04.19.2022 Pasco Board of County Commissioners Meeting (Afternoon Session)

fishing out there there was a seven or seven i think a seven and a half eight foot something a good size yeah yeah it's pretty good i don't think we're gonna start selling go ahead i um legislative sessions you guys have to vote on to be able to the governor then this is what they signed up um this was done at a board meeting in march march 22nd and it was to change the requirements [Music] is [Applause] one two three four [Music] they don't need to do this i now call back to order the pasco county commissioner's meeting of april 19 2022 please silence all electronic devices and mutual microphones first agenda item address will be ap 99 it was a an addendum to the uh agenda today and we're going to look for a continuance denise mr chair commissioners denise hernandez planning and development um that item did you say it was p ninety-eight okay it's pdd220233 uh the item uh comes here with a request to continue the item to the may 3rd 2022 board of county commissioners meeting at 1 30 in dade city i'm sorry and do we have a uh proof of publication yes item p99 was published in tampa times on march 23 2022. okay continuance date is may 3rd 2022 board of county commissioners meeting at 1 30 in dade city that's for the first reading all in favor say aye aye aye aye aye any opposed okay motion passes thank you and now we'll proceed with public hearings with item or public hearing started with ordinances p54 and when was we have proof yes um item p54 was published in tempe times on march 16 2022 okay good afternoon uh patrick dutter uh planning and development department um so i have before you today potentially there we go um some landscaping code updates uh so there's a team put together roughly two years ago to take a look at our landscaping and buffering section of our code um so the team was a combination of internal and external stakeholders so from county staff we had frank galdo jr and catherine harper from the cooperative extension's office we had elizabeth blair from the county attorney's office mike woodard who is an arborist working in central permitting

and myself and pam shaw who are planners working for planning and development and then we also did this in coordination with members of the tampa bay builders association so hannah mclear from clairview land design and bridger demers from level up consulting uh so we worked over the last two years to tweak the landscape code a little bit to make it a little bit more friendly improve some things that we needed to improve uh over time um so i'll just first one acknowledge that uh while i see catherine starkey is not here uh i have met with her and she was uh excited for these changes so um not important to mention that um so just to start on some of the updates and improvements i'm going to go ahead and read through this list relatively fast if there's something in here that you want me to speak on specifically feel free to stop me and i can talk about it so some of the improvements included allowing for tree sample surveys uh updated the intent and purpose of our landscaping and buffering section of the code we updated the invasive species references we added language for the right tree in the right place clarified and made it easier to use existing vegetation for buffers defined what a shade tree was defined ornamental trees clarified the use of palm trees updated the ground cover planting requirements added language about the proper maintenance of trees added language about keeping future planting areas free of debris added requirements of one shade tree in the front yard of single family homes we incorporated code section 905.3 which is residential street trees into 905.2 we updated and clarified the vehicle use area requirements we require landscape islands to go from 8 feet wide to 10 feet wide added requirements for larger vehicles for vehicle use areas clarified planting adjacent to building perimeter lands building perimeters allowed for existing vegetation to qualify for buffers without alternative standard applications we revamped the buffer requirement table revamped the buffer and screening requirements table adjusted the vehicle dealership buffer added standards for pawns adjacent to rights of way and then we added a buffer graphic to the development review manual added the tree list to the development review manual um added the quick use calculation templates to the development review manual um added some helpful links to the developer review manual and there are some other minor fixes and tweaks that came along with that and then this is just an example of what some of those items that we're adding to the development review manual are so you'll see we'll have a pictorial reference about what the buffers are supposed to look like we have a tree list that was fully vetted by our arborists and our landscape experts and then of course those are the

calculations for development okay so any questions on any of that any input it's the first reading does this still have a tree in the front yard and one in the backyard because i didn't see the hear the one in the backyard um i it depends uh depends on the size of the lot um so depending on the size of the lot you're required to have uh one tree per lot um and that tree is required to be planted in the front of the lot i thought there were two trees that were supposed to be planted uh so i think if it's less if if your lot is less than six thousand square feet you only you're only required to have one tree on your lot and then we're saying that you know in some instances those trees can be planted in the front yes the planter do you know what is six thousand square feet in acreage uh i mean i i don't know that specifically six thousand divided by four three five six i don't know that off the top of my head nate okay thank you okay any other questions for staff public public comment no one has signed up for item p54 and no one is on webex okay any from the public like to comment on the item okay this is the first reading so we'll carry to the next one no actions required thank you item p55 thank you item p55 was published in the tambay times on november 24th 2021. so item p55 uh mr chair we we will be hearing that together with item p61 okay so we're going to move on to p56 item p56 was published in tampa times on february 23 2022 so item p56 is pd220224 today is the adoption hearing so we're asking you to approve this fight approve it by roll call vote it went to the local planning agency on march 17 2022 who found it consistent with a comprehensive plan and recommended approval to the board it is an ordinance amending the pasco county comprehensive plan providing for a small scale comprehensive plan amendment to the future land use map map 2-15 and chief 14 from res 3 residential three dwelling units for gross acres to res 12 residential 12 dwelling units per gross acre on approximately 27.45 acres of real property located at the southeast corner of the intersection of state route 52 and old pasco road providing for additional text amendments as necessary for internal consistency providing for repeal or severability and an effective date so if you take public comment and again this is adoption and it's by roll call vote

okay any comments for staff all right anyone is anyone the public there's no one signed up for item p56 and no one on webex okay all right so do we have a motion is there anybody in the audience who wishes to speak to this item move approval second district one commissioner oakley aye district two commissioner moore all right district four commissioner fitzpatrick aye district five commissioner mariano aye district three chairman starkey excuse okay now we go to public hearings and mr county attorney we read the review the procedures for rezonings there are two resounding agendas regular and consent staff will present each application to the board of county commissioners if staff or planning commission has recommended approval and there's no opposition the application will be considered by the board without further presentation if staff or planning commission has recommended denial or if there is opposition to the application the applicant will be given five minutes for presentation the opposition will be given three minutes for each individual or five minutes for a group representative and the applicant will be given three minutes for a rebuttal any individual disagreeing with staff for planning commission recommendation or anyone wishing to object to any condition of the rezoning may at this time request the petition be pulled from the consent agenda in which case that application will be heard under the regular agenda later on during the meeting otherwise all rezoning applications on the consent agenda will be approved by a single motion and vote if you wish to speak to any petition please give your name and address and whether or not you've been sworn for the record these are quasi-judicial public hearings the law in florida is that mere public support or opposition of an application is insufficient for this board to take action please limit your comments to those criteria found within the board's land development code for rezoning thank you those who are in person and have pre-registered to speak to any of the items on the public hearing agenda will be sworn in by the clerk now if you if you're here to speak on any of the items please stand to be sworn in and raise your right hands anyone else okay do you swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give is the truth so help you god thank you today we have three public hearing items on the consent agenda we'll start with p57 a continuance item p57 was published in the tambay titans on january 5th 2022. thank you p57 p57 is

