Bayshore Gateway CRA Minutes 03/07/2017 Gz& 14 B4071,.
Bayshore Gateway Triangle CRA•Bayshore Beautification MSTU
Haldeman Creek MSTU
BAYSHORE/GATEWAY TRIANGLE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT LOCAL ADVISORY
BOARD MINUTES OF THE MARCH 7, 2017 MEETING
The meeting of the Bayshore/Gateway Triangle Community Redevelopment Advisory Board was
called to order by Chairman, Maurice Gutierrez at 6:00 p.m. at the CRA Office, 3570 Bayshore
Drive, Unit 102.
I. Roll Call: Present: Advisory Board Members: Maurice Gutierrez, Steve Main, Mike
Sherman, Karen Beatty, Peter Dvorak, Chuck Gunther, Shane Shadis, and Larry Ingram.
Ron Kezeske, Excused.
CRA Staff Present: Shirley Garcia, Operations Coordinator; Michelle Arnold, PTNE
Director; Tim Durham, County Managers Office; and Elly McKuen, Project Manager.
II. Pledge of Allegiance
III. Adoption of Agenda: A motion to approve the agenda was made by Steve Main,
seconded by Karen Beatty. The motion passed unanimously.
IV. Adoption of Minutes: A motion to approve the February 7, 2017 minutes was made by
Peter Dvorak, seconded by Mike Sherman. The motion passed unanimously.
V. Introductions from Botanical Gardens:
Donna McGinnis, new Executive Director/CEO with the Naples Botanical Gardens,
introduced herself to the committee and the community. She also introduced Deputy
Director, Chad Washburn. Ms. McGinnis provided a brief biography of herself and then
outlined some upcoming programs being offered at the Gardens. One program of note
was the free summer camp for Avalon and Shadowlawn Elementary students. It was
noted that the Naples Botanical Gardens is ranked one of the highest among other
gardens because of climate in the area which gives it the flexibility of growing seasons.
Ms. McGinnis mentioned she is excited about the continuing relationship with the
Bayshore CRA and the community and is encouraged about all the new developments in
the area. The Gardens looking forward to the Thomasson Drive improvement and
coordinating on the plantings in the roundabout.
VI. Project Updates:
CRA staff provided an update for the following projects:
1. Gateway Triangle Properties: CRA staff, the County's Real Property Section, the
developer and representatives from the cell tower, Crown Castle, met on February 22
to discuss the relocation of the tower on the triangle property. The cell tower
company has an existing site located at 2370 Kirkwood Avenue that they are
investigating the possibility of combining the tenants both towers.
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2. Solstice f/k/a Cirrus Point: Staff has been referring numerous inquiries from
investors to the owners of Cirrus Pointe to assist with the development of the
property. There have been many inquiries on workforce housing and questions if the ~
density bonus would be applicable.
3. The Garden School: The construction is still ongoing and they anticipate completion
later this year.
4. Microbrewery: Ankrolab Brewing still has some very minor corrections to make, the
owner is thinking about adding a silo in the front or side if that is allowable. Staff has
been working with County Fire review staff and the assigned planner(Chris Scott) to
work out a location on site to avoid a variance, if possible.
5. Sugden Park Pathway: Staff submitted a HUD CDBG grant application on March
1st for the shortfall construction cost of$150,000. Community and Human Services
Division will announce awardees in early June.
6. Karen Dr. Stormwater: The bids were opened on February 7th. The lowest
responsive, responsible bidder was JRL Underground Utilities. They are a Section 3
contractor which is one of the requirements for the CDBG grant funding. Staff is
working with Procurement Division to get the low bidder approved and the contract
approved by the Board of County Commissioners at the March 14th meeting.
Construction is anticipated to start in mid April.
7. Fire Suppression: Staff is also requesting $750,000 through the Florida Legislative
process. HB3327 outlines the request and if funded, money will come from Florida
Department of Environmental Protection. The session begins March 7th. The
Committee was encouraged to email Representative Rommel and Senator Passidomo.
8. Food Truck Park: GMD staff held the SDP pre-application meeting on February 7th
with the owners, engineer, architect and landscape designer to discuss outstanding
items required for approval. The improvements include a culinary park, with 8 food
truck locations, a tiki bar with covered seating, moorings along the seawall for
boaters and wall seating behind the sidewalk along Bayshore Drive.
9. Thomasson Drive: Per the BCC's directive staff will work with Mr. Ackerman and
bring back the item in March.
10. Trio: Demolition and clearing will be completed by March 8th and site work will
begin soon after that. Navy Blue screening, matching the project branding, was
installed on March 1st. The sales trailer is on site and has garnered a lot of interest
from the public and local realtors. Mr. Fortino expressed his excitement for the
public's interest of the project which will `ignite the financing of the project'.
