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SP 2021-15, Edison Pembroke Residential, generally located on the east side of I-75 and north of Pembroke Road, site plan application. (Joseph)
Summary Explanation and Background
SUMMARY EXPLANATION AND BACKGROUND:
PROJECT DESCRIPTION / BACKGROUND:
Dennis Mele, agent for owners Pembroke Parcel 2 Owners LLC and Pembroke 145 Office LLC. (Collectively - TPA Group), requests site plan consideration to build a 350 unit apartment building with associated surface and structured parking, traffic circulation, landscape, and lighting on a vacant parcel generally located north of Pembroke Road, between I-75 and Southwest 145 Avenue.
The City Commission approved the original Pembroke Pointe PCD map rezoning and design guidelines on June 6, 2007 via Ordinance 1584. The applicant and land owner at that time (Duke Realty) contemplated the development of four identical class A office buildings on +- 35 acres of property. Only one of the contemplated Duke buildings were ever built.
In 2017, a +- 25 acre portion of the PCD was sold to the TPA group who applied for a modification to the Pembroke Pointe PCD guidelines to accommodate a new office design (AKA: Edison office) in lieu of the three buildings which were not built by Duke Realty. The City Commission approved the PCD update (Ordinance 1893) and Edison office site plan on February 7, 2018. To date, roughly half of the Edison office building / site (north office / parking field) has been completed.
The City Commission on March 2, 2021 approved the Edison Residential Land Use Plan Amendment (PH 2021-02 - Ordinance 1985) which revised the underlying land use for the southern +-7.6 acres of the TPA group property from Office to Irregular Residential 46.1 for the purposes of developing up to 350 multi-family units. The approval included a voluntary affordable housing fund commitment of $500 per unit built to be paid at issuance of building permit.
The City Commission at its June 15, 2022 meeting approved rel...
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