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City of St. Petersburg Comprehensive Plan Working Files, 1981-1986

 

Summary

Creator:
Carr, David R.
Saint Petersburg (Fla.). Planning Department
Abstract:
Materials related to the City of St. Petersburg Comprehensive Plan Working Files from 1981 to 1986.
Extent:
2 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

City of St. Petersburg Comprehensive Plan Working Files collection, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL.

Background

Biographical / historical:

David R. Carr, professor of History at USF St. Petersburg, served as a member of St. Petersburg's Comprehensive Plan Review Committee during the early and mid-1980s. He participated in discussions and reviewed drafts of various elements of the city's comprehensive plan. Carr donated his working papers and files to special collections at the Poynter Library.

Under the Local Government Comprehensive Planning Act, Florida law required municipalities to update elements of comprehensive plans every five years. During the early 1980s, the eighteen elements addressed by the city of St. Petersburg's comprehensive plan included: land use, traffic circulation, recreation and open space, conservation, water, sewer, drainage, solid waste, utility, collector street, port and aviation, mass transit, bikeway, housing, coastal zone, intergovernmental cooperation, economic, and energy. Members reviewed policies and plans established in the 1970s, proposed amendments, and addressed issues of citywide significance during their deliberations.

This collection offers a snapshot of the issues facing St. Petersburg as city officials embarked on major redevelopment programs along the waterfront, downtown, and in targeted areas and districts (including the "Gas Plant" district, now site of Tropicana Field, as well as Central Plaza, Sixteenth Street South, and Fourth Street). An examination of the comprehensive plan working files allows the researcher to understand the philosophy and practices of the city's government during the late 1970s through the mid-1980s.

Access and use

Terms of access:

None. The contents of the collection may be subject to copyright. Visit the United States Copyright Office's website at http://www.copyright.gov/ for more information.

Preferred citation:

City of St. Petersburg Comprehensive Plan Working Files collection, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL.

Location of this collection:
140 7th Avenue South
St. Petersburg
FL
33701
USA