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Palm Bay advisory board consolidates land goals, elevates water-quality focus in sustainability plan draft
Summary
The Palm Bay Sustainability Advisory Board agreed to condense overlapping land objectives into a single goal, move most water-related items into a stand‑alone water-quality goal and drop separate local business/community objectives while preparing a revised draft for council review.
The Palm Bay Sustainability Advisory Board spent its Feb. 18 workshop reworking the draft Sustainability Action Plan to produce a shorter, more trackable document that emphasizes water quality and consolidates overlapping land-protection objectives.
Board members agreed to merge two existing “land” goals into one core land-protection objective and to make water quality a separate, higher-priority goal. The group also moved most water-related items from the original goal 1 into the water-quality goal and struck standalone local business and community objective sections that the board said made the packet too large and repetitive.
Members said they want the final product to be easier for City Council to review and for staff to implement. Several board members recommended using the format and prioritization approach from…
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