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For Council meeting of February 9, 2009 Staff Contact: Report prepared January 7, 2009 Jessica Lunsford, ext. 38

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Agenda Item #3.H.14

02/09/09

LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN

ADOPTED AMENDMENT REPORT

CITY OF LARGO

DCA#08-2AR

For Council meeting of February 9, 2009 Staff Contact: Report Prepared January 7, 2009 Jessica Lunsford, ext. 38

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Changes as a result of DCA’s ORC Report and comments received from

review agencies:

Amendment #2008-58, Future Land Use Map: DCA did not identify any comments or concerns related to the proposed amendment and issued a “no comments” letter. The City of Largo has adopted the amendment without any changes. Amendment #2008-47 EAR-Based Amendments adopted with changes shown below:

Future Land Use Element:

• FLUE Objective 1.2, Measurement (b): changed from pedestrian and bicycle trails to sidewalks, bike lanes, and multiuse trails.

• Map series was updated to denote the Planning Period (2008-2025)

• Maps were included in the Natural Resources Element. Names have been updated on the maps to reflect that they represent both existing and projected future conditions by adding the planning timeframe to the maps. The water dependent use map was added to the Natural Resources Element.

• Added to the beginning of FLU Policy 4.2.2: Utilize the Concurrency Management System (Capital Improvements Element – Goal 2) to evaluate all proposed developments for a concurrency determination.

• Added FLU Policy 5.1.5.m: Adopt standards which provide for alternative transit programs and related development standards for the West Bay Drive and Clearwater-Largo Road Transportation Concurrency Exception Areas (TCEAs), such as; shared parking provisions, payment in lieu of parking spaces, maximum onsite parking standards, the provision of public transit stops/shelters, and Transportation Demand Management (TDM) programs to encourage alternative modes of transit.

Transportation Element:

• Text added to Transportation Policy 1.1.11: Participate in Pinellas County’s planning efforts related to developing and administering the County’s Long Term Concurrency Management System for U.S. Highway 19, which is designated as a Strategic Intermodal System (SIS) and is a Transportation Regional Incentive Program (TRIP) funded roadway, and other multi-jurisdictional transportation planning projects.

• Replace existing Transportation Policy 1.2.1 with: Utilize the adopted LOS standards in Policy 2.2.4 of the Capital Improvements Element for transportation concurrency on all local, county and state roads.


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• Added new Transportation Policy 1.2.11: Participate with the MPO and FDOT to develop a comprehensive strategy for addressing concurrency on U.S. Highway 19. Establish a prioritized list of parallel relief and multimodal projects to mitigate transportation impacts on U.S. Highway 19, and establish this list as part of the the Long Term Concurrency Management System.

• Added new Transportation Policy1.2.12: The City shall amend the Comprehensive Plan and Concurrency Management sections of the Comprehensive Development Code (CDC) to replace the existing Long Term Concurrency Management System for U.S. Highway 19 with the revised strategy to be developed in accordance with Policy 1.2.11 above, and to remove the interim LOS Standard of “maintain” by April 1, 2009.

• Added new Transportation Policy 1.2.14: Amend the City of Largo Comprehensive Development Code (CDC) to include standards which provide for alternative transit programs for the West Bay Drive and Clearwater-Largo Road TCEAs, such as: shared parking provisions, payment in lieu of parking spaces, maximum onsite parking standards, the provision of public transit stops/shelters, and Transportation Demand Management (TDM) programs to encourage alternative modes of transit.

• Revised Transportation Policy 1.3.11: Establish the CRDs as FDOT Multimodal Transportation Districts (MMTD) by 2010. The MMTDs will replace the existing West Bay Drive and Clearwater-Largo Road TCEA designations.

Public Utilities Element:

Stormwater Subelement:

• Revised Stormwater Subelement Policy 1.1.5: Amend the Comprehensive Plan to reflect new LOS Standards for flood control and water quality based on the results of the Watershed Management Plan. Until the Watershed Management Plan is completed, the LOS Standards in Policy 2.2.4.d. of the Capital Improvements Element shall be used for stormwater flood control and water quality.

• New Stormwater Policy 1.4.1: Coordinate the City's watershed and stormwater improvement initiatives with Pinellas County, SWFWMD, and other adjacent jurisdictions.

Potable Water/Water Conservation Subelement:

• Added New Policy 2.1.1: The City is a retail customer for potable water through Pinellas County Utilities. The City shall coordinate its Ten-Year Water Supply Facilities Work Plan with Pinellas County Utilities' Potable Water Supply Facilities Work Plan to maintain consistent growth assumptions and to reflect the City's implemented and planned water conservation projects and programs for projecting water demand.


