CONDITIONAL USE REQUEST (REGULAR) - District School Board of Pasco County/Vertex Development LLC/Verizon Wireless - 140-Foot Above- Ground- Level (AGL), Close-Mount Monopole Wireless Communications Facility (WCF) in an MPUD Master Planned Unit Development District - Southwest Pasco County - On the North Side of Budd Bexley Parkway, Approximately 860 Feet East of the Intersection of Ballantrae Boulevard and Budd Bexley Parkway (Hybrid Virtual PC: 10/22/20; 1:30 p.m.; NPR and Hybrid Virtual BCC: 12/8/20; 1:30 p.m.; NPR) - Continued From Hybrid Virtual PC 10/8/20; 1:30 p.m. ; DC and Hybrid Virtual BCC: 10/20/20; 1:30 p.m.; NPR File Number PDD21-CU01

1:22:04Move on to P118. A regular atom?

1:22:09Item P 118 was published in the Dana Bay Times on September 23rd, 2020.

1:22:15Good afternoon, Commissioner. Denise Hernandez, Planning and Development. Item is Is PDD 21 CU01? This is for a conditional use under the name of District School Board of Pasco County, Vertex Development LLC, and Verizon Wireless. And it's proposed for a 140-foot above-ground level close mount wireless communications facility in an MPUD at the Bexley Elementary School Complex, located in southwest Pasco County on the north side of. Bud Bud Bexley Parkway, approximately

1:22:45860 feet east of the intersection of Ballantry Boulevard and Bub Bud Bexley Parkway. This comes to you with a recommendation of approval with conditions as included in your agenda packet from the Planning and Development Department and the Planning Commission. I'm here for any questions that you may have.

1:23:04Mr. Chairman M Jack Mariano? Yes. Uh please let me ask you a question. What's conditional use? So that gives a little bit of of authority. Down in my area we've got a um a big flagpole was supposed to be put up with a nice great American flag and for the past two years we've been trying to get it fixed. And though they've done some repair work on the pole, it's still b peeling paint and still no flag up. Uh how can we be sure that we're gonna keep the this in good work and condition for the uh

1:23:34people in the area?

1:23:35Yeah, that's an excellent question. On that parcel that you're speaking of off the 5A Road, that particular property I've uh been in communication, I've actually copied you as well on the with the with that item, the uh off the flagpole, I will follow up again. My last follow-up was very, very early November. and they responded that they were having some issues uh um obtaining the the the f the flag. Um so I will I will follow up on that item. This particular

1:24:05uh poll is not a flagpole, um, so it will not be flying the uh flag uh in accordance with the US code. So it's a different situation and they are required to maintain the item. The other item that you're explaining, that one was not done at a public hearing. It was done as a tier two, not a conditional use, so that certainly we can move forward and revoke the tier two because it's not

1:24:35complying with the conditions of approval.

1:24:40Thank you for your great work, as always.

1:24:42Thank you, Commissioner.

1:24:44Yes.

1:24:47They always do a good job maintaining these in my opinion. Um I have one down the road from my house and and uh I think about every elementary school in Wesley Chapel probably has one or high school has one now too. School school board does a good job making sure they're maintained and be honest with you. Um you know they get paid they they lease that property out so it's more revenue for the school board, which is less revenue that taxpayers have to pay. So it's a win win in my opinion.

1:25:10That's a good it's a good point, Commissioner. As you stated, you know Cypress Creek Elementary's got one, Gulf Trace Elementary's got one, San Pine Element Elementary's got one. There's one at Rushi Middle School, Sun Lake High School, that campus. There's a few of them out there.

1:25:23Yeah. Commissioner Starkey.

1:25:25Um yeah, so I helped uh write this celltou ordinance back in the day and um I also was on the school board when we initiated um this project. But I do find see, I find um cell towers unsightly while useful and needed. Um So I don't like the front location. Because it's right in the front of the school. Um the first thing you're gonna see is an unsightly cell phone tower. Um And I think the y location by the baseball field is a perfect location,

1:25:55but I wonder why they have to have Have a the um f fenced ingress egress I mean I understand that during temporary construction maybe a temporary fence would have to be put in, but does that have to be a permanent fence to go all the way back there?

1:26:14Um I will uh let the applicant answer because you have to have a a fence compound area based on the land development code. But not

1:26:22that whole. And they have to service it.

1:26:24I'm I'm curious about

1:26:25the ingress.

