TAMPA CITY COUNCIL
THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2023, 5:01 P.M.
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05:07:42PM [GAVEL SOUNDING]
05:07:58PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GOOD AFTERNOON, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL
05:08:00PM THIS TAMPA CITY COUNCIL MEETING TO ORDER.
05:08:03PM IF WE CAN HAVE ROLL CALL PLEASE.
05:08:05PM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
05:08:08PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE.
05:08:09PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PRESENT.
05:08:12PM >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
05:08:13PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
05:08:14PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
05:08:15PM >>CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
05:08:18PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: TO BEGIN, I HAVE A MEMO FROM
05:08:22PM COUNCILMEMBER CARLSON'S OFFICE.
05:08:23PM HE WILL NOT BE PRESENT FOR TONIGHT'S HEARING.
05:08:27PM WE RECEIVED AND FILED THAT MEMO.
05:08:28PM DO I NEED TO DO IT AGAIN.
05:08:31PM A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
05:08:35PM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
05:08:37PM MISS DOCK, WE HAVE SOME HOUSE CLEANING TO DO.
05:08:41PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL.
05:08:43PM LaCHONE DOCK, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
05:08:45PM IF I MAY CLEAR THE AGENDA FOR THIS EVENING.
05:08:47PM ITEM NUMBER 1, TA/CPA 22 -28.
05:08:52PM THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A CONTINUANCE OF THIS ITEM TO
05:08:55PM JULY 20, 2023.
05:08:57PM 5:01 P.M.
05:09:00PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A -- YES, MR. SHELBY?
05:09:03PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE HERE WHO NEEDS TO
05:09:05PM SPEAK TO THAT CONTINUANCE.
05:09:07PM IF YOU CAN SO INQUIRE.
05:09:08PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON THE
05:09:10PM CONTINUANCE OF ITEM NUMBER ONE?
05:09:13PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: AGAIN, THAT DATE AND TIME, PLEASE.
05:09:16PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: JULY 20, 2023, AT 5:01 P.M.
05:09:20PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON THE CONTINUANCE
05:09:23PM ONLY?
05:09:23PM HEARING NONE, MAY I HAVE A MOTION -- WE HAVE A MOTION FROM
05:09:27PM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
05:09:28PM SECONDED BE COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
05:09:30PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
05:09:32PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF I CAN, MARTIN SHELBY, CITY COUNCIL
05:09:35PM ATTORNEY.
05:09:35PM FOR THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THAT, THAT IS THE ONLY
05:09:38PM NOTICE YOU WILL BE RECEIVING OF THAT DATE AGAIN, JULY 20,
05:09:42PM 2023, 5:01 P.M.
05:09:44PM THANK YOU.
05:09:45PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
05:09:46PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
05:09:49PM THE NEXT ITEM TO BE CLEARED FROM THE AGENDA ITEM
05:09:55PM 2, REZ-22-76.
05:09:56PM THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A CONTINUANCE OF THIS ITEM TO
05:09:58PM AUGUST 17.
05:10:01PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE THE APPLICANT HERE IF THE
05:10:03PM APPLICANT WISHES TO SAY ANYTHING.
05:10:05PM >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL.
05:10:07PM WE NEED TIME TO REVIEW AND REVISE OUR SITE PLAN.
05:10:10PM AND IT ALSO REQUIRES AN ADDITIONAL DRC WITH CITY STAFF.
05:10:15PM THE CITY STAFF HAS GIVEN US A DATE -- AN ESTIMATED DATE OF
05:10:19PM AUGUST 17 SO WE CAN GO BACK.
05:10:20PM HAVE THE DRC MAKE THE CORRECTIONS AND THEN BRINGS IT BACK TO
05:10:24PM COUNCIL.
05:10:24PM WE ALSO WOULD NEED FOR TO YOU WAIVE THE 180-DAY TIME LIMIT
05:10:29PM THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PETITION.
05:10:32PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
05:10:38PM ANY COMMENTS?
05:10:40PM I HEAR AND SEE NONE.
05:10:41PM ITEM NUMBER 2.
05:10:42PM THIS IS FOR THE CONTINUANCE ONLY.
05:10:44PM NO, NON -- IF YOU ARE GOING TO SPEAK -- WELL --
05:10:47PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THIS ONE SHOULD BE OPEN, MR. CHAIRMAN.
05:10:50PM THEY ALL SHOULD BE OPENED.
05:10:52PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MAKE A MOTION TO OPEN ITEM 1 TO 8.
05:10:57PM MOTION AND IS SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
05:11:00PM ALL IN FAVOR.
05:11:02PM SINCE THIS IS QUASI-JUDICIAL.
05:11:06PM RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND FOR THOSE WHO ARE GOING TO SPEAK.
05:11:08PM WE WILL SWEAR YOU IN.
05:11:11PM [SWEARING IN]
05:11:13PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY WHO WILL -- WE WILL DO THIS A
05:11:16PM FEW TIMES BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE.
05:11:17PM PLEASE STAND AND RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND.
05:11:20PM YES.
05:11:21PM [SWEARING IN]
05:11:34PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
05:11:34PM FIRST SPEAKER FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
05:11:37PM >> DO YOU NEED FOR ME TO RESTATE THE REQUEST?
05:11:40PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: AFTER PUBLIC COMMENT.
05:11:42PM YES, MA'AM.
05:11:43PM >> GOOD EVENING, CITY COUNCIL.
05:11:53PM I AM SANDY DIEGO SANCHEZ, AND I AM THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE
05:11:58PM ARMORY GARDENS CIVIC ASSOCIATION AND THIS PROPOSED BUILDING
05:12:01PM IS WITHIN THE ARMORY GARDENS DISTRICT.
05:12:04PM I HAVE TO SAY THAT I AM PERPLEXED.
05:12:06PM HOW CAN THIS AGENT CONTINUALLY BE ALLOWED TO DELAY HEARINGS.
05:12:11PM I UNDERSTAND A DELAY FOR MEDICAL REASONS, BUT I DO NOT
05:12:16PM UNDERSTAND A DELAY WHEN THE AGENT AND THE OTHER PEOPLE IN
05:12:19PM HIS FIRM ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT IS GOING ON WITHIN
05:12:22PM THIS FILE.
05:12:23PM THERE ARE THREE CERTIFIED AGENTS ASSIGNED TO THIS PROPERTY,
05:12:28PM TO THIS REZONING.
05:12:29PM THE FIRM DISRESPECTS THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THEY DISRESPECT
05:12:33PM THE NEIGHBORHOODS, NOT JUST ARMORY GARDENS.
05:12:38PM CITY STAFF HAS PUT MORE THAN 100 HOURS BETWEEN HIS FIRST
05:12:41PM DESIGN, THE SECOND DESIGN, THE ONE THAT IS BEFORE YOU NOW,
05:12:45PM AND NOW HE IS GOING TO GO FOR A THIRD DESIGN.
05:12:47PM HOW MUCH MONEY HAS HE CAUSED THE LAND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
05:12:52PM TO SPEND USELESSLY BECAUSE HIS FIRM IS NOT PAYING ATTENTION.
05:12:56PM THE AGENT AND HIS PARTNERS HAVE BEEN IN BUSINESS FOR
05:13:00PM DECADES.
05:13:01PM THEY KNOW ABOUT THE WAIVERS THAT ARE REQUIRED.
05:13:04PM THEY KNOW OF THE INCONSISTENT ISSUES EARLY ON.
05:13:08PM THE CITY STAFF MARKS THEM IN RED ON THE SITE PLANS.
05:13:13PM THERE ARE ISSUES WITHIN THE FILE THAT SHOWS IF THERE IS AN
05:13:16PM ISSUE WITH WASTE MANAGEMENT, TRANSPORTATION OR ANY OTHER
05:13:19PM ISSUES.
05:13:20PM THEY ARE IN DIFFERENT MEMOS, BUT ON THE SITE PLAN
05:13:24PM THROUGHOUT ACELA THE WHOLE TIME.
05:13:26PM IF I HAVEN'T RUN INTO SOMEONE AT THE GROCERY STORE YESTERDAY
05:13:29PM AFTERNOON, I WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THIS CONTINUANCE.
05:13:34PM I HAD TO STOP 14 PEOPLE FROM COMING DOWN HERE.
05:13:37PM THAT WAS THE POTENTIAL OF BEING MAYBE SEVEN PARKING TICKETS
05:13:41PM THAT NEEDED TO BE PAID.
05:13:42PM I PUT OUT $150 JUST FOR COLOR PRINTS TO DO THIS
05:13:47PM PRESENTATION.
05:13:51PM BESIDES A WASTE OF OUR TIME, WE WOULD HAVE INCURRED ALL
05:13:55PM THESE EXPENSES AND NOT THE MONEY BUT THE INCONVENIENCE
05:14:00PM AND THE DISRESPECT FROM THIS AGENT.
05:14:01PM MAYBE IF THE AGENT WAS REQUIRED TO PAY BACK THE SALARY
05:14:04PM EXPENSES THE CITY HAS INCURRED ON THIS PROJECT AND THE
05:14:08PM COMMUNITY EXPENSES, HE MIGHT BE MORE ALERT.
05:14:10PM HIS BUSINESS AND SET FOR SOMEONE ELSE'S MONEY MAY HELP HIM
05:14:18PM UNDERSTAND THE INCONVENIENCE.
05:14:20PM WHAT IF HE HAD TO REIMBURSE THE 25 TO 50 PEOPLE WHO CAME IN
05:14:24PM FOR SOMETHING ELSE.
05:14:25PM THE FACT IS HE HAS THE AUDACITY TO REQUEST THE 180-DAY
05:14:29PM RESTRICTION WAIVER SHOWS HIS ATTITUDE OF ENTITLEMENT.
05:14:33PM HE CONTINUES TO DISRESPECT THIS COUNCIL.
05:14:36PM PLEASE DO NOT WAIVE THIS PENALTY.
05:14:39PM IF THE AGENT DOESN'T LIKE THE PENALTY, LET HIM WITHDRAW AND
05:14:43PM COME BACK IN 180 DAYS.
05:14:44PM THANK YOU.
05:14:45PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
05:14:46PM NEXT SPEAKER.
05:14:46PM [APPLAUSE]
05:14:52PM YES, MA'AM, GO AHEAD.
05:14:53PM >> HEY, GOOD EVENING.
05:14:55PM MY NAME IS STEPHANIE POYNOR.
05:14:58PM I CONCUR WITH SANDY.
05:15:00PM I AM A LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT THIS.
05:15:02PM BECAUSE AT LEAST A YEAR AGO -- I NEED TO GO BACK AND FIND
05:15:05PM IT, CARROLL ANN BENNETT ASKED FOR CITY COUNCIL --
05:15:09PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE CAN'T SEE IT ON THE MONITOR.
05:15:11PM >> PLEASE, PLEASE SHOW IT.
05:15:13PM THIS IS IN THE LAST -- WHAT, FOUR OR FIVE MONTHS, THE --
05:15:17PM EIGHT CONTINUANCES, ONE MISNOTICE FROM SOMEBODY WHO HAS BEEN
05:15:21PM DOING THIS MOST OF MY LIFE, SINCE I WAS AN ADULT.
05:15:24PM BUT I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT ABOUT A YEAR AGO, MAYBE
05:15:30PM EVEN MORE, CARROLL ANN BENNETT CALLED IN AND SAID I WOULD
05:15:33PM LIKE TO SEE US SEE A 72-HOUR CONTINUANCE REQUEST.
05:15:36PM AND ABBYE FEELEY AND RYAN MANASSE WAS STILL WORK THERE THEN.
05:15:43PM THAT IS KIND OF AN INDICATOR.
05:15:45PM THEY CAME UP AND SAID WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT BE A WEEK.
05:15:48PM I HAVE TO AGREE.
05:15:49PM IF WE ARE LAST-MINUTE LUCYS ON EVERYTHING AND EVERY TIME WE
05:15:57PM HAVE -- WE ASK FOR A CONTINUANCE, I MEAN, REALLY, THAT --
05:16:01PM ARE WE SUPPOSED TO NEVER HAVE A LIFE.
05:16:03PM MONEY BEING PAID ON THAT END, BUT OUR STAFF HAVE -- A STAFF
05:16:12PM REPORT.
05:16:13PM THEY PREPARED A STAFF REPORT.
05:16:14PM EVERYBODY'S TIME HAS BEEN WASTED OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
05:16:19PM THANK YOU.
05:16:20PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
05:16:21PM [APPLAUSE]
05:16:23PM [GAVEL SOUNDING]
05:16:29PM ANYBODY ELSE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT?
05:16:32PM ALL RIGHT, SIR, DO YOU HAVE ANY REBUTTAL OR RESPONSE BEFORE
05:16:35PM WE MAKE A MOTION?
05:16:38PM >> COUNCIL, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, WE WERE WORKING WITH THE
05:16:41PM STAFF UP UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE.
05:16:43PM AND IT WAS STAFF WHO DETERMINED WE COULD NOT GO FORWARD
05:16:46PM BECAUSE THE CHANGES COULD NOT BE MADE BETWEEN FIRST AND
05:16:49PM SECOND READING WITHOUT GOING BACK TO DRC.
05:16:52PM AND WE WERE ONLY ADVISED OF THAT THIS WEEK, AND I FILED A
05:16:58PM LETTER OF REQUEST FOR A CONTINUANCE.
05:17:00PM AS SOON AS WE KNEW, WE FILED THE REQUEST, AND I RESPECTFULLY
05:17:04PM REQUESTED THAT WE BE RESET.
05:17:06PM AND THE STAFF IS THE ONE THAT GAVE US A DATE AND SAID IT WAS
05:17:10PM AUGUST 17.
05:17:11PM AND THAT WE HAD TO WAIVE THE 180 DAYS.
05:17:17PM I RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT YOU PROVIDE THAT OPPORTUNITY FOR
05:17:21PM US.
05:17:21PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
05:17:23PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MISS DOCK, CAN YOU TALK TO US ABOUT THAT?
05:17:26PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: YES, THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
05:17:28PM LaCHONE DOCK, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
05:17:31PM SO THIS ITEM WAS SET FOR, OF COURSE, HEARING TODAY.
05:17:34PM THE APPLICANT CONTACTED ME LAST WEEK AND STATED THAT THEY
05:17:38PM WANT TO MAKE CERTAIN CHANGES TO THE SITE PLAN TO ADDRESS
05:17:42PM CERTAIN OVERLAY REQUIREMENTS.
05:17:43PM THE CHANGES THAT WERE DESIRED TO BE MADE COULD NOT BE MADE
05:17:47PM BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND READING.
05:17:49PM AND THAT WAS EXPRESSED TO THE APPLICANT.
05:17:52PM THE APPLICANT AT THAT TIME DECIDED THEY WOULD REQUEST THE
05:17:55PM CONTINUANCE.
05:17:56PM SO THAT WAY THE CHANGES WILL REQUIRE ANOTHER DRC.
05:18:01PM THE CHANGES TO BE MADE.
05:18:02PM SO IT WAS AT THAT TIME THAT THE APPLICANT DECIDED TO REQUEST
05:18:06PM A CONTINUANCE.
05:18:07PM SO EITHER THE CASE WOULD MOVE FORWARD THE WAY IT IS
05:18:10PM PRESENTED WITH THE REPORT THAT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU, OR THE
05:18:14PM APPLICANT REQUESTS A CONTINUANCE TO GO TO DRC AGAIN.
05:18:19PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
05:18:20PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: EVERYBODY READY.
05:18:23PM MR. MICHELINI.
05:18:25PM >> NO, THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
05:18:30PM WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THE STAFF.
05:18:32PM AND JUST REALIZED THAT WE COULDN'T MAKE THE CHANGES BETWEEN
05:18:36PM FIRST AND SECOND READING.
05:18:38PM IT WASN'T A LAST-MINUTE THING.
05:18:40PM WE TRIED TO MAKE THE CHANGES AND WE WERE TOLD WE COULDN'T
05:18:43PM MAKE IT UNTIL WE GO BACK TO THE CITY DRC.
05:18:46PM WE RESPECTFULLY REQUEST YOUR INDULGENCE ON THIS ONE.
05:18:51PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WHAT IS THE PLEASURE OF COUNCIL?
05:18:55PM >>LUIS VIERA: JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY AND IF YOU INDULGE ME IN
05:18:59PM THIS REGARD, HOW MANY FOLKS CAME HERE SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS
05:19:03PM ITEM, NUMBER 2, BY RAISE OF HANDS.
05:19:06PM >> EXCUSE ME, BUT THE 14 PEOPLE, I CALLED THEM OFF.
05:19:10PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MISS SANCHEZ, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE
05:19:14PM SURE THAT PEOPLE WEREN'T HERE WHO -- WHO DIDN'T FIND OUT
05:19:19PM ABOUT THE CONTINUANCE AND THANK YOU FOR THAT.
05:19:21PM I APPRECIATE THAT.
05:19:22PM NO, JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY.
05:19:25PM THANK YOU.
05:19:25PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN.
05:19:29PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MISS DOCK, IF THIS MOTION FAILED AND THE
05:19:33PM CHANGES DIDN'T BE MADE BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND READING,
05:19:38PM WHAT IS THE APPLICANT'S OPTION?
05:19:40PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: LaCHONE DOCK, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
05:19:42PM THE APPLICATION COULD CAN BE HEARD TONIGHT IF IT IS THE
05:19:45PM DECISION OF COUNCIL.
05:19:50PM IT WILL BE PRESENTED AS THE SITE PLAN IN THE STAFF REPORT
05:19:54PM PROVIDED TO YOU.
05:19:55PM OR IT WILL -- LET ME STEP BACK A MOMENT.
05:19:58PM IF IT IS HEARD TONIGHT THE WAY IT IS PRESENTED AND APPLICANT
05:20:03PM WANTS TO MAKE THE CHANGES, WE WILL COME BACK TO FIRST
05:20:06PM READING.
05:20:06PM WE WILL HEAR THE CASE TONIGHT INSTEAD OF THE NEXT CASE BEING
05:20:09PM THE SECOND READING AND WILL BECOME THE FIRST READING AGAIN
05:20:11PM AND THEN HAVE THE SECOND READING.
05:20:13PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY ELSE?
05:20:16PM THANK YOU.
05:20:16PM WHAT THE PLEASURE OF COUNCIL?
05:20:20PM IS THERE A MOTION?
05:20:22PM MOTION TO GRANT THE CONTINUANCE OR NOT?
05:20:27PM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY ASK A QUESTION TO MR. SHELBY, WHAT
05:20:32PM ARE THE LEGAL STANDARDS FOR PURPOSES OF THE PUBLIC AND
05:20:35PM OURSELVES THAT ARE DEALING WITH HERE -- EXCUSE ME -- OF
05:20:40PM EQUITY TO THE APPLICANT VERSUS THOSE INDIVIDUALS SPOKEN.
05:20:43PM THE LEGAL STANDARDS IF THEY GO FORWARD AND SOMEHOW THEY
05:20:47PM SUFFER ALLEGEDLY PREJUDICE.
05:20:49PM IF YOU CAN ADVISE US OF THAT.
05:20:51PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: CLEARLY YOU HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT THE
05:20:54PM APPLICANT WISHES TO MAKE CHANGES.
05:20:56PM AT SOME POINT IN TIME WHAT YOU ARE HEARING IS NOT, IN
05:21:00PM EFFECT, WHAT YOU ARE HEARING IS SOMETHING THAT WILL BE
05:21:02PM ULTIMATELY BE AFFECTED BY THE APPLICANT.
05:21:06PM AND THAT WILL AFFECT THE HEARING.
05:21:08PM IF YOU HEAR IT TONIGHT, WHAT YOU WILL BE HEARING IS NOT WHAT
05:21:13PM WILL BE COMING AND YOU HAVE ALREADY BEEN TOLD THAT.
05:21:15PM THE OTHER THING -- THE ONLY OTHER OPTION AND MISS DOCK
05:21:19PM DIDN'T MENTION IT IS RATHER THAN GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS,
05:21:22PM THE OTHER OPTION IS TO WITHDRAW IT AND DELAYS THINGS AND
05:21:26PM REQUIRES AN ADDITIONAL FILING FEE.
05:21:28PM AND WHAT THIS DOES, IT ALLOWS THEM TO GO THROUGH THE DESIGN
05:21:32PM REVIEW.
05:21:33PM THIS IS SOMETHING IF COUNCIL WISHES FROM A POLICY
05:21:35PM PERSPECTIVE, WE DISCUSS IT AT A LATER DATE.
05:21:38PM NOT APPROPRIATE AT THIS TIME, BUT OBVIOUSLY MY
05:21:41PM RECOMMENDATION CLEARLY IS YOU WOULD NOT BE HEARING THE CASE.
05:21:44PM IT WOULD ULTIMATELY BE COMING BACK AGAIN IN SOME FORM AND
05:21:48PM FASHION.
05:21:48PM I WOULD RECOMMEND -- BELIEVE THIS IS THE FIRST
05:21:51PM CONTINUANCE, IS THAT CORRECT, MR. MICHELINI?
05:21:55PM MISS DOCK?
05:21:57PM >> ONE OF THE THINGS -- LET ME ADD THIS.
05:21:59PM WE DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE A FIRST READING, MAKE CHANGES AND
05:22:04PM THEN COME BACK FOR A THIRD HEARING.
05:22:07PM TRYING TO SAVE THREE HEARINGS INSTEAD OF TWO.
05:22:11PM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY, MR. CHAIR.
05:22:13PM AND I ASK THAT, AGAIN, OF MR. SHELBY BECAUSE I ALWAYS IN
05:22:17PM THESE SITUATIONS -- BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND SENTIMENTS
05:22:20PM EXPRESSED.
05:22:20PM THINGS LIKE THAT.
05:22:21PM I AM VERY UNDERSTANDING OF THAT, ETC.
05:22:23PM BUT I ALWAYS LIKE TO GO WITH THE -- WITH THE OBJECTIVE
05:22:28PM STANDARDS WE HAVE SET BY OUR COUNSEL AND WHAT NOT.
05:22:30PM THANK YOU.
05:22:31PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: ALSO ONE OTHER THING, MR. CHAIRMAN.
05:22:33PM COUNCIL RECENTLY CHANGED ITS RULES TO ALLOW FOR AUTOMATIC
05:22:37PM CONTINUANCE FOR F FIRST READING AND PRESUPPOSES THAT THE
05:22:41PM GET THE INFORMATION IN TIME TO HAVE THAT DECISION MADE TO
05:22:45PM PRESENT IT TO COUNCIL AND GRANTED AS A MATTER OF RIGHT TO
05:22:51PM MEET THAT DEADLINE FOR FUTURE REFERENCE.
05:22:53PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION.
05:22:57PM >>LUIS VIERA: I WILL MAKE THE MOTION.
05:22:59PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DO WE HAVE A SECOND?
05:23:02PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
05:23:02PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE WILL GET TO THAT.
05:23:05PM AUGUST 17 AT 5:01 P.M.
05:23:08PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: AGAIN ,TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, I AM SORRY,
05:23:11PM MR. CHAIRMAN, THAT IS THE NOTICE THAT YOU WILL BE RECEIVING
05:23:13PM -- ACTUALLY THAT IS -- NO, THAT BEING AUGUST, IT IS ABOUT
05:23:17PM THREE MONTHS AWAY.
05:23:18PM UNLESS COUNCIL SEE AS REASON TO -- TO RENOTICE IT TO INCUR
05:23:23PM THE COST AND TIME OF RENOTICING, THIS WILL BE THE NOTICE AT
05:23:26PM THIS TIME THAT THE PUBLIC WILL RECEIVE FOR THE DATE AND TIME
05:23:29PM OF THE CONTINUANCE.
05:23:29PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
05:23:34PM >>LYNN HURTAK: SEE THAT IS THE PART I AM NOT OKAY WITH.
05:23:37PM NOT RENOTICING.
05:23:39PM BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE THE PUBLIC REALLY SHOULD BE -- SHOULD
05:23:46PM GET MORE NOTICE.
05:23:46PM SO I -- [GAVEL SOUNDING]
05:23:53PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CAN WE STOP WASTING SO MUCH TIME ON
05:23:56PM CONTINUANCES.
05:23:56PM WE HAVE A VERY BUSY NIGHT.
05:23:58PM >>LUIS VIERA: MAY I, IF I MAY, MR. CHAIRMAN.
05:24:01PM WITH -- I AM SORRY, I, IN EFFECT, INTERRUPTED YOU.
05:24:07PM GO AHEAD.
05:24:08PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WOULD LIKE TO ADD AND AMEND TO SAY YES, WE
05:24:12PM WILL CONTINUE; HOWEVER, ASK FOR THE APPLICANT TO RENOTICE.
05:24:16PM >> WE HAVE NO OBJECTION.
05:24:19PM >>LYNN HURTAK: EXCELLENT.
05:24:20PM >>LUIS VIERA: INCORPORATED 100%.
05:24:25PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MR. SHELBY.
05:24:26PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: AS PART OF THE MOTION PLEASE INCLUDE THE
05:24:29PM WAIVER OF THE 180-DAY NOTICE.
05:24:34PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: MR. MICHELINI.
05:24:37PM >> WE DIDN'T EXPECT THE DATE TO BE SO FAR OFF BUT WHY YOU
05:24:42PM ARE OTHER AGENDAS ARE FULL.
05:24:43PM NOT THAT WHICH WERE TRYING TO PUSH IT SO FAR OUT.
05:24:47PM WE HAVE NO OBJECTION WHATSOEVER OF RENOTICING.
05:24:50PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA TO
05:24:52PM CONTINUE THIS UNTIL AUGUST 17 AT 5:01 P.M. WITH THE 180-DAY
05:24:57PM WAIVER AND THAT THE APPLICANT WILL BE RENOTICING.
05:24:59PM DO WE HAVE A SECOND?
05:25:02PM WE HAVE A SECOND FROM COUNCILMEMBER CLENDENIN.
05:25:05PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
05:25:07PM OPPOSED?
05:25:08PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
05:25:08PM >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
05:25:09PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ITEM NUMBER 8.
05:25:15PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: ITEM NUMBER 8, REZ 23-13.
05:25:21PM A MISNOTICE AND REMOVE FROM THE AGENDA.
05:25:25PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION TO REMOVE THE ITEM NUMBER 8
05:25:28PM FROM THE AGENDA.
05:25:28PM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
05:25:30PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
05:25:31PM OPPOSED?
05:25:32PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
05:25:33PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
05:25:41PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MIGHT I UNDERSTAND INSTEAD OF CLAPPING,
05:25:44PM PEOPLE USING OF SNAPPING DOES NOT INTERRUPT AS MUCH.
05:25:47PM GREATLY APPRECIATED.
05:25:48PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
05:25:51PM ITEM NUMBER 3.
05:25:57PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: LaCHONE DOCK, LAND DEVELOPMENT.
05:26:00PM OH, SORRY --
05:26:02PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: AT THE OUTSET OF TONIGHT'S MEETING --
05:26:06PM HEARINGS, I'M SORRY, TO REMIND YOU OF THE REQUIREMENT TO
05:26:09PM DISCLOSE ANY EX-PARTE COMMUNICATION BEFORE THE START OF EACH
05:26:13PM HEARING.
05:26:13PM AND THEN -- AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR
05:26:18PM ALL PARTIES TO KNOW ABOUT THAT DURING THE COURSE OF THE
05:26:21PM HEARING AND RESPOND TO IT IF NECESSARY.
05:26:23PM SO I WILL ASK THAT YOU DO THAT.
05:26:25PM AND ALSO AT THIS TIME TO RECEIVE AND FILE ALL WRITTEN
05:26:29PM COMMUNICATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC
05:26:31PM INSPECTION TO BE ENTERED INTO THE RECORD, RECEIVED AND FILED
05:26:35PM AT THIS TIME.
MA MINNESOTA MANISCALCO A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND
05:26:37PM FILE ALL WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS?
05:26:40PM MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
05:26:42PM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
05:26:44PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
05:26:45PM OPPOSED?
05:26:46PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
05:26:47PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: ITEM NUMBER THAT WE ARE ABOUT TO HEAR, ANY
05:26:50PM DISCLOSURE FOR EX-PARTE COMMUNICATION, PLEASE DISCLOSE THEM
05:26:54PM NOW.
05:26:55PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY EX-PARTE COMMUNICATION, COUNCILMAN
05:26:57PM VIERA.
05:26:58PM >>LUIS VIERA: YESTERDAY EVENING, I RECEIVED A TEXT THAT THAT
05:27:01PM I IMMEDIATELY TURNED TO EVERY BY A GENTLEMAN BY THE NAME OF
05:27:04PM DAVID BERMAN WHICH IS A VERY NICE GENTLEMAN ON THIS ITEM.
05:27:08PM I SENT IT ON OVER AND IT HAS BEEN DISCLOSED.
05:27:11PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: DO YOU WANT TO SAY WHAT THE SUM AND
05:27:15PM SUBSTANCE OF THAT.
05:27:16PM >>LUIS VIERA: AS I RECALL -- I WAS AT A CONCERT LATE LAST
05:27:19PM NIGHT.
05:27:19PM SO -- AND IT WAS ENCOURAGING ME TO SUPPORT IT.
05:27:23PM I RESPONDED THAT I CANNOT ENGAGE WITH YOU AS THIS IS A QUASI
05:27:28PM JUDICIAL MATTER.
05:27:29PM I YOU WELL AND SENDING IT OVER TO THE CITY.
05:27:32PM ONE LAST THING AND I TONIGHT WANT TO BE TOO CAUTIOUS SO TO
05:27:36PM SPEAK AND NUMBER ONE, I BELIEVE MISS MANDELL WILL BE THE
05:27:40PM COUNSEL FOR THE APPLICANT.
05:27:41PM SHE IS MY COUNSEL ON THE HART BOARD, JUST FOR PURPOSES OF
05:27:44PM THE PUBLIC.
05:27:44PM AND I SEE CLICK BERG WHO USED TO BE MY LEGISLATIVE AIDE.
05:27:50PM I DON'T THINK THAT IS A CONFLICT BUT THE SPIRIT OF OPENNESS.
05:27:54PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: FOR PURPOSES OF THE RECORD, WITH THAT BEING
05:27:57PM DISCLOSED.
05:27:58PM WILL YOU BE FAIR AND IMPARTIAL AND BASE THE EVIDENCE ON WHAT
05:28:03PM IS IN THE RECORD.
05:28:04PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
05:28:06PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYTHING ELSE.
05:28:07PM COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN.
05:28:09PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SEVERAL DISCLOSURES.
05:28:11PM I HAVE SEVERAL CLOSE PERSONAL ACQUAINTANCES PARTS OF THE
05:28:15PM HEARING AND THEY WILL BE TESTIFYING THIS EVENING.
05:28:17PM TWO ARE NEIGHBORS OF MINE.
05:28:19PM AND COMING OUT OF A HOTLY CONTESTED CAMPAIGN, I WAS -- ON
05:28:24PM BOTH SIDES OF THIS ISSUE I HAD MANY SUPPORTERS ON BOTH SIDES
05:28:27PM OF THE ISSUES THAT WE HAD DISCUSSIONS IN THE PAST PRIOR TO
05:28:30PM BEING ELECTED TO CITY COUNCIL.
05:28:31PM AND TOURING THE CAMPAIGN, I ATTENDED A MEETING AT THE GARDEN
05:28:35PM CLUB WHERE THIS WAS A ISSUE OF THAT MEETING.
05:28:38PM AND YES I CAN STAY FAIR AND IMPARTIAL DURING THE COURSE OF
05:28:42PM THIS MEETING.
05:28:43PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, SIR, COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
05:28:44PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
05:28:46PM IN MY CASE, I TOLD MY AIDE SOME TIME BACK IF YOU SEE A NAME
05:28:51PM THAT YOU THINK WILL A BEFORE ME AND THEY WANT TO MEET WITH
05:28:54PM ME -- I HAD SOME REQUESTS IN THE PAST.
05:28:56PM I TOLD THEM I DON'T MEET WITH NO ONE WHO HAS ANYTHING
05:29:01PM COMING.
05:29:02PM I DON'T WANT TO RAISE MY RIGHT HAND AND SAY SOMETHING.
05:29:05PM SOME ARE HERE NOW.
05:29:06PM AND SOME MAY NOT BE HERE.
05:29:07PM BUT MOST OF THE OTHER PRESENTERS AND SOME OF THE NEIGHBORS.
05:29:11PM SO I DON'T MEET WITH YOU ON ANYTHING THAT IS COMING UP, EVEN
05:29:14PM BEFORE IT IS FILED.
05:29:15PM SO GET THAT KNOWN THAT I WILL NOT MEET WITH EVERYONE ONE
05:29:20PM SIDE OR THE OTHER SIDE.
05:29:21PM I ALREADY SAID THAT TO THE AIDE.
05:29:23PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
05:29:25PM THAT TAKES CARE OF ALL HAND RAISING AND THE CONFESSIONS THAT
05:29:28PM ARE NOT NEEDED AT TIMES.
05:29:29PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY ELSE?
05:29:31PM NO?
05:29:32PM ALL RIGHT.
05:29:32PM DO WE NEED A MOTION FOR ANYTHING ELSE?
05:29:34PM WE ARE GOOD?
05:29:35PM YES, MA'AM.
05:29:36PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
05:29:38PM LaCHONE DOCK, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
05:29:41PM FIRST ITEM THIS EVENING IS ITEM NUMBER, REZ-22-93.
05:29:47PM LOCATED AT 2713 BAYSHORE BOULEVARD.
05:29:51PM THE APPLICANT IS BEING PRESENT BY JULIA MANDELL AND THE
05:29:55PM REQUEST TO REZONE FROM PD, PLACE OF RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY
05:29:59PM APPROVED IN 2005 TO PD, RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY IN PLACE OF
05:30:05PM RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY.
05:30:06PM BEFORE I TURN IT OVER TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION TO GIVE
05:30:08PM THEIR REPORT, I WANTED TO PROVIDE THE BACKGROUND FOR THE
05:30:12PM BENEFIT OF COUNCIL AND FOR THE PUBLIC.
05:30:14PM INITIALLY THIS APPLICATION WAS SUBMITTED AND SUBMITTED WITH
05:30:18PM A -- WITH A COMPANION COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT.
05:30:21PM THAT PLAN AMENDMENT WAS A REQUEST FOR THE FUTURE LAND USE
05:30:25PM DESIGNATION OF R-50, DECEMBER 1, 2022.
05:30:31PM BOTH CASES WERE CONTINUED TO JANUARY 12, 2023.
05:30:34PM AT THE JANUARY 12 PUBLIC HEARING REMANDED THE CPA BACK TO
05:30:38PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
05:30:39PM THIS REZONING CASE WAS NEVER OPENED AND BOTH CASES WERE
05:30:42PM CONTINUED TO JUNE 8, 2023.
05:30:44PM TO THE TAMPA CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING.
05:30:47PM FEBRUARY 2, 2023, THE APPLICANT WITHDRAW THE COMPREHENSIVE
05:30:51PM PLAN AMENDMENT REQUEST.
05:30:53PM THE APPLICANT COMPLETED PUBLIC NOTICE AGAIN AND THE REZONING
05:30:57PM CASE WAS SET FOR HEARING ON TODAY'S DATE ON MAY 11, 2023.
05:31:01PM THE APPLICANT IS NO LONGER REQUESTING A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
05:31:05PM AMENDMENT AND IS MOVING FORWARD WITH THE REZONING WITH
05:31:08PM CONSIDERATION WITH THE FUTURE LAND USE THAT EXISTS ON THE
05:31:11PM SITE WHICH IS R-35, RESIDENTIAL-35.
05:31:16PM WITH THAT, COUNCIL, I WANTED TO GIVE A BRIEF BACKGROUND ON
05:31:19PM THE CASE.
05:31:19PM I WILL TURN IT OVER TO DANNY WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION TO
05:31:22PM GIVE HIS REPORT AND THEN I WILL GIVE MY REPORT.
05:31:24PM THANK YOU.
05:31:25PM >>DANNY COLLINS: GOOD EVENING, DANNY COLLINS WITH YOUR
05:31:44PM PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF.
05:31:44PM OUR FIRST CASE IS IN THE SOUTH TAMPA PLANNING DISTRICT.
05:31:47PM MORE PARTICULARLY IN THE BAYSHORE GARDENS NEIGHBORHOOD.
05:31:50PM FRED BALL PARK IS THE CLOSEST RECREATIONAL FACILITY ONE
05:31:56PM BLOCK NORTH OF THE SUBJECT SITE.
05:31:58PM THIS MORGUES OF BAYSHORE BOULEVARD BY HART-RAIL 13.
05:32:02PM TO THE TRANSIT CENTER.
05:32:05PM WITHIN THE COASTAL HIGH HAZARD AREA AND LEVEL A EVACUATION
05:32:10PM ZONE.
05:32:10PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE -- OKAY.
05:32:11PM WE COULDN'T SEE IT FOR A MOMENT.
05:32:13PM >>DANNY COLLINS: HERE IS AN AERIAL MAP OF THE SURROUNDING
05:32:19PM SITE AND SURROUNDING PROPERTIES.
05:32:21PM YOU SEE THIS IN THE PURPLE COLOR ON THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF
05:32:25PM WEST BARCELONA AND BAYSHORE BOULEVARD.
05:32:27PM BAYSHORE BOULEVARD RUNS ALONG THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE
05:32:32PM SITE.
05:32:33PM SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED RELS USES TO THE SOUTH OF THIS SITE,
05:32:36PM AS WELL AS TO IT THE -- TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST OF THE
05:32:39PM SITE.
05:32:39PM THERE IS AN APARTMENT UNIT COMPLEX TO THE NORTH OF THE SITE.
05:32:45PM AND THEN YOU HAVE SOME OPEN SPACE TO THE NORTH OF THE
05:32:50PM SUBJECT SITE.
05:32:51PM THERE ARE TOWERS -- RESIDENTIAL TOWERS UP ALONG BAYSHORE
05:32:57PM BOULEVARD AND OVER -- A COUPLE OF BLOCKS SOUTH OF THE
05:33:00PM SUBJECT SITE, YOU HAVE SOME NONRESIDENTIAL USES JUST OFF
05:33:04PM BAYSHORE BOULEVARD.
05:33:05PM HERE IS THE ADOPTED FUTURE LAND USE MAP.
05:33:11PM THE ADOPTED FUTURE LAND USE IS RESIDENTIAL-35, ALLOWS FOR
05:33:15PM CONSIDERATION OF MEDIUM-DENSITY USES, INCLUDING MULTIFAMILY,
05:33:21PM SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED USES AND DETACHED SINGLE-FAMILY USES.
05:33:26PM CHURCHES SUCH AS WHAT WAS CURRENTLY ON THE SITE CAN BE
05:33:31PM CONSIDERED IN THAT DESIGNATION.
05:33:32PM DIRECTLY TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE SUBJECT SITE IS THAT
05:33:35PM RESIDENTIAL-35.
05:33:36PM YOU HAVE R-83 WHICH IS HEAVY -- IT IS A HIGH DENSITY
05:33:41PM RESIDENTIAL LAND USE CATEGORY DIRECTLY TO THE NORTH --
05:33:46PM NORTHWEST OF THE SITE AND CMU-85 DESIGNATED PARCELS TO THE
05:33:51PM WEST AND THE SOUTHWEST OF THE SUBJECT SITE IN THAT CATEGORY.
05:33:54PM IT ENCOURAGES A MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT PATTERN.
05:33:57PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF REVIEWED THE APPLICATION AND
05:34:00PM FOUND THE REQUEST COMPARABLE AND COMPATIBLE TO THE
05:34:03PM SURROUNDING AREA.
05:34:03PM RESIDENTIAL-35 DESIGNATED PARCELS ARE NORTHWEST OF
05:34:09PM BAY-TO-BAY BOULEVARD.
05:34:09PM EAST OF SOUTH ISABEL AND SOUTH OF RUBIDEX STREET.
05:34:14PM EXISTING DENSITY IS 14.7 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE BASED ON 15
05:34:21PM SAMPLE SITES.
05:34:22PM THIS DENSITY IS 40% OF THE DENSITY ANTICIPATED UNDER
05:34:26PM THE R-35 DESIGNATION.
05:34:27PM APPROXIMATELY 4.7 ACRES TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST OF THE
05:34:31PM SUBJECT SITE ARE PARCELS -- ARE PARCELS DESIGNATED
05:34:36PM RESIDENTIAL 83.
05:34:37PM THIS AREAS HAS AN EXISTING OF 16.1 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE
05:34:43PM BASED ON FIVE SAMPLE SITES WHERE 19% OF DENSITY UNDER THE
05:34:46PM RESIDENTIAL 83 DESIGNATION.
05:34:48PM GIVEN THE DENSITY AND INTENSITY ANTICIPATED IN THIS AREA OF
05:34:51PM THE CITY, THE AREA CAN BE CONSIDERED UNDERDEVELOPED.
05:34:54PM ADDITIONALLY SEVERAL TOWERS WITHIN PROXIMITY OF THE SITE
05:34:58PM ALONG BAYSHORE BOULEVARD.
05:35:00PM THE BAYSHORE PRESBYTERIAN APARTMENTS, 15-STORY MULTIFAMILY
05:35:05PM DEVELOPMENT IS TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST OF THE SITE ON
05:35:07PM SOUTH YSABELLA AVENUE.
05:35:09PM SEVERAL 15 TO 18-STORY TOWERS ALONG THE SUBJECT SITE FROM
05:35:14PM BAYSHORE BOULEVARD AND SEVERAL TALLER STRUCTURES NORTH OF
05:35:17PM THE SUBJECT SITE ON BAYSHORE BOULEVARD.
05:35:19PM PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF FINDS THAT THE REQUEST WILL NOT
05:35:22PM ALTER THE CHARACTER OF THE SURROUNDING AREA.
05:35:25PM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN SEEKS TO PROMOTE PEDESTRIAN
05:35:28PM CONNECTIVITY ALONG BAYSHORE BOULEVARD.
05:35:30PM SIDEWALKS ALONG ALL ADJACENT PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAYS AND
05:35:34PM PEDESTRIAN CONNECTION OF THE MAIN LOBBY OF THE APARTMENT
05:35:37PM BUILDING TO THE SIDEWALK ON YSABELLA AVENUE.
05:35:39PM ADDITIONALLY THE APPLICANT PROPOSES INTERNAL PEDESTRIAN, AND
05:35:43PM A CROSSWALK FROM THE PLACE OF RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY, ENTRANCE
05:35:48PM TO THE SIDEWALK ON BARCELONA STREET.
05:35:52PM THE PROPOSED PEDESTRIAN CONNECTION WILL HELP ENSURE SAFETY
05:35:56PM AND SECURITY, A PROPOSED SECURITY FENCE ALONG THE EAST
05:35:59PM BOUNDARY AND THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY OF THE SITE.
05:36:01PM THE APPLICANT SHOULD PROVIDE GATES WHERE EVERY SIDEWALKS AND
05:36:05PM FENCES MEET SO THE PLACE OF RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY IS ACCESSIBLE
05:36:09PM TO PEDESTRIANS.
05:36:10PM THE REQUEST SUPPORTS MANY OF THE POLICIES IN THE
05:36:12PM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF HOUSING THE CITY'S POPULATION.
05:36:15PM THE STATE PREVIOUSLY IN OUR REPORT, THE SURROUNDING AERATION
05:36:19PM DEVELOPED WELL BELOW THE DENSITY ANTICIPATED IN THIS AREA OF
05:36:22PM THE CITY.
05:36:23PM THE TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ENCOURAGES NEW HOUSING ON
05:36:25PM VACANT AND UNDERUTILIZED LAND TO MEET THE NEEDS OF TAMPA'S
05:36:30PM FUTURE AND PRESENT POPULATION.
05:36:31PM THE REQUEST WILL PROVIDE ADDITIONAL HOUSING CHOICES IN THE
05:36:34PM BAYSHORE GARDENS NEIGHBORHOOD.
05:36:36PM THE SUBJECT SITE WITHIN THE COASTAL HIGH HAZARD AREA AND
05:36:41PM EVACUATION ZONE A.
05:36:43PM THE APPLICANT IN U.S. WORK WITH THE CITY OF TAMPA AND OTHER
05:36:45PM REGULATORY AGENCIES TO ENSURE EVERY RELATION DEVELOPMENT
05:36:49PM MITIGATES IMPACT ON SHELTER SPACE DURING THE DEVELOPMENT
05:36:54PM REVIEW PROCESS.
05:36:54PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF FINDS CONSISTENT WITH THE
05:36:57PM GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES OF THE CITY OF TAMPA'S
05:37:00PM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
05:37:00PM THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
05:37:02PM I AM AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
05:37:05PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE GENTLEMAN?
05:37:07PM NO?
05:37:08PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
05:37:09PM YES, MA'AM.
05:37:09PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THANK YOU, AGAIN, COUNCIL.
05:37:12PM LaCHONE DOCK, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
05:37:15PM IN THIS ITEM.
05:37:15PM COUNCIL, REZ-22-93, THIS PD REQUEST WILL ALLOW FOR EXISTING
05:37:22PM PLACE OF RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY TO REMAIN ON-SITE AND ALSO
05:37:26PM INCLUDES A 50-UNIT RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY TOWER THAT WILL
05:37:30PM BE CONSTRUCTED.
05:37:31PM THE SITE PLAN IDENTIFIES ON THE SITE THE EXISTING TEMPLE
05:37:37PM 18,014 SQUARE FEET BUILT IN 1969.
05:37:40PM THE TEMPLE BUILDING WILL REMAIN IN ITS CURRENT LOCATION AND
05:37:43PM A NEW RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY STRUCTURE IS PROPOSED ALONG
05:37:47PM THE WEST OF THE SITE, WHICH I WILL SHOW YOU SHORTLY ON THE
05:37:50PM SITE PLAN PROVIDED.
05:37:51PM THE PROPOSED RESIDENTIAL TOWER CONTAINS STRUCTURED PARKING
05:37:55PM ON LEVELS 1-3.
05:37:56PM AMENITIES PROVIDED ON LEVEL 4, INCLUDING A HEALTH CLUB, GAME
05:38:01PM ROOM, BUSINESS CENTER, POOL, SPA, LOUNGE AND RESIDENTIAL
05:38:05PM UNITS ARE PROVIDED ON LEVELS 5-29.
05:38:08PM THE PROPOSED MAXIMUM BUILDING HEIGHT IS 329 FEET.
05:38:11PM THE EXISTING TEMPLE WILL REMAIN AT ITS CURRENT HEIGHT, WHICH
05:38:15PM IS AT A MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF 30 FEET.
05:38:17PM THE PROPOSED USES REQUIRE 167 PARKING SPACES AND 201 PARKING
05:38:25PM SPACES ARE PROPOSED.
05:38:26PM THE SITE HAS A FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION AS DANNY
05:38:33PM MENTIONED OF R-35, 35 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE WITH A BONUS
05:38:39PM PROVISION AGREEMENT.
05:38:39PM THE APPLICANT HAS ENTERED INTO AN BONUS AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE
05:38:43PM THE ADDITIONAL SEVEN UNITS ON-SITE GIVEN THE SIZE OF THE
05:38:46PM PROPERTY.
05:38:47PM TO THE BONUS PROVISION AGREEMENT 1448 IS PAID TO ACHIEVE THE
05:38:54PM ADDITIONAL UNIT COUNT AND TOP COME IN WITH THE EXISTING
05:38:57PM RESIDENTIAL-35 LAND USE CATEGORY.
05:39:00PM WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO, COUNCIL, IT PUT UP FOR YOU ON THE
05:39:04PM ELMO THE ACTUAL SITE PLAN.
05:39:05PM I AM GOING TO ZOOM IN A LITTLE.
05:39:07PM THIS IS TOO FAR.
05:39:11PM HOLD ON JUST A SECOND.
05:39:12PM JUST TO SHOW YOU THE DEVELOPMENT.
05:39:15PM SO ON THE SITE PLAN, THIS IS BAYSHORE.
05:39:19PM THIS IS BAYSHORE BOULEVARD.
05:39:21PM THIS IS BARCELONA STREET.
05:39:24PM THIS IS YSABELLA AVENUE.
05:39:26PM SO THIS IS THE NORTH.
05:39:27PM THIS IS THE EXISTING TEMPLE BUILDING ON-SITE.
05:39:30PM THAT IS THE FOOTPRINT OF THAT TEMPLE BUILDING.
05:39:32PM THIS IS PARKING PROPOSED.
05:39:34PM SO ONE POINT OF ENTRY, VEHICULAR ENTRY ON THE SITE IS FROM
05:39:38PM BARCELONA.
05:39:39PM AND YOU WOULD ENTER THIS WAY AND THEIR SURFACE PARKING IS
05:39:43PM LOCATED HERE.
05:39:44PM AND PARKING IS LOCATED HERE.
05:39:46PM AND YOU CAN ALSO ACCESS THE SITE ON THE WEST, WHERE THERE IS
05:39:49PM A CIRCULAR DRIVE AND ARRIVAL.
05:39:51PM THE RESIDENTIAL BUILDING IS LOCATED HERE ON THE SITE, WITHIN
05:39:56PM THAT LOCATION.
05:39:57PM HERE ARE THE EXISTING ELEVATIONS FOR THE SITE.
05:40:02PM I WILL SHOW YOU THE TOP.
05:40:03PM SO THIS IS THE ELEVATIONS THAT YOU WILL SEE PROVIDED.
05:40:07PM LET ME -- LET ME ZOOM IN A LITTLE BIT ON IT.
05:40:14PM AND THEN THIS IS ALSO THE OTHER ELEVATIONS, THE OTHER SIDE.
05:40:22PM AND THEN LET ME SHOW YOU ALSO THE ZONING ATLAS, THE ZONING
05:40:28PM MAP FOR THE SITE.
05:40:29PM SO THIS IS AN AERIAL OF THE SITE.
05:40:35PM THE SITE IS OUTLINED IN RED.
05:40:37PM THIS IS THE EXISTING PD.
05:40:39PM AND YOU CAN SEE JUST -- LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF THE SITE, YOU
05:40:45PM HAVE YOUR RESIDENTIAL-75, RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY ZONING
05:40:48PM FURTHER SOUTH.
05:40:49PM YOU HAVE SOUTHWEST OF THE SITE, A FEW PDs AND YOU HAVE CG
05:40:53PM AND RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY ZONING THAT CONTINUES NORTH --
05:40:57PM TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST OF THE SITE AND NORTH IS YOUR
05:41:00PM RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY ZONE.
05:41:01PM THIS IS THE SITE WHICH IS LOCATED HERE ALONG BAYSHORE, SO
05:41:05PM YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENT ZONING DISTRICTS THAT SURROUND THE
05:41:08PM SITE ITSELF.
05:41:09PM THEN I HAVE PICTURES OF THE SITE.
05:41:12PM TO SHOW ALONG WITH THE SURROUNDING AREAS.
05:41:16PM SO THIS IS THE SITE ON BAYSHORE.
05:41:22PM LET ME ZOOM OUT A LITTLE BECAUSE SOME COUNTY PICTURES ARE A
05:41:27PM BIT LARGER.
05:41:28PM SO THIS IS ACTUALLY THE ENTRANCE OF THE SITE AS IT CURRENTLY
05:41:35PM EXISTS.
05:41:36PM THIS IS ANOTHER VIEW INSIDE THE SITE.
05:41:39PM THIS IS THE PARKING WHICH EXISTS FOR THE SITE.
05:41:42PM THIS IS ANOTHER VIEW THAT SHOWS LOOKING NORTH WITHIN THE
05:41:48PM SITE.
05:41:49PM THIS IS WEST OF THE SITE.
05:41:50PM THIS IS ON BARCELONA.
05:41:52PM THIS IS THE VIEW LOOKING NORTHEAST ON YSABELLA.
05:42:00PM THIS IS THE RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY THAT EXISTS WEST OF THE
05:42:06PM SITE.
05:42:06PM THIS IS NORTH OF THE SITE, THE GARDEN CLUB.
05:42:13PM THIS IS NORTH OF THE SITE.
05:42:17PM THIS IS AS YOU MOVE FURTHER NORTH.
05:42:20PM FRED BALL PARK.
05:42:23PM THIS IS DIRECTLY SOUTH OF THE SITE.
05:42:26PM YOU CAN SEE THE PROPERTY LINE JOGS ALONG THE SOUTH.
05:42:30PM SO THAT IS DIRECTLY TO THE SOUTH.
05:42:33PM AND THEN THIS IS ALSO SOUTH.
05:42:35PM THIS IS ACROSS BARCELONA.
05:42:37PM THIS IS SOUTHWEST OF THE SITE.
05:42:40PM THIS IS AT THE CORNER OF BARCELONA.
05:42:44PM HAND THIS IS ALSO SOUTH.
05:42:48PM THIS IS AT SANTIAGO.
05:42:50PM ONE LAST PICTURE, THIS IS SOUTH OF THE SITE.
05:42:57PM THIS IS AT BAY TO BAY, JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA.
05:43:01PM THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW AND COMPLIANCE STAFF REVIEWED THE
05:43:04PM REQUEST AND FOUND THE REQUEST INCONSISTENT.
05:43:07PM YOU WILL SEE IN THE REPORT, FINDINGS OF INCONSISTENCY
05:43:13PM RELATED TO THE NATURAL RESOURCES WAIVERS REQUESTED ON-SITE.
05:43:16PM WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO FOR A MOMENT, COUNCIL, IS TO TURN IT
05:43:19PM OVER, LET JONATHAN SCOTT WITH TRANSPORTATION REVIEW A COUPLE
05:43:23PM OF THINGS RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION.
05:43:25PM ALTHOUGH THEY DO NOT HAVE A FIND OF INCONSISTENT, THEY HAVE
05:43:31PM SOME THINGS TO PUT ON THE RECORD.
05:43:32PM AND THEN TURN IT OVER TO ERIN, AND SHE WILL COME AND REPORT
05:43:37PM HER FINDINGS FROM NATURAL RESOURCES.
05:43:38PM AFTER WHICH TIME, STAFF IS AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS YOU
05:43:42PM MAY HAVE, COUNCIL.
05:43:43PM THANK YOU.
05:43:44PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
05:43:46PM >>JONATHAN SCOTT: GOOD EVENING, JONATHAN SCOTT,
05:43:49PM TRANSPORTATION PLANNING.
05:43:50PM TRANSPORTATION FOUND IT CONSISTENT.
05:43:51PM WE REVIEWED THE APPLICATION.
05:43:54PM IT DID NOT REQUIRE A TRAFFIC ANALYSIS.
05:43:56PM THE APPLICANT DID PROVIDE A TRAFFIC MEMO THAT PROVIDES TRIP
05:44:00PM GENERATION INFORMATION.
05:44:01PM THE PROBABLY ACTUALLY RESULTS IN A DECREASE OF TRAFFIC BASED
05:44:05PM ON I.T.'S STANDARDS WHICH IS THE INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORTATION
05:44:11PM ENGINEERS.
05:44:11PM NOW THAT WAS BASED ON THE APPROVED USE OF A DAY CARE AND
05:44:15PM RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY AND PROPOSED USE OF MULTIFAMILY.
05:44:19PM THE ACCESS FOR THIS SITE HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY APPROVED FOR
05:44:23PM THE RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY.
05:44:26PM AND THE NEW USE OF THE MULTIFAMILY DOES NOT REAR A WAIVER
05:44:29PM CERTAIN IT IS RESIDENTIAL.
05:44:30PM SO THE EXISTING USE FOR THE DATE -- FOR THE RELIGIOUS
05:44:35PM ASSEMBLY IS EXISTING AND THE NEW PROPOSED USE -- THE LOCAL
05:44:42PM STREET ACCESS IS NOT REQUIRED FOR THAT, JUST TO LET Y'ALL
05:44:45PM KNOW THAT.
05:44:45PM AND I WILL TURN IT OVER TO ERIN TO COVER THE NATURAL
05:44:49PM RESOURCES.
05:44:49PM >> ALL RIGHT, GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE, ERIN MAEHR,
05:45:04PM DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
05:45:05PM I WILL GO OVER SOME OF THE ISSUES WITH ITEMS RELATED TO THE
05:45:09PM NATURAL RESOURCES FINDING OF INCONSISTENT.
05:45:11PM HERE BEFORE YOU ON THE OVERHEAD IS THE SITE.
05:45:13PM I AM JUST GOING TO CALL OUT AGAIN -- SO HERE TO THE EAST IS
05:45:17PM BAYSHORE.
05:45:18PM UP TO THE NORTH PROPERTY LINE IS THE -- IS THE TAMPA BAY
05:45:23PM GARDEN CLUB.
05:45:24PM TO THE WEST IS YSABELLA AND THEN BARCELONA.
05:45:33PM THIS IS THE EXISTING TEMPLE RIGHT HERE, AND THE PROPOSE
05:45:36PM MULTIFAMILY BUILDING.
05:45:37PM HERE THE RED CIRCLES WITH Xs IN THE CENTER ARE DEPICTING THE
05:45:43PM PROPOSED NONHAZARDOUS GRAND TREE REMOVALS.
05:45:46PM RIGHT HERE.
05:45:47PM THERE ARE THREE OF THEM AND ALL WITHIN THE EXISTING PARKING
05:45:51PM AREA RIGHT NOW.
05:45:52PM AND THEN THERE IS ONE -- THE GREEN CIRCLE OVER HERE ALONG
05:45:56PM BAYSHORE IS A GRAND LIVE OAK THAT IS PROPOSED TO BE
05:46:01PM RETAINED, A NONHAZARDOUS GRAND LIVE OAK.
05:46:04PM SO ON THIS IMAGE, I AM GOING TO SHOW YOU JUST SOME OF THESE
05:46:08PM -- SOME OF THE TREES THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED TO BE REMOVED.
05:46:12PM SO WE ARE LOOKING SOUTHEAST AT THE SITE.
05:46:15PM AND YOU CAN SEE THE HILLSBOROUGH BAY IN THE BACKGROUND HERE.
05:46:20PM YOU CAN SEE TREE NUMBER 36 IS A 50-INCH DBH, RATED C-4 AND.
05:46:31PM FOR NEW COUNCILMEMBERS.
05:46:32PM LIKE A A IS THE BEST RATED TREE THAT YOU NEVER SEE.
05:46:37PM AND THE LOWER THE NUMBER, THE BETTER.
05:46:39PM SO THIS IS A C-4.
05:46:41PM THAT IS A GOOD CONDITION TREE.
05:46:43PM JUST TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THAT IS TREE NUMBER 38, IT IS A
05:46:48PM 35-INCH DBH, WHICH IS DIAMETER AT BREAST HEIGHT AS WELL.
05:46:53PM RATED B-5 AND A LIVE OAK AND WORTH 32 MITIGATION TREES.
05:46:59PM THE TWO GRAND TREES PROVIDE 49 TYPE 1 MITIGATION TREES.
05:47:04PM AND A LITTLE AREA ON THE SITE TO ACCOMMODATE ALL OF THESE
05:47:08PM LARGE AND WIDE CANOPY SHADE TREES.
05:47:12PM NATURAL RESOURCES HAVE REQUESTED AN ADDITIONAL GRAND LIVE
05:47:16PM OAK TO BE PRESERVED.
05:47:17PM THE APPLICANT HAS NOT REDESIGNED THE STRUCTURE TO
05:47:22PM ACCOMMODATE AND HAVE SUBMITTED REASONABLE CONFIGURATION TO
05:47:25PM SUPPORT THE REMOVAL.
05:47:26PM IN ADDITION TO THE GRAND TREE'S WAIVER, THIS IS -- THIS IS
05:47:34PM THE DARK MOSS ARBORIST INVENTORY AND TO MAINTAIN 20% TREE
05:47:48PM ON-SITE.
05:47:49PM CODE 50% TREE RETENTION FOR NONWOOD THE LOT OVER ONE ACRE.
05:47:56PM FOUND IN THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF THE SITE WHICH NO
05:47:59PM CONSTRUCTION IS TAKING PLACE.
05:48:00PM THE PARKING LOT AND THE DRIVEWAY ARE BEING REALIGNED ALONG
05:48:05PM BARCELONA, WHICH IS REQUIRING SOME OF THESE REMOVALS OF
05:48:08PM GRAND TREES AND SOME DIFFERENT RECONFIGURATIONS OF THE
05:48:13PM PARKING LOT.
05:48:14PM SO BACK TO THE SITE PLAN.
05:48:15PM I ALSO WANT TO POINT OUT UP HERE, PROPOSED RETAINED TREE.
05:48:21PM A 30-INCH SHARED -- A 30-INCH DIAMETER AT BREAST HEIGHT LIVE
05:48:27PM OAK AND A SHARED TREE WITH A GARDEN CLUB.
05:48:30PM SO WE WERE A LITTLE CONCERNED INITIALLY THIS WAS GOING TO BE
05:48:34PM A GREAT IMPACT TO THIS TREE.
05:48:36PM SO NATURAL RESOURCES REQUESTED ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
05:48:39PM THE APPLICANT, THEY -- THEY PROVIDED ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
05:48:44PM AND SUBMITTED A TREE PRESERVATION PLAN AND A SHADE STUDY
05:48:48PM WHICH PERHAPS THEIR ARBORISTS MAY SPEAK TO.
05:48:51PM AND THE -- THE -- THEY HAVE INCLUDED -- THEY ARE GOING TO
05:48:55PM ENCROACH INTO THE TREE'S PROTECTIVE RADIUS BY FIVE PEOPLE
05:49:01PM WHICH IS ALLOWED BY CODE TO ALLOW ALTERNATE METHODS.
05:49:05PM THEY HAVE PROPOSED TO PLACE THE PARKING LOT ON THE BOTTOM
05:49:08PM FLOOR ON GRADE.
05:49:09PM AND USE PERMEABLE MATERIAL TO ENCROACH THAT FAR.
05:49:13PM AND THEY HAVE ALSO NOTCHED OUT THE BUILDING ON THE SECOND
05:49:16PM FLOOR TO ACCOMMODATE THE CROWN OF THE TREE.
05:49:19PM AND THEN LET ME SHOW YOU.
05:49:21PM SO THIS IS -- THIS IS TREE 75.
05:49:25PM THE SHARED 30-INCH DBH LIVE OAK WHICH IS TWO INCHES LESS
05:49:31PM THAN A GRAND TREE BY THE CITY'S CODE.
05:49:33PM SO IT'S A LARGE TREE, SO YOU CAN SEE -- THIS IS FACING
05:49:38PM SOUTH, LOOKING LIKE FROM THE GARDEN CLUB SOUTH.
05:49:41PM AND THEN TO IT THE RIGHT, THE PHOTO ON THE RIGHT, IS LOOKING
05:49:45PM EAST.
05:49:45PM AND YOU CAN SEE THERE IS SOME CROWN -- THE CROWN EXTENDS
05:49:50PM HERE.
05:49:50PM IT WILL REQUIRE SOME MINOR PRUNING TO ACCOMMODATE THE
05:49:56PM BUILDING.
05:49:56PM AND THIS IS CURRENTLY, LIKE, WHERE THE BUFFER WILL BE
05:50:03PM PLACED.
05:50:03PM SO, YEAH, IN SUMMARY, NATURAL RESOURCES HAVE FOUND THE
05:50:07PM PROJECT INCONSISTENT DUE TO THE GRAND TREE WAIVERS AND THE
05:50:11PM GRAND TREE RETENTION REQUESTED.
05:50:13PM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'M HERE FOR YOU.
05:50:16PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCILMEMBERS?
05:50:20PM I SEE NONE.
05:50:21PM THANK YOU.
05:50:21PM YES, MA'AM.
05:50:22PM NOW TO THE APPLICANT.
05:50:23PM YES, MA'AM.
05:50:24PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAVE QUESTIONS.
05:50:27PM ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, I WILL WAIT UNTIL THE --
05:50:30PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: OKAY.
05:50:31PM >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL.
05:50:36PM FOR THE RECORD MY NAME IS JULIA MANDELL WITH THE LAW FIRM OF
05:50:42PM GRAY ROBINSON, EAST JACKSON STREET, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
05:50:45PM I AM HAPPY TO BE HERE TONIGHT.
05:50:46PM I AM GLAD TO BRING YOU A REAL EASY CASE SO YOU CAN ENJOY
05:50:51PM YOUR EVENING.
05:50:51PM NO, IN ALL CANDOR, CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE NEW
05:50:56PM COUNCILMEMBERS.
05:50:57PM AND YES, THIS IS AN EMOTIONAL CASE, AND ON THE OUTSET, I HAD
05:51:01PM AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH MANY OF THESE FOLKS IN THE ROOM
05:51:03PM AND ALL CONVERSATIONS HAVE BEEN CONSISTENTLY RESPECTFUL.
05:51:06PM WE MAY NOT AGREE, BUT I DO APPRECIATE EVERYBODY'S WORK AND
05:51:11PM WHAT THEY PUT INTO THIS.
05:51:12PM I HAVE A POWERPOINT.
05:51:14PM I AM TERRIBLE AT POWERPOINTS.
05:51:16PM WE WILL SEE HOW THIS GOES.
05:51:18PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IT IS ON THE SCREEN.
05:51:20PM >> VERY GOOD.
05:51:21PM STAFF DID A NICE JOB PRESENTING THE CASE, SO I WON'T GET
05:51:26PM INTO TOO MANY DETAILS.
05:51:27PM BUT I THINK THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT
05:51:30PM THIS MATTER, IT IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN THE OTHER
05:51:34PM CASES THAT YOU SEE.
05:51:35PM THIS IS A PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT.
05:51:36PM THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RETAIN THE SYNAGOGUE, RODEPH
05:51:43PM SHOLOM, INC. ON THIS SITE WHILE STILL ALLOWING A DEVELOPMENT
05:51:45PM POTENTIAL IT HAS UNDER ITS CURRENT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
05:51:50PM AS I SAID A PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT.
05:51:52PM WHAT WE ARE SEEKING AS PART OF THIS APPLICATION IS TO RETAIN
05:51:55PM THE SYNAGOGUE, AS WELL AS DEVELOP A CONDOMINIUM TOWER,
05:52:00PM LUXURY CONDOMINIUM TOWER WITH 50 UNITS.
05:52:05PM THIS WILL PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE SYNAGOGUE.
05:52:07PM CERTAINLY A LOT OF THESE CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS HAVE GONE
05:52:11PM THROUGH A ERA WHERE THEY DON'T HAVE THE SAME RESOURCES AS
05:52:14PM THEY USED TO.
05:52:15PM CONGREGATION -- OH, BEFORE I GET INTO THAT, I DO WANT TO
05:52:19PM MAKE A STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD AS IT RELATES TO THE HEIGHT
05:52:22PM BECAUSE SOME CONFUSION OVER THE HEIGHT.
05:52:23PM WHEN WE SUBMITTED THE SITE PLAN, THE SITE PLAN SHOWED A TOP
05:52:27PM BUILDING HEIGHT OF 329.
05:52:29PM THAT IS THE HEIGHT OF THE BUILDING.
05:52:30PM IT ALSO ACCOMMODATED FOR THE MECHANICAL STRUCTURES THAT YOU
05:52:34PM TYPICALLY SEE ON A ROOF.
05:52:36PM WE REALLY SHOULD NOT HAVE HAD THAT ON THE SITE PLAN, BECAUSE
05:52:41PM THERE IS A CODE PROVISION THAT RELATES TO THAT AND IT NEEDS
05:52:45PM TO FOLLOW UNDER THE CLOSE.
05:52:46PM THE CHANGE IF WE GET THERE WILL BE BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND
05:52:50PM READING TO CLARIFY THAT AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT
05:52:53PM EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THAT THE TOP OF THE BUILDING AND THE
05:52:56PM HEIGHT IS LIMITED TO 329 FEET.
05:53:00PM THIS IS A PARTNERSHIP.
05:53:01PM AND WE HAD A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MY CLIENT, THE
05:53:04PM RELATED GROUP, AS WELL AS CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM.
05:53:07PM I AM ASKING TO ASK AT THIS POINT, THAT LLOYD STERN, THE OF
05:53:15PM CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM TO COME UP AND EXPLAIN HOW WE GOT
05:53:19PM TO THE POINT.
05:53:20PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WILL THIS PERSON BE SPEAKING NOW?
05:53:24PM >> NO, HE IS SPEAKING AS PART OF THE CASE AND THE
05:53:26PM PRESENTATION.
05:53:26PM JUST SO YOU KNOW, I AM NOT ASKING FOR ADDITIONAL TIME.
05:53:30PM YOU GET TO HEAR FROM A LOT OF PEOPLE TONIGHT.
05:53:32PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
05:53:34PM YES, SIR.
05:53:34PM >> LLOYD STERN, 22351 TURKEY ROAD, LAND O LAKES, FLORIDA.
05:53:43PM GOOD EVENING, MEMBERS OF TAMPA CITY COUNCIL.
05:53:46PM I AM LLOYD STERN, AND THE CURRENT MEMBER OF RODEPH SHOLOM.
05:53:50PM MY FAMILY HAVE BEEN MEMBERS FOR OVER 30 YEARS.
05:53:53PM I STAND BEFORE YOU TODAY TO SPEAK ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF
05:53:57PM THE SALE OF OUR PARKING LOT AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE TOWER
05:54:02PM IN THE PARKING LOT OF CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM, THE OLDEST
05:54:06PM CONSERVATIVE SYNAGOGUE IN TAMPA BAY AND THE ONLY ONE IN
05:54:10PM SOUTH TAMPA.
05:54:12PM BEFORE I TELL YOU OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS LAND SALE AS IT
05:54:15PM RELATES TO THE FUTURE, LET ME SHARE WITH YOU A LITTLE BIT
05:54:18PM ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN THE
05:54:23PM INTERWOVEN FABRIC OF TAMPA.
05:54:25PM TAMPA HAS A RICH JEWISH HERITAGE TO THE 1800s, OPPENHEIMER,
05:54:31PM WOLF AND THE WOHL FAMILIES WHO HAVE SUCCESSFUL JEWISH
05:54:37PM MERCHANTS AND KEY MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY IN TAMPA BAY'S
05:54:40PM EARLY YEARS.
05:54:42PM RODEPH SHOLOM, INC. WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1903, AND THIS YEAR, WE
05:54:45PM ARE MARKING OUR 120th BIRTHDAY.
05:54:47PM OUR FIRST BUILDING WAS IN YBOR CITY ON PALM AVENUE.
05:54:50PM YBOR WAS HOME TO OVER 30 JEWISH MERE CHANTS AND SYNAGOGUE ON
05:54:57PM PALM AVENUE THAT RODEPH CALLED FOR 30 YEARS.
05:55:02PM A MORE PERMANENT HOME WAS NEEDED.
05:55:04PM 2713 BAYSHORE BOULEVARD AND BUILT OUR NEW SPIRITUAL HOME IN
05:55:09PM 1969.
05:55:09PM SAME YEAR, THE GARDEN CLUB, OUR NEIGHBOR, FIRST OCCUPIED
05:55:13PM THEIR BUILDING NEXT DOOR.
05:55:16PM RODEPH AND THE GARDEN CLUB HAVE CONTINUED ON HAVE A GREAT
05:55:22PM RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SHARING OF THE PARKING LOT AS NEEDED.
05:55:24PM PART OF THE INTENTION OF THE SALE IS TO SELL THE PARKING LOT
05:55:28PM THAT IS NEXT DOOR TO THEIR PARKING LOT SO WE HAVE FUNDS FOR
05:55:31PM MAJOR REPAIRS IN THE FUTURE AND DO NOT HAVE TO SELL OUR
05:55:34PM PROPERTY IN YEARS TO COME.
05:55:36PM BY DEVELOPING WHERE WE ARE PROPOSING TO BUILD, WE WILL
05:55:44PM GUARANTEE THAT A LARGE STRUCTURE WILL NEVER BE BUILT NEXT TO
05:55:47PM THE GARDENS OF THE GARDEN CLUB, THEREFORE PROTECTING THE
05:55:50PM GARDEN CLUB SINCE RODEPH HAS AGREED IN WRITING TO NEVER
05:55:55PM BUILD ANYTHING LARGER THAN 9 EXISTING FOOTPRINT AND SAME
05:56:00PM HEIGHT WHERE THE SYNAGOGUE SITS TODAY.
05:56:03PM RODEPH IS PROUD OF MANY THINGS FROM OUR PAST AND PRESENT AND
05:56:07PM TOP THE RIGHT DECISIONS FOR OUR FUTURE.
05:56:09PM WE WERE PROUD WHEN WE WERE EARLY TO EMBRACE BOTH THE QUALITY
05:56:13PM FOR MEN WOMEN IN JUDAISM WITH BERNICE WOLF BEING OUR THE 30
05:56:24PM YEARS AGO.
05:56:25PM AND HOME OF PEOPLE WHO NOT ONLY IDENTIFY AS JEWISH
05:56:32PM BUT LBGTQ, BLACK, JUST TO NAME A FEW.
05:56:35PM RODEPH IS A HOME TO WORSHIP TOGETHER, AND MANY SIMVAS, MANY
05:56:42PM JOYOUS EVENTS TOGETHER.
05:56:45PM PROUD OF OUR COMMUNITY WORK, CLEANING UP THE BAY, SUPPORTING
05:56:48PM THE HUNGRY WITH MEALS ON HOLIDAYS AND I.T. THAT BRINGS WOMEN
05:56:53PM TOGETHER OF MANY FAITHS AND BACKGROUNDS AT RODEPH EVERY
05:56:58PM YEAR.
05:56:58PM HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DRIVE BY EVERY YEAR AND SEE
05:57:01PM OUR BEING WITH OUR LARGE MENORAH 30 FEET IN THE AIR AS A
05:57:04PM BEACON OF VIBRANCY OF JUDAISM IN TAMPA.
05:57:08PM WE HOPE THE MONEY REALIZED FROM THIS LAND SALE THIS WEEK
05:57:13PM SHINES BRIGHT FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS TO COME.
05:57:15PM PLEASE JOIN ME AND MANY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY IN
05:57:18PM SUPPORTING THIS IMPORTANT PROJECT.
05:57:19PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
05:57:20PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
05:57:25PM >> BEFORE I GET BACK IN MY PRESENTATION, CAN YOU LET ME KNOW
05:57:31PM HOW MUCH TIME IS REMAINING.
05:57:32PM OH, EIGHT MINUTES?
05:57:34PM OKAY, VERY GOOD.
05:57:35PM THANK YOU.
05:57:35PM GO BACK TO THE POWERPOINT.
05:57:36PM I WILL TRY TO GET THROUGH THESE PRETTY QUICK BECAUSE I THINK
05:57:39PM YOU HAVE A LOT OF THE INFORMATION AS IT RELATES TO THE
05:57:43PM PROJECT.
05:57:43PM THIS IS THE CURRENT CONFIGURATION SHOWING THE PRESCHOOL,
05:57:47PM TEMPLE AND THE PARKING LOT.
05:57:48PM THE PROPOSED CONFIGURATION AND I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO
05:57:51PM NOTE THAT THE SYNAGOGUE IS USING BOTH ITS EXISTING STRUCTURE
05:57:55PM AND THE FIRST FLOOR OF THE PARKING FOR ITS PARKING NEEDS SO
05:57:58PM THAT WE DON'T HAVE AN ISSUE WITH PARKING FOR THE SYNAGOGUE.
05:58:02PM THIS IS A -- SHOWING THE AMENITY DECK.
05:58:06PM AND I THINK THAT A COUPLE OF THINGS TO NOTE, ESPECIALLY AS
05:58:09PM IT RELATES TO ITS -- ITS VIEW OF THE GARDEN CLUB WHICH I
05:58:14PM KNOW IS AN ISSUE.
05:58:14PM THIS AMENITY DECK IS 45 FEET.
05:58:17PM DIRECTLY NEXT DOOR TO THE GARDEN CLUB PROPERTY RISES UP 45
05:58:22PM FEET -- APPROXIMATELY 45 FEET.
05:58:24PM AND SHRINKS IN.
05:58:26PM WHERE YOU SEE THE REMAINDER OF THE AMENITIES.
05:58:33PM WHERE THE GYM, THAT IS WHERE THE TOWER IS.
05:58:36PM IT SLIMS DOWN AND MOVES UP.
05:58:38PM THE TOWER PORTION IS APPROXIMATELY 43 FEET FROM THE PROPERTY
05:58:41PM OF THE GARDEN CLUB.
05:58:42PM AND ALL FACES TO BAYSHORE.
05:58:45PM WE HAVE MANY SITE ENHANCEMENTS.
05:58:48PM ONE OF THEM BEING THAT WE ARE SET BACK AS FAR AS WE CAN FROM
05:58:53PM BAYSHORE AND THE GARDEN CLUB.
05:58:55PM WE ARE IMPROVING AND ADDING ADDITIONAL -- A TREMENDOUS
05:58:58PM AMOUNT OF ADDITIONAL LANDSCAPING ON THE -- ON THE PEDESTRIAN
05:59:01PM ACCESS POINTS.
05:59:02PM AND BEAUTIFYING THE SIDEWALK IS AREAS.
05:59:05PM I KNOW THAT IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR THAT NEIGHBORHOOD THAT
05:59:08PM DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE THE BEST VIEWS OF WALKING.
05:59:11PM AS YOU HEARD FROM JONATHAN SCOTT, THIS ACTUALLY WILL
05:59:16PM DECREASE TRAFFIC ACCORDING TO THE I.T.
05:59:19PM I KNOW THAT IS HARD TO IMAGINE FOR THE NEIGHBORS, BUT THE
05:59:22PM TECHNICAL IS THAT YOU ARE REPLACING A DAY CARE WITH 120
05:59:27PM STUDENTS WITH A 50-UNIT RESIDENTIAL TOWER WITH THE SYNAGOGUE
05:59:31PM REMAINING.
