Meeting called to order, pledge, roll call, minutes

0:12Yeah, I'd like to call the uh meeting to order.

0:16I'd like to welcome everyone today.

0:24So before we start, I'd like to uh stand for a moment of silence on the Pledge of Allegiance.

0:33Yeah, yeah.

0:51Pledge allegiance to divine the United States of America and to be their value which stands under nation, under common, indivisible, with liberty

1:03and

1:03justice

1:03for all.

1:16All right, so Madam Secretary, can we have the roll call, please?

1:22Yeah. Don Anderson.

1:24Here.

1:25Peter Hansel. Roberto Saiz. Christopher Poole. Richard Tonello representing Chris Williams.

1:33Here.

1:34Chairman Charles Gray.

1:36Here.

1:38All right. And if we could have the proof of publications.

1:42The items were advertised in the Tampa Bay Times on November twenty-fourth, twenty twenty one and December twenty-second, twenty twenty one.

1:53All right, thank you very much. Do we have any minutes to approve?

1:56Yes, we do. Um I'd like to make a motion for approval of the revised minutes from the September ninth meeting and from also the November 4th, November 18th, and December 9th meetings.

2:07All right, we have a motion to approve uh minutes.

2:12Let me say second. I did. Yep. Okay. All right. All in favor? Signify by saying aye. Aye. Black sign. Okay. Motion carries.

2:26So again I'd like to welcome everybody today and say that we're the Planning Commission. We're appointed by the Board of County Commissioners and we meet twice a month. Uh we serve as a local planning agency and we hold public hearing and transmit to the Board of County Commissioners. Uh recommendations on comprehensive plan amendments, land development code amendments, rezoning, and conditional use requests. Planning Commission uh is the final decision-making body for sp for variance requests, special exceptions,

2:58certain appeals, variant and uh alternative standard requests. However, final decisions may be appealed to the Board of County Commissioners. And he wasn't opposition to any comprehensive plan amendment, land land development code amendment. rezoning, conditional use, or any item where The planning commission transmits a recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners. It's important for you to attend the appropriate Board of County Commissioners. For those of you who are not familiar with our procedures. We

3:29really have three sections. We have continuances with the staff or the applicant requests a continuance. Yeah, it's been our custom to grant the continuances unless there are extenuating circumstances. Uh we have a consent uh agenda. The that that's where items are on the agenda w that have not been uh registered objections against either by the staff or by the public. And we'll go through the the uh

3:59we're consent items one by one. If there's anything on consent that anyone has come today to speak about or ask about Raise your hand when we uh When we mention the item and we'll pull it from consent and we'll put it with the regular items and that's the third uh section. Regular regular items are not on consent and not continued. Uh applicants will have three minutes to make their presentation. Yeah, unless they've requested additional time in writing, at least twenty four

4:29hours prior to this meeting. And objectors will have uh three minutes to say state their concerns and objections. Um following the presentation, uh the applicant will have five minutes to respond again unless there's been uh additional time requested in writing.

4:51for those who may have uh phones, probably a lot of you do. This is a good time to put 'em on silent. So don't disturb anyone who's getting up to speak.