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PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD
Meeting Date: NOVEMBER 19, 2025
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TEXT AMENDMENT - Landscape Demolition Sites (155.5302.A)
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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.
This item was first presented to the Planning and Zoning Board on October 22, 2025 where the item was tabled to allow for some revisions and for additional information. Based on the feedback from the Board, staff has removed the portion of the amendment related to tree preservation and protection and added criteria for exemptions from the demolition standards. The amendment is now regarding the standards for demolition of site owned by the City or CRA. The staff report from the October meeting is provided in the backup for the purposes of comparison. This staff report only reflects the modified proposal.
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. Ho...
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