BCC Minutes 03/07/1990 SCOLLIER COUNTY BOARD OF COM~IISSIONERS
THE MATTER OF:
CONSIDERATIOU AND HEARING OF PROPOSED 1) Zoning Reevaluation Ordinance
2) Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance
MEETING/PUBLIC HEARING, per agenda of March 7, 1990
Heard by the Board of County Co~;~issioners, commencing at
5:05 p.m., Wednesday, 5!arch 7, ~990, in the County Commissioners
Board Room, Third Floor, Building F, Collier County Government
Center, 3301 East Tamiami Trail, ~4aples, Florida 33962
PRESE~T:
Chairman ~ax A. [Iasse
Vice-Chairman Nic]',acl J. Volpe
Commissioner Anne Goodnight
Cor~missioner Burt L. Saunders
Commissicner Richard S. S]]anahan
Nell Dorrill, County Manager
Kenneth Cuyler, County Attorney
Stanley Litsigner, Director of Growth Management
Thomas W. Olliff, Assistant to County Manager
WillJ. am Nerrill, Esquire, Legal Consultant
Deputy Byron Thomas
Reported by:
Connie S. Ports, Notary Public,
State of Florida at Large
Deputy Official Ccurt Reporter
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P~LPH G. CARROTHERS, OFFICIAL
Collier County Courthouse, Naples Florida 33962
CHAIRMAN HASSE: The meeting will come to order.
(Meeting called to order at 5:05 p.m.)
CHAIRMAN HASSE: Mr. Dorrill, would you give the
invocation.
If the people would be quiet and stand.
(Invocation presented.!
CHAIRMAN HASSE: We will have the Pled~'e~
(Pledge of Allegiance recited).
CHAIRMAN HASSE: I think it would -- might be
appropriate right, now before we start on the meeting, if we
were to set a few ground rules and perhaps we can get out
this week.
You know we have slips here to be signed, and if you
wish to speak during this meeting at any time, you must sign
the slip so you're guaranteed to b~ at the right time.
I would appreciate it, to start off with, because I
havc no way of knowing how long this meeting will last, is
that we limit the statements that are made, or whatever
somebody wants to say, to five minutes minutes, to start.
If there is ample time, we will review it over again
and you will have additional tim&, but to start off with, sc
that we don't get dragging out too long.
say.
Commissioner Volpe, you have something you wish to
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE: Yes. Mr. Chai.--man, I have a
preliminary matter that I would like to discuss, if I might,
just for a moment, with the county attorney.
MR. HASSE: The county attorney?
COMMISSIONER VOLPE: And this ~'elates to a matter
of ----
CHAIRMAN HASSE: And that's you, Mr. Cuyler.
MR. CUYLER: Yes, I'm listeninG.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE: As I think the Commission is
aware, our law firm represents a client that has an interest
in the matters that we are to -- about to discuss this
eveninG, and the question is, as we begin to Get into these
discussions, as to a potential for a conflict. And I was
wondering if Mr. Cuyler could provide me with some advice as
to that issue.
MR. CUYLER: I contacted the attorney for the Ethics
Co~J~ission, and he indicated to me that -- I reviewed the
facts and talked with him for about a half an hour. He said
he did not see a prohibitive conflict under 112.3143, and I
discussed it thoroughly with him and that was his opinion,
and I plan on talking to him a{;ain.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE= Is there, Mr. Cuyler, though --
is there -- in addition to the p=ohibitive conflict, is
there another section that deals with the possibility of a
conflict?
MR. CUYLER~ Yes, there is. Under 286.102. Says
that you may not abstain unless there i3 or appears to be a
possible conflict.
Under 112.3143, re~erri~g back to the previous
statute, he indicates that if a public officer thinks that
he might not be able to be impartial because of the conflict
or the possibility of the conflict, that under those
circumstance he can elect to abstain.
I have gone over those with the Board on previous
occasions, and he basically confirmed a lot of the things
that ! told the Board before.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ Okay. So that in this
~nstance, are we -- I don't kn~ what the format is this
~¢ening.
CHAIRMAN HASSE: We're not going to decide anything
this evening.
wrong.
we're going to listen, and I ~ae nothing
MR. CUYLER: That's why I Jndicated -- and I'll be
talking to him again. He gave ~bat {~eems to be his final
recommendation or opinion with regard to it, but i may be
talking to him again because tonight we have no final vote.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE= In either case, is there any
problem with me Just sitting here and participating in the
discussions?
MR. CUYLER: No. The statutes provide that you are
allowed to participate whether you elect to conflict out or
not.
And also, Just to indicate for the record, since we
are discussing it, the attorney indicated that the basis of
his reasoning was that the ordinance addresses a class of
persons or a class of regulated persons that is in fact
county wide. And together with that, that any claims of
gain or claims of detriment of, in this case, a bank, a bank
ln~tltution, would be shared by the community and the county
as a whole and by the developing community as a whole.
And he also indicated that at this point, the degree
to which at,y per,on, whether it'~ a ~tnancial in~titution or
an individual or a developer, is affected is not
specifically known.
And that was the basis of my discussion with him.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE: Then, if I might. Then if
we're not going to be taking any vote this evening -- I
think the integrity of the process is i~aportant, so with
that in mind, then, we can follow up with the -- you're
going to research this further?
MR. CUYLER~ Yes. I have done some research, and
everything he seems to indicate is laid out in the
opinions. I'm going to do some further research, probably
discuss it with him again.
But again, regardless whether there ultimately is a
cause for a voting conflict, a public officer is allowed to
participate in the proceedings. The only requirement is
that you conflict out of the vote if in fact there is a
vote.
VICE-CHAIRMANVOL?Ez Thank you.
CHAIRMAt~ H;,SSE~ You're satisfied with that?
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE: I think I am. I think probably
for those here, what I have been told is that there is the
possibility, and as I think we will proceed here -- and I
have to discuss this with the county attorney a little more
specifically -- since we're not going to call for the vote
this evening and no vote will be taken -- before the final
meeting, though, that's a declsfon that has to be made.
CHAIRMAN HASSE~ ¢ommis~ioner Goodnight.
COMMISSIONER GOODNIGHT~ Well, Mike, I think that if
that is the case, then there are several of us who are going
to have a conflict.
Even though I don't personally own any property, my
husband owns a hundred acres of property that has the
possibility of down the road being rezoned, which would
certainly be listed under this. So therefore, you know, I
think that I would have a conflict too because of something
that we did today that may affect the property down the
road.
You know, I agree with what the attorney is saying,
that I Just can't see that any of us could have a conflict
unless it was directly related to something that we were
going to do, and this is county wide. This is not Just one
special --
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEz Well, I think that's what the
county attorney' t~,ld us. ! think it's a matter of degree
here, and I guess it becomes somewhat subjective.
And correct me, Mr. Cuyler, if I'm mistaken. It
becomes somewhat subjective in terms of what we talked
about, the possibility and the process and the objectivity.
MR. CUYLER: It is his opinion that he didn't feel
under 112.143 that you have to conflict out. His opinion
was that you did not have to -- under these circumstance
have to.
The subjective wording that you're talking about is
on the second statutory section, 286.012, that talks about
the possibility of conflict.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ Just so that we have that in
front of us, what does that section provide?
MR. CUYLER~ That's 286.012, Voting Requirement at
MeetinGs of Governmental Bodies~ 'No member of any state,
county or municipal Governmental board, commission or agency
who is present at any meeting of any such body at which an
official decision, ruling or other official act is to be
taken or adopted may abstain from voting in regard to any
s~,ch decision r~linG or act. Any vote shall be recorded or
counted for each such member present except when, with
respect to any such member, there is or appears to be a
possible conflict of interest under the provisions of
112.311, 112.313, 112.3143. In such cases, said member
shall comply with the disclosure requirements of 112.3143."
So that talks more in term, that you have to vote but
you may abstain if those things are present.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE: Okay.
CHAIRMAN HASSE: When it reaches that stage.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE: That's fine.
CHAIRMAN HASSE: Is Commissioner Saunders here?
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE: He was.
CHAIRMAN HASSE: All right.
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. And it's
interesting to see so many -- I almost said high priced, but
I mean fine members of our legal profession in Collier
County here this evening. I have no idea why.
But in any case, Mr. 011iff, would you lead off this,
please.
MR. OLLIFF~ Yes, sir. For the record, I'm Tom
Olliff, Assistant to the County Manager.
And, Mr. Chairman, here we are.
This had been a process that began when the county
adopted its Growth Management Plan. As part of that plan,
it required that the county adopt some land development
regulations that were necessary to implement that plan. Tw¢
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of those which are before you tonight are probably the two
pillar documents of that Growth Management Plan, those being
Zoning Reevaluation Ordinance and the concurrency management
or what's entitled the Adequate Public Facilities
Ordinance.
We have had several public workshops, planning
commission workshops, a great deal of public input, and
present to you this evening draft ordinances that are recent
and up to date as of the latest Planning Commission
recon~endations to you, from their first public workshop
last week.
The ordinances that you have have been modified
slightly from the January ordinance that you have received
before. Those changes had been highlighted and, again,
those are not very many or very major in nature.
The agenda before you tonight has us discussing
concurrency management first, and what we would like to do
is allow staff an opportunity to provide you a brief
overview of the ordinance and what it does, maybe briefly
co~ur what are, from the public hearing, the outstanding
issues, so that I think if we can try to capsulize for the
commission what the outstanding issues are, we may also help
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capsulize the public comment. And following that, the
rezoning reevaluation, and we will do the same following the
agenda that we have.
Just to mention, for the public's sake, that the
speaker slips are out on the table in the hallway, and if
you would like to register to speak, fill one of those out
and turn it An promptly so that we can go ahead and call
your name. Some of you have both items listed, and I'll
call on you so that you can make whatever comments you feel
you need to.
CHAIRMAN HASSE: Thank you, Mr. Olliff.
Mr. Dorrill, would you sort of act as a timekeeper
here. And we're not going to be that rigid about it, but
merely to make sure that everybody has an opportunity to
talk.
Thank you.
MR. LITSlNGER~ Good evening, Commissioners.
For the record, I'm Stan Litsinger, Growth Management
Director. And again I would like to ask for your indulgence
as some of this may be repetitious, but I would like to give
you an additional outline of the two ordinances.
Mr. Olliff pointed out that these two ordinances
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before you tonight in the first public hearing to be held
prior to adoption of these ordinances are the pillars of the
Growth Management Plan in the county. I would further
submit to you that the Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance
is the keystone to the entire Growth Management Plan. The
Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance insures the
coordination of land use decisions with the availability of
adequate public facilities.
The implementation of the Zoning Reevaluation
Ordinance will determine consistent and/or compatible land
use for individual properties, rezone certain properties as
appropriate, and thereby set development expectations for
all property in the county consistent with the Growth
Management Plan~ whereas the Adquate Public Facilities
Ordinance provides the county with the regulatory framework
to synchronize the rate of development with the county's
ability to pro%ide supporting facilities in effect necessary
to maintain adopted levels of service.
9J-5.016 of the Florida Administrative Code requires
the capital improvement and its concurrency management
system of the comprehensive plan to address, among other
things, the local government's ability to provide or require
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provision of needed im~rovements and to manage the land
development process so that public facility needs created by
previously approved and future development orders do not
exceed the ability of the local government to provide or
require provision of necessary facilities.
Also, Chapter 163 of Florida Statutes clearly states
that~ A local government shall not issue a development
order or permit which results in a reduction in the level of
service for affected public facilities adopted in the Growth
Mangement Plan and the capital improvement element.
In the furtherance of these clear legislative
mandates, Policy 144 of the Capital Improvement Element
establishes the fundamental law of Collier County for
concurrency determinations applicable to prior approved and
future development in the county.
CIE Policy 144 states tha t~ The county shall
dutermine prior to the issuance of building permits whether
or rot there i& sufficient capacity of Category A public
facilities to meet the standards, the levels of service, for
existing population and prcposed development. No permit
shall be issued by the time mandated for the adoption of
land development regulations unless the levels of service
for the resulting development will achieve the standards in
Policy 115 levels of service, Category A, and the
requirements of the concurrency manageme:~= system as
outlined in the policy of the capital improvement element.
The Public Facilities Ordinance will implement Policy
144 and other policies of the plan by providing a
concurrency management system. This concurrency management
system, as outlined in this ordinance before you tonight, is
a two-part system.
The first part is a management and monitoring program
that calls for the preparation of an annual update and
inventory report of public facility by April 1st of each
year. In this report, the available capacities of existing
Category A facilities are summarized, Water, sewer,
drainage, park, solid waste, transportation. To ensure
forecasts based on capital improvement elements, approved
projects.
As a result of this analysis, staff reports the
deficiency or potential deficiency to the Board of County
Commissioners at which time the Board may take a number of
actions which include the following~
They may establish areas of significant influence
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around ~otential deficient or deficient roads~ approve
additional public facilities to projects to eliminate
deficiencies! approve the sale of development order issuance
in the affected areas pending one of the following: Lower
the level of service by a Growth Management Plan amendment;
include the necessary public facility projects in the
adopted annual budget and the annual CIE u~date; await
approval of new or increased revenue sources to meet public
facility projects provided by the Board pending funding of
the state legislature or approval by the county voters once
the AUIR is adopted, an annual determination of concurrency
has been made and the remaining capacity of all facilities
is known.
It is at this time that the part two of the
concurrency management system, the regulatory program, takes
place. The property owner or someone wishing to develop a
parcel of property applies to the county for determination
of concurrency under the ordinance and the issuance of a
certificate of adequate public facility.
In your previous workshop, we went over the process
and the flowchart of the determination and the denial of
approval of that certificate. There have been no major
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changes in this process since you previously reviewed it.
If you would like, I can walk you :hrough it, or if
not --
CHAIRMAN HASSE~ Could you Just touch on them. Don't
go through the whole thing.
MR. LITSINGER~ First of all in the process, the
ordinance provides for a number of exemptions for any
determinations under the ordinance. In other words, they
are essentially vested as to any determinations of
concurrency.
CHAIRMAN MASSEs Can everybody hear him?
(Audience shook heads in the negative).
CHAIRMAN }{ASSEs Speak directly into the microphone.
MR. LITSINGER, Exemptions fall into seven possible
categories as the ordinance is currently drafted.
They ares Development for regional impact with any
conditions appearing in the development agreement or the
development ord~r reflecting the DRI provisions. They have
statuatory exemptions with few exclusions.
The other exception thing is all valid, unexpired
Collier County building permits in existence at the time the
ordinance is adopted.
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The other type is public facilities under
eon~truetion by th. county
Growth Management Plan.
The other type, temporary use permits. All the
temporary construction permits, not to exceed a cumulative
period o~ one year with renewals.
Replacement and reconstruction and repair of existing
develogment.
And any growth management direct determinations, such
as other minor permits which do not affect concurrency.
Once a decision is made whether or not a applicant is
exempt from the process a~d the decision is made that the
applicant must be submitted to the process, there are three
-- four stages at which a determination is made.
Application for certificate of adequate public
facility must be made prior to the earliest occurrence of
eit!~er a final subdivision plat approval, a final site plan
approval, a building permit issuance, or an applicant may
apply for a cer{ificate at any time.
If you will notice, I omitted number two, prior to
the entering the site development plan review process, as we
have recently eliminated that requirement.
Once an application is submitted, a determination is
made if it's a sufficient and complete application.
If that is the case, we move on to the next process,
which leads us to the condition of a county facility. The
ideal situation being where all required facilities are
identified in the Annual Update Inventory Report have been
funded by the Board of County Commissioners and are included
in the Capital Improvement Element of the CIE. This occurs
each spring around May 1st.
If that is the case, the development -- facilities
capacities utilization is determined, that development
facilities utilization is recorded in the concurrency
management system and the certificate is issued.
The other scenario is a situation where we are unable
to provide the necessary facility identified by staff in the
annval update and inventory report and there is a deficiency
in the Capital Improvement Element of required facility, in
which case we have a situation where remaining facility
capacity allocation and areas of significant influence have
been established and are operative.
In this case, the development facility capacity
demand is determined based on the information on the
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applic.~tion, county departments or indep%ndent providers
would certify remaining capacity. Which leads us to a
two-possibility scenario.
The scenario would either be that providers indicate
that there are inadequate remaining capacity for one or more
faci1%ties, in which case a certificate would be denied. At
which point the applicant would either accept that
determination or have the option of ~£pealing to the public
facilities determination appeal committee, which consists of
three higher level staff mechanic.
At that point, the committee would either deny or
issue the certificate based on determination of whether the
original analysis is correct and true and based on factual
data.
The other scenario is that all departments and
providers indicate adequate remaining capacity for all
facilities, at which the development capacity allocations
are subtracted from available inventory remaining in the
capacity management system and the certificate of adequate
public facility is issued.
MR. HASSE: Are there any questions on the process?
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ On the question of exemptions,
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is there, in the ordinance for adequate public facilities,
an exemption for like in-fill types of property where you've
got a subdivision that's, you know, e~ghty percent complete
and you are completing that type of a subdivision?
MR. LITSINGER~ If you're talking about a situation
~uch as a PUD that's eighty percent completed and at which
point twenty percent of the building permits remain to be
applied for or drawn, as the ordinance is currently written,
those remaining, twenty, would be subject to concurrency
determination if they were not a DUI.
CHAIRMAN SAUNDERS. One issue that may have been
raised by Commissioner Volpe might be more of one of
vesting, as opposed to an exemption, and so I'll pose the
question.
Is there any provision for vesting of projects that
have already started? They have already got their
infrastructure and they have already gotten build~ng permits
and buildings are already up and then there is a question of
adequate public fa~ilities. Is there any mechanism for
vesting a project that is already pretty far down the road
to being complete?
MR. LITSINGER~ Not by the exemption criteria.
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MR. DORRILL~ I think, Bill, you may want to
respond.
MR. MERRILL~ No, there isn't. There is no provision
for vesting under the Adequate Public Facility Ordinance.
The only exemptions are those that are specified in -- I
believe it's Section Eight Point --
MR. CUYLER: Four?
MR. MERRILL~ 8.2.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ Are you saying, then --
Commissioner Saunders followed up on that -- there is no
exemption provision for vested rights under --
MR. MERRILL, No.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ There is not?
MR. MERRILLJ There is not.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS~ Let me raise a legal
question, and I'm assuming since there is no provision for
vesting of proJect~, that under Florida law there is no
legal vesting of a project in terms of the adequate public
facilities determination.
MR. MERRILL. No, not necessarily. There has not
been any cases decided in that regard. There have been
declaratory -- two in particular, and several other --
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declaratory statements issued by DCA. Courts do give weight
to the DCA's interpretation of the rules and its statutes of
which it is required to administer.
However, that is not necessarily the law of the
state, but it is an good indication. I think it does have
some weight with courts. There is no doubt about that.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: Do you have an opinion
independent of the declaratory statements as to whether the
courts would require or find that there are vested rights in
reference to adequate public facilities?
MR. MERRILL~ I think one of the best ways to -- one
of the best analogies that I can think of that is in the
case law that relates somewhat to concurrency law is the
impact fee case law, particularly a case that is City of Ke~
West versus RLJS.
In that case, the courts -- there were issued
building permit~ in that case for ~ development; and in that
case, the courts indicated that a -- an impact fee ordinance
adopted by the city after those building permits had been
issued would still apply to those developments despite the
so-called vested rights claims that were made by the
developer in this instance.
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Now that's one instance that deals with impact fees,
and there are other cases as well.
Oftentimes, on the other side of it, of course,
courts have found that when an ordinance has been adopted
after a building permit has been iss~.~J, that oftentimes
they will find that there is equitable estoppel or vested
rights against the government so that that an ordinance
cannot apply to that building permit.
So as you can see, there are case that'~ go both
ways.
The impact fee situation is the one that I see as
most closely resembling concurrency. I think that one of
the things that I look at is what is actually vested. You
know, it's the density or intensity or that specified plan
of development. Maybe a site plan that has been approved.
And as long as concurrency does not affect that, but
requires them to possibly defer or delay that, that may or
may not affect 'tested right.
AGain, the question hasn't been ultimately resolved.
I hate to hedge my answer on that, but that's really how the
case law has come on line.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE: Thank you.
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I Just have a question on exemptions. Is there any
provisions for a type of minimum imFact or a diminuatiYe
impact provided. One house. You know, having essentially,
even if you may be up to capacity and you may impact or
attempt to maybe impact when you're talking about --
MR. MERRILL= The ASI's are based on traffic impact..
However, the way that the concurrency management regulations
from the State are drafted, they require that if it -- if
the impact of development lowers the level of service.
They do not specify that lower level of service means
one trip or if it means five hundred trips, but we have
tried to make that as flexible as possible for the county in
order to try to implement your Growth Managemen~ Plan in
this instance.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS~
Thank you.
Stan, a quick question on the
appeal process. The appeal process ends in front of a
determination appeals committee?
MR. LITSINGER: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS: And who is that? That never
gets back to the Board here?
MR. LITSINGER: At your first workshop, there is an
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indication by the Board is that the Board did not want to
have appeals come directly to the Board, so the ordinance
was redrafted to indicate a three individual appeals
committee, consisting of an assistant to the County Manager,
the chief MPO planner or his designee, and the chief
projects review service or his designee.
CHAIRMAN HASSE~
commission, then?
MR. LITSINGER~
It can't be appealed to the
That is correct. Not as it is
originally draft. The Commission in its workshop had
indicated a reluctance to hear the appeals.
CHAIRMAN HASSE~ What was that?
MR. LITSINGER~ At your original workshop. The
Commission had directed to us rewrite that section.
CHAIRMAN HASSE~ You made mention of eighty percent
of a project being completed, the other twenty percent has
building permits. What does that do for them?
MR. LITSlNGER~ Any valid buildings permits would be
exempt from a concurrency determination.
CHAIRMAN HASSE: I didn't think I got that out of
what you said. Thank you.
MR. LITSINGER~ If you would like, I'll go ahead.
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CHAIRMAN HASSE~ Please.
MR. LITSINGER~ On your handout sheet, you have --
two sheets -- the changes which resulted from the Plannitlg
Con~nission's first three public hearings, their -- February
23rd meeting and their ~4arch 1st meeting. I'll briefly go
over those with you. They are essentially housekeeping or
clarification changes.
A couple of change~ of note are on page twenty-four.
We are no ]onger requiring a certificate prior to entering
the site development review process.
Also, on page twenty-five, we have clarifying
language which related to the payment of impac! system
development fees at the time a certificate is issued.
On the blue sheet, your package.
COM/4ISSIONER GOODNIGHT~ I don't have a blue sheet.
MR. LITSINGER~ Excuse me. On the last page of your
packet, which is page twenty-five.
CHAIR/~ HASSE= The last sheet?
MR. LITSINGER~ nat's correct. Indicates
twenty-five to the left.
COM)4ISSIONER SHENAHAN~ Twenty-five.
CHAIRMAN HASSE~ Well, I got -- all right. I've got
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it no~.
staff to review the possibility of some language for the
plan of -- excuse me -- for the ordinance that provided for
a renewal of a certificate, provided that the applicant
participated in the provision of public facilities as
needed. And we attach that as information purposes.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE, What was that again?
MR. LITSINGER.. Page twenty-five.
In the current draft of the ordinance, we provide fo!
renewal of a three-year certificate provided that adequate
public facilities are determined to be availab'.,: or, in lieu
Of that, that the applicant provides the necessary
facilities to maintain concurrency.
The Planning Commission had directed us to develop
some alternative language which provided for the developer
or the applicant to provide facilities that serve the
particular development, in which case the applicant would be
able to continue developing even though a concurrency
situation did not exist.
VICE-CHAIR/~AN VOLPE: I think one of the issues -- I
realize we're kind of Jumping around, but you're on the
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paragraph.
I think one of the issues that's going to be raised
is whether that three-year period is tbs right number.
KR. LITSINGER: You will hear on that.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ I'm not questioning that it's
the right number~ I am assuming since you have come up with
it that it is. But can you go through where that three-year
period came from. What's the rationale?
MR. OLLIFF~ I think at the conclusion, if I may say
something, you will have a few other recommend.tions that we
may make to you that may help clarify at least some of those
outstanding issues and may provide a little help to the
Commission of some of those kinds of issues.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ I would .till like to get this,
even if it's Just two sentences, what the rationale is for
that.
MR. LITSINGER~ The rational for the three-year
certificate, very briefly, has to do with the fact that we
plan our improvements in five-year increments.
In addition to that, when you issue a certificate,
you are committing and allocating remaining capacity which
can be held until it is utilized. The longer into the
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future that you allow that certificat~ to run, the longer in
the future that you have to hold or set aside inventory for
that particular applicant.
Also, it can raise problems with the fact that as you
go further into the future, you can continue to issue
certificates for which the building permits have not been
drawn and you can get into a situation where you have a
deficit of facilities and yet building permits and older
certificates continue to be issued.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ Thank you.
MR. LITSINGER~ That's a compromise.
CHAIRMAN HASSE~ Commissioner.
VICE-CHAIRMAR VOLPE~ Mr. Lispky, again, could you
Just identify what the affect of the addition of that
language might be?
I think you said that the CCPC had asked that staff
draft up some language, and the language under -- as ordered
here is that it has to do with facilities that serve that
development.
MR. LITSINGER= That's correct.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ Could you Just ~xplain to me~
What significant difference would that make?
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MR. LITSINGER~ A scenario might possibly be where
the proposed development was on a road segment which was
currently deficient and required a $4,000,000 improvement.
We could make a determination of that development's impact
or share of impact on that road and place a cost figure on
that, that the developer would be able to pay that amount of
money and continue to develop in the face of a deficiency
where the county would provide the rest of the funds for the
impro~emen t.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ So a fair share ,~ontribution,
then, toward to improvement.
MR. LITSINGER~ Necessary improvement to obtain
concurrency.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ Thank you.
MR. LITSINGER~ Before we continue, I would like to
point out seweral outstanding issues which you will hear
discussed toni{?ht.
Number one among these, as we have previously
discussed, is the length of time for certificate of adequate
public facilities to be valid. The ordinance as it is
currently drafted -- excuse me -- provides for three years
with potential for renewal upon the circumstances that we
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have Just discussed.
Another area of dispute or contention is the area of
significant influence and their boundaries and how they will
be established. In our first workshop, we eliminated all
determinations for concurrency outside of an ASI and we
decided that we would only have concurrency determination
w]thln an ASI. There are a number of various alternatives
for designating the boundaries for an ASI, which you will
hear more about later.
The third area -- excuse me. The thir~ ~rea of
contention has to do with, in case an area of significant
influence must be established, should there be provisions
for set-aside of a certain percentage of remaining capacity
for the single-family home builder, and that is an issue
which has not been resolved also.
Those are the three issues that we know of that are
yet to be determined.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEz What does -- single-family home
builder, what -- I don't understand what that means.
HI{. LITSINGERz That would be the single-family home
permit versus the multi-family or PUD or larger scale
development. In other words, it would be a provision to
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protect the smaller individual from not being provided for
in a first-come, first-served situation.
In other words, if you had a thousand permits left to
allocate within an ASI, the larger developer or developers
came forward early in the process and drew certificates,
taking all of that capacity, that would eliminate the
possibility of a single lot owner getting a permit.
Other than that, we can open it up for questions.
CHAIP~iAN HASSE~ Any other questions for ~r. Lipsky?
COM}ilSSIONER SHENAHAH~ Are we going to discuss, of
course, the single family remaining capacity ~19ortunity as
we Go along through the evening, or how are we to proceed?
MR. OLLIFFI ! think what happened is that the
Planning Commission heard some comment and asked for
direction to go back and try and work out somethinG.
! think we've got to go back and work out some
equitable percentage based on maybe what actual development
in that type of small single family development occurs, and
we will try to come up with some rational percentage. We
will probably have that when we Get to the Planning
Commission the next time.
COM}~ISSIONER SHENAHANz So we will be addressing
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that.
CHAIRMAN HASSE~ That's in our next meeting.
Anybody else have a presentation?
MR. DORRILL~ Mr. Chairman, I wanted to run over,
quickly, some areas of opportunity, as they relate to the
primary points of contention that Stan alluded to, and some
suggestions for you to consider as you begin to hear the
arguments. These may be some suggestions that could
compromise some of the outstanding issues.
I think -- the first one as it relates to the
certificates of concurrency. I feel that iran'[y, and I
think that talking to the Commission, this is a community --
Col]Jot County Jr. a cc.mnunity that hau benefited
immeasurably as a result of having large state-of-the-art
multi-use projects. I think that staff feels that is, and
the conventional wisdom suggests that, some type of
graduated certificate could very well be a good idea.
Some of tho things we ),ad been thinking about would
indicate a one-year certificate for single family homes! for
medium sized multi-size projects and comparable commercial
projects, that a three-year certificate should be the
appropriate length of time~ and that for projects in the
sugge0ted oixos in excess of five hundred residentia! unite
or a comparable co~nercial intensity should be entitled to a
five-year certificate.
Frankly, we don't have a problem with developing some
language along those lines. And with the associated
extensions, I think they will protect the lending
institutions desires as performers, or submitted, that would
continue to encourage long phase-in projects that this
community has enjoyed.
During those times that roads fall below their
desired level of service, we have contemplateO perhaps some
surcharges, as opposed to double impacting projects.
frankly have a philosophical concern, and I th~nk we would
be subject to immediate legal challenge if we suggested that
projects would need to be double impacted.
Making growth pay twice for road segments is
something that, from what I have concluded in talking to
you, that you ]~av~ concerns about, but there may be some
opportunities to place surcharges on certificates that are
proceeding to building permit application if roads fall blow
the level of service to accelerate construction, either to
provide performance bonuses to the contractor for early
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completion of a road segment so that tho length of time
we're below level of service could be shortened or mitigated
as we gulp up certificates still being valid.
Now the second area Stan alluded to was the need to
specifically define the methodology and show graphically how
we are going to determine the district boundaries of areas
of significant influence. We can talk later this evening in
conceptual terms.
We have an item on this coming Tuesday's agenda that
will show three methodologies. One very severe, one very
limited, and then something midstream. And '.~e will show you
in graphic terms and on maps the areas that wculd be
affected and are going to be affected as a result of any
moritorium that is imposed.
VICE-CHAIRMANVOLPE~
on our agenda on Tuesday.
Mr. Dorrill, you said something
Is that an issue u~z~lated to
this ordinance in terms of how do we set or if we set plans,
et cetera?
MR. DORI:ILL~ My understanding is that it is
currently unresolved because we have left that to future
determination, after the road segments appear to be
potentially deficient, and we have left that to sort of best
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available wisdom, if you will.
But to wait until such time that roadways are
potentially deficient or very near to being determined to be
deficient, I think the development co~aunity and I think
existing residences would like to see and understand how
were going to apply moritoriums. And we are prepared to
give you Tuesday three suggestions and show you graphically
areas that would be affected as a result of a moritorium.
If you choose to include methodology as a part of this
ordinance.
CHAIRMAN HASSEz ! think it's importan~ chat we do.
MR. DORRILL~ I happen to feel that way.
UNIDENTIFIED~ I think that that's true.
MR. DORRILL~ I think both the community as well as
the landowners are interested in trying to see that in
advance of a moritorium, and there is certainly no reason
that we can't Dro;ide that, and if the Board is comfortable
with a particular methodology, we can incorporate that into
the ordinance.
In descending order of importance, I think that
concludes the substantial issues. There may be innumerable
minor issues and individual circumstances that are
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addressed.
With regard to major zoning reevaluation, there has
been some concern as to when the absolute deadline is in
order to protect or vest or ~xempt certain property rights.
This is, frankly, a subJectiwe decision but one that
affects not own the quality of the applications we're going
to see and whether we have a rush on the store, so to speak,
but I think also as an equity issue, as people have known
for some two years that this was coming. And with each
additional day, you have another project that may not be
exempt but desires to be exempt and everybody ~ qoing to be
rushing for a deadline.
Current deadline has been proposed to be January of
this year. There has been some suggestions that it should
be on tho date of adoption. ! think the Comml~sion needs to
hear some of the concerns as it affects real-life
circumstances before we make a decision.
And then finally, there has been a great deal of
discussion as to what constitutes an improved property.
Mr. Saunders alluded to that as part of the
concurrency ordinance provision. But also as part of zoning
reevaluation, staff is of the opinion that the concept of a
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unified plan of development is one that has merit. For no
other reason than as people are developing a project or a
property, it is done in context of an entire scheme and you
may have a certain loss leader item that is sold quickly to
recoup a portion of your initial investment, but your
ultimate profit may not come literally until the final phase
of residential is begining to be sold.
So I wanted you to know from the County Manager's
perspective that the concept of a unified development is one
that from a land use perspective is sound, ard I believe we
have developed some language that will resolve '.h6 far
majority of concern for those existing projects that are out
there, are partially built, are partially developed and
whose property rights are going to be protected.
That concludes the staff presentation. I wanted you
to know what some of our latest feelings were, even as a
result as today, ~o that you will recognize that there are
some solutions for many of the concerns that you wtll hear
expressed here this evening.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE: Hr. Chairman, just a comment.
Obviously we're dealing in uncharted waters and I think we
are all learning as we go along that it's a very fluid
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situation, at least it seemv to be.
Mr. Merrill alluded to the fact that there are
declaratory statements from the state DCA, having to do with
development orders and development order being one that
affects density or intensity of use.
Is there any -- you know, does that have any bearing
on vesting? If we use a development order, or if the
development order relates to, one that affects density and
intensity of use? I mean, is that somehow going to impact
upon our zoning reevaluation ordinaly?
MR. MERRILL~ Declaratory statements~
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ Yes.
MR. MERRILL~ ! believe they do affect how that may
be interpreted in a court. I do think the declaratory
statements do have weight in a court of law.
As I said earlier, the interpretation of the agency'
own rules and the statute which it administers. It clearly
does not have the weight of another court's decision in the
state or, you know, a number of other types of precedential
matters, but it does -- I believe a court would give weight
to a declaratory statement if it made sense.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ Right. I was Just thinking
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about in the context of what Mr. Dorrill said in terms of
our zoning reevaluation ordinance. We have established
certain time frames when vesting was to be determined, and
it's the the development order stage.
MR. MERRILLI Well, the place that we determined for
vesting to occur under the vested rights determination in
the ordinance, we require a final local development order.
Specifically, if we refer to the -- wrong ordinance.
Specifically if we refer to part one, which is on
page thirty-six and thirty-seven. We refer to a final, an
unexpired governmental act in the form of what we call a
final development order. In that case, the de.~initions
provide that a final development order is both a final local
development order and a final DIR development order.
In addition, we included under, not the definition of
final local development order, but we included as 'an act
upon reliance' could occur in the vested rights
determination, an act in the form of a final subdivision
plat that has been approved by the county or a final site
development plan or a final subdivision master plan or a
planned unit development master plan.
The last three of those would have had to have
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occurred, however, prior to January 1, 1988 -- excuse me.
After January 1, 1988, but prior to the affectiYe date of
this ordinances.
VICE-CHAIRMANVOLPEs I guess -- is there anything
anything in the declaratory statements that you have alluded
to that is inconsistent with this provision of our ordinance
as it's presently drafted?
