CCPC Minutes 05/03/2018May 3, 2018
TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
COLLIER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION
Naples, Florida, May 3, 2018
LET IT BE REMEMBERED, that the Collier County Planning Cornmission, 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 Government Complex, East Naples, Florida, with the following members present:
ALSO PRESENT:
CHAIRMAN: Mark Strain (Absent for roll call)
Stan Chrzanowski
Patrick Dearborn
Diane Ebert
Edwin Fryer
Karen Homiak
ABSENT: Joe Schmitt
Tom Eastman
Raymond V. Bellows, Zoning Manager
Jeffrey Klatzkow, County Attorney
Heidi Ashton-Cicko, Managing Assistant County Attorney
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PROCEEDINGS
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Good morning. Could you please all take your seats. Thank you.
This is the May 3rd meeting of the Collier County Planning Commission.
I'd like you to all please rise for Pledge of Allegiance.
(The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.)
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Roll call?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Yes. Good morning.
Mr. Eastman is absent.
Mr. Chrzanowski?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Is present.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Mr. Fryer?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Here.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Mrs. Ebert is here.
Mr. Strain is missing for a short time.
Mrs. Homiak?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Here.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Mr. Sclunittis absent.
And, Mr. Dearborn?
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Here.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Thank you. Is there any changes to the agenda?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: No?
MR. BELLOWS: I have no changes.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Planning Commission absences. May 17th is our next meeting.
Is everyone going to be here, or do you --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Pllbehere.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I'll be here.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Yes. Good. Approval of the minutes, April 5th; minutes of April 5th.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'll move approval of those minutes.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Second.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: All those in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONERCHRZANOWSKI: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: And April 19th minutes.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Move to approve.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Second.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: All those in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONERCHRZANOWSKI: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: BCC report.
MR. BELLOWS: The Board of County Commissioners met on April 24th. They heard the
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Creekside PUD amendment; that was approved 5-0. They also approved the Marco Shores assisted living
facility with changes, and the changes were to remove the prohibition on the developmentally disabled
residents for the group housing for seniors, so that part will be part of their application.
And then on the summary agenda, Rushton Pointe was approved.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Thank you.
Chairman's report, I don't have one. Mr. Strain will be joining us later on in the meeting.
We have no consent items, so I'll go to the first advertised public hearing, which is -- well, we'll do
them both. They're companion items. We'll hear them both at the same time and vote on them separately.
***They're for Marco Shores Fiddler's Creek, and the first one is amending the development order of
PL20160002727 and the other is PL20160002496.
So if there are people -- anyone here that wishes to speak on this item, would you please rise and be
sworn in by the court reporter, both items.
(The speakers were duly sworn and indicated in the affmnative.)
CHAIRMAN HOMLkK: Okay. We'll hear from the petitioner, then the staff report, and then we'll
have the speakers.
And disclosures. Stan?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Yeah. I've talked to Mr. Yovanovich and gotten abunch
of emails from the public, from staff, and that's about it.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Ned?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Same disclosure.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Same. Lots of emails.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Yeah. I spoke to Mr. Yovanovich and emails.
Patrick?
COMMISSIONERDEARBORN: Emails.
CHAIItMAN HOMIAK: Okay.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Good morning. For the record, Rich Yovanovich on behalf of the
petitioner and applicant the property owner. With me today are Wayne Arnold and Mark Minor from
Grady Minor & Associates. They're both the engineering firm and planing firm for this project. Jim
Banks, our transportation consultant, is here. I don't see --our environmental consultant is Tim Hall, but I
don't think there were any comments regarding the enviromuent, so Mr. Hall is not with us today.
We have two petitions in front of the Planning Commission today. They're companion items.
Fiddler's Creek is a project --I put it on the visualizer. It's approximately 6,000 acres in size, and it's in the
general vicinity of Collier Boulevard and U.S. 41.
It's both a DRI and a PUD. It's a DRI that actually involves multiple properties, multiple parcels,
and multiple developments. Fiddler's Creek is one of the projects within the DRI, and Fiddler's Creek has a
PUD addressing the development standards for Fiddler's Creek as well, and we're going to be making
changes to both of those documents with respect to Fiddler's Creek.
The project is currently approved for 6,000 residential units. In the DRI development order, it broke
it into 3,000 single-family, 3,000 multifamily. We put that same language into the PUD to make them
consistent 3,000 single-family, 3,000 multifamily.
One of the changes that we're proposing is to allow for the conversion of multifamily units to
single-family units at the tradeoff of two multifamily units for every one additional single-family unit. Can't
go the other way. Carnot exceed 6,000 units.
So if we convert multifamily to single-family, we'll actually have less than 6,000 units. That's one
of the proposed changes to both the PUD and the DRI.
The Fiddler's Creek portion of the project is currently approved for 325,000 square feet of business
coimmercial in the PUD. I'm going to put the old master plan upon the visualizer.
If we convert from single to multi -- this is the currently existing master plan, and this is Collier
Boulevard. This is U.S. 41. Most of the business acreage is here at the entrance on Collier Boulevard for
Fiddler's Creek. There's some --a small amount right hereon 41.
The proposed change to the master plan is to relocate a majority of the business commercial that was
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located at the entrance on Collier Boulevard to this location on U.S. 41, which is the entrance of Sandpiper
Drive. The anticipated development of that parcel is a grocery -anchored shopping center.
The grocery store that is interested in that site looked at the location on Collier Boulevard and
determined based upon the growth that's occurring out on the East Trail east of 951 and all the rooftops that
are coming in Naples Reserve, Reflection Lakes, and some day further east the part of -- as the rural fringe
mixed-use district, that that's the better location and will better serve residents with a grocery -anchored
shopping center.
So the primary change that we're making to the PUD today is to relocate acreage to that location. The
square footage of 325,000 square feet is remaining the same.
Now, Fiddler's Creek is a little unique. As I said, it's an older DRI, and older DRIB enjoyed a certain
vesting that occurred before the Growth Management Plan came into place and, actually, Fiddler's Creek
is -- has a vested rights determination. I believe that's in your backup materials.
In two thousand and -- I have it in my notes. In April of 2006 Fiddler's Creek went through a formal
vested rights determination to basically confmn that the 6,000 units is vested, the 325,000 square feet is
vested, and the other ancillary uses in the PUD, such as parks, et cetera, are all vested for purposes of
concurrency and other infrastructure compatibility.
So that determination was made, and it even talked about the relocation of the different types of
development, provided that we did not increase those development rights, could occur under the vested rights
determination.
We still go through the PUD review for compatibility, et cetera, but as far as the relocation of the
different development rights, we don't have to go through any type of consistency with the Comprehensive
Plan determination. We just have to go through the PUD review process. That's why you don't have any
Comp Plan amendments as part of this process.
Another change that we're making to the PUD is to convert a roughly five -acre parcel that's right
here. It was going to be a passive park within the community. It will be converted to allow for residential
development. Again, that was a five -acre parcel, and we're going to build an active linear park along a
roadway, an extension of Fiddler's Creek Parkway, and I'll show you some details of what that park will be,
and that park is over nine acres in size. So we're trading out one park location for another park location as
part of this process.
One of the concerns that came up in the review process -- well, actually, it came as some concerns as
comments from the neighbors.
The PUD has an obligation to basically provide two sites to the county for future county
infrastructure. One of them is anEMS site. There was concern about EMS access if we no longer
constructed the extension of Fiddler's Creek Parkway all the way to U.S. 41.
We have designed the EMS site to have access to both U.S. 41, so if it's going out to a call
somewhere other than in Fiddler's Creek, and then also access into Fiddler's Creek. So if there wasan
emergency call that they needed to respond to in Fiddler's Creek, as part of the park we're building a
12 -foot -wide driveway that will have access to the EMS site. So there will be direct access for EMS through
the park to address any emergency calls in the project.
Another change that we're making is if you look at the current master plan -- this is the existing PUD
master plan and, as you can see, it is extremely detailed but yet it's conceptual. I can tell you that even
though that's the master plan that currently is approved, the PUD isn't developed exactly like that master plan.
As you know, we generally show the road system. We show development parcels. And it's way
more general than that because things move around, lakes move around, et cetera, development parcels move
around.
So one of the things we're doing is taking this area right here, which is a development parcel, we're
consolidating that to look like the typical PUD that you would see today to show it as a development parcel
as part of the project, and we will develop that parcel with all the same open space requirements that currently
exist. It's not changing. It's just showing it as a unified larger parcel that will be divided through the
platting process that typically occurs. So that's one of the other changes we're making.
Now, along with that we're making some -- we're making some changes to the access points along
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U.S. 41.
We're making some changes to the access points on U.S. 41. The one mostly to the east, that's
remaining. The one going a little bit further --I'm sorry, mostly to the west is remaining. Going further to
the east is Sandpiper. That's remaining.
We're adding an access point to the shopping center parcel, and then we're adding another access
point for that portion of the property, which we commonly refer to as Estancia, and that's the way you see it
on the master plan. The anticipation is is that the Estancia project will be --it will still be within Fiddler's
Creek, but it will be standalone from Fiddler's Creek. It will have its own access on 41. That doesn't mean
that people won't be using Sandpiper at times, because they will have connection to the shopping center, but
predominantly to the Estancia property will be from U.S. 41, which will reduce the amount of traffic at
Sandpiper from a residential standpoint. And Jim Banks is here to answer any questions you have regarding
transportation.
We've also modified the master plan. And a lot of these changes we discussed at the town hall
meeting which we had after the neighborhood meeting.
We have modified the master plan to no longer have Estancia with a direct connection to Sandpiper.
It has a connection to the shopping center so people can go to and from the shopping center without having to
go on 41 and finding their way to the shopping center, but it no longer has that direct connection to Sandpiper
to help discourage the use of Sandpiper as an entrance to the Estancia project.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: If I can interrupt for a moment. That is not the master plan that's in the
package.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Did we not provide that?
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Because the one that's in the package does show the connection. Sothis
is different. I don't know if Nancy's seen this or not, but...
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, this is the master plan we showed at the town hall meeting. I thought
we had provided a copy to staff. I don't-- all right. Well, we'll --during the break --I'm sure we'll have a
break. Nancy, if you can take a look at that and see if there's major issues.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Well, I'll need a copy, too, because I'll need to see what other changes you
made. And you probably should submit a copy to the court reporter.
MR. YOVANOVICH: We will. I'm telling you the only change we made was the connection to
Sandpiper.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: It's the one that I have.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: It's not the one attached to your DRI resolution. It won't be the one
attached to your ordinance either.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: What's the differences --
MR. YOVANOVICH: The only difference --
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: -- canyou tell?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I'll show you. The only difference, there is -- there's one up here. The
only — whoops. The only difference is the one in your packet --this is a blowup of the one that's in your
packet. You'll see how Estancia connected directly to Sandpiper. What we've changed is the connection is
right there. It no longer wraps around the shopping center to Sandpiper. That's the only change from the
master plan that's attached to your ordinance and to, I guess, the DRI as Map H.
And that came about as a result of -- let me finish the changes to the PUD, and then I'll tell you why
some of these things came about.
We've also identified the location of additional golf courses as either in the Estancia project itself
and/or in Section 29, which is Section 29 of the PUD property. And we added that --we clarified that golf
courses are allowed uses in the Section 29 portion of the PUD.
And the last change that we made is -- anybody nauseous yet? I am.
Okay. Do you see those two asterisks by the Rand also by the red, those two asterisks? Those
asterisks indicate where senior housing can be located within the project. Previously, if you looked at the
PUD document, several of the tracts were identified as senior housing tracts. We moved it over to this
location of the project because we anticipate that more than residents of Fiddler's Creek will be using the
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senior housing. So putting it outside of the gates, if you will, made more sense for identifying the location.
Now, we had a information meeting with residents of Fiddler's Creek. lin fact, there was such a
great attendance at the first one, we didn't have enough room, so we had to reschedule it and find a bigger
location to have the meeting. At that neighborhood information meeting there were several concerns that
were raised. And we told them we would comeback and have another meeting with the residents about
changes to the PUD after those -- after that NIM.
One of the concerns that was raised was, was there going to be a hotel and where is it going to be
located? We've deleted the request for a hotel so there's no longer a request to have a hotel in the project
There's a road called Cherry Oaks; it's either Trail or Drive. I've heard it called both. And it's
currently a cut -through for some residents in the community. And there's complaints from the residents who
live on that road that their fellow residents are not necessarily respecting the speed limit on that road. And
one gentleman showed up at the NIM after, you know, being injured in a bike accident.
And so what we've done is we've coordinated with the two associations that are on either side of
Cherry Oaks, and we're implementing a radar and photograph system that basically its like the red light stop
where they can take a picture of you, they can record your speed, and if you're speeding, the foundation has
the ability to fine people for violating the rules.
There's going to be a system implemented where the foundation fines people for speeding along this
portion of the project. It's probably a test case for the community as a whole but definitely will be a test case
for this area. And I believe that that has been met with --has been met happily with the two associations to
address their concems for cut -through traffic.
There was also the question about open space and were we going to be using another part of the DRI
not a part of Fiddler's Creek to meet our open -space requirement. We clarified on the record that that's not
the case; that we will be meeting our required open space through our own community, and that will remain
the same. We got into the details of the park and what will be the amenities related to the park.
Now, this is a conceptual plan for the park, and I'm sure its -- there probably will be some changes as
we meet with the residents and how that's going to ultimately develop.
That shows the --again, the park is a linear park. Within the park --and I've got to admit my
eyesight's gone. Well, the park starts there with parking, and it goes all the way, basically, to the county
parcels on 41, the commercial along 41.
This is the 12 -foot drive I was telling you about. The planned amenities right now are basically a
playground, basketball, bocce ball, picnic area, shuffleboard. There's plans for a community garden, a
memorial park So if you want to plant a tree in honor of somebody, you'll have the ability to do that, and
then a lot of open green space with, you know, park benches and the like. So we presented that to the
residents at the neighborhood information -- I'm sorry -- at the town ball meeting after we had had the NIM.
So I believe I've hit all of the highlights of the changes we're going to make to the PUD. Our
response is to the comments at the neighborhood information meeting and adjustments that we've made as a
result of that.
Staff is recommending approval of both the DRI change and the PUD change. We see this as an
overall enhancement not only for the Fiddler's Creek community by bringing this grocery -anchored shopping
center to the community, but the overall community as a whole, we see it as a reduction of traffic on Collier
Boulevard because the grocery -anchored shopping center's being moved over to U.S. 41 where you have all
those nice new improvements that have occurred. There's capacity, roadway capacity in the location on 41.
And, with that we request that the Planning Commission recommend approval of both the DRI
changes and the PUD changes to the Board of County Commissioners.
You have all this information, the backup of my experts in the backup materials. I did a summary,
but we're available to answer any questions you may have about the project when you deem appropriate, or if
you want to hear from the public first and then ask us questions, that's fine, too.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: So you have a new master plan?
MR.YOVANOVICH: We have a revision to the master plan.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Does it show the EMS connection?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yeah. That all stays, yes. It will connect through the park.
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CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Can you push it down a little bit --
MR. YOVANOVICH: Me?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: -- or whichever way that is so we can see.
MR. YOVANOVICH: There you go.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Oh. It doesn't actually show.
MR. YOVANOVICH: We can identify an arrow if you need us to do that. But the park has been
laid out to make sure that that happens. So if you need to show that inter --we can address the
interconnection issue for the park.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. And the conditions in the staff report?
MR. YOVANOVICH: The conditions in the staff report --I know we talked about this yesterday.
I'm 99 percent sure I looked at them and everything -- yep. This is the one that there's no issues with the
staff recommendations.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: So all four canbe added to --
MR. YOVANOVICH: They can be added to the PUD. We have no issues with the service bays for
the grocery -anchored shopping center not facing residential where abutting residential.
The automobile service bays not facing residential. I'm just reading this into the record in case the
people in the audience don't know these recommendations. We have no issues with no adult-oriented sales.
We have no issues with outdoor music and television shall be limited to the area adjacent to and forward of
the front facade of buildings along East 41.
There will be no amplified sound between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m., and then I talked about
the delivery bays shall not abut residential, and the service bays for automobile service stations shall not (sic)
be located so that they do not face any residential district within — well, they shall be located so that they do
not face any residential district within 150 feet. So those conditions are all acceptable to us.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Thank you. Anybody --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I have a few questions, then following the public comment I may well
have more, but the ones I have now are largely procedural.
First of all, Mr. Yovanovich, would you show me on that master plan map where the linear park is.
When you put up the park map, I lost my way.
MR. YOVANOVICH: This yellow right here --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay.
MR. YOVANOVICH: -- is the linear park
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Now, would you zoom out again so I can...
Okay. I gat it. And it's in yellow?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you.
Let's see. My next question has to do with the EMS access. Have you talked to the fire district,
Greater Naples, with respect to the accessibility, physical accessibility for fire suppression vehicles like
pumpers and hook and ladders and squads?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, this is an EMS station, which is Collier County. I don't -- I don't
think we have an objection to their collocating, but we've not talked directly to the fire district.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'm not looking for a physical location for a station. I'm looking for
access, because typically a rescue squad or a pumper would arrive first on the scene in a medical emergency.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Okay. Yes. We -- I can't say we've had direct discussions with them. 1
believe --I don't even know --I know they attend the pre -app meetings, the fire department does. I don't
know if the county has circulated for review the PUD changes, but -- and I was going to bring this up in my
remarks, and thank you for the question, because I forgot to.
As you know, when we do master plans for projects, we're required to show any potential
intercomiection to the county's road system. The fact that we show an interconnection on a master plan is
not an obligation to build that interconnection. So we showed that interconnection because we were required
to do that if we ever wanted to connect the community in that location to U.S. 41.
So there was no -- we have not received any negative comments from any emergency provider
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regarding the changes to the master plan that we're making and the access to the community that we're
making.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: So Greater Naples Fire Department, fire district which covers this,
they are aware of the EMS location?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I believe they are. I've not had a conversation, but this EMS location's been
there for many, many, many years on the map. It's not been requested, but it's been shown as a potential
EMS location for a long, long time.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Right. Ijust --I happen to know, because of other work I do, that the
East Naples -- East, excuse me -- Greater Naples.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Ion with you. I don't remember which ones are which ones now.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Greater Naples Fire District tries for a four -minute response time. And
they're not a transport capable agency, but they get advanced life support going within four minutes but they,
I'm sure, would want the code or the key or whatever it is, and also the physical capability, it being wide
enough, which I think 12 feet would be.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Oh, yeah, it is.
COMMISSIONERFRYER: Because they're going to want their statistics to show that they're still
getting to the patients within four minutes.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I'm certain we have no objection to that. We'll need to coordinate that with
Collier County to make sure they have no objection to --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'd ask that you do that, if you wouldn't mind, just being sure that
access is going to be provided, both physical and electronic or key or whatever is going to be required.
Then my last question has to do with vested. And I understand the concept "vested at law," but I
want to just be sure that we have in the record the concept that a number of additional trips that would be
brought about by the commercial uses on Collier -- excuse me -- on 41, that those numbers are actually built
into the p.m. trips; in other words, vested in fact as well as vested at law, if you follow me.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I could say "yes." Do you want to hear it from my transportation
consultant, or is my saying yes --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Your "yes," without his objection, is fine.
MR. BANKS: No objection.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. So basically there is some stress on Collier, but there's not
going to be any stress on 41, physically, that your numbers are already built into the capacity that shows up
on the AUIR?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Those are the only questions I have for now. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Stan.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I don't know a lot about CDDs. I wish I knew more. It's a
quasi -governmental body?
MR. YOVANOVICH: It's an actual governmental -- it's a local purpose, local government.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Local government. So you could really setup your own
rules about speed limits and enforce them?
MR.YOVANOVICH: Well, that issue --I don't know the answer to that question. I don't know if
the CDD has that authority. I'll lookout and see if --you don't know or you can't? The CDD itself cannot
establish its own speed limits, so...
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Okay.
MR. YOVANOVICH: That's not one of the powers it has.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: These roads, if remember, CDD -- the roads ilia CDD are
open to the public; is that right?
MR. YOVANOVICH: They're public roads.
COM 41SSIONERCHRZANOWSKI: Okay. Justcurious.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Anybody?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'm sorry. I do have a couple more.
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CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Go ahead.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Pardon me.
First of all, the reference to the golf course and the possibility of a second one, would you explain
what arrangements, if any, are in place between the golf club and the members who have paid initiation fees
in the event a second course is not constructed?
MR. YOVANOVICH: There is an existing agreement between the members of the golf course and
the owners of the golf course regarding what amenities will be ultimately provided, and there are remedies in
that agreement should those facilities not be provided, and those -- we're not changing any of those remedies
that are available to people who have signed the contract with the developer of the golf course. We are
making no changes to the relationship between the members of the golf course and the owner of the golf
course through this PUD change.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. So the members have contract rights —
MR. YOVANOVICH Correct.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: --that presumably they or their predecessors --
MR. YOVANOVICH: They do.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: --in this case agreed to. And presumably these remedies are
financial in nature?
MR. YOVANOVICH: There is probably multiple remedies, including just saying, hey, we like it,
it's okay. But, yes, there is a contractual relationship between the two parties. That's not being changed by
what we're doing today.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. And you mentioned that --well, there's agate at Sandpiper,
and you're going to move that gate back.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Correct.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: So that there will be a continuation of the existing security so that
people who are entering for shopping purposes won't be intruding into the neighborhood; is that correct?
MR. YOVANOVICH: That is correct. The existing gate will move further into the community to
keep that gate in place. The actual entryway will be improved and upgraded --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay.
MR. YOVANOVICH: -- to better than what's there today.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And I apologize for not picking this up first time around, but outdoor
noise up to 10 p.m. seems like a rather late hour.
MR.YOVANOVICH: But the location of it is right on 41.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: How far is it from any residential activity?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Okay. I'm going to move this. I hope I don't go the wrong way. All
righty.
As you can see, this is going to be a recreational facility for the community. So you have 41 here,
you have some residences here and here but -- you know, I don't know an exact distance, Mr. Fryer, but you
have a roadway separating the community to the left on this screen. That's Sandpiper. And then you have a
yet to -- I take that back. You have -- I don't know what that distance is there, but -- from where that is.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Allright. Could you give mean example of what sort of
noise -producing activity might occur —
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, I would imagine that you probably could have a restaurant that might
have some outdoor music as part of the restaurant, that could occur, and it will obviously be shut down at,
you know, 10 p.m.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: All right. Sothis could be acoustic and electronically amplified
music?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I guess it could be, yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Those are all the questions I have now, I think.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Diane?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: I have one question. Let me see. This is -- this has to do with the
commercial square footage, and I know you mentioned 325-, but on Page 745 of 750, it says 355-. If we
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could correct that
MR.YOVANOVICH: This is for -- this DRI --and this deals with more than just Fiddler's Creek;
it's my understanding that 30,000 square foot difference that I was mentioning is for other projects in the DRI,
not Fiddler's Creek. That's why we mentioned the 325-.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Okay. Sothis --so the 350- is not all Fiddler's Creek. It's another --
MR. YOVANOVICH: 30,000 square feet of that is not within the Fiddler's Creek project.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Okay.
MR. YOVANOVICH: So the 325- is the same 325- that we bad in the original master plan and is
being reallocated in this master plan.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Anybody else?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Could we have the staff report now then? Are you done?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I'm done.
MS. GUNDLACH: Good morning, Commissioners. The Marco Shores Fiddler's Creek PUD
amendment is consistent with the Growth Management Plan and the Land Development Code; therefore,
staff is recommending approval, and we are also recommending approval of the companion petition, which is
the DOA, development order amendment.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Thank you. I love your reports. Okay.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I have a --
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Oh, you have a question?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Comment, a correction, really, but it's not jumping out at me. There
was -- is thus it? No. Somewhere inhere there was a missing word "not," and it was --it's essential that it
be corrected. And so it was just a typo. If I can't fund it right now --
MS. GUNDLACH: Commissioner, is it in the ordinance or the staff report?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: It's in the ordinance.
MS. GUNDLACH: Oh.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: It's where it needs to be fixed.
MS. GUNDLACH: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And I will find it and getback to you shortly.
MS. GUNDLACH: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Ah, here itis. On Page 43 of our materials, Section C it says,
prohibited uses and structures, and it says, "any use or structure specifically permitted herein is prohibited.
So you just need to put a "not" in front of permitted.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: What section number are you in?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: It's on Page 43 of our materials. It's going to be in one of the exhibits
to the ordinance, and it follows --I'm sure it follows "permitted uses." Sorry, I can't --
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: I have no idea where you are, so it --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'll flag it. I'll flag the location.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Existing text or new text?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: It might be existing, but it needs to be fixed. I'll get that to you.
MS. GUNDLACH: We need the section number.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I understand.
MS. GUNDLACH: Okay.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Could we hear from the speakers?
MR. BELLOWS: First speaker, Jim Gaffney.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Is Mr. Gaffney here?
MR. BELLOWS: Phil Brougham.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: I'm sorry?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: He went to the restroom.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Oh, okay.
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MR. BELLOWS: We'll call him back.
MR. BROUG1IAM: Good morning. I know quite a few of you. My name is Phil Brougham, and
I live in Fiddler's Creek, and I am also the chairman of Fiddler's Creek Community Development District No.
1; however, I am not speaking on behalf of my board.
I and my wife have lived in Fiddler's Creek full time in a village called Pepper Tree since 1999, and
we've been there through two hurricanes and a lot of other disruptions to that development.
And I just have a few comments to make. We have, obviously, many, many of my neighborhoods
here that have concerns about Fiddler's Creek, as I have over the years.
But just tracing a little history, Fiddler's Creek is a huge development in terms of acreage, and it will
be a huge development when it's completely built out.
It's been evolving since 1994, 1995. And, yes, I realize we had and the developer prepared an
original master plan which. is conceptual and says, here's the way we see the development of Fiddler's Creek
at this point in time in 1994, 1996. We see this here, we see that there, and so forth. This development has
evolved as the business climate has evolved, as we've -- as the developer's gone through bankruptcies, as the
developer has endured changes in the golfing pastime, et cetera, and plans have changed.
And I think what you're presented with today is an attempt by the developer to bring the
development up to date, number one, and to cast a view again of the future.
I'm just going to end it with this: A development of this size is going to changeover a period of 20
to 25 years. It's going to change in many, many respects. But here's the thing that's important to me as a
homeowner here in Fiddler's Creek, and an elected, Pll call it, official, even though I don't consider myself
official, of a CDD. One key thing has remained consistent through the 20 years, and that is the commitment
of the principals of this -- involved in this development. They have stayed the course, they have changed their
business plan, but they really haven't changed their overall commitment to make Fiddler's Creek a
development that we're all proud to live in.
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Thank you.
MR. BELLOWS: Elliot Miller.
MR. MILLER: Good morning. My name is Elliot Miller, and I am the chairman of CDD2. So
you now will hear from both of us. But, again, I am not speaking on behalf of the CDD. Pm here
individually as a happy homeowner in Fiddler's Creek where I have lived full time since 2009.
Now, undoubtedly, with all the people here for Fiddler's Creek, you're going to hear some opposition
to this proposal. I'm sure that planning commissioners hear a lot of opposition to a lot of proposals, but I
also want to take this opportunity to tell you that there are a group of us, many of us, and many of us here
today, who support this proposal.
I feel, and we feel, that the benefits to the Fiddler's Creek community of having a fine retail
establishment on our doors and especially a very highly respected grocery store on our periphery is a
significant benefit to us. I think the increase in convenience will help us live our daily lives and will increase
our home values and will be another selling feature for our home prices.
The grocery chain prospectively involved is a premium retail operation which has a strong economic
interest in being a good neighbor. It really will prosper if it's a good neighbor to a large cadre of customers
on its peripherally and prospective customers on its periphery.
It has a strong incentive to create goodwill and avoid ill will among its neighbors and to be a good
neighbor to its customers. This premium grocery chain has a fine history, and there has never been, to my
knowledge, any significant complaints about it as a neighbor.
Now, I also want to emphasize that the Fiddler's Creek development has taken extraordinary
measures to interact with the residents and to hear the concerns of the residents and to meet the concerns of
the residents. You've heard Mr. Yovanovich talking about changes that have been made in response to the
neighborhood information meeting.
After the neighborhood information meeting, there was a town hall to further air neighbor issues,
neighborhood issues, and to deal with them, and we've -- we are -- I and my colleagues, that is those who
agree with us, feel quite strongly that Fiddler's Creek has been taking all reasonable responsive actions to
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meet all objections, including redirecting roads, widening roads, strengthening paving, et cetera
Ironically, if this application had not been made and the applicant retained its commercial property
on 951 and developed a retail center there with the grocery chain in question, its strongest supporters, its
greatest advocates would probably be those that oppose it today.
Progress always has its opponents, but it also confers benefits. I am, and my colleagues who
support this are, looking forward to the convenience that this proposal, when enacted, if enacted, will bring to
our lives at Fiddler's Creek. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I have a question or two, Mr. Miller, if I may.
MR. MILLER: Sure; surely.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: You indicated that you didn't feel sufficiently authorized to speak for
the entire CDD, correct?
MR. MILLER: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. You're chair of the CDD?
MR. MILLER: I am.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: How many members of the governing board are there?
MR. MILLER: There are five of us.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Are you at liberty to indicate how the other four feel?
MR. MILLER: Well, I think you're going to hear from one today who's in opposition to it.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. So it's not unanimous?
MR. MILLER: It's not unanimous, no. But I would say that from what I know and from my
interactions with the others, I think that at least four of us are supportive of it.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Thank you very much.
MR. MILLER: Okeydoke.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Madam Chair, before the next speaker, I've found the reference to the
missing word.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: If I may, it's in Section 4.3.0 of the document, which is in our
materials as Section 4, multifamily residential development map designation, MF, Unit 24, etcetera. Thank
you.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: I don't recommend you change any tent in that location. We will look it
up and see if the original PUD had that language.
COMMISSIONEREBERT: Can you put your mike on?
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: As I believe was stated by Rich, this involves more than just the Fiddler's
Creek property, and this particular section you're referring to relates to another development who is not
participating in this matter, so I would prefer not to change any text in that location, but...
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. I didn't realize there were other people who were affected by
that who were not in front of us, but it's an obvious typo. And the way it reads now it says, "Prohibited uses
and structures: Any use or structure specifically permitted herein is prohibited."
