Growth Management Requirements and Florida s Community Colleges

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1 Growth Management Requirements and Florida s Community Colleges Prepared for the Board of Governor s Master Plan 6C-21 Regulation Work Group by the Florida Department of Community Affairs June 11, 2008 I. Florida s Community College System There are a total of 28 Community Colleges with 61 campuses on 176 sites in the State of Florida. These locations occupy 11,504 acres and during the 2006 to 2007 academic year had a total unduplicated student headcount of 796,932. In the fall of 2007 the community colleges employed 44,350 individuals. II. Comprehensive Planning Requirements for Community Colleges In general, Chapter 163, Florida Statutes, and Rule 9J-5, Florida Administrative Code, do not express comprehensive planning responsibilities specifically for community colleges. The only reference in the Growth Management Act is s (1) which states: All local planning agencies shall provide opportunities for involvement by applicable community college boards, which may be accomplished by formal representation, membership on technical advisory committees, or other appropriate means. In Rule 9J-5 community colleges are included in the definition of educational uses which is given as activities and facilities of public or private primary or secondary schools, vocational and technical schools, and colleges and universities licensed by the Florida Department of Education, including the areas of buildings, campus open space, dormitories, recreational facilities or parking. This definition is used in 9J-5.006(4)(d) to state that If determined by the local government to be appropriate, educational uses, public buildings and grounds, and other public facilities may be shown as one land use category on the future land use map or map series. The creation or expansion of a community college must be consistent with a local government s comprehensive plan and land development regulations. Section (5) states: It is the intent of this act that adopted comprehensive plans shall have the legal status set out in this act and that no public or private development shall be permitted except in conformity with comprehensive plans, or elements or portions thereof, prepared and adopted in conformity with this act. Section (6)(a) provides for the identification of education uses as a part of the future land use map: A future land use plan element designating proposed future general distribution, location, and extent of the uses of land for residential uses, commercial uses, industry, agriculture, recreation, conservation, education, public buildings and grounds, other public facilities, and other categories of the public and private uses of land. Rule 9J-5.006(3)(7) requires that the future land use map depict the proposed distribution, extent, and location of the following generalized land uses---education Facilities. 1

2 There is no exemption for community colleges in Chapter 163 or Rule 9J-5 from the goals, objectives and policies of the comprehensive plan or from the local government s land development regulations. III. Development of Regional Impact Requirements for Community Colleges Section (k) of the Florida Statutes provides statewide guidelines and standards for Development of Regional Impact status: 1. The proposed construction of any public, private, or proprietary postsecondary educational campus which provides for a design population of more than 5,000 full-time equivalent students, or the proposed physical expansion of any public, private, or proprietary postsecondary educational campus having such a design population that would increase the population by at least 20 percent of the design population. 2. As used in this paragraph, "full-time equivalent student" means enrollment for 15 or more quarter hours during a single academic semester. In career centers or other institutions which do not employ semester hours or quarter hours in accounting for student participation, enrollment for 18 contact hours shall be considered equivalent to one quarter hour, and enrollment for 27 contact hours shall be considered equivalent to one semester hour. 3. This paragraph does not apply to institutions which are the subject of a campus master plan adopted by the university board of trustees pursuant to s Prior to 1995, the DRI thresholds for schools were: A Schools (1973): (1) The following development shall be presumed to be a development of regional impact and subject to the requirements of Chapter 380, Florida Statutes: The proposed construction of any public, private or proprietary post-secondary educational campus which provides for a design population of more than three thousand (3,000) full-time equivalent students, or the proposed physical expansion of any public, private or proprietary post-secondary educational campus having such a design population, by at least twenty percent (20%) of the design population. (2) As used in this section, the term full-time equivalent student shall mean enrollment for fifteen (15) quarter hours during a single academic semester. In area vocational schools or other institutions which do not employ semester hours or quarter hours in accounting for student participation, enrollment for eighteen (18) contact hours shall be considered equivalent to one (1) quarter hour and enrollment for twenty-seven (27) contact hours shall be considered equivalent to one (1) semester hour. B Schools (1985): (1) Subject to Section (2)(d), Florida Statutes, the following development shall be a development of regional impact: The proposed construction of any public, private or proprietary post-secondary educational campus which provides for a design population of more than three thousand (3,000) full-time equivalent students, or the proposed physical expansion of any public, private or proprietary post-secondary educational campus having such a design population, by at least twenty percent (20%) of the design population.(2) As used in this section, the term full-time equivalent student shall mean enrollment for fifteen (15) quarter hours during a single academic semester. In area vocational schools or other institutions which do not employ semester hours or quarter hours in accounting for student participation, enrollment for eighteen (18) contact hours shall be considered equivalent to one quarter hour and enrollment for twenty-seven (27) contact hours shall be considered equivalent to one semester hour. 2

