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Planning panel approves comprehensive plan amendment to expand farmworker housing in Glades tier
Summary
The Palm Beach County Planning Commission unanimously approved a staff-initiated amendment to the county comprehensive plan to expand opportunities for farmworker housing in the Glades tier, removing a 25-acre minimum outside the Agricultural Reserve and allowing the use as a principal use in most future land-use designations in the tier.
The Palm Beach County Planning Commission unanimously approved a staff-initiated amendment to the county comprehensive plan to expand opportunities for farmworker housing in the county's Glades tier, a change that removes a longstanding 25-acre minimum outside the Agricultural Reserve and allows the use as a principal use in most future land-use designations in the tier.
Staff said the amendment was initiated to implement Board of County Commissioners direction and to clear a path for concurrent changes to the Unified Land Development Code (ULDC). "This proposed comprehensive plan amendment before you today is the farmworker revisions…
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