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LAND USE CHANGE - 5901 NE WALDO ROAD (B)
Ordinance No. 0-08-18, Petition 33LUC-08PB
An Ordinance amending the City of Gainesville 2000-2010 Comprehensive Plan; by changing the land use category of certain property, as more specifically described in this ordinance, from the Alachua County land use category of "Heavy Industrial" to the City of Gainesville land use category of "Industrial" consisting of approximately 51.5 acres, located in the vicinity of 5901 Northeast Waldo Road; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date.
recommendation
The City Commission (1) receive the report of the Department of Community Affairs; and (2) adopt the proposed ordinance.
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STAFF REPORT
This petition requests a large-scale land use amendment to change the Future Land Use designation for the subject property from Alachua County Heavy Industrial to City of Gainesville Industrial. This land was annexed by the City on November 26, 2007 and must be brought into conformance with the City's Generalized Future Land Use map and Comprehensive Plan.
The subject property is a 51.50-acre parcel on Waldo Road north of the Gainesville Industrial Park. The majority of the property consists of planted pines, and wetlands are mapped as approximately one-half of the property. There is an existing 100,000 square foot warehouse that was built in 1974. The requested land use designation is consistent with surrounding land uses, which include County Heavy Industrial to the north, west, and east, and City Industrial to the south.
On November 6, 2008, the Florida Department of Community Affairs (DCA) issued its Objections, Recommendations and Comments (ORC) Report to the City (attached as Exhibit "A") for this and one other amendment to the Future Land Use Map in Cycle 08-2. In the ORC report, DCA objected to the lack of an intensity standard in the Industrial future land use category and recommended...
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