Council moves to remove townhomes from R1B in 'glitch' update to land development code
During a long discussion of a corrective 'glitch' ordinance for Oviedo's rewritten land development code, staff outlined multiple statutory and technical fixes. Council directed staff to remove 'townhomes' as a permitted use in the R1B zoning mapping to prevent piecemeal conversions of existing single‑family neighborhoods.
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City staff opened a discussion Dec. 1 on a 'glitch ordinance' designed to correct implementation issues that surfaced after the city adopted a rewritten land development code. The fix list includes map amendments, permissible-use table corrections, updated definitions to comply with Florida statutes, and clarifications on administrative approvals for final plats.
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