1800 Mayport Road LBTR Letter 06.24.2014
Mr. Gordon,
In response to your recent Business Tax Receipt Application with the City of Atlantic Beach for Dirtbag
Choppers at 1800 Mayport Road, staff would like to inform you that you are being approved for zoning
with conditions and/or acknowledgements.
You are being approved for minor automotive service and retail sales. Both of which are allowed within
the Commercial General zoning district. The city’s Land Development Regulations (LDR) define minor
automotive service as minor or routine servicing of motor vehicles or parts but shall not include heavy
automotive repair which is defined as the repair, rebuilding or reconditioning of motor vehicles or parts
thereof, including collision service, painting and steam cleaning of vehicles. Additional sections of the
LDR that may be of interest include:
‐24‐154 (b, c and e) Outdoor display, sale and storage of furniture, household items,
merchandise and business activities outside of enclosed buildings. (See attached)
If at any point in the future you would like to expand the use on the property to include motorcycle or
other automotive sales, then you would have to apply for a use‐by‐exception. I have provided some
excerpts from the city’s Comprehensive Plan below that may guide your decision to apply for a use‐by‐
exception in the future.
Policy A.1.10.4 The City shall actively support the appropriate redevelopment and infill
development of the Mayport Road corridor. Retail and service uses that sustain
neighborhoods and encourage a more aesthetically pleasing and pedestrian friendly
environment shall be encouraged. New development along Mayport Road shall be in
compliance with the Commercial Corridor Development Standards as set forth within the
Land Development Regulations.
Policy A.1.10.5 Along the Mayport Road corridor, the continuation and proliferation of
light industrial uses, automotive sales and repair businesses and other more intensive
commercial business activities shall be discouraged in favor of those businesses and uses
that provide neighborhood serving retail products and services that generate daily
activity and interaction between residents of the surrounding neighborhoods such as
banks, drugstores, restaurants, churches, child care centers, grocery stores and similar
businesses and uses.
Any increase and/or expansion of business operations on the site beyond the applied for use and
intensity described will require a new application.
Thank you for considering the City of Atlantic Beach for the location of your business.
Derek W. Reeves
Zoning Technician
City of Atlantic Beach
Building and Planning
800 Seminole Road
Atlantic Beach, Florida 32233-5445
Telephone (904) 247-5826
Fax (904) 247-5845
http://www.coab.us
Sec. 24-154. Outdoor display, sale and storage of furniture, household items,
merchandise and business activities outside of enclosed buildings.
(b)
Within the commercial general (CG) zoning district only, outside display of merchandise shall
be permitted only in accordance with the following conditions:
(1)
Display areas must be fully located on private property, shall not be located in any drive
aisle, parking or landscaping areas and shall not in any manner interfere with use of a
sidewalk, walkway or entrance to a business with a minimum three-foot wide clear area
maintained for walkways in front of any such display. All items and any display rack or
table must be brought inside at the close of each business day.
(2)
Outside display racks or tables are limited to a maximum size of three (3) feet in height,
two (2) feet in depth and five (5) feet in width, and only one (1) outside display rack shall
be permitted per business or per lot, as applicable. Display racks or tables must be
professionally constructed or manufactured and of a type customarily used for such
purposes. Temporary tables constructed of plywood, blocks or other similar materials
shall not be used.
(3)
Only merchandise that is sold inside the adjoining business, which holds the valid
business license as the owner or lease holder to operate such business, shall be
displayed outside.
(4)
No temporary signs, lights, banners, balloons, posters and the like shall be permitted on
such displays, except that pricing information attached to individual items for sale is
permissible, and such displays shall be maintained in a neat, orderly and uncluttered
manner.
(5)
Failure to consistently observe all above conditions shall result in an order from the city
to remove all such merchandise and revocation of rights for such future outside displays
may follow.
(c)
Unless expressly permitted by this section or elsewhere within these land development
regulations, all business related products services and activities shall be conducted within an
enclosed Building, subject to compliance with applicable licensing requirements.
(e)
Any signage used for any outside merchandise or activity shall be in accordance with the
sign regulations.