TAMPA CITY COUNCIL
Thursday, August 5, 2010
5:01 p.m. Session
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17:01:33 >> Actually Item -- yes, Number 56, I am David
Mechanik, and we were asking for a continuance to
September 2, 2010.
17:01:40 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
I agree with that.
Any opposition, Madam Chairman?
17:01:47 >>GWEN MILLER:
Anyone want to speak to that
continuance?
17:01:48 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Move to September --
17:01:52 >> 2nd.
17:01:53 >> 2010 at what time?
17:01:56 >> 1:
30 in the afternoon.
17:01:59 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
1:30 in the afternoon would be fine
to me.
17:02:04 >>GWEN MILLER:
All in favor, say aye.
Opposed nay.
17:02:06 >> Thank you for reminding me.
Council, just so the record is clear on this, at 1:30
this afternoon, this was scheduled to be heard.
Mr. Mechanik was present in the audience;
unfortunately, there was not a quorum which is why
notice was placed on the door and downstairs informing
people that this item would be held over past 1:30
until 5:00 today when we did take it up.
But just so the record is clear, there was no one
present from the public other than Mr. Mechanik at the
time of the request for the continuance.
17:02:43 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Madam Chair, if I may do one
ceremonial thing for us but something very large for a
group of young girls.
The 13 and 14-year-old softball junior league from West
Tampa not only won the district, won the regional, won
the state, and now won the southeast championship last
night on a 4-1 victory over Coral Way, and they are
undefeated and will be going to the World Series in
Kirkland, Washington.
The first time that team from West Tampa Little League
has gone this far.
I would like to ask the Council with permission -- they
will be gone leaving in two weeks that next week we
could give them a commendation.
17:03:23 >>GWEN MILLER:
A second.
17:03:24 >> Second.
17:03:25 >>GWEN MILLER:
All favor say aye.
Opposed say nay.
17:03:31 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Thank you, Madam Chairman.
17:03:34 >>GWEN MILLER:
Motion to open the public hearings.
17:03:37 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Move 1 through 9.
17:03:39 >> Prior to moving forward with your public hearings, I
want to take care of a housekeeping item relating to
the transmittal public hearings for the comprehensive
plans that are on your agenda today.
After they are transmitted up to the Department of
Community Affairs, they come back to City Council for a
public hearing.
October 14 would be the first reading public hearings
for the items which would be on your agenda this
evening.
We -- in looking at the calendar noted that the
calendar is set up in such a way that second reading
would not be able to occur until November 4, and given
some of the referendums on the -- on the ballot, we
think it would be prudent to go ahead and set the
second reading of those public hearings for your
November -- I am sorry your October 29 meeting which is
your CRA meeting, and I noted that is the only item on
-- only -- because of items on your agenda are from the
CRA that you don't have any other regular business that
day.
But from a legal perspective, it would be prudent to
have all of our comprehensive plan amendments completed
prior to whatever were to happen after November 4.
17:04:51 >>GWEN MILLER:
Okay.
17:04:54 >> Council, it would be -- it would be October 28.
It would be appropriate, I believe, the motion, to
end your calendar to add another meeting of Council
for -- beginning at 10 a.m. after conferring with the
chair of the cr a for allowing for a second reading and
public hearing.
Rather than a special call meeting, amend your calendar
to put on a regular meeting of Council for the purposes
of being able to set these public hearings on that day.
17:05:26 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Madam chair, move that we have a
special -- not a special meeting but a call meeting on
that same date of October 28 at 10 a.m. after our CRA
meeting to complete the city business that is needed so
we won't have any confusion between our business and
the balloting of the voting the following days.
17:05:46 >>GWEN MILLER:
Make that motion, Mr. Shelby, I don't
think we will have a CRA meeting because I got a note
today to change it -- to move it to October -- I have a
note on my desk to want to change the CRA.
17:05:58 >> I thought we changed the date to accommodate.
17:06:02 >>GWEN MILLER:
Just to make a motion of -- to vote on
an item.
But if -- if you go look on my desk while --
17:06:11 >> If we can -- mill continue and come back.
I don't think we will have a meeting on the 28th.
It is right on my desk.
The note.
While he is doing that go ahead with item number 1.
17:06:27 >>STEPHEN GRIFFIN:
Good evening, Council.
Stephen Griffin, Planning Commission staff.
Tonight, you will be holding your adoption public
hearings for the plan amendments part of the August
2009 cycle.
You will also be considering transmitting plan
endments that were part of the March 2010 cycle of
plan amendments.
If it is the pleasure of the Council, staff would like
to present items 2 and 3 first and those would be the
adoption public hearings for the Seminole Heights plan
endment.
Those amendments are up for adoption this evening.
They were heard by the Planning Commission on January
25 and heard by Tampa City Council on February 25, and
were transmitted for state and regional review.
The state Department of Community Affairs did review
and make some comments on those plan amendments for
Seminole Heights.
After you heard the Seminole Heights items tonight, you
will take action either to adopt or not to adopt each
of those items separately.
Once you finished that, we would like to begin our
second public hearing for the transmittal of the March
cycle of plan amendments of 2010.
Again, some of those plan amendments for the March
cycle are both text and maps and they kind of go
together, so if it would please the Council, staff
would like to combine the presentations for item 4 and
8 together when those come up and items 7 and 9
together.
You would still vote on those separately, but staff
would like to make the presentations together because
they are both companion members for map and text.
And, again, as attorney Cole did say, those adoption
public hearings for the transmittal for the March cycle
will be held in October.
If that pleases the board, we would like to move
forward with the Seminole Heights plan amendment for
Items 2 and 3 if it pleases the Council.
17:08:23 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
I can tell you one thing, I got to
leave at 6:15, and I can see already we are jumping
around this calendar here real quickly.
17:08:34 >> Madam chair if I can with great liberty, I made
arrangements for the chair for the first item to be
heard first.
I have a land use amendment being held at 6:00 in the
city of Clearwater.
I made those primary arrangements.
I have to implore you to take that item first.
My back is up against a wall.
17:08:52 >>GWEN MILLER:
Item number one.
17:08:56 >> Item number one.
I have a meeting at 6:00 in Clearwater.
17:08:59 >>GWEN MILLER:
We will take that now.
Who is going to present it?
17:09:11 >>TONY GARCIA:
Good evening, members of Council, Tony
Garcia, Planning Commission staff.
Present with you item one now which is the first of the
transmittal plan amendments all this be taking into
consideration this evening.
This is known as comprehensive plan amendment PA 10-02
located in the intersection of Adamo Drive and 50th
Street.
The request is to change from Heavy Industrial to
residential mixed use-100.
12.7 acres.
Privately initiated plan amendment and a regular plan
endment that means it has to be subject to state and
regional review as well as review by us here which is
why it is -- characterized as a transmittal public
hearing.
Some of the concepts that we will be talking about is
the property as an -- to the economic known as the Port
of Tampa, talking about the strategies, the districts
and aspects of the districts for the City of Tampa and
the overall urban forms of the city.
The comp plan amendment site is located generally in
this location right here within this green area which
is known as the central Tampa planning district.
One of your three planning districts on your vision
map.
Areas known as opportunities for growth for
redevelopment and for job opportunities.
The site is located as I said before along 50th Street
and Adamo Drive.
Adamo Drive, a good section of Adamo Drive has Heavy
Industrial land use classification characterized by
many industrial uses which are very imperative to the
functioning of the overall vision to the Port of Tampa
which offers and provides and generates over the last
many decades over the last 70 years thousands of jobs,
not just here in the City of Tampa but in the region
and throughout the State of Florida.
The effect of the amendment will basically introduce a
use of an urban city form not currently found.
The Regional Mixed Use-100 has intention Commercial
office and multifamily development with a mixed use
environment.
Just so you know where you find RMU-100 right now is
primarily in -- just several isolated places.
You find it on the channel district on the west side of
Ybor Channel.
You also have them located in the Westshore business
district.
You also have them located on the north side of the
Central Business District.
You have predominance of this land use category.
The subject site is located as I said before on the
southeast corner of Adamo Drive and 50th Street north
of palm river and north of the city-county city limits.
As you can see, there are quite a few industrial uses
in the area.
You can see the warehousing and storage areas.
You can see the rail lines just to the northeast of the
site.
All of these things are very functionally important
considering primary interest for the functioning of the
Port of Tampa and for the overall mission statement for
the Port of Tampa.
This is also characterized by this dark gray color that
typifies Heavy Industrial.
The land use category that is predominant in this
particular segment of Adamo Drive.
Everything north of the Crosstown Expressway and the
rail line is essentially Heavy Industrial.
And that was reflected by the aerial I had already
shown you.
