BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS LEON COUNTY, FLORIDA

PCM130105 DISC Village
Originally established as a Drug Information Service Center (DISC) on the grounds of Florida
State University, DISC Village established in 1971 one of the state's first therapeutic
communities for adolescents. This therapeutic community provides services for delinquent
adolescent males and substance abusing adults on a residential services campus in Woodville,
Florida. The Woodville Campus, approximately 15 miles south of Tallahassee, includes several
program buildings, an educational/vocational facility, recreational building, sports areas and a
ROPES course, community meeting space, central nursing center, and an administrative
building. The campus serves as a location for both juvenile and adult residential programs.
Clients may be voluntary or court-ordered to the programs on this campus.
The applicant has stated that the funding sources that have historically supported the DISC
Village are declining over time. Therefore, in order to keep the facilities and land intact, it is
necessary for the Village to change its focus and use. The market for personal services for a
facility the size and type of the Village is in senior citizen residential-based care, which is a
growing market nationwide. The proposed land use change and accompanying rezoning is
intended to allow more flexibility for the reuse and redevelopment of the Village and a 99.6 acre
parcel immediately west of the subject property into a residential and nursing home facility for
senior citizens. The applicant is proposing to provide a mix of independent and assisted living
facilities, including nursing services and extended congregate care facilities. This will include the
conversion of one or more of the existing DISC Village buildings into facilities to serve the daily
care needs of the anticipated resident population, and the construction over time of several
hundred residential “cottages” for senior citizens who are able to and prefer to remain
independent. A more reduced version of the present DISC Village would be relocated to the
northeast portion of the subject property.
The requested zoning is a Planned Unit Development (PUD) for the subject property and the coowned
parcel to the west. The applicant proposes to work with the County’s Department of
Development Support and Environmental Management to develop a PUD concurrent with the
proposed land use amendment.
Existing FLUM & Zoning
The subject parcels are within the unincorporated area and have a current Future Land
Use Map (FLUM) and zoning designation of Rural. This area is characterized by lowdensity
residential housing and larger parcels utilized for silvicultural activities.
Rural/Agriculture (Rural 1 ) Land Use
The Rural land use category is characterized by largely undeveloped acreage remotely
located away from urbanized areas containing the majority of the County's present
agricultural, forestry and grazing activities. These areas are intended to maintain and
promote present and future agriculture land uses, and prohibit residential sprawl into
remote areas lacking basic urban infrastructure services. They are not intended to be
scheduled for urban activity during the Plan Horizon due to lack of present and/or
scheduled urban infrastructure services.
The Rural FLUM designation is further characterized by very low residential density (1
unit per 10 acres) and minimal commercial uses designed to service basic household
needs of adjacent residents, as well as passive recreational land uses. Industrial and
1 Leon County refers to this category as "Rural" only.
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