Cape council approves additional modifications for Seven Islands project
Single-family & food truck components, possible heliports, get council approval
A single-family component and mobile food vendor uses are among the proposed changes to the Seven Islands Master Plan.
Principal Planner Chad Boyko told the Cape Coral City Council Wednesday that the city-initiated land development code is for the mixed-use Seven Islands zoning district, which will facilitate the next step — master concept plan development.
The amendment includes adding, or removing uses from the MX7 district, deleting references to Seven Islands Master Plan D1, requires all development to be consistent with the master concept plan, clarifies height and allows occupiable rooftops and eliminates restrictions on drive-thrus.
The following uses will be added — single-family, mobile food vendors, professional services and heliport/helistop. The eliminations include research and development/institutional uses.
Boyko said defining of height was also added, as the first two stories will not count towards the maximum of eight stories for hotels and multi-family buildings. He said this was added because the first two stories are for parking, as well as flood plain protection. The maximum height still remains at 115 feet for all buildings.
There is also allowance for occupiable rooftops, for social uses, and not enclosed structures.
City Manager Michael Ilczyszyn said this developer is filling some of the needs for the city’s mobility, or transportation, plan and asked to include vertiports — heliports, as part of the project.
“We are not even a few months into our mobility plan and we are amending our code to allow vertiports in a project coming to us soon,” he said.
The second and final hearing will be held Nov. 19.
The text changes to the Seven Islands Sub-District were approved during the final public hearing Wednesday.
Those amendments included removing the cap on non-residential square footage, references to the Planned Development Project, eliminating requirements for mixed-use development and removing legal description from sub-district language.
“It’s a great project,” Councilmember Joe Kilraine said.
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