PROJECT:
Visioning the Revitalization
of St. Andrews
CONTACT:
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Kathryn L. Ziewitz
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Project Director
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City of Panama City
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1900 N. 11th Street
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Panama City, FL 32401
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(850)872-7208
FCMP FUNDING AMOUNT:
$62,750
DESCRIPTION: The urban waterfront community of St.
Andrews, located in Panama City, has experienced significant physical and economic decline
for the last twenty years. Past attempts at revitalization have failed due to lack of
public support. This project seeks to use a grassroots visioning effort to create a
revitalization plan that is realistic, reflects multiple funding sources, recommends
regulatory changes, and has broad public support.
PROJECT:
Florida Assessment of Coastal
Trends (FACT)
CONTACT:
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Nathaniel Emmert-Keaton
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Management Consultant
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Florida State University
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University Center, Building C, Suite 4400
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Tallahasee, FL 32399-3000
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(850)644-2180
FCMP FUNDING AMOUNT: $175,120
DESCRIPTION: This project builds upon the
development of an indicator system for Florida's coastal areas -- Florida Assessment of
Coastal Trends (FACT) -- prepared for the Florida Coastal Management Program by the
Florida Center for Public Management (FCPM) of the Florida State University during FY
94-95. Eight strategic issues affecting coastal areas were identified and a series of
indicators were developed for each of those issues capable of measuring trends. The FY
95-96 project extends the work begun in this first version of FACT by:
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Collecting additional indicators identified but not collected in the first version of
FACT for reasons of expense, difficulty of collection or analytical complexity;
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Preparing and publishing a Florida State of the Coast report based upon the indicators
and other coastal data and information;
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Preparing and publishing a second, expanded version of the Florida Assessment of Coastal
Trends indicator manual, incorporating updated indicators and new indicators developed in
(1) above;
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Displaying, contingent upon the establishment of an Internet node by FCMP, each of these
products in a browser-driven, graphical format on the Internet.
PROJECT:
Govenor's Commission for a
Sustainable South Florida
CONTACT:
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Mollie Palmer
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Senior Executive Assistant
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Department of Environmental Protection
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3900 Commonwealth Blvd.
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Tallahassee, FL 32399-3000
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(850)488-1554
FCMP FUNDING AMOUNT:
$414,570
DESCRIPTION:
The
water quality of the many surface waters of the Everglades Ecosystem has been degraded, or
is in danger of degradation, and the natural systems associated with the Everglades, such
as Florida Bay, have been altered so that they no longer fulfill the important function
they once performed. Yet the South Florida economy is dependent on these very systems. The
Governor's Commission for a Sustainable South Florida will serve as a coordination
mechanism to focus the many competing interests in South Florida on a restoration and
management solution that will provide for sustainable economic development that can
coexist with a healthy Everglades Ecosystem. This project provides staff support to the
Commission.
PROJECT:
Jensen Beach CRA River Access
CONTACT:
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Robert P. Franke
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Senior Planner
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Martin County
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2401 SE Monterey Road
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Stuart, FL 34996
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(561)288-5927
FCMP FUNDING AMOUNT: $85,000
DESCRIPTION:
The riverfront (Indian River Estuary)
within the Jensen Beach Community Redevelopment District is suffering from an antiquated
stormwater system which sends runoff directly into the Indian River Lagoon. There is an
additional problem of inadequate public access to and education about this valuable
aquatic resource in this rapidly growing area. The Jensen Beach Redevelopment Agency has
proposed as part of its plan for revitalization of this area the creation of an
educational river walk which incorporates stormwater retention structures (and required
easements) in its design. This project will design a solution to the above stated
problems, including retention structures and required easements, in a way that will
increase public respect, awareness and understanding of this valuable source.
PROJECT:
Watershed Water
Quality/Habitat Assessment
CONTACT:
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Michael Shirley
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Department of Environmental Protection
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Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
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10 Shell Island
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Naples, FL 33962
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(813)775-8845
FCMP FUNDING AMOUNT:
$111,504
DESCRIPTION:
Southwest
Florida is one of the fastest growing areas in the nation. The rapidly expanding
population, and associated activities, can have adverse effects on the natural systems
surrounding them. For example, nonpoint source pollution runoff from agriculture, golf
courses, construction, nurseries and lawns can negatively impact the natural communities
downstream of the source.
This project will look at areas where nonpoint source runoff is affecting the downstream
communities. Water and sediment samples upstream of Rookery Bay National Estuarine
Research Reserve (NERR) and the Ten Thousand Islands Aquatic Preserve will be analyzed for
nutrients, pesticides and heavy metals to identify probable sources of pollution.
Watershed land use patterns will be mapped and compared to these water quality data to
target areas of primary concern. A combination of educational and resource management
strategies will be developed to promote best management practices and land conservation
within the watershed. Historic flowways, as identified in the Watershed Management Plan
for Rookery Bay NERR and the Ten Thousand Islands Aquatic Preserve, will be used as a
guide for land conservation. In addition, an estuarine biomonitoring program will be
initiated to gauge the effectiveness of various management practices at reducing nonpoint
source pollutant impacts.
