##VIDEO ID:DrRDEzpBuYs## e e e Mario Mano here Elizabeth Davis Wendy Vinter here Colin Wells here Ed Smith here Tina Summerland here and Craig Fuller we have a quorum thank you uh if you would please stand for the invocation in the pledge Heavenly Father we thank you for this day uh and another opportunity to serve the City of Winter Haven and her residents we ask that you be with us and guide us we ask these things in your heavenly name amen amen I pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the na God indivisible and for all right uh Commissioners have everybody had a chance to review the previous minutes if so we'll entertain a a motion I make a motion we approve the minutes second all right we have a second all those in favor say I I I all oppose same sign all right previous minutes are approved okay I'm going to move into a brief explanation of how the hearing uh will go cases will be read into the record uh City staff will provide a presentation uh Commissioners will have an opportunity to ask questions of staff and once they've had an opportunity to ask their questions uh we will close close the planning portion of the hearing and open the public portion of the hearing anyone wishing to speak for or against a case starting with the applicant may do so um we ask that you limit your comments to five minutes um tonight I see we have a lot of people here so I want to remind everybody you know if we can let's keep things civil one person talking at a time uh we'll make sure that everybody who wants to speak has an opportunity to do so um when you've completed your comments we don't Reserve time share time Etc so we need to kind of get through and make sure that everybody has an opportunity to uh to speak and ask their questions um once everybody from the public has had an opportunity to to speak or ask questions we will close the public portion of the hearing and reopen the planning portion of the hearing um Commissioners can ask additional questions uh or we will entertain a vote and a motion um if anybody here thinks that you may speak for or against a case if you would please stand up and Jordan will swear you in do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give in this case shall be the truth all right all right moving into new business or I'm sorry old business um case number p2422 requests by Landmark Investments Inc to amend planned unit development ordinance -89 d04 General location 800 Havendale Boulevard the area covered by this request is 13.58 plus or minus Acres all right Heather reuter senior planner for the record um as you look here on the screen this is the future land use map um for this area the subject property is outlined in black and hashed and it is um designated as primary mixed use Hub as well of the adjacent um properties in the area in this Corridor as you look at the zoning it is a plan unit development um the other portion of this parcel to the north is C3 um we have a mixture of C2 and R5 in the mediate adjacent area and the Pud to the West also allows for multifam as you look at the aerial map it is this portion of the Spring Lake Square shopping center this is a view looking at the subject property this is a view looking to the north along US 17 this is a view looking to the east across 17 to the southeast to the South and then this is again in the um shopping center other portions of the Spring Lake shopping center and then this is the area that is um subject to um the request for uh adding for the multif family into this PUD Landmark Investments Incorporated is the petitioner and they request the city amend a portion of of plan unit development ordinance 08904 the area subject to this request is the southern portion of a parcel located at 800 Havendale Boulevard the subject property contains approximately 13.58 plus or minus Acres developed with a commercial shopping center and Associated parking the northern portion of the parcel is designated as commercial Highway C3 zoning District the petitioner proposes to develop a vacant portion of the property designated in the current PUD as phase three of the commercial development with 100 multif family residential units the proposed area for multif family development is approximately 3.1 Acres when specifically examining this area it alone could be developed with up to 45,1 18 square feet of commercial space under the current PUD and primary mix use Hub futur l in use designation the current PUD ordinance is 35 years old contains references to obsolete zoning districts pertaining to permitted uses and does not provide development standards Staff Pro proposes to provide updated permitted uses and development standards for the existing developed commercial portion to align with current standards in zoning districts for the record all public notification requirements have been met please note this case was previously heard by the Planning Commission at the June 4th meeting the Winter Haven code requirements providing notification includes providing mailed notices to all Property Owners within a 500t radius of the subject property when the property in question is situated on a lake front all Property Owners abutting the lake are to be included in the notification for this case the land which abuts the lake for the Spring Lake Tower Condominiums is a common lot so the notice was sent to the condo association while this does comply with the requirements of the code the city manager and City commission's desire to be as thorough as possible in vetting and addressing development matters um therefore directed staff to restart the process this included issuing new notices to those Property Owners originally notified and also adding the individual owners of the Spring Lake Towers condominiums in conclusion the staff's review of the petitioner request yields the following conclusions the requested multif family development within this PUD is consistent with development in the area and the Pud designation to the West the staff proposed changes will address obsolete language within a 35-year-old P for the existing commercial the requested PUD amendment is consistent with the primary mixed use hub future land use assigned to the property this request will result in a decrease in water sewer and transportation infrastructure demands over the maximum development potential in the current PUD and this portion of the Spring Lake Square shopping center has remained undeveloped for 35 years under the current zoning development of multif family uses in this space will create a true mixed use Hub and will potentially lead to further Redevelopment of the Aging Spring Lake Square shopping center staff recommends the Planning Commission recommend approval of this request and it's foring to the city commission for final action subject to the Pud conditions within the uh published agenda packet additionally for the record planning Commissioners have received Communications from citizens regarding this case and have forwarded these to staff to include in the case record staff would like to address some of the concerns stated in these emails this development abuts two fdot roadways US 17 and Havendale Boulevard there are currently fdot permits for the existing developments access points onto these roadways any new development or Redevelopment on the site will require these permits to be revised with fdot to account for trips generated generated by the additional use during this process fdot will determine if traffic studies Andor any roadway improvements will be required before approving the new development Additionally the initial review of this application was completed as required by chapter 166 of Florida Statutes when an application is received staff must review the application for completeness and respond within 7 days this review is to determine if the application is complete to move forward which includes proper authorization documentation from the property owner