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Marion County panel debates transmitting comprehensive plan amendments amid state law concerns
Summary
County planners reported broad public support for proposed comprehensive-plan amendments but flagged Senate Bill 180 as a risk that could lead the state to return (or declare null) parts of the document; commissioners split on whether to submit the draft as written or pare back language before transmittal.
Blair Knight, county planning staff, told the Marion County Board of County Commissioners at a Oct. 2 workshop that public engagement on the proposed evaluation-and-appraisal-based amendments produced mostly favorable responses but that a new state law—Senate Bill 180—required careful line-by-line review before transmittal to Tallahassee.
"That bill basically states municipalities cannot make their land development regulations more restrictive or more burdensome," Knight said, describing why staff recommended removing or softening several newly drafted policies to reduce the chance the state finds the plan "more restrictive."
The board heard staff summaries of outreach: two online surveys and multiple community workshops in Marion Oaks and Silver Spring Shores, where planners said the record and open-space and…
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