Backup Documents 09/21/2023 September 22, 2023
To: Collier County Planning Commission
Reference: Cocohatchee Bay Settlement / PUD
1 --- Paragraph 21 — Settlement Agreement — Says "executed with the
same formalities as the Agreement and Release".
2 --- On March 24, 2015 during Hearing Richard Grant Attorney for
Lodge Abbott said "So the Zoning is actually embodied in the
Settlement Agreement that was entered into in 2008"
3 --- Collier County CCPS Staff Report 7/6/2023 — "Accompanying the
PUD Amendment, but not subject to CCPC Action, is a proposed
Amendment to the Settlement Agreement and Release"
4 ---Minutes of the CCPC Meeting 7-6-2023 — "Chairman Fryer — Thank
You. And let me --- let me also add on, technically, the Settlement
agreement does not pass through us." (.... ")
5 --- CCPC Cocohatchee Bert Harris Review 2-25-2008
OR: 4368 PG: 2351
required federal permits for the SDPs as referenced in this document and is therefore unable
to build this project (exclusive of any federal peiiiiits or approvals for docks), Lodge likewise
will be entitled to a refund of all money provided under this Agreement and Release within
sixty (60) days of written notice from Lodge and Lodge shall retain the Bald Eagle
Management Plan as permitted by this Agreement and Release to the extent allowed by law.
18. Nothing in this Agreement and Release or the settlement documents shall be
construed or interpreted to confer any right to docks or any particular number of docks.
19. The Agreement and Release shall be binding upon Lodge's and the County's
predecessors, successors, assigns, officers;ire �artd former employees, owners, present
and former elected or appointe/l7o' ia1s, insurers, pi-In and representatives, who shall
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work together in good faith tb ac o w].ikh the-intent, this A ee ent and Release.
20. This Agreemen(aIfäR(lgas �S a l; e• �'ie by the laws of the State of
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21. This Agreem:n . d Release may bdki nd!� my by a written instrument
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specifically referring to this Agr + Release e/cuted with the same formalities
as this Agreement and Release. This Agreerrieni"a"nd Release supersedes all prior discussions
and representations and contains all agreements of the parties.
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22. The County and Lodge acknowledge that this Agreement and Release is the
product of mutual negotiation and no doubtful or ambiguous provision that my exist in this
Agreement and Release is to be construed against any party either based upon a claim that
the party drafted the ambiguous language or that the language in question was intended to
favor one party or the other.
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2/28/08 revision
March 24, 2015
Whittington might help me, but probably I will handle this all by
myself. I just might need some help passing out papers.
And what I'd like to do is run through briefly the history of the
Cocohatchee PUD. I'm going to be very quick about that, and I'm
going to explain the history and the background to this application
which was initiated in December of 2013, how we got to today, point
out some things. There's some things I want to explain that the
applicant is prepared to do that are not part of the record that have been
decided in the past several days. And then I'll turn it over to Wayne
Arnold, who will run through a presentation on what is actually being
proposed. And he will use some graphics that I think are very useful to
your understanding of this.
The Cocohatchee PUD was first approved in the year 2000, so it's
15 years old. It was amended in the year 2008, growing out of a
petition that actually had been filed in 2005 to amend it. That led to
some controversy. It was disapproved. There were challenges to it. It
01 -' resolved itse with a settlement agreement in 2008 which is wh there
r is b tlh a settlement agreement that embodies in and of itself the PUD
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The pending application was initiated in the year -- in December
of 2013. It proposed -- and the significant change that it proposed was
to propose that the east parcel, as it's called, which is the part of the
property located east of Vanderbilt Drive no longer be a golf course,
but it could be developed with housing.
The application proposed a good bit more density than is
currently pending before you. It was, we believe, completely consistent
with the comprehensive land use plan.
