Gainesville City Plan Board to consider city-wide zoning changes at June 6 meeting
Public notice
The City of Gainesville Plan Board has scheduled a Special Meeting on June 6, 2022, at 6:30 p.m. to consider seven petitions.
Petition LD22-000038 TCH. City of Gainesville, (Applicant) requests to amend the City of Gainesville Comprehensive Plan to revise the Single Family (SF) land use category to rename the category as “Neighborhood Residential” and amend the description of the land use category. (Juan)
Petition LD22-000041 TCH, City of Gainesville, (Applicant) requests to amend the City of Gainesville Land Development Code to provide definition and regulations to the Neighborhood Scale Multi-Family use. (Juan)
Petition LD22-000040 TCH, City of Gainesville, (Applicant) requests to amend the City of Gainesville Land Development Code to consolidate Single Family Residential Zoning Districts (RSF 1- RSF 4) and rename them as Neighborhood Residential Zoning District (NR). (Juan)
Petition LD22-000042 TCH. City of Gainesville, (Applicant) requests to amend the Land Development Code to remove occupancy limits found in Sec. 30-4.10. (Juan)
Petition LD22-000043 TCH, City of Gainesville, (Applicant) requests to amend the City of Gainesville Land Development Code to amend the bedroom limit within the University of Florida Context Zone. (Juan)
Petition LD22-000044 TCH. City of Gainesville, (Applicant) requests to amend the City of Gainesville Land Development Code to revise the Development Compatibility Standards in Sec. 30-4.8. (Juan)
Petition PB-21-00140 TCH. City of Gainesville, (Applicant) requests to amend the City of Gainesville Land Development Code to eliminate parking minimums and introduce language for structured parking requirements and mid-street parking for loading and unloading in urban transects zoning districts. (Juan)
Citizens need to wise up as this mayor and commissioners have sold out to the developers.
Absolutely no. Protect our single family neighborhoods.
I purchased my home to homestead. I do not need
The extra noise, parking problems, and parties. There’s already no street parking around UF.
We do not need to be destroying our tree canopy.
It’s total BS that they build multiple family and don’t have adequate
Parking already. The streets are getting too narrow
When they allow parking on both sides. They initiated
The landlord permit many years ago to protect single
Family neighborhoods, and now they want to destroy
Them. They want that extra revenue from 4 units or
Less. If you have to put 5 units on the site, then
They will lose that revenue and the state will get
It. No mother in law suites but it’s too late for that
Too…do you know what these developer whores
Are charging for a 1 bedroom unit? It’s like $1000.
Total BS. Protect our tree canopy & single family
Neighborhoods in the city!
These are some solid proposals that would virtually increase Gainesville’s housing stock overnight – much needed to slow the increase of rents in the current housing crunch. They will also allow the market to better serve people’s needs and desires for homes in the future.
I can see rezoning for neighborhoods within a certain radius of UF. Even though they are zoned single family, they have not been so for 50 years or more.
This proposal is coinciding nicely with the formation of Springs County proposals currently in discussion. Springs County would start west of 34th street and North of 121 to include all of west Gainesville, Newberry, Alachua and High Springs. Those new developments would be strictly single family. So, Gainesville eventually will become like any other large city. Hard to stop progress, but if it is managed properly and professionally from the start, maybe it will be nicer than the hodge podge it could be without oversight.
As for the affordable housing aspect of the proposals, that’s a bunch of hooey. Like any metro area, stuff around the work centers will be high rent because that’s where the action is, Think Washington DC proper compared to Falls Church, Fairfax, Alexandria; wealthy, high paid workers will live close in so they can walk or bike to work and play. The ones who cannot afford those places will need to live out further and commute.
The days of a sleepy charming college town are gone. The neighborhoods around UF used to be homes for UF faculty and staff. The vision of the UF college professor walking or biking to work is a memory of my childhood, maybe. When you look at the older homes around campus, they were built around 1930 -1940 for UF faculty. They are charming, but not really historic. The opportunity to preserve those neighborhoods and houses was missed in the 60’s. Now they are run down student rentals, and the character of the neighborhood is ruined. I was the ONLY child on my street near the UF Law School the whole time I was growing up in the 60’s and 70’s. I had to risk my life crossing Univ Ave to play with kids who lived on NW 26th St.
Basically, Gainesville is a blank slate. If planned with vision and inclusion, with a real respect for green space, it could be a really nice town. Look how Tioga has turned out.
I am for rezoning, I think.