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DSAC Minutes 09/03/2025MINUTES OF THE COLLIER COUNTY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING Naples, Florida September 3, 2025 LET IT BE REMEMBERED, the Collier County Development Services Advisory Committee 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 James Boughton Clay Brooker 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 James French, Department Head, GMCD Mike Bosi, Director — Zoning, GMCD Christopher Mason, Director — Community Planning & Resiliency, GMCD Jaime Cook, Director — Development Review, GMCD Michael Stark, Director — Operations & Regulatory Management, GMCD James French, Department Head, GMCD Designee for Building Review & Permitting Division, GMCD Captain Michael Cruz, Collier County Fire Review — NOT IN ATTENDANCE Captain Bryan Horbal, North Collier Fire Review Thomas Iandimarino, Director — Code Enforcement, GMCD Stephen Sarabia, Project Manager II — Public Utilities Engineering & Project Management, PUD Lorraine Lantz, Manager — Transportation Management Services, Transportation Engineering Division Eric Johnson, LDC Planning Manager — GMCD Richard Henderlong, Planner III — Zoning, GMCD Angela Galiano, Planner 11— Zoning, GMCD Heather Cartwright-Yilmaz, Management Analyst I / Staff Liaison, GMCD Gino Santabarbara, Manager, Impact Fees — Corporate Financial & Management Services 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 William Varian Development Service Advisory Committee, Wednesday, September 3, 2025, was called to order at 3:00 PM. 2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA William Varian- Motioned to amend the Agenda moving Old Business- Impact Review Study up. Motion Seconded -Jeff Curl Motion passed unanimously 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES a. DSAC-IFR:07.16.2025 Motion to Approve- Robert Mulhere Motion Seconded- Blair Foley b. DSAC:08.06.2025 Motion to Approve- Jeff Curl Motion Seconded- Chris Mitchell Minutes approved unanimously 4. PUBLIC SPEAKERS Amelia Vasquez, CBIA Thanks county staff Gino for agreeing to meet with CBIA later this month. They want to be head of the table. They have an impact fee committee and would like to be involved and engaged in discussion on impact fees. Thanks Bill and Tom for starting the discussion on what they are going through as an industry. Would like CBIA leadership involved in discussion for Human Resources in the future. 5. STAFF ANNOUNCEMENTS a. Zoning Division — [Mike Bosi, Director] b. Community Planning & Resiliency Division — [Christopher Mason, Director] • Vulnerability assessment completed. Moving into adaptation plan. Will be working with a consultant starting in October. • Completed a repetitive loss area analysis with FEMA to determine areas that are susceptible to flood loss. • Preliminary FEMA Maps for interior portion of county. Looking to complete and release maps by Fall of 2026. c. Housing Policy & Economic Development — [Cormac Giblin, Director] 620 New affordable housing units housed YTD. Board approved 3 of 4 Land development code amendments at their last meeting. 2 d. Development Review Division — [Jaime Cook, Director] LStaff notes- Joe Bianci has relocated to Maine. Looking to fill the position. e. perations Support & Regulatory Management Division — [James French, Department Head] • Report submitted shows stabilization YOY in the single-family home market. • Concerns- Discussed meeting with HR Staff at recent meeting. William Varian- Amy Lyberg, Alberto and Stephanie from HR were present for meeting. Tom Lykos, local builder, was present as well. Discussed pay scales, discussed recruiting for open positions. Discussed implementing training programs to work on promoting from within. James French- 4 new positions approved to fill. 1 Code Enforcement, I Animal Control Officer, 1 Building plans reviewer, 1 Building inspector. I have asked for an independent study to determine competitive wages. Struggling to keep employees due to neighboring counties offering higher wages, lower cost of living, sign on bonuses. f. Building Review & Permitting Division — [James French, Department Head] • Discussed certain repairs being forced to go through engineering for review before permits issuance. William Varian and Mario Valle gave examples of bathroom remodels being forced to go through engineering when it should not have been needed. • Fee Schedule- We received a $2M loan from the General fund to keep operations active for this year. Reserve payroll fund has enough to sustain 3 months of operations. Contracted with Raftelis to do a fee study. Looking at 5-year plan to implement increases in fees. I want to bring the plan back to DASAC at your next meeting to review and provide your feedback. Then on to the BOCC at their October meeting to vote on. g. Collier County Fire Review — [Michael Cruz, Captain] No Report- Not present h. North Collier Fire Review — [Bryan Horbel, Captain] • 613 permits came in. 2 day turn around on plan review. 