12/11/1990 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

DEC 111990 The applicant's intention is to develop his property, which is located in this area, as a golf course community. There is no request for an increase of the land use density for the subject property; the applicant simply wants the ability for improvements in this area to connect to the regional water and wastewater system, if available. The applicant will be responsible for the cost of any water and wastewater system expansion. At the comprehensive plan final adoption hearing on February 13, 1990, the Board of County Commissioners directed staff to evaluate the possibility of expanding the Urban Service Area (USA) around the intersections of I-95 and S.R. 60 and I-95 and C.R. 512. The Board's intention was to provide for the infrastructure necessary to accommodate residential development around these two intersections to support development of the commercial/industrial nodes designated for these two areas. On November 15, 1990, the Planning and Zoning Commission acting as the Local Planning Agency, voted 5-0 to recommend approval of the request as presented by staff to the Board of County Commissioners and to recommend transmittal of this request to the DCA. ALTERNATIVES AND ANALYSIS In this section, an analysis of the reasonableness of the application will be presented. The analysis will focus on the potential impacts of the proposed amendment on the county's land use pattern as well as on the amendment's relationship to the other comprehensive plan elements. This proposed amendment to adjust the USA is to correct an oversight in the adopted plan. During the plan preparation process, the staff generally designated the urban service area boundary based upon the existing and planned provision of urban services. In this case the urban service area excluded areas designated within both the water and the wastewater service areas. Since these service areas were established through the water and sewer master plan process, plans have been made to service this area, and justification exists for including the subject property within the urban service area. Since this proposed land use amendment only involves changing the urban service area boundary and not increasing density, the amendment will not negatively affect land uses in the area. Of, course, such a change in the USA would provide a basis for density increases on the subject property in the future. In the interim, expansion of the urban service area would allow rural development in this area to be connected to urban services and allow the subject areas to accommodate effluent reuse. Other proposed plan amendments being considered at this time will affect the area around the subject property. Among the amendments affecting the area proximate to the subject property is the remedial actions amendment designed to bring the comprehensive plan to compliance. With the remedial actions amendment, much of the land_ in this portion of the county will have its land use designation and density changed. The major change will be in the agricultural designation. Much of the land around the subject property will change from AG -1 to AG -2, Agriculture (up to 1 unit/10 acres). Further expansion of the Urban Service Area boundary around the intersection of I-95 and SR 60 and I-95 and CR 512 will be addressed by the establishment of a mixed use floating land use designation which is another of the comprehensive plan amendments currently under consideration. 70 M