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St. Lucie County to require neighborhood meetings for major rezoning and streamline final site‑plan review
Summary
The St. Lucie County Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously to schedule a second reading on July 1 of a Land Development Code amendment that will require community participation meetings for many major development applications and expand administrative review of final site plans.
The St. Lucie County Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously at its June meeting to move forward with a Land Development Code text amendment that would require community participation meetings for several types of major development applications and would allow some final site plans that conform to an approved preliminary plan to be approved administratively.
The change is intended to increase early public engagement on planned development rezonings and similar large applications, clarify thresholds for administrative review, and bring the county’s code into alignment with recent state statutory changes such as the Live Local Act.
Planning staff presented the draft ordinance, saying it would require mandatory community participation meetings for planned…
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