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Hernando staff outlines new buffer standards and AI-assisted plan checks to speed reviews and boost landscape performance
Summary
Planning staff proposed a tiered set of landscape-buffer types, planting and opacity targets, and AI-assisted plan checks to speed permitting and raise landscape performance across Hernando County.
Planning staff and outside consultants told the Planning & Zoning Commission on Nov. 10 that Hernando County is launching a coordinated effort to standardize landscape-buffer requirements, add clear planting and opacity targets and introduce AI-assisted construction-drawing checks to make plan review faster and more predictable.
Planning manager Kay Griffith said the program grew from developer roundtables and a community survey that drew 198 responses. Staff proposed an ordered set of buffer "types" (A–G) that range from minimal screening along minor edges to high-opacity plantings for scenic corridors and sensitive…
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