HomeMy WebLinkAbout20-012 ORDINANCE No. 2020-12
File No. TLDC - 12201925658
AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF ST.
LUCIE COUNTY, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE TEXT OF THE LAND
DEVELOPMENT CODE, SECTION 4.03.03 LIMITATIONS ON LAND USE
APPLICATIONS AND 4.03.05 RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PARK OVERLAY
ZONE USE LIMITATIONS; TO ALLOW ADDITIONAL PERMITTED USES AND
CONDITIONAL USES IN ZONE A WITHIN THE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
PARK OVERLAY ZONE DISTRICT, PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTING
PROVISIONS; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR
APPLICABILITY; PROVIDING FOR FILING WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF
STATE; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; PROVIDING FOR ADOPTION;
AND PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION.
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of St. Lucie County, Florida, based on the
testimony and evidence, including not limited to the staff report, has made the following
determinations:
1. On August 1, 1990, the Board of County County Commissioners of St. Lucie County,
Florida, adopted the St. Lucie County Land Development Code.
2. This Board is authorized by Section 125.01(1)(h), Florida Statutes, to establish, coordinate
and enforce zoning and such business regulations as are necessary for the protection of
the public; and,
3. This Board is authorized by Section 125.01(1)(t), Florida Statues, to adopt ordinances and
resolutions necessary for the exercise of its powers and to prescribe fines and penalties
for the violations of ordinances in accordance with law.
4. On February 20, 2020, the Local Planning Agency Planning and Zoning Commission
held a public hearing on the proposed ordinance after publishing due notice in the St.
Lucie News Tribune and recommended that the proposed ordinance be forwarded with a
recommendation for approval.
5. On March 17, 2020, this Board held the first public hearing on the proposed
ordinance, after publishing due notice in the St. Lucie News Tribune.
6. On June 2, 2020, this Board held its second public hearing on the proposed
ordinance, after publishing due notice in the St. Lucie News Tribune.
7. The proposed amendments to the St. Lucie County Land Development Code are
consistent with the general purpose, goals, objectives and standards of the St. Lucie
County Comprehensive Plan, are internally consistent with the remainder of the Land
Development Code and are in the best interest of the health, safety and public welfare of
the citizens of St. Lucie County, Florida.
JOSEPH E.SMITH,CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT
SAINT LUCIE COUNTY
FILE# 4720335 06/18/2020 04:22:23 PM
OR BOOK 4434 PAGE 2023-2030 Doc Type:ORDN
RECORDING: $69.50
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of County Commissioners of St. Lucie
County, Florida:
PART A.
The specific amendments to the St. Lucie County Land Development Code to read as follows in
strikethrough and underline format:
4.03.00 RESEARCH AND EDUCATION PARK — OVERLAY ZONE
4.03.01. — Purpose and Intent
A. It is the purpose of this Section to protect, promote and strengthen the research,
education and development of agriculture and the life sciences in the area generally
described as lying between Orange Avenue and State Route 70, and west of Kings
Highway to the North St. Lucie Water Control District Canal No. 52.
B. It is the intent of this Section to provide a district where established and new education,
research and scientific institutions, technological entrepreneurial ventures, and
support services for these uses can develop and prosper. The district sets forth uses
and standards that will protect, create and promote a community of scientific
excellence and innovative education and technology by providing an atmosphere
conductive to these activities.
C. This Section indicates the permitted, conditional, and accessory uses and
performance standards that will be utilized when reviewing applications for a change
in zoning, future land use designation, site plan or building permit in the area further
described in this Section.
4.03.02. — Research and Education Park Overlay Zone Established.
A. The Research and Education Park Overlay Zone shall consist of all those parcels of
land lying in the boundaries of the Research and Education Overlay Zone Maps as
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B. The Research and Education Park Overlay Zone, created in Paragraph A above is
generally described as follows:
Lands dedicated to a Research and Education Park consisting of public and private
research and education institutions and business support facilities that further the intent
of the Research and Education Park Overlay Zone.
The area is intended to accommodate research institutions, low environmental impact
manufacturing facilities that support or are associated with the research and education
institutions within the Research and Education Park.
4.03.03. — Limitations on Land Use Applications.
Any Future Land Use Map Change within the Overlay Zone shall be to Special District (SD
— Research and Education Park). All applications for a change in zoning within the
Research and Education Park Overlay Zone shall be to Planned Non-Residential
Development (PNRD). All building permit applications shall be reviewed and approved by
the Growth Management Department Planning and Development Services Director or
their a--signs.his or her designee prior to the issuance of construction authorizations within
the Research and Education Park Overlay Zone.
The appropriate location and mix of uses will be determined through a planned
development process in a manner that adheres to the guidelines and standards set forth
in this overlay zone and the Research and Education Park Master Plan. Uses are to be
segregated as to intensity and are to ensure compatibility with lands outside the overlay
zone.
