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St. Lucie County
Planning and Zoning Commission
Local Planning Agency
REGULAR MEETING MINUTES
October 28, 2004
Commission Chambers, 3rd Floor, Roger Poitras Annex
6:00 P.M.
MEMBERS PRESENT:
Mr. Knapp, Mr. Lounds, Mr. Akins, Mr. Trias, Ms. Hammer, Mr. Hearn.
MEMBERS ABSENT:
Ms. Morgan, Mr. Grande, Mr. McCurdy, and Ms. Hensley.
OTHERS PRESENT:
Mr. David Kelly, Planning Manager; Ms. Cyndi Snay, Planner III; Mr. Hank Flores, Planner III;
Ms. Heather Young, Assistant County Attorney; Ms. Katherine McKenzie-Smith, Assistant
St. Lucie County Environmental Resources
County Attorney; Amy Mott and Vanessa Bessie,
Division
, Ms. Dawn Gilmore, Planning Technician; Ms. Faith Simpson, Administrative
Secretary.
Since both the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Planning and Zoning Commission / Local
Planning Agency were absent a new temporary chair needed to be elected.
Mr. Lounds made a motion for Mr. Hearn to be the temporary Chairman for the evening.
Motion seconded by Mr. Akins.
Upon a vote, the motion was unanimously approved (with a vote of 6-0).
CALL TO ORDER:
Chairman Hearn called to order the meeting of the St. Lucie County Planning and Zoning
Commission / Local Planning Agency at 6:07 P.M.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
ROLL CALL
ANNOUNCEMENTS / DISCLOSURES:
meeting. The Planning and Zoning Commission/Local Planning Agency is an agency that makes
recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners on land use matters.
These recommendations are made after consideration of staff recommendation and information
gathered at a public hearing, such as those we will hold tonight.
The meeting will progress in the following manner:
The Chair will call each item.
Staff will make a brief presentation on the facts of the request.
The petitioner will explain his or her request to the Board.
Members of the public will be allowed to present information regarding the
request.
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The public portion of the meeting will be closed and the Board will discuss the
request. Further public comment will not be accepted unless the Board has
specific questions.
The Board will vote on its recommendation after its discussion. For legal
reasons, the motion may be chosen and read from a script provided by staff.
Motions both for and against are provided to the Board members.
The recommendation is then forwarded to the Board of County Commissioners
for their consideration and vote, usually within the next month.
The Planning and Zoning Commission/Local Planning Agency acts only in an advisory capacity
for the Board of County Commissioners and actions taken are recommendations only. Interested
parties will also have the opportunity to speak at a public hearing in front of the Board of County
Commissioners who will ultimately have the final decision.
There were no announcements or discussion.
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Agenda Item 1: Stanley Klein File No. CU-04-011
Mr. Flores gave staff comments regarding the petition as follows:
Stanley Klein,
This was an Application of for a Conditional Use Permit to allow the
operation of Landscaping & Horticultural Services (Commercial Plant Nursery) in the
AR-1 (Agricultural, Residential 1 du/acre) Zoning District for 2.26 acres of property
located on the West side of Oleander Avenue, directly south of 6001 Oleander Avenue
and north of 6007 Oleander Avenue.
Landscaping and Horticultural Services are allowed as conditional uses in the AR-1
Zoning District subject to conditional use approval by the Board of County
Commissioners. The subject property is vacant at this time. Provided that the proposed
conditional use, the operation of a commercial plant nursery (landscaping and
horticultural services), is done in accordance with applicable laws and best management
practices, this activity is not anticipated to have any negative effects upon any adjacent
lands or interests.
The Location of the property is on the West side of Oleander Avenue, directly south of
6007 Oleander Avenue and north of 6009 Oleander Avenue.
s Zoning District is AR-1 (Agricultural, Residential 1 du/acre).
Future Land Use is RU (Residential Urban).
Parcel Size is 2.26 acres.
