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Martin County LPA backs ordinance to return CRA alternative-compliance reviews to public CRA board
Summary
The Local Planning Agency voted unanimously April 17 to recommend an ordinance amending Article 12 to route most alternative-compliance requests in Martin County community redevelopment areas (CRAs) to the CRA board, align criteria with Florida law, and keep landscaping deviations with Growth Management.
Martin County’s Local Planning Agency (LPA) voted unanimously April 17 to recommend adoption of an ordinance amending Article 12, Division 1, of the county’s Community Redevelopment Area (CRA) code to change how alternative-compliance (code-deviation) requests are reviewed and decided.
The change would move most dimensional and architectural alternative-compliance requests for CRA projects from an administrative decision by Growth Management to public review by the CRA board; landscaping deviations would continue to be decided by the Growth Management director. The staff presentation said the draft ordinance also replaces the current criteria for granting alternative compliance with standards patterned on Florida law for variances.
County planning staff said the proposal is intended to restore a public-hearing process for alternate compliance and to make the review standard less ambiguous. Under the proposed language, decision-makers would evaluate whether special conditions…
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