05:59:31PM THIS IS -- THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT, AND I THINK THIS NEEDS
05:59:35PM TO BE STATED AND UNDERSTOOD, ESPECIALLY BY NEW
05:59:38PM COUNCILMEMBERS, BECAUSE THIS IS THE REALITY OF DEVELOPMENT
05:59:41PM ON BAYSHORE.
05:59:43PM ON BAYSHORE, THERE IS A SPECIAL STREET SETBACK WHERE BUILDS
05:59:47PM CAN COME UP TO -- YOU CAN ASK FOR WAIVERS, BUT WITHOUT A
05:59:50PM WAIVER, 63 FEET ON CENTER LINE OF BAYSHORE.
05:59:53PM SO YOU CAN DEVELOP A LOT ON BAYSHORE AND BRING YOUR BUILDING
05:59:58PM UP TO THAT -- THAT FAR UP TO BAYSHORE.
06:00:02PM RIGHT NOW THE EXISTING SYNAGOGUE -- YOU SAW PICTURES AND
06:00:05PM PROBABLY MANY OF YOU HAVE DRIVEN BY -- IS 10 3 FEET FROM THE
06:00:10PM CENTER LINE OF BAYSHORE.
06:00:12PM SET A LITTLE FARTHER BACK THAN IT IS OBLIGATED TO DO UNDER
06:00:16PM CODE AND ALSO WHAT ANY NEW DEVELOPMENT CAN DO.
06:00:18PM THE TOWER -- THE STRUCTURE, BOTH THE PARKING AREA AND THE --
06:00:25PM AND THE TOWER PORTION UNDER THIS PLAN WILL BE SET A MINIMUM
06:00:29PM OF 240 FEET BACK FROM BAYSHORE.
06:00:32PM AND MAXIMUM OF 330 FEET BACK FROM BAYSHORE.
06:00:36PM I KNOW THAT THERE IS GOING TO BE A LOT OF CONCERNS REGARDING
06:00:39PM PRIVACY WHEN IT RELATES TO THE WEDDING GARDEN.
06:00:42PM THIS PLAN SETS THAT TOWER WAY BACK.
06:00:45PM YOU HAVE 50 UNITS.
06:00:46PM 25 ON EACH SIDE.
06:00:48PM SO YOU ONLY HAVE GOT -- THE ARGUMENT IS, YOU WILL HAVE ALL
06:00:52PM THESE PEOPLE LOOKING AT YOU.
06:00:54PM YOU ONLY HAVE 25 ONION SIDE OF THE BUILDING UNITS SET UP AND
06:00:58PM VERY FAR BACK.
06:00:58PM IN ADDITION, YOU CAN SEE THAT THE SYNAGOGUE WILL REMAIN.
06:01:03PM SO THAT KEEPS THAT BUFFER.
06:01:06PM YOU HAVE TREES IN THAT LOCATION.
06:01:08PM AND IN ADDITION, THAT WEDDING GARDEN IS SET DIRECTLY ON
06:01:11PM BAYSHORE.
06:01:12PM SO I UNDERSTAND CONCERNS ABOUT NOISE, BUT THERE IS AN
06:01:16PM INHERENT OF TRAFFIC UP AND DOWN BAYSHORE.
06:01:20PM YOU HAVE BIKE RIDERS.
06:01:21PM YOU HAVE GOT WALKERS.
06:01:22PM YOU HAVE MOTORCYCLES.
06:01:24PM OTHER CARS THAT PLAY LOUD MUSIC.
06:01:26PM THAT IS PART OF WHAT HAPPENS ON BAYSHORE.
06:01:29PM I ALSO WANT TO BRING THIS FORWARD BECAUSE I THINK IT IS
06:01:33PM IMPORTANT.
06:01:33PM YOU HAVE FOUR COMMUNITY USES RIGHT NOW ON BAYSHORE.
06:01:37PM THEY ALL HAVE SIMILAR OR MORE INTENSE AND WILL USE
06:01:42PM CLASSIFICATIONS FOR REDEVELOPMENT.
06:01:43PM THIS TRULY OFFERS AN OPPORTUNITY TO REIMAGINE CO-LOCATIONS
06:01:48PM OF THOSE LOCATIONS IN THIS KIND OF SIMILAR FORMAT.
06:01:52PM AND I ALSO KNOW -- AND I THINK THIS IS AN INCREDIBLY
06:01:56PM IMPORTANT POINT, BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND A LOT OF FRUSTRATION
06:01:58PM IN THE SOUTH TAMPA COMMUNITY ABOUT DEVELOPMENT.
06:02:00PM FEELING LIKE THERE IS SO MUCH DEVELOPMENT HAPPENING.
06:02:04PM BUT YOU HEARD THIS FROM WHY YOUR PLANNING COMMISSION AND YOU
06:02:07PM HEARD THIS FROM WHY YOU ARE STAFF AND YOU CAN SEE IT
06:02:10PM DIRECTLY ON THE MAP.
06:02:11PM THIS AREA OF BARBIE, FOR DECADES, HAVE BEEN PLANNED FOR
06:02:15PM HIGHER DENSITY DEVELOPMENT.
06:02:17PM NOT A DECISION Y'ALL HAVE MADE.
06:02:18PM NOT A DECISION YOUR PREDECESSORS HAVE MADE.
06:02:21PM THESE ARE DECISIONS THAT WERE MADE YEARS AGO.
06:02:27PM A LONG TIME AGO.
06:02:28PM DECISION POINTS THAT HAVE TO BE LOOKED AT AND MANAGED IN
06:02:31PM THIS PROCESS.
06:02:32PM AND WE ARE DEVELOPING IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH THE
06:02:35PM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, WHERE YOU HAVE HEARD YOUR PLANNING
06:02:38PM COMMISSION SAY, HAVEN'T EVEN BROUGHT YOURSELF UP TO THE
06:02:40PM LEVEL OF DENSITY THAT THEY HAVE BEEN PLANNING FOR.
06:02:42PM AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO ACCOMPLISH.
06:02:45PM AND IN FACT EVEN AT THE RESIDENTIAL DENSITY OF 50 UNITS TO
06:02:49PM AN ACRE -- I AM SORRY, 50 UNITS -- 50 UNITS, IT IS STILL THE
06:02:56PM POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT UP ON THIS PROPERTY WHICH IS UP TO 2
06:02:59PM UNITS.
06:02:59PM WE HAVE DONE AS MUCH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AS WE POSSIBLY
06:03:05PM CAN.
06:03:05PM I HAD AN OPEN DIALOGUE.
06:03:07PM ANYBODY WHO KNOWS ME KNOW THAT I AM AN OPEN BOOK.
06:03:10PM I WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING.
06:03:12PM SO I TRIED.
06:03:14PM AND WE HAD CONVERSATIONS.
06:03:15PM I UNDERSTAND THAT DOESN'T MEAN EVERYBODY AGREES, BUT THEY
06:03:19PM HAVE BEEN ABSOLUTELY RESPECTFUL.
06:03:21PM WE HAVE TRIED TO DEAL WITH THE ISSUES BROUGHT UP THE BEST WE
06:03:26PM CAN, BUT I WANT TO SAY THIS, AND THIS ALSO DEALS WITH THE
06:03:30PM TREES.
06:03:30PM AT THE END OF THE DAY, IF YOU WERE TRYING TO TAKE A PROJECT
06:03:34PM AND COLLOCATE IT WITH AN EXISTING USE, EXISTING TREES, AND
06:03:38PM YOU WANT TO KEEP THE USE, IN THIS INSTANCE, WE UNDERSTAND
06:03:41PM NATURAL RESOURCES.
06:03:43PM WE CAN TALK ABOUT THOSE TREES.
06:03:45PM THERE IS -- WE HAVE LOOKED AT THIS EVERY ANGLE WE CAN.
06:03:49PM THERE IS LITERALLY NO WAY TO DEVELOP THIS SITE WITH THIS
06:03:52PM KIND OF COLLOCATION BECAUSE IT IS NOT ABOUT THE HEIGHT, IT
06:03:55PM IS ABOUT WHAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE TO COLLOCATE THIS IN THE
06:03:59PM ACCESS POINTS ESPECIALLY SECURITY GIVEN THIS A SYNAGOGUE.
06:04:03PM NO WAY TO REIMAGINE THIS SITE IN A COLLOCATION MANNER THAT
06:04:08PM DOESN'T HAVE TREE REMOVAL.
06:04:09PM IT IS NOT POSSIBLE.
06:04:10PM SO IT PUTS EVERYBODY IN THE POSITION -- WHILE I DON'T LIKE
06:04:15PM SAYING THIS, BUT THIS IS ACCURATE.
06:04:16PM SAYING DO WE WANT TO HAVE THIS AS AN AVAILABLE OPTION FOR
06:04:21PM COLLOCATION LEAVING THE SYNAGOGUE IN ITS EXISTING LOCATION
06:04:24PM AS MANY ASSURANCES WE CAN.
06:04:27PM RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS THAT SAY WE ARE GOING TO DO OR SHOULD
06:04:30PM WE NOT GO IN THIS DIRECTION.
06:04:32PM UNFORTUNATELY THAT IS THE CONVERSATION WE ARE HAVING, BUT I
06:04:35PM THINK IT IS A GOOD CONVERSATION, BECAUSE IT GIVES THESE
06:04:37PM OTHER COMMUNITY USES OPTIONS TO REDEVELOP.
06:04:40PM CITY OF DISCUSSED THE WAIVER CRITERIA BY DISCUSSING THE
06:04:47PM INTERPLAY BETWEEN -- WE HAVE AN EXISTING BUILDING AND THAT
06:04:50PM BEING A HARDSHIP BUT THAT IS IN YOUR PACKET.
06:04:53PM I DO WANT TO TALK OF THE RELATED GROUP.
06:04:56PM A LOT OF YOU HEARD OF RELATED GROUP AND A LOT KNOW THE
06:05:00PM RELATED GROUP.
06:05:01PM THIS THEY HAVE A VARIETY OF DEVELOPMENTS THEY DO IN TAMPA.
06:05:04PM SOME OF THEM ARE HIGH-END LUXURY LIKE THE RITZ-CARLTON.
06:05:13PM THEY COME TO TAMPA AND THEY LOVE TAMPA.
06:05:15PM THEY WILL TALK ABOUT IT IF WE GET A CHANCE.
06:05:17PM THEY WANT TO BE HERE.
06:05:18PM WE ARE HERE TO STAY.
06:05:20PM THIS IS NOT A FLY MACHINE BY-NIGHT DEVELOPER.
06:05:23PM AS I SAID IN THIS, 44 AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS THEY HAVE
06:05:28PM DEVELOPED IN TAMPA ALONG RITZ-CARLTON.
06:05:36PM AND I WILL HOLD WHICH ISN'T MUCH FOR REBUTTAL.
06:05:39PM WE REALLY DO THINK AS HARD AS THIS PROJECT IS TO DEAL WITH
06:05:43PM IN TERMS OF THE COMMUNITY AND THEIR CONCERNS, THERE IS A
06:05:46PM SINCERE EFFORT ON OUR PART TO BRING FORWARD A PROJECT THAT
06:05:49PM RESPECTS THE PAST WITH THE SYNAGOGUE RETAINING ITS EXISTING
06:05:55PM LOCATION, BUT ALSO PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADDITIONAL
06:05:58PM HOUSING IN THIS AREA UP TO THE DENSITY THAT THIS
06:06:01PM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IS PROVIDING NOR AND IS SENSITIVE A WAY
06:06:06PM POSSIBLE BY ADDING TO THE COMMUNITY.
06:06:07PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
06:06:09PM AND OBVIOUSLY ANY ADDITIONAL TIME I WILL HAVE FOR REBUTTAL.
06:06:13PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
06:06:15PM ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS ABOUT EVER WE GO TO PUBLIC COMMENT?
06:06:18PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR STAFF.
06:06:20PM IF YOU COULD BRING ONE OF THE MAPS -- PREFERABLY ONE OF THE
06:06:26PM -- YEAH.
06:06:29PM AND PROBABLY ANY MAP WILL DO.
06:06:31PM PREFERABLY ONES THAT HAVE ZONING.
06:06:37PM THE ZONING MAP.
06:06:39PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: YES, LaCHONE DOCK, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
06:06:43PM LET ME SHOW MY MAP.
06:06:45PM I THOUGHT I PICKED IT UP DO WE HAVE AN AERIAL?
06:07:03PM I AM SORRY, LaCHONE DOCK, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
06:07:06PM HERE IS THE MAP.
06:07:07PM THIS IS A PARCEL THAT IS HERE.
06:07:09PM >>LYNN HURTAK: CAN YOU ZOOM IN A LITTLE BIT.
06:07:11PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: SURE, ABSOLUTELY.
06:07:14PM >>LYNN HURTAK: BECAUSE I AM -- THIS IS THE CURRENT ZONING?
06:07:16PM YOU CAN ZOOM OUT.
06:07:17PM BECAUSE I AM REALLY CURIOUS ABOUT STUFF SURROUNDING IT.
06:07:22PM THIS IS THE CURRENT ZONING, CORRECT?
06:07:24PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: CORRECT.
06:07:25PM >>LYNN HURTAK: TO THE SOUTH SAYS RM-24.
06:07:28PM AREN'T THOSE SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLINGS TO THE SOUTH CURRENTLY?
06:07:31PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: SOME ARE SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED.
06:07:34PM I HAVE A PICTURE OF THE DWELLINGS THAT ARE LOCATED TO THE
06:07:37PM SOUTH.
06:07:37PM THIS IS ONE.
06:07:38PM I AM SORRY, AND SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED.
06:07:48PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THE SAME THING TO THE WEST.
06:07:51PM THE WEST SAYS IT IS COMMERCIAL GENERAL, BUT I SAW ON THE MAP
06:07:56PM THAT IT DOESN'T LOOK COMMERCIAL.
06:08:00PM IT LOOKED LIKE RESIDENTIAL.
06:08:02PM SO I WAS JUST CURIOUS.
06:08:04PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: TO THE WEST, A POCKET OF COMMERCIAL GENERAL
06:08:07PM WHICH IS LOCATED HERE ON YSABELLA.
06:08:10PM THEN YOU HAVE YOUR TOWER THAT IS HERE.
06:08:12PM >>LYNN HURTAK: COMMERCIAL GENERAL.
06:08:16PM IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS TOWN HOMES.
06:08:18PM AM I RIGHT WITH THAT?
06:08:20PM YOU SHOWED SOME PHOTOS.
06:08:22PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: YES, THAT'S CORRECT.
06:08:23PM IN THE TOWER THERE MAY BE SOME TO THE WEST WITH A COMMERCIAL
06:08:26PM COMPONENT BUT ALREADY RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY TO THE WEST.
06:08:30PM AND SORRY, I AM DIGGING THROUGH MY PICTURES TO SEE.
06:08:34PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY.
06:08:36PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THIS ONE IS THE RESIDENTIAL TOWER.
06:08:38PM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO, I WAS ASKING DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET
06:08:41PM WHERE IT SAYS COMMERCIAL GENERAL.
06:08:44PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: RIGHT.
06:08:45PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT IS NOT
06:08:49PM COMMERCIAL GENERAL.
06:08:50PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: I APOLOGIZE, I HAD TO DIG THROUGH --
06:08:52PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE SAW THAT AND I WAS
06:08:55PM CLEAR ON THAT.
06:08:56PM CAN YOU PUT THE MAP BACK UP?
06:09:00PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: SURE.
06:09:00PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WHAT HAS -- WHAT HAS COUNCIL ALREADY APPROVED
06:09:05PM ON YSABELLA.
06:09:13PM WE LOOKED AT IT ON ABSTRACT AND CURIOUS THE DEVELOPMENTS
06:09:19PM ARE.
06:09:20PM >> YOU HAVE SOUTHWEST OF THE SITE.
06:09:21PM THIS IS A PD THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE CONSTRUCTION IN
06:09:25PM SOME OF THE PHOTOS.
06:09:26PM >>LYNN HURTAK: HOW COMPARABLE IS IT SIZE-WISE?
06:09:31PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THAT ONE TO THE WEST.
06:09:32PM I HAVE IT AS OVER 200 FEET IN HEIGHT.
06:09:38PM THAT DEVELOPMENT IS 155 FEET.
06:09:40PM IT IS 15 FLOORS.
06:09:42PM HOLD ON A SECOND.
06:09:46PM >>LYNN HURTAK: 150 FEET, YOU SAID?
06:09:50PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THIS DEVELOPMENT IS 200 UNITS, 349 FEET.
06:09:53PM >>LYNN HURTAK: 349 FEET.
06:09:55PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THE SOUTH AT SANTIAGO.
06:10:00PM THIS IS THE DEVELOPMENT THAT IS AT THE CORNER.
06:10:02PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OH, OKAY.
06:10:04PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: I AM SORRY, THIS ONE IS 250 FEET.
06:10:07PM >>LYNN HURTAK: 250 FEET AT 15 FLOORS.
06:10:09PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: 21 FLOORS AND A PENTHOUSE AT 250 FEET AND
06:10:20PM APPROVED IN 2016.
06:10:21PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT IS THE ONE SOUTH OF THE COMMERCIAL
06:10:23PM GENERAL.
06:10:24PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: CORRECT.
06:10:25PM THIS IS ON THE OPPOSITE CORNER LIKE SOUTHWEST OF THE SITE.
06:10:28PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YOU SAID THERE IS ANOTHER ONE --
06:10:33PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: FURTHER SOUTH OF THE SITE AT SANTIAGO.
06:10:36PM YOU HAVE BAY OAKS TOWER AND 249 FEET FURTHER SOUTH.
06:10:45PM >>LYNN HURTAK: HOW MANY STORIES IS THAT?
06:10:57PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: LET ME SEE IF I HAVE THAT, I APOLOGIZE.
06:11:00PM ONLY THE HEIGHT NOT THE STORIES.
06:11:02PM >>LYNN HURTAK: ON AVERAGE THAT WOULD BE --
06:11:12PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THEN FURTHER SOUTH AT BAY TO BAY
06:11:18PM IS AQUATICA.
06:11:18PM A PD THAT IS 155 FEET IN HEIGHT AND HAS 15 FLOORS.
06:11:24PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
06:11:26PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THAT IS AQUATICA.
06:11:32PM THOSE I BELIEVE ARE THE ONES I HAVE.
06:11:34PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
06:11:35PM IF YOU CAN PUT THAT MAP BACK UP FOR ME.
06:11:38PM SO THOSE ARE ALL GOING SOUTH?
06:11:47PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: YES.
06:11:52PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY, THANK YOU.
06:11:53PM THOSE ARE THE ONLY QUESTIONS I HAVE.
06:11:55PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN.
06:11:56PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THIS IS PROBABLY FOR THE PLANNING
06:11:59PM COMMISSION.
06:11:59PM YOU SPOKE ABOUT SAMPLE PROPERTIES IN COMPARISON TO THIS
06:12:06PM DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL.
06:12:07PM HOW MANY OF THOSE SAMPLE PROPERTIES WERE NOT BAYSHORE
06:12:11PM FACING.
06:12:11PM YOU KNOW NOT BAYSHORE ADJACENT?
06:12:15PM >> SO WHEN WE DO OUR SAMPLES -- DANNY COLLINS WITH THE
06:12:18PM PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF.
06:12:19PM WHEN WE DO OUR SAMPLES, WE LOOK AT THE LAND USES.
06:12:22PM AND THEN WE LOOK AT THE DENSITIES WITHIN THOSE LAND USE.
06:12:25PM FOR EXAMPLE, THE R-83.
06:12:28PM PULL MY NUMBERS OUT.
06:12:30PM SOME FOR EXAMPLE, THE R-83 WHICH IS THIS PARCEL HERE.
06:12:54PM THIS DARK BROWNISH COLOR.
06:12:58PM WE LOOKED AT THOSE SAMPLES .SO BASED ON FIVE SITES, IT WAS
06:13:03PM -- THE CATEGORY ALLOWS UP TO 83 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE.
06:13:08PM THAT IS WHAT IT IS PLANNED FOR.
06:13:10PM THOSE ARE CURRENTLY DEVELOPED AT 16.12 UNITS AN ACRE WHICH
06:13:15PM IS 19% OF THE DENSITY THAT IS ANTICIPATED IN THE CATEGORIES.
06:13:18PM WE LOOKED AT THE R-35, WHICH ARE THESE RIGHT HERE.
06:13:22PM EXCLUDING THE SUBJECT SITE.
06:13:26PM THE R-35 ANTICIPATES UP TO 35 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE.
06:13:32PM PACED ON 15 SAMPLE SITES.
06:13:35PM THE -- THE EXISTING DENSITY OF THE SAMPLES 14.27 OR 40% OF
06:13:42PM THE DENSITY THAT IS ANTICIPATED IN 249 R-35 DESIGNATION.
06:13:47PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: RELATING THE NEW CONSTRUCTION IN THE
06:13:50PM CONTEXT OF THE EXISTING NEIGHBORHOOD THOUGH, HOW MANY TOWERS
06:13:53PM DO NOT FACE BAYSHORE?
06:14:00PM >> TOWER ARE KIND OF STAGGERED UP ALONG BAYSHORE.
06:14:03PM THE ONE PRIMARILY WE LOOKED AT WHICH WE MENTIONED IN OUR
06:14:06PM REPORT, THAT 15-STORY TOWER THAT IS DIRECTLY TO THE NORTH OF
06:14:09PM THAT SITE.
06:14:10PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THAT IS THE ONE THAT FACES IT -- ABUTS THE
06:14:14PM COMMERCIAL DISTRICT AND THE EXPRESSWAY, CORRECT?
06:14:17PM >>DANNY COLLINS: YES.
06:14:19PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: NONRESIDENTIAL.
06:14:20PM OKAY, THANK YOU.
06:14:21PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?
06:14:22PM YES, MA'AM.
06:14:23PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: COUNCIL, LaCHONE DOCK, DEVELOPMENT
06:14:28PM COORDINATION.
06:14:28PM IF I MAY, COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK TOUCHED BRIEFLY ON THE
06:14:32PM COMMERCIAL GENERAL TO THE WEST.
06:14:34PM THE SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL THAT IS DEVELOPED WITHIN THE
06:14:38PM COMMERCIAL GENERAL DISTRICT REQUIRES SPECIAL USE APPROVAL.
06:14:42PM A SPECIAL USE-1.
06:14:43PM THAT IS WHY YOU WON'T SEE IT IDENTIFIED ON THE ACTUAL ATLAS
06:14:47PM AS, LIKE, A PD -- OR AS A REZONING.
06:14:50PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
06:14:52PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: I WOULD LIKE TO ENTER INTO THE RECORD
06:14:54PM LETTERS OF SUPPORT SENT INCORRECTLY TO OUR OFFICE.
06:14:57PM SO I AM GOING TO ENTER THEM INTO THE RECORD AND I HAVE
06:15:01PM COPIES FOR I'M COUNCILMEMBER.
06:15:04PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
06:15:06PM COUNCILMAN HENDERSON.
06:15:07PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MISS DOCK, MAYBE THIS CAN BE FOR THE
06:15:13PM DEVELOPER.
06:15:13PM THE LANDSCAPE BUFFER IN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY -- IT NEEDS TO BE
06:15:19PM IN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY BECAUSE IT DOESN'T FIT I THINK THAT IS
06:15:21PM IT WHAT I HAVE IN MY NOTES HERE.
06:15:24PM THAT IS NOT THEY NEED THE WAIVER?
06:15:29PM >> YOU ARE CORRECT TO THE EXTENT IN ORDER TO PROVIDE THE
06:15:32PM TURN AROUND, THE CIRCLE DRIVEWAY WITHIN THE PROPERTY, THERE
06:15:37PM IS A REQUEST TO THEN ALLOW ADDITIONAL LANDSCAPING IN THE
06:15:41PM RIGHT-OF-WAY.
06:15:41PM SO THAT DOES REQUIRE A WAIVER AS PART OF THAT.
06:15:44PM BUT, AGAIN -- AND I RECOGNIZE THE FRUSTRATION WITH EVERYONE.
06:15:48PM WHEN YOU ARE TRYING TO DO THIS KINDS OF COLLOCATION.
06:15:51PM IF WE HAD A CLEARED SITE, THERE IS A LOT OF OTHER THINGS YOU
06:15:55PM CAN DO.
06:15:55PM THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO DO THIS COLLOCATION IN THIS AREA AND
06:16:01PM WHY THE REQUEST HAS BEEN MADE.
06:16:03PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: HAS THERE BEEN AN ANALYSIS DONE OF THE
06:16:06PM PUBLIC SAFETY ASPECT OF THAT DECISION?
06:16:09PM >> WHEN YOU GET PERMITTING, THAT WILL BE REQUIRED THROUGH --
06:16:11PM THROUGH YOUR TRANSPORTATION FOLKS TO ENSURE THAT ANY
06:16:14PM LANDSCAPE THAT IS PLACED IN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY AND ANYTHING
06:16:17PM THAT IS DONE IN TERMS OF INTERFACE BETWEEN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY
06:16:21PM AND THE -- THE PROPERTY, THE ON-SITE PROPERTY COMPLIES WITH
06:16:28PM THEIR TECHNICAL STANDARD.
06:16:29PM ANYTHING RELATES TO VIEWED CORRIDORS.
06:16:33PM ANYTHING THAT RELATES TO PEDESTRIANS HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY
06:16:35PM TO KNOW WHAT IS COMING IN AND OUT WILL OCCUR IN THAT REGARD.
06:16:39PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I WANT TO FRAME MY QUESTION PROPERLY.
06:16:52PM SO THE -- SINCE YOU NEED THE LANDSCAPE BUFFER IN THE
06:17:03PM RIGHT-OF-WAY, IS THIS ANY WAY YOU CAN NOT HAVE TO DO THAT SO
06:17:05PM YOU CAN MAKE IT FIT WITHIN THE AREA THAT YOU NEED SO THAT IT
06:17:12PM CAN WORK.
06:17:12PM ANY WAY THAT IT CAN WORK?
06:17:15PM >> I AM GOING TO ASK OUR LANDSCAPE --
06:17:21PM >> COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON, RICKY PETERIKA, DARK MOSS.
06:17:28PM I HAVE BEEN SWORN.
06:17:29PM WE CHANGED THE WAIVER FROM REQUESTING BUFFERING IN THE
06:17:34PM RIGHT-OF-WAY TO A EIGHT FOOT TO TWO FOOT ENHANCED BUFFERING
06:17:40PM OUT OF THE RIGHT-OF-WAY.
06:17:42PM A REMOVAL OF THE LANDSCAPE REQUEST TO PUT IN THE
06:17:44PM RIGHT-OF-WAY TO PROVIDE A DIFFERENT TYPE OF PUFFER WITHIN A
06:17:48PM PROPERTY IN A NARROW BUFFER WITH.
06:17:52PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
06:17:53PM IN PREVIOUS PROJECTS, IS THIS A COMMON REQUEST TO HAVE THIS
06:17:56PM TYPE OF WAIVER?
06:18:01PM I AM JUST ASKING SO I CAN MAKE GOOD DECISIONS.
06:18:05PM I ONLY HAVE EXPERIENCE OF A COUPLE OF PROJECTS OF THIS
06:18:09PM DENSITY AND THEY DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TURNAROUNDS LIKE
06:18:12PM THIS FUNCTION, BUT I THINK THE -- NO PROJECT I HAVE WORKED
06:18:17PM ON IN A LANDSCAPER ARBOR.
06:18:20PM IT HAS A CULTURAL FACILITY LIKE A SYNAGOGUE AS WELL AS THE
06:18:25PM PROPOSAL.
06:18:26PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
06:18:27PM THANK YOU.
06:18:28PM IF NOTHING -- YES, SIR.
06:18:31PM COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN.
06:18:34PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MISS MANDELL, I HAVE A QUESTION, PART OF
06:18:37PM YOUR PRESENTATION, YOU ASSERTED THAT IN ORDER TO RETAIN THE
06:18:41PM SYNAGOGUE, THAT THIS WAS THE ONLY OPTION.
06:18:44PM IS THAT YOUR PROFESSIONAL ASSERTION NOTHING ELSE THAT CAN BE
06:18:49PM BUILT ON THIS SITE AND STAY WITHIN THE CONFINES OF CODE.
06:18:53PM >> AS IT RELATES TO THE TREE.
06:18:54PM MY POINT WAS RELATING TO THE TREES.
06:18:56PM IN ORDER TO PROVIDE -- AGAIN, YOU HAVE A CULTURAL ASSET AND
06:19:01PM A SYNAGOGUE THAT HAVE CERTAIN SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR THEIR
06:19:04PM INGRESS AND EGRESS.
06:19:05PM SO IN ORDER TO RETAIN THIS -- THIS INSTITUTION ON THIS
06:19:10PM LOCATION, THE SYNAGOGUE ON THIS LOCATION AND COLLOCATE, THE
06:19:14PM ONLY WAY TO DO THAT AS IT RELATES TO THE TREES, THERE IS --
06:19:17PM WE LOOKED AT IT.
06:19:18PM NO WAY -- EVEN IF -- IT IS NOT A SIZE OR HEIGHT ISSUE, IN
06:19:24PM ORDER TO DO THE INGRESS AND EGRESS.
06:19:28PM RICKY CAN SPEAK ON THAT FURTHER.
06:19:30PM WE DID SPEND TIME TO FIGURE THAT OUT.
06:19:33PM AND NOT AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO THE COLLOCATION AND RETAIN
06:19:36PM THOSE TREES.
06:19:37PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: JUST FOR THE RECORD, WE ARE NOT TRYING TO
06:19:39PM PUT ON THE RECORD THAT NOTHING ELSE CAN BE BUILT ON THE
06:19:42PM SITE.
06:19:42PM >> THAT ISN'T WHAT I WAS TRYING TO ASSERT.
06:19:45PM I WAS DIRECTLY ASSERTING AS IT RELATES TO THE TREES.
06:19:48PM BUT I WAS ALSO POINTING OUT TO YOU THAT THIS IS A PARCEL AND
06:19:53PM AN AREA THAT IS FOR HIGHER INTENSITY AND DENSITY
06:19:58PM DEVELOPMENT.
06:19:58PM ORDER TO PROVIDE BOTH FOR THE HIRE DENSITY AND INTENSITY AND
06:20:02PM RETAINING THE SYNAGOGUE.
06:20:04PM COULD YOU DO A PROJECT HERE NOT RETAINING THE SYNAGOGUE THAT
06:20:07PM MAY BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, IN THIS VAIN THAT MAY
06:20:13PM RETAIN TREES, LIKELY, BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT THE APPLICATION
06:20:18PM IS AND NOT THE INTENT.
06:20:19PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
06:20:20PM I APPRECIATE THE ANSWER.
06:20:21PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
06:20:22PM WE WILL NOW BEGIN PUBLIC COMMENT.
06:20:25PM MR. PRESSMAN, DO YOU HAVE A SPEAKER WAIVER FORM.
06:20:30PM >> I DO, SIR.
06:20:31PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: PLEASE GIVE IT TO MR. SHELBY AND WE WILL
06:20:34PM READ OFF THE NAMES.
06:20:35PM IF YOU WERE HERE, YOU MUST BE HERE.
06:20:37PM PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND SO HE CAN WE CAN ACKNOWLEDGE YOU.
06:20:41PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: SUZANNE.
06:20:48PM KAREN ROBERTS.
06:20:49PM THANK YOU.
06:20:50PM CAROL GUITEN.
06:20:54PM THANK YOU.
06:20:55PM MADDIE VEGA.
06:20:59PM THANK YOU.
06:21:00PM DONNA BARS.
06:21:01PM LIZ REYNOLDS.
06:21:03PM STEVE REYNOLDS.
06:21:06PM SEVEN NAMES, AN ADDITIONAL SEVEN MINUTES FOR A TOTAL OF TEN,
06:21:10PM PLEASE.
06:21:10PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IS SOMEBODY PLAYING MUSIC IN THE CROWD?
06:21:18PM THAT IS OUTSIDE?
06:21:22PM IT IS OUTSIDE?
06:21:25PM ALL RIGHT.
06:21:25PM MR. PRESSMAN.
06:21:35PM STATE YOUR NAME AND YOU HAVE --
06:21:39PM >> TEN MINUTES.
06:21:40PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: TEN MINUTES.
06:21:41PM WE HAVE THAT ON THE CLOCK.
06:21:42PM >> MR. CHAIRMAN, TODD PRESSMAN, 200 SECOND AVENUE SOUTH IN
06:21:47PM ST. PETERSBURG.
06:21:47PM I AM PROUD AND HONORED TO REPRESENT THE ICONIC HISTORIC AND
06:21:51PM BEAUTIFUL TAMPA GARDEN CLUB WHO HAS BEEN AN ICON IN THIS
06:21:55PM CITY SINCE 1926.
06:21:57PM WE APPRECIATE THE ZONING STAFF'S FINDING OF INCONSISTENCY.
06:22:02PM THE GARDEN CLUB ABUTS THE PROPERTY ON ITS NORTH.
06:22:06PM WE ARE THE MOST IMPACTED NEIGHBOR IN OUR BEEN.
06:22:08PM AND, YES, I WAS SWORN IN.
06:22:10PM IF WE CAN GO TO THE POWERPOINT.
06:22:13PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, SIR, WE SEE IT.
06:22:15PM THERE YOU GO.
06:22:17PM >> THIS ISSUE IS ABOUT COMPATIBILITY.
06:22:19PM IN OUR BELIEF THAT THIS COMPATIBILITY IS LIKE OIL AND WATER.
06:22:23PM SEE, YOU HAVE THE GARDEN CLUB AND THE WEDDING GARDEN AND
06:22:29PM FRED BALL PARK BEHIND AND THE NEW BUILDING IS LOCATED, YOU
06:22:33PM SEE, ON THE LEFT.
06:22:34PM SO THERE IS A CLOSE ORIENTATION BETWEEN THESE USES.
06:22:38PM WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE GARDEN CLUB'S WEB SITE, THEY CAN TELL
06:22:42PM YOU -- YOU CAN LOOK UP TODAY.
06:22:44PM SPECTACULAR BACKDROP FOR WEDDINGS AND YOUR EVENT WILL BE
06:22:48PM PRIVATE AND EXCLUSIVE, SPECTACULAR WEDDING GARDEN AND
06:22:51PM GORGEOUS LAYOUT.
06:22:52PM SO HERE IS A LITTLE SLIDE SHOW OF WHAT IS AT THE HEART OF
06:22:58PM THE GARDEN CLUB WHICH IS THEIR WEDDING GARDEN AND WHAT IS
06:23:02PM PROPOSED.
06:23:03PM NOW I HAVE IT AT 354 FEET WHICH WAS THE PRIOR HEIGHT.
06:23:11PM OUR RESEARCH WITH OUR PLANNER WAS THE TALLEST OUTSIDE
06:23:15PM DOWNTOWN OF CHANNELSIDE.
06:23:17PM I WILL REPHRASE THAT.
06:23:18PM ONE OF THE LARGEST AND TALLEST BUILDINGS THAT WE SAW
06:23:22PM RESEARCHED OUTSIDE OF DOWNTOWN TAMPA AND CHANNELSIDE.
06:23:25PM GARDEN AND WEDDING CENTER WHICH IS THE ABUTTING USE.
06:23:29PM WE FOUND TALLER THAN MARRIOTT WATERSIDE 250,000 SQUARE FEET.
06:23:38PM A TEN-FOOT SETBACK ON THEIR PLANS.
06:23:41PM THESE ELEVATIONS ARE DIRECTLY FROM THE REPORTS OF THE PUBLIC
06:23:46PM RECORD.
06:23:46PM AND THEN, OF COURSE, THEY HAVE A FACILITY THAT THEY HAVE
06:23:56PM INTERNALLY FOR DINNERS AND SOCIAL EVENTS AND THINGS OF THAT
06:24:00PM NATURE.
06:24:00PM THIS IS A USE ON THE GROUND, ON THE GRASS.
06:24:03PM SO THIS IS THE FRONT LAWN.
06:24:06PM COMPARED TO ONE OF THE LARGEST BUILDINGS OUTSIDE OF TAMPA,
06:24:11PM DOWNTOWN TAMPA AND CHANNELSIDE.
06:24:13PM THIS IS FROM THE PUBLIC RECORD.
06:24:16PM AND YOU WILL SEE PRIOR EXTERIOR PLAN SHOWED A PICKLEBALL
06:24:20PM COURT, SUMMER IS KITCHEN, TABLES.
06:24:22PM THESE ARE THE SUMMER KITCHEN TABLES.
06:24:25PM YOU CAN SEE THE WEDDING GARDEN IS DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT.
06:24:28PM THE PICKLEBALL COURT, TABLES.
06:24:32PM OUR CONDO -- A BIG PARTY AREA MONDAY, 30, 35 PEOPLE ARE OUT
06:24:38PM PARTYING, COOKING OUT, ENJOYING THE FACILITY.
06:24:42PM A PARTY AREA AS WE SEE IT.
06:24:44PM TO BE FAIR ON SUBSEQUENT PLANTS AFTER WE RAISED THE
06:24:47PM QUESTION, THE PLAN DID CHANGE AND THEY NOTE IT AS AN AMENITY
06:24:50PM DECK.
06:24:50PM I DON'T KNOW IF THERE IS STILL PICKLEBALL OR NOT.
06:24:52PM WHEN WOMEN ARE SAYING THEIR I DOs.
06:24:56PM I DON'T THINK PETITION WANT TO HEAR PADDLEBALLS GOING BACK
06:24:58PM AND FORTH AGAIN AT A TEN-FOOT SETBACK.
06:25:01PM NOW LARGE BUILDINGS CAST LARGE SHADOWS.
06:25:06PM THIS IS AN OUTDOOR USE.
06:25:08PM IDYLLIC.
06:25:10PM BEAUTIFUL.
06:25:10PM THAT CHANGES LIGHT AND AIR ON A USE THAT IS VERY SPECIFIC
06:25:16PM AND IMPACTED BY SHADOW, A UNIQUE, SINGULAR, IDYLLIC OPEN
06:25:24PM SPACE THAT WILL LOSE EXCLUSIVITY.
06:25:26PM AND PREVIOUS VENUE FOR WEDDINGS AND BEAUTIFUL,
06:25:34PM UNINTERRUPTED.
06:25:34PM CHOSEN BY GENERATIONS OF FAMILY.
06:25:36PM LOSS OF THEIR COMPETITIVE ASSET AN IDYLLIC BEAUTIFUL VIEW
06:25:41PM AND AFFECTS A FIVE-ACRE BAYSHORE JEWEL WHICH IS AN URBAN
06:25:46PM OASIS AND PARK-LIKE BEAUTY.
06:25:48PM WHY DO I SAY FIVE ACRES, THE BODY BEHIND IS THE FRED BALL
06:25:54PM PARK -- VIRTUALLY ABUTTING.
06:25:59PM A PARK SINCE 1906.
06:26:01PM IT IS AN ORIGINAL POOL.
06:26:03PM IT HAS A SPRING.
06:26:04PM HERE ARE A FEW SHOTS OF IT HERE.
06:26:07PM I WANT TO SAY ONE THING, AS MY FRIEND JULIA MANDELL PRESSED
06:26:13PM AND PRESSED OF FUTURE LAND USE DENSITIES.
06:26:16PM THE POINT IS THAT FUTURE LAND USE CATEGORIES ARE NOT A
06:26:19PM AGAIN.
06:26:19PM THEY ARE NOT -- THEY ARE NOT WHAT THE DENSITY NUMBERS SAY.
06:26:23PM THEY ARE SPEED LIMIT.
06:26:26PM YOU DON'T GET WHAT THAT NUMBER IS.
06:26:28PM YOU CHOOSE WHAT THAT DENSITY IS GOING TO BE.
06:26:30PM SO WHEN YOU LOOK -- WHEN SHE SHOWS YOU A FUTURE LAND USE
06:26:35PM CATEGORIES OF HIGH AMOUNTS, THOSE ARE NOT A AGAIN, AND
06:26:38PM ADDITION ALLEGEDLY, THEY ARE UNDER PD SITE PLAN ZONING.
06:26:42PM IF THEY CAME IN TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT, THEY WILL HAVE TO
06:26:45PM DEAL.
06:26:46PM WITH TEN POUNDS OF SUGAR IN A FIVE-POUND BAD.
06:26:49PM SHE TALKS OF MEETING INTENSITY.
06:26:51PM SHE SAID MEETING THE DENSITY OR TRYING TO MEET THE DENSITIES
06:26:55PM AS BEST AS POSSIBLE.
06:26:57PM BONUS OF SEVEN ADDITIONAL UNITS.
06:26:59PM SPECIAL BONUS THAT THEY HAVE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY --
06:27:02PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SORRY, MR. SHELBY.
06:27:04PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
06:27:06PM MY APOLOGIES FOR INTERRUPTING --
06:27:09PM >> STOP THE CLOCK PLEASE.
06:27:10PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THIS IS A
06:27:16PM QUASI-JUDICIAL HEARING.
06:27:17PM PEOPLE ARE HERE TO OBSERVE OR OFFER TESTIMONY TO GIVE
06:27:20PM EVIDENCE.
06:27:21PM NOT AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE NOISE OR DISTRACT.
06:27:23PM IT IS NOT AN OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE ON SOMETHING.
06:27:25PM SO I WOULD ASK YOU TO PLEASE RESPECTFULLY, WHATEVER SIDE YOU
06:27:29PM ARE ON, TO REFRAIN FROM MAKING DISTRACTING NOISE AND PUT
06:27:32PM YOUR ATTENTION TO THE TESTIMONY, BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE
06:27:35PM COUNCIL UNDER THE LAW HAS TO SPEND ITS TIME, THE FACTS OF
06:27:38PM THE CASE TO ALLOW TO MAKE ITS DECISION.
06:27:40PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: PLEASE CONTINUE AND RESTART THE CLOCK.
06:27:44PM PUT THE POWERPOINT UP.
06:27:46PM THERE YOU GO.
06:27:46PM >> THEY WANT TO KEEP THEIR OLD WAIVER OF A REDUCTION OF
06:27:50PM PARKING FROM 84 TO 54 AND KEEP THAT PLUS ADD EVERYTHING THEY
06:27:53PM ARE PROPOSING.
06:27:54PM THEY ARE REDUCING THE REQUIRED TREE RETENTION FROM 50% TO
06:27:59PM 20% ON A NONWOODED LOT.
06:28:01PM TAMPA WAS CHOSEN AS THE NUMBER ONE TREE CITY IN 2013 AND
06:28:07PM REMOVED GRAND OAKS.
06:28:09PM THE MAYOR MADE IMPORTANT COMMENTS OF KEEPING OUR TREE CANOPY
06:28:12PM WHEN YOU WERE SWORN IN.
06:28:14PM AND YOU HAVE SPECIFIC CRITERIA, COMPATIBILITY CRITERIA IN
06:28:19PM WHY YOU ARE STAFF REPORT THAT YOU MUST FIND FOR.
06:28:22PM FIRST CONSIDERATION OF ADVERSE IMPACTS.
06:28:24PM NOTICES FIVE ACRES OF LUSH TROPICAL GARDENS WILL BE
06:28:29PM THREATENED WITH THE MASSIVE BULK.
06:28:31PM AND ENCOURAGE COMPATIBILITY AND SITE DESIGN OF SCALE
06:28:35PM EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL.
06:28:36PM YOU HAVE TO FIND SUPPORT.
06:28:37PM OUR PLAN THAT WE WILL PUT ON THE RECORD NOTE THAT WE ARE
06:28:41PM HIGH-RISE DEVELOPMENTS EXIST.
06:28:43PM THIS IS IMPORTANT ON BAYSHORE BOULEVARD.
06:28:45PM THEY ACCOMPLISH A FULL BLOCK AND THIS BUILDING MASS IS NOT
06:28:52PM COMPATIBLE BECAUSE NOT SET UP ON BAYSHORE THE WAY THE OTHER
06:28:55PM LARGE TOWERS ARE.
06:28:56PM THAT IS A VERY IMPORTANT FINDING.
06:28:58PM PD OFFICIAL STANDARD.
06:29:00PM PROTECT BEAUTY AND IMPORTANCE.
06:29:03PM OPEN SPACE AND GREEN SPACE.
06:29:04PM A CRITERIA YOU HAVE TO FIND TONIGHT.
06:29:07PM NUMBER SIX YOU HAVE TO FIND TONIGHT ENCOURAGE DEVELOPMENT
06:29:10PM WHERE IT IS -- WHERE IT IS COMPATIBLE SURROUNDING IMPACTED
06:29:13PM NEIGHBORHOODS.
06:29:13PM NOT ILLUSTRATIVE OF A MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT, SHE TELLS US
06:29:18PM REDUCES THE ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF THE SITE.
06:29:20PM YOU ALSO DO HAVE A LONG LIST OF COMPREHENSIVE POLICIES, AND
06:29:26PM THERE ARE MANY THAT DON'T MATCH OR ARE SUPPORTED.
06:29:28PM THESE ARE STILL UNDER YOUR CONSIDERATION, REQUIRING SCALE
06:29:32PM AND MASS SOMETHING COMPATIBLE.
06:29:34PM APPROPRIATE TRANSITIONS OUR BEEN THERE ARE NONE AND
06:29:43PM GO ON AND ON AND AFFECT COMPATIBILITY IN A MAJOR WAY.
06:29:46PM CRITICAL FINDING BY OUR PLANNERS, EXISTING HIGH-RISES ARE
06:29:50PM MORE COMPATIBLE WITH THE LOW-RISE RESIDENTIAL CHARACTER IN
06:29:52PM OTHER PLACES BECAUSE THEY ARE LOCATED AT INTERSECTIONS OR
06:29:55PM THE WHOLE BLOCK IS DEVELOPED WITH HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS.
06:29:57PM SO WHEN YOU ARE PLANNING STAFF TELLS YOU THEY ARE UNDER
06:30:02PM DENSITY, THAT IS FINE, BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE BE WITH THE
06:30:06PM NEXT WITH THE FUTURE LAND USE CATEGORY.
06:30:07PM THIS AREA WHERE THE TOWER IS DIFFERENT THAN OTHER TOWERS ON
06:30:12PM BAYSHORE.
06:30:12PM ZONING REPORT.
06:30:13PM WE SUPPORT THE STAFF, BUT THEY ONLY HAD ONE SENTENCE OF THE
06:30:17PM TAMPA GARDEN CLUB AND FRED BALL PARK.
06:30:19PM PLANNING COMMISSION HAD NO MENTION OF THE PARK AND GARDEN
06:30:21PM CENTER.
06:30:22PM WE DON'T BELIEVE THAT THE REVIEW WAS CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE
06:30:24PM ABUTTING NEIGHBORS.
06:30:25PM NOW THEY DID MAKE SOME COMMENTS THAT SHOWED A COUPLE OF
06:30:29PM PICTURES AT THE HEARING.
06:30:30PM I AM REFERRING TO THE STAFF REPORTS SUBMITTED INTO THE
06:30:33PM RECORD.
06:30:33PM SO IN SUMMARY, YOU HAVE LOUD AND WIDESPREAD CITIZEN
06:30:38PM OPPOSITION.
06:30:38PM OUR LAST COUNT 1200, 1300 PETITION SIGNATURES IN OPPOSITION.
06:30:45PM CREDIBLE AND VALID POINTS.
06:30:47PM BELIEVE IT IS COMPATIBLE LIKE OIL AND WATER HEIGHT, NOISE,
06:30:51PM MASS, BEAUTY AND DENSITY.
06:30:54PM WE BELIEVE IT IS TOO MUCH IN THE WRONG PLACE.
06:30:55PM NATURAL RESOURCES TO CONSIDER.
06:30:57PM WE BELIEVE TEN POUNDS OF SUGAR IN A FIVE-POUND BAG.
06:31:00PM CITY'S FINDING OF INCONSISTENT.
06:31:02PM SPECIFIC COMPATIBILITY REQUIREMENTS OF CRITERIA THAT YOU
06:31:07PM MUST FIND TONIGHT.
06:31:08PM AND THAT IS WHY WE FEEL, AS WE MENTIONED, A FEW ITEMS THAT
06:31:12PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION REPORT IS OFF.
06:31:14PM WITH THAT, I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO AGAIN UNDERSTAND THE
06:31:18PM CRITICAL OPERATION AND ACTIVITY OF THE GARDEN CLUB, WHICH IS
06:31:24PM PRIVACY, EXCLUSIVITY.
06:31:27PM WEDDINGS ATTRACT ATTENTION.
06:31:29PM WEDDINGS -- PEOPLE GAWK AT WEDDINGS.
06:31:32PM THEY ARE VERY NICE TO LOOK AT.
06:31:33PM WE FEEL THAT IS GOING TO BE GONE.
06:31:35PM THE RELATED FOLKS, GOOD PEOPLE.
06:31:37PM A GOOD PROJECT.
06:31:38PM BUT CLEARLY WE FEEL IT IS IN THE WRONG LOCATION OCCASION.
06:31:42PM SO I WILL PUT THIS IN THE RECORD.
06:31:43PM AND WE APPRECIATE YOUR CONSIDERATION.
06:31:46PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
06:31:49PM ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY SPEAKER WAIVER FORMS?
06:31:52PM YES, MA'AM, PLEASE APPROACH THE ATTORNEY AND WE WILL READ A
06:31:54PM YOU HAVE THE NAMES.
06:31:55PM YOU HAVE TO GIVE HIM THE LIST RIGHT HERE.
06:31:57PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: FIVE NAMES.
06:32:11PM ANN GEMSON.
06:32:13PM TERRY CASTILLO.
06:32:16PM THANK YOU.
06:32:16PM ANN GLEN.
06:32:19PM CJ SMITH.
06:32:21PM ALISON MURRAY.
06:32:22PM FIVE NAMES, FIVE ADDITIONAL MINUTES FOR A TOTAL OF EIGHT.
06:32:27PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
06:32:29PM YOU WILL HAVE EIGHT MINUTES TOTAL.
06:32:32PM >> GOOD EVENING, CITY COUNCIL.
06:32:34PM I AM JANE GRAHAM, 703 MAIN STREET, SAFETY, HARBOR.
06:32:40PM I REPRESENT BAYSHORE CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION.
06:32:44PM EL TORAH IS HERE ATOP THING ALL CONCERNS OF THE TAMPA GARDEN
06:32:50PM CLUB AND ALSO OPPOSED TO THIS REQUEST.
06:32:52PM WE ARE REQUESTING A DENIALS TONIGHT.
06:32:55PM YOU MAKE YOUR DECISION, REMEMBER AS A REZONING, YOU NEED TO
06:33:01PM HEAR THAT THERE IS COMPETENT SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
06:33:04PM THE APPLICANT HAS THE BURDEN TO SHOW THAT THEY HAVE MET ALL
06:33:07PM THE CRITERIA UNDER THE REZONING CODE, AS WELL AS THE WAIVERS
06:33:11PM AND THEY ARE ASKING FOR A BONUS PROVISION.
06:33:14PM AND I AM GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE WHAT YOU
06:33:17PM NEED TO LOOK FOR THAT.
06:33:19PM THE STAFF HAS A FINDING OF INCONSISTENCY WHICH IS COMPETENT,
06:33:25PM SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
06:33:26PM YOU NEED TO TAKE INTO SERIOUSLY IN YOUR ACCOUNT IN YOUR
06:33:29PM DECISION.
06:33:30PM AS FAR AS EL TORAH, THE PROPERTY OWNERS HAVE CONCERNS THAT
06:33:36PM THIS WILL NEGATIVELY IMPACT THEIR LIFE, CHARACTER OF THE
06:33:40PM NEIGHBORHOOD AND WELL BEING DURING HURRICANE EVACUATIONS AND
06:33:44PM FLOODS AND TRAFFIC SAFETY.
06:33:45PM I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS BONUS PROVISION, BECAUSE IT IS
06:33:49PM KIND OF SERIOUS.
06:33:50PM YOU KNOW THE PROPERTY IS IN THE COASTAL HIGH HAZARD ZONE,
06:33:55PM WHICH MR. DANNY COLLINS HAD MENTIONED.
06:33:57PM AND PREVIOUSLY, THIS FIRST CAME TO YOU AS A FUTURE LAND USE
06:34:01PM MAP AMENDMENT.
06:34:02PM AND THE -- THE PLANNING COMMISSION ACTUALLY SAID NO, THE
06:34:05PM DENSITY -- YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A RECOMMENDATION AGAINST IT
06:34:09PM BECAUSE THERE WAS MORE DENSITY IN THE -- IN THE COASTAL HIGH
06:34:14PM HAZARD AREA.
06:34:15PM HERE, THE APPLICANT IS NO LONGER REQUESTING A FUTURE LAND
06:34:18PM USE MAP AMENDMENT, BUT THEY ARE STILL REQUESTING AN INCREASE
06:34:22PM OF DENSITY ON THE SAME PROPERTY.
06:34:24PM THIS TIME IT IS VIA A BONUS PROVISION AGREEMENT.
06:34:27PM THIS REQUEST FOR THE SAME REASON AS THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP
06:34:35PM IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
06:34:37PM IT INCREASES DENSITY IN THE COASTAL HIGH HAZARD AREA.
06:34:41PM IF YOU LOOK AT THE LANGUAGE OF SECTION 5 OF THE DRAFT BONUS
06:34:46PM PROVISION AGREEMENT, IT EXPLICITLY DESCRIBES IT AS A DENSITY
06:34:50PM INCREASE; HOWEVER, THE TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, CM
06:34:56PM OBJECTIVE 1.1 IS VERY EXPLICIT.
06:34:59PM DIRECT FUTURE POPULATION CONCENTRATIONS AWAY FROM THE
06:35:04PM COASTAL HIGH HAZARD AREA SO AS TO ACHIEVE A NO NET INCREASE
06:35:08PM OF OVERALL RESIDENTIAL DENSITY WITHIN THE COASTAL HIGH
06:35:11PM HAZARD AREA.
06:35:12PM NO EXCEPTION IN THE CODE OR THE EXTRA HE WAS PLAN THAT
06:35:14PM ALLOWS FOR INCREASES OF POPULATIONS IN THE COASTAL HIGH
06:35:19PM HAZARD AREA JUST BECAUSE IT WAS APPROVED VIA A BONUS
06:35:23PM PROVISION.
06:35:23PM THE CITY OF TAMPA HAS A STRONG PUBLIC POLICY REASON AS WELL
06:35:27PM TO TOLE THIS COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PROVISION AND NOT INCREASE
06:35:30PM THE DENSITY IN THE COASTAL HIGH HAZARD AREAS.
06:35:32PM THERE ARE A NUMBER OF OTHER COMP PLAN OBJECTIVES RELATED TO
06:35:38PM THE INCREASE OF DENSITY.
06:35:39PM AND I HAVE PROVIDED A LETTER, WHICH I WILL SUBMIT INTO THE
06:35:42PM RECORD RIGHT NOW THAT GOES INTO MORE DETAIL.
06:35:45PM THE OTHER ISSUE ABOUT THE BONUS PROVISION IS THAT THE CITY
06:35:50PM REVIEWS IT BASED ON SEVERAL FACTORS UNDER 27-140-J.
06:35:56PM SOME OF THEM INCLUDE THE PUBLIC'S BENEFIT IS ARRIVED FROM
06:36:00PM THE BONUS AMENDMENTS.
06:36:02PM AND THE BENEFITS FROM THE BONUSES AND NEGATIVE IMPACTS FROM
06:36:07PM THE BONUS.
06:36:08PM IN EXCHANGE FOR SEVEN ADDITIONAL UNITS OF BONUS DENSITY THAT
06:36:13PM THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING, THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING TO
06:36:17PM PAY A GRAND TOTAL OF $144,480 FOR MULTIMODAL AND SAFETY
06:36:25PM IMPROVEMENTS WHILE EACH UNIT IS PROJECTED TO SELL IN THE
06:36:30PM MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
06:36:30PM SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE BALANCE OF IT, THERE IS CERTAINLY AN
06:36:34PM OFF-BALANCE OF WHAT THE BENEFIT AND WHAT THEY ARE FOLLOWING GIVE
06:36:40PM VERSUS WHAT THEIR BENEFIT IS.
06:36:42PM MEANWHILE, THE DENSITY INCREASE AND MORE PEOPLE IN A COASTAL
06:36:46PM HIGH HAZARD AREA THAT NOT ONLY PLAINLY CONFLICTS WITH THE
06:36:50PM CODE BUT PLACES THE SOUTH TAMPA COMMUNITY AT FURTHER RISK
06:36:53PM DURING HURRICANE EVACUATION.
06:36:56PM THERE ARE INCONSISTENCIES WITH THE TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
06:37:01PM THAT HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED BY MR. TODD PRESSMAN.
06:37:04PM A COUPLE THAT I DO WANT TO RAISE TO YOU IS THE PROJECT WILL
06:37:08PM DISRUPT THE SURROUNDING AREA.
06:37:10PM LAND USE POLICY 9.3.8.
06:37:14PM EL TORAH, IN PARTICULAR, IS CONCERNED OF IMPACT ON THE
06:37:17PM INCREASE OF TRAFFIC ON WEST BARCELONA AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR
06:37:21PM THE SURROUNDING UNITS.
06:37:22PM WHILE THERE IS A TRAFFIC STUDY, FIRST OF ALL, YOU KNOW, YOU
06:37:28PM ARE SUPPOSED TO BE LOOKING AT COMPETENT, SUBSTANTIAL
06:37:31PM EVIDENCE.
06:37:32PM WE UNDERSTAND THERE IS A NEW TRAFFIC REPORT SUBMITTED MAY 8
06:37:37PM BY THE APPLICANT, BUT NO STAFF REVIEW OF IT.
06:37:39PM SO WE WOULD URGE THAT THE STAFF WOULD AT LEAST BE ABLE TO
06:37:42PM REVIEW THAT BEFORE AND HAVE ANY OF YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
06:37:46PM WE DO HAVE ONGOING CONCERN NOT JUST TRAFFIC BUT WHAT THE
06:37:50PM IMPACT WILL BE FROM DELIVERY TRUCKS, GARBAGE TRUCKS ON-SITE
06:37:54PM AND LOADING ZONES ON THE PROPERTY.
06:37:56PM FINALLY, THIS SITE HAS -- MR. PRESSMAN TALKED ABOUT THE
06:38:04PM TEN-POUND OF SUGAR IN A FIVE-POUND BAG.
06:38:06PM I COULD THINK OF A LESS POLITE WAY OF SAYING THAT, BUT I
06:38:09PM WON'T.
06:38:10PM THE SITE PLAN REQUESTS NOT ONE BUT SEVEN WAIVERS.
06:38:15PM AND THE WAIVERS MUST BE SUPPORTED BY THE CRITERIA UNDER
06:38:20PM SECTION 27-139.4.
06:38:25PM NOW REALLY IMPORTANTLY, IT REQUIRES THE APPLICANT TO PROVIDE
06:38:29PM -- PRESENT EVIDENCE THAT SHOWS THAT IT WILL NOT
06:38:32PM SUBSTANTIALLY INTERFERE OR INJURY OTHERS WHOSE PROPERTY WILL
06:38:36PM BE AFFECTED. AND YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR TESTIMONY FROM MANY
06:38:39PM PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE TONIGHT BASED ON COMPETENT
06:38:42PM SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
06:38:43PM THIS IS -- MANY ARE LAYPERSON TESTIMONY, BUT THEY ARE BASED
06:38:49PM ON FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS THAT ARE UPHELD UNDER THE LAW AS
06:38:53PM BEING COMPETENT.
06:38:54PM AND YOU WILL HEAR WHY THIS WILL IMPACT THEM AS FAR AS -- YOU
06:38:58PM KNOW, IMPACTING THE GARDEN CLUB, THE QUALITY OF LIFE, WHAT
06:39:02PM IT LOOKS LIKE.
06:39:03PM THE FACT THAT THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING TO REDUCE TREE
06:39:06PM RETENTION ON A NONWOODED LOT FROM 50% DOWN TOP 20% WHEN NEXT
06:39:12PM TO IT, YOU HAVE A WELL LOVED WEDDING AREA WHICH HAS ALL THE
06:39:17PM -- YOU KNOW, IT BENEFITS FROM THE OUTSIDE.
06:39:20PM THAT SOMETHING YOU NEED TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT.
06:39:22PM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON ASKED IF THERE WAS A STUDY ON PUBLIC
06:39:28PM SAFETY FOR THE LANDSCAPING AND THE RIGHT-OF-WAY, THE ANSWER
06:39:31PM WAS, WELL, WE DEAL WITH THAT IN THE SITE PLAN.
06:39:34PM BUT THAT IS ACTUALLY INSUFFICIENT ANSWER, BECAUSE, AGAIN,
06:39:38PM THE WAIVER CRITERIA REQUIRES THAT YOU DO HAVE -- THAT YOU DO
06:39:42PM LOOK AT THE IMPACTS ON THE PUBLIC AND OTHERS IN THE
06:39:46PM SURROUNDING AREA.
06:39:47PM AGAIN, THE INCOMPATIBILITY WITH THE CHARACTER OF BAYSHORE
06:39:52PM BOULEVARD.
06:39:52PM THE TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DESCRIBES BAYSHORE BOULEVARD AT
06:39:56PM THE EMERALD JEWEL OF TAMPA.
06:39:58PM ITS FORM HAS BEEN SHAPED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WESTERN
06:40:02PM PERIMETER AND ECLECTIC CULTURAL HISTORY, LUSH LANDSCAPE
06:40:08PM MEDIANS AND UNOBSTRUCTED WATERFRONT ACCESS TO THE PUBLIC.
06:40:12PM THE CORRIDOR IS MORE THAN A ROAD.
06:40:15PM IT IS AN EXPERIENCE.
06:40:16PM A DESTINATION.
06:40:17PM PART OF TAMPA'S IDENTITY.
06:40:18PM PLEASE TAKE THIS INTO ACCOUNT AS YOU MAKE THE DECISION OF
06:40:23PM THE LARGER AREA.
06:40:23PM FINALLY -- I SEE MY TIME IS ALMOST RUN OUT.
06:40:26PM I WOULD LIKE TO ENTER SEVERAL THINGS INTO THE RECORD.
06:40:28PM THIS IS AN EXISTING TAMPA LAND USE MAP THAT SHOWS THE BLUE
06:40:34PM -- OH -- SO THAT SHOWS THAT IS OPEN SPACE.
06:40:38PM AS WELL AS SEVERAL FLOOD MAPS.
06:40:42PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
06:40:43PM PLEASE GIVE THEM TO THE ATTORNEY AND WE WILL PUT THEM INTO
06:40:45PM THE RECORD AND WE WILL BE ABLE TO PASS THEM AROUND THROUGH
06:40:48PM HERE.
06:40:48PM >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
06:40:49PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY ELSE HAVE A SPEAKER WAIVER FORM?
06:40:54PM ALL RIGHT, WE WILL GET THE SPEAKER WAIVER FORMS OUT OF THE
06:40:57PM WAY AND THEN GO TO THE REGULAR PUBLIC COMMENT.
06:41:01PM YES, MA'AM.
06:41:02PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I HAVE ONE NAME.
06:41:29PM JODY RIVERA.
06:41:31PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ONE ADDITIONAL MINUTE.
06:41:34PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND YOU MAY BEGIN.
06:41:37PM IF WE CAN GET THE PRESENTATION UP ON THE SCREEN.
06:41:39PM >> MY NAME IS ANGELA WECK, AND MY FAMILY HAVE BEEN PROUD
06:41:45PM RESIDENTS OF TAMPA SINCE 1909.
06:41:48PM I AM A MEMBER OF TAMPA'S FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUB.
06:41:51PM THIS WILL IMPACT OUR GARDEN CLUB AND ABILITY TO SUPPORT OUR
06:41:56PM COMMUNITY.
06:41:56PM THIS INCLUDES MANY THINGS ON THE ELMO, THE FLORIDA GARDEN
06:41:59PM PROJECT AT THE LES PETERS GIRLS ACADEMY.
06:42:03PM RENOVATION AND INSTALLATION OF THE IRRIGATION AT THE VALDEZ
06:42:09PM SCHOOL.
06:42:09PM THE BEAUTIFICATION OF AMERICAN THE PARTNERSHIP WITH GULF
06:42:21PM COAST JEWISH CENTER TO PROVIDE NATURE CAMP FOR THE CHILDREN
06:42:24PM THAT RECEIVE SERVICES THROUGH THEIR AGENCY.
06:42:26PM THE MEDITATION GARDEN THAT WE INSTALL.
06:42:32PM YOU SEE A FAMILY THAT LIVES THERE AT METROPOLITAN
06:42:35PM MINISTRIES.
06:42:36PM THE COMMUNITY GARDENS THAT WE SUPPORT AND PROVIDE THE SEED
06:42:41PM MONEY ALL ACROSS OUR CITY AND COUNTY.
06:42:43PM OUR KIDS CAMP WE HOST ON OUR PROPERTY EACH YEAR FOR STUDENTS
06:42:48PM TO LEARN ABOUT NATURE AND THE NATURAL WORLD.
06:42:50PM OUR YOUTH SCHOLARSHIPS WE PROVIDE AT WAKIVA YOUTH CAMP IN
06:42:57PM APOPKA, FLORIDA.
06:42:59PM THE COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS WE GIVE TO UPPERCLASSMEN AND
06:43:05PM GRADUATE STUDIES THAT ARE STUDYING MAJORS THAT WE FIND
06:43:09PM IMPORTANT.
06:43:09PM WE HOST MANY EVENTS.
06:43:12PM MANY OF YOU WERE THERE AT OUR GARDEN CLUB ON FEBRUARY 22.
06:43:18PM IN OUR FACILITY FREE OF CHARGE IN PAST YEARS, THE ORGANIZERS
06:43:23PM HAD TO PAY FOR THE SPACE TO HOST THIS EVENT.
06:43:26PM FOR YEARS ON ALL HIGH HOLY DAYS, YOU OUR GARDEN CLUB ALLOWED
06:43:33PM THOSE ATTENDING RODEPH SHOLOM, INC. SERVICES TO PARK IN OUR
06:43:36PM PARKING LOT AT NO COST TO THE SYNAGOGUE OR THEIR MEMBERS.
06:43:39PM THIS IN-KIND DONATION TO RODEPH SHOLOM, INC. WAS ESPECIALLY
06:43:43PM NECESSARY WHEN AROUND 2015 OR 2016, RODEPH SHOLOM, INC.
06:43:48PM RECEIVED A 30-PARKING SPACE WAIVER DUE TO AN ADDITION TO
06:43:53PM THEIR CAMPUS.
06:43:54PM THAT PARKING WAIVER SHOULD NOT ROLL OVER WITH IN NEW
06:43:58PM DEVELOPMENT HAND THIS WAIVER NEEDS TO BE RECONSIDERED AS THE
06:44:01PM SCOPE OF THIS DEVELOPMENT IS CERTAINLY NOT THE SAME AS THE
06:44:05PM PROPERTY'S CURRENT USE.
06:44:06PM I UNDERSTAND AND OUR GARDEN CLUB MEMBERS UNDERSTAND THAT
06:44:10PM DEVELOPMENT CAN AND PROBABLY WILL OCCUR ON THIS SITE.
06:44:13PM WE HAVE SEEN THE RISE OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
06:44:15PM AND WE HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN MITIGATING THE EFFECT
06:44:18PM OF CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY TO OUR NEIGHBORS.
06:44:21PM WHEN THE SANCTUARY CONDOMINIUM PROJECT BEING BUILT, PARKING
06:44:27PM IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WAS IMPACTED BY THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES.
06:44:30PM DAILY THE TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT WERE CALLED DUE TO BLOCKED
06:44:33PM STREETS, DRIVEWAYS AND OTHER SAFETY CONCERNS.
06:44:35PM THE TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT APPROACHED THE GARDEN CLUB
06:44:38PM ASKING US IN THE NAME OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CONCERNS FOR
06:44:42PM EMERGENCY VEHICLES, ABILITY TO NAVIGATE THE STREETS TO ALLOW
06:44:46PM THE SANCTUARY WORKERS TO USE OUR PARKING LOT.
06:44:49PM WE AGREED, AND CONTRACTED FOR A FEE TO ALLOW THIS.
06:44:52PM UNFORTUNATELY DUE TO THE PLANTS AND OTHER HARD SCAPING BEING
06:44:56PM DAMAGED, WE DISCONTINUED THAT CONTRACT WITH THE SANCTUARY
06:45:00PM PROJECT.
06:45:00PM AFTER DISCONTINUING IT, THE POLICE SAW A SPIKE IN THE CALLS
06:45:04PM THEY WERE RECEIVING FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND, AGAIN, APRIL
06:45:07PM APPROACHED OUR GARDEN CLUB ASKING US TO AGAIN LET THE
06:45:11PM SANCTUARY PROJECT USE OUR PARKING LOT.
06:45:13PM WE ACQUIESCED IN THE SPIRIT OF COMMUNITY AND BEING A GOOD
06:45:17PM NEIGHBOR.
06:45:17PM AFTER THE SANCTUARY WAS COMPLETED WE QUICKLY USED THE
06:45:21PM PARKING REVENUE TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE DONE.
06:45:23PM ARTURA WAS ASKING US FOR THE SAME PARKING ARRANGEMENT AND WE
06:45:32PM NEED TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE CAUSE BID THIS ARRANGEMENTS.
06:45:35PM UNFORTUNATELY THE DAMAGE CAUSED TO THE GARDEN CLUB BY THIS
06:45:39PM DEVELOPMENT CANNOT BE MITIGATED BY MONEY.
06:45:42PM THE IMPACT IT WILL HAVE ON OUR REVENUE AND THE TYPES OF
06:45:46PM EVENTS WE WILL HAVE IN OUR BUILDING CANNOT BE REPLACED.
06:45:49PM WITHOUT THOSE FUNDS, WE WILL BE UNABLE TO CONTINUE TO DO THE
06:45:52PM WORK THAT IS THE MISSION OF THE GARDEN CLUB.
06:45:54PM PLEASE DO WHAT IS NECESSARY AND DENY THESE WAIVERS TO SAVE
06:45:58PM THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE GARDEN CLUB.
06:46:00PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
06:46:01PM ALL RIGHT, NEXT UP.
06:46:02PM ANOTHER SPEAKER WAIVER FORM, I BELIEVE.
06:46:06PM YES, MA'AM.
06:46:06PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: FOUR ADDITIONAL JAMES.
06:46:23PM CATHERINE GEARY.
06:46:25PM JOANNE ENRIQUEZ.
06:46:27PM THANK YOU.
06:46:27PM FALSONE.
06:46:34PM THANK YOU.
06:46:34PM AND CAROL LEGIRA.
06:46:38PM FOUR ADDITIONAL TOTAL OF SEVEN MINUTES.
06:46:42PM >> ELIZABETH JOHNSON.
06:46:45PM I AM GOING TO START WHERE MY FRIEND ANGELA LEFT OFF, BECAUSE
06:46:49PM I AM THE MOTHER OF A BRIDE-TO-BE ON JUNE 10.
06:46:52PM AND I WILL SAY TO YOU THAT THE GEM THAT IS THE GARDEN CLUB
06:46:59PM IS SERIOUS.
06:47:01PM AND THE EFFECT WILL BE SERIOUS.
06:47:04PM WILL GET MARRIED JUNE 10.
06:47:06PM WE CHOSE IT OVER PROBABLY 20 DIFFERENT VENUES BECAUSE YOU
06:47:10PM MAY NOT REALIZE IT, BUT IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO ACTUALLY GET
06:47:13PM A WATER VIEW.
06:47:14PM SO YOU COULD BE IN A LOT OF HOTELS, BUT YOU WOULD FEEL LIKE
06:47:19PM YOU ARE IN A CONVENTION CENTER.
06:47:20PM WHAT THEY DID, TOO, AT THE GARDEN CLUB, BECAUSE THAT WE ARE
06:47:27PM A OF THE BUILDING IS PRETTY MUCH LIKE THE ERA OF THE
06:47:30PM SYNAGOGUE.
06:47:30PM BUT THEY CAREFULLY RENOVATED IT INSIDE.
06:47:32PM THEY HAVE A BEAUTIFUL BRIDE SPACE.
06:47:36PM THEY HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF GEM THAT IS BAYSHORE BOULEVARD
06:47:44PM IN THE WAY THAT A GOOD STEWARD TAKES ADVANTAGE OF AN OLD
06:47:47PM BUILDING.
06:47:48PM IT IS KIND OF SQUATTY.
06:47:50PM IT IS NOT HISTORICAL, BUT THEY MAINTAINED THE OUTSIDE
06:47:53PM AND OUT LIKE A GOOD STEWARD.
06:47:58PM WHAT I AM CONCERNED ABOUT, THERE IS A LOT OF TRADING OFF.
06:48:02PM WE LOVE THE SYNAGOGUE IDEA.
06:48:05PM I GO TO CHRIST THE KING.
06:48:06PM WE LOVE HAVING YOUNG PEOPLE GO TO PLACES OF WORSHIP AND GROW
06:48:12PM IN THAT WAY.
06:48:13PM BUT WHAT I WORRY ABOUT IN TAMPA IS THAT DEVELOPMENT TRADES
06:48:18PM OFF THE GOOD, HARD WORK SOMETIMES OF OTHERS.
06:48:23PM AND THAT IS A CONCERN.
06:48:26PM IN HYDE PARK, YOU WILL HAVE DEVELOPERS THAT LIKE TO LOOK
06:48:30PM OVER THE HISTORIC DISTRICT.
06:48:33PM YOU HAVE DEVELOP EFFORTS THAT WANT TO LOOK OVER BAYSHORE.
06:48:36PM YOUR GOOD SPEAKERS HERE CITED MANY WAIVERS THAT YOU WOULD BE
06:48:42PM GIVING THAT ARE NOT NECESSARY.
06:48:45PM MISS MANDELL SPOKE ABOUT GOING DOWN BAYSHORE.
06:48:51PM HOW MUCH DENSITY HAS HAPPENED OVER THE YEARS.
06:48:53PM WELL, I WROTE IN A LETTER TO YOU THAT I SAT IN THE BACK OF
06:48:57PM MY DAD'S CAR WHEN HE WENT TO MacDILL AIR FORCE BASE, SAT
06:49:01PM THIS AND MADE STORIES UP OF THE BEAUTIFUL MANSIONS THAT WERE
06:49:06PM ON BAYSHORE IN 1978.
06:49:08PM IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT THAT ONE BY ONE, JUST WHEN THE SMELLS
06:49:14PM OF BAYSHORE WERE BEING RECOGNIZE I NEED BY GOOD
06:49:17PM ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES, THAT PEOPLE TOOK ADVANTAGE.
06:49:21PM BUT TAKE ADVANTAGE, THEY DID.
06:49:24PM IT WASN'T THE ZONING.
06:49:28PM THE ZONING, OKAY, MAY HAVE ALREADY HAPPENED AND SHAME ON
06:49:32PM THEM WHEN THAT HAS HAPPENED.
06:49:34PM BUT NOW IT IS A CHANCE FOR YOU.
06:49:36PM NOT EVERY WAIVER IS NEEDED.
06:49:38PM CERTAINLY NOT GRAND TREES TAKEN DOWN.
06:49:42PM WE HOMEOWNERS ABIDE BY THE TREE ORDINANCES.
06:49:47PM I LIVE IN HYDE PARK.
06:49:49PM WHEN WE LIVE IN HYDE PARK, WE ABIDE BY A HOST OF HISTORIC
06:49:54PM DISTRICT REQUIREMENTS.
06:49:55PM THESE ARE OVERLAYS TO THE ZONING THAT OUGHT TO BE CONSIDERED
06:50:01PM BY GOOD COUNCILMEMBERS LIKE YOU.
06:50:05PM JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING WAS DONE POORLY IN THE PAST DOES NOT
06:50:09PM MEAN THAT THE GEM OF BAYSHORE SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE TAKEN
06:50:16PM ADVANTAGE OF IN THE FUTURE.
06:50:17PM YES, THE SUGAR IN THE BAG IS TOO BIG.
06:50:20PM WE ALL KNOW IT.
06:50:22PM THIS SHOULD BE DOWNTOWN.
06:50:24PM I WANT TO ALSO COMPLIMENT YOU.
06:50:29PM THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT THAT HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO HAPPEN.
06:50:32PM AWESOME.
06:50:33PM EVEN THOUGH IT IS A HARDSHIP ON US ALL.
06:50:37PM IN 1978, THE DOWNTOWN WAS DEAD.
06:50:39PM PROJECTS LIKE THIS IN TAMPA BELONG IN THE DOWNTOWN.
06:50:44PM AND IF YOU MUST WORK WITH IDIOTIC ZONING FROM THE PAST,
06:50:50PM PLEASE HOLD THE LINE AS FAR AS THE TREE ORDINANCES, THE
06:50:56PM PRESERVATIONS, THE RIGHT-OF-WAYS, THE BUFFER ZONES AND ALL
06:51:02PM THE OTHER RESPECTFUL THINGS THAT NEED TO HAPPEN.
06:51:05PM WE SIT HERE AS MEMBERS OF THE CITIZENRY, AND WE ARE
06:51:11PM ASTOUNDED.
06:51:12PM THERE IS NO TRAFFIC PROBLEM WITH THIS?
06:51:16PM OKAY.
06:51:16PM THERE IS -- THERE ARE NAILS THAT ARE GOING TO BE IN PEOPLE'S
06:51:20PM TIRES.
06:51:20PM THERE IS GOING TO BE CONES IN THE ROAD.
06:51:23PM THERE IS GOING TO BE HURRICANE ISSUES.
06:51:25PM WE LOVE YOUR STAFF.
06:51:28PM WE LOVE ALL OF YOU.
