PORT ST. LUCIE – The City Council here approved rezoning a 33-acre parcel in the Riverland-Kennedy Development of Regional Impact on Aug. 24 after a GL Homes representative conducted a town-hall meeting to try and tamp down opposition to a planned sports complex that erupted during an earlier July hearing.
Planner Francis Forman reintroduced the request during the latest meeting for the property lying within the Riverland-Kennedy Development of Regional Impact.
“The item before you is the Riverland-West Sports & Recreation Master Planned Unit Development rezoning,” he said. “This site is located south of Southwest Discovery Way and east of Southwest Sundance Vista Boulevard. This request is to rezone 33.23 acres of land from St. Lucie County’s agricultural to the MPUD Rezoning. To develop any portion of the DRI, the application must rezone the land to a master planned unit development to identify which uses may be developed in the MPUD consistent with the approved comprehensive land map,”…