TAMPA CITY COUNCIL
THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2019
6:00 P.M.
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18:03:12 >>LUIS VIERA: -- CITY COUNCIL
18:03:14 IN SESSION.
18:03:15 DWAYNE, IF YOU COULD PLEASE DO
18:03:17 THE ROLL CALL, SIR.
18:03:17 >> YES, SIR.
18:03:19 >>ORLANDO GUDES: GUDES, HERE.
18:03:20 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
18:03:21 >>JOSEPH CITRO: HERE.
18:03:22 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
18:03:24 >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
18:03:25 >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
18:03:28 AND COUNCIL DINGFELDER CALLED
18:03:30 TO SAY HE'D BE A LITTLE BIT
18:03:30 LATE.
18:03:31 HE SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED THAT
18:03:35 WE BEGIN WITHOUT HIM, SO WE
18:03:37 WILL PROCEED.
18:03:38 BEFOREHAND, SOME PEOPLE WERE
18:03:39 HERE TONIGHT FOR A MOTION I WAS
18:03:40 GOING TO BE MAKING AT THE END
18:03:41 OF TAMPA CITY COUNCIL, AND I
18:03:42 WANTED TO HAVE CONSENT OF THIS
18:03:45 BOARD TO MAKE A MOTION BEFORE,
18:03:45 IF I MAY.
18:03:48 ANY OBJECTIONS TO THAT?
18:03:48 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NO PROBLEM.
18:03:48 >>LUIS VIERA: I APPRECIATE
18:03:48 THAT, EVERYBODY.
18:03:49 EVERYONE IS, I'M SURE, AWARE OF
18:03:49 THE LEGISLATION.
18:03:51 IT'S HOUSE BILL 1159, WHICH IS
18:03:53 GOING TO COME TO GOVERNOR
18:03:55 DeSANTIS, WHICH DEALS WITH
18:03:57 LOCAL GOVERNMENTS' ABILITIES TO
18:03:58 GOVERN THEMSELVES YET AGAIN
18:04:00 WHENEVER IT COMES TO TREES.
18:04:00 THIS PROPOSED LEGISLATION
18:04:02 ALLOWS THE REMOVAL OF TREES FOR
18:04:04 CAUSE SIMPLY BY HIRING A
18:04:06 PROFESSIONAL ARBORIST TO
18:04:07 DETERMINE IF THE TREE STAYS OR
18:04:08 GOES, WHICH MEANS THE DECISION
18:04:10 IS SOLELY IN THE HANDS OF A
18:04:11 CONTRACTOR AND ESSENTIALLY
18:04:12 TAKES AWAY THE RIGHTS OF CITIES
18:04:15 TO DO JUST WHAT WE DID AND
18:04:16 SPENT ABOUT TWO YEARS ON OF A
18:04:19 LOT OF TIME AND A LOT OF HARD
18:04:19 WORK.
18:04:20 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE
18:04:20 CONTINUE TO SEE FROM
18:04:22 TALLAHASSEE WHERE WE ARE TAKING
18:04:23 AWAY POWERS FROM MUNICIPALITIES
18:04:25 AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO GOVERN
18:04:26 OURSELVES.
18:04:27 WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF ISSUES, AND
18:04:29 IT ACTUALLY GOES FURTHER THAN
18:04:29 THAT.
18:04:30 WE'RE ACTUALLY TAKING AWAY
18:04:31 POWER FROM THE PEOPLE.
18:04:33 WE SEE RECENTLY WHAT THE
18:04:35 LEGISLATURE HAS DONE TO
18:04:36 AMENDMENT 4 IN ORDER TO DRAW
18:04:38 THAT BACK, THE CLEAR INTENT OF
18:04:39 ALMOST TWO OUT OF THREE
18:04:41 FLORIDIANS WHO CAME TOGETHER TO
18:04:44 WIPE OUT A 150-YEAR-OLD VOTING
18:04:45 RESTRICTION.
18:04:46 WHAT DID THE LEGISLATURE DO
18:04:47 WHEN THEY SAW THAT?
18:04:49 THEY SCALED IT BACK.
18:04:50 AND NOW WE SEE THE LEGISLATURE
18:04:53 TALKING EVEN ABOUT SCALING BACK
18:04:53 THE ABILITY OF THE PEOPLE TO
18:04:55 SPEAK OUT ON INITIATIVES.
18:04:57 SO FOR ME THIS GOES BEYOND
18:04:58 TREES AND THIS GOES TO THE IDEA
18:05:00 OF NOT ALLOWING THE PEOPLE,
18:05:01 THROUGH THEIR LOCAL ELECTED
18:05:04 OFFICIALS OR THROUGH DEMOCRATIC
18:05:05 VOICES, TO SPEAK ON THEIR
18:05:09 BEHALF, SO, THEREFORE -- AND,
18:05:10 ANY, BY THE WAY, COMMENTS FROM
18:05:11 COUNCIL MEMBERS?
18:05:11 SURE.
18:05:12 YES, SIR.
18:05:13 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: JUST TO
18:05:14 ECHO SOME OF WHAT YOU SAID, IT
18:05:15 SEEMS LIKE TALLAHASSEE KNOWS
18:05:17 BEST AND KNOWS BETTER THAN YOU,
18:05:19 THE PEOPLE, WHO VOTE AND
18:05:21 DECIDE, WHICH IS CLEARLY
18:05:22 UNTRUE, ESPECIALLY ON THIS --
18:05:26 YOU KNOW, JUST CALL IT THE TREE
18:05:26 ORDINANCE.
18:05:28 YEARS HAVE BEEN INVESTED WORTH
18:05:29 OF TIME AND HARD WORK FROM
18:05:31 CITIZENS ON OUR END, FROM THE
18:05:33 CITY STAFF, AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S
18:05:34 CLEARLY OFFENSIVE THAT
18:05:37 LEGISLATURES OR DECISION-MAKERS
18:05:40 UP AT THE STATE CAPITOL THINK
18:05:42 THAT THEY KNOW BETTER THAN WE
18:05:43 DO WHEN THESE ARE OUR
18:05:45 BACKYARDS, AND I TOTALLY AGREE
18:05:47 WITH EVERYTHING CHAIRMAN VIERA
18:05:48 SAID, SO GO AHEAD.
18:05:49 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
18:05:49 ANYONE ELSE?
18:05:50 OKAY.
18:05:50 GREAT.
18:05:52 SO, THEREFORE, I MOTION -- AND
18:05:55 I'M HANDING THE GAVEL TO VICE
18:05:56 CHAIR MANISCALCO.
18:05:57 I MOTION FOR OUR COUNSEL
18:05:59 ATTORNEY TO WRITE A LETTER TO
18:05:59 GOVERNOR DeSANTIS ASKING HIM TO
18:06:02 PLEASE REFRAIN FROM SIGNING
18:06:03 HOUSE BILL --
18:06:03 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
18:06:04 >>LUIS VIERA: OH, THANK YOU.
18:06:06 WE HAVE A SECOND.
18:06:07 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A
18:06:08 MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN CHAIRMAN
18:06:09 VIERA AND A SECOND FROM
18:06:11 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
18:06:12 ALL IN FAVOR.
18:06:12 ALL RIGHT.
18:06:12 ANY OPPOSED?
18:06:13 NO.
18:06:14 PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
18:06:15 THERE YOU GO.
18:06:16 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, AND
18:06:17 THANK YOU FOR THAT RARE
18:06:18 INDULGENCE.
18:06:18 OKAY.
18:06:22 NOW WE BEGIN, AND DWAYNE, IF
18:06:22 YOU COULD SWEAR IN THE
18:06:25 WITNESSES, SIR.
18:06:26 EVERYONE WHO PLANS ON SPEAKING
18:06:28 TONIGHT IN A QUASI-JUDICIAL
18:06:30 MATTER, PLEASE STAND UP AND
18:06:35 READY TO BE SWORN IN.
18:06:35 [PARTICIPANTS SWORN IN]
18:06:39 >>LUIS VIERA: AND FIRST FOR
18:06:40 SOME HOUSEKEEPING.
18:06:41 MARY, IF WE COULD GO THROUGH
18:06:43 THE ITEMS THAT ARE GOING TO BE
18:06:44 TAKEN OFF THE AGENDA.
18:06:45 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: THANK YOU,
18:06:45 SIR.
18:06:47 MARY SAMANIEGO FROM DEVELOPMENT
18:06:47 COORDINATION.
18:06:49 ITEM NO. 1, WHICH IS VACATION
18:06:52 19-10, ITEM NO. 3, WHICH IS
18:06:57 REZ19-31, ITEM NO. 5, WHICH IS
18:07:01 19-22, AND ITEM NO. 6, WHICH IS
18:07:02 19-27, NONE OF THOSE FOUR
18:07:04 APPLICATIONS COMPLETED NOTICE,
18:07:05 AND SO THEY ARE GOING TO BE
18:07:07 MOVED TO ANOTHER AGENDA.
18:07:08 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: CHAIRMAN,
18:07:10 MOVE TO REMOVE ITEMS 1, 3, 5,
18:07:11 AND 6.
18:07:12 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SECOND.
18:07:13 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION
18:07:15 BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, SECOND
18:07:16 BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
18:07:18 ALL IN FAVOR.
18:07:18 ANY OPPOSED?
18:07:19 THANK YOU.
18:07:21 NEXT WE MOVE ONWARD TO ITEM NO.
18:07:21 2.
18:07:22 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: MARY
18:07:23 SAMANIEGO, AGAIN, FOR THE
18:07:24 RECORD.
18:07:27 ITEM NO. 2 IS REZ19-29.
18:07:29 IT'S A REZONING REQUEST FOR THE
18:07:31 PROPERTY LOCATED AT 214 SOUTH
18:07:34 NEW JERSEY AVENUE FROM RM-16 TO
18:07:35 RM-18.
18:07:38 >>DAVID HEY: GOOD EVENING,
18:07:39 COUNCIL MEMBERS.
18:07:40 DAVID HEY WITH YOUR PLANNING
18:07:40 COMMISSION STAFF.
18:07:41 I HAVE BEEN SWORN.
18:07:43 WE START THE EVENING OFF IN THE
18:07:44 CENTRAL TAMPA PLANNING
18:07:46 DISTRICT.
18:07:48 THE SUBJECT SITE IS LOCATED
18:07:52 WITHIN PROXIMITY TO TRANSIT.
18:07:55 THE CLOSEST TRANSIT STOP IS AT
18:07:57 SOUTH MacDILL AVENUE AND WEST
18:07:58 CLEVELAND STREET.
18:07:59 THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN A
18:08:02 LEVEL "D" EVACUATION ZONE, AND
18:08:03 THE CLOSEST PUBLIC RECREATIONAL
18:08:05 FACILITY IS A QUARTER MILE
18:08:07 NORTHEAST OF THE SITE, AND IT'S
18:08:10 WEST PINES PARK.
18:08:12 ON TO THE AERIAL.
18:08:14 THIS IS THE ZOOMED-OUT ONE,
18:08:17 MORE TO SHOW THE ROOFTOP.
18:08:18 HERE'S THE SUBJECT SITE.
18:08:22 THIS IS PLATT.
18:08:23 THIS IS NEW JERSEY.
18:08:25 YOU SEE AZEELE, HENDERSON, AND
18:08:26 KENNEDY.
18:08:28 THIS IS MITCHELL ELEMENTARY ONE
18:08:32 BLOCK TO THE EAST.
18:08:34 ON TO THE FUTURE LAND USE
18:08:35 CATEGORY.
18:08:37 THE SUBJECT SITE, WHICH IS IN
18:08:39 THE CENTER, AND ALL THIS BROWN
18:08:42 COLOR IS THE RESIDENTIAL-20.
18:08:43 THE BLUE IS THE
18:08:45 PUBLIC/SEMI-PUBLIC THAT
18:08:47 REPRESENTS MITCHELL ELEMENTARY.
18:08:49 YOU'VE GOT SOME PINK ALONG
18:08:51 MacDILL AVENUE.
18:08:54 THAT'S THE COMMUNITY MIXED
18:08:54 USE-35.
18:08:57 THERE'S SOME LIGHT COMMERCIAL,
18:08:58 OFFICE USES.
18:08:59 IT BECOMES DENSE AS YOU GO
18:09:00 FURTHER SOUTH.
18:09:01 THE DARKER BROWN IS THE
18:09:03 RESIDENTIAL-35.
18:09:04 THE BLUE HERE IS MEMORIAL
18:09:05 HOSPITAL.
18:09:08 AND THEN THIS KIND OF TAN
18:09:10 COLOR, ORANGE IS
18:09:13 RESIDENTIAL-10.
18:09:13 THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF
18:09:15 HAS REVIEWED THE PETITIONER'S
18:09:16 REQUEST AND FOUND NO ADVERSE
18:09:17 IMPACTS FROM THE PROPOSED
18:09:20 PROJECT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
18:09:21 THE REQUEST IS CONSISTENT WITH
18:09:24 SEVERAL POLICIES OF THE CITY'S
18:09:25 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AS IT
18:09:28 RELATES TO HOUSING THE CITY'S
18:09:30 POPULATION.
18:09:30 THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
18:09:32 ENCOURAGES DEVELOPMENT AND
18:09:33 RETENTION OF A DIVERSITY OF
18:09:35 HOUSING TYPES TO MEET THE NEEDS
18:09:36 OF ITS PRESENT AND FUTURE
18:09:37 POPULATION.
18:09:38 BASED ON THOSE POLICIES,
18:09:39 PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF FINDS
18:09:40 THE REZONING REQUEST CONSISTENT
18:09:42 WITH THE TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE
18:09:42 PLAN.
18:09:44 THANK YOU.
18:09:46 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
18:09:46 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: THANK YOU,
18:09:47 DAVID.
18:09:49 MARY SAMANIEGO AGAIN, FOR THE
18:09:52 RECORD.
18:09:54 HERE'S AN AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH OF
18:09:55 THE ADJOINING PROPERTY.
18:09:56 AS YOU CAN SEE, IT'S AT THE
18:09:58 NORTHEAST CORNER OF PLATT AND
18:10:00 NEW JERSEY AVENUE.
18:10:05 IT IS CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY A
18:10:05 SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED DWELLING
18:10:06 UNIT.
18:10:07 THIS IS THE ZONING MAP.
18:10:08 THE SUBJECT PROPERTY'S IN
18:10:09 GREEN.
18:10:11 THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IN THE
18:10:13 SURROUNDING AREA'S CURRENTLY IN
18:10:15 THE RM-16 LAND USE ZONING
18:10:15 DISTRICT.
18:10:17 THAT'S A ZONING DISTRICT THAT
18:10:18 ALLOWS FOR SINGLE-FAMILY
18:10:21 HOUSES, SEMI-DETACHED DWELLING
18:10:24 UNITS OR DUPLEXES, MULTIFAMILY
18:10:26 DWELLINGS, AND TOWNHOMES
18:10:27 PRIMARILY.
18:10:30 OVER ON MacDILL YOU'VE GOT SOME
18:10:30 COMMERCIAL ZONING AND SOME
18:10:32 PLANNED DEVELOPMENT FOR
18:10:34 COMMERCIAL ZONING, SOME
18:10:35 RESIDENTIAL OFFICE, AND THEN,
18:10:37 AGAIN, RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT
18:10:42 FURTHER TO THE EAST.
18:10:44 HERE'S THE SUBJECT PROPERTY.
18:10:45 I'LL SHOW YOU SOME PHOTOGRAPHS
18:10:46 OF THE SURROUNDING AREA SO YOU
18:10:47 CAN KIND OF SEE THE DEVELOPMENT
18:10:49 PATTERN.
18:10:50 HERE'S THE SUBJECT PROPERTY.
18:10:52 IT'S ON A CORNER ON ONE SIDE.
18:10:54 THAT'S THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE.
18:10:56 HERE'S THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE.
18:10:58 AS I GO THROUGH THESE PICTURES,
18:11:03 HERE IS TWO DWELLING UNITS,
18:11:04 ANOTHER STRUCTURE WITH TWO
18:11:05 DWELLING UNITS.
18:11:10 THIS IS A SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSE,
18:11:12 SEMI-DETACHED DWELLING UNITS OR
18:11:15 DUPLEX, SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSE,
18:11:19 SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSE, MULTI-UNIT
18:11:22 BUILDING, AND THAT'S A [OFF
18:11:24 MICROPHONE].
18:11:26 WITH THE SUBJECT PROPERTY, IT'S
18:11:28 APPROXIMATELY 7,290 SQUARE
18:11:28 FEET.
18:11:29 THEY'RE ASKING TO BE REZONED
18:11:32 FROM RM-16, WHICH TYPICALLY
18:11:33 ALLOWS 16 DWELLING UNITS PER
18:11:35 ACRE, TO RM-18, WHICH WOULD
18:11:39 ALLOW 18 DWELLING UNITS PER
18:11:40 ACRE.
18:11:41 GIVEN THE SIZE OF THIS
18:11:42 PROPERTY, IF THE REZONING WERE
18:11:45 TO BE APPROVED, THEY COULD
18:11:47 THEORETICALLY DEVELOP THREE
18:11:49 DWELLING UNITS ON THE SITE.
18:11:50 THERE'S NO SITE PLAN TO REVIEW
18:11:52 FOR THIS APPLICATION.
18:11:53 THEY'RE ASKING PURELY TO GO
18:11:55 FROM ONE ZONING DISTRICT TO THE
18:11:57 OTHER, RM-16 TO RM-18.
18:11:58 AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE
18:12:01 PHOTOGRAPHS I'VE REPRESENTED,
18:12:03 THIS AREA IS IN TRANSITION.
18:12:05 IT WAS HISTORICALLY A
18:12:08 SINGLE-FAMILY NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT
18:12:08 WITH THE RM-20 LAND USE
18:12:09 CATEGORY THAT DAVID INDICATED,
18:12:10 THIS IS AN AREA THAT WE'RE
18:12:11 WANTING TO SEE INCREASED
18:12:15 INTENSITY, SO IT HAS THE
18:12:15 MULTIFAMILY ZONING DISTRICT ON
18:12:16 IT ALREADY.
18:12:17 WE'RE STARTING TO SEE SOME OF
18:12:17 THE SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL
18:12:19 LOTS BEING REDEVELOPED FOR
18:12:21 TOWNHOMES OR DUPLEXES AND VERY
18:12:24 SMALL APARTMENT BUILDINGS, SO
18:12:26 THIS REZONING WOULD ALLOW FOR
18:12:27 REZONING -- I'M SORRY, THIS
18:12:28 REZONING APPLICATION WOULD
18:12:29 ALLOW FOR A DEVELOPMENT OF THE
18:12:31 RM-18 STANDARDS, WHICH IS THE
18:12:32 MOST INTENSIVE ZONING DISTRICT
18:12:35 YOU CAN HAVE IN THE R-20 LAND
18:12:36 USE CATEGORY.
18:12:37 SAYING THAT, THE DEVELOPMENT
18:12:38 COMPLIANCE STAFF FOUND THIS
18:12:39 CONSISTENT WITH THE CITY OF
18:12:41 TAMPA LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE.
18:12:42 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY
18:12:42 MUCH, MA'AM.
18:12:44 ANY QUESTIONS?
18:12:45 OKAY.
18:12:46 BEING NONE, WE WOULD ASK THE
18:12:49 PETITIONER PLEASE COME UP.
18:12:52 >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL.
18:12:53 STEVE MICHELINI.
18:12:54 I'M REPRESENTING THE
18:12:56 PETITIONER, REQUESTING THAT
18:12:57 THIS PROPERTY BE REZONED FROM
18:13:00 RM-16 TO RM-18.
18:13:02 AS THE STAFF HAS POINTED OUT,
18:13:03 THE LAND USE CLASSIFICATION IS
18:13:06 RESIDENTIAL-20, WHICH WOULD --
18:13:08 IN A PLAN CATEGORY WOULD ALLOW
18:13:10 20 UNITS TO THE ACRE.
18:13:11 WE'RE REQUESTING 18 UNITS TO
18:13:14 THE ACRE, WHICH WOULD ALLOW US,
18:13:15 IN THIS SPECIFIC LOCATION, TO
18:13:17 DEVELOP THREE TOWNHOUSE UNITS
18:13:20 AT APPROXIMATELY 2400 SQUARE
18:13:22 FEET EACH.
18:13:24 THE STAFF HAS ALSO INDICATED TO
18:13:25 YOU THAT THEY HAVE NO
18:13:25 OBJECTIONS, EITHER FROM THE
18:13:27 CITY SIDE OR FROM THE PLANNING
18:13:27 COMMISSION SIDE.
18:13:29 IT IS CONSISTENT WITH ALL OF
18:13:30 THE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE
18:13:31 CITY, AND IT'S PROVIDING
18:13:33 MUCH-NEEDED HOUSING IN AN AREA
18:13:34 THAT'S ANTICIPATED FOR
18:13:36 INCREASED GROWTH AND
18:13:37 DEVELOPMENT.
18:13:39 IT IS IN BETWEEN A NUMBER OF
18:13:40 COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS.
18:13:42 IT'S CLOSE TO A HOSPITAL AND
18:13:47 SCHOOLS, AND IT'S PROVIDING --
18:13:48 PROVIDING A RESIDENTIAL
18:13:51 COMPONENT WHERE THERE ALREADY
18:13:52 IS MULTIFAMILY COMPONENTS
18:13:55 IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO IT AND
18:13:55 THROUGHOUT THE AREA.
18:13:57 IT ALSO IS CLOSE TO THE TRANSIT
18:13:59 CORRIDORS ALONG AZEELE AND
18:14:01 MacDILL AND JUST SOUTH OF
18:14:02 KENNEDY, SO WE'RE RESPECTFULLY
18:14:04 REQUESTING YOUR APPROVAL.
18:14:05 I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY
18:14:07 QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE.
18:14:09 THIS IS A EUCLIDEAN ZONING, SO
18:14:10 THERE AREN'T ANY WAIVERS BEING
18:14:11 REQUESTED THROUGH THIS REZONING
18:14:12 REQUEST.
18:14:15 IF THERE ARE ANY SUBSEQUENT
18:14:18 WAIVERS, THEY'LL HAVE TO GO
18:14:19 THROUGH A DIFFERENT PROCESS
18:14:21 THAT ALSO WILL BE NOTICED IN A
18:14:22 PUBLIC HEARING.
18:14:24 TYPICALLY, IF YOU HAVE ISSUES
18:14:26 REGARDING THE SITE, WE'D BE
18:14:28 BRINGING THIS TO YOU AS A PD,
18:14:29 AND IN THIS CASE WE DON'T NEED
18:14:30 THOSE KIND OF WAIVERS, SO WE'RE
18:14:31 RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING YOUR
18:14:34 APPROVAL TO GO FROM RM-16 TO
18:14:35 RM-18.
18:14:36 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
18:14:37 ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE
18:14:38 PETITIONER FROM COUNCIL?
18:14:38 OKAY.
18:14:40 BEING NONE, WE MOVE FORWARD TO
18:14:40 PUBLIC COMMENT.
18:14:41 ANYONE HERE IN THE PUBLIC WOULD
18:14:43 LIKE TO COMMENT ON ITEM NO. 2,
18:14:45 PLEASE STAND UP AT THIS TIME
18:14:46 AND COME FORWARD.
18:14:47 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MOVE TO
18:14:47 CLOSE.
18:14:47 >>JOSEPH CITRO: SECOND.
18:14:49 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION
18:14:52 TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA,
18:14:55 A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN CITRO.
18:14:56 ALL IN FAVOR.
18:14:59 ANY OPPOSED?
18:15:00 COUNCILMAN GUDES, WOULD YOU
18:15:02 PLEASE, SIR, TAKE ITEM NO. 2.
18:15:03 >>ORLANDO GUDES: FILE NO.
18:15:08 REZ19-29, PUBLIC HEARING ON
18:15:10 APPLICATION OF GLENN McKAY
18:15:10 REQUESTING TO REZONE PROPERTY
18:15:13 GENERALLY LOCATED AT 214 SOUTH
18:15:15 NEW JERSEY AVENUE FROM RM-16
18:15:16 AND RM-18.
18:15:18 >>LUIS VIERA: THEN YOU READ THE
18:15:21 ORDINANCE FOLLOWING.
18:15:21 >>ORLANDO GUDES: AN ORDINANCE
18:15:21 BEING PRESENTED FOR FIRST
18:15:22 READING CONSIDERATION, AN
18:15:24 ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN
18:15:25 THE GENERAL VICINITY OF 214
18:15:27 SOUTH NEW JERSEY AVENUE, IN THE
18:15:28 CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, AND
18:15:30 MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN
18:15:32 SECTION 1, FROM ZONING DISTRICT
18:15:34 CLASSIFICATIONS RM-16,
18:15:35 (RESIDENTIAL, MULTI-FAMILY) TO
18:15:36 RM-18 (RESIDENTIAL,
18:15:38 MULTI-FAMILY); PROVIDING AN
18:15:38 EFFECTIVE DATE.
18:15:40 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
18:15:41 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION
18:15:44 BY COUNCILMAN GUDES, SECOND BY
18:15:46 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
18:15:47 ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
18:15:48 ANY OPPOSED?
18:15:49 >> MOTION CARRIED WITH
18:15:51 DINGFELDER BEING ABSENT AT
18:15:52 VOTE.
18:15:54 SECOND HEARING TO BE HELD JUNE
18:15:56 6th, 2019, AT 9:30 A.M.
18:15:59 >>LUIS VIERA: FOR NEW COUNCIL
18:16:00 MEMBERS, IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS
18:16:02 ON ANY OF THESE PROCEDURES,
18:16:03 DON'T BE AFRAID TO ASK.
18:16:04 I JUST BARELY KNOW THESE AFTER
18:16:06 TWO YEARS, AND IT CAN BE A BIG
18:16:07 ENDEAVOR.
18:16:07 OKAY.
18:16:09 NEXT WE GO TO ITEM NO. 4.
18:16:10 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: MARY
18:16:13 SAMANIEGO, FOR THE RECORD.
18:16:15 ITEM NO. 4 IS REZ19-33.
18:16:18 IT'S A REZONING REQUEST AT 2514
18:16:20 WEST PROSPECT ROAD FROM RS-60
18:16:24 TO RS-75.
18:16:25 >>DAVID HEY: GOOD EVENING,
18:16:27 COUNCIL MEMBERS.
18:16:29 DAVID HEY WITH YOUR PLANNING
18:16:29 COMMISSION STAFF.
18:16:30 I HAVE BEEN SWORN.
18:16:34 WE MOVE DOWN TO THE SOUTH TAMPA
18:16:35 PLANNING DISTRICT FOR THIS NEXT
18:16:36 CASE.
18:16:37 THE SUBJECT SITE IS LOCATED.
18:16:39 TRANSIT IS AVAILABLE
18:16:41 APPROXIMATELY .4 MILES TO THE
18:16:43 EAST ALONG SOUTH MacDILL
18:16:43 AVENUE.
18:16:44 THE SUBJECT SITE IS LOCATED
18:16:47 WITHIN A LEVEL "C" EVACUATION
18:16:50 ZONE, AND THE CLOSEST PUBLIC
18:16:53 RECREATION FACILITY IS BERN'S
18:16:55 PARK, WHICH ABOUT A QUARTER --
18:16:57 HALF A MILE TO THE EAST OF THE
18:16:59 SUBJECT SITE.
18:17:02 ON TO THE AERIAL.
18:17:04 THE SUBJECT SITE, OF COURSE,
18:17:05 RIGHT IN THE CENTER THIS IS
18:17:07 PROSPECT STREET, NEPTUNE, AND
18:17:10 TURNS DOWN HABANA TO THE SOUTH.
18:17:11 YOU CAN SEE THE AREA IS
18:17:12 PREDOMINANTLY SINGLE-FAMILY
18:17:14 DETACHED.
18:17:18 THERE IS SOME MULTIFAMILY, THE
18:17:22 PALMA CEIA APARTMENTS OVER ON
18:17:24 WEST MISSISSIPPI AVENUE YOU CAN
18:17:26 SEE ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT OF THE
18:17:26 AERIAL.
18:17:28 ON TO THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP.
18:17:31 THE SUBJECT SITE AND ALL THE
18:17:32 PROPERTIES ON PROSPECT STREET
18:17:34 -- PROSPECT ROAD IN THE GENERAL
18:17:35 NEIGHBORHOOD ARE ALL THAT
18:17:36 RESIDENTIAL-10.
18:17:38 IMMEDIATELY TO THE SOUTH,
18:17:40 AROUND THE CURVE OF NEPTUNE AND
18:17:42 HABANA, THERE'S SOME
18:17:44 RESIDENTIAL-20, THAT'S THAT
18:17:48 BROWN COLOR.
18:17:50 DENSITY INCREASES AS YOU MOVE
18:17:51 EAST DOWN MISSISSIPPI.
18:17:54 THIS DARKER BROWN IS THE
18:18:02 RES-35, AND ON HOWARD THERE'S
18:18:03 SOME COMMUNITY MIXED USE-35 IN
18:18:04 PINK.
18:18:05 THERE'S SOME COMMERCIAL USES
18:18:06 LOCATED OVER THERE.
18:18:08 THE SUBJECT SITE CURRENTLY HAS
18:18:09 A SINGLE-FAMILY HOME ON-SITE.
18:18:11 THE PROPOSED ZONING DISTRICT OF
18:18:13 RS-75 WILL ALLOW DIFFERENT
18:18:16 SETBACKS AND REQUIREMENTS THAT
18:18:18 ARE ALLOWED UNDER THE RS-60
18:18:19 ZONING DISTRICT.
18:18:20 THE REQUEST WILL NOT ALTER THE
18:18:21 CHARACTER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
18:18:23 DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE RS-75
18:18:24 ZONING DISTRICT WILL BE
18:18:25 COMPARABLE AND COMPATIBLE WITH
18:18:26 THE SURROUNDING DEVELOPMENT
18:18:30 PATTERN AND OVERALL IS
18:18:31 CONSISTENT WITH THE POLICIES OF
18:18:32 THE TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN,
18:18:33 AND BASED ON THAT, THE
18:18:34 RECOMMENDATION FROM THE
18:18:35 PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF IS TO
18:18:37 FIND THIS REZONING CONSISTENT
18:18:41 WITH THE IMAGINE 2040
18:18:42 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
18:18:47 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
18:18:48 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: MARY
18:18:50 SAMANIEGO.
18:18:52 AGAIN, HERE'S AN AERIAL OF THE
18:18:52 SUBJECT PROPERTY.
18:18:54 IT'S ON PROSPECT ROAD.
18:18:55 IT'S CURRENTLY A DETACHED
18:18:57 SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSE.
18:18:59 THE SUBJECT PROPERTY ON THE
18:19:00 ZONING MAP IS IN GREEN.
18:19:03 IT IS -- NORTH OF NEPTUNE IS
18:19:06 RS-60 ZONING DISTRICT.
18:19:07 SOUTH OF NEPTUNE IS PRIMARILY
18:19:10 THE RS-50 WITH SOME MULTIFAMILY
18:19:11 RESIDENTIAL ZONING DISTRICTS IN
18:19:14 CERTAIN SPOTS.
18:19:15 HERE IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE
18:19:18 SUBJECT PROPERTY, AND THEN
18:19:19 THESE ARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF HOUSES
18:19:22 UP AND DOWN THIS BLOCK, THE
18:19:26 2500 BLOCK OF PROSPECT ROAD.
18:19:29 THESE ARE ALL TAKEN FROM
18:19:33 PROSPECTIVE -- FROM THE PUBLIC
18:19:39 RIGHT-OF-WAY.
18:19:42 THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING TO
18:19:47 REZONE FROM RS-60 TO RS-75.
18:19:49 TYPICALLY, THE RS-60 ZONING
18:19:51 DISTRICT IS A 6,000-SQUARE-FOOT
18:19:52 MINIMUM LOT SIZE WITH AT LEAST
18:19:55 60 FEET OF ROAD FRONTAGE.
18:19:57 THE RS-75, WHICH IS THE
18:19:59 REQUESTED ZONING DISTRICT, IS
18:20:02 7500 SQUARE FEET IN AN AREA, AS
18:20:05 WELL AS 75 FOOT MINIMUM LOT
18:20:06 WIDTH.
18:20:07 THE SUBJECT PROPERTY'S LOT
18:20:10 WIDTH IS 81 FEET AND THE
18:20:11 OVERALL SQUARE FOOTAGE IS OVER
18:20:14 11,000 SQUARE FEET, SO IT MEETS
18:20:15 THE CRITERIA FOR THE RS-75
18:20:15 ZONING DISTRICT.
18:20:18 AGAIN, THERE'S NO SITE PLAN TO
18:20:19 REVIEW WITH THIS APPLICATION,
18:20:21 NO WAIVERS PROPOSED.
18:20:23 THERE ARE NO COMMENTS FROM THE
18:20:24 DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE,
18:20:25 SO BASICALLY, THE DEVELOPMENT
18:20:27 REVIEW COMMITTEE HAS FOUND THIS
18:20:28 CONSISTENT WITH THE CITY OF
18:20:32 TAMPA LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE.
18:20:34 DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC
18:20:35 QUESTIONS FOR ME AT THIS TIME?
18:20:35 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS
18:20:37 FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS?
18:20:38 OKAY.
18:20:39 THANK YOU, MA'AM.
18:20:40 PETITIONER, PLEASE.
18:20:49 >> GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL
18:20:50 MEMBERS.
18:20:51 GINA GRIMES WITH THE LAW FIRM
18:20:53 OF HILL WARD HENDERSON, AND I'M
18:20:54 HERE TONIGHT REPRESENTING DAVE
18:20:56 AND MILLIE REDMOND, WHO ARE THE
18:21:00 OWNERS OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY.
18:21:02 AS YOU HEARD, THE PROPERTY IS
18:21:07 LOCATED ON PROSPECT ROAD, AND
18:21:09 THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE
18:21:11 FRONT OF THE PROPERTY.
18:21:13 AS YOU ALSO HEARD, WE'RE
18:21:14 REQUESTING TO REZONE FROM RS-60
18:21:17 TO RS-75, AND THAT'S SOMEWHAT
18:21:19 UNUSUAL AND IT'S COMMONLY
18:21:22 REFERRED TO A DOWN-ZONING OF
18:21:23 THE PROPERTY, AND BY -- WHAT
18:21:25 THAT MEANS IS THAT THE PROPERTY
18:21:26 IS ACTUALLY SUBJECT TO MORE
18:21:28 STRINGENT REGULATIONS THAN IT
18:21:31 CURRENTLY IS SUBJECT TO, FOR
18:21:32 THE MOST PART.
