CCPC Minutes 04/05/2018April5,20l8
TRANSCRIPT OF Tt{E MEETING OF TI{E
COLLIER COTINTY PLANNING COMMISSION
Naples, Florid4 April 5, 2018
LET IT BE REMEMBERED, that the Collier County Planning Commission, in and for the County of
Collier, having conducted business herein, met on this date at 9:00 a.m., in REGULAR SESSION in
Building "F" of the Govemment Complex, East Naples, Florida with the following members present:
CHAIRMAN: Mark Strain
Stan Chrzanowski
Patrick Dearborn
Diane Ebert
Edwin Fryer
Karen Homiak
ABSENT: Joe Schmitt
ALSO PRESENT:
Raymond V. Bellows, ZonngManager
Jeffrey Klatzkow, County Attorney
Heidi Ashton-Cicko, Managing Assistant County Attorney
Tom Eastman, School District Representative
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PROCEEDINGS
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Thursday, April 5th meeting of
the Collier County Planning Commission.
If everybody will please rise for Pledge of Allegiance.
(The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.)
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Will the secretary please do the roll call.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Yes. Good morning.
Mr. Eastman?
MR. EASTMAN: Here.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Mr. Chrzanowski?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Here.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Mr. Fryer?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Here.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Ms. Ebert is here.
Chairman Strain?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Here.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Ms. Homiak?
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Here.
Mr. Schmitt is absent.
Mr. Dearborn?
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Here.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Schmitt informed me he wouldn't be here today, so it will be an
excused absence.
Okay. Addenda to the agenda. First of all, the Board - this.panel the last time had a couple of
projects that we approved, and rather than have them on consent, they asked me to -- they said they'd be
satisfied with my proofreading them before they were brought to the Board in lieu of consent, and I did that.
But one of them, which is the Creekside Commerce Park CPI-ID that we heard last time, had a concern by the
applicant over something that was said at the meeting that may not have been necessarily understood by all of
us in the same manner.
So to be sure that we're seeing that as we wanted to, I asked that it be put back on the agenda for
today's discussion; however, we can't hear it as consent because if - the result of the discussion may provide
other options that need to be considered for the PUD.
On that basis I'm going to request that we move it from 8A, which is the consent agend4 to the first
item up under the regular agendq but because the regular agenda's already labeled, we'll call it 9E, but it
would be first up as a supplemental hearing, and it would be limited to the issue at hand that's in dispute, let's
say, and then anything related to that issue based on the outcome of the discussion.
So with that, could I have a motion to move 8A to 9E and have it first on the regular hearing
addenda?
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: So moved.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Second.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Made by Patrick, seconded by Ned. Discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All in favor, signif, by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody opposed?
(No response.)
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion carries 6-0.
Okay. With that, we'll -- Ruy, Iet's move to -- oh, I think it's Planning Commission absences would
be next.
Planning Commission absences for the April l9th meeting. Does anybody know if they're not going
to be here?
(No response.)
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. We'll have a quorum. That takes us to approval of the minutes.
Ray, I think March l st is the only ones we have. Has anybody reviewed those? Do you have any
questions, concerns?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: If not, is there a motion to approve?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: So moved.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Made by Ned.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Second.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Seconded by Stan.
All in favor, signifu by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody opposed?
(No response.)
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: Motion carries 6-0.
Now it's Ray's turn. BCC report and recaps, Ray.
MR. BELLOWS: Yes. The Board of County Commissioners met on March 27th. T\ey heard the
City Gate PUD amendment and the development order amendment. It was approved 5-0 subject to the
Planning Commission recommendations.
CFIAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. And there were some changes to our recommendation. So Im
assuming the Board, then, made those changes without our involvement but they did get approved?
MR. BELLOWS: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'd be interested, Mr. Chairman, if we could have a brief summary of
those changes just for my --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Im not sure Ray's prepared. Do you know what changes there specifically
were?
MR. BELLOWS: That was Nancy's project. We can get those summarized for you.
CFIAIRMAN STRAIN: Next time around, just brief us on what those were, if you don't mind.
MR. BELLOWS: Definitely.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Next up is Chairman's report, and in lieu of the fact we have a long meeting
today, I'm not going to waste your time with any further discussion. And we'll have no consent items left.
***So we'll move right into 9E, which is the advertised public hearing. Well, it's been advertised as
a regular hearing, but it was shown as consent. It was moved from consent. It was PL20170000425, the
Creekside Commerce Park Commercial Planned Unit Development (CPLJD). It's for the Arthrex center up
on Immokalee Road and U.S. 4l and Goodlette.
All those wishing to testifu on behalf of this item, please rise to be sworn in by the court reporter.
(The speakers were duly swom and indicated in the affrrmative.)
CFIAIRMAN STRAN: Disclosures from the Planning Commission. We'll start with Tom on my
right.
MR. EASTMAN: None.
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CHAIRMAN STRAN: Stan?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I didn't even know this was happening, so how could I
disclose anything? But I've got a question. Is what we're doing legal, Jefl
MR. KLATZKOW: I asked for it.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Okay. I guess that's legal.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Stan, just to give you a word, I wouldn't have asked -- I wouldn't have gone
forward with a new process unless I cleared it with the County Attorney's Offrce, so...
Okay. Ned?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Nothing to disclose since the previous time it came before us.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Diane?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Nothing.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All my similar disclosures as previously on the project overall, but since
that time I have talked with various staffmembers, the County Attomey's Office, I either talked to or saw
emails from the applicant or applicant's team members. I can't remember all of it right now.
Karen?
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Nothing since last time.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Patrick?
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Nothing from me. I'm just glad to hear it's legal.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: And with that, we'll move into -- Richard, if you wantto start your
discussion.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Sure. Good morning, for the record, Rich Yovanovich on behalf of the
petitioner.
As you know, one of the purposes of the PUD amendment was to allow for an additional hotelto be
constructed on the east -- I'm sorry -- the west side of Goodlette-Frank Road. And we went through an
extensive discussion of what Arthrex's current plans are for the hotel and that it was their intentions
for -- from now until whenever, to operate that hotel for its use and for its doctors' use, but we made it very
clear we don't know what the ultimate future may be.
So we analyzed the hotel as if it were a regular hotel, any brand hotel it could possibly be. We did
that from a transportation standpoint, we did it from an impact standpoint. The total analysis is as if it was a
standalone hotel and not an accessory exclusively to Arthrex, because if it was - ha.rg on a second -- because
if it was an accessory use exclusive to Artlrex, I wouldn't have even had to not -- I would have not had to
have done the impact analysis we were doing because it would have been considered a medically related use
which was allowed under the Comprehensive Plan.
But because we knew we couldn't commit forever that this hotel would always be only for Arthrex,
we did the analysis that's required under the Comprehensive Plan to make sure we were not increasing the
intensity under the PUD by adding this hotel use. So we analyzed it as if it were a Hilton -- I don't know
why -- I'm thinking I'm a Hilton Club member; that's why that's the only one I can remember right now. But
a Maniott anything like that. So we analyzed it like that.
Mr. Bumpous was asked the question, do you intend for it to have a flag, and he said no. And I got
up after Mr. Bumpous, actually in response to Mr. Fryer's questions about traffic impacts and said, we
analyzedthis conservatively as if it were a standalone hotel.
That's how we analyzed it, that's how we intend to permit it, and that was our intentions all along is
that some day in the future we dont want to have to come back in the future to amend the PUD to be allowed
to put a flag on the hotel if circumstances change.
That's what we understood the motion was. There was nothing in the motion that said thou shalt not
have a flag on this hotel, because I would have got up there and said, whoa, whoa, whoa -- you know me, I'm
not shy -- we can't agree to that condition.
So it is our intentions to not have a flag. But we're not going to commit that forever there will not be
a flag on that hotel.
So our request is for our language that's currently being presented to you, and we hope the Planning
Commission can support that on behalf of Arthrex and their goals to continue to be an economic engine here
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in Collier County. And that's the confusion that exists.
So our request is that you consider this as a regular hotel without a limitation on flags.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Before the Planning Commission asks any questions, I think to put it
all in perspective, I'd like to read the minutes fiom that meeting so we know exactly why the question came
up. It will take a couple - a few minutes to read them all, but there's seveml paragraphs.
First of all, Commissioner Ebert said, I have a question. Is this a private hotel? ls this yours only?
Mr. Bumpous: It is a privately owned hotel; however, again, to meet the AdvaMed requirements, if
we were to create an independent private hotel only catering to physicians, that would violate some
regulations, so we have to establish it as a public hotel.
You will not see this in Expedia. You will not see this in Orbitz. This will not be something that's
publicized. This will be a business hotel for our visiting surgeons ard visiting employees that come in from
Europe, from Califomi4 fiom other locations that would stay there as well.
Mr. Klatzkow: So there's no flag on it?
Mr. Bumpous: Correc! no flag.
Mr. Klatzkow: Okay.
Under - Mr. Yovanovich entered into that discussion in the same -- second page later.
Also, the way we analyzed this hotel is we analyzed it as if it were a public hotel, a real public hotel,
like a Marriott or a Hilton, or whatever, fiom a transportation standpoint.
We analyzed it that way, and we achrally reduced the square footages in the PUD as if it were a
standalone hotel open to the public and, therefore, the traffic - the typical traffic impacts ofthat type of a
hotel.
So we reduced square footage in the PUD to offset those impacts so the PUD would not be -- so the
PUD would be transportation neutral.
So if -- you're really looking at this in the worst-case scenario as if it's a public operated open hotel
for the general public when, in reality, it will be operated as a private hotel essentially for Arthrex visitors.
Now, after that meeting we got to tie end of it, there was a motion to approve, and Joe Schmitt said,
motion to approve subject to -- and we can go tkough the paragaphs, but subject to tie changes we
discussed today.
Mr. Strain: Okay. Then both ofyou are in agreement.
This was between Mr. Fryer and Mr. Schmitt who were making the motion and a second. It was
approved unopposed.
So that's the discussion we're having today is try to resolve the issue ofthe flag. I've read to you the
actual discussion that occurred, so now, Stan, I think you had some questions.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Just the way the conversation started ou! if someone were to
read this, I assume by "flag" you mean not the code definition offlag but something else.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I think they use the term when you put either a Hilton designation or a
Marriott designation or whatever else is out there designation is a flag for a hotel, not a flag as in an American
flag or some otler tlpe of flag.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Ned?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: My vote last time was influenced by the fact that it was not going to be
held out publicly as with signs, I suppose, is what I thought a flag meant, or otherwise advertised to the public
as something that would be available for occupancy to anyone who might have read ar advertisement.
Now, Im not sure exactly what flagged mears. I personally would not have a problem if Arthrex
entered into a management contract of some kind whereby a large hotel chain operated the place because I'm
sure that they would do an excellentjob operating it, perhaps better than ifArthrex went out and hired people
to do that. And it seems to me that could be accomplished without it then being touted to the public as being
a Marriott or a Hilton.
And even if in fine print somewhere you said "managed by Hilton Hotels" or something like that, I
don't have a problem with that. What the problem I have is is that if it becomes part of the public awareness
that there is a hotel there, that would I think, negatively influence the traffic, and it would take away from the
arguments that I was persuaded by last time such as that it's going to keep more people on the campus.
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MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, and it still will do that.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, if people are checking into that hotel for purposes other than
spending time at Arthrex or attending seminars or meeting with people, if they're checking into the hotel in
order to visit Norttr Naples or downtown Naples or other places, I don't know that it would. But it seems to
me there ought to be a win-win here unless I misunderstand what is being said.
Ifthe language here that has been suggested, the proposed new language, would allow for
professional management but not being advertised as such, I think I'd be okay with it, although the language
must be very carefully crafted.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Let me take a step back.
This whole discussion is predicated on it is intended to be a hotel with a limited universe of people
who will be staying at that hotel. But we've never said that -- we don't want to have to come back 10 years
from now, times have changed, and now have to amend the PUD to be able to have that hotel be open to
people who are staying at -- family members who are staying at Naples Community Hospital or family
members who are staying at Collier's Reserve.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And I don't have a problem with that really. It has to do with how it's
held out to the public, how it's advertised, that type of thing.
MR. YOVANOVICH: And I understandthat, Mr. Fryer. Whatwe're saying, we analyzed it
worst-case scenario; that if the world changes, we can advertise it and have a --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I know you did, and that was appropriate and a conservative approach.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You guys have got to let each other stop speaking. You're over each other,
and we're not going to be able to record it properly. So one at time, please.
Go ahead, Richard.
MR. YOVANOVICH: And I appreciate that. I didn't mean to intemrpt Mr. Fryer, and I'm sure he
didn't mean to intemrpt me, so...
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Not at all.
MR. YOVANOVICH: We analyzed it worst-case scenario. We hope that worst case never happens,
but we don't want to have to come back in the fufure and say we are now going to put the name Marriott on
this hotel and let people come stay at it, because we've already analyzed it as if the name Marriott is there.
We're not changing how we plan to operate this. We've always said we're going to have professional
management of the hotel.
We don't -- we're going to have professional management, whoever that professional management
company may be. But we did say we don't intend to put the name Marriott there anytime in the near future.
But to say we'll never do that, we didn't agree to that. We didn't think we said we would agree to that. We
didn't analyze it that way, and that's why we're here right now is what happens worst-case scenario.
Frankly, I think the people -- I think people in Collier's Reserve and Pelican Marsh wish this was
open to their guests in our discussions with them, you know. So this hotel has received the least amount of
discussion amongst the residents of Pelican Marsh and Collier's Preserve, because we reached out to them
early, we reached out to them often, and they have no issues. And nobody's here to speak against it. And
we're hopeful that we can live with our language.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Is there -- would there be a way to make going public with the name,
advertising ig holding it out to the public as a Marriott or Hilton or whatever, that would first trigger another
study of taffrc implications?
MR. YOVANOVICH: But we've already studied the faffic implications. We've already done that
analysis. And we're going through that process right now -
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'm just saying that all of that was important to me, and your
conservative approach was appreciated, but my vote was influenced in part by the arguments that were
impressive that had to do with keeping people on the ranch, on the farm, so to speak.
And to the extent that this would become the same kind of an institution as the Ritz-Carlton, that is
not going to be the case, and that will result in more traffrc. That's all I have.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Can I just say one point? This isn't something that's happening in the future.
We're already in for our Site Development Plan for the hotel. So we're doing the transportation analysis as
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we speak real time to - with the assumption that the traffic impact is a regular hotel open for everybody. So
those traffic impacts are being analyzedtoday real world, worst-case scenario. So we are factoring in those
impacts today.
So the reality is, we're going to get tagged, if you will, because I can't think of another word, as if I'm
open to the public today, but we will not have that impact because we won't be. So if I do sometime in the
future put the Marriott on there - put the Marriott tag on there, or flag on there in the future, I've already been
analyzed as if it's a Marriott today.
I get it if I were coming in and it's going to be three years from now before we look at a hotel, but
we're already in for that Site Development Plan with the hope that we're going to receive approval and have
the hotel open when we're done building the office.
MR. KLATZKOW: Yet there's an administrative parking reduction request that's currently
processing through the system as well based on the fact that this is a private hotel.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Right. Ill tell you what -
CHAIRMAN STRAN: We're going to get into that in a minute, Jeff. But I wantNed to finish his
discussion firsl then we'll come to you, and then Diane.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: The traffic analysis helped me get to a yes vote. I appreciated it, but it
was not the only factor that I took account of. I was also impressed by the fact that it logically seemed to be
something that would net reduce the amount of traffic by keeping visiting physicians, drug reps, whoever
else, on the campus.
So -- and, again, I appreciate that your study was done conservatively and that that was the proper
way to do it. But as far as my vote was concerne4 that was only a part of why I voted yes.
Now, let me ask a question, Rich, if I may. Let's -- I understand no one wants their hands tied
forever, and I get that conceptually, and I also appreciate that it's not your client's present intent to advertise i!
open up to the public, and make it like the Ritz-Carlton.
But may I ask what opportunities are you looking -- not to foreclose in the future. Are you looking
to make it a publicly advertised place where companies could come in and have retreats or families could
come to visit the Naples area? What opportunities are you trying not to foreclose?
MR. BIA{POUS: Good morning. David Bumpous, for the record, with Arthrex.
To respond to your question, the intent is for our visiting surgeons, visiting guests from other
locations within Arthrex. At the same time, we plan to host business partners, again, other companies
affiliated and associated with us that we do business with, work with, that we oftentimes collaborate with and
provide that opportunity.
As I stated last time on the record, this is a public hotel, and while you may not find it on the Intemet
to book a reservation, if you call the number, any of you on this board, you would be able to book a room if
one's available. So it is a public hotel as required.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Mr. Bumpous, I understood that completely last time. It just has to do
with whether it's being advertised or promoted. I know if it were approved the way the language was and
somebody called and tried to make a reservation, you would accept them; I get that. But how is it they would
have found out about it? And the more advertising, the more promotion, the more signage that is used, the
more that the public mindset becomes connected with the fact that that is a Ritz-Carlton or a Hilton or
Marriott the more non-Arthrex business will be done there. That stands to reason.
MR. BLryIPOUS: Absolutely, and that's why the traffic impact study was done at the max.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And the traffic impact study was one factor that influenced by vote.
MR. BUMPOUS: Ultimately, there will be no more additional rooms added. So whether it's full
today or whether it's full in the future -
COMMISSIONER FRYER: But it has to do with how many people will be leaving the campus.
MR. BUMPOUS: I understand.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I guess the answer to your question was, we don't know what's going to
happen in the future. So every smart businessperson has, what's my exit strategy if things don't work out the
way I think they're going to work out. And I have a hotel there. And that's what every smart businessperson
would do. That's what we're doing.
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Now, since the window was opened up on this alternative parking calculation, and it seems to be
something that is part of your agend4 you can do alternative parking calculations for purposes of a Site
Development Plan to determine what should the parking be, but you always have to have the backup plan is
what if you're wrong and your calculation is wrong and you need more parking than what you need.
Now, what does this alternative parking calculation show you? Is shows you that we have a surplus
of 423 parking spaces on the campus when we build the office building and the hotel. We only asked for a
reduction of -- we asked for 1 1 I to be the requirement instead of the 186 required by the code.
If we had to do the 186 and identify them on the immediately adjacent Arthrex office parcel, we're
still excess parking.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And, Rich, I don't mean to --
MR. YOVANOVICH: So that was --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- intemrpt, but Ned didn't ask a question about the parking exemptions,
and let's wait till that question comes up from the person who asked it, and then you can understand what the
reason for the asking is, and we can respond to that one for that basis.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Fine.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So you're going offon tangents. I'd like to get to the next question if we
can. I think you've answered all of Ned's questions. Ned, are you hnished?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yes, I am.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Jefi do you want to move forward with your question?
MR. KLATZKOW: Well, no. I just - I'm completely indifferent as to whether this is a public hotel
or a private hotel, whatever. What Rich is saying here is, in essence, they want it zoned to be a public hotel.
That's what they're saying, which is fine, you know, but that's what he's saying. So all this talk about how this
is going to be a private hotel and it's just for, you know, doctors, that's just talk.
What the zoning's going to be is a public hotel. That's what he's asking for. Again, that's fine.
You've got a parking exemption request. Again, the discussion was, is it going to be a private hotel? If what
they want is a public hotel, again, that's fine. But, you know, staffs going to have to relook at this
administrative parking reduction in light of the fact that this is going to be a public hotel because that's what
the zoning's going to be if the Planning Commission agrees.
That's all. I mean, we're trying to sell it in one way while really asking for something else.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Now, Rich, do you want to respond to that?
MR. YOVANOVICH: No.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Diane, do you have a question?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Yes, I do.
I asked Mr. Bumpous, I believe, if the public could use this hotel, and you said no. This is for
doctors -- this is for doctors, and this is for people that come in from overseas. And when we have different
meetings and everything, it's going to be - this is going to be a private - that is the way I gathered it more so
was that it had nothing to do -- because I said, can the public stay there, and I thought it was said, no. And,
you're right, I'd have to go back and look at the minutes.
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: Well, no. I read them to you.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: I know.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: The question was -- you asked, is this a private hotel? He said, it's a
privately owned hotel, but they have to establish it as a public hotel. So they said that in the record. And I've
just read the minutes from that. So he did answer your question, but I think there's a difference between
private ownership and private operation. This is an operation as a public hotel, but it's going to be privately
owned. That's what I think they intended.
Does anybody else have any questions?
Q.{o response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Rich, I have a few. And, first of all, you did approach the use of the
hotel as ITE Code 310 in the PUD as a publicly operated hotel, and because ofthat your faffic count came
out like any other hotel in any other part of the county that would have. And then you correspondingly said,
okay, to make up for that traffic, we will reduce our square footage of other elements of our PUD so we
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remain traffic neutral.
I dont have a problem with any ofthat. That part fits even whether it's flagged or not. That part
doesn't bother me as much. What bothers me -- because you proceeded it - you moved forward as a publicly
operated hotel.
What bothers me is two things. Number one, the application for the parking exemption - which I
was a little disappointed to see staffwould even have approved it without looking at the PllD, but it says, it
will be a private hotel for use by Arthrex guests and employees. Now, again, we're looking at a limitation
there which staffbanked on for the approval ofthe parking exemption, but they also banked on the fact that
you used ITE code for that exemption, No. 312. ButinyourPUDyouused3l0.
I'd like to know why you changed from a hotel -- a normal operating hotel in your PUD to a parking
exemption that was purely a business hotel.
I granted that the trip counts arejust slightly differenq but why would you need to do that?
MR. TREBILCOCK: Good moming. My name is Norm Trebilcock, and my firm prepared the
Traffic Impact Statement and also the parking needs analysis for the hotel as well.
The reasoning is in the PUD amendment we use 310, and that is * for trip generation purposes, okay,
and that isjust to maintain consistency because that's what we had had - you know, we already had hotel
rooms for the project.
And the business hotel is a public hotel use. It'sjust a different t)?e ofhotel. It actually describes
what's happening more accurately. For the purposes of doing the traffic analysis, we maintain the 310 as a
higher assumption.
When we did the parking needs analysis, though, the parking needs analysis, what I wanted to
do - that is for this very specific parcel and t1pe, and it's really an evaluation tool for staff. So I wanted to
use : and parking generation is not the same as the trip generation, but there are parallel numbers used. But I
wanted tojust be more accurate to the staff in terms of looking at that.
When we do the taffic studies, a lot of that ties back into impact fees, and the county uses a standard
for 31 0 for their impact fees for hotel. So we weren't looking to mix and match that. I think it would create
more complications. But for this very specific use in this evaluation tool, it was really a deficit number to
evaluate. I mean, the whole deficit, though, in what I call a remedy is still based on the L^and Development
Code standard, so our remedy for the parking needs is we have this adjacent adminisfiative building that will
take care ofthe parking needs in the event the assumptions are incorrect on that particular parcel, and that's
really how it's described for everybody.
So it's reallyjust to try and be more accurate for evaluation in that very specific report. So it wasn't
an intention to anlthing other than that.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Well, it also helps that the number you used in the parking calculation has a
different ITE trip generation than the PUD.
MR. TREBILCOCK: It's a pa*ing demand. It's not the same as a trip generation. It,s a parking
demand. There are differences, so Ijust -
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: I don't know why staffwould allow you to use a different ITE code for
parking when that's not the ITE code that's in the PUD.
And I would suggest to staff in the future that they need to match up parking exemptions to what the
applicant had applied for in the PUD, unless there's -- I still haven't heard a good reason why they wouldn't. I
understand your reasoning. It's not theirs.
MR. TREBILCOCK: No. And you make a good point. But the point of the matter is is when we
look at a PLID aaalysis, we're looking at highest and best use, so we'll tend to go to a higher and conservative
number. But really what we'd like to get to is actually the very specifics that you're doing.
So there's nothing wrong with going with something that is more accurate to what you're doing. And
if it has a lower assumption, thafs helpfi.rl for staff to understand in their evaluation as well.
So, yeah, we could have used 310 in the parking demand, but we know specifically that wouldn't be
accurate to how this hotel's being used. Again, in the PUD, it was just a conservative, higher approach. And
I don't see anything wrong with that. It's -- you know, again, we like to be conservative in the PUD level and
then in the specific SDP, if we can hone in on the more accurate numbers, there's nothing wrong with that.
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So I don't see a fault there.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Well, first of all, the more accurate numbers, then, should have been the
ones you used in the PUD since that came three months after the parking reduction request. Regardless, I
think there needs to be some coordination between applications that go in on the same project and the
numbers used to generate those applications. Let staffmake the decision on how you're going to operate it
versus on a narrative you provide, but they ought to match up. That's all I'm trying to say. That's my first
problem.
The second problem is we base -- you asked for a wellness center. You asked for a wellness center
of 40,000 square feet. You asked for that wellness center under the basis that it wouldn't be
counted -- because it's traffic neutral, it would have no impact on traffic because it's limited to Arthrex
employees and guests and hotel guests; that it wouldn't be -- wouldn't generate any traffic and, therefore, the
square footage shouldn't count necessarily against the overall square footage ofthe PUD because there are
certain limitations. It's an industrial park. I didn't have a problem with that realizingthat the limitation's on
the hotel.
Now, if you in the future convert this hotel to a Ritz-Carlton or whatever brand you'd want to put on
it and it goes beyond Arthrex, that means the wellness center's going to see traffic that would now come on
and off site that may be for a different purpose than what the original operation was conceived at.
So all I'm suggesting is that to cure the problem that we're having today, is since this is going to be a
more flagged hotel, if it goes that route, that the wellness centers are prohibited from using membership
programs, meaning you can't have off-site memberships or people drive to the site to use the wellness center
when they're not either an Arthrex employee or a guest at the hotel.
And that as far as the square footage goes, the sentence that we've had is wellness centers limited to
employees and hotel guests within the PUD should not exceed a maximum of 40,000 square feet and shall
not be counted towards overall squarc footage so long as they remain traffic neutral as accessory only to
existing uses. Again, no oflsite memberships. That's all I'm suggesting.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I'm okay if we simply say "no off-site memberships."
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, then what's wrong with the last part of that where "so long as they
remain traffic neutral"? That's the basis for not counting a stand-alone facility that's not accessory to the hotel
lot.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Are you -- are you --
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Let's go to 3.2 under your industrial commerce district general description.
That's the added language I was just reading from. First paragraph. It's on Page 29 electronically and 3-l in
the PUD.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Right.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. So that's where I'm suggesting we add something to not allow
membership programs.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I'm okay with that. But this whole "traffic neutral" language, I can't see it
I'm just saying, and we shall not be allowed to sell oflsite memberships.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Right. So we make sure that that first sentence that's underlined in the
bottom of that paragraph at the end of it, instead of a period where it says overall square footage, comma, "so
long as they remain traffic neutral as accessory only to existing uses."
