Riviera Beach planning board recommends ordinance to extend city planning horizon, updates housing and demolition policies

The Riviera Beach Planning and Zoning Board on Thursday voted unanimously to recommend Ordinance 4312, an amendment to the city’s comprehensive plan intended to implement the city’s evaluation and appraisal report (EER) and align the plan with state requirements.

Principal Planner Sinead Simon described the proposal as administrative, saying the changes are intended to ensure statutory compliance and update planning horizons. “This is all administrative in nature. We will not be changing any land use designation tonight,” Simon said.

The amendment replaces the short-term and long-term planning horizons in the future land use element, moving references from five and ten years to ten and twenty years so the city will plan out to about 2050. Simon told the board the change is required in part by Florida Statute 163.3191 and…