Commission Agenda Item

MEETING DATE:  1/28/2019

SUBJECT:  Ordinance 19-13, Second Reading; Site-Specific Amendment to the Official Zoning Atlas: A request by Phoenix Commercial Park, LLP, property owner, for consideration of a Site-Specific Amendment to the Official Zoning Atlas (Rezoning) to amend the Official Zoning Atlas from Industrial Services and Manufacturing (MP)(County) to Light and Warehouse Industrial (ILW) on a ± 1.03 acre subject property. Consisting of a portion Parcel Number 05855-004-000 (Quasi-Judicial Hearing).

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Staff recommends that the City Commission adopt Ordinance 19-13 on second and final reading, upon making the following motion:

Based upon the competent substantial evidence presented at this hearing, the presentation before this Commission, and Staff’s recommendation, this Commission finds the application for a Site-Specific Amendment to the Official Zoning Atlas from from Industrial Services and Manufacturing (MP)(Alachua County) to Light and Warehouse Industrial (ILW) to be consistent with the City of Alachua Comprehensive Plan and in compliance with the Land Development Regulations and adopts Ordinance 19-13 on second and final reading. 

Summary

The proposed Site Specific Amendment to the Official Zoning Map (rezoning) is a request to amend the Official Zoning Atlas from Industrial Services and Manufacturing (“MP”)(Alachua County) to Light and Warehouse Industrial (“ILW”) on the subject property.

The subject property was annexed through Ordinance 18-14 (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.

The subject property currently has a Rural Employment Center (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 the Industrial Future Land Use designation.

The Light and Warehouse Industrial (“ILW”) Zone District is described as follows in Section 3.5.2 of the Land Development Regulations (LDRs):

ILW, Light and Warehouse Industrial District. The ILW district is established and intended to accommodate a wide range of employment-generating office, institutional, research and development, and light manufacturing uses. Such uses shall be developed in a manner compatible with surrounding land uses, and to minimize potential nuisances or damage to the environment. In addition, by allowing a wide range of permitted uses, the ILW district is intended to accommodate the development of "flex space" arrangements, where the developer can establish different combinations of uses on a site over time, as the market dictates, as long as all uses and development conform to the standards established by these LDRs to protect adjacent land uses and the natural environment. Residential uses are limited to caretaker dwellings, live/work units, and upper-story dwellings.

At the December 11, 2018 Planning and Zoning Board hearing, the Board voted 4-0 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 19-13 and scheduled second and final reading for January 28, 2019.