Commission Agenda Item

MEETING DATE:  2/11/2019

SUBJECT:  Ordinance 19-18, First Reading; Large Scale Comprehensive Plan Amendment: A request by John May and John Williams, property owners, to amend the Future Land Use Map (FLUM) Designation from Agriculture (Alachua County) to Agriculture on a ±11.20 acre subject property. Consisting of Tax Parcel Numbers 04119-016-000 and 04119-016-003. (Legislative Hearing)

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Based upon the presentation before the Commission and Staff's recommendation:

(1) Approve Ordinance 19-18 on first reading; and,

(2) Authorize City Staff to transmit the proposed Large Scale Comprehensive Plan Amendment to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity under the Expedited State Review Process.

Summary

The proposed Large Scale Comprehensive Plan Amendment (LSCPA) is a request by John May and John Williams, property owners, for the consideration of a Large Scale Comprehensive Plan Amendment (LSCPA) to the City of Alachua Future Land Use Map (FLUM), to amend the FLUM of the subject property from Rural/Agriculture (County) to Agriculture on the ± 11.20 acre subject property The subject property is comprised of Tax Parcel Numbers 04119-016-000 and 04119-016-003. The subject property is located south of CR 232 (Millhopper Road) and east of CR 241 (NW 143^rd Street).

The subject property was annexed through Ordinance 18-16 (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. This fee waiver was conditioned upon an application being received for a Future Land Use map amendment and rezoning amendment to  a City designation comparable to the existing Alachua County designation. 

The subject property presently has a Rural/Agriculture (County) FLUM Designation. The proposed amendment would change the FLUM Designation to Agriculture, a comparable City Future Land Use Designation. The Agriculture FLUM Designation permits a density of .2 dwelling units per acre (a maximum of 2 dwelling units for the subject property); the Rural/Agriculture (County) Land Use permits .2 dwelling units per acre (a maximum of 2 dwelling units for the subject property).

At the January 8, 2019 Planning and Zoning Board hearing, the Board voted 5-0 in favor of forwarding the Large Scale Comprehensive Plan Amendment to the City Commission with a recommendation to approve.