AGENDA REPORT
DATE: February 10, 2025
TO: City Commission
FROM: Bill McDaniel, City Manager
SUBJECT: Quasi-judicial public hearing on an ordinance to modify the Midway Lake Community Unit District located North of North Frontage Road, East of North Wilder Road, South of East Sam Allen Road and West of Charlie Taylor Road (PB-2023-51). Continuance requested by the Petitioner to the March 10, 2025 City Commission meeting.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The applicant proposes modifications to the Midway Lake Community Unit District. The site is located North of North Frontage Road, East of North Wilder Road, South of East Sam Allen Road and West of Charlie Taylor Road.
The applicant is requesting the following changes:
• Change the name to the Midway Lake Planned Development District.
• Change the conditions/notes on the site plan to the following:
o Increases users of the airstrip from one to twenty.
o Allows users of the airstrip to have visitor aircraft subject to approval of the Airport Manager.
o Eliminates the limitation on the number of permanently based aircraft.
o Eliminates the requirements for aircraft flight logs of landings and departures which also eliminates the ability for these logs to be requested for review.
o Adds a requirement to maintain a list of permanently based aircraft which are approved by the airport manager.
o Prohibits the airstrip from being open to the public.
o Allows future homeowners of an undetermined number of contiguous parcels to use the airstrip.
On June 26, 2024, staff presented a recommendation of denial to the Planning Board, based on the positives, negatives and mitigating factors presented in the staff report and based on the determination that until the contiguous parcels which would access the air strip are able to be added to the Planned Development, the request is premature. Without the inclusion of all areas that will utilize the air strip to show the travel path and storage locations of the planes, staff cannot determine if the proposed increase in use of the airstrip can meet the requirements of the Planned Development District of the Plant City Code of Ordinances including, but not limited to, relation to public facilities and transportation facilities, compatibility, transitions, design quality, access and relationship to adjacent properties.
However, The Planning Board voted (5-1) finding the modification consistent with Chapter 102, Plant City Code of Ordinances and the Imagine 2040: Plant City Comprehensive Plan and voted to forward the request to the City Commission with a recommendation of approval, subject to the following conditions provided by the applicant at the public hearing:
1. The following condition, previously deleted be added back to the site plan: On Monday through Friday the daily flight count shall not exceed three (3) flights per Airport Manager Authorized Aircraft. On Saturday and Sunday, the number of daily flights shall not exceed six (6) per Airport Authorized Aircraft. Up to six (6) times a year there may be up to a maximum of 18 flights per Airport Authorized Aircraft within any 24-hour period for special family events, such as birthdays and family reunions. A “flight” is defined here as one departure and one landing to or from the private landing strip.
2. When “parcels which have contiguous private aircraft access” (as defined in Condition 3 above) are developed, the aircraft access and any aircraft storage facility will be subject to review and approval by the City of Plant City for compliance with these PD conditions and the City’s aircraft access and building code regulations, in addition to any applicable Hillsborough County regulations.
The conditions recommended by the Planning Board have been added to the proposed site plan and though staff’s recommendation remains the same, staff has created a new staff report speaking specifically to the current request.
On August 12, 2024 the request was heard by the Commission and was continued to the February 10, 2025 City Commission meeting. The petitioner has requested a continuance of this item to the March 10, 2025 City Commission meeting.
RECOMMENDATION
That the City Commission continue the request to the March 10, 2025 City Commission meeting.
FISCAL IMPACT
No fiscal impact.
Prepared by: Robyn Baker, AICP, Director of Planning and Zoning