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Yeah. I mean, that doesn't make sense.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: But we'll leave that because others who are affected by it are not here
today I suppose, but it strikes me as odd, but I understand.
MR. YOVANOVICH: We'll verify that we didn't -- we had to retype this entire document. So I'll
go back to the old PUD —
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Oh, okay.
MR. YOVANOVICH: -- to make sure we didn't mistranscribe and leave the word "not" out in
someone else's section.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Correct. That's what I was saying earlier. We also proofread it, but
maybe we missed that.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Thank you. Next speaker.
MR. BELLOWS: John Orman.
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MR. ORMAN: Good morning. My name is John Orman. I live in the Fiddler's Creek
development.
I attended the neighborhood meeting. I attended the Fiddler's Creek town hall meeting. I read the
staff report to the Planning Commission. I frequently use the entry and exit at Fiddler's Creek at Sandpiper
Drive and U.S. 41.
I do not feel that any of the above meetings or staff report adequately address the issue of public
safety of vehicles at the proposed project. The exit of traffic from Fiddler's Creek at Sandpiper Drive onto
U.S. 41 is currently dangerous. You must cross over two lanes of traffic, oncoming traffic from the west,
and merge into two lanes of oncoming traffic from the east. A dangerous condition exists even before adding
more commercial activity at this location.
If the Collier County Planning Commission does recommend approval of this project, I hope that
they will place the following condition on the developers and management of the commercial area: No
commercial business activity can begin operation at this location until a traffic light and control system or
safety personnel are fully operational at the intersection of Sandpiper Drive and U.S. 41. Without this, the
public safety of both the vehicles of the residents of Fiddler's Creek and the patrons of the proposed
commercial area will be at risk.
Thank you for your consideration of our public safety.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Madam Chair, may we ask the County Attorney the extent, if any, to
which we have jurisdiction over this?
MR.KLATZKOW: Yeah. One, who's going to pay for it? I don't think the county wants to pay
for it. Two, you don't put in traffic lights until traffic study warrants it. So simply putting in a provision
saying there has to be a traffic light there, no, that's not the appropriate thing to do. If and when a time comes
where transportation staff believes that from a safety point there needs to be a traffic light there, at that point
in time the county will look at it. Everybody wants a traffic light.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Yeah.
MR. KLATZKOW: You know, and if everybody got a traffic light nobody would be actually
moving anywhere.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Right.
MR. ORMAN: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: And it's not a county road.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Right. It's a U.S. road I gather.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Right.
MR. BELLOWS: Marshall Sutker.
MR. SUTKER: My name is Marshall Sutker. I live in Pepper Tree in Fiddler's.
Until several weeks ago, for two years I was the elected homeowner representative of the Fiddler's
Creek Foundation and, as such, represented the interest of the 2,400 homeowners. I believe what I say here is
consistent with what many, many owners would say if they were here.
The current 2,400 homeowners represent over 50 percent of what will be Fiddler's when the
southeastern portion of Fiddler's, Estancia is sold off as now planned.
Many of us do not oppose the proposed shopping area carve outs or other external changes proposed
along Routes 41 and 951; however, the proposed internal changes will significantly affect us in our daily lives
and will impose economic costs on us such as increasing traffic in places and by forcing us to buy unneeded
land from the developer.
As we arrived and bought, we were promised Fiddler's would provide many things which have not
been delivered. Of the many amenity promises of the existing master plan, the huge sales center, Fiddler's
diorama, and the club and spa, which induced us to buy, few of those promises have been kept, and those
which have been kept have been paid for not by the developer but by the owners.
The developer now seeks this board blessing for PUD arbitrary changes made over the years. He
asked this board to permit traffic pattern changes to take away the only central part, which would best serve
all of what will be Fiddler's. He seeks to require the homeowners to purchase a nine -plus -acre parcel for
which we have no need. Much smaller and cheaper park parcels would be sufficient and are available.
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The current master plan shows Fiddler's Creek Parkway extending to Route 41. If built it would
have no monetary value to the developer, as the land would have to be dedicated to Collier County for that
road.
If the road extension is eliminated, the land becomes saleable and can be monetized. But the only
possible buyer for that narrow non -buildable parcel is the Foundation, to which all owners are required to
belong.
The developer's question then is, how can he force the Foundation, the members, to buy it at the
highest price he can conjure up? The developer controls the Foundation through his three appointed
directors, two of whore are employees and one who is his lawyer. The developer controls the Foundation.
His legal position has been that when he decides to sell parcels designated on the master plan as parks, the
Foundation is required; it must purchase them. That is exactly what happened six years ago when he sold
two park parcels to the Foundation without an appraisal and at an arbitrarily set price.
If you approve the proposed master plan before you, you will be giving the developer the right to
force the members to purchase the unneeded nine -plus -acre roadway parcel at a price dictated by him which,
based on past practice, will be at buildable land rates. We would prefer the roadway simply remain platted
for possible future use as a roadway; however, if you decide to allow the roadway extension to be vacated,
please do not designate it as a park.
The developer will still have the right to do what we wishes with it, and he will be able to make it a
park or not as be wishes. If he wishes to make it a park and to sell it to the homeowners via the Foundation,
his appointed directors, who are fiduciaries to the owners, would need to justify to the owners how much of
that should be purchased, the price to be paid for it and why the owner should buy a nine -plus -acre parcel in
the middle of nowhere when only a few acres are needed for the park amenities.
But if you designate that park -- that parcel as a park rather than just eliminating it as a road, you will
be giving the developer the right to force it down the owners' throats on his terns, and the owners will have
no voice regarding the price and acreage to be purchased, especially whereas here, as I see it there is no
requirement that you designate any particular PUD or master plan parcel as a park. The more appropriate
thing to do is to just vacate it; don't designate it as a park.
From what I can see from the planning board's staff report, the staff was not alerted to the burdens
imposed on the Fiddler's owners of designating the roadway extension as a park rather than simply vacating
it.
In summary, if nothing else, to the extent that you may decide to accept the staffs report, please do
not designate the roadway extension as a park. I see no legal requirement that you do so. There's plenty of
other open space.
You are the homeowners' only hope that the owners will get anything more than the back of the
developer's hand and the economic burden which the proposed plan regarding that parcel would impose.
Please consider us in what you decide we must live with into the future. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Question for the gentleman, please.
(Applause.)
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Mister, is it Sutker?
MR. SUTKER: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. You said several times "forces us to buy unneeded land from
the developer, 9.1 acres of roadway."
I just want to be sure I understand exactly what it is you're saying. Are we talking about the
northern, what would have been part of the Fiddler's Creek right-of-way that was never built on?
MR. SUTKER: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay.
MR. SUTKER: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: All right. And so that's proposed to be a linear park. And so you're
fmding the need to construct another roadway somewhere else, or you would prefer to put it there rather than
have a park there?
MR. SUTKER: No, no, no. All I'm saying is in that regard is that if you decide it should no longer
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be platted as a road, the land goes back to the developer for him to do with it as he wishes, because he
actually owns it. The developer owns that.
Now, if you approve the fact that it will be, must be, a park, according to his lawyers, they have the
right to force the Foundation to buy it. If you simply say, okay, it's no longer a road, so it then will go back to
the developer, he owns it, but he doesn't have the same legal right, according to his lawyers. Here's his
lawyers' letter, which I would like to leave with you if I could.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Let me just say, though --and I can be corrected if I'm wrong --but
the developer plats or will draw on an linage like this where a road -- where he would have a right to put a
road, but I don't believe that that also creates an obligation on his part to put one there.
MR. SUTKER: No. I'm not saying that -- I'm not saying anything about any obligation on his part
to build a road. Right now its shown as a road.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, its --
MR. SUTKER: And if it were to be made into a road, it would have to be dedicated at no cost to the
county or to the people living in Fiddler's. If it's simply a parcel which he owns which is what you would be
converting it to by saying the road is okay, it's okay to vacate it, the question then becomes on what basis
would he be able to sell it to the Foundation. Because I don't think it can be sold to anybody else because it
wouldn't be usable by anybody else.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I fully understand what you're saying now. I just want to reiterate,
though, my understanding is the developer is currently wider no obligation to extend Fiddler's, the road,
where that potential opportunity would have allowed him to if he wished. It's not a requirement.
MR. SUTKER: Assuming that is correct, that's fine. The question is, when you get done with
looking at this proposal, are you going to say it is a park, or are you going to say it's simply up to the
developer to do what he wants with it? In one case --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, the developer has certain requirements as to content but not
necessarily as to location.
MR. SUTKER: I have no concern about the location. It is there. I mean --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: But you don't want the park to be there, so you kind of do have a
concern.
MR. SUTKER: And what I'm talking about, if the developer wants to make a park, that's up to him.
What I'm saying is, you shouldn't -- I would prefer that you don't say it is a park, because once you say "it is a
park," then we have to buy it at a price dictated by him. If you don't say its a park, it goes back to him to do
what he wants with; he then has to negotiate with us. He can't force us to buy it.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I understand your position.
MR. SUTKER: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: A question --
MR.
MR. SUTKER: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: -- for Nancy. When we say this, are we going to say that it
must be a park or that it can be a park?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Its conceptual, isn't it? It's the master plan?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Linear park.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: It may be a park.
MR. BELLOWS: Unless there's a commitment in the PUD for when it will be constructed, it's just
an option in the future.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Okay. And I assume the PUD says they have to have so
many acres of park? Does anybody know how they sit with that?
CHAIIZMAN HOMIAK: Open space.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Open space? Okay. I was just curious whether it must be a
park or it can be a park.
MR. BELLOWS: I think its just can be.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Can be a park, okay.
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MR. SUTKER: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: But that means you can't use it because it doesn't belong to
You.
MR. SUTKER: As far as we're concerned, we don't need it. Actually, there was a park --
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay.
MR. SUTKER: -- right here, and that -- the developer has simply decided he wants to put houses
there instead of make it a park. But if he kept it as a park, he could sell it at a price he dictated, and we
would have to take it. That's the point. Anything shown as a park on the PUD --
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I understood that the first time.
MR. SUTKER: -- we are required to buy when he decides to sell it to us.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Okay.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Thank you.
MR. SUTKER: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Could we have the next speaker.
MR. BELLOWS: Next speaker, Linda Viegas.
MS. VIEGAS: Good morning. How's everyone's?
First let me say, since Mr. Miller mentioned, I am a member of the CDD board. There are five
members, and --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yourname,ma'am?
MS. VIEGAS: Linda Viegas.
COM 41SSIONERFRYER: Will you spell the last?
MS. VIEGAS: Sure. V as i n Victor, i -e -g -a -s.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you.
MS. VIEGAS: You're welcome.
And just so that you understand where I live versus where the other four members of the CDD2
board live, if you look at the lovely red item on the right-hand side of your screen, I live right next to it on the
left. That's the Aviamar section. All of the other four members of the CDD2 board live far to the left in a
section called Vinetta, so they're nowhere near the Sandpiper entrance. So I'm the only one that lives
abutting Sandpiper. Okay. Just so that you understand.
I'm a year-round Florida resident. My husband and I, as I mentioned, live in the Aviamar section of
Fiddler's Creek which abuts Sandpiper Drive. When we bought our lot in 2010, we did our due diligence, and
we were told that an assisted living facility was planned on the other side of Fiddler where the red circle is,
and there would be two entrances to Fiddler's Creek Park from U.S. 41; Sandpiper Drive and Fiddler's Creek
Parkway.
The application you're reviewing now changes the assisted living area to the commercial site and
eliminates the Fiddler's Creek Parkway entrance. The new proposed entrance on your plan is into the Estancia
Village, as mentioned.
We were told at the April 17th town hall meeting at Fiddler's Creek that the developer, and as
mentioned today, is working to sell the Estancia Village as a separate community, which would not be part of
Fiddler's Creek, eliminating that second entrance; therefore, the only full entrance to Fiddler's Creek from
U.S. 41 will be Sandpiper Drive, a road that is now planned to also be the only full entrance to a
grocery -store -anchored commercial site, a grocery store that has another location less than four miles away, a
grocery store that we were told is going to dig up Sandpiper Drive in order lay down heavy-duty pavement to
support the 18 -wheelers that will be using Sandpiper for their deliveries and for their trash trucks, a grocery
store that has a billboard sign at all their entrances for their current stores.
That means the only entrance to Fiddler's Creek from U.S. 41 will have a billboard sign listing a
grocery store and whatever other tenants come into that commercial site. That is not what we were told
would be the signage for the main U.S. 41 entrance into Fiddler's Creek when we bought our lot.
As we have already heard, there is no traffic light at this sole U.S. 41 entrance, and there will not be
one for years, as this gentleman mentioned. The Florida Department of Transportation requires traffic studies
and warrants before a traffic light will be considered. It takes years for those studies to be done and for the
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light to be installed.
The cost to install the traffic light, when it is finally done, and to maintain Sandpiper, will be borne
by the Fiddler's Creek residents. Since the need for both will be significantly increased due to the use of the
road by the grocery store, they should contribute to the cost.
In addition, in Section 18 of the vested rights determination, it states that the developer is obligated to
provide the traffic signal; therefore, the developer should pay for the traffic signal.
Sandpiper Drive, as we know, is a public road, which means the additional traffic coming into
Sandpiper has a right to ask to use it as a shortcut to 951. We were told by the developer in the town hall
meeting that the Fiddler's Creek Parkway entrance was being eliminated so that shortcut for the public could
not be used. Now the likelihood that the public will use Sandpiper as a shortcut will increase.
Even WINK News, when I was watching it one day during their traffic segment, recommended the
public use Fiddler's Creek Parkway to Sandpiper as a shortcut from 951 to U.S. 41 and vice versa when one
of those highways has a blockage, which it did that day.
On the plans reviewed at the Fiddler's Creek town hall meeting, the proposed U.S. 41 entrance
directly into the commercial site, if you can read the small print, says right -in, right -out. I was told by the
engineer when I asked that even though there is a median cut there, the Florida Department of Transportation
would not allow the westbound traffic to cross over through the median. That means it is safe to estimate the
vast majority of both the eastbound and westbound traffic for the grocery store, and whatever other
commercial tenants go there, will be using the Sandpiper entrance.
There are three rezone findings in your staff report, which I reviewed, that I would like to address;
specifically traffic, living conditions, and property value.
Your staff report states Fiddler's Creek is considered vested for traffic impacts, but I respectfully
suggest the potential traffic increases based on this proposed commercial site and the fact that there is now
going to be only one entrance into Fiddler's Creek from U.S. 41 based on the new proposal have not been
thoroughly considered.
Since the commercial site is inside Fiddler's Creek and will be using Sandpiper Drive, which is inside
Fiddler's Creek, traffic will be increased by more than just the approved 6,000 units in Fiddler's. The
proposed change will create an excessively increased traffic congestion on Sandpiper and on U.S. 41,
especially at those peak times that we all know and love: Season, holidays, and sporting events, and
including the construction phases of the development, particularly when Sandpiper is being dug up and paved
with heavy-duty pavement.
The living conditions of the Aviamar residents will be adversely impacted by this commercial site
due to the noise of traffic and vehicular traffic, especially from the beep, beep when trucks back up, the
constant glow of parking lot and store lights and, as already mentioned, the increased traffic at the one and
only entrance and exit a large number of Fiddler's Creek residents already use.
Living conditions will most be impacted in season during holidays and major sporting events when
the commercial site will be most active.
I would ask the Board if they would want to live adjacent to a grocery store, as I may be living, and
commercial site, or if they feel that will adversely impact property values. I am told by realtors that are very
familiar with Fiddler's that property adjacent to shopping areas, like mune, is less desirable and that my
property value will be negatively impacted.
I respectfully ask that the Board delay approval of this application and take a closer look at the traffic
implications, the living conditions, and the effect on property values of Aviamar residents that will be
impacted by putting a grocery -store -anchored commercial site in this location.
We learned from Commissioner Bill McDaniel this week that the Collier County Interactive Growth
Model will be available this month to use for zoning applications, so I would request that model be used for
this rezoning application to assess the current impacts based on all the other approved growth projects in the
area.
If this board decides not to delay approval and does move forward with this application, at a
minimum I would request the following conditions be added to the PUD: The dumpsters for the commercial
site must be placed as far away from the Aviamar residents as possible to diminish the noise of trucks when
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backing up and emptying the dumpsters, also to keep any potential rodents away from Aviamar.
All delivery bays for the grocery store and other retailers must be placed as far away from the
Aviamar residents as possible to diminish the noise of the delivery trucks when backing up and making
deliveries.
All delivery trucks and trash trucks must use the direct entrance into the commercial site from U.S.
41, the right -in, right -only (sic) entrance rather than Sandpiper Drive.
All deliveries and trash removal must be done after 8 a.m. and before 10 p.m.
And, finally, the developer, who's obligated per the vested rights determination, owner, grocery store,
and all other commercial site tenants must contribute to the cost of the traffic light and the maintenance of
Sandpiper Drive.
Thank you for your time and attention. Do you have any questions?
(Applause.)
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Please. No clapping, please.
MR. BELLOWS: Peter Bficher.
MR. BLICHER: Thank you.
I'm Peter Blicher. I live in Fiddler's Creek, and I'm a retired developer of 35 years, and I've lived in
Fiddler's Creek for over 18 years in two different homes.
I have reviewed the staff report, and if you go to Page 4, which is the original plan, all of the
purchase -- that have purchased have seen this plan. And that's sort of what we purchased from, but we did
understand that there were a lot of flexibility that the developer would have, and we've went through some
tough times.
The developer has to follow the current plan that's in place unless you change it. It seems that the
original approval has given him plenty of flexibility; therefore, why not bifurcate this application, allow for
the commercial change with -- and the senior housing with various conditions — and Linda has mentioned
many of them -- and tell him he needs to follow his approval. He seems to be able to make all these changes,
so let it just ride this way because, if not, you're sort of blessing these changes.
He's been able to delete golf courses. He is going to --he has told us that he's going to bifurcate
1,500 units over on the side. He mayor may not build any future golf courses.
The developer got into financial trouble during the housing recession, which many builders did, and
made some choices that in some cases, have been detrimental to both him and to us. Most other large
communities prices have comeback up, but Fiddler's Creek has been struggling. Homes bought before the
bankruptcy are still down about 20 to 30 percent.
The developer brought in many lower production builders. Many of them have been snuggling with
lower -than -normal sales rates. In order for the builders to try to increase their market share, some are paying
the CDD bonds for their buyers, as the bond fee is a negative to many of the new homebuyers. The number
of sales are extremely high and sellers, in many cases, are taking large losses.
I and many of my friends do not want to move even though the entire dream that we were sold is not
materializing. The people are great, and what we have is great, but it could get better.
We were promised that Fiddler's Creek would be a premiere community and have a golf clubhouse,
three golf courses, in addition to the Marriott course. Only one course has been built, does not have a
clubhouse; it seems to be snuggling, yet the Marriott course has almost 500 memberships on await list. I'm
number 486.
We were told we would have a tennis center. We just have originally four courts, and a few years ago
they added two more. We were told we would have a yacht club on Isles of Capri. Looks like that will
never happen.
Where we have an issue is the five -acre park, which I think has been pointed out on the plan, that we
thought we were going to get that was centrally located, and Fiddler's Creek Parkway that we thought we
were going to get they don't want to do.
The original master plan, we were getting a great park in no one's backyard so there would not be a
fight by neighbors regarding the uses. The last one that they made us buy was overpriced and a waste since
they won't put any amenities in it. They want to sell off the five -acre park site for development to make
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additional money and increase their density. I guess they have the right to do that.
They want to delete our best ingress/egress point, Fiddler's Creek Parkway and Tainiami Trail. It's
clearly the best route north and west where most of us go. By doing this they benefit as --if it's a road, they
would have to donate it to the county, and they would not make money on it. But if it's a park, besides
increasing their density, they will make us buy it. If it's a road, anew bond will have to be floated. They
may have a problem with that due to a lawsuit with the CDD, the past bondholders, so this will be more
difficult. The production builders are getting hit with a high land price, the builder, plus option price sharing
from the developer. CDD fees, club fees, and neighborhood fees are adding to this problem.
If the CDD2 fees go up because we were to build the road due to the finishing of it, the new buyers
are the only ones that have to pay, because it would be a separate bond. You can't go backwards.
And, in turn, the amount of money that the new buyers have to pay will be higher and, in tum, either
the prices will have to be lower or the builders' sales will slow down or the builders will walk, and we don't
want that. We want this development completed.
The developer has to deal with the EMS issue. And I had thought -- I was told by staff that they
thought that a representative of EMS would be here today, but I guess EMS didn't show up. They may have
had some emergency.
MR. BELLOWS: For the record -- I don't mean to interrupt, but we do have somebody from EMS
here today.
MR. BLICHER: Okay. So hopefully maybe EMS can comment.
How EMS could be solved in this situation is rather than build a 12 -foot -wide asphalt one mile long
of pavement down through where they want to put this linear park, why not an entrance up in the lagoon area,
an emergency entrance with agate. You know, it can look very nice. No one will even know it's there
except for emergency, and it can protect everyone, because then the response time would be a lot quicker.
Because it isn'tjust the fire station and EMS station there, but when we get served, it doesn't always come off
of 951. And a few extra minutes can be your life.
If we really need -- if the developer really needs the green space, discuss making this right-of-way,
rather than this ridiculous linear park, make it a preserve; clean it up. It's --it looks terrible. Let's move on
and hope the developer gets out as soon as possible and we, the owners that have lost a lot of money, make
the right decisions in the future and our values come back up to the norm.
Developer and homeowner should work together next season to come up with the best and quickest
approach so the developer can sell out and we can get the best amenities we want.
If you could, bifurcate this application. If you feel that the commercial and the senior housing
adjustment is okay, put the requirements on it and approve it. But why -- if he cando all this with his
original plan, why bless this plan? Hold off, and let's work together next season to try to resolve this.
Thank you.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Ihave a question, or perhaps it's a comment, to test my understanding
of things here. The developer owns the golf club?
MR. BLICHER: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. And there is an agreement of some kind in place, presumably
a master agreement which is signed off on by the developer as one party and then by each homeowner on the
other side; would that be correct?
MR. BLICHER: There -- you mean on the golf --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: The golf club is an organization that supplies memberships to people,
but it's my understanding that there is an agreement in place between the golf club entity and the owners who
are members of the club.
MR. BLICHER: Yes, and there was a settlement in the bankruptcy to secure their capital that has
been moved around on property.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, the reason I raise this is because if there's a private
understanding between the members of the club and the club itself, that's not anything we can interfere with.
MR. BLICHER: No, no, no. We're not asking --we know he can delete golf courses; he can do all
this under his plan.
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COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. It sounded as though you were asking for --
MR. BLICHER: We don't have -- no.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I thought you were asking for relief on that.
MR. BLICHER: I was just making a statement that we were --we thought we were getting things --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I understand.
MR. BLICHER: -- and we're not, but that's life.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay.
MR. BLICHER: And we have to deal with it.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: So you're not asking us to acquire a golf course or anything like that?
MR. BLICHER: No. Absolutely not.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Is there any more?
MR. BELLOWS: Yes, there's a lot more. I just wanted to know if you wanted to take a 10:30
break or --
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Yes. Let's take a 15 -minute break. Well, I've got to figure that out.
(A brief recess was had.)
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Could you all sit down, please.
Okay. We'll start with the speakers again, and I guess we have 10 more left.
MR. BELLOWS: Approximately.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Oris there more? Okay. Some people have pulled their slips because
what they wanted to say has already been said. So if that's the case with anyone sitting there, if you want to
waive because you're repeating what's already been said, you can do that. And we're going to try and just
give you five minutes each.
MR. BELLOWS: Ron (sic) Johnston.
MR. JOHNSTON: Good morning. I'm Richard Johnston, and I live at Mallards.
I had the great fortune of being here for Irma. And I can tell you that Collier Road was impassable.
It was very difficult to move through that. Therefore, I'm the one that would really vote for having that road
put on through the other exit to 41. It may not be pleasant, but at least once you got to 41 you could move.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Thank you.
MR. BELLOWS: Gretchen Scott.
MS. SCOTT: Good morning. I'm Gretchen Scott. I've lived in Fiddler's Creek since 2002, and I
served for 10 years as a supervisor for the CDD2 board.
I agree with what Linda and Peter both had to say. I sold about $80 million of homes in Fiddler's
Creek in the last seven years, and while a lot of my homebuyers are excited about the shopping center coming
in, there are some reservations, as Linda mentioned.
The point I want to make, though, is a lot of those homes I sold to people who assumed that Fiddler's
Creek Parkway would eventually go out to 41. And even if we takeoff the Estancia property from the
equation now, we have about 4,500 homes which will be in Fiddler's Creek eventually, and we currently have
three entrances. And as the plan stands now, we will only ever have three entrances.
And I want you to understand that the entrance on Championship Drive comes out on basically a
back road that runs into 951. The county does not even own that road. It's owned by Pelican Lakes. We
call it our back gate. There are traffic problems there. The neighbors who live along Championship
constantly complain about the issues at the Championship gate.
Now we're taking our Sandpiper gate, which is one of our major entrances, and we're making it the
access point for a pretty large commercial area. So that is going to be compromised for use for the Fiddler's
Creek residences.
So, really, we have one very nice entrance for Fiddler's Creek which is the original entrance on 951.
That's the one that really serves its purpose totally 100 percent for the Fiddler's Creek residences.
So my question for you to think about -- and I'm not a traffic expert, but I want you to understand
that we need to make sure that the 4,500 people living in Fiddler's Creek in the future have adequate entrance
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to 41. And I personally believe that that one entrance at Sandpiper, which is going to be about 75 or 80
percent commercial traffic, is not adequate, and we definitely need the Fiddler's Creek entrance to be put
through.
Whether you have the authority to stipulate that as you approve this commercial portion, I do not
know, but please consider that, and thank you.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: You have an ingress and egress opportunity on Championship, right?
MS. SCOTT: We do.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah. Thais gated at some point?
MS. SCOTT: It is gated, but its a two-lane road through Fiddler's Creek. There is not a separate
entrance for the residents there where they can use their clickers. So there's only one in and one out. So
when people come in with passes and vendors come in with passes, it stacks up. In addition, it comes out on
Championship, which is not even a county road. And then you come out onto 951, and God forbid you try
and make a left-hand turn there.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you.
MS. SCOTT: Thank you.
MR. BELLOWS: Jim Gaffney.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Jim Gaffney is what you said? Is he here?
MR. BELLOWS: Don McDaniel. Santo --
MR. McDANIEL: I'm sorry. Good morning. My name is Don McDaniel, and I live in Runaway
Lane in Fiddler's.
And my question, of course, is to what I feel is a — when they talk about the park and the linear park,
about the disparity between it and a given park. Parks are to be -- to have the maximum accessibility and
that park, if it is linear in nature, with a roadway running through it, will be not a park at all. It is going to be
accessible by almost no one, and the only usable pat of it will need to be dedicated to automobile traffic,
because people will have to drive to that park to utilize it.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Did you say a roadway running through the linear park?
MR.JOHNSON: Thais what they're describing if they bring the EMS or emergency vehicle lane
through there. Yes, it's 120 feet wide, and they're going to put a 12- or 15 -foot road, and it will have to be
guarded. That makes it almost unusable, plus the distance from all --it's going to only access maybe 15
percent of the people. Its probably on one of the most unattractive property lines within Fiddler's Creek, so
its not really a parkway.
Inmost communities that have community parks, they are to be centrally located. Central Park New
York. Well, I'm thinking that was because they don't want people to have to drive to utilize it. So to compare
those two -- I think is putting some lipstick on in — doesn't really make it a park.
And then the other thing is most of those abandoned roadways or railroad tracks or anything usually
are greenways, and they usually — the definition of greenway is to connect up two service points or
destinations. It only has one terminus. It will not be utilized as a park, in my opinion; however, if it is, and,
if the developer is able to acquire five -plus acres of additional residential property, I think he wins.
Thank you.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: There's a second --there's the potential roadway, which would be the
park, and then next to it is Creative Drive; is that the name of the -- Create Lane.
MR. JOHNSON: Creative Lane is exactly adjacent to that, but it is not --and I had just had a
conversation with one of the Fiddler's Creek individuals, and that roadway is (sic) and never will be
accessible into Fiddler's Creek by EMS. It seems redundant to me, but I'm not a developer.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: We'll ask for some more on that when the developer returns for
rebuttal.
MR. JOHNSON: Thank you.
MR. BELLOWS: Santo Golando.
MR. GOLANDO: Yes. I live in a place called Cherry Oaks in Fiddler's Creek.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Last name, sir?
MR. GOLANDO: The last name is Golando, G -o -1 -a -n -d -o.
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And I bought into Fiddler's Creek in 2004, and I was presented with this master plan, which you sort
of have here. Arid one of the things was that I was going to be able to use this road here to get out eventually
to 41. Well, the only way I get out now is usually Championship Drive, and in the season that road, after 3
o'clock, the traffic comes off Marco, backs up.
And to my thinking is that I was originally promised that access and entryway, and that's what -- I'm
thhiking that's what I want. Togo down to the proposed Sandpiper exit would bean extra four miles, at
least, on 41 to get back to the point we all go to, which is the junction of 951 and 41.
Thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Thank you.
MR. BELLOWS: The next speaker is George Varianides.
MR. VARIANIDES: Good morning. My name is George Varianides, and I live in Fiddler's Creek
in the Village of Montreax, and I've been a Florida full-time resident for the last three years. Got tired of
New York winters, so I decided to make this my permanent home.
And I just love it here. And I love Fiddler's Creek, and I love everything about it. But I just ask
that when you do make your decision on this that -- you know, everybody's entitled to make a living in our
country, and that's what makes it great, and the developer should make a living. The developer should make
a profit. That's what be's in the business of developing for. But I don't think it should happen on the backs
of the homeowners.
You know, we all invested in our homes in Fiddler's Creek and, as everyone is saying, we were all
promised a lot of things, and some are there and some haven't come about. But I just feel that, you know,
when you make a decision, make the decision for thinking about the developer and the profit that he needs to
make, but also think about the homeowners and our living conditions and the future of our investment in
Fiddler's Creek and what we were promised.
There's a lot of promises that were in our documents that, granted, they say may be there or could be
there. They don't say will be there. But a lot of us purchased our homes because of those promises, and it
just seems fair that, you know, we should be in the equation as well as the developer.