pdd220020 this is a continuance request to the may 17 2022 bcc meeting at 1 30 in newport richie second all in favor say aye aye aye any opposed date certainly okay p-58 item p-58 was published in the taipei times on february 2nd 2022 p58 is pd 22006 today is the transmittal hearing for this item so we're asking that you take public comment and that you recommend or authorize transmittal to the fdeo and other reviewing agencies it's a large-scale comprehensive plan amendment cpal 2124 denton avenue providing for transmittal the proposed large-scale comprehensive plan amendment to the future land use map 2-15 and sheet 4 changing from il industrial light res 6 residential 620 units per gross acre and res 3 residential 3 dwelling units per gross acre to pd plant development and approximately 331.34 acres of real property located at the southwest corner of denton avenue and mattis road and a text amendment creating sub-area policy flew 7.1.61 denton avenue and a map amendment to the future land use map 2-9 adding sub-area map 2-9 paren 61 denton avenue this went to the local planning agency on february 17 2022 who found it consistent with a comprehensive plan and recommended approval to the board of county commissioners again please take public comment today and authorize transmittal to the deo and other reviewing agencies okay is anyone here in to speak in opposition to the project and no one has signed up and no one on webex for this item okay seeing no one leave it on consent uh p-59 item p-59 was published in tampa times on february 16 2022 and march 6 2022. p59 is pdd227602 it's a zoning amendment one lucocci center inc wrec property edc project it's for a change in zoning from an ac agricultural district r3 medium density residential district r4 high density residential district mf1 multiple family medium density district and c1 neighborhood commercial district to an i-1 light industrial park district this comes to you with a recommendation from the planning and develop of approval from the planning and development department and the planning commission who heard the item on march 17 2022 is anyone in the audience or on webex in opposed to this item as well no one is signed up for this item and no one owns webex for this item okay we'll leave that on consent approve the consent agenda second all in favor of consent agenda aye aye all opposed like sign okay motion passes now we'll proceed with the remainder of the regular public hearings item starting with p-60. item p-60 was published in the tempe times on march 16 2022. good afternoon commissioners excuse me good afternoon commissioners is called the public works um this is item pw 22-0036

[Music] wintry boulevard pvas number three four five five this is one count to maintain the paved road they approximated uh estimate the project cost is about 695 thousand dollars maximum cost per eru is eight thousand two hundred and twenty dollars and forty eight cents the discounted amount is eighty nine thousand one hundred and forty one dollars and fifty cents and the maximum cost per eru after the discount is six thousand four hundred and twenty one dollars and thirty six cents um of uh possible 338 votes six to four percent or 216 responded to the petition of that 145 or 67 percent voted in favor of a project 71 or 33 33 voted against the project um the repayment is over 10-year period and the interest rate is at 3.25 percent this is a location map an example of a road board ah sorry staff is recommending um approval okay any comments of staff anyone in the audience like to speak to this item there's no one signed up for this item and no one on webex okay second all in favor say aye aye aye actually it's roll call vote no this no this is not okay you're in the afternoon all right you're good all right all opposed item passes 55 yeah p61 item yeah actually you we need to pull 55 first to be heard all right so we're going to hit p 55 in p61 and mr county attorney would you explain what the rules are were they consolidated so so my recommendation has always been on on when you you can do a consolidated presentation for both the comp plan and the um rezoning um and then hold separate public hearings with separate votes one for the reason one for the comprehensive plan one for the one for the zoning otherwise the public is going to have to identify which item they're speaking to and it becomes confusing but if staff and the applicant want to do a package presentation for both of them that's that's fine which will save the time from back and forth yeah okay and mr chair would like me to give the publication on both the items now please okay item p55 was published in the template times on november 24th 2021 and item p61 was published in tampa times on february 16 2022. okay thank you thank you very much what's yours so do we want to do the powerpoint for p55 and for p61 or i could just do p61 because some of it's already merged into there if you've got them if you've got them separated i would do one for 55 and

then then do something here's 61. jerry also there'll be two votes yes two motions two votes yeah two motions 55 will be roll call right yeah okay so p55 is a large-scale comprehensive plan amendment in the name of cpel 2016 newport corners so this is the adoption hearing for the proposed comprehensive planned text amendment so we'll read the ordinance into record an ordinance amending the pasco county comprehensive plan providing for a text amendment to the future land use element appendix and providing for additional text amendments as necessary for internal consistency a map amendment to the future land use map 2-9 amending sub-area map 2-925 newport corners providing for a repealer severability and an effective date so the proposal for the future land use amendment is amending the newport corner's future land use classification as well as the accompanying future land use sub-area map 2-9-25 it is located north and south of decubilus drive north of plath road along the little road corridor and the resolution to this the applicant's proposal is to amend the flu map 2-9-25 and provide for a text amendment to flu appendix a6 there is a proposed accompanying mpd that you will hear after this these are the following policies that the proposed amendment are consistent with and then just a little history so december 9th to that 2021 the local planning agency held a public hearing on the proposed comprehensive plan text amendment um and unanimous unanimously approved to the board of county commissioners the proposed amendment at that time increased the residential density by three units from thirty three thousand three hundred and ninety seven to three thousand and four hundred dwelling units it also reduced the non-residential entitlements from four point eight million square feet of retail offices more support commercial uses to 1.4 square feet and then we also established three village categories being the northeast village village center and neighborhood village there's also a connectivity plan that's utilized at this point in time as a conceptual planning tool on january 25th the board of county commissioners authorized transmittal to the department of economic opportunity and other reviewing agencies and as of march 25th we did receive a letter of completion of their review and have deemed no issues or concerns from the state agencies so here's a location map identifying the location of the property which is within the central and spring districts of the west market area this is the boundary and ariel which is

