The Southeast
Orlando Sector Plan is focused on providing those social amenities
that are necessary to build community. These amenities include
neighborhood schools, parks, recreation centers, convenient
day-care, churches, and other public institutions such as post
offices, libraries and meeting halls. These uses and institutions
help to focus and strengthen community identity, by providing places
where people can gather and interact in a safe, friendly
environment.
In most suburbs, these facilities are dispersed, underutilized, and
underfunded. In the Southeast Plan area, they will be concentrated,
utilized to the fullest, and funded to the best of our ability. This
requires that the facilities be planned well ahead of time, before
land values increase too much. It also requires that the school and
park facilities be properly and centrally located in relation to
neighborhoods, and not simply relegated to leftover pieces of land
on the outskirts of the development. The City is dedicated to
finding and implementing innovative funding solutions for the
provision of both schools and parks, and for other institutional
uses as well.
For the Southeast area to grow in a competitive and
community-oriented manner, a new approach to schools must be
pursued. Large schools that force children into an anonymous setting
and require parents to become chauffeurs inevitably work against our
goal to create a sense of community. Small schools give children the
attention they need to build a sense of identity. Schools that are
within a short walk of most homes help to nurture neighborhood
pride. Schools that build innovative linkages to local industries
and educational institutions bring the hope of reestablishing a
commitment to education excellence and building a long-term future
for the next generation. A coordinated strategy addressing school
size, funding, phasing and management is an integral component of
the Southeast Plan.
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