1099 Comp Plan/FLU & ICEORDINANCE NO. 1099
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA AMENDING
THE CITY'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN; PROVIDING FOR A NEW OBJECTIVE
AND A NEW POLICY TO THE FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT ADDRESSING
COMPATIBILITY OF LAND USES LOCATED NEAR OR WITHIN CERTAIN
DISTANCES OF AIRPORT RUNWAYS; PROVIDING FOR INCORPORATING A
NEW POLICY TO THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION ELEMENT
WHICH PROVIDES FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
OKEECHOBEE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD TO SIT, UNDER CERTAIN
CIRCUMSTANCES, AS A NONVOTING MEMBER OF THE LOCAL
PLANNING AGENCY (LPA); PROVIDING FOR FINDINGS OF FACT;
PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE
DATE.
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Planning Act of 2011 requires that the City prepare and transmit
an amendment addressing items identified in the Evaluation and Appraisal Notification
Letter within 12 months of submittal of the letter, said letter having been on September 1,
2012; and
WHEREAS, Staff has prepared proposed amendments addressing items so identified in its
Evaluation and Appraisal Letter; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Board, acting as the Local Planning Agency of the City of Okeechobee,
Florida, recently reviewed the proposed amendments; has discussed same at a duly
advertised public hearing on June 20, 2013, and recommends the City Council transmit the
proposed amendments to the State Land Planning Agency for review and approval, and
subsequent adoption by ordinance by the City Council; and
WHEREAS, in order to effectively address these recommendations in an orderly manner with the
intent of including all recommendations in a single ordinance, which will save the City and
its citizens costs and time, this ordinance is a compilation of many amendments, which
when adopted, will amend each of the cited code sections upon its effective date.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council for the City of Okeechobee, Florida;
presented at a duly advertised public meeting; and passed by majority vote of the City
Council; and properly executed by the Mayor or designee, as Chief Presiding Officer for the
City, that:
SECTION 1.
The City Council for the City of Okeechobee, Florida amends herein the Future Land
Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan by adding Objective 13 and Policy 13.1,
to read as follows:
Objective 13 The City of Okeechobee recognizes that under certain conditions some uses
of land are not compatible in proximity to public use airports and must be
regulated to reduce or eliminate potential hazards to health or safety.
Policy 13.1 The City of Okeechobee shall adopt airport zoning regulations that:
a. prohibit residential construction and educational facilities in the City to be
located within 2,500 feet of a runway at the Okeechobee County Airport.
b. are consistent with the requirements of Sec. 333.03(1)(c) F.S.
c. prohibit the location of any sanitary landfill that is:
1) within 10,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used or planned
to be used by turbojet or turboprop aircraft;
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SECTION 2.
Policy 5.5
SECTION 3.
SECTION 4.
SECTION 5.
2) within 5,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used only by
piston -type aircraft;
3) outside the perimeters defined in subparagraphs 1. and 2., but still
within the lateral limits of the civil airport imaginary surfaces defined in
14 C.F.R. part 77.25.
d. require notification of the FAA when a structure located within three statute
miles of the Airport Reference Point and will be higher than the distance
from the end of the runway divided by 100 feet.
e. prohibit, in the interest of air safety and commerce, temporary or permanent
structures that do not comply with Federal Aviation Administration rules or
regulations.
That the City Council for the City of Okeechobee, Florida amends herein the
Intergovernmental Coordination Element of the Comprehensive Plan by adding
Policy 5.5, to read as follows, and renumber existing Policy 5.5 through 5.8 to be 5.6
to 5.9:
The City of Okeechobee shall include a representative of the Okeechobee County
School District, appointed by the School Board, as a non - voting member of the Local
Planning Agency (LPA) to attend those meetings at which the LPA considers
amendments to the City's Comprehensive Plan and /or Zoning Map that would, if
approved, increase residential density on the property that is the subject of the
proposed amendment(s).
Conflict. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.
Severability. If any provision or portion of this ordinance is declared by any court of
competent jurisdiction to be void, unconstitutional, or unenforceable, then all
remaining provisions and portions of this ordinance shall remain in full force and
effect.
Effective Date. The effective date of this plan amendment, if the amendment is
not timely challenged, shall be the date the State Land Planning Agency posts a
notice of intent determining that this amendment is in compliance. If timely
challenged, or if the State Land Planning Agency issues a notice of intent
determining that this amendment is not in compliance, this amendment shall
become effective on the date the State Land Planning Agency or the
Administration Commission enters a final order determining this adopted
amendment to be in compliance. No development orders, development permits,
or land uses dependent on this amendment may be issued or commence before
it has become effective. If a final order of noncompliance is issued by the
Administration Commission, this amendment may nevertheless be made
effective by adoption of a resolution affirming its effective status, a copy of which
resolution shall be sent to the State Land Planning Agency.
INTRODUCED for First Reading held at a duly advertised Transmittal Public Hearing on this 16th
day of July, 2013.
ATTEST:
Lan
Gamiot
a, CMC, City Clerk
ing R. Watford, Jf., Mayor Pro - Tempore
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PASSED AND ADOPTED after Second and Final Public Hearing this 19th day of November,
2013.
ATTEST:
Lane Gamiotea, CMC, City Clerk
REVIEWED FOR LEGAL S FFICIENCY:
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John R. Cook, City Attorney
Dowling R. Watford, Jr., P6[aSor Pro - Tempore
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The Honorable James E. Kirk
Mayor, City of Okeechobee
City Hall
55 Southeast Third Avenue
Okeechobee, Florida 34974
Dear Mayor Kirk:
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT ,f
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
December 16, 2013
Jesse Panuccio
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
The Department of Economic Opportunity has completed its review of the comprehensive plan
amendment for the City of Okeechobee adopted by Ordinance Number 1099 on November 19, 2013
(Amendment No. 13 -2ER), which was received and determined complete on December 3, 2013. We
have reviewed the amendment in accordance with the state coordinated review process set forth in
Sections 163.3184(2) and (4) Florida Statutes (F.S.) and have determined that the adopted amendment
meets the requirements of Chapter 163, Part II, F.S., for compliance, as defined in Section
163.3184(1)(b), F.S. The Department of Economic Opportunity is therefore issuing a Notice of Intent to
find the comprehensive plan amendment "In Compliance." A copy of the Notice of Intent has been
posted on the Department of Economic Opportunity's Internet website. You may access the Notice of
Intent at http: / /dca.deo. myflorida .com /finddocumentsonline/ .
The Department of Economic Opportunity's Notice of Intent to find a plan amendment "In
Compliance" shall be deemed to be a final order if no timely petition challenging the amendment has
been filed. If this plan amendment is challenged by an affected person, the amendment will not
become effective until the Department of Economic Opportunity or the Administration Commission
enters a final order determining the amendment to be in compliance. No development orders,
development permits, or land uses dependent on this amendment may be issued or commenced before
it has become effective.
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If you have any questions related to this review, please contact Scott Rogers, Planning Analyst, at
(850) 717 -8510, or by email at scott.rogers@deo.myflorida.com.
Sincerely,
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Mike McDaniel
Comprehensive Planning Manager
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Enclosure: Notice of Intent
cc: Brian Whitehall, City Administrator
William Brissom, AICP, Senior Planner, LaRue Planning & Management Services, Inc.
Patricia M. Steed, Executive Director, Central Florida Regional Planning Council
SPATE OF FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY, THE STATE LAND PLANNING
AGENCY
NOTICE OF INTENT TO FIND THE
CITY OF OKEECHOBEE
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENTS
IN COMPLIANCE
DOCKET NO. 13- 2ER -N0I- 4702- (A) -(I)
The Department gives notice of its intent to find the Amendments to the Comprehensive
Plan for the City of Okeechobee, adopted by Ordinance No. 1099 on November 19, 2013, IN
COMPLIANCE, pursuant to Section 163.3184(4), F.S.
If a timely petition challenging the Amendments was not filed within thirty (30) days after
the local government adopted the Amendments, the Amendments become effective upon the
posting of this Notice of Intent on the Department's Internet Website. If a timely petition was filed,
the Amendments do not become effective until the Department or the Administration Commission
enters a final order determining that the Amendments are in compliance.
Mike McDaniel, Chief
Bureau of Community Planning
Division of Community Development
Department of Economic Opportunity
107 East Madison Street
Tallahassee, Florida 32399
Rick Scott
GOVERNOR
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FLORIDA DEPARTMENT of
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
December 3, 2013
Wm. F. Brisson, AICP
Sr. Planner
LaRue Planning & Management Servcies, Inc.
1375 Jackson Street, Suite 206
Ft. Myers, Florida 33901
Dear Mr. Brisson:
Jesse Panuccio
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Thank you for submitting copies of the City of Okeechobee's comprehensive plan
amendment No. 13 -2ER adopted by Ordinance No. 1099 on November 19, 2013, for our review.
We have conducted an inventory of the plan amendment package to verify the inclusion of
all required materials. The submission package appears to be complete and your adopted plan
amendment will be reviewed pursuant to Chapter 163.3184(4), Florida. Statutes. Once the review is
underway, you may be asked to provide additional supporting documentation by the review team to
ensure a thorough review. The Department will conduct a compliance review and issue a Notice of
Intent regarding the adopted comprehensive plan amendment on or about January 16, 2014.
Please be advised pursuant to Section 163.3184(4)(e)4., Florida Statutes, the State Land
Planning Agency's Notice of Intent shall become effective upon posting on the Department's internet
websitc unless challenged by an Affected Party.
If you have any questions, please contact Brenda Winningham, Regional Planning
Administrator for region 7, who will be assigning the adopted plan amendment for review at (850)
717 -8516.
D. Ray Eubanks, Administrator
Plan Review and Processing
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James G. LaRue, AICP, Planning Consultant, LaRue Planning & Management Services, Inc.
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To: 'Eubanks, Ray'
Cc: Department of Education; Department of Environmental Protection; DOT District 1;
Central Florida Regional Planning Council; South Florida Water Management District;
Okeechobee County Planning Department; 'Lane'; rbrock @cityofokeechobee.com; 'Brian
Whitehall'; 'Bill Brisson'
Subject: City of Okeechobee - Adopted Evaluation & Appraisal - based Comprehensive Plan
Amendment
Attachments: EA -based Amendment Adopted 11- 19- 2013.pdf
Mr. Eubanks,
Attached is the City of Okeechobee Adopted Evaluation & Appraisal - based Comprehensive Plan Amendment
No. 13 -2ER. We are sending 1 original printed document and 2 CDs for delivery to your office via FedEx. All
other agencies are copied in this email.
Should you have any questions, or difficulties accessing this file please do not hesitate to contact me.
Thank you,
Gloria Pellito
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City of Okeechobee
Adopted Evaluation & Appraisal -based
Comprehensive Plan Amendment Package
for Coordinated State Review
Adoption Public Hearing: November 19, 2013
Prepared by:
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& Management Services, Inc.
1375 Jackson Street, Suite 206
Fort Myers, Florida
239 - 334 -3366
Serving Florida Local Governments Since 1988
City of Okeechobee
Comprehensive Plan Amendment Package
Table of Contents
Adoption Submittal Letter
Adopted Ordinance No. 1099
Adopted Text Amendments
Updated Comprehensive Plan Elements
Future Land Use
Intergovernmental Coordination
Summary of City Council Action
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& Management Services, Inc.
November 26, 2013
Mr. Ray Eubanks, Plan Processing Administrator
Division of Community Planning and Development
Department of Economic Opportunity
107 East Madison Street
Caldwell Bldg., MSC 160
Tallahassee, Florida 32399
Re: City of Okeechobee
Adopted Evaluation & Appraisal -based Comprehensive Plan Amendment No. 13 -2ER
Dear Mr. Eubanks:
Pursuant to the State Coordinated Review process guidelines, enclosed are three (3) copies (one printed
copy and two compact discs) of the City of Okeechobee Evaluation & Appraisal -based Comprehensive
Plan Amendment.
The following information concerning the adopted amendment is offered:
• The City Council held its adoption public hearing on November 19, 2013 and adopted Ordinance
No. 1099 approving the amendment as submitted herein.
• In summary, the Amendment package contains amendments to:
1. Add a new Objective and Policy in the Future Land Use Element addressing compatibility
of land uses located near or within certain distance of airport runways, and
2. Add a new policy in the Intergovernmental Coordination Element providing for the
appointment of a representative of the school board to sit as a nonvoting member of
the LPA when it is considering amendments to the Comprehensive Plan or Zoning that
would result in increases in residential density.
The Plan Amendment is adopted as proposed and does not include any changes or revisions not
previously reviewed by the State Land Planning Agency (SLPA).
• Timely comments received from the SLPA and other reviewing agencies required no changes to
the Amendment as originally transmitted and reviewed by the SLPA.
• The City is relying on data and analysis previously submitted with the transmittal, therefore, no
data and analysis is included.
Providing Planning and Management Solutions for Local Governments Since 1988
1375 Jackson Street, Suite 206 Fort Myers, FL 33901 239 - 334 -3366 www.Iarueplanning.com
Serving Florida Local Governments Since 1988
• The adopted Comprehensive Plan Amendment package and this transmittal letter have been
submitted to the Okeechobee County Planning Department, Central Florida Regional Planning
Council and the following agencies that have filed timely comments:
Florida Department of Education
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Florida Department of Transportation- District One
South Florida Water Management District
The contact person for the City of Okeechobee is:
Wm. F. Brisson, AICP
Sr. Planner
LaRue Planning & Management Services, Inc
1375 Jackson Street, Suite 206, Ft. Myers, Fl 33901
239 - 334 -3366 bill@larueplanning.com
Should you have any questions or require additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me at
239 - 334 -3366.
Sincerely,
James G. LaRue, AICP
Planning Consultant
2
ORDINANCE NO. 1099
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA AMENDING
THE CITY'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN; PROVIDING FOR A NEW OBJECTIVE
AND A NEW POLICY TO THE FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT ADDRESSING
COMPATIBILITY OF LAND USES LOCATED NEAR OR WITHIN CERTAIN
DISTANCES OF AIRPORT RUNWAYS; PROVIDING FOR INCORPORATING A
NEW POLICY TO THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION ELEMENT
WHICH PROVIDES FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
OKEECHOBEE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD TO SIT, UNDER CERTAIN
CIRCUMSTANCES, AS A NONVOTING MEMBER OF THE LOCAL
PLANNING AGENCY (LPA); PROVIDING FOR FINDINGS OF FACT;
PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE
DATE.
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Planning Act of 2011 requires that the City prepare and transmit
an amendment addressing items identified in the Evaluation and Appraisal Notification
Letter within 12 months of submittal of the letter, said letter having been on September 1,
2012; and
WHEREAS, Staff has prepared proposed amendments addressing items so identified in its
Evaluation and Appraisal Letter; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Board, acting as the Local Planning Agency of the City of Okeechobee,
Florida, recently reviewed the proposed amendments; has discussed same at a duly
advertised public hearing on June 20, 2013, and recommends the City Council transmit the
proposed amendments to the State Land Planning Agency for review and approval, and
subsequent adoption by ordinance by the City Council; and
WHEREAS, in order to effectively address these recommendations in an orderly manner with the
intent of including all recommendations in a single ordinance, which will save the City and
its citizens costs and time, this ordinance is a compilation of many amendments, which
when adopted, will amend each of the cited code sections upon its effective date.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council for the City of Okeechobee, Florida;
presented at a duly advertised public meeting; and passed by majority vote of the City
Council; and properly executed by the Mayor or designee, as Chief Presiding Officerfor the
City, that:
SECTION 1,. The City Council for the City of Okeechobee, Florida amends herein the Future Land
Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan by adding Objective 13 and Policy 13.1,
to read as follows:
Objective 13 The City of Okeechobee recognizes that under certain conditions some uses
of land are not compatible in proximity to public use airports and must be
regulated to reduce or eliminate potential hazards to health or safety.
Policy 13.1 The City of Okeechobee shall adopt airport zoning regulations that:
a. prohibit residential construction and educational facilities in the City to be
located within 2,500 feet of a runway at the Okeechobee County Airport.
b. are consistent with the requirements of Sec. 333.03(1)(c) F.S.
c. prohibit the location of any sanitary landfill that is:
1) within 10,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used or planned
to be used by turbojet or turboprop aircraft;
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2) within 5,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used only by
piston -type aircraft;
3) outside the perimeters defined in subparagraphs 1. and 2., but still
within the lateral limits of the civil airport imaginary surfaces defined in
14 C.F.R. part 77.25.
d. require notification of the FAA when a structure located within three statute
miles of the Airport Reference Point and will be higher than the distance
from the end of the runway divided by 100 feet.
e. prohibit, in the interest of air safety and commerce, temporary or permanent
structures that do not comply with Federal Aviation Administration rules or
regulations.
SECTION Z. That the City Council for the City of Okeechobee, Florida amends herein the
Intergovernmental Coordination Element of the Comprehensive Plan by adding
Policy 5.5, to read as follows, and renumber existing Policy 5.5 through 5.8 to be 5.6
to 5.9:
Policy 5.5 The City of Okeechobee shall include a representative of the Okeechobee County
School District, appointed by the School Board, as a non - voting member of the Local
Planning Agency (LPA) to attend those meetings at which the LPA considers
amendments to the City's Comprehensive Plan and /or Zoning Map that would, if
approved, increase residential density on the property that is the subject of the
proposed amendment(s).
SECTION 3. Conflict. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.
SECTION 4. Severability. If any provision or portion of this ordinance is declared by any court of
competent jurisdiction to be void, unconstitutional, or unenforceable, then all
remaining provisions and portions of this ordinance shall remain in full force and
effect.
SECTION 5. Effective Date. The effective date of this plan amendment, if the amendment is
not timely challenged, shall be the date the State Land Planning Agency posts a
notice of intent determining that this amendment is in compliance. If timely
challenged, or if the State Land Planning Agency issues a notice of intent
determining that this amendment is not in compliance, this amendment shall
become effective on the date the State Land Planning Agency or the
Administration Commission enters a final order determining this adopted
amendment to be in compliance. No development orders, development permits,
or land uses dependent on this amendment may be issued or commence before
it has become effective. If a final order of noncompliance is issued by the
Administration Commission, this amendment may nevertheless be made
effective by adoption of a resolution affirming its effective status, a copy of which
resolution shall be sent to the State Land Planning Agency.
INTRODUCED for First Reading held at a duly advertised Transmittal Public Hearing on this 16'
day of July, 2013.
ATTEST:
/
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ovfing R. Watford, Jf., Mayor Pro - Tempore
Lan - 'Gamiot=a, CMC, City Clerk
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Ordinance No. 1099 Page 2 of 3 Language to be deleted is
PASSED AND ADOPTED after Second and Final Public Hearing this 19th day of November,
2013.
ATTEST:
DowlinC`R. Watford, Jr., or Pro - Tempore
4Gae_e_
L miotea, CMC, City Clerk
REVIEWED FOR LEGAL S FFICIENCY:
John R. Cook, City Attorney
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Ordinance No. 1099 Page 3 of 3 Language to be deleted is sifusk- through
Adopted Changes to Future Land Use
and Intergovernmental Coordination Elements
Objective 13:
Evaluation and Appraisal -Based Amendment, 2013
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The City of Okeechobee recognizes that under certain conditions some
uses of land are not compatible in proximity to public use airports and
must be regulated to reduce or eliminate potential hazards to health or
safety.
Policy 13.1 The City of Okeechobee shall adopt airport zoning regulations that:
Al prohibit residential construction and educational facilities in the City
to be located within 2,500 feet of a runway at the Okeechobee
County Airport.
are consistent with the requirements of Sec. 333.03(1)(c) F.S.
RI prohibit the location of any sanitary landfill that is;
1. within 10,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used or
planned to be used by turbojet or turboprop aircraft;
2. within 5,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used
only by piston -type aircraft;
3. outside the perimeters defined in subparagraphs 1. and 2., but
still within the lateral limits of the civil airport imaginary
surfaces defined in 14 C.F.R. part 77.25.
dl require notification of the FAA when a structure located within three
statute miles of the Airport Reference Point and will be higher than
the distance from the end of the runway divided by 100 feet.
el prohibit, in the interest of air safety and commerce, temporary or
permanent structures that do not comply with Federal Aviation
Administration rules or regulations.
City of Okeechobee Comprehensive Plan
Future Land Use Element
Amended: November 19, 2013, Ord. 1099
Policy 4.3:
Objective 5:
Policy 5.1:
Policy 5.2:
Policy 5.3:
Policy 5.4:
Policy 5.5
Policy 5.5 5_6:
Evaluation and Appraisal -Based Amendment, 2013
ICE 7 -4
The City shall continue to coordinate its Comprehensive Plan with the
Resource Management Plan to address drainage problems in the Lower
Kissimmee River and Taylor Creek Drainage Basin regions.
The City of Okeechobee shall cooperate in an effort with the School Board
to ensure that the planning activities, services and facilities of the School
Board are consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan.
The City of Okeechobee shall exchange data with the School Board
regarding population projections and the School Board (5 -year) facility
plans as such data or plans are updated.
The City of Okeechobee shall coordinate major residential project reviews
(pursuant to Chapters 163 and 235, Florida Statutes) to consider joint
park/schools dedications to meet future demands.
The City of Okeechobee and the School Board shall coordinate in their
joint efforts to study and implement innovative methods, including
park/school site dedications and contributions, as a means to address
infrastructure needs associated with the City's growth.
The City of Okeechobee shall notify the School Board of all new
residential development projects or modifications to existing residential
developments which increase density as a part of the review process for
school concurrency.
The City of Okeechobee shall include a representative of the Okeechobee
County School District, appointed by the School Board, as a nonvoting
member of the Local Planning Agency (LPA) to attend those meetings at
which the LPA considers amendments to the City's Comprehensive Plan
and /or Zoning Map that would, if approved, increase residential density on
the property that is the subject of the proposed amendment(s).
The City of Okeechobee shall maintain a joint interlocal agreements with
the School Board and the County for Public School Facility Planning
which includes the provisions for the implementation of school
concurrency and a coordination process for locating new schools,
expanding or redeveloping existing school facilities. The School Board
shall be encouraged to locate new educational facilities near urban
residential areas where public infrastructure and services exist to support
the new facilities.
City of Okeechobee Comprehensive Plan
Intergovernmental Coordination Element
Amended: November 19, 2013, Ord. 1099
Policy 5,6 5_7:
Policy 5,7 5_8:
Policy 5.8 5_9:
Evaluation and Appraisal -Based Amendment, 2013
ICE 7 -5
The City of Okeechobee shall advise and meet with the School Board as
necessary, regarding all Plan amendments and proposed annexations that
may affect school sites.
The City of Okeechobee shall coordinate with the School Board regarding
shared use of recreational facilities owned by either entity. In addition, the
City shall consider all reasonable opportunities to collocate new parks,
libraries, and other facilities with public schools.
The City of Okeechobee, although not currently impacted, shall enter into
any appropriate agreement with the State of Florida University System or
the School Board implementing the requirements of Section 240.155 (11-
15), F.S., regarding campus master plans. A consistency review of the
campus master plans for non -state post- secondary institutions shall also be
considered where a "campus" exists or is planned.
City of Okeechobee Comprehensive Plan
Intergovernmental Coordination Element
Amended: November 19, 2013, Ord. 1099
For your convenience the following are the updated Elements
Future Land Use
Intergovernmental Coordination
Goal:
Objective 1:
Policy 1.1:
Policy 1.2:
Policy 1.3:
Policy 1.4:
Future Land Use Element
Goals, Objectives and Policies
Through a well - planned mix of compatible land uses, the City of Okeechobee
shall continue to maintain a high quality living environment, preserve its
distinctive natural and historic resources, and provide public services to its
residents at a minimum cost.
The location of future development in the City of Okeechobee shall continue
to be guided by the availability and efficient use of public facilities and
services as well as site characteristics such as soil conditions and topography.
Approval of development proposals shall continue to be conditioned on the
availability of facilities and services necessary to serve the proposed
development and that the facilities meet adopted level of service standards.
These adopted level of service standards shall be as follows:
Public Facility LOS Standard
Potable Water Supply
Wastewater Disposal
Solid Waste Disposal
Stormwater Drainage
Recreation and Open Space
Roads and Traffic Circulation
114 gallons /capita /day
130 gallons /capita/day
13 lbs. /capita /day
3 years available landfill capacity
Design storm:
25 year /24 hour duration
3 acres /1,000 persons
Principal Arterial: LOS C
All Other Roads: LOS D
The City of Okeechobee shall continue to ensure that needed public facilities
will be in place prior to or concurrent with new development through
implementation of the Concurrency Management System.
Where minimum levels of service for parks, roads, and solid waste disposal
are met, new residential development and commercial developments
receiving approval from the Florida Department of Health may make
temporary use of private wells and septic tanks subject to the requirement that
it will connect to public potable water and sanitary sewer service once such
service becomes available.
The land development regulations applicable in the City of Okeechobee will
be amended to implement appropriate best management practices described
in A Guide to Sound Land & Water Management (published by the Florida
City of Okeechobee Comprehensive Plan
Future Land Use Element 1 -1
Objective 2:
Policy 2.1:
Department of Environmental Protection) or limit development densities and
intensities in areas where soil types or topography are not conducive to
development. Permitted densities and intensities in environmentally sensitive
areas shall be as established under Objective 2 and the Future Land Use Map.
The City of Okeechobee shall continue to ensure that all new development is
consistent with the Future Land Use Element.
The following land use designations are established for the purpose of
managing future growth:
a) Single - Family Residential. Permitted uses are one single - family
dwelling on each lot and structures accessory to the residential use,
mobile home parks and public facilities. Maximum density is four
units per acre for residential units on individual lots, and six units per
acre for mobile home parks. Where affordable housing is provided in
accordance with Housing Policy 1.6, the maximum density for single
family development shall be five units per acre.
b) Multi - family Residential. Permitted uses include apartments,
duplexes, condominiums, single- family houses and public facilities.
Maximum density shall not exceed 10 units per acre. Where
affordable housing is provided in accordance with Housing Policy
1.6, the maximum density for multi - family development shall be 11
units per acre.
c) Mixed Use Residential. Intended to accommodate and provide
flexibility for development of multiple uses within a residential
setting. In order for land to be considered for this designation, land
requested to be placed in this category shall be a minimum of 30
acres. Development within this category would be allowed to be no
more than seven and one -half (7.5) dwelling units per gross acre.
Land developed within this Residential Mixed Use Category must
adhere to the following innovative design and planning principles.
1. All new development within the Residential Mixed Use
Category shall be required to be zoned as a Planned
Development or Planned Unit Development.
2. Development within this Residential Mixed Use Category
will be required to cluster in order to maximize open space
and natural areas. Development within the Residential Mixed
Use Category is permitted to be clustered at higher than gross
density as long as the gross density is not exceeded for the
total acreage within the Residential Mixed Use Category.
3. Development within the Residential Mixed Use Category is
encouraged to provide a mix of uses, including a mix of
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residential types, recreational amenities, civic spaces and
convenience and commercial uses intended to serve residents
and their guests in order to minimize trips outside the
Residential Mixed Use Category.
4. Development is encouraged to provide creative site designs,
and clustering is required to provide for greater common open
space and mixed -use development. The planning flexibility
provided through the planned development process shall
encourage and facilitate creative design techniques.
a. Residential Development. These areas shall include
single and /or multiple family home site acreage, and
shall include, but not be limited to, single - family
attached and detached; duplexes and two - family units;
and town homes and other multi- family dwelling
types.
b. Non - residential Development. These areas will
include vehicular and pedestrian ways, commercial
and institutional areas, club houses and associated
facilities, utility buildings, maintenance areas, tennis
courts and associated non - residential uses.
c. Residential and Non - residential Development acreage
may account for no more than 60% of the gross area
within the Residential Mixed Use Category.