located along the little road corridor just south of decubulus and north of plath road here is your existing future land use classification this is your uh existing village sub-area map which shows the village core village general parks and open space neighborhood general and employment mix areas the applicant is proposing to amend this map to allow for the village center core parks and open space neighborhood general area and neighborhood village this is the proposed connectivity plan that is going to act as a conceptual planning tool and it identifies the roadway segments mixture of uses parks open spaces and amenities within this area and with that we recommend that the board of county commissioners approve the proposed amendment and adopt by roll call vote okay any comments for this part for the comp plan side okay so let's go right to the next one yeah 261. mr chairman if staff has them separated i i would just go ahead and do them as separate presentations so so that you keep your comp plan and your rezoning separate okay unless there's some reason that the zoning needs to explain the comp plan yeah okay let's let's do that then okay so the applicant mr chairman clark hobby hobby and hobby pa 109 north brush street tampa florida have been sworn i'll keep this very brief as to the comp plan because i really think the residents that we have here are more concerned about the mpud the sites located in the west market area in the urban service area the board created the newport corners project name and all of the sub-area policies in 2010. all we're doing really today is really just two major things we're reducing the amount of retail primarily previously the project allowed for 1.4 million square feet of retail and it located or allowed for its location up next to it neighborhoods particularly on the west side we didn't think that was a good form of planning and we thought the scale of the non-residential uses was far too great and it was really intended more for regional serving uses rather than neighborhood scale and so the plan amendments are simply to downsize some of the non-residential units and make sure that they work better with our neighbors i'll be happy to discuss anything about that but i'll save most of my comments for the mpud presentation okay any comments mr darby okay as far as public comment goes you have anyone signed up we do we have um a few people signed up let's read them off okay we have laura jeske come on up to the podium i don't know mr chairman i mean i again maybe explaining the difference between 55 and 61 because i think there

might be some confusion amongst the audience what they're speaking on i just want to help you guys out so yeah so before you for for purposes of the public that this is the this is the big picture comprehensive plan hearing the next hearing that will be called up will be the detailed mpud hearing right and i signed up for p55 she did a mistake you can switch it i i'd like to do okay 61. we'll call you back up for that thank you so i have one two three others that signed up specifically for p55 which may have wanted to speak on p 61 instead and then i have three that signed up with a blank item um but they did identify plath road development for coroners on the reason so i can list their names out and see if they want to speak now if you'd like let's see if they want to speak now mark jeske [Music] that's not a mistake for the record mr jeske wants to speak on p61 um then we have julie uh is it barter nick to let's okay both today um thank you for the opportunity to speak i speak on behalf of the sierra club pasco conservation committee and myself sierra i'm so sorry state your name address oh yeah julia bartonic 2645 meadowwood drive new purity florida three four six five five okay she doesn't need to just be sworn for this one it's the next one right okay okay um thank you for the opportunity to speak has become behalf of the sierra club pasco conservation committee and myself sierra club has developed principles attempting to guide entities in matters such as this one sierra strongly discourages suburban spoil as represented by this proposed zoning change the sprawl fails to maximize in-place infrastructure this change will require pasco county to expand its infrastructure multiple arenas including schools roads water sewer resiliency fire protection and even government two suburban sprawl fails to recover the costs associated with expansion citizens who derive little benefit from this change in zoning will at some level wind up paying for the expansion three moving into what will become urban sprawl creates a scenario where under underfunded costs of project a are attempted to be recovered by project b of course project b itself is underfunded and the process continues in the losing battle with new projects four sierra club principal of walkable communities walkable communities are designed in such way that any resident is within walking or biking distances of the services and immunities needed on a day-to-day basis the street plans provide curved cul-de-sac's no through streets and board sidewalks all of this focused on residents who live there having many chargeable ev stations dark

sky lighting and solar roofing is optimal pasco kenny is a beautiful county sierra club sponsors neighborhood renewal and approach that allows pasco county to maximize current infrastructure by the same token sierra club supports the principle of infilling again maximizing utilization of in-place facilities both of these approaches allow pasco county to maintain green spaces and vibrant places which support health both mental and physical i myself i'd like to request another park adjacent to the river similar to james gray preserve this has had deep concerns for flooding issues of newporichi residents post development of the zoning change for the newport corner's development i'm also concerned with runoff pollutants from the pith cloa into the plochi river impacting its estuaries river beauty and potential increased tourism um now i put both of the numbers on here for p55 and p61 so i'll just come back up and then i'd like to submit them for the record after i share on p61 that's fine thank you all right the next person signed up i think it's lori jonah bell ben sorry your handwriting's hard for me so sorry hi my name is lauren dalvin i live at one one one one zero pine tree lane port richie okay and oh yeah go ahead uh i'm just here to uh personally to speak against the uh development and zoning change um i just wanted to express my concerns for the animals that are not being regarded as i feel that we have the i feel that uh my concern is for the animals not being cared for not being put somewhere else okay i'm sorry this is my first time speaking so i'm just a little nervous but um we have a eastern indigo snake that is about to become extinct and things like that aren't being cared for and that's my concern just uh i wanted to bring the attention to that that's all i have really thank you thank you all right i have three individuals signed up without a um agenda item number so i don't know if you want to speak to p55 p50 or p61 or both um barbara costa okay p 61 um um for the record is what she would like to speak to and then dixie sparks okay so for the record ms sparks also would like to speak on pe 61 and then margot robinson all right um she would also like to speak on p61 i have a person signed up for p61 making sure that they wanted to speak to p61 it is david robinson rob robbie okay all right very good then we're good with the ones that had signed up for p55 okay in the applicant anybody else well anybody else on p55 last call closing public hearing on p55

