Envision Pasco 2050 comprehensive plan vision

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59:01I guess that's forty nine. Oh, Jerry knows.

59:08Um Victorio Spitos Planning Development Department uh this morning. On the on the consent agenda was uh the year four task order for the comprehensive plan update. Uh and uh with me today I have Uh Chris Daugherty from Inspire Placemaking, who are P D D's consultants. on the comprehensive plan update and Hiya Mizzoli. the uh senior planner that's working on the comprehensive plan update and I'm introducing them today in

59:38order to introduce to you the vision for the Pasco 2050 comprehensive plan. Year four is going to be all about writing the plan. And so or the planned update I should say. And so this uh document will help us inform that writing exercise that is this year. And without further ado, I'll turn it over to Chris.

1:00:01Okay,

1:00:02well.

1:00:03Excellent. Um Good good morning, Chris Darty, uh project manager with Inspire Placemaking Collective. Uh Vice Chair and Commissioners, thank you for uh having us this morning to present to you the culmination of year three, which is the visioning process that you all have uh participated in in uh the PASCO 2050 Comprehensive Plan Update. Make sure this is working here. Okay. What is Pasco

1:00:332050? Um As you all know, this is all related to updating the comprehensive plan. This was envisioned as a five-year process. Uh we have culminated with year three. I'll go through each one of those uh years here in just a moment, but the the comprehensive plan is your long-range vision for the For the county. It is a required document by Florida statutes, and we're required to look at it, evaluate it

1:01:03every so often, every seven years or so. But this time it's a little different. We are actually bringing it back to the community. We're we're looking to understand what's what has changed throughout the the history here and and the growth in Pasco County. Um and we need to address the the the data and analysis that's in the plan to make sure it's relevant. for uh the county not only today but going into the future here into twenty fifty. Uh we want to

1:01:33look at all the opportunities that are there, improve the planning tools. You know, we address multiple topics in the comprehensive plan, whether it's housing, transportation, conservation, recreation, and open space. So there's a lot of uh it's a broad uh document that touches on a lot of different uh items and This year uh we really had a lot of amazing conversations, uh thousands of touch points and conversations with the community, um, which has

1:02:03helped us develop the the vision that you'll see here shortly that uh Hyatt will present to you. This document also helps us to make decisions on growth and development in the county. The nice thing about this is we can be proactive about growth rather than reactive. So that's all about this next year. So we can develop those goals, objectives, and policies to help. uh provide you guidance down the road. So as

1:02:34I mentioned, year three. That's in the books. That's what we're going to present to you today. That's visioning. This is all about community engagement. um getting out in front of all the folks here in the county and giving their getting their opinions and and ideas on what should change here in the county in the comprehensive plan. As uh Terry mentioned, the task order that was approved on consent that is for year three, and that happens immediately starting now. So there's very little transition. We're gonna jump

1:03:04right into drafting the comprehensive plan, which is made up of two volumes. You've got your data and analysis. And then the gold goals, objectives, and policies, which is that document that you uh adopt, um, which is the the really where the rubber meets the road. And then year five is when we're gonna we're gonna share what we came up with and have folks uh give us their ideas and thoughts on uh the the changes that we come that.

1:03:35So what did uh year three look like? Uh we had multiple engagements. Um

1:03:44multiple presentations to different community organizations. We participated in community events throughout the year, starting with the Employee Appreciation Day. Sent out numerous email blasts and new newsletters to help drive traffic to the project website, which ultimately provided folks with information on upcoming events. We provided news releases or press releases to the news and

1:04:14media outlets Which uh generated a lot of uh really positive feedback in in the uh the news. So we had 14 media mentions, uh two of which uh were in the actual news on TV, and then we were we had a spot on uh the radio as well on NPR. So really great coverage. generated over four or nearly four hundred thousand impressions. So that's eyeballs, ears on Pasco twenty fifty, which is amazing.