Thank you.
MR. BELLOWS: Marty Joyce.
MR. JOYCE: I'd like to waive my time to Bruce Martin.
MR. BELLOWS: Bruce Martin.
MR.MARTIN: Good morning. Thank you for your time. My name is Bruce Martin. I live in
Fiddler's Creek.
I notice you have a traffic engineer here, and he's kind of had an easy morning of it, so I have some
questions for him.
There's a plan of the proposed shopping center that we received.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Excuse me. Sir, have you been sworn in?
MR. MARTIN: Yes.
CHAIRMAN HOMLAK: Okay.
MR. YOVANOVICH: You're supposed to ask your questions of the chair.
MR. MARTIN: Oh. The traffic engineer, there was a plan presented to us of the blowup of the site
plan proposed for the shopping center. Do you have that on your repertoire of pictures?
(No response.)
MR. MARTIN: Let me get this right. You have a traffic engineer here, you have a blowup of the
site plan of the shopping center, and you don't bring a copy of that plan for everybody to look at?
MR. YOVANOVICH: It's not part of this process.
MR. MARTIN: You have a traffic report, an impact study that you did on the shopping center, car
counts, traffic amount.
MR. YOVANOVICH: It's here.
MR. MARTIN: Okay. So you can address some questions to that in general because you don't
have a copy of the site plan, the general site plan, for everybody to look at is that correct?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: You can't ask the questions to --
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MR. MARTIN: Okay. What is the car count --how many trucks on the average are going to be
coming into the shopping center?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Sir, you're welcome to ask rhetorical questions, but...
MR. MARTIN: Well, isn't that a fact?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: But continue making your statement --
MR. MARTIN: I mean, shouldn't they know how many trucks are proposed to come into a
shopping center? Don't you want to know that? Are they diesel? Are they natural gas?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, if you happen to know and you want to supply that information,
please go ahead.
MR. MARTIN: Well, let me say this: I think it's impossible for you guys to make a decision
without knowing the car counts, the impact. If I understand this correctly, this thing doesn't even need a
traffic light when it opens? So we're going to have everybody coming out of Fiddler's Creek and everybody
coming out of the shopping center going into that intersection that's already at a 3 percent grade making a left
turn on a state highway with people racing all the way through the Everglades? That's a horrible
intersection. You're going to let that happen without a traffic light, this shopping center?
Second question: Without knowing this information and presented to you, there's an air-quality
issue. Do you realize that each one of these tractor trailers is air conditioned? They have a sit time and a
load time behind there. Grocery store knows this. This should be presented in public record. It's sitting
there pumping out diesel fuel. Okay.
In front of this or in back of this is going to be our, quote, wellness center. Now we're pumping
diesel air in here. And, again, you guys don't have -- they haven't supplied this information to you before
you agree to let this go there? That doesn't make sense.
How about the decibel level at the property line? These tractor trailers are going to stop and start
trying to go out onto 41. Every time they startup, they have decibel level. Is that required decibel level of
the property line to the homeowners? Do you guys have that information? If you don't have that
information, how can you possibly make this decision on locating a major event like this at the entranceway
to Fiddler's Creek?
So as we don't have a plan and as I don't have a traffic report, that's about the extent I can go on that.
The other issue I'd like to talk about is the open space, particularly that parcel right there. The
problem with the open space in Fiddler's Creek -- and correct me if I'm wrong -- being a Planned Unit
Development, it was entitled to 6,000 units. They take the 6,000 units and they cluster them into areas that
they want to put them in. They then can build a product that they want to build.
A byproduct of clustering is the roadways, common areas, and amenity lands. So it's a good
planning process. You cluster all the houses in one area. You have open -space areas. Here you have
green areas down here in this plan. You have plenty of open space.
Our problem entered into on what the developer charged us for two pieces of parkland. One
piece --both pieces were less than an acre. One was a little more than an acre; $250,000 apiece. Give or take
a little bit, based on $55,000 an acre for the ground.
This was based on the price of mother ground as if the whole property was being bought. After a
piece is developed as a PUD, these accessory pieces have no density. You can't build on them. They're
unbuildable. They're an amenity package, and they should have been assessed as an amenity package price.
That would have been consistent with what the Vineyards pays -- sells their open space for, WCI,
Vineyards — Lely. It's easy. You guys have a great county record system for pricing. Pull up the open
space in your records, $500, $1,000, a token amount, because the developer has already received his
compensation in the ability of having density. That's not what happened here to us, and that's why we all
resent the idea of having to buy open space at this ridiculous price based on one appraisal that we weren't
allowed to talk about, debate, or anything else.
If this open space is five acres and it's assessed properly, it should be purchased by the Foundation
for a thousand bucks. That would be very consistent with other people's property; not 55,000 an acre plus
being assessed for depreciated improvements. That's our problem with that.
So I would request that our five acres stay there; 20 years worth of people buying here expected that
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to be park. I don't think its right to take it away. I think that we should buy it, but we should buy it at a fair
appraisal based on other people's property of similar property.
Thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Thank you.
MR. BELLOWS: George Serbe.
(Applause.)
MR. SERBE: My questions and issues have already been answered, thank you.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Thank you.
MR. BELLOWS: Joe Vaccaro.
MR. VACCARO: I cede my time to Elliot Miller.
MR. BELLOWS: Shannon Benedetti.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: He's going to cede his --
MR. MILLER: Joe Vaccaro ceded his time to me.
I'll use this time, if I can, briefly, to try to —
MR. BELLOWS: Can you state your name again, sir.
MR.MILLER: Yes. Elliot Miller.
I'll use this time to try to deal with some of the corn ments that have been made.
First of all, a lot of the issues that people have articulated here are really not relevant to this
proceeding, and so I'm not going to deal with what happened in the past and prices, et cetera.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Did you not already speak, sir?
MR. MILLER: Yes, but this gentleman had ceded his time tome. So rm going to not repeat
myself and hopefully what I say will be useful to you.
There's been a lot of continents about the extension of Fiddler's Creek Parkway terminating in a park.
First of all, somebody said that he's walked back there and it's not appropriate; it's not nice. What he was
talk -- the area that he's talking about is gated off at the end of Fiddler's Creek Parkway. Nobody's gone back
there.
But, secondly, there's a reason for the termination of Fiddler's Creek Parkway, and there's a reason
for it being turned into a linear park, and that reason is the same reason that people are complaining about
here. That is traffic. If Fiddler's Creek Parkway continued to 41, there would bean ongoing stream of
traffic using it as a throughway to 951, and all we hear today are people complaining about that.
The reason that -- these roads are public roads. They're built with CDD fluids, which are funded by
municipal bonds. They're public roads. And if people are complaining about using these roads as a shortcut
and heavy traffic on these roads, extending Fiddler's Creek Parkway to 41 will only increase that issue, make
it worse for the people who live there, not better. I just wanted to point that out to you, because there's been
a lot of talk about that.
Sir, Mr. Fryer, did you have a question?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: If I may.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Oh, go ahead.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: The first time you were up you introduced yourself as the chair of the
other CDD.
MR. MILLER: Well, we are CDD2. I don't know that it's the other one. But we're CDD2. I'd
say Phil is the chair of "the other one."
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Understood.
You have a five -person board?
MR. MILLER: We do.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And how --and I understand that you're not presuming to speak for all
the homeowners in your CDD.
MR. MILLER: I obviously cannot.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Obviously, you aren't.
MR. MILLER: Right.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: But I'd like to know, if you could tell me so, how marry -- how the
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other directors come down on this issue.
MR. MILLER: Well, as Ms. Viegas pointed out, we don't live adjacent to the area. We're all in
favor of it.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: All in favor of it?
MR. MILLER: Yes, absolutely, as far as I know; absolutely.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Except --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah. And other people have spoken for themselves, of course, but
it's interesting. It helps us know.
MR. MILLER: I would say it's a 4-1 majority.
And, by the way, let me just note one thing, Mr. Fryer. I thhrlc -- as chairmanof CDD2 I made it a
point to try to have representation from the Aviamar area, because I think it's unfair for all of us to live in the
Vinetta area. And I welcome Ms. Viegas' point of view. I disagree with her here and some other times, but
I want to have representation. I want to have representation from her area, and I think it's important, and I
think she's a very fine representative of that.
It doesn't mean I agree with her all the time, and I don't agree with her on this. But I would say that,
in answer to your specific question, it's 4-1.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thankyou.
MR. MILLER: Thanks.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Thank you.
MR. BELLOWS: Weldon Birdwell.
MR. BIRDWELL: Good morning. My name is Weldon Birdwell. I live in Runaway Bay within
Fiddler's Creek.
My objection is really quite simple. They are asking for a specific request for a word change in the
PUD where it currently states that they shall, the word is "shall build a golf course." They want to change it
to "may build a golf course", I would specifically request that you not allow that. All of us, as you've heard,
have bought with the understanding that there would be a second golf course and a complete golf course
community there.
Thank you.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: I have a question for you, sir.
MR. BIRDWELL: Yes, ma'am.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: You have one golf course there now?
MR. BIRDWELL: There is one golf course within Fiddler's Creek, correct. This is a second
course within Fiddler's Creek that was there before Fiddler's Creek was built. It is operated by the Marriott
Corporation and is owned by Massachusetts Mutual.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Okay. How many members do you have on your golf course?
MR. BIRDWELL: I'm a member of the Marriott Course because it's just substantially different than
what's available now. It has, as you've heard, over a 400 -family waiting list.
So if the Fiddler's Creek could produce or would produce a competitive product to what's on the
market, there's 400 families that would certainly be potential members.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Thank you.
MR. BIRDWELL: You're welcome.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: 1 believe -- sir?
MR. BIRDWELL: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I believe the "shall" language that you mentioned is followed by a
phrase like "if financially feasible"?
MR. BIRDWELL: I'm sure it does, yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And also, again, there are remedies provided for members of the
course if that doesn't come to pass.
MR. BIRDWELL: They are specific members who joined the club usually, I think, prior to the --I
won't say all of them, but most of them joined prior to the bankruptcy, correct.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thankyou.
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MR. BELLOWS: Shannon Benedetti.
MS. BENEDETTI: Thank you.
My name is Shannon Benedetti. I'm a full-time resident at Fiddler's Creek at 9345 Campanile
Circle, and I've been in there since 2001, so rve definitely seen lots of changes that have occurred from the
beginning and all the changes in plans, and they were plans.
I am in favor of the rezoning of the grocery store at the 41 entrance and -- for several reasons, but
one is we definitely have an increase in traffic right now.
If you look at 41 and Collier, it's extremely busy. And, you know, people trying to get to the
grocery store there, you know, from where we live, that traffic is going to increase because we have a lot of
residential properties now that are going upon 41. So as we consider this grocery store, we can't just
consider ourselves and, you know, what's going on in our community; we have to consider everyone else.
And I do understand about the entrance at Sandpiper. When I was at the town hall meeting, at
several meetings, a plan was proposed to us, and they were showing us, you know, what their plans were to
protect us, you know, from other people trying to get into our community and from the noises, and there was
supposed to be a fence that was extended coming down Sandpiper up to our gatehouse.
And what I would like is for the attorney here, the zoning attorney that represents Fiddler's and the
changes, to please show that to all the people on the council so you can see how they plan to take care of us.
Do you have that?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I'll get it; I'll confirm it.
MS. BENEDETTI: But I'd like you to talk to it.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Right now?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Ma'am, you need to finish speaking or --
MS. BENEDETTI: I'm finished speaking. That's my request is that you ask --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Let me ask a question of you then, please, ma'am, if I may, Ms.
Benedetti.
MS. BENEDETTI: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: If I understand correctly, the proposed development will move
cormmercial uses away from Collier and toward --
MS. BENEDETTI: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: -41. In the 2017 AUIIt, the inventory that the county takes of
capacity of its assets, indicates that Collier between Walmart Driveway and Manatee will be at capacity in
2020 with only 94 p.m. trips left in the -- in whats permissible.
So wouldn't you say that by moving some of the commercial activities over to 41 is -- the net effect
of that is going to be better for people who drive in that area?
MS. BENEDETTI: I agree.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Thankyou.
MS. BENEDETTI: Thank you.
MR. BELLOWS: Michael Meehan.
MR. MEANNONE: Who?
MR. BELLOWS: Michael, M -e -e --
MR. MEANNONE: E -a -n -n -o -n -e?
MR. BELLOWS: That's it.
MR. MEANNONE: That's my handwriting.
Many a nun that rose in their grave every time I pick
up a pen and pencil.
My name is Michael Meannone, and I live in the Aviarmar section of Fiddler's Creek.
My wife and I purchased a home in 2013. Now, if we had known that they were going to put a
cormmercial property right at the entrance, I never would have purchased here, you know. rve owned many,
many homes in my life, and I've never considered a commercial property at the entrance to my development
to be a deal maker; not at all.
If this project is allowed to go through, our home values will drop; traffic will increase significantly.
I say this because the remaining -- most of the remaining development in Fiddler's Creek is to the rear or the
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Route 41 side.
The significance of this is that the only time these homeowners will ever use the Fiddler's Creek 951
entrance is if they're going to Marco Island. As an example, from my home to the main entrance at 951 and
Fiddler's is four miles. From my home to the 41/951 intersection is four miles. So if I'm going anyplace
other than Marco, I'm going out that exit.
Let's see. I'm losing my place here.
Now, what all of this means is that in addition to all of the existing and future residential traffic that's
going to use that entrance, we are now going to have all of the construction traffic to put this development in,
this commercial property, as well as all of the retail traffic that are going to go into that. So that traffic on
that intersection is going to increase significantly.
Now, I don't know if any of you are familiar with that intersection of Sandpiper and 41, but when
you come out of the development, your nose --or the nose of your car is pointing down. The road bed on 41
is elevated a good, Ion going to say, two to three feet above. I didn't put a plumb line on it, but it's clearly
elevated.
The posted speed limit at that point is 60 miles an hour, and everybody exceeds that. If you have
any traffic that's in that right-hand turn lane to come into Fiddler's today on Sandpiper, you cannot, you
absolutely cannot see that oncoming traffic. It's impossible.
So, you know, it's just -- it's just flatout an accident waiting to happen. And I understand the
warrants that they say you've got to have, so many accidents before they'll consider; well, all right. That's the
law, but I'm telling you, you're going to have accidents there.
Now, the only reason for this change is because that large grocery store did not like the original
parcel off 951. Now, that parcel had a preserve area in back of it that would have buffered the existing
homes in Fiddler's Creek from that commercial property. That's not so in this case. Our homes are wrapped
right around it.
I guess a question I keep asking myself is why would the owner of a commercial property that fronts
a major highway not want their entrance off of that highway as opposed to bringing all of your traffic through
a side street? The only conclusion I come to is one of money. They don't want to pay for whatever
infrastructures or changes that need to be made on 41 to route that traffic directly in. So they're, in tum, going
to burden the homeovuers. I just don't think that's fair.
I mean, every time -- those of us who live in that back area, every day we're going to be looking at
that billboard, we're going to be looking at those lights stanchions, and we're going to be having to deal with
all the fights and noise associated with that. I just don't think it's fair.
And here's a final thought: If this is such a great enterprise for Fiddler's Creek, can we anticipate
sometime in the near future them updating their TV commercial to reflect this new enhancement? Are they
going to ask all of the existing builders in this community to advertise in their sales centers this wonderful
enhancement? My guess is no.
Thank you. I appreciate your time.
CIIAIIZMAN HOMIAK: Thank you. Are there any more?
MR. BELLOWS: Two more speakers. Clay, and I apologize; I don't think I can pronounce your
last name.
MR. WESCOTT: Thanks very much. I'm Clay Wescott.
And Pve been a homeowner in Fiddler's Creek since 2015. And I'd first like to thank the Planning
Commission for spending so much time and hearing our views, because I know a lot of them are repetitive.
And it's very useful for us. It's the first meeting that I've been to, and I find it really a great exercise of
democracy, so thank you.
I think that many of the aspects of the proposed update to the master plan are fine and should go
ahead; however, I have concerns about the proposal to convert the Fiddler's Creek Parkway extension into a
nine -acre linear park. Now, my wife and I were there yesterday on our bikes. Itis possible to get in.
There's a gate that's closed at night, but during the day it's open for landscapers, and they come in and they
deposit things, and there's also a lot of brush that's there.
So we rode our bikes all the way on this kind of dirt road to 41. And, frankly, it's nota very nice
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spot. It backs up to a very dense housing and RV development on one side, and as you get closer to 41,
there's a loud traffic noise of the trucks going by and so forth, so it's the last place that I would ever think of to
go for a park.
So what I would suggest that might be considered is to clean up the area and use it as a natural
preserve, possibly maintaining the right-of-way with a permeable surface for EMS use, because you
definitely --if you're going to consider EMS coming in there, the current road is completely unsuitable. We
had a difficult time even with our bikes.
Now, I also know that the Deltona settlement says that the wetlands at Fiddler's are the primary
wading bird habitat in the region, and so keeping the area as a preserve makes more sense than building new
structures for basketball, shuffleboard, and other facilities that could contaminate the wetlands nearby.
There's also the issue that Marshall raised of whether the Foundation members would be required to
purchase the land and at what price if it became a park.
So I propose the Planning Commission recommend that any change in the master plan concerning
the extension of the parkway be postponed until homeowners are able to fully — further consult with the
developer concerning different options and to work out a mutually agreeable settlement.
Thank you very much for your time.
CHAIRMAN HOMAK: Thank you.
MR. BELLOWS: Last speaker? M.R. Mickers or Wilks. That's all Ihave.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: The last name is Wilks?
MR. BELLOWS: Well, the handwriting's hard to --
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Why don't you put it upon the visualizer. Maybe the
person can recognize their own.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: I think that might have been it. Oh, no. He's not a speaker.
MR. BELLOWS: You can ask anyone who hasn't spoke who wishes to speak.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: He's not speaking. Is there anyone else that wishes to speak on this, or
we're all done? Okay.
Okay. You got something to say, Rich?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Sure. Pm going to put my iPad up on the visualizer but I'm not making it
part of the record so I can take it home with me.
I'm trying to show the area that we're talking about.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Why don't you just go to Google Earth?
MR. YOVANOVICH: It is Google Earth. I can't do it from here, though.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: It's on the county computer.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, Stan, you've already tested my IT skills. This is asfar as I can go;
sorry.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I'm a Luddite, too.
MR. YOVANOV ICH: And I want to --I kind of want to work my way backwards on the public
comments. The proposed shopping center, the plan is to build a wall along the residents' side of Sandpiper to
the guardhouse, the relocated guardhouse. We would then bring the wall onto the other side of Sandpiper,
back behind the proposed shopping center back to 41 to connect to 41. So the shopping center will be
walled off from all residences.
So I also want to address some things. Obviously, the grade at Sandpiper and 41 will be modified to
address access for the shopping center.
I'm going to have Jim come up here in a few minutes to talk about the traffic study, because we did
do a traffic study. We did do the volumes that we expect to occur and when we expect a traffic signal to be
warranted after the shopping center opens.
We -- and Jim's the expert. We expect after the first season that this shopping center is open a
signal's going to get warranted, and we'll be going through the process of getting a traffic signal. That's
already been — the proceeds have already been set aside to pay for the traffic signal.
So there's going to be a traffic signal, and it's not going to be indefinite into the future, as represented
to you by a certain speaker who represented to you that -- and maybe I misunderstood. She said she lived
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adjacent to the shopping center. And she does not live adjacent to the shopping center. She lives in the
development over here, but not adjacent. She lives — that's what I was looking for. She lives -- if I'm
correct in looking her up, she lives down here in this development.
MS. VIEGAS: No, that's not correct. I live closer to where it is. But 1-- my community abuts
Sandpiper Drive.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. You can't speak from -- ma'am, you can't speak from there.
MS. VIEGAS: I'm sorry. Well, he's basically calling me a liar.
MR. YOVANOVICH: No. I looked your name upon the visualizer, and you're either at this street
right here or this one, one of the two.
MS. VIEGAS: Closer to the coimnercial center; abutting.
MR. YOVANOVICH: But you're not adjacent or abutting, as you represented.
MS. VIEGAS: I said I abutted Sandpiper Drive.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Ma'am.
MR. YOVANOVICH: So we're not going to put a billboard. You all know the sign regulations
that apply to the project.
This is going to be a first-rate shopping center with a first-rate grocery provider who we all know
who is the number -one grocery store in this area, and we're pretty confident that that's who's going to land on
this site.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Mr. Yovanovich, before we leave the billboard subject, would you
describe what kind of signage there will be.
MR. YOVANOVICH: It's the typical signage you see at every grocery -anchored shopping center.
I'm sure with, you know, the — and the prominent name is usually the grocery store, and then there's the list of
the other users that will be in the center and then, of course, there will be on -building signage as well, but out
front there will be the typical signage that identifies the primary tenant along with the other tenants.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Do you or does anyone in your team know the approximate dimension
of such a sign?
MR. YOVANOVICH: It's 18 feet tall and 124 square feet of copy. It will be at the project
entrance.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Eighteen feet from the ground?
MR. YOVANOVICH: The ground up, yeah, so you can see it; yeah.
The access to the property; I put this exhibit up before. And if you look at what's existing and what's
proposed, there has never been a commitment for the extension of Fiddler's Creek Parkway all the way to 41.
Never been a guarantee; never been an obligation to build that connection.
Currently exists, Sandpiper. That's the only currently -existing and identified on the master plan
access on 41 for the project. We are, in fact, adding a second one that will serve the Estancia project.
Roughly 1,500 homes will no longer be using Sandpiper for access to their homes. They'll be using their
own separate entrance. We are, in fact, adding access to 41 and making it better than what exists today for
the residential homes. We are not making it worse.
We have the proposed changes regarding the park. There's a fund that people pay when they move
into the community. They call it Delta money. When you move in, you pay X, and that's the money that will
be utilized for the park improvements. There will not be a special assessment for the park improvements.
That money is already being accumulated and will be utilized for the linear park.
I think I already mentioned that the money is already set aside for the traffic signal.
Someone represented that Sandpiper was going to be the construction entrance for the shopping
center. It is not. The construction entrances are going to be further south on 41 for the shopping center.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOW SKI: They also mention that that road is going to be
strengthened. Why -- what's that all about? Those roads are all built to a, what, H2O loading standard
anyway.
MR. YOVANOVICH: The certain grocery store asks that you build the asphalt to be --and I can
bring Mark up here.
Mark, why don't you come up here and explain it so I don't butcher it.
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COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Yeah. I hate to get you out of your chair, but...
MR. MINOR: It's comfortable.
Thank you. My name is Mark Minor, and I'm a civil engineer.
The grocery store has a specification that the pavement and the asphalt structural design is heavy
duty; that it is designed to accept I think it's 180,000 trips of 18 -ton axle loads for a minimum of 20 years.
Anyway, they've got -- the pavement cross-section is predesigned by the grocery store. And they use a much
thicker asphalt pavement than what's required on a road like Sandpiper from the county's typical
cross-section. So that's what we're referring to.
If the grocery store goes in there, we're going to make modifications to Sandpiper mainly to move
the guard gate further into the project, thus we'll be realigning the existing roads and raising the curbs and
repouring the curbs, and we would rebuild the road to meet the grocery store standard which exceeds the
county standard, and that's what we're talking about the super pave.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Okay.
MR. MINOR: That's all.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: And you also raise it up. Because last time I heard a
comment about coming to the road and looking -- having to look up, and I drove through there, but I'm in a
pickup, so I'm probably a little higher than somebody that's in maybe a Corvette or something. But I didn't
see any problem with that. But you're going to raise it up anyway.
MR. MINOR: Well, my Chevy Volt I don't have that problem, so I don't think it's that low. But
yes, we would not --
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Okay.
MR. MINOR: --exceed any of your -all's --
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I'm impressed; a Volt.
MR. YOVANOVICH: There were a lot of other comments that, unless you want me to address
them, I just wanted to address the major comments regarding access on 41, Sandpiper, how the shopping
center really is going to operate, the walls that we're putting in place. If you would like to hear from Mr.
Banks about his projection for when the traffic signal will actually arrive, I'm happy to bring him up.
And maybe you should just come on up, Jim.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Just one --Rich, before you leave, just one thing. This
buildout of Fiddler's Creek you said is 6,000 units?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Correct.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: None of these PUDs, developments, DRIB ever hit the exact
number. Do you have any projection for how many you think you'll beat when you build out?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, honestly, if you look at the history of this specific PUD and DRI, over
the various amendments the number has actually comedown over the many years. So we're at the number
that we really think we're going to achieve. It started at a much greater number. I thunk it was in the 10,000
range and it's down to 6,000 with the last amendment, so...
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: And that's projected --okay.
MR. YOVANOVICH: It's coming down. We've added acreage over the years, and we've actually
reduced the density over the years, so we're at the number we think we're at, other than it will be less because
we do think that some of the multifamily will convert to single-family, but I don't know the exact number.
But, you know, there's going to be some conversion. So it will be less, but I can't give you a specific
number. I'm going to bring Jim up for the --
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Rich, before you leave, there is something about the fence. Are you
going to have a gated fence or something? They're talking about show a fence on the road. Are you --
MR. YOVANOVICH: There's already a security entrance on Sandpiper. It's going to be relocated
further into the project so that security will still be there.
COMMISSIONEREBERT: Okay. Allright.
MR. YOVANOVICH: If I said "fence," I didn't mean to. I meant to say a security gate.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Security gate. So there is a security gate entering into Fiddler's Creek
then?
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MR. YOVANOVICH: Off of Sandpiper, yes, ma'am.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Okay. You'll becoming back, Mr. Yovanovich?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I'm not leaving.
MR. BANKS: Good morning. For the record, Jim Banks with J&B Transportation Engineering.
My firm did prepare the Traffic Impact Statement which county staff did review as well as the
Florida Department of Transportation. We have been in communication with the Florida Department of
Transportation from the get -go when this initial proposal was made to locate the commercial from -- a portion
of the commercial from 951 over to U.S. 41.
FDOT has already indicated and committed to the fact that a traffic signal will be installed at
Sandpiper and U.S. 41 when warranted. So as this project moves forward, and if the cormnercial is located
at this location, the proposed location, as part of the SDP approval we will be in initial communications with
FDOT again to indicate to them that the commercial project is coming online, and the expectations will be
that the traffic signal will be warranted the very first season, peak season, that the shopping center is open for
business.
It is our hope -- and I don't want to -- I don't want to --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'm sorry. Who said that?
MR. BANKS: Who said what?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Who predicted --
MR. BANKS: I've said a lot since I've been up here.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Who predicted the traffic signal by the summer of the opening?
MR. BANKS: No. What Pm saying is is that we did the traffic study. My firm did the Traffic
Impact Statement, and it's based on forecast, projections and expectations of how much traffic is going to be
generated by the --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Your forecast?
MR. BANKS: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: That's what I needed.
MR. BANKS: Our forecast. And FDOT reviewed those forecasts and accepted them as corrector
good estimates, and it's based on their review of the information that was provided. They've made the
determination also that a traffic signal will likely be warranted there in the near future after the shopping
center is open.
And prior to opening the shopping center, during the SDP application phases, again, we're going to
be back in communications with FDOT. Your staff will require that. And we will, again, renotify them
about the process of going forward with the commercial center. And it's our expectations that we will
provide, again, the updated information. We're going to have new traffic data on U.S. 41. The traffic
volumes are continuing to increase, so that's only going to support the previous forecast that we're going to
warrant a traffic signal there.
We will then initiate a signal warrant study shortly after the shopping center is open, and it is our
expectation that the very first season that it is open we are going to meet warrants, and that traffic study, the
signal -warrant study, will take about a month to prepare and submit to FDOT, and then hopefully within
about 60 days after the submittal FDOT will review the information, and if it meets warrants, then we'll
approve the installation of a traffic signal.
I suspect that we will go ahead and begin the design. Once we already know that it's going to meet
warrants, we will precede with the design of the traffic signal, and then FDOT would view the traffic signal.
It will probably about -- the design, probably take another 60 days, and then about 60 more days to erect the
traffic signal.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: May I?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Anybody? Yeah.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Mr. Yovanovich, I think you'd finished your rebuttal.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yeah. I think I hit all the high points that I wanted to touch on.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Somethings that rm still concerned about here. Mrs. Viegas
raised some issues and concerns that seem to me might be capable of being easily dealt with by the
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developer, such as dumpster location, delivery bays, and the like.
MR. YOVANOVICH: We will be going through the Site Development Plan review process as part
of the overall approval, and dumpsters and all of that are located at that time. We've already got a
commitment in the PUD that says we can't have any delivery bays abutting residential. So we're already not
going to be facing her project with delivery bays.
We've already got in the PUD a prohibition, if there's auto -- any type of auto repair, it can't be facing
residential. I thought those were covered by the staff -recommended revisions that we'll be adding to the
business commercial section of the PUD. If there's something else that we can do...
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Is there anything further that you'd be prepared to say byway of a
commitment with respect to location of dumpsters?
MR. YOVANOVICH: That they won't be adjacent to residential?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: No. That you will be mindful of the importance of not being
proximate to residential, although I understand if you move away from one, you might end up moving closer
to another, and I got that, but that you will be mindful of that as you proceed.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Sure. We'll be --your code already requires me to be mindful, so we
certainly have no obligation -- I mean, no fear of doing that commitment.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: You'll be sensitive to that?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yes.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Mr. Fryer, the language presented by the speaker was --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Turn your mike on, Heidi.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: The language presented by the speaker was that dumpsters shall be as far
away from the residential as possible.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: So that is a condition you could request if you elect to recommend
approval.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Let the pursue that, then, if I can. And I do understand that in some
respects it can be a zero-sum game, that if you move it away from one group of residences, it might get closer
to others. But I would like to see a commitment on the part of the developer with respect to that that's really
stronger than the sensitivity that I asked for a moment ago.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, without having an actual Site Development Plan to pinpoint and
identify where the dumpster's going to go — and maybe Mark can help with that. Where would we typically
site a dumpster? It would be in the back of the door, I'm assuming, correct?
MR. MINOR: Yes.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Come on up.
Which is where the service bays are going to be. So we're already putting them away from
residential. So, you know, he's the site planning guy so...
COMMISSIONER FRYER: The dumpsters will be by the bays. And then where will --are they,
again -- will they be very close to the wall that will insulate the commercial development from the residential
area?
