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DSAC - 01.07.26 Meeting FINAL Minutes SignedMINUTES OF THE COLLIER COUNTY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING Naples, Florida January 7, 2026 LET IT BE REMEMBERED, the Collier County Development Services Advisory Committee and Collier County, having conducted business herein, met on this date at 3:00 PM in REGULAR SESSION at the Collier County Growth Management Community Department Building, Conference Room #609/610, 2800 N. Horseshoe Dr., Naples, Florida, 34102 with the following members present: Chairman: William J. Varian Vice Chairman: Blair Foley James Boughton Clay Brooker Jeffrey Curl Laura Spurgeon DeJohn John English - Excused Marco Espinar Norm Gentry Nicholas Kouloheras Mark McLean Chris Mitchell Robert Mulher - Excused Hannah Roberts — AHAC (Non -voting) - Excused Jeremy Stark Mario Valle ALSO PRESENT: James French, Department Head, GMCD Mike Bosi, Director —Zoning, GMCD Christopher Mason, Director — Community Planning & Resiliency, GMCD - EXCUSED Jaime Cook, Director — Development Review, GMCD Evelyn Trimino, Director — Operations & Regulatory Management, GMCD Robert Moore, Manager — Designee for Building Review & Permitting Division, GMCD Captain Michael Cruz — Collier County Fire Review - EXCUSED Captain Bryan Horbal — North Collier Fire Review Thomas Iandimarino, Director — Code Enforcement, GMCD Claudia Vargas, Project Manager I — Public Utilities Engineering & Project Management, PUD Lorriane Lantz., Manager — Transportation Planning, Transportation Engineering Division Heather Cartwright-Yilmaz, Management Analyst / Staff Liaison, GMCD Any person who decides to appeal a decision of This Board you 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 This Board shall be responsible for providing this record. 1. CALL TO ORDER— Chairman William Varian Development Service Advisory Committee, Wednesday, January 7c', 2026, was called to order at 3:00 PM, 2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA Motion to approve- Blair Foley Motion Seconded- Jeff Curl Motion passed unanimously 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES a. DSAC-LDR:1149-2025 Motion to approve -Jeff Curl Motion Seconded- Clay Brooker Motion passed unanimously 4. ANNUAL SELECTION OF COMMITTEE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR Chair a. Motion to nominate Bill Varian- Jeff Curl Motion seconded- Mario Valle Motion passed unanimously- Bill Varian -Abstained Vice Chair bI Motion to nominate Blair Foley- Jeff Curl Motion Seconded- Bill Varian Motion passed unanimously- Blair Foley -Abstained 5. PUBLIC SPEAKERS None 6. STAFF ANNOUNCEMENTS a. Zoning Division — [Mike Bosi, Director] • Sabal Palm Proposal- Affordable Housing. • 3 in public planning. East of 951 Section 31 Support uses landfill. Santa Barbara commercial overlay. Rural Golden Gate Estates Master plan. Meeting to be held 1/29 open to the public Mark McLean- Will these meetings be specific to Golden Gate Mike Bosi- Rural Golden Gate Estates 2 b. Community Planning & Resiliency Division —[Christopher Mason, Director] • No updates c. Housing Poncy & Economic Development — [Cormac Giblin, Director] • 2025 Wrap up- Board approved 18 new developments. Of those 10 have a portion of affordable set aside. 6,838 units of which 1452 were affordable/income restricted units. • 2 Live Local projects approved. Brings the total to 3 • Economic development- Validated the creation of 2,672 new jobs that received economic development assistance from the county. Bill Varian- On the resident units, anticipation of when they may come online. Cormac Giblin- The live local are in permitting approval now. Some are under construction. Zoning approvals- Could be coming out of the ground within 2 years. Villages are 10-15-year build outs. Nick Kouloheras - Of the 1,452 affordable units, are they all rentals Cormac Giblin- No. 80/20 split. Nick Kouloheras- The two live local, how many affordable units in each Cormac Giblin- One is 100% affordable, the second required 40%. d. Development Review Division — [Jaime Cook, Director] • Jeff McKenna official retirement date was last Friday. David Crane has accepted the position, and we are currently looking to fill his old role. e. Operations Support &Regulatory Management Division — [Evelyn Trimino, Director] • December- 3,486 Permits, currently at 131 permits in intake. 