ZONING AMENDMENT (REGULAR) – Chelsea Acquisition LLC and Chelsea Acquisition II LLC – Change in Zoning from a R-4 High Density Residential District and a C-1 Neighborhood Commercial District to a MF-2 Multiple- Family High Density Residential District – Northwest Pasco County – East of Old Dixie Highway, North of Gulf Way – Containing Approximately 64.33 Acres (PC: 12/10/20, 1:30 p.m.; DC Hybrid Virtual Meeting , BCC: 1/26/21, 1:30 p.m.; DC Hybrid Virtual Meeting Continued from PC: 11/5/20, 1:30 p.m.; DC Hybrid Virtual Meeting , BCC: 11/17/20, 1:30 p.m.; DC Hybrid Virtual Meeting)
What the county recorded
Staff recommendation
Approve
No disposition in the minutes
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The county’s agenda for Planning Commission, Dec 10, 2020
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This case, across meetings
PDD-21-7503 in full →PDD-21-7503 was taken up 4 times between Nov 5, 2020 and Jan 26, 2021, continued 2 times — this is appearance 3.
- Nov 5, 2020PlanningPC5Continued
- Nov 17, 2020GeneralP89Continued
- Dec 10, 2020PlanningP4▶No disposition in the minutesthis item
- Jan 26, 2021BoardP52▶Approved
What was said
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Thank you. Okay, and now we'll move on to the uh regular items on the uh agenda.
Okay, on item P4, that will be presented by Christina Acosta, and I will be sharing my screen. So if you give me a second.
Hey, good afternoon. This is Christina Acosta from Planning and Development Department. Can everyone hear me okay?
Yep. Very good.
Excellent. The next item on our agenda is PDD 21-7503. It's a zoning amendment in the name of Chelsea Acquisition and Chelsea Acquisition 2 for a change in zoning from R4, High Density Residential District, and C2, Neighborhood Commercial District, to an MF2 Multiple Family High Density District.
Thank you.
It is located on the east side of Old Dixie Highway and north of Gold Way.
The site contains approximately 64.33 acres and is undeveloped. The applicants propose to develop the site with multiple family dwellings in conformance with MF2 Multiple Family High Density Development District standards. The site is part of an expired PUD Plan Unit Development, which was approved for multifamily dwellings. Phase one of this PUD was constructed before the entitlements expired and is what is currently the park at Chelsea Apartments.
On August 9th, 2005, the PUD Plan Unit Development Zoning District was repealed through ordinance number 05-32. In accordance with the LDC section 521.1, a PUD plan that expires shall cause the property to revert to the zoning district that existed prior to the rezoning of the PUD. The expired PUD portion of the site had an original zoning of R4 high density residential district. The surrounding area is characterized by single-family and multifamily residential uses. And the site has a future land use
classification of res six residential six dwelling units per acre under the comprehensive plan.
And here is a look of the surrounding zoning. It is R4 with the exception of the existing apartments with Jarzone PUD.
And the future land use for the the entire site is R six, res six.
And here's an aerial showing an overview of the site and where the development is proposed.
And here's the last slide showing where the developable area is. And we're gonna leave this slide up after the conclusion of my presentation so the applicant can explain that part a little bit more. And this comes to you with a recommendation of approval and I am here for any questions you have.
Okay. Thank you. Uh any questions for Christina up here? Chris.
Chairman M Christina, is the is this will the entitlements be the same as You know, what's being asked for will be what was the case before it expired.
Well, they were approved for a multifamily, but it was uh as part of a larger PUD. So they did build part of it, but not all of it. So um under their um The current zoning now they would be in R4, which is a very high density residential district with very small lots. And what they're proposing are these multifamily units, which will allow them to cluster the development into this brown area that you see so that they're not disturbing any of the wetland areas and allow for drainage.
Cristina, uh question for you, and I'm pretty sure the answer is that I hope the developer will keep the same concept that they have. uh the six existent so the same type of townhouses and appearance. Yes. Is that right?
Yes. As part of the deed restriction, they're going to be required to to keep a townhouse type product to keep consistency with the original or with the existing multifamily that's there. And the development will be capped.
