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Planning board transmits Governors Park expansion to add GBAR Ranch, shifts commercial and park commitments
Summary
The board transmitted a comprehensive‑plan amendment to add about 1,265 acres (GBAR Ranch) to the Governors Park DRI/PUD, increasing commercial entitlements near the expressway, removing a planned light‑industrial allocation and expanding park acreage to about 100 acres.
The Clay County Planning Board voted to transmit Comp26‑0009, a comprehensive‑plan amendment to expand the Governors Park DRI/PUD to include approximately 1,265 acres of the former GBAR Ranch. Staff said the amendment does not add new residential entitlements but shifts the mix of uses — reducing light industrial and some hotel rooms while increasing commercial square footage near the Clay Dairy Parkway/1st Coast Expressway interchange.
Staff noted the proposal keeps existing development order conditions and that companion applications — an amended development order and PUD modifications — will return for adoption in September. Planner Ray Spofford and applicant representatives described planned roadway connectivity and infrastructure phasing that will accompany the expansion.
Applicant Kevin Kramer said there is strong commercial demand in the southern part of the county and that the project team is negotiating contracts with commercial developers and medical users for space near the interchange. "We've had commercial buyers come in that want to buy every bit of commercial that we have right now," he said.
Commissioners asked about affordability (noting a shift from multifamily to more single‑family entitlements), potential loss of light industrial land, hotel room reductions and where water would come from for an 18‑hole golf course if the course is ultimately built. Applicant's team said the golf course remains in the PUD but they have not decided on water sourcing and that increased park acreage (from roughly 24 acres to about 100 acres) is proposed as part of the PUD modification.
A motion to transmit Comp26‑0009 was made and seconded; the board voted to transmit the amendment to the County Commission for state review. Staff and applicant said the PUD amendment and development‑order revisions will return in September for adoption and for the board to review final layouts and conditions.
