers prefer sites that provide beautiful scenery, hunting, fishing, or swimming. Such sites must be accessible and provide at least the minimum conveniences. The accessibility and desirability of campsites and picnic areas are greatly influenced by such soil properties as wetness, flood hazard, and traffic ability. 6. Playgrounds are city parks, football and baseball fields, and other small areas where competitive sports are played outdoors. They should be nearly level, free from flood hazard or excessive wetness, easy to walk on, and suitable for landscaping. Wetness and flood hazards are the soil properties that have the greatest effect on the use of soils from playgrounds, but traffic ability and productivity are also important. 7. Golf Courses can be established where the soils vary widely if the site has a good balance between fairways and rough areas or hazards. The ratings are based on the limitations of the soils for fairways. A fairway requires moderately well drained, gently sloping soils and a good cover of grass. People must be able to move freely over the fairway on foot or in a golf cart or other light motor vehicle. The main quantities that limit the use of soils for golf course fairways are susceptibility to flooding, depth to water table, productivity, traffic ability, and slope. 8. Paths and Trails are designed to permit hiking through areas of natural or artificial beauty. In addition to hiking, paths and trails facilitate such associated activities as nature study, hunting, and fishing. They should be easily traversal by foot and free from flood hazard or excessive wetness. Depth to water table, soil texture, flood hazard, and slope are soil properties that mainly affect the use of soils for paths and trails. Flood Hazard Areas Figure 2-1 in the Conservation and Coastal Management Element portrays the flood - prone areas. As can be seen from that map, part of the vacant land in the northwest portion of the City is located within Zone A4. This indicates that this area is subject to Page 121 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 flooding during a 100-year storm event (a storm which has one percent chance of occurring in any given year), and that the elevation at which it would flood is four feet above mean sea level. The interior of the City is in the B Zone which is an area of moderate flood hazards. Note that the whole City of Cape Canaveral falls within the 500-year flood zone. That portion of the City which lies within the 100-year flood zone is located principally along the Atlantic Coast on the east side of the City, the south two-thirds of the Banana River shoreline on the west edge of the City, and along the northwest city limit adjacent to Port Canaveral. The approximate land area contained in the 100-year flood zone is 210 acres, or about 15% of the total area of the City. Much of this 100-year flood zone along the Atlantic Coast is rather well -developed with condominiums and other residential properties, though there are some vacant lots and a County park. Along this coast, the flood zone runs in from the shoreline for distances varying from about 250 feet (south half of the coastline) to about 625 feet (north central area), while along the northern quarter of the coast it runs in for about 375 feet. Along the Banana River shoreline, the 100-year flood zone is more variable, ranging from a few feet to about 1,625 feet (along the drainage canal north of Columbia Drive and west of S.R.-A1A). This shoreline, along the large tract of vacant land in the northwest quadrant, has a flood zone of only a few feet except in the extreme northwest corner where it runs in about 800 feet to S.R.-A1A. Along the southern two-thirds of the Banana River, development is rather extensive, with mostly residential uses along with some industrial and commercial. As noted elsewhere in this Plan, the floodplain is a resource not only because it interfaces with the two large water bodies and is the access point to them, but, also, because many parts of it provide habitat for special types of flora and fauna. It also contains all of the wetlands in Cape Canaveral. As far as flooding history and damage potential are concerned, there has been no record of significant flooding in the area. Obviously, the recent past is not likely to be prologue forever and ever; therefore, the residents of Cape Canaveral must be prepared for a hurricane disaster. In order to protect against flooding and hurricane damage, the City enacted an up-to-date Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance (1978) which was revised in March, 1987. The purpose of this Ordinance is: to restrict or prohibit uses which are vulnerable to water or erosion hazards, or which result in damaging increases in erosion or in flood heights or velocities; to control the alteration of natural floodplains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers involved in the accommodation of flood waters; to require that uses vulnerable to floods be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction; to control filling, grading, dredging and other development which may increase erosion or flood damage; and to prevent or regulate the construction of flood barriers which will unnaturally divert flood waters or which may increase flood hazards to other lands. This Ordinance is being enforced by the City. With respect to construction done prior to the Page 122 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 implementation of the Ordinance, the City Building Department recommends structural modifications to property owners when deficiencies are identified. The DCA Local Mitigation Strategy, designed to help communities identify areas that could be devastated during disasters, is being implemented by Brevard County and local municipalities. It would assist the City in addressing flood hazards and provide better intergovernmental coordination if the Local Mitigation Strategy was referenced. 9J-5.015 (2) (b). As far as other measures addressing hurricane mitigation and post disaster planning for redevelopment, please note the following: The City supports public information programs to educate the public concerning the dangers of hurricanes and their effects, plus measures to be taken at the time of an impending major storm, including evacuation procedures. And, of course, the Civil Defense organizations are involved in this situation. Post -disaster redevelopment is more of a problem in the sense that people usually don't think very much about what they will do until after the disaster strikes. On the other hand, flood insurance programs and Federal and State disaster aid would usually be invoked. What is done would depend upon the severity of the damage. Past experience with these types of events around the country shows that the authorities and the individual citizens and companies usually do all that they can to rebuild and get things back to normal as quickly as possible. The City government and the inhabitants of Cape Canaveral would react in the same fashion. However, the existence of a well thought-out post -disaster redevelopment plan would be great assistance, and the City government could take a leading role in the development of such a plan. Suitability of flood -prone areas for development Obviously, flood -prone areas are, other things being equal, less suitable for development than non -flood -prone areas. However, a significant amount of residential development is already located in flood -prone areas. The City building codes have special provisions which apply to development in flood -prone areas in order to reduce damage from flooding. Only about 25% of the vacant land in the northwest portion of the City is in the flood -prone zone. And only about 10% of the vacant land in the northeast area is in such a zone. The Flood Map (Map 2-1) shows the designated flood areas of the City, overlain on a map which also depicts vacant areas. As can be seen from the map, only a relatively small percentage of the vacant land remaining in the City lies within the flood -prone zones. History in the area shows that the land in the flood -prone zone is generally suitable for development, depending upon soils and engineering analysis and the use of appropriate engineering and building techniques and materials. The City's position has been that as long as construction in the flood -prone areas meets the local building codes (and other City requirements), and as long as FDEP requirements are met for proposed development along the shoreline, the City will not stop the development merely because it would be in the flood -prone zone. Page 123 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Natural Resources Most natural resources in the Cape Canaveral area were discussed in the Conservation and Coastal Management Element. They should be taken into account when considering development of a vacant area. Wetlands within the City are limited in number and size. There are 2 small wetlands locations encompassing approximately 6 acres of land at most. These wetlands locations relate to the Banana River, and they are located within the 100-year floodplain. The first is Hall Island, known locally as "Bird Island," which consists of several acres of submerged land perhaps 100 yards offshore in the Banana River at the southwestern edge of the City. It is noticeable only because of the aquatic grasses and birds there. It is a State bird sanctuary. On shore, across from Hall Island, exist several more acres of wetlands bounded by trees, which is basically a wildlife habitat. These wetlands are good wildlife habitats. They should be preserved as such, and no development should be allowed there. The vacant lands in the built-up part of the City are basically lots of varying sizes which have some covering with grasses and very few, if any, trees. The vacant tracts in the northwest area also have grass cover with clusters of trees in various locations; the southern portion of these tracts has some street infrastructure and is zoned residential. Archaeological Resources According to the Florida Department of State, Bureau of Historic Preservation, Office of the Coordinator of the Master Site File, there are 7 archaeological sites located within the City (State File #8BR 90-96). These sites are all of Indian origin (three were burial mounds that have been dug; three were sand mounds that were not dug; and, one is a Carter shell-midden that also has not been dug). These sites are all in the southwest portion of the City, and development may have already overcome at least three, and perhaps, all of them. Despite the possibility that these may have already been overcome by existing development, City officials should have available a list of these sites, and, if appropriate, cross-check them against any proposed development that could impact them. It appears; however, that the sites exist in an area that has already been developed and that the likelihood is remote that new development would conflict with them. Also note that the Florida Department of State indicates that, other than the archaeological sites specified, there are no known sites of historical significance within the City. Topography Topography is not an important obstacle for development in Cape Canaveral, as the general topographic elevation slopes westward from the eastern coastal beach area at approximately 10 feet to the Banana River shore area, where elevation ranges downward to below five feet. As can be seen by this, the land slopes very gradually and does not have drastic changes in elevation. Also, there are no surface features or proturbances that Page 124 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 deter development. Topography was more fully addressed in the Introduction and in the Conservation and Coastal Management Element of this report. Analysis of the Availability of Facilities and Services For all practical purposes, the key infrastructure deficiencies affecting existing land use are: 1. Sanitary Sewer: There were many repair, upgrades and expansion over the last seven years. There are presently no deficiencies. 2. Solid Waste: No current deficiencies. 3. Drainage: The Stormwater Management Ordinance regulates new development. 4. Potable Water: No current deficiencies. 5. Natural Groundwater Recharge: The Stormwater Mangement Ordinance regulates new development. 6. Traffic: S.R.A1A is becoming increasingly burdened as development continues to occur. However, presently the roadway is sufficient. 7. Recreation and Open Space: No current deficiencies. Projection of Land Use Needs The population in 2005, as estimated by the Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing, is approximately 10,034. As was shown in the Socio Economic segment of this report, the The overall population of Cape Canaveral is expected to increase to about 12,393 by the year 2020 10,698 by the year 200Q. That is a population increase of 2,359 people from 2005. The population level will require an increase of about approximately 1,603 permanently occupied housing units of all types. Data presented in the Housing Element estimated that this number of units would require an increase of about 21% 4-7-% of housing units of all types. Extrapolating the data 21% 17% of the present residential land area would be approximately 85 acres for residential uses, which means that there is sufficient land available to meet the need. In 2005, the City had approximately 5,907 permanently occupied residential units of all types on 689 acres of land. That equates to an average density of 8.6 dwelling units per acre. With an additional projected 1,603 residential units, at an average density of 8.6 dwelling units per acre, approximately 186 acres of additional land would be required. It is estimated that only approximately 106 acres of vacant land remain within the City limits. However, much of the residential development will occur as redevelopment of existing developed property. Redevelopment trends in Cape Canaveral will require an increase in density in order to accommodate the additional projected population increase and housing demand. The City has a maximum allowable density of 15 dwelling units per acre which has the potential to accommodate this projected demand for housing by 2020 should it occur. Looking forward to the year 2025, an additional 499 permanently occupied housing 2010, another 527 units would be required to accommodate for the projected population increase to a total of 13,054. 12,126 persons. To meet the housing need at that time Page 125 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 would require another approximately 50 58 acres_ of vacant developable land, which appears feasible even considering competing demands for other land uses. Commercial facilities within Cape Canaveral serve the need for general shopping facilities and other services. The existing commercial land use in the City is 167 acres 79.78 acres or about 12 percent of the land area. Industrial land is difficult to gauge the demand or need. Presently, there are 103.35 161 acres of industrial and being utilized in the city or % 11.7 percent of the land area. Table 7-3 compares changes in land use among the years 1978, 1987, 1996, and 2005. It shows that the amount of developed land will continue to has increased over the years. In amount of new land developed, residential uses will far overshadow any other uses, followed in amount by roadways/drainage. Small but significant increases are assumed for recreation/open space, conservation, and public/semi-public uses. It is also assumed that the total area of the City will not change due to the fact that there is little to annex and little incentive for annexation. Development of Future Land Use Plan In order to develop a feasible plan for future land use within the City, the foregoing information pertaining to land use and projected population was evaluated. Also considered were indicators from the various other elements of the Comprehensive Plan, as well as the goals and objectives of the City. Goals, objectives and policies pertaining to future land use are included in this Element of the Plan. Implementation of these specific land -use objectives and policies should begin as soon as this Plan is adopted as the official policy for the City. It is anticipated that many of these objectives can be met within a three- to five-year period following adoption of the Plan. A number of the objectives and policies are of an on -going nature and are already being implemented by the City. Such implementation should continue. A Future Land Use Map was formulated utilizing input from this and other elements of the Comprehensive Plan. This map, which is to be used as a guideline for making development decisions, is included in this report. The following paragraphs explain the land -use classifications used in the map, as well as the policies of the City related to such classifications. Single -Family Residential These areas are considered as low -density residential areas. The overall average density for single-family units in 1987 2005 was 7.8 units per acre. It is anticipated that this average density level will continue. Page 126 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Multi -Family Residential These areas are reserved for development of multi -family structures. As used in this report, this category also includes single-family attached housing and condominiums. The overall average density for multi -family developments within Cape Canaveral in7 2005 was 14.2 units per acre, This is a suitable average density level for multi -family development within the City. Commercial This category includes retail service and commercial uses, as well as those uses conducted from offices such as doctors and attorneys. Commercial/Manufacturing This category includes a mixture of commercial uses and light industrial uses. Industrial This classification includes light -industrial uses of the type suitable to a bedroom community such as Cape Canaveral, as well as heavier industrial uses in the northern portion of the City. The land in this classification has already been almost completely developed, and it is not expected to change appreciably. Public and Semi -Public This classification contains such uses as schools, churches, governmental buildings and facilities, etc. As the population of the City is not expected to increase tremendously, it would seem indicate that the existing facilities will be adequate. Recreation This land -use classification includes both public and private recreational facilities within the city limits. As was shown in the Recreation and Open Space Element, there is not immediate need for additional public recreational and open space land. Planned Unit Development This designation will be permissible in any land use classification shown on the Future Land Use Map, so long as such PUD is approved in conformance with the City's PUD Ordinance. There have been several successes associated with the Future Land Use Element. There have been several land development regulations improved upon to ensure compliance Page 127 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 with 9J-5 requirements. Among those, wetland protection, habitat protection, concurrency management and surface water management. Concurrency management has been a success in helping to understand the impacts of development and the potential needs for improvements as a result of the cumulative impacts of development. Concurrency management can also demonstrate how land use decisions in one jurisdiction can have negative facility impacts on another. Concurrency management has also helped to prioritize capital expenditures for distressed facilities. Concurrency management is a local government tool to establish a desired quality of life by setting and living by the goals established. The goals established need to be realistic, obtainable and maintainable. The penalty for not meeting concurrency requirements is a building moratorium on new construction until the deficiency is corrected. In terms of road projects, this could mean years. Finally, in terms of the City's concurrency management, the goals have been met and maintained since the adoption of the comprehensive plan. Opportunities include the development of the AlA Beautification Plan and AlA Redevelopment Plan. These two plans have helped to spawn a renewed interest in the business community. A Commercial Development Board was established to make recommendation for both plans. From those plans came the development of another board the "Community Appearance Board." In recent years two new community Boards were established: 1) the "Community Appearance Board was created to establish an architectural theme for the City to strive towards, and 2) the "Beautification Board" —4ft addition, the Beautification Board also meets to discuss, recommend and implement various community beautification projects throughout the City. Additionally, the "Business and Cultural Development Board" was created to promote business, tourism, culture, commerce and industry within the City. In March 2007 the Board updated the previous 1999 Redevelopment Plan. The City also utilizes the Local Planning Agency/Planning and Zoning Board to make further recommendations to the various plans. Thus, the City has developed a myriad of interrelated Boards that are presently working toward common goals. Another opportunity is in the northeast quadrant of the City which is mostly vacant. There have been several inquiries over the possibility to do a residential commercial mix. There is continued interest in developing a mixed -use district in the City. The City Council and Planning and Zoning Board is interested in exploring the many options concerning mixed -use districts. However, the preliminary recent proposals have been very broad and would not be consistent with the City's comprehensive plan or zoning code. This area probably will continue to experience development pressure based upon the possible interest of the City and activities at the Port of Canaveral. Emerging issues include the Local Planning Agency/Planning and Zoning Board and the Commercial Development Board have been examining the City's current layetit land development. The City has the same basic zoning for the past three decades. There is increasing interest for redevelopment and redevelopment activities for both residential Page 128 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 and commercial uses. In that time several industrial building have become vacant and remained vacant for quite sometime. ThiG i al o the e f r < ~t a' la~a k The local Planning Agency/Planning and Zoning Board and the Commercial Development Board discussed ways to change this condition. One recommendation is to create a "C 2" Commercial/Manufacturing zone. This zone would be applied to area; currently zoned "M 1" light manufacturing and which front on State Route AlA and the Banana River. This area is almost entirely developed and many of the vacant buildings in Cape Canaveral are located in this area. The second emerging issue is the idea of a Downtown Commercial zone that would allow a mix of commercial residential as a complex type zoning. Very neo traditional with offices, shops and store fronts on the ground floor and residential units on the second, third or fourth floors. The area being discussed for this downtown commercial zoning scheme is located in the light industrial zoning area in the southwest portion of the City and on the east side of AlA south of North Atlantic Boulevard. The downtown commercial concept is still just a concept and will require further review to determine its desirability. development trend is the mixed -use district. The City is exploring the options allowed with mixed -use development and would seriously consider such alternatives. The area most likely for mixed -use development would be Central Avenue between AlA and North Atlantic. Page 129 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1.6 Data and Analysis of Elements 1.6 g) Future Land Use Element Table(s) 7-1 through 7-3 Figure 7-1: Existing Land Use Map Figure 7-2: General Soils Map Figure 7-3: Future Land Use Map Page 130 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 7-1 EXISTING LAND USE ACREAGES 2005 Cape Canaveral, Florida Land Use Classification Number of Acres Percent of Total City Residential 689.00 50.00 Commercial 167.00 12.20 Industrial 161.00 11.70 Public / Recreation 109.00 7.90 Vacant 106.00 7.70 Roads/ Rights of Ways 140 10.20 TOTAL ACRES 1,372.00 99.70 Source: Acreage and land use data was provided by the Brevard County Property Appraiser Page 131 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 7-2 SOILS CLASSIFICATIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS Soil Series and Map Symbols Dwellings Lawn and Ornamental Plants Septic Tank Absorption Fields Local Roads and Streets Campsites and Picnic Areas Playground s Golf Courses Paths and Trails Canaveral: Ca, Cc Coastal Beaches Ck Galveston: Ga Palm Beach Pb Parkwood Pk Moderate: Moderately high water table Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard Slight Slight Severe: High water table Severe: Very low available capacity low natural fertility Very severe: Low Natural fertility; high salinity Severe: Very low available capacity low natural fertility Severe: Very low available capacity low natural fertility Severe: High water table Moderate: Moderately high water table Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard Moderate: Moderately high water table Slight Severe: High water table Moderate: Moderately high water table Variable Slight Slight Severe: High water table Severe: Loose sand Variable Severe: Loose sand Severe: Loose sand Severe: High water table Severe: Loose sand Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard; loose sand Severe: Loose sand Severe: Loose sand Severe: High water table Severe: Loose sand; low natural fertility Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard; high salinity Severe: Low natural fertility; loose sand Severe: Low natural fertility; loose sand Severe: High water table Severe: Loose sand Variable Severe: Loose sand Severe: Loose sand Severe: High water table Page 132 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 7-2 con't. SOILS CLASSIFICATIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS Soil Series and Map Symbols Dwellings Lawn and Ornamental Plants Septic Tank Absorption Fields Local Roads and Streets Campsites and Picnic Areas Playground s Golf Courses Paths and Trails Tidal Marsh Tm Tidal Swamp Ts Urban Land Ur Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard Present land use Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard precludes other Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard uses Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard; low traffic supporting capacity Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard; low traffic supporting capacity Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard Very Severe: High water table; flood hazard Source: Table developed from the soil survey of Brevard County Page 133 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 7-3 Comparison of Past & Existing Future Land Use (in acres and percents) City of Cape Canaveral, Florida 1978 0/Use land 1987 land 1996 % land 2005 % land Residential 322 24% 496.25 35% 508 36% 689 50% Commercial 70 5% 72.21 5% 80 6% 167 12% *Commercial/Manufacturing NA NA NA NA 74.55 5% N/A N/A Industrial 38 3% 61.29 4% 29 2% 161 12% **Public/Semi-private 27 2% 25.24 2% 59 4% 109 8% ***Recreation/Open Space 9 1% 13.8 1% NA NA NA NA Conservation 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% Roadways/Drainage 155 12% 170.53 12% 173 12% 140 10% Total Developable Acres 621 46% 839.32 60% 931 66% 1266 92% Total Vacant Acres 704 53% 561.22 40% 480 34% 106 8% Overall City Acreage 1325 100% 1400.54 100% 1411 100% 1372 100% Note: Archaeological sites are contained in the residential category *Commercial/Manufacturing is comprised of both previous commercial and industrial land use. **Public/Semi-Private is comprised of public and recreation for the year 2005. ***Recreation/Open Space were merged as part of the public semi-public land use. 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Introduction According to Rule 9J-5 of the Florida Administrative Code (FAC), the purpose of the Capital Improvements Element is to evaluate the need for public facilities as identified in the other Comprehensive Plan elements and, as defined in the applicable definitions for each type of public facility, to estimate the cost of improvements for which the local government has fiscal responsibility, to analyze the fiscal capability of the local government to finance and construct improvements, to adopt financial policies to guide the funding of improvements and to schedule the funding and construction of improvements in a manner necessary to ensure that capital improvements are provided when required based on needs identified in the other Comprehensive Plan elements. Facility Needs Summary of Level -of -Service (LOS) Standards The following is a listing of the level -of -service standards established in the other elements of this Plan. A. RECREATION: Parks: 2 acres /1000 population for all parks. Open Space: one acre/1000 population B. SANITARY SEWER: 118 gallons per person per day. C. DRAINAGE: retention of the first inch of rainfall for new developments, and a design storm of 5-year frequency and one hour duration with rainfall of 3 inches per hour and removal of excess water within 3 hours of the event. D. SOLID WASTE: 8.32 lbs. per capita per day. E. TRAFFIC CIRCULATION: minimum level -of -service standard "E", with desired level -of -service standard "C"; plus use of "interim" level -of - service standard as defined in Policy TC-1.2 in event of exceedance condition. Page 138 of325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 F. POTABLE WATER: Consumption standard: 264 gallons per household per day. Pressure standard: 60 psi. Traffic Circulation Several important needs have been identified in the Traffic Circulation Element: (1) improvements to S.R. AlA; (2) improvements to North Atlantic Avenue; and (3) the guarding of the right of way to extend Ridgewood Avenue from Ocean Woods Boulevard to Seaport Boulevard (Villages of Seaport). Several important needs from the Traffic Circulation Element have been addressed since 1999: 1) Improvements to the George King and AlA intersection have been made, 2) the widening of North Atlantic Avenue to three lanes is currently being considered and 3) Ridgewood beautification/traffic calming project is being considered, especially for pedestrians and bike riding. The City has been fortunate not to have deficiency problems at this time. However, close attention to trip counts should be made. This is primarily due to the activity occurring at the Port of Canaveral and with the possibility of potential development at the north end of the City. Another unanticipated benefit to the community is that concurrency helps to determine quality of life expectations by limiting the number of trips to certain roadways. The City's main corridors State Route AlA and North Atlantic Avenue are maintained either by Brevard County or the Florida Department of Transportation. However, the City does participate with the Brevard County Municipal Planning Organization (MPO) who make recommendations for transportation issues county -wide. There has been public opposition to the extension of Ridgewood Avenue by area residents. As pedestrian way extension is still being considered; however, vehicle traffic probably will not be an option. If a pedestrian way is utilized as an alternative to the Ridgewood Avenue extension, then the pedestrian way should begin at Ocean Woods Boulevard northward along existing right of way. The pedestrian way should be designed for the intended users; however, it should be constructed to accommodate emergency vehicle(s) for the purpose of alternative access. In addition, there may be a need for emergency hurricane evacuation and/or emergency evacuation for potential chemical leaks or chemical fires that may occur at the Port of Canaveral. FDOT is scheduled to conducted a multi -modal study of SR AlA in the future 2001 that will help the City achieve its objective, goals and policies of the transportation element. Sanitary Sewer, Solid Waste, Drainage, Potable Water, and Natural Groundwater Aquifer Recharge A number of improvements needs were identified in the Sanitary Sewer Element, and they are shown on Table 10 1. they are shown in the General Government 5 year Capital Plan. The majority of future capital projects include implementing a city wide reuse water Page 139 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 system and the upgrade of the sewer collection system involving sewer line and manhole repairs and replacement. Financing sources such as sewer impact fees, operating revenue, and grants will have to be evaluated to construct these projects. Analysis of Operating Costs of Proposed Sanitary Sewer System Improvements The City of Cape Canaveral retained the services of Brown and Caldwell to conduct a rate study. The study was prepared to develop a five year rate plan to fund the operations and capital improvements of this system. The changes are expected to go into effect on January 1, 2008 and when the change goes into effect the rate structure will change and some of these changes will be major. Analysis of Operating Costs of Drainage System Improvements Because no drainage system improvements have yet been scheduled, related operational costs cannot be precisely calculated. However, with respect to the existing drainage system, in recent years City expenditures for operational costs have been minimal, amounting to less than $2000 per year, principally for providing the manpower necessary to accomplish limited maintenance activities. A recent study is underway was conducted to determine the need for improvements to a major drainage ditch, and a further study of the overall drainage system is planned for the near future. One result of these studies could be was a finding that the City should increase its expenditures for routine annual maintenance of the system. Such an effort could require an annual budget estimated at approximately $50,000. Among the financing options to consider would be the creation of a drainage utility, involving a system of fees paid by property -owners. Recreation and Open Space The discussion in the Recreation and Open Space Element showed that the City, based upon its LOS standard, does not have an existing deficiency in parkland, nor will it have one during the planning period. During the last planning period, the City developed the ten acre Manatee Park and purchased and developed an additional five acres of park land immediately north of Manatee Park. The City is also seeking to acquire land in the northeast section of town to develop a neighborhood park. The City will be developing a ten acre Manatee Park during this planning period and the purchase and development of an additional five acres of park land immediately north of the Manatee Park. The city is also seeking to acquire land in the northeast section of town to develop a neighborhood park. Page 140 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Public Schools The City has no responsibility for the public school system. The Brevard County School Board administrates this system, which includes the only public school in Cape Canaveral, Cape View Elementary. The School District indicates that this elementary school is well within capacity at the present time. No capital improvements for the planning period have been scheduled for Cape View Elementary. Levels -of -service are set by the Florida Department of Education and serve as the basis for release of State education funds to the local system. The State has set a standard for number of elementary students per classroom station at 27; Brevard County presently averages 22.95 elementary students per station, which is well within the acceptable level. The future impact of Cape View Elementary School on the City's infrastructure should not be significantly greater than it is today if the enrollment increases are as small as predicted. By December 1, 2008 the City is required to establish a Public Schools Facilities Element and school concurrency shall be required. The City will begin working towards these requirements in 2007 by coordinating with the School Board for consistency with school concurrency and in collecting data and analysis for the new element. In spring/summer 2008 the City will prepare and transmit the element to DCA for review and adoption in order to meet the December 1, 2008 deadline. Public Health Facilities Public health services and facilities basically fall within the realm of the private sector; the City is not responsible for, nor does it provide these services. The nearest hospital to the City of Cape Canaveral Hospital about 2 miles away on the Cocoa Beach causeway. Level -of -service standards available from the State Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services are as follows in terms of number of beds per 1000 residents: acute care hospital (3.4); psychiatric (.52); substance abuse (.18); intensive residential treatment (2.9). There is no discernible impact on the City's infrastructure due to the use of public health facilities. The attached table entitled General Government 5 year Capital Plan shows a Capital Improvements Schedule for the City of Cape Canaveral. The bulk of the expense will be in the Sanitary Sewer Element, with a lesser amount for Drainage. The greatest financial impact on the City will be caused by the Sanitary Sewer projects. Fortunately, these projects fall in the Enterprise Fund category and can be financed primarily by sewer charges and sewer impact fees in conjunction with grants. Funding Sources for Capital Improvements A. Taxes. The following is a brief discussion of the basic types of taxes which could possibly be considered for funding capital improvements. It should be noted, however, that there are important limitations: e.g., much Page 141 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 of the City's existing tax revenue (from such sources as property tax, cigarette taxes, franchise fees, utility taxes, State Revenue Sharing, and sales tax) is generally earmarked for operating expenses and would not be an important source of funding for capital improvements. 1. Ad Valorem Taxes. The City already uses this type of tax to some extent. It is based upon the assessed evaluation of property. Usually this tax is thought of as a "property tax". It is sometimes used for the repayment of bonds; in the case of general obligation bonds, it must be approved by a voter referendum. This tax cannot be increased more that 10% per year unless so authorized by the voters. Table 10 2 provides projected ad valorem taxes through 2005. The attached General Government 5 year Capital Plan provides a listing for such type of taxing mechanism. 2. Sales Tax. This tax totals 6% and is remitted to the State. However, the 5th cent is divided by formula among the county and its municipalities. 3. Local Option Infrastructure Tax. This tax has not yet been levied by Brevard County. It provides for up to 1 cent of additional sales tax to be levied for a period not to exceed 15 years for acquiring financing, planning, and constructing infrastructure. Funds may not be used for operating expenses. 4. Local Option Gas Tax. The City currently receives $172,00Q annually based on a formula of population and 5 years of road expenditures. Currently, the City receives the Local Option Gas Tax, however it is not dedicated in the General Government 5 year Capital Plan. B. Special Assessments. This is a type of levy imposed upon property according to benefits conferred on the property. From time to time, the City has used this mechanism to help finance roadway or utility improvements. C. Impact Fees. This is a method of financing or helping to finance new facilities required by growth -related activities. It is a mechanism of shifting the primary responsibility for paying for growth -required facilities to the beneficiaries or users of the facilities. An impact fee is functionally equivalent to other land -use planning and growth management tools and is, therefore, considered a type of growth management regulation. At present, the City has enacted and used the following types of impact fees: sewer; fire; recreation; library; police; and, general government to help fund improvements related to growth. D. Bond Issues: Page 142 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1. General Obligation Bonds (G.O. bonds). This type of bond pledges the full faith and credit of the City for repayment and requires a voter referendum for approval. G.O. bonds are generally used for improvements only when other financing is not available. An ad valorem tax levy is usually used to raise the revenue to repay these bonds. 2. Revenue Bonds. These bonds depend for repayment upon a pledge of a portion of the revenue from the facility system. This type of bond is generally used for sanitary sewer and water facilities. A referendum is not required. The City has used this tool in the past. E. Revenue Fund. Some capital improvements can be made using excess revenues from the improved facility. These improvements are carried out on a "pay-as-you-go" basis. One of the disadvantages of this type of funding is that certain improvements may be required before money is available for the improvement. F. Renewal and Replacement Fund. As a part of the bond covenant for the existing outstanding revenue bonds in Cape Canaveral, the City is required to set aside a percentage of the revenues from the sewer system each year to be used for renewal and replacement of portions of the system. These funds could be used for renewal and replacement of portions of the system. These funds could be used for some of the sewer system work which is required in the City. G. Grants. This type of funding has been used to purchase park land, construct reclaimed water systems, and plant trees. Assessment of City's ability to finance capital improvements based upon anticipated population and revenues. The City of Cape Canaveral is being operated under a City Manager form of government in a well -managed and fiscally -sound manner. The City government attempts to provide adequate legitimate services for the City's inhabitants given the perceived needs and the financial capability of the City. Debt Management. When considering the use of bonds, whether general obligation bonds or revenue bonds, the City is determined to follow good management principles and procedures, including adherence to the appropriate Statutes of the State of Florida. In such cases, the City consults with experts, such as engineers, legal counsel, and bond counsel in the course of its deliberations. The City has had experience with both general obligation and revenue bonds and is, therefore, familiar with how to handle this financing instrument from beginning to end. Page 143 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 In addition, the City has determined to follow certain other debt management policies: i.e., the ratio of total debt service to total revenue shall not exceed .1, or 10%; the ratio of total capital debt to the taxable portion of the tax base shall not exceed .1, or 10%; there will be no limitation on the use of revenue bonds as a percentage of bonded debt. Table 10 3 provides projected revenues and expenditures through 2010. The attached General Government 5 year Capital Plan provides projected revenues and expenditures through 2011. At this point in time the City expects revenues to exceed expenditures by approximately two million or more through the projection period City mechanism to guide decisions on timing and location of capital improvements. The Future Land Use Element is integrally related to the issue of the timing and location of capital improvements within the City. The Future Land Use Element indicates the basic locations, densities and intensities of different land uses over the planning period. In turn these criteria are based upon various constraints, including: land use compatibility; availability of public facilities and services; environmental concerns; the nature of different geographic areas; hurricane evacuation factors; and, other considerations set forth in the Policies of this Comprehensive Plan. The Future Land Use Element facilitates compact ("unsprawled") development by providing for the location of new public facilities in or adjacent to built-up areas, thus promoting the use of existing infrastructure. By maximizing the use of existing facilities and controlling non- contiguous development, the Future Land Use Plan contributes to future facility locations will facilitate an efficient and orderly expansion of public facilities and will be a guide for urban growth and development. Before issuing Development Orders, the City shall determine that adequate public facilities will be available when needed in support of the Future Land Use Element. This Capital Improvements Element is essential for the City's decision -making process for the timing and location of improvements to existing facilities and the construction of new facilities. This projection and scheduling effort will assist the City in maintaining or attaining desirable levels of service, and it will enable the City to make more rational land -use and development decisions during the five- to ten-year planning period. The City Council makes the final decisions on the timing and locations of capital improvements. The City Council makes these decisions through the process of utilizing its own best judgment. This decision making process also takes into consideration a number of factors, including, but not limited to: recommendations of the City Manager; review of the recommendations in the Comprehensive Plan; the City's financial capability; the relative importance of projects; the relative urgency of projects; the relative cost of projects; requirements of State and Federal law; the ability of the City to maintain and operate projects; the tax implications or projects; inputs from specialists such as engineers, attorneys, and financial analysts; budgetary considerations; input from affected citizens and other members of the public; requirements for coordination with other governmental entities; the method of financing; the need to tap new funding sources; the time -frame of projects from initial approval to completion; whether the City has sole or partial responsibility for a project; the degree to which the State Page 144 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Comprehensive Plan is furthered; the degree to which the Comprehensive Regional Policy Plan if furthered; the degree to which a project will eliminate public hazards; the degree to which a project will eliminate existing capacity deficiencies; locational needs based on anticipated growth patterns; the degree to which a project addresses facility needs for new development or redevelopment; plans of State agencies and the St. Johns River Water Management District affecting the City; etc. The City Council and administration attempt to make this process as rational as possible; however, there exists in this political and human process a certain degree of almost inherent subjectivity. Page 145 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1.6 Data and Analysis of Elements 1.6 h) Capital Improvements Element Table 8-1 Table: General Government 5 Year Capital Plan Page 146 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 8-1 Capital Improvements Schedule and Budget (1998-2010) City of Cape Canaveral, Florida Improvement Completion Target Date Estimated Cost Estimated City Share Possible Funding Sources (code) City PriorityExisting (within category) Deficiencies I. Administration Technology Advancement 1998 $ 50,000.00 $50,000.00 I,G,M,N #1 Yes Imaging Systems 1997 $10,000.00 $10,000.00 M,N #2 No City Hall Renovations 1998 $50,000.00 $50,000.00 G,I #3 No Grants research 1997 $10,000.00 $10,000.00 G,I #4 No II. Sanitary Sewer Reuse System 1998-1999 $1,500,000.00 1,500,000.00 L #1 No Air Hammer System 1999-2000 $20,000.00 $ 20,000.00 F #2 No Sewer/Manhole Repairs 1998-2001 $200,000.00 $200,000.00 E,F #3 No Lift Station Telemetry 1998 $70,000.00 $70,000.00 F #4 No Microscope 2000 $ 4,000.00 $4,000.00 F #5 No Sewer Cleaner 1998 $32,000.00 $32,000.00 F #6 No III. Recreation Park Land Acquisition 1999 $ 800,000.00 $800,000.00 G,M,J #1 No Park Development P2000 property 2000 $ 105,000.00 $105,000.00 G,M,J #2 No Youth Gymnasium 2000 $100,000.00 $100,000.00 G,M,I,R #3 No Long Point Road Park 1997 $ 60,000.00 $60,000.00 G,M,J #4 No Park Development, Northeast Sector 1999 $45,000.00 $ 45,000.00 G,M,J #5 No No improvements scheduled by City. V. Potable Water No improvements scheduled by City. VI. Aquifer Recharge No improvements scheduled by City. VII Solid Waste No improvements scheduled by City. VIII. Conservation No improvements scheduled by City. Page 147 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Table 8-1 con't.. Capital Improvements Schedule and Budget (1998-2010) City of Cape Canaveral, Florida Improvement Completion Target Date Estimated Cost Estimated City Share Possible Funding Sources (code) City Priority (within category) Existing Deficiencies IX. Coastal Zone Management No improvements scheduled by City. X. School System Brevard School District has no plans for expansion or major capital improvements at Capeview Elementary XI. Fire Department New Staff Vehicle Fire Fighting Equipment Staff replacement Vehicles New Rescue Vehicle 1998 $18,000.00 $18,000.00 G,P #1 No 2001 $ 88,500.00 $88,500.00 G,I,M,P #2 No 2000 $15,000.00 $15,000.00 G,I #3 No 1999 $50,000.00 $ 50,000.00 G,I #4 No XII. Sheriff's Department 5 Fully Equipped Replacement Vehicles 2 Fully Equipped replacement Vehicles Four Wheel drive All Terrain Vehicle 1998 $95,800.00 $95,800.00 G,I #1 No 2001 $160,000.00 $160,000.00 G,I #2 No 1999 $ 4,000.00 $4,000.00 G,I #3 No XIII. Health Care delivery system The City is not responsible for providing any healthcare services. Existing area hospitals meet City needs. XIV. Library System Library Expansion Supplemental Funding 1998 $123,870.00 $123,870.00 G,H,Q #1 No E=SEWER RENEWAL & REPLACEMENT F=SEWER REVENUE FUND G=GENERAL FUND RESERVES H=AD VALOREM TAX I=GENERAL FUND RESERVES J=BEAUTIFICATION FUND RESERVES M=GRANT FUNDS N=CAPITAL EXPANSION IMPACT FEES - GENERAL GOVERNMENT P=CAPITAL EXPANSION IMPACT FEES - FIRE R=CAPITAL EXPANSION IMPACT FEES - PARKS & RECREATION Source: City of Cape Canaveral Finance Department, 1990 Page 148 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Id CAPITAL ITEM GENERAL GOVERNMENT 5 YEAR CAPITAL PLAN 06/07 07/0 0810g LEGMATIVE EPLACEMENT LAPTOP COMPUTERS TOTAL LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT EST 09f 0 10111 ADMINISTRATION TECHNOLOGY ACVANCENIENT(I,G,M N) COPIER GN) FINANCE HARDWAREOSOFTWA_LR119,N) 6000 .°'1 my TOTAL ADIVINISTRATION DEPARTMENT ReQuEs sc 71 aoo $ 154(m $ , ',10,o o 000 t . .i,-,;, II , 3NERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPLACEMENT PATROL VEHICLES (4) (G,I) REPLACEMENT MI SIZE VEHICLES (2) (C I) REPLACEMENT SUPERVISOR VEHICLE (1) (13,t0) VEHICLE OUTFITTING (8) PAC SET RADIOS (2) (G,L0) OM TOP COMPUTERS (0,4 PATROL LAPTOP C 'PLITERS (1) (G,I,O) IN -CAR VIDEO CAMEPLAS (4) (AI) OAF' UNITS (3j (G.0 I ATV AU TOMATED EXTERN. DEFIBULATORS (4) (0.1,0) IgLOCK PISTOL (2 10 0 TOTAL SH WU'S DARn4Enr II 46,886 12,426122 26E4 16,03$ 211,2t8 2C180„ 10264 8' 114 8,24$ 1'2,3213 2(32$8 ‘1° • .. • , 327 56,0'76 „ 8283 6.851 39,34,3 10,000 15,000 FIRE F-ITI GHNIG EOUPMEINIT )9 271:10C 28,84 1/2 STAFF REPLACEMENT VE H4,0 LES rQ,I,P) 16000 800 MHz RADIO EPLACEMENT (GrI) $,O &SOO ALS,EMS EQUIPMENT (G, 9 FIRE NEPARTMENT 310 O�' 12506 Ov'PUTER EGUIPKIENT G,11 1500 8,50Q 9,5GO 10 000 „530 1110 Norf.: NE ,,,i9ovE. riVE YEAR CAKIAL PLAN FOR, THS nRE OEPARTMENT IS A CffyRPORT CANAVORAL PROJECTI ON TOTAL FRE DEPARTM NT REQUESTS! $ 62,503 $ $8,880 $6,000 $ K000 ii rreparea Dy miner Legg - IL/ 1U/ Ll/l/ / TRACTOR REPLACEMENT (0,4): ROAD RAVING PROGRAM - 9Ococ ALL PRESiOENTIAL,AVENUES AND CANAVERAL ES6pH CIAROB(E AREAS TAL :sistepTDEPARTMENT REQUESTS_____ PARKS & ECREATION MANAT, IE SANCTUARY PARK (LOA) SOLAR MR SECURITY LIGHTS (A) LIFE TRAIL (INSTALLED) FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS(RECREATION CENTER RESURFACE (3) TENNIS COURTS 11;000 RESURFACE SHUFFLEtOARD COURTS 1S,000 UPGRADE 2 RACOUETBALL COURTS OTHER (M) COMMUNITY CENTER RENOVATE CANAVERAL CITYHRAR PLAYGROUNDIITF PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT (ACCESS „ PARKING,, zOARDWALK, SIGNAGEII GENERAL GOVERNMENT 5 YEAR CAPITAL PLAN 07/08 BUILDING DEPARTMENT CO PUTERNONITORS (OM LARGE PRINT PLOTTER(GI) TOTAL BUILDING DEPARTMENT REM 000 Is STREET DEPARTMENT: TECHNOL„OOY ADVANCEMENT (I,O,M„,NI. NEW SERVER FOR WWTP (GI) 2000 ,.: HEAVY our( PICK-UP TRUCK (G)) '': '''''!" "- ''' 21 000 SIDEWALK, CONSTRUCTION 'PROG, M (GM :'. ::'::-?c,,3$0,0 , 60,000 BUSH 1100 REPLA.CEMENT (G.II, soo 09,9 j00,000 APPLY PCR PROAP GRANT TAL RFCRE4TON DE F R TM ENT REDU ESTS $ 191 „000 $300 000 75 t 21, 0 SO,.000 50000 $1 049,G1 s 5 0 rreparea by miner Legg - 12/ 1 U/ZUU / II GENERAL GOVERNMENT 5 YEAR CAPITAL PLAN CAPITAL ITEM BEAUTIFICATION FUND NEW TREE AND LANDSCAPE 'RANTIIN (J;) 14„pao DECORATIVE STREET LIGHTING (Jj LANDSCAPNG DP RIIDGEWOO 1451E J 64.6r' TOTAL BEAUTIFICATION RIEWEST 111 POSSIBLE FUND SOURCE CODE„ A. = A = GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS _ REVENUE is alfir ] NIB'S C_ C LOCAL OPTION GAS TAX 0' D : CAPITAL FINANCING NANCINVIG E = E BENNIX RESERVES mm G = GENERAL FUND RESERVES NN - I -I mm AD VALORE ,, TAX I I = GENERAL FUND OPERATING REVE ''U'E J = BEAUTIFICATION FUND +" ESERVES K ®I<: = SEWER FUND RESERVES L = L = STATE REVOLVING LOAN NCI = lvi = GRANT F NDS N = N' = CAPITAL EXPANSION IMPACT FEES - GENERA I GCV"T 0 = C = CAPITAL E ,PANSI S N IMPACT FEES - POLICE P _ P = CAPITAL EXPANSION IMPACT FEES FIRE C = C; L. CAPITAL EXPANSION IMPACT FEES - LIBRARY R = R = CAPITAL. EXPANSION IMPACT FEES. PARKS 8 REC b = S = FUNDED BY BR!EVAR. COUN"TY 76 Page 151 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1111 11 STORMWATER ENTERPRISE FUND 5 YEAR CAPITAL PLAN CENTRAL DITCH .INORTH CENTRAL 'TCH. - SOUTH RIDGEWOOD AVE REDEVELOPMENT STORMWATE 1;1AIRt( (EASEEALL MS) TVICLEANING $TORMWATE RiPES CENTRAL DRAINAGE BASIN DIVERSION* �NTER wRAfiNA3E AN DIVERSION " - MANGROVE PLANTINGS VOLUNTEER SAMPLING EOUIPPARK PUMPS COMPUTER SOFTWARE & LICENSES 710 46T,000 27,$,„000 • 356 $„ $ 732.500 " PceioN1d1 Corm* atorrrimi 4itshi clivorsto pviOr.1 aktmwoular kirrocm .17144 pa far " Pe20,11t4i CittliVr slamtvlogr ceikmrskr? protk:1 • !aranpfipe o'vtv clifoNirgo 101 rage ioiiLD CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 I p p SEWER ENTERPRISE FUND ,RE WI I ATER LINES SE° E LINES& MANHOLES LIFT STATIONS SWEAR RENOVATION PLANT FILTER UPGRAOE PLANT OPERATION BLw G LIFT STATION 0t/ FORGE MAIN PLANT PER,FO A'NCE STUD' VEHICLE REPLACE' ENT ADMIN, BUILDING EXPANSION PUMP REPLACEMENT PUP {POR"LAaLE,p' EMERGENCY GENERATOR US NEW SE VER LIFT STATION #5 REPLACEMENT LIFT STA.