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DSAC Minutes 12/04/2024MINUTES OF THE COLLIER COUNTY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING Naples, Florida December 04, 2024 LET IT BE REMEMBERED, the Collier County Development Services Advisory Committee Meeting and Collier County, having conducted business herein, met on this date at 3:00 PM in REGULAR SESSION at the Collier County Growth Management Community Department Building, Conference Room #609/610, 2800 N. Horseshoe Dr., Naples, Florida, 34102 with the following members present: Chairman: William J. Varian ice Chairman Blair Foley Clay Brooker Mark McLean Chris Mitchell Jeffrey Curl Laura Spurgeon DeJohn Marco Espinar Robert Mulhere Mario Valle Hannah Roberts — AHAC — Non -Voting Jeremy Sterk James Boughton David Dunnavant Nicholas Kouloheras John English (Excused) Norm Gentry (Excused) The following County staff were in attendance Mike Bosi —Director, Zoning Division Christopher Mason — Director, Community Planning & Resiliency Division, GMCD Jack McKenna — Manager, Development Review Division, GMCD Michael Stark— Director, Operations & Regulatory Management Division, GMCD Fred Clum— Chief Building Official, Building Review & Permitting Division, GMCD Michael Cruz — Captain, North Collier Fire Review Thomas Iandimarino — Director, Code Enforcement, GMCD Claudia Vargas —Project Manager I, Engineering & Project Management, PUD Jay Ahmad, P.E. — Director, Transportation Engineering Division Stephen Sarabia, P.E. — Project Manager, Engineering & Project Management, PUD Anthony Stolts, P.E. — Supervisor, Engineering & Project Management, PUD Heather Yilmaz — Management Analyst, Staff Liaison - GMCD 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 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 4rh 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, Director] • 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. �� or her contributions. • We've got 1 I 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. • 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. I01h and then I will be out Dec. 11-Jan. 1 for a hip replacement but working from home. b. Community Planning & Resiliency Division — [Christopher Mason, Director] • 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. Economic Development & Housing Division — [Cormac Giblin, Director] No report d. Development Review Division — [Jack McKenna, Manager] • 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, Director] • 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. 3 • 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 — [Fred Clum, Building Official] • John McCormick is out of town. • We did 18,562 inspections in November. g. Collier County Fire Review — [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 designee Linda] • 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. Code Enforcement Division — [Thomas Iandimarino, Director] 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 checking in on your bringing everybody on board with Parks, etc. Thomas Iandiamarino • We're still working through that. By January Ist 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 Engineering &Project Management Division — [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 Engineering Division — [Jay Ahmad, Director] • 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. • 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 Stephen Sarabia, Project Manager, Engineering & Project Management, PUD 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. I do want to wish everybody Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The other item is that our next meeting is January 1 st. I don't think anybody wants to come in. So, the recommendation would be to kick it to February at our normal time. There being no further business for the good of the County, the meeting was adjourned at 3:29 p.m. COLLIER COUNTY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE William Varian, Chairman These minutes were approved by the Committee/Chairman (check one) as submitted or as amended