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ULDC committee moves to codify ‘rural Vista’ guidelines, adds buffer and sign items
Summary
The Town of Loxahatchee Groves Unified Land Development Code (ULDC) committee voted to advance a memo recommending codification of rural Vista design guidance and asked staff to add frontage buffer-size and sign-size/type items for revision and return.
The Unified Land Development Code Review Committee for the Town of Loxahatchee Groves voted to forward a draft memo that would help codify the town’s long-discussed “rural Vista” design guidelines and directed staff to add specific items on frontage buffer size and sign size/type for inclusion in the next draft.
Committee members said codifying the guidelines into the ULDC is necessary to give the town legal leverage to require deeper landscape buffers, break up large parking fields and require pedestrian-oriented building features. Committee member Jeff (staff) presented aerial examples and measurements to illustrate how different buffer depths change the appearance of commercial frontage.
Why it matters: Committee members said the document has been treated as informal guidance for years and that putting minimum dimensions and clearer language into…
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