Transcript Unified Land Development Code

Public Workshop
March 20, 2012
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EAR-based Comprehensive Plan update
adopted April 5, 2011
Working with Revised Code since 2006 –
clarifications and updates needed
Legislative changes
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Board workshops to discuss working drafts
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Workshops with community organizations
or citizens as requested
◦ Met with Builders Association representatives
and attend monthly meetings
◦ Grow Gainesville, Rural Concerns, Affordable
Housing Advisory Committee
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Request to advertise
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Two Public Hearings
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 August
9, 2011
 October 11, 2011
 January 10, 2012
 February 28, 2012
 March 6, 2012
 March 20, 2012
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Reviewed Chapters 400-404
◦ Chapter 400 – General Provisions
◦ Chapter 401 – Development Review Bodies
◦ Chapter 402 – Development Application
Review Procedures
◦ Chapter 403 – Zoning Districts
◦ Chapter 404 – Use Regulations
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Chapter 405- Special Districts and Activity
Centers
Chapter 406 – Natural and Historic Resources
Chapter 408 – Nonconformities
Chapter 409 – Violations, Penalties, and
Enforcement
Chapter 410 – Definitions
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Article 1 Setbacks, Height and Other
Standards
◦ Section 407.01 Principal Building on Lot – Clarified
language
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Section 407.02 Permitted Building Area
◦ The principal building or buildings on any lot or
parcel…
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Article 1 Setbacks, Height and Other
Standards
◦ Section 407.05 Allowable Projections
Allowance for canopies, marquees, awnings or
for zero-lot-line developments to extend over
sidewalks, county rights-of-way, or other
property.
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Section 407.05 (b) Changed projection of
ingress/egress steps or ramps from three
feet to four feet to meet ADA requirements.
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Article 2 Parking, Loading and Stacking
◦ Section 407.19 (d) -Added ADA language
◦ Section 407.19(e) – Added language to not
require wheel stops for temporary grass parking
except where necessary to protect natural
resources
◦ Section 407.21(b) Parking Schedule
 Added language requiring any parking spaces in
excess of the required number must be
pervious or semi-pervious.
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Article 3 – Signs - article reformatted
◦ Deleted sections 407.36 and 407.36.5 Mixed Use and
TND/TOD Sign standards (now in Non-residential)
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Section 407.34 Signs Allowed for
Nonresidential Development
◦ 407.34(a)2. Changed allowance for freestanding signs
in Activity Centers and mixed use planned
developments from one sign per 400 feet of frontage
to one sign per driveway connection
◦ 407.34(a)3. Reduced the separation requirement
between signs from 300 feet to 250 feet.
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Article 4 Landscaping
◦ Reorganized for clarity
◦ Section 407.43(c)5. deleted “shrubs at variety of
heights
◦ Section 407.43.1(c) Landscaping in Paved Ground
Surface Areas :
 Section 407.43.1 (c) 3. Old - one tree per 10
spaces
 Deleted new language of a minimum of 40
square feet of landscaped area per parking
space – just meet 50% canopy requirement
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21’ wide island
20” trunk diameter
46’ wide crown
9’ wide island
9” trunk diameter
26’ wide crown
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7.5’ wide island
14” trunk diameter
34’ wide crown
Island backs up to open area
18” trunk diameter
50’ wide crown
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13.5’ wide island
13” trunk diameter
34’ wide crown
4’ wide island
6” trunk diameter
14’ wide crown
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5’ wide island
5” trunk diameter
12’ wide crown
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6’ wide island
4’ wide island
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St. Johns County
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Hillsborough County
◦ 15’ wide
◦ required for every 100’ of
unbroken pavement
◦ 17’ wide if island is not
abutting perimeter green
space
◦ 6’ wide if island is abutting
perimeter green space
◦ required for every 10
spaces in a row
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Indian River County
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Lake County
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Leon County
◦ 12’ wide
◦ 144sf and minimum
◦ 12% of parking must be
green space
◦ 12’ wide minimum
◦ 300 sf minimum space
◦ 12’ wide
◦ 400sf green space per
5,000sf VUA
Section 407.46 Required Irrigation
 Changed irrigation requirements to only apply to
required landscaping and only require a temporary
irrigation system.
