Fort Walton Beach Ordinance — 2150--Amending the Comprehensive Plan — reading text

sites. The yacht club use is unique and includes a mix of uses associated with a yacht club such as, but not limited to, boat slips, boat ramp, sail loft, outdoor small boat storage, facilities for sailing education and training programs, dining and cocktail lounge facilities for members and their guests, picnic areas, short-term overnight facilities for guest boaters, and other substantially similar accessory uses. Policy A. 1. 11 The density and intensity standards for each land use category are shown below. Land Use Maximum Residential Density Maximum Floor Area Ratio Category Dwelling units per acre) For Nonresidential Development Basic Bonus Standard' Basic Bonus Standard' Standard' Standard' LDR 6. 0 NA NA NA MDR 20.0 1. 5 times the base NA NA density for the applicable zoning district COM 0.0 NA 1. 5 NA MBI 0.0 NA 1. 5 NA IND 0.0 NA 1. 5 NA MU 9" 100.0 1. 5 times the base 3. 0 1. 5 times the base density for the floor area ratio for the applicable zoning applicable zoning district district CIU 0.0 NA 1. 5 NA REC 0.0 NA 0.2 NA CNS 0.0 NA 0.01 NA PC 6.0 NA NA I NA The base standard means the maximum density or intensity for the land use category. Lower standards may be established for each zoning district to ensure compatibility with adjacent zoning districts. See Policy A.4. 5 for details. The maximum density or intensity when meeting bonus provisions is dependent on location and compatibility standards established for each zoning district. Policy A. 1. 12 The City will prepare and maintain standards for assignment of land use categories and zoning districts to land annexed into the City. Policy A. 1. 13 3 1 Future Land Use Element  Fort Walton Beach Comprehensive Plan 2019 —2029 The assignment of land use categories shall be based on coordination of soil types, topographic conditions, natural resource protection, historic area protection, and protection of developed areas frorn encroachment of incompatible uses. Policy A. 1. 14 Congregate living facilities are allowable in COM, CIU, MU, MDR, and LDR land use categories. Such facilities will be allowable when they can be designed and located in such a way as to maintain compatibility with surrounding uses and zoning districts. Policy A. 1. 15 Religious facilities are permissible within COM, CIE, and MU land use categories. Religious facilities may be permissible within MDR and LDR land use categories when complying with supplemental use standards. OBJECTIVE A. 2 — THE CITY INTENDS THAT MIXED- USE DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE MU LAND USE CATEGORY PROVIDES A RANGE OF USES TO ACHIEVE A DIVERSE, COMPATIBLE, AND PEgESTRIAN- FRIENDLY AREA. THE FOLLOWING POLICIES ARE INTENDED TO MEET THIS OBJECTIVE. Policy A. 2. 1 In order to ensure a mix of uses for land within the MU land use category, the City will implement the mix of uses on a district wide basis, according to the table below. The implementation standards for mixing uses will be based on the following types of land use activities and the amount of floor area of the use. Type of Use Minimum / n Maximum Residential 20 40 Commercial Retail 20 45 Personal Service and Office 5 10 Entertainment, Hospitality, Tourist -oriented 20 45 establishments Civic, Institutional, Educational, Cultural, or Public 10 25 Limited Industrial ( artisan studios or similar) 0 20 Policy A.2. 2 All mixed- use developments will have shared parking facilities, pedestrian connections among and between buildings and uses, and design features to ensure compatibility at the boundary of the MU land use district. Policy A.2. 3 The downtown design overlay district (DDOD) is shown on the Future Land Use Map. Within the DDOD, design requirements will ensure: compatibility of building design, site design features consistent with a downtown location, scale of development to support pedestrian activity, preservation of historic buildings and features, and 4 1 Future Land Use Element  2029 Fort Walton Beach Comprehensive Plan 2019 —. provision of plazas, pedestrian ways, street furniture, and other streetscape features. Policy A. 2.4 Within the DDOD, bonus density and intensity standards will be implemented to encourage additional design features and enhance the development characteristics within the DDOD district. The City will establish such additional design guidelines based on the recommendations in the Community Redevelopment Area ( CRA) Plan; these additional guidelines are beyond the minimum mandatory land development regulations and are intended to achieve a high level of design excellence consistent with the goals of the CRA Plan. The City will further establish a method for evaluating the degree to which the additional guidelines are met in a proposed development and a method for granting additional density or intensity consistent with the bonus standard described in Policy A. 1. 