DSAC Minuites 12/04/2024 Draft December 4, 2024
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COLLIER COUNTY
Growth Management Community Development
DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING
Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024 – 3:00 p.m.
2800 N. Horseshoe Dr., Naples, FL 34104 Room 609/610
William J. Varian (Chairman)
Blair Foley (Vice-Chairman)
Clay Brooker
Mark McLean
Chris Mitchell
Jeffrey Curl
Laura Spurgeon DeJohn
David Dunnavant
Marco Espinar
Robert Mulhere
Mario Valle
Hannah Roberts – AHAC
Jeremy Sterk
James Boughton
The following County staff were in attendance
Christopher Mason – Community Planning & Resiliency, GMCD
Jack McKenna - Development Review, GMCD
Michael Stark, Director, Operations & Regulatory Management, GMCD
Fred Clum - Building Review & Permitting Division, GMCD
Michael Cruz - North Collier Fire Review
Thomas Iandimarino, Director, Code Enforcement, GMCD
Claudia Vargas, Project Manager I, PUD
Jay Ahmad – Transportation Planning, Transportation Management
Mike Bosi – Zoning Division
Steve S_________, Project Manager, Quantic Public Utilities Engineering
Any person who decides to appeal a decision of This Board you will need a record of
the proceedings pertaining thereto, and therefore may need to ensure that a verbatim
record of the proceedings is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence
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upon which the appeal is to be based, Neither Collier County nor This Board shall be
responsible for providing this record.
1. CALL TO ORDER– Chairman
Chairman Varian
Development Service Advisory Committee, Wednesday 4th December 2024
2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
Motion made to approve and seconded
Agenda approved unanimously
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
a. DSAC – Meeting – Nov. 6, 2024
Motion made to approve Nov. 6, 2024, Meeting Minutes and seconded
Minutes approved unanimously
b. DSAC – LDR – Jul. 29, 2024
Mark McLean motioned to approve Jul. 29, 2024, LDR Meeting Minutes
Jeff Curl seconded
Minutes approved unanimously
c. DSAC – LDR – Oct. 15, 2024, LDR Meeting Minutes
Mark McLean motioned to approve Oct. 15, 2024, LDR Meeting Minutes
Jeff Curl seconded
Minutes approved unanimously
Chairman Varian
I would like to welcome Heather, our new liaison.
4. PUBLIC SPEAKERS
None
5. STAFF ANNOUNCEMENTS
a. Zoning Division – Mike Bosi
Mike Bosi
• We have 2 openings on our team. Still trying to find a replacement for Mr. Sabo as
comp. plan manager and another planner 3. Thanks to Ms. Dijon for her
contributions.
• We've got 11 petitions that will be before the BCC between December and the first
meeting in February.
• Over the next two months, we have 8 individual petitions and from the hearing
examiner's perspective there are 11 petitions. The desire for new entitlements is
still growing strong.
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• We're on the verge of getting to the Planning Commission the housing amendments
that were stalled.
• There are other amendments that we will be working on related to past GMP
amendments and implementing the LDR’s right to implement past amendments.
• I will be meeting with the BCC on Dec. 10th and then I will be out Dec. 11-Jan. 1for a
hip replacement but working from home.
b. Community Planning & Resiliency Division – Christopher Mason
Christopher Mason
• Last evening I was at the Bay Shore Triangle CRA meeting and there are folks there
that were interested in talking about flooding and mitigation options for their homes
in certain neighborhoods.
• The state is going to roll out a mitigation program, but we don’t have the details yet.
It will focus on structure, elevation, structure reconstruction and mitigation and or
acquisition or relocation. I think a lot of folks would be looking at elevation.
• Typically, the County would act as the sponsor to work with State or Federal entities
for projects like this. The State is telling us that they will cut out the County as a
sponsor and work directly with homeowners for mitigation projects.
• There have been rumors that there's about $2 billion for projects. There are 67
Counties in Florida and maybe half are going to vie for money and for projects. So,
I'm cautious at the same time when the State says they're going to go it alone,
because that's a lot of work.
• I don't know if they'll break the State down into regions and have different
contractors for different regions.
• We just haven't been apprised of that information yet. But that is on the horizon.
Look for more for that to come in the future.
c. Housing Policy & Economic Development Division – Cormac Giblin
No report
d. Development Review Division – Jaime Cook
Jack McKenna
• Brett has left the County. We're interviewing for that position and will hopefully get
that filled by Christmas.
• We are also interviewing for Inspectors and hope to have all slots filled by the first of
the year.
• Leroy is our primary Utilities Inspector and has been out for medical issues. He'll be
coming back on the 9th on light duty.
• Good to see everybody again. I haven't been here for a long time.
e. Operations & Regulatory Mgmt. Division – Michael Stark
Michael Stark, Division Director
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• The Department received 3,880 permit applications; 81 were related to Hurricane
Ian and 117 were related to Hurricane Milton. Average turnaround time for our
intake staff remains at 1 day.
• Zoning front desk team processed 879 survey conditions, 21 short term vacation
rentals, 47 right away renewals and hosted 17 pre application meetings in
November.
