CCPC Minutes 04/19/2007 GMP
April 19, 2007
TRANSCRIPT OF THE GMP MEETING OF THE
COLLIER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION
Naples, Florida
April 19, 2007
LET IT BE REMEMBERED, that the Collier County Planning
Commission in and for the County of Collier, having conducted
business herein, met on this date at 8:30 a.m. in SPECIAL SESSION
in Building "F" of the Government Complex, East Naples, Florida,
with the following members present:
CHAIRMAN: Mark Strain
Lindy Adelstein
Donna Reed Caron
Tor Kolflat
Paul Midney
Robert Murray
Brad Schiffer
Russell Tuff
Robert Vigliotti
ALSO PRESENT:
Ray Bellows, Zoning & Land Dev. Review
Corby Schmidt, Principal Planner
Marjorie Student-Stirling, Assistant County Attorney
Kay Deselem, Zoning & Land Dev. Review
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Good morning. Welcome to the March
5th -- actually it's not March 5th, I'm reading the wrong agenda --
planning commission meeting.
It's not on, Ray. The sound's low for the BCC hearing, I
understand.
Would you all please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.
(Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: What I am going to go over with you
for scheduling is something that I certainly did not originate, but I was
told that had to be the process today.
Today's meeting for the regular planning commission is the
meeting that we just opened up. We're going to go through some
preliminaries for that and then we're going to continue that meeting
and then open up another meeting and then go back -- then close the
second meeting and then go back into this meeting. So bear with me
while I try to go through this.
Item #2
ROLL CALL BY THE CLERK
First of all, roll call by the clerk.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Mr. Kolflat?
COMMISSIONER KOLFLA T: Here.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Mr. Schiffer?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Here.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Mr. Midney?
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Here.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Ms. Caron is here.
Mr. Strain?
COMMISSIONER STRAIN: Here.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Mr. Adelstein?
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COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Here.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Mr. Murray?
COMMISSIONER MURRA Y: Here.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Mr. Vigliotti?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Present.
COMMISSIONER CARON: And Mr. Tuff?
COMMISSIONER TUFF: Here.
COMMISSIONER CARON: We're 100 percent.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Item #3
ADDENDA TO THE AGENDA
Addenda to the agenda. The regular meeting for today's agenda
had six items on it, the first of which was a boat dock issue in Little
Hickory Shores. That particular agenda will be changed. We have
two items: Item D and E. The Grand Inn of Naples is Item D. It's
known as the Pine Ridge mixed use center PUD. And the number E is
the Home Dynamics of Naples, LLC, known as the Boxwood RPUD.
It's my understanding that both of these are being requested to be
continued; is that correct, Mr. Bellows?
MR. BELLOWS: That is correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Is there a -- other than that, when we
get into our regular agenda, there are no other changes to the agenda.
Ms. Caron?
COMMISSIONER CARON: Both continued until the 5th?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Are there date specifics on those
continuances?
MR. BELLOWS: Yes, it's my understanding that both D and E
want to be continued to -- or are requesting to be continued to May
3rd.
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COMMISSIONER CARON: Yeah, May 3rd.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLA T: May 3rd?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any other changes or suggestions to the
agenda of to day's regular meeting?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Hearing none, is there a motion to
approve the agenda as so noted with the two continuances?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: So moved.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Second.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion made by Commissioner
Adelstein, seconded by Commissioner Vigliotti.
Discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLA T: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Aye.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER TUFF: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
Anybody opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Student, is that sufficient for those
two continuances?
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: Yes, it is, thank you.
REGULAR MEETING CONTINUED; GMP AMENDMENTS:
PETITION CP-2005-13
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Before we go into the rest of
this meeting, I think it would be a good time now to entertain a
continuation of this 8:30 start date of this -- of this continuation of this
meeting so that we can open up and go into the GMP meeting.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Move.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Second.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion made by Mr. Murray,
seconded by Commissioner Adelstein.
Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLA T: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Aye.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER TUFF: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
Thank you. Motion carries. Nobody opposed.
Okay, the reason for that was an advertising apparent glitch, is
that the regular meeting for today was already advertised at 8:30, yet
at the same time we had continued the GMP meeting from the last
meeting to 8:30 this morning. So with both of them in the same time
frame, we couldn't obviously hold them both at the same time.
Now that that meeting is continued, we will open up the second
meeting, which is the continuation of the GMP amendments. Those
amendments started and originated back in March.
We have one item on the agenda for today. It's CP-2005-13,
which is the future land use element change. And it's more commonly
known as the Assembly of God Church property on The Lord's Way
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off of951.
We've had our roll call. And with that, I guess I'll ask everybody
who intends to speak on behalf of this petition, please rise and be
sworn in by the court reporter.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Mark, are you going to go over
absences planned, or do you want to wait for --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Till the next regular meeting.
(Speakers were duly sworn.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
And by the way, I forgot to mention that Cherie' actually has her
own name tag, if everybody has noticed. That's a new addition. Now,
if Cherie' switches out, I don't know how they're going to do that with
the name tag.
The only name tag we're missing now is Kady's, but since she
doesn't sit in this room it wouldn't do her any good to have one on her
desk in the room across the hall, so --
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Well deserved.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes, for both.
Okay, the applicant ready for presentation?
MR. DUANE: Yes. Good morning, members of the planning
commission. My name is Robert Duane from Hole Montes and
Associates.
I have with me several individuals. One is Bill Klohn from MGD
Capital, which is the -- one of the project sponsors for the residential
component of this project.
I have George Hermanson, also from Hole Montes and
Associates.
I have Pastor Reverend Mallory representing the First Assembly
of God. And I have Rob Price from the TR Transportation Consultant
Group to assist me with traffic issues this morning.
The staff report that you have before you was very thoughtfully
prepared. We of course agree with the recommendation
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recommending approval of this petition before you this morning for
our Collier Boulevard community service subdistrict.
The aerial photo depicts the property on the visualizer there, and
that same aerial photo depicts the subject property here today, which
has access to 951 and The Lord's Way.
The property is presently zoned for a planned unit development
today for the First Assembly of God, and it comprises that PUD 79
acres.
The subdistrict before you comprises 69 acres, as the
easternmost 10 acres are going to be removed from the PUD at the
time of rezoning and will ultimately be part of the Toll Brothers PUD
that's a DRl that will come before you sometime in the foreseeable
future.
I'd like to take a moment and just highlight the proposed plan
that we're contemplating bringing forward to you later this year at the
time of rezoning, should we be successful in our PUD amendment.
And this will orienate (sic) you towards some of the uses on the
site. This of course is 951. This is The Lord's Way right now. Some
of these existing facilities for First Assembly have already been
constructed at this location. We have a conservation easement
comprising approximately 12 acres, which has been dedicated to the
Army Corps of Engineers.
We have an FPL easement that bifurcates the property that can
be used for parking. And then we have more facilities for the First
Assembly, which will be the location of their transportation training
facility, their assembly center and care facility.
