Villages of Pasadena Hills utility surcharge ordinance
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Good afternoon, everyone. I would like to call back to order the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners meeting of December eighth, two fa 2020. I would like to remind everyone present to please silence all the electronic devices. And mute your Uh microphones. public hearing is time now for Proceed with public hearing. Um Starting with item P ten. Ordinances? I believe you have to
uh reset for ordinance.
No, no. the next section when they read when we read procedures. All right. So you're at one ten.
Well
These numbers change. Yeah, P one ten.
Okay, if you would, um just to read publication for P item P one ten was published in the Tampa Bay Times on October twenty-first, twenty twenty. Thank you. Great.
Uh good afternoon. Um it's Ernie Monaco for Planning and Development. I first I'd like to uh submit an ex parte form. If we're gonna make a move so you can see it. Yeah, I need
a motion.
Make a motion for it to receive and file. Yep. I need a motion, receive and file.
Motion to receive and file. file.
Great.
Yes. You have to have a motion, a second, and a vote. And it's by roll call.
Okay. Um Commissioner Fitzpatrick motioned Commissioner Oriano did the second for the record, just make sure. District two, Commissioner Moore.
Aye.
District three, Commissioner Starkey. Aye. District four, Commissioner Fitzpatrick. Aye. District five, Commissioner Mariano. Aye.
Aye.
District One, Chairman Oakley.
Aye. Okay, great. This is the first hearing of an ordinance, proposed ordinance for the village of Pascoina Hills. I will read the ordinance into the record. An ordinance by the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners amending the Pasco County Land Development Code Section 602, J. Ben Harold Villages of Pascoina Hills Stewardship District. It's revisions to text, table, and exhibits 602-C and 602-C and 602-D to Chapter 602, J. Bayon Harold Villages of Pasington Hills Stewardship District, including
utility master plan and utility development fees, and addition of 2020 VOPH master utility plan, and as necessary for internal consistency, providing for applicability, repealer, severability. inclusion into the land of them code and an effective date. Great. Well back in May 5th, the commissioners voted in the first phase, approved the first phase. And what I want to do is give you a little bit quick summary, it's just to refresh your memory back. And you can see phase one and phase two. Phase two predominantly concerns the utility issue. Can
you hear me? Okay. I'm sorry. I'll hold this up a little bit more. So you can see in phase one, uh um High Design was a consultant for the property owners group and they r updated the financial plan and they managed to basically uh s s save uh in phase one the the fees reduced. So that for example the transportation surcharges Uh in phase one. Basically became $259. And this is per single family. So you can see that they shaved off uh the surcharge of $5,208. And then if you go down the list, you can see that. Notice that
Water Reclaimed Water and Wastewater were not in phase one. They got carried into phase two. So the important part that we're gonna talk about today are actually the surcharges, because these are additional new fees that everyone in V OPH who's developing property there needs to pay if they're gonna be in. Okay. Next. Phase two of the view of the 2020 VOPH update study. There's the financial plan additions, which we will have a resolution in January 26th. But they actually come in conjunction because they affect each other. And there were some tables and utility
surcharge tables related to that. But we're gonna focus on this one: it's land and stewardship ordinance additions. And you have a utility surcharge table that's new, mobility fee tables had to be revised, the wastewater development fees. And the watermelon fees are new and the property owners group, the POG, also fees had to be re-revised. Not really fees, they're what they've what they've done to pay for the study that they'll get credits for later. Next.
Okay, quick summary of the financial plan. Uh just to refresh your memory, the financial plan works. Only if eighty percent of villages of Pasadena Hills gets developed. So there's a twenty percent cushion, which is good. The base utility impact fee generated by VOPage will continue to be spent by the Pasco County Utilities Department. This was really important, it was significant, right, Mike? And you can comment on that.
So
we made sure that they were not touched. They have the right to spend, to receive those funds and spend them anywhere the county has needs for utilities. That's very, very vital. And we this worked with that. No credits can be used again. Those base utility fees. PCU will continue to use its base fees to provide the treatment plan and other system-wide improvements necessary to provide utility capacity for VOPH, but they can decide where they want to put it. No po um a hundred percent of the funds needed for the transmission mains are raised by new additional fees and those are called the surcharges.
