call to order, oath of office, and roll call

0:11Okay, I'd like to call the meeting to order.

0:15So if we will stand for a moment of silence in the Pledge of Allegiance

0:43I pledge.

0:44Pledge 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.

1:07So before we um um m go any further into our meeting today, we have a new member on our board. Um he's not new, but he's new to the board. And so we'd like to have him sworn in today because he's special a guest at the moment, but soon he won't be special anymore. He'll just be one board member.

1:31He's special like everybody else.

1:34So if you'll stand and raise your right hand.

1:36I state your name.

1:38I Liam

1:38Divine.

1:39A citizen of the state of Florida. And of the United States of America.

1:44A citizen of the state of Florida and the United States of America.

1:48And being an officer of Pasco County.

1:51And being an officer of Pasco County.

1:53Do you hereby solemnly swear or affirm?

1:55Do you suddenly swear or hear affirm?

1:58That I will support the Constitution of the United States.

2:01That I will support the Constitution of the United States.

2:03And of the state of Florida.

2:05And the State of Florida. So help you God.

2:12All right, Liam. You know, you're duly uh appointed to the board here, and we certainly welcome you uh having been a staff member here for I don't know how many years? Two, three years? Time flies. And uh did a did a great job at staff. Now you're with the school board. Board, doing a great job, I understand, over there. So for those of you who are in the audience today, uh Liam Devine, he works with the

2:42school board uh in uh Land Lakes. I guess you're officers there, right? Um New Port Richey. New Port Richey. Okay, so uh he's been a great member. He's been a staff member here on the on the in the zoning uh planning and zoning and uh uh They snatched him away for the school board and now we got him back. every now and then, right? Correct. So welcome. I'm sure every board

3:12member here welcomes you. Thank you very much and uh I'll try not to do anything too much to embarrass you today. So Thank you.

3:21All right, so let's continue. If we have a roll call please.

3:25Jamie Girardi? Here. Chris Sir Bull?

3:28Here.

3:28John Lee? Here. Matthew Muns?

3:31Here.

3:31Derek Motlitz? Here. Liam Devine?

3:34Here.

3:34Chairman Charles Gray?

3:36Here. And approve for publication, please.

3:39The items are advertised on the Tanker Bay Times on October 22nd, 2025, November 5th, 2025, November 9th, 2025, and November 26, 2025, or by applicated certified mailings and site proceeds.

3:54All right. Thank you. Do we have any minutes to approve?

3:58Uh no.

4:00No, huh? Still no. Still no. Okay. K.

4:05So I'd like to welcome everybody here today. Uh we're the Planning Commission and we're appointed by the Board of County Commissioners and we meet twice monthly. We serve as the local planning agency and we hold public hearing and transmit to the Board of County Commissioners our recommendations on comprehensive plan amendments, land development code amendments, rezoning and conditional use requests. Planning Commission is the final decision-making body for special exceptions, certain appeals, variance requests, and certain

4:36alternative standard requests. However, final decisions may be appealed to the Board of County Commissioners. If anyone's in opposition to any land development code amendment, rezoning. conditional use or any item where the Planning Commission makes a recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners it'd be important for you to attend the appropriate Board of County Commissioners meeting. We have those dates available if uh for those of you who m may be needing that information. So,

5:06um, for those of you who haven't been here before and you're not familiar with the format of our meetings, we have three sections typically. One for continuances, one for consent items, and one for regular items. The continuances, and I don't think we have any continuances today, do we? We do not, okay. Um but if we did it would be our custom to approve them if it's requested by the staff or the applicant. But we don't have any of those today. But we do have some consent items, I believe. And

5:37um Those are items that we have on the agenda today that where we've not re received any um notices from the public or from the staff or anybody that uh where we would have to have it un in entered into the regular items. And those items are the items that will be fully vetted today discussed. If I go through consent and there's something on consent that you'd like to have heard today or you'd like to comment on, you could raise your hand and we'll give you an opportunity

6:07to come up and comment. Um so other than that, uh we'll go to the regular items and then we'll So the applicants will have five minutes to make their presentations and anyone who has questions will have be granted three minutes and then the applicant will have an opportunity to respond to those questions.

6:33This is a a time when uh we uh that we allow for anyone who may be here to speak on an item that's not on today's agenda. Um this would be your opportunity to come forward. Before we we before we do that though, let me just say that um if you have a your cell phone with you Um I'll have to do it myself. Please put it on a silent position so you won't interrupt anybody that might be speaking. And so um So