An Ordinance By The Pasco County Board Of County Commissioners Amending The Pasco County Land Development Code; Section 522.9 Connected City Master Planned Unit Development District; Section 901 Infrastructure Standards; Section 901.1 Transportation Corridor Spacing; Section 901.6 Street Design And Dedication Requirements; Section 901.7 Bicycle Facilities; Section 901.8 Pedestrian Facilities; Appendix A Definitions; 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.

2:57We approved publication in the Tampa Bay Times September 3, 2025 for the October 21st, 2025 board meeting, where it was continued to today.

3:10Item P59 is PDE 26002. This is an ordinance by the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners, amending the Pasco County Land Development Code, Section 522.9, Connected City Master Plan Unit Development District, Section 901, Infrastructure Standards, Section 901.1, Transportation Corridor Spacing, Section 901.6, Street Design and Education Requirements, Section 901.7, Bicycle Facility. Facilities, section nine and one point eight, pedestrian facilities, appendix A definitions and other sections as necessary

3:40for internal consistency, providing for applicability repealer, providing for severality, inclusion into landed element code and an effective date. This comes this is uh the first Presentation or reading of the proposed ordinance. No action is required. The Board of County Commissioners request to accept public comment and we have a presentation if so desired.

4:00Okay, does anyone uh need a presentation?

4:07Okay. Um let me see if there's any public comment on this.

4:12We have no one online.

4:16All right, and I this passed unanimously out of the Planning Commissioner. I listened to the meeting. Um I did anyone want to I guess no action taken? Is that what I heard you say?

4:29No, this is a this is accept public comment.

4:32Yeah,

4:32but yeah. And no action taken in the first of two public hearing.

4:36I know Rebecca you've worked very hard on this one. Do you want to give a presentation or are we we good to go?

4:44I'm ready to give a presentation today. It's maybe like ten minutes.

4:49Okay. Four.

4:51This will show what the new pedestrian standards are gonna look like along collectors and arterial roads.

4:56Okay, let's give let's have a presentation.

5:09All right, Rebecca Bowden, Planning Development, Economic Growth.

5:14Yeah.

5:14All right. So the intent of this ordinance upstate is to make some updates for internal consistency. Um we're also allowing friction course as a roadway material. We're consolidating sections 901.7 and 901.8 into a comprehensive section titled Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities. We're also including in that rewrite some enhanced standards for site location and connectivity. And the overall goal here is to Strengthening

5:45the county's position to require land development projects to build segments of our overall multimodal network. We did take this to the Planning Commission on 918 and on 1016. At the 918 hearing there was a lot of discussion about our previous version of this rewrite where we were asking for these trails to be built on the south or east side. There was concern that this particular piece was rigid. and may cause issues with aligning with existing facilities.

6:15So we revised it to require 10-foot trails or multi-use paved trails on both sides of arterial and collector roads. And we hope that this will create a symmetrical network, support updates to the future typical sections, as well as simplify administration. There was also concerns at the nine eighteen LPA meeting regarding Whether or not we should be requiring these facilities in rural areas. Um in response to that we went back and explicitly

6:45exempted um These requirements in future land use categories AG, AGR, and Res1.

6:55Um Can I stop you there for a second?

7:00D I don't know if you saw the two year old that was killed um because they were walking out here somewhere and there's no no sidewalk, no no no place for that father to walk with his two year old safety.

7:15It's behind public in the community and there are sidewalks in there.

7:19Oh. So so he was he chose not to be on a sidewalk? Okay. All right, go ahead. Thank you.

7:27All right, so we also brought this to the 1016 Planning Commission. Um and at that meeting there was discussion about the requirements to uh mark shoulders as uh bicycle facilities. Ultimately we there was a motion made to remove that language. All right.

7:49Okay. Okay.

7:53Okay, so um the summary of our overall changes here is Our current 901.7 is applicable to REST 3 future land use or higher, and it's on subdivision collector roads. They're required to provide either a bike lane or a 12-foot multi-use path. Section 901.8 pedestrian facilities is also applicable. The Res 3 future land use are higher on all street types except for alleys. And the requirements there are for either a five-foot sidewalk on collective or arterial streets or a four-foot sidewalk on all other

8:23streets. What we're proposing by combining the two is a land development code that's applicable to all sites. Except in the agricultural, agricultural rural and residential law and future land use categories and the requirements would vary by street type. So on arterials and collectors, um, they're there'd be required to provide a ten foot paved multi use trail on both sides. On residential subdivisions, we're asking for a five foot sidewalk on one side, and eight foot multi use paved trail on the other side, and on our residential roads,

8:54we're looking for five foot sidewalks on both sides. We're also adding connections or standards for on-site circulation and connectivity standards. So this would require late development projects to connect all their buildings, connect to the external bike pad network. And in parking lots with 100 spaces or more, they're required to provide sidewalks from the parking lot to the principal building. We're also adding a payment in lieu of construction option. This option would be available where there's already facility

9:24programs in the capital improvement program or where it would otherwise not be feasible to build a facility by the site. We're also adding a definition for paved multi-use trail. This is our overall vision, what we hope this land development code will ultimately create.

9:45And as mentioned, this is the first public hearing with adoption set for December 9th.

9:53Uh

9:53any

9:53questions?

9:54Question. Did this go before the uh Tibet Builders Association?

9:59We did have communications with them, yes, via email.

10:02Well I think you need to have a meeting with him.

10:05We didn't have like a a meeting though.

10:08So we had a was it a phone call or was it room meeting?

10:11It was an email communication. And of course we took it to our ordinance development team in the horizontal roundtable.

10:19Okay, so they have presence there.

10:21Yes.

10:21Alright. And did no problem with it?

10:24They did provide some comments like minor adjustments to the um corridor spacing language, which we needed some tweaks to. Their biggest concern was our requirement for boardwalks over wetlands. Um we're asking for those boardwalks to be constructed of concrete materials.

10:39Yeah. Because the other ones don't last. Then then the neighborhood has a massive repair building.

10:48Um I have a question. Uh does this take care of issues like um some of the new developments that were built, say along fifty-two, that did not put a sidewalk across the front of their property?

11:03Yes, this would require all applications post adoption to build a ten foot facility.

11:08Okay, because that's I don't know I don't know how we're gonna fix that, but We have some issues that we're gonna have to go back in and fix. Okay, uh is there anyone in the public that wishes to address this ordinance?

11:26Okay. Thank you very much. Okay, thank you. Long time coming.