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URBAN MIXED-USE ZONING DISTRICTS (B)
Ordinance No. 0-06-120; Petition 141TCH-06 PB
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending the City of Gainesville Land Development Code, relating to the establishment of zoning districts and categories and to the correspondence of zoning districts with future land use categories; amending section 30-41, to add the Urban Mixed-Use 1 and Urban Mixed-Use 2 districts; amending section 30-46 to provide corresponding zoning districts and future land use categories that conform to the City of Gainesville 2000-2010 Comprehensive 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
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT STAFF REPORT
On November 28, 2005, the City Commission approved Ordinances 041057 and 041058, adding two new land use categories and zoning districts, Urban Mixed-Use (UMU-1) and Urban Mixed-Use 2 (UMU-2) to the City of Gainesville 2000-2010 Comprehensive Plan and the City of Gainesville Land Development Code. Implementing these new Urban Mixed-Use land use categories (UMU-1 and UMU-2) requires that these land use categories and zoning districts be listed in the City of Gainesville Land Development Code. Zoning districts have been assigned to the two land use categories based on whether the objectives of the land use categories are compatible with the zoning districts and whether the assigned districts help implement the two land use categories. Other changes are being made to Section 30-46 to make the Land Development Code provisions consistent with the Comprehensive Plan.
Public notice was published in the Gainesville Sun on September 5, 2006. The Plan Board held a public hearing September 21, 2006. Planning Division staff recommended that the Plan Board approve the petition. The Plan Board, by a vote ...
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