TAMPA CITY COUNCIL
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
5:01 P.M.
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4:59:21PM [MUSIC PLAYS]
5:02:21PM (ROLL CALL)
5:05:23PM >> CHAIRMAN REDDICK: GOT A MOTION FROM MR. MIRANDA.
5:05:25PM SECOND BY MR. SUAREZ.
5:05:26PM ALL IN FAVOR? OPPOSED? ALL RIGHT.
5:05:28PM ITEM NUMBER 1.
5:05:29PM >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL MEMBERS.
5:05:34PM JENNIFER MALONE WITH YOUR PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF HERE TO
5:05:37PM PRESENT ITEM NUMBER 1.
5:05:38PM THIS IS FUTURE LAND USE MAP LOCATED IN THE WESTSHORE
5:05:42PM PLANNING DISTRICT.
5:05:46PM CARVER CITY LINCOLN GARDENS NEIGHBORHOOD SPECIFICALLY.
5:05:53PM THIS IS THE SUBJECT SITE.
5:05:55PM IT'S THE GOLD STAR.
5:05:58PM IT IS LOCATED ON MANHATTAN WHICH IS RIGHT HERE.
5:06:01PM YOU HAVE PARK ELEMENTARY IS HERE, MAGNET SCHOOL.
5:06:06PM THIS IS BOY SCOUT BOULEVARD.
5:06:08PM INTERNATIONAL PLAZA TO THE NORTH.
5:06:14PM MULTIFAMILY.
5:06:14PM AND SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED.
5:06:17PM IN THE VICINITY OF THE SUBJECT SITE.
5:06:18PM THIS IS A PRIVATELY INITIATED, AND LOCAL RESIDENTIAL --
5:06:29PM [RUSTLING PAPERS]
5:06:32PM SOME BACKGROUND ON THIS.
5:06:33PM THIS SHOULD BE VERY FAMILIAR TO YOU.
5:06:35PM BECAUSE THE SITE WAS THE SUBJECT OF A PREVIOUS MAP AMENDMENT
5:06:38PM WHICH CAME BEFORE YOU IN 2016 AT THE END OF 2016, THE
5:06:42PM PLANNING COMMISSION FOUND THE REQUEST CONSISTENT AS DID THE
5:06:46PM TAMPA CITY COUNCIL AS WELL.
5:06:52PM THIS IS THE SUBJECT SITE TO THE EAST, THE SUBJECT SITE.
5:06:57PM THIS IS LOOKING WEST FROM NORTH MANHATTAN AVENUE.
5:07:02PM SINGLE-FAMILY IN THE FRAME.
5:07:03PM THE SUBJECT SITE BEHIND WHEN I TOOK THE PICTURE.
5:07:09PM THIS IS LOOKING EAST.
5:07:15PM THIS IS THE SUBJECT SITE KIND OF OUT OF FRAME.
5:07:17PM NORTH ON MANHATTAN AVENUE.
5:07:21PM NOW WE ARE LOOKING NORTHWEST OF THE SUBJECT SITE.
5:07:27PM THIS IS LOOKING SOUTHEAST AT THE INTERSECTION OF WEST MAIN
5:07:31PM AND NORTH MANHATTAN AVENUE.
5:07:36PM THIS IS THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP.
5:07:38PM SUBJECT SITE IS RESIDENTIAL 10.
5:07:40PM THAT'S THE ORANGE COLOR.
5:07:41PM AND THE BLUE IS PUBLIC.
5:07:49PM REGIONAL MIXED USE 100.
5:07:52PM TO THE NORTH, THAT'S PLANNED USE, LOCATED FURTHER NORTH OF
5:07:55PM THE SUBJECT SITE.
5:08:01PM LOW RESIDENTIAL 20 WHICH IS INDICATED BY THE BROWN COLOR ON
5:08:03PM THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP.
5:08:12PM IT'S ABOUT AN ACRE, THE SUBJECT SITE, EXISTING POTENTIAL
5:08:16PM DENSITY 10, TO A POTENTIAL 20.
5:08:22PM SQUARE FEET FROM ABOUT 15,000 SQUARE FEET TO 22,000.
5:08:27PM IT WOULD ALLOW FOR MAXIMUM SQUARE FOOTAGE THAT CAN BE
5:08:34PM CONSIDERED.
5:08:42PM WE HAVE COMMENTS FROM THE CITY OF TAMPA PLANNING AND URBAN
5:08:45PM DESIGN DEPARTMENT.
5:08:46PM LACHONE DOCK IS HERE TO SPEAK ON THIS WHEN I AM FINISHED.
5:08:53PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION DID FIND THAT THE REQUEST TO
5:08:55PM RESIDENTIAL 20 WOULD BE ADOPTED WITHIN THE COMPREHENSIVE
5:09:01PM PLAN.
5:09:02PM THE MAIN AREA THAT OUR BOARD IDENTIFIES OF THE SINGLE-FAMILY
5:09:11PM NEIGHBORHOOD.
5:09:11PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION DID FIND THE PROPOSED R 20 LAND USE
5:09:15PM CATEGORY FOLLOWS THE SINGLE-FAMILY NEIGHBORHOOD AND THEY DID
5:09:18PM SITE THE SPECIFIC POLICIES IN THAT MOTION.
5:09:23PM SO WITH THAT PLANNING COMMISSION DOES RECOMMEND -- [OFF
5:09:30PM MICROPHONE]
5:09:31PM AND I'M AVAILABLE IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS.
5:09:34PM THANK YOU.
5:09:34PM >>LACHONE DOCK: PLANNING AND URBAN DESIGN.
5:09:42PM COUNCIL, CITY PLANNING STAFF REVIEWED THE REQUEST AND HAS
5:09:47PM OBJECTIONS TO THE REQUEST THAT ARE RELATED TO ALLOW THE
5:09:50PM DENSITY UNDER THE REQUESTED R 20 LAND USE CATEGORY.
5:09:54PM WITHIN THE PACKAGE YOU WILL FIND THE CITY'S COMMENTS.
5:09:56PM IN ADDITION TO THE POLICIES AND OBJECTIVES INCLUDED WITHIN
5:09:58PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION'S REPORT, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF
5:10:01PM POLICIES THAT I WOULD LIKE TO REVIEW INTO THE RECORD.
5:10:04PM AND THESE ARE FOUND WITHIN THE CITY'S COMMENT.
5:10:06PM THESE ARE POLICIES THAT ARE INCONSISTENT WITH THE
5:10:08PM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, LAND USE POLICY 1.2.3, NEW BUILDINGS AND
5:10:14PM DEVELOPMENT FOR THE CONTEXT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND
5:10:16PM COMMUNITY LAND USE POLICY 9.5.1 AND POLICY 9.4.5.2 SEEKS TO
5:10:27PM MAINTAIN CHARACTER OF SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AREAS.
5:10:29PM ALSO, IT SPEAKS TO THE CHARACTER OF SINGLE-FAMILY AREAS
5:10:33PM INCLUDE NEW DEVELOPMENT AND DENSITY CHARACTERISTICS.
5:10:37PM LAND USE POLICY 9.5.4 SEEKS TO UTILIZE SINGLE-FAMILY
5:10:41PM CATEGORY, TO MAINTAIN THE CURRENT DENSITY AND CHARACTER OF
5:10:45PM EXISTING SINGLE-FAMILY AREA, TO PROTECT AREAS OF THE LOWEST
5:10:49PM INTENSITY OF DEVELOPMENT, THAT ARE CURRENTLY AND
5:10:51PM PREDOMINANTLY SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENCES.
5:10:56PM FOR THIS PROPERTY, THIS IS AN AERIAL OF THE PROPERTY.
5:11:02PM THIS IS MANHATTAN AVENUE.
5:11:04PM THIS IS THE MAIN STREET.
5:11:06PM THIS IS HUBERT AVENUE. THIS IS GREEN STREET.
5:11:10PM THE DEVELOPMENT PATTERN CHANGES ALONG MANHATTAN AVENUE ON
5:11:13PM THE EAST SIDE YOU HAVE THE SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL
5:11:15PM DEVELOPMENT.
5:11:15PM ON THE WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN AVENUE, YOUR PUBLIC
5:11:20PM SEMI-PUBLIC.
5:11:21PM ONCE YOU ARE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET THAT'S WHEN
5:11:24PM THE RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY STARTS.
5:11:26PM THE ZONING OF THIS PROPERTY IS RS-50.
5:11:28PM THIS IS THE PROPERTY IN QUESTION HERE IN RED.
5:11:31PM AND THE AREA IS CONSISTENT WITH THE LAND USE PATTERN.
5:11:35PM SO THE LAND USE AS IT CHANGES AS JENNIFER SHOWED YOU, R-10
5:11:41PM CATEGORY FROM THIS PARCEL TO THESE PARCELS SOUTH, AND ALONG
5:11:43PM THE EAST.
5:11:45PM SO RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY FOLLOWS THAT SAME LAND USE
5:11:49PM LINE.
5:11:49PM THE RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY ZONING.
5:11:51PM SO THE RS-50 ZONING IS IN PLACE WITHIN THIS COMMUNITY.
5:11:55PM THE RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY RS-50 REQUIRES A MINIMUM LOT
5:11:59PM FRONTAGE TOTAL LOT AREA OF 5,000 SQUARE FEET, AND IT HAS A
5:12:04PM MAXIMUM BUILDING HEIGHT OF 35 FEET.
5:12:06PM IT'S IMPORTANT TO MENTION THAT SINGLE-FAMILY ZONE AND
5:12:10PM RESIDENTS HAVE THAT MAXIMUM 35-FOOT BUILDING HEIGHT.
5:12:14PM BUT WITHIN THIS COMMUNITY, YOU WILL SEE THE SINGLE-FAMILY
5:12:16PM RESIDENTIAL HOMES THAT EXIST.
5:12:19PM MOST OF THEM (COUGH), BUT WITH A ONE-STORY HOME YOU ARE
5:12:24PM LOOKING AT ABOUT A 15-FOOT.
5:12:26PM BUILDING HEIGHT.
5:12:27PM WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THIS PROPERTY.
5:12:31PM THAT PROPERTY IS A TWO-STORY PROPERTY, AND ESTIMATED HEIGHT
5:12:37PM YOU ARE LOOKING AT MAYBE 15, 20.
5:12:42PM SO IF THIS WAS DEVELOPED AT A 35 BUILDING HATE --
5:12:49PM NOW, THE PROPERTY TO THE EAST, WHICH IS HIGHLIGHTED IN
5:12:52PM YELLOW, CONSISTS OF FOUR PARCELS.
5:12:55PM THAT PARCEL IS A PD.
5:12:57PM THAT PLANNED DEVELOPMENT WAS APPROVED IN 1995.
5:13:04PM THIS IS THE SITE PLAN FOR -- IT'S NOT THAT CLEAR AND I
5:13:08PM APOLOGIZE.
5:13:11PM BUT THIS INCLUDES A PLAT OF THE AREA.
5:13:18PM SO I HAVE HIGHLIGHTED THIS IN YELLOW.
5:13:20PM THIS IS THE PROPERTY TO THE EAST.
5:13:22PM THIS IS THE PROPERTY IN QUESTION WHICH IS HIGHLIGHTED IN
5:13:25PM RED.
5:13:25PM THIS IS MANHATTAN.
5:13:26PM YOU CAN SEE THIS IS ALREADY DIVIDED INTO LOTS.
5:13:29PM THIS PD WITH THIS PARCEL WITH ONE COMPLETE LOT.
5:13:33PM THEN THE PD FOR UP TO FOUR SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES.
5:13:36PM SO THE PD WAS DIVIDED INTO THE FOUR LOTS YOU SEE TODAY.
5:13:42PM ALTHOUGH THE LOTS WERE -- WITHIN THIS PLAN, ONE SIGNIFICANT
5:13:49PM POINT TO KNOW, THAT ALL OF THE PROPOSED HOMES BUILT INSIDE
5:13:53PM THE EXISTING CITY OF TAMPA REGULATIONS, BUILDING CODE, AND
5:13:58PM BE CONSISTENT WITH THE SURROUNDING AREA.
5:14:02PM SO EVEN THE PD RECOGNIZES THE SURROUNDING AREA AND THE
5:14:05PM DEVELOPMENT AROUND THAT AREA.
5:14:06PM AND I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT FOR YOU, THAT WAS ACTUALLY
5:14:10PM NOT BUILT AND WAS ON THAT PROPERTY.
5:14:14PM IT'S A SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL HOME.
5:14:17PM BUT THE MOST THAT COULD BE DEVELOPED ON THAT PROPERTY FOR A
5:14:20PM SINGLE-FAMILY HOME.
5:14:23PM AND THAT CONCLUDES STAFF'S PRESENTATION.
5:14:25PM I'M AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
5:14:27PM >>CHAIRMAN: ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL?
5:14:28PM MR. SUAREZ.
5:14:28PM >>MIKE SUAREZ: THANK YOU, CHAIR.
5:14:31PM MRS. DOCK, I'M CURIOUS WHY THAT PARTICULAR -- YOU HAVE GOT
5:14:36PM TWO PARCELS.
5:14:37PM ONE THAT WAS A PD FROM 1995, AND THIS ONE IS COMING FORWARD
5:14:42PM BEFORE US TODAY.
5:14:42PM >>LACHONE DOCK: CORRECT.
5:14:43PM >>MIKE SUAREZ: WHAT WAS THE DEVELOPMENT PATTERN PREVIOUSLY
5:14:46PM AS TO WHY THOSE TWO WERE IN THE MIDDLE LIKE THAT?
5:14:48PM BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE THE PARCELS WERE CUT FOR DEVELOPMENT
5:14:51PM IN THE MIDDLE, IN ADDITION TO THE ONES THAT WERE ON THE EDGE
5:14:54PM WITH NO ACCESS, OR AT LEAST DIDN'T SEEM LIKE IT HAD ANY
5:14:57PM ACCESS.
5:14:57PM >>LACHONE DOCK: CORRECT.
5:15:00PM PLANNING AND URBAN DESIGN I.DON'T KNOW WHAT THE DEVELOPMENT
5:15:03PM PATTERN WAS PRIOR TO THIS PLAT IN THE MID 90s.
5:15:08PM I DON'T KNOW -- CUT OUT AND THEN HAVING THESE ON THE END,
5:15:16PM AND THESE, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S PART OF THIS, AND IT SPLIT
5:15:19PM OFF AT SOME POINT.
5:15:20PM I'M NOT SURE.
5:15:21PM >>MIKE SUAREZ: YEAH, IT DOESN'T MAKE A WHOLE LOT OF SENSE,
5:15:26PM BECAUSE I WOULD UNDERSTAND IF THERE WAS LIKE AN ALLEY IN THE
5:15:29PM MIDDLE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND THERE WAS SOME OTHER
5:15:31PM THINGS THAT MAYBE HAD BEEN VACATED AT ONE POINT.
5:15:34PM BUT IT'S A STRANGE, VERY STRANGE WAY THAT THEY HAVE IT SET
5:15:37PM UP THERE AND I'M NOT SURE WHAT THAT PURPOSE IS.
5:15:39PM AND YOU DON'T HAVE ANY OF THE HISTORY OF IT AS TO WHAT IT
5:15:42PM MIGHT HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY.
5:15:42PM >>LACHONE DOCK: I DON'T KNOW.
5:15:49PM IT'S LANDLOCKED.
5:15:51PM AND IT'S THE SAME AS LANDLOCKED.
5:15:53PM >>MIKE SUAREZ: AND YOU DON'T SEE IT VERY OFTEN TYPICALLY.
5:16:01PM BUT THIS IS ONE OF THOSE CASES.
5:16:04PM THANK YOU, MRS. DOCK.
5:16:05PM I APPRECIATE IT.
5:16:06PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL?
5:16:09PM QUESTIONS OF STAFF?
5:16:10PM ALL RIGHT.
5:16:11PM APPLICANT?
5:16:11PM >>JOHN GRANDOFF: JOHN GRANDOFF, SUITE 3700 BANK OF AMERICA
5:16:24PM PLAZA.
5:16:25PM THIS EVENING I AM REPRESENTING ALEX AND EAST CORPORATION,
5:16:30PM TOWN HOME BUILDER AND ALSO SITE REAL ESTATE, ALSO THIS
5:16:36PM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
5:16:37PM MR. THOMAS KING IS GOING TO ADDRESS YOU FIRST, GIVE YOU SOME
5:16:40PM BACKGROUND ON HIS COMPANY, ALSO ON THE PROJECT, AND I'LL
5:16:43PM COME BACK AND HAVE SOME MORE COMMENTS AFTER TOM SPEAKS TO
5:16:47PM YOU.
5:16:47PM >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL MEMBERS.
5:17:00PM MY NAME IS THOMAS KING.
5:17:02PM AND --
5:17:06PM [ NO ENCODER ]
5:17:32PM WE START BY EMPHASIZING THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF
5:17:47PM REPORT FOUND THIS PROJECT CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE
5:17:50PM PLAN.
5:17:52PM SOMETHING ALSO THAT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE IS THAT THIS PROJECT
5:17:55PM HAS A TWO-STORY SINGLE-FAMILY HEIGHT WHICH IS AT 35 FEET.
5:17:59PM THAT WAS MENTIONED, WHICH IS COMPATIBLE WITH THE
5:18:02PM NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE SURROUNDING HOMES TO THIS PROJECT.
5:18:07PM STRUCTURE TO STRUCTURE, THEY ARE COMPARABLE.
5:18:09PM WE ARE ALSO ASKING FOR CONSIDERABLY LESS UNITS PER ACRE THAN
5:18:13PM PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PROJECT.
5:18:16PM OUR PROJECT REQUEST IS FOR 20 UNITS PER ACRE.
5:18:19PM I WANT TO GO TO THE ELMO AND SHOW THE NEIGHBORING PROJECTS,
5:18:27PM ARE IN VERY CLOSE PROXIMITY, THAT ARE APARTMENT COMPLEXES.
5:18:31PM AGAIN THIS IS HOME OWNERSHIP, DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.
5:18:35PM YOU CAN SEE HIGHLIGHTED HERE, THE YELLOW STAR WHERE OUR
5:18:39PM PROJECT IS, AND THE NUMBER.
5:18:45PM ROLAND PARK ELEMENTARY AND JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL.
5:18:59PM THE NEXT AERIAL OVERHEAD I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT IS
5:19:05PM RELATED TO THE PROJECT ORIENTATION, WHICH SUBJECT PROPERTY
5:19:10PM AERIAL SHOWS MANHATTAN AVENUE RUNNING NORTH-SOUTH.
5:19:17PM WHICH WOULD LIMIT TRAFFIC ON THE INTERNAL NEIGHBORHOOD
5:19:20PM STREET.
5:19:22PM ALSO, I WANT TO POINT OUT AN AERIAL THAT THE TWO LOTS THAT
5:19:28PM ARE LANDLOCKED, 111519, 111593, WHICH DO NOT HAVE ROAD
5:19:37PM ACCESS, MAKING THE CHANGE IN THE FUTURE LAND USE THE FIRST
5:19:39PM STEP TO A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT.
5:19:42PM I WANT TO ALSO TALK ABOUT HOW THROUGH THE PROCESS
5:19:45PM NEIGHBORHOOD ENGAGEMENT WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO US.
5:19:47PM I MADE EVERY EFFORT TO ADDRESS THEIR OPINIONS ON THE
5:19:53PM PROJECT.
5:19:54PM I PRESENTED THIS DEVELOPMENT IN FRONT OF THE LEADERSHIP OF
5:19:56PM THE CARVER CITY AND LINCOLN GARDENS CIVIC ASSOCIATION.
5:20:00PM I ALSO PRESENTED THIS TO OVER 50 NEIGHBORS AT THE GENERAL
5:20:04PM MEETING AND OPENED THE FLOOR FOR AN EXTENDED DIALOGUE,
5:20:07PM ENGAGING IN QUESTIONS, TOOK INTO CONSIDERATION
5:20:11PM RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE PROJECT.
5:20:12PM I ALSO WENT DOOR TO DOOR SEVERAL TIMES SPEAKING WITH
5:20:17PM NEIGHBORS ABOUT THE PROJECT.
5:20:19PM THROUGH THIS ENGAGEMENT, I THINK WE HAVE ALREADY SUBMITTED
5:20:22PM THE PASSAGE OF SUPPORTERS.
5:20:25PM THESE SUPPORTERS INCLUDE NEWER FOLKS TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD,
5:20:28PM NEWER HOMEOWNERS, RENTERS, AND ALSO I WANT TO MAKE SURE I
5:20:31PM POINT OUT THERE ARE HOMEOWNERS HERE THAT HAVE BEEN IN THE
5:20:34PM NEIGHBORHOOD FOR 50-PLUS YEARS THAT ALSO FIND THIS PROJECT
5:20:42PM SUPPORTIVE.
5:20:43PM WE ALSO HAVE A NUMBER OF HOMEOWNERS AND RESIDENTS WHO ARE
5:20:46PM HERE TONIGHT TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE PROJECT.
5:20:48PM THE MAIN CONCERN THAT AROSE THROUGH THAT DIALOGUE WITH THE
5:20:52PM NEIGHBORS WAS THE CONCERN THAT WE WERE GOING TO BUILD AN
5:20:54PM APARTMENT COMPLEX OR A LARGE CONDOMINIUM, AND REALLY TO
5:20:59PM UNDERSTAND WHERE THE CONCERNS ARE.
5:21:01PM AND I WANTED TO POINT TO THIS EXAMPLE.
5:21:05PM THIS IS ON HUBERT AND MAIN, SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL HOME
5:21:09PM WITH A LARGE FIVE-STORY PARKING GARAGE THAT FACES THE
5:21:13PM NEIGHBORHOOD.
5:21:14PM AND I COULD TOTALLY UNDERSTAND WHY THESE FOLKS WOULD BE
5:21:17PM CONCERNED ABOUT RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT THAT COULD IMPACT
5:21:20PM THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD IN THIS WAY.
5:21:22PM HOWEVER, I REITERATED TO THEM AND IT IMPORTANT FOR YOU ALL
5:21:30PM THAT OUR PROJECT, THROUGH THE ENGAGEMENT OF THE
5:21:34PM NEIGHBORHOOD, WE ALTERED OUR PROJECT TO RESEMBLE A
5:21:38PM SINGLE-FAMILY HOME, AGAIN POINTING BACK THE R-10 TO R-20
5:21:43PM DESIGNATIONS DID NOT CHANGE THE HEIGHT.
5:21:45PM OUR PLAN IS TO BUILD A TRADITIONAL TWO-STORY HEIGHT HOME,
5:21:50PM NOT THIS TYPE OF GAUDY MONSTROSITY THAT IS FACING THESE
5:21:55PM FOLKS IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD.
5:21:56PM SO I MADE SURE THAT WE ARE CLEAR ON THAT.
5:22:08PM I ALSO WANT TO MAKE NOTE THAT WE ARE REPLACING -- I WANT TO
5:22:12PM GO BACK HERE AND FINISH OUT MY PRESENTATION.
5:22:18PM THAT WE ARE REPLACING ONE SINGLE-FAMILY HOME ON A
5:22:22PM TREMENDOUSLY LARGE LOT WITH A NUMBER OF HOMES.
5:22:25PM WE ARE NOT DESTROYING OR ACKNOWLEDGING ANY AFFORDABLE
5:22:30PM HOUSING IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD.
5:22:31PM WE ARE CREATING HOUSING WITHIN A MAJORITY, EMPTY VACANT LOT
5:22:37PM PROPERTY.
5:22:39PM ALSO, TONIGHT'S REQUEST FOR A CHANGE IN FUTURE LAND USE IS
5:22:43PM THE FIRST STEP TO A PD REZONING, WHICH WE WILL COMMIT THAT
5:22:48PM YOU WILL BE ABLE TO CONTROL OUR DEVELOPMENT TO THE BEST
5:22:51PM INTEREST OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD THROUGH THAT PD DEVELOPMENT
5:22:55PM PROCESS WHICH CONTROLS THE SETBACKS, THE NUMBER OF UNITS,
5:23:03PM LANDSCAPING AND OTHER SPECIFICS OF THIS PROJECT.
5:23:05PM I WANT TO REITERATE THIS PROJECT PROMOTES HOME OWNERSHIP AND
5:23:08PM SUPPORT THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING IN THE
5:23:12PM WESTSHORE BUSINESS DISTRICT.
5:23:13PM I WANT TO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND FOR YOUR
5:23:16PM CONSIDERATION.
5:23:16PM >> I WOULD LIKE TO GO BACK TO THE QUESTION BY MR. SUAREZ,
5:23:34PM HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN? IF YOU LOOK AT THE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH,
5:23:37PM YOU WILL SEE NASSAU AND ORANGE.
5:23:41PM I AM GOING NORTH ON MANHATTAN.
5:23:42PM BACK TO BACK HOMES.
5:23:46PM BACK TO BACK HOMES.
5:23:49PM LAUREL AND GREEN, BACK TO BACK HOMES.
5:23:52PM THIS IS IN THE FOREST HEIGHTS PLAT.
5:23:54PM THEN FOR SOME REASON WHEN YOU GET TO GREEN, TO THE NEXT
5:23:59PM STREET, WHICH I BELIEVE IS MAIN, THERE'S THIS EXTRA LANE.
5:24:05PM THEY ARE NOT BACK TO BACK HOMES.
5:24:07PM THEY HAVE ONE ACRE OF PROPERTY.
5:24:11PM THIS IS THE SUBJECT SITE.
5:24:12PM AND IT'S JUST THERE.
5:24:14PM IT'S A LEFTOVER IN-FILL PIECE, VERY DEEP, TWO LANDLOCKED
5:24:20PM FOLIO NUMBERS GENERAL RATING MINIMUM TAX REVENUE.
5:24:24PM WHAT DO YOU DO WITH IT?
5:24:26PM YOU DO AN IN-FILL PROJECT THAT OUR CLIENTS ARE PROPOSING.
5:24:31PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION VOTED THAT OFFICE WAS INCONSISTENT
5:24:37PM WITH THE LAND USE PLAN.
5:24:38PM HOWEVER, PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF FOUND THAT IT WAS
5:24:40PM CONSISTENT.
5:24:47PM IT'S NOT A REZONING.
5:24:48PM YOU ARE GOING TO MAKE POLICY.
5:24:49PM IS IT BETTER POLICY LAND USE POLICY TO CHANGE THE PLAN
5:24:54PM CATEGORY TO CREATE AN INFILL PROJECT TO PUT THIS LAND TO
5:24:59PM WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD?
5:25:03PM AND I SUBMIT THAT YOUR POLICY DECISION SHOULD BE YES, FIND
5:25:07PM THIS CONSISTENT AND APPROVE THE FUTURE LAND USE PLAN
5:25:10PM AMENDMENT.
5:25:10PM NOW, MY REASON FOR THAT IS SEVERAL FOLD.
5:25:13PM IT COULD GO TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION FOR, THE PLANNING
5:25:19PM COMMISSION HAS OBJECTIVES NOTING THAT THE CITY HAS COMPLIED
5:25:21PM WITH FIVE UNIQUE DISTRICTS.
5:25:23PM ONE OF THEM WESTSHORE.
5:25:25PM THE POLICY IS THAT THE WESTSHORE DISTRICT IS THE STATE'S
5:25:28PM LARGEST COMMUNITY OF OFFICES, REGIONAL -- STRATEGIC
5:25:33PM LOCATIONS FOR MAJOR SPORTING VENUE AND TAMPA INTERNATIONAL
5:25:36PM AIRPORT SUPPORTED BY AND SURROUNDED BY DIVERSE AND VIBRANT
5:25:40PM NEIGHBORHOOD.
5:25:41PM IN THE WESTSHORE AREA.
5:25:43PM THE POLICY PROMOTES A RANGE OF USES IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO
5:25:48PM EACH OTHER.
5:25:49PM INCLUDED BUT NOT LIMITED TO MIXED DENSITY HOUSING WITH A
5:25:52PM VARIETY OF HOUSING OPTIONS.
5:25:55PM TRADITIONALLY THIS NEIGHBORHOOD HAS BEEN A SINGLE-FAMILY
5:25:58PM RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD DISTRICT BUT OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS
5:26:00PM AS YOU CAN TELL, THE WESTSHORE DISTRICT HAS INCREASED, AND
5:26:05PM THERE'S A BIG MOVEMENT TOWARDS WORKING AND LIVING IN YOUR
5:26:09PM NEIGHBORHOOD.
5:26:09PM IT IS VERY POSSIBLE THAT THE FOLKS WHO WOULD LIVE IN THIS
5:26:12PM NEIGHBORHOOD WITH NEW TOWNHOMES WOULD WALK TO WORK, OR WALK
5:26:16PM TO SCHOOL.
5:26:17PM JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL ACROSS THE STREET.
5:26:20PM ROLAND PARK ELEMENTARY IS ACROSS THE STREET.
5:26:23PM THE LAND USE PLAN CONTINUES TO SAY THERE SHOULD BE A POLICY
5:26:28PM OBJECTIVE OF PROVIDING OPPORTUNITY FOR IN-FILL DEVELOPMENT
5:26:31PM IN AREAS ALREADY CHARACTERIZED BY LOW TO LOW-MEDIUM DENSITY,
5:26:36PM MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT, AND CREATE TRANSITION IN
5:26:40PM DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN SINGLE-FAMILY ZONES AND INTENSIVE
5:26:46PM MULTIFAMILY OR COMMERCIAL AREAS.
5:26:48PM THAT'S WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU HAVE A PIECE OF PROPERTY THAT
5:26:57PM SEEMS LEFT OVER FROM WHEN IT WAS ORIGINALLY PLATTED IN THE
5:27:00PM 1950s.
5:27:01PM THE REPORT CONCLUDES AND FINDS THAT WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO
5:27:03PM DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY FOR PROVIDING ADDITIONAL
5:27:07PM WORKFORCE HOUSING SO THAT MODERATE AND MIDDLE INCOME WORKERS
5:27:12PM IN TAMPA CAN PROMOTE THE LOCATION OF WORKFORCE HOUSING
5:27:17PM AND/OR MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.
5:27:33PM OBJECT PAGE 7 PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS TO
5:27:35PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION THAT THE REQUEST TO INCREASE THE
5:27:37PM FUTURE LAND USE CATEGORY FROM R 10 TO R 20 IS CONSISTENT
5:27:40PM WITH THE NUMBER OF OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES OH PROMOTING
5:27:44PM HOUSING CHOICES WITHIN CLOSE PROXIMITY, TO THE USES IN
5:27:49PM TRANSIT CORRIDOR.
5:27:50PM THE REPORT INCLUDES AND FINDS THAT CURRENTLY THE ONE-ACRE
5:27:55PM SUBJECT SITE PROVIDES ONE RESIDENTIAL UNIT.
5:27:59PM DOES THAT MAKE ABSENCE IS THAT GOOD POLICY?
5:28:01PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF FINDS, NO, THIS SITE IS
5:28:06PM CLEARLY UNDERUTILIZED.
5:28:08PM THAT'S THE QUOTATION.
5:28:09PM UNDERUTILIZED.
5:28:11PM PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF AND THE CITY HAS A DUTY TO UTILIZE
5:28:15PM LAND TO POTENTIAL TO BE OF SERVICE TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, TO
5:28:23PM MAXIMIZE THE USE OF INFRASTRUCTURE, SCHOOL, AND IF
5:28:29PM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PROMOTES RESIDENTIAL IN-FILL ESPECIALLY
5:28:32PM FOR PROXIMITY TO EMPLOYMENT AND TRANSIT SERVICE.
5:28:35PM THE WESTSHORE BUSINESS DISTRICT.
5:28:37PM THE REQUEST FOR THE R-20 WOULD PROVIDE A MORE APPROPRIATE
5:28:42PM DEVELOPMENT PATTERN FOR THIS PORTION OF THE WESTSHORE
5:28:45PM BUSINESS DISTRICT.
5:28:47PM APPROPRIATE DEVELOPMENT PATTERN.
5:28:48PM THAT IS THE CONCLUSION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF.
5:28:51PM LET'S GO BACK TO THE AERIAL AND THE QUESTION I ANSWERED AT
5:28:54PM THE BEGINNING.
5:28:55PM APPROPRIATE DEVELOPMENT PATTERN.
5:28:56PM YOU HAVE BACK TO BACK, BACK TO BACK, BACK TO BACK, BACK TO
5:28:59PM BACK, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THIS GAP OF ONE ACRE PROPERTY.
5:29:04PM SHOULDN'T BE THERE BETTER POLICY TO FILL THAT GAP WITH
5:29:07PM HOUSING THAT PROVIDES AN OWNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS
5:29:15PM OF THE?