MR. MINOR: Typically, in this grocery store chain, dumpster enclosures are up against the store.
They're in enclosures like it's required but also have their own special requirements, and there would be -- I
would imagine there will be two double dumpsters for the store, the shopping center that's proposed.
And this particular grocery store has a compactor for -- they got a lot of boxes and whatnot so they
have a compactor; and typically that's not picked up but about once every couple of weeks, because they
really -- they compact the boxes and the other materials pretty efficiently.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: The dumpsters are going to be against the wall, and they're only
serviced once every couple weeks.
MR. MINOR: Well, no. The recycles are.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Oh, the recycles.
MR. MINOR: Yeah. Well, the garbage will be picked upon whatever the regular garbage days are
for the commercial establishments in that area.
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COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Then with respect to the -- with respect to the linear park and
the EMS access, will we be hearing from EMS?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And if so, who will be facilitating that, the applicant or staff or --
MR. YOVANOVICH: Is EMS here? Oh, there she is.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I think Chief Butcher is here.
CHIEF BUTCHER: Good morning. For the record, Tabitha Butcher, chief of Collier County
EMS.
Obviously, when we're looking at placing stations, we like to look at access to conummities. We do
operate on closest unit dispatch, so having that access into Fiddler's Creek adjacent to the station is definitely
important to us. If the access that has been described will remain, that will be sufficient for us to get into that
community.
And, furthermore, a comment that was made earlier, I'm not here to represent Greater Naples, but I
do have conversations with them when we're talking about future planning, and they actually have property
on Lakes Park, which is further east on 41. So that Sandpiper access would actually be better for them. So
keeping that in place as well as having what is described for us would be sufficient for us to get into that
property.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Chief, would you say that then Greater Naples wouldn't have any need
in order to meet the time to patient contact by using your point of entrance as well?
CHIEF BUTCHER: Yes. They could have a need if they're coming from the west portion, their
station that's currently on Collier Boulevard but, like I said, they do have a proposed location on Lakes Park
that will be collocated, potentially, with the Sheriffs Office. So that Sandpiper access would be closer for
them from that east side.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. I just --and I know that you're not representing Greater
Naples, but it seems to me since they are going to probably be getting there frequently sooner than EMS gets
there with their ALS coverage, that they, wider some circumstances, would want to use that roadway in, that
12 -foot roadway. And I'm going to want to hear more about that, whether that's Creative Lane or whether
that's going down the park. When Mr. Yovanovich comes back, I'll ask him.
But would it be your judgment in your familiarity with fire service that the suppression apparatuses
could get in if needs be on medical calls or for fire calls?
CHIEF BUTCHER: Yeah. As long as its a paved roadway that's going to get us into that
community. Again, I'm not hereto speak for the fire service, so I would suggest a followup with them. But
12 feet seems sufficient for them to be able to pass.
Again, that is going to depend on what kind of traffic as far as pedestrian that's going to be happening
on that roadway. But as long as we have passable access that's paved, us, as well as fire, should be able to
get down that road.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you. That's all I have.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Anything else?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Any others?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Could you say a word or two --I believe one of the members of the
public indicated that there was going to be a roadway going down in the middle of the linear park. Is that the
roadway we're talking about, versus Creative Lane?
MR. YOVANOVICH: That's the -- that's the park layout with the proposed roadway on it.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And the roadway will be used exclusively by emergency vehicles?
MR. YOVANOVICH: It will be a path --it could be a pathway --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I mean for motor vehicles.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yeah. As far as motor vehicles go, yes, it's going to be for emergency. It's
not -- you're not going to be driving a car in there.
MR. MINOR: Maintenance vehicle.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I'm sorry. Some maintenance vehicles as well for the conummity. But
you and I won't be driving our cars there if we lived in Fiddler's Creek.
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COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. I'm trying to test to what extent, if any, the roadway would be
a material impediment for the ability to enjoy that park.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, if you look at the layout, the active parts of the park are --you know
me, I'm directionally challenged -- south. Thank you. Which that location is not --it's about 300 feet away
from the 5 -acre passive park we're talking about where the major activity, the active portion, is. So it's not
that --and the other part was going to be a passive park. This is going to be, obviously, more active. The
passive portion is to the north, and I don't see that roadway being an impediment to anybody enjoying the
green space.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Thank you. I don't believe I have anymore questions.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Rich, could you just please tell me when this is going to the BCC?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Knock on wood, May 22nd.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Okay. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Anybody else?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Thank you.
MS. VIEGAS: Am I allowed to make arebuttal statement only because Iwas --
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: No, we were -- the speakers are done.
MS. VIEGAS: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. So I guess we'll close the public hearing and have a discussion
and vote.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: We are also doing this for the EAC. This is also included in this,
Karen?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: There is an EAC review, because there are eagles nests in the DRI but not
in that petition area; is that correct?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Is Summer here?
MS. GUNDLACH: Summer, could you step up and confirm?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: The seat's empty.
MS. GUNDLACH: We're checking the staff report.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Well, that's where I got my notes from. That's what it said.
MS. GUNDLACH: Okay. Then that's accurate.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. So you've made the commitment to add conditions for the --
MR. YOVANOVICH: The staff conditions and we'll add to the PUD and the business commerce
section.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: -- staff conditions and the EMS connecting.
MR. YOVANOVICH: We'll commit --we'll make a provision that EMS will have connection
through the proposed linear park to the current cutoff on Fiddler's Creek Parkway.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: And you're going to show that on the master plan.
MR. YOVANOVICH: We can. We'll add that to the master plan.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, just keep in mind, though, that when you say EMS has access,
the chances are the first EMS to arrive on the scene will be a fire truck
MR. YOVANOVICH: We'll say --why don't we say "emergency vehicles," because that, in my
mind, covers the sheriff --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: That'sbetter.
MR. YOVANOVICH: --covers EMS, covers fire; anybody else who is emergency.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah, good.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: This item's coming back on consent?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I hope not.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: What do we need that --
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Well, if you'd like it to come back on consent, then you just need to do a
motion to bring it back on consent.
MR. KLATZKOW: No, no. You have an issue with the master plan, don't you?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Yeah. I would like to have it to see the master plan.
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COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: It's a small issue, unless we can handle it here.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: But the County Attorney's Office does not have it.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: We also have the road that goes around the commercial is eliminated.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: That was the issue.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Right.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Yeah. As long as we're clear on that, it's a small issue.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay.
MR. YOVANOV ICH: I could put it backup on the visualizer once I take it back from Terri to
show you what the one change was.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: What --
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: I know what itis.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Heidi?
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Well, I can see the change that he's showing on the master plan. I just
can't review the master plan to see if there are any other changes.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I'm representing to you there are no other changes other than --
MR. KLATZKOW: Well, if there are any changes, we'll bring it back. If there are no other
changes, we won't. Is that fair?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: That's fair.
MR. YOVANOVICH: That's fair.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: So we don't need consent. We don't need to bring this back on consent
then.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: All right.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, I'll ask for an opportunity to say what I feel about this, if I may.
Obviously, it is very important for us to be sensitive to the needs and expectations of homeowners,
and we try our level best to be receptive to those and to try to, when we can, guide developer along the way
that yields what I would call a win-win situation. And frequently we're able to do that; sometimes we're not.
And in some cases when we're not, that, plus other reasons maybe that are of a more global nature, such as
our concern for the larger geographical area -- I'm thinking of one recently that was a very large project
where the residents didn't seem to care very much, but I still was compelled to vote against it.
But I don't see that in this case; I really don't. Obviously, there are some legitimate desires on the
part of the homeowners that are not going to be met. I think that all of the legal requirements, though,
including the agreement to which the members of the golf club were a party and which provides for remedies
in the event of a failure to measure up to the expectations that were -- that were created in that contract by the
developer as the owner of the club, taken in all, the concessions that the developer made, particularly
following the NIM, such as getting rid of the hotel and a number of others like that, point me to the
conclusion that the developer has been quite reasonable in its attempt to accommodate as many of the
concerns of the homeowners as possible.
Obviously, not everything can be rolled into that, but it hardly ever is. You hardly ever get
everything you ask for.
So I want to commend the developer and their representatives for making an effort that is, I will have
to say, something we don't always see, and so that was appreciated.
And for those reasons, and with all due respect for the interests and wishes of the homeowners, Pm
going to vote for this.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Is that a motion?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, unless anybody else wants to speak, and if not, I will move
approval. But we've got to vote on two, don't we?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Yes. We need to vote on the development order.
MR. BELLOWS: That's correct. The development order --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Which should I start with? Does it matter?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: The development order.
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MR. BELLOWS: The development order first.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. I'll move approval of the proposed amendment of the
development order.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Is there a second?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I'll second.
CHAIRMAN HOMAK: All those in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Aye.
COMMISSIONEREBERT: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Aye.
COM 41SSIONERDEARBORN: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. The PUD.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Then I'll move approval, unless you wanted to.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: No. Well, what I want to say is I kind of made checkmarks of the
pros and cons. I have more cons than pros (sic).
We are --the Planning Commission only gives reference to the BCC. They are the ones that make
the final decision. So if you are dissatisfied with our recommendation -- that's why I asked Mr. Yovanovich
when it was planning on going in front of the BCC -- that would be your time to go there.
As far as the DRI, they've okayed that. It looks like everything that is in our packet has been
followed through on.
So I am going to make a motion to approve the PUD. I don't have the number of it though.
Karen, can you read the number?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: PL20160002496.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I'll second.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: And that includes all the changes --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: All the conditions, changes, concessions, everything.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: And you seconded it?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I second.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. All those in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONERDEARBORN: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. And now we have to approve it as the EAC.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: We do?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Yes.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Yes. It's a --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'll move it be approved in our role as EOC (sic).
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Second.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: All those in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONERDEARBORN: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Opposed, like sign.
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(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. That's it.
MR.YOVANOVICH: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: I think we'll take --we're going to break for lunch now and comeback at
1:00.
(A luncheon recess was had.)
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Could everybody please sit down.
***Okay. The next two items on the agenda are companion items, so we'll hear them both again.
They're for the Tamiami Trail commercial infill subdistrict, the Torres Family Trust. And the first item is
PL20160002771/CPSS-2016-2, and the cormnercial PUD is P1,20160000226.
Anybody wishing to speak on this item, please rise and be sworn in by the court reporter.
(The speakers were duly sworn and indicated in the affirmative.)
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Disclosures; Stan.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I talked to the developer's attorney and his engineering
planner.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Ned.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I spoke with Mr. Yovanovich and have received emails.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: I spoke with Mr. Mulhere, and I have some emails.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: And I spoke to Mr. Yovanovich, and emails.
COMMISSIONERDEARBORN: Emails.
COMMISSIONERCHRZANOWSKI: Andemails.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Yeah.
Okay. So we'll hear from the petitioner, and staff, and then we'll hear the speakers.
Bob?
MR. MULHERE: Thank you. For the record, Bob Mulliere with Hole Montes here representing
the Torres Family Trust. As was mentioned, there's two companion petitions. One is a small-scale
amendment. The other is a PUD. The property's currently zoned "A" agriculture. It's 5.8 acres. I know
you're all familiar with the location because you've been talking about it all morning.
So I did put an exhibit on the visualizer. This is Imperial Wilderness right here, Fiddler's Creek right
here, this is that other commercial tract within Fiddler's Creek, and this is the aforementioned, or it actually
runs right here, Creative Lane, which I'll show you an exhibit that gives you a little better clarity on that.
Just to take a look at an aerial, that is the subject property. It's a little hard to see, but there's a little
notch that is not part of the property right here, which is owned by Collier County Utilities, and it will be
more visual on the next exhibit I put up.
And -- let's see. That is the PUD master plan. You can see that notch I referred to right here. I've
forgot to mention, with me this morning is Rich Yovanovich, land -use attorney; Nonn Trebilcock, who is the
transportation consultant; Paula McMichael, who works with me at Hole Montes; and Jeremy Arnold, who's
with Waldrop Engineering who has been doing the civil engineering on the project.
The -- we have, you know, culled down -- and, as a result of comments made at the neighborhood
meeting, actually some initial review of what we were requesting, and then back and forth with staff, we have
culled down the list of uses. I'll tell you that originally we had thought about coming in just for C3 zoning,
and the reason that we thought we could do that was we thought that this would be -- we'd comply with the
policy in the Comp Plan that allows for commercial and office infill, and so we didn't think we would have to
do a Growth Management Plan amendment, because if you have commercial on either one or both sides,
there's apolicy that would allow you to come in and ask for equal to or less than intensity than the
commercial that you're adjacent to; however, I'll probably use -- this exhibit right here would be the best one
to show you.
It turn outs we couldn't do that because basically the depth of the existing -- the depth of the proposed
commercial has to be the same as the depth of the existing commercial. And ifyou were to run aline from
the existing commercial across this, you can see that a triangle of it falls outside of that requirement;
otherwise, it would have met, at least in my opinion, all of the conditions prerequisite for commercial, office,
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and infill and would not have required the small-scale amendment. Water under the bridge. We submitted
it, and we're here today to discuss it.
Since we did the small-scale amendment, it was just as easy to do a PUD because we could more
easily restrict the uses and put in the conditions that are not applicable to a straight zoning district such as C3,
including enhanced setbacks, enhanced buffers, and reducing the list of uses.
Assuming you've looked at the PUD document, you are aware of the fact that we have restricted uses
adjacent to Imperial Wilderness in addition to providing an enhanced buffer and a wall adjacent to them.
We've reduced the uses adjacent to them as well. The language in the PUD says within 60 feet of the eastern
and southern perimeter boundaries of the PUD, only the following uses: Conservation, preservation,
landscape buffers, stormwater, essential services, and professional office.
So the retail type uses that we've listed in our project or the other uses are not permitted within that
first 60 feet, so we've moved thein away from the Imperial Wilderness as sort of a stepdown.
We were also able, since we were going through the PUD process, to ask for a couple of uses that
were not allowed in C3, most notably self -storage.
Let me just talk a little bit about the setbacks. You can see that there's a preserve here. One of the
things that was mentioned in our neighborhood information meeting was, if at all possible, could we extend
that preserve. Originally it sort of ran just I guess, east and west, and we worked with staff --
Oh, I'm sorry. Thank you, Ray. You could have just told me that. I'm like Rich. I'm not real
good with this machine here.
Sorry, Rich.
You know, this preserve here creates a buffer, but there are limitations on how far we could extend it
because the quality of the natural area that we were to preserve is primarily in this area here, not up here;
however, we did work with staff and did extend it a bit so it really runs about halfway up that eastern
boundary. But we've also provided a 25 -foot -wide Type B buffer with a wall and berm to create separation.
This little area here we only have the 10 -foot buffer because that is a utility easement owned by
Collier Comity, so there's already separation, and you can see there's no units in that area.
And over here is Creative Drive, which is a 60 -foot right-of-way of which there's an easement of 30
feet on our parcel and 30 feet on the Fiddler's PUD/DRI. The access points are right here and here. I think
thats important because we are not proposing access directly from the East Trail. So it will be, you know, a
little safer in terns of high-speed traffic on the East Trail.
Just checking to see if I — I do have one clarification or correction which I did talk to staff about prior
to the meeting. The PUD document limits the overall square footage to 60,000 square feet for the
commercial uses, and no single use can be greater than 45,000 square feet. And I presume that staff felt that
was important, because they didn't want to see just one big box there.
However, we are also permitted to have an ALF, and that is regulated by a floor area ratio, and we
are requesting 0.6 floor area ratio.
It wasn't clear in the small-scale GMP in the language that was provided that the 60,000 square feet
does not apply to the ALF; that that's regulated by the floor area ratio.
It was clear in the PUD under Permitted Use No. 32 in the PUD, the last sentence says, assisted
living facilities are not subject to the limitation on the square footage, and there is a floor area ratio in the
PUD.
So I would propose that in the GMP language on Page 2, Paragraph B, which reads, "The maximum
floor area shall be limited to 60,000 square feet, I propose to say, comma, "except for ALF/CCRC, which is
limited to a floor area ratio of 0.60," which would clarify the conflict between the PUD and the small-scale
amendment. I should have picked upon that, but that language changed quite a bit during the process, and I
didn't notice it.
I would talk a little bit about the NIM. We had 35 people. Mostly --there were a few people from
developments across the East Trail, but mostly folks were from Imperial Wilderness, and there was certain
give and take. They talked about, you know, wanting to have a wall, and we said we would put a wall in.
We enhanced the buffer. We limited the uses adjacent to them.
No one, to my recollection, spoke against the project, but there were concerns, and we feel we've
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addressed those concerns.
The biggest concern that was expressed at the time was there was a swath of land that was cleared for
the survey crews to go in and survey. the property. And I think the folks in Imperial Wilderness felt that
opened up a security issue for them that people could walk down that cleared path and enter the project.
Once this project is developed, there will be security because there will be a wall there.
I think that covers everything, unless I've forgotten something. Rich or Paula could let me — what
did I forget?
MR. YOVANOVICH: You didn't forget anything. I wanted to put a couple cleanups on the record.
MR. MULHERE: Okay. Good. I'll get out of your way.
MR.YOVANOVICH: I didn't get an opportunity to talk to Bob yesterday. We hada couple
of-- in discussing some of the language in the PUD, there were a couple of cleanup items that Commissioner
Fryer had requested that we put in the PUD, so I'll put them on the visualizer one by one. And I don't tbink
that there will be any issues with anything that -- other than you probably can't read my handwriting.
MR. MULHERE: Here. I'll assist. Between the two of us, we'll be able to do this.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I don't like our odds.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: While they're doing that, I just want to make sure you understand what
Mr. Mulhere just did with the addition of the language to the GMP, because, as you know, the FAR for group
housing under your LDC is .45. So by putting it in the GMP, he's now deviating from your Land
Development Code and eliminating the necessity for a deviation in the PUD.
I don't know whether Ms. Falmer has evaluated that change, and I do believe your staff has a lower
FAR recoimnendation in the PUD. So I just wanted to make sure you understood what just happened.
MR. YOVANOVICH: We assume they'll end up consistent with whatever ends up being the vote.
So on the list of allowed uses, under Item No. 52, sometimes we list in the SIC code the things that
are actually allowed from that SIC code. Sometimes we say the things that are excluded from the SIC code.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: I'm sorry, Rich. Where are you?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I'm on Page 3 of the PUD. Pm under the list of permitted uses, Item No. 52.
I think this is the first time this has come up.
And we go back and forth between sometimes we list which of the things in the SIC code we can
have. Usually its related to if there's along list and we're only asking for a few, we'll list what we can do,
and sometimes we put in the things we can't do because there's a long list and it's a shorter list to just exclude.
We're going to try in the future to be consistent and only list the things we can do fi•om SIC codes in the
future.
But we wanted in Item No. 52 to make it clear that for Item No. 7299 we're limited to the string of
uses that follow that, just to make that clear. I don't think that should be a problem.
Then under 72, which is kind of the catch-all, if there's something we didn't think of that comes along
later, there's a process that we can go through, a public -hearing process to say what's comparable. We were
asked to add the words that it's "comparable and compatible" so there's a more definite standard for a use that,
you know, perhaps we didn't think of, because there always is. Something will come along that we just,
frankly, didn't know existed at the time that might make sense on the property.
Then on Page 5, I just wanted to clarify that the temporary display is obviously limited to outdoor
areas and not indoor areas. So I think that's a good -- a good catch.
And I think that's all of the ones that we talked about clarifying. If I missed one, I'm sure I'll be
reminded. But I think I got the two or three that we talked about. We'll make those changes. Hopefully
they're nothing that's significant, and staff won't have any issues with those proposed changes.
That's all I wanted to add to the record from Bob's presentation, and then we're available to answer
any questions.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Heidi, so we should not include the language in the GMP that was
suggested?
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Well, if you're in agreement that a larger building in this location is okay,
because that's what a .60 FAR will give you, then, you know, that's your decision on how you would like to
make a recommendation to the Board. But it would eliminate the need for a deviation in the LDC -- I mean,
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in the PUD
COMMISSIONER EBERT: In the PUD.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Uh-huh.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Are there any questions for --Ned, you have questions?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah, I have a few. Not many. Let's see here.
Bob, you can take some good-natured needling, can't you?
MR. MULHERE: Absolutely. What'd I do; typos?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: No.
MR. MULHERE: That's usually what I do.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: It's in line with the conversation we had informally about coffee
keeping you awake, you know.
MR. MULHERE: Yes, yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: At the NIM, which I listened to, all of them, you said if you -- let me
see if I've got the -- if you're ever having trouble sleeping, watch the Planning Commission on TV.
MR. MULHERE: Whoops.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And so what I wanted to know is, were you talking about the planning
commissioners or the applicant's representatives?
MR. MULHERE: I was talking about my presentation.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: That's what I thought. Just wanted to clarify that. Thank you.
MR. MULHERE: I must have been in a bad mood that day.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: No. It's --I understand.
Allright. Going back to the uses -- and I appreciate the changes that Rich made. They were indeed
in line with our discussions. I think it makes it a better document.
I still have a few concerns and questions, though. Oh, I also appreciate the expression of intent
going forward to list the inclusion rather than generically say everything that's in 5299 except thus and so,
because when you do that you force us to go back and look at another document, so I appreciate that very
much.
MR. MULHERE: And that primarily occurs --I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt. I was just
going to say that primarily occurs on those uses that are kind of like catch-all uses.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yes.
MR. MULHERE: Otherwise, the SIC's pretty specific, but where you have those catch -ails, yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah. Understood.
So we got clarified No. 23, eating and drinking places, restaurants only. I understand that. Number
29, garment pressing. I think Rich explained that to my satisfaction. I just wanted to bring it to the attention
of others, that that's going to be apermitted use.
Group care facilities, of course, talked about. Loanbrokers. And it's my understanding this
is -- use No. 43, loan brokers would include payday loans, would it not?
MR. MULHERE: I'm not sure that it does. And I don't have the SIC code with me. I know it
included mortgage.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah, sure. Mortgage bankers, mortgage brokers. That would be
fine, but you might --
MR. MULHERE: But if you want to exclude that we're happy to do that.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I wouldn't mind it if you --yeah, I'd like you to do that, please.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I don't know how you clarify.
MR. MULHERE: Payday.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: You know, those are the trucks that pull up sometimes at the very
temporary locations that I don't think would be appropriate in the neighborhood.
Use 45, membership organizations, and Rich and I talked about that as well. I think we can tie that
down with some general language that I'm going to offer to you in a moment.
MR. MULHERE: On 45?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah. Well, if you add the general language, it would tie it down, I
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think, for me
Fifty-two, personal services miscellaneous. You've got dating service in there. And I realize that
that may well be on the up and up.
MR. MULHERE: It's pretty much all online these days, right?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, I wouldn't know.
MR. MULHERE: Well, neither would I, since I just got married last year.
Okay. We could strike through dating service. I have no objection.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah. Why don't we.
MR. MULHERE: No objection.
CI IAHUV AN HOMIAK: Did you find her online?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Then repair services has exclusions. Retail services has exclusions.
I was interested to see --I'm curious. It's not a major point here, and I won't waste much time with it. But the
USPS, the federal agency, are they subject to our zoning regulations? This has to do with No. 70.
MR. MULHERE: To my knowledge, they are subject un terms of locating the use --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Are they? Okay.
MR. MULHERE: --but they are not subject to the site planning process. They have their own
federal requirements.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Well, here is what I would like to see: First of all, a catch-all
phrase that sometimes we see and sometimes we don't, but particularly the way that these uses have been set
forth and the multitude of them. I'd like to see some language that any use not expressly permitted is
prohibited. And in this case we want to be sure the word "not" finds its way in there.
MR. MULHERE: I mean, I'm --
MR. KLATZKOW: Well, that's your LDC.
MR. BELLOWS: That's correct.
MR. KLATZKOW: That's your LDC.
MR. BELLOWS: The Land Development Code contains that.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. But are we no longer asking developers to put that language
in? Because it seems as though sometimes we do.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Well, we also have the language that you have is --
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Heidi, your mike.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: -- Item No. 72.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yeah. And, Mr. Fryer, you and I spoke about that. As long as it didn't
take away Item No. 72 by putting that language in, because that was my concern is if --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: It was, and I think you fixed 72, at least to my satisfaction.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Right. But I just wanted to make sure that if you put in a general provision
that says, if it's not in the PUD, you can't have it; does that mean that 72, that says if it's not in the PUD, I
can't use this process?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, how about that language, "except as permitted above or under
the proceedings identified in 72."
MR. MULHERE: I actually have, I think, some language that would address your concern that we
do actually put in there. If you look on Page 1 of the PUD -- thanks, Paula, for pointing it out to me -- under
permitted uses there's a sentence that says, "No building or structure or part thereof shall be erected, altered,
or used or land used in whole or in part within this PUD for other than the following:" and then it lists the
permitted uses.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah, okay. That works.
MR. MULHERE: Pretty clear.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: That works. Okay. Now, what about the sexually oriented
businesses language? Sometimes that's an issue that we ask for and sometimes we dont, and I don't think it's
because sometimes we thunk it's okay in places.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: No.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: So wouldn't we want to put that language in?
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COMMISSIONER EBERT: Not with Karen on the Board, no.
MR. MULHERE: Ion perfectly okay with that. It would fall, I would think, under Paragraph 3 on
Page 5, restriction on certain uses, and we would just add that as a restriction.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. All right. Good. Now, let me go back to my other sheet.
MR. MULHERE: Or maybe it wouldn't fall there, but we'll find the appropriate location to go
ahead with that.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Those are all the questions I had on uses, but I've got other comments
generally. Let's see. Mr. Mulhere, you may have explained this, but I think I might ask you to do it again,
because one resident at the NIM expressed a concern that their gated community is being breached by the
project, and if you wouldn't mind clarifying that again.
MR. MULHERE: Yes. I think that primarily dealt with the fact that when you go to do a boundary
survey, you can see this property is highly vegetated. It's not all high quality, but its highly vegetated. So
when you go to do a boundary survey, the surveyors have cut a swath through on the perimeters, which they
did here. I think, typically, it's 10 feet. There are restrictions in the Land Development Code that limit how
much you can clear.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Was it your understanding that that's what the --
MR. MULHERE: That's the way — yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay.
MR. MULHERE: Well, once I think that it was understood -- and there was actually an
agreement -- a preliminary agreement that David Torres was going to meet with the properly manager, which
I think he did, to talk about those issues. But once, I think, it was understood that we were proposing a
combination of wall and berm eight feet in height and a 25 -foot landscape buffer with landscaping on the
Imperial Wilderness side of that wall as required by the LDC, I think that addressed the issue.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Madam Chair, that's all I have.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Anybody else? No? Oop, Diane?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: I'm going to ask you about the .45 and going to .60. This is
becoming — coming up all the time now, so its a deviation from the Land Development Code.
MR. MULHERE: Yes.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Why is this?
MR. MULHERE: We had to ask for that deviation. It's always been -- it's typically always been
granted in PUDs, but as you're aware, there was a discussion sometime ago. I wasn't involved. Rich was
involved in that one. Maybe I should let him speak to it.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Oh, I know he's involved inmost of them.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I am.
Bob's correct. We basically had been coming through for years with kind of a standard deviation, if
you will, to go to the .6, because the .45 FAR was put in your code many, many years ago. The indust y has
evolved where you're doing bigger units for your residents. You're also providing a lot more common area,
dining, fitness facilities, theaters, all of these things that people who are staying in these facilities have
become accustomed to that was -- if you only had so many square feet under a .45 FAR, you either couldn't
provide those amenities, therefore, you were not providing what the market wanted, or you had to go with
smaller units, because to get the unit count you need to make it work, which was also not what the market
wanted --so I would bet you — I know it happened back when Fred Coyle was a county commissioner. It
was the fust time we came through and asked for the .6 FAR as a deviation.
I believe there was even a change to the Land Development Code working its way through its
process to go to the .6. And then there was a discussion that came up most recently for the Cleary PUD
where instead of --that was the first time that the .45 to the .6, some planning commissioners wanted to tie
that deviation to the provision of certain income -restricted units, and the Planning Commission at that time
voted 4-2 to transmit the .6 for the Cleary PUD.
We agreed with the neighborhood on a.5 FAR with no income restrictions. That's what got
approved for Cleary. Cleary was a larger piece of property. It was a 10 -acre piece of property versus a
5.8 -acre piece of property.
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So when we did the math at .4 versus .45 or .6, we could get the types of -- you know, the amenities
people wanted and a unit count that made sense, so we could agree to the .5 in Cleary.
But we had done, I've got to bet, at least 10, maybe 20, maybe more, you know, senior housings that
are at a.6 or greater. I know each one stands on its own, but that was pretty much a routine deviation that
was not finding any objections from the Planning Commission as we were going through that process until
recently.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Mr. Yovanovich is 100 percent correct. It was an LDC amendment for
the .60 because of the approvals that had been granted.
It came to the Collier County Planning Commission, and this board said that they wanted to not go
forward with the LDC amendment, and they wanted to consider it on a case-by-case basis.
It was subsequent to that when they started requiring the Medicaid beds if you wanted to go above
the .45. Cleary was an aberration.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Okay. So it has to do with Medicaid beds?
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: No, no. You know, deviations are something that the applicant can
request under the Land Development Code, and they are to provide a justification. It's not an entitlement.
It's something they can ask for so, therefore, the Planning Commission or the Board can request reasonable
conditions.
So after the LDC amendment, you know, didn't proceed forward, that's when they started
some -- you as a board started requesting the Medicaid beds if they're to go to .60.
Now, I'm not saying that's what you have to do. I'm just saying if, you know, there are conditions,
you know, you don't have to approve a deviation. It's not an entitlement.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Maybe you can answer this for me. Rich, are there any Medicaid
beds in Collier County?
MR. YOVANOVICH: This is a -- and this is what happened when we had the discussion for Cleary
is Medicaid -- first of all, the county can't dictate to the state when it will allow you to use Medicaid funds.
The problem that I'm aware of is Medicaid is only available for skilled nursing beds, which is a
nursing home. Medicaid does not pay for either assisted living or independent living. So even if I -- let's
just say we agreed to a condition that a certain percentage of the, quote, additional units I'm going to get
because I have a .6 would be restricted to Medicaid participants, I can't fulfill it because there's not Medicaid
money out there for those types of services.
So that's why we pushed back on the Cleary one is I said, you know, you're imposing a condition on
me that I know I can't meet, because there's no Medicaid funds to cover that condition.
