PLANNING & ZONING BOARD/LOCAL PLANNING AGENCY AGENDA ITEM
Memo Date: November 30, 2023
Agenda Date: December 6, 2023
Prepared By: Stacey Hopper - City Planner
Through: Stockton Whitten - City Manager
Requested Action:
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Recommend approval of proposed Ordinance 26-2023, a zoning text amendment, amending Appendix A, Article XIX, Section 2, Relating to the meeting schedule of the Planning and Zoning Board; providing for the repeal of prior inconsistent ordinances and resolutions, incorporating into the code, severability, and an effective date.
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BACKGROUND:
The applicant, City of Cocoa, is requesting the Planning and Zoning Board consider an amendment of the Appendix A, Article XIX, Section 2, setting the date of the Planning and Zoning Board meeting.
History: In the past, according to Ordinance 20-2003, the Planning and Zoning Board meeting was held on the second Wednesday of the month. However, in August of 2018, the City Council meeting schedule was changed such that meetings were regularly held on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month. Accordingly, Planning and Zoning Board meetings were changed to the 1st Wednesday of the month to accommodate the new City Council meeting schedule. Since 2018, the Planning and Zoning Board has regularly held meetings on the 1st Wednesday of the month.
Although in October of 2020 the City Council meetings were moved from the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month back to the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month, the 1st Wednesday schedule does appear to work well for the Board and for the staff that must support Board meetings so that they do not need to attend evening meetings twice in one week.
Proposed Ordinance 26-2023, eliminates from the City Code a specific meeting day of the Planning and Zoning Board, currently still codified as the 2nd Wednesday of the month. The Ordinance does not specify a set day of the regular Planning and Zoning meetings, but rather instructs that a regular meeting sche...
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