5:29:26PM [ NO ENCODER ]
5:29:34PM >> I HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT OF THIS COMMUNITY SINCE THE EARLY
5:29:55PM 1950s.
5:29:57PM MOVING INTO OUR CURRENT HOME IN 1978.
5:30:01PM WHEN I MOVED INTO THE AREA, I DID SO BECAUSE I CONSIDERED IT
5:30:06PM TO BE OOH SUITABLE COMMUNITY FOR ME TO COMFORTABLY LIVE OUT
5:30:12PM MY LIFE.
5:30:14PM OVER THE YEARS I HAVE SEEN THE AREA SURROUNDING OUR
5:30:16PM COMMUNITY CHANGE, AND I UNDERSTAND AND APPRECIATE CHANGE.
5:30:24PM WHAT'S LEFT OF THE ORIGINAL COMMUNITY IS SURROUNDED BY THE
5:30:27PM CHANGES THAT THIS GENTLEMAN SPOKE OF BEFORE, BUT WE ARE NOT
5:30:31PM WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.
5:30:34PM I'M HERE TODAY TO ASK THAT YOU CONTINUE TO RESTRICT
5:30:38PM MULTIFAMILY AND OTHER HOUSING STRUCTURES SUCH AS TOWNHOUSES
5:30:42PM AND THE LIKE IN THE SURROUNDING AREA.
5:30:46PM PLEASE DO NOT PERMIT THEM TO BUILD THESE HOMES IN THE MIDDLE
5:30:49PM OF OUR SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES.
5:30:53PM IN REVIEWING THE MATERIALS, IT APPEARS TO ME THAT THEIR
5:30:59PM OBJECTIVE IS TO MAKE THE BIGGEST FINANCIAL GAIN WITHOUT
5:31:02PM RESPECT FOR THE CURRENT RESIDENTS.
5:31:05PM THEY POINTED OUT THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE TO BUILD 10 TO 12
5:31:09PM HOMES ON THIS PROPERTY THAT WERE LIKE IN THE CURRENT ZONING.
5:31:15PM HOWEVER, THEY HAVE CHOSEN TO BUILD 20 UNITS THERE.
5:31:22PM AND THEY ALSO POINTED OUT THAT IF THEY BUILD THESE TEN
5:31:25PM HOUSES IN THE UNIT THEY WOULD SELL UPWARDS OF $300 THAT YOU
5:31:30PM EACH.
5:31:32PM HOWEVER, THEY HAVE OPTED TO PUT 20 IN THERE, WHICH WOULD
5:31:36PM INCREASE PERHAPS THEIR FINANCIAL GAIN.
5:31:42PM AND DISTURB MY TRANQUILITY BECAUSE MY PROPERTY IS NEAR THIS
5:31:49PM PROPERTY.
5:31:50PM TO PUT THOSE HOMES IN THERE IMPACTS MY LIFESTYLE.
5:31:53PM I BUILT THERE WHEN I DID BECAUSE I DID NOT APPRECIATE LIVING
5:31:59PM IN A COMMUNITY THAT WAS IMPACTED WITH SO MANY PEOPLE.
5:32:03PM I ASK YOU TO PLEASE NOT PERMIT THIS TO HAPPEN.
5:32:07PM THANK YOU.
5:32:09PM I CAN ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, MR. SUAREZ, IF YOU LIKE.
5:32:14PM >> THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
5:32:17PM GO AHEAD.
5:32:17PM (BELL SOUNDS).
5:32:20PM >> I GREW UP IN TAMPA AND I REMEMBER WHEN THE AREA WAS BEING
5:32:22PM CONSTRUCTED.
5:32:26PM WHAT HAPPENED WAS ONE GENTLEMAN WHO WAS A FRIEND OF MY
5:32:29PM FATHER BOUGHT A LARGE PLOT OF LAND THERE.
5:32:34PM WHEN HE REQUESTED TO BUILD A STREET THROUGH THERE, HE WAS
5:32:37PM NOT PERMITTED TO DO SO.
5:32:39PM THEREFORE, THAT PROPERTY GOT LOST.
5:32:43PM >>MIKE SUAREZ: THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE, MRS. McNAIR,
5:32:47PM BECAUSE IF YOU SEE THE OTHER BLOCK WHERE LORETTA INGRAHAM IS
5:32:50PM AT IS EXACTLY THE SAME SIZE AS THE PREVIOUS BLOCK TO TOO SO
5:32:54PM HE PROBABLY HAD BOTH OF THOSE BLOCKS.
5:32:55PM >> HE DID.
5:32:56PM EVEN THE PROPERTY I OWN, HE OWNED.
5:32:59PM >>MIKE SUAREZ: THANK YOU FOR TELLING US THAT.
5:33:01PM >>FRANK REDDICK: MRS. McNAIR, BEFORE YOU LEAVE, THE CIVIC
5:33:06PM ASSOCIATION HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THIS, CORRECT?
5:33:09PM >> YES.
5:33:10PM WE HAD A PETITION THAT I FORGOT TO MENTION OF OBJECTION.
5:33:13PM >>FRANK REDDICK: HAND IT TO US.
5:33:15PM WHAT WAS THE DECISION OF THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION?
5:33:20PM >> [OFF MICROPHONE] AND WE INDICATED THROUGH THAT WE WOULD
5:33:27PM PREFER THAT THE LAND REMAIN ZONED, AND THAT MULTIFAMILY
5:33:33PM DWELLING NOT BE CONSTRUCTED.
5:33:34PM >>FRANK REDDICK: THANK YOU.
5:33:36PM ANYONE ELSE WISH TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER 1?
5:33:39PM THIS IS YOUR TIME.
5:33:40PM >> MY NAME IS --
5:33:51PM >> STAND AT THE CENTER OF THAT PODIUM.
5:33:53PM >> MY NAME IS FRED BOUTON.
5:33:57PM I LIVED IN CARVER CITY ABOUT SIX YEARS NOW.
5:34:00PM I MOVED THERE IN 2012.
5:34:03PM REAL ESTATE HAS RENOVATED ABOUT 30 PROPERTIES IN THAT
5:34:07PM NEIGHBORHOOD.
5:34:07PM MY COMPANY HAS DONE ABOUT 20 OF THOSE.
5:34:10PM I MOVED TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE I LOVE THE LOCATION.
5:34:13PM I LOVE THE SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES.
5:34:14PM I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT.
5:34:16PM AND IT WAS VERY CLOSE AND CONVENIENT FOR A JOB.
5:34:19PM REAL ESTATE CAME IN AND THEY DID A LOT OF POSITIVE AND GOOD
5:34:22PM THINGS FOR THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.
5:34:23PM SIX YEARS AGO, IT WAS HORRIBLE.
5:34:27PM THERE WAS LIKE JUNK EVERYWHERE. THE HOUSES WERE IN HORRIBLE
5:34:30PM DISREPAIR.
5:34:31PM EVERY HOUSE THAT THEY WENT INTO, THEY FIXED UP.
5:34:34PM THERE WAS AN ARTICLE SAYING THAT THEY DID BASICALLY URBAN
5:34:38PM RENAISSANCE IN THAT AREA.
5:34:40PM RENAISSANCE THAT INCITES CHANGE.
5:34:43PM CHANGE IS SCARY TO A LOT OF PEOPLE. THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY.
5:34:46PM THEY ARE NOT PUTTING UP AN APARTMENT COMPLEX.
5:34:48PM THEY ARE PUTTING IN SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES.
5:34:50PM BE THEY AREN'T GOING TO BE PEOPLE RENTING.
5:34:52PM THESE ARE GOING TO BE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE.
5:34:54PM POEM THAT LIVE AND BUY A HOUSE, THEY TAKE CARE OF IT.
5:34:56PM I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING -- I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE
5:34:59PM AFRAID OF WHAT POTENTIAL COULD HAPPEN BECAUSE OF WHAT'S
5:35:02PM GOING ON AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
5:35:06PM AND PUT SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSES INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS AN
5:35:09PM OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE THERE PERMANENTLY TO BUY A HOUSE FOR
5:35:12PM MYSELF.
5:35:14PM AFTER I MOVED THERE, MY BROTHER MOVED TO CARVER CITY.
5:35:17PM AND THEN PROBABLY TWO OR THREE OF MY EMPLOYEES ALSO MOVED TO
5:35:20PM CARVER CITY.
5:35:20PM WE LOVE THE AREA.
5:35:21PM WE TAKE A LOT OF PRIDE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
5:35:24PM AND I FULLY SUPPORT WHAT THEY PLAN TO DO.
5:35:30PM >>FRANK REDDICK: LET ME ASK YOU, DO YOU KNOW THE HISTORY IN
5:35:33PM THE NEIGHBORHOOD?
5:35:33PM >> I DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD BUT I
5:35:35PM KNOW A LOT OF THE NEIGHBORS AND I HAVE LIVED THERE LONG
5:35:38PM ENOUGH --
5:35:38PM >>FRANK REDDICK: DO YOU KNOW THE MAKEUP OF THAT
5:35:40PM NEIGHBORHOOD?
5:35:41PM >> NO, I DON'T KNOW THE STORY OF MAKEUP OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
5:35:44PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ALL RIGHT.
5:35:45PM WHAT YOU JUST GOT THROUGH SAYING CHANGE THE HISTORIC MAKEUP
5:35:49PM OF THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.
5:35:49PM OKAY?
5:35:50PM >> OKAY.
5:35:50PM >>FRANK REDDICK: AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM.
5:35:52PM >> OKAY.
5:35:54PM >>FRANK REDDICK: THINK ABOUT IT.
5:35:56PM THANK YOU.
5:35:58PM NEXT PERSON.
5:36:00PM THAT WISHES TO SPEAK.
5:36:02PM ALL RIGHT.
5:36:05PM MR. GRANDOFF.
5:36:06PM >>JOHN GRANDOFF: ONE MOMENT.
5:36:21PM MRS. McNAIR WANTS TO COMFORTABLY LIVE OUT HER LIFE.
5:36:36PM WE CERTAINLY SHARE THAT CONCERN AND WILL HONOR THAT CONCERN.
5:36:39PM THIS WILL BE HOME OWNERSHIP.
5:36:42PM FOR TONE HOMES IN HER NEIGHBORHOOD.
5:36:46PM WITH CONTROL THROUGH A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT REZONING THAT WE
5:36:49PM WOULD BRING TO YOU LATER THIS YEAR, PROBABLY IN THE NEXT
5:36:52PM YEAR.
5:36:54PM THE 20 UNITS IS A CEILING.
5:36:57PM THAT IS NOT A RIGHT
5:37:00PM THE FINAL DENSITY OF THE PROJECT WILL BE SOMEWHERE UNDER 20
5:37:03PM UNITS BECAUSE THAT WILL ALLOW FOR DRIVEWAYS, SETBACKS,
5:37:06PM LANDSCAPING, STORMWATER, THE USUAL THINGS THAT GO WITH A
5:37:09PM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
5:37:17PM THE CITY STAFF REPORT THAT MRS. LACHONE DOCK PREPARED, IT'S
5:37:35PM SIMPLY A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.
5:37:36PM SHE CONCLUDES IT IS NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE
5:37:41PM NEIGHBORHOOD AND NOT CONSISTENT WITH THE DEVELOPMENT PATTERN
5:37:44PM IN THE SURROUNDING AREA. THIS BECOMES REALLY A QUESTION OF
5:37:46PM GEOGRAPHY.
5:37:47PM AND I THINK WHAT TIPS THE SCALE IN THIS PLACE IS THE
5:37:50PM WESTSHORE BUSINESS DISTRICT.
5:37:52PM AND THE OBLIGATION OF CITY PLANNERS AND ELECTED OFFICIALS
5:37:56PM SUCH AS YOU TO LOOK AFTER THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY AS A
5:38:00PM WHOLE AND NOT A MICROCOSM OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
5:38:05PM THIS PROJECT WILL ASSIST IN PROVIDING GOOD MARKET-BASED
5:38:11PM HOUSING IN THIS BUSINESS DISTRICT.
5:38:15PM THE EXISTING CLASSIFICATION OF THE R-10 IS NO LONGER IN THE
5:38:18PM BEST INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC.
5:38:22PM YOU MUST EVALUATE THE TREND AND THE DIRECTION OF THE
5:38:24PM NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE IMMEDIATE AREA IN YOUR DELIBERATIONS
5:38:28PM THIS EVENING.
5:38:29PM AND WEIGH WHETHER A CHANGE OF THE LAND USE POLICY TO R-20 IS
5:38:34PM CONSISTENT WHEN APPROPRIATE.
5:38:36PM BASED UPON THE INFORMATION THAT'S PROVIDED BY THE PLANNING
5:38:38PM COMMISSION STAFF.
5:38:41PM I SUBMIT TO YOU THAT THE CHANGE IS JUSTIFIED.
5:38:44PM AND I RESPECTFULLY REQUEST YOUR APPROVAL THIS EVENING.
5:38:47PM MICHAEL MESBERG ARRIVED A MOMENT AGO.
5:38:53PM HE'S MY CLIENT ALSO.
5:38:55PM HE ARRIVED A LITTLE LATE BECAUSE OF TRAFFIC.
5:38:57PM BUT HE'S ALSO HERE THIS EVENING TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT
5:39:01PM YOU MAY HAVE.
5:39:02PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
5:39:02PM >>FRANK REDDICK: LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION.
5:39:10PM NOT YOU.
5:39:18PM THE PETITION THAT YOU SUBMITTED -- AND I KNOW THE ANSWER.
5:39:23PM I JUST WANT IT PUT ON THE RECORD.
5:39:28PM THE PERCENTAGE OF THE PEOPLE WHO SIGNED THOSE PETITIONS, ARE
5:39:34PM THEY NEW RESIDENTS?
5:39:35PM ARE THEY EXISTING RESIDENTS?
5:39:37PM WHAT IS THE PERCENTAGE?
5:39:38PM >> LIKE I MENTIONED THERE'S A COMMENDATION OF ALL RESIDENT
5:39:41PM WHETHER THEY BE HOMEOWNERS OR RENTERS.
5:39:44PM AND I SAY THAT THE MAJORITY WERE FROM NEWER RESIDENTS.
5:39:48PM BUT THERE WAS A CONSTITUENT BASE, MAYBE 25% IF I WERE TO
5:39:53PM GUESS, THAT REPRESENTED FOLKS THAT HAVE BEEN THERE FOR 50,
5:39:57PM 40, 60 YEARS, A LONG PERIOD OF TIME, BUT LIKE I SAID TO YOU,
5:40:01PM THAT THERE IS THE MAJORITY ARE NEWER RESIDENTS.
5:40:05PM >>FRANK REDDICK: THANK YOU.
5:40:06PM >> YOU'RE WELCOME.
5:40:07PM >>FRANK REDDICK: MR. MANISCALCO.
5:40:09PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIRMAN.
5:40:11PM I REMEMBER THIS FROM SOME TIME BACK, AND I REMEMBER BEING
5:40:15PM DENIED AT THE CONTINUANCE OR REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCE.
5:40:19PM JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE A PIECE OF LAND DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE
5:40:21PM TO DEVELOP IT.
5:40:22PM AND THIS NEIGHBORHOOD LINCOLN GARDENS CARVER CITY IS A
5:40:26PM HISTORIC AFRICAN NEIGHBORHOOD GOING BACK TO THE KOREAN WAR,
5:40:30PM AND THE 20th CENTURY IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF
5:40:33PM UNDERSTANDING HOW NEIGHBORHOODS CHANGE, HOW URBAN RENEWAL
5:40:38PM TOOK PLACE, AND HOW COMMUNITIES WERE ESSENTIALLY WIPED OUT.
5:40:40PM AND I MENTIONED THIS, BUT THERE WAS A HISTORIC AFRICAN
5:40:47PM BUSINESS DISTRICT, CENTRAL AVENUE.
5:40:48PM IF YOU GO TO CENTRAL AVENUE NOW THERE MAY BE TWO OR THREE
5:40:50PM BUILDINGS OF WHAT USED TO BE THERE.
5:40:52PM EVERYTHING ELSE IS DEMOLISHED AND WIPED OUT.
5:40:55PM NOT BECAUSE THE INTERSTATE CAME THROUGH BUT FOR SEVERAL
5:40:57PM DIFFERENT REASONS.
5:40:58PM THIS NEIGHBORHOOD IS SPECIAL BECAUSE IT'S ONE OF THE
5:41:00PM REMAINING NEW ESPECIALLY IN WEST TAMPA THAT IS NOT JUST THE
5:41:04PM HISTORY OF IT BUT IT IS NO PLACE THAT IS POPULAR.
5:41:11PM AND I USE THE WORD POPULAR.
5:41:13PM BUT IF YOU LOOK TO THE NORTH OF THIS, SO MANY NEW APARTMENT
5:41:16PM COMPLEXES THAT HAVE BEEN BUILT, YOU SEE THE DEVELOPMENT
5:41:18PM ALONG BOY SCOUT.
5:41:19PM YOU SEE OFF SPRUCE AND DALE MABRY.
5:41:27PM [ NO ENCODER ]
5:42:36PM ONCE YOU TAKE THESE LITTLE POCKETS THAT ARE LEFT AND YOU
5:42:39PM START CHANGING IT, OVER TIME, YOU ARE GOING TO SEE A
5:42:42PM COMPLETE DIFFERENT MAKEUP IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.
5:42:44PM SO I WON'T BE SUPPORTING THIS.
5:42:47PM I REMEMBER VOTING AGAINST EVEN THE CONTINUANCE LAST TIME.
5:42:49PM SO MY POSITION STAYS THE SAME.
5:42:51PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ALL RIGHT.
5:42:52PM ANYONE ELSE?
5:42:53PM >>MIKE SUAREZ: YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE PRESENTATION, WHEN WE
5:42:59PM MET PRIVATELY WITH THE GROUP, AND I MADE COMMENTS THAT IT IS
5:43:05PM A VERY DIFFICULT THING TO CHANGE IT ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HAVE
5:43:07PM A PLANNING COMMISSION WHO VOTED AGAINST THIS PARTICULAR
5:43:10PM PROJECT.
5:43:10PM WE HAVE OUR OWN STAFF THAT SAID THAT IT IS INCONSISTENT WITH
5:43:13PM OUR CITY CODE.
5:43:15PM IN ADDITION, IT'S A VERY STRANGE LOT.
5:43:17PM I MEAN, THOSE AREAS ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
5:43:20PM OBVIOUSLY, THE CITY MUST HAVE ACQUIRED THE PORTION WHERE THE
5:43:29PM LORETTA INGRAM POOL IS AT, AND SOME POINT MAYBE SOMEBODY
5:43:33PM WANTS TO DO SOMETHING FOR A PUBLIC PURPOSE, BECAUSE THERE'S
5:43:36PM NO WAY TO DEVELOP IT IN A WAY THAT MOST PEOPLE WANT.
5:43:41PM AND I THINK THAT CHANGE IT NOW DOESN'T MAKE A WHOLE LOT OF
5:43:44PM SENSE BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF THE REST OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
5:43:47PM I THINK STAFF HAS DONE A GREAT JOB OF MAKING THAT
5:43:49PM PRESENTATION.
5:43:50PM AND SHOWING US THAT WHAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION HAD DECIDED
5:43:54PM IS PROBABLY THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION.
5:43:57PM SO I APPRECIATE THE TIME, CHAIR.
5:43:59PM >>FRANK REDDICK: MRS. CAPIN.
5:44:01PM >>YVONNE CAPIN: YOU KNOW WE APPROVED THEM.
5:44:06PM NOT ALL OF THEM BUT QUITE A FEW THAT ARE SURROUNDING.
5:44:10PM AND SO WHAT I'M LOOKING AT IS CHANGE IS CONSISTENT
5:44:17PM F.ANYTHING THAT'S FOR SURE, IT'S CHANGE.
5:44:20PM I'M LOOKING -- I CANNOT SEE THE DETRIMENT.
5:44:26PM I CANNOT SEE IT.
5:44:27PM IF ANYTHING, I THINK IT ADDS VALUE TO THIS AREA.
5:44:33PM AND THAT IT MEETS THE -- THAT IT STAY AFRICAN AMERICAN IS
5:44:41PM RIDES. THAT IS A RIDICULOUS STATEMENT.
5:44:42PM YOU MAY SAVE THE HISTORY BUT IT DOES NOT NEED TO STAY
5:44:45PM AFRICAN AMERICAN.
5:44:48PM THAT'S LIKE SAYING A NEIGHBORHOOD NEEDS TO STAY WHITE.
5:44:50PM THAT'S MY STATEMENT FOR NOW.
5:44:51PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ANYONE ELSE?
5:44:54PM >>HARRY COHEN: I HAVE A LITTLE DIFFERENT TAKE ON IT THAN
5:45:00PM EVERYONE.
5:45:00PM I THINK BECAUSE IT OPENS UP ONTO MANHATTAN AND IT DOES NOT
5:45:04PM TAKE AWAY FROM THE HOUSING STOCK, I THINK THAT THE CONCERNS
5:45:09PM ABOUT DESTROYING THE CHARACTER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD ARE
5:45:13PM AMELIORATED BY THAT.
5:45:15PM I ALSO THINK BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO COME BACK TO US FOR A PD
5:45:18PM THAT WE COULD REALLY CONTROL WHEN IT CALL ACTUALLY CAME TO
5:45:23PM US FOR THE ZONING HOW THE SITE PLAN WOULD BE SET UP AND WHAT
5:45:25PM THE ACTUAL DENSITY WOULD END UP BEING IN THERE.
5:45:29PM I THINK BECAUSE YOU HAVE TWO LANDLOCKED LOTS THAT CAN ONLY
5:45:33PM GET OUT FROM MANHATTAN, THIS IS ABOUT THE ONLY WAY THAT THIS
5:45:36PM PROPERTY CAN BE DEVELOPED, IS IF THERE IS SOME OPPORTUNITY
5:45:40PM FOR SOME TYPE OF MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT IN THERE.
5:45:44PM AND AGAIN, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE 20 UNITS.
5:45:49PM COULD BE LESS WHEN IT COMES BACK FOR A REZONING.
5:45:52PM SO FOR THAT REASON, ALSO BECAUSE OF WHAT'S AROUND IT, I TEND
5:45:57PM TO AGREE THAT I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE A DETRIMENT TO THE
5:46:00PM NEIGHBORHOOD AT ALL.
5:46:07PM I THINK IT WOULD GIVE SOME ADDITIONAL SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSING
5:46:10PM WHICH IS WHAT IT SOUND LIKE PEOPLE WANT.
5:46:12PM >> ANYONE ELSE?
5:46:15PM >>REBECCA KERT: BEFORE YOU TAKE A VOTE, I WANT TO REMIND
5:46:18PM CITY COUNCIL THAT WHETHER YOU VOTE THIS PETITION UP OR DOWN
5:46:21PM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN STATES THAT YOU MUST EVALUATE THE
5:46:24PM PLAN AS PRESENTED TO YOU IN LINE WITH THE EXISTING POSES IN
5:46:30PM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN WHICH I KNOW YOU WILL DO.
5:46:32PM THAT HAS BEEN PROVIDED TO YOU BY YOUR CITY COUNCIL -- AND
5:46:39PM THERE ARE POLICIES TO IDENTIFY.
5:46:42PM AND I WANT TO STATE THERE, WERE SOME STATEMENTS IN THE
5:46:44PM RECORD THAT THERE'S NOTHING ELSE THAT COULD BE DONE WITH
5:46:46PM THIS PROPERTY.
5:46:53PM THEY CAN DEVELOP SOME THINGS UNDERSTOOD THE ZONING.
5:46:56PM I JUST WANT TO MAKE THAT CLEAR FOR THE RECORD.
5:46:58PM >>FRANK REDDICK: I WANT YOU TO TAKE A RIDE OUT THERE AND
5:47:24PM TELL ME HOW MANY ... BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO BE
5:47:35PM LOOKING AT THOSE 250 THAT YOU HOMES DON'T LOOK LIKE THE
5:47:38PM PEOPLE OUT THERE NOW.
5:47:40PM LET ME GET A MOTION TO CLOSE.
5:47:42PM MOTION BY MR. MANISCALCO.
5:47:43PM SECOND BY MR. COHEN.
5:47:44PM ALL IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION? OPPOSED?
5:47:45PM ALL RIGHT. ANYBODY GOING TO READ IT?
5:47:51PM >> ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR FIRST READING
5:48:01PM CONSIDERATION, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE
5:48:02PM PLAN FUTURE LAND USE MAP FOR PROPERTY -- WAIT, I'M READING
5:48:08PM NUMBER 4.
5:48:09PM SORRY. HERE WE GO.
5:48:16PM AN ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR FIRST READING
5:48:19PM CONSIDERATION.
5:48:20PM AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, FUTURE
5:48:22PM LAND USE MAP, FOR THE PROPERTY GENERALLY LOCATED AT 1607
5:48:26PM NORTH MANHATTAN AVENUE, FROM RESIDENTIAL 10, R-10, TO
5:48:33PM RESIDENTIAL 20, R-20, PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES
5:48:37PM IN CONFLICT, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, PROVIDING AN
5:48:42PM EFFECTIVE DATE.
5:48:42PM >> SECOND.
5:48:46PM >>FRANK REDDICK: I HAVE A MOTION FROM MRS. CAPIN.
5:48:48PM SECONDED BY MR. COHEN.
5:48:49PM ALL IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION SAY AYE.
5:48:50PM OPPOSED?
5:48:51PM >> ROLL CALL VOTE.
5:49:04PM >>MIKE SUAREZ: NO.
5:49:05PM >>HARRY COHEN: YES.
5:49:06PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NO.
5:49:07PM >>FRANK REDDICK: NO.
5:49:09PM >>YVONNE CAPIN: YES.
5:49:10PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
5:49:18PM >>LUIS VIERA: NO.
5:49:19PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.
5:49:22PM >>THE CLERK: THE MOTION FAILED WITH SUAREZ, MANISCALCO,
5:49:29PM REDDICK AND VIERA VOTING NO.
5:49:31PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THANK YOU.
5:49:33PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ITEM NUMBER 2.
5:49:34PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: WE NEED --
5:49:40PM >>REBECCA KERT: I APOLOGIZE.
5:49:41PM YOU NEED AN AFFIRMATIVE MOTION TO DENY.
5:49:43PM >>FRANK REDDICK: RIGHT.
5:49:44PM MR. MANISCALCO.
5:49:45PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
5:49:48PM [OFF MICROPHONE] I MAKE A MOTION TO DENY PA 18-05 BASED ON
5:49:51PM THE FACT THAT THE CITY STAFF HAS FOUND IT INCONSISTENT WITH
5:49:57PM POLICY 9.5.4 WHICH SAYS INCREASED DENSITY, INTENSITY OUT OF
5:50:04PM CHARACTER WITH THE EXISTING SINGLE-FAMILY NEIGHBORHOOD AND
5:50:06PM INCONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, GOALS AND
5:50:09PM OBJECTIVES OF POLICIES LISTED ABOVE AS WELL AS POLICY NUMBER
5:50:13PM 9.73 WHICH FINDS THE REQUESTED R-20 LAND USE DESIGNATION
5:50:18PM WOULD ALLOW FOR MEDIUM DENSITY RESIDENTIAL PATTERN THAT IS
5:50:21PM INCONSISTENT WITH THE PLANNED DEVELOPMENT PATTERN IN THE
5:50:24PM IMMEDIATE AREA.
5:50:24PM >>MIKE SUAREZ: I'LL SECOND THAT, CHAIR, AND INCLUDE THAT
5:50:29PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION ALSO SAID THIS WAS AN INCONSISTENT
5:50:34PM LAND USE.
5:50:35PM >>FRANK REDDICK: GOT A MOTION FROM MR. MANISCALCO.
5:50:38PM SECONDED BY MR. SUAREZ.
5:50:39PM ALL IN FAVOR OF THAT MOTION?
5:50:42PM OPPOSED?
5:50:42PM >>YVONNE CAPIN: AYE.
5:50:46PM I OPPOSE.
5:50:49PM >>THE CLERK: MOTION -- ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE.
5:50:58PM >>MIKE SUAREZ: YES.
5:51:05PM >>HARRY COHEN: NO.
5:51:08PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
5:51:10PM >>FRANK REDDICK: YES.
5:51:12PM >>YVONNE CAPIN: NO.
5:51:14PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NO.
5:51:16PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
5:51:19PM CLERK.
5:51:22PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I'M SORRY.
5:51:22PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ALL RIGHT.
5:51:38PM ITEM NUMBER 2.
5:51:39PM >>JENNIFER MALONE: PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF.
5:51:47PM THIS IS ITEM ON LAND USE AMENDMENT 18-07.
5:51:55PM WE ARE IN THE CENTRAL TAMPA PLANNING DISTRICT, EAST TAMPA
5:51:59PM URBAN VILLAGE.
5:52:02PM IT IS A PRIVATELY INITIATED SMALL SCALE AMENDMENT, ABOUT A
5:52:06PM HALF ACRE AND THE REQUEST BEFORE YOU IS TO GO FROM
5:52:08PM RESIDENTIAL 10 TO THE COMMUNITY MIXED USE 35 FUTURE LAND USE
5:52:12PM CATEGORY.
5:52:14PM THIS IS AN AERIAL OF THE SUBJECT SITE.
5:52:17PM IT IS BY THAT STAR.
5:52:19PM WOOER ON NORTH 15th STREET.
5:52:21PM I HAVE EAST MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BOULEVARD.
5:52:32PM WE HAVE SOME COMMERCIAL USES KIND OF AT THESE CORRIDORS.
5:52:36PM THEN YOU HAVE SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED AS YOU MOVE EAST OF THE
5:52:40PM CORRIDOR.
5:52:41PM THIS IS A SANDWICH SHOP.
5:52:44PM WE ALSO HAVE A CHURCH SOUTH OF THE SUBJECT SITE.
5:52:49PM I HAVE SOME PICTURES OF THE SUBJECT SITE. THIS IS THE
5:52:51PM SUBJECT SITE RIGHT HERE.
5:52:54PM THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE CORNER OF NORTH 15th AND EAST
5:52:58PM 32ND AVENUE. THIS IS EAST 32ND HERE.
5:53:02PM I HAVE 15th.
5:53:04PM I HAVE THAT SANDWICH SHOP I MENTIONED EARLIER.
5:53:09PM THIS IS RESIDENTIAL HOMES ALONG EAST 15th KIND OF A
5:53:13PM CROSS THE STREET FROM THE SUBJECT SITE THAT HAD INTERFACED
5:53:16PM THE ROAD.
5:53:20PM AND THESE ARE SOME HOMES ALONG EAST 32ND.
5:53:25PM ACTUALLY THE CORNER OF EAST 15th AND EAST 32ND, SOME OF
5:53:29PM THOSE HOMES IF YOU WERE GOING ALONG EAST 32ND.
5:53:32PM AND THEN THIS IS ACTUALLY NORTH OF THE SUBJECT SITE.
5:53:36PM THIS PROPERTY KIND OF BACKS UP TO THE SUBJECT SITE.
5:53:39PM OPERATING OVER HERE AND WE HAVE A SINGLE-FAMILY HOME.
5:53:42PM THIS IS THE ADOPTED FUTURE LAND USE MAP, THE REQUEST BEFORE
5:53:46PM YOU TO ADOPT IT IS RESIDENTIAL 10.
5:53:49PM SO THE PICTURE I JUST SHOWED WAS THIS HOUSE RIGHT HERE.
5:53:55PM WE HAVE COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL 35 TO THE NORTH.
5:53:57PM THIS IS THE DOLLAR STORE.
5:53:59PM THIS COMMERCIAL INTENSIVE USES.
5:54:02PM TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE SUBJECT SITE.
5:54:04PM THE REQUEST BEFORE YOU IS TO GO TO THE COMMUNITY MIXED USE
5:54:07PM 35, WHICH IS THAT SAME COLOR, WHICH WOULD ALLOW COMMERCIAL
5:54:11PM GENERAL USES WITHIN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
5:54:18PM THIS WOULD INCREASE THE POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT FROM ABOUT
5:54:24PM 5 UNITS TO 17 UNITS.
5:54:25PM IT WOULD GREATLY INCREASE THE FLOOR AREA RATIO.
5:54:28PM CURRENTLY THE RESIDENTIAL 10 HAS A VERY LOW FLOOR AIR AREA
5:54:32PM RATIO AND IT CAN ONLY BE CONSIDERED IF THEY MEET THAT
5:54:34PM LOCATIONAL CRITERIA SO ABOUT 10,000 FEET, BUT IF APPROVED
5:54:39PM THE COMMUNITY MIXED USE 35 TO ALLOW UP TO 43 NEW SQUARE FEET
5:54:43PM FOR CONSIDERATION ON THE SUBJECT SITE.
