Rural Lands Stewardship Program

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Rural Lands Stewardship Program Stewardship
Receiving Area Application Environmental advisory
committee February 13, 2007 Photos by Carlton
Ward, Jr. and Ann Redmond
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RSLA Overview

• Legislation - Chapter 163.3177, F.S.
• DCA shall encourage local governments in
  establishing and implementing Rural Lands
  Stewardship Areas.
• Maintain economic value of rural land
• Control urban sprawl
• Protect ecosystems
• Promote rural economic activity
• Maintain viability of Florida's agricultural
  economy
• Protect the character of rural Florida

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SSA recap

• Legislation - Chapter 163.3177, F.S.
• Key Legislative Changes Since Inception
• Reduction of minimum area from 50,000 acres to
  10,000 acres to encourage pilot programs
• Property owner can initiate Stewardship Planning
  process
• Multi-county Stewardship Plans
• DRI Exemption in recognition of benefits from the
  program (subject to criteria) (NOT INCLUDED IN
  ST. LUCIE RLSA)
• Agriculture can generate credit value in addition
  to natural resources
• Stewardship to address long term vision and 25
  year or greater population

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RSLA Overview
The Pilot Program Location
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RSLA Overview
Adams Ranch Stewardship Goal
To protect and conserve agricultural lands and
to promote agricultural viability, to direct
incompatible uses away from wetlands and upland
habitat, to discourage urban sprawl, and to
encourage development that utilizes creative land
use planning techniques and promote economic
prosperity and diversification.
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RSLA Overview
Adams Ranch
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RSLA Overview
RLSA Overlay

• Stewardship Credits are the currency of the
  RLSA
• The more environmentally valuable (darker green),
  and the more uses eliminated, the greater the
  number of Credits generated.
• Credits can be transferred to eligible receiving
  areas

• Eliminate Uses
• Residential
• Conditional Uses
• Earth Mining
• Ag Group 1
• Ag Group 2
• Natural Resources

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RSLA Overview
12,000 acres of SSAs for Cloud Grove
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RSLA Overview
Stewardship Approval Process

• 1. Comp Plan Amendment
• Staff Review
• EAC Consideration
• PZ Consideration
• BCC Transmittal to DCA
• DCA Review
• BCC Adoption
• COMPLETED

• 2. LDC Amendment
• Staff Review
• PZ Consideration
• BCC Adoption (concurrent with Comp Plan
  Amendment)
• COMPLETED

• 3a. SSA Application
• Public Workshop
• Staff Review
• EAC
• BCC

• 3b. SRA Application
• Public Workshop
• Staff Review
• EAC
• DCA
• DRC
• PZ
• BCC

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cloud grove site

• 5,944 acres 5,000 acres of SRA
• Primarily grove, plus man-made reservoir
  (668.05 ac) and natural hammock (11 ac)
• Federally endangered Snail kites
• Access via future extensions of Indrio, Oslo
  Roads and connection to Turnpike
• No current plans for development of Indian
  River County portion
• Connection to Oslo Road
• Fill dirt operation

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master plan

• Guiding Principals as found in RLSA comp
  plan and LDRs

• Mixed Use Town Center

• Neighborhoods with Focal Points

• Connected Road System

• Pedestrian/Bike System

• Range of Housing

• Balance of Residential and Nonresidential

• Open Space System 35 onsite approximately
  80 combined

• Employment Opportunities

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cloud grove context zones

• Towns
• Size 1,000 5,000 acres
• Context zones guide location and intensity of
  uses
• Town Core
• Town Center
• Neighborhood General
• Neighborhood Edge (optional)
• Special District (optional)

Source RLSA Figure 5 and RLSA Policy 4.6.1
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cloud grove context zones
Town Core

• Civic center of a Town
• Most dense and diverse zone, full range of uses
  within walking distance
• Primary pedestrian zone with buildings positioned
  near the right-of-way
• Sidewalks are shaded by streetscape planting,
  awnings
• Parking on street, in the rear of buildings or
  within parking structures
• Signage pedestrian scale, designed to compliment
  the building architecture

• Town Core
• Town Center
• Neighborhood General
• Neighborhood Edge (optional)
• Special District (optional)

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cloud grove context zones
Town Center

• The Main Street area of the Town
• Buildings positioned near the right-of-way
  line
• Wide range of uses within walking distance
• daily goods and services,
• culture and entertainment
• Wide sidewalks shaded by street trees
• Entrances to structures reinforce the
  pedestrian scale
• Like the Town Core, the Town Center is the
  primary pedestrian zone, designed at human
  scale to support the walking environment

• Town Core
• Town Center
• Neighborhood General
• Neighborhood Edge (optional)
• Special District (optional)

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cloud grove context zones
Neighborhood General

• Town Core
• Town Center
• Neighborhood General
• Neighborhood Edge (optional)
• Special District (optional)

• Predominantly residential mix of single and
  multi-family housing
• Neighborhood scale goods and services,
  schools, parks and open space diversify the
  neighborhoods
• Interconnected street pattern is maintained
  through the Neighborhood General to disperse
  traffic
• Sidewalks and streetscape support the
  pedestrian environment

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cloud grove context zones
Neighborhood Edge

• Town Core
• Town Center
• Neighborhood General
• Neighborhood Edge (optional)
• Special District (optional)

• Predominantly a single-family residential
  neighborhood
• Least intensity and diversity within the Town
• Limited mix of uses
• Larger residential homesites and more open
  space
• Can provide a transition to adjoining land uses

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cloud grove context zones
Special Use District

• Town Core
• Town Center
• Neighborhood General
• Neighborhood Edge (optional)
• Special District (optional)

