Conditional Use (Regular) - Pasco Land and Cattle Co, LLC/Skyway Towers/Verizon Wireless - 155 Foot Above-Ground-Level (AGL) Monopine Wireless Communications Facility (WCF) in an AR-1 Agricultural-Residential District - Central Pasco County - On the North Side of Green Willow Run, Approximately 2,000 Feet East of Quail Hollow Boulevard File Number PEG24-CU02
What the county recorded
Staff recommendation
Approval with Conditions
DispositionContinued
Approved to continue the item to the June 4, 2024 Board of County Commissioners meeting at 1:30 p.m. in Dade City.
The source document
The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Apr 10, 2024
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The county’s minutes for Board of County Commissioners, Apr 10, 2024
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What was said
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1/2Taken up at Morning session, 9:48
Thank you. Recognize we have a quorum here today. Now is the time for public comment. Citizens are given an opportunity to comment on any current or future item on the agenda under the board's review. Today's public comment will be handled as follows. First, we will take public comment from those persons here. in person. Then we will take public comment from those on pre-registered on WebEx
Link are and are currently on queue. We request that when you address the board, comments are to be made Not not personally toward any commissioner or team member, but rather directed at the issues. This provides mutual support for both between the board and the public. After start stating your name and address for the clerk, a three-minute timer
will be activated. After two minutes, a single beep will indicate you have one minute left. Yeah. When your time is up, two beeps will sound and you will need to finish your comments at that time. WebEx applicants will be disconnected electronically when their time is up. Uh Madam Clerk, do we have uh people signed up for the public comment session?
Yes, Mr. Chairman I have four people signed up. Um I was also told there's probably others that um did not sign up that they would also like to talk. So we'll go through the list first.
All right.
We have Brenda Scarborough, followed by Nancy Hazelwood, followed by Merle Fermatti. Ms. Scarborough?
And when you get to the podium, please state your name and your address.
Yeah, I think this
Move to receive
and file. Second.
And a motion is second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye.
Hi. My name is Brenda Scarborough, [address removed]. Thank you. Sorry, I'll have to read right off the paper. Good morning Commissioner. I don't know what the final Lacucci plan will look like. But I am concerned about the residential transitional neighborhoods that seem to be proposed. This would disagree with the Northeast Rural Protected Overlay from LBC and make this area transitional. Doing
this changes the ratio from one house on five acres, which is the current rural Northeast protected area, to one house per acre. This is a very slippery slope, especially if they begin to cluster homes. Which would require sewer systems which completely goes against the rural system. It would become denser and suburban and no longer rural. The Northeast Rural Plan was created so that we had a protected area and that destroys that.
You have all repeatedly been saying that we need to protect the rural character, but this obviously does not do that. I would ask you all to take into consideration when finalizing the Lakouche Plan, all those constituent landowners like myself. Who purchased five acres of land in the protected area because your team created the overlays of those homeowners who wanted to live rurally.
This is what we call rule, guys. I understand. This is what it will turn into, which is the cluster homes. Thank you for allowing me to be heard. And not just myself, but for so many others who have had the same concern. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Nancy Hazelwood, followed by Merle Fermani, followed by Cynthia Elia.
Good morning Commissioner Oakley Casewood, [address removed] you didn't have to tell me this time, sir. Um, good morning again. Uh the person that spoke before me echoes many, many of our feelings out there. I would say about ninety five percent of us Out in the northeast rural area moved there because it is a protected area and we wanted to r live rurally. Once you had somebody here that developed a
plan that said there's something for everybody in Pasco. If you want to live rurally, you've got that. If you want to live in a city, you have that. Or anything in between, we had something for everyone. I'm hoping you will sustain the rural area plan. For all of us. us. Um also I I wanted to thank you for having a workshop on stormwater. Uh it's nice to be able to help with county
planning for the areas we live. We'd like to see a lot more of that. And a thank you for the board and staff. Another thanks to Planning and Growth and Parks and Recreation Department for trying to do the right thing. We know that they have very, very large workloads and really need more employees and encourage you to get those. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Mural
Fermani, Cynthia Ellia?
Move to receive and file. Second.
We got a motion and second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion passed.
Hello, my name is Merrill Fermani. Um I'm at [address removed]. Uh I'm speaking on item P fifty seven from the afternoon schedule. Um I made a presentation that I see.
Mr. Chairman M Yeah, it's not appropriate to take comments on a public hearing at in public comment in the morning. These are those are quasi judicial hearings.
I can't speak during public comment either
Not if you not if you not if you're addressing the the land use matter that is on the hearing is scheduled for hearing.
But There's no public hearing for it in the afternoon, so the only other option was the morning.
Yeah. If it's one of the people
if it if the public hearing has been closed, then it's not appropriate for public comment at all. The public hearing has been closed.
I see. Okay.
So
what do we do with this? So should we
It should not be part of the record.
Okay. All right. Is there any way that I can submit more material to be part of the record?
No, the r so the
I'm not trying to be disrespectful, I'm just asking clarification, sir.