06:51:30PM BUT OFTEN WE NEED SOME COMMON SENSE FOR TAMPA.
06:51:35PM PLEASE LISTEN TO THE GARDEN CLUB.
06:51:40PM THIS IS A GEM.
06:51:41PM I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT MY DAUGHTER'S WEDDING ON JUNE 10.
06:51:45PM PLEASE LOOK IN THE BEAUTIFUL GARDEN CLUB IF YOU ARE GOING BY
06:51:50PM THAT SATURDAY.
06:51:50PM THANK YOU.
06:51:51PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
06:51:53PM DOES THAT CONCLUDE SPEAKER WAIVER FORM?
06:51:59PM DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE ONE?
06:52:04PM IS THIS THE LAST SPEAKER WAIVER FORM.
06:52:06PM DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY?
06:52:08PM THE LAST SPEAKER WAIVER FORM.
06:52:10PM NO, NO, GIVE IT TO THE ATTORNEY.
06:52:12PM THERE IS MORE?
06:52:13PM OKAY.
06:52:13PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: ONE NAME GERALDINE POOLE.
06:52:23PM THANK YOU.
06:52:23PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
06:52:27PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND YOU HAVE FOUR MINUTES.
06:52:30PM >> I AM KEENAN L. POOLE, 3203 BAYSHORE BOULEVARD, UNIT 1001
06:52:38PM IN THE STOVAL CONDO BUILDING.
06:52:41PM I AM FULLY BEHIND THE DENIAL OF THE RELATED GROUP'S
06:52:45PM APPLICATION IN ITS PRESENT FORM.
06:52:47PM AS AN UPSET RESIDENT OF THE STOVAL CONDO THAT IS ADJACENT TO
06:52:55PM THIS MASSIVE RELATED GROUP OVERBUILT RITZ-CARLTON THAT IS
06:53:01PM PRESENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
06:53:02PM DO NOT REPEAT THE MISTAKE THAT IS BEFORE YOU HERE TODAY THAT
06:53:07PM YOU DID TO THE STOVAL RESIDENCE.
06:53:11PM YOUR MISTAKE IS THAT YOU.
06:53:14PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: PLEASE PUT THE OVERHEAD ON THE SCREEN SO
06:53:16PM WE CAN ALL SEE IT.
06:53:17PM >> THANK YOU.
06:53:20PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THE ORDINANCE THIS IT IS.
06:53:22PM GO AHEAD, SIR.
06:53:23PM >> YOUR MISTAKE THAT YOU APPROVED A RELATED GROUP, WHY
06:53:28PM OVERDEVELOPMENT, ARCHITECTURALLY UNSOUND PROJECT THAT DID
06:53:31PM NOT PROVIDE FOR PROPER TOWER SEPARATION WHICH DOES NOT FIT
06:53:36PM INTO THE FABRIC OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
06:53:38PM IN OTHER WORDS, THE BUILDINGS ARE TOO DARN CLOSE TO EACH
06:53:43PM OTHER.
06:53:43PM IT IS MY BEEN THAT THE -- THAT TAMPA CITY PLANNING, AS WELL
06:53:49PM AS THE CITY OF TAMPA OFFICIALS LACK COMMON SENSE IN ALLOWING
06:53:53PM THIS PROJECT TO GO.
06:53:54PM THE CITY OFFICIALS ALLOWED FOUR UNITS TO EACH FLOOR.
06:54:01PM THE RESPONSIBILITY WAY SHOULD HAVE BEEN THREE UNITS TO A
06:54:04PM FLOOR.
06:54:04PM THIS CAUSED US TO LOSE OUR PRIVACY AND YOUR RIGHT FOR QUIET
06:54:14PM ENJOYMENT.
06:54:15PM THE SUNLIGHT HAS PARTIALLY BLOCKED OUR GROUNDS.
06:54:18PM OUR CITY VIEWS HAVE BEEN PARTIALLY BLOCKED.
06:54:20PM CONSTANT DUST, DIRT AND DEBRIS BLOWING INTO OUR PROPERTY.
06:54:25PM ALSO THE RELATED GROUP, BEFORE THIS CITY COUNCIL CHERRY
06:54:29PM PICKED A STAT THAT SAID THAT 42 FEET FROM OUR BALCONIES.
06:54:37PM WHAT THEY FAILED TO SAYS IT LESS THAN 25 FEET FROM THE UNIT
06:54:40PM 301 BALCONY AND LESS THAN 25 FEET FROM ARE OUR PARKING
06:54:45PM GARAGE.
06:54:45PM THEY CHERRY PICKED TO MISLEAD THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY
06:54:51PM PLANNING AND ZONING.
06:54:51PM COME OUT AND I WILL PERSONALLY LET YOU ON TO MY UNIT FROM
06:54:58PM BOTH BALCONIES THAT YOU CAN PERSONALLY OBSERVE THE TRAVESTY
06:55:02PM THAT THE RELATED GROUP HAS DONE TO OUR CONDOMINIUM,
06:55:09PM THE STOVAL.
06:55:09PM AND ALSO, THE RELATED GROUP, UNDER THE DIRECTION TO COASTAL
06:55:15PM CONSTRUCTION, KNOCKED DOWN OVER 20 MASSIVE TREES.
06:55:20PM IN IS YOUR TREE RETENTION POLICY?
06:55:22PM HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
06:55:24PM THEY LEFT TWO TREES.
06:55:25PM I AM A RETIRED CPA.
06:55:29PM THAT IS 10%.
06:55:30PM THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER FLOWN.
06:55:32PM THE BIGGER ISSUE TODAY IS UNJUST ENRICHMENT.
06:55:39PM THE CITY GETS MORE TAX REVENUES.
06:55:41PM THE RELATED GROUP BOOSTS THEIR PROFITS.
06:55:44PM THE TEMPLE GETS A BIG PAYDAY, BUT WHO LOSES?
06:55:48PM THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
06:55:49PM WHO SUFFERS IF THIS APPLICATION IS APPROVED?
06:55:53PM DO THE RESPONSIBLE OF THE -- OF ONLY ALLOWING SOMETHING
06:55:58PM REASONABLE.
06:55:58PM WHAT YOU PEOPLE DID TO THE STOVAL CONDO IS A TRAVESTY.
06:56:04PM I PERSONALLY WOULD INVITE EACH OF YOU TO COME AND OBSERVE
06:56:08PM FROM MY FRONT BALCONY AND MY REAR BALCONY JUST WHAT A
06:56:14PM TRAVESTY IT IS.
06:56:15PM IT IS TOO DARN CLOSE.
06:56:17PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
06:56:19PM ALL RIGHT.
06:56:20PM YES, MA'AM, YOU HAVE A SPEAKER WAIVER FORM?
06:57:01PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ON THE LIST.
06:57:04PM >> CAN I HAVE THE OVERHEAD TURNED ON.
06:57:07PM I WILL BE REFERENCING EVERYTHING ON THE OVERHEAD.
06:57:10PM I DON'T WANT YOU TO MISS ANYTHING.
06:57:12PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HOW MANY NAMES.
06:57:13PM >> JORDAN JASPER.
06:57:15PM ONE ADDITIONAL MINUTE, PLEASE.
06:57:17PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: PLEASE PUT THE OVERHEAD ON THE SCREEN SO
06:57:30PM WE CAN SEE IT.
06:57:30PM OKAY, YES, MA'AM, GO AHEAD.
06:57:35PM IF YOU CAN STAY CLOSER TO THE CENTER, A HIDDEN MICROPHONE.
06:57:39PM >> MY NAME IS DANA JASPER.
06:57:43PM BAYSHORE BOULEVARD.
06:57:44PM ONE BLOCK FROM THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT.
06:57:46PM I AM IN OPPOSITION OF THIS DEVELOPMENT, MORE SPECIFICALLY, I
06:57:49PM AM POE TOED TO ONE OF THE WAIVERS I THAT IS BEING REQUESTED.
06:57:52PM FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE, I PLACED THE WAIVER I WILL BE SPEAKING
06:57:55PM ABOUT ON THE OVERHEAD.
06:57:58PM AND IN PARTICULAR, I WILL BE ADDRESSING THE HIGHLIGHTED
06:58:01PM PORTION THERE IN WHICH THE DEVELOPER WISHES TO PROVIDE AN
06:58:03PM ALTERNATE BUFFER WITHIN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY SO YOU CAN HAVE A
06:58:08PM BETTER UNDERSTANDING WHERE THE BUFFER IS, I WILL OUTLINE IT
06:58:13PM ON THE SHEET FOR YOU ALONG YSABELLA AVENUE.
06:58:18PM 300 FEET BY 15 FEET.
06:58:22PM IF YOU CALCULATE THAT OUT, IT COMES TO A TENTH OF AN ACRE.
06:58:26PM I WANT TO POINT IT OUT TO COUNCIL, THAT ALONG IN BUFFER, THE
06:58:32PM DEVELOPER PLANS TO PLACE FIVE TREES AS WELL AS SHRUBBERY.
06:58:36PM TO YOU CAN BETTER UNDERSTAND IT FROM THE GROUND LEVEL, A
06:58:39PM PICTURE OF THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN YSABELLA AND BARCELONA.
06:58:44PM AGAIN, THE AREA REQUESTED BY THE DEVELOPER IS IN THE SPACE
06:58:47PM HERE.
06:58:48PM THIS IS BETWEEN THE SIDEWALK AND YSABELLA AVENUE.
06:58:53PM I HAVE HANDED EACH OF YOU A COPY OF A TAMPA ORDINANCE.
06:58:56PM THIS IS SECTION 2022-212.
06:59:05PM NO PLANTING OF TREES AND SHRUB IN THE SIDEWALKS AREA IN THE
06:59:10PM SEVERAL STREETS IN THE CITY.
06:59:12PM UP WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDES REASONS TO DENY THIS WAIVER.
06:59:15PM FIRST AND FOREMOST, THIS WILL VIOLATE SECTION 22-312
06:59:24PM REQUIREMENTS AS I JUST STATED.
06:59:25PM SECONDLY, GRANTING THIS WAIVER WILL RESTRICT FUTURE OPTIONS
06:59:29PM TO WIDEN YSABELLA AVENUE SHOULD WE EVER NEED ANOTHER LANE,
06:59:34PM BIKE LANE OR TURN LANE.
06:59:36PM NUMBER THREE, THIS CREATES OBSTRUCTED LINES OF SIGHT WHERE
06:59:42PM NONE CURRENTLY EXIST.
06:59:44PM AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE PICTURE, NO TREES AT THIS LOCATION.
06:59:47PM REMEMBER, I SAID THAT THE DEVELOPER IS PLANNING ON PUTTING
06:59:51PM AT LEAST FIVE TREES.
06:59:52PM LASTLY, TO GRANT THIS WAIVER WILL GIVE AWAY THE PUBLIC'S
06:59:56PM RIGHT-OF-WAY LAND IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE A PRIVATE
07:00:00PM DEVELOPER'S OVERSIZED PROJECT.
07:00:02PM RECALL THAT I SAID THIS IS 1/10 OF AN ACRE.
07:00:06PM THE DEVELOPER HAS 1.43 ACRES ON WHICH TO DEVELOP IN THIS
07:00:11PM AREA HERE.
07:00:11PM THEIR PROJECT IS SO LARGE THAT THEY ARE ASKING TO SPILL OVER
07:00:20PM INTO THE PUBLIC'S RIGHT-OF-WAY.
07:00:21PM I DON'T KNOW WHAT A TENTH OF AN AGE HE CAN IN SOUTH TAMPA
07:00:26PM COST BUS I KNOW IT IS NOT FREE.
07:00:28PM THE QUESTION TO THE DEVELOPER, WHY ARE YOU ASKING FOR FREE
07:00:32PM PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY LAND AND WHY ARE YOU NOT ACCOMMODATING
07:00:36PM YOUR DEVELOPMENT IN THE 1.43 ACRES OF LAND YOU CURRENTLY
07:00:40PM HAVE TO WORK WITH.
07:00:41PM I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME TONIGHT, AND I HOPE YOU CONSIDER MY
07:00:44PM POINTS AND ASK YOU TO DENY THIS WAIVER.
07:00:47PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
07:00:48PM I BELIEVE THAT CONCLUDES OUR SPEAKER WAIVER FORMS AND GO TO
07:00:56PM REGULAR PUBLIC COMMENT.
07:00:57PM ANYONE WISHES TO SPEAK, GO TO THIS SIDE OF THE ROOM.
07:01:00PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
07:01:01PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
07:01:02PM >> GOOD EVENING.
07:01:10PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I APOLOGIZE.
07:01:22PM BEFORE YOU BEGIN.
07:01:24PM A REQUEST FOR A FIVE-MINUTE RECESS.
07:01:26PM WE WILL START WITH YOU.
07:01:27PM WE APOLOGIZE.
07:01:28PM >> DON'T APOLOGIZE.
07:01:30PM THAT IS FINE.
07:01:30PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE ARE IN RECESS FOR FIVE MINUTES.
07:01:34PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF YOU CAN PROVIDE IT TO ME AT THE END OF
07:12:23PM YOUR PRESENTATION, THANK YOU.
07:12:25PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ROLL CALL PLEASE.
07:12:27PM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
07:12:28PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE.
07:12:30PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PRESENT.
07:12:33PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
07:12:34PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
07:12:35PM >>CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
07:12:38PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
07:12:39PM YES, MA'AM, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
07:12:41PM >> PAULA MECKLEY.
07:12:43PM GOOD EVENING.
07:12:44PM I'M HERE BEFORE YOU TO OPPOSE THE REZONING REQUEST FOR
07:12:49PM 22-93.
07:12:49PM I AM A LONG-TIME RESIDENT OF OUR GREAT CITY WHERE I RAISE MY
07:12:54PM FAMILY.
07:12:54PM I SERVE AS VICE PRESIDENT OF THE TAMPA GARDEN CLUB AND THE
07:12:58PM BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE BEACH PARK CLUB AND THE BEACH PARK
07:13:01PM HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION.
07:13:03PM I LIVED HERE MANY YEARS.
07:13:05PM I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME OUT YOU ARE IN BUCCANEERS MADE THE
07:13:09PM PLAYOFFS AND I ATTENDED IN THE SOMBRERO AND A LONG TIME AGO
07:13:13PM AND GROWTH AND CHANGE TO OUR CITY.
07:13:14PM I UNDERSTAND THINGS CHANGE, MAYORS, COUNCILMEMBERS, TEAMS
07:13:19PM AND STADIUMS.
07:13:20PM ONE THING THAT HAVEN'T CHANGE IS THE LENGTH OF A FOOTBALL
07:13:24PM FIELD.
07:13:24PM END ZONE 120 YARDS 360 FEET.
07:13:27PM THIS BUILDING AT 29 STORY IS 354.8 FEET.
07:13:34PM JUST SHY --
07:13:36PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CAN YOU ZOOM OUT --
07:13:40PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THE SCROLL WHEEL ON TOP.
07:13:42PM >> ESSENTIALLY THEY WILL BE BUILDING A VERTICAL STADIUM NEXT
07:13:47PM TO OUR GARDEN CLUB.
07:13:48PM FOR THE RECORD, WE HAVE RESOLUTIONS FROM THE TAMPA GARDEN
07:13:55PM CLUB AND -- I AM SORRY --
07:13:59PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ZOOM OUT SO WE CAN SEE IT.
07:14:00PM >> FROM THE -- FROM THE BEACH PARK WOMEN'S CLUB AND FROM THE
07:14:04PM BALLAST POINT HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATION.
07:14:07PM AND WE ARE ALL -- ALL OF THESE GROUPS ARE OPPOSED TO THIS --
07:14:13PM THIS APPLICATION.
07:14:15PM IN ADDITION TO THIS, WE HAVE A PETITION THAT WAS DIRECTED
07:14:19PM AND EACH PERSON HAS SUBMITTED THAT INDIVIDUALLY AND WE
07:14:25PM ARE SHY OF 1300 SUBMITTED TO CITY COUNCIL.
07:14:28PM I PARTICIPATED ON A ZOOM CALL ON NOVEMBER 1, 2022.
07:14:33PM AND DURING THAT CALL, WE, THE TAMPA GARDEN CLUB, ASKED
07:14:37PM DURING THIS COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITY TO CONSIDER MODIFYING THE
07:14:41PM SCALE AND SIZE OF THIS DEVELOPMENT TO ADDRESS THE CONCERNS
07:14:44PM OF OUR GARDEN CLUB AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
07:14:46PM MR. PEDRO SNELL WHO WAS ON THE CALL ANSWERED WITH AN
07:14:50PM EMPHATIC NO.
07:14:51PM HE SAID THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE WANT.
07:14:53PM THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE DONE IN MIAMI AND THE EAST COAST.
07:14:56PM SINCE THEN REDUCED THE NUMBER OF UNIT TO 50 FROM 60, AND
07:15:01PM INCREASED THE SQUARE FOOTAGE PER UNIT AND INCREASED THE
07:15:04PM HEIGHT OF THE BUILDING TWO AND A HALF FEET.
07:15:06PM WE ARE NOT OPPOSED TO DEVELOPMENT.
07:15:08PM HE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE GOING TO BE THINGS.
07:15:10PM WE ASK THAT THEY DEVELOP WITHIN THEIR CURRENT ZONING AND
07:15:16PM ENTITLEMENTS, THE CHANGE IN PD AND BONUS PROVISION DENSE
07:15:22PM KNEE.
07:15:22PM WHEN RODEPH SHOLOM REQUESTED REZONING IN 2015, WE DID
07:15:26PM NOT OPPOSE THIS.
07:15:27PM THEY WANTED TO ADD A SECOND STORY TO THE EXISTING PRESCHOOL,
07:15:31PM ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE AND REDUCE PARKING WAIVER.
07:15:34PM THE PROPERTY NEXT TO THEM THAT THEY OWN SOLD FOR OVER $1
07:15:38PM MILLION AND THEY WERE DEVELOPED INTO TOWN HOMES.
07:15:40PM WE DID NOT OPPOSE IT.
07:15:41PM WE AGREE WITH CITY COUNCIL THIS WAS APPROPRIATE FOR THE
07:15:44PM NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE COMMUNITY.
07:15:45PM THE LAST TIME I SPOKE WITH YOU, IT WAS HERE AS A MEMBER OF
07:15:48PM THE BEACH PARK HOA.
07:15:51PM AND WE WORKED WITH A DEVELOPER TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING
07:15:53PM THAT WAS A GOOD COMPROMISE FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
07:15:56PM THIS CAN BE DONE.
07:15:57PM THIS IS NOT IT.
07:15:58PM PLEASE DENY THIS APPLICATION.
07:16:00PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU MA MINNESOTA MANISCALCO THANK YOU
07:16:02PM VERY MUCH, AND WE HAVE ONE PERSON.
07:16:03PM ONE PERSON ONLY ONLINE TO SPEAK ON THIS.
07:16:06PM WE WOULD LIKE TO TAKE HER.
07:16:07PM LOGGED IN ON THE COMPUTER.
07:16:10PM PAMELA CARPENTER.
07:16:11PM RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND AND WE WOULD LIKE TO WEAR IN.
07:16:15PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THE OTHER RIGHT HAND.
07:16:17PM [SWEARING IN]
07:16:26PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU ARE MUTED.
07:16:27PM PLEASE UNMUTE YOURSELF.
07:16:28PM >> I ALSO NEED TO SCREEN SHARE.
07:16:36PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: OKAY.
07:16:38PM TURN YOUR VIDEO CAMERA ON, PLEASE.
07:16:41PM WE CAN SEE YOUR SCREEN SHARE.
07:16:50PM OKAY, GO AHEAD.
07:16:51PM YOU CAN SPEAK.
07:16:52PM >> OKAY.
07:16:56PM CAN YOU HEAR ME?
07:16:59PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND GO
07:17:01PM AHEAD.
07:17:02PM >> PAMELA CARPENTER, 2501 CROWDER LANE.
07:17:06PM I HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT FOR 23 YEARS.
07:17:10PM SINCE I CAN'T DO THIS IN PERSON, LIMITED TO THREE MEN SO I
07:17:14PM WILL GO THROUGH MY SLIDES RATHER QUICKLY.
07:17:17PM YOU HEARD FROM PAULA OF THE SIZE.
07:17:20PM YOU CAN HEAR ME, RIGHT?
07:17:26PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, WE CAN.
07:17:27PM GO AHEAD.
07:17:28PM >> YOU JUST HEARD OF PAULA ABOUT THE SIZE OF THE BUILDING SO
07:17:30PM I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO THAT.
07:17:33PM PICTURE OF YSABELLA.
07:17:35PM THE CURRENT -- RUSTY, THEY CAN HEAR YOU.
07:17:37PM BE QUIET.
07:17:38PM THIS IS YSABELLA AS IT EXISTS TODAY AND ITS OWN TRAFFIC
07:17:44PM CALMING BUILT IN.
07:17:44PM THE SCREEN SLIDE ON THE RIGHT IS THE RIGHT-OF-WAY FOR THE
07:17:50PM WEST SIDE OF THE STREET IN FRONT OF THE PRESBYTERIAN TOWER.
07:17:53PM IT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
07:17:55PM 210 RESIDENTS THERE.
07:17:56PM THEY DO NOT HAVE A SIDEWALK.
07:17:58PM THIS IS A VIEW LOOKING TOWARD THAT PRESBYTERIAN TOWER WITH
07:18:03PM THE 210 INDIVIDUALS.
07:18:06PM WHEN THE CONSTRUCTION STARTS AT THIS PROPERTY ACROSS THE
07:18:10PM STREET, THE SIDEWALK WILL BE INOPERABLE LIKE ANY OTHER
07:18:18PM DEVELOPMENT WE ARE SEEING LATELY.
07:18:19PM THEY TAKE FOR SAFETY REASONS.
07:18:22PM AND HE UNDERSTAND THAT.
07:18:24PM NO PROVISION DURING CONSTRUCTION AND I ASKED MULTIPLE TIMES
07:18:28PM FOR THE DEVELOPER TO WORK WITH US AS A SOLUTION FOR THIS
07:18:31PM TOWER TO HAVE SAFE WALKING TO GET TO THE PARK.
07:18:34PM ALSO ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, THEIR BUS STOP IS ON YSABELLA.
07:18:50PM THEY ARE VERY CONCERNED OF THEIR OWN SAFETY AND GOING
07:18:53PM FORWARD WHEN CONSTRUCTION.
07:18:56PM OUR STREET, YSABELLA, RUBIDEAU, CAROLINA, ALL CUT HOW THAT.
07:19:05PM IF YOU HAVEN'T GOT TO THE SELMON, YOU WILL SEE THEM COME
07:19:10PM THROUGH STREETS.
07:19:11PM THEY ARE HARDLY STREETS.
07:19:12PM THEY ARE LANES.
07:19:13PM NO CENTER LINE.
07:19:15PM BARCELONA.
07:19:17PM IN THE MIDDLE OF FRED BALL PARK.
07:19:19PM AND OVER ON THE SIDE IS CAROLINA.
07:19:22PM LATER, I AM GOING TO TALK TO YOU TRAFFIC STUDIES.
07:19:28PM THERE HAVEN'T BEEN ANY.
07:19:29PM MIND-BOGGLING THAT YOU WOULDN'T NEED A TRAFFIC STUDY FOR THE
07:19:33PM INCREASE OF DENSITY.
07:19:37PM THE PICTURE ON THE LEFT IS CAROLINA.
07:19:39PM WE RESOLVED THE PARKING TO BE ONLY ON ONE SIDE NOW.
07:19:43PM BUT EVEN WITH PARKING ON ONE SIDE, WITH THERE ARE NO
07:19:47PM SIDEWALKS ON THIS STREET.
07:19:48PM SO YOU CANNOT GET DOWN TO THE CROSSWALK ON BAYSHORE.
07:19:52PM WHY DO I BRING THIS UP?
07:19:54PM BECAUSE THESE THINGS NEED TO BE THOUGHT OUT AHEAD OF TIME.
07:19:57PM YOU HOOK AT A BUILDING AND 1.43 ACRES, YOU NEED TO LOOK AT
07:20:02PM THE AREAS AROUND IT.
07:20:03PM MIDDLE PICTURE IS A PICTURE OF THE EXISTING SIDEWALK IN
07:20:07PM FRONT OF THIS AREA.
07:20:08PM THE PICTURE ON THE RIGHT IS A BIG THANK YOU TO THE CITY OF
07:20:12PM TAMPA WHO REPLACED THAT SIDEWALK IN FRED BALL PARK IN 2021.
07:20:16PM IT WAS A NICE ADDITION.
07:20:17PM AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
07:20:20PM THESE ARE PICTURES OF CONSTRUCTION -- CURRENT CONSTRUCTION
07:20:24PM TO PROVE THE POINT THAT YOU WILL NOT HAVE ACCESS TO ANYTHING
07:20:27PM IN FRONT OF A CONSTRUCTION ZONE.
07:20:29PM WE WAIT FOR CONCRETE TRUCKS EVERY DAY.
07:20:31PM OKAY.
07:20:32PM THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE FLOODING PROBLEM ON RUBIDEAU.
07:20:39PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK ASKED FOR STATISTICS BUT HERE WE ARE.
07:20:45PM ACCUMULATED ALL OF THEM.
07:20:47PM WHAT THE DEVELOPERS DEVELOPED.
07:20:48PM HOW MANY STORIES AND THE BUILDINGS ON BAYSHORE.
07:20:52PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, YOU HAVE RUN OUT OF
07:20:55PM TIME.
07:20:55PM >> OKAY.
07:20:55PM MY CHARTS AND MY PRESENTATION WAS SUBMITTED TO THE COUNCIL.
07:20:59PM AND I WOULD LIKE TO BE PART OF THE RECORD.
07:21:01PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
07:21:03PM THAT CONCLUDES THE VIRTUAL PUBLIC COMMENT AND WE WILL GO
07:21:09PM BACK TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
07:21:10PM YES, MA'AM.
07:21:11PM STATE YOUR NAME AND YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
07:21:13PM >> GOOD EVENING, CITY COUNCILMEMBERS.
07:21:14PM HALEY SASSER, AND I LIVE 307 WEST WILDER IN SEMINOLE HEIGHTS.
07:21:20PM I AM VERY EXCITED TO GET MARRIED NEXT YEAR AT THE GARDEN
07:21:25PM CLUB IN FEBRUARY.
07:21:26PM UP CHOSE THIS VENUE OVER TEN OTHERS FOR MANY REASONS.
07:21:30PM IT IS ONE OF A KIND.
07:21:32PM IT IS SO SPECIAL TO THE CITY.
07:21:33PM IT IS SUCH A GORGEOUS HISTORICAL SPOT ON BAYSHORE BOULEVARD.
07:21:37PM BEAUTIFUL AMOUNT OF LIGHT THAT IT HAS IN THE GARDENS MAKE
07:21:42PM FOR AN INCREDIBLE PLACE TO MAKE A LIFE-LONG COMMITMENT TO
07:21:46PM SOMEONE.
07:21:46PM I STARTED TO SEE THE NEWS OF THIS PROJECT AND POSSIBLE
07:21:50PM CONSTRUCTION, I GOT VERY CONCERNED.
07:21:52PM ALL THE REASONS YOU ALREADY HEARD, THE BUILDING BEING
07:21:54PM PROPOSED TODAY IS INAPPROPRIATE AND DOES NOT FIT WITH THE
07:21:58PM NEIGHBORHOOD.
07:21:58PM THERE ARE SO MANY REASONS WHY THIS PROJECT AS IT IS PROPOSED
07:22:02PM IS NOT A REASONABLE OPTIONS FOR THIS AREA OF BAYSHORE.
07:22:06PM I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST NEW COME CONSTRUCTION OR BUILDING CON
07:22:12PM DOES OR NEW MULTIFAMILY PROPERTIES, BUT THIS LOCATION IS NOT
07:22:15PM WHERE A GIANT HIGH-RISE SHOULD GO.
07:22:17PM THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHER LOCATIONS IN TAMPA THAT CAN USE PA
07:22:21PM BUILDING LIKE THIS AND NOT IN SOUTH TAMPA.
07:22:24PM THERE ARE ALREADY ENOUGH HIGH-RISES ON BAYSHORE.
07:22:27PM LET'S NOT ADD ANOTHER UP WITH.
07:22:29PM PLEASE DON'T RUIN THIS GORGEOUS WEDDING VENUE FOR HUNDREDS
07:22:33PM OF BRIDES AND FAMILIES IN THE NEXT MANY, MANY YEARS.
07:22:35PM IN CLOSING, I CAN'T IMAGINE SAYING MY VOWS TO MY FUTURE
07:22:40PM HUSBAND WITH THE SCREECHING NOISE OF PEOPLE PLAYING
07:22:44PM PICKLEBALL IN THE BACKGROUND.
07:22:45PM THANK YOU.
07:22:46PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
07:22:47PM NEXT SPEAKER.
07:22:48PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
07:22:52PM >> HI, MICHELLE VALERIO AND OUTGOING THE OF THE TAMPA
07:22:58PM GARDEN CLUB FROM 2020 TO 2023 AND A MEMBER OF THE CURRENT
07:23:04PM BOARD.
07:23:04PM THE GARDEN CLUB HAS BEEN AN INSTITUTION IN TAMPA SINCE 1926.
07:23:09PM THE CURRENT LOCATION ON BAYSHORE HAS BEEN OUR HOME SINCE
07:23:13PM 1949.
07:23:14PM WE HAVE 4000 MEMBERS REPRESENTING EVERY STAGE OF
07:23:16PM LIFE FROM YOUNG PROFESSIONALS TO GREAT, GREAT GRANDMOTHERS.
07:23:19PM WE EMPHASIZE WITH THE CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM.
07:23:23PM BECAUSE MANY WAYS WE HAVE HAD A SHARED PATH.
07:23:25PM WE PREVIOUSLY EXPERIENCED DIMINISHING MEMBERSHIP AND
07:23:29PM FINANCIAL ISSUES, BUT 40 OR SO YEARS AGO, THE DECISION TO
07:23:34PM INVEST EVERY AVAILABLE PENNY TO BETTERMENT TO THE BUILDING
07:23:40PM AND A WEDDING GARDEN FOR A BUSINESS.
07:23:43PM WE TURNED OUR FINANCIAL SITUATION AROUND AND WE ARE BOOKED
07:23:45PM OUT 18 MONTHS IN ADVANCE.
07:23:47PM OUR EVENT PRICING IS TIERED SO ANY PRIDE CAN HAVE A WEDDING
07:23:52PM WITH A BEAUTIFUL BAYSHORE BACKGROUND.
07:23:54PM AT THAT 501-C-3 RUN BY VOLUNTEERS WITH ONLY ONE FULL-TIME
07:23:59PM EMPLOYEE.
07:24:00PM THE MONEY WE EARN GOES INTO THE UPKEEP OF THE BUILDING AND
07:24:03PM THEN WE GIVE IT AWAY TO THE COMMUNITY.
07:24:05PM WE PARTNER WITH THE CITY OF TAMPA TO MAINTAIN FRED BALL PARK
07:24:10PM AND OPEN OUR BUILDING TO POLICE OFFICERS AND CITY STAFF
07:24:13PM DURING COMMUNITY EVENTS.
07:24:14PM IN THE THREE YEARS OF MY PRESIDENCY, OUR MEMBERS HAVE
07:24:17PM CONTRIBUTED APPROXIMATELY $50,000 TO THE COMMUNITY IN THE
07:24:21PM FORM OF SCHOLARSHIPS, COMMUNITY GARDEN GROWTH GRANTS,
07:24:26PM SUPPORTIVE VETERANS PROJECT AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION.
07:24:29PM ADDITIONALLY WE MAKE DONATIONS IN KIND WITH THE USE OF OUR
07:24:32PM BUILDING AND OUR GARDEN.
07:24:35PM WE LOVE DOING THIS BECAUSE IT IS OUR MISSION.
07:24:37PM AND WE CAN'T DO IT IF OUR INCOME IS REDUCED.
07:24:40PM WE ARE GREATLY CONCERNED THAT ALL OF OUR PAST WORK AND
07:24:43PM FINANCIAL INVESTMENT WILL BE PASTED IF CITY COUNCIL DOESN'T
07:24:48PM HELP PROTECT THE LEGACY OF OUR ORGANIZATION.
07:24:51PM NOW CON TARRY TO REPRESENTATIONS MADE HERE, OUR WEDDING
07:24:55PM GARDEN DOES NOT DIRECTLY ABUT BAYSHORE.
07:24:58PM THAT WAS OUR FRONT LAWN SHOWN.
07:25:00PM OUR GARDEN IS SET BACK APPROXIMATELY 300 FEET AND IS
07:25:03PM SCREENED ON THE BAYSHORE SIDE FOR PRIVACY BY SIX-FOOT
07:25:07PM HEDGES.
07:25:08PM THE 29-STORY PLANNED BUILDING WILL LOOM OVER OUR CEREMONIES,
07:25:12PM MUCH CLOSE TO THE GARDEN AND THE DEVELOPER HAS NEVER OFFERED
07:25:16PM CONDITIONS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION PERIOD SO AS NOT TO IMPACT
07:25:20PM OUR CLIENTS OR CAUSE CANCELLATIONS OF OUR CONTRACTS.
07:25:22PM OUR BRIDES ARE ON OUR PROPERTY FOR ONE DAY.
07:25:25PM THAT CONSTRUCTION NOISE DURING THEIR CEREMONY IS NOT
07:25:30PM SOMETHING THEY ARE GOING TO GET USED TO.
07:25:33PM THIS DEVELOPMENT WILL BE THE FOURTH ONE ADJACENT TO US IN AS
07:25:36PM MANY YEARS.
07:25:37PM PLEASE COME SEE THIS AREA FOR YOURSELF TO SEE WHAT IT LOOKS
07:25:40PM LIKE.
07:25:40PM REGARDLESS OF NO PARKING SIGNS, CARS LINE THE NARROW STREETS
07:25:44PM ADDING TO THE CONGESTION AND THEY USE OUR LOT BECAUSE
07:25:48PM NOWHERE ELSE TO GO.
07:25:49PM OUR ONCE GRASSY OVERFLOW SPACE IS NOW A SANDLOT THAT WILL
07:25:54PM REQUIRE WORK TO RESUPPORT.
07:25:55PM HISTORICALLY WE HAVE BEEN HAPPY TO PROVIDE OVERFLOW PARKING
07:26:02PM FOR RODEPH SHOLOM, INC. BUT NO ABILITY TO ACCOMMODATE THEM
07:26:05PM DUE TO EVENT SCHEDULE AND PARKING.
07:26:09PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
07:26:11PM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
07:26:13PM >> GOOD EVENING, KITTY WALLACE, 4902 NORTH COLLINS LANE IN
07:26:19PM WELLS WOOD.
07:26:20PM THE PAST THE OF THE TAMPA GARDEN CLUB.
07:26:23PM I'M HERE TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE LEGACY OF THE GARDEN
07:26:28PM CLUB, THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE OVER THE YEARS TO THE
07:26:30PM QUALITY OF LIFE IN ALL PARTS OF THE CITY OF TAMPA AND
07:26:33PM HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
07:26:33PM FOR 95 YEARS, PLANTING TREES IN LOWRY PARK.
07:26:40PM RENOVATING THE AMERICAN LEGION VETERANS CEMETERY.
07:26:44PM AND COUNTLESS OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL AND BEAUTIFICATION
07:26:48PM PROJECTS.
07:26:48PM OUR CHILDREN'S SUMMER NATURE CAMP PROVIDED INSPIRATION AND
07:26:53PM KNOWLEDGE TO OVER 2,000 CHILDREN IN THE TERM ITS INCEPTION
07:26:59PM IN 2005.
07:27:00PM THE MEMBERS HAVE EDUCATED THE COMMUNITY PROVIDING WORKSHOPS
07:27:04PM AND SPEAKERS AND FLOWER SHOWS FOR 9 95 YEARS PLAYING BY THE
07:27:09PM RULES.
07:27:10PM THE LAST GREEN SPACE ON BAYSHORE COMMONLY THE NICKNAME FOR
07:27:19PM THE GARDEN CLUB.
07:27:20PM THE LAST GREEN SPACE ON BAYSHORE IS COMMITTED TO CONTINUE TO
07:27:24PM PRESERVE THE LOVELY GARDENS ON OUR THREE ACRES, TO CONTINUE
07:27:28PM TO PROVIDE A SPECIAL PLACE TO MULTIPLE GENERATIONS OF
07:27:31PM FAMILIES.
07:27:32PM TO CELEBRATE THEIR WEDDINGS, THEIR BAR MITZVAHS AND
07:27:38PM GRADUATIONS, PLAYING BY THE RULES.
07:27:39PM DURING THE PAST DECADE, THE TAMPA GARDEN CLUB HAS ALSO
07:27:44PM PROVIDED LEADERSHIP AND EFFORTS TO ESTABLISH COMMUNITY
07:27:46PM GARDENS IN TAMPA BY SPONSORING THE TAMPA HEIGHTS COMMUNITY
07:27:50PM GARDEN WHICH WAS NAMED BEST GARDEN IN THE SOUTH.
07:27:53PM AND PROVIDING GRANTS SO THAT FIVE OTHER COMMUNITY GARDENS
07:27:58PM COULD BE ESTABLISHED.
07:28:00PM BY SUPPORTING THE TAMPA GARDEN CLUB'S REQUEST TO DENY THESE
07:28:04PM WAIVERS, YOU ARE SUPPORTING AN INSTITUTION THAT IS 95 YEARS
07:28:07PM OLD.
07:28:07PM THAT HAS BENEFITED THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA
07:28:11PM IN MANY WAYS.
07:28:12PM I ASK FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION IN THAT.
07:28:14PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
07:28:16PM NEXT SPEAKER.
07:28:17PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
07:28:18PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
07:28:19PM >> I HAVEN'T DONE THIS BEFORE.
07:28:22PM IS THIS SHOWING UP?
07:28:24PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
07:28:25PM >> WONDERFUL.
07:28:25PM GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS COURTNEY HUMAS.
07:28:33PM I AM A MEMBER AND PROUD VOLUNTEER OF THE GARDEN CLUB.
07:28:37PM I AM ASKING YOU TO PLEASE DENY THE ZONING REQUEST TONIGHT.
07:28:40PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: PLEASE PUT IT ON THE SCREEN SO WE CAN
07:28:42PM ALL SEE.
07:28:42PM YES WE CAN SEE IT.
07:28:44PM YES, MA'AM.
07:28:45PM GO AHEAD.
07:28:46PM >> I DON'T WANT TO LOSE MY SECONDS.
07:28:49PM OKAY.
07:28:51PM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE THE IMPORTANT POINT THAT THE TAMPA
07:28:55PM GARDEN CLUB DIRECTLY NEXT DOOR TO THIS PROPOSED REZONING IS
07:29:00PM A SMALL WOMEN-OWNED AND WOMEN-RUN BUSINESS.
07:29:02PM SMALL BUSINESS IS ANY OPERATING BUSINESS WITH LESS THAN FIVE
07:29:05PM EMPLOYEES.
07:29:06PM THE TAMPA GARDEN CLUB HAS ONE FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE.
07:29:09PM I WOULD EXPECT THAT IF I ASKED EACH OF YOU COUNCILMEMBERS IF
07:29:13PM YOU SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESS IN TAMPA, YOU WOULD SAY YES.
07:29:17PM WELL, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE TO PROVE IT.
07:29:19PM THE TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN STATES ON PAGE 327 THAT WHEN
07:29:22PM CONSIDERING REZONING, THE CITY COUNCIL MUST CONSIDER THE
07:29:26PM IMPLICATIONS TO NEIGHBORING PROPERTIES.
07:29:28PM THE IMPACT OF THE ONGOING CONSTRUCTION, THE NOISE, OF THE
07:29:33PM TRAFFIC, AND TREES BEING REMOVED CAN BE DETRIMENTAL TO
07:29:38PM FUTURE BOOKINGS OF WEDDINGS AND OTHER EVENTS AT THE TAMPA
07:29:42PM GARDEN CLUB.
07:29:42PM OAK TREES ARE PART OF THE GARDEN AREA FOR EVENTS.
07:29:47PM QUIETNESS OF THIS SIDE OF THE PRO THE WILL BE UNFAIRLY
07:29:51PM IMPLICATED.
07:29:52PM CAN YOU IMAGINE A LARGE SHADOW THAT THE TOWER WILL PLACE ON
07:29:55PM THE BEAUTIFUL WEDDING GARDENS.
07:29:57PM BOOKINGS HAVE ALREADY BEEN -- EXCUSE ME -- AFFECTED.
07:30:00PM AND AS YOU HAVE HEARD OUR BUSINESS IS BEING IMPACTED.
07:30:03PM THE TAMPA GARDEN CLUB MADE IT THROUGH COVID, THANK GOD.
07:30:07PM BUT WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT COVID AND ITS IMPACT ON OUR
07:30:10PM BUSINESS IS THAT THE CRISIS HAD AN END.
07:30:12PM THIS BUILDING WITH ITS OVERDEVELOPMENT, THE WAIVERS, THE
07:30:17PM TREE REMOVALS ARE ESSENTIALLY THE TAMPA GARDEN CLUB'S
07:30:20PM PERMANENT COVID.
07:30:21PM ONCE ITS BUILDING IS BUILT, IT IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE.
07:30:24PM THE BEAUTIFUL FREES ONCE REMOVED ARE NOT COMING BACK.
07:30:27PM PLEASE DO NOT DESTROY THE WONDERFUL BUSINESS MODEL THAT THE
07:30:30PM TAMPA GARDEN CLUB HAS WORKED SO HARD TO CREATE AND MAINTAIN.
07:30:33PM I LEAVE YOU WITH THIS REMINDER ON THE ELMO -- JUST TRYING TO
07:30:37PM SHOW YOU.
07:30:38PM ON THE CITY OF TAMPA WEB SITE WHICH STATES, AND I QUOTE,
07:30:41PM SUCCESSFUL SMALL BUSINESSES ARE ESSENTIAL OF MAINTAINING A
07:30:44PM HEALTHY ECONOMY.
07:30:45PM THE CITY OF TAMPA RECOGNIZES THE CHALLENGES FACED BY MANY
07:30:48PM SMALL AND MINORITY OWNED BUSINESSES AND OFFERS VALUABLE
07:30:52PM INFORMATION AND SERVICES TO HELP YOU REMAIN COMPETITIVE, END
07:30:56PM QUOTE.
07:30:57PM PLEASE HELP US REMAIN COMPETITIVE.
07:30:59PM WE ARE NOT OPPOSED TO DEVELOPMENT ITSELF.
07:31:01PM WE WANT TAMPA TO BE A SUCCESSFUL THRIVES CITY.
07:31:04PM WHAT WE ARE ASKING FOR IS COMPATIBLE DEVELOPMENT.
07:31:08PM ZONING IS IN PLACE FOR A REASON.
07:31:09PM AND ONLY THE CURRENT ZONING SHOULD BE ALLOWED.
07:31:13PM WE ARE HERE TONIGHT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IN RED, TO ASK
07:31:16PM THAT YOU PLEASE ALLOW THE WONDERFUL MEMORIES OF THE TAMPA
07:31:19PM GARDEN CLUB TO CONTINUE.
07:31:20PM THANK YOU.
07:31:21PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
07:31:23PM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
07:31:25PM STATE YOUR NAME.
07:31:26PM >> HI, DR. ARKIN KARAKAS, AND I LIVE BAYSHORE BOULEVARD NEXT TO THE
07:31:35PM GARDEN CLUB AND LESS THAN A BLOCK FROM THE PROPERTY.
07:31:39PM A FOURTH-GENERATION TAMPA NATIVE AND LIFE-LONG MEMBER, PAST
07:31:45PM THE OF RODEPH SHOLOM.
07:31:47PM I DRIVE DOWN BAYSHORE SEVERAL TIMES A DAY AND USE IT
07:31:51PM REGULARLY FOR EXERCISE.
07:31:52PM I'M HERE BOTH AS A RESIDENT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND AS A
07:31:55PM MEMBER OF RODEPH SHOLOM.
07:31:57PM LIKE MANY OF US HERE, I DON'T LIKE THE INCREASED DENSITY
07:32:02PM THAT IS OCCURRING ALONG BAYSHORE.
07:32:04PM UP LIKE THE FACT THAT IT IS FRONTED BY PROPERTIES OTHER THAN
07:32:07PM CONDOMINIUMS.
07:32:08PM THAT IS WHY I SUPPORT THIS PROPOSAL, BECAUSE IT REPRESENTS
07:32:12PM THE BEST COMPROMISE TO HAVING NO FURTHER GROWTH IN THE AREA
07:32:16PM AND HAVING ANOTHER LARGE BUILDING ON BAYSHORE.
07:32:18PM I LIKE THIS PROPOSAL BECAUSE IT LIMITS THE SIZE OF A
07:32:21PM STRUCTURE THAT CAN BE BUILT ON THE PROPERTY.
07:32:23PM AND IT KEEPS A LONG-STANDING TAMPA RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS AT
07:32:32PM ITS HOME.
07:32:33PM RODEPH SHOLOM FACES LIMITED FUNDS AND AN ENDOWMENT FOR
07:32:38PM THE SALE OF A PORTION OF THE PROPERTY AS NEEDED TO REMAIN
07:32:41PM FINANCIALLY VIABLE.
07:32:43PM IF THIS PROPOSAL IS NOT ACCEPTED, WE WILL NEED TO SELL THE
07:32:46PM ENTIRE PROPERTY AND MOVE TO A DIFFERENT LOCATION.
07:32:48PM A LARGER CONDO WILL BE BUILT IN ITS PLACE WITHOUT THE
07:32:52PM ENCUMBRANCE OF OUR CONGREGATION LIMITING ITS SIZE.
07:32:56PM THE PRESENTATION OF OUR CONGREGATION ON BE THIS PROPERTY
07:33:00PM DOES LIMIT DEVELOPMENT.
07:33:01PM SELLING THE ENTIRE PROPERTY IS A REAL OPTION FOR US THAT WE
07:33:05PM HAVEN'T WANTED TO USE.
07:33:06PM OVER THE YEARS, THE BOARD OF RODEPH SHOLOM, INC. HAS
07:33:10PM UNDERTAKE TAKEN NUMEROUS TO SELL THE ENTIRE PROPERTY FOR
07:33:13PM MORE THAN THE CURRENT OFFER.
07:33:15PM WE HAVE TURNED DOWN THESE OFFERS BECAUSE IT WILL REQUIRE US
07:33:18PM TO MOVE FROM OUR HOME.
07:33:19PM THIS VOTE CAN BOTH ALLOW US TO REMAIN AT OUR CURRENT
07:33:24PM LOCATION AND BE FINANCIALLY VIABLE.
07:33:26PM KEEPING RODEPH SHOLOM AT ITS CURRENT LOCATION IS IMPORTANT
07:33:30PM FOR US BUT ALSO IMPORTANT TO TAMPA.
07:33:32PM OUR CO-CONGREGATION OF A CATHOLIC CHURCH AND SCHOOL AND
07:33:40PM DEMONSTRATES DIVERSITY THAT OUR CITY HAD AS VISITORS TRAVEL
07:33:44PM ALONG BAYSHORE.
07:33:46PM A TAMPA HISTORICAL MARKER ON THE SITE NOTES THE 120-YEAR
07:33:52PM LEGACY THAT RODEPH SHOLOM, INC. HAS IN THIS COMMUNITY.
07:33:55PM TONIGHT'S VOICE WILL DECIDE ON THE TWO.
07:33:58PM AND MAINTAINING THE STATUS QUO IS NOT ONE OF THEM.
07:34:01PM ONE CHOICE HAS RODEPH SHOLOM BEING DEMOLISHED AND
07:34:04PM ANOTHER LARGE CONDOMINIUM BUILT IN ITS PLACE.
07:34:07PM THE OTHER OPPORTUNITY TAKES RODEPH SHOLOM, INC. AND BAYSHORE
07:34:10PM BOULEVARD EXACTLY WHERE IT IS NOW IN A MORE MODEST BUILDING
07:34:14PM OFF BAYSHORE IN OUR CURRENT EMPTY PARKING LOT.
07:34:17PM FOR THESE REASONS, I ASK THE COUNCIL TO PLEASE APPROVE THIS
07:34:20PM MOTION SO THAT RODEPH SHOLOM CAN REMAIN WHERE IT
07:34:23PM BELONGS ON BAYSHORE AND LIMIT THE SIZE AND LOCATION OF
07:34:26PM ANOTHER LARGE BUILDING.
07:34:27PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
07:34:32PM NEXT SPEAKER.
07:34:35PM >> HELLO, MY NAME IS CRAIG NEWMAN.
07:34:38PM 2421 VICTORIA GARDENS.
07:34:41PM I HAVE A MEMBER OF RODEPH SHOLOM SINCE 1961 AND I
07:34:45PM SPEAK IN FAVOR OF THIS PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT.
07:34:48PM I COULD GO ALL OVER EVERYTHING THAT I WROTE HERE, BUT
07:34:54PM LISTENING TO MANY FOLKS WHO SPOKE, THERE ARE A FEW THINGS I
07:34:56PM WOULD LIKE TO SAY ABOUT THE GARDEN CLUB.
07:34:58PM I THINK EVERYBODY WHO SHOULD RECOGNIZE AND DO RECOGNIZE THE
07:35:01PM BENEFITS OF THE GARDEN CLUB AND ALL THEY DO FOR TAMPA AND
07:35:05PM FOR CHARITIES.
07:35:07PM WE -- WE DON'T DISPUTE THAT AT ALL.
07:35:11PM AND I THINK THAT JUST HAVING A BUILDING THIS TOWER IS NOT
07:35:16PM GOING TO TAKE ANY OF THAT AWAY FROM THE CITY OF TAMPA, ALL
07:35:20PM RIGHT.
07:35:20PM BUT WHAT THE CITY OF TAMPA HAS DONE OR IN SPEAKING AND
07:35:27PM LISTENING TO STAFF.
07:35:28PM THEY TONIGHT FIND MUCH WRONG WITH WHAT IS GOING ON.
07:35:32PM EVERYTHING FALLS IN THE CRITERIA.
07:35:34PM THEY SPOKE BEFORE THE ATTORNEY CAME TO SPEAK.
07:35:37PM BEFORE TALKING OF PLANNING.
07:35:38PM EVERYTHING FELL IN THE SCOPE.
07:35:39PM SOME OF THE DENSITY IS LESS THAN WHAT WE EXPECTED TO COME
07:35:43PM BACK AT, BUT THEY HAVE SAID WE HAVE NOT DONE ANYTHING WRONG.
07:35:46PM A FEW ADJUSTMENTS WHEN IT COMES TO WAIVERS.
07:35:48PM I WILL TELL BUT WAIVERS, COUNCILMAN MIRANDA WAS AT THAT TIME
07:35:53PM YOU WERE CHAIRMAN.
07:35:54PM THEY PUT A BAR 23 FEET AWAY FROM A CHURCH AND 23 FEET FROM A
07:35:59PM RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY.
07:36:00PM THERE WERE SEVEN WAIVERS TO PUT A BAR IN OFF OF HOWARD
07:36:04PM AVENUE.
07:36:04PM THAT IS WHY I CAME BEFORE CITY COUNCIL.
07:36:06PM MUST HAVE BEEN EIGHT YEARS AGO -- SEVEN, EIGHT YEARS AGO AND
07:36:09PM PUT IT IN ANYWAY.
07:36:11PM SEVEN WAIVERS.
07:36:12PM WAIVERS HERE IN CITY COUNCIL AS SOME OF ARE NEW AND SOME OF
07:36:17PM YOU ARE AREN'T.
07:36:18PM BUT WAIVERS COME ACROSS ANYONE WHO IS HAVING ANYTHING BUILT
07:36:23PM TO ASK FOR WAIVERS.
07:36:24PM A WAIVERS ASKING CONSTANTLY FOR SIDEWALKS AND NOT PUTTING IN
07:36:28PM SIDEWALKS OR TREES AND TREES REMOVING.
07:36:30PM ON GANDY BOULEVARD, WE HAD 20 TREES THAT WERE CUT DOWN SO
07:36:34PM THEY COULD PUT IN A CAR WASH.
07:36:36PM AND THEY WERE FINE FOR DOING IT.
07:36:38PM AND FIND WITH A D.
07:36:43PM BUT THEY STILL HAVE A PROPERTY WITHOUT IT.
07:36:46PM THEY HAVE A PROPERTY WITH NO TREES.
07:36:48PM AND A CAR WASH.
07:36:50PM WHAT I AM LOOKING AT HERE IS -- WE ARE TALKING OF A
07:36:54PM SYNAGOGUE THAT ALSO HAS A LOT OF HISTORY, YOU KNOW, IN
07:36:58PM TAMPA, YBOR CITY.
07:36:59PM THE JEWISH HISTORY.
07:37:01PM THE PROPOSAL, THE THIS I THINK SO THAT I HAVE SEEN -- I TOOK
07:37:05PM THE TIME AND WENT THROUGH OVER THE LAST THREE OR FOUR MONTHS
07:37:08PM AND LOOKING AT THE FALSEHOODS SAID OF THIS PROJECT ON NEXT
07:37:12PM DOOR.
07:37:12PM I AM GOING TO READ YOU SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WERE PUT OUT.
07:37:15PM AND IT WAS IN THERE TODAY.
07:37:16PM I WENT OVER THEM AGAIN.
07:37:18PM THE CONDOS BUILT DIRECTLY ON BAYSHORE.
07:37:21PM THE GRAND OAKS WILL BE REMOVED AND ADJOINING PROPERTY WILL
07:37:24PM BE RUINED BECAUSE OF THE CANOPY OF THE GARDEN CLUB.
07:37:28PM EVEN A QUESTION AS TO WHY IS THE JCC, JEWISH COMMUNITY
07:37:33PM CENTER ON HOWARD AVENUE BUILDING CONDOS IN THEIR PARKING
07:37:36PM LOT.
07:37:36PM THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO WROTE IN SAYING THEY HAD A PROBLEM WITH
07:37:39PM THIS.
07:37:39PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
07:37:41PM >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
07:37:42PM I APPRECIATE YOUR INDULGENCE, THANK YOU.
07:37:45PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I CAST EVERY VOTE THE WAY I SEE IT AT THE
07:37:49PM TIME.
07:37:49PM BUT A VAST DIFFERENT IN ALCOHOL WAIVERS AND LAND ZONING
07:37:53PM WAIVERS.
07:37:54PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
07:37:56PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
07:37:57PM >> DR. MARCY BAKER, AND I LIVE AT 610 WEST SWANN AVENUE ON
07:38:02PM BAYSHORE.
07:38:03PM I WAS BORN IN TAMPA AND HAVE BEEN A LIFE-LONG MEMBER OF
07:38:07PM CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM, INC.
07:38:08PM WHERE MY DAUGHTER WAS BAR MITZVAHS AND UNFORTUNATELY WHERE
07:38:14PM WE HAD MY GRANDMOTHER'S FUNERAL.
07:38:16PM I WAS BAR MITZVAHED THERE AND WAS MARRIED THERE.
07:38:20PM MY FATHER IS A PAST THE OF RODEPH SHOLOM, INC. AND I AM THE
07:38:23PM IMMEDIATE PAST THE.
07:38:24PM I HAVE SERVED ON THE EXECUTIVE BOARD FOR THE LAST 12 YEARS.
07:38:30PM DURING THAT TIME, WE HAVE BEEN APPROACHED MANY TIMES BY
07:38:34PM DEVELOPERS ASKING US TO SELL OUR PROPERTY.
07:38:36PM WE ALWAYS HAVE TURNED DOWN MY OFFERS.
07:38:38PM WITH MY THE SHOW, AN UNIQUE OFFER TO KEEP OUR CURRENT
07:38:43PM BUILDING IN ITS WONDERFUL LOCATION AND TO BE ABLE TO DEVELOP
07:38:47PM THE PARKING LOT.
07:38:48PM THIS OFFER WAS VERY APPEALING TO US BECAUSE WILL GIVE US AN
07:38:50PM ENDOWMENT THAT WILL ENSURE OUR FINANCIAL STABILITY FOR THE
07:38:55PM FORESEEABLE FUTURE.
07:38:56PM THE FINANCIAL REALITIES OF MANY ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS
07:39:00PM ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING RODEPH SHOLOM IS THAT IT IS
07:39:03PM BECOME HARDER AND HARDER TO MAINTAIN BALANCED BUDGET.
07:39:06PM DUES ALONE DO NOT COVER OUR EXPENSES.
07:39:10PM I TRULY BELIEVE THAT THE HARD REALITY OF THIS SITUATION IS,
07:39:14PM IS THAT IF WE DO NOT APPROVE -- HAVE APPROVAL -- EVEN LARGER
07:39:27PM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT AND NOT WERE PRESERVE THE BEAUTIFUL AND
07:39:31PM HISTORIC SYNAGOGUE ON THE PREMIERE STREET IN TAMPA LIVING
07:39:35PM HERE ALL MY LIFE, I HAVE SEEN THE GROWTH THAT HAS OCCURRED
07:39:37PM IN TAMPA AND I THINK IT WOULD BE A SHAME FOR US TO
07:39:41PM POTENTIALLY USE A SYNAGOGUE FROM BAYSHORE BOULEVARD IF NOT
07:39:45PM ALLOWED APPROVAL OF THIS PROJECT.
07:39:47PM PERSONALLY, WE ARE TALKING OF WEDDINGS.
07:39:49PM PERSONALLY I WANT MY DAUGHTER TO BE MARRIED IN THE SAME
07:39:53PM SYNAGOGUE WHERE I WAS BAR MITZVAHED.
07:39:55PM WHERE I WAS MARRIED AND HAVE SHE WAS BAR MITZVAH.
07:40:00PM THE APPROVAL OF THAT PROJECT WILL ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN.
07:40:03PM THANK YOU.
07:40:04PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
07:40:05PM NEXT SPEAKER.
07:40:07PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
07:40:08PM STATE YOUR NAME.
07:40:09PM >> THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK.
07:40:10PM LAURA MORWITZ.
07:40:14PM I HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT OF TAMPA FOR ALMOST SEVEN YEARS.
07:40:17PM PROBABLY AN OUTLIER HERE.
07:40:19PM I WISH I HAD MY FAMILY HERE SINCE 1903 AND THAT WASN'T IN
07:40:24PM THE CARDS FOR ME.
07:40:25PM I HAVE BEEN A MEMBER OF RODEPH SHOLOM FOR TWO YEARS.
07:40:27PM BEFORE THAT, I WAS ONLY INVOLVED IN A LOT OF THE COMMUNITY
07:40:32PM EVENTS, MORE TOWARD THE BUSINESS.
07:40:34PM I AM CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER AT A MAJOR LAW FIRM HERE IN
07:40:38PM TAMPA I BUILT A HOME IN RODEPH SHOLOM AS A NEW MEMBER.
07:40:44PM EVERYBODY HERE HAS BEEN HERE FOR DECADES.
07:40:46PM THIS HAS BEEN MY HOME FOR ME.
07:40:49PM I'M REALLY, REALLY SCARED THAT IF -- IF THIS SALE DOESN'T GO
07:40:54PM THROUGH, THAT WE WON'T HAVE A CHOICE OF WHERE TO WORSHIP.
07:40:58PM EVERYBODY HERE HAS A CHOICE.
07:41:00PM THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER CHURCHES WITH OTHER DENOMINATIONS.
07:41:05PM THERE IS NO OTHER CONSERVATIVE JEWISH SYNAGOGUE IN SOUTH
07:41:10PM TAMPA OR EVEN CLOSE BY.
07:41:12PM WE HAVE MEMBERS WHO COME FROM LITHIA TO OUR SYNAGOGUE JUST
07:41:16PM BECAUSE OF THE AREA DOESN'T HAVE THIS.
07:41:18PM I HOPE THAT YOU VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE SALE.
07:41:21PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
07:41:23PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
07:41:24PM YES, SIR.
07:41:25PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
07:41:26PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
07:41:27PM >> GOOD AFTERNOON -- GOOD EVENING, JIM BAKER.
07:41:30PM I RESIDE AS -- YOU HEARD MY WIFE JUST SPOKE, 610 WEST SWANN
07:41:35PM AVENUE AT THE CORNER OF SWANN AND BAYSHORE AND IN THE VICINITY
07:41:40PM OF THE SYNAGOGUE.
07:41:41PM I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN THIS GOLDEN GATE CITY.
07:41:45PM I HAVE BEEN A MEMBER OF RODEPH FOR 25 YEARS.
07:41:49PM I WENT THROUGH THE CONVERSION.
07:41:50PM I GOT MARRIED.
07:41:52PM MY DAUGHTER HAD HER BAH MITZVAH.
07:41:55PM MY FATHER-IN-LAW AND WIFE PAST PRESIDENTS.
07:41:59PM I WILL SOON BE THE MEMBERSHIP CHAIR.
07:42:02PM BEING ON THE BOARD I HAVE INSIGHT IN THE INNER WORKING
07:42:07PM OF MAKING A SYNAGOGUE RUN.
07:42:10PM NOT ONLY PEOPLE BUT THE FINANCES.
07:42:12PM WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MANEUVER THROUGH THE PANDEMIC AND EVER
07:42:16PM INCREASING INFLATION COST, IT HAS NOT BEEN EASY.
07:42:20PM THE ONLY SYNAGOGUE OPEN DURING THE PANDEMIC WITH INTERESTING
07:42:23PM THINGS LIKE USING ZOOM AND IN-PERSON DRIVING SHABBATS IN THE
07:42:29PM PARKING LOT AND MADE IT GREAT FOR US AND OUR MEMBERS.
07:42:33PM RODEPH IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF OUR COMMUNITY.
07:42:38PM THEY HAVE MADE THOUGHTFUL CONCESSIONS AFTER HEARING THE
07:42:42PM CONCERNS OF ALL PARTIES.
07:42:43PM PLEASE SUPPORT THE PROJECT TO HONOR THE PAST AND PRESERVE
07:42:46PM THE FUTURE OF RODEPH ON BAYSHORE.
07:42:50PM THANK YOU.
07:42:50PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, SIR.
07:42:51PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
07:42:53PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
07:42:54PM >> MY NAME IS WARREN HARRIS.
07:42:57PM 30 4 SOUTH FIELDING AVENUE.
07:43:00PM A RESIDENT OF TAMPA SINCE 1970.
07:43:03PM 23409 TO TELL YOU ANYTHING THAT YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW,
07:43:06PM TAMPA HAS WONDERFUL JEWELS LIKE MANY CITIES BUT ONE OF OUR
07:43:11PM BEST JEWELS IS BAYSHORE BOULEVARD.
07:43:14PM AND A JEWEL WITH THE SYNAGOGUE ALONG WITH MANY CHURCHES AND
07:43:20PM THE GARDEN CLUB.
07:43:21PM BAYSHORE STARTED OUT AS A RESIDENTIAL ROAD AND DEVELOPED
07:43:24PM INTO AN EVEN MORE RESIDENTIAL ROAD WITH MULTIFAMILY
07:43:28PM DWELLINGS AND CONDOS.
07:43:31PM AS I SAID, IT ALSO HAS CHURCHES, CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE
07:43:36PM SYNAGOGUE THAT IS THERE.
07:43:37PM THE BEAUTIFUL OF THOSE FACILITIES, IN ADDITION TO THE
07:43:41PM RESIDENTIAL AREAS, IS THAT IT SHOWS TO THE WORLD TAMPA'S
07:43:45PM COMMITMENT TO NOT ONLY MORALITY BUT TO DIVERSITY.
07:43:48PM THIS PLAN ALLOWS THE SYNAGOGUE TO REMAIN WHERE IT IS AND
07:43:53PM UTILIZE THE VALUE OF THE LAND.
07:43:55PM MY CONCERN IS, IF THIS PLAN IS DENIED, IN TIME, THE
07:43:59PM SYNAGOGUE WILL BE FORCED TO SELL, SELL THE ENTIRE LOT
07:44:03PM ALLOWING FOR A LARGER CONDOMINIUM TO GO IN THERE LOSING THE
07:44:08PM BEAUTY OF THE SYNAGOGUE AND THE DIVERSITY THAT IT
07:44:11PM DEMONSTRATES.
07:44:12PM I ASK THIS COMMITTEE, THIS GROUP, THIS COUNCIL TO FIND A WAY
07:44:15PM TO ALLOW BOTH THE SYNAGOGUE AND THE GARDEN CLUB TO CO-EXIST.
07:44:20PM I DON'T BELIEVE THE COULD BE DOE WILL TAKE AWAY FROM THE
07:44:24PM BEAUTY AND USE OF THE GARDEN CLUB.
07:44:26PM MAY CREATE SOME CIRCUMSTANCES THAT MAY NOT BE IDEAL, BUT THE
07:44:30PM GARDEN CLUB WILL DO THEIR GOOD WORK AND ALLOW PEOPLE TO USE
07:44:33PM THEIR WONDERFUL FACILITY.
07:44:35PM THANK YOU.
07:44:35PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
07:44:38PM >> BEFORE I START, CAN I HAVE THE -- CAN HAVE THE OVERHEAD
07:44:43PM ON.
07:44:44PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: PLEASE SHOW THE OVERHEAD ON THE SCREEN
07:44:46PM SO EVERYBODY CAN SEE.
07:44:47PM >> GOOD EVENING, PATRICK CIMINO, THE HISTORIC HYDE
07:44:53PM PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND EMPOWERED BY THE BOARD TO
07:44:56PM OPPOSE THE REZONING OF THE PARCEL NEXT TO THE GARDEN CLUB
07:45:00PM AND THEIR REQUEST.
07:45:01PM I WANT TO STEP BACK.
07:45:03PM THIS A REZONING AND A CONDO PROJECT FROM A LAND USE AND
07:45:08PM ZONING PERSPECTIVE.
07:45:09PM THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
07:45:11PM WE DEAL WITH THIS IN THE HISTORIC DISTRICT A LOT.
07:45:14PM I THINK WHAT IS REALLY CONCERNING IS THE EXCESSIVE USE OF
07:45:20PM WAIVERS AND HAVING TO REQUIRE BONUS TO DO THE LEVEL OF
07:45:23PM DENSITY THAT THIS IS.
07:45:24PM AND THE COMP PLAN TALKS ABOUT IT.
07:45:27PM MANY OF YOU ALL WERE AT THE PUBLIC HEARING IN THE GARDEN
07:45:31PM CLUB AND STATED SOUTH TAMPA SHOULD BE CLOSED.
07:45:34PM THERE IS A LOT OF CONCERN IN THE FLOODING AREA.
07:45:37PM PEOPLE HAVE EMPHASIZED THIS BETTER THAN ME.
07:45:40PM I THINK THE GIVEAWAY ON SETBACKS IS CRITICAL.
07:45:44PM TWO FEET, YOU CAN NOT PUT A LITTLE BUSH IN.
07:45:48PM WE DEALT WITH THIS IN HYDE PARK.
07:45:51PM SO TO NOT HAVE A BUFFER OR GIVE UP PUBLIC LAND IS NOT
07:45:56PM APPROPRIATE.
07:45:57PM AND FINALLY, YOU KNOW, I -- WE HEAR A LOT ABOUT FINANCIAL
07:46:01PM HARDSHIP IN THE HISTORIC DISTRICT AND I HAVE BECOME VERY
07:46:05PM AGNOSTIC TO THAT.
07:46:07PM BECAUSE, IN FACT, THAT IS NOT CRITERIA IN MAKING THESE KIND
07:46:11PM OF DECISIONS OR SHOULD ONLY BE USED WITH EXCEPTION, NOT
07:46:14PM ROUTINE.
07:46:15PM AND I WILL SAY ONE OF THE CHALLENGES -- AND I KNOW YOU
07:46:19PM ADDRESSED COUNCILMAN MIRANDA ON THIS.
07:46:22PM TAMPA HAS USED TOO MANY WAIVERS.
07:46:25PM IF YOU HAVE TO USE THAT MANY WAIVERS, WHY IS THERE CODE AND
07:46:29PM WHY IS THERE A COMP PLAN.
07:46:31PM RECOMMEND DENYING THIS REQUEST.
07:46:34PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
07:46:38PM YES, MA'AM -- SIR, I SEE YOU ARE STANDING THERE.
07:46:40PM AFTER YOU SPEAK, I WILL ASK FOR A TEN-MINUTE RECESS.
07:46:43PM AND THE REASON IS, WE WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THE FOLKS THAT HAVE
07:46:47PM SPOKEN THAT DON'T NEED TO BE HERE TO LEAVE THE CHAMBERS
07:46:50PM BECAUSE WE HAVE A HUGE GROUP DOWNSTAIRS AND WE WANT TO BRING
07:46:53PM THEM IN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT TO ACCOMMODATE EVERYBODY.
07:46:55PM THERE ARE TVS AND MONITORS DOWNSTAIRS.
07:46:58PM A ROOM FULL OF CHAIRS SO YOU CAN CONTINUE WATCHING THE
07:47:02PM MEETING AND WE CAN KEEP THE PROCESS GOING.
07:47:05PM YES, MA'AM, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
07:47:06PM >> THANK YOU.
07:47:07PM GOOD EVENING COUNCILMEN AND WOMEN.
07:47:10PM I AM PAULA MACKLING AND CURRENT PRESIDENT OF THE TAMPA GARDEN
07:47:16PM CLUB, AND WE NEED WHERE YOU ARE HELP HERE.
07:47:18PM WE ARE VERY WORRIED OF THIS DECISION AND HOW THIS COULD HAVE
07:47:21PM A MAJOR IMPACT ON OUR PROPERTY AND OUR SMALL BUSINESS.
07:47:24PM WHEN A PROJECT ASKS FOR WAIVERS AND BONUSES, THERE ARE
07:47:27PM USUALLY UNDERLYING ISSUE HAVE CREATED THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
07:47:32PM IN THIS CASE THE CIRCUMSTANCES IS THIS PIECE OF LAND IS JUST
07:47:36PM WAY TOO SMALL FOR THE SIZE OF THIS TOWER AND NEGATIVELY
07:47:39PM EFFECTS THE SURROUNDING PROPERTIES.
07:47:41PM THIS PROJECT HAS NOT SHOWN JUSTIFICATION FOR THESE INCREASES
07:47:44PM IN INTENSITY.
07:47:45PM ALSO CLEAR IN THE CODE THAT THERE IS -- THERE CAN BE NO
07:47:49PM ADVERSE EFFECTS TO THE ADJACENT PROPERTY.
07:47:53PM THIS HAS ALSO NOT BEEN ADDRESSED.
07:47:55PM THE APPLICANT SHOULD NOT BE ALLOW TO CHERRY PICK SPECIFIC
07:47:58PM INFORMATION THEY ARE PROVIDING.
07:47:59PM THE TRAFFIC STUDY DOES NOT INCLUDE EXISTING TRAFFIC
07:48:02PM GENERATED BY THE SYNAGOGUE OR THE NEW TOWER.
07:48:05PM ALMOST COMPLETE ACROSS THE STREET.
07:48:07PM WELL, WHICH IS IT?
07:48:09PM ARE WE ALLOWED TO INCLUDE THAT IN OUR EVIDENCE IN BECAUSE
07:48:12PM THEY SAY THERE ARE SEVEN TOWERS IN THIS AREA BUT ONE OF THEM
07:48:16PM NOT TOTALLY BUILT YET.
07:48:18PM I AM NOT SURE IF WE ARE ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT TRAFFIC OR NOT
07:48:22PM ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT TRAFFIC.
07:48:24PM THEY MENTIONED THE CONDO UNIT ONLY HAS 50 AND AWAY FROM THE
07:48:30PM GARDEN CLUB BUILDING AND THE WEDDING GARDEN AND DIRECTLY
07:48:33PM ADJACENT TO A PARKING LO THE.
07:48:34PM IT SAYS, WHAT THEY FAIL TO MENTION IS, AND IN THE LAST PD
07:48:40PM UPLOADED IN ACELA, 350 FEET TALL FOUR INCHES THAT WILL LOOM
07:48:46PM OVER OUR WEDDING GARDEN.
07:48:48PM THE MEASUREMENT OF THE CORNER OF THE BUILDING IS LESS THAN
07:48:51PM THE CENTER OF OUR GARDEN CLUB TO BAYSHORE BOULEVARD.
07:48:55PM IT IS CLOSER TO THE WEDDING GARDEN.
07:48:57PM DON'T LET THEM TELL YOU IT IS NOT.
07:49:00PM IT IS.
07:49:00PM THEY MADE A STATEMENT THAT THE WEDDING GARDEN HAS NO BUFFER
07:49:05PM AND SITS ON BAYSHORE, IT DOESN'T.
07:49:06PM WAY BACK ON BAYSHORE.
07:49:08PM AND WE HAVE VEGETATION BUFFERS.
07:49:13PM WE ARE PUTTING BUFFERS AROUND OUR PICKLEBALL COURT.
07:49:17PM AND THEY CAN HAVE VEGETATION TO STOP FROM THE PICKLEBALL.
07:49:21PM DOES IT WORK?
07:49:22PM I DON'T KNOW.
07:49:23PM DOES IT WORK?
07:49:24PM NO.
07:49:25PM THEY STATE, GIVEN THE UNIQUE NATURE OF THIS PROJECT, REMOVAL
07:49:29PM OF THE EXISTING TREE IS JUSTIFIED.
07:49:31PM NO OPPORTUNITIES TO DEVELOP THIS SITE WITHOUT TREE REMOVAL
07:49:35PM TO KEEP THE SYNAGOGUE.
07:49:36PM WELL, THAT STATEMENT IS DISINGENUOUS.
07:49:39PM JUST ACROSS THE STREET, THE DEVELOPER DEVELOPED LAND THAT
07:49:42PM THE SYNAGOGUE SOLD IN 2015, TOOK SEVEN TOWN HOMES THAT GET
07:49:47PM NICELY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
07:49:48PM A DEVELOPMENT SIMILAR OR EVEN LARGER BECAUSE THIS IS A LOT
07:49:51PM MORE LAND.
07:49:51PM THAT WAS A HALF ACRE.
07:49:53PM THIS IS 1.34 ACRE COULD FIT ON THAT PROPERTY WITH THE
07:49:56PM SYNAGOGUE.
07:49:57PM THUS WE WILL HAVE THE SYNAGOGUE.
07:50:01PM NEW RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT.
07:50:02PM MEET THE SAFETY AND SECURITY CONCERNS THEY ARE HAVING.
07:50:05PM WE WOULD SAVE THE TREES.
07:50:07PM A WIN-WIN FOR EVERYONE.
07:50:08PM WE ARE ASKING TO PLEASE DENY THIS APPLICATION.
07:50:11PM IT IS JUST NOT COMPATIBLE WITH A SMALL SITE.
07:50:14PM THANK YOU.
07:50:15PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
07:50:16PM YES, SIR, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
07:50:18PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
07:50:19PM >> MY NAME IS VANCE SMITH.
07:50:33PM I RESIDE 350 1 BAYSHORE BOULEVARD, AND I'M HERE TO OPPOSE
07:50:39PM THIS APPLICATION FOR REZONING.
07:50:41PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: PLEASE SHOW THE IMAGE ON THE SCREEN FOR
07:50:43PM EVERYONE TO SEE.
07:50:44PM >> IT IS BEYOND MY PAY GRADE.
07:50:47PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NO, GO AHEAD.
07:50:49PM >> THE APPLICATION OF -- THE DEVELOPER'S REZONING
07:50:58PM APPLICATION SEEMS TO CLAIM A RIGHT TO DEVELOP THE RS-35
07:51:03PM DENSITY UNDER THE FLORIDA LAND USE PLAN.
07:51:08PM THAT IS A CONDITIONAL RIGHT, IF ANY.
07:51:11PM THEY MUST SHOW THAT THE PARCEL WOULD OTHERWISE FIT ALL OF
07:51:17PM THE ZONING REQUIREMENTS OF THE CITY OF TAMPA LAND
07:51:20PM REGULATIONS.
07:51:25PM I THINK THAT RS-35, IF YOU LOOK AT THE FLORIDA -- THE TAMPA
07:51:31PM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, THE RS-35 IDENTIFIES RS-35 AS A MEDIUM
07:51:38PM DENSITY ELEMENT.
07:51:39PM WHEN YOU LOOK AT MEDIUM DENSITY, THIS PROJECT HAS NONE OF
07:51:44PM THE KEY CHARACTERISTICS IDENTIFIED IN THE COMPREHENSIVE
07:51:47PM PLAN.
07:51:47PM WHAT IT DOES HAVE, ALL OF THE KEY ELEMENTS OF A HIGH-RISE
07:51:54PM CONDOMINIUM FOR RS-83 OF WHICH THERE IS NO SIGNIFICANT
07:51:59PM PROPERTY.
07:51:59PM I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT A WAIVER.
07:52:04PM THE PROJECT CANNOT EXIST WITH THE ZONING CODE AS APPLIED
07:52:09PM WITHOUT SEVEN WAIVERS.
07:52:11PM I THINK COMMON SENSE WILL TELL YOU THAT THE MORE WAIVERS AND
07:52:15PM EXCEPTIONS THERE ARE, THE LESS LIKELY IT IS THAT IT IS
07:52:19PM COMPATIBLE WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD-BUILT ENVIRONMENT.
07:52:22PM FOR THAT REASON, WE THINK THE WAIVERS SHOULD BE DENIED
07:52:28PM BECAUSE AS PART OF THEIR CRITERIA, WAIVER SHOULD NOT
07:52:32PM SUBSTANTIALLY INTERFERE OR INJURY THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS WHOSE
07:52:37PM PROPERTY WOULD BE AFFECTED.
07:52:38PM THAT IS PRECISELY THE POSITION OF WHERE THE GARDEN CLUB
07:52:42PM SITS.
