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Port St. Lucie council approves Sandpiper Bay Resort PUD amendments, clears land‑use tweak amid resident safeguards
Summary
After presentations and extensive public comment by residents and student-athletes, the City Council approved comprehensive-plan and PUD amendments for the Sandpiper Bay Resort property, adding sports facilities and new operational rules including buffers, dark‑sky lighting and a timeline for overflow parking construction.
The Port St. Lucie City Council on Jan. 20 approved a comprehensive-plan map amendment and a second amendment to the Sandpiper Bay Resort planned unit development that align resort and academy uses on the former Club Med property and authorize expanded sports courts, associated parking and site improvements.
City planning staff presented the small‑scale land‑use amendment affecting about 28.6 acres, saying the change is primarily a cleanup to reconcile existing resort and academy uses with the future‑land‑use map. Planning staff estimated the revised land use could increase potable water demand by about 14,581 gallons per day and wastewater by about 12,393 gallons per day under maximum‑build assumptions; the city manager confirmed the utility system has capacity (roughly 33 million gallons/day potable treatment capacity and about 20 million gallons/day wastewater capacity) and that long‑range planning includes design for additional plants.
The PUD amendment, described by Bethany Grubbs of the Planning Department and presented by Rebecca Miller of…
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