Agenda 10/04/2002 W COLLIER COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
LDC COMPREHENSIVE REWRITE WORKSHOP AGENDA
9:00 A.M.
OCTOBER 4, 2002
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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' OFFICE.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
AGENDA
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The first of Three Fall Workshops to include discussion of Public Participation
Regulations; Presentation by Community Character/Smart Growth Committee
regarding prioritization of schedule for Future Land Development Code
Amendments; Overview of Current Landscaping and Buffering Regulations;
Overview of the Architectural and Site Design Standards and Guidelines.
3. ADJOURN
INQUIRIES CONCERNING CHANGES TO THE BOARD'S AGENDA SHOULD BE MADE
TO THE COUNTY MANAGER'S OFFICE AT 774-8383.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
THE FIRST OF THREE FALL WORKSHOPS TO INCLUDE DISCUSSION OF
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION REGULATIONS; PRESENTATION BY
COMMUNITY CHARACTER/SMART GROWTH COMMITTEE REGARDING
PRIORITIZATION OF SCHEDULE FOR FUTURE LAND DEVELOPMENT
CODE AMENDMENTS; OVERVIEW OF CURRENT LANDSCAPING AND
BUFFERING REGULATIONS; OVERVIEW OF THE ARCHITECTURAL AND
SITE DESIGN STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES.
OBJECTIVE: To respond to the Board's direction with respect to conduct a
comprehensive review and re-write of the County's Land Development Code.
Specifically to present to the Board an overview of the Architectural and Site Design
Guidelines; the public participation regulations; the Landscaping and Buffering
regulations; and to discuss the plans for future amendments to the LDC with respect to
Community Character/Smart growth.
CONSIDERATIONS:
Public Participation process: Staff will present an overview of the current regulations
and give statistical information regarding the number and types of meetings and the level
of participation. Staff will present the pros and cons of the regulations and any issues
they've had over the past year with respect to implementation.
Architectural and Site Design Guidelines: Staff will present an overview of the current
regulations. They will explain the review process, and provide details with respect to the
Immokalee Redevelopment Area and its zoning overlay districts. Staff will update the
Board with respect to the work the Architectural Standards Review Committee has
completed to date.
Landscape Code: Staff will present an overview of the current regulations. They will
explain the role of the landscape code, and positive aspects to the current code. Staff will
explain the impact of these regulations and some issues and concerns with respect to their
administration. Staff will also explain the deficiencies in the current code and future
suggestions for amendment.
Community_ Character/Smart Growth: Barbara Cacchione, consultant working with the
Community Character committee will present the schedule and liaison process in concert
with County staff. Barbara will likely request a special cycle of amendments to address
Community Character/Smart Growth issues for 2003, in order to keep the
interrelationships between the planned Comprehensive Plan Amendments and the Land
Development Code amendments together in a more cohesive package.
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GROWTH MANAGEMENT PLAN: This proposal has no immediate impact on the
Growth Management Plan. Staff will ensure that future amendments to the LDC are
consistent with the Growth Management Plan and any future changes thereto.
FISCAL IMPACT: The estimated cost to conduct a comprehensive re-write of the
Land Development Code is the equivalent of 2.5 FTE's for a period of 2 years, at a cost
of approximately $260,733. This excludes time and cost associated with amending the
Land Development Code as a result of the adoption of the Rural Fringe and Rural Land
amendments to the Growth Management Plan, or any amendments associated with the
Community Character Plan or any other zoning overlay amendments. It is anticipated that
funding for this project will come from Community Development fund (113).
RECOMMENDATION: That the Board of County Commissioners consider the
information presented by staff and give direction to staff to take action in the form of
amendments to the Land Development Code and/or Growth Management Plan which
best serve the interests of the public.
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AGENDA
BCC WORKSHOP - OCTOBER 4, 2002, 9:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
TIME
+/- 20 MINUTES
+/- 30 MINUTES
10 minute Break
+/- 45 MINUTES
+/- 45 MINUTES
+/- 30 MINUTES
TOPIC
1. Community Character/Smart Growth
2. Overview of the Public Participation Process
3. Overview of Architectural and Site Design Guidelines
4. Overview of Landscape Regulations
5. Public comments
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Outline of presentation for Community Character/Smart Growth
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TO:
FROM:
DATE:
RE:
Memorandum
Community Character Committee
Barbara A. Cacehione, Consultant
September 9, 2002
Schedule for Community Character Comprehensive Plan Amendments
& Land Development Code.
I met with David Weeks, Stan Litsinger, Susan Murray, Tom Tomlinson, County staff on
Friday to discuss the schedule and liaison process with the County. The schedule for
LDC amendments Fall cycle has already begun, deadline August 16th with final hearings
scheduled in early January 2003. The next available cycle for Spring has not yet been
established however it is expected in January, 2003 and would take approximately 6
months to complete ending in June, 2003.
