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1. 1Jan 10, 2023
   Board of County CommissionersP64Public hearingApproved

   Approved minutes

   Approved Staff’s recommendation by a roll call vote.

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   Jack MarianoChair

   59:07And item P sixty four.

   Kathryn Starkey

   59:09Item P6 Yes, sir. Item P sixty four was published in the Tambay Times on November 30, 2022, and December 7th, 2022.

   Joanne Rivita

   59:19Good afternoon. Joanne Rivita, Real Property and Planning. Real property team has received a petition to vacate a portion of three platted right-of-way filed by Blue Triton Brands Incorporated, formerly Nestle Waters of North America. The purpose of the vacation is to allow for the area to be utilized for parking and water retention to serve the expansion of the petitioner's existing plant. There were no objections to this petition and the team recommends approval.

   Unidentified speakerVoice A

   1:00:00This is the one that you had objections this morning in public comment.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:00:05That's correct. And she did sign up for this afternoon.

   Jack MarianoChair

   1:00:08Okay. Um

   Joanne Rivita

   1:00:11She did uh she had to leave by two PM.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:00:13Okay.

   Joanne Rivita

   1:00:14So Thank you. So

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:00:17could I ask a question?

   Joanne Rivita

   1:00:19Yes, ma'am. So did they

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:00:20buy all the houses around there?

   Joanne Rivita

   1:00:22No ma'am. They own the property over which they are looking to vacate the area.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:00:29Well, I see a

   Unidentified speakerVoice B

   1:00:31I see houses there, so they're only to looking to vacate the area in red. Oh okay.

   Ron OakleyVice Chair

   1:00:39Are those uh right-of-way being used now?

   Unidentified speakerVoice B

   1:00:42They are not. Yeah, there's not there's no roads. No, there are no roads. So and they they currently own all of the property. And so buffering between that house's

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:00:53border, um, right there where it says Number 9th?

   Joanne Rivita

   1:00:57Uh that can currently be adjusted if you'd like by the planner and the engineer who are in the audience.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:01:03I mean that would be pretty pretty big buffer of industrial to residential.

   Joanne Rivita

   1:01:09And that is something that they they are working on and they can certainly adjust if you'd like.

   Jack MarianoChair

   1:01:13Can you can you show a bigger, broader picture than what's right there?

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:01:23That's why I bring my hat. I wake it up on the mat.

   Seth Weightman

   1:01:36Mm-hmm.

   Unidentified speakerVoice C

   1:01:37Mr. Chair, while they're doing that, how many houses are we talking about there? Uh closure.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:01:43Could you speak to me would you mind speaking to you? Yeah.

   Unidentified speakerVoice D

   1:01:46Linda Pearson, I'm the planner for the applicant Blue Triton Brands Inc. I have a diagram which I could pass out to each of you and have one for the record as well so that it uh it will uh designate the specific properties.

   Jack MarianoChair

   1:01:59Well why don't we do this? Um any questions for staff?

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:02:03Well I have one. Um, looking at the map, so this is gonna be used for parking. Is that right?

   Unidentified speakerVoice D

   1:02:08Uh what I have to show you part of it will be on the northern part of our property, but this will show you exactly how much property we're talking about in blue and where the parking lot will be in the gray. um is on existing property, part of it is and part of it is on the new property. Okay,

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:02:28move to receive and file.

   Jack MarianoChair

   1:02:31Uh I'm a We got a motion, we've got a second. Second. Okay. And roll call vote.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:02:37District one, Commissioner Oakley. District two, Commissioner Weightman. Commissioner Oakley. Can I get two? Um District 3, Commissioner Starkey. Aye. District 4, Commissioner Bradford. Aye. District 5, Chairman Mariano.

   Unidentified speakerVoice E

   1:02:51Aye.

   1:02:51Yes.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:02:54Yeah. So my my only question is um the yeah I'm looking here uh I can see that um this this is not to our code. So my my question is will the parking lot follow Pasco County code requirements?

   Unidentified speakerVoice D

   1:03:15I can't speak to that directly. I can tell you that the parking lot uh will be approximately two hundred and sixty five feet from its southern boundary to the northern edge of that property owner's home. And you'll see the red dot below the there are two three homes affected that Um You the three dots are sitting on the rooftops of the actual homes. The blue part that you're seeing that says Blue Triton property on it. The areas to

   1:03:45be vacated are Camperwood Lane, which is completely on our property, the vacation area. We're not affecting anything or any access used currently. uh now or in the future by the area residents to the south that are currently in Pasco County. They have no access to the there's nothing there. Our company has owned that property for some time. It's vacant. And the three homes there are a considerable

   1:04:16distance away from these are large lot, residential lots. So the south end of the parking lot is the reason that and the fact that we need to where it says Blue Triton property connect the two retention ponds because there is a plant expansion there that's uh going to be adding approximately thirty new uh positions uh and there are about fifty-six part-time positions now that are slated to go uh forty-five

   1:04:46of which are slated to go full time. The salary ranges being from four average salaries from forty-four to sixty six thousand dollars a year in this expansion. Um Blue Triton brands uh purchased the Nestle Corporation in April of twenty twenty one. Uh they uh purchased all of the US and Canadian uh plants. Approximately there are 27 of them, and they're making their biggest best investment, capital investment this year in this plant.

