Commission tables rezoning request for Sebring Masonic Lodge at 1809 Home Avenue

The City of Sebring Commission on first reading tabled two companion ordinances — 15-36 and 15-37 — that would change the future land use and zoning for a 1.38-acre parcel at 1809 Home Avenue, the site of the Sebring Masonic Lodge.

City planner Jennifer Cotto Salisbury of the Central Florida Regional Planning Council presented the item as a future land use map amendment and rezoning for the Masonic Lodge property. Salisbury said the site is about 1.4 acres, contains roughly 7,290 square feet of structure with parking, is presently designated with a public future land use and R-1 zoning, and that the proposed commercial land use would allow a C-1 zoning consistent with that commercial designation.

The change would permit a range of nonresidential uses and, under the comprehensive plan’s commercial future land use, a residential density up to 40 units per acre. Salisbury summarized staff analysis including water availability,…