Interoffice Memorandum
DATE: July 20, 2024
TO: Mayor Jerry L. Demings and County Commissioners
THROUGH: N/A
FROM: Tanya Wilson, AICP, Director Planning, Environmental, and Development Services Department
CONTACT: Nicolas Thalmueller, AICP, Planning Administrator
PHONE: (407) 836-5523
DIVISION: Planning Division
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Approval and execution of Third Amendment to the First Amended and Restated Bonnet Creek Resort Development Order. District 1. (Planning Division)
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PROJECT: Third Amendment to the First Amended and Restated Bonnet Creek Resort Development Order. Case #DO-24-03-082. (Related to Change Determination Request CDR-23-09-279)
PURPOSE: The Bonnet Creek Resort Development of Regional Impact (DRI) / Planned Development (PD) was originally approved in 1997. The 482 gross acre PD is generally located west of Interstate 4, south of Epcot Center Drive, and north of the Orange County Osceola County Line. The development order currently allows for a development program of 2,450 hotel rooms with 300,000 sf of conference center space; 1,595 timeshare units with 1,000 sf of customary ancillary commercial/entertainment uses; and an 18-hole golf course.
Through this request, the applicant is seeking to amend the Development Order to update the trip equivalency matrix and convert 196 timeshare units into 169 hotel rooms, and to request an additional 181 hotel rooms. The 12.22-acre subject parcel affected by the request is within the Phase 3 area of the PD. The resulting development program for Phase 3 will be 350 hotel rooms and 250 timeshare units. This Change Determination to the Bonnet Creek Resort PD (CDR-23-09-279) was approved by the Development Review Committee (DRC) on June 26, 2024, as a substantial change.
This amendment received a recommendation of approval from the DRC on June 26, 2024.
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