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PDD-22-0129

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4 appearances between Dec 9, 2021 and Apr 19, 2022, at 3 boards — continued 1 time.

OutcomeAdopted by the Board of County Commissioners on Apr 19, 2022
Approved to adopt on a roll call vote.

Official title

An Ordinance Amending The Pasco County Comprehensive Plan; Providing For Text Amendments 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 Subarea Map 2-9(25) New Port Corners; Providing For A Repealer, Severability, And An Effective Date.

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    Planning CommissionP18Public hearingNo disposition in the minutes

    An Ordinance Amending The Pasco County Comprehensive Plan; Plan Amendment (Regular) - CPAL20(16) New Port Corners - Providing For for Text Amendments To The to the Future Land Use Element Appendix, And Providing For Additional Text Amendments As Necessary For Internal Consistency; A Appendix; a Map Amendment To The to the Future Land Use Map 2-9 Amending Subarea Map 2-9(25) 2- 9(25) New Port Corners; and Providing For A Repealer, Severability, And An Effective Date. for Additional Text Amendments as Necessary for Internal Consistency.

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    Board of County CommissionersP65Public hearingApproved

    An Ordinance Amending The Pasco County Comprehensive Plan; Providing For Plan Amendment (Consent) - CPAL20(16) New Port Corners - Transmittal of Proposed Text Amendments To The to the Future Land Use Element Appendix, And Providing For Additional Text Amendments As Necessary For Internal Consistency; A Appendix; a Map Amendment To The to the Future Land Use Map … 2-9(25) New Port Corners; and Providing For A Repealer, Severability, And An Effective Date. for Additional Text Amendments as Necessary for Internal Consistency.

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    Approved the Public Hearing Consent Agenda which included Agenda items P65 and P66.

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    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    All right, thing no one, we'll move move on. We're now going to go to the consent agenda. And we have P sixty five.

    Unidentified speakerVoice A

    Madam Chairman, would you like rezoning procedures announced? Thank you. There are two rezoning 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 is 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 rebuttal. Any individual disagreeing with staff or 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 hearing. The law in Florida is mere public court 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. Mr. Clerk, would you swear them in?

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    Uh anyone wishing to speak to the items that are being presented under the uh matters to be heard at this hour, if you would please stand.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    And also um those online. We'll swear them in

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    that as well.

    No one online? Uh no one online uh John? Oh okay. If you would please raise your hand. Do you swear that the or affirm that the testimony that you will give in this matter is truth, so have you got it? Thank you. Uh Madam Chairman, we have uh proof of publication of these uh two items on two different dates. Uh P65 was published in the Tampa Bay Times November 24th of 21. And as it relates to P 66,

    this matter was continued from January 11th, where it did have public notice in November of 2021.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    Okay, thank you very much. P sixty five.

    Amy Heiler

    Uh good afternoon, Amy Heiler with Long Range Planning. Uh P sixty-five is going to be a large scale comprehensive plan amendment. It's the transmittal hearing for CPAL uh 21 or 2016, sorry, I thought it was 21 2016 Newport Corners. Uh the proposal is to amend the uh future land use element and map amendment to the future land use sub-area map two dash nine twenty five, located on the uh north and south of Decubelish Drive, north of Plath

    Road along uh uh Little Road and the Little Road Corridor, sorry. And the resolution to that is to amend the flu maps 2-925 and amend Appendix Flu. So, what this is is a Newport Corners Future Land Use Amendment. This is not a map amendment, it is an existing feature land use that is set in place, and we are proposing a text amendment to make some modifications to the originally entitled land uses. There is an MPUD accompanying this as well that you will hear in

    the next couple months. The proposed amendment is consistent with the following policies of the comprehensive plan. As you can see, it is located in the Central and Spring District of the West Market area. The uh aerial as you can see. Madam

    Unidentified speakerVoice A

    Chairman Mariano. Are you is it being

    Amy Heiler

    it is on consent. I was going through this because we do ha I did have an edit as well, so it's up to you if I could proceed or not.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    What is that? I think we have do we have anyone who's signed up to speak to this? Not to speak

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    to this item, no. Not to uh P sixty five.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    Is it and no one's online to speak to P sixty five?

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    We have no one online, correct John?

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    Board members, do you want to hear the presentation? No,

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    leave my consent. It's consent. I'm not sure.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    It's just a minute.

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    Leave my consent.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    Okay, you want to let us know what the edit is, please?

    Amy Heiler

    So um there was an edit that was just um added to or just distributed. The edit is increasing the entitlements uh for 50,000 non-residential uses. We've been in negotiations on the MPUD with the applicants um to include flex split. They fec flex space uses within the Northeast Village as well as additional non-residential uses within that area. So what we're doing is just amending the text to include that to align with what was agreed upon on the MPD

    conditions so they match.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    All right, just to be sure, is there anyone in the uh the room here who would like to speak in opposition to this item? Okay, board members will uh keep it on consent. Thank you.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    As it relates to P sixty six, we have one person listed who is believed the applicant, and that's the only person listed for this item.