And what you see here on Tract G, these multi-family units, is
principally the subject of this GMP amendment for the residential
non-church-related component of the project. This tract comprises
approximately 23 acres.
The First Assembly of God PUD provides a wide range of uses,
and they're very general measures of development intensity. They
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include an auditorium for 1,800 seats; private school for 300 students;
chapel for 600 seats; adult care facility for children, 450; an adult care
facility for 400; and 57 dwelling units and 120 campground, or I call
them travel trailer type units.
For the purpose of this GMP amendment, we've done a
comparative analysis between those parameters that I just set forth to
you. However, we've had one modification to those. We are deleting
from this GMP amendment the 400-unit care facility and the 120-unit
-- 120 travel units, which are a total of 520 units. And in turn we are
increasing the number of multi-family units in the project from 57 to
296, having dropped which we thought were two of the somewhat
problematic elements of the current Assembly of God ministries
program in order to free up additional area for the proposed market
rate and workforce housing that we're going to place into this project.
The proposal has essentially three components as it relates to the
residential aspect of this project. The first is requesting that on a
first-come-first-serve basis 150 units be offered to essential service
personnel. Bill Klohn is going to follow me and discuss some of his
efforts to work with those groups, and I believe some of those
individuals are here this morning. That's been an ongoing effort.
Secondly, if we're unsuccessful in offering those units to
essential service personnel, we are going to reconstitute our request
for the CWWIP grant. Many of you knew that we were applicants for
that state grant for $5 million, and we were unsuccessful at the last --
the meeting, as were some others. So those funds were not available.
But we are going to continue to make an application in the very
foreseeable -- for that particular grant. And that would be the second
component of our project.
If we're unable to offer these units to essential workforce
personnel or get the CWWIP grant, we have agreed to provide a
minimum of 60 gap or workforce housing units, 35 of those being gap
and 25 of those being workforce housing units.
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So that's the public benefit that we bring to the table with this
particular GMP amendment that will allow for the uses that I've
previously set forth and cap the number of square feet for the
Assembly of God for all of their facilities at 368,000 square feet,
including 10 dwelling units that will be used for their service
personnel.
Based on my conversations with several of you on the
commission and knowing about concerns that you have expressed
historically with impacts to Collier Boulevard and Davis Boulevard,
I'd like to set forth a proposal this morning that I believe tries to bridge
the gap with some of those concerns that you may have.
Presently, based on the parameters that were included in the
impact analyses, we were going to increase approximately from 2,800
to 3,800 trips per day on Collier Boulevard and immediate environs.
And even though we were having a decrease in population of about
400 persons, based on removing the care units and the PTRVC units,
we did have an increase in traffic, principally because the multi-family
units generated more traffic than some of the units that we're deleting.
I am proposing this morning in order to help bridge that gap that
we limit the first phase of this project to 150 units and construct the
balance of the 146 units at the time that the contract for Davis
Boulevard is let, which at the present time, and Nick can probably
give you a better time frame than I, but we expect construction of that
roadway to certainly be under commencement by the year 2009.
Reducing our 296 units to the 150 in the first phase has a rather
-- I think a significant reduction in our traffic impacts. It virtually
reduces any impacts during the AM and PM peak hour. I have Rob
Price that can elaborate further on that with you. But the average
daily traffic would increase from about 330 trips today over what is
our best estimate is what the current zoning allows.
We think that's a significant reduction in the number of trips.
We think that allowing our CWWIP grant to go forward and our
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essential service workforce housing to go forward and/or a
combination thereof gives us the kind of predictability that we need to
have in the process in order not only to pursue our grant but our
negotiations with the essential service personnel.
And it's going to take that kind of a commitment, my client, Mr.
Klohn, tells me, in order for us to move forward with those two
components of the project.
There's been several drafts of this report that have been prepared
over time. At one point on an earlier draft we discussed about
additional mitigation for our impacts on roadways in order to establish
mitigation and further consistency with the transportation --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Bob, it's getting a little hard to hear you
MR. DUANE: I'll speak up a little. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
One of those that we provide right-of-way for the expansion ofa
four-lane road along Lord's Way, which is presently a private
easement. And another provision was to provide for increased traffic
signalization at the intersection.
Some of you may be aware that there's a long-range plan that's
in the process of evolving to establish a north-south collector east of
951. I think in the final analysis we thought perhaps it was best
addressing those issues at the time of rezoning.
But I want to tell you that my client had no objections to
providing for that mitigation, either as part of this process or when we
get through the rezoning process. And I wanted to just offer that up as
a little additional background information.
Finally, I'll try to bring to a close here. There's several provisions
that we could have come in under, under this comprehensive plan
amendment. As some of you may be aware, in the rural fringe district
we have a base density of 1.5 units per acre. But using the same
provision for a GMP amendment, you can increase an additional six
units per acre using density bonuses.
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Our proposed density, notwithstanding the facilities that we're
integrating from the Assembly of God into this PUD, have a gross
density of 4.3 units per acre, of which if you take the units that are
allowed by right, that's the 1.5 units per acre times the 69 acres, we're
requesting a density bonus of about 2.7 units per acre to get us from
the base density of 1.5 to the 4.3, which is about a midpoint in the
range of the density bonuses that could have otherwise been available
to us.
And I want to make a very important distinction here. We chose
not to opt for that density bonus provision, because it would have tied
us into the density bonus provisions and affordable housing
agreements set forth in the Land Development Code.
We have been pursuing this essential workforce housing and the
CWWIP grant for some time, all of which are likely to have their own
individual characteristics for how long the units are going to be
available, how if the ownership is transferred at such a point in time
how money will be redistributed back to other nonprofit organizations
for the provision of housing.
So I offer that up as to why we proceeded with the subdistrict,
using only the density bonuses as a fallback position in the event that
we were unsuccessful with CWWIP and the essential service
personnel.
Just to conclude here, the provision of affordable housing
requires a balancing act on a number of different parties. Parks,
infrastructure and the need for affordable housing is one of those
balancing or judgment calls that you need to make.
Staff and I have endeavored to provide you all the technical
information that we believe puts the project in the best light, and we
hope that you will recognize our public benefit as part of our request
this morning and let us proceed to the next phase of our proposal,
which is hopefully to get the GMP amendment behind us and then
proceed with our zoning application later in this year.
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If I could take a minute first to have Bill make his short
presentation, just to keep our flow going, and then we'll be happy to
answer any questions that we may have from the podium this
mornmg.
Thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
MR. KLOHN: Good morning, Chairman and Commissioners.
Thank you very much for this opportunity. For the record, my name
is Bill Klohn. I'm president ofMGD Capital Corporation.
As you're likely aware, we are one of the leading companies in
Collier County producing communities for workforce affordable
housing. We have our 1,200 units out in Immokalee, which is going
very well. We're about 40 percent of the way through that project.
We've also completed --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN : You need to slow down a little bit. She
has to type everything you say.