Proposed Use is Landscaping & Horticultural Services (Commercial Plant
Nursery)
Surrounding Zoning are AR-1 (Agricultural, Residential 1 du/acre) to
the west, north, and south. RS-2 (Residential, Single-Family 2 du/acre) to the east
across Oleander Avenue.
The general existing use surrounding the property is vacant and residential.
Staff finds that this petition meets the standards of review as set forth in the Land
Development Code and is not in conflict with the Comprehensive Plan. Staff
recommends that you forward this petition to the Board of County Commissioners with a
recommendation of approval, subject to 5 limiting conditions:
1.The applicant must retain a minimum 20-foot buffer along all property
lines so as to not encroach on adjacent residential properties. Said 20-foot
buffer shall have an 8-foot wall as required between residential and non-
residential uses.
2.The applicant may obtain letters of release from the adjacent property
owners to support a waiver from the Board of County Commissioners of
the 8-foot fence requirement between residential and non-residential uses
along this property line.
3.The applicant must obtain a waiver of the 8-foot fence requirement from
the Board of County Commissioners or provide for the fence along the
property lines.
4.The removal of any native vegetation shall require a Vegetation Removal
Permit issued by the Environmental Resources Division.
5.Only plant material grown on-site may be sold.
Adjacent neighbors have submitted a petition indicating their support of a waiver from
the 8-foot wall requirement (Exhibit A).
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Mr. Kelly stated that in the AR-
operation it was to establish the ability to grow plants on site, and of course, they would
have to be sold. But to bring others on site and open a either wholesale or retail outlet
Chair Hearn asked for clarification of the Residential Estate 1 Zoning District versus
the Residential Estate 2 District.
Mr. Kelly stated that in the Residential Estate 1 District landscaping and horticultural
services were conditional uses, they were not in the Residential Estate 2 District.
Mr. Klein gave testimony that he resided in Port St. Lucie, he wanted to plant some trees
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any traffic or potted plants; he would grow some palm trees in the ground and in three or
four years sell them. After he had some palm trees in the ground, seedlings and he was
told he needed to get permission for what he was doing.
Mr. Lounds asked him if he was okay with these five conditions.
Mr. Klein responded that he was okay with them. He had already received letters from
his neighbors that they would prefer to see the palm trees than an eight foot fence.
Mr. Knapp question staff if he were to sell that property later, would that zoning stay for
the new owner who would be entitled to more of a nursery operation than what Mr. Klein
was looking to do.
Mr. Kelly responded that the conditional use would go with the land, the new owner
would have the ability to continue with the operation, but he would be bound by the same
conditions.
Chair Hearn opened the public hearing.
Sheila Morocco who lived directly across the street from the Klein property stated that
Donna Rhodes who lived in Fort Pierce and travels that road 4-5 times per day and over
the last seven years saw nothing but snarls, weed, whatever; now there was a beautiful
Chair Hearn closed the public hearing.
Ms. Hammer stated, after considering the testimony presented during the public
hearing including staff comments as revised and the standards of review as set forth
in Section 11.07.03 St. Lucie County Land Development code, I hereby move that
the Local Planning Agency recommend that the St. Lucie County Board of County
Commissioners grant approval to the application of Stanley Klein for a Conditional
Use Permit to allow for the operation of a Landscaping and Horticultural Services
(Commercial Plant Nursery) business in the AR-1 (Agricultural, Residential 1
du/acre) Zoning District because it will be an enhancement to that area as per
testimony of the neighbors and will not be a blight on the community.
Mr. Akins seconded.
Upon a roll call vote the Motion approved with a (6-0) vote (with Mr. Grande, Ms.
Morgan, and Mr. McCurdy absent), and forwarded to the Board of County
Commissioners with a recommendation of approval.
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Agenda Item 2: Armortec Concrete Plant File No. CU-04-013
Mr. Flores gave staff comments regarding the petition as follows:
This was an Application of Armortec Concrete Plant, for a Conditional Use Permit to
allow the operation of a concrete manufacturing facility in the IH (Industrial, Heavy)
Zoning District for 3.61 acres of property located at Lot 5 of the Midway Industrial Park.
