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Board directs staff to draft amendment to end new freestanding urban service districts, allows limited expansion of existing sites
Summary
Martin County commissioners directed staff to draft a comprehensive‑plan text amendment to stop new freestanding urban service districts for industrial development while allowing limited, defined expansion of the four existing districts.
Martin County commissioners on Jan. 28 gave staff direction to prepare a text amendment to the county’s comprehensive growth management plan to remove the option to create new freestanding urban service districts (FUSBs) for industrial uses, while allowing limited expansion of the four existing FUSBs under narrowly defined conditions.
Staff said the initiative responds to a 2023 commercial and industrial needs analysis showing the county has sufficient industrial land for the foreseeable future and that freestanding urban service districts can strain county resources and complicate planning when created without coordinated urban service boundaries.
County executive and…
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