Titusville panel denies request to remove Wendover Farms concept plan over access concerns

The Titusville Planning and Zoning Commission on March 19 voted 4–1 to deny a request to remove a binding concept plan and related conditions from property identified as Wendover Farms on Cheney Highway, citing unresolved access and traffic concerns for adjacent neighborhoods.

City staff told the commission the applicant sought to remove a previously adopted concept plan and its conditions so the parcel could develop under standard regional commercial (RC) zoning. Staff said many of the conditions (including a development agreement, habitat-management references and a requirement to submit traffic studies to Brevard County and the Florida Department of Transportation) are redundant with state or federal regulations or otherwise unnecessary. "Removal of the binding concept plan and conditions will permit the applicant to develop under the standard RC zoning," a city staff presenter said during the meeting.

Commissioners and members of the public focused discussion on whether the subject property has lawful, practical access to State Road 50 (Cheney Highway) and whether the recorded access easement to the north would satisfy the RC districtlocational and access criteria. Randall Wilhite, president of the Windover Farms Community Association, told the panel the association supported development in…