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PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD
Meeting Date: SEPTEMBER 24, 2025
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STACKING LANE DISTANCE CODE AMENDMENT
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Request: Text Amendment
P&Z# 25-81000004
Owner: Not Applicable
Project Location: Not Applicable
Folio Number: Not Applicable
Land Use Designation: Not Applicable
Zoning District: Not Applicable
Commission District: Not Applicable
Agent: Dennis Mele, Greenspoon Marder LLP
Project Planner: Max Wemyss (954-786-4671 / max.wemyss@copbfl.com)
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SUMMARY AND EVALUATION:
The applicant, Foundry Commercial, for the Festival Industrial Redevelopment Major Site Plan has proposed a Zoning Code Text Amendment to Article 5 of the Code (Development Standards) to amend Table 155.5101.G.8.B: Minimum Stacking Lane Distance for Parking Lot Entrance Driveways. The proposed amendment would reduce the required stacking lane distance for certain properties based on the total number of points of access to the property.
Without this proposed code amendment, developments must provide the required stacking lane distance (derived from the number of proposed parking spaces) to each point of access to a site. This may result in excessive stacking for large properties with multiple driveways. The applicant uses their pending site plan application, PZ24-12000024, as the example for the amendment. The site proposes 422 parking spaces. Based on the number of parking spaces, current code requires each of the four proposed driveways on the site plan to provide a driveway stacking distance of 100 feet. The applicant's position is that the stacking distance applicable to properties with only one (1) driveway should not apply in this instance, where there are four (4) driveways.
Staff has expressed the concern that this revised code language may encourage applicants to propose more driveways than needed just to reduce the staking lane distance requirement. For this reason, the applicant has proposed to require a traffic study "to determine that the proposed ...
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