##VIDEO ID:cm2GoJhlz1k## Heavenly Father, we thank you for the abundant grace and mercy that you've shown towards us by blessing us to come together to conduct the city's business. And Father, even though we may come, as we come together, let us come together in the spirit of unity. Even though we may disagree, let us not disengage or disrespect one another, but to continue to act as brothers and sisters. Remember our brothers and sisters who are serving in the, in the armed forces at home and abroad. And once again, watch over our first responders and remind their families every time their loved one leaves home, you are watching over them as they watch over us. We're so careful to give you the praise, the honor, and the glory, and thank you for blessing us to live in this beautiful city that we call oco. Amen. Amen. Amen. I pledge to the flag of the United States, states of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty, liberty, and justice for all. Commissioner Kennedy. Here. Commissioner Wilson. Here. Mayor Johnson. Here. Commissioner Furner. Here. Commissioner Oliver Here. Okay. I'm going to have a, uh, present, uh, proclamation here. I need to read for the, uh, Hispanic Heritage Month. Whereas each year, Americans deserve National Hispanic Heritage Month by celebrating the history, culture, and traditions of people whose ancestry can be traced to Spain, Mexico, central America, south America, and the Caribbean Islands. And whereas this service celebrates the achievements of Hispanic Americans in the arts, education, entertainment, government history, law, literature, medicine, the military, music, politics, science, and other endeavors. And whereas the United States first reserved what was then National Hispanic Heritage Week in 1968 under President Lyndon Johnson, calling upon public officials, educators, librarians, and all of the people of the United States to observe this time with ceremonies, activities and programs. And whereas Hispanic make up 29.8% of the City of Oak COIs population have enriched and shaped our community for generations. And whereas Hispanics continue to make significant and diverse contributions to this culture, educational, economic, and political vitality of the city of oco, now therefore be it resolved. The city o Coi City Commission does hereby a proclaim September the 15th through October the 15th, 2024, as a Hispanic Heritage month, and encourage all residents to honor the rich diversity of the Hispanic community and celebrate the many ways they contribute to our nation and society. Uh, read this in Celebration Hispanic Heritage Month, we have 20 flags displayed throughout City Hall. And here on the dos the flags represent the communities with roots in 20 Latin American countries and territories. As mentioned in the proclamation, Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated September the 15th through October the 15th. We'd like to invite everyone to come out to our Hispanic Heritage Celebration on Thursday, October the third from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM at Bill Breeze Park. There will be Latin music, food trucks, community market vendors, giveaways, prizes, and free salsa dance lessons. Make sure you're ready for that. All right. Um, now I have a, um, staff reports. Not at This time. Is anybody here to pick up the, uh, Hispanic one? Are you just gonna put it on in City Hall? All We can, uh, Prominently display it in City Hall? Yeah. Okay. All right. It'll be displayed in City Hall. All right. I have, um, Ms. Hattaway, huh? I, I, I've got that. Y'all, I'm gonna have to put y'all in reprimand that's coming At a certain point, we're gonna Put a plastic between you That's coming at a certain point in the meeting. Okay. All right. Does it show up there? Maryland Hadaway? Well, we wanna thank the city of oco and the commissioners and Mayor for allowing us to come and present to you tonight. We're very excited. West Orange Habitat for Humanity is alive and well in the West Orange community, and we have a proposal for you this evening. And just to make you think that we are very special, we brought two very special people with us who will be sharing in a two minute presentation with me. That is our President, Joe Barsch, and also our Director of Homeowner Services, Gail Fleming. We wanna build a partnership to build a community here in oco. Oh, boy. Okay. I went too far. Sorry. And now, where is she? She is going to, she is going to turn this on somehow and make it wrong. No matter who we are or where we come from, we all deserve to have a decent life. We deserve to feel strength and stability day after day. We deserve to know we have the power to take care of ourselves and build our own futures, our Habitat for Humanity. This is what us through Shelter, we empower. Because you, me, we, we are all humans, and every single one of us deserves a fair shot. Donate, or volunteer today? Oh, We're, or where we come from. I'm Trying Strength. I'm and stability care of ourselves. I did. I tried that. Technology is not my forte. Habitat for Humanity is four companies in one. We are a construction company. We are a restore. If you haven't visited us, we're right up here on West Colonial Drive. We're also a non-profit. And finally, we are a very wonderful organization to get involved with, and we hope you do that. Um, just to share two minutes each with you on things that we do, and to set us up for the item we came for tonight. I'd like to introduce Joe Barsh, our president of our board. Thank you all Okay. For having us tonight. I get to wear a different hat tonight. Um, which button? I'm gonna click it. Um, oh. So a little bit about Habitat. We have built over 50 homes in the West Orange community in our, in our county. Um, we have four homes currently under construction. And we have seven more planned next. I don't know how to go to the next page. Okay. There we go. Alright. So, um, habitat builds fa families, they build, they have, um, benefits for home ownership. So, so we always say when we build a home, we're, we're building more than just a home. Um, the families, they get better test scores. They have higher rate of high school and college attendance, especially for the children's and these low income homeowners. Um, we promote civic and social engagement, um, education and empowerment, financial security and future planning. Um, they have physical and mental health are improved, um, with decent affordable housing. Affordable, uh, sustainable homes reduce energy consumption, uh, diminishing the energy burden for our low income housing. Our