CCPC Minutes 12/18/2008 R
December 18, 2008
TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
COLLIER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION
Naples, Florida
December 18, 2008
LET IT BE REMEMBERED, that the Collier County Planning
Commission, in and for the County of Collier, having conducted
business herein, met on this date at 8:30 a.m. in REGULAR SESSION
in Building "F" of the Government Complex, East Naples, Florida,
with the following members present:
CHAIRMAN:
Mark Strain
Karen Homiak
Donna Reed-Caron
Tor Koltlat
Paul Midney
Bob Murray
Brad Schiffer
Robert Vigliotti
David 1. W oltley
ALSO PRESENT:
Jeffrey Klatzkow, County Attorney
Joseph Schmitt, CDES Administrator
Ray Bellows, Zoning & Land Development Review
Thomas Eastman, Real Property Director, c.c. School District
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AGENDA
COLLIER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION WILL MEET AT 8:30 A.M., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18,2008, IN THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEETING ROOM, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, COUNTY GOVERNMENT
CENTER, 3301 TAMIAMI TRAIL EAST, NAPLES, FLORIDA:
NOTE: INDIVIDUAL SPEAKERS WILL BE LIMITED TO 5 MINUTES ON ANY ITEM.
INDIVIDUALS SELECTED TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF AN ORGANIZATION OR GROUP
ARE ENCOURAGED AND MAY BE ALLOTTED 10 MINUTES TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM
IF SO RECOGNIZED BY THE CHAIRMAN. PERSONS WISHING TO HAVE WRITTEN
OR GRAPHIC MATERIALS INCLUDED IN THE CCPC AGENDA PACKETS MUST
SUBMIT SAID MATERIAL A MINIMUM OF 10 DAYS PRIOR TO THE RESPECTIVE
PUBLIC HEARING. IN ANY CASE, WRITTEN MATERIALS INTENDED TO BE
CONSIDERED BY THE CCPC SHALL BE SUBMITTED TO THE APPROPRIATE
COUNTY STAFF A MINIMUM OF SEVEN DAYS PRIOR TO THE PUBLIC HEARING.
ALL MATERIAL USED IN PRESENTATIONS BEFORE TilE CCPC WILL BECOME A
PERMANENT PART OF THE RECORD AND WILL BE A V AILA13LE FOR
PRESENTATION TO THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IF APPLICABLE.
ANY PERSON WHO DECIDES TO APPEAL A DECISION OF THE CCPC WILL NEED A
RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS PERTAINING THERETO, AND THEREFORE MAY
NEED TO ENSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS IS MADE,
WHICH RECORD INCLUDES THE TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE
APPEAL IS TO BE BASED.
1. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
2. ROLL CALL BY SECRETARY
3. ADDENDA TO THE AGENDA
4. PLANNING COMMISSION ABSENCES
5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES - NOVEMBER 6, 2008, REGULAR MEETING
6. BCC REPORT- RECAPS -- NOVEMBER 14,2008, LEGISLATIVE MEETING; NOVEMBER 18,2008, REGULAR
MEETING
7. CHAIRMAN'S REPORT
8. CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS
A. Petition: SV-2006-AR-I0482, Seasonal Investments, Inc. d/b/a Fairways Resort, represented by Tim Hancock,
AICP of Davidson Engineering, Inc., is requesting seven variances. The first variance is from Subsection
5.06.04.C.16.a. of the Land Development Code (LDC) which requires an off-premise sign to be located in a
nonresidential zoned district to allow an off-premise sign in a residential zoned district. The second variance is
from Subsection 5.06.04.C.16.b.i. of the LDC which allows a maximum sign area of 12 square feet for a double-
sided off-premise directional sign to permit a 79.6::1::. square-foot off-premise sign. The third variance is from
Subsection 5.06.04.C.16.b.ii. of the LDC which allows a maximum sign height of 8 feet in height above the lowest
center grade of the arterial roadway for an off-premise directional sign to allow a maximum sign height of 20 feet.
The fourth variance is fTom Subsection 5.06.04.C.16.b.iii. of the LDC which requires that a sign is located no
closer than ten feet to any property line to allow a sign within zero feet of a property line. The fifth variance is
from Subsection 5.06.04.C.16.c. of the LDC which requires an off-premise sign to be located no closer than 50 feet
rrom a residential zoned district to allow a sign to be located within a residential zoned district. The sixth variance
is from Subsection 5.06.06.Z. of the LDC which prohibits any sign which publicizes an activity not conducted on
the premises upon which the sign is maintained to allow an off-premises sign. The seventh variance is from
Subsection 5.06.06.AA. of the LDC which requires that no sign shall be placed or permitted as a principal use on
any property, in any zoning district. The subject property is located at the northwest corner of Piper Boulevard
and Palm River Drive, in Section 23, Township 48 South, Range 25 East, Collier County, Florida. (Coordinator:
Nancy Gundlach, AICP) CONTINUED FROM 11/20/08)
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B. Petition: PUDZ-A-2006-AR-I0325, Wynn Properties, Inc. and Carbone Properties of Naples, Ltd Liabiltiy
Co., represented by Robert J. Mulhere, AICP of RWA, Inc., and R. Bruce Anderson, of Roetzel and Andress LPA,
and Carbone Properties of Naples, LLC, represented by R. Bruce Anderson, Esq., are requesting a rezone from
Planned Unit Development (PUD) to Commercial Planned Unit Development (CPUD) for the Sungate Center
CPUD. The project proposes a maximum of 83,000 square feet of commercial leasable floor area. The subject
] O.O::!: acres are located on the northwest corner of the intersection of Green Boulevard and Collier Boulevard
(CR 95]) in Section 15, Township 49 South, Range 26 East, Collier County, Florida. (Coordinator: Kay Deselem,
AICP)
9. ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARINGS
A. Petition: V A-2008-AR-1360 I, Okeechobee Inn, L TD, represented by Gina Green, P.E. of Green Engineering,
Inc., is requesting a Variance from LDC Subsection 4.02.27, Specific De,ign Standards for the lmmokalee-State
Road 29A Commercial Overlay Subdistrict, to permit access to State Road 29 for a parcel having less than the
minimum 440-foot street frontage width. Thc 9.04-acre subject property is located on the west side of State Road
29, just north of tbe Lake Trafford Road intersection, in Section 32, Township 46 South, Range 29 East,
lmmokalee, Florida. (Coordinator: John-David Moss, AICP)
B. Petition: CU-2008-AR-13639, Corporation of the Presiding Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
Day Saints, represented by Alan Brcwe, of Reynolds, Smith and Hills, is requesting a Conditional Use for a church
in the Residential Single-Family (RSF-3) Zoning District, as specified in Section 2.03.02.A.l.c.2 of the Collier
County Land Development Code (LDC). The 4.63-acre subject property is located at 4935 23rd Court SW
in Section 21, Township 49 South, Range 26 East of Collier County, Florida. (Coordinator: John-David Moss,
A]CP)
C. Petition: CU-2008-AR-1339], Bishop Frank J. Dewane, Diocese of Venice, represented by Margaret Perry,
AICP, of WilsonMiller, Inc., and 13ruce Anderson, Esquire, of Roetzel & Andress is requesting a Conditional Use
expansion in the Residential Multi-family (RMF-] 2) zoning district pursuant to Collier County Land Development
Code Subsections 2.03.02.C.I.c. The proposed Conditional Use will supplement the existing Resolution Numbers
98-173 and 04-220 by adding four (4) lots to be used for church and school related uses including but not limited to
a chapel, church/school related offices, religious goods store (not to exceed two thousand (2000) square feet),
priests residences, and parking for church and school uses. The subject property is located at 5280 28th Avenue
S.W. and 2760 52"d Terrace S.W. in Section 28. Township 49 South, Range 26 East, Collier County, Florida.
(Coordinator: Nancy Gundlach, AICP)
D. Petition: PUDZ-2007-AR-12026, Stephen .J. Lockwood, Trustee for SJL Realty II Trust, represented by Heidi
Williams, AICP, of Q. Grady Minor and Associates, P.A., and Richard D. Yovanovich, Esq., of Goodlette,
Coleman, Johnson, Yovanovich & Koester, P.A., requesting a rezone from the Rural Agricultural (A) zoning
district to the Residential Planned Unit Development (RPUD) zoning district for a project to be known as the
Savannah Place RPUD, to allow development of a maximum of 20 townhouse, single-family attached or single-
family detached dwelling units. The subject 6.8]I acre property is located on the south side of Orange Blossom
Drive approximately Y, mile west of Airport Road (CR 31), in Section 2, Township 49 South, Range 25 East,
Collier County, Florida. (Coordinator: Kay Deselem, AICP)
10. OLD BUSINESS
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12. PUBLIC COMMENT ITEM
13. DlSCUSS]ON OF ADDENDA
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December 18, 2008
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to
the December 18th meeting of the Collier County Planning
Commission.
If you'll all please rise for pledge of allegiance.
(Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Item #2
ROLL CALL BY SECRETARY
call.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And will the secretary please do the roll
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Mr. Eastman is absent.
Commissioner Kolflat?
COMMISSIONER KOLFLA T: Here.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Commissioner Schiffer?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Here.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Commissioner Midney?
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Here.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Commissioner Caron?
COMMISSIONER CARON: Here.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Chairman Strain?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Here.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Commissioner Vigliotti is here.
Commissioner Murray?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Here.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Commissioner Wolfley?
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Here.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: And Commissioner Homiak?
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Here.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
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Item #3
ADDENDA TO THE AGENDA
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We have a couple of items to change on
the agenda. The first item is 9.C. 9.C is the Diocese of Venice for a
change to the southwest -- 2760 52nd Terrace Southwest and 5280
28th Avenue Southwest location. We're going to move that up to first
on the agenda.
The applicant's representative is not feeling as well as he usually
does, and he asked ifhe could move through the meeting earlier today.
Is there any objections from the planning commission on that?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Of course not.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Not at all.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The next item that I'd like to ask that we
make as close to 10:00 a time certain as we possibly can to
accommodate the petitioner who has to fly out of here by noon.
(At which time, Mr. Eastman enters the boardroom.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So just in case that one takes a couple
hours. That one is the Savannah Place RPUD. It's over on Orange
Blossom Drive.
And by as close to 10:00, what I was suggesting is we start
moving through our agenda. And if we get a break point somewhere
close to 10:00, 10:15 or 9:45, something like that, we take it and move
into that petition so we can accommodate those that need to be
accommodated here today.
Is that okay with everyone?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Fine.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Fine by me.
Item #4
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PLANNING COMMISSION ABSENCES
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, thank you.
With those changes to the agenda, we can move on to planning
commission absences. Our next regular meeting you're going to -- I
know this is going to break everybody's heart here today, but we don't
have another meeting scheduled till January 15th. And I know staffs
gonna just be so concerned about not having to do between now and
then.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Yeah, nothing to do.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But is everybody planning to be here on
January 15th?
Mr. Wolfley, maybe -- you're going to be out killing exotic
weeds or --
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: You're so funny.
No, I may still be out of town, but I'll try to get there.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. And then the other two meetings
in January that are very important, they will start at 8:30 on the 28th
and another one on the 30th on the same subject, it will be the RLSA
meetings, and they'll be held over at the Developmental Services
conference room 609. So I'm hoping, based on our last meeting,
everybody still can make it to that.
So we'll -- that's our agenda for January.
Item #5
APPROVAL OF MINUTES - NOVEMBER 6, 2008, REGULAR
MEETING
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We have one set of minutes to be
approved, November 6th, 2008. Is there a motion to recommend
approval or modification?
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COMMISSIONER CARON: Motion to approve.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion made by Commissioner Caron.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Second.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Seconded by Commissioner Vigliotti.
Discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLA T: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Aye.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion carries 9-0.
Ray, the BCC report?
Item #6
BCC REPORT - RECAPS - NOVEMBER 14, 2008, LEGISLATIVE
MEETING, NOVEMBER 18, 2008, REGULAR MEETING
MR. BELLOWS: Yes. On December 16th, the Board of County
Commissioners heard the conditional use for the public restroom
facilities up at Moraya_ That was approved 5-0.
They also heard the variance for the trellis at Moraya, and that
was also approved 5-0.
They approved on the summary agenda the K.O.V.A.C.
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recycling facility. And that was approved on the summary agenda.
They pulled off the summary agenda the King's Lake
amendment, but that was approved on the regular agenda 5-0.
And we also have news on the noise ordinance. The board heard
and approved that subject to the CCPC recommendations.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Great. Thank you.
And the first one you mentioned, the restroom facility in
Vanderbilt Beach?
MR. BELLOWS: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Wasn't that -- wasn't there some
discussion about that may come back in another form by changing the
building to a lower variance or something like that, Mr. Schmitt?
MR. SCHMITT: Yes. For the record, Joe Schmitt.
The board directed that the staff pursue a variance to the flood
ordinance or the flood requirements so -- to mandate that that be built
as a single-story structure. So that will have to go through the variance
process for -- basically to allow that it be built below the FEMA flood
elevation requirement for that area.
And it is programmed to be in a VE zone as well. So it's going to
be -- it certainly will be an interesting staff report and then certainly
that will come to you for a recommendation before it goes to the
Board of County Commissioners, just as any other normal variance.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: When it comes back to this Board, I
think it certainly would be helpful to understand the impacts of
modifications to the flood ordinance, if it has any cost associated to
the other residents of Collier County as a result of giving that kind of a
variance. Because that would weigh heavy on whether the variance
mayor may not be warranted.
MR. SCHMITT: From what I just heard you say, I guess you're
asking will it impact the National Flood Insurance Program. Is that
what you're --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, I'm hoping you'd come back with
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that analysis, yes.
MR. SCHMITT: Yes. Okay, yes, that in fact will be part of the
analysis.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, thank you.
Item #7
CHAIRMAN'S REPORT
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, the chairman's report, I have
several items. And unfortunately I know it's a big disappointment for
the holidays, no handouts.
MR. SCHMITT: Ray forgot to mention that the variance -- or
the conditional use associated with the private beach club was
continued. So that -- there was decision by the board on that. That was
continued at the request of the petitioner.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Okay, first item. I wish to welcome today Robin Scofield. She's
in the audience and she is auditing our proceedings here today as part
of debate requirements for I guess it's speech and debate. And I can
tell you that's a fantastic program. There's a lot of very energized
young people involved.
Last year I had the honor of actually being a judge on part of it.
It was an excellent time, and I sure learned a lot and I was impressed
with the people participating.
So welcome Robin. And I guess you may not want to take
everything you learn here today to heart, but we'll do the best.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Mark?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Note Mr. Eastman showed up.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you. Our secretary just noticed
for the record Commissioner Eastman just showed up.
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MR. EASTMAN: Here, thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You missed the coffee time, sorry. You
don't get coffee because you're late.
MR. EASTMAN: Sorry for being late.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Last meeting I think it was -- or maybe
two meetings ago, time seems to change, go fast now -- the consent
items that we have today, I notice one was missing, and that was the
denial item on the Bayview Park. And I asked staff to please give us
consent approval for even denial items.
And the reason I am stressing that is because I have now
watched twice when we've denied something and it's gone to the BCC
either as a regular agenda item or on appeal to them, and both times
the BCC was very concerned that they were not given enough clarity
on our reasons for denial. And I think that might highlight itself if we
get a chance to see, even if it's a denial, how staff writes up our denial.
And we can -- certainly I think that will aid the system and help the
BCC to understand more explicitly why we may have reasons for
denial. So --
MR. BELLOWS: In that regard, I have put together a draft, and
I'm going to run it by Joe and Susan, is the form of the executive
summary that deals with the CCPC recommendation. We will make
that part of a memo that goes to the planning commission on the
consent agenda so you can see what we are putting in as staffs
summary of the CCPC findings.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And I expect that on January 15th we'll
have that on consent?
MR. BELLOWS: If you have it -- yes. For the one that was
recently denied?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: For the Bayview Park one.
MR. BELLOWS: Yes, the planner has indicated that will be
ready.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, thank you.
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And the last thing I want to mention, occasionally when I have
the ability, I like to tune into the Board of County Commissioners'
meetings to try to keep track of how they are handling stuff we send
them to see if they're in agreement with things or what we need to
change.
Well, if you tried to do that this week, you would have gotten a
bunch of fuzz on Channel 11. And I found out that Channel 11 has
been moved by Comcast to Channel 97. So if you punch in Channel
97, you'll find out it's -- not only -- there's a picture there, but it's fuzzy
and full of lines, just as you're probably seeing this show today if
you're watching it on that channel.
I've talked to county IT staff, and it seems to be a problem with
Comcast in their selection of that location for the channel.
The fix is individual visits by Comcast to every home in Collier
County to adjust their apparently signal.
It's wrong. It shouldn't be done this way. I don't know how this
board can make a suggestion, but hopefully by saying this today on
record, and by hoping it's broadcast, maybe Comcast will take the hint
they need to provide a little bit better service so the public of Collier
County can watch the program that they're entitled to see through
public participation.
So Mr. Schmitt, I don't know if we can have any emphasis with
that, but I know you've got some very good people who coordinate
these things with Comcast, and if you could at least let them know our
displeasure with Channel 97, because it is inferior in a whole number
of ways from where it used to be on 11.
Also, there is video streaming for this particular program. And
while that's a good alternative, it does -- it's intermittent,
unfortunately. And I don't know what the problem is there, because
the Comcast high speed is an excellent service. And I've used that in
two locations. So I don't think it's that. I don't know if it's the buffering
or the way the transmission's in, but that's not as viable as the
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television. The television is actually the best source for the public to
view these programs. So maybe we can see something written up on
that.
Item #8A
PETITION: SV-2006-AR-10482, FAIRWAYS RESORT
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, with that, we have two consent
agenda items. The first one is Petition SV-2006-AR-10482. It's the
Seasonal Investments, the Fairways Resort, requesting seven
vanances.
And we had a hand-out just given to us this morning, and we've
had a couple renditions of this sent to us.
Mr. Kolflat?
COMMISSIONER KOLFLA T: Seems my recollection is that
we talked a lot about the support of the sign and that it was going to be
two poles to allow less wind resistance and also to convey the
historical perspective of the sign. But I note the exhibit in here shows
the original layout, which was not two-pole design.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The exhibit does. And surely -- Nancy's
here, she can explain.
If you look at your Exhibit C, item two on Exhibit C basically
allows the applicant an exemption from the pole cover requirement of
LDC 5.06.04.C.l.e.
And it is my understanding, and I would like staff to confirm,
that that exemption allows them to go back to the pole standard that
was there before.
And -- yes, sir, Mr. Kolflat?
COMMISSIONER KOLFLA T: Well, Exhibit A on Page 1 of 2
shows the old one, not the new pole design.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right, that's the design that was
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submitted. But I think they don't have to stick to that, based on the
conditions of approval on Exhibit C; is that -- Nancy, you're going to
need to confirm this for us, please.
MS. GUNDLACH: Good morning, Commissioners. For the
record, Nancy Gundlach, with the Department of Zoning -- is this on?
-- Zoning and Land Development Review.
And yes, Commissioner, you are correct. We've written into the
conditions of approval that the applicant is allowed to install a pole
sign without the covering.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right, you didn't -- I mean, that's not
how it's worded. But wording says, this sign may be exempt from the
pole cover required by LDC Subsection 5.06.04.C.l.e for health,
safety and welfare purposes.
And that -- I did pull the section of the code. That's the one that
requires everything to be covered.
MS. GUNDLACH: That is correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: By removing that cover, you're thus
allowing poles; is that --
MS. GUNDLACH: That is correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, Mr. Vigliotti, then Ms. Caron.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: The way this is worded, they
may do it. I thought we decided that they should do it and they have to
do it with the poles rather than the stanchion.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I thought it was an option that we're
providing to them.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Suggestion.
MR. SCHMITT: We left it strictly up to the applicant. They can
choose to do it. It wasn't a requirement.
And I don't know if it would be the appropriate thing for this
board to direct that it be done. Let the applicant choose whether they
want to do it or not.
And understand, they still have to come in through the building
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permit process. So the variance and the -- the exhibit was the original
exhibit, but that does not necessarily mean that's what they're going to
submit. They still have to submit a plan and come through the normal
building permit process for a sign permit.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Okay, thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Caron?
COMMISSIONER CARON: Yeah, I would just say that I think
that number two needs to be more specific. I think we should have
these things written in English so everybody knows what that
condition of approval is. And it shouldn't have to be -- for a condition,
you shouldn't have to go back and look up the code. It should tell you
specially what the condition is that we're authorizing for approval. It
should be stated.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do you have some suggested language?
It's a good point, because as I've found out that -- I had to call
yesterday to find out why the pole issue wasn't in here. After later in
the day I discovered that, and then I found out it was in here by this
reference, because I didn't catch that reference either.
Is there a way that you could tack on a clarification of the
intention of number two as a second sentence to it, Nancy?
