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Planning staff outlines comprehensive-plan update, GRIDX permit tools and code-enforcement priorities
Summary
City planning staff told the Planning and Architectural Review Board that Flagler Beach will begin a year-long comprehensive-plan update (to be adopted by January 2026), roll out a GRIDX permit/project lookup tool, and focus code enforcement on rights-of-way and ongoing issues such as RVs and alley drainage.
Planning staff told the Flagler Beach Planning and Architectural Review Board on Feb. 4 that the city will begin a comprehensive-plan update this year to meet state requirements and new legislation passed since 2021. Staff said the comprehensive-plan update will be developed over 2025 with a target adoption date of January 2026 and will include required and recommended elements identified in recent legislation.
Staff asked the board to consider forming a stakeholder committee to assist with the comprehensive-plan update. The proposed stakeholder committee would include one or two PARB members, a city commissioner, a Tourist Council representative, a CRA representative, a business representative and resident participants; staff said the committee would meet and be followed by open houses during the update process.
Staff announced an online project lookup and permit-lookup tool (referred to in the meeting as GRIDX/Gritics) that links project status and permit records. The tool is intended to help board members and the public check project status ("under review," "approved," "completed") and permit availability. Staff also said code enforcement has been active: two code officers worked on RV compliance in January and issued 12 courtesy notices that resulted in compliance. The next code-enforcement focus will be rights-of-way issues such as unauthorized plantings and dumped material in alleys; staff said alleys belong to the city and cleanup is handled by the city when the responsible party cannot be identified.
Staff said the planning team will review parking and fixed-seating rules (affecting theaters, churches with pews and restaurants with booths) and will align building-code and fire-code spacing requirements with any code updates. Staff also said they plan to provide training and tutorials on the GRIDX permit/project lookup and may use a university regional studio to provide modeling tools for the comprehensive-plan update.
The board was asked to expect additional land development code updates in the future and to participate in stakeholder outreach and timeline review as staff develops a prescribed methodology for the comprehensive-plan rewrite.
No formal vote was taken on the comprehensive-plan update at this meeting; staff requested PARB input and proposed next steps.