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• New Policy 2.1.2: Tampa Bay Water, as the wholesale water supplier, has provided a letter of commitment to Pinellas County, as the wholesale distributor, to provide sufficient water supply to meet demand through 2017. Pinellas County has consequently provided the City with a letter of commitment to provide sufficient water supply to the City through 2017.

• New Policy 2.1.3: Update the City's Ten-Year Water Supply Facilities Work Plan every five years within 18 months after the governing board of SWFWMD approves an updated regional water supply plan.

• Revised Policy 2.1.5: Coordinate with the Pinellas County Utilities Department and Tampa Bay Water to improve water safety and quality, and to plan for the provision of alternative water supplies.

Natural Resources Element

• Revised Policy 2.1.1: The Coastal High Hazard Area (CHHA) shall be defined as the area below the elevation of the Category 1 storm surge line as established by a Sea, Lake, and Overland Surges from Hurricanes (SLOSH) computerized storm surge model, as reflected on the most recent Hurricane Evacuation Study, Storm Tide Atlas.

• New Policy 2.2.10: Evaluate the costs and benefits to City property owners and the community as a whole for expansion of development restrictions applied to structures within the CHHA to properties located within the Coastal Storm Area, as defined by Pinellas County. If deemed beneficial to expand the CHHA restrictions to include the properties in the Coastal Storm Area, amend the Comprehensive Plan to replace language regarding the CHHA restrictions with similar restrictions for the Coastal Storm Area.

• Figure NR-6 Water-Dependent & Water Related Land Uses Map added to the Future Natural Resources Map Series.

Capital Improvements Element

• Revised CIE Policy 1.1.4: The City shall adopt the following documents by reference: FDOT 2008-2013 Work Program (FDOT District 7, April 1, 2008) , Pinellas County School District 2008/2009 – 2012/2013 Five-Year Capital Outlay Plan (Pinellas County School District, September 9, 2008 ), the MPO FY 2008/2009-2012/2013 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)(MPO, July 9 , 200 8 ), and the Pinellas County Utilities Ten-Year Potable Water Supply Facilities Work Plan (Pinellas County Utilities, March 18, 2008), as may be amended from time to time.

• Revised CIE Policy 2.1.2: The City shall amend the Concurrency Review section (Section 5400) of the Comprehensive Development Code (CDC) to reflect the Concurrency Management System in the Capital Improvements Element, to ensure that Development Orders and development permits are issued in a manner that will assure that


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the necessary public facilities and services will be available to accommodate the impact of that development.

• Revised CIE Policy 2.2.4.d.4: LOS required for flood control: a. Stormwater Management Systems that have a positive outfall shall be designed for a 25year/24hour storm event, unless it is determined by the City Engineer that conditions exist that require more stringent requirements. b. Stormwater Management Systems that have no positive outfall shall be designed for a 100 year/24 hour storm event, unless it is determined by the City Engineer that conditions exist that require more stringent requirements.

• Added CIE Policy 2.2.4.d.6. LOS required for water quality: a. Wet ponds shall be designed to treat the first 1” of runoff. b. Dry ponds, or other similar Stormwater Management Systems, shall be designed to treat the first 1/2” of runoff.

• Revsied CIE Policy 2.2.5.a.3: Prior to issuance of a Development Order or development permit, the applicant shall provide the City with written concurrency approval for potable water supply from Pinellas County Utilities that states that adequate water supply is available or will be available to serve the new development no later than the anticipated date of issuance by the City of a Certificate of Occupancy or its functional equivalent.

• Revised CIE Policy 2.2.6.e: At the time a Development Order or development permit is issued, the necessary facilities and services are the subject of a binding executed agreement, an enforceable Development Agreement (pursuant to 163,3220, F.S.) or an agreement or Development Order (issued pursuant to 380, F.S.), requiring the necessary facilities and services to serve the new development to be in place or under actual construction no more than three years after the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy, with the exception of transportation facilities, which are required to be in place within three years from issuance of the Building Permit.

• New CIE Policy 2.2.9: Encourage the application of Proportionate Fair Share Mitigation through the objectives of the City's Proportionate Fair Share Program, when applicable, for (re)development along the City's major road network and within the three Major Activity Centers.

