During the June 11 council meeting, a few community members and stakeholders urged the council to approve the LUPA, whether or not they agreed with everything in the amendment.
Now that the city has an adopted LUP, work on the Local Implementation Plan, or LIP, is planned to begin in the next fiscal year. An LIP consists of implementing zoning ordinances and maps.
Beach Preservation co-chair Jim Jaffee commented on the lengthy process to get this LUP approved: “When we adopted the LCP, one of the things that I asked you to do at that time … was to realize that the Constitution of the United States has been amended several times. The Bill of Rights was amended shortly after the approval of the Constitution itself. So it’s OK to accept that things are going to change and they’re going to be modified over time. I appreciate that we went through this process. I can tell you that it didn’t turn out exactly the way we would have liked it to. We objected to many of the things that are in there. But I also realize that after all this time has lapsed, at some point, you’ve got to keep kicking the can down the road.”
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