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The Beach Area The Beach area consists of the strip of land lying between mean high tide and SR A1A between the northern and southern City limits. It is 2.85 miles in length with an average width of approximately 250 feet. The Central Area The Central Area is the largest of the City's land areas. It is bounded by SR A1A to the east and the Grand Canal to the west. South Patrick Drive (SR 513) runs through the area as a north-south arterial. A1A and South Patrick Drive are the only arterial highways in the City. Most of the area has been developed with single-family residences at a density of approximately 4 units per acre. The Central area contains the majority of the non-residential land uses serving the City. Nearly all of the retail, commercial, and service developments are located along SR A1A and South Patrick Drive (SR 513). Institutional uses such as places of worship, schools, governmental offices, and recreational facilities are located throughout the Central Area. The Island Area The Island area includes 116.4 acres of land and 310.5 acres of water area comprised of portions of the Banana River, the Grand Canal, and connecting canals. Land and water areas total 426.9 acres. The County dredged the Grand Canal along the entire length of the City in the mid 1950's for mosquito control. As a result, three islands, separated by two east-west canals, were created from the spoil as follows: Tortoise Island is located in the extreme northwestern portion of the City on the northern island and has been developed under Planned Unit Development (PUD) regulations as a single-family, low-density residential community. Samsons Island Nature Park is located in the middle, is owned by the City, and is being developed as a passive recreation park/nature preserve. Lansing Island is located in the southwestern portion of the City and has been developed as a single-family, low-density residential community. Beach and Dune Conditions and Influences The boundaries of the beach and dunes ecological system are SR A1A to the west and the mean high-water line to the east. The 2.85 miles of sandy beach along the Atlantic Ocean has a width varying from 50 to 120 feet between the dune bluff, or bulkheads, and mean low water, with most being between 75 and 100 feet wide. Approximately 200 feet east of the dune bluff interface is a patchy, irregular coquina rock formation, some of which is exposed during mean low tides. Coastal Management/Conservation Element Data and Analysis 5-2
Beach Erosion The beach erosion rate, as determined by research undertaken for the preparation of the Brevard County Beach Management Plan (1987), averaged 0.5 feet per year between 1972 and 1985. Studies commissioned by the US Army Corps of Engineers and Brevard County have documented long-term loss of oceanfront land in the City. Historical data indicate the location of the top of the dune bluff is retreating at a rate of about 0.6 foot per year, with the mean high tide line along the beach retreating at a rate of about 0.3 foot per year. Comparison with surveys conducted in 1844 and 1859 suggests that in the century-and-a-half since that time there has been slight net accretion (perhaps 50 to 150 feet) of land between Patrick Air Force Base and the northern end of the City, little change in the shoreline in the portion of the City north of Cassia Boulevard, and loss of as much as 1,700 feet (0.3 mile) in the vicinity of Volunteer Way. Stormwater outfalls from SR A1A and some private residences also cause erosion in the vicinity of the structures. Surface water drainage onto the beach is a violation of the City Code and State regulations. As renovations are made to the properties drained by these outfalls, they will be removed so as to comply with Code and regulations. The apparent rise in sea level will also continue to cause dune migration westward along the entire beach. Habitats and Vegetative Cover The green sea turtle (threatened) and the loggerhead and leatherback turtles (endangered) nest along the stretch of beach in Satellite Beach and both to the north and south of the City. The beach provides habitat and food for ghost crabs and mole crabs as well as several bird species such as willets, plovers, sanderlings, terns, pelicans, and gulls. That portion of the beach from the foredune to mean low water exposed at low tide overlies a coquina shelf which forms irregular outcrops along the shoreline. The Brevard County, Florida Shore Protection Project Review Study Feasibility Report completed in 1995 by the US Army Corps of Engineers reports that the coquina outcrops total approximately 32 acres in the area between Patrick Air Force Base and Paradise Beach Park in Indialantic, with the best developed portion in the area immediately off Satellite Beach. In the same report, the US Fish and Wildlife Service reports that approximately 5 to 10 percent of these outcrops are inhabited by the reef-building tube worm Phragmatopoma lapidosa, citing the reef-rock habitat as "a unique biological feature of importance to the marine exosystem." The presence of the coquina outcrops, tube worms, and associated biological community of 350-plus identified species and, perhaps, another 350 yet to be identified (personal communication, Dr. Walter Nelson, Florida Institute of Technology) has resulted in a decision by those investigating beach renourishment south of Port Canaveral to not place sand on the beaches between Patrick Air Force Base and Paradise Beach Park. Vegetated sand dunes are found along most of the beach's length and provide the major defense against storm events. Native plant species found on the dunes include sea oats, palmetto, sea grape, railroad vine, dollar weed, coral bean, Spanish bayonet, wax myrtle, yaupon holly, and several grass species. More salt-tolerant and wind-tolerant species, such as sea oats and railroad vine, are found predominantly on the ocean side of the dune, while other dune vegetation species do not generally Coastal Management/Conservation Element Data and Analysis 5-3
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CITY OF SATELLITE BEACH SUPPORTING
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CITY OF SATELLITE BEACH COMPREHENSI
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Flooding Conditions According to th
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3. While the potential exists for e
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Table 1-1: Population Estimates and
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EXISTING LAND USE MAP SERIES Future
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Figure 1-B - Existing Waterbodies,
Page 16 and 17: TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT Introduction
Page 18 and 19: Collector roadways carry a moderate
Page 20 and 21: south, as well as all residential u
Page 22 and 23: The City of Satellite Beach’s exi
Page 24 and 25: II. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION DATA AND
Page 26 and 27: Table 2-1: Satellite Beach Major St
Page 28 and 29: Figure 2-A - Existing Roadway Chara
Page 30 and 31: Figure 2-C - Public Transit Routes,
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Page 40 and 41: Table 3-1: Population Estimates and
Page 42 and 43: Table 3-5: Units by Vacancy and Occ
Page 44 and 45: Table 3-12: Monthly Owner Costs (Mo
Page 46 and 47: Table 3-18: Median Sales Price for
Page 48 and 49: INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENT Introduction
Page 50 and 51: Solid Waste For purposes of analyzi
Page 52 and 53: Flood Prone Areas Areas subject to
Page 54 and 55: continue to be 10% higher than Melb
Page 56 and 57: also employs an innovative treatmen
Page 58 and 59: Joe Mullins Reverse Osmosis Water T
Page 60 and 61: Melbourne's water sources face thre
Page 62 and 63: City ID District Well ID Casing Dia
Page 64 and 65: Table 4-6: Melbourne’s Capital Im
Page 68 and 69: show such zonation. These plants as
Page 70 and 71: Nature Park provides a 52-acre open
Page 72 and 73: Inadequacies in portions of the Cit
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Page 78 and 79: Future land development within the
Page 80 and 81: Hurricane Preparedness The location
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Page 84 and 85: Table Table 5-2 5-4 Endangered Spec
Page 86 and 87: RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE ELEMENT I
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Page 92 and 93: Table 6-1 Satellite Beach City-Mana
Page 94 and 95: Table 6-1 Satellite Beach City-Mana
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Page 98 and 99: Table 6-3 Recreation Facility Level
Page 100 and 101: Table 6-5 Current Community Recreat
Page 102 and 103: Post Disaster Redevelopment - The C
Page 104 and 105: Table 7-1 Federal Intergovernmental
Page 106 and 107: Table 7-1 (Continued) State of Flor
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Level-Of-Service (LOS) Standards LO
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COMMUNITY APPEARANCE ELEMENT Introd
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