DSAC-LDR Minutes 05/20/20251
MINUTES OF THE COLLIER COUNTY
DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE
LAND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING
Naples, Florida
May 20th, 2025
LET IT BE REMEMBERED, the Collier County Development Services Advisory Committee
Land Development Review Subcommittee and Collier County, having conducted business
herein, met on this date at 3:00 PM in REGULAR SESSION at Growth Management
Community Development Department Building, Conference Room #609/610 2800 N. Horseshoe
Dr., Naples, Florida, 34102 with the following members present:
Chairman: Clay Brooker (Chairman)
Blair Foley – EXCUSED
Jeffrey Curl
Mark McLean
Robert Mulhere
The following County Staff were in attendance:
Eric Johnson, LDC Planning Manager, GMCD
Richard Henderlong, Planner III, GMCD
Angela Galiano, Planner II, GMCD
Josephine Medina, Planner III, GMCD
Heather Cartwright-Yilmaz, Management Analyst / Staff Liaison, GMCD
Jaime Cook, Development Review Director, GMCD
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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 Clay Brooker
Development Service Advisory Committee – Land Development Review Subcommittee,
Tuesday, 20th May 2025 was called to order at 3:00 PM
2.APPROVAL OF AGENDA
Clay Brooker
Agenda approved.
Motion passed
Determined New order to discuss Agenda based on Speakers available 4a, 4d, 4b to 4C. See
changes below.
3.Old Business
None
4.New Business
a.PL20250004659 – Home Based Business Updates LDCA
Eric Johnson-Spoke in 4a introduced new amendments
Eric Johnson- Determining language in local code vs State code.
Mr. Brooker-Determining parking regulations- Differences between Local and State
Eric Johnson-Updating future ordinances for parking/storage. Referenced definitions in
the LDC
Mr. Curl- Identify Problems with buffering requirements
Mr. Brooker opened for Public comments
Public speaker-Tim Maloney Golden Gate- Identifying Verbiage in Ordinance and
impacts of ordinance in the county. Identifying exploration of home occupation statute.
Encourages updating the ordinance in these areas
A.Problem with estates using residential properties
B.Can’t generate additional traffic
C.Uses of fleet vehicles in residential areas
D.Types of vehicles (tonnage) and impact of these businesses
Public Speaker- William Mars- Landscape company impact. Shared pictures of
Landscape vehicles parked on vacant lot. Video of a truck backing up, Video of trucks
parked together, Video of trucks backing up traffic. Examples or residential impact.
Applicability and broadness or ordinance compared to another county.
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Public speaker- Mark Teeters- Golden Gate master plan advertised “1000 small
businesses in Golden Gate.” Importance of getting verbiage correct. Rezoning the estates
and impact construction companies in residential areas, campers/Trailers and their
impact. Use/impact of Code enforcement. Using backyards as storage. The current impact
of the estates zoning is hard to enforce.
Mr. Brooker- Closed public comments
Unknown- Adding to clarify on the statement “multiple business” Quite a few issues
need more regulation pertaining to traffic impact. Need to clarify verbiage “use of estates
parcels by right” Need to come back to this issue as there are too many issues.
Mr. Brooker- Determining a way forward based on existing precedence.
Mr. Mulhere- AG zoning vs estates zoning
Mr. Curl-Need to reference existing precedence. Rethink allowed businesses, screening
businesses, required screenings buffers and heights
Mr. Brooker- Existing ordinance/statute in works might take care of it. Residential
character.
Mr. Mulhere- Where do Landscapers go, AG use
Mr. Mulhere- Motion to continue discussion
Mr. Brooker- second. Motion passes
b.PL20240008632 – Solar Facilities and Electrical Substations LDCA
Uknown- Existing LDC doesn’t address facilities. Proposing amendment to solar
facilities, issues addressed by FPL and anticipated issues.
Tal Berman- Discussing solar development in Collier County on AG land. Remove citrus
and place solar. Limit impacts on protected areas. Low impact. No concrete/impermeable.
Low to the ground.
Jem Frantz- LDC amendment eliminates inconsistencies in statute amendment and
addresses buffering requirements. New definitions, new sections on solar facilities and
substations, updates list of essential services. Adds exemptions and additions.
Mr. Mulhere-Adding to AG use, essential use, solar, are they essential services?
Mr. Mclean- Are they storing on site, how?
Tal Berman- Size of shipping containers line up next to each other at substation.
Changing, injecting renewables/solar.
Mr. Mclean-Defining storage
Jem Frantz- Would have to follow AG restrictions
Mr. Curl- References buffer language, “trees and shrubs”
Jem Frantz- From state statute language
Mr. Curl- AG transitions
Mr. Berman-Avoiding primary panther habitat.
Jaime- Not running into too many issues as using old farms.
