CCPC Minutes 07/06/2006 R
July 6, 2006
TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
COLLIER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION
Naples, Florida July 6, 2006
LET IT BE REMEMBERED, that the Collier County Planning
Commission in and for the County of Collier, having conducted
business herein, met on this date at 8:30 a.m. in REGULAR SESSION
in Building "F" of the Government Complex, East Naples, Florida,
with the following members present:
CHAIRMAN: Mark Strain
Lindy Adelstein
Donna Reed Caron
Tor Kolflat
Paul Midney
Robert Murray
Brad Schiffer
Russell Tuff
Robert Vigliotti (Absent)
ALSO PRESENT:
Ray Bellows, Zoning & Land Development Review
Joseph Schmitt, Community Dev. & Env. Services
Marjorie Student-Stirling, Assistant County Attorney
Kay Deselem, Zoning & Land Development Review
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AGENDA
COLLIER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION WILL MEET AT 8:30 A.M., THURSDAY, JULY 6, 2006, IN THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, COUNTY
GOVERNMENT CENTER, 3301 TAMIAMI TRAIL EAST, NAPLES, FLORIDA:
NOTE: INDIVIDUAL SPEAKERS WILL BE LIMITED TO 5 MINUTES ON ANY
ITEM. INDIVIDUALS SELECTED TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF AN
ORGANIZATION OR GROUP ARE ENCOURAGED AND MAY BE ALLOTTED 10
MINUTES TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM IF SO RECOGNIZED BY THE CHAIRMAN.
PERSONS WISHING TO HAVE WRITTEN OR GRAPHIC MATERIALS INCLUDED
IN THE CCPC AGENDA PACKETS MUST SUBMIT SAID MATERIAL A MINIMUM
OF I 0 DAYS PRIOR TO THE RESPECTIVE PUBLIC HEARING. IN ANY CASE,
WRITTEN MATERIALS INTENDED TO BE CONSIDERED BY THE CCPC SHALL
BE SUBMITTED TO THE APPROPRIATE COUNTY STAFF A MINIMUM OF
SEVEN DAYS PRIOR TO THE PUBLIC HEARING. ALL MATERIAL USED IN
PRESENTATIONS BEFORE THE CCPC WILL BECOME A PERMANENT PART OF
THE RECORD AND WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PRESENTATION TO THE BOARD
OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IF APPLICABLE.
ANY PERSON WHO DECIDES TO APPEAL A DECISION OF THE CCPC WILL
NEED A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS PERTAINING THERETO, AND
THEREFORE MAY NEED TO ENSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD OF THE
PROCEEDINGS IS MADE, WHICH RECORD INCLUDES THE TESTIMONY AND
EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEAL IS TO BE BASED.
I. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
2. ROLL CALL BY CLERK
3. ADDENDA TO THE AGENDA
4. PLANNING COMMISSION ABSENCES - A discussion on holding a meeting in Immokalee in August in order to
determine a quorum (tentative date of August 10,2006)
5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES - MAY 18,2006, REGULAR MEETING
6. BCC REPORT- RECAPS - JUNE 6 AND JUNE 7, 2006, REGULAR MEETING
7. CHAIRMAN'S REPORT
8. ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARINGS
A. Petition: PUDZ-A-2005-AR-8438, Lakeview Drive of Naples, LLC, represented by Clay Brooker, of
Cheffy, Passidomo, Wilson & Johnson, LLP, requesting a rezone from the Residential Multiple FamiIy-6
(RMF-6 & RMF-6(3)) zoning districts (a portion of which is subject to a Special Treatment Overlay (ST)) to
the Residential Planned Unit Development (RPUD) by amending the approved Windstar PUD to add the
subject 20.52 acres and its additional residential units thereby allowing a maximum of 584 residential units on
34 1.1 acres. The subject property is generally located on the west side of Bayshore Drive, approximately
0.6 miles south of the Bayshore Drive and U.S. 41 (Tamiami Trail East) intersection in Sections, II, 14
and 23 Township 50 South, Range 25 East, Collier County, Florida. CONTINUED FROM 6/1/06.
(Coordinator: Kay Deselem)
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Good morning, everyone. If you'd please
rise for the pledge of allegiance.
(Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.)
Item #2
ROLL CALL
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Roll call from the secretary, please.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Mr. Kolflat?
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Here.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Mr. Schiffer?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Here.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Mr. Midney is absent, Ms. Caron
is here.
Mr. Strain?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Here.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Mr. Adelstein?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Here.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Mr. Murray?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Here.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Mr. Vigliotti is absent.
And Mr. Tuff?
COMMISSIONER TUFF: Here.
Item #3
ADDENDA TO THE AGENDA
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Are there any addenda to the agenda?
We have actually one item on today's agenda.
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Mr. Kolflat?
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: I'd like to add something under
old business.
THE COURT REPORTER: Mr. Kolflat, would you please speak
into the microphone?
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: I said I'd like to add something
to old business.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Could you kind of give us the subject,
possibly?
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Relative to construction and
effect of traffic -- how traffic affects construction.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Hope you don't mind if we all join in on
that one.
Item #4
PLANNING COMMISSION ABSENCES
Thank you. Planning commission absences? Our next meeting
is what, 14 days from today in July? So everybody at least planning
on being here?
(N 0 response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. And we have a meeting
scheduled for Immokalee, I had it on today's discussion, for August
10th.
Now, if you recall, the planning commission, at my option, was
allowed to meet in Immokalee on Immokalee issues, and we suggested
that that start happening. There is at least one issue, or maybe more.
I've asked staff to cluster them together, if they can. The first one
being August 10th. And it's in between our other two meetings. Does
that work for everybody here? The starting time will be 9:00, I
believe, instead of 8:30 to give us a little more commute time.
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COMMISSIONER CARON: So this will be an additional
meeting?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes. On the occasion that we have
specific items coming up for Immokalee, we're going to try to meet
out there so the residents can respond better.
So that's on the 10th of August, it will be about 9:00 in the
morning, at this point, as long as everybody can make it.
Mr. Adelstein cannot make it?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: I have a grandchild coming,
big boy, starting somewhere about the 1 st or 2nd of August.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, can't you predict those things any
better?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: I can, but it takes a couple
more days.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Mr. Chairman?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I believe you also have -- the
19th is the LDC amendments.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's a good point.
Ray, the 19th is our LDC amendments at 5:05. Somehow we
need to have those brought to our attention before the date's set on any
of the future ones.
MR. BELLOWS: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I think we need to talk about them,
make sure the dates are relevant. That one happens to be now going
before a meeting the following morning, which is one thing we've
tried to avoid in the past.
MR. BELLOWS: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So that's going to be a little awkward.
I can assure you, in reading the book, we will not get through the
meeting issues on the 19th. There's no way. So maybe if you wanted
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to consider a follow-up on the 20th's meeting a continuation of what
we didn't get through on the 19th, that might help get through some of
it.
MR. BELLOWS: I'll put it on the BCC agenda.
Item #5
APPROVAL OF MINUTES - May 18~ 2006~ REGULAR MEETING
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Next thing is the approval of the
minutes of May 18th --
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: So moved.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- 2006 regular meeting.
There's been a motion made by Commissioner Adelstein.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: (Indicating.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Seconded by Commissioner Murray.
Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER TUFF: Aye.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Aye.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
Thank you, motion carries.
Item #6
BCC REPORT - RECAPS - JUNE 6 AND JUNE 7, 2006,
REGULAR MEETING
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BCC report.
MR. BELLOWS: Yeah, the board approved the BRB
commercial PUD by a vote of 5-0. They also approved the
conditional use for the earth mining blasting. That was approved 5-0.
And the PUD amendment for Pinebrook Lakes was approved 5-0.
(At which time, Commissioner Midney enters the boardroom.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you, Ray.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Mr. Chairman?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes, ma'am.
COMMISSIONER CARON: I'm just looking here, July 20th
would be our next regularly scheduled meeting, the day after the LDC
meeting.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right, that's what we had asked Ray.
And again, if staff from now on tries not to schedule them
back-to-back like that. I know we have repeatedly asked for that in
the past.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Mr. Midney just arrived.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Hey, Paul. We talked about
Immokalee. August 10th at 9:00 we're planning to have the meeting
in Immokalee for -- application has come up involving Immokalee and
we're going to try to do that from now on.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Good.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So you won't have as far to drive. We
will be doing the driving.
Ray, by the way, in relationship to that meeting, if there's some
car pooling that happens that staff dreams up or people can ride
together, it might make it easier.
MR. BELLOWS: I'll look into it.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Item #7
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CHAIRMAN'S REPORT
Chairman's report. I had issues, but I'm just not prepared today to
go into them, so we'll go into advertised public hearing.
Item #8A
PETITION: PUDZ-A-2005-AR-8438
The first petition is PUDZ-A-2005-AR-8438.
For all those wishing to speak on this matter, please rise to be
sworn in by the court reporter.
(Speakers were duly sworn.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Are there any disclosures on the part of
planning commission?
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: I visited the site.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And I met with the applicant and his
attorney. We went over issues that I had e-mailed the county attorney
about and others, and they'll all be rediscussed today.
And probably one of the items I'm going to ask for discussion
right on early is one of the issues in particular I asked the county
attorney about, so that we know what direction we're asking our
questions from today, and that is whether or not this is a -- this opens
up the entire PUD instead of limiting it.
Ms. Student?
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: Thank you. For the record,
Marjorie Student-Stirling, Assistant County Attorney.
It would be our position that it does not. Because this is a very
old PUD that has built out. And in the past, for example, on Pelican
Bay -- and we've treated this similar to the Pelican Bay one where
we've done the PUD, a document and a strike-through and underlined
format with just a partial repeal language in the cover ordinance that
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addresses that it's only repealed to the extent of the changes in the
document which are set forth in the strike-through and underlined
format.
And you might recall that we had a very old one that was built
out. Lely Barefoot Beach that had a series of -- an original PUD
document from many years ago and then a series of amendments later
on top of it. And that one we didn't attempt to put back in the PUD
format, we just did another amendment on top of it. Because that had
gone for some almost 21 years in that format.
So that is why, because it's built out. We have an amendment
from our outside counsel now that was issued in August of '04 that
talks about the problems where you have a build-out situation or an
old PUD and doing a PUD to PUD and opening it up where you can
create nonconformities for people that are built out and thus affect
their property rights.
And furthermore, those folks that have -- are the build-out people
haven't come in as the applicant to make the amendments. So you
have perhaps due process issues where changing a person's regulations
that affect their property and they are not the ones that applied for the
change.
So for those reasons, that's why we're treating it this way.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, I have just two quick comments.
You are aware that one of the parcels within the existing PUD is being
recommended for change today, an un-use (sic). I had e-mailed you
that point. And that was one of the issues that seemed to be more
substantial to me, and that's why I wanted them highlighted to you.
Tract S is being suggested to be changed for the use as a sales facility.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: I would -- I'm going to have to--
it's been a while since I looked at that document and the staff report
that accompanies it, so I would have to assume that the applicant -- we
had -- the applicant is here for Tract S and they are applying for the
changes rather than a situation where you have built-out pieces owned
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by others that are not the applicant.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. I'll have to -- as we get into the
discussion --
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: We'll flush that issue out through
the hearing.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- we'll see -- and basically that will
depend on who owns Tract S.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: Um-hum.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You also mentioned that there's an
internal memo concerning --
MS. STUDENT -STIRLING: There was -- it's a memo that we
received from outside counsel back in September of '04. You would
have been privy to it because it was made part of the Cocohatchee Bay
amendment came through; it was made part of the backup for
Cocohatchee Bay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: If you have that readily available, could
you send that to us --
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: Yes, I'll be happy to make it
available to everyone.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Are there any other questions on this issue before we move into
-- Ms. Caron?
COMMISSIONER CARON: I have one. And that's -- this has
been advertised as a change in zoning for this particular tract, but in
the PUD there are other changes that are happening, not the least of
which has to do with the docks. So -- and it hasn't been advertised for
that.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: Well, we are doing -- we're doing I
guess what we call a limited PUD to PUD rezone in the sense that it's
-- the ordinance is set up that way.
And then when you look at the ordinance document itself, it talks
about the strike-through and underlined is what's being changed. But
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it's still, you know, a PUD to PUD rezone to accomplish those
changes. So I don't think that there's any advertising problem in that
way.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, you know, there may not have
been till you just said that. This advertisement says that the residential
planned unit development by amending the approved Windstar PUD
to add the subject 20.52 acres, and now you've just said that it's a
limited PUD to PUD rezone. So is it a rezone or is it an amendment?
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: It is a rezone that has the effect of
being an amendment. It's a hybrid situation, and I'm comfortable with
the advertising.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Only an attorney could come
back with that answer.
And with that in mind, I guess hearing no more, we'll go on with
the presentation.
Mr. Booker (sic).
MR. BROOKER: Good morning, Commissioners. My name is
Clay Brooker. I'm with the law firm of Cheffy, Passidomo, Wilson &
Johnson, 821 Fifth Avenue South, in Naples here, representing the
petitioner, Lakeview Drive of Naples, LLC. And I guess I don't
represent them, but the Windstar Master Association is part of this
application as well.
To begin with, a disclosure of the interested entities or persons
behind Lakeview Drive of Naples are as follows: Jack Antaramian,
Fred Pezeshkan, Robert Carsello, Iraj Zand, and Raymond Sahayek. I
disclose those names for each of the commissioners to determine
whether there are any conflicts that you may have.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: They comprise the series ofLLC's and
land or partnerships that comprise the other 50 percent ownership of --
MR. BROOKER: That is correct. I basically boiled it down to
the individuals, although above them are a series of LLC's. But that
just gets even more confusing, so I just went to the bottom line.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
MR. BROOKER: The subject property, as you are probably
aware, is 20.52 acres. This aerial shows the property that's basically a
T -shaped property in this area here. It can be described as basically
the land abutting the northeast corner of existing Windstar. Existing
Windstar is all this that I'm showing on the ELMO.
The subject 20.52 acres is zoned generally residential
multi-family. Allows today under current zoning single-family,
multi- family type residential uses.
To -- as I have explained, to the west is the existing Windstar
PUD. To the north here is actually Haldeman Creek, which is a
150- foot wide drainage easement.
To the north of that are some areas that are zoned multi-family
and mobile home. To -- directly abutting the east there where I'm
showing with the arrow is a 50-foot wide canal. To the east of that is
a residential single-family zoned neighborhood.
South of the subject parcel is, as you see, part of the Windstar
PUD and some residential multi-family in this area.
The subject 20.52 acres is unimproved. There was a year ago an
apartment complex or apartment building, I guess, shown on this
aerial -- I believe this is a 2004 aerial-- that has been demolished. It
was demolished last year. So essentially the property is unimproved
as it sits today.
The petition, as already -- seems like you already know, is to
essentially rezone this 20.52 acres from RMF to PUD, or as we've
been describing it, to fold the 20.52 acres, or annex it into the existing
Windstar PUD.
What I've now put up on ELMO is the proposed master plan that
should be attached to the proposed PUD document as Exhibit A.
Again, this is in the same configuration from the aerial you just saw.
Here is the 20.52 acres.
What we are proposing for this 20.52 acres is basically or
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generally a single-family, duplex, townhouse, multi-family type
dwellings, residential dwellings. It is going to be grouped together
with the other -- the other residential neighborhood pods that exist
already in Windstar.
And what I mean by grouping together, whatever is permitted on
those particular little pods, we've made no changes to that. That's
precisely what's permitted or what's proposed to be permitted on the
20.52 acres.
In terms of density, there's been some confusion over the math.
But what we have proposed is that we simply ascribe to this property
the existing density unit per acre number that's already approved for
Windstar. That number is 1.71 units per acre.
We will ascribe that number to this 20.52 acres. If you do the
math, that comes up with 35 units. Those 35 units will then be added
onto the already approved density in Windstar of 549. That number is
in the existing PUD document.
So the proposed document shows a total number of 584. That's
549 plus the 35 to come up with a new total of 584.
You've probably seen a conceptual site plan that deals with a
development, a proposed development, conceptual development of
137 units. You may be asking if we're just ascribing 35 to this parcel,
how do we get to 137. How we do that is within existing Windstar,
not all of the 549 units have been built. According to our calculations,
that number is somewhere between 424 and 438 units in the Windstar
PUD.
And I want to be very careful when I say the Windstar PUD,
because there's been some confusion in some of our hearings or our
meetings with some residents and neighbors. The Windstar Master
Association actually encompasses developments or neighborhoods
outside of the PUD. So there was some confusion, although there's
600 and some odd units in the Windstar Master. That may be true, it
may be false, I don't even know.
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But inside the PUD, based upon either development services
records here in county or the property appraiser's office, and
unfortunately those numbers don't match up, but it's somewhere
between 424 and 438 units have been built in the Windstar.
So we are essentially going to -- through a private agreement
with Windstar Master Association, we are assigned those unused units
to which we'll add the 35 that will come in with this 20.5 acres to
result in our conceptual site plan -- to allow our conceptual site plan of
137.
I suspect we're going to -- I'll have some questions on that,
because it has been a little bit confusing, and I acknowledge that, so
please feel free to ask any questions with regard to that math.
The maximum height that we are proposing for the 20.52 acres is
40 feet or three habitable floors over one level of parking. Those
parameters, those dimensions, are exactly what is permitted in
Windstar PUD today, and have existed and been permitted in
Windstar since 1981.
This is the conceptual site plan I placed on the -- on ELMO. This
actually flips around the orientation now. The bottom -- this side
down here is now east. North is up towards the right of the ELMO.
West here is the Windstar PUD. This is the south. Here's Lakeview
Drive going out west -- I'm sorry, east to Bayshore Drive.
This conceptual site plan that you see today and that we
submitted is the work of many drafts in-house to determine what
would work best on this property. It does show 137 units. We are
fairly comfortable that this is basically going to be real close to what
we would actually build, assuming this PUD amendment is approved
and an SDP approval is granted.
Again, it proposes six buildings of multi-family units. The height
is 40 feet, three habitable floors over -- I should say the maximum
height, because not all parts of the building go up to 40 feet, but 40
feet, three habitable floors over parking is the maximum height that
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will be reached.
The unit sizes range anywhere from 14 to 1,500 square feet on
the small side to well over 2,000 feet on the large side, 2,000 square
feet.
Traffic on Lakeview Drive has been an issue. We have learned
from the neighborhood informational meeting and just discussions in
general that we believe a primary concern of the residents on
Lakeview Drive is the corresponding increase in traffic that will use
Lakeview Drive as a result of this proposal.
We do show a connection here to the property onto Lakeview
Drive. Because of the residents' concern, we have spent significant
time to address that concern, and we've come up with a couple ways
we believe that we can address and mitigate that concern. First, we
worked very closely with the Bayshore Community Redevelopment
Agency to participate and assist in contemplated improvements to
Lakeview Drive.
The CRA has in fact designated Lakeview Drive as the location
for some streetscape or landscape improvements in the future. And
rather than us coming in and, for example, installing a sidewalk or
constructing improvements now when further improvements as of yet
designed and have yet to be designed are going to be coming in the
future, it would just be a waste of throwing down something that's
going to get most likely tom out.
So in that -- under those circumstances, we have agreed to
contribute $75,000 to a CRA fund that's specifically designated
exclusively for Lakeview Drive improvements, whatever those may
end up to be. That $75,000 is the number that was given to us by the
CRA and by county transportation staff.
It can be broken down basically or generally into the current cost
of installing a sidewalk, a five-foot wide sidewalk from our property
east out to Bayshore Drive along Lakeview Drive, and widening
Lakeview Drive from the current 18- foot width to 22 feet width with a
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corresponding -- I don't know, I'm not a traffic engineer, but asphalt
overlay over the entire roadway surface, once that widening is done.
That's the breakdown of the $75,000 and was the number given
to us, which we accepted by various county staff.
We have also agreed to accept some stormwater. If you see here,
this is a water management facility that we have proposed on-site.
Again, conceptual at this point.
We know that drainage is an issue on Lakeview Drive and,
therefore, the CRA asked if we would be able to and would we be
willing to accept some stormwater runoff from Lakeview Drive to
help them with their drainage problem. We have agreed to do that.
And it is actually in the PUD document, although somewhat
vague. And by vague, I mean it just says some stormwater. And the
reason for that vagueness at this point in time is we have been asking
the CRA to give us a number what they would think they would need
us to accept. At the same time, we've been trying to figure out what
we could accept.
And what we can tell you today is that the amount of water that
we can accept is going to be determined ultimately by the South
Florida Water Management District permitting process. It involves
control elevations at the site and elevations of Lakeview Drive, gravity
coming down Lakeview Drive from the east to the west into this water
management facility.
The problem we see right now is that there's not much difference
in elevation from a gravity standpoint from the roadway out to the east
along Lakeview Drive to allow water to flow freely into this water
management facility to the west.
However, there is some. Right now we're looking at a foot to
maybe two feet. And again, if we have specific questions on that, I'll
let my engineers speak to that point.
But what we think we can comfortably commit to today, again,
subject to South Florida Water Management District permitting
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approvals and requirements, is a total number of 1,210 cubic feet. That
number is generated, it's not just an arbitrary number. That number is
generated by taking the length of Lakeview Drive, the width of
Lakeview Drive, after we widen it to 22 feet, and taking the first half
water of a stormwater event.
So if you basically covered the proposed new Lakeview Drive
width and length with half an inch of water, that's 1,210 cubic feet that
we think we can comfortably accept at this point. Again, subject to
South Florida Water Management District approval and permitting
processes.
I should tell you right up front that this number was generated
very recently, and we have not discussed that with the CRA. Most
likely the CRA would want us to accept more. Ifwe can accept more,
I'm sure my client would be willing to do so. It just becomes a matter
of gravity and bureaucracy in terms of South Florida Water
Management District.
Finally, with respect to the traffic -- oh, I should also mention to
you that the CRA -- I believe a May 24th letter of this year was
included in your packet. The CRA plans to hold what David Jackson
of the CRA called charets or little neighborhood meetings with the
Lakeview Drive residents to determine exactly what they would like
to see in terms of Lakeview Drive improvements.
We know that one idea that he's discussed with us is maybe some
traffic calming features on Lakeview Drive. But that's going to be the
CRA's business and not ours. But that is coming.
And we also -- the timing of all of this is the CRA plans to have
Lakeview Drive improvements finished approximately one year
before we're finished, so that the improvements will be in place before
the impacts of our development are felt on Lakeview Drive.
Finally, there is a concern that not only would these new, I'll call
them new, residents of Winds tar use Lakeview Drive, but existing
residents of Windstar would perhaps use Lakeview Drive as well.
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Maybe as a shortcut, because this isn't as far down or south on
Bayshore Drive to get to the main entrance of Windstar.
So in light of that, we're trying to figure out in-house how to
discourage that from occurring. And one of the -- or many of the
initial drafts or conceptual site plans had basically a straight road
going through here. This always curved up in this area to the north,
because this is wet. It will be a preserve area with a conservation
easement placed on it. But the road always curved up in this location
here, but when it got down to this point, it basically made a straight
cut across and was easier, I'll say, or more convenient for motorists to
use than the current plan.
What we've done to discourage uses is created a curvilinear road
that winds about the property in a windabout way to get out to
Lakeview Drive. Again, the intention was to discourage use by
existing Windstar residents to use Lakeview Drive as an exit, or
entrance for that matter.
The conceptual plan does show parking alongside of the road. It
will be -- the proposal is a 15 mile per hour speed limit there. This is
not going to be just a straight through shot that people can take by
their cars and zoom through the neighborhood. It's going to be a slow
go. And that's deliberate.
A by-product or I guess a co-product of the curvilinear road was
the angling -- you can see I'm not an architect, so I don't know if that's
the right way to express this -- but the angling of these buildings, we
believe it's more aesthetically pleasing and creates better views over
the golf course. Because previous designs have a straight line of
buildings here, almost look like an Army barracks look. And so we
believe by creating a curvilinear road, we discourage people from
using Lakeview Drive and we increase dramatically the aesthetics of
the proposal.
The EAC heard this project. Actually this property has been the
subject of the EAC's review I believe three times. First was with
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regard to the county's dredge project. The county is dredging
Haldeman Creek out to the north here. They are going to be using our
property pursuant to a private agreement we have entered into with the
county to place their spoil, the dredging product, from the dredged
project on the property subsequently to be removed, and leave our
property in a clean condition. That was the first time the EAC took a
look at this property.
The second time was an SDP, in relation to an SDP approval. I
should tell you that this southern three-and-a-half acres here was
added on at a later date, or purchased by the client at a later date. The
northern 17 acres was the subject of an SDP approval. And that was
in fact approved, but that was a second shot the EAC had at the
property .
And the third was this proposal that we're sitting here for today.
And I believe all three times the EAC was a unanimous vote of
approval.
We also appeared before the CRA advisory board and explained
to them our conceptual plan, and they voted unanimously to approve
it.
Finally, we have had a neighborhood information meeting and a
subsequent meeting with Windstar residents to explain the genesis of
this project, the history of the project, why and how we got to where
we are today. We believe the meetings were fruitful in terms of
information sharing and so forth.
So with that, I will -- I'll close the presentation. We obviously
would request the planning commission forward this on with a
recommendation of approval to the BCC.
I'm happy to attempt to answer any of your questions. I feel
pretty certain you do have some.
And I would also like, Mr. Chairman, to reserve rebuttal time, if
there are public speakers.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Certainly. Thank you. And I know we
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will have some questions, first of which will be Mr. Kolflat.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: The maximum building height
in the neighborhood information meeting was given as 50 feet, but our
staff reports indicate a 40- feet height. Which one is it?
MR. BROOKER: It's 40 feet. It was initially submitted as 50
feet and we determined that that was not good, so we reduced it to 40
feet.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: All right. Looking at your
development plan -- and I didn't get a copy of it, but it's the one that
shows the boats on the right. There's approximately 40 boats
indicated there.
Where is the parking going to occur for people that are going to
use those boats?
MR. BROOKER: The parking has been -- if you recall, each of
these buildings are three levels over parking. So the parking for them
-- for the boat slips has been accounted for in this area here, because
parking for the residents under the building will be just that, under the
building.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLA T: Parking for the boat is under the
other buildings?
MR. BROOKER: No, the parking for the boat slips will be in
this area here.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLA T: Along that road.
MR. BROOKER: Along that road, correct.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: And there still will be open
space for cars to traverse?
MR. BROOKER: Yes.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Now, at the neighborhood
information meeting, there's an indication there was six buildings that
are going to go on there. The staff report indicates that there are 12
apartment units on the Fisherman's Cove -- Fisherman's Village.
MR. BROOKER: That was a -- there were apartment buildings
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to the south in this area. I believe, based on older aerial photographs,
the staff may have seen that apartment building there, but that's what
staff was referring to about those apartment units. They are no longer
there.
So the staff report, although correct at one time, is not correct as
it states today, because the apartments have been demolished.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Now, would you agree that the
majority of traffic entering Windstar comes from the north on
Bayshore Drive?
MR. BROOKER: From the East Trail down south Bayshore
Drive and then come -- yes, I would agree with that.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: What percentage would you
estimate that is?
MR. BROOKER: I have no way of --
COMMISSIONER KOLFLA T: The total traffic entering
Windstar, how much of it comes from the north as opposed to the
south?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That would have probably been in your
TIS. That was included. And Reed may have the answer to that. He's
looking it up.
MR. BROOKER: I mean, I can safely say the majority of it. I
don't know. There's not a way to get to it from the south unless you
pass Bayshore Drive and come back around the south and come up
from the south to the north.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: My impression, it's quite
substantial, but I was curious what your report indicated.
MR. BROOKER: Estimated for this site is 70 percent will be
coming from the north. So perhaps you can assume that that number
is going to be very close for Windstar overall.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLA T: All right. Now, the increase in
size of this PUD is about six percent of what it was approved as. In
other words, you're enlarging the PUD by six percent.
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MR. BROOKER: It's from 320 acres to about 340 acres. So if
that's six percent, I'll trust your math.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: It is six percent. But now, with
a six percent increase in there, why do we have to divert all the traffic
to the south -- why don't we divert traffic to the south through the
entrance that already exists rather than create a new entrance there at
Lakeview Drive?
In other words, the increase in property is relatively small at six
percent. Why not retain the entrance at Windstar Boulevard there to
take all the traffic in and close off that Lakeview entrance so that does
not become an impact?
MR. BROOKER: Well, we are not closing down -- I don't think
you mentioned it, but we're not closing down the main entrance.
That's obviously going to remain there so people --
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: I understand that.
MR. BROOKER: -- they have the opportunity to use that.
With regard to this particular entranceway on Lakeview Drive,
this property, this 20.52 acres, has always been slated -- the road has
always deadended at that property. It's always been slated as a
connection there.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Well, your--
MR. BROOKER: I'm sorry?
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: -- says that, but I couldn't find
that in the PUD, the existing PUD.
MR. BROOKER: The existing PUD would not have that
information that I just stated in it, because this property was not part of
the PUD at that time. But what would -- the practical effect of what
you're suggesting is if we close that off, we close off Lakeview Drive
altogether --
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Let me rephrase it. Leave it
closed. Not close it off but leave it closed. Because you can't enter it
now.
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MR. BROOKER: In the absence of this PUD it will be open to
access. This is our only access to the property, in the absence of this
PUD petition being approved.
Now, if we do take your consideration, your suggestion, into
account, if we seal off Lakeview Drive altogether, you're creating a
deadend here at the very northeastern comer of the property for all
Windstar units.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Which you have now.
MR. BROOKER: The deadend is right here. The platted
roadway -- in 1986, the plat for Windstar showed a future connection
to this property. In 1986, this county approved a plat which shows
this area here, this roadway coming to that point and stopping.
Meaning at some point in the future it was anticipated that these
properties would be connected to increase interconnectivity amongst
properties.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: But the development has been
in existence for a long time with the deadend there at that road.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Maybe, Clay, we could short circuit Mr.
Kolflat's question by just telling him why you can't use the main
Windstar entrance. He's restricted from doing it by agreement in
relationship to acquiring the density for Windstar.
MR. BROOKER: We do have private agreements with Windstar
Master Association and the Windstar Countryclub. And those
agreements do call for a Lakeview Drive entrance and exit.
So the issue we're facing here is that we cannot voluntarily -- we
are part of those agreements. We cannot voluntarily accept a
requirement to shut down that Lakeview Drive entrance and exit.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLA T: Well, as I understand, the
concern of the neighborhood there on Lakeview Drive is the intrusion
into their neighborhood of traffic. And you mentioned that the
mitigation that you're proposing is a widening of the road and
improvement with a sidewalk. That is not really a mitigation, it's an
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enhancement for more exasperation by making it easier for the traffic
to go in and out there.
How does that mitigate the intrusion effect that they suffer?
MR. BROOKER: It depends on the CRA's ultimate plans. And
that's why I mentioned that the traffic calming and the features that
we've been told the CRA is contemplating will not increase the speed
or the usability or the ease of use of the roadway. That's the CRA's
stated plan, as stated to us.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLA T: You mentioned also in your
narrative that the proposed new road would thereby improve
circulation inside the Windstar development. How does this new
roadway improve in within the development circulation?
MR. BROOKER: Instead of having a deadend cul-de-sac here,
which currently exists, it will allow not only residents but emergency
vehicles as well a full circuitous route to come back out onto Bayshore
and thereby enhance interconnectivity per the growth management
plan.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Thank you, that's all the
questions I had, Mr. Chairman.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Mr. Murray?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Hi. Speaking about
interconnectivity, it was clearly seen here that the word "enter" was
underscored because there was some question about true
interconnectivity, and it seems the opposite side of Mr. Kolflat's
question.
If you were to be granted this amendment, you have a limited --
at least a limited interconnectivity. Why would we not then want to
have the full interconnectivity? Are you bound by agreements there,
too? I think I recall reading that.
MR. BROOKER: Can you explain what you mean by full
interconnectivity?
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COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Well, the parties who are -- since
this intent is to bring this new development into Windstar, it becomes
a part of Windstar. And yet the parties who are going to live in the
Fisherman's Village will not be allowed to traverse the Windstar
property; is that correct?
MR. BROOKER: That is not correct.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Or the reverse is correct.
MR. BROOKER: Its cross-access easements are granted. So the
Fisherman's Village residents -- for example, if a resident here on the
north end does not want to go through this route, he or she may elect
to go out Haldeman Creek Drive and go out the main entrance, I don't
know.
So it is -- to answer your questions, the agreements call for
cross-access. Existing Windstar residents can use our new proposed
road, and the new residents of the Fisherman's Village tract can use
the roads within Windstar.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Really? I don't have a
recollection of reading that. I thought that somebody was prohibited.
I'll qualify that information further.
Okay, so you are saying then that if that amendment is approved,
all of this will be part of Windstar and everyone in Windstar will have
access to Lakeview?
MR. BROOKER: That is --
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: That road?
MR. BROOKER: That is correct.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: And everybody who wishes to
go into Windstar may use that as a means of ingress?
MR. BROOKER: That is correct. If they so desire.
Whether that is actually going to happen, we would say no,
because it's not the closest or fastest route to the vast majority of the
existing Windstar residents.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Okay. And you also intend that
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it be the route by which trucks will pass in order to build the new
facility?
MR. BROOKER: That is correct.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I'm going to listen to Mr.
Chairman's questions, because I want to have the opportunity to dig
back and find out what it is I misread.
MR. BROOKER: You're assuming he has questions.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Never. He never has any
questions.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: No, none whatsoever.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I could bring in the issue of
density, but I think the Chairman will do well on that. I'm quite
certain about that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Schiffer, then Mr. Midney.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Just to kind of follow up. The
residents of this -- the Village, would they be able to enter the main
Windstar entrance?
MR. BROOKER: Absolutely.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: The height. We're going to be
measuring the height. We have 40 feet. And essentially what you're
referring to is the zoned height, the midpoint of the roof. But it's
measured from the flood criteria, so what is the elevation of this
ground right now?
MR. BROOKER: FEMA is nine feet NGVD at this point. Our
first parking level will be at seven feet NGVD. First habitable floor at
17 foot, six inches NGVD. And it goes up from there.
The zoning height, as measured by both the LDC and the existing
Windstar PUD, measures it from FEMA to in this case we're thinking
of -- we are proposing a mansard roof conceptually at this point, to the
deck line of a mansard roof. That distance is the 40 feet.
Does that answer your question?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: I'm not sure that's a mansard,
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but it does answer my question.
Okay. And that's fine. I'm done.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Midney?
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: In the Windstar development
that's already been built, you have 438 units on 320 acres?
MR. BROOKER: It's definitely 320 acres. And I just -- so
there's no misunderstanding, the 438 units is based upon a review of
the property appraiser's records. How many folio numbers essentially,
we've done research, we've gone to the office and it comes up with
438. You visit community development and environmental services,
and our research indicated 424 units, so it's around there.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Okay. So you have a pretty low
density, about 1.3 units per acre in what you have now. And what
you're planning is to put 137 units on 20 acres.
Why do you want to concentrate so much of the units in these 20
acres?
MR. BROOKER: The Windstar development is essentially a
clustered development. It is a golf course community with
neighborhood pods around it. The existing neighborhood pods range
in density from anywhere around two units per acre to over 12 units
per acre.
What we are proposing on this tract, if you want to take a look at
this tract in and of itself, 137 units on 20.52 acres, it's roughly 6.67
units per acre. So we feel that this is consistent with the development,
the cluster type development within Windstar.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Okay. I have another question.
The park and rec. staff would like to see a playground approved here.
Why do you object to providing a playground for the kids that will
live in this development?
MR. BROOKER: We don't necessarily object to the playground.
We may put it in there on our own accord. We don't know what the
demographics of the potential buyers will be.
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When we receive that comment from parks and rec., my job is to
ensure that whatever is being demanded of us is the law. I looked in
the LDC and the growth management plan. That is not a requirement,
a legal requirement that can be imposed upon us.
The answer I received when I talked to parks and recreation staff
was you're right, it's not the law. We would really like it to be the law
and we're going to be proposing an LDC amendment in the near future
to make it the law, but as of now it is not.
So based upon that conversation, I responded saying that we will
accept that staff comment as a request and not a requirement, because
it is not the law.
Having said all that, we may very well put our own playground
or even more in this particular 20.52-acre tract. I just cannot accept it
as a demand, when that would be illegal.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Can you stipulate something that
would be like a trigger mechanism, that would -- you say you're
waiting on the demographics -- so that we can pin it down a little bit?
What would constitute for you grounds for saying that you need a
playground? Can you be more specific?
MR. BROOKER: We're uncomfortable at this point. I mean, it
becomes a little bit arbitrary. If three kids move into the
neighborhood, you know, then is a playground warranted? We're
going to take it into account as we proceed with the development to
determine whether a playground is in fact warranted or an amenity.
As the development currently is designed, we do have a kayak
launch for recreation contemplated, we do have a pool contemplated.
So we have taken recreation into account, as any good development
should.
With regard to the playground, it may come, but we just can't
have that requirement imposed upon us when that would be illegal, in
my opInIon.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: I don't see anyone here from
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county from parks and rec., but I wonder if there are some recognized
standards that could be used in a situation like that that would, based
upon the number of units and the demographics, that there would be
some guidance so that it's not totally arbitrary on your part.
MR. BROOKER: And we'd be happy to listen to what their
comments are and take those comments into consideration.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Okay. And then moving over to
the environmental, EAC area, I'm going to -- of the EAC meeting
notes, Page 4 of nine, I see where under stormwater management it
says that site development plan AR-4596 is on reject by engineering
view. Could you explain why the engineering department doesn't
accept your plans?
MR. BROOKER: That's an old comment. That SDP has been
approved by the county.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Okay, so it's not on reject
anymore?
MR. BROOKER: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: All right. And then my final
question is on Page 5 of nine of the EAC report. It says the property
owner intends to lift the existing conservation easements and record
easements over the preserves associated with the current site plan.