5:54:44PM IT WOULD ALLOW COMMERCIAL GENERAL ZONING, A CHANGE WITH THAT
5:54:53PM CATEGORY.
5:54:54PM WE DID HAVE OBJECTIONS FROM THE TAMPA STAFF.
5:54:56PM LACHONE DOCK IS HERE.
5:55:00PM TO FURTHER PRESENT WHEN I CONCLUDE MY PRESENTATION.
5:55:05PM PLANNING COMMISSION DID FIND THIS INCONSISTENT WITH THE
5:55:07PM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
5:55:10PM THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST INTRODUCTION OF THAT COMMUNITY MIXED
5:55:13PM USE 35 ON THIS PORTION OF NORTH 15th STREET.
5:55:17PM IT DOES NOT ALLOW FOR TRANSITION BETWEEN COMMERCIAL AND
5:55:21PM RESIDENTIAL AREAS.
5:55:24PM THE PLAN AMENDMENT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO ALLOW USES ON THE
5:55:28PM SITE WHICH WOULD OPEN THE DOOR FOR A VARIETY OF USES OF
5:55:31PM OPERATING ON THAT SUBJECT SITE.
5:55:32PM IT IS AGAINST THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN POLICIES THAT PROMOTE
5:55:35PM THE PRO AFFECTION OF RESIDENTIAL AREAS AND PROVIDE
5:55:39PM TRANSITION BETWEEN COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL AREAS OF THE
5:55:42PM COMPROMISES WHY PLAN SEEKS TO ADDRESS.
5:55:44PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION ALSO FOUND THAT PREDOMINANTLY
5:55:52PM SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES TO THE NORTH AND EAST.
5:55:53PM THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION AND THE RECOMMENDATION FROM
5:55:56PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION IS AT THIS TIME INCONSISTENT WITH
5:55:59PM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
5:56:01PM I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
5:56:03PM LACHONE DOCK IS HERE FROM THE CITY FOR COMMENT.
5:56:06PM >>LACHONE DOCK: PLANNING AND URBAN DESIGN.
5:56:15PM WE HAD THE SAME FINDING.
5:56:16PM WE HAD OBJECTIONS TO THE REQUEST REGARDING THE ALLOWABLE
5:56:18PM DENSITY.
5:56:22PM I DID WANT TO NOTE ALSO ON THE RECORD THAT WE DO SEND THIS
5:56:26PM OUT FOR OTHER AGENCY REVIEW.
5:56:28PM AND BECAUSE OF THE LOCATION OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN ALONG
5:56:32PM 15th STREET, ON MLK, I DID SEND IT OUT FOR CRA REVIEW
5:56:37PM FOR THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY TO REVIEW, AND THEY
5:56:41PM DID PROVIDE COMMENT.
5:56:42PM THE EAST TAMPA CRA DID SAY THAT THEY DID APPROVE THE
5:56:47PM REQUEST, THEY DID TAKE A VOTE AND THEY ARE IN SUPPORT OF
5:56:49PM THIS REQUEST.
5:56:50PM THEY DO NOTE THE CLOSE PROXIMITY OF SIMILAR COMMERCIAL
5:56:55PM PARCELS, THE CMU-35 THAT EXISTS ALONG NORTH 15th
5:57:00PM CORRIDOR AND TO THE SOUTH OF THE PARCEL.
5:57:03PM IN ADDITION, THEY FEEL THAT THE REQUEST -- HOUSING CHOICES
5:57:08PM FOR MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT THAT IS CRITICAL TO THE
5:57:10PM STABILIZATION AND REVITALIZATION OF THE EAST TAMPA
5:57:13PM COMMUNITY.
5:57:13PM SO I WANTED TO READ THAT INTO THE RECORD.
5:57:15PM WE DID RECEIVE THOSE COMMENTS FROM THEM ALSO.
5:57:17PM AND THAT CONCLUDES STAFF'S PRESENTATION.
5:57:19PM I'M AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
5:57:21PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ANY QUESTIONS BY COUNCIL?
5:57:23PM >>YVONNE CAPIN: THAT PROPERTY, I LOOKED AT IT YESTERDAY.
5:57:27PM AND I KEPT THINKING ABOUT IT.
5:57:28PM AND I REMEMBER.
5:57:30PM WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL DURING THANKSGIVING, THEY HAD
5:57:34PM TURKEYS ON THAT PROPERTY RUNNING.
5:57:36PM AND MY DAD TOOK ME AND MY SISTER OVER THERE TO PICK OUT OUR
5:57:40PM TURKEY.
5:57:40PM AND I REMEMBER HANGING ON THE FENCE PICKING OUT THE TURKEY.
5:57:46PM IT WAS GOING TO GO TO OUR THANKSGIVING DINNER.
5:57:49PM I REMEMBER.
5:57:50PM I KEPT LOOKING AT IT AND I REALIZED THAT WAS THE PROPERTY.
5:57:58PM WE WERE RUNNING ALL OVER.
5:58:00PM MY DAD WOULD GO, THAT ONE.
5:58:02PM THAT ONE.
5:58:03PM IT WAS A LOT OF FUN.
5:58:04PM ALTHOUGH WE NEVER SAW THEM -- WE JUST TOOK IT HOME WRAPPED
5:58:08PM UP OR SOMETHING.
5:58:18PM IT WAS VERY FRESH.
5:58:19PM >>FRANK REDDICK: DID YOU RECEIVE ANY OBJECTION FROM THE
5:58:21PM RESIDENTS WITHIN THE AREA?
5:58:26PM >>JENNIFER MALONE: PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF.
5:58:28PM IF WE DID RECEIVE ANY OBJECTIONS, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN
5:58:31PM INCLUDED IN YOUR POCKET AND TRANSMITTED FOR THE RECORD.
5:58:33PM FOR THE RECORD I DID NOT RECEIVE ANYTHING TO THE PLANNING
5:58:35PM COMMISSION OFFICE.
5:58:36PM >>FRANK REDDICK: THANK YOU.
5:58:37PM APPLICANT?
5:58:38PM >> GOOD AFTERNOON.
5:58:52PM MY NAME IS WILBERT MATHIS.
5:58:54PM I'M THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY.
5:58:56PM GENERAL CONTRACTOR FOR THE PROPERTY IN QUESTION.
5:58:59PM MY ADDRESS IS 1465 TAMPA PALM, NATIVE OF TAMPA, WEST TAMPA.
5:59:08PM THANKS, CHARLIE.
5:59:09PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: [OFF MICROPHONE]
5:59:16PM >> REAL OLD-TIMERS.
5:59:19PM >>YVONNE CAPIN: I WAS JUST A VERY LITTLE GIRL.
5:59:25PM VERY YOUNG.
5:59:25PM >>FRANK REDDICK: GO AHEAD.
5:59:44PM >> I FIRST PURCHASED THE PROPERTY APPROXIMATELY TEN YEARS
5:59:47PM AGO.
5:59:48PM IT WAS A CAR WASH THEN.
5:59:52PM AND PRIOR TO IT 10 OR 15 YEARS AGO IT ALSO WAS A CAR WASH,
5:59:56PM BUT THE PROBLEM WE HAVE, WE ARE THE ONLY PIECE OF PROPERTY
5:59:59PM FROM LAKE AVENUE NORTH TO MARTIN LUTHER KING THAT IS ZONED
6:00:06PM RESIDENTIAL.
6:00:08PM AND WE HAVE BEEN WASHING CARS THERE, AND A PERSON STOPPED BY
6:00:18PM SAYING, THIS IS A NONCONFORMING USE.
6:00:20PM SO I SAID, WELL, WE HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR YEARS.
6:00:24PM I DON'T KNOW IF WE ARE GRANDFATHERED IN OR NOT.
6:00:26PM SO I CHECKED WITH THE CITY OF TAMPA.
6:00:28PM AND THIS BE IS A NONCOMPLYING USE REGARDLESS OF HOW LONG YOU
6:00:31PM HAVE BEEN USING IT.
6:00:33PM THEREFORE, I AM DOING THE PROPER THING.
6:00:37PM I WENT TO THE CITY COUNCIL.
6:00:39PM TOLD WHAT I NEED TO DO. WENT TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
6:00:41PM THEY TOLD ME WHAT TO DO.
6:00:43PM GAVE US VERY GOOD INFORMATION.
6:00:45PM AND I FOLLOWED THE INSTRUCTIONS.
6:00:46PM I ALSO FOLLOWED THE RECOMMENDED USE THAT THEY WOULD ACCEPT
6:00:51PM WHICH IS THE RS 35.
6:00:53PM CMU-35.
6:00:57PM BUT IF YOU GO DOWN 15th STREET AND START AT LAKE AVENUE
6:01:02PM SOUTH, ALL THE WAY TO MARTIN LUTHER KING, AND ON THE EAST
6:01:06PM SIDE OF THE STREET, IT'S TOTALLY COMMERCIAL.
6:01:09PM YOU HAVE THE CHURCH, GARAGE THERE, ET CETERA.
6:01:15PM SO I'M HOPING THAT YOU WOULD -- WE ARE CURRENTLY A BUSINESS
6:01:20PM THERE.
6:01:20PM THERE ARE SIX EMPLOYEES.
6:01:22PM I DON'T WANT TO PUT THEM OUT OF BUSINESS.
6:01:24PM WE DON'T WANT TO PUT PEOPLE OUT OF WORK.
6:01:26PM THEREFORE, I'M HOPING THAT YOU GRANT US THE CHANGE FROM R-10
6:01:33PM TO CMU-35.
6:01:36PM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
6:01:40PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL?
6:01:44PM THERE IS A BUSINESS THERE.
6:01:46PM I MEAN, ANYTIME YOU PASS THROUGH THERE, BOY, THERE'S A LOT
6:01:49PM OF CARS.
6:01:53PM >> RIGHT.
6:01:54PM >>CHAIRMAN: AND I AGREE, YOU KNOW, YOU.
6:01:57PM GOTTEN ANY COMPLAINTS.
6:01:58PM >> NO COMPLAINTS.
6:01:59PM >>FRANK REDDICK: YOU HAVEN'T RECEIVED NONE FROM COUNCIL.
6:02:02PM I HAVE NOT RECEIVED NONE IN MY OFFICE.
6:02:08PM YOU ARE NOT OPEN ALL NIGHT.
6:02:09PM >> NO.
6:02:11PM >>FRANK REDDICK: YOU ARE NOT HAVING ANY TYPE OF SOCIAL
6:02:13PM PARTIES AND ALL THAT, JUST CLEANING CARS AND ALL THAT.
6:02:17PM AND THE NEIGHBORS WHO LIVE ADJACENT TO IT, THEY ARE NOT
6:02:24PM COMPLAINING BECAUSE, I MEAN, WITH ALL THOSE CARS, I THINK
6:02:31PM THEY TOLD ME THEY HAD A CONTRACT WITH SOME AUTO DEALER,
6:02:34PM CLEANING UP CARS, DETAIL.
6:02:37PM SO I AGREE WITH YOU.
6:02:39PM I HATE TO SEE PEOPLE GET UNEMPLOYED.
6:02:44PM >> ONE OF THE THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO ADD IS THAT WE DON'T DO
6:02:51PM A LOT OF DAY TO DAY BUSINESS THERE.
6:02:53PM MOST OF THE CARS ARE IMPORTED, LEFT, AND THEY COME FROM CAR
6:02:58PM DEALERSHIPS, AND AUTO AUCTIONS.
6:03:02PM THEY DROP THEM OFF.
6:03:04PM THEY ARE CLEANED, DETAILED.
6:03:05PM GO BACK TO THE SHOWROOM PURPOSES.
6:03:07PM AND SO THERE'S NO TRAFFIC, YOU KNOW, INCREASING THE DENSITY
6:03:13PM OF THE TRAFFIC.
6:03:14PM AND THE NEIGHBORS, IN FACT THE PETITIONER RIGHT HERE,
6:03:18PM IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORS, LIVE IN THAT BLOCK.
6:03:21PM AND THEY ALL AGREE.
6:03:23PM BECAUSE I DID TALK TO SOME OF THE PEOPLE IN THE AREA.
6:03:26PM AND THEY HAVE NO PROBLEMS WITH IT.
6:03:27PM IN FACT, THEY SAY I WOULD RATHER SEE THAT THERE THAN AN
6:03:32PM APARTMENT COMPLEX AND WHO KNOWS WHO IS GOING TO GO IN.
6:03:35PM >>FRANK REDDICK: YOU DID A GOD THING GETTING GINA ON YOUR
6:03:41PM SIDE.
6:03:41PM >> RIGHT NEXT DOOR.
6:03:43PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I AGREE, IF YOU GO AROUND AND LOOK ON
6:03:45PM LAKE AVENUE, YOU HAVE A BODY SHOP.
6:03:47PM YOU HAVE AN AUTOMOBILE SHOP ACROSS THE STREET.
6:03:51PM JUST TO THE SOUTH YOU HAVE A FISH COMPANY.
6:03:53PM I KNOW THE OWNER PRETTY WELL.
6:03:55PM AND YOU HAVE DIFFERENT THINGS.
6:03:56PM AND WHEN YOU GO JUST NORTH ON LAKE, ON 15th STREET, YOU
6:04:00PM HAVE A MISHMASH.
6:04:04PM ON THE OTHER SIDE YOU HAD A LAUNDRYMAT, LAUNDRY CLEANERS.
6:04:08PM AND YOU KEEP GOING NORTH, AND YOU HAVE WHAT MRS. CAPIN WAS
6:04:11PM TALKING ABOUT EARLIER, WHERE SHE BOUGHT HER THANKSGIVING
6:04:14PM TURKEY.
6:04:16PM THE TURKEY DIDN'T LIKE IT.
6:04:17PM BUT ALL THAT AREA, GINA HAS BEEN THERE SINCE THE SIXTIES.
6:04:25PM BY THE WAY, HE WAS A GOOD FOOTBALL PLAYER AT JEFFERSON.
6:04:28PM >>FRANK REDDICK: MR. MANISCALCO.
6:04:36PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: JUST TO ECHO YOUR COMMENTS, AND
6:04:38PM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, SEVERAL TIMES A WEEK, LEAVE YBOR CITY
6:04:44PM AND GET THERE.
6:04:45PM I'M OKAY.
6:04:46PM AS HAS ALREADY BEEN MENTIONED YOU MENTION YOU GET TO THE
6:04:51PM BODY SHOP, YOU GET THE ORIENTAL FISH MARKET.
6:04:53PM THERE IS RESIDENTIAL.
6:04:54PM BUT AS YOU GO FARTHER NORTH IN THE AREA THAT YOU ARE IN, IT
6:04:57PM MAKES SENSE TO GO TO THE CMU-35.
6:05:01PM AND NOT ONLY THAT.
6:05:02PM YOU ARE NOT A NEW BUSINESS.
6:05:03PM YOU ARE ESTABLISHED.
6:05:04PM AND WHEN THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS NOT COMING OUT COMPLAINING, I
6:05:07PM THINK THAT SAYS A LOT.
6:05:08PM SO MOVING FORWARD, WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
6:05:10PM THE NEIGHBORHOOD TRUSTS YOU.
6:05:12PM AND I WOULD BE HAPPY TO SUPPORT THIS.
6:05:15PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ALL RIGHT, ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS OR
6:05:17PM COMMENTS?
6:05:18PM ALL RIGHT.
6:05:18PM >>MIKE SUAREZ: I WOULD ASK STAFF ONE QUICK QUESTION.
6:05:25PM PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF.
6:05:27PM I'M LOOKING AT THE BACKGROUND MATERIAL.
6:05:29PM THERE'S NO VOTE FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
6:05:31PM DID THEY NOT VOTE?
6:05:34PM I DON'T HAVE A RECORD OF IT.
6:05:35PM IT'S NOT IN MY BACKUP MATERIAL.
6:05:37PM >>JENNIFER MALONE: THE ATTACHMENT A, I APOLOGIZE IF IT WAS
6:05:40PM NOT.
6:05:40PM >>MIKE SUAREZ: IT'S IN THERE TYPICALLY BUT IT'S NOT MARKED
6:05:48PM AS TO WHAT THE VOTE WAS.
6:05:49PM I WAS JUST CURIOUS.
6:05:51PM THERE YOU GO.
6:05:53PM I HAVE GOT A PAGE 10 THAT HAS NOTHING ON IT.
6:05:56PM >>JENNIFER MALONE: YES, WE HAVE 5 TO 1.
6:06:05PM WE HAD THREE ABSENT.
6:06:06PM WOULD YOU LIKE BE ME TO READ THIS FOR THE RECORD?
6:06:09PM >> IT IF IT WAS 5 TO 1, WHO IS THE ONE?
6:06:12PM I KNOW THERE WERE THREE ABSENCES.
6:06:14PM KAREN KRESS IS THE ONE NAY?
6:06:16PM >> CORRECT.
6:06:17PM >>MIKE SUAREZ: THAT'S ALL I NEED.
6:06:19PM THANK YOU, CHAIR.
6:06:19PM >>FRANK REDDICK: OKAY.
6:06:24PM >> GOOD EVENING.
6:06:26PM >>FRANK REDDICK: STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD.
6:06:30PM >> MARVIN KNIGHT, 3608 NORTH 15th STREET.
6:06:33PM I ACTUALLY -- MR. MATHIS, HE CAME NOT ONLY FOR MYSELF BUT
6:06:40PM OTHER NEIGHBORS.
6:06:42PM AND I RESIDE AT 3608, THAT FISH MARKET YOU ARE TALKING
6:06:46PM ABOUT.
6:06:47PM I'M THE OWNER.
6:06:47PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: DIDN'T WANT TO EMBARRASS YOU, SIR.
6:06:53PM >> BUT WE HAVE BEEN REALLY BEEN NOT ONLY GOOD NEIGHBORS, BUT
6:06:59PM THE YOUNG MEN TO OPEN UP THE BUILDING THAT CAME FROM ANOTHER
6:07:05PM LOCATION AND HE TOLD ME, HEY, I'M THINKING ABOUT ALLOWING
6:07:08PM THEM TO KEEP THE BUSINESS GOING, KEEP PEOPLE EMPLOYED.
6:07:13PM AND I FEEL GOOD ABOUT HIM.
6:07:18PM AND I SAID, HEY, YOU KNOW, I HAVE WATCHED THEM ON 40TH
6:07:21PM STREET.
6:07:22PM IT WAS REALLY POSITIVE DOING THINGS.
6:07:25PM AND I JUST FELT THAT NOT ONLY MYSELF AND FELLOW BUSINESS
6:07:30PM PEOPLE, BEING THAT I'M ONLY TWO BLOCKS AWAY FROM THAT, JUST
6:07:33PM TWO BLOCKS SOUTH, I HAVE A RELATIVE JUST A BLOCK TO THE EAST
6:07:38PM OF THAT.
6:07:40PM AND THEY ARE REALLY HAPPY WORKING WITH MR. MATHIS AND HE'S
6:07:47PM TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING WITH ZONING AND TRYING TO HELP
6:07:54PM HE'S NOT TRYING TO REZONE FOR HIS OWN PERSONAL THING BUT TO
6:07:58PM DO WHAT'S RIGHT.
6:07:59PM AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
6:08:00PM I'M VERY IN SUPPORT, IT'S THE RIGHT THING FOR THAT LOCATION.
6:08:09PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ANYONE ELSE IN THE PUBLIC WISH TO SPEAK ON
6:08:10PM ITEM NUMBER 2?
6:08:12PM >> MOVE TO CLOSE.
6:08:13PM >> SECOND.
6:08:13PM >> MOTION BY MR. MIRANDA.
6:08:15PM SECOND BY MR. COHEN.
6:08:16PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ALL IN FAVOR?
6:08:17PM OPPOSED? ALL RIGHT.
6:08:20PM MR. VIERA, WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ NUMBER 2?
6:08:23PM >>LUIS VIERA: I MOVE AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE TAMPA
6:08:27PM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, FUTURE LAND USE MAP FOR THE PROPERTY
6:08:31PM GENERALLY LOCATED AT 3801 NORTH 15th STREET FROM
6:08:36PM RESIDENTIAL 10 R-10 TO COMMUNITY MIXED USE 35, CMU-35,
6:08:42PM PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT,
6:08:44PM PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
6:08:45PM >> SECOND.
6:08:47PM >>FRANK REDDICK: GOT A MOTION FROM MR. VIERA.
6:08:49PM SECONDED BY MR. MIRANDA.
6:08:50PM ALL IN FAVOR OF THAT MOTION SAY AYE.
6:08:52PM OPPOSED?
6:08:53PM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
6:09:01PM SECOND READING AND ADOPTION WILL BE ON OCTOBER 18th AT
6:09:04PM 9:30 A.M.
6:09:05PM >>FRANK REDDICK: THANK YOU.
6:09:06PM ITEM NUMBER 3.
6:09:13PM OH.
6:09:13PM >>JENNIFER MALONE: PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF.
6:09:15PM ON ITEM NUMBER 3, I HAVE FUTURE LAND USE MAP AMENDMENT
6:09:17PM 18-08.
6:09:23PM WE ARE TRAVEL TO CENTRAL PLANNING DISTRICT, MORE
6:09:26PM SPECIFICALLY IN PALMETTO BEACH.
6:09:29PM THIS IS AN AERIAL OF THE SUBJECT SITE.
6:09:33PM I HAVE BERMUDA RIGHT HERE.
6:09:36PM SUBJECT SITE, BERMUDA TO THE NORTH.
6:09:40PM CENTRAL USES.
6:09:41PM AND THERE ARE SOME COMMERCIAL USES.
6:09:44PM HARD TO SEE ON THE AERIAL BUT SOME COMMERCIAL USE AS LONG
6:09:47PM THIS CORRIDOR RIGHT HERE AND SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED
6:09:50PM RESIDENTIAL TO THE NORTH.
6:09:51PM IT IS A PRIVATELY INITIATED SMALL SCALE REQUEST,
6:09:55PM APPROXIMATELY 3.82 ACRES, AND THE REQUEST BEFORE YOU IS TO
6:09:58PM AMEND RESIDENTIAL 10, RESIDENTIAL 20, AND VACATE
6:10:04PM RIGHT-OF-WAY TO COMMUNITY MIXED USE 35.
6:10:08PM HERE IS A PICTURE OF THE SUBJECT SITE.
6:10:10PM THIS IS LOOKING WEST TOWARDS THE SUBJECT SITE FROM THE
6:10:13PM INTERSECTION OF SOUTH BERMUDA BOULEVARD AND SAXON STREET,
6:10:25PM WHERE IT INTERSECTS SAXON STREET.
6:10:28PM THE SUBJECT SITE IS TO THE RIGHT ON THE PICTURE.
6:10:32PM THIS IS LOOKING WEST DOWN SAXON AVENUE. THIS IS A
6:10:35PM SINGLE-FAMILY HOME.
6:10:37PM IT WOULD INTERFACE WITH THE SUBJECT SITE RIGHT HERE.
6:10:42PM LOOKING EAST DOWN ELMWOOD AVENUE FROM SOUTH 22ND STREET.
6:10:47PM ACTUALLY, THIS IS CONTAINED OF RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
6:10:49PM SUBJECT SITE.
6:10:50PM SO IT'S ON BOTH SIDES.
6:10:54PM LOOKING SOUTHWEST FROM THE INTERSECTION OF MAPLE AVENUE AND
6:10:57PM SOUTH BERMUDA BOULEVARD.
6:10:58PM THOSE ARE COMMERCIAL USES I MENTIONED BEFORE.
6:11:05PM IN RELATION TO THIS PICTURE THE SUBJECT SITE IS BEHIND THESE
6:11:08PM COMMERCIAL USES, AND THE LOT WOULD BE FURTHER BACK.
6:11:12PM THIS IS LOOKING NORTH FROM THE INTERSECTION OF MAPLE AVENUE
6:11:16PM AND SOUTH 22ND STREETS.
6:11:20PM THIS IS THE ADOPTED FUTURE LAND USE MAP.
6:11:22PM WE HAVE THE RESIDENTIAL 10 WHICH IS THE ORANGE COLOR.
6:11:26PM RESIDENTIAL 20 WHICH IS DARKER BROWN.
6:11:29PM COMMUNITY MIXED USE PA WHICH IS THAT PINK.
6:11:32PM COMMERCIAL USES ALONG SOUTH 22ND STREET.
6:11:36PM TRANSITIONAL USE 24 WHICH IS THAT SALMON COLOR WHICH ALLOWS
6:11:40PM FOR A VARIETY OF USES.
6:11:42PM LIGHT INDUSTRIAL AND HEAVY INDUSTRIAL.
6:11:46PM THE REQUEST BEFORE YOU TODAY IS TO CHANGE THE PROPERTY TO
6:11:49PM COMMUNITY MIXED USE 35 ON THE SUBJECT SITE.
6:11:59PM 22ND STREET.
6:12:00PM THAT WOULD INTERFACE WITH RESIDENTIAL 10.
6:12:07PM CURRENTLY THE EXISTING POTENTIAL IS 66 UNITS AT ABOUT 76,000
6:12:12PM SQUARE FEET.
6:12:14PM THE POTENTIAL IF APPROVED WOULD INCREASE TO 132 UNITS, ABOUT
6:12:19PM 332,000 SQUARE FEET.
6:12:22PM THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT WOULD ALLOW FOR ADDITIONAL DENSITY
6:12:24PM AND INTENSITY AND WOULD ALLOW FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF
6:12:27PM DIFFERENT ZONING DISTRICTS THAT AREN'T ALLOWED TODAY
6:12:30PM INCLUDING RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY 24 AND COMMERCIAL GENERAL
6:12:34PM ZONING DISTRICTS.
6:12:36PM COMMERCIAL LOCATIONAL CRITERIA WOULD, THAT CAN COMMUNITY
6:12:40PM MIXED USE 35 ALLOWS FOR COMMERCIAL GENERAL ZONING SO THAT IS
6:12:44PM ALLOWED BY RIGHT.
6:12:48PM AGENCY REVIEW.
6:12:49PM WE HAVE COMMENTS FROM CITY OF TAMPA PLANNING AND URBAN
6:12:52PM DESIGN DEPARTMENT WHICH LACHONE DOCK WILL SPEAK OF WHEN I
6:12:55PM FINISH AND COMMENTS FROM HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY CITING SOME
6:12:59PM POTENTIAL CAPACITY, CALCULATIONS THAT THEY HAVE THERE IN
6:13:03PM YOUR PACKET.
6:13:09PM PLANNING COMMISSION FOUND THIS CONSISTENT WITH SEVERAL
6:13:11PM POLICY PLANNED POLICIES.
6:13:13PM THEY DID FIND THE REQUEST TO EXPAND THE COMMUNITY MIXED USE
6:13:17PM 35 WOULD BE CONSISTENT WITH THE PLAN.
6:13:21PM THERE ARE TWO AREAS OF INCONSISTENCY THAT THEY NOTED.
6:13:25PM PROMOTES OPPORTUNITIES FOR POTENTIAL IN-FILL.
6:13:28PM THE PROPOSED CATEGORIES WOULD ALLOW FOR REDEVELOPMENT IN
6:13:32PM KEEPING WITH THE MIXTURE THAT WE ARE ALREADY SEEING ON
6:13:35PM PALMETTO BEACH OF RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL IN THAT AREA.
6:13:39PM THE POLICY DIRECTION WITHIN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ALSO
6:13:41PM SUPPORTS THE INTRODUCTION OF COMMERCIAL USES AND SCALE WITH
6:13:46PM THE ADJOINING NEIGHBORHOOD AND DID THINK THE FUTURE LAND USE
6:13:50PM CATEGORY IS ALREADY FOUND IN THAT AREA, AND IT WOULD BE IN
6:13:53PM KEEPING WITH THAT SCALE OF THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD.
6:13:57PM AND WITH THAT PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDS IT BE FOUND
6:14:02PM CONSISTENT.
6:14:02PM THAT CONCLUDE MY PRESENTATION.
6:14:04PM I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
6:14:19PM MUCH.
6:14:19PM >>LACHONE DOCK: PLANNING AND URBAN DESIGN.
6:14:21PM THE OBJECTIONS ARE RELATING TO THE LOCATION OF THE PROPERTY
6:14:23PM WITHIN THE COASTAL HIGH HAZARD AREA.
6:14:26PM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, POLICIES REGARDING AND OBJECTIVES
6:14:32PM REGARDING THE COASTAL HIGH HAZARD AREA CAN BE INCREASED
6:14:39PM POPULATION WITHIN THOSE AREAS AND DOES NOT ENCOURAGE THAT
6:14:41PM INCREASE IN POPULATION.
6:14:46PM YOU WILL FIND IT WITHIN THE CITY'S COMMENTS WITHIN YOUR
6:14:48PM PACKET.
6:14:48PM THE PROPERTY IS CURRENTLY ZONED PD.
6:14:50PM IT HAS THAT PD ZONING ON THE PROPERTY.
6:14:53PM AND THIS IS ON 7th.
6:14:57PM THIS IS THE ZONING MAP THAT SHOWS THE PD.
6:15:00PM IT'S LOCATED THERE AND TO THE SOUTH.
6:15:02PM THIS IS 22ND STREET.
6:15:04PM CURRENTLY UNDER THIS PD, THEY HAVE PUT THE COMMERCIAL USES
6:15:08PM ALONG 22ND STREET.
6:15:21PM OUR OBJECTION IS RELATED TO THE COASTAL HEY HAZARD AREA.
6:15:24PM AND I'M AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
6:15:25PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL?
6:15:28PM >>MIKE SUAREZ: THAT'S THE ONLY OBJECTION, HIGH HAZARD AREA?
6:15:32PM >>LACHONE DOCK: YES.
6:15:33PM CORRECT.
6:15:33PM >>FRANK REDDICK: APPLICANT?
6:15:36PM >>MICHAEL HORNER: 14502 NORTH DALE MABRY HIGHWAY TAMPA
6:15:59PM REPRESENTING CTV CAPITAL.
6:16:01PM IT'S MY PRIVILEGE AND HONOR TO REPRESENT SOMEONE WHO IS
6:16:08PM VESTED AND INVESTED IN THIS PROPERTY.
6:16:09PM THEY ARE NOT BUYING ON A CONTINGENCY.
6:16:12PM THEY HAVE PUT THEIR DOLLARS AND THEIR INVESTMENT RESOURCES
6:16:16PM WHERE THEIR MOUTH IS AND IT'S AN HONOR TO REPRESENT A CLIENT
6:16:19PM THAT IS SO INVESTED IN THE COMMUNITY AND WANTS TO DO THE
6:16:21PM RIGHT THING.
6:16:24PM COUNCILMEN, WE APPRECIATE STAFF'S REPORT.
6:16:26PM WE RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE ON A COUPLE OF THE FACTS.
6:16:29PM BUT THEY ARE PROFESSIONAL AND WE APPRECIATE THE PLANNING
6:16:31PM COMMISSION GIVING US, I THINK, SIGNIFICANT APPROVAL VOTE AT
6:16:39PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION A COUPLE MONTHS AGO.
6:16:40PM WE HAVE WORKED HARD WITH THE COMMUNITY.
6:16:42PM WE HAVE HAD A NUMBER OF MEETINGS, A NUMBER OF RETAIL
6:16:44PM SESSIONS.
6:16:45PM THOSE WILL BE ONGOING AND CONTINUE.
6:16:48PM AS YOU KNOW, THIS IS NOT THE END OF THE PROCESS. THIS IS
6:16:51PM ACTUALLY THE BEGINNING OF THE PROCESS.
6:16:53PM THIS IS WHERE WE HAVE TO LAY OUT A DETAILED PLAN WHERE THE
6:16:57PM RUBBER HITS THE ROAD SO TO SPEAK.
6:16:59PM WE HAVE A LONG ARDUOUS PD ZONING PLAN AHEAD OF US.
6:17:04PM I AM GOING TO ASK KEITH NORRIS TO HAND OUT TO YOU -- I CAME
6:17:10PM IN A LITTLE AFTER 5 AND WAS NOT SWORN IN.
6:17:13PM I DON'T THINK OTHER PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SWORN IN.
6:17:17PM I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T OFFER BAD TESTIMONY
6:17:18PM HERE.
6:17:18PM >> WE WOULD HAVE STOPPED YOU BY NOW.
6:17:20PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MR. CHAIRMAN, WE COULD SWEAR THEM IN
6:17:29PM BUT -- (LAUGHTER).
