AGENDA REPORT
DATE: July 28, 2025
TO: City Commission
FROM: Bill McDaniel, City Manager
SUBJECT: Resolution setting a quasi-judicial public hearing on an ordinance renaming the Linder Community Unit District as the Linder Planned Development District, and approving a major modification to the District. (PB-2025-15).
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The applicant proposes several modifications to the Linder Community Unit District, which was originally approved in 1997. Along with updating the name to the Linder Planned Development District, the applicant proposes 9,851? square feet of additional commercial warehouse space, two covered wash bays (1,800? square feet), and a new semi-truck egress only driveway on North Maryland Avenue. This new egress driveway would be designed to restrict trucks to right turns only, directing them to South Frontage Road. Other proposed site improvements include design modifications and increasing the size of the onsite detention pond, additional pavement/impervious areas for improved vehicular circulation and a new parking area near South Frontage Road.
On June 25, 2025, staff presented a recommendation of approval for the proposed rezoning/major modification for the Linder Planned Development District to the Planning Board, based on the positives, negatives and mitigating factors presented in the attached staff report for PB-2025-15. The Planning Board subsequently voted (4-0 with 1 abstention) to recommend approval of the proposal to the City Commission, subject to the inclusion of two additional notes:
1. Requiring signage being installed on South Frontage Road that prohibits commercial trucks from traveling south on North Maryland Avenue; and
2. Limiting the hours of construction to daylight hours (7am - 7pm Monday to Friday, 8am - 7pm on Saturday and 10am - 7pm on Sunday) thus ensuring compliance with the noise ordinance of Plant City.
The applicant has addressed the issues raised by the Planning Board related to signage and...
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