DSAC Minutes 11/14/2001 S November 14, 2001
TRANSCRIPT OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE
DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Naples, Florida, November 14, 2001
LET IT BE REMEMBERED, that the Development Services
Advisory Committee, in and for the County of Collier, having
conducted business herein, met on this date at 9:12 a.m. In SPECIAL
SESSION at Conference Room E, Horseshoe Drive, Naples, Florida,
with the following members present:
CHAIRMAN:
ABSENT:
Thomas Masters, P.E.
Blair Foley, P.E.
Bryan Milk
Charles M. Abbott
R. Bruce Anderson, Esq.
Marco Espinar
Brian E. Jones
C. Perry Peeples, Esq.
Dino J. Longo
Thomas R. Peek, P.E.
Dalas D. Disney, AIA
Robert L. Duane, AICP
David Correa
Herbert R. Savage, AIA
Peter H. Van Arsdale
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ALSO PRESENT:
Patrick White
Susan Murray
Ron Nino
Roy Smith
Tom Kuck
Barbara Burgeson
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CHAIRMAN MASTERS: All right. Let's call the meeting to
order. All right. With that, we had a meeting of the subcommittee,
and Ron's provided us with notes on that, and I'll turn it over to Ron,
if you'd like to lead us through.
MR. NINO: Okay. I believe you-- the subcommittee
unfortunately consisted of three of you only. We met. However,
those three are very -- very diligent in their review and essentially
found that but for a few amendments there was some concern, and
they're listed on that sheet. And when we get to it in the -- in the --
let me ask, do you want to go through each page of the agenda? It
shouldn't take that long.
MR. ABBOTT: Then let's do it that way.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: My -- my -- I think probably what
we ought to do, Ron, is go ahead and unless you want to pull
something out of it, we'll go over these four that you have in the
packet of the five issues.
MR. NINO: Okay. All right.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: And then unless any of the members
would like to pull another one that's not included in that group off of
the list, let's consider those approved. There's a large number of
them.
MR. ABBOTT: My -- my concern is strictly that I really dislike
getting stuff the day of the meeting because then not -- and not have
had a chance to really study it like you want. So that's my concern
because we've been here before, and we've had to revisit things
because they were either short-sighted or something, so I'm just -- I'm
real leery of stuff that I see for the first time. CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Okay.
MR. FOLEY: I got a comment. Well, we are going to go
through this -- this item--
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Let me just clear up what we're
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going to do then. Basically what we're looking at is the summary
from the subcommittee, go through the entire package that we
received a couple weeks ago. Then they made their recommendation.
I'd like to go with their recommendations for approval on all of the
items except for the four that's listed here that we'll discuss further
and every single issue in the new packet that we received today.
MR. ABBOTT: I am happy with that.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Now I'll turn it back over to Ron.
MR. NINO: Turn to page -- Item 2615, which, I believe, is
page 34 in your agen -- 34 in your packet. It is the position of staff
that -- that that amendment as worded is sufficient to give direction to
staff that in reviewing plans, they need to ensure that a recyclable -- a
provision has been made for accommodating recycling material.
Whether that be in the available enclosure space or an addition to the
enclosure space, nevertheless, a provision needs to be made for that
facility.
I don't think you could read this amendment and conclude that it
automatically means that you have to knock out the existing
enclosure space and -- and -- or if you have -- if your enclosure space
is surrounded with a masonry wall, for example, that we're going to
expect you to tear a portion of the wall and move it out to
accommodate the receptacle. I don't think there's any possibility of
that type of interpretation being made. But it does mean that since
we require a dumpster -- a dumpster or-- or a trash pickup every 500
feet, for example, in a multiple-family project, it follows that
everything that is associated with the business of picking up trash has
got to be in that same location, be it either accommodated within the
existing closure or some minor addition to it because I understand -- I
understand that the containers for recyclables are nowhere near the
size of the dumpster. So we're not talking about a substantial
expansion. And-- but our primary overriding goal is to ensure that
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projects as specific facilities for the collection of recyclable materials.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: All right. And I -- I think the
subcommittee all agreed that that certainly should be the case. But
we were just concerned that suddenly they'd be looking at -- for
instantaneous changes for these enclosures and requiring people to
modify or -- or include new landscaping to accommodate all the
recycling issues. And as long as they're going to be a little lenient in
the enforcement of that, I think that kind of resolves our issues.
MR. NINO: With all of these types of amendments, we
appreciate that. If we find there's a problem with it, the next cycle
we'll be tweaking it. But we need to have something in there. We
need -- requested by our waste -- solid waste management division
that we have that provision in there.
Actually, they've asked us to go a lot further, to allow me to
editorialize for a minute. They wanted us to include in the Land
Development Code a provision for a separate chute to deal with
recyclables, and we have to advise them that that's not the business of
the Land Development Code. If they want to achieve that, they'd
have to convince the people who amend the -- are responsible for
amending the building code to accommodate that -- that objective.
Item No. 2, the beach events --
MR. ANDERSON: Before we leave No. 1 --
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Uh-huh.
MR. ANDERSON: -- is there anything in this set of
amendments that addresses if a person loses part of their required
parking because they have to comply with the new recycling
ordinance and their container takes up some parking spaces that were
required?
MR. NINO: No.
MR. ANDERSON: Why not?
MR. NINO: Why not?
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MR. ANDERSON: Yeah. Don't you think--
MR. NINO: I don't think that there's justification for ever
allowing the required parking to fall below what is otherwise required
by the ordinance, regardless of what conditions precipitate it.
MR. ANDERSON: Well, that's not very common sensical. If
someone has only the required parking the county requires and they
have no other place to put their recycling container but in an
otherwise designated parking spot, what does that person do? Do
they violate the recycling ordinance, or do they violate the parking
requirements? That's their choice.
MR. NINO: They have to figure out how they can do both.
MR. ABBOTT: Sometimes it's not possible.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Some spaces are too tight to do that.
MR. ANDERSON: I think there ought to be something in here
in the parking section, or maybe we stick it in here with the solid
waste recycling language that provides that if a person loses required
parking spaces in order to comply with the recycling ordinance by
putting a container there, that they will not be in violation or not in
compliance with the parking requirements.
MR. MILK: Mr. Chairman, I'd like to either amend that or offer
another suggestion, Brace. What about the incorporation that
dumpster into the buffer, whether it be the landscape buffer on the
side or rear in lieu of the encroachment to the parking space just to
keep the site conforming from a parking standpoint and in
compliance rather than possibly not in compliance from that
standpoint?
MR. ANDERSON: Okay. From a practical standpoint, will it
be -- will the solid waste folks be able to get to the recycling
container if it's, you know, in part of the landscape buffer with their
vehicle?
MR. MILK: And usually there's vehicular drives that parallels a
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buffer. So if there's a 1 O-foot buffer, maybe we could allow an
encroachment of 5 or 8 feet with a well screen, you know, on three
sides and some vegetation around there in -- in lieu of the
encroachment and the parking space would be my suggestion.
MR. NINO: Yeah. As I understand it, the recycling provision is
nowhere near the size of the -- of a normal dumpster. I -- you know,
it comes nowhere near in terms of physical space consuming a
parking space. That's my understanding from the -- Denise Kirk who
is supposed to be here, is not here. But I remember at that meeting
we weren't talking about a very large structure or object.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Yeah. What -- what they are talking
about are typically -- you see it in single-family homes and a little on
dumpsters. But contrary to what Ron says, you still have to have a
pad under it. You have to have it landscaped so it's not visually -- so
you can't see it from -- from anywhere else. So it is going to take up
a parking spot. By the time you are able to roll it in and out and have
your landscape buffer next to it, if you add it on the side of a -- of a --
of a existing structure, it could be an entire space.
MR. FOLEY: Question, Blair Foley. Do they have to be in the
same location, the standard dumpster pad and the recyclable?
MR. NINO: Yeah. It has -- it has -- it has to be in that
500-foot --
MR. FOLEY: I think that -- I have a recommendation that may
incorporate both of your ideas into this and -- and leave it really
because each -- each site is going to be site specific. There's going to
be differences, some opportunities for your resolution, some for
yours. And I think that we can't hold the existing facility hostage to
this new code, maybe incorporate both languages into --
MR. NINO: I think more often than not you're going to find that
the dumpster is likely to be located next to parking is likely to be
located next to landscaping that is not really the buffer; it's just -- it's
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just landscaping. I mean, I've been out there driving around, and I
know that a number of them are simply next to open space that's part
of the project.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Would you like to make that in the
form of a motion?
MR. FOLEY: Yeah. I'd like to make a motion that we -- we
amend the language to include what Mr. Anderson had mentioned
about possibly taking -- and maybe we should number it as one
parking space. I don't think there's any need for the size to be any
larger than that, or is there, unless somebody can tell me otherwise.
MR. ANDERSON: I don't know. Unfortunately, we don't have
anyone here to answer that.
MR. ABBOTT: I've built those enclosures and such, and you
need more than one parking space. The trucks are big. He needs a
good -- either a curb to get to it -- you know, these are substantial
issues --
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: This isn't for the entire dumpster,
though.
MR. ABBOTT: I understand. For recyclable stuff. But, listen,
my philosophy is that all these types of rules that we do, they're for
the guidance of the wise and observance of fools. And I think if we
put it -- codify it and put it in solid waste, it's going to come back in a
real pain to people. I think we need to give them-- give the
developer on these sites as much liberty as he can possibly have to
accomplish the goal.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: This would be for retrofitting.
MR. PEEPLES: I understand.
MR. ABBOTT: Retrofits or anything. Retrofits or anything.
I -- listen, I'm a remodeler. I'm the one that has to come and live with
these types of roles that come up. And-- and I consider solid waste
and I consider some of the Department of Revenue people -- I
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consider them remarkably hard of thinking.
MR. FOLEY: I would like to amend Bruce's motion and-- and
make the statement that we would allow the existing facility to have
less park -- less than the minimum required parking and to allow
encroachments into either landscape buffer or open space as
necessary to facilitate the retrofit of the new container. How's that?
MR. ANDERSON: I second.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Any more discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: All in favor?
(Unanimous response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: The motion carries unanimously.
MR. NINO: Thank you. The next item was a continuance. It's
the item dealing with -- on page 49 dealing with the amendments --
you'll recall the last time around where we had some extensive
amendments to create annual beach events, permits for the functions
that --
MR. PEEPLES: Ron, I need to interrupt.
MR. NINO: Yes.
MR. PEEPLES: Tom, I have a potential conflict here, and I
have my Form 8-B that I'll leave with the court reporter and also
make a copy available to the members here, but my firm is
representing the Ritz-Carlton, and a member of my firm is here to
discuss this matter, so I won't participate in this.
MR. NINO: The committee -- the committee decided to
continue it and leave that discussion for this meeting. Staff's -- staff's
position is that the ordinance is fine the way it is. It doesn't need to
be changed. We feel more comfortable with the requirement for a
beach permit versus a notice, and I understand that, you know, Pat
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and Kim are both here. There's some ramifications to -- there's some
ramifications -- and Barbara-- some ramifications, I understand it,
from a legal point of view when we go from a permit to a notice.
And I'm going to leave it to Pat to explain what that distinction and
our concern is.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Before we go to that point, let me
just clarify. I believe the subcommittee's recommendation was -- was
denial barring something unforeseen in the presentation. MR. NINO: Okay.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Basically supporting staffs --
MR. NINO: Okay. I'm glad you were just continuing it. All
right.
Barbara or Pat, whoever-- who wants to run with it?
MR. WHITE: I'll start out. County attorney, Patrick White.
The legal aspect that I'm concerned about is making sure that this
committee has the opportunity to hear whatever concerns staff has
and also to afford to the applicant the opportunity to -- presentation
they believe that's appropriate. You've heard -- this was presented to
the subcommittee last week. You have a recommendation of denial.
I believe that's based on their analysis of staffs position. Ron's
alluded to essentially that although there was some direction and
request, if you will, from the board that they might consider the
notion of a notice instead of a permit. The idea, I think, from a
regulatory enforcement perspective is there is none if it's merely a
notice. All you have is some information that may be provided; it
may not. I'm not certain if any penalty provisions would apply in the
event that they were not provided or timely so.
And, as a result, I believe staffs position may be based upon the
fact that although the board afforded some window of opportunity to
the private property owners to bring in a request to change this as
proposed, I don't believe that staffs position -- staffs position is that
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sufficient time has not passed to demonstrate that there's, quote,
unquote, a problem in the manner in which this is being administered
such that at this point in time it's appropriate to consider this type of
an amendment, especially in light of the fact that there's potential for
loss of, if you will, enforcement authority.
The true legal position and the only one that I think our office
has any concern about is making sure that in a circumstance where
there's a privately requested rather than staff-generated amendment to
the LDC, that there be a window of opportunity for those applicants
to present their position. And I believe that's what we're going to do
very soon, if not next. Otherwise there's no questions, I'll leave it
alone.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Anybody have any questions?
MR. NINO: I might just re -- it dawned on me, since this is a
privately sponsored petition, I think that the applicant, Matt
Grabinski, ought to explain why he made the application.
MR. WHITE: Well, like -- like I said, unless there's any
question.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Thank you, Matt.
MR. GRABINSKI: Matt Grabinski for the record, representing
the Ritz-Carlton. The amendment that's before you was drafted at the
express direction of the Board of County Commissioners. I have
several copies of the minutes from the meeting last June where they
approved a whole slew of amendments to the annual beach events
permit. And in those minutes is discussion pertaining to this
amendment that's before you now. And the gist of what happened at
that meeting was that one of the amendments that we requested to be
put into the code that was added stated that the annual beach events
permit could not be revoked, and that was due to the very sensitive
and very valuable property rights that were at issue there. It was -- it
was a very huge debate, and I'm sure you-all remember the
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discussions and the public commentary that arose from that. But in
the end the BCC gave us the amendment we wanted.
However, certain members of the board had a problem having a
permit on their books that couldn't be revoked, and so they basic -- so
they said to me, "We'll give you what you want on the condition that
this code gets redrafted and this permit process is turned into a notice
process." And so that's what they did. And they even asked me to
get back up on record and promise to undertake the responsibility of
redrafting the code and cleaning it up and turning it into a notice
procedure rather than a permit procedure, and that's all I did. The
only reason why I drafted this amendment was because the county
commission requested that I do so. Had they not requested it, I
would have taken the amendments that they gave us in June, and we
would have been on our merry -- merry way. This amendment does
not substantially affect any of the rights that we already have.
