Agenda 01/13/2026 Item #17D (Ordinance, 5890 Golden Gate Parkway PL20230012851)1/13/2026
Item # 17.D
ID# 2025-4886
Executive Summary
Recommendation to approve an Ordinance of the Board of County Commissioners amending the Urban Estates Sub-
element of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan of the Collier County Growth Management Plan specifically to amend the
Golden Gate Parkway and Collier Boulevard Special Provisions of the Conditional Use Subdistrict to allow a church The
subject property is located at 5890 Golden Gate Parkway, in Section 29, Township 49 South, Range 26 East, Collier
County, Florida, consisting of 2.81± acres. [PL20230012851] (This item is a companion to Item 17E)
OBJECTIVE: To have the Board of County Commissioners (Board) approve (adopt) a small-scale Comprehensive
Plan Amendment to the Urban Estates Sub Element of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan specifically to amend the
Golden Gate Parkway and Collier Boulevard Special Provisions of the conditional use subdistrict to allow a church on a
property described as the west 180 feet of Tract 76, Unit 30, Golden Gate Estates. This is to amend the conditional use
subdistrict language to include the subject property that would allow for up to 6,000 square feet for the church and 4,000
square feet for related structures.
CONSIDERATIONS: The subject petition is submitted as a small-scale comprehensive plan amendment (a/k/a Growth
Management Plan Amendment - GMPA). As such, per Florida Statutes, the request is heard once only by the Collier
County Planning Commission (CCPC) and the Board. If approved by the Board, the petition’s proposed ordinance is
adopted and transmitted to the Florida Department of Commerce.
The GMP amendment requested is approximately ±2.8 acres and is located along the southern side of Golden Gate
Parkway between I-75 and Santa Barbra Blvd and is identified as parcel ID # 38166680006, in Section 29, Township 49
South, Range 26 East, Collier County, Florida. This petition seeks to amend the Future Land Use Element (FLUE) and
Map. The proposed Subdistrict text, as recommended for approval by the Collier County Planning Commission (CCPC),
is in found in the proposed Ordinance’s Exhibit “A.”
The process for adoption of a small-scale comprehensive plan amendment requires (in part) the following statutory
standards be met [followed by staff analysis in bracketed and italicized text].
(1) A small-scale development amendment may be adopted under the following conditions:
(a) The proposed amendment involves a use of 50 acres or fewer. [The proposed amendment pertains to a 2.8-acre
property.]
(b) The proposed amendment does not involve a text change to the goals, policies, and objectives of the local
government’s comprehensive plan but only proposes a land-use change to the future land-use map for a site-specific
small-scale development activity. However, text changes that relate directly to and are adopted simultaneously with the
small-scale future land use map amendment shall be permissible under this section. [This amendment is for a site-
specific Future Land Use Map change and directly related text changes.]
(c) The property that is the subject of the proposed amendment is not located within an area of critical state concern
unless the project subject to the proposed amendment involves the construction of affordable housing units meeting the
criteria of s. 420.0004 (3) and is located within an area of critical state concern designated by s. 380.0552 or by the
Administration Commission pursuant to s. 380.05(1). [The subject property is not within an Area of Critical State
Concern.]
(4) Comprehensive plans may only be amended in such a way as to preserve the internal consistency of the plan
pursuant to s. 163.3177. [Internal consistency will be maintained between and among elements if the amendment is
approved.]
Based on the review of this small-scale GMP amendment petition, including the supporting data and analysis, staff
makes the following findings and conclusions:
• The purpose of this GMPA and companion Conditional Use zoning petition is to allow for up to 6,000 square
feet for the church and 4,000 square feet for related structures.
• The use is generally compatible with surrounding development based upon the high-level review conducted for
a GMP amendment.
• According to the Urban Golden Gate Estates Sub-Element no new conditional uses are permitted between
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Livingston Road and Santa Barbara Boulevard on Golden Gate Parkway except as allowed on specific tracts
identified within the Subdistrict use for which this property is not included.
• No historical or archaeological sites are affected by this amendment.
The documents provided for the amendment support the proposed changes to the FLUE and map. The complete staff
analysis of this petition is provided in the CCPC Staff Report.
Staff recommended denial to the Collier County Planning Commission at the November 20th, 2025, meeting because the
Golden Gate FLUE does not allow for additional Conditional Uses along this corridor. After hearing petition
PL20230012851, the Golden Gate Worship Center, the Collier County Planning Commission voted 6-0 to forward the
petition to the Board of County Commissioners with a recommendation of approval for an exception to the policy.
Based on the Collier County Planning Commission's policy recommendation, staff is recommending approval.
Implement prudent and inclusive policy development through effective planning for transportation, land use, and growth
management.
FISCAL IMPACT: The cost to process, review, and advertise this petition was borne by the petitioner via application
and advertisement fees. Therefore, there are no fiscal impacts to Collier County as a result of the adoption of this
amendment.
GROWTH MANAGEMENT IMPACT: Adoption of the proposed amendment by the Board for transmittal to the
Florida Department of Commerce (Florida Commerce) will commence the thirty-day (30) challenge period for any
affected person. Provided the small-scale development amendment is not challenged, it shall become effective thirty-
one (31) days after receipt by Florida Department of Commerce.
LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS: This Growth Management Plan (GMP) amendment is authorized and subject to the
procedures established in Chapter 163, Part II, Florida Statutes, The Community Planning Act, and Collier County
Resolution No. 12-234, as amended. The Board should consider the following criteria in making its decision: “Plan
amendments shall be based on relevant and appropriate data and an analysis by the local government that may include
but not be limited to, surveys, studies, community goals and vision, and other data available at the time of adoption of
the plan amendment. To be based on data means to react to it in an appropriate way and to the extent necessary indicated
by the data available on that particular subject at the time of adoption of the plan or plan amendment at issue.” Section
163.3177(1)(f), Florida Statutes. This item is approved as to form and legality. It requires an affirmative vote of four for
approval because this is an Adoption hearing of the GMP amendment. --HFAC
RECOMMENDATION(S): To approve an Ordinance amending the Urban Estates Sub-element of the Golden Gate
Area Master Plan.
PREPARED BY: Parker Klopf, Planner III, Zoning Division
ATTACHMENTS:
1. Staff Report CCPC final
2. Ordinance - 121025
3. Growth Management Data and Analysis
4. PL20230012851 CCPC Hearing Backup
5. Sign Posting Affidavit
6. legal ad - agenda IDs 25-4890 & 25-4886 - Golden Gate Worship Center CU & GMPA - 1.13.26 BCC
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STAFF REPORT
COLLIER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION
FROM: GROWTH MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT, ZONING DIVISION,
COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING SECTION
HEARING DATE: November 20th, 2025
SUBJECT: PETITION PL20230012851/SMALL SCALE GROWTH MANAGEMENT
PLAN AMENDMENT OF THE URBAN GOLDEN GATE ESTATES
SUBELEMENT (Companion to CU- PL20230010505)
ELEMENTS: GOLDEN GATE AREA MASTER PLAN- URBAN SUBELEMENT
AGENT/APPLICANT:
Agent: Wayne Arnold, AICP
Q. Grady Minor and Associates
3800 Via Del Rey
Bonita Springs, FL 34134
Applicant: Les Voyageurs Celestes Pentecostal Worship Center, Inc.
12425 Collier Blvd. 103
Naples, FL 34116
Owner: Les Voyageurs Celestes Pentecostal Worship Center, Inc.
12425 Collier Blvd. 103
Naples, FL 34116
GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION:
The subject property consists of 2.81± acres and is located at 5890 Golden Gate Parkway in Section 29,
Township 49 South, Range 26 East, Collier County, Florida also identified as parcel ID # 38166680006.
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REQUESTED ACTION:
The applicant proposes a small-scale Comprehensive Plan amendment to the Urban Sub element of the
Golden Gate Area Master Plan specifically to amend the Golden Gate Parkway and Collier Boulevard
Special Provisions of the conditional use subdistrict to allow a church on a property described as the west
180 feet of Tract 76, Unit 30, Golden Gate Estates.
EXISTING CONDITIONS:
Subject Property: The ±2.8-acre subject site is currently developed with a single family home and is
located along the southern side of Golden Gate Parkway between I-75 and Santa Barbra Blvd. also known
as parcel ID # 38166680006. The subject property is designated on the Future Land Use Map (FLUM) as
Urban Residential subdistrict of the Urban Estates Mixed-Use district. This Subdistrict is characterized by
low density semi-rural residential lots with limited opportunities for other land uses. Various types of
conditional uses are permitted in the Estates zoning district within the Urban Golden Gate Estates area. In
order to control the location and spacing of new conditional uses, certain criteria shall be met.
Surrounding Lands:
North: Future Land Use Designation; Urban Residential Estates. Zoned; Estates. Land Use; Livingston
Road, then Single Family.
East: Future Land Use Designation; Urban Residential Estates. Zoned; Estates with a Conditional Use.
Land Use; Child Care Facility.
South: Future Land Use Designation; Urban Residential Estates. Zoned; Estates. Land Use; Single Family.
West: Future Land Use Designation; Urban Residential Estates. Zoned; Estates. Land Use; Single Family.
In summary, the property is bordered by residential estates lots to the west or south, an existing child care
facility to the east and Golden Gate Parkway to the North.
BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS:
The subject property is a 2.8-acre parcel which is currently developed with a single family home and is
located along the southern side of Golden Gate Parkway between I-75 and Santa Barbra Blvd. also known
as parcel ID # 38166680006. The congregation currently holds worship services in a commercial strip mall
at 12425 Collier Boulevard which sustained them up until recently and now the congregation has outgrown
their current facility. Recognizing the need for a larger and more permanent place of worship, they
conducted an extensive search for an appropriate property that could support the congregation.
This property is located within the Urban Residential subdistrict of the Urban Estates district of the Golden
Gate Area Master Plan. This subdistrict is intended to provide for low density semi-rural residential lots
with limited opportunities for other land uses. Various types of conditional uses are permitted in the Estates
zoning district within the Urban Golden Gate Estates area. In order to control the location and spacing o f
new conditional uses, certain criteria shall be met. The applicant has proposed to amend the conditional use
subdistrict to include the subject property that would allow for up to 6,000 square feet for the church and
4,000 square feet for related structures.
As stated above, Churches and of other places of worship are allowed in the Estates subject to certain
location criteria identified in the last restudy of GGE in 2019. The Study reaffirmed the existing residential
nature of the land uses surrounding the I-75 interchange at Golden Gate Parkway and states that there shall
be no further conditional uses for properties abutting Golden Gate Parkway, between Livingston Road and
Santa Barbara Boulevard, except as allowed on specific tracts identified within the conditional use
subdistrict language. This language in the Golden Gate Area Master Plan (GGAMP) is crafted in a way that
it is clear that the intent is to restrict the ability for conditional uses to proliferate in areas not intended for
these uses or perceived as overdevelopment.
An analysis of the site and the GGAMP was prepared by the applicant’s agent and was provided as
justification for the proposed subdistrict amendment. Within the analysis the applicant identified location
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criteria called out in the GGAMP and went through all of the sites listed as potential conditional use sites,
a list of other parcels that were considered, and the appropriateness of this site.
Collier County Planning Staff last published in 2009, a map and list of potential conditional use sites in
Golden Gate Estates. The applicant has evaluated the list and map for available properties located within
the Urban Estates Subdistrict area of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan to determine potential sites to
consider for establishing a new worship center. The County map (GG CU-1) identifies nine (9) parcels that
would be eligible to seek a conditional use for a church, day care, private school, assisted living facility or
similar uses allowable uses of the E, Estates Zoning District. At the present time, five (5) of these sites have
either been developed, or in the process of being developed. Two of the parcels (N) are located in the
Activity Center at I-75 and Pine Ridge Road. One parcel was approved by the Hearing Examiner in 209 for
a 64-bed assisted living facility. Although unbuilt, the CU remains valid. The other parcel located in this
Activity Center was recently rezoned from Estates to CPUD and will be the new home for a Genesis
automobile dealership. The remaining four (4) sites that are not approved for development are either not
zoned for a church, subject to similar restrictions the subject property is, or unable to support a growing
congregation due to a variety of site restrictions.
The applicant states that throughout this process, the Church leadership dedicated significant time and
resources to evaluating these properties, ensuring that their parishioners were actively involved in the
decision- making process. Given that the majority of their current members reside in Golden Gate City, it
became clear that proximity to their homes was a primary criterion for selecting a new location.
While there are other options for new conditional uses within the Golden Gate Estates it is clear that most
of them are not specifically dedicated to places of worship or are farther away from the majority of the
congregation therefore the proposed change is being requested at the subject property. Comprehensive
Planning Staff believe that the petitioner has provided appropriate and relevant data and analysis to address
the statutory requirements for a Plan Amendment identified below and does not feel that this use would be
out of scope or character for this corridor, however is withholden from providing a recommendation of
approval because of the special provisions applicable to this portion of Golden Gate Parkway.
Comprehensive Planning Staff finds that the amendment to the Conditional Use subdistrict on the property
to allow a church to be inconsistent with the goals and policies of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan, as
well as the specific adopted policy to restrict non-residential uses on Golden Gate Parkway between
Livingston Road and Santa Barbara. Further Staff recognizes that a church use would be an allowed use
within the Downtown Center Commercial Subdistrict, approximately within one-half mile to the east of the
subject site, as shown to the below.
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CRITERIA FOR GMP AMENDMENTS FLORIDA STATUTES:
Data and analysis requirements for comprehensive plans and plan amendments are noted in Chapter 163,
F.S., specifically as listed below.
Section 163.3177(1)(f), Florida Statutes:
(f) All mandatory and optional elements of the comprehensive plan and plan amendments shall be based
upon relevant and appropriate data and an analysis by the local government that may include, but not
be limited to, surveys, studies, community goals and vision, and other data available at the time of
adoption of the comprehensive plan or plan amendment. To be based on data means to react to it in an
appropriate way and to the extent necessary indicated by the data available on that particular subject at
the time of adoption of the plan or plan amendment at issue.
