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Lake City board tables rezoning request for Laurel Lane, asks staff to pursue LDR text change
Summary
After heated public comment and competing staff findings, the Planning and Zoning Board on May 13 voted to table a rezoning petition for two parcels on Southwest Laurel Lane pending a possible text amendment to the city's land-development regulations that would allow commercial-neighborhood (CN) zoning on neighborhood streets.
The Lake City Planning and Zoning Board on May 13 voted to table a rezoning petition (Z25-03) filed by Florida First Coast Investment Corp. that would change two parcels on Southwest Laurel Lane from Residential Single-Family (RSF-3) to Commercial Neighborhood (CN).
City staff recommended denial, saying the comprehensive plan and land-development regulations require CN zoning to be located on roads designated as collectors or arterial roadways. Staff cited the comprehensive-plan policy IDET 1.5 (paragraph 2) and section 4.110.1 of the land-development regulations and concluded the street is a low-traffic, no-outlet residential lane and not appropriate for CN.
Carol Chadwick, P.E., the applicant's agent, and several residents, including property…
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