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Consultants present data analysis to inform Baker County comprehensive plan update; recommend focusing growth in municipalities
Summary
North Florida Professional Services presented a data analysis for the county's required evaluation and appraisal of its comprehensive plan, outlining population projections, employment and land-use recommendations and suggesting a designated dense-urban development area to concentrate growth around McClenny and Glen St. Mary.
Consultants from North Florida Professional Services presented a data analysis on Oct. 9 to support Baker County's required seven-year evaluation and appraisal of its comprehensive plan, recommending policies to concentrate future growth near existing municipalities and employment nodes.
Justin Taber, AICP, senior land use planner with North Florida Professional Services, summarized statutory requirements under Chapter 163, Florida Statutes, and presented population trends, projections and land-use capacity analyses. He said the county’s population grew from about 22,259 in 2000 to 28,679 in 2020 and that state demographic…
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