The applicant has applied for the requested conditional use in order to operate a concrete
block manufacturing facility from the subject property. This activity is allowed as a
conditional uses in the IH Zoning District subject to the approval of the Board of County
Commissioners.
Application of Armortec Concrete Plant, for a Conditional Use Permit to allow the
operation of a concrete manufacturing facility in the IH (Industrial, Heavy) Zoning
District.
The Location of the property is Lot 5 of Midway Industrial Park, Phase I.
The Zoning District of the property is IH (Industrial, Heavy).
The Future Land Use of the property is IND (Industrial) to the north, south, east, and
west.
Parcel Size is 3.61 acres.
Proposed Use is Concrete Block Manufacturing Facility.
Surrounding Zoning is IH (Industrial, Heavy) to the west, east, and south
across Orange Avenue.
The general existing use surrounding the property is vacant and industrial.
Staff finds that this petition meets the standards of review as set forth in the Land
Development Code and is not in conflict with the Comprehensive Plan. Staff
recommends that you forward this petition to the Board of County Commissioners with a
recommendation of approval.
He explained that on the site plan there was a label for future Jenkins Road Extension,
Chair Hearn opened the public hearing.
was okay with it.
or or against, he was curious where they were
going to get their materials from; were they going to batch their own concrete or have
somebody bring it in to them, and were there going to be a bunch of trucks coming in and
out of there.
Ken McAllister, Armortec responded that it was a concrete batching facility, raw
materials. They would be doing the same thing as their Matt Stone. It was also the same
product being used for the FEMA projects, such as at the Indian River Project. Basically
concrete block operation, wet/dry cast. There would be a lot of trucks, aggregate sand
and cement. The vast majority of their product would be Armortec Erosion Control for
channels, lakes, rivers, streams; they also made standard building blocks like Rinker.
Mr. Lounds asked what kind of traffic they anticipated daily.
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Mr. McAllister stated that they were looking at 3-5 trucks for raw materials and probably
depending on the job, like the FEMA job would take about 10-15 trucks per day, just to
handle that one job. It would vary depending on the time of year and the projects. Most
of that traffic would be in the morning and off and on during the day. For the FEMA job
most of the traffic would go out right down Midway straight out to the Indian River
Project. But the raw materials would come in by truck off of I-95.
Mr. Knapp asked if there was a turning lane on Midway Road where the trucks were
going to come in and out.
right turn.
Mr. Knapp asked if there were plans for the County to put in a turning lane.
Mr. Kelly stated that there was a whole project to look at the design of that roadway and
the greater
project.
Mr. Lounds asked if there was going to be a traffic light put up across from Rinker to
help control the flow; there was good business in the area, also a good place for an
industrial park, but the more traffic added to the park and other areas, those turn lanes
would become important.
Chair Hearn closed the public hearing.
Mr. Lounds stated, after considering the testimony presented during the public
hearing including staff comments as revised and the standards of review as set forth
in Section 11.07.03 St. Lucie County Land Development Code, I hereby move that
the Local Planning Agency recommend that the St. Lucie County Board of County
Commissioners grant approval to the application of Armortec Concrete Plant for a
Conditional Use Permit to allow for the operation of a Concrete Manufacturing
Facility in the IH (Industrial, Heavy) Zoning District because I think this is a good
location for this plant, I think it is well placed in the area. I do make a comment on
my motion that the County Commissioners be aware of our comments concerning
the turning lanes on Midway Road, not to penalize Armortec, but to let them know
that we feel like as this industrial park increases, that is going to be a particular
need.
Mr. Trias seconded.
Upon a roll call vote the Motion approved with a (6-0) vote (with Mr. Grande, Ms.
Morgan, and Mr. McCurdy absent), and forwarded to the Board of County
Commissioners with a recommendation of approval.
