[Music] n [Music] n [Music] n [Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome to the March 11th 2024 meeting of the Orlando city council I love having a chamber full of smiling faces that must mean we're doing something good today not all smiles but 90% smilees that's a good thing and I think you're smiling because you know that commissioner Stewart is going to lead us in the invocation and the pledge today so how about that commissioner great thank you will you about bow your heads with me please dear wise and loving father first let me say thank you on behalf of all those who are gathered here today thank you for your many and Abundant Blessings thank you for life itself for the measure of Health we need to fulfill our callings our sustenance and for friendship thank you for the ability to be involved in useful work and for the honor of bearing appropriate responsibilities thanks for as well for the freedom to embrace you or the freedom to reject you thank you for loving us even so from your boundless and gracious nature in the scriptures you have said that citizens ought to obey the governing authorities since you have established those very authorities promote peace order and Justice therefore I pray for our mayor the various levels of City officials we have here and in particular for those assembled at Council I'm asking you to graciously grant us wisdom to govern amid the conf of Interest sense of welfare and true needs of our people a keen thirst for justice and righteousness confidence in what we what is good and fitting and the ability to work together in harmony even when there's honest disagreement I pray for this agenda set before us today pray for an assurance of what you would please you and what would benefit those who live and work in our beloved city of Orlando in your name I pray amen amen I plge allegiance to the flag the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all Gators it's call a meeting to order Madame clerk would you call the roll and determine the Quorum please commissioner gray here commissioner Ortiz here commissioner Stewart here commissioner Sheen here commissioner Hill here commissioner Burns here mayor Dyer here mayor you have a quorum with all members present thank you madam clerk first item business is consideration of minutes from the agenda review and City Council meetings of February the 19th 2024 motion by commissioner Hill second by commissioner Sheen all in favor indicate so by saying I I those opposed motion carries okay today we are celebrating a member of our city team who is retiring after more than 33 years of service I'd love Rosa to come up and share some details about Carlton Burke who's been a valuable member of Our IT staff for a very long time good afternoon mayor commissioner and guests I along with information technology team are here to celebrate an invaluable member of our city family for 33 years Colton Burke since 1990 Colton has been providing excellent customer service to the city staff installing and troubleshooting hardware and software and recommending applications and equipment to ensure the continuity of City operations over the year C has played a key role in various critical technology projects demonstrating his problem solving skills projects such as navigating through herane activation to assisting implementing system and overseeing count countless computer Replacements Caron's impact has been felt across the organization for the last 33 years as a education also extended be beyond the workplace Carlton is an Air Force veteran and pro and proud graduate of Evans High School who embodies the value of service his mentorship goes beyond helping his staff reach their potential he is an active member of the schools alumni organization help lead the students advisory committee and even provide proves catered meals for the school's athletes and staff he is generous man who loves to shower his family with thoughtful gifts such as tickets to his beloved Tampa Bay Buck games as he embarks on his next chapter Carlton leaves a legacy of hard work and collaboration we will miss his expertise and his friendship but the knowledge he had bestowed on his peers will always be remembered and cherished so on behalf of the city it and me personally I wish Carlton all the best in his well earned retirement we hope he spends time with his loved ones travel the world and enjoys the rest and relaxation that he richly deserves thank you Carlton for 30 years 33 years of exemplary and edicated service it has been an honor working with you mayor Dyer would you please do the honor of freeding his Proclamation so Colton could you please Carlton come join us you want a bask in the glove for a minute while I you're ready here okay uh retirement Proclamation city of Orlando city of Orlando is proud of the service rendered by its employees who have contributed in no small measure to the enhancement of the city beautiful as one of the most Progressive cities in the nation progress in municipal government is predicated for the greatest part upon the loyalty and efficiency of the employees and on their ability to carry out their duties in the highest tradition of Public Service Carlton on the occasion of your retirement from the employee of the city of Orlando after more than 33 years of service the Orlando city council wishes to express its esteem of the Sterling qualities manifested in your devotion and loyalty now therefore I Proclaim CL grateful appreciation of your long and honorable record of faithful service for the city of Orlando and extend best wishes for good health and happiness Ed he gets in the middle again want come's the tag your tag tell her put a tag on the back a tag on the back the green tag there we go and the IT St it St it oh wow this place going to go can realize I wow a cber attack yeah apparently nothing's being done upstairs all right [Applause] you you always can B [Music] okay so Carlton attracted quite a crowd I think that's the biggest retirement party we've had in a a long time probably but welld deserved okay we will move on then to uh the mayor's update uh March is here this is our first council meeting and we are celebrating women's history month and our city is fortunate to have a long lineage of women in every background who have played critical roles in shaping our community that's everybody from commissioner Mabel Butler to Mayor Glenda Hood to Chief F demmings and so many others including two that are serving with us today commissioner Sheen and commissioner Hill thank you for your um work that has strengthened our city and our city staff led by another Trailblazer Kathy Russell are supporting our women's history month events throughout the community to help us reaffirm our commitment to the rights and privileges that are available to women and all residents equally so that Orlando May remains inclusive and welcoming so please enjoy some of our uh women's month events moving to items on the agenda last month uh we unveiled the canopy which used to be known as the under eye and it's Urban Gathering space under I4 that's going to create a vibrant inclusive sustainable Urban Oasis and today we'll approve a temporary ride share pilot and parking Concept in that space I think we come to understand that um some of the businesses on and around Church Street and Pine Street are having a hard time surviving without that surface parking so we're combining a great concept of having the park under there with some additional uh adding back some of the parking so it'll be a temporary usage and then we will move into the full permanent project to design um also on today's agenda under items D1 and three are a renewal expansion of our community violence Intervention Program thanks to a $1.5 million Grant from the US office of Justice we launched our CVI initiative in November of 2022 with the goal of reducing and preventing gun violence and the project is shown certainly some great early success firearm homicides are down 20% non-fatal shootings are down 36% we've saved between uh well somewhere in the neighborhood of $85 million by preventing likely injuries from shootings and homicides it's a project that's in partnership with the Florida rights restoration Coalition and we'd like to recognize them for the dedication and help on that um item j3 and j4 we um are have reached a juncture I don't know how many years we're past the date that the locals were supposed to take over the operation of sun rail but we've been working diligently with do to come up with a plan to do that all five local governments are in concert on doing what needs to be done so um this is we're the first ones out of the box to vote on that but it's important that we accomplish this uh Do's done a lot and actually operated it for I guess three years longer than they were supposed to so it's our turn to take over that service and then one of the items that I think a lot of people are here for are the CRA is purchasing four catalytic properties in our downtown area um to help uh with our project dto action plan um they're four diverse pieces of property but two um are going to help us with our plans on creating a great entrance way from the south west part of Lake Yola Park and add to the parcels that are in the park and expand the park so very excited about that with that we will move on to the consent agenda and the consent agenda is a number of items that are act upon through a single vote of the council um we give each of our council members an opportunity to comment on items that are on the consent agenda as well up as update you on important happenings from their districts we rotate the order that we do that and um uh you know what I just saw that mayor Frederick has joined us he was not here before so I certainly want to acknowledge Him as well as everybody else in the room and with that I'll call on commissioner Stewart thank you mayor and uh and welcome mayor Frederick it's always good seeing you and uh uh it's good seeing your name on the building as we walk in every morning so thank you very much let me share a couple of things going on uh first of all thank you to uh Lou Gardens uh for their plant sale how many you guys went to the plant sale this past weekend it was great uh I may have been the biggest one yet but uh U had a had a good time had a chance to get over there early on on uh Saturday and get some good stuff uh but it was a great um a great event congratulations to Jenifer deander and her entire staff uh I appreciate that uh yesterday was Sunday in the Park College Park neighborhood association we had a good turnout there a couple of thousand people kind of went through the spent the afternoon there um and last Friday we had the opportunity onx magazine recognizing some women in our community and we recognize Natasha uh Williams one of our um former uh um City staff um attorneys um it was a neat opportunity to be there and see all the wonderful women that were there um I want to say also a special welcome to Miami Grill and Bar they are now uh coming back to Orlando and they're up in the Rosemont area up on 441 you get a chance swing by it's uh it's uh been been very well received we just got to make sure we give them plenty of business so you guys get a chance to get up there so upcoming events real quickly uh tomorrow is the neighborhood watch meeting over in dub you guys get a chance to come to that and the long awaited opening of the P the public at the packing district is this Thursday for those of us who are in College Park are excited about having an alternative over there for public and we appreciate that uh um the um Balin Park Easter Egg Hunt is coming up the oton park easter egg H coming up the college park easter egg is coming up Easter egg hunt and the Rosemont Easter egg is coming up so so if you get a chance look at my calendar and you'll see those items uh Lou Gardens is doing a special event on on March 30th dog day get a chance to bring your dog around the the L Gardens it's be a great chance to see the gardens um so please enjoy that on the agenda today let me share just a couple quick things first of all thank you to our staff B5 is now moving forward our Pasadena marks and Highland Street drainage project we've been talking about that for probably five or six years and redoing that uh we had our community meeting last week today we we formalized the agreement uh with the design and construction team so uh that's on the agenda today for B5 and then mayor as you mentioned the doj grant uh about the um Community violence intervention Grant from uh um from representative Frost uh it's it's going to include three areas one of them is Signal Hill in my district I'm looking forward to seeing the results there uh we've had some challenges up in that area and uh looking forward to seeing some positive things come out of there appreciate Abraham Abraham and the work he's done uh and uh and had a good long talk with him last week about it and so really thrilled about that moving forward so and that's all that I have mayor thank you thank you commissioner Stewart move on to commissioner Shen uh thank you mayor Dyer and I I know everybody's probably heard by now about the swan V at Lake Yola Park um we lost four um swans uh polish mute Australian black and two of our beloved black necks which were the babies that that that that you know succumbed to to Aven flu um we've had no additional deaths of birds in the last week which is a good thing um we're hoping that we have finally reached her immunity with that but has also affected ducks and andhas over 20 birds in all um and people have asked what can you do um if you want to feed them feed them lettuce not bread or popcorn uh the feeders are down for now so if you want to bring something to feed the swans please bring lettuce uh sanitize your shoes if you go to the park and don't touch the birds and the fishing Wildlife Commission have recommended allowing it to run its course for H her immunity I know everybody's kind of upset about that but if we herded them up right now to try to vaccinate them we would make them all sick so it's just not a good idea right now so we will vaccinate for this for next year folks have asked why we didn't vaccinate last year it's very unusual to get Aven flu in a in a large scale area and open area like a park it usually impacts poultry we just happen to be lucky to be one of the first ones where it happened to unfortunately and very unlucky because like I say there's our our beloved Swans in in lakeola but um I just want to say if you want to help as well you can donate to the swan ofon if you want to help us um replace the birds that have passed away uh you can assist with our Swan Roundup that we have every November and I just want to shout out and thank the Rangers because they actually did a really good job of getting the sick birds out they a couple of them actually got sick before they knew that it was a contagious thing and you know people criticize our staff sometimes very unfairly say that they don't do enough but these Rangers love those birds and I just want to say shout out to all the Rangers at Lula Park y all do an amazing job I appreciate you and I know you're just as sad for those birds dying as everyone else is but uh you know it looks like we're now moving past that and we can get through this and uh maybe you know work to to uh get the population back up at Lake Yola Park mayor Frederick thank you for being here today as well as we're working with everyone here today um on this amazing purchase that we'll be talking about the CRA but um the best way to uh control land is to own it and uh it's a wonderful great um uh Initiative for many many Community groups I'm going to let y'all you you talk about all your your um your involvement but um but you know Lyn long Eugene SE Che thank you for your leadership ship um Ted hadock you know all your help Lori Bots all always having to figure out a way to purchase land when we we never not never have enough money to do so and everyone who's who's who's come in support today um it's really a dream come true to be able to leave this Legacy of adding you know acreage Shake Yola Park so thank you for your support thank you for your assistance in this as well as your fundraising because I know you did you did a lot in a very difficult time you had to raise a lot of this money during Co when we couldn't have events we couldn't do any of that so it was a really heavy lift but y'all made it happen and I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart that's all I had thank you thank you commission commissioner Hill thank you mayor good afternoon everyone and of course thank you for your service May Frederick and all that you've done to help um lead the way and push this uh City forward of of course mayor Dar and you guys who tag team and we're better