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Home My WebLink Aboutcocc_p&z_mtg_minutes_20220622PLANNING & ZONING BOARD MEETING MINUTES JUNE 22, 2022 A meeting of the Planning & Zoning Board took place on June 22, 2022, at City Hall Council Chambers, 100 Polk Avenue, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Chairman Russell called the meeting to order at 6:00 pm. The Board Secretary called the roll. ROLL CALL MEMBERS PRESENT Lamar Russell Chairman John Price Vice Chairman Nancy Gentilquore Board Member Susan Denny Board Member Steven Stroud Board Member Michael Miller Board Member OTHERS PRESENT David Dickey Anthony Garganese Patti Roth PUBLIC PARTICIPATION None OLD BUSINESS NEW BUSINESS A. Board Matters: Director, Community & Economic Development City Attorney Board Secretary 1. Approval of Meeting Minutes: January 26, 2022 — Motion to accept the minutes as written, made by Board Member Denny and seconded by Vice Chairman Price. Vote on the motion carried unanimously. B. Comprehensive Plan Amendments (,Legislative - Public Hearin - g 2. Dave Dickey gave the Board a presentation explaining the phases of our administrative rezoning project that we've been working on for over a year now. Phase 1 was the public owned properties throughout the city, Phase 2 was residential work on the north side of North Atlantic, larger big condo properties and some of the larger sites, and Phase 3 is smaller plots of ground. At this time, there are five properties to address. There is going to be two ordinances for each piece of property. It's required these are all zoned commercial and they also have a future land Planning & Zoning Meeting Minutes Page 2 determined several years ago that residential was no longer allowed in commercial zoning districts. As a result of that decision these residential properties became legal non -conforming and non -conforming is something you don't want to be designated when you're residential. That creates red flags when someone wants to refinance their home or somebody wants to sell and they're getting an appraisal. There were over 700 properties in the city that fell into this category of legal non -conforming, most of them being residential. The Planning & Zoning Board addressed the following five parcels/areas ... Anchorage Avenue, Bakersfield Subdivision, Gizella Townhomes, Harbor Heights Townhouses, and Sea Shell Lane/N. Atlantic Avenue. A motion was made by Vice Chairman Price and seconded by Board Member Stroud to recommend approval to the City Council changing the Future Land Use Map from "C-1 Commercial" to "R-2 Residential" for 146, 147, 156, 157, 166, 167, 176, and 177 Anchorage Avenue. The motion carried unanimously. A motion was made by Vice Chairman Price and seconded by Board Member Gentilquore to recommend approval to the City Council changing the Rezoning from C-1 Low Density Commercial to City R-2 Medium Density Residential for 146, 147, 156, 157, 166, 167, 176, and 177 Anchorage Avenue. The motion carried unanimously. A motion was made by Vice Chairman Price and seconded by Board Member Denny to recommend approval to the City Council changing the Future Land Use Map from "C-1 Commercial" to "R-2 Residential" for Bakersfield Subdivision (f/k/a a portion of Ocean Gardens) located on 146 and 148 Ocean Garden Lane. The motion carried unanimously. A motion was made by Vice Chairman Price and seconded by Board Member Gentilquore to recommend approval to the City Council changing the Rezoning from C-1 Low Density Commercial to City R-2 Medium Density Residential for Bakersfield Subdivision (f/k/a a portion of Ocean Gardens) located on 146 and 148 Ocean Garden Lane. The motion carried unanimously. A motion was made by Board Member Denny and seconded by Board Member Dr. Miller to recommend approval to the City Council changing the Future Land Use Map from "C-1 Commercial" to "R-2 Residential" for the Gizella Townhomes. The motion carried unanimously. A motion was made by Vice Chairman Price and seconded by Board Member Gentilquore to recommend approval to the City Council changing the Rezoning from C-1 Low Density Commercial to City R-2 Medium Density Residential for the Gizella Townhomes. The motion carried unanimously. A motion was made by Vice Chairman Price and seconded by Board Member Denny to