• Kirsten and the supervisors recently implemented a change to the call center
operations by deploying a total of 24 attendant lines versus the four that we had in
place by cross training our call center team to assist customers of the front counter
review and route permits. These individuals are better prepared to answer your
questions as well as decrease dropped calls and coordinate with peers and
supervisors to learn more about business functions.
• We welcomed 1,145 customers to the business center and satellite offices and
staff has answered 4,880 calls in November.
• Our City View technology team led by Jason Badge welcomed our City View
developer Andy on site. He was able to process updates, upgrades and
programming to improve system functionality.
• At present there are 341 department wide positions. As you heard Mike and the rest
of the team talk about, there are 39 positions that are in various stages of the hiring,
10 within Building Review and Inspections and some of those are our Structural
Inspectors.
• Fifteen in Code Enforcement, two in Zoning, five in Development Review and seven
in Operations and Regulatory Management. We welcome Heather Yomez to our
team as well. Ray has taken a new position with us as a Budget Analyst One, so he
got a promotion.
f. Building Review & Permitting Division – John McCormick
Fred Clum, Building Official
John McCormick is out of town.
We did 18,562 inspections in November.
g. Collier County Fire Review – Michael Cruz
Michael Cruz, Captain
Estimated for Fire Revenue Plans month of November, 41% was incumbent by instructor
inspections. We had one investigator, one investigation done and completed for the month
of November when we were requested out. And we had two inspectors start on Monday. So
now we are at 15.
h. North Collier Fire Review – Chief Sean Lintz or designee
Linda_____________
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North Collier Fire Plan Review for the month of November for building fire reviews. We
reviewed 459 plans for an average of 3 days. Planning reviews 47 plans for an average of 6
days.
i. Code Enforcement Division – Thomas Iandimarino
Thomas Iandimarino
• We just foreclosed on a property in Goodland that was in disrepair for many years. It
sold at auction in November, I think on the 21st. It sold for $400,100.00 and the
County bid up to the lien amount of $258,000.00 and change.
• This is highly unusual to go all the way to foreclosure because in my experience, the
County will work with the Homeowner.
Chairman Varian
I’m check on your bringing everybody on board with Parks, etc.
Thomas Iandiamarino
• We're still working through that. By January 1st is the intent to have that all
happening.
• I’ve been riding with Park Rangers to get out and speak with them. I've got my
supervisors riding along as well.
• A handful of Park Rangers were Code Officers before. There's a lot of cross training
that's already in place.
• We need to rewrite a couple PDs to reclass them and put them where we need
them.
j. Public Utilities Department – Matt McLean or designee
Claudia Vargas, Project Manager
I have no news regarding our charts. We are going to bring the utility standard menu up. It's
listed as its own separate item in the agenda.
k. Transportation Management Services
Transportation Engineering Division – Jay Ahmad or designee
Jay Ahmad
• I will be talking to you about reorganization. With the departure of Beth Johnson who
had the Division of Capital Project Planning and impact fees and stormwater.
• I will be managing the stormwater section, transportation, the coastal zone, the
beaches, transportation planning and the sea turtles. Pollution control will be
moving to Road Maintenance.
• They do have quite a bit of projects in stormwater, some of them in Royal Poinciana
Country Club in Naples, Brookside, Lake Trafford. We'll be updating you on some of
these projects in the future. Coastal Zone is doing planting of the dunes, and
Hurricane recovery.
• Park Shore will be renourished early January.
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• Lorraine updates you frequently on Transportation Planning Projects and I will be
teaming up with Her as She will be in my department.
• She has the Wilson Study on Golden Gate Parkway options for an overpass,
possibly Livingston over Golden Gate Parkway similar to Airport and Golden Gate.
• I still have Traffic Operations Design Project, Capital Design Projects and also the
Construction Management.
James Boughton
The Perry Hotel on 41 by The Choctawhatchee. Is there any plan for that Inlet.
It's very, very shallow and I believe there are some docks right there being installed as part
of that project.
Jay Ahmad
I will find out.
6. NEW BUSINESS
a. Recommended Updates: Utilities Standards Manual
Steve S_________, Project Manager, Quantic Public Utilities Engineering
Our team has been working on updating the Utility Standards Manual. We met with the
Subcommittee on October 29th and again on November 18th. We're seeking the support,
recommendation and approval from this Committee to have one presenting to Board,
County Commissioners in January.
During our Subcommittee meeting on November 18, there were a few changes that were
mutually agreed upon and we have amended those, and they were provided in the packet
for this meeting. They are pages, 118 to 128.
Our team and Consultant would like to thank the Subcommittee for their time and
supporting our efforts. David Schmidt from Bowman Engineering is here to answer any
questions.
Blair Foley
Made the recommendation for approval as the package is presented today to the Board of
County Commissioners.
Mario Valle seconded
Motion passed unanimously
7. OLD BUSINESS
None
8. COMMITTEE MEMBER COMMENTS
Chairman Varian
David, I'd like to thank you for your time and service here on DSAC. We’ll miss you.
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I do want to wish everybody Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The other item is that
our next meeting is January 1st. I don't think anybody wants to come in. So, the
recommendation would be to kick it to February at our normal time.
9. ADJOURN
There being no further business for the good of The County, the Development Services
Advisory Committee Hearing was adjourned at 3:29 p.m.
Collier County Development Services Advisory Committee
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Chairman William Varian
The Minutes were approved by
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