BCC Minutes 02/10/1998 R REGULAR HEETING OF FEBRUARY 10, 1998
OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COHMISSIONERS
LET IT BE REMEMBERED, that the Board of County Commissioners in
and for the County of Collier, and also acting as the Board of Zoning
Appeals and as the governing board(s) of such special districts as
have been created according to law and having conducted business
herein, met on this date at 9:00 a.m. in REGULAR SESSION in Building
"F" of the Government Complex, East Naples, Florida, with the
following members present:
CHAIRPERSON: Barbara B. Berry
Pamela S. Hac'Kie
John C. Norris
Timothy J. Constantine
Timothy L. Hancock
ALSO PRESENT: Robert Fernandez, County Administrator
David Weigel, County Attorney
Item #3
AGENDA AND CONSENT AGENDA - APPROVED WITH CHANGES
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Good morning. I'd like to call the February
10, 1998 Board of County Commissioners' meeting to order. Would you
please stand for the invocation by Father Joseph Spinelli of Saint
Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church and remain standing for the pledge.
Father Spinelli.
FATHER SPINELLI: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of
the Holy Spirit. Amen. May God who is the fountain of all goodness
be with you all. All that God has created and sustains, all the
events he guides, and all human works that are good and have a good
purpose, prompt those who believe to praise and bless the Lord with
hearts and voices. He is the source and origin of every blessing.
By this celebration we proclaim our belief that all things work
together for the good of those who fear and love God. We are sure
that in all things we must seek the help of God so that in complete
reliance on his will, we may do everything for his glory.
God's love is creation and his goodness sustains the universe.
We pray now that he will bestow his blessing upon us, that he will
renew and support us with his strength.
Everlasting God, you give life a nobler meaning when we try
wholeheartedly to do your will. Fill us with the spirit of your
holiness. You want us to increase your gifts and to return them to
you and to our neighbor. Accept the offering of our loving service.
You watch over us with fatherly care. Hear the cries of those who
trust in you.
Lord, let the effect of your blessing remain with your faithful
people, and give them new life and strength of spirit so that the
power of your love will enable them to accomplish what is right and
good.
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
(Pledge of Allegiance recited in unison.)
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Thank you, Father Spinelli. May I remind
those who are here today to speak on any of the issues that we have,
that you must register prior to the issue being heard. Just a gentle
reminder again so we don't have any concern later on.
Mr. Fernandez, do we have any changes to our agenda?
MR. FERNANDEZ: Yes, we do. Good morning, Commissioners. First
item is to withdraw Item 8-B-l, which is to adopt a resolution
authorizing the acquisition of road right-of-way for the construction
of the four-laning improvements for Immokalee Road between 1-75 and
County Road 951.
The second is to continue Item 16-B-4 to the February 17th
meeting. This is the action to award a contract for professional
engineering services for the South Naples Community Park, RFP 97-2745.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Commissioner Hac'Kie, do you have any
changes?
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Nothing, thank you.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Commissioner Norris.
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: No changes today.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Commissioner Constantine.
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: No changes.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Commissioner Hancock.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: I have something under communications, but
no changes to the agenda.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: All right. And I have no changes.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: I move approval of the agenda and consent
agenda as amended.
COMMISSIONER NORRIS: Second.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: All those in favor? Motion carries --
Opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Motion carries five, zero.
Item #4
MINUTES OF JANUARY 15, 1998 EMERGENCY MEETING AND JANUARY 20, 1998,
REGULAR MEETING - APPROVED AS PRESENTED
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Madam Chairman, I'll make a motion we
approve the minutes of the January 15th emergency meeting and the
regular meeting that was on my second wedding anniversary, January
20th, 1998.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Second.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: We have a motion and a second. All those in
favor --
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Does that second include the wedding plug?
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: And actually, happy anniversary.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Whatever.
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: It's Valentine's Day.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: I know.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Just a second, he's a newlywed.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Yeah, right. Okay.
Motion -- we have a motion and a second. All in favor?
Opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Motion carries five, zero.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: It's going to be a crisp meeting today.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: You betcha.
Item #5A1
PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 9-14, 1998, AS COLLIER
HARVEST WEEK - ADOPTED
Proclamations, Mr. Norris.
COMMISSIONER NORRIS: Thank you, Miss Chairman.
We have a proclamation for Collier Harvest Week, and I would like
to see if Bert Paradis and John Raker are here. Would you step
forward, please?
MR. RAKER: I'm John Raker. Mr. Paradis is in the hospital.
COMMISSIONER NORRIS: I see. If you will step forward and turn
around and face the camera there, I will read this proclamation for
you.
Whereas, the Board of County Commissioners recognizes the goals
of Collier Harvest, a chapter of U.S.A. Harvest, in its efforts to
feed the hungry through volume efforts and in-kind donations from
local markets, restaurants, bakeries and caterers; and
Whereas, Collier County is fortunate to have numerous individuals
and organizations who give generously of their time and excess food at
no cost to the hungry of Collier County to support Collier Harvest;
and
Whereas, the Board of County Commissioners lends support and
encouragement to all Collier County citizens interested in the
community effort to eradicate hunger in Collier County; and
Whereas, the Board of County Commissioners recognizes the
positive effects of its citizens' participation in Collier Harvest in
helping to fight hunger and promoting community support of Collier
Harvest,
Now therefore, be it proclaimed by the Board of County
Commissioners of Collier County, Florida, that the week of February
9th to the 14th, 1998 be designated as Collier Harvest Week.
Done and ordered this 10th day of February, 1998, by the Board of
County Commissioners, Collier County, Florida, Barbara B. Berry,
Chairman.
Mr. Chairman, I would like to move that we accept this
proclamation.
COMHISSIONER MAC'KIE: Second.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: All in favor?
Opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Motion carries five, zero.
(Applause.)
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: If you would like to say something, please go
to the podium.
MR. RAKER: I am sorry Mr. Paradis couldn't make it this morning;
he's in the hospital. But five years ago, he started Collier Harvest
with five volunteers and himself. Today this proclamation will be
given and received by 137 workers who deliver to 36 agencies in
Collier County and last year delivered over half a million pounds of
food. That was quite a bit more than the fifteen thousand we got the
first year. We get it shipped from all over the country and there are
very very generous people in this county that like to take care of
those less fortunate. We're glad to be part of those. Thank you very
much.
COMHISSIONER NORRIS: Thank you, sir.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Thank you.
(Applause.)
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: I think in addition to the food, it must be
pointed out that it takes people to get that food to those various
places, so, indeed, a big thank you to you and the rest of the
volunteers who take on this very tremendous project. Thank you very
much.
Item #5B
EMPLOYEE SERVICE AWARDS - PRESENTED
At this time, service awards. Mr. Hancock.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Yes, ma'am, it is my pleasure this morning
to recognize an employee who's been in the library system of Collier
County for ten years. Miss Carol Somers.
(Applause.)
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Thank you very much. Good job.
Item #5C1
DEBRAH PRESTON, SENIOR PLANNER, PLANNING SERVICES DEPARTMENT,
RECOGNIZED AS EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH FOR FEBRUARY, 1998
At this time, it's my pleasure to present our employee of the
month for the month of February to Miss Debrah Preston, who is a
senior planner in the Planning Services Department of the Community
Development and Environmental Services Division. So Debra, if you'd
come up here, we'll talk a little bit about you and let the people at
home see who you are so they know what you do. Turn around and face
the camera.
Debrah Preston is a dedicated employee who is always ready to
volunteer for new projects while continuing to meet deadlines on
assigned projects. Debrah's most recent projects include the
development of the Marco Island Master Plan, Immokalee Main Street
designation and the Gateway Triangle Bayshore development efforts.
She has initiated cost savings for the county by utilizing the federal
VISTA or Volunteers In Service To America program to help staff the
Immokalee Main Street program, which she oversees. Through her
dedication, the Immokalee business owners have benefitted with the
development of several training and organizational sessions. Debrah's
recent involvement in the Economic Development Council Redevelopment
Committee is an extra effort on her part to further redevelopment
efforts in Immokalee and the Gateway Bayshore redevelopment areas.
In addition to this, she doesn't have enough to do, so she
volunteers for countless other community projects including the
Immokalee Paint Your Heart Out, Habitat for Humanity, the United Way,
American Heart Association Walk-a-thon and organizing efforts for the
American Planning Association.
She's been recognized for her excellent customer service skills.
She's earned the respect of her coworkers for her job knowledge,
skills and willingness to assist at all levels to achieve departmental
objectives.
At this time I would like to present Debrah with a plaque, and
also most importantly a nice little check. Don't spend it all in one
place. Congratulations and thank you.
(Applause.)
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: I wish we got to vote on that, because I
would certainly add my endorsement to -- having worked with Debrah.
She's here late nights and long hours working on those redevelopment
projects, and we're really lucky to have her. We appreciate it.
Item #5C2
PRESENTATION TO COLLIER COUNTY GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES ON BEHALF OF THE
UNITED WAY OF COLLIER COUNTY IN APPREICATION OF LEADERSHIP AND SUPPORT
OF THE UNITED WAY OF COLLIER COUNTY CAMPAIGN 1997
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Thank you very much.
