AGENDA ITEM REPORT
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A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE SITE PLAN REQUEST OF FOOD FOR THE POOR, INC. FOR THE PROPERTY GENERALLY LOCATED ON THE WEST SIDE OF LYONS ROAD AND NORTH OF THE SAWGRASS EXPRESSWAY. (QUASI-JUDICIAL)(PUBLIC HEARING)
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BACKGROUND:
The applicant, Butters Acquisitions LLC, is seeking site plan approval to develop a warehouse flex building at the Springs-McKenzie Plat, generally located on the west side of Lyons Road and north of the Sawgrass Expressway.
On May 4, 2004, the Planning and Zoning Board approved a site plan for the construction of an office/warehouse building to serve as the Food For The Poor (FFTP) headquarters on Parcel "B" of the Springs-Kenzie Plat. In May 2005, FFTP received administrative approval to modify the previously-approved site plan in order to expand the parking area and the retention lake, as was required to accommodate additional drainage needs. The expansion encroached onto a portion of Parcel "A" to the south leaving approximately 7.78 +/- acres of vacant developable land south of the FFTP site.
DISCUSSION:
As currently proposed, the applicant is seeking site plan approval for the construction of a warehouse flex building on the vacant portion of Parcel "A."
A single-story, 103,790+/- square foot building is proposed. The "U" shape footprint design allows the front fa?ade to face south towards the existing Sawgrass Exchange Office Park while screening Lyons Road to the east and the existing Regency Lakes Single Family community to the west. Truck loading and unloading is limited to the north fa?ade to further reduce visibility by adjacent residential and commercial sites.
Consistent with the Industrial-Office zoning standards, a minimum fifty (50) foot landscape buffer is required when adjacent to residential developments. As proposed, the required retention area will wrap around the northwest corner of Parcel "A," immediately abutting the required 50' buffer, thus adding approximately forty (40) addit...
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