Commissioners back framework for structured growth overlay, ask for revised language before Planning Board

Oct 23, 2025

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.

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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.

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