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Dr. John M. DeGrove Webinar Series:
The Heartland and Suncoast Expressways: Policy and planning implications for Florida’s future
John Moran PhotographyVivian Young, AICP1000 Friends of Florida
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Presenters
Thomas Hawkins, JD, AICPPolicy and Planning Director for
1000 Friends of Florida
Teaches courses in land use law at University of Florida Levin College
of Law and College of Design, Construction and Planning, and
Florida State University
Holds Juris Doctor from Emory University School of Law and
Master of Science in Real Estate from University of Florida Hough
Graduate School of Business
Lindsay CrossPublic Lands Advocate for the Florida Conservation Voters
Leads public outreach and engagement campaign to elevate the importance of public lands and the need for increased and consistent funding for conservation, and lobbies state legislature
Served as Executive Director of the Florida Wildlife Corridor from April 2016 - July 2018 guiding organization’s strategic vision for a statewide connected corridor of land and water that benefits wildlife and people
Worked for 15 years at the Tampa Bay Estuary Program coordinating multi-entity habitat restoration and water quality improvement projects
In 2018, ran for the Florida State Senate District 24 with a focus on protecting the environment and improving public
Holds a BS in Environmental Health from Colorado State University and a MS in Environmental Science and Policy from University of South Florida
Pat SteedExecutive Director of the Central Florida Regional Planning Council that
covers five counties and 25 cities
Serves as the Staff Services Director for the Heartland Regional Transportation Planning Organization (HRTPO) serving six counties of the
Heartland of Florida.
35 years of management and transportation planning experience including serving as a County and City Planning Director, a Director of
three Transportation Planning Organizations (TPOs), and a Project Director for a global consulting firm.
Currently serves on the Board of the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO), is a member of the Florida
Transportation Plan/Strategic Intermodal System (FTP/SIS) Steering Committee, serving as an FTP Champion for Quality Places, and serves as a Council of Peers member for both the Southeastern Regional Directors’
Initiative (SERDI) and for RPO America.
Previously served on the Florida Greenways and Trails Council for five years and on many state Task Forces and project peer reviews.
Passion is for visioning--whether leading regional visions such as Heartland 2060, or working with neighborhoods or non-profits, she
seeks to link values with possibility thinking to improve the quality of communities and organizations.
Attended graduate school at Auburn University and received undergraduate degree from the University of Montevallo.
Multi-Use Corridors of Regional Economic Significance ProgramThomas Hawkins, JD, AICP
Policy and Planning Director, 1000 Friends of Florida
Multi-Use Corridors of Regional
Economic Significance ProgramSB 7068 and HB 7113 in 2019 Florida Legislative Session
April 18, 2019 Webinar
Basics
• Call it “M-CORES”
• Three new toll expressways
• General Revenue Fund pays for planning and design
• Turnpike revenue bonds pay for construction
Planning and timeline• Three task forces
• Membership to include representatives of state, regional, and local governments and “appropriate conservation or community not-for-profit organizations”
• FDOT to appoint members by August 1, 2019
• Reports due October 1, 2020
• FDOT to adhere to task force recommendations to “the maximum extent feasible”
• Construction to begin by December 31, 2022
• Expressways to traffic by December 31, 2030
Special planning considerations
• For Southwest-Central Florida Connector
• Wildlife crossing design features to protect panther
• For Suncoast Connector and Northern Turnpike Connector
• Water quality and quantity of springs, rivers, and aquifer recharge areas
• Agricultural land uses
Miscellaneous details
• Could include other infrastructure
• broadband
• water and sewer
• energy distribution
• shared-use nonmotorized trails
• freight and passenger rail
• public transit
• wildlife corridors
• Other programs funded
• Small County Road Assistance Program
• Small County Outreach Program
• Transportation Disadvantaged Trust Fund
• Workforce development program
Money from General Revenue
FundFiscal Year
General Revenue Fund to M-CORES
Program
2019-2020 $12.5 million
2020-2021 $57.5 million
2021-2022 $102.5 million
2022-2023 and every year thereafter $109 million
Money for construction
• Borrowed through turnpike revenue bonds
• Subject to “economic feasibility” or 12/30 rule
• FDOT must determine “estimated net revenues of the proposed turnpike project, excluding feeder roads and turnpike improvements, will be sufficient to pay at least 50 percent of the annual debt service on the bonds associated with the project by the end of the 12th year of operation and to pay at least 100 percent of the debt service on the bonds by the end of the 30th year of operation”
• When revenues cannot cover annual debt service, FDOT will repay debt with revenue from other toll expressways
Billion dollar que$tion
• Construction cost unknown
• Recent projects
• Wekiva Parkway cost $1.6 billion for 25 miles
• Suncoast 2 Phase 2 cost $134 million for 13 miles
• M-CORES corridors are about 350 miles
• Cost likely tens of billions
Heartland and Suncoast ExpresswaysLindsay Cross
Public Lands Advocate, Florida Conservation Voters
Heartland and Suncoast Expressways
Policy and planning implications for Florida’s future
Photo Credit: Matthew Beck, Citrus County
Chronicle
Lindsay CrossPublic Lands Advocate
Photo Credit: Nikk Parsons
Photo Credit: Greg Treinish
Photo Credit: Hal Scott
Photo Credit: John Moran and David Moynahan
Photo Credit: Keith Ladzinski
Photo Credit: Carlton Ward, Jr.
