CEB Minutes 04/28/2011 R
April 28, 2011
TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE
CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD
Naples, Florida
April 28, 2011
LET IT BE REMEMBERED, that the Collier County Code
Enforcement Board, in and for the County of Collier, having
conducted business herein, met on this date at 9:00 a.m. in REGULAR
SESSION at Collier County Development Services Center, Horseshoe
Drive, Naples, Florida, with the following members present:
CHAIRMAN: Kenneth Kelly
Larry Dean (Excused)
Ron Doino
Robert Kaufman
James Lavinski
Gerald Lefebvre
Lionel L'Esperance
Tony Marino
ALSO PRESENT:
Jean Rawson, Attorney for the Board
Diane Flagg, Code Enforcement Director
Jen Waldron, Code Enforcement Specialist
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CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD OF COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
AGENDA
Date: April 28, 2011 at 9:00 a.m.
Location: Growth Management Planning and Regulation, Conference Room 609/610
2800 N. Horseshoe Dr. Naples, FL 34104
NOTICE: THE RESPONDENT MA Y BE LIMITED TO TWENTY (20) MINUTES FOR CASE
PRESENTATION UNLESS ADDITIONAL TIME IS GRANTED BY THE BOARD. PERSONS WISHING
TO SPEAK ON ANY AGENDA ITEM WILL RECEIVE UP TO FIVE (5) MINUTES UNLESS THE TIME IS
ADJUSTED BY THE CHAIRMAN.
ALL PARTIES PARTICIPATING IN THE PUBLIC HEARING ARE ASKED TO OBSERVE ROBERTS
RULES OF ORDER AND SPEAK ONE AT A TIME SO THAT THE COURT REPORTER CAN RECORD
ALL STATEMENTS BEING MADE.
ANY PERSON WHO DECIDES TO APPEAL A DECISION OF THIS BOARD WILL NEED A RECORD OF
THE PROCEEDINGS PERTAINING THERETO, AND THEREFORE MAY NEED TO ENSURE THAT A
VERBATIM RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS IS MADE, WHICH RECORD INCLUDES THE
TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEAL IS TO BE BASED. NEITHER COLLIER
COUNTY NOR THE CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING
THIS RECORD.
1. ROLL CALL
Kenneth Kelly, Chair
Robert Kaufman, Vice Chair
Gerald Lefebvre
James Lavinski
Larry Dean
Lionel L' Esperance
Tony Marino
Ronald Doino, Alternate
2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES -
A. March 24, 2011 Hearing
B. March 24, 2011 Workshop
4. PUBLIC HEARINGS/MOTIONS
A. MOTIONS
Motion for Extension of Time
1. Mr. 99 Cents, Inc.
2007050898
B. STIPULATIONS
C. HEARINGS
1.
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CESD20110000046
RUN HE LEI KONG MING LLC.
INVESTIGATOR RENALD PAUL
COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, 04-41 AS AMENDED, SECTION
10.02.06(B)(1)(a) ADDITION OF NON PERMITTED LANAI.
36377640002
2254 52ND LANE S.W. NAPLES, FL
CESD20110000255
PRIME HOMES AT PORTOFINO FALLS
INVESTIGA TOR JONATHON MUSSE
COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, 04-41 AS AMENDED, SECTION
10.02. 13(F) ANNUAL PUD MONITORING REPORT HAS NOT BEEN SUBMITTED
204040002
7373 V ANDERBIL T BEACH RD. NAPLES, FL
CELUPM20110000047
PEE-WEE'S DUMPSTER, INC. AND VICTOR THOMAS GEORGE
INVESTIGA TOR JONATHON MUSSE
LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE 04-41, AS AMENDED, SECTION 2.02.03 ILLEGAL
STORAGE OF EQUIPMENT, DUMPSTERS, CONTAINERS, PILES OF DIRT AND ROCK,
HUGE CEMENT BLOCKS, ETC.
38280090006
721 LOGAN BLVD. S. NAPLES, FL
CESD20100019758
STEVEN T. HOVLAND & MELANIE ANN HOVLAND
INVESTIGA TOR TONY ASARO
COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, 04-41 AS AMENDED, SECTION
1O.02.06(B)(1)(a) SHED, WOOD DECKING AND GARAGE CONVERTED TO AN
AP AR TMENT WITHOUT FIRST OBTAINING COLLIER COUNTY BUILDING PERMITS
00103840400
7850 FRIENDSHIP LANE NAPLES, FL
CESD20090008686
MARINA GUZMAN
INVESTIGA TOR CHRIS AMBACH
COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, 04-41 AS AMENDED, SECTION
1O.02.06(B)(1)(a), 1O.02.06(B)(1)(e) AND 1O.02.06(B)(1)(e)(i), FLORIDA BUILDING CODE
2004 EDITION, CHAPTER 1 PERMITS, SECTION 105.1 CONVERTED GARAGE TO A
LIVING SPACE AND AN UNPERMITTED SHED TYPE STRUCTURE IN THE REAR YARD
WITHOUT FIRST OBTAINING ALL REQUIRED COLLIER COUNTY PERMITS
37280600002
360 WILSON BLVD. NAPLES, FL
6.
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CESD20100021908
WILLIAM J. FORTE SR. TR. ITF SUZANNE M. FORTE TR. 4/11
INVESTIGATOR AZURE SORRELS
COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, 04-41 AS AMENDED, SECTION
1O.02.06(B)(1)(a) AND FLORIDA BUILDING CODE, 2007 EDITION, CHAPTER 1,
SECTION 105.1 ALTERATIONSIADDlTIONS MADE TO EXISTING PERMITTED
STRUCTURE TO CONSIST OF BUT NOT LIMITED TO; CONCRETE STAIRS ON THE
REAR OF THE GARAGE, GARAGE DOOR REMOVED AND ENCLOSED, SECOND
FLOOR OF GARAGE ALTERED WITH INTERIOR WALLS AND EXTERIOR DOOR
WITHOUT FIRST OBTAINING ALL REQUIRED BUILDING PERMITS
29830760009
2948 ORANGE ST. NAPLES, FL
CESD20100022071
DV PROPERTY INVESTMENT LLC.
INVESTIGATOR MICHELLE SCAVONE
COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, 04-41 AS AMENDED, SECTION
1O.02.06(B)(1)(a), FLORIDA BUILDING CODE, 2007 EDITION, CHAPTER 1 PERMITS,
SECTION 105.1 ADDlTIONS/ALTERATIONS MADE TO THE RESIDENCE WITHOUT
FIRST OBTAINING ALL REQUIRED COLLIER COUNTY BUILDING PERMITS
71630280009
3 KINGS ROAD NAPLES, FL
CESD20100009548
NEWBERRY TR., RICHARD E COMALEX DEFINED BENEFIT PENSION PLAN
TRUST
INVESTIGA TOR MICHELLE SCAVONE
COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPEMT CODE, 04-41 AS AMENDED, SECTIONS
1O.02.06(B)(1)(a), 1O.02.06(B)(1)(e), FLORIDA BUILDING CODE, 2007 EDITION, CHAPTER
1 PERMITS, SECTION 105.1 AL TERA TIONSIREP AIRS HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED TO
STRUCTURAL, ELECTRICAL, AND PLUMBING IN UNITS A AND B CONSISTING OF
BUT NOT LIMITED TO; DRYWALL REMOVEDIREPLACED, SINKS REPLACED, AND
OUTSIDE STAIRS REPLACED. WORK WAS STARTED AND CONDUCTED BEFORE
OBTAINING ALL REQUIRED COLLIER COUNTY BUILDING PERMITS
52600440005
3230 THOMASSON DRIVE NAPLES, FL
CESD20100018786
OMAR J. BARREDA & VERONICA TRUJILLO
INVESTIGATOR PATRICK BALDWIN
COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, 04-41 AS AMENDED, SECTION
1O.02.06(B)(1)(a) AND 1O.02.06(B)(I)(e)(i), COLLIER COUNTY CODE OF LAWS,
CHAPTER 22, ARTICLE II, FLORIDA BUILDING CODE, SECTION 22-26(b)(104.5.1.4.4)
FLORIDA BUILDING CODE, 2007 EDITION, SECTION 105.1 SWIMMING POOL, SCREEN
ENCLOSURE AND SHED BUILT WITHOUT COLLIER COUNTY BUILDING PERMITS.
THE OWNER DID APPLY FOR A PERMIT FOR THE POOL AND THE SCREEN
ENCLOSURE IN 1995 BUT THE PERMITS WERE CANCELLED.
40922240005
2650 2ND AVE S.E. NAPLES, FL
5. OLD BUSINESS
A. Motion for Imposition of Fines/Liens
1.
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CESD20100018773
OLGA MORENO
INVESTIGATOR JOSEPH MUCHA
COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, 04-41 AS AMENDED, SECTION
1O.02.06(B)(1)(a) GARAGE CONVERTED TO LIVING SPACE WITHOUT PERMITS.
35756320009
4273 20TH AVE S.W. NAPLES, FL
CESD20100017996
RICHARD L & SANDRA F. RATHJEN
INVESTIGATOR RENALD PAUL
COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, 04-41 AS AMENDED, SECTION
1O.02.06(B)(1)(a) UNPERMITTED STORAGE SHED AND LANAI.
36121360004
4866 21 ST AVENUE S. W. NAPLES, FL
CESD20090018373
MIKE & MARY RUTH LUCERO
INVESTIGA TOR MARIA RODRIGUEZ
COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, 04-41 AS AMENDED, SECTION
1O.02.06(B)(1)(a) A PERMITTED SCREEN PORCH ENCLOSED INTO LIVING SPACE
WITHOUT FIRST OBTAINING A PERMIT
66881320008
311 6TH ST. IMMOKALEE, FL
CESD20100017736
HENRY J. TESNO & JILL J. WEAVER
INVESTIGA TOR AZURE SORRELS
COLLIER COUNTY CODE OF LAWS, CHAPTER 22, ARTICLE II, SECTION
22-26(b)(104.5.lAA) PERMITS 2002050921 FOR SWIMMING POOL, 2003010443 FOR
FENCE AND 2003102442 FOR FRAMED SINGLE FAMILY HOME HAVE ALL EXPIREDI
CANCELLED BEFORE OBTAINING ALL REQUIRED INSPECTIONS AND CERTIFICATE
OF OCCUPANCYICOMPLETION.
71800000527
3117 ARECA AVENUE NAPLES, FL
5.
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CESD20100006494
AUDUBON CENTER OF NAPLES, LLC.
INVESTIGATOR DELICIA PULSE
COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, 04-41 AS AMENDED, SECTIONS
10.02.06(B)(1)(a), 1O.02.06(B)(1)(e) AND 1O.02.06(B)(1)(e)(i) INTERIOR DOOR THAT WAS
INSTALLED THAT REQUIRED BREAKING DOWN THAT PORTION OF THE FIREWALL
TO CREATE AN OPENING TO COMBINE UNIT 110 AND 111, WITHOUT FIRST
OBTAINING PROPER COLLIER COUNTY PERMITS
22493000129
15495 TAMIAMI TRAIL N. NAPLES, FL
CEPM201 00010050
PHILIP R. BRADLEY IV & NANCY F. BRADLEY
INVESTIGA TOR MICHAELLE CROWLEY
COLLIER COUNTY CODE OF LAWS, CHAPTER 22, BUILDING AND BUILDING
REGULATIONS, ARTICLE VI, SECTION 22-231, SUBSECTION 15 POOL WATER
UNMAINT AINED AND DARK IN COLOR
63102120003
4945 BARCELONA CIRCLE NAPLES, FL
CEPM20100009420
GOMAA ELSAID & KAREN AMAL ELSHERBEINI
INVESTIGA TOR JONATHON MUSSE
COLLIER COUNTY CODE OF LAWS, CHAPTER 22, BUILDING AND BUILDING
REGULATIONS, ARTICLE VI, PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE, SECTION 22-231
SUBSECTION 15 A POOL NOT BEING MAINTAINED IN A SANITARY CONDITION
5610160007
11334 LONGSHORE WAY W. NAPLES, FL
2007110390
DANIEL DEEREY
INVESTIGATOR PATRICK BALDWIN
FLORIDA BUILDING CODE, 2007 EDITION, ABANDONED OR SUSPENDED PERMIT,
COLLIER COUNTY CODE OF LAWS, CHAPTER 22, ARTICLE II, FLORIDA BUILDING
CODE, ADOPTION & AMENDMENT OF THE FLORIDA BUILDING CODE, SECTION
22-26(b)(104.5.1AA) EXPIRED PERMIT NO. 2006120034 FOR A "GAME ROOM"
72650003725
1405 KING SAGO CT. NAPLES, FL
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CESD20090000978
MARIA RAMIREZ
INVESTIGATOR TONY ASARO
COLLIER COUNTY CODE OF LAWS AND ORDINANCES, CHAPTER 22, ARTICLE II,
SECTION 22-26(B)(l04.1.3.5), FLORIDA BUILDING CODE, 2004 EDITION, CHAPTER 1,
SECTION 105.1 AND SECTION 111.1, AND COLLIER COUNTY ORDINANCE, 04-41 AS
AMENDED, THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, SECTION 1O.02.06(B)(l)(A) AND
1O.02.06(B)(l)(E)(I) REPORTED REMODEL/CONVERSION CONSISTING OF, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, ELECTRIC REQIRE, PLUMBING, WALLS REMOVEDlREPLACED
39956600004
3340 35TH AVE. NE. NAPLES, FL
CEROW20090000973
MARIA RAMIREZ
INVESTIGA TOR TONY ASARO
COLLIER COUNTY CODE OF LAWS, CHAPTER 110, ARTICLE II, DIVISION 1,
GENERALLY, SECTION 110-31(A) EXPIRED RIGHT OF WAY PERMIT 07-0945-E,
CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS STILL ON THE PROPERTY, DRIVEWAY NOT COMPLETE
39956600004
3340 35TH AVE. NE. NAPLES, FL
CESD20090000972
MARIA RAMIREZ
INVESTIGATOR TONY ASARO
COLLIER COUNTY CODE OF LAWS, CHAPTER 22, ARTICLE II, SECTION 22- 26(B)
(l04.5.104o4) EXPIRED FENCE PERMIT 2007052601 WITHOUT CO. FENCE
CONSTRUCTIONSTARTED ON PROPERTY
39956600004
3340 35TH AVE. NE. NAPLES, FL
CESD20090000975
MARIA RAMIREZ
INVESTIGATOR TONY ASARO
COLLIER COUNTY CODE OF LAWS, CHAPTER 22, ARTICLE II, SECTION 22-26(B)
(104.1.3.5) STRUCTURES ON PROPERTY WITHOUT COLLIER COUNTY PERMITS
39956600004
3340 35TH AVE. NE. NAPLES, FL
CELU20100018294
OMAR RAUL GARCIA
INVESTIGATOR CAROL SYKORA
COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, 04-41 AS AMENDED, SECTION
1.04.01 (A) AN UNLICENSEDIINOPERABLE BOX TRUCK PARKEDISTORED ON
AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY
00738120003
1 0651 GREENWAY RD. NAPLES, FL
14. CASE NO:
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CENA20100018314
OMAR RAUL GARCIA
INVESTIGA TOR CAROL SYKORA
COLLIER COUNTY CODE OF LAWS AND ORDINANCES, CHAPTER 54, ARTICLE VI,
SECTION 54-181 LITTER CONSISTING OF BUT NOT LIMITED TO; BUCKETS, WOOD
PALLETS, PILED YARD DEBRIS, WINDOW SCREENS, COOLERS, METAL MESH
00738120003
1 0651 GREENWAY RD. NAPLES, FL
CEPM20100018330
OMAR RAUL GARCIA
INVESTIGA TOR CAROL SYKORA
COLLIER COUNTY CODE OF LAWS AND ORDINANCES, CHAPTER 22, ARTICLE VI,
SECTION 2-231(12)(i) BROKEN WINDOWS ON THE MAIN HOUSE
00738120003
10651 GREENWAY RD. NAPLES, FL
CESD20100018347
OMAR RAUL GARCIA
INVESTIGATOR CAROL SYKORA
COLLIER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, 04-41 AMENDED, SECTION
1O.02.06(B)(1)(a) AND FLORIDA BUILDING CODE, 2007 EDITION, CHAPTER 1, PERMITS
SECTION 105.1 INTERIOR OF A CBS BARN WHICH WAS CONVERTED INTO A GROW
HOUSE WITH EXTENSIVE ELECTRICAL ALTERATIONS, WIRING, OUTLETS,
ELECTRICAL PANELS, AIR CONDITIONING UNITS, IRRIGATION SYSTEMS AND
PARTITION WALLS WITH NO COLLIER COUNTY PERMITS
00738120003
10651 GREENWAY RD. NAPLES, FL
B. Motion for Reduction of Fines/Lien
C. Motion to Amend Previously Issued Order:
1. Robert E. and Serita D. Brown
6. NEW BUSINESS
CEPM20 1 000 18257
A. Code Enforcement Rules and Regulations
7. CONSENT AGENDA
A. Motion for Imposition of Fines/Liens
B. Request to Forward Cases to County Attorney's Office as Referenced in Submitted Executive
Summary.