18:21:34 AND UNDER THE -- UNDER THE
18:21:37 RS-75, YOU ARE SUBJECT TO
18:21:37 DIFFERENT LOT WIDTH
18:21:39 REQUIREMENTS, GREATER LOT WIDTH
18:21:41 REQUIREMENTS, AND GREATER AREA
18:21:43 REQUIREMENTS, AND SO YOU'RE
18:21:44 PROBABLY WONDERING WHY ARE WE
18:21:45 DOING THIS, AND I'M GOING TO
18:21:47 EXPLAIN THAT TO YOU IN JUST A
18:21:48 MINUTE, BUT I'D LIKE TO FIRST
18:21:50 GIVE YOU SOME BACKGROUND ON THE
18:21:51 SUBJECT PROPERTY.
18:21:53 THE REDMONDS PURCHASED THIS
18:21:55 HOME IN 1988, SO THEY'VE LIVED
18:21:57 THERE FOR 31 YEARS, AND THIS IS
18:21:59 A PICTURE OF THE PROPERTY.
18:22:02 RECENTLY THERE WAS A PIECE OF
18:22:04 PROPERTY IN BETWEEN THIS HOME
18:22:07 AND THE REDMONDS' HOME THAT
18:22:08 WENT UP FOR SALE.
18:22:09 THERE WAS A HOME ON THAT
18:22:09 PROPERTY.
18:22:11 BOTH THE REDMONDS AND THEIR
18:22:13 NEIGHBORS TO THE EAST, THE
18:22:15 IGLEHARTS, PURCHASED THAT
18:22:15 PROPERTY.
18:22:17 THEY EACH PURCHASED A PORTION
18:22:18 OF IT.
18:22:20 THE IGLEHARTS PURCHASED 40
18:22:22 FEET, THE REDMONDS PURCHASED 20
18:22:24 FEET OF THAT PROPERTY, AND THE
18:22:28 REDMONDS PURCHASED THE PROPERTY
18:22:29 ON THE EAST SIDE.
18:22:31 THEY HAD A PORTE COCHERE THERE.
18:22:37 YOU CAN SEE A PORTION OF IT IN
18:22:38 THIS NEXT PHOTOGRAPH.
18:22:41 THERE WAS A PORTE COCHERE ON
18:22:42 THIS PORTION OF THEIR PROPERTY,
18:22:43 AND THIS IS THE 20 FEET THAT
18:22:44 THEY ADDED TO THEIR PROPERTY,
18:22:47 THIS AREA RIGHT IN HERE.
18:22:48 THE REASON THAT THEY PURCHASED
18:22:51 IT IS THEY WANTED TO ADD A
18:22:52 DRIVEWAY AND A GARAGE AT THE
18:22:54 END OF THAT 20 FEET.
18:22:55 THE PORTE COCHERE THAT THEY HAD
18:22:57 HAD A GARAGE AT THE END OF IT,
18:23:00 BUT THE PORTE COCHERE WAS SO
18:23:01 NARROW, THEY WERE NEVER REALLY
18:23:03 ABLE TO MANEUVER IN AND OUT OF
18:23:05 THAT PORTE COCHERE TO GET IN
18:23:06 AND OUT OF THAT GARAGE.
18:23:08 THE ORIGINAL GARAGE WAS
18:23:09 EVENTUALLY CONVERTED TO A
18:23:10 POOL HOUSE.
18:23:12 NOW THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO
18:23:13 PURCHASE THIS ADDITIONAL 20
18:23:14 FEET ON THE EAST SIDE, WHAT
18:23:15 THEY'RE PROPOSING TO DO IS TO
18:23:17 USE THAT 20 FEET TO MAKE THEIR
18:23:18 DRIVEWAY WIDER AND TO ADD AN
18:23:20 ACCESSORY STRUCTURE IN THE
18:23:21 REAR.
18:23:22 THE REASON FOR THE REZONING
18:23:25 REQUEST FROM RS-60 TO 75 IS
18:23:26 BECAUSE UNDER THE RS-75
18:23:29 STANDARDS, THEY WOULD BE ABLE
18:23:30 TO CONSTRUCT A SLIGHTLY LARGER
18:23:33 GARAGE, AND I'VE INCLUDED IN
18:23:36 YOUR PACKAGE OF MATERIALS AN
18:23:37 ACTUALLY -- LET ME GO BACK.
18:23:39 THIS IS THE AREA.
18:23:40 THIS IS THE EXISTING GARAGE
18:23:43 RIGHT HERE THAT HAS BEEN
18:23:45 CONVERTED TO A POOL HOUSE.
18:23:47 ON THIS STREET THERE IS A LOT
18:23:48 OF ON-STREET PARKING.
18:23:49 IN FACT, SOMETIMES, AS YOU CAN
18:23:51 SEE HERE, YOU ONLY HAVE A
18:23:52 SINGLE LANE OF TRAVEL.
18:23:54 YOU CAN SEE THE CARS PARKED UP
18:23:56 AND DOWN PROSPECT.
18:23:58 SO ONE OF THE BENEFITS TO THIS
18:24:01 REZONING WOULD BE THAT IT WOULD
18:24:02 TAKE SOME OF THE CARS THAT ARE
18:24:04 CURRENTLY PARKED ON THE STREET,
18:24:05 WOULD TAKE THEM OFF THE STREET
18:24:07 AND ALLOW THEM TO PARK IN THIS
18:24:07 DRIVEWAY.
18:24:09 I'VE ALSO INCLUDED IN YOUR
18:24:11 MATERIALS A COPY OF THE
18:24:12 PROPOSED SITE PLAN, ALTHOUGH
18:24:14 THIS REZONING IS NOT SUBJECT TO
18:24:16 A SITE PLAN, BECAUSE I WANTED
18:24:19 YOU TO SEE WHAT'S EXISTING IN
18:24:21 THE NARROW PORTE COCHERE AND
18:24:22 THEN WHAT'S PROPOSED WITH THE
18:24:23 WIDER DRIVEWAY AND THE LARGER
18:24:27 ACCESSORY STRUCTURE AT THE END.
18:24:29 AND, AGAIN, HERE IS THE
18:24:30 CALCULATION OF THE DIFFERENCE
18:24:34 BETWEEN THE RS-60 AND THE RS-75
18:24:35 AS FAR AS THE SIZE OF THE
18:24:36 ACCESSORY STRUCTURES.
18:24:37 THE OTHER THING I WANTED TO
18:24:39 POINT OUT IS THIS REZONING TO
18:24:42 RS-75 IS CONSISTENT WITH THE
18:24:43 DEVELOPMENT PATTERN IN THE
18:24:44 AREA.
18:24:46 I HAVE -- I'VE IDENTIFIED ON
18:24:49 THIS MAP THE SIZES OF SEVERAL
18:24:51 OF THE ADJACENT LOTS, AND JUST
18:24:52 TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF WHY WE
18:24:56 THINK THE 75 -- RS-75 IS
18:24:57 APPROPRIATE HERE, YOU HAVE LOTS
18:24:59 THAT ARE 120 FEET WIDE, 120
18:25:02 FEET WIDE, 90 FEET WIDE, 88
18:25:06 FEET WIDE, THE REDMONDS' IS 81.
18:25:10 THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR IS 100, 90,
18:25:16 115, 105, 80, 150, 150, SO AS
18:25:17 YOU CAN SEE, IT'S AN AREA WITH
18:25:19 VERY LARGE LOTS, SO THE RS-75
18:25:20 WOULD BE APPROPRIATE IN THIS
18:25:21 LOCATION.
18:25:23 ALSO ON THIS MAP, EVERY NAME
18:25:25 MARKED IN GREEN HAS SUBMITTED A
18:25:27 LETTER OF SUPPORT, SO WE HAVE
18:25:28 WIDESPREAD SUPPORT FROM THE
18:25:29 NEIGHBORHOOD.
18:25:30 YOU ALSO, AS YOU HEARD, HAVE
18:25:31 SUPPORT FROM BOTH THE CITY
18:25:33 STAFF AND THE PLANNING
18:25:34 COMMISSION STAFF.
18:25:36 IT'S CONSISTENT WITH THE COMP
18:25:39 PLAN CATEGORY OF R-10, AND
18:25:40 BASED ON ALL THESE DOCUMENTS,
18:25:42 BASED ON THE TESTIMONY, BASED
18:25:44 ON THE STAFF REPORTS, ALL THE
18:25:46 EVIDENCE SUPPORTS A FINDING OF
18:25:48 APPROVAL, AND WITH THAT, WE
18:25:50 WOULD REQUEST YOUR APPROVAL OF
18:25:52 THIS REZONING FROM RS-60 TO
18:25:52 RS-75.
18:25:53 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MA'AM.
18:25:55 ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL FOR
18:25:57 THE APPLICANT?
18:25:58 OKAY.
18:25:59 NEXT WE'LL MOVE FORWARD TO
18:26:02 PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEM NO. 4.
18:26:03 IF ANYBODY'S HERE TO PUBLICLY
18:26:05 COMMENT ON ITEM NO. 4, PLEASE
18:26:07 STAND UP AND COME FORWARD AT
18:26:08 THIS TIME SO WE MAY HEAR YOU.
18:26:09 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MOVE TO
18:26:10 CLOSE.
18:26:10 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
18:26:11 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION
18:26:12 TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA,
18:26:14 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN
18:26:15 MANISCALCO.
18:26:15 ALL IN FAVOR.
18:26:16 ANY OPPOSED?
18:26:18 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER, COULD
18:26:23 YOU, SIR, TAKE ITEM NO. 4.
18:26:27 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: FROM THE
18:26:29 VRB, YOU GUYS HAVE SOME MAGICAL
18:26:30 LANGUAGE?
18:26:31 >>LUIS VIERA: UNDER
18:26:32 "ORDINANCE."
18:26:33 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: ALL RIGHT.
18:26:35 WE'LL JUST READ THE ORDINANCE.
18:26:37 LEGAL GIVES US MAGIC WORDS AT
18:26:39 THE VRB, BUT I'LL JUST MOVE
18:26:41 THIS.
18:26:43 I'LL MOVE AN ORDINANCE BEING
18:26:43 PRESENTED FOR FIRST READING
18:26:45 CONSIDERATION, AN ORDINANCE
18:26:46 REZONING PROPERTY IN THE
18:26:48 GENERAL VICINITY OF 2514 WEST
18:26:49 PROSPECT ROAD, IN THE CITY OF
18:26:50 TAMPA, FLORIDA, AND MORE
18:26:51 PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN
18:26:53 SECTION 1, FROM ZONING DISTRICT
18:26:55 CLASSIFICATION RS-60,
18:26:57 (RESIDENTIAL, SINGLE-FAMILY) TO
18:26:58 RS-75, (RESIDENTIAL,
18:27:00 SINGLE-FAMILY); PROVIDING AN
18:27:00 EFFECTIVE DATE.
18:27:01 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
18:27:02 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: AND I
18:27:03 BELIEVE THEY'VE MET ALL THE
18:27:06 STANDARDS AND THERE'S NO
18:27:07 OBJECTION FROM THE COMMUNITY
18:27:09 AND IT'S CONSISTENT WITH THE
18:27:11 SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD.
18:27:12 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
18:27:13 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A MOTION
18:27:15 BY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER, A
18:27:16 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN
18:27:17 MANISCALCO.
18:27:18 ALL IN FAVOR.
18:27:20 ANY OPPOSED?
18:27:22 >> MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
18:27:23 SECOND READING AND ADOPTION TO
18:27:26 BE HELD ON JUNE 6th, 2019, AT
18:27:26 9:30 A.M.
18:27:28 >>LUIS VIERA: AND MR. SHELBY, I
18:27:29 JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE, JUST
18:27:32 FOR MY OWN OCD LAWYER HAT HERE,
18:27:34 ADDITIONS OF COMMUNITY, ET
18:27:35 CETERA, AT THE END OF A MOTION
18:27:37 TO MOVE AN ORDINANCE, THAT HAS
18:27:39 NO BEARING WHATSOEVER LEGALLY,
18:27:40 I WOULD ASSUME?
18:27:41 I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE.
18:27:42 >>MARTIN SHELBY: WELL, AT THIS
18:27:44 TIME, THERE IS NO OBLIGATION TO
18:27:46 HAVE TO STATE THE REASONS WHY
18:27:46 YOU SUPPORT IT.
18:27:48 IT WOULD JUST BE SIMPLY TO BE
18:27:50 ABLE TO DO IT.
18:27:51 THERE MAY COME A TIME THAT WE
18:27:53 MAY HAVE TO DO THAT DOWN IN THE
18:27:54 FUTURE BASED ON WHAT'S
18:27:55 HAPPENING UP IN TALLAHASSEE,
18:27:57 BUT AT THIS POINT IN TIME, IT'S
18:28:00 BEEN JUST A READING AT FIRST
18:28:01 READING.
18:28:01 >>LUIS VIERA: GREAT.
18:28:02 THANK YOU, SIR.
18:28:03 JUST MAKING SURE.
18:28:03 THANK YOU.
18:28:05 MOVING ONWARD TO ITEM NO. 7.
18:28:06 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: MARY
18:28:07 SAMANIEGO.
18:28:10 ITEM NO. 7 IS REZ19-34.
18:28:14 IT'S A REZONING REQUEST FROM
18:28:15 COMMERCIAL GENERAL TO PLANNED
18:28:17 DEVELOPMENT FOR MULTIFAMILY
18:28:18 RESIDENTIAL, RESTAURANT, AND
18:28:19 RETAIL STRIP SHOPPING CENTER
18:28:21 WITH ALL CG USES WITH A BONUS
18:28:24 AGREEMENT PURSUANT TO 27-140 OF
18:28:25 THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE FOR
18:28:28 AN INCREASE OF INTENSITY FROM A
18:28:35 1 F.A.R. TO 2 F.A.R. IN CMU-35
18:28:37 FUTURE LAND USE.
18:28:38 >>DAVID HEY: GOOD EVENING,
18:28:39 COUNCIL MEMBERS.
18:28:40 DAVID HEY WITH YOUR PLANNING
18:28:41 COMMISSION STAFF.
18:28:42 I'VE BEEN SWORN.
18:28:43 WE'RE IN THE CENTRAL TAMPA
18:28:45 PLANNING DISTRICT FOR THIS NEXT
18:28:45 CASE.
18:28:48 THE SUBJECT SITE IS ALSO
18:28:50 LOCATED IN THE WEST TAMPA URBAN
18:28:51 VILLAGE.
18:28:54 IT IS LOCATED IN THE NORTH HYDE
18:28:55 PARK NEIGHBORHOOD.
18:28:56 THE CLOSEST PUBLIC RECREATION
18:29:00 FACILITY IS THE NEW JULIAN B.
18:29:02 LANE RIVERFRONT PARK, WHICH IS
18:29:05 LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 2,100
18:29:05 FEET TO THE NORTHEAST OF THE
18:29:06 SUBJECT SITE.
18:29:08 THE CLOSEST TRANSIT STOP IS
18:29:09 LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 1,500
18:29:09 FEET TO EAST OF THE
18:29:10 INTERSECTION OF NORTH BOULEVARD
18:29:11 AND WEST CASS.
18:29:14 THAT IS SERVED BY HART'S ROUTE
18:29:16 7, WHICH CONNECTS THAT SITE TO
18:29:17 DOWNTOWN TAMPA AND HILLSBOROUGH
18:29:19 COMMUNITY COLLEGE, THE DALE
18:29:19 MABRY CAMPUS.
18:29:21 THE SUBJECT SITE IS ALSO
18:29:22 LOCATED WITHIN THE LEVEL
18:29:26 "C" EVACUATION ZONE.
18:29:27 ON TO THE AERIAL.
18:29:28 THIS IS ZOOMED OUT.
18:29:29 YOU CAN SEE THE SUBJECT SITE
18:29:31 RIGHT HERE.
18:29:32 THIS IS CASS COMING IN FROM
18:29:35 DOWNTOWN, DOWNTOWN'S OFF TO THE
18:29:38 RIGHT OR TO THE EAST.
18:29:41 YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S -- TO
18:29:43 THE SOUTH, PREDOMINANTLY,
18:29:45 THERE'S A MIXTURE OF LIGHT
18:29:46 INDUSTRIAL USES, COMMERCIAL,
18:29:47 THERE'S SOME SINGLE-FAMILY
18:29:51 DETACHED, AND WE'RE ALL
18:29:52 FAMILIAR WITH WHAT'S BEEN
18:29:53 HAPPENING ON ROME.
18:29:54 A LOT OF THESE INDUSTRIAL SITES
18:29:58 HAVE BEEN TRANSITIONING INTO
18:29:59 MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT.
18:30:01 FURTHER SOUTH YOU CAN SEE
18:30:02 KENNEDY BOULEVARD, THE
18:30:05 COMMERCIAL LOCATED -- THIS IS
18:30:06 THE WALMART ABOUT FOUR BLOCKS
18:30:08 TO THE SOUTH OF THE SUBJECT
18:30:11 SITE, AND THEN YOU CAN SEE THE
18:30:12 BEGINNING -- A PORTION OF THE
18:30:16 UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA'S CAMPUS
18:30:19 KIND OF TO THE SOUTHEAST.
18:30:21 HERE WE HAVE THE FUTURE LAND
18:30:21 USE MAP.
18:30:23 IT'S KIND OF HARD TO SEE, BUT
18:30:25 THIS PARCEL HAD A PLAN
18:30:28 AMENDMENT TO THE COMMUNITY
18:30:29 MIXED USE-35, WHICH IS THE SAME
18:30:32 COLOR AS OVER OUT ON ROME.
18:30:34 THE SURROUNDING PARCELS IN THAT
18:30:37 LIGHT BLUE ARE ALL THAT GENERAL
18:30:38 MIXED USE-24.
18:30:39 THAT'S ONE OF THE CATEGORIES IN
18:30:41 THE CITY THAT ALLOWS NOT ONLY
18:30:44 RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL BUT
18:30:44 ALSO LIGHT INDUSTRIAL USES
18:30:48 SURROUNDING THE SITE.
18:30:50 YOU COULD SEE AS WE MOVE NORTH
18:30:54 OF CASS STREET, YOU GET SOME OF
18:30:55 THE DARKER BROWN.
18:30:56 THAT'S THE RESIDENTIAL-35, AND
18:30:58 THEN IT TRANSITIONS, AND THE
18:31:00 DENSITY STARTS DECREASING AS
18:31:01 YOU GO NORTH INTO THE
18:31:05 RESIDENTIAL-20 UP ABOUT TWO
18:31:07 BLOCKS TO THE NORTH.
18:31:10 OVER TO THE WEST OF ROME IS
18:31:11 WHERE YOU GET SOME
18:31:12 RESIDENTIAL-10, WHICH IS
18:31:13 PREDOMINANTLY SINGLE-FAMILY
18:31:14 DETACHED.
18:31:16 SOUTH OF THE SITE THERE'S A
18:31:17 MIXTURE OF RESIDENTIAL-20,
18:31:20 WHICH, AGAIN, IS THE BROWN,
18:31:22 GENERAL MIXED USE, AGAIN, THE
18:31:23 LIGHT BLUE, WHICH ALLOWS THAT
18:31:24 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL CONSIDERATION,
18:31:26 AND THEN DOWN ON KENNEDY IS
18:31:28 THAT URBAN MIXED USE-60.
18:31:29 HARD TO TELL WITH ALL THESE
18:31:30 DIFFERENT COLORS.
18:31:32 BUT THAT ALLOWS UP TO 60
18:31:33 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE.
18:31:35 AS YOU MOVE DOWN KENNEDY, THIS
18:31:37 KIND OF REDDISH COLOR, THAT'S
18:31:39 THE REGIONAL MIXED USE-100.
18:31:41 THAT'S THE MOST INTENSIVE LAND
18:31:42 USE CATEGORY OUTSIDE OF
18:31:42 DOWNTOWN.
18:31:44 YOU SEE THAT OVER IN THE
18:31:45 CHANNEL DISTRICT AS WELL.
18:31:46 AND THEN THE BLUE IS THE
18:31:51 PUBLIC/SEMI-PUBLIC DEALING WITH
18:31:53 THE UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA.
18:31:54 THE SUBJECT SITE IS LOCATED
18:31:57 WITHIN AN AREA OF THE CENTRAL
18:31:58 TAMPA PLANNING DISTRICT, WHICH
18:31:59 HAS BEEN TRANSITIONING FROM A
18:32:01 PREDOMINANTLY LIGHT INDUSTRIAL
18:32:03 DEVELOPMENT PATTERN TO A MORE
18:32:05 MIXED-USE URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD.
18:32:06 THE SUBJECT SITE IS ALSO
18:32:08 LOCATED WITHIN THE WEST TAMPA
18:32:09 URBAN VILLAGE, WHICH ENCOURAGES
18:32:11 A MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT PATTERN
18:32:14 WHERE APPROPRIATE.
18:32:15 A NUMBER OF SIMILAR TYPE
18:32:16 DEVELOPMENTS HAVE BEEN APPROVED
18:32:17 AND DEVELOPED TO THE WEST OF
18:32:19 THE SUBJECT SITE, MOSTLY
18:32:21 CENTERED ALONG NORTH ROME
18:32:22 AVENUE.
18:32:23 THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN SUPPORTS
18:32:25 INFILL DEVELOPMENT, SUCH AS
18:32:27 THIS PROPOSAL, THAT BRINGS
18:32:28 ADDITIONAL DENSITY AND
18:32:29 INTENSITY INTO AREAS CURRENTLY
18:32:31 SERVED WITH TRANSIT AND THAT
18:32:33 ARE LOCATED WITHIN PROXIMITY TO
18:32:35 EMPLOYMENT CENTERS.
18:32:36 THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT
18:32:38 PROVIDES FOR A WELL-DESIGNED
18:32:40 STRUCTURE WITH ENTRYWAYS AND A
18:32:41 PEDESTRIAN LOBBY ORIENTED TO
18:32:44 ADJACENT PUBLIC RIGHTS-OF-WAY.
18:32:45 OVERALL THE PROPOSED
18:32:47 DEVELOPMENT IS COMPATIBLE WITH
18:32:47 THE SURROUNDING DEVELOPMENT
18:32:49 PATTERN WHILE ALSO PROMOTING
18:32:50 THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY'S
18:32:57 MIXED-USE CORRIDORS [AUDIO
18:33:08 LOST] CONSIDERATIONS, THE
18:33:08 PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF FINDS
18:33:10 THE REZONING REQUEST CONSISTENT
18:33:13 WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE
18:33:14 IMAGINE 2040 TAMPA
18:33:15 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
18:33:28 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
18:33:29 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: MARY
18:33:30 SAMANIEGO, FOR THE RECORD.
18:33:32 HERE'S AN AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH OF
18:33:34 THE SURROUNDING AREAS.
18:33:35 AS DAVID INDICATED, THIS AREA
18:33:37 HAS BEEN TRANSITIONING FOR THE
18:33:38 LAST SEVERAL DECADES, AWAY FROM
18:33:40 THE HISTORIC SINGLE-FAMILY
18:33:41 RESIDENTIAL AND LIGHT
18:33:44 INDUSTRIAL USES OVER TO A MIX
18:33:48 OF TOWNHOMES AND MULTIFAMILY
18:33:49 RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURES WITH
18:33:51 SOME SMALL RETAIL DEVELOPMENT.
18:33:53 SO THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS
18:33:56 CURRENTLY THE SHOWMEN'S -- THE
18:33:57 GREATER TAMPA SHOWMEN'S
18:33:59 ASSOCIATION FACILITY.
18:34:02 ALL THAT WOULD BE DEMOLISHED
18:34:03 WITH THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT.
18:34:04 HERE IS --
18:34:06 >> MR. CHAIRMAN.
18:34:07 >>LUIS VIERA: COUNCILMAN
18:34:07 DINGFELDER.
18:34:08 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: JUST A POINT
18:34:10 OF ORDER, AND I APOLOGIZE FOR
18:34:11 MY DELAY.
18:34:13 YOU JUST TRIGGERED SOMETHING IN
18:34:14 MY MIND WITH REGARD TO A
18:34:15 DISCLOSURE.
18:34:17 IN MY -- WITH MY REAL ESTATE
18:34:20 HAT ON, I'M REPRESENTING A
18:34:20 DIFFERENT SHOWMEN'S
18:34:22 ORGANIZATION.
18:34:25 IT'S CALLED SHOWMEN'S REST,
18:34:25 INC.
18:34:26 I'VE DONE A LITTLE BIT OF
18:34:28 RESEARCH WHEN I KNEW THIS
18:34:28 PROJECT WAS COMING ALONG
18:34:31 BECAUSE IT'S CURRENTLY OWNED BY
18:34:32 -- WHAT'S THE TITLE YOU JUST
18:34:35 SAID, SHOWMEN'S --
18:34:35 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: THE GREATER
18:34:38 TAMPA SHOWMEN'S ASSOCIATION.
18:34:39 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: RIGHT, I
18:34:40 ASKED MY CLIENT, SHOWMEN'S
18:34:42 REST, INC., IF THEY WERE
18:34:44 CORPORATELY RELATED TO THE
18:34:45 OTHER SHOWMEN'S, AND THEY SAID
18:34:46 THEY WERE NOT.
18:34:47 THEY SAID THEY HAD SOME OVERLAP
18:34:49 WITH REGARD TO MEMBERSHIP, BUT
18:34:51 I DON'T KNOW ANY OF THE FOLKS
18:34:53 WHO OWN THIS PARTICULAR
18:34:54 PROPERTY, SO I JUST WANTED TO
18:34:58 DISCLOSE THAT FOR THE RECORD.
18:35:00 MR. SHELBY, IF YOU HAVE ANY
18:35:01 QUESTIONS FOR ME IN THAT
18:35:02 REGARD, GO AHEAD.
18:35:03 >>MARTIN SHELBY: YES, PLEASE.
18:35:06 ARE YOU AWARE THAT THEY HAVE --
18:35:07 THE PEOPLE WHO YOU HAVE DONE
18:35:08 REAL ESTATE WORK WITH OR
18:35:09 PRESENTLY, I DON'T KNOW WHETHER
18:35:11 IT'S PRESENTLY OR PAST -- DO
18:35:12 THEY HAVE ANY FINANCIAL STAKE
18:35:14 IN THIS PARTICULAR PETITION
18:35:15 BEFORE YOU TODAY?
18:35:19 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I THINK THEY
18:35:22 MIGHT BE MEMBERS OF THAT
18:35:23 ORGANIZATION.
18:35:24 >>MARTIN SHELBY: BUT IT'S A
18:35:25 SEPARATE CORPORATE ENTITY?
18:35:26 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SEPARATE
18:35:28 CORPORATE ENTITY.
18:35:29 >>MARTIN SHELBY: OKAY.
18:35:30 THAT BEING SAID, CAN YOU BE
18:35:33 FAIR AND IMPARTIAL AND MAKE
18:35:34 YOUR DETERMINATION BASED ON THE
18:35:35 EVIDENCE OF THIS HEARING?
18:35:36 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES,
18:35:36 ABSOLUTELY.
18:35:37 I'VE HAD NO RELATIONSHIP WITH
18:35:38 THIS PARTICULAR SHOWMEN'S
18:35:39 GROUP.
18:35:41 IT HAS THE SAME NAME AND HAS
18:35:42 SOME OVERLAP IN MEMBERSHIP, BUT
18:35:43 I DON'T KNOW THESE PEOPLE AT
18:35:45 ALL, AND I CAN BE FAIR AND
18:35:46 IMPARTIAL.
18:35:47 >>MARTIN SHELBY: BASED ON THE
18:35:49 FACTS AS YOU PRESENTED THEM,
18:35:50 IT'S MY OPINION THAT YOU DO NOT
18:35:52 HAVE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST,
18:35:53 AND UNDER FLORIDA STATUTES, YOU
18:35:55 ARE REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE AND
18:35:55 VOTE.
18:35:56 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU,
18:35:57 MR. CHAIRMAN.
18:35:58 >>LUIS VIERA: BETTER SAFE THAN
18:35:59 SORRY.
18:35:59 THANK YOU, SIR.
18:36:00 GO AHEAD.
18:36:01 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: OKAY.
18:36:03 MARY SAMANIEGO, AGAIN.
18:36:05 SO YOUR PROPERTY'S CURRENTLY IN
18:36:06 THE COMMERCIAL GENERAL ZONING
18:36:07 DISTRICT AS WELL AS SOME OF THE
18:36:09 SURROUNDING AREA.
18:36:12 ACROSS THE STREET IS THE
18:36:15 COMMERCIAL INTENSIVE ZONING
18:36:18 DISTRICT ON WILLOW AVENUE.
18:36:19 KIND OF THIS IS THE BEGINNING
18:36:21 OF THE GATEWAY INTO THE WEST
18:36:25 TAMPA OVERLAY AREA.
18:36:26 THIS, AGAIN, IS A PLANNED
18:36:26 DEVELOPMENT.
18:36:28 THEY ARE ASKING FOR SPECIFIC
18:36:30 USES AND APPROVAL OF A SPECIFIC
18:36:32 SITE PLAN.
18:36:33 I WILL BRIEFLY GO THROUGH THE
18:36:36 SITE PLAN AND THE REQUIREMENTS.
18:36:38 I KNOW THE APPLICANT WILL GO
18:36:39 THROUGH THE PROPOSED PROJECT IN
18:36:42 MORE DETAIL.
18:36:46 THEY ARE REQUESTING ON THIS
18:36:49 PROPERTY, WHICH IS A TOTAL OF
18:36:54 1.93 ACRES, 192 DWELLING UNITS
18:36:58 IN A MULTIFAMILY CONTEXT WITH
18:36:59 APPROXIMATELY 3200 SQUARE FEET
18:37:02 OF RETAIL AND A RESTAURANT ON
18:37:05 THE FIRST FLOOR ALONG WILLOW --
18:37:06 NORTH WILLOW.
18:37:08 THIS IS CASS, THIS IS WILLOW,
18:37:12 THIS IS CARMEN.
18:37:15 THE ENTIRE BUILDING WILL BE
18:37:18 FIVE STORIES WITH JUST UNDER
18:37:20 165,000 SQUARE FEET.
18:37:21 THE PROPOSED SETBACKS, AS PART
18:37:22 OF A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, IS
18:37:23 NORTH FIVE FEET, SOUTH FIVE
18:37:26 FEET, EAST IS GOING TO BE ZERO
18:37:28 FEET, WHICH IS IN CONJUNCTION
18:37:30 WITH THE WEST TAMPA OVERLAY
18:37:31 STANDARDS, AND TO THE WEST IS
18:37:32 EIGHT FEET.
18:37:33 THE MAXIMUM BUILDING HEIGHT
18:37:36 WILL BE 65 FEET TOTAL.
18:37:38 AS FAR AS THE WAIVERS OUTLINED
18:37:39 IN YOUR STAFF REPORT, ON PAGES
18:37:41 1 AND 2, THE FIRST WAIVER THAT
18:37:42 THEY'RE REQUESTING IS TO
18:37:44 CONTRIBUTE TO THE TREE TRUST
18:37:45 FUND FOR PLANTS THAT CANNOT BE
18:37:48 PLANTED ON-SITE.
18:37:50 THEY ARE REQUIRED -- WITH ALL
18:37:52 THE TREES THAT WILL BE REMOVED,
18:37:54 THEY'RE REQUIRED BY CODE TO
18:37:56 REPLACE THOSE TREES ON-SITE.
18:37:58 AND THEN THERE WERE ALSO TREES
18:38:00 THAT THEY'RE REQUIRED TO PLANT
18:38:02 ON-SITE AS PART OF JUST THE
18:38:04 OVERALL PROJECT DEVELOPMENT, SO
18:38:06 BETWEEN THE REQUIRED TREES TO
18:38:08 BE PLANTED ON-SITE FOR THEIR
18:38:09 PROJECT AND THE MITIGATION
18:38:11 TREES OR REPLACEMENT TREES FOR
18:38:12 THE TREES THEY'RE REMOVING,
18:38:14 THEY'RE ASKING A WAIVER BECAUSE
18:38:15 THERE SIMPLY IS NO -- NOT
18:38:17 ENOUGH GREENSPACE LEFT TO PLANT
18:38:20 A COMBINATION OF ALL THE TREES.
18:38:21 THE SECOND WAIVER THAT THEY'RE
18:38:22 REQUESTING IS TO ALLOW
18:38:24 NONRESIDENTIAL PARKING LOTS TO
18:38:26 ACCESS ARTERIAL OR COLLECTOR
18:38:29 STREETS FOR CARMEN STREET.
18:38:31 CARMEN -- CASS STREET IS
18:38:32 CONSIDERED A COLLECTOR, SO
18:38:34 THEY'RE ALLOWED TO HAVE A
18:38:36 DRIVEWAY HERE, WHICH THEY HAVE
18:38:39 A ONE-WAY IN; HOWEVER, THEY
18:38:42 HAVE A DOUBLE ONE-WAY -- I'M
18:38:45 SORRY, A DOUBLE ONE-WAY OUT ON
18:38:46 CARMEN STREET, BUT CARMEN
18:38:48 STREET IS CONSIDERED A LOCAL
18:38:48 STREET.
18:38:49 THE CODE SAYS YOU CANNOT HAVE A
18:38:50 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT
18:38:54 ACCESSING A LOCAL RESIDENTIAL
18:38:54 STREET.
18:38:55 BECAUSE THEY HAVE A COMMERCIAL
18:38:57 ELEMENT TO THIS PROJECT, THAT
18:38:59 CODE REQUIREMENT KICKS IN --
18:39:01 OR, I'M SORRY, APPLIES, AND SO
18:39:02 THEY NEED A WAIVER FOR THIS
18:39:07 DRIVEWAY ACCESS ONTO CARMEN.
18:39:08 THE THIRD WAIVER THEY'RE
18:39:09 REQUESTING IS TO REDUCE THE
18:39:11 TOTAL NUMBER OF PARKING SPACES
18:39:14 FROM 367 TO 297, WHICH IS A 19%
18:39:17 PARKING SPACE REDUCTION.
18:39:18 WE, STAFF, ACHIEVED THE
18:39:22 REQUIREMENT FOR 367 BASED ON
18:39:25 THE NUMBER OF DWELLING UNITS AS
18:39:26 WELL AS THE COMBINATION OF
18:39:28 RETAIL USES AND A POSSIBLE
18:39:30 RESTAURANT ON THE SITE.
