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Santa Rosa commissioners back 10‑member land‑development task force, push erosion controls and rural protection line
Summary
At a county workshop commissioners said they favor creating a 10‑member Land Development Code (LDC) task force to focus first on floodplain management, erosion control, design standards and tree mitigation, and agreed to study moving the county's rural protection line farther south.
The Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners on Jan. 30 directed county staff to form a 10‑member Land Development Code task force to review targeted chapters of the code and return recommendations to the board.
The board said the task force should be made of five subject‑matter experts and five local appointees, meet publicly under Florida’s Sunshine Law, and work to produce recommendations on tightened erosion and stormwater controls, tree mitigation, floodplain management and design standards. Commissioners discussed a roughly eight‑week timeline for initial work and a two‑thirds task‑force approval threshold for items the group forwards to the board.
Why this matters: Commissioners said targeted, short bursts of code work are more likely to succeed…
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