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Issues identified in meeting with Public Safety, March 10, 2010

• Hurricane vulnerability
• Sea-level rise
• Walkable communities
• Complete streets
• Lehigh septic and duplex issues

Issues identified in meeting with State & Local Agencies, March 24, 2010

• Consider changing circumstances
  • University(ies)
  • Collier urbanization
  • Municipal (Downtown) revitalization
  • International airport
  • Investigate “green” building
  • Consider the effect of changing urban demographics on housing, infrastructure, services
    • Less reliance on cars, more walking, biking, other transit options
    • Medical services
    • Funding sources for light rail
• Promote continuation of rural/agricultural uses to support urban form/self sufficiency
  • Explore compact communities, complete streets
  • Support density transfers to mass transportation corridors
  • Need more density in urban areas
• Redevelopment in platted communities
  • Promote daily convenience, commercial areas in neighborhoods
  • Neighborhood connectivity to employment and shopping centers
• Employment centers
  • Foster research activities
• Manage water quality
  • Sustainability and incentives
• Need public education

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Issues identified in meeting with Lee County Agencies, March 31, 2010

• Provide better definition between urban and rural areas
  • Increase urban density; decrease rural density.
  •  Encourage agricultural uses – locally grown food
  • Incentivize area-wide stormwater management plans
• Urban Transportation Issues
  • Urban-centered transit; park-and-ride, buses.
  • Road concurrency vs. urban areas
• Funding source for mobility
• Identify existing rail lines to explore transit options and possible urban redevelopment
• Look at transit connections to airport
• Need for continuing coordination for development of the airports
• Roads still needed
• Urban Redevelopment Issues
  • Water utilities may need redevelopment for increased urban demand
  • Type of solid waste collection systems, identified through plan amendments
  • Will increased urban density revive need for neighborhood, “walkable” parks
  • South Lee County solid waste transfer station(s)
  • Airport noise and adjacent development issues
• Environmentally Sensitive Development
  • Consider integrated water resources plan
  • Irrigation water
  • Consider green building design incentives
  • Changes to species status (keeping the Lee Plan Current with Federal and State lists)
  • Water quality/EPA standards
    • External factors are important (Lake O, Everglades, flows down Caloosahatchee)
  • Evaluate enhanced Level Of Service standards for water quality standards
• Fire Protection
  • Better notice to fire agencies on new permitting, including SFR
  • Don’t create wildfire interface issues, houses in the woods, eg. Briarcliff, Lehigh
  • Stable funding system for consistent level of fire service, less dependence on ad valorem
  • Unified fire districts
  • Consider tax/fee inequities for funding fire services
  • Consolidate fire review for building permits throughout Lee County
  • Call triage for emergency services to maximize efficiency
    • Lack of infrastructure east of I-75 along Corkscrew – fire protection/water supply

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