[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the broadcast is now starting all attendees are in listen only mode Al here we have a physical Cor council member Henderson will be arriving momentarily and council member Vier stuck in traffic he'll be arriving any minute um may I have a motion to open all the public hearings we have a motion from council member Clint Den second Council Miranda all in favor I any oppos all right we're going to start with item number one this is before we go to the housekeeping who's here for item number one is oh there we go K on good evening uh Ken Henderson uh Housing and Community Development director we have a PowerPoint um that we will like to present so before us this year uh we have our action plan which we come before Council every year we have to have two public um hearings and so we go over what the funds are what we've gotten for this upcoming fiscal year between Federal and some State and then just uh go over the projects that we plan to actually fund so the purpose of this action plan every year again we always come forward with the con plan every five years the action plan is every year and so what we're looking at are all the federal funds how they'll be used and so our cdbg which is our community development block grant ESG emergency Solutions Grant hopa housing opportunities for persons with AIDS and HIV and then our home investment partnership are the four grants that we're going to dive into today um the Community Development Grant the cdbg grant really I always say it's the most flexible but probably be the hardest to spend just because there's not as many uh strict guidelines for that so it does come with some regulations as how much can be used for um public services or how much can be used for public facilities but we cannot use this grant to build is the only thing um our ESG is for those who are homeless we're looking to do either uh rapid rehouse and so quickly getting those who are in shelter out of shelter and into a permanent safe space and then the other thing that we can fund with this are are shelter and just help with shelter operations so that's our smallest Grant even though we know that we are having an increase in homeless individuals but we continue to leverage other funds which we will bring back on the second public he um our hwa grant that is the only grant that we oversee that's not just for the City of Tampa we actually oversee this grant for four counties so when I go it will show that it's the largest uh amount that we get but we do oversee it for Hillsboro Pasco pelis and Hernando and then our home investment partnership um the home program also as a result of only getting about $280,000 earmarked for a homeless population we do take some of these funds to leverage um that Grant and so we use about $600,000 to do vouchers um some of the priority needs that we have um that we we set forward when we did our RFB and we're looking to do the action plan we wanted to make sure that we could get some more new construction and rental assistance and so that was by way of doing an RFP to say we're looking for those who can rehab or do new construction um with multif family Supportive Housing operations as we have a lot of the individuals not only do we want to get them housed but we want to make sure that we can keep them permanently housed and so we want to make sure that we have some uh support system around them from various programs and then the public facility really is is uh one example would probably be the skill center where we were able to step in and assist with cdbg dollars that help with public facilities to make sure that people can indeed get those Services um Special Economic Development we know that we're going to work and try to fund um a special economic development but we have not yet released that RFP and so we're looking to help with job creation and also trying to take some steps as uh if it's a food desert how can we kind of jump in and help with that so we know we're going to work on it just don't have a plan yet so this is what we have right now as far as the funding allocation so um we get three about $3 million for cdbg home is 1.5 haa 5.3 but again that is for four counties and it's very specific you have to have HIV or Aids um to receive that one and then our ship Fund in which is about $3 million so this year between um state and federal we'll get about 13.2 million which is actually a reduction last year we got about 15.1 so we have lost about $1.9 million roughly um the analysis to impediment for fair housing that's a new rule that has to um go through luckily we have one that is existing um at the next time I think in the next two years we'll have to redo our impediment to fair housing and it really is just making sure that as we have all these programs we continue to restrict and come um ensure everybody's in compliance if they're going to get any of our funds um with given fair housing um so this is a calendar of the events so far and so we did release our RFA in April um you'll see it only has cdbg for Public Service public facilities and economic development although I went over other federal grants those uh Grant Agreements are three-year agreements so they did not make it to the RFP but they're still part of our plan um we did technical assistance virtual workshops with those who are interested um and we also did some in person um for those who are interested in the grant they've seen the RFP we allowed after the RFP was released and we had the technical assistance just to have a um the applicants or potential applicants submit questions where we could then clarify anything that they were looking at and then we had Proposal review and recommendation by the reviewers who came to look at the application and now we're here for the first public hearing um we will will come back June 27th where we will come for the second public hearing and open up the 30-day comment period uh this plan that we're going over has to be submitted to HUD by August 15 so that we can start the fiscal year for October 1st um this was just on our web page one of the ways we advertised we did put it in the newspaper also and then shared it with a lot of the local nonprofits that we work with um we also had uh citizen participation meetings we had four me meetings at Hannah in the community room um and it really is just to address some of what we have we take a survey to ask what the individuals in the community think are the priority needs um unfortunately while we had four nobody attended any of the four um but we still have the survey available should anybody be interested they can reach out and at least uh still have their input um the public comments and feedback really is going to be on prior priority to what's housing coming development what we're looking at as the priorities right now um really which is to have more units available to the population that we serve and so this was the entire this was the point of the survey and to have those public meetings so that we can get that input and not only just continue doing the same thing but get what the public is looking um this is probably very hard to read but this is a copy of the survey but again I can email and leave copies of the survey um for anybody who's interested thank you uh great presentation um I was wondering just because you said that no one was able to or no one attended those meetings if You' considered maybe going out into the public at maybe some community centers we've done yeah we're open to that we did that last year because I think that was a comment last year um from just getting feedback from the uh public and so we tried that last year and we what we did was try to go to different areas of the city um unfortunately nobody showed up to that yet um so I I think it might just be an advertising things so we still get surveys but usually the meetings we hold them between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. and so I think it's late and but we're open if there's a site that you'd like us to schedule one for okay happy to do it thank you I I appreciate that further um explanation here council member Carlson thank you um I I know it's been a long process of you and your colleagues um leading through lots of changes um and um and trying to find more and more effective uh process here so thank you for all that and um also want to ask you though with all your expertise um what it what are the outcome measures we should be looking for or are there outcome measures that you would challenge us with um it seems like as I look across other cities they all me measure it um by the dollar amount they're putting in or by the number of programs or something like that and um I wonder if there's is there some other measure like if you measured by the number of people affected you could easily increase the number by giving a small amount to a lot of people right or you can have a very deep impact on a few people it what's what's the best way to measure the outcome of this to make sure that that it's effective so I think it just depends on the program um for some of the programs we could help a lot of people because it's not have it doesn't need that impact it's it's a quick um service that they're coming in for for some of our programs that are are homeless programs we fund at a higher amount but really we help less people because we have a it's an intensive case management for that and so it just depends on the program we do have performance measures for all the programs but they slightly different in how we look at it all right thank you very much is anybody in the public wish to speak on this item item number one I see nobody um do we make a motion to closed we still have to revisit this so we'll come back on the 27th so we'll leave it open because there's still a continuation it's another hearing correct yeah close motion to close motion to close from council member Carlon second council member her all in favor I any oppose and if we could announce the date and time and place of the next hearing that will be June 27th and it will be here I think at 5:01 p.m. yeah thank you thank you very much magic magic all right we're going to do some uh housekeeping let's go over the agenda yes sir all right same Thomas development coordination um good evening council members we have two quick housekeeping items the first is agenda item number 13 RZ 2441 the applicant has requested a continuance to the August 8th public hearing can I get a motion to continue we have a motion to continue item number 13 to August 8 2024 50:1 pm here in city council chambers 315 East Kennedy Boulevard third Flo Tampa Florida we have a second second from council member Miranda all in favor of the continuance I any oppose all right yes sir um then lastly um agenda item number three will be heard after agenda items six and seven okay so we're going to hear item number three after six and seven which are going to be heard together because we have to hear six and seven before we can take up item number three if we take up item number three all right these are quas judicial public hearings if you're going to speak on any of the items this evening please stand raise your right hand and we will swear you in if you're going to be speaking on anything this evening please stand yes thank you do you swear or affirm that the testimony you about to give it's the truth and nothing theuth thank you very much we're going to start with item number two thank you so much chairman and Council L shond do development coordination and Council item number two is Rez 2337 this is for the property located at 7105 7109 and 7111 CMI Street and folios 138 66540 and 138 66640 the applicant is represented by Steve molini this is a request to reson the property from CG commercial General IG industrial General in rs50 residential single family to PD plan development for residential single family attached in detach uses on site and just to give a quick background as to how how we are here today this application was heard before City Council on March 21st um at that hearing a um continuance was granted and that continuance was to allow the applicant time to meet with the community and to redesign the site so since that time the applicant has worked has redesigned the site and um made amendments to the design and the site plan you have before you is that amended site plan um the following changes were made to that site plan um since this continuance was granted there has been an elimination of a unit um that contained four units there was one building that contained four units that has been eliminated and a single family residential detach unit has been replaced with that unit they have eliminated two natural resources waivers and those waivers were pertaining to used to use buffers and this is the buffer to the North and the landscape buffer to the West they've also removed the solid waste dumpster which was located um on the east at the entry of the site um through um coordination with the solid waste staff the applicant um had a review and since the number of units were reduced um that eliminated the need for a dumpster so there's no longer a dumpster on site um and then the last change to the site was they are providing seven surface parking spaces for visitor parking they are overp parked and I will present that to you later um but I believe and the applicant will explain further it was at the request of the community so with that I just wanted to give a brief background um on this request I'll turn it over to Jennifer to give her um report and I'll come back and give my report thank you thank you good evening City Jennifer Malone with your Planning Commission staff um I believe we report gave you a report on this case back in March our finding has changed um based on the revisions we have found the site plan before you tonight consistent with the comprehensive plan so the applicant um has addressed all of our concerns with their revised site plan that's before you so um I won't go too much into detail about the where it is because you're probably aware but it's in South Tampa it is in the coastal High Hazard area um but this is a transitioning area there's some industrial like some open storage uses but um a lot of residential uses so the future land use map it has a community mixed use 35 future land use that's the Pink as well as a light industrial future land use the applicant is not putting any dwelling units in the industrial future land use consistent with the comprehensive plan um so this is not used for any dwelling units we also have some residential 20 and some residential 35 and some residential 10 10 um in the area but as you can see it's a mixture of industrial and some commercial future land uses so um if you bear with me um we did find that um as you all know the comprehensive plan does encourage infill development and what is proposed um through this development is helping to ensure there's an adequate amount of land for Tampa's growing population uh we found that the redesign supported the plan um by providing um orientation of the front door to a neighborhood sidewalk or Street and a safe pedestrian connection to that sidewalk or Street um so with that we found it consistent again um the applicant has addressed our concerns and thus we're before each T night with a consistency finding thank you thank you very much yes ma'am thank you again Council of Shan doc development coordination um so with this rezoning request um our 2337 it will allow for a total of seven units on site the site contains 26284 s ft the maximum Building height allowed is 40 ft um the setbacks proposed are to the north 7 ft South 15 ft to the west 25 ft into the east 8 ft a total of 16 parking spaces are required and 21 spaces are provided um on site and this is the site plan submitted um that you have before you um this is the site that's on CMI there's only one point of access and that's on cimi um this is the boundary of the property here and I have a um closeup of the site and so this is CMI Street this is the entrance to the site so this is the location of the single family um residential detach unit identified as unit number seven on the site plan this is where previously there were four units and then there are six units that are located on this side of the site units 2 through six have front door orientation to the sidey yard um and a waiver has been requested for that standard unit one and unit 7 the single family detach have front door orientation to the east on CMI street so they have connection and connectivity to the sidewalk um that is on cumi the surface spaces um are located here on the site and you can see the site has been designed um to provide protection to the existing um tree that is on site in the southwest um portion of the site and so here are the elevations that are provided so this is the South elevation and this is the north elevation for those units and the east elev is located here and then this is the west elevation this is the um South elevation for that single family residential and then that is the north elevation and just quickly I'll show you the zoning Atlas um for the area um this is the site which is outlined in red this is CMI um this is Ingram Street this is commer street so you can see the zoning of the um CG commercial General the industrial General um is to the north Northwest of the site and that is running along um commer Street you have a mixture of commercial and Industrial uses along Commerce um on the east side of CMI on Northwest of the site you have commercial General zoning the uses on the east side of CMI at this location at kmer Street um contain residential multif family uses um from kmer Street down to Ingram the majority of the uses are residential multif family to the east you have um rm24 zoning and the use is consistent with that with residential multif family zoning as you approach the corner um at the southeast that is where you have the residential single family detached along Ingram you have SE commercial General zoning and further south and east you have residential single family rs50 zoning and then I have pictures of the site let me zoom out just a little bit so this this is the site on CMI this is another view of site this is north of the site on Commerce this is north of the site that's on CMI and that's looking West towards Commerce this is north of the site the S semi if you're looking West this is Northeast of the site so this is at the um corner of Longman this is east of the site this is directly across from the site some of the residential multif family um which is the same use which is further north of the site this is southeast of the site that's the single family residential as you approach the [Music] corner this is at the southeast Corner residential multif family so this is the site um and this is if you're looking south on casimi the site is off to the right this is on Ingram and this is on the west side of the parcel there is a um an alley it's unimproved this is the view if you're looking from Ingram to that alley behind the site this is the view of that alley if you're looking from Commerce looking South to the site it's all wooded so out on site it is um unimproved and staff has reviewed the request finds the request consistent there are site plan modifications to be made between first and second reading um and this concludes my presentation I'm available if you have any questions yes council member her thank you could you put the site plan back up yes I get the close I just had a question why the the extra driveway to nowhere so so this was provided so the driveway you would enter here and then this is a turnaround provided fire department needs a turnaround ah okay so that's the reason for the distance in ell thank you you're welcome and I just wanted to apologize for coming in late it took me like 50 minutes to get here from West Shore so I apologize thank you I know should have taken very you should know somebody that could do something about that okay I all yes sir please say good evening Council Steve molini representing the petitioner um we we've worked on this site very closely with the neighborhood association and we've had several meetings with them and um I mean let me just jump right to to one of the issues that we we were trying to resolve um apparently the previous owner of of this property had committed to this the property owner here which is a single family residence that this would be a single family house and um we had no no knowledge of that whatsoever so we eliminated the request for the town houses over here and we replaced it with a single family house and we also increased the setback from Seven which would be normal to 15 ft and that was done at the request of the homeowner that resides here we also added additional property um so that we have almost 9,000 square ft of Green Space uh so this is this is kind of a park- like setting and this is shallow and and they ask for additional parking which exceeds a city requirement but they wanted additional parking to make sure that people weren't going to be parking out on on cming and I can show you I can show you why um because the other side of CMI has the all these apartments and they have limited parking and so they didn't want to exacerbate the issue regarding parking this site on the North side uh is is buffered by um or it joins multif family and Commercial zoning so we had we had some very um interesting challenges on how to make this work and then as as lesea pointed out normally we wouldn't have such a large driveway in a turnaround except that the fire department requested it and so we obviously there's no waivers allowed for the fire department and life safety um but we're really proud of this of this site and having worked with a neighborhood group um I can go through all the different criteria for you but we're exceeding the parking exceeding the Green Space uh we have the connectivity that they wanted and um it's kind of an interesting thing that happened is that they want a vehicular use buffer here for the but but with there's nothing here there's it it's industrial land and it's our driveway so but but it's included as a request for a waiver um we reduced the number of units the 17 units could be allowed there and we're requesting seven so there's 10 units of density that that normally could be requested and we've eliminated them and again um we've had several meetings and and quite honestly we went out to the site and met with the homeowner uh adjacent on the southide and and she said look I mean they promised us it was going to be a single family they took a picture but apparently there was a rendering that was posted on the site and we said oh my God we had no idea and so we revised the plans and and provided a single family residence adjacent to her um we are very happy that we've been found consistent by all the Departments and the Planning Commission we uh we've met with them we you know we've uh endeavored to remove the objections uh from both City staff and the concerns that the Planning Commission had and that was all through working very closely with those departments in the neighborhood um I I think we've got a better much better plan I think we've got a very nice plan here that I think you'll find that the neighbors are supporting uh we have an email from them indicating that they were supporting the site plan as revised the um the plan recognizes the unique conditions and the design allows for flexibility and promotes a planning diversification and integration of uses uh it takes an unusable land it has different land use classifications it has a rs50 zoning and IG zoning and uh a General commercial zoning and we've converted that all to residential um it encourages flexible development and reduces Transportation needs so we have the connections that we required on CMI CMI is sort of a very busy street and we've internalized uh the connection so that it takes the traffic off of that the applicant proposes the seven units and again as I said 17 would be allowed by the land use designation we've removed the dumpster which was a problem and that originally was out uh near the front which Solid Waste had required and we've moved that internally to the site so it's no longer on the exterior it's on the interior of the lot the design and the proposed developments are unique uh and the waivers that we're requesting uh are minimal and they do meet in they're consistent with the code and the comprehensive plan it allows substantial Justice and will not interfere or injure the rights of others we've we've moved all of the uh utility accesses that are required to the interior of the site so that no other surrounding Property Owners affected the waiver is in harmony with the general intent and purposes of the chapter uh and the Planning Commission has already indicated to you as well as City staff that is consistent allowing the W will result in substantial Justice it will allow a very sensitive project to move forward which has reduced the density provided a single family residence as requested by the adjacent property owner um and also allows for the town houses that are proposed on the North side that