Lake Placid has agreed to hire an outside agency to plan the future of its downtown business district.
The town will pay $40,000 to the Central Florida Regional Planning Council to develop a “downtown vision and action plan” for the town’s Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA). The resulting land use and development parameters will guide everything from food trucks, parking, landscaping, architecture and other aspects of downtown life.
The Planning Council is governed by a body of elected and appointed representatives of the region’s member governments. It has provided planning advisory services and programs to all five counties and 25 cities of the region for a half-century.
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