homes are, uh, we share financial literacy, community and generational wealth have habitat. We build communities, uh, restaurants, habitat for Humanities. Um, we have corporate and individual volunteers that are engaged. We have donors who participate with grants gifts, funding our mission and our ministry. Municipalities and other partners fund our work improving residents lives, construction partners. Um, they donate their equipment, their material, their supplies, job programs, educate and provide jobs for our low, uh, middle income residence. And we do a neighborhood revitalization where we create residence and neighborhood pride. Alright. Yes. Thank you. Good evening, and thank you for having us here tonight. I'm Gail Fleming. I'm the Director of Homeowner Services, and we're here to propose bringing our neighborhood revitalization program to oco e. Um, the purpose and vision of neighborhood revitalization is that everyone will have a decent place to live. The entire community can be uplifted and involved, and we provide an array of services to homeowners to improve their quality of life. Uh, it also fosters a shared sense of ownership and social cohesion. What we do in our neighborhood revitalization program is provide exterior home improvements and minor critical repair to homes for West Orange County residents, um, which builds neighborhoods, community, and a sense of pride for homeowners. So we have done over 50 houses in West Orange County in the last three to four years, and you can see some of the before and after pictures. And so what we're proposing this evening is bringing that program here to Ocoee. We want to have your help in identifying a neighborhood liaison, somebody who's living in the neighborhood, who knows the residents in that neighborhood, and can help us identify the resident homes for revitalization. Um, they must be a ha they must be a homeowner resident and they're willing to partner with us. The residents sign a partnership agreement and includes a hundred dollars administration fee. And we ask every homeowner to provide us with two, uh, two volunteers that will help and work with our volunteers to revitalize that home. And what we're asking from the city is to participate in the funding of this program. We also do surveys after the, after we revitalize each home, and we would return those surveys back to the city. So our goal with this program and OCO e is to do 10 homes between January of 2025 and January of 2026. We have our construction team approve each resident home candidate, and they, they inspect the home to make sure that it's something that we can do. Uh, we provide all the material, supplies, equipment, and volunteers, and we usually have 10 to 20 volunteers on a site in one day. And the home is done in one day. We pressure wash the house, do exterior, minor critical repair, exterior and trim painting, front yard cleanup, landscaping of the front yard. And then each resident, each home resident, uh, receives a lawn and home maintenance kit, which includes a hose, a rake, and a shovel. And so our volunteers come out for one day and they get all of this done. And we Do Work with the homeowners. They pick their paint colors, they pick what kind of plants they want in their yard. Well, nobody wants to ask for the money, but I certainly don't mind the total cost of the program to revitalize 10 homes is $20,000. Habitat's investment would be $1,500 per home, which is 15,000. And we're asking for an investment in the city of OCO of $5,000, which would be $500 per home of those 10 homes. Are there any questions? Alright. You need the answer for that now? Can I, We can waive Anybody. Anybody got any comments? I, I, um, honestly, I don't have a problem with that. I think we, we've got a little million, I'd like to say a contingency fund to see if we could do the, You have, you have adequate funding and the contingency fund balance. I, I think it's a pretty good thing. We don't have any land right now because we met and talked with you and I did. And, uh, Mike, but we don't have any property. But I think that's a good alternative to do some stuff. I know the county used to do some of that a long time ago here, but I think 5,000 would be a good investment from our city towards that. And I would like to see, I can't make the motions. You Well, do we have, first of all, are we talking, we Got, Got the 2324 budget that we got. We are we looking, what's a con? Um, we're right in between budgets. Tomorrow night is our budget hearing for next year. So we 55. I, I Would recommend that you authorize me to take it from the current year's contingency $55,000. And we can, we can go ahead and do that. We have 55,000 remaining. Okay. Yep. Alright. That's a good program. I, I, habitat vanity is a wonderful program. I, I'm sorry. You gonna make I Will. Ms. Hadaway is gonna say something first. Uh, it's not on the agenda. Can we make a motion city attorney Make a motion? Yeah. Can make a motion. Um, I think because it's a proposition, if, if any members of the community, uh, would like to comment that should have with that opportunity to do so. Okay. I think you wanted to say something before. The only thing I wanted to say is we are really expanding Habitat. West Orange is really, really expanding tremendously. And what our hope is, is that once we get in and start working in the community, we will need for the city commission or someone on the city commission to identify a liaison in that neighborhood who's a resident who can identify homes that might need to be Yeah. Um, revitalized. But once you find that person, we will work with that liaison to identify those homes and get them into the program. And our hope is that even though you may not have land now, we're hoping that with other things that we've got in the works, that we can come and begin to, um, do some home construction in the city of oco. We would really, really like to do that. So thank you so much for your attention and your motion. I appreciate it. Alright. We need a second. We need second. Do You make the motion? I'll make the motion, but you need to ask, did he say we has to ask? I'll second. We do. Okay. I'm just, I didn't wanna make a motion before you asked If you had ask a question, I'll make a motion. That's Fine. Make the motion. We can have discussion. Make motion. $5,000. Yes. Make The motion. You seconding the motion. Absolutely. Commissioner Wilson made, made the motion and Commissioner Kennedy's seconded. Motion. Anybody in the public have any comments towards that? Mr. Hart? I'm doing it this way, so that's