3 IV. Community Colleges with Development of Regional Impact Approval 1. Valencia Community College (June 17, 1974) 2. Pensacola Junior College West Campus (March 22, 1976) 3. Broward Community College South Campus (July 8, 1977) 4. Polk Community College (June 10, 1985) V. Community Colleges with Binding Letters or vested rights determination on Development of Regional Impact Status 1. Broward Community College Vested Rights Letter and Determination Letter 2. Pensacola Junior College Binding Letter 3. Florida Community College at Jacksonville (Florida Junior College) Vested Rights Letter 4. Palm Beach Community College (Palm Beach Junior College) Binding Letter VI. Inventory of Community Colleges Name (Year Established) Primary Address Unduplicated Student Headcount Enrollment ( ) Brevard Community College (1960) Broward Community College (1960) Central Florida Community College (1957) Chipola College (1948) Daytona Beach Community 1519 Clearlake Road Cocoa, FL East Las Olas Fort Lauderdale, FL P. O. Box 1388 Ocala, FL Indian Circle Marianna, FL P. O. Box 2811 Daytona Beach, FL Edison College (1962) P. O. Box Fort Myers, FL Florida Community College at Jacksonville 501 West State Street Jacksonville, FL Campuses 25,350 Cocoa Campus Melbourne Campus Palm Bay Campus Titusville Campus 52,345 Central Campus/Davie North Campus/Pompano South Campus/Pompano Commercial Blvd. Campus 15,752 Citrus Campus Hampton Levy Campus Ocala Campus 4,969 30,202 Daytona Beach Campus West Volusia Campus Flagler/Palm Coast Campus Four Townes Advanced Technology Deltona 17,191 Lee County Campus Charlotte County Campus Collier County Campus Hendry/Glades 70,323 Downtown Campus Kent Campus North Campus 3

4 Florida Keys Community College Gulf Coast Community College (1957) Hillsborough Community College (1968) Indian River Community College (1960) Lake City Community College (1962) Lake-Sumter Community College (1962) Manatee Community College (1958) Miami Dade College (1960) North Florida Community Okaloosa-Walton College (1964) Palm Beach Community College (1933) Pasco-Hernando Community College (1972) 5901 College Road Key West, FL West Highway 98 Panama City, FL P.O. Box Tampa, FL Virginia Fort Pierce, FL S.E. College Place Lake City, FL U.S. Highway 441 Leesburg, FL P. O. Box 1849 Bradenton, FL N. E. Second Miami, FL N. W. Turner Davis Dr Madison, FL College Niceville, FL Congress Lake Worth, FL Ridge Road New Port Richey, FL ,780 23,386 Open Campus South Campus 38,929 Brandon Campus Dale Mabry Campus Plant City Campus Ybor City Campus 34,104 Main Campus Dixon Hendry Campus St. Lucie West Campus Chastain Campus Mueller Campus 6,963 6,606 Leesburg Campus South Lake Campus Sumter Campus 21,478 Bradenton Campus Venice Campus 127,392 Homestead Campus Kendall Campus InterAmerican Campus Medical Campus Wolfson Campus North Campus 2,832 13,035 Chautauqua Eglin Fort Walton Beach Campus Hurlburt Field Niceville Campus Robert L. F. Sikes Education 44,779 Glades Campus Boca Raton Lake Worth Campus Palm Beach Gardens West Palm Beach 13,935 New Port Richey/District Office Dade City Campus Brooksville Campus 4

5 Pensacola Jr. College (1947) Polk Community College (1965) St. Johns River Community 1000 College Pensacola, FL H, N. E. Winter Haven, FL St. Johns Palatka, FL St. Petersburg College (1947) P. O. Box St. Petersburg, FL Santa Fe Community College Seminole Community College South Florida Community College Tallahassee Community College (1967) Valencia Community College (1967) 3000 N.W. 83rd Street, Gainesville, FL Weldon Sanford, FL West College Drive Avon Park, FL Appleyard Drive Tallahassee, FL P. O. Box 3028 Orlando, FL Total 796,932 Spring Hill Campus 20,315 Pensacola Campus Milton Campus Warrington Campus Downtown NAS 18,470 Winter Haven Campus Lakeland Campus 10,523 Palatka Campus St. Augustine Campus Orange Park Campus Ponte Vedra 51,679 Allstate Clearwater Campus Health Education ICOT St. Pete/Gibbs Campus Seminole Campus SPC Downtown STAR Tarpon Springs Campus 23,628 Northwest Campus Andrews Charles L. Blount Downtown George G. Kirkpatrick, Jr. Criminal Justice Training 30,541 Sanford/Lake Mary Campus Hunt Club Campus Oviedo Campus 8,425 Main Campus Desoto Hardee The Jacaranda Lake Placid 29,523 51,477 Criminal Justice Institute Downtown East Campus McCoy Osceola Campus West Campus Winter Park Campus 5