P54 land use amendment to IL at northwest intersection

2:58P fifty-four was advertised in the Tampa Bay Times on September 6, 2023, and by Appetive certified mailings and site postings.

3:05Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh item P54 is an ordinance amending the Pasco County Comprehensive Plan, providing for a small-scale comprehensive plan amendment to the future land use map, Map 2-15, and Sheet O five from ROR, Retail Office Residential, and AGR, Agricultural Rural, to IL, Industrial Light, on approximately 7.04 acres of real property located at the northwest intersection of U.S. Highway 41 and Greenfield Road. And providing for additional tax amendments as necessary for internal consistency, providing for repeat or severability and an effective

3:35date Uh this comes to you with a recommendation for approval. We have a presentation if you would care for one. You

3:42want presentation on fifty

3:43four? Just a question, Chair.

3:46Question. Is

3:47it Lib Local provision In this.

3:51Yes, the legal working provision is built into it.

3:55You do have two individuals signed up to speak.

3:59We have two individuals for public comment. It's public comment time, so you'd like them to come and speak.

4:04Um would

4:04you like for us to do a presentation or no. Okay.

4:09Uh so the first signed up is actually a couple Anne Marie and Norman Hetzler, followed by Matt Lackey. When you come to the podium, just name and address for the record. Sure.

4:20Good afternoon. I'm Dr. Norman Hetzler and I live at [address removed], which is the twenty-five acres that looks directly at the area in question being rezoned. I ask that you disapprove this motion. Uh I realize that part of the area is already uh zoned for industrial light, however, not the whole amount. We have animals, children, and I am now not a good idea. months into a house build uh that should be done in a month. My concern are basically threefold if you go industrial light. One is air pollution, which with light

4:50industrial will not be that big, noise pollution, but more importantly is light pollution. Uh even though a small section is already zoned industrial light, if it becomes a large enough one, let's say they go ahead and they put in storage place which is they can go 30 feet high with mercury vapor lights, that basically puts a huge amount of light pollution, not just on my property, but looking into the future for everyone along Greenfield Road and down Lucier Lane. There are some folks there who have smaller houses, but they have large amounts of land. As development goes north, that will

5:20become more and more valuable unless for some reason. You have a lot of light pollution, things like that. Those folks could then sell their properties for a significant profit, which they would not quite be able to do if this went through. So I am once again asking that you disapprove this amendment. Standing by for questions.

5:38Well I just wanted to say on the light pollution, we have an ordinance that requires the lights to shine down. They can't How you know? They won't be shining up or out on other property, just down on their own property. They shine down, but I mean they will come out.

5:53This is public comment, so Okay. Next person.

5:58Okay, the next person.

6:01I'm assuming Anne Marie Hetzler. I don't I don't know if they were signed up together. So then following Anne Marie is Matt Lackey. Oh Anne Marie? Sure.

6:11Okay.

6:12I just wanted to point out that we had just purchased this land last year and this was our retirement home forever. Um so this will we feel would reduce the value of our home. So that's all.

6:27Ms. Hessler, just for the record, you have the same address as Mr. Hessler, correct? Thank you. All right. Um next, Matt Lackey.

6:41Hi Matthew Lackey. Uh Honor real estate address [address removed]. Um I'm a realtor. Uh my wife is the one who helped the Hetzlers who just spoke to obtain the property. And we would also request that the motion be denied. Uh this will reduce their property value depending on what's gonna be used here. And just the question is it possible to is there a presentation on what it will be used for? Or is this just strictly to change it to light industrial?

7:12This is a comprehensive plan amendment. So it's not this isn't there's no detail, it's a it's a change in the future land use classification for this land.

7:21Yeah. So I would echo echo what uh Mr. Hetzler said as far as uh requesting the denial. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else?

7:29Mr. Chair, there's um a Gerald Spear signed up. He had P fifty four and it looks like maybe he crossed it to P fifty six. So if you want to speak to this item.

7:42All right, I'll call your name then. Thank you so much. Thank

7:44you. Anyone else?

