Building Florida’s Future
Building Florida’s Future
In Building Florida’s Future, the ULI Florida Committee for Regional Cooperation adopted four recommendations and identified several strategies to overcome key challenges to future growth and development in Florida.
The five District Councils in Florida, undertook the ULIFlorida Initiative on Regional Collaboration. The ULI Florida Committee for Regional Cooperation, composed of leaders from the development community, civic and environmental groups, community-based organizations, and the public sector, identified state barriers to regional cooperation and worked to establish a consensus on a recommended set of state actions and reforms to facilitate regional thinking and regional action.
The ULI Florida Committee found that there was a discrepancy between Florida’s traditional approach to responding to growth pressures and its current regional realities. To remain competitive, Florida must take strong and immediate action to embrace a regional outlook. They also found that the planning and policy framework needed to be revised on a statewide level in order to develop the capacity to act regionally. The framework needed to include regional thinking and solutions tailored to the needs of each region and the localities within them. To succeed, strong state leadership, funding, and incentives are essential.