The applicant wishes to change the land use category to
this color.
This is the color that you will find as I said before
in the three locations that I already described to you.
So as you can see, this particular color and this
particular intensity in F.A.R. is foreign and cannot be
found anywhere within a mile radius of this particular
site on this map.
You have transition use 24, CMU-35 here,
Residential-20, Light Industrial, Heavy Industrial.
This is transitioning 24, CMU-35 year.
Light industrial.
And all these land use categories for unincorporated
Hillsborough County land use categories.
This is an existing land use map which basically shows
you which properties currently are under light
industrial which is great categories and which ones are
-- the white categories.
As far as planning issues are concerned, this is of
critical importance this particular site and where it
is located relative to the port activity center area,
the port activity center area in 2000 is reflected by
this blue boundary which is where the edge -- the edge
of the boundary is where the CPA site was located at.
The port activity center was modified in 2007 when the
port came in with a new port master plan.
As you can see the port has identified a significant
ount of land that they expand to the east because of
the rail lines and all the existing Heavy Industrial
classifications that currently exist here.
I do not think I have to go into great detail to tell
historically for those on Council for a while about how
important that we try to retain the existing industrial
heavy land use designations in the city because we have
undergo an erosion of light industrial and Heavy
Industrial land use classifications in the last decade.
We also have planning issues as it relates to the
category in what it is going to allow.
RMU-100.
100 stands for residential units and brings a
residential component that doesn't necessarily exist.
All that black to Adamo Drive and to the north, Heavy
Industrial prohibits industrial use.
The RMU-100 100 dwelling units per acre and potential
of 1300 residential units to be developed on this site.
We are also talking about mobility features here where
because of the importance of the rail lines to the
north and also we do have public facilities which will
be available regardless of what gets developed on this
site.
We have a variety of agency comments.
The City of Tampa objects to the plan amendment.
The Port Authority objects to the plan amendment.
The Planning Commission finds the plan amendment
inconsistent.
Based on these policies that support the Port of Tampa
as an economic engine.
Major economic engine to talk about concentrating ports
around the City of Tampa and industrial strength as
well as an employment center to preserve industrial
areas with Transportation accessibility, and then
finally what I want to show you over here, two more
points I am going to make and then I will be concluded.
The RMU-100, the only reason that the applicant is
coming forward with the RMU-100, only one zoning
district allowed in the RMU-100 that is of interest to
the applicant and that is 0p 1.
Op 1 is not site plan controlled.
It allows a height of 200 feet.
No site plan is required by the applicant for this.
So what he may show you as a representative for the
applicant doesn't necessarily mean that is what is
actually going to be built.
So site plan has to be sent to the city plus you have
significant height.
I will tell you right now, there is nothing even close
to 200 feet in this general area right here.
The other thing that I want to show you is he may make
a reference well you have already had significant
parcels of land that change different land use
categories along Adamo Drive, that is true, it has, but
this is where the rubber meets the road, where the line
ends right here.
This is where IKEA currently exists on this particular
site.
Over 30 acres.
Went to RMU-35 six years ago.
Mixed use development that was composed to go to
CMU-35.
Ikea had it come in before that would not have
necessitated a change from the Heavy Industrial land
use classification on this site.
So, the other I think that is important to note over
here is its proximity to an urban village of Ybor City
and the other urban village of the channel district and
established neighborhood village of Palmetto to the
side.
Here is what land use classification was, but what I
want to point out over here is something significant.
This is all general mixed use-24 which allows
residential.
This is commuter mixed use-35 already, which is what
this site went to.
This is all community mixed use-35, urban mixed use-60,
community Commercial-35.
All those categories I just mentioned to you allow
residential development and they are compatibility and
consistent with what this particular property changed
to, the Eastern terminus of this particular property is
26th street.
That is two miles away from where this particular site
is as a crow flies to the east on 50th Street.
So there is no significance.
This is specifically designated a redevelopment in your
plan Adamo Drive from 7th to 26th street from 26th
street east the character changes significantly.
Based on all those findings of fact that I presented to
you this evening, the Planning Commission, as well as
the City of Tampa, as well as the port authority, finds
this inconsistent with the City of Tampa comprehensive
plan and also with the port authority master plan.
That concludes my presentation.
Mr. Gross may have a couple of comments to add on to
what I was talking about.
[Inaudible]
17:18:48 >> Randy Goers, Land Development Coordination.
The city provided comments reflected in the city
Planning Commission report, and city staff did object
to the plan amendment for all the reasons that Mr.
Garcia mentioned, primarily the introduction of a
Residential Mixed Use plan category in a predominantly
industrial area.
Staff also brought up the point in the new comp plan
there is a new locational criteria for making plan
endments that when you make a change to a plan
category, City Council should consider what is adjacent
to that plan category, and if it is the same plan --
plan category adjacent to it, you can consider it a
change of plan category.
If it is an isolated plan category, according to the
plan, City Council -- if I can find it quickly -- can
either deny the plan amendment or make a determination
that the existing land use classification is no longer
in the best interest of the public.
So it would be a question of looking at the existing
industrial land use and making a determination that it
no longer serves a useful purpose on that property
because it is introducing a new plan category in an
isolated location.
With that, the city did object to the plan amendment
and transmitted that to the Planning Commission.
17:20:09 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Okay, petitioner.
17:20:12 >> Good evening, my name is Todd Pressman.
Palm Harbor, Florida, 34604.
If we can go to the powerpoint, please.
Thank you.
As you have been shown, the location is noted in yellow
there, CPA site at Adamo and the Crosstown at 50th
Street.
There is new gas coming in to the South.
And there is -- as you can see, to the right, there is
new gas coming in at the corner there as well.
Looking toward downtown from the Crosstown the site is
noted for.
The large vacant site which has been vacant since the
beginning of the City of Tampa.
No uses have been interested in this site.
You have the southbound view and the eastbound view.
This is what is proposed.
They have developed a lot of property in the Bay Area.
He just finished a project at Valrico and State Route
60.
This is his office project that is proposed for this
site.
This is the view elevation looking from above the
Crosstown
The office building as you can see to the right, and
then proposed street view.
And the project -- the project he finished in Valrico
was an office building and developed quite a number in
the Bay Area, Hillsborough.
What is interesting, commissioners is what you haven't
heard from your staff.
What you haven't heard from your staff is when you
review the entire Planning Commission report, there is
not a single word about inclusion of what we have
already filed in the city, which is a zoning p 1.
That is filed.
It's pending.
And that is the desire of the applicant.
And as you can see from the summary on the Planning
Commission report, that is not mentioned.
It is not discussed.
In fact what is discussed is 100 units per acre unless
you have setbacks -- unless you have the parking.
Unless you have the buffers.
100 units per achier is simply not going to work in a
very tight site like this, but that is a figure that
the Planning Commission will throw out at the he can
stream of the statistics that would possibly be
permissible before you start building on this site.
And as I am indicating to you here, file 0p 1 pending.
What you will hear from Planning Commission is urban
infill and that is what this is, an urban infill
project.
You will see the policy from the Planning Commission
staff but a policy they use quite often, 14.1.4 that it
uses more efficiently for development that is more
economically sound by encouraging development of
vacant, underutilized sites.
In Chapter 2, the district which staff indicated to you
central Tampa district notes in improving mobility and
support mass transit and other mobility options.
Certainly this project is going to do that and
certainly meets that standard.
And meets the standard of attracting private investment
in is included in the report, but they looked at it a
little bit differently.
If this is not attracting new investment to a site that
has remained vacant, I don't know what is.
Mr. Garcia has well presented the port master plan, the
port, as I understand it, took a crayon and drew a
crayon of what they would like to see industrial
properties and CPA site and Mr. Garcia presented a site
down the street at the IKEA and he made some comments,
but the critical comment here is when the planning
staff reviewed the Adamo corridor.
I mean corridor for that site versus this site, their
findings were completely different.
In '05 they said Adamo was a thriving industrial
boarder and seen erosion.
There has been movement from industrial.
Still plenty of room for industrial.
Certainly if you have a lot of industrial uses they
need to have office uses.
Also the Planning Commission said the result reviewing
the corridor for the IKEA plan, the result has been a
slow transition away from Heavy Industrial reflected by
recent development of several properties along South
Adamo.
They also noted that allowing the change will eliminate
potential adverse industrial uses currently allowed.
At that time they found industrial uses damaging and a
problem, but today they don't.
Also note that the site is located in the coastal high
hazard area and that's fine for that site, but not
here.
Their recommendation for the other site on Adamo was
for the redevelopment trend shifting to mix used from
the industrial uses.
That is exactly what we are doing, bringing in office
use.
