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Plantation staff previews major zoning and parking rewrite; vote postponed to allow legal review

3220858 · April 8, 2025
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Summary

Dan Holmes, the city’s planning, zoning and economic development director, and Michael Alpert, assistant director, presented a comprehensive rewrite of Chapter 27 (PP24-0028) on April 8 that reorganizes zoning articles, creates a Transit-Oriented Development district and substantially revises parking rules for Midtown and other priority redevelopment areas.

Dan Holmes, the city’s planning, zoning and economic development director, introduced a broad zoning and parking ordinance (PP24-0028) and said staff would present the measure for review but not take a vote at the April 8 Planning & Zoning Board meeting. “It’s a very large item and there are some things that we kind of got a little ahead of ourselves that we have to still go over and clear with the city attorney’s office,” Holmes said.

Michael Alpert, assistant director, walked members through the scope: the draft ordinance contains 25 exhibits revising four articles of Chapter 27 and adds a new Transit Oriented Development (TOD) zoning category. Alpert said most changes are reformatting and clarifications but that…

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