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Board approves multiple zoning and land-use actions, adopts subdivision code amendment and closes road
Summary
The commissioners approved two zoning changes to low-intensity commercial, a large-scale comp-plan amendment to suburban transitioning on a 48-acre parcel, an amendment to subdivision regulations, and a road-closure resolution; votes were recorded across several motions.
Wakulla County commissioners approved a package of planning, zoning and land-use actions, and adopted an amendment to the county's land-subdivision regulations during the meeting.
Zoning actions: The board approved two separate change-of-zoning applications to designate property as low-intensity commercial. The first (R25‑04) rezoned two parcels totaling just under 3 acres at 49 Ivan Church Road and 2120 Crawfordville Highway (the former Lindy's property and an adjacent lot); the motion passed 5-0. The second (R25‑05) rezoned about 11.7 acres on the northwest side of Ivan Church Road at 82 Ivan Church Road; that motion also passed 5-0. An applicant, AJ Peace, said he planned to expand an existing batting facility on a property he owns nearby.
Comprehensive plan amendment: The board held a public hearing and transmitted a large-scale comprehensive plan map amendment (CPM25‑02) to change roughly 48.1 acres at 562 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Road from Agriculture to Suburban Transitioning. Staff said the site contains about 4.8 acres of wetlands and 43.3 acres of uplands; the requested suburban-transitioning land use permits up to 5 dwelling units per acre with central water and sewer. The board approved the transmittal by a 4-1 vote.
Subdivision regulations and road closure: The board adopted an ordinance amending Chapter 7, Article 2 of the Land Development Code to comply with recent state law changes affecting final plats and replats (Senate Bill 784); that ordinance passed 5-0. The board also approved a resolution to close and abandon a roadway in the Panacea Mineral Springs subdivision (RC25‑01); the closure passed 5-0.
Planning staff reminded interested neighbors that site-plan and conditional-use rules, landscape-buffer requirements and administrative review processes will apply to future development proposals, and recommended interested residents sign up as interested parties for notification.