MS. GUNDLACH: We could do that. Oh, go ahead, Ray.
MR. BELLOWS: Yeah, for the record, too, the executive
summary will specifically tell the board that this decision was
requested -- or this recommendation was made by the planning
commission, in more detail explaining the issue and that if the board
wishes, that they will make that --
COMMISSIONER CARON: But that will not go along into the
future with the ordinance.
MR. BELLOWS: I see what you're saying.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah, recorded language would be more
useful, rather than having to go back and study minutes is what I --
that's the only point I think we're trying to make.
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Mr. Kolflat, then Mr. Schiffer.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Would the elimination of
Exhibit A clarify it? Because that's what shows the old picture. And if
you take that out of it, why then it won't be carried through.
Exhibit A, Page 1 of2 of what you handed out today.
MS. GUNDLACH: I don't know that it clarifies it, because we
reference it in the staff report.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah, on Exhibit A, Mr. Kolflat, the six
feet that's shown for the base, it doesn't necessarily mean it's six feet
of a solid wall, it could be six feet from outside, outside of poles that
are there. I think that's what they're saying the base is going to take,
that dimension. So I'm not sure that means the wall, based on the way
it's written up on Exhibit A. So it may not be that problematic to leave
it in.
Mr. Schiffer?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: My concern with it is in there it
says the sign may be exempt. I think the intent is the sign is exempt.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Right.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: And the concern with that is it
gives the illusion that there's an authority down the trail to make that
decision.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So the word would be -- that's a good
point. The word will be shall be exempt. It's the same -- it comes back
to the intention I know you had, Nancy.
So if we say, this sign shall be exempt, and then we added one
sentence to clarify that the issue is the allowance of poles to support
the sign, I think that takes care of the issues that were brought up.
Is that fair for everybody here?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Uh-huh.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, with those comments in mind,
can we get a recommendation of approval for that particular consento
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item?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: So moved.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Second.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Vigliotti, seconded by Mr. Schiffer.
Approval of consent Item SV-2006-AR-I0482.
All in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Aye.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion carries.
Thank you.
MS. GUNDLACH: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thanks, Nancy.
Item #8B
PETITION: PUDZ-A-2006-AR-I0325, SUNGATE CENTER CPUD
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Now we'll go to the consent item
Petition PUDZA-2006-AR-10325. That's the Wynn Properties and
Carbone Properties for the Sungate Center on Green and Collier
Boulevards in Golden Gate.
Are there any comments, questions, clarifications on that
particular item?
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(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, is there a recommendation for
approval on the consent agenda for that item?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: So moved.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Vigliotti made the motion.
Is there a second?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Somebody. Somebody?
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: I'll second it.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you, Ms. Homiak.
Motion made by Mr. Vigliotti, seconded by Ms. Homiak.
Is there any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All those in favor, signify by saying
aye.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Aye.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion carries 9-0.
Item #9C
PETITON: CU-2008-AR-1339L DIOCESE OF VENICE
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, moving on to our first advertised
public hearing. It will be 9.C, the one we moved up. And that is
Petition CU-2008-AR-13391. Bishop Frank 1. Dewane, Diocese of
Venice, for a conditional use.
And let's see, it's on 5280 28th Avenue, and 2760 52nd Terrace.
All those wishing to participate in this particular item, please rise
to be sworn in by the court reporter.
(Speakers were duly sworn.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Are there disclosures on the part of the
planning commission?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I had a phone call from Mr. Anderson
for a meeting to go over issues. I didn't have any issues, so it didn't
seem like we needed to waste the applicant's legal time, and so I
canceled the meeting.
And with that, Bruce, it's all yours.
MR. ANDERSON: Good morning, Mr. Chairman,
Commissioners. My name is Bruce Anderson with the Roetzel and
Andress Law Firm, representing the St. Elizabeth Seton Diocese of
Venice.
Initially I want to thank you very much for accommodating my
request.
With me today is Father Dennis Harten, Pastor of St. Elizabeth
Parish; Joan Haden, the office manager; Margaret Perry, the planner
for Wilson-Miller; and Engineer Jared Brown, also from
Wilson-Miller.
This is a request for an expansion of an existing conditional use
for a church and school related uses on four lots that are adjacent to
the currently existing approved conditional use area.
On the overhead projector it is the lots, the shaded lots that are
the subject of the hearing today.
These lots are all zoned RMF-12. And churches, private schools
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and associated uses are allowed as conditional uses in this area.
St. Elizabeth Seton Church and School have been a fixture and
active community member in Golden Gate for many years. The
original church was constructed in 1979, and the school in 1987,
although a temporary school was provided back in 1980.
The original church building is now used as a parish center. And
the current church, which was constructed in 2000, is not within the
lands that are the subject of this conditional use. The current church
building is located entirely within the Founders Plaza PUD. And that
abuts this property.
At this time, the parish does not have specific plans for
development or redevelopment of these additional lots. However, the
proposed uses include church and school related offices, religious
goods store limited to 2,000 square feet, a chapel, perhaps priest
residences, and/or expanded parking for the existing uses. The future
uses will be determined by the needs of the parish and the available
funding for the improvements.
The lots one through three currently contain five duplex units,
which the church will be upgrading. The future church and school
related uses may be housed in these existing structures after
renovation, or new structures may be built along with demolition of
some or all of the existing duplex units.
The only concern that we have heard voiced is that during the
season some parishioners park illegally on the grassed right-of-way
along Golden Gate Parkway.
Father Harten has warned his parishioners during services, and
will put it in the church bulletin, that it is against the law to park there.
The church has plenty of parking within easy walking distance. The
grassy area where this parking sometimes occurs is county
right-of-way. And we would request, frankly, that the county install
"no parking" signs in this area and enforce it.
When this application was first filed for purposes of
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transportation impacts, the figure of 8,900 square feet of retail
commercial was used to demonstrate the maximum transportation
impacts.
Since that initial filing, we have instead simply limited the
religious goods store to 2,000 square feet. The actual size of the other
buildings and uses will be determined by required setbacks at the time
of site development plan approval.
A neighborhood meeting was held on October 29th, and a
presentation was also made to the Golden Gate Civic Association on
November 10th. They issued a letter of support for this application,
but again expressed the concern about the parking along Golden Gate
Parkway.
Future development and redevelopment will obviously be in
compliance with the Land Development Code as required at the time.
And the applicant is in agreement with all of the conditions of
approval, as outlined in the staff report.
Now, I am available or any members of our team to answer any
questions that you may have.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Questions on the part of the planning
commission?
Mr. Wolfley, then Ms. Caron.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Bruce, what -- on number two
here of the recommendations from staff, they wanted limited to the
chapel church school related office, so on, so forth. What uses were
proposed that staff did not want? In other words -- or was there
nothing? What was the problem there?
MR. ANDERSON: Oh, this was what we originally applied for.
I mean, it was a self-imposed limitation. Staff didn't --
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Why?
MR. ANDERSON: Well, because we weren't -- we tried to make
it as all-encompassing as possible. But if you, you know, what want to
remove those, we certainly have no objection.
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COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: No, no, no, that wasn't the
point. I was just wondering what was there that we didn't -- that I
missed. I thought I might have missed something.
MR. ANDERSON: No. No, sir.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Okay, thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Caron?
COMMISSIONER CARON: Yeah, Bruce, in the staff report on
Page 4 of 10, it states that the chapel, if that is built, will be no more
than 200 seats. Can you tell me where that is in the ordinance and why
that isn't reflected in either conditions and/or stated in the ordinance
itself?
MR. ANDERSON: No, I cannot. If you want to insert that in
your conditions of approval, that was the maximum size that was
talked about.
FATHER HARTEN: Good morning. I'm Father Dennis Harten,
I'm the pastor at St. Elizabeth Seton.
And the chapel, as we say, is really not -- is only a concept that
we have at this point in time. The property -- the purchase of the
property did put the community in considerable debt, and so we'll be
paying for that for an extended period of time.
You'll notice that the property, actually it belongs to -- we're all
around that particular piece of property. And since we have taken
possession of the property, we have improved certainly the condition
and the look of it.
But at this particular point in time I wouldn't be inclined to
define what might be the possibility 10 years from now. So I think if --
what we're bringing before the Commission is the fact that we will
keep this property within church and school related uses. That is really
the request that we're making to the planning commission this
mornmg.
COMMISSIONER CARON: But it was stated that if you were
to build a chapel, and that's up to you, it would be no more than 200
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seats.
FA THER HARTEN: Yes. I understand that that is in our report.
And that would be something that I would certainly consider as a
number that would be what we would be looking for in terms of our
needs. In other words, I wouldn't be looking to build a second church.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Right. And so all I'm asking is that
that be stated as a maximum in the conditions.
FATHER HARTEN: So you want that in there?
COMMISSIONER CARON: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: What your conditions say right now, sir,
is the uses shall be limited to a chapel, church, school related offices,
religious gift store, maximum of 2,000 square feet, priest residences
and parking.
I think the suggestion is that the uses shall be limited to a chapel,
then after that do a similar kind of parenthetical that says a maximum
of 200 seats. And that -- just insert that and then we're done.
Does that work for your operation?
MR. ANDERSON: Father would prefer that that seat limitation
not be included as a specific condition.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I think we need to see what staffs--
COMMISSIONER CARON: That's a problem.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- thoughts on that will be. Because if
you have an unlimited condition there but yet it's restricted by traffic,
the TIS or by some other methodology, that may help. So I think when
we get to the staff report, maybe we can get that question answered.
And we'll come back to you before it's over.
MR. ANDERSON: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Murray?
COMMISSIONER CARON: I have one -- no, I'm not done.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Caron, go ahead. That's fine.
COMMISSIONER CARON: I had one more question.
Right now on that southern portion there are duplex -- there's
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duplex housing. Are people currently living there or is that empty
duplex housing because the church bought the property?
MR. ANDERSON: It's empty. No one's living there.
COMMISSIONER CARON: It's empty. Okay, thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Murray?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I note here that you've taken out
the facilities will not be rented out to other congregations, school
groups or clubs. Does that preclude -- in your mind does that preclude
the church sponsoring organizations such as Boy Scouts or 4-H or
whatever that the church itself would sponsor and not lease the
property or license the property? Because my interest is in not
precluding opportunities for the youth of our community.
F ATHER HARTEN: Right. Thank you for that question, I
appreciate it.
At the present time, St. Elizabeth Seton has a Boy Scout troop, a
Girl Scout troop, a Cub Scout troop, and we're thinking of a senior cub
scout -- no, we do have a full range of services for our young people.
And I appreciate your noting that fact.
No, we would not want this property to be excluded from that
kind of use, thank you.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Are there any other questions?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Bruce, as I mentioned to you, we didn't
have a meeting because I didn't have any. But I certainly want you to
know that this is a vast improvement to the Golden Gate City area.
And any time we can take out duplexes to improve the area with
something as nice as a church, I'm certainly in favor of it. I think it's a
good example what we need to do in the urban area like this.
So with that I'll ask for staff report.
MS. GUNDLACH: Good morning, Commissioners. I'm Nancy
Gundlach, for the record, Department of Zoning and Land
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Development Review.
And Commissioners, this petition is consistent with the Growth
Management Plan. And for that reason, staff is recommending
approval.
And we are recommending approval subject to two conditions:
The first condition is that this conditional use is limited to what is
shown on the conditional master plan.
And the second condition is a limitation on the uses. And the
uses shall be limited to a chapel, a church school related offices,
religious gift store, a maximum of 2,000 square feet, priest residences
and parking.
And we can certainly add in that we are limiting the chapel to
200 seats.
And I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Midney, then Mr. Wolfley.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Yeah, I have a question about this
200 seats thing. The chapel would be the smaller group, so it wouldn't
be as big as the main church service. I don't see why we have to limit
it to 200 seats unless there's some specific reason from transportation
that says that it -- you know, that anything more in the chapel would
create a problem. Because this is not the main where they have the big
services. The chapel is for smaller services.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And of course where is transportation
when you need them most? Okay. And they're not here to answer that
question.
So I know Nick is probably watching things, maybe he could
e-mail Joe, who's got his computer on, and through that e-mail we can
get an answer to the question.
MS. GUNDLACH: Commissioner, they've been called and they
are on their way.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
MS. GUNDLACH: I can -- would you like me to attempt to
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answer the question?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Please.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The TIS is based on 8,900 square feet.
And certainly the 2,000 square feet is a reduction from the original
8,900 square feet.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: What about the chapel?
MS. GUNDLACH: It's a less intense use than what was
originally proposed.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So we still wouldn't have a worst
case condition on the TIS --
MS. GUNDLACH: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- if they made the chapel 200, 300. But
at some point -- at what time would it break the TIS; do you know?
MS. GUNDLACH: No, I don't.
And the 200-seat chapel came from the applicant --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I understand.
MS. GUNDLACH: -- so we consider, you know, what they
propose to us.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, Mr. Wolfley, then Ms. Caron.
Did you finish, Paul?
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Yeah, just making the point that
unless there's some reason, some substantive reason why we have to
limit it to 200 seats, if the church would prefer not to have that limited,
I would be in favor of not limiting it.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Wolfley?
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: I feel the same way as Mr.
Midney.
Nancy, I feel compelled -- I don't doubt Bruce at all, but what is
number two? What was in number two of your recommendations?
What did not you want there? What did you not want there?
MS. GUNDLACH: Well, we put in exactly what the applicant
requested.
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COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Okay.
MS. GUNDLACH: So it wasn't an issue of what we wanted and
what we didn't want. It's what they requested in the petition.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: I just rarely see things like that,
when everyone's in agreement on something, you put it in as a
recommendation. I just --
MS. GUNDLACH: Oh, it's a condition of approval, and so we
state it as part of our recommendations.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Well, I doubt they're going to
put any objectionable retail stores or whatever. But okay, I'm fine,
thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Caron, then Mr. Murray.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Nancy, do you know how many
seats are in the main church?
MS. GUNDLACH: The main church, I do not know how many
seats. Perhaps -- do you know, Father?
FATHER HARTEN: Yes, I do. 1,100.
MS. GUNDLACH: The main church -- the Father says that the
main church has 1,100 seats. And that's in a separate PUD --
COMMISSIONER CARON: Right, I understood.
MS. GUNDLACH: -- and not part of this application.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Understood.
But if there is no maximum for this chapel, then it's unlimited
only -- it is limited only by the setbacks; is that correct? Buffering and
setbacks.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: No, it's limited by the size.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Nancy, it is limited by traffic impacts,
would it not be?
MS. GUNDLACH: Correct.
COMMISSIONER CARON: But we don't know what that is yet,
because transportation's not here.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right.
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else.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Then lets go on to something
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right, we're going to--
COMMISSIONER CARON: So we can't make a decision until
transportation gives us that answer.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right. And they're probably on their
way.
Mr. Murray?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Yeah, I just wanted to second
Commissioner Midney's comments. I think it is limited by its physical
size when they construct it. And all the other factors, including the
TIS factor that we'll learn about.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Vigliotti?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: I tend to agree with that. I'd
like to hear from transportation, but if not, they're still limited by
transportation and size.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, any other questions of county
staff?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ray, do we have public speakers?
MR. BELLOWS: No speakers on this item.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So now we've got an impasse to
wait for our transportation department.
Bruce, I know you needed to be up and out of here. I know
you're not feeling well. I think it would be worth the wait to get an
answer from transportation on this. And then we'll -- so what I'd like
to do is continue this one to after the next one and go right into the
next one, and hopefully by that time transportation will be here.
MS. GUNDLACH: Thank you, Commissioner.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Mark, one thing.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Mr. Schiffer?
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COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Nancy? I'm sorry. In the
development of this site, though, the parking and everything else
would kind of restrict the size that this thing could be. So, I mean,
what is it that transportation's going to give us that -- the trip count in
their --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: My con -- oh, here's transportation. This
is good.
My concern is that if we can put this on the summary agenda, it
saves everybody money, time and the BCC a lot of effort. If there's
one commissioner here who has a concern, we need to resolve that
concern so that there's a better chance of it going on summary agenda.
So that's the only reason I was trying to delay it, Brad. And we
don't have to now, because transportation just showed up.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: But the fear is what, that the
chapel will get to be too big? I mean, is that --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I think the fear is if they go beyond the
200 seats -- and I'm paraphrasing Commissioner Caron -- it may pose
intensity items that we haven't looked at, because they -- and the staff
report indicated it was 200 seats.
Is that a fair statement, Ms. Caron?
COMMISSIONER CARON: Yeah, I'll be very specific. They
proposed the 200. Now they don't want it. That leads me to believe
that they have other grandiose schemes here for this chapel to turn into
a second church, limited only by the dimensions of the piece of
property that they have. And potentially parking, though it looks to me
from the site that that's not an issue.
I'm concerned about the traffic issues on both Golden Gate and
Santa Barbara. And I'm anxious to hear. If it's unlimited for the chapel,
do we run into problems from transportation?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mike, you walked into it today, thank
you.
(Speaker was duly sworn.)
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MR. GREEN: For the record, Michael Green, Transportation
Planning.
What questions do you have?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Caron's got a little bit of a sore
throat today, so let me try to help her with it.
MR. GREEN: I was trying to come up to speed on exactly what
project we were on.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The applicant, when they applied for
this, produced a TIS that had a bunch of variables in it, including a
larger retail area than they currently are asking for. But that's not the
issue at hand.
The issue at hand is a chapel. They requested -- they indicated in
their narrative that they're going to have a 200-seat chapel.
The concern is that if we don't limit it in the stipulations to 200
seats, how are they limited then, by the size of the chapel, and where
and when and how does a TIS trigger a re-review for traffic standards
based on the size of the chapel?
Is that fair, Ms. Caron?
COMMISSIONER CARON: Uh-huh.
MR. GREEN: A TIS on a chapel is done both by seats and gross
square footage, depending on if you're looking for PM weekday trips
or peak event trips.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Okay. There are no square
footages in here either. So what are you basing it on? You were basing
it on the 200 seats because that's what they told you, right?
MR. GREEN: Correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: If you turn to Page 2 of the TIS, you got
your table there, and it talks about the uses that are proposed. Or I'm
assuming proposed.
Which one of these would have utilized the chapel? Or any of
them. Or how would you have looked at the chapel in regards to the
TIS?
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MR. GREEN: I think in this TIS we were looking for the areas
that were grade out in the map as being part of the extension of the
conditional use in which we looked at the specialty retail proposal.
Because the specialty retail and the proposed extension of this
conditional use would have the highest impact. They weren't
discussing making changes with any of the other existing buildings.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Vigliotti?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Question, Transportation.
When they do decide how large they want this facility, they're going
to have to go back through transportation and you will restrict them
based upon seats at that time.
MR. GREEN: That is correct.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: No matter what happens here,
they can only build what you allow them to do.
MR. GREEN: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Okay, thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do you know at what size a chapel
would have to be seat-wise to have a negative impact to a point where
you couldn't approve it?
I mean, they're saying they want to do it 200. If they said 400,
would you guys be upset over that? If they said 10,000, would you be
upset over that? I guess we need to peg a range so we can nail this
down and get past it. And I need to --
MR. GREEN: It's hard to target a specific range for a chapel.
Because when we look at traffic, we look at the PM peak hour. And
chapels don't generate large PM peak hour, they generate weekend
peak event trips, which are operational issues, in which we bring in,
you know, off-duty sheriffs department to direct traffic and such.
But those are also operational issues and they're addressed at the
SDP.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Caron, does that provide you with
enough information at this point?
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COMMISSIONER CARON: Everybody seems to think it
should be unlimited. That's good.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody else?
Mr. Wolfley?
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Parking obviously is an issue.
So, I mean, if they plan a 10,000 seat chapel, they couldn't seat them
there because there'd be no place for anyone to park. So it's
self-limited.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I understand that, but I just wanted to
kind of try to peg a range where we had some idea what transportation
would say was really unreasonable. And they're not able to do it that
way, so--
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: If there's a range between 200
and 350 or something like that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: I agree with you, yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Vigliotti?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Without time to run the
numbers and come up with some logical rational nexus, you can't do
it. In other words, once they submit a site plan, then you can tell them
either they can or they can't and they're restricted by parking and
they're also restricted by a TIS.
MR. GREEN: And at that point we're limiting them to more
current concurrency issues and operational issues.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Which is more restrictive.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mike, just to be safe, on their TIS they
use a retail square footage four times what they're now asking for. I
think it was 8,900 square feet and now it's 2,000 square feet. Is that -- I
believe that's the way the TIS was written up. Am I right on that,
Bruce? Didn't I hear you say that?
MR. ANDERSON: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So that means that you have at
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least 6,000 square feet of retail built into the TIS that the chapel could
actually grow to a size before it would even exceed that 6,000
additional retail that's buffered in the TIS before you guys would have
a problem.
And when they come in with an SDP, do you make sure that the
SDP application doesn't exceed the total of the TIS submitted with the
conditional use?