When they looked at IKEA for the corridor it was a
great idea but for where we are it is not a great idea.
You have to consider the economics in is a big project.
Not only on the construction project and in terms of
impact fees to the city and continual tax source.
It is a site that will be beautifully done as his
projects all done, and we are looking at significant
economic time in the city, and this would be a great
project both for workers who would be working on the
site as well as the City of Tampa and the taxpayers.
So in summary, we ask to you please consider the larger
picture.
Consider a consistent evaluation and consideration.
We ask for your consideration on the valid policies and
objectives that do very well apply to the site and
factor in the significant economic impacts.
We appreciate your attention and appreciate your
consideration, thank you.
17:25:41 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Any questions?
Any questions?
Okay.
Yeah, you want to --
17:25:54 >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Just a couple of comments.
Number one, under the current Heavy Industrial
classification, what the applicant is asking for can be
done under the existing land use category.
Under a PD.
So what he is asking for can be done --
17:26:10 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
What he is asking for can be done
already now.
17:26:12 >> Yes, sir.
17:26:15 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
For a PD.
17:26:16 >> That's correct.
17:26:18 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Talks about the infill he referenced
policy 14.14.
17:26:23 >>TONY GARCIA:
Well the point there again you can have
urban infill at the existing PD.
Doesn't require going through the gyration of doing an
RMU-100 increasing the F.A.R. to a 2.0 to a over 3.5.
And introducing a residential component which you don't
have in there right now.
There is no residential around there.
As I showed you with all the black -- he had a very
telling slide on his presentation where the IKEA slide
is.
Two miles of black, nothing but Heavy Industrial.
The line is drawn from the Eastern edge of that site.
Urban infill is great, but it also can be industrial
and can be done as a present land use classification.
17:27:06 >>GWEN MILLER:
Mr. Garcia, if he can build now on a
PD, what is the difference?
Why has he come before you now to change it?
17:27:15 >>TONY GARCIA:
The op-1 is not site plan controlled.
17:27:17 >>GWEN MILLER:
You are saying you need to see a plan
before you build it.
17:27:22 >>TONY GARCIA:
For them to come in and submit a PD and
do a Transportation analysis.
Under the p 1 he doesn't have to do that.
Plus he already has a 200-foot ceiling under the op-1
which he will have to ask for a waiver for that under a
PD.
Heavy Industrial only has a 60-foot height limitation.
So additional protections to ensure that you keep the
character what it is there and the significance of --
once you change that, you can't do industrial there.
That is the whole thing.
The RMU doesn't allow any industrial use and you can't
revert back and do IG there and you can't put Heavy
Industrial there so no industrial can go there.
For what other reason you can't come to fruition, a
13-acre piece of property that you can't convert to
industrial uses which tantamount to the issue and the
overall objective of the port master plan.
17:28:16 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Let's see if I can follow and you come
back on rebuttal.
Anyone from public wish to address Council on item one?
Anyone from the public?
Item 1?
17:28:32 >> Thank you Mr. Mayor and Commissioners --
[ Laughter ]
17:28:35 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Excuse me.
I am sorry.
I must have been in a coma --
[ Laughter ]
17:28:49 >> Still sitting in the same chair.
Mr. Chairman and commissioners, the Planning
Commission, clearly they have presented the Adamo
corridor as moving from industrial and Mr. Garcia is
here fight for industrial on the corridor.
That is an inconsistency we found on the reports.
You know zoning is a great complex process.
A lot of ways to skin a cat.
As we have evaluated and been involved with this
project for about a year, this is the way we chose to
go.
The Planning Commission would like is they would like
in my opinion bureaucracy, control.
They like to control all the details and height is the
issue.
One of the major critical issues we need to deal with
and what we are propose something a way to go.
A great way to go and a very positive way to go and I
think in summary, again, I think we have to be careful
as to how sites on this corridor are being evaluated
and are being pursued.
Thank you.
17:29:46 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Let me ask -- Mr. Pressman, you are
talking about height and the way to go -- I missed out
because I had an important call there for a second.
Meaning what?
To what degree?
I believe there was a statement made that you can go up
to 200 feet --
17:30:05 >> A maximum 200 feet on the op-1, yes, that's correct,
sir.
17:30:09 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
I am trying to think as to what a
corridor is to a city.
And it is very important, but when you look at Spruce
coming in from Boy Scout.
It has got three names.
You get confused even when you lived here a long time.
That is a corridor that runs into Columbus Drive, when
you look at Hillsborough Avenue, that is another
corridor going into the city.
When you look at Busch Boulevard, that is another
corridor going into the city.
And then when you look at Adamo Drive, that is a
corridor that doesn't look so good.
Half and half, you know what I mean.
You look at some sites there, and for whatever reason,
those courts did what they had to do and gave what they
had to do and we had to give in to certain businesses
we don't really want to talk about right now, but --
what I am saying is that -- that -- is -- is this
something that will enhance the city or not?
I am trying to be very practical.
When you -- I have seen cities that have much taller
buildings than in the perimeter of the city.
When with I travel South to -- I used to go to Arcadia
quite often and take the cut-off at Brandon and come
over 301 and come in and make a left.
Adamo Drive didn't look too attractive.
Nothing wrong with dealerships.
There was a real nice Ford dealership and real nice
dealership across.
IKEA certainly has made a difference in the appearance
of the corridor in my opinion.
I know some Councilmembers didn't like that, but it
gave us jobs, it gave us a certainty of brightness
somewhere where there was a little nightfall at all
times.
I am not too sure that I agree with either side, but I
just want to continue to see what my colleagues think,
and we will go from there.
17:32:16 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Let me -- my concern and you can come
back again.
My concern is this.
They can do whatever they want to already on the
existing zoning is what I am hearing you say.
17:32:27 >>TONY GARCIA:
Pretty much.
17:32:29 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
They don't want to come in for any
site plan and that sort of thing.
17:32:35 >>TONY GARCIA:
He already has a 200-foot limit and
op-1 is not site plan controlled.
So there is no guarantee whatever has been shown to you
on the screen will come this way.
And I think -- change is important to understand here
also is if this can be done through virtue of that, the
other I think that you have to understand by seeing all
these categories that you are seeing there, you have to
create this -- this is basically like a spot zoning is
what you are doing here and you are isolating the land
use in a sea of Heavy Industrial, and the other
critical thing to take into consideration.
The court -- you know, a 13 -- almost a 13-acre piece
of site on a major corridor and in proximate limit to
rail.
So as far as the port authority master plan, it really
doesn't -- kind of flies in the face of what the
long-term goals for the port authority and the
comprehensive plan in addition to the comprehensive
plan because we are trying to observe Heavy Industrial
lands here wherever we see it is viable.
Now on the other side, yes, I understand Adamo corridor
and the transition and all that.
We wrote what we wrote back then.
We define the redevelopment corridor in the old
comprehensive plan as going on Adamo from 2nd to 26th.
So a proverbial line drawn in the sand that says this
type of mixed use goes no further than 26.
So that's because once you get past 26, the character
changes significantly.
So there has to be a line drawn somewhere.
We do it with residential and Commercial on all our
major thoroughfares throughout the city.
So we should hold the line also when it comes to
regional issues, intensive mixed use categories like
this and our Heavy Industrial lands, the same line
should be towed for both.
17:34:20 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Any other questions?
17:34:22 >>CURTIS STOKES:
I don't know if it is a question.
Maybe more of a comment.
The -- opened in 2014.
60% of the roads, traffic, cargo traffic will come
through the Panama Canal as a way through that channel.
Like Councilman Miranda.
I am kind of conflicted.
We need a heavy mix of both, residential as we grow and
preserve our port areas and industrial areas.
I think there is a need to want to have residential or
office building -- office space.
But as the port grows in contract and industrial uses
of the port increases over the years, we are going to
need office space if that's what is proposed and
residences if that is what is proposed.
So I am kind of conflicted.
I would like to hear from the port and see what the
port -- I have -- I see in here there is a letter from
-- I can't pronounce -- I would like to hear them come
and talk more about the port plans in the future.
17:35:23 >>TONY GARCIA:
Sure.
If you want to make a request and send that out to the
port, they can have a workshop or something along that
lines.
17:35:32 >>CURTIS STOKES:
I would like to because the port is
becoming increasingly more important to the future of
the City of Tampa.
And I would like to hear from the port before I make a
decision.
17:35:42 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
The only problem, we have to vote
tonight whether to transmit this.
That is the issue.
17:35:46 >>TONY GARCIA:
That's correct.
You have the option of transmitting this for state and
regional review if you want to buy some time, or you
can not -- not vote to transmit it tonight.
That is Council's pleasure as you want to go ahead and
do that.
This will go to the port again.
