The final development plan and plat for a single-family 147-home community might get the Apopka Planning Commission’s recommendation for approval at its Tuesday, May 9, meeting.
Vistas at Waters Edge has been proposed as a mixed-use property on a vacant lot south of Hooper Farms Road and west of Binion Road. The 147 lots would range from 60 feet to 75 feet wide, and from a minimum of 7,500 square feet to 24,000 square feet.
The tract size is about 75.25 acres, with a developable area of almost 74.5 acres.
The city land development code requires that any development having less than 300 units should have a minimum total of 2,000 square feet of a facility or facilities devoted to a neighborhood activity center.
In compliance with this code, the developer is providing about 21.5 acres of active and passive recreation space as well as proposing to construct a 1,720 square feet clubhouse with a swimming pool, a picnic area and a yoga lawn within the active recreational space.
Up to 25 percent of the subdivision’s neighborhood activity center may be in open-type facilities, according to city documents.
The developer has agreed to place a 30-foot wide landscape buffer along Binion Road and to construct an 11-foot wide multi-use trail. This trail will be dedicated to the city of Apopka as part of the East Shore Trail System.
Furthermore, the master plan/preliminary development plan includes passive parks – also known as landscaped focal points – at strategic locations to break up long rows of homes and also give views of Lake Apopka.
There are two retention ponds designed to meet the city land development code requirements.
Madden, Moorhead & Stokes, Inc., of Maitland, is the project engineer.
The Vistas at Waters Edge development plan and plat has seven conditions of approval, all regarding easements, sidewalks, and yard drainage and utility easement.
A City Council public hearing about the final development plan is scheduled for Wednesday, May 17, at 7 p.m. in City Hall.
