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Oviedo staff says zoning ‘glitch’ — not a permanent bar — is blocking American Legion expansion
Summary
Council discussed why Oviedo Memorial Post 243 can’t expand: its parcel has a public future land-use designation while its zoning is residential-professional (RP), making expansion a nonconforming use; staff said the post may apply for a site-development order and rezoning to PLI or wait for the city’s pending 'glitch' ordinance that will rezone many incompatible parcels.
Oviedo City Council members on Nov. 17 revisited concerns from Oviedo Memorial Post 243 about the cost and timing of permitting for a planned building expansion.
A representative of Oviedo Memorial Post 243 told the council the post has served veterans since 1946 and said recent changes to the city’s land-development code left the nonprofit with an option to pay an $8,500 special-review fee or wait for a city “glitch” ordinance that would reconcile inconsistent land-use and zoning designations.
City staff explained the substantive issue: the property’s future land…
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