Under PUBLIC HEARINGS at tonight's city commission meeting, will be the staff recommendation (William Waters) to update some of our land development regulations.
On August 6, 2013, the City of Lake Worth adopted Chapter 23, Land Development Regulations (LDRs), of the Code of Ordinances. under this section has been the very controversial "invasive" and unprotected tree incident that I have been going round and round about as of late but I don't know if this will be touched. Not all invasive trees are harmful or dangerous.
The LDRs include six (6) articles governing all development within the City. As use of the adopted LDRs progress, some provisions require clarification and edits/additions to provide consistency, improve understanding and facilitate implementation as well as address issues that have arisen since adoption. The proposed amendments provide clarification, edits and additions to the LDRs’ definitions; zoning districts; permitted use tables; development standards; off-street parking; medium and high intensity conditional uses; portable storage units; sign code; historic preservation; and, environmental regulations.
On June 3, 2015, the Planning & Zoning Board, at its regularly scheduled meeting, discussed the proposed amendments to the LDRs and voted 5-0 to recommend approval to the City Commission.
On June 10, 2015, the Historic Resources Preservation Board, at its regularly scheduled meeting, discussed the proposed amendments to the LDRs and voted 5-2 (Engel and Zoellner) to recommend approval to the City Commission. As the information was not given to them in advance, those who opposed stated insufficient time to read and digest the back-up. Mr. Engel said he would have liked the information at least one week before this meeting. Engel and Zoellner cast the correct vote in this instance.
Read what the PBPost has to say about tonight's meeting
7 comments:
What did know-it-all Blackman and big mouth Sharpe have to say?
Very disrespectful beginning sentence to Thompson's article. He needs to leave the humor to Cerrabino.
99% of the time I can't stand Cerabino.
I don't know how Cerabino continues to be published , unfunny claptrap.
East of Dixie as small as .5 of an acre can be turned into multi-family, even in a residential neighborhood????? My hair is standing on end! Make way for the McMansions! Goodbye all neighborhoods and the reason people love Lake Worth. Maybe some happy neighbors will lock arms and sell to town homes. How high can they go? What does somebody who has lived in their home for fifty years do when a million dollar Mcmansion goes next door? How will "normal" people be able to afford the property taxes ? They will be forced to sell .Goodbye Lake Worth! .
I don't think your news clipping is the correct notice. There is no comp plan update. But there IS a change to the zoning regs that basically says the Future Land Use Map will be updated at the same time as a zoning change is requested by a developer. This is in order to avoid charges of spot zoning, which is illegal.
But it's still spot zoning and, I believe, can be challenged in court. Very slippery and it seems that Maier caught it. Mr Waters claims that the Gulfstream developer would like to have "unified" zoning on the property. Well, why wasn't that considered by these pinheads when they updated the LDRs??
The Gulfstream developer is going to need a lot of help to get around the zoning. The new Anything Goes Just Tell Us What You Want amendment to the LDRs that's being pitched as "housekeeping" should do the trick. It basically says "zoning regs are for the little people around here. We've created this big loophole called Planned Development for you, Mr Developer. Just give us your master plan and we'll incorporate it into our zoning regs AND, as our special gift to you, we'll update our comp plan map at the same time just in case any of the little people who live nearby don't like your monstrosity and try to sue us for spot zoning".
Really. Why have zoning regs in the first place when, in the same regs that are supposed to protect us, the commission slips in these loopholes? What a joke. The Lucerne Condo was brought to you by Planned Development. Get used to it. If you try to complain, they'll tell you "it's all allowed in our shiny new zoning regs, we're not breaking any rules or giving any waivers or variances". Trust me, McMansions will be the least of our worries.
Thanks--You're correct...grabbed the wrong ordinance. Right now I'm waiting for the video to come on-line to listen to all that I missed.
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