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Boca Raton staff outline plan to streamline downtown approvals and finish code rewrite
Summary
City staff presented a quarterly update on council‑sponsored code amendments and told the council they expect draft streamlining ordinances and consultant work on architectural standards within months, while leaving policy choices — like granting additional downtown development rights — to the council.
City staff on Monday told the Boca Raton City Council they are moving forward on a package of code amendments intended to speed permitting and update downtown development rules.
Brandon Shatter, Development Services Director, told the council the office has completed or substantially advanced several sponsored items — including CAB process improvements, implementing ordinances for the Live Local housing changes, and reductions to medical office parking via Ordinance 5658 — and is prioritizing a downtown IDA (incentive/approval) streamlining ordinance and the larger land development code rewrite. "We're just beginning the streamlining part," Shatter said, and he estimated drafts should appear in the next few…
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