18:39:32 WHENEVER WE DO REQUIRE PARKING
18:39:33 FOR A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, WE
18:39:35 MAKE THE -- WE CALCULATE THE
18:39:37 REQUIREMENT TO THE WORST-CASE
18:39:38 SCENARIO.
18:39:41 IF THE ENTIRE 3200 SQUARE FEET
18:39:43 OF DEVELOPMENT OR THE PORTION
18:39:45 THAT THEY'VE ALLOTTED FOR
18:39:47 RESIDENTIAL -- I'M SORRY --
18:39:49 RESTAURANT USES WERE TO BE
18:39:51 DEVELOPED FOR THAT USE AND THEN
18:39:53 THE REMAINING WOULD BE RETAIL
18:39:53 AND ALL THE UNITS WERE OCCUPIED
18:39:55 FOR THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF
18:39:57 PROPOSED BEDROOMS, THAT WOULD
18:40:00 BE WHERE WE GET THE 367, BUT
18:40:02 THEY'RE ASKING FOR A 19%
18:40:05 PARKING REDUCTION.
18:40:08 WAIVER NO. 4, THE CODE REQUIRES
18:40:09 TWO LOADING SPACES BASED ON THE
18:40:12 USE AND THE SQUARE FOOTAGE OF
18:40:12 THE BUILDING.
18:40:13 TYPICALLY YOUR FIRST LOADING
18:40:16 SPACE IS 12 X 60.
18:40:21 INSTEAD OF HAVING ONE 12 X 60
18:40:23 LOADING SPACE AND THEN THE
18:40:26 SECOND MAY BE 12 X 30, THEY'RE
18:40:27 ASKING FOR BOTH OF THOSE
18:40:30 LOADING SPACES TO BE 12 X 30.
18:40:31 THE VERTICAL CLEARANCE FOR A
18:40:33 LOADING AREA IS TYPICALLY 16
18:40:34 FEET FOR FINISHED GRADE.
18:40:35 THEY'RE ASKING TO REDUCE THAT
18:40:38 DOWN TO 10.5 FEET, SO THAT'S
18:40:39 THE FIFTH WAIVER.
18:40:40 THE SIXTH WAIVER THAT THEY ARE
18:40:41 REQUESTING IS TO REDUCE THE
18:40:45 REQUIRED GREENSPACE FOR
18:40:46 MULTIFAMILY GREENSPACE PER UNIT
18:40:49 FROM A TOTAL OF 67,200 SQUARE
18:40:51 FEET OF GREENSPACE REQUIRED TO
18:40:56 9,367 SQUARE FEET OF GREENSPACE
18:40:58 WITH THAT DEFICIENCY PAID INTO
18:40:59 THE GREENSPACE PAY IN LIEU
18:41:00 FUND.
18:41:01 THE GREENSPACE REQUIREMENT FOR
18:41:03 THIS TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT, GIVEN
18:41:05 THAT IT'S FIVE STORIES,
18:41:07 REQUIRES 350 SQUARE FEET OF
18:41:09 GREENSPACE ON-SITE PER DWELLING
18:41:10 UNIT.
18:41:12 THEY HAVE 192 DWELLING UNITS,
18:41:14 SO THAT'S HOW STAFF ARRIVED TO
18:41:17 THE CALCULATION OF A LITTLE
18:41:18 OVER 67,000 SQUARE FEET OF
18:41:19 GREENSPACE.
18:41:21 THEY'RE ASKING FOR A WAIVER TO
18:41:23 REDUCE THAT AMOUNT.
18:41:24 AND THEN THE FINAL WAIVER
18:41:26 THEY'RE REQUESTING IS TO SOME
18:41:28 OF THE SIGNAGE THAT'S PART OF
18:41:34 THE SITE PLAN, BASICALLY, FOR
18:41:35 THE ALLOWABLE SIGN AREA AND THE
18:41:36 MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF THE SIGNAGE
18:41:40 ALONG THE MAIN CORRIDOR ON
18:41:42 WILLOW, FOR THE ALLOWABLE SIGN
18:41:44 AREAS TO BE FROM 25 SQUARE FEET
18:41:46 TO 37 SQUARE FEET AND TO
18:41:50 INCREASE THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF
18:41:52 TEXT HEIGHT FROM 12 INCHES TO
18:41:55 24 INCHES, AND THEN ALSO FOR
18:41:56 SIGN NO. 5 TO INCREASE THE
18:41:58 MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE SQUARE
18:42:00 FOOTAGE OF SIGNAGE FROM 25 FEET
18:42:01 TO 41 FEET, AND THE APPLICANT
18:42:03 WILL SHOW YOU IN DETAIL KIND OF
18:42:04 THE LOCATION AND CONTEXT OF
18:42:09 THOSE SIGNS.
18:42:12 AS I STATED WHEN I FIRST READ
18:42:14 THE AGENDA, THE APPLICANT IS
18:42:17 REQUESTING A DENSITY BONUS, AND
18:42:18 THAT'S IN AN ASSOCIATED
18:42:20 DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT THAT THE
18:42:21 LEGAL DEPARTMENT WILL
18:42:21 INTRODUCE.
18:42:25 BY RIGHT THEY GET A
18:42:28 FLOOR-TO-AREA RATIO OF 1.0 WITH
18:42:29 THE BONUS PROVISION AND
18:42:30 DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, THEY'RE
18:42:33 ASKING FOR A BONUS OF 2.0 FOR
18:42:37 FLOOR-TO-AREA RATIO, SO THEY'RE
18:42:39 ALMOST DOUBLING THEIR ALLOWABLE
18:42:40 SQUARE FOOTAGE, AND AS PART OF
18:42:42 THAT DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, THE
18:42:44 PROPOSED PAYMENT THROUGH THE
18:42:45 DEVELOPMENT -- PAYMENT THROUGH
18:42:47 THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FOR
18:42:50 THE DENSITY BONUS WOULD BE
18:42:52 ABOUT $850,000 WITH ASSOCIATED
18:42:56 IMPROVEMENTS BUILT INTO THAT
18:42:58 DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITHIN
18:42:59 THE SURROUNDING AREA.
18:43:01 IF THIS PD IS TO BE APPROVED,
18:43:02 LAND DEVELOPMENT HAS SOME
18:43:05 CHANGES BETWEEN THE FIRST CITY
18:43:06 COUNCIL MEETING, WHICH IS THIS
18:43:08 MEETING, AND THE NEXT CITY
18:43:09 COUNCIL MEETING FOR A REVISED
18:43:10 SITE PLAN.
18:43:12 THERE ARE JUST SOME CLERICAL
18:43:16 CORRECTIONS TO BE MADE.
18:43:18 TRANSPORTATION DID FIND THIS
18:43:19 INCONSISTENT BASED ON THE
18:43:20 ACCESS TO A LOCAL STREET,
18:43:22 AGAIN, FOR CARMEN AS WELL AS
18:43:27 THE 19% PARKING REDUCTION.
18:43:28 NATURAL RESOURCES FOUND THIS
18:43:29 PLANNED DEVELOPMENT
18:43:32 INCONSISTENT WITH THE AMOUNT OF
18:43:36 GREENSPACE WAIVED FROM --
18:43:39 EXCUSE ME -- A LITTLE OVER
18:43:45 67,000 SQUARE FEET REQUIRED,
18:43:46 GOING DOWN TO A LITTLE OVER
18:43:47 9,000 SQUARE FEET.
18:43:49 THERE ARE SEVERAL OTHER CHANGES
18:43:50 BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND
18:43:51 READING THAT NATURAL RESOURCES
18:43:55 WOULD REQUIRE, AS WELL AS THE
18:43:57 NATURAL RESOURCES HAS ALSO
18:43:59 FORMALLY OBJECTED TO THE
18:44:00 CONTRIBUTION INTO THE TREE
18:44:01 TRUST FUND FOR THE MITIGATION
18:44:03 TREES.
18:44:05 URBAN DESIGN DID REVIEW THIS.
18:44:06 THEY FOUND IT CONSISTENT WITH
18:44:07 CHANGES BETWEEN FIRST AND
18:44:09 SECOND READING OUTLINED IN YOUR
18:44:10 STAFF REPORT.
18:44:12 SAYING THAT, OVERALL THE
18:44:13 DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMPLIANCE
18:44:14 STAFF DID FIND THIS
18:44:16 INCONSISTENT WITH THE LAND
18:44:18 DEVELOPMENT CODE, AGAIN,
18:44:20 REFERENCING IN YOUR REPORT TO
18:44:22 TRANSPORTATION'S CONCERNS WITH
18:44:23 THE PARKING REDUCTION AND THE
18:44:25 LOCAL STREET ACCESS AND NATURAL
18:44:27 RESOURCES REFERENCING THE
18:44:29 GREENSPACE PROVISION AS WELL AS
18:44:32 THE MITIGATION FUND.
18:44:33 SHOULD IT BE THE PLEASURE OF
18:44:34 CITY COUNCIL TO APPROVE THE
18:44:35 PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, PLEASE
18:44:36 INCLUDE IN YOUR MOTION THE
18:44:38 MODIFICATIONS BETWEEN FIRST AND
18:44:40 SECOND READING.
18:44:41 DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?
18:44:42 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MA'AM.
18:44:44 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
18:44:45 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: IS
18:44:46 TRANSPORTATION HERE TO SPEAK TO
18:44:47 THEIR OBJECTIONS?
18:44:50 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: YES, SIR.
18:44:57 >> GOOD EVENING, JONATHAN
18:44:59 SCOTT, TRANSPORTATION PLANNING.
18:45:01 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SO IT SAYS
18:45:02 CODE REQUIRES INGRESS AND
18:45:03 EGRESS FROM NONRESIDENTIAL
18:45:05 PARKING LOTS TO ACCESS ARTERIAL
18:45:08 COLLECTOR, CARMEN IS A LOCAL.
18:45:10 YOU'RE OBJECTING ON THAT BASIS.
18:45:13 CAN YOU DESCRIBE WHAT'S
18:45:15 HAPPENING ON THAT SECTION OF
18:45:17 CARMEN AND WHAT YOUR CONCERNS
18:45:18 ARE?
18:45:19 >> SURE.
18:45:21 YEAH, CARMEN STREET'S A LOCAL
18:45:23 STREET, SO THE CODE PROHIBITS
18:45:25 ANY KIND OF NONRESIDENTIAL
18:45:27 ACCESS TO IT, SO IN THIS CASE,
18:45:30 MOST OF THE USE IS RESIDENTIAL,
18:45:32 BUT THEY DO HAVE A COMMERCIAL
18:45:33 COMPONENT, A SMALL ONE, SO,
18:45:36 THEREFORE, THEY WOULD BE
18:45:37 INCONSISTENT WITH THAT CODE.
18:45:38 THAT'S THE ONLY REASON WE'RE
18:45:42 OBJECTING TO THAT SINCE THERE'S
18:45:44 LOCAL STREET THERE AND IT HAS
18:45:45 RESIDENTIALLY ZONED PROPERTY ON
18:45:46 IT.
18:45:47 IT'S REALLY JUST FOR THE
18:45:52 COMMERCIAL ASPECT OF THE
18:45:52 PROJECT.
18:45:54 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: AND IS --
18:45:55 IT'S A LITTLE HARD TO FIGURE
18:45:57 OUT AT THIS POINT IN TIME, AND
18:45:59 I'M SURE MR. MECHANIK WILL HELP
18:46:00 US, BUT IS ALL OF THE TRAFFIC
18:46:02 COMING OUT -- THAT COMES OUT OF
18:46:03 THIS PROJECT COMING OUT OF THAT
18:46:05 SPOT AT CARMEN OR IS IT BROKEN
18:46:07 UP OR DO WE KNOW?
18:46:09 >> LET ME LOOK AT IT REAL
18:46:11 QUICK.
18:46:20 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: IT'S GOT THE
18:46:22 ONE-WAY IN AND THE TWO-WAY OUT.
18:46:23 REMEMBER THAT?
18:46:24 >> YEAH, IT COMES OUT RIGHT
18:46:25 HERE.
18:46:26 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: YEAH.
18:46:26 >> YES.
18:46:29 THEY HAVE ONE WAY COMING IN ON
18:46:32 CASS, BUT THEY HAVE A -- ON
18:46:33 CARMEN STREET THEY CAN COME IN
18:46:35 AND OUT, SO YOU'D HAVE SOME
18:46:36 TRAFFIC COMING IN OFF OF CASS
18:46:38 STREET, BUT ON THE CARMEN
18:46:40 STREET, YOU COULD HAVE TRAFFIC
18:46:41 COMING IN AND OUT RIGHT THERE
18:46:44 TOO.
18:46:45 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: ALL RIGHT.
18:46:46 THANK YOU, SIR.
18:46:47 >> THANK YOU.
18:46:48 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
18:46:49 ANY OTHER FURTHER QUESTIONS
18:46:50 FROM COUNCIL?
18:46:54 OKAY.
18:46:55 APPLICANT, PETITIONER.
18:46:56 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: IT LOOKS
18:46:58 LIKE LEGAL --
18:46:59 >>KRISTIN MORA: IF I MAY,
18:47:01 MR. CHAIRMAN.
18:47:02 KRISTIN MORA, LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
18:47:03 I JUST WANT TO ADDRESS YOU
18:47:04 BRIEFLY REGARDING THE BONUS
18:47:06 PROVISION AGREEMENT, THE
18:47:07 DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT THAT
18:47:08 MS. SAMANIEGO REFERENCED.
18:47:11 FOR OUR RETURNING COUNCIL
18:47:12 MEMBERS, FOR OUR NEW COUNCIL
18:47:13 MEMBERS, THE CITY DOES HAVE A
18:47:15 NEW BONUS PROVISION AGREEMENT
18:47:16 SECTION OF OUR CODE.
18:47:19 THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF 27-140
18:47:21 REQUIRED A CONSIDERATION BY
18:47:24 COUNCIL OF WHETHER THE
18:47:25 AMENITIES THAT WERE BEING
18:47:26 PROVIDED WERE SUFFICIENT TO
18:47:28 OFFSET THE BONUS THAT WAS BEING
18:47:29 SOUGHT.
18:47:31 THE NEW BONUS PROVISION
18:47:32 AGREEMENT OR THE NEW BONUS
18:47:36 PROVISIONS UNDER 27-140 DOES
18:47:38 NOT REQUIRE THAT CONSIDERATION
18:47:39 BY CITY COUNCIL.
18:47:40 IT IS A STRAIGHT CALCULATION
18:47:42 BASED ON THE INCREASE, AND THEN
18:47:44 THAT IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE
18:47:45 EXACT MONETARY VALUE OF THE
18:47:46 AMENITIES THAT HAVE TO BE
18:47:47 PROVIDED.
18:47:49 SO CITY COUNCIL DOES NOT NEED
18:47:50 TO MAKE AN INQUIRY OF WHETHER
18:47:51 OR NOT THERE'S SUFFICIENT
18:47:52 AMENITIES, THAT'S ALREADY SET
18:47:54 OUT IN OUR CODE OF EXACTLY HOW
18:47:56 MUCH THEY HAVE TO PROVIDE IN
18:47:57 EXCHANGE FOR THE BONUS THAT
18:47:59 THEY WOULD RECEIVE.
18:48:00 IN ADDITION, ALL OF OUR BONUS
18:48:02 PROVISION AGREEMENTS AND THE
18:48:05 CODE CONTEMPLATE A TRUE-UP AT
18:48:06 THE TIME THAT THEY ACTUALLY
18:48:07 BUILD THIS PROJECT, SO THEY
18:48:09 WILL HAVE TO DO A NEW
18:48:10 CALCULATION THAT WILL BE
18:48:12 REVIEWED BY THE ZONING
18:48:13 ADMINISTRATOR AT THE TIME OF
18:48:14 DEVELOPMENT TO MAKE SURE THAT
18:48:17 THE AMENITIES THEY'RE PROVIDING
18:48:20 WILL OFFSET THE BONUS THAT THEY
18:48:21 ARE RECEIVING, SO I JUST WANTED
18:48:23 TO GIVE YOU THAT LITTLE
18:48:24 EXPLANATION BRIEFLY.
18:48:25 >>LUIS VIERA: COUNCILMAN
18:48:26 DINGFELDER.
18:48:27 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SO -- YEAH,
18:48:30 THIS IS ADDRESSING A NEW ANGLE
18:48:33 TO THIS.
18:48:34 STAFF MENTIONED -- MADE
18:48:37 REFERENCE EARLIER TO A, QUOTE,
18:48:39 PAYMENT OF $850,000.
18:48:40 >>KRISTIN MORA: THAT'S CORRECT.
18:48:41 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SO WHAT
18:48:43 YOU'RE SAYING OR PERHAPS WHAT
18:48:45 I'M INTERPRETING IN THIS
18:48:46 DOCUMENT IS THAT IT'S NOT A
18:48:49 PAYMENT PER SE, THAT IT'S A --
18:48:52 THAT THESE AMENITIES OF NEW
18:48:54 SIDEWALKS, PUBLIC PARKING, I
18:48:57 ASSUME OFF-SITE SIDEWALKS,
18:48:58 PUBLIC PARKING, AND SOME
18:49:00 UTILITIES ON ADJACENT
18:49:02 PROPERTIES WOULD ADD UP TO THAT
18:49:03 $850,000?
18:49:04 IS THAT HOW THIS IS WORKING?
18:49:05 >>KRISTIN MORA: CORRECT.
18:49:06 THEY CAN PROVIDE CERTAIN
18:49:08 AMENITIES THAT ARE SPELLED OUT
18:49:10 IN THAT SECTION OF CODE, AND
18:49:11 THEN THE AMOUNT OF AMENITIES
18:49:14 THEY PROVIDE HAS TO ADD UP TO
18:49:16 THAT $850,000.
18:49:18 IF THEY HAVE A SHORTFALL, WE DO
18:49:19 HAVE A PROVISION ABOUT
18:49:21 CONTRIBUTION TO TRANSPORTATION
18:49:22 PROJECTS, SO IF THERE IS A
18:49:24 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT IN
18:49:25 THE AREA, THEY'LL HAVE THE
18:49:27 ABILITY TO CONTRIBUTE TO THAT
18:49:29 IF, FOR SOME REASON, THEIR
18:49:31 OTHER AMENITIES FELL SHORT.
18:49:31 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: OKAY.
18:49:33 AND IT ACTUALLY LOOKS KIND OF
18:49:35 -- IT LOOKS KIND OF NEAT, ALL
18:49:36 THE NEW SIDEWALKS THAT ARE
18:49:39 LISTED HERE, BUT WHERE'S THE
18:49:44 VERIFICATION IN TERMS OF DOLLAR
18:49:45 AMOUNTS, DO THEY JUST PROVIDE
18:49:47 THE PAID INVOICES AS -- YOU
18:49:49 KNOW, AS THEY ACCUMULATE THEM
18:49:51 AND -- TO TRY AND MATCH THAT TO
18:49:51 THE 850?
18:49:52 >>KRISTIN MORA: SO THEY
18:49:54 ACTUALLY DO -- WHENEVER OUR
18:49:55 BUILDING DEPARTMENT IS ISSUING
18:49:58 A NEW BUILDING PERMIT, THEY
18:50:00 ACTUALLY CAN DO A COST ANALYSIS
18:50:02 TO TRY TO LOOK AT THE CURRENT
18:50:05 COST OF CONSTRUCTION OF THAT
18:50:06 PARTICULAR TYPE OF STRUCTURE,
18:50:07 AND THEN THE CALCULATION IS
18:50:09 BASED OFF OF THAT, SO EXACTLY
18:50:11 HOW MUCH OF THE STRUCTURE THAT
18:50:12 ADDITIONAL DENSITY THAT THEY'RE
18:50:15 GOING TO YIELD BASED ON
18:50:15 PROPERTY VALUE AND STRUCTURE
18:50:18 COSTS AND ALL THOSE THINGS,
18:50:20 THAT WILL DIRECTLY RELATE TO
18:50:20 THE AMENITIES THAT THEY
18:50:24 PROVIDE.
18:50:25 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: BUT, I MEAN,
18:50:28 THINGS LIKE SIDEWALKS ARE
18:50:29 PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD, SO THE
18:50:31 -- SO THEY'D BUILD THE
18:50:32 SIDEWALKS AND THEN PROVIDE THAT
18:50:33 INFORMATION?
18:50:34 >>KRISTIN MORA: CORRECT, YES.
18:50:35 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: OKAY.
18:50:35 ALL RIGHT.
18:50:36 THANK YOU.
18:50:40 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYTHING FURTHER
18:50:40 FROM COUNCIL?
18:50:41 OKAY.
18:50:43 PETITIONER, PLEASE.
18:50:48 >> GOOD EVENING, MR. CHAIRMAN,
18:50:49 COUNCIL MEMBERS.
18:50:51 MY NAME IS DAVID MECHANIK.
18:50:53 MY OFFICE IS AT 305 SOUTH
18:50:55 BOULEVARD, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
18:50:58 WITH ME -- AND MR. DINGFELDER,
18:50:59 I AM GOING TO ANSWER YOUR
18:51:00 QUESTIONS, PROBABLY ABOUT
18:51:02 MIDWAY THROUGH YOUR -- MY
18:51:04 PRESENTATION HERE.
18:51:04 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU.
18:51:05 GO AHEAD.
18:51:07 >> WITH ME THIS EVENING IS
18:51:09 MR. ANDREW COEN, AND AS YOU
18:51:12 KNOW, HE AND HIS BROTHER, GARY,
18:51:15 HAVE DONE NUMEROUS PROJECTS IN
18:51:16 THE CITY OF TAMPA.
18:51:18 I HAVE REFERRED TO THOSE IN TAB
18:51:20 "A" IN THE NOTEBOOKS THAT I
18:51:22 DISTRIBUTED BEFORE THIS
18:51:23 HEARING, AND I WOULD LIKE TO
18:51:28 SAY I'D LIKE TO ENTER THOSE
18:51:30 NOTEBOOKS OR A COPY OF THE
18:51:32 NOTEBOOK INTO THE RECORD, IT'S
18:51:34 ENTITLED "ABC CAPITAL
18:51:35 CORP," AND IT'S REFERENCING
18:51:38 PETITION 19-34.
18:51:40 SO IN TAB "A," AS I'VE
18:51:42 MENTIONED, ARE SEVERAL PROJECTS
18:51:44 THAT ANDREW AND GARY HAVE
18:51:46 WORKED ON, AND I BELIEVE THEIR
18:51:48 REPUTATION IS WELL-KNOWN WITH
18:51:49 THIS COUNCIL.
18:51:51 ONE PROJECT ON THAT LIST, THE
18:51:54 GRAND SHERATON, WAS THE
18:51:56 RECIPIENT OF AWARD FOR
18:51:57 EXCELLENCE FROM THE URBAN
18:51:59 FORESTRY COUNCIL FOR
18:52:01 PRESERVATION OF GRAND TREES.
18:52:03 THE NOMINATION FOR THAT PROJECT
18:52:06 WAS MADE BY KATHY BECK, THE
18:52:08 CITY'S CHIEF FORESTER, I
18:52:09 BELIEVE IS HER TITLE.
18:52:11 ALSO WITH ME THIS EVENING IS
18:52:14 RANDY COEN OF COEN & COMPANY,
18:52:17 AND MR. MATT CORMIA OF SCOTT +
18:52:20 CORMIA ARCHITECTS, AND AT
18:52:21 THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO ASK
18:52:24 MR. CORMIA TO PRESENT -- GIVE
18:52:26 YOU A LITTLE WALK-THROUGH OF
18:52:27 THE PROJECT VISUALLY WITH THE
18:52:32 SITE PLAN AND THE -- JUST BEAR
18:52:34 WITH ME A MOMENT.
18:52:35 THEY'VE GOT TO SET UP THE
18:52:36 EASEL.
18:52:48 >> IS THERE A PORTABLE
18:52:52 MICROPHONE?
18:52:53 >>LUIS VIERA: I DO NOT BELIEVE
18:52:54 THAT THERE IS.
18:52:57 I'M UNAWARE OF ANY.
18:52:57 >> HI.
18:53:00 SORRY.
18:53:01 >>LUIS VIERA: THERE WE GO.
18:53:04 THANK YOU.
18:53:05 [LAUGHTER]
18:53:44 >> HELLO.
18:53:45 CAN YOU HEAR ME?
18:53:46 ALL RIGHT.
18:53:46 GOOD EVENING.
18:53:49 MY NAME IS MATT CORMIA.
18:53:51 MY OFFICE IS IN 429 SOUTH
18:53:53 KELLER ROAD IN ORLANDO,
18:53:53 FLORIDA.
18:53:55 I'M ONE OF THE PRINCIPALS AT
18:53:58 SCOTT + CORMIA ARCHITECTS.
18:53:59 THANK YOU FOR HAVING US.
18:54:00 I APPRECIATE IT.
18:54:02 JUST SO YOU KNOW, WE'RE COMING
18:54:04 FROM SOME OTHER EXPERIENCES IN
18:54:04 THE CITY.
18:54:08 WE ARE -- IN ONE WEEK, WE ARE
18:54:10 GOING TO ENJOY A GRAND OPENING
18:54:14 AT CHANNEL CLUB DOWN IN THE
18:54:15 CHANNELSIDE DISTRICT WITH THE
18:54:16 PUBLIX THAT'S OPENING UP, AND
18:54:17 WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
18:54:21 AND WE UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE
18:54:22 TAMPA COMMUNITIES.
18:54:23 THAT'S KIND OF WHY WE ARE HERE.
18:54:27 WE'RE TRYING TO HAVE THIS
18:54:29 PROJECT BE KIND OF A GAME
18:54:32 CHANGER FOR THE AREA.
18:54:35 WE HOPE IT SPAWNS A LOT OF
18:54:38 POTENTIAL FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT
18:54:40 OF EXISTING WAREHOUSES INTO
18:54:42 OFFICES, RESTAURANTS, AND OTHER
18:54:44 MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENTS FOR THE
18:54:45 FUTURE.
18:54:47 WHAT ARE THE NEEDS?
18:54:49 WE KIND OF DISCOVERED THAT MOST
18:54:50 OF THE -- THOSE NEEDS ARE
18:54:51 SOMETHING THAT'S IN LINE WITH
18:54:54 THE CITY, A WELCOMING PLACE FOR
18:54:56 HOME AND PATRONAGE,
18:54:57 PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY AND
18:55:01 BIKE-FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT IN
18:55:02 APPROPRIATE SCALE, AND A PLACE
18:55:05 THAT IS AS ATTRACTIVE TO THE
18:55:09 DEMOGRAPHICS IN BOTH SIZE AND
18:55:10 SCALE OF THE ACTUAL
18:55:12 NEIGHBORHOOD IT'S BEING PUT IN,
18:55:13 SO WHAT WE DID IS WE KIND OF
18:55:15 LOOKED AT FOUR MAIN FEATURES IN
18:55:16 HOW WE IMPLEMENTED THIS AND HOW
18:55:21 THOSE NEEDS ARE MET.
18:55:21 THERE'S A HEAVY CONCENTRATION
18:55:26 ON THE RETAIL ON THE NORTHEAST
18:55:27 CORNER AT CASS AND WILLOW.
18:55:33 THAT'S SHOWN -- THAT'S SHOWN
18:55:34 RIGHT HERE.
18:55:36 THIS IS OUR RETAIL DESIGN.
18:55:40 THIS IS ACTUALLY ON THE WILLOW
18:55:40 VIEW.
18:55:42 THIS IS MORE KIND OF
18:55:47 KITTY-CORNER AS YOU'RE COMING
18:55:48 UP TO THE PROPERTY, AND THIS
18:55:50 AREA RIGHT HERE IS ACROSS THE
18:55:52 STREET FROM CASS.
18:55:55 WE WANT TO CREATE A SENSE OF
18:55:56 PLACE AND A SENSE OF WELCOMING
18:55:59 THAT'S NOT JUST FOR THE
18:56:00 RESIDENTS, SO PEOPLE CAN COME
18:56:04 AND HAVE A BEER OR COFFEE OR
18:56:07 HAVE A LOCAL MARKET THERE.
18:56:09 ONE OF THE OTHER FEATURES THAT
18:56:10 CREATES A GOOD SENSE OF SCALE
18:56:11 FOR THIS IS THE LARGE CANOPY
18:56:14 OUT IN FRONT.
18:56:15 THAT'S GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF
18:56:18 OUTDOOR SEATING AND IT'S VERY
18:56:21 PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY AND ALSO
18:56:22 RIGHT ALONG THE NEW BIKE PATH
18:56:24 THAT'S BEING BUILT ON CASS, SO
18:56:26 YOU CAN BASICALLY PARK YOUR
18:56:29 BIKE AND GRAB A COFFEE AND THEN
18:56:31 GET ON OR BACK TO WORK.
18:56:33 SO ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS
18:56:36 THAT'S A REALLY KEY PART OF
18:56:39 THIS IS BECAUSE OF THE PARKING
18:56:41 REQUIREMENT, THIS HAD TO HAVE A
18:56:43 STRUCTURED PARKING.
18:56:45 IN ALL OF THESE VIEWS, AND
18:56:47 ACTUALLY ANY VIEW YOU'VE SEEN
18:56:48 AND THE SITE PLAN, THE PARKING
18:56:50 IS COMPLETELY OUT OF VIEW.
18:56:52 IT'S BASICALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF
18:56:53 THE SITE, AND WE WRAP THE
18:56:54 ENTIRE BUILDING AROUND IT.
18:56:59 YOU DON'T SEE RAMPS, YOU DON'T
18:57:01 SEE FENCE, YOU DON'T SEE
18:57:02 ANYTHING THAT HAS ANYTHING TO
18:57:03 DO WITH A PARKING GARAGE, AND
18:57:05 THAT WAS INTENTIONAL.
18:57:08 ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS IS --
18:57:09 AND THIS IS SOMETHING WE'VE
18:57:10 LEARNED IN OTHER PROPERTIES IS
18:57:13 THAT THE CITY OF TAMPA HAS A
18:57:16 VERY ACTIVE ARTISTIC ROLE IN
18:57:18 THIS COMMUNITY, AND WE'RE
18:57:19 HIRING A LOCAL ARTIST, I THINK,
18:57:21 WHO'S GOING TO PRESENT, AND IN
18:57:25 THIS ELEVATION, AS BEST SEEN,
18:57:27 THERE'S A LARGE PALETTE, IF YOU
18:57:28 WILL, ON THE CORNER THAT SHOWS
18:57:30 WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BASICALLY
18:57:32 DECORATE IT WITH, SO RIGHT NOW
18:57:34 I'LL CALL IT A CANVASS, AND
18:57:36 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AN ARTIST,
18:57:37 YOU KNOW, PUT SOMETHING THERE
18:57:39 THAT IS EITHER TWO DIMENSIONAL,
18:57:40 THREE DIMENSIONAL.
18:57:41 WE HAVE YET TO SEE THAT.
18:57:45 AND THEN SECONDLY OR LASTLY,
18:57:46 WE'RE -- THE WAY WE'VE TREATED
18:57:51 THIS BUILDING IS -- THERE'S A
18:57:53 LOT OF EMPHASIS ON KIND OF A
18:57:56 MODERN BROWNSTONE, SO ON CASS
18:57:58 WE RAISED THE FINISH FLOOR UP
18:57:59 ABOVE THE STREET, AND THAT'S
18:58:02 SHOWN RIGHT HERE, AND WHAT
18:58:03 WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS CREATE A
18:58:05 PORCH WHERE PEOPLE CAN COME
18:58:08 OUT, THEY CAN BE NEIGHBORLY,
18:58:09 THEY'RE NOT RIGHT ON THE
18:58:13 ROADWAY, AND ALSO GIVES THE
18:58:19 WALKER-BYS A LITTLE LESS
18:58:21 INTIMIDATING BUILDING FACADE TO
18:58:22 WALK UP TO, THERE'S A LITTLE
18:58:23 BIT MORE OF AN APPROACH.
18:58:26 THE OTHER THING WE USED IS A
18:58:26 LOT MORE DIFFERENT -- A LOT
18:58:26 DIFFERENT MATERIALS.
18:58:28 WE HAVE -- RIGHT HERE WE HAVE
18:58:31 LIKE A METAL PANEL MATERIAL, WE
18:58:33 HAVE BRICK, WE HAVE THIS
18:58:36 REALLY, IN MY OPINION, A VERY
18:58:39 COOL STEEL STRUCTURE OVER THE
18:58:41 RETAIL AREA WITH A WOOD CEILING
18:58:43 AND NICE LIGHTING.
18:58:46 WE HAVE WE'LL CALL IT WOOD
18:58:47 SIDING, BUT IT'S SIDING
18:58:48 NONETHELESS.
18:58:50 AND THEN THERE'S SOME STUCCO IN
18:58:52 THE HIGH AREAS THAT WOULD
18:58:53 FINISH OFF THE BUILDING.
18:58:55 AND WE'RE TRYING TO CREATE AN
18:58:57 AREA THAT APPEALS TO THE
18:59:00 DEMOGRAPHICS OF THIS AREA
18:59:01 THAT'S A LITTLE HIP AND FUN AND
18:59:02 ALSO THE RIGHT SCALE.
18:59:04 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WERE
18:59:06 MENTIONED WAS THE CLEARANCES.
18:59:09 YOU KNOW, OUR ENTRANCE INTO THE
18:59:10 CENTER OF THE BUILDING RIGHT
18:59:11 HERE IS KIND OF LOW.
18:59:13 WE DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE THIS
18:59:15 18-FOOT OPENING AS YOU COME
18:59:20 INTO THE BUILDING AND
18:59:22 INTIMIDATE THE PEOPLE WALKING
18:59:24 BY, SO I THINK THAT'S PRETTY
18:59:27 MUCH WHAT I HAVE.
18:59:28 >> THANK YOU.
18:59:30 DAVID MECHANIK, AGAIN, FOR THE
18:59:32 RECORD.
18:59:34 I WOULD JUST LIKE TO CALL YOUR
18:59:37 ATTENTION TO TAB "C" IN THE
18:59:39 NOTEBOOKS TO SHOW YOU THE
18:59:40 EXTRAORDINARY LEVEL OF
18:59:43 COMMUNITY OUTREACH WHICH WAS
18:59:44 CONDUCTED BY MY CLIENT.
18:59:46 YOU'LL SEE, I THINK, THREE
18:59:48 PAGES OF INDIVIDUAL
18:59:50 COMMUNICATIONS WITH RESIDENTS
18:59:55 AND WITH ORGANIZATIONS IN THE
18:59:56 NEIGHBORHOOD.
