TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port City Commission
FROM: A. Jerome Fletcher II, ICMA-CM, MPA, City Manager
SUBJECT: Consideration of Petition No. CIP-23-052, City of North Port Utilities Administration and Field Operations Complex Development Master Plan (QUASI-JUDICIAL)
Recommended Action
The City Commission approve CIP-23-052, City of North Port Utilities Administration, and Field Operations Complex Development Master Plan with waivers and conditions.
General Information
Tim Hancock, AICP, Stantec Consulting Services, on behalf of the property owner, the City of North Port, submitted a Development Master Plan application for a Capital Improvement Project (CIP) to the Planning and Zoning Division. The application proposes to develop a ? 17.31-acre site for the new City of North Port Utilities Administration and Field Operations Complex, a government-use development.
The property for the new complex was purchased in 2022 for $2,930,584.25. Funding in the amount of $17,230,000.00 has been budgeted under CIP project number U18UAB. Construction is anticipated to be completed in early 2025.
The development will consist of two phases. The first phase will include a 13,100-square-foot administration building. The warehouse and operations building will comprise approximately 26,750 square feet and connect to the administration building by a breezeway. The warehouse and operations building will only be accessible to employees and vendors for deliveries. A future expansion of the warehouse is expected to be constructed at a later date and will add 6,157 square feet of additional warehouse space. The site will be accessed from both Children Way and a permanent access easement south of the site from Pan American Blvd.
The property owner requests eight modifications of regulations (waivers) from the ULDC and the Urban Design Standards Pattern Book (UDSPB) for Activity Center Design Regulations, buffers, wall meandering, parking, street frontage, an...
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