8. REPORTS
9. COMMENTS
10. NEXT MEETING DATE - May 26,2011
11. ADJOURN
April 28, 2011
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Good morning. I'd like to call the Code
Enforcement Board to order for April 28th, 2011.
Notice: The respondent may be limited to 20 minutes for case
presentation, unless additional time is granted by the Board. Persons
wishing to speak on any agenda item will receive up to five minutes,
unless the time is adjusted by the chair.
All parties participating in the public hearing are asked to
observe Robert's Rules of Order and speak one at a time so the court
reporter can record all statements being made.
Any person who decides to appeal a decision of this board will
need a record of the proceedings pertaining thereto, and therefore may
need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made,
which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the
appeal is to be based. Neither Collier County nor the Code
Enforcement Board shall be responsible for providing this record.
May I have roll call.
MS. BAKER: Mr. Ken Kelly?
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Here.
MS. BAKER: Mr. Robert Kaufman?
MR. KAUFMAN: Here.
MS. BAKER: Mr. Gerald Lefebvre?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Here.
MS. BAKER: Mr. Tony Marino?
MR. MARINO: Here.
MS. BAKER: Mr. Lionel L'Esperance?
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Here.
MS. BAKER: Mr. James Lavinski?
MR. LA VINSKI: Here.
MS. BAKER: Mr. Ron Doino?
MR. DOINO: Here.
MS. BAKER: And Mr. Larry Dean has an excused absence for
today.
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CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay. For the record, our alternate, Ron
Doino, will be a full voting member for this meeting due to the
absence of Larry Dean.
Moving on to the approval of the agenda. Can we have any
changes?
MS. BAKER: Yes, we do. Under number four, public
hearings/motions, letter A, motions, motion for extension of time, we
have four additions to that. Number two will be Olga Moreno, Case
CESD20 1 000 18773.
Number three will be Maria Ramirez. This is being taken off of
the imposition of fine section. It will be Case CEROW20090000973.
The next will also be Maria Ramirez, which will be number 11
from imposition of fines, Case CESD20090000972.
And the next will also be Maria Ramirez, number 12 from
imposition of fines. Case CESD20090000975.
Under letter B, stipulations, we have one stipulation. It will be
number nine from hearings. Omar J. Barreda and Veronica Trujillo.
Case CESD20100018786.
Under letter C, hearings, number one, case CESD20 11 0000046,
Run He Le and Kong Ming, LLC has been withdrawn.
Number four, Case CESD20100019758, Steven T. Hovland and
Melanie Ann Hovland has been withdrawn.
Number six, Case CESD20100021908, William J. Forte, Sr.,
Trust, ITF Suzanne M. Forte Trust 4/11 has been withdrawn.
Number seven, Case CESD20100022071, DV Property
Investment, LLC has been withdrawn.
Number eight, Case CESD20100009548, Newberry Trust,
Richard E. Comalex Defined Benefit Pension Plan Trust has been
withdrawn.
Under number five, old business, letter A, motion for imposition
of fines/liens: Number five, Case CESD20 1 00006494, Audubon
Center of Naples, LLC has been withdrawn.
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Number six, Case CEPM20100010050, Philip R. Bradley, IV and
Nancy F. Bradley has been withdrawn.
Number 14, Case CENA20100018314, Omar Raul Garcia, has
been withdrawn.
Number 15, Case CEPM2010001830, Omar Raul Garcia, has
been withdrawn.
And that's all the changes I have.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: I'll entertain a motion to accept the
agenda.
MR. KAUFMAN: Motion to accept the agenda.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Second.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Motion and seconded.
Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And it carries.
Moving on to the approval of minutes. We have two of them.
One of them's from our March 24th, 2011 hearing.
Do we have any questions or changes?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: With that, I'll entertain a motion.
MR. KAUFMAN: Motion to accept the minutes from that date.
MR. MARINO: I'll second it.
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CHAIRMAN KELLY: And seconded.
Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All those in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And that one carries.
N ow letter B is the workshop, same day. Any discussions or
changes to the minutes?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: With that, I'll entertain a motion.
MR. KAUFMAN: Motion to accept the meeting agenda that we
had last meeting.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Motion. Do we have a second?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Second.
CHAIRMAN LEFEBVRE: Seconded.
Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
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MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And moving on to public hearings.
Letter A, motions, extension for time. Number one, Mr. 99 Cents,
Incorporated.
(Speakers were duly sworn.)
THE COURT REPORTER: May I have your name, please?
MR. HASSAM: Diamil Hassam.
THE COURT REPORTER: Would you spell it, please?
MR. HASSAM: H-A-S-S-A-M, last name.
THE COURT REPORTER: And the first name?
MR. HASSAM: D-I-A-M-I-L.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Good morning.
MR. HASSAM: Good morning.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: We do have your letter for request of
extension of time, and we thank you for coming to join us this
.
mornIng.
MR. HASSAM: You're welcome.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: In brief, would you like to explain just
real quick what's going on and why you're requesting the extension.
MR. HASSAM: Our plans got approved yesterday. We had
some problem getting a contractor, but we're ready to go.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Is there any questions for Mr. Hassam?
MR. KAUFMAN: I'd like to make a motion we accept the
extension.
When do you think this would be brought back?
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Mr. Hassam, how long are you asking
for?
MR. HASSAM: Ninety days.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Ninety days.
It's approved?
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SUPERVISOR SNOW: Yes, sir, there's no objection from the
county .
MR. LEFEBVRE: Mr. Chair?
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Cherie', you know Kitchell, right?
THE COURT REPORTER: Yes, thank you.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Go ahead.
MR. LEFEBVRE: In his letter it says two months, if I'm not
mistaken.
SUPERVISOR SNOW: Well, sir, if I may, when I talked to Mr.
Hassam this morning, we would prefer to add -- it's a large structure,
he is getting it issued. He's going to pick it up today. But it is large.
We didn't want to have to bring him back after 60 days if there were
some delays in getting inspections. That was our only concern. That's
why we recommended to him 90 days rather than the other time.
MR. KAUFMAN: That's what the motion is, 90 days.
MR. LEFEBVRE: I second that motion then.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Motion and a second.
Any discussion, questions?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All those in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And it carries.
Thanks very much, and let us know if you run into any more
troubles.
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MR. HASSAM: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Next case is going to be Olga Moreno.
(Speaker was duly sworn.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Good morning.
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: Good morning. For the
record, Jeff Letourneau, Collier County Code Enforcement
Supervisor.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Thank you.
Any objections to the request for extension?
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: No.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Only thing I don't see is time frame. Do
you happen to know about how long they're requesting?
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: I do not know how long
they're requesting. I think they're going to leave that up to the Board.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: What is your recommendation or feeling?
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: Let me see here. I'll read this
over really quickly. I would say no longer than 60 days.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Are there any ideas from the Board?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Make a motion to extend for 60 days.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Do we have --
MR. KAUFMAN: I have a question. And I'll second that.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: We have a second.
Go ahead.
MR. KAUFMAN: My question is, this is not in compliance
now?
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: Not in compliance, but they
have made an attempt. And I believe there is a permit and applied
status right now.
MR. KAUFMAN: And I see that the operational costs have been
paid.
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any further questions?
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(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All those in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And it passes.
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Thank you, sir.
Moving on to case number three under extension of time,
Ramirez. There are three cases back-to-back, all with the same
respondent.
For the record, the first case is CEROW20090000973.
(Speakers were duly sworn.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Good morning, Mrs. Ramirez.
MS. RAMIREZ: Good morning.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: If you could speak directly in the mic.,
that would help the court reporter hear you better.
We're going to have to take each case separately, however, if
you'd like, your testimony could probably carry between the three.
If you'd like to tell us a little bit about what's going on and why
you're requesting an extension of time, and you can speak plainly.
MS. RAMIREZ: When I came in November, I was going
through the modification process, and it was approved in March.
That's when I came and I paid all the -- the renewal cases and I paid
the operational costs. And the only two cases, and I'm ready to start--
I mean, keep going with the other two.
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CHAIRMAN KELLY: Congratulations. You're one of few who
actually got the modification approved. Very good.
Is there any objection for the extension of times from county?
SUPERVISOR PEREZ: For the record, Code Enforcement
Supervisor Cristina Perez.
No objection, sir.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Are there questions from the Board?
MR. KAUFMAN: How much time?
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Good question.
MR. RAMSEY: One of those is a concrete fence. Ninety days it
will be done. And the other one, it's the right-of-way, is a little bit --
like 60 days?
MR. KAUFMAN: 973 is which particular--
CHAIRMAN KELLY: The right-of-way.
SUPERVISOR PEREZ: The one in 973 is for the right-of-way.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And you're requesting 60 days for the
right-of-way? That's this case here.
MS. RAMIREZ: I think I'll be doing -- I'm done with that one
before the other. I mean, make sure, 60 days.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any questions or ideas from the Board?
MR. LEFEBVRE: I think maybe it might be best just to keep all
the time frames the same.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: I agree.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: I would agree.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Unless there's something that's mitigating,
you know, a health and safety issue.
SUPERVISOR PEREZ: Well, she took care of the health and
safety, which was interior remodeling to the house, and permit has
been COld. That's a separate case apart from these three. That will be
heard later today.
MR. KAUFMAN: Taking what Mr. Lefebvre said, why don't we
make this one 90 days, and then when we come to the next one, it will
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be easier to maintain the same time.
So I make the motion that we extend the time on this to 90 days.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Second.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Motion and a second.
Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay, this case is passed, 90 days.
We'll move to the next one. It is a separate case.
Cherie', do you need to re-swear in?
MS. RAWSON: I think she's already been sworn.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Okay. The next case will be, just for the
record, CESD20090000972.
This is also one you had already explained it, so we'll go through
it quickly . You're asking for 90 days on this as well.
Is there any questions or objections from County?
SUPERVISOR PEREZ: No, sir.
MR. KAUFMAN: Make a motion that we extend this 90 days.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Second.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Motion and seconded.
Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All those in favor?
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MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And the motion carries.
And the third one is going to be CESD20090000975. Again the
request is for 90 days, correct?
And are there any objections from the county?
SUPERVISOR PEREZ: No, sir.
MR. KAUFMAN: I have a question.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Yes, sir.
MR. KAUFMAN: On this one, 75, I show that the operational
costs have not been paid. Is that correct?
MS. RAMIREZ: No.
SUPERVISOR PEREZ: No, they have been paid.
MS. RAMIREZ: I paid everything. I pay all four operational
costs. I have the receipt in here.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And the county confirmed that, so you're
okay.
Is there any further questions?
MR. MARINO: Yeah, mine says it's been paid.
MR. KAUFMAN: Well, they all say that they have not been
paid, but that must have been some sort of a typo.
MR. LEFEBVRE: No, they have been paid.
MR. KAUFMAN: No, I read it wrong, I'm sorry.
Okay, I make a motion that we extend it 90 days as well.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Second.
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CHAIRMAN KELLY: Motion and a second.
Any further discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All those in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay, that one has also been extended
for 90 days.
Thank you very much for your help. And good luck and let us
know if you run into any other problems before the time expires.
MS. RAMIREZ: If I --I'm going to do before that time. What's
going to happen with the fines?
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Well, right now there are no fines,
because what we did is we extended the original orders 90 days
further from today. So whereas before they had expired and those
fines were starting to accrue, we've pushed that back. You have a new
deadline.
So all those old fines don't count anymore, now you have an
additional 90 days. If you do need more time or you run into
problems, please come to us before it expires.
MS. RAMIREZ: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Thank you.
MR. LEFEBVRE: One other comment.
Ninety days from today, correct?
CHAIRMAN KELLY : Yes, 90 days from today, yes.
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MS. RAMIREZ: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Thank you.
Okay, that is the end of our extensions for time. Now we're
moving on to B, stipulations. We have one case, that's Omar Barreda
and Veronica Trujillo.
(Speakers were duly sworn.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Good morning. Give us just one second,
we'll get our papers handed out.
And then Investigator, if you'd like to read the stipulation into the
record, that would be great.
INVESTIGA TOR BALDWIN: For the record, Patrick Baldwin,
Collier County Code Enforcement Investigator.
Therefore it is agreed between the parties that the respondent
shall: Pay operational costs in the amount of $83.72 incurred in the
prosecution of this case within 30 days of this hearing.
Two: Abate all violations by: Enclosing the pool area with a
permanent protective barrier within 14 days of this hearing or fines of
$250 per day will be imposed until the violation is abated.
Two (sic): Applying for and obtaining a Collier County building
permit or demolition permit for the pool; request all related
inspections through the issuance of certificate of completion within 30
days of this hearing or a fine of $1 00 a day will be imposed until the
violation is abated.
