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Seminole County approves rezone, land-use change for Oviedo Colored Schools Museum
Summary
The Board of County Commissioners unanimously approved a small-scale future land use amendment and rezone to plan development for a 0.12-acre historic building in Jamestown so it can reopen as the Historic Oviedo Colored Schools Museum, with conditions addressing parking and hours.
The Seminole County Board of County Commissioners on April 8 unanimously adopted a small-scale future land use map amendment and rezone to plan development (PD) for a 0.12-acre parcel in the Jamestown subdivision so a historic building can be restored and operated as the Historic Oviedo Colored Schools Museum.
The change converts the property's future land use from medium-density residential to plan development and reclassifies the zoning from R-1 (single-family) to PD. The applicant, Judith Dolores Smith, and county planning staff said the move is intended to allow restoration and public use of a roughly 1,100-square-foot structure that documents the history of African American schools in Oviedo from 1913 to 1967.
Planning staff found the site met the county's plan-development criteria despite the property's small size and constrained layout. "Staff finds the plan development feature land use designation and the PD zoning…
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