CCPC Minutes 12/05/2019December 5,2019
TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
COLLIER COLTNTY PLANNING COMMIS SION
Naples, Florida, December 5,2019
LET IT BE REMEMBERED, that the Collier County Planning Commission, in and for the
County of Collier, having conducted business herein, met on this date at 9:00 a.m., in REGULAR SESSION in
Building "F" of the Government Complex, East Naples, Florida, with the following members present:
Mark Strain, Chairman
Karen Homiak, Vice Chair
Edwin Fryer, Secretary
Patrick Dearborn
Karl Fry
Stan Chrzanowski, Environmental
Joe Schmitt, Environmental
Tom Eastman, Collier County School Board Representative
ALSO PRESENT:
Raymond V. Bellows, ZoningManager
Jeffrey Klatzkow, County Attorney
Heidi Ashton-Cicko, Managing Assistant County Attorney
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PROCEEDINGS
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Thursday, December 5th meeting of
the Collier County Planning Commission.
If everybody will please rise for Pledge of Allegiance.
(The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Will the secretary please do the roll call.
COMMISSIONERFRYER: Mr. Eastman?
MR. EASTMAN: Here.
COMMISSIONERFRYER: Mr. Chrzanowski?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Here.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: MT. Fry?
COMMISSIONER FRY: Here.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'm here.
Chairman Strain?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Here.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Vice Chair Homiak?
COMMISSIONERHOMIAK: Here.
COMMISSIONERFRYER: Mr. Schmitt?
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Here.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Mr. Dearborn?
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Here.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Chairman, we have a quorum of seven.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Addenda to the agenda: I don't know of any. We'll just -- unless Ray
has something. None.
MR. BELLOWS: No changes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. That takes us to Planning Commission absences. Our next meeting is
December l9th. I found out a while ago we have a GMP -- language change for one of the activity centers. It
looks like it might be the only thing on it.
Ray?
MR. BELLOWS: I did check to see about the LDC amendments that are also scheduled. I haven't
heard back from Jeremy yet.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. I looked at the advertising for those, and it looked like it was a
communication towers thing again that we just heard not too long ago. I don't know if we needed two meetings
on it, but I didn't --
MR. BELLOWS: I put an email in to him to see.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So anyway, does anybody know if they can't make it on the l9th?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's the week before Christmas. We'll all be here.
January 2nd, a reminder: We do not have a meeting on January 2nd. So the day after New Year's we're
just going to have to stay home and be bored or whatever we normally do.
COMMISSIONER FRY: How disappointing.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Disappointing.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: That means you, Karl.
COMMISSIONER FRY: I'llbe here.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah, you'll be here.
Approval of minutes. The minutes were approved Tuesday night, so we don't have any for today.
Ray, BCC report and recaps?
MR. BELLOWS: The Board has not met since our last Planning Commission.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. And the Chairman's report, I have nothing new to talk about. There's
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no consent items. We'll move right into the first public hearing.
**{<It's Item 9Al, PL20170002897/CPSS20l8-3. This is a small -- or a Comprehensive Plan amendment
for the Oil Well Road community facility subdistrict, which is approximately six-tenths of a mile east of
Everglades Boulevard along OilWell Road.
AII of those wishing to testiff on behalf of this item, please rise to be sworn in by the court reporter. If
yourre here for the Oil Well Road one, just stand up and you'll be sworn.
(The speakers were duly sworn and indicated in the affirmative.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Disclosures: We'll start over with Tom.
MR. EASTMAN: No disclosures outside of those in the public record.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Stan.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Yeah. The same thing, just emails.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Karl.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Same.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ned.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Materials from staffand discussions with staff.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I've had all that, and last night -- or this morning, I think it was, I received -- it
came in last night -- an email from the Estates group and another email from a resident of the Estates, and then
I've had a meeting with the applicant -- applicant's team yesterday, and that's all.
Karen.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Just emails.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Joe.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: No -- no other disclosures other than what was stated by the other side
ofthe panel.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Patrick?
COMMISSIONERDEARBORN: Same.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. With that, whoever's leading the presentation for the applicant, we're
more than grateful to hear you.
MR. NEALE: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Patrick Neale. I'm here representing the
applicants on this matter.
What we're here for today, as was well stated, is a land-use amendment or Growth Management Plan
amendment for -- to create a community facilities district in the Estates zoning district.
The uses that are being sought here are a bit different than those that are in your original packet. We had
originally requested a childcare center, a private schooVcharter school, and an equestrian riding academy. We
have removed the second use as a requested use. So the charter school is no longer on the table.
As the Board is well aware, any Growth Management Plan amendments, future land-use amendments, are
subject to the test set out in Florida Statutes 163.3771, and those are that there has to be substantial evidence
presented by the applicant as to these matters. And we have the professionals here both from Davidson
Engineering, and we have evidence that's been brought in by Banks Engineering for the traffic study and also a
market study that has been done as to the requirements for these, the demand for the uses that are there.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Excuse me. May I ask just for a clarification? I apologize for
intemrpting. But at the beginning you said that one of the requested uses has been withdrawn. You said charter
schools.
MR. NEALE: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: In the material it's referred to as private schools.
MR. NEALE: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Same thing.
MR. NEALE: Same thing.
(Simultaneous crosstalk.)
COMMISSIONER FRYER: -- proposed use.
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MR. NEALE: In Exhibit C where we referred to the Oil Well Road community facilities subdistrict,
under the following permitted uses, A was the childcare center, SIC Code 8351. We have moved the educational
services limited to private school, SIC 821 l, and left in the equestrian riding academy, SIC 7991.
COMMISSIONERFRYER: Gotit. Thankyou.
MR. NEALE: So we are down to fwo uses that we're requesting with the caps on the number of students.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you. Sorry to interrupt.
MR. NEALE: No problem at all.
And what we have here is we have a situation where we believe these are valued uses. As you know, the
facility -- and this will be spoken to more by the professionals. As you know, as an attorney, I can only give you
opinion and argument. I can't give you professional support or facts other than on the law because I'm not an
expert in any of these areas. So that's -- that's why we bring the experts along.
But we are requesting these changes in the enactment of this community facilities subdistrict. The staff
report supports the childcare use, the Use A. They have made a recommendation. They have not supported the
equestrian use; however, we believe that that's certainly a compatible use with the community, particularly as we
would get into the -- should you approve this GroMh Management Plan amendment, as we got into the further
planning process, there would be restrictions put on there that would make it -- ensure that it was compatible with
the surrounding areas.
You're aware this is located on Oil Well Road, and it's not a truly -- in the heart of the residential area.
So we believe that these uses are compatible and that the creation of this community facilities subdistrict would
be beneficial to the community and would meet all of the requirements set out in Florida Statutes and in the
Collier County ordinances and code.
So what we're now going to do is proceed. And we have a presentation for you, if we may,
Mr. Chairman.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ned's got a question.
MR. NEALE: Of course.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: A legal question for you. The operators -- the owners and operators of
these proposed uses, would they both be for-profit or one not-for-profit, and if not-for-profit, is it 501(c)?
MR. NEALE: Okay. The riding academy would be a not-for-profit, and the childcare center would be a
for-profit.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. The not-for-profit, is it tax deductible; is it 501(c)?
MR. NEALE: It would be, yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you.
MS. HAROLDSON: Good morning. I am Jessica Haroldson, a certified planner with Davidson
Engineering here representing the applicants in this GMPA request, and I have prepared a slide show that I'll run
through quickly and then answer any questions you may have.
There are two separate parcels involved in this GMP request -- GMPA request, sorry, collectively,
20.16 acres in size and are both zoned Estates. The subject site is located on the south side of Oil Well Road
about two miles east of Immokalee Road and less than a mile west of Everglades Boulevard.
The request is to amend the Golden Gate Area Master Plan by amending the Estates Mixed Use District
by creating the Oil Well Road community facilities subdistrict. It will permit two uses: A childcare center and
an equestrian riding academy, both limited to 150 students. Like -- as Pat noted, we have moved the educational
services from the list of allowable uses.
The Golden Gate Area Future Land Use Map will also be amended by adding the subdistrict.
The site is surround by the Estates zoning district, and just about 600 feet east of the proposed site is the
Mission subdistrict which permits a 1,000-seat church.
About a mile east are two public schools: Palmetto Ridge High and Corkscrew Elementary. We also
have the Orange Blossom Ranch PUD, which is located close to the site. It permits 1,600 dwelling units and
44 acres of commercial and office development.
This is just a draft of our conceptual site plan that has been prepared showing that the developable area of
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the site is just over l2 acres in size. There will be a single access point along Oil Well Road.
A market study was prepared to examine the need for the proposed uses being requested, and the repoft
does conclude that there is a demand for the uses being requested in this area.
Based on the Traffic Impact Statement, the project will not adversely impact the surrounding roadway
network or cause any of the roadways to operate below their adopted levels of service. The TIS that was
reviewed by staff and presented in your packets was prepared using a previous AUIR. The traffic engineer is
here today to discuss any impacts of the changes of the report when using the current AUIR. But there are
several funded roadway improvements projects within the surrounding area within the current AUIR that actually
improve the levels of service within the surrounding area.
And, lastly, this is the Naples Therapeutic Riding Center. It's located along Goodlette Road just north of
Pine Ridge Road. It is surrounded by the Pine Ridge Estates. I just wanted to show this because it demonstrates
that this use can be compatible with single-family residential zoning. And that concludes my presentation.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Anybody have any questions of the applicant? Tom.
MR. EASTMAN: I think charter schools are not private schools. I think charter schools are public
schools.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I think they're not doing them anyway, though, right?
MR. EASTMAN: Y"p. But just for clarification.
And then the notice that's provided today, I think, has east and west in error. It says it's
approximately -- the property's six-tenths of a mile east of Everglades Boulevard. Isn't it west? And the schools
are also located west, I believe.
MS. HAROLDSON: What notice are you referring to?
MR. EASTMAN: Our agenda.
CI{AIRMAN STRAN: Someone better check the advertisement then; see if it was advertised for the
right location.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: I believe it was corrected. I don't have a copy of the notice here, so I will have
to follow up by email, and I will have an answer for you shortly. But I know that that was an issue raised during
our review of the title.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Because the notice of public hearing in our packet says east.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: The notice of public hearing does?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Yeah, the one in the packet. If it was correct, I don't know.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Your mic's not close enough to you, Stan.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: It wasn't important anyway.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody else have any questions of the applicant? Go ahead. Karl, and then
Ned.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Yes. There was reference to the Lutheran Church that's about 600 feet to the
east on 22 acres. That has a mission subdistrict, including a private school, child and adult daycare and job
training. My question is, I don't -- tell me the status of their child and adult care. I do not believe it said that that
has been developed yet. And I'm curious, that would be two childcare, potentially, facilities within 600 feet of
each other on the same road. Could you please speak to that?
And is that part of the -- did the market study take into account there might be another facility that's only
600 feet away?
MS. HAROLDSON: Yes, the market study did take that into account, all of the approved uses in the
area. And the market-study consultant is here today if you have any specific questions. But to date the childcare
center at that particular location has not been developed.
And any -- it allows for the 1,000-seat church, and then the non-for-profit uses have to be operated with
that church; the daycare center, all ofthose listed uses.
MR. NEALE: And one other point about the mission subdistrict is also that it's got a limitation on the
total number of square footage of uses such -- it shows a lot of different uses, but which one of those of that
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bundle are going to be developed is unknown at this time as far as I know of.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Okay. Personally, I find those -- you know, those details relevant to the
conversation, so I'm hoping that we do get to hear from the market-study consultant.
MR. NEALE: We certainly can do that if you wish.
MR. KLATZKOW: To get back to the notice issue, there is a technical defect. It does say east, not
west. I'll note that the picture in the advertisement is correct. At the end of the day, this impacts the applicant
more than it impacts the county. Your choice is either to proceed with this, and we'll proceed with it. Your
downside on that is should you be challenged on this issue, you're challenged on this issue. So I'll put it to you:
Do you want to continue this, or do you want to readvertise it and come back?
MR. NEALE: If we may have a moment.
MR. KLATZKOW: Do you want to take a five-minute break?
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Yeah. I didn't think it would take this long. Let's resume at9:23.
(A brief recess was had from 9:16 a.m. to 9:23 a.m.)
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Mics are on.
MR. NEALE: I'm back on again.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: I am waiting for Wanda to send me --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Your mic's not picking you up, Heidi.
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: I'm waiting for Wanda to send me the paper copy of the ad, because the ad ran
on -- for the October l Tth hearing and then was continued to this meeting. So I just want to see what the paper
copy said, then we can confirm.
MR. NEALE: But we would -- based upon the discussion earlier, I think we would like to request a
continuance on this matter, particularly -- for both this reason and the fact that we did -- we just found out now
that there may be some opposition, and so we'd like to have the opportunity to address that opposition if possible.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Especially with the dropping of that major element that you had. That was
kind ofan eye opener.
MR. NEALE: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: So that might be a smart idea. And we have no problems with the continuance
issue, so -- we do have to -- if there's anybody here who wanted to speak on this that cannot speak when this
comes back, they're more than welcome to still speak today -- because we have two registered speakers. But we
wouldn't have any problem continuing it. The rest of -- anybody on the Planning Commission have a problem
with the request for a continuance?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: It seems to make sense to me.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. I agree. I think a flawed process might cause you problems.
MR. NEALE: We would appreciate it.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, then, before we vote on the continuance, let's hear the public speakers,
then by then Heidi may have a response to --
MS. ASHTON-CICKO: It does have east on it instead of west.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: So that makes it even worse. Okay. Let's hear public speakers, then we'll
continue it if anybody wants -- after anybody wants to speak.
Ray, there's two registered public speakers. If you have registered to public speak and you cannot be
here when this does come back, you still -- we'd be glad to hear you today, but it would be better if you could wait
till it comes back.
Ray, you want to call the speakers up so we'll see if they want to speak or not.
MS. BURTON: What is the date?
MR. BELLOWS: Rae Ann Burton.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Burton, you'll need to use the mic. And you didn't rise earlier to be sworn
in. So you -- I don't know why you didn't.
MS. BURTON: I didn't know I had to.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I said ittwice.
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MS. BURTON: I thought it was just for the ones that were petitioning. When is this going to be moved
to?
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: We don't know. We're going to discuss that next as soon as I find out if they've
got -- if they've got to readvertise, it could be January before they come back.
MS. BURTON: Okay. Because this has been going on since April. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
Next speaker, Ray.
MR. BELLOWS: Tony Viglioz (phonetic)?
MR. VIGLIOZ: I'll refrain until --
CFIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Much appreciated, sir.
So with that, I guess we'll try to -- now, Heidi, will this have to be readvertised then; is that correct?
MR. KLATZKOW: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So that means, they probably won't -- it can't be heard in December
because we can't get the advertisement done again. They wouldn't be able to be heard -- and since they're
readvertising, we don't need to do a date-certain continuance.
MR. KLATZKOW: Well, I mean, my thought to the applicant is negotiate first, and then you can
conform the ad to what you actually have agreed to as the -- as to the proposed development.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So for today's matter, instead of a continuance, you're just going to withdraw
the application for today and then have it readvertised and come back when the readvertisement comes in. Is that
okay with you?
MR. NEALE: That would be fine. So we'll --
(Simultaneous crosstalk.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's probably a cleaner way to do it.
MR. NEALE,: -- indefinite continuance until we can negotiate a future time at the earliest possible time
after.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. I'll just make sure, from the Planning Commission perspective, anybody
have a problem with the request for withdrawal, then, at this point?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No. And I don't think we need a formal vote on that. Jeff, does that work for
legislative?
MR. KLATZKOW: Yeah. I mean, it's going to have to be readvertised. And you'll get with the
communiqr, and hopefully it will be a better project when it comes back.
MR. NEALE: We hope so.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And you might want to check to see if you need another NIM. I don't know
how the NIM was advertised. Ned just suggested that. All those things could pile up to be a --
MR. NEALE: The NIM was correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Well, that's good. That makes it a little bit easier.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Just so you know, though, nobody identified themselves on the NIM,
which we require.
MR. NEALE: Really? Okay. We'll make sure that that's corrected.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. With that, thank you, and we'll see you next time you come back.
MR. NEALE: Thank you very much. Appreciate it.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
{<'<{<That takes us to Item 9A2 on the agenda. This item's been continued from the November 7th
meeting. It's PL20180002368. It's a parking exemption located on the east side of Tamiami Trail North, south
of River Court.
All those wishing to testifz on behalf of this item, please rise to be sworn in by the court reporter.
(The speakers were duly sworn and indicated in the affirmative.)
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Disclosures: We'll start with Tom.
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MR. EASTMAN: No disclosures other than what's already in the public record.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Same.
COMMISSIONERFRY: Same.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: NEd.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Same.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: And mine is --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: No, I'm sorry. I spoke with staff --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Mine is the same as all of them, including speaking with staff, but I also
met with the applicant's representatives, their attorney. Is he -- Richard Yovanovich is not here today. I think
this was one of Rich's.
COMMISSIONER FRY: He was in the hallway.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Well, anyway, I did meet with him. I thought he was part of this -- he
is -- he is the attorney for this one, is he not?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I don't have that one.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Ten River Court. I met with you on two, so it's got to be the last two.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: He's not on this one.
MR. YOVANOVICH: If it is, this is a bad day for me.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Well, I just met with staff then. So with that, we'll go to Karen.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Nothing.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Joe.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: No disclosures.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Patrick.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: No additional since last time, public record.
MR. KLATZKOW: Do we have an applicant?
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: I was going to ask that next, because we are coming to that point where the
applicant can speak.
Sir, you'll need to come up and grab one of the mics and identifr yourself for the record, and I'll need to
know -- well, we've got to swear everybody in.
THE COURT REPORTER: I did.
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: Pardon me? Okay. Did you -- you stood for swearing in?
DR. HOLTON: I did.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So it's your project, right?
DR. HOLTON: It's my project, yep.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Were you prepared to explain it allto us?
DR. HOLTON: I was not. I thought the attorney and the engineer was going to be here today, to be
honest.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Your attorney and your engineer?
DR. HOLTON: Yeah, Cronin Engineering is doing the project.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah.
DR. HOLTON: And then Jeffrey,I think, Lawhorn (phonetic).
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do you think they're coming?
DR. HOLTON: Well, we got the email from them this week. I was under the impression they were
coming.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'11tell you what we can do. We can hold off and put yours -- we have two
others we can discuss now.
DR. HOLTON: If they're not here now, I can't imagine they're going to be here.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Really? Okay. Well, that hasn't happened before. So we'll go from there.
