Advocacy Issues The Issue: StPete 2050 - A Planning/Visioning Process Neighborhood: City-wide City Council Member: Full council mailto: council@stpete.org Action You Can Take Now: Send a message to Council supporting PTB's position that historic preservation is an important StPete 2050 planning goal (scroll down to find out how to do so) BACKGROUND:
Through StPete2050, a common vision for the city's physical, social, and economic advancements will be sought that can be used to coordinate and guide development in appropriate areas of the city. To do so, ten community themes, set forth below, have been identified: Arts and Culture Shared Economic Prosperity 1923: John Nolen completed St. Petersburg Today, St. Petersburg Tomorrow, Florida's first comprehensive city plan. It called for integrating development with natural features and landscapes. The forward looking plan, was opposed by the Evening Independent newspaper and developers and was never adopted. 1943: The Bartholomew Plan is adopted, following an era of municipal dept from the great depression. The plan assumed a future population that would stabilize at 120,000 in 1960 (by 1960 the actual population exceeded 180,000). 1970's: Rampant growth and water resource issues led to building moratoriums and the adoption of the 1974 conceptual plan. It incorporated a number of planning principles from the Nolen plan. In 1975 a state planning act passed and St. Pete subsequently adopted the 1977 Land Use Plan. 1989 - In accord with the requirements of the state's 1985 Local Government Comprehensive Planning Act the city adopted its Growth Management Plan. 2002 - St. Pete adopted Vision 2020, setting the stage for comprehensive plan and land development regulation updates. 2019 - City commenced the StPete2050 visioning process with the goal to adopt a framework to guide future planning and development until 2050. THE THREAT There is always a tenuous balance between unfettered and insensitive development and with maintaining a community's sense of place - its unique community character. Historic preservation, including protection of architectural, cultural and natural resources, is a key element of St. Petersburg's community character. A failure to recognize the importance of historic preservation to maintaining St. Pete's sense of place within StPete2050 will hamper future efforts to keep St. Pete special. THE OPPORTUNITY Tell the city historic preservation is important by responding to the city's StPete 2050 survey. It asks you to identify the most important goal(s) to the themes identified in the draft plan. One of those goals is historic preservation. It's goal #14 to the "Growth & Community Character" theme. It just takes a couple clicks to tell the city historic preservation is important! Note, when you answer the survey, you decide whether to only offer the answer about historic preservation or to answer additional survey questions (the survey will be accepted whether you answer one, multiple or every survey question).
WHAT PRESERVE THE ‘BURG IS DOING PTB is reaching out to our members and the public and urging them to speak up about StPete2050. We also are working with city staff and local decision makers to make sure they understand the importance of historic preservation to keeping St. Pete special. WHAT YOU CAN DO
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