{I3 FORCE MAIN ,ENGINEERING LIFT STATION FORCE MAIN' LrFT STATION #7 FORCE MAIN DE;51GN LIFT STATION N 7` FORCE MAIN PLANT INTERMEDIATE PUMP STATION TECH, OLOGY ICI° RO'v'FM'ENT'S SECURITY EOLlFPJCAMIERAS, AIR COMPRESSOR FOR PI',T'ERS BAR SCREEN REBUILD SYSTEM UP GRADE US SCADA SYSTEM ALUM SYSTEM REPLAdCEM'ENT I3°EL-r PRESS -FELTS REPLACEMENT SELT PRESS REPLACEMENT CHART RECORIDCR REPLACEMENT DI WATER SYSTEM FOR LAB R ECLAIMFC WATER PUMP REPAIRS SEWER ,!'ET REPLACEMEN uT LAS EXPANSION 1NCU3ATCR 4_A3 LYG;HTAG' - SRIiRvG L,P 1..0 CODE' C VER'T $02 TO PI -SULFA TE, 07/08 100,000 200,000 .; 20,000 V,QO0 400 24,0013 8«0 0 20,0 ';200 30I ; ' ,4 5,000 35,000 25m;i3 I° 000 23 50B 5,000 4,000 8000 rage i Ji or LLD CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 5.1 2,500 3 000 3,000 40,000 300,0013 24,1 50,000 I�1;00 3,0N ,NB aoo 225 003' 2,5'00 15.000 3,000 3,000 SEWER ENTERPRISE FUND 1SH+ ;F" E LIIP UP' ,riRA I "RJR NLNNTy' ILA, ILNwphilE;NJT UPGRADES RADE FLYGT SU iliAERSIBL,E Oh 1 ER. GRIT SYSTEM - EPAIRS- REPAIR AUTOMATIC o+ TL VALVES WIN BUILOINO HVAC REPLA Er NT 'OFFICE FIR ?PTURE WAREHOUSE CONSTRUCTION DISHWASHER r'LAOY r 0/7 07108 %ow pboo T' I' ��w�� u SB 00 ...: E2yE 0 2 r r 09110 rage 1 J4 0I JLJ CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 2.0 Public Participation Activities Public information sessions were held on August 22, 2006, January 25, 2007 and March 17, 2007 to gather citizen input and explore the issues facing the City of Cape Canaveral. These meetings worked from the various comprehensive plan elements and were then narrowed down into the top 8 major issues (discussed in Section 6.0 Major Issues). Once complete the EAR will be posted on the City's website and copies will be available at City Hall and at the local public library for public review. Additional public participation opportunities will be available during the EAR based amendment process. Page 155 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 First Cape Canaveral Open House August 22, 2006 Public Information Topics: Transportation, Parks, Infrastructure, Coastal Management, FLUM TRANSPORTATION — PUBLIC QUESTIONS/COMMENTS Train system Someone mentioned a train system Being from Long Island, I say that would be great, not only to get from our area to Orlando, but running north and south too. There might need to be one for beachside and one mainland by USI (?). Actually, can passenger trains use that commercial line? I would love to see a train system set up from the port to Orlando International and on from there. We need to focus on using less fuel. Bus system Can you get just about anywhere by bus? What is the cost monetarily as well as time -wise? I've never gotten on a bus in Florida. The bus system should be nurtured. Soon we will all use it to get around town Bury main power lines. Beautify SR AlA. I would like a bus system, bus bays and seating Increase public transportation routes so the wait is shorter. Pullover areas and shelters at bus stops A better bus system would help our citizens in Brevard County. Also make bus stops with shelter from the sun. Roads Improve North Atlantic from George King Blvd. to AlA I suggest: b) North Atlantic widening and beautification c) 35 mph along AlA d) Repairing of all city roads which need Widen North Atlantic, include turn lanes. Turn lanes on North Atlantic Ave. Let's work on the traffic flow (widening?) along Page 156 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 North Atlantic from George King South. North Atlantic Ave. traffic congestion to be widened from AlA to port. Provide bike lanes so people can ride safely. Getting people to the causeway in evacuation times will be a problem from Astronaut and the port. Do not do Ridgewood improvements without burying the power lines Do not 4-lane Ridgewood Ave. Retain 45 mph speed limit on AlA Make speed limit 35 mph on Central from AlA to North Atlantic. Underground utilities. Landscaping and signage Need to put lights by the new hotels at the end of Astronaut Blvd. FUTURE LAND USE - PUBLIC QUESTIONS/COMMENTS IIII IIIIIIII11111 IIII ■IIIII II Proximity to ocean oII,,IIIIIIItl11111111111111 IIII I 1110111 '� IippM1tl11101111 III 111�111„�11111 ,1.1■1 1. Stop trying to annex Avon -by -the -Sea 2. Less residential density 1. Ridgewood redevelopment 2. North Atlantic redevelopment 3. Good parks 1. Town Center with shops and areas to walk, similar to Cocoa Village and Winter Park. 2. More green space 3. Multi -use buildings with shops below & residential above Development of Manatee Park Please remove the fuel tanks as an acceptable use of land in the city. 1. Small community 2. Community/City officials working together for improvements 3. Small businesses and locals friendly — not tourist -dependent. 1. A park at the north end of CC? 2. Let's create an attractive transition in landscape buffers from the Port south along North Atlantic 3. Let's make a prettier 'back entry' to the city from the Port down N. Atlantic Ave. — buffer trees and sidewalks along the sides. More bike paths, better street lighting. We cannot see on some of our streets, so hitting pedestrians/bikers is a high probability.. Residential/commercial balance City Hall building and campus modernization The people who designed Manatee Park! Joint use planning with Port and Cocoa Beach 1. Small town atmosphere — city officials and volunteer boards working closely together makes city grant very accessible 1. Is there a possibility of any more fuel tanks near residential? If so, repeal the `special exception' for fuel tanks anywhere in an M-1 zone. Page 157 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 2. The new crossovers to the beach are wonderful. 3. The green areas we still have — let's preserve them 4. The oak hammocks are lovely and native 5. Thanks for doing this 'Open House'! 2. The lack of retention of existing trees and green space with new developments (eg. Oak trees should be part of any development plan) 3. The `trashy' look alongside N Atlantic (north from the 'V' all the way to the Port). Wasn't N. Atlantic supposed to be widened and `dressed up'? 4. I noted that there's no land allotted to `Conservation' (light green) on this map! Having a few fun things to do right here in town, i.e. Jetty Park, Manatee Park, Cherie Down Park, Racetrax Go -Carts, etc. We do have warm weather most of the year! 1. Too many new developments with high density. 2. Green spaces disappearing at rapid rate. 3. No sidewalks or bike paths on edges of roads Do not tear out any more trees or wild areas. 1. Stop the tank development 2. Developers need to give something back in the form of community improvements 3. AIA needs beautification Suggest museum, theater for performing arts, historical tour capability Small shops, new restaurants, dry store, Starbucks, Icecream stores 1. Lack of care for the environment 2. Overbuilding our area 3. No bike paths! (I'm almost hit every time I ride my bike) The City needs to do far more about rundown property, especially property on E. Central Blvd. 1. No tank farm and no new tanks 2. Appeal the special exception 3. Keep our oak hammocks 4. Make a nice woodsy park 5. Street sweeper — garbage pickup Restrict further expansion of Coastal Fuels Reduce the housing density. If all current housing was occupied, you would not be able to drive anywhere in the Cape. Allow convenience stores in condo areas so residents don't have to drive to get a quart of milk (mixed -use). 1. Larger parks 2. Density too high 3. Poor residential upkeep Page 158 of325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 More small businesses, i.e. pharmacies Convert the tree area (buffer zone) to public park. Nature preserve between coastal tank and Solana Lake, Shorewood Drive and Old Eberwine Rd. area Families that do not have access to family parks by their homes. Even Cherie Down Park and Jetty Park are a car ride for some. The pepper trees, especially the huge one that I thought fell in the hurricane is growing back. They grab all the water for the lawn and other plants. Residents seem to keep to themselves. Can we have more activities to get people out and meeting neighbors. I agree with the comments about the fuel tanks. I live across the street from them and there is soot all over my house. Please ask those owning vacant land to mow their property. It would improve the appearance of our town and cut down on mosquitoes. FUTURE LAND USE — PUBLIC QUESTIONS/COMMENTS °gII11W� Beach , ,„, use (Fart , �I 1 1 1°� Separating rod fisherman from swimmers and walkers along the beach by having a designation for rod fishermen. Beach renourishment is great Fishing lines vs. beach walkers, swimmers, surfers - Put separate areas between signs for each of these conflicting activities. Designate `Surf fishing' area, then `swimmers/beach users', etc. Dogs Beach access is wonderful, thank you! Please provide an area where we can take our dogs on the beach. Even a designated time period would be good. Hilton Head Island allows dogs on the beach from 5pm-l0am. No problems at all — the whole island is pet -friendly. Love all the public access Let our dogs have some time on the beach! When I lived in California, we could bring our dogs to the beach between 6-l0am and 5-9pm. Why can't we be a little more open-minded? The dog owners Page 159 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 picked up the beach just fine! This state really needs to get with the times! Our beaches are well -maintained 1. Restore the beach sand 2. Set up more trash containers for Jetty and Cherie Down. 3. Is it possible to separate fishermen from the swimmers? Replenishment of sand How about placing a little, attractive, welcome center up in that SW corner of N. Atlantic at George King? This could be the start of an attractive `entry' to the City — landscape, trees to buffer the business and residences all along N. Atlantic. Sand fences and sea oats 1. Increased density on beaches because of all the new developments. 2. Smoking & trash on the beach 3. Quality of some of the crossovers, as well as there being `handicapped friendly' 4. Benches next to crossovers for people to sit How about a community once a month ' beach clean-up' (we already do it along Salonas/Shorewood beach). OR why not let organizations, associations, etc. `adopt' a stretch of beach. After the next move west of the coastal construction zone, relocate the houses to the future available property of Coastal Fuel company. Dislike garbage/trash/cigarettes/plastic discarded on the beach and city streets. Need to have more trash cans available to the public on the beach every so many feet and at intersections in the city and at bus stops. Need to have trash pickup daily or every other day. a) Enforce ordinances b) Pick up seaweeds after storms c) Good attitude towards turtles PARKS - PUBLIC QUESTIONS/COMMENTS 0000i ooi in1Yoi luo uii Park system is good im� l oo io 00 of oil of uo i u o unio : iii uo 00 lu� m oo a 110 Build beachside restrooms 2. Take over Cherie Down park from County 3. Boat ramp/kayak rentals at Manatee Park Xeriscape parks are wonderful Would like to see a skateboard park. Try to get the Page 160 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 teens involved. Keep the parks coming! They are wonderful and I would love to see more! Consider restroom for beach walkers between Cherie Down Park and the Port The parks are beautiful. Central and N. Atlantic southwest corner — vacant undeveloped land — coastal hardwood hammock. 1. Cleanliness of parks 2. Professionalism of staff 1. Park in northeast part of city. 2. More variety of use in parks, e.g. pavilions 3. More benches 4. City should take over Cherie Down Park, so that it can be used for city residential priorities. Correct park map to include all parks. 1. Please give us some place where our dogs are welcome! 2. Maintain the little bit of green space we have left. No more trees bulldozed down! INFRASTRUCTURE — PUBLIC QUESTIONS/COMMENTS A p y. y■■ U IIIIII6i IIIIIIIIIIIIII IIII ■ ppI IIuIII p III IIIIIi IIII III IIIIIIIIIIIII Water IIII,. a pI� IIIIIII III IIIII IIIIIII:i. '.+. IM1tlll 10IIII III1IIII II supply Reuse water supply. There seems to be a shortage of water pressure and supply in the Solana Lake Condo area. 1. I live at Solana Lakes and we are having a very difficult time keeping our grass and plants watered! Pressure is too low on our reclaimed water. 2. No more fuel tanks put in by Coastal Fuels! 1. Water pressure/needs to be stronger. 2. Having a petroleum tank farm in the city. Reuse water from north end on only 3 hours per day (not enough). 6-9pm will not even sprinkle all of the area at Solana Lakes. Even with enough pressure, maintenance men cannot service the sprinkler system with no water in the daytime. However, pressure is too low on reuse water. It will not even push up the sprinkler heads (at this development). Most of the landscaping has died. Tank farm For long coastal to the property, term planning, please do not expand the Move them all Port Authority tank farm where it is now. new tank farm area at the away from people. Page 161 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 How to `lure' the tank farm to move to 1-95 — where it's MUCH more appropriate for storage and transfer of fuel! Stricter enforcement of code violations — untidy properties and building sites. Ugly green garbage cans. You can't hide them and they smell. Are they supposed to blend in? Why not tan? City should try to purchase coastal hardwood hammock at the corner of N. Atlantic and Central Blvd. 1. Eliminate nightly/weekly rentals. 2. No expansion of Coastal Fuels 3. Eliminate/make use of abandoned buildings. 1. Recycling center in the city, so those items not picked up by Waste Management could be recycled there. 2. Add aluminum to recycling process. Long -serving council members: Step aside to permit younger residents to run. Encourage young people to seek office. Page 162 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Second Cape Canaveral Open House January 25, 2007 Public Information Topics: Transportation, FLUM, Coastal Management, Parks, Stormwater TRANSPORTATION — PUBLIC QUESTIONS/COMMENTS General 11 Mixed -use would help relieve traffic congestion Add bike/pedestrian paths Please implement the AlA beautification study which was done several years ago Possible town center — consider North Atlantic — maybe more stop signs — traffic calming to slow people down — NO middle lane for vehicles to speed up Bus System I am very pleased overall with the existing transportation system... ...but know that with growth, change must come. I do believe that pullover space for pickup and delivery of bus passengers would permit better flow of traffic Please put benches and covered areas at bus stops throughout the city The bus system has been a boon and has been improving Roads Please put a left-hand turn signal going north on AlA at Central I like the roadway beautification... ..(given) the added traffic with the new developments on North Atlantic Ave., either wider roads or turning lanes would allow better traffic flow and ease of entering North Atlantic Ave. from side roads A left turn signal is needed at the Holman Road traffic light Please consider reducing the speed limit on North Atlantic to 25mph to reduce the traffic flow and improve safety Please improve walkways (particularly widening) and bikeways throughout the city Page 163 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Please provide evacuation planning briefings to the community so we are better prepared by the city to know what avenues we are to take during storms, terrorist attacks, etc. How about looking to the state highway department for information on obtaining federal aid highway funds for existing roads due to population increases, and changing some road use to secondary or primary uses Reduce traffic limit density and growth of Cape Caribe. It puts (and will put in the future) too many cars on very limited roadways (George King, Shorewood and North Atlantic) FUTURE LAND USE — PUBLIC QUESTIONS/COMMENTS 1111 `o%o luui "1/1 Id m IN-fla Mixed-Use "gulfU m op m no7oi VIIoaIU �Voiu ooooi Introduce mixed -\use rezoning into the comprehensive plan. This would allow redevelopment of distressed commercial zones. Allow advantages of mixed use into our city center. Mixed use would help relieve traffic congestion. Please consider mixed -use communities throughout the City, e.g. one in each quadrant of the City so residents and visitors can live near and walk to shops. I am strongly in favor of a mix of land use that would promote a town center. I agree with the second bullet point concerning stricter development guidelines for a more aesthetically pleasing environment. A town center or planned mixed use development for the enjoyment and visual beauty they can give the City is a wonderful idea. New development should not be allowed to create a public nuisance. The City of Cape Canaveral will definitely grow, but in order to make it a good growth, we must put bicycle paths, sidewalks, and overpasses on Astronaut Blvd. to provide the type of shopping traffic that would help a Page 164 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 mixed -use growth. Maybe some of these expenses could be covered by new developments that like mixed use of their land. Tank Farm We would like to see comprehensive requirements such as setbacks, barriers, air pollution, ground pollution and screening provisions for the non -conforming tank farm and its residential neighbors, due to the public nuisance the incompatibility of land uses creates. Get federal funds to increase security at Coastal Fuels tank farm and to protect the community. This is a function of the Department of Homeland Security. Green Areas Protect and keep from losing too much green areas. Please provide more green space for the City by purchasing remaining available land. Bike Paths Bike/pedestrian paths are a good idea. Please consider developing a bike path/walkway along the creek/water area that runs parallel to North Atlantic on Central. It is too risky now to do without bike paths. Roads are at capacity. We have hit maximum density. Rentals Affordable housing is a problem for owners as well as renters due to the increases in insurance and taxes — it is something we will have to work together to resolve. I feel that we must remember the foresight of the people many years ago who created a tax base and growth for our City and not penalize them now with restrictions in rental of their investment properties. Instead, current ordinances must be enforced — maybe hiring more people to enforce these codes and ordinances is the solution. Please introduce an ordinance in the City which provides for a minimum of 30 or 90 day rentals so we preserve the residential character of the City. Page 165 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Funding The City could use an employee smart about state and federal processes and funding procedures and laws to `track down' its fair share of funding to insure it gets here. Please hire professional grant writers to support the City's applications for grants to progressively plan for the City's future. Porter Property Please try to find a way to purchase the Porter property. Consider buying the land at the Porter properties for an `Enchanted Forest' for Cape Canaveral. Boardwalk It would be great to have a Cape Canaveral boardwalk, area for walking, shopping, sightseeing, dining and living. I would love to see a boardwalk. Cape Caribe Cape Caribe's current expansion plans will have a negative impact on beaches, traffic, noise, etc. because of increased density. I'm concerned about the density at Cape Caribe. It has a `timeshare' on Cl that consists of condo units owned by its purchasers which is much higher density than nearby townhouses and condos. It also has a timeshare on the beach on residential zoning. It also has a much higher density than the rest of the area around it. Is a timeshare a residence or commercial? It cannot be both, and the impact is population density that exceeds local limits and creates a nuisance for its neighbors. The nuisance includes playing outdoor music late at night during the summer. No other residence or condo owner does this. So, what is Caribe? Commercial (not if owned by part-time residents) or residential (no loud music should be allowed). General I am more concerned with traffic increase than density issues; however, I would like to see this remain a small town. We need more shops for consumers, not more Page 166 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 car rental agencies — boardwalk on President St. area, bakeries. Please consider administrative rezoning areas of the city which are currently mis-zoned. As an example, areas up and down North Atlantic Ave. (feeder streets) are zoned commercial. Almost all of that land is being converted to residential. Unfortunately, changing the unsafe requires permitting and thousands of dollars in fees in order to get the property to be changed. A community cultural center with local history exhibits would be a way to preserve our heritage. I'm not certain about requiring new developments to build amenities. That would depend on what is currently available in the area, bicycle and pedestrian paths are always a plus. Please encourage car businesses to be closer to or in the Port rather than in the City of Cape Canaveral. Please prioritize the businesses we want to attract to the City so we can plan proactively for the City's future. COASTAL MANAGEMENT — PUBLIC QUESTIONS/COMMENTS I II I Ili IIIII IIII µfrfillitififWi II � II Ilf IIII�II IIIIIIIII IIII �I II IIII III�III i�il � III 1111 IOI IIII�I�I III�IIII IIII Suggest you have a brief definition of what `Coastal Management' is at the top of the board, so that citizen input would be facilitated. Beaches The City should work aggressively with the State and the Canaveral Port Authority to keep ships from dumping waste into the ocean waters along the City. Also encourage new technology to process the waste on board the ships so it does not have to be dumped in the ocean at all. Something MUST be done about the garbage that washes up on the coast from gambling ships and cruise liners. I have spent entire Saturday mornings cleaning it up and my impression is that it mostly comes from gambling ships. We need to get the state EPA involved. We swim and fish in garbage! Page 167 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 I recommend the City work with surrounding communities to assess the impact of proposed development on the density and use of the beaches. Currently, Cape Caribe is proposing more hotels and the Port is proposing another hotel and Conference Center without an assessment of impact on the beaches. Recommend that the State of Florida prohibit the sale of fireworks in the state, so our beaches will be preserved. Encourage myregion.org initiative being managed out of Orlando to include regional coastal consideration, e.g. cleanliness, beautification of beaches and ocean waters. Right now myregion.org focuses on rivers only. Eliminate non-native species of trees from vacant land adjacent to the Banana River (e.g. the west end of Long Point — a wasteland dump) Better archeological surveys that get attention. Do not permit any boat ramps on either the Atlantic Ocean or Banana River. Page 168 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Third Cape Canaveral Open House — "City Celebration" Survey results March 17, 2007 TRANSPORTATION — PUBLIC INPUT II�ryryyyN08o pp ,,. 1,mm r Il� li Wo um oim Io i Oi ooi of lip oYoo ui General Monitor traffic speed and install stop signs Need more police patrols. FUTURE LAND USE — PUBLIC INPUT W i i , m m1 imui m Ilm im li 11, 11,, lu"° mYoo i u liii1111111110 III Mixed -Use Create a mixed use area Central Boulevard between N Atlantic and AlA — like downtown Celebration. Central Boulevard areas should be mixed use like Celebration. Housing Forget about low income housing. Provide more single family homes and provide for housing for service providers COASTAL MANAGEMENT — PUBLIC INPUT II�II II IIIIIIIII I III Illi �I� III �Ili��� lu IIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIII III i IIIIIIIII In IVI Beaches Beach is not clean enough, people litter Provide a dog park along the beach. RECREATION & PARKS — PUBLIC INPUT IIl 111 Illlllli I'1iIlll lullIII II iII fllllllgIIIIIIII InIIIIIIIIIIil'A Need more boating facilities The City should purchase the remaining large lots for public parks and stormwater. The City should purchase the property at N. Atlantic and Central for park development. The City should develop a skate board park. Consider a floating dock in Banana River off Manatee Park. Page 169 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 City should beautify roadway, for example from Thurm Drive and AlA to the park. Plant trees and improve the island plantings. This will be an added feature for the City and its park system. City should continue to maintain current parks (no new parks). Need bike paths throughout the City and leading to all parks. !umpire wrolf iupraifft 1 II It.1 . m ow�� 1m.1. am uIA �IZio aF�mmmI A �l mo..Llu..L. ....1 u Beach area / on the beach Wherever possible in the City At the shoreline In the South end of the City At the currently vacant Central and N. Atlantic property Use pocket parks throughout the City (buy property at N. Atlantic and Central) Banana River Ocean front Adjacent to the Port Along River front south Provide a dog park on the beach In densely populated areas OTHER - PUBLIC INPUT II III 1117Ip IIIIIIIII 1I�III i IJ Stabilize/control property tax Nice quiet community - enough development in the City. Give businesses more signage and freedom to advertise. Force Hometown News to stop littering the City with their nasty newspapers. No fuel tanks in City. Enforce removal of dead animals in City and along beach and general cleanliness. Page 170 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Cape Canaveral City Celebration March 17, 2007 Survey results Of the survey's handed out 32 were completed and 7 were incomplete for a total of 39 surveys attempted. Residency Questions Yes / No Questions Status I Number Topics Yes No Resident? 30 5 stories allowed with developer donation? 10 29 Property Owner/Work in City? 24 More parks? 26 6 Visitor? 2 Actual Number of Votes Per Survey Topic Ranking Number (and weight) Weighted Ranking Transportation Density Height Architectural Housing Shoreline Town Center City Hall Most Important #1 8 5 9 9 1 4 6 0 0 #2 7 4 8 9 2 1 5 2 0 #3 6 5 6 5 2 3 8 1 1 #4 5 5 4 3 4 3 4 5 4 #5 4 5 4 2 8 4 5 1 3 #6 3 3 0 1 9 5 3 6 4 #7 2 2 0 3 5 2 0 15 4 Page 171 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Least Important #8 1 2 1 0 1 10 1 2 16 Votes per Survey Topic with weighted ranking Transportation Density Height Architectural Housing Shoreline Town Center City Hall 40 72 72 8 32 48 0 0 28 56 63 14 7 35 14 0 30 36 30 12 18 48 6 6 25 20 15 20 15 20 25 20 20 16 8 32 16 20 4 12 9 0 3 27 15 9 18 12 4 0 6 10 4 0 30 8 2 1 0 1 10 1 2 16 Totals: Most - Least important 158 201 197 124 117 181 99 74 Page 172 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 3.0 Assessment of Comprehensive Plan The following section evaluates the Goals, Objectives and Policies (GOPs) of each Element of the existing Comprehensive Plan. It should be noted that throughout the section references are made to updating or adding GOPs. These additions are further discussed in Section 7.0 Proposed Amendments. 3.1 Intergovernmental Coordination Element (ICE) The ICE has one Goal, three Objectives and various policies designed to implement actions and measure progress towards Goal of the ICE. Goal The City shall participate in coordinated activities with State, County, Regional and adjoining community governments in order to better provide for the public health, safety and welfare of its inhabitants. Objective IG-1 The City shall coordinate its planning efforts with the plans of school boards, other units of local government providing services but not having regulatory authority over the use of land, and with the planning efforts of Cocoa Beach, Cocoa, Brevard County, the Port of Canaveral, the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council, and the State of Florida. The measurement of this Objective shall be the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City continues to work with Brevard County, local jurisdictions, other governmental entities and the School Board in order to coordinate planning efforts. Pursuant to Chapter 163.3174, F.S., the City added a nonvoting representative of the school board to the LPA in 2002. Also, Chapter 163.31777, F.S., requires an interlocal agreement between local governments and the school board, which was executed during 2002. While both these requirements have been accomplished a policy recognizing these additions should be included in this section. Policy Relevance By December 1, 2008 a Public Schools Facilities Element and school concurrency shall be required. The City should use 2007 to coordinate with the School Board for consistency with school concurrency and in collecting data and analysis for the new element. In spring/summer 2008 the City should prepare and transmit the element to DCA for review and adoption in order to meet the December 1, 2008 deadline. As referenced above, policies should be added to this Objective to meet the requirements from Chapters 163.3174, 163.3177, 163.31777, 163.3180 and 163.3191, F.S. Page 173 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective IG-2 The City shall cooperate with any state, regional or local entity having operational and maintenance responsibility for public facilities within Cape Canaveral in establishing level -of - service standards for those facilities. The measurement of this Objective is the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City cooperates with the Florida Department of Transportation and Brevard County for the provision of roadways, Brevard County for solid waste, the City of Cocoa for water and St. Johns River Water Management District for drainage. Policy Relevance A policy should be added to the Objective pursuant to updates in Chapter 163.3180, F.S., regarding LOS standards on the Strategic Intermodal System, as compatible with adjacent jurisdictions. Objective IG-3 The City shall, through coordination with adjacent units of local government, including Brevard County and the Canaveral Port Authority, and coordination with regional entities such as the ECFRPC and the SJRWMD, and coordination with State agencies, facilitate the mutual consideration of the impacts of development proposed in this Plan. The measurement of this Objective is the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis Proposed impacts of development on the City are coordinated with surrounding municipalities and other agencies on an informal, as -needed basis. Policy Relevance This objective currently contains two policies. Further policies should be added to address the updates to Chapter 163.3177 (6) (h), 6, 7& 8, F.S. regarding interlocal service delivery agreements, Chapters 163.3177 (4) (a) and 163.3180, F.S. regarding regional water supply and Rule 9J-5.015 (3) (c), F.A.C. regarding various points of intergovernmental coordination. Page 174 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objectives Matrix Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION ELEMENT 1. The City shall coordinate The City shall Coordination is With the change of By December 2008, school its planning efforts with the coordinate its strongly encouraged to land uses and zoning concurrency shall be plans of school boards, other units of local planning efforts with share development information. those developments are also reviewed by required and the City should coordinate with the the plans of school government providing boards, other units of the School Board. County and School Board services but not having local government Coordination is for consistency with school regulatory authority over the use of land, and with the planning efforts of Cocoa common practice. In 2002 the City added a nonvoting representative of the concurrency. Beach, Cocoa, Brevard County, the Port of School Board to the Canaveral, the East Central LPA. Florida Regional Planning Council, and the State of Florida. The measurement of this Objective shall be the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Ongoing Page 175 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION ELEMENT 2. The City shall cooperate Work with The City coordinates The City coordinates Brevard County is with any state, regional or appropriate with: 1) the Florida with: 1) the Florida transferring to the City's local entity having jurisdictions to Department of Department of jurisdiction: Ridgewood operational and establish a LOS Transportation (FDOT) Transportation Avenue, N. Atlantic maintenance responsibility and Brevard County for (FDOT) and Brevard Avenue and, Central for public facilities within the provision of County for the Boulevard. According to Cape Canaveral in establishing level -of -service standards for those facilities. The measurement roadways, 2) Brevard County for solid waste, 3) The City of Cocoa for water, and 4) St. provision of roadways, 2) Brevard County for solid waste, 3) The City of Cocoa for Chapter 163.3180, FS, the City should add policies regarding LOS on the SIS, as compatible with of this Objective is the Johns River Water water, and 4) St. Johns adjacent jurisdictions. degree to which the Management District River Water following Policies are implemented. for drainage. Management District for drainage. Success Page 176 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION ELEMENT 3. The City shall, through Identify any potential Coordination between Coordination between The City has little control coordination with adjacent impacts to adjacent local governments has local governments has over what other units of local government, including Brevard County local governments; Ensure compatibility been informal and with regional agencies on an been informal and with regional agencies jurisdictions do which may impact the City. and the Canaveral Port of development. as -needed basis. on an as -needed basis. Authority, and coordination with regional entities such as the ECFRPC and the Further policies should be added to address the updates to Chapter SJRWMD, and coordination with State agencies, facilitate the mutual consideration of the impacts of development proposed in this Plan. The measurement of this Objective is the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. 163.3177, FS, regarding interlocal service delivery agreements, Chapter 163.3180, FS regarding regional water supply and Rule 9J-5.015, FAC, regarding various points of intergovernmental coordination. Ongoing Page 177 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 3.2 Conservation and Coastal Management Element The Conservation Element contains one Goal and five Objectives. The Coastal Management Element has one Goal, twelve Objectives. Both contain various policies designed to implement actions and measure progress towards the Goal of each. Conservation Element Goal Provide for the preservation and conservation of the City's natural resources so that the economic, social and/or aesthetic value which these resources provide to the community are not destroyed and are available to future generations. Objective C-1 Maintain or improve current quality of air. The measurement of this Objective is the quality of air within Cape Canaveral plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City encourages alternate modes of transportation, prohibits un-permitted trash burning and coordinates with other jurisdictions and agencies to protect air quality. Also, the City has upgraded or installed sidewalks on AlA and other streets and promotes use of the SCAT bus system. Policy Relevance The policies should be retained and continued to be utilized in the promotion of air quality throughout the City. Objective C-2 Conservation, appropriate use and protection of the quality and quantity of current and projected water sources and waters that flow into estuarine waters or oceanic waters. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which water resources are conserved, appropriately used and protected plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City enforces the Stormwater Management Ordinance (22-93) and current LDRs. The City also coordinates with Brevard County, St. Johns River Water Management District and the City of Cocoa to ensure water quality protections are in place. Recently, the City added baffle boxes and reuse lines to aid in water quality protections. Page 178 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Policy Relevance Pursuant to updates in Chapter 163.3177(6) (c), (d), F.S., regarding regional water supply and a 10 year workplan, additional policies should be added to the Objective to meet these requirements. Objective C-3 Conservation, appropriate use and protection of soils and native vegetative communities within the City. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which soils and native vegetative communities are conserved, appropriately used and protected plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Relevance The City enforces applicable landscaping and tree ordinances and works with private developers to protect plant communities. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective. Objective C-4 Conservation, appropriate use and protection of wildlife, wildlife habitat and marine habitat. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which wildlife, wildlife habitats, and marine habitats are conserved, appropriately used, and protected, plus, the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City works with all applicable State and Federal agencies, neighboring jurisdictions, private developers and other local agencies to protect and preserve sensitive habitats. Pursuant to policy C-4.5 the City adopted an ordinance to protect Sea Turtle nesting activities. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective pursuant to Policy C-4.5 and maintain the Sea Turtle lighting ordinance. Page 179 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective C-5 The City shall be prepared to deal with problems relating to the disposal of hazardous wastes. The measurement of this Objective is the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City works with Brevard County and other agencies to deal with hazardous waste. Policy Relevance The policies should be retained and utilized in order to deal with hazardous waste management as needed. *It is recommended that in addition to the existing five objectives an additional objective should be established to address the requirements of Chapter 163.3177 (6) (c) and (d), F.S. as related to regional water supply. Page 180 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objectives Matrix Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT ELEMENT 1. Maintain or improve current quality of air. The measurement of this Objective is the quality of air within Cape Canaveral plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Encourage alternative modes of transportation; restrict new industrial development near coast and Prohibit un- permitted open burning of trash. The City encourages alternate modes of transportation, prohibits un-permitted trash burning and coordinates with other jurisdictions and governmental agencies to protect air quality. The City has upgraded or installed sidewalks on AlA and promotes use of the SCAT bus system. The City should continue the objective. Success 2. Conservation, appropriate use and protection of the quality and quantity of current and projected water sources and waters that flow into estuarine waters or oceanic waters. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which water resources are conserved, appropriately used and protected plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Continue to protect and conserve water quality within the City. The City enforces the Stormwater Management Ordinance and current LDRs and coordinates with Brevard County, St. Johns River Water Management District and the City of Cocoa Beach to Recently the City added baffle boxes and reuse lines to aid in water quality protection. The City should evaluate the current stormwater systems and add policies for compliance with Chapter 163.3177 (6) (c) and (d) regarding regional water supply and a 10 year workplan. Ongoing ensure water quality protections are in place. Page 181 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT ELEMENT 3. Conservation, appropriate use and protection of soils and native vegetative communities within the City. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which soils and native vegetative communities are conserved, appropriately used and protected plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Continue to enforce the City's landscaping and tree ordinances to help prevent soil erosion and to protect trees within the City. The City enforces applicable landscaping and tree ordinances and works with private developers to protect plant communities. The City enforces applicable landscaping and tree ordinances and works with developers to protect plant communities The City should continue the objective. Ongoing 4. Conservation, appropriate use and protection of wildlife, wildlife habitat and marine habitat. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which wildlife, wildlife habitats and marine habitats are conserved, used and protected plus the degree to which Policies are implemented. Maintain, preserve and discourage the destruction of wildlife habitat and marine habitat. The City works with all applicable State and Federal agencies, neighboring jurisdictions, private developers and other local agencies to protect and preserve sensitive habitats. The City adopted a sea turtle lighting ordinance. Also, the City maintains or conserves environmental areas with the assistance of DEP and FFWS. The City should continue the objective. Success Page 182 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT ELEMENT 5. The City shall be prepared to deal with problems relating to the disposal of hazardous wastes. The measurement of this Objective is the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Coordinate with appropriate agencies and jurisdictions to educate the public; prepare for hazardous wastes. The City works with all applicable State and Federal agencies, Brevard County and other local agencies to deal with hazardous waste. The City coordinates with the appropriate agencies as necessary. The City should continue the objective. Success Page 183 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Coastal Management Element Goal Provide for the preservation and conservation of the City's coastal resources so that the economic, social and/or aesthetic value which these resources provide to the community are not destroyed and are available to future generations. Objective CM-1 The City shall protect, conserve, or enhance the two remaining coastal wetlands, living marine resources, coastal barriers, and wildlife habitat. The measurement of this objective is the extent to which these resources are protected, conserved or enhanced and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City works with applicable state and federal agencies to limit the specific and cumulative impacts of development and redevelopment on wetlands, water quality and quantity, wildlife habitat and beach and dune systems. The City maintains and enforces ordinances to protect sensitive environmental resources. The City has also added six baffle boxes and sand fences for sediment. Policy Relevance The policies should be retained and utilized as needed. Objective CM-2 The City shall take action in an effort to maintain or improve estuarine environmental quality. The measurement of this Objective is the quality of the estuarine environment and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City enforces and maintains efforts to improve estuarine environmental quality. Policy Relevance The policies should be retained and utilized as needed. Page 184 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective CM-3 The City shall maintain criteria and/or standards for prioritizing shoreline uses, giving priority to water -dependent uses, particularly those consistent with existing shoreline uses. The measurement of this Objective is the development and adoption of such criteria and/or standards. Achievement Analysis The City has incorporated "sand fences" with sea oats which has been very successful in replenishing the dune. The City passed an ordinance prohibiting fireworks and alcohol from being sold within 300 feet of the shoreline. However, to date additional priorities have not been established for shoreline use. Priorities to establish waterfront preservation, according to Chapter 163.3178 (g), F.S. should be established and adopted as necessary. Policy Relevance Pursuant to updates in Chapter 163.3177 (6) (g) (2) and 163.3178, F.S., regarding recreational surface water uses, additional policies should be added to the Objective to meet these requirements. Objective CM-4 The City shall develop measures for protection of beaches and dunes, establish construction standards which minimize the impacts of man-made structures on beach and dune systems, and work toward restoration of altered beaches and dunes. The measurement of this Objective is the development of such measures and the extent to which beaches and dunes are protected and/or restored and the development of standards to minimize the impacts of man-made structures on the beach and dune systems plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis To date no measures have been established for beach and dune protection. Protective measures according to Chapter 163.3178 (e), F.S. should be established and adopted as required by 2009. Policy Relevance Additional policies generated from a review of Chapter 163.3178 (e), F.S., which outlines the principals for protecting existing beach and dune systems from erosion, should be included in the Objective. Objective CM-5 The City shall limit public expenditures that subsidize development permitted in coastal high - hazard areas, except for restoration or enhancement of natural resources. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which public expenditures are limited in coastal high -hazard areas Page 185 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 except in the case of restoration or enhancement of natural resources and the degree to which the following Policy is implemented. Achievement Analysis The City currently works to limit public expenditure, except for sand fences constructed as needed. Policy Relevance The policy should be retained and utilized as needed. Also, the City should consider reviewing Chapter 163.3178(i), F.S. regarding public facilities. Objective CM-6 The City shall direct population concentrations away from known or predicted coastal high - hazard areas. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which population concentrations are directed away from the coastal high -hazard area and the degree to which the following Policy is implemented. Achievement Analysis The City relies on the policies established in Objective CM-6 to protect populations from coastal high -hazard areas. Currently, no large scale projects have been approved increasing density. Also, measures are in place to protect density along the AlA corridor. According to Chapter 163.3191 (2) (m), F.S. the City adopted an ordinance in 2006 to allow current residents to redevelop, within parameters, after a natural disaster. Policy Relevance Pursuant to updates in Chapter 163.3178 (2) (c), F.S. an additional policy providing the new definition of the Coastal High -Hazard area should be included in the Objective. Objective CM-7 The City shall work toward reducing its local hurricane evacuation times based upon the 1987 Brevard County Peacetime Emergency Plan. The measurement of this Objective is the length of time required for evacuation in the event of a major storm requiring evacuation plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City continues to work on reducing local hurricane evacuation times and coordinates review of new development applications with Brevard County and neighboring jurisdictions which may impact hurricane evacuation times. Recently, the City developed an Emergency Management Page 186 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Plan which discussed hurricane evacuation procedures. Also, FDOT provided interchange improvements to increase evacuation time. Policy Relevance Pursuant to updates in Chapter 163.3178 (9) (a), F.S. an additional policy establishing a LOS for hurricane evacuations should be established in the Objective, to include an update of the reference to the 1987 Brevard County Peacetime Emergency Plan. Further a policy should be added recognizing the City developed Emergency Management Plan. Objective CM-8 The City shall prepare a Post -disaster Redevelopment Plan which will reduce the exposure of human life and public and private property to natural hazards. The measurement of this Objective is the development of a Post -disaster Redevelopment Plan plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The Objective should be amended to reflect the use of Brevard County's Post -disaster Redevelopment Plan. Policy Relevance The City should review and adopt the County's Post -disaster Redevelopment Plan and revise Objective CM-8. Objective CM-9 The City shall strive to increase the amount of public access to the beach or shoreline consistent with estimated public need. The measurement of this Objective is the number of additional public access points to the beach and/or shoreline of the Banana River plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City encourages public access at time of development, beach renourishment at public expense transportation or parking facilities for public access where feasible and enforces the access requirements of the Coastal Zone Protection Act of 1985. Recently, the The City established 2 new public access points at the Cape Caribe development and at the Mystic Vista development in 2002. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective. Page 187 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective CM-10 The City shall provide for protection, preservation, or sensitive reuse of historic resources, as these are identified within the City. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which historic resources are protected, preserved or reused in a sensitive manner and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City continually preserves and protects historic resources. The City maintains a list of historic resources as shown on the Future Land Use Map and in the Future Land Use Element. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective. The City should consider adopting a historic preservation ordinance by 2010. Objective CM-11 The City shall establish level of service standards, areas of service and phasing of infrastructure in the coastal area. The measurement of this Objective is the availability of infrastructure when needed, plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The 1999 plan established LOS standards for recreation, sanitary sewer, drainage, solid waste, traffic and potable water. Currently, the City participates in phasing for reuse, coordination of intersection improvements and maintenance infrastructure. