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LAND USE CHANGE - OAK HAMMOCK (B)
Ordinance No. 0-05-19, Petition 24LUC-04PB
An ordinance amending the City of Gainesville 2000-2010 Comprehensive Plan, Future Land Use Map; by changing the land use categories of certain properties annexed into the City from the Alachua County land use categories of "RES 2-4: Residential, 2-4 dwelling units per acre", "INST, Institutional", and "OFF/R 4-8: Office/Residential, 4-8 dwelling units per acre" to the City of Gainesville land use category of "Office", as more specifically described in this Ordinance, generally located in the vicinity of and including the Oak Hammock retirement community, and certain properties along Williston Road including 2521 Southwest Williston Road; 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 original petition included land that was part of a utility easement located along the eastern boundary of the Oak Hammock development and part of a property that houses a Progress Energy substation. Both pieces of land are part of larger parcels and because the land is split between Alachua County and the City of Gainesville, it was felt that the proposed City land use and zoning designations should be as close as possible to the Alachua County land use and zoning designations. The current Alachua County land use designation for the 2 pieces of land is Residential (2-4 dwelling units per acre), with a zoning of R-1A (Single-family, low density). The proposed City of Gainesville designations were SF (Single Family, up to 8 units per acre) land use and RSF-1 (3.5 units/acre single-family residential district) zoning.
CITY ATTORNEY MEMORANDUM
On April 11, 2005 the City Commission adopted Ordinance No. 0-05-05 (Petition No. 167LUC-04 PB, Future Land Use Elemen...
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