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Agenda Item 3: South 25 Street LLC (Oak Alley) File No. RZ-04-022/PUD-04-
019
Mr. Kelly gave staff comments as follows:
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The application was for South 25 Street LLC., for Preliminary Planned Unit Development
approval for the project known as Oak Alley and for a Change in Zoning from the AR-1
(Agricultural, Residential 1 du/acre) Zoning District to the PUD (Planned Unit
Development Oak Alley) Zoning District.
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The Location of the property was on the West side of South 25 Street, immediately north
of Canal No. 102/Devine Road, south of the Palm Lake Gardens PUD.
The Zoning Designation of the property is AR-1 (Agricultural, Residential 1 du/acre).
The Proposed Zoning of the property is PUD (Planned Unit Development Oak Alley).
The Land Use Designation of the or property is RS (Residential Sub-Urban).
Parcel Size is 70.56 acres.
The Proposed Use for the property is 57 detached, single-family unit residential
subdivision (gross density of .84 du/acre) with a 2.13 acre (3% of gross land area) non-
residential component (max. 15,000 square feet of building) to be developed as Planned
Development project.
The Surrounding Zoning of the property are PUD (Planned Unit Development Palm
Lakes), I (institutional) and AR-1 (Agricultural, Residential 1 du/acre) to the north; AR-1
(Agricultural, Residential 1 du/acre) to the south; RF (Religious Facilities), I
(Institutional) and AR-1 (Agricultural, Residential 1 du/acre) to the east; AR-1
(Agricultural, Residential 1 du/acre) to the west.
The Surrounding Land Uses are RS (Residential Suburban and PF (Public Facilities) to the
north; RS (Residential Suburban) to the south, east and west.
Bordering the project site to the north is the Palm Lake Garden residential community, the
Bible Baptist Church of Ft Pierce, Happy Hearts School/ Pre-School and the Spiritual Path
Center. Along the properties south parcel line, lies a 100-foot FP&L easement that runs the
entire length of the south property line. South of the subject parcel is NFSLRWCD Canal
No. 102, and Devine Road. The areas south of Devine Road are predominately single-
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family residential on variable sized lots and parcels. To the east lies South 25 Street, and
east of that are the Winding Creek S/D, and the Faith Baptist Church of Ft. Pierce. To the
west of the site is Christensen Road, which has a few large lot residential tracts located
along its frontage.
Mr. Trias asked where exactly was the non-residential component.
Chair Hearn asked staff if the residential density of the property included the property
that was going to be used for commercial purposes. Staff responded yes with just over
two acres being the commercial property.
Chair Hearn opened the public hearing.
Bill Blazak, Senior Project Manager for Culpepper & Terpening, presented Oak Alley for
a preliminary Planned Unit Development approval. He introduced the project
development team - Haze Henderson with Houston Cuozzo Group, Paul Izzo, EW
Consultants, environmental consultant, and Bobby Klein with Klein and Dobbs.
Mr. Blazak went through the PowerPoint presentation. (See Attached Exhibit B). Oak
Alley would be developed at 40% of what was otherwise permitted by the County. The
Oak Alley development density was consistent with the current zoning density on the
property. The master site plan and drainage was to canal the structure it goes through and
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some of the surrounding areas. The Oak Alley site was not in the hundred year
floodplain. The outfall would be in the North St. Lucie Water Controlled District Canal
102. Post development runoff would not exceed pre-development rates. There was one
wet area, a non-jurisdictional area along the north property line that would be improved
to the point where it no longer represented a local hazard. Long term maintenance would
be the responsibility of the Oak Alley property owners association. Concurrency
reviews, schools, they anticipated 21 new students, off-site school bus access and pickup
with a weather shelter and that same pickup would also serve a purpose for public
transportation in the future would be provided. The developer to pay the school district a
sum of $490/unit to address the long term capital needs not covered by impact fees and
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other ad valorem assessments. Roadways, within the four lane of south 25 Street to
begin in 2005, no adverse effect on level of service capacity were expected. Roadway
designs would provide for north bound left turn into the residential portion of the site and
the non-residential area would be limited to right in, right out. No access was proposed
to either Divine Road or Christensen Road except for emergency vehicle use only, which
would be FP&L and the fire through the FP&L easement. There was one residential
driveway connection on Christensen that would occur with this for a single lot that would
be established. Utilities, water and sewer service would be provided by Fort Pierce
Utility and the community was subject to future annexation in the City of Fort Pierce. No
special requirements for the development of this project had been requested. They had
contracted with Florida Archaeological Services for phase one review of the property.
