Summary
To: Town Commission
From: Micah Maxwell
Date: 9/20/2016
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Subject:
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Variance request for 1 Country Club Lane
Summary:
The applicant is requesting a variance for the landscape buffer between 2 different zoned properties be waived.
The variance request is to allow the Phase I parking improvements to be approved absent the otherwise required landscape buffer requirements between the newly acquired 2.325 parcel zoned Hotel (H) and the previously existing Country Club property zoned RPD.
Chapter 74, Article III, Division 6, Section 74-232, Required Landscaping, requires a "Type A" buffer between a Hotel zoning district and golf course use. The "Type A" buffer as set forth in Section 74-232 (b) would require a landscape buffer ranging from ten (10) to twenty (20) feet wide, depending on the number, type and intensity of the plant materials included.
The applicant has indicated that the purpose of seeking approval for Phase I in advance of Phase II is to allow construction to begin immediately, while they complete plans and permitting for Phase II. In this instance, the zoning district line that is coterminous with the newly acquired parcel is in a portion of the parking aisle that divides Phase I and II of the parking lot improvements. The landscape buffer requirement intended to provide a transition between distinct zoning districts would, in this case, serve only to somewhat artificially separate the Phase I and Phase II parking requirements. Further, the requirements for this separation buffer between zoning districts would be eliminated in the event that the Country Club ultimately applies for and receives approval to reclassify the newly acquired 2.325 acre parcel from Commercial General (CG) and Hotel (H) to Recreation/Open Space (RIOS) and Residential Planned Development (RPD) to integrate it with the rest of the golf course property.
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