SUBJECT
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A public hearing to consider the adoption of LDCT-2023-1, a County-initiated request for connection to an alternative wastewater treatment system for schools when central sanitary sewer (wastewater) is not available.
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DESCRIPTION
This is a County-initiated request for a LDC text amendment to Chapter 3, Section 303, Criteria for Conditional Uses, Elementary School, Middle, And High School, to allow schools in the Suburban Development Area (SDA) and Rural Development Area (RDA) to connect to a Distributed Wastewater Treatment System when sewer connection is not available; amending Chapter 10, Definitions to add definitions for Distributed Wastewater Treatment Systems, Scada System, and Sequencing Batch Reactors. State law requires one Planning Commission hearing, which was held on February 1, 2023, with a recommendation of approval (7:0).
Section 163.3202, Florida Statutes (F.S.) requires the Board to adopt Land Development Code (LDC) regulations consistent with the implementation of the Polk County Comprehensive Plan. Amendments to the LDC require two public hearings before the Board to be adopted. This is the first of the two hearings.
RECOMMENDATION
Adopt after the second reading on March 21, 2023, at 9:30 a.m.
FISCAL IMPACT
No Fiscal Impact.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Erik E. Peterson
Erik Peterson, AICP
Planning Administrator
(863) 534-6470
erikpeterson@polk-county.net