MR. KLATZKOW: You're not -- you have to continue this.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, if he's the applicant --
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MR. KLATZKOW: But he doesn't have any -- his experts aren't here.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah, you may need them.
I don't mind, if you want, we can move you to the last position and then see what happens at that point.
If you haven't got your people here, we can continue then, or if you think you're sure they're not coming, and you
want to now, we can do that as well.
MR. KLATZKOW: You're not going to have expert testimony on this.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah. We've got opposition, if I'm not mistaken. That's one reason it ended
up here.
MR. KLATZKOW: I'm telling you, if you don't have an expert, just continue this because --
DR. HOLTON: Okay. We'll continue it.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Wait a second. Don't you have a cell phone? Can't you call
them?
DR. HOLTON: Sure. We'll do that. Wait till the end of the meeting.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Thanks.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. We're going to move this one to the last item on the agenda.
***And now we'll move to Item 9A3, which is PL20180002194. It's the Tree Farm Mixed Use Planned
Unit Development CPUD. It's located at the intersection of Immokalee Road and Collier Boulevard.
All those wishing to testifu on behalf of this item, please rise to be sworn in by the court reporter. It's the
Tree Farm PUD.
(The speakers were duly sworn and indicated in the affirmative.)
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Disclosures: We'll start with Tom.
MR. EASTMAN: No disclosures outside of the materials in the public record.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I talked to Mr. Yovanovich. Nothing else.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Karl.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Public record, things that came through staff, perhaps an email or two from the
public, and a conversation with Mr. Yovanovich.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Ned.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Same, plus conversations with staff.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Same as allthose. I did meet with -- this one is right, I did meet with Richard,
and Charlie was there, too, Charlie Thomas, and I did receive some phone calls when this project first came about,
and I have referred those folks to the planner in charge to get the information they were looking for. Other than
that, I think that's everything.
Karen.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: I spoke with Mr. Yovanovich.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Joe.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Well,I had a phone call scheduled with Mr. Yovanovich, and I had my
phone faithfully in my hand for the entire half hour waiting for him to call but, obviously, he called me minutes
before I had the phone. So I missed the call, Rich; sorry.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Not a problem.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: But other than that, no other disclosures.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Patrick.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: For the record, I didn't miss any phone calls, but nothing else to add.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: But I had no questions for you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Oh, what a group. Okay. Whoever's making the presentation, we'll move to
that.
MR. ARNOLD: Good morning, Mr. Chairman and Planning Commission members. I'm Wayne
Arnold, certified planner with Grady Minor & Associates and here representing the owners of the Tree Farm
PUD. Charlie Thomas, one of the representatives, is here in the audience with us. I also have Rich Yovanovich,
obviously the land-use counsel; Dan Waters from Peninsula Engineering is here; as well as Norm Trebilcock, who
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did our transportation consulting on the project.
So for some of you, you've been involved and seen this project in the past. The Tree Farm Mixed-Use
PUD is located in the northwest quadrant of Immokalee Road and Collier Boulevard. It is, obviously, an existing
mixed-use planned development that allows a variety of commercial and residential uses. Fifty-four dwelling
units were constructed within this PUD to date, and you can see those on the visualizer in that location, and those
were actually -- some of you may remember when Addie's Corner project came through, which is the project
immediately west. We made provisions for there to be no buffer and no setbacks between the two boundaries.
So they've pushed some of the Addie's project into the activity center portion of this project.
So what's highlighted here from the future land use standpoint, this is in Activity Center No. 3, or at least
a portion of it, so the square box represents of the activity center boundary, there's also a density band around this
activity center, and the project is wholly within that density band.
There were some prior commitments that were made with regard to intersection improvements and some
prepayment of fees related to that. There's going to be a future flyover at this intersection, as most of you are
aware, and some of the right-of-way provisions and relocation of the canal and part of Collier Boulevard
rights-of-way were dealt with to accommodate the development for this project.
The approved master plan also -- and continues to previously highlighted commercial mixed-use area as
well as a residential component to the north, and the approved master plan looks like this. Because of the length
of the project, it was broken up into two sections, the north and south. So the residential was a separate tract.
But it identified two distinct residential tracts as well as the mixed-use area, and highlighted on that, which will
continue to remain, is a frontage road that will connect through Addie's Corner and provide the project access to
Immokalee Road. There is no direct access for the Tree Farm project to Immokalee Road.
The proposed master plan we now have as sort of one image that you can see northL/south, and this one
also depicts the Addie's Corner project to the west, which we thought was important just so you can see the
continuation of the frontage road and how they relate to each other. There are some mutual commitments in the
PUD that relate to that.
But, again, it has two distinct residential tracts. We've also highlighted those areas that are in the activity
center boundary and those that are within the one-third mile of the activity center boundary in which we can
spread some of that density out under the Comprehensive Plan.
This version of the master plan, it's on an aerial. It just gives you a sense of where the residential tracts
lie in reference to the neighboring property owners. And I think there are probably some representatives from
Esplanade that are here today.
But, in essence, what we're requesting is an increase in the residential allocation from 281 units to 460
units. That is within the density provisions of the allowable density under your Comprehensive Plan. It
qualifies for up to 580 units under the allocation between the density band and the activity center boundary.
We're asking for 460, which is well within that number.
We are keeping the same trip cap that was previously adopted for the project, and we are making some
simultaneous increases and decreases to the commercial. We're adding reference to indoor self-storage with a
separate allocation for that, and I think -- a question came up from staff whether or not that was an indoor
air-conditioned self-storage, and the answer to that is yes, it is proposed to be an indoor air-conditioned
self-storage facility.
We also have made changes to the hotel and motels that were previously approved. It had previously a
reference to the FAR. We've asked for, and I think staff supports, that that's going to be a maximum of 250 units
that would be located until the mixed-use component of the project.
We had our neighborhood information meeting, of course, and there were a few attendees; the minutes
were there. There were some references to building heights that came up, and I don't know, Mr. Strain, if you'd
like to walk through the various changes on each page of the proposed ordinance or if you'd like to just discuss
generally those and then --
CHAIRMAN STRAN: My assumption is everybody up here has read the changes, and we would focus
our questions on what we have based on that reading instead of having to reread them all at the public meeting.
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MR. ARNOLD: Okay. Well, that's generally our proposed changes. And I'm happy to answer
questions if you'd like. I know that there probably are specific questions on some of the development standards,
et cetera, which I'm happy to answer.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Any questions from the Planning Commission? And I know, Nancy,
there's some clarifications on your part that you and I talked about, and we'll get into those probably at staff
report; is that okay?
MS. GLINDLACH: That would be acceptable.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Unless they come up earlier.
So, Ned, do you want to lead offl
COMMISSIONERFRYER: Sure.
I had an informative conversation with Mr. Yovanovich; some things that I think need to be fleshed out a
little further, though. First off, having to do with the request to relinquish or to be free of the obligation to
provide affordable housing. That strikes -- struck me in connection with the request for an increase in density to
be certainly worthy of a frank discussion.
And Rich and I had such a thing yesterday, but I would like to hear more about that and have -- and just
be enlightened, if I may.
MR. ARNOLD: Okay. Mr. Fryer, I'll try to answer that. I wasn't aparty to your conversation with
Rich, but the County Commission several years ago allowed developers to relinquish their requirements where
PUDs had commitments for affordable housing, whether they had actually paid money or not. I'll give you an
example. Mercato was one who did pay money toward this affordable housing trust fund that doesn't really exist,
but they had a PUD obligation to do so.
We did a separate process whereby we notified property owners that we were going to remove that
commitment, and we did so, and they were refunded their monies that they previously paid.
In this particular commitment, no monies have been paid toward that, but we could have invoked the
separate process to go through and remove it, or a PUD amendment is another vehicle in which you can remove
that prior commitment.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: You did remove it on July 1s1,2013.
MR. ARNOLD: It came out as part of, I thought, the HEX --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I have the letter in front of me. It was sent to Bob Mulhere who was,
apparently, the representative at the time. It's signed by Kay Deselem, saying, in response to your application,
so...
MR. ARNOLD: Yeah. And the clarification is this is a recodification of all those prior Hearing
Examiner and staff codifications. So what we've tried to do is capture -- the strikethroughs don't capture the
things that were previously approved under the Hearing Examiner.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: What I'm trying to get -- the point, though, for Ned's issue, it's moot. It's done.
So it's not something we're putting back in or taking out. It's just cleaning up the document. So if that helps.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: That helps immensely.
MR. ARNOLD: Thank you, Mr. Strain.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: All right. Let's see. The 281 units will be north of the activity center.
Oh, before I get to that, the 54 units that have been constructed, am I correct -- tell me, are they in or outside of
the activity center?
MR. ARNOLD: They are entirely within the activity center boundary.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Entirely within. Okay And they're multifamily?
MR. ARNOLD: They are multifamily. They are technically part of the Addison Place development,
but they are located within the Tree Farm PUD.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Are they completed or almost completed?
MR. ARNOLD: I believe they are completed.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Completed.
MR. ARNOLD: Yeah. They have CO on that building.
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COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. My next question -- again, we had a discussion, but I'd like to try to
make a record -- having to do with the -- going from the FAR standard to a "number of hotel rooms" standard.
Would you say a word about that?
MR. ARNOLD: Well, our thought was, it's easier for everybody to understand a fixed number of units,
because an FAR of .6 means not a lot to the general public or to many people. Is the FAR -- if you tried to apply
an FAR to a one-acre outparcel for a hotel facility, you may not be able to achieve a number that makes economic
sense.
So asking for a total number of 250 is a reasonable number. And, again, we haven't asked for any
increase in the trip cap, so...
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. My concern, I didn't express it well, has to do with lot coverage.
And when you move away from floor area ratio and go to number of rooms, it's technically possible that you
could build a motel two stories and have much more impervious lot coverage.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Right.
MR. ARNOLD: We talked about that.
MR. YOVANOVICH: We did. And, for the record, Rich Yovanovich. Yes, and we're not
changing -- the Land Development Code prescribes a required open space, and we're not changing that. So going
from an FAR to a number of units doesn't change the requirement that we meet the open-space requirements in
the Land Development Code.
CHAIRMAN STRATN: May I?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Please.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I think the problem -- or the concern may be is that there's no limitation on the
size of the building, really. You've basically said 250 units. You can make them any size you want, fit them in
as big of a footprint you want. You've still got your open space, which is minimal.
You have originally, I believe, 175,000 square feet in this PUD.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You've dropping down to 80- with a storage facility you're not including in that
80-.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Right.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: So could we still say that you wouldn't have -- the hotel would be included in
square footage but would never exceed 175,000 square feet total for all the commercial square footage on that
property?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Except for the indoor self-storage.
CFIAIRMAN STRAIN: Except for the indoor self-storage. Because that keeps you within the cap that
you originally had.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Can we think about that?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Because I have to ask Charlie what's the typical square footage for a 250-room
hotel. So I don't know if that would work. I just need to check.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah. And I didn't think of it sooner, because the way Ned phrased his
question made me think of it; otherwise, I would have let you know ahead of time.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I understand. So you'll let us think about that. And maybe it's a slightly
different number. I just will come back to you on that.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: That would solve my concerns, because otherwise the 30 percent open
spaces requirement really, I think, is pretly low.
MR. YOVANOVICH: It's the code.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But everything counts practically as open space. It's pretly flexible, too, so -- I
mean, it doesn't give you a lack of impervious. It just is open space. Tennis courts are open space. It goes on
and on and on, so...
MR. YOVANOVICH: I understand. And the code is the code.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Now you know where we're coming from.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I understand. So if you'll give us some time to do that calculation --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes.
MR. YOVANOVICH: -- that would be great.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You can continue if you want. That seems to be the habit today.
MR. YOVANOVICH: No. We'd like to continue forward.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'm going to read from some language that the applicant put in the materials
that we had. It says, the commercial land uses within the activity center portion of the property are those
typically associated with major intersections including, but not limited to, convenience stores with gas pumps,
restaurants, banks, and shopping centers anchored by a major grocery or retail store. The way that's worded, it
sounds to me like you're committing to -- when you say included without limitation, I assume that all those are
going to be in there.
MR. YOVANOVICH: They don't have to be in there, but they could be in there.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, I'm not sure that your wording captures that intent.
MR. YOVANOVICH: And, Mr. Fryer, what page are you reading from?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I found this on Page 624.
MR. YOVANOVICH: That's fine. I just want to get to the same language that you're reading from.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Page 624?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah, but I --
MR. YOVANOVICH: Under project description?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: -- don't know if that's the November 7th or the current one. If you can't
find it, I can -- I'll find another way to get at it.
MR. YOVANOVICH: No. I'm with you. I'm just -- I'm looking at the strikethrough and underlines,
and we didn't touch that language. That's language that's been in this PUD from -- I don't want to say the
beginning of time, because I wasn't there for the beginning of time, but it's --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: The way I read it, these uses are required.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I don't read it as required. I read it as we can have those uses, and it's a
description ofthe types ofuses.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, if this language was carried over, then -- well, I'll let somebody else
fight that battle if they want to. This is not your new language?
MR. YOVANOVICH: It is not. It's right here; I'm reading it. And that's the -- those are the typical
uses you would find at a major intersection --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I understand --
MR. YOVANOVICH: -- shopping center.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: -- what your point of what this language means. My point is is I think it
means something else. I know what -- how you interpret it, but I see it arguably as a commitment to include
those uses; including but not limited to those uses.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Okay. If we need to wordsmith that to say you're not absolutely required to
provide each and every one of those uses, we'll wordsmith it, but that's never been the application of that type of
language in PUDs in the past.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, I'm not going to ask for you to wordsmith it down.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Right.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: So -- but I would be willing to leave it alone for now.
Let's see. Then there's a reference and -- Rich, this is something else we talked about --
MR. YOVANOVICH: Sure.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: -- but I want to just establish it. Additionally, this project has provided
adequate land to accommodate the widening of Immokalee Road and Collier Boulevard. Could you please
elaborate on that?
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MR. YOVANOVICH: I can. And if you go to Page 28 of the PUD document and 644 of the agenda
package, you'll see that there was a transportation commitment, and I'll put it on the visualizer.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: But isn't that on the visualizer already in the hatched area?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yeah. I'm going to show you where the hatched area is and why that came
about.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: They're already there.
MR. YOVANOVICH: This is the PUD language I was going to refer to, Mr. Fryer. Item No. C is
where we committed to providing additional right-of-way for the -- what is now the intersection of Collier
Boulevard and Immokalee Road.
Now, when I take this away, you'll see on the master plan exactly where those right-of-way commitments
have occurred, and they're -- it's highlighted on the right side. It's easier for me to do it this way.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: The language you had up said at no cost to the county, right?
MR. YOVANOVICH: The portions were at no cost, yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: That's all I need to know. That's good.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Likewise, if I can go back real quick, just because it's related to the intersection.
Letter F, it should be, responsible for a fair-share cost of those improvements. And the developer has paid a little
over $1.8 million already. So we've given land, and we've paid for intersection improvements that exist today as
related to the traffic impacts of this project.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Thank you.
Then under the maximum project density and intensity, Point No. 2.3(B), the intensity -- the commercial
intensity is proposed to be decreased from 105- to 80-. And my concern -- and we discussed this as well, but I'd
like to continue that discussion. My concern is when you reduce the commercial, arguably, you're going to lose
some internal trip capture that could result in more cars being on the county roads.
MR. YOVANOVICH: So this is where I'm hoping I've learned from Norm Trebilcock over the years.
Our trip cap that exists today assumed a certain internal capture rate. So that would have brought the trips on the
road down. So the existing trip cap number is based upon a certain internal capture.
If we don't achieve, we do a project that's less internal capture, we do another transportation study as part
of this Site Development Plan or plat, et cetera, there will be a lower -- am I correct, Norm? -- internal trip capture
used because of that. So what will end up happening is we'll use up more of the trip cap by not having as much
retail. So we'll never get out of sync with what was previously anticipated to be the trip impact for this project.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Then my last question, I guess, has to do with the increase in density that's
proposed. Could you give me a sense of what benefit would inure to the county in exchange for this increase in
density?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, a couple of things: One, the Comprehensive Plan talks about having
mixed-use activity centers which includes residential. You're going to achieve that standard. Plus, the
Comprehensive Plan has a residential density band. You're intending for higher concentrations of residential
where we're putting it.
So, one, we're consistent with the Comprehensive Plan; we're not asking for any Growth Management
Plan amendments. Unlike other petitions, this one's 100 percent consistent with the Comprehensive Plan.
Right now it's anticipated that you'll have a multifamily developer on one of the residential projects and
possibly single-family on the other. You'll be providing for the ability to have people closer to the urban area.
We've already -- I'll use the word "assessed" for traffic impacts through our additional commitments of
right-of-way and payment of monies towards that intersection plus through our payment of impact fees.
So, one, we're consistent with the Comprehensive Plan, we're putting people closer to the urban area; and,
two, we've essentially prepaid for some of those impacts.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: My final question -- I thought I was finished, but I had one more. How far
of a walk is it going to be for the northern, perhaps, single-family dwelling occupants to the activity center?
MR. YOVANOVICH: You know, you said you had one more question, and I forgot to check that. So
if I can have someone scale that real quick.
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COMMISSIONERFRYER: Sure.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I think more than one of you asked me that question. I'm not sure how long a
walk it is, but we'll get that to you as we're also looking at the square footage for Mr. Strain.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: That's all I had.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody else have any questions of the applicant? Karen.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Will this be -- part of it be developed as rental apartments?
MR. YOVANOVICH: That is certainly an option.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: And if it is, will there be a percentage of them offered first to essential
service personnel?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I can talk to the client and the interested party to see if -- as long as -- again, if
it's -- if it's a first option without income restrictions, if that's what you're asking --
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Yes.
MR. YOVANOVICH: -- then I'll put that on the list of -- now I'll have three things to discuss with my
client.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Okay, thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Anybody else? Karl.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Hi, Rich. A couple questions.
The middle section is multifamily, possibly rental units. You've requested increasing the residential
density quite a bit, adding a lot more residential units and reducing the commercial. You have some residents of
Esplanade that butt pretty close up to that, I'll call it the eastern border of the PUD, but yet there's only a Type A
buffer offered, which I believe is the most minimal buffer. And I just wondered why are you -- why is there not
more of a buffer offered to protect those residents?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Karl, you said the eastern boundary of --
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Would be the western.
CI{AIRMAN STRAN: The western boundary of the PUD.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Of our project. The eastern boundary of Esplanade.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I just want to make sure.