PROJECT:
Statewide Ocean Resource
Inventory
CONTACT:
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Christopher Friel
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Research Administrator II
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Department of Environmental Protection
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100 Eighth Avenue SE
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St. Petersburg, FL 33041-1409
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(813)896-8626
FCMP FUNDING AMOUNT: $143,553
DESCRIPTION:
A
comprehensive inventory of the resources and uses of Florida's coastal marine environments
is required before a comprehensive ocean policy can be developed. Florida's ocean policy
should be based on the best information available, and where data gaps exist, a systematic
approach to filling these information voids should be implemented. This project addresses
the need by developing a data assessment, information base, and distribution mechanism
that can be used to facilitate a state ocean policy and provide state, regional and local
managers with much-needed local marine resources information to adequately implement local
growth management and marine resources policy. The project activities have been
specifically designed to augment, enhance, and extend the 1994/95 Coastal Zone Management
funded efforts of South Florida Regional Planning Council relative to information base
development.
PROJECT:
Apalachicola Bay Urban
Stormwater Impact Analysis
CONTACT:
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Ron Bartel, Director
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Resource Management Division
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Northwest Florida Water Management
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District
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Route 1, Box 3100
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Havana, FL 32333-9700
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(850)539-5999
FCMP FUNDING AMOUNT: $80,480
DESCRIPTION:
As part of an overall water quality
management strategy for Apalachicola Bay, the Northwest Florida Water Management District
(NWFWMD) will closely examine the impacts of urban stormwater runoff on the bay.
Specifically, the NWFWMD will monitor and characterize the quality and quantity of
stormwater runoff from urbanized coastal communities and apply a computer simulation model
to comprehensively evaluate the stormwater status of the largest community on the bay, the
City of Apalachicola. Model results and monitoring data will be used to analyze pollutant
loading impacts, evaluate the capacity of system conveyances, determine the potential for
flood hazards, and consider the potential for stormwater improvements.
PROJECT:
North East Florida Coastal
American Assembly
CONTACT:
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Paul Haydt
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Environmental Specialist IV
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St. Johns River Water Management
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District
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Post Office Box 1429
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Palatka, FL 32178-1429
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(904)329-4303
FCMP FUNDING AMOUNT: $37,950
DESCRIPTION:
The Northeast Florida coastal
estuaries presently lack interagency coordination to effectively address potential
increasing coastal nonpoint source pollution impacts associated with the current
development trends of the area. The implementation of a consensus building process will
result in the development of a comprehensive management plan and the establishment of
effective professional, political and citizen partnerships. The coordinated network will
be instrumental in supplying the talent and effort required to fund and implement the
management recommendations necessary to improve and maintain water and coastal wetlands.
PROJECT:
Stormwater Impact on Savannas
State Reserve
CONTACT:
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Gregory Graves
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Southeast District Section Supervisor
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Department of Environmental Protection
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1801 SE Hillmoor Boulevard
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Port St. Lucie, FL 34952
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(561)871-7662
FCMP FUNDING AMOUNT: $23,000
DESCRIPTION:
The
Savannas State Reserve is located in Class III waters and Outstanding Florida Waters (OFW)
in coastal St. Lucie and Martin counties, hydraulically and biologically interconnected to
the Indian and St. Lucie Rivers OFWs. The Reserve presently receives untreated,
uncontrolled stormwater runoff which is having an adverse impact on water quality. The
areal extent and exact cause of the degradation needs adequate characterization, so that
an acceptable solution to this problem may be successfully formulated (e.g., redirection
of the runoff or construction of Best Management Practices stormwater control and/or
treatment). This project will establish a network of twenty strategically located
biological and chemical sites. These sites will be sampled on a quarterly basis. The
information obtained from the analysis of these samples will be used to generate various
numerical biological metrics (species diversity, total toxicology, etc.). In connection
with chemical data made available by this study, biological metrics will enable the
construction of a spatial analysis of the areas currently being impacted or not by the
stormwater discharge. Once the extent and nature of the areas of impact or absence of
impact are known, it can then be determined how these problems can or should be addressed.
PROJECT: Development of State
Underwater Archaeological Preserves
CONTACT:
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Roger Smith
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Underwater Archaeologist
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Department of State
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R.A. Gray Building
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Tallahassee, FL 32399
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(850)487-2299
FCMP FUNDING AMOUNT: $44,678
DESCRIPTION:
This project will develop a public
access program for coastal heritage sites by assisting Bay County in the establishment of
state underwater archaeological preserves on historic shipwrecks, to be accompanied by
public workshops, a museum exhibit, and interpretive literature. This coastal heritage
program will be promoted in other regions of the state as an example of public
participation in the preservation of underwater cultural resources.
