Lazaro Aleman
ECB Publishing, Inc.
Some four months after Jefferson County planners denied an application from Eshden Partners, LLC, to rezone a 128-acre property near Lloyd from Mixed Use Suburban Residential (MUSR) to Mixed Use Interchange Business (MUIB), the application is back before them in amended form.
The new application, which the Jefferson County Planning Commission is scheduled to take up for consideration on Thursday evening, June 11, seeks to amend the Future Land Use Map (FLUM) of the comprehensive plan to allow for the development of a Love’s Truck Stop, plus an additional 200,000 or so sq. feet of non-residential development, on a 49.9-acre parcel located on the southwest quadrant of the I-10 and Gamble Road interchange.
As Planning Official David Wheeler noted in his memo to planners, all changes to the Comprehensive Plan’s FLUM require a minimum of two public hearings, beginning with the planning commission and ending with the county commission.
Wheeler in his memo also sets forth the standards that the county’s land development code (LDC) requires be taken into consideration when reviewing any change to the comprehensive plan’s FLUM. The list contains 10 items, many of which have multiple subitems.
The considerations include such questions as: Whether the proposed amendment is in conflict with any applicable provisions of the LDC; whether the proposed amendment is consistent with all the elements of the Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan; whether and the extent to which the proposed amendment is inconsistent with existing and proposed land uses; and whether there have been changed conditions that warrant an amendment?
The planning commission meeting is set to begin at 6 p.m. Thursday in the courthouse annex at 435 W. Walnut St. in Monticello. The meeting may be viewed online via Zoom. For the agenda and Zoom link, go to the planning department’s website at https://www.jeffersoncountyfl.gov/p/county-departments/planning.