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Commission asks staff to advertise code updates, asks for narrower carport rules for small lots
Summary
County staff won approval to advertise a package of amendments to the Unified Land Development Code that includes road-access clarifications, setback affidavit procedures, parking and monument standards; commissioners asked staff to return with more nuanced language limiting small-lot front-yard carports.
Alachua County commissioners voted to advertise staff-initiated amendments to the Unified Land Development Code (ULDC) after a detailed presentation on several topics including access for family-homestead and rural subdivisions, setback rules, an administrative setback-affidavit process, survey-monument timing and parking standards. The board directed staff to come back with more detailed carport standards for small lots before final adoption.
Planner Angeline Jacobs presented the package and told commissioners the amendments correct language the county changed in 2021 and add clarifications staff has repeatedly been asked to resolve. The proposed…
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