MR. YOVANOVICH: Where does it say that? It doesn't say that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'm saying add it. Read the -- go to the -- you're onPage 3-2?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I'm at3-2.
CFIAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. See the third line from the bottom, wellness centers limited to
employees and hotel guests within the PUD -
MR. YOVANOVICH: Right.
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: -- shall not exceed a maximum of 40,000 square feet and shall not be
counted towards the overall square footage. And I'm suggesting we add, "so long as they remain traffic
neutral as accessory only to existing uses." You can't have memberships, and they've got to remain traffic
neutral.
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MR. YOVANOVICH: So am I doing a -- how am I going to get - my question is, someone's going
to say to me, what did you do to measure traffic neutrality? I can easily measure I'm not selling
memberships. I get that, and I can easily measure that it's Arthrex employees. I can easily measure that it's
hotel guests.
How do I measure traffic neutrality? If I'm -- you've already -- I'm assuring traffic neutrality by
saying I can't sell outside memberships. I just -- I'm looking at what's the measurement tool.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Well, part of the traffrc neutrality for that wellness center was its limitation
of uses. The users would only be Arthrex campus employees or the hotel guests.
MR. YOVANOVICH: And it's there and I'm saying, and we'll agree to the additional concem you
have, and we shall not sell outdoor -- I'm sorry, outside memberships.
CFLAIRMAN STRAIN: And if you feel you already meet the additional language that I'm
suggesting, then why are you worried about it?
MR. YOVANOVICH: You know, what's the measurement tool? What's the measurement tool?
CHAIRMAN STRAN: What's the measurement tools for yours?
MR. YOVANOVICH: It's very easy. You're going to come in and you're going to say, hey, Rich,
what are you doing here? You're not an employee of Arthrex, and you're not staying at the hotel.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right.
MR. YOVANOVICH: That's the easy -
CFIAIRMAN STRAN: So that's all I'm saying. I'm making it very clear at the end of the sentence;
"so long as they remain traffic neutral as accessory only to existing uses."
MR. YOVANOVICH: We like the language we have.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So be it.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Mark, I have another question. I mean, I'll be honest, this bothers me
because I was figuring it was a private hotel. And you just -- can you say again what the -- what the Arthrex
hotel parking spaces are required?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I have to go back to the traffic parking analysis. Norm, is it 186?
The hotel parking required as a stand-alone Marriott would be 186.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: And you're providing?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I believe it was l1l because it's being operated as a business hotel.
The irony of the whole thing - I'll be honest with you, I thought we were doing this
parking - altemative parking analysis because we were short on parking.
I've got, like, 500 extra spaces. So we can have a parking agreement between Arthrex and the
Arthrex entity that's owning and operating the hotel to address the 186 parking spaces if that's going to make
everybody feel better. But we were doing a Site Development Plan based upon how the hotel was going to
be operated just like any other hotel would go through.
If it's a business oriented hotel, this is the analysis we would do with staff and we'd say this is the
required parking. It's different than what your code currently requires.
This is -- this is just a red herring. It has nothing to do with zoning. Nothing to do with zoning.
We've said from day one this was a public hotel. We've been honest with you how we plan to operate the
hotel. We've been honest that we need an exit strategy if things are differen! and we analyzed it as if there
was an exit strategy. We've done everything right.
This is a business that has been nothing but good for this community and has told you what it wants
to do and what it needs to do, and we're making this way harder than it ought to be when we have nobody
complaining from the community about this hotel.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And I thinh Richard, that you're making it way harderthan it needs to be.
We're not asking for much. We're asking simply put your - I guess your money where your mouth is. You
guys said you weren't going to be -- you were going to be a private hotel, you have to be open to the public,
but you'll be limited on the users of that hotel.
I'm concerned more -- not as the hotel, because you did the right analysis on that. Im not concemed
about the parking exemption. There's no problem there. I don't -- I mean, that's not going to hurt any,thing.
All I'm concerned about is the fact that wellness center isn't counted as square footage on an overall program,
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and it's different. It's not necessarily -- it's not on the same lot. It's not attached. We're going to say it's an
accessory to two other uses. Fine. Then just stick with that.
As long as they remain accessory to the existing uses, then we can - that helps assure the traffic
neutrality. It's the only language I asked to add. That's too much for you, which makes me a little more
concerned that there's something there we're missing, which means I think that language is needed now more
than I previously did.
MR. YOVANOVICH: You know what, I'm running out of gas. I originally called these things
accessory uses during the original application, and because I called it an accessory use, we spent a couple of
hours on the phone about how I'm not an accessory use. So now you want to put the accessory use back in
that I had in the first place. So if we want to go back to my original language where I called it an accessory
use, Irm at peace, but I was told to take the accessory use language out which we did.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: But they're now accessory uses to the overall projec! not just an overall use
where it's got to be tied to a principal use on the same lot. This is the overall project. It qualifies that way.
You want to start up the whole -- you want to open the whole can of worms up again?
MR. YOVANOVICH: We always said it was an accessory use to the Arthrex campus and the hotel.
We always said that. And I --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: It started out as the hotel, Richard.
MR. YOVANOVICH: No, it never did, Mr. Strain. It never did.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: I'm fine with what I've heard to date. Anybody else have any other
questions of the applicant?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, I want to summarize my concerns because they're slightly
different, I think, than those that have been expressed by the Chairman and by the County Attorney.
The proposed new language that we have before us now "and shall not be affiliated or associated in
any manner with a hotel, motel, vacation," et ceter4 that does seem to be too broad because having a
management agreement with Hilton or some other entity that is acting as a silent partner, if you will, or
supplying the back offrce would be an affrliation or association that I would not have any problem with.
And so, to me, the proper language, tlre language that gets at the essence of my concem, would be
something like this: lnstead of what we have outlined in yellow, I would have said, "and shall not be
advertised or promoted to the general public to any substantial degree as a hotel, motel, vacation resort
company or any entity that falls under SIC Code 7011, hotel and motels, unless the resulting greater public
occupancies will be traffrc neutral."
MR. YOVANOVICH: But I'm analyzing it today for purposes of my Site Development Plan. And
correct me if I'm wrong, Norm, as if I am advertising to the general public a regular hotel. So I'm already
having those impacts analyzed right now.
So I'm already doing that for you, Mr. Fryer. So I think I've addressed your concern because my Site
Development Plan is analyzingthe traffrc impacts today as if I am advertising to the world that they can come
stay here.
I'm not going to operate it that way, but I'm analyzing it that way for purposes of concurrency, which
is what I'm required to do. So I think we've -- I think -- I really do believe I've addressed your concern about
traffic impacts because we may some day advertise it to the general public. I'm doing it up front.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I appreciate your point of view, and I understand it. I just don't happen
to be willing to place 100 percent confidence in traffic impact studies, and that's why at our last meeting I
asked for some further explanation that followed a telephone conversation that we had about how this was
going to keep the folks down on the farm to a greater degree than if you were using hotels in Estero or
downtown Naples, and so that influenced my vote.
And taken with the other discussion that we had about - and I understand that if somebody wants to
check in from the public with no association or affrliation with Arthrex, that you're going to accept those
check-ins, but it has to do with the degree of public awareness that there is this very nice hotel in that location
that, to my way of thinking, will add additional traffrc. And if your traffic impact study says it won't, then I
guess I disagree with your traffic impact study.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Anybody else have any questions?
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COMMISSIONER EBERT: Yes, I do.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Diane?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Unlike Mr. Fryer, I was told this is the Arthrex hotel. I thought I asked
if the public could stay there; it was no.
There is going to be a hotel on the east side of this projecl so I assumed that is where you wanted the
public to stay.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, two things: We've always said we don't know whether or not the hotel
on the east side will ever be built or not. We don't know. It could. No guarantee that it will be. It's not my
client's property, Arthrex. They don't know what's going to happen there.
We've analyzedthis PUD as if both hotels were being built. We were clear in the explanation that
this is a public hotel. I understand -- and that's why we're having this discussion is maybe you didnt
understand it the way -- and we're clariffing how it's going to be operated.
Make no mistake, this whole idea happened because of a lack of hotel availability to Arthrex and its
professionals that are coming to stay. They need to have certainty that they'll have rooms for their guests, and
it will be operated where doctors and other visitors who are currently staying in another hotel will now be
staying at this, whether it's a Marriott, whether it's lnnovation. Whether it's advertised on the Internet or not,
it's still going to be Arthrex's guests staying there. We're just looking for the exit strategy in case things
change in the future.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Anybody else?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Are there any members of the public registered to speak, Ray?
MR. BELLOWS: No one has registered.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Any member of the public here who would like to speak on this item?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. With tha! we'll close the public hearing and have discussion first.
Does anybody have any discussion on it?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Yeah, a comment.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Go ahead, sir.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I've had a lot of opportunity to visit Naples, North Naples
Hospital in the last year, and I drive through that intersection frequently, and I never see any traffic problems.
I'm not all that concerned.
But I know people in here think that lmmokalee Road is overstessed, but not that intersection; not
from what I saw, ever. So I'm not as concerned as the rest of you. I'm just not.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody else?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'm going to ask, I guess, the chairman to - before we vote to explain
exactly what we're voting on and what the consequences of a yes versus a no vote would be in terms of what
the County Commissioners did at the last meeting.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: [n terms of what the County Commissioners did? I'm sorry. I don't follow
their meetings all the time, so what did they do at the last meeting that I'm --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, part of Creekside was approved, was it not?
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Creekside?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: No?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Notthat I know of.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. I misunderstood. Okay. All right. So -
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. We only opened this up forjust this singular item and any items that
would be related to it as a result of this discussion, which means the PUD previously was recornmended
approval from us subject to clarification -- incorporating our comments from last time.
ln review of the last time, this was the one issue that wasn't clear. So I think the motion would stand
to recommend approval, but if we vote differently on this issue today, I think this one issue may stand out
from the rest of it. Ill tum to Jeffon any clarification he may offer.
MR. KLATZKOW: No. Usually we request the reason for a negative vote, and that reason, then,
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Mr. Bellows would put into the executive summary that goes to the Board. And so if there is to be a no vote,
I just ask that you state your reason, you know, for the opposition.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But I think the question was, are we voting no on the whole project now or
just a singular issue that we --
MR. KLATZKOW: No. It's forthe whole project.
MR. YOVANOVICH: May I ask --
MR. KLATZKOW: I mean, it doesn't matter because the practical - the practical consequence of
voting no is that it doesn't go on summary. That's the practical consequence. When the Planning Commission
is unanimous and there's no public opposition, a land-use matter goes on summary and is approved at the
very beginning ofthe board meeting without further discussion.
When there is a split vote by the Planning Commission, then it goes for regular public hearing.
That's the practical consequence of a no vote.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Richard, you wanted to ask a question?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yeah. I'll be honest with you. I'm a little confused about the procedure. Are
we back reconsidering the original PUD? Because we're not talking consent anymore. We've gone way
beyond consent, so...
CFI{IRMAN STRAN: We announced that in the beginning this wouldn't be consent. And it was a
limited discussion on the flagging issue that was brought up previously.
MR. YOVANOVICH: So my question is, I understand the vote to be whether or not you agree with
the language proposed by Arthrex or not. If you don't agree with the language proposed by Arthrex, you'd be
voting no against the PUD, and we would then have a consideration by the Board on the regular agenda. Am
I right?
CFIAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, I think that's what Jeffsaid. We're voting for the PUD.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Okay. So we're back to -- we're not voting on consistency with the original
Planning Commission motion.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No. That went aw
MR. YOVANOVICH: We're back now talking about we've reconsidered and reopened up the
public hearing on the PUD itself.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: That's correct. That's correct.
Okay. Ned, did you have anything else you needed to ask?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: No. Im going to explain my vote when the time comes, though.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Anybody else?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I have one point of discussion. First of all, this is a good project, and I like
the project. I thought it was well presented. I thought that everything went fine. I understand the traffrc
issue, and I agree with Stan. You seem to indicate, like us -- you were in agreement with the rest of us. I'm
not in agreement where there's a traffic issue here. I'm worried about a traffic issue in the fufure.
I simply -- now the only thing this boils down to - and because it's not going -- because it's going to
be more of a full operational hotel or it could be in the future - and I think it's the future that I'm worried
about. To allow 40,000 square feet to go uncounted on the premise that it will remain traffic neutral because
the wellness center's going to function as an accessory to existing principal uses, and not allowing that
language to be added, to me, means there's something else there that we've missed; otherwise, how does it
hurt anything? It matches exactly what we've been told and what we voted on.
So I'm going to have a problem with an affirmation on this without stipulations that add clauses that
allow wellness centers to be prohibited from using any -- using membership programs and from adding the
following language to Section 3.2 and the other section where we have wellness centers that says, "so long as
they remain traffic neutral functioning as accessory to existing principal uses." Try to make that as clear as
possible.
And if those two things can be added as a stipulation - I would have no problems, with those
stipulations, recommending approval to the Board, and then let the Board deal with it. At least they've got the
option to hear it clearly then.
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MR. YOVANOVICH: We've already said we agree --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: fuch, this isn't a debating point for you. You've already had testimony.
This is simply for discussion with us.
So that's my position on it. And with that, I'll ask for a motion from the Planning Commission.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'm going to make a motion to approve the proposal with the
stipulations that the Chairman has inserted.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Second.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion made by Ned, seconded by Patrick. Is there any further discussion?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Question. Point of order.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: What exactly are we voting on here in this language that was the
original -
CHAIRMAN STRAN: We're voting on the original discussion that we had at the Planning
Commission meeting a couple weeks ago, and now we're voting on the changes to the wellness center
designations as a result of the discussion this morning going on about the flags being removed.
So, basically, it's eve4rthing we previously did that we already made a motion on with two additional
clauses. It leaves the flag idea in place. They can have their public hotel. But it's the wellness center that
really generates the unknown from this whole thing, and it's a wellness center that my concern was we need
to address because they properly addressed the hotel in their original TIS.
So with a hotel being more public than we thought it would be, by restricting the wellness centers as
we described it helps keep that traffic neutral which is -- that's the big elephant in the room, basically. It's
40,000 square feet of space that's not counted, but it's only not counted because of the way it's tied to the uses
that are there.
So that's the discussion. I mean, does anybody have any comment on that?
MR. KIATZKOW: Just one brief comment. And I understand where the Chair's going on this, and
I can see that the applicant may not --
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Agree.
MR. KLATZKOW: -- agee to this. So this is going to be the issue forthe Board of Counf
Commissioners.
So that I can have absolute clarity before the Board, if I could get staffto write that stipulation -- just
table this for now, get staff to write that stipulation, bring it baclg and make that part ofyour motion, I'll have
absolute clarity before the Board of County Commissioners. Because this sounds like this is going to be a
one -- just a single issue before the Board. The rest of it apparently, is fine.
CFhIRMAN STRAIN: I don't have a problem with the rest of it. I stand behind what I and the rest
of us voted on originally. It's only this one change because of the re -- further defining of the hotel, and that, I
think, buttons it up.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Mr. Strain, I think that the -
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I know. Go ahead, Richard.
MR. YOVANOVICH: [,ook, we are the applicant. We have brought forward a proposed PUD for
our property. Only the applicant can request PUD zoning on its property, and only the applicant can propose
the terms it's willing to agree to.
You have to either agree with our proposed language or not. You can't impose upon us conditions
that we're not willing to accept.
That's why I tried to get up there and say, Mr. Strain, we have no objections to adding we will not
sell memberships and that it has to accessory to the uses of the P[ID. 'We've always balked at the language; I
don't know how to measure transportation neutrality. We're hoping by the fact that only Arthrex people can
use ig only hotel guests can use it, and that we can't sell memberships to the wellness center, and it's
accessory to those two uses, that that will provide you with the assurance that it will be transportation neutral,
and that's all we're suggesting.
We would agree to a condition that we can't sell outside memberships and that it be accessory to the
PUD uses. We have no problems with that. It was, I don't know how to measure tansportation neutrality.
And I don't want to get into a fight with anybody about whether that has or has not occurred. Thafs the only
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thing we're not agreeing to is the transportation neutrality language.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Thank you.
And as far as us insisting on something with you, we are -- we merely recommend to the Board of
County Commissioners.
MR. KLATZKOW: No, no, no. No. Don't assume he's right.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'm not.
MR. KLATZKOW: This is a county ordinance.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: That's what I was just trying to say. I don't think he's right.
MR. KLATZKOW: You're the local planning authority. Okay. I mean --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Jeff, Im not saying -
(Multiple speakers speaking.)
MR. KLATZKOW: You condition your approval on a clause. You condition your approval on a
clause. He doesn't like it, that's fine. It will go to regular -- he'll go to the Board. This is - this is what they
conditioned on. I don't like it. And then the Board of County Commissioners will make a decision.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Jeff_
(Multiple speakers speaking.)
MR. KLATZKOW: I've never heard of such a thing. It's my ordinance. It's not your ordinance.
Once you walk into this -- once you walk into this room it becomes a county ordinance.
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: Jeff, that's okay. We're all on the same page here. It's fine. We'll get there.
So as far as I'm concerned, the motion and the second accepted the language. I will ask staff-- we'll
take a break -- well, it's a little bit early for our court reporter, but we'll take a break anyway. We'll get staffto
type it up, and we'll read it back into the record, make sure it's crystal clear, and then that will meet Jeffs
needs, and then we'll go from there.
So based on the motion that we have said, the two stipulations would be the wellness centers will be
prohibited from using membership programs and that the last -- the sentence on3.2 and the other section that
talks about wellness centers where it says they shall not be counted towards their overall square footage, we'll
continue with the following language: "So long as they remain traffic neutral functioning as accessory to
existing principal uses," period. That's what was suggested. That's what the motion maker and second, I
believe -- can I have a reaffirmation of that?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Patrick?
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. With that, is there a motion to approve?
MR. KLATZKOW: Well, let's table it. We'll get it written up -
CHAIRMAN STRAN: And we'll come back.
MR. KLATZKOW: -- then we'll come back and vote on it.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Let's table it for 15 minutes. We'll return at 10:15. And right after
that we'll move right into Sand Banks parking exemption. We'll take a break till 10:15.
(A brief recess was had.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, everyone. Welcome back from the break.
The printed copy of what we were waiting for just came through the door. So this is basically for the
Planning Commission's benefit and the County Attorney's Office to understand clearly what the motion was.
So long -- in yellow is the highlighted part. Wellness centers limited to employees and hotel guests within
the PUD shall not exceed a maximum of 40,000 square feet and shall not be counted towards overall square
footage so long as they remain traffrc neutal and functioning accessory to existing principal uses in the PUD.
There shall be no oflsite memberships, and that captured both items.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: That's my motion.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion maker satisfied?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yep.
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. And the second?
MS. ASI{TON-CICKO: Mr. Chair?
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes, ma'am.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: There's one other change that should be made.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Could you use the microphone, Heidi.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Okay. There's just one additional change that should be made, which is
that last sentence should say "wellness centers" instead ofjust "wellness center." So we'll correct that in the
final.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Yeah, that's atypographical.
So with that, there's been a motion made to accept this language by Ned, seconded by Patrick. Any
further discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All in favor, signiff by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Anybody opposed?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Aye.
CFIAIRMAN STRAN: Motion carries 6-0 (sic).
Oh, why don't you use your mike. I thought you were with us. Aye?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: NO.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: So it's still6-0 (sic).
Okay. Thank you. And that will end that particular discussion. It doesn't need to come back on
consent. This is -
COMMISSIONER EBERT: I voted nay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Oh,I'm sorry. Diane voted no.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: I did.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I heard her say aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ithought so, too.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: No.
COMMISSIONERFRYER: But she said itwhen you called forthe -
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Any opposed, I said aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Oh, okay. So it's actually 5-1. You still have a no vote. 5-l in favor with
the recommended language and one no vote.
MR. KLATZKOW: And could we getthe reason forthe no vote?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah. What's your reasoning for the no vote, Diane?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Because -- my re$oning for the no vote is I thought it was a private
hotel and that guests could not stay there other than doctors and employees for Arthrex.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Thank you. With that we will - this meeting -- that item's finished,
and we'll move on to our next agenda item.
't**Next up on today's agenda is Item 9,{, and this has been continued from our March lst meeting.
It's for a parking exemption located between Rosemary Lane and Ridge Street.
All those wishing to testifu on behalf of this item, please rise to be sworn in by the court reporter. If
you're going to talk on this item, ladies and gentlemen, please stand up.
(The speakers were duly swom and indicated in the affrrmative.)
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Thank you.
Disclosures. We'll start over with Tom.
MR. EASTMAN: None.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Stan?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Just some correspondence from people.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Ned?
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COMMISSIONER FRYER: None.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Diane?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: None, just emails.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. And I have met with the applicant a couple different times, staff
several times. I've also talked to some folks from the neighborhood at a meeting, and I've received some
correspondence from them which was forwarded to staffto disseminate. I think it came in just after the
application went out, so I'm not sure it got to everybody, but it was a summary of their concems after a
meeting with the applicant.
Go ahead. Karen?
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Nothing.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Karen's nothing. Patrick?
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: None.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. With that, Fred, you can proceed.
MR. HOOD: Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Commissioners.
Frederick Hood with Davidson Engineering representing Sand Banks, LLC, the applicant for the
parking exemption request.
I just want to go over briefly the project description and location with you-all. As you can see on the
screens, the property is outlined in red here with Ridge Street to the north, Tamiami Trail North to the west,
and Rosemary Lane to the south.
To the south of the site across Rosemary is Borelli Construction's new construction. It was a couple
years ago that they built that. And to the north is Thalheimer's jewelry store, just to orient you.
Here's the zoning map, and the property has the star spinning on it, which is no longer spinning. It's
C4 and has RSF4 zoning to the rear of the site.
The site is approximately 2.32 acres and, as I said before, bounded by Ridge Street to the north and
Rosemary to the south.
Just to give you kind of a better idea of what the location -- the locations of the zoning are on the
property. The highlighted yellow hatched area to the rear is the RSF4 zoned property. The remaining
property to the west is C4.
Just to give you an idea of what's actually situated on the property right now, this is the existing
shopping plazzthat is just south of Mr. Tequila's restaurant. This shopping center is about a little bit more
than 6,600 square feet. And, yeah, there's a few tenants in it right now. These are just some additional
pictures; some views for you to take a look at. And there's Mr. Tequila's. Mr. Tequila is on the corner of
Ridge Street and Tamiami.
This is the site plan that we have come up with for the proposed parking exemption and the future
Site Development Plan. This one differs slightly from what's in your packets. We had a conversation with
Mr. Strain about the dumpster location. So in this master plan you will see the dumpster location that is just
north of Mr. Tequila's restaurant. If you look in the upper left-hand corner of the propergr, we had to swap
those areas. The dumpster could not be located in the RSF4 zoned property, so we put it into the C4 properly
closer to the restaurant.
Just to kind of give you an idea of how the site is. Again, looking today, there is the
6,600-square-foot building shopping plazato the south of Mr. Tequila's, and you can see it's kind of the aerial
I've overlaid on top of the master plan just to give you an idea of what's going on here.
Again, the site plan, just for additional reference, as I just spoke abou! the original loading area was
there in blue on the upper left-hand portion ofthe screen, and on the upper right-hand portion ofthe screen
was where the existing -- or proposed dumpsters were. I've now swapped those in this master plan.
This is the existing parking exemption that was approved back in 2009. It was for a
60,000-square-foot building, office building, five stories, 12,000 square feet each floor. On this particular
master plan in the RSF4 designated areas, there were 63 parking spaces that were being proposed.
It was also -- obviously, as you can see, this site was surrounded by parking. And, again, five stories
maximum height in this particular scenario would have been 75 feet.
Side-by-side comparison, what we have proposed versus what was already approved back in 2009.
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We're looking at a one-story shopping plazzthatwill be replacing the existing shopping plazathat is -- if
you're looking at this, the existing one is just south of Mr. Tequila s and in front of this proposed
plus-or-minus I 7,000-square-foot structure that we're proposing.
I just want to kind of go into the conditions of approval, and I'lljust go through them one by one.
Fair waming, there's a couple of these that have changed. After we spoke with Mr. Strain and we discussed
some items with stafi we organized, and some of these weren't necessary, so lll get into that at the end of the
presentation. So bear with me as I go through these.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, and you had already modified some of them before you talked to me.
MR. HOOD: I did, correct. And just to give you some background on that staffprovided us with a
list of conditions of approval. We looked at those items, and we kind of made them more consistent with
how the LDC is written today versus what they were approved of back in 2009. So that's the real diflerence.
The ones that I will show you later are additions to those conditions just to make sure that we're
meeting the intent of what we have been proposing.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay.
MR. HOOD: Okay. So the first one is the restriction of the parking -- sorry -- the restriction of the
allowable area of the parking exemption. It is accurately depicted on the conceptual plan. The second one
limits the provision -
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Excuse me, Fred. I have a procedural question; otherwise, I wouldn't
intemrpt you.
MR. HOOD: Sure.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: The material that we're looking at, the redlining, is this the first time
we're seeing this?
MR. HOOD: The redlining that I'm going to go over after this -
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yes, this redlining --
MR. HOOD: -- or right now?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: -- that's on the screen right now.
MR. HOOD: This one right now is what you have in your packets.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay, redlined?
MR. HOOD: Redlined that has been in your packets through coordination with stafi yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Mr. Chairman, do you have a page number for that?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Page 30.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thirty, okay. Thank you. Sorry to intemrpt.
MR. HOOD: No problem. So.ry aboutthat.
The second condition limits the provision of the typical parking restrictions and restricts for - the use
for the proposed shopping center and restaurant only.
The third condition -- and you will see that No. 3 was from staff, and we struck that. That is a
portion of the restructuring that I will discuss as I go through the rest of these. So now No. 3 is the condition
restricts the parking within the PE area and to be a paved surface parking lot only.
Number 4 restricts the use of the parking exemption area to normal business hours and the operation
between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. So anyone who is parking in this are4 there will be sigrs that will be available
that says you can only park here between the hours of 7 a.m. and l0 p.m.
The next one, we're going into more detail about the lighting in the parking exemption area. We
limited ttre lighting fixtures in this PE area to a height of no more that 42 inches. So in this are4 as you can
see on this slide, we've proposed bollard lighting. So everything that was in that previously yellow outlined
box for the RSF4 area we've provided for bollard lighting.