And if they need to be a little more vociferous to you
how they feel about this or more specific they will
take that opportunity as well as DCA and Tampa planning
Council and so forth.
17:36:14 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Councilman Miranda.
17:36:15 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Thank you.
The area of the port has changed slowly but surely in
many ways.
For many years.
It didn't start yesterday or the end of night or
anything else.
When you look at the port and go back 15 years, it was
certainly a disaster.
Not that the individuals wanted it that way, but it
was.
There was no Channelside.
There was no Harbour Island.
There was very little to look at other than things that
were broken and conveyor belt, that brought all the
dust to Davis island when they were loading the
phosphate from one thing to the bins and things have
changed.
They have really gotten modernized.
We ourselves gave the port and overruled our own rule
when you couldn't stack something six foot high.
I remember that about a year ago, a year and a half
ago, and we let the port build -- I forget how high
because it is a mechanism of an engine for economic,
and in today's times -- and I don't want to harp on
today's times, but all times we need to continue to
find jobs for individuals so that this city can be
vibrant.
Then -- in fact an attorney in the audience who is
reading his E-Mail now -- at my age I didn't know I
could see that far.
[Laughter]
What I am saying is that we -- about a year and a half
to two years ago very eloquently changed the southern
portion of the port along with the Eastern sector down
the other side to the Easternmost part and changed it
mixed residential -- if I remember on a beautiful thing
that haven't yet been quite built and I understand why,
but that changed, because that used to be the part that
was the plan banana docks and now gone from banana
docks.
Some opposition from property owners who said we don't
want that.
When they saw that plan, they changed their minds.
So what I am saying is the port is an ever-changing
evolution of things that happen in constant time.
So I don't usually speak this way, because I am talking
in theory and I am not really a theologist and all that
kind of stuff, but when I look at what happened there,
I am seeing an ever-changing time.
When you go in a city do you want to see a corridor the
way it is coming in from Adamo Drive?
Is this thing going to be sitting on the railroad
track?
No.
I am just saying what I see is going to enhance
something.
Somebody has got to give something for this to be
enhanced.
Does the petitioner have the proper things to show us
that is going to be designed exactly how shown?
I don't know.
I can't tell you that; however, let me tell you about
Charlie Miranda.
If that petitioner showed me that photograph and
something is built there that doesn't quite meet that
standard, it doesn't have to be exact, he has a big x
by his name, that means he is down six members.
That is what I am saying.
I tried to take people at their face value, yourself
included, and I try to understand what we need and what
we don't need.
Is this good or bad?
I don't really know.
I will be sincere with you.
I can tell you that something has to happen in Adamo
Drive to.
17:39:46 >> You are something on.
In fact, I think the city -- this is on 50th.
The city goes east maybe another mile and a half, and
then you are in Brandon.
I think the city -- I mean -- ends at 66 or 68,
something around that area.
So what happens to the other side of Adamo Drive which
is highway 60?
It changes automatically completely again to a very,
very, very vibrant interest.
I remember when Brandon was nothing more than a
blinking light.
A bus line used to stop there Greyhound to pick up on
the way to Miami.
To pick up passengers.
It changed so much, some for the good, some for the not
so good I will be very, very sincere.
Now between this city and 20-something and Brandon, you
have a gap that is all industrial.
Is that bad?
Absolutely not.
I remember the feed store that used to be there where
they did their own milling on the left-hand side.
I think it was called Martino's.
They used to manufacture feed, bag it and sell it.
And it was good and vibrant, so what I am saying is
that's no longer there but something else there that
makes opportunities for employment.
And what I am saying is, I am just asking to myself and
my colleagues, how do you handle something like that
this looks so good to a corridor that doesn't look so
good and how do you mix it together to that you win,
the port win, somebody -- if the port is successful,
somebody is going to have to live somewhere, I don't
know if it is there or if it goes or transmits.
I don't know or if it is going to be in all that land
that we zoned residential, mixed use, some time back.
We are way ahead of ourselves, but sooner or later if I
remember the statistics, just came out in the paper the
other day.
Every minute, there is 159 more births than there are
deaths.
So somewhere along the lines, somewhere is going to
have to live somewhere.
But what I am saying is, you got to have a working
relationship so that something happens to everything
together.
17:42:06 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Councilwoman Capin.
17:42:08 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Thank you, Chairman.
Please clarify the 200 feet.
It is now possible to build up 200 feet?
17:42:14 >>TONY GARCIA:
No.
17:42:15 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Tell me.
Clear that for me.
17:42:18 >>TONY GARCIA:
Not now.
Not now.
You do have caps.
All the Euclidian zoning districts that you currently
have in, you Land Development code all have caps with
the exception -- well, the lp 1 is a high one, 200
feet.
17:42:32 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Okay.
17:42:36 >>TONY GARCIA:
If it goes to the op-1, 200 feet and a
significant height increase to go that way and also he
is suggest to any site plan.
He is going to have to meet code, okay.
But if he meets code, he may not be able to build what
he wants if he meets code.
He may have to come in for some waivers which is why we
are saying he could come in and do a PD under the
existing land use classification.
Not that we are not in favor of economic development.
It can be built today under the PD.
So it can be built.
We have no problem with that type of use there.
It is changing the land use category, which could set a
precedent.
Nothing to prevent someone else from coming adjacent to
that for the same thing because you would have set the
mark then.
17:43:23 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Thank you.
17:43:25 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Councilman.
17:43:27 >>JOSEPH P. CAETANO:
Mr. Garcia --
[Inaudible]
-- request any changes or modifications?
17:43:38 >>TONY GARCIA:
Came in as a PD.
17:43:41 >>JOSEPH P. CAETANO:
Came in as a PD.
17:43:43 >>TONY GARCIA:
The land use wasn't changed for IKEA,
it came for a land use prior to purchasing the site in
site has more with the land use classification also
have more entitlements, more building entitlements than
the IKEA site.
This 12.87-acre site will have more building
entitlements than the 29-acre IKEA site.
17:44:11 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Mr. Pressman, we need to --
17:44:13 >> Extremely short.
There is no interest on this parcel.
It has remained vacant.
He is trying to do something positive for it.
But again as Mr. Garcia just said, he is throwing at
you what I would call a campaign terms scare tactics.
He is throwing at you statistics of the maximum that
can be developed here which can never happen.
You have to have the parking.
You have to have the buffers.
All the development criteria.
This is the site that will come in under the city
development code.
Not to skirt rules or get around rules.
We are seeking to move the most positive way forward to
get something done on a site that is left vacant and
urban infill.
Thank you very much.
17:44:54 >>GWEN MILLER:
Move to close the public hearing.
17:44:56 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Anyone else?
17:44:57 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Moved and seconded.
All those in favor signify by saying aye.
17:45:04 >>GWEN MILLER:
Move for this to be transmitted.
Which one?
17:45:10 >> Move to transmittal or move not to transmit.
17:45:13 >>GWEN MILLER:
I move for transmittal.
17:45:14 >> Second.
17:45:15 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Moved and seconded.
Let me just say I am -- I am going -- for me, I have to
vote against it.
The reason being is because as I understand -- first
off, I developed a process 14 years ago.
At the county commission, when I hear Planning
Commission reject something, when I hear planning and
growth, and EPC rejects and Zoning Hearing Master,
which you don't have, I generally have issues with
that.
That is something that I adopted.
I am not talking about nobody else.
So it would have been two out of the three or something
like that supported it, then maybe different, but when
you have staff recommending against it, you have the
Planning Commission represented -- objecting to it.
You have the port objecting.
That just raise as flag to me.
Second issue for me what I am hearing staff say is can
be done on a PD versus changing the land category,
which may can never be revert back -- I think that is
what I am hearing from staff as well.
And would be setting a precedence.
I am concerned about it for that --
17:46:32 >>GWEN MILLER:
For the city to say that we can do it.
Pointed out that the city is okay with it.
17:46:36 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Okay.
A motion.
All in favor signify --
17:46:41 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Before the vote, if I may.
Even with PD and I am not here defending or protecting
one side or the other.
I have seen many, many PD that is we pass as a PD with
site control with a specific thing.
Guess what, a year later I sit back in the same chair
and I got back the same land owner with the same
representative saying I want to change from PD to PD
because times change.
Things happen.
And these are the things that are very hard to be on
this side of the dais and digest and come up with
things.
It is very easy to pass judgment, but it is hard to
fill these shoes.
Not mine.
Mine are small shoes.
Narrow.
But it is very hard to sit on this side of the dais
because everything is not alike.
I always say if you come back here twice, 100% of the
population is not going to like us because the first
time 50% don't like us and you come back the other 50%
don't like you and you are down to zero.
