🌅 🛤️ Causeway Cove Pushed to 2039

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Two things happened at the October 14th commission meeting that are worth knowing about 👀.

First: The legal review is dead

Back in September the commission voted to send the Causeway Cove approval to outside legal counsel for review. The city reached out to three law firms. One responded. Gray Robinson told the city not to bother, saying the questions at the heart of this are planning judgments, not legal ones. An attorney cannot evaluate them. A certified planner would have to.

The city has a certified planner on staff. That is the planning director. No planner review has been announced. The September directive effectively went nowhere.

Second: The developer extended the timeline using a hurricane declaration

The developer, G Flash GP Inc., used a Florida statute that allows development permits to be extended when a governor's emergency declaration is active. They cited Hurricane Milton and a February 2026 winter weather emergency. The governor's order was still active. The planning department approved the extension administratively. No commission vote was required.

The new timeline 📋:

The original timeline had construction starting before the end of 2026 with final completion in 2035. That is now gone.

One commissioner asked whether a future legislative fix to the Live Local Act could apply to the project. The city attorney said no. Whatever law was in place when the project was originally approved is the law it is locked to forever.

We are going to keep watching this one 👀.

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