11. Parking Study: The consultant presented the draft parking needs analysis to the
advisory committee and it was not well received. There were several issues brought
up by the committee as well as the public that attended the meeting. A
recommendation was made by the committee to have staff research all vacant lots and
asking price which could be used for a parking lot to support the restaurant in the
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district. The Committee also asked staff to secure a realtor to negotiate the purchase
of the lot purchase.
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12. Race Trac: The hearing date has been changed to March 28th, 2017 before the BCC.
Vern Hemmett, a longtime resident in the area, sent an email to those interested
residents to advise of the change in meeting dates and urged the residents to continue
to communicate with the Commissioners about the issue, especially the newly
appointed ones.
13.Redevelopment Plan Update: Four proposals were submitted by firms to complete
the Plan Update. The selection committee will be reviewing the proposals and
hearing presentations from each firm on March 21, 2017.
14. Western Bike Shop: The Notice to proceed has been sent and the owners have one
year to complete all renovations and payments to the contractor for 50%
reimbursement.
15. CRA 17 Acres: The draft RFP has been completed. Staff will be submitting the draft
to the CRA committee members for comments and suggestions. Working with the
County's Procurement Division, the RFP is anticipated to be published mid March.
There will be a 30-day solicitation period. Conceptual plans are being requested.
16. CRA Loan Refmance: The BCC has approved the loan refinance, Office of
Management and Budget has the refinancing documents.
17. Central Park Bus Station SDP Pre-App: A Site Development Plan pre-application
meeting was held on February 2nd at the Growth Management Department. The
property owner and his engineer were in attendance. The Greyhound Bus Station
building will be demolished and a new 3-unit flex-space will be constructed. A
timeline has not been determined for the improvements to be made.
18. 2672 Davis Blvd. (vacant land) Retail SDP Pre-App: This is a vacant parcel
located on the south side of Davis Boulevard. A Site Development Plan pre-
application meeting was held on March 2"d. The owner will construct a flex-space
building with parking. There are some large oak trees on site and during the pre-
application meeting CRA staff requested that the developer save as many mature trees
as possible. In addition, CRA staff requested that instead of the installing the
minimum landscape requirements along Davis Boulevard that the owner look at more
mature, larger caliper trees and shrubs to soften the area along the frontage of Davis
Boulevard.
VII. MSTU's Project Updates:
The Haldeman Creek MSTU met at 4:00 p.m. before the CRA meeting. The topic
discussed during their meeting was the surveying and clearing of 300 feet along the creek
on the south side of U.S. 41 at the bridge. The focus is to locate the MSTU's right of
way and then clear mangroves/exotics along the shoreline. This project is in conjunction
with the County's stormwater section that is relocating the weir on the north side of the
bridge. The surveyor has the notice to proceed. Once the survey has marked the creek
boundaries, the contractor, Earth Balance will be notified and will remove the exotics and
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trim the mangroves in the area. The next Haldeman Creek MSTU meeting will be May
2, 2017.
The Bayshore Beautification MSTU meeting will meet the following day. The project
update is part of the packet for the committee to read. There were no questions regarding
their update.
VIII. Request for Payments: None other than routine operational. All invoices are located in
the book for review.
IX. New Business:
a. New Hire Senior Project Manager: Tami Scott's anticipated start date is March 20,
2017. She will be in the office on March 22.
X. Old Business: The CRA Annual Workshop with the CRA Board will be on April
4th, 2017. The time changed from 1pm to 9am.
XI. Advisory Board General Communications: Tim Durham discussed House Bill 13 that
could eliminate CRA's, not allow new CRA's from being formed and the current CRA's
from spending money after October 1, 2017, which would just shut them down.
Karen Beatty asked about the status of the new CRA Director. Staff advised that the posting
for the job closes on March 16th, and a selection committee will conduct the initial
interviews.
Staff mentioned Bay Days April 8th to clean up Haldeman Creek and if there were any
volunteers there is a sign-up sheet on the table.
Peter Dvorak wanted to talk about starting up a program called Little Free Library, which
involves establishing neighborhood small book boxes located on the side streets with free
books to share. Participants would be free to take books home or drop off their unwanted
books. He would take charge of this program and was just asking about any input from
everyone.
Karen Beatty wanted to talk about a Community Solar Coop, the Botanical Gardens had a
seminar on it and she wanted to inquire about how the committee felt about getting
something like this in our area.
XI. Citizen Comments: There were no citizen comments.
XII.Next Meeting Date: The next CRA advisory committee meeting is April 4, 2017
XIII. Adjournment—The meeting adjourned at 7:25 p.m.
Approved by Maurice Gutierrez, CRA-AB Chairman
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