because supp you guys Ser so it's a honor and a privilege to be sitting here today with two of the greatest Mayors This Side of Heaven uh uh I'm just going to be brief today if that's all right with uh yes CU we have a power pack house a lot of great things are on the agenda but I will comment on Echo uh commissioner Stewart's uh uh words as far as our crime or violence Intervention Program congratulations to our uh F frrc and the team that's leading that you guys have done a great and a stand Standing job with bringing our our our shoo shooting and homicides down and uh those that are being targeted and the work you're doing with those young folk uh but hand in hand with their uh OPD law enforcement so I got to give them a huge shout out because done in unison is not just one thing that's helping the city so great job and to Chief Smith and all the work that they've done together uh uh with with D4 I'm glad to see that funding there um because we do know our Shooters and we've seen that they're getting younger uh 13 the 18 is really that forac of better work Sweet Spot what we have to to really be laser focus on and hopefully some of those delinquency funds will go towards that while the CVI goes towards those 18 and up so I know we'll talk more about that uh but uh um I like to thank you all for what you're doing uh also I I'll briefly uh say uh it is a great day and I know uh Mr downtown himself is smiling down upon us mayor Thomas Chapman see is uh excuse me cuz you're young gals to me but he called you his little his little old ladies what Thomas would call you and all the great heavy lifting is is commissioner shean stay of course T I mean when it comes to history and this is your passion and making the city a better because of it and thank you all I'm also uh excited about more of the purchasing we're pro we're we're uh purchasing downtown next to Lake Yola and making at a complete campus and ecosystem uh as I travel and go to a few of these housing uh seminars are just downtown seminars and they're talking about cities purchasing more of downtowns so that they can uh make it more of a work uh Flex type of uh our system so I'm I'm excited to what we can do and I and uh uh would say when there was a time in Paramore and I saw the city purchasing the land some of us had anx about it but now as we're 20 years past that mayor that was the greatest decision that the city did and L in your leadership was to purchase the bulk of the land in there in our Urban Corp and hopefully we can do it downtown because of that we've seen great revitalization there in the Paramore area from housing to Economic Development to a university Who would thought UCF would be downtown in Valencia so this really really is another Catalyst as we stated and we're going to be future ready we talk about being future ready and the only way we can truly be Future Ready is is possessed the land because then we can dictate the growth of Orlando so with that being said also I'm just so glad to be annexing a a another portion of what will become the city into the city limit so that you know uh uh we can continue to be uh that bright and shining star on the Southeast region and with that all that's all I have thank you commissioner move to commissioner Burns all right thank you mayor and uh good afternoon to everyone uh and thank you uh May frericks for being here good to uh good to see you and thank you for everything that you've done for our city over the years um on Saturday February 24th I had the pleasure of attending the housing uh fair housing Fair held in district 6 at the Grand Avenue Neighborhood Center I want to recognize uh Kimberly ranking and our human Rel ation who's our human relations manager uh and her team for providing such a professional environment where resources were shared because often times when we have a type housing market that can be a breeding ground for discriminatory practices and things like that so we want to make sure that uh all the residents of the city of Orlando knows where to come if they have any concerns about housing and how they are being treated in that housing so thank you uh to Kim and her team for that also um I attended the 38th annual crime prevention award ceremony uh and this is an opportunity where we uh acknowledge and recognize our um neighborhood block captains of the year and so for district 6 Miss Janette Marcus uh out of the great Richmond Heights neighborhood was selected as the watch captain of the year so just want to say thank Miss Marcus for her dedication to Safety in district 6 also uh on the 27th I had the pleasure of attending an event by Congressman Maxwell Frost the black history luminary event uh celebrating the rich Heritage and contributions of black uh Orlando's black community I wanted to recognize uh Mr Joseph cecar who's uh one of our team members who works in uh over at the Grand Avenue Neighborhood Center he was recognized that uh that evening and his name read into the Congressional Record for for uh all the great services that he provides to our youth and our families so uh kudos to Joe uh and his team over at Grand Avenue Neighborhood Center um also uh on March 6 I hosted uh our quarterly conversations with black men uh this was a night for uh black men to get together and have a safe space just to talk about things that uh we encounter uh mental health uh different support uh so I just like to thank everyone who participated in that a few upcoming events uh on uh this Wednesday the 13th at the El Claudia Allen Center I have my mobile satellite office hours uh that will be from 10:00 a.m. to 400 p.m so if you want to meet with me and my staff please uh contact us also uh part of our get fit district 6 series our bike district 6 this will be a bike and brunch event where we will be riding uh bicycles through the great neighborhoods of district 6 again the opportunity for us just to get out and and be active and uh get to know our neighbors also uh on March 23rd at 9:00 a.m. starting at the Smith Center it would be the first unity prayer walk uh which will be led by uh the Richmond Richmond estate's neighborhood uh and it's a prayer walk we'll be walking from First Baptist to the Smith Center so again just an opportunity for us to come together pray for our community pray for the members the leadership of our community as we continue to move forward in in unity also uh on March 27th I'll be having uh my state of district 6 town hall meeting what happen at the Dr James R Smith Center so this is an opportunity for uh the residents of district 6 to come speak to me uh and hear uh some of the great things that we have planned for the upcoming year uh mayor on the uh um agenda today I just want to highlight two items one A1 just want to thank all the city and students who are giving their time for our community advisory boards we wouldn't be able to do the work within uh these different boards if it wasn't for you all being willing to give of your time and talent so thank you for that and also I want to just express my support for items D1 and uh three the expansion of the community violence intervention doj funding I think we're getting some uh some great results and I just want to say thank you to a and your team for all that you do uh for just being dedicated to the work but also from the Innovative approach so uh keep up the good work and that's all I have mayor thank you thank you commissioner commissioner Greg thank you mayor very much um got a lot of things going on in the southeast part of the city and I just want to mention them excuse me because a lot of folks put some effort in this so I'll be quick because I know we've got a big agenda on the 22nd uh we in the lake non area we opened the new aoft hotel near the US Tennis Association training center uh for those of you who don't know they have far exceeded expectations which uh in addition to public play for local residents it's really turned into a nice uh tourism uh draw where folks from around the country fly in close to the airport play tennis with their friends and their clubs enjoy the activities and then uh head back home so they're doing great and uh and opened a new hotel the Aloft Hotel also on the 26th I went to a tour of the new simcom flight training facility in Lake Nona that's a brand new facility where they have brought in 11 flight simulators where they do recurring training for private com private Pilots not commercial private Pilots private Aviation the neat part about that for Lake Nona is these folks these Pilots come in from around the country spend a week or two getting their recurrent training they're staying in the hotels they're eating at the restaurants and it's it's really a good benefit to to Lake Nona so thanks to uh to simcom for doing that on the 2 7th here in town we uh I joined all the Commissioners for um the crime prevention um meeting with the neighborhoods where we recognize neighborhood watch leaders thank you to all those folks who do that we could not uh handle our neighborhoods without help of of the constituents and the neighbors so thanks thank you for that uh on 32 and Ed would you queue it up well Ed's running a little tape on this the second we did our Spring Festival this is about a 45 second run and I'll talk over it but the reason uh I want to show this is we did it in the Vista Lakes Community we had about 1,300 people show up and as you can see we did everything from petting zoos to bounce houses to uh some of the local vendors came out to share their things we had some of the local kids from the school perform cheerleaders band violins Etc the idea was to have a familyfriendly day on Saturday March 2nd and I just want to thank we had eight different departments from the city help us out and uh that was our public works department o OPD and ofd our wetlands group was out there to share what they do at at at the Wetlands Park uh Community Affairs our Hispanic Outreach Ola was there um the transportation folks were there giving away helmets to the kids for their bikes and our national Resource Group was there giving away free plants and trees and so I want to thank my team and everyone that helped it was a great event and we prayed that it didn't rain and we got lucky it did not rain so that was great we'll do it every year first Saturday in March so thanks to all for that uh upcoming I did want to mention tomorrow night uh the Orlando economic partnership is holding their Annual Outdoor barbecue it's one of the best business networking events in the city in my opinion so I'd encourage anybody uh that wants to partake go on the Orlando economic partnership website uh so with that I want to talk about one item on the consent agenda uh and we'll save the rest for later but I want to talk about j3 and four which is SunRail um and the I'm frustrated with this because we don't really have much we can do about it right now I learned about our request to fund $17 million from the city budget to cover the shortfalls of SunRail and I think we need as a community to think about it we can't fix it today but we need to address the issue of SunRail and here's some bullet points and I've been briefed by our transportation folks that are involved with this I get it but here's the reality SunRail has about a thousand Riders a year excuse me a million Riders a year and remember remember they don't run nights and weekends so when you do the math that's about 260 days a year when you do the math that's about 5,000 people a day riding sun rail um and remember this was designed as a commuter rail not a light rail system a commuter rail to get folks uh downtown and off I4 so we got about 5,000 people riding it a day the ridership by their own admission has been flat for 4 years postco it just has not recovered some of that is because of hybrid work in the Office Buildings but the reality is uh ridership on SunRail has been flat for 4 years the operating cost of sun rails about 75 million bucks a year and if you do the simple math a million Riders divided by 75 million is about 75 bucks a ride pretty expensive um and the the of that ride a little over 2 million of that 75 is covered by people paying fairs so if you do the math it's about 32% of the cost is covered by people buying tickets the rest is coming from revenue uh cfx pays some rental fees for the rail etc etc but at the end of the day all the ancillary incomes about 25 million rough numbers so the bottom line is SunRail needs support from the government sector of about $50 million a year and our portion is a third of that here at the city so we're putting up $17 million um the challenge for me on this is we are putting money up and again right now I guess we don't have much choice because Florida Department of Transportation is turning it over to us but we're putting this money up with absolutely no discussion at least none I'm aware of of how can we change ridership can we increase Revenue can we reduce costs can we do nights and weekends maybe maybe not um but we don't have any of those discussions um and and there's no B Community input that I'm aware of they have public meetings but I'm not sure too many people knew about them but mayor I guess I got to say the thing I'm most frustrated about is as a City Commissioner I heard about the request for $17 million less than a week ago and I just don't think that was good form from our staff but I do acknowledge there's not much we can do about it but as a community we got to figure out if it was designed as a commuter rail system is it working and if it's not I'm not suggesting we would get rid of it but we got to make some changes because if you keep doing what you're doing we're going to be throwing in 17 million bucks a year at least and that's if expenses are flat so I just wanted to talk about that I wanted to talk about that during the workshop but it went pretty long today so I didn't get a chance to to talk to my peers about that but um again I hope we can put that on Workshop agenda we can talk about it because it's an expensive process commissioner uh we can do a workshop on that we probably should but we've been working on this turnover agreement for probably five years I would guess and certainly the expense of SunRail as it exists today is far far exceeds what it was predicted to be but you have to look at SunRail as this is the first piece of a system that needs to go to the airport and become a 247 thing um we talking about the sunshine Corridor which would eventually connect SunRail to the airport and to iDrive and eventually Disney and that's when when you become a a rail system or commuter rail system is never profitable so I was about to use that term and I didn't very quickly it's always going to be subsidized but if this were the end of the route I probably agree with you that this isn't a successful Venture but it has to go to the airport it has to go to iDrive it has to go to Disney because those are job centers that you can carry 20,000 people to the airport 70 880,000 people to I drive I don't know what the number would be for Disney and that would be in conjunction we're trying to work with bright line to extend to Tampa and share the rails and Universal has already created a CDD that is going to help fund the cost and will take on the operational overruns and back stop the eastwest portion of that which will help with the north south portion of that but that's all to comeup I I you and I are in total agreement I don't disagree with that I but we've been talking about the airport connection for a long time time yes and I and I just want to hope we can go from what our desires are to coming up with an action plan how can we make that happen we've been talking about connecting to the airport for a while and if it's just a money issue then let's figure out how to find the money well one of my goals is sometime in the next three years and 10 months is to break ground on that okay I look forward to that well maybe I won't be here for that but no I I do appreciate that all right I'll save the rest for later because we've got a big agenda but thank you mayor very much commiss Ortiz you guys want to talk about the boss rapid transit in samon that's going to connect uh SunRail from the airport to Altima and downtown and that's a big piece of that too so it's not a train but is a bus rid Transit anyhow going into business in our district once again it's great to see you mayor Frederick great leadership all those years and you still excert a lot of that so it's good to have you in the house uh February 21st the Florida Department of Transportation teamed up with uh a neighborhood working group formed by residents of the Conway area and the City of Orlando for a final fdot public information meeting regarding Conway Road improvements special thanks to the uh neighborhood working group led by Fabian Hull for