fine. I just to follow You, I'm gonna have to move over to one of y'alls chairs. Don, go ahead. I'll move over. I know I'm getting over, but I ain't done over. I'm Gonna go over here. Uh, ages hard Arden Park, uh, co Florida. It's my understanding it's also for the revitalization of a current homework, correct? Yes. And I think that's a great idea because we have a lot of people, my father has some rental homes and over the years they deteriorate with the cost of things. Now it's nearly impossible for a person on a fixed income to try to revitalize that home. What I hate to see is somewhere live here, 30, 40 years of their life get into their senior years and they can't afford to fix their house up. Amen. So that alone to me is worth $5,000. You know, so I, I think it's a great idea. It's a, it is a way for the city to show they do care about the residents. I've had a lot of friends try to move to a court, but the cost was just too high. So if anything else, we need all to take care of. The folks that have lived here 30, 40 years, been an active part of our society, pretty much built this city that we now inherited. I think it's a great idea. Thank you, sir. Thank you Mr. Hart. Alright. Anybody else have any comments on it before we vote? Alright, let's vote. Vote. We don't have the questions. Go to the, we voted. All right. You wanna do this again? There you go. Oh, What? Hold on. It keeps popping up. Questions. Go ahead. That things getting smart. Nope. Mary, you wanna I pushed that button. Third time's the charm. Do it again. Mm-Hmm. Yeah. Okay. That's a hard 5,000. All right, there you go. Thank You very much. We appreciate It. Thank you very much for being here. Okay, let's see here. 12 comments. I don't have any, I have one gentleman here, but that's gonna be on item 15. Note moratorium. That'll be a little later. Whoever. Mr. Uh, Doug Gum. Fer. That'll be it a little later. Alright. Okay. Down to consent agenda. Is that okay with y'all? Yeah. You're giving us a hard take. Consent agenda. Anybody need a motion? I make a motion. Motion made by Commissioner Oliver. Do I hear a second? I'll second. Second about commissioner first. Any more comments? No more comments. Let's vote Maybe. Motion carries you Unanim. Thank you. All right. Now I wanna make this announcement. Item number 15 will be brought back October the first. It's getting brought, taken away tonight. It moved to a later date, October the first. So we'll have that back here on October the first. And did everybody hear that? Yes. That, that's Hometown Studio's special exception. Yeah. Right. Number 15. Item number 15 on the agenda. Alright, now first reading of ordinances Number 12. First reading of ordinance amending Article two or 11, whatever you want to say. Chapter 51 of the code of ordinances, creating local technical amendments to the Florida Building Code. Would you like me to proceed? Yes, sir. In ordinance of the city of Ocoee, Florida, amending Article two, chapter 51 of the City of Ocoee, code of Ordinances, creating local technical amendments to the Florida Building code, creating a new section, 51 dash 20 requiring masonry block metal or concrete exterior and interior load bearing walls in certain structures, providing for severability, providing for codification, providing for an effective date. All right, this will be back on, um, did you say the date? October 1st. September the first for the, uh, October 1st. October 1st October the first for the, uh, second reading. Anybody with public comments can make it then. All right. Number 13th. First read of ordinances for Shop on the Bluff. Small scale, comprehensive plan, future land use map, amendment and rezoning. An ordinance of the city of Ocoee Florida. Amending the city of Ocoee. Comprehensive plan is adopted in 1991 as amended amending the future land use map of the Ocoee Comprehensive plan. The change to future land use map designation from low density residential to commercial for certain real properties containing approximately 4.29 acres located on the north side of CLA Coe Road, beginning approximately 400 feet east of the North Clark Road at Clara Coe Road intersection. Providing for and authorizing the revision of the official city feature land use map prevailing in the event of any inconsistency providing for severability and providing for an effective date. This also will be back on October the first for the second reading. And then you can have your comments for the public. And I also need to read the resenting ordinance. Go ahead. It's also with, uh, uh, item number 13 in ordinance of the City of Ocoee, Florida, changing the zoning classification from one dash, I'm sorry, R dash one aa, single family dwelling district to PUD plan, unit development district on certain real properties containing approximately 4.29 acres located on the north side of Clara Coe Road. Beginning approximately 400 feet east of the North Clark, Reddit, Clara Coe Road intersection. Finding said zoning to be consistent with the a COE comprehensive plan, providing for and authorizing the revision of the official city zoning map prevailing in the event of any inconsistency providing for severability and providing for an effective date. Alright, as we said, it'll be back on October the first for the second reading in public comments. Alright, we're gonna go down to second reading of ordinances, public hearings number 14, second read of ordinance for a temporary six month moratorium on the processing and consideration of development approvals. Shall I proceed? Yes, sir. An ordinance of the city of Ocoee Florida implementing a moratorium prohibiting the processing and consideration of certain comprehensive plan text and map amendments, rezoning, special exceptions, site plan and subdivision plan reviews and approvals to allow the planning and zoning division. Time to thoroughly review, study, and prepare amendments to the city of Ocoee comprehensive plan in the city of Ocoee land development code providing for separability and providing an effective date. Alright, Mr. Rumor. Thank you Mayor Mike. Rumor, Assistant city manager. I'm sorry. Acting assist. Thank you. The ordinance before you tonight is we'll facilitate a six month temporary moratorium on the processing of Rezonings Annexations subdivision and site plans. This ordinance does not affect existing building permits. So for the four residential subdivisions we have being built, they can still build their homes. It will not affect any building permit, uh, submittal. Uh, this ordinance will provide city staff a temporary pause to be able to focus