Ginny and Howard’s Blog – Please support Comp Plan Amendment

Commissioners:

Please support the proposed amendment to our Comprehensive Plan that will restore provisions of the award-winning plan which existed prior to the 2009 re-write by the Future Group and the old Commission majority.

We are so fortunate to have Maggy Hurchalla, one of the architects of our original plan, helping to promote restoration of overall goals and principles which set Martin County’s comprehensive plan apart from those in Broward, St. Lucie, Palm Beach and elsewhere in the state.

Our County is different, our environment is different, our quality of life is different because of the vision of Maggy Hurchalla and others who place the public interest ahead of individual financial interests.

It is critical that we restore the overall goals in Chapter 2 to make it clear from the outset that our plan is designed to accomplish a comprehensive purpose: To broaden, enhance, and protect the quality of life of all Martin County residents.

A vote for revisions to Chapters 1, 2 and 4 is a vote to restore this overall goal as the keystone to our Comprehensive Plan.

Any developer, landowner, or politician who opposes this goal has only personal financial reasons to do so. A comprehensive plan with specific provisions — including a supermajority vote to change core principles such as the four-story height limit and the urban boundary — designed to meet expressly stated goals is legally sound and sustainable.