Mr. Mulhere- Motion to recommend approval, subject to continue discussion after staff
review, whether it is reasonable to establish, to look at the development standards to
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make sure there are standards on the height. We talked about minor corrections (e.g.,
trees, shrubs, buffers). Confirm Height requirements.
Mr. Curl- Second
Further discussion ensues regarding existing standards in the Rural Agricultural Zoning
District.
Mr. Brooker – There is consensus that existing height limitation of 35 feet is acceptable.
The motion was revised by a different member of the Subcommittee.
Mr. Mclean - Second
Mr. Brooker- Revised motion passes unanimously.
c.PL20250005043 – Group Housing Updates LDCA
Mr. Mulhere – Made a motion to approve and commended staff for being proactive in
terms of seeing that the market is demanding most of the time, things in PUDs and
floor area ratios are 0.60 anyway.
Mr. Brooker- He had a question regarding Page 3 lines 13 and 14- Increasing from 0.45,
except nursing homes, ALFs, continuing care facilities can have a FAR of 0.60, provided
that the Future Land Use Element of the Growth Management Plan allows for the greater
ratio. Are there limitations?
Ms. Medina- Yes, there are certain ones that we did find have limitations, like the
RFMUD, for example. Certain private amendments do as well. There were some that the
PUD doesn’t reference back to the LDC, so we wanted to make that clear, that if the
Future Land Use designation says 0.45, the LDC can’t allow (a greater FAR).
Mr. Johnson – They have to be consistent with each other.
Mr. Brooker- Where is it restricted to 0.45?
Ms. Medina- Receiving lands, neutral lands, within the rural village, within the
conservation designation, Buckley property and that settlement agreement. They don’t
have a PUD yet
Mr. Mulhere – That is a subdistrict of the rural fringe?
Ms. Medina- Yes, and in the agricultural and rural mixed-use district, there is a floating
subdistrict that has restrictions as well. Those were the ones we were able to find. All
the other ones, we were able to find public ones, but the PUD restricted it, so when they
come in to change their PUD, they would also have to change their corresponding
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Mr. Brooker- Thank you. We have a motion to recommend approval by Bob
Mr. Curl- Second
Mr. Brooker- Motion to approved amended passes unanimously.
d.PL20250005475 – Mailed Notice Rural Agricultural Zoned Land LDCA
Mr. Mulhere- We have 500 ft. in urban area and 1000 ft. in Rural area.
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Mr. Mclean- What I don’t understand on the160 acre parcel- it only notified property
owners at 1000ft and 9 lots but where is the notification taken from, the center or
perimeter of the parcel?
Mr. Henderlong- It’s measured from the perimeter of the parcel. Some residents of Sable
Palm Road did not get notified. He explained that the Board felt the current standard to
the notification process was inadequate, and they requested other various distances for
the mailed notice requirement be look at recommending it be one mile.
Mr. Mulhere- What is the one mile for, currently the Urban and Rural Golden Gate
Estates area. What are the other areas? Define what areas get and what distance. The
1,000 ft. only applies to designated rural AG.
Discussion on notification distances to rural and urban areas in collier county.
Mr. Henderlong- For urban AG zoned land in Pine Ridge subdivision, a commissioner
said a new property, the mailed distance was inadequate when compared to what other
communities are doing. He described the Pine Ridge property’s location. He said, the
board direction was to take the one-mile suggestion back and publicly vets the mailed
notice distance change. He presented other options to the mailed notice distances by
reference to Exhibit C. To assist the decision of a distance change, on pages 6 and 7,
mailed distances of other Florida communities were given for public consideration. He
noted, on page 7, Seminole County had distances based on acreage sizes, 5, 10, and
greater than 10 acres and a minimum number of parcels. Staff did not recommend this
standard.
Mr. Mulhere- So this is limited to the proposal of one mile to rural AG zoned lands
Ms. Cook- Provided a perspective on the new week Board agenda item at 341 Sabal Palm
that all of the surrounding lands are conservation land and the notice sign sizes are too
small to notify residents in Winding Cypress and Village Walk.
Mr. Brooker and Mr. Mclean-Noted the increase to one mile is costly with 5,680
notices at the Pine Ridge and Goodlette Rd. parcel
Mclean- Motioned to suggest ½ mile
Mr. Mulhere- Seconded the motion
Mr. Brooker- Motion passed unanimously.
5.PUBLIC SPEAKERS
No additional public speakers. Noted in the section above.
6.UPCOMING DSAC-LDR SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING DATES DISCUSSION:
a.Tuesday, June 17, 2025
b.Tuesday, September 16, 2025
c.Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Clay Brooker
Accepted motion to adjourn
7.MEETING ADJOURNED
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There being no further business for the good of the County, the meeting was adjourned by
the order of the chairman at 4:50 p.m.