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CASSELBERRY CITY COMMISSION Minutes of February 13, 2017—workshop Page 2 of 6 would give a brief presentation regarding a program in which his students were developing a new Healthy Community element for possible inclusion in the City's Comprehensive Plan. Ms. Lucie Ghioto, Senior Planner and Project Manager at Poulos and Bennett, gave a brief overview of the process being followed to update the City's Comprehensive Plan, including State of Florida procedural requirements and main goals developed in discussions with staff and in preliminary review of the existing Comprehensive Plan. She explained that local governments are required to evaluate their Comprehensive Plans every seven years in order to address any statutory or policy changes, noting that the City had last evaluated its Plan in 2009. She further explained that this review would result in the Evaluation and Appraisal Report which would be submitted to the Florida Department of Economic Development (formerly Florida Department of Community Affairs) for review, after which she anticipated the final Comprehensive Plan to be adopted by the City around November of 2017. Ms. Ghioto advised that the consultants and staff hoped to modify the Comprehensive Plan's goals, objectives and policies to reflect the City's evolving priorities and vision for the future of the City. She stated that some of the key changes which were being proposed based on initial meetings with City staff were as follows: • Ensure redevelopment areas reflect the City's vision Adopt a new Sustainability Element into the Comprehensive Plan • Establish a new Conservation Future Land Use category • Transition to a Multi -Modal Transportation Element that addresses those priorities established by the Multi -Modal Transportation Master Plan • Incorporate data and recommendations from other recent Master Planning efforts Dr. Christopher Hawkins introduced himself as the instructor for the 2016-2017 MSURP (Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning) Planning Studio which is a professional graduate degree in urban and regional planning at the University of Central Florida (UCF) housed in the School of Public Administration. He advised that prior to graduation each student in the program has to complete the Studio which is an applied planning project for a client, usually a city, which spans over two semesters. He stated that the project typically results in a deliverable, which in this case would be the new Healthy Community element for the City's Comprehensive Plan. He advised that the steps the students had taken so far to accomplish development of a conceptual model for the Healthy Community element were as follows: Conducted robust and comprehensive literature review on the relationship between planning issues and health issues; Looked at indicators of community health from archival sources such as the Census Bureau and UCF's centralized database to develop a set of indicators on the "health" of Casselberry; Extensive citizen/resident engagement outreach, including attendance at events to hand out a survey to determine what citizens would like to see Casselberry do in the way of health options, including access to healthy foods; options for more exercise and access to more recreational amenities; pedestrian connectivity; and other elements of the built environment that the City could shape to improve health. That survey was delivered through face to face