• The City of Fort Pierce Economic Development Team is proposing a Zoning Text Amendment to City Code Section 22-60 (4), of the City of Fort Pierce Code of Ordinances to provide the ground work for a pathway to revitalization and renewed economic development in a prominent extension of downtown Fort Pierce, through incentive of partial reduction in the required off street parking for existing structures and new development.
• The presented Peacock Arts district (The “PAD”)  is a community initiative centered on this historically significant stretch of the Orange Avenue corridor. The motivation is the inspiration of redevelopment through revitalization of commercial, cultural, and historical assets. 
• The proposal seeks to provide a fifty (50) percent (%) reduction for existing structures and a twenty-five (25) percent (%) exception to incentivize new infill development.
• The Planning Board, at their December 13, 2016 meeting, failed to offer a recommendation of approval for the proposed amendment, suggesting the amendment be coupled with a more comprehensive overlay plan for this area.

Economic Development Team
Rebecca Grohall, AICP, Planning Director