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COMMISSION AGENDA
ITEM 501
Consent
Informational
Public Hearing
Regular X
September 12. 2005
Meeting
Mgr. I DelL
Authorization
REQUEST: The Community Development Department requests the City Commission consider
and comment on a conceptual development plan for a 152 unit condominium development to be
known as Villagrande at Town Center. The project is located on 4.78 acres, on the north side of
S.R. 434, just east of Winter Springs City Hall and west of Doran Drive.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this agenda item is for the City Commission to consider and
provide comments on a conceptual development plan for a 152 unit condominium development
to be known as Villagrande at Town Center. The project is located on 4.78 acres, north of S.R.
434, just east of Winter Springs City Hall and west of Doran Drive. The applicant has submitted
a preliminary site development plan that five (5) buildings that contain a total of 152
condominium units and a community building with pool. Each of the condominium buildings
has covered parking on the first floor. Two of the buildings are three (3) stories above the
parking area, two buildings are four (4) stories above the parking area, and one building is five
(5) stories above the parking area. A total of 310 parking spaces (2 per units) are provided
through a combination of covered, surface, and off-site parking areas.
The applicant has met with staff and with representatives of Dover Kohl and Partners to discuss
the site layout. The buildings have been relocated to provide more street edge along the south,
east, and north property lines. A series of trellises, walls and other architectural features
complete the street edge treatment between the buildings. Several pedestrian access points are
provided in this series of garden walls. The City's consultant, Dover Kohl & Partners has
indicated that this treatment is in keeping with the intent of the Town Center in that the
development site, while larger than a typical city block and somewhat irregularly shaped, should
be treated as a city block. The buildings and the garden walls "secure the block" much the same
as in other developments that are developed similar to the Town Center.
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The applicant requests direction from the City Commission before proceeding with any formal
approval requests.
APPLICABLE LAW:
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Chapter 9, City Code, Land Development
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Chapter 20, Division 12, City Code, Town Center District Code
CONSIDERATIONS:
The project is located on 4.78 acres, north ofS.R. 434, just east of Winter Springs City Hall and
west of Doran Drive. The property is located in the "Town Center" zoning district and has a
Future Land Use designation of "Town Center". The heavily vegetated site abuts SR 434 along
its southern property line, Winter Springs City Hall to the west, the Hickory Grove park site to
the east, across Doran Drive, and a parcel identified as a neighborhood square to the north. All
of these parcels are within the Town Center.
The City Commission took an initial, informal look at the proposed development plan during the
August 15,2005 Town Center Workshop. Topics of discussion during the workshop included
providing public access to the site and how to avoid the appearance of a "gated community".
The relationship of the proposed development to the previously mentioned park, the
neighborhood square, the Doran Drive frontage, and the intersection of Doran Drive and
Blumberg Boulevard were also topics of discussion at the workshop.
Staff is currently working with the applicant on several issues relative to the proposed
development plan for this project. One topic of discussion centers on the use of the garden walls
to address the spaces between buildings. Various sections of the Town Center Code state the
building spacing along Town Center streets (Doran Drive), Hickory Grove Park, neighborhood
squares, and the SR 434 frontage road should be a maximum of35 feet. Representatives of
Dover Kohl and Partners have indicated that the use of the garden walls is appropriate.
ST AFF RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Commission consider and comment on the conceptual
development plan for the Villagrande at Town Center project.
ATTACHMENTS:
Site and architectural plans
SITE DEVELOPMENT PLANS FOR VILLA GRANDE AT TOWN CENTER
AS.5
AS.6
AS.7
AS.8
VILLA GRANDE UNITS A&B
UNITS C & D
3.1A
3.2A
3.3A
3.4A
C-04 VILLA GRANDE
3.1B
3.2B
VILLA GRANDE
VILLA GRANDE
4.1A
4.2A
4.3A
4.4A
4.2B
SURVEY 1 OF 2
4.3B
4.4B
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
CH.1
TREE LOCATION 2 OF 2
VILLA GRANDE
AS.1
AS.2
AS.3
AS.4