MR. GREEN: Always.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, well, then I think we're in perfect
shape then. I think that works. And Ms. Caron I think is satisfied now
with that, so good, we got to the bottom line.
Thank you, sir.
Are there any other questions of staff or the applicant?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Bruce, do you have any closing
statements?
MR. ANDERSON: No.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, with that we'll close the public
hearing and entertain a motion.
Mr. Vigliotti?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: I'd like to make a motion to
approve changing the -- just removing the 200-seat restrictions and
letting transportation and parking --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Wait a minute, there is no 200-seat
restriction in there now. The discussion was about putting one in. It
was decided it isn't needed. So basically your recommendation for
approval should be consistent with staffs conditions --
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: It is, right.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- and then you're off and running.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Right.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Is that your motion, Mr. --
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Yes, it most certainly is.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, motion's been made to--
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: I'll second.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- recommend approval, subject to the
conditions of staff.
It's been seconded by Mr. Midney.
Is there any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLA T: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Aye.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody disapprove?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion carries 9-0.
Thank you.
Bruce, I hope you feel better. Take it easy.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Yeah, definitely feel better.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I think you've given a lot of people
whatever you've got, because both sides of me here are sick today.
COMMISSIONER CARON: It's really miserable up here.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'm glad I have a month off so I can
recover.
COMMISSIONER CARON: And everybody needs conditional
use forms.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Oh, yes. Your forms in Item C,
everybody, let's take a minute to turn those in.
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Item #9 A
PETITION: VA-2008-AR-1360L OKEECHOBEE INN, LTD
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, next item up is Petition
V A-2008-AR-13601, the Okeechobee Inn, Limited, to permit access
on State Road 29. And it's just north of Lake Trafford Road
intersection.
All those wishing to testify on behalf of this item, please rise to
be sworn in by the court reporter.
(Speakers were duly sworn.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Are there disclosures on the part of planning commission?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Hearing none -- by the way, these go to
Mr. Vigliotti, your applications. And Mr. Vigliotti, they go to Cherie'
after the meeting.
Okay, no disclosures, applicant may proceed. It's all yours,
ma'am.
MS. GREEN: Good morning, Commissioners. My name is Gina
Green. I'm a licensed professional engineering representing
Okeechobee Inn, LTD.
My client is requesting a variance from the Land Development
Code, Subsection 4.02.27, specific design standards for the
Immokalee/State Road 29A Commercial Overlay Subdistrict, to
permit access to State Road 29 for a parcel having less than the
required 440 feet street frontage minimum width.
The subject property is zoned commercial intermediate C-3 and
is within the State Road 29A Commercial Overlay District.
The 9.04-acre subject parcel is located on the west side of State
Road 29, also known as 15th Street North, just north of the Lake
Trafford intersection in Immokalee.
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If you'd please reference the vicinity map on the overhead, you
can see the exact location of the parcel.
According to Subsection 4.02.27.A of the LDC, properties
having 440 feet or less of street frontage on State Road 29 must not,
when possible, take direct access from the highway.
However, Subsection 4.02.27.B provides for a variance from this
requirement for any possible development --
THE COURT REPORTER: Could I ask that you please slow
down.
MS. GREEN: Sure.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you, Cherie'. I'm sorry, I should
have caught that.
Yeah, you've got to --
MS. GREEN: Not a problem. I am a fast speaker, so I'm sorry.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Everything's being transcribed, so you
need to keep it a little bit slower pace.
MS. GREEN: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And by the way, we're quite familiar
with the code, but you can proceed.
MS. GREEN: Okay. Well, then we will cut it to a very simple.
This parcel is looking only to be developed. There was a lot split
application that was approved; split the parcel off to a smaller 1.7 -acre
parcel to develop a Suncoast School Federal Credit Union on the
smaller parcel, which is what brought on this variance, because they
need access to their future bank.
And as you can see on the -- this is the proposed plan for the
credit union. And the parcel -- the parent parcel now has no plans at
this time to be developed.
Also, this parcel has been at the size that it is, which is a
322-foot frontage on State Road 29. It was never previously split, and
it was in existence this way prior to the overlay district being put in
place that makes this restriction of the 440 feet.
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The owner of the parent parcel, which is the Okeechobee Inn,
Ltd., and Suncoast Schools Credit Union would wish to have the
access placed at its location to provide distance from both the north
and the south entrances that are already developed, because the parcels
both north and south already have commercial uses on them.
By doing this, the future -- any future uses on the parent parcel
would take access from this single shared access between the two to
joint owners of Suncoast Schools and the Okeechobee Inn, Ltd.
Weare about 950 feet north of the Lake Trafford intersection.
State Road 29 right now is in a PD&E study for expansion of this
right-of-way, which could allow for no, you know, cross traffic or
anything on -- at this point, because of the closeness to the
intersection.
You know, there's really not much else to say, so I'll close my
introduction and let you ask me any questions, if you have them.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Mr. Midney, then Mr. Schiffer.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: We don't know if the -- it could
be four-laned or if it could be a divided highway.
MS. GREEN: Right, we do not know. At this time right now it is
two-lane with a continuous turn lane in the middle that allows traffic
to go freely up and down that corridor on either side, so people can
make left turns in a common center turn lane that is a continuous turn
lane. That is its present condition right now. And that is how all the
businesses in this stretch take their access.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: And we don't know if it's going to
be -- if there's going to be a turn lane there on that side, on the
right-hand side or if it's going to be right in/right out?
MS. GREEN: Right, exactly. I would venture to guess with its
proximity and due to the fact of what State Road 29 is, I would
venture to say that they would probably divide it to where this would
-- I mean, knows what year it will ever get built due to funds. I would
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venture to guess that this would end up being a right in/right out only
parcel in the far future.
I don't see those -- I mean, they don't even have the PD&E
study. I spoke to Department of Transportation, they are still working
on the PD&E study, so they don't even have any conceptual plans, you
know, anything to provide me right now to give me a little bit of idea
to give you any information.
And I think that study's supposed to be coming out next summer,
was what they had told me.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any other questions of the applicant at
this time?
Mr. Schiffer?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Quick question. Is the center
line of the property the center line of the access easement?
MS. GREEN: Yes, the center line of the access easement is the
common property line between the parent parcel and the credit union
parcel that has been split.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Then what is a slope easement?
MS. GREEN: That is for construction in order to build the road.
We've --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Going up to --
MS. GREEN: No, actually, to slope it back down to natural
grade. Because the road will have to be -- this access easement will
have to be built up above grade. And so this is a slope easement to
bring it back down to natural grade on the south side in the
undeveloped parcel.
So Okeechobee Inn has allowed that temporary slope easement
till they ever, you know, decide to plat or sell off or anything to
develop that piece of property.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any other questions of the applicant?
(No response.)
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I have a couple.
The slope easement. Generally your utilities, FP&L, gas, if
available, digital telephone, the rest of it, all have to go on 10- foot
utility easements on each side of the right-of-way.
Would you allow that slope easement to also incorporate the
access for utilities?
MS. GREEN: If that was the need. I do not see a reason why the
setbacks from the access easement would not allow a building to be
too close to this right-of-way that a 10-foot utility easement could not
be placed there ifFP&L or any of the utilities deemed that that was a
necessary improvement.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So you'd have no objection then
if we stipulate that the slope easements shall also include easements
for private and public utilities, if needed?
MS. GREEN: I don't see a reason why that can't be a stipulation.
Can I just make a clarification, though? That if they decide to
take their access in for the utilities in a different location such as, let's
say, there's power poles down the north property line that FP&L's
going to put a drop-in and bring in a transformer on the north side of
this property, then they would not need to utilize that easement, would
it be -- could make it to where it would be on an as needed basis,
based upon the design from the utility company?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, I think if needed is as needed, but
MS. GREEN: Okay. It's not required if it's not needed, okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'm not sure why your property owner
would have any objection to it, because it would better serve
everybody. So it doesn't make a lot of sense to object to it.
But just it's a practical thing, so in the end down the road if you
had adversarial positions here, one couldn't start fighting with the
other by holding off that and extracting funds that weren't necessarily
needed.
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MS. GREEN: Right. And in the same sense, if they decide they
need to go down on the north side of this access easement towards the
credit union building now, because that's what's being developed also
and that's what's taking service first, it could be that, you know, they
come back and say, hey, we need -- you know, this is actually Lee
County Electric Co-op out there but, you know, they could come back
and say, hey, you know, we need an easement on the north side of that
access easement in order to bring our utilities in.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, all I'm suggesting is we provide
them with one ability to access and that is the slope easement that
already exists, incorporate private and public utilities into that and
you're done.
MS. GREEN: Ifneeded, okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So as long as you don't have a problem,
that's fine.
The other thing is the condition that staff imposed on this says,
all access to State Road 29 from the 9.04-acre tract shall be through
the access location and approved as part of this variance, even if
portions of the property are subsequently sold to another owner.
The remaining parcel is only 7.36 acres, right?
MS. GREEN: Uh-huh.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So when staff comes up, I want
to understand that that 9.04 is really to be 9.04, or is it 7.36 acres that
we're talking about, so --
MS. GREEN: I think the difference between the two is the fact
that at the time that this variance was applied for, the lot split had not
taken place. And subsequently since the initial variance request and
today and the writing of the staff report the last split was submitted,
was approved, and it is now actually two separate parcels. Still all in
Okeechobee Inn, Ltd's name, though.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, thank you.
Any other questions?
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(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: If not, we'll go to staff report.
MS. GREEN: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
J.D.?
MR. MOSS: Good morning, Commissioners. For the record,
John-David Moss, Department of Zoning and Land Development
Review.
The proposed use is permitted within the neighborhood center
subdistrict of the Immokalee area master plan, and the proposal is also
consistent with the applicable provisions of the LDC.
So with the stipulation recommended by staff, staff is
recommending approval. And I'll be happy to answer any questions
you might have about the project.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Questions? Mr. Schiffer, then Mr.
Midney.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: John-David, the condition one,
that all access to State Road, that doesn't preclude the fact that you
could access the residential street in the back if you're developing the
back of this residentially, correct?
MR. MOSS: If -- I suppose if they were able to. But that was the
problem and the entire reason the applicant had to come in, as they
were unable to get access through any of the adjacent parcels.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Are those private drives in the
back, or on the west side?
MR. MOSS: On the west side of the property, the applicant
stated in the application they were unable to get any access with those
owners. So I don't if it may be possible in the future, if they change
their mind, but --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: But we don't know if that's a
public street or not? Because obviously -- I mean, if they developed a
back residential, it might be preferable for those residences. Obviously
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MR. MOSS: To exit, right.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: -- I can see why. The credit
union would be a disaster to come in from there.
MR. MOSS: Well, I don't think the stipulation precludes them
from gaining other access, but we just want to make sure that any
development that occurs within that 9.04-acre tract does at least have
access to State Road 29.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Okay. But there's nothing that
precludes them coming off of this North 18th Street?
MR. MOSS: No.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Okay.
MR. MOSS: That wasn't the intent of the stipulation.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Midney?
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Transportation doesn't have any
reservations about this variance?
MR. MOSS: No. They just wanted to ensure that they all shared
access. That was their only concern.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any other questions of staff?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: J.D., the 9.04, is that correct as it reads,
or should it be 7.36?
MR. MOSS: Well, the county attorney's office put the
stipulation with 9.04 acres because the entire tract is that amount, as
Mrs. Green said.
The lot split did occur, and so now the remaining portion is less
than that, it's seven point something. 7.36 acres.
But we just want to make sure that all the properties within the
original tract share access, so that's why I think they chose to put 9.04.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, minor point. Just was -- that's
fine, thank you.
Anybody else have any questions of the applicant or staff?
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(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Are there public speakers, Ray?
MR. BELLOWS: No one has registered on this item.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, does the applicant wish to rebut
anything staff said?
MS. GREEN: No.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, with that, we'll close the public
hearing and entertain a motion.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: I'll make --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Midney?
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: I'd like to make a motion that we
forward Petition V A-2008-AR-13601 with a recommendation of
approval, subject to staff condition one.
COMMISSIONER MURRA Y: Second.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, motion's been made for approval,
subject to staff condition one, seconded by Mr. Murray.
Discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'd like to ask that the motion maker and
the second consider adding a stipulation that the slope easement will
be modified to include public and private utilities where needed.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: That's fine.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Midney accepts.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: (Nods head affirmatively.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The second accepts it.
Any other discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All those wishing -- in favor of this
motion, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Aye.
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COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Aye.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion carries 9-0.
Thank you.
Okay, we have time probably for the next one. And after break,
we'll go straight into the Savannah Place then.
Item #9B
PETITION: CU-2008-AR-13639, CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF
LA TTER DAY SAINTS
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The next item up is Petition
CU-2008-AR-13639, Corporation of the Presiding Bishop of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, for a site located at 4935
23rd Court Southwest.
All those wishing to testify on behalf of this application, please
rise to be sworn in by the court reporter.
(Speakers were duly sworn.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You sit up here and you get that look
from Cherie', you know you've done something wrong. So I will do
my best.
MR. SCHMITT: Duck if she throws a shoe.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'll get the Secret Service on that.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Oh, boy, that was a Middle
Eastern comment.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Is there any disclosures on the part of
planning commission?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, hearing none, we'll go into the
applicant's presentation.
MR. BREWER: Good afternoon. My name's Alan Brewer, with
RS&H. I'm here representing my client, the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints, who's requesting a conditional use for an expansion
to an existing church approximately 3,600 square feet. And adjacent
parking approximately -- I'm sorry, 40 standard and two accessible
parking.
Sorry, I need my -- now I'm going to keep mine brief, because
I've got what everyone else has going around. I won't put anymore on
the microphone.
If you look at the shaded areas of the expansion we're looking,
one would be a foyer to the front entrance and the other is a
non-chapel expansion.
The adjacent parking is actually to bring the building up to code.
And that's pretty much what I have.
Any questions?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, I think the questions -- you might
want to tell us about this exit issue, because you're showing -- you've
got a new --
MR. BREWER: I didn't know if you wanted to do that after the
staff recommendations. I apologize.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, no, your chance is now. You can
have rebuttal after staff, so --
MR. BREWER: During our --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- why don't you just explain that,
whatever's going on there.
MR. BREWER: If you look where he's pointing, during our
discussions with the staff they wanted us to close down one of our
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existing entrances and move it to a different location, which is where
it's shown now.
The only problem is with putting it in that area, we can't meet
the 50-foot throat. We actually have a 38-foot throat. To meet the
50-foot throat, we'd actually have to move an existing building, so we
couldn't move that.
Again, this is a compromise that we worked out with the staff to
close down one entrance and move it to another location.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, I'm not --let me get this one all
on the table so we get the right questions.
On the plan you're showing us right here, you have two
entrances on the left side of the plan. You have a white entrance
towards the top that I'm assuming is your existing, and you have a
shaded entrance towards the bottom that is what I think you're
proposing to add; is that right?
MR. BREWER: Correct, sir.
If you also look at the existing, if you went roughly 35 feet to
the north, there would be another existing entrance that we were
proposing to close, since we have worked with the staff to relocate it
to the other location.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Now you've got me -- that just
threw me. You showed two entrances on here: One existing and one
proposed. You say there's a third entrance somewhere?
MR. BREWER: There would be an entrance right here.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Sir, I'm sorry, you're going to have to
use the walk-around mic. or something. You've got to talk through the
mlC.
MR. BREWER: I apologize.
MR. MOSS: Grab that mic.
MR. BREWER: There we go.
If you look, there would be an existing entrance right here that
we worked with the staff, they wanted us to close it down and relocate
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it to the area that it's at now.
But unfortunately we can't meet the 50-foot throat if we relocate
it to that location.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Staff, could you put the aerial on? Or
Ray, somebody, whoever's over there.
The aerial, there is one in our plan. It's rather small.
My question is, why are we messing with the entrance at all?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: That's what I wonder.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Yeah.
MR. BREWER: That was something we worked with
transportation. That's what they want -- they wanted us to close one
down, but would give us the other one.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, transportation does want a lot of
things, but maybe there's -- we need to understand what they want --
MR. BREWER: We would be willing to go back to the
locations, the two existing, where they are.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So this is what you have now.
What you're proposing to do is close the one entrance to the far north
of this one, leave the one on the south side of that semi-cir -- that
circle open and then add another one to the south of that, is that --
MR. BREWER: Correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Wow. Mike, we're going to need your
help on this, so --
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Ray, could you point where the
new and old entrances are here? I --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, no, the new ones aren't on here,
just the old.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Right. Where they would be.
MR. SCHMITT: There, there --
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Existing right there.
MR. SCHMITT: And I believe they want -- this is the existing
entrance and existing entrance, and this is where they want to put the
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new entrance.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No, I -- Mike, the new entrance that
they're being asked to put in, enclosing half the existing north
entrance, what is wrong with the operation like it's shown right here?
They've got an entrance on one end and an exit on the other or vice
versa. It seems to function fine, it's in a quiet neighborhood, why do
we need to mess it up?
MR. GREEN: Well, actually what's shown on the display shows
two directional driveways, not a one direction in and a one direction
out that are slightly split by a median.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. What's wrong with what's on the
aerial?
MR. GREEN: Which aerial? The--
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: There's only one aerial. That's a concept
plan. Let's look at the aerial that's on the TV.
MR. GREEN: The condition that's on the aerial is not a problem.
The problem comes from the proposed new solution where you have
two totally separate two-way driveways. We do not want to have a
totally new driveway. It's contrary to trying to manage traffic patterns
in a neighborhood.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ray, would you leave that one back on
there till I get done with my questions, please?
MR. BELLOWS: I'm sorry, I was trying to show it to you.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Getting me seasick here.
COMMISSIONER CARON: If! wasn't sick before --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, this one, transportation has no
problem with this; is that what I hear you saying?
MR. GREEN: That's correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Who is insisting on adding the
new entry to the south? I got the impression it was the applicant.
MR. BREWER: We were relocating the existing one. We'd
rather ours stay the way it is with the two entrances.
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COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Oh?
MR. BREWER: Okay? Thank you for that. The way it is is fine.
We'd prefer that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, that's fine. Then transportation
hasn't got a problem with it, okay, good.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Move on.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Let's not break that egg open again,
okay? Whoa.
Go ahead, Mr. Schiffer.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: It's for transportation.
Is the throat requirement -- I never understood that to pertain to
local roads before. Is that a requirement now?
MR. GREEN: We always try and look at throat requirement and
where you have a potential to impact the traveling public. It applies to
anywhere where the county can be involved in right-of-way permits.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: So in other words, yes, you're
going to have throat -- so you have throat requirements now on every
MR. GREEN: On everything.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: And has that been in the code
somewhere? Is that your interpretation?
MR. GREEN: That's identified in our right-of-way handbook
that the code --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Which is always isolated for
collector and arterial. That's -- it does now say local?
MR. GREEN: There's some interpretation involved in that. It
doesn't just specifically say arterial and collector. It culls it out as
roads that are public right-of-way or would fall to county right-of-way
permitting.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Which is every road but a
private road. Okay.
I mean, I don't see the need for throat requirements in here
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anyway.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Good. The egg's still closed.
Okay, are there any other questions of the applicant?
Mr. Murray?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Only one there, just for
verification.
We notice there's a maximum zoned height of 35 feet. What's the
actual height going to be? I just want to make sure we have it correct.
What's the maximum actual height that you want to build to, so we
don't have any question.
MR. LIVINGSTONE: Give me one second, I'll give it to you
right off the plans.
For the record, my name is --
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: And that should include any
spires or anything else associated with it.
MR. LIVINGSTONE: For the record, my name is Gil
Livingstone. I'm the architect for the project with Reynolds, Smith and
Hills.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You need to get closer to the mic., sir, if
you could.
MR. LIVINGSTONE: For the record, my name is Gil
Livingstone -- he's sick, I don't want to get too close -- I'm the
architect for the project.
The actual height that we are adding to --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Let me just say something while
you're -- I mean, essentially what they're doing is just extending the
existing roofline.
MR. LIVINGSTONE: No, we're --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: You're going to raise --
MR. LIVINGSTONE: The existing building with the existing
chapel is a lot higher than we're adding to.
COMMISSIONER MURRA Y: I want to find the answer to --
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COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: No, but the point is--
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: -- my question.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: -- your addition is extending the
existing roofline of a lower part of the building.
MR. LIVINGSTONE: Yes, it is.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: So you'd be not raising anything
above the existing --
MR. LIVINGSTONE: Correct. We're just extending it straight
out from where it exists now.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Is that going to work, Brad?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Could I get the answer to my
question, please?
COMMISSIONER CARON: Yes.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I had the floor. Could I get the
answer to my question?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Go ahead, Mr. Murray.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: No, I asked --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Murray, go ahead, that's fine.