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective. Objective CM-12 The City shall work with County, State and Federal governments in protecting the environment in the coastal zone. The measurement of this Objective is the degree to which such collaboration takes place, including the extent to which the following Policy is implemented. Achievement Analysis The City coordinates with all applicable agencies to protect the environment in the coastal zone. Currently, the City is using Federal money to participate in a beach renourishment program. Page 188 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective. *It is recommended that in addition to the existing twelve objectives an additional objective should be established to provide coordination on the siting of new and/or existing ports, airports or related facilities as required in Rule 9J-5.019 (4) (b), F.A.C. Page 189 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objectives Matrix Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing COASTAL MANAGEMENT ELEMENT 1. The City shall protect, conserve, or enhance the two remaining coastal Wetlands, living marine resources, coastal barriers, and wildlife habitat. The measurement of this objective is the extent to which these resources are protected, conserved or enhanced and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Conserve, or enhance the two remaining coastal Wetlands, living marine resources, coastal barriers, and wildlife habitat The City works with applicable state and federal agencies to limit the specific and cumulative impacts of development and redevelopment on wetlands, water quality and quantity, wildlife habitat and beach and dune systems. The City maintains and enforces ordinances to protect sensitive environmental resources. The City has also added six The City should continue the objective. Success baffle boxes and sand fences for sediment. Also, approximately 500 mangroves and 25,000 sea oats were planted. 2. The City shall take action in an effort to maintain or improve estuarine environmental quality. Maintain or improve estuarine environmental quality. The City works enforces and maintains efforts to improve estuarine quality. The City works enforces and maintains efforts to improve estuarine quality The City should continue the Objective. Ongoing Page 190 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing COASTAL MANAGEMENT ELEMENT 3. The City shall maintain criteria and/or standards for prioritizing shoreline uses, Establish priorities for shoreline uses. To date no priorities have been established for shoreline use. To date no additional priorities have been established. However The City should establish priorities and adopt as required by Chapter giving priority to water- the City has installed 163.3178 (g), F.S. — dependent uses, particularly sand fences and sea Coastal Management: A those consistent with oats to replenish the shoreline use component existing shoreline uses. The dunes. Also, the City that identifies public measurement of this passed an ordinance access to beach and Objective is the prohibiting the sale of shoreline areas and development and adoption fireworks and alcohol addresses the need for of such criteria and/or within 300 feet of the water -dependent and standards. shoreline. water -related facilities, including marinas, along shoreline areas. Ongoing Page 191 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing COASTAL MANAGEMENT ELEMENT 4. The City shall develop Preserve, monitor, To date no measures To date no measures Protective measures measures for protection of and/or restore sensitive have been established have been formally should be established beaches and dunes, establish beachfront and dune for beach and dune established for beach according to Chapter construction standards areas protection. and dune protection. 163.3178(e), F.S. — which minimize the impacts However, without Coastal Management: A of man-made structures on formal adoption the component which outlines beach and dune systems, and work toward restoration City does not allow for beach encroachment principles for protecting existing beach and dune of altered beaches and and has provided for systems from human - dunes. The measurement of sand fences in induced erosion and for this Objective is the development of such appropriate areas. restoring altered beach and dune systems. measures and the extent to which beaches and dunes are protected and/or restored and the development of standards to minimize the Ongoing impacts of man-made structures on the beach and dune systems plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Page 192 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing COASTAL MANAGEMENT ELEMENT 5. The City shall limit Limit public The City limits public The City limits public The City should continue public expenditures that expenditures in coastal expenditure, except expenditure, except for the objective and use the subsidize development high hazard areas. The for sand fences sand fences constructed following as a guide: permitted in coastal high- City shall incorporate a constructed where where necessary. Chapter 163.3178(i), F.S. hazard areas, except for provision to implement necessary. — Coastal Management: restoration or enhancement the above Objective in Such public facilities will of natural resources. The its Land Development be scheduled for phased measurement of this Objective is the extent to which public expenditures are limited in coastal high- hazard areas except in the case of restoration or enhancement of natural resources and the degree to which the following Policy is implemented. Regulations. completion to coincide with demands generated by the development or redevelopment. Ongoing Page 193 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing COASTAL MANAGEMENT ELEMENT 6. The City shall direct Through the Future The City works to Currently, no large The City should continue population concentrations land use Plan and the discourage scale projects have the objective. away from known or City's zoning population away from passed increasing predicted coastal high- hazard areas. The ordinance, the City shall discourage coastal high -hazard areas through Future density. Also, measures are in place measurement of this development in the Land Use and zoning to protect density along Objective is the extent to which population concentrations are directed coastal high -hazard areas; however, relocation or controls. the AlA corridor. In 2006 the City away from the coastal high- replacement of existing adopted an ordinance to Success hazard area and the degree infrastructure away allow redevelopment to which the following Policy is implemented. from these areas shall only be required in an emergency situation where it is economically feasible to do so. after a natural disaster. Page 194 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing COASTAL MANAGEMENT ELEMENT 7. The City shall work toward reducing its local hurricane evacuation times based upon the 1987 Brevard County Peacetime Emergency Plan. The measurement of this Objective is the length of time required for evacuation in the event of a major storm requiring evacuation plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. The City shall coordinate hurricane evacuation procedures and disaster mitigation with Brevard County and neighboring communities The City coordinates with Brevard County and neighboring communities and considers hurricane evacuation time when reviewing new development applications. Recently, the City developed an Emergency Management Plan which discussed hurricane evacuation procedures. Also the FDOT provided interchange improvements to increase evacuation time. The City should continue the objective and add a policy recognizing the Emergency Management Plan. Success 8. The City shall prepare a post -disaster redevelopment plan which will reduce the exposure of human life and public and private property to natural hazards. The measurement of this Objective is the development of a post - disaster redevelopment plan Prepare a post -disaster redevelopment plan Objective CM-8 states that the City should adopt a Post- disaster Redevelopment Plan. The City uses the Brevard County Post- disaster Redevelopment Plan. The City should review and adopt the County's Post -disaster Redevelopment Plan and revise Objective CM-8 Ongoing Page 195 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing COASTAL MANAGEMENT ELEMENT 9. The City shall strive to increase the amount of public access to the beach or shoreline consistent with estimated public need. The measurement of this Objective is the number of additional public access points to the beach and/or shoreline of the Banana River plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Increase the number of public access points. The City encourages public access at time of development, beach renourishment at public expense, transportation or parking facilities for public access where feasible and enforces the access requirements of the Coastal Zone Protection Act of 1985. Two additional public access points were added at the Cape Caribe and Mystic Vista developments. The City should continue the objective. Success 10. The City shall provide for protection, preservation, or sensitive reuse of historic resources, as these are identified within the City. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which historic resources are protected, preserved or reused in a sensitive manner and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Maintain a list of historic resource sites and develop criteria for protection of historic resources, including establishment of performance standards for development and sensitive reuse. The City maintains a list of historic resources through the Future Land Use Map and Future Land Use Element. The City maintains a list of historic resources through the Future Land Use Map and Future Land Use Element. The City maintains a list of historic resources through the Future Land Use Map and Future Land Use Element. Ongoing Page 196 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing COASTAL MANAGEMENT ELEMENT 11. The City shall establish level of service standards, areas of service and phasing of infrastructure in the coastal area. The measurement of this Objective is the availability of infrastructure when needed, plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Ensure that required infrastructure is available to serve the development while requiring that developers pay their share of infrastructure improvements. The 1999 plan established LOS standards for recreation, sanitary sewer, drainage, solid waste, traffic and potable water. Currently the City participates in phasing for reuse, coordination of intersection improvements and maintenance of infrastructure. The City should continue the objective. Success 12. The City shall work with County, State and Federal governments in protecting the environment in the coastal zone. The measurement of this Objective is the degree to which such collaboration takes place, including the extent to which the following Policy is implemented. The City shall work with County, State and Federal governments in protecting the environment in the coastal zone. The measurement of this Objective is the degree to which such collaboration takes place, including the extent to which the following Policy is implemented. The City works with all applicable County, State and Federal governments to protect the environment in the coastal zone. The City is currently using Federal money to participate in a beach renourishment program. The City should continue the objective. Success Page 197 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 3.3 Infrastructure Element The Infrastructure Element comprises the Sanitary Sewer, Drainage System, Solid Waste, Potable Water and Natural Groundwater Aquifer Recharge sub elements. Sanitary Sewer Sub -Element Goal The overall goal for this sub -element is provision of sanitary sewer facilities to meet the needs of the existing and future citizens of Cape Canaveral. Objective SS-1 Assure that all existing and future inhabitants and businesses in the City have access to State - approved, properly -functioning sanitary sewer facilities during the 5- to 10-year time -frame of this Plan by correcting existing deficiencies and making sure facilities meet future needs. The City shall maximize the use of existing sewer facilities and promote infill development to minimize urban sprawl. This Objective will be measured by the degree to which the supporting Policies below are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City of Cape Canaveral operates its own advanced wastewater treatment facility and provides sewer service to all developed sections of the City. The major land uses served by the Cape Canaveral sanitary sewer system are residential, commercial and industrial. The overall system is considered in good condition and adequate to serve the needs of the City for over the next 10 years, through 2015 and beyond. The portion of the system in the north -central and northwest areas of the City, where most of the developable vacant land is located, currently operates well below capacity and thus has excess capacity to handle growth impacts without new construction. Table 3-1 shows Estimated Future Demand on Wastewater Treatment Plant from 1998-2025. There are a very limited number of septic tanks used in the City. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective. However, the City should further evaluate Table 3-1 (referenced above) to extend the planning timeframe and further explore wastewater treatment capacity expectations in the future. Page 198 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective SS-2 The City shall strive to identify feasible strategies for minimizing inflow to the sewage treatment plant and maximizing reuse of effluent. The measurement of this Objective is the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City continually works to maintain and improve feasible sewer system strategies. Additionally, the City should continue to explore ways in which reuse lines may be expanded and identify and repair deteriorated lines. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective. Page 199 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objectives Matrix Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENT SANITARY SEWER 1. Assure that all existing and future inhabitants and businesses in the City have access to State -approved, properly -functioning sanitary sewer facilities facilities during the 5- to 10-year time - frame of this Plan by correcting existing deficiencies and making sure facilities meet future needs. The City shall maximize the use of existing sewer facilities and promote infill development to minimize urban sprawl. This Objective will be measured by the degree to which the supporting Policies below are implemented. Assure that all existing and future inhabitants and businesses in the City have access to sanitary sewer. The City of Cape Canaveral operates its own advanced wastewater treatment facility and provides sewer service to all developed sections of the City. The overall system is considered in good condition and adequate to serve the needs of the City for over the next 10 years, through 2015 and beyond. The are a very limited number of septic tanks used in the City. The overall system is considered in good condition and adequate to serve the needs of the City for over the next 10 years. Ongoing Page 200 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENT SANITARY SEWER 2. The City shall strive to identify feasible strategies for minimizing inflow to the Create strategies to minimize inflow to the sewage treatment plant. The City of Cape Canaveral operates its own advanced wastewater treatment facility and provides sewer service to all developed sections of the City. The overall system is considered in good condition and adequate to serve the needs of the City for over the next 10 years. The City should continue to expand reuse lines and identify and repair deteriorated lines. Success sewage treatment plant and maximizing reuse of effluent. The measurement of this Objective is the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Page 201 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Drainage Sub -Element Goal The overall goal for this sub -element is provision of drainage facilities to meet the needs of the existing and future inhabitants of Cape Canaveral. Objective D-1 Assure that all existing and future residents and businesses in the City of Cape Canaveral are served by adequate drainage facilities in order to minimize damage that may occur as a result of flooding and to minimize the amount of runoff allowed to flow into the Atlantic Ocean and the Banana River during the 5- to 10-year time frame. Measurement of this Objective is the extent to which flooding is minimized during periods of heavy rainfall; the degree to which runoff into the Atlantic Ocean and Banana River is minimized; and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis Since 1999 the City has utilized six baffle boxes at key outfall points to improve water quality and is upgrading existing facilities where needed. Policy Relevance The City should continue the objective. Objective D-2 The City shall maximize the use of existing drainage facilities and infill development to discourage urban sprawl. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which development takes place on infill parcels plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City does not have the ability to sprawl because it is bordered on two sides by water, Port Canaveral to the north and a small enclave to the south. The City continues to enhance retention and detention facilities for storage of stormwater runoff through the Stormwater Management Ordinance (22-93). Policy Relevance The City should continue the objective. Page 202 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objectives Matrix Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENT DRAINAGE 1. Assure that all existing and future residents and businesses in the City of Cape Canaveral are served by adequate drainage facilities in order to minimize damage that may occur as a result of flooding and to minimize the amount of runoff allowed to flow into the Atlantic Ocean and the Banana River during the 5- to 10-year time frame. Measurement of this Objective is the extent to which flooding is minimized during periods of heavy rainfall; the degree to which runoff into the Atlantic Ocean and Banana River is minimized; and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Assure that all existing and future residents and businesses in the City of Cape Canaveral are served by adequate drainage facilities The City has adequate drainage facilities and requires additional review on all new systems. Since 1999 the City has utilized six baffle boxes The City should continue the objective. Success at key outfall points to improve water quality and is upgrading existing facilities where needed. Page 203 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENT DRAINAGE 2. The City shall maximize the use of existing drainage facilities and infill development to discourage urban sprawl. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which development takes place on infill parcels plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Maximize use of existing drainage facilities The City does not have the ability to sprawl because it is bordered on two sides by water, Port Canaveral to the north and a small enclave to the south. The City continues to enhance retention and detention facilities for storage of stormwater runoff through the Stormwater The City should continue the Objective and update the ordinance as needed. Ongoing Management Fee established in October 2003 and the Stormwater Master Plan approved in late 2000. ordinance (22 9)Also, the City has crowned all the roads to better provide for drainage. Page 204 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Solid Waste Sub Element Goal The overall goal for this sub -element is the provision of solid waste collection and disposal facilities and services to meet the needs of the existing and future inhabitants of Cape Canaveral. Objective SW-1 Assure that all existing and future inhabitants and businesses in the City have access to effective solid waste collection and disposal facilities by correcting existing facility deficiencies and providing facilities for future needs. The City shall encourage maximized use of existing solid waste disposal facilities and infill development to discourage urban sprawl for more efficient pickup of solid wastes. Measurement of this Objective is the degree to which the following Policies are implemented during the 5- and 10-year time frame. Achievement Analysis The City uses Brevard County solid waste facilities which are adequate. Current LOS for Brevard County solid waste is 8.32 lbs/capita/day with collection twice a week. The County is processing 2006B2, a Future Land Use Map amendment, on 226 acres changing to Public Facilities with the intent on providing a buffer between surrounding areas and landfill operations. This area is part of the Brevard County Central Disposal Facility. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective. Page 205 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objectives Matrix Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENT SOLID WASTE 1. Assure that all existing and future inhabitants and businesses in the City have access to effective solid waste collection and disposal facilities by correcting existing facility deficiencies and providing facilities for future needs. The City shall encourage maximized use of existing solid waste disposal facilities and infill development to discourage urban sprawl for more efficient pickup of solid wastes. Correct existing facility deficiencies and providing facilities for future needs. Measurement of this Objective is the degree to which the following Policies are implemented during the 5- and 10- year time frame. The City utilizes Brevard County solid waste facilities which were adequate at the time. The City utilizes Brevard County solid waste facilities which are adequate. Current LOS for Brevard County solid waste facility is 8.32 lbs./capita/day with collection twice a week. Currently, the County is processing 2006B2 — Future Land Use Map amendment on 226 acres to Public Facilities with the intent to provide a buffer between surrounding areas and landfill operations / accessory uses. Ongoing Page 206 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Potable Water Sub Element Goal The overall goal for this sub -element is provision of potable water facilities to meet the needs of the existing and future inhabitants of Cape Canaveral. Objective PW-1 The City shall cooperate with the City of Cocoa to assure and maximize use of existing potable water facilities for all existing and future residents and businesses in the City of Cape Canaveral in order to have access to potable water facilities during the 5- to 10-year time -frame and encourage infill development to limit urban sprawl. This objective is measured by whether or not potable water is available for all residents and businesses and the extent to which development takes place on infill parcels; and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City utilizes the City of Cocoa's potable water facilities which are adequate. Policy Relevance The Objective should be continued. Objective PW-2 Assure that potable water is available to all existing and future residents and businesses, even during times of dry weather. Measurement of this Objective is the extent to which potable water is available to all residents and businesses and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City continues to cooperate with both the City of Cocoa and the St. Johns River Management District to utilize all applicable conservation strategies and techniques. Policy Relevance The City should verify changing conservation techniques and strategies are listed in the LDRs. Page 207 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objectives Matrix Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENT POTABLE WATER 1. The City shall cooperate with the City of Cocoa to assure and maximize use of existing potable water facilities for all existing and future residents and businesses in the City of Cape Canaveral in order to have access to potable water facilities during the 5- to 10- year time -frame and encourage infill development to limit urban sprawl. This objective is measured by whether or not potable water is available for all residents and businesses and the extent to which development takes place on infill parcels; and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Maximize existing facilities. The City utilizes the City of Cocoa Beach's The City utilizes the City Cocoa Beach's The City Cocoa Beach of anticipates no capacity related problems through 2010. Ongoing of potable water facilities which are adequate. potable water facilities which were adequate at the time. Page 208 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENT POTABLE WATER 2. Assure that potable water is available to all existing and future residents and businesses, even during times of dry weather. Measurement of this Objective is the extent to which potable water is available to all residents and businesses and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Cooperate with the City of Cocoa and the St. Johns River Water Management District in establishing, utilizing and enforcing potable water conservation strategies and techniques. The City cooperates with both the City of Cocoa Beach the The City utilizes all applicable conservation strategies and techniques. The City needs to verify any changing conservation techniques and strategies are listed in the LDRs. Ongoing and St. Johns River Water Management District. Page 209 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Natural Groundwater Aquifer Recharge Sub Element Goal Assure that as much surface water as possible is allowed to percolate to recharge the shallow aquifer through the protection and use of recharge areas and natural drainage features. Objective AR-1 Assure that, to the extent feasible, stormwater is allowed to percolate for recharge of the shallow aquifer through the protection and use of recharge areas and natural drainage features. The measurement of this Objective is the level of the aquifer plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City continues to coordinate with St. Johns River water Management District on all new and redevelopment projects. Policy Relevance The Objective should be continued. Page 210 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objectives Matrix Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing NATURAL GROUNDWATER AQUIFER RECHARGE 1. Assure that, to the extent Allow stormwater to The City coordinates The City coordinates Coordination with St. feasible, stormwater is percolate for recharge with the St. Johns with the St. Johns Johns River Water allowed to percolate for River Water River Water Management District is an recharge of the shallow Management District Management District ongoing process. aquifer through the protection on all new and on all new and and use of recharge areas and redevelopment redevelopment natural drainage features. The measurement of this projects. projects. Objective is the level of the aquifer plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Ongoing *It is recommended that pursuant to updates in Chapters 163.3167, 163.3177 (4) (a), (6) (c), 163.3180 and 163.3191, F.S., new Objectives and Policies dealing with coordination of the regional water supply plan, a 10-year workplan, development of alternative water supply projects and general project impact on water supply coordination should be established in each section of the Infrastructure Element. It should be noted that under these new Objectives concerning the regional water supply adoption is required within 18 months of Brevard County's adoption of the plan. Page 211 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 3.4 Transportation Element The Transportation Element contains one Goal, four Objectives and various policies designed to implement actions and measure progress towards the Goal of the Transportation Element. Goal The City of Cape Canaveral, through cooperation with area wide transportation agencies, shall continue to develop and coordinate a comprehensive transportation system that: serves the needs of all segments of its population; is in support of the Land Use and other elements of the Comprehensive Plan; provides adequate and safe access to adjacent land uses; promotes sound development policies; is an efficient and effective use of public resources; and promotes the efficient utilization of energy resources. Objective T-1 In conjunction with area wide agencies, Brevard County and the State of Florida, the City of Cape Canaveral shall provide for a safe, convenient and efficient motorized and non -motorized transportation system. The measurement of this Objective is the safety, convenience and efficiency of the City's transportation network and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis Recently, sidewalks have been upgraded on AlA and other streets or are no longer intermittent on the west side of AlA. The City coordinates with the FDOT, the MPO and the SCAT, which provides public transportation within the City. The City should consider working with Brevard County on a trail and blue -way system and add policies as appropriate. Also, in December 2006 the City adopted a proportionate fair share mitigation ordinance required by Florida Statute. A_ potential bikeway/walkway system along North Atlantic is under consideration. Policy Relevance Additional policies should be added pursuant to updates in Chapter 163.3180, F.S., regarding proportionate fair share mitigation options and the timing of construction of transportation facilities. Additional policy language should be adopted in Policy T-1.2 describing the methodology for impacts on transportation facilities as reflected in Chapter 163.3191, F.S. Rule 9J-5.019 (4) (c), F.A.C., concerning safe, convenient on -site traffic flow, while practiced in the City, should be added as a policy in the section. Rule 9J-5.0055 (2) (c) and (9), F.A.C., with regard to level of service standards and proportionate share contribution additional policies should also be established in the Objective. Page 212 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective T-2 The City shall coordinate the traffic circulation system with the future land uses shown on the future land use map or map series as development takes place. The Measurement of this Objective is the degree to which the following policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City works closely with FDOT, Brevard County and the MPO. The City should also continue to coordinate with the City of Cocoa Beach and the Port on development impacting the traffic circulation system. Policy Relevance Pursuant to updates in Rule 9J-5.019 (4) (b) and (c), F.A.C., policies should be added regarding coordination of ports, airports or other facilities with other elements of the comprehensive plan. Objective T-3 The City shall work with the Florida Department of Transportation, Brevard County, the Metropolitan Planning Organization, and any other appropriate transportation planning bodies to assure the necessary exchange of information to coordinate the plans and programs of all the agencies involved as they relate to the overall transportation network within the City. The measurement of this Objective shall be the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City works closely with FDOT, Brevard County and the MPO. The City should also coordinate with the City of Cocoa Beach and the Port on development impacting the traffic circulation system. Policy Relevance Similar to the ICE, updates in Chapter 163.3180 (10), F.S., requires a policy to be added establishing LOS standards on the SIS consistent with adjacent jurisdictions. Further, Chapter 163.3180, F.S. and Rule 9J-5.0055 (3) (6), F.A.C. both require records and review of de minimis impacts on the transportation network. Objective T-4 The City shall protect existing and future rights -of -way from building encroachment. The measurement of this Objective is the lack of building encroachment on existing and future rights - of -way and the degree to which the following Policy is implemented. Page 213 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Achievement Analysis The City implements LDRs and does not approve variances that encroach in the setbacks. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective. Page 214 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objectives Matrix Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT 1. In conjunction with area wide agencies, Brevard County and the State of Florida, the City of Cape Canaveral shall provide for a safe, convenient and efficient motorized and non -motorized transportation system. The measurement of this Objective is the safety, convenience and efficiency of the City's transportation network and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Provide for a save motorized and non motorized transportation system within City limits. Roadway LOS was adequate. Sidewalks for pedestrian use on AlA and N. Atlantic Avenue are intermittent. The Space Coast Area Transit (SCAT) system provided public transportation. Recently sidewalks have been upgraded on AlA and are no longer intermittent on the west side of AlA. The City adopted a proportionate fair share mitigation ordinance in December 2006 as required by Florida Statute. The City should work with Brevard County on trail system and blue -way system. The City should also continue to coordinate with the FDOT, the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and SCAT. Ongoing 2. The City shall coordinate the traffic circulation system with the future land uses shown on the future land use map or map series as development takes place. The Measurement of this Objective is the degree to which the following policies are implemented. Maintain an acceptable LOS through the coordination of land use and developer contribution to transportation system as impacted by developers. The City works closely with FDOT, Brevard County and the MPO. With the proposed transfer of the above mentioned County Roads, the City will work with the FDOT, MPO and SCAT. The City should continue working with the appropriate agencies. The City should also coordinate with the City of Cocoa Beach and the Port with regard to development which may impact the traffic circulation system. Success/Ongoing Page 215 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT 3. The City shall work with the Florida Department of Transportation, Brevard County, the Metropolitan Planning Organization, and any other appropriate transportation planning bodies to assure the necessary exchange of information to coordinate the plans and programs of all the agencies involved as they relate to the overall transportation network within the City. The measurement of this Objective shall be the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Coordinate with the appropriate government agencies to assure that the plans and programs of all the entities involved effectively interrelate The City works closely with FDOT, Brevard County and the MPO. With the proposed transfer of the above mentioned County Roads, the City will work with the FDOT, MPO and SCAT. The City should continue working with the appropriate agencies. The City should also coordinate with the City of Cocoa Beach and the Port with regard to development which may impact the traffic circulation system. Additionally, Chapter 163.3180, F.S. requires a policy to be added establishing LOS on the SIS and coordination of de minimis impacts on the transportation network. Success/Ongoing 4. The City shall protect existing and future rights -of- way from building encroachment. The measurement of this Objective is the lack of building encroachment on existing and future rights -of -way and the degree to which the following Policy is implemented. Prevent building encroachment in existing and future rights -of -way. The City implements LDRs and does not approve variances that encroach in the setbacks. The City implements LDRs and does not approve variances that encroach in the setbacks. The City should continue the policy. Success/Ongoing Page 216 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 3.5 Parks and Recreation Element The Parks and Recreation Element contains one Goal, four Objectives and various policies designed to implement actions and measure progress towards the Goal of the element. Goal The overall goal of the Recreation and Open Space Element is to assure that citizens of all ages who reside in Cape Canaveral are provided with a system of facilities and programs to meet their needs for active and passive recreation. Objective R-1 The City shall provide access to all of its presently identified recreation sites, including the Atlantic Ocean Beach and the Banana River. The measurement of this Objective is whether or not all citizens of the community have access to such sites, and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The 1999 Parks and Recreation Element LOS was 2 acres/1000people. The goal was to achieve 3 acres/1000 people by 2001, which has yet to be achieved. Policy R-4.1 states "The City shall monitor the need for additional recreation and open -space areas and strive for 3 acres/1000 population of all parks." However, the City did acquire Manatee Park and Banana River Park. While no new parks have been acquired since, improvements were made to both parks. The City is considering acquiring Cherie Down Park, which is a County owned park of approximately 7 acres. Policy Relevance Should the City revise the LOS parkland goal, the policy should be revised accordingly. Also, pursuant to updates in Chapter 163.3177, F.S., with regard to waterway sites addressed by the element, additional policies should be established in the Objective. Objective R-2 The City shall cooperate with other public and private entities agencies in the provision development of resources to meet recreation demands. The measurement of this Objective is the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City uses an informal coordination process with Brevard County, who maintains Jetty Park and Cherie Down Park. The County is considering transferring Cherie Down Park to the City. Page 217 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Also, the County designated the Banana River as a blue -way trail, which is used for canoeing and kayaking. The City should consider locating another park in the northeast section of the City. The City has recently added Center Street Park and Patriots Park and has entered into a joint use agreement with Capeview Elementary School for use of park facilities. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective. Objective R-3 The City shall determine its need to develop, own and manage open -space areas. The measurement of this Objective is the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis Inventory of available open space tracts has been provided and reviewed. The City is actively considering available sites for acquisition. Policy Relevance The City should monitor an inventory of available open space areas for acquisition. Objective R-4 As deficiencies in recreation facilities are identified, the City shall seek new areas and facilities to overcome the deficiencies. The measurement of this Objective is the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis At the time of the 1999 plan the City had sufficient acreage to meet LOS standards. However, the policy to strive for 3 acres/1000 people has not been realized. Policy Relevance The City should consider revising the policy or pursue the goal of 3 acres/1000 people. Page 218 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objectives Matrix Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing PARKS and RECREATION ELEMENT 1. The City shall provide access to all of its presently identified recreation sites, including the Atlantic Ocean beach and the Banana River. The measurement of this Objective is whether or not all citizens of the community have access to such sites. Provide and maintain access to all current recreation sites. The 1999 Parks and Recreation Element LOS was 2ac/1000 people. The goal was to strive for 3 ac/1000 people by 2001. The City acquired Manatee Park and Banana River Park. Recently no new parks have been acquired, but improvements have been made to both Manatee Park and Banana River Park. To date the City has not met the goal of 3ac/1000 acre The City is considering locating another park in the north east section of the City. Ongoing 2. The City shall cooperate with other public and private entities agencies in the provision development of resources to meet recreation demands. The measurement of this Objective is the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Continue to work with all Governments agencies and or private sources for funding and/or development of recreation facilities such as bikeways; Ensure new large development provide additional recreation. The City has an informal coordination process with Brevard County who maintains Jetty Park and Cherie Down Park The County is considering transferring Cherie Down Park to the City. Also, the County designated Banana River as a blue - way trail, which is used for canoeing and kayaking. The City should consider locating another park in the north east section of the City. Success/Ongoing Page 219 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing PARKS and RECREATION ELEMENT 3. The City shall determine its need to develop, own and manage open -space areas. The measurement of this Objective is the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Inventory available open space tracts and decide which ones (if any) would be most suitable given the City's needs and financial resources Inventory was not available at the time. The 1999 Parks and Recreation Element — open space LOS was 1-2ac/1000 people. Inventory of available open space has been provided and reviewed. The City should set a date to implement or standards to follow by revising the policy or pursuing the goal of 4- 3 ac/1000 people. Ongoing 4. As deficiencies in recreation facilities are identified, the City shall seek new areas and facilities to overcome the deficiencies. The measurement of this Objective is the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. The City shall monitor the need for additional recreational and open -space areas and strive for 3 acres/ 1000 population for all parks. At the time the plan had sufficient acreage to meet LOS. However, the policy to strive for 3 acres/1000 has not been realized. No additional parkland has been acquired. The City should either revise the policy or pursue the goal of 3 acres/1000 people. Ongoing Page 220 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 3.6 Housing Element The Housing Element contains one goal, nine objectives and various policies designed to implement actions and measure progress towards the goal. Goal Assure that existing and future residents of the City of Cape Canaveral have access to safe and sanitary housing at an affordable reasonable price. Objective H-1 Periodically review and update the regulations and limitations regarding housing construction in the different zoning districts of the City in order to maintain and/or upgrade existing standards of housing in terms of floor space, lot size, etc. The measurement of this Objective is the actual review and update of these regulations, plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City allows for the private sector to provide and create housing opportunity. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective. Objective H-2 The City shall identify and implement measures which facilitate the provision of additional decent, safe, and sanitary affordable housing in the community to address the unmet housing needs of the lower -income segment of the population. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which housing needs are met for the general populace, lower -income families and those with special needs, plus the degree to which the following policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City provides for decent, safe and sanitary housing conditions. In 2000, the Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing identified 264 substandard housing units within the City. In March 2007 the City updated the 1999 Redevelopment Plan which calls for a reduction of substandard units by 2012. Page 221 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Policy Relevance The City is exempt from an affordability analysis based on Rule 9J-5.010(3)(c)(10), F.A.C. which states: "If it is not economically feasible to meet affordable housing needs within its jurisdiction because of unusually high property values within its jurisdiction, or if meeting that demand within its jurisdiction would require the direction of populations toward coastal high hazard areas, a local government may satisfy this criterion by having entered into an interlocal agreement with a nearby local government." However, pursuant to updates in Rule 9J-5.010(1) (c), F.A.C., the City should adopt a policy with the required definition of substandard housing and consider adding a policy to reduce the number of substandard housing units by 2012. Objective H-3 Protect existing and future neighborhoods from impacts that would negatively affect the quality of the residential environment and eliminate substandard housing conditions and work toward the structural and aesthetic improvement of existing housing. The measurement of this Objective is the number of substandard housing units eliminated and the amount of structural and aesthetic improvement of existing housing, plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City uses existing standards for addressing the quality of housing. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective. Objective H-4 Provide adequate sites for low- and moderate -income families and for manufactured homes. The measurement of this Objective is the number of sites for low- and moderate -income families and for manufactured homes within the City, plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City allows the housing market to operate how it deems necessary. In a proactive effort to provide affordable attainable housing for example, the City allows for units as small as 750 square feet per dwelling unit in the R-2 medium density residential zone. Page 222 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective, and as referenced above consider a housing update on affordability. Objective H-5 Provide adequate sites in areas of residential character for group homes and foster care facilities licensed or funded by the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services. The measurement of this Objective is the number of sites available for such facilities, plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City allows the housing market to operate how it deems necessary. Also, the City evaluates group homes and foster care on a case by case situation. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective. Objective H-6 The City shall take steps to identify and preserve all historically -significant housing. Achievement Analysis The City works with the Brevard County Historical Committee and State of Florida Historic Resources Department. Policy Relevance The City may want to explore grant funding for an archeological / historic property survey of the City. Additionally, the City should continue working with the appropriate agencies and develop a process for designating historical structures consistent with the Florida Master Site File, National Register of Historic Places or other designating entity. Objective H-7 Provide necessary relocation housing. The measurement of this Objective is the provision of relocation housing when it is needed, and the degree to which the following Policy is implemented. Page 223 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Achievement Analysis The City does not currently have housing relocation issues. Should the City need to provide relocation housing all applicable standards will be followed by law as required. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective. Objective H-8 Formulate housing implementation programs. The measurement of this Objective is the end product plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis To date no housing implement program has been established, however an evaluation of available housing implementation programs should be considered. Policy Relevance The City should investigate and evaluate the housing implementation programs available to the City and add policies or additional objects as necessary. Objective H-9 Encourage a variety of housing types within the City, to provide for adequate sites and distribution of housing for low-income and moderate -income households, and to promote housing policies that reflect sound land use principles and development practices. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which housing variety occurs within the City and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City allows market conditions and private developers to provide the appropriate housing types within the City. Currently, one PUD exists. Policy Relevance The City should continue the objective and add policies according to Chapter 163.31771, F.S., which provides local governments the option of using accessory dwelling units in single family zones to promote affordability and housing variety. This policy should be added to the Land Development Regulations as needed. Page 224 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objectives Matrix Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing HOUSING ELEMENT 1. Periodically review and Review and update The City allowed the The City allowed the The City allowed the update the regulations and housing requirements private sector to private sector to private sector to provide limitations regarding housing and regulations provide and create provide and create and create housing construction in the different zoning districts of the City in order to maintain and/or upgrade existing standards of housing in terms of floor space, lot size, etc. The measurement of this housing opportunity. housing opportunity. opportunity. Ongoing Objective is the actual review and update of these regulations, plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Page 225 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing HOUSING ELEMENT 2. The City shall identify and Promote additional The City provides for The City provides for In 2000 the Shimberg implement measures which decent, safe, and decent, safe and decent, safe and Center for Affordable facilitate the provision of sanitary housing sanitary housing Housing identified 264 sanitary affordable additional decent, safe, and sanitary affordable housing in the community to address the unmet housing needs of the lower -income segment of the population. The measurement of this attainable housing conditions. conditions. substandard housing units within the City. The updated 1999 redevelopment plan in March 2007 calls for a reduction from 264 substandard units to under Objective is the extent to which housing needs are met for the general populace, lower -income families and those with special needs, plus the degree to which the following policies are implemented. 200 units by 2012. Based on 9J-5.010(3) (c) (10), FAC, the City is exempt from providing an affordability analysis. Ongoing Page 226 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing HOUSING ELEMENT 3. Protect existing and future neighborhoods from impacts that would negatively affect the quality of the residential environment and eliminate substandard housing conditions and work toward the structural and aesthetic improvement of existing housing. The measurement of this Objective is the number of substandard housing units eliminated and the amount of structural and aesthetic improvement. Develop principles and standards to guide conservation, rehabilitation and demolition techniques and strategies to upgrade housing within the City The City utilizes existing standards for addressing the quality of housing. The City continues to utilize existing standards for addressing the quality of housing. The City continues to utilize existing standards for addressing the quality of housing. Ongoing 4. Provide adequate sites for low- and moderate -income families and for manufactured homes. The measurement of this Objective is the number of sites for low- and moderate - income families and for manufactured homes within the City, plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Provide adequate sites for low- and moderate -income families and for manufactured homes. The City allows the housing market to operate how it deems necessary. The City allows the housing market to operate how it deems necessary. In a proactive effort to provide for affordable attainable housing, the City allows for units as small as 750 square feet in the R-2 zone. Ongoing Page 227 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing HOUSING ELEMENT 5. Provide adequate sites in areas of residential character for group homes and foster care facilities licensed or funded by the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative services. The measurement of this Objective is the number of sites available for such facilities, plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Permit housing for low- and moderate - income families in manufactured homes, group homes, foster care facilities, and households with special needs, including supporting infrastructure and public facilities The City allows the housing market to operate how it deems necessary. The City allows the housing market to operate how it deems necessary. The City evaluates group homes and foster care on a case by case situation. Ongoing 6. The City shall take steps to identify and preserve all historically -significant housing. As housing in the City attains historical significance, such housing shall be identified The City works with the Brevard County Historical Committee and State of Florida Historical Resources Department. The City works with the Brevard County Historical Committee and State of Florida Historical Resources Department. The City works with the Brevard County Historical Committee and State of Florida Historical Resources Department. 