Planning & Zoning Commission - Regular Meeting

call to order this evening's meeting of the sebastian city planning and zoning commission. it is thursday, september 4th 2025 and we will be with pledge of allegiance.

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roll call. please. yes. ms matthews. this kind are here mr carter present. mr. reno. miss battles here. if mr roberts show markham present. okay. announcements for this evening. commissioners. casey. and arctic tears from tonight's meetings for alternate members mr roberts when he arrives. and mr reno will voting in their place. we'd also like to offer our congratulations to ms cheri matthews who will be seated on the city council reno. you'll do a great job look forward to working with thank mister president.

thank you. i appreciate that has been a location thursday. it's been an honor. i've learned a lot from you guys. and i appreciate you. thank you for being willing to serve. okay. next item on our agenda is the approval of our minutes. the commissioners have had an opportunity to review the minute. if you have all reviewed them and have no questions or suggestion is for changes are will entertain a motion.

madam chairman. i'll make a motion that we accept the minutes. from the meeting of august 7th 2025. second that motion. okay. all in favor. i. any opposed chain. and that is. those minutes are accepted. thank you very much. moving right along. this evening. we have. public hearing and i would like quickly. explain to any of the public who wish to speak at tonight's meeting. we welcome your comments, your questions, your suggestions. but we do ask that you please submit a speaker's oath kurd. and will begin now. opening. the public hearing. attorney will please read the title.

thank you. i just wanted to say briefly, if i could before that just for the record, that mismatch is a member of the planning for tonight isn't. none of that is official. yet so we just don't want to affect the record here tonight. none of that is, you know, taken place that's to be determined in future and she's not subject to resigned to run tonight says she's valid member likely of the planning board. so i just want to establish that for the record. thank you. thank you. tonight we have a public hearing a large scale comprehensive plan. future land use amendment request by dr horton on behalf of hit henri fischer, applicant and amendment to the comprehensive plan future land use map for property contained a 148 0.5 8 acres formerly known as the vickers and mine located east of milan street west of the ftc railroad south of gilson in concord, avenues and north of beach cove mobile home park existing future land uses are and you mix used handling units per acre by an industrial and c, i indian river county commercial industrial requested future land uses ldr low density residential 5 dwelling units per acre. thank you.

we'll move to our staff presentation. there.

yes, this is request for a large scale to change comprehensive plan future land use map. it's a 140 acres large scale is 50 acres or more. so this is considered a large scale. it does require review by the state of florida and some other state agencies and some of our local surround communities will have the option to review this request and make comments if they have any. this is again stated a 140 acres. there's 85 acre lake in the middle of this with about 63 acres of a plant. it is a site formerly known as the vicar stand mind. they have completed all of the sand mining activities and are either done are in the process of closing out their saint john's water management district for that sand mining operation. a little bit of history on how we got where we are with regards to this property being having a land use the existing land use of mixed that mixed use land use is new to our comprehensive 2040 that we adopted in 2022 and deland just was kind of created to help develop our annexations to the south. the grace brothers and when this when we were reviewing the next houston. you were discussing it also, the city had kind of looked at some other kamala sites that may benefit from this mixed use new land use that would help development of their properties and this happened to be one of those sites. we have 3 other sites that also had kind of looked at and thought that the mixed use might benefit their development. and after speaking see property owner, he agreed that yes, we'd like to go ahead and sign this mixed use to this property which was done when we adopted the comprehensive plan. such the property is listed for sale. there is a potential developer and we have over the last months or so working through different plans and options that they would like and how they would develop

this. it started off with possibly a mix of residential meeting the mixed use land use intentions. but the final design that they would like to go forward with staff kind of let them know that we could not support our land use intentions for mixed use. and at that fork in the road. they had an option too, either redesigned go with another direction or come before you and ask you for a land use change with their proposed plan that would meet. i can let you know before the mixed use was applied to this granted as property. the land use was low density residential for most of it and area along the railroad tracks had an industrial land uses. so this is kind of requesting to go back to what it was before the mixed use was was given to through the comprehensive updated 2020. 22. there. there are. there are 10 parcels 7 of those belong to the sand mine in the lake area. there is another smaller one 0.4 7 acre parcel. that was annexed and also around 2020 one 22 it was given industrial land use and then also includes industrial park boulevard. and you can see from the maps were all these areas kind of are industrial park boulevard is a private road. and just a quick little update on that. that property was annexed in 1987. but when this application of these applications can florida. we're doing our research on the legal descriptions. it was discovered industrial park boulevard is actually 2 parcels and one of those parcels were inadvertently left off of the 1987 annexation agreement. so in january earlier this year, city council corrected that that air and annexed in the other portion of that road. it still has the county. that's the person that has the county

