Commission discusses meeting schedule and Land Development Code corrections

Planning Department staff told the Jacksonville Beach Planning Commission the last two meetings of the year can conflict with holidays and asked whether the commission wanted to keep both scheduled meetings in late-year months or consolidate them.

Staff said one more conditional-use application may be submitted for the first December meeting, but otherwise there may be no reason for a second December meeting. Commissioners suggested canceling the meeting between Christmas and New Year's, and discussed carving out a summer month such as July. "We already canceled that one," one commissioner said about a prior date; another suggested moving the late-December meeting to January when attendance is higher.

Members also raised the new Land Development Code's Scrivener errors and glitches. Staff said they have lists of misdefinitions and items that do not line up and intend to collect recommended changes, discuss the process with the director and city attorney, and bring consolidated suggestions to the commission and council early next year. Staff advised commissioners they may draft suggested language or submit examples to staff for dissemination; any formal recommendation to city council would require a commission vote to send it.

The commission did not take formal action on changing meeting dates at this meeting; staff said they will return with calendar options and proposed procedures for collecting LDC corrections.