City of Gainesville - File #: 100778.

• File #: 100778.
• Version: 2
• Name: REZONING - UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA EASTSIDE CAMPUS (B)
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 5/5/2011
• In control: City Attorney
• Final action: 5/5/2011
• Title: REZONING - UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA EASTSIDE CAMPUS (B) Ordinance No. 100778, Petition No. PB-11-11 ZON An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending the Zoning Map Atlas and rezoning certain property, as more specifically described in this Ordinance, from the zoning category of "MH: 12 units/acre mobile home residential district" to "ED: Educational services district"; located in the vicinity of 2200 Northeast Waldo Road; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/5/2011	2	City Commission	Adopted on Final Reading (Ordinance)	Pass
4/21/2011	1	City Commission	Approved (Petition) and Adopted on First Reading (Ordinance)	Pass

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REZONING - UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA EASTSIDE CAMPUS (B)

Ordinance No. 100778, Petition No. PB-11-11 ZON
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending the Zoning Map Atlas and rezoning certain property, as more specifically described in this Ordinance, from the zoning category of "MH: 12 units/acre mobile home residential district" to "ED: Educational services district"; located in the vicinity of 2200 Northeast Waldo Road; 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 proposed rezoning from MH (12 units/acre mobile home residential district) to ED (Educational services district) is for an approximately 2.6-acre property located on the west side of Waldo Road and south of Northeast 23rd Avenue. This property is adjacent to the University of Florida's Eastside Campus on the south (and west), and to both a mobile home park and Northeast 23rd Avenue on the north. To the east and across Waldo Road is the State of Florida's Tacachale residential facility for the developmentally disabled. The property was previously part of the adjacent mobile home park to the north, but is now vacant and unimproved except for the remains of three very dilapidated and unoccupied wooden houses. The property is within the Eastside Community Redevelopment Area, but it is not within either the Enterprise Zone or a special area plan.

The property was purchased in 2010 for the purpose of expanding the adjacent Eastside Campus of the University of Florida, which is part of the 2005-2015 Campus Master Plan and is included in the 2005-2015 Campus Development Agreement. The application states that "the addition of this parcel as an overflow parking area to the campus…will help alleviate the current shortage of parking. As the total Eastside Campus continues to evolve and r...