City of Gainesville - File #: 100778

• File #: 100778
• Version: 1
• Name: LAND USE CHANGE - UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA EASTSIDE CAMPUS (B)
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 4/21/2011
• In control: City Attorney
• Final action: 4/21/2011
• Title: LAND USE CHANGE - UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA EASTSIDE CAMPUS (B) Ordinance No. 100777, Petition PB-11-10LUC An ordinance amending the City of Gainesville 2000-2010 Comprehensive Plan, Future Land Use Map; by changing the land use category of certain property, as more specifically described in this ordinance, from the land use category of "Residential Low-Density (up to 12 units per acre)" to "Education"; located in the vicinity of 2200 Northeast Waldo Road; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an effective date.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/21/2011	1	City Commission	Approved (Petition) and Adopted on Adoption Reading	Pass

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LAND USE CHANGE - UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA EASTSIDE CAMPUS (B)

Ordinance No. 100777, Petition PB-11-10LUC
An ordinance amending the City of Gainesville 2000-2010 Comprehensive Plan, Future Land Use Map; by changing the land use category of certain property, as more specifically described in this ordinance, from the land use category of "Residential Low-Density (up to 12 units per acre)" to "Education"; located in the vicinity of 2200 Northeast Waldo Road; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an effective date.

recommendation
The City Commission: 1) approve Petition No. PB-11-10LUC; and 2) adopt the proposed ordinance.

explanation
STAFF REPORT

This proposed small-scale amendment of the Future Land Use Map from Residential Low-Density (up to 12 units per acre) (RL) to Education (E) 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. No one resides on this 2.6-acre property, which the University of Florida plans to incorporate into its Eastside Campus, subsequent to approval of the requested land use and related zoning changes. 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 UF's Eastside Campus, which is part of the 2005-2015 Campus Master Plan and is included in the 2005-2015 Campus Development Agr...