Photo Credit: Carlton Ward, Jr.
Photo Credit: Carlton Ward, Jr.
Credit: Florida Wildlife Corridor
Corridors facilitate movement of people and wildlife
Federal program authorized by Congress in 1964
Provided $900 million/year for parks, preserves, ball parks
More than $1 Billion to Florida
Expired in September 2018
Photo Credit: Florida State Parks
Photo Credit: Shutterstock
Photo Credit: Grizzly Creek
Source: 1000 Friends of Florida
Current vs. Trend 2070
Photo Credit: Lindsay Cross
Credit: FDEP
Credit: FDEP
Credit: Florida Wildlife Corridor
Credit: Florida Wildlife Corridor
Credit: Florida Wildlife Corridor
Florida’s Water and Land Conservation Amendment
Constitutional amendment in 2014 (Amendment 1)
Passed by 75% of voters
Not a new tax
Directs 1/3 of documentary stamp revenue to water and land conservation and recreation
Source: Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Revenue
Historic Conservation Funding:
Florida Forever
Drastic Reductions
in Funding after
2009
FY16-17 FY17-18
Debt Service $175.7 $170.3
Everglades $215.2 $205*
Florida Forever $15.2 $0
Florida Communities
Trust
$10.0 $0
Rural Family Lands $35 $0*
Springs $50 $50
Existing Agency
Operating/Regulatory
$237.8 $227.4
*2017 Budget
Florida Forever and Preservation 2000
Started in 1991 (P200) then in 2001 with FF
Provided $300 million/year for conservation and recreation
Funding dried up after 2008 recession and has not fully recovered to historic levels
2019 recommended budgets:Governor: $100 millionSenate: $45 millionHouse: $20 million
2019 recommended budgets
Governor: $100 million
Senate: $45 million
House: $20 million
Land and Water Conservation Fund
Federal program authorized by Congress in 1964
Provided $900 million/year for parks, preserves, ball parks
More than $1 Billion to Florida
Expired in September, 2018Re-authorized in February, 2019
Photo Credit: Carlton Ward, Jr.
Carlton Ward, Jr.Photo Credit: Carlton Ward, Jr.
Heartland 2060 Regional VisionPat Steed, Executive Director
Central Florida Regional Planning Council
Regional Vision
Pat SteedExecutive Director
Central Florida Regional Planning Council
Developed Land
Conservation Lands
Permanently Protected
2005 Developed Lands and Permanent Conservation Lands
2060 Developed Lands and Permanent Conservation Lands
Developed Land
Conservation Lands
Permanently Protected
Geographic Area
Population Population
Growth Rate,
2000 to 20101980 1990 2000 2010
DeSoto 19,039 23,865 32,209 34,862 8.2%
Glades 5,992 7,591 10,576 12,884 21.8%
Hardee 20,357 19,499 26,938 27,731 2.9%
Hendry 18,599 25,773 36,210 39,140 8.1%
Highlands 47,526 68,432 87,366 98,786 13.1%
Okeechobee 20,264 29,627 35,910 39,996 11.4%
Polk 321,652 405,382 483,924 602,095 24.4%
7-County Total 453,429 580,169 713,133 855,494 20.0%
Florida 9,746,961 12,938,071 15,982,824 18,801,310 17.6%United States 226,545,805 248,709,873 281,421,906 308,745,538 9.7%
Demographics
Source: 1000 Friends of Florida
Where Will Our Future Take Us?