18:59:59 IT WAS -- IN MY EXPERIENCE, IT
19:00:01 WAS THE MOST THOROUGH AND
19:00:02 COMPLETE COMMUNITY OUTREACH
19:00:05 I'VE EVER SEEN ON A PROJECT,
19:00:08 AND TO THAT END AND IN ANSWER
19:00:11 TO ONE OF MR. DINGFELDER'S
19:00:14 QUESTIONS IS FOUND IN TAB
19:00:16 "D" ARE THE EXHIBITS TO THE
19:00:18 BONUS AGREEMENT, WHICH SHOWS
19:00:23 ABOUT 12,000 LINEAR FEET OF
19:00:25 SIDEWALK AND TEN PARKING SPACES
19:00:27 ON-STREET THAT WE INTEND TO
19:00:29 CONSTRUCT AS PART OF THE BONUS
19:00:31 AGREEMENT, AND THE ANSWER TO
19:00:33 THE QUESTION IS, IS THAT AT THE
19:00:35 -- AT -- NOT JUST AT THE
19:00:36 BUILDING PERMIT STAGE BUT AT
19:00:39 THE CO STAGE, IF THE ACTUAL
19:00:41 EXPENSES DO NOT ADD UP TO THE
19:00:45 $850,000 FIGURE, THEN THE
19:00:47 PROPERTY OWNER HAS TO WRITE A
19:00:49 CHECK TO THE CITY FOR THE
19:00:50 DIFFERENCE, BUT WE DID OUR BEST
19:00:52 TO TRY AND MATCH THOSE
19:00:54 IMPROVEMENTS TO THE DOLLAR
19:00:56 AMOUNT SO WE COULD KEEP THAT
19:00:58 INVESTMENT IN THAT
19:00:59 NEIGHBORHOOD, AND THE LOCATIONS
19:01:02 OF ALL THOSE SIDEWALKS WERE
19:01:03 REALLY A CONSENSUS OF THE
19:01:04 NEIGHBORHOOD.
19:01:06 MY CLIENT DID NOT REALLY
19:01:08 INFLUENCE THAT DECISION, HE
19:01:10 RELIED ON THE CONSENSUS OF THE
19:01:12 NEIGHBORHOOD FOR ESTABLISHING
19:01:15 WHERE THOSE SIDEWALKS WOULD BE
19:01:17 INSTALLED.
19:01:19 I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THE
19:01:21 STAFF REPORT A LITTLE BIT.
19:01:23 FIRST OF ALL, WE AGREE WE WILL
19:01:25 MAKE ALL THE CHANGES THAT MARY
19:01:26 LISTED EARLIER.
19:01:28 WE HAVE NO PROBLEM MAKING ANY
19:01:30 OF THOSE CHANGES.
19:01:32 I WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS -- AND
19:01:33 MARY MENTIONED IT SEVERAL TIMES
19:01:35 -- ON PAGE 1 SHE SAID THE
19:01:37 PROJECT IS INCONSISTENT WITH
19:01:40 THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE.
19:01:42 WELL, THE ONLY REASON THAT IT'S
19:01:43 INCONSISTENT IS BECAUSE WE'RE
19:01:48 ASKING FOR WAIVERS, AND IT'S
19:01:50 PART OF THE PROCESS THROUGH THE
19:01:51 REZONING PROCESS THAT THE CITY
19:01:56 COUNCIL CONSIDERS WAIVERS AND
19:01:57 DETERMINES WHETHER OR NOT THEY
19:01:59 SHOULD BE GRANTED.
19:02:00 THESE -- THE WAIVERS WE ARE
19:02:01 SEEKING ARE VERY COMMONLY
19:02:05 GRANTED BY CITY COUNCIL, AND
19:02:07 I'D LIKE TO JUST GO THROUGH --
19:02:09 OH, AND I -- OH, I DID WANT TO
19:02:12 MENTION, ON PAGE 10 OF THE
19:02:13 REPORT -- OF THE STAFF REPORT,
19:02:15 YOU WILL SEE A TABLE, AND IT
19:02:17 LISTS TEN DEPARTMENTS OR
19:02:20 AGENCIES OF THE CITY, AND ONLY
19:02:22 TWO OF THEM HAD
19:02:23 INCONSISTENCIES.
19:02:25 THE OTHER EIGHT FOUND THE
19:02:27 PROJECT TO BE CONSISTENT WITH
19:02:30 THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE.
19:02:32 LET ME TALK ABOUT THE THREE
19:02:34 THAT ARE LISTED AS A BASIS FOR
19:02:37 INCONSISTENCY.
19:02:38 THE COMMERCIAL ACCESS TO A
19:02:40 LOCAL STREET.
19:02:41 FIRST OF ALL, I DON'T BELIEVE
19:02:44 THERE ARE ANY RESIDENCES ON
19:02:47 CARMEN, BUT ASIDE FROM THAT,
19:02:48 THIS IS A PROVISION OF THE
19:02:48 CODE.
19:02:50 I DON'T THINK YOU HEARD
19:02:52 MR. SCOTT TELL YOU THAT THERE
19:02:54 WAS SOME HUGE PROBLEM WITH IT.
19:02:57 HE JUST TOLD YOU THIS IS A CODE
19:02:58 SECTION, AND, FRANKLY, I THINK
19:03:00 THIS CODE SECTION IS A LITTLE
19:03:01 OUT OF DATE BECAUSE WHAT IT
19:03:04 DOES IS IT PENALIZES MIXED-USE
19:03:05 PROJECTS.
19:03:07 IF WE HAD NO RETAIL IN THIS
19:03:09 PROJECT, WE WOULDN'T NEED THIS
19:03:10 PARTICULAR WAIVER.
19:03:12 AND IT IS -- THAT PARTICULAR
19:03:13 WAIVER IS ONE THAT'S VERY
19:03:15 COMMONLY GRANTED BY CITY
19:03:17 COUNCIL.
19:03:20 THE GREENSPACE WAIVER IS REALLY
19:03:22 CAUSED BY A SIMILAR PROBLEM.
19:03:24 AS MARY SAID, THE CITY CODE
19:03:27 REQUIRES 350 SQUARE FEET FOR
19:03:31 EVERY UNIT IN YOUR APARTMENT --
19:03:33 IN YOUR APARTMENT COMPLEX, I'M
19:03:33 SORRY.
19:03:37 350 FEET PER UNIT IS LIKE
19:03:39 SOMETHING YOU WOULD SEE IN
19:03:39 TAMPA PALMS.
19:03:41 IT'S NOT WHAT YOU WOULD SEE IN
19:03:46 AN URBANIZING AREA, WHICH THE
19:03:48 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, HAS MR. HEY
19:03:49 HAS JUST SAID, IS ENCOURAGING
19:03:52 DENSITY AND URBAN MIXED-USE
19:03:54 DEVELOPMENT, SO, AGAIN, THE
19:03:55 GREENSPACE REQUIREMENT IS NOT
19:04:00 REALLY SUITED FOR AN URBAN
19:04:01 DEVELOPMENT AREA SUCH AS THIS
19:04:02 PARTICULAR NEIGHBORHOOD.
19:04:04 FINALLY, THE PARKING
19:04:07 REQUIREMENTS OF THE CITY ARE
19:04:09 ALSO EXCESSIVE IN AN URBAN
19:04:09 ENVIRONMENT.
19:04:11 AS YOU KNOW, THE DOWNTOWN
19:04:14 REGULATIONS ARE MORE LENIENT
19:04:15 THAN THE REST OF THE CITY.
19:04:18 LIKEWISE, IN AN URBAN AREA,
19:04:19 PERHAPS THE CITY SHOULD HAVE
19:04:21 MORE LENIENT PARKING
19:04:23 REGULATIONS; HOWEVER, WE'VE
19:04:25 COMPENSATED FOR THAT, AND I
19:04:27 WANT TO ASK MR. RANDY COEN TO
19:04:31 COME UP AND DISCUSS THE PARKING
19:04:32 WAIVER IN PARTICULAR.
19:04:35 THANK YOU.
19:04:36 >> GEEK.
19:04:38 RANDY COEN -- GOOD EVENING.
19:04:40 RANDY COEN, 4121 WEST CYPRESS
19:04:42 STREET, TAMPA, FLORIDA, AND I
19:04:43 HAVE BEEN SWORN.
19:04:44 I WANT TO TALK ABOUT PARKING.
19:04:46 THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY.
19:04:48 WE'RE DOING THINGS A LOT
19:04:50 DIFFERENT PARKINGWISE THAN WE
19:04:51 DID IN THE PAST.
19:04:52 WE'RE FINDING THAT THERE ARE
19:04:54 DECREASES IN AUTO OWNERSHIP,
19:04:55 ESPECIALLY PER PERSON WHEN
19:04:56 WE'RE DEALING WITH THE YOUNGER
19:04:57 FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY.
19:04:59 WE HAVE THE EFFECTS OF UBER AND
19:05:00 LYFT.
19:05:03 WE HAVE NUMEROUS PUBLICATIONS,
19:05:06 OF WHICH -- JUST A FEW ON
19:05:07 REDUCTIONS IN PARKING
19:05:08 THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AS IT
19:05:11 RELATES TO MULTIFAMILY BECAUSE
19:05:13 OF DECREASING OWNERSHIP, UBER,
19:05:16 LYFT, THE VARIOUS THINGS THAT
19:05:18 ARE GOING ON IN THE AREA.
19:05:18 IN THIS PARTICULAR
19:05:21 NEIGHBORHOOD, WE HAVE A NUMBER
19:05:22 OF PARKING WAIVERS THAT HAVE
19:05:24 BEEN GRANTED IN THE PAST, WHICH
19:05:26 RANGE FROM 15% TO 30%.
19:05:29 OUR WAIVER IS 19%.
19:05:30 WE ALSO HAVE A NUMBER OF THINGS
19:05:31 GOING ON IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
19:05:32 BECAUSE NOT ONLY IS PARKING
19:05:34 CHANGING, BUT, IN FACT,
19:05:36 ROADWAYS ARE CHANGING.
19:05:40 THIS IS WILLOW.
19:05:41 PEDESTRIAN/BICYCLE FACILITIES,
19:05:44 SPENT HALF A MILLION DOLLARS ON
19:05:45 IMPROVEMENTS IN THIS AREA.
19:05:46 OUR PROJECT IS LOCATED RIGHT
19:05:48 THERE.
19:05:49 WHEN YOU LOOK AT --
19:05:50 >>LUIS VIERA: I'LL GIVE YOU 30
19:05:52 SECONDS TO WRAP IT UP.
19:05:54 >> OKAY.
19:05:56 THE GREEN STREET -- GREEN
19:05:57 SPINE, MAJOR PEDESTRIAN AND
19:05:58 BICYCLE ENVIRONMENT.
19:05:59 WE'RE LOCATED RIGHT THERE.
19:06:00 IF WE WERE IN THE CITY CODE,
19:06:03 WE'D GET CREDIT FOR THE 70
19:06:04 BICYCLE SPACES WE'RE PROVIDING
19:06:08 ON THE SITE, 35 SPACES.
19:06:10 OUR 12 MOTORCYCLE SPACES WOULD
19:06:13 ALSO BE CREDITABLE FOR PARKING.
19:06:15 OUR WAIVER WOULD MAGICALLY GO
19:06:16 FROM 19% TO 6%.
19:06:17 WE ALSO HAVE, IN FACT, A LEASE
19:06:19 ACROSS THE STREET OF A PARKING
19:06:21 LOT DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET
19:06:24 WITH 45 SPACES AVAILABLE TO THE
19:06:25 PROJECT ON EVENING AND
19:06:25 WEEKEND --
19:06:27 >>LUIS VIERA: YOUR TIME IS
19:06:27 UNFORTUNATELY UP.
19:06:28 >> THANK YOU.
19:06:29 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
19:06:29 QUESTIONS.
19:06:31 MR. DINGFELDER.
19:06:33 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MR. COEN --
19:06:35 >> YES, SIR.
19:06:35 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: -- COULD YOU
19:06:37 PUT THAT AERIAL SHOT BACK UP.
19:06:38 >> SURE.
19:06:39 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: NOT RELATED
19:06:40 TO THE PARKING WAIVERS BUT
19:06:41 RELATED TO SOMETHING THAT
19:06:44 MR. MECHANIK SAID A MINUTE AGO
19:06:46 THAT'S RELATED TO THE LOCAL
19:06:47 ACCESS --
19:06:48 >> YES.
19:06:50 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: -- STREET ON
19:06:52 CARMEN, I THINK MR. MECHANIK
19:06:54 SAID IT, BUT WE DON'T LIKE
19:06:55 ATTORNEYS TO TESTIFY BUT YOU
19:06:57 CAN TESTIFY, AND YOU'RE UNDER
19:06:58 OATH; CORRECT?
19:06:58 >> YES.
19:06:59 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SO LOOKING
19:07:01 AT THIS MAP AND YOUR EXPERIENCE
19:07:05 WITH THE AREA, IT DOESN'T
19:07:07 APPEAR TO ME THAT YOU HAVE ANY
19:07:09 SINGLE-FAMILY USE OR, FRANKLY,
19:07:13 ANY USE ACROSS THIS SMALL
19:07:14 LITTLE LOCAL STREET.
19:07:16 >> NO.
19:07:17 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: CAN YOU
19:07:18 POINT ALONG THAT LINE AND
19:07:18 CONFIRM THAT.
19:07:20 >> THAT'S CARMEN STREET RIGHT
19:07:21 HERE, AND BASICALLY YOU HAVE
19:07:23 OFFICE USES, THE PARKING LOT
19:07:24 WE'D BE LEASING, INDUSTRIAL
19:07:26 USES.
19:07:27 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: HOW ABOUT
19:07:28 UNDER THOSE TREES?
19:07:30 I THINK -- IS THAT ALL VACANT?
19:07:32 >> BASICALLY, IT'S VACANT AND
19:07:33 IT'S A HODGEPODGE OF THINGS.
19:07:35 I'VE DRIVEN DOWN IT, BUT IT'S
19:07:36 BEEN A WHILE.
19:07:38 I DO NOT BELIEVE THERE ARE ANY
19:07:41 RESIDENCES THERE, BUT IT IS, IN
19:07:42 FACT, A LOCAL STREET, SO UNDER
19:07:43 CODE IT REQUIRES A WAIVER.
19:07:45 AND I WOULD LIKE TO ADD,
19:07:45 BECAUSE YOU HAD THAT QUESTION
19:07:45 BEFORE, WHAT'S COMMERCIAL
19:07:46 TRAFFIC THAT WOULD BE ON THIS
19:07:47 STREET?
19:07:49 IN THE MORNING IT WOULD BE SIX
19:07:51 VEHICLES; IN THE AFTERNOON IT
19:07:52 WOULD BE 12 VEHICLES.
19:07:54 THE PREDOMINANCE OF THIS
19:07:54 PROJECT IS RESIDENTIAL.
19:07:55 THE NONRESIDENTIAL COMPONENT IS
19:07:57 VERY SMALL FROM A TRIP
19:08:00 GENERATION STANDPOINT, SO WE
19:08:02 HAVE LITERALLY ADDING SIX TRIPS
19:08:04 IN THE MORNING, 12 TRIPS IN THE
19:08:06 AFTERNOON ON CARMEN, SO VERY
19:08:07 MINOR IMPACT.
19:08:08 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I MEAN, I'D
19:08:09 BE VERY CONCERNED IF THERE WAS
19:08:10 FIVE SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES ACROSS
19:08:11 THE STREET THERE --
19:08:12 >> RIGHT.
19:08:13 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: -- UNDER
19:08:15 THOSE TREES, BUT IT APPEARS TO
19:08:16 ME THERE'S NO HOMES AT ALL.
19:08:17 >> I BELIEVE THAT'S ABSOLUTELY
19:08:18 CORRECT.
19:08:18 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: OKAY.
19:08:19 THANK YOU.
19:08:20 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYTHING FURTHER,
19:08:23 QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL?
19:08:27 >> MR. CHAIRMAN, COULD COUNCIL
19:08:28 POSSIBLY INDULGE ME ANOTHER TWO
19:08:29 MINUTES TO FINISH MY
19:08:30 PRESENTATION?
19:08:31 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY OBJECTION
19:08:33 FROM COUNCIL?
19:08:34 >> I'LL MOVE TO GRANT TWO MORE
19:08:34 MINUTES.
19:08:35 >> SECOND.
19:08:36 >>LUIS VIERA: WE'VE GOT A
19:08:38 MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CITRO, A
19:08:39 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN
19:08:40 DINGFELDER.
19:08:41 ALL IN FAVOR.
19:08:43 ANY OPPOSED?
19:08:44 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
19:08:45 DAVID MECHANIK, AGAIN, FOR THE
19:08:46 RECORD.
19:08:49 I'D LIKE TO JUST SHOW YOU AN
19:08:54 AERIAL MAP OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD,
19:08:55 AND WHAT YOU CAN SEE HERE AND
19:08:57 IF YOU READ THE FINE PRINT,
19:08:59 THESE ARE FOUR PROJECTS.
19:09:01 THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS IN THE
19:09:04 UPPER RIGHT-HAND CORNER.
19:09:06 THE OTHER PROJECTS IN PURPLE,
19:09:09 GREEN, DARK PURPLE, AND BLUE,
19:09:10 ARE ALL PROJECTS WITH THE SAME
19:09:14 WAIVERS THAT WE ARE ASKING FOR
19:09:17 COUNCIL TO GRANT THIS EVENING.
19:09:18 THESE ARE FOUR PROJECTS THAT
19:09:20 WERE APPROVED WITHIN THE LAST
19:09:25 THREE YEARS, ONE OF WHICH NOHO
19:09:27 SQUARE WAS APPROVED THIS PAST
19:09:28 JANUARY BY CITY COUNCIL, SO WE
19:09:30 ARE NOT ASKING FOR ANYTHING
19:09:35 EXTRAORDINARY OR UNTOWARD OR
19:09:36 UNUSUAL.
19:09:37 THESE ARE VARIANCES OR WAIVERS
19:09:39 THAT ARE GRANT -- TYPICALLY
19:09:41 GRANTED BY COUNCIL, AND WITH
19:09:43 THAT, I WOULD JUST URGE COUNCIL
19:09:48 TO CONSIDER THE RECOMMENDATIONS
19:09:49 OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
19:09:50 THIS IS THE WEST TAMPA URBAN
19:09:53 VILLAGE, AND IT IS SLATED AND
19:09:56 PROPOSED FOR ADDITIONAL DENSE
19:09:57 MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT, AND THAT
19:09:58 IS EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING
19:10:04 THIS EVENING.
19:10:05 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
19:10:06 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
19:10:07 NOW WE MOVE FORWARD ON PUBLIC
19:10:08 COMMENT.
19:10:10 IS ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM
19:10:10 NO. 7?
19:10:12 IF SO, PLEASE STAND UP AND COME
19:10:12 FORWARD.
19:10:14 AND I WOULD ASK THAT IF YOU'RE
19:10:16 ABLE TO STAND THAT EVERYONE
19:10:17 WHO'S GOING TO BE PLANNING ON
19:10:18 SPEAKING ON ITEM NO. 7 PLEASE
19:10:19 LINE UP AGAINST THE WALL TO
19:10:21 YOUR RIGHT SO THAT WE CAN HAVE
19:10:23 A GOOD IDEA.
19:10:24 >>MARTIN SHELBY: MR. MECHANIK,
19:10:26 MAY I ASK THAT YOU TAKE THE
19:10:27 EASELS DOWN TO ALLOW THE PUBLIC
19:10:29 TO HAVE ACCESS EASILY?
19:10:33 >> OH, YES.
19:10:34 >>LUIS VIERA: I ASSUME
19:10:35 EVERYBODY WHO'S STANDING HAS
19:10:42 BEEN SWORN IN?
19:10:43 I'LL TAKE THAT AS A YES.
19:10:52 AND THE FIRST ONE MAY PROCEED.
19:11:02 >> I'D LIKE TO SAY HI TO
19:11:07 EVERYBODY AND THE NEW COUNCIL.
19:11:08 WELCOME TO OUR CITY.
19:11:13 I'M RUTH McNAIR, AND I HAVE
19:11:16 LIVED IN THE HOUSE THAT I LIVE
19:11:20 IN 60 YEARS, AND I LIVE THE
19:11:22 SECOND HOUSE OFF OF WILLOW AND
19:11:22 THAT'S ALL.
19:11:29 SO I'M ABOUT ONE AND A HALF
19:11:30 BLOCKS FROM THIS PROJECT, AND
19:11:32 WHEN I THINK ABOUT ALL THE
19:11:35 TRAFFIC WE ALREADY HAVE, I
19:11:36 DON'T KNOW -- I DON'T KNOW HOW
19:11:39 WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO HAVE
19:11:40 ANY MORE.
19:11:41 AND THEN THE WAIVERS THAT
19:11:46 THEY'RE ASKING FOR, I JUST -- I
19:11:48 CANNOT ACCEPT THAT.
19:11:51 SO I DON'T -- I JUST DON'T
19:11:53 THINK THIS PROJECT IS THE RIGHT
19:11:57 THING THE WAY IT'S GOING IN FOR
19:12:00 US.
19:12:01 TRANSPORTATION, THEY HAVEN'T
19:12:04 EVEN DONE A STUDY ON THE
19:12:08 TRAFFIC PROBLEM, AND WE HAVE A
19:12:10 PROBLEM WITH TRAFFIC OUT THERE.
19:12:13 AND THEN ON KENNEDY, COMING
19:12:19 DOWN FROM WILLOW, THEY HAVE A
19:12:20 NO TRUCK THROUGH -- NO TRUCKS
19:12:22 ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO EVEN GO
19:12:23 THROUGH.
19:12:25 THE SIGN IS UP THERE THAT SAYS
19:12:26 NO THROUGH TRUCKS, BUT THEY DO
19:12:26 THAT.
19:12:28 WE SEE THAT ALL THE TIME.
19:12:31 SO WE'RE ASKING YOU ALL TO
19:12:35 PLEASE HELP THE NEIGHBORS
19:12:36 BECAUSE WE DON'T THINK THIS IS
19:12:37 THE RIGHT PROJECT TO COME IN
19:12:38 RIGHT NOW.
19:12:39 THANK YOU SO MUCH.
19:12:40 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY
19:12:41 MUCH, MA'AM.
19:12:43 NEXT, PLEASE.
19:12:51 >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL
19:12:52 MEMBERS, AND CONGRATULATIONS ON
19:12:53 YOUR SEAT.
19:12:55 I AM WHIT REMER, PRESIDENT OF
19:12:58 WALK BIKE TAMPA, A LOCAL
19:12:59 NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION FOCUSED
19:13:00 ON PEDESTRIAN AND BIKE SAFETY,
19:13:02 PROMOTING ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION
19:13:04 OPTIONS AND QUITE SIMPLY,
19:13:06 BUILDING A BETTER STREET-LEVEL
19:13:07 EXPERIENCE FOR ALL USERS TO
19:13:08 ENJOY.
19:13:09 WALK BIKE TAMPA HAS BEEN
19:13:10 SUPPORTIVE OF THE CITY OF
19:13:12 TAMPA'S GREEN SPINE PLAN FOR
19:13:14 SEVERAL YEARS.
19:13:15 THE GREEN SPINE PLAN, AS THE
19:13:16 APPLICANT PARTIALLY EXPLAINED,
19:13:18 IS AN EAST-WEST THREE-PHASE
19:13:20 SEMI-PROTECTED BIKE LANE
19:13:21 STRETCHING FROM HOWARD IN THE
19:13:23 WEST TO 15TH STREET IN THE EAST
19:13:25 AND YBOR CITY.
19:13:26 PHASE 3 OF THE GREEN SPINE PLAN
19:13:28 RUNS THROUGH NORTH HYDE PARK,
19:13:30 AN AREA OF TOWN EXPERIENCING A
19:13:31 LOT OF GROWTH AND WHERE THE
19:13:31 APPLICANT'S PROPERTY IS
19:13:32 LOCATED.
19:13:33 I RECOGNIZE THAT THE NEIGHBORS
19:13:34 IN THIS AREA OBJECTED TO THE
19:13:36 APPLICANT'S FIRST PROPOSAL AND
19:13:37 THAT THE COUNCIL DENIED THAT
19:13:40 ORIGINAL APPLICATION, BUT AS WE
19:13:41 UNDERSTAND IT, OVER THE LAST
19:13:42 YEAR THE APPLICANT HAS SPENT
19:13:44 CONSIDERABLE TIME WITH THE
19:13:45 COMMUNITY WORKING ON CONSENSUS
19:13:46 ON THE PROJECT.
19:13:48 PERHAPS THEY NEED TO SPEND A
19:13:49 LITTLE MORE, BUT THE PROJECT
19:13:51 PROVIDES AMENITIES TO THIS
19:13:53 NEIGHBORHOOD THAT I THINK GROWS
19:13:55 IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH THE
19:13:55 COMMUNITY'S VALUES.
19:13:57 I'D LIKE TO MAKE SEVERAL
19:13:57 OBSERVATIONS.
19:13:59 THANKS TO THE NEIGHBORS AND
19:14:00 COUNCIL FOR NUDGING THE
19:14:01 APPLICANT TO TAKE A HARD LOOK
19:14:02 AT THE DESIGN FEATURES IN THE
19:14:03 ORIGINAL APPLICATION.
19:14:05 THAT'S IMPORTANT THAT YOU GUYS
19:14:05 PUSH BACK SOMETIMES.
19:14:07 TO THE APPLICANT, WORKING IN
19:14:08 THE COMMUNITY CAN PROVIDE
19:14:10 VALUABLE INSIGHT AND PROVIDE
19:14:12 COMMON GROUND EARLY ON IN THE
19:14:12 PROCESS.
19:14:14 ANOTHER NOTE BY APPLICANTS TO
19:14:14 COUNCIL.
19:14:16 AS WALK BIKE TAMPA CONTINUES TO
19:14:17 PROMOTE AND ADVOCATE FOR
19:14:18 STREETS AND DEVELOPMENTS THAT
19:14:19 PROVIDE SIDEWALKS, BIKE
19:14:21 INFRASTRUCTURE, DENSITY, AND
19:14:22 MIXED USES, WE THINK THIS
19:14:23 PROCESS WORKED.
19:14:24 AS WE UNDERSTAND IT, THE
19:14:27 APPLICANT WILL BE BUILDING OUT
19:14:28 SEVERAL BLOCKS OF NEW SIDEWALK
19:14:30 IN THE AREA, AND WE HOPE THOSE
19:14:31 CONNECTIONS PRIORITIZE ROUTES
19:14:34 TO SCHOOL AND OTHER MIXED-USE
19:14:35 DENSE AREAS.
19:14:36 WE'VE REQUESTED AND RECEIVED
19:14:37 CONFIRMATION FROM THE
19:14:38 DEVELOPMENT TEAM THAT THESE
19:14:40 SIDEWALKS WILL BE BUILT USING
19:14:43 BEST USE PRACTICES SUCH AS
19:14:44 PROPER TREE SHADING AND
19:14:45 PROTECTION OF ROOT SYSTEMS, AND
19:14:46 WE HOPE THE DEVELOPER WILL
19:14:48 MAINTAIN A CLOSE SUPERVISION ON
19:14:50 THE SUBCONTRACTORS TASKED WITH
19:14:50 THOSE EFFORTS.
19:14:53 TO YOUR POINT, COUNCILMAN
19:14:54 DINGFELDER.
19:14:56 FINALLY, WE SUGGESTED THE
19:14:57 DEVELOPER INSTALL ELECTRIC
19:14:59 VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS,
19:15:01 SPECIALIZED BIKE RACKS, AND
19:15:03 OTHER BEST USE PRACTICES FOR
19:15:05 GROWING DENSER AREAS, AND THOSE
19:15:06 RECOMMENDATIONS WERE WELL
19:15:06 RECEIVED.
19:15:09 I DON'T INTEND ON COMING -- TO
19:15:10 COMMENT BEFORE EVERY
19:15:11 DEVELOPMENT BEFORE COUNCIL, BUT
19:15:12 I THINK THIS CASE PROVIDES A
19:15:14 GOOD LESSON TO ALL THOSE
19:15:14 APPLICANTS THAT ARE CREATING
19:15:16 VERY REAL CHANGES TO THE
19:15:18 BUILDING STOCK OF OUR
19:15:18 COMMUNITY.
19:15:20 WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE HOW THESE
19:15:23 CHANGES IMPACT HOW A NEIGHBOR
19:15:25 ENJOYS COFFEE ON THEIR PORCH IN
19:15:27 THE MORNING OR WALKS THEIR DOG.
19:15:28 TAMPA'S A WONDERFUL PLACE TO
19:15:30 WORK, LIVE, AND PLAY.
19:15:30 EACH OF THESE INDIVIDUAL
19:15:30 DEVELOPMENT DECISIONS
19:15:31 COLLECTIVELY MAKE A BIG
19:15:33 DIFFERENCE IN THE FABRIC OF OUR
19:15:33 NEIGHBORHOODS.
19:15:35 WE APPRECIATE THE ATTENTION AND
19:15:35 DIRECTION THIS APPLICANT HAS
19:15:36 GIVEN SINCE THE ORIGINAL
19:15:37 APPLICATION.
19:15:39 LET'S GET THE SIDEWALKS RIGHT,
19:15:41 LET'S GET THE STREET RIGHT,
19:15:42 LET'S ENCOURAGE MORE WALKING
19:15:44 AND BIKING.
19:15:45 LET'S GROW TOGETHER.
19:15:45 THANK YOU.
19:15:46 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY
19:15:47 MUCH, SIR.
19:15:49 NEXT, PLEASE.
19:15:50 >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL.
19:15:53 WELCOME TO THE NEW COUNCILMEN.
19:15:54 GOOD TO SEE SOME NEW FACES.
19:15:56 MY NAME IS BRANT PETERSON.
19:15:58 I OWN A BUSINESS IN THE AREA AT
19:16:01 1727 WEST CYPRESS STREET.
19:16:02 I'M ALSO ON THE BOARD OF THE
19:16:04 NORTH HYDE PARK ALLIANCE.
19:16:06 I'M SPEAKING IN THIS EVENING IN
19:16:07 FAVOR OF THIS PROJECT.
19:16:08 I THINK THE DEVELOPER HAS DONE
19:16:09 AN EXCELLENT JOB OF REACHING
19:16:10 OUT TO THE COMMUNITY AND
19:16:11 HEARING THEIR NEEDS.
19:16:14 THEY HAVE PERFORMED A FEW
19:16:17 NOTEWORTHY IMPROVEMENTS TO THE
19:16:19 PROJECT AS A DIRECT RESULT OF
19:16:21 COMMENTS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD,
19:16:24 ONE BEING THE WALK-UP UNITS ON
19:16:24 CASS STREET.
19:16:26 I THINK THAT'S A GOOD ADDITION,
19:16:29 ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE GREEN
19:16:30 SPINE PLAN ALONG THAT AREA OF
19:16:31 CASS; SIGNIFICANT INCREASE TO
19:16:32 THE RETAIL, WHICH IS VERY
19:16:33 IMPORTANT, SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN
19:16:36 ASKING FOR FOR QUITE A LONG
19:16:37 TIME IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
19:16:38 THE THIRD, AND I THINK THIS
19:16:39 CANNOT BE OVERSTATED REALLY --
19:16:41 I DON'T KNOW IF THIS PICTURE
19:16:43 HAS BEEN SHOWN YET, IF I CAN
19:16:44 USE THE PROJECTOR, IS THE
19:16:45 AMOUNT OF SIDEWALKS IN THE AREA
19:16:47 IS SIGNIFICANT.
19:16:49 WE'VE BEEN ASKING FOR FOUR,
19:16:50 FIVE -- LONGER THAN I'VE BEEN
19:16:51 INVOLVED IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD
19:16:53 FOR SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS IN
19:16:54 THE AREA, SO TO GET 12,000
19:16:56 FEET, WHICH I UNDERSTAND IS THE
19:16:58 BLUE LINES HERE REPRESENTED ON
19:16:59 THE MAP, IS EXTREMELY
19:17:01 SIGNIFICANT, I'D SAY A GAME
19:17:02 CHANGER FOR THE AREA.
19:17:04 SO THE PROJECT'S DONE, I THINK,
19:17:07 A PHENOMENAL JOB OF IMPROVING,
19:17:08 AS WAS SO ELOQUENTLY STATED
19:17:09 BEFORE.
19:17:10 SOME OF THE WAIVERS ARE JUST
19:17:12 SURPRISING TO ME.
19:17:13 THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
19:17:14 WAIVERS, EXCUSE ME.
19:17:16 I THINK I HEARD 67,000 SQUARE
19:17:19 FEET OF GREENSPACE.
19:17:20 THAT'S OVER AN ACRE AND A HALF
19:17:22 OF GREENSPACE.
19:17:24 I LOVE GREENSPACE AS MUCH AS
19:17:25 THE NEXT GUY, BUT THAT SEEMS A
19:17:27 BIT EXTREME FOR A PROJECT OF
19:17:27 THIS NATURE.
19:17:28 I AGREE WITH THE PARKING
19:17:29 WAIVERS AS WELL.
19:17:30 I THINK THAT'S A LITTLE
19:17:30 EXTREME.
19:17:31 SO I'M FOR THIS PROJECT.
19:17:32 I ENCOURAGE YOU TO SUPPORT IT
19:17:33 AS WELL.
19:17:34 THANK YOU.
19:17:35 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
19:17:40 NEXT, PLEASE.
19:17:43 >> GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCILMEN,
19:17:46 AND WELCOME TO ALL OUR NEW
19:17:46 MEMBERS.
19:17:51 I'M LUE SHEARED, AND I'M FROM
19:17:53 THE WEST RIVERFRONT.
19:17:54 I'M HERE TO SAY THAT OUR
19:17:56 COMMUNITY FEELS THAT THIS
19:17:57 PARTICULAR STRUCTURE IS NOT FOR
19:17:58 OUR COMMUNITY AT THIS TIME.
19:18:00 IT'S BEEN THE LAST SEVEN TO
19:18:01 EIGHT YEARS WE'VE BEEN DEALING
19:18:05 WITH CONDOS, TOWNHOUSES, IN OUR
19:18:06 AREA.
19:18:09 ON STATE STREET, I LIVE AT 1315
19:18:10 STATE STREET.
19:18:11 I WAS BLOCKED IN WHEN THEY
19:18:13 BUILT THE FIRST DEVELOPMENT
19:18:15 ABOUT 70 YEARS AGO, AND WE WAS
19:18:20 USING OREGON TO GO ACROSS CASS
19:18:22 TO GET TO WALMART, BUT SINCE
19:18:24 THEY PUT ALL THE CONDOS FROM
19:18:27 CYPRESS ALMOST DOWN ACROSS TO
19:18:29 LEMON, OUR COMMUNITY WAS USING
19:18:40 WILLOW AND CASS WHERE THESE NEW
19:18:42 FACILITIES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE
19:18:43 COMING.