Also, at this time if I could have Shannon Anderson come forward,
please. Last week there was a special award given at the annual
United Way kind of wrap up of the campaign, and, Shannon, maybe you
want to make a presentation. Maybe you want to go to the microphone
first, please.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: I would like to say we welcome Shannon
despite who she's married to.
MS. ANDERSON: It's going to be a doubleheader today; we're both
here.
Thank you for allowing me to appear on behalf of United Way. I
appreciate and want to very gratefully knowledge and thank the county
employees for their outstanding participation and support of the
United Way of Collier County. Without the employees' generosity and
the leadership that the county employees gave to our campaign, the
United Way would not have exceeded our goal of one point two million
dollars. The one point two million dollars represents a twenty
percent increase over last year's goal. But our twenty percent
increase really pales in comparison to the five hundred percent
increase that the county employees brought to their contributions,
raising over eighteen thousand dollars.
There are an incredible number of people that deserve thanks
within the county, not only of the United Way, but of the community
for their efforts. But I would be remiss if I did not single out
administrator Fernandez and also Leo Ochs, who is very active in the
United Way. All I can say is, we're really looking forward to what you
guys are going to do next year. Thank you very much.
On behalf of the United Way, a little token of our appreciation.
(Applause.)
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Thank you very much.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: You will be back next year.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: And, again, a special thanks to Leo Ochs, who
more or less heads up the campaign for the county employees and to our
county administrator, Mr. Fernandez. Thank you all very much for all
of your efforts and also the employees who have contributed to this.
Thank you.
Item #8D1
TUFF PUBLICATION SELECTED AS THE NEWSPAPER FOR THE ADVERTISING OF
DELINQUENT REAL ESTATE AND PERSONAL PROPERTY TAXES
Moving on then to Item 8-D-l, selection of the newspaper for
the advertising of the delinquent real estate and personal property
taxes.
Mr. Ochs, good morning.
MR. OCHS: Good morning, Madam Chairman and members of the board.
For the record, Lee Ochs, support services administrator.
This item was an item that was continued from last week's meeting
with direction from the board to the staff to attempt to solicit
additional prices from other firms that may be interested in bidding
on this particular project. Staff, during the past week, has done
that, prepared a bid package, sent that out to six different
prospective bidders, received two bids in return, one from the Naples
Daily News and one from Tuff Publications. The format of the bid
spec. actually asked for pricing under three different scenarios. The
first would be basically the traditional scenario where we would have
a single newspaper print and publish the notices. The second --
excuse me, the first one would be with a full, regular distribution,
circulation of the newspaper. The second scenario involved the
limited distribution in those same publications, and then the third
pricing scenario asked for the cost of printing the notices only and a
separate bid on distribution costs or insertion costs.
The Naples Daily News gave us a bid on only the first scenario,
and we received bids from Tuff Publications in all three scenarios.
Based on the staffws analysis of the bid information received and
our discussions with the county attorneyws office, staff is
recommending award to Tuff Publications for printing of a thousand of
the delinquent tax notices at a cost of fifty-seven thousand dollars.
I would be happy to answer any questions.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Mr. Constantine.
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: You said printing of a thousand. Do
you mean a hundred thousand?
MR. OCHS: Excuse me. A hundred thousand, yes, sir.
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Just above your recommendation for
Tuff Publications, it says Tuff Publications will be a more dispersed
distribution as compared to Naples Daily News with county-wide
coverage. I know that last year that was one of our primary concerns.
Maybe you can just explain what that means.
MR. OCHS: Yes, sir. What we mean by that is that the mix of
publications that Tuff proposes to use to circulate the notices
involves not only dailies but also by-weeklies. We have both
subscription type publications and they have free publications that
they put out in different areas of the county. So what we meant by
that was not only will subscribers receive those notices, but other
individuals who would pick up an insert in one of the free
publications would also have access to that delinquent tax notice, so
in that respect, it is more dispersed.
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: So itws less expensive but it also
reaches a wider audience.
MR. OCHS: Thatws our intention, correct.
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Madam Chairman, if itws appropriate, I
move the item to accept staffws recommendation. CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Just a moment.
MR. FERNANDEZ: Before that, I would just get in the record that
we have a revised executive summary that replaces the original one
that was in the packet. I just wanted to make that clear, that the
revised reflects this recommendation that was presented by Mr. Ochs.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: All right. We have a motion. Do I have a
second?
COMMISSIONER MAC~KIE: Second.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: We have a motion and a second. Any further
discussion?
All in favor?
Opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Motion carries five, zero.
Thank you, Mr. Ochs.
MR. FERNANDEZ: Madam Chairman, Iwm sorry, I forgot to mention
that we did have one speaker on this subject. It was Mr. Tuff.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: He doesn't want to talk to us, do you?
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Do you want to talk to us?
MR. TUFF: No, thank you.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Okay. Thank you very much.
MR. FERNANDEZ: Sorry.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Mr. Norris wants it duly noted that he in the
past has held the record for the shortest meeting.
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: He alleges.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: He alleges. And --
COMMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Continues to hold.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: -- he's very happy to know that I will not be
breaking that record today. Of course, I wouldn't attempt to do that,
because I want to make sure we take care of all of our county
business.
Item #10A
RESOLUTION 98-34 APPOINTING VANESSA FITZ AND DARLENE KOONTZ TO THE
CITIZENS ADVISORY TASK FORCE - ADOPTED
Board of County Commissioners. We have appointment of
members to the Citizens' Advisory Task Force, Item 10-A.
COMMISSIONER NORRIS: I will -- we have two -- Hiss Filson, do we
need three members?
MS. FILSON: We need three members, but David Correa is presently
a member of two committees and that's the maximum.
COMMISSIONER NORRIS: So he can't -- he can't serve.
MS. FILSON: He's not qualified.
COMMISSIONER NORRIS: Okay. Then I will nominate Vanessa Fitz
and Darlene Koontz.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Second.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Okay. We have a motion and a motion. Any
discussion?
All in favor?
Opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Motion carries five, zero for Vanessa Fitz,
which is a reappointment, and Darlene Koontz.
Will you then advertise for the --
MS. FILSON: I have.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: You have advertised? Okay. Very good.
Item #10B
RESOLUTION 98-35 REAPPOINTING GLENN HARRELL AND APPOINTING DAVID A.
ROELLIG, JAMES A. CARROLL, HAUREEN MCCARTHY AND CORNELIA KRIEGH TO THE
PELICAN BAY HSTBU ADVISORY COHMITTEE - ADOPTED
Moving on then to appointment of members to the Pelican Bay HSTBU
Advisory Committee.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Madam Chair, the committee recommendation,
all six are wonderfully qualified, but I will move the committee
recommendation.
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Second.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Okay. We have a motion and a second to go
with the committee recommendation of Glen Hartell, which is a
reappointment; David Roellig; Russell Hudge, a reappointment; James A.
Carroll; and Manteen McCarthy.
MS. FILSON: Can I just mention one thing, please?
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Yes.
MS. FILSON: I believe it's Mr. Hudge who served two terms, and I
amended that out of here. You will need to waive Section 7-B-1 of
Ordinance 8641.
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Hay I just make the point that we
have done consistently -- from parks and recreation in 1993, when we
had guilt from down on Marco, and if there is someone else qualified
who wants to participate, we haven't waived that.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: That being the case, and I didn't see it
in the staff report, and I thank you for bringing it up, because we
had talked about it. Russ Hudge has done yeoman's work and a
tremendous job on the HSTBU, but in staying -- trying to be consistent
with these appointments, I would agree. I am going to withdraw my
motion.
I would like to craft a second motion that will appoint Cornelia
Kriegh in the place of Russell Hudge, with a tremendous amount of
thanks for the hard work that Rus has put forward and all the time he
has spent on the HSTBU. He's been a terrific member of that, and I
would like to find a way to recognize him individually at one of our
meetings.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: We can do that.
Motion has been withdrawn. A new motion has been made to include
Cornelia Kriegh. Is there a second to that motion? COHMISSIONER NORRIS: Second.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: We have a motion and a second.
All in favor?
Opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Motion carries five, zero.
Item #10C
RESOLUTION 98-36 APPOINTING CLIFFORD WESLEY FLEGAL, JR. AND DYREL
DELANEY TO SERVE AS REGULAR MEMBERS AND ROBERTA DUSEK TO SERVE AS
ALTERNATE TO THE COLLIER COUNTY CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD - ADOPTED
And the next one is the appointment of members to the Collier
County Code Enforcement Board.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: I would like to just be sure that Cliff
Flegal who has served as alternate and shown an interest in serving as
a regular member of the board, I would like to nominate him.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Okay. We have a motion to nominate Mr.
Flegal.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: We need one more.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: We need one more.
MS. FILSON: Actually, there's two vacancies, and if you move Mr.
Flegal, who is now an alternate, up to a regular member, we will have
to appoint one additional regular and one alternate, so that's a total
of three.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: I will add, then, in the form of a motion,
if that's okay with you, Commissioner Mac'Kie, that we appoint
Clifford Wesley Flegal and Dyrel Delaney to the regular positions and
Roberta Dusek to the alternate.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Second.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Okay. We have a motion and a second.
All in favor?
Opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Motion carries five, zero.