Right now the LDC says that there's a permit and you pay a fee
and you get the permit but that it -- and that there are fines for
violations of it, but it can't be revoked. The county commissioners
didn't like the idea of having a permit that couldn't be revoked, so
they said, rewhite -- rewrite the code and bring it back as a notice. So
now it's a notice, an annual notice form. You pay the same fees,
same penalties, but nothing can be revoked. It's the same.
All I did -- I have extra copies of the minutes if anybody wants
to review them or take them home. All I did was exactly what the
Board of County Commissioners requested me to do, and that's the
only reason why this amendment is coming before you, and it's the
only reason why I'm here.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Thank you. Anybody have any
questions? Go ahead.
MR. ABBOTT: Not -- not really a question, just a comment. I
think he who governs least governs best, and I like that thought. And
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I remember the commission saying something like that, but I
appreciate the refreshing -- refreshment of my memory.
MR. NINO: Barbara, you have anything to offer to the debate?
MS. BURGESON: Just that going through the minutes, it is true
that the Board of County Commissioners did ask that Matt could
come back and make that -- that proposed change to the LDC.
However, because it was -- all those discussions were held at the
board and there was no opportunity for staff to take a position at that
time and it wasn't directed to staff to make those changes, we -- we
still feel the position that Patrick has given you, the formats
presentation, is the one that we want to stand with, that it's not
appropriate to not have this as a permit. There's a dozen other places
in the Land Development Code where private property owners have
to get permits such as temporary use permits, but they are permits.
There was a comment in the minutes made by Pam Mac'Kie
talking about the only way that that permit could be revoked was
through the Board of County Commissioners. I'm concerned that in
the future if we change the language to -- to take out permits, that we
have little authority to make sure that the endangered species is
protected on the beaches and that the -- the county and Collier
County becomes liable if there's any concerns, therefore, violations or
problems.
MR. GRABINSKI: IfI could respond to that, the reason why
staff did not prepare this amendment and the reason why I did was
because John Dunnuck at the meeting specifically requested the
commissioners to ask the hotel attorneys to undertake the task. He
didn't want his staff to be burdened with it. And while Commissioner
Mac'Kie did bring up the point that perhaps the BCC should have the
authority to have a hearing -- on the beach events permit, she then
asked me how I felt about that. There were some comment and
discussion where I -- I still told her that the hotel industry would
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object to any authority account -- of the county and have a -- having
any slight possibility of revoking the permit. And in the end she
backed off and said, "Okay. It should be a notice. So rewrite it."
and that's what we've done.
And I don't mean to sound disrespectful, and I don't want to
belabor this and waste any more time. If everybody wants to vote
this down, all I'm here to do is to fulfill my obligations on public
record. My job is to go in front of the county commission next
month and say you asked me to do this; I did it. If they want to vote
it down, not change it, it's not affecting our rights at all, and so I'm
not going to belabor this at all.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: I understand that. I think we all
understand the issues. Does anybody have any other questions of--
of staff or Matt?
MR. WHITE: Just to put it entirely in perspective, there were
issues relating to the comprehensive plan as well, and there were, I
think, at least equally as expressed direction to address that concern.
And I just wonder if Mr. Grabinski can put on the record what the
status of that is.
MR. GRABINSKI: It is my understanding that Rich
Yovanovich was going to take care of any necessary amendments to
the comprehensive plan. I'm not aware of the status. I haven't
discussed it in detail with him, but I know that after the meetings we
had -- we had a conversation, and he said, are you -- he said, I'll take
care of the comprehensive plan issues, if necessary, and you take care
of the LC -- LDC amendments.
MR. WHITE: And just for everybody's obvious knowledge, the
one commissioner in particular who is most vocal when you review
the minutes is Commissioner Mac'Kie. And I'm not suggesting that
there will be a change of posture in terms of what the entire board
may view of this matter, but it is possible. And certainly in light of
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that, I just want to make evident to everyone that circumstances
changed so ...
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Anybody like to make a motion?
MR. ANDERSON: I, too, am going to abstain. I represent
LaPlaya LLC and the Vanderbilt Inn who would potentially be
affected by this.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Okay.
MR. ANDERSON: And if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go
get --
MR. ESPINAR: Mr. Chairman, one quick statement, and then
I'd like to make a motion. The subcommittee looked at this, and we
recommended denial and support of staffs recommendation of denial.
Thus, I would like to stay with that and make a recommendation for
denial and support staff.
MR. JONES: Brian Jones. What he's doing is what the board of
commissioners --
MR. ESPINAR: Let the board -- the board took the
responsibility to -- which they will ultimately of-- of giving Matt
direction. Then let it -- let's -- let's go ahead and put it in the board's
hands and let them make the recommendation --
MR. JONES: So staff and the board are at odds, and we're
deciding who we're going to support on this issue.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: That's correct.
Do we have a second of the motion?
MR. MILK: I'll second the motion.
MR. PEEPLES: I have one question.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Yes.
MR. PEEPLES: Is there still a quorum with two abstentions?
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: I believe we have a quorum, don't
we? Does it matter if members abstain?
MR. NINO: Patrick.
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MR. WHITE: If they're not available to vote, they're not part of
the quorum for the matter.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Oh, so we don't have a quorum for
this issue anyway.
MR. WHITE: Apparently not. I didn't do the math.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: No, we don't. Not minus two.
MR. ABBOTT: Listen, if we're going to support staff on this
thing, I'll walk out of the room too.
MR. WHITE: Well, unfortunately, that's not an option.
MR. ABBOTT: It might be. I've got a coughing fit. I've got
my money out to go buy a soda. I can choose my time.
MR. WHITE: Well, I don't know that you want to put that kind
of information on the record, Mr. Abbott.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: We -- we don't have a quorum for
this issue, so we can't take a vote on it. I think the minutes will
reflect the discussion on the issue, and the subcommittee has a
motion that will carry forward.
MR. NINO: No. No, just the subcommittee --
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: We don't have a quorum to actually
forward a motion on this.
MR. NINO: Then it's no action at this point in time.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: No action, right.
MR. WHITE: Okay. If you want to take a vote and not be
effective, quote, unquote, just to reflect what the majority opinion
was, I'm certain that's information that will be provided to the board
recognizing that it's, quote, as Ron has indicated, not official action.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: I think that would be preferable to
take a vote with the members available.
MR. FOLEY: I have a comment.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Yes.
MR. FOLEY: Blair Foley. I think with all due respect, Marco, I
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think that -- in my opinion, that we did get direction from the board
for Mr. Grabinski to move forward and draft the language that he's
done. So I'm-- I'm in support of--
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: We have a motion on the floor. Can
we--
MR. FOLEY: I'm just talking about it. I'm not voting on it.
That's just my position. I just wanted to put that on the record as
opposed to just a yes or a no on the motion. So there is a -- there is a
motion and a second; right?
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: As -- as a point of discussion just
because in conversation at a board meeting it -- it sounded like a
good idea, I think substantially new information has also come to
light, and -- and I don't know that it does sound like such a good idea.
So that doesn't necessarily make me want to move forward with it.
With that let's take a vote and see where it falls. All in favor of
the motion?
(Those in favor responded.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Let's have a show of hands. Four.
And opposed? Two.
MR. NINO: All right. Four, two, and two; four, two, two
abstentions.
We go on to Item No. 3. Actually, your concern has to do with
-- with a portion of the section we were amending that didn't contain
all the language. So I think if you read-- take a minute and read the
remainder of the language of the section that is being amended, the
concerns you raised I think will go away.
As you know, this came -- this request was made to us by public
works department, Joe Cheatham. It's the position of the county that
we want systems of dual -- dual water systems, one for reusable
water and one for potable water. And I think your -- your committee
expressed some concern, well, what about where there aren't any
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facilities. And I understand that the rest of the paragraph which was
left unsaid in the amendment addresses those -- those concerns.
MR. KUCK: I might add one thing -- Tom Kuck, engineering
director. For the record, I did talk to Joe Cheatham yesterday, and he
also wanted some language included to more or less state that the
county would not be responsible to maintain whatever pumps may be
needed for the system for the distribution lines, but they would do the
installation of the meters and the maintaining of meters. So that --
and I just got that from him late last night, and he wanted to talk to
me again today on it, but we may be adding some of that type of
language to this proposed amendment too.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Anybody have any comments?
MR. ANDERSON: I have one comment. It's not directed to the
merits of the proposal, but it's this kind of thing that contributes to the
lack of affordable housing in our community. And right now there's
a waiting list of people who want treated effluent and the county can't
provide it. And I think it ought to be tied into some kind of a master
plan where they're planning to serve people because this shouldn't
apply in an area where there's -- it's going to be extremely difficult to
provide effluent, and it's a shotgun approach.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Ron, I have a question. This -- this
only applies to PUDs and SDPs?
MR. FOLEY: It doesn't say that.
MR. NINO: It would apply to all platting.
MR. FOLEY: It says development.
MR. NINO: It would apply to all platting.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Any platted --
MR. NINO: Any platted -- yeah.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: So somebody out in Golden Gate in
a single-family home is not going to have to -- MR. NINO: No.
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CHAIRMAN MASTERS: -- supply a connection out to the
street or something.
MR. FOLEY: It says for all subdivisions and developments.
MR. N1NO: But we're -- Tom, are you going to --
MR. KUCK: Yeah. It would be for all new subdivisions,
developments that would be coming down the pike.
MR. NINO: It would be a lot by --
MR. KUCK: You need to realize in some of those cases it may
be a dry system for -- you know, for two or three years or five years
or longer till the secondary water is available.
MR. NINO: But if there's a -- if there's a vacant lot in Golden
Gate --
MR. FOLEY: Right.
MR. NINO: -- that's going to in-fill development, we're not
going to be putting in a dual system. It's not there. It wouldn't make
any sense to do that. And I think it's clearly not the intent of that.
And if you need that -- that clarification, why, I think we could add it.
MR. JONES: Mr. Chairman, a comment. Has this gone before
the utilities committee for their purview?
MR. KUCK: I -- I don't know. Ask Tom because I think Tom's
attended more of the utility subcommittees than I have in the last
year.
MR. JONES: There is much expertise, contractors, installers,
and I think that that would be an appropriate forum for an in-depth
review of this before it comes to this board so we can have feedback
information. I don't -- I don't feel qualified to -- to make a decision
on -- either way with regarding this without that oversight.
MR. FOLEY: Blair Foley. I agree with -- with the two
comments from Mr. Jones and Bruce as well, Mr. Anderson. I think
that we have an opportunity over -- since we do address the LDC a
couple of times a year that this may be premature, perhaps a good
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idea in the future, but I'm not sure the county's in a position to
provide this service right now. At a minimum, I think we should let
our subcommittee review it, take it from there.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Would you like to put that in the
form of a motion, Brian?
MR. JONES: Just another comment. I believe the concern you
have, you're trying to get this before the end of the year. Is there a
time constraint that you're working towards or that this cycle cut off?
MR. NINO: Yes. It's -- it's that agency's wish that this occur as
quickly as possible.
MR. JONES: I -- I'm just concerned that there was other time
that -- that it could have been reviewed by that, and I'm -- it may be a
-- a good thing or bad thing. I don't know. But on the 11 th hour, I --
I don't feel able to support it on the previous --
MR. NINO: Well, we've never -- you know, in the past you've
dealt with many amendments to the subdivision section that have --
that have addressed utilities, and they've never gone to the utility
subcommittee. I mean, you're the land -- you're the LDC code
revision committee. There was never an expectation upon the part of
staff that even if they were utilities related we would go to any other
committee of DSAC other than the Land Development Code
committee.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Yeah. I think in support of Ron's
comment, basically in the utility code subcommittee meeting the fact
that staff is already bringing it forward and supports this motion
would probably carry a majority of the weight in that meeting. I'm
the only member on this board that sits on that. My guess is that it
probably would go forward. I think it still needs some tweaking, as
Tom said, get a few technical issues straightened out before it goes
before the board, but that can be taken care of.
MR. KUCK: And-- and I can-- if you give me direction, I can
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talk to Joe Cheatham to say several questions came up and to see if it
would be a problem if it were continued or if he wants to go ahead
and have it on -- you know, continued as an LDC amendment,
realizing that maybe it may not have the support of the DSAC
committee. But I will -- I will talk to him today.
MR. FOLEY: I make a motion that we deny this as drafted for
reasons stated by the members, committee members.
MR. JONES: I have an option before we vote on that. If-- if
that could be deferred to that committee, I would be willing to go
with that committee's recommendation, and that way you would still
be able to make your cutoff. I would defer my -- defer judgment to
that committee on basically our behalf. There's a lot of expertise.
There's utility contractors. There's a depth of knowledge there that--
that I don't have, and it's not present on this board. I think it would --
if there are pitfalls and problems with this. If there's not a problem
that the people that are actually doing that and installing subdivisions,
they're going to know about it. It affects their livelihood. So my --
my motion would be that we defer it to that subcommittee and
endorse their recommendation or denial, whichever. CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Any comment?
MR. ANDERSON: I want to second Blair's motion if he'll
accept a friendly amendment, and that is that we recommend denial
unless and until the county commission has approved a master plan
for expansion of the secondary water treated effluent system. MR. FOLEY: I'd accept that.
MR. ANDERSON: Only apply in the urban area.
MR. NINO: Aren't you out of order in view of Blair making --
Brian making a motion?
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: No. Blair made a motion.
MR. FOLEY: I made one. I made one too.
MR. NINO: You made one before --
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CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Blair was just discussing the motion.
We didn't have a second yet.
MR. FOLEY: I would agree to amend my motion, and that's my
biggest concern. I do understand the expertise in our subcommittee.
The issue isn't the ability to install it or how it would be coordinated
with -- with the development, at least in my posture.
My bigger concern is can the county provide it? Do they plan to
provide it? Are we going to have a bunch of backbone systems just
sitting around not being used? So I -- I like the amendment, and I'll
support that.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: We have a amendment on the floor,
then; that's with a second.
As a point of discussion, I would like to add that was our -- our
biggest point of discussion, too, in the subcommittee meeting was
we're going to have these -- these systems sitting there potentially for
ten-plus years in the ground with FPL and UTS and everybody
cutting through them all over the place. When you go to power it up
ten years from now, what -- I mean, what kind of shape is it even
going to be in potentially? So I think it is important to know within
reason when that could be expected to come on-line. MR. NINO: What is the motion?
