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SP 2018-07, Siena Townhomes, generally located on the south side of Pines Boulevard west of SW 184th Avenue (just east of the entrance into Estancia), site plan application. (Joseph)
Summary Explanation and Background
Project Description / Background
The City Commission at its May 3, 2000 meeting approved the +- 26 acre, 184th Plaza Plat (SUB 98-7), which included this property. The applicant at the time proposed developing the +-26 acre parcel into a +- 200,000 square foot shopping center. The applicant allowed the 184th Plaza Plat to expire prior to recordation. The properties within that expired plat were then subdivided and platted separately. The subject Siena site (AKA: Stellar Pines parcel) and the Skyrise Plaza property (to the east of Siena) are the remaining vacant parcels within this former grouping.
In 2007, the City Commission approved a plat application for commercial and office use on this property (Mont Developers plat) but the plat was never recorded. On June 7, 2017 the City Commission approved a Land Use Plan Amendment (Ordinance 1873) for the subject property, changing the land use from commercial to Irregular Residential (7.9 du/acre). The City Commission later approved a zoning change (Ordinance 1918) for a portion of this property from B-3 (General Business) to TH-12 (Townhouse District) on October 3, 2018 and a plat (Resolution 3627) for the property (Stellar Pines Plat) on October 17, 2018. The Planning and Zoning Board at its November 15, 2018 meeting voted to approve a variance for this property (ZV 2018-05) to allow to allow two buildings to be a maximum 183 feet in length instead of the allowed maximum 160 feet in length.
The applicant seeks site plan approval for the construction of 58 townhouse units with gated entry and pool cabana area on this +- 7.5 acre site with associated parking, landscape, signage, traffic circulation and lighting. Section 155.113 (D) (19) of the underlying TH-12 zoning district allows...
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