This is what this is all about.
It is just very difficult and very hard, and you try to
make changes and you are trying to make the city go
forward, and you got these things that are true, but, I
mean, we are getting close to Brandon, and Brandon is
nothing more that -- than something -- maybe a little
less than 200 feet, but 200 feet is 80 feet past second
base from home.
17:48:09 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Yes.
17:48:14 >> Mr. Chairman, not only with regard to this
particular transmittal hearing but with every
particular -- every other transmittal hearing that you
have tonight, just a quick review that really what you
are doing by moving to transmit this, you are sending
this to the Department of Community Affairs for their
review.
It still has to come back, and just like you have
tonight, you have first adoption public hearings and
then you have the second adoption public hearing.
A motion to not transmit would really have the effect
of a denial.
Those are your two items.
17:48:48 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Tallahassee may not.
So even if it goes to tall --
17:48:53 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Even if it comes back to Tallahassee,
we can still vote against this and this sort of thing.
17:48:58 >> Right.
17:48:59 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
With that.
17:49:01 >>GWEN MILLER:
Make a motion.
17:49:03 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
If it is going to come back before us,
then.
If it is going to Tallahassee and send it back and then
we will have another hearing on this, I don't have an
issue about that, but sending forward for approval, and
it is not coming back to have any more discussions then
I have an issue.
17:49:30 >>JULIA COLE:
Correct.
The process would be transmitting to the community of
affairs.
They will have an opportunity to hear what happened
here today and to see the reports out of staff.
They will look at it, look at it from a statutory
perspective, look at it from our comp plan perspective,
and they will issue a report as to their position as to
the appropriateness of the comp plan amendment, so when
it comes back to you, it will be for adoption and this
information will be part of your consideration.
17:50:06 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
For clarity, Mr. Garcia, I don't have
a problem with it being transmitted for input, but
when it comes back, unless there is a valid Atlanta is
presented to me, Mr. Pressman to change it, I am just
telling you where I am.
I just wanted to be clear.
17:50:25 >> Just to know that a motion to not transmit -- if
that is truly the sentiment of Council, what it does is
in effect stops the process right then and there and
you don't have the staff time or community affairs
review.
All that favor signify by saying aye.
Opposes.
17:50:44 >> Motion carries with Mulhern being absent.
17:50:46 >> Thank you, I appreciate it.
17:50:56 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Item 2.
17:50:58 >>TONY GARCIA:
Okay, we are going to juggle a little
bit and go into the adoption.
17:51:02 >> They have to open the hearing.
17:51:04 >>TONY GARCIA:
You opened all the hearings?
17:51:14 >>GWEN MILLER:
We opened all the hearings.
17:51:17 >>TONY GARCIA:
This will be a much more kindler
version --
[ Laughter ]
17:51:22 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
I certainly hope so.
17:51:25 >>TONY GARCIA:
I wish I could say the same for you,
Mr. Miranda.
What you have before you now -- we are going to combine
the two plan amendments for Seminole Heights.
The Seminole Heights Vision Plan.
Also known as comp plan amendment 09-07 and 08.
The greater Seminole Heights Vision Plan which will
consistent of a Vision Plan worked on in great detail
by the City of Tampa staff, and creating objectives and
policies, and the second part will be the land use
changes that will be needed to go ahead and completely
implement the Vision Plan.
The general location of the site as you can see as it
bifurcates a couple of major thoroughfares,
Hillsborough Avenue, MLK, I-275, Sligh Avenue which is
not shown in this general location map.
Seminole Heights as we all know was at that point in
time way back in the days when you see the black and
white photos were the suburbs of Tampa and was one of
Tampa's urban neighborhoods.
You see this famous water tower out here.
Famous for bung ga low homes.
Famous for being one of the major corridors.
Had all these little mom and pop places.
The neighborhood gas station.
The linoleum store and a variety of motel, hotels and a
proliferation of those.
But, of course, this is really the bread and butter and
the pride for the residents and people that do have
their businesses in Seminole Heights.
Lovely bungalows.
Architecture styles, a variety of different housing
styles that gives it that down-home feeling.
To let you know the Seminole Heights plan went through
about two years of public participation.
It was truly a labor of love between all the
stakeholder in Seminole Heights and the City of Tampa
staff and the Planning Commission in developing and
constructing this plan.
As I told you, the first part of the request is pa
09-07 the Seminole Heights Vision Plan, objectives,
goals and policies relating to the concepts of the
plan.
The plan will be building community planning through
codes.
Request is to change approximately for the second part
which is pa 09-08 the map segment.
To change approximately 193 acres within the greater
Seminole Heights from Residential-10 to Residential-20,
Suburban Mixed Use 6, public/semi public to community
Commercial-35, community mixed use-35 and
Residential-20 and Residential-35.
For land use classifications in the greater Seminole
Heights area and that will attract along the major
corridors.
That being said you need to know that 90% of all the
changes being made or proposed from the land use
changes are along all the major Commercial
thoroughfares that are within the Seminole Heights
neighborhood associations.
With that being said, the within we are locating more
density potential along the corridors is to allow the
second half of this to occur to protect and capitalize
on the character of single-family residences in the
area, with the least amount of change and also one of
their greatest assets.
So we will be preserving residential by trying to
redirect some residential into greater potentials along
the major corridors, therefore preserving the
residential integrity and character of the greater
Seminole Heights area.
Some of the planning issues we had to deal with, what
is the mobility, because we have residential and park
and major thoroughfares.
We know major safety issues along the thoroughfares,
connectivity and the compatibility.
A lot of different ownerships, a lot of small different
properties and when you go from Commercial off these
roads, right down into residential.
So the transition is very, very brief so we are going
to go ahead and give an opportunity for some businesses
to come in and have that opportunity to expand in a
very powerful and considerable way while not really
encroaching on the residential integrity of the
neighborhood.
In purple over here is the greater Seminole Heights
area in Tampa's urban form.
Along the northern part of the southern Tampa district
which I told you is one of the three districts of the
five districts that you have in the city that offers
the most opportunities for growth, development and job
potential.
This is consistent with the strategy one in your
comprehensive plan that talks about the district, the
central Tampa district is the hub of the region's
economic and government center.
It also supports a strategy two, which talks about
strengthening Our diverse neighborhoods.
A lovely bungalow home and lovely mixed use project
which is on the corner of one of the major
thoroughfares in Seminole Heights.
Neighborhoods are united because microcosms larger
communities and building on our assets.
Historic districts from in the Seminole Heights area
and a wonderful tree can know me which is symbolic --
canopy which is symbolic of Tampa heights and Seminole
Heights, and west Tampa I might add too.
And a fourth strategy talks about growing economic
prosperity to give people the opportunity to take
buildings like this which are underutilized and
blighted and potentially try to turn them into
something like this which is productive, provides more
of a higher economic base for the tax base for the City
of Tampa and provides vertically integrated uses that
are aesthetically pleasing.
Basically comprised of the three neighborhood
associations.
Hillsborough River to the west and to the north, 22nd
street to the east, 15th street and west, Martin Luther
King, Jr. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard to
the South.
Current future land use classification.
The predominant land uses here in this orange corridor.
That's a all residential.
Residential-10.
Here is the interstate which pretty much splits the
Seminole Heights neighborhood in half.
Right over here that you can see vaguely represents the
major corridors that go through Seminole Heights, right
through the neighborhoods and the intersection of
Florida Avenue, Nebraska Avenue, and Hillsborough
Avenue.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard to the South, the
southern periphery.
What we are showing you now here the 193 acres and how
they have been redirected.
The overlay that goes over it to show you that the
majority of the uses that have been changed are
primarily along the major thorough fares along 22nd,
along Florida, along Nebraska, along Hillsborough
Avenue, along all the major east-west corridors to
provide a more effective and efficient way of
developing property and to provide hopefully a walkable
environment for people to go ahead and get the uses --
to go ahead and patronize uses that could be developed
in the future so that the people can patronize in the
future.
As far as the agencies reviews that we have received,
we have reviewed reviews from the City of Tampa School
Board, the EPC, Metropolitan Planning Organization, the
DCA -- the DCA had one comment needed us to change the
verbiage for one of the policies and pretty much about
it.
Found it consistent as far as state law is concerned
and the Tampa Comprehensive Plan.
It was consistent with these policies to talk about
building sustainable neighborhoods through community
planning.
And, of course, consistent with the Growth Management
solution which talks about creating distinctive and
memorable places and supporting the urban village
concept which is what this is, Seminole Heights is, and
mixed use corridor village what Florida and Nebraska
and Hillsborough Avenues are.
The recommendation that we have for you, and we are now
at the very end of the light of the tunnel after about
two and a half years of going through this.
