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Board discusses broad 2025 code amendments: alleys, trees, ADUs, Main Street and temporary signs
Summary
City planning staff presented a package of potential 2025 amendments to the Land Development Code and Code of Ordinances covering alley access, tree protections, accessory dwelling units, Main Street design standards, temporary signs and other items.
City planning staff and the Safety Harbor Planning and Zoning Board reviewed a wide-ranging list of potential code amendments on Jan. 8 that staff said were being prepared for a Feb. 24 workshop with the City Commission.
Carol Strickland, the city's community development director, summarized proposed topics staff grouped for 2025: technical corrections and clarifications to tree‑protection rules (including a definition for "boundary tree" and treatment of certain species), changes to alleyway access and improvement requirements, allowing daycare in the M‑1 light industrial district as an employee retention measure, resolving an internal inconsistency on accessory structure size limits versus accessory dwelling unit (ADU) limits, clarifying front‑porch setback rules…
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