No archaeological sites were observed and the one house on the property had been
determined by Florida Archaeological Services not to qualify for historical designation.
The structure would be removed from the property. The hurricane set them back, as soon
as they receive the official report, they would forward it to the County.
Ms. Hammer asked the applicant to explain a little more about the house that would have
the driveway from Christensen Road, would it connect through a pedestrian walkway.
She also asked why on the plans the sidewalk was only on one side of the top cul-de-sac,
ll the way
around.
Mr. Blazak responded that there was an existing home there now with one driveway.
driveway connection there on that one lone lot, and it would not interconnect with the
roadway system into the project. He also stated that there would be pedestrian trails
throughout the whole entire length of the project along the FP&L Easement. Mr. Blazak
said that it was only on one side of the street. He stated that on their corrected plan the
sidewalk was on both sides of the street except at the entrance road because none of the
homes or residence driveways backed-up to the entrance road.
Chair Hearn asked the petitioner to make the corrected site plan available to the City of
Fort Pierce for review before it would be presented to the Board of County
Commissioners and they agreed to do so.
Mr. Blazak said they had a public meeting and had noticed all the surrounding property
owners within a 1,000 ft of the project and met with them and provided the same
information to them with handouts and answered their questions one on one. There were
eight residents that showed up, they were concerned about the flooding, trees, and wanted
the cows to stay, they were told the cow
nice project.
Mr. Hearn asked if the Conservation Easement was going to be open to the public.
Mr. Blazak responded no, that there would be specific guidelines for those 40 ft buffers
between the homes so that they could not be removed as well.
Ms. Hammer suggested that it be made very clear when someone bought the lot that the
it talked about coming out of the development, how far down did you have to go in order
to make that u-turn?
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Mr. Blazak responded that the u-turn was at Divine Road, about 500 ft.
Ms. Hammer suggested that the developer have discussions with FP&L regarding their
lines as they were putting together a package about what went wrong and what they
needed to do and changes and were submitting it to the Utilities Commission at the State
level. She asked about the size of the homes, square footage, price range, and would
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there be a fair share contribution from the developer for improvements to 25 Street.
Mr. Blazak responded that the homes would be 2,500 3,000 sq. ft., with a house sitting
on a lot the price would be $400-500K; and they had no plans to contribute to the
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improvements of 25 Street.
Mr. Blazak said there was a concurrency approval from Mr. Marty Sanders of the school
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board, he was in agreement with the contribution of $490/unit. He also stated that 25
Street would be widened to four lanes in 2005.
Chair Hearn asked Mr. Blazak to explain the terminology, building envelope.
Mr. Blazak explained that a building envelope was the area in which you could build a
home in. He also stated that it was a gated community.
Mr. Knapp asked if it was going to be a deed restricted community where there was
going to be deed restrictions for the homeowners on what they could do.
Mr. Blazak said that there would be strict architectural guidelines to ensure that the whole
project and the uniqueness of the environment would be maintained. That the theme of
the homes, the Florida vernacular with the soft roofs and everything else that carried
through that to compliment what existed there today. There would be strict guidelines for
building.
Chair Hearn stated that this was a public hearing if anyone wanted to speak for or against
the project.
John Ferrick, read into the record a letter from North Fork Property Owners (Exhibit C).
For himself he was in agreement with the project.
John Owens, owned property directly east of the project and had questions regarding
drainage, standards on house, what was going to be done with the u-turn.
