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The South Miami-Dade Watershed
Study Advisory Committee
The South Florida Regional Planning Council (SFRPC) is partnering
with Miami-Dade County and the South Florida Water Management
District to develop a South Miami-Dade Watershed Plan. The
purpose of the Watershed Plan is “to optimize the economic,
social and environmental values in the watershed area by
comprehensively integrating land use and water management
decisions.” This
Plan is designated by Miami-Dade County’s Comprehensive
Development Master Plan (CDMP), Land Use Policy 3E, which
provides that "an integrated land use and water management
plan shalll be prepared for Southeastern Miami-Dade County".
The plan is being developed by Keith and Schnars, consultant
for the study. An integral part of the study is obtaining
the input and consent of a multi-stakeholder group, the South
Miami Dade Watershed Study Advisory Committee.
In the 3.5 years it has been meeting, the Advisory Committee
has identified core values, developed a mission, outlined
goals and objectives, informed the consultant hiring process,
and currently makes recommendations as each task of the Consultant
is finalized. The Committee meets monthly on the fourth Thursday
of each month.
For information or to be added to the "interested parties"
list, please contact Janice
Fleischer
For copies of reports and
other documentation: http://www.sfrpc.com/institute/watershed.htm
Project Manager: John
Hulsey, South Florida Regional Planning Council
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The Biscayne Bay Regional Restoration
Coordination Team
The Biscayne Bay Regional Restoration Coordination Team
was formed by a charter of the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration
Task Force Working Group and began meeting in October, 2001.
The Team’s genesis was in the recommendations that
were made by the Biscayne Bay Partnership Initiative (BBPI).
Ms. Fleischer has been providing agenda design, facilitation
and consultation services for the Team since March, 2003.
Generally the purposes of the Team are to “integrate
and coordinate restoration, enhancement, and preservation
projects, plans and activities, and …work toward maintaining
a functioning ecosystem while promoting a sustainable region”.
Some specific purposes are: “provide a forum
for public involvement, outreach and interagency coordination
and communication; identify priority issues for action; create
teams to address those issues as needed; make recommendations
on key issues to the Working Group; identify goals and performance
measures related to key issues and assess the achievement
of goals; identify funding requirements; and review elements
of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan that affect
Biscayne Bay.”
For information or to be added to the "interested parties" list,
please contact Janice
Fleischer
For copies of reports and other documentation: www.sfrpc.com/institute/bbrrct.htm
Project Manager: Evan Skornick,
South Florida Water Management District
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Florida International University (FIU)
Violence Against Women on Campus Grant
Florida International University’s Victim Advocacy Center
of the Division of Student affairs was awarded the first of
two grants by the U.S. Department of Justice under its Violence
Against Women on Campus Grant in 2002. The first grant (2002-2003)
was part of a two-year national demonstration project designed
to address the problems of stalking, domestic/dating violence,
sexual violence and computer network facilitated victimization
(computer stalking) on college campuses. The second grant (2004-2006)
was funded due to the success of the Task Force in its work
on the first grant. The second grant was funded to provide
the Task Force with the resources it needed to organize the
writing of a Procedures Document and develop performance measures.
Current Task Force meetings are scheduled every other month.
The project represents a collaborative partnership among multiple
campus departments and community agencies to accomplish the
following three goals: (1) Develop a Coordinated community
response to campus victimization; (2) Increase and improve
victim assistance services to international and non-traditional
student populations; and (3) Produce culturally appropriate
and sensitive prevention and awareness-oriented educational
materials.
Project partners have been participating in a task force
that reviewed existing policies and practices, made policy
recommendations (First grant product), and develop an implementation
plan (second grant, current work). Ms. Fleischer has been
providing agenda design and facilitation services for the
Task Force since its inception.
An important component of the work of this project will be
the documentation of project efforts in order to provide a
basis for policies and models for other colleges and universities
throughout the United States.
For information or to be added to the "interested parties" list,
please contact Janice
Fleischer
For copies of reports and other documentation: www.sfrpc.com/institute/vawoc.htm
Project Manager: Sherry Aaron
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State Road 7/U.S. 441 Collaborative
The State Road 7/U.S. 441 Collaborative is a unique partnership
with a mission to promote the economic and aesthetic improvement
of the corridor. The State Road 7/U.S. 441 Collaborative’s
membership includes each of the 14 local government jurisdictions
that span the State Road 7/U.S. 441 corridor in Broward County,
Florida. The Collaborative also contains ex-officio membership
from selected agencies and organizations. The State Road
7/U.S. 441 Collaborative is facilitated by the staff of the
South Florida Regional Planning Council.
The Collaborative was formed in 2001. Ms. Fleischer assisted
in the organizing and initiation of the Collaborative from
2001-2003 by designing the process, consulting with the Chair,
and facilitating all meetings.
In October of 2003, the State Road 7/U.S. 441 Collaborative
began work on the development of a Strategic Master Plan for
the entire 25.6 mile corridor. The corridor has been divided
into nine planning segments. A public design charrette has
been scheduled for each segment between May 2003 and November
2005. The public design charrettes are currently being scheduled.
Please mark your calendar and plan to attend the charrette
in your community.
