October 14, 2011 Margaret Banyan, Ph.D. Florida Gulf Coast University Max Forgey, AICP

 Nine remedies for platted lands that have appeared in the Charlotte County Comprehensive Plan since  Not unique to Charlotte County

These are not exclusive, and may be combined with each other:  Direct acquisition (of vacant lots) by local government—any lot if the price is right  Direct acquisition of targeted lands—only in specified areas  Direct purchase with assistance from the State of Florida

 New zoning categories—allowing incentives for land assembly  Create an organization (e.g. land trust, etc.) to handle consolidation and vacating  Administrative deplatting

 Graduated impact fees (They did this!)  Tax deed acquisition  Urban service area strategy (Cape Coral pioneered this)

Prohibits the future transfer of private property taken by eminent domain to a person or private entity except with a three- fifths (3/5) vote of the Legislature.

Former Rep. Keith Arnold summarized in three points what he thought the most important legislative actions should be:

Communities must have eminent domain powers for economic development, even if this runs contrary to the post- Kelo actions.

Make funding available to redevelopment authorities as well as counties and cities.

A dedicated source of revenue, (e.g. doc stamp revenues) to acquire land.

 The per-unit cost of platted lands— annually and cumulatively  2010s are a better time to determine because of a half century of experience

“The message is that there are no ‘knowns.’ There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld

 ‘Comprehensive Planning & Growth Management’  Taught by Margaret Banyan with some help from non-faculty professionals  Six graduate students  Individual and Group projects

 Possess a working knowledge of planning history, context, models, and theory  Demonstrate the ability to diagram the comprehensive planning process  Understand and analyze various roles inherent in the planning process  Have knowledge of the fields and positions within the area of land use planning

 Demonstrate an understanding of comprehensive planning and growth management tools  Understand planning within the context of Florida and other states  Demonstrate competence in the application of comprehensive planning tools and laws

 Demonstrate an understanding of the Public Land Survey System (Section Township Range) in the United States and process of subdividing and platting lands in Florida  Conduct a literature search of issues and existing recommendations for addressing platted lands (antiquated subdivisions) issue in SW Florida

 Summarize literature search in an annotated bibliography  Assess tools for feasibility, cost, and acceptability  Present options to Reconnecting Lee County Platted Lands Task Force  Develop a series of recommendations based on analysis and task force input

 Determine the annualized revenues vs. capital and operating costs of each new dwelling unit on a platted lot in the Tier 3 area of Lehigh Acres. (Step One in developing a cost-benefit model for platted lands)  Explore potential platted lands remedies (previously identified or newly proposed) with cost/benefit projections.

 Tracie Bagans  Angela Brannan  Ashley Coone  Kevin Johnson  April Olson  Julie Rose

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