Four: Applying for and obtaining a Collier County building
permit or demolition permit for the shed. Request all related
inspections through the issuance of a certificate of completion within
120 days of this hearing or a fine of $100 per day will be imposed
until the violation is abated.
Five: Respondent must notify code enforcement within 24 hours
of abatement of the violation and request that the investigator perform
a site inspection to confirm compliance.
And six: That if the respondent fails to abate the violation and
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(sic) the county may abate the violation and may use the assistance of
the Collier County Sheriffs Office to enforce the provisions of this
agreement, and all costs of abatement shall be assessed to the property
owner.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Thank you.
Good morning. Do you understand and agree to everything that
was just read and you signed?
MS. TRUJILLO: Yes, I do.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay. I think we have some questions
from the Board.
MS. TRUJILLO: Okay.
MR. KAUFMAN: Do you think that 14 days is sufficient time--
MS. TRUJILLO: No, I do not. But they say because it's open. I
don't understand why 14 days. I asked for 30 days, but they say 14
days.
This is the back of my house and, you know, no one's supposed
to go back there. But I understand. I'm going to try to get it done in 14
days. I'll try.
MR. LEFEBVRE: I have a que -- are you done?
MR. KAUFMAN: I was going to ask the county to comment on
that.
INVESTIGATOR BALDWIN: Just for the fact that there is no
protective barrier surrounding the swimming pool right now, that's
why we felt it was a health and safety issue. So we wanted to get a
protective barrier surrounding the pool as soon as possible.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Can you describe what permanent
protective barrier Ineans? Like just give us an idea of what it would
be.
INVESTIGATOR BALDWIN: The owner has applied for a
fence for the property. Actually she applied for a fence for the
property back in --
MS. TRUJILLO: Six months ago.
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INVESTIGATOR BALDWIN: Yeah, six months ago.
And she just got an extension to finish off the permit for the --
the fence permit for the property. She stated earlier that she could
probably get it done, and that's what our main priority was, to get the
pool secured before anything happens.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: There's a fence around the property.
Does that qualify for protective barrier around the pool?
INVESTIGATOR BALDWIN: Yes. If she completely encloses
the property that would. She could also just go around the swimming
pool as well.
MS. TRUJILLO: And that's what I'm doing, because I cannot do
the whole property, I'm going -- I have one side of the house
protected, but I'm going to close around the pool.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Gerald?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Number two and three seem contradictory.
Number two says 14 days, and then number three says 30.
MS. TRUJILLO: Because originally we were going to do it for
30, but they -- you know, they are afraid of the safety issue, and that's
why he say okay, 14 days for you to finish the -- you know, around
the pool. You know, to close that.
INVESTIGATOR BALDWIN: And she has applied for--
reapplied for the swimming pool permit.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Which is it, is it 14 days or is it 30 days?
Because it says apply -- number three says apply for and obtaining a
Collier County building permit demolition permit for the pool.
Request all related inspections through issuance of a certificate of
completion within 30 days of this hearing or a fine of $1 00 per day
will be imposed.
Number two says the same thing, but says it's supposed to be 14
days or a $250 fine. So which is it?
MS. BAKER: For the record, Jen Baker, Code Enforcement
Supervisor.
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There's two separate issues. There's the permanent protective
barrier around the pool, which needs a separate permit. And then
there's the pool issue, which is a whole separate permit in itself.
There's --
MR. LEFEBVRE: Okay, so the --
MS. BAKER: -- two separate issues.
MR. LEFEBVRE: -- pool is not permitted either?
INVESTIGATOR BALDWIN: Correct.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Okay. So you're giving 30 days to permit the
pool but 14 to get the barrier up.
INVESTIGATOR BALDWIN: Yes. And again, she has -- she
just has reapplied for a pool permit as well. And she has I believe
three inspections left to go on that C.O., the new pool permit. I can
give you the new pool permit number, if you want.
MS. TRUJILLO: Can I say something about that? The pool was
built back in 1995 by a contractor. We took a loan on the house. The
bank paid the contractor. Every time an inspection passed, that's how
the payments were issued to the contractor. I have records of all of
that. I have even the back of the checks that were paid after each
inspection. But somehow they say that not all of the inspections were
done.
When I was there myself for the last inspection when they told
me everything is completed, your pool already pass all the inspections,
your kids can go now and swim, you know. And now 15 years later
they coming to me saying that I don't have not even a per -- well, there
was a permit opened, but it was never closed. When I was even there
for the last -- and they have found four inspection that that pool
passed. But they say that not all the inspection were done. When over
here they tell me a pool only takes four inspections. And my paper
will show that my pool pass four inspections.
But they cannot back it out with the paperwork they have here,
because they cannot find the box. But right here on the record, you
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look at the paper that they got, my pool pass four inspections. They
have it right here.
MR. LEFEBVRE: But would it be a separate permit for the
fence around the pool?
INVESTIGATOR BALDWIN: Yes.
MS. TRUJILLO: Yes.
MR. LEFEBVRE: So that's why the pool passed the four
inspections, but --
INVESTIGA TOR BALDWIN: Originally there were two
permits that expired that I cited her for. There was a permit for the
lanai, a screen enclosure and a pool. They both needed about three
more inspections to be CO'd.
When I cited the property owner, she then decided she was going
to remove -- fill in the pool and remove the screen enclosure. She
removed the screen enclosure. But then that was at the end of
October. Then she decided well, no, I want the pool, so now here we
are today. And there is not a barrier around the pool.
MS. TRUJILLO: Because I started asking the county for, you
know, my paperwork so I can finish my pool remodel. We were not
using the pool. You know, my kids are already 22 years old. I live at
the house by myself, you know, so nobody was using the pool.
But then when he came and he say oh, your pool. Okay, I go,
okay, then I'm putting it up today. And that's when I found out that
they cannot find my box. You know, the box with all the paperwork.
And I have my paperwork from the bank, you know, everything.
And three times they had to look for the box. They cannot find it
anywhere, anyplace. You know, all the record they have, what they
have in the computer that my pool pass for all the inspections.
Another thing, lanai, screen lanai only requires one, and they
have that inspection.
MR. KAUFMAN: I have a question. You're going to screen or
fence one side of the property? Do you have a contractor to do that?
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Are you going to do it yourself?
MS. TRUJILLO: Myself. He can tell you, he been there already
INVESTIGATOR BALDWIN: She's applied for a homeowner
building permit for a fence.
MS. TRUJILLO: Everything I do in the house I have to do it
myself.
MR. KAUFMAN: Okay. And you think you could get that done
in two weeks, or --
MS. TRUJILLO: You know, for the -- around the pool area, I
wish I could have the 30 days; that would be better for me. But if I
have to, you know, try to in 14 days, I'm going to try to do it in 14
days, you know.
MR. KAUFMAN: How long has this been open so that people
could get into the property?
INVESTIGATOR BALDWIN: Since late October of last year,
2010.
MR. KAUFMAN: Okay, I'm from the school of it's been since
October. I know it's a health and safety, but we're talking about --
MS. TRUJILLO: And this is the back of my property, you know.
And it's empty right now. You know, what I did was before I took
the screen off, I removed the water, wanted to make sure nobody was
going to drown, you know, I don't want -- so I remove the water. The
pool is empty, you know. And no one should be going back there. It's
the back of my house, you know.
MR. KAUFMAN: Unfortunately with pools, they may be even
as dangerous without water as with water --
MS. TRUJILLO: That's what they told me, yeah.
MR. KAUFMAN: -- you know, if you fall in.
MS. TRUJILLO: Another thing, when I started getting the
permit, because they couldn't give me the permit to finish it, they
couldn't give me the permit to demolish it, because they didn't have
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records that I have a pool. You know, when I have all the paperwork
and -- well, when all of that was happening, I got stuck. I got stuck in
the middle. Three times, like I say, I've been back here looking for
those paper. Because I got stuck in the middle that I couldn't do
anything. I couldn't finish it and I couldn't put it up to date. You
know, I couldn't demolish it or I couldn't put it up to date.
Because to demolish, you also need a permit. But to ask for a
permit, you have to have a permit that there was a pool, and I didn't
have none.
MR. LEFEBVRE: The permit is in what status now?
INVESTIGA TOR BALDWIN: They're both in issued status.
MS. TRUJILLO: Yeah.
MR. LEFEBVRE: So they're ready to be picked up?
MS. TRUJILLO: Yeah, Monday --
INVESTIGA TOR BALDWIN: No, they have been picked up.
MR. LEFEBVRE: They have been picked up.
Okay, I make a lTIotion to approve the stipulated agreement as
written.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Second.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: We have a motion and a second.
Do we have any further discussion?
MR. KAUFMAN: I have one question. On the pool, if you
extended some two-by-fours across it and threw some plywood on top
to cover the hole in the ground, would that be something that would
make it safe so that the dates could be changed?
INVESTIGATOR BALDWIN: That would make it safe. That
would eliminate the health and safety issue.
But for her to get her pool permit, she's going to need the
protective barrier around the pool to get that CO anyway.
MR. KAUFMAN: I understand.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Is that it?
MR. KAUFMAN: Yeah.
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CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any other discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All right, all in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And the motion passes.
If you have any problems, please let us know.
MS. TRUJILLO: I will.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Thank you.
Okay, that is the end of our stipulations, unless you're hard at
work? No, okay.
MS. BAKER: Hard at work, yes, but no stipulations.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: That was a trap.
Okay, moving on to hearings. Case number two, Prime Homes at
Portofino Falls.
No respondent?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Come on up.
INVESTIGATOR NELSON: I'm John Nelson.
(Speakers were duly sworn.)
MS. BAKER: This is in reference to Case CESD20110000255.
Violation of Collier County Land Development Code, 04-41, as
amended, Section 10.02.13(F).
Description of violation: Annual PUD monitoring report has not
been submitted.
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Location/address where violation exists: 7373 Vanderbilt Beach
Road, Naples, Florida, 34119. Folio 204040002.
Name and address of owner/person in charge of violation
location: Prime Homes at Portofino Falls, 4651 Sheridan Street, Suite
480, Hollywood, Florida, 33021. Care of registered agent Steven
Greenfield B., Esquire, 7000 West Palmetto Parks Road, Suite 402,
Boca Raton, Florida, 33021.
Violation date first observed: January 19th, 2011.
Date owner/person in charge given notice of violation: March
2nd, 2011.
Date on/by which violation to be corrected: March 28th, 2011.
Date of reinspect ion: March 29th, 2011.
Results of reinspection: Violation remains.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Good morning.
INVESTIGATOR MUSSE: Good morning. For the record,
Investigator Jonathon Musse, Collier County Code Enforcement.
I would now like to present the case evidence in the following
exhibits: First notification letter sent to the property owner on July
28th, 2010. And the second letter sent on October 15th, 2010 from
Laurie Beard of PUD monitoring land development services,
requesting that they submit their report.
On February 28th, a notice of violation to the registered agent of
Prime Homes at Portofino Falls, Mr. Steven Greenfield, was sent to
him.
Conducted numerous reinspections; no change in the violation.
I checked with Mrs. Beard -- Mrs. Beard's spreadsheet that she
updates every Friday. That informed me that the property owners
have not yet subluitted their annual report.
As of right now, the violation still remains.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Is there anything that you're actually
admitting into evidence?
INVESTIGA TOR MUSSE: Just -- that's the only evidence that I
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got notifications of.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay, so you do have something.
All right, in that case we need to accept it.
MR. KAUFMAN: Motion to accept -- has the respondent seen
that, all of those items?
INVESTIGATOR MUSSE: No.
MR. NELSON: I have not personally, no.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: We'd like you to take a look at them in
case you have an objection.
MR. NELSON: Okay.
INVESTIGATOR MUSSE: (Handing.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: It's a little different than the last cases
that you heard. This is a full case hearing. So the way it works is
county is going to present the case, kind of like a court of law type of
thing, but we're not that formal.
MR. NELSON: Well, I found out about this at 5:00 last night, so
I'm sort of new on all this, so --
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Do you have an objection to us seeing
those?
MR. NELSON: No, I do not.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay. We have a motion, do we have a
second?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Second.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Seconded.
Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
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MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Can you give us a brief description of --
really brief, what an annual monitoring report would be?
INVESTIGATOR MUSSE: I do have Mrs. Beard present here.
She's in charge of the PUD monitoring reports.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: That's a good idea.
(Speaker was duly sworn.)
MS. BEARD: 1'1TI Lauren Beard -- Laurie Beard. I am the PUD
monitoring, which is Planned Unit Developments.
The zoning of a PUD, when it is zoned into a PUD there's an
ordinance approved with commitments to the ordinance for
environmental, engineering, transportation and such.
And annually through the Land Development Code the
owner/developer of the property is to fill out an annual monitoring
report so that we can determine which commitments have been
fulfilled, which are past due and also how many units density/intensity
have been built.
F or this one I have not received back a report for the property
owned by Prime Homes at Portofino Falls and Port -- which is also
Porto fino Falls Builders.
MR. KAUFMAN: Prior to today have you had any contact with
the folks that should be sending you the monitoring report?
MS. BEARD: For the 2010 reports, I had sent the original letter
to them to fill it out on July 28th of2010. And then a follow-up letter
went out October 15th.
Yesterday at 4:41 I did receive a voice mail from a gentleman
named George that he needed to talk to me about completing the
report and how long that it would take.
I returned his call this morning but I only got his voice mail.
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MR. L'ESPERANCE: Is this the only report that's late? Do you
have prior reports received?
MS. BEARD: That I would have to go back and look up. I took
over PUD monitoring just last year, and it's all in the computer and I
would have to look and see if there are any additional ones that were
past due.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: So we don't know the history of this
particular PUD?
MS. BEARD: Not at the moment. I'd have to look it up on the
computer.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: The status of this report.
MS. BEARD: Correct. And there are --
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Thank you.
MS. BEARD: -- two reports. A different report is done by each
owner. And I have received for the other portion of the property, just
not this one.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Are there ever any exceptions when an
ordinance is filed to PUD reporting?
MS. BEARD: They're technically supposed to be done every
year until they go through the close-out process, which is then
approved by the Board of County Commissioners.
We're in the process right now of trying to revise that language
for development that's basically built out. In this case this property is
not built out.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay. So there would be no exception,
there absolutely would have to be a report filed every year.
MS. BEARD: Yes.
MR. LEFEBVRE: When is the due date on this report?
MS. BEARD: The due date on this report was September 30th,
2010.
MR. LEFEBVRE: September 30th?
MS. BEARD: 30th, 2010.
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MR. LEFEBVRE: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Is there any other questions for the
county?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: In that case --
MR. LEFEBVRE: Well, one--
CHAIRMAN KELLY: I'm sorry, go ahead.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Let me ask: The person by the name of
George that called, what is his capacity at the company?