MR. KLOHN: Very good. We've also completed Cypress Glen
on Pine Ridge Road, which was a 120-unit condominium project, and
now embarking on this project for 296 units.
We've worked very hard with Joe Schmitt and staff over the last
year to fine tune the modifications of this PUD. Pastor Mallory and I
have worked very hard to meet the needs of the church and the
church's mission and needs.
I think in short -- you know, Bob did a very nice job in
presenting the technical side of it, but in short what we're doing is
taking and deleting the 400 care facility -- the 400-bed care facility
and the 120 travel trailers. Just like we did in our PUD in Immokalee.
Trailers are less desirous today than we were years ago when the
PUDs were approved.
So the elimination of the 400-bed care facility and elimination of
the 120 travel trailers I think is a good thing for Collier County and a
good trade-off for the units that we're asking for in addition to the 57
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which are currently approved. And as Bob mentioned, in totality we'll
have 296 units.
With regard to the CWWIP application, we're very excited about
continuing that effort. Today we have Tom Eastman with the Collier
County School District with us today. I've spoken with all of the other
ESP members yesterday at the exciting press release for the Bonita
project, and the group is still very active with us on this project and
remains committed to go through the application process this summer
for CWWIP, which we believe will be a reality in our
communications with folks up in Tallahassee.
So thank you very much. I encourage your support of this
project. We'll be standing by for questions. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you. And I'm sure there will be
questions.
Mr. Murray, we'll start with you.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Good morning, Rob.
MR. DUANE: Good morning, Mr. Murray.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: The first 150 units that are
intended, are they all to be gap units or are they to be a mix of gap and
the 80 percent and down?
MR. DUANE: They will all be less than 150 percent of the
median income under the essential service personnel provisions.
If it is CWWIP, there will be a percentage of those units that will
be less than 80 percent of the median income.
Bill, was that --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Bob, you need to speak either louder or
closer to the mic, because there are several members here that have
difficulty hearing.
MR. DUANE: 100 percent, 150 percent of the median--
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Just a second.
Mr. Kolflat?
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Can we have Ray increase the
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volume? Because we can't hear down here.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, let's give it a try.
COMMISSIONER TUFF: You can turn it up right on your
speaker, too.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Go ahead, Bob, thank you.
MR. DUANE: Under the essential service personnel, all of
those units, as is required by our LDC, would have to be less than 150
percent of the median income. Those provisions vary a little bit for
CWWIP. A percentage of those would have to be less than 80 percent
of the median income. And Bill is flipping through his book to find
that.
And under our 60-unit proposal, 25 of those units would be less
than 80 percent of the median income.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: That's assuming that either the
CWWIP comes through, or some other. But you're intending to avoid
using the county government's bonus density program, so there really
IS no --
MR. DUANE: We will under the 60 units. If we're unable to get
essential service personnel or CWWIPs we will use the density bonus
provisions to provide you 60 units.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: So, okay, then, maybe I
misheard you before. I thought you were going to avoid going through
the density program. But you are.
MR. DUANE: That was for the lion's share of our units. If
we're unsuccessful in getting the other two programs, at a minimum
we are providing you 60 units to ensure that those units will remain
affordable for a period of at least 15 years.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Okay. So given that, they then
must be offered, and then if someone -- I'm alluding to a statement
that was made in the staff report that they would be offered first. That
left it wide open what happens after a decline or some other thing, are
they then going to become a market unit or what.
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I wanted to know whether or not these units are intended to
remain in gap or remain in I guess under the constraints of the law.
The others will have to remain in the program.
But I just wanted to have some sense from you that we're not
going to build them with the premise that they are for gap and then oh
well, we couldn't give them up so we're going to sell them at the
market.
Can you answer that for me?
MR. KLOHN: Sure, thank you.
The order in which the preferences were outlined in your staff
report were flip-flopped a little bit.
Our primary goal with this community is the CWWIP project,
the CWWIP grant. It's our intent to move forward this summer for the
first application, which would contain 150 units. And it is our goal
and desire to move forward then with a subsequent application,
provided that the program exists for the remaining 146 units.
In the event that the CWWIP would not work out for whatever
reasons, we would then have our goal, just like our community in
Arrowhead out in Immokalee, move forward with an essential services
personnel program to continue to fill the need for workforce housing
needs in Collier County.
If there was not an appetite during our construction and
development period for personnel from the essential services sector,
then we would then offer the units to others.
But that's the pecking order. CWWIP, then essential services,
and then if there's any leftovers to market --
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I hear you in all of that. And I
just want you to qualify, if you would, for the record who the others
are. Are they -- they may not be essential service personnel as they
designate it now, but will they be people of moderate means?
In other words, are we going to take those units and keep them in
the realm where people can afford them, or are we going to then
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convert them -- not convert them, but use them as price point
opportunities for whatever? I don't even know what size units you're
going to build so it's hard for me. I think it's 1,000 square foot or
something like that.
MR. KLOHN: The smaller units are just under 1,000 feet, then
the two bedrooms are approximately 1,100 feet, and I believe the
three-bedroom is around 1,250 feet.
To answer your question on -- in the pecking order of who the
occupants will be, the answer is yes to your question, will it remain at
an affordable price point.
Our goal and our company commitment is to produce housing
that is affordable in nature. And the current pricing, given today's
current construction costs, these units can be delivered at a retail, if
you will, before any incentives from CWWIP or SHIP or those types
of things, they can be offered for about $220,000.
In the event that CWWIP or essential services personnel was not
the situation, we would not increase our prices to 280 or 300 or
400,000. Those units would remain being offered to the public at the
same pnce.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: That's an important
consideration, I think.
Could you also go to the map over there and show us where that
10 acres actually gets cut off, the one that's intended for Toll?
That's a good slice in the rear, okay.
This mitigation question that was raised about a north-south
roadway, you're prepared to provide mitigation, how would that
manifest?
MR. KLOHN: In speaking with Joe Schmitt, he wanted to
convey today that we were prepared to do that, to leave the
negotiations for the rezone at the local level, but to share that with
you.
The Lord's Way -- Bob, and if I make a mistake, please jump in.
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The right-of-way that the church and our company would be
conveying for mitigation is the entire south border of the property
fronting The Lord's Way. And the traffic signalization mitigation
would be at this intersection of Collier Boulevard and The Lord's
Way.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Are you speaking on behalf of
the church's property ownership as well?
MR. KLOHN: I am. I'm authorized by Pastor Mallory to do so.
And he's here today, if you'd like to have him--
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I know that he wasn't sworn in.
But in any event now you're answering my question, I believe.
And so I feel secure at least that the gap table -- I feel secure
that the gap table at least is a reference point at the minimum for
where you're going to place these units if they're made possible.
I'd have other questions later, but I suspect my other
commissioners would like to talk to you.
MR. KLOHN: Great. I'd like to add one more thing. We also
have Marie Nino here with Physicians Regional Hospital, too. Thank
you very much.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any other questions at this time?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, I have a few.
