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S.SCOTT VANDERGRIFT
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b . 1 DANNY HOWELL
150 N.LAKESHORE DRIVE SCOTT ANDERSON
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CITY MANAGER
ELLIS SHAPIRO
STAFF REPORT
DATE: August 28, 2000
TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Commissioners
FROM: Brad Friel, AICP, Capital Projects/Transportation Planner
THROUGH: Russ Wagner, AICP, Director of Planning '']
SUBJECT: Watson Office Plaza (Project No. SS-2000-002) Waiver Request
ISSUE:
Should the Mayor and City Commissioners approve the waiver requested as part of the Watson
Office Plaza project?
BACKGROUND:
The updated Commercial and Industrial Development regulations permit the City Commission,
at its sole discretion, to waive provisions within the Land Development Code when plans have
been designed to: 1) be part of an integrated and master planned development; 2) be
compatible with surrounding developments; 3) impose no impacts on City infrastructure greater
than that generated by other uses normally permitted in the underlying zoning district; and/or 4)
provide an off-setting public benefit which is technically sound and measurable.
DISCUSSION:
The Land Development Code gives the Planning Director authority to negotiate waivers when a
specific plan furthers the goals and intents of the Commercial and Industrial Development
Regulations. In the case of the Watson Office Plaza, the applicant has agreed to provide
additional landscape buffer along the eastern property boundary for the future expansion of
Blackwood Avenue. By providing this larger landscape buffer, the future widening of Blackwood
Avenue can occur without severely impacting the landscape or parking areas associated with
this project. Recognizing the positive public benefits derived by minimizing the impacts to.
parking and landscape areas, Staff has worked with the owners to design their site in a manner
which creates a larger landscape buffer that it is compatible with surrounding developments
without imposing additional impacts on City infrastructure.
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Mayor and City Commissioners
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The owner is requesting that a waiver from parking be permitted, basing it on Gross Leasable
Area versus Gross Square Footage. This waiver request will allow the owner greater flexibility
with respect to leasing space for medical office uses, This type parking waiver has been
granted numerous times on other projects since parking ratios relate more directly to useable
building space than overall area.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff respectfully recommends that the Mayor and City Commissioners approve the proposed
waiver for the Watson Office Plaza (Project No: SS-2000-002) in order to preserve the
additional landscape buffer.
Attachments: Excerpt Drawing from Site Plan,date stamped August 17,2000
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