An Ordinance By The Pasco County Board Of County Commissioners Amending The Pasco County Land Development Code; Chapter 1100 Special Development Standards; Section 1101 Vehicle Dealerships; And Other Sections, As Necessary, For Internal Consistency; Providing For Applicability; Repealer; Providing For Severability; Inclusion Into The Land Development Code, And An Effective Date.

8:23Okay, P eighty three. Item P eighty three was published in the Tampe Times on july sixth, twenty twenty two.

8:30All right. So as my PowerPoint is coming up This is the first reading on this item. This is PDD 220454. It's an ordinance by the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners, amending the Pasco County Land Development Code, Chapter 1100 Special Development Standards, Section 1101, Vehicle Dealerships, and other sections as necessary for internal consistency, providing for applicability repealer, providing for several Inclusion into land development

9:00code and an effective date. The reason why we're here is because on March 8th, the Board of County Commissioners adopted a temporary moratorium on the opening or establishments of vehicle sales businesses. There were some concerns, including overstocking of vehicles on site. and those were causing safety concerns. Staff studied the issues and met with stakeholders. Our first meeting was on April thirteenth and our second meeting was on June eighth.

9:28the proposed ordinance before you clarifies the applicability of the section. It breaks down the section into the following. uh general standards for sites approved or established prior to January twenty-fifth, twenty two thousand and five. The reason for that date is because that's the first time that the vehicle dealership ordinance was established. In that section, the changes are just generally cleanup language, and that cleanup language is mostly resulting from the type the change to the type H buffer. As you may remember, the type H buffer

9:58used to be a 75-foot buffer, now it's anywhere between 20 and 40 feet. And that was changed in Amendment 55. The board adopted that on May 3rd of 22. Then the next section is additional design standards for sites that were approved after August 25th, 2022. The reason for August 25th, 2022 is because the this item is expected to be adopted on August 24th, so that's just the day after the adoption. for that's why that that date was ex uh taken So to

10:29break that section down, there's a section on employee and customer parking. There's a one of four methods that can be chosen. There's also a vehicle inventory and vehicle storage section that basically allows surface level inventory, that calls out surface level inventory and display combined with ground floor of area of buildings and structures to not exceed 50% of the developable acreage. Vehicle inventory and vehicle storage cannot occupy

10:59required parking spaces. Vehicle inventory and vehicle storage cannot encroach into the right-of-way, landscape buffer, wetland upland buffer, or drainage pond. It has to be delineated on site plants. And then there's also allowance for triple tandem rows or quadruple tandem in certain instances. There's also requirements for pedestrian connectivity. Yeah.

11:24Then there's the next section is basically standards that may be used by vehicle dealerships, whether they were approved prior to or after August 25th, 2022. These are all landscaping related. As we were talking to the and I want to say thank you, Commissioner Starkey, for bringing the stakeholders together. As we were speaking to the stakeholders, they were basically stating: well, some of the trees that you were Required could damage our vehicles because they might, you know, release some pollen or fronds

11:54or whatever. So there's standards that may be used in lieu of the standards in 905.2 and 1102, which include outdoor display and buffering standards, and that recognizes that certain species of shade tree may create hardships for vehicle display areas, allowing the substitution of understore. trees for shade trees. Also for park parking island landscaping, recognizing that certain species of shade tree may create hardships, allowing the substitution Uh for understory trees, for shade trees. So

12:25these items were presented to the horizontal roundtable interested parties meeting on June 15th and July 20th, 2022. Um and they were presented to the local planning agency on July 21st, 2022, who found the request consistent with the Pasco County Comprehensive Plan and recommended approval to the Board of County Commissioners. Today there's no action required by the board. We're just asking that you accept public comment. The this item is scheduled for adoption on August 24th, 2022 at 130 in Newport

12:55Ritchie. And I will say that that is before the 180-day temporary moratorium expires. So we did or are trying to meet our promise to you.

13:07Yes, and board members, we've had um numerous meetings with, you know, Larry Morgan, Scott Fink, um with um rich package. Um with uh um Firmins, we've we've met with all the dealerships and we included a representative from the used car dealership um world to make sure we were hitting the new car dealerships and input from the used car dealerships and um And I think we've done a great I think you've done

13:37a great job.

13:38I do wanna also extend a big thanks to Brad Tippen who was instrumental in putting this together and also a uh gratitude to Elizabeth Belair from the County Attorney's Office.

13:50Yeah, this is such such a big improvement and you know uh requiring seventy five feet of buffering. uh and kind of a suburban urban setting in many places was just way too much. And um and changing some of these rules for the trees is good and Um but you know we don't want the dealers parking cars in the driveway and if you've seen these many of these used auto dealers where Um you can't even walk onto the onto the property. Never mind park a car. Um it's just

14:20was out of control and we really needed to to get some rules in place. So I'm very grateful for this. There's no action required. It's um public hearing. It's public hearing, so we don't have to vote on it. But if if anyone here in the public wishes to speak, um now's your time.

14:35I have no one signed up in person or on WebEx.

14:39Okay. Well thank you very much. We'll um

14:41hear this again when? This will be August twenty fur twenty-fourth, twenty twenty two at one thirty in Date City.