COMMISSIONER FRY: I'm just following the theme of having --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'm trying to follow what you're saying, and I can't get there.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Yes, the westem boundary.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I thought I'm the only one who's directionally challenged. That's typically me
who gets the map, but I feel better now.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Hopefully the side that's between the PUD and Esplanade.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Let me -- I hope you'll be able to see this on the visualizer. The wall and trees,
that's Esplanade. So that's their already existing buffer.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Oh. So the homes from Esplanade shown in the aerial are behind that wall?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yeah. So we're here. They're there on the other side. They already have a
wall and trees.
COMMISSIONER FRY: When you say you're here, there looks to be a swale and there's a fence, then
there's some grass, then there's a swale leading up to that wall. So where is "We are here"? Is it adjacent to the
wall? Is it at the fence?
MR. YOVANOVICH: We're on this side north of the fence and this side of the wall.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Could you point to that location on the master plan. That may help. No, the
master plan.
MR. YOVANOVICH: The master plan?
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Yeah. That way Karl can see where it is specifically you're talking about,
because that's got a notch going east/west where the wall is.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Do you want the picture back up?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No. Just where was the picture taken on this plan that's in front of us?
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MR. WATERS: For the record, Dan Waters with Peninsula Engineering.
So the picture you're looking at is along the west side -- where am I looking here? Yeah, so this is the
new Delillo parcel of Esplanade. The berm you're looking at is right here on the west side of Esplanade.
COMMISSIONER FRY: So I'm not sure if I was interpreting the photo right, but it appeared to have a
swale, a U-shaped swale on the side of the wall. Does your property start on this side of that swale, or am I
interpreting that photo incorrectly, or is it level ground and it just looks like it's a swale?
MR. WATERS: So the properly line, Mr. Fry, is at the toe of slope of the berm there, and so the swale
you're seeing there is an old farm swale, because this is called Tree Farm. It was a tree nursery prior, and there
was an agricultural ditch on the western property line. So the swale that you're seeing is basically the western
edge of the Tree Farm properfy.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Okay. Can you just clarifu for us what a Type A buffer is, what that includes.
MR. ARNOLD: For the record, Wayne Arnold. A Type A buffer is a l0-foot-wide buffer that requires
one canopy tree every 30 feet.
COMMISSIONER FRY: That's it. Just a tree every 30 feet?
MR. ARNOLD: That is correct.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Okay. All right. My next question is about the indoor mini-storage use.
And, Rich, you and I spoke about this a little bit yesterday. I'd just like to clariff. Across - caff corner across
the intersection is the Baumgarten part of the activity center, and within that use there was approved 100,000
square feet, I believe, of indoor mini-storage. Do we really need another mini-storage unit catly corner across the
same intersection? So please speak to that need and the justification for that.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, the answer is, the market will decide whether or not there is a need at
either or both of those locations based upon the rooftops that are there. We're asking for that use. It's a
low-intensity use from a traffic generation standpoint. The way -- as you look -- and depending on how you feel,
they look like office buildings, so they're not your typical industrial-type use.
So the answer to your question is if there's a need at both corners, both will get built. If there's a need
that satisfies the market ofjust one, then one will get built. So we've asked for that use, because there's a lot of
rooftops in that area, and we think that there is demand for self-storage. But I can't tell you today whether both
of them will be built or not.
COMMISSIONER FRY: We've had comments, I think, through various meetings about the proliferation
of mini-storage units, and I think some people think there may be more than -- more than we need, but I agree that
the market would decide. What about restrictions on the location of such facility within the PUD so that it's
obstructed from view from the roads, the main roads?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But they look like office buildings.
MR. YOVANOVICH: They look like office buildings.
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: What would that gain? I mean, you can't tell them from an office building with
the exception that a storage facility of 100,000 square feet takes 12 parking spaces, an office building would take
200. So, honestly, I'm not sure that that's a negative impact from a roadway when they look no different than an
office building, if that's what your goal is.
COMMISSIONER FRY: I am. I think the question is whether it's neutral, positive, or negative that a
mini-storage is abutting the road, and, you know, right beside the road, or if it makes more sense aesthetically for
the nearby residents and passengers along the roadway to have it behind other commercial uses and not quite as
obvious there.
In my opinion, you could see mini-storage unit -- you can identiff it pretty easily as to what it is. It
doesn't appear like an office building to me.
MR. ARNOLD: lf I might, Mr. Chairman. Wayne Arnold again, for the record.
Ifyou look on the aerial photograph, and because ofthe set-aside for the right-of-way and the relocation
of the canal, any of the commercial development that's going to be constructed as part of Tree Farm is going to be
set back from the travel lane, and in the future, obviously, there's going to be a flyover at some point in the future
easVwest on Immokalee Road with transitions down that have been accommodated in that design.
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But I agree with Mr. Strain, we -- Rich and I, I think, worked on all of the Lock Up facilities with the
exception of the one on the East Trail that was just completed, and those were well received by nearby residences
and, as Mr. Strain said, they're not only very low traffic generators but very low parking generators so you don't
end up with these large fields of parking that many people object to, and they are subject to architectural standards
and have special architectural standards in the code for them.
COMMISSIONER FRY: I appreciate that. I guess I'm interested if there are any residents that weigh in
on the issue, if it's something that is of concern. And if not, I understand it's a rather innocuous use in terms of
traffic so -- but I do believe there is an issue -- a concern thematically through these meetings that there is a great
proliferation -- if I try that again -- of these units almost on every corner now.
That is all I have. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody else have any questions of the applicant?
(No response.)
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Rich, I have a few. And part of it will need some of Nancy's participation.
There was a discrepancy in the staff writeup that I found yesterday, but I'm not sure that -- Nancy, you
had said, I think, Page 5 is the right page. I think that's wrong. I think it's page -- because Page 5 says they're
going to go from 120,000 square feet down to 80-, but I think they're going to go from ll 5- to 80-, or has there
been some change from the 175-?
MS. GUNDLACH: Actually, they're going from 120,000 square feet to 80,000 square feet.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Then the PUD that was approved for 175- was amended from its
original?
MS. GTINDLACH: Yeah. I believe that was a HEX decision.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I can't remember offtrand. As long as it was amended. So we're starting at
120- which then brings up a different question in relationship to the hotel. That's what made me think of it today,
so...
Okay. So the staff narrative on Page 5 is the one to use for the square footage reduction, not the one on
Page 10.
And I'm going to have a few questions of your traffic guy, too. I think -- Mike Sawyer, would you
mind -- I'm going to hit traffic so I'd like to ask you while we're asking Norm.
MR. SAWYER: Good morning. Mike Sawyer, Transportation Planning.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: In the Transportation writeup in the staff report, it said -- and this involves the
way Norm laid out his TIS. And I'm probably going to -- I've got a lot of questions about Norm's TIS when we
get to it.
It says, while the scenario does not fully represent the highest, best possible use with the PUD, the
scenario does result in potentially lower traffic generation than currently approved for the development.
Now, if they put -- if we keep the trip cap at the 520 that they're asking for which, by the way, is what we
have to -- that's not, I believe, the number that's used in the PUD. It's used 580. But the basis of today's meeting
and part of their request for approval is the fact they're reducing the amount of trips on the road from 580 to 520.
So I think the trip cap needs to be changed in the PUD to reflect what they're selling us today.
But at the same time, when this doesn't represent the best possible scenario of the PUD, what did you
mean by that? Best possible economically? Best possible traffic-wise? What were you getting at?
MR. SAWYER: I understand the question. It's one of -- it's basically a caution that if the trip limit
weren't part of the PUD itself, there could possibly be an inherent conflict between what was shown in the TIS
and what is included in the PUD. For instance, if you took the highest possible most traffic-generating use in the
list of uses that's been allowed with the PUD, if we didn't have the trip limit, you just had the uses, and the square
footage, you could potentially exceed what's in the TIS.
The safety factor that we've got is that the trip limit pulls them back down so that it would be consistent
with the scenario that they're doing. And the scenario that they're proposing is a reasonable one. We have found
other PUDs coming in with a similar type of scenario, and it actually is pulling down the number of trips that are
possible for the development itself.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So what I was trying to figure out the context of your statement.
Basically, by saying it fully -- does not fully represent the highest and best possible use of the PUD, that also
would mean it only could show that if the trip cap was higher. So the trip cap actually limits the PUD's -- and
that's what I was trying to get at. It's beneficial from what you're saying in that statement. It's just I didn't - it
took me a minute to figure out how you were getting there, so...
MR. SAWYER: Correct. I agree.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. That's the only thing I needed to ask at this time, Mike. I'll probably
have some more after I get done talking -- having my fun conversation with Norm.
MR. SAWYER: Always available.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Okay. Wayne, when you said -- and I know you're accommodating the right-of-way. That is the
right-of-way needed for the flyover, because I noticed you include the relocation of the canal there, too. So the
flyover doesn't need any more than that, right?
MR. ARNOLD: That's my understanding. It's 100 percent.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And because of that, your trip -- your contributions to the intersection
improvements and all these other things, is that considered part of the vesting process, or you're considered vested
for your traffic?
MR. ARNOLD: I'm going to let our attorney reference that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Subject to being out-lawyered by Mr. Klatzkow, I think that certainly goes
towards meeting our impacts for this project. I don't want to get into a vested-rights argument at this point, but I
think that there's capacity on the road. We're still going to pay our impact fees, but we have certainly at least met
our impacts to the intersection.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You have a DCA?
MR. YOVANOVICH: No. This was through the PUD itself.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So there's not a separate DCA on this one.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Not that I'm aware of.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. I'm looking for the rest of my questions. Oh, you heard me comment
on the 520 trip cap. You didn't change that in the paragraph. It says -- there's twice -- there's two references
there of 580, but since you're putting forth the 520 today, I'd like to see that paragraph corrected to the 520.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Since we paid for 580 trips through our fair share to the intersection, and --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You just told me you can't say they're vested, though, so...
MR. YOVANOVICH: But I certainly can say I paid for it, and I should be entitled to that benefit for
what I paid for. So if we tinker with some of the numbers, as long as I don't exceed the 580, we don't see why
the county would object to keeping the same trip cap that I have today as it exists today under the PUD.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, the only twist to that is that part of the selling point of today's change to
add all the residential is that you're going to drop -- your trips will be lower. But they really won't be lower
because now you're not -- because you're not lowering your trip cap, so...
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well -- for instance,I don't believe I ever said that you should approve this
because we've agreed to come in and reduce the overall trip. We've said we've added this as a use, and we've
agreed to stay within the existing trip cap. Maybe staff is saying, hey, the scenario they analyzed actually
shows -- a likely scenario actually shows a reduction, but we've said that's a likely scenario. Your worst-case
scenario is the existing trip cap, and that's what we're asking to keep.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So the TIS you produced shows a reduction, if you go to this use, down to 520.
But that just shows that because it felt like making us feel good, because you don't have a reduction of 520
because you're going to leave it at 580. So why didn't the TIS put enough square footage and other elements in
there to hit the 580 cap so we're not kind of thinking this is a betterment to the project by having a reduction in
trip caps?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Your staffmeets with transportation consultants and says, give us a likely
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scenario compared to what you have today. We've done the likely scenario compared to what's there today. So
I don't understand the harm to the community if we do exactly what we could do today as far as transportation
impacts and for which we paid for intersection improvements based upon that number of trips going through the
project.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, Richard, it's just the -- the documents that were given to us to review
made it believe that we were going to have a project that actually reduced trips on the road, which is a real
positive, and I thought that was your selling point to come in and ask for this change. Now you're saying, well,
no, we just wanted to show you that, that it could be that, but really it could be, what? It could be 400 if we
wanted to -- you wanted to drop it that hard -- that low.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Four hundred.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But none of that we're supposed to count on. We're supposed to say, no, it's
580. It doesn't matter what you're showing us today.
MR. YOVANOVICH: If staff wanted us to come up with another scenario to show you 580 trips, happy
to do another scenario to show you 580 trips. At the end ofthe day, they asked for a likely scenario that could
happen. And if that likely scenario is, in fact, built, you will have less trips, but you will never be worse than
what you are today from a trip.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But if you want to change the mix of the commercial uses than the 80,000
square feet allowed and want to put the -- for example, a convenience store with a gas station in, then that kicks
the trips back up over 520 back to 580, and we still have that then, right?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Possibly. Yeah, you'llnever be worse than 580.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Now, I asked you yesterday, since you don't seem to be -- I thought
yesterday -- you may not be using some of the more intense uses in your commercial section, if you'd be willing
to drop some of those that were more intense, and I thought you were going to look at that. So hopefully we'll
hear about some of that before this meeting is over.
But one of them would certainly be -- is a gas station and a convenience store. I mean, they are one of
the big traffic generators. I don't even know if you could fit one in if you put all that residential in. But without
lowering the cap, you've got some latitude there that I didn't expect when I spoke with you yesterday.
MR. YOVANOVICH: We didn't talk yesterday. We talked two days ago.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Here we go again. Okay. A couple days ago. Allthese days kind of meld
together right now.
So, anyway, Ned had a -- wanted to ask a question on that, and I'll go back into it as soon as he's finished.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you.
One of things that has happened since some time ago when the 580 trip cap was assigned, is we've got a
new AUIR. And there continues to be trouble on section -- Segment 43.2, which is Immokalee. Now, I realize
that this project is not entered directly and indirectly on Immokalee but through Collier. I want to know how
many of the 580 or 520 trips are going to be traversing this segment of Immokalee that is going to be deficient in
2024, and there are only 224 trips left.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Probably a Norm question.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yeah, I was going to say.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I think the attorney ahead of you said that attorneys don't do expert testimony;
that we have to leave that to the experts. I thought that was an interesting statement but -- for your case, at least,
so...
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yeah. I like PatNeale.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'll have to use that more often.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I don't always agree with him.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Good morning. For the record, Norm Trebilcock, certified engineer -- I mean,
professional engineer and certified planner.
We prepared the traffic impact analysis for the project. We did not do a specific link analysis because it
was really comparative to identiff that we're under what was existing out there. So at the time of Site
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Development Plan or platting, what we'd do is do the specific link analysis you're talking about using the current
AUIR to determine that we don't have an issue.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: So you're saying that this is subject to a future look?
MR. TREBILCOCK: Yes, sir; yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Well -- it seems to me, I'm uncomfortable letting this go to the next
step without having some indication as to how many of these 284 trips are going to be expended as a result of 520
or 580 new trips coming down the pike.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But, Norm, if this was part of a commitment in a PUD, would it have been
included in the AUIR because it was a prior commitment locked into the PUD so that that may help respond to the
question?
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: It should have been.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, there's a large trip bank. Are you saying that some of this is in the
trip bank?
MR. TREBILCOCK: It probably is best for staff to maybe address that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: They're not rushing up, so I'm assuming they're mystified by the question, so...
MR. KLATZKOW: This isn't a trip-bank issue. They've got 580 now. They're not increasing it.
Whether or not this results in a reduction, we'll find out when the development is complete. But this has nothing
to do with bank trips or anything else, because they are not changing their trip count.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No, no. That's not -- that's not, I think, where Ned's trying to find out. A
segment of Immokalee Road only has 284 trips left on it. Does that include this project being factored in already
or not? Because this project was in the PUD of having been established and more or less allocated.
MR. KLATZKOW: But you're not changing trip count.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Here she is.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: It should have been. It should have been in the AUIR. But go ahead.
MS. SCOTT: I'm sorrlr. I wasn't sworn in.
(The speaker was duly sworn and indicated in the affirmative.)
MS. SCOTT: The only trip -- for the record, Trinity Scott, Transportation Planning manager.
The only trips that would be included in the trip bank would be anlthing that this particular PUD has an
approved plat or Site Development Plan for.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So the 284 does not include the trip counts that are being asked about
today because with --
MS. SCOTT: Correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Other than 54 units, that's the only plat that's on this property -- or SDP.
MS. SCOTT: Correct. And the other item is, is that the 254 trips that we're talking about, remember,
are p.m. peak hour, peak direction only. So when you're talking about the trip cap, the trip cap is the two-way
trip cap as well, so...
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah. I logically follow you, of course, but it just seems to me that some
study or -- you know, something should have been done to satisfy a concern like this. Maybe it's quite easy to be
done, but right now I'm left without knowing how many of these peak direction, peak p.m. trips are going to wind
up against the 284.
MR. KLATZKOW: The road's going to fail.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'm sorry?
MR. KLATZKOW: This road is going to fail. I mean, you're going to have more and more
development over more and more years. Eventually we'll have to build a flyover, you know, to help alleviate
that. But to think that this is going to be an A quality road or a B quality road, no, during rush hour this road's
going to be bad. But this road was bad when I moved here l5 years ago.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: It already is.
MR. KLATZKOW: And then we six-laned it, and it was great for a couple of years. Now it's back to
where I was when I moved here. It's -- and Trinity's doing as much as she can but, you know, we keep getting
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these requests for additional density, and they keep getting approved, and this is what has happened.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Trinity?
MS. SCOTT: If I may also add, we do have Vanderbilt Beach Road extension, which is coming online,
which we anticipate would be a reliever to Immokalee Road as well as a corridor congestion study that we're in
the midst of doing and getting ready to go out to public involvement to look at operational improvements from
Logan Boulevard to Livingston.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anything else, Ned?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: No, sir.
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Norm, I have to go in order, so I'll to need bring you back up, if you
don't mind.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Sure. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I have 260 pages, and I lose track if I keep skipping around.
The self-storage, it currently reads, self-storage, indoor self-storage. Our suggestion, I think, and staff
agrees, that it should read, indoor self-storage -- indoor air-conditioned self-storage only. So the first two words,
self-storage and comma go away. The way that's written, you could have self-storage being not necessarily
indoor and not necessarily air conditioned the way it's written. So is that -- do you guys have any objection to
that?
MR. YOVANOVICH: My answer is: I don't think I do. My only -- the only thing I don't know,
Mr. Strain, and I need to find out, is you don't know -- on the ground floor they do have some garage units, and I
don't know if those are also air conditioned, but they're within the building, so can I --
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: Yeah. Take some time.
(Simultaneous crosstalk.)
MR. YOVANOVICH: Otherwise,I'd say yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We won't get this completed by the break. So after the break, we'll look at
the --
MR. YOVANOVICH: That's my only hesitation is that part of the building. I don't know if these
individual units are also climate controlled or not. I just need to make a quick call.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Get that straightened out and the hotel during the break, then.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. The amenity area, you know we --
MR. YOVANOVICH: I have asked.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: -- have asked that you locate the amenity areas on the master plan, and that's
because those are the -- if there is any noise, generally it's from the amenity areas: Pools and tennis courts and
things like that, so the neighbors ought to know where they're going. You didn't do that in this one. Can you tell
me where the amenity area's going to go?
