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LEGISLATIVE REZONING - AMEND ZONING MAP ATLAS BY REMOVING SPECIAL AREA PLANS AND REZONING APPROXIMATELY 1,829 ACRES OF PROPERTY (B)
Ordinance No. 140820
An ordinance amending the Zoning Map Atlas of the City of Gainesville, Florida, by deleting the Special Area Plan for NW 39th Avenue overlay zoning district; deleting the Special Area Plan for Triangle overlay zoning district; deleting the Special Area Plan for College Park overlay zoning district; deleting the Special Area Plan for Traditional City overlay zoning district; deleting the Special Area Plan for Central Corridors overlay zoning district; deleting the Special Area Plan for University Heights overlay zoning district; deleting the Special Area Plan for Southwest 13th Street overlay zoning district; deleting the Special Area Plan for Southeast Gainesville Renaissance Initiative Area overlay zoning district; rezoning approximately 1,829 acres of property FROM one of the following zoning districts: Single-Family Residential (RSF-1), Single-Family Residential (RSF-3), Single-Family Residential (RSF-4), Residential Low-Density (RMF-5), Multiple-Family Medium-Density Residential (RMF-6), Multiple-Family Medium-Density Residential (RMF-7), Multiple-Family Medium-Density Residential (RMF-8), Residential Low-Density (RC), Residential Mixed-Use (RMU), Residential High-Density (RH-1), Residential High-Density (RH-2), Office Residential (OR), General Office (OF), General Business (BUS), Automotive-Oriented Business (BA), Tourist-Oriented Business (BT), Mixed-Use Low-Intensity (MU-1), Mixed-Use Medium-Intensity (MU-2), Central City District (CCD), Urban Mixed-Use District 1 (UMU-1), Urban Mixed-Use District 2 (UMU-2), Warehousing and Wholesaling (W), Limited Industrial (I-1), General Industrial (I-2), Medical Services (MD), Public Services and Operations District (PS), or Planned Development District (PD) TO one of the following zoning districts: Educational Services (ED), Medical Services (MD), General Business (BUS), Downtown (DT), Urban 9 (U9), Urban 8 (U8), Urban 7 (U7), Urban 6 (U6), Urban 5 (U5), Urban 4 (U4), Urban 3 (U3), or Urban 2 (U2), as more specifically described in this ordinance; providing directions to the City Manager; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an effective date.
recommendation
The City Commission adopt the proposed ordinance.
explanation
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT STAFF REPORT
This ordinance will amend the Zoning Map Atlas of the City of Gainesville by removing existing special area plans and rezoning approximately 1,829 acres of land, or roughly 4.52% of the city's land area. This large-scale rezoning to new transect zoning districts is associated with the comprehensive amendment to the City's Land Development Code (Ordinance No. 140818). This rezoning also implements and is consistent with Ordinance Nos. 140817 and 140819, which amend the Comprehensive Plan and the Future Land Use Map to create new land use categories.
This rezoning focuses on the area around downtown and near the University of Florida. However, most of the neighborhoods within this area that currently have single-family zoning districts are not included. The rezoning also includes properties along the existing major corridors that radiate from that area (including stretches of University Avenue, West 13th Street, West 6th Street, Main Street, Waldo Road, and Hawthorne Road). Most of these areas are currently subject to one or more special area plans (Traditional City, University Heights, College Park, SW 13th Street, SEGRI, Central Corridors). The proposed rezoning to the transect zones will simultaneously remove the special area plan designations that apply to these areas today.
The City Plan Board, which acts pursuant to the authority granted in Section 4.02 of the Charter Laws of the City of Gainesville and which acts as the Local Planning Agency pursuant to Section 163.3174, Florida Statutes, held a series of public hearings and on December 3, 2014, voted to recommend that the City Commission approve this rezoning. Subsequently, the City Commission held a series of public hearings and on September 30, 2015, approved the petition associated with this ordinance and authorized the drafting of this ordinance.
CITY ATTORNEY MEMORANDUM
This ordinance requires two hearings and shall become effective when Ordinance Nos. 140817, 140819 and 140818 become effective as provided therein.