mr chairman clark hobby again i'll be brief um the apparently the sierra club representative i don't think has seen our plans for the site because virtually everything that they were complaining about is a backbone of our plan of design for the community it's specifically designed to be a walkable community and all of all of our streets almost all of them except for ones which dead end into wetlands are all interconnected it's designed to be a place that creates open spaces it creates two parks one of which is by the river and that's really the focal point of the whole project and we'll talk about that more in the mpud this is not suburban sprawl in any manner or form this site's been within our urban service area and it's been referred to the hole in the donut and the urban service area for the last 12 years all of the services that we need to provide to our site are already in place this is the antithesis of suburban spa this is called urban infill in pasco county so uh i feel very comfortable with the project work we're pursuing and i'll allude to this a little bit more later we have not we in our preliminary environmental assessments we did not discover any eastern indigo snakes on the on the site that will be further examined as we go through each phase of development as is required by federal and state law and then the last thing i just wanted to point out i think one of the the folks is concerned about open space and animals i'll give you more color on this later but actually over 400 of the 700 acres and changed south of decubilus are being preserved as open space so there's a great commitment to green spaces and open spaces on the site with that i don't think most of those questions were and comments from the other folks were even germane to the comp plan amendment so i'd ask that you move approval on that thank you thank you any questions to the applicant all right public comments closed we're done with a presentation mr oakley i move approval okay yeah second yeah i was waiting on her all right motion to appreciate the roll call he moves and i'm second district one commissioner oakley aye district two commissioner moore district four commissioner fitzpatrick aye district five commissioner mariano district three chairman starkey okay and i'll present 361. all right hello again amy heiler with long range planning today you'll be hearing item rz7598 which is the newport corners master plan unit development rezoning so as previously shown this is this site is located in this uh central and spring districts of the west market area as well as commissioner district four

this is your visual showing the ariel where it's north of place south of decubious decubulus along the little road corridor so the proposal for the rezoning petition is to rezone the existing ac agricultural district and ar res agricultural residential district to mpud master u master plan unit development on approximately 956.3 acres of real property to allow for a mixed-use development of residential office retail and other commercially or community scaled non-residential uses the intent of this area is to be developed as a companion downtown to the city of newport richie through a series of well-connected street networks trails and land uses designed to complement and serve the surrounding community so i'll go through a little history of newport corners you heard this previously at the bc at the transmittal hearing and rezoning action so as stated as clark had mentioned on august 10th 2010 the board of county commissioners heard and approved the reclassification of the existing residential future land use classifications at that point in time to the newport corners flu amendment through the adoption of ordinance number 10-26 the improved entitlements at that time for newport corners considered existing densities set to to set by the established residential land uses as well as increase the intensity to allow for a maximum development potential of 3 397 dwelling units and 4.8 million square feet of non-residential uses so that was approved in 2010. here is the visual for the existing land use that was approved at that point in time and so in on december 9th 2021 the local planning agency held the public hearing on the comp plan amendment and approved the proposal of increasing the density from 3 347 units to 3 400 units and reducing the 4.8 square feet of non-residential to 1.4 million square feet of non-residential uses as previously noted or at least or as previously approved um on january 25th you had the authorization and today we went ahead and heard the adoption for the comp plan amendment so on march 17th we did hold the rezoning petition at the planning commission and there was a recommended modification at that point in time to allow for the connection or allow for connectivity or inclusion of multi-use path to connect to the cody river elementary school along plath road that change has been incorporated into the master plan connectivity planning conditions for the mpud conditions of approval there's also minor modifications that occurred to the following conditions as approved by pdd and the applicant there were a couple variations from the code as stated some variations included

ldc section 805.6 for the restrictions of post-development wetlands along to ensure some so these were buffering components of the wetlands that were approved neighborhood park requirement was reduced this was as a result of the location of the urban rec center that's going to be proposed alongside the village village northeast village area as well as 402.5 for the distance of the alcohol waiver for consumption because there are no schools or churches within the vicinity of that regulation so the proposed entitlements are set forth in the conditions of approval for the mpud as previously stated there's approximately a total of 3 400 residential units and a maximum of 1.4 million non-residential units those are defined as follows 1 825 single-family units or entitled as follows 1 825 single family 400 townhomes 700 multifamily 475 age restricted units and 350 000 square feet of retail and 1 million 50 thousand square feet of office and target industry so as previously stated this is the sub-area map that identifies the village areas for newport corners and i'll go into some detail on what that means so this is going to be your connectivity plan this is also adopted within the conditions of the mpd they will be bound to this and will be bound to the location of the roadways the park requirements wetlands uplands and sidewalks and connectivities so the northeast village so the intent of the northeast village is to act as a primary location for employment generation with a mixture of residential dense densities in the establishment of an urban recreational or possible establishment of an urban recreational center in this location this is going to be north of decubulus and east of little road in this area we have had extensive negotiations with the office of economic development as well as parks recs and natural resources so with office and economic development the applicant and planning and development came to an agreement for this area to prioritize office and target industry uses to include but not limited to professional office medical office as well as a 25-acre flex space which is defined in the conditions of approval for the mpud and then with parks and rec we have been in negotiations with parks rec and natural resources and the applicant has agreed to preserve 10 upland acres for a period of two years to allow for an urban rec for the potential for an urban recreational center the intent of this urban recreational center is to act act as a companion to the magnolia valley as well as mitchell park to fulfill the level of service for the regional park in this

area and the neighborhood general is going to primarily be your residential uses so the neighborhood general is going to include your residential single family detached single family attached alley loaded in age restricted developments or uses within this area and then the village center is actually going to be more of your downtown core so previously this was of an open space that we converted or or changed to speak more to the village center so this is going to be your downtown component for newport newport corners so the village center is going to provide for a mixture of retail office and residential unit uses and these uses are actually only going to be primarily commercial uses neighborhood serving um restaurants you those downtown uh components we're also priorities prioritizing vertically integrated uses in this area and we've spoke with the applicant and prohibited various uses that may be considered dirty or not not a companion to the character of the area i.e met clerical or not clerical um uh sorry uh rv electrical mechanic our warehousing and car washes are gonna be prohibited in this area and then we also have a companion um within the connectivity plan that shows the parks and trails and sidewalks and open spaces that are going to be in this area and then the accompanying master plan delineating the wetlands and the general range of uses location locations and access points and with that we recommend that the bcc approve the rezoning request subject to the attached conditions of approval and i can answer any questions that you may have thank you any questions for staff okay time for the applicant [Applause] sorry about that mr chairman clark hobby again had to remember how to advance the clicker this is the difficult thing in my day okay uh here today very happy to be with you on behalf of a large planning engineering team and our client lennar holmes and joel two is working with me and represents the uh the seller who's going to retain some of this project but the big things i want you to know today is that our team has known and has been working on this project for almost two and a half years now we're very much cognizant of the importance of this site to west pasco county and to our neighbors and to the development of west pasco in general so when i think about this site i always think about the history of our county and if you go back and you look at the aerials of this area and in west pasco county a lot of people don't realize we did not even have a bridge over little road until the early 80s so if you lived up in this area where the county