7. Provide necessary relocation housing. The measurement of this Objective is the provision of relocation housing when it is needed. Provide relocation housing. The City does not currently have housing relocation issues. The City does not currently have housing relocation issues. Should the City need to provide relocation housing all applicable standards required by law will be followed. Chapter 723. Page 228 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing HOUSING ELEMENT 8. Formulate housing implementation programs. The measurement of this Objective is the end product plus the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Investigate the availability, suitability and applicability of federal, state and local housing -subsidy programs and shall decide which, if any, shall be used by the City To date no housing implementation program has been established. To date no housing implementation program has been established. The City should investigate and evaluate the housing implementation programs available to the City. Ongoing 9. Encourage a variety of housing types within the City, to provide for adequate sites and distribution of housing for low-income and moderate- income households, and to promote housing policies that reflect sound land use principles and development practices. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which housing variety occurs within the City and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Encourage a variety of housing types. There is one PUD existing in the City. The City allows market conditions and private developers to provide the appropriate housing types within the City. The City should continue the objective. Additionally, if desired the City should add a policy (and cross reference in Land Development Code) in accordance with Chapter 163.31771, FS which provides for accessory dwelling units in single family zones to promote affordability and housing variety Success Page 229 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 3.7 Future Land Use Element The Future Land Use Element contains one Goal, nine Objectives and various policies designed to implement actions and measure progress towards the Goal of the element. Goal The overall goal for the City of Cape Canaveral for future land use is to insure the proper relationship among residential, commercial, industrial, recreational and other activities in order to maximize the efficient use of land, accessibility to the circulation system and general compatibility among the land uses. Objective LU-1 The City shall coordinate future land uses with the appropriate topography, soil conditions, and the availability of facilities and services. The measurement of this Objective is the coordination of land uses with the above parameters and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City actively coordinates future land uses with the appropriate areas at time of site plan review and permitting. Policy Relevance Pursuant to updates in Chapters 163.3177 (4) (a) and (6) (c) and 163.3178 (2) (c), F.S., with regard to water supply plans and depicting the CHHA on the FLUM, additional policies should be established in the Objective. According to Chapter 163.3177 (6) (a), F.S., a policy should be added to clearly define in which land uses public schools are allowed. A map depicting these areas may be included. Objective LU-2 Should blighted areas occur, the City shall work toward redevelopment or renewal of such areas. The measurement of this Objective is the continuing lack of blighted areas and the degree to which the following Policy is implemented. Achievement Analysis The City adopted a redevelopment plan in 1999. The informal plan was used as a guide, however, no redevelopment district was established. In March 2007, planning staff reviewed and updated the 1999 redevelopment plan and creation of a CRA is currently under consideration. Page 230 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Policy Relevance The City should continue the objective. Objective LU-3 The City shall work toward the elimination or reduction of uses inconsistent with the community's character and future land uses. The measurement of this Objective is the consistency and compatibility of land uses within Cape Canaveral and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City had numerous inconsistent land uses and no clearly defined community character. Through the effort of a Community Appearance Board created to deal with the discrepancies, a more consistent community image is taking shape. Additionally, Chapter 163.3178 (2) (c), F.S. establishes the criteria which require electric distribution substations to be permitted in all FLUM categories and Rule 9J-5.019 (4) (b), F.A.C., requires coordination with the Transportation Element in siting ports, airports, or related facilities. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective and adopt policies pursuant to referenced above. Objective LU-4 the statute and rule The City shall enforce its regulations for protection of natural resources and historic resources. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which natural and historic resources are protected and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City relies on other environmental agencies to enforce environmental regulations. The City also works with Brevard County Historical Committee and the State of Florida Historic Resources Department. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objection but also consider looking for grant funding for an archeological / historical property survey of the City. Page 231 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective LU-5 The City shall coordinate coastal area population densities with the local hurricane evacuation plan. The measurement of this Objective is the density of population in the coastal area and the degree to which the following Policy is implemented. Achievement Analysis The City allows a maximum density of 15 dwelling units per acre. No comprehensive plan amendments for increased density have been approved. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective. In accordance with Chapter 163.3178 (2) (c), F.S. and similar to the recommended policy in the Coastal Management Element, the FLUM should be amended to depict the CHHA by July 1, 2008. Objective LU-6 The City shall attempt to prevent urban sprawl. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which urban sprawl is prevented and the degree to which the following Policy is implemented. Achievement Analysis The City is bordered by water on two sides, Port Canaveral to the north and Cocoa Beach and a small enclave to the south. The City does not have the ability to sprawl and is mostly involved with redevelopment and reuse at this time. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective. Objective LU-7 The City shall ensure the availability of land suitable for utility facilities necessary to support proposed development. The measurement of this Objective is the availability of land for utility facilities. Achievement Analysis The City has available capacity for water, sewer and park facilities. As population increases the City may need to increase park inventory and drainage facilities may need to be evaluated to ensure functionality with the increased population. Page 232 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective. Objective LU-8 The City shall work toward the use of innovative land development regulations. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which innovative land development techniques are allowed and the degree to which the following Policy is implemented. Achievement Analysis There is one existing Planned Unit Development existing in the City. However, the City is actively exploring mixed use districts and their potential. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective. Objective LU-9 The City shall alleviate the impacts of inadequate public facilities and services, substandard structures and lot configurations in the blighted or other affected areas in the County through redevelopment and beautification activities. Achievement Analysis The City adopted a redevelopment plan in 1999 which was used as an informal guide. In March 2007 planning staff reviewed and updated the plan. Reuse and redevelopment has reduced some of the conditions related to blight and substandard lot configurations. Policy Reference The City should continue the Objective. Also, Objective H-2 in the Housing Element references an update to Chapter 9J-5.010 (1) (c), F.A.C., requiring a definition of substandard housing. Consider replicating policy in this Objective also. Page 233 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objectives Matrix Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT 1. The City shall coordinate future land uses with the appropriate topography, soil conditions, and the availability of facilities and services. The measurement of this Objective is the coordination of land uses with the above parameters and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Coordinate land uses with adequate infrastructure and soils to support new development. The City actively coordinates future land uses with the appropriate areas. The City actively coordinates future land uses with the appropriate areas at the time of site plan review and permitting. The City should continue the objective. Additionally, policies referenced above regarding updates to Florida Statute and Rule should be added as necessary. Ongoing 2. Should blighted areas occur, the City shall work toward redevelopment or renewal of such areas. The measurement of this Objective is the continuing lack of blighted areas. Monitor city for blighted areas and create a redevelopment plan should blighted areas occur. The City adopted a redevelopment plan in 1999. The informal plan was used as a guide, however no district was established. In March 2007 the City updated the 1999 redevelopment plan. The City should continue the objective. Ongoing Page 234 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT 3. The City shall work toward the elimination or reduction of uses inconsistent with the community's character and future land uses. The measurement of this Objective is the consistency and compatibility of land uses within Cape Canaveral and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Work toward the elimination of incompatible land uses. The City had numerous inconsistent land uses and no clearly defined community character. A Community Appearance Board was created to deal with the discrepancies. Through the efforts of the Community Appearance Board, a more consistent community image is taking shape. The City should continue the objective and also add policies to reflect the allowance of electric substations in FLUM categories pursuant to Chapter 163.3178 (2) (c), FS and to ensure coordination with the Transportation Element in siting of ports, airports, or related facilities, pursuant to Rule 9J-5.019(4)(b). Ongoing 4. The City shall enforce its regulations for protection of natural resources and historic resources. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which natural and historic resources are protected and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Protect natural resources and historic resources through land use & maintain a list of archeological sites. The City relies on other environmental agencies to enforce environmental regulations. The City also works with Brevard County Historical Committee and the State of Florida Historic Resources Department. The City relies on other environmental agencies to enforce environmental regulations. The City also works with Brevard County Historical Committee and the State of Florida Historic Resources Department. The City may want to proceed with grant funding for an archeological /historical property survey of the City. Ongoing Page 235 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT 5. The City shall coordinate coastal area population densities with the local hurricane evacuation plan. The measurement of this Objective is the density of population in the coastal area and how Policy is implemented. The City shall continue to monitor density of developments, especially in the high -hazard areas The City allows a maximum density of 15 dwelling units per acre. The City allows a maximum density of 15 dwelling units per acre. There have not been any comprehensive plan amendments for increased density. The City should continue the objective and also add a policy to amend the FLUM depicting the CHHA by July 1, 2008 in accordance with Florida Statute Success. 6. The City shall attempt to prevent urban sprawl. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which urban sprawl is prevented and the degree to which the following Policy is implemented. Prevent urban sprawl through land use designations and urban infill. The City is bordered by water on two sides, Port Canaveral to the north and Cocoa Beach and a small enclave to the south. The City is bordered by water on two sides, Port Canaveral to the north and Cocoa Beach and a small enclave to the south. The City does not have the ability to sprawl and is mostly involved with redevelopment and reuse at this time. Success 7. The City shall ensure the availability of land suitable for utility facilities necessary to support proposed development. The measurement of this Objective is the availability of land for utility facilities. Locate and provide land for additional water facilities; require infrastructure to be provided by developers concurrent with their developments. The City has available capacity for water, sewer and park facilities. The City has available capacity for water, sewer and park facilities. As population increases the City may need to increase park inventory and drainage facilities may need to be evaluated to ensure functionality with increased population. Page 236 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT 8. The City shall work toward the use of innovative land development regulations. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which innovative land development techniques are allowed. Allow Planned Unit There is one PUD existing in the City. There is one PUD existing in the City. However, the City is actively exploring mixed use districts and their potential. The City should continue the objective. Ongoing Developments with criteria listed in policy LU-8.1 9. The City shall alleviate the impacts of inadequate public facilities and services, substandard structures and lot configurations in the blighted or other affected areas in the County through redevelopment and beautification activities. Promote and achieve redevelopment and beautification activities. The City adopted a redevelopment plan in 1999. The informal plan was used as a guide, however, no redevelopment district was established. In March 2007 staff updated the 1999 redevelopment plan. Reuse and redevelopment has reduced some of the conditions related to blight and substandard lot configurations. Consider replicating policy (as in Objective H- 2 Housing Element) from Rule 9J-5.010 (1) (c), FAC requiring the definition of substandard housing. Ongoing Page 237 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 3.8 Capital Improvements Element (CIE) The CIF contains one Goal, four Objectives and various policies designed to implement actions and measure progress towards the Goal of the element. Goal The overall goal for the Capital Improvements Element of the City of Cape Canaveral is to provide a program to coordinate the timing and to prioritize the provision of capital improvements which support the goals, objectives and policies of the City's Comprehensive Plan and encourage efficient and fiscally -sound utilization of public facilities; this includes the principle that the Capital Improvements Element is to serve as a tool for decision -making by the City government. Objective CI-1 The City shall utilize the Capital Improvements Element as a tool to ensure that capital facilities are made available in a timely manner to satisfy existing deficiencies, accommodate infrastructure needs for planned future growth, and replace obsolete or worn-out facilities. The measurement of this Objective is the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The 1999 CIF contained the Capital Improvement Schedule and Budget tables for years 1998- 2010. Policy Relevance The Capital Improvements Schedule and Budget should be reviewed and updated annually. The planning horizon timeframe should also be updated. Also, policies should be added pursuant to Chapter 163.3180, F.S. and Rule 9J-5.0055, 9J-5.016 and 9J-5.019, F.A.C., relating to level of service standards, financial feasibility and school concurrency, to name a few. Objective CI-2 The City shall adopt an Annual Capital Improvements Budget as a part of its annual budgeting process which is consistent with the Capital Improvements Schedule and Budget of this Element. The measurement of this Objective is the extent to which it is accomplished and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City updates the Capital Improvements Plan during the budgeting phase each year. According to Chapter 163.3177 (3) (b) (1), F.S., amendments to implement public facility Page 238 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 consistency with the CIE are required to be adopted and transmitted to DCA by December 1, 2008. This is a new date, the previous legislative updated called for updating the CIE by December 1, 2007. Policy Relevance The City should identify if any amendments are needed pursuant to Florida Statute and adopt and transmit by the December 1, 2008 deadline. The City should also commit to reviewing and adopting a revised Capital Improvements Schedule and Budget annually. Objective CI-3 The City shall ensure that its public facility expenditures do not unnecessarily subsidize development in high -hazard coastal areas, except for expenditures for public land acquisition or enhancement of natural resources. The measurement of this Objective is the degree to which public facility expenditures are restricted in high -hazard coastal areas, plus the extent to which the following Policies are implemented. Achievement Analysis The City does not locate public infrastructure within coastal high -hazard zones. The City also requires a developer to pay for necessary public facilities to eliminate expenditure of public funds for development. The City insures all development proposed for coastal high -hazard areas meet FDEP requirements. Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective. Objective CI-4 The City shall provide the public facilities and the funding required for future growth and redevelopment and that new growth pays for its fair share of these facility costs. The measurement of this Objective is the implementation of LOS standards and the degree to which all users pay their fair share of public facility costs. Achievement Analysis The City collects impact fees per adopted impact fee ordinance and also adopted a fair share mitigation ordinance for roadway improvements. To date there are no LOS deficiencies in the City. Page 239 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Policy Relevance The City should continue the Objective and ensure a 5-year schedule of capital improvements is included. Page 240 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objectives Matrix Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ELEMENT 1. The City shall utilize the The City shall The 1999 Capital The City's Capital Need to update planning Capital Improvements accommodate the Improvement Improvements Element year horizon and add Element as a tool to ensure public facility needs Element contained requires the Capital policies where appropriate that capital facilities are made of new growth on an the Capital Improvements pursuant to Florida Statute available in a timely manner ongoing basis. Improvements Schedule and Budget and Rule related to level of to satisfy existing deficiencies, accommodate infrastructure The City shall Schedule and Budget table for years 1998- be reviewed and updated annually. service standards, financial feasibility and school needs for planned future growth, and replace obsolete or worn-out facilities. The measurement of this Objective is the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. evaluate public facilities necessary to correct existing deficiencies. 2010. concurrency. Ongoing Page 241 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ELEMENT 2. The City shall adopt an Update the Capital The City updates the The City should update Need to update planning Annual Capital Improvements Plan Capital the Capital year horizon. Improvements Budget as a annually. Improvements Plan Improvements Budget part of its annual budgeting during the budgeting during the next budget According to Chapter process which is consistent with the Capital Improvements Schedule and Budget of this Element. The measurement of this phase each year. year. 163.3177 (3)(b)(I), FS the City should identify any amendments and transmit by the December 1, 2008 deadline. Objective is the extent to which it is accomplished and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented. Also, the City should also commit to reviewing and adopting a revised Capital Improvements Schedule and Budget annually. Ongoing Page 242 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ELEMENT 3. The City shall ensure that The measurement of The City does not The City follows the The City should continue its public facility this Objective is the locate public objective. the objective. expenditures do not degree to which infrastructure within unnecessarily subsidize public facility high -hazard coastal development in high -hazard expenditures are zones. The City also coastal areas, except for restricted in high- requires a developer expenditures for public land acquisition or enhancement of natural resources. The hazard coastal areas to pay for necessary public facilities to eliminate expenditure measurement of this Objective is the degree to which public facility expenditures are restricted in high -hazard coastal areas, plus the extent to which the following Policies are implemented. of public funds for development. The City insures all development proposed for coastal high -hazard areas meet FDEP requirements. Success Page 243 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Objective Target Conditions When Plan Was Adopted Current Conditions Comments and Success, Failure or Ongoing CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ELEMENT 4. The City shall provide the Enforcement and The City collects Per the objective the The City should continue public facilities and the collection of impact impact fees per City utilizes impact the objective. funding required for future fees for new adopted impact fee fees for improvements growth and redevelopment development ordinances. and adopted a fair share and that new growth pays for therefore maintaining mitigation ordinance its fair share of these facility costs. The measurement of the adopted LOS. for roadway improvements. this Objective is the implementation of LOS Currently, there are no LOS deficiencies. Success standards and the degree to which all users pay their fair share of public facility costs. Page 244 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 4.0 Applicable changes to Chapter 163, Florida Statute (F.S.) and Rule 9J-5, Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C.) Chapter 163 F.S. 1999: 3-5, and [Ch. 99-251, ss. 65-6, and 90; Ch. 99-378, ss. 1, 8-9, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations N/A Addressed (where/how) Amendment Needed by Element 92 Required that ports and local governments in the coastal area, which has spoil disposal responsibilities, identify dredge disposal sites in the comp plan. 163.3178 (7) See policy C-4.2 in Conservation Element Add dredge disposal sites to existing policy language of C-4.2 in the Conservation Element. 93 Exempted from the twice -per -year limitation certain port 163.3187 (1) None -procedural change. related amendments for port transportation facilities and projects eligible for funding by the Florida Seaport (h) Transportation and Economic Development Council. 94 Required rural counties to base their future land use plans 163.3177 (6) N/A and the amount of land designated industrial on data regarding the need for job creation, capital investment, and economic development and the need to strengthen and diversity local economies. (a) 95 Added the Growth Policy Act to Ch. 163, Part II to 163.2511,163. Requirements Add 2007 promote urban infill and redevelopment. 25,14,163.251 addressed in Redevelopment Plan 7,163.2520,16 FLUE. See language where 3.2523, and policies LU-2 and applicable. 163.2526 LU-9. 96 Required that all comp plans comply with the school siting 163.3177 (6) Policy to be adopted in requirements by October 1, 1999. (a) LU-1 of the FLUE. Page 245 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 97 Made transportation facilities subject to concurrency. 163.3180 (1) (a) Policy to be adopted in CI-2.1 of CIE. 98 Required use of professionally accepted techniques for measuring level of service for cars, trucks, transit, bikes and pedestrians. 163.3180 (1) (b) A general Traffic Circulation level of service standard is established in the Capital Improvements Element. Add professionally accepted techniques language to policy CI-1.3 of CIE. 99 Excludes public transit facilities from concurrency requirements. 163.3180 (4) (b) None -procedural change. 100 Allowed multiuse DRIs to satisfy the transportation concurrency requirements when authorized by a local comprehensive plan under limited circumstances. 163.3180 (12) Policy to be adopted in CI-4 of CIE. 101 Allowed multimodal transportation districts in areas where priorities for the pedestrian environment are assigned by the plan. 163.3180 (15) Not utilized. None -optional provision. 102 Exempted amendments for urban infill and redevelopment areas, public school concurrency from the twice -per -year limitation. 163.31879 (1) (h) and (i) [Now: (i) and OA None -procedural change. 103 Defined brownfield designation and added the assurance that a developer may proceed with development upon receipt of a brownfield designation. [Also see Section 163.3221 (1) for "brownfield" definition.] 163.3220 (2) No brownfield areas have been sought in the City. None -procedural change. Page 246 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 2000: 2000-317, [Ch. 2000-158, ss. 15-17, Ch. 2000-284, s. 1, Ch. s. 18, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations N/A * Addressed (where/how) Amendment Needed by Element 104 Repealed Section 163.3184 (11) (c), F.S., that required funds from sanction for non -compliant plans go into the Growth Management Trust Fund. 163.3184 (11) (c) [Now: Repealed] N/A 105 Repealed Section 163.3187 (7), F.S. that required consideration of an increase in the annual total acreage 163.3187 (7) [Now: Repealed] N/A threshold for small scale plan amendments and a report by DCA. 106 Repealed Sections 163.3191 (13) and (15), F.S. 163.3191 (13) and (15) [Now: Repealed] N/A 107 Allowed small scale amendments in areas of critical state concern to be exempt from the twice -per -year limitation only if they are for affordable housing. 163.3187 (1) (c) 1.e N/A The City is not in an area of critical state concern. None. 108 Added exemption of sales from local option surtax imposed under Section 212.054, F.S., as examples of incentives for new development within urban infill and redevelopment areas. 163.2517 (3) (j) 2. N/A None -procedural change. Page 247 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 2001: [Ch. 2001-279, s. 64, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations N/A * Addressed (where/how) Amendment Needed by Element 109 Created the rural land stewardship area program. 163.3177 (11) N/A Not utilized. None -optional provision. (d) Chapter N/A Addressed Amendment Needed 2002: [Ch. 2002-296, ss. 1 - 11, Laws of Florida] 163, F.S. * (where/how) by Element Citations 110 Required that all agencies that review comprehensive plan amendments and rezoning include a nonvoting representative of the district school board. 163.3174 Currently, a voting representative is on the LPA and Policy to be adopted in IG-1 of ICE reflective of existing conditions. P&Z Board. 111 Required coordination of local comprehensive plan with 163.3177 (4) Policy to be adopted in the regional water supply plan. (a) IG-3 of ICE, and an Objective to be adopted in the Infrastructure (Potable Water) Element to include all water supply requirements. 112 Plan amendments for school -siting maps are exempt from 163.3177 (6) None -procedural change. s. 163.3187 (1)'s limitation on frequency. (a) 113 Required that by adoption of the EAR, the sanitary sewer, 163.3177 (6) Objectives and Policies solid waste, drainage, potable water and natural groundwater aquifer recharge element consider the regional water supply plan and include a 10-year work plan to build the identified water supply facilities. (c) to be adopted under each section of the Infrastructure Element and Objective C-6 should be added to the Conservation Element. Page 248 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 114 Required consideration of the regional water supply plan in the preparation of the conservation element. 163.3177 (6) (d) Policy to be adopted in proposed Objective C-6 of the Conservation Element. 115 Required that the intergovernmental coordination element 163.3177 (6) Policy to be adopted in (ICE) include relationships, principles and guidelines to be used in coordinating comp plan with regional water supply plans. (h) IG-3 of ICE 116 Required the local governments adopting a public 163.3177 (6) Not utilized. None -optional plan educational facilities element execute an inter -local agreement with the district school board, the county, and non -exempting municipalities. (h) 4. provision. 117 Required that counties larger than 100,000 population and 163.3177 (6) Coordinate with Brevard their municipalities submit an inter -local service delivery agreements (existing and proposed, deficits or duplication in the provisions of service) report to DCA by January 1, 2004. Each local government is required to update its ICE based on the findings of the report. DCA will meet with affected parties to discuss and id strategies to remedy any deficiencies or duplications. (h) 6., 7., & 8. County and add policy to IG-3 of the ICE based on County Report. 118 Required local governments and special districts to provide 163.3177 (6) N/A None. recommendations for statutory changes for annexation to (h) 9. the Legislature by February 1, 2003. NOTE: this [Now requirement repealed by Ch. 2005-290, s. 2, LOF. repealed] 119 Added a new Section 163.31776 that allows a county, to adopt an optional public educational facilities element in cooperation with the applicable school board. 163.31776 N/A Page 249 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 120 Added a new Section 163.31777 that requires local governments and school boards to enter into an inter -local agreement that addresses school siting, enrollment forecasting, school capacity, infrastructure and safety needs of schools, schools as emergency shelters, and sharing of facilities. 163.31777 Policy to be adopted in IG-1 of ICE. Also, objectives and/or policies should be adopted in the new Public School Facilities Element when created. 121 Added a provision that the concurrency requirement for transportation facilities may be waived by plan amendment for urban infill and redevelopment areas. 163.3180 (4) (c) Not utilized. None -optional plan provision. 122 Expanded the definition of "affected persons" to include property owners who own land abutting a change to a future land use map. 163.3184 (1) (a) None -procedural change. 123 Expanded the definition of "in compliance" to include consistency with Section 163.31776 (public educational facilities element). 163.3184 (1) (b) None -procedural change. 124 Streamlined the timing of comprehensive plan amendment review. 163.3184 (3), (4), (6), (7), and (8) None -procedural change. 125 Required that local governments provide a sign -in form at the transmittal hearing and at the adoption hearing for persons to provide their names and addresses. 163.3184 (15) (c) None -procedural change. 126 Exempted amendments related to providing transportation improvements to enhance life safety on "controlled access major arterial highways" from the limitation on the frequency of plan amendments contained in s.163.3187 (1). 163.3187 (1) (k) None -procedural change. Page 250 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 127 Required EARs to include (1) consideration of the appropriate regional water supply plan, and (2) an evaluation of whether past reductions in land use densities in coastal high hazard areas have impaired property rights of current residents where redevelopment occurs. 163-3191 (2) (1) Policies to be adopted in each new Objective of the sections in the Infrastructure Element. 128 Allowed local governments to establish a special master process to assist the local governments with challenges to local development orders for consistency with the comprehensive plan. 163.3215 Policy to be adopted in IG-3 of the ICE. 129 Created the Local Government Comprehensive Planning 163.3246 Provision not utilized. None -optional plan provision. Certification Program to allow less state and regional oversight of comprehensive plan process if the local government meets certain criteria. 130 Added a provision to Section 380.06 (24), Statutory Exemptions, that exempts from the requirements for developments of regional impact, any water port or marina development if the relevant local government has adopted a "boating facility siting plan or policy" (which includes certain specified criteria) as part of the coastal management element or future land use element of its comprehensive plan. The adoption of the boating facility siting plan or policy is exempt from the limitation on the frequency of plan amendments contained in s.163.3187 (1). 163.3187 (1) None -procedural change. 131 Prohibited a local government, under certain conditions, from denying an application for development approval for a requested land use for certain proposed solid waste management facilities. 163.3194 (6) None -procedural change. Page 251 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 2003: s. 158; [Ch. 03-1, ss. 14-15; ch. 03-162, s. 1; ch. 03-261 ch. 03-286, s. 61, Laws of Florida.] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations N/A Addressed (where/how) Amendment Needed by Element 132 Creates the Agricultural Lands and Practices Act. (2): Provides legislative findings and purpose with respect to agricultural activities and duplicative regulation. (3): Defines the terms "farm," "farm operation," and "farm product" for purposes of the act. (4): Prohibits a county from adopting any ordinance, resolution, regulation, rule, or policy to prohibit or otherwise limit a bona fide farm operation on land that is classified as agricultural land. (4) (a): Provides that the act does not limit the powers of a county under certain circumstances. (4) (b): Clarifies that a farm operation may not expand its operations under certain circumstances. (4) (c): Provides that the act does not limit the powers of certain counties. (4) (d): Provides that certain county ordinances are not deemed to be a duplication of regulation. 163.3162 N/A Page 252 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 133 Changes "State Comptroller" references to "Chief Financial Officer." 163.3167(6) N/A 134 Provides for certain airports to abandon DRI orders. 163.3177 (6) (k) N/A None -procedural provision. 135 Throughout s.163.3177, F.S., citations for Ch. 235, F.S., are changed to cite the appropriate section of Ch. 1013, F.S. 163.31776 N/A None -procedural provision. 136 Throughout s.163.31777, F.S., citations for Ch. 235, F.S., are changed to cite the appropriate section of Ch. 1013, F.S. 163.31777 N/A None -procedural provision. 2004: [Ch. 04-5, s. 11; ch. 04-37, s. 1; ch. 04-230, ss. 1- 4; ch. 04-372, ss. 2-5; ch. 04-381, ss. 1-2; ch. 04-384, s. 2, Laws of Florida.] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations N/A * Addressed (where/how) Amendment Needed by Element 137 (10): Amended to conform to the repeal of the Florida High -Speed Rail Transportation Act, and the creation of the Florida High -Speed Rail Authority Act. (13): Created to require local governments to identify adequate water supply sources to meet future demand. (14): Created to limit the effect of judicial determinations issued subsequent to certain development orders pursuant to adopted land development regulations. 163.3167 None -procedural provision. Policies to be adopted in each new Objective of the sections in the Infrastructure Element. None -procedural change. 138 (1): Provides legislative findings on the compatibility of development with military installations. Creates 163.3175. N/A Page 253 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 (2): Provides for the exchange of information relating to proposed land use decisions between counties and local governments and military installations. (3): Provides for responsive comments by the commanding officer or his/her designee. (4): Provides for the county or affected local government to take such comments into consideration. (5): Requires the representative of the military installation to be an ex-officio, nonvoting member of the county's or local government's land planning or zoning board. (6): Encourages the commanding officer to provide information on community planning assistance grants. 139 (6) (a): 163.3177 N/A N/A • Changed to require local governments to amend the future land use element by June 30, 2006 to include criteria to achieve compatibility with military installations. Not utilized. • Changed to specifically encourage rural land stewardship area designation as an overlay on the future land use map. (6) (c): Extended the deadline adoption of the water supply facilities work plan amendment until December 1, 2006; provided for updating the work plan every five years; and exempts such amendment from the limitation on frequency of adoption of amendments. The City is working with the County on the water supply plan. Policies to be adopted in each new Objective of the sections in the Infrastructure Element. N/A Page 254 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 (10) (1): Provides for the coordination by the state land planning agency and the Department of Defense on Not utilized. compatibility issues for military installations. (11) (d)1.: Requires DCA, in cooperation with other Not utilized. specified state agencies, to provide assistance to local governments in implementing provisions relating to rural Not utilized. land stewardship areas. (11) (d)2.: Provides for multicounty rural land stewardship Not utilized. areas. (11) (d)3.-4: Revises requirements, including the acreage None -optional plan threshold for designating a rural land stewardship area. Not addressed. provision. (11) (d)6.j.: Provides that transferable rural land use credits may be assigned at different ratios according to the natural resource or other beneficial use characteristics of the land. Not addressed. None -optional plan provision. (11) (e): Provides legislative findings regarding mixed -use, high -density urban infill and redevelopment projects; requires DCA to provide technical assistance to local governments. (11) (f): Provides legislative findings regarding a program for the transfer of development rights and urban infill and redevelopment; requires DCA to provide technical assistance to local governments. Page 255 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 140 (1): Provides legislative findings with respect to the shortage of affordable rentals in the state. (2): Provides definitions. (3): Authorizes local governments to permit accessory dwelling units in areas zoned for single family residential use based upon certain findings. (4) An application for a building permit to construct an accessory dwelling unit must include an affidavit from the applicant which attests that the unit will be rented at an affordable rate to a very -low-income, low-income, or moderate -income person or persons. (5): Provides for certain accessory dwelling units to apply towards satisfying the affordable housing component of the housing element in a local government's comprehensive plan. (6): Requires the DCA to report to the Legislature. Creates 163.31771 No previous finding of shortage of affordable rental units. Section 1.0 of the EAR provides tables showing updated housing information. Policies to be adopted in H-9 of Housing Element and cross referenced with the City's Land Development Regulations as needed. 141 Amends the definition of "in compliance" to add language referring to the Wekiva Parkway and Protection Act. 163.3184(1)(b ) N/A Page 256 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 142 (1) (m): Created to provide that amendments to address criteria or compatibility of land uses adjacent to or in close proximity to military installations do not count toward the limitation on frequency of amending comprehensive plans. 163.3187 N/A None -procedural changes. (1) (n): Created to provide that amendments to establish or implement a rural land stewardship area do not count toward the limitation on frequency of amending comprehensive plans. 143 Created to provide that evaluation and appraisal reports 163.3191(2)(n N/A evaluate whether criteria in the land use element were successful in achieving land use compatibility with military installations. ) 2005 Ch. 2005-291, [Ch. 2005-157, ss 1, 2 and 15; Ch. 2005-290; and ss. 10-12, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations N/A Addressed (where/how) Amendment Needed by Element 144 Added the definition of "financial feasibility." Creates ss. 163.3164(32) None -procedural provision. 145 (2): Required comprehensive plans to be "financially" rather than "economically" feasible. (3) (a)5.: Required the comprehensive plan to include a 5- year schedule of capital improvements. Outside funding (i.e., from developer, other government or funding pursuant to referendum) of these capital improvements must be guaranteed in the form of a development agreement or interlocal agreement. 163.3177 Add language to Goal of CIE. Policy to be adopted in CI-4 of CIE. Page 257 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 (3) (a) 6. b. 1.: Required plan amendment for the annual update of the schedule of capital improvements. Deleted provision allowing updates and change in the date of construction to be accomplished by ordinance. Policy to be adopted in (3) (b) (1): Requires the CIE reviewed on an annual basis CI-2 of CIE. and modified as necessary. An amendment to the comprehensive plan is required to update the schedule on an annual basis. All public facilities shall be consistent with the capital improvements element. Amendments to implement this section must be adopted and transmitted no later than December 1, 2008. Thereafter, a local government may not amend its future land use map, except for plan amendments to meet new requirements under this part and emergency amendments pursuant to s. 163.3187(1)(a), after December 1, 2008, and every year Not utilized. Policy to be adopted in CI-4 of CIE. thereafter, unless and until the local government has adopted the annual update and it has been transmitted to the state land planning agency. N/A (3) (a) 6. c.: Added oversight and penalty provision for failure to adhere to this section's capital improvements requirements. N/A The City is not a coastal county. (3) (a) 6. d.: Required a long-term capital improvement schedule if the local government has adopted a long-term concurrency management system. (6) (a): Deleted date (October 1, 1999) by which school sitting requirements must be adopted. Policy to be adopted in new Objective of the Potable Water section in the Infrastructure Page 258 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 (6) (a): Add requirement that future land use element of coastal counties must encourage the preservation of working waterfronts, as defined in s.342.07, F.S. Element. This adoption is pursuant to the Brevard County portion of the Regional Water Supply (6) (c): Required the potable water element to be updated within 18 months of an updated regional water supply plan N/A Plan and is due within 18 months of adoption of the to incorporate the alternative water supply projects selected N/A plan. by the local government to meet its water supply needs. Policy to be adopted in R-1 of the Parks and N/A Recreation Element. None -optional plan (6) (e): Added waterways to the system of sites addressed N/A provision. by the recreation and open space element. (11) (d) 4. c.: Required rural land stewardship areas to None -optional plan provision. address affordable housing. (11) (d) 5.: Required a listed species survey be performed on rural land stewardship receiving area. If any listed species present, must ensure adequate provisions to protect N/A None -optional plan provision. them. (11) (d) 6.: Must enact an ordinance establishing a methodology for creation, conveyance, and use of None -optional plan provision. stewardship credits within a rural land stewardship area. No new schools (11) (d) 6. j.: Revised to allow open space and agricultural have been Public School Facilities land to be just as important as environmentally sensitive land when assigning stewardship credits. planned. Element to be adopted, policy regarding the Page 259 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 (12): Must adopt public school facilities element. timing of element adoption to be included in IG-1 of ICE. (12) (a) and (b): A waiver from providing this element will be allowed under certain circumstances. Objective and policies to be adopted under the new (12) (g): Expanded list of items to be to include colocation, location of schools proximate to residential areas, and use of schools as emergency shelters. (12) (h): Required local governments to provide maps depicting the general location of new schools and school improvements within future conditions maps. N/A Using community meetings to gather information to develop a direction for the future. Public School Facilities Element. Policy to be adopted in IG-1 of the ICE for establishment of the (12) (i): Required DCA to establish a schedule for adoption of the public school facilities element. The schedule shall Public School Facilities Element. provide for each county and local government within the county to adopt the element and update to the agreement no later than December 1, 2008. None -procedural provision. (12) (j): Established penalty for failure to adopt a public school facility element. None -optional plan provision. (13): (New section) Encourages local governments to develop a "community vision," which provides for sustainable growth, recognizes its fiscal constraints, and Page 260 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 protects its natural resources. (14): (New section) Encourages local governments to develop an "urban service boundary," which ensures the area is served (or will be served) with adequate public facilities and services over the next 10 years. See s. 163.3184 (17). None -optional plan provision. 146 163.31776 is repealed 163.31776 [Now: Repealed] None -procedural provision. 147 (2): Required the public schools interlocal agreement (if applicable) to address requirements for school concurrency. The opt -out provision at the end of Subsection (2) is deleted. (5): Required Palm Beach County to identify, as part of its EAR, changes needed in its public school element necessary to conform to the new 2005 public school facilities element requirements. (7): Provided that counties exempted from public school facilities element shall undergo re-evaluation as part of its EAR to determine if they continue to meet exemption criteria. 163.31777 N/A N/A None -procedural provision. 148 (2) (g): Expands requirement of coastal element to include strategies that will be used to preserve recreational and commercial working waterfronts, as defined in s.342.07, F.S. 163.3178 Policy to be adopted in CM-1 of Coastal Element. Page 261 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 149 (1) (a): Added "schools" as a required concurrency item. (2) (a): Required consultation with water supplier prior to issuing building permit to ensure "adequate water supplies" to serve new development is available by the date of issuance of a certificate of occupancy. 163.3180 Policy to be adopted in the new Public School Facility Element and in CI-1 of the CIE. Policy to be adopted in IG-3 of ICE and in the new Objectives of the No current Infrastructure Element. (2) (c): Required all transportation facilities to be in place deficiencies. or under construction within 3 years (rather than 5 years) Policy to be adopted in after approval of building permit. T-1 of the Transportation Not utilized. Element. (4) (c): Allowed concurrency requirement for public schools to be waived within urban infill and redevelopment None -optional plan areas (163.2517). Not utilized. provision. (5) (d): Required guidelines for granting concurrency exceptions to be included in the comprehensive plan. Not utilized. None -procedural provision. (5) (e) — (g): If local government has established transportation exceptions, the guidelines for implementing the exceptions must be "consistent with and support a None -optional plan comprehensive strategy, and promote the purpose of the provision. exceptions." Exception areas must include mobility strategies, such as alternate modes of transportation, supported by data and analysis. FDOT must be consulted prior to designating a transportation concurrency exception area. Transportation concurrency exception areas existing None -procedural prior to July 1, 2005 must meet these requirements by July provision. Page 262 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1, 2006, or when the EAR -based amendment is adopted, whichever occurs last. Not utilized. (6): Required local government to maintain records to Policy to be adopted in determine whether 110% de minimis transportation impact T-3 of the Transportation threshold is reached. A summary of these records must be Element and CI-2 of the submitted with the annual capital improvements element CIE. update. Exceeding the 110% threshold dissolves the de minimis exceptions. Not utilized. Not utilized. None -optional plan (7): Required consultation with the Department of provision. Transportation prior to designating a transportation concurrency management area (to promote infill development) to ensure adequate level -of -service standards are in place. The local government and the DOT should LOS standards work together to mitigate any impacts to the Strategic are discussed in None -optional plan Intermodal System. CI-1.3 of the CIE. provision. The City should (9) (a): Allowed adoption of a long-term concurrency determine if None -optional plan management system for schools. amendments to the LOS provision. (9) (c): (New section) Allowed local governments to issue standards are approvals to commence construction notwithstanding s. necessary. 