• Revised CIE Policy 2.3.1: The City shall coordinate with Pinellas County to establish and administer a Long Term Concurrency Management System for the portion of U.S. Highway 19 which is within the City's jurisdiction, from Belleair Road to Whitney Road, in accordance with Rule 9J5.005, and with stipulations set forth by the FDOT District 7 Office. This section, along with other portions of U.S. Highway 19, is part of the Florida Intrastate Highway System (FIHS) and the Strategic Intermodal System (SIS).


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• Revised CIE Policy 2.3.2: The City shall recognize, for the purposes of processing Capacity to serve determinations for all segments of U.S. Highway 19 from Belleair Road to Whitney Road , which is part of the SIS, that an acceptable LOS for these segments cannot be reached on a long term basis until the facility is improved to a partially controlled access road, in its entirety. Therefore, the following identified regulations, procedures, and improvements shall be followed to preserve roadway capacity on U.S. Highway 19, to the greatest extent possible

• New CIE Policy 2.3.3: Participate with the MPO and FDOT to develop a comprehensive strategy for addressing concurrency on U.S. Highway 19. Establish a prioritized list of parallel relief and multimodal projects to mitigate transportation impacts on U.S. Highway 19, and establish this list as part of the Long Term Concurrency Management System.

• New CIE Policy 2.3.4: The City shall amend the Comprehensive Plan and Concurrency Management sections of the Comprehensive Development Code (CDC) to replace the existing Long Term Concurrency Management System for U.S. Highway 19 with the revised strategy to be developed in accordance with Policy 1.2.11 above, and to remove the interim LOS Standard of “maintain” by April 1, 2009.

• Revised CIE Objective 2.4: Maintain the Transportation Concurrency Exception Areas (TCEAs) in the West Bay Drive Community Redevelopment District (CRD) and along the commercial corridor of the Clearwater-Largo Road CRD to promote revitalization.

• Revised CIE Policy 2.4.1: Promote revitalization downtown and along a distressed commercial corridor utilizing the TCEA designation as an incentive for (re)development. The TCEAs are located in the West Bay Drive CRD and the original boundaries of the Clearwater-Largo Road CRD, as delineated on Figure T11. CRD Plans for these areas have been adopted in accordance with Chapter 163, Part III, Florida Statues. In addition to the specific actions adopted in these CRD plans, the Future Land Use and the Economic Development Elements contain specific goals, objectives, and policies to guide and promote redevelopment in two CRDs.

• Revised CIE Policy 2.4.2: In order to grant an exception to the transportation concurrency requirement, the City shall make a determination that the following criteria are met: a. The property shall be located in either the Clearwater-Largo Road or West Bay Drive TCEAs; and b. The (re)development conforms to the urban design regulations of the applicable CRD Plan (Clearwater-Largo Road or West Bay Drive); or c. The (re)development is within the West Bay Drive or Clearwater-Largo Road CRDs (within or outside the TCEAs) and poses only special part-time demands on the transportation system. A special part-time demand is one that does not have more than


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200 scheduled events during any calendar year and does not affect the 100 highest traffic volume hours.

• New CIE Policy 2.4.3. Utilize the alternative transit programs and development standards identified in the CDC, and encourage the use of proportionate fair share mitigation to improve multimodal transportation infrastructure in the TCEAs.


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DCA did not identify any comments or concerns related to the proposed amendment and issued a

“no comments” letter. The City of Largo has adopted the amendment without any changes.

AMENDMENT #2008-58

Future Land Use Map “The proposed amendment is at the request of the Pinellas Planning Council (PPC), in order to preserve the consistency of the Countywide Plan Rules by bring the land use designation into conformance, and to create the possibility of expansion for the properties owned by the St. Petersburg College.” • From: Industrial Limited (IL) • To: Institutional (I) • Size: 4.6 acres • Location: The east side of 58th Street North, north of Ulmerton Road in the ICOT Center • Existing Use: St. Petersburg College • Proposed Use: St. Petersburg College • Adjacent Designations:

• North: Institutional • South: Industrial Limited • East: Industrial Limited • West: Industrial Limited

• Adjacent Uses:

• North: Institutional (St. Petersburg College, under construction) • South: Light Manufacturing (Melitta North America, Inc.) • East: Light Manufacturing (AAR Composites) • West: Office Building (Colonial Service Center)

• Regionally Significant: No. • Result in extra-jurisdictional impacts?: No. • Effects of the amendment on the following issues: • Compatibility among local plans including, but not limited to, land use and

compatibility with military bases: The adopted amendment is located in the “ICOT Center DRI which has many different uses other than industrial, despite the Industrial


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Limited land use designations.” The adopted amendment is compatible with the surrounding land use designations.

