Resolution 208-1985
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RESOLUTION NO. 208 -1985
TRANSMITTAL OF MONROE COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE
PLAN TO THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY
AFFAIRS AND THE SOUTH FLORIDA REGIONAL
PLANNING COUNCIL.
WHEREAS, the Monroe County Planning Department, acting as
the local planning agency, pursuant to Section 163.3174, Florida
Statutes, has over the past eighteen (18) months prepared the
Monroe County Comprehensive Plan in order to insure the County's
management of its land, environmental and economic resources is
generally consistent with the requirements of Section 163.3161,
et ~ the Florida Local Governmental Comprehensive Planning Act
and the Principles for Guiding Development for the Florida Keys
Area of Critical State concern, established pursuant to Section
380.05, Florida Statutes; and
WHEREAS, the Monroe County Comprehensive Plan proposed by
the Monroe County Planning Department includes the following five
volumes: Volume I:
Background Data Element; Volume II:
Land
Use Plan Element; Volume III: Post Disaster Relief Plan; Volume
IV: The Fiscal Element; and Volume V: General Plan Amendments;
and includes the Land Use District Boundary Maps; and
WHEREAS, after preparing each volume of the Plan and in
order to encourage and insure citizen participation in this
planning effort to the fullest extent possible, the Monroe County
Planning Department and the Monroe County Board of County Commis-
sioners has undertaken procedures to provide for the broad
dissemination of all volumes of the Comprehensive Plan, provided
for open discussion of the Plan, accepted written and verbal
comments on the Plan, considered and responded to the public
comments to the Plan, and held 60 public hearings and workshops
on the Plan, after due public notice; and
WHEREAS, after preparation and review of the Comprehensive
Plan, public review, comment, and hearings on the Plan, it has
been recommended by the local planning agency, after a public
hearing in accordance with Section 163.3161, et ~ Florida
Statutes, that the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners
should transmit a copy of the present draft of the Monroe County
Comprehensive Plan to the Florida Department of Community Af-
fairs, the South Florida Regional Planning Council, and the
cities of Key West, Key Colony Beach, Layton, and North Key Largo
for their review and comments; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA AS FOLLOWS:
1. That the local planning agency, after public review,
comment and hearings on the initial draft of the proposed plan,
following due public notice, does recommend the Monroe County
Comprehensive Plan to the Monroe County Board of County Commis-
sioners for transmittal.
2. That the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners on
this 2nd day of July, 1985, does hereby transmit to the Florida
Department of Community Affairs, the South Florida Regional
Planning Council, and the cities of Key West, Key Colony Beach,
Layton, and North Key Largo, a copy of the Monroe County Compre-
hensive Plan which has been prepared and recommended by the local
planning agency; and reviewed pursuant to Section 163.3161, et
~, Florida Statutes for their review and comment over the next
sixty (60) days.
3. That the Board of County Commissioners will re-evaluate
the designations of Commercial Fishing Area and Commercial
Fishing Village on the Land Use District Boundary Maps and will
submit any changes to the Department of Community Affairs no
later than July 23, 1985.
4. That the Board of County Commissioners defer the matter
of the treeline along the northern boundary of Coupon Bight on
Big Pine Key until after the Plan has been submitted to the
State.
5. That Board of County Commissioners reserves the right
to amend the Plan within the next two (2) weeks.
6. That the Board of County Commissioners prepa.re and
submit final comments on commercial fishing concerns within three
(3) weeks.
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7. That it is of concern to the Monroe County Board of
County Commissioners that although data generation is an ongoing
process, the Board has decisions to make for which the Board does
not have full and complete information at this time.
8. That the mere transmittal by the Board of County
Commissioners does not imply the Plan's adoption in whole or in
part by said Board at this time.
9. That the following concerns be further studied and
addressed:
a. A realistic cost in updating present public
services and those which will be required in the future.
b. The loss of tax revenue from Keys lands presently
to be acquired by the Federal and State governments, and those
planned to be acquired over the next few years.
c. The real cost of staffing, policing and generally
implementing and maintaining the Plan as it now stands.
d. The loss of tax revenue because of decrease of
value of many thousands of acres in Monroe County which may be
caused by the present structure of the Plan.
e. A more realistic list of feasible methods for
raising additional tax revenue especially from those who visit
Monroe County and those who will accomplish the continuing
"Build-out" over the next few years.
10. That the urgency of this planning has been so pressing
that the Board of County Commissioners reserves to itself the
right to alter, change and/or add to the Plan as transmitted.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of
Monroe County, Florida, at a regular meeting of said Board held
on the 2nd day of July, A.D. 1985.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
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Mayor a~rman ~
(Seal)
At tes t : PANNX L. KOLHAGE, Clerk
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