HR. MERRILLs Not at this time. Not -- no, not in
the declaratory statements that have been issued by the DCA
at this time, in my opinion.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs Thank you.
HR. OLLIFFs The first speaker I have registered, Mr.
Chairman, is Colonel John Beebe.
be Ron Pennington.
VICE-CHAIRMAN ¥OLPEs
Following the Colonel will
Could I ask Just a question.
time?
both.
Are we going to take both ordinances at the same
Staff started out with adequate public facilities.
C}IAIRMAR HASSEs I thought --
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEI Are you going to --
CHAIRMAN HASSEs I thought we were going to direct
HR. OLblFFs ! tried to separate the speakers, when
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they noted which, by item line. Some of them had noted
both, and so I'm going to go ahead and call those now.
CHAIRMAN HASSE~
them as they get up.
VICE-CHAIRMANVOLPE~
Call them, and we'll have to address
But are we only going to be
addressing in this segment of the meeting adequate public
facilities?
MR. OLLIFF~ That's what the agenda reads.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ I got a little confused when
Mr. Dorrill startod talking about zone reevaluation as well.
So I guess we need to ask the speakers to confine
their remarks to adequate public facilitiem o~dinance.
MR. BEEBE~ Mr. Chairman, if I may.
CHAIRMAN HASSE~ Good evening.
MR. BEEBEz My co~ents will actually apply to both.
CHAIRRAtl HASSEz Go right ahead.
MR. BEEBEz Thank you.
My name is John Beebe.
Civic Association. I'm also a member of the President's
Council of Naples Property Owners Associations, which
consists of more than ten thousand property owners in
Agualane Shores, Foxfire, Kings Lake, Koceena Sands,
I'm president of the Lak~#ood
Lakewood, Moorings, Lely, Lely Country Club Manor, Olde
Naples, Park Shore, Port Royal, Royal Harbor and Pelican
Bay.
We wrote a brief letter to you recently in which we
saids "The President*s Council supports the county staff
position regarding the Zoning Reevaluation Ordinance and
Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance tn total. And
furthermore, the Presidentes Council recommends no dilution
of the staff position and would support even more stringent
regulations regarding exemptions. Any exemption granted
must have a reasonable time limitation so that a policy of
use it or lose it can be effective and not a Cool for land
speculation.
'Under the concurrency requirement, the final local
development order definition should be tied to the issuance
of the building permit° The public is alarmed over past
zoning sins which have prl~arily benefited the development
industry to the mglect of the greater public interest. It
is no~ time for you to recognize the public interest first
by enacting two strong ordinances as we and your staff
r eco~l~end o"
And this was signed by Joe Studs, the president.
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I would like to further point out that the financial
impact upon the property owners of this county resulting
from the public facilities that will have to be provided
over the next five and ten years and even periods longer
thsn that will be very substantial, and we are very much
concerned that we -- that the burden of paying for growth
should not be on the backs of the home owners, at our
expense, but that wherever possible, growth should pay for
growth and that the developer who wants to be given special
treatment should be prepared to pay for the special
treatment that he wants.
Thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN HASSEI Thank you, Mr. Beebe.
~R. OI~I~IFF~ Ron Pennington, followed by Jim Loskill.
MR. PENNINGTONI
~AIRMAN HASSEI
MR. PENNINGTONI
Good evening, Commissioners.
Would you give your name, please.
I'm Ron Pennington, a resident of
Springllne Drive J.n the Moorings. I'm president of the
Moorings Property Owners Association and a member of the
President's Council of the Greater Naples Area Property
Owner Association.
I also -- my remakrs are general, and they would
CO(;.l(;
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apply to both proposed ordinances.
On route to the courthouse, down Airport Road, I
reflected that this mass of traffic exemplifies the
degradation of our quality of life in this area that must
not be permitted to continue. Long backups at traffic
lights, which are ever increasing in number, and the many
vehicles entering and leaving business establishments along
the way create a state of anxiety and frustration which one
should not have to endure.
The two ordinances now under discussion, if they are
not weakend, will go a long way toward prevent~g the
expansion of this situation.
You and the county staff have been lobbied loud and
long by those representing development and related interests
to weaken various provisions of the ordinances. They have
sited potential financial loses which could occur to
themselves and their investors, and references are
frequently made: to what is fair.
Life is not always fair. This is usually well
recognized by investors, knowing there is always an element
of risk, usually proportional to the return on their
investment. In general, investment in Collier County in
real estate has been lucrative, but always with that
underlying risk that the rules may change.
There are few of us -- a few of us here rel~resenting
those co~x~only termed the silent majority, which makes up
the major part of your constituency. We also recognize that
life is not fair. It's not fair that our quality of life
continues to be driven down by those who say growth is
inevitable, and then market our area world wide to make it
so.
These two ordinances will hell) to l~reven~ continued
degrading of those factors which make ul) our (luAlity of life
if they are not watered down to satisfy the many concerns
that are being expressed by the development interest.
We will soon have before us again the proposal for
tho additional one cent sales tax as a means of funding many
of our infrastructure requirements. The public will be much
more supportive of the tax if they are assured that this
C ~o~m_ ission is berious about retaining change in the county ts
Growth Management Plan.
We strongly urge that you not allow any weakening of
those two ordinances.
Thank you.
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CHAIRMAN HASSEz
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs
to be cutting in and out.
can --
14y name is Jim Loski11.
here in town.
Thank you.
Mr. Olliff, that speaker seems
I don't known whether someone
CHAIRMAN ~ASSEs I brought that up before.
Did you give your name?
MR. OLLIFFs Jim Loakill, followed by Herb Savage.
WR. IX)SKILLs Good evening, Co~aissioners.
I'm with the Barnett Bank
Recently a number of financial institut,~ns in town
gathered to revie~ the proposed drafts of the ordinances in
light of our business activities, and we were somewhat
alarmed with some of the implications and thought it
appropriate to share that concern with you.
As a basic premise, I believe that growth management
is necessary to assure the quality of lite in Collier
County. Growth is desirable when it's properly managed.
The question is, I believe, really of the quality of growth.
! was encouraged to hear the County Manager speak in
terms of some adjustments. We were very fearful in looking
at the ordinance, the Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance,
that there is a great chance that it might accomplish Just
the reverse of what it was intended to, that a three-year
life of a certificate of adequancy would almost prevent the
high quality, large-scale growth that can pay for public
improvement and force growth in lower size that would not be
financing so~e of those public improvements.
So to have some dialog on that. I'm not sure that
everex, body understands how the financing of development
works, at least to this point in time, and I think that is
an important part of what we talk about. I don°t think that
we're talking about a compromise as much as mak:ng a process
that works financially, not only for the county but for the
industries that finance, as well the industries that
develop.
The first issue that we think is of paramount
importance is the implementation of a concurrency.
Concurrency concept must be done in a way to avoid a
negative impact economically in Collier County. The Board
of Co~missioners must find a source for the funding of state
roads construction in Collier County. State roads in the
county are the one~ primarily responsible for the concerns
of the building moratorium.
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we have talked in terms of whether there may be a
moratorium because of levels of service on roads. If the
uncertainty with regard to how these ordinances operate and
the absorption that can be done during periods of time gets
too high, financial institutions cannot lend money and there
is a tremendous econo~lc impact across the board. Not to
Just the d~velop~unt community. It's widespr~ad.
We have some concerns as to how we can finance the
single-family lot that someone wants to buy in a nice
quality subdivision that they want to build c.-, ~n two or
three years. A $60,000 lot, it's impossible for the average
person to pay that off in three years under the concurrency
certificate.
$o we think and encourage the dialog that we have
heard tonight, that we need to try to maybe look at some
graduated methodology in that regard.
We think a solution, and we would like to have the
opportunity to of/er some solutions to staff and to the
commission, that if the county improves the state roads at
its own expense. The state has no mechanism for the county
to receive a reimbursement at such times as the funds become
available to improve roads already paid by the county.
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The county should enter into an agreement with the
State of Florida that if the county improves those roads,
the state will agree to reimburse them at a cost plus
interest factor at some forseeable point in the future.
This would appear to be a reasonable agreement for both
parties. The state would have their roads improved early,
and the county would avoid a potential recession.
The financial community cannot remain silent when
Collier County Jobs may be lost or when quality businesses
may seek to relocate to other areas where there is a better
env i ronmen t.
The financial co~nunity believes the future loss in
personal income for the State of Florida for the period,
1990 to 1998 could be as high as $65,000,000,000. Nov,
that's a state-wide figure, and obviously there would be a
large impact in Collier County.
The second item that we have some concern is that the
Commission must address the funding issue simultaneously
with the enactment of the concurrency ordinances. Failure
to do so, in the words of Florida Tax #arch, would result in
a recession that never ends.
Solution. The county should have staff prepare
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several alternative recommendations for adequate funding.
Fund sources include possibly a one percent sales tax that
has been mentioned or a $1,000,000 capital improvement levy
on assessed value of Collier County real estate. The
Co=~tssion should ensure that the funds raised by any method
are used exclusively for the resolution of the
transportation Issue. To pass an ordinance without proper
funding will result in de facto moratorium on building.
It does not take a banker to understand that adequate
funding is essential for any prudent government plan. The
financial community has concerns that the county staff may
not have had the time to devote as much effort into this
area as they have into the concurrency -- other two
concurrency issues.
The third position that we would like to suggest is
that, again, the certificates of public adequancy and their
length of time, and I feel that th,~re has been some
discussion and, at the sake of brevity, I~m not going to be
through that, but ! hope ! have been able to make my points
That in a three-year period, as it is presently set
in the ordinance, you won't see another Wyndemere. Those
things won't happen. And I think that's the kind of
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improvement and the kind of development that can pay the
county the things that it needs. And that's of paramount
importance.
I hope -- Z'm not going all over it again --
making my point. And Z would be happy to answer additional
questions on that.
CHAIRMAN HASSE ~
a point there, and ! don't question that at all.
You kno~, this didn't start yesterday! ~h'~s started
many years ago. The Growth 14anagement Plan. Of course,
concurrency was discussed at that time. And perhaps you're
speaking to the wrong group when you're talking about state
laws. Perhaps you should to ?allahassee instead.
MR. LOSXILL~ ! would be happy to make the trip with
think, Hr. Loskill, you have made
CHAIRMAN HASSE ~
I don't have to. I've been there
Mr. Shenahan has been there as
many times.
VICE-CHAIRHAN VOLPE~
well.
Just a couple of comments related to the comaenta we
have Just heard. One of the things that ! had asked the
staff to do early on when we began discussing the funding
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for our capital improvement element was some type of a
reimbursement mechanism with the state so that we don't find
ourselves in that situation, and that is in fact something
that we have been exploring and have been discussing.
The other comment that I have is under our CIE
element, we have a balanced element. I mean we have the
funds available to maintain the levels of service that are
tn our Growth Management Plan, at least for the next five
years, as I under the concept.
~. LI?SlI~: Cu~.issioner.
Our current CIE is balanced.
Clarification.
By definition, it has
to be balanced from available revenues, and ao currently
defined, that includes revenues which are subject to voter
approval.
Our CIE is balanced currently on the assumption that
the Board will direct and the voters will approve a one cent
sales tax addition.
VICE-CHAIRMANVOLPE: To what extent is the sales tax
-- potential for the sales tax factored Into our CIE7 How
much ~oney is allocated?
MR. LITSINGER: Currently, $64,000,000.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs Sixty-four million. And what
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portion of the capital i~prove=ent levy that was alluded to
is in the CIE element?
]iR. LITSINGERz The one mil?
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEz Yes, sir.
]iR. LIT$I}~ER~ Apparently twenty percent.
VICE-CHAIRP,%N VOLPE~ A hundred percent of what
number?
HR. LITSINGER~ Twenty percent in the cur.-ent year.
About $11,000,000. About $14,000,000 over fl','4 yoars.
VICE-CHAI~HAN VOLPE~ $14,000,000. That's twsnty
percent.
What would be the total of revenues that would be
generated?
HR. LXTSXNORRs Current estimates for the five-year
period, $68,000,000.
¥ICE-CHAIRF, kN VOLPEs Sixty-eight million.
MR. LIT$INGERs For five years.
¥ICE-CHAIRIdAN VOLPEI J%lld then I Just have one other
question that hasn't been alluded to yet, and that iss We
have been talking about the length of time of these
certificates of adequate public facilities.
I sat through some part of a CCPC meeting, and there
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were discussions about agreements, and there was no mention
made about those agreements.
to understand.
MR. LITSINGERx
And it might be helpful for us
It might be well here to add to the
gentleman's comments that as currently drafted, the free
standing certificate is a three-year certificate with
provisions for renewal.
However, there are provisins for a develol~ent
agreement with the county, which of course cay serious
developer would enter into, where you can have a five-year
certificate and a statuatory porvision for renewal of that,
which potentially could go on for ten years.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VObPEs Is that what Mr. Dorrill was
alluding to when he said some consideration given to one,
three and five, and then with associated extensions?
MR. LITSINGERs
agreement .
CHAIRMAN HASSE~
That's correct. Within a development
Who gives the extension?
sorry.
VICE-CHAIRMAR VOLPE~ That's fine. I thought --
because that's something it that had not discussed in a
presentation. I though it might be important because we
know that that's an issue.
UO¢)
CHAIRMAN HASSE~ Who controls the extensions?
MR. LITSINGERs The county and -- the inside
development agreement or outside? Outside of development
agreement, after the current three years expire, if all the
rights under the certificate have not been utilized, then
the applicant can come back in and request a renewal.
If we determine at that time that there are still
adequate public facilities, we will renew. If w~ determine
that there are not, we will deny the renewal., ,!ess the
applicant agrees to enter into an agreement to provide its
share of the necessary development.
Within a development agreement, that additional
period can --
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs So that goes back.
MR. LI?SINGER~ With five years.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ I want to tie that back into
the recommendatioz: that the ¢CPC made about tying the cost
back, not to the $4,000,000 to improve U.S. 41 from Airport
Road to 951, but Just the impact that your proportionate
share of what the impact of new development is going to have
on that road segment.
MR. LITSINGER ~
correct.
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¥ICE-CIiAIRIiAN VOLPEs SO you can get your arms around
it, you can manage it, and there is some certainty there?
MR. LITSINGER, There is some certainty there as to
participation. Tha~ doesn't necessarily get the improvement
built when it's needed.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs I u~xtorstand that.
CHAIRMAN HASSEs Commissioner Shenaham..
COM~4ISSIONER SHENAHANI Before you go avay, you
talked about funding Issues with concurrency, and you talked
about the one cent sales tax and the one mi1 capital
improvement tax. Would you elaborate on t~mt s little bit?
MR. LITSINGERs ! think we're talking about one mil.
COM~tI SS IONER SHENAHAN $
said --
MR. IX)SKILLs No.
One mill. I thought you
One mil.
COMMISSIONER SHENAHANI Sorry.
MR. IX)SKILL, Just following up. Again, you enter
into a financing request from a developer, and he has gone
tn and he gets his certificate. We have got to look at
absorption figures. Okay?
We have had a pretty good seven or eight years in
Florida, and over the last seven or eight years and maybe
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the best in Collier County.
a cyclical economy.
If sales slo~ down, we
that.
This is baeically what we call
have to put a factor into
That's going to press down the size of that
development until we can manage that risk or wefre not going
to lend money on those type of projects.
So even though there is a renewal, if for three years
you can go out there and there's an impact, he has to be
able to cure it, which ! think there is a process to do
that. But ! still think for the quality of developments
that you want in this county, it has got to bo longer than
five years, if they're going to financeable. That's Just
our point.
There's one last thing that I saw in the ordinance
that I found serious is that the procedure for adequate
public facilities determinations requires the property owner
to deal with the c~Junty staff rather than the elected
officials would can be more flexible in their dealings with
tho public. And there is probably a lot of wisdom to that,
but the language, as I read it, basically says that unless
there is some procedural difference, you canmt overrule or
thoro is no other appeal process. Itms kind of like as a
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body you're saying you can never change this law.
You can't really foresee all of the implications of
legislation so perverse and so all encompassing as
concurrency as presontly before the Board. Consequently, I
Just think that you need to have probably refinements down
the road, and it sounds like you're giving up that power,
and I would suggest that maybe you would want to review
that.
CHAIR/dAN HASSEI Mr. Cuylor, would you like to
respond to that? Is there any way around what Mr. hoskill
is talking about?
MR. CUYLERs The staff hasn't viewed the Board as
giving any power away at this point.
MR. OLLIFF~ The Intent of that language is that the
Board determines the levels of service annually in this
ordinance, so we factor traffic counts, the water plant
rates and all of the information and say these are the
levels of service the techn{.cal data support, and the Board
will approve those annually.
And, frankly, whether the services are there or not
is generally going to be a pretty cut and dry kind of an
issue because the Board is going to say, 'Yes, there is
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ade<]uate servicer once a year, or ~No, there arenft,~ once a
year.
When they say, "Yes, there are," the way this
ordinance Ks set up, certificates are issued for the next
twelve months un~l we do that r~ an~ dete~nat~on
again. So ~t~s -- ~here~s no~ much of a s~Ject~ve nature
to de~e~nat~ons of ad~ua~e facilities.
CHAI~ HASSE= In o~her words, ~t's cu~ a~ dr~ed~
1~el of seduces de~e~nes.
VICE-C~I~ VOLPE= ~cep~ that I ~h~nk the appeal
pr~e.s ~s d~fferen~ here than ~he appeal Droce~s under
zoning reevaluation.
~. OLLIFF~ Yes. Because-- ~t was the ~nten~.
Because ~t ~. a much 1esl s~Ject~ve ~lsue and it is a much
~re teen,ca1 ~lSut ~OU~ whether ~he semites are there or
~o~.
If ~t i~ one for a traffic ~ssue, y~r MPO itaff
primly much ~re versed a~ being ~1o to de~e~ne
~here is any ~dity in te~s of h~ ~t 1~el of se~ice
was es~1ish~ a~ ~he annual t~me or whether there
n~ info~tlon ~ would c~nge =~ 1~el of se~ice or
s~ething, as ~sed to ~king t~t a ~l~cy dec~sion.
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VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs And I can't think of -- are
there any other instances where the Board actually does, is
not the final arbiter of these issues, of any issue?
MR. OLLIFFz Several.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERSs Yeah.
MR. LOSKILLs It sounds like to me it's kind of not
that you are but that you can't be. If that is your intent,
then so be it.
But ! think as the elected officials that you have to
be the final arbiter. Maybe after a very lengthy process.
MR. OLDIFFs Herb Savage, followed by George Keller.
CHAIRMAR HASSEs Nr. Savage.
MR. SAVAGEs
gentlemen.
CHAIRMAN HASSEs
name again, please.
MR. SAVAGEs
Good evening. Mr. Chairman, ladies and
Yes, sir. Would you repeat your
Hr. Chairman, I'm Herb Savage,
Architect, member of John O. Public Association. That's an
ordinary citizen. I am not representing anyone. I am a
member of many things, but I'm an architect and I have been
an architect for many, many years.
I was involved with Deltona Corporation, and I
remember the days when Deltona Corporation did a central
master plan of the various conununities, had a pay off
program. One year, three year, five year, eight years. And
-- in order to sell property. And they may have been
speculators, but they had one-year, three-year, five-year
programs, eight years.
And I enjoyed so much hearing Mr. Dorrtll talk about
varying times of certificates because there lsntt a
developer I know of or a banker I know of or a businessman I
know of who can borrow all the money and build all the roads
and all the developments and all the sewer and water for a
ten thousand acre or five thousand or two thousand acres.
And I tm asking you -- and ! Just want to tell you.
In the last year and a half, my client spent $15,000 in
fifteen months to get a permit from Collier County, which is
the simplest part of It, but then we had to go to DNR, DER,
Corps of Engineer. A~$ I said, 'Well, remember tn the early
days as an architect, I used to sit and look at the books
that came out where the federal government said minimum
standards. ·
I always thought the government, the federal
government set minimum standards. Then the state would have
O0()G.1
a more elaborate standard, then the county would elaborate
more, and the city would elaborate more, and they would
handle their own problems. But it seems to be the State of
Florida, whoever represented by here tonight, is so
interested in making us all robots that I am getting very
irritated by it -- and I love that expression, so I say,
'Keep it simple, Savage.'
I would like to think what weere doing here tonight
and what you gentelmen are doing a very good Job at, a very
difficult Job -- I can remember in the Army, we could have a
paragraph written in all abbreviation. ASI, DRI, AS --
whatever this other thing.
~arco Island never had a DRI. There was an impact
statement, regional type, on Marco Island when we were
before Colonel Wisdom and General Dribble for developing the
final phase of Marco Island. That high. Impact statement.
Marco Island is only one community that we talked aboutw and
I have heard many of them.
This county has done a great Job in getting orderly
growth. As my dad said many years ago, 'If you plant a bush
you want to plant, make darn sure you water lt~ you take
care of it~ because if you don't take care of it, it will
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die.'
And, ladies and gentlemen, we can't afford a
moratorium. I'm thinking about the builder, I'm thinking
about the carpenter, the laborer, all those people that have
to work for a living. I tmve two automobiles. I don't need
two automobiles. That's the reason our streets are so
crowded today, because we are so elaborately enjoying life.
And I don't think we need to put up with all of these
things.
I think what we do need to do is keep it simple. And
I implore you, do not have a moratorium. Think of our poor
young poople, i~r. ~emp, Secretary of HUD, is it, in a
nationally televised program said that it takes forty-two
agencies for a young couple or an old couple to get a
building permit to build his home or her home in Los Angeles
County. Forty-two agencies.
That's the route we're going. And I ask yous Let's
slow down. And it's all right to slow down growth, but
don't hurt that poor working person or that banker or that
lawyer.
Oh, pardon me.
lark to be here tonight.
I think the lawyer is ~ust happy as a
CHAIRMAN HASSEs I'm sure.
~4R. SAVAGEs But ! Just ask you don't make them so
Thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN i~SSEs Your name?
MR. KELLERs George Keller, President of Collier
County Civic Federation, representing eighteen organizations
from Marco Island to Bonita Shores.
And that's a hard act to follow.
I would like to ask a few questions here. In the
first place, on the Section 400.10. What is the review
period?
MR. CUYLER! You're talking about public facilities
etd t nance ?
MR. KELLERs Yes, that's what we're on. And ! have
another slip for the other one. I don't think people should
talk about the two things at the same time.
MR. CUYLER ~
MR. KELLER s
What page are you on?
I'm on page five. Under 4.10.
Deficient road segments. And it says 'review periodm. And
I was Just wondering what the review period is. Is it the
period that we are reviewing our Comprehensive Plan, which
is roughly every year, or what is it?
It refers -- constantly refers to the review period.
It says~ 'Any capital road improvements under construction
or what w111 be under construction during the review
period.'
CHAIRMAN
MR. LITSINGERs
Could you respond to that?
The review period here mentioned is
the five-year period of the CIE.
]fR. KELLER~ That's the whole five years?
MR. LITSINGER~ Correct.
MR. KELLER~ Okay. So that straightens that out.
Then there's another problem here. The state
mandated that property improvement element be kept up to
standard. Our roads are falling behind due to the low, low
impact fees that we have been charging and that we are now
charging.
We must get going on increasing all road impact fees
so that growth ,~tll pay for growth. And I think this Board
a month or so ago directed the manager to review that to see
whether that eighteen hundred and $1,300 road impact fee,
compared to fourteen or $1,500 in Lee County, was adequate.
And I don't think it is, and I don't think you think it is.
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But let's not drag that along for two or three years,
because every day we are getting ourselves deeper in the
hole. And it's very important that we get that fee up to
where it belongs.
Secondly, we're talking about this five-year period
for the certificate of facility adequancy, and it's -- I
notice that it's a three years reported here. And the
manager has suggested they have single-family homes have a
one-year certificate/ multi-family, up to five hundred
units, have three years/ and over five hundred have five
yc~r~.
If this is the case, we have a problem with
allocation, because we've got five zones of family homes, as
! understand. Now then, we're going to have to go back and
look at these five zones and see how many private streets
there are in those five zones and allocate a certain amount
of these facilities that are going to be required for single
family homes before we get into any five or extended ten
years on the five hundred units because we're going to be
using up all our facilities requirements for big, big, big
developments, and a lot of people are going to be sitting
there with small lots that don't have fifteen or $25,000 to
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go through an appeal processes.
So ! think if we're going to do this and if we're
going to extend it beyond two years, we better darn well
start allocating. So much for private -- for single family
homes. Otherwise, we're going to be snowed under.
I disagree with the banker on this matter of long
extending. That's what we have been doing all along. And
your statements that you didn't like to loan $60,000 --
CHAIRMAN HASSEf A~dress us, Mr. Xeller.
MR. KELLERz It was his statement that he didn't like
to loan $60,000 for three years for a person to buy a
And the big develol~nent scared the hell out of me -- and I
use the word hell -- because fifty percent of my money comes
from banker=, and ! can readily soo that if that's the
philosophy of the bankers in this area, we're in the same
trouble as the savings and loan industry.
If a person can't afford to buy the lot to build on,
we're in trouble right off the bat, so I can't go along with
this so the bankers can have a longer period of letting
people finance a mortgage on a lot. It seemed ridiculous
I hope that you would consider going along with the
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draft that's here. I think the draft that the staff has
made up so far is a good draft, and I think that we have had
plenty of consultation with lawyers and developers on this,
and we shouldn't water it down any more.
I agree with the other people that spoke for the
taxpayers, and please do not water it down any more. It°s
watered down enough. We've got a problem from past
experience~ let fs not compound t t by continuing the same
folly.
CHAIRMAN ]~SBEj T~ank you.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOI, PEs Mr. Chairman.
CHAIR)tAN HASSEs Yes, sir.
VICE-CHAIRRAN VOLPE! Mr. hitsinger, a question.
A sLngle-famlly residence. I've got my three-year
certificate of public facility~ I come to pull my building
permit and there are no certificates! I~m not ready to build
yet. I need an extension.
Do I have the same opportunity that anyone else does
to pay my fair share, my impact on the road that serves my
development?
MR. bITSINGERs Assuming you came in for renewal and
you were not able to exercise that certificate in the three
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years.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs I guess I'm trying to
understand. I didn't explain it very well.
We have talked about the bigger person and what he
can do to -- with a $4,000,000 road and he pays his
proportionate share, whatever it may be. But I've got my
single family residential lot that I bought and I come to
you now and I can't build because there aren't adequate
public facilities.
Can I pay you some -- how do you figure that out? I
mean, ia it -- there were some discussions about do I pay
ten two hundred and seventieths? What do I pay?
MR. LITSINGERs In answer to your first question.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEI Okay.
HR. I, ITSINGERI There is a renewability provision for
any certificate. They would apply to whether it was a five
hundred unit PUD or a single-family home. How we will
determine what a fair share would be or whether or not we're
going to have provisions in the language, which currently
states that the applicant will make the necessary
improvement.
But if there is a proportional allocation of cost, at
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this time we do not have that methodolo~ because we do not
have a situation which calls for that type of analysis at
this point.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ But the language that you had
-- that is propos.~d here, page twenty-five. That doesn't
require the applicant to build the facility! it Just
requires him to make his fair share contribution.
MR. OLLIFFI That's the intent of that language, and
I think, you k~w, it's the same for a large -- Just like
Stan says -- it's the same for a large development as it is
for a small development, and through our transportation
staff we have got to come up with a way to develop what is
fair share for each of those levels of certificates.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEI Now I have confused things. My
questlo~ tss Hr. Keller poses a dilemma here.
Can the person who has the single-family residents1
lot, say, whether an impact fee, it may be $200.00, it may
be $600.00, it ~ay be $1,000.00, but that would have to be
determined. But there is the ability to pay -- under this
draft, there is the ability to pay your fair share and move
forward?
HR. LITSII~GER: Let me make a clarification.
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If you'll notice, on page twenty-six, that these
provis~ons for rene~ability and paying of a pro rata share
is contingent upon a Growth Management Plan amendment at
this point.
I would say that this language at this point is not
necessarily consistent with their plan.
MR. OLLIFFs To confuse things a little more, if you
want to go ahead and get confused.
I think the language that is in gray, highlighted for
you, as provided by the Planning Commismion, talks about a
renewal of a permit, and it's basically what's called a pay
ar~ go kind of a system. In other words, it's a pipe line
k~nd of a deal where you pay your portion.
Because the intent here is given the option of having
a moratorium or having addit~onal fur~s to help ~,ut towards
the road improvement, the county staff always looks forward
to having additio~al funds because we want the road
im~rovement~ we n~ver want the option of a moratoriuml we
always want to try and improve the road system.
So the bottom line is to see that we always have
decent road network. $o anything that gets us to that point
is what we aim for.
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The Comp Plan, however, doesn't allow that currently.
It doesn't allow for you to issue a certificate which may
allow a development to continue when that service is not
physically there at that time.
VICE-CHAIR/~AN VOLPEz So if this were adopted, then
does that mean that we would require a --
HR. OLLIFFz It would require a Comprehensive Plan
amendment. So that's why I think Neil was going through
this explanation of another option for the Board in terms of
their staggered types of development certificates.
For those large developments who require longer times
to develop, weere talking about a five-year certificate
straight out. So thates not something where you're talking
about requiring -- that does not need a comp amendment in
itself.
HR. KELLER~ Could I ask a question.
Right now, under our present system, a single-family
home isntt involved in any moratoriums, are they? Or are
they?
MR. LITSINGERs Oh, absolutely.
MR. KELLERs Well, if single-family homes are
involved in moratoriums and we~ve got five districts in your
I I I I~1 ill I I I I J I I I II I I I I IIII IIII Jl I II I I _ ' L III II I III III I
urban deal, then you should definitely pro rate ho~ much of
the service elements are going to be set aside for
single-family ho~es.
You kno~, this county isn't ~ade up only of
developers. There's a lot of people in this county and a
lot of single-family o~ners in this county.
CHAIRMAN HASS£s ltell, voters are people too.
MR. ~EI, LER~ I kno~ it, but we can't tailor our
ordinances to go and favor developers.
So consequently, I would suggest that if you're going
to go into any of this pro ration or extension of time that
you sit do~n and get your ~aps and decide ho~ ~any units,
single-family units can be built in that area. And wherever
you've got private roads going through -- or told that
the~y'll be single family units probably -- undeveloped land
is probably going to be developed -- develop it.
So I thfnk that the single-family people have to be
protected so that the~y will not be subject to a moratorium
because some big developer took up all of the services.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ The discussion, i~ro Feller, was
~ust simply to address that concern that you had expressed,
and the alternative being the potent~on the this single
?~
family restdencial property o~ner to make his fair share
contribution.
MR. ]~ELLER! Contribution, you know, is a rather
difficult thing to determine because in the family, single
districts -- most of these developments border on some kind
of major road, and that's the reason why they're approvedl
where a single family may be down on a private road, and al!
you could say is that Oeorgo would figure how many miles
single-family residence goes and put on the road, on all
roads, and that would be an Impact fee sort of thing.
Actually, if we raised our Impact fees, we would
solve a lot of our problems.
solution.
CHAIRMAN HAI~SE s
These impact fees are the big
Th~nk you, Mr. Xeller.
Mr. Olliff, if we could move along.
MR. OLLIFFI The next speaker is Ms. Oulacsik.
CltlI~ NASSEt Ns. ~ulacsik.
MR. OLI,~FF~
NS. GULAC$IKs
Following her is Dabble Orahefsky.
Good evening, Cc~issioners.
~ name is Berrie Gulacsik, and I represent the
l,e&~ve o! ~omem¥oteza in Collier Covnty.
We support staff on both of these ordinances.
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if this county does not pass a good and strict concurrency
ordinance, the work of the Citizenms Committee, which was
hundreds of hours, and all of the work of your staff will be
for naught. The Growth Management Act will mean absolutely
nothing.
The Growth Management Plan is to enable the county to
have good planning and protect the health, safety and
welfare of its citizens. We have heard people complain that
the rules have been changed. That is Just exactly what the
Growth Management Plan is all about.
You kno~, years ago, when I came down here, we had
outhouses in certain sections of thi~ county. We didntt
have septic tanks. We do not allow those now. Things do
change.
9J-5 has a very good provision which allows any
citizen or citizen's group to sue any county, that is the
county that they live in, if the Growth Management Plan is
not adhered to.
I think there are some things that we should think
about.
Are we concerned about the cost and great financial
burden to the public or the undue fiscal hardship for
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Collier County of already planned and improved, unbuilt
properties outstripping infrastructure?
Are we concerned about the appropriate use of land,
water and resources consistent with the public's interest
and their cluality of life?
Are we concerned about the establishment of a process
of criteria to determine consistency and land use
compatibility for in-fill parcels invested rights?
We consider these ordinances to be the key to our
welfare through orderly growth and development over the next
ten or twenty years.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HASSEs Thank you, Ms. Oulacsik.
Mr. Olliff, perhaps you would go into a little detail
about impact fees on our roads. Can you explain that a
little bit more, please. There were some questions about
that.
MR. OLLIFFs 1'11 answer what I think the question
was.
The county has recently, as recent as two weeks ago,
adopted a road impact fee ordinance which almost doubled, i
not more than doubled.
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VICE-CHAIRI/AIt VO~FEs
and fifteen percent.
MR. OLLIFFs
impact fees.
I think it was about a hundred
More than doubled the existing load
There has always been a lot of question about what
Collier's impact fees are lower than Lee County's impact
fees or some other county's impact fees.
The response that we always give is that we have, as
development comes through this count~, dono a pretty good
Job of requiring a certain amount of right of way dedication
that occurs in this county. Our county is also not as
urbanized as our neighbors in Lee County. So when they
purchase a right of way, their right of way costs are
substantially greater than ours are.
So our construction costs of per lane mile of a road
here in Collier County is, frankly, substantially less than
it cost them te b~dld a lano mile in Lee County for that
same piece of road. So our impact fees are based on what
costs us to actually construct roadways in this county, and
that's why our impact fees are generally less than in other
areas.
CHAIRMAN HASSEs Vice-chairman Volpe.
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But we have also agreed to
VICE-CHAIN.MAN VOLPE s
MR. LITSINOERs Your impact fees and have them
reviewed on an on-going basis, and we are also going to be
discussing some optional or conditional type fees, which
on our agenda last Tuesday and we will be discussing it next
Tuesday as well.
MR. OLLIFFs I think we have Board direction to
revte~ our rates on lmgact fees, and also direction to go
back and look -- I think law enforcement and E.M.8. impact
fees for an upcoming discusssion.
CHAIRMAN HASBEs Okay.
MR. OLLIFF~ I have Dabble Orshefsky, followed my
Alan Reynolds.
MS. ORBHEF~;KY~ Good evening, Mr. Chairman, members
of the Co~aission.
My name is Debbie Orshefsky. I~m an attorney with
the law firm of Greenberg, Traurig, Hoffman, Lipoff, Rosen
and Ouentel with offices at 500 -- East Broward Boulevard.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOI, PEs You best give her your card.
MS. ORSHEFSKYs I will.
Offices at 500 East Broward Boulevard, Ft.
fJOf) 1
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Lauderdale.
