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Key Points
- The Apopka City Commission unanimously advanced future land-use changes Wednesday for two properties totaling more than eight acres near Kelly Park Road, where commercial development is planned.
- The Apopka City Commission approved first readings to reclassify two properties totaling 8.57 acres near Kelly Park Road to Mixed-Use zoning.
- Effie Road Holdings LLC plans to develop a multi-tenant commercial center on the 5.09-acre Twin Fountains property, with final plans pending.
The Apopka City Commission unanimously advanced future land-use changes Wednesday for two properties totaling more than eight acres near Kelly Park Road, where commercial development is planned.
The commission approved the first reading of future land-use amendments for Kelly Park Road Commercial, a 3.48-acre property north of Kelly Park Road, and Twin Fountains Commercial, a 5.09-acre property along Plymouth Sorrento Road south of Kelly Park Road.
Both properties are owned by Effie Road Holdings LLC, with Luke Classon listed as the applicant, and both are within the Kelly Park Interchange Form-Based Code area.
For Kelly Park Road Commercial, the applicant is seeking to change the property’s future land-use designations from County Rural and Future Land Use-In Progress to Mixed-Use. The three-parcel property is east of Effie Drive along the north side of Kelly Park Road. One parcel was annexed into Apopka in June, and the amendment would establish a unified Mixed-Use designation across the 3.48-acre site.
Senior Planner Jean Sanchez said the change would “support the transition of that area from rural and low-intensity residential conditions toward commercial and mixed-use development patterns.”
The Twin Fountains property is a vacant and wooded 5.09-acre site east of Plymouth Sorrento Road and south of Kelly Park Road. The applicant is seeking to change its future land use from Residential Very Low Suburban to Mixed-Use.
The applicant intends to develop the property as a multi-tenant commercial center, although specific tenants and a final site plan have not been identified.
“The surrounding area reflects the transition to commercial, mixed-use and residential development occurring in this portion of the Kelly Park form-based code area,” Sanchez said.
The Development Review Committee recommended approval of both amendments, followed by unanimous recommendations from the Planning Commission on Aug. 11.
The City Commission unanimously approved both ordinances on first reading. Second readings are scheduled for Sept. 16.