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Alachua County centralizes tracking of municipal development notices; staff to map municipal notice rules

5534360 · June 3, 2025
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County staff established a central tracking process for municipal development notices and will return with a summary of municipal notice requirements after commissioners asked for clearer coordination and visibility into municipal planning actions.

Alachua County commissioners directed staff on June 3 to map how municipalities notify the county about development proposals and return with a recommended process for earlier coordination.

Growth Management Director Jeff Hayes told the Board the county has formalized a central review role, assigning a staff member to monitor municipal agendas, legal ads and neighborhood workshop notices and to log those items in CitizenServe. "We do have a staff person in growth management who is being tasked with actually reviewing agendas for municipalities, reviewing newspapers, media reports and to sort of be a central person so that things aren't getting lost in the shuffle," Hayes said.

The action followed a staff presentation explaining that counties are routinely alerted to large-scale comprehensive…

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