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June 24, 2025 LPA recommends Mobility Plan integration and approves HDR deck setback amendment

DestinJun 24, 20252 min read

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The Destin Local Planning Agency on June 24, 2025 recommended City Council adopt Comprehensive Plan amendments to integrate the Mobility Plan and Mobility Fee (Ordinance 25-13-PC) with staff review of date references, and approved a Land Development Code amendment allowing decks to encroach within 5 feet of the rear setback for non-waterfront High-Density Residential townhomes (Ordinance 25-10-LC), including formal acceptance of a deck definition.

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Recommend City Council adopt Ordinance 25-13-PC (Comprehensive Plan amendments integrating the Mobility Plan and Mobility Fee); motion amended to direct staff to verify and correct date references in the ordinance introduction; motion passed 5-0.
Recommend City Council approve Ordinance 25-10-LC (Land Development Code amendment allowing decks to encroach within 5 feet of the rear setback for non-waterfront HDR townhomes); motion passed 4-0.
Accepted the staff-proposed definition of 'deck' for the record: 'A roofless outdoor space built as an above-ground platform projecting from the wall of a building and connected by structural supports at grade or by the building structure.' Motion passed 4-0.
Approved the meeting agenda as written (4-0) and approved minutes of May 15, 2025 as written (4-0).

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June 24, 2025 Local Planning Agency

Jun 24, 2025, 5:30 PM4100 Indian Bayou Trail, Destin, FL 32541completed

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1. CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL/PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
2. AGENDA APPROVAL
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
A. May 15, 2025 Minutes
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Decision: APPROVAL OF MINUTES
4. CURRENT BUSINESS
A. Ordinance 25-13-PC Comprehensive Plan Amendments- Mobility Plan
At the March 1, 2021, City Council meeting, Council passed a motion to replace transportation concurrency (MMTD) with a Mobility Fee-Based Plan. Staff worked with 3TP Ventures to create the Mobility Plan, which the Council adopted on September 16, 2024. The Mobility Plan is a comprehensive blueprint for addressing the City's current and future transportation needs. Mobility fees are a crucial tool for cities like Destin to fund transportation projects that address the impacts of future growth, while also addressing service gaps such as multimodal infrastructure and traffic congestion. As the Mobility Plan is a fee-based plan, the Mobility Fee was also developed and approved on May 19, 2025, and will replace the Transportation Impact Fee. Approval of the Mobility Plan and Fee also negated the transportation concurrency requirements of the Comprehensive Plan and LDC. However, the City will continue to track the transportation level of service (LOS) to ensure the system is operating as needed. | attachments=1 | reports=1
Decision: CURRENT BUSINESS
B. Proposed Ordinance 25-10-LC – Revising Article 7 of the Land Development Code (LDC) to Allow Decks to Encroach Five Feet (5’) into Rear Setbacks for Non-Waterfront Townhomes within the High Density Residential (HDR) Zoning District.
Currently, per the City’s Land Development Code (LDC) Section 7.12.08 , Table 7-3: Schedule of Dimensional Requirements in Zoning Districts, townhomes (multi-family development) are required to provide a rear setback of 10’ for any portion of a building having a height of 35 feet or less if the property does not front the harbor, bay, or gulf. The language reads as follows – For lots fronting the harbor: Zero feet. For lots fronting the Choctawhatchee Bay: rear setback must meet the requirements set forth in section 11.01.10 Bay shoreline protection zone. For lots fronting the gulf the rear setback will be established by DEP. For all lots that do not front the harbor, bay or the gulf, but instead have a rear property line, ten feet for any portion of a building having a height of 35 feet or less. Fifteen feet for any portion of a building having a height above 35 feet but below 50 feet. For each ten feet or fraction thereof exceeding 50 feet in height, the rear setback shall be increased by two feet on each side. | attachments=2 | reports=1
Decision: CURRENT BUSINESS
5. PUBLIC COMMENTS
6. NEXT MEETING DATE: JULY 17, 2025