MR. FOLEY: The motion is for denial with Mr. Anderson's --
MR. ANDERSON: Unless and until the county commission
approves a master plan for the effluent reuse system expanded. MR. NINO: Okay.
MR. PEEPLES: I have a question. And that is, you know, I see
your concern of putting this in the ground and not using it for a
period of years. But if a development is permitted and built, can a
development be effectively retrofit to put this dual water system in?
The engineers can --
MR. FOLEY: It can be. It might be difficult, but you run
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against the same -- the same problems, that if you put it in, then do all
your crossings -- I mean, I think it can be done with difficult --
difficulty.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: As -- as a point of discussion, I
mean, in the projects that we do, we always go dual watering. We --
we supply irrigation to -- to our customers within a project. So if it's
there -- any way of being utilized, I don't -- I just don't know if there
wouldn't be cases where that wouldn't be the case.
MR. FOLEY: Blair Foley. I just was wondering what the
standards might be for that. Would they be able to accept all the
irrigation systems that were designed, you know, independent of
county approval, really? We have a cursory review, as far as
irrigation goes, but there isn't pipe-fitting requirements and things
like that in an irrigation system. Tom's issue is it's in the ground. In
some cases it may be able to be utilized. In other cases they could
put a line in the ground to serve it.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: I mean, my -- my -- again, my
position would be, I -- I would support this motion. I would just like
to know a little bit more about what it is coming on-line -- MR. PEEPLES: If it actually has?
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Yeah. As opposed to not support the
issue waiting for more information to go on -line. I'd rather see us
support it and push for a more proactive approach to get these
systems connected and when it's going to occur because I think, you
know, if' it goes for another five years, it will be another five years'
worth of projects that don't have a dual water system.
MR. FOLEY: The reason for my motion is I don't like to put
regulations in place when the county may not have any idea what
they're doing as far as providing a service. I think that by saying no,
get your ducks in a row, tell us what you've got in mind, and then
we'll be happy to support it. I'm a little concerned about already
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imposing additional government regulation in advance of a plan to
supply the system.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Any other --
MR. ABBOTT: A comment I have is -- and I base this strictly
on the paper and a couple of comments. Don't we use all the effluent
we've got anyway in the wintertime? MR. FOLEY: Yes.
MR. ABBOTT: There's almost -- there's nothing left over?
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: They're not accepting any new
customers right now.
MR. ABBOTT: Well, in my opinion, that's the best argument
yet. No. You know, if we don't have any left over to distribute --
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Okay. Any further discussion?
MR. NINO: Isn't it the in -- isn't it the inverse of that? I mean,
if we're out of water, that means we should be picking up more water
from residential subdivisions that don't have the golf courses and
shipping it to those -- those golf courses that need water and now
can't get it.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: But it's not there.
MR. NINO: But it's not there, right.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Okay. All in favor of the motion
before us.
(Those in favor responded.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: All opposed? Aye.
MR. NINO: And the last item was a minor change to page nine
-- 90 which remains. So that -- having gone through that system
now, let's start at the beginning of your packet and skip those which
we've already dealt with.
The first page is a -- is a -- is a deletion altogether because in
this cycle we are not new -- making the conversion. Do you have a --
MR. FOLEY: I have one of those. Are we going through this,
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or are we just going to go through the amendments, the changes we
got handed to us today?
MR. ESPINAR: The little one.
MR. NINO: All right. Thanks. Good. I'm glad you mentioned
that.
MR. FOLEY: We -- excuse me a second. Bruce, I don't know
if you were here when we talked about this. We -- in an effort to
support the subcommittee, we were going to go over the comments
that were specific which we just completed and then take the
recommendations that the -- the subcommittee had on the balance of
the amendments. Unless one of the committee members -- MR. ANDERSON: Okay.
MR. FOLEY: -- wanted to pull it. And then -- and we were just
handed this document (indicating) when we entered the room. We
were going to go over this in its entirety. MR. ANDERSON: Okay.
MR. FOLEY: If there are any other issues you want to pull --
MR. ANDERSON: Okay. Just bring it up at the time as we
move along.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Well, actually, now would be the
time, if you want to go back to any of the issues in the entire package.
Did you want -- did you want to have further discussion on this?
MR. NINO: Can we -- can we do these first because that will --
that will --
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Okay.
MR. NINO: Page 23, 24, 25, and 26 was some minor
modifications to the landscape provisions. Carolina, would you
explain what the changes were over those that were reviewed by the
committee?
MS. VALERA: For the record, my name is Carolina Valera.
I'm a senior planner with current planning. The changes that we
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made for the landscape, for the landscape part of this overlay, it was
just refining the language and making it more clear basically. There's
no, you know, major changes to it.
MR. NINO: So there's some minor structuring. If you compare
page 25 with page 25 that was in your documents, you'll find that
there's some minor restructuring. However, I think in terms of
landscape quantity and specifications, nothing is changed.
MR. ANDERSON: I need to announce that I have a conflict. I
represent Benderson Development Company, which owns several
parcels in this activity center. And, therefore, I will abstain from
voting on this.
MR. NINO: Let me add for the record that the requirement to
do this is a mandate from the comprehensive plan. So we don't have
a choice. We need to prepare development standards for Activity
Center No. 9, and there will be others coming to you in the future.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: I would add the subcommittee
supported this as it was originally brought before us so -- I mean,
like, some minor changes.
MR. NINO: Okay? Move on? Can you hand these out? They
were just given to me. This speaks to page 26-A which was never in
any package. The county attorney's office, Marjorie Student, has
advised that the intent of the county Board of Commissioners to -- to
impose a form of temporary moratorium on development on
Gulfshore Drive between Vanderbilt Beach Road and 11 lth. I think
this kind of mirror images the Goodland -- no, the -- well, I don't
know what it mirror images. I haven't seen it. Marjorie drafted it
yesterday or this morning. And that's where we're at. Apparently
we're dealing with one year. And only those lands that are zoned RT
-- there are some lands zoned commercial. There are also some lands
zoned RMF-12 or 16 on Vanderbilt -- Gulfshore Drive. So it's the
only -- the RT-zoned portion.
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MR. FOLEY: Most of that's developed, it looks like; right?
MR. NINO: Uh-huh.
MR. FOLEY: It looks like maybe one -- one lot's undeveloped.
MR. NINO: And looking at it very quickly, Bruce, you're about
as familiar as anybody with that district, but -- but I see the prohibited
uses under prohibited -- under permitted uses, there's no mention of a
hotel. So it's apparent -- it's apparent that a hotel is being eliminated
for the -- for the duration of the year.
MR. ANDERSON: Well, first, let me announce that, again, I
will abstain from voting because I have a conflict. I represent La
Playa LLC and the Vanderbilt Inn, who would be affected or
potentially so by this ordinance. It's not clear to me where it says
prohibited uses, and then it says permitted uses like there's something
missing. It's confusing me because the accessory -- uses accessory
go on to speak about hotel/motel. Yet it's not a permitted use about
this. Something is missing here.
MR. PEEPLES: Is it that these would be permitted uses but for
this current--
MR. ABBOTT: Currently permitted.
MR. PEEPLES: These are currently permitted, currently uses
accessory, current conditional uses. MR. NINO: Patrick.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Or prohibited now.
MR. WHITE: Assistant County Attorney Patrick White. I
believe that the intent under 2.2.3 5.3, if I'm reading the sequence
correctly, is that all of the permitted uses, uses accessory to it, etc.,
that follow would themselves be prohibited and that merely this is a
restatement, if you will, of what those uses are set forth in the
existing LDC provision that identifies permissible uses, including the
term of art permitted uses, as well as uses accessory permitted to
permitted uses.
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CHAIRMAN MASTERS: So --
MR. WHITE: You'll -- you'll note that there are some
exemptions that follow.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: To simplify, basically stating that
they simply want to prohibit any changes to this for a period of one
year?
MR. WHITE: I believe that's the intent but for the exemptions
in 2.2.3 5.4. And that appears to apply to completed development
applications for approval.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Again, we don't have a quorum to
vote on this issue anyway with that abstention.
MR. ANDERSON: I'm present for the purposes of establishing
a quorum.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Thank you.
MR. ANDERSON: That's okay.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Okay.
MR. PEEPLES: I have a question. And Patrick may be the best
one or maybe Ron. What is the -- what's the driving force behind
this?
MR. ABBOTT: Good question.
MR. PEEPLES: What is the reason for establishing this
moratorium?
MR. WHITE: I don't feel comfortable identifying what the
county's position is because I'm not privy to that information.
MR. PEEPLES: And I was thinking since somebody in your
office has done it, there has been no internal discussion, so you can't
enlighten --
MR. WHITE: There has been internal discussions, but I have
only participated in them tangentially and was not part of moving
force behind this. I can tell you that it probably has something to do
with the fact that we've had a number of difficulties at the site
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development plan and, quote, Land Development Code amendment
stage in developing a regulatory fabric that we can consistently apply.
MR. PEEPLES: Within this particular area.
MR. WHITE: Area. And I can tell you that that will be
exacerbated to some degree by the fact that there are issues involving,
quote, sovereign lands, unquote, that may have potential impacts.
And that's part, I believe, of what the consideration will be during the
assessment period for new development.
MR. NINO: I -- I think it's safe to venture that there is also an
effort here that this will give us time to -- to justify an amendment
that would eliminate hotels as a permitted use in the RT zoning
district.
MR. WHITE: To that extent, I generally identify two types of
moratoria, a concurrency moratoria for public health, safety, welfare
where you have inadequate out-- infrastructure. This, I don't believe,
is one of them precisely. It's more of a consistency-type moratorium
where in order to determine that we have a set of land development
regulations that are consistent internally, consistent with other
districts and consistent with the comprehensive plan itself, I believe
it's the board's direction and our office's understanding that we will
ask to have that period of time of one year to assess for the purposes
of making those kinds of consistency determinations and coming
back with proposed changes to the regulatory fabric.
MR. PEEPLES: I have another question. And, again, I hate to
drill you on this because this isn't your specific project, but I was
under the impression that a moratorium is a fairly drastic step to take,
really requires some sort of overriding public purpose because it's
such an impingement upon private property rights. And I take it
since the coUnty attorney staff has prepared this that there has been an
analysis to determine whether this would survive, you know, judicial
review if property owners in that area challenge it.
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MR. WHITE: The manner in which they would challenge it, I'm
not sure. It's an LDC amendment, if you will. And I'm not going to
propose to lecture this group about what the standard of review
would be. I don't think it would be my client's best interest to do that
either. But suffice it to say, for the purposes of this record that I
believe we've made all those appropriate determinations, and
certainly we believe that if challenged we would prevail.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Would you like to make a motion?
MR. PEEPLES: Does anybody else have anything to say?
MR. FOLEY: I agree with what you say, Mr. Peeples. I feel
without having some real direction from the county attorney as to
what -- what was the driving force behind this and -- moratorium is
an extreme measure, and it concerns me. But I -- really, I know
Patrick wasn't the individual who was working on it, but I'm a little
concerned about this being pushed forward with approval.
MR. PEEPLES: Well, I -- I will make a motion that we deny
this. And my reasoning for that is, I just -- I -- I think, perhaps, that
the -- that the board is reacting to a situation where they are trying to
gain extra time. And I'm not sure that this is an appropriate way to
do it. The zoning is there. The zoning can be amended. The LDC
can be amended in ways other than a moratorium, and I think this is
just a very extreme measure. Just -- it's just -- it's very much out of
the ordinary, and I don't think I can support it. So I would move that
we deny this amendment to the LDC.
MR. JONES: Second.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS:
(Unanimous response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS:
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS:
MR. ANDERSON:
Okay. All in favor?
Any opposed?
That one carries unanimously.
With one abstention.
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CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Thank you.
MR. NINO: The next items are -- deal with amendments to the
well field protection ordinance, and the reason why the -- the
subcommittee approved of all of the amendments, there were a
couple of deletions, and that's why -- that aren't -- a couple that aren't
going forward in this cycle. But what's here was approved by you.
Ray Smith is here if you have any further questions. As I said,
the reason why it was in your packet as a reconsideration item is
because there were -- two of the amendments were -- were
withdrawn. Again, for the record, these are mandated amendments.
They're required by the governor's final order, and that's why we're
dealing with them.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Anybody have any discussion on
these?
MR. ESPINAR: I make a motion that we approve it.
MR. MILK: I'll second it.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: All in favor?
(Unanimous response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: The motion carries.
MR. NINO: There were -- and the subcommittee did not get an
opportunity -- I apologize, but there were a couple of definitions from
transportation that I forgot to put in your package and/or -- or -- or
did we deal with it?
MR. ESPINAR: We did, yes.
MR. NINO: Okay. 109, 110 we dealt with. The subcommittee
dealt with those two -- those two definitions which were not in the
package that you received in your mail. The committee supported
them.
MR. FOLEY: I have a comment on page 109. It's -- I don't
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know. Maybe it's just something that I got. It may not be a big deal.
I don't like the use of the words "affords" there, a public or private
way which affords access to abutting property. I thought maybe "that
which provides or allows." I don't know if that's even an issue but --
any thoughts or comments from the board members?
MR. MILK: ! would agree with you, Mr. Foley. I think some
wordsmithing there may be appropriate.
MR. NINO: Well. Appreciate that that was -- that's in the
original --
MR. FOLEY: I understand.
MR. NINO: You know, it's in the original. It was something
we were changing.
MR. FOLEY: If we could change it to "which allows access to
abutting properties," would that be acceptable? MR. NINO: All right.
MR. FOLEY: Then I make a motion that we approve this based
on that revision.
MR. PEEPLES: Second.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Second? All in favor of the change?
(Unanimous response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Okay. Yes, Brian.
MR. JONES: I have a question. Back on -- I don't know if
we've already gone through this, on 23 and 24 on the building and
landscaping amendments -- MR. NINO: Yeah.
MR. JONES:
MR. NINO:
MR. JONES:
MR. NINO:
Are we -- have we visited that yet?
Yes.
We have?
Yes.
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MR. JONES: I had some comments on that. On page 24,
2.2.35.4, it begins, "All buildings shall meet requirement for the
architectural code." And the architectural code that we have is -- is
very prescriptive and -- and what is to be done. And there are
currently buildings that are immune from that architectural code. By
stating all buildings, I -- I assume that we mean all buildings, for
example, golf course maintenance buildings and sewer plant
buildings and school bus barns and so forth and so on, buildings that
are not on the right-of-way. This is a tremendous financial impact to,
for example, industrial parks. They are--
MR. ABBOTT: Three-foot overhang business?