MR. NELSON: He works in our legal land development type of
deal doing the procurelnent, that kind of issues on it; our land division
of it.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Just curious what he --
MR. KAUFMAN: Would he be the one who would be authoring
this paper?
MR. NELSON: Yes, he would be the one authoring this paper.
And my understanding is that we did not get the violation stuff
from our registered agent, and we wanted to be able to change that so
that we get everything at our office instead of going through a
registered agent so this won't happen again.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Mr. Nelson, what is your capacity with
the company?
MR. NELSON: I'm senior project manager. I'm in charge of the
west coast, which is basically Collier and Lee County.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And do you have the capacity to speak
on the company's behalf here today?
MR. NELSON : Yes, but they did not send them anything in
writing. But I have been authorized prior to as a Power of Attorney to
pull permits here and again up in Lee County.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Is there anyone on the Board that objects
to Mr. Nelson representing?
(No response.)
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CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay, then you're fine.
MR. NELSON: Okay, thank you.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Basically if you have anything else to
add, you can speak freely and tell us what you'd like to do to either
rectify this, whether or not this is --
MR. NELSON: Yeah, we'd like to rectify this. And we would
like to give an extension so we can do that.
I do have calls -- again, I just found out about this after 5:00 last
night. So I do have a call in to our Engineer which is Dave Underhill
from Banks Engineering to one, find out how long he's going to take
and how quick we can get him on it so that we can get this taken care
of.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay.
MR. KAUFMAN: I think what Mr. Lefebvre was going at
before was this annual report, since it's underway, probably was filed
last year and the year before, possibly?
MR. NELSON: My understanding is from my office, and I
talked to one of the owners this morning, is that they have been up to
date on the prior reports.
MR. KAUFMAN: So to file this report, unless there's been some
dramatic change, would be not a big deal.
MR. NELSON: No, that's correct.
MR. KAUFMAN: So how much time do you think it would take
to --
MR. NELSON: We're asking for 60 days.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Another question: Has anything changed
since the previous report? I live right down from the development. It
doesn't look like anything's changed in the past two years, so it should
be a very simple report to produce.
MR. NELSON: I would think so, but I don't have the prior
reports and I haven't seen those so I'm not sure -- and I haven't seen
what needs to go into them, so --
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MR. LEFEBVRE: What I'm trying to get at is let's say when that
report was submitted in 2009, September 30th, 2009, the report for
2010 hasn't been submitted. No building's gone on there in a couple
of years, so there hasn't been anything -- any changes. I don't see it
taking 60 days to get this report.
MR. NELSON: Again, I'm not familiar with the report. I'm just
reporting what my office requests. I have not seen the report. I don't
know what information is on that report and what they're requesting as
far as updates, as far as did we do this or did we do that or --
MR. MARINO: I have a question.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Yes, sir.
MR. MARINO: How long have you been Project Manager
there?
MR. NELSON: Since the beginning.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Before we move towards rectifying this
and dates and tilnes, we need to decide as a board if there is a
violation here.
MR. NELSON: Okay.
MR. KAUFMAN: Make a motion that a violation exists.
MR. LA VINSIZI: Second.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Motion and seconded.
Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSIZI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
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(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay, great.
Does the county have a recommendation?
INVESTIGATOR MUSSE: Yes, sir. The county recommends
that the Code Enforcement Board orders the respondent to pay all
operational costs in the amount of $81.15 incurred in the prosecution
of this case within 30 days, and abate all violations by submitting the
following doculnents: Two completed copies of the annual
monitoring report; one of three traffic county options; one executive
affidavit within X amount of days of this hearing or a fine of X
amount of dollars per day will be imposed until violation is abated.
The respondent must notify code enforcement investigator when
the violation has been abated in order to conduct a final inspection to
confirm abatement.
If the respondent fails to abate the violation, the county may
abate the violation and may use the assistance of the Collier County
Sheriffs Office to enforce the provisions of this order and all costs of
abatement shall be assessed to the property owner.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opinions from the Board?
MR. KAUFMAN: I'd like to make a motion to fill in the blanks.
$81.15 to be paid within 30 days. Sixty days to submit all the reports,
or a $100 a day fine be levied. And the dates start today.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: We have a motion to accept the county's
recommendation for 60 days and $100 per day.
Do we have a second?
MR. MARINO: I'll second that.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: We have a second.
Is there any discussion?
MR. LEFEBVRE: I think 60 days is a long period. I think it's
too long. I would agree to 30 days, and due to the fact that I haven't
seen any activity on the property in a couple of years, that report
should be pretty simple to produce.o
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CHAIRMAN KELLY: I also think the fine is a little high. I
think 50 bucks a day is probably better than 100. But that's just my
two cents.
Any other discussion?
MR. LA VINSKI : Yeah, these PUD forms, there's a little bit
more that meets the eye to developing these, so I don't think the 60
days is unreasonable. Because that PUD form goes into every item
that was in the PUD, the PUD monitoring form. So he's going to have
to go back and visit each line item that was in the original PUD, which
is listed on this PUD monitoring report. So I don't think the 60 days is
unreasonable.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any other discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All those in favor?
Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
MR. LEFEBVRE: Opposed.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Mr. Lefebvre.
Motion carries. You have 60 days. And if you have any
questions, here's the boss right here.
MR. NELSON: Thank you, sir.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Thank you.
Okay, moving on to the next case. It's Pee-Wee's Dumpster,
Incorporated. Registered agent, Victor Thomas George.
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: Before we start, I have some
witnesses that are going to be wanting to do some testimony. Do you
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want to swear them in as well?
CHAIRMAN KELLY : Yes, please. Can we do it all at once?
That would be great.
Any witnesses for this association.
(Speakers were duly sworn.)
MS. BAKER: This is in reference to Case
CELUPM20110000047.
Violation of Collier County Land Development Code, 04-41, as
amended, Section 2.02.03.
Description of violation: Illegal storage of equipment,
dumpsters, containers, piles of dirt and rock and huge cement blocks,
et cetera.
Location/address where violation exists: 721 Logan Boulevard
South, Naples, Florida, 34119. Folio 38280090006.
Name and address of owner/person in charge of violation
location: Pee- Wee's Dumpster, Inc. and/or Victor Thomas George,
721 Logan Boulevard South, Naples, Florida, 34119.
Date violation first observed: January 10th, 2011.
Date owner/person in charge given Notice of Violation:
February 17th, 2011.
Date on/by which violation to be corrected: March 4th, 2011.
Date of reinspection: March 7th, 2011.
Results of reinspection: The violation remains.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Good morning.
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: Good morning.
Mr. George, would you be more comfortable with a chair up
there?
MR. GEORGE: Yes, please.
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: For the record, Jeff
Letourneau, Collier County Code Enforcement Supervisor.
This is in reference to Case No. CELUPM2011000047, dealing
with the violation of the illegal outside storage of dumpsters on
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Estates zoned property.
The violation location is at 721 Logan Boulevard, Naples,
Florida, 34119. Folio No. 38280090006.
Service was given on February 17th, 2011.
I would now like to present case evidence in the following
exhibits: Six photos taken on January 10th, 2011 by Investigator
Musse.
I have shown these pictures to Mr. George before the hearing.
MR. KAUFMAN: Motion to accept the photos.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Do we have a second?
MR. LA VINSKI: Second.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Second.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Pick one.
All those in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: The initial inspection was
conducted by Investigator Musse on January 10th, 2011 where he
observed multiple dumpsters, containers, piles of rock, dirt, stacks of
huge cement blocks. And he informed Mr. George at that time of the
violation.
Since that time, Mr. George has cleaned up some. He's obtained
four permits, so the use of some of the cement and blocks are being
used in building a berm and a fence. So that's not the issue.
The issue I'm here today on is the outside storage of dumpsters in
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Estates zoned property.
(At which time, Ms. Flagg enters the boardroom.)
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: Since that time, Investigator
Musse has been out there numerous times. I've been out there with
Mr. George on one occasion. We talked about it. I explained what I
thought the violation was.
Basically I'm claiming that this is a prohibited use in Estates
zoned property. It's not a permitted, it's not a conditional and it's not
an accessory use to store dumpsters on Estates zoned property. This
would be more in line with the commercial or an industrial area.
Mr. George does have a valid home occupational license for that
property, but not the right to store dumpsters on Estates zoned
property .
MR. L'ESPERANCE: When you say Estates zoned, are we
assuming residential?
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: No, we're assuming Estates.
The Estates does have a little bit more leeway on stuff you can do out
there. Estates is I guess described as quasi residential with a little bit
of residence and farming allowed out there, and various other parking
you could do out there besides what you could do in residential areas.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: There are some exclusions or something
that's not included?
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: There are some -- you can do
more stuff on the Estates zoned property than you can normally do in
a residential property.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Anything specifically excluded or
included?
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: Well, I believe that they're
going to COlne to the point where they're going to talk about
commercial -- the parking of commercial vehicles and equipment.
And I think that's going to be some of their basis of their defense. So
yes, there are exemptions in that also.
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CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any questions of the county?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay, sir, if you'd like to tell us what's
going on, we'd be happy to hear it.
MR. GEORGE: I have a dumpster business. I have my
occupational there four and a half years. I have containers. I store my
containers there. I take them to job sites.
And when now construction is slower, I have some extra
containers I'll keep on the property. And then when somebody else
calls, they need a dumpster, I get it, they fill it up, I take it to the
transfer station, landfill, wherever, bring it back, and that's what I've
been doing.
It is COlnmer -- I mean, it is my occupation. I feel that it's no
difference than anybody doing contracting that's doing stucco,
scaffolding, fisherman that have crab traps, you're allowed to have
them there. And I see no reason for storing my dumpsters.
I did pull a permit, I'm building a garage. And I would like to
keep them inside so if I've got to do fixing, repairing on the dumpsters,
I'll have a covered area.
I poured the concrete slab back there so I have something to work
on and so forth.
As you can see, there's probably one picture there with some
debris in it. I had a specific time to meet John on my site and I was at
a job site running behind. I had something break on my truck, so I
says, I've got to meet John. I think it was around 1 :00, I'm not sure. I
came there, I got my piece fixed and he came on the property.
I said, here, you can see what I'm doing. This is what I'm storing.
They came out -- Jeff came out. We sat down and talked. I said,
here's my permits to do my fencing for the blockwork. I've got that,
putting fence down on the side.
You cannot see those dumpsters unless you walk on my property.
And I like to store my equipment on my property. Why should 1--
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CHAIRMAN KELLY: Hold on, hold on.
MR. GEORGE: Why should I have to pay another spot just to
store my equipment when other contracting construction people can
do it?
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay.
MR. GEORGE: Because I am zoned Estates.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And I'm not a realtor or an engineer or a
PUD guy. But I do know there are some exemptions for the Estates.
And I think the issue comes down to who can approve the actual
ordinance that sets the Estates for these exemptions; who can approve
that these dumpsters are not allowed as part of that I think is what this
boils down to. So--
MR. GEORGE: Can I have my engineer speak for me?
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Please.
MR. LOCIZHART: Good morning. My name is Robert
Lockhart, for the record, engineer with Lockhart Engineering.
I was originally retained by Mr. George to obtain permits for the
garage he mentioned. In the process, the violations came to my light.
I assisted in obtaining the other permits that he needed to abate those
violations. And the correspondence started the first of March, this was
March 2nd. And on the 15th, three different letters I had written to
John, and basically all the violations were resolved, abated.
In one of the correspondence, it was my response that according
to Land Development Code, Section 5.02, home occupations, starting
with section 01, applicability, home occupation shall be allowed in
any zoning district. Okay, it doesn't have a requirement that the
zoning district allow a home occupation.
In Section 5.02.03, statement E, parking or storage of commercial
vehicles or equipment shall be allowed. And in my opinion as an
engineer, a dUlnpster is a piece of commercial equipment. And again,
as long as it is in compliance with the regulations for commercial
vehicles in Collier County.
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As far as I'm aware, it is in compliance.
I guess -- I had asked John and have not received anything in
writing or verbal to explain how it is not in compliance.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Is there a requirement to have a house on
the property and is there a house on the property?
MR. LOCKHART: Yes, there is.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay. So you are living there or you
have a house there, and then this is your commercial equipment that's
parked behind that house?
MR. GEORGE: Correct.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay. It's very common in the Estates to
have that type of setup.
MR. GEORGE: Correct.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Okay. All right, may I quickly just ask
the county.
County, were you able to get any type of interpretation from
anyone on staff or anyone that revolves around these type of zoning
areas of the zoning department to explain what is and what is not
allowed?
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: I did not get a planner's
interpretation. However, I would like to state that I have that
ordinance in front of me what he's saying about the commercial
vehicles which would be allowed.
I'll restate it again: Parking or storage of commercial vehicles or
equipment shall be allowable only in compliance with the
requirements for commercial vehicles in the county code.
I'm at the commercial vehicle ordinance. And it's Section
130-97, parking of commercial vehicles or commercial equipment in
residential areas.
Well, the Estates is exempt from that part, because it's not
considered a residential area in conjunction with vehicle ordinance.
However, I'm going to go to one word. Parking of commercial
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vehicles and equipment. I do not believe that when you store a
dumpster on a piece of property you're parking a dumpster. You are
storing a dlllnpster. It's just like anything, you'd be storing
scaffolding, you're storing bricks. This is in the vehicle ordinance.
So when it's referring to commercial equipment, I believe it's
referring to sOlnething that you can park. Otherwise it wouldn't have
said parking or storing.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay. So to take this to a similar trade,
if I was a landscaping company and I had one truck but I had two
trailers, one was set up for let's say horticultural work, the other was
just simply a trailer to bring my mowing equipment, and I only
brought one out at a time, because I only have one truck to pull it, they
were both accessories to that vehicle, would that be allowed?
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: I believe that you can park a
trailer. A trailer is a vehicle of some sort. It's a vehicle, it's not a
piece of equipment that is stored.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: So what makes this different is the -- in
this case, for instance, the trailer itself was a registered accessory
vehicle, if you will, not something that sits on that vehicle.
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: Correct. It's something you
can park.
I would even go so far as to say a bulldozer, a bobcat, something
like that, you park those things also. You know, this is something you
can't park. I lnean, you're not parking a dumpster at any situation,
you're storing a dumpster.
MR. LEFEBVRE: What's the definition in the LDC of a
vehicle? Because that would --
MR. MARINO: That's what I was going to ask.
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: I don't have the definition with
me.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Would it be better maybe to have a county
attorney write up --
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CHAIRMAN KELLY: In all fairness to the respondent, I don't
think it's the board's prerogative to postpone a case to allow the county
to properly mount a better case because they're not able to show it
today. I don't think that's the role of government. Nor would I think
the department would want that image.
MR. MARINO: How many dumpsters are stored on the property
or parked on the property?
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: When I was out there, I
believe there was 13 at the time I was out there.
MR. GEORGE: Thirteen. Today there's three.
MR. MARINO: Because the others are all working?