I'm here this evening representing Deltona
Corporation. And their principal concern, given the long
history of this company and this county, center upon the
issue of exemptions and vested rights.
that has ~ade --
VIC~-CHAIRNAN VOLPEs Excuse me.
And given a company
Are you going to be
talking about zoning reevaluation or adequate public
facilities?
HS. ORSHEFS~YI
Adequate public facilities.
VICE-CHAIPJiAN VOLPEs I'm sorry.
~tS. ORSH£FSXYs Really, it's the issue of control
that's the question and ho~ that relates to the development,
such as those still owned by Deltona where they have
oignificant government approvals -- not enough, by the way,
to meet an exemption under the adequancy ordinance for some
of their property -- and they have made a significant
financial investment in those communities, millions of
dollars in infrastructure and other improvements to support
development of building -- which could confront them with an
inability to obtain those building permits in a timely basis
based upon a lack of adequate facilities.
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With that stage set, let me talk about what has been
alluded to a little bit earlier. The question of exemptions
and vested rights, and I really think we need to view these
as two different subjects.
Exemptions, for the most part under concurrency
framework, arise from Section 162.3167, SubparagraDh 8,
Florida Statutes, which basically says that nothing in a
comprehensive plan or the resolution.~ adopted thereunder can
limit or modify the rfghts of a developer or landowner to
complete that development whereas there has -- a DRI
development order has been issued for a final local
development order.
With respect to DRI development orders, that has been
resolved by DCA for the most part through the declaratory
statements that were alluded to earlier. And, quite
frankly, those declaratory statements went to the fssue of
the affect of concurrency or whether concurrency could be
applied to previously improved approved developmental
impac t.
Did not -- at least in my reading, refers to the Gulf
Stream, General Development Corporation and ICP declaratory
statements. They did not go to, specifically, sections of
whether it's a density or intensity question and how that
limits the applicability of concurrency but, rather,
recognized that DRI's because of their special status
shouldn't be affected by -- and other types of development.
That is how you define local development.
DCA in its infinite wisdow to date has left the
decision of what is a final local development order up to
you, the local governing body, and you have the privilege of
declaring whether or not that should be a building permit.
You may very well make that decision, but you can't
forget that there are many developments that haven't gone to
get their building permit. And that could be the
single-family lot that we have been referring to this
evening or the large scale development. And in this
respect, they are In the same boat.
They have tha same basic c _c~.___on law vested rights.
They have rights that are the basis of a constitutional
property rights argument or of a governmental estoppel.
Good faith reliance on an act or omission. The issue of a
development permit upon which there has been reliance. That
could be a plat approval, a PUD approval. That is something
different from the per se exemption that you may afford to a
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development that has a final local development order.
The question of vested rights goes to an equitable
estoppel argument, and it sometimes gets muddled in Florida
case law with a constitutional question and private property
rights.
Wast your adequacy ordinance has done is ignored
constitutional vested rights. It doesn't address it.
Doesn't have a provision that allo~s a landowner to come to
you and say, '! have spent X number of dollars! ! have built
a sewage treatment plant~ ! have built a water plant and put
in roads to serve a two thousand unit development and I have
only built five hundred units, but I've gob the services to
support the rest of it.'
Ho~ can you tell me no~, in the face of my property
rights inherent in those improvements, that ! can't have a
building permit no~ when I want it?
In order for you to have that ability -- and it must
not to be dictt.ted by a circuit court, quite frankly -- you
b~vo t,, hav~ a voet~d ~l~ht~ l~rovisiOno ~fh~t you ar~ doin9
by fa~ling to have one is forcing people to go into court,
whether that be the individual landowner or the large scale
developer o
You may also be violating your own Comprehensive
Plan. And let me refer you to a few provisions.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs In the Comprehensive Plan?
MS. ORttHEFSKYs In the Comprehensive Plan. The
future land use element. Policy 3.1.L. The last sentence
reads as follows, in discussing -- it's discussing the
adequate public facilities, the exercise that you're going
through right no~. They says 'The program of aligning
development capacity with capital improvements capacity
shall provide for the recognition and protection of vested
property rights.' Can't be tax, re clear. 'And shall provide
Individual property owners with a reasonable opportunity to
take advantage of existing investment-backed development
expectation · :~!~..:
That's all that we're asking for. We're asking for
an administrative opportunity to come to you and says Look,
we have done X, Y and Z to complete this development and
should not be subject to concurrency because there is
subject to your adequancy ordinance.
The same as you are providing an exemption for a
final local development order, but you're defining it as a
bulldint; permit, and I'm not going to force that. I think
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there are others that may go into that further, but -- I may
not agree with you, but I may be stuck with it, too.
In that context, we need an opportunity to have a
vesting provision. You have the basis for that in your
Comprehensive Plan.
You also have the basis for that in the settlement
agreement that you have, your eti~ulated settlement
agreement with DCA, and I refer to you Paragraph 28, which
refers to concurrency. And it saysl The county agrees that
all develol~nent orders will be subject to concurrency
requirements with the exception for projects which are
vested in that regard uursuant to Chapter 163 -- in n~ view,
the excv~ption -- or other applicable law.
If you weren't referring to co~on law, what what was
it?
That core,non law opportunity t'o pursue and establish
our vested right to complete the development will either be
determined by a circuit court Judge or by you. We would
rather keep it administrative process. We think that°s
where it belongs, quite frankly, because this is the body
that gave the original approval! this is the body that is
going to have to live with it.
There are a variety of different ways to approach
this criteria. We hope that you will direct staff to work
with those interested parties on establishing vested rights
procedures and criteria in your adequancy ordinance.
CHAI~hWR HASSE: Thank you.
VICE-CHAIRMANVOLPE: Mr. Chairman.
CHAIRMAN HASSEI
to that?
MR. CUYLER~
Mr. Cuyler, would you please respond
We received some correspondence from Ms.
Orshefsky today, and we're going to be looking at it in the
course of the next week of so.
I don't know if Bill has some comments.
CHAIRMAN HASSE: Mr. Merrill.
MR. MERRILL: I haven't seen the correspondence.
What is the question?
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ C __o~__issioner Saunders and I
generated at the outset of this meeting, and that is: Is
there any provl3ion in the adequate public facilities
ordinance to create a --
HR. MERRILLz No.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE:
MR. MERRILL~
For vesting, and you said no.
There is not, no.
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VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEz And the co~,ent here is that --
the coherent is that either there should be an administrative
process within the adequate public facilities ordinance for
that determination, based upon some standards, whatever they
may be.
And if I have understood the presentation, that --
the suggestion was made that not to have it there is somehow
violative of our o~n Growth ~anagement Plan and provisions
of state statutes and possibly e~tablished case law.
HR. MERRILI~s ! think that is one side of the issue,
and as lawyers, you know there ara differsnt sidss to an
issue.
I do not believe that it is violative of your Orowth
14anagement Plan. And specifically if you refer to traffic
circulation, which ! do not have before me right no~, in
future and your capital l~prov~ments element.
Those policies specifically relate to building
permits, and they also talk about fine! local development
orders. I do not disagree. The policy, 3.1.I~, may say that
-- ! do not -- also, ! do not have that with me as well,
either. But ! do know that the adequate public facilities
ordinance was drafted and restricted significantly by your
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Growth Management Plan and specific requirements conta.~ned
in your Growth Management Plan.
With regard to the declaratory statements that were
referenced by 14s. Orshefsky, the Gulf Stream did not receive
declaratory statements from the DCA, there is no doubt that
DRI*s, pursuant to that declaratory statement, are generally
vested.
I would -- I disagree with some of the points the DCA
made. I do not think they explored the issues fully.
But, again, it has been staff es position to allow
DRI's to be fully exempt from the ordinance with the few
exceptions that have been ~nserted by the Planning
Commission that are pursuant to Chapter 380. And those are
primarily the exceptions -- that I see, are the exceptions
from Chapter 380.06(15), which deals with cond~tions or
invalidation, et cetera, of DRI development orders by a
Board of County Cc-.~nissioners.
CHAIRMAN HASSEs Ccsmnissioner Saunders.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERSs First, I would like to say
that those are extremely well articulated. I think that
that's not the first time youeve made those remarks.
I~. ORSHEFSKY$ Thank you, Cc~maissioner.
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COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS~ And probably articulated
better than I have heard before, and sums up the issue of
constitutions! rights and vested rights.
I think our general philosophy is going to be that we
don't really want to water down what staff has presented to
you. ! think all five us are probably at this point are
pretty happy with most of what is contained in the staff
drafts.
But I think, and the reason I raised the issue early
on, was that it seems to me that the one potential falling
in the ordinance, a correctable one, was what Ms. Orshefsky
has identified as perhaps a -- not a sufficient recognition
of constitutional rights.
We can be as strong as we want to be. we can make
sure we don't water down this ordinance, but we still have
to recognize existing the constitutional rights. We*re not
going to change that, and nobody wants to change that.
I would like to see -- I~m not so sure that I agree a
hundred percent with your analysis that we don~t have a
vesting issue here. I think there is.
]~R. MERRILLs I didnJt say that.
COMMISSIONER $AUNDERSs Maybe I misunderstood that.
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I think that -- I'm not convinced that we don't have to
address vesting in this ordinance in some way.
MR. MERRILL~ I didn't say that either.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERSs Very well. Maybe we agree
more than I thought we did.
MR. MERRILLs Go ahead.
COM]4ISSIONER SAUNDERS~ I think you Just said, then,
that vesting needs to be addressed in the ordinance.
MR. MERRILL~ No, I'm didn't say that either.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLFE~ Obviously confused.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS~ Maybe we're two lawyers
trying to communicate here.
So I agree with Commissioner Volpe. I'm thoroughly
confused.
Let me say that I think we need some analywis from
our county attorney from our special counsel on the question
of vesting and what type provisions do we need in this, if
any at a11, because ! think you have said that we don't need
it or we do need it.
I think we need some analysis on tha~. That's the
only point I want to make on that.
MR. MERRILL~ Well, if I may.
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The vested rights issue has been thoroughly analyzed,
not only ir~ your supplement to your Comprehensive Plan which
was adopted by this Board January 10th, '89, but it was also
thoroughly reviewed and hopefully will be implemented in the
zoning reevaluation ordinance. And there is criteria --
provisions for hearing officers in a procedure in the zoning
reevaluation ordinance.
Tho concern with regards to common law vested rights
or constitutional vested rights as opposed to the statutory.
To this point, I have only been talking about the statuator~
vested rights provisions, and we have tried to provide for
those in the zoning reevaluation ordinance, and regard to
DRI's in this ordinance.
VICE-CHAIR~4AN VOI~PEI You mean adequate public
facllitios.
MR. MERRILLI Yes. Adequate public fac.llities with
regard to this ordinance.
In this ordinance, we have provided for that in the
form of DRI~s. And by defining final local development
order as the building permit, we have provided for the final
lo~al development order. And have in fact gone beyond that
in that under the statute.
The provision requires that a final local development
order not Just be in existence and be approved, but also it
has been co~,enced, it is continuing, and that it is
continuing in good faith.
~o it is a very co=plicated issue.
Nith regard to the constitutional or cc~maon law
vested rights issue, which oftentimes is referred to as
property rights -- but ! do not want to confuse that with
the taking issue, which people oftentimes do confuse those
two issues -- there is nothing in this ordinance other than
the exemptions that exist. Some may say those are some, to
a certain extent, the common law rights. But there is no
doubt that Ms. Orshefsky is correct in that there will
likely be cases that are not covered by this ordinance that
may in f&ct have vested rights.
As far as whether they have vested rights, as to
concurrency and whether or not you can break up a
development and say that they are vested for this reason but
not for another reason, really hasn't been fully decided.
There are a number of cases, including from the
United States Supreme Court, that indicate that property
rights are really what are called a bundle of rights, and
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that in fact you may be vested with regard to certain
inherent rights, such as densities and intensities of
development! however, you may not be vested with regard to,
for Instance, a drainage order that cornea down the line at a
later time that ~oes not affect the density or intensity of
development.
There is no doubt also that coupon laws or
constitutional vested rights in some instances will probably
not fall -- will not be exempted from this ordinance. And
that could present a problem down the line.
On the other side of the coin -- and I do recognize
those problems that Ms. Orshefsky has brought up. On the
other side of the coin, however, Is the fact that if you
provide an exemption for -- similar to what we have prey
for tn the zoning reevaluation ordinance, you will be
exempting a significant amount -- in fact, the majority --
the substantial majority of al! unimproved or of all
approved but unbuilt development in this county from the
concurrency measures in your Comprehensive Plan and that are
proposed in this ordinance. And that is the dilen=aa really
that this county faces.
By having approved hundreds of thousands of
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single-family homes and thousands of commercial properties
without taking into account this concurrency measure, which
came about only in the last couple of years, tho county is
put in a very precarious situation in trying to meet the
concurrency requirements that the state has imposed.
Of course, funding can solve all problems, but right
no~ we don't have that funding in thi~ county.
CHAIRRAI~ HASSEs Thank you, Mr. Merrill.
You knc~, it's very interesting. Two attorneys can
create confusion, but do you see what five can do?
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS~ Just one other question. You
have alluded to the fact that DCA through a declaratory
statement has essentially said that DRI's are vested and
exempt from the adequate public facitltties or from
concurrenc~/',
HR. HERRI~
Generally that's what they say, yes.
What you said is
But thetis the
VICE-CHAIRkAN VOLPE~ Generally.
you don't necessarily agree with that.
declaratory statement?
HR. MERRILLs ! gonerally agree with it, but ! think
there are exceptions to the rUleo
CHAIRMAN HASSEs All right.
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VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs Is there a possibility that DCA
could be asked for a declaratory statement on the question
of whether this issue also could be vested?
MR. MERRILL s
orders?
V I CE- CHAI E~9~ VOLPEs
HR. MERRILL s Yes.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs
You're saying final local development
That's exactly what I'm asking.
It's not impossible to have them.
So I think we can anticipate --
and this conversation gets a little -- but I think we can
anticipate this whole issue, and I concur with what is being
said here, that we have to look at the issue and anticipate,
MR. HERRILLs I don't disagree with that. As a
matter o! fact, the DCA scheduled to the issuing declarator~
statement in this regard out of Orange County on March 12th,
which of courso f&lls right in the middle of all of these
hearings.
VICE-C~,IRMANVOLPEs Which is Monday?
MR. MERRILL~ Yeah.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEI Okay. That should be
interesting.
KR. MERRILL~ And they have assured me that they are
not, and I had some major concerns that the attorneys who
were -- up in the i rovy to~ers In DCA are drafting this and
not consulting with any local .governments or people do~n in
the front.
Ever~ local g~er~ent In this county or in this
state -- excuse me -- and in this cowry have dtiferen~
l~els of ~here they ~ve vhat they ~y consider a final
l~al d~el~ent orders. ~d as Hrs. Orshefsky indicated,
it ts going to be this Board~s dete~inatton, and h~efully
DCA ~on't infringe t~ far Into khat dete~inatton, as
~hat a final local devel~nt order
~rrently, th~ have iMtcat~ that they are not
going to necessarily say what a final local d~elo~ent
order is, but they are going ~o give you factors which you
sh~ld consider in de~e~intng what a final local
d~el~en~ order might be.
VICE-~AI~ VO4PEs ~e y~ f~tliar ~lth this
pr~aed declara~o~ --
~S. OR~ZFS~Ys I think tho wlsd~ ts c~tng d~n
fr~ on high, like ~e~one else, a~ I tht~ -- fr~ this
discussion, I need to clarify ~ust a ~ points, ii I
First, I'm not. that worried ~out DRI's a~
co~urrency. I thi~ -- a~ I think this ts one thing
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Mr. Merrill and I would agree on -- we have gotten a lot of
guidance as tO that subject, and DRI's are basically
insulated.
CHAIRMAN
MS. ORSHEFSKY~
concurrency --
CHAIRMAN
MS. ORSHEFSKY~
They are what?
They are essentially not subject to
Until they--
Approved before your concurrency
ordinance goes into effect.
CHAIRMAN HABSEs Okay.
MR. MERRILLs Or prior to the Growth Management Plan.
~S. ORSHEFSKYs Growth Management Plan, yes.
But it's the non-DR! problems, and you have a number
of thoso too. But the distinction, though, is that what I~m
asking for is not an exemption. If you get a finding by
this Board or by a circuit court that you have vested
rights, then you'll be exempt.
VICE-CHAIRFJ~tl VOLPEs You want a process.
KS. ORSHEFSKYs Thates all ism looking for.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs I understand.
KS. ORSHEFSKY] But the choice is] Are you going to
make the decision and if I~m not pleased, I may end up in
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circuit court, or is our only recourse to go to the court.
And I think that you have a responsibility to this
community, quite frankly, to establish a procedure.
There are many ways of doing it.
your DRI ' s.
VICE-CHAI~ VOLPE s
You're doing it in
think our earlier --
MS. ORSHEFSKYs And that could give you somewhat of a
framework. Bring that into this framework is all we're
asking for.
Thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN HASSEs Thank you, Ms. Orshefsky.
We'll have a ten minute break now.
(Whereupon, a brief recess was had after which the
meeting and proceedings continued as follow.)
CHAIRMAN HASSEs All right. Mr. Olliff.
MR. OLLIFFs Mr. Chairman, the next speaker I have
registered ts Alan Reynolds.
CHAIRMAN HA$$Es Mr. Reynolds.
MR. OLLIFFs Followed by John Farquhar.
CHAIRMAR BASSEs You ell notice, ladies and gentlemen,
we have gone two hours Into this already. Please limit as
much as you cans
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M~. REYNOLDSs (~ive me Just a second to put a chart
up on the board.
For the record, Alan Reynolds~ Wlllor, Allen, Barts
and Peak (phonetic). I have been getting ribbed. Have had
this chart up in the evening throughout my hearings, and I
decided to bring a new one to this one so that I can donate
this to the staff.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs It's already a part of our
record.
MR. REYNOLDSI Yes, I know it is.
Let me Just start by saying that I was very
encouraged at the co~nents of the staff at the introduction
of this meeting. I think they did focus very well on a
couple of issues that have been the subject of much
discussion, and I would like to explore Just a little bit
further so~e of the thoughts that we have about solutions of
tha t.
I would like to start out by Just posing a rhetorical
question to you, and that isz What do the following have in
ccxm~on? Brief listz Port Royal, Coral Creek, Wyndemere,
Pelican Bay, bely Resort, Park Shore, Wind Star,
Philharmonic Center, Edison Community College Campus.
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Collier County Fairgrounds, the Vineyards Elementary School,
Lely High School, and the North Collier Health Center.
All of those projects, in my opinion, could not exist
were it not for Collier County's encouragement of long-term,
large-scale quality development. And I'm afraid to say that
the current Concurrency Ordinance without further
modification, were it to be in place at the time those
projects were planned, those projects would not exist today
either.
! think it has been spoken repeatedly tonight about a
concern in terms of a11o~ing a proper time frame and
planning for a large-scale, long-term project. X would
offer to you that we really need to examine our ordinance --
this ordinance to make sure that we have accommodated the
necessar~ provisions to a11o~ the continuation of that kind
of high-quality project and the public benefits that often
im=ninates from that type of project.
Concurrercy is a theoretical goal in which all
facilities are in place at the time that all of the impacts
occur. There has been, over the course of these
discussions, a great deal of emphasis placed on what the
developers and the development co=~aunity have been trying to
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do to the ordinance and what have you.
Well, it's not the developers and it's not the
government that creates the impacts. It's the people that
want to live in Collier County. They're creating the
impacts. Tbs goverument and the development community are
those that are going to be looking for the solutions to the
problem. My chart is what I consider to be the four main
ingredients to a concurrency solution, to providing that
goal of facilities and Impact at the same time.
The first is the planning and forecasting for the
demand. And the combination of our Growth Management Plan
and our current ordinances do a very good Job of putting
that in place. We have AUIR's. We have a five-year CIE,
and I think were going to have good means of forecasting and
predicting.
The second element is the funding and the design and
implementation of infrastructure. Well, that one we are
told is in pretty {'sod shape, and there are a few caveats on
that. Of course, one being the adoption of a seventh penny
sales tax.
I would offer a suggestion that let's not be overly
optimistic. Let's make sure that we have looked at the
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alternative of concurrency without that seventh penny and
make sure that we have a handle on what that means, too,
because I would hope that thatts not a probability! but
nonetheless, it's here, at least a probability that we're
going to be faced with that prospect not too long from now.
The regulatory process. That ts really what this
ordinance, as I see ~t, ~s addressing. It's the dropping
the hammer. Tbatts fine.
The regulatory process kicks in when we have failed
to do the first two. And I think that to the extent that
this ordinance is a regulatory device, it needs some fine
tuning, and ! think the area that it needs the fine tuning,
~n particular, is with respect to the time frames to be
adjusted based on the -- lust on the magnitude of the
prelect, and put us some standards in here that give us some
predlc~ability on the magnitude of the ASIts or the
moratorium areas or whatever you want to call them, because
I think what's -o. ery important for us in putting those
sl.and~xd~ J~Lo L)m o~dir~a~c~, J~ ~t gives a forecasting tool
that we don~t have right now.
If wo can look forward two to three years, not only
know where the problems may be but the magnitude of the
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problems in terms of real property, ! think it will give us
~ore options to evaluate in terms of finding the solutions.
And I think our solutions right now, that the government has
to offer, are limited to a certain extent and based on
certain funding mechanisms that are subject to -- subject to
poli tical input.
Which brings me to the fourth point, and that is
encouraging private participation when oue and two fail. I
think that -- and Neil has already spoken to this in terms
of providing a mechanism in the ordinance that allows and
encourages that private participation. ! think the
principal is one we have to have. I think the ordinance
still fails to put some -- some real language to it. And I
would suggest to you that there are other alternatives that
we need to consider when we look at that fourth item, and I
think that some of the things that we need to look at on
that basis -- and let me get to that page.
Got a lc.t of pages here, and --
I notice.
And a lot to talk about.
CH~ I RPAN HA$SEI
HR. REYNOLDS s
interest of brevity.
In the
We've got fair share funding of improvement, and that
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was one that was spoken to. You have a certificate. It
lasts for a certain period of time. A problem exists. The
han~ner is going to fall.
You provide a mechanism for a fair share contribution
to solving the problem and you're allo~ to proceed. That's
one solution.
Another solution is incremental improvement. And as
we're talking about concurrency, ! think most of the
discussion co,es back to transportation. Iris not
necessar~y to four lane a four mile segment of road in order
to bring our level of service back up. No~, that is the
long-ter~ solution, but there are interim steps that we can
take, depending on the road segment.
Perhaps so~e intersection improvements may cause some
additional capacity and relieve some of the congestion.
think we need also to acknowledge that those kinds of
incremental improvements can be provided, and they can be
provided by the private sector as well as the public
sector. In order to help us solve our deficienc~ problems.
! think another one that has been suggested in
various ways is the creation of alternative or use of
alternative routes to a deficient road segment.
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that conversation has be~n directed at ii you have a problem
road segment and there is an alternative route, you should
look at the capacity of both of those segments together in
determining whether you have a real-life problem or whether
it ~ust exists on that segment.
I would also suggest to you that if in fact an
alternative route can be provided, once again perhaps by the
private sector, that that helps to relief your concurrency
problem, your deficiency, and that may be another kind of
incentive that you would want to encourage to the private
sector to provide those those kinds of alternatives.
And, finally, the phased approval process or the time
frame on the certificates. ! think there's -- there's two
ends of the spectrum that there are problems.
On one hand, you're hearing a lot about the fact that
three years does not provide sufficient time for the longer
term projects to put the infrastructure in the ground and
the amenities and all those kinds of things, and then be
able to have some time left at the end to continue to
receive building permits. Well, that's very true. A
large-scale project may take three years in planning, design
and putting the infrastructure in for the first phase.
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There is also the problem at the other end of the
spectrum, and that is single-family lot owner that wants to
go pull a building permit and finds that all of the capacity
that he -- that was allowed on that segment has been used
up. I think we have got to look at solutions for both of
those problems.
O~e suggestion that we might consider is the use of a
longer term certificate but build in some performance
standards. Let's say that you've got a five-year, a larger
scale problem prelect, you want to give it a five-year or
ten-year certificate but you don~t want them to tie up that
capacity if the project isn't completely in line.
So put some milestones in there. You don~t proceed
to the next phase of the approval process. Then perhaps
your certificate is in default. Or you're phasing and
allowing only a certain number of units to be allocated on a
yearly basis, depending on the project.
so th, st kinds of techniques, I think, can be put
back in~ a method to allow the longer term projects to
proceed withoug causing the smaller projects and the
individuals to have to suffer.
The last thing I011 suggest is that -- I had passed
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out at the Planning Con~ission a suggestion for a method for
determining ASI's. And where that came from was Jeff Perry
of your staff had prepared a report and had identified the
three main techniques that we can use for establishing
A$I's, which are the direct access technique, the balloon
technique and the modeling technique.
And what I have posed is the solution that was in the
middle, between those, which essentially is the balloon
technique. And that says that depending on the road size of
the road segment and the type of classification it has, you
have a certain dimension around that segment that is the
ASI. And that can be modified by the Board, but it gives
better direction to the Board when you're establishing these
says ASI's.
And you can start from the position that here's the
ASI, here are its boundaries, and then if you have a
property which clearly should be provided or has
alternatives a,tte~natives to it, then you can adjust the
boundaries accordingly.
Conversely, if you have a property that may be
outside of that ASI, that crests all of its impact on that
roadway, then they can be included.
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So I would like to see you move at least to the
direction of having staff co~e back with suggested
alternatives, using that balloon approach or the direct
access approach, in considering having the ordinance,
because I really think that's going to help us not only
forecast the problems but will also serve as a mechanism to
direct growth toward the areas where you have more capacity,
and that's one of the intents of our growth management.
CHAIRMAN HASSE~ Thank you, Nfo Reynolds.
MR. REYNOLDSI Thank you.
Mr. Olliff.
John Farquhar, followed by Wayne
MR. HASSE~
MR. OLLIFF~
Sprouse.
MR. FARQUHAR~
John Farquhar! (inaudible), Barnett,
on behalf of Rockford Development (phonetic).
C~LAIRMA~ HASSE~ The what, sir?
MR. FARQUHARz On behalf of Ronko Develoment
(phonetic).
Let me try and shorten some of my comments because
some of them have been dealt with somewhat by the earlier
speakers. The first issue that X'd like to deal with is the
issue of vested rights.
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Basically, the Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance
does not have a provision for vested rights. ~he Zoning
£eevaluation Ordinance, which you also are looking at
tonight, has a provision for vested rights. It would be my
suggestion that that same provision be moved into the
Adquate Public Facilities Ordinance or it be set up in the
Zoning Reevaluation Ordinance so it covers both
ci rcums tances.
I think that not only is it contemplated by 163 and
by coemm)n law vesting, I think it's all contemplated by your
future land use element.
hand out to you all --
V1 CE-CHAXRMA~ VOLPEs
I of in front of me, which I will
Didn't we ~ust have this
discussion? This seems to be repetitive.
OIAIRMAN ~ASBEs Yeah. Would you please --
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs
discussing it.
CHAXRMAt, HASSEI Yes.
I mean we ~ust spent some time
Would you please give that to
Mr. Olli/f. He'll take care of them. And a duplication
isn't really necessary.
MR. FARQUHARs Let me, ii I could, lust point out one
thing about it.
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That language which was mentioned before, of vesting
for adequate public facilities, is specifically in language
which changed in your final adopted plan which was not in
your draft plan, but was -- in reconsideration was placed in
the plan. I Just wanted to bring up that point.
! wanted to give a hypo -- not a hypothetical, but a
fact situation relating to vesting issue. One of my
client's projects is a project called Hideaway Beach. It's
a project where we have a PUD which has been approved; we
have the right under the PUD to build three hundred and
ninety-four multi-family units! and under the PUD, it also
allows two hundred and sixty-seven single-family
residences.
At this point in time, on the project all of the
infrastructure for those overall projects, rather than tying
in to either an individual residence or the buildings, has
been completed; the recreational facilities, which include a
ten thousand f,~ot clubhouse, a nine-hole golf course, racket
ball courts, a number of other rec facilities have all been
completed. Two hundred plus of the multi-family units are
either complete and CO'd or under construction presently.
There's approximately a hundred and thirty some
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multi-family --
VICE-CRAIRI4AN VOLPE~ Hr. Farquhar, this is the same
discussion. You're bringing us to the same place. If you
have something ne~ to add.
HR. FARQUHARs I'm Just trying to emphasize boy far
along you can be in the process and not be vested under your
present standards because there really is no standard for
vesting or for the other aspect, which I look at as
basically in 163, is a statutory concept of vesting which is
the final local development order. ~hich 163 contemplated
taking care of substantial anx~mts of the common law vesting
by the definition of final local development order which
construction had co~aenced, because it would be included
with that definition if that definition is a broader
definition.
The present definition that is in the Adequate Public
Facilities Ordinance ia a definition which is final local
government order ..'.s a building permit.
The concept which was intended, and appears to be
what DCA is going to get in a declaratory statement which is
going to be coming out in the next fe~ days, is that they're
not going to say what permit it is specifically which should
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be a final local development order, but theytre going to
define the standards for that permit. Because, for example,
there are counties up in northern Florida where the only
permit that you have to get is a building permit.
In those cases, a building permit certainly would be
the appropriate period. But it*s also going to talk about,
from what we can understand from discussions with DCA, the
point at which the densities and intensities are set and you
can start doing --
VICE-CHAIRliAN VOLPEs Nr. Farquhar, what is your
point7
HR. FARQUHAR~ I~ell, my point is that your definition
of final local development order should be substantially
expanded to Include plat, to include site plans, to include
the approval which would a11o~ you to start the physical
construction of putting your infrastructure in the ground,
which is the general concept of when development starts.
And, in fact, in the adoption of tht land use plan~
the initial draft of the land use plan which had been
submitted to DCA had specifically defined a final local
development order as only a building permit. In the
modifications before the plan was adopted, the Board final
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was struck, and there is no longer a definition of legal
local development order.
But a development order was defined as being
basically any pe~it that alloys you to start construction,
which would include the plat or site plan or any of the
other pe~lts ~hich all~s ~ou to r~e.
~I~ HASSEs Nr. Dorrtll, have y~ go~ the time
on this?
~. ~ILL~ ~ere's ~:~ther two minutes.
CHAI~N HASSEs ~t do y~ mean, two minutes? Y~
mean two minutes short of fifteen.
~. FAROUHARs Let ~ ~ust m~e ~ ~ickly to a
couple of other points.
~e Is the rental of certificate, which ts c~ered
tn the ha~ which you ~ve, which is l~eled as page
twenty-five, I believe.
I would ~ust suggest s~ ve~ minor lang~ge
c~nges, which I thl~ would acc~liah the intent of w~
~s been discussed tonight, for the certificatel and t~2
would be the fourth -- fifth line tr~ the bott~ of the
Insert would be to adds
serve exclusively
To provide all such ~acllities that
that development and the development's pro
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rata share of all facilities impacted by the development or
fur~s for such facility.
To implement the concept of it being the fair share,
not the entire burden of the whole facility, and that is
something that I think would accomplish the intent of what
has been discussed earlier tonight.
The only other thing that I would like to say, in
closing, is that in considering the areas of significant
influence and in considering the l~vel of vesting which you
provide that if there is a tremendous -- there are wide
moratoriums in the county, that those will in effect require
that during the period of moratorium that the infrastructure
which is missing must be provided, and the moratorium would
appear to have to be of relatively short duration.
So what will happen is during that period, it will be
the existing taxpayers who will have to pay for the short
fall in lnfrastruction, not the development because
development wi.1 not be developing and paying its
infrastructure charges as part of its fair share
contribution which you require if they're not developing.
Also they w111 not be Increasing the tax base for you to
obtain the taxes from.
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CHAIRMAN HASSE~ Thank you.
MR. FAROUHAR ~ Thank you.
HR. OLLIFF~ Mr. Chairman, I've got Wayne Sprouse,
followed by Reed Jarvi.
CHAIRMAN HASSE~ Gentlemen, I don~t like to cut you
short, but you realize the problem we've got. We~ve got
twenty more people here, and we have been working all day.
I don't know what the attorneys have been doing.
HR. SPROUSE~ Fortunately, I'm not an attorney. My
speech is short.
CHAIRMAN HASSEs Good.
MR. SPROUSE~ ! represent the Collier County Builders
and Contractors and their nine hundred members, employing of
some ten thousand people. ! believe they are the silent
mai oft ry.
These ten thousand people have sent me here to
express their concern. The next fourteen days will be the
most important of their lives. Their future is in your
hands. You have a tremendous responsibility.
The last Planning C~tsston I attended, and now this
meeting, there was discussion about moratorium and how to
Implement them. We are not Interested in plans on how to
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have moratoriums, but plans how to prevent them and plans
how to fund growth management plan.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ I think that's what Mr. 011iff
had alluded to in terms of where the staff is trying to plan
to address take point.
MR. OLLIFFs Thank you.
MR. SPROUSE~ Ninety-five percent of our nine hundred
members are smll businesses.
affected by what you decide.
businesses.
They will be directly
Moratoriums will destroy their
We talk about land~ we talk about units per acre~ we
talk about PUD's, DRI"s, ASI's, APT's, AFI's, and when are
we going to talk about people?
Hearings. There have been no hearings on any
economic impact and what moratoriums will do to those small
businesses and their employees. We must make the right
decisions. The wrong decisions will certainly devastate
sma1! businesses and the working people.
I have heard the phrase, 'We must bite the bullet and
if moratoriums happen, they happen.=
How about let's bite the bullet, present a fair plan
and properly fund it and assure the citizens of this
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co~unity, there will be no moratoriums, and let this
Camnisston be known as the ¢o,,.tsston that took the
responsibility to fund the plan and make this a nicer place
to live.
And I'll leave you with this one remark. ! ask you
to remember the quality of life includes having a Job.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HA/;SE ~
HR. OLLIFF~
HR. JARVI I
Thank you.
Reed :az-vi, folloved by Don Pickworth.
~y name is Reed Jarvt. I'm a civil
engineer with the firm of Kagnoli, Barber and Brundage
(phonetic). I have what I think will be very short
co~ten t.
On page forty of the current ordinance, section --
well, it's the only gray area on the page. Section is
8.3.5.6.2, Development t/ithin Designated Area of Significant
Influence. The gray statement says for development within a
dooignated area, ASI, covering a deficient road segment, the
road component shall be denied.
I have problems with this -- X brought it up before
-- in that if the ASl's are defined on a very broad basis,
which they very likely will be, being they are large versus
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small, ! suspect -- or I propose that there will be
development within those designated ASI's that will not
affect the deficient road segment if they are broad enough.
So~e of those might be a single-family home that does
not use the deficient road segment. Xt has been brought to
your attention before that the time to discuss this is on
the development the ASI Board meeting, which will be prior
to to Kay 1st according to the ordinance.
