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TO: The Honorable Board of DATE. March 30, 1982 FILE:IRC-8I-ZC-29 County Commissioners #455 SUBJECT: APPEAL, BY JOSEPH FEDELE, • OF DENIAL OF REZONING REQUEST BY THE PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSSION ON 1-28-82. FROM:Dav d �creene REFERENCES: Letter from Jerome Quinn to Art Challacombe, dated Assistant County Administrator January 29, 1982. DESCRIPTION & CONDITIONS: On January 28, 1982 the applicant's request to rezone 21 acres from R-1, Single Family Residential (6.2 units/acre) to R -2D, Multi -Family Residential was denied by a 4 -to -1 vote -of the Planning and Zoning Commission. The applicant appealed the decision and requested a public hearing date before the County Commission.. ANALYSIS: The site is located on the west side of Old Dixie Highway and -- is bounded on the south by 20th Lane, S.W., near the St. Lucie County Line. Vero Beach Highlands Subdivision (Unit One) lies adjacent to the west and south of the subject property, and the land to the north is mostly undeveloped. Directly east of the site a strip M-1, Restricted Industrial district is situated between Old Dixie Highway and U.S. #1. The Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan designates the portion of the subject property which lies within 300 feet of Old Dixie Highway as MXD (Mixed Use District) and the -remainder as LD -2 (up to 6 units/acre). Multi -family development of the site at 6 units/acre would allow a maximum of 126 units to be developed. The staff is presently reviewing an application for dividing the property into 47 lots of 1/3 acre each. Approval of the rezoning and subdivision would allow dupleKes to be developed on each lot and site plan approval would be required. The low density multi -family zoning would serve as a transi- tion buffer between the more intensive industrial and commercial mixed uses to the east and single family residences to the west. The Comprehensive Plan states, "when projects abut density district boundaries, zoning will be applied which promotes a smooth transition between the districts. These transition areas should contain land uses that do not generate drastic changes in intensity. These areas should be,assigned zoning categories that serve as intermediate steps between areas of differing land use intensities." STAFF POSITION: 1. Maximum densities outlined in the Comprehensive Plan are not being exceeded. 2. Multi -family zoning could serve as a transition between the intensive industrial and commercial zoning and single family residential zoning. 3. Staff recommends approval. L_ APR 211982 BOOK 4 9 ..`PE1