their dedication and the incredible fdot team for their wavering support project would not exist without Mr J Atkins Mr Ed castori Mr Todd Alexander Mr Isaac naziru Mr Brian BR Brentley and miss Liz Bartel lastly a big shout out to our City's Transportation team did a great job and our incredible District 2 Community for their invaluable contributions this project truly exe exemplifies the power of government and community relations and collaboration residents were encouraged to ask questions that might clarify safety concerns of confusion the team provided maps and a full presentation to explain every step of the way we have been working on this project for a long long time and I'm proud to see all the progress thank you to everyone involved in this process on this process and for prioritizing our communities well-being on February 20th I attended the Black History Month and where's Marcia Marcia Marcia Marcia anyhow Marcia thank you for your great job and the office of Multicultural Affairs for your hard work and dedication to organizing such a celebrated event that was awesome um on the 27th my office and I attended the 38th annual crime prevention ceremony I wanted to uh congratulate Ashbury Park homeowners association from District 4 for winning neighborhood watch group of the year as well as our block captains of the year including District 2 um miss Iris Rodriguez of Anglewood on the 27th I hosted our first neighborhood leaders Council of 2024 for those of you that don't know what that may be is all the community leaders and all the captains from our neighborhood watch we come together once a month and we discuss all the items uh kind of to exercise that Broken Window Theory and we try to be proactive on all the things that happen in our community so we can Excel not catch up so uh I want to thank all of them uh we had Miss Thea Walker permanent division manager who informed our leaders on navigating the city permit system District 2 Lea on Corporal Keith Hernandez also delving to community safety and the Innovative OPD connect program looking forward to our upcoming discussions of future meetings on the 29th I attended gayway District Arts after uh dark what is it Arts after dark event golly which is becoming a an iconic event uh with the goal of supporting local artists and craftman we do it every month so the next next event is going to be on March 28th really becomes a a party of the community and they're singing there all kinds of things arts and craft of course and uh this next one we're going to have a special singer so that to be announced soon March 5th my office and I hosted the first session of the Spring's 12weeks government Academy is not just the beginning of a new semester it's also a celebration of the Academy's remarkable 10 years Milestone witnessing its growth since 2014 and the increasing interest in government involvement in is truly heartening I want to extend a big thanks to everyone who participated tomorrow's tomorrow evening we have Miss Lin Tipton which is a director of the uh Florida League of cities University she's going to be teaching our s session on state government I also want to thank my office team Megan shaver Keith Hernandez and Alejandra Rodriguez and with that mayor I move to accept approve the agenda motion by commissioner Ortiz second by commissioner Burns all in favor motion indicate so by saying I I I those opposed and so the motion carries okay if there's no objection I'm going to re recess the city council meeting I'm going to convene the CRA meeting David and if you're prepared I'm going to reorder this and go immediately to item number seven and hear that first since I think there are a few people here to um have an interest in that one Casey if you could just pull up the presentation we're going to switch up the order you know let's take 30 seconds to let those that are here were here just for the consent agenda find their way out all right David item number seven first please yes good afternoon mayor and Commissioners uh so item seven uh this is the item that was discussed just a little bit in several opening comments it's an opportunity for the CRA to acquire four different sites uh catalytic sites uh throughout the core of our downtown uh and if yep you got to queue it up one second yep thank you so before you um as you see where those locations are um the first of which one North Orange right on the corner of Central and Orange Avenue uh in the heart of downtown Orlando one would argue Maine and Maine and other 30 South Orange a postage stamp size of a property right on the corner of Pine Street and Orange Avenue uh and then uh true two true once in a-lifetime opportunities to add space to Lake Yola right at 205 and 215 East Central um I want to walk through just a little bit of context as to the CRA and some Florida Statutes and how those authorize us and encourage us to make things happen just like we're talking about today Florida statute section 13 6337 authorizes the CRA to acquire real property within the area to hold improve clear or prepare for redevelopment our CRA plan um um uh strategically discusses a comp uh discusses a comprehensive plan uh which includes revitalization including expanding and connecting broad range public and Open Spaces in addition to create additional open space include pocket Parks uh and look at needs of a growing population um you'll see some other things mentioned as well as preserving historic buildings and historic structures and how important that is for our neighborhoods adding and encouraging mixed use development as well as uh mixed use development and embracing the importance of Lake Eola and the Gateway component uh that it should have into the core of our city Al so I want to talk just briefly about each one of these sites to give you context and then ultimately um the cost and the contracts that you're voting on today one North Orange as I mentioned if you can't place it in your head um here are some images of the site uh it's one of uh it was referred to as one of the three original skyscrapers uh in Orlando you see that perview uh looking down Central looking East or uh Orange Avenue going north and south uh it has been vacant for more than 15 years uh um completely uh unactivated in the core of our city uh and been an eyesore and truly looking to get back and activated um though today you're voting on the contracts I wanted to provide some context as to um what this could be um should we be able to control it and ultimately hopefully release an RFP for redevelopment of the site uh some options are uh it's a 10-story building uh so think of a destination restaurant potentially anchoring the ground floor of that that any of us would be happy and excited to bring uh our our significant others or our friends and family members and then you hear a lot about offic residential conversions in a lot of major cities um and think about how that may be able to be converted to to an attainable housing unit uh in the core of our city obviously uh it was office Bas in its original form and could also be activated as that um here again just some conceptual renderings at what that may lay out as uh when you walk into this ground floor space you can think of um those twostory uh historic Bank buildings which have large mezzanines and overlooks into them you see a lot in the movies um here are some Concepts as to what that might uh uh how that might come to reality um the building has a basement as well and looking at that how that might be able to be utilized for amenities associated with potential residential uh and then as you go up above that second floor as I mentioned uh we looked at just some layouts this does not look at mechanical and electrical and plumbing this looks at the life safety features stairwells and elevators as to how a residential rebu build may look this first one here uh showcases uh more of a traditional outline with Studios one bedroom and two bedrooms um we hear a lot more about micro housing um this uh floor plan demonstrates how that would be achievable uh none of these are mutually uh you know specific to one another obviously something could or something completely different could be done or these could be merged uh together uh Additionally the building has no parking I think that's one of the large reasons why it hasn't been activated for a number of years um this layout before you um uh was proposed as looking at how you can get a valet location or a drop off location associated with that building whether it be for a restaurant or active use on the ground floor or uh whatever the Upper Floor may be whether it be that attainable housing or office space um and then you you look at this picture and to me it's resounding you actually might think you're looking at one North Orange but you're not um you're actually looking at the meaf building uh that's on the corns of orange and pine um this building was actually built by the same Builder uh that built this property um just about a year off uh and I concluded this so you can see what the interior of an office building uh could also potentially look like if that was reutilized and uh uh reactivated appropriately uh commissioner Hill you mentioned that you hear about this in a number of different conferences and I wanted to just share some context as other cities who are also kind of taking steps down this realm of purchasing properties in their core uh and redeveloping them some for the very uh same context that we're talking about today the first building on your left uh is in Atlanta uh the city of Atlanta purchased this last year uh for about 39 million um and they plan to convert it into mixed income mixed jued housing uh the one in the mil middle is in Baltimore a 21 story historic building uh that was just released for RFP um uh in order to see how that can be reutilized uh on the right you see Indianapolis purchasing a historic structure uh and looking to activate that as primarily primarily affordable housing uh and then some closer to home you see here the CRA in Miami purchasing the Omni CRA purchasing um this building here former Bank building and looking to activate that and then uh just down the street so to speak in Lakeland uh purchased this some years ago uh a old hotel and converted it uh into Apartments uh so the next site uh I'll talk about briefly is the southwest corner of Lake Yol so if you were standing there today you'd see two buildings you'd see City Center there on your left is about a six-story building uh and then you see a TR truly beautiful uh house house building 215 uh that is kind of smack Center in this image uh the next image I'll show you is is to denote the opportunity as to what this could unlock we've talked talked about adding that amazing uh Gateway opportunity into the core of downtown uh and this acquisition literally paves the way uh for that to become a reality um you see this image uh which is just for conceptual purposes but is meant to get Focus you in on our iconic Fountain draw you into the space and you see the opportunities that it creates for the community uh to spend time in shaded structures also with low impact development and enjoying our City's uh signature part and then the final site 30 South Orange uh corner of orange and pine uh if you walking up the street today you see something that looks similar to this uh with your support we were successful uh in leasing that property uh several months ago um to provide some minimal activation um um and when you look at this site as I mentioned before I I called it a postage stamp of a site because it is small uh but when you look around at variety of other cities you find ways and examples that small sites uh can actually play very impactful roles when they're placed uh and designed appropriately uh so I wanted to lay out just a couple options you see 30 South Orange here on the left at 0.1 Acres uh then you see Paley Park in Manhattan about the exact same size greenacre Park in Manhattan uh just a tad bit bigger and then waterfall Garden Park uh but when you look at these sites and here are some examples of what you would see uh if you went to these or if you've already visited them greenacre Park in Manhattan you see the activity there that lower image that you see that water feature in the back which provides that white noise to kind of drown out a little bit of that activity in the city so you can stop maybe take a phone call have a chat with a friend or enjoy a peaceful lunch or even work outside as so many people like to do uh Alby Square you see that activation Associated there in Brooklyn uh waterfall Garden Park again showcasing those water features and then the last one on the right probably my favorite uh Paley Park uh in Manhattan which I perued through just uh while visiting uh uh Manhattan almost 10 years ago uh and it was truly amazing to see how that could play a vision uh at potentially what could be here in downtown or orl um so how that may out may lay out in in downtown could be something like this again these are just conceptual items as to how this site could potentially be reutilized and activated you see that concept of that water feature anchoring in the back again to drown out that noise bring you into the site uh a shade structure that provides shade during the day uh and then while you flip that to really an iconic light feature an artistic piece at night uh a way for our city to come together spend some time whether it just be unplanned or maybe even land uh ways for people to activate a food truck and come alongside stop have a bite to eat from one of the amazing uh uh local food entrepreneurs that we have in our community uh so finally um um what you're voting on today uh is a four property package uh there's three purchase contracts that are all required to be closed simultaneously uh it is a package deal so to speak the purchase price for all of these projects in total is $1,350,000 um I denoted uh under each uh associated with that on the slide before you what those individual purchase prices are as I mentioned uh it is a package deal and they are required to be closed together there's a $150,000 of security deposit uh that would be obligated to be placed uh should we be able to move forward $75,000 of that is refundable uh should we uh not move forward with the closing we have 60 days to do any additional due diligence work um uh that we deem appropriate on the sites to make sure that they are appropriate and sufficient uh for our U for our utilization uh and then the closing would take place anywhere from 90 to 360 days uh mayor if it's okay with you before I answer any questions uh as you pointed out there are several members uh of the community uh that came today were original members of the Orlando land trust and kind of helped us start this Venture and contributed uh over $1.3 million to this with along with the CRA to kind of start that first purchase at one North rosin so first up I'd like to call on uh Ted hack who is the president of the Orlando Land Trust thanks welcome Ted thank you well my name is Ted hadock um president of the Edward E hadock Junior Family Foundation and co-founder and president of the Orlando land trust uh our business address is 15 northa Drive uh Orlando and my family and I live in College Park sitting behind me um so mayor Dyer Commissioners and David thank you for allowing me a few moments uh to address the council so today I'm speaking on behalf of Orlando land trust including two former mayors of Orlando who serve as trustees and a lot of supporters who you see in the chambers here today uh if it's okay could I ask anyone who's uh here in support to stand so we can get a visual great thanks everybody it's a lot of folks thank you for coming out today we're here to offer our strong support of the cra's recommendation to purchase the four Parcels as a package deal with the purpose of activating key locations in downtown Orlando as you know two of the parcels located on East Central are contiguous with Lake Yola Park and connect with the pocket park on the corner of Rosland and Central which Orlando land trust purchased and donated to the city of Orlando as Green Space Orlando L trust Vision inspired in part by project dto has been that the property we purchased and donated to the city would one day serve as the primary Gateway from downtown Orlando into Lake Yola Park today's proposed acquisition presents itself as an extremely unique opportunity to realize this vision for the highly desirable Western Gateway the purchase would also expand one of the most highly utilized parks in the nation another rare opportunity in a land constrained location as more people move into downtown or Orlando to live work and play the need for Green Space becomes all the more compelling we simply can't afford to foro this opportunity for the