Community Meeting Narcoossee Roadway Corridor April 5, 2012
Meeting Agenda Purpose of Meeting Continuation of Study Update Process (Previous Meetings Oct. & Nov., 2011) Tonight s Objective Review Proposals for Policy Amendments
Meeting Agenda Collaboration
Meeting Agenda Break out Session Comments Recurring Issues Proposed Policy Amendments Proposed Overlay District Next Steps
Meeting Agenda Break out Session Comments Recurring Issues Proposed Policy Amendments Proposed Overlay District Next Steps
Comments from October & November Breakout Sessions Restrictions applied to Tyson s Corner should be applied to all projects within the corridor Height of buildings should be 2 stories versus 3 stories and transition Opposed to multi-family residential and townhomes Opposed to hotels Dark sky lighting principles, timing of lights, and down lighting The distance from the lake should be defined Architecture and types of buildings consistent with Chancellor project in West Windermere Require access easements for connectivity to adjacent parcels Limit or control the number of access points to Narcoossee Road Require a cross access (spine) road that runs north to south through the corridor Require a buffer from the lake Concerns regarding stormwater discharge into the lake
Comments from October & November Breakout Sessions cont. Limit boat and canoe access to the lake Set standards for the middle parcels Limit to C-1 (Retail Commercial District) uses Increase the amount of property that remains in the rural settlement on the Westside of the lake and create a general guideline Link the height of the buildings to the architecture of the structure and create a mixture of heights to break up the buildings Place the north/south access road through the corridor closer to Narcoossee Road Place a buffer between the rural settlement and more intense uses along Narcoossee Road Require a 300 foot buffer from the Normal High Water Elevation (NHWE) line and only allow one (1) dwelling unit per two (2) acres or leave it as open space
Comments from October & November Breakout Sessions cont. The lakefront homes that are on the west side of the lake should resemble the residential character of those on the east side of the lake Minimize cut through traffic in the rural settlement Limit boat traffic to rural in nature Buildings along Narcoossee Road should be residential scale in design Green building principles are important to the rural character
Meeting Agenda Break out Session Comments Recurring Issues Proposed Policy Amendments Proposed Overlay District Next Steps
Recurring Issues from October & November Breakout Sessions Property remaining in the rural settlement should be increased to create more distance between the development on Narcoossee Road and the Rural Settlement Define what uses are permitted where, and define specific residential uses allowed in the area Define distance between the development on Narcoossee Road and the rural settlement by creating a measurement either from Narcoossee Road or from the lake Will the cross access road that runs north to south be the dividing line between the more urban and rural uses Architecture and retaining a residential character to the buildings is important
What results are the existing policies producing? 500 deep mixed use zone along Narcoossee Transition of building heights from 45 to 35 to 2 stories adjacent to the Rural Settlement Cross access generally delineates a step down in building height and type
What results are the existing policies producing? Both approved projects, and the pending Lake Whippoorwill project all include land use components that utilize an MDR level of density. Commercial/office uses oriented to major intersections. 180-200 wide Rural Settlement area as measured from the lake edge
Meeting Agenda Break out Session Comments Recurring Issues Proposed Policy Amendments Proposed Overlay District Next Steps
POLICIES FLU6.3.1 Proposed Policy Amendments New or revised language is underlined and bold type Orange County shall continue to address development impacts to the Lake Hart/Lake Whippoorwill Rural Settlement from adjacent properties in the City of Orlando via agreements or studies. FLU6.3.1.1 The Narcoossee Road-Lake Hart/Lake Whippoorwill Rural Settlement Study refers to properties fronting the eastern side of Narcoossee Road from Kirby Smith Road to Tyson Road. A map depicting this area shall be incorporated into the Future Land Use Element Map Series as Map 19.
