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Council narrows code rewrite to three priority areas while planning compliance with new state law
Summary
Facing Senate Bill 180 and the new House Bill 399 compatibility requirements, council directed staff and Chen Moore & Associates to proceed with sign, landscape and light‑spillover updates now and asked for cost estimates for remaining topics ahead of the July budget workshop.
Staff and Nilsa Zacarias of Chen Moore & Associates summarized work completed under the CMA contract (initial cleanups for landscape and sign codes) and outlined four options to proceed given state legislation that limits local regulations (SB 180) and mandates objective compatibility standards (HB 399).
Nilsa said the firm had expended roughly $14,516.29 of a $75,000 budget and recommended either pausing, finishing and delaying codification, immediately codifying non‑burdensome items, terminating, or pivoting the scope to draft the mandatory residential compatibility framework required by HB 399. After extended discussion about cost, timing and the risk that state actions could be reinstated by future hurricane‑related triggers, council voted 4–0 to continue with the three items CMA had started—sign code, landscape code and light‑spillover—and to direct staff to obtain cost estimates for the remaining topics for the July budget workshop.
