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Published on April 23, 2026 at 11:28 am
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The St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners voted 3-2 this week to adopt its 2050 Comprehensive Plan, establishing the binding legal framework that will govern development and infrastructure capacity within county borders for decades.
After the state’s rejection of an earlier draft of the plan, the vote was on a revised version designed to comply with Florida Senate Bill 180, which was enacted in 2025 to restrict local governments from adopting stricter land-use regulations or burdensome development rules in areas affected by 2024 hurricanes and tropical storms.
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“We ended up hitting a roadblock where the state found that our proposed comprehensive plan was more restrictive or burdensome, and we had to adjust. And so we adjusted our comprehensive plan to remove the policies deemed more restrictive and burdensome, and we went back and retransmitted in January of this year,” County Planning Division Manager Jacob Smith told the board.
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