So to keep the density very low.
More than a question, I have a comment. So I'm glad to see this type of project in Hudson area to be honest with you, that investor is willing to to to develop this type of project in Hudson as a Pasco citizen seeing that it's it's a plus.
Hear anything uh Chris from you? No sir. Is the applicant virtually in attendance? Hi
camp. I am Mr. Chairman. This is Clark Hobby, Hobby and Hobby PA 109 North Brest Street, Tampa, Florida. have been sworn. Um before I get started, if I could ask staff, is anyone present at the kiosk to object today? Because I think the only reason this isn't on the consent agenda is we might have received One or two emails.
That is correct. Nobody is at the at the kiosk and no one has signed up to participate via WebEx.
Okay, well I'll keep this uh short then and can answer any questions. As as staff noted, this is in the West Market area in the Harbors District. Uh the county spent a lot of time studying the area and after a great deal of work product came together in the Harbors Plan that the gist of what the county wants to do in this area is to take advantage of the vacant, unused, and underdeveloped park properties. uh in the area
that the Harbors Plan said resulted in a continuous This under development, that was the phrase in the plan of the area, and that it had aging. Housing stock that needed to be readdressed. So as a result of all the work that went into that, the county also just this year. The board voted to eliminate mobility fees in this entire region so that on uh vacant and infill parcels.
So the county clearly wants parcels like this redeveloped. My client already owns the existing phase one that are townhouses and just wants to build a phase two. And as you can see on the the shot that um Denise has up right now. The development areas are all essentially inside of or west of the existing townhouse areas. And the old green area that was the old golf course will remain in effect and
intact. We'll probably be some walking path, but the new townhouses won't be located in that area. So I know we're consistent with the comp plan and with the county's vision for the area. We've done our homework on the transportation stuff. And as you heard from Christina, we're gonna limit it by virtue of a deed restriction to not more than 231 townhouses so that the density will be under the MPUD trigger. It'll also be well under the density that would have been allowed
under the comp plan and under the R4 zoning. So with that I'm happy to answer any questions.
Okay, any uh questions up here from for Clark? Chris.
For Clark or for staff, but um I the the one or two people who uh were in opposition, do you know where they were located? Were they Outside of the project total or were they part of phase one?
I I can I if it's okay, I can answer that, Chris. That I think that the the answer is uh important two reasons. Number one, the people were east and northeast of the property boundary. They were outside of our our boundary, but there is some concern about flooding in the area. And uh we're working with the county staff and with the resident commissioner right now on a plan we may end up giving the county some easement or right-of-way that will allow uh uh the county through a
cooperative funding deal with Swift Mud to actually alleviate some of the flooding. So that the the only two concerns that I've heard were flooding and some people had basic transportation questions, but we have Steve Henry on here and he will attest and his timing and phasing analysis shows that there is a there's plenty of capacity on the adjacent roadway network.
Mr. Chairman Mariano.
Yeah, go ahead, Mike.
Um I just want for the record to uh state that I had a uh ex party ex uh meeting with Mr. Hobby over this.
And I provided this is Clark Hobby again, I provided to staff the ex parte forms for those of you all that I'm I met with.
Yes, all the ex parte forms are part of the record.
Okay.
Right, uh Roberto or Chris, anything else to be applicable?
No, I I like I would what Roberto said, it's good to see this type of development in that area. I appreciate the uh the consideration the developers doing with buffering the the development and keeping the the golf course that's on the uh on the perimeter. I think it's uh it's gonna be a great development for that area. So appreciate the developers' uh investment in that area.
No, I I echo that as well and I I did notice in the conditions there is also a um substandard road condition uh for Sea Pines Drive. So there's there's items of traffic as well as stormwater that are addressed in the conditions, so Thank you, Clark. Thank you. Anything else?
Mr. Karen, Michael Cox, I'll look for approval.
Second All right, just motion and a second. So no further discussion, we'll do a roll call vote.
Jamie Girardi. Aye. Michael Cox.
All right.
Roberto Saiz. Aye. Christopher Poole. Aye. Chris Williams?
Aye.
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.