Pursuant to Section 163.3191(1), Florida Statutes, at least once every 7 years, each local government in the State of Florida shall evaluate its comprehensive plan to determine if plan amendments are necessary to reflect changes in state requirements in this part since the last update of the comprehensive plan, and notify the state land planning agency as to its determination. 

By Ordinance Number 3073, the City of Riviera Beach’s Comprehensive Plan was last amended on October 6, 2010. The City Council desires to amend the City of Riviera Beach’s Comprehensive Plan to establish new goals, objectives, and policies for the City’s residents, visitors, and business owners. 

Recently, the City has received multiple site plan applications and site development inquiries along the Broadway corridor from Silver Beach Road to the municipal limits, which is referred to locally as the “Downtown Corridor”, and along the Blue Heron Boulevard corridor from Singer Island to the municipal limits. To reflect the Community’s Vision for the Downtown Corridor along Broadway and Blue Heron Boulevard, Staff is requesting an up to six months moratorium for accepting site plan applications along the Broadway corridor from Silver Beach Road to the municipal limits and Blue Heron Boulevard corridor from Singer Island to the municipal limits in order to study, evaluate and create the regulations and additional standards for the Broadway Corridor, Blue Heron Corridor, and the overall City as a whole and incorporate those regulations into the City’s Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Regulations. 

This Ordinance is being adopted in order to allow the City time to thoroughly review, study and revise the City’s laws, rules, procedures and fees related to growth management and development along the Broadway Corridor from Silver Beach Road to the municipal limits and Blue Heron Boulevard Corridor from Singer Island to the municipal limits, while preserving the health, safety and welfare of the communities in the City of Riviera Beach.