Comprehensive Plan
CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
The Advance Fort Lauderdale Comprehensive Plan provides the blueprint for orderly and sustainable land development over the next decade and beyond. It provides the City with long-term direction through goals, objectives, and policies for future land use and serves as the basis for the City’s zoning and land development regulations.
The City’s future land use map along with the Comprehensive Plan goals, objectives and policies guide the designation of proposed future land use distribution, location, and intensity, while meeting social, economic and environmental needs, providing for adequate services and facilities, and ensuring compatibility of land uses.
An important component of the Fort Lauderdale Comprehensive Plan is identifying the infrastructure and growth demands needed to support existing needs and future growth. The Comprehensive Plan contains elements that address future land use, housing, transportation, infrastructure, water supply, coastal management, community health and safety, conservation, parks and recreation, historic preservation, public school facilities, intergovernmental coordination, and capital improvements, and includes objectives and policies formulated to preserve and enhance community character.
The Comprehensive Plan is organized around six sections that align with the cylinders of excellence outlined in the City of Fort Lauderdale “Fast Forward” Vision Plan:
- Neighborhood Enhancement: Healthy and diverse neighborhoods
- Infrastructure: Pedestrian friendly, multi-modal, sustainable and resilient community
- Business Development: Economic development, superior transportation, educational excellence
- Public Places: Access, identity, partnerships for better spaces, health and recreation
- Public Safety: Police, fire, emergency management and disaster recovery
- Internal Support: Leadership and fiscal responsibility, cross collaboration and professional development
2020 Comprehensive Plan, Volume I (Goals, Objectives and Policies)
- Comprehensive Plan, Volume I UPDATED JULY 2023
Neighborhood Enhancement
Infrastructure
Business Development
Public Places
Public Safety
Internal Support
2020 Comprehensive Plan, Volume II (Data Inventory and Analysis)
Future Land-Use Map
Water Supply Facilities Work Plan
Comprehensive Plan Update History
The City amended the Comprehensive Plan in a two-phase approach. In Phase I, the Development Services Department, with assistance from the consultant team, The Corradino Group, Inc., prepared the Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR) of the City’s existing 2008 Comprehensive Plan. The EAR, approved by the Planning and Zoning Board in November 2015 and adopted by the City Commission in February 2016 addressed changes in Florida State requirements since the last update of the Comprehensive Plan and made a recommendation to update the plan based on the City’s vision.
The update to the Comprehensive Plan was thereby reviewed and guided by the Evaluation and Appraisal Report process and considered the community’s vision and goals contained in the Fast Forward Fort Lauderdale Vision Plan 2035 and the Press Play Fort Lauderdale 2018 Strategic Plan as well as broad input from stakeholders throughout the participatory process.
Phase II included the preparation of Volume I of the Comprehensive Plan, which includes Goals, Objectives and Policies and is based upon the EAR and the updated Data Inventory and Analysis. The updated Comprehensive Plan "Advance Fort Lauderdale" has been prepared in a concise, user-friendly format that matches the graphic template of the City’s Vision Plan "Fast Forward" and Strategic Plan "Press Play" documents.
The amendments to the existing plan were presented to the Planning and Zoning Board on November 20, 2019. After broad stakeholder input, including three Planning and Zoning Board special meetings, a public open house, and presentations to city advisory boards, the Planning and Zoning Board recommended the City Commission adopt the amendments with revisions. The City Commission adopted the updated Comprehensive Plan on November 18, 2020. The Broward County Planning Council granted provisional certification of the plan on April 26, 2021.
Contact information:
Lorraine Tappen, Principal Urban Planner
Urban Design and Planning Division
Development Services Department
700 NW 19th Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311
Phone: (954) 828-5018
Email: ltappen@fortlauderdale.gov
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