PLANNING & ZONING BOARD/LOCAL PLANNING AGENCY AGENDA ITEM
Memo Date: July 2, 2024
Agenda Date: July 11, 2024
Prepared By: Jennifer Webster - Planner, City of Cocoa
Through: Stockton Whitten - City Manager
Requested Action:
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Consideration of a City-initiated Zoning Map Amendment to change the Zoning category of (18) parcels of real property totaling approximately 3.1 acres from City of Cocoa RU-1-7 "Single-Family Residential" to C-N "Neighborhood Commercial"..End
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BACKGROUND:
This rezoning request to C-N is being made concurrently with Ordinance 08-2024 which is the request to change the Future Land Use (FLU) category of these parcels from "Commercial" to "Neighborhood Commercial". For purposes of further discussion, this report assumes that this request has been received and granted by the Board. The subject parcels are located along Cocoa Place, west of the intersection of Cocoa Place and North Cocoa Blvd, as shown in the attached Exhibit "A". The subject parcels have been developed and platted as a single-family residential neighborhood since 1959. Single-family residential as a land use is not compatible or permissible within the current Commercial FLU. Furthermore, RU-1-7 is not an allowable zoning district within the Commercial FLU. See Zoning Map, Exhibit "B". It was recently brought to the City's attention that one of the properties' primary structures was completely lost due to a fire. Because the lot is now vacant, a single-family residence cannot be reconstructed until the future land use and zoning designations are consistent and are established such that single-family residential is an allowable use.
Although the subject parcels have existed in the City since approximately 1959, the lot dimensions are considered nonconforming to the City's current development standards for the RU-1-7 zoning district. Particularly, the lot widths are only 60', where the minimum required lot width for RU-1-7 is now 75'. However, in accordance wi...
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