CC Minutes 09/08/2008 WS - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

CASSELBERRY CITY COMMISSION Minutes of September 8, 2008 - Workshop Page 2 of 3 Mr. Paradise identified the following issues: • Sanitary Sewer - incomplete system along corridor • Boulevard to eventually transition to 6 -lane divided roadway • Ability to require minimum acreage for parcel development • Cross connection between parcels along the corridor • Lake protection • Retail -office mix percentile A copy of the presentation is attached to and made a part of these minutes. Discussion: Commissioner Solomon stated she envisioned a corridor development similar to Maitland Avenue with a buffer/green space next to the road and then the sidewalk, and preferred a professional office use. Commissioner Solomon also stated she would like to have consistent lighting along the corridor with a new urbanism look of multiple stories, with possible use of parking on the first floor and office space on the second floor. Commissioner Solomon also suggested providing incentives for utilizing zero-scaping and "green" development. Vice Mayor Hufford stated she felt pedestrian access was important, and preferred buffering of landscaping with trees next to the roadway to make the corridor truly look like a boulevard and then the sidewalk, similar to Maitland or Baldwin Park. Vice Mayor Hufford stated she preferred that parking be in the rear of the properties, and facades could be utilized to give consistency to the corridor if trade or warehousing type of uses are allowed to continue. Mr. Paradise stated some of the industrial design standards developed for the Belle Avenue area could be utilized for the overlay, if the Commission chose to allow for trade or warehousing activities. Vice Mayor Hufford was in favor of mixed use of residential on the second and third stories of a building. Mayor Goff stated the density and intensity needed to be increased along the corridor in order to encourage redesign and redevelopment of the properties. Commissioner Solomon agreed with Mayor Goff in that higher densities were needed along the corridor. Commissioner Miller stated he preferred a new urbanism look of two to three stories along the corridor with a mix of mostly commercial and office, and wanted to reduce the industrial and residential uses, unless there is a mixed use of residential on the second or third floor of a building. Commissioner Miller agreed that pedestrian and bicycle access was important, and also preferred the landscaping next to the road and then the sidewalk similar to Maitland and Baldwin Park. Commissioner Miller stated the corridor needed to be more business friendly with reduction in the parking ratios and setbacks, and increases to building lot coverage and impervious surface, while also having landscaping requirements, with more stringent landscape and buffer requirements for properties adjacent to lakes. Commissioner Miller stated he preferred that any allowed drive-thru activities be placed in the rear of the properties, and suggested prohibiting or limiting manufactured housing, foster homes, group homes, industrial, auto repair, tattoo parlors, gas station, day labor, and check cashing uses along the corridor. Vice Mayor Hufford stated she agreed with Commissioner Miller's suggestions regarding prohibited or limited use types along the corridor. Mr. Paradise noted that state statutes require if any type of residential use is allowed, then manufactured housing must also be permitted, but if residential use was limited to the second and third stories of a building, the probability of