~y feeling ia that if you wait until that tame and do
not provide language that gives it out to that person that X
mentioned before that you have a deluge of people coming in
and trying to get there properties outside the ASI, and your
ASI rather than being a relatively geometric shape will be a
series of ins and outs around these islands of people that
say they do not affect the deficient road segment.
So my suggestion is that on the end of that statement
we add language to the effect of unless it can be shown that
development does not adversely affect the deficient road
segment o
Ti'~t's all I have, sir.
CHAIRMAN HASS~: Thank you, sir.
V~CE-CHAIRMAN VObPE: Just so that I -- I mean I
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heard what you said. I'm not sure I understand that.
What -- by adding that language, what does that
accomplish7
MR. JARVII That accomplishes, if a deficient road
segment is determined in the county and an ASI around that
deficient road segment is done, if it's broad enough, there
could be -- very likely would be development on the fringes
of that. I'm not talking large-scale PUD's! I'm talking
single-family homes, maybe apartment buildings, or something
like that.
On the fringes that could be proven not to use that
deficient road segment. And by this gray area being in
there, these people would be denied the road component.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEI How would you determine that?
HR. JARVIs ! would think you'd have to do a traffic
study of some sort that would prove it.
I'm not saying it can go up and say, 'No, ! don't go
on there,' and that proves.
would be up to that person.
No, I think you have to -- it
It would be the individual
property owner would come in and say --
MR. JARVIs I'm saying it could be to that level.
O0 !
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ And what would -- is there an
appeal? Is there a process within this ordinance to make
that determination?
HR. JARVIs No. I don't think so.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs So if we add the language --
HR. JARVis No. If we add the language, it seems to
me, that says that if you go to the Growth Management
Director and say, mYes, I'm in an AS! for deficient road
segment, but, no, ! do not affect the deficient road
Se~nt. ·
VICE-CHAIPJ4AN VOLPE~ ! think that crests all kinds
of difficulty. I mean, if you don't -- that process is not
given in your suggestion. You're suggesting that you ought
to exempt them out, but you've got no basis to do that, so
don't-- I think it's incomplete.
get from this discussion.
CHAIRMAN HASSE s Fine.
HR. OLI,. I F! ~
Pl mmaer.
~R. PI CI~ORTH i
At least the impression I
Thank you, Hr. Jarvi.
Don Pickworth, followed by David
Good evening, Commissioners.
I'm Don Pickworth. I had two iteas to speak about,
One was vesting, but ! won't mention that again.
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CHAIRMAN HAS/~E s Good.
MR. PICKWORTH~ The second concerns the
boundaries that has been alluded to already. I think -- and
I understand that you're going to have a session on this
next week -- that the boundaries should be defined fairly
narrowly.
One of the previous speakers mentioned an alternative
corridor approach with incentive payments, and I think that
type of approach should be given some very serious
consideration. I think one of the weaknesses in this entire
syotum as m~ndated by the state law is that there is not the
incentive aspect of this put in, and I think the whole key
to this, as we all know, is funding, and X think we need to
create incentives for funding.
So I would simply commend attention to that type of
approach.
CHAIRR~N
MR. PICKWORTH ~
CHAIRMAN HASSE~
short before.
MR. OLLIFF~
Dudley Goo~lette.
That's all?
That's all.
Mr. Pickworth,
Mr. Chairman, Dave Plummet followed by
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~. PLUMMER s Thank you, si~.
For the record, my name is David Plummet.
transportation consultant with offices in Ft. Myers. Oeorge
Varnadoe asked me t.o appear tonight to talk Just briefly
about some of the experience we've had in concurrency.
Our firm has been part of the authorship of two
concurrency rules in the State of Florida and have been
involved in negotiating a third one. In both cases or all
three cases, we were either vol=nteers or working in the
public sector. If there is anything that we have learned
from that approach, lt*s that the interpretation of what the
growth management law means is that we*ye got to find a way
to let growth march along with improvements.
The problem we have in transportation and concurrency
is the fact the improvements are very costly and big. We
have to shut down an area waiting for a fifty or an eighty
or a hundred million dollar improvement to be made. So on
one of the counties, we went to DCA and said, mWould you
allow us, when we get into a problem, to find a way in which
we can match growth with improvements, not wait for the
overall big hitter.'
And I have a brief exhibit here to show you what we
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used in those DCA hearings, but in essense what we're saying
ts let's say we've got a roadway that we have decided
doesn't work well, it's deficient, it's degragated to where
CHAIRMAN HASSE: Can everybody hear this? Okay.
MR. IH,UMMER s }{ere?
CHAIRMAN }{ASSEs You're on the mike there, you know.
The mike's right in front of you. Yeah.
MR. PI~UJ4J4ERf And let*s say this ultimately we're
going to have a four-lane divided roadway section in that
Improvement, but Ires a very costly undertaking. {~aybe
financed with state money, not even local funds. Might be
eighty, a hundred, a hundred twenty million dollars. Do we
bring the whole county waiting for that to be made? And we
said to DCA,
Let*s say the roadway today was two lanes. The key
is to decide what we ultimately want to be and then take and
construct pieces of it. For instance, at one of the
intersections we might flare that out to a four-lane divided
section and then merge it back in following the
intersection. ~aybe a year later, we do the second such
intersection. But in each case, we'd be marching along
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toward the ultimate improvement.
A~I in some of those areas, we use the term called
districts up there, rather than the ASI. And I can explain
them briefly, if you want me to. But in each case what we
said is that when we get a deficient district, and also be a
deficient ASI or a single roadway. As long as each year we
show that we increase the service volume on that roadway in
a way that equals the growth on that roadway and that we're
~arching towards the ultimate improvement, then
infrastructure has met growth requirement. Rather than
shutting down ar~t waiting for the big hitter to be
constructed.
And ! would suggest, whether we use Iii's, the
approach you're using, whether we use a corridor approach,
which simply means you take three or four roadways and
you're not in bad shape until all four of them go bad, or
you go to a district basis, which they're using to the
north, in whic], you take a whole district and you add up all
of the volumes on the roadways in the district and you add
up all of the service volume and you're not In a problem in
that district until the volumes in total exceed the service
volumes tn total.
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Regardless of the three that you use, ! strongly
suggest you include in your concurrency laws or your rules
the fact that you're going to tell the state we'll march
along with you, but let us match growth and Improvements but
not wait for the big one.
Thank you.
VICE-CHAIRJdA~ VOLPEs In the example that you have
given, who funds those improvements working tovard the four
lane?
HR. PLUI,~4ER~ I've got to believe that it*s going to
be a combination of Impact fees, county funding, and
possibly pipeltnlng. ! heard encouraging words about pay as
you go here. But certainly that's the approach.
One of the keys we found you have to watch is let's
say with a development I'm representing needs a double left
turn lane at a given Intersection, but that right of way is
not available. I,. this approach, I have a roadway which
would have a whole menu of improvements that may not be the
precise one that he needs, but maybe he can't build it
because of the right of way constraints that exist today, so
we let him build another one. Al long as he's doing
something In that corridor or that district that's marching
toward the ulCtmate improvement.
One of the things in the county to the north, we set
the districts up.
VICE-CHAIRMAN ¥OLPEs Is that Lee County?
MR. PLUMMER g Yes.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ Is there a reason why you don't
want to mention Lee County here?
MR. PLUMMER g
consultants vying.
No. Because usually we have
When you men~lon another county, they
say get in the car and go up there, we'll see you later.
VI CE-CI~I p.P.~ VOLPEs
Ft. ~yers.
MR. PLU],OiER:
You did tell us you were frcxn
What we're saying on that in that
regard is that we set the districts up in that county to be
the same boundaries as the impact fee ordinances. So when a
district goes bad, we have the flexibility in that one
district increasing their impact fees so that we're more
assured of getting the marching process.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs We can't do that here because
we don't have the impact fees set up by districts.
MR. PLUMI/ERs I think you do have impact boundaries
where the money has to be spent, and that's what we're
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doing.
CHAI~ KASSEs
HR. PLU]i~Rs
HR. OLLIFFs
Varnadoe.
T~ank you, Mro Plummet°
Thank you.
Follo~ing Mr, Ooodlette will be George
HR. GOODLETTE~ Good evening, member of the Counctlo
Hy name is Dudley Goodlette of the law firm of
Cununings and Lockwood. ! will be brief. ! do want to at
the outset say that as one of the people that have been
working fairly closely with your staff, we do appreciate the
efforts that have been put forward on not only this
ordinance but the other one as well. On their part.
! also would like to suggest to you that your
Planning Co=~lssion has done an admirable Job of reviewing
these ordinances, considering some of the input from all
sectors, and providing you with a draft that ! think is an
improvement over the one that you considered on January --
the January 11 draft.
I wanted to the comment on three items, and two have
been discussed. I think it bears repeating, however, with
respect to the vesting issue, that what Debbie Malinski
(phonetic) -- I'm sorry -- Debbie Orshefsky now told yo~ is
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extremely Important to include some administrative process
for vesting in the ordinance. We have talked about that in
prior meetings, at least at the CCPC. And I~m glad to hear
that you*re at least going to give that serious
consideration. I think it's a~pro~riate to be included for
the reasons that she so articulately stated.
I do want to move to one provision in the ordinance
and Just dwell on iL for a moment, If I may. And that,s
Section 8.2, which is -- relates to the DRI exemption.
That's at page twenty-three. And it,s the only time
try to refer you to directly to and follow the language.
we addressed this point at the first public hearing
of the CCPC. It was addressed again at the last meeting of
the CCPC. And It specifically addresses the language
8.2.1.4, which as Mr. Merrill has indicated in prior
hearings, ts language that he basically has extracted from
380.06(15).
And the question that I have -- and the language
important because it talks about DRI~s being exempt, but
then it further says, however, thereta an exception to this
exemption under this circumstances. And this circumstance
is that the county can demonstrate that substantial changes
tn the co~dttions underlying the approval of the development
order have o<:curred.
Well, ! think it's important to clarify
change tn c~dtt~on ~s tnte~al, tn the d~el~ent of
regional i~act only, or are the c~d~t~ons ~ternal. ~ I
don't think t~t -- I kn~ that the statute doesn't address
that. I kn~ t~t n~e of the declarato~ Jud~ents
have been rendered by the Department of C~unlty
~ do address, at least the Huckl~er~ declarato~
~ud~ent addresses the later clause t~t talks
health, safety a~ welfare. But I do not bel~e t~2 those
~eclarato~ Jud~ents a~dress that ~ssue. ~ I thLnk
t~t's going to be a slgnAf~cant -- ~tent~ally
~sgue whe~ we dwell on an exception to the ~t~on
pr~ls~on. ~ I would lust ask -- ~eek
clar~Etcat~on.
~ ~v~ously, I th~ Ln accordance, and
~rr~ll w~ll h~efully agree, t~t the declarato~
stat~ents talk ~out d~elo~ent of region1 ~act
vested u~der sectLons pr~A~sly c~ted, a~ whether Mr.
~rr~ll ~er~ps agrees or d~sagree w~th the DCA~s
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interpretation, I think it's clear that any change in
condition would have to be internal change in condition, not
external to the DRI. And I think that's lust an important
provision.
Finally, and in conclusion, ! Just want to reiterate
as the speaker before me and as )ir. Reynolds has indicated,
in 7.4.2, which is the standard for establishing the areas
of significant influence, I would encourage you, urge you to
adopt standards.
! think that Jeff Perry's concept paper in an
excellent dissertation on the approaches available, and !
think, as has been indicated previous/y, some combination of
the bubble or ballooning approach and the direct access or
immediate approach should be the standards that you adopt.
And ! think that the language that Mr, Reynolds presented to
the CCPC and that he alluded to earlier this evening is the
acceptable language and should be incorporated.
I would be happy to answer any question.
CHAIRMAI4 HA$SEs Thank you. Councilman Volpe.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs I ~ust have a question.
I'm not sure -- we haven't heard from Mr. Merrill as
to whether he agreed with Mr. Ooodlette -- that the
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substantial changes would have to be internal.
I assume if there were internal changes within a DRI,
we'd be talking about substantial deviation. I mean, it
would be a change wi thin the DRI. ! assume we're talking
about substantially changes that are external to the DRI.
But you'll have to enlighten me.
MR. GOODLETTEz I think that would fly in the face of
the vesting provision of the statute, Mr. Volpe.
MR. MERRILLI ! think 8.2.1.4 -- first of all, you
have to understand the history of that. That was request.
The CCPC looked at Chapter 380, and they wanted to have that
language in there.
We originally had a different provision which merely
said, and I have it In front of me, I don't kno~ if this is
tn your ordinance, but it's eight two one three. Do you
have that in there?
MR. CUYLER~
welfare.
An overriding concern for public
CHAIRMAN HASSE~ Yeah.
MR. MERRILLI Exists. And what the Planning
Con=nission recommended was that be deleted and that eight
two one four be added. Eight two one for, again, is word
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for word taken out of Chapter 380. There has been some
suggestion from -- several of the people have co~=nented to
-- rather than to delete eight two one four, to revise it so
that it would be a determination made pursuant to Chapter
380 and reference that section that it came out.
And that is 380.06(15), if anyone wanted review that.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs Are there rules promulgated
Under that section of the Florida Statutes?
MR. MERRILLs Presumably, those changes would have to
be made under the same circumstances that other changes made
to a DRI development order would be made, and that is
through the public hearing process.
VICE-CltAIRMAj~ VOLPEj The whole process?
MR. O.~LERj The short answer is yes.
CHAIRIiAN HASSE~
HR. GOODhETT~
address the same issue,
time, I'd Just ask him.
Mr. Ooodlette, were you finished.
Yes. Mr. Varnadoe was going to
and ! thought to same the Commission
CHAIRMAI~ HiSSEs That's good.
MR. VARRADOEs If I could, Mr.
start with that Issue.
Chairman,
I'll Just
While we're on that DR/ vesting issue and the
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conditions or restrictions on the vesting, Chapter 163
presents a blanket imunity to the growth management act.
It doesn't have any qualifications in It. So there are no
restrictions tn Chapter 163. Just says DRI's, if they have
a valid DRI development order, are exempt.
Chapter 380 does have s(xae methods where the county
can change a development order under certain extraordinary
ctrcumstancess Inaccurate information in the application.
VICE-CHAXPJ4AN VOLPEs We've got the language right
here. This came from the statute.
MR. VARNADOE i
you can change 380.06
~ perception of that ts the only way
development order is to go through the
Chapter 380.06 hearing process.
You cannot take an ordinance under Chapter 163, where
you have a blanket i,~unity, and say we're going to apply
Chapter 380.06 restrictions to that.
those things occur, all of a sudden
order, the DRI la out of business.
And simply say if
the that development
You're going to have to
go back and amend
those exceptions.
that development orders
and prove one of
$o nry suggestion to get rid of the confusion is to
simply in your ordinance refer to the ability of the county
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to restrict or change development orders pursuant to Chapter
380.06(15). I think what the --
¥ICE-CHAIP. MAN VOLPEs Isn't that what Mr. Merrill
Just said?
suggestion.
Varnadoe is the one who made that
MR. VARNADOE s
We're trying to head that way because
we try to stick all of this language tn there and it Just
doesn't work, the way we're trying to do It. I mean, I
don't bare any problem with the recognition In this
ordinance that says, yeah, DRI'e aren't totally exmapto
can get to them, but we have to go but to that process to
get them. I think that's what I'm trying to say.
I suggest that make that change.
COKMISSIONER SAUNDERSs Mr. Varnadoe, can you refer
mo to the section again that you're talking about in the
ordinance.
We
MR. VAR~',DOEs
be on page --
CHAIRMAN HASSEs Twenty-three.
MR. MERRILLs Section eight two one four.
COMI4ISSIONER SAUNDERSs Page twenty-three.
In the ordinance? Yes, sir.
It would
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WR. VARNADOEI Well, there's more than one.
CHAIRMAN HASSEI That's the one you're directing.
HR. VARRADOE~ Eight two one three and eight two one
four. Both of those are in mine.
COHMISSIONER SAUNDERSs What is the -- I~m trying to
keep notes on some of the suggested language changes. I
didn't get the language change that you were suggesting.
HR. YAP. NADOEs I didn,t. But in essence -- I think
that Mr. Herrtll can certainly draft this. What we,re
suggesting is that simply a recognition. The county can
change the vested status of DRI~s pursuant to Chapter
380.06(15) if those criteria are met.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs Do you have any problem with
that, Hr. Merrill? I mean, Just con~ent from the staff, and
is that a significant change in anything that was intended
here?
HR. HERRILL~ I think it prabably does make some
difference, but I don*t have an objection to that. Again,
we did not include this languange originally, but the
Planning Commission requested that we add it to this draft
that went to the Board.
! do not have a problem with changing it to the way
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that Mr. Varnadoe suggests.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEf I mean, if we you didn't do
that, and we c~me up with some different procedure -- we
don't have any standards here as to what we would use, so it
seems to me that it's --
HR. I4ERRILLI In the statute itself, the points that
Dudley Goodlette made and that others have made with regard
to what is a substantia] change, is it internal, external.
I don~t know if it*s not in the statute. And there is no
case law under this Particular provision, that I*m aware of.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEI But all this does is tie this
provision back into 380, which is CCPC intended to do in the
first place. At least, that,s what I~m hearing.
CHAIRRAN HASSEI What is etgh= two one three?
MR. MERRII~L~ Eight two one three is something that
we did include in there, and that is a police power
provision where:~y if there is an overriding concern for the
public health, safety or welfare, the county generally has
the right to delay, defer, do other things.
That is something where, I mean oftentimes, the
courts and the U.S. Supreme CourL even has talked to the
effect that you may defer or delay or do other things to
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property rights if there is an overriding concern for the
health, safety and welfare, and that's really what that
covered.
four?
Isn't that covered by eight two one
KR. MERRILl,: Well, that's one of the reasons why the
Planning Co~nisston recommended taking out eight two one
three when we added 8.2.1.4. But they did not instruct us
until the last --
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE, We don't have to get hung up on
that, but -- I mean you're saying that that*s a pc~er that
we have whether it's here or not.
HR. MBRRILI,s I suppofe it would be.
¥ICE-CHAIRMAN ¥Ol,Pis And so leaving it there
add anything to it or take anything away?
HR. MERRILI,s ! don't kno~. It depends on ho~ we
change 8.2.1.4. ~d ti we change that to -- referring to
the 380 provision, which I don't have a problem with. I
would Just like to tako a look at that a little bit closer,
! don't think It would have that much bearing.
HR. VIRNADOEs I think we have a conceptual
agreement. I'll work with him.
doesn't
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CHAIRMAN HASSE ~ Fine.
HR. VARNADOEt And I~m going to cut my coma~ents
short, out of deference to the Chairman. Seeing this many
attorneys at one time, I~m afraid we have an attorney
overload.
CHAIRMAN HASSEs
MR. VARNADOEs
They're frightening.
! do want to follo~ up a little bit on
what Hr. Plu~aer said -- that we have and I think we a11
need to realize this -- we have taken the narrowest focus on
concurrency we possibly could on traffic. And that is we
have looked at road segment by road segment~ we said we're
going to look at each road segment and see if it's deficient
or not deficient.
In other counties under the same Orowth Management
Act have taken a broader look. Some of them have gone
district wldel some of them have said, 'Let look at or
corridors." And that really reflects our driving h~blts.
Hy office is in Pelican Bay, and no~ they*ye got 41
torn up. ~rhen ! coming to the courthouse, Z don*t try to
got on 41. ! come do~n Goodlette or Airport Roadl and those
are alternative corridors that provide me adequate level of
service at this time.
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And so what I'm saying, the corridor approach to the
situation recognizes driving patterns of the public, because
theyero all going to seek the best way and the fastest way
to go from point A to point B, and we have no recognition of
that in our ordinance which I think maybe we should explore
a little bit.
The second point I'd like to make is that, which we
talked about a little bit, is private participation in
solving our ne~d, particularly our transportation need. I
think this ordinance needs to provide incentive for the
private sector to participate with the public sector in
providing the facilities in a timely manner.
And ii you look at the d~'elopment agre.ment language
which is in the ordinance -- maybe somebody can help me,
because I don't have it marked here on my draft. Page
twenty-six, Section 8.3.3.
It's very llmltintt. It only allows for development
agreement when Ihs eflect is to buy in Collier County
pursuant to the terms thereof to provide facilities
presumably through agreeing to some road segment
Improvement.
It does not provide a written incentive for the
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develc~ment community to get involved and help sole the
problem, much as we did in the Pelican Bay substantial
deviation situation or things of that nature.
I have seine drafted seine language which was passed
out at a CCPC hearing -- Mr. 011iff, if you would help me --
and I think your staff has had enough chance to look at it,
which tries to do three things.
Number one, recognize there can be a ~oint effort to
solve sores of these problems.
Ntmber two, with larger pro~ects, realize that we're
going to have to forecast better than five years in order to
alloy pro~ects to go forward and a11c~ to us do that through
conditional approval process recognizing that under todaySs
world with our Grc~th Kangement Plan, the CIE, we can only
commit ourselves to a five-year certificate.
And third, a11c~ for the private provision -- the
public facilities are for a ~oint effort between the private
and public sector -- to provide facilities, all through a
development adopted pursuant to Chapter 163 which sets forth
all the standards.
6o ! would urge your consideration of that language
or language that accomplishes the same purpose.
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VIC£-CHAIRMAR VOLPEt What does -- what*s the
difference betweon your language and the language that's
here? Just in an understandable way?
generally what you said. If you could
I mean I've heard
Just distill that [or
HR. VARNADOEt I thought I did.
Number one, the language, the words in your 8.3.3
simply say~ The effect of the development agreement shall
be to buy in Collier County pursuant to terms and duration
of development agreement to insure that adequate public
facilities are available to serve proposed development
current with when the impact of development occur on the
public facility.
Makes no mention of any private participation or any
Joint participation, like we did with Berkshire Lakes, to
VICE-CHAIRMANVOLPEI
the development agreement,
understand, Mr. Varnadoe.
Who would be the other party to
though? I'm Just trying to
Not to give you a hard time.
I'm Just trying to understand. This gives me the
opportunity to do that.
HR. VARNADOE~ And I don't understand your question.
You're not making yourself clear. I'm trying to say the,
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way for the county to issue certificate for five years by
making c~itment. That's all it provides for.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEt Who is the other party to that
agreement?
HR o VARNADOE ~
The other party trying to get a
certificate. That's what this is about.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ So is it kind of a contract or
an agreement between two parties?
MR. VARNADOE~ That's what an agreement is, a
contract~ yes.
VICE-CHAIRMANVOLPE~ Between at least two parties.
MR. VARNADOE~ At least two.
VICE-CHAIRMAR VOhPE~ And wouldn't both of thos
parties bo bound by the development agreement?
HR. VARRADOE~ Yes, but this -- if you'll see, this
one is only one funding source allowed under the one that's
drafted. By th~ plain words of it.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ So it's really not defined in
terms of -- youere saying that by specifically stating that
it allows for private participation in terms of funding
sources where the development. Is this some type after
pipelining approach to this?
HR. VARNADOEI No, sir.
there.
It's what it states in
It's a development agreement to allow to us meet the
mandates of this ordinance and the concurrency management
system. No magic to it. No tricks, no bells, no whistles.
Very simple.
It Just expands on what you've got and says look,
sometimes we're not going to be able to solve these problems
by ourselves In a timely manner, and ti we can get the
private sector involved to help solve the problems and
provide part of the funds to provide the facilities of the
provided and some of tho adequate level of service in a
timely manner, we have the opportunity to take advantage of
that.
You still don't understand?
VICE-CHAIRMAR VOLPEs Someone will explain it to me
later, !'m sur~.
HR. VARNADOE~ ! hope so.
The final one, I guess. A couple of small points,
but one of the points I wanted to deal with very quickly is
the three-year certificate. And I have very pleased to hear
Mr. Dorrill expound on perhaps the opportunity to go to a
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graduated system of certificates that would recognize that
you don't need three years to build a single-family house,
but you can't do a large prelect in three years, by the same
token, and give us so~e opportunity to have longer
certificates.
I think that the recognition has been from your staff
and from the ¢CPC members that we won't to encourage these
large prelects. By tbs same token, how do we do that and
how do we make this work in a managable way, and I think
that -- I hope that your staff has it covered by fact that
by this graduated system we're not giving a five-year
certificate to everybody and there are certain parameters
that have to be made, that in order for a five-year
certificate to be enacted.
And what I'll do is give you some draft language on
that, and we won't discuss it tonight If you don~t want to,
but we can talk ~-bout it in the next hearing. And it
basically follc~s up on what Mr. Dorrill was discussing.
CHAIRNA~ HA88Es I think staff directed itself to
that too, Mr. Varnadoe, to a degree. For various reasons,
that it would bo extended.
~tr. ~rrill~ do you h~ve a copy
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MR. ~ERRILL I
HR. VARNADOE ~
Yes, ! do. Thank you.
With certain parameters.
~d, you
know, what I*m concerned about is if we have three-year
certificate, what we're going to end up with is a variety of
small pro~Jects that development community can complete in
three years.
I mean, development community is very resilient. As
! think all of you who have been up here a while know,
whatever direction you point them in, they're going to go in
that direction and do the best they can.
But three years is ~Just not an adequate time when you
can spend eighteen months of that three years getting your
various permits, et cetera, particularly provided we have to
get our certificates at such an early stage.
so I would encourage you to follow along Mr.
Dorrtll's recommendation in that regard. And this is simply
language that .':eeks to do that.
ASI and the size of ASI's and how you determine them.
Let me Just suffice it to say that without -- there are
basically no standards or criteria in the ordinance now. I
would concur with the rest of the speakers; we need some
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standards and criteria.
I will tell you out of the ten or so adequate public
facilities ordinances that I have reviewed from around the
state, all of those have criteria or standards in the
ordinance. Some of them -- if they don't set them out in
the ordinance! you kno~, cruarter of a mile on each side of
the road or half a mile whatever, at least i/ire you criteria
or standards that you apply going in. $o I would urge you
to get the staff to come up with something like that.
}~y last point. The big N word, moratorium. Or maybe
moratoria I guess we may be talking about. Our
Comprehensive Plan addresses in a couple of places the fact
that moratorium, moratoria, can only be adopted if it's /or
a defined period of time and there is some light at the end
of the tunnel, if you would, there is some solution that we
have.
And I wtll cite you our laniruage use element, where
it sayss A ~o:.'atorltun may be impoaed -- it's talking about
solution -- but may not be sustainable ii there is no
conmitment to i~prove the road by detinite and reasonable
time.
Our deferral language in thia ordinance, I would also
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suggest for your reading pleasure, a -- some limitation on
deferral which, again, we don~t need to discuss tonight in
any length, but basically, it follows the language in 7.2.1,
and then says that you will only adopt a moratorium for two
years, and only after you have adopted a reasonably
realistic, feasible program for correcting the deficiency.
I think at the same time that we're going to we adopt
this moratorium, we also ought to have some plan for when
we're going to get out of it and how we're going to get out
of it because a moratorium doesnet build any roads or
provide any sewer or any water.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
CHAIRMAN HASI~Es Thank you. And I'm so happy that
you're providing our recreation reading material here.
VlCP--CHAIRMAN VOIaPl~s Mr. Merrill -- may I ask Mr.
Merrill a question?
On one of the handouts, Mr. Merrill, Mr. Varnadoe has
some language having to do with 8.3.2.1. The number system
on this ordinance can drive you crazy.
WR. MERRXLLI Believe we, it-- I agree.
referring to a specific one, but from user friendly, when
you want to refer to Just one section when someone refers
When you' re
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you, it's a lot easier to find rather than going back and
finding it on the memos.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOI~PE~ Do you think we could have an
index or something? That might be helpful. An index would
be really good.
CHAIRJ4AN HASSE~ I~dex would be Just a long as the
whole thing.
HR. ~4ERRILI, z ! don't have that change.
pass that. Is that this one?
CO~04ISSIONER SAUNDERS~ No, that's seven two one.
VICE-CHAIPJ4A~I VOI~PE, That's the one.
HR. CUYLER~ 8.3 and 7.2.1.
VICE-CHAIPJ4A~ VOI~PE, 8.3.2.4° The one that has to
do with the exercise and expiration.
HR. HERRII, I,, I do not have that one.
CHAI~ HASSE~ Do you have another one there7
vi CE-C~AI~4AH VOLPE, Here.
HR. MERRILL~ Thank you.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPB~ I Just wanted to-- the
question was that this draft talks about exercise. And the
section that this refers to talks about expiration.
Do we have a provision in the draft of when a
If you could
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certificate of adequate public facilities is exercised?
HR. MERRILI, s t~ell, it must be exercised w/thin the
expiration period.
VICE-CHAIiUiA~ VOLPE~ Ho~ do you exercise it?
)dR, )4ERRII, L~ You go ahead and build.
VICE-CHAIRHAN VOI, PE~ Okay. That Just -- the
language there talks about exercise, ! Just ~ondered
~hether --
HR. I,tERRILLs This is the first that ! have seen of
this language. I vi11 definitely give this consideration
~ith the staff.
VICE-CHAIRPJ~ VOLPEz Are you addressing some
deficiency that you ea~ in the ordinance about the exercise
of the certificate?
HR. VARNADOEs Absolutely not. All I'm trying to do
here is sayz Oo for~ard vith this idea that we can have
some graduated tine for the use of these certificates,
depending on the size of the project and ho~ long it would
normally take to build out such a project.
VICE-CHAIRNAN VOLPEI Okay, Thank you.
HR. OLLIFFI )ir. Chairman, ! have Kevin Hale,
followed by Ron Rice.
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CHAIRMAN HA~SEs Mr. Chairman, my name is Kevtn Hale.
!'m the president of Sun Bank and I~m also a director of the
EDC. Zf I could, I would like to ask a couple of questions
concerning what we have discussed this evening.
First of all, I would like to know if we could define
those roads in the county that are currently deficient?
CHAIRMAN HASSEs You want to address that?
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs ls Mr. Perry here?
COMMISSIOIqER BHENAHANI Everybody is looking at
everybody else.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOI~PEz You Jvc been waiting. Easy now.
CHAIRMAN HASSEs YouJre lucky I didn,t ask you.
MR. OLhlPPs He's probably the last speaker, too.
MR. PERRYs For the record, my name is Jeff Perry
with the Growth Planning Department.
Currently as funded in the Growth Management Plan,
all of the roads that were projected to be either
potentially deticient or deficient are currently listed in
the currently adopted capital improvement element.
Which, to answer the gentleman's question~ There ara
no deficient or potentially deficient roads in existence
today. The way we were presently funded and the capital
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improvement element.
MR. HALEs Is the southern portion of 951 in the
capital improvement element.
HR. PERRYs It is not, no.
MR. PERRYs Today, it is not, no.
MR. HALEs Ho~ close is it to being deficient?
MR. PERRYs We're currently undergoing a study of
that particular roadway. If the study confirms the
generalized volumes, capacity of the roadway, the roadway
will be deficient as of May 1st of this year or by May
when the Board takes action on that information.
When the Board receives the information in the Annual
Update and Inventory Report, it will include the information
as to whether or not the road is deficient or not.
HR. HALEs What happens if it is determined that the
road is defic~enl, on May 1st.
MR. PERRYs At the time when the Board receives that
information, at the same time they will be given
rec _c~___endattons, one of which will be to add the roadway to
tho capital improvement element, funding it so that it is
considered concurrent; or as an alternative, they would be
asked to create an area of significant influence tn which,
once adopted, no development permits would be issued, no
building permits,
VICE-CHAIR31AN VOLPE~ Could I Just follo~ up on that.
~R. PERRY~ It all relates to this.
VICE-CHAIP.~J~ VOI, PE] Were any of the other state
roads that we included in our capital improvement element of
our Growth Hanagement Plan deficient or potential deficient
at the time we put the~ in?
Do you understand my question?
Yes, sir. ! would -- ! would suppose
KR. PERRY
wi thout --
spot.
don't mean to put you on the
CHAI~ HASSEs Kr. Perry, don't guesstimate at it.
It would be the wrong time to guesstimate at something.
HR. PERRYs Davis Boulevard possibly vould ~ve been
d~lar~ defic~ent in the ~sence of funding for the
particular r~ay. ~ith~t seeing the ~act n~ers on the
charts, I can't confi~
~e other se~ent of the North Trail in front of
Pelican Bay ts likely to bec~e deficient. I d~'t tht~ --
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last year when we were looking at the numbers probably
wasn't deficient at the time. But I think Davis Boulevard
might have been considered deficient.
VICE-t'TLAIRMAN VOLPEt So are you saying there are a
number of state roads that are in our Growth Managment Plan
now as a result of the amer~lment process that we went
through.
MR. PERRY t Yes.
VICE-CHAI~ VOLPEI Are you saying that of those
that are in there the only one that was potentially
deficient at the time was Davis Boulevard and possibly US
417
MR. PERRY~ I fm sorry. ! thought you said
deficient. Potentially deficient, there have a half a dozen
states roads that are positive deficient.
V~CE-CHA~RMAN VOI~PEI All of them, than, are in our
CIE element.
MR. PERkY~ That*s correct.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ Except for this segment of 951
that Mr. Hale is alluding to?
MR. PERRYt Thatfs correct.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ Okay.
I Just want Mr. Hale to
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liR. HALEs If the southern portion of 951 is
determined to be deficient and it is not included in the
capital improvement element, what will occur?
HR. PERRYs Presumably, the Board will establish an
ASI, according to provisions of this ordinance, in which no
d~velop~ent permits will be issued.
HR. HALEs Ho~ much time ~ould you have to include it
in the capital improvement element after it's determined
that it is deficient?
HR. PE1/RYs The Board~ ! presume, if they decide to
make that choice~ would direct staff to include tt in the
capital improvement
}iR. HALEs
I~R. PERRY
funded right no~?
Nil. PERI. Y s
they could put
Yes.
Hc~a Is the capital
it in imedtately?
Improvement element
Through various sources. The road
component is funded through some of the gas taxes, although
tho existing capital improvement element, thsre are about --
as ! recall, about $65°000°000 worth of road pro~ects~ state
roads primarily, that are funded from the aaven cent sales
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MR. HAI, Es Mr. Chairman, ho~ are we going to fund
that element if the sale tax is not presented to the voter
or la not passed?
CHAIRMAN HASSEs I'll give you a real interesting
answer on that. If we can't get the funds from the state,
we'll have a real problem in that respect.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOI~PE: If I could Just-- I think
there are alternatives available within the existing CIE
element. I believe that there are. You kno~, I think that
-- I hope that what we're about is planning and
anticipating, and that I hope that we did not hang our hat
on a funding source that didn't exist and still doesn't
exist; that all of these people who we are surrounded by,
who are planner and who are doing planning and forecasting,
have allowed us scxne flexibility here so that we might have
to do some movements of funds, but I assume that they exist,
Mr. Hale. I Just have to assume that that's the case.
Am I correct that we've got some alternatives
available to us if In fact the sales tax should not be
successful ?
I don't know where ! address that question to? Can
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someone address the question?
CHAIRNAN }lASSEs Hr. Dorri11, would you respond to
t. ha t?
