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REZONING - VICINITY OF 3230 SW ARCHER ROAD (B)
Ordinance No. 0-04-39, Petition No. 21ZON-04PB (Quasi-Judicial)
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending the Zoning Map Atlas and rezoning certain property annexed into the City from the Alachua County zoning category of "BH, business, highway" to the City of Gainesville zoning category of "MU-1: 8-30 units/acre mixed use low intensity; located in the vicinity of 3230 S.W. Archer Road; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date.
recommendation
The City Commission: 1) approve Petition No. 21ZON-04PB; and 2) adopt the proposed ordinance.
explanation
STAFF REPORT
The City of Gainesville annexed an 8-acre parcel on SW 34th Street on May 8, 2000. As a part of the update of the Future Land Use Element of the Gainesville Comprehensive Plan, the City established a Mixed Use Low (MUL) land use designation, which was compatible with the County land use designation. The MUL designation allows the present residential operation at this property to remain conforming, as well as allowing existing retail and office operations at this location. MUL allows residential densities up to 30 units/acre. Regency Oaks, the name of the project located at this property, is approximately 18 units per acre.
Adjacent parcels are designated for retail zoning outside of city limits to the west, education (University of Florida) to the north and retail to the east (BUS) and south (BUS).
Because the character of nearby properties is compatible, and because it is an implementing zoning district for the MUL land use category, this property is most suitably zoned as MU-1.
The Plan Board heard the petition and recommended that it be approved.
Public notice was published in the Gainesville Sun on February 3, 2004. Letters were mailed to surrounding property owners on February 4, 2004. The Plan Board held a public hearing February 26, 2004, which was a continuation of the recessed meeting of February 19, 2004. Planning Division staff recommended that the Plan Board approve the petition. The Plan Board recommended that the City Commission approve Petition 21ZON-03 PB. Plan Board vote 5-0.
CITY ATTORNEY MEMORANDUM
The petition was initiated by the City of Gainesville and involves less than 10 contiguous acres. State law only requires one adoption hearing for the rezoning ordinance.