Redeveloping North Port St Joe - Workshop 2

Updating the North Port St.Joe Master Plan

August 2016

North Port St. Joe

P . A . C project area committee

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The implementation process

Public meeting

No. 1

Public meeting

No. 2

Public meeting

No. 3

Reviewing the NPSJ 2009 masterplan

What is community development?

The illustrative master plan

PHASE TWO

Creating the redevelopment tools for North

Port St. Joe

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The structure of this meeting

✦ The 2009 Plan: what was its purpose? What has changed?

✦ What is community development?

✦ What impact will community development have on North Port St. Joe?

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What was the purpose of 2009 Master plan?

✦ To engage the residents and stakeholders

✦ To unlock the community’s vision and dreams

✦ To create development opportunities

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What has changed since 2009 ?✦ The St. Joe Company’s

town center and planned waterfront community has gone.

✦ The Port will occupy the former mill site

✦ The railroad will be given a new lease of life

✦ Vacant land in North Port St Joe has increased

M I L L R E D E V E L O P M E N T

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To unify and make whole Port St. Joe

One of the 2009 Plan’s most important objectives remains

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As we move forward

✦ The PAC becomes critical to implementing the 2009 Master Plan

✦ The PAC is the face of the community to investors, development partners and government

✦ Community engagement in the redevelopment of North Port St Joe is paramount

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What is community development?

✦ That blight is eliminated.

✦ That the community is improved without displacing its residents.

✦ That job creation is recognized as being the most important catalyst for change.

The PAC’s three fundamental community development objectives:

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What is blight?

✦ Deterioration of site or other improvements

✦ Inadequate street layout, parking facilities, roadways

✦ Stagnated/declining assessed values

✦ Faulty lot layout (size/adequacy/accessibility/ usefulness)

✦ Unsanitary or unsafe conditions

✦ Inadequate and outdated building density patterns

✦ Higher vacancy rates (residential and commercial)

✦ Higher incidence of crime in the area

✦ A greater number of violations - Florida Building Code

✦ Defective/unusual conditions of title – Development Impediment

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What do we mean by eliminating blight?

✦ Is the general population of our community falling or growing?

✦ Are new people moving here?

✦ Does the community feel safer and more secure?

✦ Is the community’s health improving or declining?

✦ Are home values falling, stagnant or increasing?

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Redevelopment without displacement

✦ Be clear that the community has come together with a plan and vision for its neighborhood

✦ Property owners work together to create development-ready parcels of land

✦ The plan includes mixed-income housing

✦ Public private development opportunities are encouraged

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What impact will

community development

have on North Port St. Joe?

Let’s begin by what we’ve

heard from the community

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What we found out in the first meeting✦ Must involve young

people returning to the community

✦ Must emphasize role of housing in a mixed-use development

✦ Must help local business start-ups

✦ Must attract visitors by enaging them in the community’s history

✦ Must have community swimming pool

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Employment and enterprise

✦ A vital role for the Washington High School campus

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Local tourism

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Housing: a place for everyone

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Mixed use development

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Land Assemblies

BEFORE

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Land Assemblies

AFTER

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Open space helps define a place.

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Smart streets send out a positive message while helping solve a tough problem

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Community identity can be expressed in many ways

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Identity can be expressed through a community’s pride in its natural resources

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Heritage & culture

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