public good and the Boost of revitalization that will provide the city we all love the alternative is for chronically dilapidated Parcels in the downtown core and a lost to opportunity that may never come again Orlando land trust is grateful for the productive public private relationship we've shared with the city and for the commissioner's leadership I would also like to acknowledge um commissioner Hill as you did earlier our dear friend Thomas Chapman who worked so hard for many years to make this very opportunity possible so thank you mayor Commissioners and David for your time and consideration and support of this acquisition and then he needs no introduction but former mayor Bill Frederick thank you very much welcome mayor nice time uh what a nostalgic moment for me it's been more than 50 years since I was elected to the office of Mayor and I want to say that the city is an excellent hands today that I don't think uh we've ever had a group that I could admire and respect expect more than mayor Dyer and each of you Commissioners thank you for your service and thank you for allowing me to speak briefly today in in support of this uh acquisition uh Joan and I had the pleasure of supporting the acquisition of the 7-Eleven and if we are successful in getting your support for these other Parcels we will do likewise in that and I would be happy to try and use what remaining Vigor I have to find the necessary support for whatever the city's plan would be for that I it it's a once in a lifetime opportunity and I I want to say that every living mayor is strongly in support of this purchase and it won't come again so I just want to say thank you for your consideration of this if you see fit to support it uh then we will be there to make sure that your money is well spent and that you get a result that you're happy with again I thank you for your service I thank you for your consideration of this and it is a real pleasure to be with you after these many years thank you so much um who is next oh thank you mayor H and then finally I won't dare say it but you said Thomas said it eug SE and ly long the little old ladies who who started this initiative with so much bigger good afternoon mayor and City commissioners my name is eugia seek and I live at 2420 norol Road Orlando Florida I'm speaking on behalf of the Orlando land trust and as a resident of Orlando in 2015 Lyn long and I discovered the um downtown Orlando Outlook and we were excited at that time that city leaders envisioned that this southwest corner of the park could ultimately become the Gateway in 2019 ly long Ted hadock and I formed the Orlando land trust to preserve Green Space around the park Len and I became known as the two little old ladies on a mission to protect the park with the assistance of the Trust for Public public land we learn that lakeola park has more visitors per square acre than San Antonio Riverwalk and the National Mall in Washington DC more than 2 million visitors come to the park each year I'm in favor of the cra's proposal to the purchase of the four properties which will provide additional Green Space for Lake Yola Park two of which two of my friends and colleagues of the Orlando Land Trust were unable to be here today to address the city council they asked that I present their comments and support of the project Charlie and sandre gray who reside at 300 East Church Street Orlando Florida Sandra and Charlie are downtown residents Charlie is a founder of gray Robinson and a board member of the Orlando land trust Charlie said lakeola is the center and heartbeat of our city beautiful today the city of Orlando has the opportunity to acquire four properties two are located on Lake Yola park in downtown Orlando and this will enhance beautiful Lake Yola sandre and I support the city pursuing this opportunity also former mayor of Orlando Glenda Hood 1210 Lancaster Drive Orlando Florida I enthusiastically support the city's proposal to to acquire the four downtown properties this is a timely investment opportunity to further Orlando's vision for a thriving downtown neighborhood and worldclass City re-energizing these properties will promote creative placemaking at its best by amplifying Community assets fostering a sense of pride in our City's history and aspirations and making spaces where residents and visitors want to experience our downtown thanks to our city leaders for realizing the importance of ensuring that we have active and great environments for all to enjoy and are worthy of Treasured Memories lenda Hood former mayor of Orlando Orlando land trust board member thank you for your time today I appreciate the opportunity to speak I will now turn it over to the other little old lady and I definitely qualify that good afternoon mayor Dyer and Commissioners and also David my name is Lyn long and I live at 100 South Eola Drive Orlando 32801 I'm excited to appear before you today to express my support for the CRA proposal of the acquisition of four Parcels of downtown properties I'm a native Orlando and a resident of downtown Orlando and I am part of a family own business that is located within the boundary of the downtown district our business will celebrate its 100th anniversary early next year interestingly one of the properties in the assemblage Parcels that is before you today celebrates its Centennial this year one North Orange sadly this historic building in the heart of downtown Orlando has been sitting vacant for more than 15 years it is my hope that that by acquiring this property the CRA and the City of Orlando can restore it to its former glory and again be a beautiful historic property downtown I'm equally enthusiastic about the acquisition of the two Parcels on the shores of Lake Yola as a co-founder of the Orlando land trust and trustee I'm committed to help preserve and expand green St in our community I've been visiting lakeola for 75 years I was present for the dedication of the iconic Linton B Allen fountain in 1957 lakeola has undergone many changes through the years but it Remains the central core of downtown and a place of respit and shared activities for families and visitors it's clear to me that by creating a Gateway into lakea park and initiating the restoration of our historical building on Orange Avenue we have an opportunity to add value and character to our downtown district and contribute to the revitalization of downtown this is an opportunity that will not come our way again I am asking you to accept this proposal by the CRA and vote Yes for the future of downtown and for our entire community no matter how large or L becomes and it's getting quite large we will continue to enjoy our Oasis of History culture and green space I am not alone as a resident of downtown I have in my hand over 200 letters from supporting members of our community which I will submit to you at least one third of these are from downtown residents who live and work downtown thank you very much for your consideration and for the important work that you do for our community thank you so mayor Commissioners uh if approved this item would be funded out of currently budget funds out of the CLA line items that are currently aside there would be no additional loans or debt needed for this acquisition and I'm happy to answer any questions commissioner Shen and David I would be remiss not to thank your staff and and everybody the DB ddbc and uh you know these These are amazing opportunities that we have and um you know sometimes you know this was supposed to be a highrise it was very controversial it would it would have impacted the park in a very negative way and the fact that we're here today um you know making this decision I'm hoping the Commissioners will support this because it really is Iconic for for um lakeola lakeola has had some difficulties over the years you know mayor Frederick you were part of that original revitalization and it kind of went down a little bit and then I got in there we had to kind of clean it up again and I think it's important and I want to thank the CRA especially um you all have finally adopted lakeola so to speak and you really have put your money where your mouth is and have really supported a lot of the initiatives that have really made it a beautiful wonderful Gathering Place and I just want to thank you for that is that a motion commission and that would be a motion to improve this is there a second yeah and I'll second um but I want to think about the total package of of DT o and how we went out um to the community of dto and asked what did they want to see and they did want to see more green space in downtown they did want to see some type of mixed income housing component along with office and retail space and I'll say I'll say uh something like they said yesterday prices ain't today's prices and today's prices won't be the future prices so saying that I think this is a very good investment when we start talking about the safest thing is real estate and for the CRA to invest in this historic iconic component and I love what uh one of one of uh I think Lynn stated it about uh um bringing it back to its pristine uh value and so when we start talking about preservation City control in this component we dictate what goes there and what type of growth happens and so I'm I'm very supportive for this and and and hopefully we can do a little bit more in our downtown with purchasing some more property and and having that downtown for all um and I know uh not long ago this this day I stated that this is what we was looking for in downtown more green space more places to dine more places that you can bring family and your grandchildren versus more bars so we're going to really talk to talk we have to invest in it and this is uh leading this in that way and that's all I have mayor a second a motion commissioner commissioner gray thank you mayor and David I got a few questions but before I do first of all I want to thank everybody for coming and and the mayor and Mr hack for your your comments um because look you know we do have disagreements up here but I can tell you that we all seem to get along quite well and we have honest discourse so we're going to have a little more here today uh but uh David has heard these questions but I want to ask him a few questions because uh I want to talk to the to the group here there are four properties involved three of them which are the lots I have no issues with I think we're paying a bit too much but okay we sometimes do that so I have no issues with purchasing the two lots on lakeola nor do I have the one that's on Pine Street the one I have serious reservations about and I need to get some more answers is the office building and David's heard these but here are some of my concerns which still don't have answers to this building among other things was built in 1924 so we become the new owner through this transaction highly like this building is full of asbest do we have any idea how much asbest it has as of today commissioner we do not we'll have the inspection period to do that investigation got it it's also highly likely this building isn't up to code to include fire escapes is that a fair that's what I understand do you know do we do we know it is it up to code and do we know what it would take to get it up to code it would depend on our ultimate use again we'll have the time during the investigation period our inspection period to determine what use we would want to do and then ultimately if those approvals what that would take to make sure that they were compliant with all codes got it if we are going to try to do Residential which is a which is a a great idea have we done a mechanical electrical Plumbing survey to know if it's even possible because when you do Residential you've got to put a lot of Plumbing in bathrooms faucets sinks Etc can we even do it in this building do we have the floor plate do we have the ability have we looked at that so what we've already looked at commissioner as I mentioned was the life safety components of the floor plate and would that work and accommodating it also as I mentioned we have not looked at me yet to see if that's feasible um if it does not and that's possible then we also have the the backdrop of the office space as I showcased like the metf building which would be activating it very similar to the way it was used in the past got it and then um this building's been bacon for 15 years do we know of any private developer that's approached the current owner about redoing that I do I know several that have uh approached me over the years trying to have me help them get in contact with him also since the news broke that we were purchasing it uh wanting to start conversations as to hey can we uh be included or be uh included in the participation along the way and participate in any rfps should they become available so there has been interest well and you probably have talked to the same people I have because I've talked to two that had Direct conversations with the owner that looked at a lot of different issues and said thanks but no than BS it would cost way too much money to be economically feasible so let's keep going if we're going to do Residential where would the residents Park so we're fortunate in that location as I mentioned there's no parking for that building um actually if you go back in the history uh the bank that was there actually relocated to the north quarter when the city decided to discontinue parking on Orange Avenue um we're fortunate that the city has over a thousand spaces um just a block away um that again we don't have agreements with today but if anyone is suited to potentially solve The Parking Challenge of that building I would argue that the city is in the the best space to be able to solve that for us I would hope so but no guarantees because the only thing that I've seen is four street spots so if I'm a resident and I come home from public with my groceries we just I park by the library I park across from our fire station and carry my groceries for two blocks probably not right if if I want to have furniture delivered to my apartment where does my vendor Park double Park so there's just there's no parking the street parking will either be blocking Central or blocking Orange um and um and and there's no loading dock where where's the restaurant it's a great idea to put a two twostory restaurant I mean we have that at Crest and Crest is highly successful where are they going to put where are the restaurant vendors going to deliver their food through the front door because there's buildings all around this this building is locked in by adjacent property so how do they get the groceries in or the the the food for the restaurant those are questions that I don't know that we've really looked at and and you know it's just it just seems to me that there's a lot of questions and I do know one thing the private sector is better at solving these than the government sector uh with all due respect uh we do a lot of good things but but I think we're asking for trouble by spending half of this purchase price or almost $10 million on a building that's that vacant for 15 years for a reason because believe me the private sector is always looking for opportunities when they see one they jump on it so I would caution our Council I have no issues with the other three um but I think it feels to me like we have an owner that's trying to leverage the other three with these folks who've already put their money up and I admire you for putting your money up for the for the first lot you've got skin in the game you you deserve it but we're getting used on this building in my opinion and so I'm going to ramble a little bit more mayor and I apologize cuz it leads to a bigger issue and that is the CRA and again you've heard me say this the CRA runs for another 16 years let me tell you all the different projects I've heard of not in detail that the CRA intends to fund um this project 20 million the Bob car renovation 30 million the under eye canopy 30 million the lakeola upgrades I'm not sure what that ticket is if somebody knows I'd love to hear but we've got to allocate for that uh Lake lern we talked about that in dto 2.0 to help energize deac the Performing Art Center because we've got to take good care of that Performing Art Center we got a lot invested in that and we've talked about energizing the lake lucern area that's going to take money um we've also talked about changing the street uh directions from oneway to two-way and in uh increasing our sidewalks and there's and then this morning we heard about um Carver Park with the CRA funding that so my question and I've been asking this for a while from a CRA stpoint do we have any plan of how we're going to phase these in Andor pay for these whether it's from immediate tax revenue Andor bonds because we got to pay them off in 16 