Intensity /density standards for all uses within this
category are set forth in the Intensity /Density Table
below:
Percent Aggregate Land Use Mix Within the Mixed Use
Future Land Use Map Category
Land Uses in Mixed Use
Minimum %
Land Use Mix
Maximum
% Land Use
Mix
Maximum
Density /Intensit
Residential
45%
50%
7.5 gross du /ac
Commercial/Non- residential
10%
15%
.35 FAR (1)
Open Space
40%
53%
.25 FAR (')
� �) Floor Area Ratio
d. Open Spaces. These areas will include preserved
natural areas, buffers lakes, parks, golf courses, nature
trails, retention areas, conservation areas, scenic
resources, green belts, wetlands and associated areas
and must account for a minimum of 40% of the
property within the Residential Mixed Use Category.
Golf course fairways will account for no more than
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fifty percent (50 %) of the open space of the subject
Residential Mixed Use Category. No development
(residential /commercial) structures are intended, but
only recreation oriented buildings and /or structures.
e. The owners will employ management strategies in and
around any golf course to address the potential for
pesticide /chemical pollution of the groundwater and
surface water receiving areas. The management
practices will include:
i. The use of slow release fertilizers and /or
carefully managed fertilizer applications
which are timed to ensure maximum root
uptake and minimal surface water runoff or
leaching to the groundwater;
ii. The practice of integrated pest management
when seeking to control various pests, such as
weeds, insects, and nematodes. The
application of pesticides will involve only the
purposeful and minimal application of
pesticides, aimed only at identified targeted
species. The regular widespread application of
broad spectrum pesticides is not acceptable.
The management program will minimize, to
the extent possible, the use of pesticides, and
will include the use of the United States
Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation
Services Soil Pesticide Interaction Guide to
select pesticides that have a minimum
potential for leaching or Toss to due runoff
depending on the site - specific soil conditions;
iii. The coordination of the application of
pesticides with the irrigation practices (the
timing and application rates of irrigation
water) to reduce runoff and the leaching of
any pesticides and nutrients;
iv. The utilization of a golf course manager who
is licensed by the State to use restricted
pesticides and who will perform the required
management functions. The golf course
manager will be responsible for ensuring that
the golf course fertilizers are selected and
applied to minimize fertilizer runoff into the
surface water and the leaching of those same
fertilizers into the groundwater; and
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v. The storage, mixing and loading of fertilizer
and pesticides will be designed to
prevent /minimize the pollution of the natural
environment.
f. The shorelines of any stormwater management lakes
must be sinuous in configuration, and must be sloped
or bermed. The littoral zones around the ponds must
be planted with native wetland herbaceous plants, and
trees or shrubs can be included within the herbaceous
plants. At least four species must be planted. The
minimum required number of plants will be one plant
per linear foot of lake shoreline as measured at the
control elevation water level. The littoral shelf should
provide a feeding area for water dependent avian
species.
5. As individual zonings to PUD are submitted to the City, they
shall include as a minimum the following information:
a. A showing of the amount of units as a part of the
maximum approved for the parent parcel.
b. A Traffic Analysis submitted verifying that adequate
capacity currently exists or will exist prior to the
issuance of any Certificates of Occupancy.
6. Any lands included or amended into the Residential Mixed
Use Category must demonstrate the non - existence of urban
sprawl by:
a. Submitting a fiscal impact study demonstrating a net
fiscal benefit to the City.
b. Directing new growth to areas where public facilities
exist, are planned within the City or County Five Year
Capital Improvements Plan, or are committed to
through a Developer Agreement, or otherwise assured
to be funded by the appropriate agency.
c. Requiring all development to be connected to central
water and sewer.
d) Commercial. Permitted uses include, office, retail, automotive
wholesale, and related commercial activities. Also permitted are
public facilities. Commercial development shall not exceed a floor
area ration of 3.00 and the maximum impervious surface for
development within this category shall not exceed 85% of the site.
e) Industrial. Permitted uses include large -scale manufacturing or
processing activities. Also permitted are public facilities. Industrial
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Policy 2.2:
Policy 2.3:
Policy 2.4:
Policy 2.5:
Development shall not exceed a floor area ratio of 3.00 and the
maximum impervious surface for development within this category
shall not exceed 85% of the site.
0 Public Facility. Permitted uses include parks, schools, government
buildings, fire stations and other recreational and non - recreational
public properties. The maximum impervious surface for development
within this category shall not exceed 85% of the site.
In accordance with property rights policies adopted by the Central Florida
Regional Planning Council in the Central Florida Regional Policy Plan, the
City of Okeechobee recognizes and shall continue to protect private property
rights. In implementing the Comprehensive Plan, the City shall continue to
ensure that its land development regulations protect the use and value of
private property from adverse impacts of incompatible land uses, activities
and hazards. Planning for land use and public facilities in the City shall
consider private property rights, and ensure citizen input into government
land use decisions affecting property rights.
The City shall continue to require that all development proposals be
accompanied by an inventory of wetlands, soils posing severe limitation to
construction, unique habitat, endangered species of wildlife and plants, and
areas prone to periodic flooding. The City shall further require that the extent
to which any development or redevelopment is proposed to be placed in /on,
to disturb, or to alter the natural functions of any of these resources, be
identified. Such identification shall occur at a phase in the development
review process that provides the opportunity for the City to review the
proposed project to ensure that direct and irreversible impacts on the
identified resources are minimized, or in the extreme, mitigated. Where
development is determined to encroach upon a resource, the City shall require
a specific management plan to be prepared by the developer, which results in
no net loss of wetlands and which includes necessary modifications to the
proposed development, specific setback and buffers, and clustering of
development away from site resources, to ensure the protection, preservation
or natural functions of the resource. The minimum buffer for wetlands shall
be 25 feet and the average of all setbacks from the wetland resource shall be
40 feet. Areas designated as buffers shall preserve all natural vegetative
cover, except where drainage ways and access paths are approved to cross the
buffer. Buffers may be supplemented only with native tress, shrubs and
ground covers.
The City, through revision of appropriate land development regulations, shall
continue to establish compatibility criteria for adjacent land uses.
The City shall amend its Future Land Use Map, as necessary, to address
inconsistent land use areas.
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Policy 2.6:
Objective 3:
Development in conjunction with Comprehensive Plan Amendment #06-
C1 -001 shall be limited to a maximum of 200,000 square feet of
commercial development. This amendment is more specifically described
as:
Parcel 1: The West '/2 of the Southwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 of
Section 15, Township 37 South, Range 35 East, Okeechobee County,
Florida, lying North of the North right -of -way line of State Road No.
70; Except the North 50 feet of the West '/2 of the West '/2 of the
Southwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 for road purposes; also except the
following described property conveyed to the State of Florida: A
parcel of land in the West'' /2 of the Southwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 of
Section 15, Township 37 South, Range 35 East, being more
particularly described as follows: Commence at the South 1/4 corner of
said Section 15; thence run Northerly on the 1/4 section line a distance
of 36.95 feet to the centerline of State Road 70; thence North
80 °54'49" East, on said centerline a distance of 347.10 feet; thence
Northerly at 90° to said centerline a distance of 40 feet to the Point of
Beginning; thence continue Northerly a distance of 17 feet; thence
Easterly at 90° a distance of 20 feet; thence Southerly at 90 degrees a
distance of 17 feet; thence Westerly at 90° a distance of 20 feet to the
point of beginning.
Parcel 2: Beginning at the Southwest corner of the East '/2 of the
Southwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 15, Township 37 South,
Range 35 East and run North along the West boundary a distance of
594 feet; then run East a distance of 186.3 feet; then run South a
distance of 594 feet to the South boundary of Section 15; then run
West a distance of 186.3 feet to the Point of Beginning. Less and
except the right -of -way for State Road 70.
OR Book 525 Page 1999, Public Records of Okeechobee County,
Florida and is approximately 21.14 acre(s).
The City of Okeechobee shall continue to work toward the elimination or
reduction in size or intensity of existing land uses and zoning designations
which are not consistent with the Future Land Use Element.
Policy 3.1: The City shall, by 2001, identify all existing land uses inconsistent with the
Future Land Use Element.
Policy 3.2: The City of Okeechobee shall amend its land development regulations, by
2002, to prevent expansion of existing land uses which are inconsistent with
the Future Land Use Element. These regulations shall be enforced to ensure
that when such land uses are discontinued, they shall not be reestablished.
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Policy 3.3:
The City of Okeechobee shall continue to coordinate with Okeechobee
County in amending the City- County zoning maps to ensure that, all property
in the City is zoned in accordance with the Future Land Use Element.
Objective 4: The City shall continue to ensure the availability of suitable land for public
facilities to support proposed development.
Policy 4.1: Future land use shall continue to include appropriate public facilities to
support proposed development.
Policy 4.2: The City shall continue to amend and enforce the land development
regulations as necessary to ensure that adequate land and /or facilities are
available, at the minimum required level of service standards, to meet the
needs of new development, including but not limited to the following:
Policy 4.3:
a) drainage
b) stormwater management
c) parking
d) open space
e) road right -of -way
f) sewer /water plant sites
g) schools
Where new facilities providing a utility service are needed to support a
proposed development, such facilities shall be approved prior to or
simultaneously with approval of the development.
Objective 5: At a minimum, the threshold acreage for new schools shall be as follows:
a) Elementary Schools: A minimum of four (4) acres for the first two
hundred (200) students, plus one (1) acre for each additional one
hundred (100) students.
b) Middle Schools /Junior High Schools: A minimum of six (6) acres for
the first three hundred (300) students, plus one (1) acre for each
additional one hundred (100) students.
c) Senior High Schools: A minimum -of seven (7) acres for the first three
hundred (300) students. plus one (1) acre for each additional fifty (50)
students up to one thousand (1,000) students, plus one (1) acre for
each additional one hundred (100) students thereafter.
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Policy 5.1:
Policy 5.2:
Policy 5.3:
Policy 5.4:
d) Area Vocational /Technical School: A minimum of twenty (20) acres
for the first five hundred (500) students, plus one (1) acre for each
additional fifty (50) students up to one thousand (1,000) students.
e) Community College: A main campus site shall be a minimum of one
hundred (100) acres. Each separate center site shall contain a
minimum of forty (40) acres for the first five hundred (500) students,
plus two (2) acres for each additional one hundred (100) students.
Special - purpose center site acreage shall be appropriate to contain the
functions identified in the program.
Upon issuance of a development order for a new school, the necessary public
facilities such as, but not limited to sanitary sewer, solid waste, potable water,
drainage, and roads are to be in place to serve the proposed use. Furthermore,
the School Board shall obtain a written agreement from the service provider
assuring adequate capacity is available.
Public facilities should be in close proximity, and operating at the adopted
level of service, before a development order can be issued for a new school.
Access to the site must be from a collector road (minor Collector or local
road for elementary schools) and avoid the need for slow down zones.
Ingress and egress should not create detrimental impacts on roads adjacent to
the site and the site must provide for adequate on -site parking and circulation
of user vehicles.
Policy 5.5: Approaches to the site should be safe for pedestrians, bicycles, cars and
buses.
Policy 5.6: The City of Okeechobee shall advise the School Board of all Plan
amendments that may affect the location of new schools and proposed
improvements.
Objective 6: The City shall identify suitable locations for the siting of future schools.
Policy 6.1:
Policy 6.2:
Proposed school sites should be located away from industrial uses, major
arterial roadways, railroads, airports, and similar land uses to avoid noise,
odors, dust, and traffic impacts and hazards.
Disrupting influences caused by school yard noises and traffic shall be
buffered to ensure sufficient distances from hospitals, adult communities, and
nursing homes.
Policy 6.3: New schools shall be located within urban growth areas or be compatible
with compact urban growth patterns.
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Policy 6.4:
School sites shall be located outside flood plains, flood prone areas, or
floodways. New school sites should, whenever possible, avoid wetlands, and
other environmentally sensitive areas, and will not interfere with historic or
archaeological resources.
Policy 6.5: The City of Okeechobee shall facilitate the adequate and efficient provision
of public schools through:
a) Allowing new public elementary, middle, and high schools by right in
the Single Family Residential, Multi - Family Residential, and Public
Land Use categories, and by Special Exception in the Commercial
Future Land Use category subject to locational criteria in the
Comprehensive Plan and development standards in the Land
Development Regulations,
b) Not permitting new public schools for any site prohibited for a public
school in Chapter 235, F.S., and Rule 6A -2, F.A.C.
c) Addressing public school facilities pursuant to the provisions of
Sections 163.3161(3), 163.3164(24) and 163.3177(10) (h), Florida
Statutes.
d) Initiating a coordination process with the School Board in its efforts
on school planning, site selection and construction; and pursuant to
Chapter 235, Florida Statutes.
e) Maintaining for public review, a listing of capacity - deficient public
schools and the School Board's Educational Plan Survey and Capital
Improvement Program when such information is provided to the City.
Objective 7: The City of Okeechobee shall continue to protect significant natural and
historic resources.
Policy 7.1 The City shall continue to amend and enforce land development regulations
consistent with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's
(FDEP) best management practices referenced in Policy 1.4, which will
minimize the flow into Taylor Creek of organic nutrients, pesticides,
sediment, and other substances having the potential to degrade water quality.
Policy 7.2:
Policy 7.3:
The City shall continue to protect environmentally sensitive areas from
development of a type and intensity which would disrupt their natural
functions.
The City shall continue to establish development standards to be applied to
any wellfield protection zones which the City may designate to protect any
future public potable water wellfields from contamination, and implement
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Policy 7.4:
Policy 7.5a:
them through land development regulations. These standards will, at a
minimum:
a) regulate the use, handling, production and storage of regulated
substances;
b) prohibit new underground fuel and other hazardous chemicals within
these areas;
c) require existing facilities to demonstrate that adequate technology is
being employed on -site to isolate the facility from the water supply;
and
d) require that future wellfield protection zones which are relatively
undeveloped will be planned for low density and intensity land uses.
The South Florida Water Management District has established limits and
boundaries of public potable water wellfields, cones of influence, and
groundwater aquifer recharge areas.
Any land use proposed for development within one -half mile of any well
designated as a potable water well is to be reviewed as a Special Exception in
order to determine impact on groundwater resources from the proposed use
and specific development. Such review shall address, but is not limited to,
restrictions on land uses which involve pollutants and /or restrictions on
handling and storage of hazardous /toxic materials in order to minimize the
opportunity for contamination. The City of Okeechobee shall continue to
monitor and implement programs to protect groundwater quality and
eliminate potential sources of contamination. This shall be made measurable
by implementing and enforcing the following policies:
The City's land development regulations shall designate a protection area of
1,000 feet in radius from each public potable water well as the wellfield
protection zone. The first 300 foot radius closest to the well shall be a zone of
exclusion, where no development activities shall be permitted except that
relate with water supply provision. Within the remainder of the zone of
protection, land uses shall be regulated to prohibit the following:
a) Landfills;
b) Activities that require the storage, use or transportation of restricted
substances the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act's or the
Environmental Protection Agency's hazardous wastes lists (including,
but not limited to, landfills, gasoline stationed, petroleum storage, and
pesticide storage and handling;
c) Feedlots or other commercial animal facilities;
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d) Wastewater treatment plants and their ancillary facilities;
e) Mines; and,
f) Excavation of borrow pits, waterways or drainage facilities which
intersect the water table.
Policy 7.5b: The City shall amend its Wellhead Protection Program in the Unified Land
Development Code which, at a minimum, shall establish the following:
Policy 7.5c:
a) The zone of contribution for all public potable water supply wells
delineated on the United States Geological Survey (USGS)
topographic quad sheets;
b) Regulations which prohibit potentially high risk land uses from the
established zones of influence such as, but not limited to,
manufacturing and storage of hazardous waste and industrial land
uses;
c) Monitoring programs and procedures to mitigate adverse impacts, if
detected, for existing high risk land uses;
d) Land use and development regulations, including open space and
impervious surface requirements, which protect the function of
natural drainage features and natural groundwater aquifer recharge
areas; and
e) The location of drainage wells, delineated on USGS topographic quad
sheets, maintained by the OUA that could have adverse impacts on
groundwater.
The City shall work with the SFWMD, OUA and COE to ensure that
adequate water is available to meet projected agriculture and population
needs.
Policy 7.5d: The City shall work with the SFWMD and the OUA to identify new water
sources in the City.
Policy 7.5e: Adopt measures that efficiently use the existing water supply by:
a) Increasing agricultural and urban water conservation;
b) Eliminating inefficient water use practices; and,
c) Working with the SFWMD and OUA to identify specific projects and
cost - sharing partnerships with other local governments.
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Policy 7.6:
Policy 7.7:
Objective 8:
Policy 8.1:
Policy 8.2:
Objective 9:
The City shall amend its Future Land Use Map from Industrial to Public for
lands used as wellfields.
The City of Okeechobee shall, by 2002, complete a survey of all historically
significant properties and, based on available resources, implement programs
and procedures to preserve and protect them. This will include, but not be
limited to, cooperation and coordination with recognized historic preservation
organizations. Upon completion of the City's historic survey, the City shall:
a) adopt a local historic preservation ordinance addressing all areas of
historic significance;
b) create an historic overlay district;
c) amend the Future Land Use Map to reflect historically significant
areas; and
d)
prepare a Historic District Map of all historic sites in the City.
The City of Okeechobee shall continue to encourage the redevelopment and
renewal of blighted areas.
The City shall continue to identify and prioritize areas in need of
redevelopment or renewal.
The City shall, by 2002, formulate a program of specific activities to be
conducted in renewal of blighted areas, including but not limited to the
fol lowing:
a) Establish criteria for identifying structures in need of repair,
rehabilitation or, if there is no feasible alternative, demolition;
b) Seek all available state and federal funds to support renewal
activities;
c) Identify any available alternative housing units for persons displaced
by renewal activities; and
d) Review zoning, building, housing, and other codes for weaknesses
which allow the formation of blighted areas, and make necessary
revisions.
The City of Okeechobee shall continue to ensure that proposed land use
activities in the Taylor Creek area are not inconsistent with the stated goal of
the Resource Management Plan for the Lower Kissimmee River and Taylor
Creek Drainage Basins, prepared pursuant to Chapter 380, Florida Statutes.
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Policy 9.1:
Policy 9.2:
Policy 9.3:
The City of Okeechobee will review the Resource Management Plan for the
Lower Kissimmee River and Taylor Creek Drainage Basins, and coordinate
its activities with those of other local governments addressed in the Resource
Management Plan.
The City shall adopt a protection ordinance for the Taylor Creek Drainage
Basin area to eliminate inconsistent land use activities, while maintaining
consistency with the Resource Management Plan.
The City shall amend the Future Land Use Map to include a Conservation
land use category for which to designate the Taylor Creek Drainage Basin and
Lower Kissimmee River areas.
Objectivel0: The City of Okeechobee shall continue to promote the various and innovative
land development techniques.
Policy 10.1: The City shall continue to amend and enforce its land development
regulations to encourage development techniques which mix and distribute
land uses to accomplish the following:
Policy 10.2:
a) make the most efficient possible use of existing facilities;
b) recognize and preserve distinctive natural features of the development
site;
c) protect environmentally sensitive areas within the site;
d) preserve open space;
e) meet specific needs of the City, such as affordable housing; and
f) promote a sense of pride and community for its residents.
The City shall continue to amend and enforce its land development
regulations to protect the public safety along its streets and highways by
limiting size and placement of signs and visual obstructions, which can
restrict visibility and pose a distraction to the motorists.
Policy 10.3: The City shall continue to enforce land development regulations addressing
the subdivision of land.
Objective 11: The City of Okeechobee shall integrate the objectives of the Okeechobee
Local Mitigation Strategy into its Comprehensive Plan.
Policy 11.1: As is practicable, applicable provisions of the Local Mitigation Strategy shall
be integrated into the City's land development regulations and review
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Objective 12:
Policy 12.1:
procedures to prevent inconsistency between future uses and any hazard
mitigation report recommendations.
By the year 2002, the Unified Land Development Code shall be revised to
specifically encourage redevelopment, infill development, compatibility with
adjacent uses, and curtailment of uses inconsistent with the character and land
uses of surrounding areas, and shall discourage urban sprawl, as provided in
the following policy:
Criteria, standards, and related provisions established in the Land
Development Code for reducing the impacts from any land uses that are not
in conformance or are inconsistent with this Comprehensive Plan shall as a
minimum:
a) Regulate the subdivision and platting of land.
b) Regulate the use, intensity and location of land development in a
manner that is compatible with adjacent land uses and provides
delineation in the Conservation Element.
c) Protect Conservation Use lands designated on the Future Land Use
Map and those delineated in the Conservation Element.
d) Regulate areas subject to seasonal and periodic flooding by requiring
adequate drainage and stormwater.
e) Ensure safe and convenient on -site traffic flow and vehicle parking
needs through the Site Plan review process and off - street parking
regulations.
f) Ensure that public facility, utility and service authorization has been
procured prior to issuing any development order and that construction
of said facilities, utilities, and services is concurrent with
development.
g)
Provide that development orders and permits shall not be issued
which result in a reduction of the level of services for affected public
(community) facilities.
The purpose of such regulations shall be to eliminate or reduce use
inconsistent with the character of the surrounding area. Such criteria,
standards, and related provisions shall not cause undue hardship, economic or
otherwise, to the owners of such nonconforming uses.
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Objective 13:
The City of Okeechobee recognizes that under certain conditions some uses
of land are not compatible in proximity to public use airports and must be
regulated to reduce or eliminate potential hazards to health or safety.
Policy 13.1 The City of Okeechobee shall adopt airport zoning regulations that:
a) prohibit residential construction and educational facilities in the City
to be located within 2,500 feet of a runway at the Okeechobee County
Airport.
b) are consistent with the requirements of Sec. 333.03(1)(c) F.S.
c) prohibit the location of any sanitary landfill that is;
1. within 10,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used
or planned to be used by turbojet or turboprop aircraft;
2. within 5,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used
only by piston -type aircraft;
3. outside the perimeters defined in subparagraphs 1. and 2., but
still within the lateral limits of the civil airport imaginary
surfaces defined in 14 C.F.R. part 77.25.
d) require notification of the FAA when a structure located within three
statute miles of the Airport Reference Point and will be higher than
the distance from the end of the runway divided by 100 feet.
e) prohibit, in the interest of air safety and commerce, temporary or
permanent structures that do not comply with Federal Aviation
Administration rules or regulations.
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Objective 1:
Policy 1.1:
Policy 1.2:
Policy 1.3:
Policy 1.4:
Policy 1.5:
Policy 1.6:
Objective 2:
Intergovernmental Coordination Element
Goals, Objectives and Policies
To achieve greater governmental efficiency and resolve conflicts by
coordinating development activities between the City of Okeechobee and
Okeechobee County, and relevant regional, state, and federal entities.
The City of Okeechobee shall continue to coordinate its Comprehensive
Plan with Okeechobee County, the Okeechobee County School Board, and
other relevant state or local agencies through the sharing of information
and by seeking intergovernmental agreements.
The City of Okeechobee shall continue to ensure coordination of activities
in its Comprehensive Plan with plans of the Okeechobee County School
Board, Okeechobee County, and other state or regional entities through
regular exchange of information. This information shall include, but not be
limited to, building permits, zoning cases, planned land use amendments,
engineering plans, demographics, proposed annexation areas, socio-
economic information, and utility service areas and capacity.
The City of Okeechobee shall, at the least, annually provide text and
future land use map updates of its Comprehensive Plan to adjacent local
governments.
The City of Okeechobee shall continue to request information and
assistance as is feasible from local governments and Okeechobee County,
including the County Comprehensive Plan and any Plan updates.
The City of Okeechobee shall continue to notify the Okeechobee County
Manager in writing of all proposed annexations. The City Administrator,
or his designee, will meet with the Okeechobee County Manager, or his
designee, to resolve any potential annexation conflicts or issues.
The City of Okeechobee shall maintain a database of interlocal agreements
which provides a listing of active formal agreements. This data/ database
shall be updated at least every five years for the evaluation and appraisal
report on the Comprehensive Plan.
The City of Okeechobee shall, where practical, formalize all
intergovernmental agreements within one year of the adoption of these
amendments.
The City of Okeechobee shall maintain mechanisms to address
development issues proposed in its Comprehensive Plan, affecting
unincorporated Okeechobee County and other governmental jurisdictions.
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Policy 2.1:
Policy 2.2:
Policy 2.3:
Policy 2.4:
Policy 2.5:
Policy 2.6:
The City of Okeechobee shall continue to utilize the informal mediation
process established by the Central Florida Regional Planning Council
(CFRPC) to attempt to resolve land use conflicts with adjacent local
governments.
The City of Okeechobee shall continue to request that each of the entities
analyzed in this element designate a representative to act as liaison to the
City for the purpose of providing relevant information to be used in the
planning and development review process.
On request, the City Administrator and Planning Director, as liaisons,
shall continue to provide and exchange information pertaining to
significant proposed development among the appropriate local and
regional agencies.
For proposed development in the City which may have extra jurisdictional
impacts due to its size, character or location, the City shall establish
procedures for the review of comprehensive plans and comprehensive plan
amendments which shall include:
1. Identifying intergovernmental issues and conflicts;
2. Identifying the impacts of capital projects listed in the Capital
Improvements Element of the City of Okeechobee Comprehensive
Plan upon the provision of basic services; and
3. Determining the relationship of development proposed within the
City of Okeechobee Comprehensive Plan to the development
proposed in the Comprehensive Plan or Comprehensive Plan
Amendments of Okeechobee County and /or adjacent
municipalities. This shall include distributing a copy of relevant
proposed plan amendments to adjacent local governments.
The City of Okeechobee shall, at least annually, implement the procedures
established in Policy 2.4. If any issues or negative impacts are identified,
the City shall implement Policy 2.1.
The City shall periodically review applications to Okeechobee County for
zoning changes, major development orders, or proposed County Future
Land Use Map Amendments falling within the City of Okeechobee
Planning Area, to ensure consistency with the City of Okeechobee's
Comprehensive Plan.
Objective 3: The City of Okeechobee shall continue to coordinate with FDOT and the
Okeechobee Utility Authority, where appropriate, any change in
established level of service standards for public facilities including, at a
minimum, all 10 -year updates of the Okeechobee County Comprehensive
Plan, and 5 -year updates to the Okeechobee County Long -Range
Transportation Plan.
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Policy 3.1:
Policy 3.2:
Policy 3.3:
Policy 3.4:
Policy 3.5:
Objective 4:
Policy 4.1:
Policy 4.2:
The City of Okeechobee shall coordinate establishing and changing
roadway level of service standards with FDOT and shall inform
Okeechobee County and any other appropriate governmental entities
within the Okeechobee Planning Area of proposed changes in any level of
service standards.
The City of Okeechobee shall, when notified by other governmental
entities of changes in their level of service standards. review and comment
on these changes.
The City of Okeechobee in conjunction with the Okeechobee Utility
Authority (OUA) will participate in the development of updates to
SFWMD's Water Supply assessment and district Water Supply Plan and
in other water supply development related initiatives facilitated by the
SFWMD that affects the City.
The City of Okeechobee will maintain a water supply facilities work plan
that is coordinated with SFWMD's District Water Supply Plan and the
Okeechobee Utility Authority (OUA) by updating its own work plan
within 18 months of an update to SFWMD's District Water Supply Plan
that affect the City.
The City will monitor and participate in Okeechobee Utility Authority's
(OUA) water supply planning process, including updates to water supply
facility work plans and consumptive use permits, regarding the City's
population and demand projections to ensure that Okeechobee Utility
Authority (OUA) accounts for and meets the City's current and future
water needs.