MR. GEORGE: Yes.
MR. MARINO: But you have 13 dumpsters.
MR. GEORGE: No, I have more than 13.
MR. MARINO: You have more than 13?
MR. GEORGE: Yes. But things were slow. That was right
before -- I think you were in March, right when things slow down
because of the holiday and spring break. And the people come down,
they want theln off the job site, and now they're back out onjob sites
.
agaIn.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: If it's okay with the Board, before we
move to a decision, I would like to hear from the public, since we do
have some people that would like to speak. Is that okay?
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: Certainly.
THE COURT REPORTER: May I have your name, please?
MS. F ALLETI: Yes. My name is Barbara Falleti.
THE COURT REPORTER: Would you spell it, please.
MS. FALLETI: F-A-L-L-E-T-I.
I live at 5844 Bromelia Court. And I'm very, very upset. I'm
sorry if I'm angry or mad, but if you had to deal with the noise that
we've been dealing with since we moved into our house eight months
ago every day, you wouldn't be happy either. I feel like I want to
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scream for somebody to help us.
Since my husband and I bought our new home in August last
year on Bromelia Court, every day, even on the weekends sometimes,
we deal with terrible loud crashing, banging, metal hitting metal
noises, bobcat machines running back and forth and trucks run coming
in and out, dluuping debris continuously all day long on 721 Logan
Boulevard. They are not storing the dumpsters there, they are using
them there. This noise is continuous.
We understood that we were in a zone around us that was
residential single-family homes, so we assumed at the beginning that it
was a neighbor building something. But unfortunately we weren't
right. We learned that a trash collection and a recycle business is
operating behind our back yards.
I saw with my own eyes, through the bushes, dumpsters
overflowing with metal and other debris left there overnight. How is
this possible in a residential area to have dumpsters with debris sitting
around the property for days? Why should we have to deal with
constant noise in our back yards? Why should this type of business be
allowed to operate in your quiet residential neighborhood?
We cannot sit in our back yards and our lanais because the noise
is so disturbing, so we have to go inside and keep our doors and
windows closed. Sometilues I even hear the noise inside the house
with the doors and windows closed. No one should have to put up
with this way of life.
We came to Naples to enjoy the weather and the outdoors. We're
unable to do this under these conditions. We feel our neighbor -- we
have a neighbor from hell who is disturbing our lives and has no
respect for his fellow neighbors' peace and quiet.
To make matters worse, when we are outside and the wind blows
in our direction, now that the whether has warmed up, we have been
hearing -- we've been sn1elling raw garbage coming from his property.
Something has to be done about all this. We are asking this
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Board to please help us. We should not have to live like this.
Recently we learned from a zone enforcement officer that a
building permit to construct a 6,000 square foot building has been
issued for that property. It is unimaginable that instead of stopping
this business to continue, it is instead being allowed to expand.
So if you allow thelTI to build this building, they have a place to
hide all their dumpsters, trucks and machinery. But what does it do
for us to stop the noise that's making our lives miserable? There is
nothing that will do.
A fence or a burr (sic) is not going to stop this terrible loud noise
we hear. No way. Fountains in our lake does not stop it. It's much too
loud.
Please, we do believe -- excuse me. Please do not believe anyone
who says the noise we hear now is from the building of the new
building. It is the same loud noise we have been hearing since we
moved here. It is the dUl11ping/recycling operation, a terrible noisy
one, and it must be stopped.
We have a petition, which I have right here, signed by 11
families in our neighborhood who are affected by this serious
problem. Eleven families who have suffered because of one person's
business. This does not seem fair to us. This operation does not
belong in a residential area.
We respectfully request this Board put a stop to this at once and
not allow it to continue. Thank you. Please help us.
And I have the petition, if you would like them, with 11 families
signing it.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Ifwe are to see that, we would end up
taking it, because it would become part of the official court records.
And we would have to have the Board approve that first.
Do we have a motion to approve that, or would you like to enter
it into evidence?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Does she want it?
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CHAIRMAN KELLY: First of all, you would lose it. You
would lose it. It would become part of --
MS. F ALLETI: I have a copy.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay, good.
MR. KAUFMAN: Has the respondent seen the 11 names on the
list?
MS. F ALLETI: I never seen this man till today, so I don't think
so.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Do you have any objection with that
being entered as evidence in this case?
MR. GEORGE: No.
MR. KAUFMAN: Make a motion we accept the petition.
MS. FALLETI: And I also have a question about the home
occupant --
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Hang on one second real quick. We
have a motion and a second. Just procedurally I have to finish that.
Is there any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All those in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And it carries unanimously.
And you said you had a what? I'm sorry?
MS. F ALLETI: I have a question about his license that he has a
home occupational license. On your procedure in your book, whatever
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this is, it tells that you cannot have equipment in there that's causing
excessive noise, dust or smoke and equipment that vibrates and
disturbs. And he should not be receiving goods, only anything that's
from U.S. Post Office.
Now, I know these dumpsters and dump trucks are not coming
from the U.S. Post Office. So there's a lot of things that he's violating
on that house occupational license.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay, thank you.
MR. MARINO: I have one question.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: That's actually one of the questions I had
as well was look at the occupational.
Go ahead.
MR. MARINO: How long has Pee-Wee had that property?
MR. GEORGE: I've been there December of'06.
I have neighbors on both sides of me, excellent neighbors, across
the street. Been there, never had no problems.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Thank you.
Next? Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead.
MS. WILLIAMS: Hello. My name is Donna Williams. I live at
5852 Bromelia Court. And I'm a little nervous.
We bought our new home, which we thought was our retirement
home. We just moved in January 1st of this year.
The first week we were there, one of our neighbors said to me, in
meeting your neighbors, said, gee, you know what? I think there's a
quarry behind the trees. I said, that can't be a quarry, this is a
residential area. He said, well, there's something like a quarry back
there. So that was it. We let that go. We come back and forth from
Ohio to move into our new home.
So when we come back, we began to meet neighbors. We began
hearing things. Sitting on the lanai we're hearing noises and we're
hearing (sic) slnells. And when we -- I'm sorry.
Okay, we're living with the awful smells of trash, smells of
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burning trash or something on that order. The trucks are coming and
going daily. Daily. Even on Easter Sunday there was some horrible
noise all day long, like saw or cutting, like a landscaper was blowing
and cutting or mowing things. And it wasn't, because I looked and I
went to the property line and something was going on. I can't see very
well because of the trees, but it's clearly something is going on there.
So just like our Waste Management trucks that we have in our
neighborhood that take our dumpsters and everything, that's the
similar sound that we're hearing, only worse, it's metal against metal.
I have captured photographs from my camera of sounds. And it's
just videos of the dumpsters. It is -- some of the video you can see
these big trucks with these big arms moving through the yard.
I also took videos. One morning I woke up, and I'm logging,
trying to log all this infonnation and the days that it's happened. But I
woke up one Inorning at 7:00 in the -- before 7:00 to this noise. And I
thought it was our trash day. So I go out on the lanai, and I smell
smoke. And I thought, oh, my God, one of the homes is on fire. And
I'm looking around, and there's no -- nothing. Until I look at the
treeline behind me. And there's smoke coming up from the treeline.
And so I took my calnera and I took pictures of it. And I have
pictures. I have this video that Mr. Pee- Wee has not seen. And I --
this is my first time, so I have a copy for you, if you would accept it,
to prove that you can't be burning anything in a residential area. This
is an issue for I believe the fire marshal. And I probably should have
called, but I didn't know protocol.
So he clearly knows what he's doing to his neighbors. He is
building with debris, concrete and debris, like fence so you can't see
what's going on on the property. And that's fine, you know, build it.
But he clearly knows that what he's doing to his neighbors is wrong.
My husband and I do not begrudge anyone a lifestyle to make a
better life for themselves. My husband started his own business 35
years ago. We don't begrudge anyone starting their business or
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wanting a better life. However, a true entrepreneur, which I'm
assuming you believe you are, Mr. Pee- Wee, that you would have the
integrity of an entrepreneur to be careful and considerate of your
neighbors.
You know, the environment, the pollution, the smell, the stench
of rubbish and trash, the pollution of noise to your neighbors. This is
clearly a business that does not belong in a residential area.
And I say, if the shoe were on the other foot, if this were
happening to you, to your home, to your family, how would you feel?
You would not appreciate it. And neither do we. This is our
retirement hOlne. All we want is the peace and the serenity that we
thought we purchased. And I don't care if we live in the Vineyards,
how expensive a home is or if it was -- it doesn't matter. This is where
we live.
And we are asking for help to move your business. We're not
saying your business needs to be shut down, it just needs to be
someplace else. That's all we're asking for.
I hope this -- I don't know where this will go from here. I don't
know where we can go. But we can't -- we, as our neighbors -- and
we only have 11 signatures, but we just started this not too long ago.
And I'm sure that we will get more signatures. In fact, we have been
contacted by the Vineyards, by Michael Procacci, I think his name is,
as well as Leigh Gorney or --I'm sorry, I don't remember her name,
she works in the Vineyards office and has contacted us and asked all
the zoning and the hearing information, names of the people and
seeing what they could do to help us in this matter.
We don't know where that stands as of yet, but it's nice to know
that they are behind us and support us in this matter.
Can I submit this, or give this to someone? These are actual--
and this is -- I did this myself, so this is a video. And this is a video,
it's probably very boring, but it is a video as I went up to the fence.
He has not seen this, this is true, because I've never seen him
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before today. But I just -- we would go up to the fence to take mostly
the video for the sound so you could hear. And this is minor. This is
actually minor compared to what we hear every day. And we can't be
there 24/seven to monitor this. I'm not going to hire a private
investigator to sit there with a camera and watch 24/seven.
But this will give you an idea of the sounds that we live with on a
daily basis. Weekends as well, like I said.
And then I have SOlne pictures. Well, this is just what I logged.
Some of the dates and times of what I heard. But we did a Google
earth. And I know Google earth is not instantaneous to the moment.
This is prob -- I don't know how long ago it is. But we did do some
pictures of his property, Google earth.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Ma'am, you can't show them to us unless
we admit theIn.
MS. WILLIAMS: Oh, I'm sorry. Okay.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And just remember, if we do admit them,
you will lose them because they'll become part of the record --
MS. WILLIAMS: That is fine. This is all a copy.
But the pictures on Google earth will show that there are multiple
dumpsters. The building. They will show that -- maybe not now, but
there was a fire pit. You can see the fire pit was for the debris. And
there still has to be a fire pit, because just last week on -- I can't
remember the day, I wrote it down -- that I actually took the
photographs of the smoke coming from his property. And those are
also in this folder that I hope I can submit. Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Well, first of all, do you want us to
submit that --
MS. WILLIAMS: Yes.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: -- in evidence?
MS. WILLIAMS: I do.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: We need to show those pictures to Mr.
George and have theIn -- see if there's an objection to that.
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And the video, I don't think we can admit the video to begin with,
just because we don't have the means to watch it or whatever, so --
MR. LEFEBVRE: And we can't show it to --
CHAIRMAN KELLY: You can't show it, so unfortunately I
don't think we could admit that. But the --
MS. WILLIAMS: If I brought a computer in?
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Ifwe had the technical resources and it
was prearranged, we probably could have, yes, if it was admitted,
yeah.
Is there another speaker, a public speaker? Could I ask that -- and
ma'am, I don't mean to be rude, but there was times in your speech
where I was about to cut you off because I --
MS. WILLIAMS: 1'1n sorry.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: -- thought they were borderline attacking
Mr. George. Just keep them very fair. I understand that you're under
a lot of stress and this has caused you problems, but be respectful to
the people in the room.
MR. F ALLETI: My name is Gino Falleti. I live at 5844
Bromelia Court.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Could you spell your last name, sir?
MR. FALLETI: F-A-L-L-E-T-I.
As Iny wife said, we Inoved in last fall in our new home. And I
couldn't believe the loud banging noise coming from our neighbor.
You cannot deny facts. He knows what's going on back there.
It's a recycling business going on back there. There's a trash --
full-blown trash business going on back there.
What they do, the trucks come in with a roll-back, they dump the
loads on the yard and then they have a bobcat running at full rpm,
spreading this junk around. And then it's like steel, the metal, the
concrete, the wood or what have you. And they're put in different
containers so they can then sell the metals and then deliver the
concrete. And the banging from a heavy piece of concrete in the
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dumpsters is so loud you jump off your seat.
Weare -- we go inside and close the doors. We can't go in our
backyard. It is amazing that this is allowed to go on in a residential
zone.
We respectfully ask the Board to do something about it. Thank
you.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Thank you, sir.
Sir?
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: Is that evidence that the young
lady here --
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Well, we wanted to ask, do you have any
objections with those images being shown?
MR. GEORGE: No. Just there's no date on the pictures, that's
the only thing I'd like to know.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay. So are you okay with it, though?
MR. GEORGE: Yeah, I'm fine.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Does the Board wish to enter that into
evidence?
MR. KAUFMAN: Make a motion that we accept the pictures.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Second.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Motion and second.
Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
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(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Does the county have anything further?
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: We do. Just a couple things.
I have the Estates zone district description from the Land
Development Code right here. I'd like to read the first part of it, what
was its intent, which would be --
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Can you cite the section?
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: The section is -- let me see
here. I don't have the exact section here. It's got to be here. Okay,
2.03.01 (B).
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay.
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: The purpose and intent of the
Estates district is to provide lands for low density residential
develoPlnent in a semi rural to rural environment with limited
agricultural activities.
That's the whole synopsis of it right there of the Estates zoned
district.
I'd also, since they brought up the home occupation, I'd like to
read a 1959 description from an ordinance. This is a definition from
the county zoning regulations when home occupations first came into
being.
An occupation for gain or support conducted solely by immediate
members of the faInily residing in a dwelling and conducted entirely
within a dwelling, provided that no article is sold or offered for sale
except such may be produced on the premises by members of the
family, and provided further that such home occupation shall be
incidental to the residential use of the premises. Home occupations
shall include in general personal services such as physician, dentist,
musician, artist, beauty operator, seamstress. And when performed by
the person occupying the building as his or her private dwelling and
not including the employment of any additional persons -- what I'm
trying to get at is that hOlne occupations are meant to be incidental to
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the zoning of that district.
Now, I'm going to go forward to our Land Development Code
Section 5.02.03, which they've already cited. And the first sentence of
that code states: The home occupation shall be clearly incidental to
the use of the dwelling for dwelling purposes. The existence of the
home occupation shall not change the character of the dwelling.
I just want to reiterate that it does -- what they were stating about
commercial vehicles and commercial equipment does come from the
vehicle ordinance. And it says parking and not storage. And I believe
that the dumpsters are definitely storage and not parking.
MR. KAUFMAN: I have one question. On the location of,
quote, Estates property, is there a map that's in the -- in there that this
definitely falls into the Estates and not into some other zoning district
there? There's Estates from 951 to 952 or wherever it is.
