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Regional planner outlines Lake Placid growth-area rules, town schedules roundtable on utilities and boundaries
Summary
Central Florida Regional Planning Council staff reviewed the Lake Placid Regional Planning Area history, growth principles and utility requirements; town administrators and commissioners set a roundtable to compile maps, questions and legal guidance before recommending changes to the plan.
Jeff Schmucker, planning director with the Central Florida Regional Planning Council, gave a historical overview of the Lake Placid Regional Planning Area and its implementation in local policy, then town staff and commissioners agreed to hold a roundtable workshop to compile questions and mapping needs before recommending changes to the plan.
Schmucker said the Lake Placid Regional Planning Area (LPRP) was initiated by a growth management committee in 2005 and formalized in subsequent planning documents; Highlands County recognized the area in its comprehensive plan in 2011 and the town later incorporated the planning-area provisions into its own comprehensive plan and land development code. "If development is gonna come in, we wanna make sure it looks like we want it to look," Schmucker said, describing the intent to preserve Lake Placid's character while guiding future growth.
The LPRP boundary — shown to commissioners…
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