163.3180 in areas subject to a long-term concurrency management system. Policy CI-1.3 should be revised and updated as determined by the City. (9) (d): (New section) Required evaluation in EAR of Public School progress in improving levels of service. Facilities Element required by December 2008. Page 263 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Policies to be adopted in T-3 of the Transportation (10): Added requirement that level of service standard for Element, CI-1 of the CIE roadway facilities on the Strategic Intermodal System must and IG-2 of the ICE. be consistent with FDOT standards. Standards must consider compatibility with adjacent jurisdictions. Policy to be adopted in IG-1 of the ICE and in (13): Required school concurrency (not optional). the new Public School Facilities Element when created. (13) (c) 1.: Requires school concurrency after five years to Policy to be adopted in be applied on a "less than districtwide basis" (i.e., by using new Public School school attendance zones, etc). Facilities Element. (13) (c) 2.: Eliminated exemption from plan amendment adoption limitation for changes to service area boundaries. None -procedural provision. (13) (c) 3.: No application for development approval may be denied if a less-than-districtwide measurement of school Policy to be adopted in concurrency is used; however the development impacts CI-1 of the CIE and in must to shifted to contiguous service areas with school the new Public School capacity. Not utilized. Facilities Element. (13) (e): Allowed school concurrency to be satisfied if a Policy to be adopted in developer executes a legally binding commitment to CI-1 of the CIE and in provide mitigation proportionate to the demand. the new Public School Facilities Element. Page 264 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 (13) (e) 1.: Enumerated mitigation options for achieving proportionate -share mitigation. Policy to be adopted in CI-1 of the CIE and in the new Public School Facilities Element. (13) (e) 2.: If educational facilities funded in one of the two None -procedural following ways, the local government must credit this provision. amount toward any impact fee or exaction imposed on the community: None -procedural • contribution of land provision. • construction, expansion, or payment for land acquisition None -procedural (13) (g) 2.: (Section deleted) — It is no longer required that Not utilized. provision. a local government and school board base their plans on consistent population projection and share information regarding planned public school facilities, development and redevelopment and infrastructure needs of public Policy to be adopted in school facilities. However, see (13)(g)6.a. for similar CI-1 of the CIE and in requirement. the new Public School City adopted Facilities Element. (13) (g) 6. a.: [Formerly (13)(g)7.a.] Local governments proportionate must establish a uniform procedure for determining if fair -share development applications are in compliance with school mitigation concurrency. ordinance in December 2006. (13) (g) 7. [Formerly (13)(g)8.] Deleted language that allowed local government to terminate or suspend an interlocal agreement with the school board. Page 265 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 (13) (h): (New 2005 provision) The fact that school concurrency has not yet been implemented by a local government should not be the basis for either an approval or denial of a development permit. (15): Prior to adopting Multimodal Transportation Districts, FDOT must be consulted to assess the impact on level of service standards. If impacts are found, the local government and the FDOT must work together to mitigate those impacts. Multimodal districts established prior to July 1, 2005 must meet this requirement by July 1, 2006 or at the time of the EAR -base amendment, whichever occurs last. (16): (New 2005 section) Required local governments to adopt by December 1, 2006 a method for assessing proportionate fair -share mitigation options. FDOT will develop a model ordinance by December 1, 2005. Policy to be adopted in T-1 reflective of existing conditions. 150 (17): (New 2005 section) If local government has adopted a community vision and urban service boundary, state and regional agency review is eliminated for plan amendments affecting property within the urban service boundary. Such amendments are exempt from the limitation on the frequency of plan amendments. (18): (New 2005 section) If a municipality has adopted an urban infill and redevelopment area, state and regional agency review is eliminated for plan amendments affecting property within the urban service boundary. Such amendments are exempt from the limitation on the frequency of plan amendments. 163.3184 N/A Not utilized. None -procedural provision. None -procedural provision. Page 266 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 151 (1) (c) 1.f.: Allowed approval of residential land use as a small-scale development amendment when the proposed density is equal to or less than the existing future land use category. Under certain circumstances affordable housing units are exempt from this limitation. (1) (c) 4.: (New 2005 provision) If the small-scale development amendment involves a rural area of critical economic concern, a 20-acre limit applies. (1) (o): (New 2005 provision) An amendment to a rural area of critical economic concern may be approved without regard to the statutory limit on comprehensive plan amendments. 163.3187 None -procedural provision. None -procedural provision. None -procedural provision. 152 (2) (k): Required local governments that do not have either a school interlocal agreement or a public school facilities element, to determine in the EAR whether the local government continues to meet the exemption criteria in s.163.3177 (12). (2) (1): The EAR must determine whether the local government has met its various water supply requirements, including development of alternative water supply projects. (2) (o): (New 2005 provision) The EAR must evaluate whether its Multimodal Transportation District has achieved the purpose for which it was created. (2) (p): (New 2005 provision) The EAR must assess methodology for impacts on transportation facilities. 163.3191 City has an executed interlocal agreement. The Potable Water section of the Infrastructure Element does not detail alternative water supply. Not utilized. Policy T-1.2 of the None -procedural provision. Policies to be adopted in new Objective of the Potable Water section of the Infrastructure Element dealing with Water Supply. Adopt further policy language in T-1.2 of the Transportation Element Page 267 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 (10): The EAR -based amendment must be adopted within a single amendment cycle. Failure to adopt within this cycle results in penalties. Once updated, the comprehensive plan must be submitted to the DCA. Transportation Element discusses LOS standards and volume to capacity ratio standards for measuring impacts on transportation facilities. as needed None -procedural provision. 153 (10) New section designating Freeport as a certified community. (11) New section exempting proposed DRIs within Freeport from review under s.380.06, F.S., unless review is requested by the local government. 163.3246 N/A 2006 [Ch. 2006-68, Ch. 2006-69, Ch. 2006-220, Ch. 2006-252, Ch. 2006-255, Ch. 2006-268, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations N/A* Addressed (where/how) Amendment Needed by Element 154 Establishes plan amendment procedures for agricultural enclaves as defined in s.163.3164 (33), F.S. Ch. 2006-255, LOF. 163.3162 (5) Not utilized. None -optional element. 155 Defines agricultural enclave. Ch. 2006-255, LOF. 163.3164 (33) None -procedural change. Page 268 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 156 Adds new paragraph encouraging local governments with a coastal management element to adopt recreational surface water use policies; such adoption amendment is exempt from the twice per year limitation on the frequency of plan amendment adoptions. Ch. 2006-220, LOF. 163.3177 (6) (g) 2. Policy to be adopted in CM-1 of the Coastal Element. 157 Allows the effect of a proposed receiving area to be considered when projecting the 25-year or greater population with a rural land stewardship area. Ch. 2006-220, LOF. 163.3177 (11) (d) 6. N/A 158 Recognizes "extremely -low-income persons" as another 163.31771 (1), (2) and (4) None -optional plan provision. income groups whose housing needs might be addressed by accessory dwelling units and defines such persons consistent with s.420.0004 (8), F.S. Ch. 2006-69, LOF. 159 Assigns to the Division of Emergency Management the responsibility of ensuring the preparation of updated regional hurricane evacuation plans. Ch. 2006-68, LOF. 163.3178 (2) (d) None -procedural provision. 160 Changes the definition of the Coastal High Hazard Area (CHHA) to be the area below the elevation of the category 1 storm surge line as established by the SLOSH model. Ch. 2006-68, LOF. 163.3178 (2) (h) None -procedural provision. 161 Adds a new section allowing a local government to comply with the requirement that its comprehensive plan direct population concentrations away from the CHHA and maintains or reduces hurricane evacuation times by maintaining an adopted LOS Standard for out -of -county hurricane evacuation for a category 5 storm, by maintaining a 12-hour hurricane evacuation time or by providing mitigation that satisfies these two requirements. Ch. 2006-68, LOF. 163.3178 (9) (a) Objective CM-6 of the Coastal Element directs populations away from the CHHA. Objective CM 7 references a Brevard County 1987 plan discussing evacuation standards. Policy to be adopted in CM-7 of the Coastal Element to update the reference to the 1987 Brevard County Peacetime Emergency Plan and to establish updated LOS standards for hurricane evacuation. Page 269 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 162 Adds a new section establishing a level of service for out -of - county hurricane evacuation of no greater than 16 hours for a category 5 storm for any local government that wishes to follow the process in s.163.3178 (9) (a) but has not established such a level of service by July 1, 2008. Ch. 2006- 68, LOF. 163.3178 (9) (b) None -procedural provision. 163 Requires local governments to amend their Future Land Use Map and coastal management element to include the new definition of the CHHA, and to depict the CHHA on the FLUM by July 1, 2008. Ch. 2006-68, LOF. 163.3178 (2) (c) Policy to be adopted in CM-6 of the Coastal Element and LU-5 of the FLUE. 164 Allows the sanitary sewer concurrency requirement to be met by onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems approved by the Department of Health. Ch. 2006-252, LOF. 163.3180 (2) (a) None -optional plan provision. 165 Changes s.380.0651(3)(i) to s.380.0651(3)(h) as the citation for the standards a multiuse DRI must meet or exceed. Ch. 2006-220, LOF. 163.3180 (12) (a) None -procedural change. 166 Deletes use of extended use agreement as part of the definition of small scale amendment. Ch. 2006-69, LOF. 163.3187 (1) (c) 1. f. None -procedural change. 167 Creates a new section related to electric distribution substations; establishes criteria addressing land use compatibility of substations; requires local governments to permit substations in all FLUM categories (except preservation, conservation or historic preservation); establishes compatibility standards to be used if a local government has not established such standards; establishes procedures for the review of applications for the location of a new substation; allows local governments to enact reasonable setback and landscape buffer standards for substations. Ch. 2006-268, LOF. 163.3208 Policy to be adopted in LU-3 of the FLUE. Page 270 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 168 Creates a new section preventing a local government from requiring a permit or other approval for vegetation maintenance and tree pruning or trimming within an established electric transmission and distribution line right- of -way. Ch. 2006-268, LOF. 163.3209 None -optional plan provision. 169 Community Workforce Housing Innovation Pilot Program; created by Ch. 2006-69, LOF, section 27. Establishes a special, expedited adoption process for any plan amendment that implements a pilot program project. None -optional plan provision. 170 Affordable housing land donation density incentive bonus; created by Ch. 2006-69, LOF, section 28. Allows a density bonus for land donated to a local government to provide affordable housing; requires adoption of a plan amendment for any such land; such amendment may be adopted as a small-scale amendment; such amendment is exempt from the twice per year limitation on the frequency of plan amendment adoptions. None -optional plan provision. Rule 9J-5 F.A.C. March 21,1999 Rule 9J-5 F.A.C. Citations N/A * Addressed (where/how) Amendment Needed by Element 55 Defined public transit and stormwater management facilities 9J-5.003 None -procedural provision. 56 Revised the definitions of affordable housing, coastal planning area, port facility, and wetlands. 9J-5.003 None -procedural change. Page 271 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 57 Repeal the definitions of adjusted for family size, adjusted gross income, development, high recharge area or prime recharge area, mass transit, paratransit, public facilities, very low-income family. 9J-5.003 N/A None -procedural change. 58 Revised provisions relating to adoption by reference into the 9J-5.005 (2) None -procedural change. local comprehensive plan. (g) and (8) (j) 59 Repealed transmittal requirements for proposed evaluation and 9J-5.0053 (2) None -procedural change. appraisal reports, submittal requirements for adopted evaluation and appraisal reports, criteria for determining the sufficiency of adopted evaluation and appraisal reports, procedures for adoption of evaluation and appraisal reports. Note: transmittal requirements for proposed evaluation and appraisal reports and submittal requirements for adopted evaluation and appraisal reports were incorporated Rule Chapter 9J-11, F.A.C. through (5) 60 Repealed conditions for de minimis impact and referenced 9J-5.0055 (3) N/A None -procedural change. conditions in subsection 163.3180(6), F.S. 6 61 Required the future land use map to show the transportation concurrency exception area boundaries of such areas have been designated and areas for possible future municipal incorporation. 9J-5.006 (4) Not utilized None. 62 Required objectives of the Sanitary Sewer, Solid Waste, Stormwater Management, Potable Water and Natural 9J-5.011 (2) N/A Groundwater Aquifer Recharge Element to address protection of high recharge and prime recharge areas. 63 Repealed the Intergovernmental Coordination Element process to determine if development proposals would have significant impacts on other local governments or state or regional resources or facilities, and provisions relating to resolution of disputes, modification of development orders, and the rendering of development orders to the Department of 9J-5.015 (4) ICE provides for impacts on other jurisdictions/reso urces. None. Community Affairs (DCA) Page 272 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 64 Clarified that local governments not located within the urban area of a Metropolitan Planning Organization are required to 9J-5.019 (1) N/A adopt a Traffic Circulation Element and that local governments with a population of 50,000 or less are not required to prepare Mass Transit and Ports, Aviation and Related Facilities Elements. 65 Required objectives of the Transportation Element to: 9J-5.019 (4) (b) • Coordinate the siting of new, or expansion of existing ports, airports, or related facilities with the Future Land Use, Coastal Management, and Conservation Elements; Adopt language in Objective T-2 as required in the Transportation Element. Language to be adopted in LU-3 of the FLUE, add objectives to both the Coastal and Conservation Elements and add policy in IG-3 of the ICE. • Coordinate surface transportation access to ports, airports, and related facilities with the traffic circulation system; Adopt language in Objective T-3 of the Transportation Element, LU-3 of the FLUE and IG-2 of the ICE. • Coordinate ports, airports, and related facilities plans with plans of other transportation providers; and Adopt language in Objective T-3 of the Transportation Element, LU-3 of the FLUE and IG-2 of the ICE. • Ensure that access routes to ports, airports and related facilities are properly integrated with other modes of transportation. Adopt language in Objective T-3 of the Transportation Element and IG-2 of the ICE. Page 273 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 66 Required policies of the Transportation Element to: 9J-5.019 (4) (c) • Provide for safe and convenient on -site traffic flow; Policy to be adopted in T-1 of the Transportation Element. • Establish measures for the acquisition and preservation of public transit rights -of -way and corridors; Policy to be adopted in T-4 of the Transportation Element. • Promote ports, airports and related facilities development and expansion; Policy to be adopted in T-2 of the Transportation Element and IG-2 of the ICE. • Mitigate adverse structural and non-structural impacts from ports, airports and related facilities; Policy to be adopted in T-3 of the Transportation Element, LU-3 of the FLUE and IG-2 of the ICE. • Protect and conserve natural resources within ports, airports and related facilities; Policy to be adopted in T-3 of the Transportation Element, LU-3 of the FLUE and IG-2 of the ICE • Coordinate intermodal management of surface and water transportation within ports, airports and related facilities; and N/A • Protect ports, airports and related facilities from encroachment of incompatible land uses. Policy to be adopted in T-2 of the Transportation Element and in LU-3 of the FLUE. 67 Added standards for the review of land development regulations by the Department. 9J-5.022 None -procedural change. Page 274 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 68 Added criteria for determining consistency of land development regulations with the comprehensive plan. 9J-5.023 None -procedural provision. February 25, 2001 Rule 9J-5 F.A.C. Citations N/A * Addressed (where/how) Amendment Needed by Element 69 Defined general lanes 9J-5.003 Terminology not utilized None -procedural change. 70 Revised the definition of "marine wetlands." 9J-5.003 Plan references the term "wetlands." None -procedural change. 71 Repeal the definition of "public facilities and services." 9J-5.003 N/A Plan uses terms in a local capacity. None -procedural change. 72 Revised procedures for monitoring, evaluating and appraising implementation of local comprehensive plans. 9J-5.005 (7) None -procedural change. 73 Repealed requirements for evaluation and appraisal reports and evaluation and appraisal amendments. 9J-5.0053 N/A None -procedural change. 74 Revised concurrency management system requirements to include provisions for establishment of public school concurrency. 9J-5.005 (1) and (2) None -procedural change. 75 Authorized local governments to establish multimodal transportation level of service standards and established requirements for multimodal transportation districts. 9J-5.0055 (2) (b) and (3) (c) N/A — Multimodal transportation districts are not utilized. None. Page 275 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 76 Authorized local governments to establish level of service standards for general lanes of the Florida Intrastate Highway System within urbanized areas, with the concurrence of the 9J-5.0055 (2) (c) Policy to be adopted in T-1 of the Transportation Element and CI-1 of the CIE. Department of Transportation. 77 Provide that public transit facilities are not subject to concurrency requirements. 9J-5.0055 (8) N/A Public transit facility concurrency not addressed in existing GOPs. None. 78 Authorized local comprehensive plans to permit multi -use developments of regional impact to satisfy the transportation concurrency requirements by payment of a proportionate share contribution. 9J-5.0055 (9) City adopted proportionate fair -share mitigation ordinance in December 2006. Policy to be adopted in T-1 of the Transportation Element reflective of existing conditions. 79 Required the future land use map to show multimodal transportation district boundaries, if established. 9J-5.006 (4) No multimodal districts have been established. None. 80 Authorized local governments to establish multimodal transportation districts and, if established, required local governments to establish design standards for such districts. 9J-5.006 (6) Not utilized. None. 81 Required data for the Housing Element include a description of substandard dwelling units and repealed the requirement that the housing inventory include a locally determined definition of standard and substandard housing conditions. 9J-5.010 (1) (c) Policy to be adopted in H-2 of the Housing Element describing substandard dwelling units. 82 Authorized local governments to supplement the affordable housing needs assessment with locally generated data and repealed the authorization for local governments to conduct their own assessment. 9J-5.10 (2) (b) None -procedural provision. Page 276 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 83 Required the Intergovernmental Coordination Element to include objectives that ensure adoption of interlocal agreements within one year of adoption of the amended Intergovernmental Coordination Element and ensure intergovernmental coordination between all affected local governments and the school board for the purpose of establishing requirements for public school concurrency. 9J-5.015 (3) (b) Interlocal agreement with School Board executed. Objectives and policies as appropriate to be adopted in IG-1 of the ICE. 84 Required the Intergovernmental Coordination Element to include: 9J-5.015 (3) (c) • Policies that provide procedures to identify and implement joint planning areas for purposes of Only general policy language addresses coordination with other entities. Policy to be adopted in IG-3 of the ICE. annexation, municipal incorporation and joint infrastructure service areas; • Recognize campus master plan and provide N/A procedures for coordination of the campus master development agreement; • Establish joint processes for collaborative planning Policy to be adopted in IG-3 of the ICE. and decision -making with other units of local government; • Establish joint processes for collaborative planning Policy to be adopted in IG-3 of the ICE. and decision making with the school board on population projections and siting of public school facilities; • Establish joint processes for the siting of facilities with county -wide significance; and Policy to be adopted in IG-3 of the ICE. Page 277 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 • Adoption of an interlocal agreement for school concurrency. Policy to be adopted in IG-3 of the ICE and in the proposed Public School Facilities Element. 85 Required the Capital Improvements Element to include implementation measures that provide a five-year financially feasible public school facilities program that demonstrates the adopted level of service standards will be achieved and maintained and a schedule of capital improvements for multimodal transportation districts, if locally established. 9J-5.016 (4) (a) Multimodal transportation districts are not utilized. Policy to be adopted in CI-1 of the CIE. 86 Required the Transportation Element analysis for multimodal transportation districts to demonstrate that community design elements will reduce vehicle miles of travel and support an integrated, multi -modal transportation system. 9J-5.019 (3) Not utilized. None -optional plan provision 87 Required Transportation Element objectives for multimodal transportation districts to address provision of a safe, comfortable and attractive pedestrian environment with convenient access to public transportation. 9J-5.019 (4) Not utilized. None -optional plan provision. 88 Authorized local governments to establish level of service standards for general lanes of the Florida Intrastate Highway System within urbanized areas, with the concurrence of the 9J-5.019 (4) (c) Not addressed Policy to be adopted in T-1 of the Transportation Element and CI-1 of the CIE. Department of Transportation. 89 For the purpose of issuing a development order or permit, a proposed develoment may be deemed to have a de minimus impact and may not be subject to the concurrency requirements of subparagraphs 9J-5.0055(3)(c)1.-4., F.A.C., only if all of the conditions specified in subsection 163.3180(6), F.S., are met. [Section 163.3180(6), F.S.] {163.3180 (6): The Legislature finds that a de minimis 9J-5.0055 (3) 6 Not addressed. Policy to be adopted in T-3 of the Transportation Element. Page 278 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 impact is consistent with this part. A de minimis impact is an impact that would not affect more than 1 percent of the maximum volume at the adopted level of service of the affected transportation facility as determined by the local government. No impact will be de minimis if the sum of existing roadway volumes and the projected volumes from approved projects on a transportation facility would exceed 110 percent of the maximum volume at the adopted level of service of the affected transportation facility; provided however, that an impact of a single family home on an existing lot will constitute a de minimis impact on all roadways regardless of the level of the deficiency of the roadway. Further, no impact will be de minimis if it would exceed the adopted level -of -service standard of any affected designated hurricane evacuation routes. Each local government shall maintain sufficient records to ensure that the 110-percent criterion is not exceeded. Each local government shall submit annually, with its updated capital improvements element, a summary of the de minimis records. If the state land planning agency determines that the 110-percent criterion has been exceeded, the state land planning agency shall notify the local government of the exceedance and that no further de minimis exceptions for the applicable roadway may be granted until such time as the volume is reduced below the 110 percent. The local government shall provide proof of this reduction to the state land planning agency before issuing further de minimis exceptions. } Page 279 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 5.0 Special Topics 5.1 Assessment of the Future Land Use and Residential Coordination with the Brevard County School Board Chapter 163.3191 (2) (k), F.S. requires: The coordination of the comprehensive plan with existing public schools and those identified in the applicable educational facilities plan adopted pursuant to s. 1013.35. The assessment shall address, where relevant, the success or failure of the coordination of the future land use map and associated planned residential development with public schools and their capacities, as well as the joint decision making processes engaged in by the local government and the school board in regard to establishing appropriate population projections and the planning and siting of public school facilities. For those counties or municipalities that do not have a public schools interlocal agreement or public school facilities element, the assessment shall determine whether the local government continues to meet the criteria of s. 163.3177(12). If the county or municipality determines that it no longer meets the criteria, it must adopt appropriate school concurrency goals, objectives, and policies in its plan amendments pursuant to the requirements of the public school facilities element, and enter into the existing interlocal agreement required by ss. 163.3177 (6) (h) 2. and 163.31777 in order to fully participate in the school concurrency system. Action: The City added a voting representative to both the Land Planning Agency and the Planning and Zoning Board. Currently, for all comprehensive plan and zoning changes the City coordinates with the Brevard County School Board. A School Concurrency Element is required by December 2008. 5.2 Water Supply, Conservation and Re -Use Plans for Cape Canaveral's Projected Population Chapter 163.3191 (2) (1) requires: The extent to which the local government has been successful in identifying alternative water supply projects and traditional water supply projects, including conservation and reuse, necessary to meet the water needs identified in s. 373.0361(2)(a) within the local government's jurisdiction. The report must evaluate the degree to which the local government has implemented the work plan for building public, private, and regional water supply facilities, including development of alternative water supplies, identified in the element as necessary to serve existing and new development. Action: According to Brevard County's EAR: SJRWMD has completed its 2005 Water Supply Plan. In this Plan, there are ten water supply development projects in Brevard County. The district states "more than enough alternative water supply development projects have been identified to meet the needs in the east -central Florida area through 2025." Sixty project options are identified in the SWSP 2005, and they include the Page 280 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 following: Six brackish groundwater projects, six surface water projects, three seawater projects, forty-three reclaimed water projects, and two agricultural projects. 5.3 Evaluation of Coastal High Hazard Area Density Reduction and Property Rights Chapter 163.3191 (2) (m) requires: If any of the jurisdiction of the local government is located within the coastal high -hazard area, an evaluation of whether any past reduction in land use density impairs the property rights of current residents when redevelopment occurs, including, but not limited to, redevelopment following a natural disaster. The property rights of current residents shall be balanced with public safety considerations. The local government must identify strategies to address redevelopment feasibility and the property rights of affected residents. These strategies may include the authorization of redevelopment up to the actual built density in existence on the property prior to the natural disaster or redevelopment. Action: The City works to discourage population away from coastal high -hazard areas through Future Land Use and zoning controls. Currently, no large scale projects have passed increasing density or intensity. The City recently discontinued allowing residential use along the AlA corridor. 5.4 Assessment of Military Installations Compatibility Chapter 163.3191 (2) (n) requires: An assessment of whether the criteria adopted pursuant to s. 163.3177 (6) (a) were successful in achieving compatibility with military installations. Action: While there are no military installations within Cape Canaveral, Patrick Air Force Base and the Canaveral Air Station are in the vicinity. Page 281 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 6.0 Major Issues During the course of multiple public workshops and other public hearings the Cape Canaveral City Commission and City residents identified issues of major concern that are addressed in this section of the EAR. While a majority of the Comprehensive Plan Elements are discussed not all Elements are included in this section. Only those the City identified as major issues of concern are listed. These issues were derived from community meetings held on August 22, 2006 and January 25, 2007 and prioritized during a City survey conducted on March 17, 2007. A table outlining the results of the survey is provided at the end of this section. In order to adequately address these issues changes to the comprehensive plan are necessary and may be part of upcoming EAR based amendments (see Section 7.0 - Proposed Amendments). Additional opportunities for public input will be available during the EAR based amendments. 6.1 Future Land Use Element The City of Cape Canaveral, like many Florida cities has experienced an increase in population which translates into a need for updated and current land uses. The City is managing the community needs by evaluating major issues generated from public workshops and in March 2007 updated the existing Redevelopment Plan prepared by the Business and Cultural Development Board. In addition to the preservation and expansion of City amenities, such as green spaces and beaches, the City is also looking for redevelopment and infill opportunities and the use of innovative land use techniques, such as Mixed Use development, to promote a more cohesive and efficient sense of place within the City. Mai or Issues 1) Density 2) Height 3) Development Guidelines/Appearance 4) Mixed Use 5) City Hall / Town Center 6) Fuel Tanks Proposed Actions 1) Consider adding GOPs in the FLUE to: • regulate high density development, • set height standards, • promote Development Guidelines and Appearance standards for: an attractive transition from the Port south and north along North Atlantic, overall community and AlA beautification, (to include burying power lines), elimination or reduction of run down properties, encouragement of personal property upkeep, better street lighting and paths for bicyclists and pedestrians, • continue promoting Mixed Use techniques to promote development of shops, Page 282 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 restaurants and retail in close proximity to residential areas, • develop a City Hall or Town Center, to enhance community identity while creating opportunities for shopping and pedestrian mobility, • encourage conversion of nonconforming uses into conforming uses (such as Fuel Tanks) 2) Evaluate the Future Land Use Map, and make amendments where necessary, to existing, transitional or future land use areas corresponding to any of the above proposed actions. 3) Cross reference any proposed amendments with the Land Development Code as applicable. 6.2 Transportation Element The City continues to coordinate with Brevard County, FDOT, the MPO and SCAT on safe, convenient and efficient motorized and non -motorized transportation systems. Currently, there are no LOS deficiencies on the roadway network within the City. Recently sidewalks were upgraded along AlA and are no longer intermittent on the west side of AlA. As required by Florida Statute, the City adopted a fair share mitigation ordinance in December 2006. Major Issues 1) Transportation — Traffic Management Proposed Actions 1) Consider adding language to policy T-1.8 to promote transit system and greater connectivity with the Central Florida region. 6.3 Housing Element Housing affordability Attainable housing is an issue many residents are currently faced with, whether due to rising median housing prices or the high cost of insurance. The City's population has risen from 9,165 in 2002 to 10,317 in 2006. The appendix contains various Housing tables which provide a housing inventory, projected number of households by income range and household income by monthly costs as percentage of income for owners and renters. These tables demonstrate the need for more affordable housing within the City. Out of the eight issues identified in the City survey, affordable attainable housing ranks sixth in importance to respondents. Mai or Issues 1) Obtainable / Affordable Attainable Housing Proposed Actions Page 283 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1) Strengthen or revise Objective H-2 to provide more Obtainable or Affordable Attainable Housing within the City. 2) Consider adding a policy to Objective H-8 to identify areas within the City or surrounding region suitable for use as housing redevelopment areas. 6.4 Conservation and Coastal Management Element In an effort to protect and conserve the City's resources baffle boxes and reuse lines are in use to aid in water quality protection, and the City has incorporated "sand fences" with sea oats which have been successful in replenishing the dune. Also, the City passed an ordinance prohibiting fireworks and alcohol sales within 300 feet of the shoreline. According to the City survey the issue of Shoreline protection ranks third out of eight in importance to respondents. Mai or Issues 1) Shoreline Erosion 2) Dune Protection Proposed Actions 1) Consider adding policies to Objective CM-3 (Coastal Element) to strengthen/promote standards to manage Shoreline Erosion, 2) Consider adding policies to Objective CM-4 (Coastal Element) to strengthen/promote dune and sea turtle protection, 3) Consider adding policies to Objective C-3 (Conservation Element) that will protect and promote remaining green areas, 4) Consider adding a policy to Objective CM-10 (Coastal Element) to undertake an archeological survey to determine sensitive areas or areas in need of protection, 5) Consider adding a policy to Objective CM-10 (Coastal Element) adopting an historic preservation ordinance. 6.5 Parks and Recreation Element As more areas within the City are developed and living areas become more compact, residents are searching for additional places to enjoy the natural City amenities. The 1999 EAR reflected a LOS for parks of 2 acres per 1000 people, the goal at that time was to achieve 3 acres per 1000 people. That goal has yet to be realized. According to table 5-2 in the Appendix, by the year 2010 the City will be experiencing a 6.4 acre deficit in parkland relative to projected population if no correction is made. Mai or Issues 1) Park Provisions Page 284 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Proposed Actions 1) Consider adding policies in Objective R-4 to provide more parks with amenities (i.e. restrooms, pavilions). 2) Consider adding policies in Objective R-4 to designate places on the beach for swimming, fishing and dogs to play. 6.6 Proposed Public School Facilities Element According to Chapter 163.3177 (12), Florida Statutes, and Rule 9J-5, Florida Administrative Code, a new element in the Comprehensive Plan entitled the Public School Facilities Element is required to be adopted by December 1, 2008. Major Issues 1) Adopt GOPs to create the new element Proposed Actions 1) Adopt GOPs to create the new element (see more information in the Section 7.0 — Proposed Amendments) Page 285 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Cape Canaveral City Celebration March 17, 2007 Survey results Of the survey's handed out 32 were completed and 7 were incomplete for a total of 39 surveys attempted. Residency Questions Yes / No Questions Status Number Topics Yes No Resident? 30 5 stories allowed with developer donation? 10 29 Property Owner/Work in Y? 24 More parks? 26 6 Visitor? 2 Actual Number of Votes Per Survey Topic Ranking Number (and weight) Weighted Ranking Transportation Density Height Architectural Housing Shoreline Town Center City Hall Most Important #1 8 5 9 9 1 4 6 0 0 #2 7 4 8 9 2 1 5 2 0 #3 6 5 6 5 2 3 8 1 1 #4 5 5 4 3 4 3 4 5 4 #5 4 5 4 2 8 4 5 1 3 #6 3 3 0 1 9 5 3 6 4 #7 2 2 0 3 5 2 0 15 4 Least Important #8 1 2 1 0 1 10 1 2 16 Page 286 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Votes per Survey Topic with weighted ranking Transportation Density Height Architectural Housing Shoreline Town Center City Hall 40 72 72 8 32 48 0 0 28 56 63 14 7 35 14 0 30 36 30 12 18 48 6 6 25 20 15 20 15 20 25 20 20 16 8 32 16 20 4 12 9 0 3 27 15 9 18 12 4 0 6 10 4 0 30 8 2 1 0 1 10 1 2 16 Totals: Most - Least important 158 201 197 124 117 181 99 74 Page 287 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 7.0 Proposed Amendment Considerations Based on the data and analysis reviewed by the EAR, proposed amendment considerations to each element are suggested. This section will break down the proposed amendment considerations for each element as related to: 1) Review of the Existing Goals, Objectives and Policies (GOPs) — taken from Section 3.0 — Assessment of the Comprehensive Plan. 2) Public Input/Major Issues — these issues were identified in the series of Public information sessions as referenced in Section 2.0 — Public Participation Activities. 3) 2007 Redevelopment Plan (prepared by the Business and Cultural Development Board) — include issues raised during the preparation of the 2007 plan. A copy of which is included in the Appendix. 4) Special Topics — as discussed in Section 5.0 and required by the State of Florida. 5) Legislative changes — as discussed in Section 4.0 and required by the State of Florida. For each element, the information has been divided into sub -sections as previously discussed in the document. These are proposed considerations for amendment as part of the EAR -based amendment process. These potential amendment considerations shall include additional data and analysis as part of the EAR -based amendment process. Intergovernmental Coordination Element (ICE) 1) Review of Existing GOPs • All the Objectives should be measurable or have a measurable target. • Update GOPs (and/or cross reference) as necessary to reflect 5 and 10 year planning timeframes. • Revise the Port of Canaveral title, it is now known as the Port Canaveral Authority. 2) Public Input/Major Issues • N/A 3) Redevelopment Plan — Objective 1.5 Administrative Consider adding new policies to IG-1 in the ICE to: • Establish a Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA). • Evaluate the potential of participating in the Main Street program. • Develop a City "brand" or identifiable character which represents the core values of the community. • Review the redevelopment plan quarterly, with the next complete update due in 2012. 4) Special Topics Page 288 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 ■ Assessment of the FLU and Residential Coordination with the Brevard County School Board - The coordination of the comprehensive plan with existing public schools is required pursuant to the legislative change in Chapter 163.3191 (2) (k), F.S. This update requires a School Concurrency Element by December 2008. See also in the legislative changes table below. 5) Legislative Changes ■ The below table illustrates the proposed amendments to this element based on required legislative changes: Page 289 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 2002: [Ch. 2002-296, ss. 1 - 11, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 110 Required that all agencies that review comprehensive plan amendments and rezoning include a nonvoting representative of the district school board. 163.3174 Policy to be adopted in IG-1 of ICE. 111 Required coordination of local comprehensive plan with the regional water supply plan. 163.3177 (4) (a) Policy to be adopted in IG-3 of ICE. Amendments should be adopted within 18 months of the County's portion of the Regional Water Supply Plan adoption. 115 Required that the intergovernmental coordination element (ICE) include relationships, principles and guidelines to be used in coordinating comp plan with regional water supply plans. 163.3177 (6) (h) Policy to be adopted in IG-3 of ICE 117 Required that counties larger than 100,000 population and their municipalities submit a inter -local service delivery agreements (existing and proposed, deficits or duplication in the provisions of service) report to DCA by January 1, 2004. Each local government is required to update its ICE based on the findings of the report. DCA will meet with affected parties to discuss and id strategies to remedy any deficiencies or duplications. 163.3177 (6) (h) 6., 7., & 8. Coordinate with Brevard County and add policy to IG-3 of the ICE based on County Report. 120 Added a new Section 163.31777 that requires local governments and school boards to enter into an inter -local agreement that addresses school siting, enrollment forecasting, school capacity, infrastructure and safety needs of schools, schools as emergency shelters, and sharing of facilities. 163.31777 Policy to be adopted in IG-1 of ICE to reflect the existing interlocal agreement with the Brevard County School Board and the requirements of this statute. 128 Allowed local governments to establish a special master process to assist the local governments with challenges to local development orders for consistency with the comprehensive plan. 163.3215 Policy to be adopted in IG-3 of the ICE. Page 290 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 2005 [Ch. 2005-157, ss 1, 2 and 15; Ch. 2005-290; and Ch. 2005-291, ss. 10-12, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 145 (12): Must adopt public school facilities element. (12) (i): Required DCA to establish a schedule for adoption of the public school facilities element. The schedule shall provide for each county and local government within the county to adopt the element and update to the agreement no later than December 1, 2008. 163.3177 Policy to be adopted in IG-1 of the ICE for establishment of the Public School Facilities Element. Policy to be adopted in IG-1 of ICE regarding the timing of the new Element . 149 (2) (a): Required consultation with water supplier prior to issuing building permit to ensure "adequate water supplies" to serve new development is available by the date of issuance of a certificate of occupancy. (10): Added requirement that level of service standard for roadway facilities on the Strategic Intermodal System must be consistent with FDOT standards. Standards must consider compatibility with adjacent jurisdictions. (13): Required school concurrency (not optional). 163.3180 Policy to be adopted in IG-3 of ICE. Policies to be adopted in IG-2 of the ICE regarding adjacent jurisdiction compatibility. Policy to be adopted in IG-1 of the ICE. Page 291 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 March 21,1999, Florida Administrative Code Rule 9J-5 F.A.C. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 65 Required objectives of the Transportation Element to: • Coordinate the siting of new, or expansion of existing ports, airports or related facilities with the Future Land Use, Coastal Management and Conservation Elements; • Coordinate surface transportation access to ports, airports and related facilities with the traffic circulation system; • Coordinate ports, airports and related facilities plans with plans of other transportation providers, and; • Ensure that access routes to ports, airports and related facilities are properly integrated with other modes of transportation. 9J-5.019 (4) (b) Language to be adopted in IG-2 of the ICE. 66 Required policies of the Transportation Element to: • Promote ports, airports and related facilities development and expansion; • Mitigate adverse structural and non-structural impacts from ports, airports and related facilities, and; • Protect and conserve natural resources within ports, airports and related facilities. 9J-5.019 (4) (c) Policies to be adopted in IG-2 of the ICE. Page 292 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 February 25, 2001, Florida Administrative Code Rule 9J-5 F.A.C. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 83 Required the Intergovernmental Coordination Element to include objectives that ensure adoption of interlocal agreements within one year of adoption of the amended Intergovernmental Coordination Element and ensure intergovernmental coordination between all affected local governments and the school board for the purpose of establishing requirements for public school concurrency. 9J-5.015 (3) (b) Objectives and policies as appropriate to be adopted in IG-1 of the ICE. 84 Required the Intergovernmental Coordination Element to include: 9J-5.015 (3) (c) • Policies that provide procedures to identify and implement joint planning areas for purposes of annexation, municipal Policy to be adopted in IG-3 of the ICE. incorporation and joint infrastructure service areas; • Establish joint processes for collaborative planning and Policy to be adopted in IG-3 of the ICE. decision -making with other units of local government; • Establish joint processes for collaborative planning and Policy to be adopted in IG-3 of the ICE. decision making with the school board on population projections and siting of public school facilities; • Establish joint processes for the siting of facilities with county -wide significance; and Policy to be adopted in IG-3 of the ICE. • Adoption of an interlocal agreement for school concurrency. Policy to be adopted in IG-3 of the ICE. Page 293 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Conservation and Coastal Management Element 1) Review of Existing GOPs ■ All the Objectives should be measurable or have a measurable target. ■ Consider amending Objective CM-8 (Coastal Element) to reflect the use of Brevard County's Post -disaster Redevelopment Plan. ■ Consider adopting a historic preservation ordinance by 2010. 2) Public Input/Major Issues ■ Consider adding policies to Objective CM-3 (Coastal Element) to strengthen/promote standards to manage Shoreline Erosion, ■ Consider adding a policy to Objective C-3 (Conservation Element) that will protect and promote remaining green areas, ■ Consider adding a policy to Objective CM-10 (Coastal Element) to undertake an archeological survey to determine sensitive areas or areas in need of protection, ■ Consider adding a policy to Objective CM-10 (Coastal Element) adopting an historic preservation ordinance. 3) Redevelopment Plan — Objective 2.5 Environment Consider adding new policies to CM-1 and C-3 in the Coastal Management and Conservation Elements to: ■ Promote protection of environmentally sensitive areas, promote beach preservation and tree protection. Consider achieving Tree City USA designation or participate in Arbor Day activities. 4) Special Topics ■ N/A 5) Legislative Changes ■ The below table illustrates the proposed amendments to this element based on required legislative changes: Page 294 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 2002: [Ch. 2002-296, ss. 1 - 11, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 113 Required that by adoption of the EAR, the sanitary sewer, solid waste, drainage, potable water and natural groundwater aquifer recharge element consider the regional water supply plan and include a 10-year work plan to build the identified water supply facilities. 163.3177 (6) (c) Objective C-6 should be added to the Conservation Element considering the water supply plan. 114 Required consideration of the regional water supply plan in the preparation of the conservation element. 163.3177 (6) (d) Policy to be adopted in proposed Objective C-6 of the Conservation Element. 2005 [Ch. 2005-157, ss 1, 2 and 15; Ch. 2005-290; and Ch. 2005-291, ss. 10-12, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 148 (2)(g): Expands requirement of coastal element to include strategies that will be used to preserve recreational and commercial working waterfronts, as defined in s.342.07, F.S. 163.3178 Policy to be adopted in CM-1 of Coastal Element. Page 295 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 2006 [Ch. 2006-68, Ch. 2006-69, Ch. 2006-220, Ch. 2006-252, Ch. 2006-255, Ch. 2006-268, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 156 Adds new paragraph encouraging local governments with a coastal management element to adopt recreational surface water use policies; such adoption amendment is exempt from the twice per year limitation on the frequency of plan amendment adoptions. Ch. 2006-220, LOF. 163.3177 (6) (g) 2. Policy to be adopted in CM-1 of the Coastal Element. 161 Adds a new section allowing a local government to comply with the requirement that its comprehensive plan direct population concentrations away from the CHHA and maintains or reduces hurricane evacuation times by maintaining an adopted LOS Standard for out -of -county hurricane evacuation for a category 5 storm, by maintaining a 12-hour hurricane evacuation time or by providing mitigation that satisfies these two requirements. Ch. 2006-68, LOF. 163.3178 (9) (a) Policy to be adopted in CM-7 of the Coastal Element to update the reference to the 1987 Brevard County Peacetime Emergency Plan and to establish updated LOS standards for hurricane evacuation. 163 Requires local governments to amend their Future Land Use Map and coastal management element to include the new definition of the CHHA, and to depict the CHHA on the FLUM by July 1, 2008. Ch. 2006-68, LOF. 163.3178 (2) (c) Policy to be adopted in CM-6 of the Coastal Element describing the CHHA. March 21,1999, Florida Administrative Code Rule 9J-5 F.A.C. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 65 Required objectives of the Transportation Element to: 9J-5.019 (4) (b) • Coordinate the siting of new, or expansion of existing ports, airports, or related facilities with the Future Land Use, Coastal Management, and Conservation Elements; Add Objectives to both the Coastal and Conservation Elements. Page 296 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Infrastructure Element (Sanitary Sewer, Drainage, Solid Waste, Potable Water and Natural Groundwater Aquifer Recharge) 1) Review of Existing GOPs • All the Objectives should be measurable or have a measurable target. • Update GOPs as necessary to reflect 5 and 10 year planning timeframes. 2) Public Input/Major Issues • N/A 3) Redevelopment Plan — Objective 2.3 Public Facilities Consider adding new policies to SS-2 in the Sanitary Sewer section and a new section in the Infrastructure Element to: • Provide a reuse system for landscape irrigation and strengthen policy SS-2.1 • Establish solar energy and alternative fuel system for City facilities and activities in new section of the Element as necessary. 4) Special Topics • Water Supply, Conservation, Re -Use Plans for Cape Canaveral's Projected Population — Pursuant to Chapter 163.3191(2)(l), F.S. policies should be added to meet the various water supply requirements, including adopting the water supply plan and development of alternative water supply projects. See also in the legislative changes table below. 5) Legislative Changes • The below table illustrates the proposed amendments to this element based on required legislative changes: Page 297 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 2002: [Ch. 2002-296, ss. 1 - 11, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 111 Required coordination of local comprehensive plan with the regional water supply plan. 163.3177 (4) (a) Objective to be adopted in the Infrastructure (Potable Water) Element to include all water supply requirements. Amendments should be adopted within 18 months of the County's portion of the Regional Water Supply Plan adoption. 113 Required that by adoption of the EAR, the sanitary sewer, solid waste, drainage, potable water and natural groundwater aquifer recharge element consider the regional water supply plan and include a 10-year work plan to build the identified water supply facilities. 163.3177 (6) (c) Objectives and Policies to be adopted under each section of the Infrastructure Element considering the water supply plan. 2002: [Ch. 2002-296, ss. 1 - 11, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 127 Required EARs to include (1) consideration of the appropriate regional water supply plan 163-3191 Policies to be adopted in each new Objective of the sections in the Infrastructure Element. 2004: 04-372, Florida.] [Ch. 04-5, s. 11; ch. 04-37, s. 1; ch. 04-230, ss. 1-4; ch. ss. 2-5; ch. 04-381, ss. 1-2; ch. 04-384, s. 2, Laws of Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 137 (13): Created to require local governments to identify adequate water supply sources to meet future demand. 