07:52:42PM THEIR PROPERTY AND THEIR RIGHTS WILL BE AFFECTED
07:52:45PM SUBSTANTIALLY BY THE ALLOWANCE OF THIS PROJECT.
07:52:49PM IN ADDITION, THERE HAS BEEN A PAST WAIVER FOR PARKING AND
07:52:59PM INGRESS AND EGRESS.
07:53:01PM IF YOU LOOK AT THE OVERHEAD, THE PARKING FOR THE TEMPLE IS
07:53:07PM LIMITED TO 18 SPACES, BE THERE SUBJECTING THE REMAINING 165
07:53:14PM OR SO SPACES TO INGRESS AND EGRESS FROM YSABELLA ONLY.
07:53:21PM FINALLY I HAVE SOME CONCERN ABOUT THE GREEN SPACE.
07:53:24PM GREEN SPACE ON THIS PROJECT HAS TO BE 30% OF THE AREA,
07:53:30PM EXCLUDING THE BUILDING FOOTPRINT.
07:53:32PM IF YOU LOOK AT THIS, WE ONLY HAVE THE OUTLINES TEN FOOT
07:53:38PM PERIMETER OUTLINES OF THE BUILDING.
07:53:41PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
07:53:43PM ALL RIGHT, BEFORE WE GO TO THE TEN-MINUTE RECESS.
07:53:46PM AGAIN, IF YOU HAVE SPOKEN OR NAMED IN A SPEAKER WAIVER FORM
07:53:50PM AND DO NOT NEED TO BE IN THIS ROOM, PLEASE LEAVE THE
07:53:53PM CHAMBERS SO WE CAN BRING IN THE NEXT GROUP.
07:53:56PM AGAIN, YOU CAN WATCH THE MEETING DOWNSTAIRS WHERE THERE IS
07:53:59PM SEATING.
07:54:00PM WE ARE IN RECESS FOR TEN MINUTES.
7:54:04PM [RECESS]
8:13:32PM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
8:13:43PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
8:13:50PM I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THIS TAMPA CITY COUNCIL MEETING BACK TO
8:13:52PM ORDER.
8:13:53PM ROLL CALL.
8:13:54PM >> CARLSON?
8:13:55PM HURTAK?
8:13:56PM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
8:13:57PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE.
8:13:59PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PRESENT.
8:14:00PM >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
8:14:01PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
8:14:02PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
8:14:03PM >>THE CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
8:14:05PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
8:14:06PM SO I'M TOLD WE DON'T HAVE TO DO THE SHIFT CHANGE ANYMORE AND
8:14:11PM THIS IS EVERYBODY FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT.
8:14:12PM SO WE'RE IN PUBLIC COMMENT.
8:14:14PM IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK, PLEASE APPROACH THE LECTERN.
8:14:18PM I'M SORRY.
8:14:19PM IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN SWORN IN, LET'S, TO BE SAFE, PLEASE
8:14:23PM STAND AND RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND AND WE'LL SWEAR YOU IN
8:14:25PM BEFORE YOU GIVE ANY TESTIMONY OR SPEAK.
8:14:33PM [OATH ADMINISTERED]
8:14:40PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
8:14:40PM IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK, WE'RE IN PUBLIC COMMENT.
8:14:43PM PLEASE APPROACH THE LECTERN.
8:14:44PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES AND STATE YOUR NAME.
8:14:46PM IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO FORM A LINE ON THIS SIDE OF THE ROOM
8:14:49PM AND WE'LL KEEP IT GOING.
8:14:51PM GO AHEAD, SIR.
8:14:57PM >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL.
8:14:58PM I'M JONATHAN MOORE.
8:15:00PM 1501 WEST CLEVELAND STREET, TAMPA, FLORIDA, PRESIDENT OF
8:15:04PM ENVISION ADVISORS, TAMPA BASED OWNERS REP FIRM.
8:15:09PM THE POINT I WANT TO MAKE QUICKLY IS WHAT IS THE ALTERNATIVE
8:15:12PM IF THIS IS NOT APPROVED TONIGHT?
8:15:14PM I'VE BEEN HIRED BY A CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM TO MAKE SURE
8:15:19PM THIS NEW PROJECT IS BENEFICIAL TO THEM LONG TERM IN THE
8:15:23PM PROCESS OF DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, DO NOT ADVERSELY IMPACT
8:15:27PM OPERATIONS AT THE SYNAGOGUE.
8:15:29PM ALTHOUGH WE'RE EARLY IN THE PROJECT, I FOUND THE DEVELOPER
8:15:32PM TO BE VERY RESPONSIVE, COOPERATIVE AND FAIR IN PROTECTING
8:15:35PM THE INTERESTS OF NOT ONLY RODEPH BUT ALSO THE SURROUNDING
8:15:40PM PROPERTIES.
8:15:41PM I STRONGLY FEEL THAT MULTIFAMILY PROJECTS AND RELIGIOUS
8:15:46PM FACILITIES ARE SYMBIOTIC USES.
8:15:49PM IT'S SMART DEVELOPMENT.
8:15:50PM IT REALLY IS A WIN-WIN FOR THE COMMUNITY.
8:15:53PM AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, IT LIMITS THE SIZE OF THE DEVELOPMENT
8:15:58PM FOR ALL OF THE REASONS THAT THE GARDEN CLUB WANTS.
8:16:03PM I DON'T STAND IN FRONT OF CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTING POOR
8:16:07PM DEVELOPMENT.
8:16:08PM WHILE I'M NOT OVERSEEING THIS PROJECT, I FEEL THAT THE
8:16:11PM DESIGN, PLACEMENT, AND THE CONSTRUCTION PROCESS AS BEING
8:16:16PM DISCUSSED OR SYMPATHETIC TO WORKING HERE AND ARE THE BEST
8:16:18PM SOLUTIONS TO KEEP THIS HISTORIC STRUCTURE, THE HISTORIC
8:16:22PM NEIGHBOR AND THE AREA PROPER WHILE KEEPING UP WITH THE
8:16:27PM DEVELOPMENT TRENDS IN THE AREA.
8:16:28PM AGAIN, WHAT IS THE ALTERNATIVE IF THIS PLAN IS NOT APPROVED?
8:16:33PM MY BIGGEST FEAR IS RODEPH WILL SELL.
8:16:37PM THE SYNAGOGUE WILL BE DEMOLISHED AND AN EVEN BIGGER PROJECT
8:16:40PM WILL BE BUILT, MAYBE WITH FEWER WAIVERS, BUT A BIGGER
8:16:45PM PROJECT WILL BE BUILT CLOSER TO BAYSHORE.
8:16:48PM I FULLY SUPPORT THIS PROJECT AND RECOMMEND YOU VOTE YES TO
8:16:52PM APPROVE MOVING FORWARD.
8:16:53PM THANK YOU.
8:16:53PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
8:16:55PM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
8:16:56PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
8:16:57PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
8:16:58PM >> GOOD EVENING, MR. CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.
8:17:01PM JACK ROSS.
8:17:02PM I'M HERE AS A LONGTIME RESIDENT OF TAMPA, AS A MEMBER OF
8:17:10PM RODEPH SHOLOM.
8:17:11PM AND REPRESENTING THE TAMPA JCCs IN FEDERATION.
8:17:15PM I'M HERE SPEAKING IN FAVOR OF PETITIONER'S REQUEST THIS
8:17:18PM EVENING.
8:17:19PM THE JCC, AS YOU ALL PROBABLY KNOW, OPERATES A PRESCHOOL.
8:17:23PM THE JCC PRESCHOOL IS VERY MUCH IN FAVOR OF THIS PROJECT,
8:17:27PM ALTHOUGH WE WILL NOW BE MOVING.
8:17:29PM WE'RE ACTIVELY LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVE SITES, AND WE WILL BE
8:17:33PM REOPENING IN A SUFFICIENT AMOUNT OF TIME TO SERVE OUR
8:17:37PM COMMUNITY.
8:17:37PM THIS IS SMART DEVELOPMENT.
8:17:41PM THIS PROJECT ENSURES NOT ONLY RODEPH'S LEGACY BUT IT HELPS
8:17:46PM TO USHER IN THE ERA OF TAMPA AND OUR DEVELOPMENT AND
8:17:50PM PRESERVING LEGACY, HISTORY, CULTURE, AND MARRYING IT WITH
8:17:54PM SMART DEVELOPMENT.
8:17:55PM I ENCOURAGE YOU, COUNCIL, NOT ONLY FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA,
8:17:59PM BUT ALSO FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE GARDEN CLUB, WHOSE
8:18:02PM ALTERNATIVE MAY BE FAR WORSE THAN WHAT THEY IMAGINE IN
8:18:08PM APPROVING THIS PROJECT.
8:18:09PM IT IS A PROJECT THAT PRESERVES OUR HISTORY, LOOKS TO THE
8:18:12PM FUTURE, AND YOUR COLLEAGUES AROUND THE COUNTRY, OTHER CITIES
8:18:15PM WILL LOOK AT TAMPA AND SAY YOU GOT IT RIGHT.
8:18:19PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
8:18:19PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
8:18:20PM YES, MA'AM, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
8:18:23PM YOU HAVE A SPEAKER WAIVER FORM?
8:18:25PM NO.
8:18:25PM >> NO.
8:18:26PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
8:18:27PM THANK YOU.
8:18:28PM >> THANK YOU.
8:18:28PM GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL MEMBERS.
8:18:29PM MY NAME IS ELISHA FISHEL.
8:18:32PM I'M HERE REPRESENTING THE TAMPA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER AND
8:18:35PM FEDERATION, TOP JEWISH FOUNDATION, AND JCC PRESCHOOL
8:18:39PM CURRENTLY LOCATED ON THE PROPERTY BEING DISCUSSED.
8:18:42PM 522 NORTH HOWARD AVENUE.
8:18:44PM I'M HERE THIS EVENING TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF THE PROPOSED
8:18:47PM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
8:18:48PM AS YOU ARE LIKELY AWARE, THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER HAS
8:18:51PM OPERATED A PRESCHOOL AT CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM FOR WELL
8:18:54PM OVER TWO DECADES SERVING BOTH JEWISH AND NON-JEWISH FAMILIES
8:18:58PM WITH THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF EARLY EDUCATION AVAILABLE.
8:19:01PM ALTHOUGH THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL CAUSE THE PRESCHOOL
8:19:04PM TO RELOCATE, WE ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT POSSIBILITY AS
8:19:08PM WE BELIEVE IT WILL FURTHER ENHANCE OUR ABILITY TO PROVIDE A
8:19:12PM QUALITY EARLY EDUCATION TO THE ENTIRE SOUTH TAMPA COMMUNITY.
8:19:15PM WE ARE ACTIVELY EXPLORING SEVERAL SOUTH TAMPA LOCATIONS.
8:19:19PM WE ARE EQUALLY EXCITED FOR CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM.
8:19:22PM THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE WILL ENSURE THAT RODEPH
8:19:25PM SHOLOM, A TAMPA CULTURAL LANDMARK FOR OVER 100 YEARS, AT ITS
8:19:30PM CURRENT BAYSHORE LOCATION WILL CONTINUE TO ENDURE.
8:19:33PM IN ADDITION, THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT REPRESENTS A
8:19:36PM PROGRESSIVE AND THOUGHTFUL EXAMPLE OF HOW CURRENT
8:19:40PM DEVELOPMENT TRENDS IN THE CITY OF TAMPA CAN COEXIST WITH
8:19:42PM TAMPA'S RICH AND IMPORTANT CULTURAL HISTORY.
8:19:46PM AS TAMPA CONTINUES TO EXPERIENCE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH, THE
8:19:50PM RELATED RODEPH SHOLOM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IS A WONDERFUL AND
8:19:53PM SMART EXAMPLE OF HOW WE CAN CONTINUE TO EMERGE AS ONE OF THE
8:19:57PM COUNTRY'S BEST LIVABLE CITIES ALL THE WHILE PRESERVING ITS
8:20:01PM HISTORIC ROOTS.
8:20:02PM WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF THIS PROJECT.
8:20:05PM THANK YOU.
8:20:05PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
8:20:06PM YES, SIR.
8:20:08PM NEXT SPEAKER.
8:20:10PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
8:20:11PM >> MY NAME IS HORASA CORECIA.
8:20:16PM I AM THE CURRENT RABBI AT RODEPH SHOLOM.
8:20:19PM LET ME START WITH A BLESSING.
8:20:21PM THANK YOU, GOD, FOR ALLOWING ALL OF US TO REACH THIS MOMENT.
8:20:30PM I'M HERE TO SAY HOW BEAUTIFUL OUR COMMUNITY IS, HOW MUCH
8:20:36PM GOOD WORK IT HAS BEEN DOING FOR THE LAST 120 YEARS.
8:20:39PM I AM ORIGINALLY FROM URUGUAY.
8:20:45PM I MET MY WIFE AND WE HAD TWO KIDS.
8:20:50PM THEN WE MOVED TO VEGAS AND WE HAVE BEEN HERE FOR THE LAST
8:20:53PM TEN YEARS.
8:20:54PM WE HAVE BEEN IN BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES, BUT NONE OF THEM
8:20:59PM COMPARES TO CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM.
8:21:01PM I STUDIED AND FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS I'M SERVING AS THE
8:21:07PM RABBI, AS THE SPIRITUAL LEADER.
8:21:10PM DURING THE LAST 50 YEARS, THE CONGREGATION HAS GONE FROM
8:21:13PM AROUND 500 MEMBERS TO OUR CURRENT LESS THAN 280 MEMBERS.
8:21:21PM EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE A VIBRANT COMMUNITY WITH MANY EVENTS AND
8:21:24PM PEOPLE COME TO LIVE THEIR JUDAISM EVERY DAY AS WE HAVE
8:21:30PM THINGS GOING ON EVERY SINGLE DAY, WE ARE FACING SOME
8:21:33PM CHALLENGES THAT MAKE US NEED TO CLOSE OUR DOORS.
8:21:38PM MAYBE NOT IN THE NEAR FUTURE, BUT IT'S A POSSIBILITY.
8:21:41PM WE ARE THRILLED TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GUARANTEE THAT
8:21:45PM THERE WILL BE RODEPH SHOLOM FOR MANY GENERATIONS TO COME.
8:21:49PM THAT THERE WILL BE A JEWISH PRESENCE IN SOUTH TAMPA TO ALLOW
8:21:52PM PEOPLE TO CELEBRATE, TO COME TOGETHER IN HAPPY AND SAD
8:21:56PM OCCASIONS, TO CONTINUE THE LEGACY THAT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR
8:22:00PM MORE THAN 3,000 YEARS SINCE ABRAM.
8:22:05PM IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO THE SOUL OF OUR PEOPLE AND IT'S VERY
8:22:09PM IMPORTANT FOR THE SOUL OF OUR BELOVED TAMPA COMMUNITY.
8:22:12PM HOW GREAT AND HOW GOOD IT'S FOR ALL OF US, BROTHERS AND
8:22:19PM SISTERS TO BE TOGETHER.
8:22:20PM GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU.
8:22:22PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
8:22:23PM YES, SIR.
8:22:26PM >> MY NAME IS RALPH MARKAKIS.
8:22:29PM I LIVE ON SAINT CROIX DRIVE.
8:22:34PM HARD FOLLOWING MY RABBI, BUT I'LL DO IT.
8:22:36PM I HAVE A LAW OFFICE ON WESTSHORE SOUTH OF GANDY SO I'VE SEEN
8:22:40PM GROWTH IN TAMPA.
8:22:41PM YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON THERE SOUTH OF GANDY.
8:22:45PM WE HAVE TO WELCOME THE GROWTH IN TAMPA.
8:22:47PM WE LOVE TAMPA.
8:22:48PM I KNOW YOU ALL LOVE TAMPA.
8:22:49PM THIS IS OUR HOME.
8:22:50PM PEOPLE WANT TO MOVE HERE.
8:22:52PM WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WELCOME THEM AND WELCOME THEM WITH
8:22:54PM GOOD HOUSING.
8:22:54PM AS YOU CAN SEE, I HAVE MY BLUE SHIRT ON.
8:22:57PM I SUPPORT THE PROJECT.
8:22:58PM WE HOPE THAT YOU ALL DO, TOO.
8:23:01PM LITTLE BIT OF A HISTORY, I WAS BORN IN TAMPA.
8:23:04PM I WAS BORN AT ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL, THE OLD ONE.
8:23:08PM MY GRANDFATHER, MY GREAT GRANDFATHER WHO PASSED AWAY IN 1918
8:23:12PM IS BURIED AT THE CEMETERY.
8:23:14PM SO WE'VE BEEN HERE A LONG TIME.
8:23:16PM AND WE'VE SEEN IT CHANGE.
8:23:18PM ONE THING IS FOR SURE, WE CAN'T KEEP IT LIKE IT WAS IN 1918.
8:23:22PM PEOPLE ARE MOVING HERE.
8:23:23PM I WAS BORN.
8:23:29PM MY FATHER WAS BAR MITZVAH THERE.
8:23:31PM MY FOUR KIDS AT RODEPH SHOLOM.
8:23:35PM THIS IS OUR HOME AND THE PEOPLE ARE FAMILY.
8:23:38PM THIS PROJECT HELPS SUPPORT THE SYNAGOGUE AND KEEPS THE
8:23:44PM SYNAGOGUE FINANCIALLY SECURE.
8:23:47PM WE DRIVE UP AND DOWN BAYSHORE.
8:23:49PM I DRIVE UP AND DOWN BAYSHORE ALL THE TIME.
8:23:51PM I SEE HIGH-RISES.
8:23:53PM I DRIVE SLOWLY BUT I DRIVE UP THERE ALL THE TIME.
8:23:56PM [ LAUGHTER ]
8:23:56PM AND THIS PROJECT IS A PERFECT BALANCE BETWEEN CHARITABLE
8:24:01PM ORGANIZATION, PRIVATE INDUSTRY, AND THE RELATED GROUP WHO IS
8:24:07PM TERRIFIC AND HAS DONE OTHER PROJECTS HERE.
8:24:09PM YOU DON'T SEE MANY BALANCES LIKE THAT WHERE YOU HAVE A
8:24:12PM CHARITY AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY THAT'S DOING ALL THE WONDERFUL
8:24:15PM THINGS FOR TAMPA.
8:24:16PM WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR SUPPORT.
8:24:18PM THANK YOU.
8:24:18PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
8:24:19PM YES, SIR.
8:24:21PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
8:24:22PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
8:24:23PM >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL MEMBERS.
8:24:24PM JONATHAN TANNEN.
8:24:25PM I LIVE AT 7915 BALLY MONEY ROAD.
8:24:28PM I'M A BOARD MEMBER AT CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM.
8:24:31PM I JUST WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT THIS IS AN EXISTENTIAL ISSUE
8:24:35PM FOR THE SYNAGOGUE.
8:24:36PM WE HAVE AN AGING BUILDING THAT'S GOING TO REQUIRE A LOT OF
8:24:39PM MAINTENANCE OVER THE COMING YEARS.
8:24:40PM THIS WILL GIVE US AN ENDOWMENT THAT WILL ALLOW US TO
8:24:44PM MAINTAIN OUR BUILDING IN PERPETUITY.
8:24:46PM WE HAVE A MENORAH SCULPTURE THAT EVERYONE SEES WHEN THEY
8:24:51PM DRIVE BY BAYSHORE THAT IS ICONIC.
8:24:54PM IT IS A SYMBOL OF THE DIVERSITY OF FAITH TRADITIONS IN
8:24:56PM TAMPA.
8:24:57PM IT IS A SYMBOL OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY.
8:24:59PM WE WANT THAT TO BE THERE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.
8:25:02PM I ENCOURAGE YOU TO SUPPORT THIS PROJECT.
8:25:04PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
8:25:05PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU, SIR.
8:25:06PM YES, SIR, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
8:25:08PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
8:25:10PM >> GOOD EVENING.
8:25:11PM MY NAME IS STEVEN SILVERMAN.
8:25:13PM I AM A COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BROKER.
8:25:16PM I'M A RESIDENT OF SOUTH TAMPA ON BAYSHORE BOULEVARD.
8:25:19PM I'M ALSO A MEMBER OF RODEPH SHOLOM.
8:25:21PM WHEN MY CLIENTS GO INTO A NEW AREA, IT'S ALWAYS IMPORTANT TO
8:25:27PM DO DUE DILIGENCE AND TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS ALLOWED AND WHAT
8:25:30PM WILL BE ALLOWED.
8:25:31PM AND BY THE SAME TOKEN, WHEN PEOPLE LIVE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD
8:25:36PM WHERE THE FUTURE LAND USE AND ZONING ALLOWS OTHER THINGS TO
8:25:39PM BE DEVELOPED, THEY ARE STILL FREE TO ALWAYS ENJOY THE RIGHTS
8:25:44PM THAT THEY HAVE ON THEIR PROPERTY, BUT THEY CANNOT PREVENT
8:25:47PM NEIGHBORS FROM GETTING TO THE HIGHEST AND BEST USE OF THEIR
8:25:52PM PROPERTY.
8:25:52PM YOU ENJOY INALIENABLE RIGHTS WHEN YOU HAVE A PROPERTY.
8:25:58PM SO THE CITY OF TAMPA HAD A VISION FOR HOW THEY WANTED TAMPA
8:26:01PM TO LOOK.
8:26:02PM AND THAT'S ACHIEVED BY USING ZONING AND FUTURE LAND USE IN
8:26:06PM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
8:26:07PM IN THIS PARTICULAR AREA, MULTIFAMILY IS ALLOWED BUT ZONING
8:26:12PM BY ITSELF IS A BLUNT INSTRUMENT.
8:26:14PM AND MODIFICATIONS ARE OFTEN NEEDED.
8:26:17PM WHEN THE DEVELOPER MAKES A MODIFICATION, IT IS CALLED A PLAN
8:26:22PM MODIFICATION OR MAYBE A WAIVER.
8:26:24PM WHEN THE CITY MAKES A MODIFICATION -- I'M SORRY.
8:26:28PM WHEN THE DEVELOPER MAKES A PLAN, IT IS CALLED A PLAN
8:26:30PM MODIFICATION.
8:26:31PM WHEN THE CITY MAKES A MODIFICATION, IT'S CALLED A VARIANCE
8:26:33PM OR A WAIVER.
8:26:35PM IN THIS CASE, THE ISSUE IS NOT WHETHER MULTIFAMILY CAN BE
8:26:40PM BUILT BECAUSE IT CAN BE BUILT.
8:26:42PM THE ISSUE, RATHER, IS HOW MANY SQUARE FEET CAN IT BE OR HOW
8:26:45PM HIGH CAN IT BE.
8:26:47PM SO YOU HAVE TO BEAR THAT IN MIND.
8:26:49PM A DIFFERENCE OF ONE OR TWO FLOORS IS NOT A HUGE ASK.
8:26:53PM TAMPA HAS BECOME -- SOUTH TAMPA HAS BECOME VERY EXPENSIVE
8:26:56PM AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS CHANGING.
8:26:58PM I SEE THE YOUNGER FAMILIES HAVE MOVED UP.
8:27:02PM THE SYNAGOGUE WILL CHANGE WITH THE DEMOGRAPHICS.
8:27:04PM I SEE MORE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE MULTIFAMILY AND THOSE PEOPLE
8:27:08PM WILL BE WALKING TO SYNAGOGUE RATHER THAN DRIVING TO
8:27:14PM SYNAGOGUE.
8:27:14PM LASTLY, LOOK AT WHAT TAMPA HAS DONE.
8:27:17PM TAMPA HAS RECOGNIZED ALL THE CHANGES AND FIGURED OUT WAYS TO
8:27:20PM MAKE TAMPA A VIBRANT COMMUNITY TO LIVE IN.
8:27:22PM THE WAY THEY ARE DOING THAT IS WITH MIXED USE.
8:27:25PM LOOK AT MIDTOWN WHERE WE SEE MULTIFAMILY, HOTEL, RETAIL, AND
8:27:32PM RESTAURANT.
8:27:33PM LOOK AT WATER STREET WHICH IS GOING TO BE OUR SHINING BEACON
8:27:36PM TO THE WORLD THAT TAMPA HAS ARRIVED.
8:27:39PM SOUTH TAMPA IS ALREADY A VIBRANT MIXED USE COMMUNITY, BUT IT
8:27:42PM HAS AN ADDITIONAL ELEMENT, OTHER MIXED USE COMMUNITIES DON'T
8:27:47PM HAVE AND THAT IS IT ALREADY HAS RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS AND
8:27:51PM HOUSES OF WORSHIP.
8:27:53PM I SEE ALL THIS COMING TOGETHER AS A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN
8:28:01PM LIVE, WORK, AND PRAY BECAUSE HOUSES OF WORSHIP ARE AN
8:28:06PM ESSENTIAL PART OF A VIBRANT MIXED USE COMMUNITY.
8:28:10PM I WOULD EVEN ARGUE THAT THEY ARE THE BEATING HEART OF THE
8:28:14PM COMMUNITY.
8:28:14PM THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME.
8:28:16PM THERE ARE OTHER RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS THAT HAVE TO ADAPT.
8:28:21PM RODEPH SHOLOM IS NOT THE AGENT OF CHANGE.
8:28:24PM THEY ARE SEEKING TO ADAPT TO CHANGE THAT HAS ALREADY
8:28:27PM OCCURRED AND WE REQUEST YOUR HELP WITH IT.
8:28:30PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU, SIR.
8:28:31PM NEXT SPEAKER.
8:28:32PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
8:28:34PM >> MY NAME IS STEPHEN HAUBENSTALK.
8:28:37PM I'M CURRENTLY A BOARD MEMBER AT RODEPH SHOLOM.
8:28:40PM I'M SPEAKING IN SUPPORT OF THIS ZONING.
8:28:45PM I AM A PAST PRESIDENT OF RODEPH SHOLOM AS WELL, AND I WANT
8:28:50PM TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR THIS SITUATION.
8:28:57PM OVER THE YEARS THAT I WAS ON THE BOARD AND EXECUTIVE BOARD
8:29:01PM AND AS PRESIDENT, WE RECEIVED OFFER AFTER OFFER FOR PEOPLE
8:29:06PM TO COME IN AND REDEVELOP THIS PROPERTY.
8:29:11PM AND WE DECIDED TO ACCEPT THIS OFFER BECAUSE IT DID ALLOW US
8:29:15PM TO CO-LOCATE ON THIS PROPERTY.
8:29:18PM INSTEAD OF MOVING AWAY, LOSING OUR COMMUNITY, BECAUSE WE'RE
8:29:23PM A COMMUNITY HERE.
8:29:26PM WE'VE ESTABLISHED A COMMUNITY SINCE 1969 ON THIS PROPERTY,
8:29:30PM JUST AS THE GARDEN CLUB ESTABLISHED A COMMUNITY ON THEIR
8:29:34PM PROPERTY OVER ALL THESE YEARS.
8:29:35PM AND WE'VE HAD A GREAT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GARDEN CLUB.
8:29:38PM I APPRECIATE ALL THE TIMES THAT THEY HAVE LET US PARK IN
8:29:42PM THEIR PARKING LOT, AND WE RECIPROCATE AND WHEN THEY HAVE
8:29:46PM EVENTS WE LET THEM PARK IN OUR PARKING LOT.
8:29:48PM WE ACTUALLY WITH THIS DEVELOPMENT WOULD HAVE MORE PARKING
8:29:51PM SPACES TO OFFER THEM THAN WE CURRENTLY HAVE WITH THE WAY THE
8:29:56PM PROPERTY IS DEVELOPED CURRENTLY.
8:29:57PM TAMPA, I'M A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF TAMPA.
8:30:02PM I WAS DRIVING DOWN MANHATTAN AVENUE THE OTHER DAY AND I
8:30:08PM NOTICED A BIG PILE OF CONCRETE RUBBLE, AND IT WAS A CHURCH
8:30:11PM THAT IS NOW BEING DEMOLISHED AND SOMETHING IS GOING TO GET
8:30:16PM BUILT IN ITS PLACE.
8:30:17PM I HAVE A FEELING IT MAY BE SOME HOUSING.
8:30:25PM THE ISSUE WITH FAITH-BASED COMMUNITY FACILITIES LIKE OURS IS
8:30:29PM THAT IT'S GETTING TOUGHER AND TOUGHER TO MEET THE DEMANDS
8:30:32PM THAT ARE OUT THERE FOR US TO EXIST AND MAINTAIN THESE
8:30:36PM PROPERTIES AND OFFER THE COMMUNITY, WHETHER YOU'RE JEWISH OR
8:30:43PM ANY OTHER FAITH, A PLACE TO GO TO WORSHIP AND BE A GROUP OF
8:30:48PM PEOPLE TO GET TOGETHER AND ENLIGHTEN THEMSELVES AND LEARN
8:30:54PM AND BE A PART OF THE COMMUNITY.
8:30:56PM WE'VE CONTINUOUSLY SUPPORTED THE TAMPA COMMUNITY WITH GOOD
8:31:01PM DEEDS.
8:31:03PM SO WE WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO STAY ON THAT PROPERTY AND BE
8:31:07PM A PART OF THE SOUTH TAMPA COMMUNITY.
8:31:09PM OTHERWISE WE WOULD LOSE THAT VICINITY TO SOUTH TAMPA AND A
8:31:14PM LOT OF THE PEOPLE THAT WE SERVE.
8:31:17PM I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THE WAIVERS FOR A MINUTE.
8:31:22PM THE RELATED GROUP HAS COME IN AND LOOKED AT WHAT WAS
8:31:27PM POSSIBLE FOR US TO HAVE THEIR BUILDING AND CO-LOCATE WITH
8:31:31PM THEM.
8:31:32PM UNFORTUNATELY, IN TODAY'S ENVIRONMENT, IT'S NOT EASY TO STAY
8:31:37PM SAFE JUST AS WE CAME THROUGH METAL DETECTORS HERE AND
8:31:41PM ALLOWING THE WAIVERS IS ALLOWING THE SECURITY OF THE
8:31:45PM SYNAGOGUE TO BE MAINTAINED.
8:31:47PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
8:31:48PM >> THANK YOU.
8:31:48PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
8:31:49PM YES, SIR, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
8:31:50PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
8:31:53PM >> THANK YOU.
8:31:53PM MY NAME IS ANDREW TITAN.
8:31:56PM I LIVE AT 5006 GARRICK COURT IN TAMPA.
8:32:00PM I AM ALSO THE AUDIT CHAIRMAN OF TOP JEWISH FOUNDATION AND
8:32:06PM PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TAMPA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES.
8:32:09PM I'M ALSO A PAST PRESIDENT OF CONGREGATION SCHAARAI ZEDEK,
8:32:17PM WHICH IS A REFORMED JEWISH TEMPLE HERE IN TAMPA.
8:32:20PM I'M HERE TO SUPPORT THE GRANTING OF THE RELATED GROUP ZONING
8:32:23PM REQUEST AND THE VARIANCES THAT ARE NEEDED FOR THEM TO BUILD
8:32:26PM THE PROPOSED CONDOMINIUM HIGH-RISE ON BAYSHORE BOULEVARD.
8:32:30PM I KNOW IT'S LATE AND YOU'VE HEARD THIS A MILLION TIMES, BUT
8:32:34PM I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE SMART IF I SUMMARIZED IN MY OPINION
8:32:36PM WHAT THE MAIN REASONS FOR THIS CHANGE SHOULD BE.
8:32:40PM I FEEL THAT THERE ARE THREE MAIN REASONS WHY YOU OUGHT TO
8:32:43PM GRANT THIS VARIANCE AND APPROVE THIS REQUEST.
8:32:45PM FIRST, THIS IS IMPORTANT.
8:32:47PM THE SALE OF THE RODEPH SHOLOM LAND WILL PROVIDE THE
8:32:50PM CONGREGATION WITH ADDITIONAL FUNDING THAT WILL ENSURE ITS
8:32:54PM LONG-TERM FUTURE AND WILL PREVENT THIS BEAUTIFUL PROPERTY
8:32:57PM FROM FALLING INTO DISREPAIR.
8:32:58PM TEMPLES, CHURCHES, THEY ARE ALL HAVING CHALLENGES.
8:33:02PM THIS IS SOMETHING WE HAVE TO ACCEPT.
8:33:06PM THEY HAVE A SOLUTION HERE WHICH WILL ALLOW THEM TO CONTINUE
8:33:09PM TO EXIST AND ALSO ALLOW THEM TO KEEP THE PROPERTY LOOKING
8:33:12PM NICE.
8:33:13PM AS YOU DRIVE DOWN BAYSHORE, IT'S PRETTY AND YOU REALLY WANT
8:33:16PM IT TO STAY THAT WAY.
8:33:17PM THIS SOLUTION WILL ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN.
8:33:19PM SECONDLY, WITHOUT THIS FUNDING FROM THIS SALE, THE
8:33:23PM CONGREGATION MAY BE FORCED TO SELL THE PROPERTY TO ANOTHER
8:33:26PM BUYER WHO MAY WANT TO BUILD A BIGGER CONDOMINIUM THAT WOULD
8:33:30PM OCCUPY EVEN MORE LAND AND WOULD BRING EVEN MORE TRAFFIC TO
8:33:33PM THE AREA.
8:33:34PM WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET AWAY FROM THIS PROBLEM.
8:33:37PM CONDOS ARE HAPPENING.
8:33:38PM PEOPLE WANT TO MOVE TO TAMPA.
8:33:40PM WE'VE DONE A GOOD JOB SELLING THE AREA, AND WE JUST HAVE TO
8:33:43PM ACCEPT THE FACT THAT WITH CHANGE, WITH PROGRESS, YOU KNOW,
8:33:47PM THINGS HAVE TO CHANGE WITH IT.
8:33:48PM THIRDLY, THE 50-UNIT CONDOMINIUM SHOULD ONLY HAVE MINIMAL
8:33:53PM IMPACT ON TRAFFIC IN THE AREA, AND IT WILL CLEARLY GENERATE
8:33:57PM ADDITIONAL PROPERTY TAX REVENUES.
8:33:59PM OF COURSE, THAT WILL BENEFIT SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, EMERGENCY
8:34:02PM SERVICES, AND ROAD MAINTENANCE.
8:34:04PM THUS I RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT YOU GIVE THIS SERIOUS
8:34:09PM CONSIDERATION AND APPROVE THIS VARIANCE.
8:34:10PM THANK YOU.
8:34:11PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
8:34:12PM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
8:34:18PM >> GOOD EVENING.
8:34:19PM MY NAME IS BETHANN CARMACO, AND I AM HERE REPRESENTING TAMPA
8:34:24PM JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES AT 522 NORTH HOWARD AVENUE.
8:34:27PM I'M HERE TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENTAL
8:34:32PM PROJECT.
8:34:32PM AS YOU HEARD SO MANY TIMES, RODEPH IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT PART
8:34:36PM OF OUR COMMUNITY AND WITH SO MANY OF THEIR CONGREGANTS
8:34:40PM DONATING AND SUPPORTING TO THE VITAL SERVICES OF TAMPA
8:34:43PM JEWISH SERVICES PROVIDES, ABLE TO INCREASE WHAT WE'RE ABLE
8:34:48PM TO DO IN OUR TAMPA BAY COMMUNITY TO HELP THOSE PERSONS MOST
8:34:52PM IN NEED, BOTH JEWISH AND NON-JEWISH.
8:34:56PM ABLE TO HELP THROUGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK AND EMERGENCY FOOD
8:34:58PM BAGS THAT PEOPLE CAN COME IN AND GET EVERY DAY, MONDAY
8:35:01PM THROUGH FRIDAY DURING THE WEEK.
8:35:02PM WE'RE ABLE TO HELP BY OFFERING PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL
8:35:07PM WELLNESS CENTER WHERE WE PROVIDE COUNSELING ON A SLIDING FEE
8:35:10PM SCALE TO THOSE PERSONS WHO CAN'T GET MENTAL HEALTH CARE
8:35:12PM ANYWHERE ELSE AND WE ALSO ACCEPT INSURANCE FROM OUR
8:35:15PM PATIENTS.
8:35:15PM WE PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM AND WE PROVIDE SOCIAL
8:35:20PM SERVICES THAT ARE IN SUCH GREAT NEED NOW MORE THAN EVER AND
8:35:23PM EVEN GREATER THAN THE HEIGHT OF COVID.
8:35:25PM WE ALSO HAVE EMERGENCY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE WHICH IS
8:35:28PM ESCALATED TO A POINT WHERE WE HAVE WAIT LISTS EVERY SINGLE
8:35:32PM MONTH TO HELP COVER THE COSTS OF RENT AND UTILITIES AND
8:35:36PM WATER AND ELECTRICITY.
8:35:38PM AND WITH ALL THAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR COMMUNITY RIGHT NOW,
8:35:42PM THE SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE ARE NEEDED MORE THAN EVER.
8:35:45PM AND FOR SOME REASON A SERVICE THAT TAMPA JEWISH FAMILY
8:35:50PM SERVICES CANNOT PROVIDE WE HAVE A VIBRANT REFERRAL SERVICE
8:35:52PM TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERY PERSON IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO IS IN
8:35:55PM NEED OF ASSISTANCE IS GUIDED TOWARDS A PLACE WHERE THEY CAN
8:35:58PM GET THE HELP THEY NEED.
8:36:00PM I TRULY URGE YOU TO SUPPORT RODEPH AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT
8:36:04PM PROJECT.
8:36:04PM THEIR FAMILY IS PART OF OUR FAMILY AND WE SUPPORT EACH OTHER
8:36:07PM TO MAKE OUR COMMUNITY A MORE VIBRANT PLACE AND TO KEEP THE
8:36:11PM HISTORIC RELEVANCE HERE IN TAMPA BAY.
8:36:14PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
8:36:15PM YES, MA'AM.
8:36:15PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
8:36:17PM >> THANK YOU, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
8:36:21PM FRANCINE LEVINE.
8:36:23PM I LIVE ON WEST LAWN AVENUE.
8:36:25PM I LIVED IN TAMPA FOR 39 YEARS.
8:36:26PM MY HUSBAND DENNIS LEVINE IS A TAMPA NATIVE AND LIFELONG
8:36:30PM MEMBER OF RODEPH SHOLOM.
8:36:31PM WE WERE MARRIED AT RODEPH SHOLOM 38 YEARS AGO TOMORROW.
8:36:35PM MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE BOTH SERVED IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS AT
8:36:38PM THE SYNAGOGUE AND WE KNOW THAT OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS WE
8:36:43PM TURNED DOWN MANY OFFERS OF DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE THEY REQUIRED
8:36:49PM THE SPIRITUAL HOME TO RELOCATE.
8:36:51PM BECAUSE OF THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT WE'LL RECEIVE FROM THE
8:36:52PM DEVELOPMENT, WE BELIEVE OUR SYNAGOGUE CAN MAINTAIN ITS
8:36:56PM PRESENCE FOR MY CHILDREN AND MY GRANDCHILDREN.
8:36:58PM WE BELIEVE IN THE IDEALS HELD SACROSANCT OF CONSERVATIVE
8:37:03PM JUDAISM.
8:37:04PM EMBRACING TRADITION BUT RECOGNIZING THE NEED FOR CHANGE.
8:37:07PM AND WE WANT TO REMAIN A VISIBLE PRESENCE THAT TAMPA IS A
8:37:13PM DIVERSE AND WELCOMING COMMUNITY.
8:37:14PM PLEASE SUPPORT OUR PROJECT.
8:37:17PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
8:37:17PM YES, SIR.
8:37:19PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
8:37:20PM YOU HAVE A SPEAKER WAIVER FORM.
8:37:23PM READ OFF THE NAMES AND IF THOSE ON THE LIST WOULD PLEASE
8:37:26PM RAISE THEIR HANDS.
8:37:30PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I COUNT THREE NAMES.
8:37:33PM NUCCI SMITH.
8:37:35PM RAISE YOUR HAND, PLEASE.
8:37:37PM NUCHI SMITH.
8:37:40PM CINDY GOODING.
8:37:44PM THANK YOU.
8:37:47PM SHARLA WASH.
8:37:50PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU HAVE SIX MINUTES.
8:37:51PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND GO AHEAD.
8:37:55PM >> THANK YOU FOR STAYING THIS LATE.
8:37:56PM MICHAEL MECKLEY.
8:37:58PM 2715 WEST JETTON.
8:38:01PM I'VE LIVED THERE 35 YEARS.
8:38:02PM IT'S A SHORT WALK TO BAYSHORE.
8:38:04PM I'M IN FAVOR OF DEVELOPMENT IN OUR CITY TO SUPPORT OUR
8:38:06PM POPULATION AND PROVIDE SUITABLE HOUSING FOR THE PEOPLE WHO
8:38:10PM WORK AND LIVE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
8:38:12PM I WANT THE SYNAGOGUE TO REMAIN AND THRIVE IN ITS CURRENT
8:38:16PM LOCATION.
8:38:16PM AT THE SAME TIME I WANT THE TAMPA GARDEN CLUB TO BOTH REMAIN
8:38:19PM AND THRIVE IN ITS CURRENT LOCATION.
8:38:21PM WHAT I AM NOT IN FAVOR OF IS MAKING EXCEPTIONS TO ALLOW MORE
8:38:26PM DENSITY IN AREAS WHERE MORE DENSITY WILL MAKE AN ALREADY
8:38:29PM OVERDEVELOPED SITUATION WORSE, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE
8:38:32PM EXCEPTIONS ARE MADE FOR THE BENEFIT OF A FEW UBERWEALTHY
8:38:37PM INDIVIDUALS.
8:38:38PM I'M ALSO NOT IN FAVOR OF MAKING EXCEPTIONS FOR THE BENEFIT
8:38:41PM OF ONE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION, IN THIS CASE THE SYNAGOGUE,
8:38:44PM TO THE DETRIMENT OF ANOTHER ONE, IN THIS CASE THE TAMPA
8:38:47PM GARDEN CLUB.
8:38:48PM BEFORE I GET INTO THE DEVELOPMENT ITSELF, I WANT TO REVIEW A
8:38:52PM COUPLE OF THINGS.
8:38:52PM THE ROADS -- AGAIN, I APOLOGIZE FOR REPEATING SOME OF THE
8:38:55PM STUFF.
8:38:55PM THE ROADS IN THE GENERAL AREA ARE OVERCROWDED TODAY WITH
8:38:58PM LIMITED ABILITY TO EXPAND THE ROADS.
8:39:00PM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN INCLUDES A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF
8:39:02PM UNDEVELOPED MEDIUM AND HIGH DENSITY PARCELS IN THIS AREA,
8:39:06PM INCLUDING SEVERAL ZONED RD 3 VERY CLOSE TO THIS PARCEL.
8:39:10PM THE SITUATION IS BAD ALREADY AND IS CERTAIN TO GET WORSE IN
8:39:13PM THE FUTURE WHEN THESE PARCELS ARE DEVELOPED WITHOUT ANY
8:39:16PM EXCEPTIONS.
8:39:17PM OF COURSE, YOU KNOW IT'S IN A COASTAL HIGH HAZARD AREA.
8:39:21PM REGARDING THE DEVELOPMENT, PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY MENTIONED THE
8:39:24PM PREVIOUSLY APPROVED WAIVERS.
8:39:25PM IT'S NOT CLEAR TO ME, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE IF THEY RELATE TO
8:39:28PM THE PRIOR PD THEY SHOULD HAVE TO BE BROUGHT BACK AND GET
8:39:31PM APPROVED AGAIN.
8:39:31PM REGARDING THE NORTH AND SOUTH SETBACKS, AS YOU CAN SEE FROM
8:39:36PM THIS DOCUMENT, THE CURRENT PD HAS THE CURRENT BUILDING.
8:39:41PM THAT'S THE RED OUTLINE, SET BACK AN APPROPRIATE DISTANCE
8:39:45PM FROM THE NORTH LOT LINE AND OUTSIDE THE REQUIRED RADIUS OF
8:39:48PM THAT LARGE OAK TREE.
8:39:50PM I ALSO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT IN THE PLAN SET IT SAYS THE
8:39:54PM EXISTING SETBACK ON THIS SITE IS 13.5 FEET.
8:39:57PM THAT IS NOT CORRECT.
8:39:59PM THE 13.5 FEET IS THIS AREA WAY IN THE FRONT, WHICH IS
8:40:03PM REMAINING.
8:40:04PM IT JOGS BACK AND THE EXISTING SETBACK IS CLOSER TO ABOUT 20
8:40:09PM FEET ON THE BACK SIDE WHERE THE NEW DEVELOPMENT IS GOING TO
8:40:12PM GO.
8:40:12PM IF YOU LOOK AT THIS, THIS GIVES YOU A VISUAL OF WHAT YOU'RE
8:40:21PM TALKING ABOUT IN TERMS OF WHERE THEY WOULD LIKE TO PLACE THE
8:40:25PM EXISTING BUILDING, RIGHT HERE, VERSUS WHERE -- I'M SORRY,
8:40:28PM THE PROPOSED BUILDING VERSUS WHERE THE EXISTING BUILDING
8:40:32PM SITS.
8:40:32PM SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THE EXISTING BUILDING IS SET BACK MUCH
8:40:36PM FURTHER THAN WHAT THEY ARE PROPOSING.
8:40:38PM OTHER THAN TO ALLOW THE DEVELOPMENT OF TOO LARGE A BUILDING,
8:40:45PM THERE'S NO REASON THE NORTH SETBACK SHOULD BE MODIFIED FROM
8:40:48PM WHERE THE CURRENT BUILDING SITS.
8:40:49PM THE SOUTH SETBACK SHOULD BE 15 FEET, WHICH IS THE SAME AS
8:40:53PM THE WEST SETBACK.
8:40:55PM THE FINAL THING I'D POINT OUT IS THERE IS A STREET BUFFER ON
8:40:59PM ALL THREE SIDES OF THIS PROJECT OTHER THAN THE GARDEN CLUB.
8:41:02PM SO IN TERMS OF THE SIDE OF THE PROJECT THAT NEEDS THE BUFFER
8:41:09PM THE MOST, IT'S CLEARLY THE GARDEN CLUB SIDE BECAUSE IT
8:41:12PM DOESN'T HAVE A STREET.
8:41:13PM THE DEVELOPER'S REQUEST TO CHANGE THE NORTH AND SOUTH
8:41:16PM SETBACKS SHOULD BE DENIED.
8:41:18PM REGARDING THE WEST AND LANDSCAPE BUFFER, THE GREEN IS THE
8:41:22PM LANDSCAPE BUFFER.
8:41:23PM THE BLUE IS THE RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE.
8:41:25PM I THINK THIS HAS ALREADY BEEN BROUGHT UP, BUT THE 15-FOOT
8:41:29PM SETBACK ON THIS SIDE IS REALLY DISINGENUOUS BECAUSE IF YOU
8:41:33PM PUT THE ENTIRE 8 FEET INSIDE THE PROPERTY, THE BUILDING
8:41:38PM WOULD HAVE TO BE SET BACK 21 FEET TO ACCOMMODATE THE
8:41:40PM PORTE-COCHERE AND THE ENTRY DRIVE WHICH THEY TALKED ABOUT
8:41:44PM EARLIER.
8:41:45PM OTHER PEOPLE MENTIONED THE PROBABILITY OF NEEDING TO WIDEN
8:41:49PM ISABELLA IS HIGH.
8:41:50PM IF YOU GIVE AWAY SIX FEET OF RIGHT-OF-WAY AND YOU HAVE TO
8:41:53PM TAKE THAT BACK FOR EXPANSION LATER, THEN YOU ONLY END UP
8:41:57PM WITH A TWO FOOT BUFFER WHICH, AGAIN, IS WAY TOO SMALL
8:42:01PM CONCERNING SAFETY SITUATION.
8:42:03PM LASTLY I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE SCALE OF THE BUILDING AND
8:42:07PM THE DENSITY OF THE PROJECT.
8:42:09PM 42 UNITS, 7 BONUS UNITS, NO ONE SAID THIS, 225,000 SQUARE
8:42:14PM FEET OF LIVING SPACE, 354 FEET TALL.
8:42:17PM ALL OF THIS ON JUST OVER ONE ACRE.
8:42:19PM THE REASON THE SCALE AND SIZE OF THIS DEVELOPMENT IS SO
8:42:23PM OFFENSIVE IS NOT COMPLICATED.
8:42:26PM IT'S SIMPLY BECAUSE THE UNITS ARE AVERAGING 4500 SQUARE
8:42:29PM FEET.
8:42:31PM I'D LOVE TO SEE A SHOW OF HANDS -- I'M NOT GOING TO ASK --
8:42:34PM HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM LIVE IN A HOUSE OF 4500 SQUARE
8:42:38PM FEET.
8:42:38PM I'M SURE IT IS A SMALL NUMBER.
8:42:40PM WAY OF COMPARISON, RECENTLY BUILT HYDE PARK HOUSE IS 3,000
8:42:43PM SQUARE FEET ON AVERAGE.
8:42:45PM WHAT'S ALLOWED FOR THE MAXIMUM UNDER THE CURRENT PD IS
8:42:49PM UNCLEAR.
8:42:50PM 27-227 OF THE CODE INDICATES 120 FEET AND ANOTHER REMINDER,
8:42:54PM THIS IS MEDIUM DENSITY.
8:42:55PM THIS IS NOT HIGH DENSITY.
8:42:56PM I'M A DEVELOPER.
8:42:58PM THE SUGGESTION THAT CO-LOCATION CAN ONLY BE ACCOMPLISHED
8:43:01PM WITH THIS DESIGN IS JUST FALSE, AND THE SUGGESTIONS THAT THE
8:43:05PM ONLY OPTIONS ARE TO DO THIS OR TEAR IT DOWN, THAT'S FALSE,
8:43:10PM TOO.
8:43:11PM WITHOUT THE REQUESTED EXCEPTIONS, THE APPLICANT BUILT A
8:43:14PM SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING WITH SIZABLE UNITS WHERE THE SIZE AND
8:43:17PM SCALE OF THE BUILDING WOULD BE COMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTING
8:43:21PM SURROUNDING AREA.
8:43:21PM THE REQUEST FOR THE BONUS UNITS SHOULD BE DENIED AND THE
8:43:24PM HEIGHT OF THE BUILDING SHOULD BE LIMITED.
8:43:26PM LET ME CLOSE WITH A FINAL IMPORTANT POINT.
8:43:29PM THE APPLICANT SAID THEY REACHED OUT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
8:43:32PM THEY NEVER MET WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
8:43:34PM THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SAYING I'M IN CONVERSATION
8:43:37PM WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD VERSUS ACTIVELY AND PROACTIVELY
8:43:40PM MEETING WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN TRYING TO SEE IF YOU CAN
8:43:43PM FIND COMMON GROUND.
8:43:44PM THAT NEVER HAPPENED.
8:43:45PM THERE'S NO COMPETENT SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE OFFERED BY THE
8:43:50PM APPLICANT TO JUSTIFY GRANTING ANY ELEMENT OF THEIR REQUEST.
8:43:54PM THIS IS SIMPLY A CASE OF OVERREACHING FROM EVERY STANDPOINT
8:43:57PM THE REQUEST IS NEGATIVE TO THE AREA.
8:44:00PM PLEASE PRESERVE THIS AREA AND REPRESENT THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY
8:44:03PM BY DENYING THIS APPLICATION, AND I HAVE SOME DOCUMENTS THAT
8:44:06PM I REFERRED TO YOU TO PUT INTO THE RECORD.
8:44:09PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IF YOU WOULD GIVE THEM TO THE ATTORNEY,
8:44:12PM AND HE WILL TAKE THEM.
8:44:14PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
8:44:16PM YES, SIR.
8:44:17PM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
8:44:19PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
8:44:27PM >> MY NAME IS BO ALLEN.
8:44:30PM 2725 SOUTH ISABELLA AVENUE.
8:44:32PM COUNCILWOMAN, EARLIER TONIGHT YOU REQUESTED CLARIFICATION
8:44:37PM REGARDING THE ZONING WEST OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT.
8:44:39PM RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM ISABELLA AND A PHOTO WAS SHOWN,
8:44:42PM THAT IS MY HOME.
8:44:44PM WE'VE HEARD FROM MANY INDIVIDUALS TONIGHT, MOSTLY FROM
8:44:47PM RODEPH SHOLOM AND THE GARDEN CLUB, BUT WE HAVE NOT HEARD
8:44:49PM THAT MANY FROM NEIGHBORS THAT LIVE IN THE DIRECT VICINITY OF
8:44:52PM THE PROPOSED SITE.
8:44:53PM I BELIEVE I SPEAK ON THEIR BEHALF WHEN I SAY PLEASE DENY
8:44:57PM THIS PROPOSAL.
8:44:59PM THE ADVENT OF CONSTRUCTION OF THE ALTURA CONDOS, WHICH IS
8:45:03PM DIRECTLY SOUTH OF WHERE I LIVE, JUST SHOWS HOW DISRUPTIVE
8:45:07PM THESE PROJECTS CAN BE.
8:45:08PM IT IS NOISY, OVERWHELMING, DIRTY.
8:45:13PM THEY DISTURB THE COMMUNITY AND CREATE CONGESTION WITH FOOT
8:45:17PM AND VEHICLE TRAFFIC.
8:45:18PM THESE LENGTHY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS LEAD TO TOTAL LACK OF
8:45:22PM PRIVACY AND INABILITY TO ENJOY OUTDOOR SPACES.
8:45:26PM FURTHERMORE, MY HOME IS TWO STORIES HIGH.
8:45:29PM THIS PROPOSAL GOES THROUGH MY NEIGHBORS AND I WILL BE
8:45:33PM COMPLETELY BOXED IN BY LUXURY CONDO HIGH-RISES.
8:45:36PM NOT ONLY WILL MY ACCESS TO NATURAL SUNLIGHT BE COMPLETELY
8:45:40PM OCCLUDED BUT I FEAR FOR THE HELD OF MY CENTURIES OLD OAK
8:45:45PM TREE AND LOVELY MANGO TREE IN THE BACKYARD.
8:45:48PM I FAIL TO SEE HOW THIS BENEFITS COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT LIVE
8:45:50PM IN THE DIRECT VICINITY OF IT.
8:45:52PM I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE HOW POORLY EQUIPPED THE AREA IS FOR
8:45:55PM THE INCREASE IN PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICLE TRAFFIC.
8:45:56PM PLEASE CONSIDER MYSELF AND MY NEIGHBORS ON ISABELLA AND
8:46:00PM BARCELONA WHO ARE BEING COMPLETELY BOXED IN BY THE LUXURY
8:46:04PM HIGH-RISE CONDOS.
8:46:06PM THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
8:46:07PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
8:46:08PM MS. PERINE, ARE YOU THE LAST SPEAKER?
8:46:12PM ANYBODY ELSE?
8:46:12PM STEPHANIE POYNOR, ARE YOU THE CLOSER?
8:46:21PM GO AHEAD.
8:46:22PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
8:46:23PM >> MY NAME IS LAURA CHRYSLER.
8:46:28PM THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THIS
8:46:30PM PROJECT.
8:46:31PM MY FAMILY AND I HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF CONGREGATION RODEPH
8:46:34PM SHOLOM FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS.
8:46:37PM WE JOINED WITHIN A COUPLE OF WEEKS OF UNCLE SAM KINDLY
8:46:42PM INVITING MY HUSBAND TO COME TO MacDILL TO BE A MEDICAL
8:46:46PM OFFICER.
8:46:46PM I HAVE ALSO HAD THE HONOR AND RESPONSIBILITY OF SERVING AS
8:46:50PM PRESIDENT OF OUR CONGREGATION.
8:46:52PM SO I HAVE EXPERIENCED THE CHALLENGES THAT MODERN-DAY
8:46:55PM SYNAGOGUES FACE, INCLUDING THE FINANCIAL PRESSURE OF
8:46:58PM MAINTAINING FACILITIES AND SERVICES.
8:47:01PM RODEPH SHOLOM DID NOT EMBARK ON THE RELATIONSHIP WITH
8:47:05PM RELATED GROUP LIGHTLY.
8:47:07PM OUR CURRENT LEADERSHIP MADE THE VERY PRAGMATIC DECISION THAT
8:47:11PM THE PROPOSED PROJECT WILL GUARANTEE OUR ABILITY TO REMAIN IN
8:47:15PM OUR SPIRITUAL HOME IN ITS LONG-TERM LOCATION FOR AS LONG AS
8:47:21PM CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM IS ALIVE AND FLOURISHING IN SOUTH
8:47:25PM TAMPA.
8:47:26PM THE FACE OF BAYSHORE BOULEVARD HAS BEEN CHANGING FOR AT
8:47:30PM LEAST 40 YEARS.
8:47:32PM IT'S DISINGENUOUS TO THINK THAT ALLOWING AN ADDITIONAL
8:47:37PM RESIDENTIAL TOWER TO BE BUILT ON OUR PROPERTY WILL SOMEHOW
8:47:41PM CHANGE THE CURRENT NATURE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT THE
8:47:46PM POTENTIAL LOSS OR RELOCATION OF RODEPH SHOLOM, PART OF THE
8:47:51PM HEART AND SOUL OF ALL OF JEWISH TAMPA, WOULD BEEN
8:47:55PM IRREPARABLE CHANGE.
8:47:57PM AS YOU SAW IN THE EARLIER SLIDE SHOW, THE MENORAH ON OUR
8:48:02PM BUILDING, WHICH METAPHORICALLY SHINES PROUDLY ON BAYSHORE
8:48:06PM BOULEVARD, IS A SYMBOL OF LIFE, LIGHT, FAITH, AND COMMUNITY.
8:48:11PM BY ALLOWING THIS PROJECT TO GO FORWARD, IT WILL PERMIT
8:48:17PM RODEPH SHOLOM TO CONTINUE TO SERVE WITH ITS LIGHT
8:48:21PM UNDIMINISHED.
8:48:22PM THANK YOU.
8:48:22PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
8:48:23PM YES, MA'AM.
8:48:26PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
8:48:29PM >> HI.
8:48:30PM PAMELA JACKSON HANEY.
8:48:32PM I HAVE LIVED IN SOUTH TAMPA 30 YEARS.
8:48:34PM I AM A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE TAMPA TREE ADVOCACY GROUP.
8:48:38PM I'M HERE TO ASK YOU TO SAVE THE GRAND TREES ON THIS
8:48:43PM PROPERTY.
8:48:43PM THEY ARE PRICELESS AND NON-HAZARDOUS.
8:48:48PM THE DEVELOPER ACQUIRED THIS PROPERTY KNOWING FULL WELL THAT
8:48:53PM IT HOLDS THE MAJESTIC GRAND TREES THAT ARE PROTECTED BY LAW
8:48:57PM AND YET THE DEVELOPER SEEKS WAIVERS IN ORDER TO DESTROY
8:49:01PM THEM.
8:49:02PM THE SEEMINGLY INSIGNIFICANT PROCEDURE OF GETTING RID OF A
8:49:04PM FEW MORE GRAND TREES IN THE NAME OF PROGRESS IS NO LONGER
8:49:08PM INSIGNIFICANT AND NEEDS TO STOP.
8:49:09PM THE REQUIREMENT FOR THIS LOT IS TO SAVE ONLY 50% OF THE
8:49:14PM TREES.
8:49:15PM THE DEVELOPER IS ASKING TO RETAIN 20%.
8:49:17PM SECTION 27-284.2.5 OF THE CITY CODE DISCUSSES THE STANDARDS
8:49:23PM AND CRITERIA NEEDED FOR MAKING A DECISION TO APPROVE THE
8:49:27PM REMOVAL OF A GRAND TREE.
8:49:28PM NOT ONE OF THESE TREES MEETS THE CRITERIA FOR REMOVAL.
8:49:31PM AND THUS THEY ALL NEED TO REMAIN AS THEY ARE.
8:49:34PM IT'S IMPERATIVE THAT THEY DO AND IT'S THE LAW.
8:49:38PM IN ADDITION, THE SITE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE THE
8:49:41PM REQUIRED MITIGATION, SO MORE MONEY WOULD HAVE TO BE POURED
8:49:43PM INTO THE ALREADY OVERFLOWING SOUTH TAMPA TREE TRUST FUND.
8:49:48PM WHERE ARE THE REASONABLE RECONFIGURATIONS?
8:49:51PM WHILE MAYBE NOT IDEAL FOR THE DEVELOPER, IT'S TIME TO GET
8:49:54PM CREATIVE, BUILD SOMETHING REASONABLE FOR THIS PARCEL.
8:49:57PM IT'S A SMALL PRICE TO PAY TO SAVE GRAND TREES.
8:50:01PM REGARDING THE GRAND TREE SHARED WITH THE GARDEN CLUB, THAT
8:50:05PM TREE SHOULD BE HANDS OFF AND GIVEN A WIDE BERTH IN ORDER TO
8:50:09PM SAVE IT.
8:50:10PM THAT'S BEING A GOOD NEW NEIGHBOR.
8:50:12PM AS YOU ALL KNOW, THE NEW CITY OF TAMPA TREE AND URBAN
8:50:15PM FORESTRY ANALYSIS CAME OUT LAST MONTH.
8:50:18PM SINCE 2011, WE HAVE LOST OVER 3300 ACRES OF TREE CANOPY
8:50:23PM WHICH IS ROUGHLY THE SIZE OF CLEAR-CUTTING FOUR DAVIS
8:50:26PM ISLANDS.
8:50:26PM EACH YEAR, TAMPA'S URBAN FOREST REDUCES 1,000 FOUR TONS OF
8:50:35PM AIR POLLUTANTS THAT CAUSE RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS.
8:50:37PM IT REDUCES RESIDENTIAL BUILDING AIR CONDITIONING, REDUCES
8:50:42PM 74.8 CUBIC FEET OF STORMWATER RUNOFF.
8:50:45PM LOOK TO OUR NEIGHBORS TO THE SOUTH, SPECIFICALLY MIAMI AND
8:50:49PM WEST PALM BEACH WHO HAVE LOST SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS OF TYPE
8:50:52PM ONE TREES DUE TO POOR PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT.
8:50:55PM THE FLOODING IN THOSE TWO CITIES ALONE IS HORRID.
8:50:59PM THEY ALSO STORE 1.4 MILLION TONS OF CARBON.
8:51:04PM 92% OF TAMPA RESIDENTS HIGHLY VALUE OUR TREES.
8:51:07PM LONG-TERM RESIDENTS FEEL TREES AND THE ECOSYSTEM THEY
8:51:10PM SUPPORT ARE CONNECTED TO THE HISTORICAL SENSE OF PLACE AND
8:51:13PM WANT THEM IN THEIR FUTURE FOR THEIR CHILDREN AND
8:51:16PM GRANDCHILDREN.
8:51:16PM NOW MORE THAN EVER, WE NEED TO SAVE THE GRAND TREES TO
8:51:19PM BENEFIT OUR ENVIRONMENT BECAUSE WE ARE LOSING THEM AT A
8:51:22PM RAPID PACE.
8:51:23PM IT IS SUCCESSFULLY PROVEN THAT LARGE OLD TREES PROVIDE THE
8:51:26PM MOST BENEFIT TO OUR ENVIRONMENT.
8:51:30PM THESE GRAND TREES MAKE UP LESS THAN 1% OF OUR TREES CANOPY.
8:51:34PM IN CLOSING, THE SYNAGOGUE AND THE DEVELOPER WILL STILL MAKE
8:51:36PM HEFTY PROFITS IF WE SAVE THESE GRAND TREES.
8:51:39PM THANK YOU.
8:51:39PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
8:51:40PM YES, SIR.
8:51:43PM NEXT SPEAKER.
8:51:46PM >> BOB WHITMORE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CITY TREE, CITIZENS
8:51:50PM ACTION GROUP.
8:51:50PM YOU PROMISED ME -- YOU PROMISED ME ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL AND
8:51:58PM YOU MADE A COMMITMENT AT THE TREE WORKSHOP ON APRIL 27.
8:52:04PM YOU TOLD ME YOU CARED ABOUT THE CANOPY.
8:52:09PM EVERYBODY THAT COMES IN FRONT OF YOU AND WANTS A VARIANCE IS
8:52:13PM GOING TO HAVE A REASON TO CUT DOWN TREES.
8:52:18PM 24 TREES THEY WANT TO TAKE DOWN.
8:52:21PM RELATED TOOK DOWN 30 TREES TO PUT UP THE BUILDING BEHIND
8:52:26PM THIS PROPERTY.
8:52:27PM NOW, RICKY IS GOING TO COME UP HERE LATER AND HE'S GOING TO
8:52:30PM TELL YOU ABOUT ALL THE MAGIC THEY ARE GOING TO WORK TO
8:52:33PM REPLANT THOSE TREES ON THE PROPERTY.
8:52:35PM IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
8:52:37PM IT'S NOT.
8:52:38PM THE MONEY IS GOING TO GO INTO THE TREE FUND AND THEY ARE
8:52:40PM GOING TO MITIGATE IT IN SOME MYTHICAL SPOTS THROUGHOUT THE
8:52:44PM CITY THAT DON'T EXIST AND, BOOM, WE'RE DONE.
8:52:47PM WE'VE GOT 54 TREES THAT ARE OUT OF THE CANOPY.
8:52:52PM ONE ACRE OF LAND IS WHAT THEY ARE BUILDING ON.
8:52:55PM DID YOU SEE THAT MONSTER?
8:52:56PM ONE ACRE OF LAND THEY ARE GOING TO BUILD THIS PROPERTY ON.
8:53:01PM AND I THINK IT'S A LITTLE APPALLING THAT RELATED IS SORT OF
8:53:05PM HIDING BEHIND THE SYNAGOGUE TO GET WHAT THEY WANT DONE.
8:53:09PM THEY CAN SELL THAT PROPERTY AND THE SYNAGOGUE CAN MAKE MONEY
8:53:13PM WITH THAT PROPERTY.
8:53:14PM THEY JUST WON'T MAKE AS MUCH MONEY IF RELATED IS ALLOWED TO
8:53:19PM PUT THIS MONSTROSITY THAT'S GOING TO CAUSE SO MUCH PROBLEMS
8:53:24PM AND IN MY FIELD OF STUDY TAKE DOWN SO MANY TREES.
8:53:29PM WE HAVE GOT TO TAKE AND MAKE, HAVE THE POLITICAL WILL TO
8:53:35PM STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CANOPY.
8:53:37PM ACTIVISTS CAN'T DO THIS.
8:53:39PM WE CAN'T DO IT.
8:53:41PM WE JUST CAN'T.
8:53:42PM IT SHOWS.
8:53:43PM FIVE YEARS OF DESTRUCTION.
8:53:44PM 7% OF THE CANOPY LOST ACROSS THE CITY, AND 18% OF THE CANOPY
8:53:51PM LOST IN SOUTH TAMPA.
8:53:52PM AND YOU GUYS, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, THIS IS APPALLING.
8:53:57PM HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN?
8:53:58PM HOW ARE WE GOING -- LET'S GET A TREE CZAR.
8:54:01PM THAT'S WHAT WE'LL DO.
8:54:02PM GET A TREE CZAR.
8:54:04PM NO.
8:54:04PM NO.
8:54:05PM NO TREE CZARS.
8:54:07PM JUST LOOK AT DEVELOPMENT RATIONALLY.
8:54:11PM LOOK AT IT AS HOW WE CAN ACTUALLY WORK WITH THE TREES.
8:54:15PM LET'S PUT SOMETHING REASONABLE IN THERE.
8:54:18PM IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS THING.
8:54:20PM IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE.
8:54:22PM THE SYNAGOGUE WILL GET THEIR MONEY FOR THE PROPERTY.
8:54:25PM RELATED OR SOMEBODY ELSE CAN BUILD A BUILDING, AND WE'RE
8:54:28PM GOOD.
8:54:29PM WE DON'T LOSE TREES.
8:54:30PM EVERYBODY IS HAPPY.
8:54:32PM PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TO LIVE IN THE SHADE ANYMORE.
8:54:35PM 10:00 DOESN'T NEED TO BE SUNRISE FOR PEOPLE IN SOME PARTS OF
8:54:39PM SOUTH TAMPA.
8:54:40PM WE CAN DO THIS.
8:54:42PM BUT WE NEED TO HAVE THE POLITICAL WILL.
8:54:46PM I AM SO GRATEFUL TO SEE YOU PEOPLE UP THERE.
8:54:48PM I REALLY AM.
8:54:49PM I KNOW EACH ONE OF YOU SINCERELY CARES ABOUT THE CANOPY AND
8:54:53PM ABOUT THE CITY OF TAMPA.
8:54:54PM IT'S ONLY BY GETTING THE WAY OF THESE THINGS -- I'LL GO OUT
8:54:58PM OF BUSINESS.
8:54:59PM I DON'T WANT TO COME HERE ANYMORE.
8:55:01PM IT'S ONLY BY GETTING IN FRONT OF THESE THINGS ONE PROJECT AT
8:55:05PM A TIME THAT WE ARE NOT GOING IN FIVE YEARS SAY WE'RE DOWN TO
8:55:08PM 23% CANOPY.
8:55:10PM LIKE MIAMI.
8:55:11PM WE CAN'T DO IT.
8:55:12PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
8:55:14PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
8:55:15PM BOB WHITMORE.
8:55:22PM IT'S FOR THE RECORD.
8:55:23PM YOU'RE GOOD.
8:55:24PM SHE DIDN'T GET YOUR NAME.
8:56:02PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: MR. CHAIRMAN, I HAVE A SPEAKER WAIVER FORM
8:56:05PM WITH SEVEN NAMES.
8:56:06PM WE'LL BEGIN.
8:56:08PM ANN LEAVENGOOD GILES.
8:56:12PM KELLY McGWIRE.
8:56:14PM EXCUSE ME.
8:56:18PM KATHY McGWIRE.
8:56:19PM IS KATHY McGWIRE PRESENT?
8:56:21PM I DON'T SEE KATHY McGWIRE.
8:56:24PM GRACE KELLY -- IS KATHY McGWIRE HERE?
8:56:33PM >> IF SHE IS NOT HERE, WE CAN ADD MIKE FANNING.
8:56:37PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: WE DON'T HAVE MIKE FANNING ON THIS LIST.
8:56:41PM NO OBJECTION TO THE EXTRA MINUTE.
8:56:46PM GRACE KELLY.
8:56:49PM THANK YOU.
8:56:50PM CAROLYN FRAN --
8:56:55PM CHERYL SMITH.
8:56:56PM ELENA COATS.
8:56:57PM BENTLEY.
8:57:01PM WITHOUT OBJECTION, TEN MINUTES.
8:57:03PM THANK YOU.
8:57:09PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GO AHEAD.
8:57:10PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
8:57:11PM YOU HAVE TEN MINUTES.
8:57:15PM >> IT SAYS SIX.
8:57:16PM GOT IT.
8:57:16PM HI.
8:57:16PM MY NAME IS CARROLL ANN BENNETT.
8:57:19PM FOUNDING MEMBER OF T-TAG.
8:57:20PM COUNCILMAN VIERA, MANISCALCO, AND MIRANDA, YOU VOTED IN 2021
8:57:26PM TO, QUOTE, REMOVE THE ABILITY TO UTILIZE FAR FOR SINGLE USE
8:57:31PM RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY.
8:57:32PM YOU DID THIS BECAUSE, QUOTE, CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERED
8:57:35PM NUMEROUS REZONING REQUESTS FOR SINGLE USE RESIDENTIAL
8:57:39PM DEVELOPMENTS.
8:57:40PM DURING SUCH HEARINGS, CITY COUNCIL REPEATEDLY SOUGHT
8:57:43PM DIRECTION COMP PLAN OBJECTIVE 1.1 DIRECTING FUTURE
8:57:47PM POPULATION CONCENTRATIONS AWAY FROM THE COASTAL HIGH HAZARD
8:57:50PM AREA TO ACHIEVE A NO NET INCREASE IN OVERALL RESIDENTIAL
8:57:53PM DENSITY WITHIN THE CHHA.
8:57:55PM QUOTE, IN ORDER TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE PUBLIC HEALTH,
8:57:58PM SAFETY AND WELFARE, CITY COUNCIL DIRECTS STAFF TO PREPARE AN
8:58:02PM AMENDMENT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
8:58:03PM THE TAMPA BAY TIMES WROTE AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF HOW MUCH
8:58:06PM WORSE THE DAMAGE IN TAMPA WOULD HAVE BEEN COMPARED TO FORT
8:58:09PM MYERS IF HURRICANE IAN HAD HIT TAMPA AS PROJECTED.
8:58:12PM URBAN TAMPA BAY SUMMED IT UP BETTER THAN I CAN.
8:58:16PM QUOTE, IT DOESN'T MAKE MUCH SENSE TO ALLOW NEW DEVELOPMENT
8:58:19PM IN LOCATIONS WHICH ARE AT HIGH RISK OF INUNDATION DURING
8:58:22PM FLOOD EVENTS.
8:58:23PM EVERY PROPERTY DEVELOPED IN SUCH LOCATIONS IS ANOTHER
8:58:26PM PROPERTY THE REST OF US WILL BE SUBSIDIZING IN PERPETUITY
8:58:29PM WITH OUR INSURANCE AND DISASTER RELIEF PAYMENTS, END QUOTE.
8:58:34PM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, MANISCALCO, AND VIERA IN 2022 YOU AGAIN
8:58:37PM VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO ELIMINATE FAR FOR LAND USE CATEGORY CMU
8:58:42PM 35, CC 35, AND UMU 60, QUOTE, PROHIBITING THE USE OF THE FAR
8:58:47PM OPTION FOR SINGLE USE MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS
8:58:51PM WITHIN THE SOUTH TAMPA OR NEW TAMPA PLANNING DISTRICTS.
8:58:54PM MAKE NO MISTAKE, THE RELATED GROUP IS BUILDING SINGLE USE.
8:58:57PM THE RELATED GROUP DOES NOT OWN PLACES OF RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY.
8:59:02PM ALSO IN 2022, BEACH PARK BROUGHT IT TO YOUR ATTENTION THAT
8:59:05PM THEY HAD RMU 100 IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.
8:59:07PM YOU VOTED UNANIMOUSLY FOR A THIRD TIME TO ADD THAT LAND USE
8:59:12PM -- TO ADD THAT LAND USE CATEGORY BECAUSE YOUR INTENT WAS TO
8:59:15PM ELIMINATE THE EXCESS DENSITY OF SINGLE USE MULTIFAMILY
8:59:20PM RESIDENTIAL IN SOUTH TAMPA.
8:59:21PM THIS PROPERTY IS R 35.
8:59:23PM THERE ARE ONLY THREE OTHER R 35s IN SOUTH TAMPA AND IT WAS
8:59:27PM NOT INCLUDED IN THOSE MOTIONS.
8:59:30PM BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER.
8:59:31PM BECAUSE BEFORE YOU TODAY IS EXACT SAME THING YOU VOTED TO
8:59:33PM ELIMINATE UNANIMOUSLY THREE TIMES.
8:59:37PM EXCESS DENSITY WHERE IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
8:59:40PM SO YOU MUST DECIDE, ARE YOU GOING TO BE CONSISTENT WITH THE
8:59:43PM INTENT WHEN YOU VOTED REPEATEDLY AGAINST EXCESS DENSITY IN
8:59:46PM THE CHA, QUOTE, IN ORDER TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE PUBLIC
8:59:50PM HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE.
8:59:51PM IF YOU CHOOSE TO SPLIT HAIRS BY SAYING IT'S R 35 NOT CC 35,
8:59:57PM YOU'LL BE EXPLAINING YOURSELF FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS TO ALL
9:00:00PM THE PEOPLE WHO CAME TO THE CANDIDATE FORUM THAT WAS HELD AT
9:00:03PM THE GARDEN CLUB.
9:00:04PM THEY ARE CALLING THIS EXCESS DENSITY A BONUS AGREEMENT.
9:00:07PM IF YOU LOOK AT THE PAGE TITLED BONUS PROVISIONS THAT I GAVE
9:00:13PM YOU, YOU'LL SEE THAT THIS ACTUALLY MAKES IT EVEN EASIER FOR
9:00:18PM YOU TO DENY.
9:00:19PM IT POINTS OUT THAT BONUS PROVISIONS ARE SUBJECT TO CITY
9:00:22PM COUNCIL APPROVAL AND ARE NOT A BY RIGHT PROVISION.
9:00:26PM IF THIS IS UNDERDEVELOPED WHY DO THEY NEED A BONUS
9:00:30PM AGREEMENT.
9:00:30PM VOTE NO ON THE BONUS AGREEMENT.
9:00:32PM LAST MONTH YOU GOT A PEEK AT THE NEW TREE REPORT.
9:00:35PM THE PERCENTAGE THAT THE COVERAGE HAS DECREASED IS TERRIBLE.
9:00:38PM THE SOUTH TAMPA PERCENTAGE IS THE WORST IN JUST FIVE YEARS.
9:00:43PM IT IS BECAUSE OF PROJECTS LIKE THIS ONE.
9:00:45PM RELATED WANTS TO REMOVE 24 HEALTHY LIVE OAKS.
9:00:48PM THREE OF THEM ARE GRAND OAKS.
9:00:50PM ON THESE PAGES FROM THE TREE REPORT YOU'LL SEE THAT LIVE
9:00:54PM OAKS ARE 33% OF THE VALUE OF OUR TREE CANOPY.
9:00:58PM BUT LIVE OAKS ONLY MAKE UP 3% OF THE TREE CANOPY.
9:01:02PM HERE YOU'LL SEE LIVE OAKS, THE LIGHT COLOR IS THE PERCENTAGE
9:01:08PM -- SORRY.
9:01:09PM CAN YOU SEE IT?
9:01:10PM THIS IS THE PERCENTAGE OF LIVE OAKS.
9:01:13PM 3%.
9:01:14PM THIS IS THE PERCENTAGE OF THE LEAF AREA OF LIVE OAKS.
