PDD-22-7637

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1. 1Sep 20, 2022
   Board of County CommissionersP118Public hearingApproved

   Approved minutes

   Approved Staff’s recommendation.

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   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:41:09Item P eighteen was published in the Tambay Times on August third, twenty twenty-two.

   Liam Devine

   1:41:17Item Liam Devine, Planning and Development. Item P one eighteen. Um before I begin, staff has received ex parte communications from Chairman Starkey, Commissioner Oakley, Commissioner Mariano, and Commissioner Moore, which have been submitted to their clerk's office. Item PDD 22-7637 in the name of Ivan O and Maria Martinez and estate of Mark and Janet R. Novak. NVR Pine Lake. It is a zoning amendment from AC Agricultural District to MF1 Multifamily Medium Density District.

   1:41:48The subject site is located on the east side of Henley Road, approximately 1,350 feet south of State Road 54. This is a look at the aerial view.

   1:42:00The surrounding future land use to the north is Res 6 and P D, to the east is Res 6 and Res 9, to the south is Res 6, and to the west is Res 3. The surrounding zoning to the north is AC and MPUD. To the east is AC, AR, and R1MH. To the south is AC, AR1, and RMH. H and then to the west is AC, A R, R1, and M P U D.

   1:42:26The subject site consists of a single-family dwelling and agricultural pursuits on approximately 34.7 acres. The applicant proposes to develop the property with 164 townhomes in conformance with the MF1 multifamily medium density district standards. The surrounding area is characterized by residential development consisting of single-family dwellings and mobile slash manufactured homes. Um the applicant has volunteered to record a deed restriction as included in your agenda packet. Access to the property is from Henley Road, a county maintained

   1:42:57local road. with approximately forty feet of right-of-way. And the subject site has a future land use classification of res six under the comprehensive plan. This is coming with recommendations for approval from Planning Commission and Planning Development Department. I'm here if you have any questions.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:43:12Board members, any questions?

   Liam Devine

   1:43:14Madam Chair.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:43:15Yep.

   Mike Moore

   1:43:16These are townhouses. Yes. Yeah. Okay, just for the record. Yes.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:43:23Okay. And

   Barbara Wilhite

   1:43:23here

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:43:24comes the applicant.

   Barbara Wilhite

   1:43:27Barbara Will Height 6327 Grand Boulevard, New Port Richey, for the applicant. Yes, Commissioner, these are townhomes. I think staff did a great job uh with their presentation. So we'll see if there's any public comment. We'll address the public comment depending on what there is. Thank

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:43:44you. Okay. Is there anyone here signed up to speak to this item?

   1:43:51Uh okay, come on up and uh anyone else here to speak to this item?

   1:44:01Okay. This will be the last speaker on this item.

   Martha Rose

   1:44:16Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is Martha Rose. I've been a residence of Pasco County since Nineteen ninety five. We'll need your address. My current address is [address removed] Are you

   Jack MarianoVice Chair

   1:44:32no one

   Martha Rose

   1:44:33Are you here to speak to Hen the Henley project? I would like to speak for both.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:44:40Okay.

   Martha Rose

   1:44:41General? You can do that.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:44:44But uh I think we need your full address though.

   Martha Rose

   1:44:46My full address is [address removed]

   Unidentified speakerVoice A

   1:44:57Have you been sworn?

   Martha Rose

   1:44:59I th I have. I got up. Okay. Thank you. The reason I've been standing is hard for me to get out of those chairs though.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:45:05You may proceed with your comments.

   Martha Rose

   1:45:10As I said, I've been here since nineteen ninety-five. I watched Pasco do a lot of different things. I've been very proud of being in Pasco. I love the um I love the logo that you've adopted with the wildlife birds. And the and the moon or the sun, 'cause both are happy. I'm happy to see them both here. My question is Why are so many of the units around Pasco County that contain trees? Being

   1:45:41cleared off. Totally, totally cleared off. Not replanted, not anything else.

   1:45:51I miss them. I love them.

   1:45:55I love the people that are coming to our country and coming to the state.

   1:46:01But I also love the place where I live on Kitten Trail. So I'll come back up and talk about that. in a few minutes. This is just do I think everything should be approved that's been approved? This is um How many acres? Three hundred and six acres?

   1:46:20I live on Cotton Kitten Trail, so then I go down Hays Road. I see three or four Beautiful housing developments. The houses are lovely. But it's taken away the trees, it's taken away the wildlife areas, it's taken away the little panther places and the coyotes and the quail and the things that I love about this. I see Um Turkey turkeys now, along the side of the road. Maybe eight or ten of them.

