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PLANING AND ZONING BOARD
Meeting Date: NOVEMBER 20, 2024
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Text Amendment to Zoning Code related to the height and location of Gazebos/Tikis/Chickees and the required Rear Yard Corner Triangle
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Request: Text Amendment (Staff Initiated)
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Project Planner: Max Wemyss (954-786-4671 / Max.Wemyss@copbfl.com)
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Summary:
Staff is recommending text amendments to the Zoning Code regarding height and location of Gazebos/Tikis/Chickees and the required Rear Yard Corner Triangle. The amendments occur in Article 4 (Use Standards) and Article 5 (Development Standards) of the Zoning Code. The amendments are summarized below. Attached to this item is the complete text amendment in strikethrough and underline format.
Following concerns raised to staff, appointed, and elected officials, Staff has been directed to identify a solution to the prevalence of Code Compliance issues (both reported and unreported) related to the location of Tiki or Chickee Huts (categorized as Gazebos in the Zoning Code). Water-abutting Single-Family homeowners frequently prefer that Tiki/Chickee huts are as close to the water as feasible and typically abutting the interior lot lines. This puts them in conflict with the following Zoning Code Standards:
1. The requirement that accessory structures be set back 15 feet from property lines abutting a waterway (155.4302.B.2.h); and
2. The requirement for an unobstructed rear yard corner triangle (155.5302.D.5a).
Staff proposes to eliminate all rear yard corner triangle standards (remove fence and vegetation transparency, no structures or obstructions over 3 feet in height) and to create an exemption for Gazebos/Tikis/Chickees to allow them within 3 feet of a rear lot line abutting a waterway or canal. Such structures are already permitted within 3 feet of an interior side lot l...
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