9:01:18PM IT'S THE GREATEST.
9:01:19PM ONLY 3% OF THE CANOPY BUT HAS MORE LEAF AREA THAN ANY OTHER
9:01:23PM TREE.
9:01:24PM THEY ARE THE WORKHORSES OF OUR TREE CANOPY.
9:01:29PM WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS TO THE PUBLIC?
9:01:38PM WE'VE HAD THE HOTTEST NINE YEARS ON RECORD.
9:01:41PM AREAS WITH TREE CANOPY ARE SIX DEGREES COOLER THAN AREAS
9:01:45PM WITHOUT IT.
9:01:45PM WE NEED TO GET USED TO HEARING THE PHRASE URBAN HEAT ISLAND
9:01:49PM EFFECT BECAUSE WE'LL HAVE A LOT MORE OF IT IF WE DON'T STOP
9:01:52PM THE DECIMATION OF OUR CANOPY.
9:01:54PM YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW MUCH IT'S WORTH?
9:01:55PM ANNUAL BENEFITS OF OUR CANOPY ARE $306 MILLION A YEAR.
9:02:01PM THE LOSS ADDS UP TO $12,240,000 A YEAR.
9:02:06PM EVERY YEAR.
9:02:08PM HOW MUCH WOULD OUR CITY BENEFIT FROM AN EXTRA $12,240,000 A
9:02:12PM YEAR?
9:02:13PM WHAT AREA FLOODS MORE THAN BAYSHORE BOULEVARD?
9:02:15PM HOW MUCH DOES FLOODING COST OUR CITY?
9:02:17PM WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT, THEY FIGURED IT OUT.
9:02:21PM THIS IS HOW MUCH IT COSTS OUR CITY.
9:02:22PM $4.9 MILLION OF RUNOFF IS AVOIDED WITH OUR TREE CANOPY.
9:02:30PM 4.9 MILLION.
9:02:31PM LIVE OAKS ALONE SAVE THE CITY ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR
9:02:36PM IN RUNOFF.
9:02:37PM THE VALUE OF AVOIDED RUNOFFS CANNOT BE REPLACED.
9:02:43PM WHAT IS FREE FLOOD PREVENTION?
9:02:45PM THE 24 LIVE OAKS ON THIS PROPERTY.
9:02:48PM YOU HAVE TO BE CRAZY TO CUT DOWN 24 OAKS ON ONE OF THE MOST
9:02:51PM FLOOD-PRONE STREETS IN THE CITY.
9:02:53PM DURING THE CAMPAIGN YOU SAID YOU UNDERSTOOD THE IMPORTANCE
9:02:55PM OF THE TREE.
9:02:56PM NOW IS WHEN YOU GET THE POWER TO DO JUST THAT.
9:02:58PM OUR MAYOR SAW THE BAD TREE REPORT AND SPRANG INTO ACTION.
9:03:02PM SHE'S HAD PRESS CONFERENCES TALKING ABOUT HER PLANS TO SAVE
9:03:04PM OUR TREES AND PLANT 30,000 MORE.
9:03:06PM WE ARE A TEAM.
9:03:07PM YOU, THE MAYOR, ALL OF US.
9:03:09PM THE MAYOR CAN GET TREES PLANTED AND CHANGE THE PENALTIES FOR
9:03:12PM ILLEGAL TREE CUTTING.
9:03:14PM YOU CAN SAY NO TO WAIVERS TO REMOVE GRAND TREES.
9:03:17PM YOU CAN SAY NO TO WAIVERS TO REMOVE MORE THAN 50% OF THE
9:03:20PM TREES.
9:03:20PM SUPPORT THE MAYOR, SUPPORT THE RESIDENTS AND PROTECT OUR
9:03:24PM TREES LIKE THE SOLID GOLD INFRASTRUCTURE THEY ARE.
9:03:26PM THE RELATED GROUP CAN BUILD ON THIS PROPERTY.
9:03:29PM ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS PULL PERMITS.
9:03:31PM IF THEY BUILD WHAT THEY ARE ACTUALLY ENTITLED TO WITH NO
9:03:34PM WAIVERS, THEY CAN STILL REMOVE 50% OF THE TREES.
9:03:36PM THEY CAN BUILD 42 UNITS THAT ARE ALLOWED BY RIGHT.
9:03:39PM THE UNITS WON'T COST $5 MILLION, WHICH IS WHAT THEY TOLD US
9:03:43PM THESE UNITS ARE GOING TO COST.
9:03:45PM THEY'LL BE BETTER.
9:03:46PM THEY WILL BE SMALLER AND MORE AFFORDABLE.
9:03:47PM THAT BENEFITS EVERYONE, NOT JUST A FEW.
9:03:50PM I GOT THIS SLIDE FROM GINA GRIMES.
9:03:54PM IT HAS NEVER BEEN THE POLICY -- IT'S NEVER BEEN THE LAW THAT
9:04:00PM A LANDOWNER IS ALWAYS ENTITLED TO THE HIGHEST AND BEST USE
9:04:03PM OF HIS LAND.
9:04:05PM THE SYNAGOGUE GOT A PD REZONING IN 2005.
9:04:10PM LATER THEY ASKED FOR AMENDMENT TO SELL HALF AN ACRE.
9:04:12PM IF YOU LOOK AT THE NEXT PAGE I GAVE YOU, YOU'LL SEE THEY
9:04:15PM WERE GRANTED THE CHANGE ONLY IF THEY COMMITTED TO PRESERVING
9:04:18PM ALL OF THE TREES AND YET HERE THEY ARE TODAY ASKING TO CUT
9:04:21PM DOWN 80% OF THOSE TREES.
9:04:23PM PROMISES AREN'T WORTH THE PAPER THEY ARE WRITTEN ON.
9:04:25PM WHEN, AND I MEAN WHEN, NOT IF, THE SYNAGOGUE BECOMES
9:04:28PM RESIDENTIAL, ALL THE REMAINING TREES ON THE SYNAGOGUE'S LAND
9:04:31PM WILL BE KILLED, TOO.
9:04:33PM THERE'S NOTHING REQUIRING THEM TO STAY.
9:04:35PM IF THEY GET AN OFFER THEY CAN'T REFUSE, THEY CAN DO WHATEVER
9:04:38PM THEY WANT.
9:04:39PM THE AGREEMENT ABOUT RESTRICTING WHAT CAN BE BUILT IN THE
9:04:42PM FUTURE IS GOING TO BE THROWN OUT THE WINDOW.
9:04:45PM I WOULD LOVE TO SEE CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM STAY ON
9:04:48PM BAYSHORE BOULEVARD BUT YOU CANNOT VOTE YES BECAUSE YOU WANT
9:04:51PM THEM TO STAY.
9:04:52PM YOU CANNOT VOTE YES UNDER THREAT OF SOMETHING WORSE.
9:04:55PM THAT IS NOT COMPETENT AND SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE AND YOU MUST
9:04:59PM BASE YOUR DECISION ON EVIDENCE ONLY.
9:05:01PM ALL THEIR ASSURANCES EVAPORATE THE DAY AFTER YOU VOTE YES.
9:05:06PM YOU ARE EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN FROM BASING YOUR DECISION ON
9:05:10PM WHAT THIS SYNAGOGUE MIGHT DO IN THE FUTURE.
9:05:12PM ON THE OTHER HAND THE COMP PLAN REQUIRES TO YOU PREVENT HARM
9:05:14PM TO THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORS.
9:05:15PM LU POLICY 9.3.8 STATES THAT, QUOTE, NEW RESIDENTIAL
9:05:19PM REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS SHALL BE MINIMALLY DISRUPTIVE TO
9:05:22PM ADJACENT AREAS.
9:05:23PM TO ACHIEVE THIS, THE CITY SHALL ASSESS THE POTENTIAL
9:05:26PM POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT
9:05:29PM PROJECTS.
9:05:30PM THEY SAID THEY CAN'T BUILD WHAT THEY WANT WITHOUT WAIVERS.
9:05:36PM WELL, THEN IT WAS THE WRONG PROPERTY FOR THEM TO BUY.
9:05:39PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION SAID THE PATTERN OF DEVELOPMENT IS
9:05:43PM 14.7 UNITS PER ACRE.
9:05:45PM THE COMP PLAN REQUIRES YOU TO MAKE SURE THESE DEVELOPMENTS
9:05:48PM ARE COMPATIBLE WITH THE PATTERN OF DEVELOPMENT.
9:05:51PM THEY TOLD YOU THE PATTERN OF DEVELOPMENT IS 14.7 UNITS PER
9:05:54PM ACRE.
9:05:55PM DANNY COLLINS TOLD YOU.
9:05:56PM YOU MUST BE CONSISTENT WITH YOUR PREVIOUS VOTES TO PROTECT
9:06:02PM AND PRESERVE THE PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE.
9:06:04PM I ASK YOU TO PRESERVE OUR TREE CANOPY, WHICH BENEFITS
9:06:07PM EVERYONE.
9:06:08PM I ASK YOU TO VOTE ON COMPETENT AND SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
9:06:11PM ONLY.
9:06:11PM I ASK YOU TO PROTECT THE SURROUNDING PROPERTIES AS THE COMP
9:06:16PM PLAN MANDATES.
9:06:16PM THANK YOU.
9:06:18PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:06:18PM YES, MA'AM.
9:06:20PM NEXT SPEAKER.
9:06:30PM >> I HAVE A WAIVER FOR AN ADDITIONAL MINUTE.
9:06:38PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THANK YOU.
9:06:39PM NANCY KISWELL.
9:06:57PM >> GOOD EVENING.
9:07:01PM I'M LORRAINE PARRIINO, PRESIDENT OF THE TAMPA TREE ADVOCACY
9:07:04PM GROUP.
9:07:05PM JUST LAST YEAR, MIAMI-BASED DEVELOPER THE RELATED GROUP
9:07:08PM DEMOLISHED THE MIDDLE INCOME BAY OAKS APARTMENTS ON
9:07:12PM BAYSHORE.
9:07:12PM CONSTRUCTING A SUPER LUXURY CONDO THERE, IT DESTROYED 30
9:07:16PM MATURE LIVE OAK TREES, THE MOST VALUABLE TREES IN THE STATE
9:07:20PM OF FLORIDA.
9:07:20PM NOW THE RELATED GROUP IS AT IT AGAIN, CONSTRUCTING YET
9:07:24PM ANOTHER LUXURY CONDO ON BAYSHORE ASKING CITY COUNCIL TO
9:07:27PM IGNORE CITY CODE PROTECTING THESE VALUABLE TREES BY ALLOWING
9:07:30PM IT TO KEEP ONLY 20% OF THE TREES.
9:07:32PM LET ME STATE THAT AGAIN.
9:07:33PM THE RELATED GROUP WANTS A SPECIAL WAIVER TO DESTROY 80% OF
9:07:37PM THE LIVE OAK TREES ON THE PROPERTY, INCLUDING THREE HEALTHY
9:07:40PM OLD GROWTH LIVE OAKS, 50-INCH LIVE OAK.
9:07:46PM YES RELATED GROUP WANTS PERMISSION FROM YOU, CITY COUNCIL TO
9:07:49PM DESTROY 24 LIVE OAKS, THE MOST VALUABLE TREES IN THE STATE
9:07:52PM OF FLORIDA.
9:07:53PM PLUS THREE GRAND LIVE OAKS, SO THEY CAN INCREASE THEIR VAST
9:07:57PM WEALTH AT TAMPA'S EXPENSE.
9:08:00PM LET US CALL THIS OUT FOR WHAT IT REALLY IS.
9:08:02PM CORPORATE GREED AT ITS WORST.
9:08:04PM WHERE DOES IT STOP?
9:08:05PM YOU CITY COUNCIL MUST STOP THIS BECAUSE WHEN IT COMES TO
9:08:08PM CORPORATE GREED IT IS NEVER ENOUGH.
9:08:10PM THE 2016 TREE CANOPY AND URBAN FOREST ANALYSIS RATED TAMPA'S
9:08:15PM TREE CANOPY A HEALTHY 33.3%.
9:08:18PM THAT SAME YEAR MIAMI-DADE, THE RELATED GROUP'S HEADQUARTERS,
9:08:21PM HAD A VERY SUBSTANDARD TREE CANOPY OF 19% DUE TO UNBRIDLED
9:08:27PM AMBITION AND OVERBUILDING BY THE CITY AND DEVELOPERS LIKE
9:08:30PM THE RELATED GROUP.
9:08:31PM MIAMI-DADE'S VERY POOR TREE CANOPY SPARKED HUGE CONCERN
9:08:36PM RESULTING IN MILLION TREES MIAMI, AN AMBITIOUS CITY
9:08:39PM CORPORATE INITIATIVE TO PLANT A MILLION TREES BY 2020.
9:08:44PM IT DID NOT REACH ITS GOAL.
9:08:45PM THE QUESTION BEFORE US TODAY IS THIS.
9:08:48PM IS CITY COUNCIL WILLING FOR TAMPA'S TREE CANOPY TO BECOME AS
9:08:51PM DEGRADED AS MIAMI-DADE'S WAS IN 2016?
9:08:53PM THE JUST RELEASED 2021 TREE CANOPY AND URBAN FOREST ANALYSIS
9:08:59PM INFORMS US THAT TAMPA'S TREE CANOPY DECLINED BY 4% IN THE
9:09:02PM PAST FIVE YEARS.
9:09:03PM A CLOSER LOOK SHOWS THAT TAMPA LOST 7% OF ITS TREE CANOPY
9:09:07PM SINCE 2016 AND 13% SINCE 1995.
9:09:11PM SOUTH TAMPA ALONE LOST AN ASTOUNDING 18% OF TREE CANOPY AND
9:09:17PM FLOOD-PRONED DAVIS ISLAND LOST 10%.
9:09:20PM IF THE CITYWIDE PUSH FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT CONTINUES AT
9:09:25PM BREAKNECK SPEED AS DID MIAMI-DADE'S, TAMPA WILL LOSE ANOTHER
9:09:28PM 7% OF TREE CANOPY IN FIVE YEARS, DECREASING TO 23%.
9:09:32PM TAMPA IS THEN ON A VERY SLIPPERY SLOPE TO TIE MIAMI-DADE'S
9:09:36PM 2016, 19% TREE CANOPY.
9:09:38PM THE 24 LIVE OAK TREES THAT THE RELATED GROUP WANTS TO REMOVE
9:09:43PM TO THE 30 MATURE OAK TREES IT REMOVED LAST YEAR AND THE
9:09:46PM DESTROYED TREES AMOUNT TO ASTOUNDING 54 TREES, INCLUDING
9:09:50PM THREE GRAND OAKS, THE MOST VALUABLE TREES IN ALL OF FLORIDA.
9:09:54PM THIS DEVELOPER WILL DESTROY A SMALL FOREST OF TREES NO
9:09:57PM MATTER THE GREAT HARM TO TAMPA'S ECOSYSTEM, MERELY TO
9:10:00PM SATISFY ITS CORPORATE GREED AND AMBITION.
9:10:04PM IS CITY COUNCIL REALLY WILLING TO APPEASE THE SELF-INDULGENT
9:10:08PM GREED OF DEVELOPERS LIKE THE RELATED GROUP, ALLOWING IT TO
9:10:11PM DESTROY EVEN MORE OF TAMPA'S DISAPPEARING TREE CANOPY THAN
9:10:14PM IT ALREADY HAS?
9:10:15PM THE CITY OF TAMPA FOREST EXAMINER FOUND THIS REZONING TO BE
9:10:19PM INCONSISTENT.
9:10:20PM DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT ALSO FOUND IT
9:10:22PM INCONSISTENT.
9:10:23PM YOU CITY COUNCIL MUST DECIDE IF YOU WILL FOLLOW THE CODE AND
9:10:27PM PROTECTION TAMPA'S TREE CANOPY AND HEALTHY GRAND OAKS OR IF
9:10:31PM INSTEAD YOU ARE WILLING TO GRANT WAIVERS TO IRRESPONSIBLE
9:10:35PM DEVELOPERS ALL TOO WILLING TO DESTROY TAMPA'S OLD GROWTH OAK
9:10:38PM TREES.
9:10:38PM CITY COUNCIL, YOU MUST FOLLOW THE CODE OR BETTER YET
9:10:41PM STRENGTHEN IT, MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR DEVELOPERS TO
9:10:44PM REQUEST TREE-DESTROYING WAIVERS.
9:10:46PM THAT IS WHY THE CITY CODES WERE CODIFIED AND THAT IS WHY YOU
9:10:49PM WERE ELECTED TO ENFORCE THEM TO PRESERVE TAMPA'S NATURAL
9:10:53PM RESOURCES FOR TODAY AND FUTURE GENERATIONS.
9:10:56PM YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO ALL TAMPA RESIDENTS TO PROTECT
9:11:00PM TAMPA'S NATURAL BEAUTY AND NATURAL RESOURCES FROM THE
9:11:03PM AMBITIOUS, THE GREEDY, THE SELFISH, AND FROM DEVELOPERS
9:11:06PM INTERESTED ONLY IN THEIR OWN FINANCIAL PROFIT.
9:11:08PM PLEASE VOTE NO TO THESE TREE-KILLING WAIVERS.
9:11:11PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:11:12PM NEXT SPEAKER -- SORRY, LAST SPEAKER, PLEASE.
9:11:17PM WE DID IT.
9:11:19PM YES, MA'AM.
9:11:21PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
9:11:22PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
9:11:39PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IT LOOKS LIKE SIX NAMES.
9:11:42PM BOB WECK.
9:11:44PM KATHRYN PROVADA.
9:11:48PM ELIZABETH WECK.
9:11:50PM SAM WARNER.
9:11:51PM CORRINE GERTNER.
9:11:56PM AND WENDELL GERTNER.
9:12:00PM TOTAL OF SIX PLUS THREE.
9:12:02PM >> GOOD EVENING.
9:12:03PM STEPHANIE POYNOR.
9:12:04PM I HANDED YOU A COPY OF THIS RESOLUTION THAT CARROLL ANN
9:12:10PM MENTIONED.
9:12:11PM RESOLUTION NUMBER 2021-273.
9:12:14PM BUT WHAT'S ALMOST AS IMPORTANT IS THE NEXT PIECE OF PAPER
9:12:18PM THAT I GAVE YOU WITH THIS LARGE TYPE AT THE TOP.
9:12:21PM BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO TAKE JUST A MINUTE AND LOOK AT THE
9:12:25PM HIGHLIGHTED SECTIONS BECAUSE WHAT IT SAYS HERE IS WHAT CITY
9:12:29PM COUNCIL ASKED FOR.
9:12:32PM AND WHAT CITY COUNCIL ASKED FOR WAS COUNCIL ALSO DIRECTED
9:12:37PM STAFF TO REVIEW THE USE OF -- IN THE SINGLE RESIDENTIAL USE
9:12:41PM RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENTS.
9:12:43PM THEY DID.
9:12:44PM THEY NEVER MENTIONED THIS NIFTY LITTLE R-35.
9:12:48PM MY GUESS WHY, BECAUSE THERE'S ONLY FOUR OF THEM IN ALL OF
9:12:53PM SOUTH TAMPA, INCLUDING THIS ONE.
9:12:55PM SO EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT IN THIS ORDINANCE, IT CERTAINLY GOES
9:13:03PM ALONG WITH THE SPIRIT OF THIS ORDINANCE WHERE WE WERE NOT
9:13:07PM ALLOWING FAR, WHERE YOU CAN'T BUY BONUS DENSITY.
9:13:13PM SO THEY OVERLOOKED THESE FOUR VERY SMALL PARCELS.
9:13:20PM AND THE OTHER THREE ALREADY HAVE SOMETHING PRETTY
9:13:22PM SIGNIFICANT ON THEM.
9:13:23PM SO WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE BIG PICTURE OF THINGS, CITY
9:13:26PM COUNCIL IN 2021 VOTED NOT ONCE, NOT TWICE, BUT THREE TIMES
9:13:33PM TO PUT THIS ORDINANCE IN PLACE.
9:13:35PM AND THIS WASN'T EVEN ANYTHING THAT THE SOUTH OF GANDY FOLKS
9:13:38PM ASKED FOR BECAUSE WE NEVER GOT TO FAR.
9:13:41PM WE NEVER GOT TO 1.0.
9:13:42PM THIS BONUS DENSITY AGREEMENT, MY MOUTH HANGS OPEN.
9:13:47PM $144,000 FOR 7 UNITS.
9:13:51PM OH, MY GOODNESS.
9:13:52PM PLEASE, CAN YOU SIGN ME UP FOR WHERE I CAN GO TO HAND
9:13:56PM SOMEBODY 144,000 AND GET PROBABLY ABOUT 30 MILLION OUT OF
9:14:00PM IT?
9:14:00PM PLEASE TELL ME WHERE I CAN GO SHOP FOR THAT BECAUSE I NEED
9:14:03PM THAT KIND OF MONEY.
9:14:04PM I WOULD BUY SOME AFFORDABLE HOUSING LIKE THE CHURCH DID AT
9:14:08PM THE CORNER OF -- SOMEBODY MENTIONED IT EARLIER.
9:14:14PM BAY VISTA AND MANHATTAN.
9:14:16PM THEY ARE BUILDING UNITS.
9:14:17PM GUESS WHAT, THE CHURCH SOLD IT TO AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING
9:14:20PM DEVELOPER.
9:14:20PM THEIR ONLY REQUIREMENT WAS THAT THEY GET TO NAME IT AND THEY
9:14:24PM NAMED IT.
9:14:25PM A HUNDRED AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS IN SOUTH TAMPA.
9:14:27PM NOW, WE'VE HEARD A LOT THIS EVENING ABOUT A LOT OF DIFFERENT
9:14:34PM THINGS THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH COMPETENT AND SUBSTANTIAL
9:14:37PM EVIDENCE.
9:14:38PM THE HISTORY, NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
9:14:41PM WHAT WE WANT TO DO THERE, NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
9:14:44PM THERE IS NO BOGEYMAN STANDING IN THE CORNER THAT IS GOING TO
9:14:48PM CREATE A NEW DEVELOPMENT FIVE MINUTES AFTER YOU SAY NO FOR
9:14:51PM THIS.
9:14:52PM THERE IS NO BOGEYMAN, I'M TELLING YOU, EVERY DEVELOPER UNDER
9:14:56PM THE SUN HAS COME UP HERE AND SAID, WELL, IT COULD BE MUCH
9:14:59PM WORSE.
9:14:59PM WE CAN BUILD THIS AND WE CAN BUILD THAT.
9:15:01PM IT'S A FARCE.
9:15:03PM THE BOTTOM LINE IS, THIS IS WHAT THEY THINK IS A GOOD DEAL
9:15:08PM AND DON'T TELL ME THAT EVERYBODY WAS TREATED RESPECTFULLY
9:15:11PM BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT, CARROLL ANN AND I ARE HERE TONIGHT
9:15:16PM BECAUSE WE GOT A PHONE CALL FROM THE GARDEN CLUB LADIES.
9:15:19PM NOW, I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT THE LADIES IN RED.
9:15:22PM THEY LIKE GARDENING AND TREES.
9:15:27PM AND RELATED GROUP WANTED THEM TO TAKE OUT THEIR JOINT TREE.
9:15:30PM I MEAN, SERIOUSLY.
9:15:32PM THAT WAS THE FIRST CONVERSATION THAT WE HAD ABOUT THIS.
9:15:34PM THEY CALLED US BECAUSE THEY SAID THESE PEOPLE WANT TO TAKE
9:15:37PM AWAY OUR TREE.
9:15:38PM WELL, GUESS WHAT, THIS PROJECT WILL STILL TAKE OUT THAT TREE
9:15:42PM BECAUSE THEY ARE BUILDING TOO STINKIN' CLOSE.
9:15:45PM THERE WAS A GENTLEMAN HERE EARLIER THAT TALKED ABOUT FIVE,
9:15:51PM TEN POUNDS OF SUGAR.
9:15:52PM YOU KNOW I WOULD SAY SOMETHING MUCH, MUCH WORSE.
9:15:55PM WHEN DO WE START MAKING PEOPLE FOLLOW THE RULES?
9:16:01PM THIS IS FOUR AND A HALF, FIVE MILLION DOLLAR UNITS.
9:16:06PM THIS IS NOT AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
9:16:07PM THIS IS NOT GOING TO CREATE A PLACE FOR ANYONE TO LIVE.
9:16:12PM NOBODY CALLS THAT HOTLINE AND SAYS, I CAN'T FIND A FOUR AND
9:16:17PM A HALF OR FIVE MILLION DOLLARS PROPERTY.
9:16:19PM I CAN'T FIND IT.
9:16:20PM IT'S NOT THERE.
9:16:21PM I HAVEN'T HEARD THIS DEVELOPER TELL US WE'LL BUILD SIDEWALKS
9:16:25PM AROUND IT.
9:16:26PM WE'LL BUILD SIDEWALKS FOR THE PEOPLE ACROSS THE STREET.
9:16:29PM IF YOU ARE WORKING WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND YOU ARE NOT
9:16:33PM TALKING AT THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THEN YOU'RE TALKING TO THEM
9:16:36PM ABOUT THE THINGS THAT THEY SAY THEY NEED AND HOW MANY PEOPLE
9:16:39PM CAME HERE TONIGHT AND SAID WE DON'T HAVE ANY SIDEWALKS?
9:16:42PM WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WALK IN THE STREET.
9:16:44PM BUT WE DIDN'T SEE ANY OF THAT.
9:16:46PM THESE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO MAKE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF
9:16:49PM DOLLARS.
9:16:51PM I'D ALSO LIKE TO SAY THAT IN THE STAFF REPORT IT SAYS THAT
9:16:54PM THEY ARE BUYING WITH THE BONUS DENSITY SEVEN UNITS.
9:16:57PM BUT THEY CAN ONLY BUILD 42.
9:17:00PM BUT THEN WE TALKED ABOUT 50.
9:17:02PM I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU ALL BUT I DID TEACH THIRD GRADE MATH
9:17:05PM FOR A LONG TIME.
9:17:06PM 42 PLUS 7 IS 49, NOT 50.
9:17:10PM SO WE CAN'T LET THEM HAVE 50 EITHER BECAUSE THAT'S NOT WHAT
9:17:13PM THEY ASKED FOR AND NOT WHAT'S IN THE BONUS AGREEMENT.
9:17:15PM PLEASE, I'M SURE I'M FORGETTING SOMETHING.
9:17:20PM YES, MEDIUM DENSITY.
9:17:22PM MEDIUM DENSITY!
9:17:23PM CARROLL ANN GAVE YOU A PAPER WITH A BROWN BOX, MEDIUM
9:17:28PM DENSITY.
9:17:28PM THAT SAYS 8 STORIES HIGH.
9:17:30PM THEY WANT TO BUILD 21 MORE STORIES ON TOP OF THAT.
9:17:33PM THAT'S NOT MEDIUM.
9:17:34PM THAT'S EXTRA LARGE.
9:17:36PM THAT'S XXL.
9:17:37PM REALLY COOL GUY THAT WAS HERE EARLIER, THAT GUY.
9:17:42PM AGAIN, WE'RE BACK TO TEN POUNDS OF SHIZZLE IN A FIVE POUND
9:17:48PM BAG.
9:17:48PM PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THESE BEFORE YOU MAKE A DECISION
9:17:51PM BECAUSE SOMEBODY SAID WE WEREN'T GOING TO DO THIS TO SOUTH
9:17:56PM TAMPA ANYMORE.
9:17:57PM AS A MATTER OF FACT, I THINK AT LEAST ONE, MAYBE TWO OF YOU
9:17:59PM STOOD UP AND SAID SOUTH TAMPA IS FULL AT THE GARDEN CLUB IN
9:18:02PM THE LAST 90 DAYS.
9:18:04PM WE'RE FULL.
9:18:08PM YOU KNOW WHAT?
9:18:08PM SOUTH OF GANDY, IT DOES COUNT BECAUSE THOSE HUNDRED CARS
9:18:12PM THAT ARE GOING TO LIVE THERE, I GOT TO GET PAST TO GET HOME
9:18:16PM FROM HERE.
9:18:17PM IT IMPACTS US EVERY SINGLE DAY.
9:18:20PM THE COASTAL HIGH HAZARD AREA IS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE ANY NEW
9:18:25PM DENSITY.
9:18:26PM DANNY COLLINS SAID 14.7 UNITS PER ACRE.
9:18:30PM WHY ARE WE EVEN DISCUSSING IT?
9:18:33PM WE HAVE TO SPEND ALL THIS TIME AND ENERGY TO PROTECT THE
9:18:39PM FOLKS IN OUR CITY FROM SOMEBODY FROM MIAMI.
9:18:43PM WE DON'T WANT TO BE ANOTHER MIAMI.
9:18:45PM I DIDN'T MOVE TO MIAMI.
9:18:47PM I'M NOT SAYING THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH MIAMI, BUT I
9:18:50PM DIDN'T MOVE TO MIAMI.
9:18:51PM I MOVED TO TAMPA.
9:18:53PM IT'S ALSO -- FLOOD ZONE.
9:18:59PM ANYBODY HAVE QUESTIONS?
9:19:01PM I STILL HAVE TWO MINUTES.
9:19:03PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:19:05PM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:19:07PM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
9:19:07PM THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:19:16PM [ LAUGHTER ]
9:19:16PM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:19:18PM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
9:19:18PM WE DON'T ALLOW JOY AND CELEBRATION IN HERE.
9:19:21PM [ LAUGHTER ]
9:19:22PM NO JOY.
9:19:24PM YES, MA'AM.
9:19:28PM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
9:19:31PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I WANT TO GET IT ON THE RECORD OFFICIALLY
9:19:33PM FOR ONE OF THE WAIVERS, SECTION 27-290.1-E TO ALLOW AN
9:19:41PM INCREASE OF THE FENCE OR WALL IN THE FRONT YARD, IT SAYS
9:19:45PM BAYSHORE BOULEVARD AND BARCELONA FROM THREE FEET TO SIX FEET
9:19:50PM IS THAT SHOWN IN THE SITE PLANS?
9:19:52PM I WAS LOOKING AT THAT AND I COULDN'T TELL.
9:19:57PM AND I JUST WANT TO GET THAT IN THE RECORD.
9:20:00PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: YES.
9:20:01PM LaCHONE DOCK, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
9:20:04PM COUNCILWOMAN, WHAT WAS THE LAST PART OF YOUR QUESTION?
9:20:06PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: IT SAYS SECTION 27-290 TO ALLOW AN
9:20:10PM INCREASE IN THE ALLOWED FENCE/WALL HEIGHT IN THE FRONT YARD,
9:20:14PM BAYSHORE BOULEVARD AND BARCELONA STREET FROM THREE FEET TO
9:20:18PM SIX FEET.
9:20:20PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: YES.
9:20:21PM THAT IS IDENTIFIED.
9:20:22PM THAT IS THE WAIVER REQUESTED AND THAT IS LISTED ON THE SITE
9:20:25PM PLAN.
9:20:26PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: RIGHT.
9:20:27PM BUT IS IT IN THE SITE PLAN?
9:20:28PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: ON THE SITE PLAN --
9:20:44PM IT IS A SECURITY FENCE.
9:20:46PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: IT'S NOT DECORATIVE?
9:20:48PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: IT'S SHOWN AS A DASHED LINE.
9:20:51PM WHAT HAPPENS IS SOME OF THE LINES, THEY DON'T BLEED INTO
9:20:54PM EACH OTHER BUT ALL LINES.
9:20:55PM YOU HAVE THE PROPERTY LINE AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE SETBACK
9:20:58PM LINE AS SHOWN AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE FENCE LINE.
9:21:00PM IT SAYS PROPOSED SECURITY FENCE AND IT POINTS HERE.
9:21:03PM THIS IS IT WITH THE LINE AND THE DOTS AND THAT IS WHAT IS
9:21:09PM PROPOSED.
9:21:09PM THIS IS CONSIDERED THE FRONT YARD, SO THAT IS THE NEED FOR
9:21:13PM THE WAIVER TO ALLOW THAT FENCE AT SIX FEET.
9:21:18PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALSO, THE LAST ONE, IS THERE ANY EFFORT TO
9:21:21PM SAVE THE TREES?
9:21:22PM I REMEMBER UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA, THEY SAVED A VERY BIG TREE
9:21:26PM WHEN THEY BUILT THE LACROSSE FIELD.
9:21:28PM THE GRAND TREES IN PARTICULAR, IS THERE AN EFFORT TO PICK
9:21:31PM THEM UP AND SAVE THEM?
9:21:33PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: I BELIEVE I'LL LET THE APPLICANT SPEAK TO
9:21:35PM THAT.
9:21:41PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ARE WE NOW GOING INTO REBUTTAL OR WOULD
9:21:45PM THIS NOT COUNT FOR REBUTTAL.
9:21:48PM SHE'S ASKING SPECIFIC QUESTIONS.
9:21:50PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: BEFORE WE BEGIN THE REBUTTAL PERIOD, IF YOU
9:21:53PM HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS FOR STAFF OR THE APPLICANT
9:21:56PM BEFORE THEY DO REBUTTAL -- REMEMBER, REBUTTAL IS THEIR LAST
9:22:01PM WORD.
9:22:01PM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, NOW WOULD BE THE APPROPRIATE
9:22:03PM TIME.
9:22:04PM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OF THE APPLICANT AFTER REBUTTAL,
9:22:07PM YOU CAN ADDRESS WHAT THEY RAISED DURING REBUTTAL.
9:22:09PM AS OF NOW, GIVE THEM THE LAST WORD IF YOU HAVE ANY
9:22:12PM QUESTIONS.
9:22:17PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU'RE GOOD.
9:22:18PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:22:19PM MS. MANDELL.
9:22:22PM >> BEFORE I GET INTO REBUTTAL, I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY, THERE
9:22:25PM WERE QUESTIONS THAT WERE ASKED.
9:22:29PM ARE THOSE SUPPOSED TO BE ANSWERED NOW BEFORE I GET INTO
9:22:32PM REBUTTAL?
9:22:32PM BECAUSE REBUTTAL IS MY OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND TO EVERYTHING.
9:22:36PM MY RECOLLECTION IS WE DO ALL THE QUESTIONS BEFORE WE END
9:22:41PM WITH REBUTTAL.
9:22:42PM IF THOSE WERE QUESTIONS THAT NEEDED TO BE ANSWERED BY
9:22:46PM MEMBERS OF THE TEAM, ISN'T NOW THE TIME FOR THEM TO ANSWER
9:22:49PM THOSE QUESTIONS?
9:22:54PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: [INAUDIBLE]
9:22:57PM >> THAT'S WHY I WANT TO CLARIFY IT.
9:23:00PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF THERE WAS A QUESTION POSED, THEN WHOEVER
9:23:02PM IS APPROPRIATE TO ANSWER THE QUESTION.
9:23:04PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IT WON'T CUT INTO YOUR REBUTTAL TIME.
9:23:08PM >> I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE DOING IT IN PROCESS.
9:23:10PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THANK YOU.
9:23:12PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MR. PETERIKA.
9:23:14PM >> RICKY PETERIKA, DARK MOSS.
9:23:15PM I'VE BEEN SWORN.
9:23:17PM WITH ME IS --
9:23:18PM >> ARTIE CINTRON WITH KIMLEY-HORN.
9:23:20PM I'VE BEEN SWORN IN AS WELL.
9:23:21PM >> THERE ARE THREE GRAND TREES PROPOSED ON THE WEST SIDE OF
9:23:24PM THE EXISTING SYNAGOGUE AND BY PROPOSING THE OTHER HALF OF
9:23:30PM THE DEVELOPMENT ON THE WEST SIDE OF THOSE AND PROVIDING
9:23:34PM ACCESS, THE ACCESS PROPOSED IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE TREE
9:23:40PM PROTECTION OF THOSE THREE TREES.
9:23:42PM SO WE TRIED -- WE EVALUATED SEVERAL CRITERIA OR SEVERAL
9:23:47PM CONFIGURATIONS.
9:23:48PM TWO OF THEM ARE IN YOUR PACKET TO PRESERVE ONE OR TWO OF
9:23:53PM THOSE TREES AND CHARACTERIZED THE IMPACT TO THE SITE PLAN
9:23:57PM THAT RESULTS FROM THE PRESERVATION OF TWO OF THOSE GRAND
9:24:00PM TREES.
9:24:03PM >> TO ADD TO RICKY'S POINT, THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE
9:24:07PM AND THE PRESERVATION OF THE SYNAGOGUE REQUIRE, ADD SOME
9:24:11PM CONSTRAINTS.
9:24:12PM TO RICKY'S POINT, THE CONSTRAINT OF THE ACCESS AFFECTS THE
9:24:15PM EXISTING TREES THERE.
9:24:25PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:24:25PM IF THERE ARE NO OTHER QUESTIONS, WE WILL GO TO THE APPLICANT
9:24:32PM FOR REBUTTAL.
9:24:33PM ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?
9:24:51PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: COUNCILMAN VIERA, DO YOU WISH TO HAVE A
9:24:54PM DISCUSSION OR RAISE SOME ISSUES OR CONCERNS?
9:24:55PM DO YOU WANT A DISCUSSION PRIOR TO REBUTTAL?
9:24:57PM IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SUGGESTING?
9:25:00PM >>LUIS VIERA: LITTLE FROM A AND LITTLE FROM B.
9:25:03PM I TYPICALLY DO IT AFTER REBUTTAL BECAUSE MAYBE MY QUESTIONS
9:25:05PM ARE ANSWERED IN THEIR REBUTTAL.
9:25:07PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF THAT'S THE CASE -- IF THE REBUTTAL
9:25:10PM RAISES QUESTIONS OR QUESTIONS LEFT UNANSWERED PERHAPS, BUT
9:25:13PM THE QUESTION IS IF YOU WANT TO ASK YOUR QUESTIONS NOW, THEN
9:25:17PM THEY CAN SPEND THE TIME.
9:25:18PM >>LUIS VIERA: IF IT'S OKAY WITH THE CHAIR, I'LL WAIT UNTIL
9:25:21PM AFTER REBUTTAL.
9:25:22PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HE MAY HAVE HIS ANSWERS IN REBUTTAL.
9:25:25PM IF NOT --
9:25:26PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: WE CAN OPEN THE FLOOR AGAIN FOR REBUTTAL.
9:25:29PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: LET ME SAY THIS, MR. CHAIRMAN, IN FACT,
9:25:31PM IN THIS CASE AND EVERYTHING, AND I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF
9:25:36PM PEOPLE WITH A LOT OF FEELINGS ONE WAY AND A LOT OF PEOPLE
9:25:38PM WITH FEELINGS THE OTHER WAY.
9:25:40PM YOU HAVE THREE ENTITIES HERE.
9:25:42PM YOU HAVE THE SYNAGOGUE, YOU HAVE THE GARDEN CENTER, AND YOU
9:25:46PM HAVE THE DEVELOPER.
9:25:47PM WHAT WE HAVE HEARD IN THE PREPONDERANCE, WHAT IF I DON'T DO
9:25:52PM THIS, I GET THAT, ABOUT MONEY AND ALL THAT.
9:25:55PM THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE REZONING.
9:25:57PM IT IS ABOUT WHATEVER IS ON THE DOCKET WE'RE LOOKING AT,
9:26:01PM WHATEVER YOU PRESENT, WHATEVER THEY PRESENT, WHATEVER THE
9:26:05PM DEBATE IS, WHATEVER THIS COUNCIL HEARS IS THE REZONING, NOT
9:26:09PM ABOUT WHAT IF, IF I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO SURVIVE AND I
9:26:14PM UNDERSTAND THAT.
9:26:14PM AND I UNDERSTAND THAT AND I PERSONALLY UNDERSTAND THAT A LOT
9:26:18PM OF THINGS ARE GOING TO CHANGE.
9:26:20PM HOWEVER, I SEE THINGS GO DOWN AND THE SAME THINGS, ANY
9:26:25PM BUSINESS GOES DOWN, WHEN THE YOUTH COME BACK, THEY GO UP.
9:26:28PM I KNOW PARKS AND RECREATION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE
9:26:32PM ZONING, BUT OUR ATTENDANCE IN PARKS AND RECREATION IN SOME
9:26:35PM PARTS ARE DOWN, ALL THE WAY DOWN.
9:26:37PM YOU KNOW WHY?
9:26:37PM EVERYBODY IS MY AGE.
9:26:40PM HOWEVER, WHEN THE YOUNG KIDS COME IN, IT GOES BACK UP.
9:26:46PM IT IS A CIRCLE OF LIFE THAT HAPPENS.
9:26:48PM I'M NOT SAYING THEY ARE NOT GOING TO GET THAT AND PUT IT
9:26:54PM INTO THIS ZONING, BUT ALL THE ZONINGS STAND ON THEIR OWN.
9:27:00PM NOT ABOUT THIS BENEFIT OR DEMISE OR DEMISE AND BENEFIT.
9:27:03PM AND IT'S ABOUT THE REZONING.
9:27:04PM THAT'S ALL I GOT TO SAY.
9:27:06PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:27:06PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:27:09PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:27:13PM I WANT TO BUILD ON SOMETHING THAT COUNCILMAN MIRANDA SAID.
9:27:16PM INCLUDING TAKING SOME ISSUES OFF THE TABLE THAT I THINK ARE
9:27:20PM IMPORTANT FOR OUR CONSIDERATION, THAT A LOT OF -- WE HEAR A
9:27:23PM LOT OF RESIDENTS TALK ABOUT CONSTRUCTION, ET CETERA,
9:27:26PM ET CETERA, THERE'S THE VIEW THAT SAYS NO FURTHER BUILDING IN
9:27:30PM A PART OF TAMPA AND THEN THERE IS THE VIEW PARTICULARLY ON
9:27:32PM THIS DEVELOPMENT THAT GOES SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN
9:27:36PM THERE, RIGHT?
9:27:36PM IN OTHER WORDS, CONSTRUCTION NOISE, ALL THAT STUFF, I THINK
9:27:41PM IT'S REASONABLE TO SAY THAT WILL HAPPEN.
9:27:44PM WHETHER IT'S BECAUSE OF THIS BEING APPROVED OR SOMETHING IN
9:27:46PM THE FUTURE, SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE WILL HAPPEN, I THINK
9:27:51PM THE MORE PERSUASIVE CASE AGAINST THIS DEVELOPMENT IS NOT THE
9:27:55PM IDEA OF NO MORE BUILDING, NOT SAYING THAT I'M HERE BECAUSE
9:27:59PM I'M LISTENING TO EVERYTHING, ET CETERA, THAT'S FOR SURE,
9:28:02PM THAT IS THE SUGAR BAG, RIGHT, LITTLE TOO MUCH FOR THAT,
9:28:07PM SOMETHING THAT THE APPLICANT OBVIOUSLY HAS TO ADDRESS IN
9:28:11PM THEIR REBUTTAL.
9:28:12PM LIKE COUNCILMAN MIRANDA SAID, WE HEARD A LOT OF VERY, VERY
9:28:16PM COMPELLING FACTUAL STATEMENTS WITH REGARDS TO THE FUTURE OF
9:28:20PM THE GARDEN CLUB, WITH REGARDS TO THE FUTURE OF THE
9:28:23PM SYNAGOGUE, THINGS THAT ARE VERY, VERY COMPELLING IN TERMS OF
9:28:27PM NARRATIVES ON THE CITY, FACTUAL ISSUES, ET CETERA,
9:28:29PM ET CETERA, WHETHER THEY ARE COMPETENT, SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
9:28:32PM IS OBVIOUSLY A WHOLE OTHER ISSUE IN TERMS OF OUR
9:28:37PM CONSIDERATION HERE.
9:28:37PM FOR EXAMPLE, THE ISSUE OF THE SELLING OF THE PROPERTY, WHAT
9:28:42PM HAPPENS IF WE DON'T DO THIS, WILL THE PROPERTY BE SOLD,
9:28:45PM ET CETERA?
9:28:45PM SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT IS A THREAT.
9:28:48PM COULD BE A STATEMENT OF FACT.
9:28:49PM BIG PROPERTY ON BAYSHORE.
9:28:51PM A LOT OF PEOPLE WANT THAT.
9:28:53PM AGAIN, COMPETENT, SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE, I DON'T THINK SO.
9:28:57PM SO WE HAVE A LOT OF CONCERNS ON BOTH SIDES THAT ARE VERY,
9:29:01PM VERY COMPELLING.
9:29:02PM WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE COMPETENT, SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE IS
9:29:04PM OBVIOUSLY A WHOLE OTHER ISSUE.
9:29:06PM THAT BEING SAID, I'LL BE QUIET AND LET MS. MANDELL SPEAK.
9:29:09PM THANK YOU.
9:29:12PM >> ERIC FORDIN, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF THE RELATED GROUP
9:29:16PM REPRESENTING 2713 SOUTH BAYSHORE LLC.
9:29:20PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ARE YOU PART OF THE REBUTTAL.
9:29:22PM >> I AM.
9:29:23PM ON BEHALF OF GEORGE PEREZ OUR CHAIRMAN, JOHN PAUL PEREZ AND
9:29:26PM NICK PEREZ OUR PRESIDENTS, I REALLY WANT TO WELCOME, THANK
9:29:30PM EVERYONE FOR WELCOMING US INTO THIS CITY HALL AND VIBRANT
9:29:35PM CONVERSATION.
9:29:35PM I LOVE TAMPA.
9:29:39PM I WENT TO SCHOOL IN TAMPA.
9:29:40PM I CAME HERE IN 1990.
9:29:42PM I WAS THE FIRST DEVELOPER TO BRING RELATED GROUP INTO TAMPA,
9:29:46PM INTO CHANNELSIDE.
9:29:48PM GEORGE AND JOHN PAUL AND NICK HAVE A SINCERE DESIRE TO
9:29:54PM CONTINUE OUR INVESTMENT IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
9:29:57PM WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THE CONGREGATION AND WITH THE
9:30:01PM NEIGHBORS TIRELESSLY.
9:30:03PM NOT EVERYONE IS GETTING WHAT THEY WANT AND WE'RE CONFLATING
9:30:09PM A LOT OF THE ISSUES.
9:30:10PM WE'RE TRYING TO KEEP AND DEVELOP SOMETHING FOR THE SYNAGOGUE
9:30:14PM WHERE THEY CAN HAVE ACCESS INTO THE SITE, WHICH IS THE
9:30:19PM PORTION THAT'S INTERFERING WITH THESE GRAND OAKS.
9:30:23PM I'VE OFFERED, IF SOMEONE WANTS TO TAKE THE GRAND OAKS, I
9:30:27PM WOULD RELOCATE THEM TO A LOCATION, IF THE GARDEN CLUB WOULD
9:30:30PM LIKE TO TAKE THEM ON THEIR PROPERTY TO CREATE MORE SHADE, I
9:30:33PM HAVE NO PROBLEM SPENDING THAT MONEY TO ACTUALLY DO THAT.
9:30:35PM I'LL DO THE ROOT PRUNING AND TAKE CARE OF IT.
9:30:38PM IF THEY WANT SIDEWALKS ACROSS THE STREET OF ISABELLA, THAT'S
9:30:41PM SOMETHING WE CAN TALK ABOUT AT CITY COMMISSION.
9:30:44PM I CAN'T OFFER TO DO THAT WHEN I DON'T CONTROL THE STREETS.
9:30:47PM I HAVE NO PROBLEM PAYING TO MILL THE STREETS AND THE
9:30:51PM SIDEWALKS.
9:30:52PM THAT'S PART OF BEING A GOOD NEIGHBOR AND A GOOD DEVELOPER.
9:30:55PM I DON'T WANT THE SIDEWALKS AND THE STREETS TO BE RUN DOWN.
9:30:59PM OUR PLAN IS TO BEAUTIFY THIS NEIGHBORHOOD AND CONTINUE THE
9:31:04PM EXISTENCE OF RODEPH SHOLOM.
9:31:05PM OUR TOWER IS NOT IMPACTING THE GRAND OAKS.
9:31:11PM OUR TOWER, WHERE IT'S LOCATED IS AWAY FROM THE GRAND OAKS.
9:31:15PM THE ACCESS POINT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE THAT WE HAVE TO CREATE
9:31:19PM IS IMPACTING THE GRAND OAKS.
9:31:23PM IF WE CAN MOVE THE ACCESS POINT CLOSER TO BAYSHORE, WHICH I
9:31:26PM DON'T THINK WE'RE ABLE TO DO, MAYBE THAT WAY WE CAN MINIMIZE
9:31:30PM THE IMPACT TO THE GRAND OAKS, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT'S
9:31:35PM POSSIBLE.
9:31:35PM SO THE TOWER IS NOT AT ISSUE WITH THESE GRAND OAKS.
9:31:41PM YOU WANT ME TO DO A SMALLER PODIUM AWAY WHERE THE PODIUM
9:31:46PM GETS TALLER AND THEN THE TOWER GETS TALLER?
9:31:51PM WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS.
9:31:54PM WE'RE NOT TRYING TO SHOVE TEN POUNDS OF SUGAR IN A FIVE
9:31:57PM POUND SACK.
9:31:58PM WE'RE TRYING TO BE A SENSIBLE DEVELOPER.
9:32:02PM IT'S 50 UNITS.
9:32:03PM IF RODEPH ISN'T THERE, IT'S 72 UNITS.
9:32:07PM I'M HERE TO BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR AND A GOOD DEVELOPER, AND
9:32:14PM WE'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE.
9:32:18PM PEOPLE CAN CAST ASPERSIONS ON US AND PAINT US AS A BAD GUY
9:32:23PM AND IT'S CORPORATE GREED, IT'S THE FURTHEST THING FROM THE
9:32:26PM TRUTH.
9:32:27PM BUT I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
9:32:29PM I TRULY LOVE THE CONVERSATIONS.
9:32:32PM I DO THIS IN FRONT OF MUNICIPALITIES UP AND DOWN THE EAST
9:32:35PM COAST AND THE WEST COAST AND I HAVE NOTHING BUT POSITIVE
9:32:38PM THINGS TO SAY ABOUT AT THE GARDEN CLUB AS WELL AS THE TREE
9:32:42PM ADVOCATES.
9:32:43PM IT'S BEEN A TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY WORKING WITH EVERYONE.
9:32:47PM I WISH I COULD APPEASE EVERYONE.
9:32:49PM I KNOW THAT'S NOT ALWAYS THE CASE, BUT WE'RE TRYING OUR
9:32:52PM HARDEST.
9:32:53PM THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
9:32:54PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:32:55PM MS. MANDELL, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING?
9:33:00PM >> I THINK MR. FORDIN SUMMED IT UP VERY NICELY.
9:33:04PM THERE WERE SEVERAL LEGAL ISSUES THAT CAME OUT THROUGH THIS
9:33:06PM CONVERSATION.
9:33:07PM IF THERE ARE QUESTIONS ABOUT THOSE, SUCH AS THE BONUS
9:33:09PM AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THESE OTHER ITEMS WE'LL GO AHEAD AND
9:33:12PM ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS.
9:33:13PM THE ONLY THING THAT I DO WANT TO MAKE CLEAR, BECAUSE I THINK
9:33:16PM THAT DID GET CONFLATED IN THIS CONVERSATION, IS THE
9:33:20PM REQUESTED HEIGHT.
9:33:21PM THE REQUESTED HEIGHT IS 329.
9:33:24PM SO THAT GOT JUST A LITTLE CONFLATED AND WAS NOT AS CLEAR ON
9:33:29PM THE SITE PLAN AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUT I WANT THAT
9:33:32PM STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD.
9:33:32PM THE REMAINDER I THINK OF WHAT HAS BEEN SAID HERE, I ALSO
9:33:38PM TREMENDOUSLY RESPECT EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM AND UNDERSTAND
9:33:40PM THIS IS A HARD CASE.
9:33:41PM I RESPECTFULLY REQUEST YOUR VOTE OF APPROVAL.
9:33:45PM I THINK THAT IT IS A PROJECT THAT WE COULD ALL BE PROUD OF
9:33:48PM AND WE CAN KEEP BAYSHORE IN THE MANNER IT IS RIGHT NOW WITH
9:33:51PM THE SYNAGOGUE REMAINING IN ITS EXISTING LOCATION.
9:33:54PM AGAIN, I'M AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS AND THANK YOU.
9:33:56PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:33:57PM DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ANY BOARD MEMBERS?
9:34:01PM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
9:34:05PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ERIC, I'M SORRY.
9:34:06PM I FORGOT YOUR LAST NAME.
9:34:08PM >> FORDIN.
9:34:09PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YOU REFERRED TO OTHER OPTIONS.
9:34:11PM IT'S FINANCIALLY VIABLE TO SHRINK THE FOOTPRINT AND GO UP
9:34:15PM HIGHER?
9:34:19PM >> IT'S REALLY THE FINANCIAL -- WE PROMISED THE SYNAGOGUE X
9:34:23PM AMOUNT OF DOLLARS, AND THE NUMBERS WORK AT 50 UNITS.
9:34:26PM IT MAKES IT MORE CHALLENGING FOR US AT 42 UNITS.
9:34:30PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MY QUESTION IS, YOU'RE CAPABLE OF
9:34:32PM SHRINKING THE FOOTPRINT AND GOING UP HIGHER?
9:34:35PM >> YES.
9:34:36PM BUT WE DIDN'T THINK THE NEIGHBORS WOULD WANT US TO BUILD A
9:34:40PM TALLER TOWER.
9:34:42PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I'M THINKING OF OPTIONS.
9:34:44PM DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHAT THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT --
9:34:46PM >> BAY OAKS WHERE RITZ CARLSON IS, THAT'S I THINK TWO OR
9:34:51PM THREE FLOORS TALLER THAN THIS BUILDING IS PROPOSED.
9:34:54PM THIS BUILDING IS SHORTER THAN BOTH PHASES OF RITZ-CARLTON
9:34:58PM PHASE ONE AND TWO.
9:35:04PM >> CATE WELLS FOR THE RECORD WITH THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
9:35:08PM JUST WITH REGARD TO THAT QUESTION, IN A QUASI-JUDICIAL
9:35:12PM HEARING BEFORE COUNCIL, SUCH AS THIS REZONING, THIS IS NOT
9:35:15PM THE POINT IN TIME TO NEGOTIATE ALTERNATIVE DESIGN ELEMENTS
9:35:21PM OR DEVELOPMENT PLANS.
9:35:22PM THE APPLICANT HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT THOSE ISSUES
9:35:26PM WHILE THEY WERE COMMUNICATING WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND
9:35:30PM OTHERS.
9:35:31PM SO THIS IS AN APPLICATION THAT IS BEFORE YOU.
9:35:33PM THERE'S BEEN A FULL PRESENTATION.
9:35:35PM COUNCIL GETS TO MAKE A DECISION BASED UPON COMPETENT,
9:35:39PM SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE WITH RESPECT TO THE CRITERIA IN CHAPTER
9:35:43PM 27 AND IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AS TO HOW THIS APPLICATION
9:35:47PM DOES OR DOES NOT MEET THAT CRITERIA AND WHETHER THE
9:35:50PM APPLICANT HAS MET ITS BURDEN OF PROOF WITH REGARD TO THAT
9:35:53PM CRITERIA AS WELL AS WITH REGARD TO THE REQUESTED WAIVERS.
9:35:57PM SO ANY DISCUSSION WITH REGARD TO SIDEWALKS, ANY DISCUSSION
9:36:01PM WITH REGARD TO PAYING FOR THE RELOCATION OF TREES IS NOT
9:36:05PM RELEVANT AT THIS POINT IN TIME.
9:36:07PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:36:09PM >>CATE WELLS: THANK YOU.
9:36:10PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN VIERA AND COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
9:36:11PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
9:36:13PM CATE, IF I MAY, MS. WELLS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR HARD
9:36:19PM DILIGENT WORK.
9:36:19PM LET ME ASK YOU, BECAUSE THE DEVELOPER DID VOLUNTARILY
9:36:22PM WITHOUT US INQUIRING INTO THE ISSUES BRING UP LIKE YOU NOTED
9:36:27PM SIDEWALKS, RELOCATION OF TREES, ET CETERA, WITHOUT BEING
9:36:29PM PUSHED BY CITY COUNCIL AT ALL, WHICH I DON'T THINK WE HAVE.
9:36:32PM CAN THEY VOLUNTARILY SPEAK ON THOSE ISSUES?
9:36:35PM >>CATE WELLS: THAT'S AN ATTEMPT TO NEGOTIATE A SOLUTION THAT
9:36:38PM IS NOT BEFORE YOU ON THE SITE PLAN.
9:36:40PM WHAT IS BEFORE YOU IS A COMPLETE APPLICATION THAT HAS BEEN
9:36:44PM PRESENTED, THAT STAFF HAS REVIEWED, THAT YOU'VE CONSIDERED,
9:36:48PM HOURS OF TESTIMONY AS TO WHETHER OR NOT IT MEETS THE
9:36:52PM CRITERIA IN THE CODE.
9:36:53PM TO START DISCUSSING NEGOTIATIONS AND CONDITIONS ON THE SITE
9:36:56PM PLAN, WHETHER THEY ARE OFFERED BY THE APPLICANT OR BY CITY
9:37:00PM COUNCIL, THIS IS NOT THE TIME OR PLACE.
9:37:02PM >>LUIS VIERA: I RESPECT THAT.
9:37:03PM THANK YOU.
9:37:03PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
9:37:05PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY MANY TIMES "WHAT IF"
9:37:10PM WHEN I DO SOMETHING OR THINK OF SOMETHING.
9:37:12PM WHAT IF IT DOESN'T WORK.
9:37:15PM WHAT IF I DO THIS AND IT DOESN'T WORK?
9:37:17PM THAT WAS THE BURDEN OF PROOF WAS ON THE DEVELOPER AT THAT
9:37:21PM TIME.
9:37:22PM I WASN'T THERE WHEN THE PLANS, I WASN'T THERE WHEN THE
9:37:25PM NEGOTIATION TO BUY THE LAND.
9:37:26PM THIS COUNCIL WASN'T INVOLVED IN THAT.
9:37:29PM I WASN'T THERE WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH THE
9:37:31PM NEIGHBORHOODS, WE WEREN'T THERE.
9:37:34PM WE HEAR ONLY THE COMPETENT EVIDENCE THAT'S PRESENTED TO US.
9:37:43PM IF THE DEVELOPER, PARTNER, PLANS, FRIENDS, EMPLOYEES,
9:37:47PM WHATEVER, HAD COME UP WITH A WHAT IF, WHAT IF WHAT I HAVE
9:37:50PM HERE NOW DOESN'T WORK, WHAT DO I DO THEN?
9:37:52PM WHAT ABOUT THE TREES?
9:37:53PM WHAT ABOUT THE SHOLOM?
9:37:57PM WHAT ABOUT THE GARDEN CLUB?
9:37:58PM WHAT ABOUT THIS?
9:37:59PM I'M SURE THEY THOUGHT ABOUT THAT.
9:38:04PM COOPERATED IN A SITUATION WHERE THEY SAY, DO THIS, EVERYBODY
9:38:08PM WINS.
9:38:08PM I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS DONE.
9:38:10PM ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT IS WHAT HAS BEEN PRESENTED TO US.
9:38:13PM I'M NOT SPEAKING FOR THE OTHER FIVE MEMBERS HERE, BUT THAT'S
9:38:18PM ALL I CAN DO.
9:38:19PM I CAN'T NEGOTIATE NOW.
9:38:20PM I'M NOT PART OF NEGOTIATING TEAM AND SHOULDN'T BE PART OF
9:38:23PM THE NEGOTIATING TEAM.
9:38:25PM I WASN'T IN THE BEGINNING.
9:38:26PM I'M ONLY AT THE END LISTENING TO THE FINAL FACTS OF LIFE AND
9:38:29PM I'M NOT TRYING TO BE HARD AND NOT TRYING TO BE SOFT.
9:38:33PM I'M TRYING TO BE TRUTHFUL.
9:38:34PM THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS WHAT I HEAR IS HOW I GOT TO
9:38:38PM PRESENT MY VOTE.
9:38:41PM AND IT'S VERY, VERY DIFFICULT WHEN IT COMES TO NEIGHBORHOOD
9:38:44PM BECAUSE TODAY 50% IS GOING TO LEAVE NOT HAPPY AND 50% IS
9:38:48PM GOING TO BE HAPPY.
9:38:49PM IF YOU COME BACK TWO MONTHS AGO, THOSE WHO WERE HAPPY ARE
9:38:53PM GOING TO BE UNHAPPY.
9:38:54PM THOSE WHO WERE NOT HAPPY ARE GOING TO BE HAPPY.
9:38:56PM THAT'S HOW IT WORKS.
9:38:59PM WE TRY TO DO WHAT WE CAN BUT ONLY ON THE EVIDENCE THAT'S
9:39:02PM PRESENTED TO US.
9:39:04PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:39:04PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
9:39:13PM GO AHEAD.
9:39:17PM >> [INAUDIBLE]
9:39:27PM >> I'M SORRY.
9:39:27PM I SAID THAT WE CLOSE WHEN WE'RE DONE WITH QUESTIONS AND THEN
9:39:33PM WHEN WE WANT TO START OUR CONVERSATION.
9:39:35PM WE CAN ALWAYS REOPEN.
9:39:37PM WE'VE DONE IT BEFORE.
9:39:38PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL
9:39:40PM MEMBER HURTAK.
9:39:42PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
9:39:43PM ANY DISCUSSION?
9:39:44PM MR. SHELBY.
9:39:45PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF THERE ARE ANY FINAL COMMENTS BASED ON
9:39:48PM THE DISCUSSION BEFORE WE CLOSE FROM MS. MANDELL.
9:39:51PM MS. MANDELL, DO YOU HAVE ANY FINAL COMMENTS BASED ON THE
9:39:57PM DISCUSSION BEFORE THEY CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING?
9:39:59PM >> I DO NOT.
9:40:00PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THANK YOU.
9:40:01PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
9:40:02PM HURTAK.
9:40:03PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
9:40:04PM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:40:05PM >> AYE.
9:40:06PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WHAT IS THE PLEASURE OF COUNCIL?
9:40:20PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: TO MY FRIENDS AT THE SYNAGOGUE, I JUST
9:40:21PM WANT TO CLARIFY BECAUSE WE HEARD AN AWFUL LOT OF FOLKS TALK
9:40:24PM ABOUT THE CONCERN ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE SYNAGOGUE THIS
9:40:26PM EVENING, BUT THE COMPETENT SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE, THE
9:40:29PM FINANCIAL IMPACT OF WHETHER THE SALE OR NOT SALE OR THE --
9:40:33PM WHATEVER THE MYSTERY OF WHERE THAT LEADS US IS REALLY NOT
9:40:37PM SOMETHING THAT WE CAN CONSIDER TONIGHT AS EVIDENCE.
9:40:40PM I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT MY FRIENDS THAT ARE ON THE
9:40:43PM SIDE OF THE DEBATE UNDERSTANDS THAT, AS WE'RE WEIGHING THE
9:40:46PM EVIDENCE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF JUST THE ZONING AND WHAT'S
9:40:50PM BEFORE US TONIGHT.
9:40:51PM THANK YOU.
9:40:51PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:40:56PM YES, MA'AM.
9:41:00PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WILL GO AHEAD AND MAKE A MOTION AND SEE
9:41:02PM WHERE IT GOES.
9:41:03PM I MOVE TO DENY REZ 22-93 FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 2713
9:41:09PM BAYSHORE BOULEVARD DUE TO THE FAILURE OF THE APPLICANT TO
9:41:12PM MEET ITS BURDEN OF PROOF TO PROVIDE COMPETENT AND
9:41:16PM SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE OF THE DEVELOPMENT AS CONDITIONED AND
9:41:19PM SHOWN ON THE SITE PLAN IS CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE
9:41:21PM PLAN AND CITY CODE AND APPLICANT'S FAILURE TO MEET ITS
9:41:24PM BURDEN OF PROOF WITH RESPECT TO THE REQUESTED WAIVERS.
9:41:27PM I FIND THAT IT'S NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE SURROUNDING
9:41:31PM NEIGHBORHOOD.
9:41:32PM THE AMOUNT THAT THEY ARE REQUESTING THE INCREASED DENSITY
9:41:36PM FROM 43 TO 50, THE NEED FOR A BONUS, THEY CAN ABSOLUTELY
9:41:41PM BUILD WITHIN THE CURRENT ZONING AND DON'T NEED TO GO ANY
9:41:45PM FURTHER.
9:41:46PM IN ADDITION, THE WAIVERS, WE'VE SEEN SOME WAIVERS THAT WE
9:41:54PM HAVEN'T SEEN BEFORE.
9:41:57PM I AM SPECIFICALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE REDUCTION IN THE
9:42:00PM REQUIRED VEHICULAR USE AREA, LANDSCAPE BUFFER FROM 8 FEET TO
9:42:04PM 2 FEET ALONG ISABELLA AND PROVIDING THE ALTERNATIVE BUFFER
9:42:08PM WITHIN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY WHICH IS CITY PROPERTY.
9:42:11PM I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE REDUCTION SECTION 27-284-3-1 TO
9:42:19PM REDUCE THE 50% OF TREE RETENTION ON A NON-WOODED LOT OVER
9:42:23PM ONE ACRE TO 20%.
9:42:25PM ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT THE WAIVER SECTION 27-284.2.5 TO REMOVE
9:42:33PM THREE NON-HAZARDOUS GRAND LIVE OAKS AS SHOWN ON THE TWO
9:42:37PM REASONABLE RECONFIGURATION DESIGN ALTERNATIVES.
9:42:40PM IT SEEMS THAT THERE'S CERTAINLY A WAY TO SAVE AT LEAST ONE
9:42:45PM OR TWO OF THOSE, EVEN LOOKING AT THE REASONABLE
9:42:47PM RECONFIGURATION.
9:42:48PM AGAIN, THERE SEEMS TO BE AN ABILITY TO BUILD WITHOUT NEEDING
9:43:00PM ALL OF THESE WAIVERS.
9:43:04PM WHEN LOOKING AT OUR -- SO MANY PAPERS.
9:43:07PM SORRY.
9:43:08PM WHERE DID IT GO?
9:43:11PM THERE WE GO.
9:43:13PM WHEN LOOKING AT WHAT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT, SO WHEN WE HAVE A
9:43:17PM PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, WHEN WE HAVE A CODE CRITERIA THAT WE'RE
9:43:20PM LOOKING AT, IT'S THE COMPETENT AND SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE PART
9:43:23PM OF THIS.
9:43:24PM I SEE THAT SECTION 27-136, THE PURPOSE, I DISAGREE THAT THIS
9:43:32PM PD PROMOTES THE EFFICIENT AND SUSTAINABLE USE OF LAND AND
9:43:38PM INFRASTRUCTURE BECAUSE IT DOESN'T CAREFULLY CONSIDER THE
9:43:42PM SURROUNDING IMPACTED NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE CULTURAL RESOURCES
9:43:45PM IN THE AREA.
9:43:46PM I ALSO FIND THAT IT DOES NOT ENCOURAGE COMPATIBILITY AND
9:43:52PM OVERALL SITE DESIGN AND SCALE.
9:43:54PM I ALSO DON'T FIND THAT IT MAXIMIZES THE PRESERVATION OF
9:43:58PM NATURAL RESOURCES AND I DON'T FIND THAT IT PROMOTES AND
9:44:03PM ENCOURAGES DEVELOPMENT WHERE APPROPRIATE IN LOCATION,
9:44:06PM CHARACTER, AND COMPATIBILITY WITH THE SURROUNDING IMPACTED
9:44:10PM NEIGHBORHOOD, BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND EXISTING GEOGRAPHY.
9:44:13PM AND I FIND THAT THE WAIVERS DO SUBSTANTIALLY INTERFERE WITH
9:44:19PM OR INJURE THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS WHOSE PROPERTY WOULD BE
9:44:22PM AFFECTED BY ALLOWANCE OF THE WAIVER AND THIS IS SECTION
9:44:24PM 27-1394 UNDER WAIVERS.
9:44:29PM I DO NOT FIND THAT THE WAIVERS ARE IN HARMONY WITH AND SERVE
9:44:31PM THE GENERAL INTENT AND PURPOSE OF APPLICABLE CITY OF TAMPA
9:44:37PM LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS AND THE TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE
9:44:40PM PLAN.
9:44:42PM >> SECOND.
9:44:43PM >>LYNN HURTAK: DOES ANYONE WANT TO ADD TO THAT?
9:44:46PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
9:44:48PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
9:44:49PM IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS MOTION?
9:44:53PM >>LUIS VIERA: I APPRECIATE THE MOTION.
9:44:57PM THIS HAS BEEN A REALLY INTERESTING DIALOGUE, ET CETERA.
9:45:01PM FOR ALL OF US, IT IS A VERY, VERY DIFFICULT VOTE.
9:45:05PM COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN I THINK SAID IT BEST.
9:45:06PM FOR ME, THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE HASN'T BEEN THE EXISTENCE OF
9:45:10PM THE WAIVERS.
9:45:11PM IT'S BEEN THE EXTENT OF THE WAIVERS THAT HAVE BEEN SOUGHT.
9:45:16PM SOMETHING IS COMING TO THIS AREA.
9:45:19PM MAYBE THIS COMES BACK TO US IN A DIFFERENT FORM IN A COUPLE
9:45:23PM OF MONTHS AND SOMETHING CHANGES, ET CETERA, FOR OUR
9:45:26PM CONSIDERATION.
9:45:27PM FOR ME THE BIG CHALLENGE HAS BEEN, NUMBER ONE, THE EXTENT OF
9:45:29PM THE WAIVERS AND WHERE THEY ARE AT.
9:45:31PM THAT'S BEEN MY BIG CHALLENGE.
9:45:33PM I ALWAYS SAY IN SUPPORTING THINGS OR IN OPPOSING THINGS,
9:45:37PM LAND USE DEVELOPMENTS THAT COME BEFORE US ARE LIKE A STOOL.
9:45:40PM AND YOU NEED SOME LEG ON THAT STOOL THAT CAN EITHER SUPPORT
9:45:44PM IT OR SUPPORT THE OPPOSITION TO IT.
9:45:47PM AND WHEN I SEE THIS, THE WAIVERS, THE EXTENT OF THE WAIVERS
9:45:51PM SOUGHT DON'T FORM A STOOL WHERE I CAN REASONABLY SUPPORT IT
9:45:55PM AT THIS TIME.
9:45:56PM THAT'S MY THINKING ON IT.
9:45:58PM THANK YOU.
9:45:58PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:45:59PM ANYBODY ELSE?
9:45:59PM WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
9:46:05PM FIRST, I AGREE WITH THE MOTION IN GREAT DETAIL BY COUNCIL
9:46:09PM MEMBER HURTAK.
9:46:12PM AND SOMETHING THAT YOU SAID, COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA, IT'S NOT
9:46:15PM THE EXISTENCE OF THE WAIVERS.
9:46:17PM IT'S THE EXTENT OF THE WAIVERS.
9:46:19PM IS IT THE NECESSITY OF ALL THESE WAIVERS?
9:46:22PM AGAIN, THE MOTION WENT INTO VERY SPECIFIC DETAIL FOR THIS
9:46:27PM DENIAL, AND VERY GOOD EXPLANATION.
9:46:29PM I AGREE WITH THAT.
9:46:30PM WITH THAT SAID, WE'LL TAKE A ROLL CALL VOTE PLEASE.
9:46:37PM >> CARLSON?
9:46:37PM HURTAK?
9:46:39PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
9:46:41PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
9:46:43PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
9:46:45PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
9:46:48PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
9:46:50PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
9:46:50PM >>THE CLERK: THE MOTION TO DENY HAS CARRIED.
9:46:56PM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:46:56PM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
9:47:01PM >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:47:02PM I KNOW THIS WAS A LONG MEETING.
9:47:09PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THANK YOU.
9:47:10PM MADAM CLERK.
9:47:11PM >>THE CLERK: MOTION TO DENY HAS CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING
9:47:14PM ABSENT.
9:47:15PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:47:16PM PLEASE, IF YOU EXIT, EXIT QUIETLY.
9:47:19PM WE'RE STILL IN THE MEETING.
9:47:20PM IF WE COULD TAKE A FIVE-MINUTE RECESS.
9:47:23PM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
9:47:24PM [RECESS]
9:50:06PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CALL TO ORDER.
9:59:35PM ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
9:59:37PM >> CARLSON?
9:59:38PM HURTAK?
9:59:39PM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
9:59:40PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE.
9:59:43PM >> HENDERSON?
9:59:43PM VIERA?
9:59:44PM >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
9:59:45PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
9:59:46PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
9:59:47PM >>THE CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
9:59:49PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
9:59:50PM GO AHEAD.
9:59:50PM ITEM NUMBER 4.
9:59:53PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: LaCHONE DOCK, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
9:59:55PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: HERE, PRESENT.
9:59:59PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THIS NEXT ITEM IS ITEM NUMBER 4.
10:00:01PM THIS IS REZ-23-18.
10:00:03PM IT IS FOR THE PROPERTIES LOCATED AT 2500 AND 2510 NORTH
10:00:07PM TAMPA STREET.
10:00:08PM 106, 108, 110, AND 114 WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE AND 101 AND 103
10:00:14PM WEST AMELIA AVENUE.
10:00:15PM THE APPLICANT IS REPRESENTED BY TYLER HUDSON.
10:00:18PM THIS REQUEST IS TO REZONE A PROPERTY FROM RM 24 RESIDENTIAL
10:00:22PM MULTIFAMILY AND CG COMMERCIAL GENERAL TO PD, PLANNED
10:00:26PM DEVELOPMENT TO ALLOW FOR STOREFRONT RESIDENTIAL AND
10:00:29PM COMMERCIAL GENERAL USES ON-SITE.
10:00:31PM I'LL TURN IT OVER TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION TO GIVE THEIR
10:00:34PM REPORT AND I'LL COME BACK AND GIVE MY REPORT.
10:00:37PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
10:00:37PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I DID RECEIVE A PHONE CALL.
10:00:41PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THIS IS IN REGARDS TO EX PARTE
10:00:43PM COMMUNICATION.
10:00:44PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
10:00:45PM I DID RECEIVE A PHONE CALL FROM THE DEVELOPER DURING THE
10:00:48PM TIME THAT I WAS CITY COUNCIL-ELECT.
10:00:50PM WE DID NOT GET INTO A DETAILED CONVERSATION.
10:00:53PM I REVEALED THAT I WAS RECENTLY ELECTED BUT THEY WERE CALLING
10:00:58PM COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN THE TAMPA HEIGHTS AREA TO EXPLAIN THE
10:01:01PM PROJECT AND TO GET SOME SUPPORT, BUT WE DID NOT EXTEND THE
10:01:03PM CONVERSATION.
10:01:06PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CAN YOU BE FAIR AND IMPARTIAL?
10:01:07PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I CAN BE FAIR AND IMPARTIAL.
10:01:09PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:01:11PM YES, SIR, MR. COLLINS.
10:01:15PM >>DANNY COLLINS: GOOD EVENING.
10:01:16PM DANNY COLLINS WITH YOUR PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF.
10:01:18PM I'VE BEEN SWORN IN.
10:01:19PM OUR NEXT CASE IS WITHIN THE CENTRAL TAMPA PLANNING DISTRICT
10:01:21PM AND MORE SPECIFICALLY WITHIN THE TAMPA HEIGHTS URBAN
10:01:24PM VILLAGE.
10:01:26PM GARDNER PARK IS THE CLOSEST RECREATION FACILITY LOCATED .14
10:01:30PM MILES SOUTH OF THE SITE.
10:01:31PM THE SUBJECT SITE IS IN PROXIMITY TO TRANSIT.
10:01:34PM THERE IS A STOP LOCATED AT WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE AND NORTH
10:01:37PM TAMPA STREET.
10:01:38PM THE SUBJECT SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN THE COASTAL PLANNING AREA
10:01:41PM AND EVACUATION ZONE E.
10:01:43PM HERE IS THE -- AN AERIAL OF THE SUBJECT SITE AND THE
10:01:50PM SURROUNDING PROPERTIES.
10:01:51PM THE SUBJECT SITE GENERALLY LOCATED AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER
10:01:54PM OF WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE AND NORTH TAMPA STREET.
10:01:58PM THIS IS WEST COLUMBUS HERE.
10:01:59PM THIS IS NORTH TAMPA STREET.
10:02:02PM YOU'LL SEE PREDOMINANTLY RESIDENTIAL USES TO THE SOUTH AND
10:02:05PM WEST OF THE SITE.
10:02:06PM UP ALONG NORTH TAMPA STREET YOU HAVE NONRESIDENTIAL USES AS
10:02:10PM WELL AS ALONG WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE.
10:02:12PM HERE IS THE ADOPTED FUTURE LAND USE MAP.
10:02:17PM NOW, THIS MAP IS THE OLD MAP.
10:02:23PM THIS MAY LOOK FAMILIAR.
10:02:24PM THERE WAS AN AMENDMENT TO THE UMU 60 DESIGNATION THAT YOU
10:02:30PM READ EARLIER IN THE YEAR.
10:02:31PM AND IT BECAME EFFECTIVE ON MARCH 19 THROUGH ORDINANCE 23-32.
10:02:39PM THE CORRIDORS UP ALONG COLUMBUS DRIVE AND NORTH TAMPA STREET
10:02:44PM ARE NOW RECOGNIZED UNDER THE URBAN MIXED USE 60 DESIGNATION,
10:02:47PM WHICH ALLOWS DEVELOPMENT UP TO 60 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE OR
10:02:51PM UP TO A 3.25 F.A.R.
10:02:55PM ENCOURAGES MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT PATTERN.
10:02:57PM DIRECTLY TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE SITE ARE LANDS
10:03:02PM RECOGNIZED UNDER THE CMU 35 DESIGNATION AS WELL AS TO THE
10:03:07PM WEST OF THE SITE.
