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REZONING - 2500 BLOCK OF NORTH MAIN STREET (B)
Ordinance No. 0-07-01, Petition No. 161ZON-06PB
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending the Zoning Map Atlas and rezoning certain property within the City, as more specifically described in this Ordinance, from "MU-2: 12-30 units/acre mixed use medium intensity" to "BUS: General business district"; located in the vicinity of the 2500 block of North Main Street; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date.
recommendation
The City Commission: 1) approve Petition No. 161ZON-06PB; and 2) adopt the proposed ordinance.
explanation
STAFF REPORT
The subject property is an approximately 0.82-acre vacant parcel that is located on the west side of North Main Street on the southwest corner of North Main Street and N.E. 1st Boulevard. The property is zoned MU-2 (12-30 units/acre mixed-use medium intensity) with C (Commercial) land use. To the north of the site is Main Street Chevrolet, a new and used car dealership with BA (Automotive-oriented business district) zoning and Commercial land use. To the south and west of the property is a community shopping center with MU-2 zoning and MUM (Mixed-Use Medium Intensity, 12-30 units per acre) land use. East of the property across North Main Street is Bush Gator Transmission and a currently vacant eating place that was the home of the Florida Buffet, also with MU-2 zoning and MUM land use.
The request of this petition is to change the zoning from MU-2 to BUS. This change is requested in order to bring the zoning into compliance with the existing land use. The land use was changed in 2003 from MUM to C, in anticipation of the subject property being rezoned to BA. The land use was approved but the zoning request failed at the second reading of the ordinance and a subsequent rehearing, when a neighboring property owner expressed concern about whether BA was the most compatible zoning category given that the adjacent property to the south is developed as a shopping center. The BUS district is another of the implementing zoning districts of the Commercial land use category and would be a more compatible district adjacent to the MU-2 zoned shopping center to the south.
The Plan Board heard the petition and recommended that it be approved.
Public notice was published in the Gainesville Sun on November 29, 2006. Letters were mailed to surrounding property owners on November 28, 2006. The Plan Board held a public hearing December 14, 2006. Planning Division staff recommended that the Plan Board approve the petition. The Plan Board recommended that the City Commission approve Petition 161ZON-06PB. Plan Board vote 6-0.