I didn't know that an owner can just lift conservation easements.
Doesn't he have to ask permission from somebody before he can do
that?
MR. BROOKER: Absolutely. And that's what we intend to do.
And I can explain.
Before the current petitioner applied -- or purchased this
property, obviously the predecessor owner had plans for development.
I think it's called Fisherman's Joint Venture or something along those
lines.
But they actually applied for development approvals. And with
regard to those development approvals, the Army Corps of Engineers
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required that conservation easements be imposed on the property in
certain areas as mitigation for that anticipated development.
That anticipated development never occurred. I think they went
out of business, or for whatever reason it just did not occur.
So the conservation easements unfortunately still sit there. From
our eyes it's unfortunate. But the actual documents do show that with
the Army Corps of Engineers' approval and perhaps Florida Fish &
Wildlife Conservation Commission approval, that we can lift those
conservation easements and replace appropriate conservation
easements that take into account our proposed development, as
opposed to some prior development that was never built.
So the intent is not to lift the conservation easements and use the
property as we will. The intent is to essentially modify that easement
area with the Army Corps of Engineers' approval to be more
appropriate to our proposed development, and that is coming.
And in informal conversations thus far with Army Corps of
Engineers, they have no problem with what we're suggesting. So it's
just a matter of getting it done and revising and replacing what's more
appropriate per regulations.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Adelstein, then Mr. Murray.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: I have two questions. You
told us about the height of the building. You told me how high FEMA
was to start from and what the roof is going to be. Actual height of
that building with its roof will be how high?
MR. BROOKER: It's going to be around 50 feet. So if you sit --
if you stand on the ground and look up and place a tape measure, my
understanding is it's going to be right around 50 feet.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Why are we dealing with
"right around?" We know the height we're starting from, what is the
answer to "about"?
MR. BROOKER: The reason why it's "about" is we don't know
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the dimension of that mansard element of the roof at the very top of
the picture. This area here, we don't know exactly how high that's
going to be to hide equipment such as air conditioning behind it.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: What will be the maximum
height that would be available?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Adelstein, one question you might
want to ask is how could it be 50 feet when the roof deck is at 49?
You're going to have a one-foot mansard. So 50's not practical.
MR. BROOKER: Let me try to impart to you what was just
explained to me.
Grade is here at seven feet, six. So the actual height of the deck
line is 49 feet, less that seven foot, six. So that's the actual height to
the deck line, standing at grade is 41 and a half feet, okay? But on --
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Wait a minute.
MR. BROOKER: The mansard part of the element, of the
architectural element, we don't know exactly how high that's going to
be. All we can tell you is that we will not violate the zoning height, as
required by the Land Development Code and the PUD.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: You're saying, though, that
FEMA is nine feet. You're not counting that nine feet. You're
counting that as your base, as I see it.
MR. BROOKER: FEMA is where the base point of measuring
for zoned building height.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: But from ground level.
MR. BROOKER: Which is seven feet, six.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Okay, what is the -- the
ground level is what?
MR. BROOKER: Seven feet, six.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: The ground level is higher
than the ground? You're putting it on a ground. You're saying here to
me that FEMA is going to require the seven and a half feet.
MR. BROOKER: No, no, no. FEMA is nine feet.
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COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Pardon me, nine feet.
MR. BROOKER: That, as I understand it, can be the lowest
level of a habitable floor.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Right.
MR. BROOKER: Seven feet, six is where the ground is today.
Seven feet, six inches NGVD or, to be very general, above sea level or
something along those lines.
But that -- if you're standing at the property, you would actually
be on the seven foot, six inches up on top of the existing grade.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Okay.
MR. BROOKER: Does that make sense?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Basically.
And roof mansard will be actually how high?
MR. BROOKER: It's going to be anywhere from, I understand,
eight to 12 feet, in that area -- five and 10 feet.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Okay, let's use 10 for the
moment and say, how high will this building actually be now?
MR. BROOKER: So if you take 49 feet -- well, let me do it this
way: From seven feet, six inches, which is grade level where you're
standing on the ground, you're at 41 feet, six inches to the top of the
deck line. You add 10 feet to that, because that will be the maximum
mansard, and you have 51 feet, six inches to the very top part of the
structure from the ground when you're standing there.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: One other question I had here.
It said somewhere in my paperwork that there was a tentative April
11 th meeting. Did that ever happen?
MR. BROOKER: The -- I believe it did not occur on that date.
That was the tentative date. But a date, a meeting, a subsequent
meeting -- I should say subsequent to the neighborhood information
meeting, we held another meeting with Windstar residents. It
occurred in April, to my recollection. I don't know the exact date.
But I don't think it was April 11 tho It was around there. Within a
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week.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: But there was a secondary
meeting?
MR. BROOKER: With the Windstar residents, yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Murray, then Mr. Schiffer.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I discovered where my
interconnectivity issue came out of. I read it correctly the first time
and didn't remember what I read when I started out. But I understand
it.
So what we're really talking about is full access for everybody.
This really becomes part of the PUD overall, right? We're amending
the Windstar PUD?
MR. BROOKER: Correct.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Okay. I have a question then.
Going back to a citation you made earlier about size of units, 1,000
square feet, et cetera, et cetera. In the original PUD, under
development standards, there are four types: Single-family, detached,
patio home, townhouse and type multi-family villas. And under the
Type 2 townhouse and the multi-family villas, they speak of 2,500
square foot and 2,000 square foot minimums. So are we really -- are
we changing something?
MR. BROOKER: No. Where you're looking at is the minimum
land area per dwelling unit. If you --
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Oh, you're right, yes. I'm doing
good this morning.
MR. BROOKER: -- scroll down that table, floor area minimum
per dwelling unit, and you slide all the way over --
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: One story, 800 square feet. I
have that yellowed, too. I'm doing really well this morning, yes, thank
you.
I think I'm going to decease -- desist right now.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Don't decease here.o
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COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I may. That's a good indication
of where I am this morning. But I am paying attention.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Schiffer?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Clay, in the Windstar, how
many projects other than this are three stories above parking?
MR. BROOKER: I don't know, to be honest. But I believe
there's at least perhaps two others, and perhaps more.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: And where would they be?
Could you show us on the --
MR. BROOKER: Now you're -- no, I couldn't do that. I simply
don't know.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: But I mean, you believe there
are, you don't know for sure if there is?
MR. BROOKER: I believe there are. I don't know for sure.
And I do know that since 1981, 40 feet and three levels over parking
has been permitted as of right in the PUD.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ma'am, you won't be able to interrupt
the speaker, so you'll have to wait.
UNIDENTIFIED MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: I was going
to give you the answer.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Ifhe doesn't know, he doesn't
know. Okay.
I'm done, Mark, thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Caron?
COMMISSIONER CARON: On your master plan.
MR. BROOKER: Yes.
COMMISSIONER CARON: To the north, Tract R. That's
Haldeman Creek?
MR. BROOKER: Correct.
COMMISSIONER CARON: And how is it that Haldeman
Creek counts towards your open space?
MR. BROOKER: We own it.
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COMMISSIONER CARON: Okay.
MR. BROOKER: Or that portion of it. Not the entire creek. We
do list that we actually own the submerged lands.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Do own it?
MR. BROOKER: Own it. It's an easement. This is a manmade
created drainage easement and the state has disclaimed ownership of
those particular lands shown as Tract R.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Okay. So all right, I have one
other question.
This plan. You're in no way today obligated to this plan, are
you?
MR. BROOKER: No, because under the process --
COMMISSIONER CARON: We've had a lot of conversation
about it, but you're in no way obligated, right?
MR. BROOKER: Right. There's a lot of conversation because
the neighborhoods are very interested in it. And we feel comfortable
that this is, you know, 80 to 90 percent of the way there. But under
this process that we're here today, the master plan gets approved and
not a conceptual site plan. You're required to submit a conceptual
plan to give an idea of what the master plan would allow. But that's
the extent of it.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Precisely. I just want the residents
of the area to understand that you're in no way committed to anything
that you've talked about in this plan.
MR. BROOKER: On ELMO today, that is correct, pursuant to
the process.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, Clay, I -- okay, Ray?
MR. BROOKER: I'm sorry, if I can just qualify my answer.
The master plan does show the roadway. So we are committed to
that curvilinear roadway. I thank my client for pointing that out to me.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Just for the debating purposes, the
roadways are not committed to in regards internally to the PUD.
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They're a change that could be made when you submit your SDP. So
the PUD's locking in your entrances only -- I don't believe it locks in
any internal roadway.
MR. BROOKER: Right.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So you're not committed to that
roadway at this point. We can stipulate any commitments we want to
recommend by the time we're done today.
So with that, I have some questions. But Ray, while I'm asking
my questions, do you have access to the county appraiser's website?
MR. BELLOWS: My computer's not working today.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do any of the people in the back of the
room working for the county have access to the county -- I see heads
nodding. Would someone go to Tract S of the Windstar PUD? It's the
tract immediately south of the entrance road off of Bayshore. Click on
that tract and provide a folio number and an ownership name of that
tract while I ask my questions. Thank you.
MR. BROOKER: On ELMO, I'm showing Tract S.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right.
Okay, Clay, let's start with the CRA. They had a letter attached
to our package that included three recommendations. You have
addressed one of those thoroughly, and that's the width of the road and
the construction of the sidewalk. And for that you're offering a cash
payment at their request of $75,000.
The item number one on that letter indicated that there will be a
design and installation of Lakeview Drive residential streetscape with
a monetary assist from developer impacting Lakeview Drive. What is
your monetary assistance to the CRA for the response to that number
one? You did -- the 75,000 applies to only the road width and to the
sidewalk, according to what I'm reading here.
MR. BROOKER: It's not exactly clear as written. The $75,000
applies to one and two. So our monetary assistance is $75,000. I
think one was kind of a general statement. Two got into the
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particulars. This is David Jackson's letter.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'm reading it. But the two -- one
actually talks about streetscaping, which I would envision as both
hardscape and landscape elements. Two addresses hardscape
elements, which are hard surfaces. I don't see any reference to the fact
that you're going to help pay for any landscaping. If you are, I can
assure you, $75,000 will not cover the sidewalk from Bayview down
Lakeview Road. You just won't do it by footage.
In addition, and on the 19th of this month, we have LDC
amendments coming up that include higher rates for consideration for
sidewalk installations. You're just not going to make it. You're not
going to be able to overlay the street, widen the street, which means
you've got to treat the shoulders with stabilized base and limerock and
then asphalt on top of that, and then overlay the existing asphalt and
put in sidewalks the length of Lakeview all for $75,000 and contribute
landscape. That isn't going to work.
Now, later today I'm going to ask transportation to come up here
and I'm hoping transportation, by going to the county appraiser's
website, would anticipate that I'm going to ask what the length of
Lakeview Drive is and would multiply that times the request that
they've got in for the 19th of this month for the LDC cost for
sidewalks, and then we can see how much of that $75,000 is used up
just on the sidewalk.
MR. BROOKER: That was a number, as I mentioned, that was
given to us by county staff, so --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: By county staff or CRA?
MR. BROOKER: Both.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Well, was that transportation
department?
MR. BROOKER: Nick Casalanguida of Transportation and
David Jackson ofCRA.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Good, because ifhis math is that good,
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we have a huge reduction in taxes due to our roads going down in
cost.
MR. BROOKER: Can I publicly apologize to Nick for calling
him out?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No, but he'll have -- I'm certain he'll
have questions to answer.
The stormwater drainage. I know what you've just provided,
1,210 cubic feet. My question of transportation, so they know ahead,
is how much distance on Lakeview Drive will that take care of at the
rate that they need it taken care of? So I'm sure we'll come back to
that issue as being one or not.
In -- the site. You have a 20-acre site. How much is the water
bodies and how much is the preserve of that 20 acres?
If you can come up with that before I finish, because it will be
somewhat important.
MR. BROOKER: We're digging.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. In your actual PUD, I know that
from my conversations with you that you actually had to rewrite the
original PUD to get it into electronic format so that it could go to staff.
On Page 4, you mention that there are two secondary entrances
are provided at Fern Street and Lakeview Drive. In the prior
documentation, Fern Street was limited to access for maintenance and
sewage treatment plant that was proposed for the site. Now, I'm sure
it's being used now for more than that. I understand that.
But what is -- in your -- why did you call it the two secondary
entrances?
MR. BROOKER: I may have -- I'll regret now calling it
secondary entrances, but it was just a reflection that the main gate was
the main entrance, and the Fern and Lakeview Drive would be
secondary to the primary main gate entrance.
But I don't mean to imply at all that certain people can't come
into -- Windstar residents can't use those entrances. They are open for
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Windstar residents for entrance and exit.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. The agreement that you have
with the homeowner's association requires you to upgrade the -- or not
upgrade, install the entrance off Lakeview Drive in a manner similar
to that of the main entrance in regards to the facilities. That's why I
was wondering if it's going to be really a secondary entrance or if it's
going to resemble more of a maintenance entrance.
MR. BROOKER: What we have been informed by the master
association is that they are upgrading or installing along the Fern
Street entrance and the proposed Lakeview Drive entrance video
monitor -- a video monitoring system that will be manned by the main
guard gate. So when a vehicle pulls up, the main guard gate will be
able to see and talk to the people attempting to gain entrance into
Windstar PUD via a secured video monitor.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So there will not be a gatehouse there?
MR. BROOKER: Not a manned -- perhaps maybe a little
structure, but not a manned guardhouse or a gatehouse, as you're
probably using that term.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ray, I just saw someone come up. Did
you get the information on Tract S?
MS. DESELEM: Yes. For the record, Kay Deselem.
It is owned by Windstar Master Association, Inc., and the Folio
No. is 82840080004.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, thank you.
Ms. Student, that is not in the rezone request.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: Well, I have a couple -- I wanted
to build on what I had said earlier, because I left something out that
was in Ms. Linan's memo, and that is if there's a rational nexus
between, you know, the change and something in the old PUD, then
you could open it to that extent.
And also, assuming that you guys -- I don't know, I have to ask
Mr. Brooker, but was the arrangement with the owner of Tract S for
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you guys to be able to put a facility on there? Because I think if they
have some arrangement with them, then it ought to be okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Before you go, my question was
advertisement at this point. That folio number is not listed as to the
applicant listing of folio numbers provided for this rezone.
MS. STUDENT -STIRLING: I don't know that that would be in
the ad. Wouldn't that be in the application?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, it's not in the application. Either
way, I just want your reading on it.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: Okay. I think that we would need
to amend the application to include that in there.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Would that require any readvertising?
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: I don't believe so, because I don't
believe we advertise the folio numbers, but I think we could on the
spot amend the application here and have them provide the necessary
information before it goes to the Board of County Commissioners.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MR. BROOKER: The folio number I don't believe is anywhere
in the application. If that is required, then we will ask to amend it
now.
But the Tract S is in fact rationally tied to this petition because it
will be used as a temporary sales office for the marketing and sales of
the units in Fisherman's Village tract. Tract S is specifically
designated in the Windstar PUD document for that purpose alone. It
is owned by Windstar Master Association.
Windstar Master Association is part of the application as an
associated entity and they are in full agreement with utilizing that land
in that manner. And we are coordinating with them in terms of what
it's going to look like, how long, when things get put up and so forth
and so on.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, I think you are -- Margie had said
something else about a memo that provided a rational nexus?
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MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: Right, in the memo that I identified
earlier when we first discussed this, Ms. Linan did state that if there
was a rational nexus between the change and something else in the
PUD, then it could be opened up to that extent.
And I think an example of that is what Mr. Brooker just put on
the record, that Tract S -- well, I mean Windstar's in here, but Tract S
is there already, and so there is the nexus between this new
development and the need to have a sales center to market it. So that
would be an example.
Another example might be some infrastructure requirements that
are in an existing PUD, and because you're bringing more acreage into
it as you are here, and you're going to have more units, there might
need to be something about that that already existing infrastructure
requirement that would have to be changed because of the increase in
the number of units. So there's a rational nexus between those two
things.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Is there a rational nexus between Mr.
Adelstein's questions of height and the development standards tables
in the original Windstar PUD?
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: I think there would be for these
new units that are coming in.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: And you wouldn't want to change
it across the boards because you'd make the existing units
nonconforming and that could be a problem.
But if there were a subset that would relate to this tract and these
units, that would be acceptable.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So if this board wanted to make
any recommendations concerning maximum -- whether it's actual or
zoned height specific to this tract --
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: That's correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- they could do that.
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MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: It would be fine.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: By the way, thank you from the staff,
whoever got that information. I appreciate it. Wasn't Nick. No, he
was sitting there --
MR. BROOKER: I was trying to help him out. It was Nick.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Good try.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The roadway tracts and water
management areas within the new property you're adding, would those
be maintained by the master property owners association?
MR. BROOKER: That is correct. We will become a member of
the master association, pay assessments, dues, whatever you call them,
just like every other neighborhood in the master.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Did you happen to find out the net
developable acreage in your tract?
MR. BROOKER: I'll ask Tim Hall, who's with Turrell &
Associates, he's our environmental consultant, to answer those
questions.
MR. HALL: For the record, Tim Hall, with Turrell &
Associates.
In the existing condition today right now, there's 4.4 -- I'm sorry,
4.9 acres of open water that includes a stormwater management -- a
couple of stormwater management lakes, the canals, the bay, so forth.
And then an additional 5.4 acres of jurisdictional wetlands.
Already approved through the county's dredging program was
some impacts to that. Post-dredging project, there would be 4.4 acres
of open water and 5.2 acres of jurisdictional wetlands.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Say that one more time?
MR. HALL: 4.4 of open water and 5.2 of jurisdictional
wetlands.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Clay, that -- and I'm going back to a question asked by one of the
other panel members here. Density. That reduces your like usable
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footage of an interior tract as you pointed out in the other particular
parcels within Windstar down to 10.8 acres. Now, if you divide 10.8
acres into the 446 units you're asking for, that is much higher density
than what you had previously told us the balance of Winds tar was
provided on a like by like basis. You're looking at more like over,
what is it, 10 in the 14, 14 units per acre?
MR. BROOKER: When I gave you the numbers, I compared
apples to apples. In other words, when I said the neighborhoods
around Windstar, if you -- what I internally called them, sub-densities
within Windstar ranging from two units per acre to over 12 units per
acre, those calculations included any wet areas, any water areas. The
entire acreage of those neighborhoods.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Before you go too far then, let's discuss
that point. Take a look at the picture in front of you dead center.
You're telling me that tract includes what besides the footprints of
where those buildings are?
That's a pretty picture.
MR. BROOKER: This has happened before. But not with me.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, that's -- that dark infrared tract --
and I didn't know the county website could do infrared.
But anyway, the water management alongside the roadway -- and
the rest of it doesn't appear to be part of the developable tract.
MR. BROOKER: Well, there's the master plan in infrared. If
you look at the master plan, Mr. Chairman --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Which? The one you provided?
MR. BROOKER: Yes, Exhibit A to the proposed PUD
document.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MR. BROOKER: Assuming you were referring to what's on the
master plan as Summerset, those lines around Summerset are the legal
descriptions of the property appraiser's descriptions of the Summerset
Tract E.
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So when I did the calculations that I've told to you, you can see
those lines include the water body to the north of the actual uplands, if
you want to call them, of Summerset.
And in addition to that, just in general, to respond to your
question, this -- the way we calculate a density using 20.52 acres, the
total acreage is exactly the way the Land Development Code requires
you to calculate density.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I agree with you, gross acreage for
initial calculation. But you were using the other tracts as an example
to compare the density to yours. That's the only reason I'm going in
the direction I'm going.
And if you take out the preserve areas, which I don't know -- I
don't see any other of your tracts encompassing the preserve areas --
you still end up with a different density calculation than what was
originally provided. It isn't the gross 20.5 to calculate your density.
MR. BROOKER: I would respectfully disagree. Because, for
example, with Summerset here, this tract, a total of which is 16.8
acres, includes the water.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Does it include the preserves?
MR. BROOKER: It includes the entire area in that tract.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right. Does it include--
MR. BROOKER: So I looked at the density, how many units are
in Summerset, and divided it by 16.8. And I did the same thing by--
with all the neighborhoods, the sub-densities within Windstar. I tried
to be as apples to apples as I could when I calculated those numbers
internally.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. I'm just -- if you include the
water, I understand that. But the preserves I can't see included on any
of those tracts.
All I'm saying is the 20.5 or .4 acres, if you were to take out the
preserves, then you may be more apples to apples in your density
calculation in comparison to the balance of Winds tar. That's where
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I'm going. Now, that just brings it up a little bit, it doesn't bring it up
to the 12 units per acre.
The development standards table, I notice that it's in a strike-out
verSIon.
MR. BROOKER: My fault. My fault.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, because that one--
MR. BROOKER: That was my technological incapabilities.
When I did -- used Microsoft Word to do a strike-through/underline, it
crossed out the entire table, for whatever reason. And try as I might,
including everyone in my office, we couldn't fix it. So there's no
changes to that table.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's exactly what I was--
MR. BROOKER: I'm sorry for that confusion. That's the best I
could do.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: On Page 18 of the PUD -- I mentioned
this to you when I met with you -- that Item E is an addition to
transportation commitments. And in that addition, it keeps referring to
the developer. And I still am going to have to ask staff when they
come up here who is the developer of this Windstar PUD. Because all
that I have on the front of this is not who it was prepared for, it's just
who it was prepared by. And the developer referenced on Page 18,
I'm not sure who is committing this obligation, although I know it's
supposed to be you and your company.
MR. BROOKER: Yes, I would -- we'd be willing to accept a
change in paragraph 6.4(E), wherever it may occur, to change the
word developer to owner of the subject 20.52 acres. That will make it
clear that it is our responsibility and no one else's.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: Excuse me. If I might, for
clarification, it might be better expressed as the owner of the
20.52-acre addition.
UNIDENTIFIED MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: Speak up a
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little, please. I can't hear you.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: Okay, it would be -- I would just
change that a bit to the owner of the 20.52-acre addition. I think that
makes it a little more clear.
MR. BROOKER: And that -- there are references throughout the
PUD document to the subject 20.52 acres. If that change is more
appropriate, it can be made throughout the document.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, thank you.
Try to whittle down my tabs so -- in your TIS, you're talking
about -- there's a discussion about the traffic improvements needed on
Bayshore Drive. A southbound right turn lane should be investigated
for Lakeview Drive, Bayshore Drive.
What's your company's commitments on that?
MR. BROOKER: That was an initial comment by county staff,
transportation staff, to have a right turn lane in as you head
southbound on Bayshore Drive, turning right onto Lakeview Drive,
and discussing that with the CRA and county staff transportation.
The CRA objected to that, because an existing landowner or
business there on that corner, and the CRA basically convinced
transportation staff that that was not an appropriate request under the
circumstances. That had nothing to do with us.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: For the record, this is a summary and
conclusion in your TIS provided by your consultant, so I don't see any
reference to staff there.
MR. BROOKER: That's a good point. I would be happy to have
Reed Jarvi, our Traffic Engineer, to explain that.
MR. JARVI: For the record, Reed Jarvi, Professional Engineer
with the firm of Vanasse-Day lor.
What that is, is on our conclusions we looked through the various
ordinances, and the right-of-way ordinance from a pure numbers
standpoint shows that a right turn lane may be needed there. And
that's what we looked at and said in the future when the SDP comes
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through, it needs to be looked at more closely than at the zoning level.
Subsequent to that TIS, we've had discussions with both county
staff and the CRA and that's the time where Clay said -- or the CRA
said no, we don't want a right turn lane, there really isn't enough room
for one; there is an existing business there that a right turn lane would
greatly disrupt that business. So that's the direction we are at at this
point in time.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'm sure our traffic department will
come up and clarify it as well. Thank you.
And I'm getting through it, Clay.
MR. BROOKER: I was hoping you ran out of tabs.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, I'm removing them as I go
through them. So transportation's going to have a lot of issues, I can
see.
You had sent a letter in November of 2004 to Florida Fish &
Wildlife Conservation Commission. That's a year and a half away
from now past. I repeated -- I found the letter, I found where you
referenced numerous times, but I've not found where they've
responded to you. As of almost 18 months, you've still not received a
response that you know of?
MR. BROOKER: Can you refresh my memory what that letter
says?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Letter was sent to Florida Fish and
Wildlife Conservation Commission in November, 2004, but no
response has been received. And it's in your environmental impact
statement. And the letter itself is in Item J, and it's a coordination letter
sent by Kevin L. Irwin, consultant ecologist. He's working with his
client to develop a small portion of property. Please inform us if you
are aware of any listed species that are known to occur at this time.
I know he was your biologist. But he was sending this to them
for their input. And I've found no response to it.
MR. BROOKER: I'll have Tim Hall, our environmentalist,
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address that question.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Is he representing Kevin Irwin today?
MR. HALL: No, sir, I cannot represent Kevin Irwin. I can just
tell you that since my involvement, I am not aware of any response
from the Conservation Commission regarding the project.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Can you tell me, based on Kevin Irwin's
EIS that was submitted in the basis for review by the EAC and us
today, if you verify -- he used a different site plan. Can you verify
that the impacts by the site being proposed today are no more
significant than the ones that were produced in relationship to Kevin
Irwin's EIS?
MR. HALL: I believe the site plan he used was the more
impactive one. It had more units than this one does. So from a local
standpoint, in terms of traffic and utilities, the impacts will be less
with less units proposed on the property.
From an environmental standpoint, the preserve boundary or the
development boundary has not changed. So the lands still dedicated
as preserve under that original plan are still dedicated under the one
we have now.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, thank you.
That's what I have so far. And I've got a lot of staff, but they
may be referring to you for answers. Thank you.
Mr. Adelstein?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: There's one thing I'd like to
ask you. Considering all the new buildings that you're building, could
you live with a height of 50 feet maximum on those buildings?
MR. BROOKER: Are you referring to an actual building height
of 50 feet, measured from grade?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Right.
MR. BROOKER: We can live with actual-- or a 50-foot height
measurement from FEMA, which is one-foot-six above grade. So that
would be 51-six.
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COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Is it that necessary that 1.6 --
actually, the height building is 50 feet, and that's what I'd like to see.
MR. BROOKER: It's not necessary. We can live with 50 feet.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Clay, I know you want to
rebuttal at the time of any -- if there's any --
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Just one.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- public speakers.
I'm sorry, Mr. Midney?
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: With this 137 units that you're
planning to add, are you planning to do anything to address the need
for affordable housing that these new units will create?
MR. BROOKER: No affordable housing has been proposed with
regard to this PUD petition or in the conceptual site plan. No. In that
regard, no.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: No, I mean in terms of a
voluntary contribution to the affordable housing trust fund or anything
like that.
MR. BROOKER: I believe it's almost customary for the Board
of County Commissioners to ask that of us, or for these types of
petitions, and I would request that we address it at that point in time.
I know there's a linkage fee being worked today in terms of
making that a legal requirement, tying a monetary payment making it
legal into either based upon your number of units or the commercial
square footage. That's being worked today. I'm not saying that we
would object to do that, but I would prefer to leave that to the Board
of County Commissioners.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: But right now that's not law, or
that's nothing that you're obligated to do from your part? Are you not
willing to do anything with regard to this need in the county
voluntarily?
MR. BROOKER: No, I didn't say that. I didn't say that.
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COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Well, I'm asking you that
question.
MR. BROOKER: The question being are we unwilling to do
anything?
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Are you willing to voluntarily do
something? Not because you're forced to do it but are you voluntarily
willing to do something, to commit to that?
MR. BROOKER: Yes.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Could you specifically say what?
MR. BROOKER: I would prefer to leave that to the Board of
County Commissioners exacting it upon us.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Well, they don't exact on it until
it becomes a regulation. What are you willing to do yourselves?
MR. BROOKER: We understand, based upon watching BCC
hearings, that it's customary for the BCC to request or exact, however
you want to describe it, $1,000 per unit to the affordable housing trust
fund, which I don't even believe has been created.
However, we are willing to do that for our conceptual site plan,
with the caveat that it cannot be increased above that. Because that's
what's been customarily exacted.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Unless the rules change.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Student needs to weigh in on a
comment.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: Yes, Marjorie Student-Stirling.
I need to correct the record. Those were voluntary contributions
that were on the record before the board, and I would take exception
to the use of the word exaction, as part of this hearing or any other.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, Mr. Midney, I'm sorry.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: No, that's __
MR. BROOKER: And I agree that they have been qualified or
described as voluntary contributions during the public hearing.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: No one has forced them to do it.
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It's been a voluntary -- that's my question, what are you voluntarily
willing to offer?
MR. BROOKER: I've answered that, I believe.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Is that the last -- okay, Mr.
Kolflat?
COMMISSIONER KOLFLA T: Mark, I have a question for you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Me?
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Yes.
This connection on Lakeview Drive, as it exists today, can the
developer open that drive up so that they can enter the property from
Lakeview Drive?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, that's what is being proposed
today is that they do open it up. And the requirement with the
homeowners association is that the entrance on Lakeview Drive have
the similar treatments to the entrance on Bayshore Drive right now.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: But if this petition was denied,
would they then be foreclosed from opening that connection?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: They may for the access to the Windstar
PUD. But that property was already zoned as a regular residential
district, so they would have -- they have a right to access off Lakeview
regardless. I think the issue becomes a matter of density. How much
density do the residents expect prior to this versus accessing off of
Lakeview versus the additional density and traffic created by the
connection to Windstar.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I mean, if I'm wrong, Clay, say so, but
that's where I think the crux of the question would go.
MR. BROOKER: I think you're right. We have the right to
connect to it today without a public hearing.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, with that, we're going to take a
15-minute break and we will resume at 10:20.
(Recess.)
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, we're back on line now.
Sir, excuse me, you guys are on the mic. Would you mind taking
your seats?
If the meeting will come back to order. And we're going to start
with the Collier County staffs presentation by Kay.
Kay, the first question I had of you before you make your
presentation was one that Mr. Schiffer wanted to address and that was
concerning information he hadn't received. But I guess we'll address it
when he comes back in. So do you want to go ahead? There he is.
We're talking about you, Brad. Before Kay begins, do you want
to point out the issues you may have with the packet you received?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Kay, it's actually the lack of
package. When I did get the package -- when Paul sat down, he had
quite a few more elements in the packet, that's all. And I know when I
was looking at it, Tor didn't have the same stuff: either, so we just
have to be more careful.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: It seems some of the inserts were
missing, like the site plan and the aerial, the colored photography.
MR. BELLOWS: For the record, Ray Bellows.
The staff involved with putting together the packets, there was
someone on vacation. I'll reiterate the process with the people who fill
in that we've got to be consistent with getting the packets completely
submitted as required.
And if anyone has questions or suspicions that something's
missing, please give me a call and I'll make sure that we get you the
correct information.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Kay, if you'll start.
MS. DESELEM: For the record, Kay Deselem. I'm a Principal
Planner with the Department of Zoning and Land Development
Review.
First, I apologize, I made a strong attempt to get a packet of
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identical information for all of you that included color information,
and I do apologize that somewhere along the line it didn't get
forwarded to you.
Today with me is David Jackson, CRA, Don Scott and Nick
Casalanguida from Transportation, and Steve Lenberger of
Environmental Services. And if you have specific questions for those
individuals, they will be available as well.
You do have the staff report, I hope, and most of the things that
are supposed to be with it, including Exhibits A and B, which are the
findings in support of the recommendation.
Due to the applicant's presentation going into detail about what's
being proposed, I won't belabor the issue by going point-by-point over
the staff report, but I will note that in the process of the review, the
number of units has been evolving. And there are references to 146
units in the staff report, as well as 137. And that should be 137,
because that is their proposal before us right now.
And as noted previously, the Fisherman's Village tract is now
vacant, devoid of any development, through demolition permits. The
existing multi-family structures have been removed. I do have and
have shared with Commissioner Caron the aerial photographs from
2005 and 2006 that show the buildings are now gone.
As the presentation has evolved today, some things came up that
I wasn't really aware of. There was an agreement offered for a certain
amount of stormwater cubic footage, and I had a brief conversation
with transportation staff. That number's been bandied about
throughout the review; however, that particular number has not been
agreed upon.
And in fact, there's some discussion between transportation staff
that they would actually like the applicant to construct the
improvements that are required and that have been agreed upon,
consisting of the sidewalk and the widening of the roadway to 22 feet,
rather than having money paid in lieu of that.
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And I can just briefly mention that the applicant's rendition of the
deceleration lane is, as I understand it as well, it was deemed no
longer to be appropriate, given the existing development on the
corner.
We do have someone, as I mentioned, from environmental
services here. And as represented in the staff report, the EAC did
review this petition and did recommend approval of it, and with the
stipulation that the mangroves be retained.
Staffs analysis of this particular project includes some of the
issues that really haven't been addressed to the full extent of the
people that live in Lakeview. Staff believes, and we have provided
findings in support of our beliefs, that the improvements will address
the impacts onto Lakeview Drive.
But we have noted, as Commissioner Murray noted, that the
word interconnection in this case might be somewhat of a misnomer,
because the connection only goes one way. People from Windstar go
out; however, no one other than Windstar goes in.
So it's been represented that the compo plan does require, or
encourage I guess is the better term, the interconnections of projects.
But in this case, you know, it's -- is it truly an interconnection?
But as already noted, the Lakeview tract -- or the Fisherman
Cove's tract, also by itself standalone, the 72 units that would be
allowed, would automatically have access to Lakeview Drive, because
that's the only access they have.
So we do have the issue of the roadway that I'm sure the
neighbors are going to discuss with you. And we have noted in the
staff report, as has come out today, the parks and recreation review
and that they want to see a stipulation included, and the petitioner has
not agreed to that stipulation.
I checked with staff here today, and as far as we can tell, there
has been no amendment or regulation proposed that would require a
park requirement within development.
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So at this point there have been -- most of the residential PUDs
have agreed to accept the condition, but I know of at least one that has
not. So we would be looking for a recommendation from you as to
whether or not you want to include that stipulation.
And there is no definitive amount as far as, you know, if you
have "X" number of units then you need "Y" square footage or
acreage or, you know, any unknown number or amount of recreational
equipment. So we don't really have a quantified answer as to what
would meet the intent of parks and recreations' request.
We have recommended approval. And as I said, we did include
the findings in support of that recommendation. And I'm here, as is
the rest of staff and CRA representatives, if you have questions.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, right side first. Mr. Midney?
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: You say that you don't have
quantifiable figures as to what would satisfy the intent of parks and
recreations on that recreation. Isn't there anything planned to be
developed or, you know, some guidance? Because I can see that there
will be a need for recreation for the kids who live there, since they
don't live near any county parks or anything.
MS. DESELEM: I'm not saying there isn't a need. There may
very well be a need. But we don't have any regulation that requires it,
nor is there any quantitive thing that, you know, for what you get you
provide this, so to speak.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Student, did you __
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: Let me just say, without a
regulation there needs to be a rational nexus between that requirement
and the impacts of the development. And I don't know if that could be
arrived at. I'm not a statistician or have that expertise as a statistician
in the planning area or population demographics area, but it would
seem that you might look at the county demographics as a whole and
the percentage of the population and the age group in the county that
would use that type of a playground and then extrapolate that out to
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the proj ected popu -- that might work. I don't -- if they -- again,
there's got to be a rational nexus.
And I think part of the problem is we don't know what the
impacts are because we don't know the number of residents in that age
group that would use the playground. And then you'd get to some
recognized figure of how much equipment to have, once you know the
number of kids that would use it.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Student, as a caveat to that, as this
board well knows, during the AUIR review we repeatedly asked parks
and recreation to count the parks and rec. areas within these
developments to offset the taxable values being hit by the general
public in Collier County. They flat-out refused.
And for them now to come back in and demand it of the
development when they don't have a rational nexus for it, they're not
going to count it in the AUIR, it's more like double taxation of any
property owner.
So I understand what Ms. Student's saying, and until something's
worked out, I don't know how we could just impose it unilaterally on a
project. But I wanted to throw that in.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: And if I might just add
something to it. The -- if I understand it correctly, while they don't
count it, they use the fact that there are certain amenities available and
then they will reduce the amenities within the general area
accordingly.
So my concern is, is that if we build a playground for three
children, an area where they may have 30 children will not have a
playground, because they will have checked that off against it.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Midney, go ahead.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Yeah, I would just like to suggest
that maybe county staff could look at something like this. Because it
would seem to be a principle of smart development that you would
have so the parents wouldn't have to drive five miles to a county park
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so that their kids, you know, can have recreational opportunities. So
I'd like to see the county develop something.
I know it's too late for this development now, they're not ready,
but it would be a good idea perhaps in the future.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you, sir.
Any other -- Mr. Kolflat?
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: In your staff report, you say the
term interconnection may not accurately depict what is proposed.
Why don't you just say it does not accurately depict what is proposed,
rather than may?
MS. DESELEM: I guess that would be an appropriate use of the
words as well.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody else?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Yeah, I do.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Schiffer?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Let me just -- this is the add-on
question follow-up. But as people approach that entrance, would
guests and everything be able to use that entrance; do you know?
What you're saying is that it's only essentially for the lakeside
residents -- or Windstar people to come in and out. But would the
people visiting -- the people in this development be able to access
through that?
MS. DESELEM: My understanding, the way it's been
represented to from through the developer, is that delivery vehicles
and residents and their guests could use that particular access point.
It's not been reiterated or documented and approved as part of the
PUD document, because we normally don't get into that amount of
detail, but they've talked about some kind of a system that they wanted
to use to regulate access through that particular gate.
But like I said, it hasn't been agreed to or stipulated in the PUD
document, so all I know is what's been represented, that it would be
available for residents, their guests, delivery and construction vehicles.
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COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: The other question is when the
PUD builds out and there's remaining units, what are those units? Do
they sunset, do they expire, are they marketable? What are they?
