State law is changing.
And the city of Holmes Beach is trying to keep up.
Chad Minor, the city’s director of development, presented planning commissioners with a draft ordinance Oct. 1 that would establish an administrative process for approving requests to plat or replat properties within the municipality.
Minor said the ordinance was crafted by city attorney Erica Augello to bring city code into compliance with state statutes, which now require certain plat or replat submittals to be administratively approved without further action by a governing body, mainly the Holmes Beach City Commission.
He said some other communities have already adopted similar code to comply with state law.
“There is not a lot of creativity on our part that we can put into this at this point,” Minor said. “We just gotta do it.”
Planning commissioners reached a consensus to send the proposed ordinance forward for city commission consideration.
As with any ordinance, it will need to go before city commissioners for two hearings before it can be adopted as municipal code.
After the city commission’s first hearing of the ordinance, it will be sent back to the planning commission, which will recommend final approval or rejection.
The ordinance will then go back to city commissioners for a second and potentially final reading and vote.
The planning commission will meet next at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, at city hall, 5801 Marina Drive.