Item #12B1
ORDINANCE 98-10 RE PETITION PUD-97-12, WILLIAM L. HOOVER OF HOOVER
PLANNING SHOPPE REPRESENTING FRANK CLESEN AND SONS, INC., REQUESTING A
REZONE FROM "E" ESTATES TO "PUD" PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT FOR PROPERTY
LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST QUADRANT OF THE PINE RIDGE ROAD (CR 896) AND
1-75 INTERCHANGE ACTIVITY CENTER LOCATED ON TRACT 92, GOLDEN GATE
ESTATES, UNIT 35 - ADOPTED
We are now to the public hearing section of our agenda. And
the first one is petition PUD 97-12, regarding a fezone from Estates
to PUD.
All individuals who are planning to speak to this issue, please
rise and I will have the court reporter swear you in.
(Witnesses were sworn.)
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Thank you. Mr. Milk.
MR. MILK: Good morning.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Good morning.
MR. MILK: For record, my name is Bryan Milk. I am presenting
petition PUD 97-12. Mr. Hoover is representing Frank Clesen in a
request to fezone properties from Estates to PUD. The subject
property is 4.33 acres in size and is located at the northwest
quadrant of the 1-75/Pine Ridge Road interchange activity center.
Mr. Hoover has presented a project which has three land use
parcels, A, B and C. Parcel A is contiguous to the Livingston Road
right-of-way. It is approximately .55 acres in size and will be used
for open space and water management.
Area B is located internal to the project. It is approximately
1.88 acres in size and will be utilized for hotels, motels,
professional offices, business offices, medical offices, sit-down
restaurants and miscellaneous retail businesses.
Area C is located contiguous to Pine Ridge Road. It is 1.67
acres in size and will be utilized for fast-food restaurants, auto
supply stores and all of the permitted uses in area B.
The project allows for a maximum building height of thirty-five
feet. It provides for a setback from Livingston Woods Lane of
eighty-two and a half feet. It is set up very similar to the Naples
Gateway PUD and the Angileri PUD recently approved, with the exception
that this PUD does not provide for gasoline service stations and/or
convenience stores. It is all architecturally integrated and unified
from signage, landscaping and parcels B and C have to be consistent in
architectural design guidelines with signage, also.
The project is serviced by bisecting and perimeter ingress --
ingress/egress easements which actually move westwardly towards --
through Tract 77 and eventually south to the Pine Ridge Road corridor,
which intersects with the median opening at the Sutherland PUD. These
bisecting and perimeter easements were for the purposes of ingress and
egress to these Golden Gate Estates tracts.
There is legislature (sic) on the records to delete a majority of
these bisecting easements by December 31st of 1999. Those who want to
secure those easements have to go to the clerk of court's office and
secure the necessary means of ingress and egress to their properties.
From a transportation standpoint, we have looked at this project
and looked at the access through Tract 77, which is the abutting four
and a half acres. This meets the county's access management plan for
interchanges, and, therefore, we recommend this access to this
property.
What's also important about the property is the bisecting
easement runs east and west, which will eventually link the property
to the east, the property to the west, Angileri, Naples Gateway, so
there will be a frontage road aspect, east-west corridor, if I may,
throughout that entirety of the project.
If I can answer any questions, I would like to do so at this
time.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Okay. I might add that I have had no contact
with the petitioner on this or any other information, but I am basing
my decision on all information that I have in this hearing today or
whatever I have read.
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Madam Chairman, I will base my
decision as required by state law.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: I also have no communication to disclose.
I will base my decision on the information presented. COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: No disclosure.
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: I will base my decision on what I hear in
this hearing today.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Very good.
Mr. Hancock.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Mr. Milk, maybe it's just an omission from
my packet, but I noticed last night, I don't have the PUD document.
MR. MILK: You should have.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Okay. I need a PUD document.
MR. MILK: What if I have one right here?
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Actually, I don't think it's in anybody's.
Well, it's not in mine either. I was having that same trouble, trying
to get a mental image of what exactly we're -- the end result will be
here.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Yeah. I was unable as I went through it
last night to really do any review on this.
MR. MILK: I will tell you from a planning standpoint that it's
exactly the same as Naples Gateway. It's a step up from Angileri,
because when we did Angileri, we were very specific in office related
uses and limited commercial uses. What we did in Gateway was we
opened the door for medical related offices, professional offices and
business offices and some service convenience retail outlets, but we
did not -- we eliminated the convenience commercial aspect, the car
wash aspect, and the gasoline service station aspect of that.
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Just while this is going on, Mr. Cautero,
could maybe somebody make copies? I'd like to look at the PUD, too.
I could probably do that while we're talking, but -- thanks.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Any other questions?
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: You're going to have to give me time to go
through this. If the petitioner has a presentation, maybe we can do
that.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Okay. We can do that.
Mr. Hoover.
MR. HOOVER: For the record, Bill Hoover of Hoover Planning
representing the petitioner. The property is four point three three
acres in size and is located within the Pine Ridge Road, 1-75
interstate activity center. The handout you're receiving includes key
portions of a marketing study from Quinby Appraisal and Research,
whose analyses indicate that there's a need for the commercial land
uses proposed.
We're proposing highway commercial and convenience commercial
land uses, except the gas stations and convenience stores with gas
pumps are not being requested. If you look at the aerial photo in the
packet, you can see that the nearest home is about eight hundred fifty
feet to the northwest from the nearest boundary of our property. We
have employed basically the same strategies planning wise that are in
the Gateway PUD and Angileri PUD inasmuch as we have proposed three
land use tracts within the PUD. The one with the most intensive land
uses would be right along Pine Ridge Road. And the land uses would
drop as we went to the most northern parcel, which would only be a
green area and water management area. That would be seventy-two and a
half feet in depth.
I think most importantly we have carried on an architectural
theme similar to the Gateway and the Angileri PUD, and is all -- since
there is no land developed on the north side of Pine Ridge Road in the
commercial activity center, we can carry on the same theme all the
way on that whole side, all the length of the interstate activity.
And this would include a masonry wall along Livingston Woods Lane that
would match -- every place, the walls would match in colors and
architecturally. It would have -- along this wall would have double
the required landscaping of the land development code. Additionally,
we would be planting red maple trees in the stormwater management
area, which would be the most northern tract, to provide an additional
buffer as time went on.
All buildings are going to be finished in peaked roofs. They
will have a tile or metal roof. And all the buildings will be
finished in light, subdued colors except for decorative trim. I think
maybe a good example of having this in there is maybe going beyond
what we have in architectural controls. If anybody has drove Taylor
Road, there was a real nice building put up about three years ago,
however, recently I think the guy painted it purple and orange. So --
and I mean bright. The --
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: We'll be taking care of that in the next
round of architectural standards.
MR. HOOVER: Okay. But I think it's good to have something with
light, subdued colors in a PUD that's coming in so that we can have a
little bit more protection, especially when it's the first impression
coming into Naples. But I think everything in our PUD, planning wise,
I can go on the record as a professional planner saying this, it's
going to be an asset for somebody coming off of 75 coming into town
that we're carrying on the same theme. We have got a nice looking
project with the standards we have in here. The only thing that can
be built is something of what you expect to be built in North Naples.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Can we -- that's exactly the issue,
because I -- the first question that I had had to do with Area C and
then, of course, A. It sounds like you have done a good job about the
buffering from the residential neighborhood. But I am -- I'm
concerned about the same things we talked about before, about, you
know, gasoline alley and, you know, what impression we're making for
people. Because this is the entrance, you know, to Collier County
coming off the interstate. So I hear you that what we're proposing
architecturally is going to be pretty, but I have trouble always with
those standard industrial codes, trying to know -- everything that's
in B is also permitted in C -- I'll give mine to the court reporter,
because since, I have gotten one -- but like auto supply store, eating
places, you know, the group fifty-five, thirty-one, fifty-eight,
twelve, paint and wallpaper stores, hotels and motels.
MR. MILK: The biggest difference between B and C is Area C,
which is contiguous to Pine Ridge Road, it would allow a fast-food
restaurant.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Like, can they have a McDonald's with
arches in Area C?
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: If those arches comply with the
architectural standards, but, yes.
MR. MILK: For the sign itself --
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Well, it would have to be sign height and
whatnot.
MR. MILK: I will tell you this, there's no pole signs allowed in
this corridor, so you won't have that.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: What about the idea of, you know,
continuity of development, having, you know, some inter-connectedness
in architectural themes and some of that stuff?
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: The problem is we don't have an anchor out
there. We don't have the one that is actually physically built yet
that we say that's a good theme, let's perpetuate that. And what's
going to happen is these are going to come on line and they're trying
to use similar standards, but, you know, they're going to vary. If we
had one building there -- and I have thought the same thing. If we
had a building there that we said this is a good theme as a Gateway
theme, let's perpetuate it, we could hold other developers of adjacent
developments to it. We don't have that one yet.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: But you know this little section is either
going to be something that we're really proud of that got approved
while we were on the board or really embarrassed that we let it slip
through. I mean, I think this is, you know, one of those highly
visible areas of town --
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: I think it's going to be a lot better than
it would have been if we hadn't taken the action we have in the last
two or three years.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: No question. No question.