PROJECT:
Post-Disaster Reconstruction
Land Development Regulations
CONTACT:
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Theodore Strader
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City Planner
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City of Key West
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Post Office Box 1409
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Key West, FL 33041
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(305)292-8229
FCMP FUNDING AMOUNT: $6,000
DESCRIPTION:
This
project will use staff and a planning consultant to draft and seek adoption of ordinances
and written internal policies regarding post-disaster redevelopment. Such ordinances and
policies will include procedures for immediate recovery activities and permitting of
necessary immediate construction activities as well as more long-term implementation of
permitting scheduling, identification of damaged infrastructure and plans for its
replacement, and identification of potential redevelopment areas within the City of Key
West.
PROJECT:
Coastal Hazard Plan for Briny
Breezes
CONTACT:
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Rita L. Taylor
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Town Clerk
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Town of Briny Breezes
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5000 N. Ocean Boulevard
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Boynton Beach, FL 33435
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(407)737-0188
FCMP FUNDING AMOUNT:
$24,000
DESCRIPTION:
The Town
of Briny Breezes is a community of mobile homes and businesses located on the Atlantic
Ocean in Palm Beach County. Under cooperative form of land ownership the citizens and
residents of the Town own the mobiles homes in which they reside and the individual land
units on which they are located. Planning is needed to fully prepare the town's mobile
home residents, the business establishments, the community buildings and the town's water
and sewer utility system in advance of a hurricane to mitigate storm damage. Additional
planning is needed to speed immediate post-disaster recovery and to provide for the long
range rebuilding of the community.
In carrying out the project, the Town will create an ad hoc citizen's committee to
investigate and study the problem areas. The committee, with input from the general
public, professional consultants and applicable government agencies, will formulate and
recommend appropriate programs and submit final plans to the Town's Planning and Zoning
Board for review and recommendation to the Town Council. The Council will then adopt the
plans and make necessary amendments to the Town's Comprehensive Land Use Plan and its Land
Development Regulations by ordinance.
PROJECT:
Hazard
Mitigation/Redevelopment Plan and Ordinance
CONTACT:
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Ken Koch
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Planning Director
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Flagler County
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1200 E. Moody Boulevard, #2
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Bunnell, FL 32110
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(904)437-7484
FCMP FUNDING AMOUNT:
$74,738
DESCRIPTION:
Flagler County, with twenty-six miles
of Atlantic coastline, is subject to substantial damage from hurricane and tropical storm
impacts. The county is currently one of the fastest growing counties in Florida and is
projected to experience extensive future development. Much of this development will be in
the coastal zone. Current infrastructure, comprehensive plan elements and regulations are
not adequately related to expected development. This project will result in the adoption
of county policies, plan elements and ordinances to address concerns related to hazard
mitigation, post-disaster redevelopment and protection of coastal resources.
PROJECT: Waterfront Park/City of Gulfport
CONTACT:
Michael Bonfield
Community Service Director
City of Gulfport
3050 Beach Boulevard South
Gulfport, FL 33707
(813)893-1067
FCMP FUNDING AMOUNT: $42,000
DESCRIPTION: The city purchased a vacant
and undeveloped waterfront parcel and is constructing a passive park setting which will
protect the last undeveloped parcel and enhances the area by extending the municipal-owned
waterfront.
PROJECT: New River Restorative Dredging Program
CONTACT:
James Brietenstein
Environmental Resources Manager
City of Ft. Lauderdale,
Public Service Department
Post Office Drawer 14250
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33302
(954) 492-7806
FCMP FUNDING AMOUNT: $50,000
DESCRIPTION:
The City of Fort Lauderdale
and Broward County have developed a plan to improve water quality and ecological
conditions in a one-mile segment of the North Fork of the New River. The project includes
removal of 7,200 cubic yards of sediments in an area with elevated concentrations of
several trace metals and reduced biological communities, removal of sediments from a shoal
area to restore the river channel and improve its flushing characteristics, installation
of sediment traps in two stormwater outfalls that discharge to the North Fork to reduce
the future rate of sedimentation, and creation of a wetland system between the largest
stormwater outfall and the river channels to provide water quality improvement and habitat
for aquatic animals.
PROJECT: Coastal Springs Restoration Project
CONTACT:
Gary W. Maidhof
Environmental Planner
Citrus County Department of Development Services
1300 South Lecanto Highway
Lecanto, FL 34461
(352) 746-4223
FCMP FUNDING AMOUNT: $50,000
DESCRIPTION: The citrus county coast
contains an extensive saltmarsh, surrounded by a series of rivers, a number of which
contain first magnitude stenothermal springs at their headwaters. This project is removing
built-up sediment and detritus from the spring vents and surrounding areas on and the near
the Crystal River/Kings Bay. The sediments reduce water quality and promote algae
formation. A pilot program is also restoring native vegetation to stabilize and buffer the
area to stop the recurrence of the problem.
2012 State of Florida