Operation Greenlight and sprinkler impact fee
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Okay, uh who's next? Your
kidney and I I don't have anything to be for you all today.
Right. Real quick. Um I wanted to talk about Operation Greenlight event that my office is hosting uh March thirty-first through April 2nd. So that's Thursday through Saturday. It's um an event to help people get back um their driver's licenses to help reinstate them for their court ordered obligation. obligations and we have people available in person by phone and also we can do this online. So I wanted to make sure that that event was known. Get more information by going to my website. And also there is another
thing we're doing, we're partnering with the courts, the state attorney and the public defender to put on Operation Stand Down. At Operation Dand Hun, we're going to hold Veterans Court to help our veterans get back on their fee, get their driver's license reinstated. So if you know a vet that has any sort of cases with our office that we can help them with that would comply with the requirements for veterans court, the court and the state attorneys, public defenders in my office work together to reduce the amounts that are due on the Cases, lower
charges, and so on and so forth. So two great events, uh, one specific for veterans, the other one is open to the general public.
When
is that? When is Operation? Thank you. I don't think I said that. Um it is Friday, uh April twenty ninth, and it's going to be held during Operation Stand Down at the Rotary Pavilion. In Safety Safety Town Rotary Pavilion? And it's uh Operation Downs the actual whole weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. That's a great,
great event.
Yeah.
Okay. Um Um I'm next. All right, first I need to appoint Dr. Kim Moore to the Commission on the Status of Women. I thank you. All in favor? Aye.
Uh during my meeting with the Tampa Bay Builders Association and Terry. and um some of the um developers and developers attorneys I brought up the question Um, and I've been meaning to ask this for a long time. When a development comes in, they have to do a tree survey. Correct? And um there's that ringing again. Hmm. And so some of them can oh
so I believe they pay into uh for trees of a certain size that they take out, they pay into a the tree mitigation trust fund. But I do believe that we have a requirement that X amount of trees have to go back into the finished development. Is that correct? You can't just take every sea every tree out and not put anything back in. As I'm gonna talk about the development. As a total.
Yes.
Yes, you're absolutely correct. Whenever they remove trees with a mass grading or anything else, uh they do have to do a tree survey that tells you what they've removed. Uh their development plans then uh the site plans tell you what they're putting back in. They must put back in the minimum to meet the landscape requirements. Above and beyond that, they can mitigate in other ways. Okay. either plant the trees or they can pay into the fund.
And that's been in effect for a long time, right? So if I were to drive through Fox Hollow or the preserve. Well, Fox Hollow's an old one, um, but should have been under those th under that. I mean and that's been there for at least twenty years, 'cause I believe I worked on that when I was on the Citizens Ordnance Review Committee, which was twenty something years ago. So I could go through a development in the last twenty years and see If I mean if they have any trees. Who
in the county goes back and sees if the developers puts the trees in?
So uh the when a development is built like a subdivision is built now, uh the engineering inspectors actually look at the trees in the common areas. If there's trees along roadways, trees and parks, things of that nature, like along the edges. Uh then there's uh actual the trees on the lots themselves, referred to as lot trees that are covered in a different section, that's done through building construction services.
Okay, so someone does go and check. And so we could go into a neighborhood say that was built fifteen years ago and drive around and there should be trees on there. Someone someone could pull up a number and see how many trees should be in there.
Theoretically yes.
Okay.
Uh recent steps. Uh some people may have gone in and taken things out of their own accord, but theoretically, yes, you you should be able to see a certain pattern of trees in an area, assuming that they haven't died.
But they wouldn't necessarily b n be in a house. Th they need to be putting them into common areas or street trees. Depending
on the the plan that was approved when it was first
said, lot trees which are a requirement Then become the residence's property.
But the development Um the developer has to have X amount of trees. replaced from when they cleared.
Correct. If if they if they cleared trees and their their approved plan showed them replacing certain trees in common areas to make up for that. uh they can't then go and remove those trees.
Right. Because y you know and people I hear it all the time, people get upset that we come in, we take every single tree out, then we build it up with sand, and then they're supposed to put the trees back. But there are many places. That you can drive around a development And there's now. And there aren't any trees. So I I I'm just gonna pay more attention to that. But I just wanna make sure um and I will tell you that the developers in the in the call said
So and they said, Yeah, that that's not good, we're not doing that. So they did say that. Okay. Um now I want to thank you. Thank you, Brad. Um wanna bring up um Sprinklers and Mr. Kabbalah who's texting me over here. Uh you had to go. I do.
So in um this is the last thing. In on Floor Mar in Gulf Harbors. There are a couple islands in the right-of-way that are owned by the county.
Has landscaped it. And we maintain it. And um right now they're in there putting the um you know, they're fixing the pipes with that money we got last year. And um Paris, the s the head of our civic association, talked to the guys doing the work and FGUA and um because we would like to put a sprinkler in there. And um The FGUA said we could put a sprinkler in there would cost eight hundred dollars for the water meter. Um
it's three hundred square feet. And um but the e the civic association was okay with putting the sprinkler in there. Um right now the lady who's the uh Judy Post there on the corner. puts a hose across the street and ladies water it with the hose coming from the the uh construct the real estate office. And um but then they said that there is a twelve hundred dollar impact fee to put in the sprinkler to sprinkle um
uh like an eight foot by thirty foot strip of grass. So um I think it's a little crazy. But m Mike is saying that um 'cause we'll willing to put in the water meter, but to put to pay twelve hundred dollars for the smallest little sprink two sprinkler heads Seems crazy, but Mike is saying that our bond covenants say We have to charge ourselves. It's the counties. County Administrator. That's
correct. The you your bond covenants say that you have to pay back the enterprise account. Just like any of the other any of the other discussions we've had about waiver of solid waste fees, any of that stuff.
So can I ask for uh um the ki uh help on paying the impact fee from here?
It's a slippery slope.
It's uh it it's the count uh the c that the county has to charge itself.
We've run into that before.
Really?
Yeah, we've had discussion about that before.
So we so apparently we paid impact fee on our utility building.
What yes ma'am when when the county does construction and we build a building and pull a meter, we pay the connection fee to the enterprise fund. Or when we do irrigation on You know, somewhere else. Connection fee to the enterprise fund. Everybody that pulls a meter pays a connection fee to the enterprise fund because that's to pay for future capacity.