MR. YOVANOVICH: What we did do, Mr. Strain, is we did include a requirement from the western
boundary that they have to be at least 100 feet away. So the reason we haven't identified them is we don't know
for sure where the residential development for, I'll call it, the south residential piece and the north residential piece
want their amenities to be at this time.
So we went with what we've done in other PUDs is the development standard route of making sure we
don't have negative impacts to our neighbors by moving it 100 feet from the west. And then if there's
internal -- people next door to where we're required to do a wall -- I think we've done this --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We've done that on Brandon. That's where that started.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I think it also was not only Brandon. I think maybe --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We added it to a few before that. Brandon was the one I think --
(Simultaneous crosstalk.)
MR. YOVANOVICH: I don't know if that was the first one or not. There was one, I think, on Collier
Boulevard. I think Wayne was involved in that one. It was the old Bonness piece of properly. I think that's
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where it started. And I know we used that -- I think we used that language in Brandon. I think I'm kind of right.
Am I close? Yep.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: I know we did. I was there when that happened years ago.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I remember watching it from the cheap seats.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: You say that the amenity area needs to be two stories not to exceed 50 feet in
height. Why do you need 50 feet for storage?
MR. YOVANOVICH: And we thought about that, Mr. Strain. I think the number we came with was
two stories, 35 feet zoned,42 feet actual.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. That brings it a lot better. Let me just move on down my list.
We already talked to you about the 580; we're going to get that resolved.
Affordable workforce housing. This may get us down to Norm. We might actually get to Norm's stuff.
Yeah, we are. So I have mostly transportation cleanup issues.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Before you get to that, two of the issues that were raised -- or questions that were
raised I can talk to you now before the break and before you get into Norm, if that's okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Uh-huh.
MR. YOVANOVICH: The first issue was what's the distance between the activity center to the very
northern tip of the PUD, and it's approximately a half a mile.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Oh, okay.
MR. YOVANOVICH: And the other question was providing first option for essential service personnel.
I think the numbers that have been going around has been a 30 percent number for initially market to essential
service personnel for, if I want to say, 60 days at the initial outset of the project. If you can't -- if there's not
people who want -- that meet those qualifications, then we can go to nonessential service personnel. And then as
each unit comes up, we would again do that for a 30-day period. And we would agree to that similar condition in
the PUD, to initially market 30 percent of those units, and then as they come open, the same 30 percent to
essential service personnel first.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Okay. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Could you say a word about what -- of your marketing effort would
consist?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, there's some easy -- easy outreach would be to the hospitals, to Collier
County, to the Sheriffs Department, to the various police departments, school board. We would, obviously,
initially market to them, because we'd like to have those people living in the --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Fire and EMS, too.
MR. YOVANOVICH: All of the -- that's what everybody is basically doing is contacting the right
person at Mr. Eastman's organization, and same thing at the county; we would reach out to them and let them
know that these units are here, and we'd love to have their employees live there.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: JOC.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Time frame that you would hold that?
MR. YOVANOVICH: It's 60 days for the initial lease-up, and then 30 days as each -- most people will
give us 30 days'notice, so we would have that 30-day period to try first.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Would it be 60 days when the sale center opens, or 60 days when the
building is available to be occupied?
MR. YOVANOVICH: It would be as part of the pre-leasing because, obviously -- and I don't run these
things, but I'm sure as you're in the middle of construction you've got an idea of when people would start moving
in. So it would be during that period of time.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Of the time period that you're marketing the building for rent?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Right.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: So it may be preconstruction, but you're marketing it. It's 60 days, and
then it's open again to market rate?
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MR. YOVANOVICH: I'll -- yeah. It's for the rental community that we're talking about.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: It's always market rate, though.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I understand, but the rental -- I'm talking about -- the question was essential
service personnel, and I want to make sure it's for the apartment complex or rental. If it's a rental project, that's
where the essential service personnel would be.
But, Mr. Strain -- I mean, Mr. Schmitt --
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: I know we look like, but --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: He's the old guy.
MR. YOVANOVICH: You do, you do, you know. There's no right answer to that.
I will confirm during the break -- I can't imagine that we pre-lease before we start construction. I think
it's a little bit different in a market --
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: I mean, from the Planning Commission's standpoint, it's simply nothing
more than offering first right of refusal, basically.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I think the important part is the outreach and letting people know --
(Simultaneous crosstalk.)
MR. YOVANOVICH: -- that these options are there for them when --
COMMISSIONERSCHMITT: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And I have noticed that as these projects work through the system, this idea of
some kind of affordable housing crops up quite often now. And we're doing a lot of it on the fly. And we have
a program for affordable housing, but we're doing a lot of it by re-languaging PUDs as we're suggesting here.
Just out of curiosity, I know that in -- I've read articles about New York City -- I've never been
there -- that they had this problem with rent control, and landlords would get somebody in at a rent, and then they
would drastically raise the rent so they can't afford it anymore. How do we control that if you're trying to get
essential service personnel? They sign a 12- or 14-month lease, whatever it is. Do they get -- do they go back to
standard rates after that? Is that how it works? Just out of curiosity.
MR. YOVANOVICH: There's no -- there's no income restriction we're proposing, so it doesn't matter.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So you're just going to have a market-rate unit that you're going to offer to
essential service personnel as a beginning opportunity? I mean, you're going to -- explain why this is beneficial
to affordable housing of any kind. I don't understand. If it's market rate --
MR. YOVANOVICH: We're not addressing affordable housing.
MR. KLATZKOW: It's not. It's not. This has nothing --
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Why do we care if --
MR. KLATZKOW: I've never understood this conversation because the best --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Me neither.
MR. KLATZKOW: The best we get is, well, we'll advertise this for essential personnel and give them
first choice, but it's market rate.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: If they're not getting the break, they can just go out into the real estate market
and pick it up themselves.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: That's my point, Jeff.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Why are we doing this?
MR. KLATZKOW: This is a tempest in a teapot, this discussion. lt doesn't amount to anlthing.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah, that's what I'm trying to -- I can't figure out how it works. Okay. So it
doesn't work?
MR. KLATZKOW: I'm not even sure why we put the obligation on the developer because --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I don't either.
MR. KLATZKOW: -- at the end of the day --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: It's a nonissue.
MR. KLATZKOW: -- it's a nonissue.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. I mean, if you were doing something with affordable, and you're
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locking in certain rates for over periods of time, yes, but you're not doing any of that. And I'm not saying you
should. I'm just trying to figure out what it is you're being asked and what's given.
MR. KLATZKOW: They're not offering it, but this is something that we've been talking about because I
think it makes us feel good, but it doesn't do anything.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: All it is is a gesture of good will saying, Tom, letthe schoolteachers
know there's new units available.
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: Which if -- they could find out themselves if they looked for apartments.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Correct.
MR. KLATZKOW: Just go to apartments.com, and it's right there.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: But it would be better if they were offered at lower income rate.
MR. KLATZKOW: But they're not offering that. It's market rate. I agree with you.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: I realize that, but it's --
MR. KLATZKOW: I fully agree with you.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: It would be better. And I know that Stock's rental company does a good
job with trying to give them some kind of break to get in --
(Simultaneous crosstalk.)
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: Well, all I was looking for is full transparency and disclosure. This is really
not doing something for affordable housing if that was the intent. And I don't care if it was or not. I'm just
suggesting that all it does is say these are on the market to a special group of people who could simply see it by
looking on the internet for all apartments they need to rent. So, I mean -- okay. I don't have a problem with it.
I just want to make sure we understand what it does and doesn't do.
Now, you know what, before I start my conversation with Norm, we're close enough to a break. Let's
take a 17-minute break and come back at 10:45.
(A brief recess was had from 10:28 a.m. to 10:44 a.m.)
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, everybody. If you'd please take your seats. We're going to resume the
meeting where we Ieft off. And next item up is entertainment by Norm Trebilcock.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Can I finish up the pending questions before we go to Mr. Trebilcock?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes, you can.
Everybody, would you please take your seats. Thank you.
MR. YOVANOVICH: On the air conditioned, my only hesitation -- and I hope it won't be an issue -- is
if we can say everything will be air conditioned except for those portions of the building where you have outdoor
roll-up or garage doors, because some of those are air conditioned, some don't.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. But why don't we do it simpler than that. No outside storage.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Fine. That's fine. But -- okay. And the other issue was --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Hotel.
MR. YOVANOVICH: -- the hotel. There's a hesitance to address square footage because one thing, I'm
a little concerned about what was advertised on the square foot -- we didn't advertise for above the 80,000 square
feet and 250 hotels (sic). We'd rather -- we believe that the more likely size of a hotel in this location would be
about 140 units. So we'd like to reduce that to the 140 which would, obviously, reduce the size of the hotel
building.
So to address the -- we'd rather address the concern that way than change the square footage numbers, if
that's acceptable.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: That will keep it in a much more reasonable square footage, yeah.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Okay. I think those were the two pending questions, and now I'll let you have
Mr. Trebilcock.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The un-pending questions, yes.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Hello, Norm.
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MR. TREBILCOCK: Good morning. Norm Trebilcock, for the record.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Could we look at Table 1 on Page 5 of your TIS to start with.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Yes. Yes, sir.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: In the Table 1, the first -- top part of it says, the PUD existing approved trip cap,
and then the bottom says proposed. A couple different things. First of all, I noticed in the one that was
approved, you're showing a gasoline service station, and the one that's proposed you're not showing that. You're
saying a shopping center, which is nicer than a gasoline service station. That would -- one would tend to believe
that's what your intent was. But I also noticed there's no commercial hotel -- there's no hotel there.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Did you not know they're planning on a hotel?
MR. TREBILCOCK: Well, again, this is a land-use scenario, so -- and everything's really governed
under the trip cap. So if we had a hotel, that would just be an alternative use. So it would reduce square footage
or some other use in furn.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, I want to know what it would do, because we're just now -- you heard it's
not going to be part of the square footage. It's like the self-storage facility. It's separated out, but -- you did put
that here, but you didn't put the hotel here. So that kind of -- I'm wondering why they're asking for it, why they're
asking for it to be separated out from the square footage and not count that way. It won't be counted as a mini
warehouse. It's not going to be counted as residential. So it's a stand-alone. Why wouldn't you put that in your
TIS?
MR. TREBILCOCK: Again, because the mix of different uses -- alternatively, you would do one versus
another. You know, the -- say originally the trip characteristics of, say,250 hotel rooms that we were originally
looking at, its p.m. peak is about 180 trips two-way. So what that would cause you to do is reduce one of these
other uses, you know, just -- you know, in the case of the shopping center, you'd reduce the size of the shopping
center by a number ofsquare feet. So you stay under the overall trip cap you need to.
So there's so much you can fit in, and we just provided a -- kind of a likely scenario that we would have
there. You know, similar to what we do with, like, with assisted living facilities. Oftentimes we won't show
those, but we know that's an allowed use on a piece of property. And so that's all, just -- because that's the nature
of the PUD is to allow alternatives.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: On page 7 of your TIS, Table 28, here we go with the listed uses again. And
so now you're saying that if you were to add a hotel, some of those other three uses would have to be reduced
enough to keep the hotel at the cap of 520.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Yes, sir.
MR. YOVANOVICH: No.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's what his table says. That's the problem I've had with the way you
approached this today.
MR. YOVANOVICH: That -- the PUD says 580. That's what we have today.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Then --
MR. YOVANOVICH: So the bottom line is there's 60 trips that are left over in this table from the PUD
that are not accounted for. So you could put -- in addition to what this table shows, the equivalent of 60 trips. If
the hotel is more than 60 trips, we would then have to subtract out from these other uses to stay within the 580.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I understand that, but I don't know why we're presented with a table that shows
520 when obviously you're missing a use you're now asking to be added to the PUD, and you're saying you
always intended to keep to the 580. So why didn't we show those uses going -- getting to the 580 one way or
another so that we're not being -- I guess, thinking something different than you are intending.
MR. YOVANOVICH: From now on I will make sure I tell all my transportation consultants, when we
have an existing PUD, come up with a scenario, whether it's realistic or not, to chew up the existing 580 trips. I'll
do that. I will not -- I will make sure that this doesn't happen again, because this was -- we were asked to do a
likely scenario on the project. I will now do something that will be likely plus so it doesn't appear as if --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: It will be likely equal, not plus. You're going to go at 580. It's not plus. It's
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equal.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, but I will -- I'm just saying to you, the likely scenario we proposed was
what you have. We will make sure that the likely scenario from this point forward is equal to the 580 so you
won't be in a situation that you're in right now.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Norm, for the trip --
MR. TREBILCOCK: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- counts, you're using the ITE 1Oth edition, right?
MR. TREBILCOCK: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And how accurate is the ITE overall? I mean, do we generally think that's the
right document to use for -- that's all we use; is that correct?
MR. TREBILCOCK: That's the standard we rely on by code and ordinances, yes. ITE does allow
alternative site-specific analysis. But you're correct, the ITE is a standard of not only our county, but really
statewide industry.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Turn to Page28 of your TIS. Very bottom in the very, very small No. 8 font,
under ITE deviation, external trips, let's start with 820, shopping center. ITE did not recommend a particular
pass-by percentage for this case. Multifamily housing, ITE does not recommend a particular pass-by percentage
for this case, yet on the page that we just started with, we've got a pass-by number, and it's substantial. It gives
you a lot of credit: 767 on your 24-hour two-way volume of pass-by trips for multifamily housing and shopping
centers. So if ITE is the correct document to use, why would we want to use -- put the pass-by trips in for this
particular use?
MR. TREBILCOCK: Okay, good question. So, in the case of daily, ITE does not identiff a daily
reduction percentage for pass-by use, yet they do for p.m. peak hour. And, again, the analysis -- everything we
do in here is based on p.m. peak hour. So there is not a pass-by an),ways for the residential uses, so that's out of
there.
But in the case of a shopping center, if you're going to have a pass-by use in the p.m. peak hour, okay, the
logic would be that there's going to be a pass-by over the course of the entire day.
ITE, all they're stating is they don't have a specific standard that they're saying to use. As a standard,
what we do in transportation with the county in agreement is we'll use the p.m. peak hour and we subtract
10 percent of that, and then that will be the value.
So it's just to help give you an idea of overall on a daily basis what we would estimate the pass-by to be.
But in the specific analysis we're conducting, concurrency or anything, daily does not enter into the analysis. It's
just a figure to kind of give you an idea, magnitude of what this is going to generate over the course of a day.
But, you know, this is a valid way to do that. Again, ITE provides a p.m. peak hour pass-by rate. The
county standards typically reduce whatever ITE suggests. So we'll also get a similar footnote when we use the
county-imposed pass-by rates, which are less than what ITE recommends, we'll get a similar note.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Can you show me their pass-by rates for the shopping center, since they said
there's none recommended? How do you -- what do you -- what -- where do you find that? I couldn't find it.
MR. TREBILCOCK: For -- okay.
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: Take the shopping center. It says it is -- it has -- it says it doesn't recommend a
pass-by rate yet you have one in your document.
MR. TREBILCOCK: For a daily basis. ITE does not have a daily recommendation for a pass-by rate.
They just don't have it. They haven't run their analysis that way, but they do on a p.m. peak hour basis. And our
analysis, especially for concurrency, is all p.m. peak hour. And, in fact, we use a lesser rate than what ITE
recommends. Theirs is 56 percent. I think the county's is 50 percent, but I'll double-check that here, looking
that up.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: The page I had referred you to says,ITE does not recommend a particular
pass-by percentage for this case.
MR. TREBILCOCK: For daily, correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Well, where does it -- how do you -- okay.
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MR. TREBILCOCK: Weekday, yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Where does it say -- how do you get to the daily?
MR. TREBILCOCK: Weekday; weekday.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: It says, external trips, pass-by percentage, pass-by trips, non-pass-by trips.
Where does it say they're recommending it only -- not to be used for daily? I mean, I'm trying to follow your
reasoning, and I can't seem to get there.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'm not saying yourre wrong. I need to understand how you got there.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Sure.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And, Norm, maybe --
MR. TREBILCOCK: Okay. If you look on Page32, okay --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. I'm on Page32.
MR. TREBILCOCK: -- that's where you get, in reference to the ITE, the number differences in the case
ofour pass-by. The 25 percent is not provided by ITE.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right.
MR. TREBILCOCK: And then the 50 percent is not provided by ITE. ITE rates will be higher than
that, their recommended rates, in their -- in their technical data. What we do in the methodology is agree up front
what the pass-by rates will be, and that's in our methodology that we have and gets identified, so we use those.
And Collier County has established methodology pass-by rates to use, and so we use those pass-by rates.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And why wouldn't ITE suggest pass-by rates?
MR. TREBILCOCK: They do for the p.m. peak hours. They do for the p.m. peak hours for the
shopping center. Yes, there you go. Like, you can see -- thank you -- on the shopping center that's on the
visualizer is we chose 25 percent, ITE recommends 34 percent.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: What does ITE recommend for internal capture? Is there a difference there?
MR. TREBILCOCK: ITE will follow. They have different processes and procedures we do, and we do
follow those. But Collier County staff will put a cap on it, which is typically lower than what ITE will allow.
So we're conservative in that; that in fact, we'll have more internal capture if you follow the ITE methodology
completely. But we'll override that based on what staff has agreed to. That's why we have these methodologies,
and we provide them these details that show the results accordingly.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Now, ITE uses data and statistics for each one of their land uses, and I guess
that's what helps them factor in the trip count. And that's -- under multifamily housing, which is on Page 29 of
your thing, the last paragraph -- or second-to-the-last paragraph says, for the site -- for the three sites for which
data was provided for both occupied dwelling units and residents, there was an average of 2.72 residents per
occupied dwelling units.
Now, how does that factor into the ITE trip count that you utilize? Is it based on that many residents per
unit then? Your trip count would be higher in that case because Collier County has a lower residents per unit
than2.72.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Again, what -- what everything boils down to are the units and the trips per unit,
and that's what we use and rely on for the trip generation that we conduct, and we're not really necessarily getting
into how many folks per unit are there, but we use the per-unit basis as the trip generation for our analysis.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And I figured you were going to say something like that, Norm. Thank you.
I think that's going to be all I'm going to be able to clarifo that I need from you.
So, Richard, did you have something you want to add to the conversation?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I do. If you will recall, when we were dealing with the Baumgarten PUD and
the Allura PUD, there was some skepticism as to whether ITE for multifamily apartments was accurate.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And there still is, yeah.
