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 Ordinances 18-13 (adopted July 23, 2018) and is a part of a 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.
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.)
At the December 11, 2018 Planning and Zoning Board hearing, the Board voted 5-0 in favor of forwarding this application to the City Commission with a recommendation to approve.
At the January 14, 2019 City Commission hearing, the Commission voted 5-0 in favor of adopting Ordinance 19-11 and scheduled second and final reading for January 28, 2019. |