SUBJECT:
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Workshop to Discuss and Receive Board Input Regarding the Proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendments related to the Evaluation and Appraisal Report
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Kenneth Weyrauch, Deputy Director |
Growth Services |
DESCRIPTION/BACKGROUND:
The Marion County Board of County Commissioners, Growth Services, and consultant Kimley-Horn have conducted a series of 10 workshops to review Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR) based amendments to the Marion County Comprehensive Plan. Following those workshops, two in-person community meetings were held - one in Marion Oaks and one in Silver Springs Shores - to present and receive public input on the proposed Comprehensive Plan changes and Planned Service Areas (PSAs). The Marion Oaks meeting also included citizen feedback on a potential project to develop the neighborhood greenbelts into a trails and recreation network.
This workshop plans to (1) review the results of the community meetings and the survey, (2) discuss the edits to proposed comprehensive plan amendments due to Florida’s Senate Bill 180 (SB180), and (3) look at the remaining bring-back items. During this workshop we also plan to briefly discuss the adoption and transmittal process of the proposed comprehensive plan amendments.
The current timeline has a special meeting with the Planning and Zoning Commission scheduled for October 6, 2025, at 5:30 p.m. and a Transmittal Hearing with the BOCC scheduled for October 29, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. At that point, if it is approved to transmit, then the documents will be sent to the State for a 60-day review and back in time for a January BOCC adoption hearing of the Marion County Comprehensive Plan revisions.
BUDGET/IMPACT:
None
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Recommended action
Staff is seeking Board discussion and consensus on the proposed edits.
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