The City of Plantation Comprehensive Plan was adopted and amended pursuant to the requirements and authority of the Community Planning Act, Florida Statutes, Chapter 163, Part II, and all other applicable regulations. The purposes of the Plan are defined in Florida Statutes, Chapter 163 and the Plan.

(Ord. No. 2597a, § 3(Exh. A), 3-24-2021)

The City's Comprehensive Plan consists of the one volume book entitled Comprehensive Plan - Goals, Objectives and Policies, which includes ten (10) elements entitled Future Land Use Element, Neighborhood Design Element, Transportation Element, Housing Element, Infrastructure Element, Conservation Element, Recreation and Open Space Element, Intergovernmental Coordination Element, Capital Improvements Element, and Public School Facilities Element. The Comprehensive Plan also includes an Introduction Section. The Plan was initially adopted by Ordinance No. 1626 (June 7, 1989), with subsequent amendments.

(Ord. No. 2597a, § 3(Exh. A), 3-24-2021)

(a)

Generally. To the extent consistent with the Community Planning Act, the Comprehensive Plan shall be interpreted as setting forth general guidelines and principles for the growth and development of the City. Goals, objectives and policies within the Comprehensive Plan are internally consistent, and any reading of the Comprehensive Plan to suggest an internal inconsistency shall be construed in such a manner so as to maintain the internal consistency of the Comprehensive Plan.

(b)

Conflicts with other regulations. The Comprehensive Plan is cumulative and supplemental to existing City regulations for the development of land. Where the Comprehensive Plan conflicts with existing land development regulations, the Comprehensive Plan shall supersede existing land development regulations to the effect of the conflict until such existing land development regulations are amended to be consistent with the Comprehensive Plan. The City Council shall have the final determination as to consistency of the land development regulations with the Comprehensive Plan.

(c)

Development orders to be consistent with Comprehensive Plan. No development order shall be issued under the provisions of these Land Development Regulations, unless the development order is consistent with the goals, objectives and policies of the Comprehensive Plan.

(Ord. No. 2597a, § 3(Exh. A), 3-24-2021)

Amendments to the Plan shall be made in accordance with the procedures and standards of Florida law and this Code, as described in Section 27-43.