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Because industrial activities need good access to transporta- <br />tion facilities, good land use planning principles indicate <br />that industrial locations near interstate highway interchanges <br />are desirable. Many industrial activities desire locations <br />near interstate highways because the raw material they need and <br />the finished productsthey produce are shipped by trucks using <br />these highways. In addition, the existing transportation <br />facilities have considerable capacity to handle the traffic <br />needs of industrial land uses in this area. <br />Moreover, as the State Road 60 area continues to develop, most <br />of the development will be residential in nature which will <br />require retail and other commercial services. These services <br />should be concentrated at the I-95 and S.R. 60 node. <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />Based on the above analysis, including the Planning and Zoning <br />Commission's recommendation, staff recommends that the com- <br />mercial/ industrial node at I-95 and State Road 60. be enlarged <br />to 550 acres. <br />Chairman Lyons asked why the boundary stops so abruptly <br />on the north side of SR -60 west of I-95, and Planning <br />Director Robert Keating explained that there is an existing <br />platted subdivision back in there which was rezoned <br />residential last fall. He advised that we are only looking <br />at this today in terms of the number of acres in the node <br />not in regard to actual setting of nodal boundaries. Staff <br />will be back in the near future with some recommendations re <br />specific boundaries. <br />Chairman Lyons opened the Public Hearing and asked if <br />anyone wished to be heard in this matter. <br />Tom McCormick, owner of Florida Juice, 9520 20th <br />Street, questioned the current zoning at the northwest <br />quadrant of I-95 and SR -60. He was concerned that the map <br />shown in the newspaper did not indicate that one of his <br />pieces of property is zoned C-2 and the other C-1. <br />Director Keating felt Mr. McCormick's properties would <br />be included in the node once specific boundaries are set; <br />today, however, we are just increasing the acreage of the <br />node to 550 acres. <br />Attorney Brandenburg stated that the action the Board <br />is taking today will actually enhance Mr. McCormick's <br />16 BOOK GO F°.CE 441 <br />APR 10 1985 <br />