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0 TO: James E. Chandler County Administrator D139NON HEAD CONCURRENCE: oo -Robert M. Keating, AICP Community Denlopmed Di// THROUGH: Stan Boling, AICP Planning Director �� FROM: John W. McCoy 1\ Senior Planner, omm % Development DATE: July 12,1999 SUBJECT: Brad Springer's Request for Planned Development (PD) Special Exception Use Approval for an Agricultural PD to be Known as Walking Fox Farms It is requested that the data herein presented be given formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at its regular meeting of July 20, 1999. Carter Associates, Inc. has submitted an application on half of Brad Springer for PD (planned development) special exception use and preliminary PD plan/plat approval on behalf of Brad Springer to create 3 lots within an agriculturally designated area. The subject site is a 15.2 acre parcel located on the south side of 11 Street SW between 58th Avenue and 66th Avenue. The site is presently in citrus groves, and one home is approved on the overall site and is under construction. The subject property is zoned A-1, Agricultural (up to 1 unit/5acres), is located outside the Urban Service Area, and is designated AG -1 (Agricultural up to 1 unit/5acres). The proposed 3 lot residential/agricultural subdivision is allowed in the AG -1 area, subject to the special exception use provisions of sections 911.06(4) and 911.14(2) of the county's land development regulations (see attachment #4) for residential subdivisions in agricultural areas. • Planning and Zoning Commission Action At its regular meeting of June 24,1999, the Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously (6-0) granted preliminary PD plan approval subject to Board of County Commissioners approval of the special exception use. Also, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended that the Board of County Commissioners approve the PD special exception use request, subject to the conditions contained in the recommendation at the end of this report. If the Board grunts special exception use approval, the preliminary PD plan approval will become effective. • PDs in Agriculturally Designated Areas To address certain urban sprawl concerns raised by DCA during its review of the 1990 Comprehensive Plan, the county adopted special policies and regulations regarding development of single-family subdivisions in agriculturally designated areas. The resulting special regulations require use of the PD process and a layout of the lots that "clusters" homesites in a manner that provides large remaining areas of open space (used for agriculture or preservation of natural features). Therefore, the LDRs limit the maximum lot or homesite size to 1 acre, with remaining areas designated as open space (see attachment #5). Lot or homesite clustering also preserves the ability for future development of the overall property at a higher density ii; in the future, the comprehensive plan is changed and the property is re -designated for residential development Clustering can be accomplished in different ways. One approvable concept clusters the lots in a standard subdivision layout of 1 acre or smaller lots and creates 1 large tract which could be separately owned and limited to open space (agricultural or preservation) uses until such time as the land may be re -designated. Another approvable clustering concept creates larger tracts, each with a designated buildable lot area (homesite). Such tracts can be laid out so as to cluster the buildable lot (homesite) areas in close proximity to one another, or in close proximity to a land feature, or in close proximity to a roadway (as determined by the Board of County Commissioners during its resent discussion of agrimkuml PD clustering). Under such clustering designs, each tract could be individually owned and contain a single homesite. This concept has been used in the design of the proposed Walking Fox Fawns Subdivision. JULY 209 1999 -31- r: BOOK U 0, PACE 6 k