MS. DESELEM: I would suggest that maybe Marjorie might
want to address that question from the county attorney's point of view.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: Are you talking about unused
units?
MS. DESELEM: Yes.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: Well, it's my understanding that
this developer is taking some of the units that weren't used, coupled
with some additional units to do this development. So it would appear
that they plan to utilize all the units that are available.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: But I'm just saying in general--
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: But presently we don't have -- a
program like that was brought to our Board of County Commissioners.
Presently we don't have anything. I think there is -- and you may see
it in the land code. I think there may be another iteration of that that
may be presented as part of an LDC amendment that differs somewhat
from what was presented to you all.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Before you leave that point, though.
Brad, it's a good point. I had asked Margie a similar question in my
e-mail to her. The question was, the Windstar PUD explains the
developer of Fisherman's Cove will lift -- I'm sorry, I'm on the wrong
one.
Also, as you are aware from the past, we have issues with excess
ghost density, i.e., Pelican Bay and the Waterside Shops. This PUD is
also using the same ghost density as Pelican Bay similarly bargained
with. However, this time the HOA claims ownership with the ghost
density. Do we have a document that indicates HOA actually retains
those units and not the developer, as was opined in the Pelican Bay
situation?
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MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: No, I don't have any such
documents.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: How can staff then recommend
approval of use of those densities?
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: I think that what -- you would need
to have it have that entered into the record from the applicant.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So before we go too far -- Mr.
Schmitt?
MR. SCHMITT: Yeah, this is the whole ghost density issue.
And Margie, if in fact the developer turns over the property to the
HOA, the HOA then inherits the density and intensity.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: Not necessarily. Because in the
case with Pelican Bay, it was retained by the developer. So it depends
on what's in the covenants.
MR. SCHMITT: Yeah, okay, I understand.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Then before we--
MR. SCHMITT: But in this case we don't have a developer, per
se, of Windstar.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But Joe, to validate the 111 units or
whatever that is being transferred from Windstar into this new
property by this new property owner, doesn't -- I had asked this on
Monday, and I remissed until Mr. Schiffer brought it forward to
reiterate it again today -- where is the documentation that substantiates
that? That's all we're asking.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: I would think that the
documentation would be in the agreements that Mr. Brooker has
already referenced in the record that they have with -- with the
association, was it not, with the association.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do we know that the association
attained that density so that they could bargain with it?
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: I would say in the absence of an
umbrella developer, such as you have in Pelican Bay, in that absence
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and the absence of anything and any restricted covenants, that then
Windstar would have -- you know, would have them.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. That's a unique analysis.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Mark, on the same thing, does
this WS Realty -- I mean, I didn't get this in my packet, but Paul has it
-- does this WS Realty, Inc. still exist? I mean, is that a __
UNIDENTIFIED MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: Point of
information.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Sir, I'm sorry, you can't interrupt what's
going on until you speak.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well, then somebody must--
MS. DESELEM: If I may address that. That's been crossed out,
so --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Right, but they're the original
applicant prior to this hearing. It's the applicant that owned those. I
mean, a PUD essentially is zoning. The zoning is owned by the
applicant.
But anyway, it sounds like somebody might testify to that in the
future. Let me wait for that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Let's get through the meeting and if we
still have a question, we can bring it back up to Margie.
Mr. Murray?
MS. DESELEM: If I could address that on Page 3 of Section 1.2,
it addresses the ownership of it and talks -- shows that that WS Realty
is being crossed out, and shows that it's owned by Lakeview Drive,
Naples LLC.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: But my question is, is whose
pocket are those units in? Are they in WS Realty or are they in the
homeowner's association? We've had projects that prior to this have
always had it in the applicant's.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'm wondering, too, is a lot of
developments produce interior parcels. And if the homeowner's
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association takes over those parcels, were they originally developed
and built at their maximum for each individual parcel, or do those
individual homeowner's associations retain some rights to further
expand within those parcels pursuant to their standards? That may
lead into where this density is. I don't know.
Mr. Murray, I didn't mean to interrupt you, but __
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: No, that's quite all right. I'm
trying to be lucid this time.
Going into the area of density, the question -- I think 72 would be
the maximum. If this were not an amendment and it was just a
standalone, it would be -- 72 would be the maximum that could be
built there.
MS. DESELEM: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Okay. So 65 units is a bonus for
simply having an agreement with Windstar to become a part of
Windstar.
Are there any such agreements with Lakeview -- is it Lakeview?
What's the name of that road that is there that we've been discussing?
Is that Lakeview?
MS. DESELEM: I'm not aware of --
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: The road that services that, the
one that's under question.
MS. DESELEM: Lakeview Drive?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Is that the name of it?
MS. DESELEM: Yeah, Lakeview Drive.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Lakeview Drive.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Yeah, Lakeview Drive.
Are there any agreements with the owners of Lakeview Drive or
their homeowner's associations regarding the use of the road? And I
suspect not.
MS. DESELEM: I believe it's a public road.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Right, I suspect not.
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So basically by Windstar allowing that, they get the benefit to
come in and out, but the people in Lakeview have to deal with the
people coming in and out. So that would be the side.
Which brings it to the question, and I think the Chair certainly
qualified it more effectively. I think we have to look long and hard at
any kind of improvements to the area on Lakeview Drive to make
certain that there's some equity there for the people in that area. And
height of buildings is another.
I know that wasn't a question, but that was just my thought that I
would like to add to it. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, is there any other questions of
staff?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Kay, start with Page 4 --
MR. BELLOWS: Mr. Chairman, if I may?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes, sir.
MR. BELLOWS: For the record, Ray Bellows, zoning manager.
I just wanted to make a clarification to the point of density.
When a PUD is approved, the number of units associated with that
PUD runs with the PUD document, not with the ownership. The
ownership can change over time with different developers', buying or
purchasing development intensity associated with those tracts.
And then when there's a turnover to a homeowner's association,
they typically take over the maintenance requirements of the previous
developer plus the density that's associated with that project. The
homeowner's association owns the PUD, they own those development
rights.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And I guess that then is considered
typical, unless Pelican Bay for example was not that way, right?
MR. BELLOWS: Yes, unless there's a specific agreement to
retain them.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Because that's one that comes to mind,
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the battle that ensued as a result of that --
MR. BELLOWS: That's correct.
MR. SCHMITT: And there was some kind of a court case and
settlement agreement and other things associated with that issue that
was I think peculiar to that specific PUD.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Mark, question --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Sir?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: -- on that.
But Ray, that's a PUD that provides zoning for a defined piece of
land. Does that mean that these units are marketable to move on to
another piece of land or by in this case expanding the PUD?
MR. BELLOWS: If I understand your question correctly, the
PUD has associated density. Some PUDs restrict the number of
dwelling units to certain tracts and don't make provisions for them to
transfer to other tracts.
This PUD I don't believe has that restriction, so it could be
transferred from one tract to the other.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: But here's what you're doing is
you're -- we're widening the PUD boundary; therefore, I think
logically you could say that the units could go to that boundary. But
then we're also taking the existing underlay zoning districts and
adding to that.
In other words, the PUD is a form of zoning, the existing zoning
is a form of zoning. So what you're kind of doing is combining two of
them to get a bigger total.
MR. BELLOWS: In fact that is happening, but it's still under the
maximum allowed by the density rating system. It is consistent with
the comprehensive plan, so it doesn't seem to be an unreasonable
request.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: So the point is take the units
that belong to Windstar, and Windstar is going to expand its boundary,
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thus has rights to put those units on it. We're also counting the density
of the zoning that we're actually removing.
MR. BELLOWS: I think the purpose of that is to show that
they're not significantly increasing the impacts of the development by
asking for additional units above and beyond what's already allowed
through the current zoning above the PUD and the standard zoning.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Combined.
MR. BELLOWS: As the applicant stated in the beginning, the
overall density will remain the same.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well, density of what?
MR. BELLOWS: Of the PUD. They're not increasing the
density of the approved PUD. It will remain the same.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Okay. I'm done.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. I think where the confusion is,
you are increasing the PUD by 35 units. You're not increasing the
multiplier for the gross acreage.
MR. BELLOWS: That's correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's where I think you might have a
better answer.
Okay, Page 4 of your staff report. A little technicality. Up on
top you talk about environment review and you mentioned that the
EAC recommended approval with the exception of impacts caused by
the boardwalks and walk-overs necessary for the docks for mangrove
destruction.
You also included the EAC meeting minutes, and I didn't see that
recommendation. Not that I disagree with it, but I didn't see it in the
EAC report. Under the recommendations it just says staff
recommends approval with the following conditions, and it says no
additional stipulations.
MS. DESELEM: The stipulation was added by the EAC itself.
So it's not in that staff report.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So we don't -- we've not -- we
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don't have anything -- that's the only thing that -- we don't have any
reports separate from your report to the EAC. After they got done
with the hearing, basically --
MS. DESELEM: That's correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- your -- okay.
In your staff report, you mention that there are artistic renderings,
shows the multi-family structures within the Village more internally
and externally orientated, and that the renderings seem to show a
denser buffer along the canal.
And it said that staff believes to be more appropriate to require
enhanced buffer along the canal for Fisherman's Village tract and
would suggest that more trees and taller trees could be provided to
soften the difference between the mostly single-story and
single- family Lakeview Drive residents.
Was any of that incorporated to the strength that you believe the
artistic rendering -- first of all, was the artistic rendering you're
speaking of the one we've seen today as the site plan?
MS. DESELEM: Yes, sir. It's the 137 units.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Have you -- has staffrecornrnended any
strengthening, and specifically to the PUD, that would incorporate
your suggestions?
MS. DESELEM: No. No additional buffers have been added.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. What are your suggestions? I
mean, obviously we have buffers and we have different criteria for
buffers. Are you increasing quantity of material, the spacing of trees,
the heights of the trees?
MS. DESELEM: I don't know that if you're talking a 50-foot tall
structure that the height of trees would necessarily offset that as far as
the height of the buildings. It might soften the effects of noise, light,
odor, that type of thing that would go across from one use to the other.
But yeah, you could perhaps increase the density as in more trees
per a certain lineal feet, and perhaps start out with somewhat taller
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trees. That would help somewhat.
But, I mean, you're not going to totally soften the effect of a
50- foot tall structure.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No, I'm looking at the statement you
made, because I do read your staff report. And in the staff report you
made a statement that it would be appropriate for more trees and taller
trees. And you also made a statement that the rendering seems to
show a denser buffer, and as a result that would mean more trees and
taller trees.
MS. DESELEM: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So I'm looking for a specific
recommendation from staff, since that's what staff seemed to think
was a good thing to do.
MS. DESELEM: Yes, I would suggest perhaps that they double
the planting that is provided within the required buffer.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MS. DESELEM: Double the height and the number. Perhaps
doubling the height might not necessarily be appropriate.
And again, we don't know exactly where the buildings are going
to be.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Well, I think we'll ask the
applicant about their landscaping plan when they get up here.
I have a lot of questions of Nick.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Mark?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Could you refer to the page and
document number whenever you read that item?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah. When I get to the next one, yes,
sir, I will.
Kay, that's the -- oh, in their EIS, they talked about using best
management practices for the construction operations of the Village in
dealing with stormwater runoff and potential impacts. And is
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proposed to incorporate a source control program into its landscaped
practices. Fertilizer and pesticide applications will be tracked to
minimize the implementation of BMP's. And that was provided to
staff in the EIS.
I didn't see any reference to that in the PUD so that it's -- there's a
way for staff to monitor and implement those. Do you know how that
was intended to be implemented, monitored?
MS. DESELEM: I'm not certain. I might suggest that we might
ask Steve Lenberger. I don't know that he has the answer, but he
might.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Well, then, let's ask, so we can
make sure that any stipulations include the right language.
And there was another question of Steve anyway that I had, so --
MR. LENBERGER: For the record, Stephen Lenberger,
Environmental Services Department.
We did not see any best management practices, and they didn't
propose to add any to the PUD language, so we have not seen any
proposals.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. It says that they are proposing
them, but you've not seen them.
MR. LENBERGER: That's correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Now, the basis of the EIS was based
upon -- and in Policy 2.2.2, this was their response to that policy.
MR. LENBERGER: Right.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So I would assume then that they're
consistent because of their response. Now, how do we lock their
response in?
MR. LENBERGER: We could -- well, at the zoning level, we
could I guess propose that it be provided at the time of site
development plan.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. That gets that one passed.
The other question I had, and I mention it to you, I would like
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you to clarify it for the record. About a month ago we had a project in
here that Bruce Anderson brought forward involving property on
Estey and Airport Road, and there was a rather concerning issue in
there from the environmental staff over the fact that the they were
mowing the understory.
In the EIS on this particular property they have indicated that
they were maintaining and mowing the understory as well. I want to
make sure there's no inconsistencies in staffs concerns over these
issues. So can you clarify what that means or how that impacts this
particular site's natural preserves?
MR. LENBERGER: Well, the parcel on Estey Avenue, my
understanding, it was a result of a violation, a clearing violation in the
past of code enforcement. So it was counted as native habitat when
they looked at the project.
This proj ect here, it was a disturbed site, historic dredging, and it
was full of exotics. When I first got there with the county back in '93,
it was -- it was shortly thereafter that I issued an exotic removal for
this project. It was all disturbed. It was very large exotics on the site.
So it wasn't the same scenario.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Good. I wanted to make sure the record
was clear on that. Okay, thank you.
Any other questions of Steve while he's up here?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Kay, I -- the balance of my questions
will be of Nick.
MR. SCHMITT: Mr. Chairman, for the record, I just want Steve
to follow up on your question regarding the site, because I think for
clarification of the planning commission, this site is also going to be
used as a temporary disposal site for the dredging of Haldeman Creek,
which has gone through a different process, a different permitting, and
through a temporary or I guess a site improvement plan which has
been identified on this property. And I just want to make sure that the
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planning commission understands that.
And Steve, if you have anything you want to add to that?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Joe, I mean, that's real clear in our
documents. And I understand it. Even though I understood that, the
standards that the county imposes on private homeowners and private
property owners still should be imposed on the county itself --
MR. SCHMITT: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So the question still stands and is
relevant --
MR. SCHMITT: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- and this is why I asked for it to be
cleared up.
MR. SCHMITT: Got it, thanks.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Hello, Nick.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Good morning.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You're doing real good on the bid
process here in Collier County . We're reducing things to a very
nominal cost in regards to overall distances.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: For the record, Nick Casalanguida,
Transportation Planning.
I have not been sworn in. I arrived after they were sworn in, so __
(Speaker was duly sworn.)
MR. CASALANGUIDA: I took notes as part of the presentation
and the question/answer session you've had so far, so I'll address these.
And if you have questions, please feel free to interrupt.
As far as the dollar cost for the improvements, for the record,
thank you, Clay, for pushing me under the bus this morning. My
horoscope said stay away from public transportation today.
Staff has always recommended that the improvements were done.
And I know David Jackson has a difficult job trying to do a
redevelopment in that area. So when the estimates came in, they were
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for quantities of certain materials. They -- we -- many e-mails went
back and forth, and as Kay pointed out, we always stated we would
like the improvements to be constructive, and we didn't recommend
taking out a monetary amount.
And one of my e-mails cautioned that these estimates were not
based on a design, that it takes no account of what it would actually
cost to build these improvements. So for the record, that 75,000 is
probably light.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Light.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: How about very, very.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. For the record, what suggestion
would you have to make sure that the impacts to this development, if
they were recommended for approval, would be adequate to take care
of the concerns of at least this issue on Lakeview Drive?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: There be some sort of preliminary
design that could be used for a more detailed estimate to be proposed
between say now and the board, and that that developer tie that
estimate based on an actual design commitment, dollar commitment to
the CRA.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Just out of curiosity, I know this
is an 18- foot wide roadway now, and you're proposing 22. Isn't 24
standard in the county?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: In some of the typical sections you
could have 12-foot lanes. You'd have to take into consideration you're
constricted over there by swales.
And we actually did a site visit yesterday morning to take a look
at it and widening it out to 24. You're going to make more of a
speedway than you want. I mean, you want to make it more navigable
widening it a little bit, but you don't want to also make it a drag strip
as well, too, so 22 would be consistent.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Where would your utility easements go?
Are they still in place on both sides of that roadway, or do they have
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to be implemented, or do the utilities have to be moved?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: We noticed their control pump station
was on the south side, so there was a -- we recommend it be on the
south side. You have to be a little creative. I don't know what's
underground over there; that's why you'd have to have the natural
design to look at it, and you'd want to tie it to something like that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: With the pump station you just
mentioned and the swales that you also mentioned, where would your
sidewalks go?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: You'd have to possibly close the
drainage or adjust the swales. Maybe even work with other people in
the areas David is doing to seek some easements to accommodate
some of those structure changes and swale changes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So that brings an interesting question
with drainage. I know they're offering up some cubic footage. I like
the idea of a distance from their property along Lakeview, they will
take "X" amount of drainage from Lakeview to go so far eastward.
Does that work better for transportation, or does cubic footage
work better?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Well, you get into a problem of
grades. Their control elevation and the level of the road, if you -- it's a
quarter mile, roughly. So if you start saying take in "X" amount of the
whole road in, how do you get the water there physically from, say,
Lakeview at Bayshore all the way to the development for their control
elevation area? It's almost impossible without raising the whole road.
So I don't know, I would feel more strongly or better if you had
an estimate based on some kind of design in elevation, some sort of
drawing you could look at and say this is what it would take to do an
improvement.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So the drainage part of it, as far as
you're concerned, can't be resolved until the design is incorporated?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: You'd have to look at it. You'd have to
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have something out there that you could -- would be more tangible
more than just, let's say, a site visit. So you'd have to look at what
they're proposing for control elevation, what the elevation of the road
is and where you would put the water.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do you know what the elevation of
Lakeview Drive is?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: No, sir, I do not.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do you know that the elevations
recommended for the interior of this parcel is 7.6 for the roads?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: I'm not aware of that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, that's what they're--
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Right.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- one drainage section of A.I.S.
indicates. Their calculations supplied to South Florida, I believe, that
came out to 7.6.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: You'd have to look at that. That's part
of what I would recommend. If David wants to proceed forward and
work to do a redevelopment in that area, it would take a financial
contribution in that area. Those are the things I think should be looked
at as part of that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So as far as today goes, pegging it to a
financial contribution as recommended would be probably erroneous.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: The 75,000 would be light, I would
say. That's a light number.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. I may have -- I think I have a
few more traffic issues.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: From my notes, as Trinity just now
pointed out to me, timing of improvements are also critical if you're
going to have construction traffic going down that road. Once the
development is up, going down that road, if the construction timing of
what David Jackson ofCRA wants to do doesn't meet the completion
of that, you may have a conflict as well, too.
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And as Trinity pointed out, there might be children living on that
road, that you want the sidewalks standard. And she pointed out that
that's the way she felt about it as a staff person reviewing the pathway
system, prior to taking a look at it as it's going up.
If you want to elaborate on that?
MS. SCOTT: I could. Trinity Caudill-Scott, Pathways Project
Manager.
My rational nexus behind the sidewalk -- and I understand what
David's trying to do with the CRA -- is for them to come up with some
sort of design and get the sidewalk in. Because if the roadway is
going to be utilized for construction traffic, I want the sidewalk in
before the first truck goes up that road.
Because all of the children who live on Lakeview have to walk
on that road right now to get to Avalon Elementary, as well as the bus
stops at Bayshore.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, the question is not if. If this
project gets approved today, the conditions imposed on a developer,
by his agreement with the homeowner's association, requires that
entrance to be used as construction traffic. They can't use the other
one.
MS. SCOTT: Then I would request that that sidewalk be in place
prior to construction starting.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, have you checked the lineal
distance of that roadway, as I mentioned to you?
MS. SCOTT: It's approximately 1,293 feet.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And do you know the value of the
sidewalk, based on your LDC amendment coming up on the 19th?
MS. SCOTT: Oh, those are the exact same costs that are in place
right now, which is FDOT's cost estimates. It would be approximately
44,349.90. That is for a four-inch --
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: That's pretty approximate.
MS. SCOTT: -- thick concrete sidewalk with minor drainage
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improvements.
However, I was at the same site visit that Nick was at, and it is
most likely better to put the sidewalk on the south side of the road due
to a very elevated driveway on the north side of the road which would
make accessibility virtually impossible.
But then on the south side of the road there is a pump station and
you have a lot of drainage to deal with.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You said on the south side, as though
you're not including one for the north side as well, although it's been
the standard of transportation, including the most recently Liberty
Landing's Village up in Immokalee wanting road -- sidewalks on both
sides of the road.
MS. SCOTT: That was internal to their site, yes.
And what is consistent with the Land Development Code is that
they -- that we require the sidewalk on the side that they front. So it
would fall back on the county responsibility to put the sidewalk on the
other side.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So the kids that are in the neighborhood
would have to -- on the north side of the street would have to cross the
street to get to the sidewalk on the south side?
MS. SCOTT: They would, yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Have you looked at any traffic calming,
or is that not your division?
MS. SCOTT: In the same division, not my particular
department. And I believe that from what we heard earlier today that
when they look at the streetscaping, to look at some sort of traffic
calming.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you, Trinity. Any other
questions?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Nick, as far as overlay in the two foot, I
know what it takes to put a road in. What do you estimate the cost for
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that? Or have you any estimate internally?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: I would say you're probably close to
doubling that 75,000, maybe going up to $200,000 to do that parcel.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Is that going to affect any of the side
slopes going into the swales on the side of the road so as we've got to
amend your drainage to any substantial nature?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: It will. Again, part of that would
depend on how well David can work with the neighborhood to
accommodate that. It would have to be a public/private partnership
with the CRA and the neighbors that live there. I mean, there's no
way you're going to be able, if the neighbors say I don't want to play,
that you can do that in that, say, 60-foot right-of-way. They're going
to want to have their neighborhood improved, and they're going to
have to work with the CRA to provide some easements maybe to
accommodate sidewalks or the drainage swales.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Typically when people have homes
around a residential street, even though it's a 60-foot right-of-way,
they tend to move their design elements closer to the asphalt than was
in the actual 60-foot right-of-way. Is that the case on this street?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: There's a lot of landscaping closer to
the street in other structures. So you'd have to work, again, with the
neighborhood to get that done. That's the positive side of what
David's trying to do. If you ask the developer to actually strictly do
the improvement, you'll lose a little bit of that coordination.
So while we could clean up the monetary amount, I think what
David's trying to do does make sense.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do you know if they're intending to put
any utilities alongside Lakeview to service this particular
development?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: No, sir, I do not.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, so I guess we can ask the
applicant that.
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MR. CASALANGUIDA: I'll follow up on a few more comments
from your notes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Mr. Schiffer mentioned about units
disappearing with a certain amount of time. We're working with Joe's
office. And one of the amendments I'm proposing actually ties in
units into the TIS that they actually come to you with. So they'll see
we're going to build 200 units in three years. They have those three
years plus a couple years, a year or two afterwards to complete that,
and after that time period any remaining units would just disappear off
the books.
So that's one of the amendments you'll see coming through in this
cycle of the LDC to address that. I think you saw it already at the
DSAC's upcoming meeting.
And last but not least, construction traffic. We really didn't look
at that in our initial review, understanding that they're not going to go
through the front of Winds tar and they'll be coming down Lakeview.
You may have issues with that with the neighborhood, I would
imagine. They're going to be a little concerned about construction
vehicles coming down Lakeview. I don't know of any agreements that
you have between you and Windstar Development that you can have
construction traffic on Windstar. I don't know if that's the case. But
that's something that might want to be addressed.
The turn lane, as you approach Lakeview off of Bayshore, cannot
physically be constructed with the -- what we've discussed with Mr.
Jackson is that site is in right now for SDP amendment, that we would
work on softening the curve coming in maybe to a 50-foot radius to
allow for, you know, an easier entrance onto Lakeview but not a full
turn lane. Because right now it is kind of a tight radius and a tight turn
for both construction vehicles and residential vehicles.
I think that covers everything. If you have any questions?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I think it does for me, Nick. Anybody
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else have any questions?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: I have one.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Schiffer?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Nick, the entrance drive into
this thing off of the residential road?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: You can see it there. There's a
right-of-way that goes straight into the property, yet they're going to
be turning off of that prior to the property line that would in essence
be the eastern boundary of the canal? Are you comfortable with the
way that's designed? My concern is would that put a lot of headlights
on that first house?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: You're only looking at a drawing, but
I'd say no. We drove it yesterday. The way that breaks off to the left
as you come down Lakeview? You're not going to --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: I'm worried about the cars
coming out, not going in.
Is there something we should do maybe to help protect that house
from -- there will be a lot more traffic than that house is used to.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: That's correct. Coming out you may
have lights coming into that house. That's something, based on the
conceptual plan you have, we couldn't make that call.
You could make a note of that, and when we actually review the
actual site plan that comes in, I could take a look at that because I'll be
reviewing that plan.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: When you look at it, they have
like the driveway of that house. What would actually happen in
reality, would you vacate that land for the house or would you --
MR. CASALANGUIDA: No vacation is anticipated or would be
required as part of this. I think they'd have to work with the existing
pavement that's out there to accommodate that turn at that entrance.
And that would be handled at the typically SDP review stage.
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COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: I mean, there is a concern that
there are a lot of parts that -- you know, not so much this town but
other towns where roads go straight and then they turn like that, and
then people tend to keep going straight. So I guess we've had some
cars in canals.
So my fear is that this poor guy's going to get all these headlights
and he's going to get some sort of a road structure with a bunch of
reflective elements on it to prevent people running into the -- running
off the end of the road.
So anyway, that's something you'll be looking at at the SDP
stage?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Okay. Done.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any other questions of Nick?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Nick, thank you.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: You're welcome.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Appreciate it.
Ray, do we have public speakers?
MR. BELLOWS: Yes, we have six registered speakers.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Before we go into the public speakers, I
had one question of Clay Booker (sic).
Clay, just so there's no misunderstanding, do you have a
restriction from using the main entrance of Windstar for construction
traffic for this Fisherman's Cove project?
MR. BROOKER: Yes, we have. The agreement calls for
construction traffic to come down Lakeview Drive.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do you have a restriction from using
Fern Street?
MR. BROOKER: Not in our agreement.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So you could use the entrance to
Fern Street into Windstar to bring your construction vehicles back up
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to this location?
MR. BROOKER: That would require the construction traffic to
go through the interior of Windstar proper today, and I believe that
was the reason why our agreement today requests the construction
traffic to come down Lakeview, because the Windstar Master does not
want the construction traffic to be going through the winding roads of
Windstar.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. But the reason I was asking is I
want to understand, are they restricting you from using their main
entrance or for all -- or just from generally using the roads within
Windstar for construction?
MR. BROOKER: It basically restricts us in terms of the
construction traffic to -- or limits us to Lakeview Drive.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ray, you want -- by the way, the public
speakers, you'd be limited to five minutes. Please, when you approach
the podium, state your name for the record.
MR. BELLOWS: The first speaker is Ann Marie Shimer, to be
followed by David Woodworth.
MS. SHIMER: For the record, my name is Ann Marie Shimer. I
am a Lakeview owner and I do have a small child.
And I just want to say, there's a lot of things that I came to talk
about that have been addressed by the County Commissioners. It
sounds like you're taking it into consideration a lot.
We do have a lot of small children that live on our road. And I
have a one-year-old. And I think there's like a total of 10 that I can
count on my hand right now of children that live on our street.
Currently our street is very narrow, 18 feet wide, as you know.
They're talking about expanding it to 22 feet. And you know, should
it be 24, you know, as the county standard? Yes. Does that encroach
and take into our front yard? Yes, it does.
You know, we're not against development at all, because that's
just the way Naples has become so beautiful to be. And I think that
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taking into consideration a lot that you already have a lot of issues that
I have thought about have already been addressed, and it sounds like
you're taking it into a lot of consideration that's being taken place.
Having the PUD actually put into Windstar I think is a great idea.
I think it really takes away from our street, Lakeview, that still
actually has a lot of development to go on it itself on the opposite, and
a burden that really the Windstar people really should take into
consideration, that if they're going to put that PUD into Windstar, why
not have the whole thing into Windstar? If they want to have an exit
point only for those residents to leave, you know, that should be fine,
too. I mean, if they want that little area to be very exclusive, have it
be a gated community with inside a gated community to achieve a
higher dollar value or something.
But to -- because it's my understanding at one of the meetings
that all construction traffic, all deliveries from this point forward into
Windstar must travel up and down that road. And, you know, that's a
burden right now.
I drive down the road. If a truck is coming to simply cut the lawn
to my neighbor, we have to stop, navigate around each other just to get
down. And that's -- we currently have -- if you guys did, whoever
went and looked at the site, there are currently cones out on the street
now to protect our kids from the current traffic in front of it. I don't
know why I'm so emotional. Sorry. Usually I'm not.
But there has been death of kids on our street currently in front of
the house I live in. The kids were actually playing in their property.
The cars traveling up and down the road actually struck and killed I
think at least two kids, if not more, but two kids that's on record that
have died on that street currently.
I'm glad the development's taking place down at the end. They
did get rid of the apartment complex that was there that maybe caused
a lot of the traffic.
So we're not against the development. We're just saying really,
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please take into consideration on how we can divert some of this
traffic. Seventy-two units being added is one thing, but adding not
only 136, as they state, but the additional traffic then that can be
brought in and out of Winds tar. And the fact that that's where all the
clubhouse delivers are supposed to be coming through? I just don't
think that's fair to that little street.
I mean, we moved there with the intentions of having this nice,
quiet little community and not to be the backyard or the back entrance
to a large PUD such as Windstar. It's just not fair to the Lakeview
residents.
There's also a lot of traffic concerns. The right turn lane that's
being talked about being brought in, there's another PUD that's -- or
proposed site plan that's calling for 15 parking spaces along the north
side of Lakeview at the entrance. I don't know if -- you guys probably
know exactly what I'm talking about. But the marina's been brought
out. That's going to be redeveloped.
All the traffic's that's being brought into this new community,
which is on the corner of Lakeview and Bayview, also needs to be
taken into consideration. You know, a traffic light probably needs to
be installed. Somebody needs to do these -- do a study to really kind
of take into consideration.
But these 15 parking spaces probably won't allow Lakeview to be
widened, if this approval has already been granted, which I don't know
if it has or has not.
But this PUD, trying to incorporate what these folks want and for
Lakeview, there's just not enough room to accommodate and make
everybody's needs met, without reducing -- you know, somebody
mentioned taking easements off of our property that is already small to
begin with. You know, if there's another diversion. Somebody
mentioned the road to the south of Lakeview that probably really
could use a lot more redevelopment than our current street being used
as maybe the main construction entrance.
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And I also agree with the lady that got up here and spoke, the
sidewalks have to be in place. Because the kids right now going up
and down the street are in danger as it is, more of less, if you start with
the vehicles, because that's just not good as it is.
But if this also could be addressed with these 15 parking spaces,
which back up the traffic onto Bayshore. Because when I come home,
I drive down Bayshore to turn right into the line. If there's a truck
unloading a boat into the marina or workers out there, I have to
navigate through not only the store from the convenience store traffic
coming out, but to actually have sometimes my car actually sit with
the rear end on Bayview before I can actually -- Bayshore before I can
actually get into go down my street to park. And then to put 15 more
parking spaces in and then add another couple hundred people going
up and down, I'm just really glad to see you guys are asking all the
little detail questions to make sure that everything's going to be
addressed.
We're not against development on our street, but we just really
want to make our neighborhood safe.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you very much.
MS. SHIMER: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, next speaker, Ray?
MR. BELLOWS: The next speaker, David Woodworth,
followed by Mike Heiser.
MR. WOODWORTH: For the record, my name is David
Woodworth.
I am against this joining of this property with Windstar. The
main reason is this -- about over 10 years ago, when Fisherman's Cove
was, you know, going to be developed, I came before the county
commission and at that time they said that Fisherman's Cove, only 21
family -- single-family lots. They were going to require the developer
to put a sidewalk down before they went ahead. And that was part of
the development. Twenty-one units and we got a sidewalk.
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Now the street is much worse than it was. We have Cricket
Lake, which is now called Naples 71, is like 150 units there. We have
a Gulf Shore Marina at the corner that's going to be redeveloped. And
they probably are going to double the number of boats that are going
to be there. And they're going to have on-street parking.
Across the street from that is a convenience store. And for
whatever reason, people -- even though there's an entrance to the
convenience store on Bayshore, people don't use it. They drive down
Lakeview and then turn into the convenience store. All right?
Half of Lakeview is multi-family residential. Only about half of
it has been developed. There's another 60 units that are going to go in
there eventually. I mean, and we have like 60 units of habitable
homes or apartments right now on Lakeview.
You know, this is just -- this is overkill. You know, I mean,
people are going to -- you know, I mean, whatever value we have in
our homes are going to be reduced. And I don't know, who's going to
compensate the homeowners for this degradation of their homes? I
don't know.
The way I look at it, we have like 265 units using that
intersection right now. If you add Windstar to it, you could have 869
units of traffic generation. I mean, that's an awful lot of -- I mean, I
have a single-family home, and for whatever reason we have more
cars than we have people in the house, okay? Right now I have four
vehicles, and there's only three people living there, okay? I don't
know what the rest of the street does. But I mean, there's a lot of
traffic on that street. Sometimes I have to wait two minutes just to
make a left because of the cross traffic, the convenience store. And
you don't know where the -- and Bayshore hasn't even been developed
yet. Most of Bayshore is undeveloped.
And where is the traffic going? I don't know. Because it dead
ends on -- I own the last lot on Bayshore at the moment. It mean, it's
just -- that's all I have to say. I'm against joining this. The developer
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has a reasonable expectation to develop the property. He has that
right. I want him to develop the property. But this is overkill.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you, sir.
MR. BELLOWS: Mike Heiser.
MR. HEISER: My name is Mike Heiser. I'm a resident on
Lakeview Drive.
I've got a letter here that was proposed by one of the men on the
street. And I've got a -- it's been signed by several people. I would
like to give this to the commissioners so you can read along, if that
would be okay?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: If you give us anything, it will have to
be retained for record.
MR. HEISER: That's fine.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do you have multiple copies?
MR. HEISER: Multiple copies, yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That would be fine. If you'd mind
providing one to us and -- each, as well as one to the court reporter,
that would work.
MR. HEISER: Okay. You can read along. I got stuck with this
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Sir, you'll have to hold off on your
conversation till you get back to your mic. She can't take you. Thank
you.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Is he going to read the letter? If
he's going to read the letter, that's okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Are you going to be reading the letter?
When the meeting's over, I'll provide you mine for the record.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Mr. Chairman, we'll read
together.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Go ahead, sir.
MR. HEISER: I got stuck with this. I've been a resident of
Naples for about 30 years. We've been coming down here since 1953,
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so I've seen a lot of changes over the years.
And regarding the matter before the Planning Commission of
Collier County as it pertains to the zoning of approximately 20 acres
of land located at the end of Lakeview Drive, our position is as
follows:
We as a group ask the commission to turn down the request of
the petitioner. Our position and understanding of this project as
follows:
We welcome the fact that development is occurring in our
neighborhood and along Bayshore Drive. As with any development, it
brings both positive and negative changes. The positive are increased
property values, safe neighborhood, new businesses and amenities.
The negative are increased traffic and lifestyle changes for long-time
residents. Change is inevitable.
Our community development association is doing a tremendous
job in improving our area. We are in no way denying or imposing the
type of development occurring on the 20 acres. We believe in
property rights for all.
The project has changed several times with the increase of
density. The latest request requires that the property be added to the
PUD of Winds tar, for the fact of obtaining unused building credits
from the PUD, resulting in the building of a minimum of 135 units to
a maximum of approximately 150 units.
The current zoning, as we understand it, allows for
approximately 72 units. Our position is that if that course is taken, the
only entrance to Fisherman's Cove should be through Windstar. In
other words, if it goes into Windstar's PUD, then everything should go
through Windstar. But they want it both ways. They want Windstar
to have all the amenities and everything, but they don't want any trash
going through their place or any dirt or any mud or anything going
through their place, but they still want all the money.
And the same thing with the petitioners, they want to do what
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Windstar wants because they don't want to ruffle some feathers,
basically.
At that point it's our decision not to want as to what gets built on
the site (sic). In other words, if you let it go through the PUD and you
give it to Windstar, we don't care if they build 5,000 homes back
there, as long as it doesn't go down Lakeview Drive. That would be
left up to the master plan of Winds tar.
The petitioner's asked to have it both ways: Receive the benefit
of Windstar PUD and the benefit of Lakeview access. The Lakeview
access is needed because apparently Windstar does not want the
additional traffic through their development either. The issue of
interconnectivity of developments does not apply here because there
will be an gate at the entrance from Lakeview.
When we talked about interconnectivity, the only thing that was
talked about was Fisherman's Cove and Windstar. What about the
interconnectivity with us? Weare human beings, we do pay our taxes,
and we've lived there for years and years. If we're not allowed to go
through Windstar, I don't think Ann Marie can take her little baby,
take her carriage and walk through Windstar through Lakeview Drive
through the entrance into Fisherman Cove's. But Fisherman's Cove
people can walk through our neighborhood if they want to. That's not
interconnectivity in my book.
Because of the fact that the only way for the increased zoning
density is via the addition ofPUD, we find it necessary to research
public records as to the method used to allow the expansion of
Windstar PUD. Our research shows that on May 18th, 2004, OR3803,
Pages 316 through 19, 21 (sic) an amendment to the PUD was drafted,
giving the members, delegates of Windstar the authority to expand the
PUD.
Our research indicates the only way the PUD is to be expanded
to is to have a 67 percent vote of the members of the PUD, the owners
and their mortgagees vote of expansion. Reference to the original
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PUD document, OR1805, Page 00132 through 134, Section 15.5 (sic),
particularly B-1 0, thus putting into question the authority of the
Windstar Master Association entering into a contract with 67 percent
owner approval and mortgages.