on a major rewrite to both the Land Development Code and the comprehensive plan of the City of Ocoee. And, uh, this ordinance, I've had some questions, projects that are in the process such as the item on the agenda that you did a first reading Shops of the Bluff. Those items that are in process in review don't have to stop with the moratorium. It would be any next step with permitting after that, uh, site plan permit, um, or a revision to an approved pd. If we approve a plan unit development, uh, to next week, and if they wanted to come back and amend it, that would, they would, we would not be able to receive that application. And so, again, uh, the city's under major rewrite of the Land Development Code and the comprehensive plan. Uh, we are working hard to provide documents to present to you that will display the vision that this commission has expressed during some of the more recent items in the past couple years. Uh, citizen comments, uh, the items, comments we received in our downtown workshop. Uh, the vision of the new city manager. And look forward to bringing these items to you at a later date. And I'll entertain any questions, mayor. Thank you. Alright. Before I've opened the public hearing, does anybody in commission want to speak to it before I, alright, I'll open the public hearing. I have one citizen here. Mr. Mr. Debt, come on down. Good evening, fellow Citizens Commissioners. My name is Doug Gober. I'm a resident of Ocoee for 10 years. I live at 4 0 5 Misty Meadow Drive in the White Hill Homeowner Association. I've been involved in Orange County Politics and Orange County Growth Management since I've moved here. In 1982, I was involved in the Orange County Growth Management under, uh, former Mayor Glenda Hood and was, uh, awarded, uh, several awards nationally for the, for that piece of legislation that we passed. And if you look at the City of Orlando, it's done very well. My question here, and I, I'm, I'm smart enough to have been in Florida for 42 years. I understand Florida politics and I can read the tea leaves. I know I'm not gonna win this, but I'm probably the only one in this room that's against this moratorium. And lemme tell you why. I'm a insurance agent. I deal with large corporations that do building, that are large landowners, restaurateurs, uh, individual entrepreneurs and people that build manufacturing facilities. The central Florida area is lucky to be in a growth area. We have people moving here regardless of we, we couldn't do anything wrong to prevent people from coming here. And there's gonna be growth in this area. The growth in an area like a Coie or Winter Park or a Orlando or Odo or anything has, is based on one thing that's progress. And you know what progress means? It's momentum. It's momentum that builds progress. If you put a six month moratorium on people coming down here and you're saying you're gonna close for business, you're gonna put yourself at least 12 months behind the eight ball. And I'll tell you why. Nobody's gonna be sitting there the first day after this six month of moratorium waiting to build people or build things in a co It's gonna take a while for you to rebuild back up. So it's more than just a six month stoppage and work that you're asking for. And people in the town that build, and they're, and they're the doers and the goers and the thinkers, they're gonna look at a CO and say, what the heck is going on out there that they have to totally stop for six months? And I just don't understand why. That's what's, that's gotta happen. We should be more careful about what we allow in the area if people are upset about the amount of building and the, and the, uh, and the growth that we've got. Let's talk about that. But to tell people, and the perception that you have in the Tri-County area that says, Hey, veto's gotta put a break on this. 'cause they can't handle this. It's a perception thing to people saying o's closed for business. And I'm here to tell you that that's what my clients think. And I've got over a couple hundred, I worked for the largest insurance brokerage in the state of Florida, and I have hundreds of clients that do all this work. And when you talk to 'em about a co e, they're not in the top three. They're not even the top five, they're not in the top seven of places where people want to come do business and stuff like this doesn't help. So I know this is gonna pass, I get that. But I want you guys to think about this before you go ahead and do it. Think of the ramifications down the road of what you're gonna vote on tonight. And my second point is this. If we're the only one doing this, why isn't o vita? Why isn't Winter Park? Why isn't Maitland, why aren't Apopka, why aren't they shutting shutting down? Is there something different about the way they run their staff and the way we run our staff that we can't do these kind of changes on the fly while we're doing all the other things we're doing? I don't understand that. So, Mr. Rumor, I'd like you to address that for me, because I don't understand why it takes a stoppage to do something that should be part of everything that you do. Mayor, I'd like to address that if please commission. Are you, you through Mr. Yes, sir. Okay. Um, Mr. Gober just made a lucid, well articulated argument, and I agree with almost everything he said with the exception of the last part. Okay. Um, the community has spoken numerous times over the years. We've had public participation events, we have current projects, and we hear the same type of thing. Our code does not create the types of places of some of the places you mentioned. I know OTO has form-based standards in their code. And I know several of the other Winter park, winter Garden, all the character towns have form-based land development code elements. Okay? OCO is very pro-growth right now. But we want to manage it and create places that have better connectivity, that have better street scapes, that are more urban in function and form. And we feel very confident that the market is still gonna respond. Well. We actually have a huge, uh, baseball entity that's coming in that the commission's approved. Um, part of this is in relation to that project because of all the economic pressure that's gonna come. Um, and our citizens and our commission's been very clear to us as far as wanting to see, um, an urban style commercial building with wide street wide walks, um, eating public dining out on the sidewalk, um, more like you would see in a traditional downtown versus two rows of parking, a landscape buffer and a strip center. And so this is part of