Richard D. Chess

This Community Redevelopment Plan for the City of Fort Pierce provides a framework for revitalizing the physical and economic environment of the Community Redevelopment Area. The plan focuses on eliminating slum and blighted conditions, promoting economic development, and enhancing housing, infrastructure, recreational, cultural, and educational facilities. Key strategic areas include the Downtown, the Port, the Neighborhoods, and the Beach, each with specific projects and programs designed to stimulate public interest and private investment to achieve overall revitalization and a long-range redevelopment strategy for the community.

The strategic plan for Fort Pierce focuses on enhancing waterfronts, fostering a diverse and strong local economy, and promoting history, arts, and culture. It aims to create livable neighborhoods, a vibrant historic downtown, and fun opportunities, fostering community unity and pride. The plan includes goals to beautify, develop, engage, serve, and ensure the community enjoys various aspects of city life. It prioritizes proactive property maintenance, job corridor development, annexation strategies, and community safety, along with initiatives for city beautification, economic development, and community branding.

The strategic plan for the City of Fort Pierce outlines a vision for 2040, aiming to establish the city as a unique coastal destination with thriving waterfronts, a diverse economy, rich history, arts, culture, and livable neighborhoods. The plan sets goals for 2030, focusing on community beautification, development, engagement, service, and enjoyment. It includes a detailed action agenda for 2025, prioritizing proactive property maintenance, job corridor development, community listening, and strategic communications to enhance the city's image and quality of life.

The 2024-2029 Strategic Plan for the City of Fort Pierce focuses on five key goals: serving, developing, engaging, beautifying, and enjoying the community. The plan prioritizes maintaining financial responsibility, enhancing City organizational culture, marketing the city, hiring and retaining a high-quality workforce, streamlining City processes, developing and funding capital improvements, implementing an ERP system, and ensuring sufficient resources to provide services. The plan addresses challenges such as keeping up with growth, promoting the city positively, hiring and retaining employees, addressing aging infrastructure, enhancing operational efficiencies, developing succession planning, managing impacts of government actions, and addressing limited revenue sources. Specific actions include ordinance review and updates, developing a City services and staffing plan, road improvements, marketing strategies, developing a five-year financial plan, addressing street lighting, reviewing impact fees, collaborating with St. Lucie County on key issues, improving customer service, conducting labor negotiations, developing a management succession plan, addressing street sweeping, maintaining traffic signals, developing a future City facilities master plan, establishing a police substation, conducting legislative advocacy, developing a proactive communications strategy, and upgrading public facilities.

The City of Fort Pierce Strategic Plan (2024-2039) outlines a vision for the city's future, focusing on six key principles: waterfronts, a strong local economy, history, arts, and culture, desirable neighborhoods, fun experiences, and community unity and pride. The plan details specific objectives and actions across five goals: serving the community (financial responsibility, workforce development, effective city services); developing the community (economic growth, infrastructure improvements, affordable housing); engaging the community (communication, community policing, inclusivity); beautifying the community (attractive entrances, well-maintained parks and corridors); and enjoying the community (arts, recreation, public safety, and sustainable resources). The plan includes short-term and long-term challenges and opportunities, policy and management actions for 2024, and a list of major projects for 2024 and beyond. The overarching aim is to transform Fort Pierce into a unique coastal Florida city that is financially responsible, economically vibrant, culturally rich, and a desirable place to live, work, and visit.