7:46No one else has signed up.

7:48Okay. Anybody in the audience wish to speak to this item?

7:54Okay.

7:57Applicant's representative.

7:58Yep.

8:01This is your item.

8:02Good afternoon, Commissioner. Barbara Will Heights, 6327 Graham Boulevard for the applicant. Um we have it's actually four as you heard from public comment, there's eight acres approximately included in this land use amendment, but uh really only four to be changed. This currently half the property is already light industrial. We just wanted to keep it all together. Half the property is being used for light industrial already. It's an area where you can see it's bordered by the train

8:33tracks, railroad on our west. On our east is ROR, similar type uses. As far as the concerns of air pollution, noise, and light. All those things are specifically, you can't have any of those effects in light industrial. That's the diff the difference between light industrial and heavy is that light industrial per se says you're not going to have air pollution, noise, or light. Right. As Commissioner Starkey said, regarding light there's ordinances, regarding noise there's ordinances, and regarding air admissions, there's ord ordinances or state permits.

9:03So I think it's an area that makes sense. It's an area that's already this type of node. It's got a boundary, a hard boundary at those at the uh railroad tracks on the west. And um we would ask for your support of both staff and planning commission's recommendations.

9:18Okay. I I have some questions. Um I see Crockett's is Crockett's towing there?

9:25It

9:25has

9:26a facility to the east. To the east. Off on forty one.

9:31Cross the road.

9:32Cross the road, right.

9:33Yeah.

9:35Where's

9:35it?

9:36Do you have a map of it? Yeah, the when you look at the

9:43Yeah, I want to see where where it is. Right there.

9:49Okay, so they're already parking Is it already being used for light industrial? Or is that is the northern part already zoned?

9:58The northern part is already light industrial. Four acres to the north.

10:02And how long has that been light industrial?

10:05I would have to go look at the zoning history.

10:08Okay, and you're just wanting

10:10to add four acres to what's already being used as light industrial and zone for light industrial.

10:15Okay, so I just want to say just in case um

10:21There is no landscaping in front of this business. That's existing? I don't know when that came in there. Um it has a chain link fence with Bob wire, which we don't allow on 41. So I just wanna be sure that if this has changed that It's a lot more Looks a lot nicer than what that other part does and I would wonder if the applicant would consider Making that look better for the community. You know, driving down a road seeing cars stowed like

10:51that with no landscaping chain link above wire. It's not a Welcoming community feel. So that's that would be um My request and I think that would go a lot to help the neighbors with their

11:05This is land use. We can come when we come back with zoning we can look at a special deed restriction to address that issue.

11:11Well I think that's already in our code that you can't have chain link.

11:18But I would be adding greenfield to that, which is not in our D districts?

11:22Okay, we could certainly I promise to look at that and bring that forward with the zoning um and and discuss it with your staff and the client. Okay. All right.

11:32Pleasure board.

11:35I'll make a motion to move a move approval to move forward to make this a continuous contiguous Industrial light working area. With the expectation that we'll have Sufficient buffering To help the neighbors out and address their concerns. I think that's a happy medium. uh there.

11:54Change it at one. Mr. Chairman Mariano.

11:59The motion needs to be Staff recommendation if if you want to move it to I L I understand The commissioner's direction to Two staff and to the applicant, but Um Because this is a comprehensive plan amendment, it really should be. Make the change the make the change to the future land use to I L as delineated in your staff report.

12:28Motion to the staff recommendation but note on the record my

12:33Concerns and requests.

12:35Yeah, we when we come in for the next

12:39discussion. Okay. When we come in for the next iteration of use on here, we're gonna be looking for a wider buffer. A a really nice buffer and um a different kind of fence fencing all around.

12:51Rokall vote.

12:51District One, Commissioner Oakley. Aye. District two, Commissioner Weightman. Aye. District three, Commissioner Starkey. Aye. District four, Commissioner Bradford.

13:00District five Chairman Mariano.

13:02Motion passed four zero.

13:06Okay. Uh move on to P fifty five.