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CURRENT & PAST PLANS

4.1.3 City of Key West Strategic Plan – Key West Forward 2021 2024: Last Update 2022 This plan sets specific timelines for each goal and ties them to the means by which they are funded. It includes a list of major projects that will be tackled, including improvements to Bayview Park and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Pool. A section that specifically addresses internal communications as well as an aggressive strategy to communicate with all residents and businesses. Surveys and workshops showed that affordable housing is the community’s top priority. The City’s goals are to provide up to 500 new units and lobby for tax breaks

for landlords who rent to locals. Another goal is to lobby for the ability to impose a tax on second homes to alleviate the local tax burden. Sea level rise was the second most important priority, according to the input from residents and the business community. The plan lays out a number of strategies for short-term mitigation projects as well as creating a long-term adaptation strategy. Roads and sidewalks are also of concern and rose to the third priority. The plan lays out ways to improve roadways while planning for sea-level change, and it addresses ways to better maintain roads so that they last longer.

Figure 4.3: Key West Strategic Plan