NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF AN AMENDMENT TO THE
OKEECHOBEE COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF
PROPOSED ZONING RECLASSIFICATION
NOTICE: A PUBLIC HEARING will be held before the Okeechobee County Planning Board sitting as the Local Planning Agency on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. in the Health Department Auditorium, 1728 NW 9th Avenue, Okeechobee, Florida to consider an amendment to the Okeechobee County Comprehensive Plan and to consider a request for a change in zoning.
The amendment to the comprehensive plan is to change approximately 400 acres from the Agriculture future land use classification to the Industrial future land use classification. There is also a proposed amendment to the Okeechobee County zoning atlas, to change the same approximately 400 acres from the existing zoning classification of Agriculture to the proposed zoning classification Heavy Industrial (I-2). Following the public hearing, the Local Planning Agency will consider transmittal of the comprehensive plan amendment and associated change in zoning to the Board of County Commissioners.
The property owner is Sloane Ray Hester. The applicant is The Singer Company, LLC, dba Mid-Florida Industrial Solutions, LLC. The property is located on NE 128th Avenue, approximately 2 miles north of State Road 70 East and approximately 1 mile south of the entrance to the WM Okeechobee Landfill, and is further described as follows:
COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SECTION 23, TOWNSHIP 36 SOUTH, RANGE 36 EAST, RUN THENCE NORTH 02746 WEST ALONG THE EAST BOUNDARY LINE OF THE SAID SECTION 23FOR A DISTANCE OF 1674.01 FEET FOR POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE CONTINUE NORTH 02746 WEST ALONG SAID EAST BOUNDARY LINE OF SECTION 23 FOR A DISTANCE OF 2285.99 FEET; THENCE RUN SOUTH 891030 WEST FOR A DISTANCE OF 7658.88 FEET; THENCE RUN SOUTH 011335WEST FOR A DISTANCE OF 2286.88 FEET; THENCE RUN NORTH 891030 EAST FOR A DISTANCE OF 7869.37 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. LESS THE EAST 50.00 FEET RESERVED FOR ROAD, LYING IN AND COMPRISING A PART OF SECTION 23 AND A PART OF THE EAST ONE-HALF (1/2) OF SECTION 22, TOWNSHIP 36 SOUTH, RANGE 36 EAST, CONTAINING 400.00 ACRES
A SECOND PUBLIC HEARING to consider the request for a change in zoning will be held before the Board of County Commissioners on Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. in the Judge William L. Hendry Courtroom, Room 270, Historic Okeechobee County Courthouse, 304 NW2nd Street, Okeechobee, Florida. The request for a change in zoning will be considered by the following titled ordinance:
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE 92-20 (LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS OF OKEECHOBEE COUNTY, FLORIDA), TO PROVIDE FOR AN AMENDMENT TO THE ZONING ATLAS; TO PROVIDE FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
AT THIS SAME PUBLIC HEARING, the Board of County Commissioners will consider the proposed amendment to the comprehensive plan, and will consider authorizing transmittal of the proposed amendment to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.
A copy of the proposed ordinance shall be available for inspection by the public during normalbusiness hours at the Okeechobee County Community Development Department, 1700 NW 9th Avenue, Suite A, Okeechobee, Florida, 34972. Interested parties may appear at the meeting and be heard with respect to the proposed ordinance and may submit written comments to the Community Development Department prior to the hearing.
Any person deciding to appeal any decision by the Planning Board or Board of County Commissioners with respect to any matter considered at these meetings or hearings will need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made and that the record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal will be based. County Clerk and Community Development tapes are for the sole purpose of backup for official records of the County Clerk and of the Community Development Department.
Okeechobee County Community Development Department
1700 NW 9th Avenue, Suite A; Okeechobee, Florida 34972
Petitions C-2023-0001, R-2023-0762
619556 LON 10/11,18/2023