Resolution 049-1986
Received In Clerk's' Lce
March 7, 1986 - 11:4~ a.m.
County Commission
RESOLUTION NO. 049 -1986
RESOLUTION APPROVING AND SUBMITTING THE
MONROE COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO THE
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS AND
THE SOUTH FLORIDA REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL
AND THE VARIOUS MUNICIPALITIES IN MONROE
COUNTY AND ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the Monroe County Planning Department, acting as
the local planning agency, pursuant to Section 163.3174, Florida
Statutes, has over the past twenty-four (24) 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
three volumes: Volume I:
Background Data Element; Volume II:
Analysis and Policy Element; Volume III:
Land Development
Regulations; 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 over 90 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 approve and submit the present draft of the Monroe County
Comprehensive Plan and send copies 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 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 proposed plan, following due public
notice, does recommend the Monroe County Comprehensive Plan to
the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners for approval and
submission to the appropriate agencies provided for by law.
2. That the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners on
this 28th day of February, 1986, does hereby approve and submit
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 approved Monroe
County Comprehensive 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 such Plan and Map, if approved and reviewed by all
agencies as required by Chapter 380 of the Florida Statutes,
shall only become effective on July 15, 1986.
4. That the plan and land development regulations are
approved on the assumption that the revenue needed to efficiently
and equitably implement the plan and the land development regu-
lations will be made available by way of additional enabling
legislation and/or direct legislation appropriations adopted by
the legislature of the State of Florida. The specific needs are
reflected in the economic element in the plan at pages 5 and 6.
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5. That the requirement to act on the Land Use Plan has
been imposed on Monroe County by the State before a conclusion
can be leased on the lawsuit now pending which is testing the
validity and enforceability of the Amended Principles for Guiding
Development, which suit was brought by the County and is now
pending. The Commission reserves to itself the right to recon-
sider this Plan should there be a decision by the Court made
finding the Amended Principles of Guiding Development to be of no
force and effect, which decision occurs prior to the effective
adoption of any Plan.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of
Monroe County, Florida, at a regular meeting of said Board held
on the 28 day of February, A.D. 1986.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By
(Seal)
Attest:
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