 Require irrigation plans to be submitted with the
landscaping plans if the irrigation is going to be
permanent.
 Require use of reclaimed water where available and
encourage rainwater or stormwater reuse for irrigation
 Require trees to have individual low flow or microirrigation supplies and for the irrigation to be
discontinued once the trees or other plant materials are
established
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Table 407.50.1 Appropriate Tree Plantings
◦ Reduced all the 20 foot minimum tree planting
areas to 12 feet
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Article 5 Open Space
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Section 407.54 (c) TNDs, TODs, and Mixed-Use
Developments
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◦ Deleted Quality Mixed-Use Developments
◦ Combined regulations for open space for TNDs, TODs and
Mixed Use Developments into one place.
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Section 407.55 Designation of Open Space
◦ Added the word “primary” to modify
open space that shall be connected with
other open space when protection of the
resources can be maintained
◦ Section 407.55(b)1 Deleted the word
contiguous and replaced it with
connected
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Article 6 Performance Standards – no changes
◦ Fumes, glare, noise, Industrial standards
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Article 7 TND and TOD
◦ Major change in this article was to move language
from Section 407.70 Open Space, Civic Space and
Landscaping to Article 4 Landscaping and Article 5
Open Space to consolidate regulations for all
developments.
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Section 407.73(f)1 Clarified language concerning parent
tracts that are divided once without having to comply with the
subdivision regulations.
Section 407.77(b)1.a.vii. Added common renewable energy
systems to the list of permitted uses in open space areas for
Rural/Agriculture Clustered Subdivisions.
Section 407.83 Plat Document Requirements
◦ added amount of the required surety and acceptable
documentation
Section 407.86(c)2. a.
Clarified language for which documents are required to be
submitted when an applicant is requesting
the County to take over the maintenance of a facility
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Article 9 Stormwater Management
◦ No major changes – just clarifications
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Article 10 Building Design
◦ No changes
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Article 11 Potable Water, Wastewater and
Reclaimed Water Service
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Section 407.109
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Section 407.109(d) Granting of Exceptions
◦ DRC may authorize an exception for connection to
centralized water and sewer for certain non-residential
uses and for new residential uses designated Estate
Residential on the Future Land Use Map.
◦ This clarification is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan.
◦ Deleted requirement to install dry lines
◦ Added requirements use low-flow plumbing fixtures and
use the St. John’s River Water Management District’s Water
Star standards.
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Article 11 Potable Water, Wastewater and
Reclaimed Water Service
Section 407.116.5 Reclaimed Water Supply
◦ Added requirement that all new developments within
GRU’s reclaimed water service area shall provide
reclaimed water to areas to be irrigated within the
development
◦ Purpose is to encourage water conservation and require
the use of the lowest acceptable quality source of water
for landscape irrigation (reclaimed water).
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Article 12 Concurrency Standards
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Section 407.118 (d) 5
◦ Added list of types of residential development that
are exempt from concurrency requirements for
public school facilities.
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Article 13 Access Management
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Section 407.133 Required Information
◦ Clarified information required for all driveway
connection permits
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Section 407.136 Other Access Management
Considerations
◦ Added requirement that all left-turn storage lanes,
at a minimum must include the addition of paved
shoulders and a full-width asphalt overlay
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Article 13 Access Management
Section 407.141 (e) Minimum Design and Construction
Standards for Streets and Drainage Systems
◦ added more roadway classifications to provide more
variability in required pavement thickness.
Section 407.141(g) Drainage Systems
◦ 6. Roadside Swales
 Added new requirements for open drainage systems
(roadside swales)
Section 407.141(i) Intersection Design
◦ 4. Roundabouts and 5. Signal
 Added language for roundabouts and when a signal is
proposed to provide standards for current practice
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New Article 14 Lighting Standards
Added section on athletic field lighting that
would now apply to any athletic field not just
fields associated with educational facilities
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For questions, comments or suggestions:
Alachua County Department of Growth
Management
(352) 374-5249
[email protected]
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