6:17:31PM >>MICHAEL HORNER: WE HAVE ENTITLEMENT THAT WAS PRESENTED TO
6:17:33PM YOU BY STAFF.
6:17:36PM MRS. MALONE AND MRS. DOCK, THOSE CONDITIONS INDICATE UP TO
6:17:40PM 335,000 SQUARE FEET.
6:17:43PM AND IF YOU ADD THE EXISTING CMU-35 ON THE WESTERN PORTION IT
6:17:47PM WOULD BE ALMOST 440,000 SQUARE FEET.
6:17:50PM WE HAVE IN A INTEREST IN THAT PLAN, AND WE PROPOSE THROUGH A
6:17:56PM PD REZONING IS AN INTEGRATED MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT
6:18:00PM CONTAINING OFFICE, BOUTIQUE RETAIL, RETAIL ALONG 22ND
6:18:05PM STREET, AND CONDOMINIUM UNITS, AND SINGLE-FAMILY UNITS ALONG
6:18:10PM SAXON.
6:18:11PM MRS. DOCK IS CORRECT, THERE IS A PD ZONING IN PLACE.
6:18:14PM CURRENTLY IT IS APPROVED FOR 75, 2,000 SQUARE FOOT AND
6:18:20PM HIGHER UNITS.
6:18:20PM WE ARE PROPOSING ABOUT 100 SMALLER UNITS, ROUGHLY A 1000,
6:18:27PM 1200 SQUARE FEET.
6:18:28PM THE PLAN WAS APPROVED IN 2007, APPROVED 2000 SQUARE FEET OF
6:18:33PM COMMERCIAL ALONG 22ND STREET.
6:18:35PM OUR PROPOSAL IS TO BRING THAT DOWN, KEEPING THE 12,000
6:18:39PM SQUARE FEET, THE MAJORITY OF THE COMMERCIAL ALONG 22ND
6:18:41PM STREET, BUT ALLOWING MIXED USE, INTEGRATED STRUCTURES ALONG
6:18:45PM BERMUDA BOULEVARD, AS WELL AS ELMWOOD TO THE SOUTH.
6:18:52PM WE WOULD HAVE 10 SINGLE-FAMILY UNITS FACING NORTH ON SAXON.
6:18:57PM WE REALIZE THAT CMU-35 ALLOWS MUCH MORE BUT I WANT YOU TO
6:19:01PM KNOW THAT WE BRING THAT PD PLAN TO YOU.
6:19:04PM THAT'S WHY WE HAVE COMMITTED THE RESOURCES AND SITE PLAN
6:19:07PM ELEVATIONS, ILLUSTRATIONS TO SHOW THAT WE HAVE IN A INTEREST
6:19:11PM IN DOING A LARGE COMPLEX.
6:19:13PM WE DON'T WANT TO SELL OUT THE REZ 20 FOR MULTIFAMILY
6:19:16PM PROJECT.
6:19:16PM WE DON'T WANT TO DO STRIP COMMERCIAL ON 22ND STREET.
6:19:19PM WE CERTAINLY DON'T WANT STRIP COMMERCIAL OR COMMERCIAL
6:19:21PM OUTPARCELS ON BERMUDA BOULEVARD.
6:19:26PM THIS IS TRULY ALIVE-WORK PLAY ENVIRONMENT.
6:19:29PM THE MAJORITY COMPONENTS OF THIS USE IS GOING TO BE A 42,000
6:19:33PM SQUARE FOOT OFFICE COMPLEX THAT WOULD BE CENTRALLY LOCATED
6:19:36PM AND SCREENED, SCREENED PARKING GARAGE WILL ALSO BE CENTRALLY
6:19:40PM LOCATED.
6:19:43PM WE HAVE CMU-35.
6:19:45PM WE HAVE REZ 10.
6:19:46PM AND ADJOINING PROPERTY IS REZ 20.
6:19:50PM WE CANNOT ACHIEVE A TRULY INTEGRATED MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT
6:19:54PM BETWEEN ALL THREE OF THESE CATEGORIES.
6:19:56PM WHILE REZ 20 PERMITS SOME CONSIDERATION WITH CRITERIA FOR
6:20:00PM NEIGHBORHOOD SERVING OFFICE AND RETAIL, THE INTEGRATION OF
6:20:02PM THE BUILDINGS, AS WELL AS BEAU BOUTIQUE RETAIL IS PRECLUDED
6:20:07PM UNDER THE REZ 20.
6:20:08PM THEREFORE IN ORDER TO ALLOW THAT, TRUE LIVE-WORK PLAY
6:20:11PM COMMUNITY, WE ARE FILING FOR THE CMU-35.
6:20:14PM WE ALREADY HAVE CMU-35 THE ENTIRE 22ND STREET CORRIDOR IS
6:20:18PM 35, AND WE HAVE CMU-35 FOR THE SOUTH.
6:20:22PM AND THIS IS THE CORNER OF THE APEX WHERE 20th, 22ND AND
6:20:26PM BERMUDA BOULEVARD ALL COMBINE TOGETHER AT THE INTERSECTION
6:20:31PM AND SWEEP SOUTH TO THE EAST AND IT'S A BEAUTIFUL SCENIC
6:20:36PM DRIVE.
6:20:36PM IT IS AN AMENITY.
6:20:37PM MY CLIENT WANTS TO BE GOOD STEWARDS AUTHORIZE FOE THERE ARE
6:20:41PM PROPERTY.
6:20:41PM THAT'S WHY WE DESCENDED OURSELVES TO THE COMMUNITY AND SAID
6:20:43PM TALK TO US ABOUT YOUR CONCERNS.
6:20:44PM I THINK WE ARE ON ABOUT OUR THIRD OR FOURTH ITERATION OF
6:20:49PM CONCEPTUAL ILLUSTRATION.
6:20:51PM I KNOW THERE ARE THERE ARE GOING TO BE MORE.
6:20:54PM AND YOU WILL HOLD OUR FEET TO THE FIRE.
6:20:56PM I AM A SURE YOU THE COMMUNITY WILL HOLD OUR FEET TO THE
6:20:59PM FIRE.
6:21:01PM LASTLY, COUNCIL, THE COASTAL HEY HAZARD AREA OBJECTION IS
6:21:08PM ONE THAT STAFF HAS MADE, MRS. DOCK, AT THE PLANNING
6:21:12PM COMMISSION HEARING AND WE APPRECIATE THAT COMMENT.
6:21:14PM IT IS A POLICY.
6:21:15PM IT IS ADOPTED.
6:21:16PM IT IS ON YOUR BOOKS.
6:21:18PM UNFORTUNATELY, WE RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE BECAUSE THIS PD
6:21:22PM REZONING WAS ALREADY IN CONFLICT WITH THAT POLICY IN 2007.
6:21:27PM SO WHEN THEY APPROVED 75 UNITS OVER THE EXISTING ZONING BACK
6:21:30PM IN 2007, THAT EXCEEDED EXISTING DENSITY LIMITATIONS, AND WE
6:21:37PM WERE APPROVED AT THAT TIME FOR 75 UNITS AT 12,000.
6:21:40PM NOW WE ARE ASKING FOR 25 MORE UNITS.
6:21:43PM AND I WOULD NOTE FOR THE RECORD THAT THERE'S A BALANCE
6:21:46PM BETWEEN THE RESIDENTIAL AREAS.
6:21:47PM YOU TAKE 100 UNITS AT ABOUT 1,000 SQUARE FEET, WHICH IS 75
6:21:51PM UNITS AT 2,000 SQUARE FEET.
6:21:53PM IT IS ACTUALLY A HIGHER RESIDENTIAL PORTION, A PORTION OF
6:21:57PM THIS PROPERTY RESIDENTIAL THAN OUR PROPOSED PLAN THAT WE
6:22:01PM PROPOSE.
6:22:01PM WE HAVE GONE THROUGH OUR CALCULATION STUDY.
6:22:04PM WE HAVE FIVE EVACUATION PLANNED TRAFFIC STUDY, THEY HAVE NO
6:22:08PM LEVEL OF SERVICE ISSUES OR CONSTRAINTS.
6:22:09PM WE HAVE TO MEET THE HURRICANE EVACUATION CONSIDERATIONS.
6:22:12PM WE WOULD ASK YOU TO FIND AS THE PLANNING COMMISSION DID THAT
6:22:16PM THIS IS NOT IN CONFLICT WITH COASTAL HIGH HAZARD AREA
6:22:20PM POLICIES.
6:22:20PM THE OTHER OBJECTIVE THAT WE DISCUSSED WAS LACK OF TRANSIT UP
6:22:26PM WITH OF THE REASONS CITED IN THE REPORT FOR NOT SUPPORTING
6:22:28PM CMU-35.
6:22:29PM AND IRONICALLY, WE WERE NOT ABLE TO REPRESENT TO STAFF THAT
6:22:35PM WE WOULD SUPPORT AND HAVE MASS TRANSIT BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT
6:22:39PM BEEN APPROVED FOR HIGHER NUMBER OF UNITS.
6:22:42PM WE DID HAVE TRANSIT OPPORTUNITIES DOWN THERE, I THINK
6:22:49PM RECENTLY TWO, YEARS AGO, AND THAT HAD TO BE DROPPED BECAUSE
6:22:51PM OF LOW RIDERSHIP.
6:22:53PM SO THE IRONY IS THEY ARE HAVING A CONCERN FOR THE LACK OF
6:22:58PM TRANSIT WHEN THEY ARE NOT WILLING TO APPROVE DEVELOPMENT
6:23:00PM BECAUSE HCSH CONCERNS BECAUSE OF NO INTEREST OF TRANSIT IN
6:23:05PM THE AREA.
6:23:05PM SO WE HAVE AN ACTIVE COMMUNITY AND WE HOPE THIS WILL BE IF
6:23:11PM CATALYST 6 DISCUSSIONS TO BE OPENED UP FOR US.
6:23:24PM THE CLIENTS ARE DEVELOPERS.
6:23:25PM THEY ARE HOME BASED.
6:23:26PM THEIR OFFICE IS ON HENDERSON BOULEVARD.
6:23:28PM I THINK SEVERAL -- TALKED WITH YOU IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS.
6:23:33PM THEY ARE GREAT PEOPLE AND PRIVILEGED TO REPRESENT SUCH A
6:23:36PM COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATION.
6:23:38PM WHEN THEY SAY WE ARE NOT GOING TO FILE ANY REZONING OR FILE
6:23:42PM ANY DETAIL PLANS UNTIL EVERYONE FEELS COMFORTABLE, THEY
6:23:46PM MEANT THAT.
6:23:46PM AND WE GAVE OUR PRODUCT TO THE RESIDENTS IN THE COMMUNITY
6:23:49PM THAT WE WOULD NOT FILE ANY PD REZONING UNTIL WE WERE
6:23:52PM COMPLETELY THROUGH THIS PROCESS.
6:23:54PM AND WE ARE GOING TO REENERGIZE THOSE EFFORTS AND SIT BACK
6:23:58PM DOWN WITH THEM AND START FINE TUNING THIS PROPOSAL.
6:24:01PM THESE ALL I HAVE FOR YOU THIS EVENING.
6:24:03PM HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
6:24:04PM I DO HAVE VINCENT JACKSON WHO WILL MAKE A CLOSING STATEMENT,
6:24:08PM PLEASE.
6:24:08PM THANK YOU.
6:24:09PM >> THANK YOU, MICHAEL.
6:24:16PM VINCENT JACKSON.
6:24:17PM I RESIDE AT 2216 SOUTH EDGEMONT STREET, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
6:24:21PM THANK YOU, CHAIRMAN, AND COUNCIL FOR HAVING US THIS EVENING.
6:24:24PM AND HEARING OUR PROPOSAL.
6:24:27PM MICHAEL DID ALL THE DATA POINTS OF MY PROJECT AND OUR
6:24:31PM PROPOSAL.
6:24:32PM AGAIN, WE HAVE BEEN VERY, VERY NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUSED ON
6:24:37PM COMMUNITY.
6:24:37PM THE EXISTING HISTORY, THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE OVER THE
6:24:41PM GENERATIONS BEING VERY CONNECTED WITH THEM SINCE WE ACQUIRED
6:24:46PM THE PROPERTY.
6:24:47PM JENNIFER WILL SPEAK TO YOU A LITTLE MORE, NOT LONG AFTER WE
6:24:54PM DID CLOSE ON THE PROPERTY WE REACHED OUT TO HER, COMMUNITY
6:24:58PM ASSOCIATION, HAD A MEETING RIGHT THERE ON HER PORCH WITH THE
6:25:00PM NEIGHBORS, AND BEGAN THE PROCESS OF INTRODUCING OURSELVES,
6:25:03PM LETTING THEM KNOW WHO WE WERE, WHAT WE WERE ABOUT AND THE
6:25:06PM FACT THAT WE ARE NEIGHBORS, WE ARE A LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
6:25:08PM GROUP, AND NOT OUT OF NEW YORK OR CALIFORNIA OR SOMEPLACE.
6:25:14PM THROUGH THE HIGHEST DENSITY, MOST IMPACTFUL, PROFITABLE TYPE
6:25:18PM PROJECT THAT DOESN'T PAY HOMAGE TO THE RESIDENTS.
6:25:22PM AND SO WE HAVE LISTENED TO THEM.
6:25:26PM WE HAVE INTEGRATED THEIR THOUGHTS AND INPUT ON EVERY PART OF
6:25:29PM THIS DEVELOPMENT THUS FAR.
6:25:30PM AS MICHAEL SAID, THERE ARE MORE STEPS AS FAR AS THE PD GOES
6:25:33PM AND THE DESIGN AND ALL THE INTRICACIES.
6:25:39PM BUT THEY HAVE BEEN VERY VOCAL AND VERY, VERY, I GUESS YOU
6:25:43PM WOULD SAY, IMPACTFUL TO WHAT WE ARE TRYING AND WHAT WE ARE
6:25:48PM DOING.
6:25:48PM SO KEEP THAT LINE OF COMMUNICATION OPEN THROUGHOUT THE
6:25:51PM PROCESS AND WANT YOU GUYS COMFORTABLE WITH WHO WE ARE,
6:25:54PM INTRODUCE US, AND WE ARE A LOCAL DEVELOPMENT GROUP HERE.
6:25:58PM THE MAJORITY OF WHAT WE DO IS RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT,
6:26:01PM SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENCES, AND ALL RANGES, LOW-INCOME HOUSING
6:26:06PM ALL THE WAY UP TO HIGHER LEVEL COMMUNITIES.
6:26:10PM WE DO MIXED USE, COMMERCIAL AS WELL, AND WE WILL CONTINUE
6:26:14PM TO -- WE LOVE PALMETTO BEACH.
6:26:18PM WHEN THINK THIS IS A BEGINNING.
6:26:21PM WE THINK THIS IS THE SPARK OF A DISTRICT, THAT PALMETTO
6:26:25PM BEACH HAS SORELY NEEDED FOR MANY YEARS.
6:26:27PM AND SPEAKING WITH THE COMMUNITY, THEY FEEL LIKE THE LITTLE
6:26:31PM BIT THEY HAVE OVERLOOKED, THEY HAVE BEEN UNDERDEVELOPED, AND
6:26:34PM IT'S TIME.
6:26:36PM DeSOTO PARK, RENOVATED A FEW YEARS BACK, AMAZING PIECE OF
6:26:40PM LAND, AND WE WANT TO BUILD OFF THAT AND BRING THIS COMMUNITY
6:26:44PM COMMERCIAL, RETAIL, AND OF COURSE RESIDENTIAL PRODUCT THAT
6:26:50PM THEY CAN AFFORD AND BE PROUD OF AND RAISE THE VALUE OF THE
6:26:53PM UNITS.
6:26:54PM THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
6:26:54PM >>FRANK REDDICK: THANK YOU.
6:26:56PM MR. COHEN.
6:26:57PM >>HARRY COHEN: I CAN SEE THE PROSPECT OF DEVELOPMENT IN
6:27:01PM THIS AREA IS VERY EXCITING AND I JUST WANT TO COMMENT ON THE
6:27:03PM COASTAL HIGH HAZARD AREA ISSUE.
6:27:06PM THAT IS A CONCERN.
6:27:06PM THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.
6:27:07PM IT'S A LEGITIMATE CONCERN.
6:27:09PM BUT IT DOES SEEM TO ME THAT DURING THE PD REZONING PROCESS
6:27:12PM AND DURING THE PROCESS OF GETTING FINANCING FOR THIS
6:27:14PM PROJECT, THAT'S WHERE YOUR FEET ARE GOING TO BE HELD TO THE
6:27:18PM FIRE.
6:27:18PM I DON'T BELIEVE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GET FINANCING FOR IT
6:27:21PM UNLESS YOU ARE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE THAT IT MEETS THE
6:27:25PM CRITERIA AND THE COMFORT LEVEL OF ANYBODY THAT'S CONCERNED
6:27:30PM ABOUT THAT ISSUE.
6:27:31PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ALL RIGHT.
6:27:34PM ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC WISH TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER 3?
6:27:37PM >> JENNIFER WILLMAN.
6:27:45PM I AM THE PRESIDENT OF THE PALMETTO BEACH COMMUNITY
6:27:47PM ASSOCIATION.
6:27:47PM I HAVE LIVED AT 2426 STUART STREET IN PALMETTO BEACH SINCE
6:27:53PM 2007.
6:27:54PM AND I HAVE A MASTER'S DEGREE IN COMMUNITY PLANNING AND WORK
6:27:58PM AS A CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL PLANNER FOR 14 YEARS.
6:28:06PM THE APPLICANT HAS BEEN VERY FORTHCOMING AND MEET WITH THE
6:28:12PM NEIGHBORHOOD.
6:28:13PM THE MEETING ON MY PORCH WAS ACTUALLY A BOARD OF DIRECTORS
6:28:18PM MEETING FOR THE ASSOCIATION.
6:28:19PM AND WE DO SUPPORT -- THE BOARD MEMBERS ARE VERY MUCH IN
6:28:26PM SUPPORT OF THE OBLIGATIONS BEFORE YOU TONIGHT, AND SOME OF
6:28:30PM OUR MEMBERS ARE HERE TONIGHT.
6:28:33PM I WILL MENTION THEIR NAMES SO THEY ARE ON RECORD. LAURA
6:28:38PM MEYER, KATIE FALCON, VINCENT JACKSON ... ARE BOARD MEMBERS.
6:28:44PM AND THE MEETINGS WERE HELD IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AUGUST 22ND,
6:28:50PM SEPTEMBER 6th, ABOUT 40 RESIDENTS ATTENDED THOSE
6:28:53PM MEETINGS.
6:28:54PM AND AS WELL AS THE PLANNING COMMISSION HEARING ON AUGUST
6:28:59PM 13th, 10 RESIDENT APPEARED IN SUPPORT, AND THEY INCLUDED
6:29:07PM ONE ON SAXON STREET.
6:29:09PM HE COULDN'T BE HERE TONIGHT BUT WE DID HAVE THEM SPEAKING AT
6:29:14PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
6:29:15PM AND I KNOW THERE ARE SOME RESIDENTS WHO ARE CONCERNED WITH
6:29:20PM THE APPLICATION, WITH CHANGE IN GENERAL IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD,
6:29:24PM AND I'M SURE YOU WILL HEAR FROM THEM.
6:29:27PM AND I KNOW SOME OF THEM MAY NOT STILL LIVE IN THE
6:29:31PM NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT SOME OF THEM DO, AND I JUST WANT TO
6:29:35PM ACKNOWLEDGE THAT.
6:29:36PM WE DO KNOW, AND WE ARE WORKING WITH THEM, AND I THINK
6:29:39PM THROUGH THE PLANNED DEVELOPMENT PROCESS WE WILL BE ABLE TO
6:29:41PM ADDRESS ANY OF THOSE ISSUES, ONE OF THOSE BEING COMMERCIAL
6:29:46PM ON BERMUDA, WHICH I FIND IT A GOOD THING.
6:29:50PM THE SITE IS UNIQUE IN THE WAY THAT IT HAS ACCESS FROM 22ND
6:29:53PM STREET, AS WELL AS BERMUDA AND TO HAVE OUR
6:29:57PM PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY STREETS FROM COMMERCIAL USES.
6:30:00PM I THINK IT'S A GOOD THING.
6:30:02PM MOST IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD DO AS WELL.
6:30:04PM IT'S A UNIQUE AREA.
6:30:06PM AND SOME FELT IT HAS A CLEAR DELINEATION THAT WOULD PREVENT
6:30:11PM FURTHER TO THE NORTH, THE SOUTH END AWAY FROM THE HISTORIC
6:30:14PM DISTRICT.
6:30:14PM (BELL SOUNDS)
6:30:16PM AND WE SEE THIS AS A VERY POSITIVE PROJECT FOR THE
6:30:20PM NEIGHBORHOOD, AND SOMETHING THAT WE REALLY NEED.
6:30:22PM WE HAVE BEEN LACKING IN PRIVATE INVESTMENT IN THE
6:30:28PM NEIGHBORHOOD, AND WE SEE THIS WOULD BE A CATALYST PROJECT
6:30:33PM AND WE HOPE YOU APPROVE THE PLAN.
6:30:36PM >> I'M VERY HAPPY TO SEE INVESTMENT IN PALMETTO BEACH.
6:30:42PM IT'S ONE OF THE GREAT NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
6:30:44PM AND I OFTEN CALL IT THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT.
6:30:47PM AND THE REASON I SAY THAT IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE DAVIS ISLAND,
6:30:50PM YOU HAVE HARBOR ISLAND, YOU HAVE YBOR CITY.
6:30:52PM ALWAYS SOMETHING GOING ON.
6:30:53PM BUT PEOPLE FORGET THE BEAUTY OF PALMETTO BEACH WHICH IS
6:30:56PM RIGHT THERE TO THE SOUTH.
6:30:57PM AND I AM GLAD TO SEE THAT THIS NEIGHBORHOOD WILL POTENTIALLY
6:31:00PM HAVE SOME OPTIONS FOR RETAIL, PLACES THAT EASY TO WALK TO,
6:31:07PM EASY TO ACCESS, WHERE THEY DON'T HAVE TO GO INTO YBOR CITY
6:31:11PM OR FURTHER NORTH OR OUTSIDE BECAUSE THE CLOSEST YOU HAVE IS
6:31:14PM REALLY IKEA WHICH WOULD GIVE, I ASSUME, OPTIONS FOR DINING,
6:31:20PM RETAIL, AND FOR RESIDENTIAL.
6:31:21PM SO I AM GLAD TO SEE THIS.
6:31:23PM AND THE ADMINISTRATION -- HAS SAID YOU HAVE TO ACTIVATE THE
6:31:28PM WATERFRONT, AND THIS IS RIGHT ON THE WATER.
6:31:31PM I UNDERSTAND THE COASTAL HIGH HAZARD AREA.
6:31:33PM BUT I AM GLAD TO SEE THAT ATTENTION IS BEING PAID TO THIS.
6:31:38PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC TO SPEAK ON ITEM
6:31:40PM NUMBER 3?
6:31:41PM COME FORWARD.
6:31:46PM IF YOU ARE GOING TO SPEAK, STAND UP AGAINST THE WALL SO WE
6:31:51PM KNOW YOU WILL BE NEXT.
6:31:53PM >> GOOD EVENING CITY COUNCIL, AND THANK YOU FOR THE
6:31:56PM OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THIS PROPOSAL.
6:32:00PM I AM ONE OF THE NEWER RESIDENT OF PALMETTO BEACH.
6:32:03PM AND I'M AWARE OF THE STIGMA THAT THAT CARRIES OF ANY NEW
6:32:05PM PERSON WANTING TO COME IN AND LAY JUDGMENT ON THE IMPORTANT
6:32:09PM DECISION.
6:32:10PM WITH THAT SAID, I HAVE LIVED IN TAMPA FIVE AND A HALF YEARS.
6:32:13PM SEEING THAT I ESTABLISHED MY ADULT CAREER IN TAMPA WAS THE
6:32:16PM PLACE FOR ME.
6:32:17PM I MOVED INTO THE SEMINOLE HEIGHTS AREA.
6:32:19PM LIKE I SAID, FIVE AND A HALF YEARS AGO.
6:32:21PM AND I AM NOT HERE TO SAY THAT I THINK PALMETTO BEACH SHOULD
6:32:25PM BE THE NEXT SEMINOLE HEIGHTS.
6:32:26PM IT'S A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOOD.
6:32:28PM HOWEVER, IT DOES SERVE AS AN EXCELLENT CASE STUDY OF WHAT
6:32:30PM CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED WITH SOME INVESTORS WHO CARE ABOUT THE
6:32:34PM COMMUNITY WHO ARE INVESTED IN THE PEOPLE, GET THEIR
6:32:38PM FEEDBACK.
6:32:39PM WHEN I MOVED INTO SEMINOLE HEIGHTS, IT WAS OUTSIDE OF A
6:32:44PM COUPLE OF RESTAURANTS AND MANY PLACES, WASN'T MUCH TO DO.
6:32:47PM BUT EVERY MONTH THAT CHANGED.
6:32:51PM EASY TO VENTURE INTO YBOR OR TEMPLE TERRACE FOR DINING, TO
6:32:55PM GET A CUP OF COFFEE, ANYTHING.
6:32:57PM EVERY MONTH, THAT RADIUS GOT SMALLER AND SMALLER TILL IT
6:33:02PM ALMOST BAKE WALKABLE.
6:33:03PM I CHOSE PALMETTO BEACH TO DRAW MY ANCHOR IN, TO USE A TAMPA
6:33:08PM TERM, BECAUSE IT'S VERY CENTRALIZED, IT TOUCHES THE WATER.
6:33:12PM I ALSO HEARD A RUMOR OF A BASEBALL STADIUM.
6:33:17PM OUTSIDE OF POTENTIAL OF PALMETTO BEACH MORE THAN ANYTHING
6:33:20PM THE 22ND STREET CORRIDOR IS FAIRLY EMPTY AND THERE'S A LOT
6:33:23PM THAT COULD BE THERE.
6:33:24PM I THINK THIS IS AN EXCELLENT FIRST STEP IN THE PATH TO
6:33:28PM DEVELOPING THIS LAND AND MAKING IT A VERY DESIRABLE PLACE TO
6:33:31PM LIVE.
6:33:33PM THANK YOU.
6:33:33PM >>FRANK REDDICK:
6:33:37PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: CLERK, DID YOU GET HIS NAME FOR THE
6:33:39PM RECORD?
6:33:40PM >> I'M SORRY.
6:33:41PM NEAL HARGIS.
6:33:44PM >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
6:33:46PM >> FIRST TIME JUST A LITTLE NERVOUS.
6:33:54PM I AM GOING TO READ FROM A PAPER.
6:33:56PM MY NAME IS TOM REYNOLDS, SOUTH BERMUDA BOULEVARD
6:33:59PM APPROXIMATELY 800 FEET FROM THE PROPOSED SITE.
6:34:01PM I'M FOURTH OF FIVE GENERATIONS THAT LIVED IN PALMETTO BEACH
6:34:04PM STARTING WITH MY GREAT GRANDPARENTS IN THE 1800S.
6:34:07PM TO BE CLEAR, I AM IN FAVOR OF COMPROMISE FOR THE LIVE, WORK,
6:34:09PM PLAY DEVELOPMENT BEING PRESENTED.
6:34:10PM HOWEVER, I AM FULLY OPPOSED TO TURNING BERMUDA BOULEVARD
6:34:13PM INTO COMMERCIAL MIXED USE DESIGNATION.
6:34:16PM CTV EXPLAINED IT WOULD BE RESIDENTIAL ON ONE SIDE AND THE
6:34:20PM OTHER SIDE COMMERCIAL WITH THE LOWER BEING RESIDENTIAL --
6:34:23PM EXCUSE ME, COMMERCIAL, AND THE OTHER BEING RESIDENTIAL.
6:34:27PM THERE ARE NO RESTRICTIONS ON SWITCHING THE DESIGNATION FOR
6:34:31PM SAXON TO BE MIXED USE ON BERMUDA ONLY EXCEPT TO MAXIMIZE
6:34:36PM THEIR PROFIT.
6:34:37PM IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THE COMMERCIAL USE EXCEEDS ALL OTHER
6:34:43PM LOTS COMBINED ON THIS PARCEL.
6:34:44PM THE AVERAGE HOME WILL BE LESS THAN 200,000.
6:34:48PM WE BELIEVE THEY CAN ONLY GET MONEY FROM THE COMMERCIAL
6:34:51PM BUSINESS ON THE WATERFRONT.
6:34:53PM STAFF DID NOT SUPPORT THIS ARGUMENT.
6:34:56PM WATERFRONT HOMES WERE SELLING FOR AVERAGE OF 152 THAT YOU
6:35:02PM INCLUDING A RUN-DOWN ONE-ONE AT 123,000.
6:35:07PM THE NEW QUOTE-UNQUOTE UGLY TOWNHOUSES ON 22ND STREET, SELL
6:35:12PM FOR AN AVERAGE OF 218,000.
6:35:15PM HOMES NECESSARY THE INCINERATOR SELLING FOR 118,000.
6:35:19PM AGAIN NOT ON THE WATERFRONT.
6:35:20PM EVEN TODAY IS A HOME FOR ASKING PRICE OF 575,000.
6:35:26PM SINCE A LARGE PARCEL BETWEEN 1:00 AND 22ND AND BERMUDA IT
6:35:30PM MUST ALL BE CMU-35.
6:35:32PM THAT AGAIN IS INCORRECT.
6:35:33PM IT'S A SMALL PARCEL BETWEEN ELMWOOD AND MAPLE IS SPLIT IN
6:35:38PM HALF, COMMERCIAL USE AND BERMUDA BEING RESIDENTIAL.
6:35:42PM PROPERTY LIKE THIS HAS BEEN HISTORICALLY SEPARATED FOR
6:35:45PM INTEGRITY OF THE WATERFRONT AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD AS A WHOLE.
6:35:47PM BESIDES PURE PROFITS THERE'S NO ARGUMENT TO CHANGE THE
6:35:50PM STANDING TO ALLOW COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES COMPETITIVE PARKING
6:35:53PM AND DRAMATICALLY INCREASED TRAFFIC FLOW DOWN THE OTHERWISE
6:35:57PM QUIET STREET.
6:35:58PM IF THERE IS A CONCERN THAT A PRECEDENT IS GOING TO BE SET
6:36:01PM FOR A BUSINESS ON BERMUDA WHICH WILL MAKE IT EASIER FOR
6:36:04PM FUTURE DEVELOPERS TO COME INTO PALMETTO BEACH AND PLACE MORE
6:36:08PM STRUCTURES ON THE HEART OF THIS BOULEVARD IN FRONT OF
6:36:12PM DeSOTO PARK.
6:36:13PM AS THIS PLAN MOVES FORWARD, CONSIDERING OTHER SINGLE OWNERS
6:36:16PM OF WATERFRONT PARCELS YOU CAN SEE THE CITY ADMITTED THE ONLY
6:36:20PM THING STOPPING THIS FROM HAPPENING IS A DEVELOPER PULLING
6:36:22PM PERMITS AND GOING THROUGH THE SAME ACCESS.
6:36:26PM THE BEAUTY OF PALMETTO BEACH WATERFRONT PROPERTY AND THIS
6:36:29PM CIGAR NEIGHBORHOOD IS IN JEOPARDY OF BEING LOST FOREVER.
6:36:33PM I'M ASKING YOU, IMPLORING YOU AS THE MINORITY REPRESENTATION
6:36:36PM HERE TONIGHT TO SAY NO TO COMMERCIAL USAGE ON BERMUDA
6:36:39PM BOULEVARD AND TO KEEP EXISTING PRECEDENT OF RESIDENTIAL
6:36:42PM ONLY.
6:36:47PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ALL RIGHT.
6:36:48PM NEXT.
6:36:51PM YOU, MA'AM.
6:36:52PM >> MY NAME IS MAURA LECROY. MY ADDRESS ON PALMETTO BEACH IS
6:37:01PM 2222 DAVIS STREET.
6:37:02PM MY HUSBAND AND I BOUGHT THAT PROPERTY 11 YEARS AGO.
6:37:06PM WE HAVE LIVED THERE OFF AND ON.
6:37:08PM WE HAVE HAD TENANTS THERE.
6:37:10PM JOBS HAVE TAKEN US BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN TAMPA AND ORLANDO
6:37:13PM FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS.
6:37:16PM WITH THE POTENTIAL OVER THERE, WE ARE THRILLED WITH THIS AND
6:37:23PM HOPES THE CMU IS APPROVED.
6:37:26PM WE HAVE EXPERIENCED WITH THIS AT WINTER PARK.