I know tlat there's snow in that picture. It was one of the better ones that we found that was an
example, so just to give you a little Christmas cheer.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Northem Florida.
MR. HOOD: And Northem Florida.
Okay. Next No. 6, the lighting, we provided at the rear of any building adjacent to the parking
exemption area and adjacent to those residential lots, and I've identified those lots as Lots 57, 59, I 8 - and l8
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of the Rosemary Heights Subdivision, shall be in the form of shielded structure-mounted sconces. So what
I'm talking about here is any lighting that's on the back of that building will have to be structurally mounted.
There is a change to this language that we'll go over later on, and I'll discuss why in a second here.
These structures shall be placed no higher than 10 feet measured from the finished floor of the
building or structure.
Okay. Our next condition provides that all landscaping for the off-street parking areas shall be in
accordance with Chapter 4 of the Collier County LDC in effect at the time of building permit application.
Next, No. 8, through coordination, phone calls, and emails with adjacent property owners and
affected parties in the surrounding area, we retained the six-foot wall requirement within the Type B
landscape buffer. Per the Land Development Code, this wall has to be six feet from the common property
line and, again, this wall will be adjacent to Lots 57, 59 and l8 of the Rosemary Heights Subdivision.
This graphic gives you an idea of where that wall will be placed, generally.
Okay. Moving on to No. 9, perimeter landscape buffers, dumpster enclosures --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Excuse me.
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Your numbering doesn't correspondence to what we had in our
package.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah. Well, itdoes mine.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Number 10 is what I have showing perimeter landscaping buffer.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No.
MR. HOOD: Oh,I'm sorry These are my notes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: He called itNo. 9.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: He's got l0 on here. Oh, okay. I was looking at what he had on the screen.
MR. HOOD: Number 10, I'm sorry. So No. 10, perimeter landscape buffers, dumpster enclosures,
screen, and additional screens between residential and nonresidential development shall be in accordance
with Chapters 4 and 5 of the Collier County LDC in effect again, at the time of building permit application.
Number l1 provides the option for an enhanced landscape buffer if the applicant decided to do so.
That would just be providing additional landscape materials if they saw fit, anything that was more than code
minimum.
I believe we're on No. 12. Let me go down here. Here we are. Let's see. Provides that there shall be
no direct access from adjacent streets to the parking exemption area. This was a previous condition that was
provided in 2009 so that no -- none of the parking exemption area could have access directly in that RSF4
area onto Rosemary or onto Ridge Street. So we've moved them -- and I'll show you again on the master plan
when we get down here.
You will see with the red arrows, the access points, the main access points, are to the north on Ridge
Street and to the south on Rosemary Lane, and they are within the C4 area. We do have one emergency
access for emergency vehicles that straddled that line, that yellow line that you see, and that yellow line is the
zoning line. So we had to -- for circulation and emergency fire purposes, we added an emergency access
point there.
Okay. We are on number -- that's 12. Okay.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Fred, on that last page, No. 7 --
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: - the last line, instead of shielded structures, you might say
shielded fixtures. Small point; probably not important.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And if we can, when he finishes with his presentation, we can get into
walking through it again with the questions.
MR. HOOD: Sure. Okay.
So now I'm going to go through the revised conditions of approval through coordination that we've
had with the county and with our phone calls with some of the concerned neighbors.
Okay. So this is the -- and, actually, I want to hand these to you-all. I have copies of them, if you
wouldn't mind.
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CHAIRMAN STRAN: No, please do. And how many - you need to make sure the court reporter
and staffand the County Attomey's Office as well.
And, James, when it gets to the staff report and you've heard everything, Im going to ask you ifyou
need - how you would perceive this proceeding since you haven't had time to see these changes. I don't
think any ofus have.
MR. SABO: Very good. I've made notes as well, so thank you.
MR. HOOD: And if you need them, I also have copies of the PowerPoint presentation for the
record, if you would like to have a copy ofthose.
Okay. Going on to the first change, in No. 2, as you can see on the screens here, there was a concem
about -- and there was a concem but there was also a practical reason why this one was changed. When we
moved the dumpster areas, I no longer needed to say that I was going to leave this parking exemption area for
dumpsters, vehicular circulation, and so forth, so the refuse collection was stricken there, and I added the
word "vehicular" to circulation just so that we could say this is an area for cars. That's why that change is
there.
As I was talking about earlier, No. 3, that has been stricken in this copy. These were a portion of the
conditions that we received fiom staff. WeVe reorganized those, and some of them didn't apply anymore,
and most ofthem have just been added further down the line.
So we'[ go to the next one, which is No. 5. We added the hours ofoperation for the actual lighting.
So you'll see there in red the text that says, "and be restricted to operating in the parking exemption area
bet'*een the hours of 6:30 and l0:30 p.m." This isjust for the lighting.
So as I was stating before, the parking exemption area will only be available to people parking there
between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. I added an extra halfan hour on each endjust for -- you know, so
the site illuminated before people arrive to park. And we discussed that point with two ofthe neighbors
yesterday, and they seemed to be okay with that.
The next one is about the restrictions. And so this is the one that I was talking about that we were
going to change inside ofthe C4 area. For safelz reasons, I couldn'tjust leave bollard lighting only in the
parking exemption are4 but to be able to light the drive aisle that is in that area, we are proposing for pole
lighting no higher than l0 feet on the C4 side ofthings basically behind the building to be able to light that
aisle.
And so Dark Skies technolory will be applied here so that there will be shielded fxtures that will be
lighting that aisle. We also added the hours ofoperation for that lighting as well just because it's outside of
the parking exemption area. I wanted to be very, very clear. So also 6:30 a.m. to l0:30 p.m. for that.
We struck No. 8. This was a reference that had to do with the landscaping. It is already in the Land
Development Code, so there was no need for us to reiterate it here, and No. 7, which was formerly No. 9, this
was about the wall. The previous condition had the wall being four feet fiom the property line. The Land
Development Code has since changed. It is now six feet from the property line, so we just made that update.
Our next one, we removed l0 and I l. Again, these have to do with the landscaping. Number 1 I
was about the enhanced. If our applicant wants to go alead and plant additional landscaping, that's not
precluded by the LDC, so there was no point in us leaving that there. And No. l0 was, again, redundant
because it is already in the Land Development Code, so we will be following that.
And then the changes we had were to the master plan. These were just some housekeeping items.
One was adding one story to the proposed shopping center, that I 7,128-square-feet building that you see
there in the center, and then the second ones were the addition of the words "with wall" to the Tlpe B
landscape buffers on the eastem portion of the site.
"Contiguously" in that hatched area to the bottom right was spelled wrong previously, so we fixed
that.
And the last change was a question -- actually, a conversation that me and Mr. Strain had about how
we would resfict access fiom the public for that emergency access. We coordinated a couple days ago with
the fire district to see what they \4,ould like to be there, and we proposed putting a hedge there that they could
just run over ifthey needed to access the site.
They weren't very keen on placing that hedge there. So ['ve put the language in to coordinate with
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North Collier Fire Control District to determine vehicular control method at SDP approval. We'll just have to
discuss with them what they would like to see unless this board would like to provide an option for us to put
something there at the zoning level.
And that is it.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. We'll start with applicant -- or questions of the applicant. Anybody?
Ned?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yes, sir.
Fred, would you please explain the legal relationship between your client and Mr. Tequila? Does Mr.
Tequila own the property, or is it a tenant?
MR. HOOD: Mr. Tequila is a tenant of the property.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. And I take it that under the terms of the lease with Tequila that
you are able to speak for them -
MR. HOOD: Yes.
COMMISSIONERFRYER: -- on this kind of amatter?
MR. HOOD: Yes. What we're doing, we're speaking for the property owner. They've made the
application to reconfigure and redevelop their site. As I understand it, Mr. Tequila is just a tenant, and they
don't have a power to dictate what we're doing in this application.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Power aside, I'm sure you've spoken with them. Are they
satisfied with this -
MR. HOOD: Yes. There hasn't been any ill feelings towards the redevelopment. They are
remaining in their building, and that building is not going anywhere at this point.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Now, )ou're wanting a reduction of spaces from 114 to 98.
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. So that difference is whatever it is. Is that -- that's 16. Where
would those hypothetical 16 cars or people now park?
MR. HOOD: So what we have here, there's two applications that are in for review. Well, this one is
here before you now for the parking exemption. Staffis also reviewing an administrative parking reduction
appl ication currently.
What we have proposed -- because of the proposed development of the site, we've proposed a
16-space reduction ofthat are4 and we had, for the -- reasonings for those, and I can go over those for you.
We discussed the proximity of hotels in the area. We've discussed the proximity of pedestrian - pedestrian
facilities to get to the property, additional bike racks that will be provided at the time of SDP, so forth and so
on.
So we're asking for that reduction in a separate application. So what you see here on this master plan
is 98 spaces of those required 114, but they will be reduced if we get approval.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: It's your position that 98 spaces will adequately accommodate all
vehicular traffrc?
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir. And the other reason we believe that is because with the retail and office
shopping plazathat will be builg they'll have varying operating hours between Mr. Tequila and that structure
itself. Typically, if we have, let's say, a general offrce in there or a dog groomer or something like that, they
have general hours of, you know, 7 to 5 or 6 p.m., and then the height of the hours for Mr. Tequila for their
dining is between, like, 6 and 9. They're open a little bit later than that.
So we feel comfortable that with these uses on site there will be enough area in between where there
will be enough parking for everyone. And then -
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Here's my concem.
MR. HOOD: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: If you're not correct, if your assessment is not correct --
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: -- I understand Rosemary and Ridge Streets, there will be no direct
driving access.
MR. HOOD: Yes.
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COMMISSIONER FRYER: But, certainly, there would be the potential for pedestrian access; in
other words, people parking on Rosemary and Ridge and walking over to this area. Would that not be
correct?
MR. HOOD: I can't speak to that because I'm not sure of how the county dictates people parking on
Ridge or Rosemary, but I can't preclude it from our standpoint no.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. My next question then: There seems to be a discrepancy, and
maybe it's been worked out through the various iterations of the paperwork, but at the beginning it seems as
though we were talking about hours of operation from 7 a.m. to 6 p.-. or at least the signage with respect to
the PE spaces.
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And then it jumped up to 7 to 10. Has that change been run by the
neighbors? Have they had a chance to weigh in on that?
MR. HOOD: I did discuss the - this was last month before we were going to come before you
before the hearing got continued. I spoke with two ladies that live in the neighborhood, and I think they're
here tonight (sic), and I went over all of the conditions that we were proposing and all the conditions that
were previously proposed.
The reason for the change from 7 a.m. to -- 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., offrces usually close
at 6 p.m., so there was no reason for it to go beyond that. We are now proposing offices and retail. So for
our purposes of being able to operate the site, we needed more time on that.
So I've discussed it with them. I'm not sure how they feel about it. But when I did speak with them,
I think they understood it at that point. But they can speak to that at the appropriate portion.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. My next question, and this relates to the hearing, the NIM that
you had and the tape recording that I listened to -- well, it looks like it shows up on Page 47 of 62 on the
electronic copy. And the question is whether the City of Naples has had an opportunity to weigh in on all this
since what's happening is so proximate to the city.
MR. HOOD: We have not heard any objections from the City of Naples, but I will also tell you that
we did not send this to - directly to the City of Naples. We figured this is a Collier County issue. We're
before you to discuss it. I certainly can send them a copy, but it wasn't something that we did.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, in present -- in presenting at the NIM, you said that the City of
Naples will have the opportunity to review and weigh in on the application, and I'm just wondering if that
opportunity has really been extended.
MR. HOOD: Atthis time I can't say that it has.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. So the dumpster.
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Where will the dumpster be positioned?
MR. HOOD: So the dumpster in the original master plan that you had in your packets, it was along
the backside -- the northeastem poftion ofthe parking exemption parking lot. We cannot put it there. It is not
allowed per that residential zoning.
So we have literally swapped it directly across from where the previous loading zrea was that was
behind Mr. Tequila's. So the loading area is now where the dumpster was, and the dumpster is now where
the loading area was.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, help me. So you say you couldn't put it in the northeast -
MR. HOOD: Correct.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: -- corner because of residential. Are you putting it somewhere close to
the eastern border ofthe property?
MR. HOOD: No. It is - if you look at this screen here and you look at the existing shopping center
area restaurant in the northwest corner, the upper left.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Northwest, okay.
MR. HOOD: And then there's that dumpster enclosure that's right in front of that building along
Ridge Street.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I got it okay. And just for my edification, that's going to be closer to
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the outdoor seating of Tequila?
MR. HOOD: The outdoor seating for Tequil4 the main outdoor seating for Tequila is south of that
about - I'm not sure of the distance on this drawing. But if you look at that one box that says 784 square feet
of outdoor dining area, it is there. That's where the outdoor dining is.
COMMISSIONERFRYER: That's all I have, Mr. Chairman.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Anybody else?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Go ahead, Diane.
MR. HOOD: Yes, ma'arn.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: You want to repeal the whole ordinance that the BCC did and get rid of
that one?
MR. HOOD: We're doing that because it no longer applies for the type of development that they're
doing here. That was for a - that was specifically for a five-story offrce development. We're not doing that
anymore, so we've crafted our own new proposal, parking exemption proposal, that would be in a new
ordinance to apply to what we are providing here.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: So you want to repeal the whole thing?
MR. HOOD: Yes, ma'am.
COMMISSIONEREBERT: The six-foot wall --
MR. HOOD: Yes, ma'am.
COMMISSIONEREBERT: -- who will maintain --
MR. HOOD: It is the responsibility of the owner to maintain that wall.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: No. On the other side you have six feet.
MR. HOOD: Yes. So per the Land Development Code we have to plant landscaping on both sides
of the wall. It is still their property whether the wall is there or not.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: It is still their property?
MR. HOOD: Meaning the property owner. It has to be six feet from that property line that they abut
with the adjacent property owner. So six feet onto their property will be the wall. That six feet that is outside
of the wall, that's still their property, so they'll have to maintain it. It's -- that's how everything is done in this
county when you place walls outside of your property line. It's still your property. You still have to maintain
it.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And the owner in question is your client?
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: That's all for right now.
MR. HOOD: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Fred, let's start with Page 2 of the staffreport which is Page 3 for
Ned's purposes, electronically. Underneath the parking calculations section, you said something that you
hadn't - I hadn't heard before until you said it previously. Your reasoning for the reduction in parking
spacing is because of the offhours of the different uses that would operate the new shopping center location
and exist.
MR. HOOD: Yes. That was language that is in our APR application, our administrative parking
reduction application for reasonings.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: You're not asking forthatnow.
MR. HOOD: No.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You're asking for APR in conjunction with the parking exemption that's
happening here.
MR. HOOD: Correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. So from - procedurally,I didn't - I didn't realize this until you said
what these oflhours issues -- because basically you're calling for a shopping center. It doesn't say office. It
says shopping center.
The analysis on Page 2 refers to restaurants and shopping center as well. So generally when you do
an APR you qualif the reasoning as to why you want a parking reduction, and staffties the approval of the
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parking reduction to the intent and discussion of the APR.
MR. HOOD: Correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You haven't given us an APR.
MR. HOOD: Not here, no. I haven't. I can discuss it with you.
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: No. I would think that before this day's over or before this next hour, or
whatever it takes, is over, you're going to be coming back, and we're not going to vote on this today.
MR. HOOD: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But my point is, staffanalyzes an APR based on what you say, and you get
the approval based on what you say.
MR. HOOD: Correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You didn't give us that kind of information other than the verbal I just
heard, and I have no commitrnent that 17,000 square feet is going to be part office. That's a huge difference
in my mind because, you're right, you do have some offhours.
So I would suggest when you come back, prepare a narrative to address the APR of how much offrce
you're going to have out of that 17,000 square feet.
MR. HOOD: Well, let me say this to you, because what we have to do per the Land Development
Code and how we're looking at this, the restaurant plus the 17,000 square foot is considered -- those total
22,505. We are considered a shopping center under the parking standards in the Land Development Code.
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: And why did you do that?
MR. HOOD: So that's how we're looking at it.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah. But why did you do that? You know why you did that? Because
you get the best rate for parking; shall qualifo as a shopping center.
MR. HOOD: It was also because our client wanted this building, okay. I'm just being honest with
you at this point.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Right.
MR. HOOD: He wanted this building. He wanted it this size, okay, plus --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: At this point. Does that mean the rest of what you said isn't?
MR. HOOD: No, it does not.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MR. HOOD: When we looked at this, we said, okay, what do we want for this new building that
we're going to redevelop. It happened to be a 17,128 square foot building. We were keeping Mr. Tequila's,
okay.
So looking at the parking requirements that we had - and I understand where you're going with
this - we said, okay, well, whether it's going to be all retail or whether it's going to be a mixture of retail and
office we don't know yet because we don't have the tenants.
So I had to look at this from a practical standpoint and say, what parking standards do we apply? So
since we are over the 20,000 square feet, we applied it as a shopping center. Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I understand all that.
MR. HOOD: So that's why -- there's a portion of the justification for the APR and for our parking
exemption. The APR's justification obviously stands on its own. It's something that staffis reviewing right
now. We are asking for the parking exemption in this area that you see defined on the RSF properties to be
able to park what we have. So we're using that parking to operate the proposed shopping plaza.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, f,rst of all, James or Ray, are they also asking for a simultaneous
parking exemption -- or APR for this project?
MR. SABO: Yes, they -
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Then why are we considering that as part of this project? Because at one
point in your staffreport you even said the applicant's being proactive in asking for this parking reduction
now. What does that mean? So you're processing a separate APR even though we're kind of reviewing the
amount of spacing that's going to be allowed through the parking exemption.
MR. SABO: Correct.
Mr. Chairman. Commissioners, James Sabo, principal planner, for the record.
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The discovery of about four months after the application for the parking exemption, the applicant
applied for an administrative parking reduction. On the first of March we sent a memorandum informing the
Planning Commission of that and, as such, we are holding on to the administrative parking reduction
application and holding action on it until we have heard the issues related to this petition.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. In this particular process, they're also asking for a parking reduction,
more or less. It's not in the form of an APR, but they're looking at 98 spaces as the bottom line. So in order
for us to understand how they got there, we would need the same evidence that you have through the APR.
So when this comes back -- which I'm assuming you're going to probably suggest it needs to for you
to rewrite your recommendations --
MR. SABO: That's an accurate assumption.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. I would like that analysis to be provided in what staffs position and
analysis is as part of your recommendation so we have a package all tied up and we know what it means.
Because if there are going to be offrce allocations as part of the reasoning for the AP& you're going to tie the
APR to those.
MR. SABO: Correct.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: We need to know that as well.
MR. SABO: That's correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: It will just make everything better. Okay.
When we get to the emergency access for Rosemary Lane --
MR. SABO: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: -- you will have time before you come back to work this out. I do not like
leaving zoning issues like that in the hands of the fire department. They look at it from how fast can our
trucks go out and come in. It's a different application. I know -- I can tell you I've used two methods before
when I've done developments. One is to put a gate arm of some type that's tripped by a transmitter that they
might have or a short hedge so that if they drive over it, you just replace a few plants, but they'd only do it for
emergencies, which hopefully will never happen.
Why they're saying to you now that that's not something they like, I don't understand it. But,
regardless, it needs to be worked out so we can enter something in here that works for all parties.
MR. HOOD: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: You had written a -- let me see what it's titled; narrative and evaluation
criteria, and in that na:rative evaluation criteria, you had the last -- two questions, or last one question,
actually it's No. 12, whether there are more viable alternatives available, and you basically said there are no
more -- there are not more viable options.
Well, yeah, there is. You can reduce the size of the strucfures there until a point it fits on the site.
MR. HOOD: Yeah. And so we discussed that. And I agreed that that is something that is possible,
but our applicant has wanted to move forward with this configuration. So I can adjust that if you'd like.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: No. I just wantto make it clear for anybody else reading it. We're not -- I
think we're aware that that may not be factually accurate, and I wanted to correct it.
MR. HOOD: Sure.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: On the site plan that's in front of us, Ray, are loading zones allowed in the
parking exemption areas?
MR. BELLOWS: For the record, Ray Bellows.
The parking exemption process only allows the required vehicular parking spaces to be located on
the residentialtract, not accessory loading bays or dumpsters. Those aren't part of the process, so they would
have to be located on site.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So when you come back, you'll need to bring a master plan showing
those as parking spaces, or whatever you want to do with them, but...
MR. HOOD: Okay. Before I let Ray go on that one, because we are tying this proposed resolution
to a number ofspaces, so ifl change that now and I put those parking -- put those parking spaces there, I can
move the loading area. That's not the issue. I just want to make sure that we all understand that instead of
there being 21 parking spaces in the back, as we've proposed now, there will be probably three more. So
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we'll be looking ataboutZ4.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But your overall parking reduction will still be requested at the same?
MR. HOOD: That's correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I would expect that so...
On Number - didn't you -- did you strike No. l0?
MR. HOOD: I believe I did.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Yes, you did. Okay. Because you had referred to a dumpster enclosure
there and you had referred to one in No. I l, but both of those are struck. And No. 1 1, too, you referenced a
fence waiver, but since that's gone, we won't waste any more time on that.
And let me move on down my pages and -- well, the master plan's -- all the corrections have been
made, so we're good there.
And I did notice on your original plan, the 60,000 square feet at five stories --
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: -- you actually had a different configuration for the PE lots. You didn't
use -- you used -- it looks like you used half of 78,17, and, was it : the l6 next to it, and then on the north
end you used the same two you've got now. So that house on - that's on half of 18 and 17, you're not tearing
that down then?
MR. HOOD: That house is remaining. And, yes, that previous PE was done by a different firm. But
yes, that house is remaining that was on Rosemary, and our applicant also owns that property.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And I think that's -- I think that's all lve -- oh, yeah, and you are limiting it
to one story as you said in tlre NIM.
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. And that will need to be articulated in the document when it comes
back. Okay.
MR. HOOD: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: That's all the comments I have fornow.
MR. HOOD: Would you like it as a condition, or is it okay -
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Why don't you just put it in the parking -- well, the parking exemption will
have to be based on the fact that the building that will be built on the adjoining C4 will be no greater than one
story, and then if you change that then you have to come back and remodifo your parking exemption. That
would probably be the best way.
And you mentioned something about lighting that you'd have to add that would be Dark Skies, they
would meet Dark Skies standards -
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: - but you said you're putting them in because the bollards wouldn't give
you the ability to safely light the parking lot?
MR. HOOD: So what I was getting at there - and I'll just go back to the master plan here. On the
backside -- so I can't put bollard lighting in the middle of the drive aisle, obviously, and even if you were able
to put it on the landscape islands that you see separating those parking spaces, I just wasn't sure if it was
going to be enough light spilling onto the drive aisle. So I wanted to have the additional option to light that
aisle from the C4 side that would have the same hours of operation for those bollard lighting just to iight it
from overhead.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: And how high would you expect that bollard -- that pole lighting to be?
MR. HOOD: Ten feet. We placed a maximum of l0 feet as one ofthose conditions.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. There's two locations that would be equally distant from that drive
aisle. One would be on the west side of the parking up closer to the building, but if you do that, and
especially if you're going to try to aim it towards the drive aisle, you're going to have probably more glare or
spillover to a point where it will be more noticed by the neighbors. If you did that on the opposite side of that
parking area and put the pole lights on the east strip of the asphalt facing towards the C4, you would probably
reduce quite a bit of possibility of the neighbors being disturbed by it. Do you have a problem with that?
MR. HOOD: I don't have a problem with that. That would just be a function of our Site
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Development Plan and me updating these conditions to say that they would be in the parking exemption area.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. And if that -- when you come back, that would be good to show
that - indicate that the lighting will be on the east side facing towards the C4, then that way the
neighborhood's protected a little bit better.
MR. HOOD: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody else have any questions? Stan?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: It's been a while since I've been involved with lighting, and
more for Ray than for Fred. We don't have a standard on how much you have to light a parking lo! do we?
MR. BELLOWS: For the record, Ray Bellows. No, the LDC doesn't have specific standards in that
regard.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Okay. Does the police -- I know we used to have a problem.
The police department said parking lots weren't lit enough for safety. Do they get involved in this at all?
MR. BELLOWS: I'd have to check with Chris Scott who handles the SDP reviews to see if --
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Okay. Because I know that was always -- you know, we'd
show up and we'd say Dark Skies, and the police departrnent would say, it's not bright enough for safety.
And I was just wondering, in seven years have we come any farther than that, and I guess not.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: I know that in some of the road systems that I was involved in, we had to
space our roadway lighting at a certain distance.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Roadway, yeah.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: But I don't know of any for parking lots.
To that point, in Golden Gate Estates when we did the master plan there, we were insistent that
bollards are the only thing that would be used in parking lots unless it was proven not to be safe enough.
So, Fred, you may, between now and the return, take a look at that. And if you can do away with
those pole lighting and just put a few more bollards, that might be a better way to consider it.
MR. HOOD: Okay. I'll take a look at it.
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. And maybe -- I don't know in our -- I don't know if anybody - who
on staffwould have that knowledge. It might be just cross-check it to see what we have for codes.
MR. BELLOWS: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Thank you. Anybody else?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Ray, are there any public speakers registered first?
MR. SABO: Yes, we do.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: James,I'm sorry.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Actually, I had a question for stafil if it's appropriate to ask now.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Oh, I'm sorry. We'll go -- yeah, we're going to get staffreport, but we
almost already had that. But go ahead.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. On Page 20, electronic Page 20 of 62, the form that was being
filled out by Sand Banks, there's a line for corporations, individuals, and partnerships but not for LLCs,
which, of course, have been in use, and preferentially so, probably, for 15, 20 years.
Wouldn't it be a good idea to update our forms so that -- because in this case Sand Banks used the
corporation line items and listed Sand Banks, LLC, as a corporation. Of course, it's not a corporation. It's an
LLC. And Mr. Carr, as the sole shareholder and, of course, he's not the sole shareholder. He's a member.
Just a thought.
MR. BELLOWS: For the record, Ray Bellows. Most of the applications I see, they do list the LLC.
But if the application is confusing in that regard and needs to be updated, we'll look at it and update it.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: And, James, I guess I should have asked for your staffreport, although this
is going to be continued for you to rewrite your staffreport. Do you have anything that you wanted to asked
from the staffs perspective before we go to public speakers?
MR. SABO: Just very quickly.
