Site Plan and Innovative Residential Development - Margareta Villas Apartments
4101 Oleander Avenue

The applicant is requesting the review and approval of an application for a Site Plan (Innovative Development Review) for apartments at 4101 Oleander Avenue. The 4 story multi-family 30-unit apartments proposes to offer community amenities such as a gazebo with picnic tables, gravel walkways, park benches, and passive recreational area spaces.

The proposed development is located on a parcel with approximately 2.58 acres. The future land use of the parcel is Medium Density Residential, RM, and the zoning is Medium Density Residential, R-4.

Staff's recommendation is Approval of the site plan with the following seven (7) conditions:

1. Prior to the issuance of final certificate of occupancy, a Landscape Maintenance Agreement shall be approved and shall acknowledge the following:
   1. All approved landscaping shall be installed, irrigated, and maintained in perpetuity in accordance with section 123-7 of the City Code of Ordinances, in order that  it continues to present a healthy, neat, and orderly appearance free of refuse and debris, in conformity with the following requirements:
      1. Vegetation required by this article shall be replaced with the equivalent or better vegetation if it is not living. All trees for which credit is awarded, and which subsequently die shall be replaced by the same or greater number of living trees according to the standards established in this article
      2. Maintenances shall include sufficient weeding, watering, fertilizing, pruning, mowing, edging, mulching and other horticultural practices to ensure that the landscaping continues to maintain a healthy, neat, and orderly appearance
2. An updated Environmental Assessment shall be required
3. The project shall have a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservstion Commission (FFWCC) Gopher Tortoise Permit in place prior to conducting any land clearing operations as the submitted Environmental Assessment indicates that gopher tortoises are present on the site
4. Prior to development, SFWMD should be contacted for an Environmental Resource Permit is required 
5. Prior to the issuance of any site clearing permits, the applicant shall provide a Tree Mitigation Survey and coordinate with the City of Fort Pierce Arborist for the required mitigation of the City's regulated trees proposed to be removed as a result of its site development/construction activity
6. A 6-foot sidewalk is required along Oleander Ave
7. A Site Development Permit is required prior to performing site improvement activities

1. Recommend approval with additional/modified conditions
2. Recommend disapproval 

Kerry C. Driver - Senior Planner

1. Technical Review Committee