government center is and you had to go see somebody down by 54 you had to drive all the way into downtown new port richie to do so and so if you look at the larger area that we find ourselves in a lot of the build-out lots that you see there there was virtually nothing in 1974 in this area and most of west pasco the development occurred in close proximity to 19. well why am i saying that well it's because if you go back and you look at your history the land owner of this property gave the property for a little road and for the bridge over a little road to be constructed and if you read this article from this i think it's from the saint pete times no i'm sorry it's from the tribune they basically the chairman says that we could not have built little road and the bridge but for the dedication of the right-of-way for this area and what happened is once the bridge was built and little road was built through this area it's responsible almost single-handedly for the majority of the growth that we now know on the east side of newport richie and all of this area so because of that and what the board could see happening even at the adoption of the original comp plan this area has been planned for res 3 and res 6 density since at least 2000 and all of the plan amendments coming forward to the adoption of newport corner continued to show res 3 res 6 and res 9 in this area which indicates that the county knew this was going to be urbanized over time and moreover the number of residential units that are in newport corners have already existed going back at least since 2000 so after the board adopted newport corners in 2010 which you all heard heard about the board then created our market areas and created the harbors plan for for the west market area and as you all are undoubtedly aware conducted all kinds of community workshops and there were all kinds of working teams that worked on this for like a year and a half and the goals for this site were set out in the harbors plan and they really boiled down to a few things we wanted to preserve open spaces we wanted to open up some access to the river and have good trail systems and we really more than anything want to create a sense of place that is something that we can be proud of in this area and not have more of the same stuff we've seen on 54 for the last 25 years this is a strategically important site our client is aware of that and because of that gave the planners at clearview land design a real free hand in designing the community so you've seen the mpud and you've heard some discussion about the i'm going to come back to that you've heard some discussion about the overall plan but let me just walk you through

just a few things and i won't belabor it the central focus of this project is the four corners at newport corners as i said the previous comp plan already allowed all this residential and what we need to do is have a really nice downtown area around which we can plan so what we've done here is these corners which were already appropriately sized when newport corners was adopted they're only 12 and a half acres in size so they're really only appropriate for neighborhood scale uses the planners at clearview land design and working with lennar and with the sellers representatives created this beautiful green space area through the the downtown area running through here and a big greenway down to the river in a park system and amenity area they also and this is again some of this stuff is unprecedented for lennar never done this all of these cross-hatched areas you see are all ally loaded product the point being we're trying to create a downtown community feel here uh maybe you know similar to bexley but even more powerful than that area based on the scale we're talking about and all of these units will be looking over the green space in the downtown area moreover and again the sellers never agreed to do anything like this before the seller agreed to move all of the buildings up on the green space so that the parking is going to be in the rear and agreed to create with the county as the site plans come in standards for building orientation the facades of the building architectural signage landscaping and parking now do you all have you ever heard of another time that that's been done in the county you haven't because never been done before and the reason why we're doing all this is to show you all we're committed to the plan you see today and that connectivity plan and creating this sense of place we're going to continue to work with your planners on the commercial standards but we have to do this right we have to do this together to make sure we fulfill the mission that the board adopted in 2010. you've seen the greenway plan and i won't belabor these slides but what we're showing you here is these this is what our multi-use paths are going to look like some of the larger ones are along the river system uh and we've given great thought to the crossings of little road and on little road we're going to have a a brick paver uh system there with pedestrian relief in the middle so that our pedestrians can safely cross little road then when we get down to the green space area we're going to have a series of amphitheater type feel or open spaces some of which are going to be more passive in nature then there'll be some more active areas and and i'll flip to a slide in a minute which shows you we may have some kind of a bike park or skate park and and so forth but the planters at clearview have been working with a

top-notch firm out of utah on the trail system i'm sorry i need to go back um about the plan that we're going to have down by the river and really where our focal area is there a lot of thought has gone into it something we can be really proud of um you heard from staff and you're going to hear from some of our neighbors that they are concerned about open spaces and what we're doing in that and i can assure you the clearview team put a lot of effort and a lot of thought into this so that the green spaces throughout the community complement the areas where the wetlands are already located and the ponds are then located around them as well so again just in the area south of decubilus we're creating or preserving over 400 acres of open space and to me that's really remarkable um i think you've seen the majority of the connectivity plan and we've gone through most of this stuff before so i'm not going to belabor this but i do want to point out just a few other things because i know you're likely to hear some concerns from our neighbors on these things again when we started this project before we did the plan amendment the traffic would have been significantly worse than where we are today and through a combination of reducing the huge and i mean mall regional mall scale retail on the site and reducing some of the other non-residential but still keeping enough to have really good job creation here we reduce the total number of trips that could have been allowed by over 70 percent okay that's very significant moreover we agreed as to transportation to a series of conditions that will require us to build two roads on the east side that will ultimately be parallel relievers to little road so the people who live on the east side of the road if they're going north to the cubeless won't have to go on little road they'll be able to cut through the community and go out over there then we we created a lockbox system for all the mobility fees that will be created from the site and i anticipate that number's going to be somewhere between 20 and 25 million and the way the conditions work is rather than that money going to some other area of the county some other area in west pasco the funds can only be used by the county for improvements to little road starkey or decubilus and staff feels very strongly and they've told me that they want to see how ridge road works once the third and fourth lanes are open and do some further traffic studies to deceit decide where to best spend those funds so that's that's the plan on traffic you heard about the parks again they're say in addition to what we're doing on our part there's another 10 acres being reserved