So My understanding is that P fifty seven was The public hearing was closed. You didn't have sufficient you it was deadlocked at two two.
It was continued. to today t hoping that there would that Commissioner Bradford could Review the record. And participate in the vote. Uh my understanding is Commissioner Bradford is not going to be attending, so it's going to be continued again. I w it's also been brought to my attention that There were ex parte communications by both the applicant and Um
The public. With board after the with the board after the public hearing was closed. That's correct. which, in my opinion You're going to have to reopen the public hearing for that matter because you took po you took public comment in private basically. Um I
had an attorney with me. You didn't say that. I had an attorney coming with me too.
Does does that mean it's open for June, sir?
I didn't.
Or does that mean it's up for discussion about June?
My recommendation to the board would be that it would be that the public hearing would be reopened and then new and a new public hearing be held at that time based on the the events that have occurred.
Okay. Well thank you for clarifying and thank you for your time.
But
it's continued for today.
Is that what you're saying? Well that that's my understanding is that the applicant has has agreed to a continuance.
It's dying to continue with one.
Dead. It's not continued until you continue it this afternoon, but my uh my understanding is both the applicant and staff re are are in agreement that it will be continued till Uh I believe it's June fourth. Um hold on.
It but I believe it's your first meeting in June, which should be the J June fourth meeting.
Which would be here. Back in Dade City, yes. Yeah. So it would it would be on your afternoon cal with a one thirty calendar on The computer will come up June fourth in Dade City.
Uh I have a question for um
uh
county attorney. Uh there was the motion to receive and file um Is that to be removed?
I would reconsider it and I would I would not make it part of well, it it can be part of the morning record. It's not gonna trans it's not gonna transfer into the public hearing.
Okay.
Record.
Thank you.
Um so we need to have a motion. Not well we've already accepted it. Right.
It can be part of your the the record the record for the proceedings of public comment. It's just not gonna be part of the unless it's reintroduced when the public hearing is reopened, it's not gonna be part of that record.
Right. Okay. Our next person.
Okay. We have Cynthia Elliott.
Name and address for the record?
Yep.
Uh just your name and address. Cynthia Elliott. The address is [address removed]. Thank you. This is the same subject. No, it's administrative.
Okay.
I would like to point out that the different deadlines that have been made aware of us trying to get in literature emails requests. They've not been included in the agenda. A number of our emails, a number of our letters that we've sent in. Have either been past deadline, deadlines that we have not been made aware of, or they're in house deadlines for you people and we don't know about. Um
the zoning administrator has not included a number of our letters. So I would just like you to be made aware of that that sometimes even audiovisual um presentations we're not able to present because we have missed a deadline. that we're not even aware of. So it's more administrative, I'm not talking about any topic. but you need to be made aware that you're not hearing from your constituents. Well thank you.
Okay. Thank you.
Mr. Chairman's all that I had physically signed in.
Is anyone else here to uh speak to public comment this morning? If you are come to the podium.
Seeing no one coming forward. Uh anybody on WebEx?
No one's on WebEx.
No one on WebEx? So at this time we'll close public comment for this morning and uh
Move on to
Let's see here.
Whether it's previous.
Public comment period is closed. Uh now is time for resolutions.
2/2Taken up again at Afternoon session, 48:08
Item P 57 was published in the Tampa Times on March 20, 2024, and August 23, 2023, and by affidavits of certified mailings and site postings. This item was continued from the October 10, 2023 BCC meeting to the November 14, 2023 BCC meeting. It was then continued to the January 9, 2024 BCC meeting, where it was continued to today.
Thank you. Um item P57 is PEG twenty-four C U02. There have been um 15 ex parte communications with all commissioners uh since Um April eighth, so they did not make the agenda packet, those have been provided to the clerk's office. Additionally, there's ex parte with Commissioner Starkey, Commissioner Mariano, Commissioner Oakley, and Commissioner Weightman, and those have also been um submitted to the clerk's office as well. And
that item is PG twenty four C U Zero two, Pasco Land and Cattle Company, LLC, Skyway Tower Towers, Verizon Wireless for a one hundred and fifty five foot above ground level Mono Pine Wireless Communication Facility in an AR1 agricultural residential district. The request is to continue the item to the June 4th, 2024 Board of County Commissioners meeting at 1:30 in Dade City. And if you would please take public comment on the continuous request.
Mr. Chairman Mariano I'm not sure that there's need to take faculty. public comment on this one because it was supposed to have been a closed public hearing. Um however, um this is the one I discussed in public comment this morning. I would strongly advise that this be re advertised and that you have a full public hearing on it based on the um Ex parte w uh based on the
ex parte communications that occurred after the public hearing was closed. Um so I think if just a motion to continue would be fine for this one.
Okay. Move to continue terms.
Oh okay.
I got a motion and a second to continue. Uh and that's
being continued till
June fourth, twenty twenty four, Board of County Commissioners meeting at one thirty in Dade City.
Okay,
thank you. All right.
Thank you.