We ask the applicant to provide proof that proper procedures
have been followed, granting authority of the Windstar association of
directors to enter into an agreement amending the PUD.
Regarding traffic concerns: It is uncommon for a development of
this size to use residential streets as its access and egress. Weare
aware of plans to widen the street and install sidewalks, and believe
that they are mandatory. Widening the existing streets will, however,
lead to an increased speed on Lakeview Drive.
I have a business that I go all over town. It's a window business.
I go into all the closed communities. And I can't think of one, one
closed community in Naples that goes through a residential area. Not
one. I've tried to think about it. And I've looked at all the ones I've
gone through, and I've yet to figure out one that goes through a
residence. They all go into a main entrance where they go through
another entrance. Even Bonita Bay has 56 miles of road. The one that
lives all the way down at the end has to have six miles to drive back
onto the main road on 41.
So this is unprecedented, if you would approve this.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Sir, just to remind you, you're running
out of time.
MR. HEISER: Well, I have 10 minutes because I'm reading for
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You have 10 minutes if you represent an
organization. I don't see any organization that you represent.
MR. HEISER: Well, the organization are these 1 7 members on
this --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You'll have to submit that as evidence
for us to consider.
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MR. HEISER: Okay.
We have reviewed the traffic impact --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Sir, can I have that list, please?
MR. HEISER: Sure.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Are any of these other people on that list that are going to be
speaking today as well; do you know? The intent of giving 10 minutes
to the lead speaker is that he's speaking for the organization, and that
would expedite time of having each member of the organization just --
does stand up and have three or five minutes apiece.
Out of concern that you are representing these people, it is not an
organization but looks like it's homeowners on the street, 10 minutes is
five. But I'm going to ask that if anybody else is on this list, to limit
their discussions and not being redundant to the items you've already
covered, okay?
MR. HEISER: Sure. Thank you.
We have reviewed the traffic impact statement -- I'm going to
kind of pass that, because they've already done a good job of doing
that.
The conclusion is based on the assumption that no traffic on
Windstar shall use Lakeview Drive. To our knowledge there is not
anything that would prevent Windstar residents of leaving north side --
once again, we see the negative impact of development.
Secondly, on Page 1, the report recommends a southbound turn.
That's already been taken care of.
Let's go here: We question the reasoning behind the zoning
change. There is no proof of any hardship on behalf of the petitioner.
The property with its current zoning is a viable project. There have
been issued raised that because of changing market conditions, the
need to increase density would be required to make it a feasible
proj ect. We would argue that this is not the responsibility of the
government to make zoning changes based on whether a developer
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makes a profit or not.
But for the sake of discussion, we would like to illustrate the
point. At the current 75 units, just what's currently allowed right now,
which is actually 72 units, we estimate the project would yield a profit
of approximately $24 million. Land cost, two million; permits and
impact fees, two million; site work, three million; building costs, $17
million, based on 75 units, 1,500 square feet at $150 per square foot.
Sale price of units would be $48,750,000, based on a price of
$650,000 per unit. Not bad, 50 percent investment on your money.
Preliminary plans for the development at one time showed a
mixture of one-story villas, two-story buildings with a gradual
lowering in density moving towards a single-family residential homes
on Lakeview.
We believe -- what we believe is being opposed (sic) are nearly
60- foot tall buildings. These would be as tall or taller than any other
buildings in Windstar. Typically planning generally places the tallest
buildings and the most density away from the single-family homes.
This development does the exact opposite. It goes from
single-family homes to the tallest buildings to Windstar. So it's
exactly doing the exact opposite.
In conclusion, the zoning change has no legal merit or need, it
offers no benefit to the neighborhood, specifically benefiting only the
petitioner and the amounts -- and amounts to nothing more than spot
zoning that relies on loopholes in the zoning code governing
Windstar's PUD.
The zoning change, if approved, would place undue hardship on
the residents of Lakeview Drive in the form of decreased property
value and quality of life.
We thank you for an opportunity to address this concern.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you, sir.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: I have a question, Mark.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah, there's a question?
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COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Schiffer?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: You're referencing an ordinance
that requires a vote to amend the thing. Is that a county ordinance? Or
what is -- what is OR3803?
MR. HEISER: I didn't write this letter. It was done by Rich, and
he had to go out of town. About half the people are out of town, so we
really couldn't address this. But I'm just -- where is that at, OR3803?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Your fourth -- Margie may have
that.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: I can tell you that we would not
have an ordinance that governs how a private condominium
association is to operate. I would suspect that that's part of their
covenants, that typically covenants are recorded.
And I think what might be well is to have the attorney for the
association -- Mr. Brooker I believe represents them too -- to represent
on the record that proper procedures were followed.
MR. HEISER: Yeah, what it basically means is that this was
done at Windstar's meetings. And this has got to do with them. As far
as they made an agreement with the petitioner that they could do this.
And part of the agreement was that they could -- it would never go
through Windstar or anything. There was a lot of stuff going on
behind the doors here, you know, that we're not -- that you all aren't
hearing. And it all has to do with Windstar's deal with the petitioners.
And they're not taking into account -- all the questions he
answered were kind of fuzzy math. Like the amount of density. I
mean, he's got -- any way you cut it, there's 20 acres here. He's going
to put 150 to -- and he could possibly put 182 on this thing, like the
lady was saying.
This is not a done deal. So all this stuff is just fictional. They're
just saying they might do this. They started out at 75 units. Now it's
137. They in truth could build 182 units on this, and there's nothing
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they can do about it, because Windstar's in bed with them.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We'll have to see how that comes out
after the meeting today. Thank you, sir.
MR. HEISER: Thank you.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: The other thing I wanted to put on
the record, if that's part of private covenants, the county doesn't
enforce those, so --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, Ray, the next speaker?
MR. BELLOWS: Desiree Kuri.
UNIDENTIFIED MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: She's not
here. She left.
MR. BELLOWS: John Cochrane.
MR. COCHRANE: Good morning. It's still morning.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Good morning, sir.
MR. COCHRANE: John Cochrane, resident of Winds tar. 3660
Haldeman Creek Drive, Naples, Florida. Eighteen years on that spot.
We built the place.
I've been in Naples over 40 years, and it is with some reluctance
that I point out the infirmities -- and I have three points to make -- the
infirmities of the procedures followed to ascertain whether or not this
PUD is going to be merged into Windstar PUD.
First, I would like to correct something Mr. Brooker said about
the plat that shows the road from Haldeman Creek Drive, which now
ends in a cul-de-sac. There was a very acrimonious lawsuit over that
entrance. And the court held that Mr. Sheehan, who originally owned
the property, asserted that he had an easement that allowed him to
make a connection with Windstar.
Between the end of the street at the present time and Lakeview,
there's a golf course -- it's the 16th hole, I believe, of Windstar. So in
order to make any kind of a connection, you'd have to cut across the
golf course.
The referenced document is the amended and restated master
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declaration. As we all are aware, Florida law governs first, then in the
PUD it's the declaration, and then it is the bylaws of the association.
It is quite correct that the requirements of the amended restated
master declaration of covenants, conditions and restriction for
Windstar were not followed in order to get the permission to enter a
contract with the -- the Lakeview Drive of Naples LLC is the proper
name.
The amendments are required -- are stated at Page 40 and 41 of
Book 1805, OR Book 180500132. Requires 67 percent of the unit
owners and mortgagees to acquiesce any expansion, contraction or
major change in the Windstar development.
Such was not done. What was done was that a contract was
entered into with the developer and that contract was finalized on the
2nd of April.
Subsequent to that, on the 18th of May, a meeting was held in
which the Windstar master declaration was purported to be amended
by the vote of the delegates of the individual pods of Windstar, which
-- for instance, I live in North Star on Haldeman Creek Road.
We have two delegates under the bylaws, but not the master
association. The board has no power to amend, modify or change this
amended restated master declaration without the vote of 67 percent of
the unit owners and the mortgagees.
The 2005 amendments, which are recorded and you will see and
that is recorded at OR3803, Page 3619, it says, the following
resolution was adopted by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of
the owners entitled to vote, brackets, members delegate. That's not
true that two-thirds of the members, unit owners voted for it.
And what they voted for was not the current representation. A
representation was made. I was there. It had individual unit homes, it
had other -- much larger units other than these 1,000 square foot boxes
they propose to build at the present time.
Further, the contract that was -- and it's a private contract
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between Windstar and Lakeview Drive of Naples. I don't know if I'm
free to -- I have a copy that will -- and I have some reluctance to say
other than the Lakeview Drive of Naples paid a significant sum of
money to buy the 90 some unused developments. They just bought
that. And then entered into the contract with all the provisions,
restrictions and so forth that are in there.
The discussions about the entrance is quite correct, that it restricts
the entrance of construction vehicles to the Lakeview entrance.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Sir, just to remind you, you're using up
your time, so we need to wrap it up. Okay?
MR. COCHRANE: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
MR. COCHRANE: I will be 30 seconds.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
MR. COCHRANE: The board -- and I'm a member of a board
here in the State of Florida -- should require that all of the facts be
presented to it relative to the contract, how it was negotiated, and
whether or not legally it is possible to put this PUD -- Lakeview into
Windstar PUD. There is legal infirmities, in my opinion, and I've
been practicing law for 50 years. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I have a question.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you, sir.
Mr. Murray?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Sir, maybe this isn't pertinent to
this hearing alone, but if your assertions about it -- have you sought
injunction?
MR. COCHRANE: No. Why start injunction? Because it hasn't
been approved yet.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Okay. So in other words,
remedy after the fact.
MR. COCHRANE: All I'm trying to do is present to this board
the facts. We can't change the facts, we have to live with them. I've
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learned that in 50 years of practice in law. And this board should
enlighten itself as to what the facts are. And I'm trying to do that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
MR. COCHRANE: You're welcome.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you, sir.
Ray, before you call the next speaker, one item I'd like to clarify.
I do have a -- I downloaded a copy of the plat. The plat does show a
road easement through the area of the golf course the gentleman just
talked about, and shows the cul-de-sac at the end of the current
Haldeman Creek Drive as a temporary turnaround easement to be
automatically vacated upon continuation of the street.
So just so the record's clear, the plan does show it going to the --
MR. COCHRANE: But the lawsuit says no, sir.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You have to use the speaker.
MR. COCHRANE: It makes a reference to the lawsuit, and
answer the question Huntington Bank -- if I just may have a moment.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do you have a corrected plat as a result
of the lawsuit?
MR. COCHRANE: No, I don't.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MR. COCHRANE: The lawsuit was brought, and to answer
your question, by WS Realty, Inc., which was the real estate arm of
Windstar Master Association. Huntington Bank controlled Windstar
Master Association at that time. The bank, Huntington Bank, was
W indstar.
They turned it over in 1998 by agreement to the current
association. WS Realty may still be in existence, I don't know that.
The circuit court -- it was filed July 26th, and it was -- 1998.
And it reads as follows: On July 12th, this matter was called to trial.
The Court, having heard the evidence presented relative to
determination of the existence of an easement, hereby finds there's no
easement in favor of defendant, there's no easement in favor of the
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property owned by Fisherman's Cove Joint Venture that would allow
access over through the contiguous properties owned by WS Realty or
the planned unit development known as Windstar, Naples Bay.
Therefore, plaintiffs request that declaratory relief is granted.
Defendant's request for declaratory relief is denied.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you, sir.
MR. COCHRANE: You're welcome.
MR. BELLOWS: Last speaker is William A. Bernie.
MR. BERNIE: For the record, my name is Bill Bernie. I'm a
property owner in Windstar, and that will be my retirement home.
And most of my concerns have been mentioned. I just want to
reiterate the facts that this was done by the master association group,
which is a very small group in the name of all the communities within
Windstar.
To my knowledge, and certainly not to me personally, did they
ever present to us the facts or receive an opinion from us as to what
they were doing. A large number of people were very unhappy with
the whole process. And my concern is that this will change a very
wonderful community and basically ruin it for a large number of us.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you, sir.
Ray, is that the last public speaker?
MR. BELLOWS: That's the last one I have registered.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Clay, you wanted some time to rebut?
MR. BROOKER: Yes, please.
WS Realty -- Clay Brooker for the record. WS Realty, Inc. is
dissolved. It's inactive.
As far as the infirmities of a private agreement, I do not represent
the master association. If there are problems that occurred internal to
the master association and violations of their declaration, we never
even looked at their declaration. We simply were two parties, we
approached the master association with an idea that the agreements
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that you have seen were negotiated, and we signed. Whether there are
infirmities and a private agreement on one side, based upon a
declaration, I don't believe is relevant to these proceedings. County
can't get into private agreements, and we are unaware of them.
The plat, I believe Mr. Chairman -- Mr. Strain has mentioned the
plat does in fact show the roadway terminating at the north/south
boundary or the abutting boundary line between the two properties.
With regard to the lawsuit, it sounds like -- although I have not
reviewed those records, it sounds as if the Fisherman's Cove property
owner at that point in time was demanding access through this platted
right-of-way that terminates at the property line. The plat reads that
those are -- those road right-of-ways -- rights-of-way are dedicated to
the master association.
So it sounds like this was an attempt by the predecessor owner of
the subject 20.5 acres to impose himself, declaring that he has rights to
use that easement, that platted road right-of-way, when the court
found he did not.
That is not the case here because of the private agreement we
have with the master association, the cross-access. They can come
across our property, we can go across theirs. So I don't believe that
lawsuit really is relevant to today's discussion.
The master association is in favor of this petition. There was a
letter of support written by the president of the master association,
delivered to county staff and should be part of the public record.
We've heard comments about the height. I'd like to remind the
commission that again, this is, as it sits today, is an RMF residential
multi-family zoned property. The height permitted in RMF is 35 feet
today . We are asking for 40 feet with the 50-foot cap that we
discussed earlier during the primary presentation.
What we've done is we've run some line of sight drawings. And
what I'd like to do is, if you see the red arrows on this -- on the ELMO
projector, the one to the furthest left is number three, but the middle
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one is number one, and to the right or to the north is number two.
The view from number one I want to show first. We call this I-A.
This is a view -- oh, no. All I did was click the little arrow. Okay,
thanks.
This is --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You're computer illiterate, aren't you?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: That makes two of us.
MR. BROOKER: Like my father, I freeze up when things like
that happen.
This is a view looking west from across the canal, where number
one was shown on the previous view. The distance from a person
standing in the backyard across the canal to the point of the building
where it is proposed today is 191 feet.
You can see the difference between 35 and 40 feet. And I guess I
might state that you hardly can see the difference. The line of sight is
going to be negligible between 35 and 40 zoned feet of height.
This is what I'll callI-B. There's nothing to stop us from placing
a property along the east side of our property. This actually shows
buildings -- or a proposed structure, maybe one or two floors, certainly
less than 35 feet which we're permitted to do today without any public
hearings, and you can see that if we built to the height that is permitted
today, it would have a much more adverse impact in terms of line of
sight view from the property owner to the east across the canal.
Number two: This is the line of sight from the homeowner or the
area to the north of the project, looking across that canal to the north
onto our buildings.
Again, a comparison of what is permitted today versus what we
are asking for, negligible.
And finally, with regard to the line of sight from number three,
which is in existing Windstar, I believe that's the Spinnaker Point
neighborhood. This would be looking to the east. The distance
actually looks across a fairway. Is approximately 275 feet away.
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Again, there is shown the negligible difference between 35 and 40
feet. What is permitted today versus what we are asking for.
The point of these drawings is simply to perhaps counter any
what we believe is unsupported fear that the heights that we're
proposing are something that's out of the norm of acceptability when
we can do something that will have a negligible difference today in
terms of the current zoning.
I wanted to point out any confusion that may have arisen. I
believe a statement was made by one of the public speakers that every
delivery truck would be using Lakeview Drive. That's not true. What
the agreement we have with the master association requires is that
construction vehicles are required to use Lakeview Drive. Residents,
guests and deliveries may use Lakeview Drive, they may use Fern,
they may use the main. But there's no requirement that they use that.
And we -- they use Lakeview.
And we happen to believe, with respect to deliveries, delivery
trucks may be more likely to go through the main gate entrance where
there's a manned person who can explain where certain properties are,
or just a more formalized process than a video camera.
The sidewalk and widening of Lakeview Drive: We have no
objection to the installation of a sidewalk prior to even construction
activity. We would prefer, however, that we're not the ones who
actually do the construction. And the reason for that is we've heard
today that there is -- I believe it's a 60-foot platted right-of-way.
Lakeview Drive is a 60- foot drive platted right-of-way. There are
many encroachments into that platted right-of-way. Right now the
asphalt is approximately 18 feet wide. People have their mailboxes,
people have landscaping, people have parked their cars within the
public platted right-of-way.
If you force us to start mowing back what people have, it's just
going to create even a worse situation.
We are willing to pay for it, the sidewalk, but we would prefer
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not to have to construct it, because of the issues that are going to arise
with the neighbors and the neighborhood. We're not saying that those
__ we're not belittling those issues in any way, but it becomes, we
believe, the county's responsibility to move people out of the way, out
of a public right-of-way if they have squatted on it, so to speak. It's
not theirs.
But to put us -- put that burden on us I believe would be unfair
under the circumstances. We'll pay for it. We have no objection to the
sidewalk being built prior to construction activity, but we don't want
to have to do the construction for those reasons.
And with that, I think I am finished.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Adelstein?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Yeah, I've got a problem here
myself on this. Are these buildings that are being built, are going to
be built, bigger or higher than any were on -- before you purchased
this platted (phonetic) equipment? In other words, are there any
50- foot high buildings there now?
MR. BROOKER: On the 20.5 acres?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Yeah.
MR. BROOKER: No. There are no buildings on it.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: But in the whole
condominium -- that condominium association, are there any buildings
over 50 feet?
MR. BROOKER: In you mean Windstar Master Association?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Yes.
MR. BROOKER: I'm not sure as far as height. I think I
represented earlier that there may be one or two other neighborhoods
that have three levels over one level of parking. I was told by
someone in the audience that there may be three stories is the highest
inside of Windstar now. But--
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: The only thing I'm trying to
bring out is I have been involved with this, and I'm in fact now the
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vice president in our association. If we want to change something that
has not been done before, a vote of the owners is required. And now
we're sitting in a situation here where if in fact this is something new, I
would think that you may find yourself in a position where the owners
have a right to vote, and usually that's 65 percent before you could
have a right to build it. Now, you may own the land and you may
have a situation there, but to go over this without their right to justify
it, I think you've got a major problem.
MR. BROOKER: We are not changing what is permitted inside
of Windstar at all. So every neighborhood inside of the existing
Windstar can build and have been able to build since 1981 40 feet
high zoned height and three levels over one level of parking. Whether
those individual neighborhoods took advantage of that, that provision
-- but we would not be proposing anything that's contrary to the
zoning code.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: That's why I asked you the
question. Because if in fact that is the fact, that does take away the
problem. But if there's something new here that's going in, then the
owners have a responsibility and a right to verify the fact that they
want it or they don't want it.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Murray?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Sir, I'll just make a remark about
the visuals that you put up there. The heights were 40 feet, and we
really are talking about 50 and we're not even sure whether that was
FEMA. But I want to ask a question about that.
What happened to the $75,000 then on this matter of construction
having to do with sidewalk and the associated road improvements,
including what appears that there may be any number of little pieces
and bits that as a result of this activity, the county will have to look at
pump station changes and whatever else. Is the developer open to
providing funding for all of that as a direct result of its effort to
improve the property, or do you wish to still stay with $75,000?
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MR. BROOKER: I think we are willing to accept a reasonable
number. Whether that -- you know, that is not going to include pump
stations being installed and a vast -- you know, a vast array of
different water management controls, whatever they may be.
But what we have committed to do is to pay for the sidewalk and
the widening. We understand, although the $75,000 number was in
fact the number given to me, I stand by that, Nick. But I understand--
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Did you hear that buzz, Nick?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Are you kicking me again?
MR. BROOKER: I understand if the number may be reasonably
higher, then we are willing to consider a higher number. But it's got to
be -- it's not -- there's got to be a ceiling to it. Whatever is a
reasonable number is a reasonable number, but that's the question.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Well, I wouldn't disagree with
you or argue with you, except to say that if, in the course of preparing
to build vertically you find out -- the developer finds out that the cost
of materials and labor have risen, he will have to bear those costs.
And if you intend to develop a property, inconveniencing other
individuals because of the fact that you're going to bring more density
in there and you have to change some things to facilitate your ingress
and egress, and also to benefit the other parties, I think that has to be a
consequence of it and not a willing to consider. It would seem to me
you would need to make a very strong commitment to what is
required. And I would think that would be a very important --
MR. BROOKER: And the point well taken is we're not
considering whether to make a commitment. Weare committing to
our fair share. The CRA's involved. They're going to have their
plans. Whatever our fair share is for Lakeview Drive, that's what we --
the elements of it, you saw the widening of the sidewalk, that was
determined by the CRA and the Collier County staff to be our fair
share, whatever that reasonable cost is now. I understand that. But we
are committed to pay our fair share of the consequence of our
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development. It becomes a question of what is that fair share.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Well-- or what are the
consequences I think is even the broader question, which Nick might
be able to embellish on. But I don't know that that's necessary.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Court Reporter, we probably are
going to be a little more time to finish up discussion, deliberations and
finishing questions. I don't see us taking a lunch break, but if you
need a break we can stop for 10 minutes and then continue back.
What would you like?
THE COURT REPORTER: I'm fine to keep going. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, thank you.
And I assume the rest of the commission, that's okay?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Ms. Caron, you had a question?
COMMISSIONER CARON: First is a comment and that is that I
would agree with Commissioner Murray, that your line of sight
drawings would have been a lot more effective had they actually been
to actual height, which is closer to 50 feet, which is what you want.
Secondly, I do --
MR. BROOKER: They are at actual height.
COMMISSIONER CARON: No, not actual height. They are
zoned height.
MR. BROOKER: Yes. So this is what is actually going to be
seen from a person standing, what I showed you. The 395 and 40 feet
of zoned height will equate to approximately 50 feet of actual height.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Okay. It was brought to the our
attention the issue of the master association potentially not having
done what they are supposed to do. I understand that that is not your
responsibility. However, now that it's been brought to your attention,
is this something that you would be willing to resolve before you go
before the BCC?
MR. BROOKER: I will be certainly asking the appropriate
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questions, because this is news to me today. However, resolve? I
don't know what that means.
But we entered into the private agreement with the master
association in good faith and we hope they have the authority to do so.
Weare not going to be pleased if they didn't.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any other questions of Clay? Mr. Tuff?
COMMISSIONER TUFF: I just want to be clear in my own
mind, anyways, that right now you can go in there and you could put
in 75 units, not do anything to the road, and you can access Lakeview
Drive today if you wanted to?
MR. BROOKER: That is 99 percent correct. The approval to go
in there that's already sitting there on the books today does require a
sidewalk. So we would be -- in that circumstance, we would be
responsible for a sidewalk.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Schiffer?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Clay, in your line of sight
drawings, you actually brought out a problem, is that according to this
thing you could build an accessory building 10 feet from a bulkhead,
there's a 20- foot setback for the principal building from waterways. I
mean, the way it's worded, it's lake setback from 3.5 feet. Would you
have a problem to adding a restriction to be 25 feet off the bulkhead?
Essentially what they would be is what the people across the canal
would have to build.
And your plan doesn't show anything where that would be a
problem. The concern is ifhe sells it tomorrow, a new developer
could be coming in and putting houses really -- or multi-family units
really close to that waterway.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: You betcha.
MR. BROOKER: Unfortunately the person I have to look to for
that permission is looking the other way. But can you define to me
what you're referring to as the bulkhead? Is that the --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well, you'd have to go -- go to
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your development standards, and there's setback from waterways that
are mentioned.
I mean, I know these are canals, but would somebody consider
them lakes? Or if they're not lakes, then we need to write a new
chapter here, or a new line.
I mean, I'm looking at your site plan. But this wouldn't affect
your site plan at all, so it's a moot point --
MR. BROOKER: I know that for a fact. But whether they're
willing to agree to that --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: But the problem is that if you
decided to change this site plan, you could really do something
miserable across the back yards of these people's property.
MR. BROOKER: Well, I know for example the RMF setback
for a rear yard that would be applicable under today's zoning code is
20 feet, exactly what it is in this PUD.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Twenty feet from a waterway?
MR. BROOKER: I believe so, yes. From the canal. What
would be the rear yard of a building that's built on the east side of this
20.5 acres.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Maybe I can get staff to verify
that.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I have the zoning information.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Let me see if Bob has the
zonIng.
MR. BROOKER: If this helps, we will stipulate to that. I just
learned that 25 feet -- if you want to require 25 feet off the eastern
boundary bulkhead --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Correct.
MR. BROOKER: -- so if this gets denied, that -- well, if this gets
approved, it will with be 25 feet off.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: If it gets denied, we're back to
go.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Does that answer your question,
Brad?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Yeah, 25 feet would be great.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any other questions of Clay?
(N 0 response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I have a couple.
Clay, I think I asked you earlier if the common area maintenance
for this, for your roads and everything else, will be under the master
homeowner's association.
Yes it--
,
MR. BROOKER: Yes, it will.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: She can't hear your head, so --
MR. BROOKER: Yes. See, I usually give that directional.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I know you do, and that's why I figured
I'd turn the tables on you.
MR. BROOKER: Can I throw a bunch ofuh-huhs or uh-uhs in
there?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Does that mean that they have
cross-easements to utilize for your roadway for maintenance and
traffic and what --
MR. BROOKER: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Control of the entrance gates
also lies in the offices of the homeowner's association when this is
finished?
MR. BROOKER: That's correct. And after we install it, we pay
for the installation of this entryway structure, whatever it is, from what
I understand it will be minor. Then maintenance of it turns over to the
master association, of which we will be part and will pay our fair
share.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do you have -- when you bought this
property and you cut the agreement with the current homeowner's
association, they were astute enough to make sure they had in their
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agreement restrictions against you, restrictions against you bringing
construction traffic in through the main, disturbing the rest of their
neighborhoods. Once you're constructed, do you know if there's any
restrictions to protect your residents and your 20 acres from any
remodeling, rebuilding or reconstructing within the community of
Windstar that would force everybody to go through your winding
streets in your neighborhoods?
MR. BROOKER: I'm not aware of any.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So there's no reason then that
Windstar, in their infinite wisdom, in the homeowner's association,
being people that'd like certainly to have a more refined community
can limit all construction traffic forever and into the future to go
through their secondary entrance off of Lakeview Drive?
MR. BROOKER: I guess they could do that after a vote,
whatever was required under their processes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. But since you don't have any
restrictions for that to protect your own clients, basically they can do
that to you?
MR. BROOKER: Right. And we might have been taken
advantage of if that occurs.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right.
Now, based on that statement, based on the fact that the traffic
issues that have risen today, you don't have sidewalk designs in place,
you don't have street improvements known, you don't have traffic
calming devices shown, you don't have landscaping shown for the
street, you don't have a drainage solution for the street, so we don't
know how to get to the total contributions. That's a big question,
probably going to have a major impact on this committee, and
certainly a major impact on the neighborhood.
The buffers that were shown or your artistic rendering are
greater, apparently, in view than they may be in the land development
code, although there's been no sound advice offered on how to correct
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that problem.
The BMP practices that you voluntarily decided to provide to be
consistent with the Land Development Code in Policy 222, however,
in your EIS don't show up anywhere. Something needs to be done
about that.
And the land plan that you presented today is not one that seems
to be incorporated in any official document in regards to the PUD.
Those are a lot of discrepancies that may not bode well in our
deliberations. I'm suggesting to you, you may want to think of a way
to address that before we go into them and cast a vote.
MR. BROOKER: Well, I can tell you with regard to the
widening --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, I was thinking more ofa
continuance as others have done to work out their differences with the
neighborhood and their obvious problems with their planning. But
that's strictly up to you. I'm throwing it on the table. Otherwise, if you
don't have any other comments, we will close the public hearing and
go into discussion.
MR. BROOKER: Can you give me a couple of minutes to talk
to my client?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes.
MR. BROOKER: Maybe I can cover some of those things. I
didn't list them off. You're very good at rattling off lists.
We will commit to no more than 137 units on this 20.52 acres.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That wasn't on my list.
MR. BROOKER: Sorry?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That wasn't on my list.
MR. BROOKER: Well, in terms of what this site plan can look
like, that is going to -- that will limit what we can do in terms of their
comments about 180 units could possibly be built on this property.
We will stipulate that that isn't a possibility by limiting it at 137 units.
Secondly, we will agree to $200,000 total payment. That
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$200,000 is broken up into the construction of the sidewalk and the
widening of Lakeview Drive. The construction of the sidewalk will
occur prior to any construction activity, construction traffic using the
roadway, and will be done under the CRA's guidance, but perhaps
jointly. We will help construct the sidewalk, but it will be done under
the CRA's umbrella.
The -- as far as water management goes, it's impossible for us to
give any more detail than what we discussed today because of two
things: It depends on what the CRA's ultimate plans are for
streetscaping of Lakeview Drive, and depends upon South Florida
Water Management District.
Does that help you?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You keep referring back to sidewalks
and street improvements, and I'm sure you're referring to the width of
the street. There are other issues involving the street: Traffic calming,
landscaping elements that are yet to be determined. And those, I don't
know how you can address those today. And then the 50-foot radius
on Bayview and Lakeview was also brought to our attention by
transportation staff as something that was needed as well. I didn't hear
you address any of those.
MR. BROOKER: The 50-foot radius what?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Nick had recommended that in lieu of a
right turn lane that seems to be impractical in that location, that the
radius at Bayview and Lakeview be increased to provide a 50-foot
radius for better turning movements of large vehicles.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: We discussed that with David
Jackson. They don't control that parcel, and that parcel's in for
redevelopment right now. That's something that staff would look at at
the SDP stage of that parcel when it comes in for redevelopment. They
would ask them to modify and soften that curve, but it couldn't be
done as part of this development.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'm glad you clarified it. Thank you.
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Was there anything else you wanted to address then before we --
MR. BROOKER: Can you go through your list again?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I had mentioned the traffic, all of which
you have not addressed. I mentioned the buffers that the staff had
recommended, there be more buffer material or quantities added. I
had mentioned the BMP practices references that are in your EIS not
being incorporated anywhere.
I am concerned, as I told you, about the homeowner's association
of Windstar providing -- demanding and changing that that be their
major construction entrance for all the project, period, and not finding
any evidence in your purchase of that property to protect your
residents, thus protecting the fact that that may not happen on
Lakeview then.
And the land plan, something needs to be locked in. I know what
you just discussed, limiting it to density. That doesn't lock in a land
plan. That just says you can have 137 units any which way that can fit
on that plan.
MR. BROOKER: The -- we'll lock in the site plan.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, that helps.
MR. BROOKER: Best management practices, we have no
objection. It would be addressed at the SDP or it can inserted into the
PUD; either way it's going to be required of us. We have no objection
to that.
The buffer, all I heard from staff, if I recall correctly, was twice
everything. Twice the density and twice the height. I think the height
now, you're getting into pretty tall trees.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: They backed off the height.
MR. BROOKER: They backed off the height.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right. She realized that may be
impractical.
MR. BROOKER: We will agree to twice the quantity --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Of material?
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MR. BROOKER: -- of the required buffer. I believe it's a type
A buffer that's required. We will--
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: That's pretty barren.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MR. BROOKER: Does that cover your list?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You responded to my concerns. Some
of them.
MR. BROOKER: Sorry?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You responded to some of the concerns,
I suppose, yes.
MR. BROOKER: I'm sorry for not paying attention.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No, that's okay. Thank you. Anything
else you want to add before --
MR. BROOKER: I've been advised that David Jackson from the
CRA is here and he may have some comments you'd like to hear from
the CRA.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Is he registered as a public speaker?
MR. BELLOWS: No, he is not.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ifhe wants to speak, we're here to
listen, but I don't have any questions of Mr. Jackson. Does anybody in
this meeting? No.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Just a question, Mark. That list
you made, is that going to be the list that you would attach to a
motion, or can we discuss other items?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No, that is a small list. I have a large
list.
MR. BROOKER: I'm also told that there's someone here from
the master association that can address some of these issues. I
understand that the public hearing has been closed, but --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No, it has not been closed. I'm holding
off closing it to finish the conversations. If you want to introduce
somebody on your team to talk on your behalf, you're more than
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welcome to.
I don't have any questions of anybody at this time. The
homeowner's association's relationship with you is a private matter,
not a planning commission matter.
MR. BROOKER: Well, I mean, I guess they're not my -- it's not
__ David Jackson is not part of our team. He is executive director, I
believe, of the CRA, a county agency. So I can't invite him as part of
my team. I'm told he has some information that you would like to
hear.
Secondly, I would invite -- someone from the master association
I understand is here. If they would fill out the appropriate form and
speak, maybe they will do so, but I can't force them to do that.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Mr. Chairman, I have a question
for David Jackson.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Then fine, Mr. Jackson, ifhe's available.
Before we go too far, Ms. Court reporter, this is probably going
to last longer than I previously committed to with you. Are you going
to be okay for a while or do you want to break before we get into too
THE COURT REPORTER: Do you have any idea how much
longer?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Probably 30 more minutes.
THE COURT REPORTER: Let's keep going. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: And Dave, by --
THE COURT REPORTER: Have you been sworn?
MR. JACKSON: No, ma'am.
(The speaker was duly sworn.)
MR. JACKSON: David Jackson, Executive Director of Collier
County Community Redevelopment Agency.
My only input here is Mr. Chairman, you're -- two of the three
things that you mentioned to Mr. Brooker about Lakeview Drive. You
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said trees, streetscape, et cetera. Those items are going to be covered
by the CRA, and it was always the plan of the CRA to do any street
trees, irrigation, plantings, streetlights. And this was all going to be
part of that neighborhood information meeting that comes with the
neighborhood property owners coming in putting it together.
Sidewalk, widening of the street, you've already addressed that
with stormwater with the team that's presented to you today.
So concerning the design of the street, we will include, as the
neighborhood wishes, street trees, irrigation, plantings and streetlights
as in the part of the design and put it all together in one package. So
that part of it will be part of the CRA.
And there's also another agency, and there is an MSTU,
municipal service taxing unit, that all the people pay tax into for
beautification that will also be a part of this, and they on record of
participating also.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: My question came about as a result of
your letter. And the first, number one, says, CRAlBayshore MSTU
work jointly to design and install Lakeview Drive residential
streetscape with a monetary assistance from the developer impacting
Lakeview Drive.
And I've been trying to understand where the monetary assistance
comes in. Because there's been nothing pledged. Your statement says
it's going to be done pursuant to a residential streetscape that does not
yet exist.
So rather than have something in the future, a pie-in-the-sky
maybe that you don't see, I'm just trying to peg a number to it.
MR. JACKSON: And I think the developer's come forward with
a number.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No, he came forward with $200,000 for
sidewalks and a street widening specifically only. He's said that -- he
has said that every time we've asked him the question. So it doesn't go
beyond that. Trees are not street widening, neither is a sidewalk.
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MR. JACKSON: Okay. May I clarify for you very clearly, the
trees, the irrigation, the plantings and the light poles, that monetary
portion we will be borne by the Collier County /Bayshore/Gateway
Triangle CRA, and the Bayshore Avalon MSTU. This is a three-way
monetary partnership to improve the street, along with the people that
own property along that street.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So the developer -- you're not expecting
then the developer to assist in the residential streetscape, as noted in
number one on your letter?
MR. JACKSON: The design work will be paid by the CRA for
the streetscape portion of it. The trees, the lights, irrigation and the
plantings. They're going to help with the engineering and the design of
the sidewalk and installation and the widening of the road, as
approved. Three-way partnership, which includes monitary,
engineering, landscape architect, design and installation.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Theirs will not be for landscaping,
though, it will be for sidewalk and the street widening. Is that what
you understood?
MR. JACKSON: Yes, sir. I thought I was pretty clear on that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, your letter wasn't. You may have
been, but your letter wasn't.
So any other questions?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: I do have a question.
David, the concern I have is that this street's going to be pretty
intense. I mean, your letter says it's going to be 2,000 trucks just
involved in the spoil removal, the construction of this thing. And then
you're not going to start building the sidewalks essentially two years
from now. What do you think we can do in the meantime to keep it
safe for the kids and stuff?
MR. JACKSON: When this letter was drafted and submitted to
Ms. Deselem in May, it was based on the information that was at
hand. There's a lot more information that's come forward since that
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time and here at this meeting. The impacts we do know is from the
Haldeman Creek dredging, that there's going to be a lot of trucks
going in and out of there on impact. And plus whatever construction
material that comes in on -- I was just trying to set the background that
there's going to be a lot of wear and tear on the road and a lot of
impact from the development if approved on that street. And we
wanted to improve it afterwards.
Now, if there is a requirement and a need for the sidewalk to go
in after the Haldeman Creek dredge material is finished and before
they start construction, well, then we can try to accommodate that as
soon as the design is completed and approved.
Does that help?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: And your design would be --
you have a January, February, 2007.
MR. JACKSON: Those were all conceptual based on May 24
information that I had then.
I mean, there's a certain amount -- you're an architect, you
understand -- there's a certain amount of time to one, get your permit,
to get the concept, to get the neighborhood information meeting, to get
that to the designer and actually design it and then go to construction
documents, then bid it.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Right. But my concern is I
don't want to throw a sidewalk in that we tear up with a better design.
MR. JACKSON: I am 100 percent behind that. And that is why I
was suggesting and recommending strongly that there be one agency
in control of the entire project instead of a developer coming in and
then our landscape architect and then there's a transportation highway
guy coming and none of it is coordinated. And can you imagine the
uproar from the people who live on the street?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: But my concern is, is there
anything short-term you can imagine we could do to protect -- in other
words, this street has no sidewalk, has a narrow lane. You're totally
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right, though, let's not fix it up until all that wears off of it. But in the
meantime, she testified right, kids are getting killed on that street. Is
there something we can do to make that street safer in the meantime?
