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2 RESOLUTION NO. 549 -2024
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4 A RESOLUTION BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
5 OF MONROE COUNTY ("BOARD") REQUESTING APPROVAL, BY
6 THE STATE OF FLORIDA, OF ADDITIONAL RATE OF GROWTH
7 ORDINANCE BUILDING PERMIT ALLOCATIONS AND BOARD-
8 PROPOSED CHANGES TO SECTION 380.0552 FLORIDA STATUTES
9 TO INCREASE THE STATUTORILY REQUIRED HURRICANE
10 EVACUATION CLEARANCE TIME FOR THE FLORIDA KEYS
11 AREA OF CRITICAL STATE CONCERN FROM 24 HOURS TO UP TO
12 26 HOURS TO ACCOMMODATE THE BUILDING OF ADDITIONAL
13 DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE FLORIDA KEYS, FOLLOWING
14 ANALYSIS OF PRIVATELY OWNED VACANT PARCELS AND
15 POTENTIAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
16 SITES WITHIN UNINCORPORATED MONROE COUNTY.
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19 WHEREAS, the Florida Keys constitutes an Area of Critical State Concern ("Florida Keys
20 ACSC") in Florida, as established through Rule 28-29.002, Florida Administrative Code, and
21 Sections 380.05 and 380.0552, Florida Statutes; and
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23 WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 380.0552(9)(a)(2.), Florida Statutes, all local
24 comprehensive plans within the Florida Keys ACSC must include goals, objectives, and policies to
25 protect public safety and welfare in the event of a natural disaster by maintaining a hurricane
26 evacuation clearance time for the permanent residents of the Florida Keys of no more than 24 hours,
27 the hurricane evacuation clearance time shall be determined by a hurricane evacuation study
28 conducted in accordance with a professionally accepted methodology and approved by the state land
29 planning agency ("Florida Department of Commerce"), and for purposes of hurricane evacuation
30 clearance time:
31 a. Mobile home residents are not considered permanent residents.
32 b. The City of Key West Area of Critical State Concern established by Chapter 28-36,
33 Florida Administrative Code, shall be included in the hurricane evacuation study and
34 is subject to the evacuation requirements of this subsection; and
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36 WHEREAS, in 2023, following the 2020 U.S. Census, the Florida Department of Commerce
37 completed an update to the hurricane evacuation modeling task which included Baseline Modeling
38 and, per the December 2023 Florida Keys Hurricane Evacuation Modeling Report (the "Report"),
39 "five additional scenarios (S1-S5)...that examined the effect of prospective building allocations,
40 to facilitate discussion...to help inform future policy considerations that may be considered by
41 state and local officials and stakeholders"; and
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I WHEREAS, Table 3 from the Report, which summarized Hurricane Evacuation Clearance
2 times for each scenario modeled, is attached hereto as Exhibit A.; and
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4 WHEREAS, the Report's Scenario 4 ("S4") showed that 220 additional residential permit
5 allocations would be the maximum that may be legally awarded without exceeding and violating the
6 statutorily required 24-hour hurricane evacuation clearance timeline, distributed Keys-wide as
7 follows: Unincorporated Monroe County: 100, Marathon: 40, Islamorada: 40, and Key West: 40
8 affordable; and
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10 WHEREAS, the Report included three (3) scenarios (Sl, S2, and S3) that modeled an
11 additional 3,550 permit allocations Keys-wide, distributed by county/municipality population size
12 (S 1), percentage of vacant lands per county/municipality (S2), and distributed based on current
13 allocations (S3); and
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15 WHEREAS, Monroe County (the "County") has reduced the assumed number of vacant,
16 privately-owned, buildable parcels within the unincorporated County that pose a possible risk of a
17 takings claim from the initial State-modeled 6,086 parcels to a final figure of approximately 1,618
18 parcels; and
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20 WHEREAS, in addition to privately-owned vacant residential parcels, there are
21 approximately 204 vacant parcels within Unincorporated Monroe County currently zoned for mixed
22 use and multifamily development that hold development potential for approximately 676 affordable
23 housing dwelling units based on current zoning and density standards; and
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25 WHEREAS, Monroe County has begun the necessary steps to establish a new category of
26 housing within the Monroe County Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Code, Workforce
27 Market Rate Housing,which would be regulatorily limited to use and occupancy by those who derive
28 at least 70 percent of their income as members of the Workforce in Monroe County, gainfully
29 employed providing goods and/or services to Monroe County residents or visitors;
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31 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
32 COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA:
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34 Section L Recitals. The above recitals are true and correct and are hereby incorporated as if fully
35 set forth herein.
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37 Section 2. The Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County requests that the state
38 legislature adopt amendments to Section 380.0552(9)(a)to:
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40 (a) increase the required hurricane evacuation clearance time for permanent residents
41 of the Florida Keys ACSC from 24 hours to a greater timeframe of up to 26 hours;
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44 (b) require that at least 1,350 new pen-nit allocations in unincorporated Monroe
45 County shall be reserved for issuance of only 1 allocation per vacant buildable
46 parcel, regardless of maximum development potential, of which 70% shall be
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1 designated as Workforce Market Rate Housing as defined in the Monroe Count
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2 Comprehensive Plan; and
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4 (c) re q uire that allocations be evenl distributed over. a 40 ear time eriod.
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5 Workforce Market Rate Housing and Affordable allocations may be borrowed
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8 (d) Any units :above 1,350 in unincorporated Monroe County may be utilized for
9 Affordable and/or Workforce Market Rate Housing projects.
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11 Section 3. The extended hurricane evacuation timeframe is understood to include 220 permit
12 allocations (100 for Monroe County) as modeled in Scenario 4 of the December 2023
13 Florida Keys Hurricane Evacuation Modeling Report.
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15 Section 4. This Resolution shall become effective as upon adoption and/or as otherwise provided
16 by law.
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19 PASSED AND ADOPTED by the:Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County,
20 Florida, at a regularly scheduled public meeting held on the 19th day of December, 2024.
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23 Mayor James K. Scholl Yes
24 Mayor Pro Tern Michelle Lincoln Yes
25 Commissioner Craig Cates No
26 Commissioner David.Rice Yes
27 Commissioner Holly Merrill Raschein Yes
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29 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE
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