answers um provided for all required fields and submitt of any required additional documents review of answers provided is not part of this required completeness riew this occurs during staff's review and Analysis of the request and drafting of the staff back sheet provided in the agenda packet that completes my presentation I stand for any questions that you may have this is the conceptual plan that was submitted um the yellow portion as shown on here will remain commercial and within the purple blue color would be the residential portion of the development where the 100 um multif family units would be permitted thank you heather um I I do have a question you know we we talked about uh previously you know traffic I know was was a main concern and I just want to reiterate that this is simply an amendment to the Pud and any actual development would require an additional site plan approval do approval you know we're not here to determine if they need to extend a turn lanane or add a traffic light Etc right that stuff is still yet to be determined that that is correct we are in the zoning portion of the um approval well this is just putting the this what is allowed on the property and amending that PUD um to that decrease from the commercial that's allowed now to the multif family uh at time that they go to development they would submit a site plan that would have to match the requirements that are within the plan unit development and the code of ordinances and within that they would look at all of the concurrency requirements um and they would have to have concurrency for all public infrastructure and do any type of improvements that do would require at that time okay all right perfect uh one one other question for you I know previously at at our last meeting there was a lot of discussion surrounding some some of the businesses that that have popped up in this uh strip center and amending this PUD and updating the language gives us a little bit more oversight or control over the types of businesses through special approval right things that you know may come up in the future in the shopping center is that right that's correct so the commercial portion as the Pud stands today references an obsolete um zoning District that has not been in place since 2000 with the adoption of uh our newly development code that zoning District allowed bars and nightclubs by right um and did not require special use approval as required by today's code this PUD Amendment this PUD Amendment uh would have the commercial permitted uses be those of the C3 zoning District which would require special use approval so yes there would be additional um uh review and approval processes for those uses that have been an issue in the shopping center in the past okay all right thank you any other questions Commissioners no no all right we will close the planning portion of the hearing and open the public portion of the hearing anybody wishing to speak for or against this case if you would please come forward we'd like to start with the applicant if the applicant's here um when you step forward if you would please state your name and address for the record good evening uh my name is Mark wiy I'm at 609 East Pine Street Orlando Florida I represent the developer or acting actually as an agent for uh owners of the shopping center um I can't really say much more than what the staff has said that you uh we uh would like to build you know the uh Apartments to help provide uh more housing for folks that you know teachers firemen policemen uh teachers and these are quality apartment buildings they're made out of uh their construction is uh made out of cold form steel they're very efficiently designed uh we have vinyl plank foring electronic locks stone countertops and it it's going to if when you walk in inside a box it's going to look like any other apartment community that you could build there but we're really focused on keeping uh the rents in a in a uh in a in a more economically competitive it's uh to so that we can find that missing middle for those folks um again it's like I said Quality Construction the developer is a long-term holder it's not somebody that's just going to build something and flip it there we uh were partners with them and they manage uh over 2200 unit units in similar size and they like to go into neighborhoods that are uh that are appealing to the uh folks that the BL collar workers that uh and they like to keep the uh those sorts of apartments in that inventory and uh as opposed to just fixing them up and then raising the rents they really like to get in there and that's what we want to do here and again and there uh we have several Apartments and Winter Haven were actually these are the buildings that are going around Lake Idol uh which is going to be starting pretty soon so uh and I can't stress enough that you know uh these were're very involved in all the communities that we have properties and run properties and develop properties and we're here to stay so and again long-term holders and if you got any more I guess any questions for me be more than happy to answer them and would like a chance another chance if were there are some objections here tonight would like to address any of those if I can have that opportunity certainly thanks thank you for your comments all right anybody else wishing to speak for or against this case please good evening thank you for the opportunity to be here gu my concerns with this if you would state your name and address for the record please Glenn newand 17766 Street Northwest 404 thank you okay again my concern really is about infrastructure I'm looking at Water looking at traffic and most of all is water I see the numbers on the reports and the responses but I don't see any references or citations so where would I be able to find the data that gives us or the reference that gives us the the data for these numbers on here for example we have pable water current capacity over 2 million gallons just under 3 million gallons current demand 1,700,000 I'm rounding things off here and you're looking at potential demand to be 25,200 but Studies have shown most current one it's been a few years and the EPA saying most households use 300 gallons of water a day and if you multiply it by 100 only for the household alone you'd have over 300,000 gallons of water 30 I'm sorry 30,000 gallons of water yeah Math's good okay but uh 30 so that's over this estimate so I'm curious where these numbers came in and how would affect this because we see other communities such as dunde has put a yearlong moratorium on construction based on water needs Lake Wales is considering the very same options we have um Southwest Water Management has declared we're at a phase one water shortage we had some rain a couple days ago we have rain we have rainy seasons and very dry seasons we've just come out of a dry season about a month month and a half ago so with more Demand on this water what's going to happen from what I gather from talking to people we are drilling we have aquafers underneath our infrastructure our land here but we're already in the second level of the aqu aquafers if you go deeper not only are you looking for a water it's hard to get but you also create things like sink holes believe me I have property North Florida dry spells I was on the swan aquafer there on the Ok p River I'd have sink holes all the time so my cows don't step there don't you don't want to step there but that's something I don't see it really taken advant taken notice of and if I had some look at just for my own knowledge my own edication I'd be more comfortable with this so if there's somebody could direct me to where to find these numbers I'd be happy to look look it up myself also we talk about traffic physical traffic cars and stuff I know there were a study submitted by the developer that included data from US 27 how did that affect us using us7 so I'm curious about