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Planning board recommends denial of Price Creek 111.6-acre comprehensive plan amendment and rezoning
Summary
The Lake City Planning and Zoning Board recommended denial of a large-scale comprehensive plan amendment (CPA 25-10) and companion rezoning (Z 25-12) that would change 111.6 acres along Price Creek Road from a Columbia County residential/rural designation to a city industrial designation.
The Lake City Planning and Zoning Board recommended that the City Council deny a large-scale comprehensive plan amendment (CPA 25-10) and the companion rezoning (Z 25-12) to change 111.6 acres north of Southeast State Road 100 and adjacent to Southeast County Road 245/245A from Columbia County residential/rural designations to a City industrial designation.
Richard Benderson, principal planner for growth management, told the board staff had concluded the proposed large-scale amendment was "inconsistent with policy I 1.4 of the city's comprehensive plan" because the city currently lacks access to the public utilities needed to serve the site even though the treatment plants have capacity. "We have capacity. We just don't have access to get to it," Benderson said.
The applicant's representative, Brandon Stubbs, planning and grants manager for North Florida Professional Services, and other applicant materials argued the property is contiguous to existing industrial land…
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