MR. JONES: This -- this would be a devastating impact to a lot
of agricultural buildings, buildings used for-- for-- there are
exemptions. This would close all of those exemptions, and not that it
wouldn't be a bad thing to have everything look beautiful. But who's
going to pay for it, and what is the downside? And do we really want
this?
MR. NINO: Well, first -- first of all, let -- let me -- let me -- let
me explain. Everything that's zoned commercial in that activity
center is now subject to the architectural regulations. No one's -- no
one's going to build a horse barn in Activity Center No. 9, I mean --
MR. JONES: So this is specific to 9?
MR. NINO: Yes. This is specific to Activity Center No. 9.
What it does do, however, you should appreciate, is that some
parts of Activity Center No. 9 are industrially zoned. And the current
regulations only require the application of architectural standards to
buildings that front on arterial or collector roads. For example, City
Gate come -- came on board, it would have an internal road system.
You know where City Gate is up behind the water-- the water tower
there, the water tank, so that the only difference would be that, yes,
this extends the architectural regulations to industrially zoned
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properties that are going to be in Activity Center No. 9 that are zoned
-- that are -- that are not -- that are on local roads or even private
roads that are unique to that industrial park.
MR. MILK: Mr. Nino, wasn't there another -- an overlay plan
that was done for the intersection to approve by county board
members last year?
MR. NINO: Yeah. Wilson-- this came out of the Wilson,
Miller study, designed a master plan for the activity center. MR. MILK: Kind of memorializes this.
MR. NINO: Yeah. This is -- this -- this puts it into the Land
Development Code. It takes it from a master plan to the
implementing stage.
MR. ANDERSON: May I suggest one clarification here on that
section that Bryan brought up? There is a limitation on the amount of
commercial that can be built in this activity center. And the way this
is written, we would be applying commercial building architectural
and site design requirements to residential structures that might be
constructed in that activity center. That's not your intent, I don't
believe. So why don't we say all commercial and industrial
buildings --
MR. NINO: I think you're right.
MR. ANDERSON: -- shall meet the requirements?
MR. NINO: I think you're right.
MR. PEEPLES: Just one thing to add to that. Do we want to
say all commercial and industrial, or do we want to say all
nonresidential?
MR. ANDERSON: I thought about that. And then I thought,
well, what about accessory structures to residential that aren't strictly
residential like a clubhouse, restrooms around the community pool,
that kind of thing.
MR. NINO: You know, a similarity in Activity Center No. 9,
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there are some residential components. There's a residential
component in the -- the Bonita Bay -- no, Bonita Bay project. And
there's also a residential section in that one that you and Bob did on
the south side, so --
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Do you have any other comments,
Brian?
MR. NINO: We typically don't deal with architectural standards
as they apply to residential because, quite frankly, we feel that they're
always going to be consistent.
MR. JONES: On roof treatments, if that were to change to a 4
and 12, there are some fall protection requirements that are
necessitated, I believe, at -- at possibly 5 and 12. 4 and 12 might be a
little -- it's not that big a difference, but it can make a difference to
the roofers.
MR. ABBOTT: Also, when you start doing the -- the 3 -- or the
3-foot overhang, we have some provisions in the modem hurricane
code that's coming that has serious problems with 3-foot overhangs.
They're very good for solar aspects, for shading. There's very nice
things about them. We used to build them a lot. But the engineering
requirements for 3-foot overhangs pretty much drove them from the
market. That's a ten-year comment. Would you agree with that,
Brian?
MR. JONES: Yes, I would.
MR. ABBOTT: They -- they disappeared. They used to do it
in houses all the time and commercial buildings.
Other things you've got, when you do 5/12 with a 3-foot
overhang, you're going to have to start increasing building heights
because the actual overhang is going to stick down into head-type
areas that building code already addresses in a number of ways. So I
just -- I urge you to always think about the other ramifications that
come. Instead of 8-foot walls, you're certainly going to go to 9s and
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10S.
MR. JONES: I would have a comment on industrial. I would
agree that the areas facing 1-75 and the front elevations that -- that
those areas be architecturally treated. However, there are -- there are
alleyways and common -- common yards between buildings that it --
it doesn't serve any purpose for -- no one can see it type of thing.
And it is a costly -- this is your industrial area. This is where -- this is
where the stuffs manufactured. This is not generally an area that is
known for its ambiance and its nightlife. It's -- it's where the meat
and potatoes of-- of our economic development is -- is done. And
you're -- you're hindering, and you're requiring those buildings to
look just like all the other buildings. Is that really what you want? I
don't -- again, my -- if you can see it from 75 or from the front
elevation or the sides, I -- I can see that. But this does not make any
allowance for that.
MR. ABBOTT: Another question for Ron. Used to be -- and
the way I've used it for a long time is overhang -- excuse me,
overhangs greater than 2 feet affect the setback. Is that a valid
comment?
MR. MILK: I think it was 3 feet.
MR. NINO: Yeah. I think it's 3 -- I think it's 3 feet -- MR. AB BOTT: Okay.
MR. NINO: -- projection into the side yard. But if you're ready
to get back into this, I'm going to have to call Carolina Valera back.
MS. MURRAY: Oh, you want Carolina?
MR. NINO: Yeah.
MR. JONES: Basically, the--
MR. NINO: Are you -- are you -- are you saying that there's
something in the new building stuff that's coming on line that -- that
discourage a 3-foot overhang?
MR. ABBOTT: Yes, sir. There certainly is. And I can't
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comment about it intelligently enough, but there is a provision in
there. We need to ask Ed Perico or Jerry Ballard or something.
MR. JONES: Well, the wind load in and of itself is going from
110 to 140, and then we're requiring cupolas and things that are on
the top of these roofs, and the slope factors of the roof themselves --
MR. ABBOTT: One of the issues is the top cord of trusses,
which is frequently the part that extends beyond, and that's the
overhang on how you frame things and typically do it. When you go
from 2 feet to that 3 feet, you start increasing to such a degree that the
walls have to be substantially stronger to hold it down at that instant
because it's a noted peel-away issue in hurricanes, and they saw it a
lot in Hurricane Andrew, and that's why they changed the code.
MR. NINO: What are you suggesting?
MR. ABBOTT: I personally like 3-foot overhangs ifI can
engineer them at reasonable cost. But what Brian is saying is very
true. When we start worrying about setbacks and 3-foot overhangs
and all this engineering, you -- you substantially increase the price of
the building. And to a visual improvement only, then maybe it's
questionable.
MR. NINO: Well, are you saying the overhang should not
exceed 2 feet or 1 foot or-- you have to give us some direction.
MR. JONES: I'm saying you don't necessary -- in many
instances -- for example, take the industrial park. Most of the
buildings don't have an overhang. They have a parapet condition.
And an overhang's not necessitated, it serves no purpose. It's not
even a shading purpose. Wood is prohibited in constructional -- in
commercial zoning anyway from a -- roof framing. So it has to be a
noncombustible bar joist, steel, something of that nature, in the first
place. So the wood overhang is -- is out.
MR. NINO: Let me go to Carolina. Carolina, what we're
talking about is the -- we're -- we're back to this and -- concerning
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that the 5/12 slope should not -- that that's excessive, unnecessary. It
should be 4/12 slope, concerning that 3-foot overhangs is -- is --
causes a problem, not necessary, something, perhaps, in the new
building codes might -- might also further exacerbate that with
greater stress from the wind loads, and if you're going to go out --
Charlie says if you're going to go out 3 feet, you have to build higher
-- it has to be a higher structure. What generated that type of
concern?
MS. VALERA: The study itself, you know, the interchange
master -- master plan study was recommended that steep roofs were
used to, you know, create that theme, that Florida character in that
area. And they thought that by using steep roofs and deep overhangs,
that will, you know, contribute to the look of that, you know, to
create that interrated theme in that area. That's the reason why.
MR. ABBOTT: Architecturally I have no problem with it.
From a practical standpoint cost-wise is where my -- I think it does
look --
MR. NINO: If we're speaking to the issue of cost, I think you
have to -- you have to appreciate that a statement has been made that
calls this activity center out for extra-special treatment because it's a
gateway to the Naples metropolitan area. And what those policy
makers are saying is that additional investment is warranted because
of the prominence of-- of that interchange. So, you know, to an
extent we're saying, be damned with costs. We've got a goal here to
achieve. So coming -- coming from that perspective, you know, what
do you--
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Yeah. Adding to that statement, I --
I agree. I mean, if somebody has lost interest and doesn't want to be
in an area that has that new look, then they can certainly find a
cheaper place to build a building that isn't required to have all this
gingerbread added to it so ...
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MS. VALERA: If I may add, I understand the study was done,
you know, with collaboration from members of the community, you
know, people that have ownership in the -- in that area, and as well
as, you know, staff members.
MR. NINO: Yeah. It was -- right. It was a collaborative study.
In other words, the landowners in that area were -- were involved in
the visioning process, so they certainly know that this is an area
where we're going a step beyond. And maybe that step beyond also
has a remunerative value in the price of the land so --
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: The other comment, Carolina, that
came up was in the first sentence it starts out, "all buildings," at the
top of that page. It is recommended that it be changed to all
commercial and industrial buildings shall meet the requirements
listed below. Is that the intent that you had?
MS. VALERA: Yes. And, again, the study did -- did, you
know, allow for that. I mean, they -- they did include that all
properties there in the interchange should have that unified theme in
that -- in that area.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: So that change would be acceptable
to you, to change that to all commercial and industrial?
MR. NINO: Was -- was it the intent -- was it the intent?
Because, see, it reads -- it reads "site design standards for commercial
buildings." Was it the intent that all buildings in Activity Center No.
9 would be subject to the regulations?
MS. VALERA: Right.
MR.
MS.
MR.
MR.
MR.
MR.
NINO:
MILK:
NINO:
ANDERSON:
NINO: Including industrial buildings on interior roads.
VALERA: That is correct. Okay.
With the exception of residential?
Yeah. With the exception of residential.
That's the question. You didn't intend to
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apply it to residential?
MS. VALERA: That's correct.
MR. ANDERSON: Thank you. Let me just say that what Ron
said about property owners being involved in the visioning process is
-- is exactly true. They had a number of meetings. There was a buy-
off by affected property owners on the vision statement that was
adopted. And this is mandated by the comprehensive plan. And,
again, I will abstain from voting on this, and I thought of an
additional client I represent there in that area that I need to disclose:
Exit 15 Land Trust, Thomas Eckerdy (phonetic), trustee.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Somebody like to make a motion?
MR. JONES: Another question. I'm sorry. Ron, there's an
individual developer, I think, that's -- that-- that would have -- is
basically developing one of the industrial parks along that corridor
that would be so affected by this. Have you talked to the -- to the
developers of those parks, and they're -- they're in agreement with
this?
MR. NINO: I re -- I don't know. I'm saying -- I'm saying that
back when the master plan was developed, the -- all of the property
owners had an opportunity to -- to participate in -- in the concept plan
that came out of that process. If this is a -- a new buyer of a lot,
probably no.
MR. JONES: Talking about the developer of the lot, the one
who's --
MR. NINO: Well, then if they were -- if they were -- if they
were the owner three years ago, they were involved in the
development of the vision statement, yeah.
MR. MILK: Mr. Chairman, I'd like to echo with Mr. Anderson
that stated for the record. I was part of some of those hearings, and--
and all of these surrounding and pertinent owners at the time were
involved in this visioning process for the activity center in that area
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and were full aware of all the architectural embellishments and style
and the landscaping that were going to be proven for that
development. Clarification for the record.
MR. FOLEY: I make a motion we approve it with Bryan's
comment on Section 2.2.3.5.4 that would include all commercial and
industrial buildings as opposed to all buildings.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Okay.
MR. PEEPLES: Second.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Second from Mr. Peeples. All in
favor?
(Those in favor responded.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Opposed?
MR. JONES: Nay.
MR. ABBOTT: Nay.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Two no's.
MR. ANDERSON: And one abstention.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Okay? Back to you, Ron. I think
you had a couple transportation ones.
MR. NINO: One abstention. Can we go back to the -- the --
you know, we're at the -- yeah. We're at the definition for lost or
capital road facilities which subcommittee rec -- supported.
MR. JONES: What page is that on?
MR. NINO: 110.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: The only difference to this one than
what we saw in subcommittee is the additional shading in or--
MR. NINO: It's not the same -- same? I thought it was the
same paper.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Okay. All right.
MR. NINO: I don't know about the shading.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: I wasn't sure if there was a change.
MR. NINO: No, there wasn't any change, no.
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CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Okay.
MR. NINO: No. There aren't any changes.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Does anybody have any comments
on this one or support --
MR. FOLEY: Motion for approval.
MR. ESPINAR: Second.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: All in favor?
(Unanimous response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: That's it.
MR. NINO: And we added a page, 112, which the
subcommittee did not have the benefit of reviewing. We added a
definition of lot coverage and principal building. There are -- in -- in
the code there is a reserve classification for lot coverage. And we're
going to be talking about that a little later. It's our intention to add a
standard or a provision under each of those reserve sections that deal
with lot coverage.
Additionally, we never did define the word principal building,
and -- and that has, quite frankly, caused some administrative
difficulties. And we -- we feel that definition will help us out of that
difficulty.
MR. WHITE: How -- ifI may ask a question before we have
you-all consider it, Ron, principal building, how does that relate to
the earlier discussions about overhangs and possibly even staircases
that may be external to exterior walls?
MR. NINO: That has --
MR.
MR.
MR.
MR.
WHITE: For purposes, let me --
NINO: Yeah. Yeah.
WHITE: For purposes of setbacks and --
NINO: If it has a roof over it, then it's a principal building.
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If you're talking about a stairwell that has a roof over it, then it's a
principal building.
MR. MILK: I think you'd have to further define the footprint of
the building, what that would entail, what it would not entail, where it
would entail overhangs and stairwells and such. It's usually by the
gross floor area of a building. That would be the principal structure
by definition of the code.
MR. NINO: Yeah, what drove -- I think what drive -- I think
where we get these administrative difficulties is usually with
swimming pools. You remember at Pelican Bay we always had this
problem. Here's the rear lot line coming -- building a swimming pool
or-- or a patio with a roof enclosure. We've always considered that.