6:37:29PM SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE HEARD IT.
6:37:31PM THE CITY ADJACENT TO ORLANDO.
6:37:34PM BOTH OF THEM ARE IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
6:37:37PM A HUGE DEVELOPMENT.
6:37:38PM MUCH LARGER THAN THIS.
6:37:41PM WENT IN ON ONE OF THE MAJOR THOROUGHFARES ABOUT 15 YEARS
6:37:44PM AGO.
6:37:45PM AND IT MET WITH SIMILAR OBJECTIONS.
6:37:48PM HOWEVER THAT PROPERTY WAS BUTTING UP TO A SMALL COMMERCIAL
6:37:53PM AREA AT THE TIME.
6:37:55PM OTHER AREAS NEARBY WERE IN DECLINE.
6:37:58PM THIS SHOPPING CENTER HAD FAILED, AND IT'S BEEN VERY
6:38:02PM SUCCESSFUL FOR 20 YEARS AND FAILED.
6:38:05PM WHEN THIS CMU WENT IN, IN WINTER PARK, EVERYONE SAID, OH, MY
6:38:09PM GOD, A BAKERY, A FURNITURE STORE, A CLOTHING STORE.
6:38:18PM THEY WERE WRONG.
6:38:19PM THE AREA IS ENORMOUSLY POPULAR.
6:38:21PM IT'S THRIVING.
6:38:23PM THE THEATER THERE PARTICIPANTS IN THE ORLANDO FILM FESTIVAL.
6:38:27PM THERE IS ACTIVITY GOING ON THERE, 14, 16, 18 HOURS A DAY.
6:38:32PM IT IS NOT UNRULY.
6:38:34PM IT IS VERY WELL MAINTAINED.
6:38:36PM IT IS VERY SOPHISTICATED.
6:38:38PM AND ACROSS 17-92 IS ANOTHER MUCH SMALLER LESS AFFLUENT
6:38:44PM SHOPPING CENTER THAT WOULD HAVE FAILED IF NOT FOR THE FACT
6:38:47PM THAT THIS ONE.
6:38:50PM THEY BALANCE EACH OTHER VERY NICELY.
6:38:52PM AND FURTHER NORTH ANOTHER BLIGHTED AREA IS NOW THRIVING.
6:38:56PM I THINK THIS WOULD BE A GREAT BOOM FOR THE COMMUNITY, FOR
6:39:00PM THE PALMETTO BEACH COMMUNITY, AND FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA.
6:39:03PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
6:39:04PM >> MY NAME IS VANESSA REYNOLDS, 2417 STUART STREET.
6:39:18PM I'M REALLY NERVOUS.
6:39:19PM AND I'M A FIFTH GENERATION RESIDENT.
6:39:22PM AND I KNOW THAT BOTH MY BROTHER AND MYSELF PLAN TO LIVE IN
6:39:26PM OUR FAMILY HOMES PROBABLY FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES.
6:39:33PM EVERYONE WHO IS FOR THIS PLAN, THEY JUST HAVEN'T BEEN HERE
6:39:37PM AS LONG AS WE HAVE.
6:39:38PM I MEAN, FLEECE THERE'S NO CONTEXT BETWEEN THE AMOUNT OF
6:39:45PM TIME.
6:39:46PM YOU KNOW, THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE INVESTING IN THE COMMUNITY,
6:39:49PM BUT IT'S NOT LIKE WE WERE NOTIFIED ABOUT ALL -- WE WEREN'T
6:40:00PM NOTIFIED UNTIL PROBABLY JUST A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE MEETING
6:40:02PM LAST MONTH.
6:40:08PM (BACKGROUND NOISE).
6:40:10PM >> OKAY.
6:40:11PM WE WERE NOTIFIED ABOUT WITHIN JUST A FEW DAYS BEFORE LAST
6:40:16PM MONTH'S MEETING WHEN IT WAS DETERMINED WHETHER IT WAS
6:40:19PM CONSISTENT OR NOT.
6:40:20PM BUT THERE WAS A MEETING THAT EXPRESSED THAT WE WERE NOT IN
6:40:25PM FAVOR FOR THIS.
6:40:28PM AND MY MOTHER WAS ACTUALLY A FOUNDER OF THE ASSOCIATION.
6:40:32PM AND SO TO SAY THAT NEIGHBORS ARE INCLUDED, WE LIVE ACROSS
6:40:37PM FROM HER.
6:40:39PM BOTH MY GRANDMOTHER, ME AND MY MOM LIVE ACROSS, TO SAY THAT
6:40:45PM NEIGHBORS WERE INCLUDED IS NOT TRUE.
6:40:46PM IT WAS CLOSED OFF TO JUST THE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.
6:40:51PM I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT PALMETTO BEACH, IT DOESN'T NEED THIS
6:40:57PM NEW BEGINNING.
6:41:02PM YOU KNOW, WE LIKE BEING THE SLEEPY COMMUNITY THAT WE ARE.
6:41:07PM I ENJOY IT.
6:41:08PM I HOPE IT STAYS THAT WAY.
6:41:11PM AND IT BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT LIKE
6:41:16PM THE YBOR.
6:41:17PM IT'S NOT SOHO.
6:41:20PM IT'S JUST ITS OWN THING.
6:41:23PM WHICH I REALLY ENJOY.
6:41:25PM AND I HOPE THAT IT WILL STAY THAT WAY.
6:41:32PM THAT'S REALLY ALL I HAD TO SAY.
6:41:37PM I'M NOT IN FAVOR OF THIS OBVIOUSLY.
6:41:39PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
6:41:39PM (BELL SOUNDS).
6:41:43PM >>FRANK REDDICK: NEXT.
6:41:43PM >> MY NAME IS TERRY REYNOLDS.
6:41:53PM THAT'S MY DAUGHTER.
6:41:56PM I WOULD LIKE TO NOTE THAT I NOT ONLY SPEAK FOR MYSELF BUT I
6:42:00PM SPEAK FOR 83 SUPPORTERS WHO COULD NOT ATTEND BUT SIGNED A
6:42:04PM PETITION WHICH I HAVE A COPY.
6:42:07PM I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO NOTE THAT PALMETTO BEACH ASSOCIATION
6:42:13PM HAS A HANDFUL OF BOARD MEMBERS, I BELIEVE 7.
6:42:16PM THEY DO NOT REPRESENT THE ENTIRE PALMETTO BEACH BECAUSE THE
6:42:18PM ENTIRE PALMETTO BEACH WAS NOT NOTIFIED.
6:42:22PM THEY ONLY HAVE MEETINGS ONCE A YEAR PRETTY MUCH.
6:42:25PM THE MAJORITY OF THE INDIVIDUALS ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN
6:42:30PM PURCHASING IN THE SUR ROUNDING AREA THE PAST 15 MINUTES
6:42:33PM AND -- MONTHS AND HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF IT.
6:42:35PM THEY WANT TO SELL THEIR HOMES OR BUSINESSES AND MOVE.
6:42:40PM THEY WANT TO MAKE THEIR INVESTMENT, TURN IT OVER AND MAKE
6:42:43PM MONEY.
6:42:43PM THIS IS NOT WHAT PALMETTO BEACH IS ABOUT.
6:42:46PM WE ARE ABOUT FAMILY, AND WE ARE ABOUT HELPING EACH OTHER.
6:42:50PM DECREE CREATE PRIVATELY OWNED BUSINESSES, CHURCHES, AND WE
6:42:53PM SUPPORT THEM.
6:42:54PM WE GIVE BACK TO EACH OTHER.
6:42:56PM I FEEL THIS NEIGHBORHOOD WILL TURN INTO ANOTHER HARBOR
6:42:58PM ISLAND, YBOR CITY, SOHO OR CHANNELSIDE.
6:43:02PM THEY ARE NOT -- THERE ARE NOT MANY PLACES LEFT LIKE PALMETTO
6:43:05PM BEACH THAT IS BEAUTIFUL.
6:43:07PM BUT THERE ARE PLENTY OF PLACES LIKE SOHO AND CHANNELSIDE.
6:43:13PM THEY HAVE TONS OF OPEN OFFICES.
6:43:15PM WE ARE MINUTES AWAY FROM ANY SHOPPING SO WE DON'T NEED ANY
6:43:19PM STORES, CHAINS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
6:43:20PM I WOULD LIKE TO BE SEE SOME MOM AND POPS, SOME DAYCARES,
6:43:25PM FAMILY OWNED BASICALLY OR A FLORAL SHOP LIKE MY GRANDMOTHER
6:43:29PM OWNED IN THE 50s BUT ON 22ND.
6:43:36PM I USED TO GO DOWN WITH FAMILIES YEARS AGO AND WATCH TAMPA
6:43:40PM PIRATES INVADE TAMPA AND BUSINESSES CAME ALONG AND TOOK THAT
6:43:43PM AWAY FROM US.
6:43:44PM NOW THEY WANT TO BRING THE ONE ALSO BIT OF WATER WE HAVE
6:43:47PM LEFT IN PALMETTO, THEY WANT TO PUT APARTMENTS.
6:43:50PM I DO NOT WANT BUSINESSES ON BERMUDA AND I DO NOT WANT THEM
6:43:54PM TO CLOSE OFF STREETS FOR THEIR OWN PLANS.
6:43:59PM I THOUGHT WHY SHOULD I COMPROMISE?
6:44:01PM THEY WANT BUSINESS ON BERMUDA AND NOT JUST ON 2nd
6:44:05PM 2nd 2nd.
6:44:06PM THEY INSIST ON THAT. THIS IS MY HOME.
6:44:08PM IT'S MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
6:44:09PM I FEEL THAT PEOPLE MOVING IN, IF THEY WANTED THAT TYPE OF
6:44:12PM NEIGHBORHOOD BUT THEY DIDN'T.
6:44:17PM THEY CAME TO PALMETTO BEACH BECAUSE IT QUITE AND CHEAP.
6:44:20PM AND IT'S A GOLD MINE AND EVERYBODY WANTS A PIECE OF IT.
6:44:24PM CAN I JUST CONTINUE A LITTLE FURTHER?
6:44:25PM I ASK YOU NOT TO DESTROY THIS NEIGHBORHOOD AND TURN IT INTO
6:44:29PM ANOTHER SUBDIVISION.
6:44:31PM YOU FEEL IF YOU DO IT FOR THIS SEXUAL DO IT FOR OTHER
6:44:34PM SECTIONS IN THE FOUGHT SO YOU BEGGING PLEASE DO NOT ALLOW
6:44:36PM BUSINESS ON BERMUDA.
6:44:38PM KEEP IT ON 22ND.
6:44:39PM CHANGE IS NOT ALWAYS THE BEST.
6:44:41PM SOMETIMES A LITTLE PIECE OF HOME IS ALL WE CAN HOLD ONTO.
6:44:45PM THANK YOU.
6:44:45PM >> HI.
6:44:59PM I LIVE AT 2421 STUART STREET.
6:45:03PM I'M 75 YEARS OLD.
6:45:04PM I HAVE LIVE ADD PALMETTO BEACH ALL MY LIFE.
6:45:09PM AT NINE YEARS OLD MY DAD BUILD BUILT A HOUSE ON THE
6:45:12PM WATERFRONT IN 1952.
6:45:14PM I STAYED THERE TILL I GOT MARRIED AND THEN I MOVED TO STUART
6:45:18PM STREET.
6:45:19PM I HAVE BEEN ON STUART OVER 50 YEARS.
6:45:21PM MY MOM, MY DAD AND BROTHER LIVED IN A BIG HOUSE ON THE
6:45:24PM WATERFRONT UNTIL MY DAD PASSED AND MY MOM PASSED AND MY
6:45:28PM BROTHER PASSED THREE YEARS AGO.
6:45:30PM I CONVINCED MY SON TO MOVE FROM WESLEY CHAPEL TO LIVE ON THE
6:45:35PM HOUSE ON THE WATER BECAUSE I WANT TO KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY.
6:45:40PM PALMETTO BEACH IS A SPECIAL PLACE.
6:45:42PM WE ARE CLOSE TO EVERYTHING, BUT WE ARE PRIVATE.
6:45:45PM WE ARE OUR OWN ALSO PLACE, RIGHT ON THE WATER.
6:45:49PM AND I KNOW THERE ARE SOME CHANGES, WE DO NEED SOME CHANGES.
6:45:55PM WE NEED MORE BUSINESSES ON 22ND LIKE THERE WERE 40, 50 YEARS
6:45:59PM AGO.
6:46:00PM SO WE DON'T NEED BUSINESSES ON BERMUDA BOULEVARD.
6:46:03PM WE DON'T.
6:46:03PM I DON'T CARE WHAT THEY TELL YOU.
6:46:05PM THE BUSINESSES CAN BE ON 22ND STREET.
6:46:08PM THERE'S NO REASON -- WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN?
6:46:11PM AND YOU ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENS.
6:46:12PM THIS WILL HAPPEN, AND THEN JUST GO DOWN ABOUT THREE BLOCKS
6:46:16PM AND THEY ARE GOING TO CHANGE THAT EITHER APARTMENTS OR
6:46:19PM ANOTHER LITTLE BUSINESS.
6:46:22PM I KNOW WE NEED SOME CHANGE.
6:46:24PM I AGREE.
6:46:25PM I WOULD LOVE TO SEE MORE FAMILIES ON PALMETTO BEACH.
6:46:29PM BUT I DON'T WANT BERMUDA BOULEVARD TO CHANGE TO A BUSINESS
6:46:32PM COMMUNITY.
6:46:33PM LIKE I SAY, MY FAMILY, THE MALONES, THE CHIARAMONTES, THE
6:46:43PM REYNOLDS.
6:46:44PM I MEAN, THAT'S THE LIFE OF PALMETTO BEACH.
6:46:46PM AND I JUST HOPE THAT IF THERE'S ANY WAY TO AVOID BUSINESSES
6:46:55PM ON BERMUDA, I'M ALL IN FAVOR OF THE CHANGES.
6:46:58PM THANK YOU.
6:46:58PM >> MY NAME IS LAURA MEYER.
6:47:07PM I'M VICE PRESIDENT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION.
6:47:09PM I ACTUALLY LIVE DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM EVERYONE IN
6:47:12PM OPPOSITION, WHEN WE BROUGHT THIS COMMUNITY TOGETHER.
6:47:18PM I LIVE AT 2424 STUART STREET.
6:47:20PM I ALSO OWN PROPERTY ON BERMUDA BOULEVARD AND MY FAMILY OWNS
6:47:25PM ADJACENT PROPERTY TO THIS DEVELOPMENT AS WELL, AND DIRECTLY
6:47:31PM IMPACT.
6:47:36PM I SPEAK FOR MYSELF AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITY THAT WE SPENT --
6:47:42PM WE ARE ALWAYS AVAILABLE TO ADDRESS ANY OF THEIR CONCERNS.
6:47:47PM MORE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT COULD POTENTIALLY GO UP.
6:47:49PM AND I FULLY SUPPORT EVERYTHING THAT'S BEING PROPOSED.
6:47:54PM AND I THINK THAT IT'S CLEAR THAT THE PEOPLE IN OPPOSITION,
6:47:59PM 80 TO 90% OF WHAT'S ON THE TABLE.
6:48:01PM IT JUST THE ONE LAST THING THAT THEY DON'T LIKE.
6:48:05PM AND IT'S NOT POSSIBLE TO PLEASE EVERYONE.
6:48:08PM IF IT WERE WE WOULDN'T BE HERE.
6:48:10PM I THINK OF WE ARE FORTUNATE TO HAVE A DEVELOPER THAT IS
6:48:14PM CARING AND SPENDING TIME AND EFFORT TO SEE WHAT WORKS OUT
6:48:19PM BEST TO PROPERLY ADVISE FINANCIAL INTERESTS BUT ALSO THE
6:48:25PM INTERESTS OF THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE.
6:48:27PM I AM A NATIVE OF TAMPA.
6:48:29PM BORN AND RAISED.
6:48:32PM 40 YEARS.
6:48:32PM LIVED IN HYDE PARK BEFORE HYDE PARK VILLAGE WAS THERE.
6:48:35PM I WATCHED THAT ALL GO UP JUST BECAUSE MY ENTIRE FAMILY
6:48:39PM DOESN'T MEAN IN PALMETTO BEACH DOESN'T MEAN I DON'T HAVE A
6:48:43PM SPECIAL INTEREST OVERALL.
6:48:44PM WE HAVE BEEN UNDERUTILIZED.
6:48:48PM UP UNTIL 2007, AND CRAFT SHOPS WERE TAKEN DOWN, THERE WAS
6:48:54PM COMMERCIAL ON BERMUDA.
6:48:56PM I DON'T THINK WHAT THEY ARE ASKING FOR IS OUTRAGEOUS OR OUT
6:48:58PM OF CHARACTER FOR WHAT HAS BEEN APPROVED AND EXISTED IN THE
6:49:02PM COMMUNITY ALREADY.
6:49:06PM AND I THINK ANYTHING TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE NEIGHBORS,
6:49:09PM THERE'S NOTHING ON THE LAND NOW.
6:49:11PM THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BE BLOCKING ANYBODY'S VIEW.
6:49:13PM THERE'S NOTHING THERE NOW THAT THEY ARE TAKING AWAY.
6:49:16PM AND I THINK ALL OF THOSE THINGS ARE COMING INTO ALIGNMENT.
6:49:30PM I HOPE YOU WILL CONSIDER THAT.
6:49:32PM AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
6:49:33PM >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL.
6:49:52PM ALISON NOBLE.
6:49:57PM I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE RESIDENTS OF PALMETTO BEACH'-I AM
6:50:05PM FOR THE JOBS, ECONOMIC PROSPERITY, SUSTAINABILITY, BETTER
6:50:10PM QUALITY OF LIFE TO PALMETTO BEACH, HISTORIC AND I BELIEVE IN
6:50:17PM INVESTMENT, INNOVATION, AND THE VALUE OF PALMETTO BEACH AS A
6:50:22PM COMMUNITY WE CAN ACCOMPLISH THAT VISION.
6:50:24PM AS YOU ARE NO DOUBT AWARE, YBOR CITY HAS DESIGNATED AS
6:50:31PM OPPORTUNITY ZONE FOR THE STATE.
6:50:33PM THEY WILL BE DEVELOPED WITH PRIVATE INVESTMENT.
6:50:36PM JUST ACROSS THE MACKAY BAY BRIDGE ALONG 22ND STREET, UP TO
6:50:42PM AND INCLUDING THE WATER HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED AS OPPORTUNITY
6:50:46PM ZONE.
6:50:48PM THEY WILL ALSO SEE INVESTMENT.
6:50:49PM IT IS BEAUTIFUL.
6:50:50PM IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN.
6:50:53PM SOUTH 22ND STREET IS CURRENTLY A BUSY THOROUGHFARE.
6:50:57PM AND WITHOUT BEING INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS, ECONOMIC
6:51:01PM PROSPERITY.
6:51:07PM THIS DEVELOPMENT I THINK SHOULD NOT BE ZONED TO BRING
6:51:09PM PROSPERITY TO LOCAL BUSINESSES ALREADY THERE.
6:51:13PM I AM NOT IN FAVOR OF -- PALMETTO BEACH BY NOT BEING IN THE
6:51:18PM GAME.
6:51:20PM PROGRESS IS A PROCESS.
6:51:24PM THE OWNERS HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THE RESIDENT OF PALMETTO
6:51:26PM BEACH WITH THAT PROCESS.
6:51:29PM I ASK THAT YOU APPROVE THIS APPLICATION SO THAT PALMETTO
6:51:31PM BEACH CAN REALIZE THE VISION OF ALIVE, WORK AND PLAY
6:51:34PM COMMUNITY AND BE A POSITIVE IMPACT TO THE RESIDENT OF
6:51:37PM PALMETTO BEACH CURRENTLY, FUTURE RESIDENTS, AND BUSINESS IN
6:51:42PM TAMPA.
6:51:43PM THANK YOU.
6:51:43PM >> MY NAME IS KATIE FALCON.
6:51:55PM MY ADDRESS IS 2418 THRACE STREET.
6:51:59PM I HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT OF PALMETTO BEACH FOR ABOUT A YEAR
6:52:01PM AND A HALF.
6:52:02PM I HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT OF TAMPA FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS.
6:52:08PM MOVING TO PALMETTO BEACH WAS THE SAME REASON THAT I SHOULD
6:52:12PM ACCEPT THE REZONING PROPOSED.
6:52:15PM WE LOVE THE LOCATION OF PALMETTO BEACH.
6:52:17PM WE LOVE THE PROXIMITY TO THE WATER.
6:52:19PM AND WE FEEL THAT THE COMMUNITY HAS SO MUCH MORE TO OFFER
6:52:23PM BOTH AS RESIDENTS AND THE CITY OF TAMPA THAN IS CURRENTLY
6:52:27PM BEING UTILIZED FOR.
6:52:30PM THE DEVELOPMENT THAT'S BEING PROPOSED ON BERMUDA BOULEVARD,
6:52:35PM WHILE I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THE CONCERNS AND RESIDENT
6:52:42PM THEIR ENTIRE LIFETIME, MY CONCERN WAS THAT PLOT OF LAND IS
6:52:47PM APARTMENTS OR SOME OTHER HEAVY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT WOULD
6:52:51PM BRING ZERO BENEFIT TO THE EXISTING RESIDENT OF PALMETTO
6:52:53PM BEACH.
6:52:55PM HAVING ALIVE-WORK-PLAY WITH COFFEE SHOP AND WATERFRONT, OR
6:53:01PM RESTAURANT, WITH A BAKERY, THINGS LIKE THAT, FOR RESIDENTS
6:53:06PM TO WALK TO, WOULD REALLY BENEFIT THOSE OF US WHO PLAN, LIVE
6:53:12PM AND WORK THERE AS WELL.
6:53:14PM THANK YOU.
6:53:14PM >> MY NAME IS ALLAN JUHL.
6:53:22PM I LIVE AT 2413 LINSEY STREET.
6:53:28PM THE PROPOSAL, I THINK THE CURRENT ZONING HAS NOT STIMULATED
6:53:32PM ANY KIND OF GROWTH ON 22ND STREET.
6:53:37PM HERE WE HAVE AN INVESTOR THAT'S COMING IN AND WILLING TO
6:53:40PM SPEND MONEY AND TIME AND EFFORT TO DRAW BUSINESSES AND
6:53:44PM DEVELOPMENT INTO THAT AREA.
6:53:45PM I THINK SITTING ON THE SOUTH END OF A DEVELOPMENT, I GUESS,
6:53:51PM I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO CALL IT, OF PALMETTO BEACH, I
6:53:55PM DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO ENCOURAGE THE BUSINESS TO MOVE UP
6:53:58PM NORTH.
6:53:58PM I THINK IT'S A NICE LOCATION ON 22ND STREET, WHATEVER
6:54:03PM CAUSEWAY IT IS THERE COMING IN.
6:54:06PM I THINK -- I GUESS I'LL JUST SAY I'M FOR IT.
6:54:13PM BEYOND THAT, I GUESS THAT'S IT.
6:54:15PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ANYONE ELSE WISH TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER
6:54:19PM 3?
6:54:21PM ALL RIGHT.
6:54:21PM APPLICANT?
6:54:22PM >>MICHAEL HORNER: MR. CHAIRMAN, I'LL BE BRIEF.
6:54:31PM SO WE HAVE REACHED OUT.
6:54:34PM AND WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ONE FAMILY WE HAVE COMMUNITY
6:54:41PM SUPPORT.
6:54:41PM AND WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO THE REYNOLDS.
6:54:43PM WE HAVE INVITED THEM TO EVERY SINGLE MEETING THAT WAS HELD.
6:54:46PM AND WE UNDERSTAND THEIR CONCERNS.
6:54:48PM THEY DON'T WANT TAMPA COMMERCIAL.
6:54:50PM THEY DON'T WANT 22ND STREET EAST.
6:54:53PM WE GET THAT.
6:54:55PM MY CLIENT HAS IN A INTEREST IN TURNING BERMUDA BEACH INTO A
6:54:59PM COMMERCIAL STRIP CENTER BOULEVARD.
6:55:03PM THE USES THEY ARE PROPOSING, YOU WILL SEE, REVIEW AND ACT
6:55:08PM ON, HOPEFULLY FAVORABLY, AND OUR PD ZONING COMES THROUGH,
6:55:11PM THERE ARE SEVERAL REPRESENTATIVE ILLUSTRATIONS BEFORE YOU OF
6:55:16PM BOUTIQUE STYLE USES WITH UNITS ABOVE.
6:55:19PM THE UNIT ABOVE, YOU MAXIMIZE THE VIEWS OF THAT BEAUTIFUL
6:55:23PM BAY.
6:55:23PM YOU ALLOW THE ELEVATION TO MEET ALL THE FLOOD REQUIREMENTS
6:55:27PM AND THE COASTAL HIGH HAZARD ISSUES.
6:55:29PM AND THEN YOU ALLOW FOR USES THAT ARE COMING PATIBLE.
6:55:35PM THEY ARE NOT APARTMENTS.
6:55:36PM THESE WILL BE SOLD.
6:55:38PM PEOPLE WANT TO INVEST IN THIS DEVELOPMENT.
6:55:41PM I WOULD SUGGEST TO YOU THAT ANYONE WHO UTILIZES OUR REQUEST
6:55:47PM FOR ADVOCATING STRIP COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT ON BERMUDA
6:55:52PM BOULEVARD, I THINK WE WOULD BE THE FIRST ONES TO COME DOWN
6:55:55PM TO CITY COUNCIL AND ASK THAT YOU DENY IT.
6:55:56PM BECAUSE WE DO NOT WANT THOSE KIND OF USES.
6:56:00PM THE COMMUNITY DOES NOT WANT THOSE KIND OF USES.
6:56:03PM THINK ABOUT BE THE RESIDENTS THAT ARE ABOVE THAT HAVE
6:56:05PM INVESTED DOLLARS TO LIVE ABOVE THESE BOUTIQUE STYLE RETAIL
6:56:09PM USES.
6:56:10PM THEY DON'T WANT BARS.
6:56:11PM THEY DON'T WANT STRIP CLUBS.
6:56:12PM THEY DON'T WANT KNIFE LIFE.
6:56:14PM THEY DON'T WANT POUNDING MUSIC.
6:56:16PM 22ND STREET IS A LITTLE LARGER RETAIL AREA, WHAT HAS BEEN
6:56:21PM THERE IN THE PAST IS NOT THERE NOW.
6:56:22PM AND IT'S MOST UNFORTUNATE TO SEE THE DETERIORATION OF THIS
6:56:26PM AREA FROM 22ND IN PARTICULAR.
6:56:28PM THE MIXED USE PLAN IS ONE THAT HAS TO BE APPROVED IN ORDER
6:56:33PM TO MAKE THIS PLAN WORK.
6:56:34PM WE LOOKED AT ALL OTHER OPTIONS.
6:56:36PM WE LOOKED AT REMOVING ALL THE COMMERCIAL. HAVING ALL STRIP
6:56:39PM COMMERCIAL ON 22ND, DOING ALL RESIDENTIAL.
6:56:42PM MY CLIENT IS NOT INTERESTED.
6:56:45PM WE ALREADY HAVE THAT PLAN APPROVED.
6:56:47PM THAT PLAN IN 2007, NOT A PLAN OF 2018.
6:56:50PM IT CERTAINLY NOT A PLAN FOR THE FUTURE.
6:56:53PM WE DIDN'T WANT THE CMU-35.
6:56:56PM WE DIDN'T ASK FOR THE CMU-35.
6:56:58PM WE ASKED THE PLANNING COMMISSION FOR A CMU 10, CMU 20.
6:57:03PM WE DON'T WANT A CMU-35.
6:57:05PM THAT IS THE LEAST INTENSIVE PLAN THAT WE CAN ASK FOR THAT
6:57:08PM ALLOWS VERTICAL INTEGRATION OF USES.
6:57:11PM WE ALSO WANTED MU 16.
6:57:16PM UNFORTUNATELY THE NEIGHBORHOOD MIXED USE 16 UNITS PER ACRE
6:57:18PM WHICH WE ALLOW INTEGRATION OF USES CANNOT BE APPLIED FOR
6:57:22PM BECAUSE IT'S NOT AN URBAN VILLAGE CORRIDOR.
6:57:25PM THAT DESIGNATION IS NOT YET MADE.
6:57:27PM SO WE FIND OURSELVES STUCK ASKING FOR THE LOWEST LEVEL TIER
6:57:32PM OF THE COMP PLAN CATEGORY THAT WE ALREADY HAVE AND EXISTS TO
6:57:35PM THE SOUTH AND ALLOW FOR THIS TO GO FORWARD FOR A TRUE
6:57:39PM LIVE-WORK-PLAY COMMUNITY.
6:57:41PM YOU WILL HAVE ALL THE AUTHORITY AND POWER.
6:57:43PM IF WE DON'T STAND BY OUR WORD WHEN WE COME BACK TO YOU WITH
6:57:46PM A PD SITE PLAN, STRIP COMMERCIAL, CONVENIENCE STORE, GAS
6:57:50PM STATION, YOU HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO DENY THAT PLAN.
6:57:53PM THAT'S NOT WHAT MY CLIENT WANT TO DO.
6:57:56PM I REGRET THOSE COMMENTS MADE BY MR. REYNOLDS.
6:57:59PM I KNOW HE'S PASSIONATE, BUT WE EXTENDED OUR HAND TO HIM,
6:58:03PM EXTENDED OUR INVITES TO ALL THE FAMILY MEMBERS AND SAID
6:58:05PM LET'S WORK TOGETHER.
6:58:06PM CHANGE IS SCARY.
6:58:07PM YOU GET THAT.
6:58:08PM AND WE PROMISED THAT WE WOULD WORK WITH THEM.
6:58:12PM THEY HAVE OTHER CONDITIONS BUT THIS IS ABOUT BALANCING
6:58:16PM INTERESTS BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY, PRIVATE SECTOR AND
6:58:19PM CERTAINLY IN THE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION FROM COMMUNITY
6:58:22PM INVESTMENT AS WELL.
6:58:24PM I AM GOING TO HAVE MRS. WILLMAN ADDRESS THE COMMUNITY ISSUE
6:58:29PM BRIEFLY BECAUSE THAT HAS COME UP AS AN ISSUE IN CONFLICT
6:58:33PM WITH THE REYNOLDS FAMILY.
6:58:34PM >> JENNIFER WILLMAN: AS YOU KNOW THE PLANNING COMMISSION,
6:58:40PM THE SURROUNDING 250 FEET, THE APPLICANT DECIDED TO NOTIFY AT
6:58:45PM THE NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING WITH A NOTICE WHICH WAS HELD ON
6:58:48PM AUGUST 8th, AND I DID NOTIFY SOME OTHERS JUST TO MAKE
6:58:55PM SURE THEY WERE AWARE, IT WASN'T REQUIRED THAT THEY WERE
6:58:59PM NOTIFIED, OBVIOUSLY, BUT DO TRY TO REACH OUT TO EVERYBODY.
6:59:03PM AND WE NOTIFIED OWNERS ON OUR FACEBOOK GROUP THAT WE HAVE
6:59:09PM MEETINGS AND THERE WERE 40 PEOPLE THAT CAME, AND I WELCOMED
6:59:14PM EVERYONE TO CONTACT ME WITH THEIR CONCERNS.
6:59:15PM I DIDN'T TAKE A POSITION ON THIS UNTIL WE LET THE PLANNING
6:59:20PM COMMISSION AND BOARD MEMBERS WANTED TO TAKE A POSITION THAT
6:59:22PM WE SUPPORT IT.
6:59:23PM AND WE HAVE A WEBSITE, REGISTERED WITH THE CITY.
6:59:29PM EVERYONE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTACT ME.
6:59:31PM (BELL SOUNDS)
6:59:34PM AND CONTACT ME DIRECTLY TO ADDRESS THEIR CONCERNS.
6:59:37PM THANK YOU.
6:59:37PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL?
6:59:41PM MOTION TO CLOSE?
6:59:42PM >> SO MOVED.
6:59:43PM >>FRANK REDDICK: I HAVE A MOTION FROM MR. MANISCALCO.
6:59:45PM SECONDED BY MR. MIRANDA TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.
6:59:47PM ALL IN FAVOR OF THAT MOTION SAY AYE.
6:59:49PM OPPOSED?
6:59:51PM MR. MIRANDA?
6:59:52PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WILL READ FILE PA-18-08.
6:59:58PM AN ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR FIRST READING
7:00:00PM CONSIDERATION.
