TO: Development Review Committee
FROM: Benjamin J. Ziskal, AICP, CeCD, Director of Economic Development
DATE: February 14, 2017
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DRC NO. 02-17-02 CONSIDERATION OF A REZONING FOR FELLOWSHIP LIVING FACILITES INC.
LOCATION: 451, 461, & 471 BANKS ROAD
ZONING: COMMUNITY FACILITIES (CF-1) DISTRICT
LEGAL DESCRIPTION: A PORTION OF PARCEL A & B, BLOCK 1, LOTS 7 & 8, OF "LAKEWOOD GARDENS" ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 2, PAGE 78 OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA.
PETITIONER: CITY OF MARGATE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
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BACKGROUND: The petitioner is requesting to rezone 451, 461, and 471 Banks Road from Community Facilities (CF-1) District to Multiple Family Dwelling (R-3) District. The R-3 zoning designation would thereby create a legal nonconforming status which would maintain the surrounding residential neighborhood.
At the 12-23-14 DRC meeting the petitioner, Rick Riccardi, had requested a prior rezoning of these properties from R-3 to CF-1 to allow Fellowship Living Facilities to expand its capacity as a community facility to house men and women in recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. This item was brought forward and approved at the 3-3-15 Planning and Zoning meeting, approved at 1st reading at the 3-18-15 City Commission meeting, and approved at 2nd reading at the 4-1-15 City Commission meeting via Ordinance 2015-RZ-1. Copies of the minutes from the three meetings are attached.
Subsequent to this approval, staff had advised at a 11-22-16 Reasonable Accommodation meeting that the applicant would rezone these properties back to R-3; thereby, making all three properties legal nonconforming. This legal nonconforming status will maintain the residential neighborhood and be conducive to the surrounding properties and only allow R-3 uses as stipulated in the Code of Ordinances. Because of the legal nonconforming status, any future group care facility and/or hospital use would not be allowed. At the co...
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