19:18:44 SO WE ARE USING THAT LIGHT TO
19:18:45 GET ACROSS SOUTH TAMPA GOING UP
19:18:45 TO KENNEDY.
19:18:47 WE COULD HARDLY GET ACROSS IN
19:18:47 OUR COMMUNITY.
19:18:49 I KNOW EVERYBODY'S SAYING IT'S
19:18:50 NICE, THE GREENSPACE AND THIS
19:18:52 AND THAT, BUT DO THEY LIVE TWO
19:18:53 BLOCKS AND ONE BLOCK FROM THIS
19:18:55 CONSTRUCTION THAT'S BEING
19:18:56 BUILT?
19:18:58 AND ALSO, WE HAVE TO CONSIDER
19:19:01 UT -- I PASSED THROUGH THERE
19:19:03 TODAY -- THAT WAS BLOCKED ALL
19:19:04 THE WAY DOWN FROM KENNEDY
19:19:05 ACROSS FROM NORTH BOULEVARD.
19:19:06 THEY WAS RUNNING THE LIGHT
19:19:08 COMING THROUGH THERE, AND WHERE
19:19:09 ARE THEY HEADED?
19:19:10 THEY'RE HEADED TO CASS AND
19:19:12 WILLOW, WHICH IS GOING TO BE
19:19:14 MORE TRAFFIC TO OUR COMMUNITY.
19:19:16 AND ALSO BLAKE, IF YOU ALL
19:19:18 DON'T KNOW, A LOT OF CARS ARE
19:19:21 ALSO HEADED TO THE CROSSTOWN
19:19:24 AND TO KENNEDY, AND ALSO AT 405
19:19:25 NORTH OREGON, WHICH IS ONLY
19:19:27 ABOUT A BLOCK FROM THIS NEW
19:19:29 STRUCTURE, THAT WAS MY FORMER
19:19:31 CHURCH THAT BURNT DOWN, THEY'RE
19:19:34 BUILDING A NEW WHOLE TOWNHOUSE
19:19:36 COMMUNITY, SO HAVE THEY
19:19:37 CONSIDERED THAT PARTICULAR
19:19:39 PARKING, HOW MANY UNITS AND
19:19:41 PEOPLE THAT'S GOING TO BRING TO
19:19:42 OUR LITTLE AREA?
19:19:45 YES, IT'S ALL GOOD TO COME AND
19:19:47 BICYCLE AND WHATEVER, BUT DO
19:19:48 YOU HAVE TO LIVE THERE, DO YOU
19:19:50 HAVE TO TRY TO GET ACROSS TO
19:19:51 SHOP?
19:19:53 THIS IS JUST -- TO US, IT'S
19:19:55 JUST NOT THE TIME AND IT'S JUST
19:19:56 NOT THE PLACE.
19:19:57 WE HAVE BEEN INUNDATED WITH
19:19:59 THIS FOR THE LAST SEVEN TO
19:20:00 EIGHT YEARS, AND WE ARE AGAINST
19:20:01 IT.
19:20:03 NOT AGAINST ANYONE, BUT IT'S
19:20:07 JUST -- IT'S JUST NO OTHER
19:20:08 PLACE HARDLY IN OUR COMMUNITY
19:20:10 FOR US TO DRIVE.
19:20:11 I HEARD THE MAN SAY SOMETHING
19:20:12 ABOUT UBER AND LYFT.
19:20:14 YES, UBER AND LYFT BECAUSE
19:20:16 PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO DRIVE
19:20:16 ANYMORE.
19:20:18 I HAVE A SENIOR CITIZENS'
19:20:20 NEIGHBORHOOD THAT'S TAKING THE
19:20:21 CAB AND UBER AND LYFT BECAUSE
19:20:23 THEY ARE AFRAID TO DRIVE ACROSS
19:20:28 KENNEDY ON CYPRESS, SO I'M JUST
19:20:29 HERE TO SAY I'M TOTALLY AGAINST
19:20:30 THIS RIGHT NOW.
19:20:31 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL FACILITY THE
19:20:33 WAY THEY PRESENT IT, BUT I
19:20:34 DON'T THINK IT'S FOR OUR
19:20:34 NEIGHBORHOOD AT THIS TIME.
19:20:35 THANK YOU FOR YOUR
19:20:35 CONSIDERATION.
19:20:37 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MA'AM.
19:20:38 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
19:20:39 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MA'AM, CAN I
19:20:41 ASK YOU A QUICK QUESTION?
19:20:42 >> YES.
19:20:42 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I APPRECIATE
19:20:43 YOUR OBJECTIONS, I APPRECIATE
19:20:46 YOU COMING DOWN HERE TONIGHT.
19:20:47 IS THERE ANY -- YOU'VE LOOKED
19:20:49 AT -- YOU'VE PROBABLY LOOKED AT
19:20:51 THE PLANS THAT THEY HAVE
19:20:52 PRESENTED OVER TIME?
19:20:52 >> ABSOLUTELY.
19:20:53 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: IS THERE ANY
19:20:55 PARTICULAR IMPROVEMENTS OR
19:20:57 CHANGES SPECIFICALLY THAT YOU
19:21:00 AND/OR YOUR NEIGHBORS OR
19:21:01 COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, WOULD
19:21:06 SUGGEST THAT YOU COULD, YOU
19:21:06 KNOW, AT THAT POINT, YOU KNOW,
19:21:08 BE MORE IN FAVOR, OR ARE YOU
19:21:09 BASICALLY SAYING THIS IS JUST
19:21:10 TOO MUCH?
19:21:11 >> YEAH, WE'RE BASICALLY
19:21:13 SAYING, COUNCILMAN, THAT THIS
19:21:13 IS TOO MUCH.
19:21:15 WE'VE BEEN TO SOME OF THE
19:21:16 DEVELOPER'S MEETINGS, AND RIGHT
19:21:19 THERE ON THAT CORNER -- IT
19:21:20 FLOODS DOWN WILLOW.
19:21:22 I'M TELLING YOU, IF YOU DON'T
19:21:23 LIVE THERE, YOU DON'T KNOW THE
19:21:25 RAMIFICATIONS OF HAVING TO GO
19:21:26 THROUGH THAT.
19:21:28 SO IT REALLY IS THE PARKING,
19:21:30 THE TRAFFIC, YOU KNOW, THAT'S
19:21:31 GOING TO BE COMING WITH OTHER
19:21:31 CONDOS.
19:21:35 THESE ARE $400,000 UNITS THAT'S
19:21:36 GOING TO BE BUILT RIGHT THERE
19:21:37 IN OUR COMMUNITY.
19:21:38 WE'VE GOT SOME ALL THE WAY DOWN
19:21:42 ON ROME, ALL AROUND THE
19:21:42 WALMART.
19:21:43 YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU JUST
19:21:45 CAN'T HARDLY GET OUT UNLESS YOU
19:21:48 GO TO A LIGHT, AND WILLOW AND
19:21:51 CASS IS OUR GO-TO LIGHT, AND
19:21:53 NOW WE'RE GOING TO BE JAMMED UP
19:21:55 WITH MORE TRAFFIC, MORE
19:21:57 PEDESTRIANS, MORE VEHICLES.
19:21:59 IT'S MORE VEHICLES THAN THEY
19:21:59 WANT TO SAY.
19:22:01 IT'S A LOT OF VEHICLES OUT
19:22:02 THERE.
19:22:04 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: IS ROME AN
19:22:06 OPTION -- IS ROME AVENUE AN
19:22:07 OPTION FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD
19:22:08 BECAUSE SOMETIMES I GO CUTTING
19:22:09 THROUGH YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD TOO.
19:22:12 I APOLOGIZE, BUT --
19:22:12 [LAUGHTER]
19:22:14 -- YOU KNOW, BUT IS -- YOU
19:22:16 KNOW, SOMETIMES I'LL GO DOWN TO
19:22:17 ROME BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO
19:22:19 MESS WITH NORTH BOULEVARD OR
19:22:21 EVEN WILLOW, BUT I'LL GO DOWN
19:22:23 TO ROME AND CUT ACROSS TO
19:22:23 KENNEDY.
19:22:25 >> YEAH, SEE, WE USED TO BE
19:22:26 GOING ABLE TO GO TO ROME, BUT
19:22:27 THEY BLOCKED US IN ON STATE.
19:22:29 OF COURSE, WE HAVE TO GO TO
19:22:30 CYPRESS, AND WE DO SOMETIMES GO
19:22:32 TO ROME AND WE GO THE BACK WAY
19:22:33 TO WALMART.
19:22:34 SOMETIMES WE DO.
19:22:34 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: OKAY.
19:22:35 THANK YOU, MA'AM.
19:22:36 >> THANK YOU.
19:22:36 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY
19:22:37 MUCH, MA'AM.
19:22:45 NEXT, PLEASE.
19:22:48 >> RAFAEL HERNANDEZ, 1917 WEST
19:22:49 FIG STREET.
19:22:51 I'M EXCITED FOR THIS PROJECT.
19:22:52 I'VE BEEN WAITING SEVEN YEARS
19:22:54 FOR MIXED-USE IN NORTH HYDE
19:22:55 PARK.
19:22:56 THE LAST DEVELOPER, WHICH I
19:22:56 THINK MR. MECHANIK REPRESENTED,
19:22:57 TOLD US THAT IF WE EVER WANTED
19:22:59 RETAIL, WE COULD TAKE AN UBER
19:23:00 OR WE COULD ORDER UBER EATS IF
19:23:02 WE WANTED FOOD, BASICALLY TOLD
19:23:03 US, NO, WE WOULDN'T PUT THIS
19:23:03 MUCH RETAIL.
19:23:04 THIS PROJECT IS ACTUALLY
19:23:05 DIFFERENT.
19:23:06 IT'S TRULY MIXED-USE.
19:23:07 IT SHOULD BE THE STANDARD FOR
19:23:09 PROJECTS IN WEST TAMPA MOVING
19:23:10 FORWARD.
19:23:11 WE WANT TO BE SERIOUS ABOUT
19:23:13 WALKABILITY AND TRANSIT.
19:23:14 THIS PROJECT BRINGS DENSITY OF
19:23:17 RESIDENTIAL AND RETAIL, WHICH
19:23:19 WE KNOW MAKES FOR A THRIVING
19:23:20 URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD.
19:23:21 IF WE HAD MORE PROJECTS LIKE
19:23:23 THIS, SENIOR CITIZENS WOULDN'T
19:23:24 NEED TO GET IN A CAR OR GET AN
19:23:26 UBER, THEY COULD JUST WALK TO
19:23:27 THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE, THEY COULD
19:23:28 WALK TO THE COFFEE SHOP, THEY
19:23:29 COULD WALK TO A RESTAURANT
19:23:31 INSTEAD OF FORCING THEM TO GET
19:23:31 INTO VEHICLES.
19:23:32 AS FAR AS PARKING, WE HAVE
19:23:34 PROJECTS LIKE THIS THAT HAVE
19:23:35 EMPTY PARKING DECKS.
19:23:36 I'VE SEEN THEM.
19:23:37 THERE'S, LIKE, TWO PARKING
19:23:41 DECKS IN NOHO FLATS THAT ARE
19:23:41 EMPTY, NO CARS ARE PARKED
19:23:42 THERE.
19:23:43 NOT EVERYBODY OWNS A CAR, NOT
19:23:45 EVERYBODY NEEDS A CAR, BUT WE
19:23:46 KEEP DEMANDING THESE PROJECTS
19:23:48 TO CREATE MORE PARKING SPACES,
19:23:50 WHICH END UP COSTING MORE TO
19:23:51 PEOPLE THAT RENT THE PLACES OR
19:23:52 BUY UNITS BECAUSE THE DEVELOPER
19:23:53 HAS TO PAY FOR THOSE PARKING
19:23:56 SPACES SOMEHOW, SO THEY RAISE
19:23:57 THEIR RENTS ON THEM.
19:23:58 THE MOST IMPORTANT TAKEAWAY
19:24:00 FROM THIS PROJECT IS THAT THIS
19:24:01 PROJECT WAS REJECTED BY CITY
19:24:02 COUNCIL ORIGINALLY.
19:24:03 WHAT HAPPENED?
19:24:04 DID THE DEVELOPER SAY I GIVE
19:24:04 UP?
19:24:06 NO, THEY CAME BACK WITH A
19:24:07 STRONGER PROPOSAL, A PROPOSAL
19:24:09 THAT BENEFITS MOST OF THE
19:24:10 NEIGHBORHOOD.
19:24:11 SO DON'T HESITATE TO TURN DOWN
19:24:12 PROJECTS BECAUSE OTHERWISE WHEN
19:24:15 YOU HESITATE AND YOU JUST
19:24:17 RUBBERSTAMP PROJECTS, WE'LL GET
19:24:18 A PROJECT LIKE THE ONE BEHIND
19:24:19 HERE.
19:24:20 WE HAVE A BUILDING ON A WHOLE
19:24:22 CITY BLOCK WHICH I THINK HAS A
19:24:23 COFFEE SHOP IN THE MIDDLE OF
19:24:25 DOWNTOWN, WHICH IS INSANE.
19:24:26 THAT'S IT.
19:24:27 THANK YOU.
19:24:27 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU
19:24:28 VERY MUCH.
19:24:34 NEXT PERSON, PLEASE.
19:24:35 >> GOOD EVENING, AND WELCOME TO
19:24:37 ALL THE NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS.
19:24:40 MY NAME IS BRENDA LINDSAY, AND
19:24:42 I LIVE AT 1916 WEST LEMON
19:24:42 STREET.
19:24:44 I'M A MEMBER OF THE NORTH HYDE
19:24:45 PARK CIVIC ASSOCIATION.
19:24:46 I'M HERE TO SPEAK ON MY BEHALF
19:24:49 AS A COMMUNITY MEMBER.
19:24:51 WHEN THIS PROJECT WAS FIRST
19:24:52 PROPOSED TO US, IT WAS PROPOSED
19:24:56 TO US AS A UT PROJECT.
19:24:57 I APPRECIATE THE DEVELOPERS
19:25:00 COMING BACK AND CHANGING THEIR
19:25:01 WHOLE CONCEPT.
19:25:04 IT'S NOW A COMMUNITY PROJECT,
19:25:06 AND I APPRECIATE THAT.
19:25:08 I HAD A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH
19:25:10 WHAT THEY WERE SAYING AND HOW
19:25:12 THEY WERE GOING TO DEVELOP THE
19:25:13 NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT SINCE THEY'RE
19:25:14 GOING TO PUT IN THE SIDEWALKS,
19:25:16 I COMMEND THEM FOR THAT BECAUSE
19:25:18 I HAVE BEEN SCREAMING FOR
19:25:19 SIDEWALKS SINCE THEY MOVED THE
19:25:21 PROJECT, BEFORE THEY MOVED THE
19:25:22 PROJECT FROM MAIN STREET TO
19:25:25 KENNEDY FOR PEOPLE WALKING AND
19:25:27 BIKING TO WALMART.
19:25:30 SO I APPROVE OF THAT.
19:25:31 I DON'T LIKE THE PROJECT
19:25:33 BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO BRING A
19:25:36 LOT OF TRAFFIC TO THE AREA.
19:25:40 THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT PUTTING A
19:25:42 DEVELOPMENT ON OREGON, AND THEN
19:25:43 THESE GUYS ARE TALKING ABOUT
19:25:46 ADDING 35 STREET PARKING.
19:25:47 WHERE?
19:25:48 WHERE ARE THEY GOING TO PUT THE
19:25:50 STREET PARKING, ON WHAT STREET,
19:25:52 ALL ON CARMEN?
19:25:53 IT WON'T HOLD 35.
19:25:55 SO THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GO
19:25:56 DOWN OREGON ARE SOMEWHERE TO
19:25:57 PUT THE STREET PARKING.
19:25:58 THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT PUTTING
19:26:02 35 BIKE AND MOTORCYCLE PARKING.
19:26:02 WHERE?
19:26:04 WHERE ARE THEY GOING TO PUT
19:26:06 THAT AROUND THAT BUILDING?
19:26:08 THE GREEN SPINE IS COMING.
19:26:11 I SEE A LOT OF CONGESTION IN
19:26:12 THAT AREA.
19:26:15 SO FOR ME IT'S A GOOD PROJECT,
19:26:17 BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK FOR
19:26:18 OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
19:26:19 THE TRAFFIC WILL BE TOO
19:26:21 HORRENDOUS.
19:26:22 I COMMEND THEM FOR WORKING WITH
19:26:23 US.
19:26:25 THEY DID CHANGE A LOT OF THINGS
19:26:28 TO WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN
19:26:29 THE PROJECT, AND SO I THANK
19:26:32 THEM FOR THAT, BUT I DON'T
19:26:33 THINK IT'S GOING TO WORK.
19:26:37 THANK YOU.
19:26:37 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY
19:26:38 MUCH, MA'AM.
19:26:40 NEXT, PLEASE.
19:26:46 >> CASEY ELLISON, 3016 WEST
19:26:48 VILLA ROSA PARK.
19:26:49 GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL.
19:26:54 I THINK THIS IS A FINE EXAMPLE
19:26:56 OF BOTH GREAT URBAN DESIGN AND
19:26:57 ALSO A DEVELOPER THAT CARED
19:26:57 ABOUT THE NEIGHBORHOOD ENOUGH
19:27:00 TO TAKE THE REJECTION AND COME
19:27:01 BACK AND DO IT OVER AGAIN AND
19:27:04 LISTEN TO THE FOLKS IN THE
19:27:05 NEIGHBORHOOD, THE STAKEHOLDERS.
19:27:06 THIS IS AN IMPROVING
19:27:08 NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WANTS TO BE
19:27:10 LIVE/WORK, WANTS TO BE TRULY
19:27:12 MIXED-USE.
19:27:15 IT'LL FEED JULIAN B. LANE PARK
19:27:17 AND ALL THE AMENITIES THAT THE
19:27:17 CITY HAS DONE.
19:27:21 I THINK MR. CORMIA AND ABC
19:27:22 CAPITAL ARE BOTH VERY
19:27:25 EXPERIENCED AND FINE EXAMPLES
19:27:27 OF PEOPLE IN THEIR PROFESSIONS,
19:27:28 BOTH ARCHITECTURE AND
19:27:29 DEVELOPMENT, AND I WOULD
19:27:30 ENCOURAGE YOU NOT TO LET
19:27:34 OUTDATED ZONING CODES AFFECT
19:27:36 YOUR DECISION HERE TONIGHT.
19:27:37 THANK YOU.
19:27:38 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
19:27:40 NEXT, PLEASE.
19:27:42 >> GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE.
19:27:43 EXCUSE ME.
19:27:44 GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE.
19:27:45 I'M SAM ELLISON.
19:27:49 I LIVE AT 101 SOUTH 12th STREET
19:27:53 IN THE CHANNELSIDE AREA, AND,
19:27:56 YOU KNOW, CHANGE IS INEVITABLE,
19:27:58 AND I THINK THIS PROJECT WILL
19:28:00 BRING A VERY POSITIVE CHANGE TO
19:28:02 THIS NEIGHBORHOOD AND IT WILL
19:28:05 BE REALLY, YOU KNOW, JUST A BIG
19:28:07 IMPROVEMENT TO THE
19:28:08 NEIGHBORHOOD.
19:28:09 I THINK IT'LL BRING MORE LIFE
19:28:11 TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, AND I
19:28:12 THINK THAT THE RESIDENTS THAT
19:28:14 LIVE THERE NOW, ONCE THEY SEE
19:28:16 THE FINISHED PRODUCT, WILL BE
19:28:17 PROUD THAT IT'S IN THEIR
19:28:17 NEIGHBORHOOD.
19:28:19 SO I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO
19:28:20 SUPPORT THIS.
19:28:21 THANK YOU.
19:28:22 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
19:28:24 NEXT, PLEASE.
19:28:28 >> JUAN SANTALLANA,
19:28:29 BUSINESSMAN.
19:28:32 ALSO, I'M A BOARD MEMBER TO THE
19:28:33 WEST TAMPA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
19:28:34 I'VE HEARD A LOT ABOUT THIS
19:28:35 PROJECT.
19:28:37 I LIVE IN WEST TAMPA, SO I'M
19:28:38 VERY MUCH AWARE WHEN I HEAR
19:28:41 SIDEWALKS, MY EYES LIGHT UP, SO
19:28:46 I'M ALL FOR THE PROJECT.
19:28:47 I THINK PROGRESS IS IMPORTANT.
19:28:50 I THINK THAT WHAT THE
19:28:52 DEVELOPERS BROUGHT IN WITH THE
19:28:53 NEW PROPOSALS ARE GOING TO
19:28:54 REALLY MAKE A CHANGE.
19:28:56 ALSO, YOU'RE GOING TO CREATE
19:28:57 JOBS JUST AS WELL.
19:28:58 WE'RE NOT JUST GOING TO TALK
19:29:01 ABOUT THAT NEGATIVE, LET'S TALK
19:29:02 ABOUT THE POSITIVE.
19:29:04 THERE'S GOING TO BE RESIDENTS,
19:29:04 THERE'S GOING TO BE
19:29:06 RESTAURANTS, THERE MIGHT BE
19:29:07 COFFEE SHOPS, THERE MIGHT BE
19:29:09 ALL KINDS OF SHOPS.
19:29:10 PEOPLE AROUND THERE CAN WORK,
19:29:12 SO TO ME IT'S A NO-BRAINER.
19:29:16 I ASK THE COUNCIL TO VOTE YES,
19:29:17 AND I HOPE IT REALLY GOES
19:29:18 THROUGH.
19:29:19 THANK YOU SO MUCH.
19:29:19 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY
19:29:20 MUCH, SIR.
19:29:21 NEXT, PLEASE.
19:29:25 >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL, AND
19:29:26 CONGRATULATIONS.
19:29:27 EXCUSE MY VOICE.
19:29:29 I WOKE UP WITH A BIT OF A FROG
19:29:31 IN MY MOUTH BUT -- OR THROAT,
19:29:31 SORRY.
19:29:35 MY NAME IS CARLOS RAMIREZ, 2103
19:29:37 WEST CARMEN STREET.
19:29:39 I'M ON THE BOARD FOR THE NORTH
19:29:39 HYDE PARK CIVIC ASSOCIATION AND
19:29:42 THE NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH.
19:29:42 I'M ALSO ON THE BOARD FOR THE
19:29:42 ALLIANCE, WHICH ALLOWS ME A
19:29:44 SEAT ON THE WEST TAMPA CRA CAC,
19:29:46 WHERE I'M CURRENTLY HEADING THE
19:29:47 INFRASTRUCTURE SUBCOMMITTEE.
19:29:49 THE REASON I SAY ALL THIS IS
19:29:50 BECAUSE I WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW
19:29:51 HOW INVOLVED I AM WITH WEST
19:29:53 TAMPA AND MY COMMUNITY, AND
19:29:55 EVERYONE IS CORRECT, THE FIRST
19:29:56 TIME THE DEVELOPER CAME AND
19:29:58 PRESENTED THIS TO US, WE WERE
19:30:01 ALL HERE, T-SHIRTS AND ALL,
19:30:02 SAYING, NO, WE DON'T LIKE THIS.
19:30:04 AND THE REASON IS WE DON'T WANT
19:30:07 MORE APARTMENTS IN NORTH HYDE
19:30:08 PARK; HOWEVER, THE DEVELOPER
19:30:10 CAME AND HE'S DONE A LOT OF
19:30:11 CHANGES.
19:30:13 HE HAS LISTENED TO THE
19:30:14 COMMUNITY AND THE ISSUES THAT
19:30:15 WE HAD WITH THE OTHER
19:30:17 DEVELOPMENT, AND HE'S MADE THE
19:30:18 CHANGES TO IMPROVE THEM.
19:30:22 HE'S MET WITH US SEVERAL TIMES.
19:30:22 THE INFRASTRUCTURE SUBCOMMITTEE
19:30:25 FOR THE WEST TAMPA CRA CAC
19:30:27 FACILITATED A MEETING WITH
19:30:28 THREE OTHER COMMUNITIES, WEST
19:30:30 RIVER, NORTH HYDE PARK
19:30:33 ALLIANCE, HYDE PARK CIVIC, TO
19:30:34 DISCUSS THE SIDEWALKS.
19:30:37 WE HAD A MEETING, WE HAD
19:30:40 FOLLOW-UP COMMUNICATION, WE ALL
19:30:42 GOT TOGETHER, NORTH HYDE PARK
19:30:43 ALLIANCE, THE CIVIC
19:30:44 ASSOCIATION, WE GOT TOGETHER AS
19:30:46 TO WHERE WE THINK THE SIDEWALKS
19:30:47 SHOULD BE.
19:30:48 WE REACHED OUT TO WEST RIVER
19:30:49 AND WE HEARD BACK ON A COUPLE
19:30:52 OF STREETS THAT THEY WANTED TO
19:30:52 ADD SIDEWALKS.
19:30:54 A BIG CONCERN FOR US WAS
19:30:54 WALKABILITY.
19:30:57 WE HAVE -- WE CAN LIVE IN OUR
19:30:58 COMMUNITY, WE CAN WORK IN OUR
19:30:59 COMMUNITY, BUT WE CAN'T PLAY IN
19:31:00 OUR COMMUNITY, AND FOR THE
19:31:02 LONGEST TIME WE'VE BEEN ASKING
19:31:04 FOR MIXED-USE TO COME IN AND
19:31:06 HELP US GROW, AND NOBODY HAS
19:31:10 LISTENED, NOBODY BELIEVED IN
19:31:11 THE VISION, AND THEN NOW WE
19:31:12 HAVE, YOU KNOW, THIS BIG
19:31:14 DEVELOPMENT WHO HAS A LOT OF
19:31:16 RETAIL SPACE COMING IN.
19:31:17 ROME IS A BIG ISSUE FOR US
19:31:19 BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE
19:31:20 WALKING FROM THE NORTH TO THE
19:31:21 SOUTH.
19:31:23 IT'S A PATCHWORK OF SIDEWALKS,
19:31:25 NOT REALLY CONTINUOUS ON ONE
19:31:26 SIDE OR THE OTHER, SO THAT WAS
19:31:28 OUR MAIN POINT IS TO PROVIDE
19:31:29 SIDEWALKS, CONTINUOUS SIDEWALKS
19:31:31 ON BOTH SIDES OF ROME FROM THE
19:31:33 INTERSTATE ALL THE WAY TO
19:31:33 KENNEDY.
19:31:35 OREGON, SAME THING, ALL THE WAY
19:31:37 UP AND DOWN ON ONE SIDE SO IT
19:31:38 COULD BE CONTINUOUS.
19:31:40 AND THE REST OF THE SIDEWALKS
19:31:43 WERE A THOUGHT OR WERE
19:31:44 PRESENTED SO WE COULD CONNECT
19:31:47 TO CASS, ROME, AND WILLOW.
19:31:48 SO I'M SPEAKING IN FAVOR OF THE
19:31:49 DEVELOPMENT.
19:31:53 I HOPE YOU LOOK AT THESE TYPE
19:31:54 OF PROJECTS, AND IF THE
19:31:55 COMMUNITY IS AGAINST IT, OF
19:31:56 COURSE, YOU KNOW, PLEASE
19:31:57 LISTEN, SUCH LIKE THE DEVELOPER
19:31:59 HAS, WHERE THEY'VE RAISED KIND
19:32:00 OF THE BAR OF HOW TO MAKE
19:32:01 CHANGES AND HOW TO INTERACT
19:32:02 WITH THE COMMUNITY.
19:32:04 THIS -- ALL IN ALL, FOR US IT'S
19:32:05 A WIN-WIN.
19:32:05 THANK YOU.
19:32:07 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
19:32:08 COUNCILMAN GUDES.
19:32:12 >>ORLANDO GUDES: SIR, STEP BACK
19:32:13 TO THE PODIUM FOR ME, PLEASE.
19:32:15 I HEARD YOU SAY YOU'RE ON THE
19:32:17 CAC WEST TAMPA CRA?
19:32:17 >> THAT'S RIGHT.
19:32:17 >>ORLANDO GUDES: AND YOU TALKED
19:32:18 ABOUT SIDEWALKS.
19:32:18 >> YES.
19:32:18 >>ORLANDO GUDES: DID YOUR GROUP
19:32:20 TALK ABOUT THE TRANSPORTATION,
19:32:21 BECAUSE I HEAR A LOT OF THE
19:32:22 OTHER PEOPLE IN THAT COMMUNITY
19:32:23 ARE MENTIONING TRANSPORTATION,
19:32:25 SO WHAT WAS THE OUTCOME OF THE
19:32:26 DISCUSSION ON TRANSPORTATION?
19:32:30 >> WELL, THE WEST TAMPA CAC
19:32:32 CAN'T GO FOR OR AGAINST THIS
19:32:33 DEVELOPMENT, WOULD HE CAN ONLY
19:32:36 FACILITATE CERTAIN MEETINGS,
19:32:36 BUT AS FAR AS THE NEIGHBORHOOD
19:32:39 IS CONCERNED, WE DID COME UP
19:32:41 AND WE DID ASK FOR THE STUDY TO
19:32:43 SEE IF IT HAD CORRECT DATA.
19:32:44 WE HAD ANOTHER PREVIOUS
19:32:46 DEVELOPER WHO CAME IN WHO HAD
19:32:49 OLD DATA, JUST THE VEHICLES
19:32:52 THAT WERE COLLECTED WERE AT
19:32:55 NONPEAK TIMES, THEY WERE DONE
19:32:56 WHEN UT WAS OUT OF SESSION, SO
19:33:01 WE ASKED THIS DEVELOPER IF THEY
19:33:03 HAD THAT AND CURRENT DATA, AND
19:33:04 THEY DID.
19:33:05 >>ORLANDO GUDES: WELL, IF YOU
19:33:08 HAD A CAC PARTNERSHIP MEETING
19:33:09 WITH ALL THE COMMUNITIES, WHAT
19:33:11 WAS THEIR MAIN CONCERN ABOUT
19:33:13 THE TRANSPORTATION AND WHAT WAS
19:33:14 THEIR VOICE TO THE CAC?
19:33:14 >> THE VOICE OF THE COMMUNITY
19:33:15 -- THERE WERE CONCERNS OF
19:33:17 TRAFFIC, OF CARS, AND -- BUT
19:33:18 THERE WERE ALSO A LOT OF
19:33:20 POSITIVES OF PEOPLE HAPPY THAT
19:33:21 THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME KIND
19:33:23 OF RETAIL, SOME KIND OF
19:33:24 RESTAURANTS, SOME KIND OF PLACE
19:33:26 FOR PEOPLE TO GATHER AND COME,
19:33:27 AND ALSO THE SIDEWALKS WERE A
19:33:27 PLUS AS WELL.
19:33:29 >>ORLANDO GUDES: ONE LAST
19:33:29 QUESTION.
19:33:30 HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE GENERALLY
19:33:31 AT YOUR PARTNERSHIP CAC
19:33:33 MEETING, NOT YOUR BOARD
19:33:33 MEETING --
19:33:35 >> AT THE WEST TAMPA CAC
19:33:36 MEETING?
19:33:38 IT'S USUALLY ABOUT 30 PEOPLE.
19:33:41 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU.
19:33:42 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
19:33:45 NEXT, PLEASE.
19:33:46 >> HI.
19:33:46 GOOD EVENING.
19:33:51 MY NAME IS CHERIE DENHAM, 1713
19:33:52 WEST CASS STREET.
19:33:54 I'M HERE REPRESENTING MYSELF AS
19:33:56 A NORTH HYDE PARK NATIVE -- AS
19:33:58 A NORTH HYDE PARK RESIDENT,
19:33:58 RATHER.
19:33:59 IT'S HARD TO GO ANYWHERE IN
19:34:00 FLORIDA.
19:34:01 DRIVE 15 MILES, AND YOU'RE
19:34:04 GOING TO SEE DUMP TRUCKS,
19:34:05 BULLDOZERS, AND CRANES.
19:34:06 WE ARE GROWING, WE ARE
19:34:07 DEVELOPING.
19:34:09 IT'S JUST WHO WE ARE AS A
19:34:10 STATE.
19:34:12 IT'S UP TO THE COMMUNITIES TO
19:34:14 ENGAGE OR COMPLAIN ABOUT IT FOR
19:34:15 THE NEXT 20 YEARS.
19:34:17 NORTH HYDE PARK HAS CONTINUED
19:34:19 -- HAS CHOSEN TO ENGAGE.
19:34:21 DO WE WANT MORE APARTMENTS?
19:34:23 MAYBE NOT NECESSARILY SO.
19:34:24 IF WE TURN DOWN THIS, WE TURN
19:34:26 DOWN THE SIDEWALKS THAT WE
19:34:28 WANTED, WE TURN DOWN THE RETAIL
19:34:29 THAT WE WANTED, THEN SIX MONTHS
19:34:32 LATER, ANOTHER DEVELOPER CAN
19:34:33 COME IN AND MAYBE HE'S NOT SO
19:34:36 WILLING TO WORK WITH US, MAYBE
19:34:37 HE WON'T GIVE US PUBLIC ART AND
19:34:38 MAYBE HE WON'T, YOU KNOW, GIVE
19:34:39 US THE RETAIL THAT WE'RE
19:34:40 ACTUALLY REQUESTING.
19:34:42 WE REQUESTED SPECIFIC RETAIL
19:34:43 ESTABLISHMENTS, AND HE'S
19:34:45 ACTUALLY WORKING WITH US TRYING
19:34:47 TO BRING THAT INTO OUR
19:34:48 NEIGHBORHOOD, SO THAT'S A VERY
19:34:50 POSITIVE THING.
19:34:52 VERY CONCERNED ABOUT TRAFFIC,
19:34:54 CONCERNED ABOUT MORE ROADS --
19:34:55 MORE CARS ON CASS STREET.
19:34:57 CASS IS A MAIN VEIN IN AND OUT
19:34:58 OF DOWNTOWN.
19:34:59 I HEAR THE TRAFFIC EVERY
19:35:01 MORNING AND EVERY EVENING RIGHT
19:35:02 OUTSIDE MY HOUSE.