Based on the concept master plan being different than what you have in your packet, the parking
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exemption conditions have been amended a couple of times. The planning and zoning division has not had
the opportunity to research this. We would request that it be continued.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. And when we get to the point of continuance after public testimony
today, between you and the applican! we need to understand how much time you need, because he's going to
have to redo the master plan again. And we do not want any more late submittals. From now on, things need
to happen through staff. They need to come at the time of the staff-- before the staffreport is distributed, so
we'll have to discuss that before we get to a continuance date to make sure we work that out, okay.
MR. SABO: We're good.
MR. HOOD: We'll work as quickly as we need to.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Thankyou.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Can I ask a question?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Under the conditions that Mr. Hood presented, the Dark Skies applies to
the pole lighting on the C4 lot but not to the fixtures on the parking exemption lot. Would you like to see that
in both locations?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You're use downward -- down-washing sconces, right?
MR. HOOD: Yes.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Like you've used, like, on the Vanderbilt Commons project.
MR. HOOD: Correct. Those ones are going to be in the C4 area on the building.
I think Heidi's getting at the ones for the bollard lighting that would be on the RSF4 parking
exemption area if I'm not mistaken.
MS. ASFilON-CICKO: Yes.
MR. HOOD: So for those, we can, I just -- at that point we're providing a six-foot wall, and our
42-inch bollard lighting is going to be way below that. So, I mean, we could, but I don't see a real reason, if
we --
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Take a look at that standard. If it's a problem, Iet us know.
MR. HOOD: Okay. Sure.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But I mean, at42 inches, you're going to be practically half the height of
the wall, so I didn't see it as much of an issue. So thank you.
With that, will you call the first public speaker. And when you're called, please come up to one of
the microphones, identifo yourself for the record, and we'd like to hear what you've got to say.
MR. SABO: The first speaker is Martha Gill.
MS. GILL: Good morning. My name is Martha Gill. I live at 1006 Ridge Street. Tha! on the plot
plan, is Lots No. 57 and 59. I have owned the property since 2011. I did not realize at the time I purchased
the property nor did the person - the previous owner know that the property next to us had been rezoned. I
had been under the impression it was still residential and would have another dwelling structure built upon it.
I am concerned because his plans -- I've spoken with Mr. Hood several times, and we've asked for an
8-foot wall rather than a 6-foot wall because my home, the way that it is situated on the lo! has its front
entrance, its main entrance, facing the west side, facing the parking area.
I have - my front door looks at the parking lot, and I'm on an elevation as such that I have to go up at
least steps to get to my dwelling. So having a 6-foot wall is not going to be tall enough because I'm going to
sit there and still look at lighting.
Right now they are currently using that lot as a staging area for water redevelopment on the stree!
and I'm looking at tractor trailers and dump trucks that would go way over the height of a 6-foot wall.
And when I asked about the reason why they wouldn't put in an 8-foot wall, he said it was too
expensive; the client said it was too expensive. And I don't feel that's a good enough reason.
I don't want to have to look at the glare of the lighting, so I'd also request that they remove the pole
lighting.
And I'm also concerned about the additional traffic that's generated by the shopping center.
But my main thing is that the pole lighting be removed and that I have an 8-foot wall between me
and the property.
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Thank you.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Ms. Gill?
MS. GILL: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Would you please repeat which lots you own.
MS. GILL: I own Lots 57 and 59, which are the ones that face Ridge Street. They're the longest
tract on that diagram.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Got it. Thank you very much.
MS. GILL: Sure.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Next speaker?
MR. SABO: Next speaker is Wanen Gill.
MR. GILL: Thankyou, Mr. Chair.
And I was more concerned about the traffic increasing on Ridge and Rosemary because right now
that whole shopping center is coming in and offof 41. And Ridge, right now, is so busy and so much traffic.
And with the improvements in the road, things are going to increase both speed-wise and dangerous-wise
with all the kids on the road.
So is there an alternative there that part of that could be back on 41, because it ties up there in the
morning with the cut-throughs that -- it backs up 10, 15 cars, you know, past Thalheimer's, way past
Thalheimer's.
So that's my concem there, of something we czul do to mitigate the traffic or maybe a left or right
furn only, you know, so they can come in offthere.
Thank you, sir.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I have a question. I'm sorry.
Mr. Gill, are you familiar with what the parking rules are on Rosemary and Ridge and what the
signage might say with respect to parking?
MR. GILL: No, not really.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay.
MR. GILL: There is no signage. But, you know, again, all that traffic for the Peace, Love, and Little
Donuts and the groomers are all right now coming off of 4 I . That's the only egress -- access egress.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Do you experience parking -- cars parked on Rosemary and fudge?
MR. GILL: Not really. I haven't seen that yet.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Thankyou.
MR. GILL: No, I haven't seen it. Even with Mr. Tequila's, I think they tend to use Thalheimer's, but
occasionally, like on Cinco de Mayo, yeah, they will park in that empty lot there.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you.
MR. GILL: Okay. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Next speaker?
MR. SABO: Next speaker, Dawn Litchfield Brown.
MS. LITCHFIELD BROWN: Id like to speak las! please.
MR. SABO: Dawn Litchfield Brown is not the next speaker. The next speaker is Wayne
DiGiacomo.
MR. DiGIACOMO: Hello. I'd like to introduce myself. Wayne DiGiacomo.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Could you spell that last name, please.
MR. DiGIACOMO: D-i-G-i-a-c-o-m-o.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Thank you.
MR. DiGIACOMO: You're welcome.
I live on the property at979 Ridge Street which is going to be directly across from the new entrance
to this parking lot.
Right now I have so much traffic on that street I can hardly get my mail. My wife in the morning,
when she goes to work, there's cars backed up, and my driveway would be right across from the new
entrance. I also live right next to Thalheimer's, and they have a driveway, which is commercial, and I can't
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understand why they wouldn't put the new driveway across from Thalheimer's.
CFIAIRMAN STRAN: They are. See that map right there on the wall? Do you see the driveway
entrance on Ridge Streeg and directly across the sfeet it lines up with the driveway entrance to the back side
of C4, which is Thalheimer's, and there's an attorney and an architect in there as well. So those driveways are
lining up. I think that's probably why they did it.
I'm sorry. From the audience you're not allowed to make comments. We can't get them on record if
you do.
James, did you take a look at that, and is what I'm suggesting accurate?
MR. SABO: Yeah. For the record, James Sabo. Yes, that's correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So that part of it sir, it is not across directly from your house. It's
across from the -- looks like the back parking lot of the Thalheimer's building.
MR. DiGIACOMO: Okay. That I wasn't aware of. Also, I'd like to know what kind of buffer zone
they're going to put so I don't see that parking lot.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And that's a Type D landscape buffer. That probably doesn't mean a lot to
you. So I can ask that the applican! when they come back, be prepared to show how that buffer's going to
basically be portrayed on the site plan with the vegetation that's required.
MR. DiGIACOMO: And last but not least, Im representing my next-door neighbors also that have
three children that go to school. There's a bus stop just down the street, and it's so busy right now we're
worried about people. You know, no stop sign, no - nothing - people actually pass each other on that road,
which they shouldn't be doing, with children catching the bus early in the moming and middle school, you
know, a little bit later.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: I can concur with you on that. I use your road frequently, and there's a lot
of people on that road. And it's tighg and it's narrow. There's no curbing on the side. It's just asphalt.
And Ned's question about parking, I think sometimes people park just offthe asphalt. So it makes it
tight. I don't disagree with you at all.
I think CubeSmart down at the end probably didn't help while it was under construction. But as a
destiny (sic), those kind of facilities don't create a lot of traffic, so hopefully that will be less intense for you
as a result of them than other uses that could have been there, so...
MR. DiGLACOMO: Okay. I guess that's all I have to say. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Thankyou, sir. Appreciate it.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: A question.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Sir, is the taffic limited to, like, an hour in the morning
that's really bad, or is ig like, all day long?
MR. DiGIACOMO: It's bad most of the day because it's used as a throughfare now.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Yeah, cut-through. There's only a few between Goodland
and 41. There's Ridge and, like, two or three others.
MR. DiGIACOMO: Right. Rosemary doesn't go all the way through, so they don't use that. Creech
is the one that's used, and then ours is the next. But ours is really used.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I was curious if it was, like, really bad, like, maybe between
eight and nine and not the rest of the day.
MR. DiGIACOMO: Oh, at that point it's really bad. That's when it's really bad. When my wife has
to go to work, she can't get out of the driveway.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: How far is it backed up; howmany cars?
MR. DiGLACOMO: Fifteen sometimes.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Cool.
MR. DiGIACOMO: No, it's not cool.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I know. I sympathize. Thanks a lot.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Any other registered speakers?
MR. SAWYER: Just one more, Dawn Litchfield Brown.
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MS. LITCI{FIELD BROWN: I'll go to this side.
CI{AIRMAN STRAN: Either one's okay.
MS. LITCHFIELD BROWN: I have to balance everlthing out.
Okay. Hi. I'm Dawn Litchfield Brown.
CI{AIRMAN STRAN: Litchfield, could you spell that name for the court reporlerjust in case.
MS. LITCI{FIELD BROWN: L-i-t-c-h, f as in Frank, i-e-l-d.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
MS. LITCI{FIELD BROWN: Okay. And I do want to start by saying that I think Fred Hood and
his teams have tried to be really good neighbors. We've had some great conversations with him, and I
appreciate his time.
I do feel like he hasn't been all that successful with the owners of the properly to be a good neighbor.
You've heard some specific things from neighbors living right around. And I'm representing a lot of
neighbors. We had about 30 people show up at a neighborhood meeting about this.
And I realize that you have to look at this project as a silo and how it's currently zoned and what can
be done, and while we have traffic issues and we have other issues, maybe it really isn't under the law that
you have to look at right now. But with all the traffic conversation that Arthrexjust had -- and I understand
it's a different zoning and a different issue - this is far, far more important. And I'm going to ask you to try to
open your mind up a little bit and not look at it as just a silo project.
The lighting is a problem; the wall is a problem; the entrance is a problem. You can see on
Rosemary the entrance is closer to 41 -- if I'm looking at it righq it's closer to 41 than it is on Ridge Street
which would take it away from Wayne DiGiacomo's house a little bit there.
You know, we want anice plazathere; we do. We're asking them to do something to help us, like
how has this impacted the sewers that we now are being forced to put in there and the drainage issues? We
have no idea what's happening there.
The traffic impact, they have to do no traffic study because they're not C5, as I understand. And you
know. You've been on this street trying to get either way. There has to be some help.
I asked them personally if they would consider setting aside a small -- well, it wasn't a small
amount -- set aside an amount of $250,000, asked them to put that in escrow to be held to bear interest to help
the county with their funding for traffic issues, and that was just a no, you know.
And the wall, that was just a no. Okay. So the lighting is back tothe 42 inches with l0 foot. Okay.
That didn't really, I feel like, be working with the neighbors at all.
So all in all, you know, when I look through all the things on the list that we had, you know, if you
get the lighting at 42, that's gand. So they're going to park there; we can deal with that. We can deal with
some of these things.
The noise issue, it looks like now you're going to have some office buildings there. Please correct
me. Is this two stories or one? Okay. I thought I heard two in there somewhere.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No. They had said at the NIM that they'd be one story, so they'll be
stipulated and now it will probably be written in their final that it will be one story. Currently they're
approved without a public hearing to go to five stories and 60,000 square feet, and they just could go in and
get a building permit and do that right away.
MS. LITCI{FIELD BROWN: And I don't know that that's a bad thing for us right now.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Five stories looking down at your homes? Okay.
MS. LITCI{FIELD BROWN: Well, the offrce hours would be less. The traffic would be less.
We've talked about it, and maybe that's not such a bad thing. Because you gave us that very good advice that
be careful what you ask for because you might get something you don't want, and I took that to heart.
But I do think there could be some more neighborly cooperation here. And that's the biggest thing.
We can deal with a lot of the things. The lighting, the wall will help, anything to do with traffrc calming,
moving -- I know you can't move the entrance so that it's on any residential area there. Maybe it could go up
a little bit more. Because right now there's -- if you want to say there's no traffrc issue, right now getting into
Mr. Tequila's or into Ridge Street coming from either way, the traffic backs up on 41 already so much. That's
how much traffic we have coming on there.
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Coming from Goodlette, it is the same thing, because it's the only way you can go both ways. It is 15
cars sometimes. They're backed up even, you know, beyond the furn lane on Goodlette, way back out there,
and that is now. We had nothing to say about CubeSmart. I know you don't think it will impact traffic much,
but I'll tell you, people use storage units a lot, and you know how they're going to get there, because they can't
get there from Goodlette and they can't get there from 4 I . They can't get to his development from 41 .
There's only one way you can get there.
So we are asking them for a little neighborhood cooperation to help us get some traffrc calming that
we've been working on and have had petitions, and trafhc studies are getting ready to be done. I don't know
how this is affecting the city sewer issue and the drainage issue. I'd like to know those things before we, you
know, say, yeah, this is great.
We think it's a great idea to improve the area. That little plaza's kind of dumpy and trashy. Although
we love Peace, Love, and Little Donuts, and they're very concerned. And they know the rent's going to go
up, so that might be sad, but it's a fact of life.
So I'm sure my time is just about up, but I would like to know the impact on the sewer and all of that
kind of stuffas well as ask you once again to have your owner consider setting aside some money to help
with a problem that you will be adding to.
I don't know if there's anything I've forgotten, but after you have your discussion, I'd like to reserve
the right to come back up.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, we're not going to have you come back up today. We're going to
continue the meeting, and you'll see a new program, a new layou! a lot of answers, and at that time we'll be
glad to hear you again.
MS. LITCHFIELD BROWN: And will we get what you guys get, ever? It's like you have all that -
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You can have it. See that fellow there? His name's James Sabo.
MS. LITCHFIELD BROWN: Hi, James. Nice to see you again.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: He can send you all the files we get every time we get them.
MS. LITCI{FIELD BROWN: Okay. I think you have my email address and that information; do
you?
MR. SABO: I do. I have your card.
MS. LITCHFIELD BROWN: Okay. But we would like to get that so we don't come in blind.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Question for you, Ms. Litchfield Brown.
MS. LITCIIFIELD BROWN: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you for your testimony and, also, I saw your letter of March28.
I'm unclear, though, who exactly you're representing and in what capacity. Is there a homeowners
association?
MS. LITCIIFIELD BROWN: No. This is justthe neighbors --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: krformal?
MS. LITCI{FIELD BROWN: Informal neighbors and all those who have signed that - we have
little petitions going out for three different issues.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah. Without holding you to an exact number, but how many people
would you say that you're speaking for?
MS. LITCHFIELD BROWN: Ninety.
COMMISSIONERFRYER: Ninety. Okay. Thankyou.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any other registered public speakers, James?
MS. LITCIIFIELD BROWN: Any other questions?
MR. SABO: I have no more.
COMMISSIONEREBERT: I have a question forthe lady.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Go ahead.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Do you see a lot of people going from the Tequila parking in
Thalheimer's?
MS. LITCI{FIELD BROWN: Well, I wouldn't see it as much because I live a little bit down the
road. I think Mufr and Wayne said that they do, yes. And those are just times there's not enough parking
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there, because it's just a big empty lot and people don't want to park in the dirt, so they park over there.
Yeah, it's -- you know, we're not trying to get rid of them.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: And yet they want reduced parking spaces. Okay. Thank you.
MS. LITCIFIELD BROWN: Thanks.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Any -- James, there's no other public?
MR. SAWYER: No otherpublic speakers.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Is there any members of the public that are here who have not
spoken who would like to speak?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. With that, Fred, this will need to be continued. There are some
issues that I think you need to address. You've heard some of them. I'll reiterate some of them and, for the
benefit of the Planning Commission, if they have others, we can make sure. But most of the discussion's
been had.
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: When this comes back, it would be better if you and the -- you were
either -- if you're objecting to certain staffrecommendations, let's address those, but let's not change any of
the others unless they're a result of something like that
We need the analysis for the parking reduction, and that analysis will then tie it to the number of
parking spaces based on what youVe written in that analysis, so we need to know that, too.
Language needs to be added to limit it to one story. Your backside lighting, which I think is going to
be l0 feet and the Dark Skies basics that you're referring to if those light poles are needed, but I also think
you need to research and find out if you really need those or not, because we have bollard lighting as a
requirement in Golden Gate Estates in the Growth Management Plan. And I know we've built projects out
there with bollard lighting, so I'm not sure you really need to go to the pole lighting, and that would solve one
of your problems.
The neighbors are asking for an 8-foot wall. If your applicant's reasoning for not providing that is
because of the two additional feet of masonry, remember, you might want to remind him of how much wall
he's not being asked to build, and that might - he's still way to the plus.
You need to have the provisions we normally add -- well, I shouldn't -- the buffer. It would be nice
to show the buffer that you're having along the Ridge -- Rosemary and Ridge Streets.
MR. HOOD: I can speak to that ifyou'd like me to now or --
CHAIRMAN STRAN: I know it's a Landscape Buffer D, but you have -
MR. HOOD: Yes.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Just - no, next time you come back, bring something that porhays the
vegetation that you're putting in there. I think that would be to your benefit.
MR. HOOD: Okay.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Also, the traffic before and after. Again, it's not necessarily something tied
to this, because you're not required to do that, but I think it would help us understand the arguments of the
neighborhood in regards to -- I can't imagine anybody would want a five-story, 60,000-square-foot building,
but ifthat's what they think is better than this and haffrc drives tha! I'd like to see an analysis of some kind
showing the different traffic calculations.
MR. HOOD: Yeah. We can do a quick calculation for that just to show existing versus -- well,
existing approved versus what we're proposing. I don't think that's a problem.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Right. Okay. And then I think that covers all of the issues other than the
stuffyou have made notes on probably while we were -- oh, the loading zone. You've got to move that from
that are4 so we've got to make that correction on the master plan, but that's the bulk of it, I believe.
Anybody else? Ned?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Two things from me. First of all, since you did indicate to the people at
the NIM that you were going to ask the City of Naples to weigh in --
MR. HOOD: I wanted to talk to you about that. My associate, Jessic4 just reminded me, I think at
that point we were talking about the city utilities, and that also came up. We wanted to make sure that - and
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we will have to, when this application comes in, make sure that the proposed development does not
negatively impact the utilities that are being constructed currently.
So I think - and I'll look back at my notes, but I think when we were discussing whether the city
would have an opportunity to review, it was from that perspective looking at the utilities.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I thought your corrrment was a little more broad than that. But this is a
very unique site because it's almost surrounded by the City of Naples. It's almost an island. And I think due
to its uniqueness, it would be fair and -
MR. HOOD: We'll call them.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: - and certainly helpful to me to have (sic) the city the opportunity to
weigh in on whatever concerns they may have so that we can consider them.
And the other point that I had is that - whether this is for staffor for the applicant, I'd like to know
what the status of -- what the legal status of parking on Ridge and Rosemary is.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Just one comment. In the list of --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Go ahead.
COMMISSIONER HOMI.AK: -- addresses that the notice of the NIM was sent to was the City of
Naples was one on the list, so they were notified.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Okay. Anybody have any other comments? Stan.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Just what is county staffdoing about Ridge Street? Is
Ridge Street a problem? Is there any plan to widen Ridge Street? Is there any plan to put taffic calming in?
Is there any plan to do anlhing on Ridge Street? Because it's a cut-through. It's always been a cut-through.
And, apparently, it's pretly crowded.
And, you know, I don't think that this project is going to make it worse. I don't think it's going to
make it better. But what does staffknow?
MR. SAWYER: For the record, Mike Sawyer, transportation planning.
Currently right now there is a joint city and county project that is improving utilities, stormwater, and
roadways, including sidewalks, within the neighborhood, generally. It's a larger project primarily designed
to help stormwater because of issues related to stormwater issues.
We have received from the neighborhood a neighborhood traffic management request. We've got
that. We will be implementing that as soon zr the project is completed.
Right now things that we've worked with our stormwater staffon, that particular project coming in, is
to try and narrow the drive aisles along Ridge in particular as n€urow as possible so that we actually have the
striping pulled in. Again, psychologically, trying to reduce the speed a bit, and also improving sidewalks
through there.
So hopefully -- with those improvements, we're hoping that there might be a change from what
existing is. We will not know that until the project is complete. And at that point, then we'll start doing our
traffrc studies and working with the neighborhood as far as whatever can be done as far as education,
enforcement, and then any potential engineering solutions as well for traffic management.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: What I'm hearing is, though, that speed is not a problem.
Calming is not a problem. Volume is a problem, and the only way to stop the volume is just to stop people
from traveling the road, and you're not going to do that.
MR. SAWYER: Quite honestly, I don't know that because we have not done a traffic study to find
out, is it a traffic problem as far as volume or is it speed? And those are the things. We definitely look at
both of those. We even look at the type of traffic that happens -- Is it mostly trucks? Is it
automobiles? -- when we do those studies.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Well, ifthere's l5 cars lined up atthat intersection, I
guarantee you speed's not a problem.
MR. SAWYER: Commissioner, I don't know that. I don't have the study to back that up.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I know. Thanks, Mike.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Basically you said there's going to be improvements on that road system.
MR. SAWYER: Yes, sir.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Can you, by the time this comes back, give us some approximate dates in
which the neighborhood can expect to see things -- some ofthose improvements implemented?
MR. SAWYER: Chairman, I will definitely check that. My last update was that that projec! if it
hasn't already started, is going to be started within the next several weeks. But I will get that information to
you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That would be great. Thank you. Anyhing else?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Thanks, Mike.
MR. SAWYER: Thankyou.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody else have any questions?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Fred and James, time frame? In order for you to have this prepared
for a meeting, James, you're going to need it how far in advance?
MR. SABO: Yeah, the next meeting is the l9th. I don't know if Mr. Hood can make that.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: The one after that is the 3rd of May.
MR. SAWYER: May 3rd. That's probably better. May 3rd.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: FTEd?
MR. HOOD: I can make the l9th. It's just whatever you need me to get to you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, James will have to review it, you're going to have to get with the fire
department, the other entities, and at the same time rewrite the recommendations to coordinate to those extent
that he agrees with and those as well he may not. I just want to make sure we don't have any flurry of
last-minute changes again. This is not the way to do business.
MR. HOOD: I understand.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: James, I'm going to -- I'm really going to take your lead in this. Fred feels
he can get you something by what date, Fred?
MR. HOOD: Nextweek.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Well, next week's long - five days? I mean, are you talking --
MR. HOOD: Five days -
CHAIRMAN STRAN: See, he's got to have a staffreport into Judy by, wha! the 11th? What's her
due date?
MR. SABO: Yeah. That's, I think, when it's sent.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right. That's when it's sent out, so you have to give it to her Monday or
Tuesday, which means - and today's already -- you're not -- let's make it comfortable. I would rather not
have another flurry of last-minute changes. This is not helping anybody. So let's make the 3rd of May the
date. Does that work for everybody?
MR. SABO: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So with that, is there a motion from the Planning Commission to
continue ltemPL20l70002686 to the May 3rd hearing?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: I make that recommendation.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: So moved.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Made by Diane, seconded by Patrick. Discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All in favor, signiff by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Anybody opposed? Anybody opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion carries 6-0.
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Thank you. Thank you, Fred.
MR. HOOD: Sure. Oh, just one followup. Do you-all want copies of this or no?
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Just provide the electronic version to Ray, and if we need it -- or James, I'm
sorry. And it will be part of the record, and then if we need it, we can ask James for it. Thank you.
MR. HOOD: No problem.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Now, it's l1:30, and we normally try to break around noontime.
And I kind of query the Board. We can take - we can do a couple of different things. I know there's some
members of the public here who may not want to sit and come back after lunch. We can let the public speak
and then take their comments into consideration as we hear the applicant's presentation. We can start the
project, go through the presentation to whatever point but break at noontime, or we can break now for an hour
and come backat 12:30.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Mr. Chairman, there are three members of the Naples City Council
here and at least two senior staffmembers who have been sitting patiently all morning. And I know that they
are very busy, as we all are. And if there's some way that they could be accommodated so that they don't
have to endure the rest ofthe -
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's why I suggested that as one of the opportunities. I wanted to make
sure you guys were all -
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Let's move forward.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. With that, we're - the following three items will be discussed
simultaneous but voted on separately. They're all for the same project.
***fhe fnst item is 9B. It's PL20160003084. It's for the mini-triangle mixed-use subdistrict located
at the comer of the intersection of David Boulevard and Tamiami Trail East. The second item is
PL20160003054. That's for the MPUD. And then the third one is for an LDC amendment, and it's
LDCA-PL2o160003642.
All of these have been continued from the previous February l5th meeting, then the March 1st
meeting. All those wishing to testify on behalf of this item, please rise to be sworn in by the court reporter.
(The speakers were duly sworn and indicated in the affirmative.)
CHAIRMAN STRAN: I notice some of the people who might want to provide testimony didn't
rise. If you're going to speak on this matter or you'd like to speak on this matter, such as Ms. Penniman's
handing a speaker slip, you need to stand back up, and we need to swear you in. And I didn't know --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Mr. Chairman, also there's some confusion resulting from advice that
the city councilors have received from the City Attorney regarding Sunshine Law and the extent to which
they are able to speak.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. I just want to make sure if they intend to -- City Council people
intend to speak, they've -- and I noticed Ms. Penniman has put a slip in. So you'll need to rise to be sworn in
by the couft reporter.
(The speaker was duly swom and indicated in the affrmative.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Thank you, all.
And I think what we'll do is, first of all, fll explain to everybody, this has come back before us twice
previously, and we went through a long discussion of probably a better way to approach the project from the
Planning Commission's perspective.
The applicant has reworked their project narrative and their project request. It's now in a different
format than we've seen before. We have not, obviously, discussed that yet. We will do so today.
We will be breaking at lunch. So what I'd like to do is turn to any public speakers now to hear what
you have to say before we have an opporhlnity to break for lunch. We'll still, if we have time, continue into
the presentation, but I wanted to make sure if you can't come back after lunch you have an opportunity to
speak right now.
So are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item who cannot come back
about 1:00 and address it later in the afternoon when we finish with it that would like to speak?
Okay. Ms. Penniman, we'll start with you, and then the gentleman in the back.
MS. PENNIMAN: Good moming. My name is Linda Penniman. And I want to make it abundantly
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clear that I'm here speaking for myself. I am not speaking for my colleagues in the city nor anyone else in the
city. I'm here to speak for myself today.
I want to remind the Planning Commission as well as the developers today about this particular area.
This particular area depends upon development and it also depends a great deal upon tourism. Now, how is
tourism promoted in this area? Tourism is promoted in this area by way of our beaches. When we look at
this particular project, the beaches are west of this project which means that anyone that is -- there's a
possibility with this particular project of 605 units, some of which are multifamily, some of which are
transient.
