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Council asks staff to study civic open-space pay-in-lieu and whether funds can address neighborhood infrastructure
Summary
Council directed staff to analyze an amendment to allow working-waterfront projects to pay a contribution in lieu of civic open space and to examine whether those funds (or alternatives) can address infrastructure needs after staff warned current law limits in-lieu funds to civic-open-space uses.
Riviera Beach City Council on Feb. 5 directed staff to study options that would give working-waterfront projects more flexibility in meeting civic open-space requirements, and to evaluate whether payment-in-lieu funds could be used to address nearby infrastructure needs.
Staff background: Clarence Sermons, director of development services, summarized the city’s civic open-space code (section 31-538) and explained that the requirement is triggered for downtown projects on sites of one acre or larger or when an existing building adds 20% or more gross floor area. Sermons outlined six accepted civic-open-space typologies in the code (green, plaza,…
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