that effort. Uh, we feel like there's this slight law because the sports complex is going through a large scale comp plan amendment, which should transmit in October. Um, but the one thing that did not change throughout Covid was travel sports and travel sports became its own market. Now, we've done a lot of work with this particular developer and they are projecting the population of this city's gonna increase on weekends when they're having tournaments, five to 8,000 people. And that's gonna create a tremendous amount of economic pressure. And we want to be able to create those character type places instead of being inundated with garden apartments and, um, retail strip centers. Not saying those are bad uses, they all have a place. But one of the things that our community's been very clear on over the years and all the master planning we've done has been we want more urban walkable places where we can have multiple unplanned exchanges, those types of things. And what our code does currently does not create that. And, and so I, I hate it. Um, I hate having to press the pause button, but I think we're gonna be okay. Well, Mr. Chavis, I agree with you. I mean, you and I are on the same page with the vision. It's just the way of getting there that we disagree on. I can respect that. Thank you, sir. All I have one more. Kelly Beck. Good evening. My name is Kelly Beck. I'm the HOA President for Greens at Forest Lake, uh, representing about 400 residents here in Ocoee in 200 homes. I'm here to speak in support of the moratorium. I've spoken in front of this board and planning and zoning numerous times regarding concerns about how development takes place in our community. Um, I'm pretty sure Mr. Rumor dreads, when he sees my name pop up in his inbox. At this point, O COE has so much potential and we are growing tremendously, and we don't wanna slow that growth, but we also need to do so responsibly. We need to do so in a way that enhances the way of life for those who live here, who have invested in this community through their property purchases and through their businesses. Um, one of the number one pieces of feedback that our community and others I've spoken with have gotten, when we ask why is a certain thing being allowed to happen? Why are they allowed to build here? Why are they being allowed to build the way they are? In a way that, um, referencing the Magnolia Reserve community, because I've been up here several times about that, it's because there's nothing in the Land Development code to stop it. There's nothing that holds them to a standard of when these developers come in and pick up big plots of land and wanna put in this massive community. There's not a standard that says, well, we need to have these types of amenities. We need to have this much space other than obviously for water and, you know, water flow. But the bottom line is we don't have well developed standards to hold developers to, to hold businesses to in order to make sure that what's coming into our community is adding value and enhancing the way of life for those who live here. So I fully support this. I absolutely, if there are city boards where you need volunteers to weigh in, I will absolutely be there. This is, I think, a great step in the right direction to making sure we're setting OCO e up for success in the future. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Nobody else has any public comments on that issue? All right, we'll close it. I'm gonna bring it back up to dust. Anybody else have any comments on what, okay. Um, I'm gonna vote to support the moratorium. Um, I was on planning and zoning. I've seen the problems. Um, growth is good, but growth that exceeds everyone's expectation and the imagination of the land development code is written, is unmanaged, unbalanced growth. And we have been asked repeatedly, I've asked repeatedly for the concerns of the residents, for the people who have lived in OCO for years to be prioritized in our budget, in our plans, in our code. And, um, that's what we're doing. This is the, the fruit from that process and, um, six months in development is nothing. Um, really, um, that's just a, a deep breath. And, um, I support this fully. I think it's wonderful. I think staff has done a wonderful job so far. And, uh, I think characterizing it as a, you know, a co can't walk and chew gum at the same time, paraphrasing is a mistake. This is going to be great for our city. This is going to help us grow in a way that maintains the character of our city. And that is important to the people who live here, to the majority of the people who live here. Thank You. Thank you. Anybody else? I would like to, I agree with everyone. I know I spoke to Mr. Gober before. I agree with him. I agree with Ms. Beck. I agree with Mr. Chadrick that, um, but it looks like I, I will agree. I'm going to vote yes on it. Um, I feel as though that after we do this, I think what we need to do is remember that we can't wait for another moratorium. If there's something that needs to be changed within the land development code, we need to adjust it at that point. It's really too bad that we've waited to the point where we have to shut down for six months. And we should be able to, I would hope after this, that we will address issues as they come up and not have to shut down. Again. We don't have a lot of land left. Well, at least some districts don't have a lot of land left. And again, we have to be very diligent in our efforts to make sure that they're used, um, in the best interest of our residents. But I also feel as though that I hate to see this happen again. I'd like to see us adjust as we go along. Thank You. Anybody else? So our land development code is something that we've, we've actually needed to, uh, revise for some time now. Um, I can go back to past five years and have discussions with, uh, city manager, assistant city manager about land development and our code and, and the different things that, the challenges that we face as we kept moving forward, as we kept growing, at some point we had to figure out, there has to be a pause. You gotta pause somewhere. Because when you, when you at so many different, uh, moving parts to what needs to be done and to hone 'em all together, it, it is kind of hard to continue to grow and keep moving and bring everything in together at one time. And to pause for a second to look at this code and let's do, let's make some the, the proper, uh, adjustments to it. So, uh, I, I, I do support this because I look at it from a different perspective. We're, we're, we're, we're, we're growing