TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port Commission
FROM: A. Jerome Fletcher II, ICMA-CM, MPA, City Manager
TITLE: An Ordinance of the City of North Port, Florida, Amending the Code of the City of North Port, Florida, to Update References for Consistency with the Unified Land Development Code; Amending Chapter 2, Article IV., Division 1. - Hearing Officers; Amending Chapter 4 - Boards and Committees, to Address Commission Liaisons and the Art Advisory Board; Amending Chapter 22, Article II. - Fertilizer and Landscape Management; Amending Chapter 59, Section 59-1 - Parking and Storage of Certain Vehicles on Residential Lots; Providing for Findings; Providing for Conflicts; Providing for Severability; Providing for Codification; and Providing an Effective Date.
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Recommended Action
The City Commission approve Ordinance No. 2024-18 and continue to second reading on August 6, 2024.
Recommended Action on Second Reading
The City Commission approve Ordinance No. 2024-18.
General Information
Ordinance No. 2024-18 updates references to department names and Unified Land Development Code (ULDC) Chapter references and City department names as amended or created by Ordinance No. 2024-13, to provide consistency with the ULDC. More substantially, this ordinance amends Chapter 2, Article IV., Division 1 - Hearing Officers to align with the removal of the Zoning Board of Appeals from the ULDC and establishment of the Zoning Hearing Officer as the authority (versus the authority when there is no quorum of the Zoning Board of Appeals) to review and approve Major Variances to the ULDC and Appeals to interpretation of the ULDC by the ULDC Administrator.
The City Attorney has reviewed Ordinance No. 2024-18 for form and correctness.
Information for Second Reading
City Commission heard the first reading of Ordinance No. 2024-18 at its Regular Meeting on July 23, 2024, and continued the ordinance to ...
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