Roll call pledge and approval of minutes
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Mm-hmm.
We'd stand for a moment of silence and pledge of allegiance.
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.
Okay, Madam Clerk, we have the roll call.
Mr. Jamie Girardi?
Here.
Mr. Derek Fontlett? Here. Mr. Peter Hansel. Mr. John Moody? Here. Mr. Christopher Poole? Here. Mr. Chris Williams? Here. And Chairman Charles Wright?
Here.
And the approval for publication, please.
The items were advertised in the Tampa Bay Times on September 6, 2023, October 4, 2023, and October 11, 2023, or by certified mailings and site coastings.
Okay.
Did I have a uh Motion to approve the amendments as submitted.
Motion to approve the minutes from July twentieth and August 24th.
Second. Motion and a couple of seconds.
Okay, Okay any further discussion? Not all in favor? Signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Like signed.
Okay.
For those of you who haven't had the benefit of being at one of these meetings, let me just Run through the uh structure of the meeting. Very quickly. With the planning commission, we're appointed by the Board of County Commissioners. We meet Every two weeks. Um we serve as a local planning agency and we hold public hearing. and transmit to the Board of County Commissioners recommendations on Comprehensive plan amendments, land development code amendments. rezoning and conditional use requests. And the Planning
Commission is the final decision making body for special exceptions. Certain appeals. Variance requests and certain alternative standard requests. However however, final decisions may be appealed. to the Board of County Commissioners. If anyone is in opposition to any comprehensive plan amendment, plan development code amendment. Rezoning. Conditional use or any item where the planning commission makes a recommendation to the county commission. It's important for you to attend the appropriate county commission meeting. Uh
for you for you for those of you who are not f familiar with the format of the meeting. Uh we have three sections. We'll have uh may have continuances requested from the staff or from it from the applicant. It's been our um tradition to approve those requests. Unless there are extenuating circumstances. And uh then we have consent items. Those items are where Uh we we received an application and we haven't had any uh Any objection from uh either
written or in person? Um And those items will be Going through one at a time. If there's something on consent today that you'd like to have heard or you wanted to have discussed. as I call it out, please raise your hand and we can always pull it from the Consent agenda and move it to the regular. Items. And those are the items that will not be placed on consent or not continued. And um it will be part of the regular discussion. For the m bulk of the meeting. The
applicants will have uh Three minutes to make their presentation. Anybody in the audience who has questions will have uh three minutes to come up and ask their questions or state their concerns. And then the applicant will have an opportunity to come back up and Try to answer those concerns. Um unless there has been a request in writing at least twenty four hours prior to this meeting uh for extra time, um we're gonna try to hold our um
or times to those to those minutes, three minutes and five minutes. Um If anybody has a phone here that's not on the silent position, it's a good time to pull it out and put it on the silent position so we won't interrupt anybody that's speaking. And uh
The I wanna I'm also asked to remind you that we request that when you address the Planning Commission, you address the Commission in general and not any specific person. We want to try to uh maintain uh mutual respect between the attendees and the Commissioner so You could please do that. That would be helpful. And before we start the meeting, Uh we want to open the meeting for public comment. on the items not appearing on the agenda. but pertinent to this
body. Um so if there's anyone that wants to speak on an item that's not on today's agenda. This would be your opportunity to come up and speak.
Uh let me do two other things. if you do plan to give testimony or in other words, get up and speak today. I'd like you to stand and raise your right hand and be sworn, please.
Anybody that plans to talk today?
Do you swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give is the truth self you got? Yeah, thank you.