1251 Selva Marina Circle-Rough Draft-UpdatedOur client desires to re-plat their property at 1251 Selva Marina Circle into two large single family lots.
The property currently has a single family home on it and is located in the Residential Large Lot (RS-
L) zoning district. The property is 37,159 square feet or .85 acres, making it one of (if not) the largest
single family lots in Atlantic Beach. In December 2014, our client was granted approval of essentially
the same re-plat as we are proposing. However, the approval had a condition that the existing home be
demolished within 120 days. That condition being placed on the approval was a mistake from the
previous agent for the owners, as there was an existing lease on the property which made it impossible
to demolish the home within 120 days. The previous approval is now null and void due to the condition
not being met in a timely manner.
The owners would like to gain approval for the same concept, which is subdividing the property into
two lots. Lot one is proposed to be 20,456 square feet and lot two is proposed to be 16,704 square feet.
Both of these lots are well above the minimum lot size of 10,000 square feet in the RS-L zoning
district. Other single family zoning districts in the City have minimum lot sizes of 7,500 square feet.
Both of these lots will be more than double the size of standard lots in the City, and lot one will be
almost three times the size. There are seven other lots which front Selva Marina Circle, with the
average size of these lots being .38 acres. As proposed, lot 1 will be .47 acres and lot 2 will be .38
acres, making both lots consistent with the surrounding lots.
Section 24-256 (a) states that no new lots can have a width of less than 75 feet at the building
restriction line (BRL). The proposed lots will meet this requirement, as well as all other City
requirements. The proposed plat maintains an existing 15' drainage easement and 6' sanitary sewer
easement, which are both depicted on the plat. Additionally, the applicants are proposing to limit their
driveway widths to no more than 12 feet through the right of way and within the first twenty feet of the
property. There is an existing lease on the property, which ends on June 30, 2017. We would like to ask
that the owners have 180 days from July 1, 2017 in which to demolish the existing home, and then
initiate an application for final plat recording.