1,500 for processing and 1,600 for routing. • Intake- 2,249 Single family permits came in. 1,225 Commercial permit. • 666 people that came into the building for assistance. Satellite offices took in additional people. • January I' new fee schedule went into place. • Budget season is around the corner. We have been meeting with the different departments to assess need. • 56 vacant positions. 16 are for building including plan review and inspectors. • HR team is working with Alpha Omega on a pay study, cost of living. Nick Kouloheras - Will the pay study take into consideration what we need to pay people to live and work in Collier County. Evelyn Trevino- Yes, we are looking at the cost of living in our area Norm Gentry - We have lost plan reviewers to private providers. Are we taking into account what it will take to retain them. Evelyn Trevino- One of the things we have been talking about is dual licenses. That could help offer more incentives. James French- NOVA is one of the 150 private providers out there. Their contract with us has expired. We have put a bid for Staff Augmentation Services. In order to avoid 3 conflict, we are going to find someone who does not provide services in Collier County. We have not been able to find anyone yet. f. Building Review and Permitting Division — [Robert Moore, Manager] • Resident reviews 488, Commercial 410 • Trade permits- Plumbing 47, Electrical 6, mechanical 19 • 2 New permit types. Flood Proofing, commercial only. Tower crane permit, foundations for tower cranes. Mark McLean- If I am renovating a hotel do I have to pull a permit for every room Robert Moore- No, Hotels and Apartments are individual folios. For Condos yes. Bill Varian- So if I have a building that has 55 units I have to get 55 permits. Robert Moore- Yes. It became effective January 1 g. Collier County Fire Review — [Michael Cruz, Captain] • We will be utilizing headquarters to house inspections. • We will be splitting up into two teams. Existing — Will do all existing buildings. New Construction- Will do new permits. • There will always be a Captain on duty at Horseshoe and one on duty at headquarters. Will help to be more efficient. • Lely Career fair this Friday. h. North Collier Fire Review — [Bryan Horbel, Captain] • 2025 wrap up- Completed 16,000 New construction inspections. • Existing buildings completed 9600 existing building inspections. • Month of December-1,277 new construction inspections. 3-day turnaround on plan review. 2 '/z day on planning permits. Next day on inspections. i. Code Enforcement Division — [Thomas Iandimarino, Director] • Animal Control Division busy j. Public Utilities Department — [Claudia Vargas, Project Manager I] • No updates k. Transportation Planning, Transportation Engineering Division — [I,orriane Lantz, Manager] • Golden Gate City Master plan- Water/Septic to Sewer. Moving forward for public comment. Meeting date is Tuesday January 2024 and 5-7pm. • Golden Gate Parkway Corridor Congestion Study. From Moorings Park through I75. First public meeting was in November. Overpass at Golden Gate and Livingston. I75 would be a partial continuous green T intersection. Meeting is tentative for Thursday February 26 h at Golden Gate Community Center. Chris Mitchell- We had a public meeting on Spanish Oaks/Oakes Boulevard Round about. 0 Lorraine Lantz- I believe it is moving forward with construction. I will confine and get back with you. Norm Gentry- The diverging diamond did not come in as the winner Lorraine Lantz- It required a lot of bridge work and was very expensive. Norm Gentry- If we are already doing the diverging diamond at Immokalee/75 and Pine Ridge/75 for the consistency and learning curve we should have kept it the same. Lorraine Lantz- At the intersections at Immokalee and Pine ridge 75 is an overpass so the diamond can be done under that. At Golden Gate it would have to be done as a bridge and is a lot more expensive. Bill Varian- Collier/951 from White Lake up to Green, widening from 4 to six lanes - What is the status Lorraine Lantz- Currently in design, moving forward to notice to proceed. Will follow up and get back with you. 7. NEW BUSINESS None 8. OLD BUSINESS None 9. COMMITTEE MEMBER COMMENTS None 10. ADJOURN FUTURE MEETING DATES: February 4u,2026 3:OOPM March 4 h,2026 3:OOPM April 1st, 2026 3:OOPM There being no further business for the good of the County, the meeting was adjourned at 3:SSpm. COLLIER COUNTY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE 1 William Varian, Chairman These minutes were approved b e Committee/Chairman on 2 (check one) as submitted or as amended