2030 Mobility Plan: A Driver for Better Development?

[Metro Jacksonville]

2030 Mobility Plan: A Driver for Better Development?



Metro Jacksonville takes a look at the proposed 2030 Mobility Plan's ability to make a positive change through encouraging multimodal friendly land use planning.

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http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2010-apr-2030-mobility-plan-a-driver-for-better-development

[JeffreyS]

Perhaps the waiting is almost over. We have a mobility plan now let's hope the city council makes it the law of the land quickly.
Has this been presented to the council yet?
This is one the MJ community needs to let the council know we want acted on quickly. Email, call or write your representative to encourage their support. Facebook this one out to your friends.

[tufsu1]

A committee has been fomed to figure out how best to implement the plan....best guess is final approval through Council won't occur until sometime next year.

[JeffreyS]

A committee has been fomed to figure out how best to implement the plan....best guess is final approval through Council won't occur until sometime next year.

They need to fast track this before amendmant 4.

[Ocklawaha]

It's the same old change thing... Our developers and money have been built on slap up - clap board and block, or downtown tilt ups. Until these boys see the profit in doing it right they will continue to destroy every plan that comes along. The solution? SHOW THEM THE MONEY, or as the new law does, SHOW THEM THE PENALTY FOR IGNORANCE.


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[tufsu1]

A committee has been fomed to figure out how best to implement the plan....best guess is final approval through Council won't occur until sometime next year.

They need to fast track this before amendmant 4.

that may be tough...but a poll a few weeks ago showed only 51% in favor of Amendment 4....it needs 60% to pass

[ralpho37]

I hate having to refer to Orlando for urban development guidelines.  It would be great if Jacksonville would step up and be the leader for once.  Hopefully this master plan isn't just a rainbow-colored bag of pixie dust hot air.  I'd love to see something actually get done!

[thelakelander]

^The best thing the public can do is to lobby the council to get educated on the details of the plan and support it.  That's going to be the most efficient way to move forward.

[Charles Hunter]

Does the Mobility Plan have safeguards against the City waiving the Mobility Fee for "favored" developments / developers?  Like "incentives" to bring in "target employers"?

[CS Foltz]

Mr Charles.............I would bet money there is a loop hole somewhere by the time the "Committee" gets completed! Mr Killingsworth has generated something that addresses alot of the issues we have to deal with and somehow since a "Committee" has been formed, that is probably number one on their hit parade! Lets get some more "Consultants" in on the party while we are committeeing so we can take a really good idea and see how much non-essential bull pucky can be added!

[sheclown]

 Would the plan totally change the existing zoning codes?

[thelakelander]

No. It just makes it possible to construct walkable development throughout the city with a financial incentive.

[tufsu1]

Does the Mobility Plan have safeguards against the City waiving the Mobility Fee for "favored" developments / developers?  Like "incentives" to bring in "target employers"?

Pretty much every community in FL allows this....the premise of concurrency is that impacts of development get mitigated....the "system" doesn't care who does it.

The problem is that communities often don't follow through and make the improvements when giving developers a pass....another problem that has occurred statewide is that many small developments don't have to make improvements, yet they still generate trips.

[strider]

This does seem like a big step in the right direction.  But this study is 225 pages long and contains so much information that relatively few will actually read it in it’s entirety.  Lake is very right, in one way, we need to educate council members about this concept.  However and perhaps most importantly, we need to educate the residents of areas that would most likely be effected.  How do we take the suburban mentality and convince it that this is the way to go? How do we show that mixed use is right and that it won't drag down property values, endanger the children or bring in the wrong kind of people?   These are the arguments we have seen against various higher intensive and much needed commercial developments recently.  Many of us know these are false and incorrect arguments, but there are things in this plan that will promote these arguments against it.  How do we educate people to prevent that?

[thelakelander]

I believe a picture or vision speaks a 1,000 words.  We can educate by illustrating and showcasing real life examples.  Locally, communities like Riverside and San Marco can be used as examples of places offering a quality of life that includes a mix of uses and higher density in a walkable manner.  One issue that will continue to remain at the forefront of this process is SB 360.  Jacksonville is going to have to do something to attempt to meet the bill's requirements regardless of the people's arguments.  So for those who argue against multimodal transportation options and integrating land use with mobility, they are going to have to come up with a road based alternative that achieves the goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, vehicle miles traveled and curbing sprawl.  Good luck with that one.