HomeMy WebLinkAbout02-324JOANNE HOLMAN, CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT - SAINT LUCIE COUNTY
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RESOLUTION 02-324
A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE EXISTING STRUCTURE OF
THE ST. LUCIE METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION
AND MARTIN COUNTY METROPOLITAN PLANNING
ORGANIZATION WHEREBY THE MPO's REMAIN DESIGNATED
AS TWO SEPARA-E ENTITIES
WHEREAS, the St. Lucie Ceunty Board of County Commissioners has made the following
determinations:
The St. Lucie Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is currently the designated and
constituted body responsible for the urban transportation planning and programming
process for the Ft. Pierce-Port St. Lucie Urbanized Area; and
On May 1, 2002, the Bureau of the Census published in the Federal Register the new
urbanized areas based upon the Year 2000 Census and a new national criteria for
defining urbanized areas; and
As a result of the new criteria for defining urbanized areas, the Fort Pierce and Stuart,
Florida Urbanized Areas have now been combined into one entitled "Port St. Lucie
Florida" Urbanized Area; and
The new "Port St. Lucie Florida Urbanized Area", has been determined by the Bureau of
the Census to have a Year 2000 urbanized area population of 270,774 and are now
subject to the Transpodation Management Area designation; and
Individually, under the Year 2000 Census, the old Fort Pierce and Stuart, Florida
Urbanized Areas had populations less than 200,000; and
The urbanized area designation and their official populations are required to be used to
decide if an area has to have an MPO; if an MPO has to fulfill the requirements of a
Transportation Management Area and used to divide federal planning and Surface
Transportation Program funds; and
The 2000 census desLcnation has resulted in an unintended consequences which may
cause undo hardship o~ the continuing, coordinated and comprehensive transportation
planning process, including mass transit services in the Port St. Lucie Urbanized Area;
and
As per federal and state laws, MPO designation or redesignation decisions require
agreement by the Governor of the State of Florida; and
10.
Federal and state laws governing the metropolitan transportation planning process
provide for designation of one MPO for each urbanized area; and
11.
Under federal and state laws, more than one MPO may be designated if the size and
complexity of an existin(, metropolitan planning area warrant that course of action; and
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12.
After the 1990 Census, the Governor of the State of Florida agreed to the designation of
three separate MPOs for the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater urbanized area, which
consisted of two former urbanized areas that had merged and grown into another
county; and
13.
The historical and ~rojected growth patterns and size and complexity of the St. Lucie
County and Martin County urbanized areas require that each should remain designated
as two separate MPOs; and
14.
The two separate S:. Lucie and Martin MPOs will continue to implement various regional
coordination measures in keeping with their shared transportation planning
responsibilities for one urbanized area; and
15.
A~so as a result of the 2000 U.S. Census portions of the Vero Beach/Sebastian
urbanized area in Indian River County encroach into northern St. Lucie County; and
16.
The small portion of the Vero Beach/Sebastian urbanized area in northern St. Lucie
County is in the current metropolitan panning area for the St. Lucie MPO; and
17.
The historical practi~'e in the State of F~orida has been for existing MPOs in counties with
small portions of urbanized areas to include them within their metropolitan planning area
boundaries and transportation management area.
NOW, THEREFORE I~E IT RESOLVED by the St. Lucie County Board of County
Commissioners that:
The St. Lucie Coun_y Board of County Commissioners encourages the Governor of the
State of Florida anc the Treasure Coast State Legislative Delegation to provide for, and
agree to, that the St. Lucie Metropolitan Planning Organization and the Martin County
Metropolitan Planning Organization remain designated as two separate MPOs; and
The St. Lucie Coun y Board of County Commissioners encourages the Governor of the
State of Florida anc the Treasure Coast State Legislative Delegation to provide for, and
agree to, that the Fortion of the Vero Beach/Sebastian urbanized area in northern St.
Lucie County rema n in the St. Lucie Metropolitan Planning Organization metropolitan
planning area boundary and in the Port St. Lucie urbanized area and transportation
management area.
After motion and second, the vote on this resolution was as follows:
Chairman Cliff Barnes
YES
Vice-Chairman Paula A. Lewis
YES
Commission ~r Doug Coward
YES
Commissioner Frannie Hutchinson
YES
Commissioner John D. Bruhn
YES
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PASSED AND DULY ADOPTED This 17TM Day of.Dec _e~ber~2~02..~. ,~
BOARD Of COL/NTY COI~SIONERS
ST. LUClE COUNTY, FLORIDA
BY
ATTEST:
APPROVED AS TO :ORM
AN~ES'~
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