Developed
land
Conserved
land
20602005
Source: Florida Dept of Transportation, 2010
Transportation and Economic Development
Heartland2060.com
Our Heartland
Values
Stewardship of Natural Resources
Our Water Resources
Respect for Agriculture
Our Communities
Future for Our Children
Economic Diversification
Infrastructure to Support
Diversified Economy
Early Learning, K-16,
Lifelong Education
Health Care
Cultural Identity
Water
Sustainable and Viable
Natural Systems
Agriculture
Energy/Climate
Integrating with
Natural Resources Planning
Supporting Economic
Development
Ensuring Multimodal Connectivity
Enhancing and Creating
Sustainable Communities
Heartland 2060 Task Forces
0
500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 2060
U.S. Census 2011 BEBR (Medium-High Average)
Population Projections
Extendedprojection
(based on 2011BEBR Medium-High Average
rates )
DeSoto
Glades
Hardee
Hendry
Highlands
Okeechobee
Polk
Population Counts and Projections
Economic
Opportunities (from the CEDS)
Where we could be going…
The Heartland Tomorrow…Future Industry Clusters
Regional Economic Engines
as “Futures”
“If we continue with business-as-usual, including healthcare, natural resources, and ecotourism, then we can expect our future to look like…”
A future that…
Resembles the Present.
• Following current and historical trends in:
o populationo employmento land use
• Continuing economic prominence of agriculture, healthcare, mining, warehousing, ecotourism, and service industries
Current Economy
“If we focus on supplying technologies and goods that create energy and become energy exporters, then we can expect our future to look like…”
Focused on Energy.
• Developing an alternative fuels industry based on agriculture
• Manufacturing and installing renewable energy technologies
• Using high-tech energy technologies to become an energy exporter
• Energy efficiency and conservation technologies
A future that is…
Energy Economy
A future that is…
Making & Moving Goods.“If we focus on employment hubs for manufacturing, transportation, and warehousing, then we can expect our future to look like…”
• Using current and future industrial areas and logistics and trade networks
• Maintaining high capacity transportation networks for moving goods
• Enhancing distribution of air cargo
• Connecting ports
• Establishing advanced manufacturing and warehousing facilities
Trade Economy
Balance in urban land uses and conservation
land uses
Topic areas:
Transportation systems prevent fragmentation of
natural systems
Infrastructure supports sustainable agriculture
Land use supports a sustainable economy and a sustainable environment
Task Force:
Integrating with Natural Resources Planning
Supporting Economic Development
Ensuring Multimodal Connectivity
Enhancing and Creating Sustainable Communities
Key Issues:
Creating multimodal corridors
Connecting the Heartland with other regions
Moving people by rail, roads, and transit
Land use to support 2060 economy
Topic areas:
Moving people to support 2060 economy
Moving goods to support 2060 economy
Promoting energy efficient land use patterns
Supporting redevelopment
Housing affordability and sense of place within
established communities
Improvements to serve the needs of new
communities
Moving freight by rail, roads, and air
Linking transportation and land use to support
2060 economy
Florida’sEcological GreenwaysAcrossthe Heartland
5.6%
0.4%0.9%0.6%
5.2%
67.0%
14.9%
0.8% 4.6%
Single Family Multi-Family Commercial
Industrial Institutional Agriculture
Conservation Mixed-Use Mining
Existing Land Uses
Transportation, Land Use and Natural Resources:
Regional Systems Planning Efforts
Today 2060
Projected 2060 Population
Today’s
Economy
Future
“Current”
Economy
Projected 2060 Employment
• Connections between
growth and development
and transportation access
• Planning land use and
transportation to sustain
viable natural systems
• Enhancing mobility while
preserving community
character
• Linking visioning to land use
and transportation planning
Linking Land Use & Transportation
Economic Diversity
Natural Resource Protection
Multi-Modal Connectivity
Cultural Heritage
Enhancing and Creating Sustainable Communities
• Potential for increased
freight flows from Southeast
Florida seaports and
connections to proposed
intermodal logistics centers
• US 27 alternatives options
include truck-only lanes,
freight rail service, express
lanes, etc.