will abot a General commercial area and a multif family development that already exists uh we are um we will be U consistent and we will will uh amend the plan to adjust the requests from the city staff regarding the changes in the site plan and notations that they've requested uh should we be successful between first and second reading uh the site is uh CMU 35 as as they've indicated uh which is 35 units the acre 17 units would be allowed we're requesting the seven we're in with a commercial use Corridor we meet with planning goals and objectives of policies of the tamper con plan public realm I'm not going to read all of them but would request that those be received and filed to be part of the record Land Development regulations land use objectives overall residential development and Redevelopment objectives multif family residential areas adequate sites to accommodate housing needs um as the city staff has indicated ated in the Planning Commission we've uh developed an Adaptive plan here that meets all of those criterias and they found it to be consistent I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have um we spent a lot of time and we've gone to Great Lengths to try to accommodate all of the issues and the comments that were made by both the staff and the uh adjacent Property Owners question no do have anybody in the public that wishes to speak on item number two okay yes ma'am please say your name hi good evening Stephanie Pointer um we are going to support this project the ab budding neighbor um uh Mr melini's applicant did a boatload of um pacification yes the additional parking is needed on their property because they have so much on the street parking now they really do need it um uh and and they have heart buses it says in the staff report in the initial staff report that there's not a bus that runs down there but they're absolutely is it's one of the small heart buses and it can barely get through there most of the time because they have so much on the street parking so the additional parking is a good thing um but we went from 11 units to seven and the change um to a single family home at the ab buding neighbor is a big change um and so uh the the we had probably a half a dozen folks meet one time and maybe closer to a dozen the second time um and they agree yeah we they all run together for me but anyway but the bottom line is that um the neighbors want to support this because honestly I don't know what business would go in there this property AB buts one of the 10 top oldest buildings in the city um I I'd love to see something that looks a little bit more like one of the 10 oldest buildings in the city but um that's what one person says it's three it's one of the top three oldest buildings in the city and somebody else has told me it's in the top 10 um it's currently being rehabed and he is taking his sweet sweet time to do it how old is the building the building next door is I I don't know but it's one of the top it's one of the oldest in the city that no it's older than that but but the bottom line is several of the people who do a lot with history in Port Tampa have said that it's older than the library so um but but they're rehabbing it but we'd like to see something that looks like that but other than that I I can't I can't complain because the neighbors aren't complaining okay and the neighbors said they're okay with it I don't know what we would put industrial on that line I mean there's just not a whole lot to put there I don't like it but it is what it is thank you thank you very much councilman Miranda want me read it oh no no no anybody else here for public comment no no can I get a motion closed you need any rebuttal sir no sir we thank you and thank all those involved for bearing with us to bring this to you thank you very much we have motion close from Council Miranda second Council all in favor I Council Miranda The Substitute order and set the body thank you chairman item number two P EZ 23-37 substitute orders being presented for first reading consideration ordinance resoning property generality is 7105 7109 and 7111 cemi Street and folder number is 1 38665 000000 and 1 38666 000000 in the city of Tampa Florida more particularly describing section one from zoning District classification CG commercial General to RS R RSS o residential single family and PD plan development residential single family attach and detach providing an effective date second and with the revision sheet as well sir yeah revision sheet okay we have a motion we have a second from council member Vieira all in favor I any opposed thank you very much sir thank you all right item number three is going to be taken after six and seven so we go to item number four oh I'm sorry go ahead second reading and adoption will be held um on for this item is going to be uh July 18 2024 at 10: a.m. located at Old City Hall 3:15 East Kennedy Boulevard third floor Tampa Florida 33602 thank you very much yes sir item number four yes Sam Thomas development coordination agenda item number four is RZ 2394 a request to Res Zone 8026 inbay Boulevard from residential single family 50 to plan development for residential single family detached I'll turn it over to Jennifer with the Planning Commission thank you yes ma'am good evening Jennifer Malone with the Planning Commission um here is the subject site we're um in still in South Tampa still in the coastal High Hazard area um the site is an acre uh a little over an acre 1.22 Acres um and they're requesting a couple single family uh detach drilling units on it um so in in the surrounding area we have some single family detached um there's a park down here and um there are some attached single family attached over here to the Northeast so that does follow with the future land use map this is residential 20 so any single family attached units would probably be in this land use category the subject site itself is residential 10 um there's a sometimes when we get these requests and we see something odd with the future land use map we look into it we take out some old books that go back to the 80s um and we we research it a little bit so I'm just here to State for the record that the entire subject site is residential 10 there is no uh this is a mapping error when we transition into digital Maps so there is no part of the subject site that is public semi-public which is the blue um that will be changed on the next quarterly submitt of our plan Amendment Maps the correct future land use is reflected in the staff report so we went back and and did some history on that there we did find this consistent with the comprehensive plan and that underlying residential 10 future land use category um two units are proposed along in Bay and a third unit is situated on the southern portion of the subject site this is an overall density of only 2.45 dwelling units an acre residential 10 can have up to 10 dwelling units an acre so it's it's um but it is utilizing the site in a way that we feel is appropriate for the surrounding area especially given its configuration um so with that uh we find that it will further a lot of the policies in the comprehensive plan relating to infill housing continuing to build housing for Tampa growing population that concludes my presentation you found it consistent yes okay thank you sorry yes sir council member Den I find it agis to say that you went back to Old maps from the 1980s sorry you're killing me thanks yes sir go ahead same Thomas development coordination we'll start out with the aerial map so here's the subject site as Jen pointed out outlined in red it's long in Bay Boulevard and then you have Wall Street over here where this flag comes out um it is an irregular shaped lot along the south side of inbay Boulevard um you may have mainly single family detached units there's a few semi detached down here you have a church here um some public use here which is a fire station on the north side of Inner Bay Boulevard um you do have some single family attached units and then some multif family here here and here um and then then as you move up mcdill Avenue you have um some manufacturing industrial uses here and then some multif family uses to the north there um next we will go to the site plan provided by the applicant so you have um two units uh oriented towards inter Bay Boulevard with access provided from in Bay Boulevard each of these units are providing a two-car garage then as you move South you have a third unit that is oriented towards the southern property line and their access is provided from Wall Street here they also have a two-car garage overall six parking spaces are required and six are being provided um you can also see there's quite a large number of trees on site that are being preserved the maximum Building height is 37 ft proposed um and I'll go to some pictures of the site now or some elevations first actually so this is parcel number one facing Interbay Boulevard this will be the second unit also along inbay Boulevard and this is the third one that is facing the southern property line and here are some photos of the subject site so this is looking South at the subject site from Inner Bay Boulevard this would be looking West so you can see one of the single family detached homes there this is looking East on inner bay with a single family detached this is looking North from the subject site so you can see some of those single family detached on the Northern side this is also looking West along Interbay Boulevard looking East a little bit closer up on those homes this is moving further south into the neighborhood or into the subject site you can see that it is rather of a deep lot and there is quite a lot of trees on it that are that are being preserved a little bit better view of those trees this is looking West so the single family home that I showed you earlier this is like the rest of their property going further down into the lot this is where that driveway will come in for the Southern Property along Wall Street here and this is so this is where the driveway would be coming up this is looking North into the subject site so inner bay would be in the foreground here and then this is Wall Street so this would be at the end of that long jog where the driveway would start coming in off Wall Street and then work its way into the site from Wall Street to the southern um house that's proposed this is looking North along Wall Street so the driveway would be coming in here and you have a single family detached home there this is looking South along Wall Street so about right here is where the driveway would be coming through and here's a view looking East so you can see about flag part of the parcel there and then lastly this is interior to the site looking North in Bay Boulevard would be up here I'll put the site plan back up for you all uh development and coordination compliance staff reviewed the application and find it to be requ U the request to be consistent with the landan development code should it be the pleasure of council to approve the application modifications to the site plan is shown on the revision sheet um submitted must be completed between first and second reading I'm available if there's any questions any questions thank you very much sir applicant please state your name um good evening Council Steve melini representing the petitioner and um let me just explain to you ex these are three single family homes and um one of the issues that we were dealing with was was this this driveway and this turnaround which was required by the fire department again zoom out so we can see it better there we go so I mean this is this is an unusual driveway but the lots are very deep and um and the fire department wanted this access for emergency purposes so that's why it's there but these are uh three single family single family developments we uh reduced the size of this unit to accommodate that tree we squeezed it over a little bit um and to try to save as many trees as possible we oriented the site and moved moved the things around the city staff and and the Planning Commission both found it to be consistent there are no waivers being requested um and I know that you all are sensitive to the waiver issue so we um endeavored to make this site plan work and make sure that there weren't any unusual circumstances other than the configurations which we couldn't get to under idian zoning it does promote the efficient and sustainable use of land and infrastructure it provides accommodations for affordable uh housing that could be you you could develop up to 12 units in here and we're requesting three the residential 10 land use classification would allow for that considering the size of the Lots although it's appropriate in our opinion to only propose the three units that which we're bringing to you there are multi family and townhouse other projects within the vicinity however we felt like the single family development would be more appropriate we recognize and acknowledge the changing needs in Technologies and economics for the consumer and the port Tampa area is older in the city and the lots are very irregular shaped they are narrow but they're also very deep and so in this case you know these these lots are very very long and we felt like that was the best way to conserve the trees and also allow for a single family to occur on the front sides of the property encourage the flexible Land Development which reduces Transportation needs and conserves energy there are numerous trees on the site and the proposed development has been thoughtfully designed to remove as few trees as possible this is from the staff report and to have the the minimal impact on the remaining trees promote the encourage the development where appropriate and location and character of this is an appropriate infill project which is sensitive to the land and the conditions as well as a geographic location within the city promote desirable living and working environments and due to the irregular shape of the Lots it would not be possible to develop three units through the current rs50 zoning uh that's also from the staff report promote architectural features and elements we believe that we're consistent with that and all of the Departments have found us to be consistent the Planning Commission went on to find that we were consistent this is 1.22 Acres with three units which is as they as they referred to as it's uh less than three units per acre in terms of density the goal is that it's compliant with the goals and objectives and policies of the terer conserv plan for City Planning strategies Land Development regulation goals and objectives and policies overall residential development and Redevelopment single family area should be encouraged and this is one a location where it is adequate sites to accommodate housing needs Coastal High Hazard issues are being addressed h and evacuation shelters and plans will be in place the Planning Commission re reviewed it and found it to be consistent and it had minimal adverse impacts on the area again um we have what we believe is a sensitive project it's uh less intensive that would be allowed by the comprehensive plan and we've designed it in a way that we've met the codes and have no waivers being requested we're respectfully requesting your approval I'll be happy to answer any questions council member Mr R can you put the side FL back up there with the footprints can you see that or is that I you can zoom out a little bit because I want kind of want to get the whole picture my question is because you've got really um small setbacks for the front yards of these units but looks like you've got excessive land in the back was that for tree retention yes we're trying to avoid the tree uh protective radiuses that's why we pushed them up a little bit but they are consistent with the adjacent properties in terms of the building setback lines okay thank you thank you very much anybody else all right anybody in the public yes ma'am please say your name good evening my name is Stephanie Pointer um I live a five minute walk from here um I actually have in the last 60 days I've had five houses on the other side of this property so I have driven past this property at least a hundred times because I would have to go down there and show houses or not so I I actually found um on that L-shaped leg I came that's a dead end on Chisum and I have a house for rental ISM and I came back that way and I noticed it and I went wait a minute there's no sign on Interbay so on June the 6th I sent an email to Lesean to Mr Lum and Mr molini and said hey there's no sign up there on Interbay now there's one on Wall Street and I'll be the first person to admit that but the address is on Interbay and if anybody else had seen it I think everybody here knows that Stephanie Pointer would got an email a phone call a private message somebody would have posted on Facebook because that's what our community does but when I sent the email the response that I got was absolutely dumbfounding to me I got this response from Mr Lum it says Stephanie you lobbied city council you got your way with the big signs we have been putting them up and it's costing every person in the city that has any kind of zoning issue lot a lot more money with all this BS uh you have pictures of it you have the pictures of it and we are not going to start monitoring these signs whether the wind blows them over or not did you ever think that the bigger signs would catch more wind well I'd like to point out and we have somebody here who can be a witness that Caroline and I did not ask for the bigger signs actually somebody from the tbba asked for the bigger signs we didn't come up with that we thought it was brilliant though but I would also like to point out that Mr Lum never showed up for any of the Good Neighbor not changes I don't have a problem with this project that's the kicker I have no problem with it because they could put 12 tree they could put 12 houses on this lot I was okay with three I wasn't even going to come down here today but I get this snarky smart ass email from somebody who didn't put the sign up and I told them that on June the 6th on June the 11th I took another video of the property without the sign now I think that everybody here knows me well well enough that if he just said to me you know Stephanie I'm out of the country you know Stephanie I'm not able to get back down there can you go put it back up for me I would have put it up for him but instead I get hateful nasty emails about something that everybody on that dasis voted for grow up I I don't have a problem with the project I have a problem with somebody being nasty and hateful and if the sign is on the ground they need to pick it up and put it up because I never saw it and I'm here under oath to say that is Mr L thank you very much is there anybody else in the public that wishes to speak on item number four um we have Kate Wells on the line does anybody have any questions for Kate who's our attorney on this no all right we we've received an email from Kate Wells indicating that the notice was perfected and accepted by the city clerk I'd be happy to put that in the record if you like all right anything else if not we'll get a motion to close a motion to close from council member do we have a second second from council member VI in favor I any oppos council member Vier would you mind reading item number four yes sure moveing ordinance being presented for first reading consideration ordinance rezoning property and general vicinity vicinity of 3900 North barn uh Street and City I'm sorry I'm reading five sorry sorry I know have this weird glare it's a it's a long story um ordinance being presented for first reading consideration an ordinance resoning property General vicinity of 8026 Inner Bay Boulevard in the city of Tampa Florida more particularly described in section one from zoning District classification rs50 residential single family to PD plan development residential single family detach providing an effective date in the revision with it yes yes sir we have a motion from Council do have a second second council member all in favor I any opposed thank you very much Council thanks yes sir yes ma'am please read the the vote the vote yeah read it read the vote pass is unanimous motion carried unanimously a second reading and adoption will be held on July 18th 2024 at 10: a.m. located at Old City Hall 3:15 East Kennedy boulev vard Tampa Florida 33602 thank you very much item number five Sam Thomas development coordination agenda item number five is RZ 23114 request to Res Zone 3900 North margarit Street from residential single family to plan development for office Business and Professional I'll turn it over to Jennifer with the Planning Commission bring Jennifer Malone with your Planning Commission staff we have traveled to the central Tampa planning district and the Tampa Heights Urban Village so um we're right off of Interstate 275 right here south of East Dr Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard um it's pretty commercial in nature in this surrounding area so that is um well sorry there are some residences actually to the south of the subject site I'm sure Sam will go into more detail when he shows his site pictures but the site has a split future land use designation so it has Community mix use 35 in the pink residential 20 in the brown um and then we have some residential 10 kind of in the surrounding area but the site itself has those two future land use designations because it's in the Urban Village the applicant can utilize a provision in the comprehensive plan we kind of refer to as the blending provision so they can um there's a lot more flexibility with utilizing a site with split land uses because of that blending provision through approval of a plan development um application which is what they're proposing to you today so when Sam shows the site plan you may notice that a lot of the commercial uses are on the R20 portion of the site and because they're using this blending provision that is acceptable with that policy um so we also found that they were orienting the unit entrances um as the plan seeks to provide for the safety of pedestrians um and sidewalk connections um and we did find that this was compatible with the Redevelopment of the area to ensure the social and economic well-being of the city consistent with those with those policies in the comprehensive plan so we determined that the request would have no adverse impacts on the Runing neighborhood specifically it is just south of um Dr Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard with an area containing predominantly non-residential uses and it's immediately adjacent to the on-ramp of Interstate 275 to the east so we found this proposal consistent with the plan um that concludes my presentation thank you any questions no thank you very much yes sir okay we get started with our aerial and zoning map so have the subject site right here outlined in red on North margarit Street along MLK Boulevard you have mainly commercial General Uses and as you move South you have single family detach along Selma and Virginia Avenue you also have some single family detached here then this is Rob's Park in this area right there as you move to these you have Interstate 275 directly north of the subject site you have commercial General zoning with um a retail space and a medical office and then this PD right here adjacent to the subject site is a drive-through restaurant and then to the South you have another PD which is a professional office building as well so we'll go to the site plan next so um the site plan is this is a site plan provided by the applicant the applicant is proposing a 4,836 ft structure um it's four business professional office suites so you have one here here here and here access to the site is provided from North margarit Street through um an access easement so this is not part of the subject site but there is an access agreement between the two Property Owners to provide access to the site so what's boled in the dark is the subject property um the proposed Building height is a maximum of 20 ft there's an existing 5ft sidewalk here along margarit Street and pedestrian connections are provided along the front of the building here to connect to margarit Street these are the doors here for the entrance and then along the back side of the property they're also providing a back exit with pedestrian connections to margarit Street 16 parking spaces are required and 13 are being provided so you can see a majority of the parking spaces are up here and then there's a parking spot in three of The Business Office Professional Suites as well um and then lastly um there is a grand tree that is located off site it's 38 in and then you can see that they are providing the protective radius that's required for that Grand Tree here are the elevations provided by the applicant so your west elevation South East and North so this would be your main elevation oriented inward where you have the front doors that connect to that sidewalk along um margarit so we'll go through some pictures I kind of snapped a lot of pictures on this one because it's such an regularly shaped lot so this is looking