MR. MILK: What I will say, though, for the record, is, for
example, the pole signs. There are no pole signs allowed. There are
only ground signs allowed. There is a wall that's going to be
constructed along the entire property perimeter of the boundary
contiguous to Livingston Woods Lane. It's going to be in a
twenty-foot buffer with an eight-foot architecturally designed masonry
wall.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Talk about what's going to be on Pine
Ridge.
MR. MILK: Pine Ridge Road is basically going to be -- and
because of the transition now -- we set this up as a transition from
the neighborhood of Livingston to the north to the more intensified
uses or convenience type uses, fast-food restaurants, perhaps a
gasoline service station, your banks and your restaurants.
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: What happened to the discussion two
PUDs ago that we asked staff to go back and research what we could do
because we have already approved seven, or something, gas stations in
this -- and we never heard a word back. And I don't think by the time
we got done with that discussion, I don't think it was just limited to
gas stations. I think we talked about a number of different issues
like fast food, but --
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Convenience kinds of uses.
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: -- what happened to that discussion?
MR. MILK: I think the discussion was that of is there enough
gasoline service stations in this corridor.
COHHISSIONER HAC'KIE: I think we probably felt like there
probably was, and we wanted to know if we could use that as a criteria
for voting yes or no on a petition. That's what I wanted to know.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Well, and he said this one isn't going to
allow for that.
MR. MILK: It's not going to allow for any gas --
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: But that was just one example, the gas
stations. There's also, you know, a long string of Seven-Elevens or
HcDonalds.
MR. MILK: To answer the question, I think we have looked at that
through long-range planning and the EAR process. I'm not so sure if
that was being -- if that's a conclusive response. If we actually
looked at the gasoline service stations, for example, in the corridor
in that intersection, I mean, I just can't answer that.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: I remember, because it was -- it was -- I
think it was initially my suggestion that through the growth
management plan amendment process, we look at limiting the number of
gas stations in either activity center or that was the train of -- or
at least the line of discussion and -- MR. MILK: On a broader scale.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: On a broader scale, but to say that this
is an area that we want to look at. If I am not mistaken, the very
next cycle for growth management plan amendments came too quickly with
too many amendments in it initially for us to have the staff time, and
we were going to try to hit that down the road. That's my
recollection.
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: So should we expect to see that in
March? Or is that one more thing that's just going to get lost
somewhere in the general direction that the board gives?
MR. ARNOLD: For the record, Wayne Arnold, planning services
director. We did have this discussion sometime last year, and at that
time we were in the middle of the EAR based amendments to our
comprehensive plan, and we brought back to you some information on
location, number of gas stations, convenience commercial uses, et
cetera, and at that time, and what we're intending to do, is come back
and rather than prohibit certain land uses, because we think that may
be problematic legally to just prohibit certain land uses, but to go
ahead and make sure that we look at market conditions as part of our
rezoning. We also set up Gateway standards for these activity
centers, which that language does appear in your -- your base
amendments to the plan where we treat these as gateways to our
community and we will --
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Well, talk about that. If we had Gateway
standards in place today, what kinds of things would we be
considering? Because, you know, this is -- you know, as we got real
concerned about Angileri, and now we're moving -- we've got three
tracts of land left between Angileri and the intersection of Pine
Ridge and 1-75. This is the center one, you know. There are two
estate zoned parcels on either side of this parcel. If we don't have
Gateway standards, you know, we're going to lose our shot at Gateway
here.
What kinds of things are Gateway standards, and do you know if
anything like that's included in this PUD?
MR. ARNOLD: Well, I think certain elements of that certainly are
in this PUD, because they talk about complimentary architectural
standards. They talk about some unifying themes throughout not only
this parcel but some adjacent ones as well that are going to develop
with sort of similar uses.
But again, given the corridor and the location with 1-75 and our
plan supporting that these are for sort of commercial, your motoring
public type uses, I think we have set out the standard to become more
than just a neighborhood activity center, for instance. But I think
what we would be looking for are unifying themes, and in the best
world, we would take a vacant activity center and have you build a
plan and look at unifying themes. And what we really want is a
landscape feature. Do we need a public feature? Do we need a water
management feature to highlight that?
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: And the answer to all three of those
questions is yes, yes, yes. We need all three of those things. I
don't know how we get it in a piecemeal fashion.
MR. ARNOLD: Well, that's the difficult part. We see these
things piece -- piecemeal and we try to do the best in looking at
these individually to pull them all together. But until we take a
look at each quadrant of an activity center and try to come up with a
master plan -- and we found that to be very difficult given the
diverse ownerships that we have. And some are local people, others
are not. Others don't have a near-term desire to develop their
property.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Commissioner Mac'Kie, we are doing exactly
what you're talking about. But on those activity centers that as of
yet the property is predominantly unzoned or not zoned or parcels ag.
-- in a parcel such as this where we already have little segments that
are zoned, I think it's up to us to look at each one individually and
determine whether the uses permitted by that zoning are appropriate,
are overkill or not what we want, but we are going to be forced to do
this particular interchange activity center piecemeal because we're
kind of late in the game.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Right. And the thing that we can do,
though, is require as much interconnection of architecture and some
sort of a landscape theme.
So could you tell us what's in this PUD as far as the
interconnection with the adjacent parcels, because Wayne mentioned
something about that.
MR. MILK: There's a couple of things that are going to be
unified along this entire corridor and that's maximum building heights
of thirty-five feet, ground signs, pole signs are prohibited. What's
important is the limited access to Pine Ridge Road which complies with
the access management plan. What's very important is that frontage
road, that east/west corridor from Gateway all the way through to the
eastern-most property, currently is zoned Estates. That is that
bisecting easement that we have seen.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: There is a frontage road easement along
all of those parcels.
MR. MILK: Yes, Commissioner.
COMMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Great.
MR. MILK: From Naples Gateway through Angileri and through
Clesen. What's very important about that is each of these cross
sections are identical in each of the PUDs proposed so far. There are
twenty-four feet of pavements, they are valley-guttered, they are
landscaped on both the north and south sides. There is a twenty-foot
buffer along the entirety of Pine Ridge Road in each of the three PUDs
that we have looked at thus far. Double hedge rows, trees, lamp
posts, street lights, lighting at the interchanges there for ingress
and egress, turn lanes, and design guidelines that geometricaly are
uniform throughout the entire project. So as we look at these, we're
looking at maximum heights of thirty-five feet. We're looking at very
limited commercial uses, businesses uses, medical office uses. We're
looking at the transition from Livingston neighborhood to the Pine
Ridge Road corridor. The internal access intersects and the
architectural design for each of the projects with very specific
roofing types, pitch types and color schemes throughout each of the
projects, and that's been coordinated commonly throughout all three of
these projects.
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: That's great.
MR. MILK: So, you know, to answer your question I think from a
staff standpoint and the applicants' standpoint, they have been
willing to do that uniformly with all of these projects. And we
intend to carry that forward throughout the remainder.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Madam Chair?
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Yes, Commissioner Hancock.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Question for the petitioner. Do you have
-- Mr. Hoover, are you aware of any end users that you are working
with right now or is this fezone fairly speculative in the sense that
you don't really have anyone on contract for the property or under
contract?
MR. HOOVER: Awhile back Mr. Clesen's reps. -- they were talking
with Shoney's about buying the entire site, and I don't believe that
came about. What --
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: There's no contract purchasers for the
site right now?
MR. HOOVER: No. They do have another person that's looking at
it for a motel that would like to take the back half of the site and
go either to the east or the west, which would make it a little bit
larger site. From what I understand, the motel people like to have
about a hundred rooms, and they would have to take either the whole
parcel or the back of two -- of one of these to make it work.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: The reason I ask that is there are two
things under uses that concern me. The first is a verbiage -- what I
think is a verbiage change from what we have used in the past. Under
item eighteen on page seven of the PUD, it says any other commercial
use or professional service which is compatible in nature with the
foregoing uses.
Mr. Milk, correct me if I am wrong. I have got an extra copy of
the PUD if you don't -- I didn't have any and now I have two. It's
feast or famine today. It's says any professional service which is
compatible in nature with the foregoing uses. What I remember PUDs
reading is comparable in nature, not compatible.
MR. MILK: There's three words. There's comparable, comparable
and compatible, okay? And I will throw this to the attorney's office.
When we looked at these PUD documents, the attorney's office tweaked
those words consistently. Some are comparable, some are compatible,
some are comparable. So this change was the result of the attorney's
office in that review of the language.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Okay. I need to know, because the word
compatible --
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: I need to ask a question. What's the
difference between comparable and comparable other than
pronounciation?
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Nothing.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Same word.
MR. MILK: I will say that historically the word comparable,
incidental and accessory to are the words we typically use in the
document.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Okay. The reason compatible concerns me
is that there are uses that may be compatible with a paint and
wallpaper store that are not desirous.
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: I think that's a very good point. I don't
know, Harjorie, what the case law says.
MS. STUDENT: Quite frankly, I don't remember doing this, but I
don't have any problem with comparable. It's fine.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Okay. Let's -- let's switch it to
comparable '-
MS. STUDENT: That's fine.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: -- because then I can leave paint and
wallpaper stores.