• Impact/protect regional facilities/resources identified in the SRPP, including but not

limited to, groundwater recharge and the availability of water supply: Potable water service will be supplied by Pinellas County Utilities.

• Affordable housing issues and designation of adequate sites for affordable housing:

Not applicable to the adopted amendment. • Protection of natural resources of regional significance identified in the SRPP

including, but not limited to, protection of spring and groundwater resources, and recharge potential: Not applicable to the adopted amendment.

• Effectiveness and enhancement of economic development within the region

including, but not limited to, preservation of military bases: Not applicable to the adopted amendment.

• Compatibility with regional transportation corridors and facilities, including but

not limited to, roadways, seaports, airports, public transportation systems, high speed rail facilities, and intermodal facilities: Not applicable to the adopted amendment.

• Adequacy of and compatibility with emergency preparedness plans and local

mitigation strategies (plans) including, but not limited to, the impacts on and

availability of hurricane shelters, maintenance of county hurricane evacuation clearance times, and hazard mitigation: Not applicable to the adopted amendment.

• Regional Comments: None. • Applicable SRPP Policies: Economic Development: Policy 2.58, 2.61

• Consistency with SRPP: Consistent.


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AMENDMENT #2008-47

City of Largo

EAR-based Amendments

• Future Land Use Element:

• Goal 1: Revitalize and reconnect the community by creating Activity Centers, Mixed-Use Corridors, and a network of Community Streets, by strengthening neighborhoods and existing Major Employment Centers and by expanding and improving connections to parks and open space. $ Objectives and supporting policies:

$ Redefine and intensify commercial corridors $ Establish a system of community streets $ Expand parks, trails and greenways $ Engage the neighborhoods

$ Goal 2: Maintain a viable balance between land uses to achieve economic sustainability, maintain an affordable cost of living, protect natural resources, and ensure compatibility between existing development and new development.

$ Objectives and supporting policies: $ Encourage a balanced and diverse economic community $ Plan for affordable (workforce) housing $ Strengthen community identity through urban design $ Ensure compatibility between existing neighbors and new development $ Preserve Largo’s history and heritage $ Building a disaster resistant community $ Enhance and protect the community’s natural resources $ Support Multi-Modal Transit

$ Goal 3: Extend the City’s municipal boundaries to the edge of its Planning Service Area (PSA) and annex existing enclaves in order to ensure more efficient delivery of city services and infrastructure and consistent land use planning.

$ Objectives and supporting policies: $ Sustain growth through annexation

$ Goal 4: Coordinate infrastructure planning with proposed Future Land Use Map amendments, CRD Plans and Special Area Plans to ensure that infrastructure capacity projections reflect projected impacts from (re)development of those areas.

$ Objectives and supporting policies: $ Coordinate the location, density/intensity of land uses with public

infrastructure and services $ Ensure adequate facilities and services are available at the time of

development $ Goal 5: Utilize the CDC as the primary regulatory document to guide

development in accordance with the goals, objectives, and policies of the Comprehensive Plan.


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$ Objectives and supporting policies: $ Ensure the Comprehensive Development Code (CDC) supports the

objectives of the Comprehensive Plan $ Use technology to improve coordination for land use development review.

$ Transportation Element: $ Goal 1: Provide safe, effective, and energy efficient multi-modal transportation

system for residents and businesses. $ Objectives and supporting policies:

$ Coordinate transportation planning

$ Maintain service levels on the local, county and state road network

$ Create transit based development $ Design transportation corridors to support a livable community

$ Invest in multi-modal transportation

$ Foster a bicycle and pedestrian community

$ Housing Element: $ Goal 1: Ensure the availability and accessibility of different types, sizes, and

price ranges of housing to meet the needs of all current and future residents. $ Objectives and supporting policies:

$ Promote affordable (workforce) housing

$ Preserve the housing stock

$ Build community partnerships

$ Improve Fair Housing Conditions

$ Preserve neighborhood character $ Increase homeownership opportunities

$ Public Facilities Element:

$ Sanitary Sewer Subelement $ Goal 1: Ensure that the City’s sanitary sewer system will provide an effective,

efficient and environmentally sound method of wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal.