The Strategic Master Plan for State Road 7 will be coordinated
with each jurisdiction and agency – such as the road
widening project currently underway by the Florida Department
of Transportation, the Bus Rapid Transit pilot project, road
resurfacing projects, and landscaping improvements to name
a few.
For information about the Collaborative, contact Project
Manager: David Dahlstrom
For copies of reports and other documentation: www.sfrpc.com/sr7.htm
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Biscayne National Park Fisheries Management
Plan Working Group
See Miami Hearld Article on Fisheries Plan - 9/25/05
Biscayne National Park and the State of Florida Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Commission are partners in developing a Comprehensive
Fisheries Management Plan for Biscayne National Park that will
provide for the long-term management of fish and aquatic resources
within the Park. The purpose of the Working Group was to assist
in the development of this Plan by providing input and advisory
recommendations. The Working Group was comprised of representatives
from the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council,
recreational and commercial fishermen, non-governmental organizations
and academics.
During their deliberations, Members reviewed the SWOT (strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and threats) of and to the fisheries
in Biscayne Bay and the Park. They went on to identify issues,
categories, goals and objectives. Their goals and objectives
were stated in the document entitled “Desired Future
Conditions” which also detailed suggested Management
Action Steps to accomplish those objectives. Project Manager,
Todd Kellison, Ph.D., Biscayne National Park, will use this
information in composing the next iteration of the DRAFT Fisheries
Management Plan. The Draft will then go back to the Working
Group prior to its being presented for public comment sometime
in Fall,2004 or Winter, 2005.
Ms. Fleischer provided agenda design, facilitation and
consultation services for the Working Group for a series
of five meetings, the first of which took place on January
27, 2004 at Biscayne National Park headquarters. The final
meeting was held on May 17, 2004.
For copies of reports and other documentation: www.sfrpc.com/institute/bnpfmp.htm
Project Manger: Todd Kellison, Ph.D.
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The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration
Plan (CERP): Program and Project Outreach and the Environmental
and Economic Justice Program
In June, 2003, Ms. Fleischer began providing services to
the Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management
District to assist them in updating their strategies for
two program level plans: The Public Outreach Program Management
Plan and The Environmental and Economic Equity Program Management
Plan.
“The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP)
is the most ambitious ecosystem restoration plan ever undertaken
in the United States. This multi-billion dollar effort is designed
to restore, preserve and protect the world famous South Florida
ecosystem and meet other key water resource needs of the region.” The
CERP is meant “to offer major benefits for the environment
as well as agriculture and human users as well as enhancing
water supplies and promoting a sustainable economy for the
region.”
The CERP consists of two levels of activity: Program Level,
which stretches across individual project lines and addresses
the restoration effort in a broad sense and Project Level,
which are project-specific activities for each of the components
of CERP (such as: removal of a canal, construction of a reservoir,
etc.). Additionally, CERP has several program management
plans that are being developed. These plans identify the
overall scope of work to be shared between the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers (Corps) and the South Florida Water Management
District (District), the two entities primarily responsible
for carrying out CERP.
On the Program level, Ms. Fleischer
designed and was lead facilitator for a series of ten meetings
in five locations (West Coast, Belle Glade, Broward, Dade
and the Keys) across the footprint of CERP to gather information
from the “connectors” of
CERP targeted audiences, those representatives who have a
report with both the implementer/decision makers and the
general population. This information will be used by the
Corps and District to update its Program Outreach and Environmental
and Economic Equity Plans for the next 2-3 years. The purpose
of the Outreach Plan is to provide a framework for the public
outreach activities that accompany and support implementation
of CERP. “Outreach” encompasses “information” and “involvement”,
with an emphasis on reaching minority and underserved populations.
The Environmental and Economic Equity Program Management
Plan has as its purpose: “to provide a framework for
the social and economic efforts that will accompany and support
the implementation of the CERP”.
On the Project level, Ms. Fleischer worked with Project
Outreach Specialists (OS) from the Corps and the District
and designed Agendas, provided consultation, and facilitated
workshops to assist the OS’s in coordinating their
efforts, maximizing their resources and developing a working
plan.
For more information,
please contact Janice
Fleischer
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The Biscayne Bay Strategic Access
Plan Advisory Team
In its list of recommendations, the Biscayne Bay Partnership
Initiative (BBPI) included the necessity for a strategic
Access Plan for Biscayne Bay. The Trust for Public Land (TPL)
was given the task of writing the Plan. TPL worked on this
project in two Phases. Phase I was data collection, inventory
and research related to visual and physical access to the
Bay. Phase II involved gathering input from a diverse group
of stakeholders on the Bay identifying goals, objectives
and recommendations for improving access to the Bay. Ms.
Fleischer assisted The Trust for Public Land in this process
by designing and facilitating a series of nine (9) meetings
for the Biscayne Bay Strategic Access Plan Advisory Team.
The first meeting was held August, 2003.
