Florida Administrative Code › 27 - EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR › 27E - Comprehensive Planning › Chapter 27E-5 - RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE PERTAINING TO STRATEGIC REGIONAL POLICY PLANS › Section 27E-5.003 - Purpose of the Plan

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
The purposes of a strategic regional policy plan
				  include:
(1) To implement and further
				the goals and policies of the State Comprehensive Plan with regard to the
				strategic regional subject areas and other components addressed in the
				plan.
(2) To provide long range
				policy guidance for the physical, economic, and social development of a
				region.
(3) To establish public
				policy for the resolution of disputes over regional problems, needs, or
				opportunities through the establishment of regional goals and policies and to
				provide a regional basis and perspective for the coordination of governmental
				activities and the resolution of problems, needs, and opportunities that are of
				regional concern or scope.
(4) To
				establish goals and policies, in addition to other criteria established by law,
				that provide a basis for the review of developments of regional impact,
				regional review of federally assisted projects, and other activities of the
				regional planning council. In addition, the plan may recommend specific
				locations or activities in which a project, that due to its character or
				location, should be a development of regional impact within the region.
				Standards included in strategic regional policy plans shall be used for
				planning purposes only and not for permitting or regulatory purposes. A
				regional planning council shall not adopt a planning standard that differs
				materially from a planning standard adopted by rule by a state or regional
				agency, when such rule expressly states the planning standard is intended to
				preempt action by the regional planning council.
(5) To establish goals and policies to assist
				the state and the council in the determination of consistency of local
				comprehensive plans with strategic regional policy plans and the state
				comprehensive plan. Strategic Regional Policy Plans shall serve as a basis to
				review the resources and facilities found in local government comprehensive
				plans.
(6) To establish land
				development and transportation goals and policies in a manner that fosters
				region-wide transportation systems.
(7) To serve as a basis for decisions by the
				regional planning council.
(8) To
				guide the administration of federal, state, regional, and local agency programs
				and activities in a region to the extent provided for by law.
(9) To identify significant regional
				resources and facilities, infrastructure needs, or other problems, needs, or
				opportunities of importance to the region.
(10) To identify natural resources of
				regional significance and promote the protection of those resources.
(11) To set forth economic development goals
				and policies that promote regional economic growth and improvement.
(12) To set forth goals and policies that
				address the affordable housing and emergency preparedness problems and needs of
				the region.
Rulemaking Authority
					 120.53(1),
					 186.507(2) FS.
					 Law Implemented 186.502,
					 186.505(23),
					 (24),
					 186.507(1), (2), (4), (5), (8),
					 (9)
					 FS.
New 7-6-94.