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Key
Issues:
1.
Establish a citywide vision plan that includes the industrial
site.
2.
Design connected streets, parks, paths, and waterways.
3.
Identify what is needed to make South Bay a desirable
place to live.
Recommended
Actions:
1.
Identify and stand for the vision you want.
2.
Adopt ordinances that implement the vision.
3.
Create buffers between rural areas and residential development.
4.
Begin to purchase green space as opportunities occur.
5.
Create entrance features for the city.
6.
Visit and study communities with similar issues, such
as Winter Garden.
7.
Engage FDOT in the redesign of highways US 27 and SR
80.
8.
Develop a master plan and design code for the industrial
site.
9.
Create an authority for the industrial park in partnership
with Pahokee and Belle Glade.
10.
Identify a preferred list of businesses.
11.
Consider creating a large, single Community Redevelopment
Agency; create downtown in phases.
12.
Celebrate the city’s agricultural culture and emphasize
its history; for example, use bright Caribbean colors.
13.
Position residential land for development.
14.
Capitalize on the city’s assets: available land, its
surroundings of an ocean of green, Lake Okeechobee scenic
trail system (LOST), successful RV Park, and accessibility
of “country and nature” from urban areas.
15.
Consider RV Park as a site for a green market in the
off-season.
16.
Recognize the multiple uses and funding of utility easements.
For example, lay out the linear park when adding water
lines and place trees in all rights-of-way.
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