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: Oh, Estates is the biggest
probably subdivision in Florida. It runs from -- I mean, right abutting
the Vineyards all the way out to, what's that, DeSoto north up to
Immokalee Road and south down to 1-75. I don't have a map of the
whole area. It's absolutely huge though.
MR. KAUFMAN: So it's -- generally speaking, it's east ofl-75?
Which is where Logan is.
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: I would say generally speaking
it's east of -- yeah, east ofl-75, yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay. Do you have anything further to
add?
MR. LOCKHART: Only that the Estates is varied in the county.
I mean, you have Estates off of Livingston Road near the school
board adIninistration building. It's all the way out to Immokalee. It's
again the largest subdivision, it's the largest area that has that
designation, other than agricultural, which is of course, you know, is
with cattle and citrus.
But the Estates in that area preceded the Vineyards Development.
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Actually, I believe the Vineyards was originally Estates, and it was
rezoned into a PUD. Didn't have a DRI, but it did go through a PUD.
And the last property abutting was previously Pro Tree Farms.
And it went through the redevelopment in the early 2000's.
And again, I'm just commenting back, repeating Section E of the
Land Development Code, 5.02.03: Parking or storage is allowed of
equipment. Doesn't say only parking. I mean, storage. I mean, if it's
contradictory to the vehicle code, I don't think the Land Development
Code should have it in there if it wasn't intended to be allowed to store
equipment.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Could you read that sentence verbatim,
please?
MR. LOCKHART: Sure. Parking or storage of commercial
vehicles or equipment shall be allowed only in compliance with the
requirements for commercial vehicles in the county code.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And you said the Estates was exempt
from the commercial vehicle ordinance?
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: Correct. Key word being
vehicles.
MR. KAUFMAN: I have two questions. Number one, would
you like to COlnment on the smoke that I see in those pictures?
MR. GEORGE: I think that was yesterday. They had the bad
fire.
MS. F ALLETI: The date was on there.
MR. GEORGE: But that's not from me. You can see all that
smoke. The fire departn1ent would be at the house. That's a lot.
That's --
MR. LOCKHART: The pictures have no orientation. There's no
definition or proof that it's his property. I mean, it's again --
MR. KAUFMAN: I was just commenting.
So the second thing I have is, and I know in the past things have
gone around and around with music as far as disturbing people. And
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if a vehicle is parked, it's not making any sounds. So obviously
something other than parking those vehicles out there is occurring.
They're getting filled up with concrete; is that true?
MR. GEORGE: No, I brought concrete in, yes, I brought loads
and loads of concrete.
MR. KAUFMAN: And what do you do with the concrete when
you bring it in?
MR. GEORGE: I've got to bring it in, I've got to build that berm
for my permitting for my walls. I have a berm, two-foot berm all the
way around the property.
MR. KAUFMAN: The concrete's not going in the dumpsters?
MR. GEORGE: No, no, no.
MR. KAUFMAN: How about the metal that was--
MR. GEORGE: Probably what it was, when I get the concrete
loads, yes, there was SOlne metal in it. And I do scrap metal now and
then for Inyself. I collect old stuff.
MR.I(AUFMAN: And do you also have bobcats moving stuff
around there?
MR. GEORGE: I've got a -- yeah, I've got a bobcat. I don't even
have the backup alarm on it. And you can look at the hours, and it has
very little hours on it.
MR. KAUFMAN: And my final point that I'd like to question is
the days. I know for instance --
MR. GEORGE: Easter Sunday I wasn't even there. I wasn't
even at the house.
MR. KAUFMAN: I don't know where you are, I'm just asking
about the noise that occurred that was testified to that happened on
Easter Sunday.
MR.I(AUFMAN: Is there work that's going on there when
you're not there?
MR. GEORGE: No. Unless -- and the fence guys were putting
poles and fence up, and they didn't work. They work Saturday there.
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MR. KAUFMAN: Also before 7:00 a.m.?
MR. GEORGE: No.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: What exactly is the occupational license
that you have for the property?
MR. GEORGE: It's running my dumpster business.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay.
MR. GEORGE: Yeah.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay. And in order to get that
occupational license, you have to go through a review process,
correct?
MR. GEORGE: Right, right.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And the county approved it?
MR. GEORGE: Yes.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And the other question I have is I see in
these photos --I'll just show you the ones that were taken by the
county .
MR. GEORGE: Yes.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Behind the dumpsters there looks to be --
MR. GEORGE: There's debris in that particular dumpster.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: No, no, I'm looking behind those.
MR. GEORGE: Oh, okay.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: There looks to be a fairily well erected
wall of large --
MR. GEORGE: That's correct.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: -- concrete blocks.
MR. GEORGE: Is your purpose for that wall to help block
sound?
MR. GEORGE: In a way. When I drop the cans I put a big pad
there so I can work on them, do things. I've got water there,
sometimes I'll do welding. You know, I have to repair the stuff,
change hinges, et cetera, and I do work on the truck, too.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: There was also one of our -- one
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testimony that we heard from the public stating that you're building a
6,000 square foot facility. That's very large.
MR. GEORGE: Yes.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Is that to house all of these?
MR. GEORGE: Yeah, I'm keeping everything. I like to keep
everything inside. And overflow it beyond that back pad right there.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: So your eventual plan is to move
everything inside to diminimize (sic) the noise?
MR. GEORGE: That's correct.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: That's an awful expense.
MR. GEORGE: Yes.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay.
MR. LEFEBVRE: I have a question.
Do you have any employees?
MR. GEORGE: Not at this time, no.
MR. LEFEBVRE: So all these trucks --
MR. GEORGE: I only have one truck.
MR. LEFEBVRE: You have one truck?
MR. GEORGE: I have a guy helps me with the bobcat now and
then.
MR. LEFEBVRE: A couple comments I have is that it says the
occupational use should not change the character or something to that
effect. Should not change the outside appearance of the property.
Right?
So it sounds like the occupational license should be contained
within the house. Whatever activities you have should be contained
within the house, correct?
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: Correct. It should not detract
from the dwelling purposes of the zoning, where it's at, the home
occupation is conducted.
MR. LEFEBVRE: And also regarding storage of vehicles. Let's
just hypothetically say that he was -- he's storing the vehicles. And
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under those -- under that assumption, he's storing them but he's
working on them too. So it doesn't sound like he's actually storing
them. Whereas a contractor that has a truck or something probably
stores it and doesn't work on the property.
I feel that there is a violation, so I make a motion that we --
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: I'd like to -- can I say one
more thing before you get going here? Just as a conclusion.
I know we got off onto the home occupation, but I want to get
back to what I've cited exactly, a prohibited use. I've got the full
Estates zoned allowed uses, conditional, accessory and permitted uses.
Nowhere does it say the outside storage of commercial equipment is
allowed in conjunction with a business in Estates zoned property.
That's all I wanted to say.
MR. LEFEBVRE: I make a motion that there -- in fact there is a
violation.
MR. KAUFMAN: Second.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: We have a violation and a second.
Do we have any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All those in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(Indicating. )
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Cherie', one nay.
Okay, do you have a recolnlnendation?
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: I do. Recommendation that
the Code Enforcement Board orders the respondent to pay all
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operational costs in the amount $80 incurred in the prosecution of this
case within 30, and abate all violations by: Ceasing all prohibited uses
other than what is allowed in Estates zoned property.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Jeff, Cherie's like -- there's smoke
coming off of her keyboard.
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: I'm sorry. I'll go back.
Ceasing all prohibited uses other than what is allowed in Estates
zoned property and remove all unauthorized dumpsters to an area
designated for such use.
Or: Store desired items within a completely enclosed permitted
structure within X amount of days or a fine of X amount of dollars per
day will be imposed until the violation has been abated.
N uInber two: The respondent must notify the code enforcement
investigator when the violation has been abated in order to conduct a
final inspection to confirm abatement. If the respondent fails to abate
the violation, the county may abate the violation and may use the
assistance of the Collier County Sheriffs Office to enforce the
provisions of this order, and all costs of abatement shall be assessed to
the property owner.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Let n1e ask a question. Is a 6,000 square foot
building allowed on this property?
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: It is allowed. It's -- actually the
permit is issued right now for this building.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Okay.
MR. KAUFMAN: I have a concern with your suggestion in that
we may find ourselves back in the same situation somewhere down
the road if the building is constructed, it's permitted, and the noise
continues inside the building.
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: We do have a noise case right
now in conjunction with the hon1e occupation. I felt that in order to
try to alleviate some of the misery of these people, that we bring this --
a prohibited use one right now, try to get it situated.
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He can -- if he does get that building built and he wants to store
his containers in there -- my thing is illegally outside stored
containers. He can store it in a completely enclosed structure. If at
that time the noise becomes prohibited (sic) and I think that it's
violating that home occupation, I will come right back under that
ordinance at that point.
MR. MARINO: Has he started building this building? Did I
hear that there was a permit pulled?
MR. GEORGE: Yes.
MR. MARINO: You started building it?
MR. GEORGE: Yes.
MR. MARINO: How far are you from completion of this
building?
MR. GEORGE: I don't know. I've got to have major back
surgery, so I got put behind.
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: The county just felt that if the
dumpsters were taken off the property, at least that will alleviate that
part of the noise of the -- that they're suffering from.
MR. KAUFMAN: Well, let me try filling in the blanks then.
$80 within 30 days. It sounds like this is going to be in several
steps. Number one is the building is going to be built.
MR. GEORGE: Yes.
MR. KAUFMAN: And the dumpsters are going to end up inside,
and hopefully that will resolve the whole situation.
However, let's talk about that right now, what's going on, how
many days. And I think 120 days. That's just off the top of my head.
And I will go to the Board to see if they feel it should be more than
120 days to resolve that situation. And after 120 days, a $200 a day
fine.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Would it be easier if you see the actual order?
Because there's several steps, if I'm not mistaken.
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: Well, there's two steps. It's an
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either/or. Either remove the dumpsters or store them in a completely
enclosed structure. Now, just because he doesn't have a completely
enclosed structure at this time doesn't mean he can't remove the
dumpsters at this time off that property.
MR. LEFEBVRE: I think 120 days is way excessive for a time
period. And I think $200 a day is low, considering what the neighbors
have experienced. They shouldn't have to go through potentially
another 120 days of this noise. That's my personal belief.
MR. KAUFMAN: What's your suggestion on the amount of
days and the fine?
MR. LEFEBVRE: I think it should be no more than I think 45,
and that might be excessive. And I think at least a $350 a day fine.
And is that possible to get that -- it's $500 a day, right, is the high?
CHAIRMAN KELLY: For a single offense.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Yes.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: So what is your amended motion?
MR. LEFEBVRE: My mnended motion would be 45 days and
$350 a day.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: 45 and 350 a day.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Yes.
MR. KAUFMAN: I have no problem with changing the motion
to that, if that's the Board's consent. We're looking for nods.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: So you have a motion.
MR. LEFEBVRE: And a second.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And a second.
Discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: I have my two cents and I'll explain why
I nay'd the violation. I think it sets a horrible precedence. Not
because of dumpsters and the loud noise, because I happen to agree in
this particular with it maybe being excessive.
What I'm concerned about is this county has enjoyed years of
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cheap services because of our great Estates. I think that there are so
many businesses such as the one I brought up with landscaping and
plumbing contractors and people who service your homes on a daily
basis and only charge you 65 bucks when they would normally charge
250 because they get to run their businesses out of their homes in the
Estates. I hope that this case does not shut down all those little
businesses.
With that said, I agree with you in this case. I just hope that it
doesn't set precedence.
MR. LEFEBVRE: But we also have to look at the homeowners
and what they had to endure. They paid good money for their houses
to have peace and enjoyment, and I'm sure that if you had this noise
next to you, you would not want it.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: For the record--
MR. LEFEBVRE: So I'd rather pay an extra 30 or $40 to have
my lawn mowed than to put up every day with noise like this. And I
can't say that any stronger than I am.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: In my backyard is the Collier County
Fair once a year. We have concelis at the fairgrounds at least once a
month and we have an entire orange grove that is harvested
throughout the year and maintained. So I do have those noises. But I
live in the Estates. And I knovv that that's the way it's zoned. And if
you live next to the Estates, YOLl have to understand that those are
optional uses. And if the realtor did not explain that to you, well
shame on them.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Here's the other thing, is the fairgrounds and
the other items you mentioned are blatantly obvious. When you move
there, you know. That's like living next to a shopping center, you
know that going in you're moving next to a shopping center, and you
buy your property with that being said. But with a property that isn't
fully observable and available to the ready eye, you have to be able to
protect against that. And by my ITIotion or second a motion, that is
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how I feel it's protected.
But if you know and it's obvious that it's there, then you make a
decision to buy the property or not. And these folks, from what it
sounds, they didn't say I want to live next to a noisy neighbor with
concrete and so forth and smoke and all the issues that are there. They
couldn't drive by and see that, knowing that that it was in their back
door.
MR. MARINO: I own a home in the Vineyards also. Hammock
Isles used to be Pro Tree, which was Mike Procacci's farm to start
with.
I feel for thelTI also. But I feel that somewhere down the line the
Vineyards misrepresented that particular area when they did build
these houses. I don't think Mr. Pee- Wee or whatever the young man's
name is is in violation of it. He was there with a business, a legitimate
business, and that's my stand on it.
I mean, I feel for the people, but I believe somewhere the
Vineyards, Procacci or whatever was probably misrepresented when
they built in that particular area.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Any further comments?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Now onto business. We have a motion
and a second.
Sorry, we've already closed the public comment; I apologize.
All in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Any opposed?
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(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And it passes unanimously.
Thank you very much for your comments in attending today. I
hope that you're able to find a place for the dumpsters within 45 days.
MR. LOCKHART: Can I say one more thing?
CHAIRMAN KELLY: You can.
MR. LOCKHART: During his period of constructing his garage,
there will be dumpsters on the property associated with that work--
CHAIRMAN KELLY: That's separate.
MR. LOCKHART: -- and they will be as long as the building is
under construction. That needs to be understood.
There's also a storage container that looks like a tractor-trailer,
and I've already advised code enforcement, John, that that has been
authorized to be allowed on the site under construction, and when the
construction is over it needs to be removed. So there's not only the
dumpster but one large tractor-trailer that will be there through the
construction.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: I'ITI sure you understand the primary
purpose here is noise. Secondary to that, we obviously know that
you're going to have equipment there while you're building. Just as
long as it's not in excess of what's necessary for that building.
MR. LOCKHART: Understood.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Let me ask a question. A building permit to
build a building, does it have certain time frames that you can actually
build?
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: It does. But if it's a
complicated building, you have a six-month start. But if you get an
inspection, that adds on another six months on top of that permit, so --
MR. LEFEBVRE: Let lTIe clarify time frames.
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: Okay.
