EPTAB Agenda 12/16/1991 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY TECHNICAL ADVISORY BOARD
AGENDA
DATE: Monday, December 16, 1991
PLACE: Conference Room C - Development Services
TIME: 4 : 00 p.m.
I. Call Meeting to Order
II. Roll Call
III. Approval of Minutes
IV. Old Business
A. Habitat Protection Ordinance
V. New Business
A. Growth Management Plan Amendments/Coastal Barrier
Management Plan
VI. Public Comments
VII. Adjournment
EPTAB MEETING: 12/9/91
LOCATION: The Vineyards
SPEAKER: Wayne Daltry, Director of SWFRPC
-SWFRPC district includes Sarasota, Charlotte, Lee, Hendry,
Collier, and Glades counties (6600 sq. mi. )
-1991: 950, 000 population; region is of relatively good quality
-13 cities, 6 BCCs
-Growth Management Act of 1984-1985
-1970s: found need to protect SW Florida areas
-70, 000 people in 1950; only about 13 , 000 of these same people
still here.
-Tourism, retirement, construction: 3 major industries that
economy was based on in 1980s
-1987 : 1. 1 million platted lots: subdivisions
-700, 000 vacant, owned lots
-Average 2 .4 people per household = 1. 8 million people with
future households in region
-est. 3 , 000, 000 people by 2010s (1.4 million by 2000; 2 . 1 million
by 2010)
-urban strip from N. Charlotte (Palmetto) to Marco; 170 miles in
length
-4 categories of issues RPC must consider:
-environmental
-infrastructure
-economic
-social
Environmental:
-1970s: coastal resource protection
-1/3 of region in preserve lands; 1.2 million acres in existing &
future preserves (map)
-existing and future water reservoirs only will be in preserves
-est. 500 sq. miles needed for water reservoir (3 aquifers)
-comparison to SE Fla. : 3 million people in Dade & Broward Cos. ;
1600 sq. mi. , 1 aquifer
-Air quality problem growing---CARS--Lee Co. was close to being a
non-attainment area in 1989 for air quality due to auto
congestion problems
-will hurt tourism and retirement industries
Infrastructure:
-est. need 3 more north/south roads to be as "bad" as SE coast of
Fl. , which has 3 million people; we have 2 - U. S. 41 (slow in
many areas) & I-75
-these extra N/S roads are not planned for at all in GMPs; est.
cost @ $3 billion
-infrastructure for 3 million people: need 2 more prisons (have 2
now) , power plants (need 2 more)
-Alico is probable site of new university
Economic:
-Economic base will change with > population: no area with 3
million people has tourism, retirement and construction as major
economic base
-construction decreases: impact fees % <
-need to tax part of economy that will take place of
construction--what will that be?
Social:
-baby boomer communities in SW Fla. - 97% of housing built after
1950
-social services--county budgets for these will need to > with >
populations
-maintenance costs >
-issues of crime and diseases >
-no slums now because new communities--cause slums by either
deferring maintenance or by running roads thru urban areas
-all our comp plans do this, so we will probably be creating slum
areas in future.
-no common consensus of what we want to do because we're all from
somewhere else--for every 2 people that come into region, 1
leaves (1980, 550, 000 people; 1/2 of them no longer here)
-social services keep climbing as pop. >
-major expense of budget in regions with 3 million population
-Cape Coral has 80, 000 people--most populous city in region, and
did not even exist before 1955; they hope to cap it @ 350, 000.
-we have a high quality environment compared to other areas
-we need to put future facilities in place NOW; the 1990s is our
threshold decade
-need to create a sense of community
-our economy is based on growth
- the info from this talk will be available in next few weeks;
County will get a copy of this Regional Plan