And the problem is, there is -- in the code and in most PUDs,
there's a setback requirement for principal building, and there's a
setback requirement for accessory building. And it's always been --
there's been some difficulty -- this may -- this may have a roof
structure on it, but there's a screen there and a screen there and a
screen there. It really functions much like an accessory room.
However, we're taking the position that if you put a roof over it,
it's part of the principal structure. And the setback should be that for
a principal structure. However, if it's a open -- if it's a screen
enclosure area, then, in other words, if that's the pool (indicating) and
that's a screen (indicating), then that can go -- an accessory to
building space.
Another problem we have is where -- where -- where the
building consists of independent buildings, all of which are habitable
spaces, somebody decides I want a bedroom on the back of my
house, you know, for my son so that he can have his privacy and it's
detached from the main house, that's still a principal building. It's
principal use, principal building, should adhere to the setback for a
principal building as opposed to an accessory building. So it's that
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kind of focus that drives the definition of principal building, slash,
use.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Under this current definition, Ron,
would a chickee bar, which is a roof structure, out in the backyard
now, would that become a principal structure?
MR. NINO: No. I think-- that would still be an accessory
building.
MR. PEEPLES: I've got a question.
MR. NINO: You have to read this in concert with the definition
for accessory uses in the ordinance, yeah.
MR. PEEPLES: Yeah. You know, are you doing yourself any
favors by trying to pin this down? The reason I ask that is, look at
your example. And it says, "Any building or a part of a building in
which the principal function or activity for which the land is zoned is
conducted," the principal function. And you've got the -- MR. NINO: Living.
MR. PEEPLES: Well, you don't live in the pool area.
NINO: No. That's right. You don't live in the pool.
PEEPLES: But you want to include that in the principal
MR.
MR.
structure.
MR.
MR.
MR.
NINO: No, I don't.
PEEPLES: Oh. I thought you said--
ABBOTT: If it had a roof on it --
MR. NINO: If it had a roof on it-- no. If it has a roof on it -- if
it has a roof on it, it's principal structure. If it doesn't have a roof on
it, it's not principal structure.
MR. PEEPLES: But the principal function of that is not living;
it's not habitation.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Charlie.
MR. ABBOTT: If-- if either one of his examples there, the
pool has a screened enclosure without a roof or it is a screened porch
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with a roof, the screened porch has a different setback. Now, at 25
feet, let's say, as opposed to what he's got, what, 10, I mean, that's
kind of usual. That's the way it's been --
CHAIRMAN MASTERS:
point --
MR. ABBOTT: Yes.
roof
But I -- but I understand Perry's
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: -- but the screened enclosure with a
is still --
MR. ABBOTT: It's still --
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: -- serving a different purpose than a
house.
MR. FOLEY:
use.
With or without the roof, it doesn't change the
MR. PEEPLES: Right. And are you going to -- are you going
to open yourself up to challenge by people who want to put in that
screened enclosure with the roof and claim that it's not a principal
structure?
MR. NINO: Well, that's the problem we've been--
MR. PEEPLES: I understand.
MR. NINO: That's the problem.
MR. PEEPLES: It currently is a problem, and you're
administratively making the decisions. I'm just wondering by -- is
there a perfect definition, because if there's not, it will remain a
problem?
MR. NINO: Yeah, I struggled with it for some time. We never
had a definition for principal building. So I -- you know, I -- I crafted
this completely based on my experience. We -- and we do have -- we
do have a definition for accessory use. Let me read it to you.
"A use or structure of a nature customarily incidental and
subordinate to the principal use or structure and unless provided on
the same -- structure and unless otherwise provided on the same
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premises. On the same premises with respect to accessory use and
structure shall be construed to mean on the same lot or on the
contiguous lot and the same ownership and zoning strict. Where a
building is attached to the principal building, it shall be considered a
part thereof and not an accessory building, except as provided in
Division 2-6, supplemental district regulations."
And it says the facilities serving malt, vinous, or alcoholic
beverages shall be deemed an accessory use for a hotel/motel. That
really doesn't apply. And the rest of it doesn't apply. So it --
basically the key line here is, where a building is attached to the
principal building, it shall be considered a part thereof and not an
accessory building, except as provided, which is probably extensions
into side yards under supplemental district regulations.
Then we have -- also, we have a definition for the word
"building." And -- and it has aspects of this in it as well. "Building:
any structure, either temporary or permanent, having a roof
impervious to weather and used or built for the shelter or enclosure of
persons, animals, chattels" so ...
MR. MILK: Mr. Chairman.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Yes.
MR. MILK: So, Ron, the purpose is to gain clarification to roof
versus nonroof structure?
MR. NINO: It's -- I'd say it's the gain -- to get clarification as to
under what circumstances are we dealing with a setback from a
principal structure versus an accessory structure.
MR. MILK: And -- and is that due to the accessory list versus
the principal permitted use list? In other words, your porch versus
your room addition versus your lanai?
MR. NINO: Well, a porch with a roof on it we maintain is part
of your house.
MR. MILK: I understand, but I think you can interpret that two
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different ways, though, by setback.
MR. NINO: Well, the -- the use aspect --
MR. MILK: As it is now.
MR. NINO: -- the use aspect of it is habitable space. We're
talking about a residence or -- either single-family or multifamily
context. We're talking about habitable space. And a swimming pool,
you know, we wouldn't consider a swimming pool habitable space.
Would you agree, Susan?
MS. MURRAY: Uh-huh.
MR. NINO: And--
MR. MILK: What if the porch was screened versus enclosed
and had a roof structural component on it? And I think that's my
point, is maybe there ought to be more --
MR. NINO: Then there would be part of--
MR. MILK: I guess my point is, Ron, you're talking about roof
structures versus maybe screened lanai structures. MR. NINO: Yeah.
MR. MILK: And that roof structure may be part of an integral
part of a porch which is screened and nonhabitable. And my thought
is, for clarification, maybe you ought to look at the encompassing
accessory structures, maybe striking some and adding further
clarification to that versus maybe doing what you're doing here. If
it's roofed, then it's got to have one setback; if it's nonroofed versus
lanai, that it meets the accessory setback.
MR. NINO: Well, I think that's what we're trying to say. If it's
a roof structure, it's always principal building. MR. MILK: Okay.
MR. NINO: You know, one of the concerns, underlying
concerns that -- that I've experienced is, people put roof-- lanais on
there. And before long, it gets enclosed and -- and becomes a
permanent part of the house.
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MR. MILK:
MR. NINO:
lot line instead of
MR. MILK:
MR. NINO:
Sure.
And -- and they end up being 10 feet from the rear
20 feet from the rear lot line.
Right.
Because in some cases you don't even get a
building permit to do that because it's out of sight, out of mind. It's
easy to do. So I'm -- the driving -- driving force, in my mind, is if it's
got a roof on it, you better-- you better consider it a principal
building, in most instances, even though under that roof may be an
accessory use.
MR. PEEPLES: But that's not what this says.
MR. NINO: Well, then help me with it. Help me with it.
MR. PEEPLES: You struggled with this a lot longer than we
have. When it says "any building or part of a building in which the
principal function or activity for which the land is owned is
conducted."
MR. NINO: Uh-huh.
MR. PEEPLES: You know, I think that's more restrictive than
you want it to be.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Uh-huh.
MR. PEEPLES: And -- and I think that if it is any building or a
part of a building in which the principal function or activity which the
land is zoned, or just using the example, and we can't use every
example that comes up, or, you know, which is attached to, which is,
you know, covered by a roof and attached to a portion of the building
for which the principal function --
MR. NINO: But that was -- that was something I had a problem
with because what do you do with the guy that builds a bedroom for
his son or daughter--
MR. PEEPLES: Detached.
MR. NINO: -- or his in-laws and is detached, then -- and I
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remember when it was very vogue to build sectional houses a number
of years ago. Maybe Charlie would remember that.
MR. ABBOTT: I do.
MR. NINO' You do.
MR. ABBOTT: Comment on the gray hair.
MR. NINO' Sectional houses, you know, that was vogue. That
was in the HUD book--
MR. PEEPLES: Yeah. But--
MR. NINO' -- in the HUD book of models, you know.
MR. PEEPLES: -- if you put in an "or," so that any building or
any part of a building -- excuse me -- any building or any part of a
building in which the principal function or activity for which the land
is zoned is conducted, you've covered your-- MR. NINO: Uh-huh.
MR. PEEPLES: -- your smaller--
MR. NINO: Yeah.
MR. PEEPLES: -- principal structure or -- and then you try to
cover what's -- I guess we'll call it our -- our roofed lanai - - MR. NINO: Uh-huh, uh-huh.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS' Susan, do you have something to
add?
MS. MURRAY: Yes. Susan Murray for the record. Ron, is
that not covered -- I think we maybe have three or four definitions
that kind of cover the whole thing. Just as you read before, I think it
was the accessory structure definition where it said "if it's in at the --
attached to the principal structure, then it is considered part of the
principal structure," and that might cov -- be covering the issue that
you're bringing up maybe in an indirect way. Maybe we can more
clarify this definition a little bit better to reconnect with the other
definition.
MR. PEEPLES: Right. And again, I understand what you're
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trying to do, and I'm in complete agreement. I worry when you
create a definition, is it possible to really create a perfect definition.
MR. NINO: Well, let us try -- go ahead.
MR. MILK: Ron, my other comment is when you bring in the
word "lot coverage," to provide a definition for principal structure is -
- for clarity, I think the lot coverage throws it to a different -- I look
at that as open space when you talk about lot coverage rather than --
in other words, the change to provide a definition for the phrase,
"principal structure," I -- I could follow that versus lot coverage and
principal structure. I think principal structure and to fine tune
accessory structures, and what Mr. Peeples was concerned about, I
think that would be more in tune to figuring out what that roof
structure meant versus the accessory structure and possibly even
striking a couple of uses, an accessory structure uses, such as porch.
If it's roofed and it's part of the principal and you're charged the
appropriate setback, which may be 20 or 25 feet and low intent --
MR. NINO' Okay. Let me between Susan and I get our heads
together, and we can tweak this. I take it that your -- you're all --
you-all agree that if it's an accessory use, it generally should not be --
meet the rear-yard requirement.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS' Uh-huh.
MR. MILK: That's correct.
MR. PEEPLES: Unless it's attached.
MR. NINO: Unless it's --
MR. ABBOTT: That's been --
MR. NINO' That's the --
MR. ABBOTT: -- established policy for years and so that you
can put your pool and your screen enclosures back closer to canals or
rear yards or whatever you want to do. And I think everybody is
pretty much used to that.
MR. NINO: Yeah. And I wasn't attempting to change that.
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MR. PEEPLES: Right.
MR. NINO: I was not attempting to change that.
MR. MILK: You're just trying to add clarity to the structural
component of the roof and clarity for that setback versus the screen
enclosure.
MR. ABBOTT: How big a problem is this to you, Ron? You
say it's a problem, but, I mean, does this happen every day?
MR. NINO: Susan, you're dealing with it more than I am.
MS. MURRAY: It's fairly significant. Yeah, we've got some
issues on the table in the county attorney's office where we've got a
problem with clarifying what a principal structure is.
me.
MR. ABBOTT:
MS. MURRAY:
MR. ABBOTT:
MS. MURRAY:
Well, how many a year, let's say?
I haven't been in the position a year yet.
Okay. Well, I -- how many a month?
Probably 10 or 15 times a year an issue comes
MR. ABBOTT: That's not enough to drive a wholesale issue to
MR. MILK: But I think it's enough to drive clarity.
MR. WHITE: I'd submit that one a year is sufficient. I'd submit
that any one is sufficient to clarify the definition.
MR. PEEPLES: If you're continually asked to interpret this,
then it should be clarified, yeah.
MR. NINO: Well, as I say, perhaps with Pat's help, Susan and I,
we can -- we can tweak it so that it's more clearly distinguished as
between --
MR. PEEPLES: And meets your needs --
MR. NINO: -- principal and accessory.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Please take that up in the form of a
motion.
MR. ABBOTT: It takes a lot of time to tend to these because
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you lack this definition, right? If you had the definition, it would
simplify it and be done with it.
MR. NINO: It's not there, we don't have it at all.
MR. PEEPLES: I'll make a motion that we approve the
definitions. And, again, my purpose was not to dispute the need or
challenge what Ron is attempting to do. I think I support him in that.
It was to make sure he had looked at it, thought about it, and was not
going to get himself in a worse position. So I will move that we
approve this. And as part of that, is in it, Ron, you still have the
ability to modify the language to make sure. MR. NINO: Yeah.
MR. PEEPLES: So I move we -- we approve the definitions.
MR. ABBOTT: I'll second it.
MR. MILK: Just for clarification, I'll agree with that. I would
like to see the words "lot coverage" stricken from that, when it talks
about change, Mr. Nino.
MR. NINO: Lot change is a --
MR. PEEPLES: They're separate definitions.
MR. MILK: Okay. So there's two of them in here.
MR. NINO: Yeah, there are two definitions in here.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Okay. All in favor of the motion?
(Unanimous response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Any opposed?
(No response.)
MR. NINO: Now, I guess we're back to -- does any individual
member that wasn't part of the -- any individual wants to pick
something out of the packet and there are other things we're going to
do when you get back.
MR. WHITE: I have placed in front of Ron, notwithstanding
Mr. Abbott's earlier comment about last-minute changes, this is
something that arose from the subcommittee's review last week and
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the day off, blah, blah, blah, I only just as of today had the
opportunity to complete the revisions that had been discussed at the
subcommittee, and I'm going to ask Ron to hand -- let you take one of
each of those. There's a single sheet and a -- and a double stapled
page. And I will tell you that -- which pages they belong to in your
packet. The stapled pages are for 6 and 6-A, we'll call it. And that
applies, just to put it on the record, to 2.7.3.3.
MR. NINO: What does the single page apply to?
MR. WHITE: The single page applies to Section 3.3.5,
specifically 3.3.5.2, and replaces what's in your packets as to the
underlying text. You have to look at the existing page 81 to take
what is the existing current LDC text. And after you've each received
a copy of those --
MR. NINO: So this -- this replaces page 82 in the --
MR. PEEPLES: 81.
MR. NINO: 81, 82, yeah.
MR. WHITE: And the stapled pages would be new 6 and 6-A,
only because we didn't get a chance to paginate them. It probably
will be a single page once we get to the final CCPC and/or BCC
packages.
