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DSAC Minutes 03/05/2025MINUTES OF THE COLLIER COUNTY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING Naples, Florida March 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 North Collier Regional Park, Administration Building, Exhibit Hall, 15000 Livingston Rd., Naples, FL 34109 with the following members present: Chairman: William J. Varian Vice Chairman: Blair Foley Clay Booker (Excused) James Boughton Jeffrey Curl Laura Spurgeon DeJohn John English Marco Espinar(Excused) Norm Gentry (Excused) Nicholas ICouloheras Marls 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 (Excused) Cormac Giblin — Housing Policy & Economic Development Division Jaime Cook — Director, Development Review Division, GMCD Michael Stark — Director, Operations & Regulatory Management Division, GMCD Stephani Abreau —Manager, Human Resources, GMCD John McCormick P.E. — Director, Building Review & Permitting Division, GMCD Michael Cruz — Captain, Collier County Fire Review (Excused) Bryan Horbal — 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, GMD 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. I. CALL TO ORDER— Chairman Chairman Varian Development Service Advisory Committee, Wednesday, 5th March 2025 2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA Blair Foley motioned to approve Mario Valle seconded Motion passed unanimously 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES a. DSAC Feb. 5, 2025 Robert Mulhere motioned to approve Meeting Minutes John English seconded Minutes approved unanimously 4. PUBLIC SPEAKERS None 5. STAFF ANNOUNCEMENTS a. Zoning Division — [Mike Bosi, Director] Mike Bosi • There were some opportunities within our CCPC and HECS schedule for our petitions. Those are starting to fill up our BCC. • We're still maintaining 2-44 individual land use petitions almost every BCC meeting. • From an entitlement standpoint we are moving along. • We will be taking the affordable housing LDC amendments as well as the amendments that will implement the Immokalee area master plan to the planning commission tomorrow. Two items will be heard at 5:05. • The planning commission starts at 3:00. • A number of the GMP amendments that we've recently had combos with our affordable housing projects will no longer be necessary because the private development couldn't wait for the LDC amendments in the chart within our 2 0 6 0 3 of our LDC to be updated related to the affordable housing density bonuses so they were submitting GMP. amendments to get to where they could have gone if the LDC was pushed through. • The BCC approved the AUIR on Jan. 28th but directed the County Manager to coordinate another AUIR workshop. • The amount of capital we've projected to maintain our levels of service from a category A facility is $500M and on B $300M. That's $850M short of what you need to maintain your levels of service. b. Community Planning & Resiliency Division - (Christopher Mason] No report b. Housing Policy &Economic Development Division - (Cormac Giblin] Cormac Giblin To date the Board has created 420 new affordable housing units Fiscal year to date created 70 new high paying jobs d. Development Review Division - (Jaime Cook] Jaime Cook • Brett has left as our engineering planning manager. Joss was promoted as his replacement. • Questions about ICP's and the like, please copy Lisa and I. • If you are going to be phasing utilities as part of the CPP, please include how you're phasing that out. • Sun and Fun opens this weekend. The slides and the diving boards work. Lisa and I were out there this afternoon testing them out. Hopefully after this weekend I will slowly leave parks and be back full-time in development. e. Operations &Regulatory Management Division -[Michael Stark] Michael Stark • In February the department received 4,313 permit applications. • We welcomed 1,174 customers to the business center and satellite offices. • Staff answered 5,719 phone calls • 91 of the permits were related to Hurricane Ian with an additional 36 from Hurricane Milton. • Average turnaround time for intake staff, which includes verified submittals and generating default reviews and inspections remains at one day. • Zoning front desk team resolves 848 survey conditions, processed 49 short term vacation rentals, 67 right of way renewals and hosted 28 pre -application meetings in February. • For those of you who have experienced the pre -application process, we want to take a look at the enhancements we've been working on, including scheduling them timely, correct stakeholders and are present. • And then we answer your questions promptly to ensure that we achieve the goal of submitting building permit applications that are going to route through the system quickly, accurately, complete and in compliance with our regulations. • Recent pre-apps include planning for child-care center, education center, gym, spa cafe. • Our fleet maintenance facility is looking for an expansion as well. Cat bus location and also residential and commercial mixed use. • Our goal again is to seamlessly route permits through the review process to support improving homes for families, fostering new businesses, creating jobs, supporting public safety, encouraging tourism, and protecting natural resources while promoting a resilient local economy. • Currently there are 341 department -wide positions. • As you know, we've taken on parks and recreation as well as domestic animal services. • 10 building review and inspection. • 12 in code enforcement, that's for animal control officers. • 4 in zoning. • 5 in development review. • 9 in operations of regulatory management. • 10 positions within domestic animal services. • For those of you who have met and (mown Cheryl Soder, her retirement is effective now. • She was instrumental over the last two years with helping us to align the fire fees and the air locals for all of them. • I'd like to introduce Stephanie Abreu, our HR manager. She'll run through some of the different items that we have as well what is in the hiring pipeline. Stephani Abreau, HR Manager GMCD • We are planning a recruiting event the first week of April. It'll be on -site at GMD and our main focus is to attract folks from the trade industry, give them a bit more visibility in terms of what our building team does and really bringing in the whole department to give more of an on-the-job testimony or some experience if we're looking at ride along opportunities. • We will try to fill some of the positions and just help bolster the team • On the retention front, we're looking to both our culture at the building and then some of our benefits to improve both the retention of the folks we currently