land use that any county ci. so the industrial, the county land use and the existing mixed uses all is what's being requested to change to the low density residential what is surrounding this right now is also of the heavy heading towards the land development to the west, to the north. it also has low density residential land use. there is some county mobile home parks with their their land use. we're going from mixed use, which is 10 units per acre. they're requesting low density residential just 5 units per acre. and i can let you know. probably with that lake, they're not gonna be able to get that 5 units per acre. so it will be less than that. what is required of the planning and zoning review this pro land development code in the staff report there is some condition criteria. you're supposed to consider in your deliberation staff has kuz building our staff report. there's also summary from the applicant. we feel that the request is definitely in compliance with the land development excuse me, the comprehensive plan intentions for land ldr it comp plan and staff is recommending approval. the projects pe and the project property owner property owners here questions and staff to if you have any questions regarding this. tonight's deliberation is just for the request of feet land use change. this is proposed to go before depending on your recommendation, it will go nuts. 10 of know it is scheduled for city council from september 24th and depending then if they prove the sun first reading. we will be then scheduling the actual rezoning and the conceptual plan. but then you'll be review that will be in one of your early meetings in october. so this is just again, just for the land use. and we're not considering anything regarding any of the design subdivision designer

anything at this at this hearing, just a land use. thank you very much. we will open it now for. public input. yes, unless you have any questions that you'd like that you have for the planning and zoning. but you can get that public input first and then. go back to

your provided it is so thorough that i keep forgetting that somebody might have a question, does anybody have your question here. commission. so, yeah, so i i have a question. access point says this property have currently. so that it would that would be more of a conceptual plan. question. but there is a does a man like art and their will. definitely right now there is 1, one existing industry park boulevard. but but how many roadways.

because it looks like to the north. it 6. lane maybe. to the west. there's if the consideration is to if we're going to do this land use that it would have accessibility. yes, we we definitely have determined that there will be 2 accesses to this with some may be some additional pedestrian access to it to the to the west.

anybody else from the public. anybody from the public who has comments either. in favor. anyone from the public. who has comments opposed. anybody on ju. no one is raise their hands at this time. thank you. final summer.

staff recommends approval of the request and that you make a recommendation of approval to city council. green is close to hearing them open. deliberation. no actions. i have no questions.

so my my only concern would in the current use mixed use. it allows for public access freely through the property. you know, if you have offices buildings, you know, different types the uses potentially there. i do know that the area kind of just south of here has a lot of access concerns. your that that areas very secluded from the rest of the. you know, city, so to speak. so i guess my. observation you know, up for discussion would be. potentially this would be. you know, with the change to load and say density residential potentially they can, you know, restrict access where is mixed use would be more of a. you know, access would be more free flowing. so that is one thing you really of. no, i just want to make. other than that. i think i agree with everything staff outlined makes sense. think

when when i look and that. that is a very good point because there's a bit of congestion. that will be addressed when we get to the conceptual plan. i am certain. so i have a question for the attorney then. in this. case, is there any kind of condition that we could put on. this rezoning from that standpoint words with that issue with. land rights.

out of the criteria that you're looking at. a nice just briefly. look. so i just also want to clarify. remember of land use can have various zone. so this is just the zoning excuse this is just the land. is. we'll be presenting. but with this low density residential, you can have our us 10 20 ari, 40 and residential pd. so i think through the rezoning and possibly again if it is apd with conceptual at that point. if there's any axis conditions of approval that you want to put on that. it would be through the rezoning and possibly platter conceptual. this is just the land use kind establishing the density of the property going forward.

so as long as it's meeting goals of the comprehensive plan. and it does talk about access to transportation. cetera, than it's already a hearing to the propose goals and objectives and policy. so you would have to make a finding that there was substantial competent evidence that they didn't meet that. in order to that. opinion. i i don't have a problem with the change.

i think it's a kind of an upgrade really glad to see industrial go away from that area. because i don't think it fits with the rest of their surroundings. and that's my comment chair. you have anything.

no, thank okay for have no further questions or comments we entertain a motion for years. madam make a recommendation. our make a motion for recommending to city council. question change. future land lbr low density residential. could we have a. roll call vote. please. yes.

miss battles. yes, kind bird. yes. miss matthews. mr, reno. yes, mr carter. yes. that is 5 to 0 in favor motion carries. thank you very much. we have no judicial hearings this evening. we have unfinished business. we have no new business. we are adjourned.