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REZONING – 4306 AND 4322 NW 13TH STREET (B)
Ordinance No. 0-09-76, Petition No. PB-09-120ZON
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending the Zoning Map Atlas and rezoning certain property within the City, as more specifically described in this Ordinance, from “BUS: General business district” to “BA: Automotive-oriented business district”; located in the vicinity of 4306 and 4322 Northwest 13th Street; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date.
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The City Commission adopt the proposed ordinance.
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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT STAFF MEMORANDUM
This is a request to rezone property located at 4306 and 4322 Northwest 13th street. Tax parcel 07925-000-000 located at 4306 N.W. 13th Street is currently zoned BUS (General business district) with Commercial land use. North of this property is tax parcel 07910-000-000 located at 4322 N.W. 13th Street, which is zoned BUS and RSF-1 (3.5 units/acre single-family residential district) and has Commercial and Single Family (up to 8 units per acre) land use. The commercial portion of this property extends approximately 400 feet west from N.W. 13th Street before the single-family designated area of the property is reached. The request of this petition is to rezone the properties from BUS to BA (Automotive-oriented business district). The land use would remain Commercial because BA is one of the implementing zoning districts of the Commercial land use.
The character of the area in the general vicinity of the subject properties is commercial. South of the subject properties is a used automobile business with an automobile salvage yard and a former new car dealership. East of the rezoning site across N.W. 13th Street is a Badcock furniture store with MU-1 (8-30 units/acre mixed use low intensity) zoning and Mixed-Use Low-Intensity (8-30 units per acre) land use. Mobile home sales lie to the north of tha...
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