MR. LIVINGSTONE: The existing top of roof ridge for the
highest part of the building is 128 feet, two inches, which translates to
28 feet, two inches high.
And then the existing to the addition, in other words, where we
just extended out the existing part of that roof, is 15 foot, 10 inches to
the top of the ridge. In other words, the peak of the roof.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Well, in my ignorance of what
that means, I still have to ask you what that represents in terms of -- I
heard Commissioner Schiffer's comments to you, which are probably
correct, but I want to be able to understand myself that we are talking
about something that conforms or something that arises much higher.
MR. LIVINGSTONE: Okay, this is the existing chapel, which is
the highest part of the building. That's been there for 30 years?
Roughly 30 years.
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To this point on the ridge, not counting the spire, because I don't
have a height on the spire, to be honest, but it's been there for 30
years, is 28 feet, two inches.
This is the addition back here.
From this point on the rendering -- or excuse me, from this point
on the rendering up is where we're adding. The existing roof, if we put
a line right here on this drawing, is here. So we're just extending it out.
And that new roof part will be IS-foot, 10 inches. Just extending out
the existing as-is.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Okay. So you'll never really
meet the maximum zoned height of 35.
MR. LIVINGSTONE: No.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Okay. Really simple answer. I
appreciate that very much. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any other questions of the applicant?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, staff report. Thank you.
MR. MOSS: Thank you, Commissioner. For the record,
John-David Moss, Department of Zoning and Land Development
Review.
The subject property actually straddles two different subdistricts
of the Golden Gate Area Master Plan: The urban residential subdistrict
and the high density residential subdistrict. And the use is consistent
with both of those.
As noted in the staff report, the church has been on the site since
1979, and the proposal that they're requesting with this application is
also consistent with the RSF-3 zoning district of the LDC.
So staff is recommending approval based on the stipulations
contained in the staff report. Although it seems like number two is
going to need to be amended. I think we're going to have to revise the
conceptual site plan to show the existing entrances on 50th Street,
rather than the ones that are proposed in the staff report.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I would concur with that conclusion.
And also, since our consent agenda is January 15th for this item, the
applicant will need to get a master plan resubmitted and back to us by
that time so we could approve it on our consent, if that's the consensus
of this board during the vote.
MR. MOSS: I'd also like to add that a NIM was held for this
conditional use, and none of the neighbors attended, so -- and I haven't
received any letters of objection or phone calls about the project.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Are there any questions from (sic) staff?
Mr. Wolfley, and Mr. Schiffer after that.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: The community park facility is,
oh, I don't know, just 100 feet away or so. And there are festivals there
a couple of times a year. There's events, big events. Parking's always a
problem. There is no parking when you have an event. They're all up
and down Golden Gate Parkway and all over this property, from what
I have seen before.
Is there going to be a conflict -- I was kind of surprised that the
community park people were not there. Are there going to be issues
with that? I mean, is the church going to get a little upset if people are
parking in their parking lot during those festival times, or is that a
cooperation thing?
MR. HAILS: My name is Wayne Hails (phonetic). I represent
the church for construction here in Florida.
We encourage people using the parking lot for a community
event like that. As a matter of fact, we try to respond quickly to any
kind of a community emergency with tractor-trailer loads of supplies
for the community.
Weare going to -- part of this renovation will be to insulate our
building so that we don't hear the boom boxes and things like that, if
there's an event going on while we're holding our church services.
But if we're not in the parking lot, feel free to use the spaces.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Great answer. Thank you.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Schiffer?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: That was actually kind of my
question. But I'd like to add to that is, is there the ability to put some
sort of a walkway? Right now people would have to climb down
through a detention pond. Is there a way that we could do something
to make it --
MR. HAILS: No, we would ask that you just use the public
sidewalks around the edge of the facility.
We're going to have a berm that goes between them and some
vegetation up on top to cut down on the noise. Because we -- right
now when you have an event in the park there, we can hardly hear
ourselves talk inside the building. So part of our project will be to
insulate the building so that we don't hear the commotion going
outside.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: And you wouldn't want to put a
sidewalk through there?
MR. HAILS: No, no.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody else have any questions of
staff?
MR. BREWER: Can I rebut -- say one more thing?
As part of this plan, we are putting sidewalks on all four sides of
our property.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Would you have any problem if we
voted to retain the one entry that exists today on that one side, instead
of the new plan that you have here, revising this plan by the consent
agenda date of January 15th?
MR. BREWER: No problem.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any other questions of staff?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any other questions of the applicant?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any public speakers, Ray?
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MR. BELLOWS: No speakers.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, we can close the public hearing
and entertain a motion. If the motion maker would like to consider the
idea of leaving that one entrance that exists today on that one road in
place, then we need to -- the recommendations should include an
elimination of staff point number two and a re-submittal of the master
plan for the consent agenda.
Does anybody wish to make a motion?
Mr. Schiffer?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Just to be clear, what he
testified is that each of those access aisles has an entrance out onto the
road. So on the northeast -- or northwest part of the property there is
actually two road accesses existing, and we're going to say keep those
exactly as they are?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right.
MR. BREWER: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Is there a rec -- Mr. Wolfley?
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: I'd like to make a
recommendation for approval for CU-2008-AR-13639, Naples
Meeting House, again for approval, with -- keeping the ingress and
egress the same. I believe that's 50th Street Southwest -- is that
correct?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: As it is.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And staff recommendations then one,
three and four; is that --
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Yeah, one, three and four for
the staff recommendation will remain.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Second.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, motion made by Commissioner
Wolfley, seconded by Commissioner Murray.
Discussion?
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(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All in favor, signify by saying aye.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Aye.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Motion carries unanimously.
Thank you very much for your time.
And with that, we will take a IS-minute break till 10:00, and
we'll come back and resume on time Savannah Place.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: And can I get the conditional
use forms signed, please?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Pass all your conditional use forms,
please.
(Recess. )
Item #9D
PETITION: PUDZ-2007-AR-12026, SAVANNAH PLACE RPUD
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, everybody, welcome back from
break.
We have one item left on today's regular agenda. It's Petition
PUDZ-2007-AR-12026, Stephen J. Lockwood, Trustee for SLJ (sic)
Realty II Trust, which is the Savannah Place RPUD on Orange
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Blossom Drive.
All those wishing to testify on behalf of this application, please
rise to be sworn in by the court reporter.
(Speakers were duly sworn.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, disclosures on the part of the
planning commission.
Mr. Wolfley?
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Yes, I spoke with Mr.
Y ovanovich shortly about the proj ect on the 15th, I believe.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Murray?
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I had a telephone conversation
with Mr. Y ovanovich regarding this matter. He asked me if I had any
questions. I had few.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Homiak?
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: I also had a phone conversation
with Mr. Y ovanovich.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody else? Ms. Caron?
COMMISSIONER CARON: Same here.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And for me, I had conversations with I
think Wayne Arnold and/or Heidi, and Mr. Y ovanovich for sure about
all the issues and any that I'll be discussing today. In fact, some that I
didn't know at the time that have been corrected today.
And we did receive a hand-out this morning correcting --
removing one column and moving the standards of that column in to
where it should have been in the PUD and into the accessory
structures.
So with that in mind, the applicant can proceed.
MS. WILLIAMS: Thank you. Good morning. My name is Heidi
Williams. I'm a certified planner with Grady Minor and Associates in
Bonita Springs.
I'm here today with Rich Y ovanovich and Josh Evans. And Josh
is a professional engineering with Grady Minor, and Rich is, as you
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know, a land use attorney here with Goodlette, Coleman, Johnson,
Y ovanovich and Custer.
We're here on behalf -- as Mr. Strain mentioned, on behalf of
SJL Realty II Trust. We're here to request your recommendation of
approval ofa rezoning of6.81 acres located on the south side of
Orange Blossom Drive, west of Airport Pulling Road.
First today I'd like to describe our project and then I'd like to talk
a little bit about compatibility. And then I'll turn everything over to
Rich to talk about some of staffs concerns. And then we would be
happy to take any of your questions.
On the visualizer you can see a diagram of the subject property.
As I mentioned, it is 6.81 acres. It's located within the urban
designation on the Future Land Use Map for Collier County.
Currently designated rural agricultural zoning, we're asking to
rezone to residential planned unit development for 20 dwelling units.
Those dwelling units -- and the master plan is on the board over here
-- are -- we're asking for either single-family attached, single-family
detached, or townhome units. Those are all listed in the PUD
document as principal uses. And then we are also asking for related
accessory uses that you would expect to find in a residential
subdivision.
We have not requested any deviations from the Land
Development Code. We started out with a very different product that
did have deviations. We have moved away from that product. Weare
not asking for any changes to buffering, open space or sidewalk
requirements. Weare completely in compliance with the code.
The next thing I would like to talk about is compatibility. You
may have noticed in the staff report that there was some concerns
about what we are asking to build here and how it relates to the
surrounding area.
The aerial photograph on the board over here indicates the
subject property is outlined in yellow. It is currently used -- it's an
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agricultural nursery. It's surrounded by development.
And I took a look at the section that this property is located in.
It's everything within one mile -- I haven't shown it in this aerial, but
development in this part of Collier County has occurred from 1997, in
the form ofPUD's, through 2005. And there are a variety of housing
types and a variety of lot sizes, and they all coexist.
And although this section of Collier County is not unique, there
are many PUD's in Collier County that have been approved with
multiple housing types, multiple housing sizes, and it's expected that
they have internal compatibility. I'd like to show you two examples
that are actually fairly close to this project on the visualizer.
This first photograph is an image of Monterey PUD on the west.
The middle component of that is a portion of Emerald Lakes PUD.
And the portion on the right is a PUD called Marker Lake Villas.
Each of these properties have a different type of unit. We go
from single-family to an attached home -- attached housing project to
an even smaller attached project. They're in very close proximity to
one another, and those were approved and deemed compatible. And as
far as I know, they are very desirable residential neighborhoods to live
m.
That project -- those projects are accessed, a combination from
Orange Blossom Drive and also from Vanderbilt Beach Road. This is
at the northern end of the same section that our property is in.
This second example is also located in the same section as
Savannah Place. It is on the west side, a portion of the Sleepy Hollow
PUD. That subdivision is actually Mill Run. On the east side is a PUD
called Keystone Place. That is developed as the Arbor Walk
Condominiums. It was formerly affordable apartments.
And on the south what you're seeing is actually an industrial
development.
All three of these uses are adjacent to one another, and they've
been deemed compatible. And incompatibility is dealt with by a
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combination of setbacks and buffering and other development
standards.
So what we're trying to show with these two examples is that the
unit type is not necessarily what is the main driving cause of
compatibility. Single-family, townhomes and attached, unattached
products can all be located in very close proximity and not cause
problems between neighbors.
Another factor for compatibility is density. Staff points out that
the Sleepy Hollow PUD is 1.69 units per acre. And overall it is. There
are large areas of preserve in that PUD. Because of the environmental
conditions on that property, I don't think you could have gotten a
higher -- maybe you could have gotten a higher density and changed
the product types, but what I would suggest is that within this section
of land, that's the exception, not the rule to the density in the area.
We have asked for three units per acre. Keystone Place, which
again is Arbor Walk shown in that aerial, was approved at 11.88 units
per acre. There are two other PUD's with high densities in this area.
Bear Creek is one. They have 14 units per acre. Those are outliers.
They are both accessed by Airport Pulling Road.
The Buckley mixed use PUD is also a high density, it's 10.99
units per acre.
So what we've seen is that those projects located on a main
arterial road are given a high density. And as you move away from
that, the density increases.
Monterey PUD is 4.7 units per acre.
Cay Lagoon, which actually abuts our property on the east side,
the northeast side, is a multi-family product. It's a PUD that has a 5.45
unit per acre density.
So the three units per acre that we're asking for this infill project
is actually lower than many of the projects around them. It is allowed
by the comprehensive plan and that's why we're asking for that today.
Similarly, the lot size was raised as a concern by staff. The same
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list of PUD's that are contained within this section, I went through and
tried to see which ones allowed multi-family, which ones allowed
single-family.
There's actually only one that does not allow multi-family
product within the PUD, and that is the one we're adjacent to, Sleepy
Hollow.
There are three that only allow multi-family in this section.
Those are Bear Creek, Cay Lagoon, which is another of our neighbors,
and the Buckley mixed use PUD.
All of the others allow both single-family and multi-family
product within the same planned development.
Obviously along the way we've determined that multi-family
and single-family can be collocated and be compatible.
One thing I'd like to describe is the staff report has on Page 7 in
the setback comparison table, we actually asked for 15 feet from the
PUD boundary. It's typed in there as five. And on the west and
southern sides of the property, we would be willing to change our
request from 15 feet to 25 feet to increase the distance from our
neighbors. That is unfortunately not one of the changes we made in
the revised PUD pages that were handed out today.
The first change that we made to the documents that were
handed to you today, we simply changed the title in table one. This
used to refer to the clubhouse building. We took that out. This only
refers to townhomes. This is the development standards for principal
structures only.
And we took the development standards from the principal use
table and added it to our accessory use table. So table 1.1 has a new
column with those same development standards.
So that's the -- that brings me to the end of my discussion on
compatibility, and I'll turn it over to Rich.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Good morning. For the record, Rich
Y ovanovich.
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What I wanted to address was the staff comments regarding the
native preservation requirements.
And basically what your staff is saying in their staff report is that
we are required to retain 100 percent of the existing native vegetation
found on the site.
We've been given two reasons for that request: One is in the staff
report and one is in e-mails that we received. The first reason is that
staff claims that the note on the SDP -- and the SDP was for a nursery,
which is an agricultural use within the agricultural zoning district. So
it was in a site development plan for the nursery and the building
supporting the nursery.
So we did a site development plan, which is one method of
doing an agricultural use.
On that site development plan there's an area that says existing
vegetation to remain. The reason that was there is because we were
not clearing that portion of the property related to the nursery use and
the buildings to support the nursery use.
Your staff is saying that those four words, existing vegetation to
remain, equals the term preserve. There's no easement on that property
to say it's a conservation easement, but they're saying it should be
treated as if it's a preserve because we elected not to clear it as part of
the nursery operation.
I think they're wrong on a couple -- for a couple of reasons -- oh,
the second reason we were given is that the nursery really isn't an
agricultural use, it's a commercial use. So since it's not an agricultural
use, you don't get to take advantage of the provisions in the code that
say agricultural uses are exempt from the minimum native vegetation
requirements.
Well, if you look at section 2.03.01.A.l, A.2, which is the
agricultural, the list of permitted uses in the agricultural zoning
district, it specifically says that we're allowed to do agricultural
activities.
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And if you look at the use of agricultural activities in that
section, it says nurseries. So nurseries are clearly an agricultural
activity. So the argument that a nursery is really not agricultural is
inconsistent with the county's own Land Development Code.
Second, if you go to Section 3.05.02.C of the Land Development
Code, it provides that agricultural uses within the scope of Sections
163.3162, sub-paragraph four, and 823.14, sub-paragraph six of the
Florida Statutes, they're exempt from the native vegetation
requirements in that section.
Now, we all know that those sections are -- they're basically the
Right to Farm Act sections. And in the Right to Farm Act sections, it
says you have to go to the property appraiser and get an agricultural
exemption to qualify under the Right to Farm Act. This property has
had an agricultural exemption for many years and it still has an
agricultural exemption from a nursery.
Now, to get that agricultural exemption, you've got to be a bona
fide agricul -- you have to be a bona fide agricultural purpose.
So what do the statutes define as a bona fide agricultural
purpose? It says the use must be a good faith commercial agricultural
use of the land.
So the fact that staff may believe this is a commercial use, it has
to be a commercial use to qualify for the agricultural exemption. The
goal is to try to sell the product that you're producing. You may not
make any money doing it, but you're required to be out there doing a
business, a commercial business, your product is agricultural.
So the argument that we're a commercial operation and not an
agricultural operation and therefore we're not entitled to the
exemptions also is not consistent with the statutes or the county's Land
Development Code.
Now, we've -- you know, it's one of those things that you know
you've done this many, many times, but I've been involved in many
petitions where staff says to us, prove that the land was properly
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cleared. And if you can prove it was properly cleared, then you keep
15 percent or 25 percent, depending on what it is, of the then existing
native vegetation. If you can't prove you have the right permits, sorry,
we go back and we look at old aerials and we figure out what the
native was there, and you keep 25 percent, 15 percent, depending on
what you were, of what was there originally. Sometimes you don't
have enough left and you actually replant to come up with what the
required number is.
And we've all seen these -- you've seen the debate about whether
you can prove or not. And staff will even go so far as to say, you
know what, we'll work with you to get an after-the-fact agricultural
clearing permit if you could show that you've had a bona fide
agricultural use. And if you do that, then the clearing is fixed after the
fact and you keep 15 percent of the then existing native vegetation.
And the most recent example ofthat was the Naples Church of
Christ that we just did on Livingston Road. Remember, we had to
provide affidavits to staff that this was a horse farm. And I'm blanking
on the name, but Commissioner Strain, you actually I think did the
barn out there. So that's an example --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: House. And the house.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: It looks like a barn.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I used to do just barns, but houses work,
too, you know.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Okay, houses and barns.
But anyway, so that was an example where staff said we'll work
with you, you've proved it was a bona fide agricultural use for the
required period of time, you keep 15 percent of what's there and we
move on.
I did the Santa Barbara Apartments on Santa Barbara and Radio
Road. Same situation. The apartments were built on ago land that had
been cleared, we came in and did a PUD after the fact, because there
was some land within the project that we wanted to do a different type
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of product. There was native vegetation. We kept 15 percent of the
then existing native vegetation. We didn't keep 100 percent of it, we
kept the then existing.
So I mean, there are many examples of where they use the valid
clearing as a mechanism to determine how much you've got to keep on
the site. And it's usually been to determine, you know, is what's there
today appropriate, and then you do whatever the percentage of what's
there today.
So this is the first example where staff is saying to us, you've got
an agricultural use, although they don't want to acknowledge it's an
agricultural use. We've got a site development plan for an agricultural
use. It's been in an agricultural use for the required 10 years, because
at that time it was at 10 years; it's been recently changed to 25 years.
And now they're saying a note on the plat that says since you've
retained that vegetation it's now a preserve. And it was a required
preserve. I don't know where there was a required preserve for the
agricultural use, because the Land Development Code didn't require
preserves for agricultural uses, they've always been exempt.
Now all of a sudden those words become a required preserve and
we've got to keep 100 percent of it.
I don't think that's the way the code's been applied in the past. I
think this is a new interpretation of the code. We think it's incorrect
under the LDC provisions. And we are requesting that we be required
to keep 15 percent of the one acre that's there, and that's what the code
says, and we will do that.
We think that -- again, I don't want to belabor the point, but to
my knowledge that's the way it's always been applied, at least in
projects that I've been involved in. I've never seen it applied this way.
And so we believe that your staff is incorrect, we are consistent with
the Land Development Code, as well as the Growth Management
Plan.
And Heidi's gone through the compatibility issues regarding
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what's around us.
I will tell you, I was a little surprised when I saw the staff report,
because we've done a lot of PUD's, and all those PUD's basically
contain single-family through multi-family, and I've never seen staff
say you can't put a multi-family parcel next to a single-family parcel
in a PUD because it's incompatible. I've never seen them say to us,
you need to -- you can't have "X" lot size next to "Y" lot size because
it's internally compatibility.
I think you look at what's around us. And if projects had to be
internally compatible, and you can have those projects next to each
other, why would they no longer be externally compatible because
you're allowing those products next to each other?
And I would point out that in the Land Development Code under
the straight zoning standards, if you put RSF -1 next to RSF -6, your
only requirement is a Type A buffer. So even the Land Development
Code recognizes that you can have these different lot sizes next to
each other and the requirement is the buffer between us. And that's
how we deal with it internally in PUD's.
And I would give you one other example that's not in this
section, but from a compatibility standpoint. And it deals with the
subdivision that I live in, which is the Pine Ridge subdivision. That is
mostly straight zoning. And there's straight zoning RSF -1 for most of
the lots. There's straight zoning RSF -- I mean straight zoning
agricultural next to the RSF-1. And there's a portion, the northwest
portion of Pine Ridge where you have RMF-16 adjacent to RSF-l.
Those have all been determined to be compatible with each other. You
deal with it through the Land Development Code buffering
requirements.
I find it hard to accept that single-family next to single-family,
albeit on smaller lots, is somehow inconsistent with those types of
uses. We think that with the additional 25-foot setback, that there is --
our project is compatible with Sleepy Hollow.
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And I forgot to tell you, Heidi, this -- well, actually I told you
this, but I forgot to ask you to say it on the record. But when I spoke
with Mr. Murray on the call, he had a concern about the lot -- I mean
the square footage for the nontraditional single-family. I believe we
can go down to 750 square feet. The single-family is 1,000 and we
said we could make those numbers consistent. So there'd be 1,000
square feet across the board. So I forgot to mention that earlier.