We are proud to present to you for your consideration
for adoption the first community plan for a major
neighborhood in form-based zoning which will eventually
come forward.
With that I conclude my presentation, and I'm available
for any questions that the Council may have of me.
And will follow me.
17:59:36 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Any questions?
Okay.
Congratulations.
17:59:44 >> Good evening, Council, Catherine Coyle, Land
Development.
I just have a couple cleanup items really quickly.
I did -- I reviewed the legal description today before
we came to this hearing, and I noticed just a couple of
minor errors with four of the -- four -- minor errors
when they went through four of the properties.
They recommended four changes to properties that were
already on the list, and in the legal description, it
was put under the wrong subheader so I had to change
that.
I do have that for the Clerk.
the second item, if you remember through the
transmittal hearing.
I went through a list which I will give you copies I
went through a list of parcels that were omitted or
ended from the original request based on the public
hearing or the change recommended by staff.
Initially on page 1, you will see there are some
parcels listed, omitted by staff.
There are a number of parcels that were removed or
change through the Planning Commission recommendation
hearing.
If you flip over to page 2, architectural review
recommendations for changes, and in your transmittal
hearing back in March, also additional parcels that
were either changed or omitted.
That came at the request of the actual property owner
that either didn't want to be changed or an affected
adjacent property owner.
I bring that up because I received correspondence from
a David Barry.
He resides on Duncan.
He owns several properties on Duncan.
And just for the record, I do have a large --
18:01:34 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
The one close to Hillsborough
Avenue?
18:01:39 >> I am sorry?
West of Florida Avenue behind the pioneer Cleaners.
If you look here, these are the properties along
Duncan.
These are the properties -- they show in black right
here.
This line of property needs to be changed and this
block to be changed.
I received correspondence from him -- I believe he owns
five or six parcels immediately adjacent to both sites
and he did apparently speak to neighbors who own
properties.
They are opposed to these changing.
They would like them to remain to Residential-10 and
will not like them to change to the community mixed 35
that have proposed.
As stated in the other hearings as staff, as the
petitioner potentially initiating in amendment, we
don't have any objections of those kind of omissions or
changes.
I would like to preface for the record with -- with
this type of that is shown here, it is not an immediate
change to Commercial development allowed to be
permitted because the property is zoned residentially
today.
It would be a required rezoning to follow up.
So there would be additional public hearings even if
the plan amendment was to go forward on these parcels
but if Council wants to remove them that's fine.
I can lift them for the record and between first and
second reading I could amend the legal description
again.
The only request I had over the last four months for
any changes.
And with that, if you have any questions, I am
available.
It has been a very long process.
18:03:03 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Both parcels remain R-10.
18:03:07 >> To remove R-10, yes.
If you would like to do so, you would motion for me to
remove those and I would lift them for the record.
18:03:14 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
We have to take public comment.
Any other questions?
Okay.
We will hear from the public.
Anyone from the public wish to address Council on item
2?
No one from the public?
18:03:24 >>GWEN MILLER:
Move to close.
18:03:25 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Second.
18:03:28 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
All in favor signify by saying aye.
Take a motion first --
18:03:32 >>GWEN MILLER:
Mr. Chairman I move that we omit those
-- Duncan from the transmittal.
Duncan -- Duncan?
18:03:39 >> Yes.
Is there a second.
18:03:43 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Does that satisfied everything.
18:03:45 >> She made a motion to remove them?
18:03:47 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Yes.
18:03:49 >> It needs be too full Council motion.
18:03:52 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Between first and second.
18:03:54 >> I need an affirmative action.
18:03:57 >> She is looking for a second.
18:04:00 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
You got five seconds.
18:04:02 >> That's it.
All right.
18:04:05 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
It has been moved and seconded those
properties as identified by Cathy Coyle, that they be
removed.
All in favor signify by saying aye.
18:04:14 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
I also want to say that I thank
everybody who -- two and a half years seems like a
short time when you look at it with the history, but
these folks work three years or four years or five
years, six years or ten years, they have done an
outstanding job and agreeing and disagreeing and
agreeing and it is agreeing they come up with a plan
that I would like to see in west Tampa also.
Something that looks really nice.
And very powerful.
18:04:44 >>GWEN MILLER:
Mr. Chairman, I make a motion --
18:04:46 >> This is an adoption.
Prior to reading that, I would like to list the folios
for the record.
18:04:52 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
She wants to read something.
18:04:55 >> I need to read the folio numbers really quickly.
18:05:31 >>GWEN MILLER:
Move an ordinance amending the Tampa
Comprehensive Plan and goals, objectives and policies
relating to the greater Seminole Heights Vision Plan
provided for the repeal of all ordinance and conflict,
providing for severability, providing an effective
date.
18:05:49 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
I agree with Mr. Miranda, I agree to
compliment the staff and the community and all those
who participated.
A number years -- several years ago I was involved in
community-based planning through the county.
I was initiated and throughout the county went through
establishing community-based planning, and so now the
city is moving through that process and this is our
first one.
So congratulations Seminole Heights and to the staff
that was so much involved with the process and even
that it took two years with the whole process.
Took a year and a half to two years I understand.
A lot of community meetings, a lot of input from the
residents from the community.
Moved and seconded.
All in favor signify by saying aye.
Opposed.
18:06:39 >> Motion carried with Mulhern being absent.
Second reading August 26 at 9:30 A.M.
18:06:42 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Okay.
18:06:45 >> Also number 3, related --
18:06:47 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Two and three.
18:06:49 >> You have another ordinance for number 3.
18:06:57 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Number 3.
18:07:00 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA:
Kathy, on these here do we have any
folio numbers.
Mr. Chairman move an amendment amending the Tampa
Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Element, Future Land
Use Map for the properties located in the general
vicinity of Hillsborough River to the north and west,
Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard to the South, and
north 15th street, Hillsborough Avenue and north 22nd
street to the east in the Seminole Heights area
providing for repeal of all ordinances and conflict.
Providing for severability.
Providing an effective date.
18:07:34 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
A second.
18:07:35 >> Second.
18:07:36 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Moved and seconded.
All those in favor signify by saying aye.
Opposed.
18:07:44 >> Motion carries with Mulhern being absent.
August 26 at 9:30 a.m.
18:07:58 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Item 4 and 8.
18:08:00 >> Good evening, my name is Allison Yates.
I am also with the Planning Commission staff.
And I am here to present to you the Tampa Green Tech
Corridor.
Items 4 and 8 are combined text-map amendments.
Request to add an Economic Development Overlay
corridor.
The site is 648 acres and a little bit of history on
the site, during World War II, it was Henderson Air
Field.
Auxiliary training field for MacDill Air Field.
In the '50s, the site went from that to an industrial
development starting with the development.
So the site is bounded by that red line you see with
Fowler Avenue being the northern boundary with a little
bit of extension into the University research area.
The west end boundary is 30th Street.
And southern boundary is -- white way, 118th street
with the western edge being 46th, 48th, and 50th
Street.
This was a initiated amendment, text and map amendment.
A little bit of context about this amendment.
Began with i-4 Green Tech Corridor study.
The corridor study looked to provide economic long-term
economic policy and environmental responsibility a way
to create sustainable environment with jobs.
And put those toward target industries such as
research, administration.
This particular 640-acre overlay was projected that
1,000 jobs be created generating $50 million in revenue
for the city.
This map of the i-4 Green Tech Corridor study area and
providing just to give you a little geographic context
of where the Tampa portion is, you see the Tampa
portion is the far left corner at the end of the
corridor.
This area -- primarily in the blue area is located in
the city's University district which is about ten miles
from downtown Tampa, and it is really an interesting
area, because it has museum of science and industry.
It is home to the University of South Florida.
There are four regional hospitals there.
There are small businesses and residential development.
It really is a high concentration of human capital
there.
Intellectual researchers and economic.
So an area that is ripe for Economic Development
Overlay and has an added bonus of having a potential
light rail corridor going through this district with a
potential site on 30th Street.
So as I said earlier, the effect of this overlay will
be to encourage redevelopment attract target industries
to this primary employment center.
One of three prime employment centers in the city and
none of the existing land use categories will change
for all the existing entitlements that would be in
place.
Would you have permit-ready developable sites wells
investment criteria.
Two types of development that would be allowed in this
overlay.
The first is a transit-oriented development employment
center. And this is a relatively high intensity
development within close proximity or walking distance
of transit.
It would support research and office and there would be
secondary retail and residential for this area also.
So the F.A.R. Intensities would be .6 to .25.
Residential would be 12 to 24 units per acre.
As I said earlier, they have to be located adjacent to
-- or very close to a transit station or a bus route or
transit station.