   1:05:17So we

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:05:18love that. And I I know our program AMSkills has been out there to try and help with the workforce challenges. My only issue is you have to follow you have to follow our codes in your party.

   Unidentified speakerVoice D

   1:05:31Yes, ma'am, and and we will be annexing this into uh we have a pending application to annex comp plant amendment and the plant is all in the city. Okay. The only portion that's not in the city is what you see in blue.

   Amy Heiler

   1:05:45Okay.

   Unidentified speakerVoice D

   1:05:45The orange all around and even northern and beyond is currently developed with the plant activities. Well

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:05:52I hope you consider following some of our landscape ordinance. Which one

   Unidentified speakerVoice D

   1:05:55Certainly are and the landscaping and and buffering is going to be enhanced from what minimum code is. So we are um being very careful in all that we do to mim minimize the any any impact to the surrounding community.

   Ron OakleyVice Chair

   1:06:15Yeah. Yeah,

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:06:15those are my questions.

   Ron OakleyVice Chair

   1:06:17Okay.

   Unidentified speakerVoice D

   1:06:18Mr.

   Ron OakleyVice Chair

   1:06:18Steinstein, if Yes. If they annexed in the city, they could just vacate 'em in the city, couldn't they? Or should that be the route or they vacate it from us and then

   Unidentified speakerVoice A

   1:06:29If they were if they were dedicated to the county in the original unrecorded plat, um this is probably the appropriate place for them to be. Um could I make an argument that the city could vacate it once they annexed it all in? Probably, but Right. They're here, they've Oh yeah they've okay.

   Unidentified speakerVoice D

   1:06:51Following the process. You're correct. And if I might add, we looked into that opportunity. Um, but because the plat is recorded in the county public records and it is in was in the county when it was recorded. there is no real it was like in nineteen fifteen if I'm recalling correctly. Um there's no record that we can find that you ever accepted it. You've never made any improvements to it and there have been no subsequent improvements. It's un it's virgin

   1:07:22land basically except what was used for maybe some houses at some point in time. But uh this was what we were recommended to do to stay, you know, on the up and up and keep everything legal, so that's why we are here today. Okay.

   Ron OakleyVice Chair

   1:07:35Well it looks like if they if they if we vacate it for 'em, uh Then when they are annexed in the city they'll follow city rules for setbacks and all

   Unidentified speakerVoice D

   1:07:46the Yes and that application is uh presently scheduled for annexation, comp plan amendment, and rezoning uh later this month, January twenty-third actually. And we're meeting again with the neighbors next Monday night.

   Unidentified speakerVoice A

   1:08:01So but let me ask a question. The the the two roads that you are vacating Are they constructed off of your property at all?

   Unidentified speakerVoice D

   1:08:14They are improved with um they're private roads, they're not your roads, um, but they are improved with shell and some asphalt. Um The area being vacated is not improved. And there's also a third one on leaf lane. You'll s and the green stripe there. Okay. Um leaf lane. And your backup it shows all three. But we purposely selected only the portions for the vacation in which

   1:08:44Blue Triton brands owns all three sides. And um when the retention pond is connected there will be naturally a fence plus an enhanced landscape buffer for the residents and we're also looking at other buffering options on the site itself.

   Unidentified speakerVoice A

   1:09:06So they're isolated, unconstructed public roads.

   Unidentified speakerVoice D

   1:09:12That you have no use for. Right.

   Unidentified speaker

   1:09:15Yeah. Yeah, we want that too.

   Jack MarianoChair

   1:09:23Anyone here in the in the public in the audience from the public like to speak? Anyone on WebEx?

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:09:30There's no one on WebEx.

   Jack MarianoChair

   1:09:32Okay. We did have the comments made made earlier on the comments, but keeping those in mind, um it's back to the board. Move approval. Move a motion. And the second? Second. Motion is second. Yeah. Roll call vote.

   1:09:47District one, Commissioner Oakley. District two, Commissioner Weightman.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:09:53District 3, Commissioner Starkey. Aye. District 4, Commissioner Bradford.

   Jack MarianoChair

   1:09:57Aye.

   Kathryn Starkey

   1:09:57District 5, Chairman Mariano.