1021 Atlantic Boulevard Permitted Uses 11.18.20191
CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH
800 SEMINOLE ROAD
ATLANTIC BEACH, FL 32233
PHONE (904) 247-5800
November 18, 2019
Equity One (Florida Portfolio) LLC
One Independent Drive, Suite 114
Jacksonville, FL 32202
To Whom It May Concern:
The property located at 102 1 Atlantic Boulevard (RE # 177602 0040) is zoned Commercial, General
(CG) and is designated in the 2018 -2030 Comprehensive Plan in Future Land Use Map (FLUM) as
Commercial (CM).
A medical office is a permitted use in the CG zoning district and does not conflict with the CM
designation on the FLUM.
“Sec. 24-112. - Commercial general district (CG).
(a) Intent. Within the City of Atlantic Beach, the CG zoning district is intended for uses, which provide
general retail sales and services for the City of Atlantic Beach and the closely surrounding
neighborhoods.
(b) Permitted uses. It is not possible to list all potential permitted or prohibited general commercial uses
within this section, but typical uses permitted within the CG zoning district shall include neighborhood
serving uses, which shall mean low intensity commercial uses intended to serve the daily needs of
residents of the surrounding neighborhoods. Such uses shall not include manufacturing, warehousing,
storage or high intensity commercial activit ies, or commercial uses of a regional nature, or such uses that
have the potential for negative impacts to surrounding neighborhoods and properties due to excessive
traffic, noise, light or extremely late hours of operation or other factors that may advers ely affect existing
commercial uses or any nearby residential uses.
Where a proposed use is not specifically listed in this section, the permissibility of the use will be
determined based upon its similarity to listed uses and the compatibility and potent ial for adverse impacts
to existing nearby uses. The uses permitted in the CG zoning district shall include the following subject to
the limitations as set forth within the following subsection (d). Unless otherwise and specifically provided
for herein, all business activities, products for sale and services must be located within an enclosed
building properly licensed for such use.
Permitted uses shall also not include adult entertainment establishments, indoor or outdoor firing ranges,
indoor or outdoor flea markets, vendors on public rights-of-way, amusement or game centers, tattoo or
body artists, pawn shops, bingo halls, billiard or pool halls, game arcades, gaming, video poker
establishments, computer game centers, or games played on individual machines or computers, including
any type of card, token or coin-operated video or simulated games or similar activities or machines which
are played for any type of compensation or reward.
The uses permitted in the CG zoning district shall include the following subject to the limitations as set
forth within the following subsection (d). Unless otherwise and specifically provided for herein, all
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business activities, products for sale and services must be located within an enclosed building properly
licensed for such use.
(1) Retail sales of food and nonprescription drugs, clothing, toys, books and stationery, luggage, jewelry,
art, florists, photographic supplies, sporting goods, hobby shops and pet shops (not animal kennel or
veterinarian), bakery (but not wholesale bakery), home furnishings and appliances, office equipment
and furniture, hardware, lumber and building materials, auto, boat and marine related parts, and
similar retail uses.
(2) Service establishments such as barber or beauty shop, shoe repair, r estaurants with indoor or
outdoor seating areas but without drive-through facilities, health clubs and gyms, laundry or dry
cleaner, funeral home, printing, radio and television and electronics repair, lawn care service, pest
control companies, surf board repair in association with surf shops, but not the production of
surfboards, and similar service uses.
(3) Banks with or without drive-through facilities, loan companies, mortgage brokers, stockbrokers, and
similar financial service institutions.
(4) Child care facilities in accordance with section 24-152.
(5) Business and professional offices.
(6) Retail plant nursery, landscape and garden supplies. Live plants and nursery stock may be located
outside of the adjacent building licensed for such business, provided no obstruction to walkways,
parking and internal driving aisles is created.
(7) Retail sale of beer and wine only for off-premises consumption.
(8) On-premises consumption of beer and wine only in conjunction with a full -service restaurant, which
is a food service use where unpackaged ready-to-consume food is prepared onsite and served to the
customer while seated at tables or counters located in a seating area within or immediately adjacent
to the building.
(9) Minor automotive service
(10) Theaters, but not a multi-screen (exceeding two (2) screens) or regional Cineplex.
(11) Hotel, motel, motor lodge, resort rental and short-term rentals as defined within section 24-17.
(12) Institutional and government uses, buildings and facilities.
(13) Churches in accordance with section 24-153.
(14) Residential use, consistent with the Comprehensive Plan, which permits residential uses not
exceeding the applicable density set forth in the Comprehensive Plan when in conjunction with, or
adjacent to commercial development and redevelopment, provided that such residential
development shall not be permitted within the coastal high hazard area. Policy A.1.11.1(b).
(15) The CG District shall permit those uses listed as permitted uses and uses -by-exception in the
commercial limited (CL) and commercial, professional and office (CPO) zoning districts except off -
street parking lots.
(16) Mixed use projects combining the above uses and those approved as a use -by-exception pursuant to
subsection (c) below.
(17) Pharmacies and Medical Marijuana Treatment Center dispensing facilities subject to the
requirements of section 24-169.
(18) Gas stations, subject to the requirements of section 24-165.
(19) Convenience stores subject to the requirements of chapter 13, article 4 as applicable.
(20) Electric charging stations.
(21) Car washes……………………………………….
