PC8 Serene Preserve MPUD 37 homes Willow Bend Parkway
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So we're gonna move to item PC eight and that will be presented to you by Adrian Scott.
Okay.
Good afternoon, Adrian Scott, planning services.
Before you today is PEG twenty-four seven seven four three in the name of Serene Preserve MPUD.
Here is the site location. It is located within the South Market Area in the urban concentration area.
This is a zoning amendment, rezoning from ER, estate residential, to MPUD, Master Plan Unit Development. To allow for the development of a maximum of 37 single-family detached homes with a combination of 45 and 50-foot lots on approximately 26.6 acres. The location is on the north side of Willow Bend Parkway, 250 feet north of the Pasco Hillsboro County Line. and approximately
one mile from US Highway 41.
Here is the aerial view and as you can see you can see Hillsboro County on the other side.
And the context map with a thousand foot buffer.
And an image of the master plan.
and the non binding concept plan.
Um the applicant is seeking to have a variation for 901.6.d.11 to not provide interconnect to the north and west of the subject site. Mm-hmm. Uh staff analysis on that is per LDC section 901.3.m.1. In cases where a project site is located near right next to an existing platted single-family
residential subdivision, With no available roadway points of connection, these projects are exempt from cross-access to other adjoining parcels. And as there is an ex existing platted residence and wetlands surrounding the project site, staff agrees that the proposed connections as shown on the MPD master plan meet the intent of the LDC.
We recommend approval of the requested zoning amendment to the Board of County Commissioners.
Thank you.
I I do want to read one correction into the record on that one. Um the applicant did meet with the property owners uh for the property that is to the north of it, which is the Willow Bend Unit J. And they've asked um they're going to place a note on the MPUD master plan. It'll be note eight. So if you look at the M PUD master plan right now it ends at note seven, so they're gonna add note eight. Mm-hmm. And basically, the note will say 50-foot natural vegetation area to remain as depicted on MPUD
plan shall not have any constructed park features, but may be used to satisfy landscape buffer, neighborhood park, or setback requirements as determined at the preliminary development plan review, which will not require a modification to this MPUD. This is just to amusement. ameliorate any concerns of those folks that are at that cul-de-sac where it actually butts up to the project so that there is a vegetated buffer there. Adrian will be will be sending the revised master plan to the clerk's
office for their records.
Any questions?
Could we just see that planet again?
Uh the with the lots on it, I'm sorry.
The non binding.
The non binding one.
Excuse me, what they're gonna show us. No.
So is there any buffer on uh required on the r the road side of that? I guess that would be the back of those homes.
There there will be a buffer required. Um Brad Tippin may be able to answer that question as to what the width of that buffer will be, but yes, there is a buffer required under the code.
Okay.
Who would be answering that question?
Brad Tippen?
I told you, Brad.
You can rob it, you can't hide.
Yes, there is a buffer along the roadway. Uh and you can increase that if that's something that you would like to see something special. You can change what's in the code, but there's a code required buffer.
Uh I don't know off the top of my head.
Does that buffer require a wall or a fence?
No, not along the roadway.
That would be my biggest concern I think. You know, having uh resonance back up to that road like that with no real barrier.
Anybody else have that concern? Yes, sir.
I think a wall would be ideal. That's part of the requirement. Yeah, should probably start. Oh yeah.
What do you think was
that?
I would think any owner in that's gonna want it anyway. That's a pretty heavily traveled traveled road.
Yeah, I could see a car going right into one of those houses.
It's kind of a race way through there. You
you can absolutely request that and I'm sure that that's not gonna be a problem for for anyone. We can we can do that.
Yeah.
Is the applicant present? Sure.
Barbara Wilhite, sixty three twenty-seven Grand Boulevard, New Port Richey, for the applicant. Uh my team has advised we'd be happy to add a specific condition requiring a twenty foot buffer and a six foot PVC um fence along Willow Bend Parkway.
That exceeds the code quite a bit. And I think it addresses your concern.
Yeah, primarily it does, yeah. This is my concern. I mean Even a w concrete wall car could come through, but Yeah, there definitely needs to be something there, more substantial.
Understood.
So All right. Um
I don't have a particular presentation.
I think staff covered things very
well.
Is there anyone else here that uh from the public that has comments or concerns? Okay. Um anything? Any more questions from up here?
Suggestions.
I mean
Be okay with just a P V C fence? As opposed to a wall, a district wall.
I know the car will go through both of them, obviously, but Wall would slow down.
I would think that would be
a feature for anybody buying a home there to know we know. Fashion.
Yeah, um Happy to listen to anything.
So is this a D two buffer or a D three buffer that's required?
Yeah, I don't know.
I think it would be a D one.
Yeah, yeah.
What whatever the width of the right away is. And and then it then the width is determined based on the width of the right of way.
Right.
But I I mean it's not a residential roadway 'cause we're talking about Willow Bend. So I think it's just a general non-local road.
But
That it seemed to be a weakness in our code.
Well we're s happy to do a twenty foot buffer and a fence and seed your code and seems reasonable. Um lots of projects are constructed that way. A wall would be very expensive.
