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SPECIAL AREA PLAN FOR TRADITIONAL CITY (B)
Ordinance No. 0-00-114; Petition No. 119TCH-00PB
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida; related to the Traditional City Special Area Plan and overlay district; amending the Special Area Plan for Traditional City; providing minimum lot widths; regulating drive-throughs; applying build-to line standard along side streets of buildings; regulating the placement of stormwater basins; requiring screening walls along parking lots; prohibiting certain types of fencing; requiring bicycle parking spaces; clarifying grandfathering of surface parking lots; disallowing convenience stores with gasoline pumps; requiring windows on the sides of buildings; revising standards for parking structures; providing that there is no maximum building coverage; revising the building orientation standard; amending section 30-332 to require bicycle parking; amending section 30-341 to allow the AASHTO standard to apply to vision triangles; removing College Park and University Heights from the Traditional City Special Area Plan; adopting a revised map of the Traditional City Special Area; adopting a map of "A" Streets as defined and regulated in the Special Area Plan; providing directions to the codifier; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date.
recommendation
The City Commission adopt the proposed ordinance.
explanation
STAFF REPORT
Over the past year, as a part of implementing the ordinances, staff has discovered corrections that should be made to the language to clarify and correct the intent and requirements of the ordinances and suggests a few other changes to the ordinances. The most significant changes involve minimum lot widths, drive-through businesses, stormwater basins, prohibition of convenience stores with gasoline pumps, and glazing requirement for the sides of buildings.
The Plan Board reviewed the petition and asked staff to revie...
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