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LAND USE CHANGE - BLUES CREEK (B)
Ordinance No. 0-05-05, Petition 167LUC-04PB
An ordinance amending the City of Gainesville 2000-2010 Comprehensive Plan, Future Land Use Map; by changing the land use category of certain property from "Single-Family (up to 8 units per acre)" to "Residential Low-Density (up to 12 units per acre); located in the vicinity of west of Northwest 43rd Street and north of Northwest 73rd Avenue; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an effective date.
recommendation
The City Commission: (1) receive the report of the Department of Community Affairs; and (2) adopt the proposed ordinance.
explanation
STAFF REPORT
The 2.37-acre subject property is within the approximately 300-acre, Blues Creek planned residential development, and is on the north side of N.W. 73rd Avenue, approximately one-quarter mile west of Northwest 43rd Street. The subject property is within the Blues Creek drainage basin, and is undeveloped and wooded. The property adjoins undeveloped conservation land to the north, east and west, and is proximate to single-family development across Northwest 73rd Avenue to the south. Single-family development of the Blues Creek development is to the north and west, beyond the adjacent conservation area. The Blues Creek clubhouse and swimming pool are also to the west of the conservation area.
The applicant proposes to change the land use designation of the property from SF (Single Family, up to 8 units per acre) to RL (Residential Low Density, up to 12 units per acre.
The subject property is adjacent to Single-Family (up to 8 units per acre) land use to the north and east, Single-Family and Conservation land use (farther east) to the east, and Alachua County Low Density (1-4 units per acre) land use to the south. The surrounding zoning is PD (Planned Development District) to the north, east and west, and Alachua County Low Density Residential (1-4 units per a...
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