But with those changes, we would think that all the compatibility
issues have been resolved. And again, I think the native vegetation
analysis from your staff is not correct under the Land Development
Code, and has not been the application of those provisions historically.
And with that, we're available to answer any questions you
might have regarding the PUD we're requesting.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, let's start with the applicant's
questions. Does anybody have -- Mr. Midney?
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Do you have any land clearing
permits that you could find showing when the --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: It was the site development plan. The site
development plan showed what we were doing on the site. It was a
site development plan for a nursery. The buildings and everything. It
showed the nursery area that was clear.
Even portions -- and staff has it with you, you'll see other
portions where we cleared it. And alls it says is exactly what your staff
report says, native vegetation to remain.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Are all nurseries agriculture?
Because to me there seems to be two kinds of nurseries: One where
stuff is brought in from somewhere else just for selling and another
type of nursery where everything is grown I guess maybe in pots on
the site.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I think your code says that they're both
agricultural operations. So I would say yes. From a treatment of
whether they're agricultural, yes, I think whether you grow it all
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on-site or you bring some of it there and you grow some of it in pots, I
think they would qualify as nursery.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: So the code makes no distinction.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I don't think it does. I haven't seen it. I
don't there we were -- we're not a retail nursery. We're a -- you know,
you kind of grow it and use it within your business.
So in this particular case I don't think you'd have to worry about,
you know, were we open to the general public. We were using it as
part of the business.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any other questions of the applicant?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: I do, Mark.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Schiffer?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Rich, there's no limit on the
length of the townhouses, so conceptually they'd be big units, I'll
agree, but you could run a townhouse that would go all the way
around the whole road system.
Would you have a problem limiting the maximum length of
that?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Maximum?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well, in other--
MR. YOV ANOVICH: We get 20 units. We're only allowed 20
units.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: So I said, they'd be kind of big,
but --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: How many to a cluster is what he asked
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I'm asking, what is your -- you said --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well, 200 feet is a conventional
break on the --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: That's fine. We don't have an issue with
saying a townhome building cannot be greater than 200 feet in length.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Thank you. I'm done.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody else? Ms. Caron?
COMMISSIONER CARON: In my conversation with you, Mr.
Y ovanovich, we talked about the height, the actual height of 45 feet,
and whether that was necessary or not. You and I talked about making
the zoned and actual height the same.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Of 35 feet.
COMMISSIONER CARON: And that didn't seem -- of 35 feet.
That certainly allows you a townhouse product that would be
compatible with anything else that's around it, and allows you to be
compatible.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: We'd have to -- yeah, I understand that
the definitions are different. And I would hope -- I know we talked
about that. I don't have an exact answer.
And Mr. Schiffer, I hate to defer to you, but --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well, yeah.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: On that, is it a problem to design --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: I think alls you would do is
force the developer to put flatter roofs on his project. That's the --
remember, the zoned height goes to the midpoint of a roof, actual goes
to the peak. If you make those the same, the developer has a choice of
either lowering the roof or flattening the roof. So the intent of the
actual height was not to cause all the buildings in Collier to have flat
roofs.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: But would a 35 --
COMMISSIONER CARON: And that is not happening. And so
if you want to make the zoned height 25 feet and your actual height 35
feet, fine by me.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: What about 35, 40, instead of 35, 45?
COMMISSIONER CARON: Well, it's not going to work for me,
but --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Here's the thing, though, is
what's being punished is the roof. I mean, the developer is not going to
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change probably his bearing height of his second floor. So aIls you're
going to do is lower that roof down. If he's got a wide footprint --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: How about 30 and 40? That's what our
neighbors have. They have 30. They don't have an actual number, but
they have 30 zoned. So that would be --
COMMISSIONER CARON: What are they actually?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: You know, I -- right now I don't know.
But that doesn't have to stay that way. You know, as neighborhoods
get older and get more expensive, people are doing additions. So what
I'm suggesting is that height would be the same that they could
develop on their site.
So it would be 30 zoned and 40 actual so we don't mess with the
roof.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: I mean, we're just playing with
numbers, we're not playing with geometry. And it is a geometry
problem.
You would probably have -- if you had a nine-foot ceiling, two
foot of structure, you have 11 -- 22 feet is the lowest part of your roof
bearing.
So alls your doing, like I said, is just laying the roof down. We
have some beautiful projects with nicely sloped roofs that I don't think
are causing anybody any grief from the roof.
And that's all you're dealing with is the slope of the roof here.
That's the only thing you're adjusting. You're not adjusting the height
of the building -- the floors of the building, just its roof.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, the applicant has suggested a
compromise during discussion. We need to know where we go with
that.
So anybody else have any questions of the applicant at this time?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I do.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: So close.
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COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: But so far.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And actually, you took care of some of
them.
The removal of the clubhouse from the principal to the accessory
table works. My concern is where are you going to place the
clubhouse and recreation centers if they were to go on this property?
Where would they not be going? And that's to protect the
neighborhood and the surrounding areas.
So where are you -- where would you like to limit those?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: To the east. It needs to be -- let me walk
over.
We're talking about in this area, okay?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So any recreational-- any of those
accessones --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: This is multi-family adjacent to it. So we
would put it on the east boundary and not adjacent to the west
boundary, if that helps.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: It would east of the right-of-way to the
roadway.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Yes, sir. Of the road, yes, internal road.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. And your new table took care of
all my other issues that I had.
Mr. Murray's 1,000 square feet, you've agreed to that. So I think
the only other thing is the argument you've just put forth on the
preserve. And I didn't have a concern either way. I don't see anything
wrong with your argument, so I'm inclined to agree with your position
on that. So I don't have any other questions.
Anybody else?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, can we have staff report.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: There's a --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ma'am, we're not to public speakers yet.
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And you weren't sworn in, so when you do speak, you'll have to stand
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MS. DESELEM: Good morning. For the record, my name is
Key Deselem, and I'm also a certified planner and I'm with the
Department of Zoning with Collier County.
You do have the staff report, and the attachment to go with that
A and B that are the findings in support of the staff recommendation.
I won't bore you with the details that you've already heard once.
There's no need to go into that. I'll just pretty much hone in to the
issues that we have that are outstanding between the agent and the
staff.
The main issues that we have, as you know, are the
compatibility issue with the unit types and the environmental issue.
F or the environmental issue I have Susan Mason here from our
environmental staff that will address that particular issue.
As far as the other issue, staff will, yes, admit that it is a little bit
different from what I understand. There has never been the analysis
that was provided in this one as far as looking at the size of the units
and the lot size.
But staff did do some research, and we looked into the issue
based on the input that we received from the neighborhood
information meeting.
If you look in the staff report, you can see there were 25 people
at the second meeting that we had, and they were truly concerned,
seemingly, about what was being proposed. And not knowing exactly
what was being proposed I think perplexed them as much as anything.
And they did seem to have concerns about the proximity of the
uses that were proposed for the proj ect. More or less that than the fact
that it was single-family homes. They did have concerns about the
multi-family aspect. Staff didn't really hone in on that. Staffs concerns
with compatibility were the lot sizes.
And we did do an analysis, as you see in the staff report, with
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Sleepy Hollow, which is the most impacted of the projects as far as
the proposed lot sizes in this project and what is there.
And staff pulled up several sources that talked about
compatibility. And compatibility is -- also involves design of the
project. And design of the project, it's not just the use. And this is a
standard that's accepted in planning texts throughout the United States.
And this is one source where it talks about the compatibility.
And it talks about the bulk of structures. It's not just the use itself.
There are other things that deal with compatibility.
And oftentimes you'll see in a staff report with the
recommendation, it will talk about the orientation of building, location
of buildings, the mass of the structure. And this is another aspect of
compatibility that staff tried to look at to resolve concerns raised by
the neighbors.
Before you now is an excerpt from the Land Development Code.
The petitioner's agent mentioned that there are things within the RS-l
and RS whatever and RMF whatever, whatever the different
categories are of the zoning code that deal with buffering. But this is
taken directly from the design standards for planned developments.
And it notes in here that you can look at things differently in a
PUD than you would in standard zoning. And that's what staff has
done.
I offer this as an excerpt from another planning book that's
accepted, and it's provided by the American Planning Association.
And it talks about floor area ratio as a way to evaluate projects when
you have single-family homes or residential uses that will be abutting
residential uses.
This particular issue came up in the context of teardowns, where
you have an older neighborhood that's being changed, you have older
homes that are small and now everybody's going to come in like they
did several years ago and build the mega-houses, and it's like how do
you deal with that issue.
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And we have somewhat of a similar situation here where we
have an infill tract. It's ago It's surrounded by, as noted by the
petitioner's agent, developed properties. Most of them have developed
with residential uses. And the residential uses do vary. So how do you
address that?
And this particular text indicates that one way you can look at
that is through the floor area ratio. And when you have an equitable
floor area ratio, hopefully you have a more compatible design of a
project.
Staff did an analysis with the Savannah Place, what's proposed
by the petitioner and what staff is recommending in comparison to the
Sleepy Hollow. And this Sleepy Hollow looked at what was approved
in that zoning, not just what was actually built. Because as noted in the
staff report, the structures that were built and the lot sizes that were
developed are significantly larger even than what's proposed here.
But as you can see, the floor area ratio of the proposed Savannah
Place units is quite higher than what was approved for Sleepy Hollow.
And if you look at staffs recommendation for the two projects, we are
proposing something that's more in line as far as floor area ratio with
what's approved in Sleepy Hollow, staff believing that is a more
appropriate way to address compatibility in this project.
I would note that in the applicant's presentation they provided
various aerial photographs and mentioned several projects. But I think
something that was left out of that analysis you need to consider, too,
they didn't mention the size of the buffers or the setbacks that might be
part of those PUD's. They didn't mention the location of the structures
or how they're implemented. There's driveways in some, there's
internal roadways in others that we're actually showing to separate the
uses.
And interestingly, you don't know the size of those projects.
Those could have all been approved as part of a larger project. This is
a very small project. Like I said, it's almost an infill, trying to fit it into
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a neighborhood, which can sometimes be problematic. And that's what
we're trying to address here as staff.
And you just don't really understand unless you look at all those
and have all that information in front of you. All you're looking at is
an aerial photograph.
One other thing that you can't tell from that is who was there
first. Which project came in first. We have a project here that's coming
in after the fact next door to a larger lot subdivision. And those
projects that were shown to you, we don't know who came in first.
Was the multi-family project there first and then the large lot
single-family, or the large lot single-family or small lot single-family
came in prior to the multi-family? And I think that's a lot of the
dynamics that we have here that we're trying to be concerned about
and address the compatibility issue with that.
And although the petitioner's agent did mention that he's never
seen an analysis like this before, that's understandable. Like I said
when I started, I don't know that we've used this particular type of an
analysis in Collier County.
However, historically that's nice to know, but it's important to
understand that each project is evaluated on its own merit and not
necessarily on something else that might have or might not have been
done in the past. And I think staff has tried to show you what we've
looked at and how we've evaluated it. And I think it's a fair
comparison to cite what we have cited and to recommend what we
have recommended.
And with that, I don't have anything else. If you have any
questions, I'd be happy to address them.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody have any questions?
Mr. Schiffer?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Kay, based on, you know the
studies, these were all based on the minimum that was required in the
PUD.
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MS. DESELEM: Yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: So anything above that
minimum would cause the FAR to increase. So, for example, the
Sleepy Hollow could have 2,400 square foot units in there, which
would be an FAR of 22 -- .22, right?
MS. DESELEM: Yes, but also those lot sizes were considerably
larger as well.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: But, you know, I'm just playing
with the math.
In other words if, you know, you took a larger lot size into what
their minimum unit was. But in fact we don't know what they really
built, do we?
MS. DESELEM: I just did -- and that's what I said, I just did a
comparison based on the PUD itself, what was approved.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: So their units --
MS. DESELEM: Which is what we're dealing with now.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: So their units could be .3, could
be.4 FAR.
MS. DESELEM: Yes, the minimums are what we are approving.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Wolfley?
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Kay, west of, well, let's say
1-75, everything we have is infill. So I don't think infill is bad. The
only issue with infill is that -- there's a couple of things. I guess you're
-- you're FAR is part of it.
Another thing is the sale price of the end product. A lot of times
when you have a neighborhood or an area that's 10, 20, 30 years old
with a certain design to it, very difficult to put a new project in there
that is not going to skew off the property values.
So I think that the property values have a little bit of weight here
as well. I don't think it would match to give your FAR -- I don't think
is a fair assessment as an only -- as the only way to do this.
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So I think the property value probably has something to do with
it. So I'm not necessarily in total agreement with what you say.
Next I want to get into the vegetation, the native vegetation.
MS. DESELEM: If! may, Susan Mason is going to address that
Issue.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Which one?
MS. DESELEM: The issue about the native vegetation.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Okay.
MS. DESELEM: And she'll make a presentation to you and then
can respond.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Great.
At your neighborhood information -- you had two meetings. The
first meeting, do you remember how many people were there?
MS. DESELEM: I'd have to go back and look at the staff report,
I don't recall.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Ninety? Nine-zero?
MS. DESELEM: I know there was a significant amount, because
they flowed over outside of the room.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Oh, okay.
And that's when they were going after 75 units in that location?
MS. DESELEM: Yes, they were proposing an affordable
housing component at much higher density.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: And that didn't go over very
well.
MS. DESELEM: That's correct.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Now they're proposing 20 units.
Okay, I just -- and do you know how many people were at the second
meeting?
MS. DESELEM: I believe there was 25.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Twenty-five.
And that's what I was getting at, is I was wondering what was
solved at the first one? Was it the number of density? Was that why
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there were so many fewer people? Because that sounds like the
majority of the neighborhood, the surrounding areas were concerned
about 75 affordable housing units. Whereas now it's 20 single-family
units. So I just -- again, I don't understand that part about why the
square footage of the lots.
I had another one, but I'm going to have to wait until I find it. I'll
wait for the native vegetation. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Murray?
COMMISSIONER MURRA Y: You know, it's interesting your
comparisons here, especially when your staff recommendation comes
down to continuing with 750 square feet. I'm just surprised that -- I
guess that's the result of their arithmetic, right?
MS. DESELEM: I'm sorry, I don't follow your question.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Well, in other words, you're
advocating 750 square feet.
MS. DESELEM: No, I only analyzed what was proposed --
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: That's what I mean --
MS. DESELEM: -- they didn't offer anything different, so --
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: That's what I mean then when I
say it was arithmetic.
MS. DESELEM: Yes.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Because you did a calculation --
MS. DESELEM: Yes.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: -- absent any other criteria
associated with it.
And as you may have heard, I'm not happy with a 750 square
feet place for a person -- a family to grow up in.
You would agree, though, that 1,000 square feet would be better
than 750 square feet for a living accommodation, wouldn't you? It
would be illogical not to, I think.
MS. DESELEM: I think that's a matter of choice for each
person. I mean, in some cultures 750 square feet would be a huge
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home.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: This is Naples.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: This is --
MS. DESELEM: In my personal estimation, yeah, I would much
rather have 1,000 square foot.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Okay. What I'm trying -- maybe
I didn't say it as well as I should have. What I'm saying is relative to
this location to the adjacent places, 1,000 square feet is a bigger home
in general; physical structure has to be bigger. And that means you'll
have fewer. And that's one of the factors that I thought was applicable
here.
I'm not trying to put you on the spot in any way, but I'm just
surprised that you were -- your calculation just brought it down to 750
square feet and that would have been acceptable.
All of the other posture that you have related here is based on all
kinds of criteria from all other locations, and that's a simple arithmetic
calculation. I think it doesn't serve you as well. That's all I'm really
relating.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Kay, I don't particularly think that the
staff doing this kind of analysis and selectively doing it for this project
is a good precedent to set.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: No.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN : We are not as a county organization
supposed to be dictating marketing. I don't believe this is a really fair
way to evaluate solely compatibility.
For example, you're going to eliminate affordable housing
throughout Collier County if you wanted to use this analysis and every
neighborhood wanted to throughout the county. The previous 75 units,
could this property have taken or been allowed to have 75 units of
affordable housing?
MS. DESELEM: We did not evaluate that. It never got to that
stage.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Would they qualify for 75 units of
housing under the density bonuses and things they could have applied
for?
MS. DESELEM: It appeared to be consistent with the Growth
Management Plan as proposed.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, under your analysis, they would
have lost that ability, because you couldn't have got more than 50
units on here, based on the square footage you want. And that's if you
had no road and no water management and no preserve area.
So I don't think your analysis is the way to utilize compatibility
in Collier County. We have plenty of examples where that wasn't done
before. And I still think this is an avenue we don't want to go in.
So that's just a statement, Kay. I disagree wholeheartedly with
the way this one was approached.
But other than that, I don't have any other questions other than
getting into the -- if there wants to be a presentation on the preserve
area, that's fine, we can go forward with that, if there's no other
questions of staff.
Ms. Caron?
COMMISSIONER CARON: Yeah, I just wanted to make a
comment on Page 3 of 10. And I don't know who wrote the Growth
Management Plan consistency, but under Policy 7.2 it says, the county
shall encourage internal access or loop roads in an effort to help
reduce vehicle congestion on nearby collector and arterial roads and
minimize the need for traffic signals.
And in response to that it says, the RPUD conceptual master
plan depicts an internal cul-de-sac road with the project. All individual
lots or tracts within the project will obtain access from that internal
road.
And I just think that that -- whoever wrote that is not reading the
policy correctly. Encouraging internal accesses or loop roads is one
thing. Having a road to get to your home is a totally different thing.
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This doesn't get traffic off highways, it doesn't prevent you from going
out to the major arterials or collectors in order to get to shopping or
whatever.
When we talk about creating loop roads and interconnects, it's to
prevent people from coming out onto the road. And I just think
whoever wrote this is totally misinterpreting the code. And we need to
think about those kind of things before we write -- this project
obviously has to have a road to get to the houses that are on it. But it
has nothing to do with preventing a traffic signal, creating a loop road
or an interconnect or anything else. It's just the road to get to the
project, which they must have.
And by the way, since I'm on that road, what's the length of that
cul-de-sac? Are we over the 1,000 feet deal? I have no idea.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: No.
MS. DESELEM: I don't know right off the top of my head. I
could scale it out. Perhaps --
COMMISSIONER CARON: I forgot to ask.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: We didn't ask for a deviation, so it better
not be.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any other questions of staff before we
go into the preserve issue?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay--
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I have one.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Murray?
COMMISSIONER MURRA Y: Just one question relative to the
statement.
I just want to know, was it you that wrote the -- on Page 4 of 10,
was it you that wrote the statement, in accordance with CCME and the
whole -- I know that, I know that. Was it you that wrote that?
MS. DESELEM: Wait a minute, what statement on Page 4 of
10?
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COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Page 4 of 10 on the bottom,
where it begins in accordance with CCME. Is that your --
MS. DESELEM: This is a staff report. It's a compilation--
COMMISSIONER MURRA Y: A compilation.
MS. DESELEM: -- but yeah.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: So the information --
MS. DESELEM: My name is on it so I take full responsibility
for everything that's in there.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: That's okay. I'm just trying to
ascertain if it was your wording or not. So it's a compilation, so we'll
figure out when we hear from Susan.
MS. DESELEM: Okay, thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you.
Ms. Mason?
MS. MASON: Good morning. For the record, Susan Mason with
Engineering and Environmental Services Department.
To explain how staff applied the preservation requirements to
this site, we need to kind of go back a little bit to the original SDP that
was approved in 1997. That was for a commercial SDP. The applicant
at that time had requested clearing and --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Mason, in order not to forget things
that are relevant, because this is an important issue, as you go forward,
if you can clarify something. You just said it was a commercial SDP.
What evidence of that can you provide?
MS. MASON: The way it was reviewed. The 1.04 acres is 15
percent of the vegetation that was on that site at the time of
development. And that was what was reviewed, approved and built.
Back in that time period, the Growth Management Plan and
LDC did not require that what was required preserve had to be labeled
literally preserve. That came about in -- it was either 2003 or 2004,
really to clarify when was something an applicant had simply left
uncleared versus something that was a required preserve.
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And prior to that, people could really label it anything they
wanted, from -- sometimes they were really clear with conservation
area preserve, other times it was things that were a bit more arbitrary
or less clear; recreation areas, open space, all different kinds of things,
but it was their required preserve.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do you know the date of that SDP?
MS. MASON: 1997. So this was approved prior to it being--
having specific language that they had to use.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Were you the reviewer of that SDP?
MS. MASON: No, I was not.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Did you speak to the reviewer of that
SDP?
MS. MASON: No.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So comments about your assumption of
it being reviewed by -- under a commercial basis is based on your
belief?
MS. MASON: Well, no, it would be because the clearing plan
was approved as part of that SDP. If somebody is requesting
agricultural clearing, there's a separate either agricultural clearing
permit or ago notification that they provide. And then it's specifically
stated that there's no preservation requirement.