years because the CRA is going to Sunset and so my feeling is whether it's this project or any of the ones I mentioned the Bob car under ey um how do we do we have a plan of how we're going to do these cuz I don't think we can do them all but yet we're kind of dangling them out to get the public excited but I don't know how we're going to we're going to pay for that and and this I'm only talking about building and or renovating I'm not talking about operating maintaining and and and the operating expense of people and and all those things so that's my biggest problem mayor is that we keep talking about the CR the Golden Goose but the CRA is going to run out in 16 years and I have not seen a just even a rough one-page idea of where the money is going to come from and how are we going to spend it so I'm sorry for going on so long but you've heard these before but but we keep talking about things but guys I just think it's we as a council got to stop and say are we going to get in the middle of this and realize we're starting we're starting these different initiatives and we don't have the money to build them let alone maintain them so that's my issue on this one i i i the the part that I get frustrated is the details I got was a week ago and I know you guys and the staff have been working on this for months but you're asking me to vote on something I heard about a week ago and so if it's up to me fine let's buy the three lots I'm good with that but I think we need to pump the brakes a little bit on the office building until we know a little bit more let's bring some developers in who do this day in day out not us and see if this RFP concept has some legs maybe it does I don't know but I just know there's a lot of obstacles to getting this thing up and running and I don't think we've we've done a very good job of looking at those so mayor that's kind of where I am is there any way we can do three out of the four well we won't let David respond yeah I'm sorry thank you sure um so to the last question it is a package puras so it is all or nothing to the extent from the seller's perspective to your questions um commissioner um the the direct answer uh to your question is can we pay for all these or you didn't think that we could we've been actively monitoring it to the extent that we know obviously when you're talking about any projection of time in any projection of projects you have to make estimations as to what costs would be and ultimately what our revenues would be uh the context and the reviews that we've made with the Coo's cfo's office that everything that you mentioned everything that we do traditionally and all the projects that are in the C plan that are um you know ultimately on track to being implemented um can be funded by all those projections you and I both have I think we have a meeting tomorrow or Wednesday to go over a one sheeter so to speak as you mentioned to showcase exactly how that lays out commissioner Stewart great right let me follow along the same thinking because I I think you raised some good points and I apologize for us not having this conversation during the during the consent agenda um tell us about the due diligence period length of time what what what we're addressing I I'm I feel like um commissioner gray I mean three out of the four is like why we have why haven't we already done it and but this other one creates some other issues that we may get seven or eight or $9 million into it and then have to put another 10 or 12 $15 million to make it sellable for something sometime in the future and that's an unknown that we don't know so tell me about what we're going to do in the due diligence period especially for those for that building yeah so specifically we have the contracts give us the ability to do any investigations that we see fit we already discussed looking for aestus doing the appropriate environmentals looking at what that conceptual ultimate use might be what it could take monetarily to create that to happen I want to be clear um that as today we don't anticipate taking this task on by oursel um you see the examples that I referenced in the presentation with other cities ultimately specifically the one in Baltimore putting it back out on the market for an RFP that's fully what we intend to do I think this is just my personal opinion um one of the challenges of why you see the building sitting there for 15 years quite frankly is because the private sector hasn't figured out how to reactivate this building yet in a cost feasible way um and from a contextual standpoint uh where the private sector can't deliver um I see that as an appropriate way an appropriate place for the public sector to bridge that Gap our CRA plan discusses that it talks about repositioning assets and making sure they can play active roles in downtown um so I don't want to give and all elude to the fact that this will be a cost productive component for the CRA this is about activating a a blighted property in the core of our city um that we think is an appropriate course to take to to get it reactivated and introduced to the market well I think the challenge is is not so much the all of us want that reactivated and that's well agree with that the challenge is that this reactivation may be four or five or six times the value of that building in order to save that building um by the time you you may have to acquire property adjacent for for parking you may have to I mean all that becomes a real Challenge and I'm I'm I'm not concerned as much about spending the money as I'm concerned about knowing what the value we're going to do is c can we put out RFP essentially during the due diligence period can we can we get firm commitments I mean one of the challenges I always have is that I I don't think the city to be in the land development business because we because we control all the angles here um and we want we want to get that into the private sector as fast as possible you and I discussed that one of the challenges that we want to do how how do we accomplish that task and get a real good feel during the due diligence period um so that we don't turn around and and and hear two years down the road saying well the only choice we have now is to spend you know 25 million because that's the only choice that we have so it we obviously as I mentioned have the 60 days to do any inspections that we want Is it feasible to release an RFP for development in that time I don't think that it is um commissioner we would have to be comfortable with the state of the investigations that we complete to determine if it was uh sufficient for us to ultimately take that seat as owner so that would just be us for us to determine during that period well look I'd love to hear more ideas coming from the private sector that because I just I mean the Park and and the stuff with um Lake Yola I mean that that's I mean that's stuff that we ought to do and I'm sorry we didn't do it you know 100 years ago when we could have um but when you look at the one North Orange um there may be another use for that building that's not residential M and that's not mixed use I mean that gets our money back out of that building somehow and that's I want to make sure that we've explored all of that before our closing day cuz that's the that's the concern I have absolutely and we will look into all those components the the visuals today were to provide conceptual Vision as to what it could be that we have started to think along those lines but obviously have more time to figure out uh what the appropriate and right next steps are well like commissioner gr do we have a very aggressive dto plan and I don't want to be in this position looking at the fact that we can't do Lake lucern or we can't do the Eastern portion of Lake Yola because we have to spend the money on this building on one North Orange that's and that and I don't want us to get in that position that's that's my concern um okay but anyway outside of that I I thank you for raising those points Jim I would I would agree on that particular that may if I could follow up if I could follow up thank you David have we talked to the adjacent Property Owners to the adjacent Property Owners because the buildings around it are one and two story mean maybe we're better off buying those and then we have some room for some on-site parking and loading docks and and get people off Central or orange but I mean I don't know 90 days gives you that much time to do it but those are some thoughts we could we could discuss and I just wish we would talk about this before we get to this stage because now we got everybody excited about buying property as they should be but half of the purchase price is a building that has questions that's all thank thank you for the questions and I'll close David so my thoughts on this um this is a owner that sat on this property for how many years he owned it over a decade over a decade made no improvements on any of the properties that he's owned it's a package deal we're either going to get all four of them or we're going to get none of them and it's an opportunity to get three that we really need and one that's been phow for 15 years and will be phow for another 15 years I think our staff's as good as anybody in terms of innovative thinking and figuring out ways to go about this I mean we could discount the property down to some number that makes it more viable for somebody to purchase you know discount the purchase price and make it more viable for somebody in the public SE or in the private sector to redevelop it but I think we can figure out a way to activate that building that's not going to bankrupt the CRA and if it is going to bankrupt the CRA we won't just won't do it and we aren't any worse off than we were before except for the $9 million right we own it thank you mayor if I could ask David I know you said in here it's a historic designation is that city state federal what's the historic designation and does that limit the ability to change the building anyway uh it does have the historic designation I believe that it's the the highest level of federal designation um I imagine preserve it requires you to preserve some components of that building we've already been working with the historic preservation offer officer that looks at incentives that are also allowed with order in order of doing that most of those are contextually on the exterior realm and preserving that exterior of the building this this could be blasphemy forgive me do we have the ability to tear it down I don't know that I can apply on that just a question just a question just a question sir there are ways okay I'll rest my case see I told you we get along here we get along we disagree but we get along further discussion hearing none all in favor of the motion indicat so by saying I I I how about that those opposed and so passes unanimous is that unanimous [Applause] okay we'd like to all go out and celebrate with you guys but it turns out we have quite a b more business to do thank you mayor so we'll stand in about a one minute recess I I'll I'll give the CL thank you mayor congratulations big absolutely appreciate you being here [Music] attorney has has been she I was [Music] here hey Jim Gray Jim you forget my First Act becoming mayor was to demolish hisor I didn't forget on me now just blow it [Laughter] up there's got to be some training exercise from there's got to be some training exercise make it into our new train yeah I guess so I come on the these are three building low inome uh it's still to be ultimately determined but attainable is it would be after we have to purchase it first and then there's Target like for instance they don't dry why can't you turn that into I keep I was Hess I live the shelter well if it's no parking there and if it's not cuz people are not going to want to pay for housing okay we'll come back to order I mean we have housing crisis do that sure it's a good I mean cuz my taxes have to pay for it David let's revert back to number one no problem uh items one and two those are minutes mayor did you want to handle those first one is minutes those okay number one's meeting minutes CRA from February 5th is there a motion to approve motion by commissioner Shen second by commissioner Hill all in favor indicate so by saying I I those oppos motion carries number two is The Advisory board minutes from January 24th second motion by commissioner Hill second by commissioner Sheen all in favor against so by saying I I those oppos motion carries all number three thank you mayor uh item three this is Amendment Three to the amended and restated open space agreement uh so this was a or is a companion item to B8 that was on the consent agenda uh it is the agreement by which the CRA contributes funding toward City initiatives involving open space this particularly for the 150 R share and short-term parking spaces under I4 uh total investment on behalf of the CRA is not to exceed $850,000 some second motion by commissioner Hill second by commissioner she in discussion hearing none all in favor of the motion indicate so by saying I I those oppos motion carries number four item four this is CRA budget amendment uh one and budget resolution uh so the CRA was fortunate to receive an additional $4.5 million in Revenue this year uh as appropriate we have to invest that or or document that money in various project accounts uh the proposal before you uh puts $1 million in our business retention line item 1 million in dto implementation 1 million in venues and Open Spaces 1.25 in real estate and uh $250,000 in transportation second motion by commissioner Hill second by commissioner Shen discussion hearing none all in favor of the V commissioner Ortiz mayor can I hear there you go I just want to suggest that some of that money we have that issue with downtown with the uh clubs paying uh the amount of money that they're paying is the cost to supply for the police officer would be less than $3 million the the CRA is composed of the property taxes that come from those clubs uh Through The Years from I mean from the proper owners and I think that we could uh take a little bit of time maybe a year or two where we can give them a chance we can pay for money from the CRA and I give him a chance to come up with a um search charge we can get take it to A legislature there's plenty of precedents where uh there's been cities where they've be been able to set a search charge for um alcohol for the U downtown areas and uh which we're investigating right now some of those cities in order to get a copy of their plan take it to Tallahasse so that money that can pay for the law enforcement officers and and we can return the the rest of it to the CRA commissioner Hill uh yes mayor I was uh going to us Echo uh what commissioner or stated to see if there's some type of remedy for service charge to uh uh help them with let's do this we've got a lot on this agenda to go David if we defer this does it hurt you in any way NOP we can defer okay let's defer this item we'll have the discussion about whether we want to siphon off some of that money and for that thank you Reon or not and we'll just skip that for the day thank you sir is that agreeable with everybody yes sir yes sir okay uh number five so five this is a dto retail program funding agreement uh specifically for Sunday friend LLC that's doing business as itgirl fit they are moving into the radius building uh which is on the north side lakeola right where you see that uh Bend IN Rosland so they signed a three-year lease and are looking to uh take occupancy there about for 1,00 foot space uh their investment in their buildout is about $260,000 uh it's somewhat of a CrossFit type environment but catered towards women so we're excited to hopefully welcome them into the CRA they qualify for the minimums or or the minimums out of that program which are the $75,000 in uh tenant build out assistance and then $25,000 in uh first Year's rental abatement for a total investment from the CRA at $100,000 so move second motion by commissioner Hill second by commissioner Shen discussion hearing none all in favor of the motion indicate so by saying I I those oppose motion carries and number six David number six so the final item today is a meba funding agreement uh for a new business in our Paramore neighborhood uh so meba is our minority entrepreneurs and women business assistance program that targets at the that's targeted on the Paramore Community uh this is a uh a cosm a barber shop that's locating right on Paramore Avenue uh they have 12 years of experience the two gentlemen uh that operated Virgil Braxton and Jerome Hill are looking to go off on their own uh and ultimately hopefully be successful in their American Dream they're signing a three-year lease and have went to the amoeba Advisory board for assistance uh they have qualified