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Bayshore Gateway CRA Minutes 07/09/2024 - Draft 1 BAYSHORE / GATEWAY TRIANGLE LOCAL REDEVELOPMENT ADVISORY BOARD COLLIER COUNTY COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY (CRA) MINUTES OF THE JULY 9TH, 2024 MEETING. Hybrid Virtual Zoom Regular Meeting 4870 Bayshore Drive FGCU Buehler Auditorium I. Metting Called to Order The meeting of the Bayshore/Gateway Triangle Local Redevelopment Advisory Board (CRA) was called to order by Chairwomen, Karen Beatty at 6:00 PM and then suspended until James Talano arrived at 6:20 P.M. when the meeting was called to order once again. II. Roll Call Advisory Board members with excuse of absence are the following: a) Sam Saad b) Steve Rigsbee. Advisory Board members present are the following: a) Karen Beatty (Chairwoman) b) James Talano (Advisory Board) c) Kristin Hood (Advisory Board) d) Al Schantzen (Advisory Board) e) John Dunnuck (CRA Director) f) Christie Betancourt (CRA Assistant Director) g) Michael Sherman (Advisory Board – Web Connected) h) Maurice Gutierrez (Advisory Committee) Also present: i) Shirley Garcia (Project Manager) j) Tammy Scott (Project Manager) III. Invocation & Pledge of Alliance IV. Introduction of the New Assistance CRA Director Christie Betancourt. V. Adoption of Agenda Al Schantzen made the motion to adopt the agenda that was second by Maurice Gutierrez. Approved Unanimously. 2 VI. Public To be Heard (Non-Agenda Items) Brett Gerke complained about the situation created by a developer in his neighborhood who’s apparently building a two -story building complex that now seems to be a four-story building located near his home on 3015 Connecticut Avenue, Naples. He has been living there for 35 years concerned that people from the development are looking down on his home and when his wife arrives at home there is a lot of noise from the project that doesn’t allow her to sleep because she works a third shift. Neighbors are thinking of selling their properties because of this development. He presented some photos to be analyzed by the board of what the developer is doing at the present time. Mr. Gerke provided pictures to Shirley Garcia about his complaints. Kristin Hood stated that the development that Mr. Gerke is referring to next to his house was a project that she has brought up multiple times because they felt closer to the existing homes than they did between their own properties. We have a fiduciary responsibility, not to displace people from their homes. The developer didn’t have to get a Public Hearing because it was exceptions granted by the CRA for this planning because the neighborhood / zoning is so old. John Dunnuck proposed finding out the gaps concerning this specific project having the facts that are creating issues and if a change in the building code is required. David Warner that lives on 1310 Tamiami Trail in Naples, asked for a time frame to resolve these issues, but he was only assured that the CRA will look at the facts concerning the project. VII. Approval of Consent Agenda a) June 4, Meeting Minutes b) Financials Al Schantzen made the motion to adopt the agenda as it was written that was second by Kristin Hood. Approved Unanimously. VIII. Community and Staff Presentations a) Public Safety Report by Sheriff’s Office There was no report by the Sheriff’s Office. b) Connecticut / Shadowlawn Development – Mike Whalen (Not Present) Attachment 2. Gabriel Mejia came to the meeting on behalf of Mike Whalen and explained details of the project for two buildings with four units and their amenities. Kristin Hood was worried about the trees being a buffer to the public that Gabriel stated that would be twelve feet high. The developer doesn’t have a date for the Planning Commission yet after Tammi Scott inquired about it. Al Schantzen made some comments to Gabriel Mejia concerning the enhancing of the buffer to get a density bonus of the property. Al also stated clearly that he doesn’t support the density bonus for these units until the board receives additional information from the developer concerning noise buffering, pickleball courses and mitigation of landscaping. Shirley Garcia made comments to 3 Gabriel Mejia that the board needs more information from the owner about complying with all the information required from them to address all concerns from the county. Maurice Guttierrez inquired about sidewalks and underground parking confirming that is a 3-story building. Laura DeJohn from Johnson Engineering stated that there are defined criteria for decisions to be made about a limited density, bonus, allocation, and in making any guidance, or advice to the applicant, by using the criteria as your guide support recommendations. c) 3010 Tamiami Trail E (Attachment 3) Item 10, Page 4 of 15 / PL20220006931 Brandon Crawford representing Famous engineering - Is the second time presenting this project including some modifications with the board last recommendations. Commercial Suite with approximately 2250 square feet on top of the existing real estate office that's already on site that's about 2500 sf. We are reducing those units from three bedrooms to two bedrooms, which will allow eight presidential units of two bedrooms and parking of 22 spaces required and we're providing 23. Going to maintain rooftop amenities including a pool and sun deck. We reduce the commercial square footage by about 1200 square feet. We'll be providing the county required buffering, which is a 20-foot, type D up front, adjacent to 41 and adjacent to Residential to the East is a 10-foot type B with a wall; to the South a 10-foot type B with a wall and to the Southwest, it's a 10-foot type A, which is the commercial requirement. Density requested of 12 units per acre. Dawn Paul, owner of the property and developer complained about constant homeless people around the rebuilt real state office building (Old Pizza Hut building) after invested more than $1.2 million dollars and $500,000 in renovations and scrutiny from Collier County building codes. Kristin Hood explained the problems developing old neighborhoods concerning the building code and all