MR. YOVANOVICH: And we did local studies on local Collier County apartments with trip counts and
all that stuff, provided that information, and we can resubmit that if you'd like --
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: NO.
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MR. YOVANOVICH: -- and it showed that ITE, frankly, for the low-rise product overstates Collier
County's actual experience and slightly understates it for the high-rise. And Norm used the more conservative
low rise for his transportation analysis.
So we did do a Collier County study for apartments to groundtruth, if you will, the ITE,. So I do -- I
think it's been accurate for the multifamily product.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I have a question about your residential development standards. Your height
for your buildings is -- and it's for multifamily,20 feet or -- well, this is your separation. Maximum zoned
height, three stories NTE, 50 feet. You crossed out three stories NTE, and you just left 50 feet, but yet you told
the folks at the NIM you wouldn't exceed -- you'd be up to four stories. Do you have any problem with putting in
four stories NTE, 50 feet?
MR. ARNOLD: No, sir. We have no objection.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Sure.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. That's all I've got. Anybody else have anything of the applicant?
Q.{o response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, I think I've worn everybody out.
Nancy, do you have a staff report?
MS. GTINDLACH: Yes. For the record, Nancy Gundlach, principal planner with the Zoning
Department.
And staff is recommending approval of the Tree Farm PUD amendment.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Anybody have any questions of staff?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Then we'll go to public speakers. Ray, do we have any registered public
speakers?
MR. BELLOWS: No one has registered.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any members of the public here to discuss this item?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. If -- you'll have to be sworn in first, so if you didn't -- were you sworn
in earlier? Just nod your --
MR. SOLOMON: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Oh, you were. Okay. Please come up -- one of you come up to the mic.
Identify yourself for the record, probably have to spell your last name if it's not obvious, and then we'll be glad to
hear you. Oh, you submitted speaker slips to the court reporter?
MR. SOLOMON: Yeah. It's right there. Jerry Solomon. It's right on top, I see there.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
MR. SOLOMON: Okay. It's somewhat clarification as well.
THE COURT REPORTER: Were you sworn in?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: They were sworn in. They said they were sworn in.
MR. SOLOMON: I was sworn in.
In the initial comments, I forget which gentleman spoke, I think it's the gentleman at the end, he made
reference to the future flyover, and he said it's to accommodate this development. I just wanted to know how
those two are linked, if you would, please.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, you can't ask questions directly to them. You have to ask them of us.
MR. SOLOMON: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And the flyover is going to accommodate the entire area, not just the
development. The development has accommodated the flyover by providing a lot of land and right-of-way to
which that canal has already moved into part of it. That was probably what they were alluding to.
MR. SOLOMON: Okay. So it's nothing about the flyover is justifoing the trip count or anything like
that; because we've heard in the past that this flyover, while it's Collier County's wish, Lee County doesn't even
have it in their Zl-year plan.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, Lee County wouldn't. It's in our plan. That's the -- our -- it would be
our plan because it's paid for with impact fees from Collier County. They're about $45 million apiece, and we've
got 3 of them scheduled for the county that we'll be paying for. So they're different parts. But as impact fees are
collected from the residential and commercial in that area, that flyover will eventually happen some day, but I
think it's about a decade off.
MR. SOLOMON: At least. Okay. Thank you.
Another question if you could help clariff. And I know you asked a lot of questions, Mr. Strain, about
trip counts, and we really appreciate you diving into the detail for that. It's wonderful. It's also an education.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Wish I could understand it, though.
MR. SOLOMON: Well, think about what kind of education it is for us, because we're starting here and
you're up there.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah.
MR. SOLOMON: But when we were here on the Baumgarten PUD, at that point there was a lot of
discussion about -- that we had room for, I think, we were within 1l of the trip count capacity. I don't know -- I
believe --
CHAIRMAN STRAN: There was some capacity. The difference would be on what segments of the
road they're hitting when they make their left and right turns. Baumgarten would have a little bit different road
segments than this particular one. But that's what I believe Ned was alluding to when he said the segment that is
most likely going to have problems is the one that has284 trips left. And what happens is the details of the
application when they actually come down to the wire and say, we're going to add these uses to our Site
Development Plan, that's when the trip count gets checked against the AUIR. And if the AUIR --
MR. SOLOMON: What is AUIR?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Annual Update and Inventory Report. It's a really important document that
nobody pays any attention to, but --
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: We do.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: We do.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We do, but it's -- over the years it's been not -- it drives everything, and
unfortunately --
MR. SOLOMON: Is it accessible by the public?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah. It's hundreds -- it's a couple hundred pages or so, but it's a big
document, a lot of numbers. But it tells you how things are laid out for the future five years, or even more in
some cases.
And for transportation, it tells you when they think the trips are going -- what's left in capacity. And
that's what Ned was referring to. He watches that pretty carefully.
There's a segment of Immokalee Road whose capacity's not going to be able to take as much trips that are
being generated if this project's built to full at the time maybe when it actually comes on line. And what would
happen is during the SDP stage they would discover that there's not enough trips left on the road, and they'd have
to find a way to mitigate it. That's what it would boil down to.
MR. SOLOMON: Okay. So that leads into another question, because there was discussion about
storage facilities, and they're minimal in terms of trip counts, and I think we all welcome them. However, what
we hear is that the ultimate decision whether that's a storage unit will depend on market demand, both
Baumgarten and this PUD that we're talking about.
So what if Baumgarten says, well, we decided not to do a storage ynit and, therefore, we're not going to
use it in this one, and something else gets substituted which will, by definition, have a higher trip count than a
storage unit. Is that part ofthe ongoing process to constantly update the trip count?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, yes, it is, and what happens is the most important part the PUD for trips is
the cap. That's why we talked back and forth on the cap. It doesn't matter if they do a storage unit or not. If
they don't do one, their cap is still 580. If they do one, it's still 580. You just see a different mix there. The trip
cap -- the intensity that you'll experience is going to be the same whether the storage facility's there or not. With
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a storage facility, they'll have more building because it has a lower trip cap, so they still have room to build more.
So with a -- like a gas station, they'd have immediately a higher trip cap, so they'd be building less. That's
what -- the cap is what the key element is.
MR. SOLOMON: Okay. And the cap is 580 --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right.
MR. SOLOMON: -- as long as they stay under that.
One last question: In the visualizer you had this picture up, future land use where it had a square and a
concentric circle around it. What is the difference between what's allowed within the square and what's in the
larger circle?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: In the square it's usually Cl through C4, I believe, which is your various
commercial uses up to - C4 is your more intense stuff. I think it might be even C5 in some -- YoS, it is, C5. So
all your commercial can go in that square. And you can have some limited residential. But in that circle that
goes around it, you can only do residential, but it's a higher density residential. It's up to 16 units per acre with
certain allowances.
MR. SOLOMON: Okay. That's all I had. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Thank you, sir.
MR. SOLOMON: Thanks for the ongoing education.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, that's -- we're all learning, so thank you.
Good morning.
MS. TATRO: Good morning. My name is Jodi Tatro, T-a-t-r-o.
And I just have a real quick question regarding the hotel. Nobody spoke to the height of the hotel.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The height of the hotel will be -- Wayne, do you know that quickly offtrand?
Or I can look it up.
MR. ARNOLD: Mr. Strain, I can look that up, too. But it's subject to the same standards as all the
other commercial development --
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Right. That's what I was looking it.
MR. ARNOLD: -- which is retail buildings are 50 feet zoned, 62 feet actual. Office buildings are
65 feet zoned,77 feet actual. I don't know which we're going to classif, the self-storage.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Oh, no. She's talking about hotel. If you've only got -- you've got retail and
office, that means you don't have -- you don't have hotel. Where are you reading from? What page are you on?
MR. ARNOLD: That is on Table 3, Mr. Strain. It's on Page 18 of the ordinance and Packet Page --
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah, okay. That's what I'm on, too. Retail and office are the only ones
listed, Ray. What would the hotel fall under?
MR. BELLOWS: Retail.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So, ma'am, to answer your question, the zoned height will be 50 feet,
but they can have architectural embellishments to make it look prettier up to 62 feet.
MS. TATRO: And would they be located in the square or the circle?
CHAIRMAN STRAN: They'd be located in the square, in the activity center, Ray?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Square.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah.
MR. ARNOLD: They're allowed only in the mixed-use area, which is the activity center portion.
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah, that would be -- hotels are one of those things that sometimes they're
considered residential and some -- like an ALF, sometimes it's commercial. In this case it's a commercial
application, so...
MS. TATRO: Okay. And just one comment: I applaud all of what you are doing related to the traffic,
and I applaud the methodologies that people use. It's the best that we have out there. But the reality of it is, as I
was heading east on Immokalee Road at that CollierAmmokalee intersection the other morning at about quarter to
8:00, the traffic was already backed up to just between the gates of Addison's Place and Collier Boulevard. I
mean, it's that backed up already. And I just can't imagine what it's going to be like once we add another 480
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residences as well as hotel rooms. So I just wanted that noted.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you. And just so you know, this project for its trip cap was
originally -- I've been using the word "vested," but grandfathered since 2000, I think, 7. So it's just something we
have to live with. We're trying to make the best of it.
MS. TATRO: I understand. And I also think it's important to make sure people think about reality
versus just analyses.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Absolutely. You're right.
Yes, sir.
MR. KLATZKOW: On the development standards chart, could we include a hotel in there just so that
down the road there's no misunderstanding?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Do you have any problems with that?
MR. YOVANOVICH: No problem.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So make a note as an asterisk that on the retail buildings it will be inclusive of
hotels for height.
Okay. Anybody have any other -- any other speakers -- anybody else want to speak on this matter?
(No response.)
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Do any of the Planning Commission have any questions?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: For the benefit of the commission, Ray, at this point, is there any rebuttal by the
applicant? Rich?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Mr. Strain, I don't have a rebuttal. I just have a clarification.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Since we're going to do a footnote for the hotel that it's treated as retail, I think
we probably ought to do under that same footnote that the indoor self-storage will also be treated as retail.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That the what?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Indoor self-storage will also be treated at the retail height, not the office height,
so there's no confusion. We just wanted to make it clear. Those two uses don't have specific heights, and there
might be some question as to whether to use the office standard for indoor self-storage or the retail standard. So
that's the only clarification.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody have any other questions?
MR. YOVANOVICH: And then we'll answer any further questions you may have regarding that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Did you have something, Karl?
COMMISSIONER FRY: Office was higher than retail, correct?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Office is taller, yes.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Taller, thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: But you're saying retail, though, for those two uses.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Let me read to you the notes I made so we know if we're on the same page or
not.
Cap of the hotel at 104 units. Trip cap of 320 units.
MR. YOVANOVICH: What?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I just want to see if you were paying --
Boy, I was just pulling a Richard Yovanovich there. Sorry about that.
MR. YOVANOVICH: It's like my kids. They don't think I'm listening. Then, whoa.
MR. KLATZKOW: I'm not doing CPR next time you do that.
MR. YOVANOVICH: By the way, I have a DNR. Let me go.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The self-storage -- for the line item --
MR. YOVANOVICH: It will stop Mr. Strain from preventing people from helping me.
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: Under the principal uses, the indoor self-storage will be read, indoor A/C
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self-storage only. No outside storage. That covers your roll-up doors.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, I'm concerned that the roll-up door area doesn't actually have A/C. That's
my concern. The rest of -- there's no question the rest of the building does. And we agree no outdoor storage.
It's just the roll-up door area. And some providers do A,/C those units; some don't. That's all I'm concerned
about.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Indoor A/C self-storage only, no outside storage, and there will be no
A/C needed for roll-up door areas.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Perfect.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So however you guys want to make that grammatically right, that's what your
intention is.
The amenity height will be 35 feet zoned,45 feet actual. The multifamily will be not to exceed -- four
stories not to exceed 50 feet. And the -- there will be a note added to the standards table under the commercial so
that the hotel and indoor self-storage fall under the retail section for height dimensioning. Well, it would be for
all of it. A1l of it except for square footage, right?
MR. YOVANOVICH: Say that one more time.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Your retail -- the hotel and indoor self-storage, that's going to have a footnote
indicating that -- well, I'm sorry, the commercial district's going to have a footnote indicating a hotel and
self-storage falls on --
MR. YOVANOVICH: We're just -- it would probably be easier just to add them to the table. We'll add
them to the table instead of a footnote; does that work?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But that brings up a question, though, that wasn't asked. I'm assuming, then,
that all the setbacks that are on here would be for indoor self-storage and hotels as well since they're separated out
now from the retail and commercial component in the -- by square footage. You understand what I'm saying?
You've got to have setbacks.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Right.
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: So all your setbacks that are -- the commercial district setbacks would apply
equally to hotel and indoor self-storage. All of it will.
MR. YOVANOVICH: The way I understand this table, the setbacks apply to all the uses, and then you
have a separate portion of the table that's addressing the height of those uses. So under that height portion, we
would add --
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Hotel and --
MR. YOVANOVICH: -- hotel and --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- self-storage, but the rest of it applies to all the --
MR. YOVANOVICH: Correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. That's fine. That was the intent.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Right, Wayne?
MR. ARNOLD: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So with those, I don't know if there's anything else that you guys want
to mention. I think we've got everything. Is that in agreement?
MR. YOVANOVICH: I thinK So.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Good.
MR. YOVANOVICH: I'm looking back at the corrections I made to the document as we were just
talking. I think that's all of them.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. With that, we'll close the public hearing, and we'll entertain a motion. I
suggest if the motion maker is for a recommendation of approval, it include the notes that we just went over and
see with the second. Anybody want to make a motion?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I'll move for approval with the notes we just went over.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Is there a second?
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: I second.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Made by -- seconded by Joe. The motion made by Stan. Discussion?
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: We're leaving out the rental?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I didn't put them in because it was a moot point, but if you want to add it, the
motion maker and the second during discussion, we can add it. What is it you want to add? What did you want
to specifically add?
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Just what was discussed.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Which was?
MR. YOVANOVICH: We had said 30 percent of the units would be initially marketed to essential
service personnel. For the initial lease-up period that would be the 60 days, and then for each -- as each unit
became available, it would be for 30 days. That's what we --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I don't mind adding it. Itjust it does nothing because it means nothing. But
it's a market-rate unit. And we're going to tell the people at the hospital they can rent a market-rate unit that the
whole world can rent. So that -- I don't know what good that does to anybody. But if that's what we want --
MR. YOVANOVICH: Well, I think it does two things, in fairness to -- one, it gets the word out to the
different agencies, that employee, essential service personnel and, two, it gives them a first priority over someone
who is not an essential service personnel.
So if everything's leased up and it comes down to an essential service personnel worker or a nonessential
service personnel worker, the essential service personnel worker has first access to that unit. So it's not nothing.
And I think that marketing to Mr. Eastman's group and other groups, the countlz, to let them know that those units
are available to their employees is a benefit.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Anybody else have any other questions on the motion? Go ahead,
Ned.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I've decided to vote in favor of it, but with some misgivings, and I want to
express those.
It would -- I would have liked to know what the actual impact of this would be on the constrained -- or
that's the wrong word -- but the soon to be deficient Segment 43.2. And I think that's just important information
for us as planners and for the Board of County Commissioners to know when they vote on these things is what the
impact is going to be.
There's only 284 peak p.m. peak direction slots left. And I understand there are arguments, perhaps,
about vesting or what's been paid for in the 580 and all that, but I still think it's an important bit of information for
us and for the legislators to consider when they are confronted with these projects.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Karl.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Off the record.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Off the record?
COMMISSIONER FRY: Off the record, I would like to just --
CHAIRMAN STRAN: You can't do anything off the record.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Well, I would hate to admit on the record that I agreed with Rich's explanation
about the essential services, that there is some benefit to that.
MR. YOVANOVICH: We'll highlight that in the record.
COMMISSIONER FRY: That's okay that that's on the record.
I'd like to pose a question,I guess, calling upon the insight and experience of more experienced
commissioners on this board. I've seen a trend, or I believe I've seen a trend where the applications come
through, and there is a reduction of the commercial and an increase in the residential. Hammock Park did that.
Obviously, the transition from Rural Lands West to Rivergrass and the villages is a significant reduction in the
commercial but still a lot of residential. This one. There was another one as well. It's not coming to me at the
moment.
But is that a plus, a minus, or a neutral to Collier County as a whole? And I'm wondering, my potential
concern is that as we have less commercial services for people, now they have to travel farther to get commercial
services. And is there an optimum mix of residential and commercial that we are skewing from because we
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are -- we seem to be adjusting every PUD more toward the residential. So I'm looking for some feedback from
the Commission.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Now, just to remind everybody, this is a discussion on the motion. So you've --
COMMISSIONER FRY: No, I'm asking --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Working this towards the motion?
COMMISSIONER FRY: Yes, I am, in terms of --
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: Understand the motion.
COMMISSIONER FRY: -- how I vote on the motion.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: And the motion maker was Stan. So you feel like answering his -- do you have
any input that Karl could use?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: NO.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Joe?
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Not really. I mean, I'm not sure really what you're getting at, Karl.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Are we losing something by, as a trend, reducing the commercial in each of
these PUDs and having more residential? So we're reducing the pool of commercial services that are available
for more people that are moving into these residences.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Karl, this is an activity center, and you've got three corners massively built out
with commercial already. The activity centers do allow mixed use, and they have purposelessly dense density
bands around them at a higher -- much, much higher density than allowed anywhere else in Collier County.
It's encouraged to be in those locations. To take away the commercial here when there's so much on the
other corners I'm not sure that is a problematic issue. If it was farther out east where we had a little bit of
commercial and we took it away and we forced more people to drive into town, that would be a problem.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Right.
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: But in this intersection, the only thing I wish they had is a Home Depot, but
other than that --
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Or Lowe's. We can't be specific here, now.
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: Well, Lowe's or Home Depot. Okay. Either one. Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Karl, just to -- but it's cyclical based on the market. If there's
overabundance of commercial, it tends -- the market will drive converting commercial to residential and vice
versa. If there's a shortage of commercial, the market will demand, and there will be a conversion of residential
to commercial. It's happened in this county for the last 20 years. Probably the preponderance, though -- we get
a lot of commercial activity centers, as Mark said, that we're tending to put some residential because residential
was what the market demanded.
COMMISSIONERFRY: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Go ahead, Ned.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I share Commissioner Fry's concerns in the broader sense. I think it's
adequately addressed in this matter, but I worry about that as well. I think it's important for us to keep in mind
the need for smart planning.
