Title
SP2025-0005, H & M Pines Storage, 1520 S Hiatus Road, site plan amendment. (Cole) (District 1)
Summary Explanation and Background
SUMMARY EXPLANATION AND BACKGROUND:
PROJECT DESCRIPTION / BACKGROUND:
Michelle Diaz-Mendez, agent, requests approval to construct a self-storage facility with associated site, signage, circulation, parking and landscape improvements within the Village of Mayfair shopping center located at 1520 south Hiatus Road.
The City Commission approved the base site plan for the shopping center (SP 2006-53) at its April 18, 2007 meeting. Modifications to the site plan were made in 2007, 2008 and 2010, 2014 and 2015 (SP2015-01). Wawa gas station, outparcel to the shopping center was approved in 2017 through SP2017-03. Only a portion of the approved commercial shopping center and the Wawa gas station were constructed, leaving the vacant remaining parcels for future development.
Recently the following development applications have been approved by the Planning and Zoning Board or the City Commission:
- April 16, 2025, the City Commission approved the rezoning of the underlying property from B-3 (General Business) to C-1 (Commercial) with amended restrictive covenants (Ordinance 2043)
- The amended restrictive covenants allow for:
- Only self-storage use within the C-1 use list.
- 65’ maximum height for self-storage buildings
- May 7, 2025 the City Commission passed Resolution 3905 amending the plat allowing for 136,000 square feet of self-storage use.
- June 26, 2025 the Planning and Zoning Board approved site plan application SP2025-0004 for a Culver’s restaurant.
- August 14, 2025, the Planning and Zoning Board approved zoning variance ZV2025-0008 allowing 285 parking spaces instead of the required 344 parking spaces.
BUILDINGS / STRUCTURES:
The proposed four story self-storage facility located on the vacant parcel on the southwest corner of the shopping center will be 47’-7” in height and 134,074 square feet in area. The applicant is proposing the following colors and materials for the building and structures:
- Main Body: SW 7006 (Extra White), SW 7029 (Agreeable Gray)
- Accent: SW 7030 (Anew Gray), SW 7031 (Mega Greige)
- Shutters: SW 7006 (Extra White)
- Awnings: Hartford Green
- Spandrel: Dark Gray
- Dumpster Enclosure: SW 7006 (Extra White), SW 7029 (Agreeable Gray), SW 7030 (Anew Gray)
- Dumpster Gates: SW 7029 (Agreeable Gray)
SIGNAGE:
The wall signage for the site is regulated through uniform sign plan for the shopping center and will be reviewed and approved through the building permit process. Any wall signage shown is for illustrative purposes only.
ACCESS / CIRCULATION:
Access to the shopping center shall remain through the existing four access points, two along Hiatus Road and two along Pembroke Road. The southern most access point along Hiatus Road and eastern most access point along Pembroke Road is ingress only. Internal driveways remain for circulation throughout the shopping center.
PARKING:
Code requires self-storage facility to have 0.5 parking spaces per 1,000 square feet of building area; therefore, the proposed use requires 64 parking spaces. 28 new parking spaces for the shopping center are proposed as part of this development. 285 parking spaces in total are proposed for the shopping center. At the August 14, 2025 meeting, the Planning and Zoning Board approved zoning variance ZV2025-0008 allowing 285 parking spaces to be constructed on site.
The 285 proposed parking spaces must be constructed prior to the issuance of the Certificate of the Occupancy.
LANDSCAPING:
The following landscape is being proposed for this site:
- Installation of 40 trees, 24 palms, 529 shrubs, and 1330 ground covers.
- Primary tree species include: Cordia sebestena - Orange geiger, Clusia rosea - Autograph tree, Quercus virginiana - Live oak, Myrcianthes fragrans - Simpson stopper, and Ficus aurea - Strangler fig.
- Primary palm species include: Roystonea elata - Florida Royal palm and Caryota mitis - Fishtail palm.
- Primary shrub species are: Chrysobalanus icaco 'Red tip' - Red tip cocoplum, Clusia rosea 'nana' - Dwarf pitch apple, Psychotria nervosa - Wild coffee, Capparis cynophallophora - Jamaican caper, Casasia clusiifolia - Seven year apple, Plumbago auriculata - Imperial blue and Bougainvillea x 'Helen Johnson' - Compact Bougainvillea.
- Primary groundcover species are: Juniperus chinensis 'Parsonii' - Chinese juniper, Nephrolepis biserrata 'Macho' - Macho fern, Tripsacum dactyloides - Fakahatchee grass, Ixora taiwanensis 'Dwarf Red' - Dward red Ixora and Nephrolepis exaltata - Boston fern.
- Additionally, three (3) Ptychosperma elegans - Alexander palms and one (1) Ficus benjamina - Benjamin fig trees are being protected and retained on site.
OTHER SITE FEATURES:
The site shall be illuminated by 6 wall mounted and 6 under canopy LED fixtures.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommend approval of site plan SP2025-0005, subject to the recordation of the underlying plat.