11. Policy A.2. 5 For development parcels with frontage on arterial highways, additional design standards may be required to ensure compatibility of design and to maintain the traffic capacity of the highway. OBJECTIVE A. 3 — THE CITY WILL ENSURE COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN LAND USE DISTRICTS AND DEVELOPMENTS. Policy A.3. 1 The maximum building heights established for individual zoning districts will be consistent with limitations imposed by military operations. Building heights for development adjacent to single- family residential land use or zoning districts will be limited to a maximum of 1. 5 times the average height within the single- family residential land use or zoning district in order to ensure compatibility. Policy A. 3. 2 The City will implement standards to ensure that the scale of buildings and development is consistent with the neighborhood where such buildings and development are proposed. Policy A. 3. 3 Within nonresidential land use and zoning districts, location standards will be implemented to ensure that compatibility and safety are ensured when access is allowed to nonresidential development sites from local streets providing access to residential land use or zoning districts. Policy A. 3. 4 Compatibility between residential and nonresidential land use districts, zoning districts, or development sites will be ensured through implementation of standards for: building orientation, location and design of delivery areas, lighting, parking lot locations and design, location of site features such as dumpsters or storage areas, electronic interference, screening equipment whether located at ground level or on rooftops; 5 1 Future Land Use Element  Fort Walton Beach Comprehensive Plan 2019 —202.9 location of outdoor gathering places, such as plazas, recreation facilities, and similar uses, and standards for buffers. Policy A.3. 5 The City will implement design and development standards for specific uses with potential impacts unique to the use, such as communication towers, paint and body shops, vehicle sales and service centers, big box discount centers, junkyards, establishments with drive -up windows, and other uses with the potential for impacts greater than anticipated by the land use category allowing the use. OBJECTIVE A.4 THE CITY WILL CONTINUE TO IMPLEMENT LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. Policy A.4. 1 The City intends to provide and maintain a land development code that ensures ease of use, understanding, and implementation of land development regulations. Policy A. 4.2 The land development code will include the following provisions; a) regulation of the subdivision of land; b) regulation of use of land and water, consistent with the land use categories provided herein; c) compatibility standards; d) open space standards; e) protection of specified potable water well fields; f) regulation of flood prone areas; g) provisions for drainage and stormwater management; h) protection of specified environmentally sensitive lands; i) regulation of signage; j) concurrency management standards; and k) traffic circulation and parking standards. Policy A.4.3 The land development code will ensure that all development applications are reviewed by appropriate agencies. Specified types of development applications, such as developments seeking approval of bonus density or intensity, will be reviewed through procedures that ensure adequate opportunity for public comment. Policy A. 4.4 The City will include provisions for planned developments as one means of ensuring integrated development within a development site. Policy A.4.5 6 1 Future Land Use Element  Fort Walton Beach Comprehensive Plan 2019 —2029. The City will establish and implement bonus standards within specified zoning districts to allow developments to exceed the base standards by mitigating the effects of increased density or intensity along with meeting specified additional development standards. A proposed development seeking bonus density or intensity must demonstrate compliance with the additional development standards established by the City to ensure best practices in planning and site design. The City will establish a specific method to determine eligibility and to evaluate proposals for bonus density or intensity. Bonus density or intensity will not be granted except in compliance with the additional development standards established by the City. OBJECTIVE A. 5 — THE CITY SHALL ENCOURAGE AND PROVIDE FOR THE ELIMINATION OR REDUCTION OF USES INCONSISTENT WITH THE COMMUNITY' S CHARACTER AND FUTURE LAND USES. Policy A.5. 1 The City will establish standards to distinguish types of nonconformities, toward the end of eliminating detrimental nonconformities. Policy A.5. 2 The City will establish standards to allow limited expansion or change of use for non -detrimental nonconformities and ensure