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Lee County planners recommend, commissioners approve 'Surf Style' map amendment to add mixed-use overlay
Summary
Lee County staff recommended and the board approved a privately initiated small-scale map amendment (called 'Surf Style') to redesignate part of a property from Suburban to Urban Community and extend the Mixed Use Overlay across the site; staff said utilities raised no objections and the change remains subject to coastal high-hazard mitigation rules.
Lee County commissioners approved a privately initiated small-scale map amendment known in the packet as “Surf Style,” adopting a unified future land-use designation of Urban Community for part of the subject parcel and extending the county’s Mixed Use Overlay across the property. The action carried by voice vote after staff and the Local Planning Agency recommended approval.
Staff planner Kate Burgess told the board the amendment would redesignate a portion of the property from Suburban to Urban Community and add the parcel to the Mixed Use Overlay, allowing future development to follow mixed-use overlay standards. “This is a privately initiated amendment,” Burgess said during her presentation, and she displayed maps showing the overlay currently ending north of Pine Ridge Road and the proposed overlay extending across the site.
Burgess said the subject site is surrounded by commercial, industrial and residential uses and that the proposal is consistent with the Lee Plan’s policies describing Urban Community areas. She also noted the parcel lies within the coastal high-hazard zone and that staff reviewed relevant plan policies that limit increases in density there. According to staff, “no additional density is allowed by right, and any proposed density would have to meet all of the mitigation requirements” in the cited policies.
Staff reported that utility and infrastructure providers submitted no objections to the amendment and that both staff and the Local Planning Agency recommended adoption. A commissioner moved approval and the chair seconded; the board received no public comment and approved the amendment with the clerk’s notation “Motion carries.”
The board did not record a roll-call vote in the transcript. The approval means the parcel will carry Urban Community future land-use and be subject to the Mixed Use Overlay standards; any future site-specific development proposals will still need to comply with coastal hazard mitigation requirements and applicable permitting.
