CITY OF TALLAHASSEE
CITY COMMISSION AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED ON: February 11, 2009
SUBJECT/TITLE: Introduction of Ordinance No. 09-O-06; Proposed Amendment to the Land Development Regulations to Amend the Appropriate Sections of Chapter 10 to Implement Comprehensive Plan Reform.
TARGET ISSUE: N/A

STATEMENT OF ISSUE
Introduction of Ordinance No. 09-O-06; Proposed Amendment to the Land Development Regulations amending the appropriate sections of Chapter 10 to implement Comprehensive Plan Reform. This ordinance implements the changes from Comprehensive Plan amendments, 2005-1-T-35, 2005-2-T-026, and 2006 2 T-09.

RECOMMENDED ACTION
Option 1: Introduce Ordinance No. 09-O-06 and set February 25, 2009 as the first of two public hearings and March 25, 2009 as the second and final public hearing.

FISCAL IMPACT
This Ordinance will be implemented through the existing land development processes in the Growth Management Department. No new costs have been identified.

Wayne Tedder, Director, Tallahassee-Leon County Planning Department

Anita Favors Thompson, City Manager

For information, please contact: Mary Jean Yarbrough, Senior Planner, Phone: 891-6400.

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL/ISSUE ANALYSIS
HISTORY/FACTS & ISSUES

July 20, 2005: Comprehensive Plan Amendment 2005-1-T-35 became effective, adding a new FLUM category titled, “Urban Residential.” (Attachment 2)

December 29, 2005: Comprehensive Plan Amendment 2005-2-T-026 became effective, deleting the outdated Leon County-City of Tallahassee Water & Sewer Agreement and replacing it with updated objectives and policies pursuant to the new Water and Sewer Agreement (Approved May 2005). (Attachment 3)

March 14, 2007: Comprehensive Plan Amendment 2006-2-T-09 became effective, removing the three Mixed-Use FLUM categories from the Comprehensive Plan and adding Urban Residential 2, and Suburban as new future land use map categories (Attachment 4). This amendment also removed Critical Planning Area and Target Planning Area FLUM categories from the Comprehensive Plan and replaced with the newly created Planned Development FLUM category.

February 3, 2009: The Tallahassee-Leon County Planning Commission conducted a public hearing to review the proposed Ordinance No 09-O-06 for consistency with the Tallahassee-Leon County Comprehensive Plan. The Planning Commission’s recommendation will be provided in the City Commission public hearing agenda item.

February 25 and March 25, 2009: This Ordinance is scheduled for the first and second City Commission public hearings.

The proposed amendment will:

• Make the affected zoning districts consistent with the Comprehensive Plan by removing all references to the Mixed-Use FLUM categories.
  
• Clarify that the affected zoning districts are intended to be located in areas designated as Urban Residential, Urban Residential 2, or Suburban FLUM categories; and add the new FLUM policies from the Comprehensive Plan to the indicated zoning districts (See Attachment 5).
• Replace Target Planning Area and Critical Planning Area zoning districts with the new Planned Development zoning district.
  
• Make the affected zoning districts consistent with the Comprehensive Plan by removing references to old Sanitary Sewer policies and replacing with new policies.
  
• Make Sections 10-6.602, 10-6.631 and 10-6.697 of the land development regulations consistent with the Comprehensive Plan by removing all references to the Mixed Use FLUM categories and replacing them with new FLUM categories.
  
• Add “dvds” to the rental and sales of video tapes and games use already established in the Commercial-1, Commercial 2, Commercial Parkway, Urban Pedestrian-1 and Urban Pedestrian-2 zoning districts.

CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS
Not applicable

OPTIONS

1. Introduce Ordinance No. 09-O-06 and set February 25, 2009 as the first of two public hearings and March 25, 2009 as the second and final public hearing.

2. Do not introduce Ordinance No. 09-O-06.

3. Provide staff alternative direction.

ATTACHMENTS/REFERENCES

Attachment 1: Proposed Ordinance No. 09-O-06
Attachment 2: Staff report for Comp Plan Amendment 2005-1-T-35
Attachment 3: Staff report for Comp Plan Amendment 2005-2-T-026
Attachment 4: Staff report for Comp Plan Amendment 2006-2-T-09
Attachment 5: Comprehensive Plan Policies