Okay.
If you'd like to come up.
Are you speaking on behalf of the applicant?
No.
All right. Anyone else to speak on on behalf of the applicant? Okay. If not, then come on up please. State your name and address. And you've have you been sworn?
Yeah, I was
going to do that.
Um yeah, um I just like to point out the your
name and address sorry,
my name's Brian Goodfellow. My address is [address removed]. I've lived uh uh in Willa Bend for twenty five years.
Okay.
Um like to uh first of all I'd like to point out that the the fence on the north side of Willowbend Parkway, um all the way from Collier to the end of Willow Bend is a block wall.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah I don't know that a P V C fence would be suitable in in that um new proposed area. Anyway, um as I said, my family and I have lived in uh Willow Bend subdivision for twenty five years. Uh during that time we have witnessed many changes to the area, some good, some not so good. The connection of Willowbend Parkway and County Line Road ended the
peaceful peacefulness of this community. Traffic on Willowbend Parkway is ridiculous and is now sarcastically referred to as Alternate 54. Adding to the traffic will Will be the t town homes now under construction on Willow Bend Parkway towards US forty one. Now there is this plan to build an additional thirty-seven homes on Willow Bend Parkway. This will further add to the traffic congestion.
Next is um I'd like to point out what what is the what about the impact to the environment? Has there or will there be an environmental study for the proposed development? There are gopher tortoises living in this area and they are protected species in Florida. There is a process for notifying Florida FWC to analyze the situation and arrange for the safe capture and relocation of these animals. Has PWC been contacted regarding this
issue? In my in my opinion, the destruction of this green space and the environmental impact for the sake of 37 houses is unacceptable.
All right. Thank you very much. See if we can get those questions answered for you.
First of it.
We'll see if we can get those questions answered for you about the environmental impact.
Okay, perfect. Very
good.
Anyone else? Barbara, do you have any comment if you want to r respond? He wanted to know if they're I know you're talking, but he wanted to know if they're an environmental impact study and what are they gonna do about the gophers.
Sure. Uh bar Willheid for the applicant. We have to do with all MPUDs a listed species survey and we have conditions of approval Relating to that um Two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight. So that's well covered by the county in connection with an MPD rezoning.
Maybe we could give him a copy of what what you've done there.
Sure, absolutely. I guess the homeowners that did contact us prior to the meeting, you know, we went we changed our MPV plan, we added a note, we looked at what we could do to give them additional comfort regarding buffering on that north side, that 50 feet that's gonna remain um natural and you know they're not here. So we certainly work with anybody that will work with us. We we would ask for 37 units that you not impose a wall requirement. The PVC fence will provide the buffer that you're
looking for between the back of the lots and the road. And it'll be landscaped. And we have offered additional buffering. So really I mean, thirty seven units can't carry a uh both from a a construction standpoint and then the maintenance of that wall as well. It's a lot to carry, so we'd ask that you know you work with us, we work with you, please.
All right, and how's the how's the board
feel? Jamie, I'm not trying to be argumentative but I'm looking at the Section nine oh five two and I think this is a D three non local roadway residential But for which would require Either A berm, a wall or a hedge, somewhere between six foot minimum and eight foot max height, no wooden fences. Is that right, Brant? That's
correct. It'd be a D3. Uh you can require one of those options if you don't want the hedge, if you prefer it to be a fence with the landscaping in front of the fence, between the fence and the road, with the trees and whatnot. Uh you can re make those types of requirements if if that's what this commission would like to do.
So question w if it were to be a P V C fence, would that be maintained by the lot owner or the HOA?
We usually have them in a in a tract, yes, it'd be the HOA, but whoever it's dated to.
The landscape buffer goes in a tract, platted tract, and it goes to the HOA and maintained by the HOA.
I know it's more expensive to construct, but I I to me it seems like it would build value those those lots and those homes would be worth more.
Yeah, I think about River Crossing Boulevard, the cubeless, where you're driving down those art you know, their collector arterial roadways and they're lined with brick walls for those people's rear yards. And I just when you have single family detached you're gonna have children.
Mm-hmm.
I I think to the neighbors point too, I mean I I travel this road quite frequently and it's walls that are north and south of the road there. For the most part it's not P V C fences. So um it P V C fences kind of ac out of characteristic with with what else was
there. Did we see like a street view of that, what the neighbor was testifying to?
I think for sound purposes as well.
Developers can get more money having those lots with a better area.
Yeah.
See if I were working on it.
Probably need like Street View, Google.
Okay, that's a portal.
Uh this goes around the corner because it's the second one.
That's the wall on the south side.
Long all that south is mentioned at the moment.
Yeah.
This is the only time it steps from M to a P V C that goes further from the road for uh protection. Yeah, but from there it's closer to the road it's
It's very small.
Is that sir, is that the wall or can I ask him to come back up so I can ask him
the question? Sir, would you please come back up?
Oh sure.
Yeah,
I just wanted to ask you, sir, is that the wall you were referring to when you spoke to us?
Yeah, right.
