VENICE (SNN TV) – The Venice City Council will hold a special meeting on controversial development rules.
The Herald-Tribune reports the meeting is to find a compromise with the group ‘Venice Unites,’ a group of residents who want to amend rule changes. They’ve surpassed their goal of collecting more than 22-hundred signatures to hold a referendum to rescind the city’s 600-plus page development code.
The four outstanding issues include building heights downtown, heights around downtown, the size of commercial development in planned-unit developments, and wildlife habitat assessments.
New development rules call for wildlife habitat assessments for developments larger than five acres, while Venice Unites wants that extended to parcels smaller than five acres.
The meeting will take place January 6, 2023.