So that would be the way, in our opinion, that this was applied.
And so we came up with the original preserve and --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, that's why -- you have lengthy
responses here today. Let me -- Mr. Wolfley, go ahead.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Is there any way, either can we
get the camera to zoom in on that yellow -- the surrounding -- the
picture of the actual aerial. Let me use the word aerial as it is called.
Either get the camera there or get a -- something. I want to show
something there. Because I think you wanted to add a --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Put it under the ELMO, if you could.
That might get it there.
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COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: I think, you know, you're
adding words to whether it's a preserve -- that's fine, that's great.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Kady's listening to every word we say.
Thank you, Kady.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Thank you.
I think there was a word that you may have left out when you
were describing preserves and existing things. I think you left out a
word out called a buffer.
If you look at this, I think that that site was using that foliage.
Whether you call it Florida native or not, I don't think it is. I think it's
a buffer to buffer the homes from their operation. And that's what it
was there for. And I would like to see someone deny that.
Because if you go back in that foliage, I would like you to tell
me what native vegetation is in there.
MS. MASON: Staff did go out. It's got native vegetation. It's
pine flatwoods that's out there. And there's -- actually on here, this is
the site plan that was approved in 1997. And you can see along the
edge here --
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Ray might need to get up there
and switch it. She's looking for it, but Ray, could you give us the
overhead, please.
MS. MASON: That area there that's largely in the hatching
actually is labeled landscape buffer easement. So that was the required
buffer that was on there. And it is very common for people, whenever
possible, to have a preserve and a landscape buffer easement overlap.
For a lot of reasons. For buffering the neighborhood properties, in
addition to fulfilling the requirements, they're able to -- it may sound
negative, but like double dip, really. And that's in a good way that
there've preserving and --
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: But this double dip is in not a
good way because you're using the word preserve and it's a buffer. It
was there for a buffer and you're using it as a preserve and making
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these people keep it a preserve when it was a buffer.
MS. MASON: If! could just --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah, let her finish her presentation
before we come to a conclusion.
I think -- though I wanted to make sure your presentation, you
need to be as precise and as clear as you can as your sources of why
your assumptions are being made so that we understand it. That's what
I was trying to get across --
MS. MASON: Okay, and I'll do the best I can to try to answer it
during my presentation. If you still have questions, I'd be happy to
answer them afterwards.
But we would have required -- or the applicant would have
submitted an ago clearing permit application or an ago clearing
notification if they wanted to. And the way we -- I kind of looked at
this one was sort of a retroactive trying to apply well, we could have
requested ago clearing and we didn't at that time but we'd like to now.
And basically that's how we applied it. They had preserved 15
percent at the time in 1997, and to take 15 percent of the required
preserve at that time did not fill the requirement that they have a
mmlmum.
So -- and we did run this by the planning department, including
the Director, Susan Istenes, and Joe Schmitt did agree with our
application at that time.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, thank you, Susan.
What I was trying to make sure is that we had a -- some
statements made about various conditions in the past. I was looking
for a factual rebuttal to those. And I mean, that's what I was trying to
keep you on track with.
MR. KLATZKOW: I need to clear the record.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Go ahead.
MR. KLATZKOW: Susan, when this site development plan was
approved way back when, was there either a GMP requirement or a
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code requirement that required a 15 percent preserve area be set aside?
MS. MASON: Yes, there was, 15 percent minimum. And that is
for commercial properties.
MR. KLATZKOW: Deed is not commercial--
MS. MASON: Yes, it was stated on there by use, 25 -- it's
exactly the same as it is today, 25 percent for mixed use --
MR. KLATZKOW: So what you're saying is that it's your view
that this site development plan was a commercial use?
MS. MASON: Right, and that--
MR. KLATZKOW: Because it's a commercial use, they were
required to have 15 percent.
MS. MASON: Yes, that was how--
MR. KLA TZKOW: If it was not a commercial use, if it was an
agricultural use, would they be required to have the 15 percent
preserve area?
MS. MASON: No, they would not.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Are nurseries in agricultural use?
MS. MASON: Yes, I believe so. We always kind of coordinate
with the attorneys on --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I've been out to the nursery.
MS. MASON: -- the telephone.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: They won't sell retail. This is a
wholesale nursery. Is this the typical kind of nursery that is allowed in
an agricultural use?
MS. MASON: There's all different kinds.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, thank you.
Mr. Wolfley?
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: The state -- well, let me just
back up, since I apparently am a purveyor of noxious and other types
of plants in the area.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Exotic weeds.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Exotic weeds. Thank you,
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Chair. Which is not so.
But in any event, nurseries are looked on a little bit differently,
especially in the agricultural ends of things. Ag. does not want to label
nurseries as ag., because of the property appraiser exemption.
Does this property have an ago exemption with the property
appraiser currently?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Yes, it does. It currently does. It's had it
continuously for -- since '97.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Well--
MR. YOV ANOVICH: As a nursery.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Okay. All right. Well, I mean,
more recently there has been some issues with that.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Right. But as of today, there is an ago
exempt for the nursery.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Right, okay.
I just wanted that acknowledgement made. That's all I needed to
know right at this second. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Before we go to Mr. Murray, just so that
everybody listening knows that our jokes with Mr. Wolfley about his
exotic plants, is he has gone into an endeavor to promote biofuels
through a plant called the Jatropha plant. It's actually a very useful
plant. But recently someone at the state decided it may not be a -- it
may be an exotic species, so we have to --
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: It's only been here for 250
years. That's my issue with native vegetation.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's the occasional comment's about.
Go ahead, Mr. Murray.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Either Susan or Mr.
Y ovanovich, I have a -- the issue of the exemption. I thought Susan
indicated that she didn't observe that or was not made aware of it.
You submitted all your documentation. Did that include the
exemption?
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MR. YOV ANOVICH: The ago exemption? I mean, we've --
that's never been an issue from staffs perspective, as far as I know,
that there's an ago exemption on this property.
I think what staff is trying to say -- and frankly, they never
provided me a document that said there was a calculation that says this
is a commercial project, it's required to retain 15 percent. This is -- if
you look at what it says on the document she's saying, it says it's a
nursery on ago zoned land and it has to be commercial to qualify as the
exemption.
So I think she's correct that it's a commercial nursery which is an
agricultural use and it's exempt. I think she's told you agricultural uses
are exempt. I think she's confusing some terms. And it's okay, I mean,
it's happened before. But I think they're just confusing some terms.
COMMISSIONER MURRA Y: I guess what I'm trying to get at
is I'm looking at an SDP that showed a boundary that was intended --
this was an approved SDP. And what I'm seeing in my interpretation
of what Susan's indicating is that because the people who owned and
operated those premises decided to leave a lot of trees where they
were obliged to keep them, that is now designated as a preserve. And I
see in the staff report on that Page 4 of 10 where the use of the word
was to remain on-site as preservation area.
And I know Susan indicated before that in prior years people had
options as to the use of the words. Well, we try very hard here to be
definitive. And I would -- I had marked that up in my record quite
early when I read this, and I thought that was an evasive term. To me
it's either a preserve or it is not.
And your SDP, unless you can tell me -- prove to me otherwise,
the SDP clearly shows to me that it was never intended to be a
preserve. So help me, if you can.
MS. MASON: Okay. Just as far as the history goes on
developments from this era, they were labeled all different ways, and
there was no way staff could require specific more clear language until
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the LDC required it.
But I did want to clarify too what Mr. Y ovanovich was saying.
We did not evaluate the preserve requirement on this site based on any
kind of ago exemption. It was strictly based on the SDP and what was
approved as part of that SDP. We did not argue whether or not it was a
legitimate agricultural --
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Well, that's what I thought you
had said earlier on.
Now here's my question to you: So you have various approaches
being taken. You have no definitive term that had been established. So
what you've decided is therefore it must be a preserve because there's
trees on it or there's plants on it. Not because you could have -- I
mean, in my mind you could have just as easily have said, gee,
looking at that SDP it looks to me like they're entitled to -- you know,
the people are entitled to the buffer and we're not going to require that
much to be used. Because you're basically closing down the use of the
land on an assumption. And that assumption could easily have gone
the other way, but you're an advocate for preservation. I'm an advocate
for preservation, but I'm also an advocate for equality.
MS. MASON: Staff was just trying to apply the code as we
thought was reasonable. And then when we did get comments back
from the applicant that disagreed with the application, we did try to
explain our position to, you know, people higher up from us. And it
was a consensus that we were applying the code correctly.
And I think this is really a policy decision on how you want to
make these things. Just so you know, there are enumerable older
projects that are labeled similar to this. And the intent -- and I could
go back and, you know, maybe by the time this comes to consent
agenda, I can have information or get it to you sooner, in the original
comment letters back from the reviewer that would say this is a
required preserve and then it was provided. I did not do that extensive
of a research.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: It won't do any good by consent, just so
you know. We can't change our vote at consent.
MS. MASON: Maybe for the Board of County Commissioners
to understand more.
But I did not look into that kind of information.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Well, but not having all of the
information would mean that you didn't go to the full extent to qualify
it either, in my opinion.
Not that I'm taking it personally, because I think you're a nice
lady, I'm not trying to do anything to you. But I address these matters
in a blunt fashion because I think they should be devoid of emotion.
The fact is that a decision was made, and in this case, I think
perhaps you did not have enough -- it seemed that the tipping point
was a very simple tipping point.
And that's your prerogative, but frankly, I can't agree with that.
MS. MASON: Okay. It just -- part of it too was the fact that the
math worked out to be exactly 15 percent. It seemed an odd
coincidence. So there was an assumption that we worked under. And
we don't investigate everything to the greatest extent possible, due to
time limitations, but in the future we'll make sure we have more -- if
the comment letters, the original approvals are available, we'll make
sure that we have that for you all to include in your evaluation.
COMMISSIONER MURRA Y: That would be good.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Schiffer, then Ms. Caron.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Ray, could you zoom in on the
table that's on that drawing. See if we can --
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: That's small.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Because we tend to show what's
required and what's provided on these tables.
So do we -- where is that line item on there? Can you find it?
MS. MASON: The table does not contain any information about
clearing at all on any of the sheets.
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I think there was only five or six sheets on this SDP, and it was
silent to anything like that.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: It does show a buffer.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Okay. Because normally this
table -- and we've done it long, you know, way back -- would
normally show what is required, like it is up above, and what is
provided. So if there was a requirement for landscape, it certainly
would have been part of this table.
MS. MASON: The landscape is included up there.
MR. KLATZKOW: If there's a requirement--
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Or the buffer.
MR. KLATZKOW: -- for a preserve, would it have been on this
chart?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: I believe so.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Right.
MR. KLATZKOW: No, that's the question.
MS. MASON: Often the preserve is on there. More often than
not. I'd say on rare exceptions we've not found it, but more often than
not it's on there.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Hence the problem here.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Caron?
COMMISSIONER CARON: Susan, had you known when you
made your evaluation that they had an ago clearing permit, would that
have made a difference in your evaluation?
MS. MASON: Yes. If they had an agricultural clearing permit,
that would have negated the requirement for a preserve.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Okay.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, and I guess Kay or Susan then, if
someone's going to come in with an SDP, the SDP can be utilized for
the clearing as well. It would save them the process of submitting two
separate plans, especially if they know on the SDP more accurately
where they're going to put their facilities. So, I mean, not all cases
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benefit from separately submitting clearing plans versus doing it with
the SDP.
MS. MASON: The benefit of an agriculture clearing permit and
the reason it's a separate one and required is because there is specific
language on there that the applicant acknowledges different things
about recreation of preserve if they don't keep it in an agricultural use
for the 10 or -- at that point or 25 years now.
So there are requirements that the applicant needs to
acknowledge. If I'm clearing under ago use, I have to follow one set of
rules versus a generic vegetation removal permit. So that's why it's
required to be separate. And it's important that they understand --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But you can --
MS. MASON: -- the difference.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- combine the process of clearing in the
SDP.
MS. MASON: I suppose we could, but we have not at this point.
We do a vegetation removal permit as part of SDP's because that's the
standard thing. When it's an agricultural clearing permit it's always
been issued separate precisely for those reasons for the applicant's
knowledge.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, thank you.
Before we go into public speakers, there's a couple of things I'd
like to make sure we understand so it might help the public speakers
know where we're at here today.
But first of all, Richard, does your client have any problem that
if they do a product, whatever product they pick, they do just that
product, they don't intermix products?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Yeah, we -- this is so small, I don't think
you'd want to have multiple product types.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So it would be all or one.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Yeah, we'll pick.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right now you have a three-product
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selection: Single-family detached, single-family attached and
townhouses. The argument that townhouses are multi-family is only
subject to the way you sell them. You can have a townhouse four units
in a row, it looks like a multi-family building, but because you sell
them fee simple with a common wall, all of a sudden it's a townhouse
and not multi-family. And that's a little disingenuous in the way it's
presented.
Would you be able to live with just the single-family product
and not going with the townhouse product?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Well, I would -- I understand what you're
saying, but let me -- on the multi-family, it's typically looked at unit
over unit. And townhomes is basically, you know, you have one unit
that can be one or two levels, versus a unit over unit. That's --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But the way it appears to someone
driving by --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I understand.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- you're going to have a box that's a
box, period.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I understand that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So I'm trying to get to some resolution
so maybe that all the issues can go away. The townhouse one to me is
one that may be problematic in regards to its appearance to the
neighborhood. And if you were to eliminate that and stick with just
single-family, whether attached or detached, you've got a more --
more product that is more in line with what else is out there.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I don't have the authority at this point to
remove that use. But that doesn't stop you from recommending, if
that's an issue that, you know, to condition the approval on the
removal of that, to which I'll then discuss it with my client to see if we
want to object to the removal of that or not.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Let me go through the notes I
made, so if anybody's speaking, they know where we're already
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probably at.
Go ahead, Ms. Caron, you had something first?
COMMISSIONER CARON: Well, I just wanted to note that I
had already asked you to discuss that with your client based on our
phone conversation, so --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: And I did. Ms. Caron, I did. I just didn't
get a --
COMMISSIONER CARON: Response, okay.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I didn't get a definitive answer.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We talked about the environmental, so
there might be a request to stay with -- to work with your
environmental calculation over the others.
We've talked about limiting the detached square footage
setbacks -- or the single-family setbacks or all product setbacks along
Sleepy Hollow to a 25-foot rear setback, which would be your west
and south property lines where they abut that project.
If there is a townhouse building, it would be limited to not
greater than 200 feet in length in anyone section.
You submitted a new table to clarify the standards that were
mixed up on the other two tables.
We talked about a zoned height of 30 feet and an actual height of
40 feet.
We talked about limiting the clubhouse and recreation to the east
of the proposed entry roadway right-of-way. I think it's going to be a
driveway, so right-of-way might not be the right term.
There's a -- floor area will be 1,000 square feet for any of the
buildings or structures. That would be the minimum floor area per
unit.
And that's most of the issues that we've talked about here.
Yes, Mr. Wolfley?
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Was there one more about the
height?
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I already -- I made that statement.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: All right, sorry, I was --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I may have missed it, but there was also
the location of the common area?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I said that too.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: You did, okay.
COMMISSIONER CARON: East.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: East of the roadway.
But anyway, just so when the public speaks, those are what
we're (sic) been discussing. Some of those may sit well or sit not well
with you. And we certainly would like your input on that.
So with that, Ray, we'll ask for the public speakers.
MR. BELLOWS: Ann Cox. To be followed by John Garbo.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You'll need to use the speaker, and both
of you will have to be sworn in. I noticed neither one of you stood
during the presentation.
(Speakers were duly sworn.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And Ms. Cox, if you'd like to go--
either one of the speakers would be fine.
MS. COX: Well, I'll go here, because I want to point to this.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You need to start by just saying your
name for the record and then we'll move forward.
MS. COX: Yes, I'm Ann Cox. And I purchased all of this
property 30 years ago. I own the little cutout up in this -- in that area
right there now. I sold the rest of it 10 years ago to Joann Smallwood.
And I attended all of these hearings you've been discussing
originally for the rezoning when she purchased the property. And it is
my recollection that that was supposed to be both a preserve and a
buffer. But that's subject to your further examination.
I would like to point out that all sides of this property have
single-family homes on them now. And therefore, I think the single
detached would be more appropriate for the area. There's only one
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side that has something that is larger density.
They have mentioned a buffer to the south and the west of 25
feet. I would like to request that that buffer also be on the other side of
the property, which is contiguous with my property. I think they've
only requested 15 feet or something like that.
Also, I had an area of concern which was the flooding problem
in that whole area. I have however discussed this with them, and they
assure me that their plan for removal of excess water during the rainy
season would connect them with the sewer system on Orange Blossom
Drive.
And if that is implemented then I don't think there would be a
problem. Over the period of 30 years there have been at least three
occasions when we've had 12-inch rains and the whole thing has
flooded. So I want to make sure that they do handle this flooding
problem by connecting with the Orange Blossom sewer system.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Well, first of all, the drainage
doesn't go into the sewer system, but there is swales and drainage
systems that do function for Orange Blossom. I'm sure for the record
that's what you probably mean.
MS. COX: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And they would have to have a positive
outfall, and we can get them to testify to that point after you finish.
MS. COX: Okay. Then also right now there's an existing hedge
which I myself and my husband planted many years ago between my
property and the existing clubhouse. And I would like to have -- if
they remove this hedge for whatever buildings are put in there or
roads or buffers, I would like to have a comparable hedge between my
property and whatever they construct there.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You said an existing clubhouse. You
mean the building that's there that used to operate the nursery?
MS. COX: Yeah, I meant the office building, I guess you'd call
it.
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Caron?
COMMISSIONER CARON: Do you know what that buffer is?
Do you know what the size of that buffer is?
MS. COX: Right now?
COMMISSIONER CARON: I mean, what did you put in? Was
it a lO-foot wide buffer, a 15,25 feet?
MS. COX: There's a ligustrum hedge that's at least eight to 10
feet tall. I'd say eight.
COMMISSIONER CARON: I'm not talking about the height,
but I'm talking --
MS. COX: I don't know the exact number of feet, no.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ray, could you put the site plan on so
we can talk to this lady with the site plan in view.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Could I ask a quick little
question while we're doing that?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, go ahead, Mr. Wolfley.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: I just want to know, ma'am, you
live there, correct?
MS. COX: I live there. I have a house on that --
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: I just wondered if is this was
your rooftop there that I'm seeing.
MS. COX: Yes, it is.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Okay, thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: On this plan --
MS. COX: And when we built that, there was nothing anywhere
around us but woods.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: I bet you're going to keep that
MS. COX: We had to put the road in to our place.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ma'am, on the plan that's on the
overhead right now, that roadway they have coming in, or driveway
they have coming into the property, between that driveway along that
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one area and your home, it looks like they already have a 15- foot
hedge, and that's where your ligustrum hedge is.
MS. COX: Right.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. So the distance between the edge
of the utility easement on the outside of the roadway and your
property line they can't use for anything, so we will talk to them about
expanding the buffer there.
On the south side, which is where that lake is, you're suggesting
that you want a buffer so you don't see the lake?
MS. COX: Right now there is a 25-foot buffer surrounding their
lake, between that lake and my property. They say they are going to
extend that all the way out to the road.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Well, right now their proposal is
a 25-foot separation to the Sleepy Hollow project, and you're looking
at a 25- foot buffer around the south side of your property and on the
east side of your property between the road and them.
MS. COX: Right along here there's --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right.
MS. COX: -- now a great big berm.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. I just wanted to understand what
to talk to them about. Appreciate it.
MS. COX: It's a large berm actually lipping the lake.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Thank you very much. We'll certainly
bring the questions up to the applicant when we get back to them.
Next speaker, Ray.
MR. BELLOWS: The last speaker is John Garbo.
MR. GARBO: Like Greta. She's my aunt. You didn't know that?
Oh, yeah. Trust me, if Greta Garbo was my aunt, I would not be
standing in front you. I'd be on the south of France.
My name is John Garbo. I'm the present of the Orange
Blossom/Pine Ridge Community alliance. This is an organization that
was formed a little over a year ago and is made up of every single
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HOA that runs along Orange Blossom Drive.
First I'm going to kind of respond to some of the queries I heard.
Mr. Wolfley, you had asked about the residents the first time
around. I think the count was pretty accurate. There was probably 90
to 100 people.
The biggest issue was the density with affordable housing
credits.
Our organization made contact with developer and members of
the commission, and the petitioner reduced it to the 20 units.
Our organization is pleased with the 20 units. We feel that is
compatible with the neighborhood.
The issues of size and everything else, I think that's more of a
marketing thing. I kind of noted Sleepy Hollow, which I also live in,
their requirement when that project was built was 1,800 square feet
minimum. I believe they have increased it either 22 or 2,400, just as
an FYI.
