The Marathon City Council will gather for its next public meeting on Tuesday, March 8 at 5:30 p.m. at Marathon City Hall. All interested persons are welcome to attend. Topics of particular interest to the community slated for discussion include:
- Recognition for Rylan Chapa, Marathon High School’s state champion weightlifter.
- Discussion of Mariners Place apartments and displaced residents, scheduled to be vacated by Friday, March 5 after inspections found the building unsafe for occupancy. See page 7.
- Discussion of the special taxing district in support of Fishermen’s Community Hospital and Baptist Health South Florida.
- Consideration of a request for a conditional use permit to authorize a development at the end of 41st Street Gulf. Unanimously approved by the city’s planning commission at its Feb. 28 meeting, the permit would allow for the eventual development of 14 residential units as well as additional parking spaces.
- A second reading, discussion and possible final approval of Marathon’s newly proposed sign code. Read for the first time in its original form at February’s city council meeting, the new ordinance entirely replaces Marathon’s current sign code, rendered unconstitutional by a 2015 Supreme Court case that outlawed content-based restrictions on signs.
- Approval of the market rate and affordable allocations for the current Building Permit Allocation System (BPAS) period, as well as approval of a resolution to extend the remaining BPAS allocations to 2024 by providing fewer allocations per six-month period.