In any event -- and it also proposed the addition of 93 additional
acres to the PUD, which is quite a significant amount of land, located
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recognize the a licant will d si ermit construct a arking lot on 1.61 acres ou si e oft e
limits at the southeast corner of the intersection of Wiggins Pass Road and Vanderbilt Drive
to be conveyed to the County for public parking. Additionally, an amendmeroposed to the
Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions dated December 11 2016 of tmg a portion o tf eiF'Go a_
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compatibility measures that p � to be s�isfxed t o ensure
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the protection of adjoining resident'a, TIvthat's __ that
won't be up for discussion.
The settlement agreement indicates thet will be a
conveyance of land. A portion of that ' pem,'s being
conveyed from the owner to the county f tithe additional
parking,arking, and then what that individulroperty owner
does within their remaining C-3 is within property rights
that are associated with that parcel of lan
CHAIRMAN FRYER: Thank you. let me -- le
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MR. BOSI: Correct.
CHAIRMAN FRYER: It was logicypend it to
the agenda packet because it answered some questions that
we would otherwise have had, and certainly as a Planning
Commission, we're always free to recommend whatever we
want on whatever matter that comes before us. But,
obviously, this is not going to be on the consent agenda for
the Board of County Commissioners.
So those of you who take issue with the amendment to
the settlement agreement will have eve opportunity to be
heard by the Board itself that has the authority to grant an
amen ment or not ent. -
And if we decide to make a recommendation on that,
we can. But, you know, I'm not -- I'm not recommending
la at t is time.
All right. Anything else for Mr. Heebner?
MR. HEEBNER: I understand the zoning, you know,
what it's approved for and everything like that, but I would
ask you as a commission, you know, do the right thing and
don't allow a convenience store to be placed right in front of
probably 70 residents that would be looking right at that and
very close by to our properties that we've worked a long
time to be able to afford and live there and enjoy.
CHAIRMAN FRYER: Thank you.
It's -- unfortunately, for -- I guess for you and for others who
share your point of view, that's not before us. I mean, we're
a reactive body, and we're going to deal with what is before
us.
Anything else, Mr. Heebner?
MR. HEEBNER: That's it. Thanks for your time.
CHAIRMAN FRYER: Thank you, sir.
Next speaker.
MS. PEDROI\T: Our next speaker is Gary Brogoch.
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Agenda ite 4l J7,A
April 22: 2008
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CCPC SUMMARY OF COCOHATCHEE BERT HARRIS REVIEW
Date: 2-25-08
Background:
Over a period of 3 months and 3 separate meetings, the Collier County Planning Commission
(CCPC) publicly reviewed a Settlement Agreement remanded to the CCPC by the Board of
County Commissioners (BCC). This Agreement was the result of a contested Planned Unit
Development (PUD) known as the Cocohatchee PUD. The BCC instructed the CCPC to review
the content of the Settlement Agreement and determine consistency of the Settlement Agreement
with the PUD and the County Land Development Code (LDC).
Results:
Each paragraph of the Agreement was reviewed and discussed. In many instances there were
changes suggested to better focus and define the intent of the paragraphs, those are all outlined in
the attached documentation.
Certain sections of the Agreement required more intense discussion and thus debate with
members of the CCPC as well as interaction with representatives of the ownership of the PUD.
