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Winter Springs board adopts ordinance establishing process for certified recovery residences
Summary
The Winter Springs Planning and Zoning Board unanimously approved Ordinance 2025-17, creating a city process for reasonable-accommodation requests for certified recovery residences to comply with Florida Statute 397.487; the ordinance limits accommodations to certified residences and preserves HOA covenants.
The Winter Springs Planning and Zoning Board, sitting as the Local Planning Agency, voted unanimously Dec. 4 to adopt Ordinance 2025-17, establishing a city process for reasonable-accommodation requests for certified recovery residences to comply with Florida Statute 397.487.
Terrell Enroll, director of community development, introduced the measure and said the ordinance implements state requirements by creating an administrative pathway for certified recovery residences to request accommodations from land-development rules that otherwise treat households according to a strict “family” definition. "Item 400 is ordinance number 2025-17, for an amendment of chapter 20 of the land development code, specifically pertaining to establishing a process and procedures for applications for reasonable accommodation...and the allowance of certified recovery residences, within the city in order to…
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