44 permits were in turned around in 1 1/2 day turn around. Next day on inspections. 1365 new construction inspections. 2 open Plan reviewer positions. i. Code Enforcement Division — [Thomas Iandimarino, Director] • Handfull of Code Lein relief applications come through that are moving forward to the BCC. Due to change in ownership/property sales. William Varian- From June -July cases/inspections doubled. Any specific reason? Thomas Iandimarino- Catching up on inspections that were missed while staff was out on training/vacations from the previous months. A saturation patrol was done down Golden Gate Blvd and cross streets. Mario Valle- How is the program going since you took over Animal control? Thomas Iandimarino- Animal control officers we have are doing a good job. We are struggling to hire qualified people who will stay and can handle the hard parts of the job. j. Public Utilities Department — [Stephen Sarabia, Project Manager II] • Nothing new to report. k. Transportation Management Services, Transportation Engineering — [Lorraine Lantz, Manager] 3 • Access management policy has been updated and revised. New Resolution number is 2025-150. Mike Sawyer will be sending it out and it will be posted on our website. • Ribbon cutting for Immokalee Tiger project has been rescheduled for 10/1/25 at 9:30am. • Golden Gate Parkway Corridor study will host a public meeting in November. Tentatively scheduled for November 20th, 2025. Clay Brooker- Wilson extension has been put on hold. Can you explain why. Lorraine Lantz- Put it on hold to look at additional alignments, look into the mine, coordinate with property owners and the landfill operations. 6. NEW BUSINESS a. PL20250009062 - Reasonable Accommodation for Certified Recovery Residencies LDCA Heidi Ashton- Cicko-Managing Assistant County Attorney Courtney DaSilva- Assistant County Attorney Petition PL20250009062 in relation to Florida Statute 397.487 Clay Brooker- Can you give a summary of what we are creating. Why we are doing this and give us an example of what kind of accommodation might be requested of the BCC. Heidi Ashton-Cicko- Occupancy related accommodations. Clay Brooker- The RUB is going to be traditional family home with 6 occupants and is now going to have 8 unrelated recovering individuals living there. Is notice going out to all surrounding homes and is there opportunity to be heard? Heidi- Notice will go out to residents within 150ft of the property. Decision must be made within 60 days and back to the property owner. Clay Brooker- Is the 150ft and not advertised the parameters in the State Law or is that what the county is proposing? Heidi- Zoning director will have to look at compatibility before making a decision. William Varian- Could this be an existing residence that is adapted or remodeled. Heidi- They generally go into a single-family home. But it could be a request for reasonable accommodation. We are trying to prevent density from being an issue. Mark McLean- Is there a requirement for supervision on site Courtney- There is a separate state statute that will govern how many people need to supervise depending on occupancy. Mark McLean- This allows occupancy up to 8, does that state statute say 6 or 10 and if this is 8 would be unsupervised. Courtney- The state statute has classification levels depending on how many occupants are actually in the home. That statute will dictate how many supervisors need to be there. That is unrelated to this process Heidi- Currently in certain zoning districts you can have up to 6 unrelated people. This does not address density. That is not what this ordinance is about. If you want to make a recommendation that density should be something that is considered as part of a reasonable accommodation process, you can make the recommendation. Clay Brooker- Density is not on the table for negotiation when it comes to accommodation. That's what's written in the code as proposed. There is also a safeguard built in where compatibility is required. The required notice should be larger than 150ft. 0 Heidi- As to the 6 resident sober home, we are currently preempted. We are limiting the reasonable accommodation request to design standards as opposed to number occupants. William Varian- Does this allow for this to happen everywhere. Heidi- We feel it does if we open the density. That is why we have excluded it. As we evaluate the federal law, we might have to open it up and include density. Clay Brooker- There is overconcentration limitation here. The burden would be on the applicant to show there is not an overconcentration of recovery residences in near proximity to one another. Mark McLean- Could an HOA guideline supersede this? Heidi- This state law does not preempt the HOA rules you agree to when you buy in. Clay Brooker- Motion to recommend approval with the following suggestions. 1. Density exclusion as a reasonable accommodation be kept included in the proposal. 