Commissioners continue comprehensive plan amendments after debate over shoreline protections and resiliency language

Mar 11, 2025

The board continued two items in the county’s seven-year comprehensive plan update — a chapter 2 definitions amendment and chapter 8 coastal management changes — after extended discussion on shoreline protection zones, living shorelines and pre-1982 plat protections.

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The Martin County Board of County Commissioners on March 11 continued two linked comprehensive-plan amendments — CPA 24-02 (chapter 2 overall goals and definitions) and CPA 24-08 (coastal management element) — to a March 25 public hearing after extensive discussion about shoreline protection language and how the county will handle storm-damaged shorelines and pre-1982 platted preservation areas.

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