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DSAC Minutes 02/05/2025 1 MINUTES OF THE COLLIER COUNTY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING Naples, Florida February 05, 2025 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 Vice Chairman: Blair Foley Clay Booker James Boughton Jeffrey Curl Laura Spurgeon DeJohn John English Marco Espinar Norm Gentry Nicholas Kouloheras Mark McLean Chris Mitchell Robert Mulhere Hannah Roberts – AHAC – Non-Voting Jeremy Sterk Mario Valle The following County staff were in attendance Mike Bosi – Director, Zoning Division Christopher Mason – Director, Community Planning & Resiliency Division, GMCD Jaime Cook – Director, Development Review Division, GMCD (Excused) Michael Stark – Director, Operations & Regulatory Management Division, GMCD John McCormick – Director, Building Review & Permitting Division, GMCD Michael Cruz – Captain, Collier County Fire Review Bryan Horbal – Captain, North Collier Fire Review Thomas Iandimarino – Director, Code Enforcement, GMCD Claudia Vargas – Project Manager I, Engineering & Project Management, PUD Mark Sawyer – Project Manager II, Transportation Planning – Transportation Engineering Heather Yilmaz – Management Analyst, Staff Liaison - GMCD 2 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, 5th February 2025 2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA Motion made to approve and seconded Agenda approved unanimously 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES a. DSAC Utility Subcommittee: October 29, 2024 b. DSAC Utility Subcommittee: November 18, 2024 c. DSAC: December 04, 2024 Motion made to approve Meeting Minutes and seconded Minutes approved unanimously 4. SELECTION OF COMMITTEE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR There was a motion to re-elect William Varian as Chairman Motion was seconded Motion passed There was a motion to re-elect Blair Foley as Vice Chair Motion was seconded Motion passed 5. PUBLIC SPEAKERS None 6. STAFF ANNOUNCEMENTS a. Zoning Division – [Mike Bosi, Director] • We discussed last week interviewing for a plaintiff reposition to offer a position. Still haven't been able to hire a planning comp planning manager. It's just been difficult. We continue to do what we can from a land entitlement standpoint. • We really haven't dropped off much. And I think what you're gonna hear when Mr. Stark comes up, talk about a little bit of the trailing off the, the trends within our building permits. • In terms of entitlement, we haven't seen a real decrease within the request. I'm still taking a number of growth management plan PD amendments for related to affordable housing projects. We keep adding at least modestly to the, to the supply. The rest of the entitlements continue on pretty strong. 3 • We've got a pretty busy February and March from the Planning Commission and Board of County Commissioners. We get a little slow down in summertime in terms of when we're allowed to take land lease petitions. Clay Booker Have you heard anything about Senate Bill 250 being extended? Mike Bosi Right now, it's till October 1st, 2026, and we wouldn't be surprised if the legislator takes another crack and sends it for another year or two. I have heard there's been some discussion with Senator PA about potentially having the legislator weigh in on whether they believe PD should be eligible for the local and that would be something that would have an effect upon the County. So much of our zoning, so much of our commercial and industrial land is within the PD. So that's another thing we'll be paying attention to from the legislation. b. Community Planning & Resiliency Division – [Christopher Mason, Director] • We are working on a number of studies. We also have our CRS commitment for our tri-annual verification visit which is part of our FEMA commitment to reduce flood insurance premiums. The Coastal Storm Risk Management Feasibility Study has been paused. Mark McLean There are 2 companies that are installing floodgates without insurance or permits. Christopher Mason There has been dry flood proofing done, not tiger dams. This is only allowed for commercial buildings. c. Economic Development & Housing Division – [Cormac Giblin, Director] • The Board approved 90 more new additional affordable housing units as part of a development called the Tammy Mutual Greenway PUD. That brings our total fiscal year to date of approval is up to 420. And on the economic development, job creation front, this fiscal year to date, we've created 70 new high wage paying targeted industry jobs. • The Board last week approved a new agreement with a Company called Arbor X for 14 more new additional jobs that'll be created over the next four years. d. Development Review Division – [Jaime Cook, Director] Excused No Report e. Operations & Regulatory Mgmt. Division – [Michael Stark, Director] • We received 4,143 permit applications • 84 of the permits were related to Hurricane Helene • 50 of these were from Hurricane