Right now residential is a better investment for the developers than commercial, but it is cyclical. But
from our perspective, when we look at these applications, I think we need to think about how we can reduce the
amount of traffic going on the streets by keeping it within a mixed-use area, because that's what smart planning is
all about.
And so I'm not necessarily concerned about that with this one, but I think about it all the time, and I think
we all should.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Does the motion maker accept the addition of the essential service
language that was discussed?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Will the second accept it, too?
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Yes.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. With that, any further discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Hearing none, all those in favor, signifu by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Aye.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Aye.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody opposed?
(No response.)
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion carries 7-0. Thank you all very much for your attendance today.
MR. YOVANOVICH: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: And we will excitedly move on to the next item.
{<**The next item is Item 9A4,PL20180002693, a private school and pre-school with childcare services
located on the south side of Wilcox (sic) Street approximately a half a mile west of Carson Road in Immokalee.
All those wishing to testi$ on behalf of this item, please rise to be sworn in by the court reporter.
(The speakers were duly sworn and indicated in the affirmative.)
CI{AIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Disclosures. We'll start with Tom.
MR. EASTMAN: No disclosures outside of the materials in the public record.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Go ahead, Stan.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: I talked to Mr. Yovanovich, but nothing else outside the public
record.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: KaTI?
COMMISSIONER FRY: Public record, emails, and a conversation with Mr. Yovanovich.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ned?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Same as Commissioner Fry plus conversations with staff.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And I've had the same as Karl, and looks like Richard got around a lot on this
one.
Karen?
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: I spoke to Mr. Yovanovich.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, Joe.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: No disclosures on this. I did not have a chance to speak with Rich.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Because your phone wasn't working.
Patrick?
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: It was in the garage. I knew he was going to call.
COMMISSIONERDEARBORN: None.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. With that, Wayne, it's yours.
MR. ARNOLD: Thank you. I'm Wayne Arnold, certified planner with Q. Grady Minor & Associates.
And with us today, we have Dawn Montecalvo from the Guadalupe Center; John English from Peninsula
Engineering;Norm Trebilcock from Trebilcock Consulting Engineers; and Rich Yovanovich, our land-use
counsel.
I'm going to switch from the visualizer we have and put an aerial up. I'll show you the location of this
property in Immokalee. The properly in question is about a nine-acre parcel that's located on the south side of
Westclox Street. This is west of State Road 29 arrd west of Carson Road in Immokalee. It is an infillparcel that
is immediately across from the Eden Park Elementary School, and we are proposing a pre-school center, in
essence, for Guadalupe for them to expand their services. And before I get too far into that, if I could -- if the
Planning Commission would indulge us, I'd like to have Dawn Montecalvo come forward and just give you a
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couple minutes of who Guadalupe Center is and what they do and why this is a needed facility for the Immokalee
community.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Wayne, before she comes up, where's the existing center at now; do you
know?
MR. ARNOLD: The existing center is south of Main Street and Immokalee.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: I mean, I know -- just on the map. I can't remember where it is on the
map. Go ahead.
MR. ARNOLD: It is -- it's much farther south on the south side of town. Not too far from the
Development Services Center, and you're familiar with that location.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Yep.
MS. MONTECALVO: Good morning. Thank you for this opportunity to share what Guadalupe Center
does and what this project will do for the community.
Guadalupe Center has been part of the Immokalee community since 1984. It started out as the soup
kitchen, and over the years we have focused on education. Our mission is to break the cycle of poverty through
education for the children of Immokalee.
We have three programs: Our early learning program, our after-school program, and our high school
college preparatory program called Tutor Corps. We are currently on -- have our main campus at 509 Hope
Circle on the other side of town.
Our early learning program, we serve 307 children under the age of five, and we have a wait list of more
than 500 children, and most of those children are under the age of three. So our board has committed to
expanding those services so we could reach more children.
We did a study in 2015 identiffing the pockets in Immokalee that needed quality childcare, and the Eden
Park in Lake Trafford area is an area that lacks those services, so that's why we focused on that area.
We currently -- the quality of the early learning is also important. We are nationally accredited. Our
after-school program, we are located in the high schools, in the elementary schools, all five of them, so we do run
a program at Eden Park. Those services will not be on the campus, but our administrative offices will be, as well
as meeting and learning labs for our high school students to come to there. And we will expand that program
hopefully to reach 125 high school students.
We right now currently serve more than 1,300 children and their families, and we also -- our goal is to
make sure all the students know they have what it takes inside to overcome living in an impoverished community
and get that education to be economically independent.
Any questions? I tried to do that really quickly for you.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Everyone except the court reporter appreciated that.
MS. MONTECALVO: Thank you so much.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody have questions?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I guess I do.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: You do?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yes,I do.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Of her or Wayne?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, either one. I think either one could answer the question.
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: This is a charitable undertaking by the ownership, by Barron Collier?
MS. MONTECALVO: Yes. Barron Collier is donating the land to us, yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. And so it's going to be run as a not-for-profit 501(c)3?
MS. MONTECALVO: Yes. We are a non-profit 501(c)3; have been since 1982, and they will
be -- once this is approved, they will officially donate it to us.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you.
MS. MONTECALVO: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Wayne?
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MR. ARNOLD: Okay. Thank you. So, obviously, there's the location. You just heard a little bit
about it from Dawn, about the need for this.
And just to explain, there are two activities that we've requested. One is for the pre-school of the 350
children, and that would be for daily use, and those hours are generally going to be 7:00 to probably 6:00 p.m. for
parent pickup after hours.
And then the other part of this that's the private school component, which it's probably not technically a
private school in the sense that there are going to be high school instructional kids there. They have a Tutor
Corps, and Dawn can speak to that in a little bit more detail. But that's where kids are coming in and doing
tutoring college preparatory, things of that nature, and that's my understanding. It's not a daily activity, but it is
something that will occur mostly after school from a high school setting and carry on into the evening when
they're there until approximately 8:00 p.m. on those evenings that they are there.
The conceptual site plan that we depict in your packet shows two access points to Westclox Street. And,
obviously, there's a parking area. And with school security issues what they are, there's a separation here
between the building area, which is where the school buildings are going to be allowed, and then your parking
areas, and then there's also a secured area with the fencing and gates.
We've depicted largely where our water management areas are supposed to be on the eastern portion of
the site. We've labeled a building area. And John English with Peninsula is helping the Guadalupe Center
currently trying to figure out what that is.
And, Mr. Strain, I understand you had a question for us about potential areas for outdoor play areas for
children.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I had quite a few questions, but that's one of them.
MR. ARNOLD: Yes. And we'll try to answer that. We haven't depicted those on this exhibit, and I'll
do my best to describe how that works.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: One of your discussions in the paperwork said, as shown on the master plan.
It's not, so that's why I'm asking the question.
MR. ARNOLD: Okay. So just to depict, we have our parking areas, we have a building envelope area
and, you know, that's really the highlights. We haven't provided a lot of detail because they are still working
through what that ultimate building configuration will look like, because there's going to be a separation between
the preschool component, admin areas, and then the tutors after-school program.
One of the things I wanted to talk about --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do you think what you just said answered my question?
MR. ARNOLD: No. I thought you were going to have other questions, and I just thought I would
answer all those.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: I just wanted to make sure you knew it didn't.
MR. ARNOLD: Understood.
So one of the things that did come up -- and Norm Trebilcock and Mr. English met with Tom Eastman's
group at the school district to talk about access and, I guess, Collier County Transportation staff as well, access on
Westclox, because we had depicted an access directly across from the elementary school access point. And it
was suggested that if we could eliminate the easternmost access point that is adjacent to the school, that would
help alleviate any potential congestion with pick-up time and dropoff
So we have adjusted our plan slightly to eliminate the access point that was originally shown that would
access Westclox in that location immediately across from the school. This has been discussed with your
Transportation staff, and I think they're in support of that. Nancy hasn't seen this plan, but I did discuss this
change with her, and I think subject to Transportation's concurrence, there were no objections, at least at the staff
level, to eliminate one of the two access points on Westclox in favor of the single access point.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: How do you get to your parking lot? Just out of curiosity.
MR. ARNOLD: The parking lot access, we'll have to make a modification here for a connection,
Mr. Strain. It's -- we'll have a single access point to the road.
Again, we are requesting the two uses. And we had a few attendees at the neighborhood information
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meeting. I don't think they brought up substantive issues with regard to our proposed use. There were questions
of drainage in the area. There were also some comments made that, to me, were less gelmane to the substance of
the project and more political in nature, so I'm probably not going to address those. But I don't believe any of
those neighbors are present today that attended the neighborhood meeting.
So if we can answer any questions, our team is here to try to do the best we can to answer your questions.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Does anybody have any questions? Ned.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: The TIS that I guess Norm did on Westclox, part of it is a county road,
Segment 116; the other part is not and so is not covered in the AUIR. I'd like to know more about what appears
to be the actual traffic count that Norm conducted.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Good morning. For the record, Norm Trebilcock, Trebilcock Consulting
Solutions.
So the traffic count we did was at the request of staff to look at the intersection with the school to take a
look at any conflicts in there. And so those were the -- that was the trip generation or trip analysis that we ran,
so --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: So it was an intersection that was looked at, not a road segment?
MR. TREBILCOCK: Yes, sir, exactly. It was -- specifically, there were concerns, and staff was
concerned with that intersection as well. As Wayne had mentioned, we had a follow-up meeting with
Commissioner (sic) Eastman and the principal of the school to talk about potential conflicts. And so the analysis
bore out that, you know, it would be preferable to maybe move our access point down and away so we could
eliminate those left-out conflicts from the school and our left-in. So that was that trip-generation analysis you're
talking about.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. My concern, then -- maybe it can be explained -- but you've got
this segment of Westclox that's not part of the AUIR; 100 percent of the project traffic is going to go on it.
Can you give me a higher level of comfort that the road can sustain that additional capacity? I had
thought or hoped that you had done a traffic count on the segment.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Right. So when you look at the volumes on Westclox that is looked at in terms of
the amount of traffic on there, it's not -- the peak volume that they're showing is it's under 300 peak-hour trips
with a road with a capacity of 800 peak-hour trips.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: How did you get that peak capacity number?
MR. TREBILCOCK: That would be the capacity that Collier County already has for Westclox, a portion
that they do monitor. And so you would -- it's a very similar segment of road. It just so happens they don't
monitor it because it goes into a dead-end scenario, so they don't bother to monitor the road, but it would have
similar capacity characteristics in terms of 800 vehicles per hour, would be a reasonable assumption.
So looking at those numbers and then, you know, looking at 100 percent of our traffic, we would still be
well within and under the capacity of that road segment. So that's why your staff didn't take that any further
either. lt is a significant -- you know, significant to the road, but it's not a capacity issue.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I don't think I had any more for Norm, unless you wanted to jump in.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I've got to take mine in order, so no.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. That's all that I had for you, Mr. Trebilcock.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Okay. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do you have anything else?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I do. The issues that were raised at the NIM, even though people aren't
there, is still of concern. The flooding and traffic congestion that is currently being experienced, flooding the
neighbors were concerned about, that by elevating the project, you will throw off more water onto their property.
And I'd like to know some more about what you're doing to mitigate the impact of that development.
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MR. ARNOLD: Certainly. John English from Peninsula Engineering is the design engineer and can
walk you through what the proposed water management system will be.
MR. ENGLISH: For the record, John English, professional engineer with Peninsula Engineering.
My understanding from -- I was at the NIM. I listened to the concerns of the residents that attended.
And my understanding of the area they were describing was to the east of us.
This project is right here, as it is shown with the box around it. There is a significant county ditch that is
immediately on our east property line that separates us from those areas to the east of us. So as I tried to explain
in our meeting, our water will not -- any runoff our site generates will not go to the east, the areas they were
describing and were concerned with.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Is that a canal or is it not?
MR. ENGLISH: It's definitely not a small -- a small roadside ditch. It's pretty significant in size. It's
probably 25 feet wide. Now, I wouldn't characterize it as the Airport Road canal. It's certainly not that big, but
it's significant.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Was it your understanding the people who raised this were people who had
dwelling units to the east of your property?
MR. ENGLISH: Yes, that was my understanding. Now, we - that was a neighborhood information
meeting, and we didn't have a lot of visual documents there for them to explain to us. But it was all described as
being east of us, and they were describing how properties -- as part of their concern, they were explaining that
they felt that developments to the south of them had blocked the flow of drainage from their properties. Now, I
know exactly where they were, but that's clearly not us. The properly to the south and west of us is a residential
neighborhood that has a modern planned water management system, and there's no one noth of them other than
us. So it clearly is to the east of us and clearly east of that county ditch.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: So when you -- when you elevate this site to the east, the water will run off
through the ditch?
MR. ENGLISH: Well, I'm not entirely sure what -- the drainage patterns to the property to the east. I
do anticipate that they're doing -- they're either flowing south or they're flowing into the Westclox right-of-way.
And if it gets high enough, it will flow west over to this ditch and then go south. So I think generally it's moving
south by some means.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: But if it got on Westclox, why wouldn't it move east?
MR. ENGLISH: Because -- well, I haven't done a regional study of the area, but my anticipation is that
generally everlthing is moving west and south for drainage.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Stan, does that sound right?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Yeah.
COMMISSIONERFRYER: Okay.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Many years ago I was involved with a project that was in that
area, and the ditch comes out of the school property and heads south and, as far as I know, all the drainage in that
area heads south. If you're right about all the people that complained being on the other side of the ditch, there's
no way the water would cross the ditch and get on your property. Just not possible.
MR. ENGLISH: I would agree. We're separated by a hydraulic barrier with that ditch.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Then I think that answers that question.
There was a comment made about with the present school that's there, people are parking on other
people's properfy. Do you remember that?
MR. ARNOLD: Yes, sir,I do.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Is there anything that this development could do to discourage that sort of a
practice?
MR. ARNOLD: I doubt it seriously. But, you know,I think what's experienced at elementary school
traffic, which is what we have to the north, is pretly comparable throughout Collier County. Dropoffand pickup
times, traffic stages there, especially in pickup time for parents to wait for their kids to pick them up, and
sometimes there are adequate lines so they can pull into the properly; sometimes parents decide to wait outside
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the properly boundaries. I'm not sure that's something we can directly control.
MR. ENGLISH: My perception of it matter -- and maybe Norm would be the better person to speak to
it. But the school is located here. We're directly south of them. I believe the areas that are experiencing such
problems are east of us, so I don't know how we could really address that in a -- yeah.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. All right. Thank you.
That's all I had, Chairman.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Well, I wanted to make sure that Ned understand that the details on the
drainage and other aspects are usually reviewed preffy thoroughly by the county. I say "usually." And Stan can
highlight on that. As part of the engineering review, they'll look at the stormwater flow, all the other type of
requirements. There's no type of district permit involved in this from what I understand.
MR. ENGLISH: We have an application for an ERP --
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Oh, you did.
MR. ENGLISH: -- permit into the Water Management District, and we are -- our discharge rates are per
the county ordinance for the Immokalee urban area, so it's all prescribed.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Yeah, okay.
MR. ENGLISH: So it's demonstrating compliance with that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody else have any questions? Did you -- nodding your head you do?
COMMISSIONER FRY: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I heard it rattle.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Just a couple clarifications. So are you saying, is this subject properly going
to generate water into the canal that's adjacent to you?
MR. ENGLISH: The county ditch on the east propefty line will be our location of discharge, yes; that
will be our receiving.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Do we know the state of maintenance of that ditch? Is it --
MR. ENGLISH: Recently has been -- the county did a major cleaning of it.
COMMISSIONER FRY: They did?
MR. ENGLISH: In the last two months.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Okay. I had heard that it was not -- a while back it was not maintained as
well and the flow was not what it should be. So that's been corrected since then?
MR. ENGLISH: Yeah. We observed them. We have pictures in our file. They had significant
equipment out there cleaning that ditch all the way from Westclox down Lake Trafford Road.
COMMISSIONERFRY: Okay.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: That's one of the reasons I was involved so long ago, because
that ditch was also heavily maintained back a decade ago. So I guess they do have to clean it out every now and
then.
COMMISSIONER FRY: I don't know if this question is for Wayne or for Dawn, perhaps, but I'm just
curious, you have early-morning dropoff of the pre-school kids and the school kids -- it's a pre-school but not
a -- it says private school in the summary. Private school and pre-school with childcare service.
MS. MONTECALVO: It's not a private school. It is a pre-school for children zero to five, and then
we'll have a building for our administration and after-school program, but it won't be a private school. High
school kids will come in for lectures. We'll have a learning lab for them to do homework and meet with mentors
on that part.
But the early learning, the dropoff is usually -- we open up at 7:00. So between 7:00 and 9:00 a.m. is
dropoff. It's different than school dropoff where you can just pull up your car and drop off your child. You
have to actually stop and bring your child in. And all our students need to be in by 9:00. And then pickup is
usually between 4:00 and 5:30.
COMMISSIONER FRY: So, Dawn, I guess where I was going with this, kind of a follow-up to Ned's
concerns raised in the NIM about people parking. Schools often, with the car lines, have a huge logistical mess.
But you're saying in this case you don't have, really, car lines. People have to park in the parking lot. There's
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plenty of parking designed into this project.
MS. MONTECALVO: A lot of parking.
COMMISSIONER FRY: And so there will be no people that cannot find a place to park when they're
dropping off or picking up their kids?
MS. MONTECALVO: Right. And because it's a couple-hour window, everyone's not there at the same
time. It's not like a public school where everybody has to be there at an exact time, so they do have to park, and
because they're little children, they need to go in and pick them up and sign them out and then bring them out.
So we do have plenty of parking for this. That was our number-one priority was parking.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Great, thank you.
MS. MONTECALVO: Thanks, Karl.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody else?
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: A comment after what happened with Mr. English. I'm
thinking, Ray, would it be possible from now on for somebody from the graphics department to run up a LiDAR
and send it to all the Planning Commission members so they can see where the water flows on every project we
look at? It could save a lot of questions.
MR. BELLOWS: Understood. And we are preparing one for you.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Yeah, I know.
MR. BELLOWS: Yeah. I don't see a problem with emailing that similar.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Jeff, no problem with that? Could you make sure it happens for
every project from now on? You can see a lot of this flow a lot better when you look at the LiDAR.
MR. KLATZKOW: I mean, you're about the only one that's going to understand it, but --
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: No, no. The way they do it --
MR. KLATZKOW: -- that's why you're up here. No, it's good.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: No. The way they do it, it's easily understood by the average
person.
MR. BELLOWS: If that's the direction of the Planning Commission, we'll do it.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You don't have to send it to me, but if everybody else wants it. I mean, we're
regulated by South Florida Water Management District. It makes no difference to me.