have and to add on to our recruiting efforts. • This Friday's Employee Appreciation Day and we are planning some fun events. • We're looking for different ways to both recognize our employees and give them back what we can in the most appropriate way. Blair Foley I've noticed some sufficiency reviews that have come back because of a dollar rounding issue. I think the process needs to be reviewed. Michael Stark We definitely want to bring Kirsten and John in on that so we can make sure we plug those holes because you're right, it's not just about the numbers, it's about the quality of the review as it goes through the process. f. Building Review & Permitting Director - [John McCormick] John McCormick • We have an open position for plumbing chief • I'm concerned about the quality of product we put out because of our personnel shortage Blair Foley Do you have an update on the stolen license issue. John McCormick • We're trying to wrap our arms around this and we're working with the County Manager's Office to determine the best way to handle it. • We know at some point we'll have to alert the public about going back to all those that have been CO'd and what to do about it. • I'm also concerned about going forward because we will put into our city view an attribute that we can track the design professional. We don't have that and it's a huge problem. • We have like 200,000 permits we have to go through by hand. • We may try to put something on the website. Chairman Varian We don't have to put the permit application anymore, right? We still have to put the revision form in if we are doing a revision. Is that something you guys are looking at possibly eliminating too. John McCormick Yes, I'm committed to streamlining the process. Chairman Varian I sent a revision for an electrical riser on a lot with a septic system and it had to go through the Health Department. John McCormick I'm obligated by the, by the building code to fence all my time and expense of what it takes to do a review and inspection. The fees have to balance that. That's how I do things. Chairman Varian I think Fred's working on this, but we went for an HVAC inspection and an engineering letter regarding sufficient truss support wasn't acceptable. They want a revision. John McCormick I would like to reduce the number of revisions and an engineer's letter makes more sense. Mario Valle Some of the responses from the review staff haven't been pleasant. John McCormick I agree with you. I've seen the same thing and I'm on the other end. g. Collier County Fire Review — [Michael Cruz, Captain] No Report h. North Collier Fire Review — [Bryan Horbal, Captain] • February, we had 1204 new construction inspections • 588 plan reviews • 65 planning reviews • Our Mobilize software crashed but we're still getting inspections done. If you need a report, just call the office. They are looking at possibly going to something else because this is the 0' time it's crashed, and we have to go back to paper when that happens. • Inspections are still next day and sometimes same day. i. Code Enforcement Division — [Thomas Iandimarino, Director] Thomas Iandimarino • The milestone inspections that you're all aware of, because of Seaside and such. • We have 105 units that have not complied. Only about 36 HOAs because some of them are, have 5-7 buildings. or six buildings. • Jeff Letourneau, Manager for Code has been the one who's been assigned all of those. • He's issued one NOV, notice of violation and they came into compliance. • It will say 36 HOAs that are not in compliance, but 80 to 90% of them will be the engineers having some troubles uploading a few things. It's new engineers not used to doing it so, we're getting really good compliance on that. Just wanted to share that with you. j. Utilities Engineering &Project Management Division — [Claudia Vargas, Project Manager] Claudia Vargas • The Utility Standard Manual is going before the Board for approval of advertisement on the 1 Ith and then for adoption on the 25rn k. Transportation Management Services, Engineering Division — [Jay Ahmad, Director, Transportation Engineering] Jay Ahmad • The Vanderbilt Beach Rd. extension is moving along well and plan to complete the project early spring next year. • In Immokalee, 22 miles of sidewalk, transfer stations, bus stations and bus shelters is almost completed from a $13 million from the Federal Highway. • The Collier Boulevard project is still facing the Army Corps. Permits and the same problem with 16'n • The Park Shore Beach renourishment is finishing up and Vanderbilt Beach will be starting in November or December. Jeff, Curl How long will the construction on the bridge east of 161h on Randall Blvd. Jay Ahmad Probably another year. • 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 13'h. We went through the 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 8'h with the final documents. • Next item is the Golden Gate Parkway study. The corridor study that is from Livingston to 175. We are going to be having an open house information format public meeting on April loth 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. 6. NEW BUSINESS a. Administrative Code Jeff Curl You will see on the last page of the packet outlined in red pertaining to ICP's. I'm revising platted roadway track to take out street trees, but I am not a registered engineer. My request is to have this language tweaked. Jaime French I've been invited to the Greater Naples Fire District at 9:00 a.m. on March 12 at their head- quarters off Collier Blvd. Apparently, there's an item on the agenda that although that you supported their fee increase. One of the fire commissioners wants to revisit bringing permitting back in-house. I've made CBIA aware of it. 7. OLD BUSINESS None 8. COMMITTEE MEMBER COMMENTS Robert Mulhere There is a subcommittee meeting. The LDC has a meeting on March. 181h. Please be sure Clay does not drive to Horseshoe Drive. Mario Valle I would like to ask the Committee to consider granting the Chairman the authority to write a letter to the staff, commending them, thanking them for the work to be read at the employee recognition event on behalf of DSAC. I think that letting them know that the industry knows that we appreciate that is vitally important. And I have raised that up for consideration of the committee. Mario Valle made the motion to have a letter written Robert Mulhere seconded Motion passed There being no further business for the good of the County, the meeting was adjourned at 4:08 p.m. COLLIER COUNTY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE William arian, Chairman These minutes were approved by the Committee/Chair non Z ZS (check one) as submitted or as amended