Title
An Ordinance Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Amending Article 9 Of The Zoning And Land Development Regulations Entitled "Vehicular Use Area Landscaping" To Increase The Minimum Threshold Value Of Improvement(s) To A Single Family Residence; And Providing For An Effective Date. (16-T-48)
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Staff Recommends: Approval of the Attached Ordinance.
Explanation:
On July 19, 2016 the Planning and Development Board (Board) forwarded a unanimous recommendation of approval to the City Commission to amend the Zoning and Land Development Regulations to:
- Increase the dollar amount threshold that automatically requires landscape improvements to accompany any permitted improvements to single-family homes from twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) to forty thousand dollars ($40,000.00) with a 5-year Sunset Clause for re-review.
Although a recommendation of approval was forwarded to the City Commission, during Board discussion members expressed concern that the sixty thousand dollar ($60,000.00) threshold proposed by Staff was too high and recommended forty thousand dollars ($40,000.00) as an alternative threshold. Furthermore, the Board included a condition in their recommendation to Commission to provide for a Sunset Clause that would review the dollar amount threshold every five (5) years for suitability to then-current construction costs, trends and local economic conditions. In further evaluation, Staff feels sufficient evaluation in research of rising construction costs has been determined to support the sixty thousand dollar ($60,000.00) threshold request and that the 5-year Sunset Clause is not necessary as a condition.
Background: Article 9.4 of the Land Development Regulations enacted by Ordinance O-94-26 on July 6, 1994 and amended by Ordinance O-2004-05 on January 21, 2004, requires any single-family residential property to meet current landscape Code requirements for all new construction or renovations exceeding twenty thousand dollars ($20,0...
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