Because it's going to have more intensity than it's had before, and it's
proven dangerous before.
MR. JACKSON: There isn't anything that I can physically do,
and I don't think any amount of money that you would throw at that
street right now will make it any safer until it is designed and
improved.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: I mean, the thought is can we
just put a crushed stone sidewalk, something that wouldn't be in the
way of any improvement? Just something to take the kids off the edge
of the payment.
MR. JACKSON: Well, I mean, which side do you put it on?
And which side do the kids cross to get onto that sidewalk?
I mean, I don't think there is a solution to it right now. It's just
going to be that the people that live there are going to have to be
diligent in watching their children.
We're just going to -- you know, we can maybe put in some kind
of transportation, we can talk about some signage in there to try to
slow the traffic down, children playing. I mean, there's some other
kind of things that may be able to be implemented at the county side
as a temporary fix. I don't want to get into that. I would leave that to
the transportation department.
As far as improving the street, that's where the CRA and the
MSTU and the developer should come together to design something
that when it's finished, it's functional, it's safe, it's calmed and it's what
the community would like to have.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: And the neighbors are close
with you. If you start having problems, you'll work them out.
MR. JACKSON: I've had one neighborhood meeting with them,
and they've got street captains that have met with them individually.
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And we have several more to go. I mean, it's a public information
process. Everybody has their own design and concept, and that needs
to be worked out.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Trinity, do you have something to
contribute to this portion of the question?
MS. SCOTT: Yes, I do. As far as the sidewalk's concerned,
there is already an existing sidewalk to nowhere, sidewalk segment on
the south side of the road that falls within the existing right-of-way.
It's on the back side of the swale.
As I stated earlier on the record, there is -- it looks as if from the
aerial that the sidewalk could stay on the back side of the swale, which
would then not encroach upon any of the drainage, as well as future
street tree possibility. So it does look like that sidewalk could go in
the backside of the swale, right on the edge of the property.
And on the south side there are very few conflicts with existing
homes. I think I counted maybe five or six driveways. So if you went
on the north side of the road, it's much more single-family oriented.
South side there is an existing sidewalk that they could connect to.
However, the one pump station would be an issue where they may
have to pipe in a very short section of the drainage of the swale and
come around.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Mr. Murray, did you have a question?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: David, yes, I've got a question
for you.
Just make an assumption for the moment that this didn't go
forward. A concern for that street, Lakeview Drive, would you not
still have those same plans to upgrade it, to make it safe, to put
lighting in, to put trees and so forth and so on? Does that go away if
this whole thing goes away?
MR. JACKSON: No, sir. The widening of the street would go
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away because we wouldn't deal with that. We would be dealing with
sidewalk, street trees and lighting, and whatever it is that the people
would like to have put in there. And the process.
This is a demonstration project for the rest of the CRA, which we
have many streets. And all of them basically are cookie-cutter, look
exactly like this. We saw an opportunity to meet with the developer
that was going to impact the street and take the opportunity to make
this demonstration proj ect to make it work and come up with a good
community design.
To answer your question succinctly, is no, not all the components
would go away. We probably would not deal with stormwater and we
would not deal with the street.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: So it becomes a demonstration
project because of the opportunities for the partnership.
MR. JACKSON: That's correct. And we are looking at other
opportunities as redevelopment of the area occurs.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Would you have an expectation
then that all of the costs associated with -- all the finances involved
with all of those other projects that you'd follow would somehow be
found from developer money as partnerships? Or do you have an
expectation that the CRA will be paying for all of those like
improvements?
MR. JACKSON: We would be asking everybody that is going to
improve the area and build new items or redevelop existing sites to
come on board and be part of a two or three-way partnership.
There is currently, as I mentioned before, a taxing district for
beautification in the entire area. That money should be applied for
street trees, irrigation and whatever it has in the ordinance for that.
The CRA, basically a non-taxing district, but we recoup the
taxes. We'd also do the same thing and come into partnership. And
when there's an opportunity to improve and partner with a developer
or a redeveloper, we should make every effort to reach out and
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embrace that and make it a three-way partnership and stretch the
money as far as you can.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: As long as the pot remains one
single pot. I could see that having an issue if you start getting into
multiple -- I won't go any further with it. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any other questions?
(N 0 response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, Ray, do you have a -- what do
you have in your hand?
MR. BELLOWS: We did have one additional speaker sign up
during this discussion. Ali Vaughn.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Do you want to call the name so
that --
MR. BELLOWS: Mr. Ali Vaughn.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Ali Vaughn.
MR. BELLOWS: Oh, I'm sorry.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Were you sworn in when--
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: No.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You need to be sworn in.
(Speaker was duly sworn.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'd like to ask you to limit your
statements to no more than five minutes.
MS. VAUGHN: Yes, sir.
F or the record, my name is Ali Vaughn. I'm a member of the
Board of the Master Association of Windstar.
And first I'd like to say that the legal issues that have been
brought up today that -- have been totally covered and the agreement
that we signed was perfectly legal, so I think you can put all that to
rest. And if you need documentation, we can provide that.
I'd also like to say that I have been a resident of Windstar for six
years, and that I speak for many of the residents of Windstar, that we
strongly, strongly approve of this development. We feel it's a natural
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extension to what's going on with Bayshore and with what's going on
in our community. It's a natural extension of what we want to do in
Windstar. We want to provide some additional residents there. We
think that this property needs to be developed and that this is the
perfect solution.
So I would just like to reiterate that the letter that Jack Fink sent
and attached to the documentation that you have there, that you are
aware of the fact that we really are strongly in favor of this
community development. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ma'am, before you leave, do you hold
an official title or position with the homeowner's association?
MS. VAUGHN: I'm on the Board of Directors for the Master
Association. I'm a board member.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Are you in a position where you can
make any commitment on their behalf here today?
MS. VAUGHN: It would depend on what kind of a
commitment.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: It seems that the developer failed to get
protection for the residents, future buyers of this Fisherman's Cove in
regards to traffic for the balance of Winds tar. For example, if you
were to want to rebuild a parcel on Windstar or rebuild buildings or
put new roofs on or hurricane damage, there's nothing to prevent the
homeowner's association from directing all construction traffic to
continually use the secondary entrance of Lakeview Drive, meaning
no construction traffic in your main entrance.
Would you be willing to provide the developer with an
agreement on record, recorded, that they will -- that you will not be
subj ecting this Lakeview Drive to the construction entrance to the
proj ect?
MS. VAUGHN: What I can tell you about the agreement that
was made is that this agreement was specifically for this development,
and the traffic for construction into Windstar for this particular
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development, not for anything in the future and not for deliveries and
not for the main entrance. It was never intended that. It was only
intended for this particular project.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And I agree, it reads that way. My
concern is that there's nothing to prevent you from modifying that at
any time in the future once you control these roads and these internal
common areas to this proj ect, to make that your construction entrance
for your overall project. It's common throughout the county that large
developments do that. Especially gated developments, they always
look for a secondary entrance to their facility. So I wouldn't see that
as an unreasonable thing. That's why I was asking you if you -- you're
not in a position to make any other agreement?
MS. VAUGHN: No, I'm not.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I know that, I wanted to get it on record.
Okay, thank you, ma'am.
Are there any other questions?
(N 0 response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ray, that is the last speaker.
MR. BELLOWS: That is the last.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: With that, we'll close the public hearing
and entertain a motion.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: I move that AR8438 be
forwarded to the Board of County Commissioners with a
recommendation of approval, subject to staff recommendations.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Second.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion's been made by Commissioner
Adelstein, seconded by Commissioner Schiffer.
Discussion? Mr. Murray?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Yes, I would just comment that
while it may very well be a nice addition to Windstar, I don't think it
provides the equity to the neighbors and the community, and I think
it's an unnecessary burden to those folks.
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And large buildings fairly close to single-story, there are a whole
bunch of reasons why -- that I would be disinclined to support this.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any other -- Mr. Kolflat?
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: I think a compelling point is that
we learned that 70 percent of the traffic coming on Bayshore Drive
from the north comes from the north and not from the south.
Also interesting, it was pointed out that most gated communities,
if not all of them in Collier County, access the community directly
from a collateral or arterial road. Therefore, the criteria that required
approval on this, I question in that the change would adversely
influence living conditions in the neighborhood of Lakeview Drive.
And the proposed change will create or excessively increase traffic
congestion or create types of traffic deemed incompatible with
surrounding land usage because of peak volumes that project the types
of vehicular traffic, including activity during construction phase of the
development or otherwise affect public safety.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Okay, I have some suggestions. Should this motion carry, I have
some suggestions for the motion maker and the second they may want
to consider as stipulations.
One: Is that the land plan that's being presented to us today is the
one that is locked in regards to anything but a minor change that
would qualify under the Land Development Code as a minor change.
But the way the buildings are shown today, the way the road is shown
today, and the way the landscaping is shown today, or at least on this
artistic rendering, is the plan that becomes the plan for the project.
Number two: That Section 2.4.E in the PUD be modified to
replace the word developer with the owner of the 20 plus acre
addition.
Number three: Density be limited to 137 units.
Number four: There was a lot of discussion about traffic issues.
And the sidewalks, the street improvement, the traffic calming and the
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drainage issues all need to be designed and they need to be
implemented. And until those are designed and implemented, I would
suggest that we -- SDPs not be issued.
The landscape buffers were discussed and the applicant has
agreed that the landscape buffers in the easterly direction would be
doubled in quantity than what the minimum codes are. They will
address the implementation of best management practices in the SDP
application. And that their bulkhead setback along the east side of the
property will be required of 25 feet.
Those are the issues that I have in regards to that. Ms. Caron?
COMMISSIONER CARON: In terms of the buffering, I think
it's not just the east side, it's also on the northern portion here. It
would be on --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: There's mangroves across -- oh, the
south side.
COMMISSIONER CARON: It's actually the south side of the
northern --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Piece.
COMMISSIONER CARON: -- portion.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Where the number two is on the site
plan.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Mr. Adelstein?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: And the height of any
building can be no more than 50 feet.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you, I forgot that. And that's the
actual height?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Actual height.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Actual height would be limited to 50
feet.
Mr. Schiffer, did you have any comment?
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COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well, I was -- you know, we
could reword that bulkhead thing, but I think that's fine. The eastern
bulkhead that describes, that's what I'm worried about.
The unit, dropping the unit count. I mean, Collier needs some
units. Would it be okay if he adds those nine units back on if they're
gap housing? That's something that --
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Not going to happen.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: No.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Not going to happen meaning
he's not going to do it?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I don't think the motion maker is going
to accept your recommendation.
Are there any other questions?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Motion maker, do you accept--
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: I accept -- I accept -- the
motion maker accepts the statements made.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Did the second accept the statements
made?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Explain the SDP thing again,
that line.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: There's obviously a need for
clarification, which I tried to indicate to the applicant they might want
to clarify before they go too far today. That need is there's no design
on the sidewalks or the street improvements or the traffic calming
devices or the drainage that would be needed from the development.
And until the design is completed and until the installation of the
improvements is completed, that no SDPs will be issued.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: The problem with that I think is
that the CRA wants to control the design work of that. That's not the
developer's control. So what you're really doing is you're saying he
can have approval, but he can't do anything until the CRA follows
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through completely on the design and construction.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Amazing how need makes people work
faster.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well, but here -- one point
David made which I think is a really good point is why be running
construction and, you know, putting traffic on this thing and then --
you know, after the improvement let that happen and then do the
improvements.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Because one child's life is worth more
than any amount of sidewalk you can rip up on that road.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: And I agree, and I wanted to do
something temporary to that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's my comments. You're the second
and this is the motion maker. You guys can decide what you do. I'm
just making my comments to you as far as the stipulations go. You
can either accept them or rej ect them.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: I accept it.
MS. DESELEM: Can I ask for two clarifications? One, the item,
the bulkhead setbacks to 25 feet, is that for accessory and principal
structures, or one or the other?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: I would make it -- it's not going
to -- you know, Mark actually -- once he said it has to be this site plan,
it's a moot point anyway, because this site plan has no buildings near
that boundary.
MS. DESELEM: It doesn't necessarily show accessory
structures, though.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well, make them both.
MS. DESELEM: Is it your intention not to have them? I mean,
we have to --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: For the sake of the people living
across the canal, let's make it for both.
MS. DESELEM: For both?
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And the other question was the park issue. I need you to make a
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We don't have an issue with the park,
but if you want to make one out of it, I guess we could.
MS. DESELEM: The issue of the playground. Did you want to
include the request for that requirement from parks and rec?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, I wouldn't have included it. If
somebody else wants to include it, they can suggest it. I certainly
won't.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: I won't either.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Anyway, Mark, on the SDP
thing, what you're essentially saying is that he can't get an SDP
approved until the completion of construction, which could start in
August and March (sic).
And again, David's kind of right, when you make predictions in
construction, they float. 2008. So that means two years from now is
when he could get approval. So since I'm not comfortable with that, I
guess I withdraw my second.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Motion maker--
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Is there anyone else who will
make a second?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Mark, let me ask a question.
What if I didn't approve it, does that mean -- what legally does happen
there? I mean, the person who first said yes, I'll take that condition, if
the second person doesn't take that condition --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Your motion isn't valid until you have a
second.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: You need a second. Somebody--
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: So that's essentially
withdrawing my second?
MS. STUDENT -STIRLING: -- else needs to second it.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The stipulations that I just said are what
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I wrote down. You guys can come up with anything you want. I'm
just giving you my suggestion. So, I mean, if you've got a better one
that the motion maker accepts, or if the motion maker has one, then
put it on the table.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well, in lieu of that, for the
child safety thing, which obviously you know I agree with, the
conversations with David is what I would propose then is on the edge
of the right-of-way a five-foot crushed stone temporary sidewalk be
put in. Would you accept that instead? Would he?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: It was my understanding that
the path would be there, the concrete path would be there, the first
thing they were going to do. That was my understanding when we
started. And they're shaking their head yes. First thing they're going
to do is put that sidewalk in.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: But the problem is that the CRA
wants to design a sidewalk, light, benches and, you know, really jazz
it up. And they're going to put that in much later. So I think the
developer would gladly -- well, the sidewalk the CRA is going to do
could be winding, could be all different pavers.
The developer would gladly run a strip of concrete to the road
which could be chopped up later. I'm saying that's a waste of money
and I'd rather just see crushed stone or something as a temporary. I
mean, I think -- I don't think the problem is with the developer
wanting to put a strip, the problem is that the CRA wanted to be able
to control the design of their neighborhood.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Well, first of all, they're not
my problem. Second, my problem right now is simple. I'm not going
to see a child die either.
This is a situation where yes, I think the developer who has a
good common sense to put in a sidewalk that would do what they need
to be done. And I expect to have it done first, period.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: So the condition Mark put on,
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what you're saying is that if he puts the sidewalk in all the way down I
guess the south side of --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, Brad, for clarification, my
recommendation was sidewalks, street improvements, traffic calming
and drainage. So you're focusing on the sidewalk. If you have an
issue with that, you may have an issue with the others. You may want
to address the whole thing. We don't need to go forward with
something that isn't what everybody thought it was.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: What you're saying is that
whole street is totally built out in final design prior to his approval of
the SDP. So you're holding the guy off for two, two and a half years
before he could even start construction, assuming he had a
simultaneous --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'm just curious, I didn't see widening
the street, putting in the sidewalks and traffic calming devices or
providing the needed drainage that transportation comes up with after
they have a design that's functionable. All of this would have been
simpler had this been done first. I don't see that as a two or three-year
effort.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: I'm getting it off of David's
CRA letter. I know David said --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, he's not a traffic engineer. I'd
rather rely on county -- I'm experienced in county traffic. I've done
these roads, I've done these sidewalks, I've done this drainage. It
doesn't take that long. But -- if it's -- the longest part of anything is
dealing with architects. If you get past the architects, then you're off
runnIng.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well, the county's been giving
us a good run. But you're probably right.
Okay, so what they're going to say, the logic of your thing is that
because we put this demand on it, things are going to happen faster.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That was the intent.
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COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Did anybody else second the
thing?
COMMISSIONER TUFF: I will second that, yes, as you stated
it.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Okay, then you can have the
second.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You know, what is the -- the second is
seconding the stipulation that the improvements need to be done for
those elements of the street design that we've spoke of and constructed
in place before the SDP is issued. Is that what you're seconding?
COMMISSIONER TUFF: Constructed?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes.
COMMISSIONER TUFF: No, I wouldn't second that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, that's all I'm trying to clarify.
And if you guys won't, that's okay, too. But we've all got to get it on
the table and we've got to make it clear.
So someone make a counter.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well, let's work at it one more
time, Mark. What is the problem with putting in a temporary crushed
stone sidewalk? Remember, they're going to be running trucks up and
down their right-of-way, independent of this decision. So what if we
got that in right away, got the kids off of the pavement, walking the
edge of the pavement.
I mean, what else could we do? Then we give the CRA the
chance to design what the neighborhood really wants. The CRA is the
neighborhood. These are the neighbors that are living on the street.
They want the input to put what they want. They don't want
something expedited just to meet some developer's, you know,
intentions at the end of the street.
So what if we require a five, six-foot whatever it is, crushed stone
sidewalk. I mean, you can go to Washington D.C. and walk around on
crushed stone. It's not a, you know, negative thing. It gets the kids off
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of the street. And then they can come back at a later date and build
the property.
I don't think the road drainage is the -- they're going to beat the
road up with 1,000 trucks, they're going to beat the road up with their
construction crews and their cranes. Let them fix it after they're done.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I don't have any problem with your
suggestion, Brad, but I made mine, you're making yours. Someone's
got to get this out of --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well, Lindy, I'll re-second it if
you'd go with that.
MR. BELLOWS: For the record, Ray Bellows.
If I may, I'd like to make just a point. The cost of the crushed
stone isn't that much different than putting in the sidewalk. The
petitioner is willing to put in the sidewalk.
I think there's a safety issue. I don't even think we can permit
crushed gravel anyways. So I think --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well, it's an allowable
driveway.
MR. BELLOWS: But not for a -- handicapped exit for
sidewalks, it just doesn't work.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: But we know it's a temporary
thing. Right now nothing's there, so --
MR. BELLOWS: But they're willing to do it.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: So we'll build a sidewalk down
the end of the street. If the design doesn't like it, they'll chop out the
sections that don't make sense.
That settles the sidewalk. How about -- Mark's motion had other
things in it.
Lindy, do you -- if we replace it with a sidewalk that's put down
for Bayshore --
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: I'm satisfied.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Okay. Then I'm back in the
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second business.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I don't know if you can be. Mr. Tuff
made the second.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: No, he dropped out once he
realized that --
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: He dropped out. Okay, we're
set.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Okay, we're set. The condition
that had to be -- the SDP would not be allowed until those conditions
are met is gone. The replacement of that is that the petitioner will not
get approval of SDP until the sidewalk is put in.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: That's all I wanted.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, so the motion maker accepts Mr.
Schiffer's clarification. Mr. Schiffer's the second, so I'm assuming he's
going to accept his clarification.
Now, before the vote we have to state any reasons that we're not
voting. I will be voting no on this motion, because I do not find it
consistent to rezone findings one, two, five, six, seven, 12, 13 and 14.
And the reason for that are a variety of issues, extending from
compatibility to, most importantly, traffic. I'm very disappointed that
there's been no provision that would prevent all the traffic from
Windemere (sic) from being rerouted through this gate at any time in
the future. And for that reason, I think that would be huge mistake for
the people living on that Lakeview.
I also find it inconsistent -- or not in compliance with PUD
findings one, two, four and seven for the same reasons.
Ms. Caron?
COMMISSIONER CARON: Yes. I would just like to reiterate,
one, two, five, six, seven, eight, 13 and 14.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Anybody else?
Mr. Kolflat?
COMMISSIONER KOLFLA T: I'd like just to add to the
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comments I made a little earlier about the traffic there on Lakeview
Drive. No matter what you say, when you're coming south, the large
amount of traffic into any area, the tendency will be to make your first
right to get into that (inaudible) to not go all the way down to the
entrance where it should be for this community.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. With that, Mr. Schiffer?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Can I just comment? I mean,
the design of this thing goes out of its way to make that a really
horrible way to go in. I don't think too many people are going to do
that more than once or twice.
And the weaving. I mean, it looks like a Le Mans racecourse to
get through there.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I would agree with you from a planning
perspective, the addition of this to the Windstar PUD is not a bad
thing. I just have a problem with the lack of restrictions on the use of
that entryway with the overall Windstar project.
Unfortunately that was something that I think should have been
caught, should have been fixed and should have been prevented. But
it can't be. It's a private matter. And because it wasn't, I think it has a
big impact on the planning perspectives for Lakeview residents. So
that's where I stand.
Mr. Kolflat?
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Well, I certainly agree that it
looks very wavy as you come in at Lakeview. But I drove on the
property through the main entrance yesterday and that's no straight
shot either to get up there. There's a lot of waves getting up there.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, anybody else?
(N 0 response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: If not, we'll call for the vote. And I'll do
this by raise of hand. All those in favor of the motion, signify by
raising your hand.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: (Indicating.)
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COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: (Indicating.)
COMMISSIONER TUFF: (Indicating.)
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: (Indicating.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Four in favor. This is going to be
interesting.
All those against?
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: (Indicating.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: (Indicating.)
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: (Indicating.)
COMMISSIONER CARON: (Indicating.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Four against. Motion is a tie, 4-4.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: It fails. Doesn't carry.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: It fails, doesn't carry.
Okay, with that we can either entertain another motion, which
could take hours, or we could finish this particular finding.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I would make a motion that
there be a continuance to address the issues.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Can't do that.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Can't do that?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: No, sir.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Oh, well, then I'll make a motion
of denial.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Doesn't it go to the commission
with no recommendation?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: So let's just leave it with that.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Well, he made a motion.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, Mr. Murray made a motion for
denial.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I can -- I'll withdraw the motion.
If it goes without prejudice, that's fine.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, that will conclude the--
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COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: What are you going to do
now?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We're going to go on with the rest of the
agenda.
MR. BROOKER: Mr. Chairman, if I may--
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes.
MR. BROOKER: -- interrupt?
With regard to the issue of future construction within Windstar, I
have been just informed by the master association representative that
she can sign an agreement to that effect that will limit -- that will
prohibit construction traffic on Lakeview Drive for future construction
projects in the existing Windstar property.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I hope you bring that to the BCC
hearing with you.
Okay, any other--
MR. BROOKER: The point was to try to revive this.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: If it was that easy, I'd be more
concerned.
So okay, with that, we'll close -- we're done with that particular
hearing. We'll go on with today's agenda.
MR. COCHRANE: Mr. Chairman, sir, is the--
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Just a second. Mr. Adelstein, what are
you trying to --
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: If that statement is made that
there's what they're going to agree to and she will make sure that
happens, why are we not saying go forward?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Adelstein -- and Ms. Student, for
procedural, can this be further discussed for another motion based on
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: I think you can -- somebody can
do a motion to reconsider and then you can open up the thing again.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Does the motion to reconsider
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have to be by someone in favor or someone in denial?
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: I think it needs -- you know,
usually the language talks about voted with the majority. There wasn't
any majority.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's why I'm asking the question.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: It might be good if we had the
motion maker be the one that voted against and the second be one that
voted for.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, if there's a motion -- if the motion
by someone who was in favor wants to reopen this for
reconsideration?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: I'll open.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: And I'll re-second.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You weren't against it, though. Is one
of the people --
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: I would like somebody that was
against it.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I'm going to say -- because that
would be iniquitous -- the people who voted against it, you're actually
giving them a second dip by allowing the people who advocated it.
You really need to go to the persons who had an objection to it in
order to be equitous (sic).
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: What Ms. Student has said is --
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: I think that's what I said, that
somebody that voted and not in favor of it would be the one to make
the motion to --
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: I could make the motion.
MS. STUDENT -STIRLING: -- reconsider.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: She said we need a motion maker who
was in favor or against and a second who was in favor of --
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I didn't hear that. My apologies
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Two opposing parties.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: -- I didn't hear all of that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So Mr. Adelstein was in favor of the
motion and he has made a motion for reconsideration. He needs a
second from someone who was not in favor of the motion for
reconsideration.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Well, I would make the second
for the purposes of discussion, if I may.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, make the second. We're opening
it back up.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: All right, I made that second for
the purpose of discussion.
And I'm not convinced that this is a good thing for the people on
Lakeview Drive, although I do see it from the overall perspective
certainly as advantageous to the people in Windstar.
And if it's the single act of allowing or disallowing any future
construction traffic, that benefits again the Windstar people, and I
don't see that it provides anything much for the people on Lakeview
Drive. There would be -- they wouldn't be using that to come in then.
Where would they come in? Would they come in the main
entrance? Future construction? Well, if that's the case, I wonder why
we wouldn't do it now. I wonder why we'd have to create the problem
for the Lakeview people, you know, the Lakeview Drive people now,
and we ensure against it later on. I don't understand that. I appreciate
it, I don't understand it.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: I thought right now we're just on a
reconsideration motion with a clarification.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, we are. Mr. Murray wanted to
have a statement with it.
So we're on -- motion was made to reconsider. It was made by
Mr. Adelstein, seconded by Mr. Murray. Any further discussion?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Yes.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Adelstein?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: I want to amend the motion to
appoint that the statement in writing be delivered prior to --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Wait a minute. This is just a motion to
reconsider. We're not going into the merits of the whole thing, just to
reconsider. You made a motion to reconsider, Mr. Murray seconded
that motion to reconsider --
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: And I have a right to amend
it.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Oh, you're amending your motion to
reconsider?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: No, I'm -- I see what you're
saYing.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No other discussion, all those in favor of
reconsidering, please signify by raising your hand.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: (Indicating.)
COMMISSIONER TUFF: (Indicating.)
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: (Indicating.)
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: (Indicating.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All those against reconsideration, raise
your hand.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: (Indicating.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: (Indicating.)
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: (Indicating.)
COMMISSIONER CARON: (Indicating.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: One, two, three, four.
Okay, we're back where we started from. This is over with.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: We're not having any fun here.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you all very much.
MR. COCHRANE: Mr. Chairman, may I ask, is the staffreport
available to the public?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You need to see Kay Deselem.
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MR. BELLOWS: For the record, Ray Bellows.
It will be made available. We'll get you a phone number to call.
Item #9
OLD BUSINESS
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Next item on today's agenda is an item
of old business asked to be added by Mr. Kolflat. It was for the
construction traffic issue.
And we need to wrap this up as quickly as we can today.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Do you want me to continue
that for the next meeting?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I think being the time and the court
reporter's fingers, that would be a good move, if you could, sir.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: I will do that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you very much.
There is no new business. So this meeting is adjourned. Thank
you.
*****
There being no further business for the good of the County, the
meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 1 :00 p.m.
COLLIER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION
MARK STRAIN, Chairman
TRANSCRIPT PREPARED ON BEHALF OF GREGORY
COURT REPORTING SERVICE, INC. BY CHERIE'
NOTTINGHAM.
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AGENDA ITEM 8-A
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STAFF REPORT
COLLIER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION
FROM:
DEP ARTMENT OF ZONING AND LAND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES DIVISION
HEARING DATE: JULY 6,2006
SUBJECT:
PUDZ-A-2005-AR-8438; LAKEVIEW DRIVE OF NAPLES, LLC FOR THE
WINDST AR RPUD
APPLICANT:
Jack Antaramian, Managing Partner
Lakeview Drive of Naples, LLC
365 Fifth Ave., South, Suite 20 I
Naples, FL 34105
AGENTS:
Clay Brooker, Esquire
Cheffy, Passidomo, Wilson & Johnson, LLP
821 5th Avenue, South Suite 201
Naples, FL 34102
REQUESTED ACTION:
The petitioner requests that the Collier County Planning Commissioner (CCPC) consider a
rezone from the Residential Multiple Family-6 (RMF-6 & RMF-6(3)) zoning districts (a portion
of which is subject to a Special Treatment Overlay (ST)) to the Residential Planned Unit
Development (RPUD) zoning district so the land can be included in the existing Windstar PUD.
GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION:
The entire proposed PUD subject property, consisting of the existing 320.6-acre PUD and 20.52
acres that are proposed to be added is located in Sections 11, 14, and 23, Township 50 South,
Range 25 East, Collier County, Florida (see location map on the following page).
PURPOSEIDESCRIPTION OF PROJECT:
The petitioner is seeking to amend the 320.6-acre Windstar PUD to add a 20.52-acre tract that is
commonly referred to as "the Fisherman's Village or Fisherman's Cove tract" to the maximum
allowable 549 dwelling units of the existing PUD document for a total of 584 dwelling units in
the newly configured 341.21 acre PUD project, for an overall addition of 35 units. As staff
understands the petitioner's proposal, the applicant wishes to construct a maximum of 146 units
on the Fisherman's Village tract by combining undeveloped units in the existing Windstar (438
units have been developed units (549 - 438 = III undeveloped units) with the proposed
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additional 35 units (111 undeveloped units + 35 new units = 146 units in Fisherman's Village).
Under the current zoning, the Fisherman's Village current maximum eligible density is 72
dwelling units based upon the maximum that would be allowable in the RMF-6 (3.5 acres) and
RMF-6(3) (17.0 acres) zoning districts. The originally approved density was 1.715 units per
acre; the proposed density would remain the same for the overall PUD. Also proposed are
accessory uses such as parking, clubhouse areas, and wet slips along Haldeman Creek. Access
to serve the residents of this tract is proposed from Lakeview Drive, as well as internal access
from Windstar Boulevard. This petition is incorporating a strikethrough and underline format to
address only the specific changes proposed. It has been determined that this type of PUD
amendment does not "open" the entire PUD to additional scrutiny. The Fisherman's Village
tract is currently occupied with several multi-family dwellings.
SURROUNDING LAND USE AND ZONING:
North: Sandpiper Bay Club a developed multi-family project, with a zoning designation of
RMF-6 (ST) and Naples Land Yacht Harbor, with a zoning designation of Mobile
Home (MH), developed with mobile homes
East: Various single-family, multi-family and mobile home uses with zoning designations of
RMF-6(3), RMF-6 and MH
South: Harrington Sound subdivision, a developed single-family subdivision zoned RMF-6
and Southpointe Yacht Club, a multi-family residential development with a PUD
zoning designation (approved at 5.81 units per acre)
West: City of Naples, undeveloped land along Naples Bay
AERIAL MAP
GROWTH MANAGEMENT PLAN CONSISTENCY:
Future Land Use Element: The subject property is designated Urban (Urban Mixed-Use
District, Urban Coastal Fringe Subdistrict) on the Future Land Use Map of the Growth
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Management Plan (GMP). The Urban Mixed-Use District permits a variety of residential and
non-residential land uses including mixed-use developments such as Planned Unit
Developments. The subject site is also within the Traffic Congestion Area, part of the Density
Rating System, and the site is entirely within the Coastal High Hazard Area (CHHA) _ that area
lying within the Category 1 evacuation zone as defined in the Southwest Florida Regional
Planning Council Hurricane Evacuation Study Update.
The Density Rating System provides for an eligible base density of 4 dwelling units/acre (DU/A)
throughout the Urban Mixed-Use District (except for the Urban Residential Fringe capped at 1.5
DU/ A), whether in or out of the CHHA. But, because the site is located within the Traffic
Congestion Boundary, it is subject to a 1 DU/A reduction, thereby making the site eligible for an
adjusted base density of 3 DU/ A. The subject petition would result in no overall increase in
density in the Windstar RPUD, and it is well within the allowable gross density of 3 DU/ A for
the entire PUD. As with all residential rezones, density afforded by the Density Rating System is
the density that a given project is eligible for - it is not an entitlement for the subject petition.
The Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR) recommends limiting the density to a maximum of
4 DU/A in the CHHA and replacing the Traffic Congestion Boundary (TCB) reduction with a
CHHA reduction of 1 DU/A. The result would be the same in this case- 3 DU/A.
Staff therefore believes this project is consistent with GMP FLUE and the GMP FLUM.
Transportation Element: Transportation staff has reviewed this project based on the current
TIS guidelines and with respect to Policy 5.1 of the Collier County Growth Management Plan
transportation element. The existing development trips are considered background traffic on the
County roadway network. The original amendment application TIS added 72 dwelling units
(later revised downward) into the Windstar PUD which is consistent with the Transportation
Element of the GMP Section 5.1. The additional units can be accommodated on the adjacent
roadway network in the five-year planning period.
The proposed 146 dwelling unit development resulting from the additional units will be taking
primary access and egress off of Lakeview Drive as well as possibly providing additional access
to the existing Windstar development. Transportation staff recommends improvements to
Lakeview Drive consisting of widening and improving Lakeview Drive to a minimum of22 feet,
adding a pedestrian sidewalk.
ANAL YSIS:
Staff completed a comprehensive evaluation of this land use petition and the criteria upon which
a favorable determination must be based. These criteria are specifically noted in Sections
10.02.13 and 10.02.13.B.5 of the Land Development Code and required staff evaluation and
comment. The staff evaluation establishes a factual basis to support the recommendations of
staff. The Collier County Planning Commission (CCPC) uses these same criteria as the basis for
their recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners (BCC), who in turn, use the
criteria to support their action on the rezoning request. These evaluations are completed as
separate documents and are attached to the staff report (See Exhibit A and Exhibit B).
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Environmental Review: Environmental Services staff has reviewed the petition and the RPUD
document to address any environmental concerns. The Environmental Advisory Council (EAC)
reviewed this petition on May 3, 2006 and recommended approval by a unanimous vote with the
stipulation that all mangroves along Haldeman Creek must be preserved, with the exception of
the impacts caused by the boardwalks/walkovers necessary for access to docks along the
shoreline of Haldeman Creek. The PUD document has incorporated this requirement.
Additionally, the EAC reviewed an SDP petition for the Fisherman's Village tract on February 1,
2006 and they unanimously recommended approval subject to conditions of approval
recommended in the EAC staff report. Both staff reports are attached as Exhibit C. Therefore,
the Environmental Services staff is satisfied that environmental issues have been adequately
addressed.
Transportation Review: Transportation Division staff has reviewed the petition and the RPUD
document and Master Plan that accompanies the request, and has offered new language as noted
bellow for the proposed amendment to address concerns about this project's impact upon
Lakeview Drive.
At the time of approval of this amendment to the PUD Document, the Bayshore
Gateway CRA ("CRA") plans to improve or "streetscape" Lakeview Drive as part of
the redevelopment of the area. The CRA, however, has yet to determine the final
improvement plans for Lakeview Drive. Accordingly, the developer shall contribute
to, and assist with, the improvements to Lakeview Drive as follows:
1. Within 90 days of approval of this amendment to the PUD Document (to wit: on or
before , 2006), the developer shall pay $75,000 to a CRA Trust Fund
designated exclusively for improvements to Lakeview Drive. This amount represents
the current cost of (1) installing a sidewalk from Bayshore Drive, west along the
length of Lakeview Drive, to the PUD boundary; and (2) engineering and installing
asphalt for the widening of Lakeview Drive from 18 feet to 22 feet.
2. The developer shall engineer and design the stormwater management facility for
the 20. 52-acre parcel, which is the subject of this latest PUD amendment, to accept
some stormwater from Lakeview Drive. The amount of stormwater that can be
accepted by the stormwater management facility on the 20.52-acre parcel will be
determined at the time of site development plan approval.
Zoning Review:
Relationship to Existing and Future Land Uses:
A discussion of this relationship, as it applies specifically to Collier County's legal basis for land
use planning, refers to the relationship of the uses that would be permitted if the proposed zoning
action (PUD amendment) is approved, and to the requirements or limitations set forth in the
Future Land Use Element (FLUE) of the Growth Management Plan (GMP). The uses were
determined to be consistent with the GMP (and therefore compatible with the land uses that have
been developed or would be developed on adjacent tracts) when the original Windstar rezoning
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was approved, and it was already determined that the uses should be compatible with the land
uses that have been developed or would be developed on adjacent tracts. As discerned from the
aerial photograph, the surrounding zoning discussion and the Master Plan, the Windstar PUD is
already developed with clusters of housing in a golf course setting.
The surrounding area has co-existed with the existing Windstar development with seemingly
little problems and no changes are proposed to the RPUD document that would allow different
re-development. The property to the north of the site is separated by Halderman Creek; the land
use to the north is also multi-family residential. To the west, this site is separated from any other
uses by Naples Bay. To the south is Southpointe PUD, a multi-family project approved at 5.91
units per acre. To the east are numerous RMF-6 zoned developed subdivisions. Except for the
proposed Fisherman's Village tract, the units within Windstar are separated from the
development along its eastern boundary by meandering golf course greens. The Fisherman's
Village tract will be separated from the multi- and single-family home sites located along
Lakeview Drive in Blocks 6 and 7 of Gulf Shores subdivision by a canal. Further south, the
Fisherman's Village tract will directly abut a lot within Naples Grove and Truck Company
Number 2 subdivision. That lot is developed with multi-family uses. The surrounding area is
similarly developed with multi-family housing except for the land along the eastern boundary of
the proposed Fisherman's Village tract which is single-family homes.
FLUE Policy 5.4 requires new land uses to be compatible with the surrounding area. In
reviewing the appropriateness of the requested uses/densities on the subject site, the typical
compatibility analysis would include a review of both the subject proposal and surrounding or
nearby properties as to allowed use intensities and densities, development standards (building
heights, setbacks, landscape buffers, etc.), building mass, building location and orientation,
architectural features, amount and type of open space and location, traffic generation/attraction,
etc. In viewing surrounding properties, gross density and/or net density might be evaluated, and
density averaging might be employed.