MR. LEFEBVRE: During the day --
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: Oh, during the day --
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MR. LEFEBVRE: -- are there restrictions --
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: There are restrictions during
the day. 6:30 to 7:00, I believe, off the top of my head. 6:30 in the
morning to 7 :00, no holidays, and not on Sundays.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Not on Sundays.
So if you hear noise that's excessive on the property after the 45
days, on a holiday or on a Sunday, I would make a report of it.
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: And at that point they'd be
subject to the noise ordinance.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Okay. Very good, thank you.
SUPERVISOR LETOURNEAU: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: The hearing is actually closed. Good
luck. Thank you.
MR. LOCKHART: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Okay, Cherie', how about a break?
THE COURT REPORTER: Yes.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: All right, we'll take a 10-minute break,
come back at 11 :00. Thank you.
(Recess.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay, I'd like to reconvene the Code
Enforcement Board back to order.
Our next case is Marina Guzman. Case No. CESD20090008686.
(Speakers were duly sworn.)
MS. BAKER: This is in reference to violation of Ordinance
04-41, as amended, Collier County Land Development Code, Sections
10.02.06(B)(I)(a), 10.02.06(B)(I)(e), and 10.02.06(B)(I)(e)(i), Florida
Building Code, 2004 edition, chapter one, Permits, Section 105.1.
Description of violation: Converted garage to a living space and
an unpermitted shed type structure in the rear yard without first
obtaining all required Collier County permits.
Location/address where violation exists: 360 Wilson Boulevard
North, Naples, Florida, 34117. Folio 37280600002.
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Name and address of owner/person in charge of violation
location: Marina Guzman, 360 Wilson Boulevard North, Naples,
Florida, 34120.
Date violation first observed: June 25th, 2009.
Date owner/person in charge given Notice of Violation: August
3rd,2009.
Date on/by which violation to be corrected: August 28th, 2009.
Date of reinspection: March 14th, 2011.
Results of reinspection: The violation remains.
INVESTIGATOR AMBACH: Good morning. For the record,
Investigator Chris Ambach, Collier County Code Enforcement.
This is in reference to Case No. CESD20090008686, dealing
with violations of a converted garage into a living space in an
unpermitted shed-type structure in the rear yard, located at 360 Wilson
Boulevard North.
Service was given on August 3rd, 2009.
I would now like to present case evidence in the following
exhibits: Photographs taken on June 25th, 2009, and August 3rd, 2009
of the garage conversion, and photos taken on September 17th, 2009
of the shed type structure in the rear yard, and photos taken on April
25th and 27th, 2011, showing the structure in the year yard are the
garage conversion that exists today without Collier County building
permits obtained.
And also, you'll find a copy of the Property Appraiser property
J.D. card depicting the change in square footage.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Mrs. Guzman, have you seen the
pictures? Do you have any problems with us seeing them?
MS. GUZMAN: Yes, I have seen the pictures. No, I don't have a
problem.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay.
MR. KAUFMAN: Motion to accept the--
MR. LEFEBVRE: Second.
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MR. KAUFMAN: -- exhibits.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And seconded by Mr. Lefebvre.
All in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay.
INVESTIGATOR AMBACH: On June 25th, 2009, Investigator
Patrick Baldwin made a site visit and observed what appeared to be a
converted garage and possible unpermitted shed in the rear yard
visible from the driveway.
After researching the property in question, it was determined the
converted garage and shed type structure were built respectively
without first obtaining all required Collier County building permits.
In March of 20 1 0, I received this case, and my research revealed
the violations remained.
I made a contact with the current owners who stated they would
continue to stay at the property as long as the bank would allow, as the
house was in foreclosure; however, at the time didn't have the means
to abate the violations.
I made a site visit on April 25th and spoke with the owners who
stated they have no plans of abating the violations and will be moving
within the next month or so. The permitting violations remain as of
today.
I would like to add that the improvements to the garage were
done previous to Ms. GUZITIan'S purchase of the property in 2005.
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County records will show conversion of this area was identified in
March of2003, increasing the living square footage from 1,791 square
feet to 2,231 square feet.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay. Is there any questions for the
county?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Ma'am, do you -- would you like to
respond to anything?
MS. GUZMAN: Well, like he said for the record, the garage
building was done before I purchased the home. I purchased the home
as-is. I did not hire an attorney because I basically didn't know I had
to. I relied on the information I received by my real estate agent back
then. And the outside building was also done before we purchased the
home.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Well, unfortunately back in 2005 there
wasn't a task force that researched items like this. And you're not
alone, there are many people in the same shoes you are.
Do we have any other questions or comments from the Board?
MR. KAUFMAN: I have one comment about the real estate
agent. Back in 2005 that's exactly what would happen. Today it's
different. People are notified by the real -- should be notified by the
real estate agent if they suspect that there is some addition that was --
unfortunately you got stuck in the middle.
MS. GUZMAN: Yes, I did.
And right now we're in the process of surrendering the property.
Therefore, I don't see the reason for having to do anything towards --
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Again, you're not alone. You're not the
.first case we've seen like that.
We would just like to make sure we get all this on the record now
so that whatever the eventual things that happen, we don't want the
next person to inherit this particular issue.
MS. GUZMAN: Okay.
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MR. KAUFMAN: Are you surrendering this property because of
this code enforcement case, or for other reasons?
MS. GUZMAN: For other reasons.
MR. KAUFMAN: Okay.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Do we have a violation?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Well, I guess a quick question.
Have you tried to work on a modification at all for this --
MS. GUZMAN : Yes. But I lost my employment, so it didn't go
anywhere.
MR. LEFEBVRE: All right.
MR. KAUFMAN: I make a motion that we find the respondent
in violation.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay, we have a motion. Do we have a
second?
MR. LA VINSI(I: Second.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: I heard it over here from Mr. Lavinski.
Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: And nothing personal, you just happen to
be the owner of the house right now.
MS. GUZMAN: Okay.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Do we have a recommendation from the
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county?
INVESTIGATOR AMBACH: Yes, we do.
That the Code Enforcement Board orders the respondent to pay
all operational costs in the amount of $82.00 incurred in the
prosecution of this case within 30 days, and abate all violations by:
Number one: Apply for and obtain building permits for all
unpermitted structures and additions, or demolition permits, including
all inspections and certificate of completion/occupancy within X
amount of days or a fine of X amount of dollars per day will be
imposed for each day the violation remains.
Number two: In the interim, cease occupancy of the converted
garage used for dwelling purposes until the permit receives a
certificate of completion/occupancy within X amount of days of this
hearing or a fine of X amount of dollars per day will be imposed for
each day the violation reInains.
Number three: The respondent must notify the code enforcement
investigator when the violation has been abated in order to conduct a
final inspection to confinn abatement.
If the respondent fails to abate the violation, the county may
abate the violation and may use the assistance of the Collier County
Sheriffs Office to enforce the provisions of this order, and all costs of
abatement shall be assessed to the property owner.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Go ahead.
MR. KAUFMAN: I have a question before I make a motion.
When do you think you're going to be out of the property?
MS. GUZMAN: We're in the process of surrendering the house.
I signed over the deed in lieu to the bank already. However, they
have not assigned a -- I don't know what you call that. They haven't
assigned a caseworker to my case yet, so I'm not sure the period of
time. The person that I spoke to last week said it could be between 60
to 90 days.
MR. KAUFMAN: And my question to the county is, why part
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two of the suggestion to Inove out of that section? Is there some
safety and health?
INVESTIGATOR AMBACH: Well, there could possibly be a
health and safety issue, because there was never a permit pulled for
that conversion.
MR. KAUFMAN: I'd like to make a motion that the $82 be paid
within 30 days; 120 days, to fill in the blanks, as far as the resolution
of the problem; and $200 a day after the 120 days.
As for part two, I don't think that's relat -- I don't think that
should be part of the motion, because the house has been occupied;
that section's been occupied since 2005. I don't see any real safety
hazard. I see maybe an outlet in the wall, according to the pictures,
but that's about it.
MR. LEFEBVRE: We do that all the time. We ask that the
people turn power off to a particular area. It happens all the time. So,
you know, I think we could shorten -- we could make a shorter period
for that, obviously, theIn not to occupy that property, or that portion of
the property.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: I agree with you, Gerald.
Let me explain what's happening. There's two parts here: One is
that we're asking you to get permits to keep the existing addition and
the shed, or to turn them back to what they were originally, a garage
and remove the shed. Your option.
In this particular motion, we're giving you 120 days or a fine of
$200 per day.
Part two of this is to ask you to stop occupying that area of the
garage that's now a living area, because there were no permits pulled,
there were no inspections performed, and it's possible there could be
an electrical short or something along those lines that could potentially
cause harm to, let's say for instance, children that may be playing in
there. We don't know. There hasn't been an inspector to inspect it. So
usually there's a breaker, you can just turn the breaker off to that
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garage, no electric, and then stop using it. Close off the AC vents, if
there is, or something along those lines. And it's just for your safety.
And that's what Gerald was talking about just a second ago.
So would you -- what do you think of that? Do you want to
amend your motion or are we going --
MR. KAUFMAN: I wouldn't turn off the air conditioning to that
section, you're going to get mold. But reluctantly I'll agree to that.
MR. LEFEBVRE: We would have to come up with a time
frame.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y : Yeah.
MR. KAUFMAN: I would say 60 days to unoccupy, if you will,
that piece of the real estate.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Okay. Do we have a second?
MR. MARINO: I'll second it.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Seconded.
Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: All in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: And Jean, that was 120 and 200 and 60
and 200.
MS. RAWSON: 200 for the 60 days?
CHAIRMAN KELLY: You said 200 for both?
MR. KAUFMAN: Both.
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MR. L'ESPERANCE: One final comment.
Ma' am, keep in mind, these fines, these potential fines go with
the property owner.
MS. GUZMAN: Okay.
MR. KAUFMAN: So I think what Mr. L'Esperance is saying,
that if you don't own the property after you surrender it, it will
probably be the bank's problem.
MR. LEFEBVRE: The other thing is, with 60 days to vacate
they may be vacating prior to 60 days with the foreclosure, which
would take care of that 60 days, because the property would be vacant.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: We're not telling you how to cheat the
system --
MS. GUZMAN: No.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: -- but just realistically how it may end
up.
Okay, thank you very much for coming here today and--
MS. GUZMAN: No problem.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: -- good luck.
MS. GUZMAN: Thank you.
INVESTIGATOR AMBACH: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: All right, next case is going to be
Richard and Sandra Rathjen. Are the respondents here?
INVESTIGATOR PAUL: No, they're not.
(Speaker was duly sworn.)
INVESTIGA TOR PAUL: They are not present.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Okay. Do you want to read the
imposition of fine into order?
INVESTIGATOR PAUL: Yes, I will.
For the record, Renald Paul, Collier County Code Enforcement
Investigator.
Violations of Collier County Ordinance 04-41, as amended, the
Collier County Land Development Code, Sections 10.02.06(B)(I)(a).
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Location: 4866 21 st Avenue Southwest, Naples, Florida.
Description is unpermitted storage shed and lanai.
Description of past orders: On January 27th, 2011, the Code
Enforcement Board issued a finding of fact, conclusion of law and
order. The respondent was found in violation of the referenced
ordinances and ordered to correct the violation. See the attached Order
of the Board, OR 4651, Page 579 for more information.
The respondent has not complied with the CEB order as of April
28th, 2011.
The fines and costs to date are described as the following: Order
item number one and two, fines at a rate of $200 per day for the period
between March 30th, 2011 through April 28th, 2011, 30 days, for the
total of $6,000. Fines continue to accrue.
Order item number five, operational costs in the amount of
$81.15 have not been paid. Total amount to date, $6,081.15.
MR. KAUFMAN: Motion to impose.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Motion. Do we have a second?
MR. LA VINSKI: Second.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Seconded.
Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: All in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSI(I: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And it carries.
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INVESTIGATOR PAUL: Thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Thank you, Mr. Paul.
Moving on to the next one is Mike and Mary Ruth Lucero.
If you look, there was information pertaining to this case from
the respondents. They're not able to be here today, but they did write
a little letter saying that things beyond their control force this to last
longer than they thought it was going to. They're asking for a
reduction or abatement of the fines.
SUPERVISOR SNOW: They're here in spirit, sir.
(Speaker was duly sworn.)
SUPERVISOR SNOW: For the record, Kitchell Snow, Collier
County Code Enforcement.
This concerns the violations of Collier County Ordinance 04-41,
as amended, the Land Development Code, Section 10.02.06(B)(I)(a).
The location is 311 Sixth Street, Immokalee, Florida. The folio
number is 66881320008.
And the description of the violation is a permitted screen porch
enclosed and living space without first obtaining a permit.
The past orders: On May 27th, 2010, the Code Enforcement
Board issued a finding of fact and a conclusion of law and order. The
respondent was found in violation of the referenced ordinance and
ordered to correct the violation. See the attached Order of the Board,
OR 4583, and Page 2864 for more information.
An extension of time was granted on January 27th of2011. See
the attached Order of the Board, OR 4651, Page 587 for more
information.
The respondents have complied with the CEB orders as of March
31 st, 20 11.
The fines and cost to date are described as the following: Order
item number one and two, fines at the rate of $200 per day for the
period between March 29th, 2011 and March 31st, 2011, three days,
for a total of $600.
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Order number five, operational costs of 80.57 have been paid.
The total amount to date is $600.
If I may, for the Board, this was a permit by affidavit. This is a
new process we were involved. Jamie French's folks over at the
building department did a great job. It just took them a little longer
because it was a newer process.
They did everything they could. So he got it. The inspections
needed to be done.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Make a motion to abate.
MR. KAUFMAN: Second.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: All in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSI(I: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And the fines have been waived.
SUPERVISOR SNOW: Thank you very much.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Thank you, Supervisor Snow.
Moving on to Henry Tesno and Jill Weaver, CESD20 1 000 17736.
MS. PETRULLI: They are not present.
(Speaker was duly sworn.)
SUPERVISOR PETRULLI: For the record, Patti Petrulli, Collier
County Code Enforcement.
This is a violation of Collier County Code of Laws, Chapter 22,
Article 2, Section 22-26(B), 104.5.1.4.4.
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The location of the violation is 3117 Areca Avenue, Naples,
Florida. Folio No. 71800000527.
The description of the violation are permits. Permit number
2002050921 for a swimming pool; permit number 2003010443 for a
fence; and permit number 20031024424, a framed single-family
home. All have expired or been canceled before obtaining all required
inspections and a certificate of occupancy and completion.
Past order was on January 27th, 2011. The Code Enforcement
Board issued a findings of fact, conclusion of law and order.
The respondent was found in violation of the referenced
ordinances and ordered to correct the violation. See the attached
Order of the Board, OR 4651, Page 5646 for more information.
The respondent has not complied with the CEB orders as of April
28th, 2011.
The fines and costs to date are described as the following: Order
item number one and two, fines at the rate of $200 per day for the
period between March 29th, 2011 through April 28th, 2011, 31 days,
for the total of $6,200. Fines continue to accrue.
