It’s back to the typewriter for Assistant City Attorney Isabelle Lopez, after Historic City News reporters learned at the regular business meeting of the St Augustine City Commission Monday night; commissioners are still debating numbers on a plan to revise the Planned Unit Development ordinance.
The result, considered by Lopez to be more than “tweaking”, is substantive enough to require a new legal advertisement and yet another first reading.
After the Flagler College classroom plan at Cordova and Cuna streets sparked greater attention to what some readers believe is a misapplication of the intended use of a PUD, residents in the Historic Districts of the city are calling for greater detail in project plans, early notice to neighbors, and streetscape renderings for visible projects to show relationship to neighboring properties.
Vice Mayor Nancy Sikes Kline, former Vice Mayor Leanna Freeman, and Commissioner Roxanne Horvath prevailed in a 3-2 split vote; calling for prohibition of any change of use in new construction within any of the city’s five Historic Preservation districts.
Mayor Joe Boles and Commissioner Don Crichlow held that the city commission and lower boards provide sufficient protection against unwanted changes.
Changes to other allowed uses of existing structures within the Historic Preservation districts, can be allowed.
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