2. Notice to surrounding properties owners be increased from 150ft to 500ft in the urban areas and 1000ft in the rural areas. 3. In regard to proximity definition, we will adopt what is already in the code as 1000ft. Motion seconded- Jeff Curl. Motion passed unanimously b. PL20250005385 - Scrivener's Errors and Cross -Reference Corrections LDCA Angela Galiano, Planner II, Zoning, GMCD LDR Subcommittee reviewed and approved on 8/19/2025 Motion to Approve- Clay Brooker Motion seconded by- Mark McLean Motion passed unanimously c. PL20250006145 - Removal of Prohibited Exotic Vegetation LDCA Eric Johnson, LDC Planning Manager, GMCD 2023- Commissioner Hall asked the staff to update the LDC as it pertains to the removal of exotic vegetation. LDCA-PL20230018350. Subcommittee reviewed approval with changes. DSAC recommended denial February 7th, 2024. Collier County Planning commission recommended denial. BOCC voted to continue. Staff drafted new language. New petition Main change in language is • If a property has a CO for a principal dwelling that the applicant on an estate zoned lot shall only be responsible for removing exotics within 30 feet of the proposed addition or modification submitted on or after December 12th, 2023. Jeff Curl- We should be encouraging exotic removal. Not writing an ordinance to exempt it. For wildfire 2prevention, reduce fire load. Clay Brooker- We discussed this at the LDC subcommittee meeting. Existing code requires removal of all exotics. Mark McLean- I make a motion based on the subcommittee's denial 3-2 we adopt their denial. 5 Motion to adopt denial- Mark McLean Motion seconded by- Jeff Curl Motion to Recommend denial passed 10-1 d. PL20250007882 - Administrative Plat Approval LDCA Richard Henderlong, Planner III, Zoning, GMCD Motion to approve- Jeff Curl- I move to approve the amended draft provided by staff and reviewed by legal. Motion seconded by- Mark McLean Motion passed unanimously e. PL20250008677 - Plat, Replat and Construction Documents, Code of Law Amendment (Informational Item only) f. Fee Schedule Status Discussed in Staff announcements with James French, Department Head, GMCD 7. OLD BUSINESS a. Review Impact Fee Recommendations — Corporate Financial & Management Services Gino Santabarbara, Manager, Impact Fees — Corporate Financial & Management Services William Varian- Gino would like a recommendation from this board for the impact fee review to move forward to the BCC. Mario Valle- Impact Fee Subcommittee chairman. Vast majority of the methodology was fine. An area that board questioned was in the School impact fees, in regard to land acquisitions. Developers were contributing land at $22,000.00 per acre. That information should be adopted back into the study. William Varian- In the study they are carrying $73,000.00 per acre. Most of the developments would be East of 951, we believe that most of those developers have made an agreement for $22,000.00 as part of their agreement. So why are we carrying $73,000.00 per acre? Mario Valle- Has a disagreement with the Emergency Services methodology including funding to build an additional Emergency Operations Center for $14 Million dollars when we have no plans to build another EOC. It has a meaningful financial impact to the Collier County taxpayers. Impact fees will be reviewed again in 5 years. It could be re- addressed at that time. Robert Mulhere- We talked about implementing a regular review cycle, a certain number, every couple of years. What was that? Gino Santabarbara- Once these impact fees are approved there will be a 4-year phase in. After that we will be reviewing and addressing 2 categories per year going forward. Nick Kouloheras- How do we change the process where the methodology is changed in future studies. C.1 Mario Valle- Methodology has been consistent. The time in between reviews has been the issue and considerable increases because of the time has been the problem. As the impact fee committee chairman, I make a motion for the impact fees I reviewed, except for Law enforcement and corrections, that the DSAC committee accept the methodology for all of them noting that there is a question of the inclusion of the Emergency Operations Center within the EMS Impact Fee review. The BOCC should take that into consideration. Robert Mulhere- Amendment- the inclusion of the consultants agreement to look at the potential of including a lower per acre cost in Eastern Collier. Mario Valle- Accepts the amendment. Motion Seconded- Robert Mulhere Motion passed unanimously. Mario Valle excused himself for the discussion on Law Enforcement and Corrections. Law Enforcement and corrections- Impact Fee Motion to Approve- Robert Mulhere Motion seconded - Motion passed unanimously 8. COMMITTEE MEMBER COMMENTS None 9. ADJOURN There being no further business for the good of the County, the meeting was adjourned at S:OOPM. 7 COLLIER COUNTY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE William Varian, Chairman These minutes were approved by t ommittee/Chairman on d (check one) as submitted or as amended