Marjorie, this is a 69-acre request for a change to a 79-acre PUD.
In our packages we seem to have consent from 69 acres of ownership
for the PUD, but I didn't find anything for the 10 acres remaining.
What do we need to make sure that the rights of the 10-acre
ownership are secured?
MS. STUDENT -STIRLING: I'm going to have to defer to Mr.
Schmidt. This is a -- by the way --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, that will be fun, he's not here.
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: Not Joe Schmitt, Corby Schmidt.
He's the planner assigned to this project.
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This is not a rezone to a PUD, this is a compo plan amendment. I
do understand that, you know, it was applied -- that there would have
to be an applicant and so forth and the same procedures gone through.
But I do think Mr. Corby Schmidt should come up and address that.
MR. DUANE: Could I take a stab at that, Mr. Chairman?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You can. I'm just going to want
something on the record to clarify that. I understand there's a potential
agreement between --
MR. DUANE: Yeah, I was going to --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Bob, let me finish speaking.
I understand there's a potential agreement between Toll Brothers
and you guys, and that's fine. And if there is, I want testimony to that
effect. And maybe between now and the time of the adoption hearing,
that agreement could be put -- assembled, put together and then
presented to us prior to the adoption, if it gets that far.
So is that what you were going to allude to?
MR. DUANE: Yes. And I believe the pastor is also a party to
that agreement, in addition to MGD Capital and Toll Brothers.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And you're confirming that Toll
Brothers is aware of what this amendment is about and what it means
in their regards to the development of their property.
MR. DUANE: That's correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MR. DUANE: In fact, my understanding is that they are
comfortable with the agreement. I believe the pastor is comfortable
with it. We're trying to get Toll Brothers' attorney comfortable with
the agreement right now.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Ms. Student, in absence of the agreement, pending one coming
at any some future date, is that legitimately -- legally sufficient for
you?
MS. STUDENT-STIRLING: That satisfies my concerns,
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because we're at transmittal, and also there may be something that
could be produced by the time we get to the BCC transmittal hearing
as well.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Now, I'd like some clarification,
and Bob started in the questioning of this issue, but I didn't hear
answers that help me understand it.
There are 296 units that are being built. How many of those are
going to be committed to the affordable housing price range?
MR. DUANE: 150 units for CWWIP, 150 units on a first come,
first serve basis for essential service personnel. In the event that those
two components do not play out, then there's a minimum of 60 gap
and workforce housing units which will be provided and subject to the
county's density bonus program. Thirty-five of those will be for gap
units at less than 150 percent of the median income, and 25 of those
will be for workforce units at less than 80 percent of the median
mcome.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We have 296 units. So when you
reference 150, 150, you're just using round numbers to make the
conversation a little easier, fine.
If the CWWIP doesn't come forward, and I know you tried and
were unsuccessful once already, then at that point are you going to
rely then on just the 150 for the essential services program?
And I'd like to know what that program is, because I didn't know
we had one.
MR. DUANE: We're going to offer those on a first come, first
serve basis to the essential service personnel providers. And I would
defer to Bill to share with you what kind of commitments or
limitations the essential service providers may themselves want to
place upon those units.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Before you do that, I've heard mention
that there's an essential services program, that that's what you're going
to be providing for.
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I know we have an affordable housing density bonus program.
We have an affordable housing agreement. Do we have an essential
services program?
MR. DUANE: Well, I use the word perhaps loosely. It would be
collectively; however, the essential service providers wanted to define
the parameters for participation into that program. Whether that be
limitations on the length of time they could occupy the units or how
the resale of the units would be handled. And I'll defer to Bill on the
rest of that.
MR. KLOHN: On Page 14 of the staff report, item number
three, it is worded, enter into an agreement with Collier County,
assuring that no fewer than 150 affordable workforce and market rate
housing units are constructed --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Bill, Bill, you've got to slow down.
She can't write that fast.
I don't mind if you want to go forward again. Just say it a little
slower so she can take it under her notes.
MR. KLOHN: The operative word here is that one of the three
items that we're committing to, you know, it's one of the three,
CWWIP, essential services or the 60 units.
In the event that it was the essential services personnel
commitment, we would enter into an agreement with Collier County
which would be satisfactory to Collier County for our commitment to
provide housing for essential services personnel.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Then Ms. Student, in order for
them to have an agreement with Collier County to provide services to
essential services personnel, how would that have to evolve, since I
don't know if we have a program for essential services personnel in
Collier County? Because I know we do have one for an affordable
housing program.
MS. STUDENT -STIRLING: You're correct. And there has
been -- I believe it was last year, there were some statutory changes
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made by the legislature that addresses essential services personnel and
how certain lands and so forth can be used.
I didn't bring that with me today to discuss it, but I would have
to look under that statutory framework with staff and see if they
provided for a program to be developed. And then if not, I think we
could enter into some type of developer agreement with the applicant
at the appropriate juncture to accomplish this.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So your -- of the 296 units,
you're either going to have 150 through the CWWIP program or 150
through some yet to be determined essential services program. And
failing either of those, then you're going to drop down to 60 gap
workforce; is that correct?
MR. KLOHN: That is correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MR. KLOHN: And I would like to add, Chairman, that
historically when we have made commitments to Cormac Giblin for
10 percent or 15 percent, the actuality at the end of the project is much
greater.
And the reason that we're not just going across the board to do
150 units for all three categories is that we want to preserve any
restrictions on the property for purposes of lending. The greater
restrictions that we put on the property, naturally the lending changes.
But those are the three minimum commitments.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. In the end, though, we could
end up with 60 units in the worst case scenario for your 236 market
rate; is that a fair statement?
MR. KLOHN: That's correct.
And please keep in mind when evaluating that, that besides the
traffic information that you'll hear a little bit later, that we're removing
and eliminating the 400-bed care facility and the 120 travel trailers.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I understand. In fact, in my
discussions -- and I was one of the commissioners who I was
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assuming you were alluding to that you spoke with about our
concerns, my concern at least -- I had mentioned to you straight up
front that the traffic was an issue with me.
I know you've made an attempt to resolve it, and I need to have
-- I will be talking to transportation staff and your expert as we go
through this today, because I'm not sure we've gotten there yet. I
understand what you're proposing, but you're still having a net impact
of a positive greater than currently proposed impact on the road
system.
I know it's less than what you originally started with by phasing
it to 150. I'm curious as to why 150, which is half your unit count,
isn't half your traffic impact. Because if it was, it would make you in a
much better position.
I'll wait. I'm sure your traffic guy will have a way to explain
that.
MR. KLOHN: Right. And our rationale of phasing the project,
given the traffic constraints, is that the traffic with 150 units, the net
differences is a couple of hundred trips a day, I believe. But I'll let the
traffic experts address that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right. I have other questions, but I'll
wait, and as we go through the rest of the presentation there's some of
staff and there's going to be some of transportation.
At this point, does anybody else have any other questions of the
applicant?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Staff report? Mr. Schmidt?