POLICIES FLU6.3.2 Proposed Policy Amendments New or revised language is underlined and bold type On November 18, 2008, the Narcoossee Road-Lake Hart/Lake Whippoorwill Rural Settlement Study was presented to the Board of County Commissioners (BCC). The study s intent was to provide sound planning guidelines along the east side of Narcoossee Road in keeping with development occurring in the City of Orlando to the west, and to transition the intensity of land uses from Narcoossee Road east to the Rural Settlement in order to protect the Rural Settlement and Lake Whippoorwill. Policies FLU6.3.2 through FLU6.3.8 shall apply only to properties with direct frontage on the east side of Narcoossee Road between Kirby Smith Road and Tyson Road in the Lake Hart/Lake Whippoorwill Rural Settlement. Nothing in these policies shall be construed to convey entitlements of development rights.
Proposed Policy Amendments New or revised language is underlined and bold type To address the specific and unique issues affecting the Lake Hart/Lake Whippoorwill Rural Settlement, applications for development approval for property fronting on Narcoossee Road in the Lake Hart/Lake Whippoorwill Rural Settlement shall be processed as Planned Developments (at both the Comprehensive Plan amendment and the rezoning stage) to ensure compatibility with the Rural Settlement. Compatibility requirements shall address transitional uses, appropriate mass and scale of structures, architectural features, increased buffers, and other performance standards deemed appropriate during review by the Development Review Committee. Proposed future land use changes that include commercial uses also shall be consistent with the requirements of FLU1.4.3 through FLU1.4.15. To provide transition between development occurring on Narcoossee Road and the land adjacent to the lake that will remain in the Rural Settlement, development standards shall be incorporated into the land development code to address the following:
Proposed Policy Amendments New or revised language is underlined and bold type Building Height Transition. Building heights and density and intensity of land uses within this Study Area shall transition downward from west to east, with the highest structures and highest density and intensity fronting Narcoossee Road, and development on the eastern boundary of the Study Area remaining compatible with the Rural Settlement, consistent with Policy FLU6.2.14. Buildings shall be set back a minimum of 50 feet from the Normal High Water Elevation (NHWE) on Lake Whippoorwill. Cross Access. To minimize ingress and egress onto Narcoossee Road from the Study Area, development within the Study Area shall provide cross-access easements and /or stub-outs to adjacent developments. Additionally, shared parking may be approved by Orange County on a case by case basis. Physical Buffering. Development on the eastern boundary of the Study Area must remain compatible with the Rural Settlement. Along with this transitional use, buffers between Study Area development and adjacent Rural Settlement properties shall be similar to those required in the Code between residential and non-residential uses.
Proposed Policy Amendments New or revised language is underlined and bold type Management and Protection of Rural Settlement Lands and Resources. Those portions of the Study Area that will be preserved as part of the Lake Hart/Lake Whippoorwill Rural Settlement shall be protected and managed to preserve the natural resources and vegetation that provides wildlife habitat and a visual buffer between urban and rural land uses. All Planned Development-Land Use Plans shall incorporate natural resource inventories and land management practices designed: to maintain, and supplement where possible, the height and opacity of existing tree canopy and understory vegetation; to remove or manage invasive vegetation; and to reduce the direct flow of stormwater to Lake Whippoorwill.
Proposed Policy Amendments New or revised language is underlined and bold type Stormwater Management. To minimize potential adverse water quality impacts to Lake Whippoorwill resulting from urban development within the Study Area, stormwater retention and detention facilities designed to serve urban development shall not be permitted within 200 feet of the normal high water elevation of the Lake. In addition, the use of one or more Low Impact Development (LID) techniques approved by the County shall be required for all urban development within the Study Area. The purpose of requiring Low Impact Design stormwater design techniques is to reduce pollutants entering Lake Whippoorwill by capturing those pollutants close to the source, utilizing existing natural features and resources as stormwater filtering systems, and by ensuring that stormwater retention and detention facilities are integrated into the overall project plan and designed, constructed, and maintained as project amenities.