163.3167 Policies to be adopted identifying water supply sources for future use in each new Objective of the sections in the Infrastructure Element. Page 298 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 139 (6)(c): Extended the deadline adoption of the water supply facilities work plan amendment until December 1, 2006; provided for updating the work plan every five years; and exempts such amendment from the limitation on frequency of adoption of amendments. 163.3177 Policies to be adopted in each new Objective of the sections in the Infrastructure Element, providing a schedule for updating the work plan every 5 years required by statute. 2005 [Ch. 2005-157, ss 1, 2 and 15; Ch. 2005-290; and Ch. 2005-291, ss. 10-12, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 145 (6)(c): Required the potable water element to be updated within 18 months of an updated regional water supply plan to incorporate the alternative water supply projects selected by the local government to meet its water supply needs. 163.3177 Policy to be adopted in new Objective of the Potable Water section in the Infrastructure Element. This adoption is pursuant to the Brevard County portion of the Regional Water Supply Plan and is due within 18 months of adoption of the plan. 2005 [Ch. 2005-157, ss 1, 2 and 15; Ch. 2005-290; and Ch. 2005-291, ss. 10-12, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 149 (2)(a): Required consultation with water supplier prior to issuing building permit to ensure "adequate water supplies" to serve new development is available by the date of issuance of a certificate of occupancy. 163.3180 Objectives to be adopted in the sections of the Infrastructure Element. 152 (2)(l): The EAR must determine whether the local government has met its various water supply requirements, including development of alternative water supply projects. 163.3191 (2) (1) Policies to be adopted in new Objective of the Potable Water section of the Infrastructure Element dealing with Water Supply. Page 299 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 March 21,1999, Florida Administrative Code Rule 9J-5 F.A.C. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 62 Required objectives of the Sanitary Sewer, Solid Waste, Stormwater Management, Potable Water and Natural Groundwater Aquifer Recharge Element to address protection of high recharge and prime recharge areas. 9J-5.011 (2) Adopt Objectives in the Natural Groundwater Aquifer Recharge section (or consider Objectives in each section) of the Infrastructure Element to promote protection of recharge areas. Page 300 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Transportation Element 1) Review of Existing GOPs • All the Objectives should be measurable or have a measurable target. • Update GOPs as necessary to reflect 5 and 10 year planning timeframes. • Consider adding policies in Objective T-1 to coordinate with Brevard County on a trail and blue -way system. • Consider adding policies in Objective T-3 to coordinate with the City of Cocoa Beach on development impacting the traffic circulation system. • Consider adding a policy to promote a bike path throughout the City. • Update the Future Transportation Map consistent with the 5 year Work Program and 2025 FDOT plan. 2) Public Input/Major Issues • Consider adding language to policy T-1.8 to promote transit system and greater connectivity with the Central Florida region. 3) Redevelopment Plan — Objective 2.2 Traffic Circulation Consider adding policies to T-2 in the Transportation Element to: • Provide for safe, appealing and efficient citywide routes for pedestrian and bike path systems linking to major activity centers, parking facilities and residential areas. • Encourage the City to provide strategically placed bicycle racks. 4) Special Topics • N/A 5) Legislative Changes • The below table illustrates the proposed amendments to this element based on required legislative changes: Page 301 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 2005 [Ch. 2005-157, ss 1, 2 and 15; Ch. 2005-290; and Ch. 2005-291, ss. 10-12, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 149 (2)(c): Required all transportation facilities to be in place or under construction within 3 years (rather than 5 years) after approval of building permit. (6): Required local government to maintain records to determine whether 110% de minimis transportation impact threshold is reached. A summary of these records must be submitted with the annual capital improvements element update. Exceeding the 110% 163.3180 Policy to be adopted in T-1 of the Transportation Element. Policy to be adopted in T-3 of the Transportation Element. Policies to be adopted in T-3 of the Transportation Element. Policy to be adopted in T-1 reflective of the existing proportionate fair share ordinance. threshold dissolves the de minimis exceptions. (10): Added requirement that level of service standard for roadway facilities on the Strategic Intermodal System must be consistent with FDOT standards. Standards must consider compatibility with adjacent jurisdictions. (16): (New 2005 section) Required local governments to adopt by December 1, 2006 a method for assessing proportionate fair -share mitigation options. FDOT will develop a model ordinance by December 1, 2005. 152 (2)(p): (New 2005 provision) The EAR must assess methodology for impacts on transportation facilities. 163.3191 Adopt further policy language in T- 1.2 of the Transportation Element as needed Page 302 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 March 21,1999, Florida Administrative Code Rule 9J-5 F.A.C. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 65 Required objectives of the Transportation Element to: 9J-5.019 (4) (b) • Coordinate the siting of new, or expansion of existing ports, airports, or related facilities with the Future Land Use, Coastal Management, and Conservation Elements; Adopt language in Objective T-2 as required in the Transportation Element. • Coordinate surface transportation access to ports, airports, and related facilities with the traffic circulation system; Adopt language in Objective T-2 of the Transportation Element • Coordinate ports, airports, and related facilities plans with plans of other transportation providers; and Adopt language in Objective T-2 of the Transportation Element. • Ensure that access routes to ports, airports and related facilities are properly integrated with other modes of transportation. Adopt language in Objective T-2 of the Transportation Element. 66 Required policies of the Transportation Element to: 9J-5.019 (4) (c) • Provide for safe and convenient on -site traffic flow; Policy to be adopted in T-1 of the Transportation Element. • Establish measures for the acquisition and preservation of public transit rights -of -way and corridors; Policy to be adopted in T-4 of the Transportation Element. • Promote ports, airports and related facilities development and expansion; Policy to be adopted in T-2 of the Transportation Element. • Mitigate adverse structural and non-structural impacts from ports, airports and related facilities; Policy to be adopted in T-2 of the Transportation Element. • Protect and conserve natural resources within ports, airports and related facilities; Policy to be adopted in T-2 of the Transportation Element. • Protect ports, airports and related facilities from encroachment of incompatible land uses. Policy to be adopted in T-2 of the Transportation Element. Page 303 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 February 25, 2001 Rule 9J-5 F.A.C. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 76 Authorized local governments to establish level of service standards for general lanes of the Florida Intrastate Highway System within urbanized areas, with the concurrence of the Department of 9J-5.0055 (2) (c) Policy to be adopted in T-1 of the Transportation Element. Transportation. 78 Authorized local comprehensive plans to permit multi -use developments of regional impact to satisfy the transportation concurrency requirements by payment of a proportionate share contribution. 9J-5.0055 (9) Policy to be adopted in T-1 of the Transportation Element. 88 Authorized local governments to establish level of service standards for general lanes of the Florida Intrastate Highway System within urbanized areas, with the concurrence of the Department of 9J-5.019 (4) (c) Policy to be adopted in T-1 of the Transportation Element. Transportation. 89 For the purpose of issuing a development order or permit, a proposed develoment may be deemed to have a de minimus impact and may not be subject to the concurrency requirements of subparagraphs 9J-5.0055(3)(c)1.-4., F.A.C., only if all of the conditions specified in subsection 163.3180(6), F.S., are met. [Section 163.3180(6), F.S.] {163.3180 (6): The Legislature finds that a de minimis impact is consistent with this part. A de minimis impact is an impact that would not affect more than 1 percent of the maximum volume at the adopted level of service of the affected transportation facility as determined by the local government. No impact will be de minimis if the sum of existing roadway volumes and the projected volumes from approved projects on a transportation facility would exceed 110 percent of the maximum volume at the adopted level of service of the affected transportation facility; provided however, that an impact of a single family home on an existing lot will constitute a de 9J-5.0055 (3) 6 Policy to be adopted in T-3 of the Transportation Element. Page 304 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 minimis impact on all roadways regardless of the level of the deficiency of the roadway. Further, no impact will be de minimis if it would exceed the adopted level -of -service standard of any affected designated hurricane evacuation routes. Each local government shall maintain sufficient records to ensure that the 110- percent criterion is not exceeded. Each local government shall submit annually, with its updated capital improvements element, a summary of the de minimis records. If the state land planning agency determines that the 110-percent criterion has been exceeded, the state land planning agency shall notify the local government of the exceedance and that no further de minimis exceptions for the applicable roadway may be granted until such time as the volume is reduced below the 110 percent. The local government shall provide proof of this reduction to the state land planning agency before issuing further de minimis exceptions.} Page 305 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Parks and Recreation Element 1) Review of Existing GOPs ■ All the Objectives should be measurable or have a measurable target. ■ Policy R-4.1 not currently being met, revise policy of achieving 3 acres per 1000 people by 2001 or pursue and add additional parks. 2) Public Input/Major Issues ■ Consider adding policies in Objective R-4 to provide more parks with amenities (restrooms, pavilions). ■ Consider adding policies in Objective R-4 to designate places on the beach for swimming, fishing and dogs to play. 3) Redevelopment Plan — Objective 2.6 Recreation Consider adding new policies to R-4 in the Parks and Recreation Element to: ■ Add more parks and amenities ■ Add policy to establish a beach patrol ■ Provide access point at Washington Avenue 4) Special Topics ■ N/A 5) Legislative Changes ■ The below table illustrates the proposed amendments to this element based on required legislative changes: Page 306 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 2005 [Ch. 2005-157, ss 1, 2 and 15; Ch. 2005-290; and Ch. 2005-291, ss. 10-12, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Addressed (where/how) 145 (6)(e): Added waterways to the system of sites addressed by the recreation and open space element. 163.3177 Policy to be adopted in R-1 of the Parks and Recreation Element. Page 307 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Housing Element 1) Review of Existing GOPs • All the Objectives should be measurable or have a measurable target. • Evaluate housing implementation programs available to the City and add to Objective H- 1 as appropriate. • Consider grant funding for archeological / historic property survey of the City. Also, the City should continue working with the appropriate agencies and develop a process for designating historical structures consistent with the Florida Master Site File, National Register of Historic Places or other designating entity. Add policies to Objective H-6 • Consider evaluation of available housing implementation programs available to the City pursuant to Objective H-8. • Revise wording from "Affordable" to "Attainable" where appropriate. • Revise the word "housing" to "structures" where appropriate. An example of this would be Objective H-6 which states: "The City shall take steps to identify and preserve all historically -significant housing." 2) Public Input/Major Issues • Strengthen or revise Objective H-2 to provide more Obtainable or Affordable Attainable Housing within the City. • Consider adding a policy to Objective H-8 to identify areas within the City or surrounding region suitable for use as housing redevelopment areas. 3) Redevelopment Plan Consider adding new policies to H-2 in the Housing Element to: • Add policy to identify structures in need of repair and availability of assistance to property owners to complete repairs • Add policy in Objective H-3 to reduce the number of substandard units by 2012 (recommendation of the 2007 Redevelopment Plan) 4) Special Topics • N/A 5) Legislative Changes • The below table illustrates the proposed amendments to this element based on required legislative changes: Page 308 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 2004: [Ch. 04-5, s. 11; ch. 04-37, s. 1; ch. 04-230, ss. 1-4; ch. 04-372, ss. 2-5; ch. 04-381, ss. 1-2; ch. 04-384, s. 2, Laws of Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Amendment Needed by Element Florida.] (3): Authorizes local governments to permit accessory dwelling units in Creates 163.31771 Policies to be adopted in H-9 of areas zoned for single family residential use based upon certain findings. Housing Element and cross referenced with the City's Land (4) An application for a building permit to construct an accessory dwelling Development Regulations as unit must include an affidavit from the applicant which attests that the unit needed. will be rented at an affordable rate to a very -low-income, low-income, or moderate -income person or persons. (5): Provides for certain accessory dwelling units to apply towards satisfying the affordable housing component of the housing element in a local government's comprehensive plan. February 25, 2001— Florida Administrative Code Rule 9J-5 F.A.C. Citations Addressed (where/how) 81 Required data for the Housing Element include a description of substandard dwelling units and repealed the requirement that the housing inventory include a locally determined definition of standard and substandard housing conditions. 9J-5.010 (1) (c) Policy to be adopted in H-2 of the Housing Element describing substandard dwelling units. Page 309 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Future Land Use Element 1) Review of Existing GOPs • All the Objectives should be measurable or have a measurable target. • Update GOPs as necessary to reflect 5 and 10 year planning timeframes. • Correct numbering of Objectives and Policies in Element. • Consider adding a policy to Objective LU-9 recognizing the 2007 Redevelopment Plan prepared by the Business and Cultural Development Board. Update the 1995 "B&R" study referenced in Policy 9.1 if necessary. • Consider adding a policy to Objective LU-9 promoting work with the Community Appearance Board and Business and Cultural Development Board to establish a unified community character or "brand." • Consider adding a policy to Objective LU-4 to increase park lands (cross reference with Parks and Recreation Element as necessary). • Consider adding a policy to Objective LU-8 to further explore Mixed Use or other innovative land use strategies. 2) Public Input/Major Issues A) Add GOPs in the FLUE to: • regulate high density development, • set height standards, • promote Development Guidelines and Appearance standards for: an attractive transition from the Port south and north along North Atlantic, overall community and AlA beautification, (to include burying power lines), elimination or reduction of run down properties, encouragement of personal property upkeep, better street lighting and paths for bicyclists and pedestrians, • continue promoting Mixed Use techniques to promote development of shops, restaurants and retail in close proximity to residential areas, • develop a City Hall or Town Center, to enhance community identity while creating opportunities for shopping and pedestrian mobility, • encourage conversion of nonconforming uses into conforming uses (such as Fuel Tanks) B) Evaluate the Future Land Use Map, and make amendments where necessary, to existing, transitional or future land use areas corresponding to any of the above proposed amendments. C) Cross reference any proposed amendments with the Land Development Code as applicable. 3) Redevelopment Plan — Objective 1.4 Land Use Controls Add new policies to LU-8 in the FLUE to: • Add policies, promote mixed use and diversity of development Page 310 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 4) Special Topics ■ N/A 5) Legislative Changes ■ The below table illustrates the proposed amendments to this element based on required legislative changes: Page 311 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1999: [Ch. 99-251, ss. 65-6, and 90; Ch. 99-378, ss. 1, 3-5, and 8-9, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Addressed (where/how) 95 Added the Growth Policy Act to Ch. 163, Part II to promote urban infill and redevelopment. 163.2511,163.25,14,1 63.2517,163.2520,16 3.2523, and 163.2526 Add 2007 Redevelopment Plan language where applicable. 96 Required that all comp plans comply with the school siting requirements by October 1, 1999. 163.3177 (6) (a) Policy to be adopted in LU-1 of the FLUE. 2006 [Ch. 2006-68, Ch. 2006-69, Ch. 2006-220, Ch. 2006-252, Ch. 2006-255, Ch. 2006-268, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Addressed (where/how) 145 The future land use element must clearly identify the land use categories in which public schools are an allowable use. When delineating the land use categories in which public schools are an allowable use, a local government shall include in the categories sufficient land proximate to residential development to meet the projected needs for schools in coordination with public school boards and may establish differing criteria for schools of different type or size. Each local government shall include lands contiguous to existing school sites, to the maximum extent possible, within the land use categories in which public schools are an allowable use. The failure by a local government to comply with these school siting requirements will result in the prohibition of the local government's ability to amend the local comprehensive plan, except for plan amendments described in s. 163.3187(1)(b), until the school siting 163.3177 (6) (a) Policy to be adopted in LU-1 of the FLUE. requirements are met. Amendments proposed by a local government for purposes of identifying the land use categories in which public schools are an allowable use are exempt from the limitation on the frequency of plan amendments contained ins. 163.3187. The future Page 312 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 land use element shall include criteria that encourage the location of schools proximate to urban residential areas to the extent possible and shall require that the local government seek to collocate public facilities, such as parks, libraries, and community centers, with schools to the extent possible and to encourage the use of elementary schools as focal points for neighborhoods. For schools serving predominantly rural counties, defined as a county with a population of 100,000 or fewer, an agricultural land use category shall be eligible for the location of public school facilities if the local comprehensive plan contains school siting criteria and the location is consistent with such criteria. Local governments required to update or amend their comprehensive plan to include criteria and address compatibility of adjacent or closely proximate lands with existing military installations in their future land use plan element shall transmit the update or amendment to the department by June 30, 2006. 163 Requires local governments to amend their Future Land Use Map and coastal management element to include the new definition of the CHHA, and to depict the CHHA on the FLUM by July 1, 2008. Ch. 2006-68, LOF. 163.3178 (2) (c) Policies to be adopted in LU-5 of the FLUE depicting the CHHA. 167 Creates a new section related to electric distribution substations; establishes criteria addressing land use compatibility of substations; requires local governments to permit substations in all FLUM categories (except preservation, conservation or historic preservation); establishes compatibility standards to be used if a local government has not established such standards; establishes procedures for the review of applications for the location of a new substation; allows local governments to enact reasonable setback and landscape buffer standards for substations. Ch. 2006-268, LOF. 163.3208 Policy to be adopted in LU-3 of the FLUE. Page 313 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Florida Administrative Code Rule 9J-5 F.A.C. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 65 Required objectives of the Transportation Element to: • Coordinate the siting of new, or expansion of existing ports, airports, or related facilities with the Future Land Use, Coastal Management, and Conservation Elements; • Coordinate surface transportation access to ports, airports and related facilities with the traffic circulation system, and; • Coordinate ports, airports and related facilities plans with plans of other transportation providers. 9J-5.019 (4) (b) Policies to be adopted in LU-3 of the FLUE. 66 Required policies of the Transportation Element to: • Protect ports, airports and related facilities from encroachment of incompatible land uses, • Protect and conserve natural resources within ports, airports and related facilities, and; • Mitigate adverse structural and non-structural impacts from ports, airports and related facilities. 9J-5.019 (4) (c) Policies to be adopted in LU-3 of the FLUE. Page 314 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Capital Improvements Element (CIE) 1) Review of Existing GOPs • All the Objectives should be measurable or have a measurable target. • Add / refine policy language of Objective CI-2 to require updates to the Capital Improvement Schedule and Budget annually. • Consider adding a policy updating and expanding the planning horizon timeframe. • Consider adding policies identifying necessary improvements to achieve / maintain LOS standards through the 5 year planning timeframe. 2) Public Input/Major Issues ■ N/A 3) Redevelopment Plan • Add GOPs necessary to implement recommendations within Redevelopment Plan. 4) Special Topics ■ N/A 5) Legislative Changes • The below table illustrates the proposed amendments to this element based on required legislative changes: Page 315 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 1999: [Ch. 99-251, ss. 65-6, and 90; Ch. 99-378, ss. 1, 3-5, and 8-9, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 97 Made transportation facilities subject to concurrency. 163.3180 (1) (a) Policy to be adopted in CI-2.1 of CIE. 98 Required use of professionally accepted techniques for measuring level of service for cars, trucks, transit, bikes and pedestrians. 163.3180 (1) (b) Add professionally accepted techniques language to policy CI-1.3 of CIE. 100 Allowed multiuse DRIs to satisfy the transportation concurrency requirements when authorized by a local comprehensive plan under limited circumstances. 163.3180 (12) Policy to be adopted in CI-4 of CIE. 2005 [Ch. 2005-157, ss 1, 2 and 15; Ch. 2005-290; and Ch. 2005-291, ss. 10-12, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 145 (2): Required comprehensive plans to be "financially" rather than "economically" feasible. (3)(a)5.: Required the comprehensive plan to include a 5-year schedule of capital improvements. Outside funding (i.e., from developer, other government or funding pursuant to referendum) of these capital improvements must be guaranteed in the form of a development agreement or interlocal agreement. (3)(a)6.b.1.: Required plan amendment for the annual update of the 163.3177 Add language to Goal of CIE. Policy to be adopted in CI-4 of CIE. Policy to be adopted in CI-2 of CIE. City should prepare and transmit proposed amendment(s) to DCA by June 2008. This is a new date. The schedule of capital improvements. Deleted provision allowing updates and change in the date of construction to be accomplished by ordinance. (3)(b)(1): Requires the CIE reviewed on an annual basis and modified as necessary. An amendment to the comprehensive plan is Page 316 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 required to update the schedule on an annual basis. All public previous deadline was December 1, 2007. facilities shall be consistent with the capital improvements element. Amendments to implement this section must be adopted and transmitted no later than December 1, 2008. Thereafter, a local government may not amend its future land use map, except for plan amendments to meet new requirements under this part and emergency amendments pursuant to s. 163.3187(1)(a), after December 1, 2008, and every year thereafter, unless and until the local government has adopted the annual update and it has been transmitted to the state land planning agency. (3)(a)6.c.: Added oversight and penalty provision for failure to adhere to this section's capital improvements requirements. Policy to be adopted in CI-4 of CIE. 2005 [Ch. 2005-157, ss 1, 2 and 15; Ch. 2005-290; and Ch. 2005-291, ss. 10-12, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 149 (1)(a): Added "schools" as a required concurrency item. (6): Required local government to maintain records to determine whether 110% de minimis transportation impact threshold is reached. A summary of these records must be submitted with the annual capital improvements element update. Exceeding the 110% 163.3180 Policy to be adopted in (the new Public School Facility Element and) CI-1 of the CIE. Policy to be adopted in CI-2 of the CIE. Policy CI-1.3 of the CIE should be revised and updated as determined by the City. threshold dissolves the de minimis exceptions. (9)(d): (New section) Required evaluation in EAR of progress in improving levels of service. Page 317 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 2005 [Ch. 2005-157, ss 1, 2 and 15; Ch. 2005-290; and Ch. 2005-291, ss. 10-12, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Amendment Needed by Element (10): Added requirement that level of service standard for roadway Policies to be adopted in CI-1 of the facilities on the Strategic Intermodal System must be consistent with CIE. FDOT standards. Standards must consider compatibility with adjacent jurisdictions. Policy to be adopted in CI-1 of the (13)(c)3.: No application for development approval may be denied if a less-than-districtwide measurement of school concurrency is used; however the development impacts must to shifted to contiguous service areas with school capacity. CIE. Policy to be adopted in CI-1 of the CIE. (13)(e): Allowed school concurrency to be satisfied if a developer executes a legally binding commitment to provide mitigation Policy to be adopted in CI-1 of the proportionate to the demand. CIE. (13)(e)1.: Enumerated mitigation options for achieving Policy to be adopted in CI-1 of the proportionate -share mitigation. CIE. (13)(g)6.a.: [Formerly (13)(g)7.a.] Local governments must establish a uniform procedure for determining if development applications are in compliance with school concurrency. Page 318 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 February 25, 2001, Florida Administrative Code Rule 9J-5 F.A.C. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 76 Authorized local governments to establish level of service standards for general lanes of the Florida Intrastate Highway System within urbanized areas, with the concurrence of the Department of 9J-5.0055 (2) (c) Policy to be adopted in CI-1 of the CIE. Transportation. 85 Required the Capital Improvements Element to include implementation measures that provide a five-year financially feasible public school facilities program that demonstrates the adopted level of service standards will be achieved and maintained and a schedule of capital improvements for multimodal transportation districts, if locally established. 9J-5.016 (4) (a) Policy to be adopted in CI-1 of the CIE. 88 Authorized local governments to establish level of service standards for general lanes of the Florida Intrastate Highway System within urbanized areas, with the concurrence of the Department of 9J-5.019 (4) (c) Policy to be adopted in CI-1 of the CIE. Transportation. Page 319 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Public School Facilities Element (PSFE) This is a new element required under changes to Florida Statute and Rule. This school concurrency element is required to be adopted by December 2008. 1) Review of Existing GOPs • There are no existing GOPs, however upon creation all the GOPs should be measurable or have a measurable target. 2) Public Input/Major Issues ■ N/A 3) Redevelopment Plan ■ N/A 4) Special Topics ■ N/A 5) Legislative Changes • The below table illustrates the proposed amendments (or in this case the statute and rule requirements creating the element) based on required legislative changes: Page 320 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 2002: [Ch. 2002-296, ss. 1 - 11, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 120 Added a new Section 163.31777 that requires local governments and school boards to enter into an inter -local agreement that addresses school siting, enrollment forecasting, school capacity, infrastructure and safety needs of schools, schools as emergency shelters, and sharing of facilities. 163.31777 Objectives and/or policies should be adopted in the new Public School Facilities Element when created. 2005 [Ch. 2005-157, ss 1, 2 and 15; Ch. 2005-290; and Ch. 2005-291, ss. 10-12, Laws of Florida] Chapter 163, F.S. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 145 (12): Must adopt public school facilities element. (12)(g): Expanded list of items to be to include colocation, location of schools proximate to residential areas, and use of schools as emergency shelters. (12)(i): Required DCA to establish a schedule for adoption of the public school facilities element. The schedule shall provide for each county and local government within the county to adopt the element and update to the agreement no later than December 1, 2008. 163.3177 Public School Facilities Element to be adopted, with relevant GOPs. Policy regarding the timing of element adoption to be included in IG-1 of ICE. Objective and policies to be adopted under the new Public School Facilities Element. Policy to be adopted in IG-1 of the ICE for establishment of the Public School Facilities Element. Page 321 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 149 (1)(a): Added "schools" as a required concurrency item. 163.3180 GOPs to be adopted in the new Public School Facility Element and in CI-1 of the CIE. (13): Required school concurrency (not optional). Policy to be adopted in IG-1 of the ICE and in the new Public School Facilities Element (by December 2008) when created. (13)(c)1.: Requires school concurrency after five years to be applied on a "less than districtwide basis" (i.e., by using school attendance zones, etc). Policy to be adopted in new Public School Facilities Element. (13)(c)3.: No application for development approval may be denied if a less-than-districtwide measurement of school concurrency is used; however the development impacts must to shifted to contiguous service areas with school capacity. Policy to be adopted in CI-1 of the CIE and in the new Public School Facilities Element. (13)(e): Allowed school concurrency to be satisfied if a developer executes a legally binding commitment to provide mitigation proportionate to the demand. Policy to be adopted in CI-1 of the CIE and in the new Public School Facilities Element. (13)(e)1.: Enumerated mitigation options for achieving proportionate -share mitigation. Policy to be adopted in CI-1 of the CIE and in the new Public School Facilities Element. (13)(g)6.a.: [Formerly (13)(g)7.a.] Local governments must establish a uniform procedure for determining if development applications are in compliance with school concurrency. Policy to be adopted in CI-1 of the CIE and in the new Public School Facilities Element. Page 322 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 February 25, 2001, Florida Administrative Code Rule 9J-5 F.A.C. Citations Amendment Needed by Element 84 Required the Intergovernmental Coordination Element to include: 9J-5.015 (3) (c) • Adoption of an interlocal agreement for school concurrency. Policy to be adopted in IG-3 of the ICE and in the proposed Public School Facilities Element. 85 Required the Capital Improvements Element to include implementation measures that provide a five-year financially feasible public school facilities program that demonstrates the adopted level of service standards will be achieved and maintained and a schedule of capital improvements for multimodal transportation districts, if locally established. 9J-5.016 (4) (a) Policy to be adopted in CI-1 of the CIE and in the proposed Public School Facilities Element. Page 323 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 Appendix A: DCA Letter of Understanding June 20, 2007 Mr. James Stansbury Regional Planning Administrator Department of Community Affairs 2555 Shumard Oak Boulevard Tallahassee, FL 32399-2100 RE: EAR — Letter of Understanding Dear Mr. Stansbury: Per the Department of Community Affairs the City is recommended to identify major issues for inclusion within the Evaluation and Appraisal Report process. This letter is to provide you with the major planning issues identified by the City of Cape Canaveral and obtain your approval with a Letter of Understanding. Attached you will find public comment sheets from three public workshops held on August 22, 2006, January 25, 2007 and March 17, 2007. These major issues were presented to and approved by the City Council on June 19, 2007. The following is a list of the City identified major issues, which are also discussed in the EAR: Density — Review the density requirements of the FLUE and land development code. Height - Review height requirements in the FLUE and Land development code which set height standards. Shoreline Erosion and Dune Protection - Review policies of the Conservation and Coastal Management Element or promote standards to manage Shoreline Erosion and Dune Protection: • Add or further define policies to Conservation and Coastal Management Element or promote standards to provide Dune Protection • Add or further define policies to Conservation and Coastal Management Element that will protect and promote remaining green areas. • Consider undertaking an archeological survey to better determine any sensitive areas or areas in need of protection. Add policies as needed. • Add policy to Conservation and Coastal Management Element and consider adopting an historic preservation ordinance. Page 324 of 325 CAPE CANAVERAL EAR Prepared by Miller Legg - 12/10/2007 ~ Tramsportation—Traffic Manaciement'Promote mu8imodal transit system in the City connecting to the greater Central Florida M:gimn, equipped with oheltem, seating and pullover uneoo. Research efficiency of current speed limit along A1A, reduce if neoeeemry, and work on turn lanes and traffic flow along North Atlantic. . Oevm|op,nont(3uide|inma/Appearanue ' Consider policies in the FLOE and LDRo to set Development Guidelines and Appearance standards to promote an attractive transition from the Port south and north along North Atlantic, uvemo!| community and AlA beautification, to include burying power lines, elimination or reduction of run down properties and encouragement of personal property upkeep, provide better street lighting and paths for bicyclists and pedestrians. ~ Obtainable Houaino—Continueto provide for affordable housing opportunities within the Qty. Identify pnnmib|a incentives or anaoo within the City or surrounding region and evaluate suitability of using redevelopment areas. . Park Provisions - Convert more public areas to parks that include amenities such as bemnhoide naotrnomo, bannhao, pavi|innn, trash cmnn, and provide spares for dogs toplay and areas designated aafishing mrswimming. ~ Cih/Hm|KTownCenter—Enhannscnmmunih/identhyvvhi|e.onaatingopportunhieo for shopping that encourages pedestrian mobility. . Mixed Use / Retail Development - Consider policies in the FLUE to promote Mixed Use development that includes ohopo, reoteunantm, and nabaU in close proximity to or below residential uuam and provide for ''oornar-mhone' retail in ckaaa proximity toexisting residential areas. ~ Fuel tanks — Review policies to encourage the conversion of nonconforming uses into conforming uses, ^ School Conourrenoy-Add policies tonew School ConcurnancyElement and Capital Improvements Element which reflect the requirements wfChapter 1G3. F.S.mnd Ru|eBJ-5. F.A.C. Should you have any questions orrequire additional information, please contact Todd Sincerely, RnokyRmndels'. Mayor City ufCape Canaveral mgea25 ofa25 CAPEcANAVuRALmR DPP -1" I dix B: Visionin PI City of Cape Canaveral, Florida Go 'scat Year 2007— 2008 and Strategies Workshop Workshop Report Prepared by LEAD BrevarcL k. PAD. Box 2276 Cowa, FL 329232276 hone: 321-632-8222 Fax: 321-632-6207 www,L 11,:reVala. Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 Key Issues and S.W.O.T. analysis 3 Status of FY 2006-2007 Objectives — By Department 6 FY 2007-2008 Objectives and Strategies — By Department 12 FY 2007-2008 Key Objectives and Strategies 18 City of Cape Canaveral Goals, Objectives and Strategies Workshop Evaluating Fiscal Year 2006 — 2007 Planning for Fiscal Year 2007 — 2008 Executive Summary On Tuesday, April 24, 2007, the mayor and members of the City of Cape Canaveral's City council, the City's department directors, fire chief and representatives of the Brevard County Sheriffs Office participated in an annual workshop to review the current status of goals and objectives, and to outline priorities for the City's 2007 — 2008 fiscal year. Two exercises took place to begin the workshop: 1) The identification of key issues affecting the City, its operations and general welfare. 2) An analysis of the City's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (S.W.O.T.). These discussions were followed by presentations from the directors of each City department, each covering four specified subjects: status of the current year's objectives; objectives for fiscal year 2007 — 2008; the potential impact on levels of service if revenues are reduced due to state legislative action; and, if appropriate for the department, potential alternative revenue sources. The next activity involved the identification of broad objectives that would be addressed in the upcoming fiscal year. Eight objectives were developed to achieve the goal of the City's mission statement: Welcome to the City of Cape Canaveral — A safe, clean, residential beach -side community with tree -lined streets. These objectives are not listed in any order of priority at the time of this report. ➢ Improve municipal facilities. ➢ Acquire, protect, and preserve green space. ➢ Improve transportation infrastructure. > Enhance city services to improve the quality of life for residents. > Promote planned economic development. ➢ Develop or enhance public and private partnerships and collaborations. > Attract and retain quality personnel. ➢ Celebrate the City's history and culture. 1 Participants next identified strategies and tactics that may be employed to achieve each objective. Actions necessary to achieve some of the objectives were discussed in brief, mostly as a guide to "next steps" planning, but the majority will be decided or directed by the City council and/or City staff. It is our recommendation that the broad objectives outlined are used as a guideline for at least two additional dialogues: 1. The City manager may use them in conjunction with the 2007-2008 goals by department, as a tool in the development of the 2007-2008 City budget. 2. The City council may use them as a foundation for establishing City priorities and resource allocation. 2 City of Cape Canaveral Key Issues and S.W.O.T. Analysis At the beginning the workshop, City council members and department staff were asked to identify key issues affecting the City of Cape Canaveral, the City's strengths and weaknesses, opportunities for improvement, and possible threats to the health and welfare of the City and its residents. Note: the order of appearance of items in each category appear as they were recorded and does not denote the level of priority or importance. KEY ISSUES • Level of service for residents. • Funding. • Future parks/development. • New public safety buildings — Sheriff and Fire departments. • Additional Grants — stormwater. • State Mandated property tax reform. • Effective transmission of public information — communication. • Maintaining the City's residential character. • Construction of new City Hall building. • Revenue sources. • Completing existing activities. • Effective strategic planning. • Digital resources conversion completions. STRENGTHS • Strong, cohesive council. • Good department heads. • Residential character. • Good fiscal responsibility. • Personal accountability. • Good city staff/employees. • Progressive approach — proactive. • Creative & resourceful. • More stable demographics. • Community in transition. • Natural resources and location. 3 Strengths (continued) • Diversity (population demographics). • History. • Police and fire departments. • History of success/ reputation. • Volunteer boards and community involvement. • Size of community. • Residential support. • Weather — climate. • Asset to the region. • Hometown look and feel. WEAKNESSES • Geography- limits roads expansion. • Have outgrown current facilities. • Impact of Port Canaveral — Port's growth. • Price of property — residential and commercial. • Difficulty protecting/preserving greenspace. • Small city employee group- difficulty with health insurance. • Too transient -- too many rental units. • Too dependent on state funding. • Relationship with the Brevard County — inadequate return on investment. • Challenges with long term planning. OPPORTUNITIES • Develop new facilities. • Acquiring green space. • Innovative, new buildings utilizing "green" designs and standards. • Available technology — greater efficiency. • Expand staff capabilities — additional staff. • Strengthen interlocal partnerships. • New government campus — enhanced image. • Zoning codes — mixed use — redevelopment — economic development. • Improve appearance/aesthetics of City. • North Atlantic Avenue — more residential arterial connections to local roads. • Attract high tech and retail businesses and restaurants. • Improve branding of city information. • Promote city as a desirable place to live work and play. 4 THREATS • Funding. • Port Canaveral development. • Transition to resort vs. residential. • Increased transient population. • Tourists/tourism. • Decrease in number of homesteaded properties. • Losing qualified employees due to retirement and insurance benefits. • Increased property/personal crime. • Transition from operation of Space Shuttle to Moon/Mars expeditions. • Ocean pollution. • Cost of property insurance. • Misinformation/misperception of the City. • Lack of communication. • Global warming. • Changing demographics. • Less young families moving to the City — impact on schools. • Lack of research/data regarding planning. • Short term vs. long term planning. • Affordable housing. • Return on investment in partnerships with developers. • Loss of impact fees. • Slowdown in construction. • Hurricanes. • Resident status quo. • Lack of support for new projects. 5 City of Cape Canaveral Status of Goals by Department Fiscal Year 2006-2007 The following details the status of objectives, which were identified for action in the 2006-2007 fiscal year. STATUS KEY Green = Achieved/Completed Blue = In Progress Red = Not Yet Begun 1 Stalled PUBLIC SAFETY — BUILDING DEPARTMENT • Implement a digital records retention program for Building Department records (Accomplished on -going). ▪ Develop City Campus plan and/or new additional work areas for City Hall and/or Public Safety. • Building Official to ensure all new development will install utilities underground, pursuant to City Code. ■ Review zoning fees. ■ Consider purchasing a Plotter Printer. Develop commercial site Lighting Standards (Issue of civil liability). PUBLIC SAFETY — LAW ENFORCEMENT • Improve the 800 MHZ system for public safety use. • 800 MHZ System transfer to Brevard County for system upgrade development. • Evaluate issuing traffic tickets electronically. • Improvement of DUI enforcement. ■ Improvement in enforcement of illicit narcotics (Accomplished and on- going) . 6 D 1 0 1 • Improvement in traffic enforcement. ■ Improvement in the satisfaction of services provided to the community N (Accomplishing through citizen surveys and public awareness). 0 0 0 ' PUBLIC SAFETY — FIRE DEPARTMENT/MEDICAL SERVICES 1 • Continue to fund reserves for future large expenses. 0 • Anticipate for more paid personnel and less dependence on volunteer 0 firefighters in future years. 1 0 • Relocate fire Inspection personnel to new City facility. 10 • Move forward with construction of new Fire Station. 0 D PARKS AND RECREATION / CULTURE 0 D • Develop a neighborhood park in the northeast section of the City. O • Explore the development of a community center (Requires funding). D 0 • Evaluate IITF Property Uses (18 acres) (Conservation area). ■ Implement replacement of playground equipment at City Park, using ! grant funds. 0 ■ Remove Pepper Trees and clear out seven acres on Banana River at Columbia Drive South for City Park. 0 • Review use of 4.2 acres of old Carver's Cove for park grants, working with the Trust for Public Land. 1 • Obtain Cherie Down Park from Brevard County. • ■ Increase usage of under utilized facilities (Accomplished and on - II going). 7 I I 1 GROWTH MANAGEMENT — Planning, Economic Development and Redevelopment • Comprehensive Plan & Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR) Process. 0 • Continue Land Development Code Review process. • Complete review of International Property Maintenance Code (2003 version). ▪ Complete review of Sign Code. • County dollars for road improvement — for roads being returned to City (Central Avenue, North Atlantic Avenue, and Ridgewood Avenue). ADMINISTRATION ▪ Procure new accounting software. ▪ Reinvest into City employees. • Seek new bids for Health Insurance. ■ Anticipate COLA increase of 5%. ▪ Retirement Plan in addition to present City contribution of 7% of salary. City will match employee contribution up to 3%. ▪ Continue to fund Health Insurance for all employees without payroll deductions (Accomplished and on -going). I PUBLIC INFORMATION ! COMMUNICATIONS / CITY IMAGE 1 • Frequent upgrades and updates to City Web site (Investigate feasibility 1 of contract labor for this work). ( • Publish City news using weekly printed media (i.e. Hometown News, 1 FLORIDA TODAY, etc.). 1 1 ▪ Supply more information regarding City activities, accomplishments, etc. to media. • Publish annual City Newsletter of all City accomplishments (Prior to the beginning of the next fiscal year). • Install a City Webcam. 8 I r i I I I I I I • Real time weather information (Web link to Cape Canaveral Volunteer Fire Department). Credit card acceptance for permit fees. CITY ENHANCEMENT AND BEAUTIFICATION • Install decorative street lights along Ridgewood Avenue, North Atlantic Avenue, SR A1A, and Central Boulevard. ■ Work with utility companies to eliminate overhead lines. • Expand the use of decorative banners. • Sufficient lighting along SR AMA and all of North Atlantic Avenue (Accomplished and on -going). ■ Small decorative trashcans at City bus stops (Accomplished and on- going). • Bus shelters at City bus stops on SR A1A. • Ridgewood Avenue streetscape project. ▪ Add lighting to Grant Avenue and SR AlA entrance sign. • New City signs from South (West side of SR AlA) and North Banana River Drive. ■ Cape View Elementary beautification project (Irrigation and maintenance). ■ Tree Inventory grant from Florida Urban Forestry. PUBLIC WORKS — STORMWATER • Implement the stormwater grant project for the North Canal area. • The City has been awarded a 319 grant and a SJRWMD grant for stormwater improvements to the northern portion of the Central Ditch. • Implement a city-wide stormwater inspection program (Accomplished and on -going). 9 p ▪ SR AlA central drainage canal (Landscape next to Central Boulevard). 1 • Plan for and construct a stormwater park. 1 • Continue to evaluate properties throughout the City, which would be suitable for the potential construction of a stormwater park. p 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 I I I ■ Buchanan I Orange Avenue Drainage Box Project (The City has been awarded a FEMA grant and a CDBG funds for stormwater improvements at this intersection. PUBLIC WORKS — ROADS ■ Continue implementation of the "Prime Path" sidewalk plan (Accomplished and on -going). • Implement street -paving plan. ■ - All presidential streets. • Canaveral Beach Gardens. • Complete preliminary design for road widening project on North Atlantic Avenue (Brevard County Traffic Engineering has contracted the road widening project for preliminary design). ■ Develop and adopt a Traffic Access management plan. • Northbound left turn at Central Avenue and SR AlA and eastbound on Central Avenue (Needs FDOT approval). ■ Mast arms and lighted cross streets at traffic lights. PUBLIC WORKS — FACILITIES & EQUIPMENT • Construction of a new wastewater treatment operations & equipment building. • Budget for wastewater plant's scheduled maintenance — equipment and operations refurbishing. ■ Seek grants for Emergency Generators for lift stations (75 KWH). • Consider excess military equipment. p 1 0 0 0 1 i 1 1 VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS AND EVENTS ■ Continue with City-wide volunteer programs. SPECIAL PROGRAM AND PROJECTS • Seek Brevard Metropolitan Planning Organization and Florida Department of Transportation support to design and construct an elevated pedestrian walkway over SR A1A, at Columbia Drive intersection. 1 • Seek a resolution or change in the law to restrict off shore sewage dumping. i 1 1 0 0 p p 1 p p i 1 1 r i p i 1 1 1 1 0 • Continue focus on improving quality of life for the residents of the City of Cape Canaveral. • Discuss and set policies for County growth management. ■ Annexation legislation. City of Cape Canaveral Goals, Objectives and Strategies by Department Fiscal Year 2007-2008 The following outlines the goals, objectives or strategies, which are considered to be "priority" by City Council members and City staff for the 2007 — 2008 fiscal year. Some items are carried over from the 2006 — 2007 fiscal year, while others are new. The departments appear in the order in which they were presented during the workshop. Note: The order of items in each category appear as they were recorded and does not denote level of importance or priority. PUBLIC SAFETY — BUILDING DEPARTMENT • Implement a digital records retention program for Building Department records (Carry over —Accomplished and ongoing). • Develop City Campus plan and/or new additional work areas for City Hall and/or Public Safety (Carry over). • Review zoning fees (Carry over). • Consider purchasing a Plotter Printer (Carry over). • Fill one, full-time staff position vacancy (New). PUBLIC SAFETY— LAW ENFORCEMENT • Evaluate issuing traffic tickets electronically (Carry over). • Improvement in DUI enforcement - 10% increase in DUI arrests (New). • Improvement in enforcement of illicit narcotics (Carry over — Accomplished and on -going). ▪ Improvement in traffic enforcement — 10% increase (New). 12 • Improvement in the satisfaction of services provided to the community (Carry over — Accomplishing through citizen surveys and public awareness). • Improvement in reducing property related crimes and investigations — additional training (New). • Reduce the incidents of stolen vehicles within the city limits of Cape Canaveral — 5% reduction in the number of stolen vehicles (New). • Reduce the incidents of reported robberies within the Cape Canaveral jurisdiction -- 10% reduction in the number of reported robberies (New). PUBLIC SAFETY FIRE DEPARTMENT/MEDICAL SERVICES • Acquire funding for new fire station ($3-4 million) (Carty over). • Add third staff position to ladder truck (City's half $90k) (New). • Maintain competitive pay and benefits plan for personnel (Carry over). • Maintain Capital Upgrades as outlined in five-year plan ($78K) (Carry over). • Continue funding reserves (Carry over). PARKS AND RECREATION 1 CULTURE • Develop a neighborhood park in the northeast section of the City (Carry over). • Explore the development of a community center (Requires funding) (Carry over). • Implement replacement of playground equipment at City Park, using grant funds (Carry over). • Remove Pepper Trees and clear out seven acres on Banana River at Columbia Drive South for City Park (Carry over). • Banana River Park (New). • Continue sidewalks and bike paths south. • Perimeter planting to serve as beautification and noise buffer. • Explore canoe/kayak launch area. 13 • Review use of 4.2 acres of old Carver's Cove for park grants, working with the Trust for Public Land. Development and clean-up (Carry over). ■ Obtain Cherie Down Park from Brevard County (Carry over). ▪ Maintenance on Youth Center at Canaveral City Park (New). GROWTH MANAGEMENT — Planning, Economic Development and Redevelopment ■ Comprehensive Plan & Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR) Process (Carry over). ■ Continue Land Development Code Review process (Carry over). • Complete review of International Property Maintenance Code (2003 version) (Carry over). • Complete review of Sign Code (Carry over). • County dollars for road improvement — for roads being returned to City (Central Avenue, North Atlantic Avenue, and Ridgewood Avenue) (New). ADMINISTRATION • Procure new accounting software (Carry over). ■ Increase number of staff (Contingent on new City Hall building). ■ Reinvest into our City employees (Carry over). ■ Continue to fund health insurance for all employees without payroll deductions (Accomplished, on -going). PUBLIC INFORMATION 1 COMMUNICATIONS 1 CITY IMAGE • Frequent upgrades and updates to City Web site — Investigate feasibility of contract labor for this work (Carry over). • Publish City news using weekly printed media (i.e. Hometown News, FLORIDA TODAY, etc.) (Carry over). 