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Board recommends striking blanket irrigation requirement; irrigation plans still required when systems proposed
Summary
Flagler Beach planners will remove a blanket code line that required irrigation for all landscaped areas; the board recommended approval as amended, keeping requirements that irrigation plans be submitted when systems are proposed and encouraging future reuse via a purple pipe pilot.
The Planning and Architectural Review Board on April 8 recommended an amendment to the land development code that strikes a provision requiring irrigation for all landscaped areas; the board approved the change as amended and asked staff to draft ordinance language for the City Commission.
Staff said the code currently read as if every landscaped area had to include an irrigation system, even where drought-tolerant or xeriscape plantings would be used. Under the proposed change, the code will no longer require irrigation systems for every landscape area; instead, if…
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