where that data came from I did go to the uh excuse me the Transportation Planning organization site it's rather large it's report for 2022 it's rather large and again I Leaf through it I didn't look all the way trying to find some of these traffic pattern numbers so I I maybe remiss there and I'm going to keep looking to find for my own education but I was curious about one traffic notation where it says trips potential looks like you're already projecting 33 trips from point a point B and back and I'm wonder if those trips are part from the shopping center because I know by 9:00 in the morning you're already reaching those trips from the gym and stuff CU I I frequent that are they predicting that the 16 additional trips are from the new homeowners I'm assuming at least with the 100 homes 50 of them are going to have people jobs and that's almost 50 trips right there back and forth so I was curious about that data but again I need to keep looking searching to that organization chart so in the long run I'm really concerned and I'm my neighbors colleagues and friends are also concerned as well about resources button structure what's going to happen with water why are other communities worried about it and we're kind of saying let's build up more I can understand that the needs of the day but also we also have the needs of the people with their basic needs as water and so forth I again I do appreciate the opportunity to speak with you and look forward to working with you again if possible thank you thank you for your comments yes ma'am go ahead please okay do you solemnly swear orer that the testimony you're about to give in this casee shall be the truth yes um good evening my name is Sher Hamill and I didn't know a whole lot about this they just posted not you can let me stop can you just State your address for I'm at 1700 6 Street Northwest apartment c28 so I'm in Winter Haven Harbor so I sorry I don't know a whole lot about this but my issue is um traffic until I heard the gentleman talk about teachers I happened to work at auale high school I work for the P County School District and um unless he's planning to uh rent those units for less than $1,000 I can afford to live there all right I take home $3,400 every month right 33% of that income would be what 1,100 something like that the whole reason I'm in Winter Haven Harbor is because with my mortgage my association fee taxes insurance I pay less than $800 so I can afford to live there and when they talk about firefighters and teachers and all this those firefighters and police they make way more than us teachers do so you know yay they're going to build something that supposedly teachers can afford as a bunch of baloney Because unless they're going to rent them to teachers for $1,000 or less we all start at 475 that's the way that it is but that that's an aside until I heard the guy talking about that my issue is the traffic is that in order for me to come to this meeting today I could not turn left to head south on us 17 from our community okay it's dangerous we're old people I'm not that old but okay so old enough but you know your vision goes your reflexes go whatever okay and I can't turn left on the street because there's so much traffic so I had to go around to First Street and then you know figure out my way here but when I come home from school every day and I try to turn East or turn left into the community where I live I'm waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and this is as it is right now so I don't know where all those 100 units or whatever people are going to be accessing the road but I tried to turn in now and it's dangerous because people will stop on the outside Lane but not the inside lane and then you have these bozos that are driving through that left or right thing to turn into where the movie theater is and they're like taking my space where I'm supposed to make a left so my concern is about the traffic and it doesn't sound like you guys deal with that you like rely on someone else to re do that but that's a huge factor for me is is is traffic it's just dangerous getting in and out of there every day at certain times you know I go to work at 6 o'clock in the morning so there's nobody there yay but when I come back about 3:00 3:30 I can't hardly turn in so that's all I want to sayood thank you for your comments yes ma'am have some packets here for my name is Betty Hoffman and I live at Lake Ridge condos on US 17 we've met before I was the one that got it changed because of the water issue and then posibly putting docks in I'm the one I live at 17766 Street I live at Lake Ridge condos um these are my neighbors great people you can see our age except for a few they're much younger I don't want to be accusing I have a dear friend that is one of you people that's up sitting up here and she might not want to acknowledge me by the end of this speech but I cherish the friendship with this person and I if I have offended anybody I want to apologize now in front of everybody in this room and in front of my lord and savior because that is not my intent my intent is for the people of Winter Haven so I have questions why are we here why are you here as a Planning Commission are you here to accommodate the wishes of a developer or are you here to represent the citizens and the residents of our city and look out for our best interest your job is to review information on population property values land use other information necessary to assess the amount Direction and type of development to be expected in the city and then advise and make resident recommendations to the city commission regarding these applications Two Men and you're not mentioning next to this PUD that we're talking about tonight but to the west of it is 168 more apartments called on Scarrow and Bene that is being represented tonight by Mr wilky is doing that project plus this if my memory is correct um so these two men Scarrow and landmark they make a business deal in benge development and these three men or three different elements is affecting hundreds of people's lives and I would wish you would please hear the many voices tonight maybe if it took you longer than 3 days to investigate the application you would have seen the irrelevant traffic data from Landmark us 92 and sr27 which is in hannes city and has nothing to do with this it needs to be us7 and Sr 544 Havendale Martin Luther King a joint 5-year study between you and fdot in 2020 shows that Havendale and us7 is a high crash corner with safety concerns a new study should be done and if you recommended it before I think you can recommend it again Landmark also stated in that application that the theater is closed which it is still opened and they mention using the theater parking lot for apartments residents should resident and commercial property not be kept separate we have sent emails to you several days ago and not one was answered but you approved 268 apartments in 3 days have you considered the extra to consider the amount of cost in the Manpower for the fire department EMTs and other city services including having to build build new facilities as the population grows and who pays for this the current residents not the developers Winter Haven currently has an ISO score of four pop county has a thing of three has a rating of three Lakeland has a rating of one number 10 is the worst this reflects preparedness of the fire department and water supplies and affects homeowners insurance premiums um when are you going to stop the traffic from going into the mall is a shortcut you aren't enforcing the traffic now on us7 many think it's a racetrack have loud mufflers and even louder music how much more will there be with an added 268 apartments starting at the corner of Avenue M in US 17 there's St Joel Catholic church and school with 500 students and then next down the road is Spring Lake Rehab and Nursing home and then there's Diva I'm sorry