(Simultaneous crosstalk.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You can send it to everybody else. I don't need it.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'd like it.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Typically, send it -- you send it to Stan, send to me as well. But I
understand it, and I know that this goes through the review process and that staff is reviewing any Site
Development Plan. And in actuality, if any water does encroach on a neighboring property, it's up to that
developer to mitigate that impact.
COMMISSIONER FRY: If it's already being developed for Stan and it's no additional work just to send
it to all of us, we can decide, you know, whether we look at it or not.
MR. BELLOWS: Understood. It shouldn't be problematic.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Yeah. I get a lot of stuff I don't look at. So this way they get
stuffthey wouldn't look at.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Oh, boy.
COMMISSIONER CHRZANOWSKI: Thank you.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: For the record?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Wayne, could you just repeat for me what your expert said about that ditch.
It runs all the way from Westclox down to Lake Trafford Road; is that correct?
MR. ARNOLD: That is correct.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody else have any questions? I do.
Ray -- or could somebody put the master plan back on. Ray, this is a conditional use. And I know that
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we've had a history of dealing with master plans on conditional uses.
MR. BELLOWS: Parking exemption.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: WhAt?
MR. BELLOWS: Oh,I jumped one; sorry.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, let's get you focused on a conditional use, because I need an accurate
answer.
This is a conditional use. I know we've been preffy strict on what conditional uses can and cannot do
once they -- based on the master plan that's approved through the conditional-use process. So see that area that
says buildingarea?
MR. BELLOWS: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Could they move that 150 feet to the east, or would that be a violation of the
conditional-use master plan that's been approved by this panel?
MR. BELLOWS: One hundred fifty feet, I think, would be exceeding what we would allow
administratively.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You see those dotted lines around the outside that says 30-foot minimum
building setbacks? Why would we want to have a minimum building setback at 30 feet when they can't move the
building? And that's, by the way,240 feet away. Why would they want a building setback of 30 feet and they
can -- I mean, how can they use it if they haven't got to come in for another conditional-use modification?
So what I'm suggesting is we put the real building setbacks in there to lock them into the master plan
they're producing; otherwise, it's a -- we might run into a problem down the road.
Wayne, do you have anything? You kind of --
MR. ARNOLD: I would just weigh in and simply say your code requires we put the minimum building
setbacks on the plan.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: I know, but I want to suggest that -- you -- because those are made up by you?
You put those --
MR. ARNOLD: Those are right out of the agricultural zoning district.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right. But they're in your master plan for the conditional use. So why don't
we put the real ones in there so we know that the building's going to be where you say it is, and the
neighborhood's going to be protected to those points where they know the building's going to be?
MR. ARNOLD: So, Mr. English was scribbling while you were asking and talking earlier, and we've got
a conceptual building footprint, and it might show you a little bit more ofjust how we fit in the envelope. And
he's written some handwritten notes for setbacks that would be applicable to the actual footprint we're dealing
with today, so...
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All I would like is -- see this plan here?
MR. ARNOLD: Yes.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Show the setbacks to the building that you want to live with. I don't care if you
put a few feet tolerance in them; that's not what I'm trying to say. Give us something that's acceptable so that the
public understands what they're getting and where it's generally located.
MR. ARNOLD: I'll show you this exhibit. If we can show you this; I'm going to have John maybe just
walk you through this. But he's written in here what some of the setbacks truly are based on the footnotes they're
dealing with. So I think we're comfortable if we can establish these setbacks that he's going to go through as part
of the code requirement for our building area.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I can't see where all those -- I see where the ones on top are, so that's fine. The
ones on the left side, you're saying you're --
MR. ENGLISH: I can walk through them if you'd like.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah, please do. Someone's got to help here.
MR. ENGLISH: Again, John English -- for the record, John English, Peninsula Engineering.
I appreciate your comments, Commissioner Strain, about you not minding leaving a little room for
tolerance. The master plan -- we started this process a while ago, and where we were in the project, you
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know -- when you staft a project, the architecture's not all complete. You're working with a team developing the
plan.
The concept has stayed amazingly consistent; however, what you see on this was at the time a planning
tool we gave to the architect. We developed a site plan concept. The architect came on board and said, okay,
what can I or can I not do to mess up the site? We generally said, well, try to stay in this box.
Now, we're well interior to the property. Just giving you a quick run-through on how this plan came
about.
We're used to dealing with setbacks. We knew we would be well within setbacks, but we used this as a
tool to work with the architect. So as time has gone on and the architect has gotten much more detailed with the
design -- I've got to make sure I'm putting this on where I can see it.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: It is.
MR. ENGLISH: So the plan, as you can see, is extremely consistent. But now, instead of a big blob,
this is taking form into what will really be built.
So does this fit -- if we put that original box that's on the CU master plan over this, this thing probably sits
90, 95 percent within it. There may be little areas that extend out of it.
So we do need to introduce -- either remove from the master plan the big square that says building area,
because that's -- you don't necessarily see that on every master plan. It just happened to be on here because we
had it.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: On conditional uses, we do see the detail. That's why they're conditional uses.
That's why I'm trying to be more specific and get you locked into a detail that -- it isn't like a conceptual PUD
master plan. A conditional use is specifically more specific to know we've reached the compatibility standards
needed, so -- and I'm not saying you're not compatible. I just want to make sure you continue to be so.
MR. ENGLISH: We just need a slightly bigger box to accommodate those places we've --
(Simultaneous crosstalk.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I think if you were to substitute -- well, if you take the setbacks you show here
100 feet to the south and, what is it, 200 feet to the east, and then 75 and 60 to the west, that would get us there.
So build a box around that, and that would be the box that would end up being the master plan for this project so
you've got the flexibility you need. Does that work? Because it's bigger than what you've got now. The box
you've got now is 100 feet on one end on the west side and 65 feet on the other, according to the notes that
you -- that are supplied with the staff report, so...
MR. ENGLISH: It would be fine.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Joe?
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Yeah. John, is this -- the dashed lines on each of those wings, does that
show for a potential expansion?
MR. ENGLISH: Yes, sir, it does.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Okay. So we need to make sure the setbacks are identified to that.
MR. ENGLISH: That's correct. They were always intended to be within that original box. It's just --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But they're not now.
MR. ENGLISH: -- shifted and adjusted a little.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: And is that the 200 feet from, quote, the potential expansion to the
property line? Is that 200 feet?
MR. ENGLISH: Yes.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Okay. And why don't we go with that, just as you mentioned?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's what I'm trying to get to, yeah. That's what I was hoping we were going
to go to.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Can we just modifr the box, then, to meet those -- these --
MR. ENGLISH: Yeah, I don't think I -- I can work with Wayne, and we can clearly update the master
plan.
(Simultaneous crosstalk.)
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CHAIRMAN STRAN: Just create a new conditional-use master plan consistent with what you're
showing us here. The only other thing I'd like to add, and I think if you go to -- let me -- well, there's a few other
things, but let's go to Page 33, I think -- yeah, 33 of -- it's under -- you guys submitted what was called evaluation
criteria. And it's Page 3 of your evaluation criteria, Item C, it said, describe the effect the conditional use will
have on the neighboring properties in relation to noise, glare, economic impact, and odor. You did a fine job
filling it all in, but you said one thing I can't find. Third sentence down: The outdoor play area is shown on the
conceptual site plan and is orientated toward the center of the site and will be separated from the nearby
residences with landscape buffers. Where is that? Because the plan we got doesn't have it.
MR. ARNOLD: You're correct, it doesn't.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. So let's put it where it's supposed to be based on that --
MR. ARNOLD: I'll let John, on the exhibit that's before you, point out where those are, because I think
they're interior because they're meant to be more courfard oriented, so there's views of those --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I was hoping you'd say that, yeah.
MR. ENGLISH: That's correct. So I will point to them on the map. So this is a play area -- so the
building has an orientation with a main hallway, if you will, corridor, and then there's wings, if you will. And the
play areas were intended to be within those wings. Why? That allows windows and things for the
class -- teachers and classrooms, and what have you to keep eyes on the children.
So it wasn't -- it was never intended there be a play area, let's say, over here or over here. They are
generally within the envelope of the building area.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Could you note those potential -- even if you put four and there's only three or
something like that, could you note them so that we have a plan that shows where the noisier areas will be, and
they're basically going to be buffered because the school walls are surrounding them?
MR. ENGLISH: We can do that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. If we go back to your master plan, the second page of the master plan is
your standards. Those are the standards that we would -- I would suggest you modifu to show that even though
the required is 50, you're going to provide X, and you whatever number that is on the plan you just showed us,
okay.
But towards the bottom of that -- well, two things. Your notes: All on-site lighting shall be shielded
and directed away from adjoining properties. The lights that are on that eastern parking area and eastern access
point, what are those heights going to be? Because those are the closest to the residential, and if there were going
to be any objections from lighting, it would be in that location. Is there something you can do about lighting
there to make it more compatible with the neighbors next door? Instead of 150 feet high, maybe 12?
Eighty-seven?
MR. ENGLISH: Norm Trebilcock, transportation engineer's, also a lighting expert, and that's --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, they're alltransportation (unintelligible) and they're expert in something
else.
MR. ARNOLD: Norm just suggested that a 15-foot height maximum for those easternmost areas of the
parking areas but still having the shielded light.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: If you could amend that language to note that, that would be helpful.
AIso, your parking requirements, it talks about the -- it says, required 1 15, provided 1 15. That
includes -- all the employees, you're going to have 80 -- you're going to have 80 employees? That's a lot of -- so
you've got 80?
MR. ARNOLD: We're estimating these. And, frankly, I would prefer not to have to place parking
standards on my master plan and leave that subject to the subject site plan.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Why did you put it there then?
MR. ARNOLD: Staff requires that we identifi parking. And I think the question is often, is it just
identiffing where the parking areas are, or do we have to identifu the parking standard?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'd prefer you just identiff the parking lot location and you not put that on here
unless it's required, Ray, because if they make an adjustment, now they've got to come in and amend the
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conditional use because it's on the plan.
MR. BELLOWS: For the record, Ray Bellows.
The idea of showing these parking areas is to -- staff better evaluate the number of spaces going to be
required and whether it should be additional mitigation to offset adverse impacts for that. But I don't have a
problem with not locking them to a specific number. But, generally speaking, they should be providing enough
parking for the space or the number of employees provided.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right. They've got to meet what the LDC requires because they can't -- they're
not asking for a variance or a deviation from that. But what I'm suggesting, if -- when they get all said and done,
the building might change a little bit, they might end up finding they've got less employees or a few more
students. I don't want them -- I hate to see people have to come back in for an amendment just because the
number's on this document.
MR. BELLOWS: Yeah. The reason we wanted it, like I said, is for -- to ensure compatibility --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But you get that in RFIs. You can get that information through your RFI
process back and forth, can't you?
MR. BELLOWS: Possible. But if a plan like this was submitted, we'd have a better idea where the
playground areas -- those things could have been addressed a little bit better. They came in with a very
conceptual bubble plan, and it's much harder to address impacts that way.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Do you have any objection --
(Simultaneous crosstalk.)
MR. BELLOWS: -- more specific plan so we can -- we've even locked in setbacks better now. That's
why we want these conceptual plans.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do you have any objection if they don't put the parking language on this plan
and that they'lljust be -- whatever the LDC is required, they'll have to provide it?
MR. BELLOWS: Yeah. I think if they're showing the parking lot as depicted on the original submittal,
which is just a gray area with no spaces, that's fine.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. That way they've got -- they can work out to make sure they've always
got the LDC required amount. Okay.
Let me go to my next -- I think we've gotten some of those. We've gotten that. Oh, boy, we're getting
into Norm's stuff again. And, Norm, you took care of most of it. Don't go running away.
Norm, I have a question on Page l l of your TIS. It's Table 6. I cannot figure out -- and I normally
have -- you're crystal clear to me most of the time -- that's facetious. See where the -- under Table 6, you have a
volume capacity impact by project. It's a substantial impact because it's over 2 percent. It's 4 percent on Lake
Trafford Road. How did -- why -- how does Lake Trafford Road factor into this place?
MR. TREBILCOCK: Oh, okay. Well, when you look at the distribution, our traffic does make its way
down to Lake Trafford Road.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, it makes it out to 29,too. I mean, it goes everyrwhere. Why did you
pick Lake Trafford Road? And you have a 4 percent -- don't you have a substantial threshold you're not
supposed to meet? And if you do, you've got mitigation?
MR. TREBILCOCK: Well, no, only if there's a capacity issue, you become adverse --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MR. TREBILCOCK: -- to it. But there isn't. And it's really within the radius of influence. We kind
of, again, typically look at that in the methodology with staff. We'll kind of, you know, let's go out. And there
is a kind of a limited grid, so that's why we used that road.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. I just -- I couldn't figure out why it was there.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And, see, I did look at the plan you put on Page 38, and it didn't show anything
going down to Lake Trafford, so I couldn't figure out why it got there. But I understand your -- I understand your
answer.
And in your NIM, you repeatedly told the people you're not going to have another road connecting to
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Lake Traffiord Road, so...
MR. TREBILCOCK: I wouldn't have done that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: HUh?
MR. TREBILCOCK: I don't think I was at the NIM.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No, but speaker -- Wayne Arnold was. We're not proposing to have any road
going south to Lake Trafford Road.
Wayne Arnold: I don't think there's any long-term plan for the county to create a road, and it's all about
connection to Lake Trafford. So you've clarified it; I understand that.
MR. TREBILCOCK: Right, but cars in, like, existing -- the existing grid takes you there. That's all.
That's what --
(Simultaneous crosstalk.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's all I've got. We've cleaned up my issues.
Anybody else have any questions? Karl.
COMMISSIONER FRY: This is for Mr. English. If you wouldn't mind putting up your site plan
exhibit one more time. Quick question. Now, this is assuming that on this diagram left is west.
MR. ENGLISH: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Is that correct? Thank you.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: No, it's not -- it is west.
COMMISSIONER FRY: It is west.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: We haven't got to assume it. We can guarantee it.
COMMISSIONER FRY: And you triggered this question, Mark, with your question about playgrounds
and the noise within. It looks like the lowest, on the left, playground extends out beyond the envelope of the
building somewhat. How are the playgrounds lined; fences, walls, anlthing like that? The closest neighbors
seem to be the ones that would be to the west. I'm just curious about mitigating the noise for the folks to the west
from the playgrounds, especially the one to the -- that one there, yes.
MR. ENGLISH: Yes. So all the playgrounds are -- as you can imagine with the age of the children,
they're all fenced.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Fenced.
MR. ENGLISH: So they're definitely fenced. As you can see, this is play area. This concept shows a
little -- a certain amount of it does extend beyond the face of this part of the building. It is still consistent with,
let's say, this side of the building. But, yes, that was an intended -- that is an intended playground area.
COMMISSIONER FRY: So it's fenced but not walled, there's no serious noise mitigation lining the
playgrounds, which is the standard way to do it, correct?
MR. ENGLISH: We could --
(Simultaneous crosstalk.)
MR. ENGLISH: -- for a wall to provide sound mitigation's questionable. But, yes, we're using -- there
will be -- we're -- in this plan,75 feet away from the property line, there would be fence around here. There's an
enclosed dumpster here. There will be a fence and landscape here. So there's separation. There's landscape.
There's other things.
COMMISSIONER FRY: That satisfies my concern.
CFIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Don't over-answer it.
COMMISSIONER FRY: That satisfies my concern, John.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: He's satisfied. Just take your -- take your -- yeah. Walk with that real quick.
Okay. Does anybody else, before we go to staffl
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Nancy, do we have a staff report? Stan has to leave. We're going to probably
work through lunch and finish up the dentist's facility since they've had the patience to wait all day. So, Nancy?
(Commissioner Chrzanowski left the boardroom for the remainder of the meeting.)
MS. GI-INDLACH: Good afternoon, Commissioners. We do have a staff report. And on Page 9 of the
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staff report we are recommending approval subject to three conditions. Would you like for me to read them?
They're about a half a page long.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Does the applicant have any objection to their conditions?
MR. ARNOLD: No, sir, but we would need to modif, the conditions relative to the date of our drawing,
because we'll be supplying a new one, presumably, and redating that.
MS. GUNDLACH: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So I don't think you need to read them. We should have read them.
They don't object to them, so...
Anything else, Nancy?
MS. GTINDLACH: That's it.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Anybody have any questions of staff?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Hearing none, are there any public speakers on this matter?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Hearing none, you certainly have no rebuttal. So do you have anything you
want to add?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'llread the stipulations. We're going to be moving the access points as
indicated on the new plan. We're going to use a new plan with the setback shown on it. We're going to have a
1S-foot height maximum for the lights along that eastem asphalt area.
MR. ARNOLD: Could I clariff that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Western, I'm sorry.
(Simultaneous crosstalk.)
MR. ARNOLD: -- question. It is the eastern parking lot area. I think that was your concern.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No, western.
MR. ARNOLD: It's the western, okay.
I think Norm's suggestion was that the limitation on height is for within 50 feet of that proper(y line.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, as long as it covers up to the parking spaces. Yeah, I meant the access
way in the parking spaces is what should be covered by the lower lighting. That's all going to be -- that's pretty
close to that.
MR. ARNOLD: Well, I say 50 feet only because I don't know what somebody's going to interpret as
how close to the western property line.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well -- but see the dotted line that you have there that shows 50 feet?
It's -- it -- let me get to the page. You have a 50-foot minimum setback line. It doesn't even touch the asphalt.
So your lights will be on the parking areas around the asphalt. So how does that help us?
MR. ARNOLD: Well, we obviously have to light travel ways. Maybe I'm not understanding your
question.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You're going to do -- I asked you to limit the height along the western property
line. You guys said you'd limit it to 15 feet along that western asphalted area.
MR. ARNOLD: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Now you're questioning where that is. It's not within 50 feet, because if you
look at the master plan and you blow that one up, you look at it, the 50-foot line that is shown -- oh, that's in the
front. Where's your -- that's a 30-foot line in the back. So, no, that won't take you to the parking spaces. It
takes you to the beginning ofthe parking spaces, not to the back. So you probably need 70 feet. Do you see
where that --
MR. ARNOLD: Yes, I do. I understand what you're saying now, Mr. Strain.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So would you just get it so that the parking spaces that are in that strip
on the west along with the accessway have the lower lighting? Yeah, that's fine. That's all.
MR. ARNOLD: Can we just put a line on here to make it easier?
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's all. That's all the intent. I think everybody was on the same page, so...
