Notice of an upcoming Comprehensive Plan meeting of the Board of County Commissioners (BCC), where several items affecting the Agricultural Reserve will be discussed. The meeting is scheduled as follows:
Monday, October 26th, 2015, 9:30 a.m., 6th Floor Chambers, 301 North Olive Ave., West Palm Beach, FL
Contiguity Amendment Adoption Public Hearing:
At this meeting, the Board will conduct a public hearing to consider adoption of an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan which would revise the requirements for Agricultural Reserve 60/40 Planned Residential Developments (PRD). The amendment would eliminate the contiguity requirement for preserve areas associated with these developments. Currently the Plan requires preserve parcels less than 150 acres in size to be contiguous to other preserves or conservation areas that aggregate to at least 150 acres. This amendment would eliminate this requirement in order to allow free-standing preserve areas of less than 150 acres. In addition, this amendment will clarify a different, unrelated use of the term “contiguous” in a separate section of the policy, and correct a policy reference. This amendment does not propose changes for preserve areas associated with “80/20” developments or Traditional Marketplace Developments. Note that the proposed amendment now includes a provision to prevent the exchange or replacement of preserve areas associated with a 60/40 PRD once a conservation easement has been recorded. This has been included for Board consideration pursuant to Board direction at the July 30th transmittal public hearing. (This is the important amendment ASE and conservationists in the July meeting fought to have added. )
Stay tuned for the January meeting which will take up significant new issues
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