Milton 4 • Average turnaround time for the intake staff remains at one day • Zoning front desk team processed 936 survey conditions • 13 short term vacation rentals • 46 right of way renewals and hosted 37 pre-application meetings. • We welcomed 1,367 customers to our business center and satellite offices • The staff answered 6,075 calls, up from about 4,000 • There are 341 positions department wide and 56 open positions • Our recruitment search is widespread, but it is a struggle to fill positions f. Building Review & Permitting Division – [John McCormick, Director] • 800 to 1000 inspections per day • 5,000 permits a month • There is substantial fraud happening from a stolen or misapplied digital seal issued to Gene Cravillion. The password to access his account has affected about 400 permits issued to architects, builders, designers in all types of buildings. It has been fraudulent since August 2022 • As a Director, it’s my responsibility to keep this from happening again • We are down 5 structural reviewers, and our pay scale is way under what candidates are expecting • There is also turnover of employees that we use part time, and the turnover of temporary employees averages about 200% g. Collier County Fire Review – [Michael Cruz, Captain] • Active is going well at the end of that calendar year. We had a good year as a calendar year. I think productivity projects going out and so forth like that. Inspections are still on a two-day turnaround time for new construction. It's very active in our district. We hired two INS in the past 2 months, kind of like the of opposite what you've been hearing. • They're working through the training process and this year we're probably looking at possibly hiring another two. We're gonna keep on broadening our base to meet the expectations of the contractors and to the public for the existing side. h. North Collier Fire Review – [Bryan Horbal, Captain] • Inspections for December • 481 for building reviews for new construction • We had a four-day turnaround on permits • Planning reviews, a total of 46 with a two-day turnaround with a total of 1,216 new construction inspections. • January was super busy 588 new construction reviews, building plans, reviews • That was a four-day turnaround • Planning reviews were 55 for the month and about a day and a half, two-day turnaround • We had 1,408 new construction inspections for January 5 • A couple announcements. Chief Lynch was promoted to assistant chief. Sean is now the assistant chief of life safety and we'll be looking to fill the fire marshal role in his vacancy. Hopefully promoting somebody within. • We have hired two new plan reviewers for a total of 7. • We are looking to hire two more fire inspectors in the next budget year with growth and people retiring. • We've got some retirees coming up probably in the next three or four years. • Ritz residence is going strong on the corner of Vanderbilt as you can all see the new Publix off Oil Well is going well. • And Kalea Bay Tower five is cranking now too. Two inspectors but they're looking at maybe four for next budget • We don't have the same struggles because they're not looking at fire stuff, but they are looking at firewalls and fire barriers. • We assist the County when it is a proper provider and have a lot of communication with the County inspector. i. Code Enforcement Division – [Thomas Iandimarino, Director] • Mr. French announced that the park rangers were coming over to work for code enforcement. We've inherited the park rangers and the enforcement of parking citations • There is a QR code that is easy to use for paying for parking at Vanderbilt • For the milestone inspections, once the building official turns those over to us, we open up a code case • We send them a notice of violation to send to anybody else in code • They get 30 days to comply • If they fail to comply, we send them to assign them a hearing • For Special Magistrate, we already have special magistrate days set aside for those hearings if we need them. It wouldn't take place on the regular office of special management hearing, which is the first Friday. • We have other days throughout the year that we've had scheduled for other things in case we needed to use them. So, we would assign all of those at one time. j. Public Utilities Engineering & Project Management Division – [Claudia Vargas, Project Manager] • The documents presented at the utility subcommittee meeting were from the 2018 version and that did not include the updates approved by the board in 2021. As we bring the utility standard manual to the Board, it will incorporate the 2021 changes. It did not affect any of the changes that were presented at the utility subcommittee. k. Transportation Management Services, Engineering Division – [Mark Sawyer, Project Manager II] • A few status updates for you this afternoon. As far as our access management changes, we introduced this a few months ago with you. We met with the traffic engineers on October 4th and