14 • Supply more information regarding City activities, accomplishments, etc. to media (Carry over). • Publish annual City Newsletter of all City accomplishments (Prior to the beginning of the next fiscal year) (Carry over). ■ Install a City Webcam (Carry over), CITY ENHANCEMENT AND BEAUTIFICATION • Install decorative street lights along Ridgewood Avenue, North Atlantic Avenue, SR A1A, and Central Boulevard (Carry over). • Work with utility companies to eliminate overhead lines (Carry over). • Expand the use of decorative banners (Carry over). • New plantings of flora throughout the City (New). ▪ Sufficient lighting along SR MA and all of North Atlantic Avenue (Carry over — Accomplished and on -going). • Small decorative trashcans at City bus stops (Accomplished and on- r going) (Carry over). ▪ Bus shelters at City Bus Stops on SR A1A (Carry over). • Ridgewood Avenue streetscape project (Carry over). ■ Add lighting to Grant Avenue and SR AlA entrance sign (Carry over). r • Cape View Elementary Beautification Project (Irrigation and maintenance) (Carry over). r r • r p p PUBLIC WORKS — STORMWATER • Implement a city-wide stormwater inspection program (Carry over — Accomplished and on -going). • Complete work on south portion of central ditch (New). • Add TV monitoring capabilities to stormwater lines (New). 15 ) 1 1 1 1 1 1 Plan for and construct a stormwater park (Carry over). • Continue to evaluate properties throughout the City, which would be suitable for the potential construction of a stormwater park (Carry over). • Seek state and federal grants for stormwater projects (Carry over). PUBLIC WORKS — ROADS ■ Continue implementation of the "Prime Path" sidewalk plan (Carry over — Accomplished and on -going). • Implement Street -Paving Plan (Carry over). ■ All presidential streets. • Canaveral Beach Gardens. • Complete preliminary design for road widening project on North Atlantic Avenue (Brevard County Traffic Engineering has contracted for preliminary design of the road widening project) (Carry over). • Develop and adopt a Traffic Access management plan (Carry over). • Northbound left turn at Central Avenue and SR AlA and eastbound on Central Avenue (Needs FDOT approval) (Carry over). PUBLIC WORKS — FACILITIES & EQUIPMENT • Budget for wastewater plant's scheduled maintenance — equipment and operations refurbishing (Carry over). ■ Seek grants for Emergency Generators for lift stations (75 KWH) — consider excess military equipment (Carry over). VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS AND EVENTS • Continue with current City-wide volunteer programs (Carry over). • Additional volunteer projects (New). • Mangroves • Stormwater inlet markers. 16 0 1 I 1 1 SPECIAL PROGRAM AND PROJECTS • Seek Brevard Metropolitan Planning Organization and Florida P Department of Transportation support to design and construct an 0 elevated pedestrian walkway over SR MA, at Columbia Drive intersection (Carry over). • Seek a resolution or change in the law to restrict off shore sewage 0 dumping by seagoing vessels (Carry over). 1 • Always focus on improving quality of life for the residents of the City of Cape Canaveral (Carry over). 1 ■ Discuss and set policies for County growth management - annexation legislation (Carry over). 17 r r p p p • f p City of Cape Canaveral Objectives, Strategies, Tactic and Actions Fiscal Year 2007 — 2008 For the purposes of developing objectives, strategies, tactics and actions, the City's mission statement served as the overall goal: The City of Cape Canaveral - A safe, clean, residential beach -side community, with tree -lined streets. The following were derived from input by the mayor, City council members and department staff in attendance. As a guide to City council and staff, several tactics have examples of actions which may be taken, The specific actions necessary to achieve each objective will be decided or directed by council and/or staff. Note: The order of the objectives and strategies appear as they were recorded and does not denote the level of priority or importance. 18 • • p i p 1 i • • p • p • I ) f • 1 • r 1 • p f 1 p •. • p 1 1 I OBJECTIVE Improve municipal facilities. • Strategy Build new municipal buildings. o Tactics ■ Identify funding sources. ■ Develop master facilities plan. ■ Utility placement underground coalition. • Actions • Build City hall campus. • Build Fire station. • Build Police station. • Build a Band Shell. • Strategy Improve waste water facility. o Tactics ■ Comply with administrative order by Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP). ■ Implement recommendations of FDEP permit study. • Implement 5 year utility rate plan. OBJECTIVE Acquire, protect, and preserve green space. • Strategy Identify properties to be acquired. • o Tactics ■ Seek input from citizen boards. ■ Identify a northeast parcel of land. • Identify location for stormwater park. ■ Actions • Acquisition of Carver Cove. • Acquisition of Cherie Down Park. • Acquisition of greenway between A1A and Central Blvd. 19 I Strategy Identify funding sources. o Tactics ■ Utilize grant funds for purchases. • Strategy Develop a policy for green space mitigation. o Tactics ■ City ordinances. OBJECTIVE Improve transportation infrastructure. • Strategy Identify areas for improvement. o Tactics ■ Solicit community input. ■ Identify transportation categories. • Conduct annual traffic study. • Strategy t Develop walkable communities. I o Tactics ■ Implement "Prime Path" Plan. ■ Develop mixed use zoning ordinance. ■ Develop access management ordinance. • Strategy Identify and obtain funding. o Tactics ■ Seek grant funding. ■ User fees. • Special taxing districts. OBJECTIVE Enhance city services to improve the quality of life for residents. • Strategy Build new municipal buildings. o Tactics • Identify funding sources. Develop master facilities plan. • Actions • Build City hall campus. • Build Fire station. • Build Police station. • Strategy Evaluate/establish service standards (externallinternal). o Tactics • Benchmark comparable communities. • Seek community input. • Code of ethics. • Document baseline standards. • Chronic nuisance ordinance and code enforcement. • Increased customer expectations for high quality timely service. • Actions • Update personnel manual. • Establish a master vendor list. • Evaluate departmental service standards. • Strategy Improve communications. o Tactics ▪ Benchmark comparable community websites/ public relations capabilities and approaches. • Branding strategy. • Identify alternative forms electronic communication. • Town meetings. 21 OBJECTIVE Promote planned economic development. • Strategy Implement redevelopment plan. o Tactics • Planning board to incorporate goals and objectives into comp. plan. • Research benefits of full time Economic Development professional. • Consider economic incentives. • Strategy Identify industries/businesses. a Tactics • Determine missing sectors. ▪ Develop outreach strategy. - Utilize Economic Development Commission of Florida's Space Coast and Cocoa Beach Area Chamber of Commerce as resources. ▪ Identify emerging industries. OBJECTIVE Develop or enhance public and private partnerships and collaborations. • Strategy Identify partnerships. o Tactics • Review existing interlocal agreements. • Strategy Identify opportunities and needs. o Tactics • Needs assessment. • Identify sectors. • Identify collaborative opportunities. I 22 1 OBJECTIVE Attract and retain quality personnel. • Strategy Competitive compensation and benefits. o Tactics • Benchmark comparable communities. • Strategy Provide adequate facilities. o Tactics • Identify funding sources. • Develop master facilities plan. • Actions • Build City hall campus. • Build Fire station. • Build Police station. i • Strategy Provide for professional training and development. o Tactics • Comply with Continuing Education Units (CEU) requirements. 1 = Encourage continued professional advancement and development. • Review personnel policy. ) • Consider introducing succession planning. ) OBJECTIVE Celebrate the City's history and culture. ) • Strategy i Identify historical resources. o Tactics • Oral history. • Photographic. • Physical — artifacts. • City historian. = Display area. = Historical markers/ history walk. 23 1 • Strategy Pursue cultural enrichment opportunities. o Tactics • Annual fine arts festival. • Input from Business and Cultural Development Board. • Art in public places. • Local arts and crafts fair. • Augment library programs to include cultural opportunities. 24 f Cape averal p-., i .' Redevekp entPlan O e Myor Rande1 And Members of ate City Council City of Cape Canaveral P. Cape e32920 l� E M l zMornters of City Council, accordancehi with responsibilitia outlinedfor the -- Ca.navwal Bu Cultural - l € Board, weto presznt to you a draft of the,6 Canaveral 2007_ Redevelopment Plan. Our board servos as iRars to tle City Council and is tasked with developing this comprehensive ply setting forth goals to stimulate morrow&deve mutt and irnrove the aditylife it the city of Cape Canaveral. The Cane Canaveral Redevel Mart WM adc=i°.;emuby the city i and mieli haste ngod simo thatti vi r taxa our r&rinonsibilitY to update this ply wry striensly arid have held 1 aims war atit forth our lest theughis en alining the needsand anilinesof the commonn ith the complex tenvironment We would like to thank Mayor Reekys Mid members the council_, mh of o valuable l information and insight during our ctmassions. Additionally, city e_ tt Boucher and city planner o Peetz offered i :ace and clarification *ides and proothures, Critical to the accomplishmentof ripatous task was the involvement of i_€ staff member s Ed Lawsat: -_ d every session ably assistedcapturing tr disitarm and- 'h t , as web as enuring we were it fed wlen_ . working Tate into theng_ The colleznye knowkidge of this &map nes been invaluable and is yearlyt i l The Re&yelopmentPlanisi to _ roadmap ode- `_ying and prioritizing the goals of the city, We recognize the city fiscal constraints t :. will ultimately determine tte scope _ implementation, Because this aim is also the foundation for the city's ComprehensivePlan de design _ with - _y ed formai requiredthe state of Florida. For this .re,on-.- Executive 105 k AVdftUegPosr 326 Cape --__ FL 32922 T n 2l STN M: 2-1 2186B-1248 Summary capturing the overarching objectives is included, although we hope the council will take the time to read and appreciate the details in the lengthy document. The population of the Central Florida region is expected to double by mid- century. Cape Canaveral, located just 50 miles from downtown Orlando, will participate in the benefits and challenges inherent in this rapid growth. We are a livable ocean side community with an enviable climate and a surrounding infrastructure system facilitating easy access from the Orlando International Airport and major highways systems to state, regional, and international markets. Several of the external forces that will impact our future are already present. • The transition of the space industry to new missions and technologies is perhaps our most significant opportunity and greatest threat. The city sits along the main thoroughfare between Patrick Air Force Base and Kennedy Space Center and is an ideal location for businesses supporting technical operations and space tourism ventures. These clean industries generate significant economic and employment value, while enhancing our position as America's center for civil and military launch operations. There is intense competition for the resources of future space endeavors. Cape Canaveral should be at the forefront of these discussions. • The population of the Orlando area is shifting heavily to the eastern fringes. At the center of this movement is the establishment of a medical cluster featuring the University of Central Florida medical school, Burnham Institute, a Veterans Administration hospital, and related research facilities. Cape Canaveral would be an attractive location for businesses and employees relocating to this area. • Port Canaveral has grown into a major and diversified United States port encompassing industrial, military, commercial, and tourism activities, and affording city residents with employment and recreational opportunities. However, the level and direction of future growth may encroach on city amenities and beach quality. City officials should partner with the Port Authority to influence development decisions and protect the character of Cape Canaveral. • Cape Canaveral is a small, residential town split in half by AIA, the main road running north -to -south and a busy, primary artery for transient traffic. This makes it difficult to improve the quality of life with things like parks and green space, safe walking and bike routes, and a centralized and accessible town center. If the community is to retain the character supported by residents in the 2006 survey, solutions must be developed that bridge the concrete divide of AIA and create a livable, safe, and cohesive community. • The city of Cape Canaveral is just over 40 years old and has already managed and thrived amid significant business and economic shifts. In today's regional and global environment the pace of change will only accelerate. A well -articulated vision for the city, developed in concert with its citizens, and supported with appropriate staff and action plans would provide a solid foundation for anticipating and reacting swiftly and consistently to opportunities and challenges. The Cape Canaveral 2007 Redevelopment Plan is designed to outline for the city the direction and required capacity needed to continuously and effectively achieve the goals of positive economic growth and an improved quality of life. Two tasks remain to be completed. 1. An implementation schedule, including a tentative timetable and assignment of responsibility, must be developed once the City Council has approved a final plan. 2. In accordance with our stated responsibilities, the Business and Cultural Development Board has commissioned a survey of city businesses. The survey is drafted and ready to begin, subject to the recommendation of city staff and your approval. The results may better flush out some of the more integral parts of the plan. Each member of the Cape Canaveral Business and Cultural Development Board brings unique talents, experiences, and interests to the table. However, we are connected by a common desire to preserve the heritage of this special city and ensure a dynamic future for the citizens. We believe the ideas captured in this draft of the Cape Canaveral 2007 Redevelopment Plan will strengthen the city and we appreciate the opportunity to have participated in the process. Thank you. Very truly yours, John Anderson, Chair Joanne Muncey, Vice Chair 0 U Hugh Evans 6#43--t-yd, Dianne Marcum Darrell Peterson Alison Spiesman Gene Vlahovic CITY OF CAPE CANAVERAL 2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Purpose The purpose of the City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan is defined in Article II, sections 22-35 of Ordinance Number 12-2003 of the city code, which establishes the duties of the Business and Cultural Development Board (BCDB): Prepare a commercial redevelopment plan and submit the plan for approval to the city council. Commercial is defined in the ordinance as "industry, commerce, business and tourism." According to the ordinance: • This plan shall analyze existing conditions and needs pertaining to the cities commerce and determine optimum methods and means of improving those conditions and satisfying those needs. • The BCDB is responsible for determining the commercial needs of the citizens of the city, and seek methods of enhancing existing commerce presently located in our city in an effort to satisfy citizen needs. Introduction The 2007 Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan is an update of the existing Redevelopment Plan adopted by the City Council in 1999, and is in much the same format. Two Goals capture the overriding strategies and are carried forward from 1999. Economic Development: Encourage business development that will contribute to the economic and social well being of the City and its residents by facilitating and supporting business growth and employment opportunities consistent with community needs. Quality of Life: Improve the quality of life by eliminating slum and blight conditions; enhancing transportation circulation, fostering community beautification, protecting the natural environment, providing amenities and recreation opportunities, upgrading general appearance of the area, and supporting cultural enrichment. Objectives under each goal highlight specific topics; each is followed by Policies that are essentially action statements for carrying out the objective. While many of the policies carry over from the prior plan, several are new recommendations reflecting emerging needs and opportunities brought about by dramatic changes in the community since 1999, including increased population, a changed demographic profile of full-time and part- time residents, their growing concern with the adverse effects of unbridled growth, and their interest in quality of life issues. One example is a policy recommending the establishment of a Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) to include the maximum 80% of the city allowable under Florida Statute, a tool providing enhanced authority and access to funds that may be necessary to finance the plan recommendations. Critical Success Factors Establish a framework for implementation. Once adopted by the City Council, the 2007 Redevelopment Plan should be converted to a strategic multi -year implementation plan. That could be accomplished by using a rolling 5-year horizon with a detailed 1-year action plan coincidental with the annual fiscal year. The completed plan should be used by the City Council as an oversight tool to monitor implementation progress through quarterly reviews, and compare progress versus planned performance. A key first step is the identification of cost, funding source, task timetable, management responsibility, and performance measures/standards for each policy. The plan identifies new staff positions that are necessary to effectively and efficiently implement these policies. Identify financial resources. The recommended policies if taken together are likely to exceed the operational funding available to the city over the next few years. The historic pay-as-you-go budgeting methodology of the city has been an admirable and prudent fiscal policy. Moving forward, it may be appropriate to pursue alternative financing to deal with the rapidly emerging opportunities and challenges facing the city as it shapes its future, such as packaging a group of forward looking capital improvements into a bond -financed futures program. Integrate and align the recommendations. The goals of continuing economic development and enhanced quality of life are mutually interdependent. A vibrant business community supports and enables a Iivable city for the residents. Cultural and recreational amenities attract quality and responsible businesses. A clean, natural environment supports both. The policies outlined in this plan will ensure that the citizens of Cape Canaveral have the city they expect and deserve. Plan Recommendations: Goals: Objectives, and a Selection of Prioritized Policies GOAL I: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND REDEVELOPMENT • OBJECTIVE 1.1 REDEVELOPMENT o Establish investment incentives for commercially zoned property. o Establish a government center with community meeting rooms and coffee shop. o Survey property owners to assess their willingness to participate in proposed redevelopment projects. • OBJECTIVE 1.2 REHABILITATION o Survey below code structures and assist in bringing them up to code. o Itemize the amenities of vacant properties and buildings for use in marketing to developers. o Survey structures with minor issues of deterioration and itemize needed repairs. • OBJECTIVE 1.3 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT a Identify potential projects for both public and private funding. o Inform property owners of the benefits of redevelopment. o Initiate public improvement projects to stimulate private investment. • OBJECTIVE 1.4 LAND USE CONTROLS o Introduce "mixed use" of light industrial, retail, office, service, and residential development in selected areas of the city. o Promote public -private partnerships to assemble, finance and develop projects. o Inform, and wherever possible collaborate with, property owners and residents in prospective project areas. • OBJECTIVE 1.5 ADMINISTRATIVE o Adopt the recommended 2007 Redevelopment Plan, as is or amended, by May 2007. o Establish new city staff position(s) to provide needed capacity for economic/community development, marketing/public relations and grant writing. o Establish a Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) for the city and encompass the maximum amount of property in the city allowable under Florida Statute. GOAL II: QUALITY OF LIFE • OBJECTIVE 2.1 SLUM AND BLIGHT o Encourage upgrading of substandard structures through code enforcement and financial incentives. o Identify, prioritize and eliminate dilapidated and unsafe structures through code enforcement. a Eliminate unsanitary and unsightly outside storage conditions through code enforcement. • OBJECTIVE 2.2 TRAFFIC CIRCULATION o Establish safe, appealing and efficient city-wide pedestrian and bike paths linking all major activity centers. o Work with the Florida Department of Transportation and property owners to assure appropriate access to State Route (SR) AlA. o Minimize the impact of increased traffic circulation on residential areas. • OBJECTIVE 2.3 PUBLIC FACILITIES o Install underground utility lines. o Establish a solar energy and alternative fuel program for City facilities and activities. o Provide for storm water management to meet all relevant state requirements. • OBJECTIVE 2.4 BEAUTIFICATION o Evaluate, and if feasible, participate in the national "Main Street" program. o Utilize decorative street lighting on AlA, signage beautification measures, covered bus stop shelters and benches, additional park benches, kayak ramps, and picnic tables to provide comfortable, pleasing and healthful work, leisure, residential and shopping environments. o Evaluate, and update if required, the 1995 SR AlA Beautification Plan. • OBJECTIVE 2.5 ENVIRONMENT o Continue to protect, preserve, and procure green space for both active and passive use. o Establish ordinances to protect environmentally sensitive areas, promote beach and riverside shore preservation, and trees throughout the city. o Comply with all Federal, State and local environmental protection standards. • OBJECTIVE 2.6 RECREATION o Acquire Cherie Down Park. o Expand existing, and acquire additional, sites that can be developed as community facilities to be gathering places for special events or recreational activities. o Establish ordinances to provide for a beach patrol. • OBJECTIVE 2.7 ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW o Establish standards to provide for visual consistency of business/commercial structures and signage in the redevelopment area. o Establish appropriate ordinances to identify, protect and preserve historic structures. • OBJECTIVE 2.8 CULTURAL ENRICHMENT o Develop a vision and strategic plan for cultural development in the city. o Develop a private and corporate fund-raising program to support cultural development. o Acquire art appropriate for streetscape and other public display through private donations. a REDEVELOPMENT PLAN March 2007 THE CITY OF CAPE CANAVERAL REDEVELOPMENT PLAN PREPARED BY: BUSINESS AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD MEMBERS JOHN ANDERSON, CHAIRPERSON JOANNE MUNCEY, VICE CHAIRPERSON ALISON SPIESMAN, BOARD MEMBER DARRELL PETERSON, BOARD MEMBER DIANNE MARCUM, BOARD MEMBER GENE VLAHOVIC, 1ST ALTERNATE BOARD MEMBER HUGH EVANS, 2ND ALTERNATE BOARD MEMBER TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE BENNETT C. BOUCHER, CITY MANAGER ED LAWSON, BOARD SECRETARY TODD PEETZ, CITY PLANNER, MILLER LEGG JAMIE COKER, SENIOR PLANNER, MILLER LEGG The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 1 of 38 V:\Projects\2004\04.00170 Genera] Planning Svcs\Redevelopment Ran \2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLA1Y_fsnal.doc Table of Contents Section 1 Purpose Statement 3 Overall Goals 3 Introduction 3 Existing Conditions 4 Surrounding Conditions 4 Section 2 Need for Redevelopment 5 Redevelopment Boundary 5 Requirements to Declare a Redevelopment Area 5 Redevelopment Powers and Requirements 12 Section 3 Redevelopment Activities 18 Financial Mechanisms 20 Section 4 Neighborhood Impact Statement 23 Amending the Redevelopment Plan 23 Plan Duration 23 Severability 23 Section 5 Redevelopment Goals and Objectives 24 Economic Viability, Development and Redevelopment 24 Redevelopment 24 Rehabilitation 25 Economic development 25 Land use controls 26 Administrative 27 Quality of life 28 Slum and blight reduction 28 Traffic circulation 28 Public facilities 29 Beautification 30 Environment 30 Recreation 31 Architectural review 31 Cultural Enrichment 33 Maps: City Map - Redevelopment Area 8 Streets Map 9 Future Land Use Map 10 Appendix: Definitions 34 The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 2 of 38 V:\Projccts\2004\04.00170 General Punning Svcs \ Redevelopment Plan\2007 REDEVELOPMENT P[AN_Inal.doc City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan SECTION 1 Purpose Statement The purpose of the City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan is to establish an economically viable program for managed growth which will stimulate economic development and improve the quality of life in the community and surrounding areas. Goals: I) Economic Development Encourage business development that will contribute to the economic and social well being of the City and its residents by facilitating/supporting business growth and employment opportunities consistent with community needs. 2) Quality of Life. Improve the quality of life by eliminating slum and blight conditions; enhancing transportation circulation and public facilities, fostering community beautification, encouraging protection of the natural environment, providing amenities and recreation opportunities, upgrading general appearance of the subject area and providing for cultural enrichment. Introduction The purpose of this plan is to implement the purpose statement and the primary goals of the redevelopment plan and to provide the City an actionable plan for shaping existing and future development within the redevelopment area. Issues inherent in the redevelopment plan include such factors as economic development, redevelopment, rehabilitation, slum and blight reduction, traffic circulation, public facilities, beautification, preservation of the natural environment, recreation, architectural themes, promotion of arts, cultural activity and other facets of community life. The City is approximately 2 square miles with a population of 10,317 residents and is located on the Atlantic Coast approximately 50 miles east of Orlando. The City itself is highly accessible, just south of the Kennedy Space Center, Port Canaveral and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and north of the City of Cocoa Beach. The Banana River, a part of the Indian River Lagoon System, forms the western border and the Atlantic Ocean is the eastern City boundary. Located within a three hour drive to Miami, Jacksonville or Tampa Bay, and within a forty five minute drive to both the Orlando International and Melbourne International Airports, the City demonstrates its central location to other major metropolitan areas in Florida. The close proximity to Port Canaveral, a deep water port which accommodates a variety of commerce through both cargo ships as well as passenger cruise liners, provides the City with some additional opportunities. The Kennedy Space Center, a source of national pride which symbolizes technological leadership, will provide for future opportunities yet to be realized. The City's economy is largely based upon activities of the Kennedy Space Center, the area's tourism, Port Canaveral operations and military bases. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan — March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 3 of 38 V:1,Projccis\2004104-00E70 General Planning Svcs \ Redevclopment Plan \2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_ iinatdoc Existing Conditions The City's economic reliance upon the activities of the Kennedy Space Center is evident based upon the number of high tech industries in the City. Tourism is seasonal; however, it is also related to the activities at Port Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center. There are increasing development opportunities at Port Canaveral due to their continued expansion into the cruise industry. It is anticipated that there will be positive spin-off activity occurring in the City. There is some uncertainty as to the extent or type of development that may occur as a result. Recently several large tracts of vacant undeveloped land in the northwest section of the City were developed to include: the Residence Inn, Country Inn and Suites, Cape Caribe, Puerto Del Rio and Bayport. In addition, there are a few vacant office type buildings along the AIA corridor. The existing structures were built during a series of growth spurts that Cape Canaveral experienced in the past. This has created an unidentifiable architectural style or theme. Architectural consistency is a contributing component in creating a sense of community. The majority of the existing commercial buildings along the A1A corridor are small shopping plazas, restaurants and offices. 2005 CAPE CANAVERAL EXISTING LAND USE ANALYSIS Land Use Acreage % of City Residential 689 50.2 • Commercial 167 12.2 Industrial 161 11.7 Public / Recreation 109 7.9 Roads/Right of Ways 140 10.2 Vacant 106 7.7 Total 1,372 J 99.9% Source: Brevard County Property Appraiser 2005 Surrounding Conditions The Kennedy Space Center, the cruise industry, Port Canaveral, military bases and other tourism and ancillary services provide most of the employment opportunities for the City. However, the employment stability of the Kennedy Space Center has varied by year and by program. Tourism and beach access is another vital attraction to the City. Tourism can be very cyclical and depend to a large extent on the health of the national economy. Port Canaveral has been expanding their cruise line operations by providing more terminals to handle additional passengers. The remainder of the County also thrives on the stability of the space industry and its ability to attract tourists to the area. However, to a lesser extent than in the past the need to diversify has taken hold to better manage changes to both tourism and the space industry_ Surrounding residential areas are ripe for redevelopment. The potential for redevelopment is emerging in the older residential areas within the City. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 4 of 38 V:\Projccts\2004\04-00170 Genera] Planning Svcs \ Redevelopment Plan\2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_final.doc SECTION 2 Need For A Redevelopment Plan There exists a need for economic development and redevelopment along the AlA and North Atlantic Avenue corridors. These two corridors represent the core of the City's activity, providing for most of the community's needs and functioning as the gateway to the City. Presently, the AlA corridor continues to see a resurgence of economic development; however, there are still some areas that are in need of redevelopment. North Atlantic Avenue has shown some infrastructure and landscaping improvements such as pedways, but there needs to be redevelopment activity along this corridor. Much of the North Atlantic corridor has converted to residential. If commercial or office use is going to function in this area the City needs to examine alternatives to make this happen. In addition, the aging structures along the AlA corridor are, in some cases, sub -standard. The overhead airspace is cluttered with exposed utility lines, support poles, and non- conforming commercial signs. Some clutter has been reduced but still exists. The roadsides are in the process of being upgraded for pedestrian convenience and travel. The overall lack of building continuity in terms of architecture, size, shape and appearance, which has not or does not foster a sense of community, has seen improvements. The benefits of the Community Appearance Board and the Beautification Board axe now taking shape. Of increasing concern is the worsening traffic congestion which impedes safe and convenient travel by motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians. Multiple curb cuts and numerous intersections have created several inefficient and even dangerous intersections. The combination of these factors has created both the perceived and real conditions of slum and blight and also may affect the health, safety and welfare of our citizens. Redevelopment Boundary This redevelopment plan will be utilized to implement the goals of economic stability and enhanced quality of life within the City. The boundaries of the redevelopment area are described as: All of the incorporated boundaries of the City of Cape Canaveral, with the exception of R- l zones and the area west of Astronaut Boulevard from Thurm Boulevard to the Country Inn and Suites westward to the Banana River (see Redevelopment Plan Map). The primary corridors of the City are the MA corridor, North Atlantic and Ridgewood Avenues. The MA corridor functions as the north and south gateway to the City and is the first impression for one entering the City of Cape Canaveral. This corridor is also the major life line for goods and services for the part and full time residents and overnight visitors of Cape Canaveral. North Atlantic Avenue is an important transportation corridor as well, providing additional opportunities for goods and services and an alternative route to Port Canaveral. While AIA handles both local and non -local transportation, North Atlantic Avenue services primarily residents of Cape Canaveral. North Atlantic Avenue helps to separate the single family residential areas from the commercial activity found along AlA. Requirements To Declare Redevelopment Area The redevelopment area must demonstrate the presence of blighted conditions as defined The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 5 of 38 V:\Projects\2004\0a-00170 General Planning Svcs \Redevelopment Plan\2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN final.doc by Chapter 163.340, Florida Statutes. The statutory requirements dictate the factors which must be considered in the analysis and determination of a redevelopment area. 1. "Slum Area" means an area having physical or economic conditions conducive to disease, infant mortality, juvenile delinquency, poverty, or crime because there is a predominance of buildings or improvements, whether residential or nonresidential, which are impaired by reason of dilapidation, deterioration, age, or obsolescence, and exhibiting one or more of the following factors: a) Inadequate provision for ventilation, light, air, sanitation, or open spaces; b) High density of population, compared to the population density of adjacent areas within the county or municipality; and overcrowding, as indicated by government -maintained statistics or other studies and the requirements of the Florida Building Code; or c) The existence of conditions that endanger life or property by fire or other causes. 2. "Blighted area" means an area in which there are a substantial number of deteriorated, or deteriorating structures, in which conditions, as indicated by government -maintained statistics or other studies, are leading to economic distress or endanger life or property, and in which two or more of the following factors are present: a) Predominance of defective or inadequate street layout, parking facilities, roadways, bridges, or public transportation facilities; b) Aggregate assessed values of real property in the area for ad valorem tax purposes have failed to show any appreciable increase over the 5 years prior to the finding of such conditions; c) Faulty lot layout in relation to size, adequacy, accessibility, or usefulness; d) Unsanitary or unsafe conditions; e) Deterioration of site or other improvements; f) Inadequate and outdated building density patterns; g) Falling lease rates per square foot of office, commercial, or industrial space compared to the remainder of the county or municipality; h) Tax or special assessment delinquency exceeding the fair value of the land; i) Residential and commercial vacancy rates higher in the area than in the remainder of the county or municipality; j) Incidence of crime in the area higher than in the remainder of the county or municipality; k) Fire and emergency medical service calls to the area proportionately higher than in the remainder of the county or municipality; 1) A greater number of violations of the Florida Building Code in the area than the number of violations recorded in the remainder of the county or municipality; The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 6 of 38 V:\Prejects\2004\O4-00170 General Planning Svcs \Redevelopment Plan 12007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_final.doc m) Diversity of ownership of defective or unusual conditions of title which prevent the free accessibility of land within the deteriorated or hazardous area; or n) Governmentally owned property with adverse environmental conditions caused by a public or private entity. However, the term "blighted area" also means any area in which at least one of the factors identified in paragraphs a) through n) are present and all taxing authorities subject to 163.387(2)(a) agree, either by interlocal agreement or agreements with the agency or by resolution, that the area is blighted. Such agreement or resolution shall only determine that the area is blighted. For purposes of qualifying for the tax credits authorized in chapter 220, "blighted area" means an area as defined in this subsection. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 7 of 38 V: \Projccts\2004 j04-00170 Genera] Planning Svcs\ Redevelopment Plan12007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_Iiinal.doc BROM 04-GO170 00-00.00 02.27.2007 MILLER%LEGG ..un.. Lsn,V.1•asr i.lie e,.t'u9111111A a1 h...d..som... .ra• .t.l.na 'sea i�lr q RFTCH! R ST SHOREWOODDR III —' \ E-8-IT JNG RD ^fit SEAPORT BLVD BEACH PARK LA Iffititi tutu la ION WO (� F As�ir. 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ZFF135cg A_. ihriCIRIATIONAL AY • -- tr.ev_ww VANE firE nruma r3.51- 112 r CENTER AT it1T aA Cr 08 • nn 1 5 i R CAR,FR 31 f rAS,11...1 A!' r _37'. 1 5 CARVER 37 u...----,,,..,;.-,..-'tou_521LEk;.-v. 1 ..17_441 _._ ....,_ ..1_... .__TAn...7(L.,,A.tL,_ ._. T,....., ... _.....pRid, ,. .41C„.....,„4Au, -- —cc., Ay _ -0oRi_vAy45 "— EHERED PF, Jets 1L.IRS iopo.s?i AV MVO .?R11114R General Findings Inadequate or Defective Street Layout The redevelopment area contains several examples of defective street layouts. On the east side of MA, south of the North Atlantic Avenue intersection, there are street intersections every 250 feet. Between these intersections are multiple and/or continuous curb cuts providing access to area businesses. A second example of deficient roadway design is the absence of right hand turn lanes on AlA and North Atlantic Avenue. The absence of a right on red light at the intersection of AlA and North Atlantic Avenue is of primary concern. The lack of a right hand turn lane impedes traffic flow because traffic must first slow down to make the turn while still in a main travel lane. State Route AlA includes a system of open medians for left hand turns. The open median for left hand turns allows a motorist to have a greater number of options than traffic islands. However, motorists may prematurely enter the median lane and need to travel further down the road to make their turn. Vehicles traveling from the other direction may also be utilizing the turn lane creating a potentially dangerous situation. High speeds are generated by persons traveling south bound on AlA into the city from the Beachline Expressway. While speed limits signs are posted, speeding appears to be a common problem. Faulty Lot Layout The City's Zoning Code requires minimum lot sizes of 7,500 square feet with an exception for townhouses which are permitted on lots of 6,250 square feet. Numerous substandard lots exist within the redevelopment area. These lots are used primarily for single family residences as non -conforming uses. Unsafe Conditions Unsafe conditions exist in two forms, one traffic related and the other the presence of abandoned buildings creating unsafe traffic conditions, for motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians. Also, there are a lack of sidewalks and pedestrian ways. In the redevelopment area, there exists a few vacant buildings that have been this way for some time. Without proper security these buildings can attract vandals and escalate into more serious types of crime. Deterioration of Site There are a few commercial office buildings along the City's main corridor which are vacant, and have been vacant for some time. Some of these buildings are substantial in size, and have been difficult to market in the past. Most of these buildings occupy prime locations within the city so that repair and maintenance are of prime importance to the entire area. Tax Delinquency Tax Delinquency has not been identified as a major issue in this area. However, if The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 11 of 38 V:\Projects\2004\04-00170 General Planning Svcs \Redevelopment Plan\2007 REDEVEWPMENT P4AN_finaf.doc conditions were allowed to worsen this possibility could present itself. Diversity of Ownership There does exist a diversity of ownership, especially with the single family residences that are on substandard lots. Many of the commercial lots have been combined in order to meet the minimum lot requirements. Redevelopment Powers and Requirements The Community Redevelopment Act of 1969, Chapter 163, Part III Florida Statues, as amended, in recognition of the need to prevent and eliminate conditions of slum and blight, confers upon counties and municipalities the authority and powers necessary to carry out redevelopment activities. While many of the redevelopment powers are assigned to the Redevelopment Board, certain other powers are retained by the jurisdictional governing body, the City of Cape Canaveral City Council. The City Council retains: 1. The power to determine an area to be a slum or blighted area, or combination thereof; and to designate such an area as appropriate for community redevelopment; and to hold any public hearings required with respect thereto. 2. The power to grant final approval of community redevelopment plans and modification thereof; 3. The power to authorize the issuance of revenue bonds as set forth in s. 163.385; 4. The power to approve the acquisition, demolition, removal or disposal of property as provided in s. 163.370(4) and the power to assume the responsibility to bear loss as provided in s. 163.370(4). 5. The power to approve the development of community policing innovations. 6. The power of eminent domain. Other powers made available to community redevelopment boards and/or governing bodies include, but are not limited to the following (163.370, F.S.): (a) To make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of its powers under this part. (b) To disseminate slum clearance and community redevelopment information. (c) To undertake and carry out community redevelopment and related activities within the community redevelopment area, which may include: The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 12 of 38 V:\Prajccts\2004,1,04-00170 Gencral Planning Svcs\Rcdevelopment Plan \2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_liinal.doc I. Acquisition of property within a slum area or a blighted area by purchase, lease, option, gift, grant, bequest, devise, or other voluntary method of acquisition. 2. Demolition and removal of buildings and improvements. 3. Installation, construction, or reconstruction of streets, utilities, parks, playgrounds, public areas of major hotels that are constructed in support of convention centers, including meeting rooms, banquet facilities, parking garages, lobbies, and passageways, and other improvements necessary for carrying out in the community redevelopment area the community redevelopment objectives of this part in accordance with the community redevelopment plan. 4. Disposition of any property acquired in the community redevelopment area at its fair value as provided in s. 163.380 for uses in accordance with the community redevelopment plan. 5. Carrying out plans for a program of voluntary or compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements in accordance with the community redevelopment plan. 6. Acquisition by purchase, lease, option, gift, grant, bequest, devise, or other voluntary method of acquisition of real property in the community redevelopment area which, under the community redevelopment plan, is to be repaired or rehabilitated for dwelling use or related facilities, repair or rehabilitation of the structures for guidance purposes, and resale of the property. 7. Acquisition by purchase, lease, option, gift, grant, bequest, devise, or other voluntary method of acquisition of any other real property in the community redevelopment area when necessary to eliminate unhealthful, unsanitary, or unsafe conditions; lessen density; eliminate obsolete or other uses detrimental to the public welfare; or otherwise to remove or prevent the spread of blight or deterioration or to provide land for needed public facilities. 8. Acquisition, without regard to any requirement that the area be a slum or blighted area, of air rights in an area consisting principally of land in highways, railway or subway tracks, bridge or tunnel entrances, or other similar facilities which have a blighting influence on the surrounding area and over which air rights sites are to be developed for the elimination of such blighting influences and for the provision of housing (and related facilities and uses) designed The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 13 of 38 V:\Projccts\2004' 04-00170 General Planning Svcs \Redevelopment Plan`2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_final.doc specifically for, and limited to, families and individuals of low or moderate income. 9. Acquisition by purchase, lease, option, gift, grant, bequest, devise, or other voluntary method of acquisition of property in unincorporated enclaves surrounded by the boundaries of a community redevelopment area when it is determined necessary by the agency to accomplish the community redevelopment plan. 10. Construction of foundations and platforms necessary for the provision of air rights sites of housing (and related facilities and uses) designed specifically for, and limited to, families and individuals of low or moderate income. (d) To provide, or to arrange or contract for, the furnishing or repair by any person or agency, public or private, of services, privileges, works, streets, roads, public utilities, or other facilities for or in connection with a community redevelopment; to install, construct, and reconstruct streets, utilities, parks, playgrounds, and other public improvements; and to agree to any conditions that it deems reasonable and appropriate which are attached to federal financial assistance and imposed pursuant to federal law relating to the determination of prevailing salaries or wages or compliance with labor standards, in the undertaking or carrying out of a community redevelopment and related activities, and to include in any contract let in connection with such redevelopment and related activities provisions to fulfill such of the conditions as it deems reasonable and appropriate. (e) Within the community redevelopment area: 1. To enter into any building or property in any community redevelopment area in order to make inspections, surveys, appraisals, soundings, or test borings and to obtain an order for this purpose from a court of competent jurisdiction in the event entry is denied or resisted. 2. To acquire by purchase, lease, option, gift, grant, bequest, devise, or other voluntary method of acquisition any personal or real property, together with any improvements thereon. 3. To hold, improve, clear, or prepare for redevelopment any such property. 4. To mortgage, pledge, hypothecate, or otherwise encumber or dispose of arty real property. 5. To insure or provide for the insurance of any real or personal property or operations of the county or municipality against any risks or hazards, including the power to pay premiums on any such insurance. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 14 of 38 V: \ Projects \2004 \04.00 ] 70 General Planning Sves\ Redevelopment Pan \2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_Gna].doc 6. To enter into any contracts necessary to effectuate the purposes of this part. 7. To solicit requests for proposals for redevelopment of parcels of real property contemplated by a community redevelopment plan to be acquired for redevelopment purposes by a community redevelopment agency and, as a result of such requests for proposals, to advertise for the disposition of such real property to private persons pursuant to s. 163.380 prior to acquisition of such real property by the community redevelopment agency. (f) To invest any community redevelopment funds held in reserves or sinking funds or any such funds not required for immediate disbursement in property or securities in which savings banks may legally invest funds subject to their control and to redeem such bonds as have been issued pursuant to s. 163.385 at the redemption price established therein or to purchase such bonds at less than redemption price, all such bonds so redeemed or purchased to be canceled. (g) To borrow money and to apply for and accept advances, loans, grants, contributions, and any other form of financial assistance from the Federal Government or the state, county, or other public body or from any sources, public or private, for the purposes of this part and to give such security as may be required and to enter into and carry out contracts or agreements in connection therewith; and to include in any contract for financial assistance with the Federal Government for or with respect to community redevelopment and related activities such conditions imposed pursuant to federal laws as the county or municipality deems reasonable and appropriate which are not inconsistent with the purposes of this part. (h) To make or have made all surveys and plans necessary to the carrying out of the purposes of this part; to contract with any person, public or private, in making and carrying out such plans; and to adopt or approve, modify, and amend such plans, which plans may include, but are not limited to: 1. Plans for carrying out a program of voluntary or compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings and improvements. 2. Plans for the enforcement of state and local laws, codes, and regulations relating to the use of land and the use and occupancy of buildings and improvements and to the compulsory repair, rehabilitation, demolition, or removal of buildings and improvements. 3. Appraisals, title searches, surveys, studies, and other plans and work necessary to prepare for the undertaking of community redevelopment and related activities. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 15 of 38 V:\Prajecls\2004\04-00]70 General Planning Svcs\ Redevelopment Plan\2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_final.clac (i) To develop, test, and report methods and techniques, and carry out demonstrations and other activities, for the prevention and the elimination of slums and urban blight and developing and demonstrating new or improved means of providing housing for families and persons of low income. 