So they created a system of surcharges now that all developed private developers pay if they want to develop in in V OPH and get those in Thailands. And these are the only things that are credited, okay? So the new fees are added and they are giving credits for those developers that build those utility lines in place, main transmission lines. Private developers must carry the costs for the trunk lines and they await repayment through the use of their own fee credits for their project or assignment or use of those credits for other future projects. And they what they do is they register that into this new new entity called the fee
credit registry. The VOPH utility budget estimates and the utility surcharge amount is subject to periodic review by the county. The actual build-out, construction costs, and system requirements. They will require regular updates and adjustments. I mean that's necessary. You know, inflation happens, costs change, things change. The plans always have to be regularly updated. So surcharges may increase in the in the future, particularly if costs go up. Uh next. So, what are we doing? The tax these are tax revisions to the stewardship ordinance. The real main purpose was to add, of course,
the utility surcharges and the credit and explain the credit system. But also, there was also consistency that needed to take place. So we have additional definitions, credits for the surcharges are in place, utilities department's ability to use the base fees countywide, and information about the fee registry. And that's all in your agenda memos. And we can go to the next one.
There are no changes proposed for existing zoning, future land uses, and the number of entitlements, residential density, and commercial intensity of the entitlements. It's very important. Next. And we today uh we have Pat Gasway of Height Design who can go into more detail. It's great to see Mike here in case you've got questions for him. I I don't know if Pat is wants to speak on this subject. Is he in the WebEx?
C V wants to speak.
Thanks, Ernie. I appreciate that. This is Pat Gasway with Height Design representing the property owners group. I think Arnie's uh summary is uh is is pretty concise. Um that the matters um that we included here primarily for um utility fee surcharges um will be able to facilitate um private individuals or private land developers to to invest in the infrastructure
for utilities in that area given the limited amount of utility infrastructure in place.
This is is consistent with the uh with the plan that we've had um since the outset for uh for this new update. to make sure that you know the the Pasadena Hills regulatory framework was uh was market friendly uh and and ready to uh to to be robustly used by the uh by the folks that are in the area. Um The the the various items on the agenda today are uh are are
covered in uh in in what appears to be the uh The slideshow that we pulled up. When it comes to questions from the board in particular, happy to answer anybody's questions. But Ernie's summary for the most part is appropriate for the stewardship district and covers in addition the primary changes. in the financial plan.
I think, Ernie, if there's if there's an additional agenda item with regard to the comprehensive plan transmittal, any questions associated with that, I guess, can be pursued at that time.
Yes, that's correct. And let's get back to my slide and I can quickly go through the recommended action.
Well I have it here. I could read it. I have it on the agenda now. Where do you go? Okay. Well I'll tell you what I'll tell you what your recommended action is. No action required, as this is the first of two public hearing required by the Board of County Commissioners. The second hearing, the adoption hearing, will be held on January twenty sixth, twenty twenty one at one thirty P. M. New Port Richey.
This is a public hearing, so the action you need to take though is to conduct the public hearing.
Well if we have anyone that's wanting to speak to the right-of-way. Again against this item, please come forward. This is
this is an ordinance adoption hearing, so it's anybody who wants to speak.
Yeah. Anybody that wants to speak?
There anyone at the kiosk?
There's no one at the kiosk for this item. Yeah,
nobody at the kiosk.
And there's no one on WebEx for this item and there's no kiosk. No
requires no vote.
Nope. Okay. This is the first of two two required public hearing on an ord on a land development code or ordinance adoption.
May May I ask a question, Mr. Chairman?
Yes.
Um So I had a meeting with Mr. Gassaway and then discussions with Keith and Ernie on some changes that might be occurring. And is this happening here or is this just the utilities? That's coming. It's P nine. So
later item
on the
Com Plan Amendment change is coming.
Okay, I see it. Okay, then I'm fine. Thank you. All right. I actually think this is a a good way to um Help get utilities in an area where there are none. And um And I hope we can discuss the county's policy in the future, maybe at a workshop or some someplace because Um I would like to discuss how we use um how we charge developers with with utility impact fee use it for Um
I think we use it for capacity. Rah and I'd I'd like to discuss that because For example, Ridge Road has no utilities on it. And um so all the the churches there all on septic. Um the college has its utilities coming through the back from a neighborhood PHSC. And um it's very so the first developer in uh in the in our old ways I think would have to pay for all the utilities to come down ridge to do to do some improvements there. And
then what, the other developers get to just um tag in and not pay for any of the cost of that that service. So maybe there's um a better way to do it. I also don't like the way we build a road and if it has no infrastructure on it um and then development comes later then they have to tear up the road. I just think we can plan better. Thank you.
Okay.