The City shall continue to coordinate its Comprehensive Plan with the
Resource Management Plan for the Lower Kissimmee River and Taylor
Creek Drainage Basins. Coordination shall take place annually and as new
development is proposed in areas where the two Plans overlap.
Comprehensive Plans and Resource Management Plan coordination shall
take place to the extent that coordination is consistent with the principle
that local governments and landowners alone should not be forced to bear
public burdens which, in all fairness and justice, should be borne by the
public as a whole, and would not result in inverse condemnation.
The City shall continue to coordinate with the Resource Management Plan
for the Lower Kissimmee River and Taylor Creek Drainage Basins
through the adoption of other objectives and policies contained in this
element and the mutual exchange of information pertaining to
development review so that the City may ensure that direct and
irreversible impacts on environmental sensitive areas are minimized.
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Policy 4.3: The City shall continue to coordinate its Comprehensive Plan with the
Resource Management Plan to address drainage problems in the Lower
Kissimmee River and Taylor Creek Drainage Basin regions.
Objective 5: The City of Okeechobee shall cooperate in an effort with the School Board
to ensure that the planning activities, services and facilities of the School
Board are consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan.
Policy 5.1: The City of Okeechobee shall exchange data with the School Board
regarding population projections and the School Board (5 -year) facility
plans as such data or plans are updated.
Policy 5.2: The City of Okeechobee shall coordinate major residential project reviews
(pursuant to Chapters 163 and 235, Florida Statutes) to consider joint
park/schools dedications to meet future demands.
Policy 5.3: The City of Okeechobee and the School Board shall coordinate in their
joint efforts to study and implement innovative methods, including
park/school site dedications and contributions, as a means to address
infrastructure needs associated with the City's growth.
Policy 5.4:
Policy 5.5
Policy 5.6:
Policy 5.7:
The City of Okeechobee shall notify the School Board of all new
residential development projects or modifications to existing residential
developments which increase density as a part of the review process for
school concurrency.
The City of Okeechobee shall include a representative of the Okeechobee
County School District, appointed by the School Board, as a nonvoting
member of the Local Planning Agency (LPA) to attend those meetings at
which the LPA considers amendments to the City's Comprehensive Plan
and /or Zoning Map that would, if approved, increase residential density on
the property that is the subject of the proposed amendment(s).
The City of Okeechobee shall maintain a joint interlocal agreements with
the School Board and the County for Public School Facility Planning
which includes the provisions for the implementation of school
concurrency and a coordination process for locating new schools,
expanding or redeveloping existing school facilities. The School Board
shall be encouraged to locate new educational facilities near urban
residential areas where public infrastructure and services exist to support
the new facilities.
The City of Okeechobee shall advise and meet with the School Board as
necessary, regarding all Plan amendments and proposed annexations that
may affect school sites.
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Policy 5.8:
Policy 5.9:
Objective 6:
Policy 6.1:
The City of Okeechobee shall coordinate with the School Board regarding
shared use of recreational facilities owned by either entity. In addition, the
City shall consider all reasonable opportunities to collocate new parks,
libraries, and other facilities with public schools.
The City of Okeechobee, although not currently impacted, shall enter into
any appropriate agreement with the State of Florida University System or
the School Board implementing the requirements of Section 240.155 (11-
15), F.S., regarding campus master plans. A consistency review of the
campus master plans for non -state post- secondary institutions shall also be
considered where a "campus" exists or is planned.
The City of Okeechobee shall establish, maintain, and improve
intergovernmental coordination for collaborative planning efforts
including joint or extra - territorial services, changes to service or corporate
limits, any joint committees for review of locally unwanted land uses, and
regulatory concerns to ensure consistency with the Comprehensive Plan.
The City shall encourage annexation of land where service delivery
systems are available, where the formation of enclaves may be prevented,
and where the land is adjacent to and consistent with the incorporated
land's Comprehensive Plan.
Policy 6.2: The City shall require infrastructure services to be available to proposed
annexation areas at the adopted level of service consistent with the City's
Comprehensive Plan.
Policy 6.3: The City of Okeechobee shall coordinate with other jurisdictions, as
appropriate, to establish a joint planning process and delineate the
direction and extent of annexation for the planning period.
Policy 6.4:
Policy 6.5:
Policy 6.6:
The City of Okeechobee shall notify the appropriate enforcement agencies
of any regulatory violations of which it becomes aware, and shall
cooperate with those agencies in enforcing regulations.
The City shall inform the County in a timely manner of proposed
annexations. The City shall notify jurisdictions other than the County of
proposed annexations when the affected area is within approximately one
mile of the other jurisdictions' limits.
The City shall draft a map of potential annexation areas, showing those
areas first being considered for annexation, and the land uses envisioned to
be assigned to these areas. The City shall distribute this map to the School
Board, the County, and any other governmental entities to be impacted by
these annexations.
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Policy 6.7:
Policy 6.8:
Policy 6.9:
Policy 6.10:
The City shall continue to review interlocal agreements with the
Okeechobee Utility Authority (OUA) for central potable water and
sanitary sewer facilities and services in terms of extending that agreement
for 10 -year periods, as needed.
The City shall coordinate with neighboring municipalities, if applicable, to
ensure that each one has a copy of a map delineating the utility service
planning area for their community for the planning period. Each
municipality shall, annually thereafter, discuss the potential need for
reassessing utility service area lines, if relevant, and share any official
service area map updates. Each municipality shall also provide any official
utility service planning area map updates to the County in order to ensure
coordination for County utility and land planning.
The City shall coordinate with the County regarding the use of the
Okeechobee County Landfill relative to recycling and reduction of total
wastes by weight.
The City shall issue no development orders or development permits for
new construction without having first received certification by the
Okeechobee Utility Authority (OUA), the City's potable water service
provider, that adequate water supplies will be available to serve the
development no later than the anticipated date of issuance by the City of a
certificate of occupancy or its functional equivalent. The City will also
ensure that adequate water supplies and facilities are available and in place
prior to issuing a certificate of occupancy or its functional equivalent. This
determination will require the demonstration by the Okeechobee Utility
Authority (OUA) at the building permit stage that a consumptive use
permit has been issued to OUA with sufficient allocation available to
serve the new development, given all other existing commitments for that
allocation within the entire OUA service area.
Objective 7: The City shall, upon adoption of this objective, coordinate the
Comprehensive Plan with the School Board Five -Year Facilities Plan.
Policy 7.1: In accordance with Section 5 of the Interlocal Agreement for Public
School Facility Planning, the following procedure shall be used to ensure
intergovernmental coordination with the School Board for the location of
educational facilities within the City:
(a) At least sixty (60) days prior to acquiring or leasing property that
may be used for a new public educational facility within the City,
the School Board shall provide written notice to the City.
(b) Upon receipt of a written notice from the School Board informing
the City of the acquisition or leasing of property to be used for new
public educational facilities, the City shall notify the School Board
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Policy 7.2:
Policy 7.3:
Policy 7.4:
Policy 7.5:
within forty -five (45) days a preliminary consistency determination
of the site with the Comprehensive Plan; and
(c) In conjunction with the preliminary consistency determination, the
School Board and the City will jointly determine the need for and
timing of on -site and off -site improvements necessary to support
each new school or the proposed significant renovation of an
existing school, and will enter into a written agreement as to the
timing, location and the party or parties responsible for
constructing, operating and maintaining the required
improvements.
In accordance Section 2 of the Interlocal Agreement for Public School
Facility Planning, the City shall coordinate with the County and the
School Board and base plans upon consistent projections for population
growth and student enrollment.
In order to coordinate the effective provision and siting of educational
facilities with associated infrastructure and services within the City,
representatives of the City, the County and the School Board shall meet
annually to review the mechanisms and progress made toward educational
facilities planning.
The City of Okeechobee shall use the Central Florida Regional Planning
Council's dispute resolution process when necessary to mediate the
resolution of conflicts with other local governments and regional agencies.
The City may use alternative procedures whenever appropriate for the
matter of imminent dispute, including agreements authorized by Section
163.3177, F.S., or other non judicial approaches.
The City of Okeechobee shall maintain, as a particular area of attention in
its planning program, a systematic review of the aesthetics and physical
conditions between its boundary and those between unincorporated areas
and other cities in an effort to improve the appearance of these areas and
the compatibility and transition between the adjoining communities. Joint
planning area agreements will be implemented if appropriate.
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CITY OF OKEECHOBEE
NOVEMBER 19, 2013 REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING
55 SE 3RD AVENUE 1*W COUNCIL CHAMBERS OKEECHOBEE, FL 34974
SUMMARY OF COUNCIL ACTION
AGENDA
I. CALL TO ORDER - Mayor Pro - Tempore:
November 19, 2013, Regular City Council Meeting, 6:00 p.m.
II. OPENING CEREMONIES:
Invocation given by Dr. Edward Weiss, Church of Our Saviour;
Pledge of Allegiance led by Mayor.
III. MAYOR, COUNCIL AND STAFF ATTENDANCE - City Clerk.
Mayor James E. Kirk
Council Member Mike O'Connor
Council Member Devin Maxwell
Council Member Dowling R. Watford, Jr.
Council Member Clayton Williams
City Administrator Brian Whitehall
City Attorney John R. Cook
City Clerk Lane Gamiotea
Deputy Clerk Melisa Jahner
Police Chief Denny Davis
Fire Chief Herb Smith
Public Works Director David Allen
IV. PROCLAMATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS - Mayor Pro - Tempore.
A. Proclaim the week of November 22 - 28, 2013 as "Farm City
Week."
PAGE 1 OF 8
COUNCIL ACTION -DISCUSSION-VOTE
In the absence of Mayor Kirk and there being no objections, Council Member Watford will serve as Mayor Pro - Tempore
to chair the November 19, 2013, City Council Regular Meeting, and called the session to order at 6:00 p.m.
The invocation was offered by the Very Reverend Edward Weiss, from the Church of Our Saviour; Boy Scout Troop
913, led the Pledge of Allegiance.
City Clerk Gamiotea called the roll:
Absent
Present
Present
Present (serving as Mayor Pro - Tempore)
Present
Present
Present
Present
Present
Present
Present
Present
Mr. Jacob Larson, President of Okeechobee Farm Bureau, received the November 22 through 28, 2013, Farm City
Week proclamation, which was read in its entirety by Mayor Pro -Tem Watford as follows: "WHEREAS, American
farmers and ranchers literally help feed the world by producing a bounty of agricultural products. To do this,
they rely on essential partnerships with urban and suburban communities to supply, sell and deliver finished
products across the country and around the globe; and WHEREAS, rural and urban communities working
together have built our nation's rich agricultural resources so that they contribute to the health and well being
of our country and to the strength of our economy; and WHEREAS, during Farm City Week, we recognize the
importance of this cooperative network. Agriculture employs more than 24 million workers, including farmers
AGENDA
VII. WARRANT REGISTER - City Administrator.
A.
Motion to approve the October 2013 Warrant Register:
General Fund $568,711.05
Public Facilities Improvement Fund $ 25,170.24
Capital Improvement Projects Fund $ 20,145.00
Community Development Block Grant -ED Fund $ 8,401.32
Law Enforcement Special Fund $ 2,533.50
VIII. OPEN PUBLIC HEARING FOR ORDINANCE ADOPTION - Mayor Pro -
Tempore.
A. 1. a) Motion to read by title only, proposed Ordinance No. 1099, Comp
Plan EAR Amendments Future Land Use /Intergovernmental
Coordination Element - City Attorney (Exhibit 1).
b) Vote on motion to read by title only.
c) City Attorney to read proposed Ordinance No. 1099 by title only.
NOVEMBER 19, 2013 - REGULAR MEETING • PAGE 3 OF 8
COUNCIL ACTION - DISCUSSION - VOTE
Council Member Williams moved to approve the October 2013 Warrant Register in the amounts: General Fund, five
hundred sixty -eight thousand, seven hundred eleven dollars and five cents ($568,711.05); Public Facilities
Improvement Fund, twenty -five thousand, one hundred seventy dollars and twenty -four cents ($25,170.24); Capital
Improvement Projects Fund, twenty thousand, one hundred forty -five dollars ($20,145.00); Community Development
Block Grant - Economic Development Fund, eight thousand four hundred one dollars and thirty -two cents ($8,401.32);
Law Enforcement Special Fund, two thousand, five hundred thirty -three dollars and fifty cents ($2,533.50); seconded
by Council Member O'Connor. There was no discussion on this item.
VOTE
KIRK - ABSENT
WATFORD - YEA
MAXWELL - YEA
WILLIAMS - YEA
O'CONNOR - YEA
MOTION CARRIED.
MAYOR PRO -TEM WATFORD OPENED THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR ORDINANCE ADOPTION AT 6:10 P.M.
Council Member O'Connor moved to read by title only, proposed Ordinance No. 1099, Comp Plan EAR Amendments
Future Land Use /Intergovernmental Coordination Element; seconded by Council Member Williams.
VOTE
KIRK - ABSENT
WATFORD - YEA
MAXWELL - YEA
WILLIAMS - YEA
O'CONNOR - YEA
MOTION CARRIED.
Attorney Cook read proposed Ordinance No. 1099 by title only: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF OKEECHOBEE,
FLORIDA AMENDING THE CITY'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN; PROVIDING FORA NEW OBJECTIVE AND A NEW
POLICY TO THE FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT ADDRESSING COMPATIBILITY OF LAND USES LOCATED
NEAR OR WITHIN CERTAIN DISTANCES OF AIRPORT RUNWAYS; PROVIDING FOR INCORPORATING A NEW
POLICY TO THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION ELEMENT WHICH PROVIDES FOR THE
APPOINTMENT OF A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE OKEECHOBEE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD TO SIT, UNDER
CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, AS A NONVOTING MEMBER OF THE LOCAL PLANNING AGENCY (LPA);
PROVIDING FOR FINDINGS OF FACT; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY ;; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE
DATE."
NOVEMBER 19, 2013 - REGULAR MEETING - PAGE 4 OF 8
AGENDA
COUNCIL ACTION - DISCUSSION - VOTE
VIII.
PUBLIC HEARING FOR ORDINANCE ADOPTION CONTINUED.
A. 2. a) Motion to adopt proposed Ordinance No. 1099.
b) Public discussion and comments.
c) Vote on motion.
B. 1. a) Motion to read by title only, proposed Ordinance No. 1106,
amending Ordinance No. 971, Section 3 Right of Reversion, Alley
Closing Application No. 85, for Blocks 4, 12, 13, 20, and 21, City of
Okeechobee - City Attorney (Exhibit 2).
b) Vote on motion to read by title only.
Council Member Williams moved to adopt proposed Ordinance No. 1099; seconded by Council Member O'Connor.
This ordinance addresses current legislation requirements for compatibility of land uses located near or within certain
distance of airport runways, and provides for the appointment of a representative from the School Board to sit as a
non- voting member of the Local Planning Agency, when there are Comprehensive or Zoning amendments that would
increase residential density. Mayor Pro -Tem Watford asked whether there were any questions or comments from the
public. There were none.
City Clerk Gamiotea provided a memorandum, in Exhibit One, explaining the ordinance needs to be amended, as there
are changes to the effective date language, requested by the Department of Economic Opportunity. Exhibit One
provided a copy of proposed Ordinance No. 1099, as approved at the first public hearing, as well as a revised copy
that reflects the language change.
Council Member Williams moved to amend proposed Ordinance No. 1099, reflecting the required language
by the Department of Economic Opportunity, for Section 5. Effective Date; seconded by Council Member
O'Connor.
VOTE ON MOTION TO AMEND
KIRK - ABSENT MAXWELL - YEA O'CONNOR - YEA
WATFORD - YEA WILLIAMS - YEA MOTION To AMEND CARRIED.
VOTE ON MOTION AS AMENDED
KIRK - ABSENT MAXWELL - YEA O'CONNOR - YEA
WATFORD -YEA WILLIAMS -YEA MOTION CARRIED As AMENDED.
Council Member O'Connor moved to read by title only, proposed Ordinance No. 1106, amending Ordinance No. 971,
Section 3 Right of Reversion, Alley Closing Application No. 85, for Blocks 4, 12, 13, 20, and 21, City of Okeechobee;
seconded by Council Member Williams.
VOTE
KIRK - ABSENT MAXWELL - YEA O'CONNOR - YEA
WATFORD - YEA WILLIAMS - YEA MOTION CARRIED.
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AMENDING
THE CITY OF OKEECHOBEE, FL
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
NOTICE: The City Council of the City of Okeechobee will
conduct a Final Public Hearing on Tuesday, November
19, 2013, at 6 PM or as soon thereafter as possible, at
City Hall, 55 SE 3rd Ave, Rm 200, Okeechobee, FL, to
consider and receive input on the adoption of proposed
Ordinance No. 1099, which contains identified Evaluation
and Appraisal Report amendments to the Future Land Use
Element and the lntergovernniental Coordination Element
of the Comprehensive Plan 4s follows:
•Add a new Objective and Policy addressing compatibility
of land uses located near or within certain distances of
airport runways as required by F.S. 333.03(1)(c).
• Add a new Policy providing for the appointment of a
representative from the Okeechobee County School Board
to sit, under certain circumstances, as a nonvoting member
of the Local Planning Agency.
The public and all interested parties are encouraged
to appear and be heard and may submit written or oral
comments before or at the Hearing. The proposed
amendments may be viewed on the City website or at the
Office of the City Clerk, during normal business hours, at
the address above.
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made by the City Council with respect to any matter
considered at this meeting will need to ensure a verbatim
record of the proceeding is made and the record includes
the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal will be
based. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities
Act (ADA), any person with a disability as defined by the
ADA, that needs special accommodation to participate in
this proceeding, contact the City Clerk's Office no later
than two business days prior to proceeding, 863 - 763 -3372.
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PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the City Council of the City of Okeechobee,
Florida will on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. or as soon there-
after possible, at City Hall, 55 SE 3rd Ave., Okeechobee, FL, conduct a PUB-
LIC HEARING to consider final reading for adoption of the following
Ordinance into law: No. 1099: AN ORDINANCE OF THE cTTY OF OKEE-
CHOBEE, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE CITY'S COMPREHENSIVE
PLAN; PROVIDING FOR A NEW OBJECTIVE AND A NEW POLICY TO
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PLAN; LAND USE ELEMENT ADDRESSING COMPATIBILITY
OF LAND USES LOCATED NEAR OR WITHIN CERTAIN DISTANCES
OF AIRPORT RUNWAYS; PROVIDING FOR INCORPORATING A
NEW POLICY TO THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION ELE-
MENT WHICH PROVIDES FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A REPRESEN-
TATIVE OF THE OKEECHOBEE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD TO SIT
UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, AS A NONVOTING MEMBER OF
THE LOCAL PLANNING AGENCY (LPA)• PROVIDING FOR FINDINGS
OF FACT' PROVIDING FOR SEVERABfLITY; AND PROVIDING FOR
AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
ANY PERSON DECIDING TO APPEAL any decision made by the City
Council with respect to any matter considered at this meeting will need to
ensure a verbatim record of the proceeding is made and the record indudes
the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal will be based. In accor-
dance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), any person with a
disability as defined by the ADA, that needs special accommodation to par-
ticipate in this proceeding, contact the City Clerk's Office no later than two
business days prior to proceeding, 863 - 763 -3372.
BE ADVISED that should you intend to show any document, picture,
video or items to the Council in support or opposition to any item on the
agenda; a copy of the document, picture, video, or item MUST be provided
to the City Clerk for the City's records.
By: James E. Kirk, Mayor
Lane Gamiotea, CMC, City Clerk
456427 ON 11/8/2013
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OKEECHOBEE NEWS
107 S.W. 17th Street, Suite 1), Okeechobee, F1.34974
STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF OKEECHOBEE
Before the undersigned authority personally
appeared Tom Byrd, who on oath says he is Publisher
of the Okeechobee News, a three times a week
Newspaper published at Okeechobee, in
Okeechobee County, Florida, that the attached copy of
advertisement being a 'r ;d(,- ,- ..___
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Affiant further says that the said Okeechobee News
is a newspaper published at Okeechobee, in said
Okeechobee County, Florida, and that said newspaper
has heretofore been published continuously in said
Okeechobee County, Florida each week and has been
entered as second class mail matter at the post office in
Okeechobee, in said Okeechobee County, Florida, for a
period of one year next preceding the first publication
of the attached copy of advertisement, and affiant fur-
ther says that she has neither paid nor promised any
person, firm or corporation any discount, rebate, com-
mission or refund for the purpose of securing this
advertisement fen publication in the said newspaper.
li
Tom Byrd
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
day oFt , �_. x::1:3-_ AD
Notary Public, State of Florida at Large
ANGIE BRIDGES
MY COMMISSION # 01 177653
EXPIRES: April 20, 2016
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(863) 763 -3134
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE AMENDING
THE CITY OF OKEECHOBEE, FL
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
NOTICE: The City Council of the City of Okeechobee wtll conduct a Public Hearing on
Tbesday, July 16, 2013 at 6 PM or as soon thereafter as possible, at City Hall, 55 SE 3rd Ave,
Rm 200, Okeechobee, FL, to consider and receive input concerning identified Evaluation and
Appraisal Report amendments to the Future Land Use Element and the Intergovernmental
Coordination Element of the Comprehensive Plan as follows:
-Add a new Objective and Policy addressing compatibility of land uses located near or
within certain distances of airport runways as required by ES. 333.030)(c).
-Add a new Policy providing for the appointment ofa representative from the Okeecho-
bee County School Board to sit, under certain circumstances, as a nonvoting member of
the Local Planning Agency
The proposed text amendments will be forwarded in transmittal form to the Florida De-
partment of Economic Opportunity.
The public and all interested parties are encouraged to appear and be heard and may sub-
mit written or oral comments before or at the Hearing. The proposed amendments may be
viewed on the City website or at the Office of the City Clerk, during normal business hours,
at the address above.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE AND BE ADVISED that no stenographic record by a certified
court reporter will be made of the foregoing meeting. Accordingly, any person who may seek
to appeal any decision involving the matters noticed herein will be responsible for making a
verbatim record of the testimony and evidence at said meeting upon which any appeal is to
be based. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, persons requiring special
accommodations to participate in this proceeding because ofa disability or physical impair-
ment should contact the City Clerks Office at 863- 763- 3372ext 215 at least 48 hours prior to
the meeting.
Published By: Lane Gamiotea, CMC, City Clerk
INDEPENDENT_
NEWSPAPERS
OKEECHOBEE NEWS 107 S.W. 17th Street, Suite D, Okeechobee, FL 34974
STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF OKEECHOBEE
Before the undersigned authority personally
appeared Tom Byrd, who on oath says he is Publisher
of the Okeechobee News, a three times a week
Newspaper published at Okeechobee, in
Okeechobee County, Florida, that the attached c py of
advertisement being a ? , -f C %' -
in the matter of
in the 19th Judicial District of the Circuit Court of
Okeechobee County, Florida, was published in said
newspaper in the issues of
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Affiant further says that the said Okeechobee News
is a newspaper published at Okeechobee, in said
Okeechobee County, Florida, and that said newspaper
has heretofore been published continuously in said
Okeechobee County, Florida each week and has been
entered as second class mail matter at the post office in
Okeechobee, in said. Okeechobee County, Florida, for a
period of one year next preceding the first publication
of the attached copy of advertisement, and affiant fur-
ther says that she has neither paid nor promised any
person, firm or corporation any discount, rebate, com-
mission or refund for the purpose of securing this
advertisement fib ton in the said newspaper.
Tom Byrd
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
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Notary Public, State of Florida at Large
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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TEXT AMENDMENT
NOTICE: The City of Okeechobee Planning Board will meet as the Local
Planning Agency on Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 6 PM or as soon there-
after as possible, at City Hall, 55 SE 3rd Ave, ryty Rm 200, Okeechobee, FL., to
consider and receive Textual Amendments to input he Comprehensive Plan Goals, Objectives andrPolii--
cies for the Future Land Use Element and Intergovernmental Coordination
Element.
The text new objective and ppolicy Future Land Use compatibility oElement and usesslocated add near
or within a certain distance of airport runways.
The text amendment to the Intergovernmental Coordination Element proposes
to add a new policy providing for the appointment of a representative from the
Okeechobee County School Board to sit as a nonvoting member of the Local
Planning Agency when it is considering amendments to the Comprehensive
Plan or Zoning that would result in increases in residential density.
The amendments will be forwarded with a recommendation, to the Gty
Coundl for consideration and transmittal to the Florida Department of Eco -'
nomic Opportunity.
All interested parties are encouraged to attend. Please contact General Ser-
vices at 863-763-3372, or website, cityofokeechobee.com, to obtain a copy
of the agenda. The proposed amendments may be reviewed on the City
website or at the Office of the City Clerk, during normal business hours, at
the address above.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE AND BE ADVISED that no stenographic record by a
certified court reporter will be made of the foregoing meeting. Accordingly,
any who appeal in a involving rs ticderein wit be making verbatimrecrd of the testimo-
ny evidence ho ppps
acordan ewith the Americans meeting Act(ADA)of 1990 persons
needing special accommodation to participate in this proceeding should con-
tact the General Services Office at 863 - 763 -3372 for assistance.
BY Brian Whitehall, Zoning Administrator
444788 ON 6/2,12/2013
Rick Scott
GOVERNOR
The Honorable James E. Kirk
Mayor, City of Okeechobee
City Hall
55 Southeast Third Avenue
Okeechobee, Florida 34974
Dear Mayor Kirk:
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT
OPPORTUNITY
October 10 , 2013
Jesse Panuccio
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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The Department of Economic Opportunity has completed its review of the proposed
comprehensive plan amendment for the City of Okeechobee (Amendment No. 13 -2ER), which
was received and determined complete on August 14, 2013. We have reviewed the proposed
amendment in accordance with the state coordinated review process set forth in Sections
163.3184(2) and (4), Florida Statutes (F.S.), for compliance with Chapter 163, Part II, F.S. The
Department of Economic Opportunity does not identify any objections to the proposed
amendment and this letter serves as the Objections, Recommendations and Comments Report.
Review comments received by the Department of Economic Opportunity from the appropriate
reviewing agencies are enclosed.
The City should act by choosing to adopt, adopt with changes, or not adopt the
proposed amendment. Also, please note that Section 163.3184(4)(e)1, F.S., provides that if the
second public hearing is not held and the amendment adopted within 180 days of your receipt
of the Department of Economic Opportunity report, the amendment shall be deemed
withdrawn unless extended by agreement with notice to the Department of Economic
Opportunity and any affected party that provided comment on the amendment. For your
assistance, we have enclosed the procedures for final adoption and transmittal of the
comprehensive plan amendment.
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If you have any questions related to this review, please contact Scott Rogers at (850)
717 -8510, or by email at scott.rogers @deo.myflorida.com.
Sincerely,
Mike McDaniel
Comprehensive Planning Manager
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Enclosure(s): Agency Comments
Procedures for Adoption
cc: Brian Whitehall, City Administrator
William Brisson AICP, Senior Planner, LaRue Planning & Management Services, Inc.
Patricia M. Steed, Executive Director, Central Florida Regional Planning Council
SUBMITTAL OF ADOPTED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENTS
FOR STATE COORDINATED REVIEW
Section 163.3184(4), Florida Statutes
May 2011
NUMBER OF COPIES TO BE SUBMITTED: Please submit three complete copies of all
comprehensive plan materials, of which one complete paper copy and two complete electronic
copies on CD ROM in Portable Document Format (PDF) to the Department of Economic
Opportunity and one copy to each entity below that provided timely comments to the local
government: the appropriate Regional Planning Council; Water Management District;
Department of Transportation; Department of Environmental Protection; Department of State;
the appropriate county (municipal amendments only); the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Commission and the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (county plan
amendments only); and the Department of Education (amendments relating to public schools);
and for certain local governments, the appropriate military installation and any other local
government or governmental agency that has filed a written request.