North from the subject site so you have margarit here in 275 there is the access to the site so this part is not part of the subject site but over here it is and then you have the drivethru restaurant over here and then you can see those commercial uses I mentioned earlier to the north this is looking South at the subject site um the billboard actually is not included as part of the subject site so it will be remaining but you can see the subject site back behind here and there's that business professional office that I told you about and this is margarit Street interstate on ramp for 275 this is looking West at the subject site so you can see the drive-through restaurant and then the business profess office there moving a little bit further west you can see the offsite Grand Tree there that's being preserved and then the drivethru restaurant this uh access right here is actually Salma it's a vacated road so it goes all the way from margarit to Central Avenue that's over here this is looking north of long margarite you can see the existing sidewalk there interstates to 75 this is looking East so you have the subject site here margarit Street and then the access agreement area looking South gives you a better view of the offsite Grand Tree that's being preserved and then the C site here looking East so this would be from the drive-thru restaurant area where it connects over to the subject property this is looking South along margarit so you have the subject site here and then this is West passive subject property so this is Selma that's been vacated where it connects to Central Avenue there and then you have the drive-through use to the north which is Blas pure let me put site plan back up for you uh the development review and compliance staff reviewed the petition and find the request inconsistent with applicable city of Tampa Land Development regulations please see the Bings from Transportation relating to a waiver requested to access a local Road greater than 150 ft from an rior or collector Road notwithstanding staff's finding of inconsistency should it be the pleasure of council to approve the waivers as identified on the report and application modifications to the site plan is shown on the submitted revision sheet must be completed between first and second readings I'm available if there's any questions Council have questions I have a question the vacated roads assment is the the property owner have access on the West Side to enter this property on the west side yeah I mean there's nothing to my knowledge that's restricting them from it unless I mean technically the property owner here could possibly put up a fence but I would imagine that this vacating of Selma came with some type of restriction saying that there still had to be access through but um I can't answer you for sure on that without consulting it right away to see if there were any restrictions on that um release if there there's probably like a release of eement or something tied to that vacating okay but I can't guarantee you thank you do we have an applicant yes good evening my name is Angela halber um I represent the applicant uh Church Street LLC and I'm here with the um the applicant and the um architects who has worked on this as well um I believe the first question you had was about the access from Salma and we do have access from that street going to put this down um if you there there is a a driveth through restaurant that has access through this property right through the middle so our access is shared with that drive-through restaurant and with all the public so that vacated portion of Selma has Public Access from from it um that's in connection with the driveway all the way all the way to Central yes yes okay and then the the parcel that is not part of the site is part of the parcel it is encumbered with easements significant easements not just for the access but other easements as well because the primary use of that property effectively is that billboard that's on that property which is owned by others and there's no Rel reltionship between the two Property Owners other than their neighbors and they have ement rights um between each other so um laying this out to make it fit on this parcel has been a creative challenge for our team um primarily because we wanted to preserve the Grand Tree that is off site we were able to adjust the location of the office building so that it is closer to margarit we have added pedestrian connections um around the building and have provided for sufficient access between the parcel that is not owned by the applicant and this parcel so that there's enough space for distance between the two Parcels even though it is encumbered significantly with easements but there's cross access um moving this building over closer to margarit also allowed for some additional growth Green Space to be placed up the property on the area that's closer to Selma and again this is a property that is still zoned with a residential zoning but it is as you can see it is surrounded by primarily commercial uses um pretty intense commercial uses with the drive-thru restaurant running through the middle of it and a large billboard at the side um I don't want to belabor those points I would point out the two waivers that we request Ed the waivers are associated directly with that preservation of the Grand Tree to fit all of the parking spaces on the site plan those adjustments had to be taken into account the original layout that we had fit 16 parking spaces um and we had to take two of them off to kind of make those ships that we've described um and then the other waiver is the transportation waiver again as you can see we have the access through that easement area but it is not directly off the arterial or The Collector um at this time if you have questions our team is available for you to ask any questions or comments nope thank you very much is there anybody in the public that wishes to speak yes sir no close no I'm I'm part of the petition oh okay uh is there anything else any rebuttle anything no motion to close from council member Clinton second council member Miranda all in favor I I council member Henderson did you hear enough of it yes I prepared this motion okay item number five whole life pring for this moment your whole life not my whole life I move file number Rez 23114 and ordinance being presented for first reading and ordinance resoning the property in the general vicinity of 3900 North margarit in the city of Tampa Florida and more particularly described in section one from zoning District classification rs50 residential single family to PD plan Development Office business professional providing an effective date we have a motion from council member Henderson with the revision sheet and with the revision sheet and we have a second from council member Vieira all in favor I any oppose motion carried unanimously second reading and adoption will be held on July 18th 2024 at 10: a.m. located at Old City Hall 315 East Kennedy Boulevard third floor Tampa Florida 33602 thank you very much all right now we go to six and seven followed by number three correct yes yes correct loan do development coordination and we're asking that item six and seven be opened together all right everything is open so go ahead all right thank you so much um item number six is Rez 242 is for the property at 17302 Morris Bridge Road and folio 592224 um this is a request to um reone the property this is a part of kar Ranch so this request along with Rez 2403 are both located within kbar Ranch this is contained within parcel C through Kar Ranch and then 2403 is parcel H so the request for parcel C which is RZ 242 is to reson the property from PDA to PDA the current PDA was approved in 2018 under rez1 1814 it allows for the CN uses congregate living facility and residential uses so for this parcel the request is a PDA zoning and this would allow for residential single family detach and attached uses um and on Rez 2403 that's parcel H the request is for PDA Zoning for residential single family detach uses on parcel H that property is currently PDA zoned and it was approved in 2015 under Rez 1511 that allows for CN uses and residential single family uses so just briefly just to review with you the PDA um process so Kar is an overall development it has PDA approval on it which is plan development alternative a plan development alternative um anticipates phase development so as each phase is submitted prior to permitting they must receive incremental site plan review and approval that plan that is submitted is then a PD site plan it is much more detailed um you would submit then your landscape plans your elevations um and those are reviewed um for each phase that's submitted um Through The Years um you can see um with the site plan that was submitted um the overall area has received various resoning so just to kind of give a little bit of a background you can see on the site plan there's one sheet provided in the site plan package and it takes you to the history and just shows you some of the PDA rezonings which have applied this was from 2003 this is from um 2004 and each of these rezonings has a set of entitlements over it so um what you have before you today is on 2402 that resoning number that would um that pertains to a portion of par C and then 2403 pertains to parcel H and so we figure we will present them together for you they're in the same vicinity and they're adjacent to each other so what I'll do is turn it over to um Jennifer to give her report and I'll come back and give my report on those thank you very much thank you Council all right yes ma'am okay Jennifer Malone with your Planning Commission Staff first I'll look at I'll um go over 2402 I'll present on both of these Leon it right after okay so this is 2402 um everything to the north is in Pasco County um to the east some of this area like kind of where my pen is it is in Hillsboro County um Hillsboro County jurisdictional boundary and then some of this right here is in the Hillsboro County jurisdictional boundary um this is the subject site um it's within Kar Ranch and everything to the east is very Agricultural and Rural um in this area but on the other side of mbridge road we obviously see this development pattern of um the single family detached and some single family attached uses on the west side of Morse Bridge Road yes um so here's the future land use map it's um this is white to the north because that's the Pasco County boundary um to the east of Morse Bridge Road kind of where this hatching is is sboro County um and then this is all within the city this paint color is Suburban mixed use 6 there's also some environmentally sensitive area lands um kind of these little green bubbles on the future land use map and then as you can see we see these parceled out um that has been developed with the with the housing units uh my reported so similar for both of these I'll just do um I'll go over the aerial and then a report for both next but this is a 2403 and again it's undeveloped we do have some single family detach the South and that Suburban mixed use 3 um outlined and then some environmentally sensitive areas in that green color so the applicant uh when they go through the incremental review um we we have policies about coordinating with the Environmental prot ction commission delineating those Wetlands that will happen at incremental but we did put all of those in our report um because we did you know find that they were applicable to this um project uh but we looked at um the main thing that we're reviewing for a PDA because it is so General as lesan was saying and it's phased we're looking for um the that they're meeting the intent of the future Landes category and that their numbers line up and so we found that both of those things were true and that their densities and what they're asking for today is consistent with that Suburban mix use 3 future land use category um and that that what they're requesting is allowable for the density anticipated in the future land use designation and that the uses that they're proposing meets the intent of that future land use category um Suburban mixed use 3 is typically in New Tampa um it's not really anywhere else in the city and so it has provided for three dwelling units an acre at a Suburban scale so that's really the only place in the city that we have that future land use designation so that concludes my presentation I'm available for questions any questions or comments nope thank you very much yes ma'am thank you again council leond do development coordination so I'll start with um Rez 2402 so again this is a part of the kar Ranch development um this is applicable to parcel C so parcel C there's an area that is identified on the site plan as parcel C North and South so for the north a maximum of 188 units um are allowed and this is for single family attached units parcel C South will allow for a maximum of 345 units and those are single family detached units so the project area itself contains approximately 310 Acres um Kar Ranch and its entirety contains 2,300 Acres um so the site plan itself that is provided for you contains um development standards so for single family detach the minimum lot area is 4,000 squ ft and for single family attached the minimum lot area is 1,360 Square ft a maximum Building height of 35 ft is allowed um so this request would allow for the single family attached and detached uses within that parcel um reducing the overall residential entitlements and it allows for a change in the north um South collector roadway into Pascal which is to the north so um on the site also just just to notate the site is located within the New Tampa overlay District um any residential development would not comply with this overlay because this is a commercial overlay um but it is within that District so the subject site is also um subject to the conditions with the associated developers agreement um that agreement details timing um responsibilities cost and required um transportation improvements and the Wetland um Wildlife Corridor monitoring also is within that agreement um and I'll show you the map for this one and then I'll show you the next parcel so this is 242 so this is Morris Bridge Road um this is the county line that's located here um to the north and this is the subject site which is um outlined in Red so this is that parcel our map shows the line going here which is incorrect this really is the southern boundary line um for this particular parcel and then I'll show you pictures of that site of both of them um momentarily um I'm going to move to 243 2403 is parcel H um that is a part of um Kar development also so that project area contains 87.5 Acres parcel H in its entirety contains 107.5 Acres kbar Ranch of course contains in its entirety 2, 300 acres the maximum um Building height allowed is 35 ft um and the setbacks and the minimum standards are located within the site plan that is submitted um so the applicant is requesting for this parcel um to allow for residential unit count of 155 units and this would contain single family detach units um and this also would allow the change in a point of Ingress and egress for the roadway located through parcel H um because that roadway connection that roadway would run through a portion of parcel H so the site plan um has the standards for single family detached a minimum lot width of 40 ft is required and a minimum lot area of 4,000 square ft um and of course this site is in the new Tampa overlay the residential development does not have to comply with the New Tampa overlay it is a commercial overlay District but there is a condition on the site plan that the amenity Center will comply with the overlay standards um also Alo in the staff report I do want to point out there is an error in the last sentence um there is a reference to Hidden River PDA but this is not Hidden River I put that by mistake um and so with that this also has the developers agreement and you will hear that item next um after this item so this is the aerial so for 2403 it contains this parcel this is the area so I'll show you some photos of the site the site is vacant the access to the site here's Morris Bridge Road here's County Line you can access the site here this is a roadway which has not been improved yet um so I have a couple of pictures here once you enter the site here further in the site and then I turned around headed back to Morris Bridge there are a couple of pictures here and then east of the site um which is all wooded so I'll show you those let me first also show you the site plan again so on the site plan just to orient you on that sheet so this is parcel C this is moris Bridge Road this is parcel H so this is the site plan for parcel C to show you this is C North and this is identified as C South some of these areas the green areas are the approximate Wetland Wetland locations the area the boundary in red is the property boundary I just wanted to show briefly the um slot standards which are included in the site plan on the um on one of the pages of the site plan package it just shows the development standards for single family detach and then the standards for single family attached to include the set bags the um building Heights and the lot coverages and then let let me show you the pictures of the site so this is as you enter the site let me zoom out too far okay so this is the site um off of Morris Bridge so this is parcel C the East portion of it and this is as soon as you enter this is your view this is to the um this is the eastern boundary off of Morris Bridge this is heading towards the center of parcel sea near the northwest corner and that's um the view this is County Line Road and you can see the residential single family development that's just on the north side of that this is heading back towards Morris Bridge Road um this is on the East boundary of the site and then this is across mbridge Road um and this is the development that's east of it or the wooded area and on the site plan for um 243 there's a correction um that is mentioned there are site plan modifications to be made between first and second reading um so I have those there's also on um Rez 2402 a revised revision sheet I'm going to provide to council um but both of the requests were found consistent both requests have changes required to be made between first and second reading and the applicant has agreed to those changes and that concludes my presentation I'm available if you have any questions any questions thank you very much thank you coun Batel please state your name go ahead hello Elise Batel for the record on behalf of the applicant we do have a very brief presentation because for me pictures are worth a thousand words um I we're going to give you a little bit of an overview I supposed to point to something Sean why is this not moving forward it'll do here oh use the keyboard okay no problem got it there we go um lean's already told you that this property is located at the County border with Pasco County north of P drive and west of Morris Bridge Road you can see from these pictures that it's been a little bit of a hodg Podge with with respect to various rezonings out there so we redrew the maps to scale for you this is the overall Kar Ranch Parkway um Kar Ranch rather development and as you could see this is where parel parcel H lies within the development and that is parcel C within the development we wanted to present these two to you together because we it's really going to be an integrated development when the developer is done and it didn't make any sense to divide them apart so let me just quickly drill this down into simple simple simple right now today parcel H can be developed with 390 residential units parcel C can be developed with 360 single family detached and 188 town home units everything we're going to do is on this picture so first of all we're going to realign the north south roadway if you look at the roadway that is in an orange check that's what's approved today we're asking to remove the loop portion of the roadway and realign the roadway going north and south as you see in blue and the reason that we're asking to get rid of the loop is because it goes through environmentally sensitive and Wildlife Corridor areas so we' like to eliminate that portion there's independent access for the town homes off of Morris Bridge so they don't need to utilize that Loop Road to get out from the from the access point we also are going to reduce density in both pods if you look at the little chart at the bottom we're going from 390 down to 155 in parcel H and we're going from 360 single family detached and 188 Town Homes to 345 single family detached and 88 Town Homes within parcel c um when we first started we were a little concerned Kar Ranch has been a very engaged neighborhood and we have done a lot of Engagement between now and then which is why I think that you don't see a room full of people um we held a community meeting on May 22nd our biggest concern was misinformation right so we took that information we disseminated it disseminated it to the people that were there and asked them to please spread the word there were some followup respondents where we sent site plans and a copy of our community meeting presentation and the applicant did attend the kar Ranch CDD meeting as well we think that that really um that really allowed the community to understand what was happening here so one of the most important infrastructure improvements that the developer has to do as part of this project is connect what we call segment G of kbar Ranch Parkway to Morris Morris Bridge Road the area in red is that segment that is no that is not built today but we will have to develop as part and develop build construct and dedicate I had a lovely meeting with Barbara trip the fire chief and we went through this whole presentation and we talked about what we were going to do and she told me where all of the fire stations are right now and we created this map for her if you look at the fire stations you can see that all the areas are in red in red or how far the fire trucks have to Traverse right now today to get into kbar Ranch I think at one of your prior City Council meetings someone said 12 minutes which is a lot for response time um we do have a letter to submit to the record with your approval where she basically says that based on the information that we've received including the maps she confirms that the travel times will definitely decrease which is what leads to better response times um so with your permission we'll we'll submit that into the record I'm sorry I didn't tell you that the green is the new route so the red is the existing route the green allows the fire station closest to get into Kar Ranch so much quicker particularly on that Eastern side with that um we think that there's great benefits to our proposal we're reducing density we're adding additional protection for the Wildlife Corridor and environmentally sensitive areas decreasing the travel time for emergency vehicles and we do have staff recommendation of approval our entire development team is here um if you don't mind Mr chair can we submit those documents into the record sure thank you oh I'm sorry evidently we already did okay council member VI was first and council member correct thank did you no no you were first thank you may not have to talk after you correct it's District yeah and thank you um Mr chairman and thank you for that presentation so I wanted to confirm a few things if I may so for for what you're already approved for you can do this without Council correct correct okay so by coming to us you're actually having a reduction in density in yes sir okay good I just wanted to put that for the record because that is a very sensitive issue obviously in Kar Ranch uh we had a controversial hearing man I think it was in 2019 and uh and that wasn't the case so so I I did want to point out that distinction and I'm glad you also pointed out the issue there with Tampa Fire Rescue because this is an issue because this is a quasi judicial I haven't been able to talk about this publicly but you know we're always talking about response times for Kar Ranch I'm always talking about a cut through through Morris Bridge Road and this would appear to be it so I just wanted to put that out for the record that this is something that uh will God willing uh uh improve uh fire response times in Cable Ranch which is a huge issue we've had it back and forth for many years with um with the chief trip and and chief Nicholas cisero before her uh on fire response times in cap R Ranch uh talking about potentially having a fire station out there and then alternatively looking for other um uh uh uh costeffective measures that can do the same thing and this would appear to at least give us a double for the home run that we want so I think that's wonderful so I just wanted to go over those things on the record with you because again you use the word misinformation I I I I hate it whenever we see misinformation on things like this and there was a lot of misinformation when we talked to the community there was definitely they didn't have the fact they thought we were doing all kinds of different