Joel Tew

“I am a land use and development consultant for Evans Properties.”

“I'm also representing Eisenhower Property Group... the search charge is for two reasons. It is to ensure a future mechanism for 100% payback of the county loan amount.”

“we will make sure that the county's whole on this project at the end of the day”

“the property owner will build whichever of those options the county asked us to build.”

“Evans... has an absolutely vested legal right to build rental apartments based upon the 2006 court settlement... we have agreed and do not object to Mr. Commissioner Oakley's proposed modification”

“the yellow highlighted part is current existing Prospect Road where it curves and goes north”

“this amendment in no way affects design requirements...all this amendment does is allow us to not lose...density we're losing outside the village core”

“4700 Ridge View Road Palm Harbor for the applicant — this is in village C it has both town homes and a multifamily section”

“this particular amendment is to give you the chance to concentrate density in Village cores which I know all of you want”

“those town homes have to be platted as individual units so they're available for fee simple sale”

“on his own he came to some of the community meetings and really tried to help explain how the property rights works”

“my clients have it under contract to close immediately upon zoning approval”

“v-o-p-h has always been treated differently because it is a specific special planning area with specific design guidelines and requirements that frankly are above and beyond what the rest of the county has”

“this is a proposed mediation settlement pursuant to section 70.51 of Florida Statutes which provides a specific procedural mechanism to resolve zoning disputes prior to going to further litigation”

“this is a cooperative effort between two substantial voph stakeholders and the county this is actually a county application”

“no we have no rebuttal since it's a d.o.t project it's driven entirely by their design their requirements”

“the applicant mr biles previously mr carbella now and your transportation department have been very active in working with the dot”

“we are accommodating that and planning for that future trail system and we of course will tie our project into that”

“the applicant will waive any presentation unless there's public comment or any questions from the board”

“we are processing a financial plan update for you that would make all of these intermediate roadways creditable by adding that cost to the overall budget”

“we're in support obviously of the text Amendment...but I do want to discuss the reviewer aspect very briefly”

“two an Associates for the applicant Bailey MPD we have no objection to that requirement being added as a condition”

“we vetted this at length we got everyone happy at the transmittal hearing including the economic development council staff and other constituent property owners”

“in my 42 years...I don't think I've ever had to work any harder on a plan amendment”

“we agreed with you that we would hold the final adoption hearing on the plan Amendment until the MPD hearing was scheduled to be final so that you would see both of these at the same time”

“we are converting and reducing the residential entitlement all the way from fifteen hundred and thirty-four down to a maximum of seven hundred and then even within that we're limiting the apartments to a cap of four hundred”

“we have reduced the current item... from fifteen hundred and thirty four to four hundred”

“the developer will in fact be doing that required improvement that's required by the voph roadway plan”

“this was a previously zoned and approved project it actually has vested zoning entitlements for fifteen hundred and thirty-four multifamily units”

“their strong preference is to ask you to defer the transmittal of the plan amendment until we can all sit down together and work on a solution”