Key
Issues:
- Protect
the Research and Education Park
- Promote re-plumbing
of the area to address water issues.
-
Promote denser
village concepts with open space protections.
Recommended
Actions:
1.
Re-plumb the water system, based on best practices.
2.
Create a vision plan for the region that includes villages
and rural set-asides, creating clear distinctions between
towns and country.
3.
Map out the street and trails network immediately, concentrating
on the correct scale.
4.
Develop an effective Transfer of Development Rights
(TDR) program that:
•
Identifies the public purposes to be achieved by the
TDR program, including economic and aesthetic open
space components;
•
Identifies and maps the sending (protected) and receiving
(villages) areas, while minimizing the creation of
false land values by virtue of establishing the program;
•
Identifies the park and a ring around it as a sending
area;
•
Prevents granting density increases outside of the
plan that would undermine the TDR program;
•
Evaluates other TDR programs, such as the Pinelands
in New Jersey , and Collier and Sarasota Counties
in Florida;
•
Investigates the legal issues of a TDR or PDR (Purchase
of Development Rights) program;
•
Explores the possibility of a TDR pilot project, thus
allowing the public to become aware of the process;
and
•
Determines that best authority to manage the TDR bank.
5. Broadly
define the uses that are compatible with the park.
6.
Treat the park as an open space.
7. Develop
a master plan for the research park and follow it.
8.
Visit the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa , Canada
for lessons learned
9.
Identify the transect for the entire area that establishes
the appropriate range of uses and compatibilities and
plan accordingly.
10.
Evaluate buffer plans currently used to protect military
bases as models of transitional uses.
11.
Continue to work with State Senator Pruitt as a vital
political contact.
12.
Explore financial sources such as general obligation
bonds or revenue bonds.
13.
Research the Miami-Dade County Ag and Rural Area Study
as an example. (See www.miamidade.gov/planzone
).
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