Call to order, pledge, roll call, approve minutes

0:49Yeah.

2:30So I'd like to call the main to order if we could have a moment of silence and pledge of allegiance.

2:58I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

3:20Madam Clerk, can we have the roll call, please?

3:23Jamie Jura.

3:24Yeah.

3:26Here.

3:27Here. Here. Here.

3:31Mr. Chris Williams and Chairman Charles Drake.

3:34Here. And approved for publication?

3:37The items were advertised in the Tampa Bay cities on october eighteenth, twenty twenty three, november first, twenty twenty three, november twenty second, twenty twenty three, and december twentieth, twenty twenty three, or by affidavit of certified mailings and psychosis.

3:52All right. Thank you very much.

4:00Do we have a uh a motion to approve the minutes is submitted?

4:03Motion to approve the minutes from the October fifth meeting. I

4:06second second. I saw um There was one reference in there to Peter leaving and not coming back but then it showed where he made a motion or something somewhere in there so I think that needs to be looked at. But other than that

4:23Okay. Um well we have a motion and a second further discussion. This discussion is is that there is a uh uh uh question about Peter's location. Peter, were you here?

4:41I was not. I left the meeting and to the best of my knowledge I

4:47never returned.

4:48Okay.

4:49And there was a comment in the minutes about that but then a little further down it meant mentioned Peter saying or doing or making a motion or something. So unless those items were out of order or something, I don't know. Anyway, they can look at that.

5:06Yeah, so I'll amend the motion just to have that looked at.

5:08Yeah. Okay. Yeah we

5:10still second that.

5:11Motion is second. Any further discussion? If not, all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, like, signed. Okay.

5:21Um I'd like to welcome everybody. Let's start by uh uh swearing in if anybody plans to give testimony today would you please ra uh rise and raise your right hand be sworn.

5:46All right, thank you. So again, I'd like to welcome everybody today. Welcome to the new year. Planning Commission is appointed by the Board of County Commissioners and we meet twice monthly. We serve as a local planning agency and we hold public hearing and transmit to the Board of County Commissioners recommendations uh uh uh on uh comprehensive plan amendments, land development code amendments. And rezoning and conditional use requests. Planning Commission is the final decision-making

6:17body for special exceptions, certain appeals, variance requests, and certain or alternative standard requests. However, final decisions may be appealed to the Board of County Commissioners. If anyone is in opposition to any development code amendment, Any rezoning? condition or use or any item where the Planning Commission makes a recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners be important for you to attend that Board of County Commissioners. We have those dates available if you don't if you don't have

6:47them. For those of you who are not familiar with the format of the meetings, we have three sections. We have continuances, we have consent and we have regular items. Yeah with regard to continuances, our custom to approve a continuance request from the staff or the applicant. Uh if they have a uh a valid reason. And the uh consent items are items where they're on the agenda, but we have not received any concerns

7:17or notations from the public or the staff. Those items will go through one at a time. If there's something on consent that you like you've like you'd like to have heard, please raise your hand. Yeah. And we'll have it poll consent from consent. Otherwise it'll remain on consent and they'll all be voted on at one time. Any items that were on consent? That we're taking off consent. We'll go on to the regular items. That's the third

7:47item, and that those items will be fully heard embedded here today. The applicants will be limited to uh three minutes to make their presentation and the the uh public will have three minutes to come up and ask questions or make comments about the application. Sure. And then following that the applicant will uh have an opportunity to come up and respond to those concerns or comments.

8:22If there's been a request, and I don't think there has been, I think there was one, right?

8:27There was one request.

8:30Uh it must be in writing at least twenty four hours before this meeting. I think we had one for an extra ten minutes. Um So, uh before we start the meeting, uh