19:35:05 SO THAT IS A CONCERN; HOWEVER,
19:35:06 THIS DEVELOPER HAS BEEN VERY
19:35:08 WILLING TO WORK WITH US, HE HAS
19:35:10 BEEN VERY ATTENTIVE TO THE
19:35:13 NEEDS AND THE CONCERNS OF THE
19:35:14 NEIGHBORHOOD, SO I'VE BEEN VERY
19:35:16 IMPRESSED WITH THAT.
19:35:18 WE FEEL LIKE WE'VE DEFINITELY
19:35:20 REACHED OUR SATURATION POINT.
19:35:21 PLEASE NO MORE NEW APARTMENT
19:35:23 COMPLEXES AFTER THIS ONE.
19:35:25 PERSONALLY, THAT'S MY FEELING.
19:35:26 THIS IS IT.
19:35:26 THANK YOU.
19:35:27 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY
19:35:28 MUCH, MA'AM.
19:35:32 NEXT, SIR.
19:35:33 >> GOOD EVENING.
19:35:36 MY NAME IS JOSH PEARSON.
19:35:37 1705 WEST STATE STREET.
19:35:39 I'M HERE REPRESENTING PEP
19:35:41 RALLY, INC., WHICH IS MY ARTIST
19:35:42 COLLECTIVE THAT IS IN NORTH
19:35:43 HYDE PARK.
19:35:44 I JUST WANTED TO CONFIRM THAT
19:35:46 WE HAVE BEEN APPROACHED BY THE
19:35:47 DEVELOPER TO DO THE PUBLIC ART
19:35:50 COMPONENT FOR THIS PIECE, AND
19:35:52 THERE WAS NO ART DIRECTION OR
19:35:53 ANYTHING TOWARDS THAT, SO IT'S
19:35:55 LIKE THEY'RE -- WE ARE MOST
19:35:57 NOTABLY KNOWN FOR SOME OF THE
19:35:59 ARTWORK WE'VE DONE FOR JULIAN
19:36:01 B. LANE, AND WE'VE RECENTLY
19:36:07 FINISHED THE SPARKMAN WHARF
19:36:08 PROJECT, SO THEY HAD ENCOURAGED
19:36:10 US TO CREATE SOMETHING THAT
19:36:12 WOULD BE EMBRACED AND CHERISHED
19:36:13 SEEMED TIMELESS FOR THE
19:36:14 NEIGHBORHOOD.
19:36:15 THANK YOU.
19:36:16 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
19:36:19 NEXT, PLEASE.
19:36:21 >> GOOD EVENING.
19:36:22 WELCOME TO NEW CITY COUNCIL.
19:36:24 MY NAME IS HARRIETT McCRAY.
19:36:26 I'M WORKING WITH THE WEST
19:36:27 RIVERFRONT NEIGHBORHOOD
19:36:27 ASSOCIATION.
19:36:28 ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO
19:36:30 EMPHASIZE ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT
19:36:32 OF THE WEST TAMPA AREA,
19:36:33 PARTICULARLY THE WEST
19:36:34 RIVERFRONT AND OLD WEST TAMPA
19:36:37 COMMUNITIES, IS THAT THE
19:36:38 COMMUNITIES' ASSOCIATIONS THAT
19:36:40 ARE PRESENT NOW ARE THE ONES
19:36:42 WHO, IN THE PAST, HELPED TO GET
19:36:44 THE AREA AS IT IS NOW.
19:36:45 THEY'RE THE ONES WHO WENT OUT
19:36:46 AND DID THE OVERLAY.
19:36:47 I WAS ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE
19:36:49 OVERLAY WHO HELPED WRITE IT AS
19:36:52 WELL AS MS. McNAIR AND OTHER --
19:36:54 THE NORTH HYDE PARK ASSOCIATION
19:36:56 ALSO WAS PART OF THAT.
19:36:57 SO TO SEGUE INTO ONE OF THE
19:36:59 THINGS THAT WAS BROUGHT BY THE
19:37:01 CITY DEPARTMENTS WAS ABOUT THE
19:37:03 WAIVERS IN PARTICULAR FOR
19:37:04 CHAPTER 27 ZONING, WHICH IS
19:37:06 WHERE THE OVERLAY IS ALSO PART
19:37:06 OF.
19:37:07 I WANTED TO KNOW WHETHER OR NOT
19:37:11 THE WAIVERS THAT WERE ASKED
19:37:12 CONFLICT WITH THE OVERLAY
19:37:13 ITSELF BECAUSE ONE OF THE
19:37:14 THINGS WE DON'T WANT TO DO WHEN
19:37:17 WE WERE DEVELOPING THE OVERLAY
19:37:18 WAS TO SET THE STANDARDS, BUT
19:37:21 WE ALSO DID NOT WANT TO SET A
19:37:23 PRECEDENCE WHERE IF WE SAY NO
19:37:24 TO THE OVERLAY THAT'S AS HIGH
19:37:26 AS 35 FEET LONG -- IT'S
19:37:27 SUPPOSED TO BE 35 FEET.
19:37:28 WE DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE
19:37:29 SOMETHING WITH THE PETITION
19:37:30 WHERE NEXT THING IT'S 40 FEET,
19:37:31 50 FEET AND ALL.
19:37:32 SO THAT'S ONE OF THE QUESTIONS
19:37:33 THAT I DO HAVE THAT WE'RE
19:37:34 CONCERNED ABOUT.
19:37:37 ONE OF THE THINGS, ALSO, I KNOW
19:37:38 THERE WAS SOME SORT OF TRAFFIC
19:37:40 STUDY THAT WAS DONE, I BELIEVE,
19:37:41 IF I'M CORRECT, IF ANYONE CAN
19:37:42 TELL ME.
19:37:43 I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG AGO THAT
19:37:45 TRAFFIC STUDY WAS DONE, BUT ONE
19:37:46 OF THE THINGS THAT HAS TO BE
19:37:47 CONSIDERED, IF THAT TRAFFIC
19:37:50 STUDY WAS NOT DONE WHEN NORTH
19:37:54 BOULEVARD HOMES WAS UNOCCUPIED,
19:37:56 IT NEEDS TO BE REDONE BECAUSE
19:37:58 THAT WILL COME ONLINE NEXT.
19:37:59 THAT'S THE BIGGEST PROJECT
19:38:00 THAT'S COMING ON NEXT.
19:38:00 WE HAVE TO INCLUDE THAT TRAFFIC
19:38:01 IN THAT AREA.
19:38:03 THAT'S THE AREA THAT'S OFF OF
19:38:05 WILLOW AND NORTH BOULEVARD.
19:38:08 THAT HAS TO BE CONSIDERED TOO
19:38:09 ALSO.
19:38:11 THE NEIGHBORHOOD, IF THE
19:38:12 DEVELOPMENT GOES THROUGH OR
19:38:13 DOESN'T, THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAS
19:38:15 TO BE VERY CONSIDERATE BECAUSE
19:38:16 AS THEY SAY, THEY DO HAVE TO
19:38:18 LIVE WITH IT, AND IF YOU HAVE
19:38:19 TO LIVE WITH SOMETHING, YOU
19:38:20 WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE
19:38:22 ABLE TO HAVE A SUSTAINABLE LIFE
19:38:24 IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND THAT
19:38:26 YOU'LL BE ABLE TO HAVE
19:38:28 SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE -- THAT'S
19:38:30 LIVABLE FOR NOT ONLY YOURSELF
19:38:30 BUT ALSO FOR THE GENERATIONS
19:38:33 THAT WILL LIVE -- THAT WILL
19:38:36 COME AFTERWARDS, SO, ALSO, BE
19:38:37 VERY CONSIDERATE OF THAT, IF
19:38:37 YOU WOULD BE.
19:38:38 THANK YOU.
19:38:39 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MA'AM.
19:38:41 AND A QUESTION.
19:38:42 COUNCILMAN CITRO.
19:38:43 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU,
19:38:43 MR. CHAIR.
19:38:45 MS. McCRAY, ARE YOU FOR OR
19:38:46 OPPOSED?
19:38:48 >> I'M FOR WHAT THE
19:38:49 NEIGHBORHOOD WANTS, WHATEVER'S
19:38:50 BEST FOR THE COMMUNITY.
19:38:52 RIGHT NOW I'VE WORKED WITH A
19:38:53 LOT OF PROJECTS THAT HAVE COME
19:38:55 IN, AND WE TRY TO DO WHAT'S
19:38:56 BEST FOR THE COMMUNITY.
19:38:57 IF THE COMMUNITY DOESN'T WANT
19:38:59 IT AND THEY FEEL AS THOUGH
19:39:00 THAT'S WHAT'S THE BEST THING
19:39:02 FOR THEM, IT SHOULDN'T BE.
19:39:03 IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S GOING
19:39:04 TO BE NEGOTIABLE, IT SHOULD BE
19:39:06 SOMETHING THAT BOTH SIDES
19:39:07 SHOULD BE ABLE TO NEGOTIATE SO
19:39:11 IT WOULD BE FAIR TO ALL.
19:39:11 >>JOSEPH CITRO: THANK YOU.
19:39:12 >>LUIS VIERA: AND COUNCILMAN
19:39:14 DINGFELDER.
19:39:16 MA'AM.
19:39:17 OH, MA'AM.
19:39:17 MA'AM.
19:39:19 >> OH, YOU'VE GOT A QUESTION?
19:39:20 I'M SORRY.
19:39:21 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: IT WASN'T A
19:39:22 QUESTION FOR HER, IT WAS
19:39:23 ACTUALLY IN RESPONSE TO HER TO
19:39:25 ASK STAFF A QUESTION THAT SHE
19:39:27 POSED, WHICH I THINK IS A GOOD
19:39:29 QUESTION, BUT I CAN DO IT IN
19:39:29 ANY ORDER YOU WISH,
19:39:30 MR. CHAIRMAN.
19:39:31 >>LUIS VIERA: IF YOU -- I'LL
19:39:33 TELL YOU WHAT, MR. GUDES, DID
19:39:35 YOU HAVE A COMMENT TO MAKE?
19:39:36 >>ORLANDO GUDES: FOR STAFF.
19:39:37 >>LUIS VIERA: OKAY.
19:39:38 SO LET'S FIRST HAVE COUNCILMAN
19:39:42 DINGFELDER'S INQUIRY AND THEN
19:39:45 COUNCILMAN GUDES.
19:39:47 OH, AND, MA'AM -- THANK YOU,
19:39:48 MA'AM.
19:39:49 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU,
19:39:51 MA'AM.
19:39:52 THE YOUNG LADY POSES A GOOD
19:39:53 QUESTION IN REGARD TO HOW --
19:39:54 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE
19:39:55 WAIVERS AND THE OVERLAY
19:39:55 DISTRICT.
19:39:57 DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENT OR
19:39:58 OPINION ON THAT?
19:39:59 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: YES.
19:40:01 MARY SAMANIEGO, FOR THE RECORD.
19:40:02 THE PROPOSED APPLICATION IS IN
19:40:02 COMPLIANCE WITH ALL OF THE
19:40:05 OVERLAY STANDARDS EXCEPT FOR
19:40:06 THEY'RE ASKING FOR AN INCREASE
19:40:07 IN SOME OF THE SIGNAGE SQUARE
19:40:08 FOOTAGE.
19:40:10 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SIGN SQUARE
19:40:11 FOOTAGE?
19:40:12 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: YES, BUT ALL
19:40:16 OF THE OTHER 27-241 STANDARDS
19:40:18 ARE IN COMPLIANCE.
19:40:19 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU.
19:40:20 >>LUIS VIERA: COUNCILMAN GUDES,
19:40:21 DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION, SIR?
19:40:23 >>ORLANDO GUDES: AND THAT'S
19:40:24 CONSISTENT WITH THE STRATEGIC
19:40:25 PLAN FOR THAT CRA?
19:40:27 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: THE CRA
19:40:28 STRATEGIC PLAN IS NOT A
19:40:30 CONSIDERATION FOR THE LAND
19:40:33 DEVELOPMENT REVIEW.
19:40:34 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
19:40:35 ANYTHING FURTHER?
19:40:35 OKAY.
19:40:36 THANK YOU, MA'AM, AND THANK
19:40:37 YOU.
19:40:38 >> THANK YOU.
19:40:41 >>LUIS VIERA: NEXT, PLEASE.
19:40:46 >> TAYLOR RALPH, 3703 WEST SAN
19:40:47 JUAN STREET.
19:40:48 DID NOT COME HERE TO TALK ABOUT
19:40:50 THIS PROJECT, BUT I'M GOING TO.
19:40:51 I'M AWARE OF IT.
19:40:52 IT'S APPARENT THAT THE
19:40:54 DEVELOPER REACHED OUT TO THE
19:40:55 COMMUNITY AND GOT INPUT AND
19:40:56 FEEDBACK FROM THEM AND IS
19:40:58 TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING BY
19:40:59 INVESTING IN INFRASTRUCTURE,
19:41:00 AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE
19:41:02 CITY DID NOT DO IN THIS PART OF
19:41:03 THE CITY.
19:41:05 NORTH HYDE PARK FROM 2009 TO
19:41:08 TODAY HAS GROWN EXPONENTIALLY.
19:41:09 THERE HAS BEEN A TON OF
19:41:11 APARTMENT UNITS ADDED, AND
19:41:12 THERE REALLY HASN'T BEEN A LOT
19:41:14 OF THOUGHT IN TERMS OF WHERE
19:41:15 WE'RE GOING TO PUT THE
19:41:17 APARTMENTS AND WHERE
19:41:18 SINGLE-FAMILY'S GOING TO GO AND
19:41:20 WHERE TOWNHOUSES CAN GO, AND
19:41:22 IT'S A PIECEMEAL PATCHWORK, AND
19:41:24 THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS A VERY
19:41:24 HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD,
19:41:25 ACTUALLY.
19:41:26 THERE'S A LOT OF FAMILIES THAT
19:41:28 HAVE LIVED THERE FOR MANY, MANY
19:41:29 YEARS, AND I THINK IT'S
19:41:31 IMPORTANT THAT WHEN THE CITY
19:41:32 INVESTS IN BIG INFRASTRUCTURE,
19:41:35 LIKE JULIAN B. LANE PARK AND
19:41:37 OTHER THINGS LIKE WEST RIVER,
19:41:39 THAT THEY PLAN FOR THE
19:41:40 COMMUNITIES NEARBY TO HAVE
19:41:42 SIMILAR GROWTH AND INCLUDE THE
19:41:44 NEIGHBORS AND THE COMMUNITY
19:41:45 THAT ALREADY LIVE THERE BY
19:41:47 FINDING WAYS TO CREATE
19:41:50 AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS AND
19:41:51 INCLUDING INFRASTRUCTURE
19:41:52 INVESTMENT AND SIDEWALKS AND
19:41:54 BIKES AND ALL OF THOSE KINDS OF
19:41:54 THINGS.
19:41:56 I REALLY CAME HERE TODAY TO
19:41:56 THANK YOU ALL FOR THIS
19:41:58 MORNING'S VOTE TO SIGN THE
19:42:00 URBAN LAND INSTITUTE'S BUILDING
19:42:02 HEALTHY PLACES GRANT
19:42:03 APPLICATION SUPPORT, AND THAT
19:42:05 GRANT WOULD DO EXACTLY WHAT IS
19:42:07 NEEDED IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD,
19:42:09 WHICH IS LOOK AT LAND USE, LOOK
19:42:10 AT ZONING, LOOK AT
19:42:11 INFRASTRUCTURE, AND FIGURE OUT
19:42:13 HOW THE CITY CAN PLAN IN
19:42:14 ADVANCE OF THESE THINGS SO THAT
19:42:16 THE NEIGHBORS UNDERSTAND AND
19:42:18 ARE A PART OF THE PLANNING AND
19:42:20 THE RIGHT PROJECTS COME FORWARD
19:42:21 IN THE RIGHT PLACES AS OPPOSED
19:42:23 TO REQUIRING A DEVELOPER TO DO
19:42:25 A PD AND ASK FOR ALL OF THESE
19:42:26 WAIVERS AND DO ALL OF THESE
19:42:27 CUSTOMIZATIONS.
19:42:29 LET'S GET THE ZONING RIGHT AND
19:42:31 ALLOW THEM TO USE THE ZONING TO
19:42:33 THEIR ADVANTAGE AND DEVELOP
19:42:33 GREAT PROJECTS.
19:42:35 LUCKILY THIS PROJECT IS A GREAT
19:42:35 PROJECT.
19:42:38 IT HAS RETAIL THAT'S ACTUALLY
19:42:40 AUTHENTIC, IT CREATES AN
19:42:41 OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT FOR THE
19:42:43 RESIDENTS AND FOR THE RETAIL
19:42:46 AND COMMERCIAL AREAS, AND IT IS
19:42:48 INCLUDING ART AND HIDING
19:42:49 PARKING GARAGES.
19:42:50 THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TERRIBLE
19:42:52 PROJECTS APPROVED IN NORTH HYDE
19:42:53 PARK, SURFACE PARKING LOTS AND
19:42:54 OTHERS.
19:42:56 THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM, AND I
19:42:57 THINK YOU ALL SHOULD SUPPORT
19:42:58 THIS PROJECT.
19:42:58 THANK YOU.
19:43:00 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
19:43:01 ANYONE HERE FURTHER FROM THE
19:43:03 PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON ITEM NO.
19:43:03 7?
19:43:04 OKAY.
19:43:05 BEING NONE, WE MOVE TO REBUTTAL
19:43:08 FROM IT MR. MECHANIK.
19:43:11 >> FOR THE RECORD, AGAIN, DAVID
19:43:11 MECHANIK.
19:43:13 I'D LIKE TO ASK MR. COEN TO
19:43:14 ADDRESS -- HE DID THE TRAFFIC
19:43:19 STUDY, AND HE WILL ADDRESS
19:43:19 THOSE COMMENTS.
19:43:21 THANK YOU.
19:43:22 >> GOOD EVENING.
19:43:25 RANDY COEN AGAIN.
19:43:25 TRAFFIC STUDY.
19:43:27 YES, A NEW TRAFFIC STUDY WAS
19:43:29 PREPARED JANUARY OF THIS YEAR.
19:43:31 IT INCLUDED ALL DEVELOPMENT TO
19:43:32 DATE AND PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT
19:43:34 THAT HAD NOT BEEN BUILT PER
19:43:36 CITY OF TAMPA REQUIREMENTS.
19:43:37 WE ACTUALLY DID A FAIRLY LARGE
19:43:39 STUDY FOR THIS SORT OF A
19:43:39 PROJECT.
19:43:40 WE LOOKED AT A NUMBER OF
19:43:42 INTERSECTIONS.
19:43:44 CASS AT ROME, CASS AT WILLOW,
19:43:46 CASS AT NORTH BOULEVARD, ROME
19:43:47 AND CYPRESS, KENNEDY AND
19:43:48 WILLOW.
19:43:49 WE FOUND THAT ALL THE
19:43:50 INTERSECTIONS WITH THE
19:43:52 EXCEPTION OF WILLOW AND KENNEDY
19:43:53 WORKED AT ACCEPTABLE LEVELS OF
19:43:55 SERVICE WITHOUT THE PROJECT AND
19:43:55 WITH THE PROJECT.
19:43:59 NOW, THEY ARE GOING TO "C" FROM
19:44:01 "A" AND "B," SO THEY'RE GETTING
19:44:03 A LITTLE WORSE, BUT THEY'RE
19:44:04 STILL WITHIN THE ACCEPTABLE
19:44:06 MARGIN AND OPERATE WELL.
19:44:08 AT KENNEDY AND WILLOW, THIS
19:44:10 PARTICULAR APPLICATION HAS
19:44:11 PROVIDED A TRANSPORTATION
19:44:12 MITIGATION FEE TO PAY FOR IT'S
19:44:13 SHARE OF AN IMPACT TO THAT
19:44:14 INTERSECTION.
19:44:16 THE CITY HAS IMPROVEMENTS GOING
19:44:19 ON AT KENNEDY AND WILLOW RIGHT
19:44:20 NOW IN THEIR CIP, SO THIS
19:44:21 PROJECT WOULD BE PROVIDING
19:44:22 MITIGATION DOLLARS WITH THAT
19:44:23 IMPROVEMENT, AND WITH THAT
19:44:25 IMPROVEMENT, IT RETURNS THAT
19:44:26 INTERSECTION BACK TO A
19:44:28 LEVEL-OF-SERVICE "C" OPERATION.
19:44:29 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
19:44:30 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
19:44:30 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THANK YOU.
19:44:31 MR. COEN, THANK YOU.
19:44:32 >> YES, SIR.
19:44:32 >>JOHN DINGFELDER:
19:44:34 SPECIFICALLY, A YOUNG LADY
19:44:37 ASKED IF -- YOU MENTIONED
19:44:40 FUTURE PROJECTS -- IF THE --
19:44:41 WHATEVER REPLACEMENT IS GOING
19:44:43 TO BE PROPOSED OR IS ALREADY
19:44:44 PROPOSED IN THE NORTH BOULEVARD
19:44:49 HOMES PROJECT AREA WAS INCLUDED
19:44:51 IN YOUR TRAFFIC STUDIES.
19:44:53 >> I BELIEVE THEY WERE INCLUDED
19:44:55 IN THE TRAFFIC STUDY.
19:44:56 WE HAVE A MYRIAD OF PROJECTS
19:44:57 THAT WERE INCLUDED IN THE
19:44:59 TRAFFIC STUDY WITH OUR TRAFFIC
19:45:00 COUNTS.
19:45:01 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ONLY
19:45:03 PROJECTS THAT ARE FAIRLY NEW
19:45:04 THAT AREN'T COMPLETED AT THIS
19:45:05 POINT IN TIME.
19:45:06 REMEMBER, OUR STUDY WAS JUST
19:45:07 DONE FIVE MONTHS AGO.
19:45:09 IT WAS DONE IN JANUARY.
19:45:09 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: RIGHT.
19:45:10 I MEAN, IF YOU LOOK OUT ACROSS
19:45:12 NORTH BOULEVARD, YOU SEE A LOT
19:45:13 OF DIRT, SO I --
19:45:13 >> YES.
19:45:14 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: -- THAT'S
19:45:15 WHY I THINK THE QUESTION IS
19:45:15 RELEVANT.
19:45:18 >> THE CITY REQUIRED US TO
19:45:20 INCLUDE ALL APPROVED PROJECTS
19:45:21 THAT HAD NOT BEEN CONSTRUCTED
19:45:23 IN THAT AREA.
19:45:23 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I DON'T KNOW
19:45:26 IF THAT PROJECT'S BEEN
19:45:26 APPROVED.
19:45:27 >> AND IF IT HASN'T BEEN
19:45:28 APPROVED, THERE'S NO WAY WE
19:45:28 WOULD INCLUDE IT IN THE STUDY,
19:45:29 NOR WOULD IT BE REQUIRED TO BE
19:45:31 INCLUDED IN THE STUDY.
19:45:32 IN FACT, THAT PARTICULAR
19:45:33 PROJECT WOULD HAVE TO INCLUDE
19:45:34 THIS PROJECT AND THE OTHERS
19:45:35 THAT HAVE NOT BEEN BUILT IN
19:45:37 THEIR TRAFFIC STUDY.
19:45:39 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I'M NOT
19:45:40 LOOKING FOR THE LOGIC OF WHY OR
19:45:42 WHY NOT, I'M JUST TRYING TO
19:45:44 FIGURE OUT IF OR IF NOT.
19:45:46 >> IF IT HAS NOT BEEN APPROVED,
19:45:48 IT WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS
19:45:50 STUDY, NO, SIR.
19:45:51 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
19:45:54 >> I'LL WRAP UP WITH A COUPLE
19:45:54 OF COMMENTS.
19:45:55 >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR.
19:45:58 >> DAVID MECHANIC, FOR THE
19:45:58 RECORD, AGAIN.
19:46:00 FIRST AND FOREMOST, I NEED TO
19:46:02 SAY THAT WHEN MR. COEN DID THE
19:46:04 STUDY, THEY HAD A MEETING AT
19:46:06 THE CITY, AND THEY ARE -- THE
19:46:07 CITY STAFF DIRECTS US TO DO A
19:46:09 STUDY IN A CERTAIN WAY.
19:46:11 THAT STUDY WAS ACCEPTED BY THE
19:46:12 STAFF, AND WE DID IT IN
19:46:14 ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR
19:46:16 INSTRUCTIONS.
19:46:18 JUST AS A CONCLUDING REMARK, I
19:46:20 WOULD JUST LIKE TO REITERATE
19:46:23 THE FACT THAT THE COMPREHENSIVE
19:46:25 PLAN REFERS TO THIS AREA, THIS
19:46:28 PROPERTY AS BEING IN A -- THE
19:46:31 WEST TAMPA URBAN VILLAGE, AND
19:46:33 IT IS SLATED FOR INCREASED
19:46:36 DENSITY MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT.
19:46:38 WE ARE PROPOSING EXACTLY THE
19:46:42 TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT THAT THE
19:46:42 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN CONTEMPLATES
19:46:51 FOR THIS AREA, AND MY CLIENT, I
19:46:51 BELIEVE, HAS GONE TO
19:46:56 EXTRAORDINARY LENGTHS TO MEET
19:46:56 ALL OF THE CITY REQUIREMENTS
19:46:59 EXCEPT FOR THE WAIVERS, WHICH I
19:47:00 THINK WE'VE INDICATED ARE
19:47:02 REALLY A PRODUCT OF ANTIQUATED
19:47:04 CODES THAT DON'T MATCH UP WITH
19:47:07 THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IN TERMS
19:47:09 OF DENSE URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND
19:47:10 WITH THAT, WE RESPECTFULLY
19:47:11 REQUEST THE CITY COUNCIL'S
19:47:12 APPROVAL THIS EVENING.
19:47:13 THANK YOU.
19:47:14 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
19:47:14 ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS FROM
19:47:15 COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR THE
19:47:17 APPLICANT?
19:47:17 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO
19:47:18 CLOSE.
19:47:19 >>LUIS VIERA: OKAY.
19:47:21 WE HAVE A MOTION -- AND ANY
19:47:22 DISCUSSION -- I GUESS WE'LL DO
19:47:23 THAT AFTER THE MOTION IS
19:47:24 CLOSED.
19:47:26 MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN
19:47:27 MANISCALCO.
19:47:28 DO WE HAVE A SECOND?
19:47:28 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
19:47:29 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A SECOND
19:47:31 BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
19:47:32 ALL IN FAVOR.
19:47:34 >>ORLANDO GUDES: MR. CHAIRMAN.
19:47:36 >>LUIS VIERA: OH, YES, SIR,
19:47:36 COUNCILMAN GUDES.
19:47:38 >>ORLANDO GUDES: LET ME ASK THE
19:47:39 CITY ATTORNEY.
19:47:44 I'M A MEMBER OF THE WEST RIVER
19:47:46 ASSOCIATION, SO I THINK I MAY
19:47:47 HAVE TO RECUSE MYSELF FROM THIS
19:47:47 MOTION.
19:47:48 >>MARTIN SHELBY: YOU'RE A
19:47:49 MEMBER OF THE WEST RIVER
19:47:50 ASSOCIATION?
19:47:51 HAVE YOU PARTICIPATED IN THIS
19:47:51 PROJECT --
19:47:53 >>ORLANDO GUDES: NO, SIR.
19:47:54 >>MARTIN SHELBY: -- IN ANY WAY?
19:47:54 >>ORLANDO GUDES: NO, SIR.
19:47:54 >>MARTIN SHELBY: ALL RIGHT.
19:47:55 DID YOU ATTEND ANY MEETINGS
19:47:57 REGARDING THIS PROJECT?
19:47:59 >>ORLANDO GUDES: NO, SIR.
19:48:00 >>MARTIN SHELBY: ARE YOU IN ANY
19:48:00 EXECUTIVE CAPACITY?
19:48:01 ARE YOU A MEMBER OF THE BOARD?
19:48:02 >>ORLANDO GUDES: NO, SIR.
19:48:03 >>MARTIN SHELBY: HAVE YOU EVER
19:48:04 BEEN A MEMBER OF THE BOARD?
19:48:07 >>ORLANDO GUDES: NO, SIR.
19:48:08 >>MARTIN SHELBY: SO YOUR
19:48:09 RELATIONSHIP WITH THIS BOARD IS
19:48:11 SOLELY BEING A MEMBER?
19:48:12 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THAT'S IT,
19:48:13 SIR.
19:48:14 >>MARTIN SHELBY: NO LEADERSHIP
19:48:15 POSITION?
19:48:16 >>ORLANDO GUDES: NO, SIR.
19:48:17 >>MARTIN SHELBY: AND UNRELATED
19:48:19 TO THIS PROJECT IN ITS
19:48:20 ENTIRETY?
19:48:22 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES, SIR.
19:48:22 >>MARTIN SHELBY: OKAY.
19:48:23 AND WITH YOUR MEMBERSHIP, DOES
19:48:25 THAT GIVE YOU ANY CAUSE TO BE
19:48:26 ANYTHING BUT FAIR AND
19:48:27 IMPARTIAL?
19:48:28 CAN YOU BE FAIR AND IMPARTIAL
19:48:30 AND DECIDE THIS SOLELY ON THE
19:48:30 EVIDENCE AND TESTIMONY
19:48:33 CONTAINED WITHIN THE RECORD?
19:48:34 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES, SIR.
19:48:35 >>MARTIN SHELBY: OKAY.
19:48:35 THANK YOU.
19:48:37 AND CAN YOU BE FREE FROM BIAS?
19:48:39 >>ORLANDO GUDES: YES, SIR.
19:48:39 >>MARTIN SHELBY: OKAY.
19:48:40 THANK YOU.
19:48:43 THAT BEING THE CASE, UNLESS THE
19:48:44 ATTORNEYS HAVE ANY OTHER
19:48:45 OPINION, IT WOULD BE MY
19:48:46 POSITION THAT THERE IS NO BASIS
19:48:49 FOR YOU TO ABSTAIN FROM THIS.
19:48:51 YOU HAVE NO FINANCIAL STAKE IN
19:48:52 THE OUTCOME OF THE SUBJECT OF
19:48:54 THIS MATTER; IS THAT CORRECT?
19:48:55 >>ORLANDO GUDES: CORRECT.
19:48:56 >>MARTIN SHELBY: OKAY.
19:49:00 IT'S MY OPINION, THEN, THAT IT
19:49:03 WOULD BE YOUR OBLIGATION TO
19:49:05 VOTE UNDER FLORIDA STATUTES,
19:49:06 BEING THAT I DO NOT PERCEIVE
19:49:08 ANY CONFLICT OF INTEREST.
19:49:08 >>ORLANDO GUDES: THANK YOU,
19:49:09 SIR.
19:49:10 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
19:49:10 OKAY.
19:49:12 WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN
19:49:14 MANISCALCO TO CLOSE, A SECOND
19:49:15 BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
19:49:17 ALL IN FAVOR.
19:49:17 ANY OPPOSED?
19:49:18 OKAY.
19:49:19 LET'S GO TO DISCUSSION.
19:49:21 ANY THOUGHTS FROM -- BEFORE WE
19:49:22 ENTERTAIN ANY MOTIONS -- FROM
19:49:26 COUNCIL MEMBERS ON THIS ITEM?
19:49:28 JUST FOR WHATEVER IT COUNTS FOR
19:49:30 ME, I THINK THIS IS AN
19:49:30 INTERESTING PROJECT.
19:49:31 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I ALWAYS
19:49:35 LOOK AT IN PROJECTS AS A SIDE
19:49:36 NOTE IS OUTREACH BY DEVELOPERS.
19:49:37 WHEN YOU'RE DEALING WITH A
19:49:42 LARGE STEP FORWARD FOR
19:49:44 DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES OR FOR
19:49:45 ANY COMMUNITY AT ALL, AND I
19:49:47 THINK WITH THIS WE SEE REALLY
19:49:50 GOOD, THOUGHTFUL OUTREACH, AND
19:49:51 I APPRECIATE THAT.
19:49:52 I THINK IT'S AN OUTREACH THAT
19:49:53 TAKES INTO CONSIDERATION THAT
19:49:53 THIS IS A COMMUNITY THAT
19:49:54 CONTINUES TO CHANGE AND MOVE
19:49:56 FORWARD AND THIS DEVELOPER
19:49:57 WANTS TO BE PART OF THAT
19:49:58 CHANGE, WANTS TO BE PART OF
19:49:59 THAT MOVING FORWARD, AND SO
19:50:00 THAT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT
19:50:01 I APPRECIATE.
19:50:02 COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO, DO YOU
19:50:04 WISH TO TAKE ITEM NO. 7, SIR.
19:50:05 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, SIR.
19:50:06 I HAVE AN ORDINANCE AND THEN I
19:50:07 HAVE THE RESOLUTION, SO I'LL
19:50:08 START WITH THE ORDINANCE BEING
19:50:08 PRESENTED FOR FIRST READING
19:50:11 CONSIDERATION, AN ORDINANCE
19:50:12 REZONING PROPERTY IN THE
19:50:14 GENERAL VICINITY OF 608 NORTH
19:50:16 WILLOW AVENUE AND 1332 WEST
19:50:17 CASS STREET IN THE CITY OF
19:50:18 TAMPA, FLORIDA, MORE
19:50:19 PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN
19:50:21 SECTION 1, FROM ZONING DISTRICT
19:50:22 CLASSIFICATION CG (COMMERCIAL
19:50:25 GENERAL) TO PD (PLANNED
19:50:26 DEVELOPMENT, RESIDENTIAL,
19:50:27 MULTIFAMILY, RESTAURANT, AND
19:50:28 STRIP SHOPPING CENTER WITH ALL
19:50:31 CG USES); PROVIDING AN
19:50:31 EFFECTIVE DATE.
19:50:35 >> SECOND.
19:50:41 >>LUIS VIERA: AND WE WOULD ALSO
19:50:42 ASK, COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO, THE
19:50:42 REVISIONS -- WEREN'T THERE SOME
19:50:46 --
19:50:47 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: INCLUDING
19:50:47 THE REVISION SHEET, AS OUTLINED
19:50:51 BY STAFF SO BETWEEN NOW AND
19:50:52 SECOND READING.
19:50:53 >>MARTIN SHELBY: THANK YOU.
19:50:53 AND ALSO, MR. CHAIRMAN AND
19:50:55 COUNCIL, IF YOU NOTICE ON THE
19:50:56 AGENDA, THE RESOLUTION WILL NOT
19:50:57 BE ADOPTED TONIGHT.
19:50:58 IT WILL BE TAKEN UP WHEN
19:51:00 COUNCIL REVIEWS THIS AT SECOND
19:51:00 READING AT THE ADOPTION PUBLIC
19:51:01 HEARING.
