Previously, the TCRPC was a
regulatory board. In 1993, the State of Florida
was fifty-five billion dollars behind in road
building, five billion dollars behind school building.
There was a 700 percent increase in taxes, an
eight billion dollar water management repair bill,
and the inevitability that the agricultural industry
and countryside would disappear. That year the
Florida State Legislature reviewed the role of
regional planning councils. It gave regional planning
councils two years and a leadership role to develop
new regional policy plans to respond to the negative
growth trends occurring statewide.
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