The grades are in, and South Florida is headed for a mega-disaster if local governments, businesses, and organizations don’t start working together, according to a biennial regional indicators report from Florida Atlantic University.
The report suggests that South Florida politicians, civic and business leaders should focus on collaborative projects on transportation, especially funding TriRail and other mass transit; creating synergy rather than competition among the region’s 3 airports and 3 seaports; building on the strengths and improving the weaknesses of our schools, colleges, and universities as a collective whole; and restoring the Everglades to the west and the coastline to the east.
For the full text of the report, visit www.soflo.fau.edu.
Monroe County is losing recreational and commercial working waterfronts along with public access to the water through the redevelopment of marine facilities, including marinas, boatyards, wet and dry storage, fish houses and commercial fishing vessel dockage. The Council, in partnership with the Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions (CUES) at Florida Atlantic University, has prepared two studies for Monroe County:
a study by Dr. Robert W. Burchell of the Rutgers Center for Urban Policy Research, May 1999
Executive Summary*
produced in cooperation with the Florida Department of Children & Families (includes a 382KB – PowerPoint Presentation)
A comprehensive listing of local, state and federal officials and major planning and management agencies.
A list of relevant acronyms associated with planning issues.
Census information, including maps, tables and profiles.
“Our Region” from the Strategic Regional Policy Plan for South Florida (June 2004)
Consumer Price Index, County Economic Profiles, Income and Poverty and Employment data displayed in charts and tables.
Population data displayed in charts and tables.
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