TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port Commission
FROM: A. Jerome Fletcher II, ICMA-CM, MPA, City Manager
TITLE: Discussion and Possible Direction Regarding the Draft of the Unified Land Development Code Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relating to the Adoption of the ULDC, Zoning Districts and the Official Zoning Map, Concurrency Management, and Transfer of Development Rights.
Recommended Action
No action is required.
Background Information
The purpose of this Commission Workshop is to solicit feedback on the draft of ULDC, Chapter 1 - General Provisions. Staff presented the draft to the Planning and Zoning Advisory Board (PZAB) at their Regular PZAB Meeting on September 15, 2022, for comments and discussion.
During the Commission Workshop on September 6, 2022, the Commission requested that staff share PZAB's questions and general discussion of the draft chapters. Staff paraphrased PZAB's questions for clarity and conciseness below and organized the questions by topic.
Zoning Districts:
1. Question: Are the proposed zoning districts different than the existing districts?
Staff Response: The proposed zoning districts condense the current districts (20) into fourteen (14) new districts. Some districts have substantive changes to permitted uses, while others are simple changes to the district's name. In districts where permitted uses have changed, the proposed Code augments the number of permitted uses. No property should lose any use allowances from the existing ULDC in the new Code, but they might have more use allowances under the proposed zoning districts. This was a clarification question. No additional action is necessary at this time.
2. Question: Why are some of the existing zoning districts shown in more than one of the proposed districts in Table 1.2.4?
Staff Response: Because the new Code condenses the existing zoning districts, there is not always a direct correlation between the current designations and the proposed zoning ...
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