19:51:03 THERE'S NO ACTION TO BE TAKEN
19:51:04 ON THE RESOLUTION.
19:51:04 >>LUIS VIERA: OKAY.
19:51:05 THANK YOU, SIR.
19:51:07 WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN
19:51:08 MANISCALCO.
19:51:09 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER, DID YOU
19:51:10 HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY, SIR?
19:51:11 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: IN RESPONSE
19:51:12 TO THE MOTION, IF YOU WANTED TO
19:51:17 FINISH DESCRIBING IT.
19:51:17 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IT'S
19:51:18 ALREADY DONE; PROVIDING AN
19:51:19 EFFECTIVE DATE.
19:51:20 >>LUIS VIERA: DO YOU HAVE ANY
19:51:21 COMMENTS ON IT?
19:51:22 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YES, SIR.
19:51:24 I -- I'M GOING TO SUPPORT THE
19:51:24 MOTION.
19:51:26 I DON'T WANT THE FOLKS WHO HAVE
19:51:29 COME DOWN HERE TO THINK THAT IT
19:51:30 WAS A WASTE OF TIME.
19:51:32 I THINK THAT THE LAST TIME YOU
19:51:34 CAME DOWN HERE, I WAS NOT A
19:51:36 MEMBER, BUT, OBVIOUSLY, YOU HAD
19:51:39 A MAJOR IMPACT ON THE PROJECT
19:51:41 IN REGARD TO THE FACT THAT
19:51:42 COUNCIL TURNED IT DOWN.
19:51:43 OBVIOUSLY, THEY'VE MADE
19:51:46 IMPROVEMENTS WORKING WITH YOU.
19:51:48 THEY'RE GOING TO IMPROVE THE
19:51:50 SIDEWALKS AND ADD SOME
19:51:50 ADDITIONAL PARKING, ET CETERA,
19:51:51 IN THE COMMUNITY, WHICH IS OVER
19:51:52 AND ABOVE WHAT A TYPICAL
19:51:58 DEVELOPER HAS TO DO, SO I THINK
19:51:59 THOSE ARE POSITIVE THINGS.
19:52:01 THESE THINGS ARE ALWAYS SORT OF
19:52:03 A BALANCING AND A WEIGHING OF
19:52:05 THE PROS AND CONS.
19:52:07 IT WAS KIND OF INEVITABLE THAT
19:52:09 SHOWMEN'S FACILITY WAS
19:52:11 OBVIOUSLY UNDERUTILIZED FOR
19:52:12 MANY, MANY YEARS.
19:52:14 IT WAS SORT OF INEVITABLE THAT
19:52:15 AS YOU DRIVE BY IT AND DRIVE BY
19:52:17 IT AND DRIVE BY IT THAT
19:52:18 EVENTUALLY SOMETHING'S GOING TO
19:52:21 GO THERE, BUT I THINK THIS
19:52:21 SOMETHING IS A GREAT
19:52:23 IMPROVEMENT, OBVIOUSLY, OVER
19:52:25 WHAT WAS PROPOSED BEFORE.
19:52:26 I'M A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED IN
19:52:29 REGARD TO THE BONUS PROVISIONS,
19:52:31 WHICH I THINK STAFF HAS DONE A
19:52:36 GOOD JOB IN REVISE -- AND
19:52:37 COUNCIL IN REVISING THE BONUS
19:52:38 PROVISIONS.
19:52:39 SOME OF THE OPTIONS ALSO
19:52:41 INCLUDE AFFORDABLE HOUSING AS
19:52:46 AN OPTION IN PARAGRAPH F-1
19:52:49 SPEAKS TO 10% -- YOU KNOW, 10%
19:52:50 OF THE PROJECT BEING PROPOSED
19:52:52 AS AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
19:52:53 I THINK THAT'S A MISSED
19:52:54 OPPORTUNITY THERE.
19:52:55 AND ALSO, YEARS AGO WE INCLUDED
19:52:59 SOME LEED STANDARDS AS
19:53:00 ADDITIONAL OPTION FOR A
19:53:02 PROJECT, AND I DIDN'T HEAR
19:53:04 ANYTHING -- ANYTHING ABOUT
19:53:06 GREEN OR LEED STANDARDS.
19:53:07 PERHAPS THE DEVELOPER'S DOING
19:53:09 IT BUT JUST NOT TOUTING THEM.
19:53:16 BUT WITH ALL THAT SAID, AGAIN,
19:53:17 IT LOOKS LIKE A GREATLY
19:53:18 IMPROVED PROJECT, AND I CAN
19:53:19 SUPPORT IT.
19:53:20 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
19:53:21 ANY FURTHER COMMENTS FROM
19:53:22 COUNCIL MEMBERS?
19:53:22 OKAY.
19:53:23 AND WHO SECONDED THAT?
19:53:24 WAS IT -- OKAY.
19:53:25 WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN
19:53:27 MANISCALCO, A SECOND BY
19:53:27 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
19:53:30 ALL IN FAVOR.
19:53:33 ANY OPPOSED?
19:53:35 >> MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
19:53:36 SECOND READING AND ADOPTION
19:53:39 WILL BE HELD ON JUNE 6th, 2019,
19:53:40 AT 9:30 A.M.
19:53:44 >> THANK YOU.
19:53:45 >>LUIS VIERA: AND BEFORE WE
19:53:47 MOVE ON TO ITEM NO. 8, WE HAD A
19:53:49 REQUEST BY COUNCILMAN
19:53:51 MANISCALCO TO TURN OFF THE FAN.
19:53:53 DO ANY COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE ANY
19:53:54 OBJECTION TO THAT?
19:53:55 THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT.
19:53:57 JUST MAKING SURE, IF YOU DON'T
19:53:58 MIND, DWAYNE.
19:54:00 >> IS THAT A MOTION ON THE
19:54:01 FLOOR?
19:54:01 >>LUIS VIERA: IT WOULD APPEAR
19:54:02 SO.
19:54:02 [LAUGHTER]
19:54:05 YEAH, YOU KNOW WHAT, LET'S TAKE
19:54:07 A FIVE-MINUTE BREAK, IF WE MAY.
19:54:09 WE'LL BE BACK IN FIVE MINUTES.
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19:58:48 [ IN RECESS ]
20:04:18 >>LUIS VIERA: IF YOU COULD TAKE ROLL, SIR.
20:04:48 >> DINGFELDER, GUDES.
20:04:53 SORRY.
20:04:54 MANISCALCO.
20:04:54 >> HERE.
20:04:54 >> CITRO.
20:04:54 >> MIRANDA.
20:04:54 >> HERE.
20:04:54 >> CARLSON.
20:04:54 >> HERE
20:04:54 >> VIERA.
20:04:55 >> HERE.
20:05:02 >>LUIS VIERA: WE WILL PROCEED ON ITEM NUMBER 8.
20:05:09 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: REZ19-35 FOR THE ZONING OF 4224, 4226,
20:05:15 4236 AND 4242 AT EAST BUSCH BOULEVARD AND 4213 AND 4215 EAST
20:05:21 EVA STREET FROM CG TO PD FOR RETAIL SALES, GASOLINE AND
20:05:29 RESTAURANT, WITH DRIVE-IN.
20:05:31 >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL MEMBERS, DAVID HEY, PLANNING
20:05:31 COMMISSION STAFF. I HAVE BEEN SWORN. WE MOVE UP TO THE
20:05:36 UNIVERSITY PLANNING DISTRICT FOR THE NEXT CASE.
20:05:38 THE SUBJECT SITE.
20:05:40 THERE'S TRANSIT PROVIDED AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF WEST
20:05:45 BUSCH BOULEVARD AND NORTH 46th STREET.
20:05:46 THAT'S THE CLOSEST TRANSIT STOP.
20:05:50 39 AND 5 CONNECT THE SUBJECT SITE TO DOWNTOWN TAMPA AND THE
20:05:55 UNIVERSITY AREA TRANSIT CENTER.
20:05:57 THE SUBJECT SITE IS NOT WITHIN AN EVACUATION ZONE.
20:06:02 ONE OTHER THING, BUSCH BOULEVARD IS RECOGNIZED AS A
20:06:07 TRANSIT -- HERE WE HAVE THE AREA, THE SUBJECT SITE AT THE
20:06:14 NORTHWEST CORNER OF 46th STREET AND EAST BUSCH
20:06:16 BOULEVARD.
20:06:17 THIS LARGE AREA IS THE PARKING LOT FOR BUSCH GARDENS, THE --
20:06:19 RIGHT HERE. ALSO,THE ECONOLODGE TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THE
20:06:32 SUBJECT SITE.
20:06:33 BUSCH BOULEVARD IS PREDOMINANTLY COMMERICIAL.
20:06:40 THERE'S SOME SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED AND MULTIFAMILY TO THE
20:06:42 SOUTH AND THEN SINGLE FAMILY DETACHED TO THE NORTH OF THE
20:06:46 SUBJECT SITE.
20:06:48 >> MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE IS NO ADVERSE IMPACT.
20:06:51 >> NO ADVERSE IMPACTS.
20:06:55 >> JUST KIDDING.
20:06:57 ON TO THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP, THE SUBJECT SITE AND ALL OF
20:07:11 THE PROPERTIES IN THE PINK ARE THE COMMUNITY NEXT TO 35.
20:07:14 DIRECTLY TO THE NORTH THERE'S SOME RESIDENTIAL 20 AND THEN
20:07:20 THE WESTERN EDGE OF EAST EVA STREET GOES TO RESIDENTIAL 10.
20:07:27 EVEN THOUGH IT IS A PARKING LOT, THE PARKING LOT HAS A
20:07:31 FUTURE LAND DESIGNATION OF URBAN MIXED USE 60 FURTHER TO THE
20:07:36 WEST.
20:07:36 TO THE SOUTH IS BROWN, RESIDENTIAL 35 AND RESIDENTIAL 20,
20:07:47 THERE ALSO SOME RESIDENTIAL 50 TO THE EAST, ABOUT THREE
20:07:47 BLOCKS TO THE EAST OF THE RESIDENTIAL SITE.
20:07:49 THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING TO REZONE THE 1.64-ACRE SITE
20:07:54 FROM THE COMMERCIAL GENERAL ZONING DISTRICT TO THE PE TO
20:07:58 ALLOW THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 4,500 SQUARE FOOT OF A GAS
20:08:03 STATION, CONVENIENT STORE AND RESTAURANT WITH DRIVE THRU.
20:08:06 THE SUBJECT SITE IS OPERATED AS A GAS STATION.
20:08:09 THE PROPOSED PD WILL ALLOW CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW CONVENIENT
20:08:11 STORE AND RESTAURANT WITH A DRIVE THRU.
20:08:15 THIS PORTION OF THE EAST BUSCH BOULEVARD CORRIDOR IS PLANNED
20:08:20 AND DEVELOPED FOR MEDIUM INTENSITY USES.
20:08:23 WHILE THE PLAN ALONG THESE MIXED USE CORRIDORS PROMOTES
20:08:29 ORIENTING BUILDINGS TO THE STREET ALONG THE THESE MIXED USE
20:08:32 CORRIDORS, DUE TO THE UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE GAS
20:08:36 STATION AND THE EXISTING GAS PUMPS THAT WILL REMAIN AS PART
20:08:39 OF THE PD IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO ORIENT THE BUILDING TO
20:08:42 BUSCH BOULEVARD.
20:08:44 PLANNING STAFF FIND THE INTRODUCTION OF THE NEW CONVENIENT
20:08:47 STORE WITH DRIVE-THRU RESTAURANT WOULD BE COMPARABLE AND
20:08:51 COMPATIBLE WITH THE PATTERN ALONG THIS PORTION OF BUSCH
20:08:55 BOULEVARD.
20:08:56 THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PROMOTES PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS, THE
20:08:59 PROPOSED PD INCLUDES SEVERAL CROSSWALKS, FACILITATING SAFE
20:09:05 PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS TO THOSE BUILDING ENTRANCES.
20:09:07 HOWEVER, PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF WOULD ENCOURAGE THE
20:09:10 APPLICANT TO PROVIDE A SIDEWALK ALONG THE NORTHERN PORTION
20:09:13 OF THE SITE, WHICH IS EAST EVA STREET TO PROMOTE A SAFE
20:09:18 PEDESTRIAN CONNECTION AND FURTHER THE POLICIES THAT ARE
20:09:20 CONTAINED WITHIN THE COMP PLAN DEALING WITH PEDESTRIAN
20:09:24 SIDEWALKS.
20:09:25 BASED ON THOSE CONSIDERATIONS, THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF
20:09:28 DOES FIND THE PROPOSED PLAN DEVELOPMENT CONSISTENT WITH THE
20:09:33 IMAGINE 2040 TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
20:09:35 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
20:09:44 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: MARY SAMANIEGO FOR THE RECORD.
20:09:48 HERE'S AN AERIAL OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY OF WILLOW.
20:09:51 IT IS ON THE CORNER OF 46th AND BUSCH BOULEVARD AS WELL
20:09:57 AS EVA IS IN THE BACK.
20:09:59 THERE ARE SINGLE FAMILY AND MULTIFAMILY HOUSES IN THE BACK.
20:10:03 IT IS CURRENTLY A GAS STATION.
20:10:07 PROPOSING A GAS STATION WITH DRIVE IN RESTAURANT WINDOW.
20:10:11 HERE'S THE ZONING MAP OF THE PROPERTY.
20:10:13 IT IS CURRENTLY ZONED CG.
20:10:17 TO THE NORTH IS RM 16 ZONING DISTRICT, A MULTIFAMILY
20:10:22 RESIDENTIAL ZONING DISTRICT TO THE NORTHWEST IS
20:10:25 SINGLE-FAMILY ZONING DISTRICT.
20:10:28 THE PROPOSED USE OF GAS STATION OR TECHNICAL TERM WOULD BE
20:10:33 RETAIL GAS, IT IS ALREADY PERMITTED IN A CG ZONING DISTRICT.
20:10:40 THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING A DRIVE-IN WINDOW.
20:10:45 HERE'S THE SITE PLAN FOR THE APPLICATION.
20:10:49 THINK APPLICANT IS PROPOSING A SMALL RESTAURANT AS PART OF
20:10:59 THE FUNCTION OF THE GAS STATION ITSELF.
20:11:00 IT IS NOT INTENDED TO BE A SEPARATE COMPANY AS FAR AS
20:11:05 RESTAURANT DRIVE-IN WINDOW, IT WILL BE KIND OF RUN BY THE
20:11:12 OCCUPANT AS A TENANT OF THE GAS STATION ITSELF, MAKING
20:11:16 SANDWICHES, FOOD OF THAT NATURE.
20:11:18 FOR ZONING CLASSIFICATION IT IS STILL CONSIDERED A
20:11:22 RESTAURANT WITH A DRIVE IN.
20:11:23 PER THE CITY OF TAMPA CODE, A RESTAURANT WITH A DRIVE IN
20:11:28 WINDOW IS REQUIRED TO HAVE SITE PLAN APPROVAL BEFORE CITY
20:11:31 COUNCIL.
20:11:31 UPON REVIEW OF THE CODE, THE APPLICANT AND THE PROPOSAL MEET
20:11:34 ALL OF THE CRITERIA.
20:11:37 ONLY WAIVERS THAT ARE NECESSARY FOR THIS PROJECT IS, NUMBER
20:11:43 ONE THERE'S A WETLAND ON THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE SITE.
20:11:47 IT HAS BEEN DESIGNATED BY THE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY EPC AND
20:11:53 PER THE CODE A 25-FOOT SETBACK OR BUFFER FROM THE EDGE OF
20:11:58 THE WETLAND.
20:12:00 THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING AND IT'S BEEN REVIEWED THROUGH
20:12:03 NATURAL RESOURCES AND THEY FOUND IT CONSISTENT FOR THIS
20:12:07 PORTION OF THE WETLAND BUFFER TO TRANSFER THIS AREA BECAUSE
20:12:10 THEY NEED IT FOR THE DRIVE AISLE TO THE SAME SQUARE FOOTAGE
20:12:18 TO THE NORTH.
20:12:19 WHEN APPLICANT ORIGINALLY CAME THROUGH WITH A SITE PLAN
20:12:22 PROPOSAL, THIS DRIVEWAY ENTRANCE WAS FURTHER TO THE WEST AND
20:12:28 SET BACK CONCERNS BECAUSE THIS AREA WAS TIGHT FOR
20:12:31 MANEUVERING IN AND OUT OF THE SITE.
20:12:33 SO STAFF REQUESTED THEM TO ONE OF THE ROW OF GAS PUMPS SO
20:12:44 THERE IS A BIGGER EGRESS FROM BUSCH BOULEVARD AS WELL AS A
20:12:47 MORE DIRECT ROUTE TO THE DUMPSTERS.
20:12:49 BECAUSE OF THAT, IT WILL ENCROACH SLIGHTLY THROUGH THE
20:12:55 WETLAND BUFFER BUT WITH WORK WITH THE NATURAL RESOURCES
20:12:58 STAFF THEY PROVIDED ADDITIONAL BUFFER FOR THE SAME SQUARE
20:13:01 FOOTAGE TO THE NORTH.
20:13:03 THE ONLY OTHER WAIVER THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING TO THE
20:13:06 VEHICLE USE AREA BUFFER REQUIREMENTS.
20:13:09 WHEN YOU HAVE A VEHICLE USE AREA, WHICH IS THE TECHNICAL
20:13:11 TERM FOR A PARKING LOT, UP AGAINST A ROAD RIGHT OF WAY
20:13:17 THERE'S SUPPOSED TO BE AN EIGHT-FOOT STRIP OF LANDSCAPING.
20:13:25 FOR BUSCH BOULEVARD, AS WELL AS 46TH STREET, PER THE D.O.T.
20:13:29 REQUIREMENTS THERE'S GOING TO BE A DECELERATION LANE AS WELL
20:13:35 AS A DECELERATION LANE HERE WHICH WILL ENCROACH FURTHER TO
20:13:41 THE PRIVATE PROPERTY.
20:13:43 BECAUSE THAT OF THAT AND THEN YOU HAVE THE SIDEWALK
20:13:46 IMPROVEMENTS, THIS ONLY ALLOWS FOR SIX-FOOT LANDSCAPED STRIP
20:13:50 BECAUSE THERE'S A DECELERATING LANE CONSTRUCTED AND THE
20:13:55 SIDEWALK AND THE BUFFER AND THE PARKING LOT.
20:13:59 THEY RAN OUT OF SPACE TO PROVIDE THE FULL EIGHT-FOOT WIDTH
20:14:04 BECAUSE OF THE TURN LANE IMPROVEMENTS.
20:14:07 SO THEY ARE REQUESTING A WAIVER TO GO FROM EIGHT TO SIX
20:14:11 FEET.
20:14:12 STAFF HAS NO CONCERNS ABOUT THAT WAIVER.
20:14:15 OTHER THAN THAT, I KNOW THE APPLICANT IS HERE TO PRESENT HER
20:14:19 PROPOSAL.
20:14:20 THERE ARE SOME CHANGES TO THE SITE PLAN BETWEEN FIRST AND
20:14:25 SECOND READING, MOSTLY JUST NOTES AND NUMBERS NEED
20:14:29 CLARIFIED.
20:14:31 TRANSPORTATION JUST HAS ONE MODIFICATION ABOUT THE
20:14:34 MITIGATION PAYMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES HAS SOME
20:14:37 CORRECTIONS TO THE TABLE.
20:14:39 OTHER THAN THAT THE DEVELOPMENT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE TAMPA
20:14:45 LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE.
20:14:46 DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS APPLICATION.
20:14:50 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS?
20:14:53 OKAY.
20:14:53 THANK YOU, MA'AM.
20:14:55 BEING NONE WE WOULD ASK THE APPLICANT TO COME FORWARD.
20:15:00 >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL.
20:15:00 MY NAME IS DHIVY SATHIANATHAN.
20:15:03 1055 KATHLEEN ROAD.
20:15:08 AS THE STAFF WE WORKED HARD WITH THE STAFF AND D.O.T. TO
20:15:13 COME UP WITH A SITE PLAN.
20:15:14 WE ACQUIRED THREE LOTS TO THE WEST.
20:15:18 AS YOU CAN SEE WE ALSO ACQUIRED A LOT OF WETLANDS AND A LOT
20:15:22 OF OAKS, WE ARE PRESERVING EVERY ONE OF THEM.
20:15:29 WE WORKED WITH THE D.O.T. AS WELL AS SOME OF THE RESIDENTS
20:15:33 THAT NEIGHBOR US.
20:15:38 THERE EXISTS A SIX-FOOT WALL ON THE NORTH PROPERTY BOUNDARY
20:15:43 WHICH IS DILAPIDATED.
20:15:47 SO, WE PROPOSING TO REBUILD THAT.
20:15:50 THIS FACILITY IS ABOUT 30 YEARS OLD.
20:15:53 IT'S VERY OLD.
20:15:55 SO, IT'S A FRESH, NEW LOOK.
20:16:00 IT'S CURRENTLY CG ZONED.
20:16:04 SO WE ASK, RESPECTFULLY ASK THAT YOU APPROVE THIS REQUEST.
20:16:09 >>LUIS VIERA: NOTHING FURTHER?
20:16:10 >> NO, SIR.
20:16:11 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
20:16:12 ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL I HAVE A QUESTION, WHAT KIND OF
20:16:17 RESTAURANT OR DRIVE-THRU?
20:16:21 >> PROBABLY A DOUGHNUT, SANDWICH KIND OF DEAL.
20:16:26 >>LUIS VIERA: DOUGHNUTS.
20:16:27 THERE YOU GO.
20:16:28 THANKS.
20:16:31 SOLD.
20:16:32 GREAT.
20:16:32 THANK YOU, SIR.
20:16:33 ANYBODY HERE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER 8?
20:16:40 OKAY.
20:16:41 A MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILMAN MANS AND SECOND BY
20:16:45 COUNCILMAN GUDES, ALL IN FAVOR?
20:16:49 ANY OPPOSED?
20:16:52 ITEM NUMBER EIGHT.
20:16:54 AN ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF
20:16:54 4224, 4226, 4236 AND 4242 EAST BUSCH BOULEVARD AND 4213 AND
20:16:54 4215 EAST EVA STREET, IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, AND
20:16:54 MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1, FROM ZONING
20:16:54 DISTRICT CLASSIFICATIONS CG COMMERCIAL GENERAL TO PD PLANNED
20:16:54 DEVELOPMENT, RETAIL SALES, GASOLINE AND RESTAURANT,
20:16:54 DRIVE-IN; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
20:17:27 >>LUIS VIERA: WERE THERE ANY WAIVERS OR REVISIONS WITH THAT?
20:17:33 OKAY.
20:17:39 >> I BELIEVE THE ANSWER IS YES.
20:17:40 IF YOU WOULD INCLUDE THE REVISION IS SHEET AS SET FORTH BY
20:17:45 THE CITY STAFF.
20:17:46 >> INCLUDING THE REVISION SHEET SET FORTH.
20:17:48 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CITRO SECOND BY
20:17:52 MANISCALCO -- I'M SORRY, COUNCILMAN CITRO.
20:18:03 >> LEGAL COUNSEL REAL QUICK. WHOEVER WISHES TO COME UP.
20:18:10 LIKE I SAID EARLIER, YOU ALL GAVE US SOME NICE GUIDANCE IN
20:18:19 REGARD TO MAKING MOTIONS AND THAT SORT OF THING.
20:18:22 I'M LOOKING ON PAGE 7 OF THE REPORT.
20:18:25 IT SPEAKS TO WAIVERS AND THE CRITERIA WE ARE SUPPOSED TO USE
20:18:29 TO LOOK AT AND CONSIDER THE WAIVERS.
20:18:31 IS THAT JUST FOR FUTURE REFERENCE AND NOT SPECIFICALLY
20:18:35 RELATED TO THIS BUT GENERICALLY WOULD YOU CONSIDER IT
20:18:39 IMPORTANT FOR COUNCIL TO SPEAK TO THE FACT THAT THEY MET
20:18:43 THESE WAIVER CRITERIAS THAT ARE SPOKEN TO IN SECTION 27139.
20:18:56 >> REBECCA KERT, LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
20:19:00 WHEN MAKING A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINIMAL THING THAT'S
20:19:00 REQUIRED UNDER THE LAW IS TO READ THE TITLE ON FIRST READING
20:19:02 AND MOVE ON.
20:19:03 AS YOUR LEGAL COUNSEL CHARGED WITH DEFENDING SOMETIMES
20:19:06 APPROVALS AND SOMETIMES DENIALS, EXPLAINING THE BASIS FOR IT
20:19:10 IS ALWAYS SOMETHING I APPRECIATE AND I THINK, INCREASES THE
20:19:15 VIABILITY OF WHATEVER DECISION IT IS.
20:19:18 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO WAIVERS AND PDS?
20:19:23 >> WHEN YOU HAVE A PD, THERE ARE SEVERAL THINGS YOU HAVE TO
20:19:26 REQUIRE, YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER YOUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, THOSE
20:19:29 ARE APPLICABLE AS WHEN YOU HAVE A PD YOU EVALUATE, IN
20:19:33 ADDITION TO THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE PD AND THE WAIVERS AND
20:19:36 THE WAIVER CRITERIA YOU ARE IDENTIFYING.
20:19:39 I CERTAINLY -- AS I SAID, I APPRECIATE WHEN YOU PASS A
20:19:43 MOTION TO STATE THE FACTS THAT YOU HEARD AND LINK THEM TO
20:19:46 THE MINIMUM THAT'S REQUIRED IS TO READ IT.
20:19:50 WHEN YOU HAVE A DENIAL, THEN YOU HAVE TO SPECIFICALLY
20:19:53 IDENTIFY ALL OF THOSE.
20:19:55 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: OKAY.
20:19:56 I'LL MAKE A FRIENDLY SUGGESTION THAT PERHAPS YOU -- LEGAL
20:20:02 STAFF PROVIDE US WITH SOME GUIDANCE, WRITTEN GUIDANCE THAT
20:20:05 WE COULD KEEP HEARING AFTER HEARING THAT WE CAN PLUG IN JUST
20:20:10 LIKE WE HAVE BEEN DOING ON THE VRB.
20:20:13 I THINK IT IS HELPFUL.
20:20:15 >> IF I CAN -- JUST WHEN YOU ARE DONE.
20:20:17 SORRY TO INTERRUPT.
20:20:18 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THAT'S FINE.
20:20:19 GO AHEAD.
20:20:29 >> MR. CHAIRMAN, MAY I?
20:20:33 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: APOLOGIZE TO THE APPLICANT BUT IT IS
20:20:37 RELEVANT.
20:20:38 >> THERE ARE REQUIREMENTS UNDER FLORIDA LAW WHEN YOU WERE
20:20:41 DENIED A DEVELOPMENT ORDER YOU HAVE TO STATE THE SECTION OF
20:20:44 THE CODE OR THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN THAT RELATES TO THAT.
20:20:51 THE LAW IS EVOLVING IN THIS AREA, BUT I SHOULD POINT OUT AS
20:20:55 A GENERAL RULE THAT -- AND MS. KERT HAS BEGUN THE PROCESS TO
20:21:04 CREATE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THIS DISCUSSION BECAUSE I
20:21:06 THINK AS TIME GOES ON IT WILL BE VERY USEFUL.
20:21:09 THAT BEING SAID, WHEN THESE ISSUES ARE CHALLENGED,
20:21:15 REGARDLESS OF WHAT COUNCIL DECISION, WHETHER IT APPROVED OR
20:21:20 DENIED IT -- AND THESE GO TO A CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE FOR
20:21:23 REVIEW.
20:21:24 A CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE CAN SECOND GUESS YOUR FINDINGS OF
20:21:28 FACT.
20:21:29 SO, YOU ARE THE FINDERS OF FACT.
20:21:32 THIS BOARD ARE THE FINDERS OF FACT.
20:21:34 YOU APPLY IT TO THE CODE AND JUST AS A JURY WOULD, YOU
20:21:40 RENDER YOUR VERDICT.
20:21:41 OF COURSE THE RULES OF EVIDENCE ARE DIFFERENT SO IT IS
20:21:45 QUASI-JUDICIAL.
20:21:46 BUT IF YOU, IN THE DETERMINATION OF WHETHER THE WAIVERS ARE
20:21:50 MET OR WHETHER THE PURPOSE IS FULFILLED UNDER A PLAN
20:21:54 DEVELOPMENT, IF YOU HAVE SPECIFIC FINDINGS OF FACT TO
20:21:56 SUPPORT THAT DECISION, AS PART OF THE MOTION IN ANY COUNCIL
20:22:00 CAN ADD TO THAT, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT CANNOT BE SECOND
20:22:04 GUESSED BY A JUDGE WHEN THEY REVIEW IT.
20:22:06 IT IS SOMETHING THAT WILL STRENGTHEN THE CITY'S POSITION,
20:22:10 REGARDLESS OF WHAT THAT DECISION IS.
20:22:14 I THINK IN THAT REGARD THAT'S THE DIRECTION THAT I THINK WE
20:22:17 ARE GOING TO NEED TO MOVE TO STRENGTHEN THE CITY'S POSITION
20:22:22 TO SUPPORT YOUR DECISION, WHATEVER IT IS.
20:22:25 SO, I THINK COUNCIL MEMBER, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, IT IS A
20:22:31 QUESTION THAT IS WELL TAKEN AND DESERVES TO BE LOOKED AT IN
20:22:35 A WAY WE CAN SUPPORT.
20:22:36 SPECIFICALLY, IT WOULD BE INAPPROPRIATE FOR STAFF TO BE ABLE
20:22:39 TO PREDICT AND PREJUDGE WHAT KIND OF CRITERIA OR MATTERS
20:22:44 THAT MAY COME UP TO BE ABLE TO PUT WORDS IN YOUR MOUTH.
20:22:48 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WHAT I WAS GETTING AT IS SORT OF LIKE
20:22:51 FILL IN THE BLANK, WHICH IS WHAT WE HAVE DONE AT THE VRB.
20:22:56 IT SAYS THE BASIS FOR MY MOTION IS, AND THEN YOU HAVE BLANK
20:22:59 AND THEN WE WOULD FILL IN THE BLANK DEPENDING ON WHAT THAT
20:23:03 PARTICULAR CASE IS AND WHAT THE FACTS HAVE BEEN OF THAT
20:23:05 PARTICULAR CASE.
20:23:07 I BEAT THIS HORSE ENOUGH FOR THIS PARTICULAR CASE.
20:23:10 I THINK WE SHOULD JUST VOTE ON THAT, BUT IT IS SOMETHING WE
20:23:14 NEED TO KEEP TALKING ABOUT.
20:23:17 >>MARTIN SHELBY: THANK YOU AND TO ADD TO THAT BUT NOT TO
20:23:21 EXTEND IT TOO LONG, COUNCIL HAS BEEN GETTING THAT GUIDANCE
20:23:24 WITH REGARD TO THE REVIEW HEARINGS AND I'M CERTAIN LEGAL
20:23:28 WILL TAKE A GOOD HARD LOOK AT THIS TO HELP COUNCIL BETTER
20:23:32 PREPARE FOR THESE DECISIONS.
20:23:33 SO THANK YOU.
20:23:34 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
20:23:36 I WOULD URGE -- THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS POOR
20:23:40 GENTLEMAN'S HEARING HERE, THAT IF ANYONE HAS QUESTIONS WITH
20:23:43 REGARD TO THESE ISSUES BECAUSE THESE ARE LEGAL ISSUES WITH
20:23:47 GREAT WEIGHT UPON THE CITY, IF WE ARE SUED FOR ATTORNEY'S
20:23:51 FEES AND DAMAGES, SET UP A MEETING WITH ONE OF OUR SKILLED
20:23:54 CITY ATTORNEYS.
20:23:55 I'VE DONE THAT BEFORE.
20:23:57 ANYTHING YOU SAY CAN AND WILL BE HELD AGAINST YOU IF A CASE
20:24:01 IS APPEAL AND THAT'S NOT GOOD.
20:24:02 OKAY.
20:24:03 ANYTHING FURTHER FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS?
20:24:06 A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CITRO A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN
20:24:10 MANISCALCO. ALL IN FAVOR?
20:24:13 ANY OPPOSED.
20:24:14 >> MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY SECOND READING AND ADOPTION ON
20:24:17 JUNE 6, 2019 AT 9:30 A.M.
20:24:21 >> OUR FINAL ITEM OF THE EVENING FOR THE FINAL COUNTDOWN.
20:24:27 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: FINAL CASE IS REZ19-61, A REZONING REQUEST
20:24:31 FOR THE PROPERTY AT 4501 NORTH 42nd STREET FROM RS-50 TO
20:24:38 PLANNED DEVELOPMENT FOR A PLACE OF RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY.
20:24:46 >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL MEMBERS, DAVID HEY AGAIN FOR OUR
20:24:51 LAST CASE DURING THIS
20:24:52 CENTRAL PLANNING DISTRICT.
20:24:53 MORE SPECIFICALLY THE EAST TAMPA URBAN VILLAGE.
20:24:56 THE SUBJECT SITE IS AN EXISTING BUILDING ON SITE.
20:25:02 THE SITE IS NOT WITHIN AN EVACUATION ZONE.
20:25:05 THERE'S CONVENIENT TRANSPORTATION ACCESS, PUBLIC
20:25:10 TRANSPORTATION ACCESS -- THE CLOSEST BUS STOP IS
20:25:15 APPROXIMATELY 550-YARDS FROM THE SITE OF NORTH 40th
20:25:18 STREET AND EAST OSBORNE AVENUE.
20:25:21 THE SUBJECT SITE, THIS IS EMMA STREET AND DEAD ENDS TO THE
20:25:31 RAILROAD TRACKS THAT ARE HERE.
20:25:32 THIS IS NORTH 42nd STREET AND THIS IS 40th STREET.
20:25:36 YOU CAN SEE THERE'S HEAVY COMMERCIAL AND LIGHT
20:25:40 INDUSTRIAL-TYPE USES, BUT PREDOMINANTLY THE SURROUNDING AREA
20:25:45 IS MOSTLY SINGLE FAMILY DETACHED WITH QUARTERED DUPLEX.
20:25:50 ON TO THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP.
20:25:55 YOU CAN SEE THE SUBJECT SITE AND ALL OF THE PROPERTIES
20:25:58 SURROUNDING IT ARE IN THE RESIDENTIAL 10.
20:26:02 THERE'S SOME RESIDENTIAL 20 TO THE EAST OF CAYUGA.
