Crestview council approves multiple ordinances, adopts lien-mitigation resolution and final plat

Crestview — The Crestview City Council on April 20 approved a slate of ordinances and other measures, clearing a franchise renewal for electrical service, amendments to development standards and the city’s mobility-fee system, adopting a lien-mitigation schedule and approving a 30-lot townhouse final plat. Most votes carried unanimously, with one council member absent.

The council approved Ordinance 19-81, a 10-year renewal (with two optional five-year renewals) granting Choctawhatchee Electric Cooperative, Inc., a nonexclusive franchise to use city rights-of-way to serve a small cluster of customers along Old Bethel Road. The ordinance includes a modest franchise-fee increase and language to address delays when utility poles are moved while other utilities remain on them. The motion to adopt carried 4-0, one absence.

Council members adopted Ordinance 19-91 on second reading, an amendment to the city’s land development code to allow reduced setbacks where lots front on unopened or terminating rights-of-way so narrow parcels can be built on. The motion to adopt carried 4-0, one absence.

The council approved Ordinance 19-97 on second reading to establish the City of Crestview mobility-fee…