SUBMITTAL LETTER: Please include the following information in the cover letter transmitting the
adopted amendment:
Department of Economic Opportunity identification number for adopted amendment
package;
Summary description of the adoption package, including any amendments proposed but
not adopted;
Ordinance number and adoption date;
Certification that the adopted amendment(s) has been submitted to all parties that
provided timely comments to the local government;
Name, title, address, telephone, FAX number and e-mail address of local government
contact;
Letter signed by the chief elected official or the person designated by the local
government.
ADOPTION AMENDMENT PACKAGE: Please include the following information in the
amendment package:
In the case of text amendments, changes should be shown in strike - through /underline
format;
In the case of future land use map amendment, an adopted future land use map, in
color format, clearly depicting the parcel, its existing future land use designation, and its
adopted designation;
A copy of any data and analyses the local government deems appropriate.
Note: If the local government is relying on previously submitted data and analysis, no additional
data and analysis is required;
Copy of executed ordinance adopting the comprehensive plan amendment(s);
Suggested effective date language for the adoption ordinance for state coordinated review:
The effective date of this plan amendment, if the amendment is not timely challenged,
shall be the date the Department of Economic Opportunity posts a notice of intent
determing that this amendment is in compliance. If timely challenged, or if the state
and planning agency issues a notice of intent determining that this amendment is not in
compliance, this amendment shall become effective on the date the state land planning
agency or the Administration Commission enters a final order determining this adopted
amendment to be in compliance. No development orders, development permits, or
land uses dependent on this amendment may be issued or commence before it has
become effective. If a final order of noncompliance is issued by the Administration
Commission, this amendment may nevertheless be made effective by adoption of a
resolution affirming its effective status, a copy of which resolution shall be sent to the
Department of Economic Opportunity.
List of additional changes made in the adopted amendment that the Department of
Economic Opportunity did not previously review;
List of findings of the local governing body, if any, that were not included in the ordinance
and which provided the basis of the adoption or determination not to adopt the proposed
amendment;
Statement indicating the relationship of the additional changes not previously reviewed
by the Department of Economic Opportunity to the ORC report from the Department of
Economic Opportunity.
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FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
GARY CHARTRAND, Chair
JOHN R. PADGET, Vice Chair
Members
ADA G. ARMAS, M.D.
SALLY BRADSHAW
JOHN A. COLON
BARBARA S. FEINGOLD
KATHLEEN SHANAHAN
September 24, 2013
Mr. D. Ray Eubanks, Plan Processing Administrator
Division of Community Development
Department of Economic Opportunity
107 East Madison Street
Tallahassee, Florida 32399 -4120
Dear Mr. Eubanks:
Pam Stewart
Commissioner of Education
Re: City of Okeechobee 13 -2 ER
Thank you for the opportunity to review the City of Okeechobee 13 -2ER amendment package. According
to the department's responsibilities under Section 163.3184(3), Florida Statutes, I reviewed the
amendment considering provisions of Chapter 163, Part II, F.S., and to determine whether the proposal, if
adopted, would have potential to create significant adverse effects on public school facilities.
The package includes amendments related to the evaluation and appraisal review of the comprehensive
plan. The inclusion of new intergovernmental coordination element policy 5.5 will further effective
school planning coordination. Because the amendments do not adversely affect public schools, I offer no
comment.
Again, thank you for the opportunity to review the amendment package. If I may be of assistance, please
contact me at (850) 245 -9312 or Tracy.Suber(c )fldoe.org.
Sincerely,
acy Suber
Gro Management & Facilities Policy Liaison
TDS/
cc: Ms. Joni Ard, Okeechobee County Public Schools
Mr. Scott Rogers and Ms. Brenda Winningham, DEO /State Land Planning Agency
THOMAS H. INSERRA
DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
325 W. GAINES STREET • SUITE 1014 • TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA 32399 - 0400 • 850- 245 -0494 • FAX 850- 245 -9304
ww‘t. Ildoe.org
RICK SCOTT
GOVERNOR
Florida Department of Transportation
605 Suwannee Street ANANTH PRASAD, P.E.
SECRETARY
Tallahassee, FL 32399 -0450
August 16, 2013
Mr. Wm. F. Brisson
Senior. Planner
LaRue Planning & Management Services, Inc
1375 Jackson Street, Suite 206
Ft. Myers, Fl 33901
RE: City of Okeechobee 13 -2ER proposed Evaluation & Appraisal based Comprehensive Plan Amendments
Dear Mr. Brisson:
The Florida Department of Transportation, District One, has reviewed the City of Okeechobee 13 -2ER EAR
based amendments (received by FDOT on August 9, 2013) in accordance with the requirements of Florida
Statutes Chapter 163 and Chapter 9J -11 of the Florida Administrative Code. The Department offers
Okeechobee County (through their planning consultant Larue Planning and Management Services) the
following comments and recommendations for your consideration:
As this amendment to the City of Okeechobee Comprehensive Plan does not involve changes or modifications
which impact State road facilities, we offer no comments.
If you have any questions please free to contact me at (863) 519 -2395 or bob.crawley @dot.state.fl.us.
Sincerely,
Bob Crawley
District Growth Management Coordinator
FDOT District One
CC: Florida Department of Economic Opportunity
www.dot.state.fl.us
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Eubanks, Ray
From: Stahl, Chris [Chris.Stahl @dep.state.fl.us]
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 12:56 PM
To: DCPexternalagencycomments
Cc: Craig, Kae; bill @larueplanning.com
Subject: Okeechobee 13.2€SR Proposed
Date:
To:
From:
Re:
August 26, 2013
Ray Eubanks, Department of Economic Opportunity
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Chris Stahl, Environmental Specialist, Office of Intergovernmental Programs
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Okeechobee 13 -2ESR Proposed; Comprehensive Plan Amendment Review
The Office of Intergovernmental Programs of the Florida Department of Environmental
Protection (Department) has reviewed the above - referenced package under
the procedures of Chapter 163, Florida Statutes. The Department conducted a detailed
review that focused on potential adverse impacts to important state resources and
facilities, specifically: air and water pollution; wetlands and other surface waters of the
state; federal and state -owned lands and interest in lands, including state parks,
greenways and trails, conservation easements; solid waste; water and wastewater
treatment; and, where applicable, the Everglades ecosystem.
Based on our review of the submitted amendment package, the Department has found no provision
that requires comment under laws that form the basis of the Department's jurisdiction.
Should you have any questions or require further assistance, please call me at (850) 245 -2169.
Please take a few minutes to share your comments on the service you received from the department by clicking on this
link. DEP Customer Survey.
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SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT
September 4, 2013
Mr. Ray Eubanks, Plan Processing Administrator
Division of Community Planning and Development
Department of Economic Opportunity
107 East Madison Street
Caldwell Bldg., MSC 160
Tallahassee, FL 32399
Dear Mr. Eubanks:
. Subject: City of Okeechobee, DEO #13 -2ER
Comments on Proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendment Package
The South Florida Water Management District (District) has completed its review of the
proposed amendment package from the City of Okeechobee (City). The amendment
package consists of the City's Evaluation and Appraisal Review based amendments.
There appear to be no regionally significant water resource issues; therefore, the
District forwards no comments on the proposed amendment package.
The District offers its technical assistance to the City and the Department of Economic
Opportunity in developing sound, sustainable solutions to meet the City's future water
supply needs and to protect the region's water resources. Please forward a copy of
adopted amendments to the District. For assistance or additional information, please
contact Terry Manning, Policy and Planning Analyst, at (561) 682 -6779 or
tmanningasfwmd.gov.
Sincerely,
y,
Dean Powell
Water Supply Bureau Chief
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c: Bill Brisson, LaRue Planning & Management
Terry Manning, SFWMD
Bill Royce, Okeechobee County
Patricia M. Steed, CFRPC
Brian Whitehall, City Administrator
Brenda Winningham, DEO
3301 Gun Club Road, West Palm Beach, Florida 33406 • (561) 686 -8800 • FL WATS 1- 800 - 432 -2045
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 24680, West Palm Beach, FL 33416 -4680 • www.sfwmd.gov
CFRPC,
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September 20, 2013
Mr. Ray Eubanks, Administrator
Plan Review and Processing
State of Florida Department of Economic Opportunity
Caldwell Building, MSC 160
107 East Madison Street
Tallahassee, Florida 32399 -4120
RE: City of Okeechobee 13 -2ER
CFRPC Local Comprehensive Plan Amendment Review
Dear Mr. Eubanks,
Via E -mail
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The Central Florida Regional Planning Council continues to review Comprehensive Plan Amendments.
Upon conclusion of review, an Amendment Review Form is completed. Enclosed, please find the review
form for the following Comprehensive Plan Amendment Package:
• City of Okeechobee 13 -2ER
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me at (863) 534 -7130 extension 178.
Sincerely,
(7-4
Jennifer Codo - Salisbury, MPA, AICP
Planning and Administrative Director
cc: Mike McDaniel, Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (via e-mail)
Brenda Winningham, Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (via e-mail)
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FLORIDA REGIONAL COUNCILS ASSOCIATION
LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT REVIEW FORM 01
Regional Planning Council: CFRPC Regional Planning
Council Item #:
Date Mailed to Local
Government and State
Planning Agency:
September 20, 2013
(received 8/15/13)
City of
Local Government Item #: Okeechobee 13-
2ER
Pursuant to Section 163.3184, Florida Statutes, Council review of proposed amendments to local
government comprehensive plans is limited to adverse effects on regional resources and facilities
identified in the strategic regional policy plan and extrajurisdictional impacts that would be inconsistent
with the comprehensive plan of any affected local government within the region. A written report
containing an evaluation of these impacts, pursuant to Section 163.3184, Florida Statutes, is to be
provided to the local government and the state land planning agency within 30 calendar days of receipt of
the amendment.
The Central Florida Regional Planning Council prepared the Amendment.
DESCRIPTION OF AMENDMENT
City of Okeechobee 13 -2ER: City- initiated EAR -Based Comprehensive Plan Amendments which
provide for a new objective and policy in the Future Land Use Element addressing compatibility of land
uses located near or within certain distances of airport runways and also providing an amendment to the
Intergovernmental Coordination Element which provides for the appointment of an Okeechobee School
Board representative to sit on the Local Planning Agency.
1. ADVERSE EFFECTS TO SIGNIFICANT REGIONAL RESOURCES AND FACILITIES
IDENTIFIED IN THE STRATEGIC REGIONAL POLICY PLAN
The amendment does not appear to pose any adverse effects to significant regional resources and facilities
and appears to be in compliance with the Goals, Policies, and Strategies set forth in the SRPP.
2. EXTRAJURISDICTIONAL IMPACTS INCONSISTENT WITH THE
COMPREHENSIVE PLANS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS WITHIN THE REGION
The amendment does not appear to pose any extrajurisdictional impacts with comprehensive plans of
local governments within the region.
Request a copy of the adopted version of the amendment?
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Yes X
No
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Rick Scott
GOVERNOR
FLORI DA DEPARTM ENT 4"
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
August 15, 2013
Mr. James G. LaRue, Planning Consultant
LaRue Planning and Management Services, Inc.
1375 Jackson Street, Suite 206
Fort Myers, Florida 33901
Dear Mr. LaRue:
Jesse Panuccio
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Thank you for submitting the City of Okeechobee's proposed comprehensive plan
amendments for our review. The reference number for this amendment is City of Okeechobee
13 -2ER.
We have conducted an inventory of the proposed plan amendment package to verify the
inclusion of all required materials for the proposed amendments. The submission package appears
to be complete, and your proposed plan amendments will be reviewed pursuant to Chapter
163.3184(4)(d), Florida Statutes. Once the review is underway, you may be asked to provide
additional supporting documentation by the review team to ensure a thorough review. The State
Land Planning Agency's Objection, Recommendation and Comment (ORC) report will be mailed to
you on or about October 13, 2013.
If you have any questions please contact Brenda Winningham, Regional Planning
Administrator, who will be overseeing the review of the amendments, at (850) 717 -8516.
Sincerely,
D. Ray Eubanks, Administrator
Plan Review and Processing
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Rick Scott
GOVERNOR
MEMORANDUM
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT,/
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
TO: Suzanne Ray, DEP
Deena Woodward, DOS
Tracy Suber, DOE
Crawley /Massey FDOT1
Kathy Hall, Central Florida RPC
Terry Manning, South Florida WMD
William Royce, Okeechobee County
Jesse Panuccio
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
DATE: August 15, 2013
SUBJECT: COMMENTS FOR PROPOSED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT
LOCAL GOVERNMENT/ STATE LAND PLANNING AGENCY AMENDMENT #:
City of Okeechobee 13 -2ER
CONTACT PERSON /PHONE NUMBER: Brenda Winningham/ 850/717- 8516
COMMENTS DUE TO STATE LAND PLANNING AGENCY NO LATER THAN:
September 13, 2013
Please contact the local government if you do not have a copy of the proposed amendment.
Please review the proposed comprehensive plan amendment documents for consistency with
applicable provisions of Chapter 163, Florida Statutes. Pursuant to Florida Statute 163.3184(4)(c),
FS, forward comments to the attention of Ray Eubanks, Administrator, Plan Review and Processing
at the State Land Planning Agency E -mail address: D(,l'evterra(1jrno ,ninnielltf deo.sry,flniidrt.ewil
Please use the above referenced STATE LAND PLANNING AGENCY AMENDMENT
NUMBER on all correspondence related to this amendment.
Note: Review Agencies - The local government has indicated that they have mailed the proposed
amendment directly to _your agency. See attached transmittal letter. Be sure to contact the local government if
you have not received the amendment. Also, letter to the Local government from State Land Planning
Agency acknowledging receipt of amendment is attached.
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GOVERNOR
The Honorable James E. Kirk
Mayor, City of Okeechobee
City Hall
55 Southeast Third Avenue
Okeechobee, Florida 34974
Dear Mayor Kirk:
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT ./
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
October 10 , 2013
Jesse Panuccio
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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The Department of Economic Opportunity has completed its review of the proposed
comprehensive plan amendment for the City of Okeechobee (Amendment No. 13 -2ER), which
was received and determined complete on August 14, 2013. We have reviewed the proposed
amendment in accordance with the state coordinated review process set forth in Sections
163.3184(2) and (4), Florida Statutes (F.S.), for compliance with Chapter 163, Part II, F.S. The
Department of Economic Opportunity does not identify any objections to the proposed
amendment and this letter serves as the Objections, Recommendations and Comments Report.
Review comments received by the Department of Economic Opportunity from the appropriate
reviewing agencies are enclosed.
The City should act by choosing to adopt, adopt with changes, or not adopt the
proposed amendment. Also, please note that Section 163.3184(4)(e)1, F.S., provides that if the
second public hearing is not held and the amendment adopted within 180 days of your receipt
of the Department of Economic Opportunity report, the amendment shall be deemed
withdrawn unless extended by agreement with notice to the Department of Economic
Opportunity and any affected party that provided comment on the amendment. For your
assistance, we have enclosed the procedures for final adoption and transmittal of the
comprehensive plan amendment.
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If you have any questions related to this review, please contact Scott Rogers at (850)
717 -8510, or by email at scott.rogers @deo.myflorida.com.
Sincerely,
MM /sr
Enclosure(s): Agency Comments
Procedures for Adoption
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Mike McDaniel
Comprehensive Planning Manager
cc: Brian Whitehall, City Administrator
William Brisson AICP, Senior Planner, LaRue Planning & Management Services, Inc.
Patricia M. Steed, Executive Director, Central Florida Regional Planning Council
SUBMITTAL OF ADOPTED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENTS
FOR STATE COORDINATED REVIEW
Section 163.3184(4), Florida Statutes
May 2011
NUMBER OF COPIES TO BE SUBMITTED: Please submit three complete copies of all
comprehensive plan materials, of which one complete paper copy and two complete electronic
copies on CD ROM in Portable Document Format (PDF) to the Department of Economic
Opportunity and one copy to each entity below that provided timely comments to the local
government: the appropriate Regional Planning Council; Water Management District;
Department of Transportation; Department of Environmental Protection; Department of State;
the appropriate county (municipal amendments only); the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Commission and the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (county plan
amendments only); and the Department of Education (amendments relating to public schools);
and for certain local governments, the appropriate military installation and any other local
government or governmental agency that has filed a written request.
SUBMITTAL LETTER: Please include the following information in the cover letter transmitting the
adopted amendment:
Department of Economic Opportunity identification number for adopted amendment
package;
Summary description of the adoption package, including any amendments proposed but
not adopted;
Ordinance number and adoption date;
Certification that the adopted amendment(s) has been submitted to all parties that
provided timely comments to the local government;
Name, title, address, telephone, FAX number and e-mail address of local government
contact;
Letter signed by the chief elected official or the person designated by the local
government.
ADOPTION AMENDMENT PACKAGE: Please include the following information in the
amendment package:
In the case of text amendments, changes should be shown in strike - through /underline
format;
In the case of future land use map amendment, an adopted future land use map, in
color format, clearly depicting the parcel, its existing future land use designation, and its
adopted designation;
A copy of any data and analyses the local government deems appropriate.
Note: If the local government is relying on previously submitted data and analysis, no additional
data and analysis is required;
Copy of executed ordinance adopting the comprehensive plan amendment(s);
Suggested effective date language for the adoption ordinance for state coordinated review:
The effective date of this plan amendment, if the amendment is not timely challenged,
shall be the date the Department of Economic Opportunity posts a notice of intent
determing that this amendment is in compliance. If timely challenged, or if the state
land planning agency issues a notice of intent determining that this amendment is not in
compliance, this amendment shall become effective on the date the state land planning
agency or the Administration Commission enters a final order determining this adopted
amendment to be in compliance. No development orders, development permits, or
land uses dependent on this amendment may be issued or commence before it has
become effective. If a final order of noncompliance is issued by the Administration
Commission, this amendment may nevertheless be made effective by adoption of a
resolution affirming its effective status, a copy of which resolution shall be sent to the
Department of Economic Opportunity.
List of additional changes made in the adopted amendment that the Department of
Economic Opportunity did not previously review;
List of findings of the local governing body, if any, that were not included in the ordinance
and which provided the basis of the adoption or determination not to adopt the proposed
amendment;
Statement indicating the relationship of the additional changes not previously reviewed
by the Department of Economic Opportunity to the ORC report from the Department of
Economic Opportunity.
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FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
GARY CHARTRAND, Chair
JOHN R. PADGET, Vice Chair
Members
ADA G. ARMAS, M.D.
SALLY BRADSHAW
JOHN A. COLON
BARBARA S. FUNGOID
KATHLEEN SHANAHAN
September 24, 2013
Mr. D. Ray Eubanks, Plan Processing Administrator
Division of Community Development
Department of Economic Opportunity
107 East Madison Street
Tallahassee, Florida 32399 -4120
Dear Mr. Eubanks:
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Pam Stewart
Commissioner of Education
Re: City of Okeechobee 13 -2 ER
Thank you for the opportunity to review the City of Okeechobee 13 -2ER amendment package. According
to the department's responsibilities under Section 163.3184(3), Florida Statutes, I reviewed the
amendment considering provisions of Chapter 163, Part II, F.S., and to determine whether the proposal, if
adopted, would have potential to create significant adverse effects on public school facilities.
The package includes amendments related to the evaluation and appraisal review of the comprehensive
plan. The inclusion of new intergovernmental coordination element policy 5.5 will further effective
school planning coordination. Because the amendments do not adversely affect public schools, I offer no
comment.
Again, thank you for the opportunity to review the amendment package. If I may be of assistance, please
contact me at (850) 245 -9312 or Tracy.SuberWildoe.org.
Sincerely,
acy i Suber
Gro Management & Facilities Policy Liaison
TDS/
cc: Ms. Joni Ard, Okeechobee County Public Schools
Mr. Scott Rogers and Ms. Brenda Winningham, DEO /State Land Planning Agency
THOMAS H. INSERRA
DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
325 W. GAINES STREET • SUITE 1014 • TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA 32399 - 0400 • 850- 245 -0494 • FAX 850- 245 -9304
Wt' .11doe.org
RICK SCOTT
GOVERNOR
• •
Florida Department of Transportation
605 Suwannee Street ANANTH PRASAD, P.E.
SECRETARY
Tallahassee, FL 32399 -0450
August 16, 2013
Mr. Wm. F. Brisson
Planner
LaRue Planning & Management Services, Inc
1375 Jackson Street, Suite 206
Ft. Myers, Fl 33901
RE: City of Okeechobee 13 -2ER proposed Evaluation & Appraisal based Comprehensive Plan Amendments
Dear Mr. Brisson:
The Florida Department of Transportation, District One, has reviewed the City of Okeechobee 13 -2ER EAR
based amendments (received by FDOT on August 9, 2013) in accordance with the requirements of Florida
Statutes Chapter 163 and Chapter 9J -11 of the Florida Administrative Code. The Department offers
Okeechobee County (through their planning consultant Larue Planning and Management Services) the
following comments and recommendations for your consideration:
As this amendment to the City of Okeechobee Comprehensive Plan does not involve changes or modifications
which impact State road facilities, we offer no comments.
If you have any questions please free to contact me at (863) 519 -2395 or bob.crawley @dot.state.fl.us.
Sincerely,
Bob Crawley
District Growth Management Coordinator
FDOT District One
CC: Florida Department of Economic Opportunity
www.dot.state.fl.us
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Eubanks, Ray
From: Stahl, Chris [Chris.Stahl @dep.state.fl.us]
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 12:56 PM
To: DCPexternalagencycomments
Cc: Craig, Kae; bill @larueplanning.com
Subject: Okeechobee 1.3.2EeR Proposed
Date:
To:
From:
Re:
August 26, 2013
Ray Eubanks, Department of Economic Opportunity
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Chris Stahl, Environmental Specialist, Office of Intergovernmental Programs
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Okeechobee 13 -2ESR Proposed; Comprehensive Plan Amendment Review
The Office of Intergovernmental Programs of the Florida Department of Environmental
Protection (Department) has reviewed the above - referenced package under
the procedures of Chapter 163, Florida Statutes. The Department conducted a detailed
review that focused on potential adverse impacts to important state resources and
facilities, specifically: air and water pollution; wetlands and other surface waters of the
state; federal and state -owned lands and interest in lands, including state parks,
greenways and trails, conservation easements; solid waste; water and wastewater
treatment; and, where applicable, the Everglades ecosystem.
Based on our review of the submitted amendment package, the Department has found no provision
that requires comment under laws that form the basis of the Department's jurisdiction.
Should you have any questions or require further assistance, please call me at (850) 245 -2169.
Please take a few minutes to share your comments on the service you received from the department by clicking on this
link. DEP Customer Survey.
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SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT
September 4, 2013
Mr. Ray Eubanks, Plan Processing Administrator
Division of Community Planning and Development
Department of Economic Opportunity
107 East Madison Street
Caldwell Bldg., MSC 160
Tallahassee, FL 32399
Dear Mr. Eubanks:
Subject: City of Okeechobee, DEO #13 -2ER
Comments on Proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendment Package
The South Florida Water Management District (District) has completed its review of the
proposed amendment package from the City of Okeechobee (City). The amendment
package consists of the City's Evaluation and Appraisal Review based amendments.
There appear to be no regionally significant water resource issues; therefore, the
District forwards no comments on the proposed amendment package.
The District offers its technical assistance to the City and the Department of Economic
Opportunity in developing sound, sustainable solutions to meet the City's future water
supply needs and to protect the region's water resources. Please forward a copy of
adopted amendments to the District. For assistance or additional information, please
contact Terry Manning, Policy and Planning Analyst, at (561) 682 -6779 or
tmanning@u,sfwmd.gov.
Sincerely,
Dean Powell
Water Supply Bureau Chief
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c: Bill Brisson, LaRue Planning & Management
Terry Manning, SFWMD
Bill Royce, Okeechobee County
Patricia M. Steed, CFRPC
Brian Whitehall, City Administrator
Brenda Winningham, DEO
3301 Gun Club Road, West Palm Beach, Florida 33406 • (561) 686 -8800 • FL WATS 1 -800 -432 -2045
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 24680, West Pahn Beach, FL 33416 -4680 • wwwsfwmd.gov
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September 20, 2013
Mr. Ray Eubanks, Administrator
Plan Review and Processing
State of Florida Department of Economic Opportunity
Caldwell Building, MSC 160
107 East Madison Street
Tallahassee, Florida 32399 -4120
RE: City of Okeechobee 13 -2ER
CFRPC Local Comprehensive Plan Amendment Review
Dear Mr. Eubanks,
Via E -mail
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The Central Florida Regional Planning Council continues to review Comprehensive Plan Amendments.
Upon conclusion of review, an Amendment Review Form is completed. Enclosed, please find the review
form for the following Comprehensive Plan Amendment Package:
• City of Okeechobee 13 -2ER
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me at (863) 534 -7130 extension 178.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Codo - Salisbury, MPA, AICP
Planning and Administrative Director
cc: Mike McDaniel, Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (via e-mail)
Brenda Winningham, Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (via e-mail)
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FLORIDA REGIONAL COUNCILS ASSOCIATION
LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT REVIEW FORM 01
Regional Planning Council: CFRPC Regional Planning
Council Item #:
Date Mailed to Local
Government and State
Planning Agency:
September 20, 2013
(received 8/15/13)
City of
Local Government Item #: Okeechobee 13-
2ER
Pursuant to Section 163.3184, Florida Statutes, Council review of proposed amendments to local
government comprehensive plans is limited to adverse effects on regional resources and facilities
identified in the strategic regional policy plan and extrajurisdictional impacts that would be inconsistent
with the comprehensive plan of any affected local government within the region. A written report
containing an evaluation of these impacts, pursuant to Section 163.3184, Florida Statutes, is to be
provided to the local government and the state land planning agency within 30 calendar days of receipt of
the amendment.
The Central Florida Regional Planning Council prepared the Amendment.
DESCRIPTION OF AMENDMENT
City of Okeechobee 13 -2ER: City- initiated EAR -Based Comprehensive Plan Amendments which
provide for a new objective and policy in the Future Land Use Element addressing compatibility of land
uses located near or within certain distances of airport runways and also providing an amendment to the
Intergovernmental Coordination Element which provides for the appointment of an Okeechobee School
Board representative to sit on the Local Planning Agency.
1. ADVERSE EFFECTS TO SIGNIFICANT REGIONAL RESOURCES AND FACILITIES
IDENTIFIED IN THE STRATEGIC REGIONAL POLICY PLAN
The amendment does not appear to pose any adverse effects to significant regional resources and facilities
and appears to be in compliance with the Goals, Policies, and Strategies set forth in the SRPP.
2. EXTRAJURISDICTIONAL IMPACTS INCONSISTENT WITH THE
COMPREHENSIVE PLANS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS WITHIN THE REGION
The amendment does not appear to pose any extrajurisdictional impacts with comprehensive plans of
local governments within the region.
Request a copy of the adopted version of the amendment?
Yes X
No
07/ I 1
August 9, 2016
Planning
& Management Services, Inc.
Mr. Ray Eubanks, Plan Processing Administrator
Division of Community Planning and Development
Department of Economic Opportunity
107 East Madison Street
Caldwell Bldg., MSC 160
Tallahassee, Florida 32399
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AUG 4 2013
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Re: City of Okeechobee Proposed Evaluation & Appraisal -based Comprehensive Plan Amendment
pursuant to Sec. 163.3191, FS.
Dear Mr. Eubanks:
The City of Okeechobee Local Planning Agency (LPA) held its public hearing regarding the proposed
Evaluation & Appraisal -based Amendment (EA -based Amendment) on June 20, 2013. At that public
hearing the LPA forwarded its recommendation to the City Council for transmittal of the Amendment to
the State Land Planning Agency (SLPA) for its review. This amendment is subject to State Coordinated
Review process pursuant to Section 163.3184(4), Florida Statutes.
