Creating A Lasting Vision and Master Plan Through Public

Florida Main Street - Annual ConferenceAugust 17-19, 2015

Creating A Lasting Vision and Master Plan Through Public Participation

City of Fort Pierce

City of Fort Pierce

Waterfront Drive-Thru Bank

Lessons Learned from theFt. Pierce Renaissance

1. Find a Champion(s)2. Involve Everyone3. Make Big and Clear Plans4. Marketing and Advertising5. Execute Early and Restore Confidence 6. Change Your Culture

1. Find A Champion

Senator Ken Pruitt andMayor William Dannahower

Doris Tillman

I think we need a plan…

Why Have a Plan?

Why Have a Plan?“Cities need to decide what they want and then tell us. Do they want to grow out, grow up, or not at all? It’s too hard, and too inefficient, for us to guess. Instead of defining what they do not want , communities must define what they do want to be.”

Bill Angelo, Vice President – Real Estate and the Workplace for Sun Microsystems

“Vision isn’t forecasting the future, it is creating the future by taking action in the present.”

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies 1994

Benefits Of The Charrette Process & Community Based Planning

• Brings people together to SOLVE COMMUNITY PROBLEMS

• Respond to DIFFERENT SPECIAL CONDITIONS IN THE COMMUNITY

• Advertise & unify INTENTIONS FOR THE CITY’S FUTURE GROWTH

• Protects the CHARACTER AND CHARM OF THE CITY

• Wide CITIZENS’ SUPPORT AND OWNERSHIP

• Attracts INVESTMENT

• Makes INFILL AN OPTION AFFORDABLE FOR INDIVIDUAL INVESTORS

• Makes plans more TANGIBLE AND UNDERSTANDABLE

• Creates an environment where INFILL OUTPERFORMS THE SUBURBS

• Helps achieve DESIRED AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES

• Form a RELIABLE AND DEFENDABLE BASIS FOR CHANGE

• Prioritize ENHANCEMENTS AND COMMUNITY ..IMPROVEMENTS

• Help SECURE FUNDING

• Embed CITIZEN IDEAS IN THE LOCAL COMPREHENSIVE ..PLAN

• Provide CERTAINTY TO CITIZENS AND INVESTORS

• Eliminates LONG AND COMPLICATED APPROVAL PROCESSES

• Puts FUN BACK INTO CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT

2. Involve Everyone!

Tell me, I forget;

Show me, I remember;

Involve me, I understandEastern Proverb

Pre Charrette Press

Mid Charrette Press

Post Charrette Press

3. Make Big and Clear Plans

Citizens Considered Everything…• Reviving their Main Street (2nd Street)• Improving the Waterfront/Building a New Cultural Square• Improving the Neighborhoods• Improving the Street Network/Removing One-Way Streets• Building a Library• Building a Manatee Observation Center• Removing the H.D. King Municipal Power Plant• Rescuing the Sunrise Theatre • Beautifying Moore’s Creek• Siting the New Federal Courthouse• Fighting to Keep the Post Office and Local Courts Downtown• Taming US 1 • Gracefully Handling Parking• Siting a Downtown Train Station• Marketing and Advertising a Plan for Downtown• Encouraging People to Live and Shop in the City• Burying Power Lines• Creating a New Downtown Code• Develop Housing Downtown

OUR VISION?Why The Need for a Detailed Vision

and Drawings???

/Dover Kohl

Regional Activity Center?

Is This What You Meant???

Advance Our Planning From This…

To This…

4. Marketing and

Advertising

Post Charrette Press

Bigger news than the

Super Bowl

5. Execute Early and Restore Confidence

“We should have a local concept. We should cherish a love and pride in local conditions and local achievements. In a

word, we should frame a concept, an ideal of what we wish the city to be, and then we should make it one of the

controlling purposes in the development of the city plan.”

John Nolen: From his book, “Replanning Existing Cities” 1912

6. Change Your Culture

Mayor Bob BentonMayor Eddie Enns Mayor Linda Hudson

Michael J. Busha, AICP

Executive Director

Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council

421 SW Camden Avenue

Stuart, FL 34994

(772) 221-4060

mbusha@tcrpc.org