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Martin County CRA board adopts new public process for alternative compliance requests
Summary
The CRA board approved a change to the CRA alternative compliance process to move many decisions from an administrative approval to a public hearing before the CRA board, aligning the procedure with variance practice outside CRAs and adding public notice and quasi-judicial hearing elements for dimensional and architectural requests.
The Martin County Community Redevelopment Agency voted to recommend a change to the CRA alternative compliance procedure that will bring most requests requiring deviations from the code to a publicly noticed CRA board hearing rather than leaving them to administrative decision by the growth management director.
Deputy County Attorney Elise Elder and Office of Community Development staff explained that the proposed ordinance aligns alternative compliance—used inside CRAs as a substitute for variances—with Florida statutory standards for variances and with how such deviations are handled outside CRA boundaries. Under the new process, most minor alternative compliance requests would be heard by the CRA board; major requests would go to the Board of…
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