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Planning board backs streamlined site-plan rules, asks for clearer 'security plan' language and council discretion on step-backs
Summary
The Planning and Zoning Board unanimously recommended City Council approve Ordinance 08-2025 to streamline site-plan reviews, replacing 'security system' with 'security plan,' adding finished-road grade language, and changing mandatory step-back language to allow council discretion.
The City of Cape Canaveral Planning and Zoning Board on Dec. 3 voted unanimously to recommend City Council approve Ordinance 08-2025, a package of code changes intended to streamline site-plan review and to clarify when projects must return to other review bodies.
Staff said the ordinance differentiates minor site-plan review (handled by staff through building permits for single-family and duplexes) from regular site-plan review for larger developments, aligns review windows with recent Florida legislation and standardizes concurrent consideration of stormwater and subdivision requirements. "This ordinance was brought about to kind of streamline the development process to revise, you know, procedures, just because they were a little bit counterintuitive at times," the Planner said.
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