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Local Planning Agency approves amendments tightening rural lifestyle eligibility; vote 3‑1
Summary
The Local Planning Agency approved a text amendment to the county’s rural lifestyle future land use designation, narrowing locational criteria and adding language intended to protect three existing rural lifestyle properties; the motion passed 3‑1 with Member Hartman opposed.
The Martin County Local Planning Agency voted 3‑1 April 3 to approve text amendments to the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan’s “rural lifestyle” future land use designation, changes staff said are intended to narrow where the designation can be applied and to clarify the status of three existing rural lifestyle properties.
Clyde Doolin, the county’s comprehensive planning administrator, presented the proposed NPH‑3 text amendment (CPA 24‑26). Doolin said the Board of County Commissioners initiated the change to revise locational criteria for rural lifestyle parcels outside the primary urban service district. The edits shown in staff materials would remove references that allow rural lifestyle designations adjacent to secondary or freestanding urban service districts in some circumstances and instead limit certain exceptions to properties adjacent to the…
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