7:00:01PM AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, FUTURE
7:00:03PM LAND USE MAP, FOR THE PROPERTY GENERALLY LOCATED WEST OF
7:00:06PM SOUTH BERMUDA BOULEVARD, NORTH OF MAPLE AVENUE, EAST OF
7:00:11PM SOUTH 22ND STREET AND SOUTH OF SAXON AVENUE FROM RESIDENTIAL
7:00:15PM 10, R 10, RESIDENTIAL R-20, AND RIGHT-OF-WAY RW, TO
7:00:22PM COMMUNITY MIXED USE 35, CMU-35, PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL
7:00:26PM ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY,
7:00:28PM PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
7:00:28PM >>FRANK REDDICK: MOTION FROM MR. MIRANDA.
7:00:31PM SECONDED BY MRS. CAPIN.
7:00:32PM ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION?
7:00:34PM ALL IN FAVOR OF THAT MOTION SAY AYE.
7:00:37PM OPPOSED?
7:00:38PM >> THE MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
7:00:40PM SECOND READING AND ADOPTION WILL BE ON OCTOBER 18th AT
7:00:43PM 9:30 A.M.
7:00:44PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ITEM NUMBER 4.
7:00:45PM >>JENNIFER MALONE: THE NEXT TWO ITEMS ON YOUR AGENDA, ITEMS
7:01:00PM 46 AND 5, ARE INTERRELATED, AND THEY RELATE TO EACH OTHER.
7:01:06PM THEY ARE COMPANION AMENDMENT AND WE WOULD REQUEST IF IT'S
7:01:08PM THE PLEASURE OF COUNCIL THAT WE GET TOGETHER AND OPEN THEM
7:01:11PM TOGETHER.
7:01:13PM AND THAT'S MY REQUEST BEFORE YOU TONIGHT.
7:01:15PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ITEM NUMBER 4 AND 5?
7:01:18PM >>JENNIFER MALONE: CORRECT.
7:01:19PM >> WE HAVE AN A PORTION AND A B PORTION.
7:01:24PM >>FRANK REDDICK: OKAY.
7:01:24PM >>JENNIFER MALONE: PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF.
7:01:30PM I WILL START WITH TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FUTURE LAND USE
7:01:33PM MAP AMENDMENT 18-09-A.
7:01:36PM THIS IS LOCATED IN THE CENTRAL TAMPA PLANNING DISTRICT
7:01:40PM WITHIN THE TAMPA HEIGHTS URBAN VILLAGE.
7:01:44PM IT IS A PRIVATELY INITIATED SMALL SCALE AMENDMENT ABOUT 0.22
7:01:49PM ACRES AND THE REQUEST BEFORE YOU IS TO GO FROM COMMUNITY
7:01:51PM MIXED USE 35 TO COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL 35.
7:01:55PM THERE IS A SMALL DIFFERENCE OF THOSE TWO LAND USE
7:01:57PM CATEGORIES.
7:01:58PM THE SAME DENSITY.
7:01:59PM THE SAME INTENSITY.
7:02:01PM COMMUNITY MIXED USE PA ALLOWS CG USES, COMMUNITY 35 ALLOWS
7:02:06PM CG USES AND CI USES.
7:02:08PM GENERAL AND COMMERCIAL INTENSIVE.
7:02:12PM IT IS LOCATED HERE.
7:02:14PM I HAVE FLORIDA AND TAMPA STREET.
7:02:19PM THIS IS A DOLLAR STORE TO THE SOUTH.
7:02:21PM I HAVE A CHINESE RESTAURANT OVER HERE TO THE EAST.
7:02:26PM VARIETY OF COMMERCIAL USES ALONG THIS CORRIDOR.
7:02:31PM ALONG THE CORRIDOR WITH THE INTERSTATE OVER HERE.
7:02:36PM THIS IS THE SUBJECT SITE FOR A PORTION OF THE AMENDMENT,
7:02:40PM PRIVATELY INITIATED.
7:02:41PM I HAVE IT OUTLINED IN RED.
7:02:43PM THAT IS THE SUBJECT SITE.
7:02:48PM I APOLOGIZE.
7:02:49PM ALONG COLUMBUS DRIVE RIGHT HERE.
7:02:54PM AND THIS IS THE SUBJECT SITE.
7:02:59PM THIS IS LOCATED EAST OF THE SUBJECT SITE.
7:03:01PM THIS IS A BUILDING THAT'S LOCATED ALONG FLORIDA AVENUE.
7:03:04PM WE SEE THE HART BUS.
7:03:07PM THAT'S WHERE FLORIDA IS.
7:03:08PM THAT'S WEST COLUMBUS. THIS IS OUT OF FRAME OVER HERE.
7:03:13PM THIS IS THE FAMILY DOLLAR THAT'S DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET
7:03:16PM FROM THE SUBJECT SITE.
7:03:17PM SO IF YOU WOULD TURN AROUND YOU WOULD SEE THE SUBJECT SITE
7:03:21PM DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET.
7:03:29PM THIS IS TO THE WEST.
7:03:30PM THAT'S THE CHINESE RESTAURANT POINTED OUT EARLIER.
7:03:33PM NORTH TAMPA.
7:03:33PM THIS IS WEST COLUMBUS RIGHT HERE. THIS IS THE ADOPTED
7:03:37PM FUTURE LAND USE MAP.
7:03:38PM THE SITE OUTLINED IN PINK.
7:03:40PM IT IS COMMUNITY MIXED USE PA.
7:03:42PM TO THE SOUTH I HAVE COMMUNITY MERSION 35 WHICH IS THE RED.
7:03:46PM AND THEN THIS IS RESIDENTIAL 10 IN THAT ORANGE COLOR.
7:03:49PM THIS IS RESIDENTIAL 20 IN THE DARKER BROWN THAT ALLOWS FOR A
7:03:56PM LITTLE HIGHER INTENSITY OF RESIDENTIAL USES.
7:04:02PM THE PROPOSAL BEFORE YOU TODAY IS THAT COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL
7:04:04PM 35 WHICH IS THE RED.
7:04:06PM ALSO PRESENT IN THE SOUTH AND ALONG NORTH FLORIDA AVENUE.
7:04:11PM THIS WOULD INCREASE THE POTENTIAL DENSITY FROM 7 UNITS TO 7
7:04:17PM UNIT AND SQUARE FOOTAGE STAYS THE SAME.
7:04:19PM AS I SAID BEFORE IT'S THE SAME DENSITY AND THE SAME
7:04:21PM INTENSITY CATEGORY.
7:04:24PM THE USE IS THE ONLY THING THAT CHANGES FOR THIS OUTPARCEL
7:04:30PM POTENTIAL ZONING SO IT'S STILL 25 UNITS PER ACRE UP TO 2.4
7:04:36PM AREA RATIO ON THE TWO CATEGORIES.
7:04:39PM CITY OF TAMPA STAFF DID HAVE OBJECTIONS TO THE REQUEST.
7:04:42PM LACHONE DOCK WILL EXPLAIN IT WHEN I FINISH MY PRESENTATION.
7:04:47PM BUT THE PLANNING COMMISSION DID FIND THIS CONSISTENT WITH
7:04:50PM OUR POLICIES AND THE PLAN.
7:04:51PM THE SUBJECT SITE DOES INTERFACE THAT COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL 35
7:04:56PM ON THAT FUTURE LAND USE MAP, DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET IS
7:04:59PM THAT COMMUNITY MERSION 35 WHICH IS WHAT THE APPLICANT IS
7:05:02PM ASKING FOR TODAY.
7:05:03PM IT IS ALSO LOCATED ALONG AN ARTERIAL ROADWAY, WEST COLUMBUS
7:05:07PM DRIVE AND ARTERIAL, AND BETWEEN TWO ARTERIALS BETWEEN
7:05:11PM FLORIDA AND TAMPA WHICH ARE ARTERIAL STREETS, AND WITHIN AN
7:05:15PM URBAN VILLAGE.
7:05:16PM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN SPECIFICALLY HAS A POLICY THAT GROWTH
7:05:18PM IS WHERE URBAN VILLAGES, EVERYONE WANTS TO SEE THAT GROWTH
7:05:23PM IN THE CITY.
7:05:26PM STAFF DID FIND THE PROPOSAL FITS IN WITH THE ESTABLISHED
7:05:29PM DEVELOPMENT PATTERN IN THOSE POLICIES IN THE COMPREHENSIVE
7:05:31PM PLAN.
7:05:40PM I AM GOING TO GO RIGHT INTO THE SECOND POWER POINT BECAUSE
7:05:44PM WE OPENED THIS TOGETHER.
7:05:48PM 18-09-B.
7:05:50PM IT IS ALSO WITHIN THE CENTRAL TAMPA PLANNING DISTRICT AND
7:05:52PM THE TAMPA HEIGHTS URBAN VILLAGE.
7:05:55PM AND THIS IS A PUBLICLY INITIATED PORTION OF THE AMENDMENT.
7:05:58PM IT'S ABOUT THE SAME SIZE, AND PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF
7:06:01PM INITIATED THIS TO GO FROM COMMUNITY MIXED USE 35 TO
7:06:04PM COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL 35.
7:06:07PM AND IT IS LOCATED RIGHT HERE.
7:06:11PM AND THE 1809-A WHICH I JUST PRESENTED ON IS THIS PARCEL.
7:06:16PM AND SO IF BOTH ARE APPROVED, THIS WOULD BE THE RED AND THEN
7:06:20PM THIS WOULD BE THE READ OVER HERE TO THE EAST.
7:06:26PM I APOLOGIZE.
7:06:27PM WE FOUND THIS CONSISTENT AS WELL AND THE BOARD HAS FOR THE
7:06:32PM SAME REASON.
7:06:32PM LACHONE DOCK HAS OBJECTIONS AS WELL.
7:06:35PM BUT WE DID FIND THIS TO BE IN THE SAME CHARACTER AND
7:06:38PM COMPATIBILITY OF THE AREA.
7:06:39PM WE INITIATED THIS COMPANION AMENDMENT BECAUSE WE FEEL
7:06:42PM STRONGLY THAT THIS WOULD CONTINUE THAT LAND DEVELOPMENT
7:06:45PM PATTERN ALONG COLUMBUS DRIVE AND WOULD BE -- WOULD FIT IN
7:06:51PM WITH THE POLICIES AND THE DEVELOPMENT PATTERN.
7:06:54PM WE HAVE LACHONE DOCK IS HERE TO SPEAK ON THE CITY'S STANCE.
7:07:03PM THAT CONCLUDE MY PRESENTATION.
7:07:06PM THANK YOU. I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
7:07:06PM >>LACHONE DOCK: PLANNING AND URBAN DESIGN.
7:07:12PM COUNCIL, CITY PLANNING STAFF HAS REVIEWED THIS REQUEST AND
7:07:15PM HAS OBJECTIONS TO THE REQUEST.
7:07:17PM THE OBJECTIONS ARE RELATING TO THE HIGHER DENSITY THAT'S
7:07:22PM ALLOWED WITHIN THE CC 35 LAND USE CATEGORY.
7:07:29PM I HAVE THE ZONING MAP HERE FOR THE PROPERTY.
7:07:34PM AND SO THIS IS FLORIDA AVENUE.
7:07:39PM ON THE MAP.
7:07:39PM THIS IS THE PROPERTY.
7:07:40PM THIS IS THE PRIVATELY INITIATED PROPERTY.
7:07:44PM AND THIS IS THE PROPERTY PUBLICLY AT THE PLANNING
7:07:48PM COMMISSION.
7:07:50PM ON EAST COLUMBUS, FLORIDA AVENUE, YOU WILL SEE THE ZONING OF
7:07:55PM CI COMMERCIAL INTENSIVE ZONING.
7:07:58PM ON EAST COLUMBUS YOU HAVE COMMERCIAL ZONING BUT IT HEADS
7:08:02PM EAST OF FLORIDA AVENUE. AS YOU HEAD WEST ON EAST COLUMBUS
7:08:05PM DRIVE, YOU WILL SEE THE ZONING DESIGNATION LOWER.
7:08:09PM AND THIS IS ACROSS TAMPA STREET.
7:08:17PM BUT AS YOU ARE HEADED NORTH OF THE TWO PARCELS, YOU HAVE
7:08:20PM RESIDENTIAL ZONING THAT EXISTS THERE.
7:08:23PM SO STAFF'S CONCERN IS THAT THIS BLOCK IS BEING DEVELOPED
7:08:26PM WITH RESIDENTIAL, AND ON THE NORTH SIDE OF EAST COLUMBUS
7:08:30PM DRIVE, THE DEVELOPMENT PATTERN IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN IT
7:08:33PM IS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF COLUMBUS.
7:08:36PM YOU HAVE THAT ENTIRE BLOCK HERE.
7:08:39PM THIS IS A BICYCLE SHOP THAT'S WITHIN HERE THAT'S BEEN THERE
7:08:43PM FOR YEARS.
7:08:44PM YOU HAVE THIS WHOLE BLOCK THAT IS USED ON THIS DEVELOPMENT
7:08:49PM IN THAT LOT THERE IS THE PARKING FOR IT.
7:08:53PM GROCERY STORE.
7:08:54PM AND SOUTH OF THAT YOU HAVE YOUR COMMERCIAL USES.
7:08:57PM BUT AS YOU HEAD NORTH ON COLUMBUS THAT YOU CHANGE IT TO
7:09:00PM RESIDENTIAL.
7:09:01PM SO STAFF HAD A CONCERN WITH THAT AND FELT THAT THE CC 35, IF
7:09:07PM THE PROPERTY IS REZONED, IT WOULD ALLOW FOR CI ZONING, AND
7:09:10PM THAT WOULD EXTEND THAT CI ZONING FURTHER WEST ON COLUMBUS
7:09:13PM DRIVE.
7:09:16PM AND THAT CONCLUDE MY PRESENTATION.
7:09:17PM I'M AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
7:09:19PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ANY QUESTIONS BY COUNCIL?
7:09:22PM ALL RIGHT.
7:09:22PM WE GO TO THE PUBLIC.
7:09:23PM ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC WISH TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER 4?
7:09:35PM APPLICANT, PLEASE?
7:09:37PM WHO IS THE APPLICANT?
7:09:39PM >>JENNIFER MALONE: THEY ARE COMING UP RIGHT NOW.
7:09:41PM >>FRANK REDDICK: WHO IS THE APPLICANT?
7:09:43PM >> GOOD EVENING, GENTLEMEN.
7:09:52PM MY NAME IS MOISES MORETA.
7:09:57PM I OWN THE PROPERTY FOR 33 YEARS.
7:10:01PM AND RIGHT NOW, I AM USING THE PROPERTY TO MANAGE OLD CARS,
7:10:11PM COLUMBUS AND FLORIDA.
7:10:12PM I AM USING THE PROPERTY FOR OLD CARS.
7:10:19PM WE DON'T PLAN ON CHANGING ANY OF THE BUILDINGS.
7:10:22PM THE BUILDINGS WILL BE THE SAME.
7:10:24PM EVERYTHING WILL BE THE SAME.
7:10:25PM BUT RIGHT NOW, THE PROPERTIES, TO MAKE MINOR MECHANICAL
7:10:32PM WORK.
7:10:33PM I WANT TO BE SURE IN THE FUTURE IF I WANT TO CHANGE WITH
7:10:39PM CARS WOULD BE ABLE TO DO IT WITHOUT BREAKING THE LAWS.
7:10:43PM THIS IS THE ONLY REASON WE WANT TO CHANGE IT, THE ZONING OF
7:10:48PM THE PROPERTY.
7:10:48PM SO WE ARE PLANNING ON DOING NOTHING ELSE THAN THAT.
7:10:51PM I DON'T PLAN TO PUT ANY RESIDENTIAL, BECAUSE OUR PROPERTY
7:10:56PM HAS AN ALLEYWAY IN THE REAR, AND CONCRETE BLOCK, SO WE DON'T
7:11:07PM INTERFERE WITH THE ALLEY, OR RESIDENTIAL.
7:11:11PM RIGHT NOW, ALL THE LOT IS EMPTY.
7:11:13PM AND THE SAME PROPERTY 33 YEARS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
7:11:21PM SO I UNDERSTAND NOW A LOT OF COMMUNITY, CHANGE IS COMING
7:11:26PM OUT.
7:11:34PM I DON'T KNOW -- THIS IS THE TIME WE -- REASON WE TRY TO MAKE
7:11:40PM A CHANGE AT THIS TIME.
7:11:41PM OKAY?
7:11:42PM HAVE YOU GOT ANY QUESTIONS?
7:11:43PM >>CHAIRMAN: ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL?
7:11:44PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I HAVE A QUESTION.
7:11:46PM YOU MENTIONED.
7:11:49PM (SPEAKING SPANISH).
7:11:52PM AND I APOLOGIZE.
7:12:02PM I WILL REPEAT IT BUT I WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND.
7:12:08PM >> IN COLUMBUS AND --
7:12:12PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: (SPEAKING SPANISH)
7:12:16PM >> (SPEAKING SPANISH)
7:12:36PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WHAT I ASKED THE GENTLEMAN WAS HAS
7:13:17PM ANYBODY CALLED CODE ENFORCEMENT TO WHERE HE SAID HE COULDN'T
7:13:20PM DO ANY BIG REPAIR JOBS LIKE CHANGING A TRANSMISSION BECAUSE
7:13:23PM OF THE ZONING THING AND I ASKED HIM DO YOU HAVE ANY
7:13:28PM INFRACTION WAS THE CITY OF TAMPA?
7:13:30PM AND HE SAID NO.
7:13:30PM >> (SPEAKING SPANISH)
7:13:44PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I ASKED AGAIN WHAT IT WAS, AND I
7:14:23PM EXPLAINED WHAT I SAW WHEN I WENT BY, AND I UNDERSTAND WHAT
7:14:28PM HE'S SAYING, HE SAID HE NEVER HAD CODE ENFORCEMENT, CITED
7:14:33PM FOR HAVING CHANGED A TRANSMISSION OR SOMETHING.
7:14:35PM >> (SPEAKING SPANISH)
7:14:42PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: OKAY, OKAY.
7:14:43PM >>YVONNE CAPIN: HE ALSO SAID THAT HE SELLS CARS, AND HE
7:14:54PM USES THAT LOT WHAT HE'S GOT TO REPAIR THE CARS THAT HE IS
7:15:00PM SELLING OR BRING THEM UP TO DATE.
7:15:04PM SO THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THAT.
7:15:05PM THEY DON'T TAKE IN CARS FROM THE PUBLIC.
7:15:12PM OKAY.
7:15:14PM SHE COULD HAVE SAID IT.
7:15:15PM >> [ RUSTLING PAPERS ] 110 EAST COLUMBUS DRIVE.
7:15:27PM MY MOTHER ALSO OWNS 2702, 2712 FLORIDA AVENUE WAS MENTIONED.
7:15:41PM 2315 NORTH FLORIDA AVENUE.
7:15:42PM THAT WAS MY DAD'S.
7:15:47PM WE HAVE BEEN THERE SINCE 1980.
7:15:51PM THE ONLY THING WE WANTED, OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO PROSPER.
7:15:57PM YOU KNOW, A BETTER NEIGHBORHOOD.
7:16:02PM THAT BUILDING, WE WANT GOOD TENANTS TO COME, AND TAMPA
7:16:09PM STUDENTS TO COME, BECAUSE THEY WERE BAD.
7:16:16PM AND WANT OUR PLACE TO GET BETTER.
7:16:19PM THAT'S ALL WE ARE ASKING FOR.
7:16:20PM >>FRANK REDDICK: OKAY.
7:16:22PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IS CARLOS YOUR BROTHER?
7:16:30PM >> YES.
7:16:30PM YES.
7:16:31PM 1902 NORTH.
7:16:35PM >>FRANK REDDICK: MR. COHEN.
7:16:39PM >>HARRY COHEN: ARE YOU FOR OR AGAINST?
7:16:41PM OH, OH, GOT IT, GOT IT.
7:16:44PM YOU ARE FOR IT.
7:16:46PM (LAUGHTER).
7:16:46PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ANYTHING ELSE YOU 2017 SAY?
7:16:51PM >> I JUST WISH THAT, YOU KNOW.
7:16:55PM >>FRANK REDDICK: OKAY.
7:16:56PM >> THANK YOU.
7:16:58PM >> MY NAME IS OLGA RODRIGUEZ.
7:17:04PM I AM THE WIFE OF THE APPLICANT AND ALSO THE BUSINESS OWNER
7:17:09PM AT THE CORNER OF COLUMBUS AND FLORIDA.
7:17:12PM SO WE BOTH OWN THE CAR DEALERSHIP.
7:17:17PM WE ARE NOT NEW IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
7:17:18PM MY HUSBAND PURCHASED THAT PROPERTY OVER 20 YEARS AGO.
7:17:22PM FOR MANY YEARS HE HAD A TV SHOP.
7:17:28PM AND HE DECIDES TO GROW.
7:17:31PM HE CLOSED THE BODY SHOP.
7:17:33PM AND HAVE OUR OWN CARS THAT WE WANT TO SELL AT THE CORNER.
7:17:40PM I HEARD THAT WE ARE NOT CONSISTENT WITH THE TAMPA HEIGHTS
7:17:43PM NEIGHBORHOOD.
7:17:51PM ALSO LOOK FOR EXTENSION OF BUSINESS IN MY AREA BECAUSE I AM
7:17:56PM PART OF THAT AREA ALREADY.
7:18:07PM AND AT THIS TIME -- POTENTIALLY MY BUSINESS HAS BEEN ABLE TO
7:18:13PM WITHSTAND MORE THAN A DECADE OF TIME.
7:18:17PM WE LOOK FORWARD TO WATCH OUR AREA KEEP GROWING.
7:18:23PM THEY ALSO MENTIONED THAT WE ARE NOT CONSISTENT WITH THE
7:18:25PM PLAN.
7:18:26PM BUT DO NOT MEET THAT CRITERIA OF CREATING APARTMENTS OR
7:18:33PM RESTAURANTS OR ANY OTHER KIND OF BUSINESS, BECAUSE OUR LOTS
7:18:42PM DON'T HAVE THE PARKING LOT THAT THE CITY REQUIRES FOR ANY
7:18:44PM BUSINESS.
7:18:47PM THEY USE COLUMBUS DRIVE.
7:18:51PM WE GOT BODY SHOPS.
7:18:53PM WE GOT REPAIRS.
7:18:58PM SO YOU CANNOT CATEGORIZE WHAT WE ARE PLANNING TO DO IN ONE
7:19:04PM THING OF A DEVELOPMENT, BECAUSE WE DON'T MEET THAT CRITERIA.
7:19:13PM I WANT TO SAY THAT EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T SERVE THE PUBLIC, A
7:19:21PM LOT OF TIMES, PEOPLE -- THEY HAVE COME TO US IF WE CAN HELP
7:19:32PM THEM.
7:19:33PM I WANT TO SAY THAT OUR REQUEST IS TO ALLOW OUR PROPERTY TO
7:19:41PM CHANGE TO CONTINUE OUR BUSINESS TO KEEP PROVIDING FOR OUR
7:19:46PM FAMILY.
7:19:46PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ALL RIGHT.
7:19:48PM MRS. CAPIN.
7:19:49PM >>YVONNE CAPIN: PETITIONER, I DID HEAR YOU RIGHT THAT THE
7:19:53PM REPAIRS ARE DONE INSIDE A BUILDING?
7:19:55PM >> THE GATES ARE ALWAYS CLOSED.
7:19:57PM >>YVONNE CAPIN: THE REPAIRS ARE DONE?
7:20:03PM >> THEY ARE INSIDE THE GATE.
7:20:04PM >>YVONNE CAPIN: OKAY, INSIDE A BUILDING?
7:20:08PM (SPEAKING SPANISH).
7:20:19PM >> WE PUT A FENCE TO BEAUTIFY THE PROPERTY TO MAKE IT LOOK
7:20:24PM NICE.
7:20:24PM ALSO MENTIONED THAT WE HAVE RESIDENT BEHIND OUR PROPERTY.
7:20:29PM BUT WE ARE NOT CONNECTED.
7:20:30PM WE HAVE AN ALLEYWAY IN THE BACK AND WE ALSO HAVE A CONCRETE
7:20:34PM WALL THAT SEPARATES OUR PROPERTY FROM THE RESIDENTIAL.
7:20:39PM >>YVONNE CAPIN: THANK YOU.
7:20:41PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC WISH TO SPEAK ON ITEM
7:20:43PM NUMBER 4 OR ITEM NUMBER 5?
7:20:46PM >> GOOD EVENING.
7:20:54PM THANKS.
7:20:54PM THE CLOCK IS WINDING DOWN FROM 11 MINUTES.
7:20:57PM RESET IT TO 3.
7:20:58PM I APPRECIATE IT.
7:21:00PM MY NAME IS RICK FERNANDEZ, 2906 NORTH HE WILL ELMORE AVENUE,
7:21:07PM PRESIDENT OF THE TAMPA HEIGHTS CIVIC ASSOCIATION.
7:21:09PM WE ARE HERE RIDING THE COATTAILS OF CITY STAFF TODAY.
7:21:14PM WE ARE ASKING YOU TO COMPLY WITH THEIR RECOMMENDATION THAT
7:21:17PM THIS APPLICATION FOR AMENDMENT BE DENIED.
7:21:21PM AND LET ME BE CLEAR.
7:21:22PM THE APPLICANTS ARE MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY.
7:21:25PM FRANKLY, PERSONALLY, AND I DON'T THINK OUR BOARD HAS ANY
7:21:29PM PROBLEM WITH ANYTHING THEY ARE DOING WITH THIS PROPERTY NOW.
7:21:33PM AND THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE ANY REAL REASON FOR THEM TO
7:21:35PM HAVE TO CHANGE EXCEPT THEY ARE ANTICIPATING SOME CHANGE IN
7:21:38PM THE FUTURE.
7:21:39PM I DON'T THINK THEY ARE ANTICIPATING ANY CHANGE OF USE.
7:21:44PM THE PROBLEM WE HAVE -- AND I SPEAK NOW PERSONALLY FOR
7:21:48PM MYSELF, AND I WILL COMMUNICATE TO YOU THAT OUR BOARD HAS
7:21:50PM TAKEN ACTION ON THIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS THE DENIAL -- I
7:21:55PM WOULD LIKE YOU TO TAKE A BUS RIDE WITH ME.
7:21:57PM THINK BEFORE DEVELOPMENT FOR A MOMENT.
7:22:01PM THINK ABOUT THAT CORRIDOR ALONG FLORIDA AVENUE AND TAMPA
7:22:03PM STREET.
7:22:04PM AND TRY TO IMAGINE, IF YOU WILL, FOUR OR FIVE YEARS FROM NOW
7:22:08PM WHEN MAYBE WE REALLY DO HAVE SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE
7:22:10PM TRANSIT IN TAMPA.
7:22:12PM IT ISN'T HARD TO MANUAL A TRANSIT STOP AT PALM AND FLORIDA.
7:22:17PM YOU CAN IMAGINE PEOPLE GETTING OFF A BUS OR A TROLLEY OR
7:22:21PM STREETCAR THERE, AND WITHIN A QUARTER MILE THEY HAVE ALL
7:22:24PM KIND OF PLACES TO GO.
7:22:27PM TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT HAS ALREADY TAKEN PLACE IN THAT
7:22:30PM AREA BEFORE THE TRANSIT.
7:22:32PM NOW, YOU JUST GO UP FLORIDA AVENUE ABOUT A QUARTER OF A
7:22:36PM MILE, YOU FIND YOURSELF AT THE INTERSECTION OF COLUMBUS AND
7:22:38PM FLORIDA.
7:22:39PM WHAT I AM ASKING CITY COUNCIL TO DO IS TO IMAGINE WHAT TYPE
7:22:43PM OF TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT WE MIGHT WANT TO ENCOURAGE
7:22:46PM AND EMBRACE FOR THAT PORTION OF TAMPA HEIGHTS WHEN TRANSIT
7:22:51PM COMES ALONG.
7:22:51PM WE NEED TO START MAKING DECISIONS TODAY THAT WILL ENABLE AND
7:22:55PM EMBRACE THAT KIND OF DEVELOPMENT.
7:22:58PM AND OUR CONCERN IS THAT BY ALLOWING THIS HIGHER INTENSITY
7:23:02PM USE -- AND OF WHAT THEY WANT TO DO IS GO FROM LIGHT MINOR TO
7:23:07PM MAJOR MECHANIC.
7:23:08PM ALLOWING THE HIGHER INTENSITY USE IS TAKING US IN THE WRONG
7:23:12PM DIRECTION.
7:23:14PM AND THE PROBLEM ISN'T WITH THESE PARTICULAR APPLICANTS AND
7:23:18PM OWNERS.
7:23:19PM MY CONCERN IS, WHO COMES NEXT?
7:23:22PM BECAUSE THESE CHANGES WHICH YOU ARE BEING ASKED TO MAKE
7:23:24PM TODAY WILL RUN WITH THE LAND.
7:23:26PM AND WE HAVE IN A WAY TO CONTROL THAT NOW.
7:23:28PM THERE'S ACTUALLY IN A REASON TO MAKE THIS CHANGE TODAY.
7:23:32PM THE APPLICANTS DO NOT NEED THE CHANGE.
7:23:34PM THEY DON'T INTEND TO CHANGE THEIR MO IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR
7:23:38PM FORM TODAY.
7:23:39PM BUT IT IS ENCOURAGING A FLOW OF DEVELOPMENT THAT IS I AM
7:23:44PM CONSISTENT WITH OUR COMMUNITY PLAN.
7:23:45PM SO I'M ASKING YOU TO THINK FUTURISTICALLY AND THINK ABOUT
7:23:49PM TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT
7:23:52PM INTERSECTION MIGHT LOOK LIKE IN FIVE YEARS WITH A MAJOR
7:23:55PM MECHANICAL AS OPPOSED TO A WINE BISTRO OR SOMETHING ELSE.
7:23:59PM THANK YOU.
7:23:59PM (BELL SOUNDS)
7:24:03PM >> GOOD EVENING.
7:24:07PM JEFF MENKE, TAMPA HEIGHTS, EAST 26th AVENUE.
7:24:13PM I'M HERE TO SPEAK NOT SO MUCH ABOUT THE CHANGE BUT MORE ON
7:24:18PM THE SIDE OF THE DIFFERENCE OF OPINION BETWEEN THE COUNTY
7:24:21PM PLANNING COMMISSION AND THE CITY.
7:24:25PM THAT KIND OF SUPPORTS MORE OF AN OVERARCHING THEME OF TAMPA
7:24:30PM HEIGHT REALLY NEEDING SOME FORM-BASED CODE.
7:24:33PM PLEASE.
7:24:34PM LIKE SOME DAY SOON.
7:24:35PM IT WOULD BE NICE BECAUSE WE COULD PREVENT A LOT OF THESE
7:24:38PM ARGUMENTS IF WE HAD SOME CLEAR GUIDELINES HOW DEVELOPMENT IS
7:24:42PM SUPPOSED TO PLAY OUT IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
7:24:44PM BEYOND THAT, I OPPOSE THIS REQUEST AS WELL.
7:24:51PM YOU DON'T HAVE TO DRIVE UP FLORIDA AVENUE FAR TO SEE LIKE 50
7:24:54PM CAR LOTS.
7:24:55PM WE WANT TO SEE SOMETHING DIFFERENT, PLEASE.
7:24:58PM WE WANT TO SEE DIFFERENT BUSINESSES THAT WILL SUPPORT
7:25:02PM TRANSIT-ORIENTED SOLUTIONS WHERE PEOPLE WANT TO MOVE TO THIS
7:25:06PM AREA.
7:25:07PM CAR LOTS ARE NOT CONDUCIVE OF THAT.
7:25:09PM THEY REALLY AREN'T.
7:25:10PM AND IF YOU WANTED TO HAVE THIS BUSINESS, YOU ALREADY HAVE IT
7:25:13PM RIGHT OFF FLORIDA AVENUE.
7:25:14PM THERE'S A COMMERCIAL CORE RIGHT THERE ALL DAY LONG.
7:25:17PM YOU CAN TAKE ANY ONE OF THOSE SPOT OR WHATEVER PROPERTIES
7:25:20PM THEY ALREADY OWN.
7:25:20PM THEY DON'T NEED 20 CHANGE IT.
7:25:23PM THEY ALREADY HAVE IT ON THE COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR.
7:25:25PM IT'S ALREADY ZONED FOR THIS EWES USE.
7:25:27PM DOESN'T NEED TO CHANGE.
7:25:28PM THANK YOU, MA'AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
7:25:29PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ALL RIGHT.
7:25:34PM ANYONE ELSE WISH DO SPEAK AT THIS TIME?
