MLK Dinner, Beast Feast, zoning changes and more on commission agenda
Special to Lake Okeechobee News
Posted 1/9/24
The Okeechobee County Commission will meet Thursday, Jan. 11 in the Historic Okeechobee County Courthouse, 304 N.W. Second St., at 9 a.m.
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MLK Dinner, Beast Feast, zoning changes and more on commission agenda
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Special to Lake Okeechobee News
OKEECHOBEE -- The Okeechobee County Commission will meet Thursday, Jan. 11 in the Historic Okeechobee County Courthouse, 304 N.W. Second St., at 9 a.m.
Items on the agenda include:
Employee service awards;
Discussion of a request to allow overnight parking at county parks and facilities by special permit;
A request from the Okeechobee Rotary Club to waive the fee for use of the covered arena at the Okeechobee Agri-Civic Center for the Rotary’s Beast Feast Wild Game Dinner on March 2;
A request from the Ladies of Elegance of Okeechobee to waive the fee to use the Douglas Brown Community Center for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Banquet on Jan. 21.
Financial report from the Children’s Council of Okeechobee;
Request to rezone 16 acres at 14045 US 441 SE (adjacent to the Big Cypress RV Resort) from Agriculture to Residential Mobile Home;
Request for a change in zoning from the existing classification of Planned Development - Freshwater (PD) to the proposed classification of Residential Single Family (RSF) for 61 acres, located at 921 SE 28th Street, east of Palm Creek, on the north side of Charles Harvey Memorial Highway;
Request for a zoning change from Planned Development to Neighborhood Commercial for 3.8 acres located at 625 S.E. 28th Street, west of the entrance to Palm Creek.
