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Board recommends update to capital improvement table; staff briefs board on Live Local Act and ePlan launch
Summary
The Planning and Zoning Board on July 9 recommended first-reading approval of a city-initiated ordinance (2025-01) to update the comprehensive plan’s capital improvement element table to reflect the city’s adopted budget.
Staff presented a city-initiated comprehensive plan text amendment (ordinance 2025-01) on July 9 to update the capital improvement element table so the comprehensive plan reflects the city’s adopted budget. The board recommended first-reading approval and the matter will go before the City Commission on July 21 for final consideration.
The senior planner explained state statute allows the city to update the plan’s capital improvement table via ordinance rather than the full comprehensive-plan amendment cycle when the changes simply align numbers with the adopted budget. Staff provided the annual level-of-service review: 2024 sanitary flow was roughly 49,900,000 gallons (about 81 gallons per capita per day versus the adopted standard of 119 gpcd); water use was about 44,300,000 gallons (about 72 gpcd, below the 115 gpcd standard); and solid-waste generation increased due to hurricane-related preparation but remained under the adopted standard. The planner said department reviewers and the city attorney reviewed the data pulled from the adopted budget.
In staff reports, Derek Reeves and the senior planner briefed the board on recent state legislation that will prompt land-development-code amendments, including changes to the Live Local Act. Staff said an earlier local code requirement for a minimum of 20% nonresidential uses in Live Local Act projects will need revision because the state now caps that requirement at 10% nonresidential. The planner said adjacent parcels may be included in Live Local Act developments at city discretion.
Staff also notified the board that a previously approved spa parking-lot project has requested a one-year extension because negotiations for a driveway easement took longer than expected; the extension request will appear on the July 21 City Commission agenda. Finally, staff announced the building division’s ePlan electronic plan-review system is now live for 37 permit types and that online parcel and FEMA floodplain maps scoped to city limits now load faster; staff will share links with the board.
Board members asked about data review and staff confirmed the city attorney and finance department reviewed the budget numbers. The board moved to recommend first-reading approval of the ordinance updating the capital improvement table; the motion passed unanimously.