The following sub-zones are created to identify the type of permitted, conditional and
accessory uses allowed within Zone A and Zone B. The specific uses are identified below
and Section 4.03.05.
LAND USE OPTIONS
ZONE A ZONE B
RESEARCH EDUCATION ZONE RESEARCH AGRICULTURE ZONE
PRND: PRND:
Allows agriculture, professional and Allows agriculture and research (as
business office, research, development, identified in Section 4.03.05).
Institutional and light manufacturing,
processing, distribution, business
incubator, and accelerator business (as
identified under 4.03.05)
Research Education Zone: The Research Zone is established to provide sites for
education and research activities, related manufacturing, business and scientific activities
that could benefit from location in or adjacent to Research and Education Park facilities.
This zone is intended to accommodate educational facilities that promote higher learning
and; and research facilities, prototype production facilities and other manufacturing
operations that require the continual or recurrent application of research knowledge and
activity as an integral part of the manufacturing process. Professional office and
commercial support facilities may also be located within this zone. This zone is intended
to support the life cycle of education, food, agriculture, and technology uses spurred by
the research zone, from research, to business incubator and accelerator, to processing,
and distribution of the products created at the Park.
Research Agriculture Zone: The Research Agriculture Zone is established to provide an
area of scientific research and development in the life sciences and agriculture for training
and the production of prototype products, plans or designs. This zone is intended to
accommodate agriculture production associated research facilities, and pilot projects that
require the continual application of agriculture research knowledge and activity.
4.03.04. — Performance Standards.
The following performance standards shall be maintained for approval of any planned
development within the Research and Education Park Overlay Zone. The Research and
Education Park Overlay standards shall supersede when more limiting than other
provisions of this Code.
A. Building Height:
Zone A Research Education Zonc
Maximum height for any structure shall be sixty (60) feet
Zone B Research Agricultur
Maximum height for any structure shall be thirty-five (35) feet.
Zone A: Maximum height for any structure shall be sixty (60) feet.
Zone B: Maximum height for any structure shall be thirty-five (35) feet.
B. Signs. Signs for all uses within the Research and Education Center OverlayZone
shall conform to the requirements of Section 9.01.01(E). (Commercial, Neighborhood)
of this Code.
Billboards that are specific to marketing or identification of the Research and Education
Park are permitted along the Florida Turnpike and may be installed in accordance with
Section 9.02.02 — Off Premises Signs.
C. Lot Coverage by Buildings:
Zone A: 50% maximum lot coverage by buildings
Zone B: 25% maximum lot coverage by buildings 50% lot coverage
by structures utilized for agricultural production purposes
D. Maximum Yard requirements. Minimum yard and minimum lot size requirements will
be determined through the planned non-residential development process.
Buildings under the site plan threshold shall meet the minimum yard requirement of
the property's underlining zoning district.
E. Landscaping Requirements: Landscaping requirements related to screening uses
outside the Research and Education Overlay Zone boundary, retention of native
landscapes, drought-tolerate vegetation and exotic removal shall be subject to Section
7.09.00.
Landscape buffers along roadways and between uses within the Research and
Education Overlay Zone shall be determined as part of the planned development
process and in all cases shall be consistent within the intent of the Research and
Education Overlay Zone and the Research and Education Park Master Plan.
F. Off-Street Parking and Loading Requirements: Off-street parking and loading
requirements are subject to Section 7.06.00. A fifteen percent (15%) reduction
may be applied if the Planned Unit Development contains two (2) or more
uses. Agricultural production structures are not subject to the requirements of Section
7.06.00.
Parking garage structures may be proposed for individual or shared use within
Zone A. The maximum height for a parking garage shall not exceed eighty
percent(80%)of the building height performance standards as reflected within Section
/1.03.041(A) or two (2) floor levels (which ever is greatest) of the maximum building
height for the highest building adjacent to the proposed parking garage structure. A
parking garage structure must be a minimum of two (2) floor levels.
4.03.05. — Research and Education Park Overlay Zone Use Limitations.
The purpose of these regulations is to provide and protect an environmental suitable for
agriculture, education, and research, with such other uses as may be necessary to and
compatible with these primary uses. Uses are identified by their SIC (Standard Industrial
Classification) Code (00). The identified use shall only be allowed when consistent with
the properties Future Land Use Designation and the Zone A and B Land Use Options set
forth in Section 4.03.03 and the Research and Education Park Master Plan.
A. Permitted Uses. (Notes: The uses below include the life sciences with a focus
on agriculture and education)
The permitted uses in Zone A and Zone B shall be:
1.) Agriculture Production — crops fSIC 01)
2.) Animal Aquaculture (SIC 0273)
3.) Education Services and Facilities (SIC 82)
(Notes: includes establishments engaged in non-commercial agriculture and biological
research and development, such as, agriculture, food and medicine)
The permitted uses in Zone A only shall include:
1.) Business services (SIC 73).