HR. DORRILL; You could move come limited funds
around. You wtll not solve all the state road deficiency
because your one mil -- your existing one mil fund, for
example, does not generate the type of revenue to cover the
extent of the deficiency. There would be some limited
ability to bond, some of the excess gas taxes or the primary
source would bo ad valorem taxes. At that point you would
need to raise taxes in order to build state roads.
VICE-CHAIPJiAR VOl, PBs But what we're talking about is
-- you know, that number is a very elusive number, and it
always has been for me. You know, we went from forty-seven
million to sixty-four million on state roads in on your
five-year plan. That's over a five-year period of time that
we're committed to.
So, you know, I guess we don't have to come up with
sixty-four million or forty-seven million in one year, do
we? ~at's over a period of five years.
HR. PERRYs That"s over a period of five years.
funds have to be included within the five-year time
f r~me,
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There are perhaps three roads that must be funded,
that if they're not funded within that five-year time frame
will require the establishment of these areas of significant
influence. And later on in the program, other roads will
fall into that category.
CHAIRMAN liASSgs What were those three roads? 951
and Davis Boulevard?
HR. PERRYs 951, Davis I)oulevard, the North Trail.
CHAIRMAN HASSE~ 951. Davis Boulevard.
MR. PERRYs A segment the North Trail, and then there
are two segments of the East Trail that are approaching that
point where they would require the creation of these areas.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOI~PEs Just one other comment, and I
won't belabor this. But one of the questions that I have
had all along here, and we have discussed this at some of
our meetings, has to do with inter-local agreements and
particularly with the City of Naples.
$o if you talk about US 41 from Davis Boulevard to
951, and we have it in our plan and the City of Naples
doesn't have anything in their plan0 either in their CIE or
in their Growth Management Plan, and theirs is Ix3tentially
deficient or is deficient -- I~ve heard a lot about the
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Oordon River Bridge -- it seems to me that they could impact
UZ~I US,
So we can address a part of the problem, but we
really needed that cooperation with the City of Naples,
don' t we?
HR. PL~RRYs That's correct.
¥ICE-CHAIRX~ VOI, PE~ As to that segment, And that's
something that staff is working o~, ! guess.
HR. PERRYz We'll doing oomething.
CHAI~4AN HABSE~ The NPI~ is doing the same thing, if
I reca11~ we're working on it. The City of Naples is
I'm anxious to see the state working with
working with us.
~tr. Chairman, if we continue to issue
building per. its within the areas that are affected by these
proposed capital i~provements, are we committing ourselves
to fund those improvements?
CHAIRI~J, H~SSE: ! don't know that wa are.
HR. OLLIFF= I'll answer that, as opposed to asking
the Co~isalon.
Yes. The way that the Comprehensive Plan amendment
language is written today, it says that if we issued
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building permits or development orders that are contingent
upon those improvements in order to meet concurrency, then
we shall not defer, delay, or -- what*s the other language
-- re~o~e from our CIE those road improvements.
So, yes, we would be obligated to fund those.
CHAIRI~N HASSEs I guess ! misunderstood that
question.
If we donet supply the infrastructure, there wonet be
that much building.
HR. HALEs Tom, what is the effective date for that
process to occur?
HR. OLLIFFs By my understanding, ! think the last
day that the County ¢~tsston has in order to adopt that
those amendments is April 24th.
HR. HALEs April 24. Bo subsequent to April 24th, t!
we issue a building in one of these areas that is delineated
tn the capital i=provement element, then we have committed
ourselves to lungs those improvements?
HR. OLLIFFs
HR. HALEs
tho funding source?
HR. OLLIFFs
Yes.
Can we approve building permits without
not sure ! understand your question,
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because all of the capital improvements that plan have a
funding source today. It may be funding source that still
needs voter approval, but them are all shown with a funding
BOUrce.
VICE-CHAIRNAN VOl, PEg .Hhat -- maybe Just to summarize
all this for us. I Just wonder what -- trying to understand
But what -- if you got a solution or a
the question.
r ecom~enda t t on?
HR. HALEs Let =e tell you.
Ny concern ts that it
may prove to be convenient in the future to stop issuing
building permits because we do not have a defined source of
revenue to pay for the Improvements that are going to be
mandated by tho Issuance of those permits. And X want to
make sure that that doesn't occur.
I'm also concerned about the Commission's reaction is
going to be ii so May I staff comes to you and say the
southern portion of 951 is deficient. Are you going to
Improve it in the -- are you going to add it to the capital
Improvement element without a known source of funding?
! think we're going to get to the point where people
are going to say~ ho~ can you get make these commitments
without a funding source.
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VICE-CHAIRMA~I VOLPB:
outside of these ordinances.
really is a different source.
But that's another issue
! mean it relates, but it
About the funding m~chanlsm.
MR. ~ALEs But I'm trying to operate a business In
this county and trying to make some plans for the future,
and I have made a significant c~ttment in various areas of
this county, one of which is Marco Island, and I'm concerned
that we're going to have moratorium on Marco Island. And I
think that we should get some indication of that probability
of that occurring.
That's what I'm getting to.
CHAIRMAN XASSE: Well, I don't think we're tn the
position right now to answer that.
MR. DORRILLs You'll understand the severity -- it's
an important question -- on Tuesday. Because you only
really hays two options.
You can impose an Immediate moratorium and wait until
the outcome o£ a potential election in November, for
example, and have that interim period of moratorium, or you
can proceed. But If you proceed and you adopt those
amendments, you would have incurred the obligation at that
point to build those roads.
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And if that means using ad valorum taxes, that is the
impact of making that decision to proceed.
CHAIRNAN HASSE~ I don't think we're in a position to
do that. !'m not anxious to put that kind of money out ad
valort~ taxes.
HR. DORP. ILLs
wht ! said Tuesday,
We're running out of time. And that's
X want you to understand the severity of
the moratoriums, ho~ big an area that they might have might
be and what you will obligate yo,~rselves to do, and what
other limited opportunities that you have to either lover
levels of service, and frankly X don't believe this
Commission wants to lover levels of service beyond the point
that they're --
CHAIP. NAN HASSEs You're only tricking yourself when
do you that. Co~aissioner Goodntght.
COMI/IS$IONER OOODNIGH?s Can we lover levels of
service on state roads?
HR. DORRILLs Our experience in ability to do that is
indicated no, that you can't. You can attempt to, but the
experience has been that you're not going to get anywhere.
CHAIRNAI~ HA/;SEs That solves the problem there. Or
creates the problem.
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VICE-CHAIRNAN VOI~PRs ! think this discussion has
been very helpful, sir. ! think the issue about State Road
951 and the s~ment that is not in our Growth llanag~ent
Plan, CIE, raises an issue. You asked how soon can we get
it in, and Nr. Perry says we*ll Just put it in. ! Just
don't think it happens quite that way. ! think there's a
process that we need to go through. That is the funding
source, that -- you know, hopefully on Tuesday we're going
to be able to b~tn to hear what the m~chanisms are for the
funds /or commitment that will be made or has to be made,
based upon our CIE el~aent.
HR. HAl, Es #tll the public get some indication o£ the
Board's feeling at that time, relative to whether or not a
sales tax is going to be plac~d on the ballot or whethsr
there will be specific funding sources?
HR. OI, I, IFF s
agenda for Tuesday.
Kevin, both of those items are on the
So the one items regarding the AS! and
battery issue, and following that tram--
HR. DORPII, I,s I/ith one caveat. ~r.
original motion for us to coma back with the final sales tax
report left the Board with the option of having an
public hearing, and so whether the Board would want to
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discuss that on ~uesday, make a decision, or withhold that
decision until an evening public hearing, they still have
the option.
VICE-CH~IRI~2 VOLPEs
workshop too, didn't we?
HR. DOP. RILLs Public hearing
We had also talked about a
is a workshop.
]iR. HALEs If ! could, Hr. Chairman, I would like to
raise one other coo~ent and that is in his opening remarks,
¢c~mtssloner Volpe omde some cooanents relative to how this
ordinance i~pacts individual lots. ! have a very deep
concern for nu>derate income housing in this community, and !
think that it would be important for the staff to examine
some opportunities for individuals to purchase lots and get
adequate public facility certitlcates without paying impact
fees up front.
I don't believe we need to make It ~ore ditficult for
moderate income t~dtvtduals to o~rn their home in this
county, and the payment of Impact fees up front so that they
can get a certificate of adequate public facilities and get
their lot purchase financed by local lenders is an
unnecessary burden that they would have to bear.
CHAIRIiAN BASSEs Thank you.
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MR. OLLIFFs Ron Rice, folloved by Stuart Kaye.
MR. RICI~I C~,~issioners. I~y ~e is Ron Rice. I*m
~oino to take four minutes. I~
d~el~lng ~een's Park which ~uts King's ~ke and Wtldw~
Lakes, ~hlch is on Davis B~l~ard.
I w~ld like to ask this question. ~tth regard to
~lld~ ~kes, ~e brought a sixteen-inch rater line one and
a half ~lle~ d~n Davis Boul~ard to our pr~erty. ~e built
a s~stantial entrance on Davis ~oul~ard. A cl~house.
~ then obtain~ a s~er plant, and ~e n~ have s~er
directly In front of ~r pr~erty. ~e are a~r~l~tely
sixty ~rcent c~leted.
~ question ts thiss I~tately ~uting me is a
DRX. ~t a stick o[ stone has been tu~ on that DRI. l
~vo s~eral million dollars tn ~ pro~eck a~ ~ild~o~.
~ are ex,pt, a~ I can't ~en /ind il I'm vest~.
~t's ~ auestion.
VICE-~I~ VO~PEs I thi~ t~t question was the
question that we discussed early on, and I ~ve forgotten
the lady's ~e who bright it up a~ s~eral other speakers
~ve talked ~out this whole qu~stt~.
SauCers ~s allud~ to it. ~e whole question of vesting
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under our --
MR. RICE~
didn't hear any answers.
VICE-CHAIRMANVOLPEs
Well, I heard a lot of conversation. I
don't think there are any
to have definitive answers at
right now. I think what we had asked is for staff --
MR. RICEI Are we going
some point in time?
CHAIRMA~ HASBEs
MR. RICEs The reason that Sun Bank is here and
Barnett Bank is here and my partners want to know is am I
vested or I'm not vested? And why is the DR! exempt,
because it sits next door to me and not a stone has been
turned.
! would like that answered.
VICE-C~AIRKA~! VOLPEs Because there's a statuatory
provision that says that.
MR. RICEs ! would like to make a couple of
statements. When home owners groups come here and complain
about their high taxes, what they don't tell you about is
that the value of their properties have tripled and
quadrupled in the last several years. That's number one.
Number two. I want to tell you that when they come
At some point in time you will have.
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deny -- when they co~e here and appear before you and deny
us new construction, that means that less product comes on
stream, it increases the value of the existing product, to
wit, their product. Okay?
I would like to say this. The legitimate use of the
Growth Management Act and the concurrency laws under the
guidance which I have heard from Mr. Dorri11, I can live
you. Don't use it as a veil or a screen for no-growth
mentality groups. If you want to Detroit today and said,
defacto, we're closing down General Motors and Ford for a
couple years, what do you think would happen in those
coemuni ti es ?
Finally, we have no heavy industry here~ the industry
of Naples is the construction industry. Crush that
development construction industry is unjust. More
importantly, it would be financial suicide for Collier
Coun ty.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HASSE~ Thank you, Mr. Rice.
KR. OLLIFFI Stuart Kaye, followed by Ken Reiley.
CHAIRMAN HASSEI How many more have you got there?
MR. OLLIFFI Four more.
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HR. KAYEs Ny name is Stuart Kaye. I'm going to
share with you a slightly different perspectivev and I will
be brief.
A/ret many months of interaction and effort we have
arrived at a virtually mutually acceptable zoning
reevaluation ordinance. No~, the effects of the Zoning
Reevaluation Ordinance can be measured, although to date
this is not for the most part been done.
! understand that the Zoning Reevaluation Ordinance
attempts to create a plan which will allo~ us to become
consistent with our comprehensive land use plan. ! support
growth management. ! don't have a problem with the concept.
Even though there wtll be a lot of property owners who will
lose a majority of their land value.
As a result of the Zoning Reevaluation Ordinance, a
number of identifiable results will occur.
First, there wtll be so~e number o£ reduction of
housing units.
Second, property values for many properties will go
dc~n significantly. So ad valorum taxes will increase by
some a~ount for the rest of us.
Development viii will be more spread out~ because in
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many instances it will now take more land to build the same
number of units as allowed previous to the Zoning
£eevaluation Ordinance.
Housing will become more costly by some dollar
amount. So~e potential home owners will be squeezed out of
the market, and I don't know specifically what those
answers. Do you? I don't.
Interestly, though, housing demand will not be
significantly affected by the Zoning Reevaluation
Ordinance. Where there are thirty thousand or three hundred
thousand units available for construction, our housing
demand will be fairly stable. It's a function of the
market, not a function of what we dictate.
So all in a11, while these changes should be
quantified, at least we know that there will be some
specific effects due to the Zoning Reevaluation Ordinance.
The Con~;ur--'ency Ordinance is another matter. At this
time, there is an overwhelming lack of definable standards
set forth by the county for the community to go by.
Everyone has discussed these various issues, so I don't need
to get into these no~.
Particularly, the area Issue of significant
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influence. It would be easy for a wide spread moratorium to
arise. ! think we have talked about that based on where the
ordinance stands right now, without new construction,
without impact fees, and high -- new high ad valorum taxes,
this county could find itself in real trouble.
My point isl We need to be specific in the ordinance
so we can identify what results will happen and then provide
guidance for us how to cat within the cc~mnunity.
You need to know what the consequences of your vote
will be. As I said before, I'm a strong believer in growth
~anagement. Do knew what the ordinance will do to
employment? To services? And ~ost importantly to the
existing quality of life for all of us here now?
I'm not sure what these effects will be, although I
have seen studies that show that the overall quality of life
for all of us here will be diminished significantly.
You havo a very qualified staff, and I submit to you
that as the leaders of our county that you need to analyze
what those impacts are. We now have some of the most
influential ordinances before us date.
And I'm a firm believer that growth needs to pay for
growth, and if someone could assure me a zoning moratorium
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would be in the best interest for this county, ! would be
all ears, but, again, various studies shc~ differently.
So the bottom line is Just to make darn sure that you
all understand what the implications are of what you will be
voting on.
Thank you.
HR. OLI, XFF~ Ken Reiley, followed by Robert Duane.
HR. REXLEYz Ny nam~ is Ken Reiley, with Realty
Executives. X represent a numbs of clients who own
individual lots in Oolden Gate Estates and a couple of other
We have been talking about developers and all the
other things, but it seems like what slips through the crack
-- and X have heard it is alluded to a couple times this
evening-- is that individual lot owner.
X'm going to give you two exampless
A retired .~ouple who bought a lot out in Golden Gate
Estates that are going to be coming do~n here and retiring
in about four to five years. They paid for their lot, they
own It, and they're paying taxes on It and they want to come
do~n here and then build on that lot. And it happens to be
over by the Vineyards. If that individual sets there and
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co~es down five years from no~ and get their architect and
walk in to get their building permit, and they sit there and
say, "Well, we caner issue t~ because i~'s shut d~." Ye~
the guy sitting ~er there ~n the V~n~ards buys a lot ~n
the s~e t~me fr~e, he c~es d~n ~o build h~s house on ~he
golf c~rse can go r~ght ahead a~ pr~e~ to build, ~he way
~*s written r~ght n~.
Taking a y~ng c~ple who is sitting ~here ~hat are
ren~ing right n~, ~ve purchas~ a lot ~t in ~lden Oa~e
Es~e are 3~king ~o build, and ~heyOro building ~u~ty in
t~t lot a~ paying for t~t lot a~ with tho intent of
~vin9 their children, which n~ ~ens to be one year old
a~ bein~ ready to 9o into echo1 ~er at Vin~ards
El~enta~ c~ld be fallin~ in t~t s~e trap, where they've
put their ~ Into there a~ th~re ~ettln~ ready to ~e
into it so that when their child ~oes into Vin~ards
El~enta~ t~t th~ can ~o ahead a~ built their house a~
~ve their ~tty in their lo~ paid for.
U~er the scenario right n~, the z~in~ re~aluation
and the ad~uate p~lic facilities, is t~t a person can ~o
a~ build in the Vln~ards but yet th~ can't build across
the street ~er in the Estate.
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! Just think that tho Commission needs to take and
address this strongly.
! need to ask a question, t~by if a development has
been platted and the lots have been improvt~l with streets
and Infrastructure in, ~hy can*t t~t be ~ted? ~
it t~t ~e're sitting here going back to people vho have
~rchased lots t~t are all a~r~ed~ saying at s~e point
that th~ ~y or ~y no~ be ~le to build ~ a lot7
To sit there ang say t~t th~ ~ve to c~e up and
pay -- I can u~erstand tfa builder ts c~lng in or
d~el~r a~ they ~ve ~o pay this t~act fees a~ et
cetera, but t~t t~ivldual ~t there who ~s ~ this
and pla~ing on building, w~ are th~ being where bhey ~ve
-- s~e of th~ ~y no~ ~on kn~ it. ~ live up in
~tcago a~ ~h~ c~ d~ ~ybe once a year a~ see
their la~ is the~e~ th~ don'~ k~ t~t th~ were sup~s~
~o go in a~ ism $3,500 to i~act fees to build t~ lo~.
~y -- a~ I don't u~ersta~ fr~ the drafting of
~hese ordinances, why ca~ot these -- you kn~, ~rco Isla~
Is another issue. Pe~le ~ve purc~a~ lots. ~y can'b
th~ go ahead a~ build? ~ ca~o~ sl~gle-i~tly lo~s be
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that, Mr. Olliff.
MR. OLDIFFI
I tht~k you might wa~t to address
I'll give you the quick anmeer, at least
that I know of, is that the concurrency law the way we
understand it says that you can't issue development orders
if the services aren't available, regardless of whether
they're developers or whether they*re little developers, if
there's not adequate water or roads, then I'm not sure that
we have much of a choice in terms of whether or not we can
issue that development order.
CHAIRMAN HAShEr
a different question.
Mr. -- I thl~k ]ir. Reiley is posing
You've got a single lot on an adequate road with
sever and water in place. What stops him fro~ building?
lqot a thing. If the services are
MR, Obi, IFPs
ad equat e,
CIiAI~ ~SSEs
That's what I'm saying.
And supposing the services not there and that area
does not have water or sewers. What happens to him?
MR. OLLIFFf He is not allowed to continue to
development. While in Mr. Reiley's example, that DRI
project is allowed to continue to develop.
O0.l ?S
CHAIRMAN HASSEI I understand that part of it. What
I'm trying to find out is ti a person -- nobody in the area
has water or sewers, they have an septic system, they have a
well system, and that's an accepted type of building and
dwelling in that area. What happens to him?
HR. OLLIFFt That's fine. If they can provide their
water and sewer by their own lots, that as they do, that is
allo~ed for tn our ordinance.
CHAIRMAN VOI~PEI Think that answers it.
HR. REII, EYs That really doesn't because if -- let's
take Inaokalee Road, and three more DRI's go down on
Im~okalee Road. From Quail Creek and Woodlands and so on
that are DRI's, and they march right down and get approved
into the process down I~okalee Road, that this guy that
bought off of Wilson Road up there can be adversely affected
because of the DRI's, because they can continue to build but
he can't sit there and build on his because the road
decrepancy.
facility Is no'~ a-'equate.
I'm Just saying there's a
There*s a
problem inherent in this thing that the guy who's got the
single-f~lly lot next to a DRI, the DRI's is impacting that
co~nuntty, and that lot cannot be built on with the level of
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route service and he can't go in and get a building permit
to build his house.
CHAIRMAN HASSEs By the same token, you might have
arternate corridor.
HR. REILE¥: I'm Just saying I don't understand why
you can't -- I mean I don't think there's any law, DCA or
any other mandate, that sits there and states that you
cannot legally exempt single-family lots that have been
platted and developed.
CHAIRMAN HA$$E:
Well, ! don't think that they're
being exempted. There is no violation.
MR. REliEVe Exempt your DRZ'o. There's no reason
why you can't exempt the single-family lot.
CHAIRMAN HASSR: That's an entirely different
situation.
HR. MERRILL:
You can can certainly them 1! you have
the funding for i':, but if there's -- if the fundl~'s not
there and the facilities aren't there, 9J-5 specifically
And a building permit is a
That's what I'm saying.
NOW yOU ' Ye
Your definition of the
says no development orders.
development order --
HR. REILEY:
Just highlighted the real key point.
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development order is a building permit, and I'm Just saying
that there's nothing in DCA.
MR. MERRILI, s That*s not correct, no. Development
orders include everytng, any type of permit. Final local
development order is a building permit.
MR. REILEYs Is a building permit. Thank you.
And your language is being very restrictive. The DCA
has not --
MR. MERRII, LI No, that portion of it doesn*t have to
do with the single-family issue on that one.
The difference would be, this Commission could decide
to not require concurrency as far back as the impacts of
develop=ent or they could do it much earlier! they can
choose where they're going to place that decision in the
develope~ent process.
But the definition of final local development order
is not what is referred to in 9J-5. 93-5 talks about all
development orders. It does not distinguish between a
building permit or a subdivision plan or something of that
nature in the context that you*re talking about.
MR. REILEYs Maybe I can get some help from the
attorneys, but I mean I keep understanding that the language
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of a final development order is a building permit, and we
have the latitude to change that language that would give us
the opportunity to build on a single-family lot that has
already been developed.
HR. ~ERRILI~I That's correct. They can do that. But
the DRI issue is so~ething that has occurred outside of 93-5
to declaratory statements.
HR. REILEYs I'm Just saying is that the final local
development order is a building permit and the Cowissionere
have the latitude --
HR. MERRILL ~
HR. REXI~EY s
Yea, they do.
To make language in there that would
exempt single-family lots.
MR. ~ERRILLs If I may, to cover the situation you*re
talking about, for instance, if the Commission decided to
~ake the concurrency decision at the subdivision plat stage,
say the final subdivision plat stage, a~d everyone who has a
final subdivision plat ia exempt from concurrency, then all
those, single-family lots would be vested or exempt.
The problem that we have is you have Golden Gate
Estates, you have hundreds -- not thousands, hundreds of
thousands of subdivided lots in the county.
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MR. REII~EYI Are you going to penalize that guy in
Golden Gate Estates and when the state mandates a DRI, he
can go ahead -- like he mentioned, we have DRI'a that aren't
oven developed in this county, and yet you're going to
penalize tho guy with the single-family lot because the
DRI's are state mandated? I think that unequitable.
MR. DORRILL~ I'm not sure that requiring adequate
sowers and roads ia the penalizing anyone. I think that the
whole issue here ia that there are adquate services to
supply that development. And the case that we're trying to
develop here is that we want to make aa much development as
possible and have tbo~e services available.
HR. REII~EY~ And then maybe you need to look at this
Golden Gate Estate~ and these other platted developments
certificate and go ahead and put them into that scenario
before you issue other DRI'a if those public roads
facilities aren't there.
! mean, you've got the DRI's that are there, but you
can't do anythin{~ about, then maybe you need to put Golden
Gate Estates or develop lots that have already been done and
include that tn there before you go adding other DRI's to
that process.
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MR. MERRILL~ If I may. I think that if we look at
concurrency, and I hate to refer to a childhood game, but
it's like musical chairs. The chairs are the available
capacity that you have~ the people walking around are the
people that want to either build a single-family ho~e or
they're developers or whoever it happens to be that wants to
sit in one of those chairs.
You only have a limited number of chairs available
right no~. The only way you can increase the number of
chairs is by buying a new chair, and that's really again
whore the whole issue comus do~n to~ is how many chairs do
you tlave.
What it doss -- and ! think it's a misconception.
It's not Just no growth versus growth. What's going to
happen is it's co~petitlon among developers and
single-family home owners and other developers.
It's
everyone vying for a limited number of a limited amount of
capacity in ea:h facility. So that no matter if you have
the sams amount of funding and the same number of
facllltii, u, there s~o only os many permits you can 91ye.
Period.
And under tho Collier County, we two glff~rent
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scenarios. One was an allocation system which we at the
ntaff level decided not to go with, and I think for a number
of reasons and goods reasons, not only administrative but
also so~e substantive issues that would make it very
comp1 ica ted.
~e other alternative ts first-c~e first-se~ed.
That's ~hat is there n~. The stngle-f~ily h~e ~ner gets
in there first, then ho gets tho pe~it. If the DRI gets in
there first, then he gets the pc~it. You kn~, one can
kn~k one out the other one to a certain extent.
It's a problem.
chat we understand.
The Commission -- }ust one question so
Tho Cotunission -- correct me if I'm
wroDg.
put language into these ordinances that give the
single-family developed lot the opportunity to build. Is
that correct.
it, other than the fact that we had to include mtatuatory
vested rights provisions tn the ordinance.
}IR. REILEYs One last question.
CHAIRMAN HA$SE= I Just would like to pose this.
The Co~mission has tho opportunity to sit there and
There is not a prejudice against
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Perhaps it will answer some questions.
Suppose the Infrastructure is not in place, speaking
roads?
HR. ~£RRILLs Well, it's mor~ c~licated than cha~,
because It does no~ have to be tn place. It can be under
conoCrucCiont It can be in your current budGe~ i~ can be in
your flve-yca~ ClP.
OIAIR~i [IASSE~ It's no~ tn ~ budge~.
Let~s l~k at i~ like this. In certain areas of
Golden Ga~e EsCaPee, you have an area tha~ a road, say a
mile, a mile a~d a half long, and before wha~ r~d
considered for paving -- this is a lime r~k road -- you
fo~ula like t~t. N~, if you can~ build a h~ae on
you can't go~ ~on houses on l~, because you can't build one,
and the road isn'~ pav~d. W~t ~ppons to
MR. }IERRILL~ Wha= happens to the fire= house ~ha~
wan~s to go once ~t road?
HR. M~RRILL= The facility will have to be impr~ed
or planned co be i~pr~ed within the scope of the --
O{AI~I HASSEs Bu= our road department will
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pave that
but it's factual.
VICE-CHAI R~b~N VOLPE~
about the one lime rock road.
~.IR. MERRILL:
sc hedu I ing.
COHMII~SIOIJER SAU~WER8 ~
road. This is basically somewhat hypothetical,
I don't think we're talking
It's the ones in capital improvement
Let's talk about the roads
that are oubJect to what we're dealing with.
C'l{tI~tA}! HA$/~E~ That's what this gentleman is
~alking about, Hr. Saundero.
CO~ISSIOllER SAUI~ERS~ No, that's -- ~hat may ve~
well be what Itt. Reil~ is talking ~ou~, but I don't think
our ordinance deals with lime r~ck r~d in Golden Gate
Estates. I thi~ we're talking about the ~or.
~IR. ~ERRILLs Tho ~or road network.
CO~It$IO~l SAU}~ER~s Perhaps you can direct us
back co what tho real Issues are, as ~posed ~o tho lime
That person isn't going to be
I don't kno~ if that road is in the
It's only the roads that are in the ¢IP or
rock road thing.
VICE-~iAIItlO~ VO~PE:
affected.
MR. MERRILL~
road network.
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tho state plan.
VICE-CHAI RHAN VOLPE s
funding?
CHAI RHAN HASSEs
MR. REILEYs
one tn the Creasing.
VICE-~IAI~I VOLPE:
Those roads are for state
Not at the present time.
DuC the point is whether the guy bought
It's easy to talk about Golden
Gate Eates, but if you do it under what your analysts is.
I think Golden Gate £~tat. es -- I think we*11 find,
hopefully, that it's -- maybe Mr. Litsinger.
)IR. LIT$IHGERs In the ~xa~le that's boinO brought
fo~ard bore, the lim~ r~k roads a~ Golden Oate Estates.
~ do not -- that 1~1s Gl s~ico, lime rock road and
Golden Cato Estates. Thoreforo~ the issue of whether or not
that road would be concurrent would not be ~he issue.
Tho only issue would be whether or no~ a particular
pr~er~y In Golden Gate Estates affect~ one of the arterial
or co11~tor roads which ~ere in issue.
l~. REIL~s Tha~*o not the problem.
Again, you hav~ ~ho opportunity to si~ there and put
language inca the ordinance that all~a t~t person to go
ahead and build a single-family h~e, bu~ you ~vo no choice
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as it relates to DRI. But you do have a choice of the
singlo-fanily, as a C~,~,ission.
Last point. We are at the point -- Collier County
Planning Coramlsolon the last meeting -- I Just need a
clarification from otafl that in that hearing, I think I
heard that eighty percent of the capital t~r~ent el~ent
is on the anticipation of a one percent sales ~ax.
Wha~ percentage of the capital impr~ement for ~he
next five yoaro Is i~ anticipation of the s~l~s tax?
~. ~IT~I~R~ I can*t give y~ a exact percentage.
~u current capital i~pr~un= el~en~ calls for
$276,000,000 o~ i~r~en~s of which $64,000,000 is
propoo~d to bo fr~ sales ~ax.
CO~ISSIONER SAU~ERSs We ~vo two differon= sales
taxes ~ha~ we're ~alking ~. We ~ve =he -- waica
minute, ~r. Rell~.
I.IR. LITSI~GER ~
CO~ISSIONER SAU~ERS~ Okay. We ~ve the local
option sales taxes, which is unlunded. We ~vo the sales
tax t~t wu are collecting right n~.
MR. LITSINGERs That's correct.
VICE-CIIAI ~1 VOLPE ~
We'll call it the unfunded sales tax.
Repeat the numbers so that
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MR. LITSIHGER: Two hundred and seventy-six million
total, of which we need sixty-four million from somewhere,
which we are porpooing to be the additional, seventh cent.
VICE-CHAIRb~AR VOLPEI Is that eighty percent?
HR. LIT/~II~O£R~ Twenty-five percent.
HR. REILEY: I guess I got the eighty percent that
wet wore $75,000,000 short and that the sixty-eight was
going to be from thc one percent sales tax.
VICE-CILAIRMAH VOLPE: Eighty percent may come, Hr.
Retley, fro~ the one mil capital
that has boon split.
HR. LITSINOER~
improvement l~y0 because
Twenty/eighty.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEI
percent may came from.
HR. REILEYI Very good.
CHAIRMAN HASSE~ Okay.
So that's where the eighty
Thank you very much.
Hold on.
~IR. OLLIF}: I'll go ahead and announce the next two
speakers, the last two that ! have registereds Dick
Greenwell and Ross Mclntoch.
I~R. GRE£1~ELI,~ 1~ name is Dick ~ree~ell.
380 Sha~o~ Drive.
I live at
I have been a resident hero of this
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area for thirty years. I represent my wife and my three
sons that we've raised, put through the school system. One
is in the Navy, two of them are working in Collier County.
My concern was getting them housing! now my concern is that
they keep their Jobs.
But concerning housing and single family, primarily
for =oderate income. Then weel! go back to what Ken Reiley
was laying, and also Mr. Savage, with the kiss (sic) system.
That's the only way ! can understand it. Iem a not an
a t torney.
If you have an area that can only have Io many
permits issued, if all of those permits, applications are
taken up, can my son still apply for certificate if he pays
an additional impact fee?
HR. MERRILLz Under the current lyltem, he can apply
but be will not be given a certificate of adequate facility.
That's the pe.~mi: that you're talking about, the certificate
of adequate facilities and service?
HR. GRE~MELLs
~R. MERRILL:
FiR. OREEIMELLs
up with extra money, you could get one.
Adequate facilities permit, yes.
tie, he would not receive it.
I understood earlier that if you come
Es that not --
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HR. ~4ERRILL= No. That was in a discussion
concerning extension of time of an already issued
certificate.
MR. GR£E~ELLs All right.
No~0 if somebody applies for a certificate and they
don't use it, what happens to the impact fee that they've
paid? Do they get that back and somebody else that's next
on the list gets in?
HR. NERRILLs Presumably, the impact fee would be
covered under their current ordinance, the County's impact
fee ordinance, and it does reference that. Bo it would --
as I recall, under the impact fee ordinance, it would be
refunded. I believe.
~R. OR~,£1~ELL~ So if all of tho certlftc&tes are
used up for that year, none can be applied for until the
following year?
HR. HERRILLz I'm sorry. I was still ~orking on your
Iasc -- is it after six years?
HR. LITBING£R~ The impact fees can be refunded after
six years if the improvement has not been made.
COF~IISSIONER SAUIIDERSz That's not the question
that's asked.
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The question that was asked iss If he gets a
certificate of public facilities and he pays his impact fee
but then does not build, does he get his impact fees
reimbursed.
MR. CUYI, ERs There's a provision in the impact fee
ordinance where if they pull a building permit and do not --
canceled or revoked -- and they co~e in and apply within a
certain period of time, they're entitled to a refund. And
then they pay again in the event they come back.
~R. GREEI~WELL ~
not a building permit.
a building permit.
If you do not pull that building
year, do you get the impact fees back?
right?
But the adequate facilities permit is
That Just give you the right to pull
permit within a
You pay when you get the adequate facilities permit,
HR. HERRILI~s You pay a credit towards it.
HR. LX";SINGER= Right. You"re talking about a
single-family home?
HR. OREEtP~ELI~
MR. LITSI}~IER s
Single-family home! right.
By definition, you would have to have
the certificate of public facility at the time you drew the
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building permit so the two would coincide, and you would pay
the impact fee at that time.
HR. OLLIFF~ He's asking if he doesn't pull the
permit. He Just pulls the certificate, decides not to do
it, co~es back in and turns it back in his certificate, does
he get a reimbursement of his impact fee.
MR. C~REE2~ELL~ ! mtsunderst~. I thought
pr~eao ~as tba~ y~r adequate faciliti~s pe~tt, ~ha~ give
y~ a rlgh~ within a y~ar to pu~l the building pe~it and
build.
yearo,
HR. M£RRI~L{ Tho certificate is only issued in
conjunction with the development order, and that's done in
order to prevent someone from coming in and Just buying up
all tho certificates. So you have to have a development
order.
~arket.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~
HR. GREENWZLL~
HR. DORRILL~
he's still confused.
Create a whole new futures
Well, I'm still confused.
Can we un-confuse him? Maybe, SCan,
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}~. LITSINGER~ I still -- I want to try to clarify
on this.
First of all, if you're talking to the single home
situation, I can't imagine a situation when someone would
initiate a certificate
building per, it.
HR. OFFITT~ Why?
if they had no intention of drawing a
Sure, you would.
I think the idea is, yes, if you're not going to use
the certificate, you're going to get reimbursed.
Our ordinance needs to be looked at in order to
address that, then we need to look at our road impact fee
ordinance.
HR. H£RRILLs I can address it. It treats it the
same way as any of your other impact fees that are being
paid. It refers to the Impact fee ordinance, so what~ver
your impact fee ordinance says, thates ho~ it will be
tteatod.
MR. CU~LER~
Right no~ the impact fee ordinance talks
in ter~s of this building pe~it. I think both this
ordinance and the impact fer ordinance, particularly this
ordinance, presume that th~ building permit is going to get
pulled. You go in and set that capacity aside that you are
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volng to pull that butldtntt permit.
