A visioning exercise designed to discuss, analyze and develop alternative growth scenarios for our region through the year 2060.

On May 21, 2009, Reality Check First Coast brought nearly 300 leaders from the public, private and nonprofit sectors together in groups of eight to 10 to discuss, analyze and develop alternative growth scenarios for our region.

Click on the icon below to access the "Reality Check First Coast Report"

The exercise is designed to raise awareness of projected levels of region-wide growth and to lay the foundation for the development of a concrete list of next steps to meet the region’s future job, housing, transportation, infrastructure and recreation needs.

How should we grow? Where will we grow?
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What’s been happening since
Reality Check First Coast?

We have taken the exercise to all seven counties in the First Coast Region. The results of each exercise and overall results, are posted on the right.



On January 30, 2010, we will ask young people the same questions and ask them to do the same exercise. Join us in this exciting event! For more information or to register as an individual or an organization, click on the link to the right.



Reality Check First Coast implementation will be directed by the umbrella partnership, Region First 2060. Their mission is to convene the region regarding:
– Growth
– Development and the future
– Educate the region regarding benefits of development consistent with Guiding Principles
– Encourage participation in a regional vision

Region First 2060 will share data with the Regional Community Institute (RCI), as they create a vision. Region First 2060 will implement efforts with RCI to ensure that the vision reflects the Guiding Principles and is considered as the Northeast Florida Strategic Regional Policy Plan is updated.




The mission of RCI is to advance and promote the vision of regionalism as it relates to the quality of life in Northeast Florida’s natural, built, economic and social environments. RCI was created by the Northeast Florida Regional Council (NEFRC) as a not-for-profit organization to advance the mission by assessing and monitoring the state of the region, fostering leadership throughout the region, and creating a vision for the region. The Institute has been asked by NEFRC to create First Coast Vision on a timeline that will allow it to be considered by NEFRC when updating the Northeast Florida Strategic Regional Policy Plan. For more information on RCI, visit the website at www.rcinef.org

Initiated through the Urban Land Institute (ULI), Reality Check First Coast and Region First 2060 is a partnership of the Regional Community Institute of Northeast Florida, Inc., the not-for-profit arm of the Northeast Florida Regional Council, ULI North Florida District Council, the Cornerstone Regional Development Partnership, UNF, St. Johns River Water Management District, North Florida TPO, Urban Land Institute of North Florida and The St. Johns River Alliance.