City of Gainesville - File #: 110130.

• File #: 110130.
• Version: 1
• Name: REZONING - SW 20TH AVENUE, WEST OF INTERSECTION OF SW 24TH AVENUE AND SW 43RD STREET (B)
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 9/1/2011
• In control: City Attorney
• Final action: 9/1/2011
• Title: REZONING – SW 20TH AVENUE, WEST OF INTERSECTION OF SW 24TH AVENUE AND SW 43RD STREET (B) Ordinance No. 110130, Petition No. PB-11-78ZON An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending the Zoning Map Atlas and rezoning certain properties annexed into the City, as more specifically described in this ordinance, from the Alachua County zoning category of “Multiple family, medium-high density (R-2a) district” to the City of Gainesville zoning categories of “RMF-8: 8-30 units/acre multiple-family residential district” and “CON: Conservation district”; located South of Southwest 20th Avenue and West of the intersection of Southwest 24th Avenue and Southwest 43rd Street; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/15/2011	1	City Commission	Adopted on Final Reading (Ordinance)	Pass
9/1/2011	1	City Commission	Approved (Petition) and Adopted on First Reading (Ordinance)	Pass

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REZONING - SW 20TH AVENUE, WEST OF INTERSECTION OF SW 24TH AVENUE AND SW 43RD STREET (B)

Ordinance No. 110130, Petition No. PB-11-78ZON

An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending the Zoning Map Atlas and rezoning certain properties annexed into the City, as more specifically described in this ordinance, from the Alachua County zoning category of "Multiple family, medium-high density (R-2a) district" to the City of Gainesville zoning categories of "RMF-8:  8-30 units/acre multiple-family residential district" and "CON:  Conservation district"; located South of Southwest 20th Avenue and West of the intersection of Southwest 24th Avenue and Southwest 43rd Street; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date.

recommendation

The City Commission adopt the proposed ordinance.

explanation

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT STAFF MEMORANDUM

This petition requests a rezoning from Alachua County to City of Gainesville designations.  The City of Gainesville annexed this 13.03-acre area on November 26, 2007. The subject property consists of six undeveloped parcels under common ownership, located west of the intersection of SW 24th Avenue and SW 43rd Street. Environmentally sensitive features including Hogtown Creek, floodplain, and the ten-year flood channel are found on the northern portion of the site.

This area is currently designated with Alachua County Multiple family, medium-high density (R-2A) zoning, which allows 8 to 14 dwelling units per acre. The proposed rezoning requests RMF-8 (8-30 units per acre) on 9.24 acres of the property, and CON (Conservation) zoning on 3.79 acres. These proposed zoning designations follow the same lines as the underlying City Residential Medium Density and Conservation land use categories, which were adopted in 2009.

A request to rezone this property (Petition PZ-08-130ZON) was heard by the City Commission in July 2009 along with its companion land use amendment. Citing anticipated changes to the City's environmental regulations, the Commission voted to adopt the land use amendment (Ordinance 090089) but strike the rezoning until additional protections were in place to address the site's environmental features.

Public notice was published in the Gainesville Sun on June 6, 2011. The Plan Board held a public hearing on June 23, 2011.