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Alachua County commissioners back staff effort to streamline small-scale development reviews
Summary
County commissioners instructed staff to draft code revisions to limit when small projects must go to the Development Review Committee, expand prescreening and create a Minor Development Plan category to reduce costs and delay for small accessory projects.
At a board workshop, Alachua County staff outlined proposed changes to development-review thresholds and administrative review processes intended to keep small projects from triggering full public hearings.
Christine, the planning presenter introduced by staff, told commissioners that current rules send projects with more than 1,500 square feet of additional impervious surface to the Development Review Committee (DRC). "The thresholds tend to be based on an impervious area amount, 1,500 square feet," she said, and noted that the rule has forced relatively modest improvements — a covered patio at a fitness campus and an amenity-center pickleball court — into the public-hearing process.
Staff argued that many…
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