10:03:09PM TO THE EAST OF THE SITE YOU HAVE LAND RECOGNIZED UNDER THE
10:03:11PM CC 35 DESIGNATION AND TO THE SOUTH OF THE SITE LAND
10:03:15PM RECOGNIZED UNDER THE RESIDENTIAL 35 DESIGNATION.
10:03:17PM DUE TO THE SITE WITHIN AN URBAN VILLAGE, SITE IS ELIGIBLE TO
10:03:23PM USE 5.1.6 TO PROPORTIONALLY WEIGH THE INTENSITY AND DENSITY
10:03:27PM THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SITE THROUGH A PD.
10:03:29PM PER NOTES 10 AND 12 ON THE SITE PLAN, THE PROJECT IS
10:03:33PM UTILIZING THE POLICY TO WAIVE THE INTENSITY PERMITTED UNDER
10:03:36PM URBAN MIXED USE 60 AND PORTIONS OF THE SITE DESIGNATED CMU
10:03:41PM 35.
10:03:41PM THE APPLICANT ENTERED INTO A BONUS AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY.
10:03:45PM PROPOSED INTENSITY IS CONSISTENT WITH THE UNDERLYING LAND
10:03:46PM USES.
10:03:48PM PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF REVIEWED THE APPLICATIONS AND
10:03:51PM DETERMINED THE REQUEST WOULD HAVE MINIMAL IMPACTS TO THE
10:03:53PM SURROUNDING AREA.
10:03:54PM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PROMOTES DEVELOPMENT THAT IS
10:03:57PM SENSITIVE TO THE SURROUNDING AREA.
10:03:58PM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ALSO ENCOURAGES THE USE OF ALLEY,
10:04:03PM VEHICULAR ACCESS POINT IS PROVIDED FROM NORTH TAMPA STREET,
10:04:07PM ALLEY THAT DIVIDES THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PARCELS.
10:04:09PM THE PROPOSED ACCESS WILL HELP PRESERVE THE RIGHT-OF-WAY AND
10:04:12PM PROVIDE A SAFER AND MORE PLEASANT STREETSCAPE FOR
10:04:15PM PEDESTRIANS.
10:04:15PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF FINDS THAT THE PROPOSED
10:04:17PM DENSITY AND USES WILL NOT ALTER THE CHARACTER OF THE
10:04:20PM NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:04:20PM PROMOTES PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AND ENTRANCE TO CONNECT TO PUBLIC
10:04:28PM RIGHTS-OF-WAY.
10:04:28PM WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE IS AN ARTERIAL ROADWAY AND PD PROPOSES
10:04:33PM THE STRUCTURE BE ORIENTED TOWARD THE RIGHT-OF-WAY -- SORRY,
10:04:37PM WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE IS ARTERIAL ROADWAY AND PD PROPOSES THE
10:04:41PM STRUCTURE TO BE ORIENTED TOWARDS THE RIGHT-OF-WAY AND
10:04:44PM ENTRANCES ARE ALSO ORIENTED TO THE RIGHT-OF-WAY AND
10:04:47PM CONNECTED TO THE SIDEWALKS.
10:04:48PM THE PROPOSED SIDEWALK WILL HELP ENSURE THAT SIDEWALKS
10:04:52PM INTERCONNECT WITH EXISTING AND FUTURE SIDEWALKS ON ADJACENT
10:04:55PM PROPERTIES.
10:04:55PM THE APPLICANT IS ALSO PROVIDING SHADE TREES ALONG THE
10:04:58PM PERIMETER OF THE PROPOSED BUILDING.
10:04:59PM OVERALL THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF FINDS THE REQUEST
10:05:02PM ADDRESSES THE MIXED USE CENTERS AND CORRIDOR POLICIES.
10:05:05PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF REVIEWED THE APPLICATION AND
10:05:08PM FOUND THE REQUEST COMPARABLE AND COMPATIBLE WITH THE
10:05:10PM SURROUNDING AREA.
10:05:11PM PORTION OF WEST NORTH A STREET BETWEEN NORTH TAMPA AVENUE
10:05:15PM AND NORTH -- SORRY, THIS IS FINALLY, THE REQUEST SUPPORTS
10:05:21PM POLICIES IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AS IT RELATES TO THE
10:05:24PM HOUSING OF THE CITY'S POPULATION.
10:05:25PM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ENCOURAGES NEW HOUSING ON VACANT AND
10:05:28PM UNDER UTILIZED LAND TO ENSURE ADEQUATE HOUSING IS PRESENT TO
10:05:33PM MEET TAMPA'S FUTURE POPULATION.
10:05:35PM FURTHERMORE, ADDITIONAL HOUSING WITHIN THE TAMPA HEIGHTS
10:05:38PM URBAN VILLAGE.
10:05:39PM PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF REQUESTS IF APPROVED THE FUTURE
10:05:42PM LAND USE DELINEATION BE ADDED TO THE SITE PLAN BETWEEN FIRST
10:05:45PM AND SECOND READINGS.
10:05:47PM BASED ON THESE CONSIDERATIONS, THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF
10:05:49PM FINDS THE REQUEST CONSISTENT WITH THE GOALS, OBJECTIVES, AND
10:05:51PM POLICIES OF THE CITY OF TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
10:05:53PM THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
10:05:55PM I'LL ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
10:05:56PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE GENTLEMAN?
10:06:06PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: LaCHONE DOCK, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:06:08PM COUNCIL, THIS REQUEST FOR THIS PD REQUEST REZ-23-18 WOULD
10:06:15PM ALLOW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROPERTY WITH STOREFRONT
10:06:18PM RESIDENTIAL USES. THIS INCLUDES 252 RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY
10:06:22PM UNITS AND 11,210 SQUARE FEET OF COMMERCIAL GENERAL USES
10:06:27PM ON-SITE.
10:06:27PM THE PD IDENTIFIES TWO STRUCTURES WHICH WILL BE PLACED
10:06:32PM ON-SITE.
10:06:32PM THIS IS THE SITE PLAN.
10:06:35PM JUST TO ORIENT YOU ON THE SITE PLAN, THIS IS COLUMBUS.
10:06:39PM THIS IS NORTH TAMPA STREET.
10:06:41PM AND THEN THIS IS AMELIA, THIS IS HIGHLAND AND THIS IS THE
10:06:47PM ALLEY.
10:06:47PM TWO STRUCTURES ARE PROPOSED ON-SITE.
10:06:49PM ONE AT THE NORTH AND THEN THE OTHER IS THE PARKING GARAGE
10:06:52PM WHICH WILL BE LOCATED ON THE SOUTH, WHICH I'LL DETAIL FOR
10:06:55PM YOU SHORTLY.
10:06:56PM ALSO, ON THE PARKING STRUCTURE THAT IS PROPOSED, THAT IS A
10:07:02PM FIVE-STORY STRUCTURED PARKING GARAGE ON THE SOUTH.
10:07:06PM IT IS PROPOSED TO PROVIDE 259 PARKING SPACES AT A MAXIMUM
10:07:11PM BUILDING HEIGHT OF 65 FEET.
10:07:12PM AND THE MAIN STRUCTURE ON THE NORTH THAT WILL CONTAIN 252
10:07:17PM RESIDENTIAL UNITS.
10:07:18PM THE 11,210 SQUARE FOOT OF COMMERCIAL GENERAL USES, 1,935
10:07:24PM SQUARE FOOT OF LEASING OFFICE AT A MAXIMUM HEIGHT OF 87 FEET
10:07:28PM OR 8 STORIES.
10:07:29PM ALSO, THE PROPERTY, AS DANNY MENTIONED EARLIER IN RELATION
10:07:35PM TO THE FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION OF THE UMU 60 WHICH WAS
10:07:40PM RECENTLY ADOPTED ON THE PROPERTY, THE APPLICANT HAS
10:07:43PM REQUESTED A DOW JONES AGREEMENT, THROUGH AN AGREEMENT, THE
10:07:47PM APPLICANT WILL PROVIDE 10% AFFORDABLE UNITS ON-SITE.
10:07:51PM AND THIS IS -- AGAIN, THIS IS THE SITE PLAN.
10:07:56PM YOU CAN SEE VEHICULAR ACCESS IS PROPOSED HERE ON COLUMBUS.
10:07:59PM YOU CAN ALSO ACCESS THE SITE FROM THE ALLEY, TWO-WAY TRAFFIC
10:08:03PM IS PROPOSED ALSO FOR THE PARKING GARAGE, YOU CAN ACCESS FROM
10:08:07PM THE ALLEY AT THIS POINT.
10:08:08PM THIS IS THE RESIDENTIAL.
10:08:10PM THIS IS THE LEASING OFFICE AND THEN RETAIL IS PROPOSED.
10:08:13PM ALONG COLUMBUS FOR THE STREET FRONTAGE.
10:08:19PM ELEVATIONS OF THE SITE, SO THE TOP ELEVATION SHOWS YOU THE
10:08:27PM WEST.
10:08:28PM THIS IS THE WEST ELEVATION.
10:08:29PM THIS IS THE SOUTH ELEVATION.
10:08:30PM SO THIS IS THE BUILDING ON COLUMBUS, AND THEN THIS IS IN THE
10:08:35PM FOREGROUND THE PARKING GARAGE, WHICH IS PROPOSED, WHICH
10:08:39PM WOULD BE PLACED ON AMELIA.
10:08:42PM THIS IS THE EAST ELEVATION.
10:08:45PM THIS IS THE TOP.
10:08:46PM SO FROM TAMPA STREET AND THEN THIS IS THE NORTH ELEVATION,
10:08:50PM THE BUILDING THAT IS ON COLUMBUS PROPOSED.
10:08:54PM DANNY IS SHOWING YOU THE SITE, THE LOCATION ON THE AERIAL
10:09:00PM MAP.
10:09:01PM THIS IS THE ZONING MAP, JUST TO SHOW YOU THE AREA AGAIN FROM
10:09:07PM A ZONING PERSPECTIVE.
10:09:09PM THIS IS THE PROPERTY WHICH IS IDENTIFIED IN RED.
10:09:13PM THIS IS COLUMBUS DRIVE.
10:09:15PM THIS IS TAMPA STREET.
10:09:17PM THIS IS AMELIA AND THEN THIS IS HIGHLAND.
10:09:20PM YOU CAN SEE SURROUNDING THE PROPERTY YOU HAVE YOUR
10:09:22PM RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY ZONING.
10:09:24PM YOU HAVE YOUR COMMERCIAL ZONING RUNNING ALONG TAMPA STREET
10:09:27PM TO THE EAST AND THEN YOU HAVE SOME PORTIONS OF IT ALONG
10:09:30PM COLUMBUS.
10:09:31PM I HAVE PICTURES TO SHOW YOU OF THE SITE AND THE SURROUNDING
10:09:34PM AREA.
10:09:35PM AS YOU HEAD FURTHER NORTH AND NORTHEAST YOU HAVE MORE OF THE
10:09:40PM RESIDENTIAL ZONING WITH COMMERCIAL THROUGHOUT.
10:09:44PM I HAVE PICTURES OF THE SITE.
10:09:51PM SO THIS IS THE SITE.
10:09:55PM IF YOU ARE ON TAMPA STREET AND YOU'RE LOOKING WEST.
10:09:59PM THIS PORTION OF THE SITE, WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT NOW IS WHAT
10:10:02PM WOULD BE THE SOUTH PARCEL.
10:10:07PM AND RIGHT NOW THAT IS VACANT.
10:10:09PM THIS IS ANOTHER VIEW OF THE SOUTH PARCEL.
10:10:11PM THIS IS ON THE SOUTH.
10:10:12PM THIS IS IF YOU ARE ON AMELIA AND LOOKING NORTH.
10:10:16PM THIS IS A VIEW OF THE ALLEY AS IT EXISTS TODAY.
10:10:20PM THIS IS THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE SITE WHICH IS AT
10:10:25PM HIGHLAND AND COLUMBUS.
10:10:26PM THIS IS THE CORNER OF THE SITE.
10:10:30PM THIS IS THE EASTERN EDGE OF THE SITE.
10:10:33PM SO THIS WILL BE THE NORTH PARCEL AT THE CORNER AT TAMPA.
10:10:38PM THIS IS NORTH OF THE SITE.
10:10:44PM THIS IS NORTHEAST OF THE SITE AT THE OTHER CORNER AT TAMPA.
10:10:49PM THIS IS EAST OF THE SITE ON COLUMBUS.
10:10:55PM THIS IS WEST OF THE SITE.
10:10:57PM THIS IS IF YOU ARE ON HIGHLAND.
10:11:03PM THIS IS ALSO WEST OF THE SITE.
10:11:04PM THIS IS DIRECTLY SOUTH OF THE SITE.
10:11:06PM THIS IS THE SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL THAT EXISTS.
10:11:08PM I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT AND IT'S LOCATION IN
10:11:13PM RELATION TO THE PROJECT PROPOSED.
10:11:15PM SO THE DRC STAFF REVIEWED THE REQUEST AND FINDS THE REQUEST
10:11:20PM INCONSISTENT.
10:11:21PM THAT INCONSISTENT FINDING IS IN RELATION TO THE SCALE AND
10:11:25PM MASSING AND COMPATIBILITY OF THE DESIGN PROPOSED.
10:11:29PM ALSO IN RELATION TO TRANSPORTATION RELATED WAIVERS AND
10:11:33PM NATURAL RESOURCES RELATED WAIVERS ON-SITE.
10:11:36PM I'M GOING TO PRESENT IN RELATION TO THE ZONING, I'M GOING TO
10:11:38PM TURN IT OVER AND LET ERIN PRESENT TO YOU REGARDING THE
10:11:42PM NATURAL RESOURCES FINDING ON THE SITE.
10:11:45PM SO THERE WERE THREE WAIVERS ON THE SITE PLAN.
10:11:48PM THERE'S ANOTHER WAIVER THAT'S REQUIRED TO BE ADDED.
10:11:50PM AND ERIN WILL REVIEW THAT WITH YOU.
10:11:53PM I DIDN'T WANT TO TAKE UP A LOT OF TIME SHOWING YOU THE SITE
10:11:55PM AND PICTURES OF THE SITE JUST TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
10:11:58PM SCALE AND COMPATIBILITY WITH THE AREA.
10:12:02PM IN STAFF'S REVIEW AND UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS SITE HAS A UMU
10:12:06PM 60 LAND USE CATEGORY, WHICH IS THE URBAN MIXED USE, ALLOWS
10:12:10PM UP TO 60 UNITS PER ACRE, BUT STAFF UNDERSTANDS THAT WE ALSO
10:12:15PM LOOKED AT THE SITE PLAN AND REVIEWED IT AND UNDERSTAND THAT
10:12:19PM CODES MUST ALSO BE MET.
10:12:21PM THIS IS A PD SITE PLAN WHICH IS BEFORE YOU AND YOUR CRITERIA
10:12:24PM THAT MUST BE MET WITHIN THIS PD REQUEST.
10:12:28PM WITHIN YOUR STAFF REPORT WHAT HAS BEEN PROVIDED FOR YOU IS
10:12:31PM AN ANALYSIS OF THAT CRITERIA WITH THE PD SITE PLAN.
10:12:35PM I JUST WANT TO REVIEW WITH YOU A PORTION OF THAT.
10:12:40PM WHEN WE LOOK AT NUMBER 6 ON PAGE 6 OF THE STAFF REPORT, THIS
10:12:45PM CRITERIA SPEAKS TO COMPATIBILITY TO CHARACTER TO THE BUILT
10:12:51PM ENVIRONMENT AND ANY IMPACTS ON SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOODS.
10:12:53PM SO WITH THIS ON THE SITE PLAN, WHAT I'VE DONE IS BLOWN UP
10:12:57PM THE SITE PLAN FOR YOU.
10:12:59PM AGAIN, THIS IS THE NORTH.
10:13:00PM THIS IS COLUMBUS.
10:13:02PM THIS IS HIGHLAND.
10:13:05PM THIS IS THE EAST WHICH IS TAMPA STREET AND THIS IS AMELIA.
10:13:08PM THE SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL I SHOWED YOU IN THE PICTURE IS
10:13:10PM LOCATED HERE.
10:13:12PM SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL EXISTS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF
10:13:15PM THE BLOCK, BUT YOU'LL SEE WITHIN THIS SITE PLAN, THIS
10:13:21PM BOUNDARY, WHICH IS AT THE SOUTH --
10:13:25PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: COULD YOU MOVE THAT UP, PLEASE?
10:13:27PM IT'S NOT SEEN ON THE SCREEN.
10:13:29PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THIS BOUNDARY TO THE SOUTH IS ROUGHLY
10:13:31PM 185-FOOT.
10:13:32PM WHAT'S PROPOSED ON THE SOUTH PARCEL IS THE GARAGE, A
10:13:38PM FIVE-STORY GARAGE WHICH WOULD HAVE THE FIVE STORIES AT THE
10:13:42PM WIDTH OF 185 FEET.
10:13:44PM WHAT'S PROPOSED AS A SETBACK ON THE WEST FOR THE
10:13:49PM SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL WHICH EXISTS HERE IS A 10-FOOT
10:13:52PM SETBACK.
10:13:54PM THIS IS WHERE THE GARAGE WOULD START TO THE NORTH.
10:14:01PM THIS PROPERTY BOUNDARY, WHICH IS LOCATED HAS A BUILDING
10:14:05PM PLACEMENT AT THE MAXIMUM HEIGHT AT THE WIDTH OF 380 FEET.
10:14:13PM KEEPING IN MIND THAT THE RM 24 ZONING DISTRICT IS WHAT
10:14:17PM EXISTS ON THE BLOCK.
10:14:19PM THE RM 24 REQUIRES A 25-FOOT SETBACK WHICH WILL PUT IT
10:14:23PM APPROXIMATELY HERE.
10:14:24PM AT A SETBACK.
10:14:26PM FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE BLOCK.
10:14:29PM WHAT IS PROPOSED HERE IS A SETBACK OF 6 FEET.
10:14:33PM TO THE SOUTH WOULD PROVIDE 6.2.
10:14:36PM TO THE WEST IS 10 FEET.
10:14:38PM TO THE SOUTH IS 6 FEET.
10:14:42PM TO THE WEST IS 10 FEET.
10:14:44PM PROVIDED.
10:14:46PM STAFF HAS CONCERNS REGARDING THE SCALE AND COMPATIBILITY OF
10:14:49PM THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT.
10:14:51PM ANY STRUCTURES WHICH ARE ON-SITE CURRENTLY WOULD HAVE TO BE
10:14:54PM DEMOLISHED AND NEW CONSTRUCTION WOULD OCCUR.
10:14:59PM SO WHAT WE'RE STARTING WITH HERE IS A BLANK SLATE.
10:15:02PM THE SITE WOULD BE EMPTY.
10:15:04PM THEY ARE PROPOSING NEW DEVELOPMENT, SO STAFF FEELS THAT
10:15:07PM ADDITIONAL BUFFERS COULD BE PROVIDED TO BE ABLE TO MEET THE
10:15:12PM CODE.
10:15:12PM BUT ONE THING I WANT TO SHOW IS JUST QUICKLY, BEFORE I TURN
10:15:17PM IT OVER TO ERIN.
10:15:19PM SO THIS IS ON AMELIA AND THIS IS LOOKING WEST.
10:15:22PM THIS IS SHOWING THE RESIDENTIAL STREET WHICH EXISTS.
10:15:24PM THE DEVELOPMENT WOULD OCCUR TO THE RIGHT IN THIS PICTURE.
10:15:29PM SO YOU HAVE NEXT TO THAT THE SINGLE-FAMILY HOME WHICH IS TO
10:15:39PM THE SOUTH, WHICH IS NEXT TO THE PROPOSED GARAGE.
10:15:41PM WHAT I DID IS I LOOKED AROUND.
10:15:43PM WE TRIED TO FIND A DEVELOPMENT WHICH HAS A PARKING GARAGE, A
10:15:49PM STRUCTURE GARAGE ADJACENT TO A SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL
10:15:52PM HOME.
10:15:52PM I COULD NOT FIND AN EXAMPLE.
10:15:56PM SO WHAT I DID WAS FIND JUST TO SHOW YOU IN RELATION SCALE.
10:16:01PM SOMETHING THAT WOULD SHOW YOU THE SCALE OF WHAT WOULD EXIST
10:16:04PM NEXT TO A SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL HOME.
10:16:05PM SO THAT IS A PARKING GARAGE WHICH -- THIS IS APPROXIMATE.
10:16:12PM I CAN'T SAY THE EXACT HEIGHT BUT THIS GIVES YOU THE STORIES.
10:16:17PM THIS IS ANOTHER PARKING GARAGE.
10:16:22PM THIS PARKING GARAGE WAS DEVELOPED.
10:16:26PM TO THE WEST OF THIS GARAGE, TO THE SOUTH, ACTUALLY,
10:16:29PM SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL HOMES EXIST.
10:16:32PM THIS IS CARVER CITY.
10:16:34PM AND WHAT THEY HAVE PROVIDED WITH THIS GARAGE IS A 25-FOOT,
10:16:38PM WESTSHORE, WITHIN THE WESTSHORE OVERLAY, A 25-FOOT SETBACK
10:16:43PM IS REQUIRED.
10:16:45PM 25 FEET WAS PROVIDED.
10:16:47PM A MASONRY WALL WAS PROVIDED ALONG WITH LANDSCAPING.
10:16:50PM SO WHEN YOU'RE OUT ON SITE VISUALLY, IT CREATES THAT BUFFER
10:16:56PM FOR THE RESIDENTIAL THAT'S ADJACENT TO THIS.
10:16:59PM BUT I COULDN'T GET A GOOD PICTURE OF IT BECAUSE THE WALL IS
10:17:02PM THERE.
10:17:02PM THERE'S TREE CANOPY THAT'S THERE.
10:17:04PM IT JUST HAS A DIFFERENT LOOK AND FEEL BUT THIS GIVES YOU AN
10:17:08PM IDEA OF WHAT WOULD BE PLACED AT THAT BUFFER OF 10-FOOT.
10:17:12PM THIS IS ANOTHER GARAGE.
10:17:17PM THIS IS DOWNTOWN.
10:17:20PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ACROSS THE STREET.
10:17:21PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: EXACTLY, YES, IN THE CBD, IN THE CENTRAL
10:17:25PM BUSINESS DISTRICT.
10:17:26PM THAT ALSO GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF THE SCALE.
10:17:29PM THIS GARAGE ALSO DROPS DOWN IN HEIGHT.
10:17:31PM WHAT IS PROPOSED PROPOSES NO STEP BACK.
10:17:35PM IT IS ALL AT THE SAME HEIGHT.
10:17:38PM THIS IS ON CYPRESS.
10:17:39PM SO THIS IS A PARKING GARAGE THAT EXISTS THERE.
10:17:44PM THE INTERSTATE IS DIRECTLY BEHIND THIS.
10:17:48PM YOU CAN SEE THE TALL BUILDING THAT'S BEHIND IT.
10:17:51PM THAT GIVES AN IDEA OF THE SCALE THAT IS PROPOSED ON THAT
10:17:57PM RESIDENTIAL STREET.
10:17:58PM WHAT I WANTED TO DO, COUNCIL, IS TO TURN IT OVER TO ERIN AND
10:18:03PM HAVE ERIN DISCUSS THE NATURAL RESOURCES.
10:18:06PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK AND THEN COUNCIL
10:18:09PM MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:18:10PM >>LYNN HURTAK: CAN YOU PLEASE PUT THE PICTURE OF AMELIA
10:18:14PM STREET BACK UP?
10:18:14PM THAT LOOKS LIKE A GIANT RIGHT-OF-WAY TO THE RIGHT.
10:18:21PM WHAT IS THE RIGHT-OF-WAY?
10:18:25PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THE RIGHT-OF-WAY --
10:18:28PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT LOOKS AT LEAST 10 FEET.
10:18:33PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: LET ME SEE WHAT THE WIDTH OF THE
10:18:35PM RIGHT-OF-WAY IS.
10:18:36PM IT IS AT LEAST 10 FEET.
10:18:38PM THE ROAD ITSELF?
10:18:39PM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO, NO.
10:18:40PM THE RIGHT-OF-WAY.
10:18:41PM IT LOOKS LIKE A GIANT RIGHT-OF-WAY.
10:18:48PM MAYBE SIX FEET.
10:18:49PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: IT'S MORE THAN THAT, I THINK.
10:18:51PM I DON'T SEE THE DIMENSION HERE.
10:18:55PM >>LYNN HURTAK: BUT MY QUESTION IS --
10:18:59PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: IDENTIFY AS A SIDEWALK ALSO.
10:19:01PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MY QUESTION, THOUGH, BASICALLY IS THAT THE
10:19:04PM BUILDING WOULD HAVE TO START OR THE PARKING GARAGE WOULD
10:19:07PM HAVE TO START ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SIDEWALK, SO WE WOULD
10:19:10PM STILL HAVE THE BUFFER OR NO?
10:19:14PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: CORRECT.
10:19:15PM SO THIS IS THE PROPERTY LINE WHICH IS IDENTIFIED HERE, THIS
10:19:19PM DARK LINE.
10:19:21PM SO WHEN WE'RE TALKING SETBACK, WE'RE TALKING FROM THE
10:19:25PM PROPERTY LINE ITSELF.
10:19:26PM WE'RE NOT INCLUDING THE RIGHT-OF-WAY.
10:19:28PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT.
10:19:30PM I WANTED TO DOUBLE CHECK.
10:19:32PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK ACTUALLY ASKED MY
10:19:36PM QUESTION BECAUSE I SAW THE SAME THING.
10:19:38PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: YES, FROM THE PROPERTY LINE.
10:19:40PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?
10:19:46PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: JUST A MINUTE, IF I CAN.
10:19:49PM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON CAN WE HAVE A SHORT DIALOGUE TO PUT
10:19:53PM THIS IN THE RECORD AND ADDRESS THIS ISSUE.
10:19:55PM YOU DO LIVE IN THIS AREA, IS THAT CORRECT?
10:19:57PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES, I DO.
10:19:58PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: DID YOU RECEIVE ANY NOTICE IN THE MAIL
10:20:01PM ABOUT THIS THAT YOU WERE IN THE NOTICED AREA, YOU'RE NOT
10:20:04PM WITHIN 250 FEET, ARE YOU?
10:20:05PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I'M NOT WITHIN 250 FEET.
10:20:07PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: HOW FAR AWAY WOULD YOU SAY YOU WOULD BE?
10:20:10PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I AM EXACTLY THREE BLOCKS.
10:20:12PM ONE BLOCK TOWARD COLUMBUS DRIVE AND THEN THREE BLOCKS TO
10:20:16PM TAMPA STREET AND COLUMBUS DRIVE.
10:20:18PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: YOU DON'T HAVE ANY FINANCIAL INTEREST IN
10:20:20PM THIS MATTER WHATSOEVER, IS THAT CORRECT?
10:20:22PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I HAVE NO FINANCIAL INTEREST.
10:20:24PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: BASED ON THAT AND THE FACT THAT YOU DO LIVE
10:20:27PM IN PROXIMITY, WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO BE FAIR AND IMPARTIAL AND
10:20:33PM BASE YOUR DECISION SOLELY ON THE EVIDENCE THAT YOU HEAR, THE
10:20:36PM COMPETENT, SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE AT THE HEARING.
10:20:38PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I BELIEVE I CAN BE FAIR AND IMPARTIAL ON
10:20:41PM THIS ISSUE, YES, I DO.
10:20:43PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:20:44PM THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:20:46PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
10:20:50PM >> ERIN MAEHR, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:20:54PM I REVIEWED THIS FOR NATURAL RESOURCES.
10:20:57PM I'LL TOUCH ON A FEW OF THE REASONS WHY NATURAL RESOURCES IS
10:21:00PM INCONSISTENT.
10:21:00PM I DO WANT TO ADD THAT ADDITIONAL WAIVER THAT'S REQUIRED
10:21:04PM AFTER SOME FURTHER REVIEW FOR THE MULTIFAMILY GREENSPACE AND
10:21:11PM THAT WAIVER SHOULD STATE PER 27-284 3.3A TO REDUCE THE
10:21:16PM REQUIRED GREENSPACE OF 6,485 SQUARE FEET TO 5,718 SQUARE
10:21:23PM FEET SUBJECT TO LANDSCAPE IN LIEU FEES AT THE TIME OF
10:21:30PM PERMITTING.
10:21:31PM I'M GOING TO SHOW SOME SLIDES HERE.
10:21:37PM ON THE OVERHEAD YOU CAN SEE THE DARK MOSS ARBORIST INVENTORY
10:21:43PM OF THE SITE.
10:21:44PM AGAIN TO THE EAST IS TAMPA.
10:21:46PM THE NORTH IS COLUMBUS.
10:21:47PM SOUTH IS AMELIA, AND TO THE WEST IS HIGHLAND.
10:21:52PM AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE IMAGE, IT'S NOT A DENSELY TREED
10:21:56PM SITE, HOWEVER EVERY TREE ON-SITE IS PROPOSED FOR REMOVAL AS
10:22:00PM WELL AS THERE ARE FIVE TREES IN THE ALLEY THAT ALSO ARE
10:22:03PM REQUIRED TO BE REMOVED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE.
10:22:07PM THE PROJECT HAS REQUESTED A WAIVER.
10:22:11PM THE 50% CODE-REQUIRED RETENTION DOWN TO 0% FOR A NON-WOODED
10:22:18PM LOT OVER ONE ACRE.
10:22:19PM I WANT TO DRAW ATTENTION THAT THE REQUIRED TREE MITIGATION
10:22:24PM FOR ALL THESE TREES IS 39 TYPE ONE SHADE TREES ON THE SITE.
10:22:30PM SO ON THIS NEXT IMAGE I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT, THIS IS THE
10:22:35PM GREENSPACE AND WAIVERS OR GREENSPACE AND BUFFERS IMAGE.
10:22:43PM I JUST WANT TO SHOW YOU HERE, THE GREEN SQUIGGLES EVERYWHERE
10:22:47PM ARE WHERE THE GREENSPACE IS PROVIDED ON THE PARCEL.
10:22:50PM THERE'S NO RIGHT-OF-WAY GREEN SQUIGGLES, BUT THIS IS WHERE
10:22:54PM IT IS LOCATED ON THE SITE.
10:22:55PM AND DOWN HERE, RIGHT ALONG THE PARKING GARAGE TO THE WEST OF
10:23:00PM IT, NEXT TO THE SINGLE-FAMILY HOME, IS A 10-FOOT BUFFER.
10:23:05PM 10-FOOT WIDE LAND USE BUFFER.
10:23:08PM AND THE CODE ACTUALLY REQUIRES A 15-FOOT LANDSCAPE BUFFER
10:23:12PM WITH SIX FOOT TALL MASONRY WALL WHICH THE PROJECT IS
10:23:19PM REQUESTING A WAIVER TO REDUCE THAT LANDSCAPE BUFFER.
10:23:23PM THIS TEN FOOT WIDTH IS THE LARGEST BUFFER OR SETBACK ON ANY
10:23:34PM LOCATION ON THE ENTIRE SITE.
10:23:35PM SO I JUST WANT TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO THOSE 39 TYPE ONE
10:23:39PM SHADE TREES THAT ARE REQUIRED FOR MITIGATION.
10:23:43PM NOWHERE ON THE SITE CAN THESE TREES REALLY BE ACCOMMODATED
10:23:47PM IN ANY OF THESE SETBACKS OR BUFFERS.
10:23:50PM SO AS SOON AS A TREE IS PLANTED IT BECOMES A PROTECTED TREE.
10:23:55PM A PROTECTED TREE REQUIRES A 10-FOOT PROTECTIVE RADIUS.
10:23:59PM IN ADDITION TO THAT, ACCORDING TO AN IFAS PEER REVIEWED
10:24:04PM PUBLICATION, UF IFAS PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATION IN 2020, FOR
10:24:09PM LIVE OAK TO REACH 25% OF ITS MAXIMUM GENETIC POTENTIAL, THE
10:24:13PM TREE NEEDS AT LEAST 13 FEET OF PLANTING DISTANCE TO REACH
10:24:18PM 75% OF ITS MAXIMUM POTENTIAL, GENETIC POTENTIAL, IT WOULD
10:24:22PM NEED 27 FEET.
10:24:23PM SO AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE PLAN BEFORE YOU, THERE AREN'T ANY
10:24:31PM BUFFERS OR SETBACKS THAT COULD REALLY ACCOMMODATE ANY OF
10:24:33PM THESE TYPE ONE SHADE TREES.
10:24:36PM I GAVE YOU INFORMATION FOR A LIVE OAK, BUT OTHER SHADE TREES
10:24:40PM ARE PRETTY SIMILAR TO THAT.
10:24:43PM SO THE ONLY TREES THAT CAN BE ACCOMMODATED ARE EITHER TYPE
10:24:46PM THREE SHORT AND WIDE TREES LIKE CRAPE MYRTLES OR YOU CAN
10:24:51PM PLACE PALMS, OF COURSE, AND JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, SO WITH
10:24:55PM THE CODE THEY DO ALLOW RECIPROCATION OF TREES.
10:24:58PM SO FOR THIS MANY TYPE ONE TREES, YOU'RE ABLE TO HAVE 117
10:25:04PM TYPE THREE TREES.
10:25:05PM SO 39 LIVE OAKS IS EQUAL TO 117 TYPE THREE TREES.
10:25:11PM HOWEVER YOU CAN ONLY SWITCH OUT 50% OF THE TREES THAT YOU
10:25:14PM ARE REMOVING OR YOU ARE REQUIRED TO MITIGATION.
10:25:17PM IN ADDITION TO THAT, 234 PALMS EQUAL THE AMOUNT OF TREES.
10:25:22PM SO THAT'S JUST TRYING TO SHOW YOU WHAT IS REQUIRED ON THE
10:25:26PM SITE AND THAT NONE OF IT -- A LOT OF IT CANNOT BE PROVIDED
10:25:31PM ON-SITE.
10:25:32PM PALMS COULD BE PLANTED, HOWEVER THE BENEFITS THAT COME ALONG
10:25:38PM WITH PALMS IN COMPARISON TO SHADE TREES, WHICH WE NEED IN
10:25:42PM OUR CITY, IS QUITE INFERIOR, ESPECIALLY ALONG THE LONG TERM.
10:25:49PM SO AS THE REASONS THAT I JUST ENUMERATED, NATURAL RESOURCES
10:25:53PM FOUND THE PROJECT TO BE -- [INAUDIBLE]
10:26:00PM THANK YOU.
10:26:01PM ANY QUESTIONS.
10:26:02PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS?
10:26:03PM BEFORE WE BEGIN, I SAW A LOT OF NEW PEOPLE COME IN THE ROOM.
10:26:07PM IF YOU COULD PLEASE STAND IF YOU ARE GOING TO SPEAK SO WE
10:26:11PM CAN SWEAR YOU IN.
10:26:13PM [OATH ADMINISTERED]
10:26:24PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, SIR.
10:26:25PM GO AHEAD.
10:26:26PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
10:26:38PM >> TYLER HUDSON.
10:26:39PM 400 NORTH ASHLEY DRIVE.
10:26:42PM IN LIGHT OF THE HOUR, WE PUT OUR PRESENTATION ON A LITTLE
10:26:44PM BIT OF A DIET AND TRY TO GET THIS THROUGH A LITTLE FASTER
10:26:47PM THAN WE ANTICIPATED.
10:26:48PM IT'S AN HONOR TO BE HERE ON BEHALF OF THIS PROJECT WHICH HAS
10:26:52PM BEEN WELL OVER A YEAR IN THE MAKING AND WHICH ATTRACTED A
10:26:56PM SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF SUPPORT IN THE TAMPA HEIGHTS
10:26:57PM NEIGHBORHOOD, INCLUDING THAT FROM THE TAMPA HEIGHTS CIVIC
10:26:59PM ASSOCIATION BOARD.
10:27:00PM WE HAVE ABOUT 22 LETTERS OF SUPPORT THAT WE'RE GOING TO
10:27:03PM ENTER INTO THE RECORD.
10:27:04PM I IMAGINE IT WAS PROBABLY A HEAVY E-MAIL IN-BOX WEEK FOR YOU
10:27:09PM ALL.
10:27:09PM SO SOME MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN MISSED.
10:27:11PM WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE ALL IN THE RECORD.
10:27:12PM THE REASON THE PROJECT IS SO WELL SUPPORTED BY THIS
10:27:15PM NEIGHBORHOOD AND THIS COMMUNITY IS BECAUSE OF THE HARD WORK
10:27:18PM OF THE DEVELOPER.
10:27:18PM I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE THE DEVELOPER.
10:27:20PM IT'S REALLY TWO DEVELOPER TEAM BOTH CHICAGO DEVELOPERS.
10:27:24PM CAMPBELL STREET ASSET MANAGEMENT AND JOSH KRUEGER IS WITH US
10:27:27PM THIS EVENING AND THE TANDEM GROUP WITH DIMITRI NASAS OUT OF
10:27:32PM CHICAGO JOINED BY THEIR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PARTNER LORD
10:27:35PM CAMPBELL WHO IS HERE WITH ME AS WELL.
10:27:36PM TO SAVE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME, WE HAVE ABOUT A WHOLE FOOTBALL
10:27:39PM TEAM WORTH OF VARIOUS EXPERTS, ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS,
10:27:42PM DEVELOPERS, ARBORISTS.
10:27:44PM I'LL GO AHEAD AND SKIP THE INTRO OF EACH ONE AND MOVE ON
10:27:48PM THROUGH THIS.
10:27:48PM BEFORE WE TALK MORE ABOUT THE BUILDING, BECAUSE YOU'RE
10:27:51PM APPROVING A BUILDING.
10:27:52PM YOU'RE APPROVING A PROJECT.
10:27:53PM I WANT TO GO BACK A LITTLE BIT IN RECENT HISTORY ABOUT THIS
10:27:56PM PARTICULAR BLOCK IN THIS PARTICULAR PART OF TAMPA HEIGHTS.
10:27:59PM BACK IN 2002, THE NEIGHBORHOOD ADOPTED A PLAN FOR TAMPA
10:28:03PM HEIGHTS.
10:28:03PM IT DESIGNATED CERTAIN AREAS AS ACTIVITY CENTERS, ENVISIONED
10:28:08PM ALMOST AN URBAN CORE ON THE STRETCH OF COLUMBUS THAT RUNS
10:28:12PM BETWEEN FLORIDA AND TAMPA.
10:28:17PM PREDOMINANTLY SINGLE-FAMILY BUT REALLY ZEROED IN ON THIS
10:28:19PM AREA RIGHT HERE AS THE TOWN CENTER OF TAMPA HEIGHTS, SAYING
10:28:23PM THAT IT SHOULD BE A THRIVING MIXED USE RESIDENTIAL AND
10:28:26PM COMMERCIAL AREA.
10:28:27PM IT'S WORTH NOTING THAT FLORIDA AVENUE AND TAMPA STREET,
10:28:30PM ALONG WITH COLUMBUS, ARE ALL ARTERIAL ROADWAYS.
10:28:34PM TAMPA STREET BEING A ROAD RUN BY THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
10:28:38PM TRANSPORTATION.
10:28:39PM ODDLY AND SOMEWHAT FRUSTRATINGLY, COLUMBUS DRIVE IS A
10:28:44PM COUNTY-OWNED PORTION OF THE ROAD.
10:28:46PM THIS IS WHAT THE SUBJECT BLOCK LOOKS LIKE IN 2002.
10:28:49PM AND IT IS BLURRY.
10:28:52PM THIS IS THE BEST I COULD GET FROM GOOGLE EARTH.
10:28:55PM THAT'S THE BLOCK IN 2023.
10:28:58PM SO 20 YEARS WENT BY.
10:29:01PM SATELLITE IMAGES GOT A LOT BETTER.
10:29:03PM THAT'S OBVIOUS.
10:29:04PM 58% POPULATION INCREASE IN THIS CENSUS TRACT, WHICH IS
10:29:08PM CENSUS TRACT 24 IN THE CITY, SORRY, CENSUS TRACT 42, MOSTLY
10:29:14PM SOUTHWESTERLY TAMPA HEIGHTS.
10:29:16PM BUT THIS BLOCK HASN'T CHANGED.
10:29:18PM ONE OF THE ANCHORS OF THE TOWN CENTER THAT THE TAMPA HEIGHTS
10:29:22PM NEIGHBORHOOD ADOPTED IN 2002, AND THIS COUNCIL, YOUR
10:29:25PM PREDECESSOR, 20 YEARS AGO ADOPTED.
10:29:29PM THERE HASN'T BEEN A LOT OF CHANGE ON THIS BLOCK BUT THERE
10:29:32PM HAVE BEEN SOME CHANGES COMING AND NOT JUST THIS PD REZONING
10:29:35PM THAT'S BEFORE YOU.
10:29:36PM IN FEBRUARY THIS COUNCIL ADOPTED A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN MAP
10:29:39PM AMENDMENT TO DESIGNATE PORTIONS OF THE SITE UMU 60 WHICH
10:29:43PM MATCHES AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN, THIS IS ONE OF THE
10:29:45PM MANY SHADES OF PURPLE ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION FUTURE LAND
10:29:48PM USE MAP AND IT SAYS THIS IS THE PREFERRED LAND USE CATEGORY
10:29:52PM TO DELINEATE COMMUNITY CENTER ACTIVITY CENTERS, INTENSIVE
10:29:55PM AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL SERVICE OFFICE AND RESIDENTIAL USES.
10:29:59PM UMU 60 FOR A COMPARISON, A LOT OF YBOR CITY, A LOT OF THE
10:30:03PM HISTORIC DISTRICT ON YBOR CITY, THAT'S UMU 60.
10:30:06PM ENCORE IS UMU 60.
10:30:08PM IT'S SORT OF LIKE THE WARM BOWL OF PORRIDGE FROM GOLDILOCKS.
10:30:15PM IT'S ALSO NOT THE CC 35 THAT YOU MIGHT SEE IN PORTIONS OF
10:30:19PM NORTH HYDE PARK OR MORE INTERIOR.
10:30:21PM THIS IS A FAIRLY HEAVY DUTY URBAN CATEGORY.
10:30:24PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION I THINK ONE OF THE REASONS THEY
10:30:28PM SUPPORT THE APPLICATION, THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN WHICH THEY
10:30:30PM REGULATE TALKS A LOT ABOUT CORRIDORS.
10:30:32PM IT TALKS A LOT ABOUT TRANSIT EMPHASIS CORRIDORS.
10:30:35PM TALKS A LOT ABOUT MIXED USE EMPHASIS CORRIDORS.
10:30:38PM SOME OF THESE CORRIDORS ARE BOTH.
10:30:39PM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, WHICH GUIDES DEVELOPMENT DECISIONS,
10:30:42PM IS REPLETE WITH REFERENCES TO CORRIDORS BEING THE PLACE TO
10:30:46PM FOCUS DENSE DEVELOPMENT, TO FOCUS A MIX OF USES.
10:30:50PM PARTLY BECAUSE THE INFRASTRUCTURE WE BELIEVE CAN ACCOMMODATE
10:30:53PM IT AND I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT IN ONE SECOND.
10:30:56PM WE TALK A LOT ABOUT TRANSPORTATION FUNDING WHICH IS A
10:31:01PM PROBLEM IN THIS COMMUNITY.
10:31:03PM EVERYONE KNOWS THAT.
10:31:04PM THERE IS A GRANT OBTAINED BY THE CITY OF TAMPA TO DO
10:31:08PM SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS ALONG FLORIDA AND TAMPA STREET.
10:31:11PM THIS ISN'T HYPOTHETICAL MONEY.
10:31:13PM THIS IS REAL MONEY FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, FROM THE TAX
10:31:15PM DOLLARS COMING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY THAT WILL PAY FOR
10:31:18PM SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS ALONG TAMPA STREET.
10:31:20PM I BELIEVE YESTERDAY THE TPO I THINK ACCELERATED SOME OF THE
10:31:23PM FUNDING FOR THE ORANGE PORTIONS THAT YOU SEE ON TAMPA AND
10:31:27PM FLORIDA WHICH AGAIN THAT WILL MAKE MORE OF A CONNECTION, BUT
10:31:30PM THE BLUE IS FUNDED WITH THE RAISE GRANT, SO THERE ARE GOING
10:31:33PM TO BE SIGNIFICANT STREET LEVEL AND STORMWATER IMPROVEMENTS
10:31:36PM ON TAMPA STREET, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHERE THIS PROJECT FRONTS.
10:31:40PM THIS IS WHAT THE BLOCK LOOKS LIKE RIGHT NOW.
10:31:46PM THE FAMILY THAT OWNS THE GOLD RING RESTAURANT AND OPERATED A
10:31:50PM LONG TIME NO LONGER WISH TO OPERATE IT.
10:31:53PM THAT PIECE OF PROPERTY IS FOR SALE.
10:31:55PM WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF TERMINATING THAT BILLBOARD AS WELL,
10:31:58PM WHICH IS A BIT UNSIGHTLY THERE.
10:32:02PM THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE NOW.
10:32:04PM THAT'S WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING.
10:32:05PM WE BELIEVE THAT A PROJECT OF THIS DENSITY IS APPROPRIATE FOR
10:32:08PM THIS BLOCK.
10:32:09PM IT IS AN APPROPRIATE WESTERN ANCHOR FOR THE TOWN CENTER OF
10:32:12PM TAMPA HEIGHTS THAT WAS CALLED FOR 20 YEARS AGO AND FOR WHICH
10:32:16PM THERE HAS BEEN NO REAL MOVEMENT ON ANY OF THE BLOCKS THAT
10:32:20PM COMPRISE THE TAMPA HEIGHTS TOWN CENTER THAT I WOULD SUGGEST
10:32:23PM THIS IS PROBABLY NOT THE LAST ONE THAT THIS COUNCIL WILL
10:32:26PM SEE.
10:32:27PM LaCHONE DID A GREAT JOB WALKING THROUGH THIS.
10:32:32PM THIS IS THE PROJECT FROM THE GROUND.
10:32:33PM THIS IS THE PROJECT FROM THE SKY.
10:32:36PM NORTH IS UP.
10:32:36PM PROJECT ACCESSED OFF OF COLUMBUS DRIVE.
10:32:39PM CURRENTLY SIX CURB CUTS, TWO ON COLUMBUS, FOUR ON TAMPA
10:32:42PM STREET WHICH MAKE THIS AN ABSOLUTE TERRIBLE PLACE TO WALK
10:32:45PM AND TERRIBLE PLACE TO RIDE A BIKE.
10:32:47PM WE WILL BE ELIMINATING TOTAL OF SIX CURB CUTS.
10:32:50PM WE ARE USING THE ALLEY.
10:32:51PM KEEPING THE ALLEY, NOT SEEKING TO VACATE THE ALLEY AND IT
10:32:56PM WILL BE IMPROVED.
10:32:58PM EXCITING IS THE GROUND FLOOR COMMERCIAL.
10:33:00PM WE HEARD FOR A LONG TIME THIS COMMUNITY WANTS RETAIL ALONG
10:33:03PM THIS CORRIDOR AND IT SEEMS SO OBVIOUS THAT IT IS A CORRIDOR
10:33:06PM WHERE RETAIL SHOULD GO AND TO THE DEVELOPER'S CREDIT, AND
10:33:10PM RETAIL IS HARD.
10:33:11PM RETAIL IS HARD FOR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPERS TO DO.
10:33:12PM IT'S A LITTLE BIT APPLES AND ORANGES, BUT THERE IS A VERY
10:33:16PM SIGNIFICANT COMMITMENT FOR A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE
10:33:18PM COLUMBUS FRONTAGE WRAPPING AROUND TO THE TAMPA FRONTAGE.
10:33:22PM ABOUT 11,000 SQUARE FEET.
10:33:24PM DON'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW THAT WILL GET CHOPPED UP.
10:33:26PM LIKELY CHOPPED UP INTO MULTIPLE RETAIL UNITS.
10:33:29PM LIKELY NOT GOING TO BE ONE.
10:33:31PM BUT IT'S GOING TO BE BRING MUCH-NEEDED RETAIL AND PROVIDE A
10:33:34PM PROOF OF CONCEPT FOR FUTURE DEVELOPERS TO FOLLOW.
10:33:36PM STATS, 252 MULTIFAMILY UNITS.
10:33:40PM 10% AFFORDABLE HOUSING SET ASIDE.
10:33:43PM THAT'S NOT OUT OF CHARITY.
10:33:44PM THAT'S BECAUSE WE ARE USING BONUS DENSITY.
10:33:46PM WE'RE PROPOSING THAT 26 UNITS BE SET ASIDE.
10:33:49PM HALF AT 80% AMI, HALF AT 120% AMI.
10:33:53PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION REPORT I THOUGHT HAD CONSTRUCTIVE
10:33:57PM COMMENTS.
10:33:58PM IT'S WORTH NOTING THERE IS A DISAGREEMENT, VERY RESPECTABLE
10:34:01PM ONE.
10:34:02PM BETWEEN THE PLANNING COMMISSION'S VIEW OF THIS ON
10:34:04PM COMPATIBILITY AND DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT, THE
10:34:07PM PLANNING COMMISSION NOTES BETTER UTILIZATION OF THE LAND,
10:34:11PM THE REQUEST WOULD HAVE NO ADVERSE IMPACTS TO SURROUNDING
10:34:14PM AREA.
10:34:14PM DENSITY AND USES WILL NOT ALTER THE NEIGHBORHOOD'S
10:34:17PM CHARACTER.
10:34:17PM THIS IS THE TYPE OF PROJECT THIS NEIGHBORHOOD HAS BEEN
10:34:20PM WAITING FOR.
10:34:20PM IS IT PERFECT?
10:34:21PM NO.
10:34:22PM I HAVE YET TO BRING A PERFECT PROJECT BEFORE THIS COUNCIL.
10:34:25PM THERE ARE AREAS WHERE IT CANNOT MEET THE CODE REQUIREMENTS
10:34:28PM BECAUSE IT IS DENSE AND OUR CODE STRUGGLES, AS YOU WILL SEE
10:34:31PM TONIGHT AND -- WITH THE PROJECTS WE BRING IN THE URBAN
10:34:35PM PERIPHERY WITH STRICTLY APPLYING THE CODES AGAINST THE
10:34:39PM DENSITY THAT THE COMP PLAN ANTICIPATES.
10:34:42PM WE ARE PLEASED TO HAVE THE PLANNING COMMISSION SUPPORT.
10:34:46PM WE BELIEVE THE RECORD -- TALK MORE IN REBUTTAL, A LOT OF
10:34:50PM EVIDENCE THAT THE PROJECT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE
10:34:51PM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND CONSISTENT WITH THE LAND DEVELOPMENT
10:34:53PM REGULATIONS EITHER ON THEIR FACE AS THEY ARE WRITTEN OR
10:34:56PM THROUGH THE WAIVER CRITERIA.
10:34:57PM THERE IS A SUBSTANTIAL WAIVER JUSTIFICATION MEMORANDUM IN
10:35:01PM THE RECORD ALONG WITH A MEMORANDUM OUTLINING COMPLIANCE WITH
10:35:04PM EACH OF THE PD CRITERIA.
10:35:06PM NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THOSE.
10:35:07PM I WOULD ASK THAT RICKY COME UP AND TALK THROUGH SOME OF THE
10:35:10PM NATURAL RESOURCES WAIVERS.
10:35:15PM >> RICKY PETERIKA.
10:35:18PM I'VE BEEN SWORN.
10:35:19PM THE WAIVER I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO IS THE RETENTION WAIVER.
10:35:25PM THE TREES ON THIS SITE HAVE BEEN LOCATED IN A PREVIOUSLY
10:35:29PM DISTURBED SITE FOR A VERY LONG TIME OR ASSEMBLY OF LOTS.
10:35:33PM ON ANY PROJECT TO SPEAK TO KIND OF CONTINUING PATTERNS, ANY
10:35:38PM PROJECT WITH 2.5 F.A.R. PROPOSED RESULTS IN A RETENTION
10:35:42PM REQUEST.
10:35:43PM IN THIS CASE WE'RE GOING 50 TO 0.
10:35:46PM RECENTLY THE LANDSCAPE CODE WAS REVISED OR TREE CODE WAS
10:35:51PM REVISED.
10:35:54PM IF THOSE STANDARDS WERE APPLIED TO THIS REQUEST, THE 50%
10:35:58PM WOULD AMOUNT TO 9 TREES, 8 OF WHICH ARE LAUREL OAKS, A
10:36:03PM FASTER GROWING, SHORTER LIVING, MORE SENSITIVE TREE SPECIES,
10:36:08PM AND THERE ARE TWO LIVE OAKS, GRANTED IN GOOD CONDITION, THAT
10:36:12PM WOULD BE AN UNFORTUNATE LOSS.
10:36:13PM THE MAJORITY OF THE TREES THAT ARE THE NATURE OF THIS
10:36:20PM REQUEST ARE LESS DESIRABLE AND HAVE ALREADY BEEN IMPACTED BY
10:36:25PM THE PREVIOUS DEVELOPER.
10:36:27PM I WOULD LIKE TO HAND IT OVER TO -- [INAUDIBLE]
10:36:32PM >> GOOD EVENING.
10:36:33PM ALEX SCHALER, 400 NORTH ASHLEY DRIVE.
10:36:36PM I'LL TAKE OVER WITH THE REST OF THE WAIVERS.
10:36:38PM THE NEXT REQUEST WE HAVE BEFORE IS YOU GREENSPACE WAIVER.
10:36:41PM I THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT THIS IN THE CONTEXT
10:36:44PM OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND NOT AS AN INDIVIDUAL WAIVER ITSELF.
10:36:47PM WITH DEVELOPMENT AND WE'VE SAID THIS TIME AND TIME AGAIN AND
10:36:50PM WILL SAY THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE, DEVELOPMENT IS A
10:36:52PM TRADE-OFF.
10:36:53PM I THINK THAT WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT URBAN INFILL SITES SUCH
10:36:56PM AS A SITE LIKE THIS, THERE'S MAJOR SITE DESIGN COMPONENTS
10:37:00PM ALL OF WHICH HAVE TO BE CONSIDERED.
10:37:02PM THIS SITE SPECIFICALLY, THIS WAS GREENSPACE AND THIS WAS
10:37:04PM PARKING.
10:37:05PM TWO DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE WERE TRYING TO BALANCE.
10:37:07PM THE NEIGHBORHOOD WAS VOCAL ABOUT WANTING SUFFICIENT PARKING,
10:37:10PM NOT NECESSARILY PARKING PER THE -- CODE, PARKING SUFFICIENT
10:37:16PM IN THE DEVELOPMENT IN WHAT WE FELT WOULD NOT CAUSE OVERFLOW
10:37:19PM PARKING IN THE STREET AND INTERRUPT THEIR PATTERN OF HOW
10:37:22PM THEY PARK TODAY.
10:37:23PM WITH THAT, WE'RE PROPOSING WHAT WE FEEL TO BE A VERY
10:37:26PM MODERATE REDUCTION IN GREENSPACE.
10:37:27PM THIS IS ABOUT A 12% WAIVER REQUEST IS WHAT IT ADDS UP TO.
10:37:31PM WE ALSO FEEL LIKE THIS IS A CONSERVATIVE REQUEST.
10:37:34PM I CAN'T GUARANTEE THAT WE'RE GOING TO CAPITALIZE ON THIS
10:37:37PM WAIVER.
10:37:37PM OUR PARKING GARAGE TODAY, THE DESIGN HASN'T BEEN FINALIZED
10:37:40PM GIVEN THIS IS SO EARLY ON IN THE PROCESS.
10:37:42PM I THINK THERE'S DEFINITELY A POTENTIAL WHEN WE SUBMIT FOR
10:37:45PM BUILDING PERMITS THAT THAT GARAGE LAYOUT CAN ABSORB SOME OF
10:37:48PM THE SURFACE PARKING STALLS CURRENTLY SHOWN ON THE NORTH AND
10:37:51PM WE CAN ADD A LITTLE BIT MORE GREENSPACE THERE.
10:37:53PM AGAIN, AN EFFORT TO BE CONSERVATIVE, WE THOUGHT A REDUCTION
10:37:55PM REQUEST OF 700 SQUARE FEET OF GREENSPACE WAS ONE THAT WAS
10:37:59PM REASONABLE AND ALLOWED US TO CAPITALIZE ON OTHER DIFFERENT
10:38:02PM DESIGN COMPONENTS THAT I'LL SPEAK TO IN JUST A SECOND.
10:38:05PM THE NEXT WAIVER REQUEST BEFORE IS YOU BUFFERING WAIVER.
10:38:10PM ERIN MENTIONED THIS EARLIER AND POINTED OUT THE SAME EXACT
10:38:13PM SECTION.
10:38:13PM I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THIS RENDERING WE PROVIDED ON THE PLAN,
10:38:17PM ALTHOUGH WE'RE REQUESTING A FIVE-FOOT REDUCTION IN THE WIDTH
10:38:21PM OF THE BUFFER, I THINK WHAT WE'RE PROVIDING IN TERMS OF
10:38:24PM QUALITY AND QUANTITY IN THIS BUFFER FAR EXCEEDS A FIVE FOOT
10:38:26PM REDUCTION.
10:38:27PM WE ARE PROVIDING THREE INCH CALIPER TREES OR FOUR INCH,
10:38:32PM EXCUSE ME WHERE THREE INCH IS REQUIRED.
10:38:35PM WE'RE ALSO REDUCING THE SPACING BETWEEN THE TREES.
10:38:38PM IT'S 20 FEET IS CODE REQUIRED.
10:38:40PM WE'RE PROVIDING A SPACING OF 10.
10:38:42PM EFFECTIVELY DOUBLING THE NUMBER OF TREES THAT WE'LL PUT IN
10:38:44PM THE BUFFER BECAUSE WE UNDERSTAND THIS IS IMPORTANT GIVEN IT
10:38:47PM IS ADJACENT TO RESIDENTIAL.
10:38:48PM ONE FINAL NOTE I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE ON THE SPECIFIC WAIVER,
10:38:52PM WE DO HAVE A LETTER OF SUPPORT FROM THE DIRECTLY ADJACENT
10:38:56PM NEIGHBOR TO THE WEST.
10:38:56PM THEY ARE IN SUPPORT OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND HAVE NO ISSUE
10:38:58PM WITH THE BUFFER REDUCTION REQUEST AND THEY ARE THE ONES
10:39:01PM OBVIOUSLY MOST AFFECTED BY A REDUCTION IN THE BUFFER WIDTH.
10:39:03PM WE FELT THAT WAS A REALLY IMPORTANT POINT AND WE HAVE THOSE
10:39:06PM TO SUBMIT INTO THE RECORD AS WELL.
10:39:11PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
10:39:13PM >>LYNN HURTAK: REAL QUICK, IF YOU COULD GO BACK TO THAT
10:39:16PM SLIDE.
10:39:18PM I JUST HAD A QUESTION ABOUT WHEN YOU INCREASE THE DENSITY OF
10:39:22PM TREES, AND THIS MIGHT BE BETTER FOR RICKY TO ANSWER, HOW
10:39:27PM DOES THAT IMPACT THE GROWTH OF THE TREE?
10:39:29PM IF THEY ARE REALLY THAT MUCH CLOSER TOGETHER IS THAT REALLY
10:39:35PM BETTER?
10:39:36PM >> IT DEFINITELY DEPENDS ON THE SPECIES AND WHERE WE'RE
10:39:41PM PROPOSING THIS DENSER PALM BUFFER ESSENTIALLY AND ON THAT
10:39:50PM SIDE --
10:39:50PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OH, PALMS.
10:39:52PM >> TYPE TWO, SORRY, TYPE TWO BUFFER, TYPE TWO TREES ARE TALL
10:39:58PM AND NARROW SPECIFICALLY.
10:39:59PM BY DEFINITION.
10:40:00PM >>LYNN HURTAK: JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE WHEN YOU WERE
10:40:03PM TALKING ABOUT, I'M SEEING -- I KNOW THEY ARE NOT OAKS BUT
10:40:07PM I'M SEEING BUNCHED TREES.
10:40:08PM I'M THINKING, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY WILL SURVIVE.
10:40:11PM >> WE DID.
10:40:11PM ALTHOUGH THIS IS A RENDERING, CONCEPT PLAN, WE DID MAKE SURE
10:40:15PM THAT THE CALIPERS WE WERE PROVIDING WOULD FIT WITH THAT
10:40:18PM QUANTITY.
10:40:19PM NEXT WAIVER REQUEST IS IN REGARDS TO PARKING.
10:40:22PM AS I FORESHADOWED THIS A LITTLE EARLIER WE FEEL LIKE THIS IS
10:40:25PM A VERY, VERY JUSTIFIABLE PARKING REDUCTION.
10:40:27PM I THINK YOU GUYS HAVE SEEN GREATER IN THE TAMPA HEIGHTS
10:40:30PM AREA.
10:40:30PM I KNOW YOU'VE SEEN GREATER, BUT GIVEN THE SPECIFIC LOCATION
10:40:33PM OF THE SITE AND OTHER DIFFERENT FACTORS WE FELT THAT 9%
10:40:36PM REDUCTION, 362 REQUIRED TO 330 PROVIDED WAS SOMETHING THAT
10:40:41PM WAS REASONABLE AND SOMETHING THAT MADE SENSE FOR THE
10:40:43PM NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE IT IS TODAY AS WELL AS WHERE IT'S GOING.
10:40:45PM AS YOU CAN SEE, I KNOW TYLER SAID THE SITE WAS NOT VERY
10:40:48PM BIKEABLE, BUT THE TAMPA HEIGHTS COMMUNITY ITSELF IS
10:40:51PM RELATIVELY BIKEABLE.
10:40:52PM RECEIVED 79 BIKE SCORE AS WELL AS A DECENT WALK SCORE.
10:40:57PM ALSO SERVICED BY TRANSIT.
10:40:59PM HART ROUTE 1 RUNS ALONG AT 15 MINUTE INTERVALS.
10:41:03PM HIGHEST FREQUENCY IN THE CITY.
10:41:04PM THE NEXT POINT I'D LIKE TO MAKE IN REGARDS TO PARKING IS
10:41:07PM THAT THIS IS A TRUE MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT.
10:41:09PM 11,000 SQUARE FEET OF GROUND FLOOR COMMERCIAL.
10:41:11PM THAT'S RELATIVELY HIGH NUMBER COMPARED TO SOME OTHER
10:41:14PM PROJECTS WE'VE SEEN IN THE TAMPA HEIGHTS COMMUNITY.
10:41:16PM SO THERE WILL BE SOMEWHAT OF A, QUOTE, TRADE-OFF, OR PEAKS
10:41:19PM AND VALLEYS IN THE DIFFERENT USES AND IN THE PARKING DEMAND
10:41:22PM THAT THEY REQUIRE.
10:41:23PM SO AS YOU CAN SEE IN THIS HEAT MAP, THE PEAK COMMERCIAL
10:41:26PM PARKING DEMAND TIME IS DURING NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS, 9 TO 5.
10:41:30PM HOWEVER, WITH MULTIFAMILY, THAT PEAK DEMAND IS SWITCHED AND
10:41:34PM THAT'S OVERNIGHT.
10:41:35PM PEOPLE WANT TO BE ABLE TO PARK THEIR CARS OVERNIGHT WHERE
10:41:38PM THEY LIVE BECAUSE THEY WILL BE THERE OVERNIGHT.
10:41:40PM THE HOURS PEAK BETWEEN 9 P.M. AND 4 A.M.
10:41:44PM WE DO FEEL AS IF THOSE SPOTS WILL BE USED FOR, QUOTE, DUAL
10:41:47PM OCCUPANCY FOR BOTH COMMERCIAL AND MULTI, AND I THINK THAT
10:41:54PM JUSTIFIES TRADE-OFF THAT THE PARKING CODE DOESN'T
10:41:56PM NECESSARILY ABSORB.
10:41:57PM I MENTIONED THIS EARLIER, DID A COUPLE OF OTHER PROJECTS
10:42:00PM RECENTLY IN TAMPA HEIGHTS THAT THE COUNCIL APPROVED.
10:42:03PM 21-86 AS WELL AS 22-116.
10:42:06PM THESE WERE APPROVED FOR PARKING REDUCTIONS OF 13% AND 25%.
10:42:10PM ALTHOUGH THEY ARE SIMILAR IN LOCATION, THEY ARE NOT EXACTLY
10:42:12PM THE SAME.
10:42:12PM THE PROJECTS WERE SOUTH OF PALM.
10:42:14PM THEY ARE LOCATED WITHIN THE CBD PERIPHERY.
10:42:17PM THIS IS A BIT NORTH.
10:42:18PM AS I SAID, I THINK OUR PROPOSED REDUCTION OF 9% IS RELEVANT
10:42:22PM TO WHERE THE SITE STANDS TODAY.
10:42:24PM PEOPLE STILL DRIVE.
10:42:25PM PEOPLE STILL DRIVE.
10:42:26PM BUT WHERE IT'S ALSO GOING TO GO IN THE FUTURE.
10:42:30PM THE LAST WAIVER REQUEST IS LOADING WAIVER.
10:42:35PM LUCKILY THIS IS VERY FAMILIAR TO YOU.
10:42:38PM REDUCTION FROM 4 TO 2 ALLOWING MANEUVERING IN THE
10:42:41PM RIGHT-OF-WAY.
10:42:42PM OUR SITE IS SURROUNDED BY RIGHT-OF-WAY AS WELL AS BIFURCATED
10:42:45PM BY THE EXISTING ALLEY.
10:42:46PM PROUD TO HAVE COMMUNITY SUPPORT.
10:42:47PM THE LETTERS ARE SUBMITTED IN THE RECORD.
10:42:51PM COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS BUT ACTUAL INDIVIDUALS THAT LIVE IN
10:42:54PM THE NEIGHBORHOOD WERE SO EXCITED ABOUT THE PROJECT.
10:42:55PM COMMERCIAL ASPECT, THE INFRASTRUCTURE, JUST A CONNECTIVITY
10:42:58PM FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:42:59PM THEY HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THE DENSITY FOR THE MIXED USE
10:43:02PM PROJECT TO COME TO THIS CENTER AND THEY ARE EXCITED TO BE
10:43:04PM HERE.
10:43:04PM I'LL PASS THIS ON TO JOSH KRUEGER, THE DEVELOPER.
10:43:08PM HE CAN TALK A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH.
10:43:10PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU'VE RUN OUT OF TIME.
10:43:12PM >> THE DEVELOPER WILL SPEAK IN REBUTTAL.
10:43:14PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:43:15PM ANY COMMENTS?
10:43:20PM >>ERIN MAEHR: I JUST WANTED TO STATE FOR THE RECORD WE
10:43:24PM HAVEN'T RECEIVED A LANDSCAPE PLAN.
10:43:26PM IT HASN'T BEEN SUBMITTED INTO THE RECORD SO WE HAVEN'T
10:43:29PM REVIEWED THAT AT THIS TIME.
10:43:29PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:43:30PM ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL?
10:43:33PM DO WE HAVE ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC THAT WISHES TO SPEAK ON
10:43:36PM THIS ITEM?
10:43:37PM YES, SIR.
10:43:38PM PLEASE COME UP AND STATE YOUR NAME.
10:43:43PM >> GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL.
10:43:44PM CAMILO SOTO.
10:43:47PM I AM AN ATTORNEY AND AN URBAN PLANNER, BUT I AM HERE
10:43:51PM ACTUALLY AS A CONCERNED RESIDENT.
10:43:53PM GOOD EVENING TO MR. SHELBY AS WELL, MADAM CLERK AND STAFF.
10:43:57PM OVERALL, I THINK THIS IS TRULY A TRANSFORMATIVE PROJECT.
10:44:02PM NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT.
10:44:03PM BUT THE CONCERN THAT I HAVE IS IN TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE
10:44:07PM CONTEXT AND HOW IT IMPACTS THE REST OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD,
10:44:11PM ESPECIALLY THE PARK DOWNHILL, I LIVE AT 105 WEST FRANCES.
10:44:16PM I WAS SWORN IN.
10:44:18PM AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, THOSE OF YOU THAT WERE ON COUNCIL
10:44:22PM AROUND JUNE OF 2022 MAY RECALL ME MENTIONING THE FACT THAT
10:44:31PM THE PARTICULAR ALLEYWAY THAT IS SOUTH OF WEST AMELIA, NORTH
10:44:34PM OF WEST FRANCES, IT IS ON THE LAST PAGE OF YOUR STAFF
10:44:37PM REPORT.
10:44:38PM THE LAND USE MAP, THAT CHUNK THAT'S BETWEEN, RED, ABUTTING
10:44:45PM PART AGAINST TAMPA STREET AND THEN THE REST OF IT IS BROWN.
10:44:49PM ANYWAYS THAT WILL GIVE YOU A VISUAL OF THE BLOCK THAT I'M
10:44:52PM TALKING ABOUT.
10:44:53PM SO AS MR. HUDSON, MY COLLEAGUE HAS INDICATED, THE PARTICULAR
10:44:56PM BLOCK WHERE THIS PROJECT IS LOCATED REALLY HASN'T HAD MUCH
10:44:59PM DEVELOPMENT.
10:44:59PM HOWEVER, THE FULL CONTEXT IS SOUTH OF THAT THE RM 24 PORTION
10:45:05PM HAS EXPERIENCED A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN RESIDENTIAL
10:45:09PM DEVELOPMENT.
10:45:09PM NOT ONLY HAS IT INCREASED RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, BUT WE
10:45:13PM ALSO HAVE TWO NEW POOLS THAT HAVE COME ALONG ONLINE, AND
10:45:17PM THOSE TWO POOLS IN PARTICULAR ABUT THE ALLEYWAY THAT I'M
10:45:20PM CONCERNED ABOUT WHERE MY HOME LAYS.
10:45:24PM SO WHAT I'M ASKING IS IN PARTICULAR, AS IT RELATES TO
10:45:30PM DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION HAS ALREADY INDICATED THAT THEY ARE
10:45:33PM NOT COMPLIANT WITH THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE AND COMP PLAN
10:45:36PM AS IT IS.
10:45:37PM THEY ASKED FOR ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS, PRIOR TO THE SECOND
10:45:41PM READING OF THIS ORDINANCE.
10:45:42PM NORTHERLY RESOURCES HAS ALSO ASKED FOR ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS
10:45:46PM AND TRANSPORTATION HAS DONE THE SAME.
10:45:49PM I'M CONCERNED WITH STORMWATER AND IT'S EVALUATION OF THE
10:45:53PM SITE, SPECIFIC IMPACT NOT ONLY TO THE BLOCK, TO THE BLOCK
10:45:58PM THAT I LIVE ON, 105 WEST FRANCES.
10:46:00PM THE PRELIMINARY SITE PLAN INDICATES THAT THEY ARE TO COMPLY
10:46:04PM WITH THE STANDARD TECHNICAL SPECS OF STORMWATER ATTENUATION
10:46:08PM WHICH IS GENERALLY 100% STORMWATER ATTENUATION.
10:46:10PM IN LIGHT OF THE INCREASED FLOODING THAT WE'VE HAD, IN
10:46:14PM PARTICULAR THAT RAIN EVENT, JUNE 22nd, ONLY GOTTEN WORSE
10:46:20PM AND WE HAVE ADDITIONAL POOLS THAT ARE THERE.
10:46:22PM WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IS THE APPLICANT COMMIT TO
10:46:24PM VOLUNTEERING OR PROFFERING TO GREATER STORMWATER ATTENUATION
10:46:27PM FROM THIS PROJECT OR ALTERNATIVELY I WOULD LIKE TO SEE
10:46:30PM STORMWATER IN TAMPA REVIEW THE FLOOD IMPACTS BASED ON
10:46:35PM CONTEMPORANEOUS DATA, CONTEMPORANEOUS DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS
10:46:38PM THAT EXTEND SOUTH OF THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT.
10:46:41PM NOW, IF YOU'RE WAFFLING OR A LITTLE CONCERNED ABOUT PUTTING
10:46:44PM AN ONEROUS AMOUNT OF WORK ON THIS DEVELOPER, I'D LIKE TO
10:46:48PM REMIND YOU, THEY ARE ASKING FOR NO TREE RETENTION, BLENDED
10:46:52PM INTENSITY AND ADDITIONAL DENSITY AND REDUCED GREENSPACE.
10:46:55PM ALL OF THIS CREATES MORE IMPERVIOUS SURFACE AREA.
10:46:58PM THEY ARE ASKING FOR VALUE FROM THE CITY AND WE'RE ASKING --
10:47:03PM I'M ASKING FOR THEM TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THEIR STORMWATER
10:47:06PM IMPLICATIONS AND RETURN THE VALUE BACK TO ENSURE WE DON'T
10:47:09PM HAVE WORSENING STORM FLOODING IN THE AREA.
10:47:13PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
10:47:14PM ANYBODY ELSE?
10:47:14PM ALL RIGHT.
10:47:19PM WE HAVE A REGISTERED INDIVIDUAL, ARIELLE MILLIGAN.
10:47:23PM SHE'S GONE.
10:47:24PM YES, SIR.
10:47:25PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
10:47:26PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
10:47:27PM >> RUBIN BRYANT, 515 EAST FLORIBRASKA AVENUE, RESIDENT OF
10:47:33PM TAMPA HEIGHTS.
10:47:33PM I WANT TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE PROJECT.
10:47:35PM I'M EXCITED ABOUT WHAT I SEE.
10:47:37PM I'VE BEEN LIVING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD SINCE 2016.
10:47:42PM WHAT I'VE NOTICED IS THAT WITH ANY NEW DEVELOPMENT, WHETHER
10:47:45PM IT'S ON A MOM AND POP LEVEL WITH SOMEONE RENOVATING A HOME
10:47:50PM OR REFURBISHING A BUILDING IN ORDER TO HAVE A CAFE, THERE'S
10:47:56PM ADDITIONAL DOLLARS THAT ARE BROUGHT INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:47:58PM FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN IN 2016 TO WHAT I'VE SEEN NOW HAS BEEN A
10:48:03PM HUGE INFLUX OF CASH COMING INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHICH IS
10:48:06PM LITERALLY FIXING HOMES ONE BY ONE.
10:48:09PM A PROJECT LIKE THIS I THINK WILL CONTINUE THAT SAME PATTERN
10:48:13PM AND ALSO CREATE A TREND AND SET A PRECEDENCE FOR COLUMBUS.
10:48:18PM I'M HOPING WHATEVER THE VARIANCES THAT THEY NEED, IF THEY
10:48:20PM ARE REASONABLE, THAT THEY ARE GIVEN THE VARIANCES IN ORDER
10:48:25PM TO TAKE CARE -- IN ORDER TO HAVE THAT PROJECT MOVE FORWARD
10:48:30PM AS WELL AS TAKE CARE OF CONCERNS LIKE HIS.
10:48:32PM I THINK THE DEVELOPER IS BEING MINDFUL.
10:48:36PM THANK YOU.
10:48:36PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:48:37PM ANYBODY ELSE.
10:48:38PM I SEE NO ONE ELSE.
10:48:43PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THE ONLY THING, TALK ABOUT STORMWATER,
10:48:47PM ISN'T THERE A FACTUAL THING THAT ANY NEW DEVELOPMENT HAS TO
10:48:52PM CONTAIN THEIR STORMWATER ON THEIR OWN PROPERTY?
10:48:55PM CAN WE ADDRESS THAT?
10:49:02PM >> JONATHAN SCOTT.
10:49:03PM YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
10:49:04PM THE NEW DEVELOPMENT WILL HAVE TO CONTAIN ITS STORMWATER AND
10:49:07PM PROVIDE RETENTION, SO THEY WON'T BE ALLOWED TO HAVE ANY
10:49:11PM IMPACT TO THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:49:14PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HOW IS THAT DONE?
10:49:16PM >> THEY'LL HAVE TO FOLLOW THE TRANSPORTATION TECHNICAL
10:49:18PM MANUAL FOR STORMWATER, AND THAT HAS ALL THE REQUIREMENTS
10:49:21PM THAT THEY HAVE TO MEET.
10:49:23PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:49:25PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY ELSE?
10:49:29PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HAVE A QUESTION FOR THE DEVELOPER.
10:49:31PM ARE YOU GUYS UNDERGROUNDING THE UTILITIES RUNNING ALONG
10:49:33PM COLUMBUS?
10:49:35PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YEAH, I THINK THEY HAVE TO.
10:49:40PM >> TYLER HUDSON FOR THE RECORD.
10:49:42PM POWER LINES NO.
10:49:43PM BUT OTHER UTILITIES WILL BE SUBSURFACE.
10:49:46PM STORMWATER WILL BE UNDER THE SITE IN A VAULT.
10:49:55PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THE TREES PRESENTED TODAY, YOU INDICATED
10:49:57PM THEY ARE NOT IN THE ORIGINAL PLAN THAT WAS PRESENTED.
10:49:59PM HOW WILL WE KNOW IF THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN BECAUSE IT WAS
10:50:04PM PRESENTED FOR THE FIRST TIME TODAY?
10:50:10PM >>ERIN MAEHR: ERIN MAEHR, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:50:12PM LANDSCAPING IS REVIEWED AT THE TIME OF PERMITTING.
10:50:15PM WE LOOK AT THE SPACE RIGHT NOW JUST TO SEE WHAT CAN BE
10:50:18PM PROVIDED ON THE SITE BASED ON OUR EXPERIENCE.
10:50:23PM THEY ARE NOT REQUIRED TO SUBMIT A LANDSCAPE PLAN, BUT WE
10:50:26PM SOMETIMES ASK FOR ONE JUST SO WE CAN SEE WHAT THEY ARE
10:50:29PM PROPOSING.
10:50:29PM THEY CAN CHANGE IT AT THE TIME OF PERMITTING.
