1976-05-11 BCC Meeting Minutes - Orange County Comptroller

Meeting May 11, 1976 Page 350
Planning
and
Zoning
Appeal
Review
Interstate
Four
Notice having been given that the Board of County Commissioners would sit
as a Board of Appeal to hear those for or against the action of the Orange
County Planning and Zoning Commission on request by Interstate Four, Inc.,
for a Change of Zoning Classification from R-CE to C-1 on the following
described property:
S 500ft. of SW 1/4 of NE 1/4lying NWly of Interstate Highway 4
and S 500ft. of SE 1/4 of NW 1/4 (less W 30ft. for R/W)
Sec. 22, Twp. 24 S, Rge 28 E, which is located East side of
Magnolia Rd., 750 ft. East and 150 ft. South of Apopka Vineland
Road and Winter Garden Vineland Road (St. Rd. 535) and lying
Northwesterly of Interstate Hiway 4
and the hour having arrived, Chairman Martin called on the Zoning Director
to locate the subject parcel on aerial map.
The Planning and Zoning Commission had denied the request a public hearing
in that it would permit a commercial intrusion into a low-density single
family residential district and further, access is not suitable to permit
neighborhood retail commercial development, and further this request is not
consistent with the policy of encouraging compact commercial development
at major intersections.
Zoning Director Jim Smart located the subject property on the map, stating
that it was presently zoned RCE and undeveloped; immediately to the West an
at the intersection they have C1 zone on all four corners; RCE immediately
to the North undeveloped and immediately to the South is Reedy Creek Improve
ment District.
Mr. King Helie, representing the applicant James Morgan, stated that they
were appealing the decision of the staff which denied a public hearing, and
they feel that they should have the opportunity to go before the Planning and
Zoning in public hearing to present their case. Mr. Helie stated that they wer
asking for commercial in an area that has been well established for commercial
node for many years. He said that he did a report in 1970 that identified
this area as commercial node, and the County Land Use Plan shows it.
Chairman Martin stated that there is RCE to the North, West and South -
South Reedy Creek Improvement District.
Mr. Helie stated that to the West of their site is commercial -also church
property. He called attention to Lake Buena Vista area with motels already
built. He said that they were only talking about 18 acres.
Meeting May 11, 1976