for $28,269 and22 cents which is spread out uh over costs associated with rent abatement Capital Equipment expenses EXP costs and marketing assistance so move in no relation okay motion by commissioner Hill second by commissioner Stewart discussion hearing none all in favor the motion indicate so by saying I I those oppos and so the motion carries okay so we deferred one item is there any other business comeing for that is all may then if there's no objection we will adjourn the CRA and we will reconvene the city council meeting okay Commissioners uh first item of business is hearings um and it is a recision order on the Orlando Jetport Center development we have two other items that are on hearings ordinances second reading number one and two the first item needs to be heard before this item we need to Annex property before weend the um development of regional drri for the jet Port so what like to do is simply skip that one and hear it between numbers one and two under hearings ordinances second reading and that'll bring us to hearings ordinances on First Street everybody good with that and know what we're doing okay hearings ordinances uh first read number one Madam clerk did you follow that Madam clerk okay ordinance number 20243 an ordinance of the City Council of the city of Orlando Florida vacating closing and abandoning a portion of tcus Avenue generally located east of Interstate 4 South of West kayy Street and West of South Division Avenue as described in the modulin International Trucking Center plat as recorded in plat book 95 page 28 of the public records of Orange County Florida and comprised of 0.33 acres of land more or less providing for conditions of Abandonment providing for the execution of affecting documents separability correction of scrier error and an effective date second motion by commissioner Shen second by commissioner Hill Madam CLK do you have any cards no speakers mayor public comment okay um discussion hearing none all in favor of the motion indicates so by saying I I those opposed so the motion carries okay number two Madam Clark ordinance number 202 24-14 an ordinance of the city council of the city of Orlando Florida annexing to the corporate limits of the city certain land generally located on the North and South sides of State Road 528 at The Innovation Way sunbridge interchange and comprised of approximately 6,273 acres of land providing findings Amendment of the city's boundary description and for Amendment of the city's official Maps providing for superability correction discrimin error and an effective date move to approve second okay motion by commissioner gray second Kai commissioner Ortiz um this one we're going to have some discussion on um this is the first reading of an ordinance for the first phase of an annexation of property in southeast Orange County um in partnership with uh Tavistock or advancing this annexation to further ensure smart and strategic growth that meets the needs of our community and investments in planned infrastructure and Civic amenities and housing and Commercial development so let me be clear about the property that's under discussion today it is either already developed or it has development entitled ments that were approved by Orange County so the development of this property is expected and needed and our partners are committed to upholding the entitlements and agreements that are already in place with Orange County we won't be changing any of that it's development that's going to happen on the border of the city of Orlando and if it's going to be developed in that fashion it should be in the city of Orlando we are having unprecedented growth of a thousand people moving to Central Florida every week as a City we know that we must plan for meeting the demands of Housing and Civic and infrastructure developments we must ensure smart development that meets our community's needs while driving inevitable growth away from the rural parts of our state and toward existing urban areas this property is adjacent to other dense developments in southeast Orlando they're in the city thanks to our strategic efforts through Greenworks Orlando we have proven to be the most sustainable City in the southeast United States and that's why smart and sustainable growth is Paramount to our shared priorities with Tavistock who we have an extremely wrong relationship with and developing many sustainable developments and that'll continue over the next several decades Tavis stock has and will continue to invest in the community amenities and infrastructure projects such as a 28 acre community park and probably is important to commissioner gray is anything the sunbridge parkway that'll run parallel to and alleviate congestion on nusi road to the West Tavistock also intends to uphold its environmental commitments with the county which includes preserving almost 1,700 Acres of conservation lands including wetlands and adjoining Uplands again the annexation into the city doesn't change any of the development profile whatsoever the planned property the properties already approved and is expected and needed to meet the growth in the region it'll simply be developed in the city and become part of the city I would like to call on Elizabeth to our planning division manager to give an overview of this annexation elizab d [Applause] good afternoon mayor and city council um my name is Elizabeth Deng I'm the city planning division manager I'm here today to talk about a proposed Southeast annexation the city in partnership with Tavo is advancing an annexation in two phases of property in southeast Orange County it's on the North and South sides of the beach line and the Innovation Way inter change with portions extending South to the Oola County boundary the total acreage of what you see on the screen right now is approximately 11,6 688 Acres so today I will tell you a little bit about the process for annexation the character of the properties being annexed how the city intends to provide services and how the city intends to review future development so first up the process uh state statutes have a number of different avenues for annexing property including a city initiated annexation a voluntary or property owner initiated annexation as well as annexation of enclaves via re resolution with uh the associated County so this project will be a mix of City initiated and owner initiated annexations so for the city initiated annexation area is shown in your screen in pink it's approximately 6,273 Acres uh this entire boundary is currently inside Orange County's Urban Services area uh the annexation will not include any changes to the entitlements or Associated commitments to the environmental land stewardship program the property is generally located north and south of State Road 528 at The Innovation Way and sunbridge area uh interchange this area is being considered for City initiated annexation because there are a mix of different property owners and it's the most efficient approach to ensuring a logical annexation boundary so the state statutes include criteria for City initiated annexation one of them is that land must be developed for urban purposes or if vacant it must lie between the municipal boundary and an area developed for urban purposes so the Stanton energy plan as well as the developed properties in the ICP plan development meet that definition of urban services or Urban purposes as well as there are some vacant properties located between the city boundary and those areas the second criteria is that the annexation area must be contiguous and reasonably Compact and that's demonstrated on the map and further the city must obtain permission from at least 50% of the parcels as well as 50% of the acreage and we exceed both of those requirements with our necessary forms on file whoops um so next um the city must transmit a feasibility study to the county at least 15 days in advance of commencing annexation procedures so today's our commencing day for annexation procedures and the feasibility study was delivered on February 23rd which is 17 days in advance so this feasibility study includes maps showing proposed boundaries future land use designations and water and sewer lines it also outlines the city's plans for providing Municipal Services which I'll discuss in more detail in a minute so phase two of our annexation will be voluntary or owner initiated this is approximately 5,400 Acres uh sunbridge land reserve and their entities own the majority of the properties in this area again for this uh Phase 2 there are no changes proposed to entitlements or the commitments to the environmental land stewardship program also for today's agenda there are no action items on this particular phase but we wanted to provide the entire study area as an overview for context so owner initiated annexations um are not required to meet the statutory definition of urban purposes however they must be contiguous reasonably Compact and not create an enclave a feasibility study is not required and all Property Owners must petition for annexation and we expect an application here toward the end of the month to ensure that these criteria are met when we look at the Timeline um as I mentioned the feasibility study was delivered on February 23rd with written notices sent to Property Owners on February 29th the first reading of the annexation ordinance is today the second reading is currently scheduled for April 1st as well as consideration of an annexation and development agreement with an effective date on the same day the owner initiated annexation will follow shortly thereafter with a submitt by the end of the month for the annexation application a petition for voluntary annexation will go on the council agenda at the April 22nd meeting along with a first reading that same date with a second reading scheduled for May 13th so I'm going to walk through the four different areas being proposed for annexation the first one is familiar to many of us this is the Stanton energy plant uh it's 3,228 acres and this is OU's primary energy plant a lot of people thought it was in the city already and it's not but this does allow one of the city's major utilities to be located within City Limits the second set of properties are all located in the international Corporate Park plan development it's approximately 368 Acres this PD allows a mix of industrial distribution warehouse and office space up to 3 million square fet there are existing developments consisting of office warehouse and Manufacturing the the property will retain its currently issued Orange County development entitlements after annexation into the city the third property in the annexation study area is the sunbridge PD this is approximately 4,800 Acres Tavistock is the developer of record for sunbridge and the land is owned by Suburban land Reserve this property will also retain the currently issued Orange County development entitlements and the commitment to the environmental land stewardship program after annexation the county has approved um the following development program of 7,370 residential units about 5.5 million squ ft of office 2.9 Million Square ft of industrial 880,000 ft of retail 490 hotel rooms and 104 Acres of Civic uses the final piece of our study area here is called the Camino property it's about 3200 Acres it is currently designated in Orange County for Rural Development as one unit per 10 acres uh the reason for annexation here is to facilitate development of sunbridge Parkway which will connect um from the north All the Way South to Oola County so there are no immediate development plans for this site and there are existing agreements with some neighboring Property Owners associations those will remain in place and be honored in the city in terms of the city's plans to provide services uh for utilities pable water and wastewater are both subject to what we call service territory agreements which means that the service provider does not change upon annexation so for example OU serves some property that's outside the city limits whereas Orange County Utilities serve some property that's inside the city limits so in this case these are in the Orange County service territory areas so they will remain um served by Orange County the city will provide Solid Waste Service as well as storm water service and development will be subject to the city's storm water utility fee for Emergency Services Orange County currently has two stations that are approximately 8 to 10 mil away the city stations are similarly 8 to 9 miles away uh but that will uh decrease over time the city has a fully funded project to con construct a new fire station on dowen road and story Park and once that's complete and the associated Road Connections are complete that will be about 4 miles away furthermore on an interim basis the city will be providing temporary fire service for Stanton energy plant and in the longer term there is a reserved fire station site within the PD in sunbridge Police Service is currently provided from District K7 and the Lake Nona substation which is approximately 9 miles away um that will remain um in the shorter term and in the longer term uh service will be evaluated if demand changes for Parks the developer will convey a 28 acre Community Park site to the city uh additional neighborhood parks will be included within the residential subdivisions and this is all consistent with the Orange County PD and their approvals these park locations will meet the city requirements as well uh regarding schools there are no additional residential units proposed at this time and School reviews are all done by Orange County Public Schools whether our property is in a municipality or an unincorporated Orange County the the requirements are the same um for this particular site there is an adequate public facilities agreement that mentions the requirement for school sites and although that agreement itself terminates upon an annexation of the sunbridge PD with which shows those sites will rep remain in place um like many other properties the site had a capacity enhancement agreement approved with the PD from 2016 um those agreements carry over with the and it um does not change upon annexation I will note here that the applicant and ocps have some disagreement on how to interpret the requirements of that capacity enhancement agreement that's going to be um something that needs to be resolved with or without the annexation of the property so the city will work with the applicant and ocps to ensure that School requirements are met prior to construction of residential units next up is transportation there is a robust Road Network that was approved by Orange County and the sunbridge and ICP PDS those will be built upon annexation dowon Road will extend east of the city boundary to connect to sunbridge Parkway and then sunbridge Parkway itself will be constructed and extend south from dowen road to Oola County this is an important goal for the city because um we all know that narus Road can be busy at times and this is an excellent alternative north south Corridor for the larger area uh in addition neighborhoods will have an interconnected local Street network with trails to encourage pedestrian and bicycle access um regarding environmental requirements there are no changes to the environmental standards of the PD all areas that are currently reserved for open space in both both PDS will remain um the city and the developer will work together to implement the environmental land stewardship program um once annexed into the City and that encompasses nearly 1,700 Acres of Conservation Area including wetlands and adjoining Uplands the developer is also working with local universities and environmental organizations to address various environmental topics and the city sees opportunities um to create new Partnerships with our greenwork program and the master developer so finally um there have been some questions about how the city plans to review and approve future development proposals um first up on the April 1st Council along with the adoption ordinance the council will be asked to consider an annexation and development agreement it covers the following main topics first his conveyance of a community park site second is conveyance of a fire station site next is um some parameters for construction of sunbridge Parkway um to Oola County next are some requirements to uphold the environmental commitments outlined within the County's environmental land stewardship program uh as well as making sure that existing agreements with neighbor neighboring property associations will remain in effect and this is fairly similar to what we've done for other annexed properties so once again to repeat there are no additional entitlements associated with this annexation uh the city will hold public hearings to adopt City future land