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PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD
Meeting Date: OCTOBER 22, 2025
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TEXT AMENDMENT - Landscape Demolition Sites (155.5302.A) and Tree Preservation (155.5204.B.2)
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Request: Text Amendment
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Project Planner: Max Wemyss (954-786-4671 / max.wemyss@copbfl.com)
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SUMMARY:
Development Services is facilitating a request for a staff-initiated text amendment, authored by the City's Real Property Manager. The request is for a text amendment to two sections of the Zoning Code to address challenges identified during the implementation of City and Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) projects and to ensure the responsible use of taxpayer funds. The backup includes the proposed amendment as well as a memo providing the justification for the amendment as well as the response to the review criteria for a text amendment.
For simplified review, the contents of the memo and proposed amendment are repeated in this staff report. What follows is duplicated from the author's memo, with Development Services concurrence:
Following the demolition of structures on City- or CRA-owned or leased properties, additional public parking is often needed. To meet this need, the City has used asphalt millings and wheel stops to create temporary parking lots. However, Section 155.5203.A.3 of the Zoning Code currently requires that "drought-resistant sod or drought-resistant ground cover shall be installed on the entire demolition and/or disturbed areas before close-out of the demolition Building Permit." This requirement creates an unnecessary burden, as it either requires staff to keep demolition permits open, which clouds property title, or to spend taxpayer money installing sod that will later be removed to create temporary parking. Staff recommends amending the Code to authorize the City Manager to exempt City and CRA-owned...
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