Review and approval of an application for Site Plan, submitted by Property Owner, Cargill Juice N America Inc, applicant, Precast Specialties, LLC. (PCS), and representative Steve Pickett, ASLA of JMorton Planning to construct a Precast Concrete Manufacturing Facility and Yard located at 3798 Selvitz Road, Fort Pierce, FL.  The property is zoned IH, Industrial, Heavy. (2432-122-0001-000-5 (75 Acre Portion) & 2432-221-0002-000-6 (Access).

• The applicant, Precast Specialties, LLC. (PCS), is requesting the review and approval of a Site Plan & Design Review to authorize the development of a Precast Concrete Manufacturing Facility. The subject property is currently zoned IH, Industrial Heavy, a St. Lucie County designation, with a pending request for assignment of an I-3, Heavy Industrial, City of Fort Pierce designation.
• The applicant seeks to develop a 76,100 sq. ft. precast concrete production facility in multiple phases, located on a 75-acre expanse of land located at 3798 Selvitz Road. The site is situated to the east of Selvitz Road and west of Fort Pierce Central High school, adjacent to many existing industrial users along this corridor.
• The proposed project consists of a 40,000 sq. ft. administration building, and roughly 36,000 of support structures to house equipment, carpentry components, steel fabrication, and other operational components for the plant.

• The development plan incorporates extensive buffering through the placement of a 7.47 acre retention pond, the creation of a berm along the southern and eastern boundaries and the further completion of landscape buffer to separate the site from adjacent uses. 

• The Planning Board, at their October 11th, 2016 meeting, voted unanimously to recommend approval of the request with staff recommended conditions.

Approval of the Site Plan & Design Review, contingent upon final approval of Ordinance 16-026, with the following conditions:

1) Adoption of a typical delivery route for the facility, which deters use of, and minimizes conflicts with residential or non-industrial roadways;

2) The potential replacement of the existing chain-link along the water management canal to the south, and fencing at the facility entrance, are completed with a coated chain-link or aluminum fence to more appropriately comply with established design review guidelines;

3) The property owner and/or applicant complete the necessary subdivision (plat), prior to issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy; and

4) The final approval of the concrete batch plant is deferred until a complete design review submittal is provided for this component of Phase II construction.

• Approval with alternative conditions
• Denial

Kori Benton, Senior Planner

Technical Review Committee