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: It's also in C-4, just while you're making
that change.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: And the same thing goes for, you know,
auto supply stores in Area C. I don't necessarily want an auto supply
store here, but, you know, again, with the commercial architectural
standards, I don't think it would be that big of a problem, but the
word compatible in item four under C opens up a whole new area that I
don't want to go to.
MS. STUDENT: Madam Chairman and the board, the -- again, I don't
remember putting that word compatible in there, because in my opinion,
it should be comparable. That's what we see in our zoning code and
you're right, it does have a different meaning. So for the record, in
my opinion, it should be comparable.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Unless the petitioner has a problem with
that, I think the word compatible and under item eighteen under B on
page seven and item four under C on page seven should be changed to
comparable.
MR. HOOVER: I agree with you, Commissioner. As a planner, I
think you're a hundred percent correct on that. We absolutely have no
problem with that at all.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: The next question I have under SIC codes
is regarding drinking places under accessory uses. It says group
fifty-eight thirteen only in conjunction with eating places. I am
fairly sure I know what that means, but, Bryan, can you help me out
with that? Are we talking about, in essence, a lounge in accessory to
a restaurant only? In other words --
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Is there some percentage of sales tied to
food?
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Right. Like having a Friday's with a bar
inside or a Bennigan's with a bar inside? But, you know, I need to
know that that's --
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Shoney's with a bar inside?
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Denny's with a beer tap?
MR. MILK: It's usually a place where fifty-one percent of the
sales and revenue generated are from food and not beverage.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: I didn't want to, you know -- there are
places like, you know, Ridgeport Pub and they do fifty-one percent
food, but that place is a bar on the weekends, I mean. And I don't
want --
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: A nice bar that we like.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: I have been there, seen that, done that.
But I'm just saying it's a bar, and I don't think we want to do that
this close to a neighborhood.
MR. MILK: I agree. When they come in for their occupational
licenses and zoning certificates, they give us affidavits that they
are, from the state, a restaurant, slash, and they serve alcohol.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Okay. Those are the questions I had.
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: But that's fine. That meets the legal
hurdle, but it still doesn't address Commissioner Hancock's -- I am
sure the folks at Ridgeport could get affidavits that say they meet
the legal criteria for restaurant, slash, and they -- and I -- I don't
think you have answered his question there.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: They're in the right place for what
they're doing --
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Right.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: -- but if you take what Ridgeport or what
-- what is it, Captain's Table down the road or, I mean, those kinds
that are in shopping centers and put them as a stand-alone use backing
up to a residential area, now I have got a problem with compatibility.
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Mr. Hilk's response sounds to me like
we can't prohibit that the way it's in here. They can bring in an
affidavit, but all that's doing is saying they're fifty-one percent
food.
MR. MILK: As far as the zoning department looks at it, that
could happen, Commissioner, you're absolutely right.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Do you have any suggestion as to how we
could limit that, Mr. Hoover?
MR. HOOVER: Yes. I think I disagree with that, because when you
apply for an occupational license, you come down to the county staff
and they're going to look it up in their SIC codes. So if we're --
what we want here is what you're talking about, the Bennigan's and the
restaurants that have alcoholic beverages with it. But we don't want
a lounge, and that's definitely not our intention here. If we need to
put some additional language in here, we don't have a problem. If we
were coming in here and it was a lounge or a bar, that would -- when
it was looked up in the SIC code, your primary use would be lounge.
If somebody came in and said hey, it's a restaurant and it's actually
a beer joint, that's when it would go to code enforcement, just like
any other use.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: And, again, I am not in any way
disparaging Ridgeport, but they do a heavy lunch business and do a
lot of their food sales in lunch. But when it comes past eight
o'clock, nine o'clock at night, it operates very similar to a
stand-alone bar. They still serve food, but, I mean, you're talking
the majority of the sales at that point are alcohol related. And it's
that relationship. If we can limit it to a Friday's type situation,
fine. But I need to have a way --
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Tell us how to draft that.
MR. MILK: Well, we can just strike it, strike the language.
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Well, but I don't want them to be able to
serve beer with their chili, you know.
MR. MILK: Oh, I can understand that. But there's four -- four
or five different licenses out there issued by the state. There's
beer, there's wine, there's alcohol, and it's all based on the size of
the restaurant, number of seats and that sort of thing. So if a real
restaurant like a Bennigan's or Friday's comes in and they have a
hundred and fifty seats which requires seventy-five parking places,
they're going to have their alcohol license anyway. They're going to
be in the food business but have their accessory bar and that sort of
thing. So that's really accomplished with the number of the seats per
the state, okay? So --
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: In other words, if Ridgeport wants to
go in there, the way it's written right now, there's nothing to
prohibit that.
Mr. Hoover, would you object to upping instead of it has to be a
majority, fifty percent, fifty point one percent food, to upping that
to sixty-five percent or seventy percent or something that still makes
a fair balance there so it's clear?
MR. HOOVER: I was thinking something a little bit along your
lines there, too, where -- yeah, we can -- we can increase that ratio.
The fifty-one percent is like off those four COP state licenses and
things.
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Right.
MR. HOOVER: And those are pretty lenient, and when I worked in
Hillsborough County, I did see a few places that the county was
fighting back and forth a little bit and, yeah, we don't have a
problem if you want to make that seventy percent of the sales would
have to be food. And we can also say, like on the eating places, that
throughout the time that the place is open, that it would need to be
operating as a restaurant, if there's a way of stating that.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: The problem here we're going to find is
enforceability, because we are seeking a category that's not
identified specifically by state licensing nor by any other code that
we have.
Is that where you're going, Mr. Hulhere?
MR. HULHERE: That was the point I was going to make. I'm sorry,
my name is Bob Hulhere, current planning manager.
The intent is that the alcohol sales be accessory to food sales.
I'm stating the obvious. We have already discussed that. To up that
percentage, about the only way that I -- that I think that we might be
able to have a -- some legitimate feeling that the eventual business
owner is complying with that would be also to require some sort of
reporting on an annual basis, and that is what the state does.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: So what they would give to the state, they
would just have to give us? In other words, we're not creating an
additional requirement?
MR. HULHERE: Correct.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Yeah. That's fine.
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: It seems to me if the petitioner
doesn't object and if they already have to do a report like that
anyway and all it is is a matter of making a photocopy, that's a
no-brainer.
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Of course, the difference will be that
instead of reporting fifty point one, they have to report seventy
percent.
MR. MILK: And what we could do for this is tie it to the annual
monitoring report for the PUD, for Clesen PUD, so that report comes in
in conjunction with the applicant's annual monitoring report. So we
could look at that sales revenue.
There's one other thing I wanted to put on the record. And just
-- I'm not sure that that was pointed out, is that building height in
this PUD is a maximum of thirty-five feet, which includes offices,
hotel, motels, and any other building that's permitted. That language
is also very similar in the Naples Gateway PUD at thirty-five feet.
Where it's not is in the Angileri PUD. At that hearing, hotels and
motels were limited to two stories, and I wasn't sure why that
happened, but that was a gasoline and convenience store related PUD.
So from a consistency standpoint, thirty-five feet is the maximum
height in any of the PUDs. Gateway is at thirty-five at ninety foot
setback for the thirty-five foot building. This PUD, the setback is
eighty-two and a half feet from the right-of-way at thirty-five feet,
is the differences here.
COMHISSIONER HANCOCK: That's consistent enough for me. The only
restaurant experience I have is waiting tables at Bennigan's in
college. I'm not sure if seventy percent -- I don't know what the
food/alcohol mix is --
COMHISSIONER CONSTANTINE: That's his number.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: -- in a regular restaurant, so I guess
we'll stick with seventy percent for now. We may find that that moves
one way or the other. Probably the best thing we can do is ask our
staff to check with the restaurant association in town and to find out
what a true restaurant with an ancillary bar, what their mix actually
is, so that we are operating from an informed -- a more informed basis
in the future. That would be helpful, because I would like two
categories for restaurants, slash, bar. One is the ones like
Ridgeport or like McCabe's down on Fifth. You know, it's not just in
shopping centers, but places that at nighttime operate as a bar.
There are correct places for those and incorrect places.
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: What, are you making the rounds every
weekend?
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Every stinking weekend.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: You seem to be very knowledgeable about this.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Actually, I don't have all the beer on tap
memorized, but I am working on it.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Just supporting that downtown
redevelopment, and we appreciate it. Thank you.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: I am a pro-city guy, you know,
particularly when it comes to Friday night.
So anyway, I would like to ask our staff for future use if the
board agrees. I would like to kind of see two categories in the PUDs,
one for, you know, a family -- you know, a Bennigan's type of
restaurant, if you will, and one for a Ridgeport type of restaurant,
you know, and a separation between the two so we can identify them in
the future, because they are very different uses. MR. MILK: Sure.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Any further questions?
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Just to be -- I like that idea so much
that I hope that I hear -- I see Vince nodding -- that that's
something we'll see in the LDC amendments or, you know, that that's a
real request, that a majority of the board is, you know, supporting
that request, because I'd really like to see that.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: There's two of us. I see heads nodding.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: So in the next cycle of amendments, that
would be a good place. Thanks.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Commissioner Norris, any comment, questions?
COMMISSIONER NORRIS: I think all my questions have been answered
in the ensuing discussion.