The purpose of each of these revisions is to make clear that as to
PUDs, whether in the form of a master plan or an ordinance, either a
graphic depiction or text, that the description of an access point
therein does not authorize or vest that access point that, rather, the
3.3.5.2 provision attempts to make clear that the point in time at
which that actually takes place in terms of decision making by the
county an ultimate determination is at site development plan
approval. And it's done consistent with other regulatory changes that
are part of this package and those that exist in the code that's not
proposed for change.
There's one other thing I need to make mention of. On page 81
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of your existing packages there -- the existing text that's not proposed
to be altered is in and of itself something that when I read through it,
I didn't have a chance to make it a complete sentence. But when you
read it, it is not what I consider to be a fully operative provision. And
we're going to ask your indulgence to further tweak that and amend it
to make it operative so that it is consistent with the intent of that
section which is development compliance with all appropriate zoning
regulations in the growth management plan, which is the tag line or
header for that specific section.
So with that as a caveat, we ask that you consider the proposed
revisions that I've just handed you and a favorable motion would be
appreciated.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Anybody have any questions of Mr.
White?
MR. WHITE: And, again, I apologize for the last-minute nature
of this.
MR. ANDERSON: I have a question.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Yes.
MR. ANDERSON: Pat, do you know, off the top of your head,
is the relocation of access points that are shown on a PUD master
plan, is that a substantial or minor or what kind of an amendment to
the PUD master plan?
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Well, I think at the discussion were
proposed -- were just conceptual locations for accesses. Wasn't I
right, Pat?
MR. WHITE: Under amendments 3.3.9, I believe, in the LDC
as it exists, there is a-- provisions numbered 339.1 through .2 and .3
that determine whether a substantial change exists for an SDP
amendment. And under 3.3.9.1 there's a phrase, "any change which
substantially affects existing transportation circulation" or, in the
alternative, 3.3.9.2, "any other change, the planning services director
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may determine as significantly altering the general layout,
configuration, or arrangement of the project."
So I think perhaps under either of those, it's possible that to the
extent we considered something in an existing ordinance or master
plan to be a fixed point in the sense that it has an SDP that has locked
in, that this provision would indicate that it's a sub -- possibly a
substantial change. Does that answer your question, Mr. Anderson?
MR. ANDERSON: No.
MR. WHITE: Okay.
MR. ANDERSON: But thank you.
MR. PEEPLES: Just so I understand, prior to that SDP
approval, when you have a PUD master plan which you do not have
any vested access rights, if that were to change in your SDP
submittal, that would not require a change to PUD master plan?
MR. WHITE: I believe that's correct.
MR. NINO: Correct. Correct. Yeah.
MR. WHITE: It's not locked. Changing it doesn't require it to
be amended.
MR. NINO: Base -- basically, essentially what we're doing is
changing the access point decisions to the site development or
platting phase of decision making.
MR. PEEPLES: Right.
MR.
that we're
MR.
MR.
deviation
MR.
MR.
MR.
MR.
WHITE: I -- I only clarify Mr. Nino's comments to say
not actually changing it. We're clarifying it.
PEEPLES: Clarifying.
MILK: And with that, it would not create a substantial
from the PUD master plan --
NINO: No.
MILK: -- as Mr. Anderson brought up.
NINO: Correct, correct.
JONES: Question, Brian Jones. Ron, 2.6.38.4.3, "During
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development or redevelopment of commercial lots, shared access or
interconnection shall be encouraged" is stricken through and
"substituted as required."
MR. WHITE: What page?
MR. NINO: Page 6, the handout. It's not really a change, Pat.
It's -- it's what was already there. That's the thrust of where we're
coming from on the transportation agenda that, you know, if we're
going to -- well, I'm going to leave it up to Dawn Wolfe. She's the
expert.
MS. WOLFE: Dawn Wolfe, for the record. The board has
made it clear that items that may have been more of an
encouragement in the past have not had the strength behind it for
them to really mandate under the rezoning changes or site
development what they truly want to see. And, therefore, in this case
in particular, we are also looking at other ones, the words are being
strengthened based on the board's direction to allow them to have the
ability to move development in the direction they want to see it go in
regards to our transportation, circulation, and impacts to the primary
system.
MR. JONES: I'm looking at it from a property-rights
standpoint. If I own a commercial center and I have access already to
my property and somebody decides to build on adjoining -- adjacent
property, the county would say that access that's in front of the
existing center needs to be shared with those two. Would that
existing owner have a burden of-- of expense to allow the other guy
-- other party building his -- this is the -- the logical place for access,
what are the obligations of the person who's already established?
MS. WOLFE: Then the burden would fall upon the new
development coming in to make any modifications necessary. We
would hope that in areas of retrofit we could help coordinate what
would need to be done where it's physically possible to do
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interconnects.
The other goal is where development has not yet occurred to
establish the footprint so that there would not be excessive expenses
but just a continuation of-- of the access points. It will be a little
more problematic in terms of existing development. And in cases
there may be existing development which would not immediately
allow for it. But if you have preexisting use and an adjacent one
would come in, we would have the new development at least make
allowances for future redevelopment of the adjacent site that would
not preclude the ability for cross access.
So, if, for instance, there was a structure constructed such that
cross access would -- could not happen with a new adjacent
development, we would ensure that the adjacent development still
allowed for the future, should there be redevelopment of the existing
site, to allow for cross access. We wouldn't just say everyone can put
up a wall and forget about the opportunity for cross access.
MR. JONES: My -- I would like to encourage better than
required because one is a must and another allows for-- I didn't see a
problem with encouraged.
MR. NINO: Well, the only problem is -- well, Pat, legal.
MR. WHITE: Just -- just to make clear that this provision
applies to mixed-use activity centers, it's a 2.6 provision. I don't
know if there's a parallel as to all other zoning districts or overlays.
And perhaps Dawn can address that, but just for the purpose of this
discussion, I want to make sure we're talking only about activity
centers.
MR. PEEPLES: I have a comment, and I thought I'd address
what -- what Brian said. I understand what you're saying, and I agree
with it but for the fact that there's such a strong public policy of
interconnecting these -- these parcels to keep individual driveways
off of arterial roads, it will be something of a burden, particularly in
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the situation as Dawn has given where you're moving into an existing
development and -- and you're required to establish your
development with the potential for future interconnect, even though
your interconnect drives right into the side of a building. But if you
don't do it and you don't require it, I don't think it will happen. And I
think it's something the county needs to have.
MR. NINO: Let me give you an example. Carillon Shopping
Center: After the fact we tried to get them to provide an interconnect
to Banyan Woods. They said "No. We're not going to do it." We
have this kind of language, there would be no ifs, ands, or buts. It
would be -- it would be a requirement upon Banyan Woods, if
necessary, to -- to pay the dollars to make that decision happen.
Right across the street, the same problem. I don't know that
there's a connection between Fountain Lakes Shopping Center and
Walgreens.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Hmm.
MR. NINO: You know, there -- you know, it's ridiculous.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Bruce, did you have something else?
MR. ANDERSON: Yes. I'm supportive, very supportive, of
interconnection. But my concern is, it takes two to tango. And if you
have one property owner who's coming in for a new project or
redevelopment and he is required to interconnect but he can't get the
guy he's supposed to interconnect with to agree to it, what happens
then7 His SDP gets held up.
MS. WOLFE: As Ron pointed out, this is where the mixed use
is at, and we have to start with the first parcel. There may be others
that either are not yet under development or may have existing
development on it. But we don't want to preclude opportunities
under redevelopment or even possibly under county-initiated efforts
that would preclude us from those opportunities for interconnection.
We're not saying that you have to go plow through someone's private
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property to do it. We're just saying, you begin the first in the
framework if you're the first one in. If you're not the first one in, still
have that allowance there that under redevelopment we would have
the opportunity for interconnect.
MR. ANDERSON: That's a wonderful explanation. However,
it does not -- it's not in the ordinance. I'd like to suggest this: After
the word "required" we put, "unless the adjoining property owner
refuses to consent to the interconnection." Now, what would be
wrong with that?
MR. WHITE: Other than the fact it would encourage folks to
refuse on a regular basis?
MR. N1NO: Right, yeah.
MR. WHITE: Probably not much.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: How about if we said "required
where possible"?
MR. NINO: That's --
MR. WHITE: Who determines?
MR. ANDERSON: That's no better than encouraged.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Okay.
MR. WHITE: Admittedly, this is a difficult issue because it
does deal with, quote, private property rights that -- to the extent
there's no intent to redevelopment have been vested. They're static.
But the intent is to always be holding, if you will, over the head of
any future redevelopment the notion that someone who has gone
before after this regulation is in effect that they're going to have to
comply with the interconnect.
Now, perhaps what happens on your SDP as it's approved is that
no asphalt's laid down. But the point of interconnection is identified,
and some space is reserved. It's not necessarily just a -- a road to
nowhere. With the understanding that in the event the adjacent parcel
redevelops, then they will be aligned, and the asphalt will be
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connected. That is the best way I've seen it handled in other
jurisdictions. But the threshold has to be that there's a regulatory
requirement to do that in the first place, either under initial
development or redevelopment.
MR. PEEPLES: But are you requiring, in that case -- and I
think what you -- you're hitting it right on the head. It's the person
that's coming in for development or redevelopment, the burden is on
them. Bruce is also correct; the burden is solely on them and they
cannot obtain consent, what happens? So are we talking about a
situation where, you know, the interconnect -- get back to whether it's
possible or not, but we want to require the interconnect or somehow
reserve the ability to interconnect.
MR. WHITE: And-- and what I'm--
MR. PEEPLES: I don't know how you phrase that but I think
that's really what we're looking for.
MR. WHITE: What I'm suggesting to you that has to be
decided, if you will, as the SDP is reviewed. CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Uh-huh.
MR. WHITE: It has to be offered or included as a stipulation or
condition.
MR. PEEPLES: Uh-huh.
MR. WHITE: And I think it's a condition when you are
developing adjacent to existing commercial and a mixed-use activity
center and specific as to the applicability of this provision. And the
idea would be that your stipulation would read something to the
effect of, in the event that the adjacent parcel comes in for
redevelopment, you will still be, quote, hostage, end quote, to the
idea of this requirement. You may not have to build it today, but you
-- we reserve the right to compel you to do so in the future by way of
that condition.
The adjacent person never redevelops, it never changes. But as
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soon as it happens --
MR. PEEPLES: I'm in agreement with that. Like Bruce is
saying, if it's required, is it going to be required in the situation where
it's an impossibility because of existing development adjacent?
MR. WHITE' Well, I think that this is one of those instances
where that lovely weasel word "shall" or "shall be" actually has some
use in this provision because one of the things I dislike about shall is
that it has two potential meanings. One of them is must, and the
other is will.
MR. PEEPLES: Will.
MR. WHITE' And in this instance, we're attempting to cover
both of those, and perhaps using one word to do so allows us that
flexibility. I'm generally not in favor of that but -- CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Mr. Foley.
MR. FOLEY: I have a concern that this description or change in
the code gets actually down to the staff level at the review of the
SDP. Because if you have a staff member, a county staff member
that reads this and says, "Hey, it says it shall be required. Show me.
Don't show me potential. Don't show me future. Show me asphalt.
Show me curb. Show me elevations." And they -- they could very
well hang their hat on that and be correct if this goes through. Now
what you're saying -- and what you're saying, you know, about future
connections and if it happens, we'll go ahead, we'll reserve the right,
all that. But that's not what this says, and that -- that's something that
concerns me.
MR. WHITE: If they're correct and they're in conflict with what
the policy of the county is as determined by their superiors, all the
way up to the division administrator, then I don't know how long
they're going to work for us.
MR. FOLEY: You've got a few people that have been here
quite a long time. That's a concern I have because sometimes black
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and white and you can't --
MR. WHITE: I understand.
MR. FOLEY: It creates delays and it creates a lot of undue
burden back on decisions by Mr. Kuck or Ms. Murray. I think if it --
if it can't be specifically addressed effectively, that maybe it's -- it
shouldn't be changed.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Mr. Milk.
MR. MILK: I'd just like to state for the record that I'm in
support of staffs recommendation, but I -- I'd like to throw out an
incentive for the shalls. In other words, interconnectivity is very
important to pedestrian traffic and vehicular movement and so forth.
If you're going to make somebody share vehicular interconnects, why
don't you give them a reduction in their overall parking requirement,
Ron, to look at the incentive and the inducement or enticement for
that shall versus encouraged.
And just to give you an example, the City of Marco Island now
entertains interconnectivity with an incentive of a reduction of 15
percent of the overall parking requirement to provide for what we call
shared parking agreements administratively done for adjoining
property with an arterial type roadway system in front of them. I
think with an enticement or an incentive, those encouraged can go to
shalls. The enticements kind of work both ways. Everybody knows
the parking space is worth a whole lot of money out there and good
ground, and that may help encourage the shalls versus the other
existing.
So my recommendation is to go with staff but provide some
incentive for the property owners to get together for the
interconnects.
MR. WHITE:
MR. JONES:
allow staff the final say with that.
Mr. Chairman?
I have a comment on suggested rewording to still
It would be shared access or
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interconnection shall be encouraged and may be required upon SDP
review. That covers the intent, and it gives staff the final hammer.
MR. ANDERSON: I have another suggestion.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Okay. Would you like to put it in
the form of a motion?
MR. ANDERSON: Not yet.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Okay.
MR. ANDERSON: That we add -- instead of"required," add
the following: "Be constructed, comma, and connected when and
where legally permitted." That way the construction of the
interconnection is required at the time of SDP approval even if at that
time you still can't legally interconnect. But at such time as
redevelopment occurs on the adjacent property or somebody actually
develops it, then the connection can be made.
MR. WHITE: I'm not sure I understand the last two words of
that, "legally permitted." By whom? I understand that part of the
intent is to address the notion of those private property rights you
cannot compel an adjacent property owner to give an easement. To
provide shared access or interconnect until such time as they
themselves come into redevelopment.
MR. ANDERSON: Or agree to it.
MR. WHITE: And the notion that Mr. Milk brought forward
that there may be some incentive to achieve that, I'm trying to write it
in a way that is simple. And we may have something with the idea
that shall be encouraged and may be required upon SDP review. I
think that gives us some comfort level that it may be required as a
condition. And I can assure you that if we're implementing it in a
way that's inconsistent with the idea that it's a condition when it's
adjacent to existing developed commercial, that's something we could
address with a further amendment to this provision. I believe we
need to at least cross the threshold in having an operative provision
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that staff can utilize to go along with the rest of these ideas about
regulating access.