FLU6.3.2.1 Proposed Policy Amendments New or revised language is underlined and bold type Upon adoption by the Board of County Commissioners, any property granted a future land use change to Planned Development pursuant to Policy FLU6.3.2 will be removed from the Rural Settlement and included in the Urban Service Area. As part of the application submittal, the applicant must demonstrate that the request is consistent with Orange County s goals for the Narcoossee Road corridor. FLU6.3.2.2 Non-conforming uses. In no event shall development of parcels in the Study Area cause parcels remaining in the Lake Whippoorwill/Lake Hart Rural Settlement to become non-conforming with the Future Land Use designation of RS1/2 (1 dwelling unit/2 acres) or leave Rural Settlement parcels without access. FLU6.3.2.3 Any access to Tyson Road shall be designed to discourage trips heading east on Tyson Road.
FLU6.3.2.4 Proposed Policy Amendments New or revised language is underlined and bold type Professional office (PO) and general retail commercial (C-1) uses may be allowed subject to the following: 1. The maximum intensity (Floor Area Ratio) for any site where professional office and/or general retail commercial may be allowed shall be limited to 0.35; 2. Professional office/general retail commercial uses shall be restricted to sites that have direct access to an existing or planned signalized intersection with Narcoossee Road; and 3. The size and shape of sites where professional office/general retail commercial uses may be allowed shall be compact, oriented to the signalized intersection, and limited to the amount of square feet of nonresidential use consistent with a neighborhood center as defined through Comprehensive Plan Policy FLU1.4.6.
FLU6.3.2.4 (cont.) Proposed Policy Amendments New or revised language is underlined and bold type Allowable uses as part of the Planned Development shall be as follows: Limited P-O (Professional Office) uses for Office such as doctor's offices, attorney's offices, real estate offices, mortgage and finance offices and tax consultant services; Limited C-1 (Retail Commercial District) uses for Commercial Neighborhood and community-scale commercial and office development, such as small grocery stores, other similar small neighborhood serving retail, eating and drinking places and personal services. Single family residential
FLU6.3.2.4 (cont.) Proposed Policy Amendments New or revised language is underlined and bold type Multi-family residential may be allowed subject to the following: 1. The maximum density for any site where multi-family may be allowed shall be limited to that permitted under the Medium Density Residential Future Land Use designation; 2. Multi-family use shall be restricted to sites that have direct access to an existing or planned signalized intersection with Narcoossee Road; 3. Multi-family use shall be restricted to sites with at least 300 of width as measured along the right-of-way of Narcoossee Road; 4. Multi-family use shall be restricted to sites with a minimum of 1,000 feet of separation from any residential use abutting Lake Whippoorwill, other than those properties in the Study Area remaining in the Rural Settlement; and 5. Single family detached and attached units, as well as a two story form of attached multi-family townhome unit, may abut a Rural Settlement. The number of units in a building and the spacing of buildings abutting the Rural Settlement shall be limited in order to improve compatibility with the form of residential buildings that may exist or be constructed within the Settlement. Prohibited uses shall be as follows: 1. Strip commercial.
FLU6.3.3 Proposed Policy Amendments New or revised language is underlined and bold type Development of property in the Lake Hart/Lake Whippoorwill Rural Settlement consistent with Policy FLU6.3.2 and/or existing or planned central utility services on or near Narcoossee Road or in the Lake Hart Planned Development shall not be the sole justification to allow increased land use intensity. Future adjacent uses with greater density or intensity shall be designed to produce minimal impact on local roads within the Lake Hart/Lake Whippoorwill Rural Settlement.
FLU6.3.4 Proposed Policy Amendments New or revised language is underlined and bold type New development fronting on Lakes Hart or Whippoorwill shall take into consideration existing tree canopy and wetland areas in project design. The County may apply reasonable performance standards to address impacts of building height and lighting on adjacent development and on view corridors from the lake. The County also may require connectivity of recreational facilities, such as equestrian and multi-use trails, between the properties included in the Study Area and development north and south of the study area. Orange County may impose restrictions on the use of watercraft and access to lakes through conditions of approval. Restrictions on lake access are not intended to apply to the development of a single-family home on a lot of record in the Rural Settlement, so long as applicable Land Development Code and State standards are met.