• Heartland 2060 regional
vision will help guide future
decisions about US 27
Southeast Florida-Heartland –Central Florida Study Area
• Examine need for more direct
connection between Southwest,
Central Florida
• Potential future need to provide
alternative to I-75
for people and freight
• Heartland 2060 regional vision will
help guide decisions about future
growth, development, and
corridors
Southwest Florida-Heartland –Central Florida Study Area
• Revitalize rural communities, encourage job creation, and provide regional
connectivity while leveraging technology, enhancing quality of life and public safety,
and protecting the environment and natural resources (SB7068/HB7113)
• From Heartland 2060:
o Transportation systems that serve regional connectivity while maintaining mobility and
community character in established cities and towns along new or expanding corridors
o Multi-modal corridors which encourage a variety of modes of travel for people and goods
o Corridors which avoid disruption of natural resources and key habitat areas
o Corridors which mitigate unavoidable impacts with emphasis on improving the impacted
resources
o Corridors which minimize the proliferation of utility corridors requiring new easements
Multi-use Corridors
of Regional Economic Significance Program
Regional Vision
Pat SteedExecutive Director
Central Florida Regional Planning Council
Multi-Use Corridors of Regional Economic Significance ProgramThomas Hawkins, JD, AICP
Policy and Planning Director, 1000 Friends of Florida
Policy considerations for toll
expressway development
• Environmental and agricultural resources?
• Suburban sprawl?
• Transportation need?
• Job creation?
• Hurricane evacuation?
Environmental and agricultural resources
https://defenders.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=b53c6baae6dd403ea95e32a2e63d340d
M-CORES program is business as usual.
Different outcomes require different
actions. Florida should invest in moving
people and goods by rail and transit.
Is more of the same right for Florida?
• Florida’s cities need $126.4 billion
in unfunded transportation capital
investment through 2035.
• The average commute time for
Florida workers is 27.4 minutes.
• This time Floridians are stuck in
traffic is higher than the national
average.
Center for Urban Transportation Research, Review of MPO Long Range Transportation Plans and
Estimate of Statewide 2035 Metropolitan Area Financial Shortfall 12 (2013).
Florida Department of Transportation, Commuting Trends in Florida A Special Report from FDOT
Forecasting and Trends Office 8 (February 2018).
• In 2017, 3,184 people died on
Florida roads
• Florida is the most dangerous
state for walking in the nation.
• Eight of the top-ten most
dangerous cities for walking are
Florida cities.
Florida Department of Health, Florida Vital Statistics Annual Report 2017, 114 (2017).
Smart Growth America and National Complete Street Coalition, Dangerous by Design 12 (2019).
More roads cause more traffic, more sprawl
• Trips created in the short-term are redistributive—people change behavior to drive more often and further
• Trips created in long-term are generative—developers, businesses, and people make long-term location decisions dependent on roads
• Expressways distort real estate markets, subsidize sprawl
Robert Cervero, Road Expansion, Urban Growth, and Induced Travel A Path Analysis, APA Journal
(Spring 2003).
Economic strength of rural and
agricultural communities is in rural
character and farms
• Preserving farmland benefits local
communities in many ways resulting in
food security, economic viability, better
quality of life
• Agritourism activities like you-pick
produce farms, farm-to-table events,
and hosting special event (such as
weddings, meetings and festivals)
create new farm revenue
Dr. Mark A. Bonn Dedman and Dr. Frederick W. Bell, Economic Impact of Selected Florida Springs on
Surrounding Local Areas, The Florida Department of Environmental Protection Division of State Lands
Florida Springs Task Force (April 10, 2003)
UF/IFAS Extension, Developing Agritourism (available at
http://sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu/archive/hot_topics/agriculture/agritourism.shtml; accessed March 13, 2019).