10:50:35PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I HAVE A QUESTION, MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:50:37PM I GUESS THIS QUESTION WOULD BE FOR LEGAL.
10:50:41PM IN TERMS OF THE WAIVER, DOES THE GRANTING OF A WAIVER BY
10:50:46PM THIS COUNCIL AFFECT WHAT ULTIMATELY THEY WOULD BE REQUIRED
10:50:49PM TO HAVE TO BRING IN?
10:50:50PM IN TERMS OF LANDSCAPING.
10:50:55PM THAT'S THE QUESTION, IN TERMS OF -- MY CONCERN IS THIS WAS
10:50:59PM JUST BROUGHT TO COUNCIL TODAY.
10:51:00PM YOU HAVE NOT HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THAT, IF YOU'D
10:51:03PM LIKE TO ADDRESS THAT, MR. HUDSON.
10:51:06PM >> COUNCIL, THIS CAN BE A DIFFICULT ISSUE AND IT MIGHT BE
10:51:09PM WORTH LOOKING AT THE CODE ON.
10:51:10PM LANDSCAPING PLANS AREN'T REQUIRED.
10:51:13PM THERE'S SOMETHING THOUGH REALLY INFORMATIVE FOR YOU ALL TO
10:51:16PM SEE, LANDSCAPING PLANS ARE APPROVED AND FINALIZED IN
10:51:19PM CONNECTION WITH PERMITS.
10:51:20PM THERE ARE THINGS WE DO HAVE TO PROVIDE IN TERMS OF NATURAL
10:51:23PM RESOURCES.
10:51:24PM RICKY AND ERIN HAVE BEEN IN TOUCH DAILY IF NOT MULTIPLE
10:51:28PM TIMES DAILY THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS TRYING TO IMPROVE WHERE
10:51:31PM WE CAN ON THE NATURAL RESOURCES.
10:51:33PM WHAT I PROPOSE IS BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND READING WE'LL
10:51:39PM WORK TO PRESENT A CONCEPTUAL LANDSCAPE PLAN.
10:51:44PM I WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS TYPICALLY DONE
10:51:48PM AT PERMITTING.
10:51:49PM WE ARE ASKING FOR YOU TO APPROVE THE WAIVERS TODAY.
10:51:51PM THERE IS AN ELEMENT OF TRUST BUT VERIFY WITH US, BUT I WILL
10:51:55PM SAY AND I THINK ERIN WOULD AGREE, WE'RE IN VERY CLOSE TOUCH
10:52:00PM WITH NATURAL RESOURCES TO MAXIMIZE THE OPPORTUNITIES WHERE
10:52:03PM WE CAN ON THE RIGHT-OF-WAY TREES.
10:52:09PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: IS THERE A COMMUNITY BENEFIT AGREEMENT FOR
10:52:12PM THIS PLAN?
10:52:14PM >> NO, MA'AM.
10:52:15PM WE'RE NOT REALLY RECEIVING ANY CITY RESOURCES.
10:52:18PM AND THIS ISN'T A DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC LAND.
10:52:21PM IT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
10:52:22PM THE MOST -- THERE IS AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE DEVELOPER AND
10:52:25PM THE CITY WHICH IS IN EXCHANGE FOR US BEING ABLE TO BUILD
10:52:28PM MORE OF A BUILDING, WE'RE GOING TO SET ASIDE 10% OF THE
10:52:32PM UNITS IN THAT LARGER BUILDING WITH RENT RESTRICTIONS.
10:52:36PM HALF OF THEM RENT RESTRICTED FOR HOUSEHOLDS THAT EARN 80% OF
10:52:41PM AREA MEDIAN INCOME AND HALF THAT EARN 120% OF AREA MEDIAN
10:52:42PM INCOME.
10:52:45PM THOSE NUMBERS WILL PROBABLY BE UPDATED BY THE FLORIDA
10:52:48PM HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS FOR
10:52:50PM 2023.
10:52:55PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: LACHONE DOCK, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:52:57PM THERE ARE A COUPLE OF THINGS I'D LIKE TO PUT ON THE RECORD.
10:52:59PM THE COMMUNITY PLAN THAT WAS MENTIONED IS NOT ADOPTED IN THE
10:53:02PM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
10:53:04PM THE OTHER ITEM IS THE PARKING WAIVER THAT WAS MENTIONED AND
10:53:08PM PRESENTED WOULD NOT BE REQUIRED.
10:53:12PM THE DEVELOPMENT IS ACTUALLY OVER-PARKED.
10:53:15PM AND ONE OF THE CHANGES YOU'LL SEE ON THE REVISION SHEET IS
10:53:18PM FOR THE APPLICANT TO RECALCULATE THE PARKING BASED ON THE
10:53:22PM USE PROPOSED OF THE STOREFRONT RESIDENTIAL.
10:53:24PM I JUST WANTED TO PUT IT ON THE RECORD.
10:53:26PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:53:27PM IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT?
10:53:31PM IF NO OTHER QUESTIONS, WE GO TO REBUTTAL FROM THE APPLICANT.
10:53:36PM >> TYLER HUDSON FOR THE RECORD.
10:53:37PM I'D LIKE TO ASK GREG ROTH, A LICENSED CIVIL ENGINEER WITH
10:53:41PM BOWLER TO ADDRESS BRIEFLY THE STORMWATER COMMENT MADE BY MY
10:53:45PM CURRENT FRIEND AND FORMER NEIGHBOR MR. SOTTO.
10:53:48PM THE TOWNHOME DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING IN THAT
10:53:50PM AREA HAVE STORMWATER ATTENUATION REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE VERY
10:53:53PM DIFFERENT THAN LARGE PROJECTS LIKE THIS.
10:53:59PM >> GOOD EVENING, GREG ROTH WITH BULLER.
10:54:02PM 600 WESTSHORE BOULEVARD, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
10:54:05PM I HAVE BEEN SWORN IN.
10:54:07PM AS MENTIONED AND AS JONATHAN SCOTT CAME UP HERE AND
10:54:10PM MENTIONED, WE WILL BE MEETING THE CITY'S REQUIREMENTS FOR
10:54:13PM STORMWATER IN ADDITION TO STORMWATER APPROVAL WE HAVE FOR
10:54:16PM THE PD, WE ALSO HAVE TO MEET F.D.O.T. REQUIREMENTS, WHICH
10:54:20PM ARE MORE STRINGENT BECAUSE WE'RE TYING INTO THE D.O.T.
10:54:25PM SYSTEM ON TAMPA ROAD, SO WE WILL BE MEETING D.O.T. STORM,
10:54:28PM WHICH ARE HUNDRED-YEAR STORMS VERSUS 25-YEAR STORM THAT THE
10:54:32PM CITY REQUIRES US TO DESIGN TO.
10:54:33PM WE'LL HAVE ADDITIONAL ATTENUATION DESIGNED INTO OUR SYSTEM.
10:54:41PM >> COUNCIL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND FOR YOUR
10:54:44PM QUESTIONS.
10:54:45PM I THINK LEGALLY SPEAKING EVERY DECISION YOU MAKE WHEN YOU'RE
10:54:47PM IN THIS QUASI-JUDICIAL CAPACITY, YOU'RE NOT WEARING ROBES,
10:54:51PM BUT IT'S QUASI-JUDICIAL.
10:54:54PM THE STOOL REFERENCE IN ONE OF THE PRIOR HEARINGS, MATTERS
10:54:58PM FIRST, WERE YOU CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
10:55:00PM I THINK THERE'S ABUNDANT EVIDENCE IN THE RECORD THAT WE ARE,
10:55:03PM NAMELY YOUR OWN PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF SAYS IT'S
10:55:06PM CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
10:55:08PM SECOND QUESTION IS ARE YOU CONSISTENT WITH THE LAND
10:55:10PM DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS?
10:55:12PM ON THEIR FACE IT DEPENDS.
10:55:14PM SOME OF THEM YES.
10:55:15PM OTHERS WE BELIEVE ARE JUSTIFIED BY THE WAIVERS AND THE
10:55:18PM WAIVER JUSTIFICATIONS THAT WE HAVE PUT INTO THE RECORD.
10:55:22PM AS THE COUNCIL HAS SEEN ON THIS SITE AND OTHER URBAN
10:55:25PM PERIPHERAL SITES THAT WE'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO BRING
10:55:28PM BEFORE YOU AND OBTAIN APPROVAL, IT'S A LITTLE BIT SQUARE
10:55:31PM PEG, ROUND HOLE TO MAKE DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS THAT MIGHT
10:55:33PM APPLY TO A PUBLIX ON HILLSBOROUGH AVENUE, APPLY FOR A REALLY
10:55:37PM URBAN DENSE MIXED USE SITE LIKE THIS.
10:55:40PM I DO BELIEVE THE WAIVERS ARE JUSTIFIED.
10:55:42PM ONE OF THE BEST TESTS IS THE THIRD LEG OF THE STOOL WHICH IS
10:55:45PM THE COMMUNITY SUPPORT.
10:55:46PM THIS GROUP AND JOSH IS BASED OUT OF CHICAGO, THEY MET WITH
10:55:50PM THE LAND USE COMMITTEE OF THE TAMPA CIVIC HEIGHTS PROBABLY
10:55:54PM THREE OR FOUR TIMES.
10:55:55PM THE BOARD THREE OR FOUR TIMES.
10:55:56PM THERE HAS BEEN AN EXTENSIVE COMMUNITY OUTREACH EFFORT, WHICH
10:55:59PM IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK THIS COUNCIL IS SEEING MORE OF
10:56:02PM BECAUSE DEVELOPERS WATCH THESE HEARINGS AND KNOW THAT IT'S
10:56:06PM EXPECTED.
10:56:07PM I THINK IT'S NOTEWORTHY FOR A PROJECT OF THIS AMBITION, OF
10:56:10PM THIS SCOPE, INTRODUCING REALLY A NEW LEVEL OF DENSITY TO AN
10:56:14PM INTERSECTION THAT WHILE IT NEEDS IT AND EXPECTED UNDER THE
10:56:17PM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IS NEW.
10:56:18PM GROWTH IS CHANGE AND CHANGE IS HARD.
10:56:20PM THE FACT THAT 22 RESIDENTS, STAKEHOLDERS, AND THE TAMPA
10:56:23PM HEIGHTS CIVIC COMMUNITY, CIVIC ASSOCIATION ITSELF ALL
10:56:27PM ENDORSE THIS PROJECT IS A TESTAMENT TO THE WORK OF THE
10:56:29PM DEVELOPER AND LISTENING TO THEM AND INCORPORATING THEIR
10:56:32PM FEEDBACK IN THE PLAN.
10:56:33PM IT'S NOT PERFECT BUT WE THINK IT IS AN EXCELLENT PLAN AND
10:56:36PM BELIEVE IT MERITS YOUR APPROVAL THIS NIGHT.
10:56:38PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
10:56:41PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:56:50PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
10:56:51PM THE 26 AFFORDABLE UNITS, ARE THEY GOING TO HAVE THE SAME
10:56:55PM AMENITIES AS THE OTHER AREAS IN THE BUILDING?
10:56:59PM WILL THEY BE MIXED THROUGHOUT OR ISOLATED TO A PARTICULAR
10:57:02PM AREA?
10:57:03PM >> THEY ARE MIXED THROUGHOUT -- THE BONUS PROVISION
10:57:06PM AGREEMENT REQUIRES THAT THEY BE UNIFORM AS TO AMENITIES AND
10:57:09PM FINISHES.
10:57:10PM THAT'S IN THE BONUS PROVISION AGREEMENT.
10:57:15PM THE INTENT IS ABSOLUTELY THAT THEY ARE STACKED AND THERE IS
10:57:17PM A REQUIREMENT IN THE BONUS PROVISION AGREEMENT THAT IT IS
10:57:21PM CONFIDENTIAL.
10:57:22PM THERE IS -- THERE'S CERTAINLY NO LABELING OR ANYTHING LIKE
10:57:25PM THAT.
10:57:26PM THE LEASING MANAGER WILL KNOW WHICH UNITS FOR WHICH THE
10:57:30PM TENANT HAS TO FILL OUT HOUSEHOLD INCOME CERTIFICATION FORM
10:57:33PM BUT ABSOLUTELY BLENDED IN.
10:57:35PM IT WILL BE ONE COMMUNITY.
10:57:37PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DOES THAT SAME CONCEPT APPLY TO RETAIL
10:57:40PM SPACE WHEN IT COMES TO SMALL BUSINESSES AND AFFORDABILITY
10:57:43PM FOR THE RETAIL SPACE THAT'S GOING TO BE ON THE GROUND LEVEL?
10:57:45PM >> THAT IS A GREAT QUESTION.
10:57:47PM CURRENTLY THERE'S NO AFFORDABLE RETAIL REQUIREMENT.
10:57:51PM IT'S SOMETHING WORTH CONSIDERING.
10:57:52PM I THINK IT'S IMPLEMENTED IN SOME SITUATIONS WHERE THERE'S A
10:57:57PM PUBLIC LAND CONTRIBUTION.
10:57:59PM PERHAPS THE CITY CAN ASK A LITTLE BIT MORE.
10:58:02PM CANDIDLY, NOT SURE HOW THAT WOULD WORK FOR THIS SITE.
10:58:06PM FOR CLARITY, THERE IS NOT ANY RENT RESTRICTION ON THE
10:58:09PM RETAIL.
10:58:09PM WE'LL HAVE TO SEE HOW THAT COMES IN.
10:58:18PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION TO CLOSE.
10:58:19PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL
10:58:21PM MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:58:22PM SECONDED FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
10:58:25PM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:58:26PM ANY OPPOSED?
10:58:26PM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN, WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ ITEM NUMBER
10:58:33PM 4?
10:58:41PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: FILE NUMBER REZ 23-18, AN ORDINANCE
10:58:47PM REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF 2500 AND 2510
10:58:58PM NORTH TAMPA STREET, 106, 108, 110 AND 114 WEST COLUMBUS
10:59:04PM DRIVE AND 101 AND 103 WEST AMELIA AVENUE IN THE CITY OF
10:59:08PM TAMPA, FLORIDA, AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1
10:59:11PM FROM ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATIONS RM-24 (RESIDENTIAL,
10:59:17PM MULTIFAMILY) AND CG (COMMERCIAL GENERAL) TO PD (PLANNED
10:59:21PM DEVELOPMENT, STOREFRONT RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL GENERAL
10:59:25PM USES); PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:59:29PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
10:59:31PM CLENDENIN.
10:59:31PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
10:59:33PM DISCUSSION?
10:59:34PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
10:59:36PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MAY I ADD TO?
10:59:38PM I WOULD LIKE TO AMEND THAT MOTION TO SAY I WOULD LIKE -- I
10:59:49PM WOULD LIKE TO SEE, BECAUSE THEY SAID THEY WOULD, I WANT TO
10:59:53PM PUT THAT IN THE POTENTIAL LANDSCAPE PLAN BETWEEN FIRST AND
10:59:57PM SECOND READING, AND I WANTED TO ADD A COUPLE OF FINDINGS OF
11:00:04PM FACT THAT THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE
11:00:07PM ANTICIPATED INTENSITY OF THE CMU 35 AND UMU 60 FUTURE LAND
11:00:12PM USE DESIGNATIONS AND WILL PROVIDE NEW HOUSING ON VACANT AND
11:00:17PM UNDERUTILIZED LAND TO ENSURE AN ADEQUATE SUPPLY OF HOUSING
11:00:20PM IS AVAILABLE TO MEET THE NEEDS OF TAMPA'S PRESENT AND FUTURE
11:00:23PM POPULATIONS CONSISTENT WITH HOUSING POLICY 1.3.1 AND 1.3.4
11:00:27PM AND INFRASTRUCTURE POLICY 1.1.17 AND 1.1.18.
11:00:36PM AND IT IS COMPLIANT WITH LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE SECTION
11:00:39PM 27-136 THAT THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AS SHOWN ON THE SITE
11:00:43PM PLAN PROMOTES OR ENCOURAGES DEVELOPMENT THAT IS APPROPRIATE
11:00:46PM IN LOCATION, CHARACTER, AND COMPATIBILITY WITH THE
11:00:49PM SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD AND THAT THE WAIVERS IN COMPLIANCE
11:00:53PM WITH SECTION 27-139-4 IS THAT THE DESIGN OF THE PROPOSED
11:01:00PM DEVELOPMENT IS A UNIQUE AND THEREFORE IN NEED OF WAIVERS,
11:01:03PM AND THAT THE WAIVERS WILL NOT SUBSTANTIALLY INTERFERE WITH
11:01:06PM OR INJURE THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS WHOSE PROPERTY WOULD BE
11:01:09PM AFFECTED BY THEM.
11:01:11PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I'LL ACCEPT THAT AS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT.
11:01:20PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: WITH REGARD TO THAT, THERE IS ALSO A
11:01:22PM REVISION SHEET, EXTENSIVE REVISION SHEET.
11:01:25PM MR. HUDSON WOULD YOU AFFIRM THE FACT THAT BETWEEN FIRST AND
11:01:28PM SECOND READING YOU AGREE TO MAKE THE CHANGES ON THE REVISION
11:01:31PM SHEET.
11:01:31PM >> I SO AFFIRM.
11:01:32PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: WOULD YOU INCLUDE THAT IN THE MOTION,
11:01:34PM PLEASE?
11:01:35PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: TO INCLUDE THE REVISION SHEET BETWEEN
11:01:37PM FIRST AND SECOND READING.
11:01:40PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
11:01:41PM WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN, SECOND FROM
11:01:46PM COUNCILMAN VIERA WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM COUNCIL
11:01:49PM MEMBER HURTAK AND THE REVISION SHEET BETWEEN FIRST AND
11:01:54PM SECOND READING.
11:01:55PM MAY I HAVE A ROLL CALL, PLEASE?
11:01:57PM >> HURTAK?
11:02:00PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:02:02PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
11:02:04PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
11:02:05PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:02:06PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:02:08PM >> CARLSON?
11:02:09PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:02:11PM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
11:02:14PM SECOND READING AND ADOPTION WILL BE HELD ON JUNE 1st,
11:02:19PM 2023, AT 9:30 A.M.
11:02:25PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:02:26PM WE'LL GO TO ITEM NUMBER 5.
11:02:42PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: LaCHONE DOCK, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
11:02:45PM ITEM 5 IS REZ-23-25 FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 10 LADOGA
11:02:51PM AVENUE.
11:02:51PM THE APPLICANT IS REPRESENTED BY REBECCA KERT.
11:02:55PM THE REQUEST IS TO REZONE THE PROPERTY FROM RS 75 RESIDENTIAL
11:02:59PM SINGLE-FAMILY TO PLANNED DEVELOPMENT PD FOR RESIDENTIAL
11:03:03PM SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED USE.
11:03:04PM I'LL TURN IT OVER TO DANNY TO PRESENT.
11:03:17PM >>DANNY COLLINS: DANNY COLLINS WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION
11:03:19PM STAFF.
11:03:20PM I'VE BEEN SWORN IN.
11:03:21PM CENTRAL TAMPA PLANNING DISTRICT MORE SPECIFICALLY THE DAVIS
11:03:23PM ISLANDS URBAN VILLAGE.
11:03:25PM DAVIS ISLANDS PARK IS THE CLOSEST PUBLIC PARK.
11:03:29PM THE PARK IS APPROXIMATELY ONE MILE FROM THE SUBJECT SITE.
11:03:33PM CLOSEST TRANSIT STOP APPROXIMATELY 1.2 MILES NORTH OF THE
11:03:36PM SITE NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF DAVIS BOULEVARD AND ARBOR
11:03:40PM PLACE.
11:03:40PM SUBJECT SITE IS WITHIN THE COASTAL HIGH HAZARD AREA.
11:03:43PM EVACUATION ZONE A.
11:03:44PM AERIAL MAP OF THE SUBJECT SITE AND SURROUNDING PROPERTIES.
11:03:50PM YOU'LL SEE THE SURROUNDING AREA IS PREDOMINANTLY DEVELOPED
11:03:53PM WITH SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED USES.
11:03:55PM THIS IS THE SUBJECT SITE JUST NORTHEAST, JUST NORTH OF
11:04:00PM LADOGA AVENUE.
11:04:02PM HERE IS THE ADOPTED FUTURE LAND USE MAP.
11:04:07PM THE SUBJECT SITE IS RECOGNIZED UNDER THE RESIDENTIAL 6
11:04:10PM FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION WHICH ALLOWS DEVELOPMENT UP TO 6
11:04:14PM DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE.
11:04:15PM THE RESIDENTIAL 6 SURROUNDS THE PROPERTY ON ALL SIDES, TO
11:04:22PM THE WEST, SOUTH AND EAST OF THE SUBJECT SITE.
11:04:24PM THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF REVIEWED THE APPLICATION AND
11:04:27PM FOUND THE REQUEST COMPARABLE AND COMPATIBLE WITH THE
11:04:29PM SURROUNDING AREA.
11:04:30PM THIS PORTION OF LADOGA AVENUE BETWEEN WEST DAVIS BOULEVARD
11:04:34PM AND FORMOSA AVENUE, 3.27 UNITS PER ACRE BASED ON 26 SAMPLE
11:04:42PM SITES.
11:04:43PM REQUEST ALLOW FOR TWO SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED RESIDENTIAL
11:04:46PM UNITS, 4.16 UNANIMOUS PER ACRE COMPARABLE TO THE BLOCK
11:04:51PM DENSITY AND IS CONSISTENT WITH THE DENSITY ANTICIPATED UNDER
11:04:53PM THE R-6 FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION.
11:04:57PM LOT WIDTH RANGE FROM 50 FEET TO 400 FEET.
11:05:05PM ALONG LADOGA AVENUE.
11:05:07PM APPROXIMATELY 150 FEET.
11:05:09PM PD PROPOSES LOT WIDTHS WITHIN THE RANGE OF LOTS ALONG THE
11:05:13PM SEGMENT.
11:05:14PM TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE EXISTING BLOCK DENSITY AND
11:05:18PM RANGE OF LOT WIDTHS ALONG THE SEGMENT OF LADOGA AVENUE,
11:05:22PM PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF FINDS THAT THE REQUEST WILL
11:05:24PM PROVIDE FOR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT THAT WILL BE BUILT
11:05:26PM WITHIN THE EXISTING STREET BLOCK AND LOT CONFIGURATION OF
11:05:29PM THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
11:05:29PM THE PROPOSED REZONING SUPPORTS MANY OF THE POLICIES IN THE
11:05:32PM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AS IT RELATES TO HOUSING THE CITY'S
11:05:35PM POPULATION.
11:05:36PM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ENCOURAGES NEW HOUSING ON VACANT AND
11:05:40PM UNDER UTILIZED LAND TO MEET TAMPA'S PRESENT AND FUTURE
11:05:46PM POPULATIONS.
11:05:47PM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN -- URBAN VILLAGES.
11:05:50PM REQUEST WILL PROVIDE ADDITIONAL HOUSING IN THE DAVIS ISLANDS
11:05:54PM URBAN VILLAGES.
11:05:55PM BASED ON THESE CONSIDERATIONS, THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF
11:05:59PM FINDS IT CONSISTENT WITH THE GOALS OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES
11:06:01PM OF THE CITY OF TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
11:06:03PM THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
11:06:05PM AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS.
11:06:14PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: LaCHONE DOCK, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
11:06:16PM THIS PETITION REZ 23-25, THIS PD REQUEST WOULD ALLOW FOR THE
11:06:22PM EXISTING LOT TO BE SPLIT AND WITH THE CREATION OF TWO LOTS
11:06:27PM FOR THE USE OF TWO SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED DWELLINGS.
11:06:31PM THE TOTAL SITE AREA IS 21,940 SQUARE FEET.
11:06:35PM THE SITE PLAN DEPICTS THE EXISTING STRUCTURE, WHICH IS
11:06:41PM ON-SITE, AND IT'S WITH SETBACKS OF FRONT SETBACK OF 25 FEET,
11:06:45PM THE REAR IS AT 20 FEET.
11:06:47PM THE SIDES ARE AT 7 FEET.
11:06:49PM ON THE EAST AND THEN THE WEST SIDE IS AT 3 FEET.
11:06:53PM ON PARCEL B SO THE SITE PLAN IDENTIFIED A PARCEL A AND B.
11:06:58PM PARCEL B THAT WOULD CONTAIN NEWLY CREATED LOT.
11:07:01PM THE SETBACKS ARE 25 FEET IN THE FRONT, 20 FEET IN THE REAR,
11:07:05PM AND 7 FEET ON BOTH SIDES.
11:07:08PM FOR THAT LOT.
11:07:10PM LOCATED ON DAVIS ISLANDS.
11:07:14PM IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE PRECEDENT IN THE IMMEDIATE
11:07:19PM AREA IS SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DETACHED STRUCTURES.
11:07:22PM I'LL SHOW YOU IN A MINUTE ON OUR CONFORMING MAP.
11:07:26PM BECAUSE THIS IS A REQUEST TO DIVIDE THE LOTS, THE SITE PLAN
11:07:30PM SHOWS THAT THERE'S ONE LOT WHICH WOULD MEASURE 70 FEET
11:07:33PM APPROXIMATELY IN WIDTH AND THE OTHER LOT WOULD MEASURE
11:07:36PM APPROXIMATELY 71 FEET IN WIDTH.
11:07:38PM BASED UPON THE ANALYSIS WHICH WAS CONDUCTED, STAFF FINDS THE
11:07:42PM REQUEST INCONSISTENT WITH THE IMMEDIATE AND SURROUNDING AREA
11:07:45PM AND STAFF ANALYSIS HAS BEEN PROVIDED WITHIN THE STAFF
11:07:48PM REPORT.
11:07:49PM AND I'LL REVIEW THAT ANALYSIS WITH YOU AND FIRST I'LL ORIENT
11:07:54PM YOU ON THE ZONING MAP WITH THE SITE.
11:07:57PM SO THIS IS THE ZONING MAP.
11:07:59PM THE SITE IS IDENTIFIED WITH THE RED DOTTED LINE WHICH IS
11:08:04PM LOCATED HERE.
11:08:05PM SO THIS IS THE SITE.
11:08:10PM IT'S ON LADOGA AVENUE AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THIS IS DAVIS
11:08:17PM BOULEVARD THAT'S LOCATED HERE.
11:08:18PM THE SITE YOU CAN SEE HAS THE RS 75 ZONING.
11:08:21PM YOU HAVE A COUPLE, RS 60 THAT'S FARTHER NORTH.
11:08:25PM ACROSS THE CANAL, A PD LOCATED FURTHER EAST.
11:08:28PM THE REMAINDER IS RS 60 WHEN YOU LOOK NORTHEAST OF THE SITE.
11:08:33PM I WILL SHOW YOU, I'LL PUT UP THE CONFORMING MAP.
11:08:38PM THEN WHAT I'LL DO IS WHILE THE MAP IS UP I'LL READ THE
11:08:41PM ANALYSIS AS A RESULT OF THIS MAP.
11:08:46PM ON THIS MAP JUST TO ORIENT YOU, THIS IS DAVIS BOULEVARD.
11:08:51PM I'M GOING TO PULL IT DOWN SO YOU CAN SEE THE LEGEND ALSO.
11:08:55PM THIS IS THE SITE, WHICH IS OUTLINED IN BLACK AND IT HAS THE
11:09:01PM HATCHING ON IT.
11:09:03PM DAVIS BOULEVARD AND THIS IS LADOGA.
11:09:05PM SO THE AREA OF ANALYSIS IS THE AREA WHICH IS SHOWN WITH THE
11:09:11PM PARCELS WHICH ARE IN COLOR.
11:09:13PM WITHIN THE STAFF REPORT -- JUST ONE SECOND.
11:09:21PM WITHIN THE STAFF REPORT ON PAGES 4 AND 5 OF THE REPORT, THE
11:09:26PM ANALYSIS IS PROVIDED.
11:09:27PM I'LL GIVE IN SUMMARY WHAT IS PART OF THE ANALYSIS.
11:09:32PM RELATION TO REVIEWING THE EXISTING DEVELOPMENT PATTERN, THE
11:09:35PM SUBJECT BLOCK WHICH IS LADOGA AVENUE FROM WEST DAVIS
11:09:40PM BOULEVARD TO THE END OF THE STREET, IT CONTAINS 19 TOTAL
11:09:44PM ZONING LOTS.
11:09:45PM THAT'S INCLUDING THE SUBJECT SITE.
11:09:47PM 14 OR 74% OF THE LOTS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED WITH A WIDTH OF 75
11:09:51PM FEET OR GREATER AND FIVE OR 26 PERCENT OF THE LOTS HAVE BEEN
11:09:55PM DEVELOPED WITH A WIDTH OF 74.99 FEET OR LESS.
11:09:59PM ON THE SUBJECT BLOCK FACE, THE NORTH SIDE OF LADOGA AVENUE,
11:10:04PM THERE ARE 9 ZONING LOTS, INCLUDING THE SUBJECT SITE.
11:10:07PM AND 7 OR 78% OF THOSE LOTS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED WITH A WIDTH
11:10:11PM OF 75 FEET OR GREATER AND 2 OR 22% OF THE LOTS HAVE BEEN
11:10:16PM DEVELOPED WITH A WIDTH OF 74.99 OR LESS.
11:10:19PM SO PURSUANT TO THE ANALYSIS THAT'S PROVIDED, THE MAJORITY OF
11:10:23PM THE LOTS WITHIN THE STUDY AREA HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED WITH A
11:10:27PM LOT WIDTH OF 75 FEET OR MORE.
11:10:32PM SPECIFICALLY THE BLOCK FACE 7 OR 78% OF THE LOTS ARE
11:10:36PM DEVELOPED AT A LOT WIDTH OF 75 FEET OR MORE.
11:10:39PM WITH ONE LOT DEVELOPED AT A WIDTH OF 75 FEET TO 79 FEET, TWO
11:10:45PM OF THOSE LOTS ARE DEVELOPED AT A WIDTH OF 80 TO 99 FEET AND
11:10:48PM 4 OF THOSE LOTS ARE DEVELOPED AT A WIDTH OF 100 FEET OR
11:10:52PM GREATER.
11:10:53PM THEREFORE STAFF FINDS THE REQUEST TO CREATE TWO LOTS TO BE
11:10:56PM INCONSISTENT WITH THE EXISTING DEVELOPMENT PATTERN OF THE
11:10:58PM BLOCK FACE AND THE BLOCK.
11:11:00PM IN ADDITION, THIS PD SITE PLAN REQUEST IS INCONSISTENT WITH
11:11:03PM THE SURROUNDING AREA AND IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE BUILT
11:11:07PM ENVIRONMENT.
11:11:08PM THAT IS STAFF'S ANALYSIS.
11:11:12PM LET ME SHOW YOU ALSO PHOTOS OF THE AREA.
11:11:19PM THIS IS DIRECTLY EAST OF THE SITE.
11:11:21PM THAT'S AT THE CORNER OF DAVIS.
11:11:27PM THIS IS THE SITE ITSELF.
11:11:30PM SO THIS IS THE SITE THAT HAS THE EXISTING HOME AND THIS IS
11:11:35PM THE PORTION OF THE SITE WHICH IS CURRENTLY VACANT BUT WILL
11:11:39PM BE SPLIT AND THAT'S WHERE THE NEW PROPOSED STRUCTURE WOULD
11:11:43PM BE PLACED.
11:11:44PM THIS IS ANOTHER VIEW OF THE SITE.
11:11:51PM >> [INAUDIBLE]
11:11:51PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THIS IS THE EXISTING HOME AND THAT WILL
11:11:53PM REMAIN AND THEN THE LOT NEXT TO THE AREA NEXT TO IT.
11:11:57PM IT'S KIND OF HARD TO SHOW ON THIS PICTURE.
11:12:00PM THERE WAS LANDSCAPING THAT DAY.
11:12:01PM SO THIS IS A BIG TRAILER THAT'S IN FRONT.
11:12:04PM I HAD TO GET KIND OF A SIDE VIEW.
11:12:06PM AND THEN THIS IS WEST OF THE SITE, DIRECTLY WEST.
11:12:15PM THIS IS FURTHER WEST.
11:12:18PM THIS IS JUST SHOWING THE SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL HOMES.
11:12:21PM IT'S HARD TO SHOW THE EXACT LOT WIDTHS IN THE PICTURES.
11:12:29PM THIS IS WEST ALSO HEADING FURTHER DOWN.
11:12:31PM THEN WE'RE COMING AROUND SOUTHWEST OF THE SITE AND THEN
11:12:35PM HEADING BACK SOUTH.
11:12:38PM THIS IS SOUTH OF THE SITE.
11:12:44PM SOUTHEAST OF THE SITE.
11:12:49PM ANOTHER HOME.
11:12:56PM THE SOUTHEAST.
11:12:56PM AND THEN THIS IS GOING BACK DOWN.
11:12:58PM THESE ARE ALL ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE SUBJECT SITE.
11:13:01PM SITE PLAN REVISIONS TO BE MADE TO THE SITE PLAN BETWEEN
11:13:09PM FIRST AND SECOND READING, SHOULD COUNCIL VOTE TO APPROVE THE
11:13:14PM SITE PLAN THIS EVENING.
11:13:15PM SO THOSE HAVE BEEN PROVIDED TO THE APPLICANT AND THEY DO
11:13:18PM AGREE TO MAKE THE CHANGES BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND READING.
11:13:21PM I'M AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
11:13:24PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
11:13:27PM >> THE TWO.
11:13:28PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THE TWO YELLOW PARCELS ACROSS THE STREET
11:13:32PM FROM THE CHECKERED BOX, DID YOU SHOW THAT HOUSE?
11:13:36PM THAT WAS TWO LOTS TOGETHER BUT IT LOOKED A LOT SMALLER.
11:13:41PM THE HOUSES YOU SHOWED IN THE AREA.
11:13:49PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: YES, SOUTH.
11:13:54PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I WAS CURIOUS.
11:13:56PM IS THAT TWO HOUSES?
11:13:58PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: NO.
11:13:59PM THIS IS ONE HOME.
11:14:01PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
11:14:04PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THIS IS DAVIS ISLANDS.
11:14:08PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THEY JUST HAVE TWO GARAGES ON BOTH SIDES.
11:14:12PM I SEE.
11:14:12PM THANK YOU.
11:14:17PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?
11:14:18PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:14:24PM >> REBECCA KERT, 400 NORTH TAMPA STREET.
11:14:28PM I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE TONIGHT OF REPRESENTING JOHN AND KAREN
11:14:31PM HOTCHKISS FOR THIS REZONING AT 10 LADOGA AVENUE.
11:14:34PM BEFORE I BEGIN TO EXPLAIN THE CASE TO YOU, I WOULD LIKE TO
11:14:37PM HAVE THEM HAVE THE BRIEF OPPORTUNITY TO INTRODUCE THEMSELVES
11:14:40PM TO YOU.
11:14:43PM >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
11:14:44PM I'M JOHN HOTCHKISS.
11:14:46PM WELCOME NEW MEMBERS AS WELL.
11:14:47PM WE OWN 10 LADOGA AVENUE, MY WIFE KAREN AND I.
11:14:51PM WE CURRENTLY RESIDE AT 68 BAHAMA CIRCLE ALSO ON DAVIS
11:14:55PM ISLAND.
11:14:56PM LITTLE BACKGROUND, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TALK.
11:14:58PM WE HEARD SO WE WANTED TO CLEAR SOME OF THE THINGS ABOUT OUR
11:15:01PM LOVE BASICALLY FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA AND JUST KIND OF SET IT
11:15:06PM FORWARD THAT WAY.
11:15:07PM MY FAMILY, INCLUDING SOME EXTENDED COUSINS THAT GOT HERE IN
11:15:11PM THE LATE 1800s, WE LAID DOWN ROOTS IN 1910.
11:15:15PM BEEN ON DAVIS ISLANDS SINCE THE 1930s AND MY FAMILY,
11:15:21PM GRANDPARENTS HAVE OWNED VARIOUS BUILDINGS THERE.
11:15:24PM AND THEN SOME REALLY COOL STRUCTURES ON BAYSHORE BOULEVARD
11:15:28PM AS WELL.
11:15:29PM WE LOVE OLD STRUCTURES.
11:15:30PM WE LOVE ARCHITECTURE.
11:15:31PM I'VE BEEN CALLED A FRUSTRATED ARCHITECT MANY TIMES.
11:15:34PM AND WE HAVE WON SOME DESIGN AWARDS WITH SOME OF THE PROJECTS
11:15:37PM BOTH COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL THAT WE'VE HAD THE PLEASURE
11:15:40PM OF BOTH LIVING IN AND --
11:15:44PM IN 1969, CAMILLE AND JOHNNY McCOURTER, MY MATERNAL AUNT
11:15:48PM AND UNCLE BOUGHT 10 LADOGA AVENUE.
11:15:52PM IT HAS REALLY SINCE THAT TIME BEEN THE REUNION CENTRAL FOR
11:15:57PM THE FAMILIES AND EXTENDED FAMILIES FOR OVER 54 YEARS, LONGER
11:16:03PM THAN I'VE BEEN ALIVE.
11:16:05PM I MENTION THESE THINGS TO DISPLAY THAT WE HAVE DEEP ROOTS IN
11:16:09PM THIS COMMUNITY THAT WE LOVE, NEIGHBORS WE LOVE.
11:16:12PM BUILT OUR LIVES HERE.
11:16:13PM WE ARE VERY COMMITTED TO OUR COMMUNITY.
11:16:15PM KAREN WILL SHARE MORE.
11:16:17PM >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL, FOR YOUR TIME, ESPECIALLY AT THIS
11:16:19PM HOUR.
11:16:20PM KAREN HOTCHKISS, OWNER OF 10 LADOGA AND RESIDENT OF 68
11:16:24PM BAHAMA.
11:16:25PM OUR STORY WITH 10 LADOGA STARTED IN FALL OF 1995.
11:16:30PM JOHN AND I WERE STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AND
11:16:32PM INVITED TO TAMPA FOR A THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY.
11:16:35PM WE QUICKLY NEW IT WAS A SPECIAL PLACE AND FELL IN LOVE WITH
11:16:38PM THE COMMUNITY.
11:16:39PM AFTER GRADUATION, DAVIS ISLANDS WAS A NATURAL FIT AND BOUGHT
11:16:42PM OUR FIRST HOME ON THE ISLAND IN 1999.
11:16:44PM WE'VE BEEN FORTUNATE TO RAISE OUR CHILDREN ON THE ISLAND AND
11:16:47PM PARTICIPATE IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.
11:16:48PM IN 2021, WHEN JOHN'S AUNT WAS READY TO TRANSITION FROM THE
11:16:52PM LADOGA HOUSE SHE CALLED US FIRST AND OUR DREAM OF OWNING THE
11:16:56PM PROPERTY BECAME A REALITY.
11:16:57PM WE MOVED TO 10 LADOGA SEPTEMBER 2021, AWARE THAT MAJOR
11:17:00PM RENOVATIONS WERE NEEDED AT THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE CITY,
11:17:03PM WE PULLED A DEMOLITION PERMIT IN ORDER TO FACILITATE --
11:17:08PM PULLED A DEMOLITION PERMIT OVER AN ALTERATIONS PERMIT TO
11:17:14PM PLAN FOR ADDITION AREA OF THE 1920 STYLE HOME.
11:17:17PM WE PROCEEDED WITH THE FIRST STAGE OF RENOVATION SPENDING
11:17:20PM MORE THAN $150,000 TO UPGRADE ELECTRICITY, PLUMBING AND
11:17:24PM GUEST HOUSE.
11:17:25PM AS RENOVATIONS PROGRESSED WE REALIZED OUR DREAM WAS QUICKLY
11:17:29PM OUTPACING REALITY.
11:17:30PM THE COST FOR THE SECOND RENOVATION OF MAIN HOUSE MORE THAN
11:17:33PM TRIPLED IN COST.
11:17:35PM COULD NOT IGNORE THE MOUNTING EMOTIONAL TOLL THAT THE
11:17:38PM CURRENT CONSTRUCTION WAS PLAYING ON THE FAMILY SO WE MADE A
11:17:40PM PIVOT.
11:17:41PM LOOKED FOR A BUYER TO CARRY ON THE DREAM OF RENOVATING THE
11:17:45PM HOME.
11:17:45PM MET WITH LITTLE SUCCESS WHICH BRINGS US TO OUR CURRENT
11:17:48PM SITUATION.
11:17:49PM HONORED TO WORK WITH REBECCA KERT AND WE'LL LET HER TAKE YOU
11:17:52PM THROUGH THE NEXT STEPS.
11:17:53PM >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
11:17:54PM AT THIS POINT, THERE ARE TWO THINGS THAT CITY COUNCIL
11:17:56PM NORMALLY LOOKS FOR WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT A LOT.
11:18:01PM YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT WILL BE THE EFFECT AND HOPEFULLY NO
11:18:04PM ADVERSE EFFECT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND WHAT IS THE PRECEDENT
11:18:07PM THAT IT WILL SET IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
11:18:08PM WHAT I'LL DO DURING THE PRESENTATION IS GIVE YOU SUBSTANTIAL
11:18:11PM COMPETENT EVIDENCE FOR WHICH TO REVIEW THIS.
11:18:14PM THIS IS THE GENERAL LOCATION MAP.
11:18:15PM ABOUT HALF AN ACRE.
11:18:18PM SLIGHTLY TO THE WEST OF DAVIS BOULEVARD AND CURRENTLY HAS
11:18:21PM ONE SINGLE-FAMILY HOME ON IT.
11:18:22PM IT WAS ORIGINALLY PLATTED AS PART OF DAVIS ISLANDS AS THREE
11:18:27PM LOTS.
11:18:27PM A 40, 50, AND 50 LOT.
11:18:30PM I WANT TO MAKE IT VERY CLEAR THAT THIS REQUEST IS NOT AS YOU
11:18:34PM TYPICALLY SEE TO REESTABLISH THE ORIGINAL PLAT.
11:18:37PM WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR THREE LOTS ON THIS PROPERTY.
11:18:40PM WE'RE ASKING FOR TWO LOTS OF GENERALLY EQUAL WIDTH.
11:18:44PM ON DAVIS ISLANDS AND SOME OF THE OLDER HOMES YOU OFTEN SEE
11:18:48PM ON VERY LARGE LOTS A SIDE LOT OR A GARDEN.
11:18:51PM WHEN THEY COME TO YOU FOR LOT SPLIT YOU END UP WITH ONE VERY
11:18:54PM LARGE OVERSIZED LOT AND SIDE LOT WHICH IS UNDERSIZED FOR THE
11:18:58PM NEIGHBORHOOD.
11:18:58PM THAT'S NOT WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE.
11:19:00PM THE ORIGINAL HOME WAS BUILT ON ONE AND A HALF PLATTED LOTS
11:19:03PM AND IT WAS SOLD BY DAVIS ISLANDS INCORPORATED.
11:19:06PM AND I WILL PRESENT THAT DEED TO YOU WHEN WE'RE AT THE
11:19:09PM CONCLUSION AS ONE AND A HALF PLATTED LOTS.
11:19:13PM I MENTION THAT BECAUSE SOME OF THE NEIGHBORS HAVE WRITTEN IN
11:19:16PM THEIR OPPOSITION LETTERS THAT THEY FEEL THIS IS NOT
11:19:18PM CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL PLAN OF DAVIS ISLANDS.
11:19:21PM THIS IS ACTUALLY EXACTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL PLAN
11:19:24PM OF DAVIS ISLANDS.
11:19:25PM AT SOME POINT THE LOTS CAME INTO COMMON OWNERSHIP.
11:19:28PM THAT MAKES THEM ONE ZONING LOT AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE
11:19:31PM TODAY.
11:19:32PM THIS IS A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT.
11:19:36PM THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TALK ABOUT WHAT A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT
11:19:38PM IS AND WHAT A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT ISN'T.
11:19:40PM A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT IS ACTUALLY A TOOL THAT THE CITY
11:19:43PM PROVIDES WHICH PROVIDES THE GREATEST LEVEL OF ASSURANCE THAT
11:19:47PM WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET.
11:19:49PM PROVIDES THE GREATER ASSURANCE THAN A EUCLIDEAN DISTRICT
11:19:53PM BECAUSE YOU SET IN THE PLAN DEVELOPMENT WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO
11:19:56PM SEE.
11:19:56PM WE ARE SETTING AS NEAR AS WE CAN TO THE RS 75 STANDARD SO
11:20:02PM NEIGHBORS WILL FEEL MINIMAL IF ANY DIFFERENCE AT ALL.
11:20:04PM THE LOT SIZE FOR RS 75 IS 7500.
11:20:09PM WE FAR EXCEED THAT.
11:20:10PM WHAT WE DO NOT MEET IS THE FRONT LOT WIDTH BECAUSE OF THE
11:20:13PM IRREGULAR SHAPE OF THE LOT.
11:20:16PM THERE IS NO REAR LOT REQUIREMENT, BUT WE FAR EXCEED WHAT THE
11:20:20PM FRONT WOULD BE.
11:20:20PM THE LOT DEPTH IS HUNDRED REQUIRED IN RS 75 AND SOMEWHERE
11:20:26PM BETWEEN 124 AT THE SMALLEST AND 168 AT THE LARGEST.
11:20:30PM THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF CONCERN ABOUT THE SETBACKS.
11:20:33PM WE ARE SETTING OUR SETBACKS AT RS 75 STANDARDS WHICH IS 25
11:20:37PM IN THE FRONT, 7 ON THE SIDE, 20 IN THE REAR, EXCEPT FOR THE
11:20:43PM EXISTING STRUCTURE WHICH WAS BUILT AT A THREE FOOT SOMETHING
11:20:46PM LOT LINE.
11:20:47PM WE'RE REQUIRED TO ASK FOR A THREE FOOT SETBACK.
11:20:49PM HOWEVER I WANT TO MAKE IT VERY CLEAR THAT THE CONDITIONS OF
11:20:52PM THIS PLANNED DEVELOPMENT STATE THAT IF THE EXISTING HOME
11:20:54PM GOES AWAY OR DESTROYED IN EXCESS OF 75% THAT THEN WE GO TO 7
11:21:00PM FEET CONSISTENT WITH THE RS 75.
11:21:03PM THE EXISTING HOME IS A LEGAL NONCONFORMING STRUCTURE WITH
11:21:06PM ALL LEGAL NONCONFORMING STRUCTURES, IF THEY GO AWAY, THEN
11:21:10PM YOU'LL MEET REGULAR SETBACKS AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE
11:21:12PM COMMITTING TO THIS IN PLAN DEVELOPMENT.
11:21:14PM WHAT ARE WE REALLY ASKING FOR?
11:21:19PM A LOT WIDTH REDUCTION OF AROUND 5%, LITTLE BIT AROUND FOUR
11:21:24PM IN ONE, LITTLE LESS THAN SIX ON THE OTHER.
11:21:26PM AND WE ARE PROVIDING A LOT SIZE THAT IS 154% GREATER THAN IS
11:21:32PM REQUIRED UNDER THE CODE AND ON THE SMALLER LOT IS 138%
11:21:37PM LARGER THAN IS REQUIRED UNDER THE CODE.
11:21:39PM WE'RE THROWING A LOT OF NUMBERS AT YOU.
11:21:41PM I KNOW THAT CAN BE KIND OF HARD TO TRACK WHAT THAT ACTUALLY
11:21:44PM FEELS LIKE SO WE HAD THE ARCHITECT DRAW UP SOME DRAWINGS.
11:21:48PM THIS IS THE OVERALL LOT BOUNDARY.
11:21:50PM THE GREEN AREA IS THE AREA REQUIRED FOR AN RS 75 AND THE
11:21:55PM PEACH IS ALL THE EXCESS PROPERTY THAT IS NOT REQUIRED THAT
11:21:59PM WILL BE PART OF THE LOTS.
11:22:01PM I WANT TO MAKE IT VERY CLEAR, EACH ONE OF THESE IS AN RS 75
11:22:05PM LOT.
11:22:06PM TWO OF THESE LOTS FIT VERY CLEANLY IN HERE BUT FOR THE
11:22:09PM IRREGULAR SHAPE OF THE LOTS, WHICH LEADS US TO MY NEXT
11:22:15PM ILLUSTRATION, WHAT IS THAT REDUCTION IN SIDE SETBACK LOOK
11:22:20PM LIKE?
11:22:20PM WHAT WILL THAT FEEL LIKE TO THE NEIGHBORS?
11:22:22PM I HAVE IN HERE THE ARROWS, BECAUSE THEY ARE SO SMALL, IT'S
11:22:26PM ALMOST HARD TO SEE.
11:22:28PM OVER HERE.
11:22:30PM I ALSO WANT TO CALL TO YOUR ATTENTION THAT WE HAVE THEM
11:22:32PM DRAWN AT THE FRONT OF THE LOT.
11:22:34PM THEY ARE ACTUALLY NOT REQUIRED TO BE AT THE FRONT OF THE
11:22:36PM LOT.
11:22:37PM THEY ARE REQUIRED TO BE AT THE FRONT SETBACK, WHICH IS AT 20
11:22:42PM FEET, 25.
11:22:44PM AND THEN HALFWAY UP UNTIL YOU MEET HALF OF YOUR REQUIRED LOT
11:22:52PM AREA.
11:22:52PM SO WE JUST WANTED YOU TO SEE THE MINIMAL IMPACT THIS WILL
11:22:57PM HAVE ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
11:22:58PM IF YOU WERE WALKING BY, BIKING BY, RUNNING BY AND/OR BOATING
11:23:03PM BY, AS THE CASE MAY BE ON DAVIS ISLAND, ALTHOUGH THIS FRONTS
11:23:06PM A ROAD, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO FEEL THIS DIFFERENCE.
11:23:09PM WE WERE DISAPPOINTED NOT TO GET SUPPORT FROM STAFF, BUT WE
11:23:13PM DO UNDERSTAND THAT STAFF HAS TO BE CONSISTENT IN HOW THEY
11:23:16PM ANALYZE ALL THESE CASES.
11:23:18PM WHAT THEY HAVE IS A VERY GENERAL TOOL THAT WORKS REALLY WELL
11:23:21PM IN 60/50 LOT SPLITS AND THE GRID SYSTEM THAT YOU HAVE IN
11:23:24PM MUCH, NOT ALL, BUT MUCH OF SOUTH TAMPA.
11:23:28PM IT DOESN'T WORK AS WELL WHEN YOU'RE DEALING WITH THE
11:23:31PM CURVILINEAR NATURE OF DAVIS ISLANDS.
11:23:34PM AS YOU CAN SEE THEY ANALYZED THIS PORTION, BUT WE'RE LOSING
11:23:39PM A LOT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
11:23:40PM WE'RE LOSING OUR CANAL NEIGHBORS.
11:23:42PM WE'RE LOSING THE PEOPLE OVER TO THE EAST OF US, WHICH ARE
11:23:48PM ALSO RS 75 PROPERTIES.
11:23:51PM OVER HERE IS RS 60.
11:23:52PM THIS IS RS 75 WITH A COUPLE OF POCKETS OF RS 60 VERY CLOSE
11:23:56PM TO US.
11:23:58PM WE'RE NOT CRITICIZING THE TOOL.
11:24:00PM WE UNDERSTAND THAT IS THE TOOL THEY USE.
11:24:02PM IT'S JUST NOT AN EFFECTIVE TOOL IN ILLUSTRATING WHAT'S GOING
11:24:06PM ON IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD.
11:24:07PM WE WOULD SUGGEST THAT 1320 WHICH IS THE WALKABLE DISTANCE IS
11:24:10PM A BETTER TOOL IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD.
11:24:12PM I KNOW THAT THAN HAS ASKED CITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER REVISING
11:24:16PM THE REGULATIONS TO ACTUALLY HAVE THE 1320 BE WHAT YOU LOOK
11:24:20PM AT WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE REZONINGS THAT GO FOR LOT
11:24:23PM SPLIT.
11:24:24PM SOME OF THESE NUMBERS ARE KIND OF CONFUSING TO ME AND I'M
11:24:29PM NOT SURE EXACTLY WHERE THEY ARE GETTING THEIR NUMBERS FROM.
11:24:31PM I DON'T KNOW IF THEY HAVE THE ACTUAL NUMBER AT THE SETBACK,
11:24:34PM BUT SOME OF THESE LOTS I KNOW THAT THEY ARE PLATTED LOTS AND
11:24:38PM THEY SHOULD -- THEY ARE TWO PLATTED 40-FOOT LOTS.
11:24:41PM SO THAT WOULD BE 80.
11:24:43PM LOOKS LIKE THEY MAY BE USING LOT AVERAGING.
11:24:46PM A GRID SYSTEM WHERE EVERYTHING IS RECTANGULAR WHAT YOU HAVE
11:24:48PM IN THE FRONT OF THE LOT WILL BE PRETTY MUCH WHAT YOU HAVE AT
11:24:51PM YOUR FRONT SETBACK BUT THAT'S NOT THE CASE IN DAVIS ISLANDS.
11:24:54PM IF WE WERE ABLE TO USE LOT AVERAGING, WE HAVE 151-FOOT LOT
11:24:59PM AVERAGE AND WE WOULD BE ABLE TO SPLIT THE LOTS
11:25:02PM ADMINISTRATIVELY AND HAVE AN EXTRA FOOT TO SPARE.
11:25:05PM WHAT THIS LOT -- WHAT THIS MAP DOES SHOW IS THAT THERE IS A
11:25:11PM LARGE DIVERSE AMOUNT OF LOT SIZES, LOT AREAS AND LOT TYPES
11:25:15PM IN DAVIS ISLANDS.
11:25:17PM IF YOU WERE TO UPDATE THIS MAP AFTER THE LOT SPLIT, WE WOULD
11:25:23PM BE THE BROWN COLOR WHICH IS DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM US.
11:25:27PM WE WOULD BE EXACTLY THE SAME COLOR AS THESE TWO PROPERTIES
11:25:30PM RIGHT HERE AND WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT COLORS ON THE MAP, IF
11:25:33PM I WAS TO HAND IT TO YOU QUICKLY, I'M NOT SURE YOU WOULD
11:25:36PM EASILY QUICKLY IDENTIFY WHAT THE CHANGE WAS.
11:25:39PM THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT THIS ANALYSIS THAT STAFF DOES
11:25:43PM AND AGAIN REALLY WORKS WELL IN 50/60 GRID AREAS OF THE CITY,
11:25:47PM IT'S NOT TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE DIFFERENCE, THE PERCENTAGE
11:25:51PM DIFFERENCE THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR.
11:25:52PM WHEN YOU'RE GOING FROM AN RS 60 TO R 50 OR A PD WITH A
11:25:57PM 50-FOOT WITH RS 60 STANDARDS, YOU'RE DOING 16.6% DIFFERENCE
11:26:02PM EVERY TIME.
11:26:04PM EVERY TIME.
11:26:04PM SO YOU'RE NOT NECESSARILY TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE DIFFERENCE
11:26:09PM THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR HERE.
11:26:11PM WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR, AS I SHOWED BEFORE, IS NOT JUST 5%,
11:26:15PM BUT 5% ON A VERY LARGE LOT AS I THINK WAS NOTED EARLIER IN
11:26:20PM THE PICTURES.
11:26:21PM AGAIN, WE WOULD SUGGEST THAT A BETTER COMPARISON WOULD BE
11:26:27PM THE 1320 WHICH I TOOK THIS FROM THE STAFF REPORT.
11:26:32PM THIS CIRCLE IS A LITTLE HARD TO SEE.
11:26:34PM AND I ALSO HAVE, WE DID PULL THAT INFORMATION FROM THE
11:26:38PM PROPERTY APPRAISER.
11:26:38PM AND I WILL SUBMIT THAT ALSO INTO THE RECORD.
11:26:41PM THE LOT THAT IS THERE NOW IS 95% LARGER THAN THE REST OF THE
11:26:45PM LOTS IN THE AREA.
11:26:48PM IF ANYTHING, THE EXISTING LOT IS THE ONE THAT DOES NOT FIT
11:26:50PM THE TYPICAL FORMAT OF WHAT YOU SEE IN THE GENERAL AREA.
11:26:54PM THE NEW LOTS WE'RE CREATING ARE LARGER THAN APPROXIMATELY
11:26:56PM 50% OF THE LOTS IN THE AREA.
11:26:58PM THEY WILL NOT BE OUT OF PLACE.
11:27:02PM I DID WANT TO ALSO MENTION THAT MR. AND MRS. HOTCHKISS HAVE
11:27:09PM DONE A LOT OF OUTREACH.
11:27:11PM THEY MADE PHONE CALLS, KNOCKED ON DOORS, MET WITH NEIGHBORS,
11:27:15PM AS FAR AS THE NEIGHBORS WERE WILLING AND ABLE TO DO THAT.
11:27:17PM I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE DAVIS ISLANDS CIVIC ASSOCIATION,
11:27:21PM ALTHOUGH THEY ARE NOT SUPPORTING THIS REQUEST, THEY WERE
11:27:23PM INCREDIBLY GRACIOUS WITH THEIR TIME AND ALLOWED US TIME ON
11:27:25PM THEIR AGENDA TO MEET WITH THEM, AND THEY ALSO HAD, MY CLIENT
11:27:29PM ALSO HAD A COMMUNITY MEETING ON-SITE AND ALTHOUGH IT WAS
11:27:31PM DISAPPOINTINGLY SPARSELY ATTENDED, WE WERE ABLE I THINK TO
11:27:35PM CHANGE SOME HEARTS AND MINDS BY EXPLAINING WHAT THE PD DOES.
11:27:39PM WHEN WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT, WE FELT GOOD ABOUT
11:27:42PM DOING THAT.
11:27:43PM I WOULD LIKE TO RESERVE ANY OTHER TIME I HAVE FOR REBUTTAL
11:27:46PM BECAUSE I KNOW WE DO HAVE SOME NEIGHBORS WHO ARE HERE AND
11:27:49PM CONCERNED.
11:27:50PM THANK YOU.
11:27:50PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
11:27:51PM ANY QUESTIONS?
11:27:53PM ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC WISH TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM?
11:27:57PM THIS IS ITEM NUMBER 5?
11:27:59PM ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC?
11:28:00PM I SEE THAT YOU WERE ALL SWORN IN.
11:28:06PM COME ON UP.
11:28:06PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
11:28:08PM YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
11:28:12PM >> STERLING McLEMORE.
11:28:15PM MY WIFE AND I LIVE NEXT STORE AT 14 LADOGA.
11:28:21PM WE'RE ASKING COUNCIL TO VOTE AGAINST THE REZONING REQUEST
11:28:23PM FOR FOLLOWING REASONS.
11:28:25PM WE MADE A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT BY PURCHASING AND RESTORING
11:28:27PM OUR HISTORIC HOME.
11:28:28PM SPLITTING THE LOT WOULD NEGATIVELY IMPACT OUR INVESTMENT AND
11:28:31PM WE'RE COUNTING ON THIS BOARD TO PROTECT US.
11:28:34PM TWO, THE PD IS A WORK-AROUND CURRENT ZONING LAWS AND
11:28:38PM ALLOWING THIS REQUEST ESTABLISHES A GATEWAY FOR FUTURE
11:28:41PM DEVELOPMENT ON DAVIS ISLAND WHICH WOULD DESTROY IT, IN MY
11:28:43PM OPINION.
11:28:44PM OUR ISLAND IS A CROWN JEWEL OF TAMPA REAL ESTATE BEING
11:28:47PM CENTERED ON ALL THE AMAZING WORK THE CITY OF TAMPA HAS DONE
11:28:50PM WITH THE DOWNTOWN WATERFRONT.
11:28:51PM THE ISLAND NEEDS TO BE PROTECTED AND PRESERVED.
11:28:54PM THREE, THERE'S NO GUARANTEE TO THIS BOARD THAT SHOULD YOU
11:28:57PM ACCOMMODATE THE REQUEST BASED ON THE PLEA IN THEIR LETTER
11:29:01PM THAT IT'S NECESSARY IN SAVING THE HISTORIC HOME, THAT IT
11:29:05PM WILL, IN FACT, BE SAVED.
11:29:08PM FOUR, THE PD ESTABLISHES A THREE FOOT SETBACK ON OUR
11:29:11PM PROPERTY LINE WHICH WOULD NEGATIVELY AFFECT OUR PROPERTY
11:29:14PM VALUE AND OUR PROPERTY RIGHTS.
11:29:16PM IN THE LETTER SUBMITTED BY THE HOTCHKISS FAMILY, IT'S BEING
11:29:21PM PRESENTED THAT IT'S NECESSARY TO SPLIT THE HOME IN ORDER TO
11:29:25PM RAISE CAPITAL IN ORDER TO RESTORE THIS HOUSE AND SAVE THE
11:29:28PM HISTORIC HOME THAT'S ON THE SITE.
11:29:30PM THEY PURCHASED THE HOME IN ORDER TO DO THAT, AS THEY STATED,
11:29:36PM AFTER MUCH DELIBERATION THEY DECIDED TO MOVE ON AND NOT
11:29:40PM RENOVATE THE HOUSE.
11:29:41PM I UNDERSTAND WHY THEY WANT TO SPLIT IT.
11:29:46PM IT'S TO RECOUP THEIR INVESTMENT.
11:29:49PM THEY MADE A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT PURCHASING THE HOME.
11:29:51PM THEY HAVE NOT HAD A BUYER WILLING TO PAY THAT SAME PRICE.
11:29:55PM THE MARKET HAS CHANGED.
11:29:56PM AND THEY ARE LOOKING FOR THIS BOARD TO ENABLE THEM TO SPLIT
11:29:59PM THE LOT TO RECOUP THEIR INVESTMENT.
11:30:01PM I'D LIKE TO ASK YOU TO CONSIDER WHEN YOU'RE CONSIDERING THIS
11:30:05PM REQUEST, SINCE THEY OWN NEARLY $12 MILLION IN PERSONAL
11:30:09PM HOMES, DO THEY NEED THE MONEY TO RENOVATE THE HOUSE OR DO
11:30:14PM THEY WANT THE SPLIT FOR FINANCIAL GAIN?
11:30:16PM IF THEY WANTED TO SAVE THE HOME, WHY DIDN'T THEY RENOVATE IT
11:30:20PM INSTEAD OF MOVING?
11:30:20PM WHY DID THEY PULL AND RECENTLY EXTEND -- THEY RECENTLY
11:30:28PM EXTENDED THE DEMOLITION PERMIT ON THE HOME -- IF THEY WANT
11:30:30PM TO SAVE IT.
11:30:30PM WHY DID THEY ACCEPT AN OFFER ON THE WHOLE PROPERTY BASED ON
11:30:33PM THIS SPLIT GOING THROUGH?
11:30:34PM IS THE STORY A PLOY TO PULL ON THE HEARTSTRINGS OF YOUR
11:30:37PM BOARD TO SAVE THE HOME IN ORDER TO GET A DEVELOPMENT DEAL
11:30:40PM DONE?
11:30:40PM IF YOU ARE GOING TO CONSIDER THE REQUEST, THEN AT LEAST
11:30:44PM DEMAND ASSURANCES THAT THE HOME BE SAVED LIKE PUTTING IT ON
11:30:47PM A NATIONAL HISTORIC REGISTER.
11:30:48PM MOREOVER, PLEASE CONSIDER THE PEOPLE IN OPPOSITION TO THIS
11:30:54PM ARE THE ACTUAL SURROUNDING NEIGHBORS WHO WILL LIVE WITH THE
11:30:58PM CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR DECISION TODAY.
11:30:59PM PLEASE PROTECTION US.
11:31:00PM PLEASE VOTE NO.
11:31:01PM THIS LOT IS NOT LEGALLY LARGE ENOUGH TO SPLIT AND THE
11:31:07PM SURROUNDING NEIGHBORS DO NOT WANT IT.
11:31:08PM THANK YOU.
11:31:08PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
11:31:09PM NEXT SPEAKER.
11:31:13PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
11:31:16PM >> MICHAEL PELORI.
11:31:18PM 56 LADOGA AVENUE.
11:31:20PM MY GRANDPARENTS, MY GREAT-GRANDPARENTS BUILT HOMES.
11:31:24PM THEY ALL LIVED ON LADOGA AVENUE.
11:31:26PM I GREW UP ON LADOGA.
11:31:27PM MY DAD GREW UP ON LADOGA AND NOW MY TWO KIDS, AGE 2 AND 4
11:31:32PM ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO GROW UP ON OUR WONDERFUL STREET.
11:31:36PM TO SAY THIS PROJECT IS UNPOPULAR ON OUR STREET IS
11:31:38PM UNDERSTATEMENT.
11:31:38PM NO LADOGA RESIDENTS I'VE SPOKEN TO SUPPORT THIS.
11:31:42PM GRANTING THE REQUEST TO PD THIS PROPERTY AND DEVELOP TWO
11:31:44PM HOMES IS AN UNNECESSARY BURDEN ON LADOGA NEIGHBORS, THE
11:31:48PM RESIDENTS THAT ACTUALLY LIVE ON THE STREET AND DRIVE AND
11:31:51PM WALK BY THIS PROPOSED PROJECT EVERY DAY.
11:31:53PM THIS LOT IS ONE HOUSE OFF OF A VERY SHARP CORNER AND WE
11:31:57PM REALLY DON'T NEED TO NAVIGATE ANY MORE LAWN CARE COMPANIES,
11:32:02PM TRUCKS, AND SERVICE VEHICLES THAN WE ALREADY HAVE TO.
11:32:05PM THERE'S NO HARDSHIP WITH THIS REQUEST.
11:32:07PM WHAT IS PROPOSED IS A DEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
11:32:10PM IN RESPECT TO THE EXISTING HOMES ON THE BLOCK, TWO HOMES DO
11:32:13PM NOT FIT ON THIS PROPERTY.
11:32:14PM TWO HOMES ARE NOT PERMITTABLE ON THIS LOT.
11:32:17PM BEYOND THIS TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE THERE IS NO ACTUAL
11:32:20PM SAFEGUARD TO SAVE THIS HISTORIC HOME AND RESTORE IT TO ITS
11:32:24PM GRANDEUR.
11:32:25PM GRANTING THIS REQUEST TO PD WOULD SET UP A HORRIBLE
11:32:28PM PRECEDENT FOR OUR QUIET STREET AND DAVIS ISLANDS AS A WHOLE.
11:32:31PM I WOULD LIKE MY KIDS TO CONTINUE GROWING UP ON A STREET THAT
11:32:35PM AT LEAST SLIGHTLY RESEMBLES THE LADOGA OF MY CHILDHOOD.
11:32:39PM THANK YOU.
11:32:39PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:32:40PM NEXT SPEAKER, NECESSARY, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
11:32:42PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
11:32:45PM >> ROB NATION.
11:32:47PM 7 LADOGA AVENUE.
11:32:48PM MOVED IN IN 1998.
11:32:54PM BEEN THERE 24 YEARS.
11:32:56PM MY WIFE CHRISTIE AND I RAISED TWO KIDS THERE.
11:33:00PM AND WE LIVE DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM 10 LADOGA
11:33:06PM AVENUE.
11:33:06PM AS YOU ALL KNOW, LADOGA HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF THE MORE
11:33:10PM BEAUTIFUL STREETS ON THE ISLAND.
11:33:12PM LARGER LOTS, LARGER GREENSPACE, AND I FEEL TO SUBDIVIDE THE
11:33:20PM CURRENT LOCATION WOULD HAVE AN ADVERSE EFFECT ON THE
11:33:22PM ISLANDS.
11:33:23PM JUST THE WINDING STREETS, MORE CARS IN THE STREET, JUST
11:33:28PM MAKES IT MORE UNSAFE.
11:33:30PM WHEN I MOVED THERE IN 1998, YOU COULD LAY OUT AND SUNBATHE
11:33:34PM IN THE STREET.
11:33:36PM MY KIDS, I WOULD PUT CONES OUT AND THEY COULD RIDE AND LEARN
11:33:39PM TO RIDE THEIR BIKES.
11:33:42PM YOU CAN'T DO THAT TODAY.
11:33:44PM IT'S ONLY GOING TO INCREASINGLY GET WORSE AS WE BUILD THESE
11:33:49PM LOTS UP.
11:33:50PM IT'S GOING TO SET A PRECEDENT -- THE DENSITY, I DID ABOUT
11:33:58PM CONFORMITY AND LOTS -- I UNDERSTAND ABOUT CONFORMITY AND
11:34:02PM LOTS, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING WE HAVE TO PRESERVE AND WE HAVE
11:34:05PM TO LOOK AT THE FUTURE, AND I JUST FEEL LIKE IT WOULD HAVE AN
11:34:09PM ADVERSE EFFECT ON THE COMMUNITY.
11:34:14PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:34:15PM YES, MA'AM.
11:34:16PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
11:34:17PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
11:34:18PM >> HI.
11:34:19PM MY NAME IS CHRISTIE NATION.
11:34:20PM THAT WAS MY HUSBAND.
11:34:22PM MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE LIVED AT 7 LADOGA FOR 24 YEARS.
11:34:26PM I AM OPPOSED TO THE REZONING OF 10 LADOGA.
11:34:29PM MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE RAISED TWO CHILDREN ON LADOGA AVENUE.
11:34:32PM ONE OF WHOM STILL LIVES WITH US AS SHE IS AUTISTIC AND WE
11:34:38PM JUST HAD TO TAKE GUARDIANSHIP OF HER.
11:34:40PM WE HAVE STAYED AT LADOGA AVENUE BECAUSE OF THE QUIET, LOWER
11:34:44PM TRAFFIC VOLUME AND OUR DAUGHTER FEELS COMFORTABLE DAY TO
11:34:48PM DAY.
11:34:49PM PLEASE DON'T LET THEM BUILD TWO HOMES ON ONE OFFICIAL LOT.
11:34:53PM IT WILL SET A BAD PRECEDENT AND THE SAFETY WILL GO DOWN.
11:34:58PM PLEASE SAVE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AS WE ARE UNDER THE IMPRESSION
11:35:01PM THAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SAVED THE LOT BECAUSE THAT WAS
11:35:05PM THEIR DREAM HOUSE.
11:35:07PM JUST PLEASE HELP US.
11:35:11PM THANK YOU.
11:35:12PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:35:13PM NEXT SPEAKER, YES, SIR, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
11:35:15PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
11:35:18PM >> VINCENT PELORI.
11:35:21PM 58 LADOGA.
11:35:22PM I'VE LIVED AT 58 PRETTY MUCH ALL MY LIFE WITH VERY FEW YEARS
11:35:29PM OF EXCEPTION THROUGH THE COLLEGE TIMES.
11:35:32PM I BELIEVE THE STAFF HAS GOT EVERYTHING DOWN PAT.
11:35:44PM OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, OUR INNER NEIGHBORHOOD, THE PEOPLE THAT
11:35:48PM YOU HAVE SEEN AND THE MANY THAT WERE HERE EARLIER THAT
11:35:55PM COULDN'T STAY WERE WITHIN OUR, I DON'T KNOW, EIGHT HOUSE
11:36:01PM BOUNDARY THAT WERE VERY AGAINST THIS.
11:36:07PM EVERYONE NEARBY IS AGAINST IT.
11:36:10PM MAYBE YOU HAVE LETTERS FROM PEOPLE IN CARROLLWOOD, GOSH
11:36:14PM KNOWS, OR OTHER PARTS OF DAVIS ISLAND, POSSIBLY, BUT THE
11:36:18PM PEOPLE IN OUR IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORHOOD DO NOT WANT THIS, DO
11:36:22PM NOT FEEL IT'S RIGHT, AND WE'RE ASKING THE COUNCIL TO NOT
11:36:27PM APPROVE IT.
11:36:29PM THANK YOU.
11:36:30PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:36:31PM YES, MA'AM.
11:36:33PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
11:36:34PM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
11:36:35PM >> CYNTHIA HOLLOWAY.
11:36:37PM 184 BALTIC CIRCLE.
11:36:39PM I DON'T LIVE ON LADOGA BUT I DO LIVE ON DAVIS ISLAND.
11:36:42PM I WOULD BE HERE TONIGHT TO SPEAK FOR THE REST OF THE ISLAND
11:36:45PM THAT WHEN THIS PROPERTY OWNER ACQUIRED THIS PROPERTY, THEY
11:36:48PM KNEW WHAT THE ZONING WAS, R 75.
11:36:51PM I ASK THAT YOU KEEP THAT TO KEEP THE INTEGRITY OF THE ISLAND
11:36:55PM AND FOR THE REST OF THE ISLAND.
11:36:57PM I DON'T LIVE ON LADOGA BUT I HAVE OTHER HOUSES AROUND ME
11:36:59PM THAT WILL BE FACING THE SAME ISSUE SOON AND I'D LIKE TO SEE
11:37:03PM YOU DO THE RIGHT THING AND FOLLOW WHAT THE RULES ARE.
11:37:05PM HE KNEW WHAT THE RULES WERE WHEN HE BOUGHT THE PROPERTY AND
11:37:09PM I THINK WE SHOULD ABIDE BY THEM NOW.
11:37:11PM THANK YOU.
11:37:11PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:37:12PM YES, SIR.
11:37:15PM >> MY NAME IS EVAN REUBINSON.
11:37:18PM 9 LADOGA AVENUE, DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM 10 LADOGA.
11:37:23PM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A FEW POINTS RATHER THAN BORE YOU WITH
11:37:26PM REGURGITATION OF MY LETTER, ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE IN
11:37:30PM OPPOSITION TO THIS ARE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY THIS MATTER.
11:37:33PM ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE WRITTEN LETTERS IN SUPPORT, ASIDE
11:37:36PM FROM MAYBE ONE OR TWO, DON'T HAVE A VESTED INTEREST IN THIS
11:37:40PM NEIGHBORHOOD.
11:37:41PM SOME OF THEM LIVE IN DIFFERENT COUNTIES.
11:37:43PM ALTHOUGH JOHN HAS A LOT OF FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS, THE
11:37:47PM MAJORITY OF THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT AT ALL AFFECTED BY THIS
11:37:50PM REZONING.
11:37:50PM WE ARE.
11:37:51PM OUR COMMUNITY.
11:37:52PM I GREW UP IN A 1929 HOME IN CLEARWATER.
11:37:55PM IT WAS BUILT BY THE GRANDSON OF THE GUY THAT BUILT THE
11:37:58PM BROOKLYN BRIDGE.
11:37:59PM DONALD ROEBLING.
11:38:01PM HE BUILT THIS HOME, AND WE PUT IT ON THE HISTORIC TRUST
11:38:05PM LIST, NOT BECAUSE IT WAS THE MOST ECONOMICAL THING TO DO,
11:38:09PM BUT BECAUSE IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
11:38:11PM AND WE PRESERVED THAT HOME MY FAMILY AND I.
11:38:14PM I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY THIS HOME, IF IT DOES HAVE HISTORIC
11:38:18PM VALUE, WHY IT HAS NOT BEEN PURSUED AND WHY IT HASN'T BEEN
11:38:23PM PUT ON THIS HISTORIC PRESERVATION LIST.
11:38:26PM IN FACT, TO MY KNOWLEDGE, THERE'S BEEN A DEMO PERMIT THAT'S
11:38:29PM BEEN PULLED.
11:38:30PM SO THE NARRATIVE OR IF I WILL SAY THE FALLACY OF THIS HOUSE
11:38:35PM BEING BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE I THINK IS JUST THAT, A FALLACY.
11:38:39PM JOHN TO ME HAS POSITED MULTIPLE DIFFERENT THINGS.
11:38:44PM ON ONE HAND HE WANTS TO KEEP THE HOUSE AND RESTORE IT, BUT
11:38:47PM LIKE I SAID, HE HAS A DEMO PERMIT ON IT.
11:38:51PM ON THE OTHER HAND, HE SAYS HE CAN'T AFFORD TO RESTORE THE
11:38:54PM HOME AND NEEDS TO SUBDIVIDE IT YET BOUGHT A $7 MILLION
11:38:58PM WATERFRONT ESTATE ON DAVIS ISLAND.
11:38:59PM IF THIS REZONING IS APPROVED, WHAT'S TO STOP ANYONE FROM
11:39:03PM BUYING MULTIPLE PROPERTIES ON DAVIS ISLAND AND THEN
11:39:06PM SUBDIVIDING THEM FOR FINANCIAL GAIN?
11:39:09PM HUMBLY IN CLOSING, I WOULD ASK THAT THE CITY COUNCIL USES
11:39:13PM ITS WISDOM AND DENIES THE REZONING OF 10 LADOGA AVENUE IN
11:39:17PM THE INTEREST OF PRESERVING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, ITS QUAINTNESS,
11:39:21PM ITS CHARM, ITS EXCLUSIVITY AND ITS PRIVACY AND FAMILY
11:39:25PM FRIENDLY NATURE FOR MANY YEARS TO COME.
11:39:27PM THANK YOU.
11:39:28PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:39:29PM NEXT SPEAKER, AND THEN WE HAVE ONE ONLINE INDIVIDUAL.
11:39:35PM >> GOOD EVENING, MR. CHAIR, COUNCIL MEMBERS.
11:39:37PM BOB ABERGER.
11:39:39PM 540 BOSPHOROUS AVENUE, DAVIS ISLAND.
11:39:42PM I'VE BEEN SWORN.
11:39:43PM I'M HERE REPRESENTING THE DAVIS ISLAND CIVIC ASSOCIATION AND
11:39:47PM ITS BOARD AND AS THEIR ZONING CHAIR.
11:39:49PM MY SMART WATCH JUST TOLD ME IT'S TIME FOR BED, SO I WILL BE
11:39:53PM BRIEF.
11:39:53PM AGAIN, I APPRECIATE YOUR SERVICE AND YOUR PATIENCE.
11:39:56PM OUR OPPOSITION IS STRAIGHTFORWARD.