1. Surveys, studies, and data utilized in the preparation of the comprehensive plan may not be deemed
a part of the comprehensive plan unless adopted as a part of it. Copies of such studies, surveys,
data, and supporting documents for proposed plans and plan amendments shall be made available
for public inspection, and copies of such plans shall be made available to the public upon payment
of reasonable charges for reproduction. Support data or summaries are not subject to the compliance
review process, but the comprehensive plan must be clearly based on appropriate data. Support data
or summaries may be used to aid in the determination of compliance and consistency.
2. Data must be taken from professionally accepted sources. The application of a methodology
utilized in data collection or whether a particular methodology is professionally accepted may be
evaluated. However, the evaluation may not include whether one accepted methodology is better
than another. Original data collection by local governments is not required. However, local
governments may use original data so long as methodologies are professionally accepted.
3. The comprehensive plan shall be based upon permanent and seasonal population estimates and
projections, which shall either be those published by the Office of Economic and Demographic
Research or generated by the local government based upon a professionall y acceptable
methodology. The plan must be based on at least the minimum amount of land required to
accommodate the medium projections as published by the Office of Economic and Demographic
Research for at least a 10-year planning period unless otherwise limited under s. 380.05, including
related rules of the Administration Commission. Absent physical limitations on population growth,
population projections for each municipality, and the unincorporated area within a county must, at
a minimum, be reflective of each area’s proportional share of the total county population and the
total county population growth.
Section 163.3177(6)(a)2. Florida Statutes:
2. The future land use plan and plan amendments shall be based upon surveys, studies, and data
regarding the area, as applicable, including:
a. The amount of land required to accommodate anticipated growth.
b. The projected permanent and seasonal population of the area.
c. The character of undeveloped land.
d. The availability of water supplies, public facilities, and services.
e. The need for redevelopment, including the renewal of blighted areas and the elimination of
nonconforming uses which are inconsistent with the character of the community.
f. The compatibility of uses on lands adjacent to or closely proximate to military installations.
g. The compatibility of uses on lands adjacent to an airport as defined in s. 330.35 and consistent
with s. 333.02.
h. The discouragement of urban sprawl.
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i. The need for job creation, capital investment, and economic development that will strengthen
and diversify the community’s economy.
j. The need to modify land uses and development patterns within antiquated subdivisions.
Section 163.3177(6)(a)8. Florida Statutes:
(a) A future land use plan element designating proposed future general distribution, location, and extent of
the uses of land for residential uses, commercial uses, industry, agriculture, recreation, conservation,
education, public facilities, and other categories of the public and private uses of land. The approximate
acreage and the general range of density or intensity of use shall be provided for the gross land area
included in each existing land use category. The element shall establish the long-term end toward which
land use programs and activities are ultimately directed.
8. Future land use map amendments shall be based upon the following analyses:
a. An analysis of the availability of facilities and services.
b. An analysis of the suitability of the plan amendment for its proposed use considering the
character of the undeveloped land, soils, topography, natural resources, and historic resources
on site.
c. An analysis of the minimum amount of land needed to achieve the goals and requirements of
this section.
Section 163.3187 Florida Statutes: [qualifications to follow the small-scale GMPA process] Process
for adoption of small-scale comprehensive plan amendment.
(1) A small-scale development amendment may be adopted under the following conditions:
(a) The proposed amendment involves a use of 50 acres or fewer. [The subject site comprises 2.8±
acres.]
(b) The proposed amendment does not involve a text change to the goals, policies, and objectives
of the local government’s comprehensive plan but only proposes a land use change to the future land
use map for a site-specific small-scale development activity. However, text changes that relate
directly to and are adopted simultaneously with the small-scale future land use map amendment shall
be permissible under this section. [This amendment does include a text change to the Comprehensive
Plan and those text changes are directly related to the proposed future land use map amendment.]
(c) The property that is the subject of the proposed amendment is not located within an area of critical
state concern unless the project subject to the proposed amendment involves the construction of
affordable housing units meeting the criteria of s. 420.0004(3) and is located within an area of
critical state concern designated by s. 380.0552 or by the Administration Commission pursuant to
s. 380.05(1). [The subject property is not located within an Area of Critical State Concern.]
(4) Comprehensive plans may only be amended in such a way as to preserve the internal consistency of
the plan pursuant to s. 163.3177. Corrections, updates, or modifications of current costs which were set
out as part of the comprehensive plan shall not, for the purposes of this act, be deemed to be amendments.
[This amendment is not a correction, update, or modification of current costs that were set out as part
of the comprehensive plan. If the Planning Commission recommends approval, it will be finding that the
amendment preserves internal consistency of the plan.]
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NEIGHBORHOOD INFORMATION MEETING (NIM) NOTES:
The NIM was held on July 15, 2025 at Golden Gate Community Center, 4701 Golden Gate Parkway,
Naples, FL 34116. The meeting commenced at approximately 6:30 p.m. and ended at 7:06 p.m. Two
attendees were present in addition to the applicant representatives and County staff.
The agent explained the request for the conditional use petition and companion Growth Management Plan
Amendment, explaining the ultimate plan proposed for the property is to expand the existing home of
approximately 2,300 square feet to 6,000 square feet to accommodate up to 200 seats for church services.
The neighboring property owner asked questions about the design and expansion of the existing residential
dwelling, how close it may be extended to the western property line, and how historic flooding onto her
property will be controlled. The agent explained the side setback is 30 feet, and maximum building height
is 30 feet, and detention areas will be designed to address drainage requirements. Near the conclusion of
the questions and answers, the neighbor expressed that she is “happy to have a Haitian church as my
neighbor. I just want to make sure that it doesn't hurt my property value.”
FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS:
• The Golden Gate Area Master Plan specifically states that there will be no further new conditional
uses established along this corridor.
• The analysis identified that most if not all potential conditional use sites available in the Urban
Golden Gate Estates are already occupied.
• County water and wastewater service is available to the site.
• The transportation impacts as a result of the proposed change will result in little effect of traffic
flow on Golden Gate Parkway.
• A reevaluation of the conditional use locational criteria could be restudied in the future.
• The Downtown Center Commercial Subdistrict, within one-half mile to the east of the subject site,
provides for the ability to sit a church as a permitted use.
Environmental Findings:
The subject property is 2.81 acres. Environmental Services Staff verified the acreage of native vegetation
on site during the review of the Conditional Use (CU) PL20230010505 for the project. The property does
not contain native vegetation. The subject property is currently zoned Estates.
The proposed GMP amendment has no effect on the requirements of the Conservation and Coastal
Management Element (CCME) regarding preserving native vegetation onsite. The property does not
contain native vegetation on-site, therefore; the requirements of CCME Policy 6.1.2 and section 3.05.07 of
the LDC have been met; no preservation will be required. Environmental Services staff recommends
approval of the proposed petition.
LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS:
This Staff Report was reviewed by the County Attorney’s Office on October 16, 2025.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the Collier County Planning Commission forward this petition to the Board of
County Commissioners with a recommendation of denial to the Florida Department of Commerce and other
statutorily required agencies. Furthermore, staff suggest that the Potential Conditional Use Locational
Criteria be reviewed and updated within the GGAMP.
NOTE: This petition has been tentatively scheduled for the January 13th, 2026, BCC meeting.
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ORDINANCE NO. 2026-___
AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA AMENDING ORDINANCE NO.
89-05, AS AMENDED, THE COLLIER COUNTY GROWTH
MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR THE UNINCORPORATED AREA OF
COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, SPECIFICALLY AMENDING THE
URBAN GOLDEN GATE ESTATES SUB-ELEMENT OF THE
GOLDEN GATE AREA MASTER PLAN AND GOLDEN GATE
FUTURE LAND USE MAP AND MAP SERIES TO MODIFY THE
GOLDEN GATE PARKWAY AND COLLIER BOULEVARD SPECIAL
PROVISIONS IN THE ESTATES DESIGNATION, ESTATES MIXED
USE DISTRICT TO ALLOW A CONDITIONAL USE FOR A 6,000
SQUARE FOOT CHURCH WITH 4,000 SQUARE FEET OF RELATED
STRUCTURES. THE SUBJECT PROPERTY CONSISTS OF 2.81±
ACRES AND IS LOCATED AT 5890 GOLDEN GATE PARKWAY IN
SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 49 SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST, COLLIER
COUNTY, FLORIDA; AND FURTHERMORE, DIRECTING
TRANSMITTAL OF THE ADOPTED AMENDMENT TO THE
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE; PROVIDING FOR
SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
[PL20230012851]
WHEREAS, Collier County, pursuant to Section 163.3161, et. seq., Florida Statutes, the
Florida Local Government Comprehensive Planning and Land Development Regulation Act,
was required to prepare and adopt a comprehensive plan; and
WHEREAS, the Collier County Board of County Commissioners adopted the Collier
County Growth Management Plan on January 10, 1989; and
WHEREAS, the Community Planning Act of 2011 provides authority for local
governments to amend their respective comprehensive plans and outlines certain procedures to
amend adopted comprehensive plans; and
WHEREAS, Les Voyageurs Celestes Pentecostal Worship Center, Inc. represented by D.
Wayne Arnold, AICP, of Q. Grady Minor and Associates, P.A. requested an amendment to the
Urban Golden Gate Estates Sub-Element of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan and Future Land
Use Map and Map Series and modify the Golden Gate Parkway and Collier Boulevard Special
Provisions in the Estates Designation, Estates Mixed Use District; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Subsection 163.3187(1), Florida Statutes, this amendment is
considered a Small-Scale Amendment; and
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WHEREAS, the subject property is not located in an area of critical state concern or a
rural area of opportunity; and
WHEREAS, the Collier County Planning Commission (CCPC) on ______________
considered the proposed amendment to the Growth Management Plan and recommended
approval of said amendment to the Board of County Commissioners; and
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Collier County did take action in the
manner prescribed by law and held public hearings concerning the proposed adoption of the
amendment to the Urban Golden Gate Estates Sub-Element of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan
and Golden Gate Future Land Use Map and Map Series of the Growth Management Plan on
______________; and
WHEREAS, all applicable substantive and procedural requirements of law have been
met.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, that:
SECTION ONE: ADOPTION OF AMENDMENT TO THE GROWTH
MANAGEMENT PLAN
The Board of County Commissioners hereby adopts this small-scale amendment to the
Urban Golden Gate Estates Sub-Element of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan and Golden Gate
Future Land Use Map and Map Series in accordance with Section 163.3184, Florida Statutes.
The text and map amendment are attached hereto as Exhibit “A” and incorporated herein by
reference.
SECTION TWO: TRANSMITTAL TO THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
COMMERCE
The Board of County Commissioners directs transmittal of the adopted amendment to the
Florida Department of Commerce.
SECTION THREE: SEVERABILITY.
If any phrase or portion of this Ordinance is held invalid or unconstitutional by any court
of competent jurisdiction, such portion shall be deemed a separate, distinct and independent
provision and such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion.
SECTION FOUR: EFFECTIVE DATE.
The effective date of this plan amendment, if the amendment is not timely challenged,
shall be 31 days after Board adoption. If timely challenged, this amendment shall become
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effective on the date the state land planning agency or the Administration Commission enters a
final order determining this adopted amendment to be in compliance. No development orders,
development permits, or land uses dependent on this amendment may be issued or commenced
before it has become effective.
PASSED AND DULY ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Collier
County, Florida this _______ day of _______________, 2026.
ATTEST: BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
CRYSTAL K. KINZEL, CLERK COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
By: __________________________ By: ________________________________
Deputy Clerk , Chairman
Approved as to form and legality:
________________________________
Heidi Ashton-Cicko,
Managing Assistant County Attorney
Attachment: Exhibit A – Proposed Text Amendment and Maps
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Exhibit A
URBAN GOLDEN GATE ESTATES SUB-ELEMENT
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I. Estates Designation
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A. Urban Estates- Mixed Use District
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3. Conditional Use Subdistrict
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b. Golden Gate Parkway and Collier Boulevard Special Provisions:
1. Recognizing the existing residential nature of the land uses surrounding the I-75 interchange at
Golden Gate Parkway, there shall be no further conditional uses for properties abutting Golden
Gate Parkway, between Livingston Road and Santa Barbara Boulevard, except: as permitted
within the Golden Gate Parkway Institutional Subdistrict and the Golden Gate Estates
Commercial Infill Subdistrict; as provided in subparagraphs 3. and 5. below; for the properties
identified as Unit 30 Tracts 113-115 and the N 150’ of tract
116 that have existing Conditional Uses; and, for essential services, as described in paragraph
a., above.
2. Further, no properties abutting streets accessing Golden Gate Parkway, between Livingston Road
and Santa Barbara Boulevard, shall be approved for conditional uses except: as permitted
within the Golden Gate Parkway Institutional Subdistrict; as provided in subparagraph 3.
below; and, for essential services, as described in paragraph a. above.
3. In consideration of the improvements associated with the interchange at Interstate 75 and
Golden Gate Parkway, the existing conditional use (church and related facilities) located at the
southeast corner of Golden Gate Parkway and 66th Street S.W. may be expanded in acreage and
intensity along the south side of Golden Gate Parkway to the east of 66th Street S.W., but the
total project area shall not exceed approximately 9.22 acres (see Golden Gate Parkway
Interchange Conditional Uses Area Map).
4. The parcel located immediately south of the Commercial Western Estates Infill Subdistrict, on
the west side of Collier Boulevard, and at the southwest quadrant of the intersection of
Vanderbilt Beach Road and Collier Boulevard, shall be eligible for a transitional conditional use
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5. Conditional use for expansion of the existing educational and charitable social organization
(Naples Bridge Center) is allowed on the east 150 feet of Tract 75 and the west 150 feet of
Tract 82, Unit 30, Golden Gate Estates. The maximum building area permitted on the two
parcels shall be limited to 15,000 square feet. Use of Tract 82 shall be limited to parking, water
management and open space uses. See Conditional Uses Subdistrict Golden Gate Parkway
Special Provisions map.
