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File #: 20-00333    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Public Hearing Status: Passed
File created: 6/19/2020 In control: City Council
On agenda: 7/16/2020 Final action: 7/16/2020
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: PUBLIC HEARING - ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN - FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT
Sponsors: Grover C. Robinson, IV
Attachments: 1. Proposed Ordinance No. 12-20, as revised, 2. Planning Board Minutes January 14, 2020, 3. PROOF OF PUBLICATION PUBLIC HEARING

LEGISLATIVE ACTION ITEM

 

SPONSOR:                         Grover C. Robinson, IV, Mayor

 

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PUBLIC HEARING - ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN - FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT                     

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RECOMMENDATION:

 

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That City Council conduct the second required public hearing on July 16, 2020 to adopt proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Plan - Future Land Use Element. 

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HEARING REQUIRED:  Public

 

SUMMARY:

                                          

As provided in Florida Statutes Chapter 163, all local governments within the State of Florida are allotted two calendar year amendments to their Comprehensive Plans. The proposed amendments in this update will serve as the first calendar year amendment.  Attached, you will find all changes submitted in strike-through and underline format.

 

This Public Hearing is to consider adopting the proposed Comprehensive Plan amendments as revised based on comments from the Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO).  On February 13, 2020, City Council conducted a public hearing to transmit the proposed amendment to DEO for comments, and approved Proposed Ordinance No. 12-20 on First Reading.  Following receipt of DEO comments, Council now needs to conduct an adoption hearing to consider adopting the Comprehensive Plan amendments.  Proposed Ordinance No. 12-20 has been revised to contain the absolute height and coverage maximums that would be permitted in applicable nonresidential zoning districts, as regulated by the City’s Land Development Code.

 

The City’s Land Development Code (LDC) contains the same building height and lot coverage maximums that are currently cited in the Future Land Use Element of the City’s Comprehensive Plan.  As the Comprehensive Plan is a long-range “big picture” planning document, and the LDC is intended to be more detail-intensive, there are a variety of definitions and processes in the LDC that allow for variations to these maximums.  While this has not been deemed to be a conflict, in order to avoid confusion, this level of specificity should be eliminated from our Comprehensive Plan.   

 

Many communities do not include this type of detail in their Comprehensive Plans, as it is the function of the Land Development Code to provide site-related requirements that delve beyond land use, concurrency for infrastructure, and residential density.  In the last decade, the City has undertaken the creation of a “freeboard” requirement for properties in flood zones, revised the definition of how “building height” is measured, and has introduced a new measurement system in the Land Development Code with the addition of language that measures building height in stories in some areas of the City.   Additionally, there are various citywide applications of the City’s Land Development Regulations, which allow for outcomes that exceed those base numbers for height. 

 

The density transfer language contained on pages 12 and of 13 of the attached ordinance (Proposed Ordinance No. 12-20) was previously approved by City Council as part of Ordinance 23-19 that has been transmitted to the Department of Economic Opportunity and is under their required review.  

 

The Planning Board unanimously recommended approval of the proposed amendments at their regular meeting on January 14, 2020.

 

PRIOR ACTION:                     

 

February 13, 2020 - The City Council held a public hearing and approved Proposed Ordinance No. 12-20 on first reading.

 

October 10, 2019 - City Council adopted Ordinance No. 23-19.

 

 

FUNDING:                     

 

N/A

 

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

                     

None

 

CITY ATTORNEY REVIEW:    Yes

 6/23/2020

   

STAFF CONTACT:

 

Keith Wilkins, City Administrator

Kerrith Fiddler, Deputy City Administrator - Community Development

Sherry Morris, Planning Services Administrator

 

ATTACHMENTS:

 

1)                     Proposed Ordinance No. 12-20, as revised

2)                     Planning Board Minutes January 14, 2020

 

PRESENTATION:     No   end