The Comprehensive Plan amendment cycle begins in March 2003 and final public
hearings are in April 2004.
As you can see neither of these cycles fit our process very well. After much discussion
with staff it was recommended that we make a presentation to the Board of County
Commissioners at their workshop in early October, 2002 (either the 3ra or 4th) on our
schedule of amendments for both the Comprehensive Plan and the Land Development
Code and request that a special cycle of amendments be processed for the items related to
the Community Character Plan. This process would keep the interrelationships between
the Comprehensive Plan Amendments and Land Development Code amendments
together in a more cohesive package. It is important to understand that these are
considered staff initiated amendments and will be reviewed by County staff prior to
distribution. The County staff will handle all legal review and advertising and scheduling
of the meetings. If there are policy disagreements it is anticipated that they will be
brought to the Community Character Committee for discussion and hopefully resolution.
If there are different recommendations from county staff and the committee both will be
presented to the CCPC and the BCC.
The following schedule is suggested for your consideration:
Prepare work plan of amendments:
Schedule presentations from Transportation
Department & Parks & Recreation Department
regarding implementation of CC amendments.
Draft language for Comprehensive Plan Amendments
(Committee review, county staff review, legal review)
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September 18th
October Meeting
October -January
OCT 2O02
Draft Language for LDC amendments
(Committee review, county staff review, legal review)
DSAC Subcommittee review
DSAC Committee review
CCPC Public Hearing (GMP transmittal & LDC)
CCPC Public Hearing (GMP & LDC)
BCC Public Hearing (GMP transmittal & LDC)
BCC Public Hearing (LDC final adoption of
Amendments not contingent on a Comp Plan
Amendment).
State review of Comp Plan amendments (60 days)
> CCPC Public hearing for Comp Plan (final adoption)
} BCC Public hearing for Comp Plan (final adoption)
January-April, 2003
May, 2003
June, 2003
July, 2003
August, 2003
September, 2003
October, 2003
October-December
2003
January, 2004
February, 2004
This is a very long process, there may be some alternatives the Committee can
look at in terms of Sub Committees responsible for actual drafting of the
amendment language to shorten the initial process. We can discuss this any other
suggestions the Committee has at our meeting on October 18th.
amendments not
contingent
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Outline of presentation for Public Participation
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OVERVIEW OF PUBLIC
PARTICIPATION ORDINANCE
DIVISION 2.7. ZONING ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURES
ORDINACE NO. 01-60 OCTOBER 24, 2001
I. Section 2.7.2.3.5.
Public participation requirements for rezonin~s, PUD
amendments~ conditional uses~ variances or parking
exemptions.
REQUIRED ACTIONS OF APPLICANT:
A. Land use petitions:
Be
Rezoning, PUD amendment
or conditional use.
1. Attend pre-application meeting at Planning Services Department.
2. Arrange for adequate meeting facility reasonably convenient to
property owners required to receive notice.
3. Provide written notice of planned public information meeting to be
sent to:
a. Property owners within 500' of subject site.
b. FLUE - GMP non urban district properties - all property
owners within 1000' must be noticed.
c. Other interested parties of record requesting to be noticed.
Not less than ten (10) days prior to public information meeting:
provide copy of list of all parities noticed including date/time of
meeting to Planning Services and BCC.
At least seven (7) days prior to public information meeting: purchase
display advertisement in newspaper of lA page size no less than 18
point print in non legal or classified section of newspaper.
6. Provide Planning Services Department a copy of video or audio record
of public information meeting.
Land use petitions:
Variance approval or parking exem!
approval.
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1. Attend pre-application meeting at Planning Services Department.
Within in thirty (30) days of receipt of sufficiency letter: advise
property owners, within 150' of subject site, and other interested
parties of record, of the extent and nature of the variance or parking
exemption requested.
3. Provide written documentation to Planning Services Department
verifying all parties have been noticed.
At least two (2) weeks prior to the first advertised public hearing:
provide written account of the meeting, the list of property owners and
other interested parties of record that were "advised".
5. Provide list of any commitments made by applicant to the Planning
Services Department in writing (to be included in the staff report).
II. Statistics of public information meetings conducted to date.
A. Number of meetings to date.
1. Rezone: 24
2. PUD amendment: 12
3. Conditional Use: 17
4. Variance:
no meetings have been
conducted for variances (not
required)
5. Parking exemption: 0
6. Master Plan amendment (PDI): 1
B. Attendance records.
Attendance has varied widely according to the sensitivity of the
proposed project. Numbers range from 0 to 200. Average meeting
appears to be from 10 to 20 concerned citizens in attendance.
C. Typical location of meetings.
1. Church
2. County Park
3. Hotel
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4. Fair Grounds
5. School
6. Club
7. Office
8. Animal Services
9. On site - barn & fishing camp
10. Waste Management facility
IlL Identified problems.