    Denise

    Okay.

    So P66 is PDD 227580. It's a zoning amendment. James David Russell, it's a change in zoning from a C3 commercial light manufacturing district with specific use and R4 high density residential district to an AR agricultural residential district. Comes to you with a recommendation of approval from the Planning and Development Department and the Planning Commission.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    Is there anyone in the room that would leak like to speak in opposition to this item? Okay, seeing no one it's on consent. I'll accept questions.

    Ron Oakley

    So move.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? All right. None opposed. So we will go on to The next item, P67.

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    GeneralP56Public hearingContinued
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    Approved to continue the item to the April 19, 2022 Board of County Commissioners meeting at 1:30 p.m. in New Port Richey.

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    Board of County CommissionersP55Public hearingAdopted
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    Approved to adopt on a roll call vote.

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    Ron Oakley

    Item P 55 was published in the Tampay Times on November 24, 2021.

    Denise

    So item P55, uh Mr. Chair, we we will be hearing that together with item P sixty one.

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    Okay, so we're gonna move on to P 56.

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    Unidentified speakerVoice A

    Yeah, you actually you we need to pull fifty five first to be heard. Uh so

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    we're gonna hear P fifty five and P sixty one. And Mr. County Attorney would you explain

    Unidentified speakerVoice A

    What the rules are with the consolidated So so my recommendation has always been on on when you you can do a co consolidated presentation for both the comp plan and the Um rezoning. Um and then hold separate public hearing with separate votes, one for the reza one for the comprehensive plan, one for the one for the zoning. Otherwise you The public is going to have to identify which item they're speaking to. Right. Um and it becomes

    confusing. But if staff and the applicant want to do a Package presentation uh For both of them, that's that's fine.

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    Which will save the time for back and forth. Yeah. Okay.

    Ron Oakley

    And Mr. Chair, would you like for me to give the publication on both the items now? Yes, please. Okay. Item P 55 was published in the Tampe Times on November 24th, 2021, and item P sixty one was published in the Tampe Times on February 16, 2022.

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    Okay.

    Ron Oakley

    Thank you.

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    Thank you very much. What's yours?

    Amy Heiler

    So do we want to do the PowerPoint per for P fifty five and for P sixty one? Or I could just do P sixty one because some of it's already merged into there.

    Unidentified speakerVoice A

    If you've got 'em if you've got them separated, I would do one for fifty-five and then Then do year sixty one.

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    And then also uh there'll be two votes. votes. Yes, two

    Mike Moore

    motions two votes.

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    Yeah, two motions two votes.

    Mike Moore

    Thirty five will be roll call.

    Amy Heiler

    Okay. So P55 is a large-scale comprehensive plan amendment in the name of CPAL 2016 Newport Corners. So this is the adoption hearing for the proposed comprehensive plan text amendment. So I'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 two-9-25 Newport Corners, providing for a repealer, severability, and an effective date. So, the proposal for the future land use amendment is amending the Newport Corners future land use classification as well as the accompanying future land use sub-area map 2-925. It is located north and south of Decubulus 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. Um 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, 2021, the local planning agency held a public hearing on the proposed comprehensive plan text amendment and unanimously approved to the Board of County

    Commissioners. The proposed amendment at that time increased the residential density by three units from 33,397 to 3,400 dwelling units. We also reduced the non-residential entitlements from 4.8 million square feet of retail office and smort 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, uh, identifying the location of the property which is within the central and spring districts of the West Market area. This

    is the boundary and aerial, 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 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 uh approve the proposed amendment and adopt by roll call vote.

    Okay. Any comments for this part? Mm-hmm. So let's go right to the next one. Yeah.

    Unidentified speakerVoice A

    Mr. Chairman M if staff has them separated, I I would just go ahead and do them as separate presentations so that so that you keep your comp plan. And your and your rezoning separate.

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    Okay.

    Unidentified speakerVoice A

    Unless there's some reason that the that the zoning needs to explain the comp plan.

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    Okay. Let's let's do that then. Okay. So the applicant?

    Unidentified speakerVoice B

    Mr. Chairman, Clark Hobby, Hobby and Hobby PA 109 North Brest 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 and the urban service area, the board created the Newport Corners uh Um 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 a neighbor 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.

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    Okay. Any comments from Mr. Harvey? Okay. And as far as public comment goes, do you have anyone signed up?

    Ron Oakley

    We do. We have um a few people who signed up.

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    Let's read them off.

    Ron Oakley

    Okay. We have Laura Jesky. Come on up to the podium.

    Mike Moore

    I don't know. Chairman Mariano. I think. Again, maybe explaining the difference between fifty five and sixty one because I think there might be some confusion m amongst the audience what they're speaking on. I just want to help you guys out. So before you c

    Unidentified speakerVoice A

    for for purposes of the public, the this is the this is the Big picture comprehensive plan hearing. The next hearing that will be called up will be the detailed M P U D hearing.

