Murdock Village Redevelopment Initiative

Frequently Asked Questions

March 2004

The following is a series of frequently asked questions, and answers, designed to explain and update the community relative to the Murdock Village Redevelopment initiative and its evolution. This format is designed to allow the reader to learn more about the many aspects and documents involved by clicking links interspersed throughout these explanatory materials.

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Introduction

The Murdock Village Redevelopment initiative is a complex initiative by local government and will take several years to implement. The County Commission has embarked upon a flexible approach which seeks a willing and qualified redevelopment partner to achieve a vision for the Murdock Village Community Redevelopment Area. [Click here to view a map of the Murdock Village Community Redevelopment Area.] That vision is expected to address many of the problems resulting from the excessive and redundant platting in the area that have resulted in economic blight over the years. The term "blight" does not mean that Charlotte County is not a fantastic place to live; it is simply a planning and legal term that means a combination of several conditions which are present in Charlotte County and the Murdock Village Community Redevelopment Area. The conditions, which place enormous pressure on landowners and local government, include: (1) site improvements, subdivision infrastructure, roadways, or other structures and improvements arranged, built or constructed that are physically and functionally deteriorating or obsolete; (2) a predominance of defective or inadequate street layout, roadways, bridges resulting from aggressive platting in the past; (3) flat or stagnating assessed property values; (4) faulty past subdivision layout in relation to size, adequacy or accessibility; (5) the existence of faulty lot layout in relation to size, adequacy or usefulness; (6) inadequate or outdated building density patterns; and (7) the resulting diversity of ownership of thousands of vacant lots with rigid and outdated use restrictions that impair and impede creativity and innovation in the development of these areas that otherwise would be met by today's real estate development market.

Frequently Asked Questions

FAQs also available as a single text file.

1. What is the Murdock Village redevelopment initiative?

2. What is the problem or circumstance that the Murdock Village redevelopment initiative is trying to address?

3. What is the historical backdrop for the excessive platting problem?

4. Beyond the Murdock Village redevelopment initiative, what actions has the County taken to address the excessive inventory of vacant platted lots in Charlotte County?

5. Why was a specific area in West Murdock selected for the redevelopment initiative?

6. What tools will the County employ in the redevelopment process for Murdock Village?

7. Please explain how a redevelopment agency fits into the Murdock Village redevelopment initiative.

8. How was the Murdock Village Community Redevelopment Agency created; and what is the composition of its governing body?

9. How will the County's Request for Proposals Process unfold?

10. Why did the County choose to receive proposals from other than those development teams that were pre-qualified in mid-2003?

11. How will the County determine which proposal to select?

12. What impact will the "sustainable design charrette" have on the County's Request for Proposals process?

13. Who are the members of the County's selection committee?

14. Does the County have a citizen's advisory committee focusing on the Murdock Village redevelopment initiative?

15. How long will it take to negotiate a redevelopment agreement with the selected proposer?

16. Can anyone review the responses to the request for proposals?

17. What type of proposals should the County expect?

18. What will become of the County's regional park?

19. Will the County be imposing uniform design standards for the entire redevelopment area?

20. Is the County committed to acquiring all of the Murdock Village Community Redevelopment Area and reselling the land to the selected development partner for redevelopment purposes?

21. Why is the Murdock Village redevelopment initiative different from any other development project?

22. How long will it take to complete the redevelopment contemplated for the Murdock Village Community Redevelopment Area?

23. How will the Murdock Village redevelopment initiative have a positive impact on the rest of the community?

24. How much does the County plan on initially funding the purchase of lands within the Murdock Village Community Redevelopment Area?

25. How will the County repay the monies it has borrowed to acquire lands within the redevelopment Area?

26. Will the Murdock Village Community Redevelopment Area somehow be closed to outside traffic?

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