The Master Plan submitted for the entire Windstar PUD does not show project design detail. No
buildings have been shown on that plan. The Master Plan is not required to show design detail
such as building footprints. The master plan usually only shows general project designs such as
roadway layouts and general land use tract boundaries such as residential, commercial or
conservation and preservation areas. Those areas have been shown as required by LDC Section
10.02.13.A.1. The petitioner has provided an additional sheet entitled "Fisherman's Village,"
which is an artistic rendering that shows a potential project layout of 137 units (stamped received
5/16/06). The petitioner has not offered to be bound in any way to this artistic rendering, nor
would it be appropriate for such a limitation because the rendering is not drawn to scale and staff
cannot review that "plan" for compliance with the LDC. Any development plan would be
required to undergo scrutiny by county staff for such compliance.
The artistic renderings shows the multi-family structures within the Fisherman's Village tract
oriented more internally than externally, i.e., the structures are shown nearer the existing
Windstar PUD rather than along the canal that abuts the single-family homesites along Lakeview
Drive. That seems a logical choice; it allows the Fisherman's Village residents to enjoy the golf
course vista. Additionally, the rendering seems to show a denser buffer along the canal that
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separates the project from Lakeview Drive residences. Staff believes it may be appropriate to
require an enhanced buffer along the canal for the Fisherman's Village tract, and would suggest
that more trees and taller trees could be provided to soften the difference between the mostly
single-story, single-family Lakeview Drive homesites from the proposed 40-foot tall multi-
family structures that could be three or four stories high. In other areas of the Windstar PUD, the
golf course or open space separate units within Windstar from its neighbors. For the
Fisherman's Village tract additional trees could provide a method to compensate for open space
or golf course separations that are provided elsewhere along the project boundaries. More and
large trees would help internalize the project's impacts in compliance with the LDC Section
4.07.02.A & B, for PUD design standards regarding external and internal relationships.
The Windstar PUD amendment also proposes to add an access to Lakeview Drive for the project.
Windstar PUD traffic could travel through the multi- and single-family homesites in Gulf Shores
subdivision (north side of the road) and the multi-family uses in Naples Grove and Truck
Company Number 2 subdivision (south side of the road). There is no plan to limit the use of
Lakeview Drive to the residents and guests of the Fisherman's village tract. Any construction
traffic for Fisherman's Village, as well as any other traffic from the entire Windstar PUD
development could potentially use Lakeview Drive.
The petitioner states that due to Windstar's existing internal roadway design, it is unlikely that
many other residents of Windstar would want to use Lakeview Drive because the existing access
points provide a more direct link to Bayshore Drive. Regardless, the proposed 146 units of
Fisherman's Village that could be utilizing Lakeview Drive from Windstar would double the
number of households (not trips) using this local roadway. There appears to be 52 units in the
Gulf Shore subdivision that use Lakeview Drive and there are about 10 lots along the south side
of Lakeview Drive located in the Naples Grove and Truck Company Number 2 subdivision.
Some of the lots are developed and some are not; there is a mixture of single- and multi-family
uses on the developed lots. If all 10 lots were developed to the maximum allowable 6 units per
acre density, there would be 60 units. Coupled with the 52 units from Gulf Shore, the maximum
potential build-out along Lakeview Drive would be approximately 112 units.
Windstar PUD currently has three access points. There is one access point on Fern Street, one
on Thomasson Drive and the main access point is on Bayshore Drive. Providing an
interconnection from the existing Windstar PUD is consistent with GMP Transportation Element
Policy 9.3 that states:
The County shall require, wherever feasible, the interconnection of local streets
between developments to facilitate convenient movement throughout the road network.
However, interconnection implies that traffic from the Lakeview Drive residents and the
Windstar residents would be able to traverse both ways. In this case, access is only proposed to
allow Windstar traffic to use Lakeview Drive. There is no plan to allow Lakeview residents to
, utilize any roadways within Windstar, thus the term "interconnection," may not accurately depict
what is proposed.
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Zoning and Transportation staff discussed the above noted policy to determine ways to address
any negative impacts to the Lakeview Drive residents that might result with the connection,
noting that Lakeview Drive is a public roadway with narrower travel lanes than what would now
be required for development. If this was a new roadway within the Windstar PUD, it would have
to be built to current roadway width standards.
The petitioner has agreed to participate in funding of Lakeview Drive roadway improvements to
widen the travel lanes and provide sidewalks, thus the project is compliant with LDC Section
4.07.02.D.3 because it will not:
Create inconvenient or unsafe access to the P UD; or
Create traffic congestion in the streets which adjoin or lead to the PUD; or
Be in conflict with the intent or provisions of the GMP; or
Create a threat to property or incur abnormal public expense in areas subject to
natural hazards; or
Be incompatible or inconsistent with surrounding neighborhoods or areas; or
Otherwise be inappropriate.
In the alternative, the Board may wish to consider limitations to the Lakeview Drive access, such
as limiting the access to Fisherman's Village residents only; and/or prohibiting service vehicles
such as delivery trucks from using that roadway, and/or prohibiting construction traffic from
using Lakeview Drive.
Community Redevelopment Agency Review: The Board of County Commissioners adopted
the Bayshore Mixed-Use District Overlay that includes Map No.1 that depicted the areas that
are affected by the BMUD Overlay. That map excluded existing PUDs from the requirements of
the Overlay, and in the case of the Fisherman's Village, included a notation to exclude the
Fisherman's Village tract from the Overlay. (The map however does not correctly depict the
Fisherman's Village tract. The portion of the Fisherman's Village tract north of Haldeman
Creek was not included and a portion to the south of Lakeview Drive was not included. Staff is
proposing a scrivener's error to correct those two oversights.) Even though the Fisherman's
Village is exempt from the requirements of the Overlay, the Lakeview Drive area is included,
thus zoning staff and Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) staff believe it is important to
ensure the Windstar PUD incorporate the plans of the CRA when addressing potential negative
impact to the Lakeview Drive area. Please refer to the May 24,2006 letter from David Jackson,
Executive Director of the CRA attached as Exhibit D.
The Community Redevelopment Agency for the Bayshore area is working to improve this area.
One project that is in the planning stage is the Lakeview Drive Beautification Project. The
pending Beautification Project is in an early stage and the ultimate design that will be developed
for Lakeview Drive has not yet been determined and the timing of the improvements is also
unknown at this time.
Thus staff recommends that the developer of Fisherman's Village/Windstar make monetary
contributions to fund roadway improvements as noted by Transportation staff and the CRA
recommendations to include widening and improving Lakeview Drive to a minimum of 22 feet
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of pavement width, adding a five-foot wide pedestrian sidewalk along one side of Lakeview
Drive, and accommodate some or all of the future streetscape designed Lakeview Drive
stormwater discharge, for quality treatment, at the Fisherman's Village on-site stormwater pond
with the capability/capacity to be further defined as engineering information and streetscape
design is developed by the CRA and the developer of this project.
There is a balance issue between GMP Transportation Element Policy 9.3 and FLUE Policy 5.4.
Staff understanding the need to "require, wherever feasible, the interconnection of local streets"
[Policy 9.3], and still maintain the integrity of an existing neighborhood, i.e., FLUE Policy 5.4
which requires new land uses to be compatible with, and complementary to, the surrounding land
uses. With the conditions proposed by staff to address Lakeview Drive, staff believes the project
is compatible with the existing development in the neighborhood, and therefore recommends that
the petition be deemed consistent with that FLUE policy.
Emergency Management Review: The Windstar RPUD is located in a Tropical Storm Surge
zone, which requires evacuation during most hurricane/tropical storm events. Adding to the
residential units in this area further taxes an already tight evacuation and sheltering situation
within Collier County. While there is currently no impact mitigation required for this, it should
be noted the approval of this RPUD increases the evacuation and sheltering requirements for the
county.
Historical and Archeological Review: Approval is subject to the recommendations contained
in the Survey and Assessment for the Fisherman's Village site prepared by John Beriault (See
Exhibit E). Staff has advised the petitioner that this requirement will need to be added to the
PUD document.
Utilities Review: This project is located within the Collier County Sewer District boundary, and
shall be subject to application for and conditions associated with a sewer availability letter from
the Collier County Utilities Division. According to the GIS, there is an existing 12 inch force
main east of the proposed development on Bayshore Drive. Potable water is served by the City
of Naples.
Parks and Recreation Review: Parks and Recreation Department staff wishes to see a
stipulation adopted as part of any approval of this petition. The stipulation is quoted below:
The developer must provide a Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) certified commercial grade
playground designed for 2-12 year old children for use by residents and guests.
The playground must be provided within common area. The playground area must
be operational before the issuance of any certificates of occupancy for any
residential units. Developer must provide documentation to the PUD file that the
playground meets these requirements.
The petitioner will not agree to the stipulation noting that he was ". . . .unable to located the
GMP or LDC authority for this requirement," thus the petitioner" . . . accepts the comment as a
request rather than a requirement since it is not part of any currently adopted ordinance" [quote
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from petitioner's agent's April 17, 2006 response to staffs review comments]; therefore, the
petitioner has opted not to include a requirement for a playground in the PUD document.
NEIGHBORHOOD INFORMATION MEETING (NIM):
The agent for the applicant held the required NIM at the East Naples Baptist Church.
Approximately 180 people attended including the applicant's team and county staff. After a
brief presentation of the rezone and project request, Mr. Clay Brooker of Cheffy, Passidomo,
Wilson & Johnson opened the meeting for discussion. Many of the audience members voiced
opposition to the requested density (137-156 units), the building height (maximum 50 feet) and
the multi-family design (6 buildings), stating that the proposed project is not compatible or
consistent with the previous conceptual site plans they had seen or the existing Windstar PUD
development. Also of concern are traffic impacts to Lakeview Drive.
Further statements made by Mr. Brooker included:
1. Access will continue to be provided through the existing Windstar main entrance, although
there will be a "Resident's Only" entrance access from Lakeview Drive.
2. The applicant envisions approximately 34-51 docks/wet slips will be provided along
Haldeman Creek. Windstar residents will have first option to buy the lesser of (a) 20%, or
(b) 40% of the number of docks constructed, within a 90 day sales period.
3. The 1,100 square feet unit sizes are still conceptual.
4. Construction traffic will utilize Lakeview Drive.
It was also stated by property owners throughout the course of the discussion that the developer
has entered into two separate agreements with the Windstar Master Association and the Windstar
Club. Mr. Brooker, speaking as agent for the applicant, said he would meet with the Master
Association again to clarify any confusion or misunderstanding of the issues. Mr. Charlie Thomas
and Mr. Jack Fink (apparently representative of the applicant) told the audience there would be a
tentative April 11 th meeting held with all residents and the developer. (Synopsis provided by
Linda Bedtelyon, Community Planning Coordinator)
RECOMMENDA TION:
Zoning and Land Development Review staff recommends that the Collier County Planning
Commission forward Petition PUD-Z-A-2004-AR-8438 to the Board of County Commissioners
with a recommendation that this petition be deemed consistent with the GMP, and further that
the PUD amendment be approved, with the limitations contained in the RPUD document.
Windstar PUD, PUDZ-A-2005-AR-8438
July 6, 2006 CCPC
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Tentatively scheduled for the September 12, 2006 Board of County Commissioners Meeting
COLLIER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION:
MARK P. STRAIN, CHAIRMAN
Exhibits:
A. Rezone Findings
B. PUD Findings
C. EAC Reports
D. Letter from David Jackson
E. Historical and Archeological Survey and Assessment
Windstar PUD, PUDZ-A-2005-AR-8438
July 6, 2006 CCPC
DATE
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Exhibit A
REZONE FINDINGS
PETITION PUDZ-A-2005-AR-8438
Chapter 1O.03.05.G of the Collier County Land Development Code (LDC) requires that the report and
recommendations of the Planning Commission to the Board of County Commissioners show that the
Planning Commission has studied and considered the proposed change in relation to the following,
where applicable:
1. Whether the proposed change will be consistent with the goals, objectives, and policies of
the Future Land Use Element (FLUE) and Future Land Use Map and the elements of the
Growth Management Plan (GMP).
Pro: County staff has reviewed this petition and has offered an in-depth analysis (see staff
report) of the relevant goals, objectives and policies of the Conservation & Coastal
Management Element, the Future Land Use Element and the Transportation Element of the
GMP offering a recommendation that this petition be found consistent with the overall GMP.
Con: None.
findings: Based upon staff's review, the proposed development is in compliance with the
Future Land Use Element (FLUE) of the Growth Management Plan (GMP) for Collier County
and all other relevant goals, objectives and policies of the GMP.
2. The existing land use pattern.
Pro: The location and zoning map that is attached to the staff report show the Fisherman's
Village site is a logical extension of the existing Windstar PUD, and GMP Transportation
Element Policy 9.3 encourages interconnection of neighborhoods.
Con: The petitioner's proposal to interconnect to Lakeview Drive may be viewed by Lakeview
Drive property owners as an intrusion into their neighborhood.
Finding: Staff believes the petitioner's commitments to participate in Lakeview Drive roadway
improvements will offset any negative impacts upon the Lakeview Drive property owners.
3. The possible creation of an isolated district unrelated to adjacent and nearby districts.
Pro/Con: Evaluation not applicable.
findings: The 20:1: acre Fisherman's Village parcel is being added into the Windstar PUD for a
combined total project size of 341:1: acres which will not create an isolated district unrelated to
adjacent and nearby districts. Both the Windstar PUD and the surrounding area is developed
with residential uses; thus, the uses and the zoning districts share a use relationship.
4. Whether existing district boundaries are illogically drawn in relation to existing
conditions on the property proposed for change.
Pro/Con: Evaluation not applicable.
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Findings: The district boundaries are logically drawn as previously noted.
5. Whether changed or changing conditions make the passage of the proposed land use
change necessary.
Pro: The proposed change is not necessary, per se; it is being requested in compliance with the
LDC allowances to seek such changes.
Con: The Fisherman's Village tract could be developed by itself without rezoning or being
added into the Windstar PUD. It is the petitioner's choice to seek the proposed action.
Findings: The proposed zoning change is appropriate based on the existing conditions of the
property and because its relationship to the FLUE (Future Land Use Element of the GMP) is
positive.
6. Whether the proposed change will adversely influence living conditions III the
neighborhood.
Pro: The County's current land use policies in the FLUE supports the proposed action to allow
low density urban residential development within the Coastal High Hazard Area. Adding
Fisherman's Village into the Windstar PUD will not result in any increase in density of the
overall Windstar PUD; it was approved at 1.7 units per acre and that will remain the same.
That density is well within the eligible density for this area.
Con: Fisherman's Village portion of the Windstar project is proposed for cluster development
which is the same way the other portions of Windstar were developed. There are clusters of
neighbors with large areas of open space and golf course. The clustering of Fisherman's
Village could result in a perceived (clustered) density of 6.68 units per acre (137 units -7- 20.52
acres = 6.676 units per acre). That perceived higher density may not coincide with the nearby
residents' desire to maintain a lower density development.
Adding additional units within the Coastal High Hazard Area may put additional persons at risk
in a weather related emergency such as a hurricane or tropical storm. Collier County
Emergency Management staff offered the following comments for this project:
The Windstar RP UD is located in a Tropical Storm Surge zone, which requires
evacuation during most hurricane/tropical storm events. Adding to the residential units
in this area further taxes an already tight evacuation and sheltering situation within
Collier County. While there is currently no impact mitigation required for this, it
should be noted the approval of this RPUD increases the evacuation and sheltering
requirements for the county.
Findings: The proposed change will not adversely influence living conditions in the
neighborhood because the recommended development standards and other conditions for
EXHIBIT A
Rezone Findings
PUDZ-A-200S-AR-8438
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approval should ensure the least amount of adverse impact on adjacent and nearby
developments.
7. Whether the proposed change will create or excessively increase traffic congestion or
create types of traffic deemed incompatible with surrounding land uses because of peak
volumes or projected types of vehicular traffic, including activity during construction
phases of the development, or otherwise affect public safety.
Pro: Development of the subject property is consistent with provisions of the Transportation
Element of the GMP, requiring neighborhood connection. Both the surrounding area and
Windstar are residential projects. The petitioner has agreed to participate in roadway
improvements to offset adverse effects the increased traffic may cause; therefore, approval of
this project should not create types of traffic deemed incompatible with surrounding land uses
and it should not affect the public safety. Developers who share roadway improvement costs
provide an alternative taxpayer cost effective way to expedite roadway improvements.
The GMP Transportation Element Policy that encourages interconnection to neighborhoods
provides a positive effect on public safety because interconnections conserve highway capacity
on collector and arterial roadways.
Con: As urban intensification increases and traffic traverses through more than one
neighborhood, the affected property owners can experience increased discomfort about safety
and privacy. As noted in the staff report, interconnection may be a misnomer in this particular
instance because the term interconnection implies that traffic from the Lakeview Drive
residents and the Windstar residents would be able to traverse both ways. In this case, access is
only proposed to allow Windstar traffic to use Lakeview Drive. There is no plan to allow
Lakeview residents to utilize any roadways within Windstar, thus the term "interconnection,"
may not accurately depict what is proposed.
Contrary to staffs recommendation in the staff report, the Board may, therefore, find that the
amendment may not be in compliance with LDC Section 4.07.02.D.3. because it could:
Create traffic congestion in the streets which adjoin or lead to the PUD; or
Create a threat to property or incur abnormal public expense in areas subject to
natural hazards; or
Be incompatible or inconsistent with surrounding neighborhoods or areas; or
Otherwise be inappropriate.
The Board may, therefore, add imitations to the Lakeview Drive access to limit the access to
Fisherman's Village residents only; and/or prohibit service vehicles such as delivery trucks
from using that roadway, and/or prohibit construction traffic from using Lakeview Drive.
Findings: Evaluation of this project took into account the requirement for consistency with
Policy 5.1 of the Traffic Element of the GMP and was found consistent. Additionally, certain
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EXHIBIT A
Rezone Findings
PUDZ-A-200S-AR-8438
transportation improvements for Lakeview Drive are included in the PUD document.
Furthermore, this project will be subject to the Concurrency Management System.
8. Whether the proposed change will create a drainage problem.
Pro: Road improvements precipitated by this development and water management
improvements to accommodate site development are designed to accommodate the normal
drainage requirement.
Con: Urban intensification could potentially increase area-wide flooding in a severe rainfall
event.
Findings: Every project approved in Collier County involving the utilization of land for some
land use activity is scrutinized and required to mitigate all sub-surface drainage generated by
developmental activities.
9. Whether the proposed change will seriously reduce light and air to adjacent areas.
Pro/Con: Evaluation not applicable
Findings: All projects in Collier County are subject to the development standards that are
unique to the zoning district in which it is located. These development standards and others
apply generally and equally to all zoning districts (i.e. open space requirement, corridor
management provisions, etc.) were designed to ensure that light penetration and circulation of
air does not adversely affect adjacent areas.
10. Whether the proposed change will adversely affect property values in the adjacent area.
Pro: Urban intensification typically increases the value of adjacent or underutilized land.
Con: None
Findings: This is a subjective determination based upon anticipated results which may be
internal or external to the subject property, and which can affect property values. Property
valuation is affected by a host of factors including zoning; however, zoning by itself mayor
may not affect values, since value determination by law is driven by market value. The mere
fact that a property is given a new zoning designation mayor may not affect value.
11. Whether the proposed change will be a deterrent to the improvement or development of
adjacent property in accordance with existing regulations.
Pro/Con: Evaluation not applicable
Findings: The basic premise underlying all of the development standards in the Land
Development Code is that their sound application, when combined with the site development
EXHIBIT A
Rezone Findings
PUDZ -A- 200S-AR-8438
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plan approval process and/or subdivision process, gives reasonable assurance that a change in
zoning will not result in deterrence to improvement or development of adjacent property.
12. Whether the proposed change will constitute a grant of special privilege to an individual
owner as contrasting with the public welfare.
Pro/Con: Evaluation not applicable.
Findings: The proposed development complies with the Growth Management Plan, a public
policy statement supporting Zoning actions when they are consistent with said Comprehensive
Plan. In light of this fact, the proposed change does not constitute a grant of special privilege.
Consistency with the FLUE is further determined to be a public welfare relationship because
actions consistent with plans are in the public interest.
13. Whether there are substantial reasons why the property cannot be used in accordance
with existing zoning.
Pro: The petitioner could seek development approval to develop the Fisherman's Village with
the existing zoning. Based upon that zoning, 72 units would be permitted with a maximum
height limit of 35 feet. Under the current zoning the Fisherman's Village current maximum
eligible density is 72 dwelling units based upon the maximum that would be allowable in the
RMF-6 (3.5 acres) and RMF-6(3) (I7.0 acres) zoning districts.
Con: None.
Findings: Any petition for a change in land use is reviewed for in compliance with the GMP
and the LDC with the Board of County Commissioners ultimately ruling what uses and density
or intensity is approved or, on the contrary, if the petition is denied. This petitioner is
proceeding through the proper channels to garner that Board ruling.
14. Whether the change suggested is out of scale with the needs of the neighborhood or the
County;
Pro: Staff believes clustering development to encourage preservation of significant areas is
appropriate even though the perceived density of this tract will appear higher than the density
of the overall PUD.
Con: Nearby property owners may object to the clustering because of the perceived increased
development concentration.
Findings: The proposed development complies with the Growth Management Plan, a policy
statement which has evaluated the scale, density and intensity of land uses deemed to be
acceptable throughout the urban designated areas of Collier County.
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EXHIBIT A
Rezone Findings
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15. Whether it is impossible to find other adequate sites in the County for the proposed use in
districts already permitting such use.
Pro/Con: Evaluation not applicable
Findings: Because the petitioner is seeking to amend a particular PUD to add adjacent
property, this analysis is not germane in this petition.
16. The physical characteristics of the property and the degree of site alteration which would
be required to make the property usable for any of the range of potential uses under the
proposed zoning classification.
Pro/Con: Evaluation not applicable
Findings: Any development of this site would require considerable site alteration with the
existing or the proposed zoning.
17. The impact of development on the availability of adequate public facilities and services
consistent with the levels of service adopted in the Collier County Growth Management
Plan and as defined and implemented through the Collier County LDC regarding
Adequate Public Facilities.
Pro/Con: Evaluation not applicable
Findings: A multi-disciplined team responsible for reviewing jurisdictional elements of the
GMP and the LDC public facilities requirements has reviewed this land use petition and found
it consistent and in compliance for zoning approval. A final determination whether this project
meets the full requirements of adequate public facilities specifications will be determined as
part of the development approval process
EXHIBIT A
Rezone Findings
PUDZ-A-200S-AR-8438
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Exhibit B
PUD FINDINGS
PU DZ-A-2005-AR -8438
Section 1 0.02.13.B.5 of the LDC of the Collier County Land Development Code requires the Planning
Commission to make a finding as to the PUD Master Plan's compliance with the following criteria:
1. The suitability of the area for the type and pattern of development proposed in relation
to physical characteristics of the land, surrounding areas, traffic and access, drainage,
sewer, water, and other utilities.
Pro: The nearby area is developed with residential uses and that is what is proposed. The
petitioner is setting aside a preserve area and has agreed to EAC recommendations regarding
mangrove protection. The project will be required to comply with all county regulations
regarding drainage, sewer, water and other utilities and has agreed to assist in roadway
improvements to Lakeview Drive.
Con: The clustering concept that will most likely be utilized by the developer for the
Fisherman's Village tract may result in a neighborhood perception that the site is being
developed as a higher density project
Finding: The overall density of Windstar will remain the same. The project will be
required to comply with all county regulations regarding drainage, sewer, water and other
utilities and has agreed to assist in roadway improvements to Lakeview Drive; therefore, the
project is suitable for the area.
2. Adequacy of evidence of unified control and suitability of any proposed agreements,
contracts, or other instruments, or for amendments in those proposed, particularly as
they may relate to arrangements or provisions to be made for the continuing operation
and maintenance of such areas and facilities that are not to be provided or maintained
at public expense.
Pro/Con: Evaluation not applicable
Finding: Documents submitted with the application provide evidence of unified control.
The PUD document makes appropriate provisions for continuing operation and maintenance
of common areas.
3. Conformity of the proposed Planned Unit Development with the goals, objectives, and
policies of the Growth Management Plan (GMP).
Pro: County staff has reviewed this petition and has offered an in-depth analysis (see staff
report) of the relevant goals, objectives and policies of the Conservation and Coastal
Management Element, the Future Land Use Element and the Transportation Element of the
GMP offering a recommendation that this petition be found consistent with the overall
GMP.
Con: Staff's analysis is subjective. Many of the goals, objective and policies do no have
quantative means to measure compliance. The GMP Transportation Element Policies 5.1
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and 5.2, Conservation and Coastal Management Element Objective 2.2, and Policy 6.1.1 and
Policy 7.1.2 contain measurable components; however, FLUE Policy 5.4 does not.
Compatibility is more subjective.
Finding: Staff has recommended that the subject petition has been found consistent with the
goals, objectives and policies of the GMP as provided for in the adopting ordinance. Please
see the staff report for a more detailed discussion.
4. The internal and external compatibility of proposed uses, which conditions may
include restrictions on location of improvements, restrictions on design, and buffering
and screening requirements.
Pro/Con: Evaluation not applicable.
Finding: Staff analysis as contained in the staff report indicates that this petition is
compatible, both internally and externally, with the proposed uses and with the existing
surrounding uses.
5. The adequacy of usable open space areas in existence and as proposed to serve the
development.
Pro/Con: Evaluation not applicable
Finding: The amount of open space set aside by this project is consistent with the
provisions of the Land Development Code. The proposed amendment adds 20.52 acres to
an existing 320 acre PUD that contains a golf course. The golf course is counted as open
space; therefore, the project contains 119::l:: acres of golf course open space which is 35
percent of the overall project. Other open space has also been provided in the Windstar
PUD.
6. The timing or sequence of development for the purpose of assuring the adequacy of
available improvements and facilities, both public and private.
Pro/Con: Evaluation not applicable
Finding: Timing or sequence of development in light of concurrency requirements does not
appear to be a significant problem as part of the PUD amendment process, but the project's
development must be in compliance with applicable concurrency management regulations
when development approvals are sought.
7. The ability of the subject property and of surrounding areas to accommodate
expansion.
Pro: The petitioner has agreed to assist in the funding of adjacent roadways improvements.
Con: The property owners along Lakeview Drive may not perceive that adequate
accommodations have been made to address roadway impacts.
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EXHIBIT B
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Finding: If "ability" implies supporting infrastructure such as wastewater disposal system,
potable water supplies, characteristics of the property relative to hazards, and capacity of
roads, then the subject property has the ability to support expansion based upon the
commitments made by the petitioner for Lakeview Drive and the fact that adequate public
facilities requirements will be addressed when development approvals are sought.
8. Conformity with PUD regulations, or as to desirable modifications of such regulations
in the particular case, based on determination that such modifications are justified as
meeting public purposes to a degree at least equivalent to literal application of such
regulations.
Pro/Con: Evaluation not applicable
Finding: This criterion essentially requires an evaluation of the extent to which
development standards and deviations proposed for this PUD depart from development
standards that would be required for the most similar conventional zoning district. The
development standards in this PUD are similar to those standards. The petitioner is not
seeking any deviations as part of the rezoning approval.
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PUD FINDINGS
PUDZ-A-2005-AR-8438
EXHIBIT B
Item V.B.
ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY COUNCIL
ST AFF REPORT
MEETING OF MAY 3, 2006
I. NAME OF PETITIONER/PROJECT:
Petition Name:
Applicantilleveloper:
Engineering Consultant:
Environmental Consultant:
Planned Unit Development
No. PUDZ-A-2005-AR-8438
Windstar PUD
Lakeview Drive of Naples, LLC
Davidson Engineering, Inc.
Kevin L. Erwin Consulting Ecologists,
Inc.
Turrell & Associates, Inc.
Petition No.:
II. LOCATION:
The subject property is located west of Bayshore Drive and south of US 41
abutting the City of Naples city limits in Sections II, 14 and 23, Township 50
South, Range 25 East, Collier County, Florida.
III. DESCRIPTION OF SURROUNDING PROPERTIES:
Surrounding properties are mostly developed, with the following zomng
classifications.
ZONING
DESCRIPTION
N-
RMF -6
MH
RMF-6-ST, MH, RMF-6
Partly Developed
Developed
Haldeman Creek
S-
PUD (Southpointe Yacht Club)
Developed
E-
RSF-4
RMF -6
RMF-6-BMUD-RI
RSF-6-BMUD-RI
MH
R.O.W.
RMF -6
Developed
Partly Developed
Partly Developed
Partly Developed
Developed
Bayshore Dr.
Developed
Exhibit C
EAC Meeting
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R.O.W.
Fern Street
W-
City of Naples
Haldeman Creek &
Naples Bay
Residential-
Developed
City of Naples
IV. PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The petitioner is seeking to amend the 320.6-acre Windstar PUD to add a 20.52-
acre tract that is commonly referred to as "the Fisherman's Village tract" for
which a maximum of 156 multi-family units were analyzed in the Traffic Impact
Statement and the Environmental Statement). As staff understands the petitioner's
proposal, the pending proposal adds the 72 dwelling units that would be allowable
in the existing Fisherman's Village tract with its RMF -6 (3.5 acres) and RMF-
6(3) (17.0 acres) zoning to the allowable maximum 549 dwelling units of the
existing PUD document for a total of 621 dwelling units in the newly configured
341.21 acre PUD project. The originally approved density was 1.715 units per
acre; the proposed density would be 1.82 units per acre (621 units -7- 341.12 acres
= 1.82 units per acre). Also proposed are accessory uses such as parking,
clubhouse areas, and wet slips along Haldeman Creek. Access to serve the
residents of this tract is proposed from Lakeview Drive, as well as internal access
from Windstar Boulevard. No development changes to the existing Windstar
PUD are proposed.
V. GROWTH MANAGEMENT PLAN CONSISTENCY:
Future Land Use Element:
The subject property is designated Urban (Urban Mixed - Use District, Urban
Coastal Fringe Subdistrict) on the Future Land Use Map of the Growth
Management Plan (GMP). The Urban Mixed - Use District permits a variety of
residential and non-residential land uses including mixed-use developments such
as Planned Unit Developments. The subject site is also within the Traffic
Congestion Area, part of the Density Rating System, and the site is entirely within
the Coastal High Hazard Area (CHHA) - that area lying within the Category 1
evacuation zone as defined in the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council
Hurricane Evacuation Study Update.
The Density Rating System provides for an eligible base density of 4 dwelling
units/acre (DU/A) throughout the Urban - Mixed Use District (except for the
Urban Residential Fringe capped at 1.5 DU/ A), whether in or out of the CHHA.
But, because the site is located within the Traffic Congestion Boundary it is
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subject to a 1 DU/ A reduction, thereby making the site eligible for an adjusted
base density of 3 DU/A.
It should also be noted that the Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR)
recommends limiting the density to a maximum of 4 DU/A in the CHHA and
replacing the Traffic Congestion Boundary (TCB) reduction with a CHHA
reduction of 1 DU/A. The result would be the same in this case- 3 DU/A.
The existing Windstar PUD provides for 549 dwelling units on 320.6:t acres (1.7
DU/ A). The proposed Windstar RPUD seeks 621 dwelling units on 341.1:t acres
(1.8 DU/A). The conceptual site plan for the additional 20.52 acres includes 138
dwelling units. The subject petition would result in an overall increase in density
in the Windstar RPUD, but within the allowable gross density of 3 DU/A for the
entire PUD. As with all residential rezones, density afforded by the Density
Rating System is the density that a given project is eligible for - it is not an
entitlement; for the subject petition.
FLUE Objective 7 encourages the use of smart growth principles. The applicant
has addressed several of these, including a diversity of housing types,
connectivity to adjacent projects, open spaces and pedestrian and bicycle paths.
Based on the above analysis, and subject to the changes required in the last
paragraph, staff concludes that the proposed development may be deemed
consistent with the Future Land Use Element of the Growth Management Plan.
Conservation & Coastal Manaeement Element:
In accordance with Objective 2.4 and Policy 2.4.1, the Florida Department of
Environmental Protection (FOEP) shall be notified of development projects
within Rookery Bay Aquatic Preserve watershed. A copy of the Site Development
Plan and Environmental Impact Statement will be forwarded to FDEP.
The project as proposed is consistent with the Policies in Objective 6.1 and 6.2 of
the Conservation & Coastal Management Element, for the [allowing reasons:
Greater than twenty five percent (25 %) of the existing native vegetation will be
retained in the lands to be added into the PUD and set aside as preserve areas with
conservation easements prohibiting further development. Selection of
preservation areas, are consistent with the criteria listed in Policy 6.1.1.
Habitat management and exotic vegetation removal/maintenance plans are
required at the time of Site Development Plan/Construction Plan submittal.
Preserve areas shall be required to be maintained free of Category I invasive
exotic plants, as defined by the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council. A preliminary
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preserve area management plan for the preserve within the Fishermans Village
portion of the PUD is included in the EIS.
Littoral shelf planting areas within wet detention ponds shall be required at the
time of Site Development Plan/Construction Plan submittal, and will be required
to meet the minimum planting area requirement in Policy 6.1.7.
The requirement for an Environmental Impact Statement (ElS) pursuant to Policy
6.1.8 has been satisfied.
Jurisdictional wetlands have been identified as required in Policies 6.2.1 and
6.2.2. Pursuant to Policy 6.2.4, the County shall require appropriate agency
permits prior to the issuance of a final local development order permitting site
improvements (Site Development Plan). As stated in Policies 6.2.3 and 6.2.4,
where permits issued by jurisdictional agencies allow for impacts to wetlands
within the Urban Designated Area and require mitigation for such impacts, this
shall be deemed to meet the objective of protection and conservation of wetlands
and the natural functions of wetlands within this area.
In accordance with Policy 6.2.6, required preservation areas are identified on the
PUD master plan. Allowable uses within the preserve areas are included in the
PUD document. Uses within preserve areas shall not include any activity
detrimental to drainage, flood control, water conservation, erosion control, or fish
and wildlife conservation and preservation.
A wildlife survey for listed species in accordance with Policy 7.1.2 is included in
the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Wildlife habitat management plans
for listed species are required at the time of Site Development Plan/Construction
Plan submittal. A preliminary manatee education and awareness plan for the site
is included in the EIS.
In accordance with Policy 7.2.1, the PUD is in compliance with the marina siting
criteria contained in the Manatee Protection Plan.
VI. MAJOR ISSUES:
Stormwater Manag:ement:
The purpose of this PUD amendment is to add the Fishermen's Village SDP that
was already reviewed by the EAC to the Windstar PUD. The Engineering
Review Department doesn't see any new issues that concern the management of
the project's storm water that will be caused by this procedural matter.
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Environmental:
Site Description:
The proposed amendment will incorporate the 20.52 acre Fishermans Village
parcel into the existing Windstar PUD. The 320 acre existing Windstar PUD is a
developed residential and golf course project with both single-family and multi-
family residences, an 18 hole golf course, several stormwater lakes, and preserve
areas.
The Fishermans Village site has been significantly altered by previous land use
with areas of mowed grass, scattered slash pine and cabbage palm, residual
cabbage palm hammocks, an excavated lake, and mangroves. The Fishermans
Village site is currently being permitted as a temporary spoil disposal site for the
County's Haldeman Creek dredging project and the majority of the proposed
development area will be significantly altered prior to development. Site plans
depicting conditions on-site before and after the County's use of the property are
included in the EIS.
The Fishermans Village soils map identifies four soil types mapped on-site with
two soils being dominant. The northern portion of the site is identified as Durbin
and Wulfert Mucks, which are typically found in tidal mangrove swamps. The
southern portion of the site is mapped as hydric soils and has been previously
impacted.
Wetlands:
In association with the County's permitting of the Fishermans Village property as
a temporary spoil recipient site for the Haldeman Creek dredging project, the
County has had site wetlands delineated. According to the County's delineation
there are currently 5.2 acres of jurisdictional wetlands (4. 7 acres) and other
surface waters (0.5 acres) south of Haldeman Creek. Additionally, Kevin L.
Erwin Consulting Ecologists have mapped, based on photo interpretation, an
additional 4.9 acres of wetlands (1.8 acres) and other waters (3.1 acres) north of
the southern property, including Haldeman Creek. All development work
proposed is south of the Creek in the area delineated as part of the County's
dredge project. Additionally, the project has expanded to the south to include a
pre-existing apartment complex, which includes a 0.4 acre surface water
management lake, which will be relocated. Based on the proposed spoil
stockpiling permit for the County, approximately 0.4 acres of wetlands and 0.5
acres of Other Surface Waters will be impacted and mitigated for by the County.
Mitigation for impacts by the County will be by purchasing credits from local
mitigation banks.
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The Fishermans Village project proposes to impact an additional 0.9 acres of
wetlands (0.3 acres of created mangrove forest, 0.4 acre of mangrove forest, 0.1
acre of restored mixed forested wetlands, and 0.1 acre of shrub and brush land)
and 0.4 acres of the existing water management system. To offset the impacts to
these wetlands, the developer intends to conduct on-site wetland enhancement
and preservation of 3.6 acres of coastal-forested wetland. Final wetland plans and
wetland mitigation activities will be finalized during discussions with state and
federal permitting agencies. If necessary, the balance of wetland impacts will be
offset by purchasing forested saltwater wetland mitigation credits from Little Pine
Island Mitigation Bank. Preliminary Uniform Mitigation Assessment Method
(UMAM) data sheets for the project are included as Exhibit K in the EIS.
Preservation Requirements:
The Fishermans Village property has been significantly altered by previous land
use and the majority of uplands are maintained (mowed) grassy areas with
clusters of pine and cabbage palm. Prior to initiation of construction of the
Fishermans Village project, the site will be further altered by the County's use of
the property as a temporary spoil site for maintenance dredging of Haldeman
Creek. Approximately 6.95 acres of native vegetation were present on the
Fishermans Village site prior to the County utilizing the property.