These people are going to want to be accessing the thing that we promote time after time after time,
which are our beaches, which means the impact on our neighborhoods in the city is going to be tremendous.
I also wanted to remind the Planning Commission that we are coun{ residents. Yes, we live in the
city, but we are county residents. We have not been contacted by these developers about this particular
project. We know nothing of it. The only reason that we know about it is because we are here. Yes, they
contacted our city manager a year ago, but cornmon sense would tell you that if you're going to have an
impact on a parlicular neighborhood, that you would come and talk to that neighborhood about this particular
project so that we would have had the opportunity to express our concems about this particular project. So
shame on them, in my opinion, for not having contacted the city on this particular project.
I'm concerned about many things right now, the four corners, which is arguably maybe 400 yards
from this particular project. Right now the LOS on that particular comer is an E during the season. When not
during the season, it's as low as a C -- as a D or a D minus. So now we're going to add additional impact onto
that.
Stormwater is a real concern of mine. I think that the planning board needs to increase -- whatever
the maximum treatment could possibly be for this particular project on stormwater must occur. Again,
arguably, this project could be as close as 3- to 400 yards from Naples Bay, which is currently highly
impaired. And we're going to add much more stormwater that may not be well treated into that particular
project. Look what you're doing. You're covering this thing completely, almost, with buildings.
And, again, you know, this is being built as an iconic project. One of the buildings is going - could
possibly be as high as 168 feet right across the street from this building, maximum height 42 feet. This isn't
an icon. This is a monster.
So there's -- this is not being built with any kind of sensitivity to the area around this particular
projec! so far as I'm concerned. This is really going to have not only a visual but impacts in terms of traffic,
in terms of pedestrian traffic. There are no plans, so far as I know, with this project having to do with how
they're going to improve pedestrian access into the city. You know, we've got two skinny little sidewalks that
could possibly be used, but that's not going to handle this kind of an impact at all.
So, you know, it isn't just the triangle. You can't just look at it as just the triangle. This is going to
have tremendous impacts on the surrounding area. It's meant to be a catalytic - this is used almost
exclusively and consistently through the narrative on this project, a catalytic development when it's sucking,
in my opinion, practically every bit of infrastructure that could possibly be needed going east of here. I
just -- please, please take all of this into consideration; the traflic impacts, the stormwater impacts, and the
impacts on the neighborhood that -- of the city that oh, by the way, are also part of this county.
And I think heretofore, or going forward, when we have projects that have to do with the county, let's
remember that the city is a part of the county. We are county residents. And the planning board, I think,
needs to start to insist that if you're going to have projects that are that close to the city, that they must
approach the City Council on this, appize them of that and give us an opportunity and give our people, give
our citizens the opportunity to comment on these projects.
And I'll end by saying this: We just -- I just came offof five weeks of a campaign, and what I heard
consistently from our residents was the word that is anathema in this area so far as our citizens are concerned,
is Miami, Florida, and this is going to look like, feel like, and be like Miami, Florida. What a shame.
Thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
And I was remiss in asking the Planning Commission if they have any other disclosures since the last
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meeting. So we'll start with Tom just in case you have anything to add to your previous disclosures.
MR. EASTMAN: No disclosures.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Stan?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Just saying hello to Bob Mulhere; that's about it.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Ned?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I've had conversations with city councilors and senior staffofthe City
of Naples.
CFIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Diane?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Just stafi which I tried to get ahold of; transportation. Mainly staff,
and I met Mrs. Penniman this morning.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. I, too, have had conversations with staff, with the applicant's team,
with Ms. Penniman, a couple of our county commissioners, and I think -- and, obviously, the County
Attomey's Office.
Okay. Karen?
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Nothing since last time.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Patrick?
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Nothing since last time.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Now, the next speaker -- we have another public speaker, I think the
gentleman. Can you call his name, please.
MR. JOHNSON: Well, for Item 98, we have Gary Price.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Mr. Price.
MR. JOHNSON: Thank you, Mr. Chair, members of the commission. I appreciate the opportunity.
My name is Gary Price, City ofNaples.
Again, I stand here to speak for myself. I don't represent the voice of the Council or the residents,
but I can tell you that I've spent the last 18 years fighting either on a planning board or a City Council
position to fight to keep what we think is unique and special about the character of our community, and lve
never seen Naples separate from the county. Ive always thought of us as one Naples where we both have to
succeed for everyone to succeed.
So I don't look at this as an us-versus-them issue. What I can tell you is that I've been fighting every
day for l8 years to try to keep the density, intensity of especially this particular area down. I find out to no
avail a couple weeks ago on a three-acre parcel to rezone it from C2, which is 40 percent lot coverage, to D
downtown, which prevailed at 100 percent lot coverage.
So we're fighting every day to keep what we think the residents of our community want which is a
special, unique place. It's not dense and intense. I don't know what you do with - and I'm sorryr I'm not
going to be able to sit for the entire hearing. I don't know what you do with this kind of density, intensity,
and traffic. Honestly, I don't know what we do with what we have today.
And so all I can tell you is that I'm matching my effort with what I hope you'll match your effofts,
which is to try to make this one Naples and consider the impacts of our community right across the bridge
and make sure that as you look at the exceptions and the effects that it has that - not just what it has on the
City of Naples, but the county and all of its residents and know that we're fighting and I'm fighting every day
to keep that character special for all of us, and I appreciate everything you're doing.
Thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you, sir.
Do we have any other registered -- well, first of all, if you cannot be here at I o'clock or when we
return from break, is there anybody else that would like to speak now?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So we don't need to call any more. Just whoever's still left, we'll
assume they're going to come back at l:00 to speak.
MR. JOHNSON: Item 98, Robin Singer.
CFIAIRMAN STRAN: Right. I think he's -- yeah, we'll just wait. And he didn't stand up when I
just asked, so Im sure he's going to be here at 1 o'clock.
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MR. JOHNSON: She.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: She, Im sorry. I'm sorry. I don't know everybody by -- now, with that,
Bob, it's yours for presentation.
MR. MULHERE: Thirty seconds.
For the record, Bob Mulhere here on behalf of the applicant.
With me also this moming, this aftemoon -- almost this afternoon -- this morning -- Jerry Starkey,
Fred Pezeshkan, Alex Pezeshkan. Norm Trebilcock is our transportation consultant, and Barry Jones is the
civil engineer on the site.
I want to take - initially, I just want to speak to the public speakers that have spoken so far. I want to
take exception to the suggestion that we had not communicated. Not only did we provide all these
documents to the city stafl who certainly could have communicated or provided that information to the
people they work for, every time we made an amendment those documents were provided.
And on 5125116, an email was sent by my client to Bill Moss. And I'll read this for the record. In
followup - this is - I just want to make sure I got the date. That was 512512016.
In followup to our telephone conversation yesterday aftemoon and yours with Mr. Fred Pezeshkan, I
have attached the Gateway Triangle Redevelopment summary and Gateway presentation, both made
available to you to share with your City Council members and development directors.
Mr. Moss, we share these details with great enthusiasm and encourage further communication as to
better address this product and the positive impact it can hold for the future of Naples and the community.
We look forward to your feedback.
Now, we have had some feedback with staff, and we feel we have addressed the staffcomments.
This is our third Planning Commission hearing. I take exception -- we had a neighborhood information
meeting, and we had nearly unanimous support at that. One person spoke with questions. So - and
just -- thank you.
And just yesterday we made a presentation before the Community Redevelopment Agency, a
followup advisory board. The place was packed, not necessarily for our petition, but because they had issues
with - related to, apparently, murals, but we were happy to see the crowd there. Unanimous support again
second time around. Their only question was, when will you close on the property?
Now, I don't mind constructive comments, and we will always work with people to address those
comments, but to suggest that we haven't been 100 percent open and communicative is not the facts.
Thank you.
Now, Mr. Chairman -
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: You started out with a rebuttal.
MR. MULI{ERE: Well,I felt itwas important.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: That's fme.
MR. MULFDRE: I do want to -- I'm going to take a breath. I don't want to be Rich Yovanovich as
he was this morning. l,et me take a deep breath.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Now you're in trouble.
MR. MULHERE: Mr. Chairman, if you would assist during this process, because we do get a copy
of everything that you get but we don't have those electronic numbers. So just in case there's any confusion,
I would appreciate that assistance.
I'd like to start with the memo -- and I'm asking for your direction. But my thought was to start with
the memorandum which -- or the letter which I provided that summarizes the changes we made based on our
last two planning board hearings.
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: That's on Page 3 electronically of the - I'm working off the MPUD.
MR. MULHERE: Okay. That's great. It's the same letter either way, so...
And so I thought I would summarize those. They fall in all three categories, the LDC amendment,
the GMP amendment, as well as the PUD.
CFIAIRMAN STRAIN: And, Bob, just so you know, we're going to break at noontime for an hour.
MR. MULFERE: I know. And I think I -- and then my second, sort of, part of the presentation
would be to go over some relatively minor but additional changes that I want the Planning Commission to
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hear about, and then I would just open it up to questions.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All right. Well, we can certainly start you and then finish after break, so...
MR. MULHERE: So we -- in working with the Naples Airport Authority - and they are present
here today to speak to this issue as well - we've resolved their concerns. We're in agreement. And I'll go
over the exact changes, but I just want you to know that both the LDC amendment language and the PUD
conditions, we've come to agreement, and I'll go over those in detail as I move through the process.
As far as the GMP goes, we did reformat the -- I want to -- before I continue, I just want to express
my appreciation to all the staff, CRA staff, planning staff, transportation stafi legal staff. It's been a lot of
time and a lot of meetings, but they've been very, very willing to meet with us and address all of the issues on
it. It's been an ongoing basis, and it's really been a pleasure working with them, so I just wanted to say that.
We did reformat the document. We did make changes. You'll remember the more complicated
conversion matrix that was in the PUD, which also complicated the GMP amendment. We've eliminated that
and made it very clear. And I'll go over that in detail in a minute. Im just giving you an overview now.
We also clarified, as was requested at the last planning board hearing, that we base our trip cap on net
new trips, and we can talk specifically what that mezms in just a few minutes.
It's important because the overriding concem that I hear expressed is traffic and transportation, and
the overriding limitation that we have imposed is also on traffic.
So as far as the MPUD, agaln, we simplified the document. It's a lot shorter and cleaner and, I think,
easier to read and I think much easier for the staffto implement which was a concern that was raised.
We simplified by creating two separate exhibits related to building height. There are actually four
ways that we have to deal with building height. There's the FAA, which is from mean sea level; there's the
Naples Airport Authority, which is from the established elevation of the Naples airport; then there's the
county, which has the zoned and actual height.
The measurements start from a different location in all four of those, but they all end up at the same
place in the sky. So we've simplified that by creating two exhibits, one for the county measurements and one
for the FAA and Naples Airport Authority.
We added quite a bit of text as it relates to limiting and/or addressing unintended consequences
related to a car dealership that have typically been added to car dealerships.
We've added some additional stipulations, I hope, that will get to some of the questions that were
raised as to here's what you said you were going to do now, help us feel comfortable that that's exactly what
you're going to do, which is in terms of multi-story structures, no single -- no free-standing uses other than
office and hotel, those kinds of things. And we can go over those in detail. I just wanted to give you a
summary at this point.
And I've already addressed the fact that we have, as of yesterday, finally come to complete
agreement with the Naples Airport Authority.
So at this poinq it's I l:50. I'm happy to start with - do you want me to start with the MPIID, which
is a liule more --
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Well, you know wha! Bob, why don't we just take an early lunch. That
way everybody can make sure they get into a restaurant in time. We can just come back at l0 minutes to
1:00. Well, why don't we just come back at 1 o'clock. That will make it even better; round it off. And that
way people can get into the restaurants and get back. We seem to have a problem with that sometimes.
So, okay, we'll break for lunch. We'll come back at 1 o'clock. We'll resume with your presentation
on probably the MPUD.
MR. MULHERE: Thankyou.
(A luncheon recess was had.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Everybody, welcome back from the lunch break.
When we left oft Bob was just getting warmed up. And so now we'll continue with his presentation
on the mini-triangle project. And we're listening to all three applications; we'll vote on them separately. The
three applications are GMP amendment, Planned Unit Development, and the Land Development Code
amendment.
Go ahead, Bob.
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MR. MULI{ERE: Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'm starting with the -- well, let me start with the LDC to tell you that the document that you have in
your packet dated March 26th or March 16th has not changed. There are no changes to that, and the
airport -- the Naples Airport Authority agreed with that language. Actually, we worked with them to come
up with that language.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay.
MR. MULIIERE: The GMP, I'm operating from the 3126118 document. I'm on Page 1 of the GMP
amendment. The footer would say 3126, and so I'm not sure what page that is for you.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Well, the staffreport starts on Page2 electronically. Is that the one you're
going to -- or are you going right to the language page?
MR. MULffiRE: Rightto the language. Page 1.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Well, we had a confusing submittal on that from the Planning
Commission's perspective. We had one that has a bunch of handwritten notes on it, which probably shouldn't
have been in our packet and the second one that we probably want to work towards is the one that starts on
Page l0 electronically and it's the -- starts with Paragraph 19, mini-triangle mixed-use subdistrict.
MR. MULIIERE: That's it. I think those handwritten notes were Heidi's comments, and they are
reflected in this document.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: She has disowned those from last time.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: That's the one we weren't supposed to see.
MR. MULIIERE: Right. Where's Eric?
MR. JOHNSON: I'm overhere.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: He's not moving. He's safe.
MR. MULHERE: I only have one change. And I appreciated David Weeks bringing this change to
my attention. One of the SIC codes that we have in the PUD would allow for museums and art galleries, and
that was not really reflected in the GMP. So if you look at Paragraph 3 that starts under C, C3, it starts,
movie theater, bowling center, physical fitness facilities, yoga studio; I would strike through that end.
Continuing: Bicycle rental; museums and art galleries; or museums and art galleries. So we would just add
those two uses to that.
CFIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. And while we're on the GMP, David had a couple of other -- well, at
least one other change I can recall, and that is, instead of restaurants, I think you called them something
different in the PUD, and he wanted to make sure the language was consistent.
MR. MULFffiRE: Yes, it is. He was okay with it in the GMP using the word "restaurant" but in the
PUD you have to use the SIC code.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, here he comes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Which is eating and drinking establishment.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right. So I thinkthat's what David wanted this change to do, right?
MR. WEEKS: That's correct. David Weeks, Comprehensive Planning section.
We would like the language in the GMP to also say the eating and drinking establishments; reason
being, because restaurants is a fpe of eating establishment but not drinking, so just to put the two in the
same --
MR. MULffiRE: Okay. Thank you. So we'll revise that to reflect instead of restaurants, eating
and drinking establishments.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MR. MULIIERE: That's the only change that I had. Those two changes are the only changes to that
3126 document. I would go right into the PUD, also using the 3126 date, and I'm not sure what page that's
on --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I am going to -
MR. MULHERE: -- electronically.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- get you there in just a second. 3126 date would be the first -- right
after -- it will be on Page 5 of the electronic version.
MR. MULHERE: Most of these changes are relatively minor, but I'll read them into the record.
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On Page I of 3 I , under principal uses Paragraph B, it reads commercial uses, paren C Table I for a
minimum and maximum, and then there's the word "required." The word "required" needs to be struck
through. It's no longer necessary. It simply provides for minimum and maximum square footage.
MS. ASI{ION-CICKO: Bob, are you making the same change on (1)(a)? Because it also has the
term "required."
MR. MULI{ERE: Yeah.
MS. AS}[[ON-CICKO: Okay.
MR. JOHNSON: So we're going to delete that also?
MR. MULHERE: Yep. Thankyou.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MR. MULI{ERE: There is a change on Page 2 under No. 9 under the bullets. The first bullet would
be struck through entirely, and that is because if you count down, including that first bullet that we're striking
through, 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6,7, 8 to the ninth bullet which starts ou! vehicular access, slash, overhead doors. We
don't need the first bullet because we're dealing with it here.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MR. MULHERE: And there is a change to that. I had the pleasure of working with Peter Shawinsky
and Mark Templeton from the staff. We worked together to get this language to where it was succinct and
address their concerns. I'll read that for you. But yes, you had a question.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Can I ask a question?
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Yes. Well, why don't we -- yeah, why don't we catch the questions as we
go along. Does that work for everybody -
MR. MULHERE: Yeah, that's perfectly fine by me.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: - in this particular document?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: We're doing questions as we go along?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: If that's okay with you.
MR. MULI{ERE: It's perfectly fine.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Yeah. I figure that way it will expedite it. But since we've seen this twice
before, hopefully we're not going to be -
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: You added used cars. That was not in --
MR. MIILIIERE: It was not in the original, no. We added -
COMMISSIONER EBERT: That's right. So this is added, this last one?
MR. MULI{ERE: We did add it.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: And I'll be very honest with you, if you would have had No. 9 with
these words in it at a NIM meeting, this car dealership would not be there.
MR. MULffiRE: Well, the only thing I can say in response is that we have had conversations with
some very high-end antique and collectable dealers. And there's one located right on the corner of Airport
Road and Davis. Notjust offthe corner; behind the Porsche dealership.
And so that's why we did put the limitations in the value in there. We don't necessarily -- I mean, we
don't think that would be a detraction.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Do you have a sigred deal with them? Because looking at this, of what
you're putting in with all the things that you can stuff into ttris -
MR. MULHERE: No, we don't have a signed deal. That's why we put that minimum value of
$80,000 per vehicle in there so that we would guarantee that it would be high end.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Have you ever seen an $80,000 used car?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Really?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Was it looking like an old used pickup truck, or are they something
nice?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: No, no, but thafs --
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I've never seen a used car that price. I can only imagine it's going to be
something rather elaborate. Is that a kind word?
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Exotic; vintage.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Exotic. That's even better.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Mark, this is supposed to be a redevelopment project. To me, a car
dealership is not. If they want something like that, you can just go out this building down two doors. This, to
me, is not redevelopment.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Where in Collier County do you bry -
COMMISSIONER EBERT: That's my thought.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: -- an $80,000 used car? I don't understand. This is - you can have a new
car for $20,000, but an $80,000 used car is the minimum they can have there?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: We have car dealers that have that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Well, anyway.
MR. MULIDRE: I didn't want to prolong the discussion.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: No, thafs okay.
MR. MULHERE: I just want to say that this will be entirely enclosed within a multi-story building.
It isn't the same as the used car dealership that's on the corner of Davis and Airport. It isn't the same, and
we've structured it that way, so...
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Well, that's too bad. That's a new Porsche dealership.
MR. MULIIERE: Not that one.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Oh, okay.
MR. MULIIERE: And by the way, that business has been there for.*y, many years. Im
not -- nothing derogatory against that business.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: If I can follow up with Commissioner Ebeft's question. In addition to
adding the used car, the word "dealership" was also pluralized. Do you intend to have more than one?
MR. MULHERE: No.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Why was it pluralized?
MR. MULHERE: No. I mean, it was just new or used dealership. We can take the S off the end of
that. Not a problem.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: All right.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Hey, Bob?
MR. MLILI{ERE: Yes.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Shouldn't there be a D on the end of used?
MR. MULHERE: I think that's been corrected. Yeah, it has been corrected, yes. Thank you.
Getting back to that ninth bullet that begins vehicular access/overhead doors, the second sentence
starts, SDP plans shall show lines of sight. That entire sentence would be struck through based on my
discussions with Mark and Peter.
And it would read as follows instead. A new sentence would be added: Overhead doors visible from
any road - overhead doors visible from any road or access -- or internal access, excuse me, will utilize the
roll-down security gate style door or fully glazed overhead door. And I can read that again. My notes were a
little -- so it should read, overhead doors used from any - visible from any roadway or internal access will
utilize a roll-down security gate style door or a fully glazed overhead door, and that would be consistent with
the LDC.
On the next page -- I don't have any changes on that page except I wanted to call your attention to
another change which might result in a change to that page, and I wanted to ask you about this. The green
space requirement, which is on page - well it's --
CHAIRMAN STRAN: It's on Page 9 electronically.
MR. MULI{ERE: We've had some discussions in our meetings with various planning board
members and other staffin particular over the fulI duration of this review process that really, other than the
deviation to l5 percent, the rest of this green space is consistent with the existing LDC definition. All this
can be used in green space with a couple of exceptions, and that is - and that's why we added them, and that
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is the food trucks and the mobile kiosks.
So there was a suggestion to take this out entirely. Now, if you go back to the other page,3,I think it
would be, your electronic Page 3, under accessory uses, B, commercial uses, we would like to add those
under a new Paragraph 4 to list food trucks and mobile kiosks. So we -- you know, we don't need the entire
paragraph on green space, but we'd like to add those there. They would be approved through a temporary-use
process --
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Then what happens is your deviation addresses a 15 percent so you don't --
MR. MULHERE: Correct.
CFIAIRMAN STRAN: -- need Paragraph C forthat.
MR. MULI{ERE: Correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And the LDC addresses the rest of it as it exists today, so you don't need
Paragraph C for that.
MR. MULI{ERE: Including the temporary-use permit process for those two uses.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right. So, okay.
MR. MLILHERE: So then we would flip over again to Page 4 which contains Table l. We only
have one table now.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Ive got a question back on the page we just left.
MR. MULFIERE: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Would you mind adding after Roman Numeral III, interim use, where it
says on the end, early by agreement ofthe parties ofthe lease and/or their successors and assigns.
MR. MULHERE: Oh, on the cell tower?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah.
MR. MULFIERE: Let me just read that again. Tell me where you wanted me to --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: At the end of the paragraph, add the words, "and their successors and
assigns."
MR. MULHERE: Sure.
MR. JOHNSON: Mr. Chair, did you say "and./or"?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: It doesn't matter. Just "and" is fine. One's equal to the other.
MR. MULHERE: And the successors and assigns.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah, successors and assigns.
MR. MULHERE: Okay. So on the next page Table l, you can see now this is much more simple.
We've eliminated the conversion matrix. You have maximums and minimums. And the heading tells you
which of the uses - for example, in the commercial general medical offrce, Section A.1.B.U.6 tells you that's
office and that's got a minimum of 30,000 and a maximum of 60,000. So as applicable, that's provided for all
the uses.
One minor change under the last column where it says new car dealership, obviously, depending on
what your recommendation is, we would strike through the word "new."
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Right.
MR. MULFDRE: Again, I express my appreciation to David Weeks for his very detailed review on
Item No. 3. The way I worded that, I said, subject to the minimum amounts required in Table I and overall
maximum of 200,000 square feet of any combination uses allowed in A. I .B.2 through I 1 . Well, that includes
the ALF. That was never subject to that 200,000. That has its own restrictions. And so I would reword that
to say uses 2 through 6 and 8 through I l.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That would be consistent with the GMP language.
MR. MULHERE: Yes. There's a floating No. l0 at the bottom ofthe page. There's not anything
missing. As I often do, I must have hit return, and the l0 came up.
On the next page that will go away, Paragraph C. On the next page --
CFIAIRMAN STRAN: Page l0 electronically.
MR. JOHNSON: Mr. Chair?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes.
MR. JOHNSON: On Page 5 of 31 in your PUD documen! is the intent to delete the whole
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paragraph?
MR. MULHERE: Yes.
MR. JOHNSON: Will that be an issue with respect to the master plan? The master plan, I think,
identifies a Tract C, and if we don't have a Tract C listed anywhere in the PUD document, is that an
inconsistency?
MR. MULI{ERE: Well, maybe we just retain
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Well, wait a minute. Just go to the master plan.
MR. JOHNSON: Yeah, I'm looking at the master plan, and I don't see a Tract C.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: I don't either.
MR. JOHNSON: Okay. All right.
MR. MULHERE: You know why? We didn't put it on there because we weren't exactly sure all
where it would be. It's not one single location, the Tract C, for open space. It's throughout the site.
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: If it's on a rooftop on the building, you couldn't put it on the parcel.
MR. JOHNSON: All right. So if it's not listed on the master plan, then I don't have a problem with it
not being, you know, here.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No. But I know what you want to say. You want to say when we get to the
deviation language, we've got to strike the last sentence because it mirrors that paragraph, and we don't want
that there as well, right?
MR. JOHNSON: I wasn't going to say that.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: I'm sure he was then. But that's going to have to be the case. The last
paragraph - the deviation language has got to be changed to mimic this language, so...
MR. JOHNSON: While we're still here, just for my clarification, the last sentence of Tract C, you
know, GO, green open space, Mr. Mulhere talked about food trucks, mobile kiosks, signage and outdoor
dining facilities. Is the idea that we're going to put those four things or those three things -- listed as
exhibit -- in an Exhibit A, accessory uses?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, the commercial use is exhibit -- under accessory uses 28. He was
going to add 4, and No. 4 would be food trucks and mobile kiosks. The other, outdoor dining facilities and
all the other sfufi are customary accessory uses, so I don't think there's a question.
MR. MULI{ERE: It's not only allowed; it's actually encouraged by the overlay.
MR. JOHNSON: Okay. So 2.B.4 is going to say what?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Food trucks and mobile kiosks.
MR. JOHNSON: Okay. Thank you.
MR. MULHERE: I don't have any changes on -- I'm trying to remember what page - I'm on 6 of 31.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We're on Page l0 electronically, Exhibit B, the table for the development
standards. And there is one change that Heidi brought up to me yesterday that I made a note to bring up
today, and that is the adjacent to a public street, 20 feet, and it's common (sic) measured from the MPUD
property line. And as she pointed out, our definitions, I think, require it to be measured from the right-of-way
line.
MR. MULI{ERE: They do.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. We can't change definitions. So I know what you're trying to do,
and I don't think there's any objection to that in regards to a decel lane.
MR. MULFIERE: I've done it this way on several PUDs recently.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well -
MR. MULI{ERE: That's why I was very specific. Twenty feet measured from the PUD boundary
line. I know there's a definition, but in a PUD you can vary.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: You can change your development standards. That's what they're for.
Heidi, do you --
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: He did it for a project where there was some issues with the utilities
department that needed to be fixed after the fact and so that's why it was allowed on that project. Bu!
essentially, I don't know where the property line is because I don't know whether the roadways are owned in
fee simple or easement, because the property line could really be the center of the road. And what he's trying
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to do here is say that you're - if he has to do a decel lane, then ifs going to be a zero foot --
MR. MULHERE: No, it will be six.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: -- setback, which is going to impact the buffers that he's got on there, so...
