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PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD/LOCAL PLANNING AGENCY
Meeting Date: JANUARY 27, 2021
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LANDSCAPING, SCREENING & PARKING EXTENSION
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Request: Text Amendment
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Project Planner: Daniel Keester-O'Mills (954-786-4451) / daniel.keester@copbfl.com
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Summary:
The Development Services Department continues to seek ways to fulfill the City's Strategic Plan objectives of strengthening Pompano Beach as a "Preferred Place to do Business" and enhancing the City's reputation as being "business friendly." The proposed text amendments will address the Landscape Code Amendments action item from the 2019 Strategic Plan. This and several other Strategic Planning action items are intended to ensure the City's processes are both clear and streamlined.
Section 155.5203.D of the city's zoning code addresses "vehicular use area landscaping." Subsection 5 requires a certain width of landscaping to be provided between vehicular use areas (such as driveways and parking lots) and buildings. This section was recently amended by Ordinance No. 2019-59 whereby the term "story" was replaced with "15 feet of height" of a building. This was done not only to clarify what is considered a "story" under this section, but also to allow additional flexibility for buildings with a taller ceiling height, such as warehouses or buildings with interior mezzanine space. The section requires 8 feet of landscaped area width for every 15 feet of building height, but requires an additional foot for every 2 feet of height above the first 15 feet, rounding up. Again, this is only related to the width of the landscaped area. Under the current section if a developer proposes a 20-foot building, the required landscaping per this section is an 11-foot landscaped area between the building and the driveway.
Section 155.5203.E addresses required ...
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