Flagler County Future Land Use
Flagler County Future Land Use. During the spring semester 2002, UF landscape architecture students under the direction of Professor Tina Gurucharri prepared a Future Land Use Plan for Flagler County, Florida. Flagler County is presently the least developed coastal county on the Florida Atlantic. This primarily rural County still has great environmental, recreational and historic assets that have not been impacted by development. The desire is to capitalize on these resources and promote recreation and heritage based tourism as an economic mainstay for the county. With this scenario, the planning and design challenge was to accommodate the projected growth in a manner that protects and highlights as its identity these important environmental, recreational and historic resources.
Students created Goals and Objectives for conservation, agriculture and development; developed and Inventory and Analysis of Flagler County data; then synthesized this information in order to develop Preliminary Future Land Use Plans. The Land Use Plans for the year 2050 addressed:
1) delineation of conservation/protected areas
2) agricultural land uses including silviculture, pasture and crop lands
3) land use and density in developable areas
4) natural resources, heritage and recreation opportunities
5) historic and scenic conservation.
The students then tested implementation strategies including proposals for Residential, Commercial, Recreation development and Downtown redevelopment. A final presentation to Flagler County was made.
