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Hendry County delays adoption of inoperable‑vehicle definition after public concerns
Summary
The board continued a second‑reading LDC amendment that would define "inoperable vehicles" after public comment and commissioners’ concerns about hobby vehicles, enforceability and health risks; staff will return with clarified language on April 24 in LaBelle.
Chair Raymond Iglesias opened a public hearing on an amendment to the Hendry County Land Development Code to provide a definition for “inoperable vehicles.” Ryan Alexander, the county’s director of planning and community development, said the proposed definition uses four criteria to identify vehicles that are disassembled, lack current registration, are on jacks/blocks or otherwise incapable of movement and that storage of more than three such vehicles would constitute a junkyard under current code.
At public comment, resident John Clark said he…
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