-Jane Nesbit, farmer
“People come to our farm to table dinners from south Florida, Jacksonville,
and the panhandle. Dining under the stars, on the land where the food is
produced, the whole experience of being out in the country, is something that
people can’t experience in the city or the suburbs.”
“The CSA on its own might not be financially viable. Small farming is difficult.
Employing people and providing a sustainable wage depends on these
additional activities.”
Unique strengths create jobs
• Environmental assets are economic resources
• Nature-based tourism activities like eco-safaris,
scuba diving, and kayaking grow jobs sustainably
• Millions of people each year visit Florida springs
• Ichetucknee Springs alone contributes about $22.7
million in spending in Columbia and Suwannee
Counties creating $5.09 million in wages
supporting 311 jobs
Dr. Mark A. Bonn Dedman and Dr. Frederick W. Bell, Economic Impact of Selected Florida Springs on
Surrounding Local Areas, The Florida Department of Environmental Protection Division of State Lands
Florida Springs Task Force (April 10, 2003)
Michelle Best, Ecotourism in Florida Letting Nature Work For You School of Forest Resources and
Conservation, UF/IFAS Extension, (CIR 1517, first published September 2007, reviewed January
2017).
Hurricane evacuation
• Issue is a red herring
• When dangerous storms approach road is not safest pace
• Florida has insufficient hurricane evacuation shelter space
• Deficiency is particularly acute in Southwest Florida and in Tampa Bay
• Shelters are a more practical and affordable response to extreme weather events than is the M-CORES Program
Division of Emergency Management, 2018 Statewide Emergency Shelter Plan (2018).
M-CORES program would shift infrastructure
investment away from metropolitan areas—where
we need that investment most to serve people and
to sustain jobs—to build expressways through
rural and agricultural areas—where the costs
outweigh any potential benefit
Questions and answers
Please ask questions!•Your webinar control panel includes a “Questions” box
•Please click on “+” sign and type any questions in this box
•Please refer to the slide number and/or speaker when you post your question
•Please keep your questions succinct!
•Staff will ask the presenters questions, as time permits
This webinar has been approved for:• 1.5 AICP CM credits for planners (#9173152)
• 1.5 credits for Florida DBPR Landscape Architects (include course #0011429 and provider #PVD151 on certificate you receive in follow up email)
• .15 CEUs for Florida Environmental Health Professionals
• 1 CEC for Certified Floodplain Managers
• 2.0 CLE for Florida attorneys (#1902381N; Intermediate; 2 General, 2 Constitutional Law)
In the follow up email you will receive:
A certificate of attendance (use Google Chrome to download)
A link to a brief survey to help us improve future webinars
Dr. John M. DeGrove Webinar SponsorsFLORIDA STEWARD
The Archibald Foundation, Inc.
NATHANIEL REED SOCIETY
Mosaic
FRIEND
Ms. Kimberly A. DeGrove and Dr. Clyde Partin
Dickman Law Firm
William Howard Flowers, Jr. Foundation, Inc.
The Keith Team
Kitson & Partners
The Perkins Charitable Foundation
Mr. Robert M. Rhodes
Dr. John M. DeGrove Webinar Series
• FREE MAY WEBINAR -- 2019 Florida Legislative Wrap UpWednesday, May 22, noon to 1:30, Eastern TimeApproved for credits for planners, Florida DBPR landscape architects, Certified Floodplain Managers, Florida attorneys
Register or find out more at www.1000friendsofflorida.org/webinar/
Support 1000 Friends!
Donate on-line at www.1000friendsofflorida.org/donate-now/
(you may designate it for DeGrove Education Fund if you wish)
Email [email protected] to find out about becoming a DeGrove Webinar Series sponsor
AMAZON SMILE
Amazon will make a donation to 1000 Friends every time you purchase through their site at http://smile.amazon.com/ch/59-2761163
To find out more:
Visit 1000 Friends of Florida’s 2019 Florida Legislative Session webpage at:
www.1000friendsofflorida.org/2019-florida-legislative-session
And the proposed SB 7068/HB 1773 webpage at:http://www.1000friendsofflorida.org/sb-7068/
Due to constraints on staff time, we have only applied for professional certification credits for participants who attend the live webinar, not
those who view the broadcast.