6. The property located on Collier Boulevard identified as Golden Gate Estates Unit 1, north 150
feet of TR 114, less right-of-way, shall be eligible for Conditional Use.
7. Conditional Use for a church and related facilities is allowed on the west 180 feet of Tract 76,
Unit 30, Golden Gate Estates. The maximum building area permitted shall be limited to 6,000
square feet for the church and 4,000 square feet for related structures. See Conditional Uses
Subdistrict Golden Gate Parkway Special Provisions map.
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Conditional Use Subdistrict:Golden Gate Parkway Special Provisions
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Temple Shalom Community Facility Subdistrict
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Growth Management
Data and Analysis
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Q. Grady Minor and Associates, LLC
3800 Via Del Rey, Bonita Springs, FL 34134 239-947-1144 engineering@gradyminor.com www.gradyminor.com
I am writing to provide a detailed explanation regarding our organization’s decision to purchase the property located at 5890 Golden Gate Parkway for our new worship center. Our congregation currently holds worship services in a commercial strip mall at 12425 Collier Boulevard. When we established our nonprofit corporation in 2013, this location was suitable for our needs. However, as our congregation has grown over the years, we have outgrown our current facility. Recognizing the need for a larger and more permanent place of worship, we conducted an extensive search for an appropriate property. It was also important to find a location that was in close proximity to many current church members homes, but yet accessible and convenient for church congregation growth. Our initial preference was to acquire an existing church building. However, despite conducting an extensive and prolonged search throughout the area, no suitable church properties were available for purchase. We then turned our search to other properties in the Naples area. Below is a summary of the properties we considered and the reasons they were not selected:
1. 4050 13th Avenue S.W., Naples, FL 34116 (Site Plan below) This 5.5+/- acre property is located on Collier Boulevard, north of Green Boulevard, and is subject to the Urban Golden Gate Estates Subelement of the Golden Gate Estates Area Master Plan. It is currently developed with a former model home; however, in 2023 a Small-Scale Growth Management Plan amendment was approved which created the 13th Ave SW Commercial Subdistrict. A companion CPUD was approved for the site. This planning subdistrict and PUD only permits indoor mini storage and no other commercial uses. A church is not a permitted use under the GMP or PUD; therefore, another GMP amendment and PUD amendment would be required in order to establish a church as a permitted use on this property. This property is surrounded on two sides by a Florida Power and Light electric substation. The proximity to this quasi industrial activity, is not ideal for establishing our new worship center, and our parishioners determined this to be an unsuitable location for our congregation’s growth.
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2. 5484 Rattlesnake Hammock Road, Naples, FL 34113 This .4+/- acre is located on Rattlesnake Hammock Road, approximately .75 miles east of the intersection with U.S. 41. The site is zoned C-3 and is an outparcel of the Charlemagne Plaza. The existing building was a former bank and more recently utilized as a church. The existing building is approximately 3,000 square feet in size, but offers no opportunity to expand the building footprint, nor are there any areas outside the building that could be utilized for congregational use. This site, while zoned for a church does not offer any opportunity to grow the congregation or to establish additional indoor facilities to provide for space for socialization or church activities other than worship. This site is also located farther south and west than desirable to our current parishioners.
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3. 4896 Rattlesnake Hammock Road, Naples, FL 34113 This small .42+/- acre parcel is located near the intersection of U.S. 41 and Rattlesnake Hammock Road. The site is zoned C-4 and is developed with a 2,600+/- square foot building that is currently utilized by a florist. Similar to the other commercial property on Rattlesnake Hammock Road, this property while zoned commercial and allows the church use, does not provide any opportunity to be expanded to accommodate congregation growth, or provide any additional space for church related activities other than worship services. This location is far from Golden Gate City where many of the current congregants reside, and not easily accessible.
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4. A vacant parcel of land on Sabal Palm off Collier Boulevard – This property was dismissed by the church members as being too remote and far from the Golden Gate City area where many of the current congregants reside. Additionally, the site is undeveloped and appears to have potential wetland issues.
5. 2925 64th Street S.W., Naples, FL 34105 This 2.16+/- acre property is located immediately west of I-75, and north of Golden Gate Parkway. The property is developed with a 1,200+/- square foot stilt home that was formerly a model home and now used as a residence. The Estates zoned property is adjacent to the Bethel AME church to the west and to the north is a vacant Estates zoned property. The existing residential building is elevated above grade and would need to be expanded in order to accommodate even the existing congregation size. The site does not meet the qualifications for a Transitional Conditional Use and is subject to the same GMP limitations for obtaining a conditional use in order to use the site for a church. A small-scale GMP amendment and conditional use would need to be approved in order for this site to permit the church use. These factors and the proximity to I-75 were reasons the current church members decided not to pursue this property.
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Throughout this process, our Church leadership dedicated significant time and resources to evaluating these properties, ensuring that our parishioners were actively involved in the decision-making process. Given that the majority of our current members reside in Golden Gate City, it became clear that proximity to their homes was a primary criteria for selecting our new location to provide a convenient location for them, yet a central and convenient location to accommodate growth.
Other Potential Conditional Use Site in Urban Golden Gate Estates
Staff has suggested that the Golden Gate Area Master Plan has several locations that meet the criteria that would permit development of a church or other conditional use. The applicant has reviewed the Golden Gate master plan and determined that there are no sites within the Urban Golden Gate Estates area that could be developed as a church without the need to modify the Golden Gate Area Master Plan. Collier County Planning Staff last published in 2009, a map and list of potential conditional use sites in Golden Gate Estates. The applicant has evaluated the list and map for available properties located within the Urban Estates Subdistrict area of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan to determine potential sites to consider for establishing a new worship center. The County map (GG CU-1) identifies nine (9) parcels that would be eligible to seek a conditional use for a church, day care, private school, assisted living facility or similar uses allowable uses of the E, Estates Zoning District. At the present time, five (5) of these sites have either been developed, or in the process of being developed. Two of the parcels (N) are located in the Activity Center at I-75 and Pine Ridge Road. One parcel was approved by the Hearing Examiner in 209 for a 64-bed assisted living facility. Although unbuilt, the CU remains valid. The other parcel located in this Activity Center was recently rezoned from Estates to CPUD and will be the new home for a Genesis automobile dealership. One of the identified parcels (H) is located on Golden Gate Parkway, less than ¼ mile from the proposed worship center. However, this parcel has been acquired by the David Lawrence Center and has been the subject of a Growth Management Plan Amendment and PUD rezoning in support of the Collier County Behavioral Health Center. Two other sites identified on the map as available were a parcel (I) of land located in the Neighborhood Center at Pine Ridge Road and Collier Boulevard. This parcel was recently rezoned to a Commercial PUD and is in the process of being developed as a Dunkin Donuts coffee shop. Another parcel located at 13385 Collier Boulevard was approved in 2023 for a church, and a Site Development Plan is under review by Collier County for the Central Church of Christ. The remaining four (4) sites that are not approved for development include one that is located on Collier Boulevard near the intersection of Vanderbilt Beach Road and Collier Boulevard (E). The list of conditional use site published by the County lists a 6.27-acre parcel as eligible in this area. The legal description included in the list does not describe any parcel located between 7th Ave. NW and Vanderbilt Beach Road. In reviewing the Collier County Property Appraiser records, the County has acquired all parcels located north of 7th Ave. NW, except for a 2.3 acre parcel that has an existing single-family home on it. The legal description for this home does not match the legal description on the County’s potential conditional use list; however, depending on the interpretation by the Planning and Zoning Director, the site might be eligible as a Transitional CU. However, as a Transitional CU, the Golden Gate Master Plan specifies that where the site abuts E, Estates zoned property, then a 75’ wide buffer of native vegetation must be provided in which no parking or water management uses
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are permitted. According to the Collier County Property Appraiser records, the site is approximately 170’+/- wide. Both properties to the north and south are zoned E, Estates. When the required 75’ buffer is applied, only an area 20’ in width remains in which to place a church and the required parking and support infrastructure. This is obviously inadequate to support a church; therefore, this site can be discounted as a viable conditional use site. A small-scale growth management plan amendment would be required to deviate from the buffer requirements of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan. One of the other sites is located on Pine Ridge Road, just west of Neff’s Way (K) and immediately behind the property that includes the Dunkin Donuts which is under development. The site abuts E, Estates zoned property to the west and north. The site is developed with a single-family residence. This property meets the Neighborhood Center Transitional CU criteria as it is adjacent to the Neighborhood Center and is on an arterial roadway. According to the Property Appraiser records, the site is approximately 180’ in width. The Golden Gate Master Plan requires that properties abutting E, Estates zoned property must provide a 75’ wide buffer in which no parking or water management may be provided. Because the site is adjacent to Neff’s Way, a 10’ wide landscape buffer must be provided. The total width of buffers in this situation is 85’, leaving the remaining developable envelope as only 90’. The 90’ width in which improvements may be located is not sufficient to support a church, which would include at a minimum the sanctuary building, parking and water management. Even a small footprint building of 60’ in width, with the required drive aisles, water management and parking would easily exceed a width of 100’. The site due to the large buffer standards for the Transitional Conditional Use warrant the site unsatisfactory for use as church. A small-scale growth management plan amendment would be required to deviate from the buffer requirements of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan. Another site is located directly across Pine Ridge Road from the above property (K). The site is directly west of the Brooks Village commercial center. The property to the west of the subject site is zoned E, Estates. The subject parcel is only 75’ in width and cannot meet the 75’ wide buffer requirement where a Transitional CU abuts a site zoned Estates. This site cannot meet the development requirements to support a conditional use. A small-scale growth management plan amendment would be required to deviate from the buffer requirements of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan. The final site is located on 11th Ave. SW. (K) and is also directly to the west of the Brooks Village commercial center. This parcel is approximately 180’ in width and has been developed with a single-family home and outbuildings. As with the parcel located immediately to the north, because of the Transitional Conditional use criteria a 75’ wide vegetative buffer is required by the Golden Gate Area Master Plan against the abutting E, Estates zoned parcel to the west. A 10’ wide buffer would be required along the eastern property line abutting Brooks Village. The remainder of the site that could be utilized in support of buildings, parking and infrastructure for a church is only 95’. As described above, even a small church building of 60’ in width and the required drive aisles and parking will exceed 100’ in width. A small-scale growth management plan amendment would be required to deviate from the buffer requirements of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan.
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5890 Golden Gate Parkway As a result of the above analysis, we determined that the property at 5890 Golden Gate Parkway was the most suitable location to serve as our place of worship. This decision was made with careful consideration of our congregation’s needs and with the goal of establishing a long-term, accessible place of worship for our community. The property at 5890 Golden Gate Parkway was previously used as a horticultural nursery, and thus was largely cleared, except for the existing home and barn. The applicant engaged an architect and contractor to evaluate the existing residential structure and determined that the structure could be modified without substantial exterior work or expansion to accommodate the existing congregation size and modest growth. The existing structure can be further modified and enlarged to accommodate more congregation growth to the maximum of 200 congregants as requested. The barn can also be retrofitted to be used for small social gatherings and meetings, and again, the site can accommodate expansion of this building over time. The site has high capacity wells on-site that were utilized for horticultural irrigation, but may be available for future fire protection. Collier County potable water service is located immediately across Golden Gate Parkway and the applicant has discussed the extension of the utility to the property. The site is adjacent to the east to the Able Academy, which is a private school for special needs children and young adults. A right turn lane exists on Golden Gate Parkway which serves the Able Academy and is planned to be utilized to for access to the worship center. The church has discussed joint access with the adjacent school site and initially was not receptive to full shared access; therefore, the site plan accompanying the companion conditional use, identifies a potential interconnection between the church and school. The location is in an area having several other non-residential uses. We have prepared an exhibit identifying the other non-residential uses in close proximity to 5890 Golden Gate Parkway. These uses include the existing David Lawrence Center, Collier County Behavioral Health Facility, Able Academy, Naples Bridge Center, Corpus Christi Chapel, Iglesia Manantial Devida, and The Pelican Lutheran Church and Community Center. The property has sufficient area available to provide buffering to the adjacent residential structure located immediately to the west. The Conditional Use application includes a condition relative to the required buffering, and the applicant is in regular contact with the neighbor and will continue to discuss buffering needs directly with the homeowner. The applicant understands that there are numerous commercially zoned sites that could accommodate the proposed church use; however, the church is currently located in a commercial strip center and this type of location works well for a start-up congregation, but not for a growing congregation. The applicant is involved in the Collier County real estate industry and has conducted an exhaustive search for properties that can provide for existing and congregation growth in the areas in relative close proximity to Golden Gate City. The proposed location is less than ½ mile from Golden Gate City and less than ½ mile from I-75, providing good accessibility for current and future congregants.