but I am going to continue um D.A dialyses a senior living assistant that's proposed and three I can appreciate it but5 condos and you are jeopardizing these people because you're emergency people that are slow enough now because of traffic you are stopping them from coming and getting these people that we are more ha to have that problem s if you want to call somebody and have me removed but you also have said and claimed that this was that the scarcrow one was appr comments this was approved you said in your June 4th meeting but it is not the tax code on it says it's code 1,000 and it's not been approved for the 168 and it was sold for $3 million the taxes on that for the4 and they're only paying less than $77,000 for a $3 million sale on property appreciate you're passionate about this but we have we have to move on and let other people speak I appreciate your comments All right but like I said I apologize if I offend anybody but these people I am concerned about and it's on E it's on social media that you people don't care and I disagree with that because you are human people and you do care but we want answers are you listening to us where can we go to have our voices heard we are listening that's that's why we're here I assure you yes ma'am good evening thank you very much for letting me come and talk I promise I won't yell at you um my name is English I live at 1776 6 Street Southeast in Lakeridge condos um I know that a lot of you know me Ed a lot of you know me and some of you know me indirectly as Muffy English because I was the South the um the SRE for po County Schools a few years ago so I do know a lot about what's going on with these schools too but I'm here mainly to talk about the traffic on on Sixth Street Northeast which is also called Highway 17 because that's where the condo is um because I have a new chapter in my life right now because I lost my husband a couple years ago so I wanted to downsize to a condo that had Security in it so that is why I picked lak Ridge and I absolutely love it there it was wonderful but my eyes I'm telling you I had the same feeling as probably most of you because one of you up here knows that I've lived in southeast section since 1979 when I moved here so I wasn't worried about the traffic on the northeast side on Sixth Street why did I care I never drove out here I didn't have any relatives out here but now that I live here holy moly it is horrendous right now and because of the new way I have right now I've had to quit driving because of vision problems so I can't drive so I have to count on Uber so let me tell you I have to call for an Uber if I have to go to my eye doctor or medical doctor I have to call them an hour and a half before I leave the condo to go to Central Avenue because of the traffic if you're going north on 17 and you get to South of St Joseph's Church we are backed up until we get to our security gate and we have to wait until we get to the security gate so we can get in because of the traffic just like the other woman had stated when she was trying to leave she couldn't turn left on 17 because we can't turn left on 17 because of the traffic you can also look up the the phone calls I have myself called Winter Haven Police I've called the sheriff's department and I've had to call Highway Patrol because of accidents that have happened right outside my window on S on 17 Highway 17 6th Street for accidents there's been a death out there that we witnessed because of a traffic accident I have also wanted to try Mass train transport it only comes in every hour and a half it starts about 10:00 in the morning every hour and a half but because of the traffic we have to go north and head out towards auale so that the mass traffic can turn around so that we can get to Central Avenue and that takes about three and a half hours now if you had your relatives or some friends that lived on this section would you like to know that approximately 200 more housings are going to be put in there and it's so bad now can you imagine what it's going to be like as an example I went for a walk from the condo and I was going to walk to St Joseph's Church is what two blocks away the wind from the cars that drive so fast on Sixth Street the wind blew me over I lost my balance and I fell on the grassy area you want your relatives to have to live through that I doubt it I think it is a real mistake to do that now the other part I wanted to talk about was also the traffic in the schools because it's going to be um Family buildings that they're talking about and the schools the public schools and I know all about the schools so the schools that they can go to are the elementary school is Fred Garner and they just redid Fred Garner and it was good enough now to hold 899 students there's possibly going to be more students going in there so the the county of Po county has already paid a half a cent of tax since 1916 19 18 to pay for that new building of which that new building is going to be totally obsolete already and then to get there it's less than two miles so all the parents are going to have to drive their kids down all these busy streets to try to get them to school when they go to middle school they can go to Westwood that's 2.4 miles from us maybe they'll get a bus maybe they won't because the Florida ruling is two plus miles maybe can you get a bus I've worked at schools before where kids that live that close don't get buses because we don't 30 seconds please and Winter Haven High School they need a bus to go in there so the traffic is horrendous thank you thank you for your comments anyone else from the public wishing to speak all right please state your name and address for the record have you been sworn in yes okay hi uh my name is Aaron BOS oh there we go uh 116 miror Lane um I live kind of sort of behind where you see um the houses that are there on the one side um I have a couple questions um first with the Pud hearing tonight if it would pass does it still have to come before the commission to be approved to be able to do these apartments or in passing this tonight if it was passed does that automatically allow it to go to the Planning Commission so we we are the Planning Commission if we were to recommend approval it moves on to the the city commission for final action and then from there before any development is done they have to come back with engineered site plans and have a site plan review and that's that's when we get more information about like what requirements fdot will require for traffic you know that kind of stuff okay um and just a couple things I have on it um I think you've heard a lot about the traffic um I do know that fot did the work um that they've done on Havendale right there due to the amount of accidents that were occurring and to extend that left turn lane um I also know that currently they're showing um that and this isn't from the internet this is I worked with people at fot before and I know them and talk to them right now 17 North or South is at a 80% capacity of that intersection Havendale nor East or West is at a 83% capacity that's capacity of that whole intersection even with what they're doing so what I was told is um F's going to be a big hurdle to get through but we're going to max out that intersection before these units are ever built so there's a lot of things to think about there going into that to where that's at um another question I have or thing to look at they just built a dental building um on Spring Lake that is there it's a multi-use um commercial property they had a lot of challenges there um with erosion that was occurring they still do it's washing washing out part of the back in the back side of it um so they're trying to work on that to figure out which leads me to believe or ask has um any survey been done by D and with the Environmental Protection Agency and our lakes and what that's going to affect um with that I think that should