🌅 🏢 Causeway Cove Development Gets Staff Approval

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Before anything else, here is critical context. This project is moving forward under the Live Local Act, a state law passed in 2023 that allows developers to bypass local height and density restrictions as long as 40 percent of the units are designated affordable housing. To be clear: the Fort Pierce City Commission does not get a vote on this 🏛️.

City planning staff has recommended approval of the Causeway Cove development at 601 Seaway Drive. The Fort Pierce Planning Board takes it up Monday July 13th at 2 p.m.

What is being proposed 🏗️:

What Monday is and is not: This is not a debate about whether this happens. It is a review of the 31 conditions staff attached to an approval that is already essentially decided. Commissioner Broderick said it plainly when this first came up: "There is nothing this body can do about it."

What's next: Fort Pierce Planning Board, Monday July 13th at 2 p.m. 📅.

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