Board/Committee Agenda Item

MEETING DATE:  12/11/2018

SUBJECT:  Site-Specific Amendment to the Official Zoning Atlas: A request by North Florida Water Systems, Inc., property owner, for consideration of a Site-Specific Amendment to the Official Zoning Atlas (Rezoning) to amend the Official Zoning Atlas from Agricultural-Rural Business (A-RB)(Alachua County) to Agricultural (A) on a ±1.30 acre portion of the subject property. Consisting of Parcel Number 03068-000-000 (Quasi-Judicial Hearing

PREPARED BY:  Adam Hall, AICP, Planner

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Staff recommends that the Planning & Zoning Board transmit the Site-Specific Amendment to the Official Zoning Atlas to the City Commission with a recommendation to approve the application, 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 transmits the proposed Site Specific Amendment to the Official Zoning Atlas to the City Commission, with a recommendation to approve.

Summary

The proposed Site Specific Amendment to the Official Zoning Map (rezoning) is a request to amend the Official Zoning Atlas from Agricultural- Rural Business (“A-RB”) (Alachua County) to Agricultural (“A”) on the subject property.

The subject property was annexed through Ordinance 18-13 (adopted July 23, 2018) and as a part group of annexations for which the application fee to be annexed had been waived (Resolutions 17-11 and 17-19).  Through Resolution 18-03, the City Commission had also waived application fees for Comprehensive Plan Amendment and Rezoning applications for those properties annexed through the fee waiver resolution, to comparable City designations. 

The subject property currently has an Agriculture (Alachua County) Future Land Use designation.  A companion application proposes an amendment to the City’s Comprehensive Plan that would amend the subject property to Agriculture Future Land Use designation.

The Agricultural (“A”) Zone District is described as follows in Section 3.3.2 of the Land Development Regulations (LDRs):

The A district is intended to provide for areas primarily consisting of agriculture uses and agriculture support uses and also allow low-density single-family residential development. The maximum residential density allowed in the district is one dwelling unit per five acres, except that homesteaded lots may be developed at one unit per two acres. Residential cluster development is encouraged through the use of the Conservation Subdivision option. (See Section 7.9, Conservation subdivision.)