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EAC Agenda 12/14/1989 1 DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT PLANNING SERVICES SECTION MEMORANDUM TO: EAC Members FROM: Jeff A. Adair yr Environmental Specialist I DATE: December 14, 1989 RE: R-89-30/PU-89-21: Robert L. Duane of Hole, Montes and Associates, Inc. , representing Anita M. Pittman; requesting a zoning change form MHRP to C-6, and a provisional use for the expansion of a parking lot for a funeral home and accessory uses associated with an existing single-family house being converted to storage or administrative space. Petitioner requests a rezone change and a provisional use for a parking lot expansion and activities associated with storage or administrative space on a 0. 5 acre site located on the south side of U. S. 41, directly behind the Pittman Funeral Parlor, between Bayshore Drive and Airport Road. Subject property is bordered on the east by Bamboo Drive, on the south by a residential road, and on the west by a mobile home park. The site has been previously cleared and is presently used as a single family residence. The house will be converted for storage or administrative space. Much of the existing vegetation consists of exotic and ornamental species. Native tree species which exist include several slash pine (Pinus elliottii) and cabbage palm (Sabal palmetto) , one laurel oak (Quercus laurifolia) , and one southern red cedar (Juniperus silicicola) . Since the site has been heavily impacted, staff recommends administrative approval of petition R-89-30/PU-89-21 subject to the following stipulations. 1. Petitioner shall be subject to Ordinance 75-21 as amended by Ordinance 89-58 (preservation of native habitat and tree removal permit) . 2 . Shall be subject to County Ordinance No. 82-37 as amended by Ordinance 89-53 (removal of exotic species) . -1- 3 . Shall be subject to County Ordinance No. 89-57 (use of native species in landscaping) . 4 . Native tree species existing within the landscape buffer shall be retained. 5. Native tree species within the proposed development area shall be either retained, transplanted to the landscape buffer, or be replaced in the landscape buffer by the same species of nursery stock having a minimal height of 15 feet. Staff Reports, R-89-30/PU-89-21 ew 1 -2-