be considered also going into it as well as um geological surveys on um perk of the soil and then what the amount is going to be able to hold for the weight as far as the um mall that's there currently um with the amount of traffic that's going to be coming in through there um currently and I'm assuming that there would be a lot of overhaul work done with that because if you've driven through there you know what it's like um and it needs quite a bit of work there um the other concern is the military Roc is currently there that's where they hold um their exercises their work with all the cadets are outside in front of their building um in in that area and where that where that road comes in or where they're showing is going to be in front of where they're at so that's going to pose um a little bit more of an issue of things to consider with that but I think think um going forward there's quite a bit I know with fot they got some big hurdles they got to get through on that but I'm worried more that this isn't a great we have another place for people to live I want due diligence done by the city to understand not only engineering how it's built what it looks like you know from architectural standpoint but what's it going to do the soil that's currently there and is it able going to be able to handle it plus with the current runoff of water that comes through there and where it goes um so I'm hoping that that that gets addressed um going forward into it and knowing what the future could hold thank you thank you for your comments anyone else from the public wishing to speak on this case no all right we will yes sir um my name is Mike Griffin I'm at 112 mirror Lane Northwest just the the square that you is not drawn just to the west of the two squares that are drawn um my question I don't might know this answer or not but uh selfishly we heard many years ago that there was potentially a an issue and that and I'm going to say there's still this issue with having access to this Zone this area here and of course what they're talking about now is the area having access through 17 and we all know that that's going to be um put more stress on an already stressful area of 17 a little birdie told us many years ago when there was also discussion of apartments or something being developed in this area that they were potentially I'm pointing at this y'all can't see it but um it's like the third you you see the two very large rectangles there just north of those are more homes and they're and they're labeled I can't I can't read but it so there there there are homes there well somebody had told us that they potentially were going to buy one of those homes take it out and create another access point into this area from 13th Street and that's what that that that is those homes are along 13th Street is that possible um how how do we keep that from happening because that's that's where we are I'm completely concerned about how much traffic would now be coming down 13th Street a very residential street to get access to this Zone to this area whatever is developed here in the next 5 10 15 years there is only really two ways to get in and out of this Z this whole area here right now and and and neither one of them are very good uh ways to get into that zone U do you'all have any idea or is there any possibility that one of those homes could be taken out and they could build an access road from our 13th Street I'd have to defer to the planning staff on that to my knowledge those are public streets in that uh neighborhood so if a property owner was willing to sell their property potentially a road could be constructed through there to access a city street but there no but I've not I've not heard of that I've not seen any plans I've not that would all again have to go through the site plan approval process to make sure there's adequate access would there be any uh public hearing to uh have input from the neighbors as to whether or not that's a good idea or that's what the the neighborhood wants or is it something that that's not really a rezoning discussion yeah it's not a only if there was a rezoning involved in that if it was simply private property owned um by the private developer and they wanted and you know they bought the house and they wanted to punch a road through that would be subject to the site plan approval process not a not a zoning hearing got it got it okay very good thank you that was it thank you for your comments do we have anyone else from the public wishing to speak on this case yes ma'am my name is Teresa Kowalski and I agree with everything everyone said here and all I want to say is I am opposed and the friends that are here from my location I'm at 1776 I'm so upset about all this all I can say is I don't want any more traffic it's already stressful enough in this area and we have a lot of older people just like everyone else said and we have traffic all day long and we hear all the traffic all night long so stop the build thank you for your comments do we have anyone else all right we will close the public portion of the hearing and reopen the planning portion of the hearing any additional questions from Commissioners no no anybody nothing okay um I will make a motion to approve case number p2422 request by Landmark investment Inc to amend the plan unit development ordinance -89 04 General location 800 Havendale Boulevard the area covered by this request is 13.58 plus or minus Acres as presented in the fact sheet with the conditions presented a second all right we have a second all those in favor say I I all oppose same sign all right case is approved moving on to new business um case number P d241 DS request by Kimberly uh leonti for special use approval for a child care facility in the mixed use MX zoning District General location 595 Avenue L South East the area covered by this request is. 23 plus or minus Acres Chris Young Senior planner for the record and if I could just have a few minutes while the STS out want for okay I'll go ahead and continue again uh Chris Young Senior planner for the record uh here we have the subject property uh it's housed uh outlined in black and hashed uh it is mixed use this is the zoning map uh here we can see that the property is surrounded um along um by mixed use properties along six streets and across six streets uh the residential is the yellow um and up in the dark kind of maroon color it's public institutional which is witer Haven High School here we can see an aerial photo of it the property again is outlined in red along 6th Street uh we have um you can see that the property has an extensive parking area uh its previous use was uh preschool um so we do have some mixed use commercial on there and myot away okay I'm not sure where the photos are I do apologize um Kimberly lante the petitioner requests that the Planning Commission Grant special use approval to operate a child care facility in the mixed use zoning District the property subject to this request contains 23 plusus acres and contains a 2016 squ foot building with Associated parking constructed in 1962 the most recent use of the property was a preschool as the previous preschool ceased operation for a period exceeding 180 days a special use must be reapplied for the petitioner wishes to lease the space for a child care facility with approximately two to five employees uh there are five existing parking spaces located on the subject property as this is considered a change in use a site plan review will be required to address any code requirements based off the mixed use character of the surrounding area and the projected low volumes of peak hour vehicle trips minimal impact to the surrounding neighborhood are expected and as a result of the child care facility operation uh the recommendation is to approve case number p24 11-s subject to the conditions that are found in the engine packet uh and this is a picture of the property uh you can see