uh for a park that natural resources wants north of decubilus you heard about the employment numbers we're reserving plenty of entitlements and there's a 25 acre employment site which is being reserved those are both specifically what staff asked us to reserve and to the seller's credit they did everything that staff asked of them again preserving huge open spaces and preserving a lot of wetlands the only wetland impacts that we propose on cider to some isolated category threes none of the cat ones are proposed to be impacted i'm very proud of the work that went into the connectivity plan and the overall design of the development it's been a two and a half year process that we've gone through with your staff and i specifically want to thank amy heiler terry petos david goldstein the transportation staff and and i just want to point out for on the transportation side when we took this project on there were two big collector roads that were going to go right through the middle of the eastern portion of the project and we could not have built the downtown that we're going to build with that roadway system and we had to work for six months with your staff to reach an accommodation so that the land use principles and the transportation principles could meet together and still create a grid system that will distribute the trips but then will also allow for a downtown field that's walkable bikeable and so forth and again we knew this day was coming two and a half years ago and my my question to our client and to our planning team two and a half years ago was can we and have we done everything that we can do to make sure that the end of this project and the planning that leads up to today that we've created a special sense of place and a community destination and to my clients credit and to the seller's credit i believe we fulfill that mission today with a lot of work with your staff so i appreciate your consideration of it and i'm happy to answer any questions you may have any questions to the applicant thank you thank you we're going to go to public comment and it's important as a clerk calls your name that you give your name your address and that you have been sworn nine o'clock thank you all right um the first individual signed up is laura jeske thanks for the opportunity to share my concerns my name is laura jeske i live at 6949 plath road newport richie and i've been

sworn the newport coroner's development has been in the works for years and i'm sure the property owners developers and county planning folks work very hard to reach this point but as a resident who will very likely be here for the next few decades paying for the full impact of their development i'm terrified of what these folks are leaving in their wake they will be long gone when the next drought hits they'll be long gone when their high density living space turns into a slum of course they're paying impact fees but those fees don't cover anywhere near the full cost of their high density developments i know others speaking today are covering the runoff and flooding concerns and the awful displacement of wildlife no there is no safe route for those poor creatures to migrate to starkey wilderness but those impact fees don't come anywhere near the budgets of all of our first responders who are now understaffed and under-equipped for the population of pasco as it stands today obviously they're in a pretty bad state for a projected spike in population in the whole planning exercise no one thought of paying for this need before recommending a project for approval the commission saying they will discuss the matter at a may 22 budget meeting seems like a little too little too late um i only have three minutes to share my concerns but i'd like to enter the public record an article from a local newspaper citing a 2020 report from the florida department of law enforcement to you the pasco county commission it describes the extremely distressful ranking of our pasco county sheriff's department at number 64 out of 67 counties in the state of florida for the ratio of deputies to residents that's near the bottom while i don't have news articles about other first responders capacities concerns from first-hand conversations i know that they are all suffering from the same lack of funding and trained personnel you the pasco county board of commissioners are in a powerful position you can throttle back the explosive development track we are on so that the support systems for your current residence catch up or you can accept the responsibility when people die waiting for basic services to arrive can i submit my newspaper article for the public record yes motion to receive and file second all in favor say aye aye thank you next person signed up is mark jeske [Music] and folks please no clapping as we go forward thank you i'm sorry what i'm saying for the folks in the audience please no clapping

not as quiet but a little bit out of control yet thank you members of the commission my name is mark jeske and i live at 6949 plath road newport richie i wish to make reference to a few important articles that i found related to my speech i'm sorry sir i'm so sorry paul's time just um on for the record have you been sworn yes thank you you may proceed uh and i would like to please request permission to submit into the public record the first identifying page of each article second all in favor say aye aye aye opposed thanks thank you i have an article where county administrator dan biles said that in 2021 the county issued permits totaling nearly 4 billion in approved property value 56 above 2020 in double 2019. i have an article where assistant county administrator sally sherman advised that the county had to hire 10 new staff in planning and 14 in building construction administration because of all the development i have an article where county property appraiser mike wells states that pasco county's population could reach almost a million by 2040. that's almost double the current census number of 562 thousand i have several articles in which experts have studied the effects of uncontrolled development sprawl they all conclude that uncontrolled development ends up costing the communities a lot more than it generates in economic growth and tax gain i reference florida's statute section 145.031 which increases the salaries of county commissioners as the population of their county increases that statute explicitly permits commissioners to voluntarily freeze their salaries so that they are not influenced by the drive to maximize development if you have not done so already i request that each of you consider voluntarily freezing your salaries at the current pasco county population level so that increased pay runs no risk of influencing your development decisions i note that some of you accepted political donations from developers and their consultants i request that any of you who have received donations from a developer or consultant who will con benefit from the new pork corners project consider recusing yourself from today's decision-making process considering the millions of dollars at stake with this project and the long planning period it is probably unrealistic to think we can stop the speeding train but why can't we slow it down slow it down a lot a project of this size should be phased in

over a long period of time especially given the current construction madness in our county a phased development over 15 years or longer would give the current residents and the wildlife an opportunity to acclimate to the change please step back and truly think about what you are doing to this county it's time to emphasize planning for the quality of life of the current citizens it's time to put the brakes on development thank you okay um miss julia barterneck hi again i was sworn in and i'm still sworn in um thank you for the opportunity to speak i speak on behalf of the sierra club pasco conservation committee and myself the sierra club has developed principles attempting to guide entities in matters such as this sierra strongly discourages suburban sprawl as represented by this proposed zoning change sprawl fails to maximize in-place infrastructure this change will require pasco county to expand its infrastructure in multiple arenas including schools roads sewers water resiliency fire protection and even government two suburban sprawl fails to recover the costs associated with expansion citizens who derive little benefit from this change in zoning will at some level wind up paying for the expansion three moving into what will become urban sprawl creates a scenario where the underfunded costs of project a are attempted to be recovered by project b of course project b itself is underfunded and this process continues in a losing battle of new projects four sierra club's principal walkable communities walkable communities are designed in such a way that any resident is within walking or biking distance of services and immunities needed on a day-to-day basis street plans provide for curved cul-de-sacs no through streets and board sidewalks all of the focus all of this focused on residents who live there having many chargeable ev stations dark sky lighting and solar roofing is optimal pasco is a beautiful county stereo club supports neighborhood renewal an approach that allows pasco county to maximize current infrastructure by the same token sierra club supports the principle of infilling again maximizing utilization of in-place facilities both of these approaches allow pasco county to maintain green spaces and vibrant places which support health benefit both mental and physical as myself i'd like to request another park adjacent to the river on plath road similarly along plath road um on the east on the um south side of plath road similar to james e gray preserve this has added deep concerns for flooding issues of new purity residents post development of the zoning change for the newport cornish development can i'm also concerned with the runoff pollutants into the pith clutchy river

