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CASSELBERRY CITY COMMISSION Minutes of July 25, 2022 — Regular Meeting Page 17 of 20 business, car washes, chinches, community centers, child and adult day care facilities, docks, golf courses, commercial amusement, commercial kitchens, drive-through establishments, large retail establishments, micro- brewery/micro-winery, parking lots, restaurants, service stations, vehicular sales, vehicular part sales, veterinary medical services, television and radio broadcasting, bakeries, light manufacturing, building materials, self -storage, and footnotes to define permitted uses, as well as pharmacy criteria o Amends Table 2-5.4 (land use & dimensions) — Increases the standards for the PMX- High zoning district to allow for mid -rise mixed-use buildings within the City ■ Increases the density within PMX-High district from 30 units per acre to 80 units per acre ■ Increases the intensity within the PMX-High district from 1.5 floor area ratio to 2.0 floor area ratio ■ Consistent with amendments to the Future Land Use Element o Oxford Park Overlay District (OPOD) — Adds in Mid -rise dwellings with mixed uses and large retail establishments as permitted uses o Removes residential density bonuses, as maximum density is proposed to be increased City-wide in the PMX-High zoning district through a separate ordinance o Removes many of the architectural and building design standards from the OPOD and refers to criteria provided in the City's Commercial Design Standards o Vehicular Services — amends Section 2-7.27 to add large retail establishments to the zoning district The proposed amendments are consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan and State Growth Management Act; create consistency of land uses on the tables, in the Code and their definitions; update the City's regulations for land uses in keeping with existing development patterns in the City; and permit land uses existing, proposed, and vests land uses. City staff is requesting that the City Commission provide direction on whether to bring the proposed ordinances that capture all these amendments forward to the Planning and Zoning Commission and ultimately to the City Commission for potential adoption. If so directed, staff will schedule consideration of the proposed ordinances for the August 10t11 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting and then to the City Commission thereafter at the appropriate regularly scheduled meetings. Discussion: Discussion ensued regarding the need to attract quality developers to develop within the City; whether there is any potential for fast -tracking the adoption process for the proposed ordinances; importance of increasing density and intensity to allow for development, but also to retain the City's green spaces; potential benefit of new development to the City and its citizens; and the importance of keeping any development environmentally friendly. Ms. Reischmann clarified that in the proposed ordinances existing land uses are permitted and are not only grandfathered in but are not considered non -conforming, so they will maintain all the protections they currently have under the existing land use. The ordinances also include a provision that allows for staff to individually notify businesses that may be affected by the amendments in order to make certain no one is negatively impacted. All of the Commissioners expressed appreciation to Ms. Reischmann and City staff for their work on these proposed amendments which they felt would take the City to the next level as far as being competitive with the surrounding cities in bringing in new development to the City. Ms. Reischmann clarified for the record that the increase in density and intensity possibly resulting in multi -story buildings would occur only along the U.S. Highway 17-92 and State Road 436 corridors and would not extend into the neighborhoods and green spaces.