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Commissioners approve NC Square amendment reducing required affordable units to 30% and removing daycare in exchange for larger neighborhood commercial area
Summary
Collier County commissioners on Tuesday approved companion amendments to the NC Square growth-management map and planned unit development, cutting the project's required affordability from 100% to 30% of the previously approved 129 units and trading a proposed 12,000-square-foot daycare for expanded neighborhood commercial space.
Collier County commissioners on Tuesday approved companion amendments to the NC Square planned unit development and the county's future land use element, allowing a previously approved 129-unit project to meet a 30% (rather than 100%) income-restricted affordability requirement while preserving roughly the previously approved commercial component.
The board's unanimous vote adopted both the growth management map amendment (item 9a) and the PUD amendment (item 9b). Commissioners also approved a staff-recommended change that removes a proposed 12,000-square-foot day care from the site plan and increases neighborhood-oriented commercial square footage to 50,000 square feet in trade.
Rich Ivanovich, representing the applicant, told the commission the developer had returned the project to the originally approved 129 for-sale units and "brought forward the change to reduce the percentage of affordable units to 30%." He said the changes kept the approved unit count, heights and buffers while restoring the…
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