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Description
Ordinance No. 2025-01 amends Chapter 64 of the Town of Orchid Code of Ordinances governing land clearing and tree removal. The Ordinance reorganizes and clarifies the Town’s land-clearing requirements, revises the application and review process for land-clearing permits, identifies grounds for denial, and provides an appeal process to the Town Council. It also addresses erosion-control requirements, including circumstances involving removal of invasive exotic vegetation; recognizes prescribed burns in conservation areas as an appropriate land-management practice under specified conditions; clarifies exemptions from permitting; and revises provisions governing tree removal, including treatment of trees relocated within the Town and tree removal associated with approved site plans and landscape plans. The public purpose of the Ordinance is to provide clearer and more consistent regulation of land clearing and tree removal, protect natural resources and neighboring properties, reduce erosion and environmental impacts, and support appropriate development and conservation practices within the Town.
Official Caption
An Ordinance of the Town of Orchid, Indian River County, Florida, amending the Land Development Regulations of the Code of Ordinances, Chapter 64, Land Clearing and Tree Removal; providing for legislative findings, amendment, codification, severability, conflict, and an effective date.
Business Impact Estimate
Pursuant to Section 166.041(4)(a), Florida Statutes, the Town of Orchid has prepared the following Business Impact Estimate for the proposed ordinance. This estimate is intended to summarize the ordinance and its public purpose, and to identify, in good faith, any anticipated direct economic impacts on private, for-profit businesses, including compliance costs, new charges or fees, municipal regulatory costs or revenues, and the estimated number of businesses likely to be affected. Please feel free to email the Town Manager or call at (772) 581-2770 with any questions about this ordinance or estimate.You are encouraged to attend the public hearing to be heard by the Town Council in advance of the ordinance's adoption.
Anticipated Impacts
- No direct impact on private, for-profit businesses is anticipated
- No compliance costs are reasonably likely to be incurred
- No new charges or fees are introduced in this ordinance
- Estimated municipal regulatory costs associated with this ordinance: $0
- Estimate of the number of private, for-profit businesses likely to be impacted: 0
Posting/Notice Dates
- Caption posted: 02/21/2025
- Business Impact Estimate posted: 02/25/2025
- Newspaper notice published: 03/19/2025