CRESTVIEW — The City Council has approved 16 ordinances to complete a lengthy rezoning project.
They affect residential areas near Valley Road including the Rolling Pines, Valleycreek and Gartman townhome subdivisions.
City leaders unanimously passed the ordinances; council members Mickey Rytman and Thomas Gordon were absent from Monday's meeting.
City Geographic Information System mapping analyst and planning technician Teresa Gaillard worked to identify wrongly zoned residential areas and rezone them to comply with the city’s comprehensive plan.
City Clerk Betsy Roy worked with Gaillard in writing the ordinances for the council’s approval.
Roy, who oversees the Administrative Services Department, has said affected properties originally were zoned for future commercial land use, which allowed for higher-density residential development than residential zoning. Some developments were in an industrial zoned area.
When the neighborhoods were built, developers followed regulations for single- and multi-family dwelling zoning, but the zoning didn’t change.
The new ordinances rezone the neighborhoods under the zoning criteria that the homes were constructed under.
In other business, the council:
•Unanimously approved a resolution for out-of-city water services for property on Chestnut Avenue after the property owner submitted a petition.
•Passed a resolution recognizing National Community Planning Month in October. Roy said the request came from the West Florida Regional Planning Council. The resolution recognizes all city planners for their work.
Staff Writer Brian Hughes contributed to this report.
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