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IN NORTHEAST FLORIDAFinal Implementation ReportMarch 19, 2004

Improving Regional Cooperation in Northeast Florida study was released to the community on June 29, 2Rinaman, who chaired the study, agreed to lead the Implementation Task Force as welL The task fo

blished four subgroups, with specific recommendations assigned to each subgroup.Growth Management, tasked with Recommendations 1, 2, and 3(d);Economic Development, Recommendations 6, 7,11, and 3(c);ransportation, Recommendations 4,5, and 3(b); and

Regional partnership/vision, Recommendations 2, 3, 8, 9, and 10.study had immediate impact in Northeast Florida, even before its release. Through the process of visiting ee seven counties in the region and bringing people together to talk about the importance of regional cooperatificant changes occurred which were not included in the recommendations. These changes included St. Joty joining the Cornerstone regional economic development partnership, which now includes Baker, Clay, Duau, Putnam, and 8t. Johns Counties. The Jacksonville Urbanized Area Metropolitan Planning Organizatged its name to the First Coast Metropolitan Planning Organization and began the process of removingeption that it was controlled by the City of Jacksonville (more under recommendation #4.)ers to regional cooperation come down slowly. The State of Florida has not transferred oversight and authoe regional level in any significant fashion. However, since this report was released, significant changerred in Northeast Florida, and the momentum is swinging toward greater regional cooperation. For the m

local organJzations and governments are understanding, and in many cases embracing, increased region. While much has occurred, many opportunities for further regional cooperation remain.he Florida Legislature should transfer regional growth-management oversight and authority in the Northelorida Regional Planning Council to avoid disparate county-by-county regulation, application, and enforcemncerning matters of regional significance.

he Northeast Florida Regional Council (NEFRC) has expressed willingness to accept delegated authority.EFRC has informally taken the lead in coordinating regional growth management efforts, and has the for

esponsibility of coordinating growth management efforts in the Developments of Regional Impact (DRI) procehe Department of Community Affairs, through internal restructuring and streamlining, has de facto moved m

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The NEFRC has not established a Regional Partnership as envisioned in this recommendation. Instead,do have separate committees made up of NEFRC members and others to address many of these issincluding a Planning Growth Management Policy Committee, a Transportation Policy Committee, andEconomic Development Policy Committee.Partially implemented

The Florida Legislature, with the support of local governments, should create a First Coast RegiTransportation Commission, encompassing Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau, and St. Johns Counties, with provisfor expansion to other counties, depending on regional needs and the recommendations of the counties involThe Legislature should be guided by a similar recommendation made in the 1987 report of the First CTransportation Study Committee convened by the Florida Governor. The Legislature should provide a dedicrevenue source for the Commission, such as the gasoline or sales tax. The First Coast Regional TransportaCommission's responsibilities should include: planning and implementing regional transportation, including roads, highways, and mass transit; coordinating closely with commercial transportation modalities in the region, such as ports, airports,

railroads; and staffing the jacksonville Urbanized Area Metropolitan Planning Organization.Not yet implemented. See discussion under Recommendation 5.Not implementedUntil the First Coast Regional Transportation Commission is established: the Jacksonville Transportation Authority should expand its use of interlocal agreements to develop regio

solutions for mass transit; and the Jacksonville Urbanized Area Metropolitan Planning Organization should:

+ continue to expand its planning efforts to encompass the entire Jacksonville MSA; and+ continue to expand its staffing to include planners from counties outside of Duval County.In 2003, the First Coast Metropolitan Planning Organization expanded its boundaries to includeAugustine, as well as most of Clay and st. Johns Counties, making it more of a regional transportatplanning organization. Nassau County now has an ex officio member on the MPO, and is considering jointhe MPO. At most, statute would allow the MPO to extend its boundary to encompass the entire metropolstatistical area (Clay, Duval, Nassau and st. Johns Counties). On April 2, 2004, the MPO is moving to alocation, hosted by the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, and has become an independent organizatioJTA has further identified two transportation corridors, one extending from Mayport to northern Clay Couand the other from the airport to Mandarin, as its priority areas for developing rapid transit systems, andeveloping (through lnterlocal agreement) increased regional transportation solutions.Several activities in 2003 appeared to open the way to further accomplish this recommendation and creaRegional Transportation Authority:

The Florida Legislature, in the 2003 Session, charged the Florida Transportation Commission (Fto "conduct an assessment of the need for an improved approach to regional and intermodal inputhe planning for and governing of the Strategic Intermodal Systems and other transportatiosystems". They met with transportation planning organizations across the state, including theand First Coast MPO in Jacksonville in October 2003 and February 2004. Their report concludesrevision to state laws are necessary to improve regional transportation functions, including expandMPO boundaries to allow for better regional transportation planning.

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State legislators representing districts in Northeast Florida should form a First Coast Regional Caucusenhance and coordinate their legislative activities concerning regional issues.Ihe Northeast Florida Delegation consists of eleven members in the House and five in the Senate.Delegation works together to coordinate legislative activities on matters crucial to Northeast Florida. They ses a caucus only on an ad-hoc basis, however, and lack the structure and cohesion envisioned by

Partially implementedsingle, seamless regional emergency-communication system should be jointly developed and used by loemergency-management, law-enforcement, and fire-protection agencies throughout the region.

In 2001, the Florida Highway Patrol consolidated dispatch centers to create one dispatch center for Clay, DuFlagler, Nassau, Putnam, and st. Johns Counties. As part of the consolidation, the communication systempgraded. However, 911 calls are still handled on a county by county basis, and inter-county communicatiomong sheriff's departments must be coordinated by local dispatch centers; communication from one mobileo another across county lines is not yet possible.rtially implementedambers of commerce, the tourist industry, convention and visitors bureaus, tourist development councils,

ther interested parties throughout the region should jointly develop regional plans for tourism, including eeritage tourism plus conventions and other events.hile the Northeast Florida Regional Council has a Tourism committee, and the Jacksonville and the Beachonvention and Visitors Bureau has developed some regional tourism plans, the cooperative development o

egional tourism strategy envisioned by this recommendation has not yet occurred. JCCI FOlWard is currexploring regional ecotourism in an Issue Forum, and more developments may come about through those effot implemented

Improving Regional Cooperation Implementation Task Force recommends to the JCCI Boardtors that the formal JCCI implementation process for this study be concluded. Northeast Florida in 20made significant progress in regional cooperation from where it was when the study was conducted in 19. Much of the distrust between counties appears to have faded, and significant (and successful) regioerships are becoming more common, led by the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce's Cornersto. However, the greatest rate of progress toward regional cooperation occurred during the study process itsommittee members traveled from county to county and engaged stakeholders, decision makers, and citizensregional issues.utionalizing regional cooperation through state transfer of authority or establishing new regional organizationot yet occurred, though many of the foundation stones have been laid for these efforts. Of the elevmendations of this study, three were implemented, four have been partially implemented, and four haveeen implemented, meaning 64 percent of the recommendations have been fully or partially implemented. M

ment towards full implementation of all the recommendations is expected over time, as Northeast Florida munderstands that its future is inextricably tied to regional cooperation.

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