The other type of development that would be suitable
for this area and allowed is the Corporate park.
And that is typically run by a single entity -- managed
by a single entity and spaces for office and directed
at target industries, finance and administration and
limited retail, restaurants.
.7 to .25, and these employment centers you typically
see the higher end toward .25.
Just a quick look at the existing land use map here.
You see there is -- there is -- the light gray is light
industrial.
That is the predominant land use.
152 acres of that.
There is some Heavy Industrial.
62 acres.
There is also some multifamily units, and about 40
acres of vacant land.
Just to compare that to the existing future land use
categories there, it is mostly dark, Heavy Industrial
with kind of light area that you see is Community Mixed
Use-35 which is currently all developed as residential.
And there is also about 25 acre of vacant lands at the
University of Florida research foundation.
So when we looked at this, we thought that this overlay
would -- policies for urban form and create sufficient
infrastructure.
You have jobs, redevelopment.
What is really underutilized property and providing
kind of a competitive edge over an area that is really
has -- it is an epicenter of intellectual capital so
providing a little edge by having an overlay, a green
tech overlay there.
Essential you have a place with the people which is
intellectual capital and good location with potential
for job generation.
It could potentially serve as a model for other
jurisdictions both in the city and the county.
We analyze this overlay for consistency with the
comprehensive plan, and one of the aspects of the
comprehensive plan.
You see the policies before you is to have a livable
city, and developing, for instance, the development,
this area would offer a great opportunity creating
jobs, and you are creating a lifestyle there with jobs,
employment, housing, and Transportation options, so it
is very consistent with chapter 1.
This area also happens to be a mixed use corridor, so
-- with which is an area where you look at a mixed use
corridor as a road area you might be able to transform
from just a roadway to an area that generates jobs and
-- that generates Gods and a mixture of Transportation
options.
So this is also consistent with chapter 3.
Another -- another aspect of the overlay that is
important to note is that it recognizes the importance
of industrial land, key economic generators in the
area.
But not just that, because converts industrial land
into spaces and business incubators which is what this
area does.
We have the University of South Florida.
You have University of South Florida research
foundation, so it is already happening just adding the
overlay helps enhance that.
Finally, in addition to providing permit-ready sites
that are easy to step into, this Green Tech Corridor
overlay looks to have land use policies coupled with
environmental policies which is consistent with Tampa
Comprehensive Plan desire to encourage energy and
resource conservation.
After reviewing these findings, the Planning Commission
did recommend that staff transmit this plan amendment
to the Tampa City Council.
Thank you, that concludes our presentation.
18:16:32 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Any questions?
Any questions?
Anyone from the public -- guess anyone from the public
who wishes to address?
Petitioner -- is there a petitioner?
18:16:58 >> This is --
18:17:00 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Initiated --
18:17:01 >> A transmitted public hearing.
18:17:04 >>GWEN MILLER:
Move to close the public hearing.
18:17:06 >> They have to be transmitted separately.
18:17:09 >> Pardon -- the motion would be to --
18:17:11 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
All in favor signify by saying aye.
Opposed.
Need a motion to transmit.
18:17:18 >>GWEN MILLER:
Make a motion to -- I can make a motion
to transmit 4 and 8.
18:17:20 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Moved and seconded.
Seconded by Councilman Caetano.
Those in favor signify aye.
18:17:34 >> Motion is carried with Miranda being absent ant
voted a Mulhern.
18:17:38 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Go back to item 3.
My understanding that the ordinance did not contain the
accurate legal description.
Is that right.
18:17:46 >> Unfortunately,the ordinance that I transmitted to
you this afternoon did not contain the uses.
They are fully contained in the ordinance within the
body but not in the title so as to avoid technicality
later.
When we get to the end -- you can read it directly from
the agenda.
18:18:12 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
If someone would move and read it from
the -- from the agenda.
Eye them in 3.
18:18:17 >> The ordinance.
Instead of amendment, can you just say ordinance.
Adopt the public hearing on an ordinance is the way it
would read.
18:18:29 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
So the motion.
18:18:32 >>GWEN MILLER:
I said an ordinance, the agenda said an
ordinance.
18:18:34 >>JULIA COLE:
It did.
What happened was unfortunately when I did the title I
cut off the ordinance title prior to listing out the
uses.
So it failed to include the uses when we read the
title.
I am just asking for to you read it again.
18:18:58 >>GWEN MILLER:
So this amended ordinance on amendment
to the Tampa Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use
Element, Future Land Use Map for the property located
in the general vicinity of the Hillsborough River to
the north and west, Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
to the South, and north 15th street, Hillsborough
Avenue, and north 22nd street to the east in the
Seminole Heights area from Residential-10,
Residential-20, Suburban Mixed Use 6, and public/semi
public to community Commercial 35, Community Mixed
Use-35, Residential-20, and Residential-35.
18:19:29 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Moved and seconded.
Seconded by Councilman Stokes.
Those in favor signify by saying aye.
Opposed.
18:19:35 >> Thank you, Council.
18:19:38 >> Motion carried with Mulhern being absent and Miranda
being absent.
Second reading August 26 at 9:30 A.M.
18:19:47 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Item 5.
18:19:49 >>ROSE PETRUCIA:
Good evening, Council.
Petrucia, Planning Commission staff.
Plan amendment 10.
A development was developed for all four comprehensive
plans that being Temple Terrace, Tampa and
unincorporated Hillsborough County.
Text amendments to policies of each of these
comprehensive plans have been requested to look at the
timing of the update of the student generation rates
for Hillsborough County public schools.
For Tampa, this text amendment would revise one
particular policy within the Public School Facilities
Element, policy 36.1.3 which currently required the
updating to be reviewed every two years.
In effect, the amendment would allow the flexibility to
utilize the current census information to examine the
data for the student generation rate as opposed to
proceeding in an earlier time frame.
Currently the student generation rate is based on the
2000 census data, and this amendment would allow the
ability to use the 2010 census data for review of that
particular amendment.
This is more of a technical amendment.
It is just cleaning up some of the language.
The Planning Commission did review this on June 28, and
recommended approval.
And, a again, this public hearing is for purposes of
transmittal to the state.
Thank you.
18:21:19 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Thank you.
Any questions.
Anyone from the public wish to address Council on item
5?
18:21:26 >>GWEN MILLER:
Move to close.
18:21:29 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
All in favor signify by saying aye.
Opposed.
Motion to transmit.
18:21:33 >>GWEN MILLER:
I make a motion to transmit item number
5.
18:21:36 >>YVONNE CAPIN:
Second.
18:21:37 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Moved and seconded.
Second by Councilwoman capin.
All in favor signify by aye.
18:21:47 >> Motion carries with Mulhern being absent and Miranda
being absent at rote.
18:21:52 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
item number 6.
18:21:57 >>ROSE PETRUCIA:
Rose Petrucia, Planning Commission
staff.
This was issued by the City of Tampa.
There is a Transportation concurrency exception area
for the city and it lies and affects the area the city
South of Fletcher Avenue the Florida legislature passed
Senate Bill 360 last year in 2009 which among other
things established criteria for dense urban land areas
which would exempt areas from requirement of state
mandated Transportation concurrency.
The City of Tampa as part of this amendment is looking
to expand the Transportation concurrency area to
include the entire City of Tampa.
Additionally, this amendment is also looking at
including some additional policies to the Mobility
Element to really look at strategies for encouraging
and enhancing mobility options for the city.
In addition, there is a policy change to some of the
capital improvement elements.
Again, to be more consistent with mobility options.
City of -- the Planning Commission did review this
endment June 28 and recommended approval and found it
consistent with the comprehensive plan.
Randy Goers was instrumental in carrying this
particular amendment and I believe he may want to say
some things recording this as well.
Thank you.
18:23:25 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Thank you.
18:23:28 >> City Land Development Coordination.
We are responding to two requirements of the state law
when it was passed.
One of them was, Senate Bill 360 designated the City of
Tampa as a dense urban land area nicknamed DULA for the
acronyms and then those dense urban land areas for the
state mandated requirements of concurrency.
With this plan amendment, what we are doing is
recognizing that change in law by extending the
Transportation concurrency exception areas to the
entire city limits.
That basically extended extend up to new Tampa.
All but 40 acres of new Tampa are already regulated
under existing DRIs, development agreements or zonings.
We put a policy in the plan that those agreements stay
in effect unless they are mutually agreed upon with the
change.
All of the requirements approved with the development
that is there stay in effect and won't change unless
the city and the developer agree to make those changes.
So only affecting approximately, I think last year I
think it is about 300 acres in the -- in the city.
There is -- there is a 40-acre site within new Tampa I
think along Bruce B. downs and the 300 acres that we
annexed a couple of years ago that will be affected by
this plan amendment.