things than we actually were once we were able to really disseminate the information out through the community leaders um I think that everyone was actually very happy with what we were doing yes ma'am and uh and then the the allowing of the kar Ranch Parkway to go forward is obviously a big benefit but I did want to say these things just for the record because again back in 2019 I voted against a good number of homes in Kar Ranch because with the information we had this these issues were not there you can get more homes uh than what you're seeking now without even coming to city council so that's important if we weren't realigning the roadway the roadway goes from C into H now that's why we had to bring parcel H in to begin with so if we were to keep the roadway like it was we probably wouldn't be here we would just have developed less but um we we did want to come back to council and we thought while we were here it made sense to reduce the entitlements on those two pieces if for if something happens in developer doesn't move forward then now you know that this is what is approved on the site yes ma'am and again if I had my way right and I'm not wearing my city councilman had certainly not my attorney at La hat um but we wouldn't have any more homes out there because I think we got a lot of homes in ut Tamp already um but again you can get more homes than what you're seeking now without Council approval by going through here we get the added benefit of kar Ranch Parkway and then we get that potential cut through through for Tampa Fire Rescue which is a big deal deal so again I I don't want to be a part of spreading misinformation or demagoguing this issue so you know I'll be glad to support this so thank you thank you Council M yeah I have a question um I think probably for staff so this is education for me because this of course is a huge project and since I've been Council we haven't had to deal with something a PDA of this magnitude um so from from what I understand from the briefings is that um this these are incrementally approved so there is a requirement for the developer to come back and incrementally get approval for as they as they move forward correct that is correct Lesean doc development coordination so for each phase the developer must submit a PD site plan package and they submit it for incremental site plan review and at that time they detail and provide what you would normally see on a PD site plan so this was coming to us one way or another it wasn't it it wouldn't well this was already approved this is already a PDA right and they're coming changing the actual um entitlements the cap on the entitlements in the roadway okay okay the location of the connector so we're going to hear the resolution next I think your question is they uh the site plan will be administratively approved now right that's why that's what it is okay yeah correct through the incremental site plan review it is an administrative approval currently in the PDA you're re you're approving or Council would here and approve an overall set of entitlements so why do we have the resolution this so also with this PDA and through the history of the kbar um development and those PDS that I've shown you on that site plan with all the other um PD's developer agreements and Agreements are tied to those we not so this this this development agreement did not exist until this phase came forward there was one on each parcel over each one one was from 2015 and one was from 2018 2015 was not amended this one was amended to 2018 okay and I I think I'm kind of Heming around because and that is the next item that we have on the agenda and that is the first amended and restated 2018 development agreement I think this is part of like beating around the bush because in the in the development we we haven't gotten to this yet so somebody stop me if I'm out of order but in the development agreement we you know we talk about waste water we talk about water and and and Elise talked about the fire you the fire issue which has been a hot button item on this Council and of course this is councilman V's district and this has been part of his passion and I know you said it decreased travel time but there was it wasn't a quantitative you know I think I can answer your questions if I may okay yes go ahead so we had to amend the 2018 development agreement because there were certain requirements and timing requirements that dealt with the roadway and the connection to Pasco County M um those because we're changing the roadway in the PDA we also had to change the development agreement to reflect what you're approving now in so it it will reflect this development rather than the development that was that was in the 2018 agreement for parcel C before um so it's really just updating the agreement to modify those things that you're approving today all the things with waste water and all of that those aren't modified that still remains in effect um so what you'll hear next and Susan Johnson bz will present that but is just a development agreement that updates so that we can do what we showed you on paper rather than the old more intense zoning so since the entitlements were previously agreed to in the PDA I'm assuming through this resolution that would not have been an opportunity to extract like something referenced fire response times or or stations or eer there was extraction stff do a great job at making sure they're advocating onf somebody's going to object to my save thank you and I apologize that I'm not there in person you're feeling better I want to remind Council that right now we're hearing the two resoning applications and those qu by judicial hearings I would ask that any discussion of the development agreement occur only after um both resoning applications are approved if they're approved hey I prefaced it with I knew I was out of order thank you anything else no is there anybody in the public that wishes to speak on item number six there's nobody Mo motion to close from council member Miranda second Council VI all in favor I I any oppose council member CL you to do six and seven no no we have the six only so an ordinance being presented for first reading at consideration ordinance resoning properties the general vicinity of 17302 Morris Bridge Road and folio number 592224 in the city of Tampa Florida more particularly described in section one from zoning District classifications PDA plan development alternative to PDA plan development alternative residential single family detached and detached and attached providing an effective data and the revision sheet along with the revision sheet we have a motion we have a second from council member Miranda all in favor I I any opposed thank you very much now we can go to item number eight after she it second reading and adopt motion carried unanimously second reading and adoption will be held on July 18th 2024 at 10:00 a.m. located at Old City Hall 315 East Kennedy Boulevard third floor Tampa Florida 33602 all right council member herte would you mind doing can we read seven now or do you have anything to add ma'am oh read seven now yes file number Rez 24-3 ordinance being presented for first reading consideration an ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity north of pictoral Park Drive and kbar Ranch Parkway folio numbers 59 222- 00003 and 59 2240000 in the city of Tampa Florida and more particularly described in section one from zoning District classific ation PDA plan development alternative to PDA plan de development alternative residential single family detached providing an effective date we have a motion from council member herch with the second council member Miranda and the revision sheet sorry didn't didn't know I we we got the physical one for six but not for seven so uh including the revision sheet we have a motion and a second with revision sheet all in favor I any opposed yes ma'am Miss Johnson item number wait I'm sorry just going so quick today motion carried unanimously second reading and adoption will be held on July 18th 2024 at 10: a.m. located at Old City Hall 3:15 East Kennedy Boulevard third floor Tampa Florida 336 thank you very much Miss Johnson valz item number three thank you Mr chair Susan Johnson valz um legal department item number three is the first of two public hearings required by Statute for um development agreements as Miss Batel um stated just a few moments ago this is uh an amended and restated 2018 development agreement part of the history of kar Ranch is that with each rezoning that's taken place as development has Mo has proceeded from from west to east is that development Agreements are adopted typically in conjunction with each of the rezonings that set out the the phasing and timing of infrastructure improvements and primarily the roadway so for example they would um align the number of units to infrastructure to make sure that one doesn't get ahead of the other so the 2018 development agreement when it was adopted set forth a certain schedule um that provided for the timing and phasing of development along with infrastructure improvements that went along with the plans that were approved at that time so because of the changes that are resulting from the two rezonings that you you all just approved um this amended and restated develop agreement now um modifies the infrastructure improvements timing and phasing to coincide with the rezoning proposals that you've just approved so um the so the north south the the remainder of kar Ranch Parkway so it sets out timing for um construction plans to be done and for um construction to commence and for the roadway to be built and accepted and limits development that can take place um in terms of each of those increments um so uh after you conduct this public hearing this evening Council does not need to take any action at this time on the development agreement there will be a second public hearing that will coincide with second reading of the ordinance and I would ask you to take action on the resolution at that time I'm happy to answer any specific questions you have about the development agreement and also um Miss gatel is here to answer any questions as well any questions Miss yes sir I'll go back and revisit so in the development agreement why isn't fire included in that in in an agreement like that in such a comprehensive and massive project I I don't know why fire wasn't included in 2018 and we certainly didn't address it here but right with the roadway improvements I do believe that that will well I know they said decrease but again no quantitative figure to that but what that actually means well when I called um the fire chief and we had a zoom about it she does a calculation at some point in time like once she has the coordinates of all the roadways and they do their internal measurements she can give an exact time she hasn't had the opportunity to do that um which is why she sent the email confirming that it's definitely going to decrease those times um I'm sure that they have some mechanism to do that but I I just don't think that they've had the opportunity to do that yet I mean I I can't I guess I mean again this is councilman Beer's district and and fire and response time in Kar Ranch if I've heard C Mr V mentioned Kar Ranch one time I've heard him said it a 100 times I mean I'll defer to his expertise in this but I just it just seems like a big missed opportunity here as we're it's difficult too for one developer to affect fire response times because those are affected by so many different things new developments that might go in Not kbar ranch or roadways that are built and new subdivisions that are in the area so it would be hard for Council I think to sort of require that you provve that you're going to reduce response times because tomorrow things could completely change right that's a snap shot in time and so many different things affect fire response times um don't think we talk about I know we we liberally say fire but it's the rescue ask the ambulance I think she used the term emergency vehicle apparatus because I mean I think that's been one of the biggest concerns is the rescue the ambulance response times into the neighborhood has been a concern which I think should be shared for everybody but again I'll I'll defer back to yeah so for Mr Shelby is there any way that we can inquire with Chief trip um between now and when this comes back to us at all or and I don't and in terms of you know what's been done the direct effect of this I mean the truth is if we're talking about when this road opens and allowing that cut through um into Kar Ranch from Morris Bridge Road and you have these additional homes we don't know what the effect is going to be I see this as part of the overall solution a piece of the puzzle uh for for for Kar Ranch where and by and this this is my problem is I don't want to on this hearing get into other issues that don't have any direct relevancy to the hearing uh as a matter of hearing Integrity I guess thank you yeah yeah exactly yeah yeah yeah so um you know the the fact is this will help push this issue forward and I think that's wonderful um in terms of how far fire rescue has gone in this um I'll talk to Mr Shelby offline if I may because again I don't want to say something inappropriate that would um suly the record on issues that have no uh procedural or substantive bearing on this and we're not approving this today correct public we have a second hearing where we adopt the resolution yeah so I I will inquire um I think I think working discussion oh absolutely yeah and I was looking at the calendar um Kar Ranch is actually coming back to us um pretty much motion for it every every six hours in Council but um but it is I know right but it is coming back to us I have to look to see when it is but I can talk to uh uh TFR offline um between now and the B again I don't want to have that discussion publicly because I don't want to sell the record on I would recommend I I would recommend before you even do that that you talk to the legal department just about to get the parameters I will thank you I'll send an email right now thank you so thank you thank you very much all right is there anybody in the public that wishes to speak on item number three we're not taking action tonight this is just the first public hearing second we have motion close from council member glinton council member Henderson all in favor I and the um the hearing is closed go ahead ma'am second reading and adoption will be held on July 18th 2024 at 9:30 a.m. located at Old City Hall 315 East Kennedy Boulevard third floor Tampa Florida 33602 thank you for your time item number eight St pomas development coord agenda item number 8 is Rez 2413 we request to reone 3108 3110 3112 and 3114 West Barn Avenue from residential single family 60 to plan development for residential single family detached I'll turn it over to Jennifer with the Planning Commission thank you very much sir be right back yes ma'am Jennifer Malone with your Planning Commission staff we are back in the South Tampa Planning District um here's the subject site we are west of South McDale Avenue um along West Barn Avenue we see there's a lot of single family detached on the side of South mcdill there are some single family attached on the other side of South mcdill in the vicinity the subject site is residential 10 along South mcdill it the future land use pattern does increase to allow for some more intensification along that roadway so we have residential 20 and then Community mix use 35 but the the subject site itself is residential 10 we did find that the resoning will allow for enhanced utilization of the land consistent with the density anticipated under the residential 10 future land use designation um it is requesting uh four single family detached dwelling units which is um within the density allowable under the residential 10 future land use designation um um so with and we did find that it'll be comparable and compatible with this portion of West Barn Street and that the applicant has um planned in a manner that's consistent with the surrounding neighborhood and development pattern so with that I conclude my presentation I'm available for any questions any questions yes sir th development coordination we'll get started with the zoning map and aerial so you can see the subject sites here outlined in red on West Barn Avenue um as Jen said along West barn and this general area you have single family detached homes and along mcdill you do have some multif family here and here um at the end of West barn and at the intersection of mcdill Avenue where this rm12 is you actually do have some multif family it's one multif family building and two single family um semi- detached buildings then you also can see that you have some CN zoning along the Gill Avenue most of this CN zoning is either not developed or has been developed with single family detached units um the plan development that you have here is approved for single family semi- detached then as you move down um as you saw with the future land use map it goes to community mix use 35 so you have that CG zoning um the same as could be said with the CG zoning most of it's either developed with town homes or single family detached uses or it's vacant I think there is one CG use down here and that's about it when it comes to the CG uses these two PDS right here just one block South of West barn or for single family detached units so we'll go into to the site plan provided by the applicant so as Jen said they are proposing four units all four of the units are oriented towards West Bar Avenue with access from West Bar as well each has a two-car garage um so eight parking spaces are required and eight are being provided um the proposed maximum Building height is 35 ft the applicant is proposing to remove two grand trees on lot three one here and here um this tree here on lot three is 26 in and it is um shown as being removed but the applicant did work with natural resources and between first and second reading they will be making modifications to the site plan to save that tree and then as you can see the remaining trees on site do have their minimum tree protective radius provided so I'll move on to elevations now these are the elevations provided by the applicant now we'll move on to some pictures of the subject site so this would be the start of the subject site here 3108 and then it moves on to the West this is looking West along West Barn so where this chain link fence starts here would be the end of the subject site and then it runs all along here this is east of the subject site so this is 3108 here you have a single family detached um unit next to it this is looking East on VN so this would be mcdill Avenue here this is some of the multif family in the rm12 that I mentioned earlier at the intersection of Varn and west mcdill or west VN and South mcdill Avenue here's another view of that multif family and then the single family detached structure that um borders the subject site we've turned back around and now we're looking West on V Avenue um subject site starts here and then it runs all the way down to about right here where the chain Ling fence and the Black Mailbox is this is looking West on Barn again so this is a subject site it kind of gives you a better view of the site and then this is the subject site would be behind me here this is looking North on the other side of West Bar Avenue at the single family detached units that are across the street and then one last view this would be looking East the subject site is right here and then this is the um one single family detached structure that is on the site the remaining um Parcels on the subject site are vacant so development review and compliance step has reviewed the application and find that it is consistent with applicable City of Tampa Land Development regulations should it be the pleasure of council to approve the application the waivers identified on the staff report um further modifications need to be completed between first and second reading I'm available if there's any questions any questions thank you very much sir yes sir say your name uh Steve melini representing the uh petitioner the um the city staff as well as the Planning Commission have found this to be consistent I wanted to show you a couple of things on the site plan first we were um can can you see all of that yes sir we were very sensitive to these these two trees here and as a result we reduced the size of this unit shifted it over 14 ft um so that we could accommodate the the protective radiuses for those trees we're also shifting to save that tree there this is the tree that we're asking for removal and the waiver and it's because it's in the tree removal Zone we looked for reasonable Alternatives and site plan reconfigurations and um it simply wasn't possible we saved these two trees over here by increasing the setback to uh 42 feet on this property and 38 ft on this property uh and that Ena us to save those two trees we also shifted these two properties forward to save these larger Oaks in the back uh so that the front yard setbacks are at 25 ft and you know we recognize that those are extraordinary setbacks but in order to to save them we we had to shift them around the um the lots are about 7500 Square ft each so they're very large and we're providing a 32 almost 3,300 square ft of green space for each of those lots and it changes a little bit but um that's about the average we are allowed to build six units by by right according to the uh land use classification we're proposing four uh that's also consistent with a development pattern in the area of the U the lots that uh that you're looking at there's very in close proximity there's multif family is's also commercial um but we thought that uh not going with a townhouse style project or something like that or duplexes was more consistent to have a single family residential development which is what we're proposing the um the staff also as a mitigation uh consideration we've agreed to increase the size the caliper of the trees that are in the replacement um Matrix to for 4 in trees as a minimum instead of the normal 2in trees and we do have sufficient size uh on the property we have sufficient location for those trees to be placed we also looked at um the development pattern as I said both the North and the South sides of Varn are very are consistent with what's being proposed this evening we have we did in terms of the criteria promot the efficient and sustainable use of land um the applicant is proposing to remove the two non-hazardous trees however the applicant has designed the site and worked with natural resources extensively to preserve a 38 in Oak 30 and 26 and 19inch Live Oaks and again as I said we've agreed to increase the replacement trees to a 4in caliper with respect to the uh encourage the flexible use and development of the site we uh we think that we've worked very closely with the staff to develop a plan that that is consistent with the development pattern as well as conserving those trees as best we can the segment of of Varn and South mcdill there's uh is developed and single family detach with exception of parcels to the east which is commercial as I pointed out in terms of respect to the waivers that are requested we we ask for the one which is the removal of the two trees and as additional mitigation we were proposing the 4in replacement trees as well as the ability to shift the the site plans around to to save and maximize the other other trees and being able to to maintain them the um the land use designation is r10 as I said six units could be built we're proposing four and um the subject side is is I mean within this area they're all developed in this basic same pattern we're in the um we're in the in this in the mcdill flight area which also we've considered that and we reduce the number of units in consideration of that we're consistent with the goals and objectives and policies of the tamper coner plan regarding City Planning strategies um were consistent with with the m mcdill Air Force based plan land use development regulations goals and objectives and policies overall residential development Redevelopment single family Area Redevelopment adequate sites to accommodate housing needs hurricane evacuation shelters and the plan will be incl included provide multimodal options staff analysis was basically we're we're proposing uh a development pattern and a density which is consistent with the area this is considered to be an underutilized parcel in the South planning district and as such we're we're trying to meet some of the housing needs sidewalks are lacking in the area and will be provided as part of the development with respect to both the North and the South block faces of this area we are consistent with the development pattern and again we've worked with natural resources very carefully and closely to accommodate both onsite and offsite trees and we provided those measures uh within within our site plan I have both the um arborous report and the arborous pruning report that I'd like to have received and filed and made part of the record and I'll be happy to answer any questions any questions no thank