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Comprehensive‑plan rewrite advances amid SB 180 uncertainty; board discusses form‑based code for urban corridors
Summary
Staff and consultants presented a major tidy‑up of Manatee County’s comprehensive plan and land‑development code, including affordable‑housing incentives and potential form‑based code/transact mapping for urban corridors; commissioners asked staff to simplify 9.02, expand incentives, and pursue consultant support for transect mapping.
Manatee County’s multi‑year comprehensive‑plan update moved forward as consultants and staff outlined proposed policy cleanup, housing incentives and options for form‑based code in targeted urban corridors.
Nicole Knapp of Development Services introduced consultant Kelly Klepper, who said recent state legislation (including references to SB 180) has shifted the regulatory landscape and created uncertainty, but staff and consultants recommended continuing to refine the county’s 13‑element comprehensive plan. Klepper said…
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