CRITICAL AREA PROGRAMS IN FLORIDA: CREATIVE BALANCING OF GROWTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT DR. JOHN M. DEGROVE*
TABLE OF CONTENTS I.
INTRODUCTION ......................................
A. Floridaas a High Growth State .................. B. Responding to Unplanned Growth ................. II. THE GENESIS OF THE CRITICAL AREA PROGRAMS .... A. What are CriticalAreas .......................... B. State CriticalArea Programs ..................... III. THE FLORIDA EXPERIENCE WITH THE CRITICAL AREA APPROACH TO MANAGING GROWTH .................
A. Introduction .................................... B. Filling the Growth Management Gap .............. C. Applying the Approach ........................... IV.
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PHASE ONE: FORMAL DESIGNATIONS OF AREAS OF CRITICAL STATE CONCERN ..........................
A. The Big Cypress ................................. B. The Green Swamp ............................... C. The FloridaKeys ................................ D. The CriticalArea Approach: A Time of Crisis .....
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* Dr. DeGrove is the Director of the FAU/FIU Joint Center for Environmental and Urban Problems. He served as the Secretary of the Department of Community Affairs for the state of Florida, 1983-1985. That Department is the state land planning agency, and in recent years has assumed a special role as the state's lead agency in growth management programs.