MR. MLTLHERE: That's why I asked for a deviation from the buffer.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. But let's look at your master plan. The lines on your master plan,
why don't we refer it -- like we did on the one that she's talking about where you had to fix it we referred to
the lines that were on the plan, I believe. Why don't we just use that --
MR. MULHERE: PUD boundary.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Yeah, the PUD boundary, and that would get us there. And wherever the
right-of-way has to change because of the decel lane, it's covered.
MR. MLILI{ERE: So instead of "property line," we'd use the word "boundary."
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You just put PUD -- as measured from the PUD boundary.
Heidi, does that cause you any heartburn?
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Well, as long as everyone understands there's not going to be a landscape
buf,Fer.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: There is a landscape buffer. It's the DOT that may not provide a landscape
buffer.
MR. MULHERE: But there still is. I just want to -- we requested a deviation fiom the otherwise
required l0-foot landscape - or I 5-foot landscape buffer there. By the way, the overlay only requires I 0; we
agreed to 15. But we asked for a deviation for that to go down to six feet only in the event that we have to put
in a right-tum deceleration lane. So we still would have a 6-foot buffer.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And you just reminded me of something. I did have conversations with the
FDOT, and I have sent them all of your plans and all of Trio's plans. So whatever they come up with is going
to have to be what's required, and I don't know what that is today, so...
MR. MULHERE: I got it.
And by the way, I did talk to Mark Templeton with respect to that 6-foot buffer width. And, Heidi,
he mentioned that we could still fit royal palms and a reasonable hedge in that width. So I did have a
discussion with him, so we will still have a land - it's just not going to be as wide.
MS. ASIIION-CICKO: Just as long as you know what you're approving. That's what my goal is.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So thatwill be from PUD boundary.
MR. MULHERE: Yes.
MR. JOHNSON: That's going to be on Page 6 of 3l?
MR. MULHERE: It's adjacent to a public street, that setback; 20 foot measured from the PUD
boundary.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Bob? One quick thing. You said royal palms?
MR. MULHERE: Yes. You could put other palms, but --
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Royal palms in how big of an area?
MR. MULHERE: Six-foot planting area.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Uh-huh. It won't work.
MR. MULHERE: I only talked to the landscape architect about it. I mean, he can use something
else. He might have to put a smaller -- a smaller --
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Foxtail.
MR. MULHERE: -- species. Yeah, that's fine. That will work.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Well, whatever you put there that the landscaping department approves is
what will happen, so...
MR. MULHERE: I have no problem.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: And if they want to -- you should have a conversation with Mark and
explain to him your concerns, and that might solve the problem.
MR. MULI{ERE: Yeah. No problem.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: They have them in the medians in the road there on Davis.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah, I know.
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MR. MULTIERE: The next page is the master plan.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Which one? We have two pages. It's electronic page --
MR. MULI{ERE: I'm sorry. Sheet - it should say Sheet 1 of 5.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. That's Page 12 electronically.
MR. MULI{ERE: There is -- I failed to make one correction on that, and that is that on the side
yards, so if you want to -- have you got that up? So if you look, the side yards are right there, and then the
other side yards are on the other side. All the way over. Yeah, right there.
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: So you're taking the "zero or" off and leaving the "five feet"?
MR. MULIIERE: In one location I left it. If you look up in the top, right there. So that has to be
struck through.
There is a -- on Page - Sheet 3 of 5, I made this correction in a few places, but I failed to make it
here.
God bless you.
Under landscape standards, No. 6, at the very end, it says -- the last part of the sentence says, where
the buffer abuts a right turn decel lane, and I think Heidi had made the comment in the PUD document to
spell that out, and I'll spell it out here, too, deceleration lane.
MR. JOHNSON: It's on the overhead.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah.
MR. MULI{ERE: So then the next two pages are the separated, now, exhibits depicting the building
heigh! and it's a lot cleaner than trying to show all four ways of measuring the height on two separate
exhibits.
No changes have been made to any of the renderings, landscape renderings or architectural
renderings. There is a change on the legal description, which is Exhibit D. I have Page23 of 31.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: It is Page 27 .
MR. MULIIERE: If you'd tum to Page28,I'm sony, the next page. There is atypo one, two,
three -- you're there? Oh, he's got it on the screen.
Thank you, Eric.
MR. JOHNSON: You betcha.
MR. MULIIERE: Instead of "form," it's "from." And those -- you know, you've got to be careful
with those caps. There's no spell check. So that's the legal description just a minor correction.
I'm now in Exhibit B, list of deviations from the LDC, Page27 of 31.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MR. MULHERE: Atthe bottom of the page, No. 6, that same correction should be spelled out for
decel lane.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Andthere is atypo inthe citation, so we'll fixthat.
MR. MULHERE: Thankyou.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: It's missing a little 4 I think.
MR. MLILIIERE: Oh, yes. Thankyou.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The followingpage, Bob, the open space, you need to drop that last
sentence, remember.
MR. MULI{ERE: Yes. So that -- under open space, it will just be the first sentence. Yep, the
second sentence will be struck through.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And you've got to do the same thing on that master plan page, too. Yeah.
MR. MULI{ERE: On the exhibit.
You know what, let me just turn back to that real quick and make note of that. Got it.
I think we were on -- we're now in Exhibit F, which is the list of developer commitments. I wanted
to point out to you --
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Wait a minute.
MR. MULIIERE: Yes, ma'am.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: I have a question on one of the deviations.
MR. MULI{ERE: Yes.
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COMMISSIONER EBERT: The no building permit will be -
MR. MULI{ERE: So that's the timing.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: On the last of three, you don't even know if you're going to build three,
you told us last time.
MR. MULHERE: Tell me where you're at because I'm --
COMMISSIONER EBERT: I'm on Page l1 of 13.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Eleven of 13? Okay.
MR. MULHERE: Is that the staffreport? That's the staffreport.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah. You're not on the document. I was going to say, you're way outside
the document. Maybe not. There it is on --
MR. JOHNSON: Page 4 of 31.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Page 4 of 31.
MR. JOHNSON: Note number 4.
MR. MULI{ERE: Four of 31. It doesn't matter how many buildings. It's the last tract. So if you
build fewer buildings, it still applies. It's the last trac! not the last building.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Well, you also mentioned that -- a three-story building.
MR. MULIIERE: You mean in here?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Yes.
MR. MTILHERE: There was a place where I think it's a minimum.
MR. BELLOWS: Number9.
MR. MULI{ERE: Number 9 says there should be a minimum of two multi-story buildings. There
is - I'll fmd it. Here. Number 5. What that says is no individual commercial use may be located in a
building less than three stories in height. So let's use the movie theater as an example. That would be an
individual commercial use. It could be the only commercial use in that building, but that building has to be a
minimum of three stories in height. And it will be, because there will be parking underneath.
But that was all going towards the idea of this looking like what we suggested. Yeah, urban and
multi-story with structured parking.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: What page have you left ofl
MR. MULFIERE: I think we were on Page 29, and I don't have any changes toPage29.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: What -- that is your
MR. MULI{ERE: I'm sorry. It's the developer commifnents. I apologize. Exhibit F.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. And I noticed on the developer commitrnents you dropped the
transportation PM peak --
MR. MULHERE: Oh, thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- to 628. Now, just so we've got the right perspective, the project that was
supposed to be produced had 210 residential units, 152 hotel units, 74,000 office retail, 60,000 office, and
then there was some - part of that could be car dealership, like we've described, a high-end car dealership
and potentially a storage facility, and then you had ACLFs.
Now, that combined package, no matter what the mix-up is, will never exceed the intensity that was
previously approved by the contact you guys have.
MR. MULTIERE: That's correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Which that - if you looked at just those purely as stand-alone, forgot the
mixup, just say, okay, what do these come to? Six twenty-eigh! tlat's the intensity you were already --
MR. MULIIERE: That's correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: - you already all had discussed with the Board, and that's the intensity for
that site.
Now, this is going to provide you with that flexibility you need to make the site work. And,
basically, no matter what way you mix them up, you're never going to exceed the original intensity that was
approved for that site. Is that what the -
MR. MULFIERE: That's right.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. That's the direction you're heading. That's what I thought and Ijust
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wanted to make sure it was clear.
MR. MULHERE: I just want to add, yes, that's the cap no matter what, so we're never going to
exceed the trip cap that we would have otherwise been able to achieve in what you just described originally,
but also we have agreed to a whole lot of other conditions, minimums and maximums.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah. That's what this whole document's about.
MR. MULHERE: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. That's what I wanted to understand. Make sure we were on the
same page. Gotcha.
MR. MULHERE; Okay. I'm glad you - I was going to raise that so I'm glad you reminded me.
So, really, the next sigrificant change of any kind is on the last page of the PUD document.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, there is some -- I just want to make sure, Page 31, which is 31 of
3l --
MR. MULHERE: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- and Page 35 electronically, the new -- the language from the Naples
Airport Authority, now, are you all in agreement on this thing?
MR. MULHERE: Well, it's changed since that.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: So what we're looking at is not what we're dealing with?
MR. MULI{ERE: No. We actually just had a final agreement but it's very minor.
CFIAIRMAN STRAN: Well, why don't we address it as we go through the document then and
catch it at the same time.
MR. MULI{ERE: Let me get this portable mike. Oh, here it is.
A couple of items with respect to this change. This change reflects the language, really, with maybe a
few minor changes, but really reflects the language that the Naples Airport Authority requested in their
March 26thletter forthe PUD.
So there's -- as you czul see, there's an opening sentence that talks about the Exhibit G, the declaration
form, and then there's four paragraphs. This represents -- so there's -- I realize the - I printed this on an
email, and it didn't come out the same way it would in Word. But you can see there's a little i, double i,
Paragraph 3 and Paragraph 4. This represents the language that the Naples Airport Authority -- and let me
slide that up a little bit so you can see the last two.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: If I can comment, the only change I would make is to remove the exhibit,
because we don't -- you know, we don't attach restrictive covenants as part of the law.
MR. MULHERE: And we don't have an argument. We agreed to include it because we certainly
wanted to resolve all the issues with the Naples Airport Authority. They'll probably speak to this issue, I
would image.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But, Bob, you can include the reference, but just strike the parenthetical.
MR. MULIfiRE: Yes, we could.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That still says it's outthere, right?
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Sure. And then Exhibit G I would give to the court reporter so it's part of
the record as to what the city was asking for.
MR. MULHERE: Okay. Well, I have a copy of their letter, so I would just --
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: And, you know, your client could state that he's going, you know, to assure
that's going to be recorded when they ultimately own the property.
MR. MULFDRE: And, you know, that's, I think, Heidi's call. Ijust know that the Naples Airport
Authority wanted it in there. And we didn't object to that. I have a couple of other, I think, minor changes.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay.
MR. MULHERE: I think Eric brought to my attention a couple of standard stipulations that
somehow maybe didn't get in there and should, and they are right there. Pretty boilerplate-type language.
And we would add those to -- I guess they'd be developer commitments, right?
MR. JOHNSON: I think Heidi wanted it to be No. 7 --
MR. MULI{ERE: That's what I thought, No. 7. Yep.
MR. JOHNSON: -- miscellaneous.
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MS. ASHTON-CICKO: That's fine.
MR. MULHERE: Okay. I'm just making sure there's nothing else. I don't -- I think that covers it
from my perspective. I'm happy to answer -- and, of course, we have Norm here and Barry, and, of course,
my clients.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Diane's got a question.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Going back to the airport.
MR. MULHERE: Yes.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: That -- the purchasers of these condominiums or whatever they will
be-
MR. MtlLlmRE: Yes.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: -- they will get a - they will have to sign something saying that they
know they're within one mile so expect noise?
MR. MULHERE: Yeah. And I don't know if they have to sign it. They're going to get a declaration
in the deed. There'll be a restrictive covenant on the property, which is typically how that's handled.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Okay. Just double checking.
CFIAIRMAN STRAN: Anybody else have any questions?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I have a number of them.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ned? Okay.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Going across the GMPA and the LDC, if I may.
MR. MULI{ERE: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: First of all, I certainly appreciate the effiorts that have been made to
reach an accommodation, and I also understand and completely agree that there's no question about the good
intentions or the good faith of the developer here. And I am hopeful that if this does eventually get approved
that those expectations will be fulfilled.
My concem, though, is that, as the advocates for the applicant have presented, it's been presented in
terms of best-case scenario. And maybe it's my legal background that causes me to look at worst-case
scenarios and consider those, particularly when it comes to balancing risks.
And, again, I have no doubt in my mind that if the economy continues booming, that the what we
call high-end, first-class words that haven't found their way in, of course, would be exactly what was built,
and everybody would be happy.
But what happens in the event of an economic downturn? And that's my concern. And I know you
have endeavored to strike a fair balance between the reasonable needs on the part of the developer for some
level of flexibility and the reasonable expectations on the part of county and the county taxpayers and
residents going back to two years ago with the articles in the Naples Daily News that I mentioned either at the
last meeting or the meeting before that. Expectations were raised quite high, I think, by that press coverage.
Again, you don't control the press, but that's what was put out there.
And given the fact that there's -- nothing can be done with respect to Davis and the East Trail to
widen it or somehow mitigate the consequences of any kind of a significant redevelopment program in the
triangle or the mini-triangle, since inevitably there is going to be more congestion, my eamest hope would be
that we could attempt to find a way that the congestion is caused by high-end, first-class uses and activities.
Now, back at the March t hearing, I had requested that the applicant consider in lieu of words like
"luxury" and "high-end" and "first-class" calling out certain design, finishes, consfuction criteri4
improvements, et ceter4 that would exceed standard construction as a means of going some of the distance,
at least, to fulfilling our expectations for the mini-triangle.
I take it this solution didn't appeal to you, though, because it didn't appear in the amendments, and
that's fair. But I'm still struggling how to get to yes on the GMPA vote and perhaps -- I'd just throw this idea
out as another idea. Perhaps a solution lies in increasing the minimum size of the residential dwelling units.
If all 105 units were at least 700 square feet, that would go a considerable distance for me toward assuring
that we're talking about higher-end occupancies versus B and Bs and rentals and the like. And so that's one
thing I'd ask you to comment on.
And also, I'd like to suggest to you that with the transient lodging language that has found its way
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into the proposal, it's awfully broad. And I have difficulty understanding how it would be -- how it would
prevent a concem and eventuality that I'm concerned about. And let me say this: Your language says, a
minimum of 228 hotel suites, rooms, or other transient lodging uses including, but not limited to, interval
ownership or vacation rental suites may be permitted.
Well, if this is a subset - if transient lodging is a subset of hotel rooms, that means that the square
feet of these individual units, there's no lower limit to it, correct? It's not 700? It's not 500?
MR. MULHERE: No, I think there is a square-footage limitation, but it's relatively low.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Per unit, per hotel unit?
MR. MULHERE: I'd have to look at the overall -
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I couldn't find it. In fact, I found language that indicated that they were
not subject to -
MR. MULFIE,RE: Typically they're not, hotel rooms, because they vary if it's an interchange hotel
versus a resort hotel.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah. I'm concemed that in the event of a downturn, because I'm not
suggesting for one second that this is anybody's current intention. I think we all have the best of intensions
here. But in the event of a downtum, what, given the language that is in front of us now having to do with
transient lodging, would prevent the construction of 228 units that were very small and identified as transient
lodging, which is a subset of hotel which in my view would not be subject to the minimum squzre feet? All
of a sudden you'd have 228 Airbnb potentials, and you'd have another 20 with your exemption from the 700
square feet that we've already talked about.
MR. MULHERE: I'm going to ask my client to speak to that issue. I have a couple of observations,
but let me let him --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Please. Thank you.
MR. STARKEY: Jerry Starkey, for the record.
There are some inherent attributes of our zoning that will assure that it's a higher-end, more luxurious
project based on the fact that we have limited surface parking, we've required multi-story buildings, we are
going to have structured parking. And when you look at the minimums, even the resulting minimums for 105
residential units and 37,000 foot of retail or commercial uses and 30,000 foot of office -- so that would be sort
of, in your scenado, the downside, the smallest possible mixed-use development gets built.
It's still going to be multi-story. It's still going to be structured parking. So why do I bring this up?
Well, in a structured parking environment, you're spending 20- to $25,000 for every individual parking space;
whereas, if you go build a home in a subdivision, you know, it's costing you 5- or $6,000 a parking space, or
if you're in a shopping center, the cost is much lower.
So the inherent nature of a mixed-use community that's multi-story like we have provided forjust
inherently has much higher construction cos! much higher infrastructure cos! which then pushes -- pushes
your cost to a point that you have to reach a luxury point just economically.
The way that we arrived at when we hansient -- that's actually been in preffy much from the
beginning, but the thought actually came from high-end luxury. If you go to Aspen, Colorado, or you go to
other ski resorts or some beach resorts, Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons, and others are doing these members clubs
where you actually pay a million dollars, a million and a half dollars, and you get the right to use the property
for, say, six weeks out of the year.
ln these residents' clubs, you're not even really getting a deed to an individual prope(y. You're
getting a right to use.
They're quite expensive. They're quite luxurious, but it would come into the transient zoning
definition. Just like the way the used car scenario got into the code or our proposal is that someone from
California came and said, we are -- we have a collection of Concours cars. It's a consortium of owners, and
they have many cars, and they're looking for a home. And sometimes they'll sell these cars. Mostly it's a
place to store the cars. These are cars that are a half million, million, you know, very expensive cars.
So we scratch our heads and we say, we'd love to have that. It would really be, to your end, luxury
high-end, but it's not new car sales. We can't -- it won't work. But we wouldn't want to foreclose it. So thafs
when we, then, added "used car," and we thought, well, let's put a real high number because, you know, I
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mean, a 2000 -- you know, 2008 Bentley or'9 Bentley is, you know, $80,000.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Pardon me for intemrpting, but you've already won me over on that
point. I came in here quite concerned about new and used car dealerships, but now we've taken i! we've
de-pluralized it. It's now singular, and you've tacked onto $80,000 -- so I'm okay with that. But I remain
concemed --
MR. STARKEY: So on the residential, I think we have a limit to 20 percent of the units between
500 and 700.
MR. MULI{ERE: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: You do.
MR. STARKEY: So if we reach the minimum, you would basically have -- you would have20
units --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Roughly 20.
MR. STARKEY: -- that could be below 700, and you would have 85 units that would be above 700
feet.
So, again, I think because we've agreed to a percentage restriction as the project -- as the community
scales up or scales down, I think we've accomplished your objective of protecting the risk on the downside of
value.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Again, pardon me for intemrpting, but I want to be sure that you're
focusing on the questions I'm asking --
MR. STARKEY: Sure.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: -- as opposed to things where I don't have a problem.
And the issue that [m wanting to talk about now is the transient lodging which would create
potentially 228 units without a lower limit on the square footage so it could be, let's say, 300 squzre feet. So
now you've got228 at 300 square feet and potentially 2l at 500 square feet. And your response so far, which
again, it helps me understand, is your point of view that the parking limitations would push that toward the
high end. There would be insufficient parking to jam in a lot of people.
MR. STARKEY: Well, I think the practical aspect is that it's not financially feasible to build a
250-square-foot hotel room in Naples, Florida, with the cost of structured -- and I don't know that there's a
demand for that.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Why don't -- and something to help Ned's question. No matter what you
build as transient lodging or others, no matter what size it is, you've still got to provide check-in services,
housekeeping services, amenities such as dining facilities, meeting rooms and recreational facilities.
By the time you put those together, I mean, you're never going to make it work if you build
something as small as that. I think that's part of what is the package that you're offering.
MR. STARKEY: The square footage for the room would be less than the square footage for the
parking infiastructure. Plus, for every room you've got to have a housekeeping -
COMMISSIONER FRYER: In a solid - and I saw that too, and that gives me some comfort, the
ancillary systems that have to come along with it.
MR. STARKEY: Sure.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Although, presumably ancillary services would come along with the 21
dwelling units at 500 square feet. I'm just using - again, I'm looking at worst case. That's why I call it 500
sqrnre feet versus 600 or 700.
And, again, in a solid market this is what's going to happen. But in a downturn, usually you would
expect business entities to identiff ways of cutting costs and maybe not making as much of a profit but
maybe -- or maybe losing money but trying to, you know, contain your losses and manage your losses. And
those are the considerations that I'm worried about.
And what would the occupancies look like if - with all of these control features like limited parking
and the ancillary services, if you ended up with 228 very small efficiency units that resembled the 21 at 500,
and I just -- I'm concemed about that and it gets back to my point. It has nothing to do with questioning your
good intentions. I'm convinced of those.
But my concern remains fair allocation of risk versus -- the county versus the developer. And I think
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each of us needs to take some risk in this. And, from my perspective, we're just sort of haggling over where
you draw that line.
MR. STARKEY: You know, I think the example I used at the last meeting was all of the 500- to
7O0-square-foot units in Olde Naples that are selling for 500 a square foot if they're 1960 vintage and not
rehabbed or 800 a foot if they are rehabbed. And so, you know, there's plenty of those units along Broad and
down on Third and in downtown Naples -
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Even though I live in Old Naples -
MR. STARKEY: -- and, you know, they're good -
COMMISSIONER FRYER: -- I don't have to worry about their zoning.
Let me transition to a different point and see if -
MR. MULFIRE: Before we leave that, just a couple things.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Sorry.
MR. MIILFIERE: The transient -- the form of ownership is really not -- you know, not in question
here under the zoning. You have residential uses, and then you have transient lodging uses by definition.
Hotel rooms are transient lodging uses. Time-share units are transient lodging uses. So all of those examples
that we have in there parenthetically, all of those fall under the same restrictions and allowances as does a
hotel, and they have to, as Mr. Strain indicated, operate in the same way.
There is basically a definition of a resort hotel and, presumably, this is exactly what this would
function as, as a resort hotel, given its location.
The - by definition, you have to have leasing periods of at least as little as one week. It doesn't
necessarily have to be daily, but it has to be at least one week. So they're not permanent residential structures.
My second point is that the county has very stringent architectural standards -- because you spoke to
the design element, the construction materials - and probably some of the most restrictive design
requirements in the state, and those dictate colors, they dictate - or they prohibit certain colors, they dictate
materials and, particularly, they address how long a wall can proceed without being broken up and how you
handle the roof treatments. I mean, they are extreme. There's probably 20 or 30 pages of architectural
standards and site design standards.
So, you know, I feel very confident that those are -- in addition to what we've put in here and in
addition to the renderings we've provided, those will result in you getting what you want to get and what they
want to build, so...
COMMISSIONER FRYER: My next question has to do with the use of the phrase "multi-story."
That's two stories or more, I guess.
MR. MULHERE: I'm just going to get to the -- I want to get to the page where it's used or the
context. I think it was in those conditions.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Notes to the table, I believe, Bob.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: It appears in numerous places.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Page 4.
MR. MULI{ERE: Yeah, that's where I'm at. So two multi-story buildings, yeah.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: That's two stories?
MR. MULHERE: Two stories or more, the way it's written, yeah.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: That surprises me, I guess, because first of all, the renderings, the
images that you've submitted, I see two, possibly three high-rises.
MR. MULHERE: Yeah, 15 stories.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah. And that's a lot of - that's a lot of variation from what pictures
we've seen and the flexibility that you're asking for.
MR. MULHERE: Well, the intent wasn't to provide us with a great deal of flexibility, but we do
think - there is possible (sic) that a third building - there may only be two buildings, or if there was a third
building, it could be six or seven stories, say, just with the movie theater or with the movie theater and some
other restaurant-type uses. I've got to defer to my client but, I mean, it's not our intent to build a two-story
building, so, you know --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, I'm sure it's not your intent at present.
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MR. MULI{ERE: I mean, the thing is, one building -- I just want to make sure. One building could
be lower. Certainly, we would go --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Lower than what?
MR. MULFIERE: Lower than, could be, three or four stories, and that's the discussions we've been
having, with a couple floors of parking and a movie theater, for example, that could be three or four floors.
Now, we still are going to build the other two, you know.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah, but you could - and if market conditions pointed you in such a
direction, you could build three, three-story buildings.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, first of all, they'd have to fit the minimums, and the minimums are
going to cause them to have 105 units and the minimum amount of general medical and the other condition.
So I'm not sure how you're going to get all that in three two-story buildings.
MR. STARKEY: The commercial and the office is 67,000 feet which is one-and-a-half acres.
That's almost half of the developable site. You can't do 100 parking spaces. In fact, to meet the parking
spaces, if you did those in two stories, you wouldn't have enough parking on the rest of the land.
I mean, this is a mixed-use project in a 5.3-acre site, and to accomplish the minimums, multi-story
will be required.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: That's not a great term to use, I don't think, with all due respec!
because multi-story, as we've established could mean two or more.
MR. STARKEY: Well, you're right. You couldn't do it in two stories. You couldn't build 100
acres -- you couldn't build 100 units on five acres in a two-story product with 67,000 square foot of other uses
and parking of 5- or 600 cars. It's just impossible.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: The exhibits, which are exhibits to the ordinance, I guess, Exhibit Cl,
are the pictures that you've supplied. And there's one very prominent one, very attractive one that depicts
what looks like two l2-story buildings, I guess, I don't know, and then maybe something that has different .
roof levels.
MR. STARKEY: Those buildings are all 160 feet.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Are they?
MR. STARKEY: Yes, sir; 150 plus.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Maybe this question should be asked of staffor the County Attorney,
but by - and I know this is commonplace to do, but when a depiction like this is attached to the ordinance, is
it in any respect obligatory on the developer to even come close to what has been depicted?
MS. ASilON-CICKO: It depends on the way that the ordinance and PUD document is written.
And there's nothing in this PUD document that states that the pictures have to look like the pictures (sic).
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Or even close.
MS. ASIITON-CICKO: So they're provided as reflecting the intention.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah, which is -
MR. STARKEY: We've always presented these as conceptual, and we like the architectural
vernacular. Everyone in the community that's commented seems to really embrace it. But if at the end of the
day the windows were shaped differently - the railing now is popular to be glass. If next week it's bars again,
you know, these are things that shape the way the community looks. But at the end of the day, you know, if
you drive down Park Shore Boulevard you have a variety of high-rise condos on the beach. They're all
pretty attractive. Some of them I like. Some of them I dont, but you know, they're different styles. It's a
little bit like art.
So at this stage, you know, this has always been presented as conceptual drawings. We like it. This
is what we're planning to do. If we bring in a parhrer on one of the buildings and they have a slightly
different idea and it still keeps with the character of the overall community, then certainly, you know, it might
not look exactly like this.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And there's really no obligation at all foryou to even substantially
match or be similar to the drawings that are exhibits to the ordinance.