1:04:45Really good uh turnout for very little uh Pasco dollars going to that marketing budget, which is amazing. It's almost a twenty thousand dollar value. So kudos to the the the PR team here at the county. That generated a nearly 11,000 visits to our project website, which is a huge number. Over uh twelve hundred surveys taken by our uh folks here in Pasco County, which is valuable information in

1:05:15again generating those themes that we're gonna talk about in the vision document here shortly. Um as you see on your screen, we have uh These little summary documents below each one of those uh engagements, all of those are posted on the project website, which is Pasco2050.com. So if folks didn't get to participate in any one of those engagements, they can see what we talked about completely transparent. And all of that funneled down into the uh visioning

1:05:45theme. So as we show here on the slide, we had uh multiple interview interview sessions with uh community leaders, community activists, and uh different folks dealing with development here in the community. We had focus group meetings that drilled down on specific topics, uh, housing, transportation, economic development, resiliency, uh, kind of those hot button issues that we're dealing with here in the county. And then really the coup de grade was our our our

1:06:16uh community workshops. We had eight community workshops throughout the county. uh nearly 300 in-person participants, which was a great number for us. really great feedback which again uh generated that vision that we'll uh we'll show to you today and I'm gonna turn it over to Hyatt.

1:06:37Thank you, Chris. Good morning. Hi, it's Ellie with Planning and Development. So the result of This public participation and public engagement is the vision document which Sonia is actually gonna be distributing to you. We call it Envision Pasco 2050. This document summarizes the entire vision and process and illustrates The collective viewpoints of our Pasco's community on aspirations, ideas, issues, and Uh

1:07:09opportunities that impact the future of Pasco in the next 25 years. These viewpoints are expressed as vision themes and a vision statement that describes the desired future state of Pasco. And I will reveal those vision themes and vision statements in the next slides, but it can be found under the Where Do We Want to Go section. Other components of this document include the brief history of our county since it's in. In 1887, and a snapshot of current demographics, housing, land use, and economic conditions.

1:07:39We also included implementation strategies that the public has suggested to us to realize the vision, and that can be found under how do we get there.

1:07:54By the way, c can you go back one slide? Yes, ma'am. We are trying to figure out where this was. This is um North Point. North no, Northwood. Northwood. Northwood. Yeah.

1:08:06It took us a while but we need to figure it out. Thank you, Commissioner Starkey. Yeah, thank you so much for that.

1:08:15Okay, so what are these vision themes?

1:08:19Um, the wheel on the left side of this slide represents 10 overarching vision themes that were incorporated into the vision statement. We reviewed an extensive body of public input to identify the common and prevalent aspirations which regrouped into these distinct vision themes. For example, in 2050, the community envisions Pasco with more walkable. And vibrant neighborhoods that are well connected, well designed, and aesthetically pleasing.

1:08:50A Pasco that values its beautiful landscape and fiercely protects the natural environment, and a Pasco that provides an adequate supply of housing for all income levels and life stages.

1:09:04Music to my ears. Mm-hmm.

1:09:07So I just want to mention that careful planning with these themes in mind will enhance the quality of life in the near future as well as in the long future for all of our residents. And speaking of future and planning, this is the vision for Pasco 2050. This vision statement will be the guiding beacon during the comprehensive planning process. It's something, again, it's something that was community driven and community led and we are using

1:09:37it as a framework as we update the elements of the plan. We want the comprehensive plan to move forward this vision.

1:09:53Okay. So to conclude this section of the presentation, I just want to say that together the vision themes and the vision statement are like the constitution of the comprehensive plan that is setting forward the future. Thank you. And I'll hand it back to Chris to talk about the next steps in year four.

1:10:16And as I mentioned, um Task order four is for year four here, and I'm gonna take you real quickly through what we'll be doing here in in the next 12 months. Uh we'll, as I mentioned before, preparing the data analysis. So that starts with developing population projections and then identifying levels of service. and whether we need to change those based on the the community's vision uh for 2050. We'll

1:10:46continue to engage with folks as we work through the process. So we have several groups that are interested in participating in this process. So we we have continued those meetings as well as internal coordination with not only our team here with PASCO 2015. But other departments and groups that are working on similar planning activities. So whether it's the MPO or the strategic planning process or the utility

1:11:17master planning process, we're continuing to coordinate with those teams on a continuing basis. Uh we'll be updating your map series. Now that's another part of the the comprehensive plan that gets adopted as part of those goals, objectives, and policies. So your future land use map, you have the wetlands map, floodplain, those are all maps that uh need to be adopted as well. So we'll be updating those as part of this process. When

1:11:47we get to the towards the about three quarters of the way through the year, we'll have recommendations for specific changes to the plan and we're gonna present those to you all when we have those ready. That way you're gonna have input on what we're going to be changing in the plan. And then at the end of the year we'll have our uh update of the goals, objectives, and policies, then we'll transition into year five, which will be sharing the plan and then

1:12:17getting feedback on uh what we've come up with. And with that? Open up for questions.

