City of Gainesville - File #: 070208.

• File #: 070208.
• Version: 3
• Name: FOREST RIDGE/HENDERSON HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD - RESIDENTIAL PARKING OVERLAY DISTRICT (B)
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 1/28/2008
• In control: City Attorney
• Final action: 2/11/2008
• Title: FOREST RIDGE/HENDERSON HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD - RESIDENTIAL PARKING OVERLAY DISTRICT (B) Ordinance No. 0-07-103; Petition No. 78NPD-07PB An ordinance of the City of Gainesville amending the Zoning Map Atlas by rezoning and imposing the Residential Parking Overlay District on certain properties zoned RSF-1 (Single-Family Residential, up to 3.5 dwelling units per acre) or RSF-2 (Single-Family Residential, up to 4.6 dwelling units per acre), consisting of 283 parcels on approximately 140 acres commonly known as the Forest Ridge/Henderson Heights Neighborhood, and located north of Northwest 16th Avenue, south of Northwest 23rd Avenue, east of Northwest 23rd Street, and west of Alfred A. Ring Park, as more specifically described in this ordinance; making findings; providing directions to the City Manager; providing directions to the codifier; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and, providing an effective date in accordance with the schedule provided herein.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/11/2008	3	City Commission	Adopted on Final Reading (Ordinance)	Pass
1/28/2008	3	City Commission	Adopted on First Reading (Ordinance)	Pass
8/13/2007	1	City Commission	Approved (Petition)	Pass

title
FOREST RIDGE/HENDERSON HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD - RESIDENTIAL PARKING OVERLAY DISTRICT (B)

Ordinance No. 0-07-103; Petition No. 78NPD-07PB
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville amending the Zoning Map Atlas by rezoning and imposing the Residential Parking Overlay District on certain properties zoned RSF-1 (Single-Family Residential, up to 3.5 dwelling units per acre) or RSF-2 (Single-Family Residential, up to 4.6 dwelling units per acre), consisting of 283 parcels on approximately 140 acres commonly known as the Forest Ridge/Henderson Heights Neighborhood, and located north of Northwest 16th Avenue, south of Northwest 23rd Avenue, east of Northwest 23rd Street, and west of Alfred A. Ring Park, as more specifically described in this ordinance; making findings; providing directions to the City Manager; providing directions to the codifier; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and, providing an effective date in accordance with the schedule provided herein.

recommendation
The City Commission adopt the proposed ordinance.

explanation
PLANNING DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM

This is a Petition to apply the Residential Parking Overlay District (RPOD), to the area known as the Forest Ridge/Henderson Heights Neighborhood. Within RPOD's, special parking regulations exist. Those regulations are described in Section 30-56 of the City Code of Ordinances, and include limiting outdoor vehicle parking on each lot to areas shown in a plot plan developed by each property owner and submitted to the City Code Enforcement Division. Section 30-56 also limits the size, type of surface, and type of borders of parking areas.

Section 30-56.1 of the City Code of Ordinances allows property owners, whose property meets certain criteria, to coordinate with each other and ask the City to impose these residential parking regulations on their property. The subject parcels meet the criteria and the property owners have followed the procedures required...