TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Timothy Stillings, Planning, Zoning and Building Director
THROUGH: Chief Neal de Jesus, Interim City Manager
DATE: July 18, 2017
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ORDINANCE NO. 06-17: EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED AMENDMENTS TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF THE CITY OF DELRAY BEACH. (SECOND READING)
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Recommended Action:
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Motion to Approve Ordinance No. 06-17 adopting the Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR) based amendments to the Comprehensive Plan of the City of Delray Beach, pursuant to Florida Statute Section 163.3191.
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Background:
Florida Statute Section 163.3191 requires that at least once every seven years, the City of Delray Beach (City) must evaluate the comprehensive plan (Plan) to determine if plan amendments are necessary to reflect changes in state requirements since its last update and notify the state land planning agency (DEO) as to its determination. The City notified DEO in December 2015 that the a complete update of the Plan would be undertaken. The DEO assumed this to be in response to the evaluation and thereby notified the City that the amendments needed to be adopted within one year (December 2016) or the City would be suspended from any future amendments until such time.
The update of the Plan is underway. It is anticipated the update will be adopted in Spring 2018. However, these amendments are required to maintain the Plan’s consistency with Ch. 163, Part II, Florida Statutes (“Community Planning Act”). The attached amendments achieve the statute requirement and remove the suspension. A brief description of each amendment is provided below. In addition, the Plan includes the amendments recently adopted to address the Public School Interlocal Agreement.
Future Land Use Element:
· Policy A-1.7 is amended to acknowledge that comprehensive plans must provide a sufficient supply of available density to accommodate at least the medium population projections as published by the Office...
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