Now, we think we've justified on many occasions, and specifically on this one, the rationale for why
a .6 is necessary. You want to have --you want to have community facilities that the residents want.
They've become accustomed to nice dining facilities, theaters, workout facilities, things that they want
because they stay on the campus, and that's what they're expecting. And if they can't get those uses, they'll go
elsewhere. And if the county decides they're not going to -- they're not going to allow people to go greater
than the .45 to provide those facilities, there'll be a shortfall in meeting the demand that is getting greater and
greater every day, especially when you're talking about, like, assisted living facilities and memory care units.
You know, there's a shortfall.
MR. KLATZKOW: If I may, this is no different from the affordable housing issue where a
developer comes in, asks for greater density and we'll say, okay, we'll give you the greater density if you
reserve a certain number of units for affordable housing.
Here he wants greater density for beds, as it will, and we're saying, okay, we'll give you a greater
density for beds if you reserve some of them for Medicaid beds. It's the same concept here. It is.
Now, I understand, you know, what happens if there's no applicants for it? That's simply because of
the way the law works or whatever, you simply do not have the people available to fill those beds, and just
like the affordable housing, we can structure the language saying that's sort of like first come, first serve. If
you open available beds and you have Medicare (sic) patients, then they get it. If you don't, you don't have
to keep the bed open. So we could work on language like that.
But, you know, we've had this .5 forever in the land code, and we've had this deviation for as long as
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I've been here. And I don't know if we're heading towards requiring these beds or not, but, you know, if we
are going to be doing that, you know, I'd suggest a more thoughtful process than just the knee-jerk reaction
we've been having lately.
MR. YOVANOVICH: And I've been saying that all along. I'm saying, I think we've justified the
need for the .6.
MR. KLATZKOW: Well, yeah, but you justify it every time, and it's no longer a deviation. But
it's no longer a deviation. It's the standard.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, it's not because every Time I have to come and I have to ask, and you
can say no.
MR. KLATZKOW: Okay. But if you've got 100 applications and 100 times you grant the
stipulation for the deviation, it's no longer a deviation. It's a de facto standard. And I'm just saying, just --if
you're going to keep the .45, that's fine. If you want to change it to .6, that's fine. That's a policy decision.
But, you know, if the thought process is, okay, well, it's .45 but if you grant us Medicaid beds or Medicare
beds, you know, you can get additional space, that would be a policy decision. Not much different from
what we do for affordable housing. But it --I think it takes some discussion rather than just doing it on the
fly.
MR. YOVANOVICH: And I agree with you, Mr. Klatzkow. What I'm suggesting is it's very
different than affordable housing because under affordable housing I go to the Land Development Code,
there's a matrix that says if I do a certain percentage of units restricted at this income level, I can ask for a
bonus of Y. That does not exist when it comes to Medicaid beds, this new discussion. There's no formula.
I can't go to a client and say, if you want to go from .45 to .6 or .9 or whatever, there's not a methodology for
me to do that.
We're suggesting that .6 -- frankly, I think you should have amended the Land Development Code to
go to .6, because I think that is a more current standard. For whatever reason you -all decided you wanted to
do it on a case-by-case basis. We think we've justified the .6 in our particular case, and we're asking you to
give us the .6 with no restrictions on who can use those facilities.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Rich, can I ask you, do you plan on putting an ALF here for sure?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Of course not. I don't know. I don't know. It's a possible site, but I don't
have — I don't have the ALF provider that says I want to go there. Do I?
MR. MULHERE: There's been -- there actually have been calls and discussions. I spoke with
David Torres. He has had some discussions. There's nothing final, but there is interest.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Okay. Thankyou.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: So the .6 floor area ratio just gives you abetter product, right?
MR. YOVANOVICH: We believe it gives you the marketable product.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Well, it gives you a larger building. You've got a couple of thein that are
on Vanderbilt Beach Road, Bradford Square, and there's one more, so it just gives you a bigger building.
CHAIRMAN HOMLAK: Well, I mean, they have hairdressers in them, banks, all kinds of —
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Yeah, some of them.
MR. YOVANOVICH: It gives you the amenities that people want.
MR. KLATZKOW: It gives you a bigger building. Whether or not its a quality bigger building or
not, that's always market driven.
CHAIRMAN HOMLAK: It's the amenities we're able to --
MR. KLATZKOW: Whether it has the amenities or not, it's marketability. It just gives you a
bigger building.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I wasn't paying as close attention as I should have, Heidi, when you
explained the effect of what we were doing with respect to the GMP. Would you mind quickly running
through that again?
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Well, they would like to include in the Growth Management Plan
amendment that the FAR is .60, and so that is a deviation from our Land Development Code that they
wouldn't have to make in their PUD because the GMP would trump it.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I got it. Thank you.
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MS. ASHTON-CICKO: So, I mean, another option --I do agree with Bob Mulbere that if it's not to
be included in the square -foot limitation, it does need to be mentioned in the Growth Management Plan that
there will bean FAR for --you know, that will be dictated by the floor area ratio. Now, whether or not you
want to put .45 in there, .60, or whatever number, I don't think you necessarily have to put a number in the
GMP, but that will be your policy decision.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Thankyou.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Anybody else have any questions for them? No?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'd like to keep it on a case-by-case basis. That's my input.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Well, that's what it is right now, so...
COMMISSIONER EBERT: That's what it is right now.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Tin?
MR. FINN: For the record, I am Timothy Finn, principal planner.
Yesterday, you were emailed an addendum to the staff report, a revised Page 13. Also, before this
item was heard, I gave each of you a handout of the revised Page 13 for your reference. This, again, is
regarding the group housing deviation.
We just wanted to clear up some information with respect to the approvals on the Cleary PUD
petition that was heard at the October 5th, 2017, CCPC meeting and the November 14th, 2017, BCC meeting.
Furthermore, this petition and the companion small-scale GMP petition, they are both consistent with
the Growth Management Plan, the Land Development Code, and the rezoning policies; therefore, staff
recommends approval.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: So are you still recommending the dedication of the beds as part of
your --
MR. FINN: No. The only thing that we're recommending is the .50.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: The .50?
MR. FINN: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: The Medicaid beds is not at all apart of this?
MR. FINN: No, it's not.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Can I ask staff to explain how they came up with the .50?
MR. BELLOWS: For the record, Ray Bellows. That was the last Board direction on the vote.
MR.YOVANOVICH: So you're basing it solely on the Cleary PUD?
MR. BELLOWS: Yes, until we get further direction.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Okay.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Well, that doesn't mean that we have to use the .50.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: That's what the Board put it.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: So that's their policy, the Board's policy from now, or we can do .6.
MR. KLATZKOW: No, no, the Board's policy is the LDC, which is .45. Now we go into
deviations. If you're going to have a deviation, you should have a reason for the deviation. Staffs coming up
with a.5 for whatever reason. They want .6 for whatever reason. They do need a reason for the deviation.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I think a reason that was offered, if I heard correctly, was that it's a
smaller parcel.
MR. YOVANOVICH: We believe we've adequately explained why the .6 is justified. I just
haven't heard why staff, other than the last one where there was a compromise at a .5 is the new standard. I
just was curious, do they --are they finding that our information and rationalization about the amenities that
are required for these types of facilities is not what we're saying they are or --I don't know. I'm just asking.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Mike?
MR. BOSL• Mike Bosi, Planning and Zoning director.
The staffs recommendation of .5 was based upon the Board of County Commissioners' decision
related to Cleary. It was framed within that executive summary that there was a suggestion of Medicaid
beds that wasn't carried forward with in the recommendation from the Planning Commission. They evaluated
the --they evaluated the proposal, they evaluated the request to .6. They made a decision with no Medicaid
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beds at .5. That is an action of the Board of County Commissioners. We felt that we would be in line with
the Board's action at recommending .5.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Mike, could you comment on whether the reduction in size of this
parcel should -- to what extent, if any, it would justify a higher FAR.
MR. BOSI: The size of the parcel is immaterial to an FAR. It's a ratio. It's a ratio that applies on
an acre basis. So whether you've got 10 acres or one acre, the ratio's going to apply equally and fairly.
What the argument is is it's a smaller parcel. They feel they can get more economies of scale with a
higher -- because they'll have 15 percent per acre more square footage with a .60 FAR.
So, in relationship to the justification, it will provide them more opportunities to provide more square
footage within the amenities that are provided. The Board of County Commissioners, at their last meeting,
decided that .5 was appropriate when these questions came up, and staff is following that lead.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Did the Board of County Commissioners evaluate the size of the lot in
relation to the decision it made?
MR. BOSI: I could only imagine that that was part of their considerations.
MR. YOVANOVICH: When's it appropriate -- do I wait till the end to talk about that or -- I don't
want to interrupt.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: No, go ahead.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Okay. Now, I have a slightly different recollection of how we got to the .5
in the level of discussion that occurred. We actually met with representatives of the association to talk about
what the association would agree to as far as the floor area ratio, and that was a.5 for that particular project.
I don't remember a detailed discussion at the Board level as to how to justify the .5. I remember it
being agreed to with the neighborhood, and the Board said since the neighbors were supporting it -- that was
not the discussion point that I remember happening at the board level.
And I also want to point out that I understand that the ratio remains the same depending upon the
acreage that you have, but the financial viability of a project very much depends upon how big the building
canbe. So in order for the building to be financially viable, we need to have more than a.45, especially
because we only have 5.8 acres to get to a shell of a building that will allow us to have the amenities we need
and enough residents for it to work.
So we believe in this particular case the size at 5.8 justifies a.6. That's very different than a 10 -acre
parcel that when you apply a .5 on a 10 -acre parcel you yield a much bigger building than you do with a .5 on
a 5.8 -acre building (sic). And it comes to the financial viability of the project and is it the type of project that
Collier County has become accustomed to seeing when it comes to the level of amenities in assisted living,
skilled nursing -- well, we're not doing skilled nursing, but assisted living and independent living facilities.
We have ahigh standard in Collier County, and to meet that standard, we believe we need the .6 on
this particular -size parcel.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Anybody else?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HOMAK: Could we hear the speakers?
MR. BELLOWS: Pat Cogswell, to be followed by Glenn McComb (sic).
MS. COGSWELL: Good afternoon. My name is Pat Cogswell. I am a resident of Reflection
Lakes which is situated across from the proposed project. You really can't see us on the map. We're over
across the street.
So as a real estate appraiser, I have seen East Naples slowly crawling out from the stigma that it had
been living under. This has occurred primarily due to the quality new construction that has been built over
more than the last decade.
With this area being one of the few locations for Naples to expand, this high level of construction
should continue if we maintain that level of quality throughout. This does not include, and this is my quote,
"an industrial -looking warehouse project being placed in the middle of a residential area." The impact of this
type of project located within view of a residential area will adversely affect the marketability as well as the
value of homes in the surrounding community.
There is talk of a moratorium on projects of this industrial -looking type which could -- which could
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encourage quality construction to continue being built in East Naples. The care -facility project is in line with
a residential community, so this should offer no negative impact on properties.
And now a concern after seeing the plats has shown up. It's indicating a 15 -foot buffer as well as
access not on 41, and I'm hoping that that buffer will be something that would be inclusive of something high
enough that it would be blocking, you know, the view from the residents across the street, as well as -- what
else was I going to say -- wanting to know what the restriction of the height of the buildings could be for that
proposed area.
And I want to thank you for your consideration on this project. Thankyou.
CHAIRMANHOMIAK: Thankyou. Next speaker?
MR. BELLOWS: Glen McComb (sic).
MR. McMAHON: Good afternoon. My name is Glenn McMahon. I live in Reflection Lakes on
Grapevine Drive, and 1, too, am here to speak out against locating commercial property of this type across
from our residential location. I see it as very negative. My wife and I purchased our home in there two
years ago, and I don't see how this enhances the area in any way.
And our hope was always that our community would be residential and it would stay residential, and
I don't see how putting something like this in amongst $400,000 homes and up enhances that in any way.
And I would hope that the Board here will rule against it and consider something else in that location
that would enhance our property values and not detract from them.
Anyway, that's all. I'm not here in any official capacity. I am just here as a resident, a concerned
resident, and that's my piece. Thankyou.
MR. BELLOWS: No other speakers.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Oh, that's it?
MR. MULHERE: For the record, Bob Mulhere again.
I would just comment that U.S. 41 is a 200 -foot -wide right-of-way right there. We're across the
street from Reflection Lakes. I can think of million -dollar and multi -million -dollar homes that are adjacent
to cormnercial in Collier Comity. It doesn't devalue the property.
The industrial look, Ion not sure where that came from. We don't have any design plans, but you
have very significant design requirements in the LDC for commercial uses, for the ALF, for even a
self -storage facility. They're made to look like offices today.
So with all due respect, I get it, but I don't see those as being significant. Thankyou.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Anybody have any more questions or...
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Nothing. You all set?
MR. YOVANOVICH: We're good.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: I'm going to close the public hearing then. Anybody want to make a
motion or discussion?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, I'll ask a question or two, I guess.
Do we need to take any specific action to assure that at least as a result of this hearing we haven't
changed our rule that we're going to continue on a case-by-case basis?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: No.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Is there any part of the proposal that would move us away from that?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: No.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: No.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: We have an architectural ordinance; Bob is right. Ifyou
look at the intersection of Pine Ridge and Airport Road, what used to be a big box store, namely the Sports
Authority, is being totally changed around. I don't even know what it looks like. Westminster Castle or
something. Anyway, they're redoing the entire facade because of our architectural ordinance.
And I suspect anything that gets built alongside Route 41 is going to be a fairly attractive building.
What's the tallest you can make this building?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Fifty-two.
COMMISSIONEREBERT: Forty-five.
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CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Fifty-two feet actual.
MR. MULHERE: That's actual. Zoned is, I think, 45.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yeah. The zoned height is 45 feet. The actual height, tippy -top, 52 feet.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Yeah. I've been looking at Google Earth and, you know, at
the view that the people are going to have, and it seems as though your building is going to be no taller than
the trees that are there. I don't know what kind of buffer you're going to leave along what side or what. But
I don't see this as being tremendously objectionable from the other side of Route 41.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I observed that I didn't hear --I hope I was paying sufficient attention,
but I don't think I heard objections from the public to the increase in FAR.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: No.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: If that's what he wants to put there.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah. Well, I'll move approval as presented. We have to go to first,
what, the small-scale GMP?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: The GMP.
MR. BELLOWS: For the record, Ray Bellows. Yes, please do the --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. I will make that motion for the small-scale GMP.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Second.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Are you including the language that Bob suggested or not?
MR. KLATZKOW: Yeah, just for clarify, are we .5 or .6?
MR. BELLOWS: That's the question.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Or nothing in the Comp Plan. We just deal with it in the PUD.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I don't wart to see it in the Comp Plan.
MR. YOVANOVICH: So we'll just put wording in there, as Heidi suggested, that says it won't
count against the square footage, but we will not put a specific FAR in the Comp Plan.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah. I should have said that.
MR. KLATZKOW: Correct.
MR. YOVANOVICH: That's fine. I understand. I agree with that approach.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: I still second.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. All those in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONERCHRZANOWSKI: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Aye.
COMNIISSIONER EBERT: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Next one. The PUD.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'll move approval of the PUD, PUDZ, and in line with how it's been
presented, and Pm going to recommend an FAR of .6.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Second.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. And that includes all the changes in the language that Rich read
off of yours and the --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yes, ma'an.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: -- no adult-oriented sales?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yes, all of that; yeah.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay,
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: I still second.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Allright. All those in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Aye.
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CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONERDEARBORN: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
MR. YOVANOVICH: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: That's it.
MR. MULHERE: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: ***So the next item up is Pezzettino Di Cielo PUD. It's an insubstantial
change, and it's PL20160003482. I'll wait till everybody moves around here.
All those wishing to speak on this item, would you please rise and be sworn in by the court reporter.
(The speakers were duly sworn and indicated in the affirmative.)
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Disclosures.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Just some emails.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I've got to get my notes up here. Can you come backto me?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Sure.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Disclosures, just emails.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: No, I take that back. I have briefly mentioned during a
conversation -- Wayne mentioned it to me, but...
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I spoke with Mr. Yovanovich.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Is that --I spoke to Mr. Yovanovich and emails.
Patrick?
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Just emails.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I had emails as well. Sony.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Okay. Again, we'll hear from the petitioner, staff, and then the
speakers.
MR. ARNOLD: Good afternoon. I'm Wayne Arnold with Grady Minor, certified planner, here
representing the applicant.
With me is Rich Yovanovich, the land -use counsel on the project. I also have Mike Delate, the civil
engineer in our office who's been working on the site permitting, and we have Steve Fiterman and David
Sturdyvin, who are both the owner and the developer of the proposed project.
So the Pezzettino Di Cielo PUD was approved in 2006, and it was approved for 43 units, and at the
time we intended that it was probably going to be a small -lot villa product. And, concurrently, the owners
had also negotiated with their neighboring property owners, Long Bay Partners and Mediterra Community
Association, for a buffer easement agreement in which it contemplated that the Pezzettino Di Cielo property
could utilize portions of the Mediterra buffer with supplemental vegetation in lieu of providing the minimum
10 -foot -wide Type A buffers on the Pezzettino property.
As time has progressed and the economy has changed, Mr. Fiterman has decided that the highest and
best use is really going to be 27 larger -lot single-family homes, and he has been working diligently over the
past year with the Mediterm Community Association to perfect a maintenance agreement for that easement
area for the buffer easement in which there are very detailed plans that have been presented to the association
and have been approved in the form of a maintenance agreement by the Mediterm Community Association.
That's an example of the existing PUD master plan. It was pretty conceptual, as you can see. It's got
the residential tracts that had a long cul-de-sac, and that was going to support something that would look like
a typical villa layout, if you can imagine lot lines on it.
The new master plan that we are proposing is going to look like this. The entrance still stays on the
north end of the project in an area that's known as Hardesty Lane, and then it forms a loop road around it with
the residential tracts that are designated R.
We have two lakes; we have a preserve. Those components didn't change. We thought there was
ample flexibility under the current plan to build what we are proposing today.
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Staff and the County Attorney's Office said you're going through the process and making other
revisions to the master plan; you might as well make it look like your preliminary plat that's been filed with
the county, so we willingly did that.
So we're seeking two deviations to go with this. One, of course, is the landscape buffer to be able to
reestablish those consistent with the easement agreement in the Mediterm buffer area, and the second is to get
some increased height along Livingston Road for our proposed wall because of the elevation change between
Livingston Road and our property line.
There obviously have been several letters of objection that you've received in your packet, and
namely the essence of those seems to say that there needs to be a wall that would be a part of our project.
We had taken several photos that are in your packet and at strategic locations around -- that's an exhibit in
your packet.
And the intent of this was to show the maturity of the existing landscape buffers on three sides of our
property.
MS. GUNDLACH: Do you want me to do it for you?
MR. ARNOLD: Now that Rich is the expert, maybe I do.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Do you need my help?
MR. ARNOLD: So these are views --I'm just gong to go through these quickly, because I think
you've all seen them in the packet, and if you've made a site visit, you've seen how mature those buffers are.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: See, Rich. Go ahead. Help him.
MR. ARNOLD: But, again, these are --they're views of the existing Mediterra berm and buffer that
have been established when the community was established. They've got probably, gosh, going on at least
10 years worth of growth, so they're very mature. More examples. And then this last view is looking into
the southern buffer.
So, again, very mature buffers, well established. There's a large berm in part around the community.
And to our north is a community that's part of Mediterra, but London Bay Homes is constructing there, and
they decided to build a wall on the common property line, and primarily, its my understanding, they decided
to build a wall because an area known as Hartesty Road was yet to be vacated, and they wanted to make sure
that if there was going to be a road there, they would have a wall between us and a potential road.
So Mr. Fiterman and his group have been working diligently, as I said, with the Mediterra
Community Association, and they were presented some of the exhibits I'm going to show you.
And I know on this scale it's hard to pick up all the detail, but what we have are basically three
cross-sections looking north, south, and to the east that show the area and supplemental vegetation that the
applicant is proposing to install on the Mediterra property. By code we would need a 10 -foot -wide Type A
buffer, which includes one tree every 30 feet.
And what we have proposed and what the Mediterra Conummity Association has approved takes us
through a series of planting plans for each of those areas. And the applicant -- if you want to know a lot
more detail about all the plants that are going to be installed in there -- but this includes ground covers, it
includes shrubs, it includes midstory trees, and it includes cabbage palm trees up to 20 feet in height that
would be planted on the backside of the Mediterra berm, and so it would be the vegetated area our residents
would then look at.
And I can go through each of the cross-sections if you wish, but this was an illustration that showed
you we're getting far more than a Type A buffer installed there, and we think that's a good thing for
everybody involved.
And to the issue of the fence and the wall that has been mentioned in the letters, if there was to be a
wall installed on the Mediterra property, it would require removal of an existing chain link fence and mature
vegetation to install a wall. And if there was to be a wall installed on our common property line, then we
would get no enjoyment of the vegetation that we've pledged to the Mediterra association to revegetate so that
our residents can look at a similar buffer to what they have on their side.
So in our opinion a wall is, one, not only --it's not necessary. It's not required by code in any
situation where you have single-family to single-family and, in fact, we already have mature vegetation that
we're looking to enhance so that we can all enjoy the mutual benefit of that.
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We created another exhibit that shows kind of three -- I'll have to move this around. It depicts our
proposed, just, building envelopes to the north, but 1 put some dimension arrows on there and some views
that we did. And if there was concern that this in some way is inconsistent or incompatible with the homes
in Mediterra East, I think we've clearly shown in our cross-sections that the views from homes in Mediterra
are obscured from our home views by the existing and proposed vegetation that exists.
And I'm not going to say that there might not be a possibility for somebody to see part of a screen
enclosure or the tippy -top part of a roof if there's a two-story home, but the views are long, and they're
through existing mature vegetation. So, worst case, you get a filtered view of a homesite. And I don't know
anywhere where you have a neighbor that you don't get to see them. But I know I do in my neighborhood.
I'm just going to put on the record the county's code requirement, and I guess I'll ask Nancy to verify
that since she's also a landscape architect. But for residential to residential it requires a Type A 10 -foot
buffer, and that's the table right out of your Land Development Code that tells you A, B, C, or D type buffers
that are constructed.
And they also have on the next page this exhibit which shows you what the code requirements are,
and it shows one canopy tree planted every 30 feet center.
And what Pve shown you that gets constructed with our deviation is a substantially supplemented
buffer that far exceeds the Type A buffer requirements.
The resulting buffer that you get against Mediterra, it varies probably from 30 to 60 feet in width.
So Mediterra's PUD did not specify a minimum buffer width. It was to code. They, obviously, chose to do
many things above code, which many of our communities do. But the reality is, we're both going to end up
with a very enhanced buffer that works to the benefit of, we think, both of the communities and is no
detriment to the neighbors.
We've looked at this; your staff has looked at this. We think this makes just good sense, and we
know we've cooperated with the community, and we know we have their support. You have letters of
support from London Bay Homes in your packet. We also had a letter from the Mediterra Community
Association, and I think there's a representative of the Mediterra Association here that's prepared to speak.
Rich, did I leave anything else out?
With that, I'll be happy to answer questions.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Quick question.
MR. ARNOLD: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: When I went through the hearing you had, public hearing, there
was a mention of Talis Park Association. You keep representing Mediterra being behind this. Is there any
comment or have you heard from the Talis Park Association? I heard that mentioned in the information
meeting.
MR. ARNOLD: I don't recall that. I know I have had no conversations with anybody from Talis
Park.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Okay.
MR. ARNOLD: I know the context now. Mr. Fiterman reminded me. He's building homes in
Talis Park, and I think somebody at our neighborhood meeting questioned what he was building and where
he was building.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: There's reference to --it's an unidentified male voice, but it says
one of the -- I'm assuming one of the concerned neighbors, quote, "We're concerned about it as well. We
wanted to talk with the Mediterra association. We want to talk with the Talis Park association," etcetera, et
cetera. So I just --it was referenced there. I didn't know if you had any comment. You've answered my
question. No problem. Thank you.
MR. ARNOLD: Thanks.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Any questions?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Nope.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: You don't have any questions?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Maybe I will after the public speaks, but not now.
MR. ARNOLD: I'm sorry. Ms. Homiak, you -all have in your packet a copy of the
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buffer -- landscape buffer easement that was recorded. If anybody cares to see a copy of the maintenance
and easement agreement, is that something that I can provide to Terri and the record, too? It contains the
exhibits that I put on the visualizer for the landscape buffer.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. That will be part of the --give it to Terri.
MR. ARNOLD: Sure. Thank you. Any other questions?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: No.
Nancy?
MS. GUNDLACH: Good afternoon, Commissioners. I'm assuming you want the staff report.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Yes.
MS. GUNDLACH: Staff is recommending approval of the Pezzettino petition.
CHA UVIAN HOMIAK: Thank you.
Okay. We could have the speakers.
MR. BELLOWS: Yes. We have several speakers. Kathy Potts. I believe she wanted to speak for
several others.
MS. POTTS: My name is Kathy Potts. I'm a Collier County resident and a homeowner in
Mediterra, and this is Dr. David Ortbals, who is my neighbor, and he is my assistant handing out, so I keep
your -all's attention. Since you've been listening all day long, Pm giving you my handout.
I'm sorry. I have so marry papers here, rve lost my way.
If you just want to follow along with me, and I'm going to try to read and not be too boring, but I
wanted to make sure my facts are correct.
Today I am representing my family and approximately 65 residents on the east side. I believe in
your Attachment G, which Nancy helped to provide in the staff report, this is how many letters of objection
you have received. These numbers -- this number of objections represents almost 50 percent of the
homeowners on the east side of Mediterra. As you know, Mediterra is split down the middle by Livingston
Road. And the east side, we have about 120 built out, so half of them have objected to this --this PUD
alteration.
Mediterra homeowners do not consider Distinctives proposed PUD revisions as insubstantial, and the
Mediterra residents consider the proposed changes very incompatible with our abutting land.
The facts I'll read: Mediterm property completely surrounds this proposed development. It doesn't
touch Talis. And it's 17.5 acres which they want to develop.
If I can go back in time and try to do this chronologically for you. In 2006 Mediterra agreed to give
Distinctive a 10 -foot landscape buffer strictly to intensify the density of the landscape. The landscape buffer
was never proposed to become an offsite buffer for Distinctive.
To correct Mr. Arnold, the current PUD was not 2006. It is a 2008 PUD that is currently in effect.
And in this particular document, if I may, this goes back to the drawing. This is the current PUD that's in
effect today. And if you look at this PUD, which was, I believe, your Attachment B that was sent to you, in
this PUD it calls for a Type D landscape buffer which requires a 3 -foot hedge and trees at least every 30 feet.
So Distinctive's claiming that they want to greatly enhance, then why are they asking you to
downgrade to a Type A? Because currently -- and if you see my pink area here -- and you'd have to blow it
up which, Nancy, I don't know how to blow it up.
In the current PUD there's a 10 -foot buffer requirement on the north and south boundaries of this
development; however, along Messina Lane, which is the eastennnost, which is the most impactful upon
Mediterra homeowners, it requires a 20 -foot buffer on that eastern boundary, and that's per the Grady Minor
Page 12 of the PUD.
Now, in March and April of 2017 discussions began between the Mediterra Community Association
and Distinctive regarding easements. So we had already given them 10 feet of an easement, gladly, because
they said they were going to build and develop landscape. So we said okay. And then in March and April
they came back as they began to alter things and they said, you know, they wanted sewage connection to our
property, they wanted stormwater connection to our property, and they also just wanted to reiterate how the
maintenance was going to occur on this landscape.
Now, the Mediterra MCA board had discussions. Based upon my research, it appears that Distinctive
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did not disclose -- and I spoke directly to Mr. Greenberg who is the attorney who spoke to Distinctive and
signed the agreement. The MCA representatives, that it was never their intent to petition the Planning
Commission to eliminate the current mandatory PUD buffer.
hi other words, never — what — we told them they could use 10 feet of our property and put plants on
it to try to intensify the buffer. And I greatly appreciate all the pictures they've provided you. That is not
easement land. That is inside of the Mediterra community just where they decided to take some pretty
pictures. So I'm glad they're promoting the Mediterra property.
However, we never gave them -- Distinctive never disclosed to Mediterra their intent to reduce the
landscape buffer, nor did they ever disclose to Mediterra that it was their intent to eliminate all buffering on
their property.
So what they're trying to do is use Mediterra land and a 10 -foot buffer that we were willing to let
them plant on and put their irrigation on but now what they want to do is eliminate all of their buffers and
bring their homes right up to our -- to our property line, literally.
Now, in May of '17, based upon my research, it appears that the easements allegedly provided by
Mediterra may not have been properly authorized by the Mediterra Community Association and board and,
therefore, they are invalid, because we have been able to disclose that the Mediterra community board had
discussions but never voted upon this, this arrangement. So Mr. Greenberg was outside of his area when
they did. And I have these documents available.
Additionally, the landscape buffer drawings presented with Grady Minor exhibit in B and C of the
maintenance easement do not present the property in alignment with the 2008 PUD. In other words, the
drawings that they presented assumed they were going to eliminate their buffers and use good old Mediterra
property as their buffer, and that's how they were presenting it with their drawings. And they presumed that
they could use an off-site buffer.
Now, let me move forward to October 26th of 2017. That's when the neighborhood information
meeting happened. And you have the transcript. It's a 30 -page transcript, and I have that transcript. And I
read the transcript because at the time I wasn't in town to attend, but we did have people attend.
And at the time Mr. Arnold presented this. On Page 3 of page — of 30, this is a quote that he inade:
"But there's already a wall and landscaping around the entire project." That is completely false. There is
not a wall around this entire project. And Mr. Fiterman, the developer, was there and did not correct this
misstatement.
Mr. Arnold goes on to say, "It will result in the same amount of landscaping for this project." That's
incorrect. They are asking for a reduction in the landscape, and that is not acceptable to us.
He goes onto say, "So it will supplement and beef up what's there." Well, you know what, we spent
the money, and we put in the time, and we created a beautiful environment within Mediterra, and we do not
appreciate, and I especially take offense that they came on to our property and took all these beautiful pictures
of Mediterra's landscape and trying to shmooze you guys to think, well, hey, everybody's going to want to
look at this. That's unfair. I'm trying to keep calm.
