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BAYSHORE/GATEWAY TRIANGLE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT LOCAL ADVISORY
BOARD MINUTES OF THE FEBRUARY 4, 2014 MEETING
The meeting of the Bayshore/Gateway Triangle Community Redevelopment Advisory Board was
called to order by Steve Main 6:00 p.m. at the CRA Office Meeting Room 3570 Bayshore Drive,
Unit 102.
Roll Call: Present: Advisory Board Members: Larry Ingram, Steve Main, Maurice
Gutierrez, Mike Sharman, Shane Shadis, Peter Dvorak, Chuck Gunther. The following
were excused absent: Karen Beatty.
CRA Staff Present: Jean Jourdan, Interim Executive Director, Ashley Caserta, Project
Manager, and Ekna Guevara, Operations Coordinator.
II. Adoption of Agenda: Mr. Main asked if anyone had any changes. Having heard none he
asked for a motion. Motion to approve the agenda made by: Peter Dvorak. 2nd by:
Maurice Gutierrez. Approved: 7 - 0.
III. Adoption of Minutes: Mr. Main asked for a motion to approve the January 7, 2014
meeting minutes. Motion by: Larry Ingram. 2nd by: Shane Shadis. Approved 7 - 0.
IV. CRA Project Updates.
A. CRA's 17+ Acre Property: The Estimated Value is $3,000,000. Premiere Plus Realty
Company was selected to market and sale the CRA's 17+ acres. The Exclusive Right of Sale
and Listing Agreement was approved by the BCC on January 14th and the executed Agreement
was forwarded to the realtor January 27th. The realtor is currently obtaining an appraisal.
B. Residential Lot Development. There are currently ten (10) new houses under
construction within the Bayshore area. Four new houses are proposed to start
construction. Nian Financing will begin construction on the five Van Buren lots in June.
C. Calusa Breeze: Twenty four homes are proposed for construction within the
Gateway area on Calusa Ave.
D. CRA Residential Lots Advertisement: The BCC approved the sale of the property on
January 14th and the property closed on January 24th
E. FPL Lights on Andrew Drive: Lights have been installed at their locations.
F. Cirrus Point n/k/a Solstice: At the December 19, 2013 Planning Commission meeting
the CCPC voted to forward to BCC with a recommendation of approval. The BCC hearing is
scheduled February 11, 2014 BCC meeting. If approved, it will be go in effect in 30 days.
Construction scheduled to commence thereafter.
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G. Community Garden: Mr. Jeff S. Curl, ASLA CLARB, President of Emerge Design LLC
provided conceptual architectural renderings for the garden for submittal of the application to the
Zoning Department. The church will be making additions to their building that are not garden
related and have decided to submit the community garden as part of the sited development plan
amendment for their improvements.
H. Grant Application (Fire Suppression Upgrades): The CRA and City of Naples will
submit a joint grant application in March/April.
I. LDC Amendment: Amendments to the Overlay are in process to support more vivid colors
and a change to the current Overlay map to expand the GTMXD to north side of Davis Blvd
(change color from white to pink). In process.
J..Annual Report and Newsletter: Staff in compiling information for the annual report and
newsletter for March presentation to the Board. The newsletter will be mailed to area residents.
MSTU Protect Updates:
A. Landscape Update: Ground Zero performed scheduled landscape maintenance in the
Bayshore MSTU. Additionally, they replaced the dead palm with a mature tree.
B. South Bayshore Update: At the January MSTU meeting, an area resident mentioned that
South Bayshore needs some attention. The MSTU AC noted that the topic should be on a future
agenda for discussion, with input from the Naples Botanical Garden, AC member Carolyn
Cochrane (at her discretion) and Ground Zero. Staff has reached out to the Garden and has
invited a member of their team to meet on site. Staff will report the findings at a future
meeting. Aaron from Ground Zero reported that there has been work in the S. Bayshore area.
Members agreed to allow Ground Zero to remediate the area. We will then walk the area and
make an assessment of any other improvements that need to be made.
C. Bayview & Lunar Update: The contractor, Quality Enterprises, was approved by the CRA
Board on November 12, 2013. Next step: Staff held a pre-construction meeting with the
contractor, engineer, CEI and County inspectors on January 21st. Construction is to begin
March 3, 2014 on Bayview Drive and will begin on May 19, 2014 on Lunar Street. Final •
completion is September 28, 2014.
D. Thomasson Drive Update: Staff was not able to negotiate an acceptable price for design
services with Atkins and has begun negotiations with the next ranked firm: RWA. Staff has met
with RWA and has discussed the challenges the project faces and will continue to work with
them to achieve a contract that is suitable for the MSTU and the consultant.
E. Bayshore Pagoda Maintenance: The MSTU voted to have the pagoda pressure
washed and repainted on the last agenda. Staff has requested bids from local
contractors to do the work. The following quote submittals were obtained from our
local vendors. All quotes include: Pressure washing, Bleaching and Painting.
Cover All, Inc. $695.00
Spectrum Contracting $2,267.00
Service Painting of FL too busy
Cover All has performed the work. •
Requests for Payments: none
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V. New Business:
A. C-BIG Grant Requests: There are three C-BIG grant requests. They are: Jamba
Juice requesting $20,000, The Real Macaw requesting $3,550 and LTA, Associates
requesting $3,500. After much discussion among members there was a motion.
Motion to approve The Real Macaw and LTA, Associates and request more
information on Jamba Juice for the next CRA meeting made by: Peter Dvorak. 2"d:
Larry Ingram. Approved: 7— 0.
B. Corporal Mike Nelson: Emergency calls statistics were provided.
2012 Total calls 4,125
2013 Total calls 3,690
He also announce the annual "Clean-Up" which will be held on February 8th between
8am to 12pm.
C. FY14 Goals & Objectives: The following was discussed.
Theme 1
Goal 1: Objective 1.2 was changed to "Sell our county owned 17 acres property".
Strategy 1.2.1 stays with exception of the date which was changed to 2016.
Goal 1: Strategy 1.1.3 was removed.
Goal 2: Objective 2.1 was changed to "Re-establish residential and commercial grants".
Add: Goal 4: "Actively promote the CRA office as the Bayshore /Gateway informational
and visitor center.
Goal 4: Objective 1.1 "Inform and promote the redevelopment area".
The other goals will be continued to next month's meeting.
VI. Advisory Board General Communications: none,
VII. Citizen Comments: none
VIII. A 'ournmen �..
Approved and rwarded by Steve Main, CRA-AB Chairman.
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