The 2005 DRI Update summarizes the DRI activity in Southwest Florida from 1974 to the present. The Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council staff used various sources to obtain the information contained in this report. These sources include annual monitoring reports, previous reports, DRI applications, Notice of Proposed Change applications, and development orders. The 2005 DRI Update is a collection of monitoring reports that are based on the guidelines established by the Florida State Legislature. Each report is required to follow the standard State questionnaire, which specifies the issues to discuss (as applicable) to the DRI development.

The annual monitoring report indicates, if applicable, the following information about a particular DRI: its identification number; Name of Project; Location; due date; Applicant and Applicant's Representative; Owner; Description of the Approved Development; Description of the Project's Current Activities; Recent Modifications; RPC Official Findings; and the physical and spatial characteristics of each development.

The 2005 DRI Update also includes a project location and development status list, summary tables by county for approved uses and constructed uses for active DRI projects, and maps showing the locations of active DRI projects within each county. Active DRI projects include all projects that have not been withdrawn, denied, or abandoned. Appendix A contains the Approved Uses and Construction Activity tables for each county and the region as a whole. The Approved Uses tables show the total acreage, number of housing units, commercial space, industrial space, office space, hotel rooms, hospital rooms, wet slips, and dry slips approved for each viable DRI in the county. The Constructed Uses tables show the number of housing units, commercial space, industrial space, office space, hotel rooms, hospital rooms, wet, and dry slips constructed for each viable DRI in the county. The amendment number and approval date for each project as well as the dates covered by each monitoring report are also included. A map of each county gives a geographical location of the DRIs and demonstrates the overall activity for the region.

Projects approved before 1980 are not required to submit an annual monitoring report. Recently, the State amended the update requirements for DRIs, allowing new projects to submit a monitoring report biennially rather than annually. Current projects have the option to switch to biennial reporting.

Since the inception of the DRI review process, 185 Applications for Development Approval have been submitted for review in the Southwest Florida Region. DRIs in the region have been under the jurisdiction of three regional planning councils. Prior to 1975, the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council and the South Florida Regional Planning Council reviewed the Southwest Florida DRIs. A total of 16 DRIs were reviewed by these RPCs. In 1975, the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council began reviewing DRIs for the six-county region. As of September 1, 2005, 169 Developments of Regional Impact have been reviewed, or are under review, by the SWFRPC.

A hardcopy of the 2005 DRI Update is available to the public for a fee of $50.00 or can be downloaded, free of charge, from this web site. You may also download a specific segment of the 2005 DRI Update that is of interest to you (see the links above).