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Commissioner urges preserving Margate golf course after planning board advances rezoning
Summary
Commissioner Rosano urged the City Commission to wait for any comprehensive-plan amendment and to preserve the city-owned golf course after a Planning & Zoning board vote to move a golf course parcel to recreational zoning; she framed the issue as part of concerns about overdevelopment and downtown apartment proposals.
Commissioner Rosano called on the City Commission to protect a city-owned golf course after a Planning & Zoning Board meeting considered changing the parcel’s zoning to recreational to allow redevelopment.
Rosano said the planning board vote was close — she described it as passing “2 to 1” — and that any change to the golf course parcel will affect open-space planning in the surrounding dense development. She urged the commission to wait for a formal amendment to the comprehensive plan before considering any redevelopment proposals.
At the commission meeting Rosano…
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