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Adjacent Non-Residential Land Uses:
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Civil Engineers Land Surveyors Planners Landscape Architects
Q. Grady Minor and Associates, LLC
3800 Via Del Rey, Bonita Springs, FL 34134 239-947-1144 engineering@gradyminor.com www.gradyminor.com
Golden Gate Worship Center GMPA
PL20230012851
CCPC Hearing Backup
Application and Supporting Documents
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Civil Engineers Land Surveyors Planners Landscape Architects
Q. Grady Minor and Associates, LLC Ph. 239-947-1144 Fax. 239-947-0375
3800 Via Del Rey EB 0005151 LB 0005151 LC 26000266
Bonita Springs, FL 34134 www.gradyminor.com
April 28, 2025 Mr. Parker Klopf Collier County Growth Management Department 2800 North Horseshoe Drive Naples, FL 34104 RE: Golden Gate Worship Center GMPA (PL20230012851), Submittal 1 Dear Mr. Klopf: An application for Public Hearing for a proposed comprehensive plan amendment for a 2.81+/- acre property located at 5890 Golden Gate Parkway. The GMPA proposes to amend the Golden Gate Area Master Plan, Urban Golden Gate Estates Subdistrict in order to allow a local church to submit a Conditional Use application for a 200-seat church and related religious. A companion Conditional Use application (Golden Gate Worship Center Conditional Use PL20230010505) has been filed along with this petition. Documents filed with submittal 1 include the following: 1. Cover letter 2. Application 3. Professional Consultants 4. Exhibit B Amended Text 5. Exhibit C Proposed FLU Designation 6. Existing Subdistrict Map 7. Exhibit D Proposed Subdistrict Map 8. Land Use 9. Existing Future Land Use Designation 10. Growth Management 11. Growth Management Data and Analysis 12. Public Facilities 13. Traffic Impact Statement 14. High Noise Contours 15. Deed
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Mr. Parker Klopf
RE: Golden Gate Worship Center GMPA (PL20230012851), Submittal 1
April 28, 2025
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16. Plat Book 7 Page 58 17. Affidavit of Authorization 18. Property Ownership Disclosure 19. Addressing Checklist 20. Preapplication Notes Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions. Sincerely,
D. Wayne Arnold, AICP c: Les Voyageurs Celestes Pentecostal Worship Center, Inc. GradyMinor File (5890GGP-24)
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Golden Gate Worship Center GMPA (PL20230012851)
Professional Consultants
January 30, 2025 Page 1 of 1
Professional Consultants.docx
Q. Grady Minor and Associates, LLC
3800 Via Del Rey, Bonita Springs, FL 34134 239-947-1144 engineering@gradyminor.com www.gradyminor.com
Planner/Project Management: D. Wayne Arnold, AICP Q. Grady Minor and Associates, P.A. 3800 Via Del Rey Bonita Springs, FL 34134 239.947.1144 warnold@gradyminor.com
Land Use Attorney: Richard D. Yovanovich, Esq Coleman, Yovanovich and Koester, P.A. 4001 Tamiami Trail North, Suite 300 Naples, FL 34103 239.435.3535 ryovanovich@cyklawfirm.com
Transportation: James M. Banks, P.E., President JMB Transportation Engineering, Inc. 4711 7th Avenue SW Naples, FL 34119 239.919.2767 jmbswte@msn.com
Environmental: Marco Espinar, Biologist Collier Environmental Consultants, Inc. 3211 68th Street SW Naples, FL 34105 239-263-2687 marcoe@prodigy.net
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Golden Gate Worship Center GMPA (PL20230012851)
Exhibit B
Amended Text
July 8, 2025 Page 1 of 2
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Q. Grady Minor and Associates, LLC
3800 Via Del Rey, Bonita Springs, FL 34134 239-947-1144 engineering@gradyminor.com www.gradyminor.com
Proposed amendment to the Collier County Future Land Use Element (FLUE).
Words underlined are additions; words struck through are deletions.
FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
I. Urban Designation *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
A. Urban Mixed Use District *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** b. Golden Gate Parkway and Collier Boulevard Special Provisions: 1. Recognizing the existing residential nature of the land uses surrounding the I-75 interchange at Golden Gate Parkway, there shall be no further conditional uses for properties abutting Golden Gate Parkway, between Livingston Road and Santa Barbara Boulevard, except: as permitted within the Golden Gate Parkway Institutional Subdistrict and the Golden Gate Estates Commercial Infill Subdistrict; as provided in subparagraphs 3. and 5. below; for the properties identified as Unit 30 Tracts 113-115 and the N 150’ of tract 116 that have existing Conditional Uses; and, for essential services, as described in paragraph a., above. 2. Further, no properties abutting streets accessing Golden Gate Parkway, between Livingston Road and Santa Barbara Boulevard, shall be approved for conditional uses except: as permitted within the Golden Gate Parkway Institutional Subdistrict; as provided in subparagraph 3. below; and, for essential services, as described in paragraph a. above. 3. In consideration of the improvements associated with the interchange at Interstate 75 and Golden Gate Parkway, the existing conditional use (church and related facilities) located at the southeast corner of Golden Gate Parkway and 66th Street S.W. may be expanded in acreage and intensity along the south side of Golden Gate Parkway to the east of 66th Street S.W., but the total project area shall not exceed approximately 9.22 acres (see Golden Gate Parkway Interchange Conditional Uses Area Map).
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4. The parcel located immediately south of the Commercial Western Estates Infill Subdistrict, on the west side of Collier Boulevard, and at the southwest quadrant of the intersection of Vanderbilt Beach Road and Collier Boulevard, shall be eligible for a transitional conditional use designation. 5. Conditional use for expansion of the existing educational and charitable social organization (Naples Bridge Center) is allowed on the east 150 feet of Tract 75 and the west 150 feet of Tract 82, Unit 30, Golden Gate Estates. The maximum building area permitted on the two parcels shall be limited to 15,000 square feet. Use of Tract 82 shall be limited to parking, water management and open space uses. See Conditional Uses Subdistrict Golden Gate Parkway Special Provisions map. 6. The property located on Collier Boulevard identified as Golden Gate Estates Unit 1, north 150 feet of TR 114, less right-of-way, shall be eligible for Conditional Use. 7. Conditional Use for a church and related facilities is allowed on the west 180 feet of Tract 76, Unit 30, Golden Gate Estates. The maximum building area permitted shall be limited to 6,000 square feet for the church and 4,000 square feet for related structures. See Conditional Uses Subdistrict Golden Gate Parkway Special Provisions map. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
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Golden Gate Worship Center (PL20230012851)Exhibit C - Proposed Future Land Use Designation
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Residential Estates Subdistrict
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CONDITIONAL USE SUBDISTRICT: GOLDEN GATE PARKWAY SPECIAL PROVISIONSCOLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
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GROWTH MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
DATE: 6/2016 FILE: GMPA20150002525_CP_2015_3A.MXD
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SPECIAL PROVISIONS
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ZONED: E, ESTATES
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ZONED: E, ESTATES
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SUBJECT PROPERTY - 2.81± ACRES
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DISTRICT, RESIDENTIAL ESTATES SUBDISTRICT
EXISTING ZONING: ESTATES (CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT OVERLAY) AND ESTATES
ADJ. PROPERTY ZONING LAND USE
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EAST E (CMO) AND E PRIVATE SCHOOL, CHURCH
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3800 Via Del Rey
Bonita Springs, Florida 34134
Bonita Springs: 239.947.1144 ZZZ.GradyMinor.coP Fort Myers: 239.690.4380
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Growth Management
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Q. Grady Minor and Associates, LLC
3800 Via Del Rey, Bonita Springs, FL 34134 239-947-1144 engineering@gradyminor.com www.gradyminor.com
The 2.8+/- acre parcel located at 5890 Golden Gate Parkway is proposing to amend the Golden
Gate Area Master Plan, Urban Golden Gate Estates Subdistrict in order to allow a local church
to submit a Conditional Use application for a 200-seat church and related religious. The
current Subdistrict language prohibits new conditional uses to be located along this portion
of Golden Gate Parkway; therefore, the amendment modifies the special provisions and
special exceptions to location criteria for conditional uses.
A companion Conditional Use (CU) application has been filed for the project, which includes a
conceptual site plan and conditions of approval for the church operations.
Chapter 163.3167 Scope of act.— (9) Each local government shall address in its comprehensive plan, as enumerated in this chapter, the water supply sources necessary to meet and achieve the existing and projected water use demand for the established planning period, considering the applicable plan developed pursuant to s. 373.709.
The project is within the Collier County Water Sewer District boundary and is not currently
served by water and sewer. No capacity issues exist or are anticipated in the service area.
Chapter 163.3177 (6) (a) 2. The future land use plan and plan amendments shall be based upon surveys, studies, and data regarding the area, as applicable, including: a. The amount of land required to accommodate anticipated growth. b. The projected permanent and seasonal population of the area. c. The character of undeveloped land. d. The availability of water supplies, public facilities, and services. e. The need for redevelopment, including the renewal of blighted areas and the elimination of nonconforming uses which are inconsistent with the character of the community. f. The compatibility of uses on lands adjacent to or closely proximate to military installations. g. The compatibility of uses on lands adjacent to an airport as defined in s. 330.35 and consistent with s. 333.02. h. The discouragement of urban sprawl. i. The need for job creation, capital investment, and economic development that will strengthen and diversify the community’s economy. j. The need to modify land uses and development patterns within antiquated subdivisions.
The Les Voyageurs Pentecostal Church is currently occupying two small commercial tenant
spaces located in Golden Gate City. Although the congregation is small (<75 congregants), the
congregation is growing and desires to have its own standalone church. After a long and
exhaustive search for an existing church building, Les Voyageurs has been unable to locate an
existing church available for purchase.
Les Voyageurs also researched vacant properties near the Golden Gate City area for a potential
new build for a church facility. The minister who is a realtor evaluated 5 other sites in their
search for a new church site. None of those sites had the appropriate zoning for a church use.
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We have prepared a summary of the site selection as support for the proposed small-scale
amendment.
Chapter 163.3177 8. Future land use map amendments shall be based upon the following analyses: a. An analysis of the availability of facilities and services. b. An analysis of the suitability of the plan amendment for its proposed use considering the character of the undeveloped land, soils, topography, natural resources, and historic resources on site. c. An analysis of the minimum amount of land needed to achieve the goals and requirements of this section.
The subject property is well suited for use as a house of worship. The property is in an area
where water and sewer services are available, and the site is adjacent on one side to another
non-residential use. The site is on a 6-lane arterial roadway, which provides good accessibility
for congregants, and has no traffic impact to nearby residences.
The immediate area is developed with a variety of institutional land uses including the David
Lawrence Center, Corpus Christ Chapel, Naples Bridge Center, the Able Academy, Pelican
Community Lutheran Church, Primera Iglesia Christiana Church and Naples Gathering
Church.
The portion of Golden Gate Parkway located east of I-75 and west of Golden Gate City has
developed as a corridor for numerous religious facilities, private schools and other
institutional uses largely due to the convenient access to the roadway network and ability for
congregants, students and others to easily access the facilities. The small congregation church
is compatible with the surrounding development.
163.3184 Process for adoption of comprehensive plan or plan amendment.
The proposed amendment is consistent with Chapter 163.3184, F.S which establishes the
criteria for comprehensive plan amendments to a growth management plan.
No State or regional impacts are associated with the proposed amendment.
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Q. Grady Minor and Associates, LLC
3800 Via Del Rey, Bonita Springs, FL 34134 239-947-1144 engineering@gradyminor.com www.gradyminor.com
I am writing to provide a detailed explanation regarding our organization’s decision to purchase the property located at 5890 Golden Gate Parkway for our new worship center. Our congregation currently holds worship services in a commercial strip mall at 12425 Collier Boulevard. When we established our nonprofit corporation in 2013, this location was suitable for our needs. However, as our congregation has grown over the years, we have outgrown our current facility. Recognizing the need for a larger and more permanent place of worship, we conducted an extensive search for an appropriate property. It was also important to find a location that was in close proximity to many current church members homes, but yet accessible and convenient for church congregation growth. Our initial preference was to acquire an existing church building. However, despite conducting an extensive and prolonged search throughout the area, no suitable church properties were available for purchase. We then turned our search to other properties in the Naples area. Below is a summary of the properties we considered and the reasons they were not selected:
1. 4050 13th Avenue S.W., Naples, FL 34116 (Site Plan below) This 5.5+/- acre property is located on Collier Boulevard, north of Green Boulevard, and is subject to the Urban Golden Gate Estates Subelement of the Golden Gate Estates Area Master Plan. It is currently developed with a former model home; however, in 2023 a Small-Scale Growth Management Plan amendment was approved which created the 13th Ave SW Commercial Subdistrict. A companion CPUD was approved for the site. This planning subdistrict and PUD only permits indoor mini storage and no other commercial uses. A church is not a permitted use under the GMP or PUD; therefore, another GMP amendment and PUD amendment would be required in order to establish a church as a permitted use on this property. This property is surrounded on two sides by a Florida Power and Light electric substation. The proximity to this quasi industrial activity, is not ideal for establishing our new worship center, and our parishioners determined this to be an unsuitable location for our congregation’s growth.
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2. 5484 Rattlesnake Hammock Road, Naples, FL 34113 This .4+/- acre is located on Rattlesnake Hammock Road, approximately .75 miles east of the intersection with U.S. 41. The site is zoned C-3 and is an outparcel of the Charlemagne Plaza. The existing building was a former bank and more recently utilized as a church. The existing building is approximately 3,000 square feet in size, but offers no opportunity to expand the building footprint, nor are there any areas outside the building that could be utilized for congregational use. This site, while zoned for a church does not offer any opportunity to grow the congregation or to establish additional indoor facilities to provide for space for socialization or church activities other than worship. This site is also located farther south and west than desirable to our current parishioners.
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3. 4896 Rattlesnake Hammock Road, Naples, FL 34113 This small .42+/- acre parcel is located near the intersection of U.S. 41 and Rattlesnake Hammock Road. The site is zoned C-4 and is developed with a 2,600+/- square foot building that is currently utilized by a florist. Similar to the other commercial property on Rattlesnake Hammock Road, this property while zoned commercial and allows the church use, does not provide any opportunity to be expanded to accommodate congregation growth, or provide any additional space for church related activities other than worship services. This location is far from Golden Gate City where many of the current congregants reside, and not easily accessible.
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4. A vacant parcel of land on Sabal Palm off Collier Boulevard – This property was dismissed by the church members as being too remote and far from the Golden Gate City area where many of the current congregants reside. Additionally, the site is undeveloped and appears to have potential wetland issues.
5. 2925 64th Street S.W., Naples, FL 34105 This 2.16+/- acre property is located immediately west of I-75, and north of Golden Gate Parkway. The property is developed with a 1,200+/- square foot stilt home that was formerly a model home and now used as a residence. The Estates zoned property is adjacent to the Bethel AME church to the west and to the north is a vacant Estates zoned property. The existing residential building is elevated above grade and would need to be expanded in order to accommodate even the existing congregation size. The site does not meet the qualifications for a Transitional Conditional Use and is subject to the same GMP limitations for obtaining a conditional use in order to use the site for a church. A small-scale GMP amendment and conditional use would need to be approved in order for this site to permit the church use. These factors and the proximity to I-75 were reasons the current church members decided not to pursue this property.
