An Ordinance By The Pasco County Board Of County Commissioners Amending The Pasco County Land Development Code; Chapter 800 Natural And Cultural Resource Protection; Section 802 Tree Preservation And Replacement; Chapter 900 Development Standards; Section 905 Greenspace Requirements And Standards; Subsection 905.2 Landscaping And Buffering; Subsection 905.3 Plantings In Rights-of-Way of Residential Subdivisions; Providing For Applicability; Repealer; Providing For Severability; Inclusion Into The Land Development Code, And An Effective Date.

4:51And now we'll proceed with public hearing with item or public hearing started with ordinance P fifty-four. And when was we approved?

4:59Yes. Um item P fifty four was published in the Tampe Times on March 16, 2022.

5:04Okay.

5:09Hi, good afternoon. Uh Patrick Dutter, uh, Planning and Development Department. Um, so I have before you today

5:19Potentially. There we go. Um some landscaping code updates. Uh so there is a team put together uh roughly two years ago to take a look at our landscaping and buffering section of our code. Um so the team uh was a combination of internal and external. Um stakeholders. So from County Staff, we had Frank Galdo Jr. and Kathryn Harper from the Cooperative Extensions Office. We had Elizabeth Blair from the County Attorney's Office. Mike

5:49Woodard, 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 McAleer from Claireview Land Design and Bridget Demers from Level Up Consulting. 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 over time. So

6:21I'll just first want to acknowledge that while I see Kathryn Starkey is not here, I have met with her and she was uh excited for these changes. So thought important to mention that. 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. Uh so some of the improvements included uh allowing for tree sample surveys. Uh

6:51updated 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,

7:22added 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 eight feet wide to ten feet wide. uh added requirements for larger vehicles for vehicle use areas, clarified planting adjacent to building perimeter lands building perimeters allowed for

7:52existing vegetation to qualify for buffers without alternative standard applications, Uh we revamped the buffer requirement table, revamped the buffer and screening requirements table, adjusted the vehicle dealership buffer, added standards for ponds adjacent to rights of way, and then we added a buffer graphic uh 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 development review manual, and

8:23there are some other minor fixes and tweaks that uh came along with that. Uh and then this is just an example of what some of those uh items that we're adding to the development review manual are. Um 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, uh, and then of course those are the calculations. Mm-hmm.

8:47So Any questions on any of that?

8:50Any uh any input? It's the first reading? No.

8:54Thank you very much.

8:58Does this still have a tree in the front yard and one in the backyard? 'Cause I didn't see the hear the one in the backyard.

9:05Um I d 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.

9:20I thought there were two trees that were supposed to be planted.

9:23Uh 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. Um and then we're saying that you know, in some instances those trees can be planted in the front.

9:44Do you know what is six thousand square feet in acreage?

9:48Uh 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.

9:58Nate. Okay. Thank you.

10:00Okay.

10:04Any other questions for staff?

10:11Could please public comment?

10:14Um no one has signed up for item P 54 and no one is on WebEx.

10:18Okay. Anyone from the public like to comment on the item?

10:23Okay. This is the first reading so it'll c carry to the next one. No action is required. Oh that's okay. Okay, P fi item P fifty five. Thank you.