Then he went on to say, "It just seems like, you know, it's already a mature buffer with a wall."
Once again, that's not their wall. There are not walls all the way around.
And, additionally, let me say, and I've -- I really have truly enjoyed working with Nancy. She's been
very helpful, as have Ray and some other of the folks at the zoning area; however, we notified them when the
staff report came out -- or the Hearing Examiner document came out in January that there was not a wall.
This was all being misrepresented to say that there was a wall around our entire property. That's not correct.
And it took until April 24th to get that correction made.
And, additionally, in the staff report that just came out for this meeting, there was a change, too, that
said that during the -- during the neighborhood information meeting, that the state -- there were -- the prior
document that came out in January said that in the neighborhood information meeting that there were
commitments made by the developer, and now that document in the staff report says there were statements
made. So there were not commitments.
The pictures that you saw are inaccurate. The 10 -foot easement that Mediterra gave Distinctive is
raw ground with nothing but weeds and trees damaged from hzna that we've been looking at. The trees are
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falling down. It is not the beautiful landscape that you see. Mediterra did not invest in mature plantings on
the Distinctive side of the fences and walls.
So, in summary, objections in summary, we object to the elimination of the 20 -foot buffer on
Disti nctive's property because by removing this added space of separation, it will push the physical structures
of Distinctive Homes and the pools right up to the Mediterra property lune. Many of the Mediterra neighbors
on Cabreo and Lucarno will be forced to look right into the backs of these homes and cages.
Additionally, we also have a recreational walking path, sort of a park, along Messina Lane, and the
people who are walking on that path, which I do every single day, we will be bombarded with the sights and
sounds from these homes.
We also object to the modification of the landscape type from a D to an A. If they show all these
pictures, which --
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: You're going to have to wrap it up here.
MS. POTTS: I have other minutes signed over from (sic) me as well.
We object to the downgrade of the landscape, and the photos are misleading. We object to the
construction of the sound barrier and security wall along Livingston Road, because Distinctive is not
providing a wall between Distinctive's property and Mediterm. A solid wall, according to an acoustics
engineer, creates a 50 percent sound reduction barrier. Even if you have a solid hedge, you can get a 25
percent. They are not proposing even a solid hedge. So we're rejecting their wall along Livingston as well.
Our entrance, our properties are going to be impacted directly because they are trying to create a
minimal buffer around their property. They're trying to use our land and our landscape as their buffer, and
we believe that is unfair, and we would like to retain the buffer that's in place in the current PUD. And
if -- we would strongly recommend they create a wall along Messina Lane as a minimum.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Are there more speakers or --
MR. BELLOWS: The next speaker was Abby Dickson, but I don't know if she --
MS. DICKSON: Could you please bring up the first picture that we had? Because I'd like for the
Commission to understand exactly how this is completely encased by MediterTa, which I think is very
unusual.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Your name?
MS. DICKSON: Excuse me. Abby Dickson. I'm Mrs. Abby Dickson. And we've been full-time
residents of Collier County for over 15 years, and I've lived in Mediterra since 2005.
And if we could bring up that other picture, the first picture, the colored one, which actually isn't very
good for the Commission to understand how we're surrounded by this -- no, not the vegetation, the first map.
The map.
MS. GUNDLACH: Okay. It's a map.
MS. DICKSON: It was the very first map, not the vegetation.
MS. GUNDLACH: You want to come over and pick it out?
MS. DICKSON: It was the very first one that — representative from Mr. Grady.
MS. GUNDLACH: Okay. This is the first one.
MS. DICKSON: No, that wasn't it.
MS. GUNDLACH: I'd really prefer --
MS. DICKSON: It has color to it and it shows the -- that's it. If you could just bring it down here,
down to show -- so this is a very old map.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Can'thearyou.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: You have to speak into the microphone.
MS. DICKSON: This is a very old map that you're looking at.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Turn it on.
MS. DICKSON: This is a very old map that you're looking at. To the north is all the London Bay
property. And currently London Bay built their wall to the north, but these two sides -- ifs an old chain link
fence. It's been there for 15 years. It was never supposed to be a permanent fixture. So on these two
sides --
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CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: You can't — you're going to have to speak at the microphone here.
MS. DICKSON: Sorry. Okay. I'll just read what I have to say then.
Majority of the west side owners were sold their properties without the Distinctive property being
disclosed within their border, so a majority of the residents on the west side have no idea that this Distinctive
property is totally encased in the Mediterra neighborhood.
The county maps first showed solid walls and buffers around Distinctive's communities, and it's been
this way for a long time. If you look at the original maps for this development, it shows a wall and a wall
and a wall. It does not show a chain link fence and buffers.
So we're respectfully asking the Commission to require Distinctive Homes to add the two extra walls
on the southern and eastern perimeters and retain the buffer as originally shown on the comity plans. The
15 -year-old chain link fence currently in place was only meant as a temporary measure.
By erecting these two walls, retaining the buffer, and adding landscaping, the result will be continued
privacy, security, noise abatement, and protection of property values for both communities because, actually,
we're looking at this as a benefit to Collier Comity. We want both communities to be happy, not just
Mediterra.
So by erecting the wall, continued landscaping, I think it would be a benefit to both communities.
Thank you.
MR. BELLOWS: Tim Richards.
MR. RICHARDS: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I had the opportunity -- my name is
Tim Richards. I'm the general manager of the Mediterm Community Association. I came to Mediterra after
all of this was negotiated.
I started September 15th, and what I learned early on when I joined Mediterra, that a landscaping
buffer easement agreement was put in place and a utility easement agreement as well. And my understanding
is that there's a 10 -foot buffer. The vegetation that you saw in the pictures, that is on Mediterra property.
My understanding, that the buffer is going on the opposite side of those trees, 20 feet in height, underplanting,
hedge material as well.
The other thing that I understand is that we have a one-year look -back where we are going to visit,
you know, the site. And within the first year if we're not satisfied with the growth, that Mr. Fiterman's
agreed to take care of whatever needs to be taken care of.
As far as any of the other changes that are being discussed, the MCA board does not have a comment
at this time.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Thank you.
MR. BELLOWS: Lou Rutkowsky.
MR. RUTKOWSKY: I bow to Mrs. Potts if she has any.
MR. BELLOWS: And I think David did also.
MR. ORTBALS: I did, too.
MR. BELLOWS: That's it.
COMMISSIONERCHRZANOWSKI: Karen?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Yes.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: It is time for a break for the court reporter?
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Yeah, I think it is.
THE COURT REPORTER: If we're almost done, I can wait until we're finished.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Because Patrick's got to leave in 15 minutes?
COMMISSIONERDEARBORN: Uh-huh.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Can you go another 15 minutes?
THE COURT REPORTER: Yes.
MR. ARNOLD: If again. It's Wayne Arnold.
If I could just clarify one point. And Ms. Potts is correct that the master plan that was recorded
shows a 20 -foot -wide Type D buffer along the east property line. There was also a plan proposed by the
developer, because there was another -- Rich and I inherited this project from another team, and we presented
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to the Planning Commission a buffer plan that showed a 10 -foot -wide Type A buffer, and the county
recorded the one that had been previously submitted when we incorporated the line work, and we don't
believe there was ever an intent to install a 20 -foot Type D buffer. A 20 -foot Type D buffer is what you
install adjacent to aright -of -way.
This is adjacent to a landscape buffer tract, in which I think you could fairly argue there might not
even be a buffer required. But, nonetheless, the code required by the county code would be a 10 foot Type
A, not a 20 -foot -wide Type B -- or Type D in no circumstance.
I know Rich had some other comments, but I wanted to clarify that for the record. And,
unfortunately, the untimely death of Mr. Reischl, but we had had conversations with Mr. Reischl over the
years indicating that that's probably a scrivener's error that needed to be corrected because of the wrong
document being recorded.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Good afternoon. For the record, Rich Yovanovich.
I need to -- I need to give a history lesson to both the Planning Commission and Ms. Potts about what
the landscape buffer really was supposed to be back in 2006, because she is incorrect.
There was an agreement that was entered into between — and I'll make it part of the
record -- between my client and Long Bay Partners, LLC, who at the time was the developer of Mediterra;
Bonita Bay.
And I'm going to put on the visualizer a very specific provision in that contract that deals with the
landscape buffer and the intent of that landscape buffer, but I'm going to read it to you first.
It says that purchaser, having -- "Obtaining easement for Mediterm Community Association, Inc.," is
the title of the paragraph. It says, "Purchaser, having obtained an easement from Mediterra Community
Association, Inc., over and across the property described in Exhibit B, attached hereto, allowing purchaser to
use the easement in calculating up to 10 percent -- 10 feet of the width towards the landscape buffering
requirements applicable to the north, south, and east side of the project according to the Collier County Land
Development Code."
So we acquired an easement 10 feet in width to count towards the LDC required -- LDC required
landscape buffer which Mr. Arnold --
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Could you zoom in on that? These old eyes ain't as good
as they used to be.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Amen.
MR. YOVANOVICH: The very top, first sentence. So there is no question that when Mr. Fiterman
paid a million dollar to Long Bay Partners for a one -acre parcel, together with a 10 -foot -wide landscape
buffer easement, that landscape buffer easement was to count towards the required LDC buffer which Mr.
Arnold just showed you is 10 feet in width, Type A, and that was a condition of closing on the parcel.
And I guess to show you kind of how we got to where we are, this is the existing master plan. There
was a roughly one -acre parcel in this area right here that Long Bay Partners owned. It would have been the
hole in the project. Mr. Fiterman approached Long Bay Partners to buy that one acre, bought that one acre
together with the landscape buffer easement, to allow for Mediterra's — 10 feet of Mediterra's land to satisfy
the landscape buffer requirements for this proposed development, which was supposed to be 43 dwelling
units.
We didn't need that 10 foot to meet the requirements based upon the site plan that's up there on the
visualizer right now, so we didn't use the 10 feet to get the 43 -unit project approved.
Now, market changed. We, frankly, think that this would be a very fine product to build next to
Mediterra, but we've decided to go with a less dense project and exercise the rights we bought originally in
2006, and you have the easement in your packet that shows we bought the easement and we had the right to
do the plantings.
And we want to do this. That's the aerial. I can give you another version without the aerial on it if
you want. We want to do bigger lots and less units.
Now, I, for the life of me, can't understand why the residents who live on the east side of Mediterra
would prefer eight, or eight or nine depending on whether the lake counts -- eight or nine villas adjacent to
them with a landscape buffer that requires one tree every 30 feet versus bigger homes, nicer homes with our
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doing the enhanced landscape planting plan in the 10 -foot easement we bought back in 2006 that there's no
question was always intended to be the landscape buffer between this project and Mediterra.
I don't understand the logic for that. If they wanted to move into a community surrounded by walls,
they should have moved into a different community. At no time, at no --and I've been on this project for a
while. At no time did we say we were going to have walls around our community; never. We never had
walls around this community.
They have a chain link fence in their community to serve their needs. They are now trying to get us
to build a wall for them that we never said we were going to build as part of the 43 -unit site plan and
development.
We think that the change that we're making is better for both this project as well as Mediterra. I can
show you -- I could show you that Mr. Fiterman is a quality developer, quality builder. We're talking about
hones that are 3,200 square feet to 4,500 square feet -- 5,000 square feet. This is the type of quality product
they want to build instead of, you know, detached villas.
Why -- and how is this in any way negatively impacting the residents of Mediterra? Oh, sorry. How
is this quality development, bigger hones, 3,200 to 5,000 square feet, in any way negatively impacting
Mediterra?
We showed you accurate pictures of what it looks like from their side of the landscaping. That is
exactly what Mr. Arnold said. He didn't misrepresent where those pictures were taken. You don't have that
quality landscaping from our side. We are going to put in that quality landscaping on our side of the project
into their I0 -foot buffer that we own.
We negotiated that in good faith with the association. The association is happy with that. The
association hasn't said, no, we don't want to do this anymore.
Do you have upset residents? Yes. They want a wall, and they want us to pay for their wall. We're
not paying for their wall. If we were to put the wall where their fence is today, we wreck their existing
landscaping. It is not an option for us to put the wall on our property line. We're not going to spend that
kind of money on that kind of landscaping to block the view of it.
What we've proposed, and your staff is recommending approval of, is a less dense project with
high-quality homes with a tremendous amount of landscaping in an easement we own. We're requesting that
the Planning Commission approve our request to changes to the PUD.
And I'll answer any questions you might have.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Anybody? No questions?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Did you have anything else?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Nope.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. We'll close the public hearing and --
COMMISSIONER EBERT: CanI --
CHAIItMAN HOMIAK: Oops. Now she has a question.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: I do have a question.
You're not asking for any more deviations than you had back in 2008?
MR. YOVANOVICH: We're actually giving up a deviation for the cul-de-sac. We're asking for a
deviation for the wall out on Livingston Road to be able to go a little bit taller, and then we're also asking for
the deviation for the landscaping to go in the 10 -foot easement that we've owned since 2006 which has been
supported by staff and that's -- so that was -- that is a new deviation for both the wall on Livingston Road and
for the use of the landscape buffer.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Okay. Because --
MR.YOVANOVICH: Wayne said that in his presentation.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: I know. Because if some of the other deviations were now, you know
it wouldn't go by me, so...
MR. YOVANOVICH: I know, I know. But we're not changing that.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Okay. All right. That's what I just wanted to make sure of. Thank
you.
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CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay. Anybody want to make a motion or discussion?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'll make a statement and then maybe a motion.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I am always glad for the opportunity to hear from homeowners and to
allow them to express their concerns, and I believe they have done so. I have listened carefully and taken to
heart what they've said; however, maybe you might file this under "be careful what you wish for," but going
from 43 to 27 lots I think is a significant plus. I'm not --and I'm not second-guessing your judgment. This
is your neighborhood, and you know it better than I do. So I'm not trying to say that you're wrong. I just try
to put myself in your shoes and how I would feel, which helps me judge how I would want to come down on
it.
MR. KLATZKOW: Just as an aside, there is no reduction in density.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: But they -- they're going from 43 to —
MR. KLATZKOW: No. You're sti1143.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Why don't we add --
MR. KLATZKOW: You're sti1143. I know what he's telling you what they plan on doing, butthe
ordinance is still 43.
MR. YOVANOVICH: We're happy to commit to twenty --what is it, 27? We're happy to commit
to 27.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you. I thought that had been a commitment.
MR. YOVANOVICH: It was.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you.
So, again, Pm not trying to substitute my judgment. You're the experts; you live there. But to me
this looks like a property -value enhancer at the end of the day. And, again, Pm not trying to substitute my
judgment, but I think to put a wall up there, you would end up, I think, reducing your property value,
and -- well, I believe this -- I believe in the longer run you're going to find this is an enhancement to your
property. I hope you do. And I thank you for participating in the process, but I'm going to vote in favor of
this.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I don't ever remember us requiring a noise wall between
residential parcels.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: No.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: And I'm going to vote in favor of it.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Is that a motion or --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'll make the motion.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKE I'll second.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: All those in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONERCHRZANOWSKI: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONERDEARBORN: Aye.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Opposed, like sign.
(No response.)
COMMISSIONER EBERT: With the corrections that they will reduce?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yeah, with the 27, yes.
MR. ARNOLD: There's a reference to 43 unit density. We'll change that to 27.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And, of course, as our chair said at the last one or the one before,
we're only a recoimmending body. This comes --
MR. YOVANOVICH: No, this is final.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Oh, this is final?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Ifs final for you -all.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Because it's insubstantial.
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COMMISSIONER FRYER: Oh, that's right. Okay. Never mind.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: So the motion is with the 27 units?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yes.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Yes.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Okay.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Break for our court reporter.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Now we can take a break.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Fifteen minutes.
CHAIRMAN HOMIAK: Fifteen minutes.
MS. GUNDLACH: 5-0 approved.
(A brief recess was had, Chairman Strain is now present in the boardroom, and Commissioner
Dearborn is absent for the remainder of the meeting.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, everybody, welcome back from break. We'll resume the meeting.
We left off on our regular agenda.
***We have Items 9F and 9G up next. I'll read them. They're companion items. It's
P1,20160002584. It's the --that's the --let's see. That's the subdistrict for the GMPA. It's for the Grace
Romanian Church at the comer of Golden Gate Boulevard and Collier Boulevard. P1,20160002577. It's the
conditional use for the same church at the same location.
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 STRAIN: Thank you.
Disclosures, and we'll start with Stan.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I don't think anybody talked to me about this one, and I
don't remember getting any emails, but I've gotten something now.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, if you need a senior living facility in this county, you won't be able
to afford to live in one, so don't get worse, okay?
COMMISSIONER HOMAK: How do you know he can't afford it?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Oh, I've looked at the way he dressed.
Ned?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I have no disclosures.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: None.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I have talked to quite a few people: Residents from Golden Gate Estates
who have called me, Pat Miller, who came in my office. I've talked to various members of the Golden Gate
Estates Civic Association, I've talked at length multiple times and had multiple emails with the applicant, I've
talked to staff as well at a staff meeting, and I hope that's everybody at this point. Karen.
COMMISSIONERHOMIAK: Nothing.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Nothing.
Okay. And that takes us into it. First of all --
COMMISSIONER FRYER Mr. Chairman, I'm sorry. I have to amend my disclosure. I've
received emails.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. When we have a -- which threw me a little bit when I announced
the hearing. We usually have a CC or a CPSS number that goes with when we have a GMP change. That's
why your Item F for this is just a PL number. Is there another CSCC number that goes with it -- CPSS
number, I mean?
MR. BELLOWS: Yeah. I have on my record it's CPSS-2017-1.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Well, that's not on mine. That's why it threw me for a minute
that -- to make sure.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: It's on mine.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Is it? It's not on mine. That's interesting. I got a different agenda than it
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sounds like other people have.
Okay. With that, Fred, it's all yours.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: It's because you're special.
MR. HOOD: Good afternoon, Commissioners, Mr. Chairman. Frederick Hood with Davidson
Engineering representing the applicant, Grace Romanian Baptist Church of Naples.
Just kind of go through the presentation, PowerPoint presentation with you pretty quickly. Stop me if
you have any questions, but I'll take questions after the -- sorry, I always go too fast. I'll take questions after
we're done with the presentation.
Again, this is for Grace Romanian Baptist Church. Site location is on the screen. We are at the
corner of Golden Gate Boulevard and Collier Boulevard, and our property is about -- is 6.25 acres.
That circle represents the property.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You need to get closer to the microphone, Fred. We can hardly hear you.
MR. HOOD: Is that better?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Closer.
MR. HOOD: Better?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ah, much better.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Bingo.
MR. HOOD: Well, I'll just raise my voice.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, yeah. You've not been shy before, so...
MR. HOOD: To the east is Big Cypress Elementary. It's about .62 --I'm sorry -- .75 miles down
the road if you take First Avenue Southwest or if you go Golden Gate Boulevard.
Just a little bit closer, Max Hasse Community Park is at .62 miles down the road. That's just to give
you an idea of where we're at.
Again, site location. I just wanted to give you an aerial representation of what the property looks
like currently. 6.25 acres, again. Consists of two parcels. The southern parcel has a home on it and an
accessory. I believe it's a shed or a small barn. That parcel itself is 2.28 acres.
The northern parcel, which is the larger parcel, is 3.92. It's -- yeah, 3.97 acres, and it is on that hard
corner of Golden Gate and Collier Boulevard. That property does not have any structures on it.
Just talking quickly about the existing zoning, it's Estates zoning. Permitted uses per the LDC are
single-family dwellings, family -care facilities, essential services, educational plants, and churches are
permitted as a conditional use which is, again, why we're before you, part of the reason why we're before you.
Existing future land use, it's also Estates designation. The Estates land use defines -- the Future
Land Use Element defines the Estates designation as "the area as identified as having potential for population
growth far removed from support of services and facilities."
Just want to touch quickly on the small-scale Growth Management Plan amendment that is the
companion application to the conditional use. What we did here is when we were coordinating with staff,
we were required to do a data and analysis report to find out why we would need this church here and what
other potential areas that we could go into.
So we did three things. We looked at the vicinity to the church for the Collier County congregation,
which a few of them are here today. We also looked at the location, again, of alternative Romanian Baptist
churches in the State of Florida. We also lastly looked at available property for alternative site locations just
to make sure that we were looking at everything and following staff s recommendations and requirements for
us to do this data and analysis.
This image gives you an idea of where our existing parishioners are within Collier County. There's
26 of them.
The data and analysis area, which I've highlighted here in blue, it basically goes from -- well, I
shouldn't say "basically." It goes from I-75 to the west, five miles west of --or east of that to, basically, the
middle of the Estates area. To the north we took it to the county line and to the south we went to Golden Gate
Parkway.
Again, there is the proposed location for the church highlighted in red. Again, 26 households within
Collier County for the existing congregation.
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These are the existing Romanian Baptist congregations in the State of Florida. There's five of them.
The closest one is in Hollywood, Florida, and it's 122 miles away. The next one is also in Hollywood, 123
miles; Jacksonville, 379; Lake Worth, 132; and Seffner, Florida, at 160 miles. There's nothing in Southwest
Florida for Romanian churches. So that's another reason why we're here before you, to find them a place for
their congregation.
Just getting a little bit more detailed into alternative site analysis. The criteria that we looked at
when we were looking at additional properties, including the existing applicant -owned property, we looked at
properties in size of five to 10 acres, we looked at a minimum lot width of 300 feet, access to collector and
arterial roadways, and then zoning available without a GMPA request.
There really weren't any that fit those criteria -- especially that last criteria. We had a few that fit
some of those criteria.
I'm going to talk about those couple in two seconds here. Again, just highlighting the data and
analysis area for you in red.
Another thing that we looked at was comparable sales price. The two items --that's, again --sorry.
In yellow is the site location. The two properties available are there to the south of the property. One is
at -- close to the intersection of Pine Ridge Road on the east side -- I'm sorry, on the west side of Collier
Boulevard. The other is also on the west side of Collier Boulevard just north of Golden Gate City.
And here are the blown -up versions so you can take a look there. 795 Collier Boulevard is the first
alternative site. It's right next door to the VF Post 7721. This is a collection of two properties totaling five
acres in total.
It also has Estates zoning. Future land use is also Estates. It has a couple of prohibitive conditions,
existing conditions. This one would also require a GMP amendment and a conditional use rezone.
The main reason why we kind of put this one to bed was the restrictive access. It also is not at a
comer, but mostly the restrictive access. It wasn't as good as what we had, and we have some limited -access
issues on the existing property that I'll go over in a little while here.
The second property is also known as the Sungate PUD. It's a cormnercial PUD; 4087 Green
Boulevard. This site is also a little over five acres; 5.17. Estates future land use, and the prohibitive
conditions there; we have some increased water management requirements within the PUD to take on some
of the water from 951 and also Green.
There's limited square footage remaining within this PUD as well. And just as an aside, this
property is slated to be under Site Development Plan review. So, again, it's not available to us. It's going to
be developed -- the entire thing is going to be developed.
Going into the conditional use site plan. This is the existing plan as it's been presented to the county
and to the public. We're talking about the access points here. There are two access points that have been
reviewed by staff. One is on Golden Gate Boulevard, and the other is on Weber Boulevard South.
Proposed landscape buffers; just go through these really quickly. There's a type --there's Type D
15 -foot buffer along Golden Gate and along Collier. The Type D buffer --there's another two sets of Type
D buffers. One is along First Avenue Southwest and the other is on Weber Boulevard South.
Just to give you an idea, the Type D buffer specifications, we don't need to go through them, but
double hedge row of hedging and trees 30 feet center. And that just basically tells you exactly what I said.
Again, back to the master site plan to go into the Type B buffers. Type B buffers are along the south
and eastern boundaries of the property -- of the existing property and the abutting single-family residential on
the corner of First Avenue Southwest and Weber Boulevard South.
Those typical Type B buffer specifications, again, single row of trees, 10 -foot high, 25 -foot on
center, hedge at five feet, planted four foot on center. That's per the LDC.
We had some coordination with the neighbor -- his name is Mr. Charles Dorta -- to discuss with him
what he'd like to see for buffering. He did not want a wall, and he has sent us an email that I can provide to
you -all as well that speaks to that fact. He would rather us do enhanced vegetation in that area, so I'm going
to show you what that enhanced vegetation is. It's basically the Type D buffer --Type B buffer with some
palms, areca palms or paurotis, I believe, was the other species, planted behind those required trees to shield
Mr. Dorta's property within -- 80 percent within a year. And, again, that will be a condition that I'll go over
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in a little bit.
These are some images of what that buffer would look like. Obviously, I don't have real trees to
show you, but this is a mockup. You can see here that the brighter green ones are the shrubs at the bottom,
and the lighter green trees are set at about 25 feet on center, and then behind those would be those palms that
you would see.
And this is facing west. So if we're standing at the entrance on Weber Boulevard, this is what you
would see, or if you were standing on Mr. Dorta's property. The north side, if you're on Mr. Dor-La's
property, looking toward our preserve area, this is what you would see. It's the same buffer type.
Just getting back to the site plan, just wanted to talk quickly about the setbacks. We've got 75 -foot
setbacks on our front yards, and that's on three sides: Golden Gate, Collier, and First Avenue Southwest and
that is nothing different from the Estates zoning. We didn't -- we can't ask for anything different, so those
are the buffer -- setback requirements.
The preserve setback requirement is 25 feet. That hasn't changed from the LDC as well. And then,
lastly, the 30 -foot side -yard setbacks along Mr. Dors property are at 30 feet. Again, nothing's changed
from the LDC there.
Just to give you an idea of the building envelope with those setbacks all put together. That's the red
box.
Proposed water management area, conceptually we have placed them on the periphery of the project.
These water management areas will obviously be designed and reviewed at the time of Site Development
Plan approval.
Preserve area, .77 acres. We've put this in the northeastern portion of the property. Our proposed
sanctuary multipurpose building is in the north --I'm sorry --the northwest portion of the property. Let's see
here. Our proposed accessory green space is to the south of that, that sanctuary -- sanctuary multipurpose
area.
We have also said in this area -- and PH go over these again when we get into the conditions of
approval, but we are not considering any amplified sound and no accessory lighting in that area.
Just quickly about the proposed septic drain field. We have a letter from the county identifying that
water service is available within the Weber Boulevard right-of-way. There's not an easy way to getto the
sanitary, so this property will operate on a septic system until such services are available.
Just quickly, talking about traffic conditions. I know this has been an issue. Overall, prospective
view of the property again here. Collier Boulevard to your right if you're looking at the screen, Golden Gate
Boulevard to the bottom of the screen, and Weber Boulevard to the top of the screen. Fist Avenue
Southwest is where you see that star there.
The turning movements that are existing, there's a right-hand turn lane on Collier Boulevard. There
is also a right tarn lane into the property on Golden Gate Boulevard, and then the turning movement,
obviously, going onto Weber would be where that additional access would be on Weber.
There's a traffic separator in the middle of Golden Gate Boulevard, and it was placed there, I believe,
in the fall of 2017, and it cuts off access for Weber Boulevard to traverse north and south.
And there, again, you can just see the arrow pointed to that area.
Back to the site plan. This was the original site plan. The original site plan we considered three
access points, and I can show them to you here. The first access point was here on First Avenue Southwest,
the second one is hereon Weber Boulevard, and then the third one is the existing curb cut. And just for your
edification, each of these access points had existing curb cuts, so we basically kept the areas for vehicular
access the same on this property. There was --that first access, there's already a curb cut there, there's
already a curb cut here on Weber Boulevard, and there's also that existing curb cut on Golden Gate
Boulevard.
Through coordination with county transportation staff, we got rid of the access on Fist Avenue
Southwest, and we moved forward through the rest of our review period with just these two Weber
Boulevard and Golden Gate Boulevard access being left over.
Okay. Just showing you that this is what happened when we got rid of the First Avenue Southwest.
We were basically just creating that loop so that the traffic stays on site and not coming onto First Avenue
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Southwest for access to the property.
Just really quickly, and Norm is herewith me from Trebilcock Consulting. He'll talk a little bit
more about transportation issues if you have any questions specific to his TIS report.
Just quickly, we're anticipating 70 percent of the traffic to come to the site from the Golden Gate
Boulevard access point.
And we have --again, there's existing turn lane that will facilitate that. Coming i to the property
along Weber Boulevard, we're presenting about 30 percent of the property coming that way.
Leaving the property, 50 percent of the cars will be leaving from Golden Gate, 30 percent would
be -- 30 percent would be leaving north from Golden Gate -- not Golden Gate -- Weber Boulevard, and
another 20 percent would be going south, again, on Weber Boulevard.
To get to — to go back west, when you make that turn out of Golden Gate Boulevard on the north
side, it's about .3 miles until you get to a turnaround before you can head back west.
I'll just go over the development standards quickly. Minimum lot size in the Estates is 2.25. We're,
agaii, at 6.25. Minimum lot width is at 165. We're at 275 at our smallest point. Maximum zoned building
height at 30. We are retaining that 30 feet and asking for a limited 60 feet for the actual building height.
That will cover things like church steeple or parapets that would, you know, come off of the roof, things like
that, things of that nature; not habitable space.
Some additional ones. LDC required parking, church parking is at three spaces per seven seats. We
have anticipated being able to park this property without asking for any dispensations or any other
applications.
Now we're going to get into our proposed conditions of approval, and this is what I handed out to
you a little bit earlier. Starting with the hours of operation: Sunday services are from 8 a.m. to --we just
gave a range of 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. There's two services on Sunday, but we just --we gave you that range so
that's when they would have Sunday services.
Weekday hours of operation, this would be for things like Bible study and church meetings and
whatnot. We've limited it to not to exceed 100 people, and that would be from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. That's
off-peak hours.
Maximum --No. 2 is the maximum square footage of 24,000 square feet for the church. Number of
seats, 300 maximum.
Number 3, we are going to go over the accessory uses that we have prohibited: No daycares; no
food services, i.e., soup kitchens, catering service open to the public; or eating places; educational services
were another one.
Number 4, the following accessory uses we have asked to be permitted in conjunction with the
church: The outdoor multipurpose play area; gazebos, if the church would like to have some covered areas;
sheds and covered pavilions; and then if they need one or would like to have one in the future, a pastor's
residence. That pastor's residence shall be limited to 3,500 square feet if they so choose to build that
residence.