Ms. Hammer asked if it was this project where the wetlands were going to be corrected
so that they would hold one and one-half time the amount of water.
Mr. B
pre because they were going to create storage in there.
Billy Johnson, owned all the land to the west of the property on the other side and another
piece that is to the south, almost to the middle, spoke in agreement of the project.
Chair Hearn closed the public hearing
Mr. Lounds stated after considering the testimony presented during the public hearing,
including Staff comments, and the Standards of Review as set forth in Section 11.07.03, St.
Lucie County Land Development Code, I hereby move that the Planning and Zoning
Commission recommend that the St. Lucie County Board of County Commissioners grant
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approval to the application of South 25 Street LLC, for a Change in Zoning from AR-1
Zoning District to the PUD (Planned Unit Development Oak Alley) Zoning District
including all the proposed conditions and recommendations from staff.
Motion seconded by Mr. Trias.
Upon a roll call vote the motion was approved by a vote of 6-0 (with Mr. Grande, Ms.
Morgan, and Mr. McCurdy absent) and forwarded to the Board of County Commissioners
with a recommendation of approval.
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There was a two minute recess.
Chair Hearn polled the board to see if anyone objected to hearing Agenda Item 5 next.
Motion by Ms. Hammer to hear Agenda Item 5 next. Seconded by Mr. Lounds. All
were in favor.
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Agenda Item 5: Single Family Homes in RMH-5 Zoning District Ordinance 04-
033
Katherine McKenzie Smith, Assistant County Attorney What the ordinance would do is
allow an RMH-5 Zoning which is Residential Mobile Home Zoning District in the Land
Development Code it would allow single-family detached dwellings to be a permitted
use.
Chair Hearn asked if there were any questions for staff.
Ms. Hammer asked if this was to place a mobile home back if it was destroyed or fell
apart, were they going to put these little miniature things elsewhere as permitted use or
just as a replacement.
Mr. Kelly said he understood it to allow the replacement as she indicated, but not only
replacement of those that were damaged in the storm, but over a long period of time
replacement of any or all mobile homes in the RMH-5 District. His concern in the RMH-
5 District the minimum lot size was really consistent with single-family homes in their
areas. The minimum lot size was 75 ft of width, there were mobile home parks zoned
RMH-5 that had much smaller lots, not many cases the older parks and they had been
Grandfathered in and he had a concern for trying to place conventionally real structures
on 30, 40, 50 ft wide lots in those parks. He felt there needed to be additional staff
discussion about it before it got to the County Commission and possibly put some
wording in it.
Chair Hearn preferred having a concrete block structure or stick house replacing the
mobile homes that already existed, because he would rather have a solid built quality
home in place of that mobile home.
Mr. Trias stated that his concern was that the building would be very small and probably
those parks were not going to be mobile home parks anymore and they were going to be
redeveloped as something else. He felt that if they encouraged the small scale infill, then
they were not allowing for that transition to happen.
Mr. Kelly said that damaged mobile homes could be replaced, but they had to be newer
mobile homes that met code and more likely to withstand the events that they had seen in
the recent past.
Ms. Young said it was her opinion that if a mobile home was to be replaced with a
concrete block home, even if the lot, even if the mobile home park was created at a time
when perhaps the dimensional requirements were less, that with the new structure you
would be changing that use on the property; the current setbacks would then apply. If the
lot would not accommodate the requirements of Section 7.10 for RMH-5, then a home
could not be placed there; however, another mobile home could be placed there.
The separation requirements in an RMH-5 were not great, it was how wide did it have to
be in order for the fire department to get through between the different structures.
Joe Cissio, Plans Examiner II, St. Lucie County Building Department felt that the issue
may should be addressed also with the fire department because there was going to be a
certain separation required through the fire department between structure to structure
requirements.
Mr. Knapp stated he had some reservation voting for this. He understood there was a
hurricane and people had things damaged and the people in mobile homes knew that that
was possible. He had heard that a lot of the newer mobile homes that were purchased
recently met codes and had not sustained as much damage as a lot of the older mobile
homes. He was not going in and try to pass something to help a few people out here that
could be evidently a long term problem from the mobile homes and the houses in the
regulations on how it was
going to work.