by leaps and bounds. One of the issues that, that a lot of us that live in this city that, that we run into is issues of our infrastructure and our traffic. This may give us an opportunity to continue with those, those projects that will allow us to address infrastructure while we slow down, uh, um, our building so folks can get in and out of the city. Again, we do live in that donut hole and, uh, we have so many, uh, thoroughfares through our city, and I think this is a great opportunity for us to, uh, to, to step back and say, Hey, let's focus on, uh, some of these street repairs we need and how to get people in and out of, uh, our city, uh, adequately. Our staff does a magnificent job in the planning and development and all the things that are involved in that. And if they're asking for a little support right now, a little pause to give them, uh, uh, a chance to catch up and get ahead of the, uh, curve. I'm all for that. I support the staff and their recommendations, and I think this moratorium is, uh, more than necessary to give them that break. Well, I, I'm also gonna go for it, but I will tell you some of the problems is when, in, in other projects that was just, was on the agenda that I think at the planning zoning, and maybe it was one of the ones that got pulled or not, is I have probably got a maybe a hundred emails pertaining to, uh, the, um, other project we were talking about. The, and some of the stuff they said in that, in, in those emails kind of irks me. But I get irked about other things. But they, they made comments that to me, and, and I'm glad they sent said there, but please, when you, when you want to ask for things and ask things, ask it in a general little kinder way, it is like we're, I hate to say this word, but it was kind of like saying we didn't know what we were doing. Maybe some people think that, but when, when the, when the developer comes in here and our code says that we gotta look at it, we gotta, we gotta look at it when they bring it here. So understand that. Don't sitting there telling me on a, on an email that I don't, you know, I don't care about what OCO is. Somebody's crazy, I've been living here all my life. I know what I wanna see. And we've tried to do that in the last five years, seven or eight years. We're trying to move it in the right direction. But when you send those emails out, that's not a good thing to me. It is a good thing to send an email out and ask us to look at it. That's what we're trying to do tonight. But when you send those emails out sarcastically saying that about what we're doing here, come up here and sit down and see what the state law says or what the, the things tell you you can do. And you can't do. You can't just say, no, we're not gonna listen to you, but we can turn you down then, then we take the risk of getting sued. But that's part of what our job is. So that's why I'm telling you, I, I don't have a problem. I think I had a couple of hundred a week or two before that for something else. And you're talking about those three, 400 people up there. Tell 'em whoever writes that letter for 'em. 'cause they all send the same letter. Whoever wrote the letter, I don't so who it is. But they wrote the same thing. Not to me. If I'm gonna write a complaint, I'm gonna complain, I'm gonna do my complaint. I don't want somebody else writing my complaint for me. So just to let you know, we want to do what's right for our city and our citizens and that's why we're doing a more tort I understand you in business and that's, I don't blame you, but we want to make it where there is the right things that come here because we still have a few places we want to see built on and, and the right thing for the citizens to have. And they, like I said, it's just to me, the sarcastic part of sending that Don't help it doubt you could also drive somebody away from doing what they want to do. I wouldn't do that, but that's some people would. So that's what I'm saying. This is where to is gonna be to make a benefit for the city of Oak Coin. Mayor, if I might, we do currently have about 25 projects still active. Yeah. We are gonna be bringing projects to the planning and zoning commission and the city commission. So this is not for six months. You don't need to watch the city agendas 'cause nothing's happening. This is just a way to let the development community know they need to be on the lookout for upgraded standards. And we can start discussing projects as we start formulating these standards and get them teed up and they'll understand what they're gonna be required to meet with regards to architectural and site placing site permitting after March. But we're gonna still be bringing a lot of projects to you, uh, from, we have medical office, we have four residential communities, industrial, we have a downtown, uh, uh, office. We, we've got a lot going on. It's, it, the work's not gonna stop with only LDC and comp plan. We still have other projects to review and we will bring those forward. Thank you. All right. And one other thing about that was in those emails is traffic, the traffic part of what happens here. And I want every one of you to take a ride up, Oakway Pop Road, head up towards Apopka and go over there and talk to 'em at their city commission meeting about all those buildings and all those apartments and all those commercial places they're building. And guess where they're coming through? They're not going back to Popa. They're coming through here. So that's where some of, and I got some of the comments on those letters about the traffic. The traffic happens to be coming down. Oak Coi, papaka Road, which the county will not widen it, the county, nobody else is doing it. We're trying to get that road ourselves where we can four lane it. So we're working on that project. All right. I need a, I need a motion. I'd make a motion to approve for the six month moratorium. Alright, commissioner Kennedy makes the motion for the moratorium. I hear second, I'll second, second it by Commissioner Wilson. Any more comments? No more comments. Let's vote. Motion carries you, Nancy. Thank you. Thank you, sir, for your comments. All right. Okay, we're down to comments from, uh, commissioners. Uh, commissioner, uh, Furner. I have no comment tonight. Commissioner Oliver. We're still in hurricane season. Uh, we still about a month and a half, hurricane season left. So, uh, pay attention to the weather and continue to make sure that you are, have adequate supplies. Uh, 'cause again, um, the weather is, uh, very unpredictable and we don't know what's gonna happen within the