Last Night's Planning and Zoning Board Workshop

The P&Z Board held a workshop in the City Hall conference room last night regarding revisions to the Comprehensive Plan, based upon our Master Plan exercise. Those in attendance got to hear Kim Delaney of Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council talk about transit oriented developments (TODs) and how to make our Comprehensive Plan more attractive for the establishment of a transit station at the FEC (eastern) railroad tracks.

Below is an image from the South Florida East Coast Corridor study related to station suitability. For a link to the site for more information (and there is a lot of it!) click here.
Soon I will be able to post portions of Kim's Powerpoint presentation. It was interesting hearing someone at the regional planning council and talk about how density is used as an issue to create conflict in communities, but that it really comes down to the individual design of a project. There are some lower density projects that are much less attractive than more dense residential properties. This was needed information for some of those in attendance at the meeting and it was great to hear it said with authority.

More on this later.