For copies of reports and other documentation: www.sfrpc.com/institute/bbsapat.htm
Project Manager: Amy Condon
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The Water Resources Advisory Commission
(WRAC) Land Acquisition Sub Committee
Ms. Fleischer assisted the Water Resources Advisory Commission
(WRAC) Land Acquisition Sub Committee in its deliberations
toward making recommendations to the full WRAC the first
week in September 2002. This committee was formed to review
existing land acquisition plans and projects in connection
with the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force Land
Acquisition Strategy and make recommendations for improving
that document.
Ms. Fleischer designed the agendas and facilitated the meetings
which were held every Monday beginning in July and running
through the end of August, 2002. The recommendations of the
Committee were presented to the WRAC on September 5, 2002.
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Visioning Services for Broward
Department of Planning and Environmental Protection: Urban
Tree Canopy
On August 29, 2001, The Broward County Department of Planning
and Environmental Protection (DPEP) held a a visioning workshop
to discuss and design a plan for improving the tree canopy
in Broward County, Florida. Over 75 representatives from local
governments and private sector businesses attended the workshop.
Participants received information on the current state of the
County’s urban tree canopy as well as making suggestions
for how to improve it. The participants then identified the
issues of main concern and developed objectives and actions
steps to meet those objectives.
Ms. Fleischer was lead facilitator for the process in addition
to designing the agenda and consulting with representatives
from Broward County.
For copy of report and other documentation: www.sfrpc.com/institute/urbantreecanopy.htm
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The East/Central Broward Transportation
Exposition
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) held a project
information sharing workshop on September 7, 2001 at FDOT
headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale. Ms. Fleischer provided agenda
design and facilitation services.
For copy of report and other documentation: www.sfrpc.com/institute/transexpo.htm
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Department
of Community Affairs/Florida Keys Affordable Housing
During 2001, The Florida Department of Community Affairs (FDCA)
hosted several meetings in the Florida Keys in an effort to
assist the Keys in designing and implementing a plan to address
the issue of affordable housing in the Keys. During the course
of the meetings, representatives from local governments met
to review the current situation, discuss the obstacles to resolving
this important issue, evaluate their resources and needs and
begin to formulate an action plan. Additionally, a decision
was made to hire a Housing Consultant to coordinate activities.
The FDCA, along with other participant members offered to donate
resources to support this position.
Ms. Fleischer designed the agendas and facilitated the
meetings which took place in Marathon, Florida.
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The City of Miami Beach 5th Street Corridor
Redevelopment Project
The City of Miami Beach Community/Economic Development Department
(Department) hosted a series of five (5) public participation
meetings during 2001 and 2002 to gain information and recommendations
to be used as it developed The 5th Street Corridor Redevelopment
Project.
Each meeting addressed a different set of topics. All of the
following topics were covered:
Economic Revitalization
Public Safety
Schools
Job Training
Senior/Youth Services
Housing, Preservation and Aesthetics
Environment
Parks
Infrastructure
Transportation
The Department received a grant from the Florida Department
of Community Affairs (FDCA) to sponsor the public meetings
to develop an Urban Infill and Redevelopment Plan for this
area. Ms. Fleischer designed the agendas, consulted with
Department Staff, and facilitated each meeting.
For copy of report and other documentation: www.sfrpc.com/institute/5thstreet.htm
Project Manger: David
Dahlstrom, South Florida Regional
Planning Council
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Northern Palm Beach County Traffic
Summit
Ms. Fleischer, working with Patty Schapley of the the FIU/FAU
Joint Center for Environmental and Urban Problems (now called
the Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions at FAU),
designed the Agenda, was lead facilitator and provided support
for a collaborative effort of local and county governments
for the Northern Palm Beach County Traffic Summit on March
30 and 31, 2001. Approximately 100 active participants attended
the Summit. This two-day event asked the participants to
establish priorities for the issues and provide suggestion
for solutions revolving around traffic concerns in the Northern
Palm Beach/Southern Martin County area. The categories considered
were: Community Character, Connectivity, Modes of Transportation,
Land Use Patterns and Levels of Service.
Participants ranked the following problems as top priorities:
• Lack of Connectivity
• Urban Sprawl/Greater trip lengths
• Mass transit not used or accepted
• Constricted Roadway At Lower Level of Service (CRALLS) misuse
• No intergovernmental coordination
Results arising from the work of Summit participants are being
used as input to transportation planning processes for local
governments and the two counties.
Click here to download copy of report
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Visioning Services for the Town of
Southwest Ranches
During the summer and fall of 2001, Ms. Fleischer and Carlos
Gonzalez of The South Florida Regional Planning Council (SFRPC)
assisted the newly incorporated Town of Southwest Ranches
in the development and implementation of a visioning process
that was used to support the Town’s efforts in developing
its first comprehensive master plan. The services provided
included conducting stakeholder interviews and surveys, designing
the visioning process, facilitating visioning workshops,
and drafting of a Final Report. Each workshop was well attended
by community and local government representatives including
surrounding local jurisdictions and county government representatives.
For copy of report and other documentation: www.sfrpc.com/institute/swr-vision.htm
For information on visioning, contact Janice Fleischer
Project Manager: Carlos
Gonzalez, South Florida Regional Planning Council
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