Uses and development standards not provided
for within other Context Zones Require unique
development standards to ensure compatibility
with surrounding neighborhoods Primarily
single use districts such as universities
medical parks
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master plan

• Mixed Use Community
• Residential 12,000 homes (SF and MF)
• Hotel 300 rooms
• Office 1,000,000 sq. ft.
• Retail/ 950,000 sq. ft. Service
• Movie 12 screens Theater
• Light 1,000,000 sq. ft. Industrial
• Golf 27 holes
• Hospital 140 beds
• Civic 510,000 sq. ft.
• Key Road Connections
• Four phases, through 2029
• 500,000 sq. ft. to County for Targeted
  Industries

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town center
Mixed Use Town Center

• Retail, restaurant, higher density
  residential uses, theater
• Varied height buildings up to 4/5 stories
• On-street parking allowed off-street parking
  to rear of buildings
• Pedestrian emphasis
• Public spaces

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neighborhood general
Neighborhood General

• Mix of residential homes, sizes and prices
• Focal points within easy walking distance
• Neighborhoods are sized based on a 5-minute
  walk
• Road connectivitychoices
• Pedestrian system/ connectivity

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neighborhood edge
Neighborhood Edge

• Serves as a transition and edge for the Town
• Less dense largest homesites
• Focal points within easy walking distance
• Neighborhoods are sized based on a 5-minute
  walk
• Road connectivitychoices
• Pedestrian system/ connectivity

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connected road system

• Hierarchy of roads
• Major Roads
• Minor Roads
• Local Road connections
• Key connections
• Allows for future connections if appropriate
• Provides internal connectivity/choices
• Provide for future transit stops

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pedestrian/bike system

• Potential Regional Corridor
• Key Destinations
• Town Centers
• Parks, Reservoir, Hammock
• Civic Uses
• Hierarchy of paths
• Major trails/paths
• Minor trails/paths
• Local/neighborhood sidewalks all local
  streets (not shown)

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open space system

• Open Space System35 required onsite
• Reservoir
• Major Flow ways/linear parks/buffers
• Community Parks
• Civic Uses
• Neighborhood Parks
• Minor Flow ways

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range of housing

• Provide range of housing by
• Home type
• Single Family
• Townhomes
• Condominiums
• Apartments
• Homesite Size
• Provide a variety of lifestyle choices from in
  town to more rural, larger homesites
• Provide 8 of homes as affordable housing on-site

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balance of uses

• Provide a balance of Residential and
  Nonresidential Uses
• Town Center
• Civic Uses
• Interchange Commercial
• Employment Center
• Include a site for 500,000 sq. ft. to County
  for Targeted Industries

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life sciences education corridor
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process

• Key Steps of the Process
• RLSA Comp Plan Policies and Land Development
  Regulations Adopted
• Adams Ranch and Cloud Grove established as RLSA
  Pilot Program
• Adams Ranch SSA application
• Cloud Grove DRI in process addresses regional
  issues and potential impacts for
  transportation, environmental, economic,
  public safety and services.
• Cloud Grove SRA Application to follow
• BCC hearings in late 2007

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Cloud grove ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS

• Surface Water
• Water use
• Cabbage Palm Hammock
• Reservoir
• Snail kite

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Cloud grove ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS Surface WATER

• Eliminate over time, as Cloud Grove is
  developed, the current practice of agricultural
  discharge to canals that lead to the Indian
  River Lagoon.
• Water will be stored and cleansed on site by
  flowing through created and enhanced wetlands
  and then gradually released with improved
  water quality.
• Proposed surface water management system will
  improve the water quality and reduce the
  current total annual discharge.
• Use of reclaimed water will be integral part
  of communitys water management process.

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Cloud grove ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS water use

• Current agricultural operations mostly
  irrigated by C-25 Canal surface water.
• Proposed potable water at buildout will be from
  Floridan Aquifer, which is consistent with
  SFWMD Upper East Coast Supply Plan. Systems
  will be phased.
• Irrigation water will come from reclaimed waste
  water supplemented by surface water in dry
  times.
• Reuse of reclaimed water is an integral part of
  water management program.

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Cloud grove ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS cabbage palm
Hammock

• Existing 11-acre natural hammock ecosystem
  will be protected and managed for conservation
  of native plants.
• The state listed butterfly orchid (Encyclia
  tampensis) observed within this area.
• Hammock will become a passive recreation site
  open to the public.

Existing Oak Hammock on-site
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Cloud grove ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS RESERVOIR

• Existing 640-acre /- above ground man-made
  reservoir will be restored into several types
  of wetland systems.
• Reservoir will be included in surface water
  management system.
• Restoration will provide for improved snail
  kite habitat and appropriate passive
  recreation.
• Water will be treated in a natural type system
  that routes stormwater through a series of
  filter marshes and then into a complex series
  of open water, vegetated littoral shelves,
  freshwater marshes and tree island wetlands
  that replicate natural habitat.
• Reservoir design includes restoration of the
  propertys historic hydrologic condition.

Conceptual restoration plan for reservoir
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Cloud grove ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS Snail kite

• Snail kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus)
  listed by US Fish and Wildlife Service as
  endangered has been observed onsite.
• Fewer than 1,500 individual Snail kites are left
  in Florida.
• The post development design of the reservoir
  includes habitat for both apple snails and
  snail kites which will enable this endangered
  species to forage, roost, and potentially
  breed.
• A multitude of listed and nonlisted wading birds
  will use the reservoir.
• Community could become a major destination for
  birdwatchers as reservoir will allow for
  public access.

Snail Kite