MR. SCHMIDT: Good morning. I think there'll be a number of
questions that remain that I can answer for you as I stand here this
mornmg.
Also, perhaps I can begin with some clarification about the
number of versions of the staff report you may have seen.
I have in front of me an original version with nothing but black
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print; one from April 5th, which mayor may not have some blue and
red print, as well; April 12th, which I believe was delivered to you
earlier this week or over the weekend; and a version that's been
updated. You have just the updated pages that were handed out at the
beginning of this meeting that should be dated April 15th or April
12th.
That being said, if there's any confusion over which version or
what you're reading, just have me pause and ask.
Some of my presentation will repeat what was presented by the
applicant's agent.
And let me put something else up here, just for some clarity,
because I'll begin where some of the questions left off.
First, this is 69 of79 acres on the subject property. On the
overhead here I have highlighted those easternmost 10 acres. Some
questions have arisen just during staff review and since about the uses
on each of these tracts in the existing PUD, and what would be left on
those easterly 10 acres. Whether those are ever utilized, because it's
undeveloped at this point in time, may not be important.
But that is the acreage we're talking about on that Tract D, which
is about the northerly half of these 10 acres is permitted to have the
multi-family housing in the present PUD.
The lower half, a portion of Tract B has a combination of
permitted uses today. The multi-family, the travel trailers, and that
could be where the adult living facility would have been located.
The rest of the tracts are a mix of those uses, including of course
the church facilities themselves, other institutional uses and so forth.
But that is that easterly 10 acres, not part of to day's consideration.
Again, this is a request to establish a subdistrict to allow for a
PUD rezone on this portion of the property. It is proposed to be mixed
uses. And you have that mix of uses already at hand because of the
existing PUD that stands on the 69 acres, plus the additional housing
that's being proposed.
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I know there's some confusion over the numbers, working
through versions of the staff report. It was one of the reasons it had
been revised more than once, is to clarify how we use those numbers.
And let me try verbally to do that.
On this property, the total number of dwelling units is 306. Ten
of those are ancillary or accessory to the church or institutional uses,
and they're addressed that way and not part of the overall count.
The 296 that remain, there's three ways that you'll see that
addressed: Either through a CWWIP program, and there'll be some
agreement between the county, the essential services personnel
housing group that exists that supports the CWWIP application on
this property, and that would provide a mix of housing styles and a
market rate and affordable units.
The second option for all of those 296 is that they meet the
county's affordable workforce housing density bonus program.
The third option is the one that's the agreement yet to be reached
with the county that we laid out with some amount of specificity. And
that is to -- of that 296 require 150 be for people involved in providing
essential services in the county.
Of the same 296, 60 of them would be gap or affordable. And
that agreement to do that, to first offer those units to the ESP or the
people providing essential services in the county, would be in place
for 15 years. That's the third option.
Almost all the other figures in the staff report are simply there to
show calculations and clarify old information: 104 density by right,
remaining192 and so forth. Let's not confuse those at this point. 306,
296, 150 and 60 affordable. That's likely the way this may end up if
the CWWIP program is not adopted.
And I say that about being likely because the county's affordable
workforce housing density program isn't today available to this
property. And I simply state that in the staff report for you. And
there's a number of reasons why it isn't. If you'd like me to go into
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some clarification, I can. Otherwise, I'll proceed.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Yes, would you mind, Mr.
Chairman? Just briefly touch on why that -- it has something to do
with the rural fringe?
MR. SCHMIDT: Not at all.
Generally I believe I have stated or the staff has stated in the
report that the application has not met the requirements or definitions
of the county's affordable workforce housing density bonus program.
Well, the first thing, it's not available to properties in the urban
residential fringe where this property is located. It would require a
compo plan amendment, which is what they're doing, in order to be
allowed to be in that program. So it becomes that third option through
the process they're in.
One of the methods that density can be increased on this
property through -- or is through the transfer of development rights
through the TDR program for the sending lands in the rural fringe, or
the rural mixed use district.
Also, the county's density program requires that all of them be
owner occupied. That's not necessarily the case here. If this were to
be CWWIP housing, some of those could be a co-op arrangement and
may not meet the letter of the law for ownership. It's just a may thing,
and it's just left out there.
Also, this subdistrict itself replaces the requirements or the
limitations already in place because this is the urban residential fringe
subdistrict. It's one area like this, or one subdistrict replacing another.
There's a number of reasons why it can't or doesn't meet those
requirements for the county's density bonus program.
Unless there are questions about the land uses existing or
proposed on the property, I'll skip over those. I think they'll be more
coming from transportation staff or their transportation people about
traffic and calculations for traffic and transportation impacts.
Keep in mind that the overall density in population on the
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property did not translate to a decrease in trips, and that's why I think
you'll be looking for some extra explanation.
There are no other concerns for public facilities or public
utilities. It seems to be just a transportation issue. And you've heard
some presentation about mitigation options.
I've included in the staff report the calculations regarding what
density or what number of dwelling units is permitted on the property
today. And in the existing PUD there are provisions for converting the
unused density in the adult living facility or the undeveloped travel
trailer areas into other units. And those calculation are shown to you.
I think one of the things that I would want to stress is that the
property has a number of existing uses permitted, and most if not all
of those, except for the two exceptions you've heard about, will be
continued to be requested on the property and need not focus just on
the residential aspect of this. But it still is a mixed use proposal.
Even though you've seen revisions and iterations of the staff
report, our recommendation remains the same. It is for approval with
revisions to the language as proposed. And either in a previous version
or the most recent handout you have language that has the revised
entry for the Collier Boulevard community facility subdistrict; along
with some of the individually listed requirements or limitations that
the staff recommends having to do with limitations on floor area,
number of dwelling units; the replacement of those travel trailers over
time as the other site built housing is developed; the inclusion of 150
units for essential services personnel; the three-option list or the three
ways that this would become a mixed use proj ect, including the
affordable housing; a limitation on the number of market rate units
that can be built before others; and then some zoning related issues
regarding maximum occupancies; the landscaping requirements
along Lord's Way; and the mitigation associated with the traffic
impacts. I'll leave it at that.
I am also prepared to clarify how the county's affordable
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workforce housing density program works and where some of those
numbers were derived. But unless there's questions, I'll leave that for
later.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you, Mr. Schmidt.
Are there any questions of Corby?
Ms. Caron?
COMMISSIONER CARON: Why are the 10 units ancillary
units? Why are they accessory to this process? What does that mean?
MR. SCHMIDT: Those are the units that would be only for
church employees, clergy, people involved in the institutional uses on
the property.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Understood. But --
MR. SCHMIDT: And they're not part of any market, market
rate, affordable housing that's being requested here that wasn't already
in the PUD. It's a simple conversion of some of the 57 or with the
conversion of trailers, the 80 that they still want to withhold.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, while we're on that subject,
Corby, I noticed that, too. And it says they are not calculated or
discussed as either affordable workforce or market rate housing
herein.
