AGENDA ITEM REPORT
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A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE SITE PLAN REQUEST SUBMITTED BY APOSTOLIC MISSION OF CHRIST, INC. FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 2730 HAMMOCK BOULEVARD, LEGALLY DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT "A," ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF. (QUASI-JUDICIAL)(PUBLIC HEARING)
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BACKGROUND:
The property owner, Apostolic Mission of Christ, Inc. ("Apostolic Mission"), is seeking site plan approval for the development of a house of worship, in accordance with Chapter 13, Land Development Code, and with the Lyons West Planned Unit Development (PUD) zoning regulations. The previous owner, the Archdiocese of Miami (Archdiocese), operated the St. Luke Parish on the subject property for many years. Special Land Use Ordinance No. 2012-009, provides for a religious education center and parish as Phase I and a Phase II site plan to include the future worship hall. In 2016, the property was sold and the current property owner, Apostolic Mission, acquired the property from the Archdiocese.
In 2023, Apostolic Mission received administrative site plan approval to locate a modular building on the subject property for two (2) additional classrooms to provide education through 12th grade, pursuant to the conditions previously approved in Ordinance No. 2012-009. Apostolic Mission currently uses existing buildings on the subject property for religious and educational uses.
DISCUSSION:
The subject property, approximately 9.2+/- acres, is located at 2730 Hammock Boulevard, just south of Copans Road at the main entrance to the Buttonwood Hammocks single family community. Apostolic Mission is proposing to construct a new 11,795 square foot place of worship consisting of six (6) classrooms, administrative office space, and a seventy-five (75) seat worship hall. The site will maintain the existing one hundred eleven (111) developed parking spaces that will also serve the new facility. Two (2) existing access points on Hammock Boulevard will remain as currently constructed ...
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