Call to order, pledge, roll call, minutes approval

0:30Okay, that's that.

0:36All right, I'd like to call the meeting to order today.

0:40This is the uh Planning commission agenda for August the twenty sixth, twenty twenty one.

0:49So we'll begin by standing for a moment of silence and the Pledge of Allegiance.

1:15I pledge allegiance to the body with the

1:18United States.

1:23One nation, under God, and indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

1:46Madam Secretary, if we could have the roll call, please.

1:49Damit you're already?

1:50Here.

1:53Here.

1:54Peter Handle? For the size? Yeah. Christopher Poole.

1:58Here.

1:59Uh Richard Snell representing Chris Williams.

2:02Here.

2:03Chairman Charles Gray.

2:04Here. And approval publication, please.

2:09The items were advertised in the Tampa Bay Times on June 9, 2021, June 30th, 2021, July 21, 2021, August 4th, 2021, August 8th, 2021, and August 15th, 2021.

2:26Thank you. I believe we have minutes for approval.

2:30Make a motion for approval for the meeting minutes for June twenty-fourth, July eighth, July twenty-second, and August fifth as published in the agenda and as emailed out. Because I think there was a inadvertently previously.

2:44Right. We have a we have a motion by uh Dami Girardi and second by uh Um Don. And uh Do you have any further discussion on the motion? All in favor of the motion signify by saying aye. Aye. Okay. Um are are we having trouble hearing back there? Okay. So

3:10Come on. I'm on.

3:14I was off before, so maybe that is that better?

3:16Can you hear us now? Is that

3:17better?

3:18One, two, three, can you hear me? Okay.

3:24Let's start over. No, I'm just kidding.

3:29Okay. So uh I'd like to welcome everybody today. We're the Planning Commission and we're appointed by the County Commission. 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. on comprehensive plan amendments, land development code amendments, rezoning and conditional use requests. The Planning Commission is the final decision making body for special exceptions, certain appeals. variance

3:59requests and certain alternative standard requests. However, final decisions may be appealed to the Board of County Commissioners. If anyone is in opposition to any comprehensive uh Plan amendment. Land Development Code amendment. rezoning, conditional use, or any item where Planning Commission transmits a recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners. It's important for you to t attend the appropriate county commission meeting. For those of you who are not familiar with the meeting uh format. Uh

4:30we have three segments really. We have uh In in some cases, not in every case, we have continuances. And it's been our uh custom to approve continuances unless they're extenuating circumstances they might A request might come from the applicant or from the staff. We also have uh Consent items. Those items are usually items where the applicant has not received any letters or notices of objection and the staff uh We'll put that on their our consent agenda. Once

5:01we go through the consent agenda item by item, if there's anything on there that you want to be heard today. Make yourself known and we'll pull it from consent for uh further discussion. today. And uh if Whatever remains on consent agenda will be voted on at one time. And uh and passed. Then we have regular items. Those eye those are items that are not continued or not on consent. and those will be discussed here today. And uh Everyone will have an opportunity to speak. Applicants

5:32will have uh Three minutes to make a presentation, and anyone with questions, concerns, or objections will have three minutes to state their concerns. And then following the presentation the applicant will have opportunity to uh get up and answer or respond to those questions or objections. Uh if I think there have been no requests for uh extra time, am I correct?

5:58Yes, sir.

5:59Okay. So this would be a good time if you haven't, uh to please Check your uh cell phones and put 'em on silent if they're not already on silent. So we don't interrupt anybody when they're speaking.

6:14And if you planned uh to give testimony or come up and speak today, uh this is uh this is the time when you'll need to stand and raise your right hand and be sworn.

6:27Anybody who plans to come up and speak today?

6:32Raise your right hand, be sworn.

6:37Okay.

6:38You swear or refer to testimony you're about to get to the tree so happy ground?

6:44All right. Thank you.

6:51Okay. I think we're good.