Will be regulated by the procedures that we are putting
in place, which have come before Council in our
workshops that will then be adopted after this plan
endment, the second part of the requirement was to
demonstrate that we had a plan to fund and plan for
mobility.
All local governments have to submit that for a
strategy for a mobility by 2012, I believe.
The long-range Transportation plan that the MPO
finished has recently been approved.
Our comp plan has recently been updated, so we are
moving forward to bringing those -- the mobility
strategy into our plan.
So basically we are saying we are recognizing the MPO's
Long-Range Transportation Plan as the -- the city's
Long-Range Transportation Plan and we have put policies
in the capital improvements to begin looking toward
funding that implementation of the plan.
Basically those are the requirements of the plan
endment.
There is a lot of material here that is mostly
documentation to the state that we do have the plan in
place that there are strategies in place.
I think we are change being 15 different policies.
One of them extending the TCA, the rest about
coordination and implementation of the MPO's long-range
plan.
18:26:09 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Any questions?
Flint public wish to address Council?
Anyone from the public?
18:26:14 >>GWEN MILLER:
Move to close.
18:26:15 >> Second.
18:26:17 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
All in favor signify by saying aye.
Need a motion to transmit.
18:26:21 >>GWEN MILLER:
Move to transmit.
18:26:22 >> Second.
18:26:23 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Moved and seconded.
Seconded by Councilman Caetano.
18:26:34 >> Motion carries with Mulhern and Miranda being absent
at vote.
18:26:40 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Take up item 7 and 9.
40th Street Corridor Community Vision Plan.
18:26:46 >>TONY GARCIA:
Thank you Mr. Chairman, members of
Council, Tony Garcia, Planning Commission staff, one
more time this evening.
The final couple of plan amendments for you for your
transmit appear.
A pretty good time.
What we have before you are two plan amendments, a text
endment and a plan amendment.
I know you like that.
18:27:05 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Oh, yeah.
Almost on target.
[Laughter]
18:27:12 >>TONY GARCIA:
Way ahead of schedule.
[Laughter]
Pa 10-10 and 11, the 40th street Vision Plan.
This is part of the Tampa March 2010 cycle of the Tampa
pa 10-10 is the planning area that will basically be
the text amendment and similar things.
This is the next one right after we did the Seminole
Heights, but this still has to be transmitted to the
state for a regional review.
Here is the general location of this particular site
for you.
Street is going to be north of Hillsborough Avenue.
It is going to go all the way up to Busch.
So I will show you a couple of maps on that.
Anyway, first part, PA 10-10, the Vision Plan, the
document is located in the University district and part
of the form-based community planning evident.
Again to create the objectives and policies to capture
the essence of the Vision Plan.
Here a boundary that shows you basically the planning
area used, Busch Boulevard the north, 22nd street to
the west, Hillsborough Avenue to the South.
And then we have the City of Tampa boundaries right
over here.
And 43rd street right there.
I have to take my glasses off to read it.
Again -- let me go back real quick.
What is interesting about this again the Hillsborough
River factors here just like it did with the Seminole
Heights one.
Can't get that -- one of our best access.
Right?
Anyway, I want to briefly tell you and give you the
vision statement essence so you can see how we crafted
the policies, the vision statement talks about building
a safe, neighborhood that provides with a sense of
place.
The focus on pedestrians as a priority to provide
adequate sidewalks, bicycle lines and traffic-calming
methods.
Supports surround neighborhoods at a scale appropriate
for the surrounding area.
We know 40th street has been widened.
Some Commercial properties that were actually there,
and now this going to get Commercial entitlements back
to these properties and hopefully come back and be more
revitalized.
This is to protect and enhance the single-family area
which I want to show you the land use map, the
principles to.
Improve the street lighting on the major corridors,
develop a variety of traffic-calming designs and you
will have traffic circles for traffic calming that will
be complimentary for the overall planning vision and
the promotion of clean design standards into the
form-based code when it comes up and ensure adequate
buffering and protection to those residential uses that
are immediately adjacent to 40th street and the
Commercial properties.
This is the second half.
Tampa Comprehensive Plan amendment pa 10-11.
The land use changes we are going to do.
A lot more modest than Seminole Heights.
To change the Future Land Use Map designation for 33.34
acres of land within the street planning areas.
We have three designations.
Residential-10, Residential-20, and Residential-35, and
they will all be going to Community Mixed Use-35.
So all to the same St. Louis designation.
90% -- probably 95% of all these uses are situated
along 40th street the prime corridor that bifurcates
this particular planning area.
So here it is.
Here is the Future Land Use Map, the orange colors
predominantly Residential-10.
40th street and these colors right here.
This is Residential-20 and this is Residential-10 down
here.
These are outlined in that bold color, and couple of
parcels up along Busch boulevard that will be changed
and the new map is going to look like this.
So all those colors are going to go to that pink color,
the CMU-35.
So basically everything will go to CMU-35 which will
give you more of a continuity and an opportunity for
redevelopment opportunities for the greater 40th street
planning area.
As it relates to the comprehensive plan, the 40th
Street Corridor is identified in the city's
comprehensive plan as a mixed use corridor village.
The function is to transform major street corridors
into a broader mix of land uses both horizontal and
vertical.
Mixed use creates new housing and job opportunities and
pedestrian settings and streetscapes, shopping
opportunities and transit services for the community.
Anybody know what this new place is on 40th street?
Come on, I know somebody knows.
It is most excellent.
A very, very nice establishment.
18:32:05 >> Get there for lunch.
18:32:07 >>TONY GARCIA:
As often as I can.
As often as my diet allows me to.
Anyway.
The effect of this map amendment is to increase
economic activity within the 40th street planning area
to provide more opportunities in the use of land by
property owners in this map amendment.
This could potentially be something on the traffic
circle right over here.
40th street Vision Plan consistency consistent that
talks about community efforts created through
form-based codes and specifically mentions 40th street
as it did in Seminole Heights, as far as specific areas
that they want to go ahead.
The city wants to go ahead and focus comprehensive
community planning efforts through form-based codes and
also create very specific Vision Plans which I have
just shown to you transform major corridors and so
Planning Commission accepted staff's recommendation
finding that the request was Kent.
So we are forwarding to you for transmittal for state
and regional review the Planning Commission
recommendation to find this consistent and forward this
on to DCA for review.
18:33:21 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
7 and 9.
18:33:23 >>TONY GARCIA:
Yes, sir.
18:33:24 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Anyone from the public.
18:33:27 >> Thank you, Catherine Coyle, Land Development.
I would be remiss if I didn't say just a couple of
words about the participants and the process.
And this process went significantly faster than
Seminole Heights.
Seminole Heights was the initial tem station project.
Now that we have got the process locked down and the
steps that we have to take, this -- this took probably
about 6 to 7 months to get through this stage as
opposed to two years.
So --
18:33:51 >>GWEN MILLER:
You got it down.
18:33:53 >> I have to say wasn't just the staff or wasn't just
the Planning Commission and all the agencies we worked
with, the community we worked with out in that area was
phenomenal.
There is such camaraderie amongst those neighborhood
associations, and we attended several of the
neighborhood association meetings.
They provide food.
They sing.
They play.
It is an amazing experience.
I am -- just talking about it.
North and South of the river.
They have an amazing community out there.
I am very excited and very pleased to have worked with
them.
I am happy to present this.
And I hope to show you the full dog and pony show at
the adoption hearing and hope to have many of them here
for that.
Thank you.
[Inaudible]
18:34:34 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Oh yeah.
18:34:39 >>GWEN MILLER:
Close the public hearing.
18:34:39 >> Second.
18:34:42 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Anyone from the public want to speak?
Flint public want to speak.
18:34:46 >> Okay, all right, moved and seconded.
All in favor signify by saying aye.
Opposed.
18:34:54 >>GWEN MILLER:
Move to transmit items 7 and 9.
18:34:55 >> Second.
18:34:56 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Moved and seconded.
All in favor signify by saying aye.
Opposed.
18:35:03 >> Motion carries with Mulhern being absent and Miranda
being absent at vote.
18:35:09 >>GWEN MILLER:
Move to receive and file.
18:35:10 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Moved and seconded.
18:35:13 >>JOSEPH P. CAETANO:
Mr. Chairman I have something --
18:35:15 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Opposed?
New business?
New business?
Any new business?
[Laughter]
18:35:31 >>GWEN MILLER:
Die for lack of second.
[Laughter]
18:35:36 >>THOMAS SCOTT:
Okay.
Anything else?
Anything else?
Okay.
Y'all did a good job tonight.
Thank you very much.
We stand adjourned.
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