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2nd Reading - Ordinance No. 2019-O-27: Glenn D. Storch, requesting an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map to include 17.29± acres of land located at 3757 S. Ridgewood Avenue and the two vacant parcels to the south as Medium Density Residential with Conservation Overlay.
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OWNER: Sun Hacienda Del Rio, LLC
REQUESTED ACTION: Approval to amend the Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map to include 17.29± acres of land as Medium Density Residential with Conservation Overlay with a maximum of 70 dwelling units permitted.
LOCATION: 3757 South Ridgewood Avenue and the two vacant parcels to the south
AREA: 17.29± acres
PROPOSED USE: Expansion of the Hacienda Del Rio Manufactured Home Community
CURRENT LAND USE: Vacant
FLUM DESIGNATION: Commercial with Conservation Overlay
ZONING DISTRICT: B-3 (Highway Commercial)
VOTING DISTRICT: 4
SURROUNDING AREA:
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Current Land Use |
FLUM Designation |
Zoning District |
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North |
Vacant |
Volusia County Commercial |
Volusia County B-4 (General Commercial) and R-4 (Urban Single Family Residential) |
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East |
Manufactured Home Community |
Medium Density Residential |
Volusia County MH-1 (Mobile Home Park) |
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South |
Vacant |
Mixed Use and Volusia County Urban Medium Intensity |
MUPUD (Mixed-Use Planned Unit Development) and Volusia County I-3 (Waterfront Industrial) |
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West |
Vacant |
Low Density Residential with Conservation Overlay; Commercial with Conservation Overlay; Public/Semi-Public with Conservation Overlay |
B-3 (Highway Commercial) and RPUD (Residential Planned Unit Development) and Volusia County A-3 (Transitional Agriculture), I-4 (Industrial Park) and I-1(Light Industrial) |
Background: The subject property is adjacent to the existing Hacienda Del Rio Manufactured Home Community and was annexed into the City in 2003. Hacienda Del Rio is a retirement (55 plus) community with 730 units developed in the early 1980’s and annexed into the City in May, 2017.
The property owner is proposing to expand the existing development with an additional 70 units; an amendment to the Official Zoning Map to include the subject property and the existing Hacienda Del Rio development shall occur at a later date. Site plan approval, which will include all required infrastructure, will be required prior to any development on the subject property.
A request to amend the Future Land Use designation of the subject property was brought before the Board on May 8, 2019 where a favorable recommendation was sent to City Council. Subsequently, at the June 3, 2019 City Council meeting a motion to approve the request failed. The request been revised to amend the Future Land Use designation to include a maximum of 70 dwelling units on the subject property.
At their regular meeting of October 9, 2019, the Planning and Zoning Board voted to send a favorable recommendation to City Council. City Council approved the amendment at first reading on November 18, 2019 and subsequently submitted to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (FDEO) and the Volusia Growth Management Commission (VGMC) for review.
Approval from the FDEO was received on December 20, 2019 and from the VGMC on December 26, 2019.
Land Use Compatibility: The proposed development is consistent with Hacienda Del Rio in lot size and use.
Adequate Public Facilities: The property has access via South Ridgewood Avenue and served with sanitary sewer and potable water.
Comprehensive Plan Consistency: The Commercial Future Land Use designation allows for development of up to 0.5 floor area ratio, approximately 348,000 square-feet. Development within the existing Future Land Use designation could potentially generate 14,050 gross daily trips.
The proposed Medium Density Residential Future Land Use designation allows up to eight (8) dwelling units per acre, or 128 dwelling units, and potentially 926 gross daily trips; a decrease of approximately 11,764 trips per day. The applicant is proposing the Future Land Use designation for the subject properties include a maximum of 70 dwelling units, thereby decreasing the potential trips per day even further.
Properties that are designated as Conservation Overlay areas may potentially contain wildlife habitat areas including habitat for rare, endangered and threatened species, hydric soils/wetlands (as defined in the Conservation Element), mangrove swamps, cypress swamp, mixed hardwood swamp, hydric hardwood hammock and sand pine/xeric oak scrub, estuarine marsh ecotone, freshwater marshes, special vegetative communities, areas within a public water well radii of 500-feet, 100-year floodplain areas and other areas subject to environmental or topographic constraints.
An Environmental Study conducted by Universal Engineering indicated the potential for listed species on the subject property, however there was no evidence of any listed species on site. The Study does recommend certain protection measures be taken prior to and during construction to ensure the protection of any listed species. There are no wetlands on the subject property.
RECOMMENDED ACTION
Motion to approve Ordinance No. 2019-O-27.