Okay. Back to the master plan. Just showing you here what the changes were from your packet to
the master plan that I handed to you. What we did here, there are two changes, and they are textual. We
added the 24,000 square feet into the sanctuary and multipurpose area to just put it on the master plan, and
then the second one is adding that square footage for the pastor's residence on the accessory area. That's
where it would potentially go.
Going on to No. 5, we've agreed to no rental to any facility outside of the -- to outside groups, agreed
not to exceed any more than 12 special events a year. Special events would be something like if the church
was approached and they wanted to do a farmers market on one day out of the month. We've limited that to
12 special events a year, and those events would have to go through the process for Collier County with
getting a temporary -use permit for something like that.
Number 7, we have prohibited amplified music or sounds outside of the church. Lighting within the
outdoor accessory recreational area shall be prohibited. That kind of cleans up any ideas of that area being
used at night for any sports activities or anything else like that. There's no lighting that's going to be in that
area.
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Number 9, this speaks to that buffer that I was talking about a little bit earlier. This is the text that
contains what we are discussing of putting in that buffer area. So I'l] just read it off. An enhanced 15 -foot
Type B buffer shall be provided along the abutting residential properties' shared boundaries with the church
located on the northwest corner of First Avenue Southwest and Weber Boulevard South. The enhanced
buffer shall provide the following plant materials in lieu of a wall and shall reach 80 percent opacity within
one year of installation.
And those -- I'll just read these into the record. Those -- that vegetation is trees, 25 gallons, 10 foot
tall, and 1.75 inches in caliber, 52 foot on center. The hedge shall be five foot tall; plants at four foot on
center, proposed alternative buffer requirements. And then the palms are 12 foot tall, and they are planted 12
foot on center. They're about six foot wide when they get planted. And those would be the addition to that
required Type B buffer.
Just getting back to the site lighting. Number 10, site lighting shall be directed away from adjacent
residential properties as much as possible. Site lighting shall be LED, shielded, and directionalized fixtures
so that light spillover does not encroach adjacent property lines. Again, as best we can do that, we are going
to try and make sure that we don't have any lights set on the property lines to Mr. Dorta's property.
If we do have to do -- with the pole -mounted lighting, it shall be no higher than 15 feet.
Moving onto No. 11, again, zoned building height shall be limited to 30 feet. That is anEstates
designation. And then the actual building height, again, for steeples or any appurtenances will be limited to
60 feet. Again, covers the church steeple.
Number 12, the conditional use shall be limited to -- and there's a typo there -- eight maximum p.m.
peak hour weekday trips, two way trips, and a maximmn of 183 peak hour Sunday two-way trips.
And then the last items is for traffic control. It's our typical language that we put into our PUDs,
into our conditional uses. I can read it off, but it's --basically what it says is when the county deems it
appropriate, they will have law enforcement -- they will have the applicant get law enforcement or a -- sorry.
I'm losing my train of thought. Anyway, they will have law enforcement. They will have to beat the
property to direct traffic. That's basically what that says.
And now just questions and discussion.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. From the Planning Commission. Ned.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I have a few.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: First of all, I think the largest issue that I was able to discern from the
materials has to do with the traffic on Weber Boulevard. hi the tape of the NIM, I think it was you, Fred,
said that the ingress and egress points are Golden Gate Boulevard and Weber Boulevard that was chosen by
the county.
MR. HOOD: Chosen probably wasn't the right word. It was through coordination with
Transportation Planning, those were the access points that we agreed on.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. To what extent were you able to look into alternate access
points, for instance, off of Collier Boulevard?
MR. HOOD: So we looked at that --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I know there's a canal there.
MR. HOOD: Yeah. So we looked at it quickly. We decided with the two access points that we've
provided for Weber and for Golden Gate, that the access on 951, for what our congregation is looking to do,
it wasn't feasible for them. So what we did was we left it at those two access points that are already existing.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Do you see anyway that this project could go forward in away that
would alleviate the additional traffic or touch of it on Weber?
MR. HOOD: I'm going to have Norm speak to that. It's more of a transportation --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. I have a couple of questions for him anyway, so that's good.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Norm, before you go too far, the spacing requirements for a connection
onto Collier Boulevard would have been what from the intersection of Golden Gate Boulevard and Collier?
MR. TREB ILCOCK: I don't have that number, but I can get that. But the issue and the conflict
with Collier Boulevard somewhat would be that northbound right -turn lane to Collier -- to Golden Gate
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Boulevard, where sometimes when you get an access that close, it can be confusing, and then folks will end
up taking a right into the church that really intended taking a right into Golden Gate Boulevard.
So even though there might be an access management spacing criteria we could meet, as a practical
matter, the county would typically want to push that further south. So it would bean issue. But we didn't
specifically measure that, but I can ascertain that if we need.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I just wanted to know what the spacing requirement was. I know that on
some other projects, especially at Heritage Bay where they go into Immokalee Road, there were some very
strict spacing requirements from the main intersection of Collier Boulevard. It's a similar T intersection
we're dealing with here, so...
MR. TREBILCOCK: Correct. No, you're absolutely right. There is a criteria. I just --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Didn't you work that one? Weren't you involved in Heritage Bay and some
of the issues up there? Is that another traffic engineer?
MR. TREBILCOCK: No, no. It must be another.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: There's not many of you. I guess that could be a good thing, huh?
MR. TREBILCOCK: Yes, but I'm --okay. Pm sorry. Again, for the record, my name is Norman
Trebilcock with Trebilcock Consulting Solutions, a certified planner and professional engineer. We
prepared the traffic study. I'm sorry. I cananswer --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'm going to --I'll probably want to comeback to this same question
after we hear public cour ment.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: But I have a few other things.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: A couple maybe for you, Norm. The 70 and 30 percent statistics,
ingress and then there's -- there was another statistic for egress. How exactly do you -- is that measured? Is it
just an estimate, or how -- do you try to identify where members of the congregation reside?
MR. TREBILCOCK: No. That's a good question. What we did is we really estimate our cells.
We come up with what is somewhat empirical. We coordinate with the client. We also then work with
staff as well and kind of with an understanding. ht particular here, there are restrictions with the roadway, so
it sort of impacts the normal continuity of flow. Usually what comes in comes out the same location. But
because there are prohibitions, say, on Golden Gate Boulevard you can't take a left into Weber now, so
actually a lot of those folks would be bringing a left -in from the east a little further. And then again, we
would foresee a fair amount of north/south traffic using Collier Boulevard to come to the property.
But then exiting what we'd see is -- and you see in the numbers, is folks would take a right going
down Weber to go down to White and Pine Ridge to go further, because you can't take a direct left out off of
Weber onto Collier -- onto Golden Gate Boulevard, and you have to make a right and do the U-turn.
So that's why you see the numbers, like, kind of a little different. But it was really an estimate, and
then we kind of run that by staff as well and then also with the client as well. But when you looked at the
numbers Fred showed in terms of the current congregation, you can see it; there's some in it in terms of where
everyone's located because we kind of weigh everything really coming off of Collier Boulevard. That's, you
know, 35 percent from the north, 35 percent from the south. That gets us that 70 percent, and really that
other 30 percent is coming from within the Estates to the east.
And, again, if their coming doom the Boulevard, they're going to take a left prior to because you can't
take a U-turn at the Boulevard and --at Golden Gate and Collier Boulevard. So there's some restrictions on
the roadway that kind of cause that distribution.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. I'm probably going to want to come back to that after public
comment.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: That's all I had right now for you unless --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: While you're up there --
MR. TREBILCOCK: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: --if the county didn't have an objection to it, which I know they don't, do
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you see any problem with your main entrance and exit being the one on Golden Gate Boulevard and a
right -only on Weber going south?
MR. TREBILCOCK: Yeah. The issue I would see there, Commissioner Strain, would be really
from people that are trying --that live to the east in the Estates trying to get to the church. It would be rather
difficult, because if you live east here and you're going to take Golden Gate Boulevard to get to the church,
right now what you do is you take a left just prior to it. Right around Max Hasse Park there's a little road that
will kind of fie you through and let you come in because, otherwise, if you come to Collier Boulevard, you
can't take a U-turn there. It's a prohibition, so then you'd have to take a left. You'd have to come down
Collier Boulevard, you know, turn at Pine Ridge Road, then come back up Weber.
So it would be really circuitous, you know, and actually you couldn't come there either. It would be
almost --it would be very difficult to get to the project, you know. You'd almost actually have to --to do
that you would head from Golden Gate Boulevard, you'd take a right, go up Collier Boulevard, do a U-turn,
comeback, and then make a left on the, you know, Boulevard there and then take a right in. It would be
very circuitous.
So that's why there is some sense to having it. I see the number as a low number for it and, overall,
it's not a high trip generator. And when you look at the predominant traffic using the Boulevard, the
remainder really isn't a high number in volume.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: First of all, your argument for being circuitous kind of doesn't work
because Collier County doesn't believe in that. If they had believed in that, they wouldn't be putting a
concrete barrier across Weber and Golden Gate Boulevard.
For me to go to an Estates Civic Association meeting, I have to go down Weber -- I used to go down
Weber, take a left, and I could be therein minutes. Now I've got to go all the way up Weber to tlne Catholic
church and fight their traffic on the north end, make a left at Vanderbilt Beach Road, go out on Collier
Boulevard, make another left to go all the way -- a mile or more south, and make another left to finally go
down Golden Gate Boulevard to get out to the civic association meeting.
So I'm just wondering why you're concerned about circuitous avenues for a one -day -a -week event or
maybe two at the most when they could go down, like, 25th, which is more of a collector than First Street,
and then go down White and come backup 951. Now, those are all bigger roads than First Avenue
Southwest is.
MR. TREBILCOCK: I guess, if you have the singular access on Golden Gate Boulevard, so for
folks to get there that live to the east -- so, you know, it's a matter of, you know, providing the availability.
You know, with them having frontage, you know, on a bunch of roads and having access on a singular, it just
seemed reasonable to have the two access points, you know, for the project.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The problem is, the only way to get to your other access point now is going
to be forcing people to turn down to get on First Avenue Southwest to get into that Weber access point.
MR TREBILCOCK: Sure.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And I think that's the problem. The people on First Avenue Southwest
already have enough problems.
MR. TREBILCOCK: I see.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I mean, we've got a church already down at the end. We've got a school
dawn at the end. We have Max Hasse Park down at the end. And while those are off hours compared to
your operations, still that doesn't mean we should fill that street up when it's available. I mean, give it a
break.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Yep.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So just something I wanted to throw on the table, because I believe, in
talking to Mike Sawyer, the county would go along with a pork chop at that entry to keep it right -in only, and
that would eliminate 50 percent of the traffic that you're now calling for on Weber Boulevard because they
wouldn't go down that road to make a left in. They'd be going down 951 or out on the main roads.
So, anyway, that's just a thought I wanted to --
MR. TREBILCOCK: I understand. Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Go ahead, Ned.
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COMMISSIONER FRYER: That's all I have right now, Norm, for you.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Okay, thank you. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Back to Fred. The reference to 60 feet --
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: --for a steeple, and then you said, "and any appurtenances."
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: What would you say about limiting it to just the steeple?
MR. HOOD: Ion sorry. Just a second.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: That'sokay.
MR. HOOD: Yeah. What we can't do --based on the roof, the roof that they haven't designed yet,
inside of that 60 feet would be -- for example, if we had a parapet wall, I wouldn't be able to go above that 30
feet. So that 60 feet just being for the steeple, I would need it for --if I did a parapet wall, if I had to screen
HVAC that's on the roof, things like that. So that's what would be included in that 60 feet.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Most of those things, if not all of them, would be well beneath 60 feet.
MR. HOOD: Sixty feet.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well beneath it.
MR. HOOD: What we could do is, if you want it to have two actual heights --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: That's what I'm thinking.
MR. HOOD: --we could do 60 as the maximum for the steeple and then, what do we usually do,
seven feet above? We can do --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I personally would prefer that.
MR. HOOD: I'm sorry. Go ahead.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I would personally prefer like a mezzanine level of seven feet or
something to cover the other things rather than leaving it wide open to allow them to go up to 60 feet even
though you don't intend to. Sixty feet for the steeple, and then you can name some other things, the air
conditioner, whatever, and then how much you would realistically need for that we can talk about.
MR. HOOD: I'm just going to write this down.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: That's fine. While you're writing, you mentioned that there are two
Sunday services, but you're not necessarily going to be limited. They're not going to be in the morning,
necessarily. They may be; they may not be. They could go as late as to 9 p.m. on Sunday.
MR. HOOD: There are two services currently. One is at -- and I can have Adrian Roman, he's the
president and secretary of the church, speak to that a little bit more in detail. Actually, why don't you just do
that.
MR. ROMAN: Adrian Roman, secretary of the church.
Currently, the church has two services on Sunday. One starts at 10:00 in the morning. It finishes
by 12:00. The afternoon service starts at 6:00, and it finishes at 7:00.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay.
MR. ROMAN: That's how we currently have the services, but because of the flexibility, you
know --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I get it. I just --I wanted to be sure that that was in line with your
present practice rather than just keeping the door wide open for what --
MR. ROMAN: It's rehearsals that happen before the services, so I can't really tell you I only start at
6:00 and I lock the door at 9:00 or 7:30. So it's just because of those practices.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Clear. Thankyou.
One of the concessions that you've made, there would be no rentals.
MR. ROMAN: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: There will, though, or could be up to 12 special events per year.
Could these be the events that are hosted by outside groups who don't pay rent?
MR. HOOD: So what we did there, instead of it being an ability for the church to just have
someone come in off the street and say we want to rent your building for however many hours on a Saturday,
for instance, they would have to -- what my intention and what the church's intention is, in those 12 events a
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year for something like a fanners market, they would have to go through the temporary -use permit process
with the county. That was our idea behind it.
If there is some way that you'd like to restrict that a little bit more, I'd be willing to hear what that
would be, but that was our intent.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, I guess my concern is -- and it gets back to traffic, as most
things do on this -- that having outside groups come in, whether they pay rent or not --
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: --is going to be a contributor to traffic in that area, and I suppose my
question is, would you be willing to limit further your 12 per year with respect to use by outside groups?
MR. HOOD: I'm going to let Adrian speak to that.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay.
MR. ROMAN: Wouldn't fanners market be considered an outside use?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: It depends on how you managed it. If you hired -- if you leased your
property to an outside management company to run a farmers market. I think that's what Ned is pointing to.
Some organizations, like the church on Davis Boulevard, they manage the functions themselves, and
I think that's what we're getting at. It would be a church function. You wouldn't lease the property out to an
outside management firm to hold a farmers market.
MR. ROMAN: Correct. We already mentioned that we're not going to lease.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, you said church facility. So I think to clear it up for Ned's
purposes -- and I think it's a good point -- leasing of the church facility or property to outside groups is
prohibited.
MR. ROMAN: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That means you still have your special events, but you would run them.
Your congregation would have to ran them.
MR. ROMAN: Correct. That's fine. That's fine with us. I just wanted to understand how, if I'm
having a special event, that would be somebody else that's coming on our property. So I just wanted to
clarify that in my mind so I know how to answer.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: All right. So that's clear tome now, yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah, okay.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And, Mr. Chairman, those are all the questions I have for now.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Anybody else? Stan?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Just one little thing. The Dorta property next door, are you
going to put a berm between your land and his?
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Okay. The LiDAR shows he's a lot lower than you.
MR. HOOD: Yeah. I think what we proposed was something like --and we haven't designed it,
again, but something like two to three feet of a berm.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Yeah. That will keep the water from flowing onto him.
Thanks.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: The language that you handed out in the conditions --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Your mike's not working, Heidi.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: The handout that contained the conditions as well as the revised
conceptual plan I received just today. I can see some of the conditions of approval will require some
cleanup, which I'd like to work with Mr. Hood outside of the meeting.
But I do have a question on the accessory recreation area. Is that outdoor only? Is the accessory
recreation area outdoor area only or --
MR. HOOD: That's our understanding right now, except for the pastor's residence. If we put it nn
that area that --
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: So I'd like to -- that was the one question I'm not clear on. So if we put on
the conceptual map "outdoor accessory," that would be okay.
MR. HOOD: (Nods head.)
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MS. ASHTON-CICKO: Otherwise, it affects the square footage cap for the project, potentially.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right. And part of the issue's going to happen today, we're going to ask
our questions, then we're going to hear staff -- or public input, then we have -- will have more questions, and
because this was just passed out today, I'm not expecting we're going to come to a conclusion today,
especially with the issue on the traffic.
I did talk to Mike Sawyer. He indicated he had not even received the TIS until this morning on this
or something. So I want to make sure we've got everybody's input to final it up, but I do expect that after we
get done today, the bulk of the issues can be put on the table, and we can come back and finish it up at the ,
next meeting, or close to that. But we'll talk further as we finish up today and see where it goes after public
speakers.
MR. HOOD: And I just want to just put this out there. I just want to make sure that with doing that
that we don't start messing with our BCC -- I mean, it may be inevitable, but if we can try not to put us off for
our BCC date.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We're not trying to do that. In fact, normally we have this kind of meeting,
then a consent. My suggestion would be if we were to continue this to finish it, we finish the consent at the
same time because it would be that much further along. And these handouts that are multi pages and
changes to things would have a little bit of time to make sure they didn't miss anything.
MR. HOOD: I understand.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Because, honestly, they did miss the traffic issue. And the fact that the
TIS had a different number than what you were building is problematic, and I want to make sure everybody
on staff understands the way the traffic count will be capped regardless of the square footage, which still puts
it back at the same stature that it is today.
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So some questions that I had, Fred. I think you've got quite a few of them
at least answered and stated.
The parking, you have 132 spaces shown on your parking plan, so we would need to indicate that
that's the maximum amount of parking spaces you would be getting based on this continual use.
MR. HOOD: We can do that with the -- oh, well, yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, I've counted them, and they're stated on your traffic study.
MR. HOOD: Per the 300 seats, we'll have to --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But that also keeps your seating down to whatyou've agreed, because you
need 129 for the seating. So you've got three more than the seating would allow, which means you'd have
enough for your pastor and that use if it is there.
Trip cap, we got that. Amplified sound. Oh, the lighting.
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Number 10, site lighting shall be installed to protect neighborhood
properties from direct glare by directing all light sources away from adjacent residential properties as feasible.
I'm not sure "as feasible" is a clear understanding of how it's going to be. Do you have some area on there
that you didn't think was feasible based on that site plan that I've previously seen?
MR. HOOD: Let me just open this real quick, and I'll get to what I was talking about. Okay. So
areas at the --we really wouldn't be worried about this area here or this area here. And if we were --when
we light this accessway for this drive aisle for Weber that's going out onto Weber, the lights would be
pointing in the northerly direction so that they wouldn't be spilling over onto Mr. Dorta's property.
The same would go for this western area along his property line. We forced the lights going that
way. With that extensive buffer, that buffer's probably going to grow pretty quickly. But -- and with even
that, these parking spaces here along the west side, we would be lighting thein going towards Collier
Boulevard.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right.
MR. HOOD: I just --I was leaving it so that in case there was an issue that we had to put a light that
may face south or may face east in one of these areas that wasn't directly abutting his property, that we would
if we could if we needed to at SDP.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Either by the end of this meeting, if we get to finish this today, if not, by
the time we come back, think about where your lighting needs to be while -- we're going to have some public
speakers. I'm not sure you need the words "as feasible," and the reason I don't like those, it's pretty
ambiguous.
MR. HOOD: Ambiguous.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So that's a little bit of a problem.
MR. HOOD: And the addition --and this is something else that we talked about with the lighting is
that the light will be LED, and it will all be directionalized and shielded. So the spillover effect that may
have happened in some of the older type of developments will be significantly mitigated here.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Let me make sure I've got everything right now. Oh, in your -- you talked
about the prohibited uses. You said educational services and soup kitchens. Also, what about the outreach
services such as alcohol rehab and things like that? You can add that to the list as well. You don't do any of
that, do you?
MR. HOOD: No, we do not, and we will definitely add that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And I think that's the only questions I hadn't gotten -- that weren't
addressed from what we've seen. The enhanced buffer, at some point I'll need to make sure that -- I don't
know what — you said a paurotis palm.
MR. HOOD: I believe it's a paurotis.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I've got arecas, and I know what they do, and they do a really good hedge.
MR. HOOD: They're similar to arecas.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And they do grow well in the Estates. So at some point --I don't want to
leave it palms clustered, because that could be just some sabal palms clustered in groups of three, which will
give nobody anything.
So we'd really need to look at something to follow up with the diagram you showed. Now, areca
was a good choice. They grow well --
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Paurotis are native.
MR. HOOD: That's what it is, paurotis.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, okay. But do they get as --
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Oh, they grow like areca. A little slower but man, they
really fill in.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's fine. When an engineer tells me a paurotis is the same as areca, I've
got nothing to do but to believe that.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: It's a clumping palm. It grows nice.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. That's fine.
MR. HOOD: Thank you for that, Stan. That's the one I was thinking of, paurotis.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's the questions I have at this tine. Okay. With that, there's no other
questions?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. We'll go to public speakers, and you'll have an opportunity to
address some of the issues at the end of the public speakers.
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And those of you that want to speak, we generally allow five minutes per
speaker, but we're here to listen to your concerns. And if they're not redundant and if they're new information,
we'd still like you to make sure you — we hear it and understand it, so whatever it takes, we'll work with you.
Ray?
MR. BELLOWS: Did you want to do the staff report first?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's a good idea. I didn't think --I talked to James already about it, so I
forgot that he hasn't talked to us as a group.
James?
MR. SABO: Nota problem. James Sabo, for the record.
The Zoning Division recommends the CCPC forward the petition to the Board of Zoning Appeals
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with a recornmendation of approval for the proposed conditional use for a church if the companion GMP
amendment is approved and becomes effective, subject to conditions as maybe presented today.
MR. BELLOWS: Ready?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No. Because now that he mentioned that, I did have one question. Why
didn't you have under your — in your normal staff report you have zoning division analysis, but we also
usually have transportation and environmental, and I see neither one on here. Does that mean neither of
those departments reviewed this?
MR. SABO: No. Environmental reviewed it, and as did transportation.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Well, then I'll need them to jump in on behalf of their position, so
let us know, because there's no -- there's nothing inhere from either one. Normally we have their separate
paragraphs for them. So in the future we might want to make sure those are there.
MR. SABO: Very good.
CHAIIZMAN STRAIN: So with that in mind, will Sumner come up and then Mike and let us know
if your department has any position on this so we get it for the record since it wasn't in the staff report.
MS. ARAQUE: Summer Araque, Environmental Planning, for the record. And we did review this
petition. We have our staff report section draft ready to go, but it's not --
CHAIRMAN
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You have it ready to go?
MS. ARAQUE: Yep.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But it isn't here.
MS. ARAQUE: No. So we did review it, and everything that's been stated today is correct, and the
site plan's correct, and the acreage is correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Can you --
MS. ARAQUE: I have nothing else to add, really, except that there's a.77 -acre preserve required,
which you've already seen.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Would you make sure you get a copy of that to James and that he
gets the Planning Cormmission a copy supplemental to the report --
MS. ARAQUE: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- so we have it for the record?
MS. ARAQUE: Yep, will do.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So you didn't have any issues? You're fine with everything you heard?
MS. ARAQUE: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Thank you very much, Summer.
MR.SAWYER: Good afternoon. Mike Sawyer, Transportation Planning, for the record.
We did look at the petition. We reviewed the TIS. We do find that it is consistent with the GMP.
The traffic, which is normal for a church, is primarily mornings on Sundays.
The GMP requires us to look at consistency for p.m. peak during the week. So because it's on the
weekend and on Sundays, we found it consistent.
Additionally, there is capacity on the roadway systems, the adjacent roadways. We also did check
the class for Collier Boulevard as far as access locations. It would be 660, which would basically get you to
First. Additionally, because there is already an access on Golden Gate, that would certainly be the preferred
location for an access point.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You heard the discussion about the potential right -in only with a pork chop
configuration. Did you have any concerns about that from your department's perspective?
MR. SAWYER: None. That would be fine with us.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Could you supply your staff --you normally have a paragraph in
the staff report. Just supply it to James so he can include it in the record when we finish up with this.
MR. SAWYER: We'd be glad to.
CHAIl2MAN STRAIN: Anybody?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Mr. Chairman, am I hearing correctly that because of the spacing
requirements that there really -- it would be impossible to put an entrance and an exit on Collier?
MR. SAWYER: Let me put it this way. If the site did not already have an access point that was
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already provided on Golden Gate, certainly we would look at that as a possibility. We would also, at the
very same time, also look at an access point on Golden Gate.
Because Collier is considered a larger, more important collector, and in this case a divided collector,
we would place preference on looking at a location for an access point more likely on Golden Gate.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well -- okay. It sounds like an area where you would exercise some
discretion.
MR. SAWYER: Correct.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And, presumably, we could also.
MR. SAWYER: Just as much, sir, yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Thank you.
CHAII2MAN STRAIN: Mike, one more question.
MR. SAWYER: Certainly.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: If part of the cure to the concerns over the traffic would be to enhance the
traffic management, using my words carefully, traffic management on Weber Boulevard, do you have any
objections or do you believe there would be -- how would this be approached from putting stop signs on
Weber? I mean, it would be a -- I can tell you living on Weber myself, it would great to have stop signs on
Weber.
I have the similar situation with the church on the north end of Weber where I live and, you know, on
Sundays they drive down the street, and the police are there a lot. But it would be nice if they just had stop
signs, because people would be slowing down because they'd have to stop more and they may decide it's
simpler just to go out on 951. How could that be processed through the county?
MR. SAWYER: Anytime that we do stop signs or other types of management, there are criteria,
and especially for stop signs. There is clear criteria that we've got for allowing or not allowing stop signs.
Now, I can't tell you -- we certainly haven't looked at that -- whether Weber would qualify for stop signs or
whether it wouldn't. We would certainly want to take a look, and we certainly could do that through our
traffic operations division and look at seeing if stop signs would be warranted.
We have also done other types of management on other road segments, especially out in the Estates,
where we've had other projects come in. Those would also be possibilities as far as management.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. If the --my concern is the reasonableness of whoever would make
this decision, because I do have the following information from the Transportation Department that says,
"Stops signs: When used for traffic calming, stop signs often do one or more of the following: One, increase
mid block speeds along the street because the driver's trying to makeup for lost time." Of course, the
alternative of that is they just continue at higher speeds the whole length because there's no stop signs. Sol
think that maybe not -- may not be a good argument.
Increased noise because of quick accelerations and decelerations. I don't know what they would
have used to test that. I'm trying to understand how that even applies.
Increased pollution. A stop sign. This is kind of obscure reasoning.
Reduce driver's expectation of a uniform flow. Exactly what we want to do to stop people from going
down Weber and go out to 951 where they belong.
Relocate the problem. There's no stop signs on 951. It's six lanes, so it's not a two-lane road, so
there's no problem there.
And then this one's curious. Cause disrespect for stop signs by drivers and bicyclists. So now we
have to worry about disrespecting a stop sign.
I'm just -- if that's the reasoning that someone in the public gets when they try to obtain a stop sign
for their street, like I know -- I have been told by some residents there they've tried to do that and they've got
turned down -- that really isn't sensible reasoning.
So how would this be looked at? Someone with that mindset's going to be deciding whether or not
Weber can have stop signs on it or not, or how is that done?
MR. SAWYER: I believe where that criteria is coming from is from the NTMP program we have.
When we look at stop signs from an operational standpoint, it is based on numbers, and it is based on traffic
counts, speeds. There are a number of things that are looked at. I can tell you it is not that same criteria.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Good. Thank you. Anybody else?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: That concern was echoed really by speakers at the NIM who seemed
to be more concerned about speeders as opposed to quantity of cars. Now, there were some who expressed
concern about each one. But are there other traffic -calming devices that could be considered besides stop
signs?
MR. SAWYER: There are always traffic management techniques that can be used. The issue that
we would have is that we would want to make sure that they are consistent with other types of management
that we've done, basically, in the same type of area. So if there are -- if there are techniques that have been
used out in the Estates in a similar road area or similar segment, those are the types of things that we would
want to go to first. That's not to mean that those aren't (sic) the only ones that we would consider.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Anybody else?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Now, I think we've had all three staff reports now. Thank you.
MR. SAWYER: Indeed.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Now we'll go to public speakers. And everybody, if you want to speak, as
I was saying, just come up to the microphone and state your name. You may have to spell it if it's not easily
understood when you say it.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Sworn in?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Pardon me?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Swornin.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We already swore everybody in, didn't we? All those wishing --yeah, we
already swore everybody in.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: I thought Sue wanted to say something.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I don't know. Sue, did you have something you wanted to add? If you
do, come on up.
MS. FALKNER: I did. Sorry. Sorry about that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No, that's fine. Yours was only a sentence.
MS. FALKNER: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I didn't think there was much to it. Go ahead.
MS. FALKNER: Sue Falkner, Comprehensive Planning.
Staff does recommend approval for this project; however, we do have one little revision. We'd like to
add that the list in the Golden Gate Area Master Plan -- at the back of the plan there's a list of all the future
land use maps in the series, and we'd like to add the new map that was created for this project to that list.
And so when you approve it, we'd like you to approve it with that addition.
CHAIl2MAN STRAIN: Okay. Thank you. Anybody have any questions?
MS. FALKNER: Thanks.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Thank you, Sue.
MS. FALKNER: Uh-huh.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Now, Ray, if you'll call the first speaker. Please come up to either
microphone.
MR. BELLOWS: First speaker, Gary VanDeWerken.
MR. VANDEWERKEN: My name is Gary VanDeWerken, and I'm a long-term resident of Collier
County for over 50 years. I have lived on Weber Boulevard South since 1986.
I'm opposed to anything being built in this area that's going to generate more traffic to Weber
Boulevard.
It's not only -- we have over the years of me living there, we have a school, we have a park, we have
two other churches down First Avenue South. When school let's out, you have people picking up children as
well, and it backs up all down First Avenue South and down two blocks down Weber Boulevard blocking
First Avenue. You can't -- it's kind of like if there's an emergency, nobody's getting down that road, and this
has been going on for years.
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And just one thing that the county did do was keep people from coming onto Weber off the
Boulevard. They blocked that off. That helped the traffic in the mornings flying down Weber, because they
would bypass -- people would try to bypass that light, and they were literally doing 70 miles an hour down
Weber but -- and it created another problem where they were coming down Pine Ridge crossing 951, going
down Weber to bypass 951 traffic, and they're doing 70 -plus miles an hour. I had a car flip over lin my front
yard and this, you lmow, destroyed fencing and stuff like that.
