Myakka City’s Elizabeth Efferson is reading Manatee County’s proposed update to its comprehensive plan, but she needs more time to work her way through the 484-page document that was released to the public April 19.
“It’s too high-level,” Efferson said. “I’m having to look up different terms just to understand one paragraph.”
Even the “Summary of Amendments” is 219 pages with 42 updated definitions of things like “inflowing watercourses,” which are “hydrologic connections defined as areas of state or federal jurisdiction.”…