THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT AND THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT DIVISION (PDMD) RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THE ABOVE MOTION.
This item supports the Board's value of consistently delivering responsive, efficient, quality services to the public and internal customers: Goal 1: Build into every process and service effective checks and balances that do not cause inefficiency, but rather ensure consistency, continuity, and quality.
During BrowardNEXT outreach activities, a number of recommendations were put forward to improve Broward County's land development regulations. Staff will also reach out to the development community and our municipal partners again during the amendment process to identify additional specific changes that might enhance existing regulations.
Updating the Land Development Code will increase efficiency in development application review and improve customer satisfaction and consistency in procedures. Specifically, PDMD is seeking to update the Code to streamline the platting process; simplify existing development review and notification procedures; delete regulations and processes that are no longer required to implement concurrency; simplify approval of plat amendments where possible; modernize the code to accommodate electronic permit review; and make other changes necessary to implement BrowardNEXT.
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