next month and a half or so. So continue to be vigilant about hurricane season. Uh, we have general elections coming up, uh, November 5th, uh, throughout this nation. And, um, if you are not registered to vote, you can go to vote.org, uh, before October 7th and register to vote. It takes about two minutes. So definitely, um, do your civic duty and get out, register to vote and vote. Um, we have, uh, OCO High School Homecoming Parade coming up. Um, will be, uh, next Thursday, I believe. The, uh, uh, the 25th. I think it starts about five 30 here downtown. So come on out and, um, uh, participate and, and support our, our local high school, uh, in their parade, their annual parade they do here. And, uh, we definitely support those guys in that as well. And finally, I will leave you with this. I think I've said this before, but I think it was important and I, and I wanted to say it again, wanted to read this again. You may not always see the results of your kindness, but every bit of positive energy you contribute to the world and your community makes a better place for all of us. And I'm done. Yep. Alright, Mr. Wilson. Okay. She grabs all of Them. I, I do. I grab all the flyers out in the lobby. So, um, mayor, I just wanna tell you, I know I'm gonna use your word. I irked you were irked. I think I irked you in. You Never heard that word before? I have, But I haven't. No. Play High school. I Haven't heard that one in a while, but I think I irked you in the beginning. So, um, I respect your position. I want you to know that. I don't know, I just, there's a hazard sitting next to him. Um, I, right now the only thing I wanna tell you is to put on your calendar, please. We're gonna have the Halloween H night on Friday, October 25th, from six to nine. It will be held at Bill Breeze Park. In the past it was held in a different park, I won't say 'cause I don't want you to go there. But it will be, um, trunk Retreat on October 25th. So please remember that. And also, I also wanna make, share you mark your calendar for the Jolly Jamboree, which, um, I think we've all looked at the calendars and there's only three weeks between Thanksgiving and the 25th of December. So it'll be a quick month and it will be on downtown from three to eight on the 14th of December. So please mark your calendars 'cause we'd love to see you. I want just wanna say also, I appreciate when residents come out and comment. I think it's so important for us to hear. 'cause sometimes, I don't know if you realize, but we come, may have, we hear, we spoke to different people and they give us their opinion. But sometimes you sit here and someone says something and you all of a sudden change your opinion. And so I think it's so important that our residents do come out and tell us their concerns and how they feel. 'cause this is your community. It's not just our community, but we may be here making decisions and we may make decisions, but they affect everyone. I'm district two, but whatever decision I make affects the whole city. And I think it's very important. So I want you to know that whether we agree or disagree, I'm using feel free. Thank you Mr. Hart. Whether we agree or disagree, I think it's so important to hear what you have to say. So thank you. And Habitat, I'm looking forward to, um, seeing some improvements in some of our homes. We know that, as you said, senior citizens and other one, other folks maybe can't do what you can do. And so we appreciate your volun, the volunteers that will improve. 'cause we all wanna live next door to a house that maybe that needs help, but maybe this is the opportunity for someone where they can reach out and actually get the help where, and it's hard to ask. Some folks have a hard time asking. So thank you so much. And that's it. Did I hurt you anymore? Oh, uh, I'll tell you about that lately. Another Meeting. Can I still continue to Irk you? You didn't irk me with the letters I got. Well, that's okay. I, I love and you're right. I don't have a problem getting, I listen, I get a ton. You'd like to see my phone sometimes. No, that's okay. I get a ton, ton of messages and I don't have a problem. And I try to answer everybody now. I didn't answer all 400 of 'em. I just coupled back to some of 'em. 'cause it was the same story, same message, same thing. But all I'm saying is look into what, what we're doing. Look at why there is reasons why we do what we do with the, with doing those, you know, developments. Uh, commissioner Kennedy. Thank you. Um, it's a good point. Um, many times someone, a developer, someone submits something and it goes by process to the PNZ or it comes to the commission and we get those letters and they say, before we've discussed it or expressed our intent to vote, how come you're supporting X and we aren't in support yet of X and probably we'll vote against X. Um, and I get probably my district has a lot of the growth and I get a lot of those letters. And frequently they do say, you know, insert your commissioner's name here. Um, but consistent in the tone and in all of the emails is who are you for? Whose priorities are first? Whose interests are you after? Is it people and businesses that are based in Ocoee and in Orange County? Or is it large conglomerate from out of state, national, national apartment builders, commercial property owners, rental companies versus homeowners? And that's a good question. And um, I just want to reiterate that this moratorium, this land development code rewrite has been long overdue. Um, as other things, and this is your commission. This is your commissioner drawing a line in the sand that we support the residents. We support the businesses and the business owners that are here, that are based in ocoee. Frequently you've seen me, I've asked, someone comes up with an issue and I'll ask, is your business based in Ocoee? And I've been criticized for that. Um, but I think we owe our loyalty to the residents and the people that voted to put us here and the people who pay the taxes here. And I'm proud of that. And I'll defend that. That's my only comment that Thank you sir. Um, couple things Craig, I wanted to ask you about. Um, I had some questions about, and, uh, sewer, the hookup for sewer that we're, uh, talked about. I have somebody asking about that, that, that, uh, wants to add, you know, the sewer. So it did we come up with a pro way of doing the price of, 'cause they're, they're in the process now of doing that. So We have several, excuse me, mayor, we have several things at play right now. We have looked at it and are in the process of scheduling briefings