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• The Board reviewed a Memorandum of August 25, 1998: TO: James E. Chandler County Administrator D TMENT HEAD CONCURRENCE obert M. -Keating, P THROUGH: Sasan Rohaui, AICP S - Chief, Long -Range Planning FROM: John Wachtel A Senior Planner, Long -Range Planning DATE: August 25, 1998 RE: ORCHID PLACE, LTD'S REQUEST TO REZONE 111.2 ACRES FROM A-1 TO RM -6 AND 137.7 ACRES FROM A-1 TO RS -6 (RZON 98-06-0002) It is requested that the data herein presented be given formal consideration by the Board of Countv Commissioners at its regular meeting of September 1, 1998. This is a request to rezone ±48.9 acres located on the north barrier island, between the existing Island Club Subdivision and the Indian River Lagoon. The entire ±48.9 acre subject property is currently zoned A-1, Agricultural District (up to 1 unit/5 acres). As depicted on Attachment 2, the request involves rezoning ±37.7 acres to RS -6, Single -Family Residential District (up to 6 units/acre) and =11.2 acres to RM -6, Multiple -Family Residential District (up to 6 units/acre). Generally, the portion of the site proposed to be rezoned to RM -6 is located on the western one-third of the site. More specifically, the area proposed for RM -6 zoning is setback 100 feet from the subject property's southern boundary and 25 feet from the subject property's northern boundary. Additionally, the area proposed for RM -6 zoning is setback 80 feet from Jungle Trail. The purpose of this request is to secure the necessary zoning to expand the existing Island Club subdivision with single- and multiple -family uses. On July 23, 1998, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 4 to 0 to recommend that the Board Of County Commissioners rezone the entire subject property to RS -6. Thus, the portion of the request involving rezoning ±11.2 acres to RM -6 failed. Consistent with county land development regulations, rezoning requests are forwarded to the Board only when the request receives a favorable recommendation from the Planning and Zoning Commission or when the applicant files an appeal within 15 days. In this case, the applicant filed the rezoning appeal within the necessary time period. Subsequently, the request was scheduled to be considered by the Board of County Commissioners at a public hearing on August 25, 1998. At that public hearing, the applicant requested that the public hearing be continued to September 1, 1998 to allow the property owner (who was out of town on August 25, 1998) to testify. The Board voted 5 to 0 to continue the public hearing, as requested. Zoned A-1, the subject property consists primarily of citrus groves. The exception is the western portion of the site, along the edge of the Indian River Lagoon. That part of the subject property contains a portion ofJungle Trail, a county designated Scenic and Historic Road. In this area, most of Jungle Trail is bounded on both sides by environmentally sensitive and environmentally important habitat such as mangroves, estuarine wetlands, and tropical hammock. A-1 zoned citrus groves abut the subject property's north boundary. Those groves extend as much as 500 feet from the subject property. North of those groves, land is zoned RM -6 and contains 1 or 2 single-family houses, the four unit Jungle Cove apartment complex, and more than 100 acres of environmentally important tropical maritime hammock. SEPTEMBER 1, 1998 • -27-BOOK .0 PAG- kii-L