commercial areas have a new code already in place. The biggest concern was parking, and that problem has been resolved by the developer. Maurice Gutierrez made a final statement “I think, sometimes from the Public's view, we either are not diligent enough or too diligent and we really sit here. We're sitting but we walk a fine line. I thank you for your revisions. I feel it's within scope. It's not intrusive to adjacent neighborhoods and I think that's something that's very important. As we just saw in the previous presentation, about the impacts going to have to the community meaning existing homeowners.” Maurice Gutierrez made a motion to approve the project and it was second by Karen Beatty. The motion was unanimously approved. d) Development Report by Laura DeJohn, Johnson Engineering (Attachment 4) Monthly updates on any activities that have happened with development applications at the Collier growth management office. A. 2695 Francis Ave (LDBP): PL20240007240, attachment 4th, Page 1 of 15. B. 3164 Davis Blvd (APR): PL20240005958, attachment 4th, Page 1 of 15. C. Shadley Property (ZTLR): PL20240007872, attachment 4th, Page 4 of 15. D. Naples Hotel (SDP): PL20240007366, attachment 4th, Page 5 of 15. E. Shadley Property (SDP): PL20240006510, attachment 4th, Page 5 of 15. 4 F. 2947 Peters Ave (SDP): PL20240006717, attachment 4th, Page 6 of 15. G. Huey Magoos (SDP): PL202300116299, attachment 4th, Page 6 of 15. H. Linwood Shop (SDP): PL20230015697, attachment 4th, Page 7 of 15. I. Snappy Car Wash (DR): PL20240003066, attachment 4th, Page 7 of 15. J. Shadowlawn Drive Multi-Family Development (SDP), attachment 4th, Page 8 of 15. K. WSA Bayshore Hotel (SDP): PL20200001971, attachment 4th, Page 9 of 15. L. 3010 Tamiami Trail (APR): PL20240003118, attachment 4th, Page 10 of 15. Note: Projects highlighted in red color don’t have any activity. IX. Old Business None. X. New Business a) Bonnie Hawley Advisory Board Application (Attachment 5) Maurice Gutierrez made a motion to approve Bonnie’s application and it was second by Kristin Hood. The motion was unanimously approved. XI. Advisory Board and General Communications a) Code Enforcement (Attachment 6) John Johnson, Collier County Code Enforcement and currently Interim Supervisor stated: “My district is East Naples in the Bayshore area all the way to Naples Sandpiper Bay to the edge of the city that runs along 41 and Chaparoski beach. Individual case calls need to go through our CRA group and by texting 311 that will come to the customer service group. Domestic Animal Services for Collier County also merged with the CRA.” I received a complaint from the Botanical Gardens to Eastman, each property is responsible for maintaining 10 foot from the fence to their backyard, and must have nothing in it, but apparently some people have sheds back there and other things. Homeowners are responsible for identifying the guy at the end of their property and get that end opened because the water is supposed to flow in that direction. That's the plumbing system and we're having a problem up on the Bayshore with flooding because of storm water. Over the years there are now property rights that are vested and can be a challenge that blocks the storm water path to the flow rate. But this 10-foot piece behind each one of these properties is a six-inch square. They call it a shallow sweater, that doesn't carry much water. 5 b) Public Comments David Warner was concerned about variants of 10-feet X 120 feet protruding into elementary 50 docks. Shirley Garcia stated that the application was not completed so there are no worries about this project for now. All the homes including 2998 that was owned by Kate Riley at the time pitched in all the property and fought it. Now they're down to 15 parallel docks because they were extending the Navajo walkway, and it was not allowed. Shirley has the planning and then also she is going to email them to keep her updated so the planner will automatically email her when they have newer information. c) Correspondence We have 311 that we would like to see it email it to the distribution list. So, we might have any comments about that or questions. d) CRA Staff i. Joint Workshop Presentation Discussion John Dunnick - CRA Director, mentioned that he is pushing forward the meeting on July 23rd and the workshop will begin at 9:00 AM. We will be the first item of the day. There will be a few representatives up at the front table, the rest of the committee. We had 23 on the list that had committed between the Immokalee board and the Bayshore advisory board. It’s been two years since we've had this workshop with the board. We're going to go over some of the financials, but time is not our friend right now. Five years is not a long time to work off a sunset of the amount of projects we want to do and accomplish and we're not going to have all the answers in two weeks, but we're going to have what I consider a path forward to get to the answers for the fall, for this board to actually be making recommendations getting into the board of County Commissioners and moving forward. In the future, we want to stay focused on other things that are important for this community and things along those lines. I think it's good for the commission to hear it because it's been a while, and we'll get through all that going with the plan for five to seven years. We were setting our priorities and narrowing them down. I'll email to you the stormwater project PowerPoint slide and it needs to be cleaned up a little bit, but it's actually very good. The opportunity of bough some land in the Triangle for the storm water towards the bigger expansion of the pond is a big major project, and we can get it done. We must figure out if it was worth it or not and if we need to buy more land. I can tell you those two Parcels right now aren't enough to do anything really, and if we have some Land Development code challenges that we need to address, I think that it is a full plate for five years. 