AGENDA REPORT
DATE: January 22, 2024
TO: City Commission
FROM: Bill McDaniel, City Manager
SUBJECT: Quasi-judicial public hearing on an ordinance rezoning 243.13? acres on Swindell Road. (PB-2022-48)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The request is to rezone 243.13? acres from Hillsborough County Planned Development (05-163), Agriculture Single Family-1 and Agriculture Rural to the Oakfield Business Park Planned Development District to allow up to 1,600,000 square feet of Industrial (M-1) uses except for autobody repair and recycling operations, which are prohibited. The site is located on the north side of Swindell Road, the west side of County Line Road East of Charlie Taylor Road.
The applicant is proposing the following conditions of approval:
1. At the developer's expense, County Line Road will be extended to provide the sole main access for the site.
2. Commitment to locate stormwater at least 100 feet from existing residential well systems.
3. Access to Swindell Road or Myrtle Lane is prohibited.
4. An enhanced buffer along the southern portions of the project that abut residential properties to include the preservation of existing trees, an 8-foot masonry wall and additional landscaping as needed if the existing trees do not meet the standards of the code.
5. Commitment to dark sky lighting for streetlights within the project.
The site is located within the Northeast Plant City Master Planning Area. The North East Master Plan study was completed in 2009 and adopted into the Comprehensive Plan in April of the same year in the form of Objectives and Policies and the Preferred Growth Scenario Map for the Northeast area. Both the study and adopted map show the proposed area developing as Industrial and Agriculture. It was anticipated by the study that things would change over time and the City may need to entertain other growth scenarios, so the following guidelines were built into the Comprehensive Plan under Policy 2.6.4 for "minor" changes to the proposed ...
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