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Commissioners back framework for structured growth overlay, ask for revised language before Planning Board
Summary
County planning staff presented proposed comprehensive‑plan amendments to create economic opportunity center overlays and a structured growth overlay; commissioners asked staff to remove mandatory commercial set‑asides and to return with formal amendment language before the Planning Board hearing.
Okeechobee County staff and consultant presented proposed amendments to the county comprehensive plan that would create a structured growth overlay and retool existing industrial overlays into “economic opportunity center” overlays.
Planner Royce (consultant/staff presenter) walked the board through multiple elements: expanding industrial overlays into economic opportunity center overlays to favor employment‑generating uses while allowing up to 50% non‑workplace uses in the overlay; a structured growth overlay covering much of the south and northwest areas of the county; a compact community option with up to four dwelling units per acre in areas served by public sewer or…
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