impacting its asteroids river beauty and potential increased tourism may i please submit this to public record motion to receive and file a second all in favor say aye aye any opposed okay all right um the next individual signed up is david robinson my name is david robison i live at 5929 east lake drive new port richie and i have been sworn thank you i really salute your uh power to control and your duty to control the growth of pasco county i lived in orange county california and i witnessed a go from a private road to build the new communities to 10 lanes on i-5 in both directions one to go san diego 10 more lanes to go to los angeles so you have an awesome power and duty to keep pasco county and control its growth and that i really salute you for that it's a tough job i have an idea here to keep beautiful florida for its residents and as tourists if we could pass a law that says build only where there are already existing sewer water and electric meters that way no more land or lives livelihood and the habitat of the people and the animals on that land would be destroyed in other words if you build on sites have already been developed you can build up and you can build a little bit bigger on that site and you don't destroy any more land or lives you still develop people can still make their money you can't stop the people from moving to pasco county but you can control where they live and how much land is developed and how much land is not developed for the residents that are already here and the tourists i think in that way everybody wins thank you thank you okay next person signed up barbara costa or costa costa okay thank you commissioners my name is barbara costa my address is 6017 broken arrow drive in newport richie and i have been sworn i am here to speak in opposition to newport corners the woods that would be gone are adjacent to my house the woods are the reason that me and my neighbors live there osteen road is where everybody walks all the neighbors walk on osteen at night we all know each other many of my neighbors asked me to say that they're not here because they're at work they can't get off the middle of the day to come down my concern is for the animals that would be displaced i live there i see the gopher tortoises on osteen road i've seen gopher tortoises no bigger than the size of my hand out on that road there are roseate spoonbills in those ponds bald eagles fly over there are so many animals that will be impacted animals

don't know to walk somewhere else they don't know to watch for traffic lights every time there's development in pasco county you see them dead on little road i mean i know i live there my concern as well when debbie stalled over here 10 years ago or so my backyard flooded the storm water goes through my yard i'm fine with that we all have to take a little bit of it but adding all of these new residences i think is going to be a disaster i'm also concerned i never received a definitive answer on what was going to happen with osteen road at the present time it dead ends at night which is where i live if that is extended down to plath that means our neighborhood won't be a neighborhood anymore it's going to be a thoroughfare people going to use it to cut through from massachusetts down to plath the developers have stated they want to keep traffic off of little road i i don't see how they're going to do that unless they're doing just that using osteen road which would destroy our neighborhood i also don't think making little road four lanes is a good idea i i'm [Music] had i known this was coming i would not have bought my house here because this definitely affects our quality of life thank you very much for your time thank the next person signed up dixie sparks my name is dixie sparks my address is 7633 whimple drive newport richie florida i'm an advocate for the and have you been sworn yes okay i'm an advocate for the sandhill cranes and i personally have witnessed what's happened in this area um lennar built in trinity and i have videotaped what has happened over there the well wetlands have been filled in beautiful wetlands i mean beautiful lakes with hundred-year-old cypress trees stand-till cranes walking around just a beautiful area all kinds of wildlife from an incas great great blue herons cormorants we have deer with all kinds of wildlife these wetlands were just filled in with animals and them huge piles of dirt with baby alligators just displaced probably their families covered up the dirt i literally broke down and cried i've never witnessed anything so painful as to what we are doing to wildlife i see you have a picture of the sandhill crane here what are we doing for them they are protected they're supposed to be protected you say okay we're gonna we're gonna build around the wetland and the development what happens there people come by with their dogs they have their dogs off leash dogs run chase the

cranes cranes can't live there cranes are territorial when you build over in trinity that's where they live for hundreds of years they still go back there so when you fill in those wetlands what happens to all these animals they either get buried as they're filling them in or they get chased out on the highway where they have run over by a cars i picked up i don't know how i've lost count how many cranes have been run over they're foraging on the highway because there's there's no place to forage there's no land okay we as a human race we have a responsibility to the earth they can come in and develop all this land today make all this money and who suffers we're all going to suffer eventually because wetlands are important for ecological system wetlands purify water wetlands provide protection from storms trees we get oxygen we need when they put in these huge developments they put up an a tree and they destroy everything that's been there for years what's happening to our earth what's happening i i beg you you have you're in a position to help the earth to help the environment i beg you to look beyond beyond money and these considerations and use what we already have use use areas that are not being developed that's already here that we could utilize i have one last thing to say only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money thank you very much thank you all right um last person i have signed up is margot robinson okay hi i'm marco robinson i live at 5929 east lake drive newport richie three four six five three and i'm happy have you been sworn pardon have you been sworn yes okay i stood up the uh i was very happy to hear that 400 acres is going to be preserved my concern is that is it the original trees or is it the landscaping they bring in from the nursery trees because that that's a huge difference in the wetlands mitigation etc etc because if they can preserve the exis 400 acres of existing trees and nature there that would be phenomenal what i'm seeing happening out at mitchell doesn't show that at all they've just bulldozed

everything just boom everything's gone filling everything it just looks like a hellish landscape out there and we certainly don't want that to happen here so i understand that these uh designers and engineers did a lot of work for a long time to get this to be a better development and i'm sure it's going to be but it would be so much better if they could preserve the existing trees set aside uh areas that the animals are not killed off and i know the biggest problem is gopher tortoises because i know it's five grand to relocate us gopher tortoise so they'd rather bulldoze them and and pay the fine it's cheaper uh when i don't see that we can afford to lose any more gopher tortoises because they are the mainstay of the uh environment for the rest of the animals they dig the burrows for the rest of the animals so i think would be very important to preserve those gopher tortoises uh i understand there's a spring in there uh that would be a biggie to keep that area as is not bring a bunch of bulldozers in there so i just think that it's very important that this development does a completely different plan of action than the other developments in out on 54. because the ones out on 54 just rape rape rape everything i think these guys have probably done a lot of work to try and preserve some goodness here and i would really like to see that happen thank you that's all we have signed up so i've signed up and there's no one on webex for this is there anyone else in the audience i'd like to speak please come forward and just line up one by one is there anywhere else other than these two that want to speak and have you two been sworn i did stand up for your swearing now but the clipboard wasn't there at all that's okay you know you haven't sworn in okay all right that's where you went afterwards go ahead sir name and address and your sure my name is lance levy over here at 7110 old homestead road exactly bordering the uh northeast village okay it's a little different you have been sworn correct i did stand up for your swearing thank you have it on the record thank you okay um so it's not so much of a statement i've been trying to find out for a while now it's more of a question i'll state it if anybody can answer i know there's people here that definitely should know the answers ask the question the applicant will address okay but on the northeast uh village i mean it runs between little

