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The City's Municipal Planning Board recommends approval of the GMP and PD zoning amendment for Beltway Commerce Center subject to conditions. The zoning will allow up to 500 single family detached and attached (town home) residential units, establish design standards and addresses a new industrial warehouse project. It will now go before City Council.
Beltway Commerce Center is a 514 acre mixed-use Planned Development located in southeast Orlando, both east and west of the Central Florida Greeneway (SR 417) and north and south of LeeVista Boulevard. The site is partially developed with warehouse uses in the southeastern portion of the property, and the majority is vacant.
It requested the following:
- Change the future land use designations from Office Medium Intensity and Urban Activity Center to Industrial (Site A; +/-41.8 ac.), and from Industrial to Office Low Intensity (Sites C, D, E & F; +97.3 ac);
- Amend Future Land Use SubareaPolicy S.39.4 to revise the development program and include up to 500 dwelling units (+514 ac.); and
- Amend Planned Development (PD) zoning to establish a new single family detached and attached (townhome) residential development program, related design standards as well as amend the trip equivalency matrix (+514 ac.).
- Concurrent with this request is a request for a Specific Parcel Master Plan (See MPL2017-10035) for an industrial warehouse project (buildings: 240,000 sq. ft. and 324,000 sq. ft.) on PD Site A.
The existing PD development program allows 550,000 sq ft of office, 1,750,000 sq ft of industrial/ warehouse space, 500,000 sq ft of commercial/retail space and 290 dwelling units or an equivalent mixture of uses, including hotels and churches, consistent with an approved land use/trip equivalency matrix. An estimated 193 acres of wetlands are set aside for conservation. As noted earlier, the site is mostly undeveloped except for 665,950 square feet of industrial/warehouse uses in the southeast portion of the property. No development has occurred since 2009.
The present request will significantly change the Planned Development (PD) program to allow up to 500 single family detached and attached (townhome) dwelling units on Sites C, D, E and F and eliminate the multi- family component on Site A. The 550,000 sq. ft. of office will remain constant, the industrial /warehouse space will decrease to 1,550,000 sq. ft. as a swap for residential, and commercial/retail space will be reduced to 160,000 sq. ft. on Site B. Public Benefit uses have been included replacing churches, and along with hotel space, are allowed, consistent with land use/equivalency table conversions.
The proposed roadway system framework is consistent with the approved PD transportation network, which is intended to preserve continuity of the wetland systems. The previously approved trip allocation of 38,941 trips will not be increased and all uses and associated trips will be calculated using the amended Beltway Com- merce Center Trip Equivalency Matrix.
