TO: Planning & Zoning Advisory Board
FROM: Lori Barnes, AICP, CPM, Assistant Director, Development Services
TITLE: Consideration of Amendment to the Unified Land Development Code (ULDC) (TXT-22-188-1) (Ordinance No. 2024-13) Repealing all Chapters Except Chapter 29-Sign Regulations and Creating New Chapters 1-4 and 6, and Appendix
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Recommended Action
The Planning & Zoning Advisory Board finds this amendment TXT-22-188-1 consistent with the Comprehensive Plan and recommends City Commission approval of Ordinance No. 2024-13.
General Information
The City of North Port has been in the process of amending the Unified Land Development Code (ULDC) since 2015. While the City successfully updated the Comprehensive Plan via the Evaluation and Appraisal Review process in 2017, the land development regulations were never fully amended. Changing growth conditions and a new focus on a sustainable balance of land uses has resulted in the preparation of a new, modern ULDC that was developed by staff with City Commission direction over a 22-month period. (See ULDC Re-Write History for details on workshops and other public notice) during which time, the Future Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan was amended (Ordinance No. 2024-09).
The Community Planning Act in the Florida Statutes, Chapter 163, Part II, incorporates fundamental requirements regarding consistency of land development regulations as follows:
Florida Statutes 163.3202 Land development regulations.-
(1) Within 1 year after submission of its comprehensive plan or revised comprehensive plan for review pursuant to s. 163.3191, each county and each municipality shall adopt or amend and enforce land development regulations that are consistent with and implement their adopted comprehensive plan.
The proposed ULDC was designed for consistency with the North Port Comprehensive Plan:
Chapter 1: By establishing the ULDC's relationship to ...
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