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An Ordinance Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Amending The City’s Adopted Comprehensive Plan By Amending The Land Use Element To Create The Commercial Recreation (CREC) Land Use Category. (24-L-58b)
Strategic Plan Focus
Economic Vitality
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Staff Recommends: Approval of the attached Ordinance.
This text amendment is a companion item to a parallel City petition (23-L-58), creating a land use designation with the City’s Comprehensive Plan that is required to enable the companion land use plan amendment request.
Background
As part of the General Obligation Bond approved by voters in 2019, one of the key projects in the Parks, Open Space, Recreational, and Cultural Facilities category was the revitalization of the Orangebrook Golf and Country Club. After soliciting proposals, the City opted for a public-private partnership (“P3”) to complete the golf facilities improvements described in the General Obligation Bond project. The City is contributing a long-term lease of land at the southeastern edge of the golf course for residential development and of land within the golf course for a resort hotel. In exchange the City will be provided a new clubhouse building, a new redesigned 18 hole Championship course, a new redesigned 18 hole Challenge course and other golf and recreational amenities. This is the basis of this Comprehensive Plan text amendment.
The requested amendment is intended to create greater conformity between the City’s Comprehensive Plan and the County’s Comprehensive Plan, specifically through the aligning of definitions.
Current Request
Presently, the City’s Comprehensive Plan does not enable the use of ‘Commercial Recreation’ as a land use category. Golf courses and ancillary buildings are currently enabled through the existing Open Space and Recreation land use designation. However, the land use that is required to permit the development of the Orangebrook clubhouse and resort hotel falls within the County’s definition of Commercial Recreational activity, a land use category the City has not yet adopted.
Accordingly, the City has decided to create a land use category to align with the County’s land use designation to facilitate this redevelopment. The text amendment language proposed is consistent with and is in conformity with both the goals, objectives and policies of BrowardNext and the City’s Comprehensive Plan. The proposed language is the same language found in the “Permitted Uses” section of BrowardNext.
City staff reviewed the proposed amendment and determined that it aligns with the policies and objectives outlined in the Broward Next Comprehensive Plan, City Comprehensive Plan and City-Wide Master Plan. Consequently, staff recommended approval to the Planning and Development Board (“PDB”), which, in its role as the Local Planning Agency, endorsed the application on September 10, 2024.
Since the PDB recommendation, the item has been revised to refine the portions of the Comprehensive Plan text being amended including the City’s land use breakdown table on page LU-47 and the non-residential land use intensity table on page LU-67 to support recertification with the County.
Fiscal Impact:
The approval of this ordinance will support the existing P3 for the redevelopment of the site at 400 Entrada Drive which will improve the City’s fiscal health.
Conclusion:
In summary, the proposed ordinance to amend the Comprehensive Plan to create a new land use category supports ongoing projects that positively impact the City’s economic vitality.
Attachments
Attachment I Planning and Development Board Staff Report with supporting documents
Recommended for inclusion on the agenda by:
Anand Balram, Planning Manager
Andria Wingett, Director, Development Services
Raelin Storey, Assistant City Manager