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Throughout this process, our Church leadership dedicated significant time and resources to evaluating these properties, ensuring that our parishioners were actively involved in the decision-making process. Given that the majority of our current members reside in Golden Gate City, it became clear that proximity to their homes was a primary criteria for selecting our new location to provide a convenient location for them, yet a central and convenient location to accommodate growth.
Other Potential Conditional Use Site in Urban Golden Gate Estates
Staff has suggested that the Golden Gate Area Master Plan has several locations that meet the criteria that would permit development of a church or other conditional use. The applicant has reviewed the Golden Gate master plan and determined that there are no sites within the Urban Golden Gate Estates area that could be developed as a church without the need to modify the Golden Gate Area Master Plan. Collier County Planning Staff last published in 2009, a map and list of potential conditional use sites in Golden Gate Estates. The applicant has evaluated the list and map for available properties located within the Urban Estates Subdistrict area of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan to determine potential sites to consider for establishing a new worship center. The County map (GG CU-1) identifies nine (9) parcels that would be eligible to seek a conditional use for a church, day care, private school, assisted living facility or similar uses allowable uses of the E, Estates Zoning District. At the present time, five (5) of these sites have either been developed, or in the process of being developed. Two of the parcels (N) are located in the Activity Center at I-75 and Pine Ridge Road. One parcel was approved by the Hearing Examiner in 209 for a 64-bed assisted living facility. Although unbuilt, the CU remains valid. The other parcel located in this Activity Center was recently rezoned from Estates to CPUD and will be the new home for a Genesis automobile dealership. One of the identified parcels (H) is located on Golden Gate Parkway, less than ¼ mile from the proposed worship center. However, this parcel has been acquired by the David Lawrence Center and has been the subject of a Growth Management Plan Amendment and PUD rezoning in support of the Collier County Behavioral Health Center. Two other sites identified on the map as available were a parcel (I) of land located in the Neighborhood Center at Pine Ridge Road and Collier Boulevard. This parcel was recently rezoned to a Commercial PUD and is in the process of being developed as a Dunkin Donuts coffee shop. Another parcel located at 13385 Collier Boulevard was approved in 2023 for a church, and a Site Development Plan is under review by Collier County for the Central Church of Christ. The remaining four (4) sites that are not approved for development include one that is located on Collier Boulevard near the intersection of Vanderbilt Beach Road and Collier Boulevard (E). The list of conditional use site published by the County lists a 6.27-acre parcel as eligible in this area. The legal description included in the list does not describe any parcel located between 7th Ave. NW and Vanderbilt Beach Road. In reviewing the Collier County Property Appraiser records, the County has acquired all parcels located north of 7th Ave. NW, except for a 2.3 acre parcel that has an existing single-family home on it. The legal description for this home does not match the legal description on the County’s potential conditional use list; however, depending on the interpretation by the Planning and Zoning Director, the site might be eligible as a Transitional CU. However, as a Transitional CU, the Golden Gate Master Plan specifies that where the site abuts E, Estates zoned property, then a 75’ wide buffer of native vegetation must be provided in which no parking or water management uses
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are permitted. According to the Collier County Property Appraiser records, the site is approximately 170’+/- wide. Both properties to the north and south are zoned E, Estates. When the required 75’ buffer is applied, only an area 20’ in width remains in which to place a church and the required parking and support infrastructure. This is obviously inadequate to support a church; therefore, this site can be discounted as a viable conditional use site. A small-scale growth management plan amendment would be required to deviate from the buffer requirements of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan. One of the other sites is located on Pine Ridge Road, just west of Neff’s Way (K) and immediately behind the property that includes the Dunkin Donuts which is under development. The site abuts E, Estates zoned property to the west and north. The site is developed with a single-family residence. This property meets the Neighborhood Center Transitional CU criteria as it is adjacent to the Neighborhood Center and is on an arterial roadway. According to the Property Appraiser records, the site is approximately 180’ in width. The Golden Gate Master Plan requires that properties abutting E, Estates zoned property must provide a 75’ wide buffer in which no parking or water management may be provided. Because the site is adjacent to Neff’s Way, a 10’ wide landscape buffer must be provided. The total width of buffers in this situation is 85’, leaving the remaining developable envelope as only 90’. The 90’ width in which improvements may be located is not sufficient to support a church, which would include at a minimum the sanctuary building, parking and water management. Even a small footprint building of 60’ in width, with the required drive aisles, water management and parking would easily exceed a width of 100’. The site due to the large buffer standards for the Transitional Conditional Use warrant the site unsatisfactory for use as church. A small-scale growth management plan amendment would be required to deviate from the buffer requirements of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan. Another site is located directly across Pine Ridge Road from the above property (K). The site is directly west of the Brooks Village commercial center. The property to the west of the subject site is zoned E, Estates. The subject parcel is only 75’ in width and cannot meet the 75’ wide buffer requirement where a Transitional CU abuts a site zoned Estates. This site cannot meet the development requirements to support a conditional use. A small-scale growth management plan amendment would be required to deviate from the buffer requirements of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan. The final site is located on 11th Ave. SW. (K) and is also directly to the west of the Brooks Village commercial center. This parcel is approximately 180’ in width and has been developed with a single-family home and outbuildings. As with the parcel located immediately to the north, because of the Transitional Conditional use criteria a 75’ wide vegetative buffer is required by the Golden Gate Area Master Plan against the abutting E, Estates zoned parcel to the west. A 10’ wide buffer would be required along the eastern property line abutting Brooks Village. The remainder of the site that could be utilized in support of buildings, parking and infrastructure for a church is only 95’. As described above, even a small church building of 60’ in width and the required drive aisles and parking will exceed 100’ in width. A small-scale growth management plan amendment would be required to deviate from the buffer requirements of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan.
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5890 Golden Gate Parkway As a result of the above analysis, we determined that the property at 5890 Golden Gate Parkway was the most suitable location to serve as our place of worship. This decision was made with careful consideration of our congregation’s needs and with the goal of establishing a long-term, accessible place of worship for our community. The property at 5890 Golden Gate Parkway was previously used as a horticultural nursery, and thus was largely cleared, except for the existing home and barn. The applicant engaged an architect and contractor to evaluate the existing residential structure and determined that the structure could be modified without substantial exterior work or expansion to accommodate the existing congregation size and modest growth. The existing structure can be further modified and enlarged to accommodate more congregation growth to the maximum of 200 congregants as requested. The barn can also be retrofitted to be used for small social gatherings and meetings, and again, the site can accommodate expansion of this building over time. The site has high capacity wells on-site that were utilized for horticultural irrigation, but may be available for future fire protection. Collier County potable water service is located immediately across Golden Gate Parkway and the applicant has discussed the extension of the utility to the property. The site is adjacent to the east to the Able Academy, which is a private school for special needs children and young adults. A right turn lane exists on Golden Gate Parkway which serves the Able Academy and is planned to be utilized to for access to the worship center. The church has discussed joint access with the adjacent school site and initially was not receptive to full shared access; therefore, the site plan accompanying the companion conditional use, identifies a potential interconnection between the church and school. The location is in an area having several other non-residential uses. We have prepared an exhibit identifying the other non-residential uses in close proximity to 5890 Golden Gate Parkway. These uses include the existing David Lawrence Center, Collier County Behavioral Health Facility, Able Academy, Naples Bridge Center, Corpus Christi Chapel, Iglesia Manantial Devida, and The Pelican Lutheran Church and Community Center. The property has sufficient area available to provide buffering to the adjacent residential structure located immediately to the west. The Conditional Use application includes a condition relative to the required buffering, and the applicant is in regular contact with the neighbor and will continue to discuss buffering needs directly with the homeowner. The applicant understands that there are numerous commercially zoned sites that could accommodate the proposed church use; however, the church is currently located in a commercial strip center and this type of location works well for a start-up congregation, but not for a growing congregation. The applicant is involved in the Collier County real estate industry and has conducted an exhaustive search for properties that can provide for existing and congregation growth in the areas in relative close proximity to Golden Gate City. The proposed location is less than ½ mile from Golden Gate City and less than ½ mile from I-75, providing good accessibility for current and future congregants.
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Q. Grady Minor and Associates, LLC
3800 Via Del Rey, Bonita Springs, FL 34134 239-947-1144 engineering@gradyminor.com www.gradyminor.com
Provide the existing Level of Service Standard (LOS) and document the impact the proposed change will have on the following public facilities: The subject 2.8± acre property proposes to convert the existing single family dwelling unit to a 200-seat 6,000 square foot church. The public facilities analysis evaluates the impacts on Class A public facilities including potable water, wastewater, drainage, parks, schools, roadways, fire/EMS and solid waste. The source for the LOS information is the Collier County 2024 AUIR, unless otherwise noted.
Potable Water The property is located within the Collier County Water Sewer District’s regional potable water service area. The LOS for potable water is based on residential population; therefore, the proposed non-residential project will not cause any LOS issues in the 5-year planning horizon.
Sanitary Sewer The property is located within the Collier County Water Sewer District’s North County Water Reclamation Facility's service area. The LOS for sanitary sewer is based on residential population; therefore, the proposed non-residential project will not cause any LOS issues in the 5-year planning horizon.
Arterial and Collector Roads Please refer to the Traffic Impact Statement for discussion of the project’s impact on the LOS for arterial and collector roadways within the project’s radius of development influence.
Drainage The County has adopted a LOS standard for private developments which requires development to occur consistent with water quantity and quality standards established in Ordinances 74-50, 90-10, 2001-2 and LDC Ordinance 2004-41, as may be amended. The property will undergo Site Development Plan (SDP) review by Collier County, which has established requirements for water quality treatment, storm water runoff attenuation and controlled off-site discharge of storm water runoff at a prescribed discharge rate. The proposed development is consistent with Collier County LOS standards.
Solid Waste The property is located within the Collier County solid waste service area. The LOS for solid waste is based on residential population; therefore, the proposed non-residential project will not cause any LOS issues in the 5 year planning horizon. LOS: 2 years of constructed lined cell capacity 627,934 Tons Available cell capacity 6,251,646 Tons Data Source: Collier County AUIR 2024
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Parks: Community and Regional The church use has no impacts on this public facility. No adverse impacts to Community or Regional Parks result from this amendment as the project will pay impact fees.
Schools
The church use has no impacts on this public facility. No adverse impacts to Community or Regional Parks result from this amendment as the project will pay impact fees.
Fire Control, Sheriff and EMS The proposed project lies within the Greater Naples Fire and Rescue District. The Greater Naples Fire Rescue - Station #70, located at 4741 Golden Gate Parkway, is approximately 1.6 miles from the property. No significant impacts to Fire Control level of service are anticipated due to the proposed project. Estimated impact fees for EMS and fire would be determined at time of SDP based on the size, type, or number of units in the site plan application. Sheriff, Fire Protection and EMS Services location/address of facilities intended to serve the project are; Collier County EMS 75 4590 Santa Barbara Blvd, Naples, FL 34104 Greater Naples Fire Rescue - Station #70 4741 Golden Gate Parkway, Naples, FL 34116 Collier County Sheriff's Office - District 5 4707 Golden Gate Pkwy, Naples FL 34116
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9628SThe Historic/Archaeological Probability Maps are the officialCounty source designating historic or archaeologic resources.ZONING NOTES 1 PU-79-16C 2 PU-80-1-C 3 PU-77-3C 4 3-20-84 PU-84-1C 84-59 5 PU-78-9C 6 PU-79-22C 7 R-75-39C 8 PU-86-28C 9 PU-76-4C 10 PU-77-5C 11 PU-85-13C 12 PU-86-18C 13 PU-78-11C14 PU-80-4C15 PU-86-4C16 V-85-21C17 11-9-82 PU-82-23-C 82-19218 4-18-78 PU-78-3C 78-6219 3-6-90 NUC-90-2 90-133A20 11-27-90 V-90-17 90-57321 12-19-89 89-100 CORRIDOR MANAGE-- MENT OVERLY DISTRICT22 1-29-91 PU-90-20 91-11123 R-75-8 NAPLES JAYCEES CLUBHOUSE24 5-25-93 SPA-93-1 93-21825 5-25-93 CU-93-2 93-21726 6-14-94 CU-93-13 94-42427 7-26-94 CU-94-5 94-53428 11-22-94 V-94-7 94-81829 3-16-95 TU-95-2 95-730 7-25-95 CU-94-5 EXT. 95-43331 2-27-96 NUC-96-1 96-106- INCORRECTLY NOTED AS UNIT 20- IN COMM. MINUTES32 7-3-97 TU-97-3E 97-3333 7-29-97 NUC-97-2 97-30534 8-26-97 NUC-97-1 97-33935 6-9-98 CU-98-3 98-18036 6-9-98 CU-98-5 98-18137 3-12-02 NUC-01-AR-1856 02-14238 5-25-04 PUDZ-03-AR-4332 04-3539 9-25-12 LDC ORD. 12-3840 9-25-07 PUDEX-07-AR-11781 07-27041 3-10-09 CU-08-AR-13661 09-5742 5-22-07 CU-06-AR-11034 07-13843 7-28-09 CU-08-AR-13679 09-18744 5-10-16 CU-PL-15-873 16-10145 12-2-20 NUC-PL-20-497 HEX 20-2646 2-14-23 PUDZ-PL-22-2221 23-1347 4-4-23 VA-PL-20-2603 HEX 23-1248 12-1-23 NUC-PL-23-11674 HEX 23-39INDICATES CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT OVERLAY DISTRICT
(330' OFFSET FROM R/W LINE)
THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A PAGE OF THE
OFFICIAL ZONING ATLAS REFERRED TO AND ADOPTED
BY REFERENCE BY ORDINANCE NO. 04-41 OF THE
COUNTY OF COLLIER, FLORIDA, ADOPTED JUNE 22, 2004,
AS AMENDED BY THE ZONING NOTES AND SUBDIVISION
INDEX REFERENCED HEREON.