_IlLllc;coldanc;~with th~ uCo\.lnt)' Gcm,y th Maoags:ment Elan (GMP) and Land_
Development Code (LOC), a minimum of twenty-five percent of the native
vegetation on-site will have to be retained (6.95 acres X .25 = 1. 74 acres). The
2.66 acre preserve on the east side of the Fishermans Village project exceeds this
requirement.
Conservation easements have been recorded for habitats on the Fishermans
Village site as part of the original development permits issued for the site (OER
Permit No.l12315935 (4/17/91); SFWMD Permit No.II-01157-S (11/10/93);
USACOE Permit No.199003630 (8/6/93)). While the majority of the mitigation
was conducted for the original permits, the impact and development associated
with the original permits was not. The property owner intends to lift the existing
conservation easements and record easements over the preserves associated with
the current site plan.
Listed Species:
Surveys for listed plant and animal species were conducted on-site on October
19th and November 15t\ 2004. On October 19th the site was surveyed from 9:00
a.m. - 11 :30 a.m. with the majority of the focus on the open lands and mangrove
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fringe. On November 15th the site was surveyed from 10:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. with
the majority of the focus on the native mangrove/bay, cabbage palm and tropical
hardwood areas. More recently, at the request of County staff, the entire PUD
property was examined for the presence of gopher tortoise burrows. No gopher
tortoises or gopher tortoise burrows were found on-site.
Listed wildlife species observed on-site include one tri-color heron (on two
occasions) and three white ibis foraging on the mud flat in the center of the
mangrove forest. The only listed plant species identified was the common (stiff-
leaved) wild pine (Tillandsia fasciculata) found in the mangrove forest.
Additionally, an osprey is nesting on a platform erected adjacent to the canal on
the eastern portion of the property.
The listed species observed were in areas that are proposed to be preserved. The
active osprey nest is located in an area that is to be retained as a
preserve/landscape buffer and the pole and platform will not be removed.
VII. RECOMMENDATIONS:
Staff recommends approval of Planned Unit Development Amendment No.
PUDZ-A-2005-AR-8438 "Windstar PUD" with the following conditions:
Stormwater Mana2:ement and Environmental:
No additional stipulations.
Item VII.B.
ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY COUNCIL
STAFF REPORT
MEETING OF FEBRUARY 1,2006
I. NAME OF PETITIONER/PROJECT:
Petition No.:
Site Development Plan
No. SDP-2003-AR-4596
Fishermans Village
Antaramian Development Corporation
Davidson Engineering, Inc.
Kevin L. Erwin Consulting Ecologists,
Inc.
Petition Name:
Applicant/Developer:
Engineering Consultant:
Environmental Consultant:
II. LOCATION:
The project site is located adjacent to Haldeman Creek, in Sections 11 & 14,
Township 50 South, Range 25 East, Collier County, Florida.
III. DESCRIPTION OF SURROUNDING PROPERTIES:
Surrounding properties are mostly developed, with the following zonmg
classifications.
ZONING
DESCRIPTION
N-
RMF -6
Partially Developed
S-
RMF-6
Developed
E-
RSF -4
RMF -6
Developed
Partially Developed
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PUD (Windstar)
MH (Naples Land Yacht Harbor)
Developed
Developed
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IV. PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The project consists of 51 residential units (three duplex, three 8-unit buildings,
one 21-unit building) two pools, one clubhouse, a preserve area and a communal
dock with 51 slips. The project entrance is located at Lakewood Drive.
V. GROWTH MANAGEMENT PLAN CONSISTENCY:
Future Land Use Element:
The subject properties are designated Urban (Urban - Mixed Use District, Urban
Coastal Fringe Subdistrict), and are within the Traffic Congestion Boundary and
the Coastal High Hazard Area (CHHA), as identified on the Future Land Use
Map (FLUM) of the Growth Management Plan (GMP). Relevant to this petition,
this Subdistrict permits a variety of residential and non-residential uses including
residential multi-family development and associated accessory uses, such as
recreational and private dock facilities.
The Urban Coastal Fringe Subdistrict provides transitional densities between the
Conservation designated area and the Urban designated area. This Subdistrict
limits residential densities to a maximum of four dwelling units per acre, except
as allowed by the Density Rating System. Because the subject project is located
within the Traffic Congestion Boundary, part of the Density Rating System, it is
subject to a 1 dwelling unit per acre reduction, thereby making the project eligible
for an adjusted base density of 3 dwelling units per acre.
Based upon the foregoing, Comprehensive Planning staff is of the opinion that the
subject request to allow residential multi-family development with customary
accessory uses at a density of 3 DU/A is consistent with the Future Land Use
Element.
Conservation & Coastal Mana2ement Element:
Objective 2.2. of the Conservation and Coastal Management Element of the
Growth Management Plan states "All canals, rivers, and flow ways discharging
into estuaries shall meet all applicable federal, state, or local water quality
standards."
To accomplish that, policy 2.2.2 states "In order to limit the specific and
cumulative impacts of stormwater runoff, stormwater systems should be designed
in such a way that discharged water does not degrade receiving waters and an
attempt is made to enhance the timing, quantity, and quality of fresh water
(discharge) to the estuarine system."
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This project is consistent with the objectives of policy 2.2.2 in that it attempts to
mimic or enhance the quality and quantity of water leaving the site by utilizing
detention areas, vaults, and interconnected wetlands to provide water quality
retention and peak flow attenuation during storm events.
In accordance with Objective 2.4 and Policy 2.4.1, the Florida Department of
Environmental Protection (FDEP) shall be notified of development projects
within Rookery Bay Aquatic Preserve watershed. A copy of the Site Development
Plan and Environmental Impact Statement will be forwarded to FDEP.
The project as proposed is consistent with the Policies in Objective 6.1 and 6.2 of
the Conservation & Coastal Management Element, for the following reasons:
Greater than fifteen percent (15 %) of the existing native vegetation will be
retained on-site and set aside as preserve areas with conservation easements
prohibiting further development. Selection of preservation areas, are consistent
with the criteria listed in Policy 6.1.1.
Habitat management and exotic vegetation removal/maintenance plans are
required at the time of Site Development Plan/Construction Plan submittal and are
included on the site plans. Preserve areas shall be required to be maintained free
of Category I invasive exotic plants, as defined by the Florida Exotic Pest Plant
Council.
The requirement for an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) pursuant to Policy
6.1.8 has been satisfied.
Jurisdictional wetlands have been identified as required in Policies 6.2.1 and
6.2.2. As stated in Policies 6.2.3 and 6.2.4, where permits issued by jurisdictional
agencies allow for impacts to wetlands within the Urban Designated Area and
require mitigation for such impacts, this shall be deemed to meet the objective of
protection and conservation of wetlands and the natural functions of wetlands
within this area.
In accordance with Policy 6.2.6, required preservation areas are identified on the
site plans. Uses within preserve areas shall not include any activity detrimental to
drainage, flood control, water conservation, erosion control, or fish and wildlife
conservation and preservation. Restrictions for within preserve areas are included
in the conservation easement and on the site plans.
A wildlife survey for listed species in accordance with Policy 7.1.2 is included in
the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Wildlife habitat management plans
for listed species (manatees) are required at the time of Site Development
Plan/Construction Plan submittal are included on the site plans.
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VI. MAJOR ISSUES:
Stormwater Mana2ement:
Fisherman's Village is divided into a south basin and a smaller north basin
separated by a wetland preserve. Both basins use a combination of dry detention
areas and swales to achieve water quality retention/detention and they use
interconnected underground detention vaults below the parking areas to achieve
attenuation of the peak flows. This system should remove almost all settleable
solids and a portion of the suspended solids and should achieve some nutrient
removal prior to discharge.
The north basin discharges to the north directly into Haldeman Creek. The south
basin discharges toward the east into a dead-end canal which discharges into
Haldeman Creek. The south basin discharge may help circulation in the dead-end
canal.
The Site Development Plan CAR 4596) is on reject by Engineering Review for
miscellaneous engineering items as of the writing of this staff report. The Water
Management system design should not be affected by those comments. The
project requires a permit from SFWMD due to the proximity of wetlands and a
canal with direct access to the Gulf of Mexico. The District's staff report permit
conditions are the final design.
Environmental:
Site Description:
The Fishermans Village soils map identifies four soil types mapped on-site with
two soils being dominant. The northern portion of the site is identified as Durbin
and Wulfert Mucks, which are typically found in tidal mangrove swamps. The
southern portion of the site is shown as being dominated by Basinger Fine Sand,
which is typically found in transitional pine, cypress, and cabbage palm sloughs.
The site has been significantly altered by previous land use and consists mainly of
mowed grass with scattered slash pine and cabbage palm, residual cabbage palm
hammocks, an excavated lake, and mangroves. Most of the non-estuarine portions
of the project will be cleared by the County during maintenance dredging of
Haldeman Creek, prior to development of the site. A site plan depicting
anticipated conditions on-site after the County's use of the property is included as
Figure 4 in the EIS.
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Conservation easements have been recorded for habitats on-site as part of the
original development permits issued for the site (DER Permit No.l12315935
(4/17/91); SFWMD Permit No.II-01157-S (11110/93); USACOE Permit
No.199003630 (8/6/93)). While the majority of the mitigation was conducted for
the original permits, the impact and development associated with the original
permits was not. The property owner intends to lift the existing conservation
easements and record easements over the preserves associated with the current
site plan.
Wetlands:
In association with the County's permitting of the property as a temporary spoil
recipient site for the Haldeman Creek dredging project, the County has had site
wetlands delineated (EIS Exhibit D). According to the County's delineation there
are 3.8 acres of jurisdictional wetlands and 1.4 acres of Other Surface Waters
south of Haldeman Creek. Additionally, Kevin L. Erwin Consulting Ecologists
have mapped, based on photo interpretation, an additional 1.8 acres of wetlands
and 3.1 acres of Other Surface Waters north of the southern property (EIS Figure
2). All development work proposed is south of the Creek in the area delineated as
part of the County's dredge project. Based on the proposed spoil stockpiling
permit for the County, approximately 0.4 acres of wetlands and 0.5 acres of Other
Surface Waters will be impacted and mitigated for by the County.
Subsequent to the County utilizing the site as a dredge recipient site, there will be
approximately 5.2 acres of jurisdictional wetlands and 4.0 acres of Other Surface
Waters located within the property boundary. The Fishermans Village project
proposes to impact 1.2 acres of wetlands including 0.6 acres of created mangrove
forest, 0.4 acre of native mangrove forest, 0.1 acre of mixed forested mitigation
wetlands, and 0.1 acre of shrub and brush land). Impacts will be mitigated by
preserving and enhancing 3.6 acres of wetlands on-site and by purchasing coastal
wetland Credits from Little Pine Island Mitigation Bank. Final wetland impacts
and mitigation will be determined during the state and federal permitting process.
Water quality, quantity, and hydroperiod should not be altered by this project.
The on-site wetland that will not be impacted will be enhanced as a part of
mitigation (exotic maintenance and spoil removal). The hydrology of the wetland
systems is tidally dominated and it is anticipated that the project will provide
increased hydrological connections to preserves wetlands. The project plans
include a surface water management system, which includes a series of wet/dry
detention to hold and treat on-site runoff to insure water quality is reached.
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Preservation Requirements:
The subject property has been significantly altered by previous land use and the
majority of uplands are maintained (mowed) grassy areas. Prior to initiation of
construction of the Fishermans Village project, the site will be further altered by
the County's use of the property as a temporary spoil site for maintenance
dredging of Haldeman Creek. Two vegetation maps have been prepared for the
project: EIS Figure 2 identifies the current vegetation communities on-site and
EIS Figure 4 identifies the vegetation communities anticipated upon completion
of the County's utilization of the site for temporary spoil disposal. According to
the EIS for the Haldeman Creek dredging project, 6.95 acres of native vegetation
currently exist on-site.
Fishermans Village is a residential project, greater than 2.5 acres in size and
located seaward of the "Coastal High Hazard Area". In accordance with Policy
6.1.1 of the Growth Management Plan (GMP) and Section 3.05.07 of the Land
Development Code (LDC), a minimum of twenty-five percent of the existing
native vegetation shall be retained on-site (6.95 acres x .25 = 1.74 acres). The
2.66 acre County required preserve identified on the Site Development Plan
satisfies this requirement.
Listed Species:
Surveys for listed plant and animal species were conducted on-site on October
19th and November 15th, 2004. On October 19th the site was surveyed from 9:00
a.m. - 11 :30 a.m. with the majority of the focus on the open lands and mangrove
fringe. On November 15th the site was surveyed from 10:30 a.m. - 3 :30 p.m. with
the majority of the focus on the native mangrove/bay, cabbage palm and tropical
hardwood areas.
Listed wildlife species observed include one tri-color heron (on two occasions)
and three white ibis foraging on the mud flat in the center of the mangrove forest.
The only listed plant species identified was the cardinal wild pine (Tillandsia
fasiculata) found in the mangrove forest. Additionally, an osprey is nesting on a
platform erected adjacent to the canal on the eastern portion of the property. The
listed species observed were in areas that are proposed to be preserved. The
osprey nesting platform is located in an area to be retained as a
preserve/landscape buffer and the pole and platform will not be removed.
Manatee awareness signage and language addressing protection measures for
manatees during construction are included on the site plans. Calculations for
determining the number of boat slips according to the Manatee Protection Plan
(MPP) are included in the EIS and on the site plans. The amount of shoreline used
in determining the number of boat slips pursuant to the MPP is still under review
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by staff. The current site plan identifies 5,461.85 feet of shoreline which allows
for a maximum of 54 boat slips. Only the amount of shoreline for property owned
by the applicant can be used in determining the number of boat slips pursuant to
the MPP. An update of staffs findings will be presented at the EAC meeting. A
total of 51 boat slips are shown on the site plan.
VII. RECOMMENDA TIONS:
Staff recommends approval of Site Development Plan No. SDP-2003-AR-4596
"Fishermans Village" with the following conditions:
Stormwater Manae:ement:
1. A preconstruction conference must be held prior to commencing any work.
Permits from all applicable state and federal agencies must be obtained
prior to any preconstruction conference.
Environmental:
1. Permits or letters of exemption from the South Florida Water Management
District (SFWMD) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACOE) shall be
submitted to Environmental Services Department review staff prior to the
pre-construction meeting with the Engineering Services Department.
2. The approved conservation easement for the County required preserve shall
be recorded within 90 days of Site Development Plan (SDP) approval.
CRA Board
Commissioner
James N. Coletta
Commissioner
Fred W. Coyle
Commissioner
Donna Fiala
Chairman
Commissioner
Frank Halas
Commissioner
Tom Henning
Advisory
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Bill Neal
Chairman
Karen Beatty
Ron Fowle
Rod Gamer
Chuck Gunther
Phil McCabe
Steve Main
William Mears
Lindsey Thomas
CRA Staff
)avid L. Jackson
Executive
Director
THE BAYSHORE/GATEWAY TRIANGLE REDEVELOPMENT AREA
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
2408 LINWOOD AVE SUITE 11 NAPLES, FL 34112 PHONE 239.643.1115 FAX 239.775.4456
May 24, 2006
RE: Windstar PUD Amendment
TO: Ms Kay Deselem,
Concerning the Windstar PUD Amendment to include the Lakeview Drive of Naples, LLC
development, I submit the following on behalf of the Bayshore Gateway Triangle Community Redevelopment
Agency's Local Advisory Board. The topics below come from numerous meetings and discussions concerning
the matters at hand as a result of the proposed development.
BACKGROUND FACTORS:
Collier County Impacts (all dates are determined):
1. Haldeman Creek Dredge - July 2006 to Jan 2007.
2. 1000+ dump truck movements to remove spoil- times 2 (truck arrival and departure).
3. Spoil vacated from Windstar development site NL T Ian 2007.
CRA/Bavshore Avalon MSTU (all dates are estimates):
I. Development ofBCC/CRAlMSTU approved residential streetscape workbook & master plan-
September 2006.
2. Lakeview Drive neighborhood & owners streetscape design charrette - Sep to Oct 2006.
3. Lakeview Drive streetscape design approval Jan-Feb 2007.
4. Develop construction documents and bid Mar-JuI2007.
5. Construction Aug-Mar 2008; no later than issuance of Lakeview Drive of Naples, LLC C.O. by
County.
Lakeview Drive of Naples. LLC (all dates are estimates - to be confIrmed by Lakeview LLC):
I. Dredge impacts listed above.
2. Begin construction Feb-Mar 2007.
3. Estimated completion and issue ofC.O. Nov-Dec 2008.
The Local eRA Advisory Board agrees to the following (with fInal approval by CRA):
I. CRA/Bayshore MSTU work jointly to design and install Lakeview Drive residential streetscape, with a
monetary assist from the developer impacting Lakeview Drive.
2. Lakeview Drive of Naples, LLC makes a monetary (cash) payment of$75,000.00 to assist in the
installation of a sidewalk the length of Lakeview Drive from Bayshore Drive to the PUD boundary;
and engineering and installation of asphalt to widened the street from 18 feet to 22 feet. Payment to be
made to the CRA Trust Fund no later than 90 days after PUD Amendment approval, to be deposited
into the CRA Trust Fund under a specifIc Capital Improvement Project line item: Lakeview Drive
Streetscape.
3. Lakeview Drive of Naples, LLC will accept some stormwater from Lakeview Drive streetscape
improvements at their PUD on-site stormwater facility, based on engineering studies and streetscape
stormwater requirements.
For the Bayshore Gateway Triangle Local CRA Advisory Board,
David Jackson
Executive Director
239-643-1115
Exhibit D
THE BAYSHORE/GATEWAY TRIANGLE REDEVELOPMENT AREA
2408 LINWOOD AVE, SUITE 7-UNIT 11 NAPLES. FL 34112
PHONE 239.643.1115 FACSIMILE 239.775.4456
Excerpts from the
Archaeological Assessment of the
Fisherman's Cover Parcel
Exhibit E
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Consultant Summary
Proj ect Setting
Previous Research
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Cultural Summary
Methodology
Site Summary
Results and Conylusions
References Cited
Appendix 1: Shovel Test Log
Appendix 2: Field Specimen Log
Appendix 3: Survey Log
Appendix 4: State Site File, Haldeman Creek Midden, 8CR926
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Consultant Summary
In August 2005, the Archaeological and Historical Conservancy Inc. (AHC) conducted a
phase 1 archaeological assessment for Turrell & Associates, Inc. of the 20.82-acre
Fisherman's Cove parcel located east of the City of Naples in west-central Collier County.
The parcel was surveyed to locate sites of archaeological and/or historical significance.
This assessment was conducted to fulfill historic resource requirements in response to
Florida's Chapters 267 and 373. This assessment was conducted in accordance with Section
106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (public Law 89-665), as amended in
1992, and 36 C.F.R., Part 800: Protection of Historic Properties. The work and the report
conform to the specifications set forth in Chapter IA-46, Florida Administrative Code.
The parcel encompasses parts of Sections 11 and 14 in Township 50S, Range 25E (Figure 1).
The parcel is adjacent to Haldeman Creek and is a mix of developed, filled, and undeveloped
land containing second-growth dense native and exotic vegetation. Most of the parcel was
historic mesic slash pine/saw palmetto flatwoods. A marsh pond is located near the center of
the parcel and a small tract of land north of Haldeman Creek is undeveloped mangrove
swamp. The extreme northern portion of the parcel includes a segment of the northern and
southern banks of Haldeman Creek, which drains into Naples Bay to the west. One modem
structure, a multi-unit apartment complex, is located on the project parcel. No historic
structures are known to have existed on the parcel.
The entire parcel was investigated based on aerial photograph reconnaissance and a
subsequent pedestrian survey. It was determined that the parcel area, particularly the
northern and southern upland areas had a moderate probability of containing archaeological
sites. 'Th.irteen shovel tests (45 cm2) were dug across the parcel and one archaeological site,
8CR926, was discovered in the mangrove swamp immediately north of Haldeman Creek.
It is the consultant's opinion that archaeological site CR925,"a formative period shell midden,
is of local significance. Based on available data, however, it is not known whether the site is
potentially eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The proposed site
plan does not include development of the site or any part of the north side of the creek. lfthe
area of the site is to be impacted, phase 2 testing is recommended in order to determine the
site's full extent and significance. Any proposed "clean-up" or restoration of the site area
will require an archaeological plan to be in place.
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parcel is a roughly ''T''-shaped polygon with the straight borders oriented to the cardinal points.
Haldeman Creek crosses from east to west the northern portion of the parcel. The relevant
USGS maps are Naples North and Naples South, Fla.
The Fisherman's Cove parcel has been partially cleared and filled. The majority of the
upland area is kept mowed. Large native trees indicate that the historic vegetation was likely
slash pine/saw palmetto flatwoods with small clusters of cabbage palms. A mangrove pond
with a feeder creek to Haldeman Creek and tidally-flooded mangrove swamp areas borders
Haldeman Creek on both banks. There are two man-made lakes located within the parcel.
The mangrove pond area has been kept in its natural state with a border of white mangroves
and buttonwood. A canal parallels much of the eastern border of the property while the
western border adjoins a golf course.
Slash, pine flatwoods communities are usually situated on high ground west of Naples
Bay/Gordon River. Historically, these communities, which contain a dense, often head-high
understory of saw palmetto, were subject to and maintained by periodiC forest fires. Fires
started either naturally by lightning strikes or by prehistoric Indians or by early settlers to aid
hunting or cattle grazing. Among the plants typically found in the slash pine/saw palmetto
flatland/prairie environments are: slash pine, saw palmetto, gallberry, shiny lyonia, rusty
lyonia, staggerbush, dahoon holly, ground oak, wire grass, broom sedges, shiny blueberry,
xyris, and a variety of annual and perennial herbs and wildflowers blooming seasonally.
The pine flatwoods in the area south of Haldeman Creek integrates with brackish
marsh/mangrove areas closest to the creek. The mangrove swamp areas, particularly those
north of the creek, are high canopy and subject to a tidal flooding.
The soil types for the area are fine white to gray sand mantles covering brown hardpan sands.
Saint Lucie fine/Pomello fine and Immokalee fine types predominate. At lower depths, there
is frequently present a zone of decayed peat. Limestone caprock is generally not found
surfacially in the immediate area of the subject parcel.
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Previous Research
Southwest Florida has been a focus of archaeological investigations since the 1880s,
although much of the early work was directed toward recovery of museum quality
artifacts rather than understanding cultural processes. Griffin (1988:48-50) discusses
some of the very early references to archaeological sites in south Florida. He notes that
these early reports were mostly casual observations, and few appear to refer to Southwest
Florida, but rather the southeast and Key West areas.
Southwest Florida archaeological sites have been reported since at least the time of
Kenworthy's informal report on shell mounds and ancient canals (Kenworthy 1883).
At about the same time as Kenworthy's investigations, Simons (1884) gave a narrative
account of some of the very large coastal shell middens, and Douglass (1885) provided
further information about prehistoric canals (although he did not accept that they were
prehistoric); one canal near Gordon's Pass is probably the Naples Canal (8CR59), and
one further north the Pineland Canal. Griffin (1988 :50-51) indicates that Douglass'
diaries record excavations on Horrs Island, apparently a post-contact era site (8CR41), as
Douglass mentioned European artifacts. Douglass visited Lostman's River and other
areas in the Ten Thousand Island area, and a visit to Horrs Island was briefly narrated in
Douglass (1890).
In 1895, Durnford reported cordage and other artifacts recovered from a mangrove muck
pond on Marco Island (site 8CR49). The material was shown to Cushing, who mounted a
major project to recover more material from the site. Cushing (1897) reported wood and
other perishable artifacts recovered from the muck pond on Marco Island, adjacent to a
large shell works and midden village site. This report generated a great deal of
subsequent interest after publication of illustrations of the spectacular finds. Wells M.
Sawyer, a young artist accompanying the expedition produced an excellent and
presumably accurate contour map for the entire Key Marco Shell Midden. This map is
valuable to present-day efforts to understand many of the now obliterated . features and
interpreting (reconstructing) the "architecture" of the shell midden during current
excavations at that site. Widmer (1983) notes that Cushing also focused attention on the
nonagricultural chiefdom level of social organization supported by the rich estuary and
marine resources, although his anthropological observations have remained
overshadowed by the wealth of artifacts.
C.B. Moore investigated a number of sites along the Collier/Lee County coast, apparently
attempting to fmd material comparable to Cushing's finds (Moore 1900, 1905, 1907).
Although Moore provided information about site locations and general contents, most of
his work was extremely crude and uncontrolled, even by contemporary archaeological
standards, and certainly by modem.
The first attempt to systematically survey and investigate archaeological sites was
initiated by Ales Hrdlicka, who in 1918 visited a number of sites along the coast and tidal
mangrove estuaries, especially in the Ten Thousand Island region (Hrdlicka 1922).
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Matthew Stirling excavated a burial mound on Horrs Island (1931, 1933). The site was
named the Blue Hill Mound but is not recorded under that name in the FMSF (either as a
primary or secondary name), so it is unclear exactly which site he excavated though it was
probably 8CR41 (McMichaels 1982). The reports by Stirling are preliminary, and apparently
neither a final report nor a skeletal analysis has been published. However, this represents one
of the first controlled excavations in CollierlLee Counties (although he attempted
stratigraphic control Cushing had little success in his wet site excavation) John M. Goggin
(1936) defined a south Florida cultural area (Glades Area), and described south Florida
ceramics (Glades ware), establishing a basis for later archaeological work.
Goggin (1939) published an analysis of the ceramic sequence in south Florida. In later
reports (1947, 1949a, 1949b) he formulated a basic framework of cultural areas and
chronologies that is still current (though modified with additional data, see further discussion
below). Goggin summarized much of this information in an unpublished manuscript (1949b,
although modified later); the most thorough discussion of this manuscript is available in
Griffin (1988).
In 1935, John M. Goggin, pioneer south Florida archaeologist made a visit to the Gordon
Pass Shell Mound on the north side of Gordon's Pass. This archaeological feature, now
destroyed, became the type-site for an incised pottery decoration/motif called "Gordon Pass
Incised," now recognized as a prominent Glades II time marker. Goggin's work at the
Gordon Pass Shell Midden along with preliminary conclusions as to a Glades area
chronology was published in the New Mexico Anthropologist in 1939 (Goggin 1939).
In passing, one unfortunate aspect of Goggin's work was a dependence on informant
information for location of sites (especially interior sites) and he had a real concern that
existing sites would be looted. This concern resulted in either deliberately or incidentally
vague 10cational data for many sites. Some of these sites have never been satisfactorily
relocated, although a few have undoubtedly been unknowingly recorded by later
investigators. Goggin's 1949 manuscript (Goggin 1949b), which was apparently a rough
draft for the Yale Publications in Anthropology series, enumerates several sites occurring in
and around Bonita Springs. Due to the above difficulties in determining precise location, it
cannot be said with absolute certainty that some do not occur near the subject tracts.
For several decades, much of the subsequent archaeological investigations in the region took
place in Lee and Charlotte Counties, especially in the Cape Haze, Charlotte Harbor and Pine
Island areas. It is rumored that John M. Goggin had a "gentleman's agreement" with many of
the other leading practicing Florida archaeologists of the time that the South Florida area was
his exclusive province to investigate. If this rumor is correct, it might explain the neglect
shown the southwest Florida area from the end of World War II to Goggin's death in 1964.
In 1956 Sears reported on a large village and mound complex at the mouth of Turner River
on Chokoloskee Bay south of Marco Island, and in 1967 on the results of a survey of the
Cape Coral area. Laxson (1966) reported on excavations at Turner River Jungle Garden site,
upriver from the Turner River site, although these have been confused in recent accounts.
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Van Beck and Van Beck (1965) excavated three small test pits on Marco Island (at the Marco
midden, 8CR48) associated with the Cushing site (8CR49). Their description for the
placement of the three test pits excavated would place them less than 900 feet east of the
subject parcel. The subsequent article concerning the Van Becks' efforts in the Florida
Anthropologist (March 1965) was some of the first reported scientific archaeological work to
come from the southwest Florida area in nearly twenty years.
In 1967, 1968, 1969 Marco Island was extensively surveyed and a few sites tested by
excavation by Cockrell, Morrell and others (Morrell 1969). No complete site report was ever
published although an unpublished and incomplete manuscript is available. Some of these
sites were discussed in Cockrell's M.A. thesis (1970). Widmer performed a survey of Big
Key, John Stevens Creek, Barfield Bay, Blue Hill Bay, and Collier Bay (all close to Marco
Island) (Widmer 1974). Widmer eventually utilized his southwest coast experience to write a
doctoral dissertation on the Calusa that not only remains the definitive work on that group,
but also explores the relationship between subsistence adaptation and cultural evolution
(Widmer 1983).
In Lee County, Arlene Fradkin and other investigators from the University of Florida began
an ongoing involvement with the Pine Island Sound/Sanibel Island area with her
investigations at the Wightman site on northern Sanibe1 Island (Fradkin, 1976).
McMichaels (1982) produced a M.A. thesis reviewing sites on Horrs Island. In 1983
Marquardt began a series of investigations at Josslyn Key~ Useppa Island, Pinel and, Buck
Key, Galt Island in Lee County (Marquardt, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1992) and Big Mound Key in
Charlotte County. Marquardt and Russo have investigated Horrs Island in Collier County. A
number of the large shell midden village sites appear to be late Archaic, and they expect to
document a more elaborate social organization and larger sedentary or semi-sedentary
population sizes than previously known for that period (Russo 1990, and personal
communications ).
Most of these studies focused on the coastal sites, as have subsequent summaries and
discussions. Recent work on the interior has made significant advances in documenting the
extent and intensity of inland resources, especially in the Big Cypress and Everglades parks
(Ehrenhard, Carr, and Taylor 1978, 1979, Ehrenhard and Taylor 1980, Ehrenhard, Taylor and
Komara 1980, Taylor and Komara 1983, Taylor 1984, 1985). Synthesis of this data is
available only for the Everglades Park (Griffin 1988) and this is definitely the most important
single publication on south Florida archaeology to date. Athens (1983) summarized some of
the results of the Big Cypress survey, but more analysis of this data resource is needed.
Beriault et al. (1981) reported on salvage excavations at Bay West Nursery (8CR200),
describing a well known but rare and little-documented Early and Middle Archaic use of
ponds for cemeteries.
In 1995, Drs. Randolph Widmer and Rebecca Story began an ongoing investigation at the
Key Marco Midden. In this first season they excavated with the help of graduate students and
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Cultural Summary
Stirling was the first to distinguish the indigenous prehistoric cultures of southern Florida in
1936 by defining a Glades cultural area, including all of south Florida (Carr et at., 1994b:9;
Milanich, 1994:5-6). Griffin (1988) pointed out that this was not formulated as a strict
cultural area, but rather was a geographic region with some common cultural traits. Kroeber
(1939), in a review of North American prehistory, utilized a slightly different term, the
"South Florida Area," basing his definition on both environmental and cultural factors.
Subsequently Goggin delineated more particular boundaries for' southern Florida and divided
the region into three sub-areas: "Okeechobee" around Lake Okeechobee, "Tekesta" for
southeast Florida and the Florida Keys, and "Calusa" for Southwest Florida (Carr et al.,
1994b:10; Goggin, 1947:114-127).
Following Goggin's study, subsequent researchers have refined or altered the cultural
distinctions attributed to southern Florida's prehistoric populations. There has been criticism
that Goggin's names and definitions were based on historic accounts of the main (proto)
historic groups found in the respective regions and not on the archaeological evidence of
spatial, temporal, and cultural differences (Sears, 1966; Griffin, 1974; Carr and Beriault,
1984; Griffin, 1988). Griffin, in particular, questioned the distinctions. He believed that
South Florida cultures varied only by local environmental conditions and ceramic exchange
rates. Griffm believed the inhabitants of prehistoric southern Florida were mainly dwelling
on the coast and that the interior was nearly uninhabited and under-utilized. Griffin
designated the entire southern Florida region as the "Circum-Glades" area (Eck, 1997:5;
Griffin, 1974:342-346). This new designation for the area was furthered by a widely
circulated book on Florida archaeology by Milanich and Fairbanks (1980). Griffin later
(1988) retreated to some extent from his earlier position as further research (particularly by
Ehrenhard, Carr, Komara, and Taylor in the Big Cypress and Carr in the eastern Everglades
in the 1970s and 1980s) showed abundant sites (and concomitant use and habitation) in the
interior and Everglades.
Carr and Beriault, in particular, have taken issue with the concept of a Circum-Glades region.
Carr's research in the Big Cypres~ and Everglades and his subsequent analysis demonstrating
variation of key cultural markers (particularly in decorated ceramics) formed the basis for
this contention. There is abundant evidence for cultural (and probably political or tribal)
diversity in the various areas of south Florida. Carr and Beriault particularly noted and
defined differences between the lower southwest Florida coast, which they termed the "Ten
Thousand Island" region, and the area to the north, which they called the "Caloosahatchee"
region. This latter area they believed tq be the seat of the historic Calusa chiefdomship,
although previous (and some subsequent) researchers have called the entire southwest
Florida from Cape Sable to the Cape Haze peninsula (and beyond) in Charlotte County
"Calusa. "
Griffin, in his definitive 1988 synthesis on Everglades archaeology, attempted to reconcile
and refine some of the conflict in the definition of south Florida prehistoric and historic
culture areas. As stated by Carr and colleagues (1994b), "the issue...appears inpart to be one
of trying to determine the significance of regional and temporal variation, rather than whether
these differences are real." There is evidence that changes through time in regional political
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affiliations or realties makes any model not addressing this complex issue two-dimensional.
The Calusa hegemony that was in place by the time of the arrival of Europeans may have
begun as early as 800 AD in the Ten Thousand Island "district" or area (Griffm, 1988:321;
Carr et al., 1994b: 12). There is currently ongoing research to further refine present thought as
to cultural affiliations in south Florida. It would seem only a matter of time before new
directions and emphases provide a more accurate summation of south Florida cultural
affinities.
Using the present models, the coastal zones of Collier County and southern Lee County
contain three distinct culture areas. Indian Hill on Marco Island lies thirty miles from the
projected interface by Carr and Beriault (1984) of the Ca100sahatchee area (called the "the
'heartland' of the Calusa", Carr et al., 1994b:12) to the north, and the Ten Thousand Islands
area to the south. At a yet undefined point to the east lies the Okeechobee cultural area, but
the boundary, if it is a definite, fixed one, is likely to occur in the vicinity of the Immokalee
rise forty miles or more to the northeast of Indian Hill. Further work is in progress by Carr to
address the issue of where the southwest boundaries of the Okeechobee culture area occur.
Temporal Periods and Adaptations
At the same time that south Florida archaeological cultural models have evolved over the
past 60-plus years, so have the temporal markers or framework on which we base evolution
of that culture. Much of this latter effort has resulted from comparisons made between the
recovered artifacts from the lOa-year period of scientific and nonscientific excavation and
collection by the various individuals and institutions (and others) enumerated in part above.
This Floridian effort must be seen against the broader background of archaeological work in
eastern North America and the New World as a whole. All of these efforts have been
mutually complimentary and certainly not exclusive.
In south Florida, the following periods and adaptations seem to be generally accepted. Part of
this chronology involving the later or Formative period is called the Glades sequence in
honor of Goggin, the greater part of whose work in defining the ceramic sequence or markers
has withstood the test of time and subsequent criticism (Goggin, 1939, 1947, 1949c). From
Goggin's day to present, pottery variability in form, substance, and decoration has proven
useful for providing time markers, at least during the archaeologically-brief C.::t 3500 year)
period spanning the late Archaic and Formative periods that it was produced. Other artifact
types and their variations have, to present, proven somewhat less reliable as absolute
indicants of prehistoric age. Radiocarbon dating, a phenomena of the last 30-plus years,
provides, within the standard deviation expressed in plus-or-minus years BP (before present),
a relatively absolute date for given sample and provides a yardstick to measure traits or
distinctions in provenienced artifacts. Determining and adequately defining what traits we
can discern against this absolute is part of the ongoing function of the regional archaeological
effort.
The following information is generalized and abbreviated. The dates are approximate;
transitions between periods are in reality more gradual that the manner they are expressed for
convemence.
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Paleo Period (14.000 - 8.500 BP)
During the Paleo Period, the first Native Americans began moving into the southeastern
portion of North America and Florida. Most evidence of their presence in our state can be
reliably dated to about 10,000 BP.
There are no known Pa1eoindian sites in Collier County. Several are documented from
elsewhere in south Florida, including Warm Mineral Springs and Little Salt Springs in
Sarasota County (Cockrell and Murphy, 1978; Clausen and Gifford, 1975), Harney Flats in
Hillsborough County (Daniel and Wisenbaker, 1987) and the Cutler Fossil Site in Dade
County (Carr, 1986).
During this period, the terminal Wisconsian ice age, the climate was probably less extreme,
with cooler summers and warmer winters. The climate was also drier, and sea levels were
lower (Carbone, 1983; Allerton and Carr 1988a; Griffin, 1988).
One reason that possible Paleo period sites have not been discovered in Collier and Lee
Counties is that the shoreline may have been as much as 100 miles further west due to lower
sea levels. Drier conditions may have made the interior very inhospitable, and the shallow
estuarine and littoral sites that existed were flooded by post-ice age Holocene sea rises.
Any possible interior sites from the Paleo Period may be unrecognizable due to lack of
diagnostic artifacts, subsequent reuse of site areas, low population density, and few
permanent camps. These and other factors may help explain the absence to date of
identifiable Paleo period sites in Collier and Lee Counties. On the other hand, the southwest
Florida coast south of Charlotte Harbor may have been uninhabitable during this period due
to an absence of key conditions for the successful hunting of large game, a trait of the Paleo
period.