And so if I can make any comment about it, it would be that,
although I think Bruce's is helpful, I don't know that it gets us further
than the idea that something shall be encouraged and something may
be required upon SDP review.
MR. FOLEY: I'm more comfortable with that. I think it
addresses the concern I had about actually having a reviewer say,
well, I see it in the code so, therefore, do it. MR. NINO: You know, I--
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: It doesn't change it a lot.
MR. NINO: I think you're-- I think you're being overly
concerned, I guess, but that's -- but that's my nature.
I don't believe that staff will ever take the position if you can't
work out a deal with your neighbor to deny you the opportunity to
develop your property. I don't think -- we've never gone that far. We
-- we're not -- we're not -- we're not going to say, well, if your
neighbor says, "No, you know, that's it," then we're going to want
some pretty good, hard evidence that even if there's some
remuneration involved, that the remuneration may far offset the
advantages to the transportation system. And we got to know that
you would at least try to make some financial settlement. If the guy
asks for ten bucks and you're going to say no, then that's
unreasonable. If he asks for $50,000 and it's only worth $3,000, I'm
sure we'll say, well, that-- you know, that's -- you know, that's not --
under those circumstances, we should not make you interconnect or
share access. But I don't think we've ever taken a hard line --
MR. ANDERSON: You've never had the hammer before.
MR. NINO: I don't believe that. I don't believe that.
MR. WHITE: I guess we're looking for something between a
ball, pea, and a sledge.
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MR. NINO: I think you have to have some confidence that --
that a just decision will be made. A fair and equitable decision will
be made somewhere along the line.
MR. FOLEY: I'd like to make a motion, as Mr. Jones made,
with -- Patrick, did you tweak that at all? MR. WHITE: No.
MR. NINO: It's not the same language.
MR. FOLEY: I'm comfortable with that. I think it gets us
forward.
MR. JONES: State it for the record? Make a motion?
MR. FOLEY: Yes. I'll -- I'll make -- or you make your motion;
I'll second it.
MR. JONES: Okay.
MR. WHITE: Just a point of order, Mr. Chairman --
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Yes.
MR. WHITE: -- as to the two items that had led to this
discussion, that being page 6 and 81 and 82, if you want to consider
that first and then address this one, I don't care either way, or address
this one first and -- I just don't want to lose -- fine.
MR. PEEPLES: I -- I'd like to move that we approve the
changes that we have received today with respect to pages 6 and 81 --
MR. NINO: 82.
MR. PEEPLES:-- 81 and 82.
MR. FOLEY: Second.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Were we adding --
MR. PEEPLES: Subject to the changes that we will make in the
next motion.
MR. JONES: All in favor?
MR. ABBOTT: Well, wait.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Wait a minute. The motion is not
clear yet on the floor.
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MR. ABBOTT: Bruce was getting ready to say something.
What was --
MR. ANDERSON: I want to vote on these separately because I
got a comment on -- on the other one. MR. PEEPLES: Okay.
MR. ESPINAR: Do you want to modify --
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Okay. We have a motion. We --
MR. PEEPLES: I would like to modify my motion. I move that
we adopt the language we received today modifying our numbered
pages 81 and 82.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: All right. Do we have a second?
MR. FOLEY: Is that the changes?
MR. PEEPLES: Uh-huh.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: The motion was seconded by Mr.
Foley. Do we have any discussion?
MR. ANDERSON: Yes. Thank you. The -- I think there's
another provision in the Land Development Code that needs to be
amended in conjunction with this to eliminate any inconsistency.
And that is in the section dealing with PUD substantial and
insubstantial change determinations, specifically Section 2.7.3.5.6.1,
which addresses minor changes that can be approved at a staff level
to a PUD master plan. The language in the current Land
Development Code specifically excludes as a minor change a
relocation of access points to the PUD itself. I think that that section
needs to be amended to say, including a relocation of access points to
the PUD itself.
MR. PEEPLES: Not to overcomplicate this, but do we want to
make the distinction there, when you're talking about an access point
whether it's an access point that's shown merely on the PUD master
plan and is not yet vested or locked in, as Patrick was saying, or an
access point that has been located on approved SDP?
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MR. ANDERSON: No. I'm just dealing with the PUD master
plan alone.
MR. PEEPLES: Okay. So--
MR. ANDERSON: Because otherwise if the access point were
changed, even as a result of county staff action, under this language
as it exists today, they would have to go to the planning commission.
MR. PEEPLES: That's true.
MR. NINO: But what -- I -- what does that got to do with page
81 and 82, which says -- basically says, any -- noth -- your-- your--
your access points are not vested on your -- on your master plan.
MS. WOLFE: It's inconsistent.
MR. NINO: It's inconsistent, but so what.
MS. WOLFE: We want to clean it up.
MR. ANDERSON: If we're going to clean up the code and --
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Let's do it.
MR. ANDERSON: Let's do it right.
MS. WOLFE: As staff I would recommend that that change be
made because you cannot conceptually say these have flexibility to
be consistent with any of our access management policies and yet, on
the other hand, say "But anytime we make you change it, you're
going to have to amend your plan." That's why it's conceptual and
left to the specific criteria of an SDP or plat. So as staff, I would
agree with--
MR. NINO: I'm not saying we shouldn't change it, but, you
know, it's not something that has to be done right now this very
instant.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Do you care to amend your--
MR. NINO: In order to --
MR. PEEPLES: I would like to amend my motion, and I will
move that we approve this language to be inserted in page 81 and 82
and also modify Section 2.7.3.5.6.1 of the LDC per Mr. Anderson's
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comments to be internally consistent. MR. FOLEY: I'll -- I'll second that.
MR. ANDERSON: And just for the record let me read what the
revised point 1 would state.
Internal realignment of right-of-ways and relocation of access
points to the PUD itself where no water management facility,
conservation, slash, preservation areas, or required easements or --
are affected or otherwise provided for.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS:
(Unanimous response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS:
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS:
CHAIRMAN MASTERS:
(A short break was held.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS:
All in favor?
Any opposed?
The motion carries unanimously.
Okay. On to page 6.
Okay. Let's call the meeting back to
order. All right. Well, if your questions are specific to Dawn, shall
we jump to Ron's--
MR. NINO: Well, that's going to take you a little more --
MR. ANDERSON: I do have some that aren't related to Dawn.
MR. NINO: Well, then--
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Some? You're only allowed one.
Okay. Let's go.
MR. JONES: Mr. Chairman.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Yes.
MR. JONES: Do we want to clean up page 6, the motion to
maybe require upon SDP review? Is that already done or-- MR. PEEPLES: That's not been done.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Yeah. I don't know that we need
Dawn really to accomplish that.
MR. NINO: What -- what do -- what do you want to add to --
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CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Want to deal with some text there.
We had a motion on the floor --
MR. PEEPLES: My motion, since the motion was split, was to
approve the language in -- on page 6 and 6-A, as modified, and as
further modified by Brian Jones' language, if you would read that
language.
MR. JONES: Yes, 2.6.38.4.3, "During development or
redevelopment of commercial lots, shared access, or interconnection
shall be encouraged and may be required upon SDP review." That is
my motion.
MR. FOLEY: Second.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Second by Blair Foley.
Do we have any further discussion on this?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: All in favor of the motion.
(Those in favor responded.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Any opposed?
MR. ANDERSON: Nay.
MR. MILK: Nay.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: And two opposed? The motion
carries.
Let's -- let's -- do you want to do this first or --
MR. NINO: I think we want to get rid of what we've got in our
package. Bruce has got some other comments.
MR. ANDERSON: Yeah. Let me get Dawn out of here.
Dawn, I had a question about the addition to Section 3.3.7.1.2.
MR. FOLEY: Do you have a page, Bruce? No.
MS. WOLFE: He got an unpaged --
MR. ANDERSON: Yeah.
MR. NINO: 3.3.7?
MR. ANDERSON: Yes. --. 1.2.
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MS. WOLFE: Ahh.
MR. NINO: Page 85.
MS. WOLFE: Yes. Your question?
MR. ANDERSON: My question is, your new language requires
off-site roadways, buildings, and other physical features to be shown
on an SDP only that are within 200 feet of the subject property. It
does not require off-site access roadways to be 200 feet from the
property.
MS. WOLFE: Actually, it probably should read, access,
comma, roadways, elevations. I think that would clarify what -- I
think I've got a missing comma in there which gets to the -- and, like
you said, the maximum is 200, is what we're looking for, because
then we can make a determination as to the ability to interconnect or
where driveways, deceleration lanes may create conflicts, we're
currently grasping at straws trying to get that level of information
upon current submittals, and this would just allow us during the
preapp to say, we know -- this is what we need to stay up to. That's
why we wanted to allow a level of discretion to reduce it. MR. ANDERSON: Okay.
MS. WOLFE: But if we add the comma after access, I think
that clears up the access roadways.
MR. ANDERSON: Yeah. I -- I just wanted to confirm my
reading of it because I had some other people question me. They
were concerned that they were going to have to place their buildings
and -- and roadways 200 feet from their property line.
MS. WOLFE: No. It's to show beyond their boundaries that
off-site information so we could clearly address those issues.
MR. ANDERSON: Okay.
any of Dawn's amendment.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS:
I don't have any other questions for
Okay. Do you have any other
questions for other amendments?
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MR. ANDERSON: Will we make the same language change
that we made with Brian's "may be required" language to Section
2.2.28.4.3.1 which deals with the Golden Gate --
MR. NINO: 2.2 what?
MR. ANDERSON: 28.
MR. NINO: 2.2.28?
MR. ANDERSON: --.4. It's language that-- that was right
before your activity center language that we just dealt with. I just
want to make sure, again, we're consistent with our recommendations
because there were two different sections that required
interconnection.
MR. NINO: Bruce, I'm still not up to you. 2.2.28?
MR. ANDERSON: Yes, sir, .4.
MR. NINO: I don't have a 2. --
MR. WHITE: Nope.
MR. NINO: I don't have a 2.2.28.24.
MR. FOLEY: You got the special package, Bruce.
MR. ANDERSON: Let me show Dawn.
MS. WOLFE: 2.2.20, oh, I know what it is, I think it's reference
to 2.2.20 section.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: 2.2.20. There it is. It should be,
like, the second item in the package.
MR. WHITE: It's on page 5, the second item.
MR. PEEPLES: Uh-huh.
MR. ANDERSON: Yes.
MS. WOLFE: Yeah. I guess -- could they read back to me the
language modification they made to the other one? Shall be
encouraged --
MR. JONES: -- and may be required upon SDP review.
MR. PEEPLES: For the record, that head nod, was that a yes?
MS. WOLFE: Yes.
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MR. ANDERSON: I'll put that in the form of a motion.
MR. FOLEY: Second.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Second by Mr. Foley. All in favor?
(Unanimous response.)
MR. N1NO: Now, what are we changing?
MS. WOLFE: It's under -- it was the et al, under the second --
starting on page 4. It was one of-- where you had the 2.2.20. That's
the reason why you couldn't -- didn't see it on the -- on your summary
sheet.
MR. WHITE: If I may, Mr. Chairman --
MR. NINO: On the summary sheet.
MS. WOLFE: On the summary sheet--
MR. NINO: Oh.
MS. WOLFE: -- it's referred to as et al.
MR. NINO: Why are we amending the summary sheet?
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Mr. White?
MR. WHITE: Page 5.
MR. NINO: Page 5.
MR. WHITE: The second section listed, Section No.
2.2.28.4.3.1.
MR. NINO: Yes, okay.
MR. WHITE: After the word "encouraged"-- well, actually, the
word "encouraged," -- well, actually, "you were encouraged,"
strike --
MR.
MR.
MR.
MR.
MR.
MR.
MR.
NINO: Okay. I got you.
WHITE: Add the words -- after "encouraged" --
NINO: Yeah.
WHITE: -- follows the underlined--
NINO: Yeah.
WHITE: -- "and may be required upon SDP review."
NINO: Okay.
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MR.
MR.
MR.
MR.
WHITE: Deleting the word --
NINO: Yeah, got it.
WHITE: --"required" and "underlined.
NINO: Yeah. Yeah, I got it.
MR. ANDERSON: Okay. I have two other items. One is
Section 2.3.5 addressing the threat to the public health, safety, and
welfare imposed by automobile parking at homes.
MR. WHITE: Page?
MR. NINO: Page 29.
MR. ANDERSON: Paragraph 1, No. 1, talking about single-
family dwelling units, limits parking to imperviously treated surface
areas of the lot. And I know that there are pervious surfaces that can
be used for parking. And I would think that we would want to allow
for that. In fact, we want to encourage people to use pervious
surfaces whenever possible. This would limit them to only
impervious surfaces, and I don't believe we want to do that.
MR. NINO: Do you have a problem with 40 percent
requirement of the front yard? So you want to say pervious or
impervious.
MR. ANDERSON: Yeah.
MR. PEEPLES: You just take out the word "impervious."
you'd have specifically designed surfaces.
MR. NINO: What pervious surfaces are you talking about?
Concrete with grass holes in it?
MR. ESPINAR: Crushed rock or shell.
MR. ANDERSON: Shell.
MR. FOLEY: Or just grass, sometimes they do that at churches
for overflow.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: That's just residential.
MR. ANDERSON: That's just residential. There's two
references to impervious surface in this paragraph No. 1. And that --
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well, let's see now. So all references to impervious should either be
deleted or put impervious or pervious. Second--
MR. NINO: As long as we understand that it's a defined tract or
course on the lot, then you don't have a problem with that? MR. ANDERSON: Yeah.
MR. NINO: Yeah, and that -- and that may be pervious or
impervious.
MR. ANDERSON: Uh-huh. Then my next is -- on this one is
the last sentence of paragraph 2, No. 2. I believe the last phrase, or
any combination of open air and enclosed structure. It needs to have
the word "in" in front of any in order for it to make sense.
MR. ABBOTT: Say that again, please.
MR. ANDERSON: The last phrase should read, "or in any
combination of open air and enclosed structure."
Next, paragraph No. 4, as written, would make it a violation of
the Land Development Code for guests to park at your home. I don't
think we want to do that.
MR. NINO: Well, I think that's stretching it again. Obviously,
we're talking about people who are residents there. Short-term
visitors --
MR. ANDERSON: Let's say it then.
