Title
Southwest Annexation Large-Scale Land Use Amendment (B)
Petition PZ-09-145LUC. City of Gainesville. Southwest Annexation Land Use Changes. Amend the City of Gainesville 2000-2010 Future Land Use Map for annexed areas from multiple Alachua County land use designations (Low Density Residential (1-4 DU/acre); Medium Density Residential (4-8 DU/acre); Medium High Density Residential (8-14 DU/acre); High Density Residential (14-24 DU/acre); Recreation; Commercial; Tourist/Entertainment; Institutional; and Industrial/ Manufacturing) to multiple City of Gainesville land use designations (Residential Low-Density (up to 12 units per acre); Residential Medium-Density (8-30 units per acre); Residential High-Density (8-100 units per acre); Mixed-Use Medium-Intensity (12-30 units per acre); Urban Mixed-Use 1 (UMU-1: up to 75 units per acre); Commercial; Conservation; Public Facilities; and Business Industrial). Located in the vicinity of Southwest 20th Avenue and Southwest Archer Road, east of Interstate 75 and west of SW 34th Street; and consisting of approximately 690 acres. Related to PB-09-146 ZON.
Explanation
This petition is a large-scale land use amendment to change Future Land Use categories in a large area of southwest Gainesville. The subject area represents lands annexed by the City in ten separate annexations between 2005 and 2008, located in the vicinity of SW 20th Avenue south to Archer Road. The two largest annexations are the SW 20th Avenue annexation and the Butler Plaza annexation (but this petition excludes those parcels that are part of the Butler Plaza Planned Development).
This petition accomplishes two goals: first, it proposes City land use designations to annexed lands that currently have County designations; and second, it represents the first step in implementation of the Urban Village, adopted by the MTPO in April 2008. Staff selected two of the highest density residential and mixed-use categories available in the current compreh...
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