Archaic Period (8.500 - 2.500 BP)
The Archaic period. reflects a post-Pleistocene shift in adaptation marked by an increase in
the seasonal exploitation of a broad spectrum of food resources, a more restricted use of
territory due to regional specialization, and more semi-sedentary habitation sites. No
ceramics are known until the Late Archaic. During the Archaic, regional specializations
became more marked, not only with material culture but also with distinct local utilization of
local plant and animal resources. .
As mentioned above, there is, as yet, no firm evidence of human presence in southwest
Florida during the Paleo period. This apparently is also true for the Early Archaic (8500-
7000BP), as there is evidence of an environment too arid to support scrub oak, and the
presence of shifting wind formed dunes (Watts, 1975; Widmer, 1983). No early Archaic sites
are known from southwest Florida (Allerton and Carr, 1988: 14).
By about 6500 BP mesic conditions began to spread, although localized xeric conditions
continued (and still exist in some areas) through south Florida. Middle Archaic sites dating
from this time are rare, although the Bay West Nursery site (8CR200) in Collier County and
the Ryder Pond site (8LL1850) in Lee County near Bonita Springs provide evidence of
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occupation, as do several sites in southeast Florida. The Bay West site is a Middle Archaic
cypress pond cemetery, associated with a lithic scatter. The Ryder Pond site is a similar
mortuary pond site surrounded by pine flatwoods (Carr and Heinz, 1996). Beriault has also
recorded several aceramic shell scatters in coastal sand hills (paleo dunes), some of which
may date to the Middle Archaic. Griffin (1988) summarizes evidence indicating that despite
the rise of available surface water, brackish estuaries and other major modem landscape
features had not formed, and population (or repopulation) was still sparse.
During the Archaic period sea levels began to rise at a fairly rapid rate, estimated at 8.3 em.
per 100 years 6000-3000 BP, and 3.5 em per 100 years afterwards (Scholl et ai., 1969),
although whether sea levels were steadily rising or oscillating is still unclear (see Griffin
1988; Allerton and Carr, 1990 for recent reviews of the literature). Data is somewhat difficult
to sort out as sea level rise was accompanied by both shore regression and transgression in
places. As conditions became wetter (and warmer) in the interior, cypress swamps and
hardwood sub-tropical forests established themselves by about 5000 BP (Carbone 1983,
De1court and Delcourt 1981).
By late Middle or early Late Archaic times (4000 years BP) there were significant shell
mounds and middens on Horrs Island, Marco Island, and elsewhere in the coastal regions,
suggesting that the estuary system had been established and was being utilized to provide the
subsistence basis for denser populations and semi-sedentary settlements (Morrell, 1969;
Cockrell, 1970). At Useppa Island in Lee County, excavations have provided radiocarbon
dates from pre-ceramic shell middens ranging between roughly 4900 BP and 5600 BP,
suggesting that the Middle Archaic as well as Late Archaic periods saw a growing
dependence on shellfish resources (Milanich et ai., 1984). There are aceramic coastal sand
hill and interior wetland sites as well, but these have not been demonstrated to be Archaic
despite some investigators equating aceramic with preceramic. Radiocarbon. dates for these
sites would clarify this point.
Allerton and Carr (1988) noted that a number of stratified sites in the wet mangrove and
marsh areas of the Everglades, as well as on Horrs Island, contain Archaic preceramic
horizons, although it is unclear if aceramic was equated with preceramic. Additional
supporting evidence of interior use by Archaic peoples will provide a new dimension to the
archaeological understanding of Archaic resource utilization. Allerton and Carr point out that
if the wet tree islands were initially used by Archaic people, then at least some of the
hardwood hammocks in swamp environments were raised in elevation (with subsequent
changes in vegetation) due to human activities. Post-Archaic people extensively utilized
these hammocks and continued to advance their development as distinct geomorphic
features. This is obviously an area where additional archaeological investigations have a
potential to contribute to understanding the interaction of geomorphic and cultural evolution
in southwest Florida.
Toward the end of the Archaic there was the introduction of fiber-tempered pottery into the
archaeological record, often used as a marker of the Orange Phase, commencing at about
4000 BP, either coincident with or soon after the development of the extensive shell middens.
The Late Archaic Orange Phase subsistence strategy is characterized by intensive use of
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shellfish and marine resources, as well as being marked 'by an accelerated trend toward
regional specializations.
A number of the large shell middens on Marco Island (Cockrell, 1970), Horrs Island (Russo
n.d.), Cape Haze (Bullen and Bullen, 1956), and elsewhere date from this period or earlier, as
they contain fiber-tempered ceramics, although there are known aceramic (preceramic?)
levels below the Orange Phase deposits that may date to the Middle Archaic. These shell
middens are usually capped by deposits from later occupations as well.
Formative Staee or Glades Periods (2500 BP - 500 BP)
The Formative or Glades adaptation, based on hunting, fishing, and the harvesting of
shellfish and plants, was similar to the Archaic, but was characterized by increasing
specializations in gathering strategies and tool-making. Earlier writers have typed this hunter-
gatherer society as primitive or "low-level" (Kroeber, 1939). However, there is certainly
evidence from the specialization of tools, from the beautifully-executed wood carvings from
Key Marco in Collier County and those from Fort Center near Lake Okeechobee (Cushing,
1897; Sears, 1982), and from the historic accounts of the Calusa hegemony, that the south
Florida area had an advanced culture that Goggin (1964) has called a "stratified non-agrarian
society." ,
The preceding Late Archaic late Orange phase (also known as the transitional phase) was
marked by changes in pottery, and terminated with the relatively rapid replacement of fiber-
tempered pottery with sand-tempered, limestone-tempered, and chalky "temperless" pottery.
It was also characterized by changes in ceramic style and often by reduction in the size of
stone projectile points.
The Formative Stage (beginning about 2500 BP) is divided in south Florida into the Glades
Periods sequence. Subsistence adaptation is marked by a narrowing spectrum of resource use,
as well as continued trends toward regional diversity and ecological specializations, marked
in part by the proliferation of inland resource extraction encampments.
Formative Period cultural evolution eventually led to increased political sophistication,
perhaps initially of modest dimensions, but culminating in broad regional political alliances
and regulation of materials and goods (i.e. resources) between the coast and inland areas
(Milanich and Fairbanks, 1980). By protohistoric and contact times the Calusa were the
dominant tribal group, gaining broad political influence and at least partial control over much
of south Florida as far north as central Brevard County. Historically, the main Calusa village
has been regarded as "Calos" on Mound Key in Estero Bay in Lee County, although 50 to 70
large villages were under direct Calusa control by contact times (Griffm, 1988).
During the Formative Periods, village sites grew to the proportions of large multi-use
complexes, particularly along the coast and barrier islands of southwest Florida. Some of the
projected intra-site functions of the elements of these complex shellworks were as temples,
canals, causeways, temple and platform mounds, courtyards and watercourts. Current
research involving the excavating of large contiguous areas of these shell mound complexes
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is beginning to establish demonstrable uses for the features of these large sites, upon which
heretofore were merely speculated (Widmer, 1996). .
Tidal estuary rivers and inland hammocks along deep water sloughs, marshes, and permanent
ponds were seasonally visited for extraction of natural resources, and are now marked by
small to relatively large black dirt middens, some of which may have been semi-permanent
hamlets. The pine and cypress flatwoods appear to have supported few sites, although areas
around Lake Trafford and other rich interior areas developed substantial sites, including sand
mounds, and may be more similar to the Okeechobee cultural area than to the coastal
cultures.
In 1992, Dickel and Carr excavated an apparent Deptford Period burial mound (the Oak
Knoll Site) in the Bonita Bay Tract north of the Imperial River. Exotic trade items and
seventy or more human burials were among the material findings. The resulting conclusions
and subsequent surveying and testing of the Bonita Bay Shell works (8LL 717) suggest social
stratification and complexity may extend further back into the past than the Formative period
(Dickel and Carr, 1992).
Coastal sites (shell middens) reflect a predominate dependence on fish and shellfish, wild
plant foods and products, and larger inland game. The inland sites show a greater reliance on
interior resources, including large, medium and small mammals, turtle, small freshwater fish,
alligator, snake, frogs, and, sometimes, freshwater shellfish. Interior and coastal resource
exchange can be documented by the consistent finds of moderate amounts of marine shell in
many interior middens, as well as interior resources in coastal middens.
The Formative Stage (with a nod to Goggin) has been often termed the Glades cultural
tradition. Much of this "tradition" is focused on decorated ceramics, the minority in the
archaeological record, although the majority of recovered (rim) sherds are plainware.
However, despite this, pottery (and its decorations) is usually utilized as the major temporal
marker( s) for fitting sites into a temporal framework. Changes in pottery do not represent
mere changes in artistic motifs, but reflect inter/intra-regional trade contacts and outside
cultural influences (possibly through exogamy, shifting of populations, and even the through
evolution of a culture through time). Whatever the influences, the Glades tradition is
continuous from post-Archaic times to contact times.
Despite the fact that exogamy is likely to have been practiced, traders or other specialists
probably moved between major cultural areas in small numbers, and genetic flow probably
accompanied cultural exchange, although perhaps not on the same scale. This may have
increased in later times due to use of traditional obligations of kinship and intermarriage to
stabilize alliances that were not codified into a formal legal system.
The following table has been modified from several sources, but it is predominantly based on
Milanich and Fairbanks (1980), Griffin (1988), and Allerton and Carr (1990). Dates have
been rounded somewhat and translated to Before Present (BP). There are some differences of
opinion in the dates, particularly about the timing of the Glades Ia and Ib division.
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TABLE 1: GLADES CULTURAL SEQUENCE
Glades Ia (2500 BP - 1500 BP) First appearance of sand tempered plain pottery, but
little else to mark a difference and the preceding Late
Archaic. Sand tempered plain remains a predominate
type throughout the Glades sequence.
Glades Ib (1500 BP - 1250 BP)
Glades ITa (1250 BP - 1100 BP)
Glades lib (1100 - 1000 BP)
Glades Irc (1000 BP - 800 BP)
Glades ITIa (800 - 600 BP)
Glades Illb (600 BP - 500 BP)
Glades IIIc (500 BP - 300 BP)
First appearance of decorated sand-tempered ceramic
(Ft. Drum Incised, Ft. Drum Punctated, Cane Patch
Incised, Turner River Punctate), plainware common.
Pottery rim grooving and incision decorations become
widespread.
First appearance of Key Largo Incised, Sanibel
Incised, Miami Incised, and plainware is common.
Distinction between ceramics of southeast and
southwest Florida be~omes apparent. Ten Thousand
Island area distinct from Caloosahatchee area. First
mound construction- increased social stratification?
Population size may have approximated that at contact.
First appearance of Matecumbe Incised; Key Largo
Incised common on east coast, Gordon's Pass Incised
common on the west, and plainware common
throughout.
First appearance of Plantation Pinched, but few
decorated wares with a preponderance of plainware
(there is some evidence of population reduction-
perhaps due to a cataclysmic event). Non-local pottery
(e.g. St. Johns Plain and Check Stamped, Belle Glade
Plain) appears.
First appearance of Surfside Incised, increasing
quantities of St. Johns pottery (especially on East
Coast), and Belle Glade pottery.
Glades Tooled rims appear (rare on West Coast),
zoned punctate designs, but general decline in incised
decoration. Belle Glade ceramics common on west
coast. St. Johns >ware present but rare on West Coast,
common on East Coast.
Continuation of IIIb ceramics, with pronounced
flaring of rims and embossing on Glades Tooled
ceramics. Mound burial construction less comm9n
with intrusive burials into existing mounds,appearance
of European goods, plainware common.
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By European contact times (the first half of the 16th century), the southwest coast of Florida
was maintaining a vigorous, possibly expanding political chiefdom with a broad network of
alliances, as well as a rich and ancient cultural tradition without an agricultural base.
However, direct conflict with Europeans and, more importantly, exposure to European
diseases led to the rapid decline of the Calusa. By the mid 1700s their numbers had greatly
diminished. The remnants of this once-powerful tribe may have left south Florida in the
1760s with the Spanish for relocation in Cuba. Others may have become indistinguishable
from Spanish Cuban fishermen who worked the great fishing "ranchos" in the Pine Island
Sound region catching and salting fish for export to Cuba. Other groups of Native Americans
may have fused with the Creek-derived Seminoles.
In the late 1700s, members of the Creek tribe were forced into Florida from Georgia and
Alabama. They were later called Seminoles, from the Spanish term "cimmarones." Pressures
from colonial (and later) white encroachment on their traditional territories forced them into
the Big Cypress and Everglades area by the 1830s. By this time, most of the cultural identity
of pre-contact times had been lost, although some of the Calusa subsistence strategies may
have been partly adopted by Seminoles. A number of Seminole period sites have been
documented on earlier Glades middens. This coincidence may in part reflect the paucity of
high land in the interior (Ehrenhard et al., 1978, 1979, 1980; Ehrenhard and Taylor, 1980;
Taylor and Komara, 1983; Taylor, 1984, 1985). Older midden sites (particularly those called
''black dirt" middens) can be rich agriculturally as well as archaeolo gic ally, making these
foci for historic Seminole gardens and fruit groves.
Seminole periods in south Florida are divided into I (1820-1860), II (1860-1900) and ill
(1900-1940) (Ehrenhard et al., 1978). Post-1940 Seminole camps are designated "Late
Seminole" in some reports. These designations reflect the different stages of Seminole
migration into south Florida, Seminole displacement and active conflict with the expanding
American culture, and the eventual refuge by Seminole remnants in Big Cypress and
Everglades regions. Military records, and, in particular, several sketch maps by military
personnel done in the 1830s and 1840s and the Ives military map of South Florida (1856)
shows evidence of investigations at and near "MaIco Inlet," "Casimba," "Good Land" and
"Cape Romans."
Seminole Wars in the Southwest Florida Area
The advent of the Second and Third Seminole Wars (1834-38, 1855-58) disrupted the
peaceful settlement of the Southwest Florida region. There were a number of forts,
"temporary" and permanent, established along the Caloosahatchee River during this time.
Fort Dulaney was established at Punta Rassa near the mouth of the Caloosahatchee in 1837
and was occupied intermittently through 1841, and again in 1855. After a hurricane
destroyed Ft. Dulaney in 1841, Fort Harvie was established upriver. The name of this fort
was changed in 1850 by its commander General Twiggs to honor his new son-in-law, Col.
Abraham Myers. Fort Myers was thus created, and became the chief fort ofthe region.
From this central administrative point, a line of forts was established up the Caloosahatchee
River. They were: Fort Denaud, Fort Adams, Fort Thompson, and Fort Center on Fisheating
Creek leading into Lake Okeechobee. Other forts and "temporary depots" were established.
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south into the Big Cypress Swamp such as Fort Simon DIum, Temporary Depot Number
One, Fort Doane, Fort Simmons, Fort Keis. Fort Foster, Fort Shackleford, and others.
A number of military expeditions were sent south along the coast during the Second and
Third Seminole Wars with the objectives of interdicting trade in guns and ammunition
between the Seminoles and the Spanish-Cuban fishing community, and hunting and
capturing Indians. General Thomas Lawson, who had just been appointed Surgeon General
of the United States, commanded one of the early notable expeditions. Lawson's expedition
left Fort Harvie (Fort Myers) in February 1838. Elements of Lawson's command explored
the area in and around the Caxambas Point area, discovering two abandoned Indian villages
in the Blackwater River/Palm Bay area. Other expeditions bivouacked at Cape Romano and
Caxambas Point. Colonel Rogers, of the ill-fated Parkhill expedition, wrote several
dispatches from Cape Romano in the Caxambas area in 1858, describing the ambush of
Captain Parkhill's party at the headwaters of Turner River. The Collier County Museum is
the repository for a collection of military artifacts purportedly found by a local collector near
Indian Hill in the early 1960s. This material may have originated with one of the various
military expeditions stopping at Caxambas Point.
Bayshore Road Area Recent History
The history of the eastern shore of Naples Bay began with the settlement of an historic
homestead known as the Hamilton Place 1 1/2 mile to the south of the subject parcel in the
early 1900s. Naples had been created as a small winter resort community in the 1880s.
Sportsmen and people hunting or fishing often frequented the eastern shore of Naples Bay.
East Naples began developing as a suburb of the general Naples area by the late 1940s.
Bayshore Road was platted in the very early 1950s when a insubstantial wooden bridge was
placed across Haldeman Creek. Kelly Road (now named Bayshore Road) was extended to
near its present three mile length within a few years. Many side streets were placed along its
length by the 19608. A large shell mound bordering the east side of Naples Bay was removed
for shell road underlayment material and a fishing camp established at the site called Jackson
Gateway Harbor. Winds tar and several other large and fairly exclusive developments
fronting Naples Bay were established by the 1970s.
In the early 1940s a hunter named Kirkland discovered a large sand mound 400 yards south
of the Naples Botanical Garden Parcel on the mid-portion of a crescent-shaped sand ridge. A
local liquor store owner and amateur treasure hunter named Jack Prince extensively dug in
the site in the 1940s and 1950s. Other local collections contain material removed from the
site, which is believed to be the "Gordon Pass Sand Mound" reported by John M. Goggin in
the 1950s, but is recorded in the Florida Master Site File as the Kirkland Mound, 8CR227.
Collected material seen by the investigator (Beriault) includes proto-Contact Safety Harbor
and Englewood Incised ceramics, and post-Contact glass beads and metal objects.
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Methodology
Prior to conducting fieldwork in the project parcel, relevant archives and literature were
reviewed. This included, but was not limited to, studying previous archaeological reports for
sites in Collier County, reviewing information from the Master Site File in Tallahassee
concerning nearby sites, and examining USGS maps of the project area. Also, black and
white and color aerial photographs from the proj ect area, which could aid in revealing
anthropogenic changes to the topography and floral communities, were interpreted.
Research Desie:n
This phase I archaeological survey of the Fisherman's Cove parcel incorporated the use of
certain predictive archaeological site models. These models are based on topographic and
vegetative attributes that are associated with prehistoric and historic sites in coastal Collier
County. These models postulate that high ground areas in close proximity to creeks, sloughs
and wetlands are high probability areas for prehistoric archaeological sites. The e1evational
information on the USGS Naples North and Naples South Quadrangle maps for the area also
was used. It was predicted that overall, the project parcel had a moderate probability of
containing archaeological sites because of its location adjacent to Haldeman Creek.
Fieldwork
All areas of the parcel were assessed by pedestrian survey. Initial visual inspection of the
subject parcel identified three areas of moderate to high archaeological probability. These
were a remnant mangrove marsh pond near the center of the parcel and the north and south
banks of Haldeman Creek crossing the northern portion of the parcel. . Thirteen IS-inch (45
cm square) shovel tests were dug judgmentally across the parcel at various intervals (Figure
7). The south bank of Haldeman Creek was tested at rougWy 125-foot intervals as were the
upland areas surrounding the mangrove marsh pond in the center of the parcel. Several other
judgmental shovel tests were dug in the southerly portion of the parcel. The northerly
portions of the subject parcel which are largely tidally-flooded mangrove swamp areas were
assessed by pedestrian survey and a disturbed shell midden was noted. This archaeological
site was not shovel tested because the mangrove area in which it occurs is to be maintained
as a preserve and also because the site was presently occupied by a "hobo" camp.
All shovel tests were dug averaging 24-inch (60 em.) depth or until sterile sediments were
encountered across the parcel. All excavated material was sifted through a 1;4" diameter mesh
screening and any material of archaeological significance collected and sent to ARC in Davie
for cleaning, analysis, and conservation.
Collections
One field specimen bag (FS-l) of archaeological material was recovered and sent to the ARC
laboratory at Davie for cleaning, conservation, and analysis.
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Informants
No informants were interviewed for this project.
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Site Summary
Haldeman Creek Midden
8CR926
Mangrove swamp north of Haldeman Creek
Township 50S, Range 25E, Section 11
Shell midden
Habitation, resource extraction .
The site is a small disturbed midden exposed by a "V" -shaped
cut made in the north bank of Haldeman Creek. The midden
does not exceed two feet elevation above the surrounding
mangrove swamp. Most of the exposed material appears to be
compacted oyster shell with other shell species intermixed. The
area has been partially filled with spoil presumably from
Haldeman Creek, and that material leveled. To the north of the
site is a small bayou that might have been part of the original
channel' of Haldeman Creek. A partial wall fragment of a.
hafted Busycon hammer was collected from the site surface. No
other artifacts were observed. This site appears to be the
remnants of a small midden ridge paralleling Haldeman Creek.
The visible portion of the site is about 30 feet north-south by
50 feet east-west; or approximately 1500 square feet in total.
Prehi&oric:Formativeperiod
Fragment of a hafted Busycon hammer (FS-l)
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Poor to good: The site area has been dredged, borrowed, and
filled to an unknown extent. Some well preserved components
may occur.
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Site is oflocal significance and additional testing is necessary in
order to determine whether the site is potentially eligible for
listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
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extreme northern portion of the parcel.
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Results and Conclusions
A phase 1 assessment of the Fisherman's Cove parcel resulted in the investigation of all parts
of the parcel. Based on regional archaeological site models, it was determined that the upland
area adjacent to a creek/mangrove swamp area had a moderate potential for archaeological
sites being associated with it. Thirteen shovel tests were dug across the parcel which resulted
in the discovery of one archaeological site, the Haldeman Creek Midden, 8CR926.
The Haldeman Creek Midden, 8CR926 is disturbed prehistoric midden partially exposed by a
"V" -shaped cut in the north bank of Haldeman Creek. The midden does not exceed two feet
elevation above the surrounding mangrove swamp. Most of the exposed material appears to
be compacted oyster shell with other shell species intermixed. The area has been partially
filled with spoil presumably from Haldeman Creek, and that materialleveled. To the north of
the site is a small bayou that might have been part of the original channel of Haldeman
Creek. A partial wall fragment of a hafted Busycon hammer was surface collected from the
site. No other artifacts or ceramics were observed. This site may be the remnants of a small
round to oval-shaped midden ridge paralleling Haldeman Creek a distance east of its juncture
with Naples Bay. The visible portion of this site is about 30 feet north-south by 50 feet east-
west or approximately 1500 square feet in total.
It is the consultant's opinion that site 8CR926 is a disturbed, formative period shell midden,
and is of local significance. There is insufficient data to determine whether the site is
potentially eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The northern part
of the parcel that encompasses the site is not proposed for development and will be part of a
preserve area. However, if the area of the site is to be impacted, then phase two testing is
recommended to determine the full site extent and significance. Any improvements to the
preserve will require an archaeological management plan.
Although a thorough and systematic effort was made to locate sites on the subj ect parcel,
there is still the potential of small archaeological sites, features or artifacts existing, and
should subsequent development reveal this, then relevant agencies and. the consultant
archaeologist should be contacted. In the event that human remains are discovered then the
provisions of Florida State Statue 872.05, the Unmarked Human Remains Act, will apply.
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NOW, THEREFORE.. in consideration of the covcnams contlincd. herein below,
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1. It is the pwposc of thi$ Conservation Easement to assure that the Property
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pm'ellt any use of the Property that will significallt!y impair or interfere
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restOration of such areas or f'eatum of the Property lhat may be
damaged by any incouistellt letionl)' or use..
2. This Conservation Easement prohibits or limits the followiag activity upon
the Property.
a. Construction or placiD. ofbuilciinp, roads, sips. billboards or other
acIvedisins. utilities, or other structUrCs on or ebove the ground.
b. Dumpblg or placiag of soil or other substan" or meSeriaJ 8J landfill.
or dumping or placing of1rUb. waste. Of iutsishtly or offensive
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areas adjlCCDt to the Property. to permitted docb coastruetcd within and
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1Ip01IlloUCC to 1Ile Uaitcd States Fish and Wildlife Senrice, detmniacs that
. the reasons for which the easement was created no longer exist, in which
event. GrIDtee may release !his easement
7. No right of access by the pneral public to any portion of the Property is
couYCfild by tfaiJ ComcnItion Easement.
a. GrImtor, agrees 10 pay any and all real property taxes and assessments
Im= by co.. authority on the Property.
9. GraIItor asrees to bear all costs related to the operation, upkeep and
m.m~alll!P. afthe Propeny and docs hereby indemnify and hold Oraorce
IwmIess therefrom.
10. GraIItor iDt:nds that any costs incurred by GraIltee m enforcJD,.judic.ially
or otherwise. the tams lIIld restrictions oflbis Couserwtion Easement
agaiDst Grantor, incIudina without limitation costs of suit. attorneys' fees,
eelill)' COlts oCrestoratioa necessitated by die violation otlhe temlS ofthil
ccmsemtioa. ClSemcut by Grantor., shall be bome by Oamtor.
11. Grantor iDteDds that c:uforcement of the terms and provisions of the
ComervaJion Easement sIII1I be at the discretion of the Gnntce and abat
lIlY ~ 0Jl behalf of Grantee to exercise its rightl hereunder ill the
event or III)' bMch hereof' by Gmttor. shall not be deemed or COItJInZed to
be . waiver of GrmIee's rights MCWlder in the CMDt of any subsequellt
breaeh.
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12. Ciru~.greet that it will hotd.lhis Comervaticm Eaemcnl exoluamly Cor
. CODSCMticm pmpolU wl dill k will DOt aaiaa its rishtlaH obIiptiO!ll
1Iftder tldl CcmscMtiaa I!aIemaDt exc:cpt to another cqmization qualified
10 hold such iatemtI UDder the applicable state lIlld fcdmllaws and
committed to holdiDa thil Ccmservmon Easement exclusively tor
ccmaemtiOll pIIl'pOSCI.
13. . It my provision oftbiJ CoaseMtioa Easement or daupplicatioa thereof'to
my penon or Gircumstance is fo1IIllI to be bmUd, the remaildcrof'the
pmrWous of this CO!ISeMtioIl Basement. and tho appDcatioD of auch
pmiaion to penou or ~ other than Iboso 81 to which it is
folIIId to 1M- iJrvalid, wn JIOt te dected thereby.
14. All BOticcs, CODSeIdI. apprcmIs. or communications herelmder sbaJ] be in
writiDs ad sbaU be deemed properly siven if seat by Uai~ States
certified mail. return receipt requested, addressed to the appropriate party.
IS. GtaDIor apes 10 lops as this easement is in efrevt, Ill)' subseqllClltdeed or
otIter lcpl iDstrumeI1t by which Gramor diYCSII itself of Ill)' iDtemtiD the
Property will contain a ref'creII&lC to 1hls casemCDL
16. This C~ Easement. shill COIIititlltc . -CGnSCMtiOn easemeut" as
clcfiDed inSdon 104.06, FloridaStatuea (1991). cx;epttbat n:served
rights shall be permiucd.as descn'bcd herein.
This ComemtiOll Easement may be amended, altered, rdeued, or revoked only
by a written d.oc:ument executed by Grantee.
Rcf'c::tcacc to GnDtor aI1d Grant= shall include the heirs. assigns and successon of
GraDtor IUd GnIdec.
TO HAW AND TO HOLD UDtO Gru1tee. in papehIity.
ThiI Cmucrv8tion F..scmcnt sbaI1 become eft'ectiw upon the date it is recorded in
die pab1ic m:om or Collier County, Florida.
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JNWlTNESS 'WHBREOP, dIe Otutor has caused this insInunent to be cxecuted
aII.u of tho date and ycar first abow written.
Sipd, sea1edand~
iD the presence of:
Pishemlllll's Cove Joint Venture
By: Haldcmaa Development Corp.,
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STAlE OF FLORIDA
couNTy OF ~A:"'se.
The f'oregoiDs instrumeut was aclmowJedJe(l before me this ~
dayof G'5"'lDJA.n~ .19ll by ('pM.l..!U No AWUAM' III . who it
pencmaIlylarmm to me or who has produced h9t9A1Au.j KNIlh.lAl
as idc:ldi&atioa;
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Pl'desslalalland June,",
Flshetl'lllln'. Cove
Conserv8tlan EI*sment No.1
A psrceJ 0' land lying in and !)flng . part of tha Southwest f/4 of Section 11 and
ma Nortnwut 1/4 of Sletfon 14, Township 1i0 South, ASn;. 25 East, Collifr
County, Florida, being more partlcularlv dSlicrlbeclas follows:
BEGINNiNG .t the North tl4 corl11tr of aalcf Section 14; thence
S.OO'13'02"E. 95' .S1 feet along the Welt boundary of Gulf Shore. as record$d
In Plat Book 4: at page 60 of the Public Records of CoOle, County, Florida, the lIme
baIng the North.Sauth quarter section line of .ald Section 14: thence Ie living saId
North.South quarter section line, S.44028'31"W. 14.22 feet; thence
N.OO'13'02"W. 627.19 feet; thence S.8so46'53"W. 50.00 feet: thence
N.14'04'25"W. 77.25 faet: thence S.8904$'53"W. 44.00 feet; thence
S.69010'OS"W. 69.31 feet: thence N.54018'15"W. 85.73 feeti mence
N.OO'13'01"W. 351.41 feet: thence 87.19 feet .Iong the arc of a circular curve
to the ,Igllt, through 8 centralangl. of 70'00'00", ~vlng a radius at 47.40 teet
and being Bubtended bV a chord which bea,.. N.3404S'53"E. 54.38 feer; thence
85.38. feet along the arc ot a clreular curve to tlte left, through 8 central angle of
23024'19", havIng a ,adlus of 210.43 feet 8116 being lublended bV a chord which
bear. N.58004'44"E. 85.98 feet; thence 22.89 flet aiong the arc of 8 circular
curve to the left. through 8 central angle af 11'08'02", having a radius of 117.78
feet and being 'ubt,nded by il chord which bearl N.40048'33''E. 22.85 feet;
thence S.53022'43"E. S1.11 feet: .thence S.12047'35"E. 34.79 feet; thence
. N.B9027'S1"E. 15.00 feet; thence N. 61038'48"E. 30.00 feet; thence
N.Sgo27'6t"E. 23.00 fest; thence N. OO'"18'1S"W. 164.00 feet; thence
N.8So27'1S"E. 10,00 feet to the Norrhwe.t corner of _aid Gulf Shores and the
Southwest comer of Lot 42, Napl.. Grove. and Trust Co.'sLlme FarmlNo. 2 8S
recorded In Plat Book 1 at pSlJe 27 Of said PubRc Records, the seme being the
North-Soutb quarter section line of said S.ctlon 1,; thence S.Ooo1S'1S"E. 334.79
feet along the Welt boundary of said Gulf Shoril and the North.South quaner
section line of said SectIon '1 to the Point of Beginning of the herein described
percel of land.
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Fl.he~n'8 Cove
COll.ervacion Easeaent 110. 2
A parcd of und lyin& in and bdn! a part of the Sollchwen tit, of Section 11.
TDlo/1Ulhlp 50 South, I14l1,e 25 Eeil" and a part ot Lot 42. Naplea Grov". .1Id Tnlck
CQ.'. Little Plna. 110. 2 a. rer.ord"d In Plat Book 1 It p..e ;:1 of thl Public:
Record. of Collier COllllty, Plot'lda, be11ls IICIre part:1cuUlry deacribed .. follows:
COHKEIfCrtm at the I/orth J(4 corner of Section Ie., Tovnahip SO South,
lagse 25 Int, ColUer Councy, Florida, tbelle. N.00"18' 1S''ll. 334.79 feee
dOllS the W.at bOUlldal'y of Gulf ShoJ:'ea .. recorded :1a Plat Book 4 ae paS'
SO of adel Public Ilacora. .Dd th. Nortll-South quncer &acclon Hnl of ..1.eI
SecUoa 11 to the lforthveat corll4lr of said Culf Shor.. and the SOuth....t
COrDer of .aid Lot 42; theDCe ..89"27'SlnE 310,00 feet alODI thl North
bounctary of laid Gulf Shorn aad tbe South bOUlldary of .ald Lot 42 to tbe
PoINt OF J8CImNG ot the bird. de.cribed parcel of land; tllelle. laft'.l.n&
tha lforth bOlnldary of uld Gulf Shor.. and the South bound8t'y of lei. tot
41, K,OO"lS'15"W. L05.oo feet; thence N.5Z"U'43"l1. 97.20 feet; thel1Ce
8.89-34'18"11. 532.55 feet to the Waa~ boundary of Wia'atar aa recorded in
flat Book 14 &t pas" U tbrouall IS of aaid 'ubl1c Records; thaMI 11.00"13'07-
Ii. 20.00 feat clong tbe lIelt boundary of add 111ndrrtar to tile South bounduy
of that drain...e .a.ement u de.cr1bed in Deed Book 28 at page llit o! Blid
Public heordl; thence 1f.89'34'lS"E. 299.24 feet doua the South bouadary of
said draiaage ea.ement to till Wast boundary of lald Lot 42; thenca ..00"18'15"
W. 2.11 feet along the W..t boundar)' or add Lot 42 to the South boundary of
chat c1niuge auelltnt aa described in Deed look 28 at pase U6 of .dd Public:
Record.; thence >>.89"30'34"1:. 330.00 f.et alonl the South boundary of aaid
dra1Daae e.__at co a point on a 11111 17111I 330.00 feat Eut of lI1ld pl'rallel
with the Ilaac boundal'Y of Idd Lot 42; thence 5.00"18'15.t. 187.30 f.at alema
a Une lying 330.00 feet tall of and parallal vith the Weat bouadary of nid
Lot 42 to che Bouch bouoder" of said Lot 42 and tbe !fortbbOllDdaq of add
Gdf Sbor..; Cbel1Cll S.89.Z7'31''w. 20.00 felt alolll tba SOlltla boundar)" of ,dd
. Lot 42 _4 the Ncn'th liD' oi add Culf Shorea to the Poiat of lI,iDDiIll of tbl
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A parcel of land lylllB in and bein. I part of the Southwelt 1/4 of SecUon
U. tOlll1lllli, SO SOUth, lanaI 15 Eaat, Coll1er County, Plorlda. bdftlllOr.
parU.tlllatly c1ucrtbed a. fonow:
COlHEIlCIIlG at the Horth 1(4 Cln:ner of Section 14, Tovnlhip 50 South.
llallS' 25 bit. CoIUer Caunt,. Ploriul chllllce 1.00.18'lS"lI. 334.79 !en
alons the w..t boundar)' of Glllf Shorn a. recorded in Plac look 4 at Pll'
SO of tbll Public Recorda of Callier Count". Florida end tlM lIonh-Souch
quartet a.ctiOll lilM of laid S,ction 11 co the Ifortbvil.t camer of lalel
Gulf Share. IlIII tile SDuthw.t corner of Lot 42. lIaplea Grov.a alld truck Co. 'a
Little Paru 110. Z ... recorde4 111 ,lat look 1 at pas. 17 of said 'ubUc
Recorda; thence. 1I.89"27'51"E. 330.00 l..t &1on& the tIorth boundary of ad.t
Gulf Sbona alld ehe Soueh boundar)' of.dd Lot 42 to I Uoe 1)'1118 330.00
feet bae of md pUI11.1 .dth the wue boundary of ..iel Lot 42; thence
11.00"18'15"\1. 187.3Of88t alons aald line 1)'1ftl 330.00 teet Eut of a"d
paralld \11th tile lIeat boundary of ..lei Lot 4Z to the South boundary of
the dra:l.a... ..le.Dt as recordatl in need 800lc Zaat page 116 of said
Public tecorcle; thllleR 8".'0' 34"11 330.00 feet to the Weat boundary of
..14 Lot 42: thence N.00.18'15"II, 148.15 fe.t alons the Vest bouac1ary of sall1
Loe 41 to tile South boundary of tbat drainage .......nt a. recorded 111
Deed locI: Z84t 1'." 114 of llIdll Public Becorda; thenca S.8'"34'18"W. 641.71--
f.et &1001 the l\o.oalh bowlner)' of aaid dra1nag. .a....nt; thence S.6S.04'16"1I.
19.79 f..t dOni elie South bounUry of. ea1d drainag. .......at eo ebe V..t
boundary of ella SolIeh..st quarter of tbe Southeast quartet of tile $olltllwe.t
quarter gf .eU SectlOD 11; thepc. If.oooI7'a6''\(. 35 feet, INre or 14... to
th. South bank of Baldeean Creek: thence eaandn alona aaid SOIIth bank to
ita interaecelom with the Korth-South quarter a.ctioD line of .aid Section
11; tlleDce 5.oo"l8'15"1. 165 faet, .ore or 1.... along the lortb-South qu&rtet
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133 Multiple Dwelling Units, Low Rise, - i ~; - 2.21 2,2
190 Open Land " 2_5; 2_6
1906 Open Lend, Depressional 0.3 i 0.3
.320 Shrub end Brush Land 0.11 0,1
I ':4~~~ Tropical Hardwoods, Disturbed, <0,1. <0,1
! :4~~, Cebbage Palm, Disturbed 0.1 0.2. 0.3
-510 Canals 3.1 3.1
"534 RBservolr(<10 ac) 0.4 [ 0,4
"540I!ays end Estuaries 0_9 - i 0_9
'612 M.~g~~ 1.3 1,1 0.4; 2.9
'!l1n M!l!'g~v_"'MI!lll.\lqQ W.!lM.m~], 0,2 0,1 0_3 i 0,6
'6194 Australian Pine, Hydric 0.4 0,4
'630 Mixed Wetland Forest 0_2 0-2
'6301 MlxedWetiandFoml 0,2 0;2 0,1 0:5
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'651 fldlii Flats 0.1 0.1
'652 Shoreline . - ; 0.2;, 0.2,
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Consulting Ecologist, Inc.
2077 Be.yslde Parifway Fort Myers Florida 33901
Prc"ct ADCrC102 R"':~," Dele: 9tI7J'200S
CClIlII1 County "T0WMtl1p 50S Rqe 25E
RelMiDn Oem ComrnentI
(239) 337-1505
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