Smart Growth Workshop

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Smart Growth Workshop
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Houses Per Square Mile
Development Pressure and Sprawl
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What do we want?
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Map A

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NRMA
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Comprehensive Plan Goal To ensure that Volusia
County retains an interconnected core network of
environmentally important lands to help preserve
the County's ecosystems into the future.
2005 Smart Growth Implementation Committee Final
Report
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• Incorporate Map A/ECO into the Volusia County
  Comprehensive Plan.

• Ensure Map A/ECO lands remain density
  neutral.

• Provide incentives for innovative land planning
• and/or preservation.

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• Enable the use of Conservation Development in
  Map A.

• Allow flexible application of the LDC and ZC on
  a case-by-case basis where willing developers are
  committed to innovative smart growth principles
  such as conservation and green building design.

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Incorporate language into the Comp Plan to
create a framework for a Transfer of
Development Rights program.
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Develop Heightened Environmental Standards for
environmentally sensitive areas. (VC Charter,
Sec. 202.4)

• Review and develop heightened standards for Map
  A?
• Review and develop heightened standards for
  NRMA?

• Explore short term ways to close loopholes using
  heightened environmental standards.
• Explore options for water quality and quantity
  improvements.

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Subdivision of Land (changes to the Land
Development and Zoning Codes)
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• Ensure that every lot has a buildable area and
  access.

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Find ways to reduce impervious parking areas
associated with new development.
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• Long term options for the County
• and local government partners
• Create a common methodology
• for projecting growth trends
• (population projections)?
• Utilize an assessment of risk when
• reviewing growth issues
• (i.e. growth in storm-prone areas)?

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Comp Plan Decision Points

• Endorse the re-naming of Map A as the
  Environmental Core Overlay (ECO) ?
• Incorporate Map A/ECO into the Volusia County
  Comprehensive Plan?
• Ensure Map A/ECO lands (as a whole) remain
  density neutral with regard to zoning?
• Provide incentives for innovative land planning
  and/or preservation?

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Comp Plan Decision Points

• Enable the use of Conservation Development in
  Map A/ECO ?
• Allow flexible application of the LDC and ZC on a
  case-by-case basis where willing developers are
  committed to innovative smart growth principles
  such as conservation and green building design?
• Create a framework for TDRs?

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Heightened Environmental StandardsDecision
Points

• Review and develop heightened standards for Map
  A/ECO?
• Review and develop heightened standards for NRMA?

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Heightened Environmental StandardsDecision
Points

• Explore short term ways to close loopholes using
  heightened environmental standards?
• Explore options for water quality and quantity
  improvements?

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Code of Ordinances Decision Points

• Ensure that every lot has a buildable area and
  access?
• Find ways to reduce impervious parking areas
  associated with new development?

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Long Term Options for the County and Local
Government Partners

• Create a common methodology for projecting growth
  trends?
• Utilize an assessment of risk when reviewing
  growth issues?

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Where do we go next?
Where do we go next?