$ Objectives and supporting policies: $ Provide an environmentally sound sanitary sewer system

$ Design an effective and efficient sanitary sewer system

$ Establish LOS standards

$ Improve System Efficiency

$ Coordinate sewer service delivery

$ Solid Waste Subelement $ Goal 1: Provide an efficient and environmentally sound solid was system to

protect the health, safety and welfare of the community. $ Objectives and supporting policies:

$ Provide an alternative to waste disposal through resource recovery

$ Provide an efficient solid waste collection system

$ Properly dispose of electronic refuse and hazardous waste

$ Stormwater Subelement $ Goal 1: Ensure the City’s Stormwater Management System provides flood and

water quality protection. $ Objectives and supporting policies:


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$ Develop a watershed management plan

$ Establish flood and water quality controls for private development $ Improve flood controls and water quality through public improvements

$ Coordinate joint jurisdictional watershed management plans

$ Potable Water/Water Conservation Subelement $ Goal 1: Protect potable water resources by reducing demand through

conservation and management efforts. $ Objectives and supporting policies:

$ Promote water conservation to reduce demand on potable water $ Provide reclaimed water as an alternative to potable water use

$ Goal 2: Ensure adequate distribution and supply of potable water from Pinellas County Utilities Department

$ Objectives and supporting policies: $ Coordinate for the adequate supply of potable water

$ Natural Resources Element $ Goal 1: Protect and properly manage the City’s natural resources. $ Objectives and supporting policies:

$ Protect our natural resources

$ Protect air quality

$ Protect Soil quality

$ Improve public access to our shoreline

$ Goal 2: Minimize the risk to human life and property from natural disasters. $ Objectives and supporting policies:

$ Minimize the cost of natural disasters

$ Protect the community through hazard mitigation

$ Recreation and Open Space $ Goal 1: Provide a community-oriented recreation and open space network

designed to enhance the community’s quality of life. $ Objectives and supporting policies:

$ Improve access to parks and recreation facilities and expand the City’s Trail system

$ Create new recreation opportunities

$ Provide for the generations

$ Establish community identity through recreation tourism

$ Enhance the tree canopy

$ Intergovernmental Coordination Element $ Goal 1: The City shall actively participate in intergovernmental coordination to

promote compatibility among local governments. $ Objective and supporting policies:

$ Avoid cross jurisdictional conflicts

$ Goal 2: Coordinate annexation of all unincorporated lands with Pinellas County to ensure coordinated service delivery, sustainable growth and sound planning.

$ Objective and supporting policies: $ Comprehensively plan for annexation

$ Goal 3: Ensure the Comprehensive Plan is consistent with County-wide, regional, and state planning goals.


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$ Objectives and supporting policies: $ Coordinate local planning with countywide, regional, and state planning

goals

$ Maintain consistency with State and Regional Plans

$ Economic Development Element $ Goal 1: Provide a vibrant economic environment that supports resident

employment and a stable tax base through urban design, planning and results-based economic development initiatives.

$ Objectives and supporting policies: $ Create a business-friendly environment $ Streamline City process

$ Create new job opportunities

$ Concentrate neighborhood retail into neighborhood activity centers

$ Promote development of the City’s three major activity centers

$ Redevelop commercial corridors into Mixed-Use Corridors

$ Pursue annexation within the City’s Planning Service Area (PSA) $ Capital Improvements Element

$ Goal 1: Promote sustainable and orderly growth through the timely and efficient provision of capital facilities to maintain and enhance the community’s quality of life.

$ Objectives and supporting policies: $ Plan for feasible financing of capital facilities

$ Minimize storm damage to public facilities

$ Goal 2: Ensure efficient infrastructure capacity is available to serve existing and future development through implementation of the concurrency management system.

$ Objectives and supporting policies: $ Implement the City’s Concurrency Management System

$ Enforce the City’s LOS Standards

$ Implement the Long Term Concurrency Management System

$ Maintain the Transportation Concurrency Exception Areas $ Regionally Significant: Yes, based on the fact that by their breadth and scope, the EAR-

based amendments are directly or indirectly related to or impact regionally significant resources and facilities.

$ Result in extra-jurisdictional impacts?: No. $ Effects of the amendment on the following issues:

$ Compatibility among local plans including, but not limited to, land use and compatibility with military bases: Yes, it is compatible among local plans.

$ Impact/protect regional facilities/resources identified in the SRPP, including

but not limited to, groundwater recharge and the availability of water supply: Pinellas County Utilities provides all potable water for the City of Largo.


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$ Affordable housing issues and designation of adequate sites for affordable housing: “The City’s strategy for the provision of affordable housing is to create mixed-income housing developments, where all units are constructed with the same aesthetics, and components no matter what the income range is of the households, and disburse these developments throughout the City, rather than clustering affordable housing as was done in previous decades around the country.”