2.) Manufacturing and Processing:
a. Drugs (SIC 283).
b. Beer, wine, distilled alcoholic beverages (SIC 518).
c. Farm and garden machinery and equipment (SIC 5083).
d. Farm-products raw materials, not elsewhere classified (SIC 5169).
e. Farm supplies (SIC 5191).
f. Food and kindred products (SIC 20).
Food products machinery (SIC 3556).
h. Grain and field beans (SIC 5153).
Groceries and related products (SIC 514).
L Measuring, analyzing, and controlling instruments, photographic.
medical and optical goods; watches and clocks (SIC 38).
k. Pharmaceutical preparations (SIC 2834).
Soap, detergents, and cleaning preparations, perfumes, cosmetics,
and other toilet preparations (SIC 284).
m. Tobacco stemming and redryinq (SIC 21).
3.) Research, Development & Testing Services (SIC 873).
(Note: Includes establishments engaged in commercial and manufacturing physical
and biological research and development such as, agriculture, food and medical
research, business services and x-ray machine inspection services.)
B. Conditional Uses. (Notes: The uses below primarily include those associated
with the manufacturing and support of the life sciences or the Park in general,
such as financial institutions and business services eating establishments.)
The conditional uses within Zone A shall be:
1.) Manufacturing: Meat packaging plants (SIC 2011)
a- Food and kindred products (SIC 20)
. Drugs (SIC 283)
G, Soap, detergents, and cleaning preparations, perfumes, cosmetics,
and other toilet preparations (SIC 284)
d . Agricultural chemical:,
e: Measuring, analyzing, and controlling instruments, photometric,
2.) Financial institutions (SIC 60 and SIC 61)
3.) Business services (SIC 73)
Solar generation station subject to the requirements of Section 7.10.28 (999).
Solar electric power generation subject to the requirements of Section 7.10.28.
4.) Eating places (SIC 5812).
The conditional uses within Zone B shall be:
1.) Solar generation station subject to the requirements of Section 7.10.28 (999).
C. Accessory Uses. Accessory uses are subject to the requirements of Section
8.00.00 and include the following:
1.) Residential units may be permitted as accessory uses to educational facilities,
when approved through the Planned Unit Development process.
2.) Solar energy system subject to the requirements of Section 7.10.28 (999).
D. Use Limitations. The following uses shall be specifically prohibited within the
Research and Education Park Overlay Zone boundary.
1.) Residential subdivisions
2.) Heavy, Industrial
3.) Industrial extraction
PART B. CONFLICTING PROVISIONS.
Special acts of the Florida legislature applicable only to unincorporated areas of St. Lucie
County, County ordinances and County resolutions, or parts thereof, in conflict with this
ordinance are hereby superseded by this ordinance to the extent of such conflict.
PART C. SEVERABILITY.
If any portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held or declared to be unconstitutional,
inoperative, or void, such holding shall not affect the remaining portions of this ordinance. If this
ordinance or any provision thereof shall be held to be inapplicable to any person, property, or
circumstance, such holding shall not affect its applicability to any other person, property, or
circumstance.
PART D. APPLICABILITY OF ORDINANCE.
This ordinance shall be applicable in the unincorporated area of St. Lucie County.
PART E. FILING WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
The Clerk is hereby directed forthwith to send a certified copy of this ordinance to the Bureau
of Administrative Code and Laws, Department of State, The Capitol, Tallahassee, Florida
32304.
PART F. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This ordinance shall take effect upon filing with the Department of State.
PART G. ADOPTION.
After motion and second, the vote on this ordinance was as follows:
Cathy Townsend, Chair AYE
Chris Dzadovsky, Vice Chair AYE
Sean Mitchell, Commissioner AYE
Linda Bartz, Commissioner AYE
Frannie Hutchinson, Commissioner AYE
PART H. CODIFICATION.
Provisions of this ordinance shall be incorporated in the St. Lucie County Code and Complied
Laws, and the word "ordinance" may be changed to "section", "article", or other appropriate
word, and the sections of this ordinance may be renumbered or relettered to accomplish such
intention; provided, however, that Parts B through H shall not be codified.
PASSED AND DULY ENACTED this 2 day of June, 2020.
Attest: Board of County Commissioners
St. Lucie County, Florida
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Governor Secretary of State
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Honorable Joseph E. Smith
Clerk of the Circuit Court
St. Lucie County
2300 Virginia Avenue
Fort Pierce, Florida 34982
Attention: Ms. Angela Riggins
Dear Mr. Smith:
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 125.66, Florida Statutes, this will acknowledge receipt of your
electronic copy of St. Lucie County Ordinance No. 20-012, which was filed in this office on June 18, 2020.
Sincerely,
Ernest L. Reddick
Program Administrator
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R. A. Gray Building 500 South Bronough Street Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0250
Telephone: (850) 245-6270
www.dos.state.fl.us