But are they calculated or should they have been calculated in
traffic impacts? Because in our Land Development Code there is
definitions for dwelling units. These are 10 dwelling units. How will
we address that from a concurrency viewpoint?
MR. SCHMIDT: Staff made revisions to the traffic report, and
those numbers are changed, given those additional 10 units. Perhaps
some of the specificity is not there with number-to-number impacts,
but we showed density changed by count as part of those traffic
numbers.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The report that was handed to us by the
traffic engineer prior to the start of the meeting doesn't include that 10.
That's why I brought the question up. It shows 296 and is not -- it's
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not done at 306.
MR. SCHMIDT: I'll let them answer that question regarding
their information. But inside your staff report, your county staff has
addressed that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The transportation department
indicated that the project is not consistent with Sections 5.1 and 5.2 of
the transportation element and 1.1.2 of the capital improvement
element of the Growth Management Plan.
Is that still the case?
MR. SCHMIDT: It still is.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yet you're recommending approval?
MR. SCHMIDT: We know that mitigation measures are
available to a developer and transportation staff, and those limitations
or those requirements of 5.1 and the other sections referenced can be
met.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: On Page 8 of your staff report -- and
Corby, there's been so many, I don't know how to describe this one.
It's called -- there's no date on this particular one, but it's the one that
has the blue corrections to it.
MR. SCHMIDT: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: In the middle you talk about, it says
under this scenario the 23 replacement dwelling units gained by
eliminating all 57 remaining dwelling units approved by the present
PUD would sum up to 80 units.
Can you explain that paragraph to me? And I left out some
verbiage only because I just need you to read it and explain it.
MR. SCHMIDT: That's fine. Again, there are 57 dwelling units
and I think in a multi-family arrangement already permitted on the
property. And without those highlighted 10 acres on the property, with
the conversion of travel trailers and the living facility, 23 more would
be available. It was a conversion. And the paragraph above where it's
Section 3.2 on the same page talks about that conversion, those 120
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travel trailer lots, the 400 adult living facility beds, have a conversion
of 1.5 per acre. That simply adds up to the additional 23 for a total of
80.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So what you're saying by that
paragraph is they could put 80 units of residential on there now
utilizing that conversion ratio; is that correct?
MR. SCHMIDT: That is correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. I'm running through the staff
report questions. I've noted you've answered quite a few of them.
On Page 13, you're talking about a removal ofa number of travel
trailers over a five-year period.
MR. SCHMIDT: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: How do we -- how could we be assured
that's going to happen? I know there are problems out there now with
code enforcement issues, and I'm just wondering how we know that
this will be complied with.
MR. SCHMIDT: There's more than one way, but Bill may want
to address that as well.
MR. KLOHN: We have a contractual relationship with the First
Assembly of God whereby all the trailers on the MGD property are to
be removed within a two-year period from our date of closing. I
believe the remaining time, Pastor, correct me if I'm wrong, is
approximately six months? Approximately six months.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So these particular travel trailers are on
the property that you're going to develop.
MR. KLOHN: That's correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: It just said refer to the subject property.
It didn't indicate necessarily it was just on yours. You can't build if
they're there, I take it.
MR. KLOHN: I'm sorry?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You wouldn't be able to build if they're
sitting there.
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MR. KLOHN: That's correct. And that's why we have the
contractual relationship with the church to have them removed.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Mr. Murray?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Going further on that question, I
want to be absolutely clear on that. When we speak of removing, we're
talking about literally taking them off of both the property you intend
to build on and Pastor Mallory's property?
I'm concerned that we don't transfer density. Are they to be in
fact removed?
MR. KLOHN: I'm unaware if the pastor has plans to relocate
any of those for the purpose of his 10 ancillary housing units, so let
me ask the pastor.
PASTOR MALLORY: Yes, 10 will remain there until the --
MR. KLOHN: Ten will be temporarily on the pastor's site on
his ancillary housing units.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Until a permanent structure --
MR. KLOHN: Until a permanent structure is constructed by the
church.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: That makes sense.
My concern here, Corby, was that we don't end up doubling -- or
not doubling but enhancing the density. And as long as that's clear,
that's what I wanted to get on the record. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Corby, the reference, I've seen it in
your staff report and other places, that there are a possibility of up to
386,000 square feet, where did that come from?
MR. SCHMIDT: That's in the existing or the present PUD, and
that's the maximum number of floor area for all those institutional
uses.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Because I read the existing PUD.
I must have missed it. Because I found references to the quantity of
units and the number of seats. I didn't -- I must have missed where that
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386 was. It's been a while since I read it, so -- but that 386 is actually
spelled out in the existing PUD?
Mr. Duane is over there shaking his head no.
MR. SCHMIDT: I may be standing corrected. Just a moment.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MR. DUANE: No, they're not. As I indicated on the outset of
my presentation, they were very generalized measures of development
intensity set forth in the PUD. Some square footage, but it was mostly
seats or school children or day care units or care units that the PUD
measures had not evolved through '99 with that level of specificity.
The pastor has assured me that if you take all of those and put
them in the same -- the pot, based on his long-range plans, that's the
number of square feet that he believes is stemming forth from the
planned unit development approval that he had approved in 1999.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Why would we want to take the unit
counts that were referenced in the original PUD and put in the GMP a
reference to a square footage? That would be necessarily an arbitrary
number, more or less, when the site regulations are going to dictate
whatever you could build there, based on the quantities you're asking
for?
MR. DUANE: Their thinking evolved through '99. And I can't
speak for the pastor. He's given me some assurances that those are the
development intensities that result in his long-range program.
He had a site development plan approved in 1994 by Collier
County. This is several years old. This area remained the same. Of
course this was the travel trailer lots here. This was the assembly
center. The easement of course remained the same. Travel trailer
units, cluster housing.
But this was what he had approved in 2004. There were no
number of square feet approved with that site plan. These were
basically footprints. The assembly center, for example, I believe that
footprint is four stories. It's over 20,000 square feet per story. That
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comprised part of that square footage, just like other components of it
were comprised.
It seemed logical to take a total number of square feet that was
going to constitute collectively all of its facilities, rather than trying to
break it down to children and seats and chapel seats, et cetera, et
cetera.
And that's the best answer I can give to your question, unless the
pastor wants to elaborate further.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Duane, on the map you have up
there, is any of the area on that map, which is a former site plan, going
to be utilized by the 296 units that we're currently discussing here
today?
I know what your answer is, but I'd like you to tell me.
Could you leave the two of those up there side by side instead of
the aerial.
MR. DUANE: Actually, I've got one on the back and front of
this.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Oh, well, that's handy.
Okay, so some of the 386,000 square feet that you proposed on
the other site plan, that was the reason why it's in the GMP, is
actually going to be utilized by the 296 units you're asking here for
today.
So if that's the case, how are you going to do 386,000 -- where's
your reasoning why that 386,000 square feet should still stick?