1:26:27Yeah, I think the applicant needs to respond to that because it may have to do with safe school design guidelines.

1:26:33Is the applicant available? Yes. Okay. Harry

1:26:37Solar? Did you

1:26:42Yes, go ahead.

1:26:49Not coming through.

1:26:51No, I'm here.

1:26:52There you go.

1:26:54And it isn't that.

1:26:56There we see Well we can't hear you.

1:27:01Summit. There I can see Can you hear me?

1:27:06Yes, we can hear you.

1:27:08Okay, thank you. Mary Solik, 121 South Orange Avenue, Sleep 1500, the Land O' Lakes. I have been sworn by the Legal Counsel for Vertex Development. It is very much the Safe Schools Act and the Jessica Lunsford Act. We have to make we have 24-7 access to the towers in case of emergency. And we can't be having tower personnel on a school campus that could be mixing with students. You have to separate the students from vendors and

1:27:39contract persons that come onto the school property. That is the reason why the access easement has to be defenced. Does that answer your question, Psych?

1:27:48Yes, well you be um I'm pretty sure our our requirements are t that you have to at least landscape buffer the fence anyway.

1:27:56Right.

1:28:01So um that's also part of the Safe School Design Guidelines requirement. There's actually an an attachment on in your conditions of approval that is from the Um the Director of Construction Services for the School Board that explains that they are they will not be doing that because of safe school design guidelines. It requires to have an open uh line of sight, and I'll allow Mary Dodi Solik to explain that. Uh but that's uh again those other locations that I

1:28:31explained had the same alternative standard approved. Uh we do have re um Requests be for several reasons: safe school design guidelines, and sometimes to be in compliance with uh Department of Homeland Security, as you may have seen with another tower that was brought on to the board. Not not too long ago.

1:28:51And I

1:28:52Go ahead.

1:28:53So I'd actually like to let Chris Williams field that question. He's with the school district. Because it really is the school district requirement. that those types that facilities not be landscaped. Chris, are you on? Can you take that question?

1:29:10Um who's deciding which location it's gonna be? The

1:29:13school district? The school district decid decides on the location and also there was a request to review an alternate location by the Planning Commission, which is basically if you look at the site comparison, which is an attachment to your agenda memo, they asked for it to be uh considered to be moved westerly on the site. But that would actually project or encroach onto the baseball field and the general play area for the children.

1:29:45Okay. Does anyone else from the public wish to speak to this item? Anybody at the kiosks?

1:29:54Well, I just think having yet I just think having at the entrance is really unsightly. It's it's a shame.

1:30:03Especially

1:30:04on landscape.

1:30:08Oh I can tell that you're smiling. Thanks.

1:30:13Mr. Chairman Mariano is Chris Williams.

1:30:15Yeah, sir.

1:30:17Uh good afternoon, Commissioner. In response to Commissioner Starkey's um question. The cell tower is actually in the back of the stool. I know it's on actually dry, but the front of the stool is um on the north North end of the campus. And so this cell tower is behind this wall thing.

1:30:38Well then I'm very happy. It looks like it's in the front when you see the map that we have.

1:30:44Mr. One of the schools actually Ballantry Boulevard, but it's kinda like a through lot, so it looks like it's has g two frontages.

1:30:50Mr. Williams, have you been s have you been sworn?

1:30:54I have.

1:30:55All right.

1:30:57You could have come on here at the very beginning, Mr. Williams. You just told me so much where it was.

1:31:02Commissioner

1:31:02Starkey.

1:31:04That's fine.

1:31:05Okay. Move approval.

1:31:06Second.

1:31:07Yeah, a motion and a second all by roll call vote.

1:31:11District two, Commissioner Oakley, Moore. Commissioner Starkey.

1:31:17Is Bexley

1:31:17Boulevard Tower Road?

1:31:19Bud Bexley is also known as Tower Road.

1:31:21So basically this is on tower by our Pretty bike trail.

1:31:25It's on belt

1:31:27trail.

1:31:29Okay, so it really is on the front, just because your ro your school is not fronting. I guess I'm gonna approve it, but it's gonna be ugly. That's a yes.

1:31:40Yeah.

1:31:41District four, Commissioner Fitzpatrick.

1:31:45District five, Commissioner Mariano. This is Tower Road. That's

1:31:48the main road.

1:31:48District one, Chairman Oakley.

1:31:50Aye. Motion pass five. School is one, five zero, excuse me. Lame road. Move on to P119 publication.