   1:46:51Yeah. So as the commissioners Responsible for Pasco County. Even though many people are doing the work for you. You're ultimately the ones that are held responsible.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:47:08So let me let me address you on the trees because I I too uh love trees and we're um We have put in and strengthened our ordinance so that all these homes that are built have to have have to put trees back in and the neighborhoods have to have trees put back in. And when they take out trees of a certain size and they can't put them all back in They have to pay into what we call the tree mitigation trust fund. And so that the county can take that money and put trees in around the county. So that's one on trees,

   1:47:39second on habitat. Over one-third of this county is preserved from development, and we continue to buy more land with our money that the taxpayers have given us through the Penny for Pasco in our E Lamp program. So we are one of the few counties in the state that has the ability to keep buying up environmentally sensitive lands. And not only do we buy those lands, but we're connecting them with wild. Life corridors. So we have some really great environmental

   1:48:09protections going on here. So I want you to rest assured that. We're we're we are looking out for it for the trees and the animals. So

   Martha Rose

   1:48:17those trees that are at least um

   1:48:22Circumference of about three feet or four feet? Six inches.

   Christina Fitzpatrick

   1:48:26Diameter.

   Martha Rose

   1:48:28Circumference.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:48:29So what what hap what happens here in our communities is that um because they're required to fill their land up to a certain height, the trees won't survive if they put the fill around them. So they they clear cut and I I I hate to see it too. Um We didn't do that when we built our house, we put a stem wall and saved all the oak trees. But um but the reality of developing in Florida and flooding is that they have to build up the lots to a certain height and

   1:48:59that usually means they have to take out the trees. But they plant new ones.

   Martha Rose

   1:49:03I

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:49:03have one

   Martha Rose

   1:49:03more question. And it's not about uh fifty four, the project on fifty four, but there's the last time I went down fifty four there's like I don't know how many townhomes there are. Are you limiting the number of town homes along fifty-four or is that open game? Maybe I should go down and invest in the property there.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:49:23Uh we're not we we kind of aren't allowed to do that. So um our our comp plan drives our growth and uh we are redoing our comp plan. um uh to um take into whatever it is that the community and the board wants to change, but we by law Have to file follow the comp plan. So

   Martha Rose

   1:49:42Okay, so the comp the it did you want to ask one more question?

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:49:46I I

   Martha Rose

   1:49:46think the time is up. M P U D? M P U D as well. Yeah, I think I

   Mike Moore

   1:49:50think you're only speaking on the item itself. We can only speak on the item that was being voted on now. That's it. Yeah.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:49:56Thank you very much. Okay. Are you raising your hand because you want to speak? Okay, please and that's on this item? Okay.

   1:50:06Anyone else after this um this woman? Okay. Public public comment is closed after this. It's a great

   Joan Herbert

   1:50:14question. When they're putting in the right-of-way,

   1:50:16were you sworn in? And your name and address for the record, please.

   1:50:20Stone Herbert, [address removed] Are you speaking on Henley? Pardon? Are you speaking about Henley? I have a question because of what how she came up and said. My question is is that as we're putting in all these townhomes and repartments and things We're displacing a lot of water. I understand the tree. Uh I thank you for clarifying that. Um but what provisions are we doing for the people that have lived here for generations after generations when the all of a sudden there's suddenly flooding? Coming

   1:50:50up from the ground from displaced water.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:50:53Well, uh that's all

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:50:54regulated by Swift Mud and our our county rules. They they um they have to account for any um displacement of water that has to be captured on their property. So that's why you see in all the new developments the stormwater ponds. In the old developments, probably where you live, there aren't any stormwater ponds.

   Joan Herbert

   1:51:14Well, I've got a retention pond that I made when I first went there. My concern is I'm understanding from the the engineering department over all of Pasco County that I need to be prepared to leave Florida because as they continue to do what they're doing on Hays Road in different places, they're displacing with no preparation and control of where it goes. So as a homeowner, if we have been here for generations and and twenty plus thousands of the year, um over years and never had a problem if with the development continuing that we all of a sudden have problems not from rain

   1:51:45but from water coming up that's being displaced. Is there is there restitution in place for that for us that we go?

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:51:53Um we're we're we're on we're on Henley and so if you have a question about the development on Henley. Um they're taking

   Joan Herbert

   1:52:01place in their own water, correct? Mine went away. Oh no, she doesn't.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:52:04Okay. This is not yeah, this isn't open public comment. This isn't a town hall or anything like that. Um is is the clock working because it went away?

   1:52:15Oh, you pause it during dialogue? Okay. I never noticed that. All right. Um I think that's it. No one's online? No

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:52:25one's online for this item.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:52:27Okay, I'll take a motion. That's it's my district.

   Chairman

   1:52:31Yeah.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:52:32I think it's my district. I thought it was no used to be my district. District four. District four.

   Chairman

   1:52:38Is anyone

   Christina Fitzpatrick

   1:52:39else speaking?

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:52:39No.

   Christina Fitzpatrick

   1:52:41No questions. Motion to approve. Second.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:52:44All in favor? Aye. Aye.

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:52:47Okay,

   Kathryn StarkeyChair

   1:52:48um one nineteen.