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Planning board narrowly recommends Paradise Palms RV park plan after heated public debate
Summary
The Planning and Zoning Board voted 3–2 to forward a small-scale plan amendment and rezoning for the Paradise Palms RV park (limit 138 RVs) to the county commissioners despite strong neighborhood opposition raising sewage, wetland and traffic concerns.
The Charlotte County Planning and Zoning Board on March 1 voted 3–2 to forward a pair of applications from Paradise Palms RB LLC — a small-scale plan amendment (PAS-24-04) and a planned-development rezoning (PD-24-11) — to the Board of County Commissioners, recommending approval with conditions after lengthy public comment and technical rebuttal from the applicant’s team.
Jay Shell of the Community Department summarized the requests: amend roughly 16.85 acres of the site to low-density residential with a base density limited to 16 units and annotate the land-use map to allow an RV park limited to 138 recreational vehicles; concurrently rezone portions from RE-1 and Commercial General to Planned Development. Shell told the board the proposed PD would authorize approximately 4.1 RVs per acre, include conditions preventing a transfer of density, require preservation of approximately 0.7 acres of Scrub-J habitat in perpetuity, and require on-site water and septic if central…
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