use and Zoning designations consistent with the state statutes but those are going to look very familiar because it's going to be these the principles and Concepts all coming from the county PD ordinances so until the City Zoning is adopted Property Owners May request site plan approvals and building permits from the city who and we will review according to the Orange County zoning standards uh we're aware there may be property owners in ICP or sunbridge who are ready to obtain permits in the short term and and we want to be ready to accommodate those requests so this is a tenative timeline for the comprehensive plan and Zoning hearings uh including submittals at the end of April a municipal planning board meeting on June 18th followed by uh Council review of the minutes in July a first reading in August followed by state agency review and adoption Hearing in October so the benefits of annexation primarily is is the long history the city has of partnering with Tavistock to bring high quality growth and development to the region this particular site uh is located near M the airport the Space Coast Medical City UCF neoc City and other um Economic Development growth areas so really what we have here um are economic and Community Development opportunities um that the city can work together with Tavis stock to develop and an example of the success of that approach is certainly at Lake Nona it's become an excellent example of innovation in housing transportation and employment uh when it was annexed in the 1990s there were a number of critics and I think what you see there today demonstrates that those criticisms have been overcome so I'll follow up there and see if anybody has any questions okay questions for Elizabeth any anybody and we do have uh three requests to speak uh if you'll come identify yourself um you'll be given three minutes so the first is Andrew May assistant count County attorney good afternoon mayor and count and Commissioners my name is Andrew Mai and and I am the assistant County attorney for Orange County located at 2011 South Rosland Avenue in Orlando Florida um Orange County is surprised and concerned about this proposed annexation we have identified a number of issues and the letter that I submitted for the record and you should have before you in summary the county is disappointed that we were not consulted regarding this annexation we did not receive the feasibility study of annexation as required by Florida Statutes the governing body of the city this Council never sent the notification to the board of County Commissioners as required the notification was sent by the director of the economic development to the to to the county com troller we are concerned that this failure invalidates any action this Council may take related to this item the proposed an anation fails to comply with Florida statute 171432 two because none of the parcels proposed to be annexed are developed for urban purposes as defined by that section we noticed that the proposed an annexation is not Compact and it creates finger-like areas uh in the city we are concerned that the annexation splits a plan development in two plan developments are intended to operate as a whole and annexing most of a plan development will make the plan development fail especially since this plan development is very complicated the county and the applicants have entered into multiple development agreements the annexation will impair those contracts in violation of the law and no Provisions have been made to address these contracts and to compensate the county for its losses furthermore the city has a duty to provide Urban services on substantially the same basis and the same manner as other parts of the city the feas feasibility study reveals several deficien season services at this time we recommend that this annexation and approval of the annexation be delayed until the services can be provided the county finds the city to be a valuable partner in the development of the region we are surprised and concerned about this annexation and hope you will take the time to slow the process down so our concerns can be addressed we we request the city not adopt the annexation ordinance the county would like the opportunity to discuss these matters with the city thank you very much thank you I think Elizabeth addressed each of those issues in her presentations but we're certainly happy to have staff sit down in the next few weeks together um we'll be available um and we'll arrange that Elizabeth if you can be in charge of that along with Roy make sure we have discussions thank you thank you okay uh Jad Brewer good afternoon mayor Commissioners my name is Jad Brewer b w r from Orange County Public Schools 6501 magic way and Orlando 32809 uh provided earlier a letter um we found out about this annexation on Friday from our you know the great media that reports in this town I don't know if you got those but for the record I want to supply copies and essentially uh you know the the feasibility study and looking at that did not address schools whatsoever um Elizabeth slide um is the first U we've seen of that uh there's been zero communication about this annexation with Orange County Schools so interestingly the entirety of the sunbridge PD is uh has a capacity enhancement agreement over it which requires the dedication of school sites and the dedication of a a capital contribution to offset the cost of constructing what will most likely be three if not four schools in that area to handle the massive amount of growth that was already proposed um not here to stop growth in any manner or to stop uh sunbridge from moving forward uh we just want to be a part of this as a partner with the city the conditions of approval of the PD that Orange County put in place it's in the letter condition of approval number 20 uh provides that the developers in order to pull permits must be in comp compliance with the ca as well as that uh APF adequate public facilities agreements that Miss D referenced also protects those School interests so uh similar to the county we just Echo our concerns that this may be done being done at a rapid pace and we're uh not communicating effectively and and coordinating this so that all the citizens of that future area have the proper Services they need uh just ask the commission today to reaffirm its commitment to schools uh that condition number 20 should be carried over and should be made a vital part of anyd I know there's some uh language you discuss we we will follow all the agreements that have already been in place with the developer and the school district right and I'm glad to hear that today a disagreement on the value of uh the school capacity agreement um and we'll try to help you guys resolve that together as well right and that was one of our concerns that that was uh not addressed in theil stud in terms of all your other agreements all right thank you we we appreciate that commitment and I hope to see everyone at the opening of the new high school out in Lake Nona for next year but I would also invite you to sit down with staff and make sure that would love to we sit down with stuff all the time so okay at least quarterly and usually it's monthly you turn around shake hands with Elizabeth there she will accommodate you we know each other well thank you okay and lastly we have uh Eric Grimmer good afternoon mayor Commissioners my name is Eric grimer 574 Terror Spring Drive Orlando Florida 32828 now I'm a resident of East Orange County where the proposed annexation would occur I'm also a current member of the Orange County Charter review commission where I also serve as the chairman of our sustainable growth committee I'm here in my own personal capacity I'm not representing the CRC or our committee here today as a committee we have been considering the idea of creating rural boundaries in the county to guard against ongoing suburban sprawl you may have heard of our work it made some local news recently at our most Comm most recent committee meeting we took a deep dive on joint planning agreements that the county has with various municipalities which does not include the city of Orlando of course there is an interlocal agreement between the jurisdictions however during our meeting the lack of a joint planning agreement was lamented because of the pressures of ongoing annexations from the county to the city that results in a lack of predictability for future planning efforts I would personally add that the annexation pressures essentially forc the county to perpetuate its own suburban sprawl by bringing the rural bogy Creek Corridor into its own urban service area as the council is aware far statute requires the annexation request to be reasonbly compact however we're talking about nearly 6,300 acres of land the feasibility cility declares the annexation area to be reason compact but offers no explanation in support of its conclusion like Michael Scott in the office attempting to declare bankruptcy by yelling it out to a crowded room of co-workers just saying something to be the case does not make it soell reasonably Minds can disagree on a lot of things but there shouldn't be no disagreement that 6300 acres is not compact not only is the annexation not reason compact the city should abandon this request because it's just not cool Orange County and the City of oranda are neighbors collaborators maybe even friends we both have a staken and are actively trying to pursue success and prosperity for the entire region we cannot realize those goals if we do not work together to some degree the success of Orange County in the city of Orlando individually is dependent on actions wholly taken by the other jurisdiction therefore we should Endeavor not to undertake actions that would actively be detrimental to our neighbors the sunb development is going to be bad enough for the central Florida it is another glaming example suburban sprawl that is devouring large swats of undeveloped land land that is vital to deal with ever increasing amounts of storm water being dumped on US every year due to more severe storms resulting from climate change as Sun Bridge continues to be constructed it will be vital that the governing jurisdiction had the environmental capacity to make sure it's being done so in the most responsible manner to the environment once it's fully bu built out it will be essential that the governing jurisdiction monitors it and ensures that they is not causing ongoing damage to our natural ecosystems Orange County has a large team in its environmental Divi division with a wealth of experience and years of expertise the County's comprehensive Plan update Vision 2050 as is one of its goals is to make planning for the future of Orange County more predictable and surprise large scale annexations like this are an impediment to real to realizing this goal thank you very much thank you very much okay commissioner Burns uh thank you uh may I did have a question for for Elizabeth um is there is there a a a timeliness issue of why we're we're moving this uh right now versus at a later date well I I think it's important not to stretch it out too long because there are existing Property Owners unlike uh for example when we Annex Starwood next door it was entirely vacant and the developer was able to take some time to go through that entitlement process in this case those entitlements already exist in Orange County and some people have already built according to that so um we need to move at a pace to provide some certainty for the property owners uh for providing those services to them also um when I first heard about this the first thing that came to mind was environmental issues or or factors and I was um given some level of of uh you know my my concerns were you know somewhat addressed with us saying that all the environmental requirements from the county will will remain and so and they mentioned some uh addressing topics including water quality uh Water Resource conservation has there been any environmental concerns identified that has not been addressed by the county with the property earners that we should be concerned about uh no as far as I know the the boundaries of the environmental and the Wetland areas that's all been kind of determined so that's usually the hardest part of this process is getting that sorted out and and now that the boundaries are here you know there are some state and federal requirements but what Orange County has done very well is provide this stewardship aspect which means not just showing it as green on a map but actually um you know going in for invasive species removal maintaining the quality of the Water by being concerned about storm water runoff and that kind of things so that over time those Wetlands don't degrade and in fact you can create an environmental resource and I I think that's one of the kind of advantages to to bring it into the city is being able to participate in that and and potentially have some lessons learned for other areas in the city as well okay thank you commissioner Stewart then commissioner Hill right thank a couple of quick questions has has there been similar trying to think in my mind has there been other similar uh properties that have come in with similar environmental requirements when they came into us from the from the county um that you can think of right so the environmental land stewardship program is relatively new in the last 10 years so this would be our first time bringing that portion of it in in the past we've looked at Wetland boundaries and kind of maintained those but not the specific program but there certainly been some properties in the last 10 years have' come in I mean oh yes plenty of properties that have in open space whatever the agreements that they had with the county we have maintained right and the overarching especially with Wetlands they all fall under the Army Corp and or the Water Management District requirements which are in a sense pulling local governments you know the state statute is trying to get local governments kind of out of that review process and so all of us have to think about ways that we turn more towards protection of open space and kind of bigger picture goals so we're not the ones necessarily out there with the flag arguing over where the boundary is but we are the ones saying hey are you maintaining your property are you taking care of it that kind of thing um I I know that you had covered a bunch of stuff that was also covered in the letter that we received from the county I just kind of want to make sure that I'm on the same page as you so we see no distinguishable no difference effectively in the environmental and the plan document that's there I've getting letters from people who say I cannot believe you're going to allow you're going to develop thousands of pieces of property over there and my answer I think is it's already been approved right so if that was the concern that should have been addressed at the time the approved the project so somebody so somebody would somebody was trying to take advantage of stopping development wouldn't they want to come into the City and ask us to bring it in with less entitlements which we would say no these entitlements are there we're not going to take them away from somebody who's already gained them is that correct yes okay is there anything else I mean I think you probably seen the letter as well anything else in the letter that that that we're um in in your in your interpretation that it's it's not accurate I mean the time frames and and the other issues that are related that we we fall as best I can tell in line with all that have yeah yes and the the feasibility study was sent to the Orange County crom troller which is where we sent many other annexation notices over the years and and it's never been a concern um the the definition of urban purposes is in the statute and there's a a different sort of criteria that applies depending on which section of the statute you're using but as our feasibility study explains we're using the broad definition of the entire chapter so um there you know you can try for some technicalities but we can come back with technicalities I'm sure Roy has some case law he can pull out if necessary um I don't see anything here that um sounds like it would be a showstopper now outside of the Direct Services taxes that are available that would either be applied or not applied based upon who's providing those Services um the only other Revenue coming out of there is County General Revenue correct that's we can tell right so if you look at an unincorporated property they everybody in the county pays an unincorporated millage rate um or excuse me they pay the unincorporated then there's a countywide one that City residents pay and County residents so they'll keep that portion of it and then the city would get its