On July 16, 2013, the City Council held it transmittal public hearing, at which time the Council authorized
transmittal of the EA -based Amendment to the SLPA. Pursuant to the Coordinated State Review process
guidelines, enclosed are three (3) copies (one printed copy and two compact discs) of the above
referenced proposed Amendment to the Comprehensive Plan for the City of Okeechobee.
The Amendment package consists of:
• Proposed Ordinance 1099, which was passed unanimously by the City Council after discussion
and public input.
• Summary of the Planning Board (LPA) Action at its public hearing of June 20, 2013.
• Summary of City Council Action at its Transmittal public hearing on July 16, 2013.
• Exhibit A showing the Staff Recommendations as provided to the LPA and City Council during
their respective public hearings.
• A copy of this complete Amendment package and this transmittal letter have been submitted to
the following agencies (via email or printed copy) on August 9, 2013:
• Florida Department of Education
• Florida Department of Environmental Protection
• Florida Department of State
• Florida Department of Transportation - District One
• Central Florida Regional Planning Council
• South Florida Water Management District
• Okeechobee County Planning Department
Providing Planning and Management Solutions for Local Governments Since 1988
1375 Jackson Street, Suite 206 Fort Myers, FL 33901 239 - 334 -3366 www.laneplanning.com
In summary, the Amendment package contains amendments to:
1. Add a new Objective and Policy in the Future Land Use Element addressing
compatibility of land uses located near or within certain distance of airport runways,
and
2. Add a new policy in the Intergovernmental Coordination Element providing for the
appointment of a representative of the school board to sit as a nonvoting member
of the LPA when it is considering amendments to the Comprehensive Plan or
Zoning that would result in increases in residential density.
The proposed Amendment is consistent with the Goal, Objectives and Policies of the Future Land Use
Element and Intergovernmental Coordination Element and those of other affected elements.
The proposed Amendment is expected to be adopted in January 2014.
The proposed amendment package is not applicable to an area of critical state concern.
The contact person for the City of Okeechobee is:
Wm. F. Brisson, AICP
Sr. Planner
LaRue Planning & Management Services, Inc
1375 Jackson Street, Suite 206, Ft. Myers, Fl 33901
239 - 334 -3366 bill @larueplanning.com
Please also send copies of any correspondence or other materials relating to this amendment to the City
Administrator:
Brian Whitehall, City Administrator
City Hall
55 SE 3rd Avenue
Okeechobee, Florida 34974
The Plan Amendment package and the Objections, Recommendations, and Comments (ORC) Report will
be made available for public inspection during normal business hours at the following location:
City of Okeechobee
City Clerk's Office
55 SE 3rd Avenue
Okeechobee, Florida 34974,
Should you have any questions or require additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me at
239 -334 -3366.
Sincerely,
James G. LaRue, AICP
Planning Consultant
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Lane Gamiotea
From: Gloria Pellito <gloria @larueplanning.com>
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 11:22 AM
To: 'Eubanks, Ray'
Cc: Department of Education; Department of Environmental Protection; DOT Distract 1;
Central Florida Regional Planning Council; South Florida Water Management District;
Department of State; Okeechobee County Planning Department; 'Lane';
rbrock @cityofokeechobee.com; 'Brian Whitehall'; 'Bill Brisson'
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for Coordinated State Review. We are sending 1 original printed document and 2 CDs for delivery to your
office via FedEx. All other agencies are copied in this email.
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City of Okeechobee
Proposed Evaluation & Appraisal -based
Comprehensive Plan Amendment Package
for Coordinated State Review
Transmittal Public Hearing: July 16, 2013
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& Management Services, Inc.
1375 Jackson Street, Suite 206
Fort Myers, Florida
239 -334 -3366
Serving Florida Local Governments Since 1988
City of Okeechobee
Comprehensive Plan Amendment Package
Table of Contents
Transmittal letter
Proposed Ordinance No. 1099
Proposed Text Amendments
Staff Report/Data & Analysis
Summary of Planning Board (LPA) Action
Summary of City Council Action
August 9, 2016
Planning
& Management Services, Inc.
Mr. Ray Eubanks, Plan Processing Administrator
Division of Community Planning and Development
Department of Economic Opportunity
107 East Madison Street
Caldwell Bldg., MSC 160
Tallahassee, Florida 32399
Re: City of Okeechobee Proposed Evaluation & Appraisal -based Comprehensive Plan Amendment
pursuant to Sec. 163.3191, FS.
Dear Mr. Eubanks:
The City of Okeechobee Local Planning Agency (LPA) held its public hearing regarding the proposed
Evaluation & Appraisal -based Amendment (EA -based Amendment) on June 20, 2013. At that public
hearing the LPA forwarded its recommendation to the City Council for transmittal of the Amendment to
the State Land Planning Agency (SLPA) for its review. This amendment is subject to State Coordinated
Review process pursuant to Section 163.3184(4), Florida Statutes.
On July 16, 2013, the City Council held it transmittal public hearing, at which time the Council authorized
transmittal of the EA -based Amendment to the SLPA. Pursuant to the Coordinated State Review process
guidelines, enclosed are three (3) copies (one printed copy and two compact discs) of the above
referenced proposed Amendment to the Comprehensive Plan for the City of Okeechobee.
The Amendment package consists of:
• Proposed Ordinance 1099, which was passed unanimously by the City Council after discussion
and public input.
• Summary of the Planning Board (LPA) Action at its public hearing of June 20, 2013.
• Summary of City Council Action at its Transmittal public hearing on July 16, 2013.
• Exhibit A showing the Staff Recommendations as provided to the LPA and City Council during
their respective public hearings.
• A copy of this complete Amendment package and this transmittal letter have been submitted to
the following agencies (via email or printed copy) on August 9, 2013:
• Florida Department of Education
• Florida Department of Environmental Protection
• Florida Department of State
• Florida Department of Transportation- District One
• Central Florida Regional Planning Council
• South Florida Water Management District
• Okeechobee County Planning Department
Providing Planning and Management Solutions for Local Governments Since 1988
1375 Jackson Street, Suite 206 Fort Myers. FL 33901 239- 334 -3366 www.larueplanning.com
In summary, the Amendment package contains amendments to:
1. Add a new Objective and Policy in the Future Land Use Element addressing
compatibility of land uses located near or within certain distance of airport runways,
and
2. Add a new policy in the Intergovernmental Coordination Element providing for the
appointment of a representative of the school board to sit as a nonvoting member
of the LPA when it is considering amendments to the Comprehensive Plan or
Zoning that would result in increases in residential density.
The proposed Amendment is consistent with the Goal, Objectives and Policies of the Future Land Use
Element and Intergovernmental Coordination Element and those of other affected elements.
The proposed Amendment is expected to be adopted in January 2014.
The proposed amendment package is not applicable to an area of critical state concern.
The contact person for the City of Okeechobee is:
Wm. F. Brisson, AICP
Sr. Planner
LaRue Planning & Management Services, Inc
1375 Jackson Street, Suite 206, Ft. Myers, Fl 33901
239 - 334 -3366 bill @larueplanning.com
Please also send copies of any correspondence or other materials relating to this amendment to the City
Administrator:
Brian Whitehall, City Administrator
City Hall
55 SE 3rd Avenue
Okeechobee, Florida 34974
The Plan Amendment package and the Objections, Recommendations, and Comments (ORC) Report will
be made available for public inspection during normal business hours at the following location:
City of Okeechobee
City Clerk's Office
55 SE 3rd Avenue
Okeechobee, Florida 34974,
Should you have any questions or require additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me at
239 - 334 -3366.
Sincerely,
James G. LaRue, AICP
Planning Consultant
Serving Florida Local Governments Since 1988
ORDINANCE NO. 1099
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA AMENDING THE
CITY'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN; PROVIDING FOR A NEW OBJECTIVE AND
A NEW POLICY TO THE FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT ADDRESSING
COMPATIBILITY OF LAND USES LOCATED NEAR OR WITHIN CERTAIN
DISTANCES OF AIRPORT RUNWAYS; PROVIDING FOR INCORPORATING A
NEW POLICY TO THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION ELEMENT
WHICH PROVIDES FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
OKEECHOBEE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD TO SIT, UNDER CERTAIN
CIRCUMSTANCES, AS A NONVOTING MEMBER OF THE LOCAL PLANNING
AGENCY (LPA); PROVIDING FOR FINDINGS OF FACT; PROVIDING FOR
SEVERABILITY; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Planning Act of 2011 requires that the City prepare and transmit
an amendment addressing items identified in the Evaluation and Appraisal Notification
Letter within 12 months of submittal of the letter, said letter having been on September 1,
2012; and
WHEREAS, Staff has prepared proposed amendments addressing items so identified in its
Evaluation and Appraisal Letter; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Board, acting as the Local Planning Agency of the City of Okeechobee,
Florida, recently reviewed the proposed amendments; has discussed same at a duly
advertised public hearing on June 20, 2013, and recommends the City Council transmit the
proposed amendments to the State Land Planning Agency for review and approval, and
subsequent adoption by ordinance by the City Council; and
WHEREAS, in order to effectively address these recommendations in an orderly manner with the
intent of including all recommendations in a single ordinance, which will save the City and
its citizens costs and time, this ordinance is a compilation of many amendments, which
when adopted, will amend each of the cited code sections upon its effective date.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council for the City of Okeechobee, Florida;
presented at a duly advertised public meeting; and passed by majority vote of the City
Council; and properly executed by the Mayor or designee, as Chief Presiding Officer for the
City, that:
SECTION 1. The City Council for the City of Okeechobee, Florida amends herein the Future Land
Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan by adding Objective 13 and Policy 13.1,
to read as follows:
Objective 13 The City of Okeechobee recognizes that under certain conditions some uses
of land are not compatible in proximity to public use airports and must be
regulated to reduce or eliminate potential hazards to health or safety.
Policy 13.1 The City of Okeechobee shall adopt airport zoning regulations that:
a. prohibit residential construction and educational facilities in the City to be
located within 2,500 feet of a runway at the Okeechobee County Airport.
b. are consistent with the requirements of Sec. 333.03(1)(c) F.S.
c. prohibit the location of any sanitary landfill that is:
1) within 10,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used or planned
to be used by turbojet or turboprop aircraft;
Ordinance No. 1099 Page 1 of 2
Language to be added is underlined
Language to be deleted is straek through
2) within 5,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used only by
piston -type aircraft;
3) outside the perimeters defined in subparagraphs 1. and 2., but still
within the lateral limits of the civil airport imaginary surfaces defined in
14 C.F.R. part 77.25.
d. require notification of the FAA when a structure located within three statute
miles of the Airport Reference Point and will be higher than the distance
from the end of the runway divided by 100 feet.
e. prohibit, in the interest of air safety and commerce, temporary or permanent
structures that do not comply with Federal Aviation Administration rules or
regulations.
SECTION 2. That the City Council for the City of Okeechobee, Florida amends herein the
Intergovernmental Coordination Element of the Comprehensive Plan by adding
Policy 5.5, to read as follows, and renumber existing Policy 5.5 through 5.8 to be 5.6
to 5.9:
Policy 5.5 The City of Okeechobee shall include a representative of the Okeechobee County
School District, appointed by the School Board, as a non - voting member of the Local
Planning Agency (LPA) to attend those meetings at which the LPA considers
amendments to the City's Comprehensive Plan and/or Zoning Map that would, if
approved, increase residential density on the property that is the subject of the
proposed amendment(s).
SECTION 3. Conflict. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.
SECTION 4. Severability. If any provision or portion of this ordinance is declared by any court of
competent jurisdiction to be void, unconstitutional, or unenforceable, then all
remaining provisions and portions of this ordinance shall remain in full force and
effect.
SECTION 5. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall take effect pursuant to the State Land Planning
Agency's Notice of Intent if in compliance and no challenge is filed by an affected
party when the Notice of Intent is posted to the State Land Planning Agency's web
site.
INTRODUCED for First Reading held at a duly advertised Transmittal Public Hearing on this 16`h
day of July; 2013.
ATTEST: --
Lane Gamiotea, CMC, City Clerk
Dowling R. Watford, ., Mayor Pro - Tempore
PASSED AND ADOPTED after Second and Final Public Hearing this day of
2013.
ATTEST:
Lane Gamiotea, CMC, City Clerk
REVIEWED FOR L GAL SUFFICIENCY:
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John R. Cook, City Attorney
Ordinance No. 1099 Page 2 of 2
James E. Kirk, Mayor
Language to be added is underlined
Language to be deleted is strueltibrough
Recommended Changes to Future Land Use
and Intergovernmental Coordination Elements
Objective 13:
Evaluation and Appraisal -Based Amendment, 2013
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The City of Okeechobee recognizes that under certain conditions some
uses of land are not compatible in proximity to public use airports and
must be regulated to reduce or eliminate potential hazards to health or
safety.
Policy 13.1 The City of Okeechobee shall adopt airport zoning regulations that:
a prohibit residential construction and educational facilities in the City
to be located within 2,500 feet of a runway at the Okeechobee
County Airport.
are consistent with the requirements of Sec. 333.03(1)(c) F.S.
el prohibit the location of any sanitary landfill that is;
1. within 10,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used or
planned to be used by turbojet or turboprop aircraft;
2. within 5,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used
only by piston -type aircraft;
3. outside the perimeters defined in subparagraphs 1. and 2., but
still within the lateral limits of the civil airport imaginary
surfaces defined in 14 C.F.R. part 77.25.
a) require notification of the FAA when a structure located within three
statute miles of the Airport Reference Point and will be higher than
the distance from the end of the runway divided by 100 feet.
el prohibit, in the interest of air safety and commerce, temporary or
permanent structures that do not comply with Federal Aviation
Administration rules or regulations.
City of Okeechobee Comprehensive Plan
Future Land Use Element
Amended: October 18, 2011
Evaluation and Appraisal -Based Amendment, 2013
ICE 7 -4
Policy 4.3: The City shall continue to coordinate its Comprehensive Plan with the
Resource Management Plan to address drainage problems in the Lower
Kissimmee River and Taylor Creek Drainage Basin regions.
Objective 5: The City of Okeechobee shall cooperate in an effort with the School Board
to ensure that the planning activities, services and facilities of the School
Board are consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan.
Policy 5.1: The City of Okeechobee shall exchange data with the School Board
regarding population projections and the School Board (5 -year) facility
plans as such data or plans are updated.
Policy 5.2: The City of Okeechobee shall coordinate major residential project reviews
(pursuant to Chapters 163 and 235, Florida Statutes) to consider joint
park/schools dedications to meet future demands.
Policy 5.3: The City of Okeechobee and the School Board shall coordinate in their
joint efforts to study and implement innovative methods, including
park/school site dedications and contributions, as a means to address
infrastructure needs associated with the City's growth.
Policy 5.4:
Policy 5.5
Policy 5.5 5_6:
The City of Okeechobee shall notify the School Board of all new
residential development projects or modifications to existing residential
developments which increase density as a part of the review process for
school concurrency.
The City of Okeechobee shall include a representative of the Okeechobee
County School District, appointed by the School Board, as a nonvoting
member of the Local Planning Agency (LPA) to attend those meetings at
which the LPA considers amendments to the City's Comprehensive Plan
and /or Zoning Map that would, if approved, increase residential density on
the property that is the subject of the proposed amendment(s).
The City of Okeechobee shall maintain a joint interlocal agreements with
the School Board and the County for Public School Facility Planning
which includes the provisions for the implementation of school
concurrency and a coordination process for locating new schools,
expanding or redeveloping existing school facilities. The School Board
shall be encouraged to locate new educational facilities near urban
residential areas where public infrastructure and services exist to support
the new facilities.
City of Okeechobee Comprehensive Plan
Intergovernmental Coordination Element
Amended: October 18, 2011
Policy 5.4 5_7:
Policy 54 5_8:
Policy 5-8 5_9:
Evaluation and Appraisal -Based Amendment, 2013
ICE 7 -5
The City of Okeechobee shall advise and meet with the School Board as
necessary, regarding all Plan amendments and proposed annexations that
may affect school sites.
The City of Okeechobee shall coordinate with the School Board regarding
shared use of recreational facilities owned by either entity. In addition, the
City shall consider all reasonable opportunities to collocate new parks,
libraries, and other facilities with public schools.
The City of Okeechobee, although not currently impacted, shall enter into
any appropriate agreement with the State of Florida University System or
the School Board implementing the requirements of Section 240.155 (11-
15), F.S., regarding campus master plans. A consistency review of the
campus master plans for non -state post- secondary institutions shall also be
considered where a "campus" exists or is planned.
City of Okeechobee Comprehensive Plan
Intergovernmental Coordination Element
Amended: October 18, 2011
Planning
& Management Services, Inc.
Memorandum
To: Members of the Planning Board (Note: This was also sent to the City Council)
From: Bill Brisson
Date: May 28, 2013
Subject: Materials for Public Hearing on Evaluation & Appraisal Based Amendment
Last September we conducted an Evaluation and Appraisal of the City's Comprehensive Plan
as it relates to meeting changes in State Legislation. At that time, we identified two areas where
the Plan does not address requirements of the current legislation, and so notified the State.
These include the need for:
1 a new Objective and Policy in the Future Land Use Element addressing
compatibility of land uses located near or within certain distance of airport
runways, and
2. a new policy in the Intergovernmental Coordination Element providing for
the appointment of a representative of the school board to sit as a
nonvoting member of the LPA when it is considering amendments to the
Comprehensive Plan or Zoning that would result in increases in residential
density.
The Comprehensive Planning Act of 2011 requires that the City prepare and transmit an
amendment addressing items identified in the Evaluation and Appraisal Notification Letter within
12 months of submittal of the letter, which was required to be submitted by September 1, 2012.
This is referred to as an "Evaluation and Appraisal -Based Amendment."
The Planning Board, sitting at the Local Planning Agency (LPA) must hold a transmittal public
hearing on the proposed amendment and forward its recommendation(s) to the City
Commission. This public hearing has been scheduled for June 20, 2013.
The attached materials explain the basis for the proposed changes and include the recom-
mended text changes to the Future Land Use and Intergovernmental Coordination Elements of
the Comprehensive Plan associated with the aforementioned items.
I look forward to discussing these issues with you. In the meantime, should you have any
questions, please contact me.
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FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT (FLUE)
Review of the City's Comprehensive Plan during its Evaluation and Appraisal indicated that the
Plan did not include an Objective or Policy addressing requirement of §163,3177(6)(a)3.b
intended to achieve the compatibility of lands adjacent to an airport.
The Okeechobee County Airport is located outside of, but close to, the municipal limits of the
City of Okeechobee, and therefore the City's Comprehensive Plan is required to address the
compatibility of land use proximate to the airport.
DATA AND ANALYSIS:
A. Title XXV — Aviation, Chapter 333 — Airport Zoning
Following are the sections of the State Legislation referred to in §163,3177(6)(a)3.b
relating to the requirement for compatibility of lands adjacent to an airport. Pertinent
sections, which have been addressed in this Amendment, are highlighted.
"333.02 Airport hazards and uses of land in airport vicinities contrary to public interest.
(1) It is hereby found that an airport hazard endangers the lives and property of users of the
airport and of occupants of land in its vicinity and also, if of the obstruction type, in effect reduces
the size of the area available for the taking off, maneuvering, or landing of aircraft, thus tending to
destroy or impair the utility of the airport and the public investment therein. It is further found that
certain activities and uses of land in the immediate vicinity of airports as enumerated in s. 333.03(2)
are not compatible with normal airport operations, and may, if not regulated, also endanger the lives
of the participants, adversely affect their health, or otherwise limit the accomplishment of normal
activities. Accordingly, it is hereby declared:
(a) That the creation or establishment of an airport hazard and the incompatible use of land
in airport vicinities are public nuisances and injure the community served by the airport in
question;
(b) That it is therefore necessary in the interest of the public health, public safety, and
general welfare that the creation or establishment of airport hazards and incompatible land
uses be prevented; and
(c) That this should be accomplished, to the extent legally possible, by the exercise of the
police power, without compensation.
(2) It is further declared that the limitation of land uses incompatible with normal airport
operations, the prevention of the creation or establishment of airport hazards, and the elimination,
removal, alteration, mitigation, or marking and lighting of existing airport hazards are public
purposes for which political subdivisions may raise and expend public funds and acquire land or
property interests therein, or air rights thereover.
"333.03 Power to adopt airport zoning regulations.—
(1) (a) In order to prevent the creation or establishment of airport hazards, every political
subdivision having an airport hazard area within its territorial limits shall, by October 1, 1977,
adopt, administer, and enforce, under the police power and in the manner and upon the
conditions hereinafter prescribed, airport zoning regulations for such airport hazard area.
(b) Where an airport is owned or controlled by a political subdivision and any airport hazard
area appertaining to such airport is located wholly or partly outside the territorial limits of said
political subdivision, the political subdivision owning or controlling the airport and the political
subdivision within which the airport hazard area is located, shall either:
1. By interlocal agreement, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 163, adopt,
administer, and enforce airport zoning regulations applicable to the airport hazard area in
question; or
2. By ordinance or resolution duly adopted, create a joint airport zoning board, which
board shall have the same power to adopt, administer, and enforce airport zoning
regulations applicable to the airport hazard area in question as that vested in
paragraph (a) in the political subdivision within which such area is located. Each such
joint board shall have as members two representatives appointed by each political
subdivision participating in its creation and in addition a chair elected by a majority of
the members so appointed. However, the airport manager or managers of the
affected political subdivisions shall serve on the board in a nonvoting capacity.
(c) Airport zoning regulations adopted under paragraph (a) shall, as a minimum, require
1. A variance for the erection, alteration, or modification of any structure which would
cause the structure to exceed the federal obstruction standards as contained in 14 C.F.R.
ss. 77.21, 77.23, 77.25 77.28, and 77.29;
2. Obstruction marking and lighting for structures as specified in s. 333.07(3);
3. Documentation showing compliance with the federal requirement for notification of
proposed construction and a valid aeronautical evaluation submitted by each person
applying for a variance;
4. Consideration of the criteria in s. 333.025(6), when determining whether to issue or
deny a variance; and
5. That no variance shall be approved solely on the basis that such proposed structure
will not exceed federal obstruction standards as contained in 14 C.F.R. ss. 77.21, 77.23,
77.25, 77.28, or 77.29, or any other federal aviation regulation.
(d) The department shall issue copies of the federal obstruction standards as contained in
14 C.F.R. ss. 77.21, 77.23 77.25 77.28, and 77.29 to each political subdivision having
airport hazard areas and, in cooperation with political subdivisions, shall issue appropriate
airport zoning maps depicting within each county the maximum allowable height of any
structure or tree. Material distributed pursuant to this subsection shall be at no cost to
authorized recipients.
(2) In the manner provided in subsection (1), interim airport land use compatibility zoning
regulations shall be adopted. When political subdivisions have adopted land development
regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 163 which address the use of land in
the manner consistent with the provisions herein, adoption of airport land use compatibility
regulations pursuant to this subsection shall not be required. Interim airport land use
compatibility zoning regulations shall consider the following:
(3)
(a) Whether sanitary landfills are located within the following areas:
1. Within 10,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used or planned to be used
by turbojet or turboprop aircraft.
2. Within 5,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used only by piston -type
aircraft.
3. Outside the perimeters defined in subparagraphs 1. and 2., but still within the lateral
limits of the civil airport imaginary surfaces defined in 14 C.F.R. part 77.25. Case -by-
case review of such landfills is advised.
(b) Whether any landfill is located and constructed so that it attracts or sustains hazardous
bird movements from feeding, water, or roosting areas into, or across, the runways or
approach and departure patterns of aircraft. The political subdivision shall request from the
airport authority or other governing body operating the airport a report on such bird feeding or
roosting areas that at the time of the request are known to the airport. In preparing its report,
the authority, or other governing body, shall consider whether the landfill will incorporate bird
management techniques or other practices to minimize bird hazards to airborne aircraft. The
airport authority or other governing body shall respond to the political subdivision no later
than 30 days after receipt of such request.
(c) Where an airport authority or other governing body operating a publicly owned, public -
use airport has conducted a noise study in accordance with the provisions of 14 C.F.R. part
150, neither residential construction nor any educational facility as defined in chapter 1013,
with the exception of aviation school facilities, shall be permitted within the area contiguous to
the airport defined by an outer noise contour that is considered incompatible with that type of
construction by 14 C.F.R. part 150, Appendix A or an equivalent noise level as established by
other types of noise studies.
(d) Where an airport authority or other governing body operating a publicly owned, public -
use airport has not conducted a noise study, neither residential construction nor any educa-
tional facility as defined in chapter 1013, with the exception of aviation school facilities, shall
be permitted within an area contiguous to the airport measuring one -half the length of the
longest runway on either side of and at the end of each runway centerline.
In the manner provided in subsection (1), airport zoning regulations shall be adopted which
restrict new incompatible uses, activities, or construction within runway clear zones, including
uses, activities, or construction in runway clear zones which are incompatible with normal
airport operations or endanger public health, safety, and welfare by resulting in congregations
of people, emissions of light or smoke, or attraction of birds. Such regulations shall prohibit
the construction of an educational facility of a public or private school at either end of a
runway of a publicly owned, public -use airport within an area which extends 5 miles in a
direct line along the centerline of the runway, and which has a width measuring one -half the
length of the runway. Exceptions approving construction of an educational facility within the
delineated area shall only be granted when the political subdivision administering the zoning
regulations makes specific findings detailing how the public policy reasons for allowing the
construction outweigh health and safety concerns prohibiting such a location.
(4) The procedures outlined in subsections (1), (2), and (3) for the adoption of such regulations
are supplemental to any existing procedures utilized by political subdivisions in the adoption
of such regulations.
(5)
The Department of Transportation shall provide technical assistance to any political
subdivision requesting assistance in the preparation of an airport zoning code. A copy of all
local airport zoning codes, rules, and regulations, and amendments and proposed and
granted variances thereto, shall be filed with the department.
(6) Nothing in subsection (2) or subsection (3) shall be construed to require the removal,
alteration, sound conditioning, or other change, or to interfere with the continued use or
adjacent expansion of any educational structure or site in existence on July 1, 1993, or be
construed to prohibit the construction of any new structure for which a site has been
determined as provided in formers. 235.19, as of July 1, 1993."
History. —s. 3, ch. 23079, 1945; s. 4, ch. 75 -16; s. 4, ch. 88 -356; s. 72, ch. 90 -136; s. 8, ch. 92 -152; s. 10,
ch. 93 -164; s. 1, ch. 94 -201; s. 958, ch. 95 -148; s. 971, ch. 2002 -387.
B. Location of Okeechobee County Airport in relation to City of Okeechobee
The Runway Protection Zone (RPZ) extends outward for a distance of 1,200 feet from the
end of Runway 32. Consequently no property within the City of Okeechobee falls within
the RPZ and no special standards or limitations are needed.
No "Part 150 Noise Study' has been conducted for the Okeechobee County Airport.
Therefore, the aerial photograph on the following page identifies the location of the
Okeechobee County Airport, the Okeechobee City limits and the 2,500 foot radius within
which residential and school facilities are prohibited. This represents the radius based on
one -half the length of the longest runway of the airport as set forth in Sec. 333.03(2)(d),
above.
For tall structures, the "Airport Notification Area" extends three statute miles out from the
Airport Reference Point. Construction proposed within this distance must notify the FAA
and file a notice of Proposed Construction or Alteration (Form 7460 -1) if the proposed
height of the structure exceeds 200 feet or if the height of the structure is greater than its
distance from the end of the runway divided by 100. For example, if the structure is
located 4,500 feet from the end of the runway, the developer must notify the FAA if the
height of the building exceeds 45 feet.
