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PALM CITY — Confusions in the county’s land-development regulations are getting straightened out. On Monday, April 27, the Growth Management Department will discuss proposed redevelopment overlay district changes at a special meeting of the Old Palm City Neighborhood Advisory Committee. “This is a glitch fix,” Kevin Freeman, the county’s community development director, said. “There’s not consistency between certain parts of the code and different chapters conflict with each other.” That’s hampering development enthusiasm. The meeting will be at 6 p.m. at the Palm City Community Center, 2701 S.W. Cornell Ave. Freeman said development in the county’s seven Community Redevelopment areas, CRAs, has been hampered at times, because it isn’t always clear what can and can’t be done. “What we found in a number of (land-development regulations) for the CRAs, the LDRs are duplicated and don’t say the same thing from one area to another,” Freeman said. “You can do some things in some CRAs that you can’t do in others.” He said at times even county staff members are perplexed as
“What we found in a number of (land-development regulations) for the CRAs, the LDRs are duplicated and don’t say the same thing from one area to another. You can do some things in some CRAs that you can’t do in others.” Kevin Freeman Community development director to whether proposed building in CRAs is permissible. CRAs are special zones that keep some county dollars in certain areas to spur property and economic development for eliminating blight. Mapp Road is the centerpiece of Palm City’s CRA. The CRA, adopted in 2002, includes 610 acres. The area is nestled along Mapp from Southwest Rio Vista Way south to Southwest All American Boulevard. It goes from the St. Lucie River South Fork west to a few blocks past Mapp. There’s a western extension nestled along Southwest 34th and Southwest 36th streets to Southwest Berry Avenue. County taxes paid on property values higher than what they were in a base year — when the area was established — stay in that district for economic development and blight elimination
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