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Florida Administrative Code (Last Updated: April 18, 2024) |
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29. Regional Planning Councils |
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29J. South Florida Regional Planning Council |
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29J-2. Practice And Procedure |
1(1) The South Florida Regional Planning Council has been designated as the Regional Clearinghouse (RCH) for substate district 11, which includes Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe counties, to exercise the responsibilities pursuant to the Florida Office of Planning and Budgeting’s Intergovernmental Coordination and Review Process.
45(2) The functions which the South Florida Regional Planning Council shall perform include:
58(a) Evaluating the significance of proposed Federal and federally assisted projects to state, areawide, or local plans and programs.
77(b) Receiving and disseminating project notifications and providing liaison between applicants and appropriate units of government and agencies.
95(c) Providing agencies charged with enforcing and furthering the objectives of state and local environmental standards with the opportunity to review and comment on the environmental significance of Federal assistance projects.
126(d) Providing agencies charged with enforcing and furthering the objectives of state and local civil rights laws with the opportunity to review and comment on the civil rights aspects of federal assistance projects.
159(e) Providing liaison between Federal agencies contemplating direct Federal development projects and state and areawide or local agencies or governments having plans or projects which might be affected by the proposed project.
191(3) When evaluating the project or program, comments by the South Florida Regional Planning Council are to include information about:
211(a) The extent to which the project is consistent with comprehensive planning for the area.
226(b) The extent to which the project duplicates or needs to be coordinated with other projects or programs.
244(c) The extent to which it might be revised to increase its effectiveness or efficiency.
259(d) The extent to which the project meets areawide objectives relating to natural and human resources, and economic and community development.
280(e) The extent to which the project impacts the natural environment.
291(f) The project impact on balanced patterns of settlement and the delivery of services to all sectors of the area population, including minority groups.
315(4) The authority of the Council to take appropriate action on applications is hereby delegated to the Executive Director, in the following manner:
338(a) Application is determined by staff not to be of regional interest, the Executive Director shall so comment to the appropriate Federal agency on behalf of the Council.
366(b) When an application is determined to be of regional interest but which is either consistent with or not inconsistent with regional plans or policies, completed or in progress, or which is modified during the review period to be so classified, the Executive Director shall so comment to the appropriate Federal agency on behalf of the Council.
423(c) When an application is determined to be inconsistent with regional plans or policies, completed or in progress, and it is recommended by staff to receive adverse comment, the Executive Director shall submit the application and recommended adverse comments to the Council for its consideration and action.
470(5) The Executive Director shall provide a monthly report to the Council indicating the status of all applications currently being reviewed by the Council’s staff.
495Rulemaking Authority 497120.54, 498163.01, 499186.505 FS. 501Law Implemented 503120.54, 504163.01, 505186.505 FS. 507History–New 8-6-75, Formerly 29J-2.04, Amended 3-9-99.
