Sunday, July 26, 2009

Meeting with City Manager Susan Stanton Rescheduled

Some of you may know through my FaceBook status that the appointment to meet with City Manager Susan Stanton was postponed. Apparently there were multiple crises going on at 3 p.m. Friday afternoon and she was in a closed door session to address them. I've provided a link to her city manager's report by clicking on the title. In it you will read the following:

So this sounds like the city will take action to revert back to the Palm Beach County previous zoning designation - and not a "SF" land use designation and a "SF-7" zoning district - which are city designations. This puts the property in sort of a regulatory purgatory, which I have yet to completely decipher. I'm guessing that it will allow the city to go ahead and get the Comp Plan to be found in compliance by the DCA - subject to the other information and submittals identified above. What will likely happen is that the city will come back with a subsequent amendment to assign a Lake Worth designation for both land use and zoning - albeit at SF. Which, as I have discussed here is not a 7 units to the acre - it's more like in the 4 to 5 units per acre range.

It also looks like the Comp Plan will appear on the August 19th Commission agenda, with or without Commissioner Jennings' amendments and changes? More investigation is necessary.