1. Protect
the Sadowski Affordable Housing Trust Fund from raids, support efforts
to increase its level of funding, and encourage new legislation to address
affordable housing shortages.
2. Participate
in and support efforts to promote a successor to the Florida Forever
program for the acquisition of environmentally sensitive lands.
3. Participate
in discussions and provide recommendations on the proposed 2006 "glitch
bill" to correct oversights in 2005's
Growth Management Bill (SB 360).
4. Monitor
and help defeat the reintroduced version of the sprawl-inducing Agricultural
Enclave bill unless reasonable compromises can be achieved.
5. Monitor
and help defeat any anti-Pinecrest
legislation regarding the Scripps Biomedical Research Institute in Palm
Beach County.
6. Actively
work to support Legislative funding/bonding for land purchases related
to Babcock Ranch in Charlotte and Lee counties.
7. Monitor
all transportation bills with respect to growth management impacts,
paying particular attention to transportation authority bills.
8. Evaluate
any proposed changes to the Development of Regional Impact Program to
ensure its continued viability.
9. Continue
to participate as a member of the Century
Commission, and support additional funding for necessary commission
tasks and projects.
10. Evaluate,
and support or oppose where appropriate, recommendations from the Coastal
High Hazard Committee report to be presented by February 1,
2006.
11. Evaluate,
and support or oppose where appropriate, recommendations from the Impact
Fee Study Committee report released by Februray 1, 2006.
12. Evaluate
recommendations, if any, from the House special project regarding eminent
domain.
13. Support
efforts to adopt a Land Use Board of Appeals
as a better means of addressing development order and comprehensive
plan amendment challenges.