Order number five: Operational costs of $80.86 have not been
paid.
The total amount to date is $6,280.86.
MR. KAUFMAN: Motion to impose.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Second.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Motion and second.
Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
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MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And it carries. Thank you, Patti.
Moving on to the next case, it's going to be Gomaa Elsaid and
Karen Amal Elsherbeini.
Sorry if I said that wrong, which I probably did.
MR. MARINO: There's nobody here to correct you.
(Speaker was duly sworn.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Would you like to just read the order.
INVESTIGATOR MUSSE: Okay.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Thank you.
INVESTIGATOR MUSSE: This is reference to violations of
Collier County Code of Laws, Chapter 22, Building and Building
Regulations, Article 6, property maintenance code, Section 22-231,
subsection 15.
Location: 11334 Longshore Way West, Naples, Florida. Folio
No. 5610160007.
Description: A pool not being maintained in sanitary conditions.
Past orders: On November 18th, 2010, the Code Enforcement
Board issued a finding of facts, conclusion of law and order. The
respondent was found in violation of the referenced ordinances and
ordered to correct the violation. See attached Order of the Board, OR
4629, Page 280 for more information.
The respondent has complied with the CEB orders as of February
22nd,2011.
Fines and costs to date are described as the following: Order
items number two and four, fines at the rate of $150 per day for a
period between December 19th, 2010 through February 22nd, 2011,
66 days, for a total of $9,900.
Order items number six: Abatement cost of $1,152.10 have not
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been paid.
Order item number seven: Operational costs of $80.29 have not
been paid.
Total amount to date: $11,132.39.
MR. KAUFMAN: I have one question on this, and that's who
fixed it and we know it was abated by county.
INVESTIGATOR MUSSE: Yes, sir.
MR. KAUFMAN: So by the county abating this, the fines stop
accruing. So we're actually saving them money.
INVESTIGATOR MUSSE: Yes.
MR. KAUFMAN: I think that the order should reflect not that
the respondent has complied, but the county has fixed the problem.
Does that make any sense? And then I make a motion to impose that
fine.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay, we have a motion. Do we have a
second?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Are you asking that that motion include
the changes?
MR. KAUFMAN: No, no, that was just a side question.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay, so the motion only includes the
imposition of the fine as written.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Second.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: All in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
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MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Carries.
INVESTIGATOR MUSSE: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: So going back to that, I mean, it doesn't
hurt anything, right? Respondent is in compliance, thanks to county's
efforts.
MS. FLAGG: Correct. Because our bigger goal is to keep the
integrity of the comlTIunity intact. And then the property owner has to
pay whatever costs were expended plus admin. costs to abate the
violation.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And in this case, like Mr. Kaufman said,
it was probably less than letting the fines accrue.
MS. FLAGG: Correct.
MR. KAUFMAN: No, my comment though was on the language
of the -- where it says the respondent has complied. The violation has
complied because the county fixed it.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: The county has complied on behalf of
the respondent. Gotcha. Okay, we'll put that in, if you want to.
Next is going to be Daniel Deerey. This is Department Case
2007110390.
(Speaker was duly sworn.)
INVESTIGATOR BALDWIN: For the record, Patrick Baldwin,
Collier County Code Enforcement Investigator.
Violation: Florida Building Code, 2007 edition, abandoned or
suspended permit. Collier County Code of Laws and Laws, Chapter
22, Article 2, Florida Building Code, adoption and amendment of the
Florida Building Code, Section 22-26(B), 104.5.1.4.4.
Location: 1405 I(ing Sago Court, Naples, Florida. Folio
72650003728.
Description: Expired Permit Number 2006120034 for game
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room.
Past orders: On November 18th, 2010, the Code Enforcement
Board issued a finding of fact, conclusion of law and order. The
respondent was found in violation of the referenced ordinance and
ordered to correct the violation. See the attached Order of the Board,
OR 4629, Page 266 for more information.
The respondent has not complied with the CEB orders as of April
28th, 2011.
The fines and cost to date are described as the following: Order
item number one and two, fines at the rate of $200 per day for the
period between March 15th, 2011 to April 28th, 2011, 45 days, for the
total of $9,000. Fines continue to accrue.
Order item number five: Operational costs of $81.43 have not
been paid.
Total amount to date: $9,000 -- $9,081.43.
MR. KAUFMAN: Motion to impose.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Second.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN K.ELL Y: It carries.
Thank you, Patrick.
Next case is going to be Maria Ramirez.
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This is a new case, so we'll have to swear you in again.
(Speaker was duly sworn.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Investigator, could you read this in like
the others, please?
INVESTIGATOR ASARO: For the record, Tony Asaro, Collier
County Code Enforcement.
This is in reference to Case No. CESD20090000978. Violations
of Collier County Code of Laws, Chapter 22, Article 2, Section
22-26(B); 104.1.3.5, Florida Building Code, 2004 edition, Chapter 1,
Section 105.1 and Section 111.1. And Collier County Ordinance
04-41, the Land Development Code, as amended, Section
10.02.06(B)(I)(a), and 10.02.06(B)(I)(e)(i).
Location is 3440 35th Avenue Northeast, Naples, Florida. Folio
No. 39956600004.
Description of the violation is a reported remodel conversion
consisting of but not liInited to electric rewire, plumbing, walls
removed and replaced.
Past orders: On November 18th, 2010, the Code Enforcement
Board issued a finding of fact, conclusion of law and order. The
respondent was found in violation of the referenced ordinances and
ordered to correct the violation. See the attached Order of the Board,
OR 4629, Page 256 for more information.
The respondent has complied with the CEB orders of -- as of
April 12th, 2011.
The fines and costs to date are described as the following: Order
item one and two, fines at the rate of $150 per day for the period
between December 19th, 2010 and April 12th, 2011, 115 days, for a
total of $17,250.
Order item nUlnber five: Operational costs, $81.43, have been
paid, for a total aInount to date of $17,250.
MR.I(AUFMAN: I'd like to make a motion to abate the fine.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Second.
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CHAIRMAN KELLY: We have a motion and a second.
Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. LA VINSI(I: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Aye.
Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And there are no fines. Thank you for
hanging around with us.
Okay, next case is going to be Omar Raul Garcia.
(Speaker was duly sworn.)
SUPERVISOR PEREZ: Good morning. It's still morning time.
This is in reference to CEB Case No. CELU20100018294.
Violations of Collier County Land Development Code 04-41, as
amended, Section 1.04.01 (A).
Location: 10651 Greenway Road, Naples, Florida. Folio No.
00738120003.
Description is of an unlicensed, inoperable box truck parked or
stored on agricultural property.
Past orders: On January 27th, 2011, the Code Enforcement
Board issued a findings of fact, conclusion of law and order. The
respondent was found in violations of the referenced ordinances and
ordered to correct the violation. See the attached Order of the Board,
OR 4651, Page 594 for more information.
The respondent has not complied with the CEB orders as of April
28th, 2011.
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The fines and costs to date are described as the following: Order
number item one and two, fines at the rate of$250 per day for the
periods between February 27th, 2011 through April 28th, 2011, 61
days, for a total of $15,250. Fines continue to accrue.
Order number five: Operational costs of $80.29 have not been
paid.
Total amount to date is $15,330.29.
MR. KAUFMAN: Motion to impose.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Second.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Motion and seconded by Mr. Lefebvre.
Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Motion carries.
And I believe we have one last case for the same respondent.
SUPERVISOR PEREZ: Yes, sir.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Would you like to read it in? It is a new
case. Do we need to -- Jean? Same respondent, new case.
MS. RAWSON: Yes.
(Speaker was duly sworn.)
SUPERVISOR PEREZ: This case is in reference to CEB Case
No. CESD20100018348.
Violations of Collier County Ordinance 04-41, as amended, the
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Land Development Code section 10.02.06(B)(I)(a), and Florida
Building Code, 2007 Edition, Chapter 1 for permits, Section 105.1.
Location is 10651 Greenway Road, Naples, Florida. Folio No. is
00738120003.
Descriptions is interior of a concrete box structure barn which
was converted into a grow house with extensive electrical alterations,
wiring, outlets, electrical panels, air conditioning units, irrigation
system and partition walls with no Collier County permits.
Past orders: On January 27th, 2011, the Code Enforcement
Board issued a findings of fact, conclusions of law and order. The
respondent was found in violation of the referenced ordinances and
ordered to correct the violations. See the attached Order of the Board,
OR 4651, Page 598 for more information.
The respondent has not complied with the CEB orders as of April
28th, 2011.
The fines and cost to date are described as follows: Order item
one and two, fines at the rate of $500 per day for the periods between
February 27th, 2011 through April 28th, 2011, for 61 days, for the
total of $30,500. Fines continue to accrue.
Order item number five: Operational costs of $80.29 have not
been paid.
Total amount to date: $30,580.29.
MR. KAUFMAN: Motion to impose.
MR. MARINO: Second.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: All those in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR.I(AUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
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MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: And the motion carries.
SUPERVISOR PEREZ: Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay, that concludes all of our
impositions of fines.
Now we're Inoving on to letter C, motion to amend previously
issued order. Case Robert E. and Serita Brown, CEPM20100018257.
And Jen, you have a statement.
MS. BAKER: Yes. This case, we need to amend the imposition
of fine/lien order due to bankruptcy that we learned about after the
hearing. And the bankruptcy cases we cannot impose the money on
the person, but we can impose the money on the property, the daily
fine.
So we just need to change the wording. And the wording that
we're requesting to change is in the owner information it states Robert
E. and Serita D. Brown or current property owner. So that takes the
liability off of those people if there's another property owner.
And also, under the ordered section that -- and usually it says the
respondents, it would say Respondent Robert E. and Serita Brown
paid to Collier County . We would like to change this to say are
hereby imposed against the property described as. And take them out
of that, due to the bankruptcy.
And we have given Ms. Rawson a copy of this as well so she can
revise the order to reflect this.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Does anybody have any problems with
that?
(No response.)
MR. LEFEBVRE: Make a motion to amend the order as stated.
MR. KAUFMAN: Second.
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CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: All in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSKI: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay, it's amended.
And the next one is our -- under new business, code enforcement
rules and regs. I guess we have a hangup?
MS. BAKER: Yes. And Mr. Kelly can probably talk a little bit
about this as well.
The suggestion that we had was to change section -- let me find it
here.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: In our rules as --
MS. BAKER: In the rules and regulations, yes, it's Article Nine.
And the suggestion was that the sentence just needs to be clarified.
Instead of saying --
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Can I give some background?
MS. BAKER: Yes, please.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: This is referring to stipulated statements
and how we as a --
MS. BAI(ER: Statement of violation, right.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: -- board handle them, the stipulated
agreements.
The way the orders were read or were written requires us to only
hear the stateInent itself. We can't ask any additional questions. It's
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either an up or down, either we accept the stipulated agreement or we
don't.
And this Board has had a practice of actually hearing some of
those or asking questions for clarification.
And so the idea from the Board was to change that statement to
where we would be allowed in certain cases to ask additional
questions to the respondent if they were here or to the investigator.
MS. BAKER: Right. The statement currently says in a
non-contested case the only evidence heard shall be the statement of
violation and any stipulated agreement. And the discussion was to
change the shall to a Inay.
But the other suggestion that was made after the fact of trying to
clarify this is to add the statement, unless additional information is
requested from the Board. So that gives the opportunity for not only
the statement of violation but additional documents as well to be
heard.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: I think it was the county attorney's office
who said changing shall to may pretty much renders the whole
statement ineffective, so why have it.
And so leaving it shall and just adding at the end, unless
additional information is requested from the Board, gives us the
opportunity to pull it and use that if we need to learn more about the
case.
Is that acceptable?
MR.I(AUFMAN: Yep.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Yes.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Do we need a motion on that?
MS. BAKER: If you would, yes.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay. Would someone like to make
that?
MR. KAUFMAN: I'll make that motion.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Second.
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CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any discussion?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: All in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR. KAUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSI(I: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay, that change is good.
And when will we expect those to be finished? Next month so we
can sign them?
MS. BAI(ER: I will bring them back for your signature next
month and we will try to get the items scheduled for the next available
Board of Commissioners meeting for their approval as well.
CHAIRMAN I(ELL Y: Okay.
Keep in Inind that as summer's coming up, if you have any
vacations, this is typically where we get low on our numbers and have
quorum issues. So if you're going out of town, let us know ahead of
time so we can, you know, hopefully schedule if there's any conflicts.
MS. RAWSON: Or schedule it around this meeting.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: There you go.
And do we have any reports?
MS. FLAGG: Yes, we do. Good morning.
To date the banks have expended $2,083,000 in Collier County
to abate 1,681 violations. This is part of the Blight Prevention
Program that we comlnenced in 2008.
For the week ending April 17th -- and as you know, we keep
statistics every week and we monitor performance measures for the
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Code Enforcement Department. For the week ending April 17th, there
were 187 new code cases opened, just in that one week. There were
575 property inspections conducted. There were 118 code cases
closed with voluntary compliance.
And one of the items that came up earlier where we didn't have
this process in place in 2005, for the week there were 121 lien
searches conducted for potential buyers of property. And the good
news is of those 121, three of the buyers found out that there were in
fact opened code cases on those properties, where prior to the
commence of the program, they would have bought those properties
not knowing that there were open code issues.
And finally, the investigators are managing currently an average
of 44 cases each.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Wow, good work. Thank you.
Is there anything else?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Seeing that, our next meeting is May
26th, 2011. I think we're going to be back at the courthouse in the
commission chambers.
And with that, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn.
MR. LEFEBVRE: Before we do, there's a couple people in the
audience. Are they --
MS. BAKER: They're just observing.
MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: I was actually -- good
morning, guys. I was actually hoping to speak with --
THE COURT REPORTER: I'm sorry, could you come on the
microphone? Thank you.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Your statement will become --
MS. BAKER: They're not for the hearing.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Oh, you're not for the hearing?
MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE: Not for the hearing. We're
actually following up on a Granada Lakes issues.
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CHAIRMAN KELLY: Okay, no problem. It won't be -- okay.
So you want to make a motion?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Make a motion to adjourn.
MR. KAUFMAN: Second.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All those in favor?
MR. LEFEBVRE: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Aye.
MR. L'ESPERANCE: Aye.
MR.I(AUFMAN: Aye.
MR. DOINO: Aye.
MR. MARINO: Aye.
MR. LA VINSI(I: Aye.
CHAIRMAN KELLY: Any opposed?
(No response.)
CHAIRMAN KELLY: All right, we'll see you next month.
*****
There being no further business for the good of the County, the
meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 11 :31 a.m.
COLLIER COUNTY CODE
ENFORCEMENT BOARD
KEN KELLY, Chairman
These minutes approved by the board on
as presented or as corrected
,
Transcript prepared on behalf of Gregory Reporting Service, Inc., by
Cherie' R. N ottinghaln.
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