TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port Commission
FROM: Peter D. Lear, CPA, CGMA, City Manager
TITLE: Ordinance 2019-20, West Villages Index Map Amendment, VIA-19-064 (QUASI-JUDICIAL)
Recommended Action
Approval of the Amendment should include:
* The relocation of the section of Town Center in Village B located in the northwest quadrant of the intersection of U.S. 41 and River Road to the southeast quadrant will be maintained.
* Approval of the Index Map Amendment should not include the reduction of Town Center to the degree it is currently presented.
Recommended Action for Second Reading: Approve Ordinance 2019-20.
Staff continues to have concerns about the decrease in Town Center that is being seen in the West Villages and the difficulty that the City will have in gaining more nonresidential property in the future if this decrease is permitted.
Background Information
The first West Villages Index Map was originally adopted on August 8th, 2005. It has since been amended three times in 2007, 2016, and 2018.
On March 20, 2019 Katie LaBarr, as authorized agent for Martin P. Black, Chairman of the West Villages Improvement District, representing the West Villages Improvement District, submitted a petition to amend the West Villages Index Map. This amendment proposes changes to the overall Town Center and Village Center boundaries, changes to the Village boundaries, adds potential police/fire station location alternatives, and adds public use acreages on the map. It also adds Note 3 about the greenbelt framework, adds the language "...in accordance with the Principles of Agreement" to Note 4, and amends Note 10.
This petition was heard by the Planning and Zoning Advisory Board at their regularly scheduled June 20, 2019 meeting. There was discussion relating to the 200-acre reduction in Town Center acreage and staff's recommendation that approval of the petition should not include a reduction to that degree.
There was continued discussion o...
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