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Pensacola EAB presses staff to weigh environmental aims in land-development code rewrite, considers meeting cadence and small pilot projects
Summary
Board members discussed the city's strategic plan and an imminent land development code (LDC) rewrite, urged greater EAB engagement in the process, debated monthly vs. bimonthly meetings, and proposed small pilot projects (temporary bike lanes, naturalistic-yard code changes) to produce tangible outcomes.
Board members described the city's recently published 10-year strategic plan as a tool for identifying EAB projects and urged colleagues to participate in the upcoming kickoff and public-input process for the city's land-development code rewrite.
Don, a staff member, reminded the board that Inspired Communities, the consultant overseeing the LDC rewrite, will hold a kickoff workshop on January 22 at 5:30 p.m. in the same room; staff invited the board to attend and to submit comments. Board members said they want environmental goals to be visible during the rewrite and suggested concrete changes such as relaxing certain tree-protection size…
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