Review and approval of an application for Conditional Use, submitted by Property Owner, Motel FP LLC, applicant, Addiction Recovery Community Villas, and representative Michael McCarty, Planner, to establish a establish a Group Living Drug & Alcohol Treatment Center  located at 3625 S. US. Highway 1, Fort Pierce, FL.  The property is zoned General Commercial (C-3), (Parcel ID 2434-601-0026-000-2).

• The applicant is requesting the review and approval of an Application for Conditional Use with No New Construction to establish a Group Living Drug & Alcohol Treatment Center at 3625 S US Highway 1. The subject property is currently zoned C-3, General Commercial, and is 1.51 acres in size.
• The applicant is seeking to reuse the former motel, developed in the 1950s, to provide for an eighteen (18) room group living facility offering drug and alcohol treatment, through temporary residential care, to a maximum of thirty-six (36) individuals.
• Addiction Recovery Community Villas seeks to provide service to drug and alcohol addicted individuals via a comprehensive treatment program, offering monitored residential care on-site and internalized transportation to their corresponding office, in Port Saint Lucie, designed for treatment and counseling.
• The improvement plan seeks to provide a collection of minor improvements to update the site landscaping, sidewalk system, and parking area to provide greater compliance with the City’s land development code.
• A total of 26 notifications of the proposal were mailed to the owners of property located within 500 feet of the subject property.  As October 25, 2016, 0 responses have been received. An update will be provided to the City Commission at the public hearing.
• The Planning Board, at their October 11th, 2016 meeting, voted unanimously recommend approval of the request as presented.

 

Approval with the following conditions:
 1) The improvement plan incorporates designated parking spaces for the two passenger vans identified for operation, as well as an off-street loading space for food deliveries; and  

 2) The improvement plan integrates measures to provide appropriate access to, and screening of, the dumpster location.

• Approval with alternative conditions
• Denial

Kori Benton, Senior

Technical Review Committee