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Planning board backs code change to let community development director sign plats, remove P&Z signatures
Summary
The Charlotte County Planning and Zoning Board voted unanimously to forward countywide subdivision regulation amendments that would allow the Community Development Director to sign plats and remove Planning & Zoning Board signature requirements.
The Charlotte County Planning and Zoning Board voted unanimously to forward staff-initiated subdivision regulation amendments (TLDR-25-01) to the Board of County Commissioners with a recommendation of approval.
Jai Shao of the Community Development Department said the proposal is a phase 2.1 update to the county subdivision regulations intended to streamline the platting process and align county code with recent changes in state law, specifically a change cited as Senate Bill 784. Shell said the amendments remove Planning & Zoning Board approval and signature requirements from several plat-related subsections and add the Community Development Director as an authorized signatory for steps of the plat-recording process that previously required the chair of the Board of County Commissioners.
Shell identified the primary changes as revisions to section 3-7-30/32 to add the Community Development Director as a signatory for step 8 of the plat process and replace a chairman signature requirement for step 9 with an appropriate administrative signature. He also said staff proposes replacing the certificate of approval currently tied to Board of County Commissioners signatures (section 3-7-185 in the code text) with a certificate of approval executed by the Community Development Director, and removing section 3-7-186 (the Planning & Zoning Board certificate) consistent with earlier code changes that removed P&Z approval responsibility for plats.
Shell said the amendments apply countywide, are intended to remove outdated procedural steps, and are consistent with the county comprehensive plan and state law. He told the board that the county administration requested the change in signatory authority so plats no longer must be signed by the BCC chair for recording. An attorney in the room noted that a recent legislative change mirrors the county’s previously adopted administrative process, which should make the process easier for private-sector applicants.
The board closed public comment, then voted to forward TLDR-25-01 to the Board of County Commissioners with a recommendation of approval based on the staff findings and the evidence and testimony presented at the public hearing. The motion carried unanimously among the five members present. The BCC adoption hearing is scheduled for Oct. 28, 2025.
