Dan Bellows wants OK to build $60M Ravaudage apartments in Winter Park taller

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Winter Park developer Dan Bellows is seeking approval to make portions of a planned apartment complex in his Ravaudage mixed-use project taller.

Anjali Fluker

Senior Staff Writer- Orlando Business Journal

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Winter Park developer Dan Bellows and a potential buyer for an apartment site are seeking city approval to make a project within the Ravaudage mixed-use development a couple of stories taller.

Bellows' Benjamin Partners Ltd. and Miami-based American Land Ventures are expected to go before the Winter Park City Council on Dec. 8 to get the OK to change the development order for a planned 296-unit apartment complex to be built six stories high, instead of a maximum of four stories in certain areas, city documents showed.

The amendment being requested would allow an increase in the building height of the area designated with a four-story maximum — so long as it is set back more than 200 feet from Lee Road — to be six stories in order to provide "maximum flexibility to parcel developers with respect to product placement, visibility and massing," city documents said. The change would not increase the total units, nor would it increase building heights throughout the project, as it also would cut down buildings heights in the area bounded by Morgan Lane, Lewis Drive, Loren Avenue and south of Elvin Way, the documents showed.

Bellows in August got approval from the city for a $60 million, 300-unit apartment complex on a 3.2-acre site on Morgan Lane. The plan was to get the site plans approved and then sell the property to American Land Ventures.

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