Okay. Then you're going to remove the parking calculation, you're going to show the play areas, and
you're going to accept -- you accept the staff conditions -- staff conditions as modified with that one date. Okay.
Is there anything else?
COMMISSIONERFRY: So moved.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Is there moved --
COMMISSIONER FRY: So moved.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Made by Karl. Seconded by?
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Second.
CHAIRMANSTRAIN: Patrick. Discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All in favor, signifu by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: AYC.
COMMISSIONERHOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Aye.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion carries 6-0. Record show Stan had to leave.
MR. ARNOLD: Thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you, guys.
And now, we will go back -- Terri, do we have time to run through this?
THE COURT REPORTER: If you go slower.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We'll try, I'm sorry. I've been trying to move fast to get everybody
accommodated.
Okay, Patrick.
(Commissioner Dearborn left the boardroom.)
CTIAIRMAN STRAIN: **'t9Al was moved to the end of the agenda. It's PL2017000 -- I'm sorry -- it's
982,982. It's PL201 80002368. It's a parking exemption located on the east side of Tamiami Trail North, south
of River Court. I think we swore you in before, but I know you've got new people. So all wishing to testifu on
behalf of this item, please rise to be sworn in by the court reporter.
(The speakers were duly sworn and indicated in the affirmative.)
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you. Disclosures; we'll start with Tom.
MR. EASTMAN: No disclosures.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: KATI.
COMMISSIONERFRY: None.
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: Ned.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Just materials from staff
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And me, yeah, most -- materials from staff, and I talked to the applicant during
break to make sure they were going to be here for this afternoon.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Sorry,. I also spoke with staff.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Karen.
COMMISSIONERHOMIAK: Nothing.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Joe.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: No disclosures on this item.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. With that, we'll go to the applicant. Hi.
MS. RICHARDS: Hi.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Good to see you.
MS. RICHARDS: Thank you. It's good to see you, too. It's hard to find this building.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah, it's the smallest building in the county.
MS. RICHARDS: It was really -- it was an adventure to get here.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Really? Where'd you come from?
MS. RICFIARDS: Well,I live up in Estero, so...
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Oh, okay.
MS. RICHARDS: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah. Just driving here from there is a real pain in the neck.
MS. RICHARDS: Yes.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Pull the microphone down a little bit.
MS. RICHARDS: There you go.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. You introduce yourself -- state your name for the record and all that
good stuff.
MS. RICHARDS: Courtney Richards with Cronin Engineering.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MS. NCHARDS: So, basically, what we're doing is we have an existing dental office that's going to be
having an addition added on to it.
Dr. Holton owns the residential lot right behind this office and then, of course, the adjacent commercial
lot. So on that residential lot we are going to be putting a parking lot for this office. Because FDOT
standards -- the current parking lot and entrance to this dental office cannot be used any longer, so the access
point will be on River Court which is a residential road. So -- yeah.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MS. RICHARDS: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's --
MS. RICHARDS: Yeah. And so we're going to be putting the parking lot on this residential lot. We're
going to be doing the addition on the commercial lot.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. And you -- the purpose you have the access off River Court is because
the FDOT wanted you to close the access on 41.
MS. RICFIARDS: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: When you did that, you weren't able to put parking out there because you
needed water management somewhere, so you moved the water management out there, and your parking now is
in the back. And because it's in the back, there's only room for l6 spaces, and you needed a parking exemption
which you've gone through and gotten from staff. And it was issued today, and I have a copy of it.
MS. RICHARDS: Perfect.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Does that help?
MS. RICHARDS: Yes; yeah.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So with that, does anybody have any questions of the applicant?
Ned, go ahead.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Thank you. First of all, what exactly happened with the NIM recording?
MS. RICHARDS: So that was with a former employee, Robert Grusbowski (phonetic), who's no longer
with Cronin Engineering. He got a phone call in the middle of it, and it intem.rpted his recording of the entire
NIM meeting.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Oh, okay.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: That's why he's a former employee.
MS. RICHARDS: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: That was a teachable moment, then, I guess --
MS. RICHARDS: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: -- using cell phones.
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MS. RICHARDS: Yeah. You know, two cell phones.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah, good. All right.
Let's see. So the staff is going to park in the parking lot behind the establishment to the south of the
dentist's facility?
MS. RICHARDS: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: You'll have to identifu yourself for the record first, sir.
DR. HOLTON: Hi. I'm Matthew Holton. So the establishment just to the south there, the imagined
property, he's got like 20 spots, and it's not a busy business at all. He's actually a patient of mine. And so if you
have seen what the property looks like now, there's basically six spots in front of the building.
And so before I bought the property, we developed a relationship. This had been renovated by someone
else, another dentist before me, and he had agreed that his lot is empty, and he actually would like some extra
automobiles because it looks like there's people shopping in his store.
So right now, my staff and I, we park there, and it works out well for him. He's happy. He says people
come in and are always a little shocked to see there's less people in there than it looks like, but it works for him.
And so I think the idea here is that we have that space available if we need to. I wouldn't burden him
with that long-term if I didn't have to. The type of practice I run is a very low-volume type of scenario. It's not
a high-volume, you know, in and out dentistry. It's a specialist implant practice. So there's, you know, just a
few people every afternoon, and the mornings are just a little busier.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: So would it be exclusively your staffparking in that southerly --
DR. HOLTON: Yes, yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: They'll enter and exit off Shores?
DR. HOLTON: Yes. That's the only entrance to that parking lot.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: My next question has to do with buffering, and I had a conversation with
staff about this, and it was suggested there are obvious constraints to what you're able to do in order to accomplish
your parking objective. But would you consider an enhanced Type B buffer, double row of hedges that are
offsetting so as to create more opacity?
DR. HOLTON: Absolutely. I'll do whatever they need to. The gentleman that lives in that first house
there is a former Collier County Sheriffs Office deputy who's actually also a patient of mine. He was just in last
week. And we talked about this meeting. And he told me that anything you guys thought was acceptable would
be acceptable to him.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. And also --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Where's that buffer you're talking about going? Is this the one on the east --
DR. HOLTON: On the east.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: East. Yeah, east --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Now, you're worried about it for opacity? I mean, it's got --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Primarily for noise.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. But it's got a 6-foot-high masonry wall. Plants not going to help the
noise. I mean, we can require them to do it if they want to, but I just was wondering if -- I couldn't understand
what the -- I thought you said opacity to begin with.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I did.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Because you're not going to see through the wall.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: No, no.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So you stillthink it's necessary?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'm having a mental block right now as to why I raised that. And if I can't
resolve my own mentalblock, I'll withdraw it.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. I just wanted to make sure I worded it right if it's going to be a
stipulation.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: No, understood, understood. Well, let me come back to that, see if it --
Another concern that was raised was the possibility of some kind of subcontracting on the parking to
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attract traffic or to result in traffic being there during other than ordinary dentist business hours. And you would,
I assume, agree not to do that.
DR. HOLTON: Yeah. I don't even understand what that would be, but sure.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: You would have unused parking capacity during time when you're not open
as a dentist, and we just would want that not to be leased out or sublet or --
DR. HOLTON: Oh, yeah, absolutely.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: -- allowing, you know, other people to park.
I see now that my concern about the buffering resulted from a comment that was made at the NIM. And
so I was trying to address a concern that the neighbors raised, and I -- I don't think that the -- I shouldn't have used
the word "opaciql" because, clearly, that's dealt with, but maybe it's -- maybe it results in some greater separation
if you have two rows.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, they'd have to fit them in the separation that's already there, because they
couldn't fit their parking spaces in if they even moved them a couple feet. So they have a 24-foot right-of-way
and two 18-foot depth spaces. I don't know if another -- I mean, Ned, I mean, I'm just trying to figure out the
reasoning.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: No, I understand. And the fact that there are no neighbors here to raise the
concern --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, there is a neighbor here but, I mean, the neighbor --
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'll reserve this until after we heard the public --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The most affected parly would be the neighbor immediately next door, in fact,
the only affected party from a locational viewpoint. And he's the sheriffs deputy you've talked to?
DR. HOLTON: (Nods head.)
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'll suspend my concern on that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And I think that's all I have.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Oh, I know. In the Cronin Engineering material, it says, the new entrance
from River Court will eliminate vehicle accidents. I get all that. He expressed how the site landscaping and
building appearance will create curb appeal. Are you proposing to do more than the Land Development Code
requires?
MS. RICFIARDS: No. We're going to be within the Land Development Code for architectural
elements.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay.
MS. RICHARDS: So we'll be meeting all of the Land Development Code requirements.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: All right. And it says Dr. Holton offered his complete cooperation to
resolve local resident concerns. And since we do have somebody here, we can hear from them.
And you committed to clean out the canal abutting the property; is that correct?
DR. HOLTON: (Nods head.)
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Could you say a word or two about the problem and what your solution is?
DR. HOLTON: Well, as you know, at the end of allthose canals, it usually gets real shallow. All the
stuff is built up there, and it's basically become almost overgrown with stuff. And so my understanding was that
the sheriff s deputy next door had just had basically that riprap kind of cleaned up. And my understanding was,
until something happened with the grading of the landscape here, no one was allowed to do that. So the end of
the canal had basically become completely obstructed with debris and so, you know -- basically, not looking the
way it was intended.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. So you'll clean that out at your cost?
DR. HOLTON: Absolutely.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. Thank you.
Then it says Dr. Holton committed to installing better landscaping for the residence as well. Better than
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code requires?
DR. HOLTON: Well, I don't know --
MS. RICHARDS: At a bare minimum, code requirement. If not, above that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, no, no. If you say "if not, above that," then we have to specifo what it is
above that you're doing.
MS. RICHARDS: So we're going to be hitting -- we're going to be doing all of your landscape buffers
that you were requiring and making sure that we have, you know, all the trees, all the --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So that's better than what's there today?
MS. RICHARDS: Yes. It will be better than what exists there.
(Simultaneous crosstalk.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's a better way to state it.
MS. RICHARDS: Okay. There we go.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: What's there today is one palm tree.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: fught. That's what I'm just saying. So they're bettering the landscaping by
making the code required improvements to the landscape buffers and landscaping on the side?
MS. RICHARDS: Yes.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Yeah. It was the word "better" that caught my attention.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I understand. I'm just trying to clarify.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: And Dr. Holton explained that his employees will not park on the lot, and
there is an agreement with the business owner to the south. I wonder if that's something that we could put into
the parking exclusion; make that a condition that your employees will not park on your lot.
MS. RICHARDS: We already had that as part of our package, but James, the reviewer, the plan
reviewer that I've been speaking with, had me remove that from our package, from the conditions.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Well, James can speak to that then.
MR. SABO: I would be happy to.
For the record, James Sabo, planner for the county.
After discussions with the County Attorney's Office, we determined that moving forward, if that property
to the south, imagine, changes hands, that agreement would no longer be valid. So to condition their employee
parking on the imagined site would eventually possibly become invalid anyway, so we removed it.
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Okay. The -- okay. Thank you. That's all I have, Chairman.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody else have any questions?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Just a couple, and I always have a couple.
The minutes that were -- first of all, we don't have a recording. Under project description from Cronin
Engineering that was submitted to the county as a result of a NIM, your neighborhood information meeting, it
says the following. The project proposes the addition of a single-story 2,329-square-foot office building. The
elevations you've provided show two stories.
MS. RICHARDS: It is only going to be one story; however, the ceiling height will be --
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Now, have you seen the architectural elevations?
MS. RICHARDS: Yes. It is -- it's only one story, but it is a high elevation for one story.
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MS. RICHARDS: I would have to look at my architecturals to get an exact number.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'm going to find them right now, too. There's 114 pages, but it's here
somewhere.
MR. SABO: I have it, Mr. Chairman, if you want me to put it on --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah, would you mind? That would be great.
That's the one that's in our packet, yeah; that's why I questioned it. It shows two stories. You're telling
me those two stories aren't two stories?
MS. RICHARDS: It is not two stories.
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CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. How do we word this so that -- what are you -- because we have a
height limitation, but it's a C -- what is it, C3 or C4, Ray? Or, James?
MR. SABO: Oh, the --
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: The underlying property, do you remember what it is?
MR. SABO: C4, general commercial.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So you could go up to 75 feet. So height's not the issue. But I was
trying to understand how you -- how your NIM said it was one story yet you're showing the elevation of a
two-story building. That's what I'm trying to understand.
MS. RICHARDS: Yes. Well, it's just a matter of it's going to have a high ceiling height. It's not going
to be a two-story. It is going to be a one-story with high elevations, high ceiling elevation.
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: So it's not going to look like what's in our -- it's not going to look like that?
MS. NCHARDS: No. I have updated architecturals that will be submitted, you know, once we
go -- get to that process.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. I mean, it's a -- your height's -- you can go to a higher height. That
wasn't the concern.
MS. RICF{ARDS: Yeah.
CIIAIRMAN STRAN: I just couldn't correlate the two. So you kind of explained it. It doesn't make
sense doing it this way, but I understand what you've done.
MS. RICFIARDS: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And the lighting that's attached to the back of our packet, Page 102, it's almost,
what,12 pages from the back, does not show bollard lighting. It shows pole lighting. You've agreed to go to
bollard lighting in the stipulations --
MS. RICHARDS: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- so you're not doing the pole lighting either --
MS. RICHARDS: No.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- right?
MS. RICHARDS: Okay. It will be bollard.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And the height of the building, which is -- well, that's on the -- okay. I guess
that's irrelevant for this because of the parking exemption, but now I understand it better. It's just that you said
that at the NIM, so I had to clariS,.
Okay. I don't have anything else at this point pending any comments from the public, and we'll get back.
Anything else from the Planning Commission for the applicant?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Staff report?
Thank you.
MR. SABO: Yes, thank you. James Sabo, for the record.
The Zoning Division recommends that the Planning Commission approve the petition, 2368, l0 River
Court, subject to the conditions in Attachment C and forwarding the recommendation to the Board of Zoning
Appeals.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Anybody have any questions of staffl
Q.Jo response.)
CTIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Hearing none, we'll ask for -- do you have a registered public speaker or
not?
MR. BELLOWS: No one has registered.
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Okay. Ma'am, if you'd like to come up and speak, please come to the
microphone, identifu yourself. And if your last name is very complicated, please spell it so we get it right.
MS. FISHER: My name is Ruth Fisher, and I'm a resident on fuver Court.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. What did you have to say?
MS. FISHER: Well, all the residents are not huppy with the thought of having a parking lot there. Now,
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I'm actually concemed that that building is tall. Forty-one is tall -- higher level than River Court. So when we
go to get out, we're going uphill, and we have to look way around to see the traffic coming down 41.
And I thought the building was going to be equal level, the addition to what -- the original one. But, like
you said, it looks like it's two-story.
It's just kind of blocking the view. And it's also 10 feet -- or approximately 10 feet closer to 4l than the
original building. And I really need to go drive down my street again and see how bad is that 10 feet going to
be? That one palm tree you talked about, when the last owner had it, I had to call him because he had shrubs all
around the bottom. I couldn't get out onto 41 because I couldn't -- and I have an SIIV, but I couldn't see over the
shrubs, so now they're being cut down.
Forty-one is just dangerous. I don't want a light. I don't want to lower the speed limit, but just let us see
where we're going.
Now, one concern all the neighbors had, if for some reason he wants to close his practice, the residential
plot, which is now going to be a parking lot, can it go back to residential?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes. This is a -- this is a parking exemption that's -- that allows them to park
on that lot.
MS. FISHER: Only for his?
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Down the road it could be sold, and a residential house could be put there, but
they couldn't then operate the business because they wouldn't have a parking lot anymore.
MS. FISFIER: Well, the two properties were sold separately.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I understand.
MS. FISHER: Well, not -- they were sold together, but they were separate. It was --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: One thing you should know, this is -- has nothing to do with the height or the
setbacks or the standards of the lot where the building is. That was zoned decades and decades ago. The only
question in front of us today is is this parking lot -- can it go there and have a minimal impact on the
neighborhood by the way it's designed and buffered, and that's all we're looking at today.
MS. FISHER: As long as the environmental people find that the runoff -- water runoff will remain the
same, it will go into the river that goes behind it, the canal, because right now it's a non-flooding street.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right.
MS. FISHER: And even during Irma, everything just went --
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: Well, the new standards that they'll have to abide by are by South Florida Water
Management District, and they're probably better standards than what it's at today, because today it doesn't have
anything on it. So they probably are just runoff. The new standards will require them to have water quality on
site before it runs off, so that will actually improve the water quality.
MS. FISHER: As long as it keeps running off. I mean, you know --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: It will.
MS. FISFIER: -- I don't want this to be blocking the runoff, and --
CHAIRMAN STRAN: Well, it shouldn't -- they're not allowed to -- they're not allowed to discharge off
their site. So it's not going to -- it shouldn't happen, so...
MS. FISFIER: Okay.
CI{AIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MS. FISFIER: I guess that's it.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you very much, ma'am.
MS. FISHER: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. There are no other public speakers. There's no rebuttal issues needed.
I guess we'll go into quick discussion. I have three items noted. There'll be bollard lighting only, they'll
be utilizing -- they'll include the conditions that were written into Exhibit C by staff, which included a 6-foot
masonry wall along that eastern property line, and all the other conditions that are in the staff report under Exhibit
C.
Does anybody have anything they'd like to comment? Add? Any further discussion? Is there a
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motion?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: I'll move subject to those conditions.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Is there a second?
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Second.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion made and seconded. All those in favor, signiff by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER FRY: Aye.
COMMISSIONERFRYER: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONERHOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SCHMITT: Aye.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: (Absent.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion carries 5-0.
Thank you all. Appreciate your waiting. I'm glad we got through it today.
And that takes us to the new business, which there's none listed. Old business. there's none listed.
Any -- there's no members of the public left.
(Commissioner Dearborn returned to the boardroom.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And is there a motion to adjourn? Patrick's just in time. Patrick, will you
make a motion to adjourn.
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: I was outside. I would have voted for it, too.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion to adjourn, anybody?
COMMISSIONER DEARBORN: So moved.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Made by Patrick. Seconded by?
COMMISSIONER FRYER: Second.
CIIAIRMAN STRAIN: Ned. We are out of here.
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There being no further business for the good of the County, the meeting was adjourned by order of the
Chair at 12:29 p.m.
COLLIER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION
These minutes approved by the Board on I ^ \L - ZO , as presente6 r' or as corrected
TRANSCRIPT PREPARED ON BEHALF OF U.S. LEGAL SUPPORT, INC., BY
TERRI LEWIS, COURT REPORTER AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
STRAIN, CHAIRMAN
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