The issue that really our organization would like to see and
we've been talking about it a lot here is a landscape buffer. And
primarily the homes that run along the south and the west, which is
Mill Run or Sleepy Hollow and Mrs. Cox, there is a lot of vegetation
there now. Some of it will probably have to be removed to put in the
right drainage and et cetera. Those residents and our organization
would like to see that there is a nice landscape buffer that goes back in
there, regardless of what happens with what is called the preserve and
the debate on that. So that's one issue.
The other one which was also brought up, whether it's
single-family or townhouse or multi-family, that was another big issue
with the first proposal and is still today.
I can tell you, the majority of the folks that live along that side
area would really prefer to see single-family. The biggest issue is if
there's a two-story product and if it's a multi-family product, you
basically are going to have people on the second floor looking down
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into your residence.
It was noted that Monterey has Emerald Lakes on its side. I
happen to have friends right there. And when they built Monterey,
those two-story multi-family units weren't there. And now they are.
And what happens is the people on the second floor look straight into
the eyes of the people sitting around their pool.
So I think the multi-family component would probably be the
least desirable. Single-family would be the most desirable.
The townhome product, let's assume that it's a two-story product.
Chances are on the second floor there's going to be a master bedroom,
generally. Probably wouldn't have that same effect as that
multi- family. So that's kind of in the middle of the issue.
And the overall height was some of the other issues that I know
the folks that came to those meetings and have since expressed them
to our organization was the height. And I think that's probably an issue
which seems like it's going along okay.
Cay Lagoon. I know the folks at Cay Lagoon which is on the
east have an existing I believe it's eureka, that you know how those
things grow, they're very tall, pretty dense, and they're probably along
where I understand where they're indicating their amenity package
would be.
I know the folks at Cay Lagoon, because they come to our
meetings, would like to see that either stay or be replaced.
So the landscape buffers are the biggest issue. We'd like to see --
you know, suggest that they continue to put those in, if the current
ones are removed.
And I can tell you that the organization is pleased to see the 20
units versus the 75. Thanks.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, thank you.
Okay, I guess we probably need to start talking with the
applicant about conditions.
Let's -- Richard, if -- and if it's okay with the commissioners, I
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have a list I can start running down, and then we can add whatever's
rlllssmg.
Landscape buffers. Apparently you have existing buffers.
Whether you call them buffers today or whether they're vegetation, it's
matured out and is providing a good buffer between the east Cay units
and to the west for Mrs. Cox on her property, both along the south and
along west of that road entry.
And I know we're talking about buffers along the Sleepy Hollow
project to the west and to the south as well.
Where there's a buffer already in place, it seems people are
satisfied with those. Can we get a commitment that would go into a
stipulation that where the buffers are already in place, if you have to
disturb those for utility lines, drainage lines, whatever else you're
doing, that you'll replace with either equal to or greater than the buffer
that's in place both in opacity and width?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Well, I mean, the hard part is you're
talking about you'll have mature growth versus new growth. I don't
know that I can get there immediately.
What I would propose, Mr. Strain, is since the code requires
between these types of uses -- assuming we don't do the -- the
single-family to single-family require a Type A buffer, which is
basically a tree every 30 feet. That's all our neighbors had to do for
theirs and that's all we were requesting for us.
What I would propose we do is we do the Type B plantings so
they get the same vegetation they would get as a Type B buffer, within
the 10-foot width that a Type A buffer would be.
So they'll get the benefit of the plantings of a Type B, which is
more than they had to do on their own. So it would be hedge and trees
along the south and the west. And I don't know why we couldn't do it
all the way around. We could do it all the way around the project.
So they would get a Type B buffer within the width of a Type A
buffer, so they get the same vegetation. And we'll do it all the way
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around the project to try to address that issue.
Because I don't know what will get disturbed, what won't get
disturbed, and I don't want unreasonable expectations to how quick
I've got to get to the same opacity that's there today.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Caron?
COMMISSIONER CARON: For the benefit of the public that is
here and concerned about those buffers, will you explain to them
exactly what getting a Type B buffer in that 10-foot width is going to
mean to them?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: They would get a tree every 30 feet and
they would get a hedge that goes to six feet. Would grow to six feet.
Otherwise you don't have to do that when you have -- they didn't have
to do any of that on their site.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, so the buffer you replace with is
a Type B, as just described --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Right.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- and the width ofa Type A.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Correct.
COMMISSIONER CARON: All around the property.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: All around the property. That means the
hedge and trees both.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Now, the audience, it may take a little
bit of time for that to grow in, but it would grow in as a hedge, and
that's the objective.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Right.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Anybody else have any
comments on that one?
COMMISSIONER CARON: To six feet, though, just so that
everybody knows, not to the eight feet that may be there on
somebody's property now.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, it's required to go to six, but ifit
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goes higher, you don't necessarily have to cut it back if you don't want
to.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Yeah, I just don't want to be required to
grow it higher.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No, I understand.
Ms. Homiak?
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Rich, I thought you were going
to ask your client about a wider buffer on the west and south side, if
you would agree to a 25- foot --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: No, we're doing the 25-foot setback.
We've agreed to the 25-foot setback. And we're going to put the
plantings --
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: But no wider buffer than --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: We're going to do all the plantings you
would put in that area anyway.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: The 25 feet.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: We're going to do the 25-foot setback,
and within that 25-foot setback will be a 10-foot wide Type B buffer.
We had originally proposed a lO-foot wide Type A buffer.
So what we're saying is we'll do additional plantings within that
same area and set the buildings further back than we originally asked
for.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay?
Okay, let's move on to the others. First of all, whatever product
type you pick, it will be all the same product. Do you have any
objection to --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- that?
Let's talk about the product types. You were offering three. Two
are single-family. The townhouse is a single -- depending on how you
sell it, it's fee simple, single-family, but it's more of an attached
product.
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Does anybody have any concerns about the townhouse?
Mr. Schiffer?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: And I think, Rich, you've got to
be careful. What Mark was saying, it is going to be classified in the
building code as multi-family, three units or more. You're going to get
into sprinkler systems, you're going to get into a different level of
development that --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: We could commit -- we specifically said
townhouse, which would mean it had to be fee simple ownership. So
that -- we could commit to single-family detached, single-family
attached, which is a two-unit building, and a townhome. Has to be
townhome, it can't be -- it would be a townhome concept where you
do the fee simple ownership with the buildings not longer than the 200
feet we had talked about. And those would be the three produce types
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: But I think you're going to find
that once you get to three units, even if it's the configuration of a
townhome, it's in the building code --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I understand.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Multi -- essentially treated. I
mean, there are some provisions for the townhome that are different.
But, you know, you're bringing in sprinkler, you're bringing in a
different level. So wouldn't it be easier not to build it? So if you build
it, you're going to build the whole thing then, so I guess it doesn't
matter.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Right.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Okay, thanks.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That does give you five to six units,
though, per building at the 200- foot length. And that does make it
appear as a multi-family --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I understand.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- large building in a primarily
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residential area. That still is a little troublesome why you need that. So
I'm just -- that's why I'm offering it up for discussion. I guess we can
take it up on discussion of the motion when we get to that then.
The issue on the environmental to go with the calculation by the
applicant, I mean, it's in the urban area, there are no endangered
species. I understand there's a discrepancy in the way it was looked at,
although we've not seen any hard evidence, even if it's offered. I'm
still not sure why there's a concern in this area for that, especially with
no endangered species. So I'm inclined to agree with the applicant that
their calculation works here.
Mr. Midney?
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Yeah, I'm taking a different
interpretation. I think that the retention of native vegetation is of
benefit to the proj ect and to the aesthetics of the neighborhood.
And I think that the proposed .13 acres of the preserve is too
small for a seven-acre PUD.
I agree with the staffs interpretation, and also Mrs. Cox, the
former owner, who said that she remembered that the site plan
intended the 1.04 acres as preservation. And I think this is supported
by the fact that it is still classified as pine flatwoods, which is a native
vegetation. And also the fact that an agricultural clearing permit,
which is a separate process, was not obtained. So if you do go with
what the applicant is going with, I'll be voting against it.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Mr. Midney, if! might, her comment was
she remembered this during the rezone hearing. I think that's what she
said. And there was no rezone hearing for this application. It was a site
development plan, which was purely an administrative process.
And honestly, I believe if your staff had a document that said
that they did a calculation to arrive that that was the required native
vegetation, they would have produced it to me. And if they had
produced it to me, I would have addressed it. It has never been
produced to me.
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I think they're assuming something which I don't think they can
assume based on just the documents that have been presented. I know
I didn't get a rebuttal, so I'm just -- if you'll give me the indulgence to
respond, as it came up during this part of the discussion.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, this is basically your rebuttal, so
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Okay, so -- I mean, I just think -- I
believe that the documents they showed you, it speaks for themselves.
It says it was native vegetation to be retained. Didn't say preserve.
There's a table that lists every requirement. And they've said to
you that it's highly unusual not to list the requirements. So if there had
been a required native vegetation requirement, it would have been in
that table, in my opinion, because that's the way it was always done.
It didn't make any sense to come through with two separate
clearing applications when on the face of the document it said it was
for a nursery. It was for an agricultural use.
The code is what the code is. Whether you sign a document that
says I acknowledge I've got to do this for 10 years or not, they still
have the 10-year the limitation.
So I think that staff hasn't -- I think it's their burden and I don't
think they've met the burden to show that I'm wrong on this. I've asked
for it. I'd like to believe that if! were presented with that document
that I would have cried uncle, because I'm not going to fight a
document that, you know, speaks for itself.
So with all due respect, I think -- and this happens throughout
the county. And I've been saying this all along, you guys have some
requirements that result in these I think ridiculously small, quote,
preserves. Let me put the green space somewhere else. I mean, I'm
doing additional buffering to hopefully address that by doing
additional plantings to address the real issue. And I hope that that
would be taken into consideration in response to some of the
statements that were said regarding the calculation of native
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vegetation.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: But Rich, even if you assume that
all of your reasoning is correct, don't you think 0.13 acres of preserve
is very small? I mean, even for the aesthetics of your own project.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: You know what, it's a code requirement.
I think you're right, I think you should get rid of that code
requirement. I think you say that if it's below a certain threshold and
there's no native -- there's no listed species using it, maybe you take
that .13 acres and you take that planting and you put it into the buffers.
Do some additional plantings. You know, I think that makes sense.
But I agree with you. I've been saying that: Why are you making
-- like the Naples Church of Christ we had probably had the same
similar number, and we kept saying this thing is -- what is it serving?
You know, there's better uses for that native vegetation.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: That wasn't exactly my point. My
point was more that there should be more native vegetation in a
project this size.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: It's an infill piece and we worked with
the neighbors. I think Mr. Garbo will tell you -- is he still here? He left
-- that first meeting when we were asking for affordable housing was
not a pleasant meeting, to say it nicely. And I think there were some
comments made that I thought were inappropriate.
But we met with and talked to residents and we said, you know
what, we're not going to fight an uphill battle. If we go down to three
units per acre, which is what we can get, will you be happy with that?
And we were told yes. And we've gone down to three units per acre.
And we've come up with the design standards that will hopefully get
us to those three units per acre.
And I think that's fair. I think we've been responsive. We're
willing to do additional plantings in the buffer.
And they've got to work with us to get to the three units per acre.
And we're not trying to do anything incompatible with what they
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have. And it's a small piece. I mean, I would love to say it was a
bigger piece, but it's an infill piece.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Could you build your project if
you did have the one acre as preserve?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: No. Cannot build the project at the 20
units with the one-acre preserve.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Schiffer, then Mr. Wolfley.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: And Paul, one thing, what Rich
is going to do, he's going to outline that that's the preserve. That
doesn't mean they're going to cut down every tree. I think it is
desirable to have good landscaping. The design of their units might
preserve some more landscaping than shown. It's just -- Rich isn't
agreeing with me, so maybe he is just going to cut down all the trees.
But the intent is that a good design would incorporate any kind
of landscaping that the site had. So I don't think this plan shows the
only trees that will be left on the site. I mean, maybe I'm wrong. But
he just doesn't want to be legally tied to what to do with the trees.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Wolfley?
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Boy, I sure respect what staff
does. They have to go through an awful lot of stuff to give us the
information that we get.
And in saying that, I also want to say through the time I've been
on the planning commission, this time around and before, I have
noticed an erosion of rights. And it comes down to where there was a
buffer, well, buffers have trees in them. Well, then all of a sudden the
buffer becomes a preserve because the preserve has trees in it. And
we're setting a precedent.
You know, if we said, well, yeah, one acre per seven acres, that's
what we're going to have and we're going to call them preserve. Well,
we're setting a precedent that is in every single -- it's like putting that
preserve in that commercial site on Yahl Street we did a month or two
ago. I was going, this is nuts. What they need is a buffer. And that's
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what we did.
So I just don't want to see a precedent set here by calling things
something that they were not intended to be.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, we've kind of talked about the
environmental issue. Let's move on to the -- some of the setbacks.
Basically the tables that we got have been reissued. There are a
couple of changes to the tables. One is that the single-family attached
minimum floor area will be 1,000 square feet, and that the -- we're
going to have a sub-note on there probably to limit -- if townhouses
are allowed, to limit them to not greater than 200- foot in length.
And that the single-family townhouses or any units placed along
the adjoining Sleepy Hollow project will be set back a minimum of 25
feet.
And I think those are the only changes to that table. Unless you
do it by footnote in regards to the accessory table in which the
clubhouse and recreational areas will be limited to east side of the
driveway right-of-way, whatever you want to call the road going in on
the property.
Does anybody have any problem with those comments at this
point?
Mr. Schiffer?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: I mean, so right now, just to
make sure, the PUD boundary that's going to be 25 feet, is it every
boundary, or --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: It's basically. (Indicating.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: And so we would be happy with
a building closer like to the street than -- the street boundary? I mean,
it would be up against the -- I mean, you could put the side six feet if
it's a single-family -- I mean, seven feet from the -- you know, it's the
buffers what's regulating it at that point, correct?
If I put a unit -- as I come in that road, the first unit -- let's say
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you start a townhouse project. Am I able to put the side of that
townhouse -- and because the buffer's 10 feet, the setback's six, I could
put it 10 feet from Orange Blossom?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No, the PUD boundary on that north
side by the road is 15 feet. So you'd have to be the lO-foot buffer plus
an additional five feet by the table.
Isn't that what the table says?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Are we talking about a front right now,
Mr. Schiffer?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No, we're talking about a PUD
boundary along the roadway, Orange Blossom. How far back would
you be from Orange Blossom with your first building at the worst case
scenario?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: And it's not a buffer, Mark, it's
a setback.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, but there's a buffer on the site plan
of 10 feet.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Right. And so what I'm -- I
mean, we're building buildings extremely close to property lines.
And remember that, that 25 feet, that's the back of a unit. That's
you open your back door, there's a patio. I mean, that's really -- you've
got a buffer maybe 15 feet away.
I mean, are we -- Rich, take the townhouse. What's the closest
dimension I can get it to Orange Blossom?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: It says PUD boundary, which I guess is
Orange Blossom, is 15 feet is the closest.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Can't we make all the way -- I
mean, can't we make that one 25 also?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Along Orange Blossom? Sure, along
Orange Blossom.
COMMISSIONER CARON: I thought you made them all 25.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I did not, no.
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COMMISSIONER CARON: The PUD boundary, that's what
you said when you --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: No, that's not clarifying.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: One at a time now.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: No, what we said was staff -- staff had
asked us for the south and west to go to 25 feet, which we said we can
agree with. This is multi-family adjacent to us here, so we wanted to
keep the -- what we had requested, since we were adjacent to
multi-family.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: So Rich, how about every
boundary but the east?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Fine.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: That includes --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Go north.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Every boundary but the east.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I know, I just --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: North, west and south.
Go ahead, Ms. -- are you done, Brad?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Yeah, I'll be done.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Go ahead, Ms. Caron.
COMMISSIONER CARON: But the majority of your eastern
boundary is single-family, not multi-family. Only a section in the front
towards Orange Blossom.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: It's actually ago that's adjacent to us.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Well, there's a single-family on
there on the over -- you know.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: It's RSF?
MR. BELLOWS: RSF-l.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: RSF-1 next to us?
COMMISSIONER CARON: Yes, it is.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: But it's -- you know, who
knows what the future's going to hold? It's a big lot.
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COMMISSIONER CARON: I was under the understanding that
the PUD boundary setback, all four sides, was going to be 25 feet. I
thought that's what you had told me on the phone as well.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: No, I said we would agree with staffs
25-foot setback. And I don't think we got into the details of where that
is. And staffs was the south and west boundaries.
And that's what I intended it when I said that, when I said we can
agree with staff on that, because that's what was in the staff report.
As far as the depth of the lots, it doesn't really work if I have to
do a 25- footer on the east as well. Correct?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Mark, could I talk?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Go ahead, Mr. Schiffer.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Donna, I think the east -- first of
all, it does have multi-family. And the way it's oriented, it's parking
lot's a multi-family on the upper part. And the bottom part, prob --
those are very large lots.
The dimensions we're talking about aren't going to be noticeable
to the existing use, and the existing use probably won't be there
forever. So I think the eastern property is -- I'm comfortable letting
that one go. But thank God we talked about it, because you don't want
it up on Orange Blossom.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. But now that brings in another
level of discussion, and we're going to break that egg open again.
Accessory uses. If you go to the next table, you'll notice that the
PUD boundary for accessory uses is five feet. It's a little impractical if
you've got a 15-foot buffer all the way around. So I'm not sure that the
five feet serves any purpose, and maybe that ought to be changed as
well.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Okay, I'm sorry. Let me -- I'm told that
25 feet for principal structures around the entire PUD boundary is not
a problem. The accessory needs to stay the same. I think -- what do we
have with that? It's 10 feet, right?
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No, right now --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I know what the code says, but you're
right, you can't put your accessory into the buffer.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right. Right now you've got five feet --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I understand that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- for accessory.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I hear you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So the boundary -- the PUD -- the
accessory has to be equivalent to the buffers.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: So it needs to be 10 feet.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Or 15. You've got IS-foot buffers and
10- foot buffers both.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Well, it depends -- yeah, you're right.
You're right. If we end up with the 15 feet buffer, we will do -- the
accessory has to be 15.
If we end up with a 10- foot buffer planted like a Type B, then
we'll do 10 feet for the accessory. Principal is always 25. Do I have
that right?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any comments on that?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Yeah, I have a --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Go ahead, Mr. Schiffer.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: First of all, there's really no
difference in your accessory structures and height and stuff. If you
really want to do that, can you limit the height of accessory structures
to one story? And get rid of some of these -- because you have a
requirement that accessory structures could be zero setback. The
garage is an accessory structure. So what most people consider part of
their unit, you're going to say it's an accessory structure and shove it
up close to the road. And that's only a good idea if it's only one story.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Well, Mr. Schiffer, what would you do
with a pool cage?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well, I don't -- I mean --
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MR. YOV ANOVICH: I mean, I don't want to --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Right, but a pool cage can cover
up the pool. So you want pool cages within 15 feet of Orange
Blossom? That wasn't a good thing to say.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I'm sorry, I hadn't gotten to the Orange
Blossom. I was focusing on the rear yard, if you will, of a home where
you said you wanted to limit it to just one story. And I'm saying the
pool cage could be more than one story, so I don't want to agree to
that.
If you're saying along Orange Blossom, you don't want anything
within 25 feet, that's fine.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well, yeah, I mean--
MR. YOV ANOVICH: If that's the issue, let's just say you could
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: You could exempt pool cages. I
mean, I think there's a big argument, well, how many stories is a pool
cage. I mean, it's -- obviously you could enclose two stories, but it's a
one-story in most definitions of a story.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: And it's too difficult to deal with that.
So if the real issue is you want nothing closer than 25 feet from
Orange Blossom, we can agree for Orange Blossom principal and
accessory is 25 feet.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: You don't really mention pool
cages, but you -- obviously if they're allowed in --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I think that's a standard accessory --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Right.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: -- use to a residential.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: But that is scary. I mean, pool
cages 15 feet off these people.
What is the rear setback of the units to your west? For
everything. Do we know?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: For everything?
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COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Yeah.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: We have it. We'll pull it. That's the
Sleepy Hollow PUD?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Yes.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I don't know for a fact what it is for the
accessory .
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, let's try to clarify where we're at
with the table, though.
Right now we're looking at the PUD boundary for accessory
uses will match the buffer width, and we're talking about however
nothing will be any closer than 25 feet from Orange Blossom, whether
it's accessory or principal.
That's so far what we've done with the accessory use table.
The only other thing we're now discussing is the height versus
the accessory setback; is that correct?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Right.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And the information -- Heidi, do you
have that?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: We're looking.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You're looking.
I think Heidi's doing all the work.
While they're looking at that, do we have any problem as a
Board with going to a zoned 30 feet and an actual 40 feet height?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Not a problem.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well, I do want to discuss--
you guys are just --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: It is 10 feet --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We'll go back into it then.
