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Land Development Code Rewrite and Associated Comprehensive Plan Amendments - Continued from the September 26, 2023 BCC Meeting Consider the first reading of an Ordinance amending Chapter 1 - General Provisions, Chapter 5 - Administration, Chapter 35 - Subdivisions, Chapter 40 - Site Plan Approval, Chapter 60 - Arbor, and Chapter 80 - Construction, and a Repeal and Replace of Chapter 2 Definitions and Chapter 30 - Zoning of the Seminole County Land Development Code and consider transmittal of an Ordinance amending the Introduction and Future Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan. Countywide (Rebecca Hammock, Development Services Director)
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Authorized By:
Darren Gray, County Manager
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Development Services - Planning and Development
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Contact/Phone Number:
Rebecca Hammock/407-665-7396
Motion/Recommendation:
1. Adopt upon first reading an Ordinance amending Chapter 1 - General Provisions, Chapter 5 - Administration, Chapter 35 - Subdivisions, Chapter 40 - Site Plan Approval, Chapter 60 - Arbor, and Chapter 80 - Construction, and a Repeal and Replace of Chapter 2 Definitions and Chapter 30 - Zoning of the Seminole County Land Development Code and transmit an Ordinance amending the Introduction and Future Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan to State and Regional Review Agencies.
2. Deny adoption of an Ordinance upon first reading amending Chapter 1 - General Provisions, Chapter 5 - Administration, Chapter 35 - Subdivisions, Chapter 40 - Site Plan Approval, Chapter 60 - Arbor, and Chapter 80 - Construction, and a Repeal and Replace of Chapter 2 Definitions and Chapter 30 - Zoning of the Seminole County Land Development Code and deny transmittal of an Ordinance amending the Introduction and Future Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan to State and Regional Review Agencies.
3. Continue the request to a time and date certain.
Background:
Seminole County Planning and Development staff has been working with the County’s consultant, Kimley-Horn (formerly Canin Associates), the Public and the Board of County Commissioners on developing revisions to the Seminole County Land Development Code.
The goals of the Land Development Code rewrite are to address items affecting day-to-day operations; create more efficiency in working with applicants and the public; better implement the adopted Comprehensive Plan; address previously identified topics of concern; modernize and reorganize the Zoning Regulations - Chapter 30; update references to County agencies and titles; and correct typos and add and delete definitions.
The County initiated this effort in 2020 and has had numerous community meetings and worksessions on the proposed LDC revisions and associated comprehensive plan amendments.
The rewrite contains new development standards addressing the Mixed-Use Corridor District (MUCD); Missing Middle Housing (MM); Solar Energy Standards; Assembly Use Standards; and Parking, including EV and Parking Garage Standards. The Code also revises standards addressing Affordable Housing (R-AH), Arbor Regulations, Florida Friendly landscape design, and Rural Nonresidential Design Standards.
The ordinance amending the Land Development Code proposes to repeal and replace Chapter 2 Definitions and Chapter 30 Zoning. The other chapters of the code are being amended are shown in strikethrough and underline.
Included in this proposal are supporting text amendments to the Introduction and Future Land Use Elements of Seminole County Comprehensive Plan to include definitions for Missing Middle Housing, an update to the Mixed Use and Planned Development land use designations to be consistent with Land Development Code revisions, and reflect updates to the Seminole County Water Supply Plan.
Planning and Zoning Commission Recommendation:
The Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) met on September 6, 2023 and voted to recommend that the Board of Commissioner adopt the first reading of the Ordinance amending the Land Development Code and transmit the Ordinance amending the Comprehensive Plan to state and regional review agencies. The September 6, 2023 P&Z meeting minutes are attached.
Staff Recommendation:
Recommend the Board of County Commissioners adopt upon first reading an Ordinance an amending Chapter 1 - General Provisions, Chapter 5 - Administration, Chapter 35 - Subdivisions, Chapter 40 - Site Plan Approval, Chapter 60 - Arbor, and Chapter 80 - Construction, and a Repeal and Replace of Chapter 2 - Definitions and Chapter 30 - Zoning of the Seminole County Land Development Code and transmit an Ordinance amending the Introduction and Future Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan to State and Regional Review Agencies.
Staff also recommends that the Board of County Commissioners make a motion to hold a second reading of the Ordinance on December 12, 2023 starting at 1:30 pm in accordance with Florida Statutes Sec. 125.66, which states that, “the board of county commissioners shall hold two advertised public hearings on the proposed ordinance or resolution. At least one hearing shall be held after 5 p.m. on a weekday, unless the board of county commissioners, by a majority plus one vote, elects to conduct that hearing at another time of day”.