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Sussex County Land Use Appliction Docket The Land Use Application Docket on the Sussex County website lists upcoming land use cases to be reviewed by Sussex Planning & Zoning. Visit the website to see dates for upcoming actions.
Click the links below for complete Sussex County Code information about each classification involved in the planned Mitchell Farm up-zoning requests: CZ1186 (C3), CZ1887 (MR), CZ1888 (B2) and CU2181 (MR).
Agricultural - Residential Districts (AR-1): These districts are also intended for protection of watersheds, water resources, forest areas and scenic values and, at the same time, to provide for low-density single-family residential development, together with such churches, recreational facilities and accessory uses as may be necessary or are normally compatible with residential surroundings.
Heavy Commercial (C3): Generally intended for larger scale auto-oriented retail and service businesses along major arterial roads that serve local and regional residents as well as the traveling public. CZ1886 11.58 acres
Medium Density Residential District (MR) The purpose of this district is to provide for medium-density residential development in areas which are, or which are expected to become generally urban in character. In addition, a Conditional Use is required to support higher density (CU2181) at the Mitchell site project. CZ1887 30.15 acres
Business Community District (B2):The purpose of this district is to provide primarily for office, retail shopping and personal service uses, to be developed either as a unit or on an individual parcel, to serve the needs of a relatively small area, primarily nearby rural, low-density or medium-density residential neighborhoods. CZ1888 5.43 acres
Planned Commercial District (C4): The purpose of this district is to encourage carefully planned large-scale commercial, retail, and mixed-use developments as a means of creating a superior shopping, working and living environment through unified developments, and to provide for the application of design ingenuity while protecting existing and future developments and achieving the goals of the Comprehensive Plan.
August 2020: Sussex County Council considering new zone, MPZ. New zoning district would provide option for large mixed-use projects.
8/25/2020: Sussex County Coucil discussing Land Use Master Planning Ordinance - See Presentation
8/31/2020: Sussex officials look at Land Use Master Planning - Cape Gazette
Master Planning Zoning (MPZ) District (Discussed at 2/16/2021 Sussex Council Meeting)
Master Planning Zoning (MPZ) District (Discussed at 2/16/2021 Sussex Council Meeting)
You can watch the presentation (given by Jamie Whitehouse and Vince Robertson) and the Council discussions starting about 1:23:00 of the meeting archive at https://mediasite.sussexcountyde.gov/mediasite/Play/0bf6ae79571647559ca604b41051157f1d?catalog=8d90f956-ca1b-42b5-8098-0bfa8ad1ffa0
The MPZ is not the master planning of the land initiated by the County or local jurisdiction.
It is a way for large developers to come up with a preliminary plan that designates overall plan (residential vs. commercial, density, open space, roads), etc. for the whole huge parcel, and get the approval for the 'master planning' of the parcel by P&Z Commission and the County Council, where public has a chance to submit comments or speak. After the preliminary plan is approved, the public is out of opportunities to chime in.
The roads will be a combination of public and private.
They talked about reserving 25% as open space. Councilman Rieley asked whether the open space in once location could be swapped with another parcel. He acknowledged that the details will have to be discussed.
They will announce the details before a public hearing for this, but the public may not have much time to review the details.
August 2020: Land Master Master Planning Ordinance
August 2020: Land Master Master Planning Ordinance
Sussex County Council considering new zone, MPZ. New zoning district would provide option for large mixed-use projects.
More information: Sussex2030 website
8/25/2020: Sussex County Coucil discussing Land Use Master Planning Ordinance - See Presentation
8/25/2020: Sussex County Council meeting audio file discussion begins at about 4 minutes: https://sussexcountyde.gov/sites/default/files/audio/082520.1.mp3
8/31/2020: Sussex officials look at Land Use Master Planning - Cape Gazette
Article I General Provisions
Link to Sussex County Site: § 115-3Purpose.
The zoning regulations and districts as herein established are designated and adopted in accordance with a Comprehensive Plan to promote, in accordance with the present and future needs, the health, safety, morals, convenience, order, prosperity and general welfare of the inhabitants of Sussex County, Delaware, including, among other things, the lessening of congestion in the streets or roads or reducing the waste of excessive amounts of roads; securing safety from fire, flood and other dangers; providing adequate light and air; preventing on the one hand excessive concentration of population and on the other hand excessive and wasteful scattering of population or settlement; promoting such distribution of population and such classification of land uses and distribution of land development and utilization as will tend to facilitate and provide adequate provisions for public requirements, transportation, water flowage, water supply, water- and air-pollution abatement, drainage, sanitation, education opportunities, recreation, soil fertility, food supply and protection of the tax base; securing economy and governing expenses; fostering the state's agricultural and other industries and protecting both urban and nonurban development. The regulations are made with reasonable consideration, among other things, of the character of the particular district involved, its particular suitability for particular uses, the conservation of property values and natural resources and the general and appropriate trend and character of land, building and population development.
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