MR. DUANE: This is the 23 acres that is going to be developed
for the housing, less the 10 acres of the back. And the balance of the
property is what is going to be utilized for the pastor's program, for his
worship facilities, for his rehab facilities, for his care facilities.
Mr. Strain, the 400 units alone -- and I'm not privy to all the
discussions he had with his architect, but if those care units were 500
square feet each, you'd have over 200,000 square feet just in the care
component of the project.
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And of course we have other components: The worship center,
the family center, the transportation center. I mean, I think if you look
at the way that it lays out, this is a logical representation of the uses
that stem from the 1999 zoning approval.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'm not saying anything about the uses.
You just said that the 400 care units could equate to almost 200,000
square feet. But I also understand that's being taken out of the picture
because of to day's --
MR. DUANE: No, there's still care units, there's still 400 care
units remaining.
MR. KLaHN: There were two buildings that were each 400
beds. One was an adult care living facility and one was a care facility.
In speaking with the pastor while Bob was speaking, the 368,000
(sic) square feet would have been much greater to include the uses that
we're deleting today, would have been a bigger number.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Because the way Mr. Duane
started out the presentation in response to this question was with a site
plan that I believe he was trying to indicate was the source for the
386,000 square feet.
MR. KLaHN: Bob, tell me ifI'm wrong, had we not deleted the
400-bed adult care facility, that 368 would have been much larger?
MR. DUANE: Correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. I have some questions of
transportation, but maybe others do. Any other questions of the panel?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, thank you, Corby.
I guess Nick, how are your negotiations doing?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: No arguments, Commissioner.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: There shouldn't be, Nick.
(Speaker was duly sworn.)
MR. CASALANGUIDA: For the record, Nick Casalanguida
with transportation planning.
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If you think the bed count and counts you've been discussing are
confusing, I took it really simple for transportation. I just looked at
150 units and 150 more units for traffic analysis, which just breaks it
down to really what the gist of what they're doing.
At 150 units, they're less than three percent of the impact on
Collier Boulevard.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: A little closer to the mic.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: When they double that amount, they
significantly impact Davis Boulevard, and that's where inconsistency
came Ill.
What they're proposing as phasing is consistent with Collier
Boulevard being let in three months. That's the approximate time
frame we'll have a contracted bid for Collier Boulevard.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Did you see this Table I-A Peak Hour,
Peak Direction information passed out to us by their transportation
engineer this morning?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: I did this morning.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You did this?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: I saw this this morning.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: It says under the Davis Boulevard, west
of Collier Boulevard two-lane section that the current remaining
capacity is a negative 218. Is that true?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: That's correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Does that negative 218 include any
vesting units in the original PUD for this property?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: No.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: No. That 218 is background traffic
plus banked trips is that number. So your negative 218 would not
include project trips, because it's -- that haven't been applied for for
this project.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So the 296 units, the 50 percent
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of those Phase 1, the 150 units would be further contributed to that
negative 218; is that correct?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: It wouldn't be more than three percent
on Collier Boulevard. I wouldn't place those trips on Davis Boulevard.
But if you're asking me if trips will hit Davis Boulevard, they will.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. And my other questions, Nick,
are going to be mostly about -- from their transportation engineer and
about his report, so anything -- anybody else have any questions?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I needed a clarification on the
transaction that just went before.
You're saying if it were to have hit Davis Boulevard, you would
have said no. But that's with the 296. But the 150 does not rise to that
number.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: It's less than three percent ofthe
service volume --
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: And under the phasing scenario,
based on the time frames, your expectation is is that because we're
about to let -- hopefully let a contract for Collier Boulevard, that the
phasing would probably be constrained until that was completed?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: That's fair.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: And that would be under a PUD
or whatever.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Because they'd be in for zoning and
there's still another year for that process to take place.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: The amount of vested traffic
that they have in that, do you have a number?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: For this project?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Not for this project per se but
for The Lord's Way, the original Lord's Way, the 9,959? You don't
have to have an exact number, but do we have a decent number? Do
we have --
MR. CASALANGUIDA: We have the original trip generation
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from the existing PUD. I'm assuming no reductions. Looks like--
well, no, this is their existing, right? Minus the150.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: The basis for my question is the
original number was predicated on conditions of another time. Do we
take into consideration the changes?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: No. I want to clarify one comment.
The number I gave you gave them no reduction to the elimination. I
gave you worst case scenario. There is a reduction to what they're
taking out.
Now, if you look at that 150 trips that they talked about adding
with the first phase, they are eliminating uses in there. If you give
them that credit, it will even be less. I'm giving you worst, with no
credit at all, they will be consistent with the first phase.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, Nick, on the report that was
provided to us this morning, it shows that with Phase 1 at 150 units,
they're still going to have a trip increase of 345.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: That's not what I see here they
provided under there.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, good. Then tell me how I'm
reading it wrong.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Okay. You're talking about daily
trips, that's what you're --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The other trips. Okay. The real trips.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: You're talking about daily trips.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Yes. We're talking about p.m. peak
hour trips, that's how we do the concurrency and consistency review.
It's not daily.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: So they would get a credit for that.
And I assumed worst case scenario, no credit, the first phase would
still be consistent with 5.1 on Collier Boulevard.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Of the 296 units that they're proposing
and the original increase in traffic, they looked at a 3,800 number over
a 28 existing, so they're about 1,000 over.
They now cut that proposing phasing in half, so they're down to
150. But I didn't see a similar decline in their trip rates for daily. Can
you explain that?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: It's not linear. When you start
looking at traffic analysis for residential development it's on a curve.
So the larger the development, the numbers change. It wouldn't be a
linear equation. So it isn't a straight 50 percent reduction when you
look at trips.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: They're proposing to put the second
phase in at the time the contract is let for Davis Boulevard. How
much time does it take from the time a contract is let to a completion,
a substantial completion of Davis?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Approximately 48 months.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So for two years they would still be
impacting a road that is deficiently operating because -- and even
more so because it would be under construction. Is that fair?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: That would be fair to say.
I think to qualify that as well, too, they're going to go through
the rezoning stage. I'm understanding this is GMP amendment and we
would, again, qualify that at that stage as well, too.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right. But when they go through the
rezone stage, once they get through this phase, you're going to look at
this as what's in the three-year window or five-year window of your
plan. And if it's under potential contract within five years, you're
going to give it a green light, basically. Is that fair?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: It would be considered consistent. So
if you qualified that now and put a restriction on Davis going forward,
I would imagine we'd do the same thing at the zoning stage.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Because my concern is the
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traffic that's already out there, it just isn't that good.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Our concern is that you hope to bid a
project that comes in at a reasonable price and you don't have that
control until you actually sign that contract.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah, we know contracts don't happen
when they're supposed to.
Mr. Murray?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Just what you just said about a
potential contract versus -- isn't it committed -- isn't it a commitment
that the -- the five-year window, isn't it based on money available?