Areas Subject to Sec. 333.03(2)(d) FS
RECOMMENDATIONS:
The City proposes to amend the Future Land Use Element to add a new Objective 13 and
associated Policy 13.1 as set forth on the following page.
LPA Minutes, Including Recommendation
AGENDA
V. OPEN PUBLIC HEARING - Chairperson.
A. Consider a Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Element (FLUE)
Text Amendment to address compatibility of and uses located near
or within certain distance of airport runways - Senior Planner (Exhibit
1, Page 2 through Page 7).
1. Hear from Planning Staff.
2. Public comments or questions from those in attendance, or
submitted to the Board Secretary.
3. Disclosure of Ex -Parte communications by the Board.
4. a) Consideration of a motion to recommend the City Council
approve or deny the FLUE Text Amendment to address
compatibility of land uses located near airports.
JUNE 20, 2013 - PLANNING BOARD - PAGE 2 OF 4
ACTION - DISCUSSION - VOTE
CHAIRPERSON HOOVER OPENED THE PUBLIC HEARING AT 6:01 P.M.
Consider a Comprehensive Plan FLUE Text Amendment to address compatibility of and uses located near or within
certain distance of airport runways.
Planner Brisson referenced his memorandum dated May 28 and explained that during the review of the Evaluation and
Appraisal Report, it was noted that the City's Comprehensive Plan did not include an Objective or Policy that addressed
the requirements of Florida Statute 163.3177(6)(a) regulating the compatibility of land uses located near or within a
certain distance of airport runways. He further explained, no property within the City falls within the Runway Protection
Zone, identified as the area extending 1,200 feet from the end of Okeechobee County's runway number32. Since a "Part
150 Noise Study" has not been conducted for the County Airport, a 2,500 foot radius was identified prohibiting the
construction of homes or school facilities. In regards to tall structures, the "Airport Notification Area extends three statute
miles out from the Airport Reference Point. Any construction proposed within this distance, must notify the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) and file a notice of Proposed Construction or Alteration, should the height of the structure
exceed 200 feet or be greater than its distance from the end of the runway divided by 100. Planner Brisson's
recommendation was to amend the FLUE by adding a new Objective 13 and associated Policy 13.1 as presented in
Exhibit 1.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether there were any comments or questions from those in attendance. Mrs.Tara Minton
Rowley, Executive Director for the Economic Council of Okeechobee, asked whether there was a definition of
educational facilities and whether this included ball fields? Planner Brisson responded he would have to defer to the
Florida Statute definition, and the ballfields could be included based on their association with schools.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether Board Members had ex -parte communications to disclose for the record. There was
none.
Board Member Brass made a motion seconded by Board Member McCreary to recommend the City Council amend the
Comprehensive Plan FLUE by adding Objective 13:The City of Okeechobee recognizes that under certain conditions
some uses of land are not compatible in proximity to public use airports and must be regulated to reduce or eliminate
potential hazards to health or safety. Policy 13.1: The City of Okeechobee shall adopt airport zoning regulations that:
a) Prohibit residential construction and educational facilities in the City to be located within 2,500 feet of a runway at
Okeechobee County Airport. b) Are consistent with the requirements of Section 333.03(1)(c) F.S. c) Prohibit the location
of any sanitary landfill that is: 1. within 10,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used or planned to be used by
turbojet or turboprop aircraft; 2. within 5,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used only by piston -type aircraft,
AGENDA
V. PUBLIC HEARING CONTINUED.
A. 4. a) Consideration of a motion to recommend the City Council
approve or deny the FLUE Text Amendment to address
compatibility of land uses located near airports continued.
b) Board discussion.
c) Vote on motion.
B. Consider a Comprehensive Plan Intergovernmental Coordination
Element (ICE) to provide for the appointment of a representative of the
School Board to sit as a non - voting member of the Local Planning
Agency when it is considering amendments to the Comprehensive
Plan or Zoning that would result in increases in residential density -
Senior Planner (Exhibit 2, Page 8 to Page 10).
1. Hear from Planning Staff.
2. Public comments or questions from those in attendance, or
submitted to the Board Secretary.
3. Disclosure of Ex -Parte communications by the Board.
JUNE 20, 2013 - PLANNING BOARD - PAGE S OF 4
ACTION - DISCUSSION - VOTE
3. outside the perimeters defined in subparagraphs 1. and 2., though still within the lateral limits of the civil airport
imaginary surfaces defined in 14 C.F.R. part 77.25. d) Require notification of the FAA when a structure located within
three statute miles of the Airport Reference Point and will be higher than the distance from the end of the runway
divided by 100 feet. e) Prohibit, in the interest of air safety and commerce, temporary or permanent structures that do
not comply with FAA rules or regulations.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether there was any further discussion. There was none.
VOTE
HOOVER - YEA
McCoy -YEA
BURROUGHS -ABSENT BAUGHMAN•YEA BRASS • YEA
RITTER • YEA CREASMAN - YEA MCCREARY - YEA
KELLER • YEA
MOTION CARRIED.
The recommendation will be forwarded to the City Council for consideration at a Public Hearing on a date to be
determined.
Consider a Comprehensive Plan ICE to provide for the appointment of a representative of the School Board to sit as
a non - voting member of the Local Planning Agency when it is considering amendments to the Comprehensive Plan
or Zoning that would result in increases in residential density.
Planner Brisson stated that again during the review of the Evaluation and Appraisal Report, it was noted that the City's
Comprehensive Plan did not include a Policy in the ICE that addressed the requirements under Florida Statute
163.3174(1) to include a representative from the school district to the Local Planning Agency.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether there were any comments or questions from those in attendance. Mrs. Rowley
asked whether there were similar allowances for Counties and Utilities. Planner Brisson responded no, that there are
no requirements to notify any other bodies.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether Board Members had ex -parte communications to disclose for the record. There
was none.
V. PUBLIC HEARING CONTINUED.
B. 4. a) Consideration of a motion to recommend the City Council
approve or deny the ICE Text Amendment to provide for the
appointment of a representative of the School Board to sit as
a non -voting member of the Local Planning Agency when it is
considering amendments to the Comprehensive Plan or
Zoning that would result in increases in residential density.
b) Board discussion.
c) Vote on motion.
CLOSE PUBLIC HEARING - Chairperson.
VI. NEW BUSINESS.
A. Consider any additional requests for amendments to the City's Land
Development Regulations - Chairperson.
VII. ADJOURNMENT - Chairperson.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE AND BE ADVISED that if any person desires to appeal any decision made by the Planning
Board/Board of Adjustment and Appeals with respect to any matter considered at this proceeding, such interested person will need
a record of the proceedings, and for such purpose may need to ensure a verbatim record of the proceedings a made, which record
includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based. General Services media are for the sole purpose of
backup for official records.
ATTEST: Dawn T. Hoover, Chairperson
Patty M. Bumette, Secretary
JUNE 20, 2013 - PLANNING BOARD • PAGE 4 OF 4
ACTION - DISCUSSION • VOTE
Board Member Ritter moved to recommend the City Council amend the Comprehensive Plan ICE by changing the
language in Policy 5.5 to read: The City of Okeechobee shall include a representative of the Okeechobee School Board
District, appointed by the School Board, as a non - voting member of the Local Planning Agency (LPA) to attend those
meetings at which the LPA considers amendments to the City's Comprehensive Plan and /or Zoning Map that would,
if approved, increase residential density on the property that is the subject of the proposed amendment(s), and
renumber the existing Policy 5.5 to 5.6, then renumber remaining policies as appropriate; seconded by Board Member
McCoy.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether there was any further discussion. There was none.
VOTE
HOOVER-YEA
MCCOY- YEA
BURROUGHS -ABSENT BAUGHMAN - YEA
RITTER - YEA CREASMAN • YEA
BRASS • YEA
MCCREARY•YEA
KELLER - YEA
MOTION CARRIED.
The recommendation will be forwarded to the City Council for consideration at a Public Hearing on a date to be
determined.
CHAIRPERSON HOOVER CLOSED THE PUBLIC HEARING AT 6:22 P.M.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether there were any requests for amendments to the Land Development Regulations.
There were none offered.
There being no further items on the agenda, Chairperson Hoover adjourned the meeting at 6:22 p.m.
City Council Minutes, Including Authorization for Transmittal
AGENDA
VIII. PUBLIC HEARING FOR ORDINANCE ADOPTION CONTINUED.
B. 1. a) Public comments and discussion continued.
b) Vote on motion.
C. 1. a) Motion to read by title only, proposed Ordinance No. 1099,
Comprehensive Plan EAR Amendments Future Land Use and
Intergovernmental Coordination Elements - City Planning
Consultant (Exhibit 3).
b) Vote on motion to read by title only.
c) City Attorney to read proposed Ordinance No. 1099 by title only.
2. a) Motion to approve the first reading for Transmittal to the State Land
Planning Agency send for transmittal, proposed Ordinance No.
1099.
b) Public comments and discussion.
JULY 16, 2013 - REGULAR MEETING - PAGE 7 OF 16
COUNCIL ACTION • DISCUSSION - VOTE
The floor was opened for public comments and discussion. There were none, as this item is for the same area
discussed on the previous issue. The Council had no additional comments.
VOTE
KIRK • ABSENT
WATFORD - YEA
MAXWELL -YEA
WILLIAMS • YEA
O'CONNOR - YEA
MOTION CARRIED.
Council Member O'Connor moved to read by title only, proposed Ordinance No. 1099, regarding Comprehensive Plan
Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR) based Amendments to the Future Land Use and Intergovernmental
Coordination Elements; seconded by Council Member Williams.
VOTE
KIRK - ABSENT
WATFORD - YEA
MAXWELL - YEA
WILLIAMS - YEA
O'CONNOR•YEA
MOTION CARRIED.
Attorney Cook read proposed Ordinance No. 1099 by title only as follows: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF
OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA AMENDING THE CITY'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN; PROVIDING FOR A NEW
OBJECTIVE AND A NEW POLICY TO THE FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT ADDRESSING COMPATIBILITY OF
LAND USES LOCATED NEAR OR WITHIN CERTAIN DISTANCES OF AIRPORT RUNWAYS; PROVIDING FOR
INCORPORATING A NEW POLICY TO THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION ELEMENT WHICH
PROVIDES FOR THE APPOINTMENT OKEECHOBEE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD TO SIT, UNDER CERTAIN
CIRCUMSTANCES, AS A NONVOTING MEMBER OF THE LOCAL PLANNING AGENCY(LPA); PROVIDING FOR
FINDINGS OF FACT; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE."
Council Member Williams moved to approve the first reading for Transmittal to the State Land Planning Agency,
proposed Ordinance No. 1099; seconded by Council Member O'Connor.
Mayor Pro -Tem Watford opened the floor to Senior Planner, Bill Brisson to present the Planning Staff Report. Two
areas identified in the Comprehensive Plan EAR is that the Plan does not address current legislation requirements
for compatibility of land uses located near or within certain distance of airport runways, nor does it provide for the
appointment of a representative from the school board to sit as a non - voting member of the Local Planning Agency
when Comprehensive or Zoning amendments that would increase residential density are considered.
AGENDA
VIII. PUBLIC HEARING FOR ORDINANCE ADOPTION CONTINUED.
C. 2. b) Public comments and discussion continued for proposed Ordinance
No. 1099, Comprehensive Plan EAR Amendments to the Future
Land Use and Intergovernmental Coordination Elements,
c) Vote on motion.
CLOSE PUBLIC HEARING - Mayor Pro - Tempore.
IX. NEW BUSINESS.
A. 1. a) Motion to read by title only, and set August 20, 2013, as a final
public hearing date for proposed Ordinance No. 1100, City of
Okeechobee and Okeechobee Utility Authority Employees'
Retirement System Internal Revenue Code Amendments - Attorney
Lee Dehner, Christiansen & Dehner, PA (Exhibit 4).
b) Vote on motion to read by title only and set final public hearing date.
JULY 16, 2013 - REGULAR MEETING - PAGE 8 OF 16
COUNCIL ACTION - DISCUSSION - VOTE
By adding a new objective and policy to the Future Land Use Element and a new policy to the Intergovernmental
Coordination Element, both areas will be adequately addressed. The Planning Board reviewed the proposed
amendments at their June 20, 2013, meeting and voted unanimously to recommend the Council adopt them as
presented.
Mayor Pro -Tem Watford asked whether there were any questions or comments from the public. There were none. He
then opened the discussion for the Council. Questions related to how this could impact Indian River State College
potential campus expansion could not be answered as their property is outside the City Limits and would require the
County to resolve those issues. It was clarified that residences can be built within the runway protection zone. The
discussion then turned to the suggestion by Council Member Maxwell for the amendment to not simply address the
minimum statutory requirements but include Staff from other agencies such as the Okeechobee Utility Authority, and
for attendance to all meetings, rather than limited by topic. He expressed concerns of communication between all the
local governmental agencies. It was explained the School Board, Okeechobee Utility Authority, and several State and
County agencies are suppose to send representatives to attend the City Technical Review Committee Meetings,
adding more appointments could make the situation more problematic since for some their attendance record is low
already. No changes were offered to the amendments.
VOTE
KIRK - ABSENT
WATFORD - YEA
MAXWELL - YEA
WILLIAMS - YEA
MAYOR PRO -TEM WATFORD CLOSED THE PUBLIC HEARING AT 7:40 P.M.
O'CONNOR - YEA
MOTION CARRIED.
Council Member O'Connor moved to read by title only, and set August 20, 2013, as a final public hearing date for
proposed Ordinance No. 1100, City of Okeechobee and Okeechobee Utility Authority Employees' Retirement System
Internal Revenue Code Amendments, seconded by Council Member Williams.
VOTE
KIRK - ABSENT
WATFORD - YEA
MAXWELL - YEA
WILLIAMS - YEA
O'CONNOR - YEA
MOTION CARRIED.
t Planning
& Management Services, Inc.
August 9, 2016
AUG 1 4 2013
Mr. Ray Eubanks, Plan Processing Administrator
Division of Community Planning and Development
Department of Economic Opportunity
107 East Madison Street
Caldwell Bldg., MSC 160
Tallahassee, Florida 32399
Re: City of Okeechobee Proposed Evaluation & Appraisal -based Comprehensive Plan Amendment
pursuant to Sec. 163.3191, FS.
Dear Mr. Eubanks:
The City of Okeechobee Local Planning Agency (LPA) held its public hearing regarding the proposed
Evaluation & Appraisal -based Amendment (EA -based Amendment) on June 20, 2013. At that public
hearing the LPA forwarded its recommendation to the City Council for transmittal of the Amendment to
the State Land Planning Agency (SLPA) for its review. This amendment is subject to State Coordinated
Review process pursuant to Section 163.3184(4), Florida Statutes.
On July 16, 2013, the City Council held it transmittal public hearing, at which time the Council authorized
transmittal of the EA -based Amendment to the SLPA. Pursuant to the Coordinated State Review process
guidelines, enclosed are three (3) copies (one printed copy and two compact discs) of the above
referenced proposed Amendment to the Comprehensive Plan for the City of Okeechobee.
The Amendment package consists of:
• Proposed Ordinance 1099, which was passed unanimously by the City Council after discussion
and public input.
• Summary of the Planning Board (LPA) Action at its public hearing of June 20, 2013.
• Summary of City Council Action at its Transmittal public hearing on July 16, 2013.
• Exhibit A showing the Staff Recommendations as provided to the LPA and City Council during
their respective public hearings.
• A copy of this complete Amendment package and this transmittal letter have been submitted to
the following agencies (via email or printed copy) on August 9, 2013:
• Florida Department of Education
• Florida Department of Environmental Protection
• Florida Department of State
• Florida Department of Transportation- District One
• Central Florida Regional Planning Council
• South Florida Water Management District
• Okeechobee County Planning Department
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In summary, the Amendment package contains amendments to:
1. Add a new Objective and Policy in the Future Land Use Element addressing
compatibility of land uses located near or within certain distance of airport runways,
and
2. Add a new policy in the Intergovernmental Coordination Element providing for the
appointment of a representative of the school board to sit as a nonvoting member
of the LPA when it is considering amendments to the Comprehensive Plan or
Zoning that would result in increases in residential density.
The proposed Amendment is consistent with the Goal, Objectives and Policies of the Future Land Use
Element and Intergovernmental Coordination Element and those of other affected elements.
The proposed Amendment is expected to be adopted in January 2014.
The proposed amendment package is not applicable to an area of critical state concern.
The contact person for the City of Okeechobee is:
Wm. F. Brisson, AICP
Sr. Planner
LaRue Planning & Management Services, Inc
1375 Jackson Street, Suite 206, Ft. Myers, Fl 33901
239 - 334 -3366 bill @larueplanning.com
Please also send copies of any correspondence or other materials relating to this amendment to the City
Administrator:
Brian Whitehall, City Administrator
City Hall
55 SE 3rd Avenue
Okeechobee, Florida 34974
The Plan Amendment package and the Objections, Recommendations, and Comments (ORC) Report will
be made available for public inspection during normal business hours at the following location:
City of Okeechobee
City Clerk's Office
55 SE 3rd Avenue
Okeechobee, Florida 34974,
Should you have any questions or require additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me at
239 -334 -3366.
Sincerely,
James G. LaRue, AICP
Planning Consultant
Serving, Mort( 0 Local t;,»ernnnc +us since 19t1
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Melisa Jahner
From: Melisa Jahner <mjahner @cityofokeechobee.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 3:03 PM
To: Bill Brisson
Cc: Lane Gamiotea
Subject: Ord 1099 for transmittal
Hi Bill,
I have attached the POP's and Ord 1099 for your records. You should already have the PB June 20 minutes. I will not be
in the office Thursday or Friday. Lane will be here to assist you.
ord 1099.pdf POP- PB JUNE 20 EAR - ICE.pdf
EAR - ICE.pdf
Melisa Jahner, CMC
Deputy Clerk
City of Okeechobee
55 SE 3rd Avenue
Okeechobee, FL 34974
863 - 763 -3372 ext. 215
863 - 763 -1686 (fax)
Notice: Any Electronic Data Sent Or Received through This E -Mail Address is Public Record and Governed By: the State
of Florida, Public Records Law.
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VIII. PUBLIC HEARING FOR ORDINANCE ADOPTION CONTINUED.
B. 1. a) Public comments and discussion continued.
b) Vote on motion.
C. 1. a) Motion to read by title only, proposed Ordinance No. 1099,
Comprehensive Plan EAR Amendments Future Land Use and
intergovernmental Coordination Elements - City Planning
Consultant (Exhibit 3).
b) Vote on motion to read by title only.
c) City Attorney to read proposed Ordinance No. 1099 by title only.
2. a) Motion to approve the first reading for Transmittal to the State Land
Planning Agency send for transmittal, proposed Ordinance No.
1099.
b) Public comments and discussion.
JULY 16, 2013 - REGULAR MEETING - PAGE 7 OF 16 87
COUNCIL ACTION - DISCUSSION - VOTE
The floor was opened for public comments and discussion. There were none, as this item is for the same area
discussed on the previous issue. The Council had no additional comments.
VOTE
KIRK - ABSENT MAXWELL -YEA O'CONNOR - YEA
WATFORD - YEA WILLIAMS - YEA MOTION CARRIED.
Council Member O'Connor moved to read by title only, proposed Ordinance No. 1099, regarding Comprehensive Plan
Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR) based Amendments to the Future Land Use and Intergovernmental
Coordination Elements; seconded by Council Member Williams.
VOTE
KIRK - ABSENT MAXWELL - YEA O'CONNOR - YEA
WATFORD - YEA WILLIAMS - YEA MOTION CARRIED.
Attomey Cook read proposed Ordinance No. 1099 by title only as follows: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF
OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA AMENDING THE CITY'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN; PROVIDING FOR A NEW
OBJECTIVE AND A NEW POLICY TO THE FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT ADDRESSING COMPATIBILITY OF
LAND USES LOCATED NEAR OR WITHIN CERTAIN DISTANCES OF AIRPORT RUNWAYS; PROVIDING FOR
INCORPORATING A NEW POLICY TO THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION ELEMENT WHICH
PROVIDES FOR THE APPOINTMENT OKEECHOBEE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD TO SIT, UNDER CERTAIN
CIRCUMSTANCES, AS A NONVOTING MEMBER OF THE LOCAL PLANNING AGENCY (LPA); PROVIDING FOR
FINDINGS OF FACT; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE."
Council Member Williams moved to approve the first reading for Transmittal to the State Land Planning Agency,
proposed Ordinance No. 1099; seconded by Council Member O'Connor.
Mayor Pro -Tem Watford opened the floor to Senior Planner, Bill Brisson to present the Planning Staff Report. Two
areas identified in the Comprehensive Plan EAR is that the Plan does not address current legislation requirements
for compatibility of and uses located near or within certain distance of airport runways, nor does it provide for the
appointment of a representative from the school board to sit as a non - voting member of the Local Planning Agency
when Comprehensive or Zoning amendments that would increase residential density are considered.
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AGENDA
VIII. PUBLIC HEARING FOR ORDINANCE ADOPTION CONTINUED.
C. 2. b) Public comments and discussion continued for proposed Ordinance
No. 1099, Comprehensive Plan EAR Amendments to the Future
Land Use and Intergovernmental Coordination Elements.
c) Vote on motion.
CLOSE PUBLIC HEARING - Mayor Pro•Tempore,
IX. NEW BUSINESS.
A. 1. a) Motion to read by title only, and set August 20, 2013, as a final
public hearing date for proposed Ordinance No. 1100, City of
Okeechobee and Okeechobee Utility Authority Employees'
Retirement System Internal Revenue Code Amendments - Attorney
Lee Dehner, Christiansen & Dehner, PA (Exhibit 4).
b) Vote on motion to read by title only and set final public hearing date.
JULY 16, 2013 - REGULAR MEETING • PAGE 8 OF 16
COUNCIL ACTION - DISCUSSION - VOTE
By adding a new objective and policy to the Future Land Use Element and a new policy to the Intergovernmental
Coordination Element, both areas will be adequately addressed. The Planning Board reviewed the proposed
amendments at their June 20, 2013, meeting and voted unanimously to recommend the Council adopt them as
presented,
Mayor Pro -Tem Watford asked whether there were any questions or comments from the public. There were none. He
then opened the discussion for the Council. Questions related to how this could impact Indian River State College
potential campus expansion could not be answered as their property is outside the City Limits and would require the
County to resolve those issues. It was darified that residences can be built within the runway protection zone. The
discussion then turned to the suggestion by Council Member Maxwell for the amendment to not simply address the
minimum statutory requirements but include Staff from other agencies such as the Okeechobee Utility Authority, and
for attendance to all meetings, rather than limited by topic. He expressed concerns of communication between all the
local governmental agencies. It was explained the School Board, Okeechobee Utility Authority, and several State and
County agencies are suppose to send representatives to attend the City Technical Review Committee Meetings,
adding more appointments could make the situation more problematic since for some their attendance record is low
already. No changes were offered to the amendments.
VOTE
KIRK - ABSENT
WATFORD - YEA
MAXWELL - YEA
WILLIAM& -YEA
MAYOR PRO -TEM WATFORD CLOSED THE PUBLIC HEARING AT 7:40 P.M.
O'CONNOR - YEA
MOTION CARRIED.
Council Member O'Connor moved to read by title only, and set August 20, 2013, as a final public hearing date for
proposed Ordinance No. 1100, City of Okeechobee and Okeechobee Utility Authority Employees' Retirement System
Internal Revenue Code Amendments, seconded by Council Member Williams.
VOTE
KIRK - ABSENT
WATFORD - YEA
MAXWELL - YEA O'CONNOR - YEA
WILLIAMS • YEA MOTION CARRIED.
ORDINANCE NO. 1099
Exhibit 3
my 1• . 13
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA AMENDING THE
CITY'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN; PROVIDING FOR A NEW OBJECTIVE AND
A NEW POLICY TO THE FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT ADDRESSING
COMPATIBILITY OF LAND USES LOCATED NEAR OR WITHIN CERTAIN
DISTANCES OF AIRPORT RUNWAYS; PROVIDING FOR INCORPORATING A
NEW POLICY TO THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION ELEMENT
WHICH PROVIDES FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
OKEECHOBEE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD TO SIT, UNDER CERTAIN
CIRCUMSTANCES, AS A NONVOTING MEMBER OF THE LOCAL PLANNING
AGENCY (LPA); PROVIDING FOR FINDINGS OF FACT; PROVIDING FOR
SEVERABILITY; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Planning Act of 2011 requires that the City prepare and transmit
an amendment addressing items identified in the Evaluation and Appraisal Notification
Letter within 12 months of submittal of the letter, said letter having been on September 1,
2012; and
WHEREAS, Staff has prepared proposed amendments addressing items so identified in its
Evaluation and Appraisal Letter; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Board, acting as the Local Planning Agency of the City of Okeechobee,
Florida, recently reviewed the proposed amendments; has discussed same at a duly
advertised public hearing on June 20, 2013, and recommends the City Council transmit the
proposed amendments to the State Land Planning Agency for review and approval, and
subsequent adoption by ordinance by the City Council; and
WHEREAS, in order to effectively address these recommendations in an orderly manner with the
intent of including all recommendations in a single ordinance, which will save the City and
its citizens costs and time, this ordinance is a compilation of many amendments, which
when adopted, will amend each of the cited code sections upon its effective date.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council for the City of Okeechobee, Florida;
presented at a duly advertised public meeting; and passed by majority vote of the City
Council; and properly executed by the Mayor or designee, as Chief Presiding Officer for the
City, that:
SECTION 1. The City Council for the City of Okeechobee, Florida amends herein the Future Land
Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan by adding Objective 13 and Policy 13.1,
to read as follows:
Objective 13 The City of Okeechobee recognizes that under certain conditions some uses
of land are not compatible in proximity to public use airports and must be
regulated to reduce or eliminate potential hazards to health or safety.
Policy 13.1 The City of Okeechobee shall adopt airport zoning regulations that:
a. prohibit residential construction and educational facilities in the City to be
located within 2,500 feet of a runway at the Okeechobee County Airport.
b. are consistent with the requirements of Sec. 333.03(1)(c) F.S.
c. prohibit the location of any sanitary landfill that is:
1) within 10,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used or planned
to be used by turbojet or turboprop aircraft;
Language to be added is underlined
Ordinance No. 1097 Page 1 of 2 Language to be deleted is straelrthrough
2) within 5,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used only by
piston -type aircraft;
3) outside the perimeters defined in subparagraphs 1. and 2., but still
within the lateral limits of the civil airport imaginary surfaces defined in
14 C.F.R. part 77.25.
d. require notification of the FAA when a structure located within three statute
miles of the Airport Reference Point and will be higher than the distance
from the end of the runway divided by 100 feet.
e. prohibit, in the interest of air safety and commerce, temporary or permanent
structures that do not comply with Federal Aviation Administration rules or
regulations.
SECTION 2. That the City Council for the City of Okeechobee, Florida amends herein the
Intergovernmental Coordination Element of the Comprehensive Plan by adding
Policy 5.5, to read as follows, and renumber existing Policy 5.5 through 5.8 to be 5.6
to 5.9:
Policy 5.5 The City of Okeechobee shall include a representative of the Okeechobee County
School District, appointed by the School Board, as a non - voting member of the Local
Planning Agency (LPA) to attend those meetings at which the LPA considers
amendments to the City's Comprehensive Plan and /or Zoning Map that would, if
approved, increase residential density on the property that is the subject of the
proposed amendment(s).
SECTION 3. Conflict. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed.
