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QUASI CONSENT AGENDA (PUBLIC HEARING)
MOTION TO APPROVE THE SOUTHPORT PEMBROKE TOWER SITE PLAN (SP 2020-05) FOR A BUILDING EXCEEDING 50 FEET IN HEIGHT AS RECOMMENDED BY THE PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD FOR THE PROPERTY GENERALLY LOCATED SOUTH OF SHERIDAN STREET AND EAST OF UNIVERSITY DRIVE.
Summary Explanation and Background
SUMMARY EXPLANATION AND BACKGROUND:
1. Kimley Horn, agent for owner DP Pembroke LLC, submitted an application to develop an 88 unit, age restricted residential building with associated parking landscape, internal site circulation and lighting. The “Southport Pembroke Towers” (SP 2020-05) site is generally located south of Sheridan Street and east of University Drive. This Southport project will be the second senior residential tower on the site.
2. The existing Pembroke Tower building (Pembroke Tower I - 100 units) was approved in 1979 as a low income elderly housing project by Broward County.
3. The City Commission at its September 2, 2010 meeting voted to approve a variance to allow a 4 acre plot size instead the required minimum 12 acre plat size for a multi-family development on appeal. On September 21, 2010, the City Commission adopted Ordinance No. 1678, amending the City's Future Land Use Element text which included the addition of the Residential High land use designation subject to certain criteria. In addition, the City Commission adopted Ordinance No. 1677, amending the City's Future Land Use Map for the Pembroke Tower Property from Commercial to Residential High. The City Commission at its March 16, 2011 meeting voted to adopt a rezoning of this property from A-1 (Limited Agricultural) to R-4 (Apartment) via Ordinance 1686. This rezoning included a restrictive covenant on the land which restricted the land in the following ways:
• All new leases on units offered for rent shall have at least 1 person who is 55 years or older at time of occupancy.
• Number of ...
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