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Apopka council transmits comprehensive-plan rewrite after state law narrows local rules
Summary
The City Council voted unanimously July 2 to transmit a near-complete rewrite of the comprehensive plan to state reviewers, after staff removed provisions that could be barred as "burdensome" under a new state law passed in late June.
The City Council of Apopka voted unanimously July 2 to accept first reading of a near-complete rewrite of the city's comprehensive plan and to transmit it to the Florida Department of Commerce and other state reviewing agencies for comment.
The rewrite replaces most elements of Apopka's 2009 plan except the transportation element and modernizes policy language, zoning references and the plan's background data. City staff and East Central Florida Regional Planning Council consultants told the council the draft updates policy goals and the data inventory, but they removed or revised several proposed policies after reviewing Senate Bill 180, a law signed on…
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