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An Ordinance Of The City Of Hollywood, Florida, Amending The City's Adopted Comprehensive Plan By Amending The Text Of The Future Land Use Element To Add 8,000 Mid-Rise And High-Rise Residential Units And Reduce 200,000 Square Feet Of Office Uses Within The City's Regional Activity Center (RAC); Providing For Transmittal; Providing For Conflicts; Providing For Severability; And Providing For An Effective Date. (25-L-50).
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Staff Recommends: Approval of the attached Ordinance.
Explanation:
The proposed ordinance amends the City's Future Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan to allow for redistribution of existing intensities in the Regional Activity Center (RAC) by converting 200,000 square feet of existing office capacity to 8,000 mid- and high-rise dwelling units.
This amendment ensures the RAC retains adequate capacity leaving a remaining balance of 1,300,000 square feet of office capacity in exchange for 8,000 additional residential units to support continued redevelopment, mixed-use intensification, and the City's long-term fiscal sustainability. This type of recalibration is commonly done by cities in response to evolving market conditions.
Through coordination with Broward County Planning Council (BCPC), the City has confirmed a portion of this reallocation of development potential can be offset by impacts adopted in the 2005 RAC adoption/expansion. Specifically, the reduction in office square footage offsets a portion of potential trip generation associated with residential units, and a detailed traffic analysis will accompany transmittal to identify any potential impacts and provide alternatives to address concurrency. These refinements ensure infrastructure capacity remains protected and that the amendment is technically substantiated prior to County and State review.
The RAC was originally established to complement the downtown and surrounding areas and to function as a high-intensity, m...
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