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Growth Management Community Development Department
2800 North Horseshoe Drive, Naples, Florida 34104
Phone: (239) 252-1036 | Email: GMDClientServices@colliercountyfl.gov
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This is a required form with all land use petitions, except for Appeals and Zoning Verification
Letters.
Should any changes of ownership or changes in contracts for purchase occur subsequent to the
date of application, but prior to the date of the final public hearing, it is the responsibility of the
applicant, or agent on his behalf, to submit a supplemental disclosure of interest form.
Please complete the following, use additional sheets if necessary.
a. If the property is owned fee simple by an INDIVIDUAL, tenancy by the entirety, tenancy in
common, or joint tenancy, list all parties with an ownership interest as well as the
percentage of such interest:
Name and Address % of Ownership
N.A.
b. If the property is owned by a CORPORATION, list the officers and stockholders and the
percentage of stock owned by each:
Name and Address % of Ownership
Les Voyageurs Celestes Pentecostal Worship Center, Inc., 1796
48th St SW, Naples, FL 34116 (a Florida not for profit corporation)
Jean L. Paul, President
Rodamie Romelus, Vice President
Marie R. Paul, Treasurer
Soffara Morency, Secretary
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c. If the property is in the name of a TRUSTEE, list the beneficiaries of the trust with the
percentage of interest:
Name and Address % of Ownership
N.A.
d. If the property is in the name of a GENERAL or LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, list the name of the
general and/or limited partners:
Name and Address % of Ownership
N.A.
PROPERTY OWNERSHIP DISCLOSURE FORM
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Phone: (239) 252-1036 | Email: GMDClientServices@colliercountyfl.gov
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e. If there is a CONTRACT FOR PURCHASE, with an individual or individuals, a Corporation,
Trustee, or a Partnership, list the names of the contract purchasers below, including the
officers, stockholders, beneficiaries, or partners:
Name and Address % of Ownership
N.A.
Date of Contract:
f. If any contingency clause or contract terms involve additional parties, list all individuals or
officers, if a corporation, partnership, or trust:
Name and Address
N.A.
g. Date subject property acquired 2023
Leased: Term of lease years /months
If, Petitioner has option to buy, indicate the following:
Date of option:
Date option terminates: , or
Anticipated closing date:
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Phone: (239) 252-1036 | Email: GMDClientServices@colliercountyfl.gov
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Any petition required to have Property Ownership Disclosure, will not be accepted without this form. Requirements
for petition types are located on the associated application form. Any change in ownership whether individually or
with a Trustee, Company or other interest-holding party, must be disclosed to Collier County immediately if such
change occurs prior to the petition’s final public hearing.
As the authorized agent/applicant for this petition, I attest that all of the information indicated on this checklist is
included in this submittal package. I understand that failure to include all necessary submittal information may result
in the delay of processing this petition.
April 17, 2025
Agent/Owner Signature Date
D. Wayne Arnold, AICP
Agent/Owner Name (please print)
AFFIRM PROPERTY OWNERSHIP INFORMATION
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Civil Engineers Land Surveyors Planners Landscape Architects
Q. Grady Minor and Associates, LLC Ph. 239-947-1144 Fax. 239-947-0375
3800 Via Del Rey EB 0005151 LB 0005151 LC 26000266
Bonita Springs, FL 34134 www.gradyminor.com
NOTICE OF NEIGHBORHOOD INFORMATION MEETING
PETITIONS: PL20230012851 and PL20230010505 Golden Gate Worship Center Growth Management
Plan Amendment (GMPA) and Conditional Use (CU) In compliance with the Collier County Land Development Code (LDC) requirements, a neighborhood Information meeting (NIM) hosted by D. Wayne Arnold, AICP, of Q. Grady Minor and Associates, LLC (GradyMinor), representing Les Voyageurs Celestes Pentecostal Worship Center, Inc. (Applicant) will be held July 15, 2025,
6:30 pm at the Golden Gate Community Center, 4701 Golden Gate Parkway, Naples FL 34116. The Applicant has submitted formal Growth management Plan Amendment and Conditional Use applications to Collier County for their property consisting of 2.8± acres and located at 5890 Golden Gate Parkway. The applicant is seeking approval of the petitions listed above in order to allow conditional use #1 of the E, Estates Zoning District to permit a church and related facilities on the subject property.
If you have questions contact Sharon Umpenhour with GradyMinor by email: sumpenhour@gradyminor.com or phone: 239-947-1144, Extension 4249. For project information or to register to participate remotely* visit our website at GradyMinor.com/Planning. Any information provided is subject to change until final approval by the governing authority. The purpose and intent of this Neighborhood Information Meeting is to provide the public with notice of an impending zoning application and to foster communication between the applicant and the public. The expectation is that all attendees will conduct themselves in such a manner that their presence will not interfere with the orderly progress of the meeting.
*Remote participation is provided as a courtesy and is at the user’s risk. The applicant and GradyMinor are not
responsible for technical issues.
PROJECT LOCATION MAP
GRADYMINOR.COM/PLANNING
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PETITIONS:
PL20230012851 -GOLDEN GATE WORSHIP CENTER
GROWTH MANAGEMENT PLAN AMENDMENT (GMPA) AND
PL20230010505 -AND CONDITIONAL USE (CU)
JULY 15, 2025, NEIGHBORHOOD INFORMATION MEETING (NIM)
Project information and a copy of this presentation can be found on our website:
GRADYMINOR.COM/PLANNING/
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PROJECT TEAM:
•Pastor Lalane Pau l, Les Voyageurs Celestes Pentecostal Worship Center, Inc. – Applicant
•D. Wayne Arnold, AICP, Professional Planner – Q. Grady Minor and Associates, LLC
•James M. Banks, PE, Traffic Engineer – JMB Transportation Engineering, Inc
•Marco A. Espinar, Environmental Planning/Biologist – Collier Environmental Consultants, Inc.
*Please note, all information provided is subject to change until final approval by the governing authority.
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INTRODUCTION
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LOCATION MAP
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ADJACENT NON-RESIDENTIAL LAND USES
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PROJECT INFORMATION
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FUTURE LAND USE (FLU) DESIGNATION:Golden Gate Area Master Plan, Urban Golden Gate Estates Sub-Element, Estates Designation, Mixed Use District, Residential Estates Subdistrict
ZONING: E,Estates and E,Estates (Corridor Management Overlay)
OVERALL PROJECT ACREAGE : 2.8+/- acres
PROPOSED REQUEST:
•Amend the future land use designation to Estates Designation, Mixed Use District, Conditional Uses Subdistrct, Golden Gate Parkway Special Provisions
•To allow Conditional Use #1 of the E, Estates Zoning District for a church and related facilities
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PROPOSED SUBDISTRICT TEXT AMENDMENT
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EXISTING FUTURE LAND USE MAPS
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PROPOSED FUTURE LAND USE MAPS
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PROPOSED SITE PLAN
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PROPOSED CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL
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NEXT STEPS
•File resubmittal
•Hearing Notices mailed to adjacent property owners within 1 Mile of the subject property.
•Hearing sign posted on property advertising hearing dates.
•HEARING DATES:
•CCPC – TBD, 9:00 a.m., Collier County Government Center, 3299 Tamiami Trail East, 3rd floor
BCC Chamber, Naples, FL, 34112
•BCC – TBD, 9:00 a.m., Collier County Government Center, 3299 Tamiami Trail East, 3rd floor
BCC Chamber, Naples, FL, 34112
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Project information and a copy of this presentation can be found online:
WWW.GRADYMINOR.COM/PLANNING
Collier County Growth Management Department (GMD) Public Portal:
https://cvportal.colliercountyfl.gov/CityViewWeb/Planning/Locator
Petition Numbers: PL20230012851 (GMPA)
PL20230010505 (CU)
CONTACTS:
•Q. Grady Minor and Associates, LLC: Sharon Umpenhour, Senior Planning Technician; SUmpenhour@gradyminor.com or 239.947.1144, Ext. 4249
•Collier County Staff: Parker Klopf; Parker.Klopf@colliercountyfl.gov, (239) 252-2471 Sean Sammon; Sean.Sammon@colliercountyfl.gov, (239) 252-8422
PROJECT DOCUMENTS AND INFORMATION
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Wayne Arnold: 00:00 Good evening everybody. I'm Wayne Arnold. I'm a planner with
Grady Minor and Associates, and with me tonight is Sharon
Umpenhour from our office. She'll be doing the audiovisual and
recording the meeting. This is Jim Banks, our traffic engineer.
We have Pastor Jean Paul back there, and I think you two ladies
know him. The other folks are here associated with the church
in some manner, I believe. So we have Laura DeJohn, who's with
the county zoning department handling the conditional use
application, and we have Maria Estrada who's handling the
comprehensive plan amendment and I guess overseeing both
applications in some extent for the county. They're here
observing.
Speaker 2: 00:38 You work for the county?
Wayne Arnold: 00:39 Yes, both ladies here work at Collier County. So we're here
tonight for two applications that we filed for the property at
5890 Golden Gate Parkway. We have a small scale growth
management plan amendment that we filed. We have to amend
the Golden Gate master plan. There's a provision that does not
allow any additional conditional uses on that corridor between
Livingston Road and Santa Barbara. So we have to amend that
and a map to show that we would have a conditional use on this
site. And then we filed a conditional use application which
would allow for the church use under the Estates Zoning. So
we're not really changing the Estates Zoning on the property,
but we are trying to authorize a church to be allowed on the
subject property.
01:20 So you're a neighbor, so you're well familiar with the site, it's
about 2.8 acres. There's a house on there that's a little over, I
don't know, 2,300 square feet and there's an out building back
there that's several hundred square feet and we're in the
process to try to... This is a map we created to show you all the
other things going around us that are related. You all obviously
know what's going on in your area, but there's a lot of other
non-residential uses. Our firm has been involved with the Bridge
Center and some work for Kitty Corral over the years and David
Lawrence Center and things like that.
01:56 So this just says we're under the Golden Gate Master Plan
today, under the Urban Estates Area and we're doing the two
revisions, one for the master plan and one for the conditional
use. The language, I apologize for, I didn't realize this was just a
regular screen, but the provision that we're changing, it's adding
something that just says we're going to allow conditional use
with related facilities and then it gives the legal description for
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the church property and it says we're going to be restricted to a
maximum 6,000 square feet for any church and then a total of
4,000 square feet for any other related uses.
02:33 So that would allow the pastor to expand. We've asked for
congregation size 200 seats for the sanctuary and so they've got
plans that they hired a contractor to look at that and they can fit
a good number of people in the house, but it would need to be
expanded to reach the 200. So we've made provisions for them
to be able to expand a little bit to the south to expand the size
of the house to become a larger sanctuary. And then what
would become the outbuilding barn that's there could be
modified into a future fellowship hall or meeting space for
themselves.
03:10 This is just one of the map exhibits and I'm not going to spend
any time on that. This is our conceptual site plan that we
prepared. I'm going to walk through the screens. Sorry about
that. I'm going to point over here. So just to orient you to the
site, access is on Golden Gate Parkway. There's an access
deceleration lane that serves ABLE Academy, which is here. We
approached them about using their driveway connection to
access our site this way. They were very cordial, very nice, but
until we're established, they didn't feel very comfortable
allowing us to share their driveway and facilities, so we kept the
potential there by having a potential interconnection with
them. But for the time being, we'll have to have an independent
access, and working with Jim Banks and county transportation
staff, we'll probably have to extend the turn lane that's there a
little bit in order to achieve the proper deceleration length that
the county establishes and things like that.
Speaker 2: 04:11 Are you talking about pulling the turn lane from the ABLE
Academy or whatever it's called back towards your property?
Wayne Arnold: 04:17 It would be, turn lane would remain where it is. It would just be
extended to the west than where it is now. If it stops about
here, we probably would have to extend it to the edge of our
property. Just to orient you to the site, so the access point is
here. We've made provisions for some parking up front. There's
a septic tank there now. Don't really know exactly the limits of
the septic tank, so the parking is generally configured there.
This is the residence that would be the future church.
04:45 So the church building, we've allowed for expansion to the
south where we can grow. We have setback issues to the west
and to the east. So we have provisions to grow in this direction
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to get to the 6,000 square feet. Again, the fellowship building is
located here, which is the barn shed that's there and that could
be expanded. And then we made provisions for parking
throughout the site and then we labeled this as some future
parking if we needed some overflow and then a small outdoor
recreational facility for children during church hours or
something there. And again, the interconnection would be with
ABLE Academy there.
05:28 One of the things that we do for conditional use applications,
the county asks us to establish conditions of approval. So the
conditional use is so named because it's approved with
conditions. So we've outlined a series of 10 conditions here that
have been presented and going back and forth with staff.
They're not finalized, but it says that we're going to be subject
to the master plan that I showed you. We've established church
hours that are 7:00 to 9:00 for church offices for instance, and
then we established worship hours for Saturday, Sunday, and
then during the week. Currently, they operate a Wednesday
evening service, but obviously things occur and they may need
to have services on other dates other than Wednesdays. We've
limited ourselves here to the 6,000 square feet church, 4,000
square feet of renovated structures and a maximum of 200
people for the seating capacity.
06:22 There's a provision that says, if we have a service that requires a
lot of traffic generation, the county may ask us to hire an off-
duty deputy or police officer to help manage traffic on a day to
relieve people from this facility. That's typical of every church
facility that gets approved in the county, that condition. We've
established a trip cap, which Jim established. So the maximum
trip number, it's really, it's a low number by county standards.
It's 20 new net trips in a peak hour. Most-
Speaker 2: 06:54 What does that mean?
Wayne Arnold: 06:55 Jim, do you want to explain what that means in layman terms?
Jim Banks: 07:02 It basically means that what you can expect between the hours
of 4:00 and 6:00 P.M. in the evenings is that this church would
generate no more than 20 total trips. That includes somebody
that might come to the site and exit the site. And that typically
for churches does not happen five days a week. It's usually if
they have a Bible study or something like that, that's when they
would generate that kind of traffic. But based upon surveys of
other similar churches' land uses, we can estimate that this
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Wayne Arnold: 07:42 And that's on weekdays only. The county doesn't measure
[inaudible 00:07:45].
