Community Development lays out an ambitious work program; CAFO research placed on first-half holdback
Community Development staff presented a packed FY27 work program including zoning modernization, riparian buffer implementation and candidate ROIs; staff carved holdback capacity and added an ROI placeholder to research industrial livestock/dairy/poultry facilities while flagging limited staff capacity and consultant needs.
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Community Development Director Bart Svoboda told the board the department’s work program for July–December includes mandatory state-mandated code updates plus multiple county priorities—zoning modernization (phase 3), the riparian buffer program, clean fill and form-based code ROIs—and that staff had held some capacity to research concentrated animal feeding operations (livestock/dairy/poultry).
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