SECTION 4. Severability. If any provision or portion of this ordinance is declared by any court of
competent jurisdiction to be void, unconstitutional, or unenforceable, then all
remaining provisions and portions of this ordinance shall remain in full force and
effect.
SECTION 5. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall take effect pursuant to the State Land Planning
Agency's Notice of Intent if in compliance and no challenge is filed by an affected
party when the Notice of Intent is posted to the State Land Planning Agency's web
site.
INTRODUCED for First Reading held at a duly advertised Transmittal Public Hearing on this 16th
day of July, 2013.
Dowling R. Watford, Jr., Mayor Pro - Tempore
ATTEST:
Lane Gamiotea, CMC, City Clerk
PASSED AND ADOPTED after Second and Final Public Hearing this day of
2013.
ATTEST:
Lane Gamiotea, CMC, City Clerk
REVIEWED FOR LEGAL SUFFICIENCY:
John R. Cook, City Attorney
James E. Kirk, Mayor
Language to be added is underlined
Ordinance No. 1097 Page 2 of 2 Language to be deleted is
P Planning
Management Services, Inc.
Memorandum
To: Members of the Planning Board
From: Bill Brisson
Date: May 28, 2013
Subject: Materials for Public Hearing on Evaluation & Appraisal Based Amendment
Last September we conducted an Evaluation and Appraisal of the City's Comprehensive Plan
as it relates to meeting changes in State Legislation. At that time, we identified two areas where
the Plan does not address requirements of the current legislation, and so notified the State.
These include the need for:
1. a new Objective and Policy in the Future Land Use Element addressing
compatibility of land uses located near or within certain distance of airport
runways, and
2. a new policy in the Intergovernmental Coordination Element providing for
the appointment of a representative of the school board to sit as a
nonvoting member of the LPA when it is considering amendments to the
Comprehensive Plan or Zoning that would result in increases in residential
density.
The Comprehensive Planning Act of 2011 requires that the City prepare and transmit an
amendment addressing items identified in the Evaluation and Appraisal Notification Letter within
12 months of submittal of the letter, which was required to be submitted by September 1, 2012.
This is referred to as an "Evaluation and Appraisal -Based Amendment."
The Planning Board, sitting at the Local Planning Agency (LPA) must hold a transmittal public
hearing on the proposed amendment and forward its recommendation(s) to the City
Commission. This public hearing has been scheduled for June 20, 2013.
The attached materials explain the basis for the proposed changes and include the recom-
mended text changes to the Future Land Use and Intergovernmental Coordination Elements of
the Comprehensive Plan associated with the aforementioned items.
look forward to discussing these issues with you. In the meantime, should you have any
questions, please contact me.
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Exhibit 1
FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT (FLUE)
Review of the City's Comprehensive Plan during its Evaluation and Appraisal indicated that the
Plan did not include an Objective or Policy addressing requirement of §163,3177(6)(a)3.b
intended to achieve the compatibility of lands adjacent to an airport.
The Okeechobee County Airport is located outside of, but close to, the municipal limits of the
City of Okeechobee, and therefore the City's Comprehensive Plan is required to address the
compatibility of land use proximate to the airport.
DATA AND ANALYSIS:
A. Title XXV — Aviation, Chapter 333 — Airport Zoning
Following are the sections of the State Legislation referred to in §163,3177(6)(a)3.b
relating to the requirement for compatibility of lands adjacent to an airport. Pertinent
sections, which have been addressed in this Amendment, are highlighted.
"333.02 Airport hazards and uses of land in airport vicinities contrary to public interest.
(1) It is hereby found that an airport hazard endangers the lives and property of users of the
airport and of occupants of land in its vicinity and also, if of the obstruction type, in effect reduces
the size of the area available for the taking off, maneuvering, or landing of aircraft, thus tending to
destroy or impair the utility of the airport and the public investment therein. It is further found that
certain activities and uses of land in the immediate vicinity of airports as enumerated in s. 333.03(2)
are not compatible with normal airport operations, and may, if not regulated, also endanger the lives
of the participants, adversely affect their health, or otherwise limit the accomplishment of normal
activities. Accordingly, it is hereby declared:
(a) That the creation or establishment of an airport hazard and the incompatible use of land
in airport vicinities are public nuisances and injure the community served by the airport in
question;
(b) That it is therefore necessary in the interest of the public health, public safety, and
general welfare that the creation or establishment of airport hazards and incompatible land
uses be prevented; and
(c) That this should be accomplished, to the extent legally possible, by the exercise of the
police power, without compensation.
(2) R is further declared that the limitation of land uses incompatible with normal airport
operations, the prevention of the creation or establishment of airport hazards, and the elimination,
removal, alteration, mitigation, or marking and lighting of existing airport hazards are public
purposes for which political subdivisions may raise and expend public funds and acquire land or
property interests therein, or air rights thereover.
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"333.03 Power to adopt airport zoning regulations.—
(1) (a) In order to prevent the creation or establishment of airport hazards, every political
subdivision having an airport hazard area within its territorial limits shall, by October 1, 1977,
adopt, administer, and enforce, under the police power and in the manner and upon the
conditions hereinafter prescribed, airport zoning regulations for such airport hazard area.
(b) Where an airport is owned or controlled by a political subdivision and any airport hazard
area appertaining to such airport is located wholly or partly outside the territorial limits of said
political subdivision, the political subdivision owning or controlling the airport and the political
subdivision within which the airport hazard area is located, shall either:
1. By interlocal agreement, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 163, adopt,
administer, and enforce airport zoning regulations applicable to the airport hazard area in
question; or
2. By ordinance or resolution duly adopted, create a joint airport zoning board, which
board shall have the same power to adopt, administer, and enforce airport zoning
regulations applicable to the airport hazard area in question as that vested in
paragraph (a) in the political subdivision within which such area is located. Each such
joint board shall have as members two representatives appointed by each political
subdivision participating in its creation and in addition a chair elected by a majority of
the members so appointed. However, the airport manager or managers of the
affected political subdivisions shall serve on the board in a nonvoting capacity.
(c) Airport zoning regulations adopted under paragraph (a) shall, as a minimum, require:
1. A variance for the erection, alteration, or modification of any structure which would
cause the structure to exceed the federal obstruction standards as contained in 14 C.F.R.
ss. 77.21, 77.23, 77.25, 77.28, and 77.29:
2. Obstruction marking and lighting for structures as specified in s. 333.07(3);
3. Documentation showing compliance with the federal requirement for notification of
proposed construction and a valid aeronautical evaluation submitted by each person
applying for a variance;
4. Consideration of the criteria in s. 333.025(6), when determining whether to issue or
deny a variance; and
5. That no variance shall be approved solely on the basis that such proposed structure
will not exceed federal obstruction standards as contained in 14 C.F.R. ss. 77.21, 77.23,
77.25, 77.28, or 77.29, or any other federal aviation regulation.
(d) The department shall issue copies of the federal obstruction standards as contained in
14 C.F.R. ss. 77.21, 77.23, 77.25, 77.28, and 77.29 to each political subdivision having
airport hazard areas and, in cooperation with political subdivisions, shall issue appropriate
airport zoning maps depicting within each county the maximum allowable height of any
structure or tree. Material distributed pursuant to this subsection shall be at no cost to
authorized recipients.
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(2) In the manner provided in subsection (1), interim airport and use compatibility zoning
regulations shall be adopted. When political subdivisions have adopted land development
regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 163 which address the use of land in
the manner consistent with the provisions herein, adoption of airport land use compatibility
regulations pursuant to this subsection shall not be required. Interim airport and use
compatibility zoning regulations shall consider the following:
(3)
(a) Whether sanitary landfills are located within the following areas:
1. Within 10,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used or planned to be used
by turbojet or turboprop aircraft.
2. Within 5,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used only by piston -type
aircraft.
3. Outside the perimeters defined in subparagraphs 1. and 2., but still within the lateral
limits of the civil airport imaginary surfaces defined in 14 C.F.R. part 77.25. Case -by-
case review of such landfills is advised.
(b) Whether any landfill is located and constructed so that it attracts or sustains hazardous
bird movements from feeding, water, or roosting areas into, or across, the runways or
approach and departure patterns of aircraft. The political subdivision shall request from the
airport authority or other governing body operating the airport a report on such bird feeding or
roosting areas that at the time of the request are known to the airport. In preparing its report,
the authority, or other governing body, shall consider whether the landfill will incorporate bird
management techniques or other practices to minimize bird hazards to airborne aircraft. The
airport authority or other governing body shall respond to the political subdivision no later
than 30 days after receipt of such request.
(c) Where an airport authority or other governing body operating a publicly owned, public -
use airport has conducted a noise study in accordance with the provisions of 14 C.F.R. part
150, neither residential construction nor any educational facility as defined in chapter 1013,
with the exception of aviation school facilities, shall be permitted within the area contiguous to
the airport defined by an outer noise contour that is considered incompatible with that type of
construction by 14 C.F.R. part 150, Appendix A or an equivalent noise level as established by
other types of noise studies.
(d) Where an airport authority or other governing body operating a publicly owned, public -
use airport has not conducted a noise study, neither residential construction nor any educa-
tional facility as defined in chapter 1013, with the exception of aviation school facilities, shall
be permitted within an area contiguous to the airport measuring one -half the length of the
longest runway on either side of and at the end of each runway centerline.
In the manner provided in subsection (1), airport zoning regulations shall be adopted which
restrict new incompatible uses, activities, or construction within runway clear zones, including
uses, activities, or construction in runway clear zones which are incompatible with normal
airport operations or endanger public health, safety, and welfare by resulting in congregations
of people, emissions of light or smoke, or attraction of birds. Such regulations shall prohibit
the construction of an educational facility of a public or private school at either end of a
runway of a publicly owned, public -use airport within an area which extends 5 miles in a
direct line along the centerline of the runway, and which has a width measuring one -half the
length of the runway. Exceptions approving construction of an educational facility within the
delineated area shall only be granted when the political subdivision administering the zoning
regulations makes specific findings detailing how the public policy reasons for allowing the
construction outweigh health and safety concerns prohibiting such a location.
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(4) The procedures outlined in subsections (1), (2), and (3) for the adoption of such regulations
are supplemental to any existing procedures utilized by political subdivisions in the adoption
of such regulations.
(5)
The Department of Transportation shall provide technical assistance to any political
subdivision requesting assistance in the preparation of an airport zoning code. A copy of all
local airport zoning codes, rules, and regulations, and amendments and proposed and
granted variances thereto, shall be filed with the department.
(6) Nothing in subsection (2) or subsection (3) shall be construed to require the removal,
alteration, sound conditioning, or other change, or to interfere with the continued use or
adjacent expansion of any educational structure or site in existence on July 1, 1993, or be
construed to prohibit the construction of any new structure for which a site has been
determined as provided in formers. 235.19, as of July 1, 1993."
History. —s. 3, ch. 23079, 1945; s. 4, ch. 75 -16; s. 4, ch. 88 -356; s. 72, ch. 90 -136; s. 8, ch. 92 -152; s. 10,
ch. 93 -164; s. 1, ch. 94 -201; s. 958, ch. 95 -148; s. 971, ch. 2002 -387.
B. Location of Okeechobee County Airport in relation to City of Okeechobee
The Runway Protection Zone (RPZ) extends outward for a distance of 1,200 feet from the
end of Runway 32. Consequently no property within the City of Okeechobee falls within
the RPZ and no special standards or limitations are needed.
No "Part 150 Noise Study" has been conducted for the Okeechobee County Airport.
Therefore, the aerial photograph on the following page identifies the location of the
Okeechobee County Airport, the Okeechobee City limits and the 2,500 foot radius within
which residential and school facilities are prohibited. This represents the radius based on
one -half the length of the longest runway of the airport as set forth in Sec. 333.03(2)(d),
above.
For tall structures, the "Airport Notification Area" extends three statute miles out from the
Airport Reference Point. Construction proposed within this distance must notify the FAA
and file a notice of Proposed Construction or Alteration (Form 7460 -1) if the proposed
height of the structure exceeds 200 feet or if the height of the structure is greater than its
distance from the end of the runway divided by 100. For example, if the structure is
located 4,500 feet from the end of the runway, the developer must notify the FAA if the
height of the building exceeds 45 feet.
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Areas Subject to Sec. 333.03(2)(d) FS
RECOMMENDATIONS:
The City proposes to amend the Future Land Use Element to add a new Objective 13 and
associated Policy 13.1 as set forth on the following page.
Objective 13:
Evaluation and Appraisal -Based Amendment, 2013
FLUE page 1 -16
The City of Okeechobee recognizes that under certain conditions some
uses of land are not compatible in proximity to public use airports and
must be regulated to reduce or eliminate potential hazards to health or
safety.
Policy 13.1 The City of Okeechobee shall adopt airport zoning regulations that:
a) prohibit residential construction and educational facilities in the City
to be located within 2,500 feet of a runway at the Okeechobee
County Airport.
b) are consistent with the requirements of Sec. 333.03(1)(c) F.S.
0 prohibit the location of any sanitary landfill that is;
1. within 10,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used or
planned to be used by turbojet or turboprop aircraft;.
2. within 5,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used
only by piston -type aircraft;
3. outside the perimeters defined in subparagraphs 1. and 2., but
still within the lateral limits of the civil airport imaginary
surfaces defined in 14 C.F.R. part 77.25.
fl require notification of the FAA when a structure located within three
statute miles of the Airport Reference Point and will be higher than
the distance from the end of the runway divided by 100 feet.
0 prohibit, in the interest of air safety and commerce, temporary or
permanent structures that do not comply with Federal Aviation
Administration rules or regulations.
City of Okeechobee Comprehensive Plan
Future Land Use Element
Amended: October 18, 2011
7
Exhibit 2
INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION ELEMENT (ICE)
DATA AND ANALYSIS:
Review of the City's Comprehensive Plan during its Evaluation and Appraisal indicated that the
Plan did not include a policy in the ICE that addressed the requirement under § 163,3174(1) to
include a representative of the school district appointed by the school board as a nonvoting
member of the local planning agency (LPA) to attend those meetings at which the LPA considers
comprehensive plan amendments and rezoning that increase residential density.
This deficiency was noted in the City's Evaluation Notification Letter to the Department of
Economic Opportunity on August 29, 2012.
RECOMMENDATION:
The City proposes to include a new Policy 5.5 and to renumber the subsequent existing policies
as appropriate, all as set forth on the following pages:
8
Policy 4.3:
Objective 5:
Evaluation and Appraisal -Based Amendment, 2013
ICE 7 -4
The City shall continue to coordinate its Comprehensive Plan with the
Resource Management Plan to address drainage problems in the Lower
Kissimmee River and Taylor Creek Drainage Basin regions.
The City of Okeechobee shall cooperate in an effort with the School Board
to ensure that the planning activities, services and facilities of the School
Board - are - consistent -with tl,e City's Comprehensive Plan.
Policy 5.1: The City of Okeechobee shall exchange data with the School Board
regarding population projections and the School Board (5 -year) facility
plans as such data or plans are updated.
Policy 5.2: The City of Okeechobee shall coordinate major residential project reviews
(pursuant to Chapters 163 and 235, F lorida Statutes) to consider joint
park/schools dedications to meet future demands.
Policy 5.3: The City of Okeechobee and the School Board shall coordinate in their
joint efforts to study and implement innovative methods, including
park/school site dedications and contributions, as a means to address
infrastructure needs associated with the City's growth.
Policy 5.4:
Policy 5.5
Policy 53 5_6:
The City of Okeechobee shall notify the School Board of all new
residential development projects or modifications to existing residential
developments which increase density as a p art of the review process for
school concurrency.
The City of Okeechobee shall include a representative of the Okeechobee
County School District, appointed by the School Board, as a nonvoting
member of the Local Planning Agency (LPA) to attend those meetings at
which the LPA considers amendments to the City's Comprehensive Plan
and /or Zoning Map that would, if approved, increase residential density on
the property that is the subject of the proposed amendment(s).
The City of Okeechobee shall maintain a joint interlocal agreements with
the School Board and the County for Public School Facility Planning
which includes the provisions for the implementation of school
concurrency and a coordination process for locating new schools,
expanding or redeveloping existing school facilities. The School Board
shall be encouraged to locate new educational facilities near urban
residential areas where public infrastructure and services exist to support
the new facilities.
City of Okeechobee Comprehensive Plan
Intergovernmental Coordination Element
Amended: October 18, 2011
9
Policy 51-6 5_7:
Policy 5--7 5_8:
Policy 578 5_9:
Evaluation and Appraisal -Based Amendment, 2013
ICE 7 -5
The City of Okeechobee shall advise and meet with the School Board as
necessary, regarding all Plan amendments and proposed annexations that
may affect school sites.
The City of Okeechobee shall coordinate with the School Board regarding
shared use of recreational facilities owned by either entity. In addition, the
City shall consider all reasonable opportunities to collocate new parks,
libraries, and other facilities with public schools.
The City of Okeechobee, although not currently impacted, shall enter into
any appropriate agreement with the State of Florida University System or
the School Board implementing the requirements of Section 240.155 (11-
15), F.S., regarding campus master plans. A consistency review of the
campus master plans for non -state post- secondary institutions shall also be
considered where a "campus" exists or is planned.
City of Okeechobee Comprehensive Plan
Intergovernmental Coordination Element
Amended: October 18, 2011
10
AGENDA
V. OPEN PUBLIC HEARING - Chairperson.
A. Consider a Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Element (FLUE)
Text Amendment to address compatibility of land uses located near
or within certain distance of airport runways - Senior Planner (Exhibit
1, Page 2 through Page 7).
1. Hear from Planning Staff.
2. Public comments or questions from those in attendance, or
submitted to the Board Secretary.
3. Disclosure of Ex -Parte communications by the Board.
4. a) Consideration of a motion to recommend the City Council
approve or deny the FLUE Text Amendment to address
compatibility of land uses located near airports.
JUNE 20, 2013 - PLANNING BOARD - PAGE 2 of 4
ACTION - DISCUSSION - VOTE
CHAIRPERSON HOOVER OPENED THE PUBLIC HEARING AT 6:01 P.M.
Consider a Comprehensive Plan FLUE Text Amendment to address compatibility of land uses located near or within
certain distance of airport runways.
Planner Brisson referenced his memorandum dated May 28 and explained that during the review of the Evaluation and
Appraisal Report, it was noted that the City's Comprehensive Plan did not include an Objective or Policy that addressed
the requirements of Florida Statute 163.3177(6)(a) regulating the compatibility of land uses located near or within a
certain distance of airport runways. He further explained, no property within the City falls within the Runway Protection
Zone, identified as the area extending 1,200 feet from the end of Okeechobee County's runway number 32. Since a "Part
150 Noise Study" has not been conducted for the County Airport, a 2,500 foot radius was identified prohibiting the
construction of homes or school facilities. In regards to tall structures, the "Airport Notification Area" extends three statute
miles out from the Airport Reference Point. Any construction proposed within this distance, must notify the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) and file a notice of Proposed Construction or Alteration, should the height of the structure
exceed 200 feet or be greater than its distance from the end of the runway divided by 100. Planner Brisson's
recommendation was to amend the FLUE by adding a new Objective 13 and associated Policy 13.1 as presented in
Exhibit 1.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether there were any comments or questions from those in attendance. Mrs.Tara Minton
Rowley, Executive Director for the Economic Council of Okeechobee, asked whether there was a definition of
educational facilities and whether this included ball fields? Planner Brisson responded he would have to defer to the
Florida Statute definition, and the ballfields could be included based on their association with schools.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether Board Members had ex -parte communications to disclose for the record. There was
none.
Board Member Brass made a motion seconded by Board Member McCreary to recommend the City Council amend the
Comprehensive Plan FLUE by adding Objective 13:The City of Okeechobee recognizes that under certain conditions
some uses of land are not compatible in proximity to public use airports and must be regulated to reduce or eliminate
potential hazards to health or safety. Policy 13.1: The City of Okeechobee shall adopt airport zoning regulations that:
a) Prohibit residential construction and educational facilities in the City to be located within 2,500 feet of a runway at
Okeechobee County Airport. b) Are consistent with the requirements of Section 333.03(1)(c) F.S. c) Prohibit the location
of any sanitary landfill that is: 1. within 10,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used or planned to be used by
turbojet or turboprop aircraft; 2. within 5,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used only by piston -type aircraft,
AGENDA
V. PUBLIC HEARING CONTINUED.
A. 4. a) Consideration of a motion to recommend the City Council
approve or deny the FLUE Text Amendment to address
compatibility of land uses located near airports continued.
b) Board discussion.
c) Vote on motion.
B. Consider a Comprehensive Plan Intergovernmental Coordination
Element (ICE) to provide for the appointment of a representative of the
School Board to sit as a non - voting member of the Local Planning
Agency when it is considering amendments to the Comprehensive
Plan or Zoning that would result in increases in residential density -
Senior Planner (Exhibit 2, Page 8 to Page 10).
1. Hear from Planning Staff.
2. Public comments or questions from those in attendance, or
submitted to the Board Secretary.
3. Disclosure of Ex -Parte communications by the Board.
JUNE 20, 2013 - PLANNING BOARD - PAGE 3 OF 4
ACTION - DISCUSSION • VOTE
3. outside the perimeters defined in subparagraphs 1. and 2., though still within the lateral limits of the civil airport
imaginary surfaces defined in 14 C.F.R. part 77.25. d) Require notification of the FAA when a structure located within
three statute miles of the Airport Reference Point and will be higher than the distance from the end of the runway
divided by 100 feet. e) Prohibit, in the interest of air safety and commerce, temporary or permanent structures that do
not comply with FAA rules or regulations.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether there was any further discussion. There was none.
VOTE
HOOVER -YEA BURROUGHS -ABSENT BAUGHMAN - YEA
McCoy -YEA RITTER -YEA CREASMAN • YEA
BRASS-YEA KELLER • YEA
MCCREARY - YEA MOTION CARRIED.
The recommendation will be forwarded to the City Council for consideration at a Public Hearing on a date to be
determined.
Consider a Comprehensive Plan ICE to provide for the appointment of a representative of the School Board to sit as
a non - voting member of the Local Planning Agency when it is considering amendments to the Comprehensive Plan
or Zoning that would result in increases in residential density.
Planner Brisson stated that again during the review of the Evaluation and Appraisal Report, it was noted that the City's
Comprehensive Plan did not include a Policy in the ICE that addressed the requirements under Florida Statute
163.3174(1) to include a representative from the school district to the Local Planning Agency.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether there were any comments or questions from those in attendance. Mrs. Rowley
asked whether there were similar allowances for Counties and Utilities. Planner Brisson responded no, that there are
no requirements to notify any other bodies.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether Board Members had ex -parte communications to disclose for the record. There
was none.
AGENDA
V. PUBLIC HEARING CONTINUED.
B. 4. a) Consideration of a motion to recommend the City Council
approve or deny the ICE Text Amendment to provide for the
appointment of a representative of the School Board to sit as
a non -voting member of the Local Planning Agency when it is
considering amendments to the Comprehensive Plan or
Zoning that would result in increases in residential density.
b) Board discussion.
c) Vote on motion.
CLOSE PUBLIC HEARING - Chairperson.
VI. NEW BUSINESS.
A. Consider any additional requests for amendments to the City's Land
Development Regulations - Chairperson.
VII. ADJOURNMENT - Chairperson.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE AND BE ADVISED that it any person desires to appeal any decision made by the Planning
Board/Board of Adjustment and Appeals with respect to any matter considered at this proceeding, such interested personwaal need
a record of the proceedings, and for such purpose may need to ensure a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, which record
includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based. General Services media are for the sole purpose of
backup for official records.
ATTEST: Dawn T. Hoover, Chairperson
Patty M. Bumette, Secretary
JUNE 20, 2013 • PLANNING BOARD - PAGE 4 of 4
ACTION - DISCUSSION • VOTE
Board Member Ritter moved to recommend the City Council amend the Comprehensive Plan ICE by changing the
language in Policy 5.5 to read: The City of Okeechobee shall include a representative of the Okeechobee School Board
District, appointed by the School Board, as a non- voting member of the Local Planning Agency (LPA) to attend those
meetings at which the LPA considers amendments to the City's Comprehensive Plan and/or Zoning Map that would,
if approved, increase residential density on the property that is the subject of the proposed amendment(s), and
renumber the existing Policy 5.5 to 5.6, then renumber remaining policies as appropriate; seconded by Board Member
McCoy.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether there was any further discussion. There was none.
VOTE
HOOVER • YEA
MCCOY- YEA
BURROUGHS -ABSENT BAUGHMAN•YEA BRASS YEA
RITTER -YEA CREASMAN•YEA MCCREARY - YEA
KELLER•YEA
MOTION CARRIED.
The recommendation will be forwarded to the City Council for consideration at a Public Hearing on a date to be
determined.
CHAIRPERSON HOOVER CLOSED THE PUBLIC HEARING AT 6:22 P.M.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether there were any requests for amendments to the Land Development Regulations.
There were none offered.
There being no further items on the agenda, Chairperson Hoover adjourned the meeting at 6:22 p.m.
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COUNTY OF OKEECHOBEE,
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of the Okeechobee News, a three times a week
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in the matter of
in the 19th Judicial District of the Circuit Court of
Okeechobee County, Florida, was published in said
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is a newspaper published at Okeechobee, in said
Okeechobee County, Florida, and that said newspaper
has heretofore been published continuously in said
Okeechobee County, Florida each week and has been
entered as second class mail matter at the post office in
Okeechobee, in said Okeechobee County, Florida, for a
period of one year next preceding the first publication
of the attached copy of advertisement, and affiant fur-
ther says that she has neither paid nor promised any
person, firm or corporation any discount, rebate, com-
mission or refund for the purpose of securing this
advertisement for publication in the said newspaper.
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(863) 76.33134
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE AMENDING
THE CITY OF OKEECHOBEE, FL
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
NOTICE: The City Council of the City of Okeechobee will conduct a Public Hearing on
Tbesday, July 16, 2013 at 6 PM or as soon thereafter as possible, at City Hall, 55 SE 3rd Ave,
Rm 200, Okeechobee, FL., to consider and receive input concerning identified Evaluation and
Appraisal Report amendments to the Future Land Use Element and the Intergovernmental
Coordination Element of the Comprehensive Plan as follows:
-Add a new Objective and Policy addressing compatibility of land uses located near or
within certain distances of airport runways as required by ES. 333.03(1)(c).
-Add a new Policy providing for the appointment of a representative from the Okeecho-
bee County School Board to sit, under certain circumstances, as a nonvoting member of
the Local Planning Agency
The proposed text amendments will be forwarded in transmittal form to the Florida De-
partment of Economic Opportunity.
The public and all interested parties are encouraged to appear and be heard and may sub-
mit written or oral comments before or at the Hearing. The proposed amendments may be
viewed on the City website or at the Office of the City Clerk, during normal business hours,
at the address above.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE AND BE ADVISED that no stenographic record by a certified
court reporter will be made of the foregoing meeting. Accordingly, any person who may seek
to appeal any decision involving the matters noticed herein will be responsible for making a
verbatim record of the testimony and evidence at said meeting upon which any appeal is to
be based. In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, persons requiring special
accommodations to participate in this proceeding because ofa disability or physical impair-
ment should contact the City Clerks Office at 863- 763- 3372ext 215 at least 48 hours prior to
the meeting.
Published By: Lane Gamiotea, CMC, City Clerk
AGENDA
V. OPEN PUBLIC HEARING - Chairperson.
A. Consider a Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Element (FLUE)
Text Amendment to address compatibility of and uses located near
or within certain distance of airport runways - Senior Planner (Exhibit
1, Page 2 through Page 7).
1. Hear from Planning Staff.
2. Public comments or questions from those in attendance, or
submitted to the Board Secretary.
