TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port Commission
FROM: A. Jerome Fletcher II, ICMA-CM, City Manager
SUBJECT: An Ordinance of the City of North Port, Florida, Amending the City of the City of North Port Comprehensive Plan; Adopting a New Chapter 13, Coastal Management Element, Including Goals, Objectives, and Policies, and Adopting a Coastal Management Map Series; Amending Chapter 5, Conservation and Coastal Zone Management Element and Adopting a Conservation Map Series; Amending the Table of Contents; Amending Chapter 2, Future Land Use Element, Amending Chapter 4, Utilities Element; Amending 9, Public School Facilities Element; Repealing Conservation and Coastal Zone Management Maps 5-1 through 5-17; Providing for Findings; Providing for Adoption; Providing for Transmittal of Documents; Providing for Conflicts; Providing for Severability; and Providing an Effective Date.
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Recommended Action
City Commission approve and continue Ordinance No. 2022-31 to second reading.
Recommended Action on Second Reading
Approve and adopt Ordinance No. 2022-31 on second reading.
General Information
The proposed ordinance amends the Comprehensive Plan of the City of North Port to create a separate coastal management element and map series, revises the conservation element, and other elements to eliminate conflict. The proposed amendments also include the addition of permitted uses of solar facility and floating solar facility in certain land use districts
Coastal zone management is currently addressed in North Port Comprehensive Plan Chapter 5, Conservation and Coastal Zone Management. A new Comprehensive Plan Chapter 13 to include the Coastal Management element required by Florida Statutes Section 163.3177(6)(g) is proposed along with an update of the goals, objectives, and policies to address the peril of flood pursuant to Florida Statutes Section 163.3178(2)(f)1 through 6; and
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