Okaloosa County BOCC — December 2, 2014 — Action Item Printout

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AGENDA REQUEST DATE: December 2, 2014 TO: Honorable Chairman and Members of the Board FROM: Elliot Kampert SUBJECT: Request for plan amendment and rezoning, T. Davis Gordon DEPARTMENT: Growth Management BCC DISTRICT: 1 PUBLIC HEARING: Consideration of a request changing the use of land submitted by T. Davis Gordon dba Tellus Development, Ltd., relating to property located on Livingston Street, Crestview. The request is to change the Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map (FLUM) designation for the property from Mixed Use (MU) to Commercial (C), or a more restrictive FLUM designation. If the FLUM amendment is approved, request to rezone the property from Mixed Use (MU) district to General Commercial (C-3) district, or a more restrictive zoning district. Property contains 1.31 acres, more or less. STAFF FINDINGS: • The applicant would like to expand his existing mini-warehouse storage business onto adjacent parcels. • Mini-warehouse storage is only allowed in the General Commercial (C-3) zoning district. • The MU zoning district allows C-3 permitted uses when the property involved fronts upon an arterial or collector roadway, and there is no access to the commercial part of the property through a residential area or residential-zoned area. • The property involved fronts upon Livingston Street which is not classified as an arterial or collector roadway. • The C-3 zoning district allows access from roadways not classified as arterial or collector. • The applicant is requesting the FLUM change and rezoning so as to allow access from Livingston Street to enable the expansion of his mini-warehouse storage business. • There are other commercially-zoned properties in the immediate vicinity as well as properties classified as “vacant commercial” by the Property Appraiser. PUBLIC COMMENT/OPPOSITION: None to date. PLANNING COMMISSION: The Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend approval at a public hearing held November 13, 2014. MILITARY REPRESENTATIVE: No comment. STAFF POSITION: Staff has no objection to the requested FLUM amendment and rezoning. RECOMMENDATION: It is recommended that the Board consider the facts presented herein, the Planning Commission recommendation, as well as any facts that may be presented at the public hearing, and then decide whether or not to adopt the requested FLUM amendment and rezoning by separate ordinances. RECOMMENDED BY: APPROVED BY: John Hofstad, Interim County Administrator