you very much is there anybody in the public that wishes to speak on item number eight motion close Mo close we have motion to close from council member and second council member Miranda all in favor I any opposed council member Carlson would you mind reading item number eight is there a revision sheet with the revision trying to get rid of the sound effects first um like to move uh number8 file number RZ 24-13 muted ordinance being presented for first reading consideration ordinance resoning property in the general vicinity of 3108 3110 3112 and 3114 West forn Avenue in the city of Tampa Florida more particularly described in section one from zoning District classification rs60 residential single family to PD plan development residential single family detached providing effective day including Vision sheet we have motion from councilman Caron second Council meranda all in favor I I any oppos thank you very much Council thank you very much motion carried unanimously second reading unmuted motion carried unanimously second reading and adoption will be held on July 18th 2024 at 10:00 a.m. located at Old City Hall 3:15 East Kennedy Boulevard third floor Tampa Florida 33602 thank you very much same Thomas development coordination agenda item number nine is R2 2422 a request to Res Zone 516 North Florida Avenue and 104 West W Wilder Avenue from seal Heights residential and seal Heights commercial intensity to seminal Heights PD or restaurant bar and or lounge alter over Jennifer Jennifer Malone Planning Commission staff we are in seminal Heights um just off of North Florida Avenue and uh West Wilder Avenue there's a variety of commercial uses um along North Florida Avenue um some breweries and some restaurants in the area I know this is a Dollar General right to the north of the subject site but then as one moves um West this is single family detached along West Wilder Avenue um so it is a commercial and then right right down to single family detach is one moves away from the corridor um so that is reflected on the future land use map the future land use there's two sorry two future land uses on the subject site we have Community commercial 35 that's the red and then residential 10 is the orange color um um the residential 10 is typically a single family detached district and we see that all along um as we move off of the corridor Planning Commission staff reviewed this with the comprehensive plan and found that it was consistent um this request I'm sure the applicant and Sam will get into it a little bit more but um we it's essentially to add a parking lot to service an existing restaurant bar and lounge in the old semal Heights neighborhood the proposed plan development is providing a side walk along West Wilder Avenue um at safe pedestrian connectivity is what we're really looking for when we review these to be consistent with the policies and the comprehensive plan and we also found that it met the policies regarding commercial development buffering um so they are meeting that 15ft buffer requirement consistent with lu policy 9.3.1 and 15.2.2 that concludes my presentation I'm available for any questions thank you any questions nope thank you very much yes sir same Thomas development coordination we will get started with our aerial map you can see the subject site here outlined in red on Florida Avenue and then the subject site outlined in red on Wilder Avenue as Jen mentioned you do have some commercial uses mainly along Florida Avenue um but you can see that those commercial uses do jog in a little bit into the residential area where your transitions a single family neighborhood to the North and then you also have a jog here down to the South and that was kind of reflected on the future land map that you saw with the cc35 along Florida and then the CMU 35 where you see these CG jogs and and then as you move to the West single family detached and then the same as you move east of the corridor here you have Plant High or not Plant High Hillsboro High here and then East Osborne Avenue to the South I'll move to the site plan provided by the applicant um before I jump into the um site plan I do want to provide a corre ction for the record um my St report states that they are proposing an 8T PVC fence along the southern and eastern boundary and instead of it being 8ot it's actually going to be a 6 foot PPC fence so I just want to provide that F the record so um currently this parcel is existing with a structure that is 279 Square ft and the entrances are oriented towards Florida Avenue there will be no changes to this part of the um site plan or part of the PD um there are two existing parking spots right here along Florida Avenue and then you have some existing parking behind the building there um as Jen mentioned the main change with this PD that is coming before you is to the addition of this parcel and 20 new parking spaces with an entrance off West Wilder Avenue to the West you do have a 37t setback from the single family detached homes and the parking spots and then to the South where the drive a is you have a 15t setback from the single family home to the South additionally they are proposing on the South and the West a 15t um buffer and then along with that buffer they are proposing a 6ft fence that will go along the perimeter of the side they are proposing a new sidewalk along Wilder Avenue that connects to the existing sidewalk here so anyone parking here will have a pedestrian connection to enter into the building they also do plan to add some bicycle parking on this part of the subject site as well um so now I will go into some photos of it after showing the elevations provided by the applicant so here are the elevations provided by the applicant so this is where the parking will be added this is looking West on Wilder Avenue you see the single family detached homes past the subject site this is looking East on Wilder so you have the existing parcel and structure here this would be the new parcel there you can see some of those commercial uses along Florida Avenue this is looking south from Wilder Avenue at the subject site this is looking North from the subject site so you can see the single family detach and then some of those existing commercial uses along Florida Avenue this is looking a little bit further east on Wilder Avenue the subject site would be here this is looking South we're moving um towards Florida Avenue now so this is that existing parking back behind the existing building you have the existing structure here this is looking West on Wilder so the existing property here and then the addition of the new property there for the parking this is looking South at the subject site um with the existing structure this is looking South along Florida Avenue we have the subject site here this is looking West at the existing structure on the subject site along Florida Avenue this is looking North on Florida Avenue the existing structure and then the two parking spots that are existing along the front that I mentioned earlier we're moving North along Florida Avenue so this is the intersection of Florida and Wilder so you can see the commercial use that exists right there on the opposite side of the subject site and then lastly this is is the existing structure looking West down Wilder Avenue so I'll put the site plan back up for you all to see development review and compliance reviewed the application and found that the request is consistent should it be the pleasure of council to approve the waivers as identified in the report and approve the application further modifications to the site plan must be made between first and second reading as stated on the revision sheet I'm available if there's any questions any questions Noe thank you very much applicant please state your name good evening thank you very much Isabelle Albert for the record uh I'm here representing the applicant uh Veronica uh Dano who is the owner of the independent bar you have seen um where the the site is located so um I'm not used to hit oh thank you zoom out yeah way out I zoom out yeah right oh God thank you thank you so as you saw um this plan Dev velopment is including the existing Independence bar and cafe over here and the reason why we're in here today is because we're requesting a parking area additional parking to serve the patrons of the um of the establishment what we the reason why we have those two together as under one plan development is because we're applying a policy uh 5.1.6 which uh flexes the future land use onto the subject site in order to allow this commercial use within the residential T zoning District uh comprehensive plan what we have here is uh this is where the access is going to be is proposed and the extension of the sidewalk which will be connecting to the existing sidewalk uh for uh access to the establishment so you saw the pictures um the independence bar has been there it's almost 15 years now um and it has uh quite a following and um I'm very excited actually to be part of this because I I do attend uh there as well this is the side of the structure where you have the existing parking space over here and uh when the property next door came up uh for sale the owner jumped on it because she knew there was a demand for parking and uh she was very excited to see that when it did go up for sale uh to provide that use for her establishment so this is the site over here it's the there used to be a home there it was teared down and um cleaned up with a vegetation let talk a little bit more about um what we're proposing is a the 15ot landscape buffer with a 6t PVC fence um the retention Pond is going to be located on this side in order to provide a greater distance between the existing home and the parking area quickly the the waivers um are shown here the distance and the uh distance between the parking lot and the the drive aisle but one I do want to talk about is that six foot uh PVC fence we uh contacted the neighbor next to uh the adjacent neighbor uh there was no opposition to the six-foot fence or the PVC uh she did raise other concerns and she is here tonight to to to to raise her concerns which I want to address afterwards but overall the Planning Commission staff and development don't development services but um all reviewing agencies found the request approvable and consistent with the comprehensive plan and then I'm here the um Veronica could not make it but uh someone from that represents per is here if we have any questions any questions for the applicant no yes sir go ahead sir so miss Bri from for legal staff I have a question and she kind of handed on about why the PD for red U plan development restaurant and bar or lounge about the two properties is there I know this is PD so that you know they'd have to come back if they wanted to do something else with another FL uh plan uh site plan but is there any future entitlements associated with this because it's plan Dev at restaurant and bar or lounge to this property for expansion under this property for some future date um that you would you would penetrate into the neighborhood with something other than a parking lot um so since it is tied to the site plan and the use while the uses are covering the entire site plan it's restricted to the building that is shown so if they were did want to expand outside of the scope of the existing structure they would have to come back and repy it so why did they say why does it why is it PD restaurant and bar or lounge because it's including the independ the existing independent is this so they're just doing the entire so why and I know the applicant asked said something about combining the two why not just come and ask us for the parking lot stand alone so if they just came in and asked for the parking lot stand alone then one you have the r10 future land use which you have to have the cc35 future land use and the Ling policy together to allow it but say for example if it didn't have the r10 future land using they just came in for parking then that would open that parking up for them to be able to lease it out to any other businesses as it is right now with this PD only the independent is going to be able to use that parking they're not going to be able to lease it out to any adjacent businesses good okay very good thank you so much appreciate it all right is there anybody in the public that wishes to speak on this item this is item number nine yes ma'am please state your name yes my name is Alicia Howell and I live in that uh P that jointed picture next to the property and um I'm coming with concerns because it's a residential area and the concerns I have is that um since this um establishment have been there like they said 15 years plus we have experienced first of all I'm going going break it down in three sections patrons patrons Park on our streets and they block our driveways um we used to call up there my husband and asked them to move the cars they didn't come out and move them the second thing is that we get up and we experience trash there's the napkins there's the the cups or whatever is out there and what happens is no one from the um establishment comes down and clean up so it blows through our neighborhood the second thing is the um their patrons has no respect for the residents when we go out there we ask them you know please don't move don't park in the driveway we try to put our garbage cans out there we got some cones they even have knocked them over and just pulled in anyway the third things is that they allow their customer to bring their dogs which is okay I have one but then they allowed them to use the bathroom and don't pick them up so we're in the process of stepping and walking into it because it's coming to our property and we have to pull our cars in the second thing is um I grant them yes they did put up a fence there was no objections when they first sort of property down the the the community was open they were having sex which was their patrons we could hear it from our porch and then when our dog went out the light came on of course you can see what can you can only imagine the problem other problem is with the patrons they're not in encouraged to use the Overflow across the street which there is a overflow but they don't use it they just come and pull up on West Wilder in front of our homes in front of the property and I do have pictures but I didn't realize how to get them up there that blocks our driveway the safety um the way that they park there is no way if an emergency vehicle come down they can't get down the street because it's it's like that and it's pretty much almost every Sunday or every other Sunday or whatever that's just the way that it is um the lot that you saw is overgrown it stays overgrown um I've called code enforcement I've um tried to get the guy to come out he does he has come out and he said that the owner is going to get it done but of course she's so defiant that she cuts it like a day or two before it's time for the um before it's done then the third thing of it is is that um she does not take any responsibility our property is taken is in is infested with the rodents the rats the roaches delivery trucks come down the street they knock over the branches they leave them in the road there's always loud music on Saturdays and Sundays um speeding is a problem I have asked for a study to come down now that we have a light um we have local high school and middle school students walking and it's not safety because there's no sidewalks thank you very much you're welcome is there anybody else that wishes to speak okay we have nobody registered would you like uh to give rotal ma'am thank you um again for the record Isabelle Albert with um so I want to show you something just along Florida Avenue there's a lot of uh up and coming businesses and people are coming and it has been an issue about the parking so the owner I know if you can see right here okay thank you I'm going to put this up here this is basically what it is and she's put this these signs at the entrance right past her her business she's put these signs there and says please don't go past this area of this is a residential neighborhood we have to respect them could you please do that whether these are her patrons and not her patents she's at least put the effort to say this is not okay can you please try to do that um also if you look through uh the the music the contract music in there there if you don't mind just pulling that up pleas in there the music is from 6:30 to to 8:30 again please respect this is a neighborhood bar see it's somewhere around here that you can show very quickly where it is um oh yeah we are a small neighborhood bar cafe no full-time music performance trying to be you know you're a guest enjoy the music consider for neighbors can we get it up on our screens here we can't really see what's on the overhead there we go thank you sorry so radar bound here you'll see we have to consider our neighbors please be careful again here we're a small neighborhood bar be you know can you put this in context where is this published what are we looking at this is part of the contracts that's sent to the Musicians so if you want to play music there this is these are the rules it's from 6:30 to 8:30 they may go over for finish last blah blah blah but you know she has put in writing also to to take into consideration of the neighbors um piece the other item that was uh brought up that we can address um again the no encouragement of the Overflow parking that's what that sign was it says don't go pass this use the Overflow parking place so they do talk about that um not taking responsibility for her property you could you saw it's a very beautiful um upk kep building she's been there for 15 years and uh the parking area will be nicely paved and landscaped and everything so with that if you have any other questions I'm glad to to answer them any questions we have motion close from council member counc VI all in favor I any oppos council member Vieira yes uh moving ordinance resoning property in the general vicinity of 5016 North Florida Avenue and 104 West Wilder um Avenue in the city at Tampa Florida more particularly described in section one from zoning District classification shrs seminal Heights residential single family and shci seminal Heights commercial intensive to shpd seminal Heights plan development Restaurant and Bar Lounge providing an effective data and with the revision yes we have a second from council member herac council member yeah I just wanted to uh speak to the to the neighbor about the issue is that I appreciate and she's still here she Lees so they I appreciate the input what you know provided but a lot of those issues that you talked about was the existing business and not the expansion of what we're doing here tonight and and hopefully with what they're doing Reon is one of the one of the questions that I asked about you know this property and future impact I think we got a good answer from staff that that it's it's protections for you and your neighborhood as well for for any kind of further encroachment into the single family neighborhoods and this is a good transitional piece of property now so that it'll be more of a buffer from the single family neighborhood so that that's one of the reasons why I'm I'm going to support this hopefully again this is going to fix some of those problems you just called out you know if they maintain that parking lot and they've got that big wide landscape buffer from your property and the and and the fence uh hopefully this will improve the quality of life and and this is kind of what we're going to have to do along these commercial corridors is figure out a way to create these step down type of densities and and properties to protect the single family neighborhoods and and from from the commercial development which we're we're probably going to see more of along these areas because we're this is areas where we're looking to put in transit and hopefully developing and have make it more livable for a lot of more folks so thank you but we heard we heard your what you said hopefully this will actually approve it for you thank you roll call Vote herac Yes Clint Enon yes Henderson no Vieira yes Miranda no Carlson yes Maniscalco yes motion carried with Henderson and Miranda voting no second read me and adoption will be held on July 18th 2024 at 10: a.m. located at Old City Hall 3:15 East Kennedy Boulevard third floor Tampa Florida 33602 thank you very much items 10 and 11 uh will be heard together is that correct ma'am um we'll hear item 10 and vote and then we'll open item 11 and then vote Yes ma'am go ahead thank you so much chairman and Council lean doc development coordination item 10 is Rez 2423 this is for property that is a part of Hidden River this is for 8748 Hidden River Parkway 1490 River Edge Drive and folio 0347 76.1 1204 um this is a request to rezone um three Parcels that are located within the overall Hidden River Development So currently the property is on PDA it is it was approved in 2015 under Rez 1514 it allows for the uses of medical and business professional office retail sales hotel and residential uses and this PDA request um would allow for um The Office business professional and medical uses research activity Clinic retail sales hotel residential multif family and single family attached uses um Hidden River is a is an overall development and just to show you just quickly the um this this is the site plan submitted and this is similar to the PDA you heard earlier so this is an overall PDA this is the boundary of Hidden River this is I75 that borders on the East this is Fletcher Avenue that's to the South and you can see each color represents um some portion of a rezoning so Through The Years they've been the parcels have been rezoned um PDA rezonings um and then they come through for incremental review view so what is before you today is a PDA resoning it's for the parcels that are identified on the um site plan and in red so this is track C and this is one of the um areas contained within this request this is track d a portion of track D that red area and then track G and a portion of that this red area and those are the three areas contained within this particular PDA today um but it's just to show you over time the zonings have occurred so um what I'll do is turn it over to Jennifer to give her report and I'll come back and get my report thank you thank you very much Jennifer M Planning Commission staff there is an error on our report so if I may I'd like to submit a revised report into the record the for the record The Heir um erroneously stated that the applicant had to make a change between first and second reading for some numbers um I went over it with the applicant and um it sometimes you can look at numbers too long I think is what happened there so we were taking that close of a look on it and the applicant um let let us know where where we where we were misunderstood so we we revised accordingly so Leon's already given a a very good overview of of where the site is so I won't belabor it um but this is the overall Hidden River development we're in New Tampa and it is um Suburban mixed use six so that's like a pale pink color Suburban mix to six some of the part one parcel up here in the northeastern corner is um sub mix 26 and there's a little bit of environmentally sensitive areas up here which is a future land use designation delineating those um potential Wetlands on the subject site excuse me for the record not delineating the potential Wetlands but rather illustrating where potential Wetlands might be present on the future land use map it's a more accurate way of describing that um so as we stated in our in our staff report development within or near these areas subject to regulations imposed by federal state and or local environmental Authority and we have many policies that support the protection of those areas and the notes the applicant has put on the site plan we do feel meet those policies um the lands within the Suburban mixed six category are designated as being within a mixed Center and Corridor and so um we since this is a plan development alternative and there's not a lot of detail here our report just states that we'd like to see the applicant meet those mixed use policies at the time that they bring in those incre the incremental review and the building orientation and placement is reviewed by staff um so we did find that the request before you today is consistent with that underlying future land use category of sub ex use 3 they're not exceeding the the density request um through this plan development which is very important so we did find that it was consistent with the plan and the underlying category thank you thank you very much yes ma'am thank you Council Lan doc development coordination and the um PDA request this resoning will allow for an increase in a residential unit count from um the current 900 unit cap to um 1100 units and so this development would um consist of residential single family attached and multif family um development so the lot itself these three tracks of land um tracks C G and D Those portions thereof um contain 31.4 Acres hidden Rivers overall development is comprised of 479 Acres the maximum