Proposed Policy Amendments New or revised language is underlined and bold type FLU6.3.4.1 The County will establish a community identification signage program for the Narcoossee Road Lake Hart/Lake Whippoorwill Rural Settlement Study Area that will recognize the physical boundaries of the area and will be used for identification of landmarks and historically significant features. The signage program shall be adopted by ordinance and shall apply to properties as identified in Policy FLU6.3.2.
FLU6.3.4.2 Proposed Policy Amendments New or revised language is underlined and bold type All commercial and office signage (which may occur only as provided in Policy FLU6.3.2) shall be developed in accordance with the Sign Ordinance, subject to the signage standards established below. Exterior signs shall be either monument-style ground signs or wall-mounted signs and shall comply with the following requirements: Sign plan required. Signage within the Narcoossee Road Lake Hart/Lake Whippoorwill Rural Settlement Study Area shall enhance the character and intent of the study. A project sign plan shall be submitted to and approved by the DRC as part of the PD documents for all non-residential projects. Sign detailing, materials, color and lettering styles shall be consistent with the adjacent principal structure.
FLU6.3.4.2 (cont.) Proposed Policy Amendments Brown type indicates existing policy language that could be moved to the Code In addition to the existing sign code requirements, the sign plan shall be consistent with the community identity and, at a minimum, provide exhibits that display the size, type and materials proposed, including but not limited to building address identification and method of illumination. Prohibited signs. The following exterior signs shall be prohibited: Internally illuminated signs; Pole signs; Off-premises signs (billboards, etc.); Temporary signs (banners, balloons, trailer signs etc.), with the exception of real estate or special event signs as may be allowed pursuant to the Sign Ordinance; Neon signs; Internal or backlit awnings or any signage placed on an awning; Any type of sign, temporary or permanent, that has moving parts or appears to have movement; Flashing, blinking or LED signs; Electronic message center signs or boards, including time and temperature signs; Temporary or permanent signage on fencing; and Roof signs.
FLU6.3.4.2 (cont.) Proposed Policy Amendments Brown type indicates existing policy language that could be moved to the Code Sign illumination. Exterior signs shall be lit with external light sources only. Light sources shall be mounted, shielded and pointed toward the sign face so that spill-over glare onto any adjacent rights-of-way, properties, or skyward is completely avoided. Ground-mounted (monument) sign copy area. The maximum copy area, in square feet, per ground-mounted sign (multiple or single tenant) shall be thirty-two (32) square feet. Sign copy area shall be a minimum of thirty (30) inches from finished grade. The maximum height of the ground mounted sign shall be six (6) feet from the top of the sign to the finished grade. Wall or building projected signs. For signs erected on buildings having up to two hundred (200) linear feet of building frontage, including marquee signs, projecting signs and wall signs (fascia signs), a total of one-quarter (0.25) square foot of copy area for signage may be allowed for each one (1) linear foot of building frontage per establishment. Sign landscaping. All exterior ground (monument) signs shall include a minimum thirty-six (36) inch wide landscape strip surrounding the base (foundation) of the sign. The landscape strip shall be planted with materials that attain a maximum height of thirty (30) inches above the finished grade.
Meeting Agenda Break out Session Comments Recurring Issues Proposed Policy Amendments Proposed Overlay District Next Steps
Development Code Implementation Lake Hart/Lake Whippoorwill Rural Settlement Overlay District Supplements existing regulations Can address use, building and site design, process and other elements of development Supplement policy amendments
Meeting Agenda Break out Session Comments Recurring Issues Proposed Policy Amendments Proposed Overlay District Next Steps
Next Steps Fine tune proposed policy amendments Update the brochure Conduct follow-up meeting tentatively scheduled for May 22 nd Prepare draft of Overlay District Review with community Schedule policy amendments for 13-1 Plan Amendment Cycle (July 1 st )