MR. ABBOTT: I agree with what he's saying because,
remember, the enforcement crowd that goes to tend to this are, by my
opinion, remarkably hard of thinking. I deal with them every day.
MR. NINO: You're telling me that the enforcement people --
I've got a party at my house, the enforcement people are going to
come and use this section and say you can't park in front of my
house? Come on.
MR. ABBOTT: I just think that empowering government is
always a chancy thing.
MR. NINO: All right. What are you --
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MR. ANDERSON: I think shall --
MR. ESPINAR: Forty-eight hours or something?
MR. ANDERSON: Well, I think on paragraph No. 4, shall be
owned by occupants of the dwelling unit or their guests.
MR. WHITE: All I can tell you --
MR. NINO: You've just blown a big hole in it, you know.
MR. ANDERSON: How have I blown a big hole in it?
MR. NINO: I've always got a guest in my house. My boarder is
a permanent guest who is not a member of my family.
MR. ANDERSON: Well, as long as it's within the narrow area
that you're allowing parking, why do you care? MR. WHITE: Uh-huh.
MR. ANDERSON: Lastly, on this one, No. 5, which we can all
read for ourselves, I think that that needs to have a time limit on it,
like, adding at the end of that sentence, for a continuance -- "for more
than a continuous 24-hour period." That way it covers the event that
Ron just spoke about where if you're having a party at your house and
people want to park along the swale or in the front yard to attend the
party, that that will not be a violation of Land Development Code so
long as they're not there longer than 24 hours. So I would put in the
form of a motion all those changes I just went through. MR. FOLEY: I'll second.
MR. PEEPLES: I have a question for Ron. Is -- is the intent of
5 to prevent people from parking along the swale or the right-of-way
for temporary visits or parties.
MR. NINO: No, on a permanent basis. I think it goes without
saying. I think it goes without saying, but if you feel more
comfortable with it.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS:
(Unanimous response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS:
All in favor of the motion?
All opposed?
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(No response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Motion carries.
MR. ANDERSON: Okay. My last one is Section 2.6.11.4,
fences and walls contiguous or opposite residentially zoned districts.
MR. WHITE: Page 31 and 32.
MR. FOLEY: Thank you.
MR. ANDERSON: I think there needs to be an exception added
that this would not be required if the residential area already has a
wall up to protect it.
MS. MURRAY: I just noticed in paragraph 2 we kind of
allowed a planning services director to determine that it's not
warranted, and it gives a couple of examples and then says, "or for
other good cause." I think you might be covered there.
MR. NINO: But if there's already a wall up there, it goes
without saying you wouldn't require a wall. The wall's already there.
MR. ANDERSON: But if it's on the residentially zoned
property.
MS. MURRAY: I think the purpose is to screen the properties
from each other or really to screen the residential from the
commercial, so you really would already accomplish that if an
existing wall was there.
MR. FOLEY: Are you okay with that, Bruce? It gives the
planning service director--
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Latitude.
MR. FOLEY: -- latitude.
MR. ANDERSON' No. I would like to add "or if there is an--
already an existing wall."
MR. FOLEY: In what location in the language?
MR. ANDERSON: Right before "or other-- or for other good
cause.
MR. NINO: Which is where?
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MR. FOLEY: Page 32, top, first sentence, first line.
MR. ANDERSON: I've just had too many instances where you
get one interpretation from one staff member and something
completely different from another. And we need to tie things like
this down and reduce the opportunities for misinterpretation or
conflicting interpretation.
MR. FOLEY: Is that -- can you put that in the form of a
motion?
MR. ANDERSON: Please consider it done.
MR. FOLEY: I'll second that.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Got a second? All in favor of that
motion?
(Unanimous response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Any opposed?
(No response.)
MR. NINO: Okay.
MR. ANDERSON: That's all, folks.
MR. NINO: That's all folks.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Mr. Nino.
MR. NINO: Yeah. At one time part of the agenda for this cycle
was a complete conversion of the SIC codes and NIC codes and the --
and the clarification of the purpose and intent statements is to make
sure that the purpose and intents statements mirror image what the
intended uses from that zoning district were.
And, in addition, we were directed to -- to change the
development standards, one is you get rid of the wedding cake --
wedding cake buildings in terms of setback-- two, there was a strong
suggestion that 100-foot buildings are too high in Collier County.
And those were the two major issues. And then -- then I took it upon
myself, since the ordinance provides -- provides a reserve section in
all of the commercial districts for lot coverage and floor-area ratio,
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that we ought to step up to the plate and provide a provision for it.
And so this matrix here purports to make those changes where we
deemed necessary and compares the existing with the proposed so
you can see exactly what we're -- what we're doing here in this -- in
this matrix.
When we pulled the NIC's code, because this was all buried into
the NIC's code, we pulled this as well. About two hours ago Mr.
Dunnuck said that was not his intention. He wanted to go forward
with the development standards. I apologize. The subcommittee
didn't review them, and they're coming to you at this late stage.
However, the fact remains that they aren't -- they are not
substantive in nature with one exception. If this amendment were
accepted, the maximum height of buildings in the C-4 would drop
from 100 feet to 75 feet. Let me -- let me tell you the lottery
coverages, how did I come to determine those lottery coverages?
They're the result of what would happen under normal circumstances,
the application of setback requirements.
How did I determine the FARs? On the -- on the supporting
sheet you will find the FAR that you can hypothetically achieve
given the current standards for setback and parking and -- and I -- and
in all cases recommended a -- an FAR which would be less than that
which you could achieve without any mention of an FAR. Slightly
less. So what do you want to do?
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Mr. Anderson.
MR. ANDERSON: I'd like to make a motion that we
recommend denial of these. The county commission has already
indicated their displeasure with the floor-area ratio concept. This is
very last minute, and there's no explanation of the fiscal impact of
lowering the building heights. There will be a fiscal impact both to
the property owner and ultimately to the county.
MR. NINO: Are you only seeing the floor-area ratio? What
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about the rest of the table?
MR. ANDERSON: Floor-area ratio, building heights, in fact,
the whole thing. If-- if we're going to get rid of the -- what's the
rationale for getting rid of the wedding cake allowance for buildings?
MR. NINO: The board has indicated that that's their desire.
MR. ANDERSON: I know they had some questions about it,
but I wasn't aware that they've expressed that at a public hearing that
they want to get rid of it.
MR. NINO: Oh, I think they did, didn't they?
MS. MURRAY: That was my understanding, yeah.
MR. NINO: I think they did.
MR. ANDERSON: From a planning perspective?
MR. NINO: Matter of fact--
MR. ANDERSON: In your professional opinion, is that a good
idea?
MR. NINO: I'm -- not for me to -- it's not for me to tell the
board they can't have what they want to have.
MR. ANDERSON: No. I wasn't asking that. I just asked what
your professional opinion was. You'd rather not share it? MR. NINO: I'd rather not share it.
MR. ANDERSON: Okay. I respect that. His -- his silence
speaks volumes.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Does anyone care to second the
motion on the table?
MR. MILK: For discussion purposes, maybe on this height
requirement from a hundred to seventy-five, maybe you could put in
a couple-year duration or give it some time frame to kick in, Ron,
rather than do a wholesale change to 75 feet. Maybe there's some
justification to give it a year or two for expectations of proposed
growth or proposed site plans in the works. I think you've got to
have --
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MR. NINO: What would that accomplish, Bryan? I'm sure the
board's concern is -- is right now, present. They don't want to see any
more 100-foot office buildings going up.
MR. MILK: Well, I'm just thinking of property rights, you
know, if you give some of these folks some time --
MR. NINO: Well, that issue of-- property rights issue won't go
away if it's two years, one year, or today.
MR. ABBOTT: I'll second his amendment, if nothing else. It
was given to us today. I'd sure like the ability to read this and study it
and think about it.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Any further discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: All in favor of the motion?
(Unanimous response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Recommend denial.
MR. NINO: Can I have some reasons for -- for recommending
that no development standards be revised?
MR. PEEPLES: My reason for voting was that this is a pretty
big step, and I think it takes more thought than I'm prepared to give it
right now. That's the bottom line for me. I might agree with all of
these, Ron, but I can't tell you that I do now. MR. NINO: Okay.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: And-- and further comment, too, I
just want to make sure that -- that we are looking at the FARs
completely and give it all the thought that it needs to have. We keep
going back and revisiting these and finding that it left one more
opening here that we didn't think about or something. I want to make
-- I'd like to get it right or at least think we know that we have a good
shot at it.
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MR. NINO: Well, you could take the FARs out and, you still --
there's still something to discuss, you know.
MR. ESP1NAR: Mr. Chairman, I would just like to say ditto to
Perry's comments. That's how I feel. I would have liked to have had
a little more opportunity to check-- you know, look at the
significance of--
MR. NINO: Might I -- might I -- might I -- when I -- might I
make a suggestion? Because I think these are going to go forward to
the board.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Yeah.
MR. NINO: And I think the DSAC should have some input into
it: that you continue to review these and that they be scheduled for
your next meeting, your next regular meeting, otherwise you're not
going to get a chance other than you said you didn't have enough time
to get to the board and give your feelings about reducing the height of
buildings, for example, in C-4 to 75 feet. MR. PEEPLES: Do we--
MR. NINO: Or eliminating the wedding-cake design, because,
you know, you're taking the position you're -- you don't have enough
time and you're not going to comment on them basically.
MR. ANDERSON: I'd like to take your suggestion a step
further and that we recommend that such sweeping changes to all of
our commercial and industrial zoning districts be considered in the
next amendment cycle where it can receive more thoughtful and
detailed consideration.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Susan.
MS. MURRAY: On that note, Bruce, actually, we were
supposed to have workshopped this with the board, and it's been
canceled several times. And I think John wanted to try to bring it
forward anyway. We could certainly convey your opinion to him as
to why you-all are recommending denial. But it would have been our
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preference as well to have a little bit more detail, thought, and input
in terms of a public workshop or something like that with the board.
We're here--
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: I think the motion -- the motion
stands. You certainly can bring forward our comments, though.
MR. NINO: Yeah. Okay.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Any other issues?
MR. NINO: We're done.
MR. FOLEY: I have one. I won't be here next meeting. I'll be
out of town for the next regularly scheduled DSAC meeting.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS: Thank you. Any other member
comments?
MR. ABBOTT: We have a construction code subcommittee this
afternoon. And -- and now, hey, we've got another thing. At one
o'clock we have a FEMA meeting. Those that have any interest are
welcomed to join the torture.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS:
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN MASTERS:
adjourn the meeting?
MR. ESPINAR: Motion.
MR. PEEPLES: Second.
CHAIRMAN MASTERS:
(Unanimous response.)
Any other comments?
With that, entertain a motion to
All in favor?
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There being no further business for the good of the County, the
meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 12 p.m.
DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE
THOMAS MASTERS, P.E., CHAIRMAN
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capacity, r '
For purposes of this law, a "relative" includes only the officer's father, mother, son, daughter, husband, wife. brother, sister, f.--,he,-m- ~. ,
ther-indaw, son-indaw, and daughter-in-law. A "business associate" means any person or entity engaged in or carrying on a business
enterprise with the officer as a partner, joint venturer, coowner of prope~/, or corporate shareholder (where the shares of the corpora*.~on
are not listed on any national or regional stock exchange).
ELECTED OFFICERS:
In addition to abstaining from voting in the situations described above, you must disctose the conflict:
PRIOR TO THE VOTE BEING TAKEN by publicly stating to the assembly the nature of your interest in the measure on which you
are abstaining from voting; and
WITHIN 15 DAYS AFTER THE VOTE OCCURS by completing and filing this form with the person responsible for recording the min-
utes of the meeting, who should incorporat.e the form in the minutes.
APPOINTED OFFICERS:
Although you must abstain from voting in the situations described above, you otherwise may participate in these matters. However, you
must disclose the nature of the conflict before making any attempt to influence the decision, whether orally or in writing and whether made
by you or at your direction.
IF YOU INTEND TO MAKE ANY ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE THE DECISION PRIOR TO THE MEETING AT WHICH THE VOTE WILL BE
TAKEN:
· You must complete and file this form (before making any attempt to influence the decision) with the person responsible for recording the
minutes of the meeting, who will incorporate the form in the minutes. (Continued on other side)
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APPOINTED OFFICERS (continued)
· A copy of the form must be provided immediately to the other members of Ihe agency.
· The form must be read publicly at the next meeting after the form is filed.
IF YOU MAKE NO A'D"EMPT TO INFLUENCE THE DECISION EXCEPT BY DISCUSSION AT THE MEETING:
· You must disclose orally the nature of your conflict [n the measure before participating.
· You must complete the t:orm and tile it within 15 days after the vote occurs with the person responsible for recording the minutes of the
meeting, who must incorporate the form in the minutes. A copy of Ihe form must be provided immediately to the other members of the
agency, and Ihe form must be read publicIy at the next meeting aP, er the form is flied.
DISCLOSURE OF LOCAL OFFICER'S INTEREST
(a) A measure came or will come before my agency which (check one)
inured to my special private gain or loss;
inured to the special gain or loss of my business associate,
inured to the special gain or loss of my relative,
~ inured to the special gain or loss ot.
whom I am retained; er
inured to the special gain or loss of
is the parent organization or subsidia~ of a principal which has retained me.
(b) The measure before my agency and the nature of my conflicting interest in the measure is as follows:
which
After consultation with the County Attorney, I abstained from voting on the above matter pursuant to Section 286.012, Florida
Statutes, which provides that "no member of any state, county, or municipal governmental board, commission or agency who is
present at any meeting of such body at which an official decision, ruling or other official act is to be taken or adopted may abstain
from voting.., except when, with respect to any such member, there is or appears to be, a possible conflict of interest under the
provisions of 112.31 I, S. 112.313, or S. 112.3143. In such cases, said member shall co0t(ply with th're,disclosure requirements of
Date Filed Signature I
NOTICE: UNDER PROVISIONS OF FLORIDA STATUTES §112.317, A FAILURE TO MAKE ANY REQUIRED DISCLOSURE
CONSTITUTES GROUNDS FOR AND MAY BE PUNISHED BY ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: IMPEACHMENT;'
REMOVAL OR SUSPENSION FROM OFFICE OR EMPLOYMENT, DEMOTION, REDUCTION IN SALARY, REPRIMAND, OR A
CIVIL PENALTY NOT TO EXCEED $10,000.
CE FORM $8 - REV. 1198
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