A. Applicant
1. Confusion regarding what to do.
(Ordinance is not clear on variance procedures).
2. High cost of newspaper advertisement.
3. Duplication of noticing (county sends a similar letter).
4. Difficulty in arranging meeting facility.
B. Planning Services Department.
1. Redundant noticing, creating added expense.
5. Additional time required of planner and coordinator.
6. Must limit responses to process only.
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Outline of presentation for Architectural and Site Design
Guidelines
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Power Point Presentation at the Workshop of the BCC
October 4, 2002
Item 4. Architectural Regulations.
Presentation prepared by:
Irene Szmorlinski, AICP, Urban Design Planner - Architectural Review
Carolina Valera, Urban Design Planner - Architectural Review
Aaron Blair, Senior Planner - Redevelopment Section
To be presented by Irene, and Aaron.
Presentation Outline:
1. Collier County one of the first to adopt architectural review standards
Positive impact of the architectural review process:
a. Site plan improvements
b. Building design
3. Brief history, significant amendments
4. Projects subject to architectural review
5. Related sections of the LDC:
a. Division 2.2. Zoning Districts, including Overlay Districts
b. Section 3.3.5. Site Development Standards
c. Division 2.4. Landscaping and Buffering
d. Section 3.6.28. Automobile Service Stations
e. Section 3.2.8.17. Sidewalks
f. Section 2.6.15.1. Trash Enclosures
g. Section 2.6.11. Walls and Fences
Review process, exceptions to the standards, and flexibility:
a. Overlay districts
b. PUD projects
c. Variances
d. Deviations
Section 2.8 specific requirements
a. Site related standards
b. Building design
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Brief explanation of the Immokalee Redevelopment Area & its 5 zoning overlay
subdistricts:
a. Jefferson avenue Commercial Overlay
b. Farmer Market Overlay
c. Agribusiness Overlay
d. SR-29 Commercial Overlay
e. Main Street Overlay
9. Steps the Redevelopment Section is taking to further enhance these overlays
10. Architectural standard- implementation challenges:
a. Revisions in response to Citizens expectations
b. Update of the standards to meet developers/applicants needs
c. Revisions to better serve the design professionals
d. Amendments to the standards to facilitate staff review
11. Work progress of Architectural Standards Review Committee
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Outline of presentation for Landscape Regulations
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Landscape Code Presentation to the BCC
On October 4, 2002
20 minute presentation
9 a.m. to noon
presented by: Nancy Siemion
Purpose: To teach Commissioners what minimum landscape code is, in order that they
may determine if standards should be reduced for Immokolee.
Outline:
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What is minimum landscape code?
What does a landscape code do?
A. Protects property values.
B. Improves the appearance of development.
C. Buffers incompatible uses.
D. Reduces urban heat island effect by providing shade, thereby reducing
temperature.
E. Reduces water runoff.
F. Promotes water conservation through the use of drought tolerant
landscaping.
G. Replaces native vegetation lost to development.
Positive aspects/requirements of the landscape code:
A. Perimeter buffers screen incompatible uses such as commercial adjacent to
residential development.
B. Interior vehicular use area (IVUA) landscaping balances the ratio of paved
area to green area. It breaks up large seas of pavement.
C. Building perimeter landscaping creates pedestrian friendly spaces along
the front of strip shopping centers and "vertically greens" the fronts of
large commercial buildings.
D. Creates a "park like" edge along automobile service stations (through the
implementation of our automobile service station landscape requirements).
Deficiencies in the landscape code:
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Commercial landscape buffers can be reduced or done
away with through legal vehicles such as PUD's and/or throug
"shared" landscape buffer.
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B. Water management areas have encroached into the landscape buffer.
C. Landscape buffers are used to accommodate many other things besides
landscaping:
i. Severe grade changes that are so steep that the landscape buffer
becomes a rip rap buffer instead.
ii. Signage is not compatible with landscape buffer trees. Signage
needs to be located away from and in front of a buffer. Our ten,
fifteen and twenty foot wide buffers are not wide enough to
accommodate a sign in front of it.
D. Landscape islands often can not accommodate the required landscaping
because it is used for utilities such as fire hydrants, FPL boxes and light
poles.
Conclusion: What a landscape code can and can not do:
A. Landscaping can not always hide an incompatible use:
i. A four story parking garage associated with a large office tower
infill project next to residential.
ii. A large commercial building next to a single family dwelling.
B. Landscaping can help reduce and mitigate the impact of less compatible
development.
i. Naples Walk commercial strip shopping center next to Piper's
Grove.
C. Landscaping is a part of the community character of an area, especially
Collier County. It attracts visitors to the coastal area and can attract
business investors to the Immokalee area.
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