(d) Limitations on certain uses. Permitted uses within the CG zoning district shall not include large-scale retail
establishments, which for the purposes of this chapter shall be defined by their size and as follows:
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Large-scale retail establishments shall include those businesses, whether in a stand-alone building or in
a multi-tenant building, which occupy a floor area exceeding sixty thousand (60,000) square fee t
including any interior courtyards, all areas under roof and also any other display, sales or storage areas
partially or fully enclosed by any means including walls, tarps, gates or fencing. Large -scale retail
establishments are commonly referred to as "big-box" retailers, discount department stores, super-
centers, warehouse clubs or by similar terms. Such establishments may offer a similar type of products
such as electronics or appliances or office products, but more typically offer a wide variety of gen eral
merchandise and departments, which may include home improvement, house -wares and home
furnishings, sporting goods, apparel, pharmacy, health and beauty products, automotive parts and
services and may also include grocery items. This definition shall not be construed to limit the overall
size of shopping centers as these are defined within section 24 -17, but shall apply to any building where
businesses with separate local business tax receipts may share the same interior space of a building
which is not separated into individual units by structural fire rated walls or that do not contain separate
and distinct exterior entrances.
(e) Minimum lot size. The minimum size for lots within the commercial general zoning district shall be:
(1) Lot or site area: Five thousand (5,000) square feet.
(2) Lot width: Fifty (50) feet.
(3) Lot depth: One hundred (100) feet.
(f) Minimum yard requirements. The minimum yard requirements within the commercial general zoning district
shall be:
(1) Front yard: Twenty (20) feet, except that the front yard may be reduced to ten (10) feet where
required off-street parking is located at the rear or side of the building site, and the primary business
entrance is designed to face the street.
(2) Rear yard: Ten (10) feet.
(3) Side yard: Ten (10) feet where adjacent to existing residential use. Otherwise, a combined fifteen
(15) total feet with a five (5) feet minimum on either side.
(g) General restrictions. The following restrictions shall apply to all development in the commer cial general
zoning district:
(1) Maximum impervious surface: Seventy (70) percent. Where existing impervious surface area
exceeds seventy (70) percent on previously developed sites, new development shall not exceed the
pre-construction impervious surface area, and required landscaping shall be provided in accordance
with division 8 of this chapter. Stormwater management requirements shall apply to infill
development and to redevelopment projects involving exterior site changes.
(2) Maximum building height: Thirty-five (35) feet.
(3) Parking. Off-street parking shall be provided in accordance with section 24-161 of this chapter.
Where existing uses, which do not provide the required number of off -street parking spaces as set
forth within subsection 24-161(i) are replaced with similar uses (such as a restaurant replacing a
restaurant), with no expansion in size or increase in number of seats, additional parking shall not be
required. Any increase in floor area or expansion in building size, including withou t limitation the
addition of seats shall require provision of additional parking for such increase or expansion. “
“Sec. 24-111. - Commercial limited district (CL).
(a) Intent. The CL zoning district is intended for low intensity business and commercial uses, which are
suitable within close proximity to residential uses, and which are intended primarily to serve the immediately
surrounding neighborhood. Subject to review as a use -by-exception, and dependent upon compatibility with
existing surrounding residential uses, certain more intense commercial uses may also be appropriate.
Permitted uses in the CL zoning districts shall not include large-scale discount super-centers or "big-box"
retailers or similar commercial uses intended to serve a regional mark et. Uses shall also not include
establishments for live entertainment, or adult entertainment establishments, outdoor entertainment such as
putt-putt golf and driving ranges, skateboard facilities, firing ranges, amusement centers, computer game
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centers or video game arcades and any type of token or coin-operated video or arcade games, movie
theaters, tattoo or body artists or studios, pawn shops, billiard and pool halls.
(b) Permitted uses. The uses permitted within the CL zoning districts shall be as follows:
(1) Low intensity service establishments such as barber or beauty shops, shoe repair, laundry or dry
cleaning pick-up, tailors or dressmakers.
(2) Low intensity retail sales of items such as wearing apparel, toys, sundries and notions, books and
stationery, luggage and jewelry and similar uses; but not sale of lumber, hardware or building materials
or similar products.
(3) Art galleries, libraries, museums and cultural centers.
(4) Medical and dental offices, but not clinics or hospitals.
(5) Professional offices such as accountants, architects, attorneys, engineers, optometrists and similar
uses.
(6) Business offices such as real estate broker, insurance agents, manufacturing agents and similar uses.
(7) Banks and financial institutions without drive-through facilities.
(8) Convenience food stores without fuel sales, but not supermarkets.
(9) Restaurants without drive-through facilities.
(10) Government uses, buildings and facilities.
(11) Child care facilities in accordance with section 24-152.
(12) Residential use not to exceed the medium density category as established by the Comprehensive Plan.
(13) Mixed use projects combining the above permitted uses………………”
“Sec. 24-110. - Commercial, professional office district (CPO ).
(a) Intent. The CPO zoning district is intended for small, neighborhood scale professional offices with residential
design characteristics that make such uses compatible with nearby residential uses.
(b) Permitted uses. The uses permitted within the CPO zoning district shall be:
(1) Medical and dental offices (but not clinic or hospital), chiropractor offices, licensed massage therapist
offices.
(2) Professional offices, such as accountant, architect, attorney, engineer, land surveyor, optometrist and
similar uses.
(3) Business offices such as real estate broker, insurance agent, stockbroker and similar uses.
(4) Single-family dwelling units.
(5) Child care facilities, in accordance with section 24-152.
(6) Mixed use projects combining the above permitted uses and those approved as a use-by-exception
pursuant to subsection (d) below………..”
There are no open code violations on this property.
Sincerely,
Amanda L. Askew, AICP
Director of Planning and Community Development