MR. (IREE~ELI, s But when you've only 9et a limited
nu~er available, ii you have a single-family loC, you want
~o prot~t y~r right to build ~ t~ lo~, bu~
circumstances ~y not dictate t~t you can build
l~lately.
CO~ISSIONER SAUCER, s I ~htnk the answer ts that
our ordinances are not clear on the Issue that you've
ralo~.
Based on what Mr. Cuyler has said, I think,
Cuyler, you need to take a l~k at tho i~act fee ordinance
Co take care of the sl~uation where a certificate Is pulled,
the ice is paid, but no building pe~lt Is paid. The fee
should be ret~urs~.
I think that's a 9~ ~tnt, and we need to clarl/y
It
VICE-CHAIR~ VOLPEs Can I ask Just one question?
I've heard a discussion that in order to apply
and ~tain a certificate o[ adequate p~ltc facilities, you
need to ~vo a final l~al d~ol~ont order.
~C do I need In or lot to go in and present
to wh~er ts 9otn~ to is;us these certtiicates in order
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get one?
C~A I RMAN HASSE=
VIC£-CHAIRMAH ¥OLPE~
ne~d to co~e in with? IoD.?
Single-family house?
Single-family house.
For adequate public facilities
single-family home.
Wha~ do I
HR. HERRILL~ Your l~pact fees and you're ready to
pull your permit.
certificate for a
VICE-CHAIPJiAN VOLPEs So ! come to sho~ you -- ! o~n
the property first. ! have to o~n the property first,
thought right?
HR. HERRILL~ You would go through all of the
requirements of your building permit and you would also have
to pull a certificate of adequate public facilities, and
they would do the cross-check to ~ake sure the facilities
are available, and that's part of the cross-check on the
building permit.
HR. LIT$INGERI Clarification, Commissioner.
We have provisions where a property o~nor can apply
for a certificate at any time, at their own discretion, for
a certificate of public faclltties adequacy at which time
tho clock starts ticking.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs So the gentleman's example. He
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owns a single-family lot. He owns it now. He's not sure
when he's going to be able to build. He has a vision that
at so~e point later on do~n the line, he's going to build
his dream ho~e.
He co, es in, he plunks down the necessary funds to
get his certificates. So now he's got a lot that he knows
that can build on. And then something happens. He's
transferred. I read here that the certificate is a
transferrable document, so he can transfer it when he sells
the lot. But if he chooses now to Just defer it -- I guess
that's the issue, then.
~R. HERRII, I,~ If he defers it, he gives it up.
VIC£-CHAIRKA~ VOI, PEs If ho defers it, he gives it
MR. LITSI~GER~ It says in Section 8.3.1.4 that such
fee~ as -- rcferrin~ to impact fees and fees for the system
development charges: Such fees shall be otherwise paid in
accordance with the applicable impact fee or system
development fee ordinance and shall be refundable pursuant
to ~uch ordinance only upon expiration of the certificate of
public facility adequancy for like development.
}~. OFFITT~ So as I said before, if our impact fee
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ordinance isn't clear enough, it needs to be amended to make
i t clear.
MR. GREE}~ELL= Let me Just understand. I can apply
for an adequate facilities permit which guarantees me the
right to build or apply for a building permit within three
years.
HR. I, ITSINOER: That's correct.
tlR. GR£EUWELI~: The date that ! applied for that
adequacy permit.
MR. I, ITSINGER ~ Right.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLP£~ That's correct.
MR. OLLIF£: Ross Mclntosh. The last speaker ! have
rog i s tered.
MR. I~INTOSH~ Mr. Chairman, members of the County
Commission. Thank you for your patience. I'm delighted
that we're devoting the time that we are devoting tonight tc
enoaging in this question of the availability of
certificates cf adequate public facility for normal people,
working people. People -- people like myself.
I'm not some fictitious Golder Gate resident. I am,
in fact, closing on 14onday on a single-family home site in
Collier County close in, Just off Goodlette Road.
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I'm going to put over $20,000 down on the property.
I'm going to finance the balance over a relatively short
period of time, during which I hope to accumulate -- I
intend to accumulate additional resources and assets that I
can build a home that will accumulate my growing family.
we want to be in a school district of our choicej we
want to be close to playing fields where the children can
amuse themselvesj we want to be close to modeling school and
ballet class and all of those kinds of things that are
i~portant to a growing family. We need to be close to my
work place~ we need to be close to my wife's work place.
Basically what's happening is after ten years of
cocu~ltment to this community -- I've had very low impact on
police services~ I've had very low impact on public health
services~ I've tried to be a good citizen -- and basically
wha= I see happenin~ is I see musical chairs being played
with my famtly's dreams.
I'm se£in~ a document which has been written in a
vaccum. It's a document which has been written so that
certificates of public facility have become a commodity.
They have become a commodity which will increase the value
of property. They will represent an inve~tment.
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What will happen is that finite supply of chairs
which we have, tho first group of chairs will be gobbled up
by DRI's. We've already talked about that. The second
group of chairs will be gobbled up, inventoried of the
developers who are under the gun from their lenders who will
say your real estate ts worthless without certificates of
adequate public facility) go out there and get them, as many
as you ~eed 'to support the loan that ! have made on your
property.
what that means is there simply won't be certificates
available for me, unless ! run up now and spend
which happens to represent effectively twenty percent of the
money -- that's twenty percent more money than ! need to tie
up in a lot. This is an asset which I'm not using, I'm not
able to spend. It's a substantial family asset, and it
creates a situation where I'm likely to find myself years
from now too big for the house that I'm in and unable to
move forward.
And I submit that that's simply not equitable, and
that we need to address -- for example, Just an idea. We
let individuals build their homes in this county without a
contractor's license on an infrequent basis. That is, you
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can be an
house a year or something of that character.
Why not certificates of adequate public
have the life expectancy of a building permit?
o~ner/building and I guess you could build one
facility that
They're not
good for three years or five years or renewable or anything
else. If you're going to build a home and occupy it, you
get a certificate that goes with that house! and if you
don't build tho house, it's dead. And if you don't, you
can't take it -- you can't sell it, you can't transfer it.
It's for you.
And I'm going to suggest to you that in a year's span
of time there are probably not a hundred guys like me in
this to~n doin9 what I'm talking about doing. It's not aa
if there's a sudden onrush of homes being built.
huf~red guys, it's two hundred guys.
Out of six thousand units, we're talking
about two
hundred, and we're talking about ten trips a day is the
average that's generated by a house, and as near as ! can
tell one of those tho is mailman who'se in the neighbor
already. One of those is tho newspaper boy who's in the
area already.
The fact of tho matter is that we didn't give
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single-family home owners the opportunity to come in and
appeal and say ! don't create an impact. The only reason wt
don't let people come in and do that in this document is
because everybody would do it.
But the fact is the -- the underlying fact is there
aren't very ~any of us. We're hard working, and we deserve
-- we*ve made a commitment to this co~nunity and deserve to
be allowed to fulfill our families' dreams.
You have the power to make or break men's dreams,
implore you -- I implore you to give this element of the
plan the consideration that it deserves.
Thank you.
MR. OLLIFF~ Mr. Chairman, I'm assuming that at the
conclusion of those registered public speakers, that I will
take an opportunity and -- because there are only two Board
hearings to go through, at least the items ti, at I've got
listed, and I kn~.,' some of you have items listed as well.
And maybe you can provide some direction to us.
COM~IISSIOBER SAUNDERSs Mr. Chairman.
CHAIRMAN HASSEs }ir. Saunders.
COMMISSIONER SAUNDERS~ I ]~ve made a list of what I
perceive to be some fairly major issues that have been
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addressed by a lot of people. But at the same time, I think
they -- if we make some changes, ! don't think they will in
effect water down the ordinance.
I would like to go through these. I think in order
for this hearing to have been a successful one, I think we
need to leave our staff with some direction based on what
we've heard.
With the pleasure of the Board, I'll go through what
I think are some issues, and perhaps get some consensus on
them, if there is a consensus then our staff the draft
appropriate language and present it to us at our next public
hearing.
CilAIRMAR HASSEs I would think that if any of us hay,
additional things to list, submit it to the staff in writing
afterwards also. ! sou no reason why that couldn't be done.
COKlqISSIONER SAUUDERS~ If you're sugf~esting during
the week we submit written requests to our staff
individually to change the ordinance.
CHAIRMAN HASSE~ The way I'm looking at it, ! don't
see anything wrong with that. Okay. Go ahead. Because a
lot of things have been presented here that are on tape now,
that the staff might pick up on that in addition to what
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you'rn doing.
COH~4ISSION£R SAU}~£RS~
here at a public hea~in~.
VIC£-CHAIRMAH VOLPE~
I would rather give you mine
Before you do chat,
Commissioner Saunders. Are you -- first are you Just going
to identify the areas, is that what you're going to try to
do, the areas that have been addressed by the various
speakers?
COM]qISSIOIIER SAU}~ERS: It probably won't take two
minutes to Uo thzouuh tide entire list.
VICE-CHAIRIqAN VOLPE~ Just trying to understand what
it was that you're going to try to do.
COI~.IS$IOB£R 5AU~ERSs What I'd like to do is go
through the six or seven that I've got listed here.
there'~ a con~ensu~ on them, then perhaps we could direct
staff to do something. If tho Commissioners have some
additional ones, we'II get on to those.
One on the question of the vesting prcx:edure. I
would like some analysis from our county attorney on whethez
we should have a vesting procedure in this. Again, not to
open this ordinance or to water it dc~n, but Just to
recognize constitutionally vested rights.
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Second, on the standards for the ASI~s, Section
7.4.2. I think there were very good points made as to the
Some of the ordinances that I have reviewed, do have
some type of standard. Our ordinance simply says that the
committee will make a determination or staff will make a
determination of what the ASI is~ they will present it to
county co.~,ission~ at a public hearing, wil! determine an
ASI.
! think it would be appropriate for us to at least
have some options on what other counties have done in terms
of ha¥in~7 some specific language. One, for example, was the
roadway oeilmunt one quarter mile on each end and one quarter
mile on either side of it. Just that type
~hink wu n~ e~o s~andardo.
Tho m~tb~ology of dote~lning the duration of the
certificate of p~lic facilities. I think the --we were
preaented with s~e language that is conalaten~ ~lth what
tho county ~nager has suggested in te~s of a
a sliding acale. I think t~t language is ve~ g~.
~ould like to see the staff expand on t~t and perhaps place
s~e kind of a ~cale on there.
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MR. DORRILL; One,
CO;4MISSlOI~ER SAUNDERS;
any particular nu~er.
~. ~RRILL; You're saying revi~
CO~ISSIO}IER SAU~ERS~ That'~ what wa~ s~mftt~ to
u~. I like the concept -- if the entire C~ission likes
the concept, then staff would have the direction to proceed
with that.
~e language suggested by one attorney in reference
to 8.3.3 dcaling with tho agre~ents with the county.
language se~ to pr~ide -- I kn~ there was
discussion with C~issionor Volpe on that. But that
language se~ to m~ to simply pr~ide s~e additional
flexibility ~ithout ~king any additional r~uir~ents on
tbs c~nty, but pr~id~ s~e flexibility. I thought that
that would bo appr~rlato to consider that. That was a
~ndout by Mr. Varnad~.
Pa~ent of impact fees up front.
solve the probl~s that Mr. ~lntosh so el~ently
discussed, the probl~ with having to pay a largo fee up
front. Perhaps there is something we can do with the
s~ f]exibility in deto~ining when the impact fees are
three, five?
I'm not prepared to recommend
This ~ay very well
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actually going to be paid.
VICE-CHAIPJ4AJI VOr~PE~ You're not suggesting that
approach. It see~s to me there was s~e sugge~ion abou~
paying it like an assessment. And is that the idea? Tha~
if it's $3,000.00 a~ y~ advertise it ~er a perl~ of
ti~e? ~t's the impression that I was left with.
CO~4ISSIO)~ER SAU)~ERS~ I think in our regular road
impact fee ordinance -- Hr. ~yler, correct me if I'm wrong
this -- there is s~e flexibility pr~ided right n~ for
pr~erty ~ners to pay at certain stages of the d~elo~ent
pr~ess up to and including actually paying at the point of
issuance of the building pe~it.
Is that correct, ~r. Cuyler? ~ if t~t is correct,
what I'm suggesting is that we sh~ld ~ve the same
flexibility in our ad~uate p~ltc facilities ordinance.
MR. ~YDER~ Yes, that's a correct stat~ent.
~R. ~ERRIL:,~ You're saying a lot -- ~ust ~ve the
i~act fees paid at building pe~it, then. Because that's
what ~ould happen.
CO~ISSIO~IER SAU~ERS~ Just to pr~ide that
flexibility. I think that -- that would be consist~t with
what we ~ve been doing.
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VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs
~R. OLLIFFI
regard. As I can,
I'm not sure I understand that.
I've got a little concern in that
I'll Jump in here.
But I think on that one Issue, I think the reason
that we put the payment of the impact fee where we have is
simply so we don't have p~ople without any consequence
Getting certificates and reserving that capacity with no
other intent to develop.
We tried to make sure there ts some aho~ that there
ioa serious intention to actually develop and use that
capacity that they're getting a certificate for.
VICE-CHAIR~tAN VOLPEs If ! could Just interrupt.
I didn't see it moving it from when you get your
certificate to getting your building permit. ! saw if you
have to 'up front' that ~oney all at one time~ when you get
your certificate.
You've got the single-family o~ner who wants to
build, and he'L got to pay a number of fees. And it's a
$3,600. Is there a way that he can pay, you kno~, that
graduated payment? That's what ! thought. ! was looking at
it like an assessment. If you pay a third, a third, a
third, still sho~ the good faith~ but rather than not
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putting it up all at one time, Just to give some economic
relief.
I don't know how you do that, but ! have the same
reservations that were e~ressed.
COF2WISSIONER SAUNDERS~ Perhaps -- in terms of what
I'm trying to do here, perhaps we can have our staff c~e
back to us with s~e ~tiona that we might discuss aL the
next public hearing. But I would like s~e ~lexibility in
=he pa~unc of ~he impact fees, esp~cially as
che singlo-family h~o ~er who lo buildin~ a h~e tor his
~n ~cupancy.
~ore was
8.2.1.4 concernin~ -- =he reference was made ~o Section
380.06.15. I can~ read ~ writing.
MR. MERRILLs W~at page was tha=~
VICE-~AI$~AN VOLPEs Just ~yin~ ~ha~ pr~ision in=o
380.
~4R. MERRILL~ That's the DRI.
VICE-CHAI RMAR VOI~PE s Right.
COMMISSIOI~ER SAUNDERSs And th~n there was also, in
reference to that, a question concerning whether It was an
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internal change or external change with reference to the
DR! ' s.
We probably ought to say what we're dealing with in
this section, even if it's not clear of w~= -- ~en ~hough
~he statu=e ~y no~ bu clear, ~hy don~ we go ahead.
~. MERRIDL~ ~e definition of s~s~antial change.
CO~ISSIONER SAUntERS ~ Yeah.
Okay. ~=~s ~ list of conditions. I think if we
deal with tbo~, we~ve addreus~
us ~onight.
~AI~N HASSE~ S~eral of th~ are what I ~ve ~d
d~ here already.
Do y~ want to go on?
VICE-CHAI~H VO~PE~ No, tha~*s fine. I ~hink wa'Il
ask our staff to c~o back with infor~[ion
alternatives in those area.
CHAIRMAN H;.SSE ~
important.
MR. DORR!LL ~
The vesting rights is very
There was considerable discussion about
private oector incentives. And ! don't kno~ that you
addressed that specifically in those six points, Burr, but
certainly private sector incentive came up several times
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COKHISSIO$~ER SAUt~DERSs ! think in the language Hr.
Varnadoe presented to us in Section $.3.3.
COHMISSIONER SHENAHANs But that was, I thought,
strictly with a development agreement.
CO~IHISSIOI;ER SAUNDERS s
CO~ISSIOtI£R SHE}IAHAN ~
~t was.
Z think there is another very
important consideration, and that is private sector maybe
helping on the southern section of 951, as an example. So
it excludes and needs to be looked at more in detail. As an
ad on.
CHAIRHAI! HASSEs I can see that, too. But I'd like
to address the one thing in the regard to the single-family
ho~e right now here.
I can oeo the impact on them people o~ning the land
already and suddenly finding out -- his road is adequate! ir.
front of his ho~e, leading away in his home, a mile in
either directica, what do we do with that person?
I think it was -- Hr. Reiley was the person talking
about that. Basically, do we deprive him the right to uso
that land to build for any reason?
HR. HERRILI~s ~ell, if there is no -- if there are nc
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facilities to serve that development and they are facilities
that are required under your capital improvements element.
I wouldn't say deprive, but his rights are definitely put on
hold.
CHAIRMAN HASSE~ Well.
MR. MERRILL~ And that's what concurrency requires.
CHAIRMAtl HASSE= There are many people who live on a
road that's paved and the land is theirs, and there no
facilities for water or sewer and you can't get them there.
HR. M£RRII, I~ We provide for that because in the
ordinance during the Planning Co~umission stages, we a
~odified the ordinance to allow for facilities for private
sower and water. And that would meet tho concurrency
requirm~ent, as long as they meet the standazds in the
ordinance for private facilities.
CHAIRI4AH }lASSEs I }est didnet want thom shuttled
off. I mean there was a lot o! talk about the DRI's and so
much addini/ to the road systems and ao on. I didn't want
these individuals shuttled aside because of that, and I
think it's important that theyere not.
VICE-CHAIRMAN ¥OLPEs Well, your answer was with
respect to water and se~er, but it's not as it relates to
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the transportation network.
HR. MERRILLs With the roads,
everyone el~e.
VICE-CIIAIRHANVOLPE~
here.
14R, H£RR[LL~ So are DR['s.
there in it with
That's what I'm hearing over
A bunch o~ single family
-- a whole lot of single families could come in separately
and they could knock out a DRI's before it gets approved,
get -- knock that out of there as well. It can go both
WayS.
Obviously, the one that sounds so terx'ible is the DRI
thac comes in for five hundred units and takes all the
capacity on that road so that the one single-family home
o~ner that remains on that road can no longer develop on
that road un:il the facility is brought up to standards.
That's the one -- you kno~, that sounds and is -- is a
difficult situation.
But that is what is required under concurrency. ~er
you no longer have the facility, and it may be a road
facility, it's the difficult issue. And that's what 9H-5 --
HR. OLLIFF~ Let mo address it as much as ! can.
At least as -- you'll remember the process works as
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that when the facilities are adequate, then they are
adequate for everybody for the rest of the year. So
everyone can come in and continue to pull them whether
they're large developments or single family.
Then the next scenario is then when you reach a
potentially deficient area where you've got a limited
number, and in that ca~e the Planning Commigsion has given
us reco~endation to put a percentage for that small family
developer out of what's left,
So regardless of how many big developers come, we are
going to have a percentage get aside.
CHAIR/dA~ tlASSEs ~fhat wa~ that again? I never heard
that.
MR. OLI, IFFs When we get into the situation where
you're on a -- 0o if we're on a potentially deficient
roadway and we have to develop that ASI boundary where we
limit the number ¢.,f building permits that are left to be
issued, the Planning Cc,,-.~ission has recommended that we take
-- and tn fact, it was based on Mr. ~:clntosh's presentation
at the Planning Commission public mooting! it wa9 a good
idea -- that we take a percentage of what's available and we
set that aside.
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And now we've got the difficult Job of trying to draw
up some language that decides what is a small single-family
home developer. But, you kno~, thatts ~he in~en~ and
~ha~s our ~. I~11 bring =ha~ language back ~o
Planning C~lsolon next hearing.
~. KEG~ERs Right n~, ~ithouC this thing, ~hen you
pull a building pe~it, you pay impact fees. N~ are you --
CO~IIg~IOIIER ~AUNDERg~ Hr. Keller, can you
t~ar~ ~he microphone?
~. KEL~ERs Are y~ suggesting n~ C~ if you want
a certi~tcate of ad~uacy that all of these DRZ's, tf they
want a certificate o~ ad~uacy and they ~ant to renege
that, that tbs're going to ~ave to ~rch in here and pay
you on five hu~red unite that they expect to build ahead
ti~e? Ia t~t tho ~ay it's going to be7
OIAI~I VOLPEI ~t~e right.
fiR. DORRILI,~ Yes.
MR. KELLER~ ~*lell, that's wonderfull because that's
going stop people from getting DRI's or anything else unless
they pay up front, and if they pay up front you'll have the
money to put the roads in.
NR. NERRILL~ That's right.
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CHAI R{4~{ HASSE {
l~rs. --
question?
COMIilS$ION£R GOODNIGHT =
completely understanding something.
That was the purpose of that.
Coc~issioner Ooodnight, you want to
Mr. Olliff, !'m not
I~R. OLLIFFs t~ell, let me finish it. ! didn't get
the last scenario. The last scenario is moratorium, and
moratorium affects everyone.
COF~4ISSIONER GOOONIGHTs Including ~'xI?
MR. OLLIFFs Except DRIo
CO[~4ISSIOHER GOODNIGHTs Then let me ask a question.
If there are only so many certificates that can be
issued and the DRI comes in after the nu~er of certificatel
are issued to get w~t~er th~'re wanting, are we going to
deny tb~ that?
~. OLLIFFs No. Tho ordinance, in fact,
cont~plates t:ae DRI's and their ex~ptiona and tries to
anticipate what are typical DRI d~elo~ent rates within
that area.
CO~ISSIOIIER ~DNIG}ITs ~on why are we going to
consider the DRI's in there anyh~?
Are we going to say that we've got a certai~, nu~er
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of certificates and if a DRI's comes in and gets that number
of certificates, then that single-family ho~e owner or
potential single-family home owner won't be able to get any,
then still that DR! can como in there and get more?
So I mean, wh~, are we -- why don't we ~ust exempt the
DRI's c~letely fr~ those n~er of certificates?
HR. OLLIFF~ Yeah. I don't kn~ that the DRI will be
-- to require pull certificates in certain areas.
CO~ISZXONER ~DNIGHT~ Well, ii thc're not, then
what we've been discussing here is no~hing.
HR. OLLIFF~ ~ell, y~'rc discussing
sinolo-family h~o versus tho largo pro, oct.
CO~ISSIONER ~DNIGIIT~ No, we were discussing
single-family h~oo versus ~ho DRI's, and s~eone said that
the DRI'o would got all of tho certificates and
single-family h~o ~ners wouldn't.
But ti the DRI's aren't classified in there, then
we're not worried about the DRI.
HR. OLLIFF: The s~e probl~ with the large
develo~ent of s~en hundred units t~t's not a DRI, and
the same ability to c~e in and pull all el the permits tha~
re~in. And It's tho same issue, that y~ need to have
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sort of set aside to protect.
COM~4ISSIONER GOODNIGHT~ That's fine, as long as
you're not talking about the PRl's that were permitted
before the date.
MR. OLLIFF~ This Board and staff and everyone else I
think agrees that DRI's are exempt, are exempt, are exempt.
HR. PERRY: I was going to add that the DRI's issued
prior to this Growth Management Plan, ! guess, not the
ordinance but the Growth Management Plan, are exempt from
the certificate pro, ess as well. They don't have to come in
and get certificates. They can obtain their building
permits or subdivision plats or whatever through the
process.
Those n~w PRI's, ! believe it's Board direction that
all nc~ DRI's will bo under the concurrency mandate.
COMMISSIONER GOODNIGIITs Right. They're going to the
the same as the single-family home owner then. I mean
they're only going to be able to draw the number of
certificates that anybody else could draw, and if there is
~oratorium, then nobcxty gets them.
MR. PERRY.' The n~w DRI'a.
COM~IISSIONER GOODNIGHT~ Right.
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fiR. PERRY: That' s correct.
COMMISSIONER GOODNIGHT: Because all of the new
DRI's, the Board has seen that they will comply under
concurrency and that's part of the development order.
MR. PERRY~ ~a~'0 correct.
CO~ISSIONER ~DNIGIITs Okay. Bu~ I don~ ~htnk --
because I didn't understand it, and I don'~ ~htnk ~he p~lic
was und~rsCanding it, ~hat tho DRI's that are not going --
that t~ ex~t~, wer~ going to c~e in a~ pick up all the
certificates. And that's the way that I th:~k the public
understood it.
MR. PERRY:
T"he¥ don't pick up the cezttficates, but
they do have an impact on the available capacity that's le~!
in a particular area.
We program our roadway improvements to account for
all devolopmont~ Commercial and residential! DRI, non-DRl.
We anticipate how much traffic growth is going to be
occurring over thc next couple of years.
If there is a DRI in the area, if we establish an
area of significant Influence and say that there are some
two trips left off the road, and we know that there's a DRX
in that area that is going to contribute over the next year
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a certain number o! trips, we do have to take that into
consideration, which leaves a little bit -- we would take
off a little bit for tho DRI, and what's left is what can be
distributed or a11ccaced to whoever c~es in, who is
required to c~e tn for a cer~ificate.
VlCE-C~I~ VOLPE~ I think what Hr. Olliff said
was ~hat in t~t scenario~ then the Planning Co~,ission has
rec~ended that there bo s~e set aside for the
~ingle-family resident.
MR. PERRY: ~at*s correct.
VICE-CHAI~N VO~PE: But confining it to the
individual pr~erty ~er, ~ingle ~nership or s~ething
liko that, h~over you define it.
HR. OLLIFF: ~ose one hundred, two hundred guys,
who~or ~h~ ars.
VICE-C~I~ VO~PE: ~e ~ve to fi~ ~t who they
ar~.
CO~ISSIONZ~ ~D~IlGHT: But ~ait a minute, ~ike.
You can't do it that way because ~en ii -- if that's the
way you*re going to do it, ~en if t~t DRI wanted to have
~re, they can still get ~re.
MR. OLLIFF: Yes, they can.
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CO}~ISSIONER GOODNIGHTI So no matter ho~ many we set
aside for single-family he. es, if that DRI came in and asked
for =ore building permits, then we've got to give them to
them.
by
HR.
HR.
think that they would be restricted
COMHISSIONER GOODNIGHTs So that scenario is not
going to work, one way or the other.
~R. HERRILbs I think we've got to understand that
the ~ore that we vest and the more that we exempt, tho more
your capacity is automatically up front taken up, and so
you're going to have less to give away. So the more your
exemption -- the moro exemptions you give, the more -- the
leso capacity you have available to allocate to --
CtlAIRHAH HASSEs Single family.
fiR. HERRILL~ Or -- no.
COH~ilSSIONER GOODNIGHTs
And ne~ DRI's and PUD.
I'm not talking about
exempting anybody. I'm talking about those that are
exempted that we don't have anything to do with.
HR. HERRILL~ Right. That's what I'm saying.
already[
Those
people have to all be put into the system that Jeff has, hag
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developed.
MR. OLLIFFI You have to remember, tool we're doing
this at a once-a-year ~valuation time, so we figure out
what's left at that point. Then if there are a thousand
left -- a DR! co~es in through that year and they want to
pull fifteen hundred.
COMMISSIONER GOODNIGHT~ I'm not worried ~out that
part -- time. I worri~ ~out the part when %~e say t~t
wu'ye only got as ~ny units and the road is a critical
concern and we're watching it and we're saying that there's
only as ~ny ~re certificates that can bo issued, but if
there is a PRI tn that area that was co~..itt~ before 1988,
or what.er tho date was, then they're still going to be
entitled to h~ ~ny ~er certificates th~ want and no
~ttor h~ ~ny single-family h~e ~ers certificates t~t
w~ set to the oido, we have still got to give that DRI all
the certificates or building pe~ita they they want.
MR. OLLiFF= ~at's underst~. I think that tho
ordinance cont~lates t~t DRI's can c~e in and they can
d~el~ as much aa th~ can d~elop In a year or as little
as they want to develop in a year. They're basically
ex.pt.
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COMMISSIONER GOODNIGHT: Then can we still hold out a
certain number of certificates for single-family homes7
MR. OLLIFF~ Yes.
COH~4ISSIONER GOODNIGHT~ Regardless of what the
service levc! of the road is?
MR. OLLIFF= Yes. We're doing that once a year.
MR. DORRILLz Tom, no~ I*m confused. I thought that
DR! was totally exempt, that hels in the ci~'zle. If he's ir
the circle and he takes up all of the road space, all the
water space, he takes up all of the whatever space is there
and there isn't any left, then the single-family home
doesn't have an opportunity to cc~e in.
HR. O6LIFF= He still has the opportunity.
Because
the way this is set up, annually if I come in and there are
a hundred permits left to issue. Okay? ! have already
assumed that -- ! have given a certain portion before I got
do~n to a hundred, trying to figure out how much the DRI's
in that area generally development. So I've already set
aside for the~ up front before I said there"s a hundred
left.
MR. DORRILL~ So hems exe~pt and he~s going to have
whatever he needs, and we're still going to have some left
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for single-family because you've set them aside.
HR. OLLIFFs Yes.
VICE-CHAIRMAtl VOLPEI I think what you're saying,
it's a planning process. We're continuing moving forward in
the process. I mean there may be X number of certificates
today, but what we're planning -- ! mean the numbers are.
We're going to keep buying more chairs.
In other words, we're buying ~ore chaira.
what wu're saying?
gay.
Isn't that
OIAIRKAH HASSEI Let's hear what the gentleman has to
MR. REILEYs Again, my name is Ken Reiley.
Tho problem, as I see it, is that you're not going
have -- if you sit there and exempt the Golden Gate Estates.
There are lots that have been developed on Marco Island.
You're not going to have twenty thousand people coming in in
a year trying to get a building permit.
You're going to have the normal flow of people that
are building in that area. And so that the definition of a
final local development order tor tho fear of all of these
lots out there ia the criteria for basing a final local
development order ia not really a valid fear with all tho
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stuff in Golden Gate Estates with developed lots are going
to be coming onto the market and with traffic counts and
number of people and et cetera.
So the definition of a final local development order
being so rigid to be a building permit so you can sit there
and exempt the developed platted single-family lot is not
going to sit here and adversely affect it. Now, it may sit
there and keep because you do have it lot new development,
the guy coming in --
VICE-CHAIRKAN VOLPEs I see that as a different
issue, Nr. Reilw/. I see tho issue that we're talking about
is an issue about what Hr. 14.clntosh --
~E COURTI Could we please not ~ve the talking and
whisperino. ~e'ro tryln~ to conduct a meetinG.
hero,
Hr. Reynolds.
}/R. REI LE~':
~e're trying to conduct a meeting
Because the county and st&if is sitting
there saying that if a level of road service on lmmokalee
Road or Airport Road is adversely afected aG it relates to a
DRI, that lot in Golden Gate Estate can be set down and you
cannot get a building permit,
VICE-CHAIRliAN VOLPEs No. We're going to aside a
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certain number of certificates for those people so that they
won't find themselves in that position.
MR. R£ILEY~ What I'm saying is that you can't do
that if a DRI is sitting in there and has got this permit.
Correct me if I'm wrong on that ordinance, but you can't set
me and a DRI comus in and certain allocation, and sit there
and Just arbitrarily say here's two hundred units of
single-family.
CHAIRMAN HASSE~ Mr. Olltff, can you respond to
that? That's an interesting question.
MR. OLLIFF~ I think it's the same issue that we Just
covered, and I think the anower is yes, we can. We can set
aside for single-family, regardless of DRI development.
MR. MERRILLI One other thing one thing we have to
re~c~er is that DRI's are oingle family too. What we're
really talking about is not single-family versus DRIp we're
talking about DRI single-family versus non-DRI
single-family.
So we aren't -- it's a preference again, as I was
trying to relate in my -- the musical chairs thing, it is
competition among the development that is either out there
or that will be out there. And it's going to be -- it can
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be shifted back and forth. And it so happens that the state
statute particularly favors final local development orders
that are vested and DRI's that are vested.
And that's really where it shift has occurred.
HR. REILEYs But tho question is that the final local
development order, if your fear is the effect of all these
number of 1eta in Golden Gate Estates or Marco Island or et
cetera, that their reason for defining a fi~,al local
development order as being a building permit, I'm saying
that's restricted because you're not going to have that
number of people coming onto the marketplace in Golden Gate
Estates, that you final local develop --
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs You say that, but the whole
idea of what we're talking about here is that we're trying
to plan, and we may not and we may have all come in. You're
saying not all twenty thousand are coming in at one time.
MR. REILEYt Right. And all I'm saying is that
you're not going to have -- if you broaden~ and again, the
attorneys can come up with the language. The language can
be changed as far as what a final local development order,
and you're not going to affect the platted, the lots that
are already developed out there because they're going to go
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in a normal course.
That's all.
CIIAIRMAN HASSE~ l, ot*s hope they work that way.
HR. OI, I~IFF~ The only other issue that we had that
waBn't -- unless Co~issioner Saunders has more on his list.
COMIdlSSIONER SAUNDERSs
ones that I raised?
CO~IItSIOt~R SHE~[AHAN s
Was there a consensus on the
thought I added private
sector incentive, and we added r. ingle-family homes.
HR. OLI, IFFs ! need a little better help on private
sector incentives. I'm not sure.
ti[AIRMAN HASSEt Well, you talked of percentages.
Whac percentages are we basically talking about?
Ut~ID£HTIFI~-Ds A hundred percent.
CHAIRHAN }lASSEs I understand what you're saying,
Oeroge0 but I'm not talking specifically Golden Gate Estate.
MR. OLI~IFFs I donet know the percentage. What I'm
trying to say ~s we have to go back and try -- we're going
to try to develop some rational reason for whatever
percentage we go como up with. And we'll have that in front
of the Planning Commission at their next hearing.
CHAIRMA}I [lASSEs I Just donet want to make sure it's
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not the big developer only who can build.
tO be sure Of.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPEs I guess the only other issue
that I can recall right no~ is this Issue about the appeal
process. And I kno~ that we did something on the workshop
and something else.
HR. DORRILLI
adequancy.
VICE-Ci~IRMANVO~PEs
That's all I want
I don't know.
You're talking again about public
That's all.
MR. DORRILLs We probably need to take another look
at that. Even though you say it doesn't make any
difference. It's all technical.
KR. ObLIFFs My recollection Is that the appeal
question that was raised dealt with the issue of vested
riqhts. We have to take a look at that.
CIiAIRMAD! HASSEs That's what you said, isn't it, Mr.
Saunders?
HR. DO~'RIbL~ Ia that it? We best have staff take a
look at that.
MR. OLLIFF~ The only other issue ! had was in terms
of those certificates. We talked about renewing those
certificates automatically in terms of paying and going and
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doing something in terms of that.
Just so the Commission understands, I think that kind
of concept is not within our Comprehensive Plan and would
require some sort of plan amendment. There in front of you
there -- there's the three year or the five year with a
rent, al. It's up to the Co~mission, but that would require
some kind of a Comprehensive Plan amendment.
If you want to see that kind of language, we can
draft that for you maybe on the side, and then you can look
at it next time we come back come back.
¥ICE-CliAIRMAN VOI, PEs You're Just saying -- we're
atill going to need a Co~prehensive Plan amendment.