1:12:25Any questions?

1:12:27It's looking good.

1:12:29Mm-hmm. Or anything I I can tell you um I look forward to the vision coming to be true. Uh in the past few years I've been here seven years. So I know uh Lakucci Back when I first started, we were trying to uh get businesses to go in there and WREC and a lot of stakeholders were interested in starting up businesses and getting Lakuchi revived from what it used to be, say eighty years ago, as one of the largest

1:12:59communities. But the fact of it is with Four laning of ninety eight and three oh one coming into the north part of Licuchi and And also the rail that we have there, it's really gonna open up and actually that four lane's gonna continue on down to to uh three oh one ninety eight and on to Pope County and Pope County's gonna build a four lane out to our County line there on on the southern part of our our county. So it's uh really

1:13:29important to look and see what's gonna happen because You may not have seven years ago you wouldn't envision there was all this business coming, but we have two businesses alive there right now and you got another one coming. uh it's gonna change the way that is. It's gonna uplift that community to having good jobs and housing and things like that that they haven't had for a long, long time. So I look forward to that that change. So thank you.

1:13:56I I did have one question when I met when I met with staff on this and and um and maybe it applies more to Zephyrhills, I don't know, but it said increase efforts to monitor pro protect which you know we do with Swift Mud and temporary water the water supply, but it says increase the county's water supply. So that just caught my

1:14:17work at Tampa Water.

1:14:19Yeah.

1:14:19I can Uh a lot of people think uh Zephyrhills don't have any water, but they the fact of it is They have plenty of water and we've offered them plenty of water. They just don't have any cheap water anymore. That's the only difference. Because we have plenty of water. There's plenty of water available. and uh Tampa Bay Water Board, we're at that board, I'm chairman of that board. We are striving to make better better water resource in the future to provide that. I mean I'll just give you an example,

1:14:50D Sau plant operates with the Tico plant. and Tico's been shutting it down back and forth. So that may change that water coming to the D SAL plant. And in fact, we may use brackish water wells. They go down a thousand feet. And those wells will be coming in that water will be coming in cleaner. and and at a cheaper rate than what we've been doing in the past. And so I look forward to that 'cause that's The D

1:15:20SAL is only three percent of the total water we use. And and the most

1:15:24expensive water.

1:15:25Yeah. And and most expensive, but that cost is gonna come down with the bracket swells. I look forward to that coming about and it being more than just three percent of our total water volume. And and it being cheaper. That mix will help keep keep things cheaper. We'll get more volume. from the D SAW than we do now. So an ability to work for the whole year rather than just part of the year. So it's all good. Good stuff.

1:15:51I and I would add that all through this the our community is asking for walkable communities. They just and walk be able to walk to the stores, walk to restaurants. So We need to Be diligent about that.

1:16:04Yeah, I think Planning Department's doing a great job uh looking out for those kind of issues where they're walkable and And uh most airplane you see there's some kind of way of a trail connected to it or whatever. So th that future of that's gonna be good for everybody, so Yeah. We look forward to the Orange Belt Trail coming coming to be and Hopefully it ends up a big circle, so Uh the bikers and all like that trail. I'd rather have 'em on that trail than I had on the roads. So It's dangerous on the roads, but that

1:16:34trail's gonna be very important to east Pasco. And so much has happened in East Pasco that Hadn't happened in many, many years, so Our our best thing we can do is make sure it looks the way we want it to look. So we You know, guard that so Okay. Anything else? All right. Thank you for your presentation.

1:16:55Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

1:17:00All right, I've got a time certain for twice eleven forty eleven forty. Um

1:17:07because he's got an introduction.

1:17:08Have we got time for the Huh? Pitch one be quick. Okay.

1:17:18Oh he's always quick.