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County: Sarasota   City: Sarasota

Date Created: 08/12/24
Last updated:09/12/24

Sarasota, FL to Consider Ordinance Amending Various Articles of the Zoning Code
The Commission will Hold a Public Hearing Re: Proposed Ordinance No. 24-5540, amending the Zoning Code (2002 Edition), Article II, Definitions and Rules of Construction, to add, modify or clarify definitions for commercial artwork sign, freeboard, recovery elevation, structure, front yard, side yard, and rear yard, and to allow food distribution on an individual appointment only basis as an accessory use of an appropriately licensed community service; Article IV, Development Review Procedures, to modify the standards applicable to a Variance for preservation of trees and to remove utility easements on private property from the vacation requirements; Article VI, Zone Districts, to modify the landscape plan requirements and to add staging requirements for non-residential and major renovation developments, and to modify the design standards applicable to front porches and garages in the Newtown Conservation Historic Overlay District and to create a minimum lot area and width applicable to single-family attached housing types and modify setback regulations in the multiple family zones; Article VII, Regulations of General Applicability, to establish the standards applicable to 6 commercial artwork signs in certain downtown zone districts, to modify the regulations applicable to generators and pool equipment, to allow for permeable pavement surfaces in drive aisles of grass parking lots, to provide for administrative review of alternative parking ratios outside the downtown zone districts, to allow non-opaque fencing to be placed on vacant lots, to delete separation requirements between an accessory dwelling unit and the principal building, and to establish standards applicable to bollard lighting; and to amend the facade and streetwall requirements so that the streetwall may be generally coplanar to the front facade of a building in the Ringling Overlay District, North Trail Overlay District and Downtown Zone Districts; providing for severability of the parts hereof, etc.(Title Only)

Issue History

09/12/24  The Commission will hold second reading at the 9/16/24 meeting.

08/12/24  The Commission will hold public hearing at the 8/19/24 meeting.

Related Documents

9/16/24 Meeting Agenda
8/19/24 Background
8/19/24 Meeting Agenda