3. Disclosure of Ex -Parte communications by the Board.
4. a) Consideration of a motion to recommend the City Council
approve or deny the FLUE Text Amendment to address
compatibility of land uses located near airports.
JUNE 20, 2013 • PLANNING BOARD - PAGE 2 of 4
ACTION • DISCUSSION • VOTE
CHAIRPERSON HOOVER OPENED THE PUBLIC HEARING AT 6:01 P.M.
Consider a Comprehensive Plan FLUE Text Amendment to address compatibility of land uses located near or within
certain distance of airport runways.
Planner Brisson referenced his memorandum dated May 28 and explained that during the review of the Evaluation and
Appraisal Report, it was noted that the City's Comprehensive Plan did not include an Objective or Policy that addressed
the requirements of Florida Statute 163.3177(6)(a) regulating the compatibility of land uses located near or within a
certain distance of airport runways. He further explained, no property within the City falls within the Runway Protection
Zone, identified as the area extending 1,200 feet from the end of Okeechobee County's runway number 32. Since a "Part
150 Noise Study" has not been conducted for the County Airport, a 2,500 foot radius was identified prohibiting the
construction of homes orschool facilities. In regards to tall structures, the "Airport Notification Area" extends three statute
miles out from the Airport Reference Point. Any construction proposed within this distance, must notify the Federal
Aviation Administration (FM) and file a notice of Proposed Construction or Alteration, should the height of the structure
exceed 200 feet or be greater than its distance from the end of the runway divided by 100. Planner Brisson's
recommendation was to amend the FLUE by adding a new Objective 13 and associated Policy 13.1 as presented in
Exhibit 1.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether there were any comments or questions from those in attendance. Mrs.Tara Minton
Rowley, Executive Director for the Economic Council of Okeechobee, asked whether there was a definition of
educational facilities and whether this included ball fields? Planner Brisson responded he would have to defer to the
Florida Statute definition, and the ballfields could be included based on their association with schools.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether Board Members had ex -parte communications to disclose for the record. There was
none.
Board Member Brass made a motion seconded by Board Member McCreary to recommend the City Council amend the
Comprehensive Plan FLUE by adding Objective 13:The City of Okeechobee recognizes that under certain conditions
some uses of land are not compatible in proximity to pubfrc use airports and must be regulated to reduce or eliminate
potential hazards to health or safety. Policy 13.1: The City of Okeechobee shall adopt airport zoning regulations that:
a) Prohibit residential construction and educational facilities in the City to be located within 2,500 feet of a runway at
Okeechobee County Airport. b) Are consistent with the requirements of Section 333.03(1)(c) F.S. c) Prohibit the location
of any sanitary landfill that is: 1. within 10,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used or planned to be used by
turbojet orturboprop aircraft; 2. within 5,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used only by piston -type aircraft,
JUNE 20, 2013 - PLANNING BOARD - PAGE 3 Of 4
AGENDA
ACTION - DISCUSSION • VOTE
V. PUBLIC HEARING CONTINUED.
A. 4. a) Consideration of a motion to recommend the City Council
approve or deny the FLUE Text Amendment to address
compatibility of and uses located near airports continued.
b) Board discussion.
c) Vote on motion.
B. Consider a Comprehensive Plan Intergovernmental Coordination
Element (ICE) to provide for the appointment of a representative of the
School Board to sit as a non -voting member of the Local Planning
Agency when it is considering amendments to the Comprehensive
Plan or Zoning that would result in increases in residential density
Senior Planner (Exhibit 2, Page 8 to Page 10).
1. Hear from Planning Staff.
2. Public comments or questions from those in attendance, or
submitted to the Board Secretary.
3. Disclosure of Ex -Parte communications by the Board.
3, outside the perimeters defined in subparagraphs 1, and 2., though stilt within the lateral limits of the civil airport
imaginary surfaces defined in 14 C.F. R. part 77.25. d) Require notification of the FAA when a structure located within
three statute miles of the Airport Reference Point and will be higher than the distance from the end of the runway
divided by 100 feet. e) Prohibit, in the interest of air safety and commerce, temporary or permanent structures that do
not comply with FAA rules or regulations.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether there was any further discussion. There was none.
VOTE
HOOVER -YEA
MCCoY -YEA
BURROUGHS -ABSENT BAUGHMAN•YEA BRASS -YEA
RITTER •YEA CREASMAN•YEA MCCREARY -YEA
KELLER - YEA
MOTION CARRIED,
The recommendation will be forwarded to the City Council for consideration at a Public Hearing on a date to be
determined.
Consider a Comprehensive Plan ICE to provide for the appointment of a representative of the School Board to sit as
a non- voting member of the Local Planning Agency when it is considering amendments to the Comprehensive Plan
or Zoning that would result in increases in residential density.
Planner Brisson stated that again during the review of the Evaluation and Appraisal Report, it was noted that the City's
Comprehensive Plan did not include a Policy in the ICE that addressed the requirements under Florida Statute
163.3174(1) to include a representative from the school district to the Local Planning Agency.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether there were any comments or questions from those in attendance. Mrs. Rowley
asked whether there were similar allowances for Counties and Utilities. Planner Brisson responded no, that there are
no requirements to notify any other bodies.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether Board Members had ex -parte communications to disclose for the record. There
was none.
JUNE 20, 2013 • PLANNING BOARD • PAGE 4 of 4
AGENDA
ACTION - DISCUSSION • VOTE
V. PUBLIC HEARING CONTINUED.
B. 4. a) Consideration of a motion to recommend the City Council
approve or deny the ICE Text Amendment to provide for the
appointment of a representative of the School Board to sit as
a non -voting member of the Local Planning Agency when it is
considering amendments to the Comprehensive Plan or
Zoning that would result in increases in residential density.
b) Board discussion.
c) Vote on motion.
CLOSE PUBLIC HEARING - Chairperson.
VI. NEW BUSINESS.
A. Consider any additional requests for amendments to the City's Land
Development Regulations • Chairperson.
VII. ADJOURNMENT • Chairperson.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE AND BE ADVISED that B any person desires to appeal any decision made by the Panning
Board/Board of Adjustment and Appeals with respect toanymatterconsideredatthisproceednp ,suchInterestedpersonwitneed
a record of the procwedings, and far such purpose may need tenure a verbatim record of the proceedings c made, which record
includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal Is to be based. General Services media are for the sole purpose of
backup for official records,
ATTEST: Dawn T. Hoover, Chairperson
Patty M. Bumette, Secretary
Board Member Ritter moved to recommend the City Council amend the Comprehensive Plan ICE by changing the
language in Policy 5.5 to read: The City of Okeechobee shall include a representative of the Okeechobee School Board
District, appointed by the School Board, as a non - voting member of the Local Planning Agency (LPA) to attend those
meetings at which the LPA considers amendments to the City's Comprehensive Plan and/or Zoning Map that would,
if approved, increase residential density on the property that is the subject of the proposed amendment(s), and
renumber the existing Policy 5.5 to 5.6, then renumber remaining policies as appropriate; seconded by Board Member
McCoy.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether there was any further discussion. There was none.
VOTE
HOOYER•YEA
McCoy- YEA
BURROUGHS -ABSENT BAUGHMAN -YEA BRASS• YEA KELLER -YEA
RITTER -YEA CREASMAN -YEA MCCREARY•YEA MOTION CARRIED.
The recommendation will be forwarded to the City Council for consideration at a Public Hearing on a date to be
determined.
CHAIRPERSON HOOVER CLOSED THE PUBLIC HEARING AT 612 P.M.
Chairperson Hoover asked whether there were any requests for amendments to the Land Development Regulations.
There were none offered.
There being no further items on the agenda, Chairperson Hoover adjourned the meeting at 6:22 p.m.
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OKEECHOBEE NEWS
107 S.W. 17th Street, Suite D, Okeechobee, FL 34974
STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF OKEECHOBEE
Before the undersigned authority personally
appeared Tom Byrd, who on oath says he is Publisher
of the Okeechobee News, a three times a week
Newspaper published at Okeechobee, in
Okeechobee County, Florida, that the attached copy of
advertisement being a _
in the matter of
in the 119th Judicial District of the Circuit Court of
Okeechobee County, Florida, was published in said
newspaper in the issues of
5 � '
Affiant further says that the said Okeechobee News
is a newspaper published at Okeechobee, in said
Okeechobee County, Florida, and that said newspaper
has heretofore been published continuously in said
Okeechobee County, Florida each week and has been
entered as second class mail matter at the post office in
Okeechobee, in said Okeechobee County, Florida, for a
period of one year next preceding the first publication
of the attached copy of advertisement, and affiant fur-
ther says that she has neither paid nor promised any
person, firm or corporation any discount, rebate, com-
mission or refund for the purpose of securing this
advertisement for publicatiion in the said newspaper.
Tom Byrd
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
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COMPREHENSIVE PLLANNTE AMENDMENT
NOTICE: The Clty of Okeechobee Planning Board will meet as the Local
Planning Agency on Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 6 PM or as soon there-
after as possible, at City Hall, 55 SE 3rd Ave, Rm 200, Okeechobee, FL., to
consider and receive input submitted by City Staff or citizens, concerning
Textual Amendments to the Comprehensive Plan Goals, Objectives and Pot-
ties for the Future Land Use Element and Intergovernmental Coordination
Element.
The text amendment cy the Future Element
esso� w cend pool dd �sl g co patibility of land uses located near
or within a certain distance of airport runways.
The text amendment to the Intergovernmental Coordination Element proposes
to add a new policy providing for the appointment of a representative from the
Okeechobee County School Board to sit as a nonvoting member of the Local
Planning Agency when it is considenng amendments to the Comprehensive
Plan or Zoning that would result in increases in residential density.
The amendments will be forwarded with a recommendation, to the City
Coundl for consideration and transmittal to the Florida Department of Eco -'
nomic Opportunity.
All interested parties are encouraged to attend. Please contact General Ser-
vices at 863-763 -3372, or website, cityofokeechobee.com, to obtain a copy
of the agenda. The proposed amendments may be reviewed on the City
website or at the Office of the City Clerk, during normal business hours, at
the address above.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE AND BE ADVISED that no stenographic record by a
certified court reporter will be made of the foregoing meeting. Accordingly,
any person who may seek to appeal any decision involving the matters no-
ticed herein will be responsible for making a verbatim record of the testimo-
ny and evidence at said meeting upon which any a al Is to be based. In
accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 persons
needing spedal accommodation to participate in this proceeding should con-
tact the General Services Office at 863- 763 -3372 for assistance.
BY: Brian Whitehall Zoning Administrator
444788 ON 6/2,12/2013
Planning
& Management Services, Inc.
Memorandum
To: Members of the Planning Board
From: Bill Brisson
Date: May 28, 2013
Subject: Materials for Public Hearing on Evaluation & Appraisal Based Amendment
Last September we conducted an Evaluation and Appraisal of the City's Comprehensive Plan
as it relates to meeting changes in State Legislation. At that time, we identified two areas where
the Plan does not address requirements of the current legislation, and so notified the State.
These are the need to include:
1. polici¢s in the Future Land Use Element addressing compatibility of land
uses located near or within certain distance of airport runways, and
2. , �� a policy in the Intergovernmental Coordination Element providing for the
appointment of a representative of the school board to sit as a nonvoting
member of the LPA when it is considering amendments to the Comprehen-
sive Plan or Zoning that would result in increases in residential density.
The Comprehensive Planning Act of 2011 requires that the City prepare and transmit an
amendment addressing items identified in the Evaluation and Appraisal Notification Letter within
12 months of submittal of the letter, which was required to be submitted by September 1, 2012.
This is referred to as an "Evaluation and Appraisal -Based Amendment."
The Planning Board, sitting at the Local Planning Agency (LPA) must hold a transmittal public
hearing on the proposed amendment and forward its recommendation(s) to the City
Commission. This public hearing has been scheduled for June 20, 2013.
The attached materials explain the basis for the proposed changes and include the recom-
mended text changes to the Future Land Use and Intergovernmental Coordination Elements of
the Comprehensive Plan associated with the aforementioned items.
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FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT (FLUE)
Review of the City's Comprehensive Plan during its Evaluation and Appraisal indicated that the
Plan did not include an Objective or Policy addressing requirement of §163,3177(6)(a)3.b
intended to achieve the compatibility of lands adjacent to an airport.
The Okeechobee County Airport is located outside of, but close to, the municipal limits of the
City of Okeechobee, and therefore the City's Comprehensive Plan is required to address the
compatibility of land use proximate to the airport.
DATA AND ANALYSIS:
A. Title XXV — Aviation, Chapter 333 — Airport Zoning
Following are the sections of the State Legislation referred to in § 163,3177(6)(a)3.b
relating to the requirement for compatibility of lands adjacent to an airport. Pertinent
sections, which have been addressed in this Amendment, are highlighted.
"333.02 Airport hazards and uses of land in airport vicinities contrary to public interest.
(1) It is hereby found that an airport hazard endangers the lives and property of users of the
airport and of occupants of land in its vicinity and also, if of the obstruction type, in effect reduces
the size of the area available for the taking off, maneuvering, or landing of aircraft, thus tending to
destroy or impair the utility of the airport and the public investment therein. It is further found that
certain activities and uses of land in the immediate vicinity of airports as enumerated in s. 333.03(2)
are not compatible with normal airport operations, and may, if not regulated, also endanger the lives
of the participants, adversely affect their health, or otherwise limit the accomplishment of normal
activities. Accordingly, it is hereby declared:
(a) That the creation or establishment of an airport hazard and the incompatible use of land
in airport vicinities are public nuisances and injure the community served by the airport in
question;
(b) That it is therefore necessary in the interest of the public health, public safety, and
general welfare that the creation or establishment of airport hazards and incompatible land
uses be prevented; and
(c) That this should be accomplished, to the extent legally possible, by the exercise of the
police power, without compensation.
(2) It is further declared that the limitation of land uses incompatible with normal airport
operations, the prevention of the creation or establishment of airport hazards, and the elimination,
removal, alteration, mitigation, or marking and lighting of existing airport hazards are public
purposes for which political subdivisions may raise and expend public funds and acquire land or
property interests therein, or air rights thereover.
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"333.03 Power to adopt airport zoning regulations.—
(1) (a) In order to prevent the creation or establishment of airport hazards, every political
subdivision having an airport hazard area within its territorial limits shall, by October 1, 1977,
adopt, administer, and enforce, under the police power and in the manner and upon the
conditions hereinafter prescribed, airport zoning regulations for such airport hazard area.
(b) Where an airport is owned or controlled by a political subdivision and any airport hazard
area appertaining to such airport is located wholly or partly outside the territorial limits of said
political subdivision, the political subdivision owning or controlling the airport and the political
subdivision within which the airport hazard area is located, shall either:
1. By interlocal agreement, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 163, adopt,
administer, and enforce airport zoning regulations applicable to the airport hazard area in
question; or
2. By ordinance or resolution duly adopted, create a joint airport zoning board, which
board shall have the same power to adopt, administer, and enforce airport zoning
regulations applicable to the airport hazard area in question as that vested in
paragraph (a) in the political subdivision within which such area is located. Each such
joint board shall have as members two representatives appointed by each political
subdivision participating in its creation and in addition a chair elected by a majority of
the members so appointed. However, the airport manager or managers of the
affected political subdivisions shall serve on the board in a nonvoting capacity.
(c) Airport zoning regulations adopted under paragraph (a) shall, as a minimum, require:
1. A variance for the erection, alteration, or modification of any structure which would
cause the structure to exceed the federal obstruction standards as contained in 14 C.F.R.
ss. 77.21, 77.23, 77.25, 77.28, and 77.29;
2. Obstruction marking and lighting for structures as specified in s. 333.07(3);
3. Documentation showing compliance with the federal requirement for notification of
proposed construction and a valid aeronautical evaluation submitted by each person
applying for a variance;
4. Consideration of the criteria in s. 333.025(6), when determining whether to issue or
deny a variance; and
5. That no variance shall be approved solely on the basis that such proposed structure
will not exceed federal obstruction standards as contained in 14 C.F.R. ss. 77.21, 77.23,
77.25, 77.28, or 77.29, or any other federal aviation regulation.
(d) The department shall issue copies of the federal obstruction standards as contained in
14 C.F.R. ss. 77.21, 77.23 77.25, 77.28 and 77.29 to each political subdivision having
airport hazard areas and, in cooperation with political subdivisions, shall issue appropriate
airport zoning maps depicting within each county the maximum allowable height of any
structure or tree. Material distributed pursuant to this subsection shall be at no cost to
authorized recipients.
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(2) In the manner provided in subsection (1), interim airport land use compatibility zoning
regulations shall be adopted. When political subdivisions have adopted land development
regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 163 which address the use of land in
the manner consistent with the provisions herein, adoption of airport land use compatibility
regulations pursuant to this subsection shall not be required. Interim airport land use
compatibility zoning regulations shall consider the following:
(3)
(a) Whether sanitary landfills are located within the following areas:
1. Within 10,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used or planned to be used
by turbojet or turboprop aircraft.
2. Within 5,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used only by piston -type
aircraft.
3. Outside the perimeters defined in subparagraphs 1. and 2., but still within the lateral
limits of the civil airport imaginary surfaces defined in 14 C.F.R. part 77.25. Case -by-
case review of such landfills is advised.
(b) Whether any landfill is located and constructed so that it attracts or sustains hazardous
bird movements from feeding, water, or roosting areas into, or across, the runways or
approach and departure patterns of aircraft. The political subdivision shall request from the
airport authority or other governing body operating the airport a report on such bird feeding or
roosting areas that at the time of the request are known to the airport. In preparing its report,
the authority, or other governing body, shall consider whether the landfill will incorporate bird
management techniques or other practices to minimize bird hazards to airborne aircraft. The
airport authority or other governing body shall respond to the political subdivision no later
than 30 days after receipt of such request.
(c) Where an airport authority or other governing body operating a publicly owned, public -
use airport has conducted a noise study in accordance with the provisions of 14 C.F.R. part
150, neither residential construction nor any educational facility as defined in chapter 1013,
with the exception of aviation school facilities, shall be permitted within the area contiguous to
the airport defined by an outer noise contour that is considered incompatible with that type of
construction by 14 C.F.R. part 150, Appendix A or an equivalent noise level as established by
other types of noise studies.
(d) Where an airport authority or other governing body operating a publicly owned, public -
use airport has not conducted a noise study, neither residential construction nor any educa-
tional facility as defined in chapter 1013, with the exception of aviation school facilities, shall
be permitted within an area contiguous to the airport measuring one -half the length of the
longest runway on either side of and at the end of each runway centerline.
In the manner provided in subsection (1), airport zoning regulations shall be adopted which
restrict new incompatible uses, activities, or construction within runway clear zones, including
uses, activities, or construction in runway clear zones which are incompatible with normal
airport operations or endanger public health, safety, and welfare by resulting in congregations
of people, emissions of Tight or smoke, or attraction of birds. Such regulations shall prohibit
the construction of an educational facility of a public or private school at either end of a
runway of a publicly owned, public -use airport within an area which extends 5 miles in a
direct line along the centerline of the runway, and which has a width measuring one -half the
length of the runway. Exceptions approving construction of an educational facility within the
delineated area shall only be granted when the political subdivision administering the zoning
regulations makes specific findings detailing how the public policy reasons for allowing the
construction outweigh health and safety concerns prohibiting such a location.
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(4) The procedures outlined in subsections (1), (2), and (3) for the adoption of such regulations
are supplemental to any existing procedures utilized by political subdivisions in the adoption
of such regulations.
(5)
The Department of Transportation shall provide technical assistance to any political
subdivision requesting assistance in the preparation of an airport zoning code. A copy of all
local airport zoning codes, rules, and regulations, and amendments and proposed and
granted variances thereto, shall be filed with the department.
(6) Nothing in subsection (2) or subsection (3) shall be construed to require the removal,
alteration, sound conditioning, or other change, or to interfere with the continued use or
adjacent expansion of any educational structure or site in existence on July 1, 1993, or be
construed to prohibit the construction of any new structure for which a site has been
determined as provided in formers. 235.19, as of July 1, 1993."
History. —s. 3, ch. 23079, 1945; s. 4, ch. 75 -16; s. 4, ch. 88 -356; s. 72, ch. 90 -136; s. 8, ch. 92 -152; s. 10,
ch. 93 -164; s. 1, ch. 94 -201; s. 958, ch. 95 -148; s. 971, ch. 2002 -387.
B. Location of Okeechobee County Airport in relation to City of Okeechobee
The Runway Protection Zone (RPZ) extends outward for a distance of 1,200 feet from the
end of Runway 32. Consequently no property within the City of Okeechobee falls within
the RPZ and no special standards or limitations are needed.
No "Part 150 Noise Study" has been conducted for the Okeechobee County Airport.
Therefore, the aerial photograph on the following page identifies the location of the
Okeechobee County Airport, the Okeechobee City limits and the 2,500 foot radius within
which residential and school facilities are prohibited. This represents the radius based on
one -half the length of the longest runway of the airport as set forth in Sec. 333.03(2)(d),
above.
For tall structures, the "Airport Notification Area" extends three statute miles out from the
Airport Reference Point. Construction proposed within this distance must notify the FAA
and file a notice of Proposed Construction or Alteration (Form 7460 -1) if the proposed
height of the structure exceeds 200 feet or if the height of the structure is greater than its
distance from the end of the runway divided by 100. For example, if the structure is
located 4,500 feet from the end of the runway, the developer must notify the FAA if the
height of the building exceeds 45 feet.
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Areas Subject to Sec. 333.03(2)(d) FS
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RECOMMENDATIONS:
Th address this deficiency the City proposes to include a new Objective 13 and Policy 13.1 to
d as follows:
Objective 13: The City of Okeechobee recognizes that under certain conditions some
uses of land are not compatible in proximity to public use airports and
must be regulated to reduce or eliminate potential hazards to health or
safety.
Policy 13.1 The City of Okeechobee shall adopt airport zoning regulations that:
al prohibit residential construction and educational facilities in the City
to be located within 2,500 feet of a runway at the Okeechobee
County Airport.
bj are consistent with the requirements of Sec. 333.03(1)(c) F.S.
el prohibit the location of any sanitary landfill that is;
1. within 10,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used or
planned to be used by turbojet or turboprop aircraft:.
2. within 5,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used
only by piston -type aircraft;
3. outside the perimeters defined in subparagraphs 1. and 2., but
still within the lateral limits of the civil airport imaginary
surfaces defined in 14 C.F.R. part 77.25.
require notification of the FAA when a structure located within three
statute miles of the Airport Reference Point and will be higher than
the distance from the end of the runway divided by 100 feet.
el prohibit, in the interest of air safety and commerce, temporary or
permanent structures that do not comply with Federal Aviation
Administration rules or regulations.
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Objective 13: The City of Okeechobee recognizes that under certain conditions some
uses of land are not compatible in proximity to public use airports and
must be regulated to reduce or eliminate potential hazards to health or
safety.
Polic
The City of Okeechobee shall adopt airport zoning regulations that:
aj, prohibit residential construction and educational facilities in the City
to be located within 2,500 feet of a runway at the Okeechobee
County Airport.
b), are consistent with the requirements of Sec. 333.03(1)(c) F.S.
ci prohibit the location of any sanitary landfill that is;
1. within 10,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used or
planned to be used by turbojet or turboprop aircraft;
2. within 5,000 feet from the nearest point of any runway used
only by piston -type aircraft;
3. outside the perimeters defined in subparagraphs 1. and 2., but
still within the lateral limits of the civil airport imaginary
surfaces defined in 14 C.F.R. part 77.25.
d) require notification of the FAA when a structure located within three
statute miles of the Airport Reference Point and will be higher than
the distance from the end of the runway divided by 100 feet.
ej prohibit, in the interest of air safety and commerce, temporary or
permanent structures that do not comply with Federal Aviation
Administration rules or regulations.
City of Okeechobee Comprehensive Plan
t'ntergaveninI Element
Amended: October 18, 2011
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INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION ELEMENT (ICE)
DATA AND ANALYSIS:
Review of the City's Comprehensive Plan during its Evaluation and Appraisal indicated that the
Plan did not include a policy in the ICE that addressed the requirement under §163,3174(1) to
include a representative of the school district appointed by the school board as a nonvoting
member of the local planning agency (LPA) to attend those meetings at which the LPA considers
comprehensive plan amendments and rezoning that increase residential density.
This deficiency was noted in the City's Evaluation Notification Letter to the Department of
Economic Opportunity on August 29, 2012.
RECOMMENDATION:
The address this deficiency the City proposes to include a new Policy 5.5 to read as follows, and
to renumber the subsequent existing policies as appropriate:
Policy 5.5
The City of Okeechobee shall include a representative of the Okeechobee
County School District, appointed by the School Board, as a nonvoting
member of the Local Planning Agency (LPA) to attend those meetings at
which the LPA considers amendments to the City's Comprehensive Plan
and/or Zoning Map that would, if approved, increase residential density on
the property that is the subject of the proposed amendment(s).
No additional data or analysis are needed to support this proposed amendment.
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Policy 4.3: The City shall continue to coordinate its Comprehensive Plan with the
Resource Management Plan to address drainage problems in the Lower
Kissimmee River and Taylor Creek Drainage Basin regions.
Objective 5: The City of Okeechobee shall cooperate in an effort with the School Board
to ensure that the planning activities, services and facilities of the School
Board are consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan.
Policy 5.1: The City of Okeechobee shall exchange data with the School Board
regarding population projections and the School Board (5 -year) facility
plans as such data or plans are updated.
Policy 5.2: The City of Okeechobee shall coordinate major residential project reviews
(pursuant to Chapters 163 and 235, Florida Statutes) to consider joint
park/schools dedications to meet future demands.
Policy 5.3: The City of Okeechobee and the School Board shall coordinate in their
joint efforts to study and implement innovative methods, including
park/school site dedications and contributions, as a means to address
infrastructure needs associated with the City's growth.
Policy 5.4:
Policy 5.5
Policy 575 5.6:
The City of Okeechobee shall notify the School Board of all new
residential development projects or modifications to existing residential
developments which increase density as a part of the review process for
school concurrency.
The City of Okeechobee shall include a representative of the Okeechobee
County School District, appointed by the School Board, as a nonvoting
member of the Local Planning Agency (LPA) to attend those meetings at
which the LPA considers amendments to the City's Comprehensive Plan
and /or Zoning Map that would, if approved, increase residential density on
the property that is the subject of the proposed amendment(s).
The City of Okeechobee shall maintain a joint interlocal agreements with
the School Board and the County for Public School Facility Planning
which includes the provisions for the implementation of school
concurrency and a coordination process for locating new schools,
expanding or redeveloping existing school facilities. The School Board
shall be encouraged to locate new educational facilities near urban
residential areas where public infrastructure and services exist to support
the new facilities.
City of Okeechobee Comprehensive Plan
Intergovernmental Coordination Element
Amended: October 18, 2011
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Policy 576 5.7:
Policy 5 5.8:
Policy 5:8 5.9:
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ICE 7 -5
The City of Okeechobee shall advise and meet with the School Board as
necessary, regarding all Plan amendments and proposed annexations that
may affect school sites.
The City of Okeechobee shall coordinate with the School Board regarding
shared use of recreational facilities owned by either entity. In addition, the
City shall consider all reasonable opportunities to collocate new parks,
libraries, and other facilities with public schools.
The City of Okeechobee, although not currently impacted, shall enter into
any appropriate agreement with the State of Florida University System or
the School Board implementing the requirements of Section 240.155 (11-
15), F.S., regarding campus master plans. A consistency review of the
campus master plans for non -state post- secondary institutions shall also be
considered where a "campus" exists or is planned.
City of Okeechobee Comprehensive Plan
Intergovernmental Coordination Element
Amended: October 18, 2011
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