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directly involved in handling, processing, storing, inspecting or transporting citrus. It is staffs position that the brokerage is more appropriate in a commercial zoning district with other professional white collar services such as banking, accounting, financial institutions, etc. Such is the case with Sealed Sweet, a large fruit brokerage, which is located in a commercial district 2. Agricultural businesses shall include but not be limited to: Agricultural business offices; and sales of agricultural equipment„ products and supplies, such as grove maintenance services, or livestock facilities; Note: The proposed use is not an "agricultural business office- that is more appropriately located in an agricultural district verses a commercial district 3. Agricultural businesses shall not be interpreted to permit wholesaling or processing operations; 4. The business must be located in an area designated either as AG or R on the comprehensive land use map. It is planning staffs opinion that the proposed use cannot satisfy criterion #1, with or without conditions. ■ Packing House The applicant must satisfy all applicable criteria for a packing house. The packing house criteria are as follows: a. Additional information requirements: A site plan meeting all requirements of Chapter 914 which shows the zoning designation of all abutting properties. b. Criteria for fruit and vegetable juice extraction and packing house: 1. The internal circulation system shall be designed in such a manner that it will not require trucks to back into the facility from any public right-of-way; 2. Retail sale of fruit and vegetables shall be allowed only when accessory to a packing house only with a CG district; 3. No off-street parking or loading area shall be Iocated within fifty (50) feet of a property line abutting a residentially designated property; 4. Type "C" screening and buffering shall be required along all boundaries abutting a zoning district other than the IL, IG, or CH. The application does not satisfy all applicable specific land use criteria. Note: Although criteria 1-4 can be satisfied, conversion of the barn to a packing house represents an intensification of use of a nonconforming structure. That nonconformity is the 18.26 frontyard building setback from the proposed packing house (existing barn) to ? Street S.W. This does not satisfy the 30' A-1 setback requirement Thus, approving the conversion would be contrary to the county's non -conformities regulations. In staff s opinion, the Planning and Zoning Commission did not fail in any of these four areas in its decision to deny the DLF International site plan application and administrative permit application for a packing house. • Site Plan Review and Decision In accordance with the specific land use criteria of LDR section 971.04 and 97126(1) (see attachment #5), the subject site plan application was processed as an administrative approval site Plan requiring administrative permit approval by the Planning and Zoning Commission. Stairs report to the Planning and Zoning Commission (see attachment #3) noted that the minimum standards set forth by specific land use criteria for a packinghouse had not been satisfied by the site plan. Staffs report to the Planning and Zoning Commission stated that, by converting and modifying the existing barn into a packinghouse, the proposal would increase the degree of a nonconforming setback where the packinghouse would have an 18' rather than a 30' setback. An additional discrepancy reported to the Commission is that the site's eastern driveway does not satisfy traffic separation standards from the intersection at 1" Street S.W. and 58m Avenue. DECEMBER 1, 1998 -25- 60JK 107 PAGE 754