recommend approval to the City Council changing the Future Land Use Map from "C-1 Commercial" to "R-2 Residential" for the Harbor Heights Townhouses. The motion carried unanimously. Planning & Zoning Meeting Minutes Page 3 A motion was made by Board Member Gentilquore and seconded by Board Member Denny to recommend approval to the City Council changing the Rezoning from C-1 Low Density Commercial to City R-2 Medium Density Residential for the Harbor Heights Townhouses. The motion carried unanimously. A motion was made by Board Member Denny and seconded by Vice Chairman Price to recommend approval to the City Council changing the Future Land Use Map from "C-1 Commercial" to "R-2 Residential" for 8801, 8803, and 8805 Sea Shell Lane and 8804 N. Atlantic Avenue. The motion carried unanimously. A motion was made by Board Member Gentilquore and seconded by Board Member Denny to recommend approval to the City Council changing the Rezoning from C-1 Low Density Commercial to City R-2 Medium Density Residential for 8801, 8803, and 8805 Sea Shell Lane and 8804 N. Atlantic Avenue. The motion carried unanimously. Mr. Dickey discussed "Mixed -use" with the Board. Mixed -use is a concept that is becoming popular, it's a mix of uses, usually on a single parcel and they're typically in urban and or downtown areas where there's a mix of uses ... the first floor is retail commercial offices, things like that. Going up from there, 2, 3, maybe 4 floors, there are offices, generally residential. So you're mixing uses on a single piece of property in a single project. The challenge we have with mixed use here in Cape Canaveral is that our codes don't necessarily facilitate mixed -use. There are 2 documents that govern how we develop land. The first one is our Comprehensive Plan which dictates what you can do and land use tells what can and can't happen on those specific land use districts such as commercial and residential. The Comprehensive Plan says you can develop up to 15 units an acre in R-2 and it gives some general concept/statements about residential development. The Comprehensive Plan is within our Zoning Ordinance or our land development code and our zoning code under the R-2 zoning district gets into specifics. It establishes setbacks, how many feet you have to be in the property to develop, size of lot you need to develop, the frontages and the depth requirements of the lots, how many square feet the home has to be. The general policy statements are in the Comp Plan and the specifics are in the Zoning Ordinance. The Comp Plan takes precedent anytime there's a conflict, specifically about Mixed -use. Our zoning ordinance allows for Mixed -use. Our overlay district which is in our zoning ordinance, mentions that Mixed -use is permitted in the overlay district, but our Comprehensive Plan doesn't allow for Mixed -use, it only references R1, R2, C1, C2, and M1 zoning districts and those don't allow for Mixed -uses. Mr. Dickey shared some photos showing examples of large and small-scale Mixed -Use projects. Mr. Dickey explained to the Board that he wanted to have this conversation because about 9 months ago he was approached by a gentleman from South Florida whom has purchased approximately 7 acres of properties on the north side of Center Street. He's interested in doing a Mixed -use project on that property. Mr. Dickey told the Board that as long as he's been Planning & Zoning Meeting Minutes Page 4 employed for the City, he hears about blight every year multiple times ... how is the City going to clean up blight in the City? Possibly to get developers to redevelop. The Overlay District has not been implemented. Chairman Russell suggested that the Board get a copy of the Overlay District, read it and understand it. Bring ideas to the table. Tomorrow, a draft of the Re -visioning Project will be emailed to each board member. Discussion ensued and all of the board members were in favor of "preserving our small town feel" and supporting the Mixed -use project/s. The next meeting will be scheduled for August 3, 2022, at 6 PM. REPORTS AND OPEN DISCUSSION ADJOURNMENT A motion was made by Vice Chairman Price and seconded by Chairman Russell to adjourn. The meeting adjourned at 7:15 PM. Approved on this (M/IGUL_ Lamar Russell Chair man Patti Roth, Board Secretary day of 2022