12/1/99 - The following information was written by Hunter Wynne about his preparation og the Statewide Future Land Use Plan in April of 1994. PREPARATION OF THE STATEWIDE FUTURE LAND USE MAP AND COUNTY FUTURE LAND USE ACREAGES PREPARED BY THE SOUTHWEST FLORIDA REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL INTRODUCTION Following the preparation of the Local Government Future Land Use Maps in the Southwest Florida Region, SWFRPC staff generalized these maps into a Southwest Florida Future Land Use Map. Staff felt that this would be a valuable tool for regional planning as we sat back to take a look at what local governments had planned for the region as a whole. We could then begin to ask questions such as where are our new north-south roads going to be; where are our water management areas; do we have sufficient lands available for wildlife? In the Fall of 1992, staff was contacted by staff from the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) to investigate the potential for the creation of a Statewide Future Land Use Map, also based on the local government plans. Staff proposed that the State's Regional Planning Councils could undertake the task with the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council providing the overall coordination and preparation of the final map. An agreement was finalized for the map preparation on December 17, 1992. Thanks should be given to Mr. Ed Mierzejewski and the Center for Urban Transportation Research for their financial and technical supports, to Mr. Ben Starrett and to the Department of Community Affairs for their technical support, and to each of the State's Regional Planning Councils for the preparation of the draft maps. STATEWIDE FUTURE LAND USE MAP ASSUMPTIONS Land Use Classification System The land use classification system for the Statewide Future Land Use Map was decided through a series of meetings between the above mentioned parties. Since each of the State's 457 Local Governments had adopted future land use maps that were different, the first task was to create a general land use classification system that could accurately reflect each local map and provide meaningful statewide information. Based on the review of the various maps, the following classification system was selected: a. Agriculture 1 unit per 5 acres and less b. Estates 1 unit per 4.9 acres to 1 unit per 0.9 acre c. Single Family 1 unit per 1 acre to 5.9 units per 1 acre d. Multi Family 6 unites per acre and greater e. Industrial f. Commercial/Office g. Mining h. Existing and Future Preserves/Conservation i. Major water bodies j. Military Other Land Use Classification Considerations 1. MOBILE HOMES - Densities up to 7/acre, with trip generation comparable to multi-family, consider as single-family. 2. RV PARKS - Densities up to 20/acre, with trip generation comparable to hotel/motel, consider as multi-family. 3. Scale was the next issue of concern. The conclusion was that the scale fo clarity should be FDOT's at 1" = 2 miles. This eliminates the need for designating most "mixed use" areas, since only the dominate land use can be portrayed at the quarter section - or even quarter/quarter section. DRAFT MAPS Each RPC had different levels of mapping capabilities and computer equipment. Some RPCs gave us draft maps on paper at the FDOT scale, others gave us AutoCad created files and others gave us ARC/INFO or other GIS coverages. The SWFRPC staff utilized ARC/INFO running on an IBM RISC 6000 Workstation to assemble the statewide map. COUNTY TOTALS During the preparation of the map, many state and regional agencies contacted us concerning our progress. The Partners for a Better Florida Advisory council saw very rough drafts of the map and realized that statewide acreages would be a useful for their considerations, especially during the discussions concerning a proposal for a Statewide Transfer of Marketable Development Rights to protect rural lands. The SWFRPC was then asked by Partners to produce county acreages. Staff produced these numbers and submitted them to the Partners Council, unfortunately, the SWFRPC has not received the promised reimbursement for this work. The attached table presents these numbers along with three calculations of total potential dwelling units envisioned by all local governments. When reviewing these numbers, please also use the following considerations: 1. Due to the need for infrastructure and right-of-ways, overall acreage may need to be adjusted downward by a factor of about 20%. 2. Due to the overall scale of the map, small land use items of less than 20 acres in size will not be included. 3. Due to the fact that local maps were generalized, there will be a certain amount of residential units allowed within the Commercial/Office category. 4. Jackson County figures for the single-family category were reduced due to potential over estimation. County totals omitted at this time 04/13/94 STATE WIDE FUTURE LAND USE Data Dictionary and Lineage Report Data Dictionary DATAFILE NAME: STATENOLUP.PAT 04/13/1994 10 ITEMS: STARTING IN POSITION 1 COL ITEM NAME WDTH OPUT TYP N.DEC ALTERNATIVE NAME 1 Area 4 12 F 3 5 Perimeter 4 12 F 3 9 Statenolup# 4 5 B - 13 Statenolup-ID 4 5 B - 17 DXF-TEXT 40 4 C - 57 COLOR 3 3 I - 60 COLOR2 3 3 I - 63 COUNTY 40 15 C - 103 USE 2 2 C - 105 ACRES 8 18 F 3 Definition of data items: AREA - Internally defined. PERIMETER - Internally defined. STATENOLUP (solup) # - Internally defined. STATENOLUP (solup) - ID - Internally defined. DXF-TEXT - This value was used by SWFRPC to obtain the land use classification when compiling data from RPCs that were using AutoCad for the mapping project. COLOR - This integer value is directly correlated to the value of the USE item. COLOR is used for shading polygons using the shadeset colornames. COLOR2 - Also used to shade polygons using the shadeset colornames. This is for SWFRPC in-house check plot and check drawing purposes. COUNTY - Valid vlaues for this item include any of the 67 counties of Florida. USE - Valid values for this item include: AG - Agriculture (<=1 unit/5 acres) ES - Estate (1-4 units/5 acres) SF - Single Family (1-6 units/acre) MF - Multi Family (>= 6 units/acre) CM - Commercial/Office IN - Industrial MN - Mining ML - Military PR - Preserve WT - Water ACRES - This item is acres. It is calculated by multiplying AREA * 43560. Lineage Original data sources were the future land use maps of Florida's 458 local governments. Source data was compiled regionally by each Regional Planning Council. Florida's DCA does not require standard categories for future land use maps submitted as part of a comprehensive plan. Because of this, the RPCs were then faced with the task of working each of the local governments future land use classifications into the ten categories used for the final State Wide Future Land Use Map. This process of fitting one classification scheme into another relied on the planning skills and local knowledge of each RPCs staff. Each RPC worked to as accurately as possible represent each local governments land use categories into the state wide classification categories. Scale of future land use maps vary from local government to local government. Each RPC used in-house procedures to remap the local maps at 1 inch = 2 miles. At this scale a resolution that captured areas of 20 acres or greater was applied. Projection of data varies from local government to local government. Most of the data received by SWFRPC was in one of the three state plan projections for Florida. Most RPCs submitted their work projected in the state plan for their region while some work was submitted in digitizer units. For the final compilation, SWFRPC transformed all data to UTM zone 17 with feet as the unit of measure. This was the most logical single projection for a state wide project of this type.