20:26:07 BUT YOU CAN SEE, REFERRING BACK TO THE ARROW, YOU CAN SEE
20:26:10 WHERE THE HEAVY COMMERCIAL USES ARE ON 40th STREET.
20:26:13 THE RED IS THE COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL 35 AND, AGAIN, HERE'S
20:26:18 PUBLIC-SEMI PUBLIC USE REPRESENTED BY THE BLUE AND THEN
20:26:24 LIGHT INDUSTRIAL.
20:26:25 OVERALL THE APPLICANT IS SEEKING APPROVAL TO REDEVELOPMENT
20:26:28 AN EXISTING BUILDING IN TO A PLACE OF RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY.
20:26:31 PENDING STAFF REVIEW, THEY FOUND THE PROPOSED PROJECT
20:26:35 COMPARABLE AND COMPATIBLE WITH EXISTING LAND USES IN THE
20:26:39 NEIGHBORHOOD AND STAFF FOUND THAT APPROVING THE PETITIONER'S
20:26:45 REQUEST WILL PROVIDE FURTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO ENHANCE AN
20:26:50 EXISTING STRUCTURE.
20:26:51 BASED ON THOSE CONSIDERATIONS PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF
20:26:53 FINDS THE PROPOSED REZONING CONSISTENT WITH THE TAMPA
20:26:53 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
20:27:03 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
20:27:05 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: MARY SAMANIEGO, PLANNING COORDINATION.
20:27:12 THERE'S AN AREA OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY.
20:27:15 IT IS OUTLINED IN YELLOW.
20:27:18 IT'S AT THE INTERSECTION OF 42nd STREET AND EMMA STREET
20:27:22 IN WEST TAMPA.
20:27:25 THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING TO USE AN EXISTING VACANT
20:27:28 STRUCTURE FOR A PLACE OF RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY.
20:27:31 THE STRUCTURE WAS BUILT IN 1951.
20:27:35 HERE'S THE ZONING MAP.
20:27:39 THE PROPERTY IS CURRENTLY ZONED RS-50.
20:27:43 WHEN THIS APPLICANT ORIGINALLY CAME BEFORE STAFF, PER THE
20:27:47 CODE, A PLACE OF RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY, WHICH IS PLANNING TERM
20:27:50 FOR A CHURCH IS A SPECIAL USE 2 APPROVAL WHICH IS A SITE
20:27:55 PLAN APPROVAL PROVIDED SPECIAL USE CRITERIA BEFORE CITY
20:28:00 COUNCIL.
20:28:01 HOWEVER, LEGALLY, ONE CAN ONLY ASK FOR WAIVERS TO THE
20:28:06 SPECIAL USE CRITERIA IN A SPECIAL USE PROCESS.
20:28:10 BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF THE PROPOSED APPLICANT SITE PLAN,
20:28:13 WHICH I WILL SHOW YOU IN A MINUTE, THEY NEEDED WAIVERS FROM
20:28:16 OTHER CODE SECTIONS, NOT JUST THE SPECIAL USE CRITERIA.
20:28:20 THEREFORE, THIS APPLICATION MID PROCESS HAS BEEN CONVERTED
20:28:24 TO A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT IN ORDER TO FACILITATE THE LEGAL
20:28:27 APPROVAL OF THOSE WAIVERS.
20:28:33 >>LUIS VIERA: ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL?
20:28:35 OKAY.
20:28:35 THANK YOU, MA'AM.
20:28:36 OKAY.
20:28:37 IF THE APPLICANT FOR NUMBER --
20:28:39 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: I'M NOT DONE.
20:28:41 I'M SORRY.
20:28:42 >>LUIS VIERA: I WAS GOING TO SAY, OKAY.
20:28:44 GO FOR IT.
20:28:46 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: OKAY.
20:28:49 SORRY.
20:28:49 >>LUIS VIERA: NO WORRIES.
20:28:50 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: HERE'S THE SITE PLAN.
20:28:52 THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A PLACE OF RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY
20:28:55 FOR A TOTAL OF 20 SEATS.
20:29:00 THEY ARE USING AN EXISTING BUILDING.
20:29:02 HERE'S THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE BUILDING ON THE CORNER OF
20:29:07 42nd AND EMMA.
20:29:09 THERE'S CURRENTLY A GRASS PARKING LOT.
20:29:11 THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING TO LEAVE IT AS A GRASS PARKING
20:29:15 LOT FOR THE REQUIRED CHURCH PARKING.
20:29:17 THEY WOULD BE REQUIRED TO PAVE THE ADA SPACE.
20:29:24 AND INSTALL WHEEL STOPS TO DESIGNATE EACH INDIVIDUAL PARKING
20:29:30 SPACE.
20:29:30 THE SURROUNDING AREA -- THE REMAINING SURROUNDING AREA IS
20:29:34 SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL HOMES.
20:29:37 AS FAR AS THE MERITS OF THE SITE PLAN ITSELF, THE APPLICANT
20:29:40 IS REQUESTING SEVEN WAIVERS.
20:29:43 THE FIRST WAIVER IS TO ALLOW ACCESS TO A LOCAL STREET IN
20:29:55 LIEU OF -- 42nd STREET MEETS THAT CRITERIA.
20:29:59 HOWEVER, EMMA STREET IS A LOCAL STREET AND THE CRITERIA IS
20:30:03 PLACES OF RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY ARE SUPPOSED TO ONLY
20:30:06 ACCESS ARTERIAL -- THAT IS WAIVER REQUEST NUMBER ONE FOR
20:30:10 ACCESS DRIVE BY ALL CONNECTIONS FROM EMMA TO LOCAL STREET.
20:30:14 THE SECOND WAIVER REQUEST TO THE SPECIAL USE CRITERIA IS THE
20:30:18 MINIMUM LOT SIZE FOR PLACE OF RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY.
20:30:21 IT IS REQUIRED TO BE 20,000 SQUARE FEET.
20:30:24 THE EXISTING SITE IS A LITTLE OVER 10,000 SQUARE FEET.
20:30:27 SO THAT'S WAIVER REQUEST NUMBER TWO.
20:30:30 THE THIRD WAIVER TO THE SPECIAL USE CRITERIA, THE YARD IS
20:30:39 REQUIRED TO BE 20 FEET FOR THE WEST AND SOUTH BECAUSE WE ARE
20:30:42 DEALING WITH AN EXISTING BUILDING.
20:30:45 SO THAT'S THE THIRD WAIVER WOULD REDUCE THE FRONT YARD FROM
20:30:51 20 FEET BECAUSE OF THE CONDITIONS.
20:30:55 THE FOURTH WAIVER, AS I JUST INDICATED, IS TO ALLOW GRASS
20:31:00 PARKING SPACE AND GRASS DRIVE AISLES.
20:31:03 THE FIFTH IS TO REDUCE THE DRIVEWAY WIDTH FROM 24 FEET TO
20:31:08 20 FEET.
20:31:09 AGAIN, FROM THE BACK OF THE PARKING SPACE TO THE BEGINNING
20:31:13 OF THE VEHICLE-USE AREA, BUFFER IS ALWAYS SUPPOSED TO BE
20:31:18 24 FEET.
20:31:19 THESE AREAS IS ONLY 20 FEET.
20:31:20 SO THAT'S THE FIFTH WAIVER REQUEST.
20:31:25 THE WAIVER REQUESTS ARE TO THE EAST TAMPA OVERLAY STANDARDS.
20:31:30 30% OF THE BUILDING FACADE IS SUPPOSED TO BE EMBELLISHED.
20:31:35 THEY ARE ASKING TO WAIVE THAT DOWN TO ZERO.
20:31:44 TRYING TO FIND A PICTURE.
20:31:46 AGAIN, IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TRANSPARENCY
20:31:51 AND EMBELLISHMENT ON THE FACADES.
20:31:54 THE CURRENT CONDITIONS DON'T MEET THOSE STANDARDS.
20:31:56 SO THEY ARE ASKING FOR A WAIVER FROM THAT STANDARD.
20:31:59 AND THE LAST WAIVER CRITERIA, WHICH I NEED TO AMEND, IS FROM
20:32:06 THE NORTH AND EAST PROPERTY LINES, THERE'S SUPPOSED TO BE A
20:32:12 15-FOOT LANDSCAPE BUFFER WITH A SIX-FOOT HIGH CONCRETE
20:32:17 MASONRY WALL.
20:32:18 THEY ARE ASKING FOR A WAIVER OF THE NORTH SIDE FOR 15-FOOT
20:32:23 LANDSCAPE BUFFER WITH SIX FOOT HIGH MASONRY WALL TO A THREE
20:32:27 FOOT BUFFER WITH A SIX FOOT HIGH WOODEN FENCE.
20:32:32 SIMILARLY ON THE EAST SIDE, 15-FOOT -- WITH SIX FOOT HIGH
20:32:40 WALL TO TEN FEET WITH A SIX-FOOT HIGH WOODEN FENCE.
20:32:44 THERE ARE SEVERAL CHANGES TO BE MADE TO THE SITE PLAN FROM
20:32:50 FIRST AND SECOND READING THAT I OUTLINED IN THE STAFF
20:32:53 REPORT.
20:32:57 LAND DEVELOPMENT HAS SOME MINOR CHANGES TO THIS SITE PLAN,
20:33:02 AS I SAID.
20:33:03 NATURAL RESOURCES HAS A COUPLE OF MINOR CHANGES.
20:33:06 TRANSPORTATION FOUND THE PLAN DEVELOPMENT INCONSISTENT
20:33:09 BECAUSE OF THE REDUCTION IN THE DRIVEWAY WIDTH FROM 24 TO
20:33:14 20 FEET.
20:33:15 TRANSPORTATION IS HERE TONIGHT IF YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC
20:33:17 QUESTIONS.
20:33:19 THE DESIGN IS INCONSISTENT AND THE WAIVERS REQUESTED FOR THE
20:33:25 VEHICLE USE AREA -- THE BUFFER STANDARDS, AS WELL AS THE
20:33:29 FACADE EMBELLISHMENT STANDARDS.
20:33:32 A REPRESENTATIVE FROM URBAN DESIGN IS HERE TONIGHT IF YOU
20:33:35 HAVE ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS FOR HER.
20:33:38 OTHER THAN THAT, OVERALL, I DID FIND IT INCONSISTENT WITH
20:33:44 THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE.
20:33:46 AGAIN, WAIVER REQUEST TO SPECIFIC CRITERIA FROM URBAN DESIGN
20:33:53 AND TRANSPORTATION.
20:33:54 IN THE EVENT THAT THE CITY COUNCIL DOES APPROVE THE WAIVERS
20:33:58 AND THIS REQUEST, PLEASE REFERENCE THE CHANGES BETWEEN FIRST
20:34:03 AND SECOND READING, AS WELL AS THE MODIFICATION TO THE FINAL
20:34:06 WAIVER TO ALLOW FOR TWO SIX-FOOT HIGH WOODEN FENCES ON THE
20:34:12 NORTH AND EAST PROPERTY LINES.
20:34:14 THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
20:34:16 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
20:34:18 ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS?
20:34:25 COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
20:34:29 >>BILL CARLSON: IS THERE A SPECIAL DESIGNATION FOR HOUSES OF
20:34:33 WORSHIP AND IF THERE ISN'T ONE AT THIS LOCATION IN THE
20:34:36 FUTURE, WHAT ELSE COULD WE PUT THERE?
20:34:39 IS THAT CONVERTED TO COMMERCIAL OR?
20:34:42 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: NO.
20:34:46 ONE MOMENT.
20:34:47 GATHER MY THOUGHTS HERE.
20:34:49 SO, THIS PROPERTY IS INDICATED AS A RESIDENTIAL 10 LAND USE
20:34:55 CATEGORY.
20:34:56 THAT CATEGORY IS PRIMARILY FOR SINGLE-FAMILY NEIGHBORHOODS.
20:35:00 SAYING THAT, IN A ZONING AND PLANNING CONTEXT THERE ARE
20:35:04 CERTAIN USES WHICH ARE COMPATIBLE WITH SINGLE-FAMILY
20:35:08 NEIGHBORHOODS, PRIMARILY SCHOOLS, PLAYGROUNDS OR PARKS,
20:35:12 PLACES OF RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY AND SOMETIMES DAYCARES.
20:35:16 THOSE TYPES OF USES, HISTORICALLY IN THE CITY OF TAMPA AND
20:35:20 THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY ARE CONDITIONAL USES OR SPECIAL
20:35:23 EXCEPTIONS OR SPECIAL USES IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
20:35:26 SO, THEY ARE KIND OF CONDITIONALLY PERMITTED.
20:35:33 THEY HAVE TO MEET CERTAIN CRITERIA TO ENSURE THEY ARE
20:35:37 COMPATIBLE WITH A SINGLE-FAMILY NEIGHBORHOOD.
20:35:39 SO THAT'S WHY THIS STARTED OUT AS A SPECIAL USE CRITERIA AND
20:35:44 THERE'S SPECIFIC CRITERIA THAT SHOULD BE LEAST 20,000 FEET,
20:35:50 AS WELL AS ADDITIONAL SETBACK CRITERIAS.
20:35:54 THEY MAKE SURE IT IS COMPATIBLE WITH A SINGLE-FAMILY
20:35:57 NEIGHBORHOOD.
20:35:58 >> IF IT IS NO LONGER A PLACE OF WORSHIP IN THE FUTURE IT
20:36:00 HAS TO REVERT TO A SPECIAL USE PERMITTED.
20:36:04 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: YES.
20:36:04 THE PROPERTY WOULD EITHER CONVERT TO A HOUSE OR POSSIBLY A
20:36:08 SCHOOL, A DAYCARE, SOME SORT OF OTHER QUASI PUBLIC USE.
20:36:16 >>LUIS VIERA: COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
20:36:20 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: JUST AS A FOLLOW UP, MARY.
20:36:21 IN THIS CASE THEY ARE ASKING FOR A PD.
20:36:24 IF WE APPROVED IT AS A PD TO RESPOND TO MR. CARLSON, THE PD
20:36:31 IS SPECIFIC AS RELATED TO THE WORSHIP ASSEMBLY, CORRECT?
20:36:35 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: YES.
20:36:37 THIS PD, THE ONLY ALLOWABLE USE WOULD BE A PLACE OF
20:36:40 RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY THAT COMPLIES WITH THIS SPECIFIC SITE
20:36:44 PLAN.
20:36:44 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: I WANTED TO JUST CLARIFY THAT.
20:36:46 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: OKAY.
20:36:47 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYTHING FURTHER?
20:36:49 THANK YOU, MA'AM.
20:36:50 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: THANK YOU.
20:36:51 >>LUIS VIERA: TIME FOR THE APPLICANT.
20:37:06 >> GOOD EVENING.
20:37:09 MY NAME IS MICHELAIT MANIUS.
20:37:09 I'M GLAD TO BE HERE AND TALK ABOUT THIS PROPERTY.
20:37:13 IN 2015 WHEN I SAW THIS PLACE WAS LIKE A TRASH PLACE WHERE
20:37:21 PEOPLE STORE EVERYTHING THEY DON'T NEED LIKE COUCH,
20:37:21 EVERYTHING.
20:37:25 I BOUGHT IT.
20:37:26 LIKE A NEW PASTOR.
20:37:33 I'M A PASTOR.
20:37:34 I FIGURE OUT WHAT I CAN USE IT FOR THE GLORY OF GOD.
20:37:39 I SAID I'M GOING TO DO THAT AND THAT'S THE REASON WHY I
20:37:44 TRIED TO CHANGE IT TO A CHURCH SO I CAN GLORIFY THE NAME OF
20:37:51 THE LORD.
20:37:52 I START THE ALTERATION AND MAKE THE PLACE NEW.
20:37:56 I STOPPED PEOPLE FROM THROWING TRASH OVER THERE.
20:37:59 NICE LOOKING.
20:37:59 I HAVE SOME PICTURE THE WAY IT IS LOOKING RIGHT NOW.
20:38:03 OLD PICTURE AND THE WAY IT IS NOW.
20:38:07 >>LUIS VIERA: DO YOU WANT US TO SEE THOSE PHOTOGRAPHS, SIR?
20:38:12 >> YES.
20:38:13 >>LUIS VIERA: IF YOU DON'T MIND.
20:38:15 THANK YOU.
20:38:17 >> THIS IS IN 2015.
20:38:34 THIS IS WHAT IT IS NOW.
20:38:40 >>LUIS VIERA: NIGHT AND DAY.
20:38:45 >> THIS IS FROM THE BOX.
20:38:51 >> TURN IT AROUND.
20:39:07 [ INDISTINGUISHABLE ]
20:39:11 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYTHING FURTHER, SIR?
20:39:13 >> NO.
20:39:14 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
20:39:16 ANY QUESTION FROM COUNCIL? COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER -- AND SIR,
20:39:23 IF YOU DON'T MIND.
20:39:27 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: BONJOUR.
20:39:29 DID YOU ADD THOSE SIX COURSES OF CINDER BLOCK?
20:39:32 IS THAT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE?
20:39:32 YOU ADDED THAT?
20:39:35 >> NOT ME.
20:39:36 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: BUT --
20:39:38 >> YES.
20:39:39 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: AND THE NEW ROOF.
20:39:40 >> NEW ROOF, EVERYTHING.
20:39:42 LIKE A BRAND NEW BUILDING.
20:39:45 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THAT'S PRETTY SIGNIFICANT.
20:39:48 THE PROPOSAL SAYS THAT YOU WANT TO GO WITH A WOOD FENCE.
20:39:54 >> YES.
20:39:58 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: INSTEAD OF A CONCRETE BLOCK WHICH IS LESS
20:40:04 EXPENSIVE.
20:40:04 >> YES.
20:40:05 I ALL RIGHT SPENT EVERYTHING TO MAKE IT THIS WAY.
20:40:09 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MY QUESTION IS, WHAT'S ON THE OTHER SIDE
20:40:10 OF THE FENCE?
20:40:10 IS IT RESIDENTIAL?
20:40:14 >> YES.
20:40:14 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: HAVE YOU SPOKEN TO THOSE NEIGHBORS, ARE
20:40:17 THEY SUPPORTIVE?
20:40:20 >> I TALKED TO ONE OF THEM.
20:40:22 SHE IS OKAY.
20:40:22 SHE LIKES THE CHURCH.
20:40:24 BECAUSE OF WHAT I'M DOING CHANGES THE CHARACTER OF THIS
20:40:24 NEIGHBORHOOD.
20:40:25 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: MUCH IMPROVED.
20:40:27 IN REGARD TO THE PARKING AREA, STAFF INDICATED YOU WANT TO
20:40:32 LEAVE IT GRASS?
20:40:35 >> YES.
20:40:35 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: WOULD WE CHANGE THE SITE PLAN TO REFLECT
20:40:38 THAT?
20:40:38 RIGHT NOW THE SITE PLAN SAYS PAVED.
20:40:41 I WOULDN'T WANT HIM TO GET OVER TO BUILDING CONSTRUCTION AND
20:40:45 SAY, HE HAS TO PAVE IT.
20:40:48 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: I UNDERSTAND.
20:40:49 IN THE STAFF REPORT I REFLECTED CHANGES BETWEEN FIRST AND
20:40:50 SECOND READING TO CORRECT THAT MATTER.
20:40:54 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: THAT'S ONE OF THEM.
20:40:56 LAST THING, IN REGARD THE OVERLAY DISTRICT, THE OVERLAY
20:41:02 DISTRICT SPEAKS TO SOME TYPE OF EXTERIOR IMPROVEMENTS, THINK
20:41:06 YOU ALLUDED TO.
20:41:09 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: YES, SIR.
20:41:11 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: IT LOOKS LIKE ON THE FRONT HE HAS
20:41:13 SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS IN TERMS OF THE FRONT DOOR AND
20:41:15 FACADE.
20:41:16 WHAT'S THE ISSUE THERE?
20:41:17 WHY THE WAIVER?
20:41:19 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: THERE'S A MINIMUM 30%.
20:41:22 IF I MAY, CAN I CALL ROBERTA MEAD UP?
20:41:28 SHE'S OUR URBAN DESIGN STAFF AND SHE CAN COMPLAIN THIS
20:41:28 SPECIFIC CRITERIA.
20:41:31 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: ROBERTA HAS BEEN WAITING ALL NIGHT.
20:41:34 >> ROBERTA CURRY, PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT.
20:41:37 I HAVE BEEN SWORN.
20:41:37 CONGRATULATIONS TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU.
20:41:40 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
20:41:42 BASICALLY, THE WEST TAMPA OVERLAY HAS CERTAIN CRITERIA WHEN
20:41:47 THE FACADES OF THIS BUILDING FACE THE STREET.
20:41:50 SO, WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT IS DOES IT HAVE 50% TRANSPARENCY
20:41:55 WHEN THOSE ARCHITECTURAL AND DETAIL.
20:41:59 70% ARCHITECTURAL EMBELLISHMENT.
20:42:10 HIS BUILDING, THE FRONT OF IT DOES NOT FACE THE STREET.
20:42:13 IT FACES THE BACK PART OF THE LOT.
20:42:15 THE TWO ELEVATIONS THAT FACE THE STREET ARE THE TWO
20:42:18 ELEVATIONS YOU SAW THAT HAD THE WINDOWS.
20:42:21 I THINK THE CRITERIA IS HE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH EXISTING
20:42:25 WINDOWS TO MEET THAT PERCENTAGE.
20:42:27 SO THEY HAD TO WAIVE IT.
20:42:31 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: IT WASN'T CLEAR TO ME.
20:42:32 I THOUGHT THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING FACED THE STREET.
20:42:35 I GUESS IT FACES THE PARKING LOT?
20:42:37 >> BECAUSE IT IS EXISTING CONDITIONS WITH WE WERE WILLING --
20:42:43 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: BECAUSE IT'S A CHURCH, IS THAT A
20:42:46 CONSTRAINT IN TERMS OF ADDING WINDOWS AND THAT SORT OF
20:42:50 THING?
20:42:52 >> WE DON'T CONSIDER IT.
20:42:54 IT IS BASICALLY A CRITERIA FOR GETTING THE WINDOWS, WINDOWS
20:42:58 ON THE STREET, ACTIVATING THE STREET AND THE BUILDING SO YOU
20:43:02 CAN SEE WHAT'S GOING ON INSIDE OF THE BUILDING AND ON THE
20:43:06 STREET.
20:43:06 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: GOT IT.
20:43:07 THANK YOU.
20:43:08 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYTHING FURTHER FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR THE
20:43:10 APPLICANT?
20:43:11 THANK YOU, SIR.
20:43:12 ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER 9?
20:43:18 WE HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCIL MANISCALCO, A SECOND BY
20:43:22 COUNCILMAN CITRO, ALL IF FAVOR?
20:43:24 ANY OPPOSED?
20:43:26 I BELIEVE COUNCILMAN CITRO, MIRANDA, IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND
20:43:32 TAKING NUMBER 9, SIR.
20:43:40 AN ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF
20:43:40 4501 NORTH 42ND STREET, IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, AND
20:43:40 MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1, FROM ZONING
20:43:40 DISTRICT CLASSIFICATIONS RS-50 RESIDENTIAL, SINGLE-FAMILY TO
20:43:40 PD PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, PLACE OF RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY;
20:43:40 PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
20:43:34 WITH CHANGES BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND READING AND ALSO
20:43:56 INCLUDING THE SEVEN WAIVERS AS REQUESTED.
20:43:59 >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
20:44:00 A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER -- DID YOU -- GO FOR IT.
20:44:07 >>JOHN DINGFELDER: YEAH.
20:44:08 IN FOLLOWING UP ON LEGAL COUNSEL, I THINK THE WAIVERS ARE
20:44:11 APPROPRIATE ESPECIALLY -- IT CONCERNED ME A LITTLE BIT IN
20:44:16 REGARD TO THE URBAN DESIGN, EAST TAMPA STANDARDS BECAUSE WE
20:44:21 SHOULD TRY TO RESPECT THOSE STANDARDS AS -- OBVIOUSLY THEY
20:44:26 ARE THERE AS PART OF THE OVERLAY DISTRICT TO IMPROVE ALL OF
20:44:31 THE BUILDINGS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
20:44:33 IN THIS CASE, THE GENTLEMAN HAS REALLY -- LOOKING AT THE
20:44:38 BEFORE AND AFTER PICTURES HAS REALLY DONE A GREAT JOB
20:44:41 IMPROVING THAT PROPERTY AND, YOU KNOW, PUTTING SOME
20:44:45 HARD-EARNED MONEY IN TO THAT PROPERTY AND MAKING THOSE
20:44:48 IMPROVEMENTS.
20:44:49 I THINK IN THIS CASE, THAT WAIVER, AS WELL AS THE CONCRETE
20:44:53 WALL AND SOME OF THE OTHER WAIVERS THAT HE'S SEEKING ARE
20:44:59 APPROPRIATE.
20:45:02 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HE DID IT WITHOUT A GRANT.
20:45:06 >>LUIS VIERA: ANYTHING FURTHER FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS BEFORE
20:45:09 WE VOTE?
20:45:10 A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN
20:45:16 MANISCALCO.
20:45:17 >>MARY SAMANIEGO: I'M SORRY.
20:45:18 I DON'T BELIEVE THAT MR. MIRANDA'S MOTION INCLUDE THE
20:45:21 REVISION SHEET OR THE CORRECTION TO THE WAIVER TO INCLUDE
20:45:24 THE SIX-FOOT HIGH WOODEN FENCES.
20:45:28 >>LUIS VIERA: I THINK IT DID.
20:45:30 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I APPRECIATE THAT.
20:45:32 PLEASE ADD IT.
20:45:33 >>LUIS VIERA: AN AMENDED MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA WITH
20:45:36 THESE FOUR CITED AMENDMENTS WITH A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN
20:45:41 MANISCALCO.
20:45:42 ALL IN FAVOR, ANY OPPOSED, THANK YOU.
20:45:46 THANK YOU, SIR.
20:45:47 YES, SIR.
20:45:48 THAT'S THE END.
20:45:49 NOW WE GO FORWARD WITH MOTIONS AND -- OH.
20:45:54 I'M SORRY.
20:45:57 >> MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY SECOND READING ON JUNE 6, 2019
20:46:02 AT 9:30 A.M.
20:46:05 >>LUIS VIERA: COUNCILMAN CARLSON, ANY MOTIONS?
20:46:10 THANK YOU, SIR.
20:46:14 >> I HAVE THREE TO PRESENT.
20:46:14 I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ACCOMMODATE A PRESENTATION
20:46:14 OF A TRIBUTE THE PARK THAT WOULD BE PRESENTED TO MS. MARTHA
20:46:14 -- BY REPRESENTATIVE SUSAN VALDES OR A MEMBER OF HER STAFF
20:46:22 AT A CITY COUNCIL MEETING ON MAY 16 2019.
20:46:27 >> MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA AND SECOND BY COUNCILMAN
20:46:27 MANISCALCO.
20:46:29 ALL IN FAVOR, ANY OPPOSED?
20:46:35 >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NEXT ONE IS FOR DEPARTING MEMBER OF THE
20:46:38 CITY WHO'S BEEN WORKING 37 YEARS, A MOTION FOR COMMENDATION
20:46:42 TO KATHLEEN WALKER, HUBERT PARKS AND RECREATION, WHO IS
20:46:45 RETIRING AFTER 37 YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE CITY AND
20:46:50 I'D LIKE TO MAKE THAT PRESENTATION OR COUNCIL TO MAKE THE
20:46:54 PRESENTATION ON MAY 16, 2019.
20:46:59 >>LUIS VIERA: A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA AND A SECOND BY
20:46:59 COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
20:47:00 ALL IN FAVOR, ANY OPPOSED?
20:47:03 >> AND THE THIRD I THINK COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO MADE IT LAST
20:47:07 YEAR BUT WHEN I HEARD IT I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.
20:47:10 I'D LIKE MAKE A MOTION TO PRESENTATION OF COMMENDATION TO
20:47:12 THE CITY OF TAMPA DEPARTMENT OF SOLID WASTE ENVIRONMENTAL
20:47:15 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT RECOGNIZING THE 2019 GARBAGE MAN AND
20:47:18 WOMAN OF THE YEAR COMMENDATION PRESENTED ON JUNE 20, 2019.
20:47:25 >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE A WONDERFUL MOTION BY COUNCILMAN
20:47:27 MIRANDA WITH A SECOND BY MANISCALCO.
20:47:30 ALL IN FAVOR, ANY OPPOSED? ANYTHING FURTHER, SIR?
20:47:34 OKAY.
20:47:36 COUNCILMAN CITRO?
20:47:38 THANK YOU.
20:47:39 COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO, ANYTHING, SIR?
20:47:41 >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE MOTHER'S DAY THIS WEEKEND.
20:47:43 HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO THE MOTHERS FROM ALL OF US HERE ON THE
20:47:48 CITY COUNCIL.
20:47:48 ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND.
20:47:49 THANK YOU.
20:47:50 >>LUIS VIERA: BUILDING ON THAT, I WANT TO HOLD OUT WHAT I
20:47:53 CALL A -- SALUTE TO COUNCILMAN CITRO WHO I BELIEVE SENT
20:47:58 FLOWERS TO THE PEOPLE WHO WORK IN THE OFFICE WHO ARE
20:48:01 MOTHERS, IS THAT CORRECT?
20:48:03 VERY NICE.
20:48:05 >> ALL THE LADIES THAT HAVE CHILDREN I WANT TO WISH THEM A
20:48:07 SPECIAL MOTHER'S DAY.
20:48:10 >>LUIS VIERA: THAT MEANS TO YOU GENTLEMEN.
20:48:13 ANYTHING FURTHER.
20:48:18 THANK YOU, SIR.
20:48:20 COUNCILMAN GUDES.
20:48:22 >>ORLANDO GUDES: A MOTION TO PRESENT COMMENDATION TO JAMES
20:48:25 HAMMOND, CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER WHO PASSED AWAY ON WEDNESDAY,
20:48:28 MAY 3RD, 2019.
20:48:29 I WILL PRESENT THE COMMENDATION ON SATURDAY MAY 11, 2019.
20:48:34 >>LUIS VIERA: A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN GUDES AND SECOND BY
20:48:39 MANISCALCO.
20:48:42 ALL IN FAVOR, ALL OPPOSED?
20:48:44 ANYTHING FURTHER?
20:48:45 COUNCILMAN DINGFELDER.
20:48:47 >> I HAD NOT HEARD THAT MR. HAMMOND.
20:48:47 I'M SORRY TO HEAR THAT.
20:48:47 HE WAS A FINE MAN AND GREAT LEADER.
20:48:50 NOTHING ELSE.
20:48:50 THANK YOU.
20:48:52 >>LUIS VIERA: I WILL PASS THE GAVEL -- DID YOU HAVE
20:48:56 ANYTHING?
20:49:00 >> I MOVE COUNCIL BE REQUESTED TO PREPARE A COMMENDATION FOR
20:49:04 MICHAEL ERYAN E-R-Y-A-N WHO IS OBTAINED THE RANK OF EAGLE
20:49:08 SCOUT ON JUNE 20, 2019 UNDER CEREMONIAL ACTIVITIES.
20:49:16 >> A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA A SECOND -- ALL IN FAVOR.
20:49:16 AND FOR NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS SOMETHING I LIKE IS WHEN SOMEONE
20:49:24 GETS EAGLE SCOUT TO GIVE COMMENDATION BECAUSE THAT'S A BIG
20:49:28 DEAL.
20:49:29 THAT'S IN THE NAVY S.E.A.L.S OF SCOUTING.
20:49:32 SECOND, THE ORGANIZATION CARRY THE LOAD REQUESTS A
20:49:33 COMMENDATION BE PREPARED FOR THEIR NONPROFIT WALK.
20:49:36 CARRY THE LOAD IS AN ORGANIZATION THAT PROVIDES AN ACTIVE
20:49:39 WAY TO HONOR AND CELEBRATE OUR NATION'S HEROS AND FIRST
20:49:42 RESPONDERS WITH REGARD TO ISSUES INVOLVING PTSD.
20:49:45 IT IS DONE ON MAY 18, 2019.
20:49:52 >> WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN VIERA AND A SECOND BY
20:49:52 COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
20:49:52 ALL IN FAVOR?
20:49:54 >> AND THEN LASTLY, PURSUANT TO A REQUEST FOR THE CITY
20:49:57 ATTORNEY'S OFFICE I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO SCHEDULE AN
20:50:01 ITEM ON THE JUNE 27, 2019 AGENDA TO CONSIDER A PROPOSED
20:50:02 SETTLEMENT IN THE MATTER OF REZ-18-83 REZONING FOR
20:50:08 PROPERTY LOCATED AT 101, 105, 109, 111 NORTH MERIDIAN AVENUE
20:50:08 AND 102 AND 106 NORTH 11TH STREET, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
20:50:11 PLEASE GIVE THIS MOTION ATTACHMENT TO THE CLERK.
20:50:17 JUST KIDDING.
20:50:19 >> MOTION FOR COUNCILMAN VIERA.
20:50:24 SECOND BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
20:50:25 ALL IN FAVOR.
20:50:28 >>LUIS VIERA: NOTHING FURTHER.
20:50:30 >> YOU INSPIRED ME TO GIVE A SHOUT-OUT TO MY FAVORITE EAGLE
20:50:34 SCOUT WHICH IS MY FATHER, SIMON.
20:50:37 HE WAS 89 YEARS OLD.
20:50:37 WHEN I WENT TO THE EAGLE CEREMONIES MY DAD ALWAYS CAME WITH
20:50:41 ME AND HE ALWAYS GOT THE BIG APPLAUSE.
20:50:44 THE OLDEST EAGLE SCOUT IN THE ROOM.
20:50:47 I WOULD SAY DAD YOU USED TO BE AN EAGLE SCOUT AND HE SAID
20:50:49 ONCE AN EAGLE SCOUT ALWAYS AN EAGLE SCOUT.
20:50:52 >> IT IS A GREAT HONOR.
20:50:53 IT REALLY IS.
20:50:54 THE FOLKS THAT DO IT WORK HARD AND DESERVE THAT
20:50:57 COMMENDATION.
20:50:57 >> A SHOUT-OUT TO SIMON LEROY DINGFELDER.
20:51:02 >> THANK YOU.
20:51:03 DO WE HAVE A MOTION?
20:51:06 >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO AND A SECOND
20:51:06 BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
20:51:06 ALL IN FAVOR.
20:51:09 >> AYE.
20:51:10 >>MARTIN SHELBY: COULD YOU STATE WE ARE ADJOURNED?
20:51:17 >>LUIS VIERA: WE ARE ADJOURNED.
20:51:20
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