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JUL 24 195 BOOK 61 u")F.691 TO: The Honorable Members DATE: July 12, 1985 FILE: of the Board of County Commissioners ,DIVISION HEAD CONCURRENCE: RECONSIDERATION OF THE BOUNDARIES OF THE 130 SUBJECT. ACRE HOSPITAL/COMMERCIAL ,.Ro ert M. Keati g, P NODE Planning & DevelopnWht Director FROM: S' ` .: REFERENCES: 130 Acre Node Bdr Richard Shearer, AICP 1' Chief, Long -Range Planning RICH2 it. ''is''requested that the data herein presented be given formal (.;consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at their pYeguµl� r,meeting ,of July 24, 1985._ DESCRIPTION & CONDITIONS The Planning Department is initiating a request to reconsider the boundaries of the 130 acre hospital/commercial node located along Barber Avenue north of Indian River Memorial Hospital. On September 12, 1984, the Board of County Commissioners adopted an amendment to the text of the land use element of the Compre- hensive Plan which provided for establishing boundaries for each of the nodes as generally depicted on the Land Use Map and generally described in the text of the land use element of the j Comprehensive Plan. On February 28, 1985, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 4 -to -0 to recommend approval of the staff's proposed boundaries for the node which represented 130 acres and included blocks 14 and 15 of W.E. Geoffrey Subdivision. On April 10, 1985, the Board of County Commissioners held a public hearing on the proposed boundaries. After the public hearing, the Board decided to exclude blocks 14 and 15 of W.E. Geoffrey Subdivision from the node because the subdivision was an established residential area developed primarily in single-family residences. Subsequent to the Board establishing the boundaries of the node, a commercial site plan application was submitted for three commercially -zoned lots of block 15 of Geoffrey Subdivision. The Planning Department informed the applicant that the site plan could not be approved by the County because the property is not included in the nodeand, thus, has a land use designation of MD -1, Medium -Density Residential 1 (up to 8 units/acre). The applicants indicated that they wanted to appeal that decision. Because the node boundaries were adopted by ordinance, any change in the boundaries must be done by ordinance. On June 27, 1985, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5 -to -0 to recommend approval of this request. ALTERNATIVES & ANALYSIS The Planning Department originally prepared tentative boundaries for the hospital/commercial node in January of 1984. These tentative boundaries (representing 130 acres) were presented at node workshops in February and April of 1984 and are the same as the boundaries proposed by the staff in February of this year. 46