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Chair Hearn said he would have a difficult time supporting this particular item without
having specific lot sizes and setbacks and all that kind of stuff.
sq ft lot size, 75 ft lot width, 30
ft roof, 25 ft setback, 15 ft rear setback, 10 ft side and 20 ft on the side corner. Those
were the same dimensions as found in the setback in RS-3, RS-2, Residential Estate 2,
-3 and RS-4.
Chair Hearn asked if on a nonconforming lot, if a structure was over 50% damaged that
structure could not be replaced.
Ms. McKenzie-Smith responded that was generally true, but if there was a federally
declared disaster, then the federal statutes might allow replacement of a structure, even
Mr. Akins said that it was his understanding that the city had taken the position that any
nonconforming areas over on the beach, if they were more than 50% damaged, they were
not going to allow replacement.
Mr. Trias said the replacement would have to meet current codes.
Mr. Akins asked if this ordinance would allow for the option to replace an infill with
either a permanent structure or a mobile home?
Ms. McKenzie-Smith responded yes,
Chair Hearn opened the public hearing.
Jean Brennan stated she lived in Green Acres Subdivision. She wanted to replace her
mobile home with a modular home or a CBS home.
Mr. Cissio described the differences between a modular home and mobile home; a
modular home was constructed under the Florida Building Code, it met all the criteria,
130 mile per hour wind zone that would be at I-95 or east. A mobile home was governed
home, only meet 100 mph wind speed. The older mobile homes had no wind speed
criteria to them at all.
Chair Hearn closed the public hearing.
Mr. Lounds stated that he felt like Mr. Akin, now was an opportunity for to send a
message to the County Commission that they did not want to have more mobile homes of
the types that were in the past.
Ms. Hammer said that in a conversation with Commissioner Lewis she had attended a
meeting with a Mr. Wynne, and his testimony was that he could replace the mobile home
with a cement block stucco structure at the same price as replacing it with a mobile home.
If you could have a small cement block stucco home built for close to the price of a
mobile home, then she would support going to a cement block stucco home, because it
would be safer next time the County got hit.
Ms. Hammer I move that we recommend approval with and please attach our
concerns of this ordinance, changing No. 2 Permitted Uses Subsection C to Single-
Family Detached Dwellings on conforming lots.
Mr. Lounds seconded for purpose of discussion.
Mr. Lounds asked what the motion and that change of permitted use C did to what staff
was trying to get to.
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up, if it was the intention to go to other lots, he thought the Board could deal with that.
Legal staff was comfortable with the motion. Ms. McKenzie-Smith stated that mobile
homes were heavily regulated by the federal government, and was recognized as a
legitimate housing form and could not be completely gotten rid of; they had to meet the
standards within the wind district.
Upon roll call the motion was approved with a 4-2 vote (with Mr. Akins, Mr. Knapp
against; Ms. Morgan, Mr. Grande, and Mr. McCurdy were absent).
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Agenda Item 4: Vegetation Protection & Preservation Ordinance 04-008
Amy Mott and Vanessa Bessie with St. Lucie County Environmental Resources Division
summarized revisions made (Exhibit D). She also stated that once the ordinance was
approved they wanted to make sure that they were in communication with the Property
agriculture, they were going to have the information to hand out to them, as well as the
information would be on their website.
If there is a hazard on a property staff goes out to the property to verify what the hazard
is, whether it could be pruned back to eliminate the hazard, they would recommend that
recommend an insecticide method to cure the problem at that point. If it was truly
hazard, diseased, they would allow it to come out and there would not be a fee on that.
If they failed to get the Notice of Vegetation Removal, staff could tell by the condition of
remaining debris that were left, neighbors, if nothing was left, staff could neighbors what
was going on and what they thought about it. Most people had photographs of their
property. If they found that somebody had taken advantage of the code and they had
evidence of that, they would be taken to Code Enforcement Board and pursued as if they
had cut down a healthy native tree.