Jim Banks: 07:45 And that would be on a weekday. That's not the Sunday service.
And again, in this case, it would probably be something like a
Bible study or something like that, a one night a week type thing
that would generate that type of traffic. So it's a low traffic
generator, so that's not a lot of traffic in an hour.
Wayne Arnold: 07:59 Thanks, Jim. The other thing we've put on here a provision that
there's no private school or daycare associated with this facility.
Obviously, they can have child care during the church services,
but there's no separate child care facility. There's a separate
conditional use application for that and we did not make
application for that. So it's explicit that this is only during the
church service hours that they could have their child care
component. So if you're there with your children, they can have
a room with child care.
08:30 No outdoor amplified sound is permitted. That's one of our
proposed conditions. And again, I should say these are in flux
because the county hasn't completed its review, so they may
ask for us to change these, modify them. That's why we've
shared some contact information at the end of this so you can
stay plugged in. And the last one that's on there is the western
buffer between your house and this one, it has to be confirmed
with the site improvements for the site to convert it to the
church. And it says that we'll be planting a buffer hedge at least
five feet in height at the time of planting and maintained at
eight feet in height. So really, the county requires a Type B
buffer between the church and your house and the Type B
buffer can include a hedge or a wall or a combination of that
and a berm, etc. In the 15 feet that we have, we proposed the
hedge. I think it's softer and nicer to me than a wall for-
Speaker 2: 09:28 What do you mean the 15 feet?
Wayne Arnold: 09:29 It's 15 feet wide. So the width from the property line east in this
case it would be a 15-foot-wide area that would be planted with
the trees and shrub.
Speaker 2: 09:39 Oh, okay.
Wayne Arnold: 09:41 So those are our proposed conditions of approval. And like I
said, those are still subject to some refinement, but obviously
you've got a dialogue with the pastor and you know how to get
in touch with us, so if we need to talk about any of those
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specifically with you, we'd be happy to. Our next steps are, we
received our initial review comment letters on both applications
from the county and we're prepared to respond to those.
Thought we would hold off until after this meeting. We sent out
thousands of mail notices because the mail notice area is a mile.
So we didn't know if we would gain people from Windermere
and Berkshire Lakes and other parts, so we just thought, "Let's
hold off in case we have a lot of folks show up and there are a
lot of questions and we may need to refine something before
we resubmit."
10:26 But no hearings have been established yet, but when they do,
it'll be heard by the Collier County Planning Commission and
they make a formal recommendation to the Board of County
Commissioners and then the Board of County Commissioners
will hear the item and they'll make the final decision on whether
to approve the church or approve it with a set of conditions that
may or not be exactly those.
Speaker 2: 10:47 You're going to be noticing me and other neighbors?
Wayne Arnold: 10:48 So this was our notice to meeting. The County Planning
Commission, they send out their own separate notices. We have
to post a sign on the site. So you'll see one of the zoning signs
that goes up in front of it and it'll have a date on it and the time
of the meetings, et cetera, once those are posted. But one of
the other things, this is our last slide, we'll leave you with that
and you can either take a picture or I'm happy to give you... I
have one clean copy of the presentation that I can leave with
you and this basically has Sharon's contact information. It has
the county's contact information, it has the application number,
and you can either go to our website and link to everything
that's live time with what gets submitted back to the county or
you can go to the county's portal and see exactly what they
recommend. So that's, in a nutshell, our presentation. Happy to
answer any questions.
Speaker 2: 11:39 Are we the only neighbors that came?
Wayne Arnold: 11:39 You are.
Speaker 2: 11:39 Oh, geez. You spent a lot of money for this. I'm sorry about that.
Wayne Arnold: 11:46 It's okay. That's why we do it. It's one of the required meetings
that the county has and sometimes they're very well attended
and sometimes they're not, and it's just the process.
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Speaker 2: 11:58 So I don't see any picture of what you plan to do in terms of
expanding the house.
Wayne Arnold: 12:04 I don't think they're-
Speaker 2: 12:07 Is there anything coming toward the west?
Wayne Arnold: 12:09 No, I don't think so. The setback in the Estates is 30 feet. The
house is just a little past 30 feet right now, so I don't think
there's any room to grow at the west. There is room to grow a
tad to the north and look to the east and then to the south. But
I think the pastor, the immediate plans are to go in and make
some very minimal alterations necessary to the interior of the
building, maybe some enhancements on the outside of it to
pretty it up. And I think we shared with you a set of those early
drawings when we met and those have not changed. I don't
think they've had any-
Speaker 2: 12:43 I think you were coming 10 or 15 feet toward my house-
Wayne Arnold: 12:45 Were we?
Speaker 2: 12:46 At that point.
Wayne Arnold: 12:47 Oh, okay. If we are, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that. I'll have to go
back and look at that. But those plans have not changed. But I'll
have to take-
Speaker 2: 12:58 So what's the plan with the house then to turn it into a 200-
person sanctuary? In simple terms, what is it going to look like?
Wayne Arnold: 13:07 Well, they're going to have to do some enhancements to the
building itself to meet some of the county's non-residential
standards with windows and glazing and handicap accessibility
and those kinds of things. So do you still have that set of plans?
Speaker 2: 13:25 Yeah, I have them.
Wayne Arnold: 13:26 Because I can forward those to you again if you'd like, just so
we're all on the same page and if we need to sit down again and
look at those and just... But the plan that I remember it had,
when you walk in, it would be a sanctuary and they'd taken out
some of the walls and put in a common bathroom for instance,
and the kitchen area came out and there were pews and things
oriented toward a small stage altar area in the middle of-
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Speaker 2: 13:50 I vaguely remember that. Is the house going to expand then
toward the south and east?
Wayne Arnold: 13:58 Eventually. But Pastor, I don't think you're expanding the
footprint of the house initially in your first phase, right?
Pastor Paul: 14:03 Well, now?
Wayne Arnold: 14:04 Yes.
Pastor Paul: 14:04 No, it just stays the way it is.
Speaker 2: 14:05 Your extension is inside the house?
Pastor Paul: 14:05 The inside. We're not planning [inaudible 00:14:11].
Wayne Arnold: 14:10 They may have to make some cosmetic improvements.
Speaker 2: 14:12 [inaudible 00:14:12] take out walls?
Wayne Arnold: 14:15 So we have to record this. Can you just make sure we can hear
you when you ask the question?
Laura DeJohn: 14:23 Sure. She's hearing an ultimate to 6,000 square feet and she's
asking how does that look?
Wayne Arnold: 14:26 So I don't know exactly what that looks like because we haven't
drawn anything for that.
Laura DeJohn: 14:30 Would it be accurate to say the house today at 2,000-ish square
feet could triple in size or it could go two-story?
Wayne Arnold: 14:41 I think it's around 2,300 square feet now, so it could grow to
6,000 total square feet with that sanctuary building. But I think
our limits are...
Speaker 2: 14:49 [inaudible 00:14:50].
Wayne Arnold: 14:49 [inaudible 00:14:50] out.
Speaker 2: 14:49 So that's what I'm asking. If you're going to go from 2,300 to
6,000 square feet, which way are you going to do that?
Wayne Arnold: 14:49 Well, I think primarily you can only grow to the south because
you have to have parking on the east and drive aisle to get to
the back there.
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Speaker 2: 14:49 Oh, so it'll eventually connect to the building behind the house?
Wayne Arnold: 15:19 It could. We showed [inaudible 00:15:20]. If we had a projector
that was working, I would show you the plan.
Speaker 2: 15:21 Don't worry, I know where [inaudible 00:15:22].
Jim Banks: 15:21 [inaudible 00:15:22] a projector.
Wayne Arnold: 15:21 You know what? I may have a set of those initial plans
[inaudible 00:15:22].
Jim Banks: 15:21 I got a hammer [inaudible 00:15:22].
Wayne Arnold: 15:22 So I'll share those with you. So there's going to be some facade
improvements on the front of the house just to make it look
more church-like, obviously.
Speaker 2: 15:42 Sure.
Wayne Arnold: 15:42 And then the Estates, there's a 30-foot height limit, so can't
grow too tall. Same as any residential house.
Speaker 2: 15:47 Then it's a two-story?
Wayne Arnold: 15:48 Could be.
Speaker 2: 15:48 Could be?
Wayne Arnold: 15:50 Yeah. But I don't think you have plans to go two-story at this
point. These plans, if you can see, the front door stays here. This
becomes all sanctuary area with a stage back here and then that
becomes bathrooms and a small common area.
Speaker 2: 16:02 Can I take a quick picture?
Wayne Arnold: 16:05 Take the whole thing [inaudible 00:16:06]. Take it.
Speaker 2: 16:06 Oh, thanks.
Wayne Arnold: 16:09 You can take those. I can print out as many of those as I need.
But I'm sorry, I don't have the details on what happens when it
does grow to the maximum, but we wanted to establish some
maximums. That's double-sided unfortunately. Just so you
know.
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Speaker 2: 16:23 It's okay. I'm just trying to figure out, do you have any idea what
a 6,000 square-foot would like?
Laura DeJohn: 16:29 Well again, I don't know the exact plans for this site, but in
trying to understand the magnitude, that's where I came up
with almost triple in size would take you from 2,000
approximately to 6,000, approximately triple.
Speaker 2: 16:47 And when you measure square feet, it's on the ground, right?
So 6,000 square feet is outward and upward is just a bonus?
Wayne Arnold: 16:54 If it was more than one story, it would be each level. You could
achieve 6,000 square feet with a 3,000 square foot first floor
and a 3,000 square foot second floor, for instance.
Laura DeJohn: 17:04 It's called gross square feet. It's not just the floor area on the
ground, it's gross square feet. So if it was two stories he said it
would...
Wayne Arnold: 17:11 But that plan, I don't know that that grows the building. Maybe
it does. I don't recall it growing that building.
Speaker 2: 17:17 I don't remember it doing that.
Wayne Arnold: 17:18 But I'll take a look at that more closely and let you know for
sure.
Speaker 2: 17:21 I think these were just within the original design.
Wayne Arnold: 17:24 Pretty much. I think there's a covered front porch area that gets
built up to have a stoop over the front door and some other
improvements. We didn't do those plans. The contractor
prepared those.
Speaker 2: 17:35 I don't see anything beyond the footprint of what's already
here.
Wayne Arnold: 17:38 It's pretty close.
Speaker 2: 17:39 Maybe I'm missing that. I don't know.
Laura DeJohn: 17:40 But your concept plan, it is a little hard, but it probably has
bubbles that say there could be the growing [inaudible
00:17:47]-
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Wayne Arnold: 17:47 We don't depict the existing footprint in that envelope. I guess
that's something we could modify to show the existing building
inside the 6,000 square feet, for instance.
Laura DeJohn: 17:56 Maybe, yeah.
Wayne Arnold: 17:57 Maybe.
Speaker 2: 17:59 I'll turn this way so it'll hopefully record. If you grow to 6,000
square feet, is your thought to go higher or back toward the
other building? Have you already thought about what you might
want it to look like?
Pastor Paul: 18:11 This step I have to speak to the engineer.
Wayne Arnold: 18:14 Pastor, can you speak up? We have to record this.
Pastor Paul: 18:16 In this case, I say I have to speak to the engineer to find out the
best way to do it.
Speaker 2: 18:28 Okay.
Pastor Paul: 18:28 What's most likely what I see, we would never go to the west.
We would never touch the west. You see what I mean? Toward
your house. Because not enough space. We have to go either
from the house to the back of the back building. That's where
we would go.
Speaker 2: 18:36 Okay.
Pastor Paul: 18:36 See what I said, Mr. Wayne?
Wayne Arnold: 18:36 Yes.
Pastor Paul: 18:36 From the house to the back.
Wayne Arnold: 18:44 Let's look at it. We'll get the survey and-
Speaker 2: 18:46 So you were saying that the house is already a little beyond the
30-foot that it's supposed to be, so you can't go to the west
anymore?
Wayne Arnold: 18:52 I don't think... We can't go closer than 30 feet.
Speaker 2: 18:55 To the west?
Wayne Arnold: 18:56 To the west
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Speaker 2: 18:57 No matter what?
Wayne Arnold: 18:57 No matter what.
Speaker 2: 18:59 Okay. You want additional questions? I had a couple I wrote
down.
Wayne Arnold: 19:07 Sure. Yeah. We didn't answer them please, this is a good time to
ask them.
Speaker 2: 19:10 I have to look and see if I did or not.
Wayne Arnold: 19:14 As long as I don't need to bring back up the presentation
because, for whatever reason, we can show it on the screen to
you. We can do that.
Speaker 2: 19:23 If this conditional use permit is approved, what happens if they
sell the property to somebody else? Do they automatically
inherit the conditional use permit?
Wayne Arnold: 19:34 They do. It runs with the land, but they're still subject to the set
of conditions, have to abide by those.
Pastor Paul: 19:41 As you know, we're not planning to sell it.
Speaker 2: 19:50 Good.
Pastor Paul: 19:50 That would be the last option for us.
Speaker 2: 19:51 Good. You've been a good neighbor. It's way too early to ask
about time of day for construction, but David Lawrence, the
building across the street is already breaking their times that
they're allowed to build.
Wayne Arnold: 20:06 I don't even know their current construction times. Is it 7:00
A.M. to 7:00 P.M. or something close to that? I don't...
Speaker 2: 20:10 I don't know. The only really other concern I had was water
retention. Right now, that property is already dumping water
onto my property when we have heavy rains and flooding and
it's filling up my backyard. So what is going to be required to
make sure that that stops happening and doesn't happen even
more? Especially if they're going to build a parking area and
bring in more fill.
