The Strategic Regional Policy Plan (SRPP) of East Central Florida is an important document because it sets out the initiative and plan to improve the way East Central Florida looks and functions in the next 50 years. This plan includes Orange, Seminole, Brevard, Lake, Volusia, Osceola, and Polk Counties. Every community, every region, for that matter, has rules for growth and development. They are based on growth policies and values, whether we realize it or not. And the rules we have been using over the past 50 years counted on plenty of free capacity forever. Free capacity on our roads, free capacity in our drinkable water, free capacity of our planet to give us clean air. The vast majority of the East Central Florida population relies on
…show more content…
As the plan points out, East Central Florida is subject to many different types of natural disasters and emergencies and could very well be a target for terrorism, since Orlando is a large tourist center. Emergency managers must plan to prepare to mitigate and plan for the aftermath of these situations. As stated in the plan, the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council plays a significant role in planning for disasters which uses federal and state funds for the full gamut of emergency management as well as anti-terrorism. All of this is done in collaboration with local fire departments, local sheriff’s departments, local county and state emergency managers, as well as the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and Homeland Security. Chapter 7 deals with Affordable Housing, which includes various housing types, like single family homes, townhouses, duplexes, condos, mobile homes, etc., and allowing people to have less expensive means to purchase these homes. There are a variety of affordable housing programs that can help reduce financing costs for affordable housing and strategies such as Land Trusts, Linkage Feeds, Cottage Housing, Multi-Family Housing, etc. Chapter 8 and Chapter 9 both deal with Energy and Climate Change and Water. These chapters address the global warming phenomena and how it affects East Central Florida in water availability, agriculture, public health, the local ecology, the economy, etc. The Water aspect deals with water consumption, such as year-round lawn watering restrictions, droughts, and conservation water usage in general, while advocating for further conservation water measures. Chapter 10’s Community Design delves into how neighborhoods, urban sprawl, and streets are designed around cities in the East Central Florida area and how they connect with the “main square” of the street grid patterns from the four corners of each city and town. And finally, Chapter 11, deals with
As the plan points out, East Central Florida is subject to many different types of natural disasters and emergencies and could very well be a target for terrorism, since Orlando is a large tourist center. Emergency managers must plan to prepare to mitigate and plan for the aftermath of these situations. As stated in the plan, the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council plays a significant role in planning for disasters which uses federal and state funds for the full gamut of emergency management as well as anti-terrorism. All of this is done in collaboration with local fire departments, local sheriff’s departments, local county and state emergency managers, as well as the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and Homeland Security. Chapter 7 deals with Affordable Housing, which includes various housing types, like single family homes, townhouses, duplexes, condos, mobile homes, etc., and allowing people to have less expensive means to purchase these homes. There are a variety of affordable housing programs that can help reduce financing costs for affordable housing and strategies such as Land Trusts, Linkage Feeds, Cottage Housing, Multi-Family Housing, etc. Chapter 8 and Chapter 9 both deal with Energy and Climate Change and Water. These chapters address the global warming phenomena and how it affects East Central Florida in water availability, agriculture, public health, the local ecology, the economy, etc. The Water aspect deals with water consumption, such as year-round lawn watering restrictions, droughts, and conservation water usage in general, while advocating for further conservation water measures. Chapter 10’s Community Design delves into how neighborhoods, urban sprawl, and streets are designed around cities in the East Central Florida area and how they connect with the “main square” of the street grid patterns from the four corners of each city and town. And finally, Chapter 11, deals with