road and it ends at um old homestead which is their dirt road okay it comes up like yay that's a big wetland area up there hails property and there's about five of us here um i've got an autistic child um i specifically move there because there's like zero traffic the army is a few vehicles every day and that road i've been told and i've been told contradictory that that's going to be all paved we're going to have to have a paved road in there now they're gonna put sewers in we're gonna have to pay for all that stuff um i'm concerned about traffic on on that road i mean if they're gonna make that a through a thoroughfare which i don't really know how they could but they could bring it in and use that as a backside to your industrial complex or whatever you're going to put in there that's really what i like to know is is that road going to be touched at all are they just going to leave that as a buffer on that bordering property okay we'll find the answer here okay so that's really what i'm looking for guys wow i mean i'm not naive i don't expect to change all this it looks like people are putting a lot of work in hopefully they'll do a good job for us so thank you all right this will be the last speaker and we're going to swear you in okay could you raise your right hand please yes do you swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give is the truth so help you god yes okay if you can state your name and address for the record and then you can begin yeah my name is miranda i live on 6436 wooden street i live in the neighborhood right next to the main wood line my fear is if you open up to osteen even if they are promising to pave it under their own funds that it's going to cause a lot of traffic especially with the multi-use trails we're going to have a lot of people with golf carts coming through to get down to the actual downtown of newport richie and it's not going to be safe it's not gonna be safe for my kids i have two toddlers i take them for bike rides in the tow behind and i can't do that anymore once they open that up i will not feel comfortable with the amount of traffic that will fly through especially down osteen people already fly down osteen and now we're going to add 34 34 more hundred homes in that vicinity little road already gets backed up with traffic even expanding more lanes are you going to expand the bridge or is it going to funnel we're going to add more lights it's going to cause more backup there's plenty of areas in pasco that are available for lease i brought them if i can submit them and just in west pasco there's 294 as of the fourth of this month available for

lease there's plenty of areas to rebuild or lease out for more businesses um i know last time i couldn't be here because my son had and they notated that copper springs was a failure of a project in the end result and lennar holmes built that but we're going to entrust them to do this project with all this planning but how are we going to know that it's not going to end up being another failure of this area with nothing to really show for it i just would hope that in the end i'm sure it's going to be approved either way that we just don't open up osteen for the safety of the families that already live there it's a very quiet neighborhood a lot of nature i'm lucky enough to have a large backyard and get to experience some nature with my kids and i just know that a lot of it might migrate away and my kids will never know without going paying to go to a park or the zoo or the aquarium or have to drive to a state park in another area just for them to know what nature is that's it if i can no t submit these commercial receivers thank you thank you and with no one else in the public here is there anyone on webex no one's on webex all right so we're gonna officially close public comment uh back to the applicant mr chairman clark hobby again uh we had a few questions about osteen road and i'll try to answer those uh actually could we go back to isla there we go all right let me explain what's going on with osteen road if i can get this come on come on there we go so some of the residents were asking about this section right here this is unlikely to ever be built this is unlikely to be ever be built the section north of vision road u which winds through here we are only going to have a can we will resurface this when we make a connection to it but it's unlikely to occur real soon because of the phasing plan number one number two this is the only area that's intended to be gated because this is intended to be an active adult area so we don't anticipate our residents really using osteen very much and they'll be gates over here and we'll be you know they'll be accessing their primary roadway network down through here and into newport corners into the corners themselves so just wanted to clarify that as to osteen now as the the one gentleman spoke who lives over in this area we do not propose any access over to this area at all our roadway system doesn't rely on that anyway the access to the northeast village is primarily through here there may be one

other connection over in this area that's a write in right out but this is where the access points will be and for that very reason we actually got a letter of no objection and the man spoke at the planning commission hearing from the lexington oaks town homes hoa here so again we are not proposing any access on this side at all um a lot of the testimony that you heard was people simply worried about wildlife and there are things to be appreciated for sure that's going to happen when you have a project that's the last hole in the donut but as i think everyone here is aware this site was an orange grove site for many many years and it would still be in orange grove right now it was in a heavily disturbed orange grove state and it still would be but for the freezes in the in the 80s and so the landowner planted pines there for two reasons one to maintain the green bill and then the second thing is because they they want to make money selling the pines so whether or not this project ever occurs or not those pines are going to be harvested and people simply cannot rely on your neighbor having planted pines which again are planted to be harvested for a production crop for cash uh as creating some kind of urban panacea that's not reality and that's not what this site ever has been again it was a working grove site for many many years as you all know we have to follow the comp plan and the comp plan that we're dealing with today the majority of the policies were put into a place over 12 years ago what we're doing today is fulfilling the promise the promise that you made as a board to west pasco county that instead of just having 3 400 homes we create together a real sense of place and we do it with a quality mixed-use development that promotes walkability open access to parks and trails in the area which are so desperately needed in west pasco county and together we are fulfilling the promise that was made to the public and all the workshops and so i'm happy to answer any questions that you have but the other questions that i hear are all either concerning issues like sprawl that simply don't apply or are concerns about where animals will go and i simply would say this has been a heavily disturbed site for many years but there are 18 000 acres of nearby preserved areas in the serenova preserve and starkey this site has never been on the natural resources list for preservation it's always been planned for development and since 2010 it's been planned specifically for this form of development so the board is in a position where it should be proud of where we are today we're fulfilling the mission so with that i'd ask for your support and i'm happy to answer any questions you may have i'm sorry i've got a question one of the latest mentions of the wetland preservation right it looks

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