Go ahead.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: Accessory structures on the bigger lots I
believe is 10 feet for Sleepy Hollow. Ten foot for accessory.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, and you're going to be -- for
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height, or that's setback?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: That's setback.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: What's the height?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: It doesn't have -- this is older, it didn't
have a number in there for height. It did for principal, which was 30
feet. So I would presume they could go to 30 feet for accessory.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, would you mind limiting your
accessory zoned and actual height to one story with the exception of
pool cages?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I'm afraid I might miss something, Mr.
Strain, so I'd rather -- since they have 30 feet and we've agreed to go
30 and 40, that, you know, if it's good for them, it should be good for
us with the additional buffer that we're committing to.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: So what is the accessory
setback on the PUD boundary?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: For them?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: For you. Now. What did we
come --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: We just went with in have a lO-foot
wide buffer, it's 10-foot. In have a IS-foot wide buffer, it's 15 feet.
Depending on what product. Ifwe do the multi-family product it's a
required IS-foot Type B buffer.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Okay. I mean, I want to fight
the height, but all of -- I'm going to hurt myself here is that 10 feet
away from our property line a 35-foot high structure is not
comfortable. But go ahead, let's move on, Mark. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Yeah, we'll have to come to
conclusions in discussion. This is --
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Well, a question on that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- just -- go ahead, Mr. Murray.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: If that structure were a pool
cage, would that be the problem, or --
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COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well, I don't think any neighbor
wants a pool cage. But if the other neighbors can have it, then why
can't these guys have it.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Okay, thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Now let's go back into the height.
We had a -- the applicant offered 30 feet for zoned and 40 feet for
actual. How does that sit with everybody?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well--
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Schiffer?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: -- it doesn't sit with me. You
know, the actual height is tops, chimneys, cupolas and stuff. Alls
you're really doing is stripping off the roof structures of a building.
Naples has really pretty roof structures. We -- Donna, I know your
answer is nobody's doing that, but nobody really has an actual height
requirement. That was a definition we put in. Very few projects
actually carry that requirement.
And 35 feet has been single-family probably all across the
countryside for years. So why that isn't working here, you're going to
explain to me.
COMMISSIONER CARON: It's been closer to 25 feet with 35
as the actual.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: No, no.
COMMISSIONER CARON: And --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Wait a minute.
COMMISSIONER CARON: And beyond that, I think you have
to look at this particular infill parcel. This is not all of Sleepy Hollow
where you've got plenty of room and you can spread these things out
and height isn't an issue. Now you're going to cram onto this one little
six-acre plot buildings that are in excess of 40 feet? That doesn't make
any sense to the neighborhood.
And you certainly ought to know what that neighborhood looks
like when you drive down that road.
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COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: I do. I drive by that road a lot.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: First of all, we never -- there is
no requirement of25 feet I've seen for single-family. And the actual
dimension is a new dimension that's -- I don't think it's even in the --
so there isn't the 25/35.
And again, my only concern, and it's as a concern as an
architect, is aIls you're doing is flattening roofs down. And Naples has
some really pretty buildings with pretty roof structures. To bring them
down to a lesser slope to meet a requirement that we're just guessing at
here, you know, I mean, I don't get it, so --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Brad, what are you trying to suggest for
square -- height and zoned and actual? I think -- well, then, I'll ask
Donna and we'll just have to go with discussions --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: What I think we should do is
like all the zoning around it, we should just get rid of actual height off
the table and go with the zoned height of 35 feet, like conventional
zoning for single-family, like the projects I'm sure surrounding it all
has.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Donna, where's your--
COMMISSIONER CARON: I live fairly close to an area of
conventionally zoned homes. And what you run into with this is the
exact same problem we're having everywhere, and that's the
McMansions and the mega-homes that are on pieces of property that
they are not appropriate to. And they overshadow normal one--
single-story homes. And I'm not comfortable with it, so --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: So what's the --
COMMISSIONER CARON: It's not a matter of roof --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: -- number?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, we're going to have to go into
discussion on a motion. That's probably the way we're going to have
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to resolve this.
So if your best suggestion is 30 and 40, then we certainly will
take that into consideration in discussion.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: And I just want to say it again, is that the
30-foot zoned height is what Sleepy Hollow has. So -- and they don't
have an actual. So we're suggesting an actual. And I would hope that
that would be appropriate.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Well, how about this? And
again, I'm not going to vote against it. You're just limiting yourself
below what I -- is why don't we just go with an ac -- with a zoned
height of 30 feet, match the neighborhood, and get rid of the actual
height. The actual's the thing that scares me the most, because that
means, you know, people designing chimneys and getting separations,
the roofs could have trouble.
The actual height -- you know, the zoned height is the midpoint
of the roof. So you're only talking about stuff that's way back on the
building anyway. Unless again it could be a chimney on the wall. So
why don't we just go zoned height of 30 and drop the actual
requirement.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Brad, just so you know, I've been doing
architecture review for single-family homes for a project now for 15
years, and we've had homes submitted from 400,000 up to $3 million.
The standards are 35 feet. I have never found one, even with the
embellishments on the roof, to exceed or even need to exceed that 35
feet. And they've done chimneys, cupolas, dormers, little bell things,
every weird thing you can think of to waste money on it, but I've
never seen them get needing past that 35 feet. Now--
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Which is the midpoint of the
roof in the zoned requirement.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No, no, I'm talking to the top of the --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: But you're saying you're not
even getting Rich's --
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: No, we're not even getting -- so at 40
feet I think that you'll get what you want.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Okay, whatever. Let it go, let it
go. Move on.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: So I'm not sure -- but I know Donna's
not in agreement with even 40 feet. But I think it's a better
compromise than 45. But I still think you get the embellishments you
want and you still give the applicant the zoned height that he needs to
build up to two stories if he wants to.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Ifhe doesn't mind, I don't mind.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, I think that's all of the list that I
have. Does anybody have any -- want to bring anything up that was
missed?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: No.
COMMISSIONER CARON: No.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: You did have the maximum
length of the townhouses?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes, I said that earlier, yes. And I'll
reread them all during our discussion, but I want to make sure we at
least discussed them with the applicant's input.
Mr. Murray?
COMMISSIONER MURRA Y: Yeah, just to be clear, we're still
leaving those three options open: Single-family, attached, detached
and townhouses; is that the way I understand it?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, on the motion it can be modified.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: It could be modified.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: But right now the applicant isn't
voluntarily removing --
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: He's not volunteering. Well, I'm
going to suggest that he maybe volunteer to help us so that we don't
have that argument going forward.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: What's the market going to be
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in two, three, four years?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Wolfley, let's get a response to Mr.
Murray's question first.
Did you want to have any -- offer anything up?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: I don't have the authority to give up
townhomes.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Okay, you mentioned that
before. I apologize. I forgot. You're right.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Wolfley?
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: I was just saying, I think we
ought to keep the options in there because we don't know what the
market's going to be when these things are built.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: And honestly, if you -- if you -- I don't
think that you having a townhome product of 20 units next door to --
with the heights we're talking about -- next door to single-family
homes is incompatible. It's in -- look at all the nice subdivisions
throughout, or PUD's throughout Collier County, and you see it all the
time. It doesn't affect anybody's property value.
So I think from a compatibility standpoint, we should have some
market flexibility. And it's going to be -- with the height limitations, I
would hope that we can have the flexibility to have all three types.
COMMISSIONER CARON: The only--
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Vigliotti was next, then Ms. Caron.
Go ahead, Bob.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: I agree with Mr. Wolfley, we
don't know what the market's going to be in three, four, five years.
And when this first went to the neighborhood information meeting,
they were worried about, what was it, 75 --
MR. YOV ANOVICH: 75 units.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: -- units. Now we're down to
20. And I can't see a problem with the 20.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Caron?
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COMMISSIONER CARON: Yeah, my only comment is that
these 20 units of townhomes or whatever they end up being, I mean,
it's still a little shoehorn infill situation.
And as we just saw during discussions, we don't even know what
it's going to look like. Because -- I mean where pool cages are going
to be.
So I guess we've taken the planned out of planned unit
development. But be that as it may, I think that it would be a smart
move on our part to take out townhomes for the neighborhood. That's
not what's around here. It's primarily three-quarters of the way around
this property and across the street single-family homes. So to do a
single- family detached or attached is probably what should be on this
piece of property.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Richard, one thing that might help
resolve it, would you be willing to limit your townhome length to four
units, which is 140 feet, so you get four-unit buildings instead of
six-unit buildings?
Because that's what you're looking at. And your interior units
won't sell anyway, or they're going to have to be a reduced price. So
you want to minimize and -- maximize your corner outside units. So
from a marketing perspective you'd be farther ahead.
Anyway, think about it. Let's take a break so Cherie' can have a
little breather here. Because we're not going to take lunch, because we
should have this done quickly.
Can that hold until we get back from break, Brad, or --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Just on townhouses.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Go ahead.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Just real quickly, your
developer's from Massachusetts. While the Florida Building Code is
based on the International Building Code, we do have a Florida
Attorney General's requirement that three or more units is a
multi-family unit, thus it really triggers a lot of the nasty stuff he's not
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used to up in Boston or Massachusetts. So he might -- we might be
doing him a favor to get rid of the townhouses.
Thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Richard, I know you have to get out of
here, but Cherie' needs a break. So we're going to take a IS-minute
break -- five-minute? Well, let's just make it 10 minutes and we'll
come back at 12:10.
(Recess.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, when we left we were trying to
finish up discussion to go into a motion.
I think -- Mr. Schiffer, did you finish with your questions?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: I'm done, thank you.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Ms. Caron, you had yours?
COMMISSIONER CARON: I'm done.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. With that, Richard, do you want a
rebuttal?
MR. YOV ANOVICH: No, but you asked me a question. You
had asked me about the 140- foot --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yes.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: -- length.
And I'm going to take a chance and agree to that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay.
MR. YOV ANOVICH: And hopefully that will be -- I think
that's, you know, four-unit buildings is --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, that produces a building that
could be comparable in width to a single-family house in some
regards. So maybe this doesn't appear that bad.
But I appreciate that, and we'll move on with our discussion.
We heard the public, so therefore we'll close the public hearing
and we'll entertain a motion.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Motion.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Vigliotti?
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COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: I'd like to make a motion to
approve. And I think in addition, the only two situations I'm not really
clear with is the new 140-foot building, is that what we're agreeing
on? And what did we come up with for the height, 30 and 40 feet?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's what they offered. You're the
motion maker, so --
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Okay. No, but that's what we
left off, 30, 40 feet --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: -- is what I'd like to see. And
I'd like to see the 140 feet. In addition to just about everything you put
down.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, what I'd like to do then is ask for
a second to the motion so we can go into --
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Second.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- re-itemizing the details.
Mr. Murray seconded the motion.
Now -- and Ms. Caron, did you have something to say before I
start?
COMMISSIONER CARON: No, no, no, I was just going to --
go ahead.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Well, let's start off with staff
recommendations. There are four of them. And we'll get a consensus
as we move forward so everybody knows where the motion stands so
they can say yea or nay at the end and we're done.
Number one is the issue on the native preservation. Do we want
to stay with the .15 that the --
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- petitioner is arguing, or do we want--
the motion maker says yes on the .15.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: .15.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Does the second accept it?
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COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Petitioner's argument.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any discussion on that issue?
Mr. Midney, we know where you stand. Are you still standing in
your same position?
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Yeah, I'm not going to change,
because I think I'm right.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. When you actually -- okay.
And from the county attorney's perspective, did his dissertation
on record previously in regards to that issue --
MR. KLATZKOW: It's going to be easier if you just state your
reason now, Mr. Midney.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, Mr. Midney?
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Well, I'm convinced that that
originally was intended to have been intended as preservation.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Never said that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. And what I'm suggesting here is
if you're going to vote no on this motion, the BCC has been very strict
in wanting to know why we vote no. So if you're voting no for the
reason Mr. Midney stated, and this is your issue, you need to state it so
that everybody knows at the BCC level why you voted no.
Okay, so right now the motion is to accept the .15 acres as the
preserve.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Right.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Are we still talking about the
number one or are you just asking the motion maker?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I'm asking the motion maker.
Do you have some discussion on one you want to get in?
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Yeah, I do. I don't think it
should say native vegetation, I think it should be referring more to the
buffers on the property. And so I think I'm right.
I just have an issue with changing it to buff -- I don't think it was
the intention initially because of what was written in both of the
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documents and the diagram and in the table.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, let's boil it down to the nuts and
bolts. Are you going to vote for the motion --
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Yes, I am.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- for approval? Okay, let's just get into
issues that are going to change someone's vote so we know what
message we're sending forward.
So right now, with the exception of Mr. Midney, we're all in
favor of dropping item one.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Item two is the analysis of the
FAR to come up with a revised square footage as a recommendation
from staff. Is that to stay or to go, Mr. Vigliotti, in your motion?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: It should stay?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: No.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: No? Where are we?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We're on number two of the staff
recommendations.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: I realize that, but I don't
remember where we left off.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, what we discussed is that staff
came up with what they thought was the right product for the property
to be most compatible in the area. Justification of that was a new
methodology introduced I think for the first time here.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: No.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We can go with that as a compatibility
standard --
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: No.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: No.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, so number two is out. Does
anybody have a problem with that?
(No response.)
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CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, we're in agreement there.
Number three, they're looking at a setback to 25 foot along the
western and southern boundaries. That has been expanded to all the
boundaries except for the eastern boundary. Is everybody comfortable
with that?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Uh-huh.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, so we would have -- we strike
staff request number one and we accept the .15 acres.
We strike request number two of staff.
Number three we modify to provide 25 feet around all
boundaries except for the eastern boundary.
And number four, I could not figure out what that means. So
maybe staff can explain.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Why don't we just take it out?
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Strike.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah, let's just strike number four for
lack of clarity.
MS. DESELEM: Do you want me to --
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, if you're going to stand up and tell
us what it means, that would be helpful. Otherwise it doesn't stay in.
MS. DESELEM: For the record again, Kay Deselem.
Number four is basic language that we use in a recommendation,
and it just says that you are adopting the PUD ordinance and the PUD
document. And anything that's incorporated in there is accepted as
part of your recommendation.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Kay, but this says furthermore, approval
is subject to the conditions of approval that have already been
incorporated in the ordinance and adoption.
We made a lot of changes here today, so how can that apply?
MR. BELLOWS: That's correct. I would just say you're adopting
the PUD as amended.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, aren't we doing that by accepting
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MR. BELLOWS: Correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Then let's strike number four.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: As the motion maker, I'd like
to strike it.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, number four is struck. Anybody
have a problem with that?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: It's just for clarity.
Okay, back to the other issues that we talked about. They'll be all
one type of product. Is that acceptable to the --
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- motion maker and the second.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Yes, one type.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Yep.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody have any problem?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Number two, we wanted -- well,
let's discuss the product.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Okay. Type of product, right?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Well, the first question was it will all be
one type, no matter what it is.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Right.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Now it's the type of product. We have
three products introduced: Single-family, single-family attached and
townhouses. They've agreed that the townhouse will be limited to
140- foot in width, which is four units per building.
With that caveat, does anybody have any needed corrections to
those three uses?
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: No.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I'm good with it.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: No, I agree.
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COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: But Mark, question. Do we
have the authority to actually eliminate townhouses at this time?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I think we can stipulate anything we
want. We just -- they don't have to accept it and they could go on. Just
like they could ask for multi-family and we could stipulate we don't
agree with that either.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: And then at the next level, at
the commission, they would try to bring it back in?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Okay. I would suggest we do
that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Do what?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Eliminate townhouses.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The motion maker and the motion
accepted the townhouses at 140 feet, if I'm not -- but leaving them in.
Is that the motion?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Mark, I -- Brad, I don't --
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: That's fine, don't worry about it.
Go.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, anybody else have any comments
about townhouses?
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: No.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, let's move on to basically the new
table that was submitted, we would be accepting the new table and
then we had the following corrections to the new table: The minimum
floor area under table one, which is your residential tract development
standards for single-family attached went up from 750 to 1,000 square
feet.
We would have a restriction that the -- nothing can occur closer
than 25 feet, whether it be principal or accessory, to the PUD
boundary along Orange Blossom.
The maximum zoned height was offered at 30 feet and the
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maximum actual height was offered at 40 feet by the applicant.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Correct.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. And on accessory structure table,
the PUD boundary limitations there will be changed to match the
buffer widths, with the exception of that one along Orange Blossom.
And that the maximum zoned and actual heights there would likewise
correspondingly change as they were in the first one.
Is that where everybody's at?
COMMISSIONER CARON: So in other words, you're talking
about single-family detached at 10, single-family attached at 10, and
townhouse at IS?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Whatever the -- yes, I think that's what
the site plan culls out for, yes.
Does everybody -- does the motion maker --
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I'm fine.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: -- and second accept those?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: I'm fine.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, the other item was that we would
restrict the common area clubhouse and recreation facilities to the east
side of the driveway road that enters the property. Is that acceptable to
the motion and the second?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Yes.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Murray?
COMMISSIONER MURRA Y: There's one question about we
had no residents being closer that what is it 25 feet to the road, Orange
Blossom?
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: That's what I said on -- when we
discussed the table.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Okay, I may not have picked up
on that.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: And then the applicant agreed to
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provide a Type B buffer and a Type A width on all locations within
the property. So that we'd have the hedge and tree combination to help
protect Mrs. Cox and the other neighbors in the area.
Is everybody in agreement with that?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Yes.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Does the motion maker and second
agree with that?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Yes.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: (Nods head affirmatively.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Well, now, we've had a
walk-through of the items for the stipulations for the motion.
Is there any further discussion on the motion by the planning
commission members?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay, we'll do this by
acknowledgement of voice and hand.
All those in favor of the motion as stipulated, signify by saying
aye.
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLAT: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Aye.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Any of those opposed?
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: (Indicating.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Let me motion (sic) indicate that only--
the motion passed 8-1, Mr. Midney opposing.
Okay, with that, we will finish up our public hearings and move
on to the next. Thank you.
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Item # 10
OLD BUSINESS
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The next item up is the -- under old
business, I think we had to revisit the mileage issue. I had a notation
on here. I just want to make sure -- Ray, was there something you had
wanted to talk about on that?
MR. BELLOWS: Yes, I had Sharon Phillips send you the
mileage form as you requested at the last meeting, and I have another
copy of what you should have received.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I don't need it.
MR. BELLOWS: That's all. I just wanted to make sure you got
it.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Okay. Thank you, sir.
Item #11
NEW BUSINESS
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: The other new business item, I just
wanted to mention to everybody, and Ray, I'd like to ask you, I found
that there's a -- I couldn't understand how some of our Board of
County Commission members knew ahead of time what we were
discussing at our meetings. But I understood they got a memo that
highlights certain controversial projects. And I know one board
member had been getting that memo. And I think out of respect for
everybody, we all ought to get a copy of those, when and if they're
issued. I forgot -- I think they're called a controversial memo or
something like that.
MR. BELLOWS: Yes, we asked planners who are working on
their petitions for the upcoming planning commission meeting if they
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know of an item that could trigger a lot of Board of County
Commissioner interest, whatever the controversial issues are, to try to
define what that is, and so commissioners can watch the planning
commission for that controversial petition if they -- you know, if it's
something that's in their district that they're interested in.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Right. And I think just so that we know
what they've been highlighted to, that would be nice for us to know if
we get a call what it's about.
MR. BELLOWS: Yeah, there's no problem. I'll make sure you
get that in your packet.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Vigliotti?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: The letter we get advising us of
a controversial issue is usually -- is delivered either today or the day
after our meetings for us.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: I never got one.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Oh, yeah, I get one all the time.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: I never have. I know you were the only
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: You got a deal.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: You were the only one I believe that got
them. That's why I'm just saying, if you're going to send them to one,
send them to all.
MR. BELLOWS: Sure.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Well, you'll get it probably
Thursday or Friday.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody else have any--
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Happy holidays.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Yeah, I was just going to say the same
thing. Merry Christmas to everybody and thank you all for a great
year and we'll look forward to a challenging 2009.
Is there motion to adjourn?
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: So moved.
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COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: So moved.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Mr. Vigliotti. Seconded said by Mr.
Wolfley. All in favor?
COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MURRAY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER HOMIAK: Aye.
COMMISSIONER KOLFLA T: Aye.
COMMISSIONER MIDNEY: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Aye.
COMMISSIONER WOLFLEY: Aye.
COMMISSIONER CARON: Aye.
COMMISSIONER VIGLIOTTI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: Anybody opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN STRAIN: We are adjourned. I think that's
unammous.
*****
There being no further business for the good of the County, the
meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 12:22 p.m.
COLLIER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION
MARK STRAIN, Chairman
These minutes approved by the board on
presented or as corrected
as
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