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Commission continues Central Park pattern-plan amendment to Oct. 28, asks staff to negotiate buffer compromises with neighbors
Summary
The City Commission continued the first reading of an ordinance to amend the Central Park development master plan after a split board failed to approve the developer’s requested waivers to remove plantings from the backs of several lakes.
The Northport City Commission on Oct. 14 continued the first reading of an ordinance (Ordinance 2025-28) to amend the Central Park at Northport activity-center pattern plan after a tie vote on an attempt to approve the developer's requested landscaping waivers.
The amendment would remove planting buffers along the back edges of multiple lakes adjacent to existing neighborhoods and seeks waivers from the Unified Land Development Code so some lake edges would be graded and sodded rather than planted with trees and shrubs. The developer requested two specific waivers: roughly 450 linear feet along the Colony (called waiver 1 in the application) and roughly 275 linear feet adjacent to Fairway Villas (waiver 2). The applicant said the change responds to neighbors who want unobstructed…
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