7:25:38PM ALL RIGHT.
7:25:39PM SO YOU HAVE THE FINAL WORD.
7:25:43PM YES.
7:25:47PM YOUR NAME AGAIN.
7:25:50PM STATE YOUR NAME AGAIN.
7:25:50PM >> MOISES MORETA.
7:25:54PM THIS IS SIMPLE.
7:25:57PM IN 10, 20 YEARS, THEY HAVE IT, THEY CAN IT'S SIMPLE.
7:26:12PM I'M THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY.
7:26:19PM A MECHANIC SHOP.
7:26:21PM SO EVERYBODY, RIGHT NOW, CAN'T PUT IT THERE IF THERE'S LIKE
7:26:35PM A THOUSAND RESIDENTS BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, FLORIDA AVENUE ON
7:26:41PM COLUMBUS DRIVE, ARE FROM HOMELESS, LATER ON, 30 YEARS,
7:27:02PM PUT UP A MECHANIC SHOP OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
7:27:10PM SO THANK YOU.
7:27:12PM I DON'T WANT TO MAKE ANY CHANGES BECAUSE ALREADY HAVE LOT.
7:27:19PM SO THANK YOU.
7:27:20PM >>FRANK REDDICK: THANK YOU.
7:27:22PM COUNCIL, ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME?
7:27:28PM YOU KNOW, BEFORE YOU DO THAT, SOMETHING STUCK TO ME, AND
7:27:34PM THAT WAS WHEN HE STARTED TALKING ABOUT FUTURE TRANSIT COMING
7:27:40PM AND TALKING ABOUT IMAGINATION.
7:27:43PM AND I WAS SITTING HERE AND I WAS SAYING TO MYSELF, BASED ON
7:27:49PM SOMETHING MIGHT HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, AND BASED ON
7:27:53PM IMAGINATION, CAN YOU IMAGINE DENYING A FAMILY BASED ON
7:28:03PM IMAGINATION?
7:28:05PM THESE PEOPLE ARE WORKING HARD TRYING TO EARN A DECENT
7:28:08PM LIVING, PROVIDE FOR THEIR FAMILY, AND YOU ARE BASING IT ON
7:28:13PM IMAGINATION, WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE.
7:28:17PM AND BASED ON IMAGINATION.
7:28:24PM IT SHOULDN'T BE THAT WAY.
7:28:26PM ALL RIGHT.
7:28:27PM MOTION TO CLOSE?
7:28:27PM >> SO MOVED.
7:28:29PM >>FRANK REDDICK: MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING BY
7:28:35PM MR. COHEN, SECOND BY MR. MANISCALCO.
7:28:37PM ALL IN FAVOR?
7:28:37PM OPPOSED?
7:28:38PM MRS. CAPIN?
7:28:41PM DO YOU WISH TO READ NUMBER 4?
7:28:44PM >>YVONNE CAPIN: AN ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR FIRST
7:28:46PM READING CONSIDERATION, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE TAMPA
7:28:48PM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, FUTURE LAND USE MAP, FOR THE PROPERTY
7:28:52PM GENERALLY LOCATED AT 108 EAST CAN COLUMBUS DRIVE, FROM
7:28:56PM COMMUNITY MIXED USE 35 CMU-35 TO COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL 35, CC
7:29:03PM 35, PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT,
7:29:09PM PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
7:29:10PM >> SECOND.
7:29:11PM >>FRANK REDDICK: I GOT A MOTION FROM MRS. CAPIN.
7:29:14PM SECONDED BY MR. VIERA.
7:29:15PM ANY DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION?
7:29:17PM ALL IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION SAY AYE. OPPOSED?
7:29:21PM ALL RIGHT.
7:29:21PM >>THE CLERK: THE MOTION CARRIED WITH MANISCALCO AND MIRANDA
7:29:27PM VOTING NO.
7:29:30PM CORRECTION.
7:29:30PM MOTION CARRIED WITH COHEN AND MIRANDA VOTING NO.
7:29:34PM SECOND READING AND ADOPTION WILL BE ON OCTOBER 18th AT
7:29:36PM 9:30 A.M.
7:29:37PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ALL RIGHT, MR. MANISCALCO.
7:29:39PM WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ NUMBER 5?
7:29:41PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I HAVE AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE TAMPA
7:29:44PM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, FUTURE LAND USE MAP FOR THE PROPERTY
7:29:48PM GENERALLY LOCATED AT 110 EAST COLUMBUS DRIVE FROM COMMERCIAL
7:29:51PM MIXED USE 5 TO COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL 35 CC 35 PROVIDING FOR
7:29:57PM REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT PROVIDING FOR
7:29:59PM SEVERABILITY, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
7:30:00PM >> SECOND.
7:30:01PM >>FRANK REDDICK: GOT A MOTION FROM MR. MANISCALCO.
7:30:04PM SECONDED BY MR. VIERA.
7:30:07PM DISCUSSION ON THAT MOTION?
7:30:08PM ALL IN FAVOR? OPPOSED?
7:30:10PM >> THE MOTION CARRIED WITH COHEN AND MIRANDA VOTING.
7:30:14PM NO SECOND READING AND ADOPTION WILL BE ON OCTOBER 18th
7:30:16PM AT 9:30 A.M.
7:30:18PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ALL RIGHT.
7:30:19PM WE GO TO --
7:30:22PM >> MOVE TO OPEN NUMBER 6.
7:30:31PM >> SECOND.
7:30:31PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ALL RIGHT.
7:30:36PM IF YOU ARE GOING TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER 6 YOU NEED TO STAND
7:30:38PM AND BE SWORN IN.
7:30:43PM (OATH ADMINISTERED BY CLERK)
7:30:45PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ALL RIGHT.
7:30:48PM ITEM NUMBER 6.
7:30:51PM >>RYAN MANASSE: THE PETITION BEFORE YOU AB 2-1-22 FOR
7:30:56PM PROPERTY AT 2106 WEST MAIN STREET.
7:31:00PM THE CURRENT ZONING ON THE PROPERTY IS CI AND THE FUTURE LAND
7:31:02PM USE IS CC 35.
7:31:05PM THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW AND COMPLAINS STAFF HAS REVIEWED THE
7:31:07PM APPLICATION AND FIND IT INCONSISTENT WITH CITY OF TAMPA LAND
7:31:10PM DEVELOPMENT REGULATION.
7:31:11PM MINOR CORRECTIONS WILL BE NEEDED BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND
7:31:14PM READING.
7:31:15PM IT'S DETAILED IN THE STAFF REPORT AS WELL AS ON A CORRECTIVE
7:31:18PM SITE PLAN IF APPROVED.
7:31:20PM THE 2106 WEST MAIN STREET SITE HAS AN ACTIVE AB SALES PERMIT
7:31:25PM ORDINANCE 2016-820 FILE AB 2-115-22, FOR A SMALL VENUE BEER
7:31:34PM AND WINE CONSUMPTION ON PREMISES ONLY. THIS ESTABLISHMENT
7:31:38PM WAS APPARENTLY APPROVED FOR 3,370 SQUARE FEET OF INDOOR AB
7:31:43PM SALES AREA, AND THE PROPOSED USES WERE ASSEMBLY, THEATER AND
7:31:45PM SPECIALTY RETAIL.
7:31:47PM THE APPLICANT BEFORE YOU IS REQUESTING A SPECIAL USE
7:31:50PM APPROVAL TO ALLOW THE SALE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES FOR SMALL
7:31:54PM VENUE BEER AND WINE CONSUMPTION ON PREMISES AND PACKAGE
7:31:57PM SALES OFF PREMISES CONSUMPTION [RUSTLING PAPERS] FOR
7:32:00PM RESTAURANT, RETAIL SALES AND ACCESSORY BREWERY.
7:32:05PM AB SALES AREA INDOOR IS 3,373 SQUARE FEET AND OUT DOOR 439
7:32:10PM SQUARE FEET FOR A TOTAL OF 4,212 SQUARE FEET.
7:32:15PM AS CALCULATED USING CITY OF TAMPA CODE WHICH TOTALS 98
7:32:20PM PEOPLE, THIS PROPERTY IS IN THE BUSINESS CORE DISTRICT OF
7:32:24PM WEST TAMPA AND NO OFFSTREET PARKING SPACES SHALL BE REQUIRED
7:32:27PM FOR NEIGHBORHOOD-SERVING USES OCCUPYING EXISTING STRUCTURES.
7:32:31PM THIS IS SIMILAR TO HISTORIC DOWNTOWN DISTRICT LIKE CENTRO
7:32:36PM YBOR ALONG 7th AVE. THIS WOULD INCLUDE THE USE OF
7:32:40PM RESTAURANTS WITH 100 PEOPLE OR FEWER IN THE CN ZONING
7:32:48PM DISTRICT.
7:32:48PM HOURS OF OPERATION WILL BE MONDAY TO FRIDAY, 4 P.M. TO
7:32:51PM 12 A.M., SATURDAY 11:30 A.M. TO 12 A.M., SUNDAY 11:30 A.M.
7:32:58PM TO 11 P.M., ALSO IN A OUTDOOR AMPLIFIED SOUND IS PERMITTED
7:33:02PM UNTIL 11 P.M.
7:33:04PM SALES AREA SHALL NOT BE LOCATED WITHIN A PARKING OR LOADING
7:33:07PM AREA OR SPACE AND ALL PERMITS ISSUED AFTER APRIL 1st,
7:33:12PM 2011, SHALL BE KEPT ONSITE AND A COPY OF THE ORDINANCE AND
7:33:14PM ADOPTED SITE PLAN. THIS PROPERTY, THE PROJECT WILL COMPLY
7:33:18PM WITH SECTION 27-241 WEST TAMPA OVERLAY DISTRICT DESIGN
7:33:22PM STANDARD AT TIME OF PERMITTING.
7:33:24PM AGAIN, LAND DEVELOPMENT DID FIND IT INCONSISTENT, AND THAT'S
7:33:28PM DUE TO SECTION 27-132.
7:33:30PM IT WAS TO REDUCE THE REQUIRED MINIMUM DISTANCE SEPARATION
7:33:34PM FROM 250 FEET TO 150 FEET FOR OTHER AB SALES ESTABLISHMENTS.
7:33:43PM TRANSPORTATION PLANNING FOUND THE SITE PLAN CONSISTENT, AND
7:33:47PM THE CLOSEST AB SALES ESTABLISHMENTS THAT THEY ARE REQUESTING
7:33:49PM A WAIVER FROM IS MAIN STREET GROCERY AT 2117 WEST MAIN
7:33:53PM STREET.
7:33:54PM THE ZONING COMMERCIAL INTENSIVE AT 2 APS ALCOHOL, AGAIN AT
7:34:00PM 115 FEET.
7:34:02PM HART ROUTE 7 TYPICALLY RUNS WEEKDAYS, 5:20 A.M. TO 10:56
7:34:06PM P.M. AND WEEKENDS FROM 6 A.M. TO 10:58 P.M.
7:34:09PM THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED IN THE WEST TAMPA OVERLAY, AND LIES
7:34:13PM WITHIN THE WEST TAMPA URBAN VILLAGE.
7:34:16PM I WOULD LIKE TO SHOW YOU SO PICTURES OF THE SITE.
7:34:22PM THE TOP PICTURE IS THE FRONT OF THE BRICK BUILDING.
7:34:25PM BOTTOM IS THE 2100 WEST MAIN STREET WHICH IS DIRECTLY TO THE
7:34:30PM EAST.
7:34:33PM THAT'S THE ALLEY BEHIND 2106.
7:34:36PM WEST MAIN STREET.
7:34:38PM AND WHERE YOU SEE THE FENCING, THAT'S THE REAR VIEW OF 2106.
7:34:42PM THE SUBJECT PROPERTY.
7:34:44PM THIS IS LOOKING DOWN THE SIDEWALK VIEW OF MAIN STREET.
7:34:50PM AND THIS IS LOOKING TO THE WEST, THE BOTTOM PICTURE.
7:34:56PM AND TO THE EAST.
7:35:01PM THE AREA OUTLINED IN RED, AS YOU CAN SEE THE MAJORITY OF THE
7:35:04PM PROPERTIES AROUND HERE ARE ZONED CI WITH THE INTERSTATE TO
7:35:08PM THE SOUTH.
7:35:09PM AGAIN FOR CONVENIENCE, I DID SUPPLY A CORRECTED SITE PLAN
7:35:12PM THAT WILL BE NEEDED BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND READING SHOULD
7:35:14PM THE PETITION BE APPROVED.
7:35:15PM AND STAFF IS AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
7:35:31PM >>ANDREA ZELMAN: I WOULD LIKE THIS PASSED OUT.
7:35:33PM ANDREA ZELMAN, EAST JACKSON STREET, AND I'M VERY PROUD
7:35:56PM TONIGHT TO BE HERE REPRESENTING BAY CANNON, THE APPLICANT
7:36:00PM FOR THIS AB PERMIT.
7:36:03PM AND BEFORE I GET GOING, I WOULD LIKE TO BRIEFLY INTRODUCE
7:36:08PM MATH NEW AND TELL YOU A LITTLE ABOUT HIS VISION FOR THIS
7:36:10PM PROPERTY.
7:36:10PM >> THANK YOU, MATTHEW.
7:36:21PM BRIEFLY, WE MOVED HERE, THE WHOLE FAMILY MOVED HERE FROM
7:36:26PM MINNEAPOLIS.
7:36:28PM MOVED FROM BONITA SPRINGS, AND WE PICKED TAMPA BECAUSE IT'S
7:36:31PM A FANTASTIC TOWN, FANTASTIC BEER TOWN, AND WE WANT TO MAKE
7:36:36PM SURE THAT PEOPLE GET A LITTLE BIT OF FOOD AND BEVERAGE THAT
7:36:40PM WE HAVE DREAMED ABOUT DOING.
7:36:44PM A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO WE MOVED HERE.
7:36:45PM WE BOUGHT A HOUSE.
7:36:46PM WE ARE INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY.
7:36:47PM WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CONTINUE TO DO THAT.
7:36:50PM THIS PROJECT IS ESSENTIALLY A COMMUNITY CENTER.
7:36:53PM WE BELIEVE STRONGLY IN THIS MODEL.
7:36:55PM A LOT OF BIG BEER AND DISTRIBUTION BREWERY PROJECTS THAT
7:36:59PM EXIST.
7:37:02PM THOSE TEND TO SERVE LARGE GROUPS OF PEOPLE.
7:37:06PM WE HAVE IN A INTENTION OF --
7:37:13PM WE WILL SERVE BREW -- FOOD AND BEER THAT WE MAKE ON-SITE.
7:37:18PM WE PICKED WEST TAMPA BECAUSE WHEN WE MOVED HERE WE LOOKED
7:37:20PM EVERYWHERE IN TAMPA AND KEPT COMING BACK TO WEST TAMPA.
7:37:23PM THERE'S A GREAT SOUL THERE.
7:37:25PM AND MAIN STREET LOOKS LIKE A SPOT THAT WOULD BE PERFECT FOR
7:37:30PM US WITH THE BUILDING BUILT IN 1900, AND A LOT OF HISTORY.
7:37:38PM I LOOKED ALL OVER WEST TAMPA, AND THERE ARE SEVERAL PEOPLE
7:37:41PM HERE TONIGHT THAT I HAVE SPOKEN TO ALONG THE WAY, AND WE
7:37:45PM JUST KEPT COMING BACK.
7:37:47PM AND I THINK PART OF THE PROXIMITY, PART OF IT IS THE
7:37:49PM PROXIMITY, VERY CLOSE TO DOWNTOWN.
7:37:51PM VERY CLOSE TO WHAT'S HAPPENING IN TAMPA.
7:37:54PM THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY FOR A SPOT LIKE OURS IN THAT
7:37:59PM NEIGHBORHOOD.
7:38:00PM TO THE EAST OF US, WEST TAMPA HEIGHTS IS DEVELOPING.
7:38:05PM TO THE WEST OF US, CIGAR CITY OF COURSE EXISTS THERE AT THE
7:38:08PM BREWERY AND OBVIOUSLY SOUTH TAMPA IN THE SOUTH.
7:38:10PM BUT WEST TAMPA HAS A LOT OF HISTORY OF THAT WE WANT TO HELP
7:38:15PM BRING BACK.
7:38:16PM HISTORY IS IN OUR NAME.
7:38:20PM WE BELIEVE THAT PROJECTS LIKE OURS, AND BASED ON DATA THAT
7:38:24PM WE HAVE RESEARCHED FOR SEVERAL YEARS, WE BELIEVE PROJECTS
7:38:28PM LIKE OURS GOING INTO COMMUNITIES HELPS TO SPARK CHANGE IN
7:38:31PM THE COMMUNITY.
7:38:34PM FOR US, AND FOR OUR ESTABLISHMENT, WE INTEND TO HAVE HOURS
7:38:39PM OF OPERATION THAT COMPLY.
7:38:40PM WE HAVE NO INTENTION OF STAYING OPEN LATE.
7:38:42PM WE WANT TO BE A FAMILY ORIENTED SPOT WHERE I CAN GO HOME TO
7:38:47PM MY 3-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER AND THE PEOPLE THAT WORK FOR ME CAN,
7:38:51PM TOO.
7:38:52PM WE DON'T BELIEVE THAT-WE DON'T BELIEVE IN THE TRADITIONAL
7:38:59PM COMPLAINTS THAT COME UP ABOUT ALCOHOL AS IT PERTAINS TO US.
7:39:02PM WE WILL BE CLOSED AT NINE OR TEN ON THE WEEKDAYS.
7:39:05PM MIDNIGHT ON FRIDAY OR SATURDAY.
7:39:07PM WE WANT TO BE A PLACE THAT PEOPLE COME AND EAT AND DRINK AND
7:39:11PM HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE TO BE DIFFERENT.
7:39:13PM THAT IS WHAT THE BREWERY INDUSTRY HAS PROVIDED IN TAMPA AND
7:39:17PM EVERYWHERE IN AMERICA.
7:39:18PM WE BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE A UNIQUE IDEA IN TERMS OF REALLY
7:39:23PM INTEGRATING FOOD AND BEER AND NOT MANY PEOPLE HAVE DONE
7:39:27PM THAT, AND THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE WHAT WE MAKE
7:39:30PM IN THE KITCHEN AND IN THE BREWERY TO A COMMUNITY THAT HASN'T
7:39:35PM HAD A BREWERY SINCE 1937 IN DESOTO BREWING WHICH HAPPENS TO
7:39:39PM BE JUST A COUPLE BLOCKS AROUND THE CORNER FROM WHERE WE ARE
7:39:42PM GOING.
7:39:44PM WE HAVE INTEGRATION ALREADY WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
7:39:46PM WE HAVE CAMERAS THAT ARE WIRED IN.
7:39:49PM WE PLAN TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE USING THEM APPROPRIATELY SO
7:39:54PM WE CAN MAKE SURE THINGS ARE RIGHT OUTSIDE AND WE COOPERATED
7:39:58PM AS MUCH AS WE CAN.
7:39:59PM AND WE PLAN TO HOST EVENT ITSELF.
7:40:01PM THERE'S A PARK ACROSS THE STREET THAT WE HAVE A LIMITED
7:40:03PM POWER OF ATTORNEY ON THAT WE HOPE WE CAN INCLUDE THE
7:40:06PM COMMUNITY WITH.
7:40:07PM MARKETS, EVENTS.
7:40:08PM AND AS MORE PEOPLE BEGIN TO COME BACK TO WEST TAMPA, AS A
7:40:12PM PLAN THAT YOU ALREADY HAVE PUT IN MOTION AND WEST TAMPA, WE
7:40:16PM JUST WANT TO BE AN ANCHOR IN THE COMMUNITY.
7:40:18PM AND CAN SERVE REALLY GOOD FOOD AND BEER.
7:40:28PM >>ANDREA ZELMAN: IF EVERYONE ONE OF MY CLIENTS PUT AS MUCH
7:40:30PM WORK INTO THIS PART OF THE PROCESS AS MATTHEW DID, MY JOB
7:40:33PM WOULD BE MUCH EASIER.
7:40:35PM AND I HAVE TO SAY IF HE PUTS AS MUCH WORK INTO THE BREWERY
7:40:38PM AS HE DID, REACHING OUT TO THE WEST TAMPA COMMUNITY, HE'S
7:40:42PM GOING TO BE A GREAT SUCCESS.
7:40:45PM HE ATE UP MOST OF MY TIME.
7:40:51PM THIS IS THE BUSINESS CORE OF WEST TAMPA.
7:40:58PM IT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR COMMERCIAL
7:41:01PM 35.
7:41:02PM IT'S CI ZONING.
7:41:05PM AND PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE YOUR STAFF REPORT FOUND IT
7:41:08PM INCONSISTENT, AS RYAN EXPLAINED, THAT'S SIMPLY BECAUSE WE
7:41:14PM ARE SUPPOSED TO BE 250 FEET FROM THE NEAREST ALCOHOL
7:41:17PM BEVERAGE SALES, AND WE ARE 115 FEET INSTEAD.
7:41:21PM BUT AGAIN, WE ARE SURROUNDED BY COMMERCIAL INTENSIVE. THIS
7:41:25PM ISN'T THE TYPE OF SITUATION WHERE WE ARE SEEKING A WAIVER
7:41:28PM REDUCTION BECAUSE OF PROXIMITY TO RESIDENTIAL USES OR A
7:41:31PM CHURCH OR SCHOOL, BUT AGAIN JUST TO ANOTHER ALCOHOLIC
7:41:33PM BEVERAGE SALES.
7:41:35PM THIS IS A COMMERCIAL AREA, SO POTENTIAL NEGATIVE IMPACT FROM
7:41:40PM ALCOHOL SALES ARE OF FAR LESS CONCERN THAN IF WE WERE IN
7:41:46PM RESIDENTIAL OR MORE MIXED USE AREA.
7:41:52PM THIS APPROVAL AS YOU SAW WILL BE ALLOW REUSE OF A BEAUTIFUL
7:41:57PM RED BRICK BUILDING IN A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT'S UNDERGOING
7:41:59PM TRANSFORMATION NOW.
7:42:01PM WE HAVE HANDED OUT SOME MAGAZINE ARTICLES ABOUT THE POSITIVE
7:42:04PM IMPACTS THAT THE MICROBREWERIES ARE HAVING IN COMMUNITIES
7:42:08PM AROUND THE COUNTRY.
7:42:10PM AND I WANTED TO JUST READ ONE PARAGRAPH THAT JUMPED OUT AT
7:42:14PM ME FROM ONE OF THE ARTICLES, AND IF YOU READ IT, THE AUTHOR
7:42:20PM ACTUALLY SPENT SEVERAL YEARS STUDYING THE IMPACTS OF
7:42:22PM MICROBREWERIES ON COMMUNITIES, AND THEY SAID, THEY, THE
7:42:26PM MICROBREWERIES, ARE PEOPLE MAGNETS BRINGING PEOPLE WHO ARE
7:42:31PM CURIOUS TO FIND LOCALLY MADE IPA, AND IN SHORT ORDER
7:42:36PM BREWERIES CAN CREATE LITTLE POCKETS OF PROSPERITY IN CITIES
7:42:39PM THAT CAN AND OFTEN DO RADIATE OUT INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
7:42:44PM PRETTY SOON OTHER BUSINESSES SEE CONSIDER MOVING IN, TOO.
7:42:49PM IT DOESN'T HURT THE BREWERIES IN PARTS OF TOWNS HA THAT HAVE
7:42:54PM GREAT BUILDINGS.
7:42:55PM ONCE THE BREWERY MOVES IN AND REFURBISHES AND OLD BUILDING
7:43:00PM THEY REVEAL THE INNATE BUILDING TO PROSPECTIVE BUILDINGS.
7:43:06PM I THINK THIS LOCATION IS PERFECT FOR THAT.
7:43:10PM IT'S A BEAUTIFUL OLD BUILDING AND CRYING OUT PHONE BRING NEW
7:43:14PM LIVE INTO THAT AREA.
7:43:15PM AND YOU HAVE ALREADY SEEN THIS HAPPENING WITH SOME OF THE
7:43:16PM SMALLER BREWERIES IN TAMPA HEIGHTS AND CERTAINLY OVER IN
7:43:19PM ST. PETERSBURG.
7:43:23PM AGAIN SECTION 27-241-E-1-4, IN THAT SECTION THE CITY
7:43:29PM RECOGNIZED THAT THIS PART OF WEST TAMPA, LIKE YBOR CITY, HAS
7:43:34PM A LOT OF EXISTING STRUCTURES THAT WERE BUILT BASICALLY
7:43:39PM TAKING UP THE WHOLE LOT, LEAVING LITTLE SPACE FOR OFF-STREET
7:43:42PM PARKING.
7:43:43PM SO THAT'S WHY YOUR CODE DOESN'T REQUIRE THIS PARTICULAR USE,
7:43:47PM BECAUSE IT'S A SMALL NEIGHBORHOOD-SERVING USE, IT'S AN
7:43:50PM EXISTING BUILDING ON A LOT THAT DOESN'T HAVE -- PARKING AND
7:43:56PM IS LESS THAN 100 PEOPLE.
7:43:57PM SO THAT'S WHY WE ARE NOT BEING REQUIRED BY CODE TO PROVIDE
7:44:00PM OFF-STREET PARKING.
7:44:02PM AND I WOULD NOTE THAT UNDERSTOOD THE CALCULATION, WE WOULD
7:44:04PM HAVE BEEN REQUIRED TO PROVIDE 23 SPACES.
7:44:08PM THAT BEING SAID, MATTHEW HAS FULLY GONE OUT AND OBTAINED A
7:44:12PM PARKING LEASE FROM A NEIGHBOR FOR APPROXIMATELY 20 SPACES
7:44:16PM AND IS CONTINUING TO TRY TO DO MORE BECAUSE AGAIN HE'S
7:44:19PM TRYING TO LESSEN THE IMPACT ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND ALSO
7:44:23PM PROVIDE PARKING FOR THE CUSTOMERS.
7:44:25PM BUT I WOULD ALSO NOTE THAT THOSE OF US WHO ARE A LITTLE
7:44:30PM OLDER AND PROBABLY KNOW THIS LOT, THE YOUNGER GENERATION,
7:44:33PM YOUNGER THAN ME, ANYWAY, THAT TEND TO FREQUENT THE
7:44:35PM MICROBREWERIES, THEY TEND TO BE MUCH SAFER THAN MY
7:44:39PM GENERATION WAS, AND THEY REGULARLY TAKE UBER, LYFT, TAXI
7:44:44PM WHEN THEY GO OUT AT NIGHT.
7:44:46PM SO I THINK ALSO THE RIDE SHARING WILL HELP LESSEN THE
7:44:48PM PARKING ISSUES.
7:44:49PM AND THERE IS A FAIR AMOUNT OF ON-STREET PARKING IN THE AREA
7:44:52PM AS WELL.
7:44:53PM ALSO THERE'S A LOT OF NEW HOUSING BEING BUILT IN THE AREA,
7:44:56PM SO HOPEFULLY PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO WALK OR RIDE THEIR
7:44:59PM BICYCLES.
7:45:02PM WE MET THE SPECIAL USE REQUIREMENT OF SECTION 21 OF YOUR
7:45:05PM CODE.
7:45:05PM THIS IS COMPATIBLE WITH THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD AS I
7:45:09PM HAVE ALREADY MENTIONED.
7:45:10PM IT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
7:45:13PM IF YOU LOOK THROUGH THE PACKAGE OF LETTERS THAT I GAVE YOU,
7:45:16PM YOU WILL SEE WE HAVE SUPPORT FROM MANY OF THE SURROUNDING
7:45:19PM NEIGHBORS, INCLUDING THE OLD WEST TAMPA NEIGHBORHOOD
7:45:22PM ASSOCIATION, THE WEST TAMPA CHAMBER, AND THE WEST TAMPA
7:45:25PM ALLIANCE.
7:45:26PM WE WOULD ALSO APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT.
7:45:29PM I'M GLAD TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AND WE WILL RESERVE TIME AT
7:45:33PM THE END IF WE NEED IT.
7:45:35PM WE DO HAVE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK
7:45:37PM TONIGHT.
7:45:37PM THANK YOU.
7:45:38PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL?
7:45:40PM ALL RIGHT.
7:45:40PM ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC WISH TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER 6?
7:45:43PM >>MIKE SUAREZ: BEFORE PUBLIC COMMENT I WANT TO REPORT THAT
7:45:48PM PUBLICLY MR. SHELBY, I HAVE RECEIVED -- THERE WAS A TWITTER
7:45:53PM COMMENT THAT WAS SENT TO ME ABOUT VOTING IN FAVOR OF THIS
7:45:56PM PARTICULAR PROJECT.
7:45:57PM I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU KNOW TO PUT THAT ON THE
7:46:00PM RECORD.
7:46:03PM THEN RETWEETS IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT TWITTER, IT MEANS
7:46:06PM IT SPREAD OUT THROUGH THE REST OF TWITTER.
7:46:09PM I JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW THAT.
7:46:10PM I KNOW THE PERSON THAT SENT THE ORIGINAL TWEET BUT I DON'T
7:46:12PM KNOW ANYONE ELSE THAT IS LIKING IT OR RETWEETING IT.
7:46:18PM SO I JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW THAT.
7:46:20PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: AND IF I UNDERSTAND IT CORRECTLY, YOU
7:46:23PM RECEIVED SOMETHING THAT WAS RETWEETED WITH SOMEBODY?
7:46:27PM >>MIKE SUAREZ:
7:46:27PM NO I HAD SOMEBODY THAT TWEETED TO ME WHO VOTE IN FAVOR OF
7:46:31PM THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT FROM A PERSON NAMED KEVIN FERN.
7:46:35PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: HOW LONG AGO WAS THAT?
7:46:37PM >> THAT WAS BEFORE THE START OF THIS PUBLIC HEARING PROBABLY
7:46:40PM ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF AGO.
7:46:42PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: AND THE SUM AND SUBSTANCE WAS AGAIN TO --
7:46:47PM >>MIKE SUAREZ: TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE PROJECT.
7:46:49PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT DISCLOSURE.
7:46:52PM >>FRANK REDDICK: YOU MAY CONTINUE.
7:47:01PM >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL.
7:47:03PM MY NAME IS BENJAMIN BUCKLEY.
7:47:05PM I LIVE AT 902 NORTH ROME AVENUE.
7:47:07PM I'M ALSO A BUSINESS PERSON IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND A
7:47:10PM RESIDENT FOR MANY YEARS.
7:47:12PM AND I AM A CAC REPRESENTATIVE OF NORTH HYDE PARK CIVIC
7:47:16PM ASSOCIATION.
7:47:18PM PLEASE MAKE A POSITIVE VOTE AND VOTE YES FOR THIS BREWERY.
7:47:23PM THERE'S SOME REASONS WHY.
7:47:25PM OVER 100 YEARS AGO, WEST TAMPA WAS FOUNDED BY HUGH
7:47:29PM McFARLAND.
7:47:30PM WEST TAMPA WAS A PLANNED COMMUNITY.
7:47:32PM WITH A RICH CULTURE FULL OF DIVERSITY.
7:47:35PM THE CIGAR INDUSTRY WAS THE FOUNDATION OF THE ECONOMY.
7:47:39PM THE MONEY THE CIGARS SUPPORTED MANY INDUSTRIES INCLUDING
7:47:44PM LEGAL MAKERS, JUST TO NAME A FEW.
7:47:48PM CRAFT PERSONS WERE EMPLOYED TO BUILD THE CITY.
7:47:50PM AS WORKERS ARRIVED THEY DEMANDED GOODS AND SERVICES.
7:47:54PM WEST TAMPA WAS A TRUE LIVE, WORK, PLAY AS WE SAY IT TODAY.
7:48:00PM THE PROSPERITY LASTED UNTIL THE CIGAR INDUSTRY DIED.
7:48:04PM THEN THE CITY OF WEST TAMPA WENT INTO THE ZOMBIE PERIOD.
7:48:09PM OF TODAY.
7:48:10PM I USE THAT WORD BECAUSE OF MEETINGS LIKE. THIS WEST TAMPA
7:48:15PM HAS BEEN REFERRED TO AS A BLIGHTED AND DEPRESSED, AND IT
7:48:20PM PLAIN TO SEE.
7:48:20PM SO IT'S NO GOOD SAYING ABOUT DESPAIR AND HOPELESSNESS.
7:48:26PM IF THE I CITY COUNCIL'S WISDOM AND EXPERIENCE WE CAN REVIVE
7:48:31PM THE ZOMBIE CITY OF WEST TAMPA.