$ Protection of natural resources of regional significance identified in the

SRPP including, but not limited to, protection of spring and groundwater resources, and recharge potential: There are regionally significant LULC wet and dry habitat, and pine flatwoods present within the City of Largo boundaries. Care should be taken not to impact these resources should any future development/redevelopment occur in these areas.

$ Effectiveness and enhancement of economic development within the region

including, but not limited to, preservation of military bases: “In 2008, the City hired an Economic Development Manager to pursue economic development initiatives to encourage new and/or expansion of businesses that not only add to the City’s tax base, but also create new jobs.” Although not required, the City has included an Economic Development Element to its EAR-based Comprehensive Plan.

$ Compatibility with regional transportation corridors and facilities, including

but not limited to, roadways, seaports, airports, public transportation systems, high speed rail facilities, and intermodal facilities: The adopted EAR-based amendments are compatible with regional transportation corridors and facilities.

$ Adequacy of and compatibility with emergency preparedness plans and local


availability of hurricane shelters, maintenance of county hurricane

evacuation clearance times, and hazard mitigation: The City has included the new definition for the Coastal High Hazard Area in the Coastal Management Element.

$ Regional Comments: None. $ Applicable SRPP Policies: The additions and revisions contained in the proposed amendment were found to be supportive of and further the goals and policies of the SRPP’s five subject areas. $ Consistency with SRPP: Consistent.


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City of Largo

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City of Largo

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City of Largo CHHA Map


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AMENDMENT # 08-CIE $ Description: The City of Largo has submitted their Capital Improvements Element

(CIE) in accordance with DCA. The CIE is required by SB 360 (2005) and HB 7203 (2007). The CIE, part of the Comprehensive Plan, identifies all Level of Service (LOS) related projects over the next 5 years.

The 34 city controlled projects, some with multiple components, are estimated to total over $120 million between the years 2009 – 2013. The City of Largo specified which funding sources would be used, but did not provide a budget detailing forecasted revenues and expenditures. The City did not specify which areas were meeting or failing their respective LOS, or what the anticipated LOS will be after completion of these projects. Below is a summary update of each area: Transportation – The City has listed nine projects with multiple characteristics for completion within the next five years to address LOS standards. Stormwater – The City has listed twelve projects with multiple characteristics for completion within the next five years to address LOS standards. Sanitary Sewer – The City has listed ten projects with multiple characteristics for completion within the next five years to address LOS standards. Parks – The City has listed one project to address LOS standards. Solid Waste – The City listed one project to address LOS standards. Economic Development - The City listed one project to address infrastructure improvements for LOS standards.

$ Regionally Significant: Yes, the Capital Improvements Element (CIE) contains all of the capital improvement projects that require a level of service within the Capital Improvements Plan (CIP) within the next 5 years. The 34 listed projects encompass six primary areas, Transportation, Stormwater, Sanitary Sewer, Solid Waste, Economic Development, and Parks. A number of the projects are regionally significant.

$ Result in extra-jurisdictional impacts?: Due to the proximity and interconnectivity

of Largo with other cities within Pinellas County, some extra-jurisdiction impacts may be felt.

$ Effects of the amendment on the following issues:

$ Compatibility among local plans including, but not limited to, land use and compatibility with military bases: The City of Largo did not address the subject in this report.


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$ Impact/protect regional facilities/resources identified in the SRPP, including

but not limited to, groundwater recharge and the availability of water supply: The City of Largo did not address the subject in this report.

$ Affordable housing issues and designation of adequate sites for affordable

housing: Not applicable to the proposed amendment.

$ Protection of natural resources of regional significance identified in the

SRPP including, but not limited to, protection of spring and groundwater resources, and recharge potential: Not applicable to the proposed amendment.

$ Effectiveness and enhancement of economic development within the region

including, but not limited to, preservation of military bases: Not applicable to the proposed amendment.

$ Compatibility with regional transportation corridors and facilities, including

but not limited to, roadways, seaports, airports, public transportation systems, high speed rail facilities, and intermodal facilities: Yes.

$ Adequacy of and compatibility with emergency preparedness plans and local


availability of hurricane shelters, maintenance of county hurricane evacua-tion clearance times, and hazard mitigation: Not applicable.

$ Regional Comments: None. $ Applicable SRPP Policies: Economic Development 2.C, 2.I, 2.14, 2.71 $ Consistency with SRPP: Yes.

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