MR. STARKEY: Well, we definitely have to follow the ordinance. We have to follow the
architectural --
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COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah, but these are exhibits to the ordinance, and I think the County
Attomey said that the way this particular one was drafted, itjust reflects your present intent.
MR. STARKEY: Right. These are conceptual.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah.
MR. STARKEY: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And so they don't really obligate you in any respect at all.
MR. STARKEY: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Right. Okay.
Traffrc. We -- and I went through and looked at the TIS and didn't see any redlining or indications of
strikethroughs and add-ins, so I assume that this is the same TIS that we saw in February.
MR. TREBILCOCK: For the record, Norm Trebilcock with Trebilcock Consulting Solutions,
professional engineer and certified planner. We prepared the Traffic Impact Statement for the project.
And based on the guidance from our last meeting, this was a major update of the overall thing that
we used the lOth edition of the ITE manual, so that would change all the numbers for the project, so -- but
that's the main thing there. And we also used --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I tried to familiarize myself with the difference between the lOth and
9th, and there is a matrix online, Google. And are you saying that as a result of using the lfth now rather
than the 9th, you were able to get the projections down from 87 5 to 628?
MR. TREBILCOCK: No. The 875 was based on gross trips for the project, which would not deduct
for intemal capture or pass-by. And as the Planning Commission, you had requested that we provide the trip
cap based on the net external. So we did those subtractions.
So the gross trips using the 10th edition is 841 trips for that same that was 875 under the 9th edition
of the traffic study. So it's -- this is a parallel traffic study with the exception of the updates for the 1Oth
e{ition trip generation rates that are in the appendix of that, and also we did use the 2017 AUIR as well. So
we updated that because I know that's been a concern of yours in the past.
So instead of having the whole thing struck through, the document is prepared with that specific
information. But it runs parallel to the exact same document that you were provided before.
Bu! again, from a gross trip standpoint, it changed from 875 to 841. And then we used the net new
based on your guidance, because -- and you-all made a good poing because what net new really requires is it
requires it to be a mixed-use where you get the internal captures and the benefits of having those different
mixed uses interact with each other. So I think that was a beneficial point that you had made at the last
meeting, and that's why this isn't based on gross trips.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I think that's the only traffrc question I had.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Okay. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Going back to the permissible uses, 5, 6,7,8, 9, the way they're
numbered, in that fashion. We've talked about the new car, new/used car dealerships, and I'm satisfied or
more satisfied that that's been favorably resolved.
But I want to talk now about No. 6, which strikes me as ambiguous, or at least I'm not smart enough
to understand what it means. It says, indoor air-conditioned passenger vehicle and/or self-storage. Now,
what exactly does that mean?
MR. MULHERE: I hear your question. I just was a little -- I was a little confused about the number
that you said, because you said 6. I show -
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: He's looking atthe GMP language.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: GMP language. Yeah, sorr5,.
MR. MULI{ERE: Awe, that helps. Either way it's --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Same language.
MR. MULHERE: So what is your -- I think we should go to the PUD because it's much more
specific, and your question is about specifics if I -- your question is what does that mean, right?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, if this, what I just read, is the language that is proposed to go into
a GMPA, why don't we talk about it?
MR. MULFIRE: Well, that's fine.
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CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, the specificity of our code is supposed to be in the LDC. It's the
implementing code for the GMP. So we're supposed to be vague in the GMP and then we're supposed to
refine that in the LDC.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Vague, okay.
MR. MULHERE: General.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Confusing, not okay.
MR. MULHERE: So I'll go to the GMP. I definitely don't want -- I'm not trying to be
argumentative. Let me get to the GMP language. Okay. Here we are. Okay.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: The words that ['m most concerned about there's an and./or, and
between the words - hyphenated word and/or, there's the word "vehicle" and the word "self."
MR. MULI{ERE: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: So are they to be juxtaposed one against the other?
MR. MULHERE: No, it could be either or both.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: But what does -- so it's either passenger vehicle storage or self-storage?
MR. MULHERE: Or both.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Or both.
MR. MULFIERE: Let me -- passenger vehicle, as Jerry explained, is that there has been a market
and there is a market for indoor protected storage of generally, pretty expensive vehicles. You wouldn't
spend that money to put the clunker in there, you know.
So there could be a market even generated by this project or, perhaps, generated from, you know,
some folks in Olde Naples for storage.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: So if I store my expensive car, that is not considered self-storage?
That's considered -
MR. MULHERE: Well, it is self-storage, but it's actually very specific when we say vehicle storage.
MR. BELLOWS: For the record, Ray Bellows. It is a form of self-storage. They're leasing a space
for an individual property owner to store personal belongings, whether it's a car or any,thing else.
MR. MULHERE: And you're righq that overall use when we get to the PIID, I forget the number
80 -- I don't remember the SIC code number. That use, that self-storage use, also allows for vehicle storage.
We just didn't want to have any confusion moving forward as to what our intent was.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: All right. I think I understand what you're saying.
So that takes us back to the entire storage capability or function could be consumed by non-vehicle
self-storage.
MR. MULHERE: Yes, it could be; yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. And that could be in a -- housed in a two-story building as long
as there was another use associated with that same building; is that correct?
MR. MULHERE: I think -- I've got to get to the language. Let's see what it says here. No
individual commercial use may be located in a building less than three stories in height. So to answer your
question, three.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. So a three-story - it could be in a three-story building. Would
it then have to be neighbored by another use, or it could all by itself, three-story?
MR. MULHERE: You can have -- well, let's see what it says here. Let me just -- other than - it also
says other than office and hotel, no single tenant stand-alone commercial uses are permitted in an individual
building. So to answer your question, yes, it would have to be - there would have to be another use in the
building.
COMMISSIONERFRYER: Okay. Let'ssee. Ithinklhavejusttwomore. Oh,thecatch-all
use -- and I don't have it squarely in front of me.
MR. MULFDRE: I know what you're talking about.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Any and all other uses that are comparable. That's - I've objected to
the use of "comparable" before but, of course, our code is loaded with that word --
MR. MULHERE: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: - so it has to mean something, but it's awfully broad.
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MR. MULI{ERE: It is broad. If it gives you any sense of comfort, it's determined by the BCC. So
most likely you would see it and the Board of County Commissioners would see it in order to determine
whether we can demonstrate that it's comparable and/or compatible.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Gives me some comfort.
Then come to this question about the Emergency Management division asking for a generator.
MR. MULI{ERE: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And I understand that that was a fairly easy one for you to concede.
And it certainly is sensible in all respects with the possible exception of it being maybe an exaction.
And my concem - and this was expressed by Commissioner Schmitt I think at the last
meeting - that whatever we might agree to now on these generators in order to resolve any differences that
we have today doesn't close the door on a class action two or three years from now where all kinds of
petitioners or applicants who've had to supply the funding for this now sue for restitution and the county has
to disgorge itself of all that money, so --
MR. MULFIERE: I'm sure nothing can stop some form of class action suit under any circumstance.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Did someone present this to you as a demand?
MR. MULHERE: Well, what happens is the statute just - the statute says --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No, no. Did you -- are you putting a generator in because someone said
that if you don't put it in, I'm going to object to your project?
MR. MULTIERE: No, itwas recommended -
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So you did it voluntarily to be cooperative with the emergency
services?
MR. MULHERE: Well, it was recommended as a means of --
CHAIRMAN STRAN: I'm just trying to understand the basis for a lawsuit if you think you have
one.
MR. MULHERE: May I say it was like any other condition that the county puts on us.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Good point.
MR. MULHERE: It's to mitigate for the impacts. I just wanted to say the statute says that you can
increase the density in the Coastal High Hazard Area as long as you mitigate for the impacts, and that's why
we went to see the Emergency Management.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: So your client did it voluntarily?
MR. MULFDRE: Yes. We can put that on the record. Sure.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: All right. Oh, here, one other. On Page 44 of 137 on the electronic
copy, there's a reference, all necessary utility infrastructure improvements will be the developer's
responsibility to design, permit, and construct.
MR. MULI#RE: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I assume also to pay for?
MR. MULHERE: Yes. It's at the developer's expense, yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. That wasn't in there, but...
MR. MULI{ERE: I think it's implied, and we know it, and we know the coung/s not going to pay
for it. Any upgrades - they have capacity. Th"y have capacity to serve the project both water and sewer.
Water's the city; sewer is the county. There is capacity. There is a question as to whether the infrastructure is
adequate to provide that fieatment and/or water. And if there are any improvements necessary to achieve the
delivery of water and the fieatment of sewer, those will be the obligation of the developer.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I think that this next one will be my last one. I'm sorry for dragging
this out.
Over the lunch break I had a conversation with a Naples City Councilor, and this councilor wanted
me to ask, in connection with your discussions with the city going back two yea.rs ago, were the discussions
exclusively with staffor senior stafi or did they also involve the City Council?
MR. MULI{ERE: I didn't have any discussion with City Council. I don't know -- I mean, we sent an
invite to make a presentation to them.
MR. STARKEY: I think Bob read it into the record.
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CHAIRMAN STRAN: You're going to need to -- Jerry, you're going to have to come up to the
microphone, identifu yourself, and use the mike.
MR. STARKEY: Jerry Starkey.
Earlier Bob read an email that was from Fred's assistant to City Manager Bill Moss where
they - memorializing a conversation they had the day before and sending a copy of our filing and
presentation and asking him to share it with each of the council members and in -- offering to come and
present or discuss with the City Council. That was done at the same - within a week of us signing a contract
for the property.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. How about discussions after 2016 as the project evolved?
MR. STARKEY: I think Bob has had conversations with staff, and we've had individual
conversations with individual councilmen.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: You have?
MR. STARKEY: Indeed.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: You've had conversations, okay.
MR. STARKEY: With individual councilmen, yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. That's all I have, Mr. Chairman.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Anybody else have any questions?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAN: And you-all have responded to and answered all my questions that I have.
So pending public comment, I may have some after that.
Diane?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: I know you don't want to hear me, but you're going to anyway. The
density of these, can you show me in the county where we have 39 per acre --
MR. MULHERE: I can show you --
COMMISSIONER EBERT: -- or we have 75 per acre?
MR. MULI{ERE: There are places where the -- I'm sure that the net density - the net density, a
high-rise on a two- or three-acre parcel equals that number.
MR. STARKEY: I've -- excuse me.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: I'm asking --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, no. He's the applicant. He can answer the question. Go ahead, Jerry.
MR. STARKEY: If I could, respectfully. I've probably built 40 high-rises in Naples ranging from
100 to 250 units in a building each time on one or two acres, and I know that along Park Shore there have
been many, many similar buildings built like that.
So almost all of the coastal development and the high-rises in Bay Colony, Pelican Bay, Park Shore
are all -- buildings sitting on their lots between 75 and 150 units per acre.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Boy.
MR. STARKEY: I mean, it's the nature of a l5-story building. So in the one conversation we're
having, we want to make sure it looks like this. Well, if you build a 1S-story building and you put condos in
it, that net density there is going to be, you know, the 30, 40, 50 acres per unit (sic) for the whole community.
And if you look at it on just the one acre that it sits in, then it's going to be, you know, significan! but
not -- you know, unlike a lot of other developments that we have in Naples. They just tend to be the beach.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: But this is a multi-use. Those -- what you're kind of saying is
residential. There is a difference in these. And I don't know. I've not seen 39 or 70. I mean, when this was
done with the special overlay, this was - they upped itto 12 units per acre. And, I mean, that's more than
three times that amount.
MR. STARKEY: And I would respectfully say that that's probably one of the reasons over the last
20 years no development occurred because there was the idea in the overlay that you could go up to I 12 feet
or 125 feet with the density or with the height but the density at eight or 12 units per acre, you know, you
only need to go three or four stories to accomplish that; two stories, frankly, at eight units, 12 -- you've got 12
units per acre in quadruplexes.
So the initial overlay that said it wanted transformative, iconic, it wanted stimulative, all of the ideas
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of not having a limit on corrunercial, not having a limit on other uses wzls very good, but to have vitality,
you've got to have residential or hotel density.
And so, economically, there just wasn't a plan that would work because of the pricing. I mean, the
proximity, it's really close to downtown. It's close to the beach. It should be a really good location but,
unfortunately, the countlz had a set of parameters that just didn't work economically.
So we were asked, along with the rest of the public, to make a proposal for a catalytic project, and so
we proposed our project. We were selected by the CRA and the Board of County Commissioners. 'We've
gone through this process. And based on all of our public meetings, the people that show up are excited, they
can't wait to see it builg and they want to see the restaurants and the movie theaters and the activities and the
office and the people living there. And so, you know, density equals vitality.
And so I think that you know, what you're asking for -- when we talk about make sure it looks like
this, well, if it looks like this, that's the density that's going to occur.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: You also are going to try and set a precedence with the height of this
building. You could not go across the street and build it because it's in the City of Naples. That's 42 feet.
MR. STARKEY: Yes, ma'am, and that's --
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Here you are -- here you are -- it's like taking -- if you're coming out in
the City of Naples, it's like hitting a brick wall. I mean, I'm looking at this, and I'm going, yes, it's going to be
glass, so it won't be a brick wall. But I'm going, here's 172 feet, and you're going to 168. I think the height is
excessive for what's in here, and it will set a precedent. I'm not -- I am just really not pleased with that
portion of it at all.
And the traffic also bothers me, but I will ask Norm about that.
MR. STARKEY: One thing I will offer on the overlay --
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Okay.
MR. STARKEY: -- is that, you know, without our height deviation, the height could have been 112
plus - like, so, 125, I think, is what Trio's going to be. That is limited to the 13 acres that is between
Commercial Drive, 41, and Davis. So whatever precedent is set, whether it's 112 or 168 -- and all we're
focused on is our 5.3 acres -- it will be contained in that one special area that was desired to be a catal)'tic
prolect.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Well, we don't have anything down here. I did ask the airport authority
what are the tallest buildings down here. This building you are in right now, the county center, these are 100
feet. If you go out in that parking lot and look up, that's quite high. Now you add 68 feet on top of that.
MR. STARKEY: Are you angry at me?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: No, no. But you have to --
MR. STARKEY: I only want to build something to make this a beautiful community.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: -- something, my feelings are on my sleeve. I show my feelings. And
I'm just a very emotional person when it comes like that. And I just don't see where there's this much density
ln an area.
And I'll just go to Norm. I mean, we were given this, Norm. We changed kind ofthe way
we -- unadjusted trips to trip cap, but I don't even know how -- I feel sorry for you, because I don't even know
how you do it when you have a minimum and a maximum. What do you take to do their traffic analysis?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We explained that earlier. He took the basis of the contract that he has with
the Board of County Commissioners to establish the maximum intensity based on that contract, and the mix
would never exceed that. It doesn't mean he's got to recalculate a thousand different varieties of mixes. It
doesn't matter. The mix that the contract was for was the basis for the intensity. We'll never ever exceed that.
That contract was signed by the Board of County Commissioners. It's done.
So I'm not sure what the debate is with Norm coming up with different scenarios. They're never
going to exceed 628 - and, by the way, you said that's new external trips.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Did you subtract from that number the external trips already existing from
the uses that are on the site?
MR. TREBILCOCK: No. We treated this --
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So it's not new external trips. It's greater than new extemal trips.
(Multiple speakers speaking.)
MR. TREBILCOCK: Correct. It's --
CHAIRMAN STRAN: That's what I thought.
MR. TREBILCOCK: We said from a basis of zero and didn't -- you're right.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I understand. I just wanted to make sure. So to get to Diane's poin! they're
not as conservative with that number as they could be if they took offall the existing trips for the amount of
acreage and businesses on that location.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Sure.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: They didn't do that, to leave it a little more conservative, so I'm --
MR. TREBILCOCK: Right. And we excluded the conversion matrix, because that seemed to be
confusing and really will be -
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Yes, it was.
MR. TREBILCOCK: -- based on actuals, which I think is a good thing for you. You know, it's
more intensive for us in terms of an effort. But you see it each time as we do a Site Development Plan, so it's
very manageable.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Yeah. I didn't like the conversion mafix.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Correct. Yeah. And I respect that. Thank you.
CFIAIRMAN STRAIN: Your question, if that conversion matrix was still here, it would have been a
harder issue to deal with, and that's one of the reasons it's gone.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And we did that last meeting.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: I know.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Thank you. Is there any,thing else I can help with?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: No.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Thanks.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody else have any questions before we go to stafl And before we go
to staff, there's this tough guy to deal with in the county that wants to speak. And since he's so busy, I
thought we'd fit him in.
And, Nick, it's all yours, sir.
(The speaker was duly sworn and indicated in the affrrmative.)
MR. CASALANGUIDA: For the record, Nick CasalanguidA Deputy County Manager.
I worked on the purchase and sale agreement for this property. And while the contract buyer is here,
it's county property. So I want to make sure we cover a couple things.
I spoke to David Weeks, Comprehensive Planning manager. There may be a possibility this deal
doesn't happen because of an issue with the cell tower and a lease and the reconstruction of that cell tower or
not.
What I have on the viewer is the location of the leased parcel. What I want to do is make sure on the
record we understand that the contract buyer may not close on this, but the zoning would stay in place that we
have today. If there were any changes by the county later, we would have to come back not as part of the
GMP because it sets the ceiling, according to Mr. Weeks, and we'd have to modifr sections of the PUD if we
needed to go back out to the market again.
What I do want to put on the record also, is -- this is an opinion. I believe the cell phone tower
company is being opportunistic in this relocation process, so I think it may jeopardize the sale.
What I'm concerned about is if we go forward, that if the buyer does take possession of the
property -- and there are restrictions regarding how they develop and what intensity and these ratio of
uses -- that we potentially consider allowing a phasing of some of those projects that come online so -- if they
could build something in Phase I and leave the tower in place and wait for a period of time for Phase 2,
because I think there are some restictions in there regarding ratios of uses.
So I just want to make sure, you know, we allow ourselves the flexibility to do that and that the
county has on the record that we are the owner. And, going forward, we may just keep possession of the
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property if it doesn't close.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, the opportunity for the applicant would be to build -- leave the third
parcel unbuilt, and that would be the parcel that would sit there until they work out the situation, if it needs to
be.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Right. But I want to make sure -- there were some ratios of what they can
build, so if it can be done in phases, then we're in good shape. Okay.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Question forthe Deputy Manager.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Mr. Casalanguid4 the contract that has been referred to, the cell tower
contract, now there seems to be an agreement that it would be temporary in nature and would terminate the
privilege of - being located at the current location would terminate when the contract expires.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: When I looked at that, it occurred to me the confact, though, could be
extended indefinitely and, therefore, not expiring.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: The county has no plans to extend that contract.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. But if the parties agreed to extend it under the cunent language,
it could be extended and extended and extended indefinitely.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Commissioner, I can tell you, the county has no plans to extend that
contract. And it's an encumbrance on the property. It provides very little value to us in terms of a return.
We've had several conversations with the owners, Crown Castle. We've offered a fair, I think, relocation
ofler, and it's not working out that well.
And I want to be prepared for contingencies with the Board should those settlement agreement
relocation talks with Crown Castle fall apart.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: You're welcome.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anything else, Nick?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: That's it.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Thankyou.
And with that, we'll tum to the staffreport. And, Eric, what I'd like to do is understand from
your -- you had five recommendations. Based on what you've heard today, we need to understand what
changes to those might be applicable.
MR. JOHNSON: Will do, Mr. Chair. For the record, Eric Johnson.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And I think Bob - Bob needs to hear this, because he's probably the one
that's going to have to debate it with us, so...
MR. MULHERE: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay, Bob. I've asked Eric to readdress his five recommendations to see
what extent they're needed or need to be -
MR. MULHERE: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: - changed or modified.
MR. MULI{ERE: Hopefully he gotthem all.
MR. JOHNSON: Sure. Let me provide a little context.
After the last time we met in this, we received a PLID dated March l6th. I routed that through the
relevant staff and heard back from them except for Ms. Lockhart, who works for the school district. I still
didn't receive a response from her yet. I don't think it's too much of an issue because I was looking through
my email archive, and when I sent her the PUD document that was dated -- or the email that was back in
October of 2017, the maximum of square footage -- or the maximum number of dwelling units was 400
dwelling units, and I think the maximum number of dwelling units of this is a little bit lower. So I don't think
anything has changed in that regard, ifl had to speak on her behalf.
Then prior to printing - that generated a l3-page staffrepor! which you have in your packet today.
I just wanted to point out that there are some scrivener's errors, I believe, on Page I of the staff
report --
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: ETic?
MR. JOHNSON: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: I mean, are they significant? What I'm suggesting is, do you still
recommend approval for the project?
MR. JOHNSON: Oh, yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: After what you've heard today?
MR. JOHNSON: Well, I just want to make sure -- after what I heard today and speaking with staff
beforehand,I believe we can eliminate Condition of Approval No. l.A, 2,3,4, and 5.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. So the only thing you're saying you need to leave is 1B and C?
MR. JOHNSON: That's correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. That's what I wanted to understand. Thank you.
MR. JOHNSON: May I continue?
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Yeah.
MR. JOHNSON: Okay. So with the staffreporg which is Page 36 of your PDF, instead of it being
5912,1think it needs to be 5921, No. 3; summary of changes Exhibit A of the PUD documen! No. 3. We
worded A.l .B .2 to include the following limitation on 5921 .
And then on Page 46 of your PDF, or Page I I of the staffrepor! this language that I'm showing on
the visualizer would change with the March 26th version that Mr. Mulhere provided in the packets as well as
what we discussed today. And then -
MR. MULHERE: Can we be clear? That language is reflected in the March 26th --
MR. JOHNSON: Yes. My staffreport would change to reflect the same language that's on the
March 26th version of the PUD document. I wanted to say that for the record.
Yes, Heidi.
MS. AS[{|ON-CICKO: So these are your changed furdings. Can you give a copy to the court
repofter for the record.
MR. JOHNSON: Yes.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Thank you.
MR. JOHNSON: And then on Page 4 and 15 -- I have it on the visualizer. It's February l5th rather
than February 14th. Again, these arc very minor.
Page 4, and this is Page 5, February 15th in lieu of February l4th.
I had the opportunity to circulate the March 26th changes that were provided to us. I believe that the
changes were made on Pages -- on Pages 2,3,4,10, and 31, and I received feedback from Comprehensive
Planning from our landscape reviewer and our architectural reviewer. I'll let Heidi speak on behalf of the
County Attorney's Offi ce.
But I hadn't heard back from the transportation reviewer, and I think, if I'm looking at Mike Sawyer
right now, you didn't have a - did you have any issue with the changes?
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: Well, while he's walking up, Eric, in your recommendations, l.B I believe
is included on Page 2 of the thing where it says service areas including service drop-offand pickup shall be
located fully within the building. It says, vehicle delivery, showroom, car washing areas, overhead access
doors, vehicle access overhead doors, all that in that bullet says it will be fully located within the building and
not visual from a public roadway or a driveway intemal to the project. So does that meet your lB
requirement?
MR. JOHNSON: I'm going to put it up on the visualizer. I believe this is what you're talking about?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes.
MR. MIILIIERE: As we amended it.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: That's what I thought.
MR. JOHNSON: I'm getting the thumbs up from Mr. Shawinsky. Yes, LB can go away.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. So the only thing left that you have in your recommendations is 1.C,
which says basically, locations for offloading of vehicles will be internal to the site. That is actually -- isn't
that the yellow that you have on the last of this page? I mean, doesn't that -- is that what you're trying to say,
or do we just need to change that so we can have met all of your recommendations, is what Im trying to get
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to?
MR. MULI{ERE: The way I had it worded, I had offloading of vehicles is prohibited on any public
street. The way you have it worded, shall be internal to the site.
CI{AIRMAN STRAN: Same difference.
MR. MULHERE: I'm happy to, you know --
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Are you satisfied it's the same thing?
MR. BELLOWS: For the record, Ray Bellows. It's fine.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So then all the staffrecommendations have been met, and we don't
have to deal with them at the meeting at this point because they're all consistent.
MR. BELLOWS: Correct.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Okay, Diane.
MR. MULHERE: I'm sorry. I thoughtMike was goingto speak.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: I have one question for you.
MR. MULI{ERE: Yeah, sure.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: When you talk about these - the 60,000 square feet of vehicle or
storage, is this for people who live there, or can people from the outside store something in there?
MR. MULffiRE: It would be - it would be potentially for both.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: So, in other words - which I'm very familiar with, this is kind of a man
cave?
MR. MULHERE: I mean, that use is allowed under self-storage, yes. I mean, we're not even
suggesting we're going to do it. We just want the flexibility to do it.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Well, it's probably a good location for it. They're a quafter-million-dollar
units plus a quarter-million-dollar cars. I mean, it reaches that threshold of luxury that we've been looking
for.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: But we had it with the man cave, too, but...
CHAIRMAN STRAN: No, we - it didn't get voted in.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: I understand. But -- so I just wanted to clarifz that.
MR. MULHERE: Yes.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: So you can be outside and rent one of these --
MR. MULI{ERE: Yes. Itwould be --
COMMISSIONER EBERT: -- for storage? Okay. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. And, Eric, you had wanted Mike to address us with something?
MR. JOHNSON: I just wanted to make sure that he didn't have any issue with the changes that were
made between March l6th and March 26th.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Mike, do you want to tell us if you had or not?
MR. SAWYER: Again, for the record, Mike Sawyer, Transpoftation Planning.
We did review the various documents that were sent to us, and we didn't have any issues with the
changes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Stan?
MR. JOHNSON: That's all for my staffreport.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. That's the staffrepoft. We're going to go to public speakers after
break. Before we take a break, David might have something he may want to add.
MR. WEEKS: Commissioners, for the record, David Weeks, Comprehensive Planning staff
For the Comprehensive Plan amendment, I just wanted to mention that you had been provided with a
staffreport addendum which identified five items to be addressed. And I just want to say on the record that
staffis recommending approval of the petition. All five conditions have been -- well, four of the five have
been addressed. The fifth one we are withdrawing, and that specifically is that - I'd identified the preference
to have minimum thresholds in the subdistrict itself.
But given that the subdistrict requires that this be a mixed-use project and requires that the PUD
contain the minimums of the different types of land uses and contains trigger mechanism, as well as the fact
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that this was in the redevelopment area and the other things that have occurred here, the contract with the
coun{ and so forth, staffis finding it acceptable not to have the minimum thresholds in the subdistrict itself.
And I wanted to specifically state that on the record because we may, some day in the future, get
another request for an amendment for a mixed-use project, and I'm not so sure that staffwould support not
having the minimum thresholds for subdistrict itself.