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Very insightful debate.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Commissioner Constantine?
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: No, no, thank you.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: All right. If not, I will close the public
hearing.
Do I have a motion?
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Madam Chair, I would like to move approval
of PUD 97-12 with the following changes. On page seven of the PUD,
item eighteen, the word compatible be changed to comparable. On the
same page seven of the PUD under item four, the word compatible be
changed to comparable. On page eight of the PUD, under Item D-2,
drinking places, from fifty-eight thirteen, only in conjunction with
eating places, the additional requirement of a food, a minimum
food-to-alcohol sales ratio be seventy to thirty percent. And I
believe --
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: You said alcohol to food and then you
said seventy to thirty.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Food to alcohol. Seventy percent food for
a minimum. Go the other way with it.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Potato chips.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: And those are all the things that --
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Second.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: All right. We have a motion and a second.
Any questions or discussion?
All in favor?
Opposed?
(No response.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Motion carries five, zero.
Thank you very much.
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Sorry, you can't have any more
pretzels unless you buy another beer.
MR. HOOVER: I have a question. You're referring to dollar
amount on your sales?
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Yes. I said -- I believe I said dollar
sales.
MR. HOOVER: Okay.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: If we did it by volume, we might be in
trouble.
Item #12C1
ORDINANCE 98-11 AMENDING ORDINANCE 97-79 TO CORRECT A SCRIVENER'S ERROR
TO THE PELICAN MARSH PUD DOCUMENT RESULTING FROM A TRANSMITTAL TO THE
SECRETARY OF STATE OF A DOCUMENT IN WHICH CERTAIN PAGES WERE
INADVERTENTLY OMITTED - ADOPTED
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: All right. Moving on then to Item
12-C-1. This is a scrivener's error.
COMMISSIONER NORRIS: If you will close the public hearing, I
will be glad to --
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: I will close the public hearing.
COMMISSIONER NORRIS: Motion to approve.
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Second.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: We have a motion and a second to approve the
correcting of a scrivener's error.
All in favor?
Opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Motion carries five, zero.
Item #13A1
RESOLUTION 98-37 RE PETITION V-97-14, JOHN HOBART REPRESENTING FIRST
NATIONAL BANK OF NAPLES REQUESTING A 40 FOOT DIMENSIONAL VARIANCE FROM
THE YARD SETBACK REQUIREHENT OF FIFTH FEET FOR A STRUCTURE LOCATED IN A
PUD ZONING DISTRICT FOR PROPERTY LOCATED IN PELICAN BAY PUD - ADOPTED
Moving on then to the other advertised public hearings,
Petition V-97-14, First National Bank of Naples requesting a
forty-foot variance from the yard setback requirement of fifty feet.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Correct me if I'm wrong, this is kind of
procedural because the bank is already up, it's being built?
MS. MURRAY: Susan Murray, for the record. It's --
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Just a moment. I think we need to swear in
some people.
Anyone that's speaking on this issue, would you please stand and
I'll have the court reporter swear you in?
Madam Court Reporter.
(Witnesses were sworn.)
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Thank you. Also, I have had no contact with
this particular petition.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Nothing to disclose.
COMMISSIONER NORRIS: No disclosure.
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Do we actually have to put it on the
record if we have no disclosure?
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: No, we don't.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: No. But I will be glad to mention that I
have had no contact on this.
MS. MURRAY: All set?
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Miss Murray, this is just a covered
parking area, in a nutshell?
MS. MURRAY: In a nutshell, it's a cover over two parking spaces.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: And it's architecturally integrated with
the building?
MS. MURRAY: That's correct, except that what I handed out now is
a revised exhibit. It's not included in your packet in the
resolution. At the Planning Commission public hearing, the applicant
had proposed a canopy structure with four support poles. The Planning
Commission recommended to forward a recommendation of approval to you
provided the structure was architecturally integrated with the bank
building and the other commercial structures surrounding it.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: This is right next to the entrance to Ruby
Tuesday's.
MS. MURRAY: It would be --
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Am I going to be surrounding bars all day
today?
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Number three.
MS. MURRAY: It's a little unique in that the property fronts on
41 and then also the entranceway to the shopping center, and then
there's a parking lot to the west. So it would almost function as
kind of a stand-alone structure out there.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: That's all I have.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Any other questions?
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Is anyone objecting?
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Any speakers?
MR. FERNANDEZ: You have one speaker, Madam Chairman, Mr. John
Hobart.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Mr. Hobart, do you want to talk us out of
this, because I think it's pretty straightforward.
COMMISSIONER NORRIS: I have a question.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Just a moment.
COHHISSIONER HANCOCK: Okay.
MR. HOBART: Well, my name is John Hobart, and I am from
Hicanopy, Florida, but I do represent First National Bank of Naples
and, yes, it is an ancillary building covered -- for covered parking
with similar Mediterranean architecture to match the existing
building. I would like to just mention to the board, and I think it's
important, is the variances that we are requesting in relationship to
the property line are along the north and the west. Now, these are
interior property lines, which is all within the shopping center
complex. So we are actually about a hundred and fifty or a hundred
and sixty feet from the right-of-way along 41, and about the same
dimension from the south property line, which would be adjacent to
another parcel. So it's not that we are trying to get closer to the
road or closer to someone else's property. We're still maintaining
ourselves within the complex, within the PUD, overall of the shopping
center.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Commissioner Norris.
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: Who gets to park in these spots?
MR. HOBART: Pardon?
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: Who gets to park in these spots?
MR. HOBART: I knew that question was going -- these are
requested from the president and CEO of First National Bank, and they
will be reserved parking.
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: Thank you. That's all.
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: My only comment was when something is
interior like this, it seems to me it's something that should be
simpler, frankly. That maybe there ought to be some procedure where
staff can make a determination. Just a comment, for what it's worth.
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: I disagree because it borders somebody
else's property.
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Yeah. Interior to the shopping center,
but it is the kind of thing we want to encourage with the whole
interconnectedness between the, you know -- just a comment.
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: Thank you.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: How much is this encroaching onto the other
property? Nothing at all.
MR. HOBART: It's not encroaching at all. Actually, we're still
maintaining the ten-foot landscape buffer, so we're within the
ten-foot landscape buffer.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Can you tell us who's going to park there,
because that may affect the decision? If it's Garret Richter
(phonetic), we got to turn this thing down.
MR. HOBART: I don't really know. I know one of the gentlemen.
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: Excuse me. I have a question. Do the
parking places already exist?
MR. HOBART: Yes, they do exist.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: You're just simply covering them?
MR. HOBART: That's correct.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Okay.
MR. HOBART: And it's simply four column elements with a roof.
There won't be any wall enclosures whatsoever, so you're going to have
that open -- openness through it.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: This for two parking spaces?
MR. HOBART: Two parking spaces, yes.
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: Will mobile homes or camping trailers be
parked in those spots?
MR. HOBART: No, no.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Not unless they want to get red-tagged in
fifteen minutes.
COMMISSIONER NORRIS: I have no further questions.
MR. HOBART: The opening height wonlt permit that. It will only
permit a passenger automobile.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Are there any further questions for the
petitioner? Then I will close the public hearing.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Move approval.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: Second.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: We have a motion and a second to approve the
variance.
All in favor?
Opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Motion carries five, zero.
MR. HOBART: Thank you.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Thank you very much.
Item #13A2
RESOLUTION 98-38 RE PETITION SPA-97-1, R. BRUCE ANDERSON, ESQ.,
REPRESENTING DANIEL AND BARBARA HOOVER, OWNERS OF THE PROPERTY LOCATED
AT 2452 J & C BOULEVARD KNOWN AS TEO'S RESTAURANT, REQUESTING APPROVAL
TO SHARE A TOTAL OF 27 OFF-SITE PARKING SPACES LOCATED AT 6401 AIRPORT
ROAD KNOWN AS HADINGER CARPETS - ADOPTED WITH AGREEMENT AS AMENDED
Moving on then to petition thirteen, number two, Petition
SPA-97-1.
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Madam Chairman, I need to disclose I
did have conversation with the petitioners on this item.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: As did I.
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: And I.
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: As did I.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Likewise.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Okay. Would all those speaking to this
particular issue rise and be sworn in by the court reporter, please.
(Witnesses were sworn.)
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Mr. Badamtchian.
MR. BADAMTCHIAN: Good morning, Commissioners. Chahram
Badamtchian from planning services staff. This is an offsite shared
parking petition between the Teo's Restaurant and the carpet store on
U.S. 41 called Hadinger Carpet. As you may recall, in 1995 --
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: I am terribly sorry to interrupt, but
this seems fairly cut and dried. I understand the agreement has an
item where if this isn't working or if there's a problem, the
sheriff's department can bring that forward and say, gee, we have a
problem and the board has a chance to correct it at that time.
MR. BADAMTCHIAN: Correct. There was an administrative
interpretation that since --
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: I'm sorry, your time is up.
MR. BADAMTCHIAN: Since during the time that they didn't have
this offsite parking, they didn't have any parking problems. We have
affidavits from neighbors and the sheriff's department that they never
had parking problems. Should this lease expire and not be renewed, we
are not going to revoke the license unless or until we see a parking
problem or neighbors complain of parking, people parking on the side
of the road.