In order to provide the critical points in as brief a manner as possible, those items of primary
concern are as follows:
1. In order to assure that future staff members as well as the public will be able to accurately
track the actual development standards that this project will have as a result of the
Settlement Agreement, it is recommended that the terms of the Settlement Agreement be
incorporated into a strikethrough version of the PUD and recorded as an amendment to
the PUD ordinance. The following is a summary of the various document and exhibits:
a. Amended PUD (2/13/08 revision)
b. Amended site plan as Exhibit"A" to the Amended PUD(Rev 01-25-08)
c. Amended Bald Eagle Management Plan as Exhibit "B" to Amended PUD (with
footnote #4 updated 2-27-07)
d_ Settlement Agreement as Exhibit"C" to Amended PUD (2-08-08 revision)
i. Original PUD as Exhibit 1 to Settlement Agreement(Ordinance 2000-88)
ii. Amended PUD as Exhibit 2 to Settlement Agreement'(2/13/08 revision)
(which includes the Amended Bald Eagle Management Plan as Exhibit B
(with footnote#4 updated 2-27-07))
iii. Phasing plan of Golf Course as Exhibit 3 to Settlement Agreement (rev 7-
18-07)
iv. Pathways plan as Exhibit 4 to Settlement Agreement (Date: 12-10-07)
2. The on-site bald eagle relocated to a new nest north of the old location, the Settlement
Agreement incorporates a new management plan reflecting the new location and re-
establishes the phasing of the project consistent with the new nest site,
Agenda Item No. 17A
April 22, 2008
Page 6 of 117
3. All references that dealt with docks or alluded to docks are recommended to be struck
from the Settlement Agreement. Since the SDP's, once they reach a tentative state of
approval subject to the terms of the Settlement Agreement, are incorporated as approved
as part of this Agreement, it is recommended that the SDP's likewise remove all
references to docks or dock permitting.
4. The terminology for retaining "passive recreation" on the golf course site,should the golf
course operations cease, were defined and added to the Settlement Agreement. These
uses were listed in the language in the Preserve section of the PUD and referenced in the
Golf Course section.
5. The manner in which height was measured and defined originally in the Settlement
Agreement was inconsistent with the PUD. This was corrected and the height references
in the Settlement Agreement now coincide with the PUD. This project is utilizing two
stories of primarily under building parking and the first habitable floor, as the term
habitable is defined in our Code of Laws,begins above the second deck of parking.
6. There was lengthy discussion concerning the setbacks of the buildings from one another.
The Settlement Agreement relied upon a footnote in the PUD referencing reduced
setbacks based on common architectural theme. There was concern by some members of
• the CCPC that this reliance in the footnote was not adequately disclosed in the original
PUD approval. The development standards table in the. original PUD requires a
._ • separation of one-half the. sum of the building heights with a footnote to that table which
states:
*3 Where buildings with. a CO17i77i017 architectural theme are angled, skewed or
offset from one another and walls are not parallel to one another; the setbacks
can be administratively reduced.
Without such a footnote, the building separation would have been as stated in the
development standards table of the PUD, which is one-half of the total of the height of
each building (200 feet plus 200 feet), or in the case of the first four buildings, a
separation of 200 feet. With this footnote, the tower separations, for the 4 southern most
towers, arc at a minimum 100 feet up to 153 feet. Due to the footnote above, the distance
between the tower portions of the buildings was noted in the Settlement Agreement to be
referenced at not less than l00 feet. However, as a result of the language in the PUD, the
CCPC recommended that reference to building separation he removed from the
Settlement Agreement and the applicants rely upon the interpretation of the PUD with the
understanding that the separations would not be less than those shown on the SDP's
reviewed by the CCPC.
As an alternative.to the reduction in this separation, greater distances could he provided
by moving alternating towers closer to Vanderbilt Drive.
Agenda Item I Va. 17A
April 22, 2008
Paoe 7 of 117
7. One paragraph in the Settlement Agreement addresses the ownership of submerged lands.
This issue had not been fully analyzed by County legal staff and is not necessary to be
included within the Settlement Agreement and is thus recommended for removal.
8. As part of the original Agreement negotiations included moving all density, except two
single family homes, to the west side of Vanderbilt Drive. Since the PUD did not have
development standards for single family homes, standards were provided and are
recommended for approval.
9. The original PUD did not clearly address development standards for structures like a
Clubhouse or Cabanas. Standards for these accessory uses were also provided and are
recommended for approval.
RESPECTFULLY WRITTEN ANI) REVIEWED FOR SUBMISSION BY THE COLLIER COUNTY
PLANNING COMMISSION ON 2-25-08.