§ 2-220. Intent.

(a)

The city commission of the city finds and declares that safe neighborhoods are the product of planning and implementation of appropriate environmental design concepts, comprehensive crime prevention programs, land use recommendations, and beautification techniques.

(b)

The city commission of the city further finds and declares that Florida Statutes, Chapter 163 grants powers to local governments to guide and accomplish the coordinated, balanced, and harmonious development of safe neighborhoods; to promote the health, safety, and general welfare of these areas and their inhabitants, visitors, property owners, and workers; to establish, maintain, and preserve property values and preserve and foster the development of attractive neighborhood and business environments; to prevent overcrowding and congestion; to improve or redirect automobile traffic and provide pedestrian safety; to reduce crime rates and the opportunities for the commission of crime; and to provide improvements in neighborhoods so they are defensible against crime.

(c)

It is the intent of the city commission of the city to implement plans that employ crime prevention through community policing innovations, environmental design, environmental security, and defensible space techniques to establish safe neighborhoods.

(d)

The city commission, therefore, declares that the development, redevelopment, preservation, and revitalization of neighborhoods in this city, and all the purposes of this article, are public purposes for which public money may be borrowed, expended, loaned, and granted.

(e)

The city commission hereby adopts a local planning ordinance authorizing the creation of local government safe neighborhood improvement districts pursuant to Florida Statutes Section 163.506 within the city.

(Ord. No. 09O-03-119, § 1, 4-13-09)