Community Area Planning Book 2000
Part 1, Section III: Participants
The main participants of the CAP initiative
will be the people who work, live and own property
in the City of Fort Lauderdale, our community. The
role of the City will NOT be to unilaterally devise
solutions, publicize them and expect the public to
endorse them. Rather, the City will strive to ensure
that through a collaborative, consensus building initiative,
the public feels entitled to participate, welcomed
to contribute to the CAP process, and able to influence
public decisions from its inception.
Key Issues
Some of the key issues that we will
be seeking community input on include, but are not
limited to:
- transportation needs (pedestrian, transit, vehicular,
bicycle, etc)
- service and facilities needs
- recreational and open space needs
- housing/employment/business needs and trends
- development and redevelopment needs and trends
- preservation needs and trends
- crime prevention needs
- educational needs (schools, libraries)
- historical and cultural characteristics
- social service needs
- identity, pride and image
There are also basic assumptions that
will play a role in addressing community area needs.
These include:
- the City as a waterway community
- the City as an urban center
- the City as a tourist destination
- the City as a composition of diverse neighborhoods
Maintaining Diversity
To function as an effective network,
diverse community leaders must be involved, listen
to one another, explore shared goals and priorities
and develop mutual trust that enables common action.
Not only must diversity be represented
in the process, it must also be represented in the
end product.
This is accomplished through the formation
of a City Commission appointed Community Leadership
Committee (CLC) and an Interdepartmental Work Team
(IWT).
The Community Leadership Committee
(CLC) will consist of twenty-five (25) members chosen
by the City Commission from an open application process.
Of the twenty-five (25), twenty (20) must reside, own
property, or work within the Community Area. The other
five may be selected from outside the boundaries providing
that they have a vested interest in the Community Area
and want to help shape its future.
The function of the CLC is to meet
with the CAP Planning staff and the IWT staff (consisting
of management-level representatives of all applicable
City Departments) in order to develop implementation
strategies and serve as a link to the general public.
By participating in Community Workshops the CLC will
be able to experience first-hand the sentiments and
issues of the people and enable the committee to record
and prioritize the goals and ideas expressed. Members
of the CLC will also have an integral role in monitoring
and evaluating the progress of the implementation strategies
that emerge from the CAP.
  
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