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Planning board pauses comprehensive-plan EAR review, asks staff to return with clarified legal citations and edits
Summary
The Planning & Zoning Board heard a detailed presentation on the required evaluation and appraisal review (EAR) of the town’s comprehensive plan, questioned several policy provisions and mapping items, and voted to continue the matter to its Feb. 13 meeting so staff can provide clarifications and proposed edits.
The Town of Orange Park Planning & Zoning Board on Jan. 9 received a detailed briefing on the statutorily required Evaluation and Appraisal Review (EAR) of the town’s comprehensive plan and voted to continue consideration so staff and the consultant can supply clearer citations and revise draft language.
Tony Robbins, the consultant working with the town, told the board the Community Planning Act requires jurisdictions to evaluate their comprehensive plans roughly every seven years and to transmit the EAR to the Florida Department of Commerce for agency review. Robbins described proposed updates that include population and household projection changes, a residential density bonus policy, codifying the town’s Complete Streets program into the plan, and minor map updates.
Robbins said the draft also incorporates a property-rights element the council adopted in 2022 and clarified…
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