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Developer seeks rezoning for 89‑lot subdivision near Morse and Seaboard
Summary
A developer has filed a comprehensive plan amendment and a rezoning application to convert nearly 10 acres at Morse and Seaboard into a planned unit development of 89 single‑family lots (about 9.2 units per acre); city staff said applications are under sufficiency review and will follow a four‑stage public hearing process.
Hayden Phillips, an attorney with Rogers Towers, told city planning staff that his client has filed two applications to allow a planned unit development on nearly 10 acres at the northwest quadrant of Morse Avenue and Seaboard Avenue.
"The proposed use is a total of 89 30 foot wide single family detached lots," Phillips said, adding that the layout comes to about 9.2 units per acre.
The applications include a comprehensive plan (land use) amendment to change the land use category from LDR (low density residential) to MDR (medium density residential) and a rezoning from residential rural acre (RR Acre) to a planned unit development (PUD). Philips said the site is inside the I-295 Loop, utilities are available on Seaboard Avenue, and the project lies about 0.25 miles from Blanding Boulevard, an FDOT principal arterial.
Erin Abney, chief of current planning for the Planning Department, confirmed the land use and zoning issues the applicant identified and explained why both changes are needed. "Low density residential would allow for a maximum of 7 units per acre," Abney said, while the MDR category allows up to 20 units per acre. She also noted that the applicant's requested 30‑foot lot widths are narrower than the RLD‑40 district's 40‑foot minimum, and a PUD is the appropriate vehicle to request smaller lots: "They are doing a PUD because...this would be the only avenue to ask for those types of lot sizes."
Phillips said the PUD site plan includes a buffer along the western property edge where a pond is located; he said that buffer is the only area where the project abuts existing single‑family homes. He also noted a church immediately north of the parcel.
Abney said the applications are currently in a sufficiency review with the Planning Department and staff is waiting on the applicant to pay fees and indicate when to proceed. She outlined a sequence of public hearings that the project will follow if the applicant advances it: Planning Commission, City Council, the Land Use and Zoning subcommittee (LUZ), and a final return to the council for a vote.
No formal motions or votes were taken at the meeting. Phillips said the purpose of the session was to provide information and answer questions; no public comments or community objections were captured in the transcript.
Next steps: the applicant must complete the submittal requirements and pay required fees before staff will schedule the public hearings described by planning staff.