11:39:58PM WE BELIEVE THE USE OF A PD SETS A BAD PRECEDENT.
11:40:02PM I'VE SPOKEN PASSIONATELY IN FRONT OF THIS BODY AND THE
11:40:06PM VARIANCE BOARD OF THE CHALLENGES YOU FACE ONCE WE BELIEVE
11:40:09PM OCCASIONALLY IS A BAD DECISION HAS BEEN MADE.
11:40:12PM I HAVE BEEN APPROACHED BY MANY RESIDENTS ASKING ME, WOULD I
11:40:15PM SUPPORT A PD?
11:40:16PM WOULD THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION SUPPORT A PD?
11:40:19PM BECAUSE THERE ARE VERY FEW REGULAR LOTS ON DAVIS ISLAND.
11:40:23PM IT'S A SERIES OF PIE SHAPES.
11:40:26PM WE BELIEVE THAT ONCE THIS PRECEDENT IS SET YOU WILL SEE A
11:40:30PM FLOODGATE OF REQUESTS BY DEVELOPERS, BY RESIDENTS TO DO JUST
11:40:34PM THIS FOR THE FINANCIAL GAIN AND OPPORTUNITY A LOT SPLIT
11:40:38PM AFFORDS.
11:40:39PM THERE IS STRONG OPPOSITION FROM ALL OF THE ADJACENT
11:40:42PM NEIGHBORS.
11:40:43PM DAVIS ISLAND, IT IS UNIQUE.
11:40:45PM IT'S SPECIAL.
11:40:46PM WE FIGHT HARD TO PROTECT ITS CHARACTER BUT IT'S NOT
11:40:50PM HOMOGENEOUS.
11:40:51PM THIS NEIGHBORHOOD IS A SPECIAL NEIGHBORHOOD.
11:40:53PM IT'S A GRAND NEIGHBORHOOD.
11:40:55PM THE PEOPLE THAT INVESTED IN IT INVESTED IN IT FOR A REASON.
11:40:58PM WE BELIEVE THAT OUR OPPOSITION IS SPECIFIC TO HELP THEM
11:41:01PM PROTECT THEIR PROPERTY RIGHTS AND THEIR PROPERTY VALUES.
11:41:05PM THE MANY LETTERS OF SUPPORT I BELIEVE COPIED ON ALL OF THEM,
11:41:10PM I DON'T BELIEVE WERE TERRIBLY RELEVANT.
11:41:13PM DIDN'T HAVE VESTED INTEREST.
11:41:14PM FINALLY, THE USE OF THIS IS A FINANCIAL VEHICLE WE BELIEVE
11:41:18PM IS WITHOUT MERIT.
11:41:20PM AND I WON'T GO INTO ANY OF THE DETAILS OF THAT.
11:41:22PM A LOT SPLIT IS A WINDFALL.
11:41:25PM IT'S A DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY.
11:41:26PM I REQUEST THAT YOU NOT OPEN THIS FLOODGATE, THAT YOU NOT SET
11:41:31PM THIS PRECEDENT.
11:41:32PM THERE'S NO ASSURANCE OF THIS HOME BEING SAVED.
11:41:35PM IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO SAVE AN HISTORIC AT-GRADE HOME ON
11:41:39PM DAVIS ISLAND WHEN YOU CAN'T EVEN INSURE THEM.
11:41:42PM SO I BELIEVE IT IS PREDOMINANTLY A PRECEDENT FOR SETTING
11:41:47PM FURTHER DEVELOPMENT PLAYS.
11:41:49PM WHILE THE DIVIDED LOTS WOULD BE LARGE AND I EMBRACE THAT, IT
11:41:52PM IS THE FRONTAGE THAT IS NOT SUFFICIENT.
11:41:55PM IT IS THE FRONTAGE THAT IS THE CHARACTER OF THE
11:41:57PM NEIGHBORHOOD, THE CHARACTER OF THE ISLAND, AND THE VALUE
11:42:00PM THAT WE'RE TRYING TO PROTECT WITH REGARD TO THE ADJACENT AND
11:42:06PM APPROXIMATE NEIGHBORS.
11:42:08PM NONE OF THESE ARE EASY DECISIONS AND I APPRECIATE THE
11:42:10PM CHALLENGES YOU ALL FACE.
11:42:11PM BUT WE RESPECTFULLY REQUEST YOU OPPOSE THIS EVENING'S PD.
11:42:15PM THANK YOU.
11:42:15PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
11:42:17PM YES, SIR.
11:42:19PM >> GOOD EVENING.
11:42:20PM I CERTAINLY THANK YOU ALL FOR WHAT YOU DO AFTER I'VE BEEN
11:42:23PM HERE SINCE 5:00 TODAY.
11:42:27PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU'VE BEEN HERE SINCE 5?
11:42:30PM >> YES.
11:42:32PM >> ME TOO.
11:42:33PM [ LAUGHTER ]
11:42:34PM >> HARRY HEDGES.
11:42:36PM I LIVE AT 574 MARMORA.
11:42:39PM I BOUGHT THAT HOUSE WITH MY SISTER IN 1971.
11:42:44PM WE TALK ABOUT THE CHARACTER OF DAVIS ISLAND.
11:42:48PM WE TALK ABOUT THE BIG ESTATE HOMES.
11:42:53PM WE TALK ABOUT, AND, FIRST OF ALL, I HAVE DONE THREE HISTORIC
11:42:58PM PROPERTIES.
11:42:59PM THE GOOD THING ABOUT HISTORIC PROPERTY, IT'S HISTORIC.
11:43:05PM THE BAD THING ABOUT HISTORIC PROPERTY, IT'S HISTORIC.
11:43:09PM AND WHEN WE JUDGE SOMEBODY ELSE'S MOTIVE FOR FINANCIAL GAIN,
11:43:17PM I THINK WE'RE LOSING PERSPECTIVE OF THE SIZE OF THIS LOT.
11:43:21PM MY LOT IS 7900 SQUARE FEET.
11:43:25PM THESE LOTS WILL BE 10,000 SQUARE FEET.
11:43:30PM SO IF WE'RE TRYING TO KEEP PEOPLE THAT ARE TRYING TO MOVE
11:43:35PM INTO FLORIDA AND SPEND TOP DOLLAR FOR A HOME OR A PLACE TO
11:43:41PM LIVE, TO TRY TO KEEP THEM OUT OF OUR COMMUNITY, WE NEED TO
11:43:46PM THINK ABOUT THIS.
11:43:47PM MY MIND IS THINKING OF THE TAX DOLLARS THAT COME IN FROM
11:43:53PM THIS TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE MY BACKGROUND IS AFFORDABLE
11:43:56PM HOUSING.
11:43:56PM AND THIS JUST MEANS WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT MANY
11:44:01PM MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN TAMPA.
11:44:03PM I DON'T QUESTION THE MOTIVATION OF ANYBODY THAT HAS SPOKEN
11:44:09PM ILL OF THIS TRANSACTION.
11:44:11PM I'M JUST SAYING A 10,000-SQUARE-FOOT SLOT A LOT OF LOT.
11:44:16PM THERE ARE A LOT OF LOTS ON DAVIS ISLANDS HALF THAT SIZE.
11:44:25PM I DON'T THINK MAINTAINING THE CHARACTER OF THE COMMUNITY IS
11:44:29PM GOING TO BE DISTURBED BY HONORING THIS REQUEST.
11:44:38PM SO I AM ASKING YOU TO LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE.
11:44:44PM DAVIS ISLAND HAS BEEN VERY IMPORTANT TO ME, AND TAMPA, AS
11:44:48PM YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN HERE FOR 50 SOME YEARS AND VERY
11:44:51PM INVOLVED.
11:44:52PM LET'S NOT TRY TO KEEP PEOPLE OUT OF OUR COMMUNITY.
11:44:58PM NIMBYISM IS NOT WHAT TAMPA IS ABOUT.
11:45:03PM AND I THANK YOU.
11:45:04PM HAVE A GREAT EVENING.
11:45:05PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU, SIR.
11:45:06PM WE HAVE ONE PERSON REGISTERED ONLINE.
11:45:12PM WE HAVE TO SWEAR THAT PERSON IN AND HAVE THEM TURN THEIR
11:45:19PM CAMERA ON.
11:45:20PM >> I THINK THAT'S ME.
11:45:21PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND AND WE'LL
11:45:23PM SWEAR YOU IN.
11:45:25PM >>THE CLERK: DO YOU SWEAR OR AFFIRM THE TESTIMONY YOU ARE
11:45:27PM ABOUT TO GIVE IS THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH?
11:45:30PM >> I DO.
11:45:32PM >>THE CLERK: YOU MAY LOWER YOUR HAND.
11:45:34PM THANK YOU.
11:45:35PM >> ARIELLE MILLIGAN: GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL MEMBERS.
11:45:36PM I'M VERY HONORED TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF THE REZONING
11:45:39PM APPLICATION AND ESPECIALLY IN SUPPORT OF THE CHARACTER OF
11:45:44PM THE APPLICANT.
11:45:47PM I WAS A LONGTIME RESIDENT OF DAVIS ISLAND.
11:45:49PM I ACTUALLY GREW UP IN THE HOUSE AT 10 LADOGA AND MY PARENTS
11:45:53PM LIVED THERE FOR 50 SOMETHING YEARS.
11:45:57PM WHEN THEY WENT TO SELL IT, WE WERE VERY EXCITED TO SELL IT
11:46:00PM TO THE APPLICANTS WHO ARE ALSO FAMILY MEMBERS AND WHO ALSO
11:46:04PM LOVE THE HOUSE, AND THEY HAVE HAD VERY EXTENSIVE PLANS TO
11:46:09PM RESTORE THE PROPERTY.
11:46:10PM THEY ENCOUNTERED A LOT OF ROAD BLOCKS IN THEIR ATTEMPTS TO
11:46:15PM RESTORE THIS HOUSE AND THEY HAVE GONE TO EXTREME MEASURES
11:46:18PM AND EXPENSES, INCLUDING THIS LATEST EFFORT.
11:46:22PM THE INTENTION WAS TO REZONE THE PROPERTY IN ORDER TO SAVE
11:46:27PM THIS HOUSE.
11:46:29PM IT'S A HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD HOUSE, IF POSSIBLE, WHICH IS A JEWEL
11:46:32PM OF DAVIS ISLAND.
11:46:35PM THEY CALL IT THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE.
11:46:37PM I SENSE A MISUNDERSTANDING ON THE PART OF MY FORMER
11:46:42PM NEIGHBORS OF THE INTENTIONS OF THE APPLICANT.
11:46:45PM I THINK IT'S JUST REALLY MISDIRECTED.
11:46:49PM I SENSE THERE IS SOME -- I APPRECIATE THEIR COMING DOWN AND
11:46:55PM PASSIONATELY SUPPORTING THEIR VIEW, BUT I JUST FEEL LIKE
11:46:59PM IT'S MISDIRECTED BECAUSE THE SEPARATION OF THE LOT AND THE
11:47:02PM TWO PARCELS IS GOING TO OFFER MORE GREENSPACE AND THE
11:47:07PM CONSTRUCTION OF TWO MORE MODEST SIZE HOUSES OR ONE MORE
11:47:11PM MODEST SIZE HOUSE AS OPPOSED TO ANOTHER GIGANTIC GARGANTUAN
11:47:16PM MANSION WHICH IN MY OPINION IS -- THE MODEST HOUSES ARE MORE
11:47:21PM IN KEEPING WITH THE CHARACTER OF DAVIS ISLAND AND THIS
11:47:23PM NEIGHBORHOOD IN PARTICULAR, HAVING GROWN UP ON LADOGA.
11:47:26PM I HOPE YOU WILL CONSIDER THAT SIDE OF THINGS AS WELL.
11:47:32PM THANK YOU.
11:47:32PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:47:33PM THAT CONCLUDES OUR PUBLIC COMMENT.
11:47:35PM MS. DOCK, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK?
11:47:41PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNCIL.
11:47:42PM LaCHONE DOCK, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
11:47:45PM COUNCIL, I JUST WANTED TO STATE ON THE RECORD AND JUST TO
11:47:49PM EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT THE CONFORMING MAP THAT WAS PROVIDED.
11:47:51PM TWO ANALYSIS PROVIDED THAT I RAN FOR THE REQUEST ON THE MAP.
11:47:59PM SO ONE WAS THE FIRST THAT I SHOWED YOU.
11:48:03PM THAT CONTAINED -- THAT WAS THIS AREA.
11:48:09PM AND THEN THE ANALYSIS THAT I READ AND PROVIDED FOR YOU WAS
11:48:12PM BASED UPON THIS MAP.
11:48:13PM WHAT WE DO IS LOOK AT THAT AREA, IF YOU'RE STARTING AT THE
11:48:17PM 1320, WE LOOKED AT WHAT'S ACROSS WEST DAVIS BOULEVARD, THAT
11:48:23PM AS THE DIVIDER, AND THEN ALSO THE CANAL.
11:48:25PM SO WE LOOK AT THE DEVELOPMENT PATTERN.
11:48:30PM THIS IS THAT AREA.
11:48:31PM THIS IS THE COMPLETE AREA WITHIN THE 1320.
11:48:36PM SO WHAT WAS ELIMINATED WAS EAST OF WEST DAVIS BOULEVARD AND
11:48:39PM THEN NORTH OF THE CANAL BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE THE DEVELOPMENT
11:48:42PM PATTERN THAT EXISTS.
11:48:45PM WITH THIS ANALYSIS, 63% OF THE LOTS ARE GREATER THAN 75 FEET
11:48:49PM IN WIDTH.
11:48:51PM AND THEN 37% OF THE LOTS ARE LESS THAN 74.99 FEET IN WIDTH.
11:48:57PM SO THIS ANALYSIS WAS RUN, BUT THEN WE ALSO LOOK AT THE
11:49:01PM PATTERN.
11:49:01PM YOU CAN SEE THIS BLOCK DEVELOPMENT COMPARED TO -- SORRY, THE
11:49:05PM SUBJECT LOT.
11:49:06PM THIS IS THE SUBJECT PARCEL.
11:49:07PM SO I JUST WANTED TO STATE THAT ANALYSIS WAS RUN.
11:49:12PM I CAN SUBMIT THAT INTO THE RECORD.
11:49:15PM THANK YOU.
11:49:16PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
11:49:17PM YOU HAVE REBUTTAL?
11:49:20PM >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
11:49:21PM I WANT TO SAY THAT WE DO APPRECIATE THE INPUT FROM THE
11:49:24PM NEIGHBORHOOD.
11:49:24PM I DID WANT TO HAVE MY CLIENT GET UP TO INTRODUCE THEMSELVES.
11:49:30PM I KNOW IT'S NOT, AS YOU MENTIONED EARLIER, MOTIVES ARE NOT
11:49:35PM THE SUBSTANTIAL COMPETENT EVIDENCE UPON WHICH YOU BASE YOUR
11:49:38PM DECISIONS BUT I FELT IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT THEY HAVE THEIR
11:49:40PM SLICE HEARD AS WELL BASED UPON SOME OF THE THINGS IN THE
11:49:44PM OPPOSITION LETTERS SO YOU COULD HEAR FROM THEM DIRECTLY.
11:49:47PM WE HAVE PRESENTED THE COMPETENT SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE TONIGHT
11:49:54PM FOR YOU TO BASE YOUR DECISION ON, THAT THIS WILL NOT HAVE AN
11:49:58PM ADVERSE IMPACT ON THE NEIGHBORS.
11:50:01PM THE ONLY THING THAT STAFF FOUND THAT WE DID NOT MEET IN THE
11:50:04PM PD REQUIREMENT WAS THE IMPACT ON NEIGHBORS.
11:50:08PM I WANT TO ONCE AGAIN SHOW YOU THE DE MINIMIS REQUEST THAT
11:50:12PM THIS IS GOING TO HAVE.
11:50:14PM NOBODY WALKING DOWN THE STREET IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO FEEL
11:50:17PM THIS OR SENSE THIS.
11:50:19PM THERE IS A DIVISION ON DAVIS ISLAND.
11:50:22PM SOME PEOPLE DON'T WANT ANY CHANGE AT ALL.
11:50:24PM SOME PEOPLE PREFER TO HAVE THE SMALLER LOTS TURNED INTO
11:50:27PM LARGER LOTS WITH MASSIVE HOUSES.
11:50:31PM SOME PEOPLE PREFER THAT THE ORIGINAL MIX REMAIN.
11:50:33PM THAT'S WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING TONIGHT.
11:50:35PM THIS WAS ORIGINALLY DIVIDED BY THE DAVIS CORPORATION VERY
11:50:39PM SIMILAR ALONG THESE LINES.
11:50:40PM THAT'S WHAT WE'RE JUST ASKING TO GO BACK TO.
11:50:42PM WE'RE NOT ASKING TO GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL PLATTED LOTS.
11:50:46PM I DO WANT TO CALL YOUR ATTENTION THAT WE DID HAVE 29 LEVERS
11:50:49PM OF SUPPORT FROM -- LETTERS OF SUPPORT FROM PEOPLE ON DAVIS
11:50:52PM ISLAND.
11:50:53PM 12 OF THEM WERE WITHIN THE 1320 WHICH IS A WALKABLE
11:50:57PM DISTANCE.
11:50:58PM IT WAS -- I DON'T THINK ANY OF THEM SAID NONE WERE BUT
11:51:03PM CERTAINLY IMPLIED THAT NONE OF THEM WERE NEIGHBORS THAT
11:51:06PM RESIDED IN THE AREA AND THAT'S JUST NOT CORRECT.
11:51:09PM I UNDERSTAND DAVIS ISLAND CIVIC ASSOCIATION HAS TAKEN THE
11:51:14PM POSITION THAT THEY DO NOT SUPPORT PLANNED DEVELOPMENTS.
11:51:17PM I HAD MY OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE THEIR MIND ON THAT AND I DID
11:51:20PM NOT.
11:51:21PM I'M NOT SURE I WOULD EVER BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
11:51:25PM PDs DO NOT CREATE A PRECEDENT, PARTICULARLY IN THIS AREA
11:51:30PM WHERE EACH AND EVERY LOT IS UNIQUE.
11:51:32PM I ALSO, SOME OF YOU NEW HERE, SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE BEEN HERE
11:51:36PM WHEN THIS HAPPENED.
11:51:37PM CITY COUNCIL HAS DENIED AN OTHERWISE APPROVABLE LOT SPLIT
11:51:42PM REQUEST IN THE PAST BASED UPON THE FACT THAT THERE WAS A
11:51:44PM CONCERN ABOUT PD SETTING A PRECEDENT.
11:51:47PM THAT WAS IN THE GULF VIEW AREA.
11:51:49PM THAT CASE WAS OVERTURNED.
11:51:51PM AND THAT WAS FOUND AS NOT A LEGAL BASIS TO SUPPORT IT.
11:51:55PM AGAIN, IF YOU LOOK -- I HEAR THE NEIGHBORS' CONCERNS.
11:51:58PM THEY DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO AFFECT THE LIFE THEY LOVE ON THE
11:52:03PM ISLAND.
11:52:03PM THE ISLAND IS A VERY SPECIAL PLACE.
11:52:05PM THERE ARE A LOT OF SPECIAL NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE CITY OF
11:52:07PM TAMPA, THIS IS DEFINITELY ONE OF THEM.
11:52:11PM BUT THE SUBSTANTIAL COMPETENT EVIDENCE YOU HAVE ARE THE
11:52:14PM FACTS, AND THE FACTS ARE SHOWING THAT THIS IS NOT GOING TO
11:52:17PM CHANGE.
11:52:19PM YOU CAN ALWAYS HAVE FEAR OF CHANGE, BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN
11:52:22PM THAT THAT'S ACTUALLY WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN.
11:52:24PM TWO OF THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE IN OPPOSITION ARE ACTUALLY IN
11:52:28PM THOSE HOUSES IN THE GROUND DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM US IN LOTS
11:52:31PM THAT ARE LESS THAN 75 FEET.
11:52:35PM AND ONE OF THOSE HOUSES DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A 75-SQUARE-FOOT
11:52:38PM LOT.
11:52:39PM I AM NOT AT ALL TRYING TO MAKE ANYONE FEEL BAD.
11:52:45PM I JUST WANT CITY COUNCIL TO BE AWARE THAT YOU CAN BE ON A
11:52:49PM SMALL LOT IN A WONDERFUL NEIGHBORHOOD IF YOU CONSIDER
11:52:53PM 75-FOOT WIDE LOT SMALL, AND THESE ARE CERTAINLY NOT SMALL
11:52:58PM LOTS.
11:52:58PM THE LOTS CREATED, AGAIN, ARE BIGGER THAN 50% OF THE LOTS IN
11:53:03PM THE SURROUNDING AREA OF 1320 SQUARE FEET.
11:53:06PM I'M AVAILABLE IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.
11:53:09PM AND WE RESPECTFULLY REQUEST YOUR APPROVAL OF THIS PD.
11:53:15PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:53:16PM ANY QUESTIONS?
11:53:29PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION TO CLOSE.
11:53:30PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE THE HEARING
11:53:32PM FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN WITH A SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN
11:53:35PM VIERA.
11:53:35PM ALL IN FAVOR?
11:53:36PM >> AYE.
11:53:37PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY LIKE TO SPEAK?
11:53:43PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WE HAVE A LOT OF PRESSURE IN THE CITY OF
11:53:45PM TAMPA TO INCREASE DENSITY TO ACCOMMODATE GROWTH, BUT IT'S
11:53:49PM NOT DENSITY IN EVERY AREA OF TAMPA.
11:53:52PM ALL OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS ARE SPECIAL, AND I THINK PART OF
11:53:55PM WHAT MAKES TAMPA A CHARMING PLACE FOR EVERYONE TO LIVE.
11:53:59PM AS WE LOOK AND I THINK THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN REFLECTS THIS
11:54:02PM TO A GREAT DEGREE, WE LOOK FOR PLACES TO DEVELOP DENSITY.
11:54:06PM WE'RE LOOKING IN AREAS THAT ARE PART OF OUR TRANSPORTATION
11:54:09PM CORRIDORS, AND OUT OF THE COASTAL HIGH HAZARD AREA.
11:54:13PM WE KNOW DAVIS ISLAND IS PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE AND ACCESS
11:54:16PM IN AND OUT OF DAVIS ISLAND PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE, INCREASE
11:54:20PM DENSITY THERE IS MAYBE NOT THE SMARTEST PLACE FOR OUR
11:54:23PM COMMUNITY TO LOOK TOWARDS.
11:54:24PM I'M NOT AGAINST, AGAIN, DEVELOPMENT.
11:54:27PM I'M NOT AGAINST CREATIVE WAYS OF ACHIEVING THAT, BUT I AM
11:54:31PM AGAINST ONE DESTABILIZING NEIGHBORHOODS AND CHANGING THE
11:54:35PM CHARACTER AND THE SCALE AND THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY WITHIN
11:54:41PM THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS.
11:54:43PM A LOT OF TIMES WE TALK ABOUT NEIGHBORHOODS WE TALK ABOUT
11:54:46PM HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOODS.
11:54:47PM YBOR CITY AND WEST TAMPA AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
11:54:50PM THESE COMMUNITIES LIKE DAVIS ISLANDS ARE VERY SPECIAL FOR
11:54:53PM THE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:54:55PM MY OPINION, I WILL BE VOTING TO DENY THIS REQUEST.
11:55:01PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU, SIR.
11:55:02PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
11:55:04PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I'LL GO AHEAD AND I AGREE WITH YOU, WITH
11:55:09PM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:55:11PM I WILL MOVE TO DENY REZ-23-25 FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 10
11:55:18PM LADOGA AVENUE DUE TO THE FAILURE OF THE APPLICANT TO MEET
11:55:21PM ITS BURDEN OF PROOF TO PROVIDE COMPETENT AND SUBSTANTIAL
11:55:24PM EVIDENCE OF THE DEVELOPMENT AS CONDITIONED IS CONSISTENT
11:55:29PM WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND CITY CODE, MAINLY I DO ADOPT
11:55:34PM THE FINDINGS OF CITY OF TAMPA STAFF.
11:55:37PM WHILE THE PROPOSED REZONING MAY BE ALLOWABLE FOR
11:55:40PM CONSIDERATION UNDER THE EXISTING FUTURE LAND USE CATEGORY
11:55:44PM AND THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF CONCLUDED THAT THE
11:55:47PM PROPOSED REZONING IS CONSISTENT WITH THE DEVELOPMENT PATTERN
11:55:51PM ANTICIPATED UNDER RESIDENTIAL 6 FUTURE LAND USE CATEGORY, I
11:55:55PM FIND THAT THE PROPOSED REZONING IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE
11:55:58PM EXISTING AND PREDOMINANT PATTERN OF DEVELOPMENT CATEGORIZED
11:56:02PM BY THE RESIDENTIAL LOTS THAT EQUAL OR EXCEED 75 FEET IN
11:56:05PM WIDTH.
11:56:06PM AS NOTED IN THE STAFF REPORT, 76% OF THE ZONING LOTS WITHIN
11:56:12PM THE AREA OF ANALYSIS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED WITH A WIDTH OF 75
11:56:15PM FEET OR GREATER AND THE EXISTING DEVELOPMENT PATTERN WITHIN
11:56:18PM THE SUBJECT BLOCK ESTABLISHES THAT 74% OF THE LOTS ARE
11:56:22PM DEVELOPED WITH A WIDTH OF 75 FEET OR GREATER.
11:56:25PM THIS PERCENTAGE INCREASES TO 78 WHEN YOU STUDY THE
11:56:30PM DEVELOPMENT PATTERN ON THE SUBJECT BLOCK FACE WHICH IS THE
11:56:33PM NORTH SIDE OF LADOGA AVENUE.
11:56:36PM OVERALL, THIS IS NOT ABOUT PRECEDENT SETTING.
11:56:43PM THIS IS ABOUT STICKING WITH THE FEEL -- ENCOURAGING
11:56:58PM DEVELOPMENT WHERE APPROPRIATE IN LOCATION, CHARACTER AND
11:57:00PM COMPATIBILITY WITH THE SURROUNDING IMPACTED NEIGHBORHOOD
11:57:03PM BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND EXISTING GEOGRAPHY AND I FIND THAT
11:57:06PM THIS IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THAT.
11:57:11PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IS THAT CONSISTENT, YOUR DECISION WITH
11:57:14PM SECTION 27-136?
11:57:16PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I'M SORRY.
11:57:17PM I DIDN'T READ THE CODE.
11:57:20PM I APOLOGIZE.
11:57:21PM YES, WITH THE PLANNED DEVELOPMENT CODE CRITERIA SECTION
11:57:25PM 27-136.
11:57:28PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THANK YOU.
11:57:29PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DO WE HAVE A SECOND TO THIS MOTION?
11:57:31PM WE HAVE A SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON.
11:57:34PM ROLL CALL VOTE.
11:57:39PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
11:57:41PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
11:57:43PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:57:45PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:57:47PM >> CARLSON?
11:57:48PM HURTAK?
11:57:49PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:57:49PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:57:51PM >>THE CLERK: THE MOTION TO DENY HAS CARRIED WITH CARLSON
11:57:56PM BEING ABSENT.
11:57:58PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:57:59PM ALL RIGHT.
11:58:07PM TWO MORE ITEMS.
11:58:08PM MR. HEDGES, GOOD NIGHT.
11:58:29PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
11:58:30PM LaCHONE DOCK, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
11:58:32PM THIS NEXT ITEM IS REZ-23-26 FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1236
11:58:40PM CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
11:58:42PM THE APPLICANT IS REPRESENTED BY TYLER HUDSON.
11:58:44PM THIS REQUEST IS TO REZONE THE PROPERTY FROM CD, CHANNEL
11:58:48PM DISTRICT 2, TO CD 2 AND THIS IS TO ALLOW STOREFRONT
11:58:52PM RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL GENERAL USES AND HOTEL USES ON
11:58:55PM THE SITE.
11:58:56PM I'LL TURN IT OVER TO DANNY WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND
11:58:58PM I'LL COME BACK AND GIVE MY REPORT.
11:59:10PM >>DANNY COLLINS: DANNY COLLINS WITH YOUR PLANNING COMMISSION
11:59:12PM STAFF.
11:59:12PM I'VE BEEN SWORN IN.
11:59:13PM NEXT CASE IN THE CENTRAL TAMPA PLANNING DISTRICT MORE
11:59:16PM SPECIFICALLY THE CHANNEL DISTRICT URBAN VILLAGE.
11:59:18PM DEPUTY KOTFILA MEMORIAL DOG PARK IS CLOSEST RECREATION
11:59:26PM FACILITY LOCATED A QUARTER MILE TO THE WEST OF THE SUBJECT
11:59:28PM SITE.
11:59:29PM SEVERAL TRANSITS ROUTE RUN WITHIN PROXIMITY OF THE SITE.
11:59:33PM HART ROUTE 8 RUNS ALONG CHANNELSIDE DRIVE AND PROVIDES
11:59:37PM CONNECTIONS TO DOWNTOWN TAMPA, WESTFIELD BRANDON MALL AND
11:59:40PM THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF PALMETTO BEACH, PROGRESS VILLAGE AND
11:59:43PM SOUTH BRANDON.
11:59:44PM ADDITIONALLY TECO STREETCAR RUNS ADJACENT TO THE SUBJECT
11:59:47PM SITE ALONG CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
11:59:49PM SUBJECT SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN THE COASTAL PLANNING AREA AND
11:59:55PM THE COASTAL HIGH HAZARD AREA AND EVACUATION ZONE A.
12:00:59AM AERIAL MAP OF THE SUBJECT SITE AND SURROUNDING PROPERTIES.
12:00:05AM SUBJECT SITE OUTLINED IN PURPLE COLOR.
12:00:09AM ON THE WEST SIDE OF CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
12:00:12AM PREDOMINANTLY MIXTURE OF MULTIFAMILY AND MIXED USE
12:00:20AM DEVELOPMENT FOUND WITHIN PROXIMITY OF THE SITE IN THE
12:00:23AM CHANNEL DISTRICT.
12:00:25AM THIS IS PORT TAMPA TO THE EAST.
12:00:26AM HERE IS THE ADOPTED FUTURE LAND USE MAP.
12:00:33AM I DO WANT TO MAKE NOTE THAT THIS IS OUTDATED.
12:00:38AM ON APRIL 20th, 2023, CITY COUNCIL APPROVED TA/CPA 22-25, A
12:00:45AM PLAN AMENDMENT THAT RECOGNIZED THE SUBJECT SITE UNDER THE
12:00:47AM REGIONAL MIXED USE 100 DESIGNATION.
12:00:50AM WHILE IT'S SHOWING HEAVY INDUSTRIAL ON THE SITE, THE SITE IS
12:00:53AM CURRENTLY REGIONAL MIXED USE 100.
12:00:55AM RMU 100 IS TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF THE SUBJECT SITE, TO THE
12:01:00AM SOUTH AND EAST OF THE SUBJECT SITE ARE -- LAND RECOGNIZED
12:01:04AM UNDER THE HEAVY INDUSTRIAL DESIGNATION.
12:01:06AM REGIONAL MIXED USE 100 DESIGNATION ALLOWS CONSIDERATION UP
12:01:10AM TO FOR MULTIFAMILY COMMERCIAL USES AND MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT
12:01:15AM UP TO 3.5 F.A.R.
12:01:19AM SUBJECT SITE IS ALSO WITHIN THE CBD PERIPHERY, WHICH IS
12:01:22AM ELIGIBLE FOR A BONUS UP TO A 7.0 F.A.R.
12:01:27AM THE APPLICANT IS UTILIZING THE CENTRAL BUSINESS PERIPHERY
12:01:32AM BONUS TO OBTAIN ADDITIONAL DENSITY ON THE SUBJECT SITE.
12:01:35AM PD 7.0 FAR CONSISTENT WITH THE MAXIMUM DENSITY ANTICIPATED
12:01:40AM UNDER RMU 100 THROUGH THE CBD PERIPHERY BONUS.
12:01:44AM GENERAL NOTE 10 ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE PD SHALL COMPLY WITH
12:01:47AM THE PROVISION SET FORTH IN SECTION 27-140 REGARDING DENSITY
12:01:51AM AND FLOOR AREA RATIO.
12:01:53AM IF THE INTENT OF THE CBD INTENSITY BONUS IN THE
12:01:56AM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IS MET.
12:01:57AM PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF REQUEST IF APPROVED THAT THE
12:02:00AM PROPOSED SQUARE FOOTAGE BE CORRECTED TO 204,295 SQUARE FEET
12:02:06AM AS INCORRECTLY RECORDED ON THE SITE PLAN BETWEEN FIRST AND
12:02:10AM SECOND READING.
12:02:11AM PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF FINDS THAT THE PROPOSED USES AND
12:02:14AM INTENSITY ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT PATTERN
12:02:18AM IN THIS AREA OF THE CITY.
12:02:20AM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ENCOURAGES RESIDENTIAL MIXED USE RETAIL
12:02:22AM SERVICE COMMERCIAL AND OTHER PEDESTRIAN ORIENTED USES ALONG
12:02:25AM MIXED USE CORRIDORS TO BE ORIENTED TO THE STREET BY PLACING
12:02:29AM BUILDINGS CLOSE TO THE PUBLIC RIGHTS-OF-WAY AND ORIENTING
12:02:33AM THE ENTRANCES TO THE PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY.
12:02:35AM THE APPLICANT HAS PROVIDED THREE ENTRANCES TO THE PROPOSED
12:02:39AM MIXED USE BUILDING ALONG CHANNELSIDE DRIVE MEETING THE
12:02:42AM INTENT OF THE POLICY DIRECTION.
12:02:43AM SIDEWALKS ARE PROVIDED ALONG ALL ADJACENT PUBLIC
12:02:46AM RIGHTS-OF-WAY.
12:02:47AM OVERALL THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF FINDS THE PD ADDRESSES
12:02:50AM THE MIXED USE CENTERS AND -- POLICY OF THE PLAN.
12:02:53AM PROPOSED REZONING SUPPORTS MANY OF THE POLICIES IN THE
12:02:55AM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AS IT RELATES TO HOUSING CITY POPULATION.
12:02:58AM TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ENCOURAGES NEW HOUSING ON VACANT
12:03:00AM AND UNDER UTILIZED LAND TO ENSURE ADEQUATE HOUSING IS
12:03:04AM AVAILABLE TO MEET THE NEEDS OF TAMPA'S PRESENT AND FUTURE
12:03:07AM POPULATIONS.
12:03:07AM THE REQUEST WILL ALSO ADD ADDITIONAL HOUSING IN THE CHANNEL
12:03:11AM DISTRICT.
12:03:12AM FINALLY, THE REQUEST IS CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPACT -- SEEK
12:03:18AM TO PROMOTE HOUSING DENSITY THAT PROMOTE WALKING AND TRANSIT
12:03:21AM NEAR EMPLOYMENT CONCENTRATION.
12:03:22AM RESIDENTIAL SERVICES AND AMENITIES.
12:03:24AM BASED ON THOSE CONSIDERATIONS, THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF
12:03:26AM FINDS THE REQUEST CONSISTENT WITH THE GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND
12:03:29AM POLICIES OF THE CITY OF TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
12:03:31AM CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
12:03:32AM AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
12:03:34AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:03:42AM >>LaCHONE DOCK: LaCHONE DOCK, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
12:03:44AM THIS ITEM, COUNCIL, WHICH IS REZ-23-26 IS THE REQUEST, WHICH
12:03:50AM IS THE SITE PLAN CONTROL DISTRICT FOR CD 2.
12:03:53AM THIS WOULD ALLOW FOR RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT OF
12:03:56AM 225 UNITS FOR HOTEL AND STOREFRONT RESIDENTIAL AND GENERAL
12:04:02AM COMMERCIAL USES ON-SITE.
12:04:03AM THE APPLICANT PROPOSES TO CONSTRUCT ONE BUILDING ON-SITE AND
12:04:07AM THIS WOULD INCLUDE A BUILDING FOOTPRINT OF 25,485 SQUARE
12:04:12AM FEET.
12:04:13AM I'LL SHOW YOU THIS SITE PLAN SHORTLY.
12:04:16AM THERE'S ONE POINT OF VEHICULAR ACCESS PROPOSED.
12:04:19AM IT IS ON CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
12:04:20AM A CIRCULAR DRIVE IS PROPOSED AT THE GROUND LEVEL NEAR THE
12:04:24AM BUILDING ENTRANCE.
12:04:26AM I'M GOING TO SITE PLAN UP ON THE ELMO.
12:04:31AM THE SITE IS LOCATED ON CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
12:04:37AM THIS IS THE ENTRANCE TO THE SITE.
12:04:41AM THIS SHOWS YOU THAT THIS IS CONTAINED -- THIS IS ONE
12:04:45AM BUILDING.
12:04:45AM THAT IS THE BUILDING FOOTPRINT, WHICH IS PROPOSED.
12:04:48AM THE RETAIL SPACE IS LOCATED HERE AT GROUND LEVEL WITH THE
12:04:51AM BUILDING ENTRANCE LOCATED HERE ON-SITE.
12:04:53AM THE APPLICANT HAS RECEIVED RECENT APPROVAL, AS DANNY HAS
12:04:57AM MENTIONED, FOR THE FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION OF RMU 100
12:05:03AM REGIONAL MIXED USE 100.
12:05:05AM THE DEVELOPER HAS ENTERED INTO A BONUS AGREEMENT.
12:05:08AM THIS DOES ALLOW FOR THE INCREASED F.A.R. ON-SITE AND THE
12:05:12AM DEVELOPER HAS AGREED TO PROVIDE 10% OF THE RENTAL UNITS AS
12:05:16AM AFFORDABLE TO ACHIEVE THAT ADDITIONAL F.A.R. FOR THE BONUS.
12:05:23AM SHOW YOU PICTURES OF THE SITE.
12:05:29AM I'LL SHOW YOU THE ZONING ATLAS FIRST.
12:05:42AM THIS IS THE ZONING MAP.
12:05:44AM ZOOM IN A LITTLE BIT.
12:05:48AM THIS IS THE PARCEL IDENTIFIED HERE IN RED.
12:05:50AM THIS IS ON CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
12:05:54AM YOU CAN SEE THAT THE SURROUNDING ZONING IS CD.
12:05:59AM YOU HAVE CD 2 AND CD 3 THAT'S TO THE WEST WITH PDs THAT
12:06:03AM ARE FURTHER NORTH.
12:06:05AM THIS IS THE RECENTLY ADOPTED GAS WORKS PROJECT LOCATED NORTH
12:06:09AM AND NORTHEAST OF THE SITE.
12:06:11AM YOU HAD A FEW REZONINGS COME THROUGH RECENTLY FOR MIXED USE
12:06:15AM DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THAT AREA.
12:06:17AM THIS IS THE SITE LOCATED ON CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
12:06:25AM USED TO BE TAMPA BLUEPRINT.
12:06:27AM THIS IS THE SITE THAT'S FURTHER HERE ON THE RIGHT.
12:06:32AM VIEW LOOKING SOUTH.
12:06:33AM THIS IS ANOTHER VIEW, JUST AN EXPANDED VIEW.
12:06:37AM THIS IS SHOWING NORTH OF THE SITE.
12:06:44AM THIS IS FURTHER NORTH.
12:06:48AM THIS IS WHAT'S LOCATED EAST OF THE SITE.
12:06:52AM THE PORT PROPERTY.
12:06:54AM THIS IS WEST OF THE SITE.
12:06:57AM THE DRC STAFF REVIEWED THE REQUEST AND FINDS IT
12:07:09AM INCONSISTENT.
12:07:10AM THAT INCONSISTENCY IS ONLY IN RELATION TO THE WAIVERS WHICH
12:07:14AM ARE TRANSPORTATION RELATED.
12:07:15AM THERE IS A REVISED REVISION SHEET WHICH I WILL PROVIDE TO
12:07:21AM YOU.
12:07:22AM AND THESE ARE CHANGES WHICH MUST BE MADE BETWEEN FIRST AND
12:07:26AM SECOND READING.
12:07:27AM AND ALSO, I WANT TO MENTION THAT ON THE SITE PLAN THERE IS A
12:07:35AM WAIVER WHICH IS LISTED ON THE SITE PLAN BUT NOT INCLUDED ON
12:07:39AM THE REPORT.
12:07:40AM THAT WAIVER IS IN RELATION TO THE LOADING BERTHS.
12:07:43AM SO THAT WAIVER WILL REMAIN AND THAT IS A PART OF THE REVISED
12:07:46AM REVISION SHEET, JUST TO CLARIFY.
12:07:48AM THE APPLICANT HAS AGREED TO MAKE THAT CHANGE.
12:07:51AM SO THAT CONCLUDES STAFF'S PRESENTATION.
12:07:53AM I'M AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
12:07:54AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS?
12:07:55AM NO.
12:07:56AM PETITIONER?
12:08:17AM >> ALEX SCHALER, 400 NORTH ASHLEY DRIVE FOR THE RECORD.
12:08:21AM HERE BEFORE WITH YOU A REZONING REQUEST IN THE CHANNEL
12:08:24AM DISTRICT, AN AREA THAT LOVES DENSITY.
12:08:26AM NOT ONLY IS IT ENCOURAGED BUT IT IS EXPECTED WITH THE TREND
12:08:29AM OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD THE WAY IT'S GOING TODAY.
12:08:31AM I'LL DO MY BEST TO MAKE THIS CONCISE.
12:08:34AM MIGHT SKIP OVER INTRO SLIDES.
12:08:36AM THE TEAM IS WITH US IN THE ROOM AS WELL AS AVAILABLE
12:08:40AM VIRTUALLY.
12:08:40AM STAFF DID A GREAT JOB OF SETTING UP THIS LOCATION.
12:08:43AM I THINK LaCHONE IS VERY FAMILIAR WITH WHERE THE SITE IS.
12:08:46AM SAME WITH THE SITE PLAN, 225 UNITS PROPOSING MULTIFAMILY
12:08:50AM RESIDENTIAL ON THE SITE WITH A LITTLE BIT OVER 1,000 SQUARE
12:08:53AM FEET OF GROUND FLOOR COMMERCIAL.
12:08:55AM THIS IS A VERY SMALL SITE IN COMPARISON TO SOME OF THE OTHER
12:08:59AM ASSEMBLAGES THAT YOU'VE SEEN.
12:09:02AM SAME DEVELOPMENT TEAM, WE ARE PROVIDING 10% OF AFFORDABLE
12:09:06AM HOUSING, HALF AT 80% AMI, HALF AT 120% AMI THAT IS TO OBTAIN
12:09:12AM THE BONUS DENSITY THAT WE'RE REQUESTING.
12:09:14AM WE WILL ALSO BE PROVIDING THE CHANNEL DISTRICT STANDARD
12:09:17AM PUBLIC GROUND APARTMENTS, THE CURVY SIDEWALK THAT YOU SEE
12:09:20AM THROUGHOUT THE SIDEWALK AND THE WIDER SIDEWALKS FOR
12:09:24AM PEDESTRIAN ENGAGEMENT ALONG THE FRONTAGE ALONG CHANNELSIDE
12:09:27AM DRIVE.
12:09:28AM DEVELOPMENT WISE, THE SAME DESIGN TEAM AND BEING COMPLETELY
12:09:34AM TRANSPARENT DEVELOPED THE ASSEMBLAGE TO THE NORTH OR GOT IT
12:09:37AM ENTITLED I SHOULD SAY.
12:09:39AM ABOUT READY TO UNDERGO PERMITTING.
12:09:42AM 1242 CHANNELSIDE DRIVE APPROVED BY THIS COUNCIL BACK IN
12:09:45AM NOVEMBER OF LAST YEAR.
12:09:47AM THIS WAS A BIT LARGER GIVEN THE LAND AREA, FOR 532
12:09:51AM MULTIFAMILY UNITS, 8,000 SQUARE FEET OF GROUND FLOOR
12:09:54AM COMMERCIAL THAT WAS APPROVED JUST NORTH WITH A LOT OF THE
12:09:57AM SAME WAIVERS IN A SIMILAR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ON A SMALLER
12:10:01AM SCALE GIVEN THE LAND.
12:10:03AM PROUD TO HAVE STAFF SUPPORT ON THE APPLICATION.
12:10:08AM ONE DEPARTMENT THAT FOUND INCONSISTENT IS TRANSPORTATION,
12:10:11AM THE RESULT OF LOADING WAIVERS WE'RE REQUESTING WHICH YOU ALL
12:10:14AM ARE VERY FAMILIAR SEEING ESPECIALLY IN AN AREA LIKE THE
12:10:17AM CHANNEL DISTRICT SO DENSE.
12:10:20AM THIS IS IN THE RECORD.
12:10:21AM SHOWING HOW THE LOADING WILL COME IN, THE ROUTE.
12:10:24AM PULL INTO THE SITE.
12:10:25AM ALL INTERNAL TO THE SITE.
12:10:26AM ALL INTERNAL TO THE BUILDING.
12:10:28AM PULL, IN BACK UP INTO THE LOADING STALL AND REVERSE BACK
12:10:31AM OUT.
12:10:31AM WE ARE REQUESTING A REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF BERTHS FROM
12:10:34AM TWO TO ONE.
12:10:35AM AGAIN, FAIRLY PRETTY STANDARD REDUCTION ESPECIALLY IN THE
12:10:38AM CHANNEL DISTRICT.
12:10:38AM WE ARE PROPOSING TO USE A BIT SMALLER OF A VEHICLE FOR
12:10:41AM LOADING.
12:10:42AM THE CODE REQUIRES A WB 50 WHICH IS INHERENTLY UNNECESSARY
12:10:46AM EVEN WITH PEOPLE WITH LOTS OF BELONGINGS MOVING INTO A
12:10:50AM MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT.
12:10:51AM THIS IS A BIT OF A UNIQUE REQUEST IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
12:10:55AM CODE WAS RECENTLY AMENDED, RICKY MENTIONED EARLIER, SOME OF
12:10:58AM THE LANDSCAPE CODE.
12:10:59AM WE BELIEVE AN ACCIDENTAL EXCLUSION IN A FOOTNOTE IN A
12:11:02AM LANDSCAPE TABLE THAT'S BEEN IN THE CODE FOR QUITE SOME TIME
12:11:05AM WHICH EXCLUDES THE CHANNEL DISTRICT FROM THESE STRICT USE TO
12:11:09AM USE BUFFERING REQUIREMENTS THAT YOU SEE ELSEWHERE IN THE
12:11:11AM CITY.
12:11:12AM BASED ON A TECHNICALITY, WE DO HAVE TO REQUEST THIS BUFFER
12:11:15AM OR REDUCTION IN THIS BUFFER FROM 15 FEET TO 0 FEET AND NO
12:11:18AM WALL.
12:11:19AM AS YOU CAN SEE IN THIS AERIAL ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE
12:11:22AM SCREEN, THE CHANNEL DISTRICT HAS VERY, VERY LIMITED
12:11:24AM BUFFERING BECAUSE IT'S MEANT TO BE MORE OF A DENSE DISTRICT
12:11:28AM WHICH THERE'S URBAN DESIGN PRINCIPLES THAT SPEAK TO
12:11:30AM INTEGRATION THAT ARE IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH THESE LARGE
12:11:33AM SUBURBAN BUFFERS.
12:11:35AM ANOTHER REQUEST THAT THIS WAS ALSO APPROVED 1242 CHANNELSIDE
12:11:40AM DIRECTLY NORTH, THIS IS UNIQUE TO THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
12:11:42AM THEY REQUIRE SETBACK SPACE OFF OF THE ROADWAY FRONTAGE.
12:11:45AM WE ARE LOCATED ALONG CHANNELSIDE DRIVE WHICH THE STANDARD
12:11:48AM SETBACK THAT WOULD BE APPLIED TO THE SITE BETWEEN 10 AND 15
12:11:51AM FEET IS RELATIVELY REASONABLE FOR FRONTAGE SETBACK AND
12:11:54AM INHERENTLY REASONABLE FOR A MINIMUM SIDE YARD AT 0 FEET.
12:11:57AM HOWEVER, THIS TABLE INCLUDES A NOTE THAT IS STILL IN THE
12:12:00AM CODE AND CAVEATS THAT FOR EACH 10 FEET OF BUILDING HEIGHT
12:12:03AM THAT YOU GO ABOVE 60 FEET THE REQUIRED YARDS ARE INCREASED
12:12:06AM BY A MINIMUM OF ONE FOOT.
12:12:08AM SO WHEN YOU DO THE MATH ON A BUILDING THAT IS VERY, VERY
12:12:10AM TALL, MUCH HIGHER THAN APPROXIMATELY SIX STORIES, THE WAY
12:12:13AM THAT THE CHANNEL DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT USED TO BE BACK WHEN
12:12:16AM THE CODE WAS DERIVED, AS YOU CAN SEE, WE ARE NOW REQUIRED TO
12:12:18AM PROVIDE ALMOST 39 FEET OF A FRONT SETBACK FROM CHANNELSIDE
12:12:21AM DRIVE WHICH IS JUST INHERENTLY UNREASONABLE AND NOT
12:12:26AM PREVALENT IN THE DISTRICT.
12:12:28AM SAME WITH THE SIDE PROPERTY LINES.
12:12:29AM WE'RE REQUIRED TO TAKE THAT BASE OF 0 UP TO 24 FEET IS
12:12:33AM WHAT'S REQUIRED.
12:12:34AM WE'RE PROVIDING, REQUESTING SOME SLIGHT REDUCTIONS IN THESE
12:12:37AM BUFFERS.
12:12:37AM AND THIS IS A REQUEST, THE WAIVER REQUEST THAT IS SUPPORTED
12:12:41AM BY URBAN DESIGN.
12:12:43AM THIS HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY VETTED THROUGH THEM FOR ALL OF OUR
12:12:46AM PROJECTS LOCATED IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
12:12:48AM QUICK NOTE ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING, AS MENTIONED THIS IS
12:12:51AM PROVIDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO MEET THE BONUS DENSITY.
12:12:53AM I'LL BE QUICK BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY, REALLY
12:12:55AM INTERESTING.
12:12:56AM I WAS DIVING INTO THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLANS THAT THE
12:12:59AM CRA PUTS OUT AND I DO READ THEM.
12:13:02AM AND BOTH OF THEM HAVE -- IT'S CRAZY BECAUSE THE ORIGINAL
12:13:05AM PLAN WHEN IT WAS ESTABLISHED BACK IN 2004 INCLUDED A SECTION
12:13:09AM ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND IT INCLUDED VERBIAGE THAT
12:13:12AM MENTIONED DIRECT DEVELOPER INCENTIVES FOR DEVELOPING
12:13:15AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING, MENTIONING THAT THERE IS AN ABSOLUTE
12:13:17AM SHORTAGE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE DISTRICT.
12:13:20AM AS YOU CAN SEE THE PLAN THAT CURRENTLY GOVERNS TODAY, 2022,
12:13:23AM REDEVELOPMENT PLAN, SAME EXACT LANGUAGE REGARDING DEVELOPER
12:13:27AM INCENTIVES FOR DEVELOPING AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALSO NOTING
12:13:30AM THERE IS A CURRENT SHORTAGE.
12:13:32AM WHILE WE TRANSITIONED FROM ABSOLUTE SHORTAGE TO A CURRENT
12:13:35AM SHORTAGE, A SHORTAGE EXISTS NONETHELESS.
12:13:38AM I THINK AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS NEEDED THROUGHOUT THE CITY BUT
12:13:40AM I THINK IT'S INHERENTLY IMPORTANT IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT
12:13:42AM WHERE RENTS ARE SKY HIGH.
12:13:44AM MEANWHILE, IT'S A VERY DESIRABLE PLACE TO LIVE GIVEN ITS
12:13:46AM PROXIMITY TO DOWNTOWN.
12:13:48AM YOU DON'T HAVE TO OWN A CAR.
12:13:49AM YOU CAN BIKE.
12:13:49AM YOU CAN WALK TO RESTAURANTS, TO YOUR JOB.
12:13:51AM PEOPLE WANT TO LIVE IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT, SO LET'S MAKE
12:13:54AM IT A BIT EASIER FOR THEM TO GET THERE.
12:13:56AM WITH THAT, I WILL CONCLUDE THE PRESENTATION.
12:13:58AM I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
12:14:00AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME?
12:14:01AM I HEAR NO ONE.
12:14:08AM >>LUIS VIERA: I WAS GOING TO SAY BY YOUR PRESENTATION, I CAN
12:14:11AM TELL YOU PREPARED A LOT FOR THIS AND REALLY WORKED HARD ON
12:14:14AM IT.
12:14:15AM WHEN I SAW YOU SPEAK, AGAIN, JUST SEEING A LAWYER WORK LIKE
12:14:19AM THAT, YOU CAN SEE IT.
12:14:20AM GOOD JOB.
12:14:20AM IT'S PAST MIDNIGHT.
12:14:23AM >> I SPEAK VERY FAST.
12:14:27AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: COUNCIL MEMBER TO MY RIGHT AND I SAID I
12:14:31AM HEARD SPEED-READING.
12:14:32AM I NEVER HEARD SPEED TALKING.
12:14:40AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC WISH TO SPEAK ON
12:14:42AM THIS ITEM?
12:14:42AM THIS IS ITEM 6.
12:14:44AM DO WE HAVE ANYBODY REGISTERED?
12:14:45AM MOTION TO CLOSE.
12:14:49AM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON, SECOND BY VIERA.
12:14:51AM ALL IN FAVOR, AYE.
12:15:13AM >>LUIS VIERA: I MOVE AN ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE
12:15:15AM GENERAL VICINITY OF 1236 CHANNELSIDE DRIVE IN THE CITY OF
12:15:19AM TAMPA, FLORIDA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN ZONING
12:15:21AM DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION CD-2, CHANNEL DISTRICT 2 TO CD-2,
12:15:27AM CHANNEL DISTRICT 2 STOREFRONT RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL
12:15:30AM GENERAL USES AND HOTEL, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
12:15:33AM WITH THE REVISED SQUARE FOOTAGE, I FIND THIS IS IN
12:15:42AM COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES IN
12:15:45AM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
12:15:46AM I FIND THIS IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
12:15:50AM SECTION 27-136 AND I FIND THAT THE -- THAT'S IT.
12:15:55AM THERE YOU GO.
12:15:57AM GOOD ENOUGH FOR NOW.
12:15:59AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
12:16:01AM >>LYNN HURTAK: CAN I ADD AN AMENDMENT FOR NOT JUST THE
12:16:06AM SQUARE FOOTAGE BUT THE WHOLE REVISED REVISION SHEET?
12:16:09AM >>LUIS VIERA: I TAKE THAT.
12:16:11AM YES.
12:16:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DO WE HAVE A SECOND TO THIS MOTION?
12:16:14AM SECONDED FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
12:16:16AM THIS INCLUDES THE AMENDMENT FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
12:16:21AM ROLL CALL.
12:16:26AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
12:16:28AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:16:30AM >> CARLSON?
12:16:31AM HURTAK?
12:16:32AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
12:16:34AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
12:16:35AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:16:38AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
12:16:42AM SECOND READING AND ADOPTION WILL BE HELD ON JUNE 1st,
12:16:47AM 2023, AT 9:30 A.M.
12:16:57AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: OKAY.
12:16:58AM THE LAST ITEM OF THE NIGHT.
12:16:59AM >>LaCHONE DOCK: LaCHONE DOCK, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
12:17:02AM THE LAST ITEM THIS EVENING IS REZ-23-33.
12:17:06AM IT'S FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1509 NORTH MORGAN STREET.
12:17:10AM THE APPLICANT IS REPRESENTED BY JOSEPH GIBBONS AND THIS
12:17:13AM REQUEST IS TO REZONE THE PROPERTY FROM RM 24, RESIDENTIAL
12:17:17AM MULTIFAMILY TO PD PLANNED DEVELOPMENT FOR RESIDENTIAL
12:17:20AM SINGLE-FAMILY SEMI DETACHED USES ON-SITE.
12:17:24AM AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO DANNY WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
12:17:33AM >>DANNY COLLINS: DANNY COLLINS WITH YOUR PLANNING COMMISSION
12:17:36AM STAFF.
12:17:36AM OUR LAST CASE IS IN THE CENTRAL TAMPA PLANNING DISTRICT AND
12:17:39AM MORE SPECIFICALLY IN THE TAMPA HEIGHTS URBAN VILLAGE.
12:17:41AM WATER WORKS PARK IS THE CLOSEST PUBLIC RECREATION FACILITY
12:17:45AM LOCATED WITHIN A QUARTER MILE WEST OF THE SUBJECT SITE.
12:17:48AM CLOSEST TRANSIT STOP IS ONE BLOCK WEST OF THE SITE.
12:17:58AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I DON'T THINK YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT CASE.
12:18:01AM OH, GOSH, I WAS THINKING SOMEWHERE ELSE.
12:18:03AM WE ARE ALL TIRED.
12:18:05AM >>DANNY COLLINS: CLOSEST TRANSIT STOP IS ONE BLOCK WEST OF
12:18:09AM THE SUBJECT SITE AT EAST ESTELLE STREET AND NORTH MARION
12:18:10AM STREET.
12:18:15AM SUBJECT SITE IS WITHIN THE COASTAL PLANNING AREA IN
12:18:16AM EVACUATION ZONE D.
12:18:17AM HERE IS AN AERIAL MAP OF THE SUBJECT SITE AND THE
12:18:22AM SURROUNDING PROPERTIES NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE ON THE EAST
12:18:25AM SIDE OF MORGAN STREET NORTH OF KAY STREET.
12:18:27AM THERE ARE SOME SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED USES ON THE EAST SIDE
12:18:30AM OF MORGAN STREET.
12:18:33AM AND RESIDENTIAL USES AS WELL AS MULTIFAMILY USES NORTHEAST
12:18:38AM OF THE SUBJECT SITE.
12:18:39AM HERE IS THE ADOPTED FUTURE LAND USE MAP.
12:18:46AM THE SUBJECT SITE IS RECOGNIZED UNDER THE RESIDENTIAL 83
12:18:49AM DESIGNATION WHICH IS A HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL LAND USE
12:18:52AM CATEGORY.
12:18:53AM ALLOWS DEVELOPMENT UP TO 83 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE.
12:18:56AM THAT IS THE PRIMARY LAND USE FOUND EAST OF MORGAN STREET.
12:18:59AM TO THE WEST IS LAND RECOGNIZED UNDER THE COMMUNITY
12:19:01AM COMMERCIAL 35 DESIGNATION, WHICH ENCOURAGES A MIXED USE
12:19:05AM DEVELOPMENT PATTERN UP TO A 2.0 F.A.R. OR 35 DWELLING UNITS
12:19:09AM PER ACRE.
12:19:10AM PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF REVIEWED THE APPLICATION AND FOUND
12:19:12AM THE PD COMPARABLE AND COMPATIBLE WITH THE SURROUNDING AREA.
12:19:15AM THE CHARACTER OF THE SURROUNDING AREA IS NONRESIDENTIAL,
12:19:18AM PARCELS UTILIZED FOR LIKE COMMERCIAL PUBLIC/SEMI-PUBLIC USES
12:19:23AM AND SOME SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED RESIDENTIAL USES.
12:19:25AM THIS PORTION OF NORTH MORGAN STREET BETWEEN EAST ESTELLE AND
12:19:31AM EAST KAY STREET, EXCLUDING THE SUBJECT SITE, HAS AN EXISTING
12:19:32AM DENSITY OF 12.13 UNITS PER ACRE.
12:19:34AM THE EXISTING DENSITY IS 15% OF THE DENSITY THAT CAN BE
12:19:37AM CONSIDERED UNDER THE RESIDENTIAL 83 DESIGNATION.
12:19:39AM THE REQUEST PROPOSES TWO SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED USES AT AN
12:19:42AM OVERALL DENSITY OF 22.22 UNITS PER ACRE WHICH IS WELL BELOW
12:19:46AM THE DENSITY CONSIDERED UNDER THE DESIGNATION.
12:19:50AM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ENCOURAGES SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED
12:19:52AM RESIDENTIAL USES TO BE DESIGNED TO INCLUDE THE ORIENTATION
12:19:55AM OF FRONT DOOR TO A NEIGHBORHOOD, SIDEWALK OR STREET.
12:19:59AM BOTH UNIT ENTRANCES ARE ORIENTED TOWARD AND CONNECT TO THE
12:20:02AM SIDEWALK ON NORTH MORGAN STREET MEETING THE INTENT OF THE
12:20:05AM POLICY DIRECTION.
12:20:05AM THE PROPOSED SIDEWALK WILL HELP ENSURE THAT SIDEWALKS
12:20:08AM INTERCONNECT WITH EXISTING AND FUTURE SIDEWALKS ON ADJACENT
12:20:11AM PARCELS.
12:20:12AM FINALLY THE REQUEST SUPPORTS MANY OF THE POLICIES IN THE
12:20:16AM COMP PLAN AS IT RELATES TO HOUSING THE CITY'S POPULATION.
12:20:19AM TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ENCOURAGES NEW HOUSING IN VACANT
12:20:22AM AND UNDERUTILIZED LAND TO ENSURE AN ADEQUATE SUPPLY OF
12:20:26AM HOUSING IS AVAILABLE TO MEET TAMPA'S GROWING POPULATION.
12:20:30AM ADDITIONALLY, THE COMP PLAN SEEKS TO DIRECT THE GREATEST
12:20:33AM SHARE OF GROWTH TO THE CITY'S URBAN VILLAGES.
12:20:36AM PROPOSED PD SUPPORTS THE POLICY BY CREATING ADDITIONAL
12:20:39AM HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES IN THE TAMPA HEIGHTS URBAN VILLAGE.
12:20:42AM BASED ON THESE CONSIDERATIONS THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF
12:20:44AM FINDS THE REQUEST CONSISTENT WITH THE GOALS, OBJECTIVES, AND
12:20:47AM POLICIES OF THE TAMPA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
12:20:49AM THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
12:20:50AM AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
12:20:52AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?
12:20:53AM NO.
12:20:54AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:21:05AM >>LaCHONE DOCK: LaCHONE DOCK, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
12:21:08AM THIS REQUEST TO REZONE THE PROPERTY THAT IS BEFORE YOU WOULD
12:21:13AM ALLOW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROPERTY WITH TWO
12:21:16AM RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY SEMI DETACHED USES ON THE SITE.
12:21:21AM THE LOT CONTAINS 4,043 SQUARE FEET.
12:21:24AM THIS IS PROPOSED WITH ONE 4500-SQUARE-FOOT STRUCTURE WHICH
12:21:30AM WOULD CONTAIN THREE STORIES ON-SITE.
12:21:35AM LET ME SHOW YOU THE SITE PLAN.
12:21:37AM THIS IS MORGAN STREET.
12:21:40AM THIS IS MORGAN STREET.
12:21:42AM THIS IS THE PROPOSED VEHICULAR ENTRANCE.
12:21:45AM SO THIS IS THE BUILDING AND YOU HAVE UNIT ONE HERE, UNIT TWO
12:21:49AM IS LOCATED HERE, AND THIS IS THE PROPERTY LINE LOCATED HERE.
12:21:54AM SO THEY ARE PROPOSING FRONT DOOR ENTRY.
12:21:56AM THE FRONT DOORS ARE ORIENTED TO MORGAN STREET.
12:22:00AM EACH UNIT CONTAINS A TWO-CAR ENCLOSED GARAGE.
12:22:04AM THERE ARE NO WAIVERS WITH THIS SITE PLAN, THIS PD REQUEST.
12:22:12AM I'LL SHOW YOU PICTURES OF THE SITE.
12:22:14AM THIS IS THE PROPERTY -- LET ME ZOOM IN A LITTLE BIT.
12:22:25AM THIS IS THE PROPERTY IDENTIFIED HERE IN RED.
12:22:29AM OUTLINED IN RED.
12:22:30AM MORGAN STREET, 275, WHICH IS TO THE SOUTH.
12:22:32AM AND THIS SITE YOU CAN SEE JUST DIRECTLY NORTH IS A PD.
12:22:38AM THAT'S AN OFFICE USE THAT'S THERE.
12:22:40AM WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THAT PD, THE REMAINDER OF THIS BLOCK
12:22:43AM IS DEVELOPED WITH THAT SAME USE, WHICH IS PROPOSED.
12:22:46AM IT'S EITHER SINGLE-FAMILY.
12:22:47AM THIS IS THE SINGLE-FAMILY SEMI DETACHED, BUT WHEN YOU'RE OUT
12:22:51AM ON-SITE AND LOOKING AND I HAVE SOME PHOTOS, SINGLE-FAMILY
12:22:55AM SEMI DETACHED THAT'S THE REMAINDER OF THE BLOCK.
12:22:58AM SO THIS IS ACTUALLY CONSISTENT WITH WHAT EXISTS OUT ON SITE.
12:23:02AM YOU HAVE CI ZONING AND SO COMMERCIAL ZONING TO THE WEST AND
12:23:06AM THEN YOU HAVE FURTHER NORTH A COUPLE OF PDs AND COMMERCIAL
12:23:10AM NEIGHBORHOOD ZONINGS.
12:23:11AM SO THIS IS THE SITE ON MORGAN.
12:23:17AM THIS IS EAST OF THE SITE.
12:23:20AM LET ME ZOOM OUT A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE IT'S NOT SHOWING THE
12:23:23AM WHOLE PHOTO.
12:23:24AM THIS IS LOCATED DIRECTLY EAST OF THE SITE.
12:23:46AM IT IS EAST OF THE SITE.
12:23:48AM THIS IS EAST.
12:23:50AM THIS IS IF YOU'RE ON PIERCE LOOKING WEST TO MORGAN STREET.
12:23:58AM THE UNITS ARE DESIGNED THE SAME.
12:24:01AM FROM THE EXTERIOR THEY LOOK THE SAME.
12:24:04AM THIS IS NORTH OF THE SITE.
12:24:07AM THIS IS THE PD THAT I MENTIONED.
12:24:11AM THIS IS THE VIEW IF YOU'RE ON MORGAN STREET AND LOOKING
12:24:15AM SOUTH.
12:24:15AM YOU CAN SEE THE INTERSTATE THAT'S LOCATED THERE AND YOU CAN
12:24:17AM SEE THE OTHER DEVELOPMENT HERE TO THE SOUTH.
12:24:20AM THIS IS ACROSS THE STREET.
12:24:24AM THIS IS THE VACANT COMMERCIAL LOT THAT'S ACROSS THE STREET.
12:24:29AM DRC REVIEWED THE STAFF AND FINDS THE REQUEST CONSISTENT.
12:24:36AM AS I MENTIONED, THERE WERE NO WAIVERS WITH THIS REQUEST.
12:24:39AM SITE PLAN MODIFICATIONS TO BE MADE BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND
12:24:42AM READING, AND I'M AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
12:24:44AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS?
12:24:45AM NO.
12:24:47AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:24:49AM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
12:24:51AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: APPLICANT.
12:24:53AM >> GOOD MORNING.
12:24:54AM [ LAUGHTER ]
12:24:54AM I'VE BEEN HERE SO LONG MY GIRLFRIEND HAD A BIRTHDAY WHILE
12:25:01AM I'VE BEEN HERE.
12:25:02AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YEAH, IT IS HER BIRTHDAY.
12:25:04AM >> MY NAME IS JOE GIBBONS.
12:25:07AM I'VE BEEN SWORN IN.
12:25:07AM 708 WEST OHIO AVENUE.
12:25:09AM I AM THE APPLICANT AND THE DEVELOPER OF THE PROJECT.
12:25:12AM THE PREVIOUS PHOTOS THAT YOU SAW, OUR PROJECT, THIS IS THE
12:25:20AM FINAL PIECE OF THE DEVELOPMENT.
12:25:23AM WE PREVIOUSLY HAVE DONE 20 UNITS.
12:25:27AM THIS IS THE PROPERTY THAT WE HAD OUR CONSTRUCTION TRAILER ON
12:25:29AM AND STORED MATERIALS AND STUFF.
12:25:31AM IT'S LATE.
12:25:36AM I NEED TO SEE THESE.
12:25:38AM ONE BUILDING, TWO UNITS, SEMI DETACHED.
12:25:45AM PROPOSING ZERO LOT LINE DUPLEX.
12:25:48AM EACH UNIT HAS A GARAGE PARKING.
12:25:51AM THE FRONT DOORS ARE ORIENTED TO MORGAN STREET.
12:25:56AM DURING THE CONSTRUCTION, THE PHASE THREE OF MY PREVIOUS
12:26:00AM DEVELOPMENT, PIERCE STREET, WE IMPROVED THE ALLEYWAY HERE
12:26:04AM WHICH IS UNUSUAL THAT WE CAME IN AND WANTED TO IMPROVE THE
12:26:08AM ALLEY WHICH ALLOWS THE CIRCULAR MOTION OF THE WASTE TRUCKS
12:26:14AM AND WHATNOT.
12:26:16AM THIS IS THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DID ON
12:26:26AM THE OTHER THREE PHASES.
12:26:27AM WE DID CHANGE THEM UP A LITTLE BIT.
12:26:31AM MODERNIZED THEM A LITTLE BIT.
12:26:32AM WE'VE ADDED SOME ADDITIONAL WINDOWS.
12:26:38AM WE'RE DOING A WIDER DECK ON THE SECOND FLOOR HERE.
12:26:42AM THESE ARE THE FRONT DOORS ORIENTED TO THE STREET.
12:26:47AM THE RENDERINGS SHOW THE SIDEWALK GOING TO THE DRIVEWAY.
12:26:52AM DURING STAFF MEETINGS, THE SIDEWALK WILL NOW CONTINUE ALL
12:26:55AM THE WAY OUT AND WE'RE GOING TO REBUILD THE SIDEWALK ALONG
12:26:58AM MORGAN STREET.
12:27:05AM JUST ANOTHER RENDERING.
12:27:07AM THIS IS THE SIDEWALK I JUST MENTIONED THAT WILL COME OUT TO
12:27:09AM THIS NEW SITE.
12:27:10AM THERE IS AN EXISTING SIDEWALK THERE, BUT IT'S IN BAD SHAPE,
12:27:13AM SO WE'LL BE REPLACING THE ENTIRE SIDEWALK FROM THE ALLEY
12:27:16AM THAT WE BUILT TO THE NORTH PROPERTY LINE.
12:27:31AM THIS IS A SIDE RENDERING.
12:27:35AM THIS IS THE ALLEY HERE.
12:27:37AM PIERCE STREET BUILDING THAT WE JUST COMPLETED LAST FALL IS
12:27:41AM BACK HERE.
12:27:41AM THIS IS THE ELEVATION, THE NORTH ELEVATION.
12:27:49AM THIS IS THE AREA OF THE EXISTING OFFICE BUILDING.
12:27:55AM AND THEN THE REAR OF THE BUILDING, COVERED LANAI AND THIS IS
12:28:07AM BACKING UP TO THE PIERCE STREET PROPERTY THAT WE JUST
12:28:10AM FINISHED.
12:28:10AM I GUESS I'M FORTUNATE, I'M ASKING FOR KIND OF A DOWNZONING.
12:28:18AM I DIDN'T REALIZE THIS UNTIL WE HAD MEETINGS WITH STAFF, BUT
12:28:21AM I WAS ENTITLED TO BUILD SIX UNITS AND WE'RE REQUESTING TO
12:28:24AM BUILD TWO SEMI DETACHED.
12:28:26AM AND THE SITE DOES NOT HAVE ANY TREES, BUT WE WILL BE
12:28:30AM PLANNING TREES DURING THE COURSE OF CONSTRUCTION.
12:28:33AM I'M AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS.
12:28:36AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS?
12:28:37AM WE HAVE TO ASK FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
12:28:41AM ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC WISH TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM?
12:28:44AM ANYBODY ONLINE REGISTERED?
12:28:46AM >>THE CLERK: NO.
12:28:47AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
12:28:49AM CLENDENIN.
12:28:50AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:28:52AM ALL IN FAVOR?
12:28:54AM >> AYE.
12:28:54AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA -- ARE YOU OKAY?
12:28:58AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I'M FINE.
12:28:59AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GO AHEAD.
12:29:01AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: FILE NUMBER 7, REZ-23-33, ORDINANCE BEING
12:29:05AM PRESENTED FOR FIRST READING, ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN
12:29:08AM THE GENERAL VICINITY OF 1509 NORTH MORGAN STREET IN THE CITY
12:29:11AM OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1
12:29:14AM FROM ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION RM-24, RESIDENTIAL,
12:29:17AM MULTIFAMILY, TO PD, PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, RESIDENTIAL,
12:29:20AM SINGLE-FAMILY, DETACHED, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
12:29:23AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
12:29:25AM MIRANDA.
12:29:26AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
12:29:28AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THIS MEETS -- COMPLIANCE, PURPOSE OF
12:29:34AM REZONING ALLOW BETTER UTILIZATION OF LAND CONSIDERED WITH A
12:29:37AM DENSITY APPLICATION -- I THINK IT'S A DONE DEAL HERE.
12:29:45AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ROLL CALL VOTE.
12:29:47AM AND THE REVISION SHEET, SIR.
12:29:51AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: REVISION SHEET.
12:29:55AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GO AHEAD.
12:29:57AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:29:59AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:30:02AM >> CARLSON?
12:30:03AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
12:30:04AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
12:30:04AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
12:30:06AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:30:09AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
12:30:12AM SECOND READING AND ADOPTION WILL BE HELD ON JUNE 1st,
12:30:17AM 2023, AT 9:30 A.M.
12:30:19AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
12:30:20AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:30:21AM NOW --
12:30:22AM >> MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE --
12:30:25AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NOT YET.
12:30:27AM COUNCILMAN VIERA HAS A WALK-ON RESOLUTION I BELIEVE.
12:30:31AM >>LUIS VIERA: I SENT IT OUT.
12:30:32AM DOES ANYONE HAVE QUESTIONS, COMMENTS ON IT?
12:30:36AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU.
12:30:39AM I HAVE A VERY CLOSE FAMILY MEMBER WHO IS A STUTTERER AND I
12:30:44AM THINK IT'S REALLY FABULOUS THAT YOU ARE FOCUSING ON THIS
12:30:47AM WEEK.
12:30:48AM I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU.
12:30:48AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, MA'AM, MY PLEASURE.
12:30:50AM OUR PRESIDENT OBVIOUSLY HAS DEALT WITH THAT AS WELL.
12:30:54AM THANK YOU.
12:30:55AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FOR THIS RESOLUTION
12:30:58AM FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
12:31:00AM IS THAT A SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK?
12:31:01AM ALL IN FAVOR?
12:31:03AM AYE.
12:31:08AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I MAKE A MOTION TO PRESENT A COMMENDATION
12:31:10AM TO CATHY BARTOLOTTI FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CITY OF TAMPA,
12:31:13AM PARTICULARLY THROUGH HER INVOLVEMENT AS A MEMBER IN SERVING
12:31:16AM AS AN OFFICER OF THE LAS DAMAS DEL CENTRO ASTURIANO.
12:31:21AM THIS WILL BE PRESENTED OFF-SITE AT THE CENTRO ASTURIANO AT
12:31:25AM AN UPCOMING EVENT IN JUNE.
12:31:27AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A VERY, VERY GOOD MOTION TO A WONDERFUL
12:31:29AM PERSON WHO HAS BEEN SO INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY FOR MANY
12:31:34AM YEARS.
12:31:34AM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
12:31:36AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
12:31:37AM ALL IN FAVOR?
12:31:38AM AYE.
12:31:39AM ANY OPPOSED?
12:31:40AM DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING?
12:31:48AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING.
12:31:49AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
12:31:52AM >>LUIS VIERA: REALLY QUICK, IF I MAY, I HAD TO SUPPLEMENT
12:31:57AM THE MOTION I DID AT CRA TODAY ON AREAS THAT ARE WITHOUT
12:32:01AM GROCERY STORES FOR THE SAME MOTION WHICH IS TO FIND UNDER
12:32:07AM FEASIBILITY THE CITY AND/OR CRA ASSIST IN THESE AREAS I WANT
12:32:10AM TO INCLUDE SULPHUR SPRINGS SINCE IT'S NOT IN THE CRA.
12:32:15AM I HAVE TO DO IT HERE TO BE ON OCTOBER 19.
12:32:18AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
12:32:20AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
12:32:22AM ALL IN FAVOR?
12:32:23AM ANY OPPOSED?
12:32:24AM ANYTHING ELSE, SIR?
12:32:25AM >>LUIS VIERA: ONE REALLY FAST, IF I MAY, JULY 13, 2023, TO
12:32:29AM HAVE CITY STAFF COME BACK ON A REPORT ON THE POSSIBILITY OF
12:32:32AM MAKING AHMEDABAD -- A-H-M-E-D-A-B-A-D -- IN INDIA ONE OF
12:32:42AM CITY OF TAMPA'S SISTER CITIES.
12:32:43AM I COULD GO THROUGH THE HISTORY OF THE CITY, BUT I SHALL NOT.
12:32:44AM I HAD A REQUEST FROM SOME IN THE INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY
12:32:48AM ON THAT, AND I MAKE FOR THAT MOTION.
12:32:51AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
12:32:53AM ALL IN FAVOR?
12:32:54AM ANY OPPOSED?
12:32:55AM >>LUIS VIERA: THAT'S IT.
12:32:56AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:32:58AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I HAVE SIX BUT I'LL HOLD THEM UNTIL
12:33:01AM LATER.
12:33:02AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
12:33:04AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE ALL DOCUMENTS.
12:33:07AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON.
12:33:09AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:33:11AM ALL IN FAVOR?
12:33:13AM >> AYE.
12:33:13AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: LISA, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU ARE STILL
12:33:17AM HERE.
12:33:17AM WE ARE ADJOURNED.
12:33:19AM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
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