Wayne Arnold: 20:43 So the county requires them to do the conversion of the house
to a church through a site development plan review process. So
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Pastor will have to hire, whether it's us doing the engineering
work or another engineering firm, to engineer a site plan. And
one of the criteria that the county reviews is drainage. So we
have to show that we're not putting drainage onto your site, so
they're containing the water we generate off our pavement and
things into our probably dry detention areas. There won't be a
pond of some sort. It'd just be swales and dry detention areas to
retain the water on site until it can discharge out to, I don't
know where, probably the parkway, I guess. I don't really know.
We haven't started any engineering on that yet.
Speaker 2: 21:21 The guy that had the property before the church bought it, had
a real flooding problem, which then added to my flooding
problem and he actually ran pumps to run the water into
Golden Gate Parkway swales to try to get rid of the water.
Wayne Arnold: 21:36 Did it work?
Speaker 2: 21:38 Yeah, but then the county told him he wasn't allowed to do
that. So it's a problem for that property as you start to-
Wayne Arnold: 21:47 That's good to know. I didn't realize that. But the county will
make us do a full drainage plan as part of the...
Speaker 2: 21:53 That property used to flood to about a foot and a half deep-
Wayne Arnold: 21:56 Really?
Speaker 2: 21:56 Near my barn and toward the south. And-
Wayne Arnold: 22:00 On the south side.
Speaker 2: 22:01 Then the prior owner brought in 50 dump trucks worth of fill. So
now it starts dumping onto my property. I actually have videos
where it's literally pouring over-
Wayne Arnold: 22:11 Wow.
Speaker 2: 22:11 Over a weir or a dam. So that'll be really important as you go
forward.
Wayne Arnold: 22:18 Oh, absolutely. That's good to know. I had no idea.
Speaker 2: 22:21 That's my biggest concern. I love them as neighbors. I'm happy
to have a Haitian church as my neighbor. I just want to make
sure that it doesn't hurt my property value-
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Wayne Arnold: 22:33 Absolutely.
Speaker 2: 22:33 Or my enjoyment of my own property.
Wayne Arnold: 22:34 Absolutely.
Speaker 2: 22:35 And I'm happy to have them as neighbors. I hope I get invited to
dinners sometime.
Wayne Arnold: 22:40 We can probably arrange that.
Speaker 2: 22:43 And dancing.
Wayne Arnold: 22:43 And dancing.
Pastor Paul: 22:46 It will be open to everybody, so...
Wayne Arnold: 22:48 Thanks, Jean Paul.
Pastor Paul: 22:48 Definitely. We are Haitians, but it's not going to be for Haitians.
It's just for anyone that will come and join [inaudible 00:22:56].
Wayne Arnold: 22:55 That's what religion should be anyway, all about love, right?
Pastor Paul: 22:58 She's been good to us, so...
Wayne Arnold: 23:02 Anything else over here? If not, you know how to get in touch
with us and we've got your contact info and I'll take a look at
those construction drawings just to try to figure out, making
sure that the footprint isn't encroaching. I know it can't get
closer than 30 feet. I can't promise you that it's not at 32 feet or
something today, but I'll look into that.
Speaker 2: 23:21 Honestly, I'm not going to fight it for a foot or two. I don't care.
Wayne Arnold: 23:23 Well, they can't get closer than 30 feet.
Speaker 2: 23:26 I just, the original plan I think had them expanding toward my
property, if I recall correctly.
Wayne Arnold: 23:30 If you recall, we were originally asking for 7,000 square feet and
we backed that down to six. Just thinking that it's probably
unrealistic to think they need to grow to 7,000 square feet.
Speaker 2: 23:39 Well, it's a big property that they have, so if they grow
backward and then join the fellowship hall, none of that
bothered me.
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Wayne Arnold: 23:48 Good.
Speaker 2: 23:48 Especially if there's an edge and they're not-
Wayne Arnold: 23:50 Especially if your drainage-
Speaker 2: 23:50 Displacing water.
Wayne Arnold: 23:50 Is corrected.
Speaker 2: 23:53 The drainage is really a big deal for me.
Wayne Arnold: 23:54 I got it.
Speaker 2: 23:55 Because it floods inside my barn, which it never used to do.
Wayne Arnold: 23:59 Thankfully it's not your house.
Speaker 2: 24:01 Yeah. Thank God.
Wayne Arnold: 24:01 Anyway.
Speaker 2: 24:01 Well, I'm sorry you had to spend all the money [inaudible
00:24:06]-
Wayne Arnold: 24:06 No, that's why we're here. Thanks for coming out. Appreciate
you taking time again and I'm sure we'll talk more. So we'll be in
this process for several more months at least.
Speaker 2: 24:16 Do you have a date in mind that you think you're likely to be
able to...
Wayne Arnold: 24:20 Let's say we resubmit this week or early next week and then the
county is going to take another 30 days plus to review that.
There will probably be some more back and forth on conditions
and questions. So probably after the first of the year, don't you
think Laura, realistically? Could be.
Laura DeJohn: 24:35 I haven't been able to... I inherited this from a gentleman who
has resigned and moved away.
Speaker 2: 24:43 How dare he?
Laura DeJohn: 24:43 From what I'm hearing, it's not too complicated.
Wayne Arnold: 24:47 No, it's not a complex application.
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Laura DeJohn: 24:51 So end of the year, early-
Wayne Arnold: 24:51 But end of the year-
Laura DeJohn: 24:51 Next year.
Wayne Arnold: 24:51 Early next year probably to get to the board. Their schedule, it's
kind of... They only have one meeting in November and one
meeting in December. So you just don't know what the backlog
is by the time we get ready to go.
Speaker 2: 25:04 Did you move the... In what I saw up here, it looked like you
moved the driveway entrance-
Wayne Arnold: 25:08 We did.
Speaker 2: 25:09 Further east.
Wayne Arnold: 25:09 East, yes.
Speaker 2: 25:11 Is planning going to allow that?
Wayne Arnold: 25:11 We originally were going to have two. Originally, we were going
to have an access closer to the west side and then hopefully still
connect through ABLE Academy. And then when ABLE Academy
said, "We're not really comfortable you doing that," we shifted
the access point at Jim's suggestion little farther to the east.
Speaker 2: 25:26 That would certainly make it easier for trucks and things to get
in there.
Wayne Arnold: 25:28 Yeah. Hopefully you don't-
Speaker 2: 25:31 Is the county going to allow that? Because they didn't allow the
guy before to do it.
Wayne Arnold: 25:35 What's that?
Speaker 2: 25:37 Allowing that access point on Golden Gate?
Wayne Arnold: 25:39 Oh, yeah. They don't have a choice. They have to let us have at
least a right in, right out access.
Speaker 2: 25:44 What does that mean right in, right out?
Wayne Arnold: 25:45 That we could only turn in right and turn out right. But there
wouldn't be a directional left lane.
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Jim Banks: 25:49 Just like your home, you can only turn right into your house and
then you turn right out Golden Gate. It's the same situation.
Speaker 2: 25:59 It all looks great.
Wayne Arnold: 26:00 Thank you. Sorry about the projector. Thanks everybody.
Jim Banks: 26:05 We're taking donations for a new projector.
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SIGN POSTING INSTRUCTIONS(CHAPTER 8, COLLIER COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE CODE FOR LAND DEVELOPMENT)A zoning sign(s) must be posted by the petitioner or the petitioner's agent on the parcel for a minimum of fifteen (15) calendardays in advance of the first public hearing and said sign(s) must be maintained by the petitioner or the petitioner's agent throughthe Board of County Commissioners Hearing. Below are general guidelines forfor signs,signs, howeverhowever thesethese guidelines should not beconstrued to supersede any requirement of the LDC. For specific sign requirements, please refer to the Administrative Code,Chapter 8Е.1.The sign(s) must be erected in full view of the public, not more than five (5) feet from the nearest street right-of-way oreasement.2. The sign(s) must be securely affixed by nails, staples, or other means to a wood frame or to a wood panel and then fastenedsecurely to a post, or other structure. The sign may not be affixed to a tree or other foliage.3. The petitioner or the petitioner's agent must maintain the sign(s) in place, and readable condition until the requested actionhas been heard and a final decision rendered. If the sign(s) is destroyed, lost, or rendered unreadable, the petitioner or thepetitioner's agent must replace the sign(s)NOTE: AFTER THE SIGN HAS BEEN POSTED, THIS AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING NOTICE SHOULD BERETURNED NO LATER THAN TEN (10) WORKING DAYS BEFORE THE FIRST HEARING DATE TO THEASSIGNED PLANNER.STATE OF FLORIDAAFFIDAVIT OF POSTING NOTICECOUNTY OF COLLIERBEFORE THE UNDERSIGNED AUTHORITY, PERSONALLY APPEARED SHARON UMPENHOUR WHO ON OATHSAYS THAT HE/SHE HAS POSTED PROPER NOTICE AS REQUIRED BY SECTION 10.03.00 OF THE COLLIER COUNTYLAND DEVELOPMENT CODE ON THE PARCEL COVERED IN PETITION NUMBER(S) GMPAPL20230012851 and CU PL20230010505.arSIGNATURE OF APPLICANTOR AGENTSharon Umpenhour as Senior Planning Technician for Q.Grady Minor and Associates, LLCNAME (TYPED OR PRINTED)3800 Via Del ReySTREET OR P.O. BOXBonita Springs, Florida 34110CITY, STATE ZIРSTATE OF FLORIDACOUNTY OF LEEThe foregoing instrument was sworn to and subscribed before me this 17day of October_, 2025, bySharon Umpenhour as Senior Planning Technician for Q. Grady Minor and Associates, LLC, personally known to me or whoproducedas identificeation and who did/did not take an oath.VALERIE N. PARKERMY COMMISSION #HH 673437EXPIRES: May 6, 2029My Commission Expires:(Stamp with serial number)Rev. 3/4/2015Signature of Notary PublicValerie N. ParkerPrinted Name of Notary PublicPage 13845 of 14062
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Publication Confirmation
COLLIER COUNTY STATE OF FLORIDA
The attached copy of advertisement,
Golden Gate Worship Center(Small Scale GMPA) &
Golden Gate Worship Center(CU) (PL20230012851) &
PL20230010505)-BCC 01/13/2026 was published on
the publicly accessible website
https://notices.collierclerk.com as designated by Collier
County, Florida on 12/23/2025.
THIS IS NOT AN AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION.
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE OF INTENT TO CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE
Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by the Collier County Board of County
Commissioners (BCC) at 9:00 A.M. on January 13, 2026, in the Board of County Commissioners
Meeting Room,third floor,Collier Government Center,3299 Tamiami Trail East,Naples,FL to consider:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF COLLIER
COUNTY, FLORIDA AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 89-05, AS AMENDED, THE
COLLIER COUNTY GROWTH MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR THE
UNINCORPORATED AREA OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, SPECIFICALLY
AMENDING THE URBAN GOLDEN GATE ESTATES SUB-ELEMENT OF THE
GOLDEN GATE AREA MASTER PLAN AND GOLDEN GATE FUTURE LAND USE
MAP AND MAP SERIES TO MODIFY THE GOLDEN GATE PARKWAY AND
COLLIER BOULEVARD SPECIAL PROVISIONS IN THE ESTATES DESIGNATION,
ESTATES MIXED USE DISTRICT TO ALLOW A CONDITIONAL USE FOR A 6,000
SQUARE FOOT CHURCH WITH 4,000 SQUARE FEET OF RELATED STRUCTURES.
THE SUBJECT PROPERTY CONSISTS OF 2.81± ACRES AND IS LOCATED AT 5890
GOLDEN GATE PARKWAY IN SECTION 29, TOWNSHIP 49 SOUTH, RANGE 26
EAST, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA; AND FURTHERMORE, DIRECTING
TRANSMITTAL OF THE ADOPTED AMENDMENT TO THE FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND
PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. [PL20230012851]
AND
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS OF COLLIER COUNTY,
FLORIDA PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CONDITIONAL USE TO
ALLOW A CHURCH ON PROPERTY ZONED ESTATES (E)PURSUANT TO SECTION
2.03.01.B.1.c.1 OF THE COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, ON
PROPERTY LOCATED AT 5890 GOLDEN GATE PARKWAY IN SECTION 29,
TOWNSHIP 49 SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST, COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA,
CONSISTING OF 2.81±ACRES. IPL202300105051
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Copies of the proposed Ordinance and Resolution are on file with the Clerk to the Board and is available for inspection.
All interested parties are invited to attend and be heard.
All persons wishing to speak on any agenda item must register with the County Manager prior to presentation of the
agenda item to be addressed.Individual speakers will be limited to three(3)minutes on any item.The selection of any
individual to speak on behalf of an organization or group is encouraged.If recognized by the Chairman,a spokesperson
for a group or organization may be allotted ten(10) minutes to speak on an item. Written materials intended to be
considered by the Board shall be submitted to the appropriate County staff a minimum of seven(7)days prior to the
public hearing.All materials used in presentations before the Board will become a permanent part of the record.
As part of an ongoing initiative to encourage public involvement, the public will have the opportunity to provide
public comments remotely, as well as in person, during this proceeding. Individuals who would like to participate
remotely should register through the link provided within the specific event/meeting entry on the Calendar of Events
on the County website at www.collier.gov/Calendar-Events-directory after the agenda is posted on the County
website. Registration should be done in advance of the public meeting, or any deadline specified within the public
meeting notice.Individuals who register will receive an email in advance of the public hearing detailing how they can
participate remotely in this meeting. Remote participation is provided as a courtesy and is at the user's risk. The
County is not responsible for technical issues. For additional information about the meeting, please call Geoffrey
Willig at 252-8369 or email to Geoffrey.WilligAcollier.gov.
Any person who decides to appeal any decision of the Board 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 based.
If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding,you are
entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the Collier County Facilities
Management Division, located at 3335 Tamiami Trail East, Suite 101,Naples,FL 34112-5356,(239)252-8380,at
least two(2)days prior to the meeting.Assisted listening devices for the hearing impaired are available in the Board
of County Commissioners Office.
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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
COLLIER COUNTY,FLORIDA
DANIEL KOWAL,CHAIRMAN
CRYSTAL K.KINZEL,
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT AND COMPTROLLER
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