Curious...

The Department of Community Affairs (DCA), the state agency that reviews changes to local government Comprehensive Plans, has called of revising its Rule 9J-5 which regulates how those plans are reviewed - and enforces their minimum requirements for that review.

This is what they say:

The Department has decided to withdraw the proposed rule at this time to more carefully review and consider the comments we have received. A Notice will be published in the Florida Administrative Weekly on November 24 to formally announce this withdrawal.

It's House Bill 697 (2008) that is prompting the changes. Click here for an overview of that bill.  It deals strongly with the link between land use patterns and energy use/carbon release - something that certain people have a difficult time with as it relates to Lake Worth.  Those that are most concerned about global warming and its effects seem un-bothered by discouraging redevelopment and more density and intensity in Lake Worth - as growth should be directed to communities with existing infrastructure and access to mass transit and other means of transportation.  Limiting  height to three stories uniformly throughout the city is heading in the WRONG direction.

The above link will lead to other links which support these ideas regarding optimum urban land use patterns.

Of course, this whole process would have been stalled had Amendment 4 passed.  I'll keep you posted on what I am hearing.