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Board approves several zoning and land‑use changes, including daycare rezoning on Blanding Boulevard
Summary
The Clay County Board approved multiple zoning and land‑use items Jan. 13, including a small‑scale comprehensive plan amendment and rezoning for a 10,000‑square‑foot daycare on Blanding Boulevard, a countywide land‑development code amendment (zero‑lot‑line/RC sunset), and a Lake Asbury interchange zoning change.
At its Jan. 13 meeting the Clay County Board of County Commissioners approved a slate of zoning and land‑use items, including a small‑scale comprehensive‑plan amendment and companion rezoning that will allow a 10,000‑square‑foot daycare facility on a vacant parcel east of an existing hospice on Blanding Boulevard.
Jenny Bridal, the county’s zoning chief, summarized staff findings and noted the application had gone before the Planning Commission (which recommended approval 7–0). Andrew Johnson, project manager with Insight Real Estate, said the applicant will use the existing driveway access to the hospice facility and is coordinating with the St. Johns River Water Management District on stormwater basin expansion; he said a traffic study is being coordinated with FDOT.
Separately, the board approved a staff‑initiated amendment to the Land Development Code to permit an attached single‑family product with a 0‑foot side yard (a “zero lot line” product) in the RD district and to sunset the RC zoning district. Staff said the change removes outdated definitions, aligns local code with state statute definitions for multifamily dwellings, and aims to improve clarity for infill development; the Planning Commission recommended approval 7–0.
The board also approved a zoning code amendment for Lake Asbury’s Interchange Village Center to increase the maximum permitted commercial acreage from 40% to 65%, matching a prior comprehensive‑plan action and enabling more commercial uses in the interchange area.
Votes on the comp‑plan amendment, rezoning and code updates were taken separately; staff recorded no public opposition during the hearings and the board approved the items on motion and second. Commissioners asked staff clarifying questions about allowable uses, buffers adjacent to residential property, and shared site access; staff responded that a B10 buffer will be required where the daycare adjoins residential uses and that the existing driveway access will be used for the proposed daycare site.
Ending: Staff will proceed with the previously scheduled zoning map and code updates; the board did not ask for additional studies beyond the planned traffic and stormwater coordination.