that this there is the existing um parking areas handic decapped area um the part as part of the site plan process Landscaping will be readjusted as well as uh traffic flow and striping can I stand for any questions that you may have how long ago chrisa it cease operation as a preschool it was fairly recent wasn't it n midco times so in the early you know 2020 20 21 times uh unfortunately if ceases for extended period of 6 months or 188 180 days it has to come back through the S plan review process and we didn't have any issues with the preschool operation at the time no okay I mean like you said it's been used as a preschool daycare for a very long time gotcha okay any additional questions I I do is there any other special licensing that's requir they will still have to go through all the appropriate State Licensing uh to operate a childcare facility uh this is just to allow the use back on uh a mixed use property within the mixed use zoning District requires a special use for daycare operation any additional questions no all right we will close the planning portion of the hearing and open the public portion of the hearing um anybody I know we had some folks kind of coming in after the last case was finished up if anybody plans to speak for against if you haven't been sworn in if you would please stand and Jordan will swear you in no do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give in this case shall be the truth all right thank you Jordan all right anybody from the public wishing to speak for or against please step forward state your name and address for the record hello I'm Kimberly labante I live at 907 Avenue V Southeast Winter Haven and I'm for the child care center um as a mother and teacher I observed the deficiencies in our educational system um there had to be a better way so homeschooling is an alternative solution um I felt it was important to share my ideals and knowledge with other parents and children as well families in our community have repeatedly expressed the need for an alternative to Traditional School um education should be in the hands of families and communities uh we explore Academy is a homeschooling Center and a place for the community to come together um as a family and help our children develop a love for learning through exploration interest inspired play and Project based learning um and I'm the owner did you guys have any questions thank you I don't think so thank you for your comments anyone else wishing to speak for or against hi how you doing my name is D lante um I say at 907 Avenue V sou East waven Florida um I also want to I'm for the the child care center um I also work for the United States Postal Service and I also um forehand um witness the increase in the population in um wi Haven Florida and I also see the high demand for any type of um Child Care um school for the for for the Amel of growth that is happening in wi Haven a rapid amount of growth with all of the apartments being built um so there's a high demand and then also there's a a the demand can keep up with the supply for the child care there's a lot of waiting lists for um that that families have to go on to get their kids into any type of child care or daycare like that so it's it's it's it's very beneficial for the community and as a whole and for for everyone in the community so that's what I like to say about that thank you thank you for your comments do we have anybody else yes ma'am my name is tarica brown and I reside at 320 Okaloosa Drive in Winter Haven um I am here to support Kim and this new adventure my child attends Weare um Academy currently we were in the uh private school sector in fact my child attended St Joe's um there's High populations as as it's already been mentioned um and a lot of the schools there's overcrowding shortages of teachers uh my child has some special needs um attending some of the private schools they're not able to accommodate that uh we uh sought out Miss Kim I've known her for three or four years uh when we started the The Venture I really didn't know if the homeschool environment was going to be something that was going to be a good fit for my family it has turned out that we love it um and I don't intend to go back so I hope that you folks will consider and give her an opportunity thank you thank you for your comments do we have anyone else wishing to speak hi hi my name is Caitlyn Brown I reside at 749 Waterbridge Drive I'm here to support Miss Kim and um my child also attends we EXP explor Academy um I did send him to a private school and um he didn't have the best experience there um I didn't want to put him in public school because I wasn't sure how he was going to adjust with that Miss Kim has been wonderful she's been our life support like I I've been able to rely on her with homeschooling my child and she's been wonderful like I I don't know what else to say I have nothing but great things to say and I I hope you all give her a chance that's all I have to say thank you thank you you yes ma'am good evening my name is Katrina Johns I live at 227 Viola Drive in Auburn Del I am in Support also of we explore academy uh my daughter also attends she's special needs and we came from the public school sector um as new residents to pop County it was very challenging um she was falling through the crack so uh finding a homeschool hybrid alternative was a life-saving thing for my family and I hope that you guys will approve um this plan thank you thank you for your comments all right anybody else okay we will close the public portion of the hearing and reopen the P the planning portion of the hearing anybody have additional questions or we'll entertain a motion no I'll make a motion to approve case number p- 24-11 DS request by Kimberly lante for special use approval for a child care facility in the mixed juice MX zoning District General location 595 Avenue L Southeast the area covered by this request is 0.23 plus or minus Acres as presented in the fact sheet and along with the condition set by staff a second it all right we have a second all those in favor say I I I all oppos same sign all right case is approved uh moving on case number p- 24-35 request by V3 Haven Square retail LLC to amend plan unit development ordinance 0- 9-27 and to assign plan unit development PUD zoning District to five Parcels General location 16 Parcels generally located west of US Highway 17 south of Avenue R Southwest and east of the CSX railroad tracks the area covered by this request is 20.02 plus or minus Acres all right Heather reer senior planner for the record uh this is the future land use map as you can see the subject property um is designated as primary mixed use Hub as well as the other Parcels within this and is also located within our Central Urban core as you look at the zoning um there is um plan unit development zoning on the property and some unassigned Properties or partials as well um across um 17 to the east you have the Advent Health Fieldhouse and chaino lakes um Park which is subject to a PUD and then there's also some I2 to the north as well as C3 to the north and Northeast this is a aerial of the subject property located there on 17 as you go over the overpass um towards north into Winter Haven and the pictures have disappeared a second Josh are you seeing pictures on the slides I don't know what happened to they were in there well can we exit out of the presentation back in and see if it shows that's two now that's it's done that on when they were in it technology no yeah was the first yeah okay let's see if we can get there well don't what happened well we are without images so as pictures of the subject property located on 17 uh which is the old fertilizer plan if you're familiar to it as you drive into 17 so I'm going to keep clicking till we get to our background here CU there were a lot of pictures there we go I think we're all likely familiar yes all right so this is a request to