Broward County Commission Regular Meeting
Director's Name: Leonard Vialpando
Department: Resilient Environment Division: Administration
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Requested Action
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MOTION TO DIRECT County Attorney’s Office to review and draft one or more Ordinances, for future consideration by the Board, amending Chapters 4, 5, 9, 27, 34 and 39 of the Broward County Code of Ordinances, providing for general housekeeping amendments as well as substantive updates to the Resilient Environment Department’s various regulated programs, licensing requirements, definitions, and enforcement mechanisms, including within the Land Development Code, the Zoning Code, and related to the Broward County Central Examining Board Restitution Trust Fund.
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Why Action is Necessary
Board direction is required for the Office of the County Attorney to draft an Ordinance amending the Broward County Code of Ordinances.
What Action Accomplishes
Provides the required direction to the Office of the County Attorney.
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Previous Action Taken
None taken.
Summary Explanation/Background
THE RESILIENT ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT and its Animal Care Division, URBAN PLANNING DIVISION, BUILDING CODE DIVISION, NATURAL RESOURCES DIVISION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING DIVISION RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THE ABOVE MOTION.
The agenda item directs the County Attorney’s Office to draft one or more ordinances amending the Broward County Code of Ordinances (“Code”) related to the Resilient Environment Department’s (“RED”) various regulated programs, licensing requirements, definitions, and enforcement mechanisms, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Chapter 4: The changes include revising the adoption process, including standards for adopting found stray animals; expounding requirements for outdoor feeding and manner of keeping animals during certain temperatures; and strengthening care, permitting, inspection, and enforcement requirements for breeders, pet traders, and guard dog operations. The proposed ordinance will also revise the requirements for registering animals, procedures relating to quarantine following a dog bite, and procedures relating to muzzle orders.
- Chapters 5 and 39: The changes include eliminating concurrency districts, road concurrency and related fees, and transportation concurrency assessments and road impact fees; consolidating and expounding upon application procedures; delegating approval authority for some plat-related items to Urban Planning Division staff, or its successors; eliminating use-related plat notes and matters ancillary to the foregoing; amending the procedure related to Non-Vehicular Access Line Agreements; migrating specified provisions found in Section 5-192 of the Code to Chapter 27 and creating an Urban Local Road category related to redevelopment in Section 5-192 of the Code; amending regulations related to parking lot review; and amending the Garden Park Districts to provide for roadway typologies with illustrations.
- Chapter 9: The changes include amending the provisions related to the Broward County Central Examining Board Restitution Trust Fund (“RTF”) to ensure that a person cannot make a claim against the RTF for work performed by either an illegally unlicensed contractor (consistent with the State Recovery Fund) or by a voluntarily unlicensed contractor.
- Chapter 27: The changes include amending Article I of Chapter 27 to establish a citation procedure for certain low dollar tree abuse cases and for certain violations arising out of the County’s Air Quality Program and general housekeeping amendments to promote efficiency in environmental enforcement cases; amending various provisions in Articles IV, V, IX, XI, XII, and XIV of Chapter 27 of the Code related to air quality, water resource management, aquatic and wetland resources protection, hazardous materials, and tree preservation and abuse to simplify permitting processes and to provide consistency with state and federal regulation.
- Chapter 34: The changes include amending the chapter to formalize policy for areas with water supply hardness issues.
Source of Additional Information
Lenny Vialpando, Director, Resilient Environment Department, 954-357-6677.
Fiscal Impact
Fiscal Impact/Cost Summary
No Fiscal Impact.