~tR. OLLIFFs If youtre going to talk about automatic
renc~als that pay their fair share concept. That's not
currently allo~ed within our Comprehensive. ~
COH~.IS$IOI~ER SAUtlDERSs t~hy don't you sho~ us what
that would look like.
CHAIRHAN HASSE-- No~, what are we going to move
forward on?
liR. DORRXL~s Take a five minute break?
CHAIRMAt{ HASSE~ Do you want?
VICE-CitAIRHAN VOLPE~ Please, can we take a five
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minute break,
CHAI~4AN HASSE~ All right. Letts go to quarter of.
it/hereupon, a brief recess was had.)
THE COURT~ t/e have a quoru~ no~. Hr. 011iff. Let's:
go.
HR, OLLIFF~
overvie~ of the ordinance,
CHAIRI4Atl HASSE~ Back there.
guess. ¥ou tro always talking,
O~IIDENTIFIED~ I*m listening.
Mr. Chairman, we have give a brief
Hr. Reynolds again, I
VICE-CIlAIP~'J~ VOLPEs Hero quietly, then.
HR. ObblFFs Bob, do you want to go ahead and do that
overview?
liR. BbAtlCt~RDs O~ ~ening, C~issioners. I'm B~
Blanchard fr~ tho Gr~th Planning D~a~tmen[. I don*[ kn~
about you a11, but I~m having de~a vu back ~out i~rteen
~nths. But I c~ ~ at midnight at t~[ hearing, so
doing a little bit better.
~at I'd like to do tonight, and I'll t~ to keep
brief, although it's lm~rtant, I think, that ~e be r~ind~
~hy ~e're doing zonin~ reevaluation~ and if you'll bear
~e, ~hat I'd like to do is first of all revi~hy ~e are
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doinq Chin, discuss aoma of the rm~aining issues, and unless
there's questions on it, I don't intend to review the
VICE-~AIR~ VOLPE~ I was ~oin~ ~o say we kn~ why
y~'re doin~ th~. I m~an.
MR. BL~A~ I th~nk ~t's important to ~e rem~nded
of a~ of the ls0ueo.
CHAI~H HASSE: No. I think you ought to.
~. BLAH~RD~ And I don't ~n~end to d~scuss the
process unless there is a ~r~ura1 question. I passed
a fl~ chart in case you don't have the praises ones.
also pertains to this graphic behind mo.
VICE-CHAZ~N VOhPEz Mr. B1anchard, is there any
change in tho process?
workshop?
MR. BI~ANCHARD s
From what we had look at during our
That's correct.
There's no change.
When wo ~ere preparing the growth management plan,
one of the things that came to light was the amount of
zoning that we had in this county. At the time, if we deal
with commercial zoning, in 1987 we talked of figures of
about four thousand four hundred acres of total commercial
zoning of which about eleven hundred were developed for a
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total of a little over five million square feet.
Since that time, our 1989 figures, we no~ have
forty-six hundred acres of zoning with about twelve hundred
developed or about six million two hundred thousand square
feet.
If you wall, the consultants who prepared our
marketing and commercial land use study estimated that we
would need only need about two thousand acres by the year
2005. In addition to the commercial, we had approximately
fifty-two thousand dwelling units on the ground in 1986, and
about a hundred and twenty thousand dwelling units that had
been zoned for but unbuilt at that time.
~hen we updated the figures in 1989, we no~ have
so~c~horo a little over seventy-seven thousand dwelling
units on tho grounds in the urban area with about a hundred
and thirty-six thousand zoned and unbuilt.
The amount of zoning that we have on the ground
creates a major burden on the county when it comes time to
determine ho~ best to spend public monies in order to
provide for public facilities. The major issues are it's
very difficult to determine where tho next development ia
going to occur and when it*s going occur. So based on that
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type of a concern, we developed the ideas of a zoning
reevaluation program which was subsequently adopted in the
plan.
In August of last year in response to the Board's
request to accelerate the preparation of the Zoning
Reevaluation Ordinance, we developed the first developed the
first draft, and we kno~ about public workshop that we had
and the fact that what we got was probably about the
stringent ordinance that we could have and still be
defensible order case law. Six drafts later, we're where w~
are tonight.
The first draft, as I said, was the most strict~ the
current draft, thoro bays boon ma~or changeB from that
initial draft resulting from input from a coalition of the
dr:volol~.nt cc~,munity, financial community and busineoo
community ao well as the tentative changes that you have
before you from the Planning Commission, so what we're
starting from tonight with hearings before the Board is a
negotiated ordinance.
An ! mentioned, tb~ro ban boon no change procedurally
from tho first. Tho ma~or change -- at least from the
workshop, ! should say, there has been no change
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procedurally, t4a~or change to the ordinances as we have
done through the difference drafts have como in the form of
'up front' exemptions~ exemptions that would not be subject
to actual zoning reevaluation.
Exe~ptions began as a recognition that there are
properties and projects out there where -- whose location or
process In the development review process, location in the
development rovie~ process ~ade it obvious that the existing
zoning should be retained, that it would be ridiculous to
suggest that they comply with on your future lands use map,
Exe~ptions today have ~volved in the draft before you
to a review of what level of the development review process
should exempt thom from application a bonafide zoning
reevaluation.
Other sm~or changes that have occurred as we have
gone through this process are in the deftnttions~
specifically for final local development order, lL~s now
the same as w~.aL is proceeded in the concurrency ordinance.
Also in the defini:ion of improved property, which ! will
discuss under one of the major isues.
~4anager discussed a couple -- two of what ! would
like to mention as the remaining major issues. The first
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one, in Section 2.4.2 on page ten of the draft ordinance, is
an exe~ption for application for certain development orders
that have been approved prior to January 10th of this year.
CHAIRMAN flASSE~ What did you say, page four.
14R. SPEAICER~ Page ten. Section 2.4.4.
~O~at this says says is that if you have applied for a
final plat, final subdivision master plan or site
development plan prior to January loth that ycru~re exempt
provided you go forward and actually get that approval and
proceed with development.
Coc~nents on this particular exemption have centered
around whether we should retain that date or move it back to
the effective date of the ordinance which currently is April
1. This is probably tho most liberal of the six exemptions
that we have in this document.
The date was selected, if we proceed with this
exemption, because it ia one year from adoption of the
Ore, th l~anager~ent Plan, so any reevaluation and the effects
of -- it ts not a ne~ concept. It was developed early in
the process for tho Clro~th ltanagement Plan, It was mentioned
earlier tonight that people knew that this was coming.
January 10th to a year from the adoption date. It alas
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represents a date which under the current procedures that we
could reasonably expect that, if you applied for a final
development plan, that it be could be processed and
co~pletcd by April 1st date.
A coc~si son between those two dates, and what I have
to do is quali~ this very much because we don't know
whether these applications are consistent with the Orowth
~tanagement Plan or not. Currently in the development
services there's twenty-one petitions that will filed prior
to January 10. These represent somewhere along the order of
five hundred and thirty dwelling units or sixty-two thousand
square feet of cou~uercia! space. Since --
CHAIRI4AN HASSEs How many was that7
MR. BI'F~KRR! ¥1ve hundred and thirty dwelling unite
and over sixty-two thousand in square feet in conmercia!
apace. Again it's qua]ifiedi -- I'm using this for
comparison purposes.
After J.'~nuary 10th, we now have forty-eight petitions
that have filed effective ! believe it was Monday when we
got this information, and those represent approximately two
thousand dwelling units, seven hundred and seventy-five
square feet of commercial space. So that's the difference
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of -- it could be up to that amount that we're talking about
by expending the date if the Board chooses to do that. In
this particular case, the staff is recon~ending that the
date be retained in this particular exemption.
The second definition is of improved protert¥,
Section 4.11 on page seventeen. This is a major change that
resulted from the last Planning Commission hearing and is
noted on the change sheets that were provided along with the
ordinance. You*re going to have to have to use the
ordinance in combination with the change sheets, the eight
and a half by eleven sheets that were provided with you
also.
The previous definition for improved property was
basically a lot on which there had been con~nencement of
construction. Commencement of construction means that there
ia a substantial infrastructure that has been built or any
construction requiring a building permit. So a lot with
ccr~mence~ent of constructin and substantial construction of
building have been completed.
Plannin~ Cocniosion suggestion, although not
necessarily a final recommendation yet until their final
hearing, is that you included language at the end of phrase
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that says that it includes a unified plan of development on
which there has been commenc~ent of construction.
Aa the langua~le 1o proposed,
that should be included in there.
the staff dloagrees that
What it means is that if
you -- we recognize the concept of unified plan of
development and we have allo~ed for that in our definition
section and vested rights determination compatibility
ox. ception sections but that the ne~w language would basically
state that if you had a unified plan, a PUD, on which there
had been any construction started that required a building
permit, the entire PUD would be exampt.
~anager noted that there is probably some language
that could como would up since we do recognize unified
planninil of development that if it referred to substantial
building, substantial construction within that PUD that tha
would be acceptable to the staff. We have not developed
that language, but ! think that tho concept ia there and
that we --
CHtI RI~! HASSE:
substantial means.
HR. BLANC[lARDs
You haven't stipulated what
No, we haven't.
There has been a lot
of discussion about that.
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There has been discussion in the past about whether
we put specific criteria in an ordinance or whether we rely
on substantial. It will be a staff determination and it
would a relative test depending on tho size of the pro~ect,
CHAIRRA~ HASSEs Yeah, but you leave it wide open.
NR. BLAI~CHARDs
definition.
VICE-CHAIRHANVOLPEs
It is in the ordinance. There's no
No definition of substantial.
unified plan of developmcnt?
MR. BLA}ICHARDs
The third ~a~or
the idea of a develoi~ent agreements.
ooze mention of this concept tonight.
Correct.
Is there a definition for
Yes, there is. Section Four.
issue that you ! want to present is
! think you will heal
The way that it has been presented in ordinance
the section 10.6.1.8 on page thirty-one. The use of the
development agreements in the ordinance ia tied directly
into a determination of compatibility exception. The way
that it's been presented in some of the testimony that we
have heard is the desire to uso develop agreements as away
to develop at a lover density or intensity that is still
is in'
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inconsistent with the plan.
We have not responded directly to the previous
coc~ents or testimony that we have had. There have been a
couple of issues that our attorneys office has been lookinil
that I feel have been anm~ered.
The first one lss Does the require a special
ordinance in order for the county to complete a development
aOreoment with another party, l~e have been told that it
should bo a local ordinance and there i0 one that i0 being
drafted right no~. /lo a local ordinance to a11o~ us to do
develolment agreements will be following on.
The second issue, which was ~ore major, was i Do
development agreements have to be consistent with the plan.
And it's been determined -- I believe the statutes state
that they do have to be consistent with the plan, and so we
can only enter into development agreements if indeed they
are consistent with the future land use element as it may be
amended at so~a time, but it has to be consistent with the
future land use element.
So ! feel that tho questions have been answered as
far as development agreements, and we will try to respond to
those if we hear them tonight, but I believe the way it's
structured with some ~ossible minor changes in the language
in the existing ordinance is probably adequate.
While concurrency is -- I'm going do a very quick
summary. ! have some graphics to ho~ you.
While concurrency is a state mandated program zoning
reeveluation was developc~l specifically for Collier County.
In fact, as you recall, it was probably the major issue in
the final settlement agreement that we had with DCA. I
passed out for ~voryone, and thc-y were some available prior
to the start of the hearing tonight, a package of three
s~ll graphics in order for you to refer to as I used big
ones,
What ! want to do is basically graphically represent
for you w~at tho existing ordinance that is before you
tonight basically moans to tho county in terms of it's a
relative test as to what it means in one case for the entir~
area of the costal urban area, as well as some other
graphics that = have that try to relate it to residential
units that have been approved as well as commercial acreage.
What this graphic hero is represents -- and again we
have to qualify it. We have concentrated on tho costal
urban area because we are developing an Immokalee master
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plan, and tbs zoning out in Immokalee will be addressed
dressed at the time the master plan is adopted.
So this represents tho costal urban area which
includes about eighty-five thousand acres. ~O~at this sho~s
in the white area is the area that is undeveloped right no~,
and unzoned, currently zoned A-2, about thirty-two thousand
f ire hundred.
The yellow pieces show an estimate of existing
residential development of about twenty-eight thousand
acres. Residential developments where the density can be
determined to be consistent with the growth Kanagement Plan,
and these include the exemptions for DRI's that exist in the
zoning reevaluation ordinance, of approximately sixteen
thousand eight hundred d~elling units.
~hat we have in the cross patched area o! the blue --
VICE-CHAIRNAN VOI, PEI Is that or cheelling units
acres.
HR. BL]IICIIARDg Acres. We're dealino in acres,
VICE-CHAIRNANVOLPE~ ! think you said cheellingso
NR, BLANCHARDs Z*m sorry. Acres.
In the cross patched blue area i8 the remaining
residential
acres in the costal area that is subject to
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zoning reevaluation.
acres.
About three thousand seven hundred
On the red piece over here, we have the developed
commercial acreage of a little over a thousand acres. Again
not including Ie~okaleel that*s the reason for the
difference between the numbers fro~ the start of the
presentation, A little over a thousand acres developed.
The cot~mercial that is coneiston~ wi~h the Gr~th ~nag~en~
Plan a~ includes DRI'I, c~rcial and DRI's, as well the
ones thaC we have d~o 'up front' ~ttons for
c~atibility on, includes about a th~sand eight hundred
acres, which leaves ab~t eight hundr~ a~ lofty acres of
C~ercial t~t is s~JecC to the additional ex.priori or
o~e fo~ of c~a~lblltty exception or vested right or
ulti~tely c~ngo t~t zoning.
~o w~t this piece of the
here represents tho acreage tn tho costal area t~C is going
~o be s~ect to revaluation.
VZCE-CHAI~VOLPE~ ~ich piece ts that again7
~. BL~C~s ~e one
stands out.
A~ain, t~t includes -- this ~=tion ~y ~et s~ller~
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in fact, as we go through the exemption process,
compatibility exception and vested rights determination.
VIC£-CHAIPJaAR VOLP£~ Hr. Blanchard, Just a question.
You've got the acres no~. Do you happen to know how
many acres are with DRI's of the sixteen thousand eight
hundred and thirty acres? It's not important -- ! Just
thought --
~aR. BLANCI{ARD: ~¢e can get it for you.
The next graphic which was also handed out represents
the residential zoning. Aoaln in ~ust the costal urban
area, doo, include I~rco l~la~. And ~hat this .h~. --
this one Is in dwelling units, so we can that. As it shes
tho oevonty-o~en thousa~ five hundred In tho blue area at
the bott~ aa being d~ol~ed right n~, this is wh~t in th~
coots1 area 1~ d~el~ed t~ay. ~e rest of the graph
represents the r~ining a hundred and thirty-slx thousand
that I alluded to that are zon~ and u~uilt. Of that,
approxi~tely a hu~red nineteen thousand four hundred
d,~elling units are zoned but u~uilt, consistent ~tth tho
Ore, th F~nag~ont Plan, lncl~os DRI'a, and represents t~t
-- the change in the r~ining t~t la inconsistent ~ith t~
plan, that ~ould bo lnclud~ In tho total nu~or of d~ellln.
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units once we reduced
process.
the density through the
reevaluation
~hat that does is at the top, we have calculated
there is a potential reduction through zoning reevaluation
of about seventeen thousand dwelling units. A Potential
reduction. So this graphic sho~s the commercial and
dwelling units.
VIC£-CIIAIRHA~ ¥O~PE: Sho~s the --
HR. BLA~ICHARDz l*m sorry. Residential and dwellin
units.
¥ICE-~IAIRII~! VOLI~: Okay. ! kno~ it's getting
late, but ! want you to kno~ that I'm paying attention.
Just as that It makes you feel good.
~IR. BLAIICiIARD: The last graphic is the commercial
zoning tn the urban area.
What I have sho~n hers la we have a little or a
thousand acres developed. We have about seventeen hundred
acres that are zoned but unbuilt that are consistent with
the Growth 14anagement Plan, it includes the commercial
that's within DRI's.
Thc next ama11 section is the commercial that have
been determined to be exempt under compatibility exceptions
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or determinations, which is one of the 'up front'
exemptions, of an additional hundred and fifty acres, and
then the acreage that may be subject to further reevaluation
is eight hundred and forty acres.
So this brings us up to a total of about thirty-seven
hundred acres in the costal urban area right no~.
q~o additional points that I want to make on this
graphic. One I did not sho~, but if you were to draw a line
right here, that represents the consultant's estimate of
what we need in terms of acreage by the year 2005.
Approximately two thousand acres. Cumulative acres is on
the right-hand side of your graph.
VIC£-~IAIR]iAN VODPEs I don't -- could you explain
that again to mo again?
~R. D~,f,~I~IARDs Hell, tho consultant that prepared
the commercial land use study that we used for tho activity
center concept estimated that by the year 2005~ we would
need somewhere along the order of two thousand acres of
commercial, given our existing growth rate.
If you were to draw a line on that, it would bo
approximately here. Within tho area of the square that I
have sho~n as zoned but unbuilt.
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Sat I have also tried to do is emphasize what staff
feels is a good rational for a strong reevaluation program
Is to sho~ you the top rectangle here, which represents the
A-2 zoned property that is with comnercial activity centers
-- the ~.ixed use activity centers.
In this area, weave got approximately seven hundred
and eighty acres. It does not include the existing
residential zone acres within activities centers. The pont
being that we no longer have a limitation on activity
centers that limits ho~ much of an activity center can bo
commercial.
So itfs incumbent upon ata£f and the Board of County
Commissioners to determine ho~ much of an activity center
could be dotormtn~dl but if it wore to go a hundred percent
commercial and thc request for connercial zoning in activity
centers, wt'~h one exception, have all been approved to date
since the plan wa~ adopted. ~e have the potential for an
additional seven hundred and eighty acres. And you add that
onto seventy-seven hundred, and we've got about forty-five
hundred acres. If you add it on to the commercial for the
county as a whole, instead of forty-six hundred acres, wa'v.
got sixty-three hundred acres of commercial.
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$o that's the reason why I included that top graph.
VICE-CHAIR}tA~I VOl, PI:= Mr. Blanchard, on the activity
centers, the A-2 zone, property within activity centers. We
have within our Growth Management plan, the ability to
develop mixed uses within those activities centers. And
that's part of what we're talking about.
MR. BLA~ICHARD ~ Correct.
that there is no limitation. We
percent cap on coa~ercial. That is no longer in the Growth
Development Plan the way that it was adeopted. And what I
wanted to point out is that there is still that potential
for additional commercial above and beyond what we have on
the ground right now.
VICE-CIIAIR/~ VOI, PEs All of which is consistent,
though, with the Orowth Management Plan.
MR. BI, AI~C~IARD~ It is if there's finding made that it
is consistent based on the criteria that are included in
therel tbat'o ;'orrect.
I didn't pass this map out, but you have all seen the
PUD maps that we distribute through the office where the red
shading and the orange shading is existing commercial. And
this ts Just a graphic of how -- the blue areas are activity
It is. But the point being
used to have a fifty
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centers of what the actual com=ercial pattern could look
like in tho county, depending on ho~ this process evolves.
We have separated for revie~ purposes the Zoning
Reevaluation Ordinr. nce and concurrency discussions, mainly
for ease of review. But in fact the two ordinances are very
closely tied to each other and should be thought of together
when we're considering the impacts that they have on each
other, as well as the impact tP~t both of these will have
future capital Improvement element.
;4ithout a doubt, ! believe that concurrency is tho
cornerstone of the Growth l~tanagoment Plan as it was stated.
Out without an adequate zonino reevaluation program, future
develoln~ent and public expenditures, aa c,'atlined in the
capital improvement element may end up actually being
controlled, strictly by tho Concurrency Ordinance.
If you have any questions, I'll try to answer for
you o
VICE-CHAIRHAN VOI, PE~ ! ~ust have a comment. ! think
what I ~ust hear you say, though, is this ordinance as
being presented to us with but two exceptions, that this is
something that was something that has met with the approval
of our staffers°
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MR. BLA~{CHARD~ It is, and I think at your workshop
that it is it was indicated earlier that it's very difficult
for staff to agree to go any further.
VICE-~/AIRHANVOLPE~ Thank you.
MR. OFFITT~ Mr. Chairman, if you're ready, we'll go
ahead with the registered speakers.
Varnadoe registered.
COHMISSIO}IER SAUntERS s
do you have?
MR. OLLIFF~
COMMISSIONER SAUI~ERSs
to suggest a time limit?
CHAIRRAH IIASSE~ Yes.
I've got George
Hr. Offitt, ho~ many speakers
I've got about seven or eight.
Hr. Chairman, are you going
We've already suggested five
minutes, but I don't think we need five minutes. I think we
can do it in less than five that, so let's start it off at
three minutes, to start. Tom, are you want to keep the time
schedule? Attorneys only got two minutes.
I'm only kidding, George.
~R. VA~/ADOE= You never kno~ with you.
VICE-CHAIR~h~VOLPEs You're using your two minutes,
Mr. Varnadoe.
HR. VARNADOEs
Let's look at and try to deal with the
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entire issue that Hr. Dorri11 brought up and then that
Blanchard talked about, the only issue that ISm going
address, and that is unified plan of developments and ho~ we
c'xrn~pt thom if they are under substantial construction,
which is what I think we have all agreed to in principle.
ltcr~ to get there from hero has been a little bit harder.
If we go to our definition section, you see starting
on page fifteen on the version that I've got, the definition
of commencement of construction. And that ties in with
unified plan of development on page eighteen, which is
Section 4.2.1. I think.
CHAIR~'IAN HASSEs
MR. VARNADOEz
Four point what?
4.21. On page eighteen.
An improved property on page seventy, which is 4.1.
COliHZSBIO~ER BttENAHAN~ 4.11~ right?
HR. VA~IADOEs Yea. Excuse me. 4.11 It must be
getting late for ~.e.
CHAIRI4A~ HASSEs ! was ~uat going to say that.
HR. VARNADOEz The -- I think what ! would suggest to
you, without trying to draft language tonight, is in
commencement of conotruction, that we say that it's the --
when you read through all of it, it's a substantial
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construction or installing of substantial infrastructure or
the start of construction on any facility which requires a
building permit. I think that latter is what bothers your
staff, because it would allow the start of something very
· inor structure to have vesting way beyond that structure.
I think tl~t, the other perspective, that on a
unified plan development, you're obviously going to have to
do all your water management before you can start on it. Sc
you're going to have substantial infrastructure.
So we want to put something in the last line,
beginning construction or installation of substantial
structures on the property. Structure or structures on the
property, that would not bother mo.
The problem with criteria is what might be
substantial on a five-acre parcel would certainly not bo
substantial on a two hundred acre area, or might not be
substantial. Problem with trying to get criteria at this
point in time is that I'm not sure we can get there from
here.
Hr. 14erri11 and ! have not been able to get there
from here for tried three ~onths, although we have both
Cried, as I'm not sure that I've got anything to suggest
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other than Just simply call it substantial -- substantial
structure or structures, and I'm certainly willing to abide
by staff decisions° and if we don't like those, we go to tho
hearing officer route to determine whether or not we're
vested. And I can live with that.
I think we're going to have -- ninety-five percent of
the tiao, we're going to be totally in agreement with staff
on this. The staff is trying to protect you, the county,
from somebody trying to vest themselves by doing very
little. I'm not trying to protect that guy/ I'm trying to
protect the people you heard me talk about before who are
substantially underway with an ongoing project.
So I really don't know have a lot of trouble in
calling it substantial commencement and letting it ~o and
that.
VZC£-CHAIRHAN VOI, PB~ Is there a distinction between
structure and ~tructures, as opposed to Infrastructure7
MR. BLANCHARD~ Yea. Infrastructure is what we call
horizontal development. Water management, roads, water,
sewer, that sort of thing.
CHAIRMAN HASS£ z Services.
~4R. BLANCItARD: And structures building permits are
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normally vertical construction. Residences, office
buildings, those type of things.
VICE-CHAIR/~N VOLPE~ So this takes you beyond. Thio
assumes the infrastructure was already in place, and than
substantial structure or structures.
~R. VARHADOE ~
HR. BLANC}LARD:
~LR. MERR I Lr~:
It's that there's an 'or' in there.
It's not 'and=. It's 'or.'
I believe I could speak for staff.
think we would suggest Just eliminating the last phrase, and
then you don't have to worry about that portion.
COMMISSIONER SAUI~ERSs Are you on 4.11 or 4.217
MR. ~ERRILLs Four one, commoncement of
conotruction. It's really a two-prong test. It's either
infrastructure or thio o~orphosis thing of substantial
construction of a structure or structures. And what we
would suggest is Just eliminating tho last -- the portion
[ro~ the word 'or', all tho way to the end of tho sentence.
And that way it's infrastructure, which most of the speakers
have requested it to bo placed.
~lR. VARIlADOEs ! have no objection to that
whatsoever. That makes it ea0ier, I think, for everybody to
follo~. That's where you get first.
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VICE-CIIAIBI4AH VObPEi So you're not -- you're not --
your reco~aendation is that maybe we look at that language
as opposed to?
14R. HERRILI, s Right. ~/hat we would consider is --
we'll Os back and look at it and see hcr~ it affects the res
of Lhe ordinance and consider deleLing from the order 'or'
to the end of the sentence, second phrase.
MR. VARNADOEs Thank you, Hr. Chairman.
HR. OFFITTs
Hr. Chairman, the next speaker is George
Keller0 follo~ed by D~lght Madeau.
MR. KELLERs I have a couple of questions, and
they're shor~. Does tho four units to tho acres also affect
DRX and the density.
14R. BLANC'JARD l
matter.
DRX's are exempt, so it doesn't
They're exempt from everything?
HR. BLANCIIARDs Yes.
VICE-CH/;IR}IAN VOLPE~ Aren't most DRX's, aren't they
within our density requirements?
MR. BbA~ICHARDs The majority are.
VXCE-CHAIRIRAN VOLPEs I think most of them are four
or under.
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~. BLANCHARDI Yeah, but it's a moot issue in this
~R. KELLERs ~/hat about the point system on density~
is that included in here too so we can go up to sixteen?
HR. BLAtlCHARDs Ne calculated density based on the
density rating system that's in the plan~ correct.
]~Ro XELL£R~ Because saying four is -- is really not
lo, ica1 because we won't average four.
~R. BLA~I~iARDI Actually, saying four is logical
because if you take tho base density that is allo~ed~ in
density rating system, that's what its.
~R. XELLER~ ! would like to kno~ what's going to
happen to the thirty-four hundred acres of comercial
property that's no~ on the books and some that's included
PUD's and DRI*So You can*t touch the DR! at a117
~R. BLA~CHARD~
to the ordinance.
HR. KEL:,ER~
DRI'a are exempt. PUD~a are subject
You kno~, when I look at this thing,
kno~ that we have to make a start, so when ! look at this
thi~ thing this total, concerning the hundred and
thirty-~even thousand units that have been approved and
unbuilt, and we come do~n to the point on that that we*ye
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got about eighteen thousand units that are going to be
subject and quite a few of them are going to be exempt. You
know, this is a lot of talk about nothing, as far as I can
And also off commercial, when we talk about the
commercial, and we've got forty-six hundred acres of
commercial on the books, and we're coming down to the point
where we're going to have eight hundred and forty acres
subject and then beside t~at, remember, we are setting up a
nm,~ commercial e~e~ week here.
We're setting up new con~ercial on these
cen~ers and givtng th~ c~rclal, so ~hak ~e~re doing
-- is ~ho n~ stuff on ~ho activity cen~er figured in
forty-eix hu~r~ acres of c~erctal?
CllAX RKA}i HASSEs
MR. B[,AHCHARD s
Are you listening.
Yes, ! am,
14R. KELLER~ Of the new stuff, that's included? Th~
new commercial -- it can be a, not an activity center -- if
they go a hundred percent commercial, will that total out to
forty-six hundred acres?
MR. BLAt/CHARD l }10,
MR. KELLER~
that's in addition to that,
So, we're -- you know, basically
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speaking, honestly and truly I think we're beating our head
against the walls and we*re coming up with nothing, as far
as I can see, on this thing. So we're wasting a lot of time
and a lot of money.
You know, if we're not going to get anything out of
this, if we're not going to do any good in control some type
of growth and sake some decent planning, what is this --
it's an exercise in utility, ~ust like giving my wife
$100.00 and telling her not to spend it.
VICE-CHAIR~U~N VOI, PE~ ! think a part of that, Mr.
Keller, is that the two ordinances have to be read together,
and the checks and balances. What I'm hearing the staff
saying is with an ordinance that has gone through several
revisions, we've got, you know, all the acreage is not going
to be subject to zoning reevaluation. There's really a
s~all amount that's going to be subject to.
~.R. KELLEPs Eighteen hundred units, compared to a
hundred and thirty-six units on the books now, and we're
going to putting more on in the next year. And let's face
it, we're going to have a half a million people here if we
go on this basis, and somebody is going to have to come wi
a lot of money. No sense kidding ourselves. It's like a
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family deciding that they're going to have ten children, and
the husband is working and making $10,000 a year. It won't
work. We're adding a lot of people and we don't have the
~onoy, so, ! m~an, it's a mad affair, tlonestly and truly.
I'm glad as I'm as old as I am because I'm only going to be
probably living another five or ten more years in Collier
County. ltaybe not that long.
COI~IgI~IONER SItENAF~N s
George.
Only the good go young,
~iR. KELL£R~ t/ell, I'll tell you. I'm working on it.
CHAIRP~ HASSEI llext speaker.
VlCE-CHAIP~ VOI, P~.s Could ! ask a question that is
related but unrelated.
I kno~. Believe me, ! won't ask.
One mt tho things wo hadn't talked about, our putting
amine ti~e limitations within our PUD's, even those that are
coming in right n~. And we have talked about that at
different times, and ! don't know whether stair has given
any consideration to that either in the context of this
zonino reevaluation ordinance or otherwise, and ! don't want
to dwell on it. But Just a question.
I4R. BLANCHARDs It's required in our Growth
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~,anagemont Plan under one of our policies in Section Three
of future land use element. Anyway, we we are considering
it, and I think you will probably see some fairly soon.
VIC£-CHAII~P~M~ VOI~PEs If that happens, will that
impact uport what happening here.
NR. BLA~ICHARDs Going forward, it will. A question
of whether it could be applied retroactively.
HR. HADEAU s Good ~vening.
CHAIP. HAH HASS£s Good ~v~ning.
HR. HADEAUs For the record, my n~e ts ~tgh~
~deau, r~presen~i~ ~tlllam C. ~Anly and Ass~ia~es. ~
C~en~s ~il be addressing S~ction 2.44 of the ordinance on
page ~en.
~o Board ad~t~d a C~ Plan on ~anua~ 10, 1989,
and ~ho BCC adop~ th~ site d~ol~en~ plan pr~eas on
~rcb ~8~h, for tho i~pl~entatlon ~ tho n~ d~olo~nt
8C~iCCS.
Since t~ time, pla~tn~ oc~tcea ~ve r~ised the:
sub=i~tal r~tr~cnta two times. Pro~cc~ r~i~ ae~ices
~avc rcvlscd tbotr submittal r~uir~onts threo ~imoa.
Al=o, thc cxperionccd cnvlro~ental revi~ s~af~ have been
rcduc~ by tho four spcctalists and the htrin~ oi f~r n~
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specialists.
Furthermore, tho environmental revew of SDP was at
one time one step~ i.e., one environmentalist reviewing tho
plan throughout. And then It was fracttonaltzed into two
stepo~ being one specialist for the preliminary stage and
one specialist for the final stage. And no~ it's being
reco~bined.
?he following county ordinances were amended which
directly affect tho SDP process and ! understand that these
are ~ust what wo wore able to locate in the several hours
prior to this meeting.
The zonin9 ordinance was amended four times.
Tho environment impact was amended once. ~ater
manag~en~ ordinance amonded was once, and the sub~ivision
ordinanco was amended once. These ars all ordinances which
would diroctly affec~ tho si~e development plan procedure.
Additiona~l¥, there have been changed to regional,
ota~e and f~deral regulations which directly affect the
county*s review and not to mention inconsistent
lnterpr~tationo of the National Fire Protection Association
regulations b~tween the firs district and county reviewers.
No~, in anticipation of possible exemptions for
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projects in the revie~ process, we were advised, verbally,
that all of our SDP applications which may be affected by
the conoistency or reevaluation ~hould bo submitted prior tc
January 10 of this year. This is, like I say, based purely
On
On January 9 -- excuse-- January 11, the county made
available for public revi~ a side sheet that provided for
an exception for an application for final site development
plans submitted prior to Janua~l 10 of this year.
Currently the SDP process is two-step. The
[,roliminary plan approves the land uso and the final plan
approves the infrastructure to serve that land use.
for this reason that we find it inappropriate for exemptionl
to bo provided only for final applications when the right of
uoe o{ the property was affirmed by the approval of the
preliminary plan.
And this ~ould bo further confused if the Board
chooses to adopt tho ne~ site development plan procedure on
14arch 13ch, and this will provide for a one-step process.
VICE-C[IAIRP~8 VOLPE~ l~at would be the can you tell
off date, chon?
MR. ldADEAU~
suggestion, rather than make it the
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effective date of the ordinance, would be to make an
application for final site dc~¢elopment plan be submitted
prior to January 10, 1989. If you made your application for
the final site development plan procedure prior that date,
then you should have a period of time to have the
infrastructural problems resolved.
HR. OLLIFFs He said January 10, '89, I believe.
Staff simply doesn't agree with that.
I think it's important that the Board remember that
we're talking about 'up front' exemptions. Exemptions mean
you're exempt from tho ordinance. It doesn't mean you lose
I?our dovolcl~nent rights.
There's still two moro steps that you go through
through the process, as shown on the flowchart. Y~u go
through a compatibility exception and you go through vested
riohts. I vo~ted rights determination, if you read of
criteria, includ~.o exactli? those ti?pea of rhinos and ars
taken into ¢onoideration.
CHAIRMAH [tASSE~ Your suggestion was what?
Dill. 066I?£I Tho exemption in tho ordinance says
January 100 1990. That has given people well over eighteen
months since this idea was first brought up during the
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Growth Fmnagement Plan development to deal with this.
HR. MERRILL~ If I ~y, ~us~ fr~ a legal
perspective, and khe aktorn~g probably kn~ =his.
Legally, Section 2.4.4 need no~ ~en be in ~here.
is ve~ l~suly ba~, I guess, on s~e ves~ed rights ~deas,
but really the law Ss tha~ when -- wha~er law is in effec
when the applica=ion is a~r~ed is the law that g~erns.
But in ~bis ca~e, ~he ~aff did decide to ~e
Janua~ 10, 1990. It wao orSgtna]ly Janua~ 10, 1989.
~. ~U~ ~nk y~, Co,~tssioners.
CHAI RI~ HASSE ~ Thank
HR. OLLIFF~ ~e nex~ speaker is Dolores P~llegreen6.
The opoakor after tha~ Is ~rio ~Mendola.
CO~II~IOUER ~DNIGHTz Dolores went h~o.
CHAI~ HASSEz She missed ~ho heaL.
