
Record 033 · Civic · 2026
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Phil Stokes Regulation Line
City of North Port Commission · requested inclusion
“Commissioner Phil Stokes: he could not support the project moving forward without regulation controlling how it might be built.”
That is a pause-to-write-code argument, not a forever-no. It explains a yes on moratorium that is not yet a no on technology.
The regulatory-gap rationale on the dais.
- Regulation-before-project
- Conscience line
- Pause-to-write-code
Not without rules.