6) To apply for, accept, and utilize grants of funds from the Federal Government for such purposes. (k) To prepare plans for and assist in the relocation of persons (including individuals, families, business concerns, nonprofit organizations, and others) displaced from a community redevelopment area and to make relocation payments to or with respect to such persons for moving expenses and losses of property for which reimbursement or compensation is not otherwise made, including the making of such payments financed by the Federal Government. (1) To appropriate such funds and make such expenditures as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this part; to zone or rezone any part of the county or municipality or make exceptions from building regulations; and to enter into agreements with a housing authority, which agreements may extend over any period, notwithstanding any provision or rule of law to the contrary, respecting action to be taken by such county or municipality pursuant to any of the powers granted by this part. (m) To close, vacate, plan, or replan streets, roads, sidewalks, ways, or other places and to plan or replan any part of the county or municipality. (n) To organize, coordinate, and direct the administration of the provisions of this part, as they may apply to such county or municipality, in order that the objective of remedying slum and blighted areas and preventing the causes thereof within such county or municipality may be most effectively promoted and achieved and to establish such new office or offices of the county or municipality or to reorganize existing offices in order to carry out such purpose most effectively. (o) To develop and implement community policing innovations. (3) The following projects may not be paid for or financed by increment revenues: (a) Construction or expansion of administrative buildings for public bodies or police and fire buildings, unless each taxing authority agrees to such method of financing for the construction or expansion, or unless the construction or expansion is contemplated as part of a community policing innovation. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 16 of 38 V:`Projects \2004\04.00170 General PlanntnR Svcs\ Redevelopment Plan I2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAIV_finnl.doc (b) Installation, construction, reconstruction, repair, or alteration of any publicly owned capital improvements or projects if such projects or improvements were scheduled to be installed, constructed, reconstructed, repaired, or altered within 3 years of the approval of the community redevelopment plan by the governing body pursuant to a previously approved public capital improvement or project schedule or plan of the governing body which approved the community redevelopment plan unless and until such projects or improvements have been removed from such schedule or plan of the governing body and 3 years have elapsed since such removal or such projects or improvements were identified in such schedule or plan to be funded, in whole or in part, with funds on deposit within the community redevelopment trust fund. (c) General government operating expenses unrelated to the planning and carrying out of a community redevelopment plan. (4) With the approval of the governing body, a community redevelopment agency may: (a) Prior to approval of a community redevelopment plan or approval of any modifications of the plan, acquire real property in a community redevelopment area by purchase, Iease, option, gift, grant, bequest, devise, or other voluntary method of acquisition; demolish and remove any structures on the property; and pay all costs related to the acquisition, demolition, or removal, including any administrative or relocation expenses, provided such acquisition is not pursuant to s. 163.375. (b) Assume the responsibility to bear any loss that may arise as the result of the exercise of authority under this subsection, in the event that the real property is not made part of the community redevelopment area. All powers referenced above and others provided in Chapter 163, Part III, may be required to carry out the intent of this Community Redevelopment Plan and future modifications. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 17 of 38 V:'Projects \2004\04-00170 General Planning Svcs \Redevelopment Plan1,2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_finar.doc SECTION 3 Redevelopment Activities In order to implement the goals and objectives of the redevelopment plan, the following are methods of implementation that the City can utilize. Land Acquisition The City is authorized to assemble and acquire properties including the improvement thereon. This activity can occur by offers of purchase, negotiation, dedication, condemnation or by the process of eminent domain. In the case of land acquisition, land and improvement appraisals will be made and the value of existing commercial establishments including their yearly earnings will be computed. Relocation Procedures The City accepts the responsibility to provide assistance to residents and businesses displaced as a result of the redevelopment actions directly implemented and carried out by the City. The City shall use the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development standard relocation procedures be used in establishing guidelines for the Redevelopment Program when public agencies directly implement public program projects. Policy guidelines when the City directly implements a relocation project: 1. Provide affected residents and businesses with adequate notification to permit relocation with minimum delay or hardship. 2. Provide affected residents with assistance as necessary to secure comparable, adequate affordable housing. 3. Provide businesses the opportunity to relocate within the Redevelopment Area, consistent with the intent of the Redevelopment Plan. 4. Provide fair and reasonable financial and other assistance to compensate residents and businesses affected by displacement. 5. Prior to the initiation of property acquisition by the City, conduct a survey of all residents and businesses likely to be affected by the acquisition. The survey shall identify specific relocation requirements and costs. Demolition The City may, once a property is acquired in the redevelopment area, authorize demolition and clearing of substandard structures and accessory buildings in conjunction with plan implementation. It is also anticipated that the clearance and demolition of other facilities are to occur. These include paving of pedestrian ways; planting of trees and other vegetation; widening and or paving of roads and other installed facilities as part of the redevelopment program. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 18 of 38 VAProjects,2004\04-00170 General Planning Svcs \Redevetopment Plan ',2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_final.doc Property Disposition The City is authorized to sell, lease, exchange, assign, pledge, encumber by mortgage or deed of trust or otherwise dispose of real property in accordance with the intent of the Redevelopment Plan and with applicable law. Disposal by sale or lease of real property shall be at fair market value in accordance with the development proposed by the redevelopment plan. Property will be disposed of by competitive process whereby interested developers will submit proposals including plans and specifications, financial statements, time schedules and proposed purchase and lease rates. Selected bids shall be required to execute binding agreements which will safeguard the provision of the redevelopment plan. It shall be the policy of the City to strive to secure binding agreements with developers prior to expenditures by the City for real property acquisition, relocation and site preparation. The City shall have the right to review and approve construction plans and to refuse to approve plans found not in conformance with applicable disposition agreements, covenants or other land development controls. Rehabilitation The City is authorized to repair and improve public structures under their ownership showing signs of physical or aesthetic deterioration. Property owners may be assisted in securing financial assistance for such rehabilitation if eligible and necessary. Public Improvements The City is authorized to make all forms of public improvements as needed, including aesthetic improvements. Existing water, sewer, gas, electric power, street lights, telephone lines, cable TV lines and other such facilities may be rerouted, abandoned, relocated, buried or newly provided. Utility easements, streets, sidewalks and alleys may be constructed or vacated as needed to provide the desired access to developed parcels of property_ Drainage ways, retention areas, and curb/gutter facilities may be rerouted, abandoned or newly constructed as needed. Bond Issuance and Loans Bonds may have to be issued in order to finance some intended activities described above. Such bonds will necessarily have to be secured by several sources including tax increment funds and possibly County revenues. Grant Applications Certain Federal and/or State grants should be pursued and applied for where appropriate for the intended projects. The Urban Development Action Grant and the Community Development Block Grant Programs should be used, as well as the available programs. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 19 of 38 V:\Projects\2004\04-00170 General Planning Svcs\ Redevelopment Plan5,2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_ iina].doc Legal Action The City is authorized to seek legal counsel and services as needed in contracts and agreements, bond creation, eminent domain procedures and overall legal defenses. Financial Mechanisms Financing each of the projects of the redevelopment plan will be the most important factor on the speed in which the redevelopment plan is implemented. Some projects will be given different priorities based on need and cost. Others will depend largely on grant acquisitions, public and private contributions, donations and sponsorship. Others projects may be considered long term not to be found in the first few planning horizons until other projects are completed and paid off. The City may establish investment incentives for commercially zoned property. Further utilize all state and county funding mechanisms as available. Consider, where appropriate, municipally funded incentives. The following is a brief outline of some of the financial mechanisms that can be used by the City of Cape Canaveral for redevelopment activities. Tax Increment Financing Tax increment financing is typically the major source of funding for redevelopment projects in the State of Florida. The provisions pursuant to Florida Statutes 163.385 allow the City Council to issue Redevelopment Revenue Bonds to finance redevelopment projects with the security bonds based upon anticipated assessed valuation of the completed community redevelopment. In this manner, the additional annual taxes generated within the redevelopment area, known as "tax increment, are used to finance the long term bond debt. The redevelopment agency may use bond anticipation notes to provide funds up front until sufficient tax increment funds are available to amortize a bond issue. Bonds The City, upon plan approval and Council authorization, will have the ability or power to issue bonds in order to finance certain projects. Additionally, it may be necessary for the City to issue bonds for some of the projects, especially those of a public improvement nature. The types of bonds that can be issued are: General Obligation Bonds - These are bonds which are secured by ad valorem or other taxing power of the local government. They are underwritten by competitive negotiations and require a public referendum before issuance. They are usually given a high rating by the rating agencies. Revenue Bonds - These bonds are secured from the revenues generated by the projects themselves which the bonds finance; i.e., pay parking lots, stadium, arena or other civic facility. They usually do not require a referendum and are not underwritten competitively. Bonds sold for tax increment financing are a form of revenue bond. They are usually secured by additional sources of funding to receive a higher rating. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 20 of 38 V:\Projects\2004\04-00170 General Planning Svcs \ Redevelopment Plan ‘2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLANJinal.doc Industrial Development Bonds - These are typical of revenue bonds which are issued to build a facility for a private corporation or entity. This facility is then leased to the corporation or private entity to pay off the bonds. The lease payments are usually low because of the tax exempt status. Industrial Revenue Bonds - These bonds may be used to finance industrial, and some commercial projects. The primary emphasis on such projects is the creation of jobs, and as a consequence speculative venture are not normally financed by this means. Such bonds are typically issued with repayment pledged against the revenues of the private enterprise being funded. Industrial Revenue Bonds are tax exempt and consequently are typically three percentage points below the prevailing interest rate. There is considerable review and investigation prior to their use. Short Term Notes - These are a form of bond, but rather than long term maturity dates, these notes usually mature in one year or less and are used for the interim financing in several instances. 1. Tax Anticipation Notes are issued in anticipation of future tax receipts and are paid from these receipts. 2. Revenue Anticipation Notes are issued in anticipation of other sources of future revenues (usually federal and State aid or grants). 3. Bond Anticipation Notes are usually quite insecure and are issued as a means of interim financing in anticipation of future bond offering. 4. General Obligation Notes are secured by the full backing of the City in the same way as the general obligation bond and usually enjoy the same high security rating. The importance of the municipal bond or note is that they are tax free to the investor. Land Sales/Leases Acquisitions of property and its preparation for development are powers available to the City under statutory provisions. The resale or leasing of such land at fair market value to private developers can provide another source of income within the redevelopment area. Grants Grants are the most desirable of all the funding sources to the City since such improvements can be funded without affecting the City's general fund or share costs of such improvements limiting debt service. Some of the grant sources available for redevelopment purposes are: The Department of Transportation ISTFA enhancement grant whose purpose is The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 21 of 38 V:\Projects\2004\04-00170 General Planning Svcs \ Redevelopment Plan\2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_GnaLdoc to beautify transportation facilities on the State Highway System through cooperative ventures with local governments and highway beautification groups. The AIA corridor in conjunction with the redevelopment plan could be an excellent leverage to secure such grants. This is a matching grant requiring a 50% match and a maintenance agreement. Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) are federal grants which can be used at the discretion of the County for revitalizing communities. It is a multi- year grant and an entitlement grant. The CDBG are administered by the CDBG Advisory Council who determines the target areas for such funding. Typically these grants have been used for primarily residential areas and the CDBG Advisory Council target the areas most in need. However, the Redevelopment (Agency) Board should become familiar with the CDBG process and make themselves known the CDBG Advisory Council to encourage future support. Tourism Development Council funding comes from a three cent tourist tax (Bed Tax) and revenues are dispersed through a competitive grant process and require a 50% match. Historic Preservation Grants are available bi-annually from the state and usually require a 50% match an all grants. In kind services can be used by the City as part of their 50% match. Contributions Contributions or sponsorship by private companies, organizations and individuals are a potential source of income. Contributions could be achieved through encouraging private companies in achieving redevelopment goals without expending redevelopment dollars, i.e. installing architectural facades on their store fronts at their cost and leisure. Contributions could be volunteering resource for community or redevelopment events. Special Assessment Districts The City Council may wish to create special assessment districts within the redevelopment area. An example of a special assessment that could be utilized by the City would be one to pay for sidewalks or pedestrian ways. Taxing and Tax Incentives Similar to special assessments, taxing and tax incentives are more specific to a project or need; i.e., recreation for a specific neighborhood rather than the redevelopment or city as a whole. The majority of the expenses to be paid for projects would be paid through new construction and eventually through taxes for improved values within the redevelopment area. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 22 of 38 V:\Prajccts1,2004%04-00170 General Planning Svcs\ Redevelopment Plan\2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN finaf.dnc SECTION 4 Neighborhood Impact Statement For any redevelopment project that requires property acquisition or other public involvement, an extensive neighborhood impact statement will be prepared at that time, pursuant to Chapter 163.362, Florida Statutes. Amending The Redevelopment Plan The redevelopment plan may be amended at any time subject to approval and adoption requirements by Chapter 163.361, Florida Statutes. Plan Duration The redevelopment provisions, controls, restrictions and covenants of the Redevelopment Plan shall be effective for 30 years from the date of adoption. Severability If any provision, section or policy of the Redevelopment Plan is held to be invalid, unconstitutional, or legally infirm, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the Redevelopment Plan. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 23 of 38 VAPrnjccts\2004\04-00170 General Planning Svcs\ Redevelopment Plan \2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_final.doc SECTION 5 Redevelopment Goals and Objectives The two goals of the redevelopment plan are summarized in the plan purpose, to 1) encourage business development that will contribute to the economic and social well-being of the City and its residents by facilitating/supporting business growth and employment opportunities consistent with community needs and 2) to improve the quality of life by eliminating slum and blight conditions; enhancing transportation circulation and public facilities, fostering community beautification, encouraging protection of the natural environment, providing amenities and recreation opportunities, upgrading general appearance of the subject area and providing for cultural enrichment. Goal Goal 1. Economic Development and Redevelopment The first part of the goal would be accomplished by determining where redevelopment or reuse needs to occur. Second, where building rehabilitation can occur. Third, what economic development strategies to embrace, and by evaluating existing land use controls that help to direct growth and the administrative aspects of a successful redevelopment program. Objective Objective 1.1 - Redevelopment Encourage acquisition, reuse or possibly demolition for those properties which are no longer functioning at their highest and best use based upon either changes in market, (i.e. new technologies or consumer preferences, or by virtue of their location, physical condition and/or surrounding conditions). When at all possible, 'building preservation and conservation should be utilized to help maintain the community character. Policies Policy 1.1.1. Identify those property owners within areas designated for potential redevelopment projects and assess their willingness to participate in those projects. Policy 1.1.2. Encourage partnerships among property owners, the private sector, the public sector, in order to implement proposed redevelopment projects which will achieve the redevelopment goals. Policy 1.1.3. Facilitate redevelopment transitions by developing appropriate relocation plans as needed for those whose properties undergo reuse or redevelopment activities. Policy 1.1.4. Create incentives to encourage private participation in redevelopment programs. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan — March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 24 of 38 V:\Projects\2004\04-00170 General Planning Svcs\ Redevelopment Plan \2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_iinal.doc Policy 1.1.5. Structures that meet State requirements for being a State historic structure should be preserved. Policy 1.1.6. Explore City Hall or government center possibility with space for community center, meeting rooms and coffee shop in order to optimize services to residents or businesses in the City to promote community involvement. Policy 1.1.7. Establish investment incentives for commercially zoned property. Further utilize all state and county funding mechanisms as available. Utilize, where appropriate, municipally funded incentives. Objective Objective 1.2 - Rehabilitation Buildings that exhibit minor dilapidation or deterioration or have correctable substandard construction should be considered for rehabilitation. In 2000, the Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing identified 264 units as substandard. The City target is to reduce this number to less than 200 by 2012. Policies Policy 1.2.1. Identify structures that exhibit minor dilapidation; or deterioration, i.e., signs that are damaged, structures that need painting or are missing minor portions of the structure. Policy 1.2.2. Identify structures that do not meet the present day building codes of the City. Every effort should be made to work with these property owners to assist them in bringing their structures up to code. Policy 1.2.3. Buildings that are in relatively good physical condition and have been unoccupied should be given priority when pursuing new tenants. Policy 1.2.4. A record should be prepared that documents the various amenities of the structure or site of vacant buildings or buildings that become vacant. This information should be made available for anyone interested in the area. Policy 1.2.5. Publicly or privately sponsored clean-up programs should be encouraged and planned, as needed. Policy 1.2.6. Provide incentives to encourage the rehabilitation and modernization of those buildings which are structurally sound, but are in deteriorating condition. Objective Objective 1.3 - Economic Development Establish an economic character and future mix for a stable and vital economic core The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 25 of 38 V:\Projects \2004\04-00170 Gcncra] Planning Svcs \Redevelopment Plan \2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_ inal.doc for the redevelopment area. In 2005, 106 acres have been identified as vacant undeveloped commercial land. The City target is to reduce the vacant lands to 50 acres by 2012. Policies Policy 1.3.1. Establish a partnership between the public sector and private sector, including interested property owners within the redevelopment area, for the purpose of understanding the mutual benefits of proposed redevelopment projects. Policy 1.3.2. Identify potential projects within the redevelopment area for both the public and private sectors and work toward their implementation. Policy 1.3.3. Create investment opportunities which will increase the tax base in the redevelopment area, thereby assisting the redevelopment area in financing public action to support development and redevelopment. Policy 1.3.4. Initiate public improvement projects which will attract and stimulate private investment, thereby improving the economic health of the area. Policy 1.3.5. To improve the City's website and create an interactive community center, partner with the local realtors association, chamber of commerce and neighboring communities to add available properties, desired community services or needs and upcoming developments and incentives. Policy 1.3.6. For combined use with a City hall or government center, add a chapter of the chamber of commerce to encourage efficiency and diversity of services, and promote EDC presence. Policy 1.3.7. Develop a Cape Canaveral Welcome Center to provide information, historical background and possibly exterior sculpture related to the City's "Brand." Policy 1.3.8. Develop a City-wide wireless system as a technological foundation for the business community for public access in the future/proposed community center. Objective Objective 1.4 - Land Use Controls Establish a land use pattern that reflects the redevelopment area as a total community of diversified interests and activities, and promote compatibility and harmonious land -use relationships. Land Development Regulations should be consistent with current and proposed growth patterns or considered for revision. Adopt by 2012 a downtown overlay zone (see definition) for the downtown or commercial core with specific percent of mixed use standards. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 26 of 38 V:\Projccisj2004\04-0017G General Planning Svcs‘Rcdevclopment Plan\2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_Gnal.doc Policies Policy 1.4.1. Work with property owners and residents to re-evaluate land use activities and the existing land use configuration within the redevelopment area consistent with the Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Regulations. Policy 1.4.2. Promote partnerships between the public and private sectors, including interested property owners for the purpose of property assemblage, financing, and the construction of projects recommended within the redevelopment plan, as well as others deemed to have public purpose. Policy 1.4.3. To increase value, create a mixed use and a diversity of light industrial, retail, professional service and residential developments throughout the redevelopment area that are consistent with the available infrastructure as defined in the Comprehensive Plan. Policy 1.4.4. Develop incentives for developer proposals exhibiting desirable site development techniques and providing desired amenities. Policy 1.4.5. Incent the consolidation of small parcels of land into parcels of adequate size to encourage new construction and stable and consistent growth. Objective Objective 1.5 - Administrative Establish the administrative and financial mechanisms necessary to achieve the goals and objectives of the City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan. Policies Policy 1.5.1. Establish a Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA -- see definition). Policy 1.5.2. Create new staff positions for Economic Development, Public Relations, Marketing and Grant Writing. Policy 1.5.3. Adopt the redevelopment plan by May 2007. Policy 1.5.4. Review the redevelopment plan quarterly, with the next complete update due in 2012. Policy 1.5.5. Create "Brand" or identifiable character or theme of the city, which represents the core values of the community. Policy 1.5.6. Identify and evaluate the various City Boards and how they interact and overlap with each other. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 27 of 38 V:\Projects\2004\O4-00170 General Planning Svcs\Redevelopment Plan\2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_finaLdoc Goal Goal 2 - Quality of Life The second goal is to improve the quality of life by eliminating slum and blight conditions, enhancing transportation circulation and public facilities, fostering community beautification, encouraging protection of the natural environment, providing amenities and recreation opportunities, upgrading general appearance of the subject area and providing for cultural enrichment. Objective Objective 2.1 - Slum and Blight Eliminate slum and blight conditions within the redevelopment area and prevent any future occurrence of slum and blight which constitute an economic and social liability. By 2012 the City shall identify alternative means of financial funding to eliminate slum and blight through the use of CDBG participation, facade/landscaping grants, matching grants, or neighborhood/volunteer events such as Paint the Town. Policies Policy 2.1.1. Identify, prioritize and eliminate dilapidated and unsafe structures through the application of the City's Code Enforcement Program and provide for relocation assistance for any displaced residents and businesses when necessary. Policy 2.1.2. Encourage the upgrading of existing substandard structures through the enforcement of the City's Code of Ordinances and building codes as well as through financial incentives. Policy 2.1.3. Eliminate unsanitary and unsightly outside storage conditions through 'the enforcement of the City's Code of Ordinances and building codes_ Policy 2.1.4. Coordinate with the community, Planning and Zoning Board and the Local Planning Agency to uphold a high degree of design and performance standards for the redevelopment area. Policy 2.1.5. Through partnerships create programs for development, financial, or other economic incentives in order to facilitate new investment opportunities. Policy 2.1.6. Develop a public awareness campaign to encourage personal responsibility and property improvements and promote financial incentives available to those properties in distress. Objective Objective 2.2 - Traffic Circulation Create a safe and efficient vehicular bike and pedestrian circulation system, to promote sufficient access between activity centers within the redevelopment area The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment PIan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 28 of 38 V:\Projects\2004\04-O0170 General Planning Svcs \ Redevelopment Plan \2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_Gnal.do and the balance of the community. The City shall continue to promote efficient traffic circulation systems and interconnectivity. City Target is to maintain and improve the local street system and LOS on all applicable roadways and measure the degree by which this target is implemented by 2012. Policies Policy 2.2.1. Work with the Florida Department of Transportation and property owners to ensure consistency with the Traffic Circulation Element and Capital Improvement Element regarding access along SR AIA. Policy 2.2.2. Identify means of reducing or eliminating access points along AlA through joint access and mutual participation. Policy 2.2.3. Build safe, appealing and efficient citywide routes for pedestrian and bike path system linking all major activity centers, parking facilities, and residential areas and encourage the City and businesses to provide an adequate number of strategically placed bike racks. Policy 2.2.4. Provide adequate loading and unloading space for delivery of goods with minimum disruption of through traffic. Policy 2.2.5. Encourage the provision of increased parking in convenient locations to accommodate new development. Policy 2.2.6. Minimize the impact of increased traffic circulation on residential areas. Policy 2.2.7. Identify and provide improvements, as necessary, to facilitate the highest level of service within the redevelopment area for traffic lights, alternative parking options, reduced speed limits and medians. Objective Objective 2.3 - Public Facilities Provide necessary public facilities at acceptable levels of service to accommodate new development proposed within the redevelopment area, consistent with the Policies of the Capital Improvements Element of the Comprehensive Plan. Ensure that all future development or redevelopment activities in the City will be directed into those areas where utility service and public facilities are available, with developers paying full cost of utility extension to their project. By 2012 develop a map illustrating any properties not currently connected to water, wastewater and reuse and identify those properties feasible for connection. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 29 of 38 V:\Projects\2004\04-OO170 General Planning Sves\Redevelopment Plan \2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_fnal.doc Policies Policy 2.3.1. Provide a sanitary sewer collection system that will serve the entire redevelopment area, including all proposed new development for the area. Policy 2.3.2. Provide a wastewater reuse system for landscape irrigation throughout the redevelopment area. Policy 2.3.3. Provide for stormwater management system that is consistent with the St. Johns River Water Management District and the Comprehensive Plan. Policy 2.3.4. Establish a solar energy and alternative fuel system for City facilities and activities. Policy 2.3.5. Require the placement of utility lines underground where it is feasible to improve visual qualities and work towards burying all utility lines in the long term. Objective Objective 2.4 - Beautification Create an identifiable character for the SR AlA and North Atlantic corridor and surrounding areas which will reflect a sense of community and pride associated within the redevelopment area. By 2012 each neighborhood or area should have an access to a green space, park, square, school, pedestrian walkway or commercial center. Access to transit centers or shaded bus stops may also be used to develop a sense of community. Policies Policy 2.4.1. Utilize decorative street lights on AlA, signage beautification measures, covered bus stop shelters and benches, additional park benches, a kayak ramp, picnic tables and other amenities to provide comfortable, pleasing and healthful work, leisure, residential and shopping environments. Policy 2.4.2. Evaluate the potential of participating in the Main Street program. Policy 2.4.3. Reevaluate and update the 1995 SR AlA Beautification PIan prepared by Stottler Stagg and Associates as necessary. Objective Objective 2.5 - Environment Environmental preservation shall be required in accordance with the guidelines established in the Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Regulations. The City shall maintain or exceed air and water quality standards as established by The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment PIan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 30 of 38 V:\Projects\2004\04-00170 General Planning Svcs\Redcvelopment Plan\2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_linal.doc the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation. By 2012 review mechanisms shall be in place to actively monitor air and water quality within the redevelopment area. Policies Policy 2.5.1. Maintain and comply with all Federal, State and Local requirements which are applicable to environmental preservation. Policy 2.5.2. Permit environmentally sensitive areas to be used to meet open space requirements, especially viable habitat areas. Policy 2.5.3. Continue to protect, preserve and procure green space for active and passive use. Policy 2.5.4. Establish appropriate ordinances to protect environmentally sensitive areas, promote beach preservation and to protect trees. Consider achieving Tree City USA designation or participating in Arbor Day activities. Objective Objective 2.6 - Recreation Recreation opportunities should be provided within the redevelopment area. By 2012 the City will develop and implement a Bicycle/Pedestrian Plan. Policies Policy 2.6.1. Acquire Cherie Down Park. Policy 2.6.2. Explore and expand sites, such as a multi -cultural facility, community center or senior center as a gathering place for special events or recreational activities which may include things like, cultural events, an international folk festival, food/ethnic activities, boat shows or holiday events and water based sports events or training_ Policy 2.6.3. Establish ordinances to allow for a beach patrol. Policy 2.6.4. Provide an access point at Washington Avenue. Policy 2.6.5. Develop playgrounds near every new (residential) development. Objective Objective 2.7 - Architectural Review A cohesive theme needs to be developed that establishes a sense of community. An architectural theme may be developed by the Community Appearance Board. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 31 of 38 V:\Projccts\2004\04-00170 Genera] Planning Svcs\Redevelopment Plan \2007 REDEVELOPMENT PIAN_inaLdoc By 2012 develop design standards for new development or redevelopment within the designated area. Process: Conduct of hearing; approval or denial. At the designated public hearing, the Community Appearance Board shall hear the applicant on the proposed application, and shall hear from members of the general public in accordance with the rules and procedures adopted by the city council and the board. During the public hearing, the applicant may be present in person or by counsel, and the applicant has the right to present evidence in support of his position and cross examine adverse witnesses whose testimony is offered at the hearing. The Community Appearance Board may approve, approve with conditions, or disapprove the application only after consideration of whether the following criteria are complied with: (1) The plans and specifications of the proposed project indicate that the setting, landscaping, ground cover, proportions, materials, colors, texture, scale, unity, balance, rhythm, contrast and simplicity are coordinated in a harmonious manner relevant to the particular proposal, surrounding area and cultural character of the community. (2) The plans for the proposed building or structure are in harmony with any future development which has been formally approved by the city within the surrounding area. (3) The plans for the proposed building or structure are not excessively similar or dissimilar to any other building or structure which is either fully constructed, permitted but not fully constructed, or included on the same permit application, and facing upon the same or intersecting street within 500 feet of the proposed site, with respect to one or more of the following features of exterior design and appearance: a. Front or side elevations; b. Size and arrangement of elevation facing the street, including reverse arrangement; or c. Other significant features of design such as, but not limited to: materials, roof line and height or design elements. (4) The plans for the proposed building or structure are in harmony with the established character of other buildings or structures in the surrounding area with respect to architectural specifications and design features deemed significant based upon commonly accepted architectural principles of the local community. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 32 of 38 V:\Projects\2004\04-00I70 General Planning Svcs\ Redevelopment Plan \2007 REDEVELOPMENT PG1N_frnal.doc Policies Policy 2.7.1. Create, implement or update use of standards for a visually uniform look, to include signage throughout redevelopment area. Policy 2.7.2. Identify and protect historical structures. Refurbish and/or relocate historical structures as required. Establish appropriate ordinances to preserve and protect historical sites. Objective Objective 2.8 - Cultural Enrichment To enrich the quality of life, by serving the community for residents and visitors by providing dynamic and innovative programs in the cultural arts. By 2012 develop and implement a heritage project. The purpose of such a project is to construct an image at the gateway, City Hall or another meaningful area to establish a theme or brand recognizable to the City of Cape Canaveral residents and visitors. Policies Policy 2.8.1. Encourage the acquisition of art that is appropriate for the streetscape of the redevelopment area, especially through private donations. Policy 2.8.2. Develop specia1i7ed license plate bracket for purchase. Policy 2.8.3. Rocket garden renovation and/or restoration project by sponsors, matching monies or grants. Policy 2.8.4. Wherever possible or feasible include a cultural component consistent with a sister city program. Policy 2.8.5. Begin steps towards an ongoing short and long term "vision" and plan_ Resource the current land use to incorporate in the "vision" or master plan a multi- cultural facility that serves both the community and brings visitors. Policy 2.8.6. Solicit the community in both private and corporate sponsorship for the support and begin applications of available funding and grants on all levels. Policy 2.8.7. To address the dynamics between cultural offerings and the economic impact for redevelopment for our City and surrounding areas. Compare and contrast the best offerings locally and throughout the county to fulfill the required ingredients necessary for a unique and signature cultural facility. Policy 2.8.8. Look closely at best proposals that bring something to the table. Review what historical, folklore and regional signature talents, collections, programs or professionals are available locally. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 33 of 38 V:\Prajecls\2004\04.00170 General Planning Svcs&Redevelopment Plan\2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_fnal.do Appendix DEFINITIONS Comprehensive Plan - From the 1985 Growth Management Act, Chapter 163, Florida Statutes requires that every municipality and county adopt a comprehensive plan that guides long range planning. Within the comprehensive plan are elements. Current elements include the future land use element, traffic circulation element, conservation element, parks and recreation element, intergovernmental coordination element, housing element and capital improvements element. Every seven years the statute requires an update to the comprehensive plan elements entitled the EAR or Evaluation and Appraisal Report. The City is currently in the EAR review stage and will propose updates to each element as needed. The EAR is due for State review by August 1, 2007. Goals, Objectives and Policies - similar format is used in this redevelopment plan to match the City's Comprehensive Plan. Goals are the umbrella statement for which major issues are discussed. Objectives further break down these statements into segments or topics. Policies are action statements which provide the measurable targets to meet the ultimate Goal of the section. Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) - The CRA is an Agency set up to oversee the redevelopment or revitalization of specified areas using tax increment funding. The Agency has a Community Redevelopment Agency Board. Improvements will be funded through tax increment funding mentioned earlier in this article. This is a unique form of financing available to cities and counties which leverages public funds to promote private sector activity in the targeted area. Taxing authorities pick a base year and determine the dollar value of all real property within the CRA area. From that year forward, as property values increase or new areas are developed within the CRA area, the taxes collected for that area are greater than that of the base year. The difference between the subsequent years and the base year is called the increment. It is the increment that is put into a trust fund to be used for redevelopment projects. Each year as the value of the property within the CRA increases, more money goes into the trust fund to pay for improvements. One point to remember is that the tax bill received by property within the CRA is the same as it would have been before the Agency was created. The difference is that Brevard County and the City of Cape Canaveral, for example, have earmarked any additional funds received from the growth in value to put back into the area from which it came. Downtown Overlay Zone - An identified City Center area characterized by mixed use development with residential and commercial uses. Redevelopment- (163.340, F.S. Definitions) - The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this part, have the following meanings: (1) "Agency" or "community redevelopment agency" means a public agency created by, or designated pursuant to, s. 163.356 or s. 163.357. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 34 of 38 V:\Projects\2004\04-00170 General Planning Svcs \Redevdopment Plan\2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_ iinal.dnc (2) 'Public body" means the state or any county, municipality, authority, special district as defined in s. 165.031(5), or other public body of the state, except a school district. (3) "Governing body" means the council, commission, or other legislative body charged with governing the county or municipality. (4) "Mayor" means the mayor of a municipality or, for a county, the chair of the board of county commissioners or such other officer as may be constituted by law to act as the executive head of such municipality or county. (5) "Clerk" means the clerk or other official of the county or municipality who is the custodian of the official records of such county or municipality. (6) "Federal Government" includes the United States or any agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States. (7) "Slum area" means an area having physical or economic conditions conducive to disease, infant mortality, juvenile delinquency, poverty, or crime because there is a predominance of buildings or improvements, whether residential or nonresidential, which are impaired by reason of dilapidation, deterioration, age, or obsolescence, and exhibiting one or more of the following factors: (a) Inadequate provision for ventilation, light, air, sanitation, or open spaces; (b) High density of population, compared to the population density of adjacent areas within the county or municipality; and overcrowding, as indicated by government - maintained statistics or other studies and the requirements of the Florida Building Code; or (c) The existence of conditions that endanger life or property by fire or other causes. (8) "Blighted area" means an area in which there are a substantial number of deteriorated, or deteriorating structures, in which conditions, as indicated by government -maintained statistics or other studies, are leading to economic distress or endanger Iife or property, and in which two or more of the following factors are present: (a) Predominance of defective or inadequate street layout, parking facilities, roadways, bridges, or public transportation facilities; (b) Aggregate assessed values of real property in the area for ad valorem tax purposes have failed to show any appreciable increase over the 5 years prior to the finding of such conditions; (c) Faulty lot layout in relation to size, adequacy, accessibility, or usefulness; (d) Unsanitary or unsafe conditions; (e) Deterioration of site or other improvements; (f) Inadequate and outdated building density patterns; The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment PIan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 35 of 38 V:\Projects\2004\04-00170 General Planning Svcs\Redevelopment Plan \2007 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN_ iinnt.doc (g) Falling lease rates per square foot of office, commercial, or industrial space compared to the remainder of the county or municipality; (h) Tax or special assessment delinquency exceeding the fair value of the land; (i) Residential and commercial vacancy rates higher in the area than in the remainder of the county or municipality; (j) Incidence of crime in the area higher than in the remainder of the county or municipality; (k) Fire and emergency medical service calls to the area proportionately higher than in the remainder of the county or municipality; (1) A greater number of violations of the Florida Building Code in the area than the number of violations recorded in the remainder of the county or municipality; (m) Diversity of ownership or defective or unusual conditions of title which prevent the free alienability of land within the deteriorated or hazardous area; or (n) Governmentally owned property with adverse environmental conditions caused by a public or private entity. However, the term "blighted area" also means any area in which at least one of the factors identified in paragraphs (a) through (n) are present and all taxing authorities subject to s. 163.387(2)(a) agree, either by interlocal agreement or agreements with the agency or by resolution, that the area is blighted. Such agreement or resolution shall only determine that the area is blighted. For purposes of qualifying for the tax credits authorized in chapter 220, "blighted area" means an area as defined in this subsection. (9) "Community redevelopment" or "redevelopment" means undertakings, activities, or projects of a county, municipality, or community redevelopment agency in a community redevelopment area for the elimination and prevention of the development or spread of slums and blight, or for the reduction or prevention of crime, or for the provision of affordable housing, whether for rent or for sale, to residents of low or moderate income, including the elderly, and may include slum clearance and redevelopment in a community redevelopment area or rehabilitation and revitalization of coastal resort and tourist areas that are deteriorating and economically distressed, or rehabilitation or conservation in a community redevelopment area, or any combination or part thereof, in accordance with a community redevelopment plan and may include the preparation of such a plan. (10) "Community redevelopment area" means a slum area, a blighted area, or an area in which there is a shortage of housing that is affordable to residents of low or moderate income, including the elderly, or a coastal and tourist area that is deteriorating and economically distressed due to outdated building density patterns, inadequate transportation and parking facilities, faulty lot layout or inadequate street layout, or a combination thereof which the governing body designates as appropriate for community redevelopment. For community redevelopment agencies created after July 1, 2006, a community redevelopment area may not consist of more than 80 percent of a municipality. The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan - March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 36 of 38 V:\Projects\2004\04-00170 General Planning Svcs\Redevelopment Plan\2007 REDEVELOPMENT PL4N_fina.doc (11) "Community redevelopment plan" means a plan, as it exists from time to time, for a community redevelopment area. (12) "Related activities" means: (a) Planning work for the preparation of a general neighborhood redevelopment plan or for the preparation or completion of a communitywide plan or program pursuant to s. 163.365. (b) The functions related to the acquisition and disposal of real property pursuant to s. 163.370(4). (c) The development of affordable housing for residents of the area. (d) The development of community policing innovations. (13) "Real property" means all lands, including improvements and fixtures thereon, and property of any nature appurtenant thereto or used in connection therewith and every estate, interest, right, and use, legal or equitable, therein, including but not limited to terms for years and liens by way of judgment, mortgage, or otherwise. (14) "Bonds" means any bonds (including refunding bonds), notes, interim certificates, certificates of indebtedness, debentures, or other obligations. (15) "Obligee" means and includes any bondholder, agents or trustees for any bondholders, or lessor demising to the county or municipality property used in connection with community redevelopment, or any assignee or assignees of such lessor's interest or any part thereof, and the Federal Government when it is a party to any contract with the county or municipality. (16) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association, or body politic and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or other person acting in a similar representative capacity. (17) "Area of operation" means, for a county, the area within the boundaries of the county, and for a municipality, the area within the corporate limits of the municipality. (18) "Housing authority" means a housing authority created by and established pursuant to chapter 421. (19) "Board" or "commission" means a board, commission, department, division, office, body or other unit of the county or municipality. (20) "Public officer" means any officer who is in charge of any department or branch of the government of the county or municipality relating to health, fire, building regulations, or other activities concerning dwellings in the county or municipality. (21) "Debt service millage" means any millage levied pursuant to s. 12, Art. VII of the State Constitution. (22) "Increment revenue" means the amount calculated pursuant to s. 163.387(1). The City of Cape Canaveral Redevelopment Plan — March 2007 Prepared by Miller Legg and Associates Page 37 of 38 V:\Projects\2OU4\04-00170 General Planning Svcs\ Redevelopment P1an,20O7 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN„firtal.doc (23) "Community policing innovation" means a policing technique or strategy designed to reduce crime by reducing opportunities for, and increasing the perceived risks of engaging in, criminal activity through visible presence of police in the community, including, but not limited to, community mobilization, neighborhood block watch, citizen patrol, citizen contact patrol, foot patrol, neighborhood storefront police stations, field interrogation, or intensified motorized patrol. (24) "Taxing authority" means a public body that levies or is authorized to levy an ad valorem tax on real property located in a community redevelopment area. 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