File #: ORD. NO. 2025-02    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 12/30/2024 In control: City Commission Regular Meeting
On agenda: 1/28/2025 Final action:
Title: An Ordinance of the City of North Port, Florida, Amending the Code of the City of North Port, Florida, Section 74-151 to Designate Additional City Roadways for the Operation of a Golf Cart; Providing for Findings; Providing for Conflicts; Providing for Severability; Providing for Codification; and Providing an Effective Date.
Attachments: 1. Ordinance - Second Reading, 2. Ordinance - First Reading, 3. Renaissance Letter - Operation of Golf Carts, 4. City Code Section 74-151, 5. Traffic Enforcement Agreement with Renaissance, 6. Business Impact Estimate - Golf Carts, 7. Florida Statute Section 316.212
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, Section 74-151 to Designate Additional City Roadways for the Operation of a Golf Cart; Providing for Findings; Providing for Conflicts; Providing for Severability; Providing for Codification; and Providing an Effective Date.


Recommended Action

First Reading:

Continue Ordinance No. 2025-02 to second reading on January 28, 2025.

Second Reading:

Approve and adopt Ordinance No. 2025-02 on second reading.

Background Information

The following provides a chronological order of events regarding proposed Ordinance No. 2025-02:

> Recently, the Renaissance at West Villages Homeowners Association, Inc. approached the North Port Police Department expressing interest in a Traffic Enforcement Agreement to designate all City roads in Renaissance at West Villages as authorized roadways for the operation of a golf cart.

> January 14, 2025: During the City Commission Regular Meeting, the Commission will review and consider approval of Consent Agenda item no. 25-1750, Traffic Enforcement Agreement with Renaissance at West Villages Homeowners Association, Inc.

> January 14, 2025: During the City Commission Regular Meeting, the Commission will review and consider approval of the first reading of Ordinance No. 2025-02 which amends the Code of the City of North Port, Florida, Sec. 74-151 to designate all City roads in Renaissance at West Villages as authorized roadways for the operation of a golf cart. Please note that approval of the first reading of Ordinance No. 2025-02 is contingent upon the approval of the Traffic Enforcement Agreement with Renaissance at West Villages Homeowners Association, Inc. as referenced above.

Ordinance No. 2025-02 has been reviewed by the Interim City Attorney and is legally correct as to form.

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