portion and that unincorporated rate falls off the the bill now our our rates are slightly higher they are and so we have a property owner who wants to voluntarily come into the City and pay a slightly higher rate for Public Safety essentially is that correct well it's for all the services that a city provides yep yeah I just I mean when I look at this from the outside is I would say I can't imagine why the county would actually want to object to this and the reason is that this will be developed faster and the plan that they had already be developed faster and they will get their General Revenue quicker than having to lay this over 10 years it looks to me like it could happen over 3 to 5 years um and that would be a good thing for the county not necessarily a bad thing correct is am I missing that interpretation I I would agree with that I'm sure some people might not that's okay I understand that's what I'm just trying to make sure I understand all right thank you very much thank you commissioner Hill commissioner Burns commissioner Ortiz thank thank you mayor Dar and thank you for that presentation uh Elizabeth I still need ER di to understand this as a whole but today I'm supporting it uh but I do there will be no more residential build is that what I heard outside of what Orange County has already approved right so they've approved about 7,000 units which is pretty substantial but the developer is not asking for anything more than what's already approved is that single family a multif family or a mix it's a mix it's a mix and then the 5 plus million office space 2.9 Million Square ft of industrial and Retail and the hotel uh rooms I I I guess I asked that uh mayor and counsel and I think I've asked you that also nowhere in that Southeast re region can someone come out there to go to work that might need public transportation and I didn't see public transportation uh there in the transportation mod of right and and that's a that's a regional concern with or without this annexation is providing good transit to this part of Orange County and you know it was a setback when the sales tax uh referendum was not approved but I think you know both the city and the county are going to have to come up with some oh absolutely I get it but being a fair and Equitable City that we brag about it's not Equitable this would not be for me Equitable and I would like to know about you know is it is it going to be a Enclave for the wealthy still will it be attainable housing in the area it should be all throughout the system so those are some of the questions that I'm and I would like for us to behalf as we move forward about infrastructure Equitable housing attainable housing commissioner Hill what I can tell you about that if we Annex it you'll have a vote on that right if we don't Annex it that's why I'm supporting it mayor but I do want those type of conversations to be had that's all I have thank you commissioner Burns uh mayor I I just want to get clarification so the cuz the county attorney mentioned that um I guess our process in submitting the feasibility study didn't follow you know legal requirements what and I just that that was the only thing I want to know do we feel that our process was consistent and then meets all of the legal it does and we spend a lot of time with our attorneys making sure we followed all the steps and you know that that's an obvious one that you don't want to Miss because it's pretty straightforward so I I think we're pretty comfortable that we've done it correctly and if that's something we need to address with the county we we can certainly speak to them but I I think all of us on staff are very comfortable commissioner it's the same way we've done it for since I've been here okay and they've never objected till now so it would be hard to not argue that's a little waiver on their part and I did happen to listen to the T uh where the County Commission discussed this and and um mayor deming's acknowledged receipt on whatever date it was so the 23rd yes so we're good okay thank you y Comm Ortiz quick recap um Elizabeth just correct me no changes in growth management plan no changes in land use no changes in PD no entitlements no additional density and no changes in conservation ISS right Prett much stays everything the same they keep the utilities so the only thing here is they rather have doing business with us than doing business with orange count oh well I will say that um let's put it the way it is that that at some point we do have to change the future land use and Zoning to City categories because right now all the rules so to speak you have to go look at Orange County documents we would for people future developers or 20 years from now when you need a fence at your house that you can look at a city ordinance so we will be transferring all that over and that requires a public hearing process of course but the goal is to transfer it not to wholesale make changes okay we would we would do that with any County property coming in we have we must by State LA do that thank you just making sure I was clear on that commissioner gray yeah I just wanted to say say briefly to commissioner Hill um the last time we did the the large PD for Lake Nona with Tavistock we required them to do 10% of their new housing to be affordable okay and so there's no reason we won't hold them to that same standard thank you sir sure further discussion hearing none all in favor the motion indicate so by saying I those opposed so the motion carries I will uh mention one other thing to commissioner Hill since I see Roseanne Harrington out here if in fact we get the sunshine Corridor done Roseanne had pushed to have a stop on the other side of the airport that would serve eventually sunbridge so there is the capacity to run SunRail through the airport and onto this property that we're talking about annexing Wonder okay all right let's move to our next item okay hearings ordinances on second reading number one and this relates to the um Jetport Center development properties so let's start with number one and then we'll do the come back to the one that we skipped and then we'll do number two [Music] number one Stephanie ordinance number 2023 D28 an ordinance of the city council of the city of berland of Florida annexing to the corporate limits of the city certain land generally located east of weatherbe Road South of Palm Bay Drive and north of OU Railroad and comprised of 166 acres of land more or less providing for sever correction of Governor's errors and an effective date move to adop motion by commissioner gray second by commissioner Ortiz Madame clerk do we have any speakers no speakers mayor discussion hearing none all in favor the motion indicate so by saying I I I those oppos motion carries okay let's revert back to the recision order of the Orlando Jetport Center development from hearings number one I guess you don't really need to read that but would you read the title anyways you with me number nine Stephanie here we have to go back that's the hearing right yep hearing is number one yeah just read I know we don't need to read it but I was going to have you read the title anyways recision order of the Orlando Jetport Center development of regional impact drri development order as to Parcels 13- 24- 29- 0000-00-00 7 and 13- 24- 29-00 0000-00-00 8 could you read those numbers again no excuse me uh move to approve please motion by commissioner gray second by commissioner Ortiz I'll open this for public hearing do we have any cards no cards discussion hearing none all in favor the motion indicate so by saying I I those opposed and so the motion carries all right now we are back in order without any disruption so we are on number two ordinance 2 23-29 mam clerk ordinance number 2023-24 designating the property as general Industrial in part and conservation in part the city's official zoning Maps providing for Amendment of the city's official future land use and Zoning Maps providing for separability correction of scrier Errors permit disclaimer and an effective date motion to adopt motion by commissioner gray and I think we changed it up second by commissioner Stewart go okay Madam clerk do we have any requests for comment no speakers mayor discussion hearing none all in favor Mo indicate so by saying I I those oppos motion carries okay number three ordinance number 20235 an ordinance of the city of Orlando Florida amending the Wastewater element of the city's growth management plan in accordance with the city's 2023 evaluation and appraisal report providing for severability correction scrier errors and an effective date motion by commissioner Ortiz second by commissioner shien Madam clerk any request no speakers fa no speakers discussion hearing none all in favor the motion indicate up by saying I I those oppos motion carries okay ordinances on first reading number one ordinance number 202 24-15 an ordinance of the city of Orlando Florida annexing to the corporate limits of the city portions of Butler Road generally located from the easterly right of way line of South Orange Avenue and the Westerly right of way line of Oak Place and comprised of 0.25 acres of land more or less and certain land generally located east of South Orange Avenue West of Oak Place and south of Butler Drive and compris of 0.17 acres of land more or less and amending the city's boundary description amending the city's adopted growth management plan to designate the property as Urban Activity Center on the city's official future land use maps designating the property as Urban activity center with the SoDo special plan overlay District on the city's official zoning map providing for Amendment of the city's official future land use and Zoning Maps providing for cability correction discrimin errors permit disclaimer and an effective date second motion by commissioner Shen is that you commissioner Hill second second commissioner Hill Madam clerk any cards no speakers May no speakers discussion hearing none all in favor the motion indicate so by saying I I I those oppos motion carries and number 2 24 20246 ordinance number 202 24-16 and ordinance amending chapter 31 city code storm water utility code by amending section 31.1 14 city code to modify the basis on which the storm water service charges calculated and to provide for increases in the charge and applicable rate providing legislative findings cability codification correction of discri errors and an effective date motion by commission Ortiz by commissioner Stewart Madam clerk any cards no speakers there no speakers discussion hearing none all in favor the motion to indicate so by saying I I those opposed and so the motion carries okay that's all of our ordinances we do have a quasi judicial hearing so let's move to item 161 quasi additional hearing related to 167 East Washington Street um this is a recommended order from a hearing officer in case QJ [Music] 2023-the on behalf of the property owner Doug dney the petitioner is Mark kinchla as agent for 1623 LLC I'm going to have Elizabeth go ahead and give us some background and then we will hear from the petitioner and the applicant Elizabeth thank you mayor you had a full day Elizabeth I hope you all aren't tired of me yet all right once again my name is Elizabeth Deng I'm here today to present on 1617 East Washington Street it was an appeal of the historic Pres ation board's decision the project is a single family lot located at 1617 East Washington Street it's .19 acres in District 4 and you can see it highlighted in blue the requested action here is to construct a new single family home with a detached garage and a second floor accessory dwelling unit on a currently vacant parcel this parcel was previously split from 1623 East Washington Street in 2022 and is a legal conf forming lot so here you see on the zoning map it's zoned r2a with the traditional City Historic preservation and aircraft noise overlays and it is in the lake lasona historic district the existing site photos it's a little hard to see from the street because of the tree cover uh but the house you see on one-story blue house is on the left and there's a two-story White House on the right so this is the proposed residence uh it is new construction it's two stories uh as well as the one story Port kosher it is a tutor Revival um and it will the the reason the port kosher is on the left side is that that is closer to the one-story house and then the two-story portion of the house is next to the two-story home next door so this is the site plan and and we put it this way so so you can see it a little more clearly but North is to your left there so the street is on the right so if you imagine the front of the home on the right there um it does have a 25t excuse me a 30 foot setback in the front 6 feet on the east side which uh exceeds the minimum setbacks so the historic preservation board heard the applicant's petition for approval and staff recommended approval with a number of conditions the most relevant being um some architectural features that should be adjusted as well as a separate minor review for fencing in the pool and a small reduction in the square footage so it's below the 050 floor area ratio requirement the HPB added several conditions including lowering the height of the roof and this is done through the pitch so they weren't talking about taking a floor off but they were talking about a few inches to lower the height of the roof um reduce the balcony on the right side so it does not extend into the required side setback um provide Eaves and fascia consistently around the entire building and ask staff to review the brick selection as well as reducing the size of the Adu and the amount of parking in the rear so that's what was approved um it was appealed by a neighboring property owner historic preservation board applications are Quasi judicial uh chapter 2 article 32 of the city code allows persons to satisfied with a board recommendation to a denovo or new hearing before an independent hearing officer and that hearing was conducted on January 11th so the hearing officer did find that proper notice was given and the petitioner had adequate opportunity to present objections at the hearing uh he found that the petitioner failed to present any expert testimony and no convincing lay testimony to support his objections uh the petitioner failed to provide uh competent substantial evidence to support the objections and found that the HPB board itself acted with competent substantial evidence and therefore the recommended approval of the application must be approved and affirmed so the hearing officer's recommendation is approval of the application U according to the hpb's recommendation and the appeal would be denied so the action required by council is either to adopt the recommended order adopt with changes or direct staff to prepare a revised order and staff's recommendation is to adopt the hearing ORD recommended excuse me hearing officer's recommended order denying the petitioners petition in opposition in its entirety and approving the hpb's recommended approval in case number HPB 2023 10282 and I'm available if you have any questions okay questions or comments for Elizabeth then section two uh commissioner Stewart um Elizabeth quick question uh the um conditions that were placed from HPB and from mpb are part of the order that they went through as part of the order yes so the recommended order was to keep all the conditions exactly the same no changes okay section 2.29 of the Orlando city code provides that consideration of a recommended order is a quasa Judicial matter must be based on and limited to the testimony and evidence in the record that was made and considered by the hearing officer Council may allow staff and each party up to 10 minutes for oral presentation or argument historically we have given each party 5 minutes neither staff nor the parties May submit new evidence and must confine presentations to the evidence made part of the record before the hearing officer we've heard from staff and now we will hear from um the petitioner and then the applicant responded so the petitioner is Mark kinchla if you'll come forward you have five minutes see here I didn't think I saw Mark no I don't think Mr kitcha is here I don't see him in the audience okay then he waves his time um Mr Deets okay well I'm guessing this uh kind of makes it an easy decision um I'm going to yes that we might want a motion to approve the hearing officer's recommended order mayor I will move that to adopt the hearing officer's recommendation second motion by commissioner Shen second by commissioner Burns discussion here none all in favor of the motion to indicate so by saying I I I those opposed and so the motion carries okay that is the scheduled business for today could you get us in position for General appearance [Music] [Music]