Stephanie Moreland

Planner

941-748-4501 ext. 3880

Recommended Motion:

Based upon the staff report, evidence presented, comments made at the Public Hearing, the action of the Planning Commission, and finding the request to be CONSISTENT with the Manatee County Comprehensive Plan and the Manatee County Land Development Code, as conditioned herein, I move to approve General Development Plan PDMU-12-04(G) with Stipulations A.1-A.4, B.1-B.3, and C.1-C.5; GRANT Special Approval for a project: 1) adjacent to a perennial stream and 2) exceeding a net density of nine dwelling units per acre in the RES-9 Future Land Use Cateogry (FLUC); as recommended by the Planning Commission.

(Commissioner DiSabatino)  

Manatee County Comprehensive Plan

Manatee County Land Development Code

• Royal Palm LLC, applicant for Royal Palm Condominiums/Apartments, requests approval of a General Development Plan for 216 multi-family residential units.   The site is on the east side of U.S. 301, and west side of 33rd Street East approximately 1,008 feet south of S.R.70, Bradenton. 

• The 38.49± acre site is in the RES-9 (Residential, nine dwelling units per acre) Future Land Use Category (FLUC).  The proposed gross density of 5.61 is consistent with the RES-9 FLUC. The site is a part of a planned development mixed use project that received General Development Plan [PDMU-99-06(Z)(G) approval in 1999.  

• In 2006, the Board of County Commissioners granted Preliminary Site Plan approval for 74 single-family attached residences on the subject site.  The approved Final Site Plan will expire on 12/14/2014.

• The project will consist of nine three-story buildings, 35 feet tall maximum.   Each building will have 24 units, a minimum 750 square feet in size.

• The project has one main entrance connecting 33rd Street East.  The southern access is a full emergency access, allowing residents egress only.  There are no inter-neighborhood ties proposed.  No access is proposed to U.S. 301, a limited access facility.

• The project is in the A and X Flood Zone Categories.  There are 2.06± acres of wetlands on the site.  No impacts to the wetlands and wetland buffers are proposed.

• Staff shares some compatibility concerns with this project (relative to building mass and scale) locating next to a single-family residence on agricultural property.  The concerns are not to the degree that the project can be found to be incompatible with existing development patterns and zoning of nearby properties.  This parcel is bordered to the north by a similar multi-family use.  Further north are commercial uses along S.R. 70 and to the south, east, and west are residential uses.  

• The General Development Plan shows a six-foot tall fence will be installed along the north side of the 50-foot wide buffer to the south, separating the adjacent residence.  Traffic concerns will be addressed with future Preliminary and Final Site Plans.

• There are no known historic or archaeological resources on the site. 

• Staff recommends approval with stipulations. 

• On August 9, 2012, by a vote of 6 – 0, the Planning Commission recommended approval with the inclusion of Stipulation A.4 (relative to design conformance). A public comment summary is in the staff report attached to this memo.