}iR. OLLIFFs Your ~ho nex~ speaker Is here.
Gentle.n, ~st of ~he projects I~s assxia~ed wt~h
are single buildings on single lo~s, pla~t~ lo~s and
reoular su~lvisions. People c~o ~o me and they wanC co b~
build a building, and I do the plans. ~ one,
9arCtcular, iL~ I wan~ to address 2.4.4 which
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Y~adoau a/ready spoke about.
Again, the sight development ordinance was Hatch of
this year. It is not eighteen months that we were aware of
this. t~o were working in the process with severa! -- !
found out on February 9th, a =onth after some of my people !
quos; had already fallen through the cracks or that, you
kn(~,~, they had passed to be vested on their properties.
I want to give my speech which Hr. Blanchard and Hr.
I'll give you this example
Olliff are pretty tried of.
one Job we have.
I have a young veterinarian here in to~n went to
schools hero locally, hag a small piece of property in
Golden Oate~ gr~ up in tho system, lived in to~rn all of his
life, went to school, got a degree, has his proper;y, wants
to build a r. mall veterinarian clinic. It was very tough
callino him on February loth and telling him that April
Fools Day was he::e, because we all thought that April
was when people were going to get shocked.
Tho reason not too many people are here tonight is
because a whole bunch of others are going to go out April
ls~ telling people that their property is probably going to
be roevalua tod.
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~;e felt we were working in the system, we thought wo
were pursuing this gentleman's project as it should be
pursued, and again, may not be vested. We feel that and
some others are deserving of being vested, and ! also feel
that anyone who has paid a fee to the county should at that
ti~e be in the system and should be allowed to continue it
to achic, ve what they're trying do.
There was no ~ush in my office to get a bunch of
plans in, and ! certainly don't want any moro, to beat tho
system. These were Just folks that were following the
natural process. So to be told that eighteen months ago we
should have known about that, you know, ! would have had to
have a medium or a OuiJa board.
VI¢£-¢tlAIRMA}I VO~,PF.s Just in terms of this plan, l~r.
Lai4endola, when did this gentle,an decide that he wanted to
build this facility?
I4R. LaI~Ei~OLA~ He came to mo sometime probably earl
-- maybe lat~ December, early January.
But ~here is still -- ! want to go through the SDP
here. The iDP process that ! have a problem with is not
totally county problems. Some of i~ has to do with state.
It's a s~ll veLerinarian c~inic. We had ~o go and ge~ D~
approval. We had to get a letter written back to us Just tc
tell us the county could handle it themselves, but that --
they lost tho original letter, and we finally got that thing
a couple days ago. I'm looking for an individual.
I Just feel the January 10th, you know, was a total
surprtze and that it should definitely be moved up, moved
later.
VICE-CIiAIRHAN VOI~PEs Mr. haMendola, Mr. Blanchard's
cca.-~ents, though, that the situation this -- your client
finds himself in, he's Just -- it may not bo enough time fez
ux~mption because of this provision, but he still is
proceeding ti,rough process and ho is reviewed. So it's not
like --
MR. La}iENDObAs Pardon mo0 Co~lssioner. }lo will be
rovic*~ed0 but he was already told basically that if he is
not Yuoted in tho areas, that is not one of the areas that
lo going to be recommended for commercial use, although it'
in an area whore there are several other c~orcial
projects. In fact --
VICE-OlAXRHANVOhPEs
you're talking about?
HR. LaMENDOI~s
This is Oolden Oate Estates
Goldcn Gate.
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master plan.
MR. LaM~)OLA~
So we don*t have him in a
Other folks have projects on the East
Trail that are going to be in the oame predicament. They*rs
going to have residential property -- nobody wants to build
a house on the East Trail -- but the Zoning Reevaluation
Ordinance is going establish these areas for commercial.
But a lo~ of folks are going to lose properties --
co~,orcial zoning on properties that they felt for years arl
R rated co~mercial and will always be commercial.
Okay. Thank you.
~. OLLIFF~ Chairman, I have Bruce Anderson,
followed by John Farquhar.
VICE-~IRMA~I VOLPEs Hr. Olliff, how many more
speakers do we have?
CIlAIR}~JJt HA$SEs They're growing.
MR. OLLIFF~ Four after Mr. Farquhar.
CHAI~J~I HASSE: Twenty minutes ago, it was four
opeakers ago.
And Bruce, would you go.
~. ~IDERSO~I~ Good evening.
My name -- for the record, my name is Bruce Anderson~
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and ! have three issues that ! want to speak to you about.
Wu have Just had some discussion about what -- what the
cutoff date should be.
3.44.
¥ ICE-¢H~I R~AIq VODPE s
! would like to talk about Section
Anderson, I've heard this
twice.
Is there something different?
¢OI'~t,I$$IONER SAU~IDEIi$; We have heard this before.
don't mean to be rude.
kno~ have boon here all evening long, and it's not fair to
you. DuC if you have something now and different or
sc~ething, that wu haven't considered that would be helpful,
~R. A~WERSON~ Yes, ! do.
CHAIRMAN IIASSE~ What did you say this way?
~R. A~WERSO~{~ 3.44. That page is probably well worn
by no~.
~IAIRMAN HASSE: Yes, it's Just that.
MR. A~ER~ON: The reason that that section is in
there -- there are two reasons. ~mber one is that anybody
who lo in tho application process has a legitimate
development exp~ctation and they have already spent money to
file the application and follo~ through on it, and they may
have their bank financing in place or trying to get it. If
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you force them to go through a lengthy hearing process, that
may kill their development plans entirely, and their
financing. That's one reason.
Tbs other reason Is because of what your Comp Plan
says right no~. And it says that until notice of
inconsistency is given and that you're going to be subject
to down zoning that you are entitled to receive development
permits based on the zoning classification in effect.
That's why that nection is in t.~ere.
And that's why we're asking -- everybody has knc~rn
since the settlement agreement was ctgned that April 1st wa~
the drop dead date. But according to this ordinance, the
real drop dead date was January 10th. And ! think that you
chould either move the date back for application to be filed
until April 1st and then put people under a strict
timetable, that they use it or lose it by January, '91 for
com;ercial and J,~nuary, '92 for everybody else, that they
bav~. to convenes com~truction or they lose whatever
exemption or vesting they have. That's reasonable.
CHA I RMAR UASSE~
then, aren't you?
MR. ABDERSON
You're extending the entire thing,
Not the entire thing, no. They have
to co~ence construction by next January if they're zoned
coc~ercial. Those ,lanuary, '91 and '92 dates are still in
the C~p Plan even with the now a~endments that you have to
have the rcevaluation ~ono b~.
VICE-CHA~R~ VO~PE~ You don't ~ave any problem
that approach b~lng tnc~siDtent ~ith our settl~ent
agre~ent ~th DCA, do
VICE-C~I~}I VODPE: ~at'~ ail.
HR. ~ER~O~I: You rec~nizo ~ha~ it's ves~ed. Bu~
~h~ lose ~ha~ pro~ection if th~ don'~ c~enc~
construction b~ those dates. That's within ~our di0cretion,
~o o~cond thin~ I ~an~ to c~nt on is
4.21, ~btch l~ tho definition o[ th~ unified plan of
d~olo~ent. ~e current ordinanc~ draft rec~nizes only
two kinds, ~D's and residential plats. There Is glaring
~ission, and that t~ phased cond~iniums, whore it's been
declaration of cond~inium recorded In the p~lic record
Collier County t~t sets out a p~sing schedule. ~t ~ght
to be roc~nizod as a unified plan of d~el~ent, because
~bat's exactly w~t it is, and I don*t kn~ w~ th~ have
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been left out.
VICE-Ci~IRHA~VOLPEs
coemuent on that.
MR. MERRILLs
Merrill, could someone
We can consider that.
We considered a
number of different planning developments that were
submitted on the list. I don't have an answer right at thi
time either, but we can consider that.
VIC£-CllAIRMAN VOLPE; Hr. Olliff, do you have any --
is there that ~omething else?
MR. OLLIFFs That's something that I don't have off
the top of my head. Other than I think the declarations are
not filed through Collier County, they're filed through the
state lc vel, ac I understand the process, and then they are
recorded here, So tho process is sort of outside of our
confines hero and it's ~uat one of those that -- we have
looked at unified plan of development as being those that
were unified when they came to you for approval, and we sort
of looked at that being the scenario that we're looking at
to use plan of development under.
And you also nocd to realize that because of the way
the ordinance is structured, unified plans of development
are then included into the improved property definition for
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those who have commenced construction, so you*re
expanding on exemptions that.
~fR. HERRILL~ And, Commissioners, the other point
I do kno~ that the county attorney's office, 14ark
Lawson in particular, had sc~e specific reasons why not to
include.
VIC£-CHAIRKAtl VOLPE~ It's not something you've
overlooked.
HR. HERRILLs No, no, no.
¥IC£-CHAIRMANVOLPEI Considered, it was consciously
taken up. And Tom Just said.
14R. HERRILLs Yes. But we will look at it again and
get an explanation from P. ark as to why it was excluded.
lIR. AND£RBONs And then the last item Is in regard tc
development agreements.
Am I to understand that you have gotten an opinion
separate ordinance authorizing
We were told that there is one
have shortly.
When ~r. Blanchard was
that you do have to have a
VICE-CHAIRI4A}! VOLPE~
being drafted and wo should
14R. ANDER$ONs Okay.
discussing the proposal that has been bandied about at the
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Planning Commission about develol~ent agreements, he said
the issue was about whether to approve develo~nent
agreements that were inconsistent with the plan. And
certainly that proh~bit~d by ~he d~elo~ent agreemen~
s ta tu res.
But I want to ~nt ~t, again there
ignore certain pr~isi~s in the ~r~th ~ag~ent Plan whe~
~h~ don~t suit a narr~ interpre~a~ion. Policy 5.1
r~ferred to ~o an existing d~elo~en~ order which
constituteo a reduction in or equivalent density or
intensity shall bo de~ conststen~ with ~he future la~
~t I pr~ose to use d~el~ent ~gre~ent~ ~or
to enc~ra~o po~le to voluntarily
and oay~ All right, I will reduce ~ intensity~ I will
reduce ~ density. Y~ have the option of accepting it or
rejecting it. It's an optional gr~th ~nag~ent t~l that
would bo con~,otont with Policy
CHAIRHA}I HASSE:
MR. A~ERSON~
encourage some of my clients.
VICE-CHAIRHA2! VOLPE~ But
Ho~ many would do that, I wonder?
I kno~ that I would certainly
you're coming at it
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backwards° though. You're coeing at it from the person who
has sixteen -- coming down from sixteen rather than going to
up from four. So if ! was looking at four instead of
oixteen, I would come in too and negotiate down.
MR. ARDER$ON~ At least, give you the oppor -- try
it. You're going to find people that.fall between the
cracks. And a development agreement would be a useful
tool. It has to be through the same kind of public hearings
aa a rezoning does.
And one thing that about development agreements that
! think you would like, Commissioner Volpe, based on your
carlier cerement, is that they have a five-year limit. You
know, if we have had five-year limits on PUD's before, we
probably wouldn't find ourselves in the position we're in
now dealing with this ordinance.
VIC£-CHAIRMA~! VOl, PEt I'm happy to hear that we've
got an ordinance that's going to be forthcoming where we're
going to have so~e time limitatina.
also.
CiCA I RPJd! 11A$$£~
HR. ANDER$O~I ~
}tR. OLLIFF~
It should have been in the ORI's
have the~. I have a handout.
John rarquhar.
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CHAIRMAN HASSEs
MR. ANDER~N ~
MR. FARQUHAR i
Were you through, Mr. Anderson?
Yes.
John Farquhar. Commissioners, I would
lust like to address Section 2.4.8 in the zoning
reevaluation ordinance which deals with the requirement, all
of the exemptions go through a Growth Management Plan
amendment.
I believe that in accordance with settlement
agreement with DCA, Policy 3.1.K, which was required by DCA
aa part of your settlement an agreement with thom, they
require a growth planning amendment for the compatibility
exemption exceptions, but they do not rsquire a growth
management amendment for the other exemptions. And one of
the main problems with the exemption, if it has to go
through the growth management amendment process, is the
permits t~t are issued under it during that time period arc
contingent permits, and financing and other things on a
contingent pc=mit is not very feasible, and that's an issue
that I would like to address. I have discussed ic with the
county attorney's office, and I have sent some material to
Mr. ~err111 to review that lssus, and it seems fairly clear
that this is not necessary.
V I CE-CHAI RP~N VOLP£z
housekeepi ng?
HR. I/ERR! LI~ s
exemptions?
HR. FAROU~R s
HR. HERRILI~ ~
This is something more than
You're talking about the amendments for
Right.
read your letter, and when I read
throuoh your letter, basically you -- I don't know. It
appeared to me that you were saying that exe=ptions aren't
allowed under the settlement agreement and/or the current
Comp Plan. That's basically what you said. And therefore,
we could we should not re, quire a Comp Plan amendment for
exceptions. That basically argued against having exemptions
in tho ordinance at a11.
~1~.. FAR(JI$11ARs ~hat I uald in any letter and what the
required change by DCA says lo thats No development orders
shall bo issued which are inconsistent with the Crowth
~4anagoment Plan except for preliminary development where
conq~atibilit¥ exception has been granted or where a position
determination for vested riohts has boon made.
So my interpretation of this and DCA opinion is
either it needs to be a compatibility exception, which would
require an amendment, or these things need to be considered
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as vested, which ! think in many other ordinances that other
countieo have adopted, these up front type of collections,
are presumed vested and therefore not subject to an
amendment and therefore fully complied with the s~andards
tha~ DCA has ae~.
~R. ~RI~i I beli~e the county ~ould be making a
bi~ ~istake if th~ c~sider~ the ex~ttons vested rights
I think t~t c~ld set a bad prec~ent for a cour~ case if a
court -- if one of these appltcaLiono does go through ~his
~hole pr~oos and is unhap~ ~ith ~he resul~ and decides ~o
sue, I ~bink the c~rt could oay, well, these county
considers ~hese ex~p~iona veo~ rights when in fac~ ~hey
are nec. These go far beyond vested rights, ~ho exemp~ons
do. For lns~anc~ ~he a~lica~ion pr~ision has been ~alk~
ebou~ qui~o a bit~ and ~hat is s~ething that is far far
b~ond ves~ed rights.
VICE-C~IP~I VO~PEs ~'s no~ the c~on law
vested rights ~M~ we heard fr~?
~IR. MERRIL~ No, I don~ kn~ disagree with wha~ Ma
Or~b~fsky, D~bbte, had indicated, and we are going ~o ~ork
~haL o~e language on ~ha~ on ~ho ~equa~e ~lic FacillLiea
Ordinance. Bu~ C~ la a ~o~ally dlfforon~ situa~ion ~hon
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we're talking about these exemptions.
VICE-CHAIPJiAH VOLPE~ This is certainly a lot less
than the co~non law vested rights.
~IRo FAR(~UHARI But ~ny of those, if ~ could point
out, who are intend~ to bo situations where it was clear
en~gh that y~ did no~ n~ed ~en go thr~gh the vested
right~ pr~edure. And~ ye~, there o~e of th~ who are notj
bu~ there are ~ny of th~ where if you wen~ thr~gh ~he
vented rights pr~edure, you w~ld be f~nd to be ves~ed.
Bu~ the~e yore to be up front vesting basically, so ~ha~
did not have to go thr~gh all tho pr~ur~s to arrive at
the conclusion of rooting.
~e way this is presently ~orded, tho things tha~
v~ero ~a~ ~st clearly vested~ as well as the ones tha~ he
~u~t mentioned, are tho ones that ~ve to go ~hrough a
confusion un~il thereto a Or. th Eanag~ent Plan amen~ent.
And quite clearly, under the inten~ of part of tho
s~ipulaLion wich DCA ~aa t~t th~re vested, you don~ ne~
a plan amend=ant. And many of these things are clearly
things tha~ wore said to bo veat~.
Like, for exa~lo, the boating pe~tt.
CO~ISSIOIIER SAU}WERS~ I don~t ~hink y~ have a
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whole lot of support on the Board to change that. If you've
got oome other lsoueo -- ! don't know how the rest of the
Board feelo.
~. FARQUHAR~ That's the only issue that I wished to
bring up. ~ank y~.
~. OLLIFF= Anthony Ptres, roll,ed by Lar~ Basik.
1~. PIRES~ Chairman, He~er~ of ~he Board.
CHAI~ HASSE~ H~ can you be o~e ba~ and
cheerful?
}~. PIRES~ ~Iondorful caffeina~ed coffee you have in
the back
~4R. OLLIFF~ Did you hear
CUAIR~U IIAgS~ And rom~bor.
MR. P~RES~ ~e ~orty-n~ne, ~e forty-eight. I'll
keep ~: at two m~uteo or not.
CHRISti HASSE~ I'll watch the clock, then, so you
don' t have
14R. PIRES= ~o only area that I need to addre=s, or
requcs~ you build on, is ~horo you ~ve d~el~ent and
d~elo~ent agre~ents. I ~ve ~poken ~ith ~r. Blanc~rd
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before on this.
My only concern is that tho mechanism that's
currently provided for in the ordinance, in Section 10.6 and
10.7, deals solely with development agreement when you're
applying for a compatibiity exception. I think you need to
provide a m~chanism for a separate free-standing development
agreement to be entered into with the county by an
individual who wisheo to develop the property in a manner of
intenoity and density consistent with the Comprehensive
Plan. And the way this reads now it's only in conjunction
with the compatibility exception. That's one problem.
Number two.
VIC£-CI{AIR~LAN VObPE~ Why would you need such a
dove lopmont agreement7
~R. PIRZ$~ If you have a zoning district or say a
FdD's, for example, that would not qualify for one of the
exemptions or )therwise qualify vesting. You don't want to
wait to go throuqh tho rezontng cycle, the consistency and
rozoning as part of this zoning reevaluation, but wish to
come into tho county with a petition for development
agreement to b able to get going with a project in a manner
consistent with the plan.
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VICE-CHAIRIdAH VOI, PE~ ! think Hr. Blanchard told me
we talking about early determinations. And ! think, the
little I kno~ about the process -- I mean I chink we're
getting ready to move on this fairly quickly once we adopt
the ordinance. Aren't we, Hr. Blanchard?
~. B6A~ICitARD: This, you hear-- the concern that Z
would expresB to Tony before is that using development
agreements to make it consistent with the future land use
element is that I have a concern of whethez that preempts
that from the nme land development regulations and
evorythino else as aa development standards, and that it
would have to be -- to be acceptable, it would have to be
It is, you kno~, my opinion that that does not
Do you understand, Mr. Pires?
Yes. t~e have discussed it a number
The other part of the process, through a
public hearing process before the Planning Commission and
tho Board, aa to whether one of the elc*ments of that
development agreement would be that that development did
have Co comply with the ne~ land development regulations.
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Part of the problem -- as ! said, it's tied right
no~, it's tied in with tho compatibility exception, number
one.
llu~bor two, you can't get any building permits until
there lo an amendment process to tho Growth 14anagement Plan
at tho next available Growth 14anagoment Plan amendment cycle
to r~fl~ct all applications for compatibility exception.
I think it would be appropriate to have one
free-standing exception saying if you want, you can come in
and petition for d~velopment agreement to develop the
property in a manner and a level of intensity and density
lose than or equal to that allo~ad by tho Comprehensive
Plan. And once you achieve that, you can then get your
d~volo~ent order and your permits in order to proceed, and
it's not providt~d for.
CI{AIRI~ H~$$£~ Do you see something wrong with
that?
~ay we vic~c~] it as the whole development agreement issue,
and ~a hood to take a look at ho~ it works as a ~hole.
~R. OL, L, IFF; Hy only concern is that's basically a
rozoning and, you know, for a rezoning to go through tho
~e'11 take a look at that. ! think
process, like your water meter -- through your environment
advisory board or your planning or through whatever
procussus, I suppose, to take a look at this new
development.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ Didn't yo~ say that this is
going through the same process.
CHAIRMAN HASSE ~
It will have to go through the same
No chan~e in that.
MR. MERRILL: When you're changing zoning islands on
land pursuant to a development agreement, you're going
through rczoning a~ well.
MR. OLLIFF~ ! guess we can go ahead and look at it.
! want to try to see tho advantage either way.
MR. PIRES~ Wull, once again, if you -- the process,
you ~ay not have to go through all of the necessary,
reasonable steps. You have to go through the criteria to
address, and you can establish an ordinance that says the
criteria that -- the procedure that you will follow. In
ordinance.
But ! think this gives an opportunity -- if you're
Just changing the level of intensity and density and the
staff looks at the rest of the existing document and applies
the criteria and ~aybe go through the review, then we don't
have to wait for this whole cycle to occur.
that.
CIIAIR}LA}i HASSE~ Do you want to Look at this7
MR. 14ERRILLs Yes, we'll definitely take a look at
VICE-CHAIRMANVOLPEs
Olliff?.
CHAIRK~! HA$gEI What?
Is this the last speaker,
have four.
How -- you Just had four and wi
listened to five people. They're like rabbits.
(Discussion had off tho record.)
Good vorning. Larry Basik.
HR. DASIKs
M~rco Island.
CHAIRMAN HASSE~
Resident of
Good morning.
~IR. BASIK~ ! would like to address the situation of
off-site concessions that should into the exemption process
And it oays basically if you deed over an e~aement or
laoment or so~ethino on your site, what might happen to come
for an exemption.
I'm talking about a situation like -- what happened
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in my case wao that roads were put in, the project was
stopped by DER. We had to go into }~ational Parks for about
$30,000 to remedy the situation. The road that was put in
by the county on Jurisdictional lands.
$o all Iem saying is that I think something should
count. In the case of a developer having to go and buying
acreage and deed it to DNR or the state or something. I
think that should count for so~ething towards the point
system in exemption.
VIC£-CtIAIRMAtl VOI~PEs As opposed to tho cou~tyl is
that what you're saying? Is that the point?
MR. BASIK~ Well, it's Just that whether it's a piece
of land that wa~ deeded to tho county or you had to go off
cite and you had to buy acreage to deed to DNR or, in my
cace, I had to go into international parks to construct
wetlands in there. I think that that should bo into
consideration .tn the exemption process.
I understand there's a lot of developers that have
go out and buy acreage and deed it over as an environmental
iepact to the project.
CHAIRMAN HASSE~ Could you respond to that, Mr.
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~;R. OLLIFFs Only that ! think that -- I'm not sure
the development dedication and contribution and -- of this
ordinance doesn*t deal with that. It does talk about any
governmental agency, and it talks about land deeded to those
governmental agencies as rc~luirod for that zoning that was
issued. So ! think that'a covered under that section.
~R. BASIKs ! asked }ir. Blanchard, and ! understood
that it wasn't.
CI~AIP~IAN [IASS£1 Mr. Bla~,chard.
MR. OLLIFF~ One other thing that I'd add.
You know,
this is not going to address every particular peculiar
incident that has happen~l. And in those cases where a
developer has done so~ething or bu~n required ~o do
o~tbing that was ~d and ~t of the realm of the
ordinance, thc're going to bo ~lo to and, I assume, to a
vested rights pr~eoa, have the hearing officer hear =hat
and detemine tba= yes wha~ he did go through --
C~AI~I HASSE= ~pecting t~t y~ Just c~ldn't
~kc =hat arrang~un~, could you through bhe c~rts or
MR. OFFITT s
is that if it's a requirement o!
Well, tho way that the exemption reads
the development order, that
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counts. It's a conveyance or dedication. Tt has to meet
those requirements. But that -- os if It's a requirt~ent of
the developu~nt approval, then ! think :hat t t may be -- in
thi~ particular instance.
If it ~ao to correct something that was an error,
thouoh, on t~.e p~rt of tho development, or s~e~htng like
that, I'm not sure that it ~ould apply.
CilAI ~ HAS~E s Okay.
~R. BA~IKI Tho second lo a situation t~t you
startS, tho ~P -- a~r~ed prior to final SDP~s being
pr~eased. ~o got caught tn t~ situation ~horo ~e ~nt
and /il~ the proll~tna~ ~P~ paid ~r -- the funds, and
chon ~o ~ero ~old that ~e ~d to file an SNP~ ~hich ~o
flied.
But n~ tbs restrictions ~ pr~oosing the SDP until
tho accountability has been pried -- county has to appr~a
tho 5HP. And ~haL tako~ six ~ntho, so t~t kn~ko you ~
the process of being ex~mpt.
CHAIRlt~! HA$$Es Ho~ would you address tMt?
I don't u~era~a~.
~o ~ust --
Is this a pro}ect specific
MR. ~iERRILLs
~lR. BASIgi
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you had with your project?
BR. BASIKs Well, ! think that -- that's the way it
has been with our projects.
But you go in for your ZDP and it's detemin~ tha=
y~'ro on fil~ with ~P, the ~in~ is ~ ~h~ Jus~ shelf
the pr~essing of the ~P until y~ get the appr~al of the
SHP, which y~'ve got to go get --
VICE-~IR VObPEs -- on the p~lic petition.
HR. OFFI~s {~dreseing tho audience) -- s~divtsi~
~s[or plan possible, and not much flexibility either
through state law or our ~n county ordinances for thai.
HR. BASI~{ I ~y ~ke a suggestion.
Ii y~ all~ tho ~P to bo pr~ess~ a~ as long as
ihs ~P is in pr~ess, then [h~ c~ld condition [haft y~
ask ihs ~P [o a~e s~Jec[ to ihs County Board or
Con~nission approving the SHP.
CIIAIRHAN
lderrill?
HR. HERRIL~s
Can you figure that one out, I~r.
think that what the bottom line is ii
that they want to get around tho existing process so that
they can get a final approval so that they fall within one
of tho exe~ptions, is the best I can figure it.
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COH1HISSIOH SAUNDERS~ Early basis,
HR. BA$IK~ We're not trying to ~et out of the filing
of tho master plan.
MR. MERRILL,;
MR. B~IK~
I understand.
But the department that handles this
thing is saying, 'We're not going to process it until you
accomplish It,' then that Just puts you out of the time
clement and there's no way you can make it by April 1st.
Why can't it be conditional?
¥ou'11 look at that?
HR. HERRILI~ s
Calk Co John maybe.
COI~H!SSION£R GOODNIOIITs
Yeah, wo'11 look into that and I'll
think that the important
situation here is that over the last couple o! yearo,
Chore's been an on-going workinos between the county and
thio properCy0 and it Just keeps getting bogged down into
dlffercnt things because of some state grants and some
different thindo like that.
And, you kno~, the way I'm looking at it is~ ?his
a process that has kind o! gotten bogged dora in the office,
and os I chink chat we've got to make -- whether he's vested
or not, because he's not going to have the number o[ BMP~s~
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or whatever they are,
whatever the date is.
by that drop dead day o! April 1st or
I don't kno~ the particular project,
but from what I've heard it doesn't sound like he's exempt
Or vested,
I don't know about vestedz but it does not sound like
),e'~ ex-.rapt under what -- I believe he's referring to is
2.4.4, the application section.
gR. OFFITTs This is an extremely complicated
proJect~ and -- kno~s anything about it --
CEultiple speakers - unreportablo.}
}4R. DORRII, I,s We spent about an hour and a hal! on
thio with John ~da~ewski explaining the situation, and it
was exactly the same as tho other tall gentleman who camo
down, who ~ao dolnq work ~ ~ the trailer park, wan~ us
to ~d=ini~trativoly -- the sta[[ to have the ~er to
administratively appr~e, et cetera, et cetera, betore the
actual subdivielon ~ater plan was appr~ed.
~ have already met ~tth the 9entle~n, and Jo~
through a very detailed explanation o[ the ztate la~ and
MR. MERRILhs So y~ are no~ retreading, rheas any
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change in that area?
HR. OFFITTs Again, ! think this is one of tho
complicated processes where I don*t think the ordinance can
be broad enough tO address these kind of cases.
But I think, kno~ing what I kn~ abou~ ~his pro~ec[~
there are enough federal funding issues and c~nLy
assistance issues in this LhaL he~s going ~o go ~hrough a
ye, Ling pr~e~s and i[~s going ~o do s~e~hing [~[ a
hearing officer ta going Lo ne~ s~e help~ in ~e~s of a~
[ha~ slags, ~o devel~ il. Fr~ w~[ I kn~ of
Peter Oiselb~ck~ foll~ by [he last speaker LhaL
~vo, Herb Savage.
VICB-CHAIR~II VObPB~ ~te~re hal acc~ing any more.
HR. OISS~BE~t l~m Peter Oisselbeck. [~m [na
c~ercial d~olo~on[ business heze~ both on ~he sales
and lbo d~el~e~ side.
I think ~e ~ve been ~ving a little fun al
expense of [he co Jn~y Lehigh[. [ [hi~ L~L ~e oughL [o
rename all of this [he ~er's ReLir~en[
CHAIRHAN HASS£~
they could retire on.
HR. GISSELBECK~
There are plenty of other things
I hope there isn't -- this hysteria
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about the amount of comercial property that's out there
zonod.
The reason why I say that is ! think there's an
undercurrent that we've got too much cc~r=ercial zoning out
there, and ! think there should be a distinction there
between having cos~nercial zoning and actually having
co~ercial buildings based on that.
I mean co~er¢ial building -- c~erctal property is
~ro ousceptiblo to the lawo of supply and dc~nd than most
of your real estate that's out there. Certainly co..,,erciol
zoning -- or co~nercial building, I should say, roll.s the
building of reaidential pr~erties. You I~ve to have
com~ercial properties in order to ~ake -- you have to have
residential properties in order to make commercial
p~opcrtioo r~kc sense.
~ov, if the co~ercial properties that are out there
that arc being built are being built in areas whcre they're
not going to l. avc any buaincoa, it doesn't take a genius to
figure out that it doesn't make sense to put any more out
there. In fact, you won't see tho intense special
commercial developments until you see the residen~ial
dovelo~nenta out there.
So I think that if we have four thousand acres in
co~nerctal dc*velopm~nt when we only need two thousand, then
! think all you're going to see out tLore i~ the two
thousand. You don't get money from lenders to build
projects that don't make sense.
Thank S,
HR o SAVAGE
Island.
Herb Savage, Architect, from l~arco
I've ~ust been speaking ~o Hr. Nerrill. On a daily
situation, I don't knov why you have to say final site
development plan. l~hen that ordinance was passed, it was
called site dovolol~ont plan. It didn't specify wh~ther
preliminary or final.
development a petition,
And I think I'll ~ust -- make site
not ftnal.
And ! don't kno~ why it's set for trial.
Don't ask you to consider that. That doesn't make
sensei no~, does it?
Anyvay, I'd like to ask a question about the
forty-two hundred acres, ! believe it is, in the commercial
and in reference to activity area. And I go to ]4arco Island
again, and you kno~ we have discussed this and resolved it.
Buc I can't i~agine a master plan of ~arco Island that has
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been through the cabinet of the State of Florida, the Corps
of Engineers of the United States of America -- and for
yearn, 1964, it has been a plan that hc~ been in existence,
developed completely, and here we're saying that residential
property around the Publix market can now be changed to be
co~.erctal if it's in the activity area~ yet the commercial
property all around Marco Island where the emergency center
is, the First Bank of Florida, all those areas can no longer
be co~ercial because they haven't been built on.
And I see all sorts of improved property.
remember Deltona selling lots for years and years.
property was a developed lot. ~low we're talking about
construction of building. Definition.
But my concern there is that here we have two
activity areas. And ! think they gave up activity areas
four years ago in planning. It seems you have to have
oix-lane high~.ayn going between activity areas. We've got
enough problems now.
We're -- no longer do we know about neighorhood
ntores~ The mom and pop store, living in the back of their
otore~ mo~ and pop takes care o! the neighborhood, they nee
what's going on in the neighborhood. We don't do those
can
Improved
things any more. Ne're all putting everybody in this group
over here and this group over here, and ! think activity
area~ is the worst thing we could possibly have done.
! only ask that Harts Island, which has been a master
plan since '64, that it be left as it is.
TPmt may not have anything to do with tonight's
meeting, except we are talking about activity areas and
cc~nercial property in this county.
UI~IDE}iTIFIED s
HR. SAVAGE
So of them on ~arco Island.
Pardon me7 ~o of year. Yeah.
One
~here gckerd's drugstore is, one where Publix drugstore is
-- or, grocery store.
UIilDE~IFIEDs And that's it.
}IR. gAVAGEs And that's it. And we have James,
Oenoel's {phonetic), Deltona Corporation. Planned it in
1962 and '63, and they were all through all of the agencies~
including the county in those days, and the state agencies.
And it has worked magnificently. And all those people who~
whether they're Europeans or Americans or whomever you might
be, bought thio property, and then I suppose they'll all be
co~ing before special you and paying some attorneys" fees to
have you reconsider it.
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And I think it ought to be left the way it was.
can't imagine a state legisature who awarded the Deltona
people the awards on the magnificency -- developed and tho
State of Florida not paying attention co that one fully
planned community.
I hope you consider that.
Thank you very much.
CHAIRMAn! HASSE~ Mr. Of f Itt.
ER. OFFITT~ l'fr. Chairman, I have very few chosen
comments. I think I've only got two items, that I have
listed, that I think I heard so~e Board direction r.o go back
and possibly make sOme revisions.
In terra of the definition on c~a~encoment of
construction in terms of that substantial language.
! thought I/r. Herrill had both of
CHAI RI~! HA$SE ~
Do that.
MR. OFFITT~
th/~n.
And development agreement, in terms o!
consistency densities and intensities that Mr. Pires brought
up. And other than that, I didn't have much listed in termsi
of any specific direction.
I've got some things ! think we're going to look at.
VICE-CHAIRMAN VOLPE~ I think that's right, Mr.
offitt.
CHAIRMAN HASSE: Substantial construction. You say
that might be something to address.
VIC£-CHAIP.~I~ VOI~PE~ ~ think that what I heard was
that substantial was s~ething that would be accuptablo to
~taff and to -- those ~vo been c~ented on.
!:£. CUYLER~
Yeah, we'll check that.
l:r. ~mirman, procedurally -- this is a
public hearino, but in this cas., unlike some of our other
ones, wc actually close this public hearing.
we have another one advertised for the 21st.
CHAIPJ.~H HA$$£~ All right.
MR. CUYb£Rs
that --
CHAI~iAZ!
MR.
public hearing.
CHAIRMA~I HA$$E~
And you ne~! to announce publicly
liarch tho 21st.
5~05 p.m., tho 21st, is the second
All right. Well then, I'm stating
that the next meeting is -- a continuance of this one, is
D!arch the 21st.
MR. CUYLER: Hot a continuance.
We'll close this public hearing. The next public
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CHAIRMAN HASSEs Itaking a motion?
VICE-¢HAI RHAN VOI~PE s
¢lo~e this public bear/no.
CO~4I SSIOI~£R SAUND£RS s Second.
COIIMI SSIOI~ER SHE}lABAN: Seconded.
the 21st.
make that motion that
CHAI RKMI BASSEI
¥ ICE-CIIAI R}t~H VOI~PEs
held on Harch 21st.
~tAIR~ BASSEs Right.
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