6 i. Christmas Decorations Update John Dunnick - They tried to get the lowest bid and try to put it out there, we're up in the 35-mile range just to do the events. That's not including replacing the existing decorations every five years and it's perpetual. If I do the numbers which I haven't done, I guarantee you, it's over $200,000 because we are having performance problems now. People come making a contract and then at the last minute they blow the candle out. That consumed both the vending process and the selection process. And that's where everybody starts. As partner of the town garden and now there may be other arrangements that can be made, that kind of streamline does a little bit better. But, you know, we're not there yet. The max budget that we had for Christmas is $50,000, that's based on what we spent last year; $26,000 for base structures and regulations. So, this year, it should be much less than $50,000. It should be maybe the cost of the installation. But we still want it to be good, showing on Bayshore because I think there's just great opportunities to bring the community together. I mean, you have these kind of events and People to bring people in and that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to have people walking on seeing our restaurants and seeing what has happened in the community, creating a good vibe and you know that that's how you can attract developers; it's an opportunity to see what's going on. Shirley Garcia commented that it's helpful for the kids in the community that are underserved. I mean, we have a lot of that in this community, they're walking, their parents don't drive, or they don't have vehicles in their house to visit various places. It really does help them get over some of the traumatic issues when they come home and they don't have Christmas decorations on their own house, it's nice for them to come through the neighborhood and see that we have at least decorated so that they have something when they're walking. ii. Projects Report (Attachment 7) Tammy, Scott project manager – I 'll start with 17 Acres. I'm happy to announce that we are going out to bid with our Boardwalk project on either Friday or Monday. So that's a huge milestone. The bids will be due back on August 29th. In the in the middle of that, we'll have what's called a pre-bid meeting. Contractors will come to the procurement office with a list of questions and answers once they go through the drawings. So, it's a 30-day process. Collier County requires you to pick the lowest bidder as you know. We do have a lot of “alternates” as part of this bid. And that will be our opportunity to look at finishes and materials. And we'll bring that back to this board to make those decisions. When we started this about a year ago, the opinion across was 2.7 the opinion of cost which is our requirement when we submitted for the procurement is at 3.3. We have the money in place, we have 3.7 so there's a $400,000, but we built into this this contract at alternates so that we can value engineering if we need to. Does not include any parking. You know, at one point in time, there was a discussion about adding some surface parking one on the deeper slot, an area on the deeper slot and then one Closer to that building. We did get a proposal from Stantec who part of their initial proposal was now. It's not a requirement of the site development plan but it was a request from the board. The fees for that were around $150,000 to build those two are around $500,000 each. Unfortunately, we can't just throw across Stone on the um, on the lot. We must build it like a parking lot, same as those CRA parking, lots to that point. 7 And then, it does have to go back to the board for their approval to select that contractor based on cost and then Aesthetics and maintenance. e) Advisory Board i. Shadowlawn Corridor Presentation by Kristin Hood (Attachment 8) Kristin Hood - So this is regarding connectivity and aligning all our different projects and really getting the grasp of all that we're doing within the district. A lot of our projects have been people to be one thing and not communicate to the rest of what we're doing. For the ascent building that's been created in Bayshore or in the mini triangle there's been no discussion about connecting the triangle with Bayshore, having them communicate in any way. They're both treated very separately and Shadowlawn and the Gateway triangle needs to be a part of the vision. We're connecting a boardwalk right now to Sugden, which is not in the district but we're not looking at how we can connect our own District. The triangle is called the “Gateway triangle.” Shadowlawn has been overlooked as far as walkability. The light at Shadowlawn and Bayshore you sit at it forever and even when you do finally get to cross over, you're competing against the people taking left off Bayshore. To be able to cross the street, we don't even have a designated light time to be able to cross. I think that we need to have some sort of amenities that could be built into the infrastructure having a safer feel for the neighborhood. Those big buildings that are going in the mini triangle need something to be able to connect those people without adding more vehicles. We can't look at just sidewalks here and just storm water on the other side. We need to find a way that all communicates together enhancing the vision of what we're trying to do. I think if we gave developers a vision of what we want to do with Dell's corner, we can sell that property but without any sort of vision we want to have this corner as designated public realm then it's a free for all. I think that we can offer businesses opportunities to Market, even on our existing light poles, we could sell those spots and offer advertising to create Revenue to put towards. If we really wanted to spend more on Christmas lights, then we could sell some of those light pole spots or rent them for the month of December. We should look at what we're going to do overall so that it all flows together and it all feels like it's cohesive because right now Shadowlawn is a two-lane road and we have a lot of stuff happening there. XII. Next Meeting October 1, 2024 @ 6:00 P.M. XIII. Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 8:58 P.M.