City of Coconut Creek - File #: ORD 2024-001-2

• File #: ORD 2024-001-2
• Name: Public School Concurrency Comp Plan Amendment (Second Reading)
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/3/2024
• In control: City Commission
• On agenda: 5/23/2024
• Title: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITIES ELEMENT OF THE CITY OF COCONUT CREEK COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO UPDATE SCHOOL CONCURRENCY STANDARDS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITY PLANNING OF BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA. (SECOND READING)(SECOND PUBLIC HEARING)
• Indexes: Amendment, Comprehensive Plan, Ordinance, Public Hearing, Public School Facility Planning, Second Reading
• Related files: ORD 2024-001, ORD 2024-002-2

Date	Action By	Action	Result
5/23/2024	City Commission

AGENDA ITEM REPORT
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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITIES ELEMENT OF THE CITY OF COCONUT CREEK COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO UPDATE SCHOOL CONCURRENCY STANDARDS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITY PLANNING OF BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA. (SECOND READING)(SECOND PUBLIC HEARING)

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BACKGROUND:
This item was approved on First Reading at the January 11, 2024, City Commission Meeting. Subsequently, City staff forwarded the ordinance and its amendment to the Florida Department of Commerce (previously known as the Department of Economic Opportunity), the Broward County School Board, and other relevant state agencies for their review. Florida Department of Commerce, the School Board, and the applicable review agencies raised no objections to the amendment as initially adopted on First Reading.
However, Florida Department of Commerce did offer advisory recommendations for the City to update various elements of its Comprehensive Plan to address the following issues:
1. New statutory requirements to refresh the City's outdated Comprehensive Plan Planning Horizons and to consider new horizons of 10 and 20 years into the future.
2. General revisions to update other Comprehensive Plan Elements.
City staff is assessing these advisory recommendations and will bring forward any necessary amendments to address statutory requirements, as needed. Therefore, City staff recommends approval of the ordinance and final adoption of the amendment on Second Reading.
An Interlocal Agreement (ILA) establishing a public school concurrency program for joint comprehensive land use and school facilities planning governs Broward County municipalities, including the City of Coconut Creek, and the School Board of Broward County (School Board). Public School Concurrency is a growth management tool to ensure that public school facilities are available to serve new residential development by the time that new r...