Last point I wanted to make, which was touched on earlier but not provided in our original staff
report or the supplemental, is that the Conservation and Coastal Management Elemen! Policy 12.1.2 reads
very similarly to what Bob Mulhere stated as being in Florida Statutes, and that is that a Comprehensive PIan
amendment that increases density within the coastal high hazard area, which is the Category I hurricane
zone, must provide -- well, let me read it directly. It's one sentence.
This is Policy 12.1.2. Land-use plan amendments in the Category t hurricane vulnerability zone
shall only be considered if such increases in densities provide appropriate mitigation to reduce the impacts of
hurricane evacuation times, and that has been accomplished by the commitment in the PUD to provide a
generator.
With that, I'm done.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Diane?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Yes. I'm going to mention one thing, because this came up before,
because I've asked Mr. Summers about this. At times he would rather have the money, but they cannot
accept it. It's something that we will have to start doing since the hurricane went through.
So you do have to provide the equipment, and so that way it's not monetarily. It's that you're giving
the equipment is - from what I understand from him.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But there's no standardization to it and that's the problem.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: These guys are getting hit for a45 - 47KW generator. Another group
said --
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Sixty cots.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- you've got240 -- no, it was 50, I believe. But regardless, they're just
going to provide a handful of cots.
The rational nexus to determine how we establish a set fair, equitable way of getting this into an
exaction that's legal and regulator), that's the piece that's missing, that's the piece we don't have, and that's the
piece, I think, that's troubling me the most. And I know Joe Schmitt last time expressed that.
David, I appreciate your clarification on that. It just says something can be obtained, but I think it
needs to be standardized so government is not seen as unfair from one party to another.
MR. WEEKS: You're right. It's done on an ad hoc basis right now, piecemeal, one project at a time.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Thankyou, sir.
With that, let's take a break. We'll come back at 2;42,that's l0 minutes from now, and we'll resume.
We'll go to public speakers.
(A brief recess was had.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Before we went for break, Heidi had indicated that she wanted to
talk about some additional language she saw as a possibility to the Naples Airport Authority, and she had to
step out for a moment, and Eric said I'm not supposed to tell you where she is, so I'm not going to. And she'll
be back shortly.
And with that, we'll turn to the first public speaker. Eric, will you call the first registered public
speaker.
MR. JOHNSON: Speaking on Item 9B, as in bravo, Robin Singer.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: What will happen is between public speakers, when Heidi gets back, we'll
go right to her issue. Oh, she's back.
MS. SINGER: Do you want to take her comments first?
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: No. Go ahead, Ms. Singer. That's fine. Thank you.
MS. SINGER: Good aftemoon. Im Robin Singer. I'm the planning director for the City of Naples.
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I wanted to start by saying there is cross communication between the county staffand the city staff
relevant to projects that are within a half mile of the city's boundaries with the county.
And in this instance, whenever I get a package of materials, it is distributed to staffand, basically,
we're looking at technical review, utilities, because a lot of those projects are going to fall within ttre city's
utility service areas.
And then I do share them with the Ci[, Manager, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they get
shared with City Council on a regular basis. And I think also, because sometimes they are technical
documents, the City Council wouldn't know, absent a presentation, what they were looking at.
So I think that's an area for improvement that we can work on that when there are neighborhood
meetings, we make sure those notices get out to the elected and appointed officials so they can attend those
meetings.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You may want to slow down a little bit on your speech. She's got to type as
fast as you talk, and you're a little bit like me in talking fast, so...
MS. SINGER: Sorry aboutthat.
With respect to this particular project, I think it's less about what could be built, because we don't
dispute your staffs review of the project and what they find under the code and under their Growth
Management Plan, what could be built, but it's more a matter of maybe the nuances of what should be built.
And some of the concerns that we have with this project being on the boundary with the city and
particularly at the end of Fifth Avenue South, is that a lot of this project -- and we think it's probably one of
the main amenities for building at this location -- is access to Fifth Avenue South and all the amenities that
the city provides in that are4 and that includes the beach, that includes Cambier Park and the activities that
occur there, that occurs -- that also includes the commercial establishments along Fifth Avenue South, the
shopping and dining, dog parks, other kinds of amenities that the city offers in close proximity to this project.
And part of the issue with that is this project tends to be soft of an island, and the only way offthe islaxd is by
vehicle.
Now, you are providing for a bus transit stop, and I think that's a good thing, particularly if there are
other transient improvements that allow for people to take advantage of that and would maybe encourage
them to take advantage of tha! but also we're looking at possibly some pedestrian improvements particularly
at the intersection of, you know, the tip of the triangle.
I don't know what might have been approved for the other project to the west but if there weren't
already some crosswalk improvements proposed for that are4 definitely we would encourage you to do so. If
all the residents from this project decided they wanted to go and take advantage of an event that was
happening down on Fifth Avenue, they could easily fill up both the structured parking garages on Fifth
Avenue.
So it's really our -- the city CI{A paying for those parking garages at the expense -- you know, at
their expense when it's a -- the project that is benefiting it's benefiting the county CRA. So it's kind of a
tradeoffof the two CRAs and making sure that the amenities that make this project attractive in terms of their
proximity, that they don't denigrate those amenities by overuse.
And so one of the things, I think, is pedestrian access. Limiting and reducing your vehicular traffic
offthe site definitely would be a benefit. I know there's some internal trip capture, but it's likely not going to
be enough to -- you know, people are still going to want to come to events at Cambier Park.
I think also looking at other --
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Just slow down. She's --
MS. SINGER: Okay. Other kinds of county amenities in terms of proximity to this projec! for
example, Sugden Park and East Naples Park, improvements that could be considered for those parks that, as
the population increases in the county, particularly close to the city, that you can look at other kinds of events
and activities and improvements to those areas that can provide amenities to keep some of the county
residents huppy in the county as well as using the city amenities so that there's a tradeoffand there's
some -- the need is kind of expanded and it's -- and the use and the provision of those services are expanded
throughout the county and in proximity to a development with the density and intensity that this project has.
And some of the other things that I think have already been alluded to do, and Ms. Penniman
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indicated, the city has a charter amendment that limits the height of buildings, nonresidential buildings,to 42
feet and three stories, and that is what would -- the maximum what would occur across the street from this
development.
This is going to be a very tall, very dense project. It is going to stand out. It's kind of an interesting
conversation to hear today that you're almost wondering if it's big enough, and that's not a conversation we
often have in the city.
I think, you know, we're looking for something that blends nicely with the city. This is a gateway
project for us as well. I think it's definitely a needed project but I think considering the impacts on the
community and particularly on the city -- that's what Im here to speak about and I appreciate any
consideration that the county can give towards those kinds of improvements that will reduce vehicular traffic,
reduce the parking demand in the downtown of Fifth Avenue South, and also reduce the use and demand for
other city amenities, recreational and entertainment and the beaches and otherwise.
So with that - also I have one question. It was about the timetable of the project, because -- I mean,
it's probably been covered a number of times, but I just didn't know.
MR. MULHERE: You know, it's a little bit hard to answerthat because there are -- we expect to
close, potentially close, as long as all of the conditions in the contact - maybe late summer. You know, then
when we own the property, we can go through the site planning and permitting process.
But before you can do that, you've kind of got to make sure that you've got your tenants, at least your
initial tenants lined up and things like that. So I don't really believe we have a formal schedule. I defer to
Jerry.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Well, you do have one attached to your contract. Do you believe that's still
involved in the process or not? I mean, you've got a --
MR. MULHERE: I'll deferto -
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Your RFP response had a schedule, a bar chart, that provided generaltimes.
I don't -- I'm looking it up trying to figure out what your general dates were for breaking ground.
(Multiple speakers speaking.)
MR. STARKEY: I think within a year of closing we would be breaking ground on some aspect of
the project probably before that, the infrastructure, and then if we provide -- if we're able to hit the market
and build all three buildings at once, I would say it would be a three-year project.
And if we end up phasing it a little bit because of demand, then maybe it's a five-year project. So
complete -- you know, start really soon, and the market will dictate the pace.
MS. SINGER: Are any of the entitlements or approvals time limited?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Not land use. From the land use perspective, they go with the land. They'll
stay with the land. And if they don't close, then the county will end up having the property zoned, so...
MS. SINGER: So there's no corrunencement requirement?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No. Well, not that Im aware oC no. If they were to come in for an SDP,
there's a deadline for an SDP to be enacted upon. Their SDPs, originally, by the original schedule, were
supposed to be applied for at about 12 months after contract. We're well beyond that now, so I think it's been
delayed because ofthe processes you're going through.
And your construction time frames do vary by phase, there's three phases, and they were starting
about two years from the initiation of the contract, which would be, what, May of next year? Yeah,
something like that.
MS. SINGER: All right.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: And the stuffthat you just talked to us about, the concems that you had,
have you expressed those -- and the reason Im asking this is because these two roadways are controlled by
the DOT. I've actually been in touch with a Mr. Wheeler with the DOT -- he's got all the plans on this
project -- to ask him, take a look at this, and hopefully if there's issues that he feels his department needs to
address, they'll be addressed.
Do you go to the MPO meetings, or do you reach out to the DOT yourselves on these?
MS. SINGER: Our stafffrom our Streets and Stormwater Department staffs the MPO.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Because if you are working with the MPO and there is guidelines to
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improve the walkways and things like that that are needed from that level, they've still got to go through all
the SDP process and stufi and that will be a good timing to get that stuffon the books.
MS. SINGER: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: So, thankyou.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Can I ask something?
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Ned, did you have something? And then Stan.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yes. Ms. Singer, have you had a chance to look at the Traffic Impact
Study?
MS. SINGER: Gregg Strakaluse is also going to get up to speak. He's the director of our Streets and
Stormwater Department, and I believe he has looked at the Traffic Impact Study on that. I have not, in detail,
looked at it.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. I'll hold my question, then, for him.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Stan?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: It's a while since I really paid attention, but Goodlette and
41, Grand Central Station, has anything been built there?
MS. SINGER: Yes. Currently, there's two buildings out of the Naples Square project, that's in the
area of the D downtown, and it's the - two of the buildings -- there's 300 units that are approved for that
project over about 16to20 acres, so it's --
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Out of how big a site?
MS. SINGER: That's what I'm saying, about 16 to 20 acres over the whole site.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: That whole site is l5 to 20 acres?
MS. SINGER: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Oh, okay. So there's --
MS. SINGER: That includes a commercial component. So it's -- I think the density is somewhere
around 24 units per acre.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: How tall a building?
MS. SINGER: I believe -- those are residential-only structures, so I'm trying to recall. I think they're
four stories over parking. They're about 59 feet.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: So what used to be Grand Central Station is now going to be
entirely residential?
MS. SINGER: Not entirely residential, no. There is a mixed-use component to it. There is going to
be a commercial component and we're also talking about a performing arts facility that's going to be located
at First Avenue South and Goodlette Road.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Cool. Thank you.
MS. SINGER: All right.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Our next registered speaker.
MR. MULHERE: Can you hold ofl I have just a couple of comments.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No. You'll get a rebuttal when all the speakers are done.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Mr. Chair, would you like me to put the language on the --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Good point, yes. I'm sorry, Heidi. I forgot you came back, yes. Let's talk
about your language to the Naples Airport Authority issue.
MS. ASFilON-CICKO: During the break I did speak with some representatives from the Naples
Airport Authority and Mr. Mulhere briefly, and I think everyone is in agreement with the language that I put
on the visualizer. So 6,{, the first sentence would read, the developer shall record a restrictive covenant,
comm4 using the Naples Municipal Airport agreement and declaration of height restrictions and covenants,
and a form approved by the Naples Airport Authority, comm4 in the public records of Collier County that
stipulate. So that would be -
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: - the change that we're recommending.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. And, Bob, you guys have no problem with that?
MR. MULHERE: We're fine.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Of course, the Airport Auttrority's probably going to speak. Go
ahead.
MR. STARKEY: The Airport Authority is here, and that's referencing the agreement we have in
place. Thankyou.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Thank you.
Okay. Next register speaker.
MR. JOHNSON: Item 98, Gregg Strakaluse.
MR. STRAKALUSE: Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and Commission. Thank you for this
opportunity to speak on behalf of the Steets and Stormwater Department for the City of Naples.
There are concerns as to the density and intensity as they relate to traffic and stormwater, particularly
upon U.S. 41 and intersecting streets within the downtown Naples area.
As of March 2018, just last month, U.S. 41, over the Gordon River Bridge,had 65,633 trips in the
peak season peak day over that section of roadway. That's a lot of trips. Methods used by reviewing
agencies don't typically look at the peak hour peak season, the worst-case scenario, bu! really, that's what
most motorists demand that we improve.
The city just completed a downtown mobility study with the assistance of the Florida Department of
Transportation, Collier Coungr, and the MPO. They collected vast amounts of data over an 18-month period.
And it was determined that - the data collected, it was determined that the level of service impacts to U.S. 41
were actually at20 percent higher in terms of what is tlpically used by DOT in terms of adjustment factors to
Iook at level-of-service impacts on a roadway.
So what this means is that traffic planners likely will see a 20 percent more road capacity than there
really actually is in the peak season. So what I'm saying is that there's less capacity than what we might see
when you look at it through the formulas in the math that DOT uses.
So, therefore, on behalf of the Streets and Stormwater Department, we ask that you carefully
consider conditions of approval that minimize or eliminate methods that are currently allowed by the trip
generation manual for internal capture rates or pass-by trips that are allowed to reduce the total trip generation
for the site.
Moving on to stormwater. There are concems about, again, the intensity and density as they relate to
stormwater. Naples Bay is an impaired water body and, typically, the regulatory agencies, the South Florida
Water Management District or the DEP, will require 50 percent more water quallty volume improvement for
their stormwater systems for discharges into impaired water bodies. That's not necessarily a guarantee, but
that's typically what they accept.
So as this commission moves forward, it may wish to consider certain conditions of approval that
require the additional 50 percent water quality volume treatment by this site. It may wish to consider not
allowing any other county stormwater facility or feature that already exists that's helping water quality in
Naples Bay apply credit for that to this particular site, and it may also wish to consider additional
best-management practices for development of this site, such as pervious pavements.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you. And I think there was a traffic question. Go ahead.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I have. Yeah, you've looked at the TIS.
MR. STRAKALUSE: I have.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Do you have any comments or, going beyond what you've
already said with respect to 65,000 trips, any additional comments that you would offer as to the impact on
the North Trailand Fifth Avenue South?
MR. STRAKALUSE: We think the internal capture rates and the pass-by trips that are being
allowed to deduct from the total trip generation may not be the proper reduction of trips. We think that - we
think that we should start at zero with no pass-by or internal capture and then move up from there. I think
Collier County is unique, especially between the months of January and March, where all bets are offin
terms of internal capture and pass-by rates for trip generation.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Anybody else? Stan?
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COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Yeah, question.
If I'm looking at the proposed plan correctly, the district doesn't usually worry about quality runoff
from roofs, right? It's mostly from asphalt paving?
MR. STRAKALUSE: They allow a rooftop exemption or adjustment.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Yeah. And this is going to be mostly roof, from what I've
seen. So you're not going to get a lot of runoff from the asphalt. So I'm not sure the quality is going to be one
of your problems. Quantity may be. But the district is -- I don't really have an objection to his request for,
you know, something extra with the quality, but I don't think you're going to get anything out of it.
MR. STRAKALUSE: Well, I'm not familiar enough with the project to understand if there are
recreational facilities on the rooftops. Typically in some Naples projects we do have pools or entertainment
areas on the rooftop, and we don't qualiff them as the standard rooftop for exemption in terms of water
quality. We'll ask them to count that area. And I'm not familiar enough with this project to know if that's
applicable here.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Yeah. I'd be thinking even those areas aren't a big problem.
All you're going to get up their is bird crap maybe.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Bob, you're going to have rebuttal, so no.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Okay. I was - just athought. Thanks, Gregg.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Next registered speaker?
MR. JOHNSON: Item 9B, Katie Cole.
MS. COLE: Good afternoon. I think, actually, I should have written 9C because it's the language in
the MPUD. Katie Cole representing Crown Castle Intemational who has the wireless tower on this site, and
we appreciate the inclusion of the interim use and look forward to continuing to work with staff with respect
to the termination of the existing lease and reaching an agreement on that as best we can.
Yes, ma'am.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Katie, I have a question for you. When does this lease expire?
MS. COLE: 2026.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Oh, okay. Makes a big difference. Okay. That's -- and am I correct, I
believe I talked to you before, that it's 182 feet tall?
MS. COLE: That's what we have in our records. I believe the FAA clearance is 196 because of
certain antennas and towers. So they give us a little bit extra room.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Is the lighting on there or is it extra?
MS. COLE: The height that we have internally is 182, but the FAA clearance letter that you-all
would see is 196 because of how the FAA measwes things.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Thankyou, Katie. Appreciate it.
Next registered speaker.
MR. JOHNSON: Last registered speaker, Item 98, C, and D, Chris Rozansky.
MR. ROZANSKY: Good afternoon. Chris Rozansky, executive director for the airpolt authority.
I submitted my card before County Attorney's Office proposed those changes to that language
pertaining to the covenant and agreement.
Just for the record, developer and the NAA have already satisfactorily negotiated the agreement, and
we appreciate consideration of inclusion of County Attorney's language.
So thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Thank you.
There are no other registered public speakers?
MR. JOHNSON: No others.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Are there any members of the public here who have not spoken that
would like to speak?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. With that, we'll move to the rebuttal for Mr. Mulhere, or whoever on
the team would like.
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Bob, in your rebuttal I need you to address -- there was a couple things from the last meeting that I
hadn't -- wasn't sure if they were addressed in your package or not. One is, we asked for no shooting ranges.
MR. MULI{ERE: Yeah, that's --
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: And then prohibiting sexually orientated businesses. And I didn't see --
MR. MULI{ERE: I don't think I specifically added that. I took out the shooting ranges, but I don't
think I specifically used normal language. I will add that to it.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Thank you. Okay. Go ahead.
MR. MULI#RE: I don't have any really substantive rebuttal. I think those were constructive
comments. We appreciate those comments. You know, we're always -- we're always willing to work with
any jurisdiction. As a member, long-standing member of the Regional Planning Council, I'm used to working
with other jurisdictions.
I point out on the aerial the site. You can see that right now there's probably -- I don't think there's
any water-quality treatment right now. After we complete the project, there will be significant water-quality
treatment, and we will meet whatever the requirements are, or exceed them. And to the degree that we can --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Bob, your voice dropped off. You said after --
MR. MULI{ERE: Meet or exceed the requirements.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Afterthe project is done, you will meet or --
MR. MULHERE: Yes, yes. There's little out there now.
And the other thing I wanted to say just was that I'm sure that anything that we can do to help in the
process, which is bigger than just us, of helping to facilitate pedestrian faffic, makes sense. We want to get,
you know, people across Davis and 41, too, safely. So thank you.
CFIAIRMAN STRAN: I would suggest when you do your SDPs, work with the DOT to see if you
can improve the crosswalks, because if I was staying in the facility, the last thing I'd want to do is get in my
car. And if those crosswalks are adequate, it would be a nice walk into the City of Naples to utilize their
facilities there if there's something going on, so...
MR. MULHERE: Agreed.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Well, that's rebuttal then, and we'll -- at this point is there any other
questions of anybody before we close the public hearings?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Then we'll close the public hearings, and we'll go into discussion to
start with.
I've made some notes. I don't know what the intent of the Board is. But I'll read the notes I've made.
They've agreed to add the language to prohibit sexually oriented businesses. They've required the language
that was introduced by the County Attorney's Office to record - to address the FAA issues, would
have -- would need to be accepted, and we would require the recordation of covenants that meet the intent of
the airport.
The stipulations of staffare all met, so there's no further stipulations there, except for there's two
standard stipulations that we usually put in PUDs that were on the overhead. Those need to be added.
And then those are the notes that remain based on what I've seen here today. So I'll leave the rest up
to the rest of you.
Anybody else have any discussion points?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, I do.
First of all, I have complete faith in the good intentions and high expectations that the applicant and
the applicant's agents have for this project. And believe me, if this passes at the Board of County
Commission level, which is really the only level that matters, I'm going to be right in there hoping with you
for an outstanding project.
I -- since the beginning I have not had a problem with the greater intensity and density because I
accept the concept that in order to have a viable mixed-use development in an area such as the mini-triangle,
you're just going to have to have greater intensity and density. And when combined with the fact that there
can be no expansion of the two adjoining roads, Davis and 41, we're going to have more congestion, that's a
given and with that congestion is going to -- in that area is going to come flow-through problems into the City
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of Naples.
But in order for the county to have a first-rate, excellent downtown area which, to me, is properly
located in East Naples, we're going to have to accept more intensity, more density, and more traffic.
The only problem that I have is the same problem I had all along: I don't think we've struck a proper
balance, though, between the reasonable need on the part ofthe developer for flexibility and the reasonable
expectations of those in the county for a high-end, first-class development.
And recogniztngthat some of the expectations were set by forces outside your control, i.e., the
media -- and you shouldn't be held responsible for that, but the fact of the matter is whoever set those
expectations, they do exist today. And before our February and our March meeting, I heard from a lot of
homeowners who remembered vividly how the project had been portrayed to them and had hoped that it
would remain at that very high level.
So, for that reason, not without trepidation and not without misgivings, I'm still going to have to vote
against it. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody else?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Yes. I'm sorry to say, so am I.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Well, there's not been a motion made, so we're not voting against any.thing
yet.
COMMISSIONEREBERT: I know. Iknow. We'rejust -- our opinion.
I've spent a lot of time on this project and, you're right we've met here three times trying to go
through all of this. It's very difficult. Change from the matrix. We've done several things.
I did not see the contract with the developer and the city, but all I'm really -- to me, if I had to tell
someone what this project is, I really couldn't. There is no reliability. You're only talking flexibility. And
I'm going, wow, how do I say what this really is?
It's just too difficult. It's too many things. The height bothers me more than anything because that
sets a precedent.
And I noted in the minutes, the NIM meeting minutes, that people were very concerned about the
height. And the comment was, well, we've had a cell tower there, and that's 196 feet and it's been there
forever. Well, a cell tower and huge buildings are different things.
So that's my reading on this also.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Anybody else?
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: No. I'm going to make a motion -- are you going to say anything?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No. I've just got something to say because we've been - this is the third
meeting. The applicant has gone a long distance to finally get to a point where we -- now, unlike you, I have
and can describe this project.
I know the variables. I know what it means. I know what they're going to have to do to make
something minimal there. And even if it's a shallower building because the market dictates it, it will be a
better quality building than what we started with. So I'm pretty confident we're going to see something better
there.
And as the CRA looked at iq they approved it in the manner in which it is, but they also
realized - and I asked one of the CRA members this specifically -- well, what if it was less of a building?
Any new structure there from their perspective is an improvement to redevelopment and they want to see
that improvement there because that will hopefully start a sweep of the area.
I share Ned's -- not concerns, but Ned's belief on the density. That's the reality of the urban area. If
we want to stop urban sprawl, we're going to have to look at doing density in a diflerent way. This project
does that.
I also went back and looked at the history of this particular project. It went through an RFP that was
publicly vetted. It went to the Board of County Commissioners. The Board awarded this applicant the RFP
and the contract for the land. Not only that, the Board did an addendum to the contract that was very specific,
and it was approved on 9127 I 16 for the height, for the intensity we're talking about today. That has not
waivered on this project since we started.
The only thing that's waivered is the ability not to have it so minimal it wouldn't work for what we
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envisioned but putting enough in it so that we've got a better product and a multitude of different buildings to
the extent that they're described.
I'm very comfortable with it at this poing and I would strongly urge a vote in favor of this particular
project.
So, Karen?
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: I'd like to make a motion, because I think --
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Go ahead.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: - this is something East Naples is looking for and it's something the
CRA is looking forto happen. And shall I do them all separately, Growth Management Plan?
CFIAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, let's starl -- well, let me read them. I'll read off. The first motion we
should have is forthe GMP amendment, and it's 98. It's PL20160003084. It's the mini-triangle mixed-use
subdistrict. Is there a motion for that item?
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: I'll make a motion to approve that.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I'll second.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion made by Karen, seconded by Stan. [s the motion made to the -
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: To all the changes that happened -
(Multiple speakers speaking.)
CHAIRMAN STRAN: -- any changes in the addendums that we've just discussed here?
Okay. Second agree to that, too?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Yes.
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Any fuither discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAN: All in favor, signi! by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HOMI.AK: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Anybody opposed?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Nay.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion carries, 3-2.
Next item is 9C. It's PL20160003054. It's the mini-triangle MPUD portion of this particular project.
Is there a motion?
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Motion to approve with the changes that we -
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Second.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: -- we had today.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion to approve with the changes --
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: With the changes.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: -- by Karen, and seconded by Stan. Discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Allin favor, signifi by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody opposed?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Nay.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Two opposed, three in favor. Motion carries.
The last item would be LDCA-PL20610003642.It's amending the LDC 04-41 to exempt the
mini-triangle subdistrict fiom a portion of that particular section of the Land Development Code. Is there a
motion?
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Motion to approve.
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COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Second.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Motion to approve. Seconded by Stan. Discussion?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All in favor?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: May I ask a question? Was this Jeremy's portion of this right here?
CHAIRMAN STRAN: It's the one that's in our packet.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: That would -
CI{AIRMAN STRAN: I haven't got yours. I only have my electronic one. It's the one that's in --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: This is the height, I think.
CHAIRMANSTRAIN: Yeah. It'stheLDCelementthat'sinthepacket. Okay. Amotion'sbeen
made. All those in favor, signiff by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody opposed?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Nay.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion carries 3-2. And that wraps it up. I want to thank the applicant for
working with us for three meetings. We'll look forward to see the results from the Board of County
Commissioners.
MR. MULHERE: Thankyou.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Thaxkyou, all.
MR. MULHERE: Appreciate all the time. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: And that takes us to, I think, the end of our meeting, but let me
double-check. Yes. New business; we don't have any listed. Old business; we don't have any listed.
Is there any members of the public here for public comment?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Seeing none, is there a motion to adjourn?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Make a motion to adjourn.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: By Diane.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Second.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Seconded byNed. All in favor, signifo by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Aye.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAN: We're out of here.
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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 3:14 p.m.
COLLIER COLINTY PLANNING COMMIS SION
ATTEST
DWIGHT E. BROCK, CLERK
These minutes approved by the Board on 5 'b 'll,as presented r as corrected
TRANSCRIPT PREPARED ON BEHALF OF
U.S. LEGAL SUPPORT,INC., BY
TERRI LEWIS, COURT REPORTER AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
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