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Planning

Welcome to the Planning Department

Our office strives to ensure that the school district's facilities provide superior working and learning environments for staff and students. Our primary goals include:

  • Determining the program and ultimate capacities of all schools 

  • Updating the Facility Lists and Educational Specifications at all levels 

  • Keeping abreast of all residential development and housing trends 

  • Collaborating with all local governments on siting of future schools and ensuring adequate infrastructure for new and existing schools

  • Projecting classroom needs for the next 5-, 10-, and 20-year periods

  • Completing all necessary reports for the Florida DOE 

What We Do

Capital Planning

  • Develop and distribute Capital Improvement Plan [CIP]

  • Develop a yearly cycle for CIP completion

  • Facilitate/assist studies of priority facility situations

  • Facilitate Facility Strategy Team

  • Facilitate Small Projects team

  • Help complete the DOE Five-Year Work Plan

  • Track all changes to school site plans

  • Participate in all redistricting & choice-seat determinations

  • Participate in district and school projection determinations

  • Develop Class Size Reduction Impacts

  • Develop a capacity policy for Board

School Concurrency

  • Update Concurrency Service Areas

  • Facilitate adoption of revised Interlocal Agreement [ILA] and Comp Plan Amendments by county and municipalities

  • Manage the ILA Oversight Committee

  • Develop and implement a school concurrency management system

Revenue Enhancements

  • Manage the impact fee study

  • Facilitate impact fee update through the School Board and County Commission

  • Work with all local governments on infrastructure impacts of new/expanded schools

Optimal School Design

  • Develop and adopt Educational Specifications

Impact of Residential Development

  • Track all applications and approved residential developments

  • Respond to all Comp Plan Amendments, Rezone Petitions, and Site Plan reviews

  • Represent district on all Local Planning Agencies