with you one on one to lay that out for, for how an assessment program would work for that. We also have a grant application, um, underway, and I don't want to get anybody's hopes up, but we hope to be able to get some grant funds to help with, uh, some of the expenses of people having to hook up. Um, I am planning to have a, uh, briefing before you at a future commission meeting about that. But we will be scheduling individual meetings. Um, a couple of you have been briefed already and, um, we, we have, we have a plan and, um, we're hoping to hear from this grant sooner than later. I'd hope to be able to, uh, speak to you about that because, um, you know, the, the capital charges are something that, you know, still looms large with regard to the, the connections themselves. So yes, we have a plan. Um, Who did they need to go talk to? Well, you don't have an assessment program in place right now. I know that. So If they come and talk to us, we're gonna have to tell 'em here's how much it's gonna cost, Which Costs are gonna be. But We, but once again, this has been going on two months. Two months. We've asked about this. Would've we've met twice I've met with citizens with, with the city about this problem. Now if, if they gotta sit there and wait 'cause they gotta acceptance tank this bad, they would, we wanna put 'em on sewer and they're downtown. How do we do not, not the downtown part here, but I mean over here is residential. So why are, there's gotta be a way we can do that. I, I and I know you're, you're, you just took over. But I'm still saying these people have got a problem they're gonna have to spend. Now I know where they put a, a sep tank in, uh, here year ago. Matter of fact. $18,000. 18,000. Now I know $7,000 is a lot less. But it also helps us do, what we're trying to do is get away from the septic tanks. But there's gotta be a way we can, we can figure that out. Other cities do it. I know. I'm just saying there, you can't, maybe we can work with 'em and sign some kind of contract and we can hook 'em up and then we either want, if we come up with that, we do that. If we don't, we don't. I'm just, I, I'm, I know $7,000 is a lot of money. Put some of these people living in these houses to put out, it really is 18,000. It's way a lot. Um, I I would be happy to have this person meet with our staff. Go over it. Um, That's why I'm asking you, who did they go meet with? Um, Mr. Rumor and Ms. Bowling. Okay. Okay. That's alright. Um, just real quick on that, you, you wouldn't have had time to get the assessment on the tax roll this year when it had been brought up. So, um, we're working feverishly to try to find other ways to help mitigate their costs because the, an assessment program's not gonna get on the tax roll till next Year. If you, I know the assessment deal was, but why would you not be able to run through the city That's up to the city commission. Oh, I know. Give You price. I'm just saying expect us to do that. There's other ways to go around that I'm Absolutely the commission could, could actually direct us to do that. Yeah. And um, That's what I've said. We might do that. I I just think it's, I know there's some places in the old part of town that it's gonna be effective with this and there, the the bad part of it is not bad part. It's near the lake. It's at, well, a block off the lake and half a block off the lake. And that's one of the major areas that I'm talking about. They're trying to do a cut the sewer. We actually, we, I I wish we'd had an opportunity to talk about this before because, um, I actually had a conversation yesterday with one of our consultants who is actually trying to get us funds from a county program that the Orange County EPD has a grant program in addition to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Program with specific regard to, uh, lake Shore Drive in Stark Lake and getting those people off septic and on sewer. Um, so I just wanted to make, make sure everyone understood we are actively working on that. Yeah. Yes. I, I just wanted, I've been asked, um, I probably would've got with you earlier, but you know, gators are, uh, not doing real good and I had a bad weekend, so, you know, so it, but I, I feel I got company. Where's Mike at? Have better's not doing real good either. All right. Stop signs on a there and, um, worst road. Worst road are up. So be careful. Watch for those stop signs. And also the ones on, uh, white Road or are getting worked on now Design, because they got a turn lanes in the head to make a difference, the design. So that's good. Thank you very much. Thanks to the public works. Uh, let's see what else? Hmm, I think that's it. Oh, oh, she gave me one. You're gonna take my flight and I gotta ask Mr. Bass for a minute. This is, uh, night out, national Night Out Police Community Partnership. October the first, 2024 5:00 PM through 9:00 PM Bill, pre Bill Breeze Park. Fun. DJ Food Trucks. K nine, SWAT games for children, adults, raffles, vendors, lots of giveaways. That's um, October the first, 5:00 PM 9:00 PM right out here at Bill Breeze Park. One other quick thing, John, you were here for that item 13. What? You didn't put in public comments or anything? Nope. Is everything okay? I got one other thing I wanna do. Well, you gotta fill out a public. No, this is just, I know, but you, you can't do it from there. I'm going, I'm gonna give you some of my time. Come up here. Come up. If you gotta say something, come up here and say it come up front. If you got here, all I'm gonna say is look, John, you have to go to the mic. Okay. He wasn't no point too, too. That's right. Him and I graduated from oh four. That's right. Did he work you wrong with Rusty? All I wanted to say is, uh, September the 29th, we'll be back here. Okay. The crass reunions, Is that the 29th? That was Saturday. Yes. I thought it was the 20. They told me it was the 29th. So They might have did that on purpose. You're right. But that anyhow, we got that Coming up. I know John. Thank you. John does a real good job cooking barbecue folks. He's great at it. Matter of fact. All right. Is it the 29th on the Sunday? The 20 ninth's A Sunday? That's a Sunday, John. September 9th. It's the 28th. It's the 28th. John. What my sister told me. I know. Is it September or October? John. September. Who told you that? Alice? Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's the 28th. She just want you to come the today after It's September. Yeah, September the 28th. Okay. Just call her tonight and tell her we appreciate everybody being here. Thank you. Habitat. Thank you to citizens.