    Laura Jeske

    Right. And I signed up for P fifty five today. You can

    Unidentified speakerVoice A

    switch

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    it.

    Laura Jeske

    I'd like to do address

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    P

    Laura Jeske

    sixty one.

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    We'll call you back up for that. Thank you.

    Ron Oakley

    So I have one, two, three others that signed up specifically for P fifty five, which may may have wanted to speak on P uh uh sixty-one instead, and then I have three that signed up with a blank item. Um but it they did identify Plath Road Development for corners on the reason. So um I can list their names out and see if they want to speak now if you'd like.

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    Let's let's see if they want to speak now.

    Ron Oakley

    Um Mark Jeske.

    Okay. So that's not a mistake. For the record, Mr. Jesky wants to talk speak on P sixty one. Um then we have Julie uh is it Barternick?

    Julia Bartunik

    I'd like to Speak on both today. Um thank you for the opportunity to speak. I speak on behalf of the Sierra Claude Conservation Committee and myself. Ma'am. Sierra

    Ron Oakley

    I'm so sorry. State your name, address that

    Julia Bartunik

    you've been. Julia Bartunic, [address removed].

    Unidentified speakerVoice A

    Okay. She doesn't need to be able to do that. She doesn't be sworn

    Ron Oakley

    for this one and for the next one. Right. Okay.

    Julia Bartunik

    Okay. Um thank you for the opportunity to speak. I speak on 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. Strongly discourages suburban sprawl 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 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 a losing battle with new projects. Four, Sierra Club principal, a walkable community.

    Walkable communities are designed in such a way that any resident is within walking or biking distances of the services and amenities needed on a day-to-day basis. The street plans provide curved cul-de-sac, no through streets, and board sidewalks. All of this focused on residents who live there, having many chargeable EV stations, dark skylighting, and solar roofing is optimal. Pasco County Is a beautiful county. Sierra Club sponsors 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, both mental and physical. I'd like to request another park adjacent to the river, similar to James Gray Preserve. This has deep concerns for flooding issues of New Puritic residents post-development of this zoning change for the New Port Corners development.

    I'm also concerned with runoff pollutants from the Pithclo into the Pithcolochee River, impacting its estuaries, river beauty, and potential increased tourism. Now I put both of the numbers on here for P fifty five and P sixty one. So I'll just come back up and then I'd like to submit them for the record after I share on P sixty one. That's fine. Thank you.

    Ron Oakley

    All right. The next person signed up. I think it's Lori, Jonah Bell then. I sorry.

    Your handwriting's hard for me.

    Lord Delvin

    So sorry. Hi, my name is Lord Delvin. I live at [address removed]. Okay, and oh yep, go ahead. Uh I am 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. Um 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 uh extinct, and things like that aren't being cared for, and and that's my concern. Just uh Uh wanted to bring the attention to that. That's all I have, really. Thank you.

    Ron Oakley

    Thank

    Lord Delvin

    you.

    Ron Oakley

    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 P fifty five, P fifty or P sixty one, or both. Um Barbara Costa. Okay, P sixty one um um for the record is what she would like to speak to and then Dixie Sparks

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    I'm not sure which um one is

    Ron Oakley

    Okay. So for the record, uh Ms. Barks also would like to speak on P sixty one. And then Margot Robinson.

    Kathryn StarkeyChair

    P sixty one.

    Ron Oakley

    All right. Um she would also like to speak on P sixty one. I have a person signed up for P sixty one, making sure that they wanted to speak to P sixty one. It is David Robinson. Rob Robinson. Okay. All right. Very good. Then we're good with uh the ones that had signed up for P fifty five.

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    Okay.

    Unidentified speakerVoice A

    And the applicant? Anybody else well anybody else on P fifty five? Last call. Closing public hearing on B fifty five.

    Unidentified speakerVoice B

    Mr. Chairman Mariano Clara Cobby again I'll be brief. Um the uh 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 a 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. Uh this is not suburban sprawl in any manner or form. This site's been within our urban service area and has been referred to the whole in the doughnut in the urban service area for the last twelve years. All of the services that we need to provide to our

    site are already in place. This is the antithesis of Suburban spawn. This is called urban infill in Pasco County. So uh I feel very comfortable with the project we're we're pursuing, and and I'll allude to this a little bit more later. Uh 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 want to point out, I think one of the folks is concerned about open space and animals. Um I'll give you more color on this later, but actually over 400 of the 700 acres and change south of Decubelis 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.

    Jack MarianoVice Chair

    Any questions to the applicant?

    All right. Public comments closed. We're done with presentation. Mr. Mr. Oakley? Commissioner Oakley? I moved. Approval. Second. I was waiting on her. Motion to approve. She moves and I'll second.

    Ron Oakley

    District one, Commissioner Oakley. Aye. District two, Commissioner Moore. Aye. District four, Commissioner Fitzpatrick. Aye. District five, Commissioner Mariano. Aye. District three, Chairman Starkey.

    Mark Jeske

    Okay.