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Board takes a string of procedural and funding actions — neighborhood workshops, impact-policy changes and community grants
Summary
The Manatee County commission voted on a cluster of procedural and funding items: mandatory neighborhood workshops, seed funding for a veteran suicide-prevention network, a food pantry grant, a change to school-zone camera enforcement hours, a directive to repeal a comprehensive plan policy and cancellation of a county ITN for the Musgrave tract.
The board approved several procedural changes and one-time funding decisions in a series of motions late in the meeting. Taken together, these actions address neighborhood engagement, homelessness and veteran support, and how the county will handle certain public-safety enforcement hours.
Neighborhood workshops: The board directed staff to prepare amendments to the Land Development Code (LDC) to require neighborhood workshops for specified application types and to return those amendments for board consideration. The motion (sponsored by Commissioner Phelps, seconded by Commissioner Bearden) passed 5-2 (Commissioners Siddique and Ron opposed). The change will require staff to draft LDC language, schedule public outreach, and return the proposed code amendments for public hearings and a…
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