then again on November 13th. We went through the 6 preliminary updates and our findings and how that those adopting the FDOT standards were going to impact our access management. • We came back on the 13th addressing their concerns. We are now anticipating having the final draft ready to go out next week for them. And that's gonna have all the changes in the edits for all the team members that attended those meetings. We anticipate going to the BCC on April 8th with the final documents. • Next item is the Golden Gate Parkway study. The corridor study that is from Livingston to I 75. We are going to be having an open house information format public meeting on April 10th at the Golden Gate Community Center that'll be going out to the community. • And then finally a good news item. We were able to get the 2024 A OIR approved by the board on January 28th. We normally get that done in December. Blair Foley Can we get a copy of that final report for the access management recommendations. Mike Sawyer It will go out to you when it goes out to the industry. 7. NEW BUSINESS None 8. OLD BUSINESS None 9. COMMITTEE MEMBER COMMENTS Chairman Varian Our next meeting will be held at the North Collier Regional Park. 10. ADJOURN There being no further business for the good of the County, the meeting was adjourned at 4:02 p.m. Attendance Roster — Date:Februar 05 2025 Development Services Advisory Committee "Must have (8) members for a quorum** James Boughton: NormatGentrV: f � V � Clay Brooker: Mark McLean- ` Jeffrey Curl,: Chri Mitchell:.._ Laura Spurgeon DeJohn: Robert Mulhere: F Nicholas Kouloheras: Jeremy Sterk: John English: Mario Valle: Marco EsOi a William Varian: w y Blair Fu1. v: I Ili Hannah Rob, rts: Page 240 of 967 Attendance Roster — Date: February 0% 2025 Development Services Advisory Committee Staff Members James French Department Head, GMCDD Michael Bosi Director, Planning & Zoning Christopher Mason Director, Community Planning & Resiliency Cormac Giblin Director, Housing Policy and Economic Development Jaime Cook Director, Development Review Michael Stark Director, Operation & Regulatory Support John McCormick Director, Building Review & Permitting Thomas landirmarino Director, Code Enforcement Matt McLean or designee Director, Public Utilities Jay Ahmad or designee Director, Transportation Engineering Diane Lynch, Management Analyst II Staff Liaison, Operations & Regulatory Management Heather Cartwright-Yilmaz, Management Analyst I Staff Liaison, Operations & Regulatory Management James French Michael Bosi Christopher Mason Cormac Giblin Absent Michael Stark John McCormick Thomas Iandirmarino Claudia Vargas; Anthony Stolts, Drew Cody; Stephen Sarabia a k Y i Not Present Heather Cartwright-Yilmaz Other County Staff Presenting NOT lusted above Name Signature Rey Torres Fuentes, Not Present Budget Analyst I, GMCD Attendance Roster -- Date: February 05, 2025 Development Services Advisory Committee Public Sign -in Sheet Page 242 of 967 Collier County Government Communications, Government & Public Affairs 3299 Tamiami Trail E., Suite 102 Naples, Florida 34112-5746 January 16, 2025 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Notice of Public Meeting Development Services Advisory Committee Collier County, Florida February 05, 2025 3:00 p.m. Notice is hereby given that the Collier County Development Services Advisory Committee will meet on Wednesday, February 05, 2025, at 3:00 p.m. in Conference Room 609/610 of the Growth Management Community Development Department building, 2800 N. Horseshoe Drive, Naples, Florida. Individuals who would like to participate in person must complete and submit a speaker form prior to the beginning of the discussion about the item. About the public meeting: Two or more members of the Board of County Commissioners may be present and may participate at the meeting. The subject matter of this meeting may be an item for discussion and action at a future Board of County Commissioners meeting. All interested parties are invited to attend and to register to speak. All registered public speakers will be limited to three minutes unless changed by the chairman. Collier County Ordinance No. 2004-05 requires that all lobbyists shall, before engaging in any lobbying activities (including, but not limited to, addressing the Board of County Commissioners, an advisory board or quasi-judicial board), register with the Clerk to the Board at the Board Minutes and Records Department. Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication, or other reasonable accommodations in order to participate in this proceeding, should contact the Collier County Facilities Management Division, located at 3335 Tamiami Trail E., Suite 101, Naples, Florida 34112, or (239) 252- 8380 as soon as possible, but no later than 48 hours before the scheduled event. Such reasonable accommodations will be provided at no cost to the individual. For more information, call Heather Cartwright-Yilmaz at (239) 252-8369. E' UM Page 243 of 967