I think that's south of Brazil then. Yeah, it's a south
Yeah, it's right there off of County Line Road.
There's a development there on the other side.
Which one?
Keep going further down.
It'd be on the north side.
Yeah, there's there's an element further up for the
after the bend it looks like it's a different wall, uh at Willow Bend itself past the bend.
Is that Magnolia trace that's up there? Is that right?
I
think we gotta go the other way.
We're gonna ask David for a requisition for a faster computer for these phones.
You heard that David. David's still here.
Which direction would you like us to go in? I'm sorry.
Backwards.
So if you keep going north around the corner. It should curve to the left.
Yeah. Okay.
So I mean you'll see um. That looks like okay. Yeah, this is a subject property here on the property, yeah.
Yeah, you gotta go around that bend. That's that's um a wall that was put up when they put punch through uh uh Willow Bend Parkway to County Line Road. Right to block the noise for the people on Paul Down. Yeah. And
that's a masonry wall as well.
So you gotta keep going around that bin then.
On the left there, that's where I think it's proposing to put those houses in. Yeah. So you gotta go around all the way around that bend and then you're in actual in uh Willow Bend subdivision.
Yeah. If you click further down the road it should move the bigger jumps. The wagon.
It's on coming where
I'm not sure. It's like watching a five well.
Car's getting farther away.
Yeah, it's backing up.
You get my
Mercedes will never hit us. I know. The world's slowest game of Grand Turismo.
So it it looks like there from I was doing online. It looks like there's a combination of different things there. There's one uh uh little
iron wall, the other subdivision uh has a pond in front with a picket fence behind uh and then there's an area that has nothing. So there's a whole different combination of things that's sitting down there.
Yeah, if you look to the left now you should be able to start to see the wall. No, not not quite.
I can see the sign
on the left a little bit. Yeah, I see
it.
There you go. There you go.
There we go.
That's where it starts. Yeah.
Yeah.
So all right. That's the wall you were talking about, sir.
Yes. Okay. And then there's more wall when you get past uh Magnolia trace there's uh cement wall, walk wall, whatever on the left also that runs up to uh
Well, what's uh the next one?
Sir, did you mention you live in that cul-de-sac right there? Is that correct?
Yeah, on the left.
Okay.
Okay, there's a little home there. And that next intersection that's where that's where I let off the magnolic trace.
Looks like where it's buffered by ponds you have the P V C and the There's a pond there. But where it's closer to the w road directly it's the masonry wall.
And then after I only get trace the wall starts again.
And runs up to uh I can't remember the name of the street. I've been trying to get it working things. And then there's another car. So there's no fence there. No, it's all here.
Oh yeah.
Well I think we have a pretty good idea what's what's there. What's what what do you guys want to do?
Chris?
Done.
So
Well it's a hard one. I understand the applicant's position that we've only got thirty-seven or so lots here. And that can add to the cost, but I'm also looking at what's the long-term quality of life for a resident on that lot. And
I look at children, pets.
And I'm just not sure a P V C fence is in keeping with kind of the scenery along the existing roadway.
Yes, I agree. I lived there twenty five years.
The traffic now let me punch that through. From uh Willow Band Parkway to County Lane Road the traffic is atrocious. Yeah.
Okay. Any more questions for the respondent? No. No. Thank you very much, sir. Appreciate it.
So my client will agree to a um to do a precast wall behind the houses. We do have sections of our plan we don't have houses abutting. Um so we really don't want to put a wall in front of the pond. But we could certainly put a wall in front of where we have houses abutting, um, Millow Bend Park Way.
Okay. And then in that area where we put the wall it would be twenty feet.
So the and
it would be a track with the HOA maintaining it.
Can we see the flat again? Please, so we can see where that wall would be.
We know it's not binding cancer because.
There's not much else you can do with it.
That's true.
So where would the wall not be?
Well you can see where there is a p a pond.
Uh on the re around
the very end? Yeah, on the very end and then up towards the But you would put them you would put 'em
along the lots that that front Willow Parkway. Yeah, that's the one that I think we're concerned about. To me that's reasonable.
It's not not there.
Not there and not
not there.
Okay. Just keep that natural at me.
That's good.
Has to have a new battery in that thing. Yeah.
Thank you, Ms. Will. I appreciate that. Um so do I hear a motion?
Okay. Heard the mi makings of a motion. How do
we word that?
So I would move to approve or recommend approval with the addition of a masonry, whether that be precast, concrete, brick, whatever, wall, for the lots that back up to bit that front or have front that have Yeah. Any frontage or in this case rear edge along willow bend. Parkway and I appreciate the applicant. Offering that
up. And then Sir, just to clarify one of the questions that you had about gopher tortoises, there are conditions in the MPUD that require them to conduct all of the necessary gopher tortoise surveys, do any relocation if necessary, and we're not living in the days where we can do takes of gopher tortoises. They have to be captured and relocated to a preserve, so these are things that Yeah.
Right.
Okay.
So is there a motion? I'll second.
Thank you. We have a motion and we have a second. Any further discussion of the motion? If not, all in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Like signed? Motion carries.