7:48:33PM THERE ARE TOOLS TO HELP RESTORE THIS GREAT URBAN VILLAGE OF
7:48:36PM WEST TAMPA.
7:48:37PM ONE, THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AREA OR CRA OF WEST TAMPA
7:48:40PM AS WAS ADOPTED IN 2015.
7:48:43PM TWO, THE INVISION PLAN OF 1.5 MILLION REDEVELOPMENT PLAN AS
7:48:48PM A MASTER PLAN IN 2011 FOR WEST TAMPA AND SURROUNDING
7:48:52PM NEIGHBORHOODS.
7:48:52PM NUMBER THREE, THE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION
7:48:55PM AWARD WINNING TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
7:49:00PM USING THIS PLAN, THESE PLANS, AND YOUR WISDOM, A NEW SPIRIT
7:49:04PM WILL REVIVE THE ZOMBIE CITY OF WEST TAMPA.
7:49:09PM THE PETITIONER WHO OPERATES THE BREWERY IS A SMALL FAMILY
7:49:14PM BUSINESS.
7:49:14PM THEY WILL MAKE A LARGE AND IMPORTANT INVESTMENT ON MAIN
7:49:17PM STREET.
7:49:19PM THIS WILL LAY A NEW FOUNDATION FOR REVIVAL OF SIGNIFICANT
7:49:24PM PORTION OF THE NEW DOWNTOWN OF WEST TAMPA.
7:49:27PM LET'S TAKE A STEP IN THE PAST TO PROSPERITY AND REVISE WEST
7:49:32PM TAMPA.
7:49:33PM PLEASE CAST A POSITIVE VOTE FOR THE BRAVE FAMILY AND THE
7:49:39PM JOBS THEY WILL CREATE FOR THE RESIDENTS AND THE SERVICE THEY
7:49:42PM PROVIDE FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
7:49:46PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
7:49:47PM PLEASE VOTE YES.
7:49:48PM >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL.
7:49:58PM HOW ARE YOU?
7:49:59PM MY NAME IS WALT SMITH II, RESIDE AT 2504 EAST 4th
7:50:05PM AVENUE, YBOR CITY.
7:50:08PM AND I AM HERE STANDING BEFORE YOU TO SAY THAT I AM IN
7:50:15PM SUPPORT OF MATTHEW AND HIS FAMILY AND THE EFFORT THAT THEY
7:50:18PM HAVE TAKEN TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT WEST TAMPA IS REVITALIZED
7:50:22PM APPROPRIATELY.
7:50:24PM WHEN WE LOOK AT THE BREWERY INDUSTRY, WE ARE LOOKING AT AN
7:50:28PM INDUSTRY THAT HAS JUMP STARTED SEVERAL COMMUNITIES AROUND
7:50:32PM THE STATE OF FLORIDA AND MORE SPECIFICALLY IN TAMPA.
7:50:36PM YOU LOOK AT SEMINOLE HEIGHTS.
7:50:38PM YOU LOOK AT TAMPA HEIGHTS.
7:50:39PM YOU LOOK AT YBOR CITY.
7:50:40PM AND YOU WILL SEE EVIDENCE OF THAT.
7:50:44PM AS FAR BACK AS 1897 RIGHT HERE IN TAMPA THERE IS PRECEDENCE
7:50:47PM OF REVITALIZATION.
7:50:49PM AND THE JUMP START THAT THE BREWING INDUSTRY HAS DONE FOR
7:50:52PM TAMPA.
7:50:54PM WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW IS SOMETHING THAT IS
7:50:57PM UNPRECEDENTED IN TERMS OF WEST TAMPA ITSELF.
7:51:00PM WHEN WE START LOOKING AT HOW WEST TAMPA NOW HAS BEGUN HAVING
7:51:06PM FROM DIFFERENT INVESTORS WHO ARE HEARING WHAT HAS HAPPENED,
7:51:10PM AND BECAUSE OF WHAT MY BROTHER MATTHEW DEWITT IS DOING RIGHT
7:51:13PM NOW, IT'S INCREDIBLE.
7:51:15PM WE HAVE PEOPLE NOW WHO ARE CURRENT BUSINESS OWNERS WHO ARE
7:51:18PM TAKING IT ON THE CHIN FOR A LONG TIME BECAUSE OF WHAT
7:51:21PM HAPPENED JUST DOWN THE STREET WITH THE TEARING UP OF NORTH
7:51:24PM BOULEVARD HOMES AND NOW WHAT WE ARE SEEING ECONOMIC
7:51:31PM TRANSFORMATION POSSIBILITIES THAT IS BAR NONE SO INCREDIBLE,
7:51:35PM WE NEED TO STAND BEHIND IT.
7:51:37PM WE NEED TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT MATTHEW HAS ALL THE TOOLS ALL
7:51:41PM THE SUPPORT HE NEEDS TO MAKE CERTAIN TO SET THE STANDARD FOR
7:51:45PM WHAT WE NEED IN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE WEST TAMPA
7:51:49PM AREA.
7:51:50PM WE HAVE PEOPLE RIGHT NOW WHO HAVE RESTAURANTS THAT THEY ARE
7:51:53PM JUST STARTING RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY HEARD OF WHAT
7:51:56PM HE'S DOING.
7:51:58PM THERE ARE PEOPLE ASKING TO HAVE RESTAURANTS AND SHOPS RIGHT
7:52:02PM NOW BECAUSE OF WHAT THIS MAN IS DOING.
7:52:04PM AND SO I STAND BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING AS DO ALL MY OTHER
7:52:09PM COLLEAGUES TO ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT IN MAKING CERTAIN THAT
7:52:14PM THEY CAN BE A COMPANY TO STAND AND STAND STRONG, BECAUSE
7:52:18PM WEST TAMPA NEEDS TO BE ABLE TO STAND AND STAND STRONG ON ITS
7:52:21PM OWN ECONOMICALLY.
7:52:22PM AND THIS IS THE WAY TO START IT.
7:52:24PM THANK YOU.
7:52:24PM >> MY NAME IS FRANK SHORT.
7:52:35PM I LIVE AT 1004 EAST RIVER PLACE, TAMPA, FLORIDA 33603.
7:52:41PM AND I AM HERE BECAUSE I AM A BICYCLING ADVOCATE AND NOTHING
7:52:45PM GOES BETTER WITH BICYCLING THAN BEER.
7:52:48PM (LAUGHTER)
7:52:50PM AND THE LOCATION THAT IS PROPOSED FOR THIS BEER COMPANY IS
7:52:57PM DIRECTLY ADJACENT TO A BIKE LANE DOWN GREEN STREET THAT'S
7:53:03PM ACCESSIBLE BY BUS ROUTES, HART, ROUTE 14, YOU KNOW, DOWN
7:53:10PM ARMENIA, BACK UP HOWARD.
7:53:12PM IT'S AN IDEAL URBAN LOCATION.
7:53:14PM IT CREATES JOBS.
7:53:16PM AND IT'S A PLACE THAT I CAN BE ABLE TO RIDE MY BIKE TO.
7:53:19PM SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, GENTLEMEN.
7:53:21PM I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR INTEREST.
7:53:22PM >>FRANK REDDICK: [OFF MICROPHONE]
7:53:32PM >> ELVIN MARTINEZ, JR., THE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE WEST
7:53:36PM TAMPA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
7:53:38PM ADDRESS IS 1718 WEST SAN ISABEL STREET, 33607.
7:53:43PM AND I AM GOING TO GO BIKING WITH THE PREVIOUS SPEAKER WHEN I
7:53:47PM LEAVE HERE.
7:53:48PM BUT THE WEST TAMPA CHAMBER ENTHUSIASTICALLY SUPPORTS THIS
7:53:53PM APPLICATION.
7:53:54PM AND WE FEEL AS THOUGH IT SHOWS AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF
7:54:00PM INVESTMENT IN THE COMMUNITY, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING
7:54:06PM MATHAU AND BAY CANNON BEER COMPANY AS PART OF THE WEST TAMPA
7:54:13PM COMMUNITY.
7:54:14PM AND WITH THAT, I JUST ASK FOR YOUR FAVORABLE CONSIDERATION.
7:54:17PM THANK YOU.
7:54:17PM >> MIKE POWSHA, TAMPA.
7:54:28PM I'M A COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BROKER IN THE AREA.
7:54:30PM AND I HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE OF HELPING LOTS OF SMALL
7:54:35PM BUSINESSES RELOCATE IN AND OUT OF THE TAMPA AREA, VARIOUS
7:54:38PM AREAS.
7:54:38PM ONE THING I AM LEARNED IS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS IN
7:54:40PM COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE IS VACANT BUILDINGS MAKE IN A MONEY.
7:54:43PM AND SERVE NO PEOPLE.
7:54:45PM YOU GUYS ARE HERE TO SERVE THE PEOPLE AND TO MAKE SURE THE
7:54:48PM NEED OF THE COMMUNITY ARE MET.
7:54:49PM THAT'S WHAT THE JOB OF BUSINESSES ARE AS WELL.
7:54:52PM AND MAIN STREET HAS HAD TOO MANY VACANT BUILDINGS OVER THE
7:54:54PM YEARS AND IS FINALLY SEEING SOME PEOPLE THAT HAVE THE GUTS
7:54:57PM TO GO OUT AND TAKE A RISK WITH THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILY
7:55:01PM TO CREATE SOMETHING TO BRING BACK THE BEAUTY OF THE
7:55:03PM NEIGHBORHOOD.
7:55:04PM THERE ARE OLD BUILDINGS IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD AND NEEDS TO BE
7:55:07PM CARED FOR.
7:55:07PM AND THE ONLY WAY TO DO THAT IS BRING BUSINESS AND PROPERTY
7:55:10PM PERT TO THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.
7:55:11PM THAT WAY THE BUSINESSES CAN SERVE THE PEOPLE.
7:55:15PM SO I'M IN FULL SUPPORT OF MATT AND EVERYTHING HE'S TRYING TO
7:55:19PM DO THAT AND HOPE WE SEE OTHERS DOING THE SAME.
7:55:22PM THANK YOU.
7:55:22PM >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL.
7:55:31PM I'M ONE OF THE CONCERNED CITIZENS.
7:55:33PM ALICE MOORE, I LIVED IN WEST TAMPA AT 8686 AND NOW 8010.
7:55:44PM MY PARENT MOVED FROM WEST TAMPA TO WEST TAMPA AFTER THE
7:55:50PM SCHOOL CLOSED.
7:55:51PM SO MY HEART IS REALLY INTO WEST TAMPA.
7:55:54PM IF YOU REMEMBER, MANY OF YOU DO REMEMBER, MAIN STREET WAS
7:55:57PM THE BEGINNING STARTING AT NORTH BOULEVARD AND FORTUNE STREET
7:56:02PM WHICH IS NOW CALLED LAUREL.
7:56:05PM THE BUILDING OF MAIN THE THEATER, THE CARVER THEATER THAT
7:56:10PM WAS THERE.
7:56:11PM GOING DOWN THE STREET HEADING WEST WAS ALSO OTHER BUSINESS
7:56:15PM THAT WAS A GROCERY STORE, THERE WAS ALSO A BICYCLE SHOP,
7:56:19PM THERE WERE SMALL SHOPS THAT WAS LIKE A SMALL, SMALL, SMALL
7:56:23PM K-MART OR WALMART WHICH WAS OWNED BY A SMALL BUSINESS AND
7:56:26PM YOU CAN GO IN AND GET ANYTHING.
7:56:29PM THERE WAS ALSO A GROCERY STORE IN THAT AREA.
7:56:31PM I AM GOING THROUGH ALL OF THIS JUST TO LET YOU KNOW HOW MAIN
7:56:33PM STREET WAS, REALLY WAS A BUSINESS DISTRICT.
7:56:37PM MY PARENTS OWNED A STORE RIGHT WHERE THE STORE WAS ON WALL
7:56:43PM AND CHESTNUT.
7:56:44PM AND JUST TO SAY, NOW THE STORE WOULD HAVE TO CLOSE BECAUSE
7:56:49PM EVERYBODY IS GONE.
7:56:50PM I KNOW ABOUT THE REVITALIZATION.
7:56:52PM IT GOING TO BE VERY GOOD.
7:56:54PM I AM JUST SAYING ALL THE WAY DOWN, THE BUSINESSES HAVE BEEN
7:56:57PM CLOSED AND IT WAS GREAT FOR MATTHEW TO HAVE A BUSINESS,
7:57:00PM WHICH WOULD BE A NEW FACE ON WEST TAMPA AND THE BUSINESSES.
7:57:04PM I REALLY HOPE YOU DO VOTE FOR IT.
7:57:06PM THIS WOULD BE A GOOD INCENTIVE.
7:57:12PM WE DO REMEMBER GOING DOWN THERE AND NOT BE ABLE TO DO
7:57:17PM ANYTHING THAT WE ARE DOING NOW AND WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE WEST
7:57:19PM TAMPA DO THAT.
7:57:20PM THE BREWERY WOULD CERTAINLY ENHANCE THAT.
7:57:22PM THANK YOU.
7:57:22PM >> OH, BOY.
7:57:32PM I'M BACK.
7:57:33PM JOE ROBINSON.
7:57:35PM WEST TAMPA.
7:57:36PM OLD SCAGLIONE HOUSE.
7:57:38PM PRESIDENT OF MUCH ENGINEERS IN SOUTH TAMPA, SECOND VICE
7:57:42PM PRESIDENT OF THE NAACP OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
7:57:46PM VICE CHAIR OF THE WEST TAMPA CDC AND CHAIR OF THE WEST TAMPA
7:57:50PM CRA.
7:57:50PM I'M HERE TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THIS BUSINESS IN WEST TAMPA.
7:57:56PM EVERYBODY KNOWS MY PASSION FOR WEST TAMPA.
7:57:59PM I DON'T COME AND SPEAK UNLESS IT'S SOMETHING SERIOUS,
7:58:04PM INCLUDING OLD WEST TAMPA, WHICH IS MY NEIGHBORHOOD, AND
7:58:09PM EVERYBODY ON THE CRA COMMITTEE, THEY WOULD SPEAK.
7:58:20PM RECOGNIZE THE CRA GROUP.
7:58:22PM HOWEVER I WANT TO SAY. THIS WE NEED SOME DEVELOPMENT IN
7:58:24PM WEST TAMPA.
7:58:25PM WE JUST APPROVED OUR STRATEGIC PLAN IN WEST TAMPA NIGHT
7:58:29PM BEFORE LAST.
7:58:30PM SO WE ARE WAITING ON THE CRA BOARD TO DO WHAT THEY GOT TO DO
7:58:36PM WITH IT AND LET GET ON WITH IT.
7:58:38PM I DON'T SPEND MONEY.
7:58:41PM WE SHOULD HAVE $3 MILLION BY NEXT WEEK.
7:58:44PM AND I APPRECIATE YOU VOTING FOR THE FESTIVAL THAT IS GOING
7:58:48PM TO BE HELD OCTOBER 13th.
7:58:50PM BUT I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS MANY PEOPLE AGREE TO HAVE A BEER
7:58:56PM ON MAIN STREET, WHICH THE LAST TIME THEY WERE GOING TO SHUT
7:58:59PM IT DOWN, THEY WOULD WANT TO KEEP IT DOWN.
7:59:01PM BUT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE SEEN EVERYBODY WANT TO
7:59:04PM HAVE THIS BUSINESS.
7:59:05PM SO I HAD TO ROLL OVER.
7:59:07PM I AGREE WITH IT.
7:59:09PM AND THE OTHER THING IS ABOUT IT THAT IT'S NEEDED.
7:59:12PM AND THE GUY IS DOING IT THE RIGHT WAY.
7:59:15PM HE'S NOT COMING IN TRYING TO TELL US WHAT TO DO.
7:59:17PM HE'S WORKING WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
7:59:18PM AND IF HE CAN GET JOE ROBINSON TO COME DOWN HE'S DOING
7:59:23PM PRETTY GOOD BECAUSE I DON'T COME DOWN FOR ANYTHING.
7:59:25PM SO HOPE TO BE SITTING UP THERE REAL SOON MAYBE IN SIX
7:59:30PM MONTHS, MAYBE FIVE MONTHS.
7:59:31PM SO I AM HERE TO SAY, COUNCIL, I AM HERE TO SUPPORT THIS.
7:59:34PM THE WEST TAMPA CDC, WE SUPPORT IT.
7:59:38PM LIKE THESE OTHER NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS, THIS GUY -- HE'S GOING
7:59:44PM TO NEED HELP.
7:59:45PM AND HE IS DOING IT THE RIGHT WAY.
7:59:51PM I HAVE HAD GOOD REPORTS WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND MAJOR
7:59:56PM DELGADO.
7:59:58PM I CALLED HIM ON MY CELL PHONE.
8:00:00PM SO I AM JUST SURPRISED THAT HE'S COMING IN THERE AND I HOPE
8:00:03PM THAT TECO GETS OUR LIGHTS IN SO WE CAN GET THE
8:00:06PM INFRASTRUCTURE IN AND WE CAN TRULY BEGIN THE START AND THE
8:00:11PM RENAISSANCE OF WEST TAMPA, SPECIFICALLY THE OLD WEST TAMPA.
8:00:16PM OKAY, CHARLIE?
8:00:17PM YOU KNOW?
8:00:18PM THAT'S WHAT WE NEED.
8:00:19PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION.
8:00:21PM AND I GUESS I MISREAD IT.
8:00:23PM THAT BUILDING IS EAST OF THE APPLICANT BUILDING, I REMEMBER
8:00:27PM A SIGN UP THERE THAT SAYS PALLBEARERS UNION.
8:00:30PM >> I THINK YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT DOWN ACROSS -- IT WAS A
8:00:37PM PALLBEARERS, I BELIEVE DOWN WHERE THE SHRINERS.
8:00:42PM >> YES.
8:00:44PM I HAVE NEVER SEEN A PALLBEARERS UNION.
8:00:46PM >> IF YOU SEE THEM ON MAIN.
8:00:52PM MIRANDA
8:00:55PM >> GOOD EVENING.
8:00:59PM MY NAME IS DOM COOK.
8:01:01PM I AM A INDUSTRY EMPLOYEE HERE IN FAVOR OF MATTHEW.
8:01:05PM WE HEARD A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS FROM THE DIFFERENT LADIES
8:01:08PM AND GENTLEMEN WHO SPOKE.
8:01:12PM ON HOW THE BEER INDUSTRY IS HELPING COMMUNITIES ALL ACROSS
8:01:16PM THE COUNTRY.
8:01:17PM DONE IT HERE.
8:01:18PM DONE IT ALL THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF FLORIDA.
8:01:20PM THAT'S GREAT.
8:01:21PM TAMPA HEIGHTS, SEMINOLE HEIGHTS, ALL OF THESE PLACES.
8:01:25PM THAT'S GREAT.
8:01:26PM BEING A FINANCIAL ASPECT OF BUSINESSES COME IN AND ONE THING
8:01:32PM THAT ATTRACTED ME TO MATTHEW, AND THE MAIN REASON I'M
8:01:36PM SUPPORTING HIM, BECAUSE HE REALLY CARES, YOU KNOW.
8:01:40PM HE WANTS TO REVITALIZE THE NEIGHBORHOOD BUT HE ALSO REALLY
8:01:43PM CARES ABOUT THE COMMUNITY.
8:01:44PM HE WANTS TO ADD TO IT, NOT TAKE AWAY FROM IT.
8:01:46PM AND IT JUST LIKE THE LAST GENTLEMAN SAID.
8:01:49PM YOU KNOW, HE'S COMING, AND HE'S HUMBLE WITH IT, YOU KNOW.
8:01:53PM HE'S ACCEPTABLE HELPING.
8:01:55PM HE'S LOOKING FOR HELP AND HE WANT TO DO IT THE RIGHT WAY.
8:01:58PM AND I THINK THAT'S GREAT FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU KNOW,
8:02:01PM JOBS, TO BRING MORE ECONOMICAL GROWTH FOR THE DIFFERENT
8:02:06PM BUSINESSES AROUND IT.
8:02:07PM AND EVERYTHING.
8:02:09PM AND ALSO HE'S A GREAT GUY THAT WILL TEACH MANY PEOPLE THE
8:02:15PM DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MODERATION AND, YOU KNOW, GOING OVERBOARD
8:02:19PM WITH IT.
8:02:20PM THIS IS ONE THING THAT WE WANT TO PROMOTE WITHIN THE BEER
8:02:23PM INDUSTRY IS BALANCE.
8:02:25PM SO HE'S A GUY WHO HAS GREAT EMPLOYEES THAT ARE TRAINED
8:02:28PM PROPERLY, THAT WILL INVEST INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THAT
8:02:31PM REALLY CARE AND WILL GIVE BACK.
8:02:34PM I HOPE YOU VOTE IN FAVOR FOR HIM.
8:02:36PM HE'S A GREAT GUY.
8:02:37PM THANK YOU.
8:02:38PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
8:02:40PM AFTER MANY YEARS OF NEGLECT IT'S FINALLY TIME FOR WEST
8:02:43PM TAMPA.
8:02:44PM AND ALTHOUGH I WAS SAD TO SEE THE CURRENT GO AWAY DOWN THE
8:02:50PM STREET, I'M GLAD TO SEE THIS COMB IN. THIS IS A HISTORIC
8:02:53PM DOWNTOWN WEST TAMPA, AN AREA THAT'S NEEDED, IS SIGNIFICANT
8:02:57PM BOOST FOR A LONG TIME AND I ENTHUSIASTICALLY SUPPORT THIS
8:03:00PM PROJECT.
8:03:00PM >>FRANK REDDICK: PETITIONER?
8:03:06PM >>ANDREA ZELMAN: I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
8:03:08PM WE HAVE HEARD SOME GREAT SPEAKERS.
8:03:10PM AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AND HOPE YOU WILL VOTE
8:03:16PM IN SUPPORT.
8:03:17PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ANY QUESTIONS BY COUNCIL AT THIS TIME?
8:03:19PM >>LUIS VIERA: I JUST WANT TO ADD ON TO WHAT COUNCILMAN
8:03:22PM MANISCALCO SAID.
8:03:23PM IT FUNNY IT WAS MENTIONED THAT THIS IS A BEER TOWN.
8:03:26PM AND I LOOK UPON THAT WITH FAVOR BECAUSE THAT'S SOMETHING
8:03:29PM THAT IS INNOVATING OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND GIVING AREAS THAT
8:03:33PM UNDERDEVELOPED SOME GOOD DEVELOPMENT.
8:03:35PM I THINK IT'S FUNNY TO SAY THAT BECAUSE IF ANYBODY KNOWS ME,
8:03:38PM I AM NOT A DRINKER.
8:03:40PM I'M CATHOLIC BUT I DRINK LIKE A SOUTHERN BAPTIST SHOULD
8:03:44PM DRINK.
8:03:44PM A SOUTHERN BAPTIST SHOULD DRINK.
8:03:46PM (LAUGHTER)
8:03:46PM BUT THAT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT I THINK REALLY
8:03:49PM REVITALIZES A LOT OF AREAS.
8:03:51PM AND I SALUTE THIS ENDEAVOR IN THE WAY THIS COMMUNITY IS
8:03:55PM COMING TOGETHER.
8:03:56PM SO I AM HAPPY TO SUPPORT THIS.
8:03:57PM >>FRANK REDDICK: MR. SUAREZ.
8:03:58PM >>MIKE SUAREZ: IF YOU HAVE GOT THE NONDRINKERS ON THIS
8:04:02PM BOARD IN FAVOR OF IT, IT PRETTY GOOD.
8:04:04PM I'M A DRINKER OF BEER.
8:04:05PM I DEFINITELY AM IN SUPPORT OF IT.
8:04:07PM TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, MR. MANISCALCO, THIS IS A BETTER USE
8:04:14PM ANYWAY SO I AM IN FAVOR OF THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT.
8:04:16PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ALL THIS BORE TALKING IS KIND OF SOUNDING
8:04:20PM LIKE BRETT KAVANAUGH.
8:04:26PM (LAUGHTER).
8:04:27PM >> I'M NOT SURE -- (LAUGHTER)
8:04:34PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ANYTHING ELSE, COUNCIL?
8:04:39PM GOT A MOTION?
8:04:41PM MOTION FROM MR. COHEN.
8:04:42PM SECOND BY MR. MANISCALCO.
8:04:43PM ALL IN FAVOR OF THAT MOTION SAY AYE.
8:04:45PM CLOSED? MR. COHEN.
8:04:46PM >>HARRY COHEN: I MOVE AN ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR
8:04:50PM FIRST READING CONSIDERATION, AN ORDINANCE APPROVING A
8:04:54PM SPECIAL USE PERMIT S-2 FOR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE SEALS, SMALL
8:04:57PM VENUE, COUPLES ON PREMISES AND PACKAGE SALES FOR
8:05:02PM OFF-PREMISES CONSUMPTION MAKING LAWFUL THE SALE OF BEER AND
8:05:05PM WINE AT OR FROM THAT CERTAIN LOT, PLOT OR TRACT OF LAND
8:05:09PM LOCATED AT 2106 WEST MAIN STREET, TAMPA, FLORIDA AS MORE
8:05:13PM PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 3 PROVIDING THAT ALL
8:05:15PM ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT ARE REPEALED,
8:05:17PM PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
8:05:18PM >>FRANK REDDICK: GOT A MOTION FROM MR. COHEN.
8:05:20PM SECONDED BY MR. MANISCALCO.
8:05:22PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THAT MOTION SAY AYE.
8:05:24PM OPPOSED?
8:05:24PM >>THE CLERK: THE MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. SECOND
8:05:28PM READING AND ADOPTION WILL BE ON OCTOBER 18th AT 9:30
8:05:31PM A.M.
8:05:31PM >>FRANK REDDICK: ALL RIGHT.
8:05:34PM >>ANDREA ZELMAN: THANK YOU.
8:05:34PM SEE YOU IN MARCH AT TAMPA BEER WEEK AND ALSO WANTED TO THANK
8:05:38PM THE STAFF.
8:05:39PM VERY HELPFUL.
8:05:40PM >>FRANK REDDICK: AND SOME OF FREE FOOD.
8:05:55PM [SOUNDING GAVEL]
8:05:57PM WHOA, WHOA, WHOA.
8:05:58PM WE ARE STILL IN SESSION.
8:06:01PM ALL RIGHT.
8:06:01PM INFORMATION REPORTS. MR. SUAREZ.
8:06:04PM MR. COHEN.
8:06:04PM >>HARRY COHEN: I HAVE ONE ITEM.
8:06:06PM I WANT TO ASK --
8:06:08PM >>FRANK REDDICK: WHOA, WHOA, WHOA.
8:06:09PM [SOUNDING GAVEL]
8:06:11PM HEY, YOU DO NOT WANT US TO RECALL THIS MEETING, ALL RIGHT?
8:06:16PM >>HARRY COHEN: IF WE USE OUR WORKSHOP SESSION ON THE
8:06:23PM 29th OF NOVEMBER TO ASK THE MPO TO COME IN AND SHOW US
8:06:28PM THE NEW SEA LEVEL RISE PROJECTION MAP THAT HAS JUST BEEN
8:06:34PM ISSUED.
8:06:35PM HURRICANE SEASON WILL HAVE JUST ENDED AND THIS WILL PROBABLY
8:06:37PM BE THE LAST CHANCE FOR THIS COUNCIL TO DISCUSS THESE MAPS
8:06:41PM PUBLICLY.
8:06:41PM I ALSO WANTED TO ASK THEM TO COME IN AND TALK A LITTLE BIT
8:06:46PM ABOUT THE CLIMATE COMPACT AS WELL.
8:06:49PM >>FRANK REDDICK: MOTION BY MR. COHEN.
8:06:51PM SECOND BY MR. MANISCALCO.
8:06:52PM ALL IN FAVOR?
8:06:53PM OPPOSED?
8:06:55PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
8:06:57PM I HAVE TWO ITEMS.
8:06:58PM FIRST I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION REQUESTING PLAN
8:07:00PM AMENDMENT ADOPTION HEARING FOR TA-CPA-18-12 ON THE EVENING
8:07:05PM OF DECEMBER 13 AT 5:30 P.M.
8:07:08PM >> SECOND.
8:07:08PM >> MOTION FROM MR. MANISCALCO.
8:07:10PM SECOND BY MR. COHEN.
8:07:11PM ALL IN FAVOR?
8:07:12PM OPPOSED?
8:07:12PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: AND SECOND ONE IS I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE
8:07:16PM A MOTION FOR MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND MPO
8:07:18PM STAFF TO APPEAR BEFORE COUNCIL AT OUR REGULAR MEETING ON
8:07:22PM NOVEMBER 8th TO GIVE AN UPDATE ON THE LRTP 2045 PLAN
8:07:27PM OUTREACH EFFORTS.
8:07:28PM >>HARRY COHEN: THAT'S GOING TO BE AT OUR CRA MEETING.
8:07:33PM THE 15th.
8:07:34PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I WILL CORRECT THAT FOR NOVEMBER
8:07:36PM 15th.
8:07:37PM >>FRANK REDDICK: GOT A MOTION FROM MR. MANISCALCO.
8:07:39PM SECOND BY MR. COHEN.
8:07:40PM ALL IN FAVOR OF THAT MOTION SAY AYE.
8:07:42PM OPPOSED?
8:07:43PM ALL RIGHT.
8:07:44PM MRS. CAPIN.
8:07:44PM >>YVONNE CAPIN: I HAVE A MOTION TO BRING BACK A SCHEDULE A
8:07:51PM WORKSHOP ON OCTOBER 25, 2018, THE AGENDA AT 9:00 A.M., TO
8:07:57PM DISCUSS PRIVATELY INITIATED CODE AMENDMENT OF THE JULY 18
8:08:03PM CODE AMENDMENT CYCLE.
8:08:04PM >>HARRY COHEN: I THINK WE DID THAT THIS MORNING.
8:08:09PM I THINK WE DID.
8:08:10PM >>YVONNE CAPIN: GOOD.
8:08:13PM THEN THAT'S DONE.
8:08:16PM YES?
8:08:17PM >>HARRY COHEN: YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF WE DID IT ON THE
8:08:19PM 25th.
8:08:20PM I THINK WE DID IT THIS MORNING BUT I AM GOING TO DOUBLE
8:08:23PM CHECK.
8:08:24PM I DID SOMETHING --
8:08:26PM >>YVONNE CAPIN: WE HAVE TIME TO -- OKAY.
8:08:31PM THAT SOUNDS GOOD.
8:08:32PM OKAY.
8:08:33PM I NEED TO SET A DATE, A MOTION TO SET A DATE FOR STAFF TO
8:08:37PM REPORT BACK TO COUNCIL ON THE SUNSET GUIDELINES IN THE
8:08:44PM HEIGHTS, BECAUSE I DIDN'T ASK THEM SPECIFICALLY.
8:08:51PM >> OCTOBER 4th?
8:08:59PM >>YVONNE CAPIN: THAT'S KIND OF EARLY.
8:09:01PM BUT NOVEMBER 1?
8:09:06PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I'M SORRY, COUNCIL.
8:09:10PM WITH REGARD TO THE FENCE ISSUE?
8:09:11PM >>YVONNE CAPIN: YES.
8:09:12PM I ASKED THEM TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT IT AGAIN AND COME BACK
8:09:15PM TO US.
8:09:24PM BECAUSE WHAT THEY DID, THEY CAME BACK TO US, JUST REPORTING
8:09:27PM WHAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD WANTS.
8:09:28PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: AND I BELIEVE YOU MADE A DIFFERENT MOTION.
8:09:32PM >>YVONNE CAPIN: RIGHT.
8:09:34PM I'M SETTING A DATE FOR THE MOTION.
8:09:36PM >>FRANK REDDICK: GOT A MOTION BY MRS. CAPIN.
8:09:39PM SECOND BY MR. COHEN.
8:09:40PM ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
8:09:41PM OPPOSED?
8:09:42PM ALL RIGHT.
8:09:42PM >>YVONNE CAPIN: THANK YOU.
8:09:44PM THAT'S IT FOR ME.
8:09:45PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NONE SIR.
8:09:47PM >>LUIS VIERA: NO.
8:09:48PM >>FRANK REDDICK: MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE?
8:09:51PM >> SO MOVED.
8:09:51PM >> SECOND.
8:09:52PM >> ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
8:09:54PM OPPOSED?
8:09:54PM >> THE CLERK: THE MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE WAS BY --
8:09:59PM MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE?
8:10:00PM >> SO MOVED. MIRANDA AND MANISCALCO.
8:10:01PM [ MUSIC PLAYS ]
8:10:02PM (MEETING ADJOURNED)
8:10:12PM
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