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: That's why I just said my only concern
was if ninety days from now the carpet place says, well, we don't want
to do this any more, but that appears to be answered that if the
sheriff's department finds there is a problem, they can bring it back
to us.
MR. BADAMTCHIAN: Yes.
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: I was going to go the flip side of that,
to tell you the truth, that they have met all of the requirements that
we have for this administrative waiver that you don't -- this doesn't
actually generate enough cars to need the required code parking.
my suggestion was going to be that we allow them to go forward under
the administrative approval and if there is a problem, then we tell
this small business owner he has to spend two hundred and seventy
dollars a month to get an offsite parking agreement. But right now
we're making him spend that money.
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Maybe Commissioner Hancock can tell us
about the traffic and how many people come and go.
COHHISSIONER HAC'KIE: What's it like at night there?
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Can you tell us, sir?
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Actually, I have never had a problem
finding a parking space.
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: At any time of day or night?
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: I can only speak to the daytime hours
because of those little hot dogs they serve.
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: And I have a question for Mr. Cardillo.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: You guys got to get out more, really.
MR. CARDILLO: I am John Cardillo on behalf of the petitioner,
Teo's, along with Mr. Bruce Anderson.
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: Mr. Cardillo, how would you rank relative
-- relative rank the hot dogs at Teo's?
MR. CARDILLO: Well, per size, that is by the inch, they are as
good or better than almost anything I have ever seen. Now, they are
small, but if you extrapolate the size -- and if I may take a little
more time --
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: You're trying to make this sound quite
savvy, aren't you?
MR. CARDILLO: Well, I was listening last night to -- I was
listening this morning to compatible versus comparable, and last night
at the Inns of Court, we argued irrebuttable versus irrefutable. And
I can tell you irrebuttably and irrefutably that these are the best
three-inch hot dogs I have ever had. And I would support, actually,
what Commissioner Hac'Kie was suggesting, and that is to reverse this
process. I think that makes a lot of sense and is the fair thing to
do with what's happened with this individual --
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: It really is.
MR. CARDILLO: -- for previous problems from the county
administration process.
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: Coming from such a gourmand as Mr.
Cardillo, I will accept that analysis.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: The only concern I have is that if there
is a shared parking agreement, then if, you know, based on this fine
presentation today, Teo's gets a booming business they have never
experienced tomorrow due to this increased exposure that Mr. Cardillo
has offered, that the spaces be made available there. It's kind of
like saying we don't think there's going to be a problem, but let's
wait and see. If we go ahead and execute the shared parking
agreement, if there is a problem, there's an overflow site, and the
only way that's triggered to say whether that's sufficient or not is
if that goes away.
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: I guess the only thing is, if you're
selling hot dogs, two hundred and seventy dollars a month is real
money, you know. It's just a shame to make somebody spend whatever,
you know --
MR. CARDILLO: Could I -- could I address --
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: -- three grand a year for nothing.
MR. CARDILLO: -- if I might, some of the problems with the hot
dogs -- that would not give rise to such a great amount of population.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: I understand your logic, Commissioner
Hac'Kie. I just -- it's not like it's a little hot dog cart on
wheels; it's a viable business. He does a good lunch business and that
kind of stuff. I don't think -- if economics were not satisfactory, I
think that would be made evident by the petitioner.
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: And frankly, it's our job to do
planning in the area and not try to take care of each individual
business owner and their economics. And so I think that if the
situation bears itself out, that's fine, but I think we need to make
sure there's adequate planning done. I'd rather be able to back off
that than have to step up and do it two months from now.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: If I may, Madam Chair.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Sure.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: What I would like to ask the petitioner
is, Mr. Cardillo, you and I and Mr. Anderson discussed this, assuming
the board approves the shared parking agreement and the proposal
before us, would you be placing signs in the parking area indicating
the location of the offsite parking?
MR. CARDILLO: Yes. We have recommended that to the petitioner.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Thank you.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Any further questions? Any further questions
from the commissioners?
Do we have any speakers?
MR. FERNANDEZ: Madam Chairman, no.
MR. ANDERSON: Commissioners, if you're inclined to go ahead and
require the shared parking agreement, I have a new version that
incorporates the potential review and revocation conditions that were
contained in the administrative approval. It does delete the
requirement of a restrictive covenant on the property, but I did want
to distribute that and make that a part of the record. It has been
reviewed by both your planning staff and the county attorney's office
and approved by them.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: I don't have a problem with the removal of
the covenant. It was a little confusing to me why we had that anyway.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Any further questions? I will close the
public hearing. Do I have a motion?
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: With the addition of signs indicating the
location of the offsite parking, I will move approval of SPA-97-1,
including staff recommendations and the agreement we're now receiving
and throwing away.
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: And submitting for the record. Second.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Oh, yeah, that part, too.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Okay. Very good. We have a motion and a
second. If there's no further questions, I will call for the
question.
All in favor?
Opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Motion carries five, zero.
Thank you very much.
MR. CARDILLO: Thank you, Commissioners.
Item #13B1
RESOLUTION 98-39 REQUESTING EXTENSION OF TIHE FOR WHICH AN ASPHALT AND
CONCRETE BATCH PLANT FACILITY HAY OPERATE AS A CONDITIONALLY APPROVED
USE IN THE "A" RURAL AGRICULTURAL ZONING DISTRICT - ADOPTED
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Moving on then to Item 13-B-l, request
for an extension of time for asphalt and concrete batch plant
facility.
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Madam Chairman, this next item is kind
of a no-brainer. I do want to make one complaint, though. As I read
through the item, nowhere in the executive summary does it say where
it is, whose it is, and so on, other than referring to Resolution
93-138, which I truly don't know off the top of my head. I had to go
back into a support documentation to find out it was Mr. Bennotsol
(phonetic). Just on future items if we could stick to the general
practice of actually mentioning who the petitioner is, where the
project is, it's very helpful.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Commissioner, I need to have people sworn in
that want to speak to this.
So all those speaking to this issue, please rise.
(Witnesses were sworn.)
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Madam Chair, I have no disclosure on this
item.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Any other disclosures?
I have had no contact.
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: I have had no contact.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Commissioner Hac'Kie?
MR. NENO: Ron Neno, for the record.
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: I disclose I have nothing to
disclose.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Yeah, right. Okay.
Mr. Neno would like to make a lengthy presentation on this.
MR. NENO: No, I don't wish to make a lengthy presentation. I
would hope that the executive summary speaks to the issues. You have
a petition here that was approved five years ago to institute a batch
plant at the Willow Run quarry. One of the conditions of that
approval was that they come back to the board of zoning appeals within
a five-year time frame and seek -- seek to continue that function.
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: Thank you very much, Mr. Neno.
Would you close the public hearing?
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Yes.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: No, I have a question.
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: Oh, you have a question.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Sorry.
MR. NENO: Petitioner has asked that -- that the time limitation
be removed. I think our paragraph on page two of the executive
summary summarizes our position in response to any opinion of staff.
The petitioner's request that the operation of the asphalt and
concrete batch plant be tied to the life of aggregate mining and
processing has considerable merit, particularly in view of the
expanded area of mining activity which provides an expanded area of
separation between batch plant operations and land that is not part of
the earth mining land area. You might recall that not too long ago,
two hundred additional acres were added to the earth mining functions.
No particular objective is served by requiring reconsideration of the
batch plants at an intermediate stage in the mining and processing of
aggregate material. That is not readily apparent today in terms of
its potential impact on surrounding land that is not part of the
property for which --
COMMISSIONER MAC'KIE: You can even stop this hearing in addition
to having future ones.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Well, I have --
MR. NENO: The concern for -- the concern for compatibility can
be reinforced by requiring no sale of the land that is now part of the
total land area. And we have crafted a resolution to achieve that
requirement.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Commissioner Hancock, question?
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Yeah. At the time that we received the
request to expand the earth mining operation, was there any mention
whatsoever of extending the asphalt batch plant at that tiem, because
I don't recall it?
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: It's required as part of the PUD,
isn't it?
MR. NENO: I beg your pardon?
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: I understand the requirement. The point
is that in the executive summary it says, based on this action is to
extend -- the purpose for this action is to extend the life or the
time frame of the earth mining activities a significant number of
years thereby providing an immediate source of raw materials. In
other words, when we added two hundred acres to the earth mining, we
increased the raw materials --
MR. NENO: Yes.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: -- that would then create the need to have
the batch plant --
MR. NENO: Correct.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: -- there for five or more years?
MR. NENO: Correct.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Wouldn't that have been --
MR. NENO: Perhaps more than five years.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Okay. Did the petitioner indicate that
direction at the time we heard the earth mining operation? MR. NENO: No, they didn't.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Okay. So this is a little piecemeal
approach when, in fact, one is directly related to the area. So at
the time we heard the earth mining operation, if the people around it
knew that the earth mining was directly related to keeping an asphalt
batch plant there, maybe they would have been a little more concerned,
maybe not. I just think --
COMMISSIONER NORRIS: What people?
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Pardon me?
COMMISSIONER NORRIS: What people?
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: Property owners, people that own property
in Collier County. I just think that if the two are directly tied
together, it would have been advisable to hear them at the same time.
And hearing them piecemeal like this, I think, is a little unfair.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Commissioner Constantine?