This ordinance affected everyone, Residential, Non-Residential, no matter what size the
property was. This was strictly for the impacted, insect infested, diseased, hazardous
trees.
When they visited a property it gave them the opportunity to educate the owner about
why natives were important, why non-natives were destructive as well as. It also gave
them a chance to see if there was any wetland, Gopher Tortoises, any other endangered
species or any other issues that might come up. If a pepper tree was removed and there
was Gopher Tortoise burrows underneath of it, you would have violated State
regulations. If pepper trees were removed in a wetland you would have violated State
regulations. It also allowed staff to inform the owner of other agency regulations that
were out there and the proper procedures that they would have to take. She went over the
example sheets that was handed out (Exhibit E).
Chair Hearn opened the public hearing.
Bob Bangert who served on the Environmental Advisory Committee spoke in favor of
the ordinance. A copy of their Minutes of their meeting held September 22, 2004 was
provided (Exhibit F).
A letter dated October 26, 2004 from Gail Kavanagh, Executive Vice President of
Treasure Coast Builders Association was placed into the record as a request for delay in
any decisions made (Exhibit G).
Chair Hearn closed the public hearing.
Mr. Trias stated after considering the testimony presented during the public hearing,
including Staff comments, and the Standards of Review as set forth in Section 11.07.03, St.
Lucie County Land Development Code, I hereby move that the Planning and Zoning
Commission recommend that the St. Lucie County Board of County Commissioners grant
approval to Ordinance No. 04-008.
Motion seconded by Mr. Akins.
Upon roll call the motion was approved with a 5-1 vote (with Mr. Lounds against;
Ms. Morgan, Mr. Grande, and Mr. McCurdy were absent).
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OTHER BUSINESS / DISCUSSION:
edule and a workshop in Miami
scheduled for January 27-29 that was being presented by the local government
commission and Penn State, it was supposed to be a smart growth workshop, multi-
disciplinary audience of local officials, county, city, staff, landscape architects,
developers, builders, planners, transportation, etc. see (Exhibit H). She wanted to know
if the County would be willing to pay their registration. She wanted the schedule to be
worked out to so that it did not conflict with the Treasure Coast Regional Planning
order to work on them as soon as she got them.
Mr. Stevenson said that the County had in the past paid for travel for P & Z members,
and he would look into it. He also stated that he was aware of the aggressive schedule to
finish the Charrette by September, 2005. They were to provide the staff with a calendar
for all of those meetings and events but he had not seen it yet. He would be able to
provide that information to the Board once they had a better idea exactly how many
meetings and what schedule Treasure Coast was proposing.
Staff would shorten the agenda and if they saw that there was going to be a particularly
controversial long hearing, they would request a separate meeting for that. They had also
to the fourth Thursday of every month. The reason being that would allow staff to not
have two night meetings in a week that might run late.
different places.
Mr. Stevenson agreed, they were looking at additional staff very quickly which would
help in getting the packets out early and enable revision of the staff reports and their
formats.
Chair Hearn said he would like to know what was coming up at the next meeting also.
Mr. Stevenson replied that they would probably have a two month projection available,
also later on online. It would be subject to change.
To clarify the next Special County Commission Meeting is scheduled for November 15,
not 18 as previously stated.
Chair Hearn said he hoped before changing the Land Development Code to accommodate
the North County Charrette, they would clearly define what their objectives were. The
recommendation came out that we would give developers three credits for density
transfers for every one they bought. That would be increasing the population in the
County
The next scheduled meeting will be November 18, 2004.
No other business or discussion.
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ADJOURNMENT:
Mr. Lounds made the Motion to Adjourn the meeting, seconded by Mr. Trias. The
meeting
was adjourned at 10:15 p.m.
Respectfully submitted: Approved by:
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Faith Simpson, Secretary Bill Hearn, Acting Chairman
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