The City of Pensacola has spent the past year reviewing its Land Development Code (LDC), with the help of Inspire Engagement. The first public draft is now available online. Visit the webpage.
Speaking at a press conference this morning, Mayor D.C. Reeves outlined the two transformative changes residents can expect from this comprehensive code revision.
Cleaning Up Decades of Band-Aid Fixes
The most substantial change addresses a problem that has plagued city development for years: contradictory and duplicative language scattered throughout the existing code.
“We had parts of our code where so many duplicative things,” Reeves explained, describing the current system as “band-aids on band-aids, on band-aids where you could actually read a part of the code and interpret it one way and then turn 20 pages and interpret it another way.”…