Jim Breitenfeld of the Destin Harbor Association gave a dissenting view on the tiering workshop: After several years of work on the Land Development Code and the tiering system, the council reviews one Tier Three project and then announces it wants to change the rules?
“Development isn’t happening because the rules are in flux,” Breitenfeld said, and that could kill the tax revenues that major, half-million dollar Tier Three developments could bring in.
However, he said, if it will take a workshop to get city staff and the council in agreement on the rules and standards, go for it: “Let’s get a set of rules and see if we can stick with them long enough that people who want to spend a half-million dollars can do so in Destin.”

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