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Riviera Beach council adopts utility district amendments to comprehensive plan
Summary
City Council unanimously adopted a comprehensive plan amendment tied to the Riviera Beach Utility Special District’s water-supply plan, a step staff said is needed to align the city plan with the utility district’s adopted water-supply plan and move the project through state and regional review.
RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. — The Riviera Beach City Council unanimously adopted an amendment to the city’s comprehensive plan on Jan. 15 that staff said is required to align city policy with a new water-supply plan adopted by the Riviera Beach Utility Special District.
The council approved ordinance No. 4275 on second reading, amending multiple infrastructure and intergovernmental coordination policies to reflect the utility district’s water-supply plan. Clarence Sermons, the city’s director of development services, told the council this meeting was the “second or adoption hearing for this proposed comprehensive plan amendment.”
City staff said the amendment was circulated to state and regional review agencies and that, other than addressing review comments, no changes were made since the ordinance’s first reading. The amendment updates policies in the infrastructure element (including policies 1.2.5, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.8, 1.8.1 and 1.8.2) and the intergovernmental coordination element policy 1.3.1.
The measures effect how city land-use planning and intergovernmental coordination account for the water-supply work carried out by the Riviera Beach Utility Special District, a separate local entity that the city and staff have worked with while planning long-term water infrastructure. Sermons said staff and utility district personnel who helped draft the plan were available to answer questions but that none were raised during the hearing. The council approved the ordinance by roll call vote; all members present voted yes.
The vote clears a key local planning step needed before state and regional agencies complete their reviews. Staff said the changes are administrative updates tied specifically to the water-supply plan and are not changes to zoning or parcel-level entitlements.
Councilmembers who voted in favor included Councilperson Shirley Lanier, Councilperson Glenn Spiritus, Councilperson Casheva Miller Anderson, Chairperson Douglas Lawson and Chairperson/Representative Tim Roderick McCoy. The ordinance takes effect per the dates required by state review and adoption procedures.
Sermons noted the item had been routed to the state and referred to regional review agencies and that staff, including utility district staff, remained available for follow-up. The council did not request additional hearings or amendments at the meeting.
