TO: Mayor and Commission AGENDA DATE: 10/21/2024
FROM: City Manager AGENDA ITEM: 8-B (b)
SUBJECT:
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Resolution No. 2024-60, Declaring Zoning in Progress regarding amendments to the Land Development Code to clarify provisions in the Live Local Act, which amended Fla. Stat. 166.04151.
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ORIGINATING DEPARTMENT:
Planning and Development Services
POTENTIAL MOTION:
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“I hereby move to declare Legislation in Progress and approve Resolution No. 2024-60
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BACKGROUND:
Background
During the 2023 Legislative Session, the Florida Legislature adopted, and Governor DeSantis signed into law, Chapter 2023-17, known as the Live Local Act, amending Fla. Stat. 166.04151. The amendments to the Live Local Act (the Act) require the City to define terms and update regulations for multi-family development.
The Live Local preempts local governments and the public from applying the City comprehensive plan and zoning code when a developer proposes to erect “affordable housing,” as defined in the Act. However, many terms in the Act are undefined and confusing.
Further, the Act permits the City to apply its multi-family regulations to affordable housing developments, except for height, density and zoning.
As more fully described in the Resolution, Staff proposed the following amendments to the Land Development Code:
1. Define the terms used in the Act, including “designates”; “zoned”; “Mixed Use Residential”; and “Mixed Use Zoning” in the Land Development Code.
2. Update Land Development Code Section 110-310 and 110-311 adding development standards and requirements to ensure multi-family developments are compatible and consistent with specific future land use designations.
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