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SUMMARY:Fall 2026 Urban and Regional Planning Distinguished Lecture Series
 : Paving the Way for the Next Bell: The Collision of School Choice and Co
 mmunity
LOCATION:Dr. Phillips Academic Commons
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Fall 2026 Urban and Regional Planning Distingu
 ished Lecture Series: Paving the Way for the Next Bell: The Collision of 
 School Choice and Community. Our speaker is Saralee Morrissey\, FAICP\, F
 ounder and Principal at Saralee Morrissey Consulting LLC.\n\nAbstract:\n\
 nFor decades\, Florida's landmark Growth Management Act of 1985 and its s
 ubsequent 2005 amendment sought to bind community expansion to public inf
 rastructure via strict concurrency rules which included schools. However\
 , the 1999 A+ Plan and the increasing popularity of school choice options
 \, along with the removal of the school concurrency mandate\, decoupled e
 ducation from local municipal planning. Today\, as birth rates and migrat
 ion trends exacerbate the decline in traditional school enrollments and f
 orce modern school leaders into painful school closure decisions\, the co
 nsequences of this shift are laid bare. This lecture examines how today’s
  schools are overriding traditional land-use frameworks\, jeopardizing th
 e neighborhood school concept and sparked a critical collision that fract
 ures community cohesion across the Sunshine State.\n\n5-6: p.m.: Networki
 ng\n\n6- 8 p.m.: Lecture\n\nUCF Downtown\, Dr. Phillips Academic Commons\
 , Room 106\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/9e04d6d8-e474-46e2-9c6f-a87e890
 f48e0
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/9e04d6d8-e474-46e2-9c6f-a87e890f48e0
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