MR. CASALANGUIDA: It's based on money available. You
have a five-year work program and a three-year committed window.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: But not simply a potential
contract.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Well, the problem is that when you
have a project -- this has happened on Collier Boulevard North, you
estimated it to be 23 or 24 million, it comes in at 43, then you readjust
your capital plan going forward based on increase in cost.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: So it's never really ever firm.
And that's one of the issues that the chairman is bringing up. The
whole problem is it slips, it slips, it slips.
And I guess, I'd have to assume -- you're not the right person, but
I'd just make this comment; perhaps Mr. Klohn would comment on it
-- that the restrictions, if this were to go forward, the restrictions on his
organization to build, although we need the housing, would have to be
reflective of the limitations we have in money and the ability to deal
with road building, so --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you, Nick.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: You're welcome.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Is there any other questions of the
applicant, of staff, of the experts? Anybody at all?
(No response.)
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I have one more of the applicant then.
And I don't know, Mr. Klohn or anybody, I need to ask you about
your commitments for traffic.
I understand your 150 and your phasing, and I appreciate that.
And I -- before Nick's discussion I was concerned that you hadn't
come down to a palatable level with the road impact. But I think at
the 150 you have.
My next concern is your second phase. I don't think tying it to
the contract of Davis Boulevard best serves the public, because you're
going to be then tying it to a time frame that is going to be under
construction and more confusing and probably worse in regards to
traffic flow than we have now.
Would you have any objection to tying it to the completion of
Davis Boulevard?
MR. KLaHN: Yes. Our preference is to have it tied to a date
that we could start our units while the road is being built. And I don't
believe -- Nick, what did you say it would take in timing to complete
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Forty-eight months.
MR. CASALANGUIDA: Twenty-four months.
MR. KLaHN: And the time to go through SDP and our
construction is close to that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN : You could actually submit -- you could
do your design, you could submit for SDP and you can submit for
building permit, I believe. The only question I would have is if you
need a year to build your units, which is probably a general time
frame for that last 150, if you were allowed to be issued SDPs and
construction permits to start construction one year after the contract
was issued on Davis Boulevard, would that work for you? Then your
timing for COs would be about the same time as the completion of
Davis Boulevard.
MR. KLOHN: Could you restate it, please, Chairman?
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes. If you were tied to one year after
the contract date of Davis Boulevard for your second phase. And the
reason I'm suggesting that is it would give you then one year to
complete your project, so your project's timing for completion would
be at the same time Davis Boulevard would be theoretically complete.
MR. KLaHN: I understand what you requested now.
Again, my preference would be that we would be able to begin
construction with the execution and commitment of the contract.
I would add, however, that please consider my request today and
then we can deal with the traffic issues at the PUD level. I'd like the
compo plan to give me the flexibility to do what I'm requesting. And if
it looks like it's -- as we get through the next year that it is
problematic, then we can deal with it at the local zoning level.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And I originally thought that might be a
solution, but when Nick indicated to us here a few minutes ago that
when you're at the PUD level you're subject to the five-year analysis
for concurrency, and that if we're going to fix such a stipulation it
should be done at this particular level, that way he wouldn't have to be
tied to that concurrency requirement, it would be better. At least that
seemed to be what he was indicating. So that's why I'm asking the
question.
And when -- yes, Mr. Murray?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Are there any -- to your
knowledge, are there any restrictions or constraints associated with
the CWWIP requiring you, once beginning construction, that you
must go forward or any other factors that would impact on this issue
that we're raising for you?
MR. KLOHN: No. In the CWWIP program -- which would be
the application for the CWWIP would be the first 150 -- we have
certain documents that need to be signed by the county that warrant
access and traffic.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: But no constraint, no restriction
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on you with regard to when you must begin and when you must end?
MR. KLaHN: You know, I'd have to review the application. I
think that there probably is. If the state is going to, you know, issue
grant money, they don't want it sitting out there for 10 years. I believe
that there is.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I thought that. And that's what
why it might be a question relative to what we're asking you to do,
whether or not they're in contradiction with each other.
MR. KLOHN: I'm sure there is a time limit.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Okay, but I wouldn't suspect -- I
think for the direction -- I thought 24 was far better than 48 months.
And I understand your term the preference, your preference is,
but if you had to go forward and such a stipulation were provided,
that wouldn't encumber you to the extent where you would stop
going forward, would it?
MR. KLaHN: It might hinder the subsequent application for the
following CWWIP application. If the county couldn't warrant that
there was available traffic, I might have to sit out a cycle, and that
would not be desirable.
COMMISSIONER MURRA Y: I brought that up so that that
would be part of the conversation.
MR. KLOHN: Yeah, I appreciate Chairman Strain's concern,
but would still like to request that we deal with this at a local level so
that we've got the flexibility to move forward with the CWWIP
application for the 146 units.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you, sir.
Any other questions?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Are there any public speakers, Ray?
MR. BELLOWS: No one has registered.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Hearing that, we will entertain a
motion.
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Mr. Murray?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I would make motion that
Petition No. CP-2005-13, Collier Boulevard community services
subdistrict Growth Management Plan amendment be forwarded to
DCA as transmitted with approval.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: I'll second that motion.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion made by Commissioner
Murray, seconded by Commissioner Adelstein.
Is there any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, we'll call for the vote. All those
in favor, signify by saying aye.
I'm sorry, Mr. ---
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: What I'll surmise is that we'll
do that, but subj ect to the changes in the staff report that have been
submitted to us this morning, as was indicated on the sheet that
Corby gave us.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We'll have to call for the vote again
then.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Would you please? I'm sorry I
failed to put that in.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Second?
MR. DUANE: I have a clarification.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: (Nodding head
affirmatively. )
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion maker and second are okay
with the clarification made by Mr. Murray.
Go ahead, Mr. Duane.
MR. DUANE: Could you clarify how we are treating the 150
units in the context of this GMP amendment?
I was suggesting to you earlier that given the unique nature of
this project that we had to be able to rely and have some predictability
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on the first phase. This project is highly unique. Its impacts on traffic
are relatively modest. It's clearly in the public benefit. And some of
those benefits, if we're not able to put a first phase in this GMP
amendment may jeopardize our ability to provide for these housing
units.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: The motion maker intended that
there be a first phase of 150 units.
MR. DUANE: Thank you for your clarification.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Does the second intend that, too?
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Motion's been made, there's a
couple of changes to it. I think everybody understands what those are.
Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All those in favor, signify by saying
aye.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Aye.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Aye.
COMMISSIONER ADELSTEIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER TUFF: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All those opposed?
Aye.
So the motion carries 8-1. Thank you.
And with that, we'll ask for a motion to adjourn the GMP
amendment hearings.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: So moved.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Commissioner Vigliotti. Seconded by
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COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: (Indicating.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- Commissioner Midney.
And then before we go into our continuation of our first meeting,
we'll take a 15-minute break and resume at 10:01 -- I mean, 10:05, I'm
sorry .
There being no further business for the good of the County, the
meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 9:50 a.m.
COLLIER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION
MARK STRAIN, Chairman
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