Building height allowed within the development area is 30 ft um the property is currently bacing and I'll show you on some of the photos um to show the um set bikes are established as a condition within the site plan um the front setb is at 20 ft the rear setb is 20 ft the side yard setb is at um 1 ft so I'd like to show the um aerial of this location so again this is um I75 on the East this is Fletcher Avenue to the South um to the West this is Lettuce Lake Park um and this is Hillsboro river that runs um along the north so this is the overall boundary um of Hidden River and so the request is um the parcels that are identified in red this is parcel c um this um area is parcel D and then this is a part of parcel G um so I'll show you the um site photos um in addition to the allowable residential unit account this is a PDA plan development alternative so the applicant will submit for incremental site plan review um prior to permitting at that time the site is reviewed for the entitlements um that are granted through the PDA um so an overall entitlements table will be provided to show the draw down and what is remaining um as far as the entitlements Hidden River is a part of the dri so um the next item on the agenda is an amendment to that drri is to notice of proposed change and as f NPC 2202 so you'll hear that item next um but on this site plan um on the actual aerial um what I'll show you is just the entrance to Hidden River um site D you cannot access you can only go up to the north portion of River Edge Drive so I'll just show a couple of photos there then I'll swing around to parcel D um and show you photos from Hidden River Parkway and then from Park Edge we'll look at um parcel G but they're all wooded so this is the entrance to Hidden River um this is from the um South heading to the site to the north portion of the site so this is east of um traged sea of parcel sea this is on River Edge Drive so part of the Corporate Park um this is East of the northern site so the site is really behind this this area that's located in this picture so this is also the site is on the left so this is the north end of that road River Edge so now we go over to um parcel D this is the site that's on Hidden River Parkway and this is the East End of the site of parcel d that's looking South it's the same thing looking South another view of the site this is across the street from parcel D which is also vacant this is um south of Tracy parcel D I'm sorry using them interchangeably um this is the hotel that's located um on Hidden River Parkway at Fletcher and then this is the Northwest end of the site that's on um this is track track G on parkage that's the Northwest portion of the site of track G and um this is North that's the northern portion of the site and this is west of the site which is Lettuce Lake Park and um staff has reviewed the request and finds the request consistent there are site plan modifications to be made between first and second reading I have a revised revision sheet that I will provide into the record um and also since the site is heavily wooded but I would like to turn it over to Aaron and she can review her natural resources um findings if I may and I'm available if you have any questions any questions nope thank you okay uh Aaron May development coordination I'm just going to speak to some of the conditions of the site that exists out there um so this is rez2 2423 as Lesean said it's a PDA so we are we did find the project consistent right now consistent with conditions as the PDA does not require a detailed site plan at this stage so at the time of incremental review the applicant will need to meet the requirements of the code regarding Wetlands Grand trees tree retention and other applicable NR code sections no waivers are requested at this time so this is the image on the screen is just a picture of track G looking Southwest from the Northwest side of the parcel so it's it's pretty heavily wooded site so just to orient you again I made this so it's not as good as Leon's map but on the West Side you have Lettuce Lake Park um this is track G Here track C here and lot three of track D here in the center and those are the three being considered um on this PDA Fletcher to the South and Interstate 75 uh to the East and then this is just a little bit of a zoomed in uh aerial of what the site looks like out there so they are all heavily wooded sites uh and you can you can see this is track G on this side right here it's 12.68% approximately 2/3 of the CID are Wetland we don't have the you know confirmed delineations at this time they'll come in at the time of incremental but you can this is about the line of where the wetlands are located so the site here is wetland um onethird of the site approximately is wooded Uplands and you'll see some photos of that in a second there's approximately 587 trees in these wooded Uplands alone Alone um that does not include what's in the Wetland so the requirement of the code is to meet multifam depending on the type of residential use you have to either meet 40% or 50% of the fair or better quality trees on the site to be preserved and then all of that also will apply to track D lot three which is a lot smaller and only about a quarter of this site is wetlands and the rest of it is more of of Uplands so this is an image of track G this is looking west from the Eastern edge of the Uplands like standing inside the tract um it's a majority live o and paletto Forest forested Uplands it's also mixed with some Pine and some other Oaks as well and some other species of trees too um so the applicant does have the ability to request a variance for the 40% or 50% tree retention at the time of incremental any Grand nonhazardous Tree in the Uplands would require a variance for removal if um that was necessary track G here so this is standing to the north of track G looking South into the track and this is just showing what some of these Wetlands look like so any Wetland impacts would require approval from the Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsboro County at the time of incremental review and Hidden River does require a 30ft Wetland buffer uh so that is also a condition of the PDA and then this is track C so another heavily wooded site out here um this site is 16.38 Acres uh and wetlands are approximately 9 Acres of track SE so a little bit more than half the site and you can see this is uh sort of the line where the wetlands are again they'll be confirmed at the time of incremental review but there are about 700 trees in these Uplands down here um and again the multif family or the type of residential use it is would require a 40% or 50% of fair or better trees preserve to meet code requirements this is track C some images of the site half again are wetlands uh there are four non-hazardous grand trees that exist on the site one of them is here this is on the Eastern edge of the parcel uh the applicant the applicant can request a variance to remove a grand nonhazardous tree at the time of incremental and they can also request a variance for tree retention so this is another image of that tract so the northern part of that parcel is Wetlands um just over 9 acres and any of again any Wetland impacts would be red reviewed by the Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsboro County uh the Wetland buffer again must be 30 ft wide so this is just an image of track G looking from the existing Retention Ponds towards the South um so there are no there's no detailed site plan required for this PDA so we are consistent with conditions you know for that reason no waivers are currently requested but I'm here if you have any questions council member CL Bon so the so Hidden River has a 30 foot specifically for Hidden River from wetlands and so plus with the EDC review that because there's a 30 foot for Hidden River there really would be no potential negative impact on the Wetland areas correct I mean I cannot answer that question well if there's a 30- foot setback from Wetlands required I mean the applicant they can quest to impact Wetlands that's up to Environmental Protection commission who enforces the 30 foot for Hidden River we do we we would enforce the 30 foot Wetland buffer however so so that would again even if the EDC said we still we still have a 30 foot yes like if there's Wetlands they would require 30 foot so that so we would still retain control of that the buffer yes correct okay so you can't have a buffer from an impacted area for the W so yeah so it seems like it's a I mean am I right wrong is that is that a is that adequate protection for us for our interest um no 30 foot is a is a good buffer certainly for a wetland you know our code requires 25 ft Hidden River has you know a greater than our code requires which is you know an excellent thing out here these you know these wetlands have been there a long time um so yeah the natural beauty is like one of the things you know that makes Hidden River so I know we talked this was this was let us Lake Park to the um West what's to the north the river river river well there's there's like so that space between the Hidden River and the river who owns it this area here um it's a flood plane that I don't know who owns that property we own that oh you own it okay is there's a conservation use okay so there's a conservation easement on this land out here and can you say what would that be what would that be conservation eement for the for those of us that oh they put their the land in into protection in perpetuity yeah okay nice councilman ver thank you and um I I did want to just State for the record no question at this time uh I know I've spoken to Mr uh Shelby about it that I uh did receive a message uh that I sent over to uh my city account from Mr Mikey um on this and we did not um I I sent that over and we didn't substantively discuss uh this case at all but I just out of transparency just wanted to say that so that's already that was submitted on Sunday I think so that's all just for the record thank you all right applicant thank you so much good evening Council Katherine odonnell Sternberg for the record um and I want to really drill down on there's kind of two things happening here one is um I would classify as non-substantive so I'll touch on that briefly um this plan really needed a lot of updates clarification since it hasn't been touched since 2015 Susan Johnson was our drri coordinator who retired and so we worked really closely with staff to just make things a bit clearer so previously the plan had no color coding on it for example it was getting really really challenging to actually read um and we also add a lot of data um prior incremental reviews uh the current snapshot of entitlements that remain on the property so that was kind of a actually most of the work that we did on this resoning application with staff was just to update and make the plan a bit clearer to read um and then speaking to the substance of what we're requesting all three of these sites are already entitled and they're entitled for all of these uses so Hidden River um actually has about 1.4 million square feet remaining of office it also has 95,000 ft of retail um and a little bit of residential so what this cost would do is allow us to Simply trade off through an existing equivalency Matrix to achieve up to 200 additional units on those sites but we are not however asking for any new land land use on those sites or anything that would create another impact um we also have available um members of our team we have our our uh Environmental Specialist and our engineer who can speak further to this but I hope that that helps clarify the scope of what we're requesting um and I can certainly provide more information if you have questions any questions yes ma'am so do you have a a site plan you could put up because it's just yes you know what maybe I could grab smaller sure oh that's the one yeah that's the good one it's got a lot of color so yeah I know that's helpful I love color uh so the one to the north yes that this one on track C yes so so we're all three tracks already could have residential correct and what you're what my understanding was is you're reducing the amount of square footage for office exactly and so just for example if we were to trade off to achieve those 200 units it would be about 50 56,000 squ ft of office out of 1.4 million um and so the request is very nearly tailored it's a very minor request compared to the scope of the whole project um so it's just these these three Parcels that are about 30 acres and then the equivalent of about 56,000 square feet of office okay thank you anybody else no anything else in your presentation ma'am um I do just want to mention that the um we're going to get to the Dr the dri next but the applicant is also the developer of record and they have um been involved at Hidden River since its Inception in 1985 um and have been really good stewards with amazing projects there like the VA Clinic um we have about 1.2 million square ft of office and three other residential projects Hotel ET Etc so um it's nice to see that continuity and um those are the same applicants that I'm representing thank you very much is there anybody in the public that wishes to speak on item number 10 please come on up and I believe you were all were you all sworn in yes yes and the gentleman behind you the gentleman behind he was not sworn in all right we'll SAR you in when you come up so go ahead sir hey good evening good evening my name is Mike escudier I'm the person that texted uh councilman era I was his stalker last week I don't know who his stalker this week is but it's not me but I do believe in the Sunshine Law um thank you for uh taking the time to listen to me tonight um I'm Mike ESU and I live near Lettuce Lake Park and next to the plan development my concern regarding items 10 and 11 on the agenda are that the process remains collaborative constructive and transparent collaborative for all stakeholders the developers the city of Tampa and uh its residents we hope that our concerns be acknowledged by this Council and the developers the site is Lush verdant and has hundreds of trees and I don't know if you can see this on uh the screen we can't no you can't that's okay it's a turtle who last week on Parks Edge Drive was uh birthing some eggs and all that if you walk down Park Edge Drive uh I've in the three years I've lived there ran into deers right now in the Twilight there's a bunch of rabbits there um and we're Co existing with uh the the area which is right next to the Hillsboro River I think it was said before me the area is Lush and it's beautiful and hidden river is known for its natural beauty uh based on its location it's a very unique area and we're very uh Keen to keep it as pristine as possible in the interest of time I will highlight my concerns including Environmental Protection and compliance traffic growth measures that are commensurate and responsive uh and I mean to say this is on Fletcher Avenue and if you've been on Fletcher Avenue in the morning or the afternoon or any time Fletcher Avenue is not going to be widened up uh next to Lettuce Lake Park and by the way they're building a USF Stadium there too but that's for another discussion we're excited about that but um and the other issue is that Tampa Fire Department and Tampa uh police department are not overstrained exactly like the kbar uh Ranch my colleague my neighbor will can show you locations of T Tampa Fire and Tampa Police and that we are concerned that these departments will be overstrained as other areas in our district have been in the past looking ahead if this request is approved on items 10 and 11 tonight we will be dilligent and monitoring the progress of this development and its impact on the quality of life we currently enjoy in the city of Tampa I didn't say from the beginning that I am opposed to this resoning effort I do have a question for the applicant and my question and I'm done is uh this the discussion of tradeoff of 200 new residents and commercial space is that wishful thinking or is that going to be baked in before you approve it is the applicant going to say we will have that offset or trade-off and that's a testament to let you know that everyone who speaks in my neighborhood we looked at the staff reporting and uh combed over for our concern so I'd like the council to hold the applicant to whether that tradeoff is wishful thinking or it's going to be baked into the resoning request thank you thank for your time yes sir next speaker please state your name Andy Rivero thank you Council good evening uh Council I've lived at Hidden River since I was 21 was the first home that I bought and um I just want to State for the record I am opposed to if I could just the building overall but I know that they already have permits so now the question is just the variance um I want to State for the record that I've seen that the other applicants were very engaged with the communities we haven't gotten anything from this applicant I know it's very early on they don't even have to submit a site plan to you but my question on something I'm very ignorant on but you guys know a lot more and then you have a very competent staff is why don't they have to submit why why do you have to make a decision and approval on something that is kind of conceptual I'm just confused about that and I would want Council for you as the other meetings go and the phas basements come in if you could please just push a little bit more so that that we can have that information publicly available to us and if the applicant could really engage with the community because we are active and like how Mike said we really like the community that we live in I have my phone here I took a picture of the Wetland I walked through it it's pretty cool I mean sorry to use my gen Z language but uh one thing about gen Z you know not being formal um but so aside from the wetlands being beautiful Council I have this picture of my backyard of this very scary uh water moccasin so we really do coexist with the wildlife here but I bring up the water moccasin for a reason I protect me and my dog from it and I want to bring that to the emergency services that uh we had spoken about previously so I made a map it's not going to be good as good as uh any of the uh staff but if you can see Council very quickly here's my house well here's our house here's the wetlands in question of the two plots here's Lettuce Lake Nature has no distinction on what's Lettuce Lake and what's this plot canel and what this Wetlands means to me is that in any every hurricane that's ever happened I've never had to evacuate those wands just suck up the water so my question is when they're building what's going to happen there sure they're going to put in man-made pipes and stuff like that but the wetlands does it for free Council you don't have to upgrade it you don't have to do anything to it mother nature does it by itself so going back to emergency response we have fire station here but it's Temple Terrace it doesn't serve us if a fire response came it would come across Lettuce Lake with no cross street I'm almost done they can't cross through Lettuce Lake unless they have a helicopter so they have to go all the way down cross Fletcher which in Peak traffic could take 25 minutes with no traffic it's about 13 minutes and if they hopped on the highway they could cut some time assuming that there's no traffic there either same thing oh it disappeared oh same thing around here cancel is the police station on Le they don't service either uh around 30th Street and Bruce spe Downs uh or sorry 30th Street and uh bush is where the police station is thank you Council thank you very much sir you wanted to speak but you were not sworn in so when you come up we SAR you in anybody else come in that was not sworn in that is going to be speaking tonight yeah please stand I'm attending online I'm not sure how can I express you'll be you'll be after the imperson people speak I'll go to you thank you very much yes ma'am go ahead please good evening Council how we doing do you stimy yes I do am I good to go yes sir go ahead please say your evening cancel um thank you for taking the time and listen to me tonight as my neighbors also what's your name sir my name is Eddie Feliciano I'm here in regards to MPC 2202 um for the record I want to state that just like my neighbors I am against the project um I have been a resident in Hidden River Park where ever since 2014 um it is a place that I chose to live in because as I wanted to be a part of the Tampa Community I also wanted to have a place that um had the ability to be like you're like you're a part of Nature and that's been the quality of life that we've been able to enjoy there um for all this time but I want to highlight some very specific concerns that we have um that this project could directly bring to to us who live there um the number one concern that I have is when I looked at the application um I saw that the analysis the traffic analysis was actually performed in 2021 2022 and you know we're in 20124 since then I believed U two residential communities have been finished um as Mike stated earlier Fletcher is not going to get any bigger and as it stands today um when it comes to the morning or the afternoon there is really no moving around Fletcher especially when USF is in session I mean everybody goes around there traffic is already pretty tough um but I think that one of the things that I found concerning in that analysis besides the fact that it was done so far back is the fact that office hours were not considered into this analysis so the applicant stated that they wanted to you know trade off for 200 more units how many more residents is that and how is that going to affect not only the traffic patterns but the quality of life that we already enjoy everybody who lives there currently is able to you know jog around the area walk around pretty comfortably and continuously um experience nature you get to see different deer water moers turtles Gators all sorts of stuff literally like they walk through the road and come into our little lake so I think that the effect that having the amount of people that they're trying to bring in would have on the quality of life is very concerning and it makes me oppose this project um as I said before the environmental impact is huge um I understand that there's always a push to increase density but at what time do we say that's enough you know this this area that's highly environmentally sensitive is right next to the Hillsboro River so if we keep altering this area not only will it affect those who live there but everybody who lives Downstream of the Hillsboro River and lastly I just want to state that security is a concern when the last communities were finished we experienced a pretty big crime spree in club at Hidden River and we don't want to go through that again so with that thank you so much have a great evening thank you very much is there anybody else that is going to be speaking on this item if not I'm going to go to the online speaker uh we need to swear you in doota mazerik yes I'm here okay please raise your right hand we're going to swear you in we yeah go ahead do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give is the truth and nothing but the truth yes I do all right please state your name go ahead good evening uh council members my name is th MRE and I'm a resident of the Hidden River Community um which is um next to one of the uh parts of the development and I'm here to express also like my neighbors concerns about the proposed development of um of increase traffic to the area um and um how it will impact our quality of life uh and especially um the environment uh this is a proposal of 200 additional multif family units uh in the area so um I think the population increase and density will be significant and just to mention here that the there were multiple changes I think it was um emphasized earlier to the original development plan for this area and all of them were actually approved uh but there were no um specific or uh significant improvements to the roads infrastructure or other essential services so my main concern in here is the um um environmental impact and how this development will affect um the wildlife um the ample trees um as I think everybody saw how beautiful those trees are and uh diverse Wildlife that we have um in those Wetlands um in the area the proximity to the letis L Park also known for rich rich Wildlife um makes it really important I think to protect those natural resources and trees that been really preventing any flood in in our neighborhood this increased population density and traffic will no doubt harm this um environmental sensitive areas um my other concern is also the uh emergency response um time the added population and traffic could uh definitely have some negative impact and delays I actually do have personal experience um not long time ago I saw a motorbike accident or par Edge Drive which is exactly where that development is going to be and uh it took 15 minutes for the ambulance to arrive um in the evening without no traffic so I think that's that's quite concerning I think with the increased