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Planning staff presents near-final Plantation comprehensive plan; board asks to incorporate county multimodal/safety plans
Summary
Planning staff delivered a near-final draft of Plantation's comprehensive plan (volumes 1 and 2). Board members asked staff to add explicit policy language to reference the Broward Safety Action Plan and the county 'low-stress multimodal master mobility plan' so engineering can apply those design standards.
City of Plantation planning staff presented a near-final draft of the city's comprehensive plan (volume 1: goals/objectives/policies; volume 2: data inventory and analysis) during the Planning and Zoning Board meeting on Oct. 14.
Dan Holmes, director of planning, zoning and economic development, said the draft is roughly 90% complete and that staff will not take action at this meeting but expects the board to consider forwarding a recommended final to city council at the next meeting. He asked board members to review volume 2 (data inventory and analysis) because it informs the goals, objectives and policies in volume 1.
Board members raised specific requests for the policy language. One board member asked that the plan explicitly reference the Broward County safety work (the Broward Safety Action Plan/Safe Streets for Broward) and the county’s low-stress multimodal master mobility plan, not just as background data. The board member said including those documents in the policy text would allow Plantation’s engineering department to use the county plans’ design standards and prioritization methods when planning local transportation improvements.
Holmes responded that staff has been coordinating with the Broward MPO and Safe Streets for Broward and has incorporated some language already (for example, a policy referencing use of the MPO crash database in project prioritization). He asked the board member to send suggested draft language so staff and engineering can review it; he said he would raise it at a follow-up meeting with MPO staff.
Board discussion also covered other plan-level matters: references carried over from the 2016 plan (noted in parentheses in the draft), new emphasis on multimodal transportation, resiliency and sustainability, and housing-affordability policies. Holmes noted the city is largely developed (about 98%) and future growth will be mostly redevelopment and infill; the plan identifies corridors and districts for higher-density, transit-oriented growth.
Board members clarified an apparent inconsistency about Midtown density language in the draft and Holmes said highlighted passages are items staff will clean up before the final document. The board set the next meeting date (Nov. 4) as the working target for further review and possible action.
No formal action was taken on the comprehensive plan at this meeting; staff will return with edits and recommended final language for board consideration.
