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1st Reading - Ordinance 2024-O-27: Request for a large-scale comprehensive plan amendment to amend Chapter One - Future Land Use Element of the City of Edgewater's Comprehensive Plan to add a new future land use category called Urban Connectivity.
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APPLICANT:
City of Edgewater
REQUESTED ACTION:
Amend the Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Element to add the Urban Connectivity future land use.
LOCATION:
City Wide
CITY COUNCIL:
1st Reading, July 1st, 2024
OVERVIEW:
The large-scale comprehensive plan amendment amends the Future Land Use Element for the purposes of adding a new Future Land Use Category of "Urban Connectivity." The allowable density of the Urban Connectivity proposed Future Land Use is 24 dwelling units per gross acre. The purpose of the proposal serves as an opportunity to create infill development that reduces the dependance on vehicles while promoting connectivity to goods and services such as grocery stores and schools. In order to qualify for consideration for the Urban Connectivity future land use the following restrictions must be met:
* The development must be located within 3,000 feet of a grocery store.
* The development must be located within 3,000 feet of one of the following: a public park, East Coast Regional Rail Trail, public or private school.
* The development must be located on an arterial or collector roadway.
* Density shall be calculated as gross density - across the entire site acreage.
* The minimum open space requirement is 30%. Open space is inclusive of active recreation including amenities, landscape buffers, and water retention and or detention ponds. Natural undisturbed landscape buffers are required adjacent to any existing residential development and shall be required on a minimum of two property boundaries. A minimum of one (1) water retention and/or water detention pond shall be placed to provide additional buffering from existing residential development.
* All future land use m...
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