population and how it could worsen uh for any um emergency response in case of additional traffic and finally there's been a lack of um Community engagement um and communication from developer I think this is um quite important because of course the transparency open communication is something that um we would love to see unfortunately the developer has not reached out to our local community to gather any feedback or address any concerns um so that's something I think quite disappointing um I think that's that's overall what I would like to um uh say and I do appreciate your time and consideration for those uh concerns thank you very much anybody else before we go to rebuttal okay ma'am if you have rebuttal at this time yes go ahead sir Mrs Sternberg um the um it can you just remind us I know you went over this at the beginning but can you just remind us what the current entitlement is for these areas and and um it it it is it a the decisions were made like back in the 80s or whenever and so this is not a decision between a beautiful forest and and development isn't it a decision between less development or more development something like can you just describe that to us please thank thank you that's a really thoughtful question and I just want to start by saying that it's really unfortunate I never heard from any of you all um and I can submit into the record I always keep a log and copies of emails with anyone I communicate with on a project I had one person call me and we talked about what was going on and I have an email where I transmitted the site plan and followed up and the no concern so I really wish that you all obviously were aware we could have spoken about it because I think many of the things stated just bear no relationship to what we're talking about um and and that's correct councilman um the the entire Hidden River Project including these specific Parcels are already heavily entitled we have a huge excess of entitlements and in fact traffic monitoring was just performed in 2023 that was submitted to the city in October of 2023 and showed that we were below even 50% of like the threshold for our trip Generation Um so there's just a huge uh gap between both what's developed now what we're entitled for and that includes Transportation thresholds um does that help but that so we saw pictures of beautiful Forest if if we did nothing today what could you build by right in is there any chance you would leave it as forest or is or would it be something there by current entitlements yeah it's obviously available to develop and um once I go through some of these points I will also ask our environmental consultant to speak a little bit more about that topic because actually if we are allowed the opportunity to trade for residential this is actually a bit less impactful because of the building style you can work around trees more so than office for example which we could go forward with tomorrow um so after I just go through a couple does that is that a little bit more on point um I'll go through a couple more items that were brought up and then I would love to have Abby Neer come and speak a bit more on that because it was raised several times um so I want to emphasize again we have no waivers there are no waivers on the site plan we will comply with code EPC Swift Mud not only that um the T the applicant we have been through this process before many times and there actually has not ever been a variance filing I've never represented them in a variance after we've gone through PDA rezoning someone specifically mentioned push to increase density again that's not at all what this application is about um in terms of increase of traffic I know your transportation staff also reviewed our traffic accounts so perhaps we could um you know call upon that expertise to just confirm what I stated about the October 2023 information that was submitted um in terms of um also I want to mention historically so in 2015 we did almost an identical rezoning and we also did in 2013 those were just tweaks to say we're going to trade off within the permitted use and I actually want to put up for you um there was a reference made to um this concern that we won't tradeoff uses we have to and we always have any any any uh project that has functioned through tradeoff like uh the last two multif family projects the VA Clinic we exercise those rights and provide the math to the city to confirm that we followed this permitted um conversion rate and then you'll see you'll see it in the dri as well but you can see here we have um it's reiterated on the plan as well as the development order that these 1100 residential units are only available through reduction and corresponding uses and that's always been the case there's no change whatsoever today to that so I think um I think at this point I would like to ask Abby Neer to come up and just speak a little bit to you all briefly about um you know kind of her as her her perspective and um we will of course after approval we'll do what we've done with every other project in Hidden River and go through not only incremental review but go through the process with EPC and Swift Mud and so Abby will be the expert who is handling that piece of this development um down the road hi good evening Abby nayor um I absolutely wanted to address some of the comments that we've received um I I heard wildlife and trees um I do want to point out that the Tigs have been extremely great the applicant has been extremely great stewards of Hidden River there's a lot of talk of the deer and the wildlife and everything that's present that's because they've done an a amazing job preserving Pockets throughout not to mention the 170 Acres of Conservation Area that's preserved adjacent to the Hillsboro River that they own um so they're very cognizant in how they've developed the land since the 80s um and and you know regulations have changed significantly so the fact that there was a lot of um that mindset at the back in the 80s to develop land in that manner um that was really thoughtful to how we Implement development today um something that uh Katherine brought up was that um in terms of our our existing entitlements we could go today and and develop you know significant amount of commercial um in terms of working through through through the site plan and having having worked through a lot of site plans both commercial and residential it's a lot easier to work around things when you've got apartments or residential uses as opposed to you know a large office building where you've got um You Know Much Greater potential parking requirements you know a building can't be kind of moved around in lie of uh apartment buildings where you might have multiple Apartments um we do have to comply with multiple agencies in addition to the city of Tampa regulations will'll have to go through EPC and work through avoidance and minimization of any potential impacts we might need for Wetlands um we are held to us fish and wildlife service and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission um protections for wildlife Water Management District so we've got a lot of this is our first step in evaluating you know how we're going to use the land thank you very much yeah thank you any questions council member Vieira and then council member clendenon and then council member her thank you very much and uh and thank you for your presentation I we appreciate it um the question was asked about the trade-off between commercial and residential and whether or not that was baked in or binding could you respond to that yes it is baked in and binding um it is a part of the development order um it is already exists um and required to follow it the site plan also makes clear reference that we can only reach that number through tradeoff so it appears in multiple places um and again we also have a 100% track record of following prior similar adjustments to the pool successfully trading them off respecting the trade-off me mechanism that's required of us and I can't imagine the city of Tampa would let us come in without doing so thank you for that um another thing is you mentioned the the neighborhood that's here um I I hate to put people on the spot for this in terms of would you meet but would you be willing to meet between first and second reading with these folks to you know talk about some issues as that and and that in no way sways my vote one way or the other just an inquir sure of course I'm happy to speak with them that's why I said I you know I wish um instead of kind of just coming here to talk about the things we could have maybe had a discussion beforehand to understand what the application is about and what it's not about um so of course I I really wish they had reached out prior because basically everything said was uh really not um on point to this application okay and then lastly I did this isn't really necessarily a question for you but um in terms of the this is something I'd like to uh get um on voting is is we have fire station 24 uh there's going to be plans for that uh your way and we have advanced that maybe two months ago so so it's interesting and this and I'm stepping a little bit outside of this hearing into the last one which is you know since I've been in Tampa City Council I think this will be the third fire station that we've gotten at or near my district uh 23 24 and 25 um so that is something just to address some of the comments that were made uh with regards to fire rescue I can check on that offline aside from this but that's all and thank you for that information's g to slap their hand lawyer slapping a lawyer there you go yes ma'am Miss WS she's not pleased now with I heard that thank you Kate W the record um just with regard to the comments about the fire station that really goes beyond the scope of of this hearing and to the extent that any council member wants to reach out to Chief trip directly I would ask that you not um that you know we can we can have those conversations uh separately but I just want to make sure that the process that applies to quasi judicial hearings continues and that those more th those issues that go beyond a rezoning that um the handling of that doesn't Cloud how these hearings are conducted and and and thank you Miss Wells very very well taken I I that's what happens sometimes when I uh say what I'm thinking so yeah thank you very much for that we appreciate that hey that's usually my role right and that's it for now thank you thank you very much council member Clint Denon her attch uh this is pretty much for I think City staff environmental so there's there's there's some questions so one implying about the difference in in U retention from commercial development versus residential like they still have the same tree retention requirement whether it's developed commercially or residential correct uh Aon Mar development coordination no if you're developing commercial you actually only preserve 25% of the trees on the site uh Fair better quality trees interesting okay and and who enforces that like with residential the 50% requirement or 40 or 50% requirement where does that enforcement come from well at the time of incremental review okay we would be reviewing that okay very good thank you so much thank you um I appreciate councilman vieira's question about meeting with the community and I would definitely recommend uh you know maybe hosting something at at their site just to kind of give them the understanding um because what I I just I kind of want to let let the the folks know that that a PDA is is a it's it's even complicated for us it's very odd that we have two of these in one night because pdas are usually just very large sites and what they do is they give entitlements they say you can put this much on a site and so right now they already have the entitlements to build all of the stuff that you're concerned about so hopefully during the meeting you'll be able to understand a little bit more what their what the goal is um and so my question for you is how far along are you in the entitlements for this site so um in terms of what's built versus what remains sure um so we have again about 1.4 million square feet of office just over that remaining um there's about 1.2 million constructed there's about 95,000 ft of retail remaining and about 20,000 or so constructed there are 301 hotel rooms um and there are uh this about 750 residential units okay so thank you just to to give a scope and uh yeah I appreciate it thank you for clarification on that so how much when you bed away the the commercial development is how much is left of of commercial uh one 1. 1423 million minus about 56,000 ft okay if that was office I don't have the math for for for retail hand I'm sorry was my was the office right but yeah about 56,000 less than 1.4 million got you okay thank you thank you very much uh yes sir and and so just to summarize for everybody here I want to could you just briefly in in two sentences three sentences whatever tell us number one um what it is you're entitled to right uh what's already going through and then what it is you're trying to get additionally here just because again I I'll stop talking go ahead right right so all of these three Parcels already have the land use approval in terms of residential Etc and we own and have the right to build 1.4 million square feet of office I'm giving rough you know 1.4 million s ft of office about 990,000 ft of retail uh about 150 additional multif family units um and we I think we I think we're done with our hotel development so all of that exists and all we are asking for which is identical basically to what we did in 2015 is the ability to trade off convert a little bit of these other uses to instead of plopping an office building on the site do another multif family project mhm okay thank you yes so for the 1100 units that you're entitled to some of those have already been built or do you have 1100 left no we will raise the maximum to 1100 of of multif family there's there's about 750 existing so there are several multif family developments that exist that have been successful there's a nice blend of uses out there so what you're saying is the most you could build more is about 400 if this cap is approved okay yeah but not 1100 more just okay that was thank you that was unclear I appreciate right thank you very much my my biggest concern is mentioned many times is communicating with the the neighbors uh you know that's we heard it over and over tonight you know that they they haven't heard anything there was no communication so in between you know now and second reading you know to the best of your ability reach out to them and absolutely I will get with you all if you could if you could meet me out outside and we'll exchange contact information I'm happy to do that um I like I said obviously they got the notice I just really wish I would have um you know we had I think our notice list had over 800 and then some duplicate owners were over 600 notice um and I have actually I need to submit this into the record foral but I had one person contact me and they were not concerned all right is there a motion to close we have motion close from council member all in favor I any oppos council member Miranda would you like you want to speak did you want to speak Mr tiger hearing but the rutal period is over yeah I would say put your I'm sorry I didn't swear in but I'll be glad to do it right now if I can the rebuttal period is over there's there's an opportunity at number 11 to speak but this hearing is already concluded all right we have motion to close uh council member Miranda item number 10 I'll read Mr chairman item number 10 file uh number rez2 24-23 U orders being presented for first reading consideration orang resoning property General vicinity of 8748 Hidden River Parkway 14090 Ridge River Ridge Drive and foldio number 0 34776 1204 in the city of Tampa F more particularly in section one from zoning District classification PDA plan development alternative to PDA plan development alternative Office business professional medical research activity Clinic retail sales hotel residential multif family and single family attached providing an effective date second we have a motion Council Miranda second from Council and the revision sheet correct revision sheet yes sir we have a motion from council member Miranda and second from council member clenon council member viea thank you very much sir yeah and I want to explain my vote on this so I you know the way I I I interpret this right now is that there's a tradeoff which doesn't necessarily increase the density and I think that's or or the impact I should say density and and that's the greatest concern here um uh that we have it's funny you know and I've heard councilman Clinton say this in the past this is one where when I walked in here I thought I was going to vote a certain way and then after hearing the evidence I'm going to vote the way I'm going to vote um because again all of the things that I I think the community many of the things that the community finds objectionable are not in our control today these things are happening this is a very very narrowly tailored request which takes a small portion of this development trades commercial for a tiny bit of residential with as I interpreted again and uh we we have second reading on this there's no additional um impact density Etc I always say on these um on these land use cases I don't like to write checks that are going to bounce to people I I I say that in South Tampa I say that in New Tampa I say that all over uh cuz I'm an attorney and I look at things the way I look at things and I I'm not going to you know tell folks Hey listen I'm going to vote against this because this is terrible they're going to you know do all these different things these things are going to happen and I don't want to put myself in a position to write a check that's going to bounce I just don't like that so again um as I see this this is a very narrowly tailored tradeoff and what we're being asked to do is very nearly tailored in terms of in comparison to what's already going to happen so again since my dear friend who I love so dearly reached out to me on this and we didn't substantively speak on it I did want to explain uh my rationale for it so thank you yes uh and I'm just going to say similarly but I highly recommend there will be a second reading and you can come back during Second reading and let us know whether or not your questions were answered um and uh if you have a meeting space in your uh in your complex it might be a good thing and then just invite the neighbors uh I think it'll also be a good way just to to reinvigorate with the community it sounds like it's been a long time since something's been built there so it might be good for the for the new folks to really learn about the development yes I just want to and remind what we learned from staff tonight because of this this trade-off between the uh the commercial and the residential we learned tonight that the tree retention would go from you know could go could have gone only 20% now they're going to have to retain 40 or 50 so that should be a win for the neighborhood as well again so that's something that came to the light during this hearing thank you all right so we have a motion and we have a second right all in favor I any oppose motion carried unanimously second reading and adoption will be held on July 18th 2024 at 10:00 a.m. located at Old City Hall 3:15 East Kennedy Boulevard third floor Tampa Florida 33602 all right Miss Johnson valz this is item 11 that goes with item number 10 yes thank you Mr chair Susan Johnson V Le legal department um item number 11 is a public hearing on a notice of proposed change to a development of regional impact so Hidden River Parkway is what's called a development of regional impact it's um kind of a statutory type of development that was created back in the 80s um um but in the last decade or so the state legislature has pretty much gutted the statute that um created dris and the drri process and so old dris like this are kind of being converted to local ordinances and local control so review is strictly on on a local basis at this point what the developments of regional impact do is set a maximum level of development for the certain uses so you talked about the different uses in here and the different um levels of development so um right now the maximum um multif Family unit entitlement for this project is 900 and what this notice of proposed change is seeking to do is to increase that maximum potential to 1,00 units instead of just the 900 and so that would be um effectuated through a trade-off mechanism if they in fact did go up to that maximum so um those are impacts that have already been taken into account um through the maximum titls and then the operation of the tradeoff mechanism so that is what this is is before you this afternoon or this evening with this notice of proposed change and Miss Donnelly can speak to it further if you'd like um or answer any questions that you might have thank you very much yes ma'am go ahead please say your name Council cther Donal Sternberg for the record um and so the scope of the notice of proposed change is substantially the same as the rezoning um there is kind of a bit of housekeeping in it because each time that we come in for an amendment this is the 10th Amendment uh the last amendment was the ninth amendment in 2015 and so in the interim um if as you may have seen with other Gris we um have exercised extensions available to us for um the expiration and build out dates for the the dris so those are incorporated into the document but otherwise um that's said it's very straightforward did the gentleman want to speak behind you oh Mr T if you would please raise your right hand and be sworn in Joe tager uh yes I do go ahead sir I just want to make a couple comments I didn't know we were going to have any objections tonight excuse my paralysis but I I bought this property in 1983 thinking I'd be out of in 10 years and here I am 43 years later but we are this is the last site that we have't so sold all the sites have been sold uh so if we can we can put in the ups that are there without disturbing any Wetlands office right now that would create more traffic than putting the apartments that we're requesting tonight the apartments are a great place for people who like to live work and and play we've got jogging trails and exercise uh facilities it it's a it's a great development and I I know the traffic is bad on Fletcher we had to pay the forlane Fletcher back in the 80s and we had to pay millions and millions of dollars as the impact fee we had to give a site to the fire department which we did and a few years ago the fire department called me and said we don't need it anymore we've done a joint venture with Temple Terrace and do you want to get it back I said well yeah we'd love to have the site back he said well we're going to put it out for bid I had to pay $361 ,000 to get a site back that I gave to the fire department in the 80s but anyway my point is what we could do right now with the upls would create more traffic we're not trying to create traffic we're trying to create a wonderful work play and and and uh live in the same area it's turned out beautifully we've got 170 Acres along the hills River it bus up to llake Park I've tried to get somebody in the parks department to live listen to me we would like to donate that 170 acres to the city we we turned it to a mitigation Bank years ago we don't the credits are all gone and we own it it's it's got a Perpetual conservation eent for life it's got 1.2 miles of front on the hills for River it's absolutely gorgeous I'd love to donate to the parks department but I can't even get anybody to respond to me but I just want to give that comment because I've been involved in this project for 43 years I bought it 43 years ago and I was think I was only 41 then but thank you for your time I think you got a bunch of people going to jump on that you're going to be hearing from people Louis ver for that yeah and I I have I have worked with Mr Mr tagger for 16 years basically and um and so I I can speak personally to um you know they're they're going to do what they say they're going to do um and everything has been uh very smooth anytime that we've come in and had a PDA Amendment or a drri n OPC come forward so not not expecting anything different councilman thank you very much so it's funny I have two motions I'm making out of this uh qu judicial and use hearing that I'm going to have I'm going to do after everything's finished that's going to be the second one um so yeah without what I'm going to email my Aid to calendar it whenever the appeal time is done because obviously that's in very important issue um but but again as as been said I would you know strongly suggest again the meeting with the folks here in the community that's very very important because again to get across the idea that what we're doing here is very very narrowly tailored it's very very limited it's a it's a trade-off with no additional significant impact and one thing I would and again this has no basis bearing on my vote I say this