COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
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AR-2026-0156: Request to approve the Jones Fish Camp Public-Private Partnership Roadway Agreement.
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DEPARTMENT:
Development Services
BACKGROUND:
In 2005, the City of Edgewater approved the River Oaks Condominium project. In the general election in 2006, the voters of the City of Edgewater placed a charter amendment to restrict the height of residential development to 35 feet tall east of US 1. Fast forward to the last three years, the River Oaks Condominiums PUD was replaced by the City Council with the Edgewater River Oaks MUPUD in 2023. The River Oaks Condominium was entitled for 308 residential dwelling units with a maximum allowable height of 190 feet with a 27 foot setback from Jones Fish Camp Road, with access served only from US 1. The Edgewater River Oaks project replaced the condominiums for 196 unit two-story typology apartments, a marina, 60 foot tall hotel, a restaurant, and 55 foot tall dry stack boat storage facility. Access for the apartments in Edgewater River Oaks is served from both US 1 and Jones Fish Camp Road. The marina, hotel, dry stack boat storage, and restaurant only has access from Jones Fish Camp Road.
City staff supported and still support our recommendation and the project as depicted to the Planning and Zoning Board and the City Council for the following reasons:
1. The City Charter was amended by the voters to restrict residential height to 35 feet east of US 1 because of the River Oaks Condo approval. - Righting a wrong.
2. Edgewater River Oaks MUPUD reduces residential by 127 units and adds 150,000 square feet of commercial. (More Tax Revenue - Diversifying Activity, Comp Plan: Encouraging Water Front Development, Mixed Use Development, Conservation Overlay)
3. It meets a higher stormwater standard, 100 year versus the 25 year and meets higher water quality standards for nitrogen and phosphorus removal.
4. Provides apartments in a style the community desires (less than 35' in height) ...
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