Putting more traffic in this area, I'm just totally opposed to that. That's about all I have to say.
Thank you.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Just to put a couple of your points a little more at ease,
maybe, in your mind. The traffic that this generates, usually churches generate traffic in off-peak hours.
And most people don't -- you talked about septic systems. As often as I've been to church, I don't think I've
ever gone to the toilet when I was at church, you know. I don't know how many people do.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Nice piece of info.
COMMISSIONER CIIRZANOWSKI: Yeah, TMI, too much information, I know. ButI don't
think you'll get a lot of use out of whatever they have for aseptic system. I just can't see it. But, you know,
just to put your mind a little more at ease --
MR. VANDEWERKEN: I'm glad you touched base on that, because that was another concern was
the 300 -seat capacity on aseptic system. And being out in that area, that is my drinking water and
everybody else's in that area. And when it does rain heavily, we do have changes in our well system. So
that is from runoff and leaching. Now, if you put aseptic system like that in there, it is going --and there's --
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: If a11300 people --
MR. VANDEWERKEN: Oh, boy, that's quite a bit --
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: --before they went home, they generally don't do that, at
least --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Wait till you get a little older.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: -- Catholics don't. You know, I can't talk for other people.
I have no idea.
MR. VANDEWERKEN: Okay. I appreciate your --
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Just ignore what I said. I've taken too much sensitivity
training, I think.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Next speaker, Ray?
MR, BELLOWS: Patrick Miller.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: By the way, how many speakers do we have registered? Four.
It's now 4:02, so ifanybody is here for the Land Development Code amendments, I'll poll the Board
real quick. Are you -all thinking we're going to want to go past this hearing to hear LDC amendments, or do
you want to put them off to next meeting?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I think we should put them off.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I have no problem with it. You guys have been here longer than I have
today.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I'm married. I'm in no hurryto go home.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do you care?
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Doesn't matter one way or the other.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I heard someone say that there was not great urgency in addressing
this.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And I'm sorry to interrupt, to stop you here, Pat, but is anybody here for
the LDC amendments beside county staff?
Jeremy.
(No response.)
CHAIl2MAN STRAIN: Good. We're going to come back next meeting for the LDC amendments,
MR. MILLER: Thank you, Mr. Strain.
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For the record, my name is Patrick Miller. I'm also a 50 -year resident of Collier County. I have
lived on Weber Boulevard in excess of 25 years, along with my wife. We've built three homes on that street.
And, progressively, we've seen this street change. The traffic is getting --you're talking about off-peak
hours. Right now we've got five days a week of 60 -mile -an -hour traffic going to the school, taking their kids
to school. You ever seen parents when they're late going to school? They don't care what's on the road.
They just keep going down the road. We've got the church. Now we've got two churches, we've got the
school, everything.
As for the traffic, talk about other areas, it used to be when you used to drive on Ridge Road from
one end of Ridge Drive to the other end of Ridge Drive in Pine Ridge, the more affluent section, you could
drive that just like you could drive Weber Boulevard, which is a two-mile straightaway.
Funny, they've got stop signs at almost every other street in Pine Ridge, but we can't seem to get one
or two stop signs on a two-mile straight. Okay.
Not against God or churches, but it is an Estates area. There's nothing else -- you know, all the rest
of the area around it is all single-family homes. All of them are nicely maintained. I would just like to see
somethings done, especially the lighting. I think there's something called Dark Skies. I want to make sure
that they do that and not -- we're out there, we've got dark skies. We want to be able to see the stars at night.
I know that's not everybody's choice, but that's why we moved out there 25 years ago, okay, because we
didn't want to be in a subdivision and we didn't want to have neighbors two feet across the street from us,
okay. So I'd like to see that.
And then at the last minute the petitioner throws in -- I was at both of the neighborhood information
meetings. They throw in this pastor's, or whatever you want to call it, residence all of a sudden. That was
never ever presented to the neighborhood. So how do you come to this after two neighborhood meetings and
then all of a sudden start changing the program?
So does that open the door for other changes as we go down the road for the conditional use, the
Land Development Code, you know, the master plan change?
Just ask everybody to consider those things and see if you can help the neighborhood maintain it's
Estates. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And, Pat, one thing that I'm aware of after being on this board for along
number of years, and I know you've been in town probably as long as I have, and I've been in our
neighborhood longer than the fellow that stood up before you. So I know that this property has attempted
changes on it for a couple different decades.
MR. MILLER: Right.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I know a former land -use attorney, Bruce Anderson, came in with one of
them. Another person came in before that. When I was chairing the Master Plan Committee in the year
2000, we had people coming before us trying to change this corner and the corner across the street.
Now, I've watched the county grow. Pve been part of it on this board, and Pve been concerned about
how it's going to affect our neighborhood. I've been on this board trying to watch for our neighborhood
continuously, but I've also had to have a practical eye because if things are going to change, what's the worst
and what's the best?
MR. MILLER: Correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So if I was looking at a change and I was those poor folks down on Palm
and 41 who had a Racetrac pop up in front of their house, something that we never anticipated, I'd be real
concerned. If they had a church pop up, maybe they wouldn't be so concerned because that's one of the more
passive uses.
I understand the traffic issue, but my concern is if we don't find a well -regulated church as an
example for this location, what's going to happen when the mood swing changes politically at some point in
the future for a six -- two six -lane roads coming together? And that's the piece I'm worried about.
And I know you guys have got the Weber Boulevard stuff. Ido, too. I have a church issue with
tbat one. We have a church with a school going right next to it. So I've got similar issues. Stop signs
would be a great thing for our neighborhoods. And now that it's been brought up, I would hope this board at
some point before this finishes, either today or next time, recommends to the Board of County
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Commissioners to seriously allow some stop signs on Weber Boulevard.
MR. MILLER: And, as you said, I watched this county. Pm a banker. I've been a banker in this
town for 40 years, so I contribute to the development, but Pve also watched it grow properly in the areas, and
I just like to see things (sic).
I just want to make sure if the church goes in there, that -- okay, all of a sudden they're talking about
farmers market, and, you know, that's not -- that's not a church.
I mean, the other thing is I believe -- and I may be wrong, but I'll have to ask Mr. Hood, have they
not had other —
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You'll have to direct your questions to us. We'll deal with them.
MR. MILLER: Okay. I'm sorry. I believe the church has had multiple sites in the county that
they either sold or lost or whatever. So I'm asking wiry they keep playing "move the church."
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: They'll answer that during rebuttal. One thing I wanted to tell you is the
reason that they talked about the special events is because I brought it up to them before the meeting because
by code the churches -- because they're considered accessory now to churches, quite a few of the churches in
the area have all kinds of special events. They're allowed to have I think it's 28 a year. So I suggested to
them they look closely at how many they really needed and then sharpen their pencil and then this would now
supersede the code, so this would actually be more restrictive than what they would have been allowed by
right.
MR. MILLER: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's why it's here. That's the only reason it carne up. Because if it didn't
come up, silently, they'd end up with 28 days a year.
MR. MILLER: Gotcha. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Thank you, sir.
Next speaker, Ray?
MR. BELLOWS: Renate S. Kelly.
MS. KELLY: I am an old lady.
Renate Kelly is my name. I live on Weber Boulevard South. We bought the home in 1996 moving
from Crayton Road because of traffic out to the Estates where we could have wildlife and slower lifestyle.
I couldn't -- Crayton Road I couldn't hardly get out of the driveway, and be damned if I can hardly go
to the mailbox now without having my rear end chopped off. I mean, it's just getting ridiculous.
And I want the church members to know I'm not against churches; against the traffic that going to
create. And they're saying only Sundays. Sundays is when the deer carne around. So I don't know how they
know, but there was less traffic, the deer carne, and now on Sundays the deer can't come anymore.
I mean, what the heck is going on? Pra disgusted by it all, really. Nobody takes us under
consideration anymore.
Thank you.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: The deer only come on Sundays?
MS. KELLY: Yeah. Our deer only came on Sundays.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: He's asking the question. That's Stan.
MS. KELLY: Oh, I forgot, the lighting. I would like to see if lighting has to be done, like
Jehovah's Witnesses they are real low. They're not high up. They're real low. They're on First Avenue
Southwest, Jehovah's Witnesses, I like those lights, if there have to be lights.
COMMISSIONERCHRZANOWSKI: Ma'am?
MS. KELLY: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Are you any relation to John Kelly?
MS. KELLY: Yeah.
COMMISSIONERCHRZANOWSKI: Mysympathies.
MS. KELLY: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Oh, Stan, you lighten the day.
Next speaker.
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MR. BELLOWS: The final speaker is John Kelly.
MS. KELLY: He's the quiet one.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Hi, John. How have you been?
MR. KELLY: Fine, thank you.
Good afternoon. John Kelly, for the record. I'm enjoying my day off from the county here so that I
can voice my opinion. I've been a resident on Weber Boulevard South for just shy of 25 years.
When I first purchased property on the street, it's because it was rural like, agricultural. I had a
desire to maybe have horses and have a small ranchette. If taxes keep going up, I may end up being a goat
farmer for an agricultural exemption, but don't tell my neighbors, please.
But our primary concern is the traffic. So we already have Max Hasse Community Park on the end
of First Avenue Southwest we have Big Cypress Elementary school; Jehovah's Witness worship facility with
two worship halls, not just one. They can have simultaneous activities there; and there's a failing church or
failed church, Cypress Woods Presbyterian Church and Childcare Center. I believe that church has failed
because you see very little activity. And that would have been an optimal location for this church to locate.
As it is, the only use that we would really welcome is the pastor's residence. Like I said, it's the
traffic caused by a church, not so much a church itself.
The petitioner through public records, I have observed, did previously own property on Livingston
Road at Learning Lane where they proposed a 500 -seat church with a school facility and a pastor's residence.
I'm concerned that they might outgrow this site in no time, in which case they'll be back before the Board or
purchasing the residence to create a 10 -acre parcel which would allow for a mega -church in the area here.
And I believe this property is self-limiting due to access issues. So also, should you still be
considering allowing a church, I would like to mention that it's somewhat misleading stating that the use of a
church is allowable as a conditional use at this location because until such time as you approve an
amendment to the Growth Management Plan, it is not.
So I would ask that you look at this very carefully in not allowing the use to occur by allowing the
Growth Management Plan amendment.
And, lastly, I do have to agree if you do consider the church, the Jehovah's Witnesses have created a
nice lighting plan, and I would encourage people to look at that.
Thank you very much, Stan.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: John, how long have you worked for the Plamning
Department; probably 25 years?
MR. KELLY: I celebrated my 20 -year anniversary several months ago. So been with planning for
18 years, code enforcement prior.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Prettygood. You see our point about how churches,
generally, the traffic they generate is kind of off-peak hours. Do you not agree with that?
MR. KELLY: It is off-peak hours; however, we have enough churches. Two already have our
off-peak hours full.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Yeah, you might be right. The thing about churches is just
because you have a Catholic church and a Baptist church doesn't mean you have all the churches you need.
You know, other religions have the right to --
MR. KELLY: Oh, I'm not --
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: — their churches.
MR. KELLY: I'm arguing the traffic. I'm not arguing a church use at all. I was really hoping that
I would be here speaking for a model home as a conditional use. Unfortunately, there's something of a much
larger scale here.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I've always thought churches are, like Mark said, one of the
lesser impactful uses for --
MR. KELLY: Perhaps, but I think some of these people, since this is the only Romanian church in
about 150 miles, or so I've heard, some of these people are going to need to use the restroom when they get
there, and they have quite a few --
COMMISSIONERCHRZANOWSKI: Goodpoint.
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MR. KELLY: -- people that I think will be attending this church.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Thanks, John.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: John, before you leave, I have a couple questions. Since you've been here
a long time, do you remember the Jehovah's Witnesses process coming through this board?
MR. KELLY: I do.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do you remember they lost?
MR. KELLY: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do you remember they got to the Board of County Commissioners, and
what happened there? They lost.
MR. KELLY: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Then what happened? They went to court, and what happened there?
They won.
MR. KELLY: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Because they won after denials, we couldn't attach stipulations and
regulations to them like we can with this church here. So as a result, you've got a situation there where
they're leasing out, they're doing things that now are more problematic to the neighborhood than trying to find
an agreeable church that would come in and find — and seek compromise to get to where they want to be.
That has been my concern from day one, and I remember it because I participated in that other one that you
are so -- that you mentioned right from the get -go. We tried to stop all that and we couldn't.
MR. KELLY: I don't entirely disagree, but I believe by allowing the Growth Management Plan
amendment to occur opens Pandora's box on that corner and also on the opposite side of Golden Gate
Boulevard.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do you not think that box is going to be opened by the processes we have
in front of us in the growth we're experiencing now? Because if you've been here as long as that, then you
know the other attempts that have been for this corner, and you know why that house across the street was
purchased and you know why it's not kept up to the highest standards possible; because the argument was
then, and the argument will be again, well, what do you want as an entrance to your community? That
rundown house, or do you want some kind of -- what they tried before was a retail or office center, both of
which will give you more peak -hour traffic than the church will, and that's where I'm coming from, so...
MR. KELLY: And that maybe. And I would also point out that there is a Growth Management
Plan amendment in the process, and I would very much like to see that Growth Management Plan
reevaluation, excuse me. I would like to see that completed before we allow for --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That was --
MR. KELLY: -- this amendment.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- attempted by this group as well as two other groups. And unlike the
year 2000 through 2002 when we had our other master planning committee, the current master replanning
effort would not allow private groups to come into play with their efforts. So this group was turned down.
They can't proceed that way. And so as a result they had to comeback and do a private amendment, and
that's why they're here today, so...
MR. KELLY: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you. Any other speakers, Ray?
MR. BELLOWS: No other speakers.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Is there anybody here who has not spoken that would like to speak? Go
ahead. Everybody's done. Go ahead.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: You know, it was funny, because when this came in, the first thing I
did was went back to Mike Bosi, because I remember the one on Livingston.
MR. HOOD: Yes, ma'am.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: What happened to that one? When you told me there isn't any, you
had property on Livingston.
MR. HOOD: I'm going to actually have Adrian speak to why that property is no longer there.
MR. ROMAN: The question was, what happened to the property on Livingston?
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COMMISSIONER EBERT: Yeah, because it was okayed on Livingston.
MR. ROMAN: Yes. The church is a living organism just like we people are. And what happens
is we started and got the approvals what is required for a church, just like we're doing now or in a different
stage of the church body at the time.
At the time when we were ready to build, just like happens. I heard it quite a few times in this
county in other places there was a developer next to us that needed a corner, and they came and made us an
offer for it.
We took their offer, and we thought the initial offer that they had given success enough money to
buy a new building here, another church.
We were taking that to our board members and to the church and said, look, with this money we can
afford to buy a church, and we were going to move forward and only give this offer up only if we go forward
and buy a church so we don't have to go through the process of building a church. It's not easy for 100
people --about 100 people to build a church with very limited financing. We thought at that time we were
able to buy a church.
There are no churches for sale in Collier County. That's why we're here. In my understanding,
there's other petitions that you have from other churches coming in and trying to petition you to give them
approval to build a church.
I wish the case was for us to go to a church, buy a church, less headache on us, I'm sure less
headache on you guys, and not be here at all. Unfortunately, we cannot find anything. We could not find
anything. We're still looking, even to this point, as we went through this process to find a church for sale,
and we can't.
I wish we find one and move on and buy the church, everything's ready, we don't have any other
headaches, and that chapter in our church history would be closed, but that's not the case. And I'm sorry.
That's why we're here today.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Ido remember the other one. Whom did you sell that to? You sold
that to?
MR. ROMAN: Well, we were on Livingston and Learning Lane --
COMNIISSIONEREBERT: Yes.
MR. ROMAN: --next door to us, I believe they were --
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Camden?
MR. ROMAN: No. It's a group of other companies. They didn't tell us exactly what they were
going to do, but my understanding through rumors is that they're going to do an ALF. They haven't done
anything, developed anything, so don't quote me on that. I may be wrong. But they haven't told us why
they need the property.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: That's fine.
MR. ROMAN: They just use it for their overall.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Did you have anything else?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: No.
CHAEUVIAN STRAIN: Diane, anybody else have any questions?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: No.
MR. ROMAN: Just want to add to the record we're a Romanian church. We're about 92 members
right now. We're asking for more seats than what we are right now. We're hoping to grow. Yes, there are
other churches further away from where we are. But I wish people would drive 100 miles to come to our
church or any other church that you talk to. They probably would love to have parishioners come from 100
miles away but, as we all know, that's not the case.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: So the map we saw where your people live, 26, that's
families, but 92 people in 26 families?
MIR. ROMAN: About, roughly, and we have other visitors, but that's --yeah.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Okay.
MR. ROMAN: Yeah, even from Lee County.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Fred, did you have any comments you wanted to make before
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we --
MR. HOOD: Actually --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- discuss this?
MR. HOOD: --just really quickly, if you wouldn't mind, I'd just like to go over the changes that we
were proposing so that we have them one more time.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Well, why don't we start with your sheet number one, cleanup
issues, so we can understand where we're at so next time we can come to a final decision, because I don't
think there's enough clarity yet in what you've written. I need you to -- I think -- I'll start, and if you guys have
anything, just jump in if I miss it.
The No. 2 where you talk about 24,000 square feet, you did say 24,000 square feet at the NIM. You
may want to consider that being inclusive of all structures on the site. So take that into consideration by the
time you come back, and we'll discuss it further and see what that could evolve, because it was a good point
that the pastor's residence is an additional 3,500 square feet was never mentioned in the NIM.
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Under your accessories that are prohibitive, we need some of the outreach
language in there.
MR. HOOD: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Number 5, leasing the church facility or property, I think we all understand
what that means now.
Number 8, lighting. Could you take a look, because you did say you would try to build to the Dark
Sky standards in the NIM. Could you take a look -- we have a separate set of outdoor standards. Would
you look at those and be prepared to discuss those against what you're asking for at the next meeting?
MR. HOOD: Sure. Aud what Norm and I just discussed briefly was we would put the stipulation
in that we would be Dark Skies compliant. So we're okay with that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's fine. I just --because you didn't do it here, I thought there might be
something that you've got a problem with, and I wanted to understand what that problem might be.
MR. HOOD: Sure.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Thank you. To that, Ido lighting as well, so I'm alighting expert.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You are?
MR. TREBILCOCK: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Did you do the Jehovah's Witnesses at the end of First Street?
MR. TREBILCOCK: No, I did not.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Could you go down and look at them before you come back?
MR. TREBILCOCK: No. What I can do is affirm for you and -- but I will, yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No. If they've got a successful lighting pattern, and obviously it works
because they got permitted for it, and everything you know you get permitted for is right. So would you --
MR. TREBILCOCK: Yeah. That's no problem.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thais a little subtleness. I don't know if anybody got it.
But would you mind going and checking that before you come back? Because it may mean we can
do away with the 15 -foot heights and you can look at bollard lighting.
MR. TREBILCOCK: No. But what I would suggest, based on my experience of doing lighting for
28 years here in Collier County, what I was going to suggest is to do the Dark Sky compliant, have the
15 -foot mounting height within 50 feet of residential structures, shield from residential. This would a criteria;
full cut-off fixtures; and then we'd establish a 0.2 foot candles at the property line as a criteria, because you
were saying about establishing lighting.
And I also wouldn't preclude and say, you know, LED only, because it's just lighting. You establish
standards, and that's it, because I've seen so many old PUDs that say you will have, you know, high-pressure
sodium lights, you know, and that's not what we want anymore because they're not as -- so we don't say
exactly what kind of light.
But if we do these criteria I've just listed, that will meet and it will exceed what is currently out there
in the Estates, but I'll also take a look at the other one. But the lighting for parking lots by following this
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criteria will meet the needs of the community as well, based on my experience.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: They've got bollard lighting or low -style lighting there, and it's working. I
sure think that would be a somewhat reasonable consideration, especially since you've had at least two
speakers mention that to you tonight, so...
MR. TREBILCOCK: I'll definitely look at that but, again, there's, you know, different ways to skin
the cat, obviously, and the criteria and, again, the recommendation to do Dark Sky, we agree with as well.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Yep, thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
And, Fred, when we get back into the listing, under the palms clustered, you're going to indicate
they're to be areca or paurotis?
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. That's, I think, all the notes I had. Let me make sure.
Ned, did you --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yes, I had the steeple.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Oh, yeah. The steeple and the seven -foot for the --I got that.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And other appurtenances.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And then the --
MR. HOOD: I'm sorry, just a second.
On the actual height that is not for the steeple, we'd like to comeback. And we want to take a look
at it and come back and give you a number for that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's fine. Just a point that you've got to comeback for, and I think that's
what --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Then the parking spaces, you need to indicate those are locked in on what
you showed in your plan. And after we get all that back -- we're going to hold off voting, and we'll continue
until the next meeting.
MR. HOOD: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And then we'll make a decision then based on what you've provided to us.
Now, in the meantime, I'm going to be talking to some people, let's say, above Mr. Sawyer's level to
see if we can get some support for stop signs on Weber, and I'll let you know. I'll certainly bring that up for
discussion, and I'll -- Pat, I'll probably call you and let you know what that evolves, so...
MR. HOOD: Okay.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: You said you're going to go down one floor.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: What?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: You said you're going to go down one floor.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I don't know where I'm going to go. I just want to make sure we're
making every effort to try to -- I think that's -- the parking or the stop signs would be a very good idea and
very helpful --
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: --so we'll see what we can do. And I don't have -- oh, and the controlled
entry on Weber for right -in.
MR. HOOD: I actually wanted to ask a question about that. So we're -- on that -- on that access
we're talking about right -in only here.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right, pork chop.
MR. HOOD: And right -out only there, or are you just saying --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Just right -in total. You know, if it discourages people from going down
First Avenue --
MR. HOOD: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- I don't think that's a bad thing, and they'll figure out ways to get there,
and the easiest way will become their routine. So drink about that for next time.
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MR. HOOD: Yeah, we'll take a look at it.
MR. TREBILCOCK: I think the idea and the issues on Weber with the stop signs --and I'm not
trying to be contraire or anything, but it's an important public -safety issue to talk about stop signs. And what
I've posted for you, this is from the Institute of Transportation Engineers. This is the transportation
statements that are used Florida -wide regarding stop signs, and Ijust want to make it understood that, you
know, your staff when you talk to thein, they weren't trying to be contraire or contrite with you or anything.
It's really understood and well -- and I'll provide this to each of you. But it's important to understand
that we don't just place stop signs as a method to control folks, because they understood that. Drivers are
smart, so I just want that to be clear to us.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But it's called discouragement. If you're going to drive down 951, six
lanes of a straight shot at 50 miles an hour or you've got a choice to go over to Weber and go 50 miles an
hour, but all of a sudden you've got two stop signs, you might think twice about going through Weber and
taking the chance of getting a ticket or having someone ahead of you who's trying to obey the law and slow
you down and stay on 951.
MR. TREBILCOCK: You make a good point --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's the point.
MR. TREBILCOCK: --that --you're absolutely right that there needs to be measures put in place,
and there are measures that can be put in place. But randomly putting stop signs that aren't warranted is not in
the health, safety, welfare interest of the public. That's all. I'm not trying to -- I just want to provide to you
that it's not something just from an individual staff member that's upset at you. It is a -- it's just an
understood traffic engineering mode. That's all.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mike's not upset with me. He's shaking his head no.
MR. TREBILCOCK: No, I know. But, no. What I mean is --okay. All right. I'm good.
Thank you. I just --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, you know, if I listened to everything --well, unfortunately, we have
listened to everything traffic engineers said. You know what, we've got Immokalee Road jammed up as the
traffic -- as a parking lot from end to end, we've got Pine Ridge Road jammed up as a parking lot from end to
end, and I've got a new request coming next week that says you want more traffic on Pine Ridge and it's
okay, so --
MR. TREBILCOCK: There's recommendations that have been made that haven't been followed as
a policy. But Pm with you. No. Thank you. I just felt it's important to understand that there is a
public -interest issue. That's all.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right. The public interest is slowing the traffic down, and I think it can
be --
MR. TREBILCOCK: I agree 110 percent with you. I'm just saying, stop signs aren't the answer.
That's all. That there are other good measures. I agree with you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Well, if you've got any ideas --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I asked that question about what other traffic -calming devices. I
didn't hear anything.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Okay. In lieu of --again, you know, a traffic control device that is effective
for limiting speeds is a roundabout, and that's something that can have warrants --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, no, you've got to take property. You've got all kind of stuff to deal
with.
MR. TREBILCOCK: No. Again — well, what Pm saying is you asked a device. Of course. No,
I know. But I'm just saying that there are devices, thats all. And, you know, thats all.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Whoa, don't talk roundabout to me. Go to Old 42 and watch the
honking of the horns and people not knowing what's going on, and you can't get a semi through there. Not
good. Not good.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: If you want to get a fight, I know you've been involved in the City of
Naples, but that is a hot point in the City of Naples.
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MR. TREBILCOCK: You asked a question; I answered it.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All right.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Anybody else have any comments or questions to Fred at this
point?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. What I'd like to ask is if the Planning Commission would consider
making a motion to continue Item PL20160002584 and PL201600025772.
Ray?
MR. BELLOWS: We were hoping for the June 7th meeting to give us time to reevaluate all the
resubmitted packets instead of May 17th.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do they lose their BCC date?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: They do.
MR. HOOD: Yes.
MR. SABO: We'll do it on May 17th.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Let's do it May 17th. We'll keep it on May 17th. It will be first up on
May 17th.
MR. HOOD: I appreciate that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So it would be 9 o'clock in the morning May 17th, first up. So if
you -all want to come by and you want to be sure you can be back to work or something, it will be 9 o'clock in
the morning, and all these details will be more itemized.
Please get the package to James as fast as you can. And if anybody would like to read this before
the meeting, James Sabo at the county will have a copy, or John Kelly will certainly have access to a copy.
So we'll do our best to make sure we can talk about it then.
MR. HOOD: One more thing, just really, really quickly, and III let you all go.
Adrian just wanted me to just say -- speak to this right turn, the pork chop issue, because what we're
talking about here is this access right here, and we're talking about doing a right -in only. We would be
coming in right -in only from Golden Gate Boulevard. So are you --what you're trying to do is preclude the
traffic from going south on Weber? Is that what the --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No.
MR. HOOD: I want to understand.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I was more concerned about traffic going north on Weber just to make a
left -in when they should go out 951 and make a right -in. At the same time, if they were to make a right -out on
Golden Gate Boulevard, nothing's to prevent them from making another right -in on Weber to go south. So
that's something --maybe apork shop or an island that would limit right -in and right -out on Weber. I'm
more concerned about the left -in. That was my concern, because that's the new traffic.
MR. HOOD: Coming north.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Exiting traffic is going to go south on Weber whether they get out at
Golden Gate Boulevard or Weber, so it might be just as easy to leave it on Weber. That's al1Pm --so take a
look at that. That's fine. It's the left -his that I was concerned --that takes 50 percent of the traffic coming to
that church that would have used Weber and pushes them out on 951 where they belong.
MR. HOOD: Yeah. And I think what we would probably suggest when we come back is a
right -in, right -out situation.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Take a look at it.
MR. HOOD: Instead of just the right -out.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Get together with Mr. Sawyer, please --
MR. SAWYER: We will.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: --because we want him to affirm Norm's smoke and mirrors when he
comes back.
MR. HOOD: Okay. Sounds good.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Go ahead.
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COMMISSIONER FRYER: One more quick thing I'd like to ask. I don't know if it should go to
Mike or to Ray, but a status report on us going electronic --
CHAIl2MAN STRAIN: Well, no. Let's finish --we've got to make a motion.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Oh, I'm sorry. My mistake.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. I read offboth 9F and G.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Make that motion.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Is there a motion?
THE COURT REPORTER: One at a time.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion to move it to May 17th.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: I make the motion to continue.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Second.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Made and seconded. All in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONERCH,RZANOWSKI: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONERHOMIAK: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion carries. It will be the 17th, first up. Thank you.
MR. HOOD: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Now, let me get to the rest of the agenda first. Is this new-- yeah, this is
old business.
MR. BELLOWS: Mr. Chairman, I think we need a normal continuance of 9H, the LDC
amendments to a date certain.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Oh, you're right. I'm sorry. I thought -- 9H is a continuance of the LDC
amendments. Anybody want to make that motion?
COMMISSIONER EBERT: I make the motion to continue it to the May 17th meeting. That will
be second one up?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No, it will be last. The staff can sit. The public is our primary concern,
so it will be the last one up.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Is there a second?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Second.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Second. All in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONERCHRZANOWSKI: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HOMAK: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion carries. So 9H is continued.
That takes us to new business. There's none listed, so we'll go right to old business. And, Ned,
you --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: This is in noway to change the way that Diane and others that want to
get paper get paper. But for those of us who are going to be out of town, a way of wirelessly getting large
quantities of information to us -- and I know this was also a big point of Joe's, something that -- a file transfer
protocol of some kind so that we can get that. I'm just looking for a status report.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mike probably has it.
MR. BOSI: Mike Bosi, Planning and Zoning director.
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We met with Michael Cox, the custodian of the Accela system for the Board of County
Commissioners, this past week. We're in the process of establishing that sane type of system, agenda
management system for the Planning Commission. We're at the very beginning. We will have an update
soon, as soon as I get more specifics as to the status. But our first and primary goal is to try to get the agenda
and adjacent packets available on the web for any individual member of the public, not just the Planning
Commission, but any individual member, and then we're going to start with a review process internally.
But we are at the discussion point with the right technical people, and we're -- hopefully by
next -- the next Planning Commission I can provide you another update.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, my needs will be met if it's handled the way the Comity
Cornmission is handled; five or six days beforehand I have access to it. That's all I need.
MR. BOSI: That's the intention. We want to provide it to you, and we also want to provide it to all
of the public --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Indeed. Thank you.
CHA RMAN STRAIN: Okay. With that, is there a motion to adjourn?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: So moved.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Make a motion.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Made by Ned, seconded by Diane. All in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Aye.
COMMISSIONERFRYER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER EBERT: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONERHOMAK: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: 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 4:40 p.m.
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