because I can't talk to you about it outside is take a look at fire station 24 where that's going to be going and talking with these good folks that's all that's all I'll say thank you very much anybody else all right is there anybody in the public that wishes to speak on essentially the same item can I speak again yeah come on come on up sir please say your name again sure Andy rivo again just very briefly I just want to say thank you Council for asking several questions which is my main thing just more questions use the staff that you have here and I do recognize an incredible offer made by the gentlemen and the ladies here representing the applicant I think one thing council is that uh councilwoman herac we actually did uh together as a community host an event in our clubhouse to talk about this uh because it was kind of confusing you know as you guys have admitted it's confusing and this is your job uh so you can imagine it took I don't know how many of us were there like 14 some on Zoom just trying to put it together so if we were off point we were trying our best you know I mean we're trying our best to understand we had a concern about the wild life of course but we had other points I'm I'm personally happy with what that they have said and I would just like to continue correspondence um because I think as previous Parcels that were mentioned earlier there wasn't a lot of public I don't want to say backlash because we were not backlashing against you but there weren't as many public PE uh people from the public objecting because the there was engagement so a lot of questions that we would have had would have been mitigated and maybe we wouldn't even have been here today to potentially extend this meeting later into the evening uh so yes if we can continue and we'll be here for future meetings whether on on Zoom or in person and if you could just keep asking excellent questions and making the motions that you are and we would definitely love to continue to engage and I think we're satisfied so thank you thank you very much anybody else if not I'll go to DOA maer who is also online she had spoken and she's registered for this item as well is she online still okay ma'am if you wish to speak again uh please St your name ma'am would you like to speak um uh sorry my mic was not working but it's working now no I don't have any um thank you I look forward to more information from the developer and the um the meeting that we will have in the future I think it would probably really help um for our community to understand what is um happening and I think knowing the timeline as well that would be all very useful information thank you very much thank you wait sir you want to speak come on up is there anybody else that wishes to speak if not he'll be our last public comment speaker yes sir please say your name again Eddie Feliciano um just to address this issue again um uh that lady had mentioned you know she wish that she would have you know spoken to us this is the first time I see who she is you know I've never had the opportunity to meet or see or even know where to even try to find um the right contacts to have this conversation so um I do appreciate you introducing the topics and I really enjoy hearing you and I can I can see what you stand for so you know I just want to Echo what Andy said you know we want to continue on the correspondence um but just for the record like if I knew who I could communicate with I would have done it I do it in my everyday life it's part of my what I do as a career um but I'm happy to meet you and you know we're all very involved in the community and we're open to continuing correspondence thank you very much thank you guys have a great evening we have a motion to close from council member uh oh yes oh no yes just to that gentleman's comments that yeah the these things are very complicated so I wouldn't beat yourself up over it at all uh as part of the the the public it's it's it's awful frankly so yes I wouldn't I wouldn't beat yourself up and let this be a a representation of the wonderfully nice people I have in my district including a Newan nice I mean it nice people nice people this is a very nice disagreement agreement very polite I would offer I let me back yes I I just wanted to thank you all for the for the comments and for for listening to the conversation and um I think my my tip is that in the future those like the paper notice you get in the mail has a phone number and an email on it on it definitely don't try to um kind of you know as as councilman ver said some of these are especially complicated and I think a PDA is actually in a way it's so simple because it's it's like a a concept a bubble but I think that would make it a lot more complex to understand if you were just getting it in the mail or looking at a sign because there's not um they they don't produce a site plan that you would be able to just look at and quickly um you know determine what this all means so so definitely next time call and any rebuttal anything you're good no I think we're good all right motion close from counc M counc morand all in favor I I forgot where I left off count council member Henderson item alone so do we it's a public hearing do we just close it yeah no we have an ordinance this is an ordinance it's not just a resolution there is uh move an ordinance of the city of Tampa approving a 10th Amendment to a development order render pursuant to 5 chapter 380 Florida statute for the Hidden River corporate six Park of development of regional impact ER number 108 providing for seven or providing for severability providing an effective date is there problem the mo the hearing is closed sir we close the hearing the hearing is closed um before you leave everybody excuse me this is on first reading consideration this is not final till it comes back for second reading and adoption hearing that will be announced by the clerk after the vote we have a motion from council member V have a second second from council member clendenon all in favor I any opposed motion carried unanimously second reading and adoption will be held on July 18th 2024 at 10:00 a.m. located at Old City Hall 3:15 East Kennedy Boulevard 3dr floor Tampa Florida 33602 thank you last item of the night item number 12 all right U Save the uan for last Sam Thomas development coordination agenda item number 12 is Rez 2437 request to Res 1505 West Art Street from RS residential single family 50 to residential multif family 18 I'll turn it over to Jennifer Jennifer Mone with your Planning Commission staff we've traveled to West Tampa this is in the West Tampa Urban village within the West Riverfront neighborhood we are east of North Rome Avenue south of Interstate 275 um east side of North Rome Avenue is pretty much residential the west side of North Rome Avenue is um probably I describe it as more more commercial in character but this is the subject site along West Arch Street so um along North brome Avenue this is urban mixed use 60 we have Community commercial 35 to the north and this whole block where the subject site is and everything around it is brown and that's residental 20 so even though the area might not it might be developed as primarily single family and it does Curr have a single family zoning and that um might be the predominant character this is planned for a higher um residential development pattern at 20 dwelling units an acre which is typically single family attached duplex town home style type of development um that might just not have occurred yet but that is what's on the future land use map as the intent for this area so what you're seeing with this zoning is a request for the residential multif family 18 zoning District which would kind of unlock what we had planned for when this map was created for this area so with that's um a long way of saying it's consistent with the comprehensive plan because it's going to increase the development potential on the site and it's going to move it into a zoning District that's really furthering the long range um goal of the plan to put more housing at an appropriate scale in this area of the city um so uh also it's in the West Tampa Urban Village and the plan directs the greatest share of growth to Urban Villages and so that's really where we want to see a lot of this growth occur um that concludes my presentation thank you thank you very much go ahead sir Sam Thomas development coordination for usual we will start out with the aerial and zoning map so you can see the subject s outlined in red here on West Arch Street on the segment of arch between Oregon and Rome Avenue you've predominantly single family detached but um I did wanted to point out that like the two Parcels directly abing the subject site are developed with semi detach uses there's four units there there's a single family detached and then after the single family detached is another two semi- detached units so there is some while it is rs50 zoning there is some older multifam mixed in within the area and then as you get towards where Jim pointed out that u60 future land use is you have IG and CI zoning so at the intersection of arch and Rome you have a manufacturing use and then some commercial uses as well then as you go to the north you have Interstate 275 the West River Development here and then as you move South you have some larger multif family development and um single family attached uses here um since this is a ukian zoning there is no site plan or elevation so I'll show you some subject photo sites so this is on West AR Street looking West um as you can see that um from the aerial and I'll show real quick on the aial there is it's two vacant Lots one right next they're right next to each other it is just for the vacant lot that is budding the other existing duplexes or semi- detached units so you know you can kind of Imagine a line somewhere around here for where it's two separate properties um that's the semidetached uses there this is looking North from Arch Street at the subject site so you know think about it split it in half maybe a little bit less or more give or take this is looking south from the subject site um at the single family detached uses on the opposite side this is looking further west down Arch Street you can see those semi detached um structures and then the single family structure there here's a better view of the semi detect structures single family and then more semi detached there this is looking South across the street you have single family single family um and then this is either semi- detached or attached and then this is Facing East on West our street you can see the subject site here so um when considering the size of the property the requested um residential multif family 18 zoning district will allow for a maximum of two dwelling units on the subject site um additionally the maximum Building height of the rm18 zoning district is is 35 ft which is the same as the residential single family zoning District um so it's anticipated that the requested um zoning district will have minimal to no impacts on the surrounding uses and it's compatible with the development pattern and character of the segment of West Arch Street um development and coordination staff find the um request consistent with applicable um development regulations I'm available for any questions any questions no thank you very much yes sir go ahead please say your name James lasar good evening Council I the uh the owner of the property I want to say first that uh I live right down the street two blocks away on Grace Street I'm a a big believer in supporting my own neighborhood and and seeing it improve from within so that's part of my vision overall for this project and that's what's got me excited about this um so I've been active duty in the Navy for 14 years and so I think I understand the importance of being responsible with resources and uh I'm transitioning out of active military service over the next year so I I would view this as me applying the same Focus determination and Leadership uh to use resources to pour into our local community starting with a project like this um so this rezoning is a reflection of that Vision um investing resources for responsible growth in the neighborhood is definitely a priority of mine and Lane use is one of these resources um I realize we're in the west tamper overlay District so I should mention we plan on complying with all the guidelines for that overlay District uh I want to mention I got um I have 11 emails that people included me on for uh voices of support for this project so I don't see a lot of people that I think are going to stand up and oppose it but um I'm happy to read some of them off if that would help I have them here with me if they can be added to the record and then I did want to show one thing on the map it's just a color coating of uh let's see so in Orange the green is our site and in Orange are sites that are uh basically the same thing that we're trying to do so they're uh semi-attached so you have two right next to each other and then uh one on the neighbor or sorry go one more and then um one further down but what you'll find is from Lal every block for four blocks there's at least one of them um so I I view this as being very conforming to the overall neighborhood um and very appropriate for the neighborhood as the staff mentioned so um I'm excited about this project and I appreciate your consideration to approve it thank you very much any questions nope is there anybody in the public that wishes to speak on this item come on up sir please state your name um my name is Assad Shake I live at 1322 West Grace Street um about two blocks south of the project um to support the project wholeheartedly uh we need additional density and this is probably the best place in town for it with the big investment in the Julian Lane Riverfront Park I think we need more projects like this typically uh developers or Builders will put up a large single family home on these sites and I'm excited to see that somebody's finally uh resoning them appropriately and I hope to see more projects like this so I support thank you very much that's anybody else Mo any rebuttal sir that you like to add or you're good and did you want the did you want the letters in the record if you like if you wanted to if you want subm sure I printed them out so why I I printed them out so sure yeah if you want to give them to the attorney we have close from council member second cand all in favor I any oppos council member Henderson would you like to read it last item number T I move file number rez2 2437 an ordinance being presented for first reading consideration an ordinance resoning property in the v General vicinity of 155 West Arch Street in the city of Tampa Florida and more particularly described in section one from zoning District classification rs50 residential single family to rm18 residential multif family providing an effective date we have motion from council member Henderson second council member all in favor I any oppos motion motion carried unanimously second reading and adoption will be held on July 18th 2024 at 10 a.m. located at Old City Hall 3:15 East Kennedy Boulevard third floor Tampa Florida 33602 thank you very much thank you Council Carlon do you have any new business yeah last week in uh new business there was an item that I had to recuse myself so I'd like to make a motion to receive and file my may be we have a motion and a second all in favor I any opposed thank you second from Miranda okay council member her thank you um from earlier this morning allowing repeat applications with any year is costly in staff neighborhood and Council time since rezonings are costly and complicated the costs born by developers are ultimately passed on to home buyers and or renters the am this amendment will encourage developers to get it right the first time so currently chapter 27-15 states that denial of resoning applications by city council filed under this section shall preclude consideration of the zoning applications for the same zoning classification sought by the denied application involved in the same lands or any portion thereof for a period of 12 months from the date of denial however the zoning administrator May wave the 12-month period I move that we amend chapter 27150 to remove the zoning administrator's ability to wave the 12-month waiting period for any reason and I requested this amendment travel with other July cycle code amendments boom do we have a second second we have a second from council member Henderson all in favor I I anyos no motion carried unanimously no he said no okay so the I'm the Char of Miranda motion carried with Clint dennon voting no council member rier yes sir thank you yes so my understanding councilman herac is that that comes back and then we have it for consideration so no this wait wait so okay let me clar I I maybe I misunderstood so you're saying he'll come to us instead of the zoning administrator no this is in the ju so what what it does is it instead of the zoning M administrator because the word the wording is um a adequately uh addresses the grounds and substantial changes so this just takes it all away okay so is there with your intent I know we got to do a second reading just so I your intent is it to period blank they can never come back or can they come before 12 months but 12 months they can't come back and ask for an exception Le there's something extraordinary or something no because generally there won't be I mean if it's extraordinary if it's a completely different project it's different right but really what but the goal is to get it right the goal is to get it right the first time and a lot of times developers will will push the envelope and then not get what they want well they need to get it right the first time right they need to work with the community I mean we've seen this over and over again and I I was on my prep meeting last night and I was told that bayor is coming back and I don't know when that is but that's frustrating because it's been less than 12 months anyway Miss Wells so the just for clarification the comment yesterday about bore coming back that's a completely different project okay not to know thank you okay good still so we have a motion and we had a second to and your no I'm know just tell me that's why we have it announced just so you know why we have is to make sure I know that but we just need to get in the habit of allowing the clerk to announce the vote just that the record is clear so it reflects this is only to travel with the July cycle so it'll come back through workshop and then sending to the plan so you'll have the opportunity we could amend it then but I just want to get it on the July cycle I understand council member clenon you I do I have I have a few motions from the Planning Commission a request by the Planning Commission setting an adoption hearing for ta CPA 2403 ta CPA 2408 TPA 2409 and tcpa 2410 on August 29th 2024 at 501m and direct the legal department to provide the city clerk with the form of notice for advertising the public hearing we have a motion from council member Clint Denon second council member Miranda all in favor I any opposed a request by the Planning Commission to remove T do she have to read that I guess declare the vote before I read okay I request by the Planning Commission to remove move taac CPA 2318 from the August 29th 2024 50:1 p.m. adoption public hearing we have a motion from Council M Clint dennon second counc Miranda all in favor I and a request by the Planning Commission setting an adoption hearing for TPA 2411 on September 26 2024 at 50:1 p.m. and direct the legal department to provide the city clerk with the form of notice for advertising the public hearing we have a motion from council member K second from council member Miranda all in favor I I any oppose is that it that's it uh from me just a Happy Father's Day to Mr Shelby Mr Carlson Mr quenon myself Vieira and Miranda and all the followers out there so enjoy your Sunday your D and Junior and Junior your dad happy Father's Day yes ma'am thank you um this morning during public comment um a contractor came up with two other individuals who were contractors about the um infield lots and so I um although I did not give them an opportunity to continue to b y public comment um well I gave the option for the other person to speak for clarification and he chose not to but I am kind of concerned when I dived into it a little bit the um process seems to be a lottery system and it's kind of like a hodg podge of who can get these infield Lots so really my question is kind of a NE by question who do we direct that to so that we can get information on this process that sta I would imagine which which staff just I would just say staff always say with staff and then they somebody will bite somebody will come to you I see okay so miss Wells might be able to know though might miss Wells might be able to direct Miss does not she's zoning okay okay so um I just any other thoughts on that yeah your microphone sir the way it is it's supposed to be land to somebody to grab the build on it develop it and and then everything's fine but as I understand what's happening an individual comes that's not a developer yeah right they get a pointed they get the lot and then they hire a developer to build that's what I understood yeah and I don't know if that's right or wrong but that doesn't seem right isn't that done by an RFP they don't do the rfps I don't know I think it's worth I I met with him also I think you all all did but I I think it's worth putting on the agenda for for some point just for clarification discussion because we don't want to um you know since I met him a week ago he's now in crutches I don't know what happened but um we don't want to to discourage entrepreneurs like that from um from uh going after City business I he's been in business since the 90s it seems to be successful well the conflict seems to be that there are people who like a real estate company can ask for it um people that don't have any experience he held up he put up a Florida a Florida statue you know regarding who can um be in the contracting business and doing um building properties but so I would august2 is thank you I would I motion that and prior to phase three coming forward I move that we have City staff come before us to address in detail the plans regarding Contracting infield Lots awarding award awarding infield Lots second thank you on August 22nd on August 22nd 2024 we have a motion from council member Henderson with the second from council member Carlson all in favor and can you clarify are you wanting staff to be in person yeah oh definitely in person no memos that's right well I will can I do an amendment to say a memo and a memo and just so we can have some background knowledge before we talk about be nice okay that's great that would be appropriate that's for August 22nd in person and a memo yeah whoever this staff may be and if you reveal yourself early I would greatly appreciate it reveal yourself who is that person behind the whoever is responsible behind the curtain council member Viera yes sir I didn't think I had any but actually I do have one I forgot on uh Sunday I talked to former judge EJ alas um about something that he's very very passionate about delay uh Lieutenant valdimir Lopez next September it'll be 75 years uh since he gave off for our country he's one of three Medal of Honor recipients for area along with Ronald Ray and uh Paul Ray Smith and I think that next year for the 75th Anniversary we ought to get a conversation started now on something to commemorate him and judge Salen and I talked about a statue so and I think that would be awesome well let me let me ask you a question I know where he's buried yes and uh you know it's always decorated with American flags but it's a simple marker yes perhaps get permission from the cemetery to do something there yeah you know I mean considering it's you know it's open to the public and and people can view it so Absol yeah and and so that's a great idea I was thinking maybe um well I won't get into it but but yes sir that that's wonderful so I I I love that a lot yeah no and it's it's great and people pass by it and don't know he's buried there with his mom and his dad it's awesome so um and there's a lot of notable Tampa people buried surrounding him so it's you know so so I if I may I if I I laugh um on August 1st I have staff I don't know who would I I may have to amend it for whoever um first is it okay then let's do um how about August 22nd thank you yes ma'am so let's do August 22nd again I don't know I'll find out what staff person would have to come and I may amend for that but there you go I like shut up here we have a motion counc with a second from councilman Miranda all in favor all right anyos did you say August 26 yes ma'am okay there you go council member Miranda I don't have any I won't take that minutes go ahead sir you have you have one person of this day would doubt that not one of us would doubt that move to receiveing file rece file all right we have a motion from council member moranda second council member herte all in favor Happy Father's Day y'all thank you all y'all day [Music]