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CITY OF CLERMONT
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01 ORDINANCE NO.2025-006
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CLERMONT, LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE LAND
DEVELOPMENT CODE CHAPTER 101, "GENERAL AND
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS", ARTICLE III "ORDERS AND
PERMITS", DIVISION 3 "CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS", SECTION
101-216 "TIME LIMIT FOR COMMENCING CONSTRUCTION",
PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT, SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION, THE
ADMINISTRATIVE CORRECTION OF SCRIVENERS ERROR,
PUBLICATION AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 163, Florida Statutes, the City of
Clermont Planning and Zoning Commission,acting as the Local Planning Agency of the City,has
held a public hearing on September 9, 2025, and following such hearing found this Ordinance to
be in the best interest of the City of Clermont, and recommended that the City Council adopt this
Ordinance; and
WHEREAS,the City Council of the City of Clermont shall amend the Land Development
Code, Chapter 101, "General and Administrative Provisions", Article III "Orders and Permits",
Division 3 "Conditional Use Permits", Section 101-216 "Time Limit for Commencing
Construction"; and
NOW,THEREFORE,BE IT HEREBY ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of
Clermont, that Chapter 101, "General and Administrative Provisions", Article III "Orders and
Permits", Division 3 "Conditional Use Permits", Section 101-216 "Time Limit for Commencing
Construction"of the Clermont Code of Ordinances shall be amended to make changes,as set forth
in the following amendments shown in Section 2.
SECTION 1: AUTHORITY
The City Council of the City of Clermont has the authority to adopt this Ordinance pursuant to
Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of Florida and Chapter 163 and 166,Florida Statutes.
SECTION 2:
Chapter 101,"General and Administrative Provisions",Article III"Orders and Permits",Division
3 "Conditional Use Permits", Section 101-216"Time Limit for Commencing Construction"of the
Land Development Code of the City of Clermont is hereby amended to read as follows (note
strikethrough indicates removed words and underlined indicates added):
Sec. 101-216. Time limit for commencing construction.
When any conditional use permit is granted, physical construction, including items required to
meet adopted levels of concurrency,must begin within the timeframe established in the conditional
use permit,which may not exceed two years. Such timeframe shall begin the date the conditional
use permit is signed and executed by the permittee.For purposes of this section,the term"physical
construction" shall mean the commencement and continuous prosecution of construction of
required improvements ultimately finalized at completion. At a minimum, for new buildings,the
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footing inspection shall be completed and approved. For building expansions or buildouts that do
not require a footing inspection,a completed and approved building inspection will be required.
SECTION 3: CONFLICT
All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with any of the provisions of this Ordinance are
hereby repealed.
SECTION 4: SEVERABILITY
If any portion of this Ordinance is declared invalid, the invalidated portion shall be severed from
the remainder of the Ordinance, and the remainder of the Ordinance shall continue in full force
and effect as if enacted without the invalidated portion, except in cases where such continued
validity of the remainder would clearly and without doubt contradict or frustrate the intent of the
Ordinance as a whole.
SECTION 5: CODIFICATION
The text of Section 2 of this Ordinance shall be codified as a part of the Clermont City Code. The
codifier is authorized to make editorial changes not effecting the substance of this Ordinance by
the substitution of"Article" for"Ordinance", "Section" for"Paragraph", or otherwise to take such
editorial license.
SECTION 6: ADMINISTRATIVE CORRECTION OF SCRIVENERS ERROR
Regardless of whether such inclusion in the Code as described in Section 5 is accomplished,
sections of the Ordinance may be re-numbered or re-lettered and the correction of typographical
and/or scrivener's errors which do not affect the intent may be authorized by the City Manager or
designee, without need of public hearing, by filing a corrected or re-codified copy of same with
the City Clerk.
SECTION 7: PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE
This Ordinance shall be published as provided by law and it shall become law and shall take effect
immediately upon its Second Reading and Final Passage.
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Choke ofChampions ORDINANCE NO.2025-006
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Clermont, Lake County,
Florida on this 9th day of September 2025.
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Approved as to form and legality:
Christian . Wau , Interim City Attorney