amend Planning Development PUD ordinance 0927 and to assign PUD zoning to five adjoining Parcels the area subject to this request consist again of 16 Parcels generally located south of Avenue are Southwest west of US Highway 17 and east of the CSX railroad tracks the 16 partials total 20 acres and are presently vacant the previous use of the property for several DEC decades was a fertilizer processing and distribution facility which closed in 2009 and was demolished in 2010 uh the current PUD ordinance allows for retail restaurant and office uses as well as the development of up to 277 residential units maximum development intensity for commercial use is controlled by the primary mixed use hubs floor area ratio of three and So based on those 20 acres you could look at 2.66 million square ft could theoretically be developed uh so the petitioner proposes to revelop property with one primary retail anchor site and two smaller out parel sites four access points are proposed including three on US Highway 17 and one from Avenue R Southwest total permitted commercial square footage would be limited to 3 100,000 square ft and then up to 120,000 ft of retail storage which would require special use approval there is uh sufficient utility and roadway capacity at this time to accommodate the petitioner's proposed uh development uh and based on that in conclusion um staff's review yields the following uh the proposed uses and development intensities are consistent with the adopted primary mixed use Hub future land use the petitioner's request will result a reduction of potential impacts to supporting utility and roadway infrastructure and at this time there is adequate utility capacity ass sered the petitioner request the requested signage changes have some Merit given the subject area's location on the six Lane US Highway 17 and visibility issues resulting from the adjacent US Highway 17 bridge and the subject area has been subject to PUD ordinance 927 for 15 years with limited inquiries regarding development proposed revision to the Pud zoning on the subject area developed by staff in consideration of the petitioners requested changes represent a more flexible effort to r redevelop a large parcel located along one of the city's significant gateways therefore staff does recommend um the Planning Commission Rec approval of this request with the Pud conditions in the agenda packet and it's forwarding to the city commission for final action um and then this is the conceptual plan you stand for any questions that you may have there's there's nothing they can do on the the backside of the property along the CSX railroad tracks correct wa you couldn't have like Ingress or eess through there like crossing right I I mean one there's private property to to the north over there and then they would have to get a um access permit from CSX to cross over it okay any other questions from commissioner no all right we will close the planning portion of the hearing and open the public portion of the hearing anyone from the public wishing to speak for or against this case um if the applicants here welcome them to come up have you been sworn in not okay Jordan can can help us with that do you Solly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give in this case shall be the truth I do if you would please state your name and address for the record uh Trey Vic uh 496 South Hunt Club Boulevard POA Florida 32703 um with V3 Capital developer of the project um I I think staff summarized it I just came up here to say hello and appreciate everything the staff has done with working with us uh we're excited about this it's a long time coming I think for the city and uh for a lot of really good reasons and and we're proud of what we're putting forward so just thank you for that and uh I'll be available for any questions anybody has thank you thank you appreciate your time anyone else from the public wishing to speak for or against this case all right we will close the public portion of the hearing and reopen the planning portion of the hearing any additional questions from Commissioners or we will entertain a motion I'll make a motion to approve case number p24 d35 request by B3 Haven Square retail LLC to amend plan unit development ordinance Z or 0- 9-27 and to assign planned unit development PUD zoning District to five Parcels General location 16 Parcels generally located west of US Highway 17 south of Avenue R Southwest and east of the CSX railroad railroad tracks the area covered by this request is 20.02 plus minus acres and as presented in the fact sheet by staff second all right we have a second all those in favor say I I all oppose same sign all right case is approved uh moving on to case numbers p- 24-36 and p- 24-37 request by tbbp tbbp Holdings LLC to amend the 235 future land use map on a parcel from neighborhood support future land use to Neighborhood Suburban future land use and to rezone and to rezone the same parcel from plan unit development PUD zoning District to multifam residential low density R3 zoning District General location the parcel is generally located at the northeast corner of Bucky Loop Road and palm Nut Drive the area covered by these requests is 3.68 plus or minus Acres all right this is the future land use map as you can see the subart is currently designated as neighborhood support the zity designations in this area are neighborhood suburban and conservation to the east all those in white are still within Incorporated pop County um as you look at the zoning um there is R3 zoning immediately um to the South uh to the West um as well as some R2 zoning in the area as you look at sub trory is a vacant lot uh located there on Buckeye Loop Road uh to the west across there you have the Bucky Trace subdivision um you have a Poke County um utilities office to the North and then there's a mixture of um single family and multif family to the south and north west on the of this portion which you can't see there is R3 property that is um has an approved site plan for multif family as well this is a view of the subject property um as you look at it from Buckeye Loop this is um looking at the subject property along Palm Nut Drive this is looking to the southeast this is looking over to the West again the Buckeye Trace subdivision and then this is to the north tbbp Holdings LLC is the petitioner and they request the city amend the 2035 future land use map on a parcel from neighborhood support to Neighborhood Suburban future land use and reone that same parcel from PUD zoning to R3 the parcel total is 3.68 acres and is located at the northeast corner of Buckeye Loop Road and palm Nut Drive parcel was annexed in of the City January 22nd 2018 and was assigned the current designations April 25th 2022 the parcel is currently subject to PUD ordinance 02220 which permits personal storage units the parcel has remained undeveloped since the Pud zoning was assigned the petitioner proposes to develop the property with 32 multif family residential units at the maximum density of 12 dwelling units per acre Allowed by the R3 zoning District the theoretical maximum number of units is 44 these uh requests contain a smallscale future land use Amendment reviewed by the Florida Department of Commerce and other state and local agencies is not required uh staff's review of this request yields the following conclusions the proposed neighborhood Suburban future land use and R3 zoning district is consistent with the surrounding uses and designations and there sufficient um public infrastructure capacity to accommodate the proposed development as well as the maximum theoretical development under R3 therefore staff does recommend that the planning commission Rec recommend approval of these requests and their forwarding to the city commission for final action I stand for any questions any questions from Commissioners no all right we will close the planning portion of the hearing and open