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City-Initiated Comprehensive Amendments (CPAs) listed below are ordered chronologically by filing date.
Historic Preservation Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) Program
(24-PA-01)
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On March 18, 2024, the City Commission authorized the creation of a Historic Preservation Transfer of Development Rights program. This program will allow for the transfer of unused development rights from historic buildings that are located in sending zones to development sites located in receiving zones in order to preserve historic buildings. Upon the transfer of development rights to a receiving site, the development rights that are transferred are permanently severed from the sending site.
Creation of this program requires both comprehensive plan and zoning text amendments. This submittal identifies proposed revisions to the Future Land Use Chapter that creates the program in the comprehensive plan and allows for an accompanying zoning text amendment.
Proposed revisions to the Future Land Use Chapter include:
- New Action Strategy 2.16, Historic Preservation Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) Program;
- New definition of the “Historic Preservation Transfer of Development Rights” or “TDR” Program; and
- Text revisions to the Summary of Classifications table and to the Land Use Classifications of Mixed Residential, Urban Neighborhood, Urban Edge, Downtown Core, and Downtown Bayfront.
Planning Board Public Hearing: September 11, 2024, 1:30 p.m. Item IV.B.3.
- On Wednesday, September 11, 2024, the Planning Board voted to recommend to the City Commission to approve transmittal to the Florida Department of Commerce and State review agencies for review, comment, and adoption of the text amendment adding that the Downtown Bayfront zone district would be allowed to receive density only and send both density and buildable square footage.
City Commission Public Hearing: October 21, 2024, 9:00 a.m. Item X.1
- On Monday, October 21, 2024, the City Commission voted to approve the transmittal to the Florida Department of Commerce and State review agencies for review, comment, and adoption of the text amendment with the Planning Board modifications.
Recently Completed City-Initiated Comprehensive Plan Amendments
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| Solar Utilities (23-PA-01) - Text amendment to include Solar Utilities as an additional existing and planned primary use within the Production Intensive Commercial Future Land Use classification and to provide a definition of "Solar Utility". | 24-5525 |
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City Comprehensive Plan Amendment - Text and Future Land Use Map (22-PA-04) - Ordinances to create a new Future Land Use Map (FLUM) classification referred to as “Urban Mixed-Use” for parcels that today allow for densities of up to 25 dwelling units per acre, based on existing Future Land Use (FLU) classifications (Community Commercial, Community Office Institutional, and Urban Edge [along 12th Street, east of US 301]). The new “Urban Mixed-Use” classification is proposed to encourage mixed-use development along commercial corridors and commercial centers. Mixed-use development encourages both residential and/or non-residential projects and will further activate these areas, creating spaces where people can live close to transit options, employment centers, retail, and neighborhood services. The intent of the proposed FLUM amendments is to incentivize attainable housing along commercial corridors as well as in existing Downtown Bayfront, Downtown Core, and Urban Edge Future Land Use classifications and throughout the city by providing density bonuses in exchange for attainable housing. There are three exceptions:
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| Proposed Property Rights Chapter (22-PA-02) - An Ordinance to add a new Property Rights chapter to the Comprehensive Plan of the City of Sarasota. | 22-5420 |