Board/Committee Agenda Item

MEETING DATE:  1/10/2017

SUBJECT:  Site Plan: Holiday Inn, Alachua: A request by Sergio Reyes, P.E., of eda, inc., applicant and agent for Hipp Investments, LLC, property owners for consideration of a Site Plan for the construction of a ±58,821 sf (92 room) hotel on a ±4.24 acre subject property. Tax Parcel Number 03053-001-001 (Quasi-Judicial Hearing).

PREPARED BY:  Adam Hall, AICP, Planner

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Staff recommends that the Planning & Zoning Board approve the Site Plan, subject to the six (6) conditions provided in Exhibit “A” of the January 10, 2017, Staff Report to the Planning & Zoning Board, upon making the following motion: 

Based upon the competent substantial evidence presented at this hearing, the presentation before this Board, and Staff’s recommendation, this Board finds the application to be consistent with the City of Alachua Comprehensive Plan and in compliance with the Land Development Regulations and approves the Site Plan, subject to the six (6) conditions provided in Exhibit “A” and located on page 22 of the January 10, 2017, Staff Report to the Planning & Zoning Board.

Summary

The proposed site plan is a request by Sergio Reyes, P.E. of eda engineers-surveyors-planners, inc., applicant and agent for Hipp Investments, LLC, property owner, for the construction of a 58,821 sf (92 room) hotel with employee and visitor parking, storm water management facility improvements, paving, grading, and associated utility infrastructure.

The subject property is ±4.24 acres in area and is located at 16367 NW 167^th Boulevard ; north of NW US Highway 441, south of the Heritage Oaks Subdivision, east of the Alachua Market Place Plaza. Access to the subject property would be provided primarily by one (1) ingress/egress drive connecting to NW 167^th Boulevard.

The proposed development will convey the development’s stormwater runoff to one (1) proposed stormwater basin located to the south of the structure and parking lot on the subject property. The applicant submitted an Environmental Resource Permit (ERP) application to the Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD) for the proposed stormwater basin and improvements, which was submitted on November 1, 2016 (Permit No. ERP-001-228538-2).

Section 6.6.3 of the City’s Land Development Regulations (LDRs) establishes additional conditions that may be imposed for development located within 500 feet of any residential district or adjacent to any existing single-family or two-family development. Upon evaluation of the proposed Site Plan, Staff recommends the following conditions related to Section 6.6.3:

1.          In addition to all other landscaping requirements, an additional row of understory trees are to be planted along the rear property line to complete the visual and aural buffer between the proposed development and the existing single- family residential uses located to the north.

2.          All canopy trees proposed to serve as a perimeter buffer on the rear property line shall be of a species that achieves an average height of at least fifty feet at maturity.

3.          The pool area shall be closed from 10 PM to dawn on weeknights and from 11 PM to dawn on weekend nights.