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AMEND FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT POLICIES 4.1.1 AND 4.13 TEXT AND ADD ZONING DISTRICTS TO THE IMPLEMENTING ZONING DISTRICTS TABLE (B)
Ordinance/Legistar No. 100684; Petition No. PB-10-139 CPA
An ordinance amending the Future Land Use Element of the City of Gainesville 2000-2010 Comprehensive Plan; by amending the text of Policy 4.1.1 for the land use categories of Mixed-Use Low-Intensity (MUL), Mixed-Use Medium-Intensity (MUM), Urban Mixed-Use 1 (UMU-1) and Urban Mixed-Use 2 (UMU-2); by amending the text in Policy 4.1.3 to revise criteria for proposed changes to the Future Land Use Map; by adding additional zoning districts to the table titled "Future Land Use Categories and Corresponding/Implementing Zoning Districts"; stating intent to adopt the amendments as part of the City of Gainesville 2000-2010 Comprehensive Plan; providing directions to the city manager; 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; (2) adopt the ordinance as revised to: a) delete the UMU-3 and CCD-1 zoning districts, and b) delete financial feasibility and add new language to be consistent with Chapter Law 2011-139.
explanation
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT STAFF REPORT
On April 7, 2011, the City Commission approved this ordinance by a vote of 7-0 with amendments, adding CCD-1 and UMU-3 to the zoning districts chart in Section 3 of the ordinance. City staff inadvertently failed to include those amendments when transmitting the ordinance to the Department of Community Affairs. City staff now recommends that the ordinance be amended on second reading to delete those zoning districts for two reasons. The first is that those zoning districts do not exist and city staff has no imminent plans to create those districts. Secondly, under the newly adopted state growth management law (House Bill 7207, now Chapt...
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