Email sent to CRC - Proposed motion from COAB's Environmental Stewardship Committee 11-29-23 Sarah BorenDear Chairman Gulliford, Charter Review Committee Members, City
Attorney, and City Clerk –
Please consider this proposed motion in red at tonight’s November 2023
meeting.
The City of Atlantic Beach (COAB) Environmental Stewardship Committee
(ESC) unanimously voted and recommends to the 2023-2024 COAB Charter
Review Committee to adopt and insert the following (and attached)
language into the Charter and to add to the ballot as one of the formal
changes to be voted upon by our residents.
Proposed Motion
Add a new section to Article 1 entitled Sec. 5: Environmental
Leadership that includes the following language: To ensure the health
and safety of its citizens and enhance property values, high quality of
life, and healthy environment, the City of Atlantic Beach shall
continually improve its leadership and preparation for sustainability,
resilience, environmental stewardship, and protection of tree canopy.
Background
For those of you who are not familiar with the ESC, it is publicly
appointed advisory committee established in 2017 by the City of Atlantic
Beach in conjunction with an update of Chapter 23, “Protection of Trees
and the Natural Environment” of the City Ordinance. It consists of 11
members (4 district seats and 7 at large seats) of AB residents with
diverse and vital subject matter expertise serving three-year terms.
Our role is to study and provide guidance to the City about our maritime
forest, parks and open spaces, beautification, and environmental
stewardship of our community; as well as motivate and coordinate
participation in these efforts. We also respond to requests from the
Commission and staff such as the desire to achieve LEED for Cities Gold
certification which led to creating a Sustainability & Resilience
Community Action Plan for ongoing improvement. ESC’s subcommittees focus
on trees & beautification, sustainability & resilience, and education &
outreach, each of which have volunteer working groups.
In preparation of the proposed motion and for due diligence, the ESC
has completed the following actions:
1. reached out to the Florida League of Cities for examples of
other cities adding similar language to their Charters. To name a few,
Hollywood <https://1drv.ms/b/s!Aklu3FZzEMayrh52fkXfhb4Xvwrg?e=wcmAzh>
and Gainesville
<https://1drv.ms/b/s!Aklu3FZzEMayrh_uxWLFq8R3ovT4?e=zpjwc8> have
language in their preamble and New Smyrna Beach
<https://1drv.ms/b/s!Aklu3FZzEMayrh3bwvii7G0zkMm2?e=jpwcWO> has a whole
separate Article section. Several FL Regional Planning Councils (e.g.,
SE FL Regional Climate Compact
<https://southeastfloridaclimatecompact.org> , Tampa Bay Regional
Resiliency Coalition <https://tbrpc.org/resiliency-planning/coalition/>
, East Central Florida Regional Resilience Collaborative
<https://www.ecfrpc.org/r2c> have deeply incorporated sustainability,
resilience and environmental stewardship and protection into their
action plans.
2. consulted the COAB City Attorney, Jason Gabriel, about the best
location for the language. He offered the following three suggestions:
I. create a separate Article all together;
II. strengthen Article 14 Section 59 Zoning, Land
Development and Height Limits; and/or
III. add a new section (e.g., Section 5) to Article 1 (as
close to a preamble that we have).
3. considered AB Preservation’s suggested location and language
4. discussed and debated all of the suggestions (e.g., City
Attorney, AB Preservation, FL LOC) thoroughly at ESC’s September &
October noticed meetings. The ESC feels strongly that it is the whole
city’s duty, obligation, job and one of its main services is to protect
and enhance environmental stewardship, tree canopy, resilience and
sustainability (not just the job of the Commission or City Manager)
As a fellow city appointed citizen committee, the ESC hopes the CRC
takes our proposed motion seriously, recognizes that we researched and
debated with due diligence, and adopts this motion as updated Charter
language tonight.
Many thanks for your leadership and time on this important motion.
Please add this motion request into the meeting minutes and record.
All my best,
Sarah
Sarah Boren
City of Atlantic Beach Environmental Stewardship Committee Vice Chair
sborencoab@gmail.com <mailto:sborencoab@gmail.com>
904-535-0055
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