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Mr. Neno --
MR. NENO: Of course, we were -- we were --
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Mr. Neno.
MR. NENO: We were --
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Mr. Neno.
MR. NENO: I'm sorry.
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Mr. Neno, if they didn't add the extra
-- he wants to talk today.
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: He's talking.
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: If they didn't add the extra two
hundred acres, would they still need to come back and get an
extension?
MR. NENO: Yes, they would.
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Thank you.
MR. NENO: And we were unaware of that at the time, that there
was a five-year limitation, when we were dealing with the --
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: The property owner was aware, though. And
I think the two are joined uses, and it's best to understand that at
the public hearing on the expansion of the conditional use.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Further questions?
Do we have any speakers on this issue?
MR. FERNANDEZ: You have none, Madam Chair.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: No speakers. I will close the public
hearing. Do I have a motion?
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Motion to approve staff's recommendation.
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: Second.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Does that include not requiring them to
come back for the conditional use at all?
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Yes.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: We have a motion and a second.
All in favor?
Opposed?
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Aye.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Motion carries four, one.
Item #1382
RESOLUTION 98-40 REQUESTING A SECOND EXTENSION OF CONDITIONAL USE
CU-96-1 FOR A CHURCH IN THE RSF-3 ZONING DISTRICT FOR PROPERTY
DESCRIBED IN RESOLUTION 96-192 ADOPTED ON APRIL 9, 1996, PURSUANT TO
SECTION 2.7.4 OF THE LCD - ADOPTED
Hoving on to Item B-2. This is a request for a second
extension. And I have a request to close the public hearing.
Commissioner Norris?
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: Motion to approve.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Motion to approve.
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Second.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Any further discussion?
I will call for the question.
All in favor?
Opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Motion carries five, zero.
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Do you want to take a break?
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Do I want to take a break? We're going to
take a permanent break here very shortly.
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Was there any public comment? Did we miss
that somehow?
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: We just missed public comment. I just
breezed right on through there.
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: There were no registered speakers.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: No registered speakers?
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: What the Chairman is trying to say, she
knew the status of no speakers and decided just to move through the
item.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Right. I am good.
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: God, you're good.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Mr. Fernandez, any communications for us?
MR. FERNANDEZ: I have no items, Madam Chairman.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Mr. Weigel?
MR. WEIGEL: No items, thank you.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Does Miss Filson have anything to say to us
today?
MS. FILSON: Happy Valentine's Day.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Happy Valentine's Day; that's very nice. And
to all of you, too.
Commissioner Mac'Kie.
MR. HANCOCK: I would have hated to be one of your students.
Item #15A
ADDITIONAL INVOICES FOR COURT ADMINISTRATION TO BE PRESENTED ON 2/17/98
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: I just have a question about the -- I am
going to keep asking it every week -- about the continuing saga with
the clerk and the court administration. Do we have anything to
report?
MR. FERNANDEZ: Madam Chairman, I received yesterday a new list
of invoices, and I have scheduled to present those to the board at
your meeting next week.
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: Great. Thank you.
MR. FERNANDEZ: Oh, I understand, also, that discussions have
been held among the attorneys, and Mr. Weigel could probably give you
a little more detail about that.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Does Mr. Weigel wish to give us more detail
about that?
MR. WEIGEL: No, not too much. We have another teleconference of
attorneys scheduled later this week. We're working on it.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: That's fine. Thank you.
Commissioner Norris?
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: Nothing today.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Commissioner Constantine?
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Just the Historical Society is very
excited and anxiously awaiting our luncheon workshop next week.
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: If you haven't been to Palm Cottage, and
you all probably have, it's wonderful.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: Do they serve alcohol their?
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: Dramatic change there.
COHMISSIONER NORRIS: You can pick some up on the way.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: I just couldn't remember if I had been
there.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: I hate to -- this group is deteriorated. I
think it's time we get them out of here.
Commissioner Hancock?
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: First of all, thank you to staff for
grouping all of our bar-related petitions today.
COHMISSIONER HAC'KIE: They were bar-related to you.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: I wanted to point out to everybody, you
may have been watching the winter olympics. I haven't -- I don't read
the paper often enough to know if it's been in there or not, but we
have one of our very own in the winter olympics, Brian Shimer. I
pulled the schedule off the Internet last night and the two-man runs
are on February 14th and 15th in the wee hours of the morning, one and
three a.m., and the four-mans are February 20th and 21st. If Mr.
Shimer should be -- and he's talented enough -- if he's fortunate
enough to win a medal, I am working on a proclamation for a Brian
Shimer Day and a coming-home parade, if we can get one of Naples very
own to medal in the winter olympics in Nagano, Japan. So I just
wanted to kind of put that out there that we'll be rooting for him
and hopefully we will be having a parade for Mr. Shimer and a
proclamation.
COHMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: We might want to send a telegraph
over, no medal, no parade.
COHMISSIONER HANCOCK: I'm sure that's all the motivation he
needs.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: These guys are brutal.
COMHISSIONER HANCOCK: But anyway, I did want to point that out
and we will be looking forward to next week maybe working on some
plans for a parade.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Sounds great. Mr. Shimer, indeed, is one of
our own from here, so we wish him the best over there. I have nothing further to say.
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: I did have one item. I'm very sorry.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: It's too late.
COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINE: As you know, each week my dad comes in
at the end of the meeting and goes to lunch. This week dad is in
Maine, so filling in for him is my sister, Betty. CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Welcome to the zoo.
COMMISSIONER HANCOCK: So you drew the short straw. I'm sorry.
CHAIRPERSON BERRY: Anyway, if there's nothing further before
this commission, meeting is adjourned.
***** Commissioner Hancock moved, seconded by Commissioner Norris, and
carried unanimously, that the following items under the Consent Agenda
be approved and/or adopted with changes:
Item #16A1
EXCAVATION PERMIT NO. 59.632 TO CREATIVE HOMES OF S.W. FLORIDA FOR THE
PROJECT KNOWN AS "CREATIVE HOMES COMMERCIAL EXCAVATION" LOCATED IN
SECTION 11, TOWNSHIP 48 SOUTH, RNAGE 27 EAST, UNIT 59 OF GOLDEN GATE
ESTATES - WITH STIPULATIONS AS DETAILED IN THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16A2
QUITCLAIM DEED GRANTED BY ROBERT AND ERVENE SHELLABARGER IN REFERENCE
TO A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FOR INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS
TO SHELLABARGER PARK IN IMMOKALEE (GRANT #97-DB-3K-09-21-01-N03).
Item #16A3
RECORDING THE FINAL PLAT OF "ISLAND WALK PHASE ONE" LOCATED IN SECTION
33, TOWNSHIP 48 SOUTH, RANGE 26 EAST - WITH LETTER OF CREDIT AND
CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT AND STIPULATIONS AS DETAILED IN
THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Item #16A4
BUDGET AMENDMENT FOR FUND 111 TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO PAY FOR
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTERIM GOVERNMENT
SERVICES FEES ORDINANCE
Item #16B1
COOPERATIVE AGREEHENT WITH THE SOUTH FLORIDA WATER NLA/~AGEHENT DISTRICT
FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF A REPLACEMENT BRIDGE AT VALEWOOD
DRIVE OVER THE COCOHATCHEE CANAL
Item #1682
EXECUTION OF THREE(3) QUITCLAIM DEEDS, IN ORDER TO RECONVEY PREVIOUS
INTERESTS OBTAINED BY PINE AIR LAKES PUD
Item #1683
PROJECT NO. 69101; CIE 08 - SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT NO. 3 WITH HOLE,
HONTES AND ASSOCIATES, INC. FOR IHMOKALEE ROAD IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
AMOUNT OF $35,900.00
Item #16B4 - Continued to 2/17/98
PROJECT #80037 - FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR THE SOUTH
NAPLES COMMUNITY PARK RFP 97-2745
Item #16C1
STAFF DIRECTED TO PREPARE AN ORDINANCE REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 93-2
WHICH ESTABLISHED THE PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT ADVISORY BOARD AND CHAIRMAN TO
EXECUTE CERTIFICATES OF APPRECIATION FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY
BOARD
Item #16C2
PARKS AND RECREATION STAFF AND COUNTY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE DIRECTED TO
DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO ORDINANCE 89-11 RELATING TO BEACH AND WATER AND
VESSEL CONTROL
Item #16D1
REJECTION OF PROPOSALS RECEIVED IN RESPONSE TO RFP #97-2760,
"DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SYSTEM" - STAFF TO
RE-SOLICIT THE PROJECT
Item #16El
BUDGET AMENDMENTS 98-130
Item #16G1
MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE - FILED AND/OR REFERRED
The following miscellaneous correspondence as presented by the BCC
has been filed and/or referred to the various departments as indicated
on the miscellaneous correspondence.
There being no further business for the good of the County, the
meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 10:25 a.m.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS/EX
OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD(S) OF
SPECIAL DISTRICTS UNDER ITS CONTROL
BARBARA B. BERRY, CHAIRMAN
ATTEST:
DWIGHT E. BROCK, CLERK
These minutes approved by the Board on , as
presented or as corrected
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BY DEBRA J. DeLAP, NOTARY PUBLIC.