County commissioners approved a new comprehensive growth plan two years ago that split the county into five tiers: Urban/suburban; exurban--areas with suburban density but some rural characteristics; rural--areas where lots range in size from one to 20 acres and commercial opportunities are limited; agricultural reserve--a 21,000 acre area in the southern part of the county west of the turnpike, east of the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge; and the Glades tier--the western reaches of the county, containing mostly large scale agriculture.
Instead of going directly to the code-writing stage, however, the county decided to use the reverse engineering process.
"In the past, we were always amazed to see how different the end product was from what we expected when we wrote the codes," Duke says. So this time, Duke's department first contracted with a local planning and architectural firm to draw up conceptual images, using the guidelines outlined in the Comprehensive Plan.
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