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Commissioners continue comprehensive plan amendments after debate over shoreline protections and resiliency language
Summary
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.
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.
County planners said the updates are part of the state-required evaluation and appraisal report (EAR) process that occurs every seven years. Senior planner Jenna Nobby told commissioners some changes were required by Florida statute, including lengthening the planning horizon from 15 to 20 years consistent with section 163.31775(a), and adding cross-references and a new resiliency objective tied to the coastal element.
Clyde Doolin,…
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