the public portion of the hearing anyone from the public wishing to speak for or against the case starting with the applicant have you been sworn in yes I have okay perfect uh John Bandon with uh wooden Associates engineering uh 1925 uh BTO Road Lakeland Florida um just wanted to say I thank you Commissioners for your time tonight I thank you staff for the for the staff report um just a just a couple quick items I kind of just wanted to point out um if um if you could bring up the um like the land use map or the or the zoning map I just um so the request is for neighborhood um Suburban which which is kind of a better fit for the area it it's it's it's neighborhood support now which is kind of out on an island right there um and then the request um and then the zoning request is for R3 um which is which is west of the site south of the site so um um so pretty compatible with the surrounding area um the Pud just wanted to point out too I I think allows it's for storage units and for outdoor storage um uh parking like Vehicles parking RVs so um I just so I think um I think it's a better I think it's a better fit for that area so um happy to take any questions you guys have and happy to respond to anybody's uh comments if they have them okay thank you thank you appreciate your comments have anybody else wishing to speak for against this case no all right we will close the public portion of the hearing and reopen the planning portion of the hearing any additional questions or we'll entertain a motion I'd like to make a motion to approve case number p- 24-36 and p-2 24-37 request by tbbp Holdings LLC to amend the 2035 future land use map on a partial for neighborhood support future land use to Neighborhood Suburban future land use and to reone the same partial for plann unit development PUD zoning District to multif family res residential low density R3 zoning District General location the parcel is generally located at the northeast corner of the Bucky Loop Road and palm Nut Drive the the area covered by this request is 3.68 plus or minus Acres as presented in fact sheet second all right we have a second all those in favor say I I all oppose same sign all right case is approved moving on case number p2438 an administrative request to amend the 2035 future land use map on 63 Parcels from traditional neighborhood area and neighborhood support future land uses to primary mixed used Hub future land use General location 63 Parcels located north and south of Martin Luther King Boulevard and lying between Third Street Northeast and 8th Street Northeast the area covered by these requests is 14.94% along this Corridor is the primary mixed use Hub um this is a request to extend that along um the corridor in Frontage of Martin Luther King Boulevard as you head to the east which currently has a traditional neighborhood area and then at the intersection of 7th Street does have some neighborhood support feature L use um this is the aerial um through this area it is a mixture um of of residential uses as well as commercial uses which are allowed for by the zoning districts is predominantly MX is the zoning District in this area which allows for a mixture of uses and the pictures aren't on this one and I don't know why it's it's we're just randomly choosing today so it's pictures of the Martin Luther King Boulevard Corridor along street views to see that area um as you drive through with the mixture of uses that I spoke of again this is a request to amend uh the 2035 future land use map on 63 part Parcels from traditional neighborhood area and neighborhoods support future land uses to primary mixed use sub future land use the parcels are generally located along Martin Luther King Boulevard between 3D Street Northeast and 8th Street Northeast and the total area is 14.94% or minus Acres historically prior to 2011 the area subject to this request was designated as commercial retail or commercial office on the future Lane use map in 2011 a majority of the area excluding partials located near the intersection with 7th Street were designated as traditional neighborhood area as part of the adoption of the 2025 future land use map the partials surrounding the intersection were designated as commercial upon the adoption of the 2035 future land use map last year the previous future land use designations for this area um remained unchanged in conversations with some of the property owners along this Corridor there's a desire to encourage the development of mixed uses while the adopted mixed use MX Zone district will allow for a mixture of uses the underlying traditional neighborhood area future land use only allows for the residential uses to be allowed so we yield the following conclusions when looking at this request that this area is within the central Urban core of the city primary mixed use Hub future land use is assigned along all of the east west running collector and arterial roadways between first stet north south and 6th stet northeast southeast except for a long Martin Luther King Boulevard and Avenue K Northeast each of the other corridors are generally developed with a mixture of uses prior to 2011 the partial subject to this request had some form of commercial future land use assigned to them during this time a handful of businesses were established on the Martin Luther King Boulevard Corridor the primary mixed use Hub future land use will preserve these businesses while continuing to allow the established residential uses assignment of primary mix mixed use future land use will Aid in implementing the 2022 La Villa C plan goal one by enabling the retention and recruitment of businesses along Martin Luther King Boulevard and additionally assignment of primary mixed use Hub future land use will allow the current IMX zoning assigned to the subject area to be fully utilized by Property Owners therefore staff does recommend that the Planning Commission recomend approval of this case and its forwarding to the city commission for final action I stand for any questions I've got a a question for you have I mean being an administrative request did we get requests like multiple requests from the public for this individual type of change or did we conversely did we receive PE you know um inquiries about people that were not happy with this type of change so so um we received to start it off for the the the initial request and that being staff initiative there there were some property owners in the area looking to do things on their property and and we realized and and saw this and then saw the kind of the conflict with that traditional neighborhood area before so yes and so it in that we wanted to clean it up um something that you know we probably should have done with the 2035 and it just kind of got missed so this is the opportunity to clean that up and those boundaries and extend them of how they match with the zoning that's in the area since the notification of the requests did receive several phone calls most of them were just trying to understand the requests no spoke in opposition of it and several once explained the request were excited about the possibilities for some properties that they owned in the area okay perfect and this this sort of change does not in any way limit any of the current uses right yeah on these Parcels no so the uses are dictated by the zoning so everything that's allowed in MX will be allowed what it gives is the intensity um development intensities for the commercial uses right now traditional neighborhood area only addresses residential densities so it allows them actually to fully use their zoning District perfect thank you any additional questions from Commissioners no all right we will close the planning portion of the hearing and open the public portion of the hearing anyone from the public wishing to speak for or against this case we like to say first of all can you can you state your name and address just for the Fernandez Gunter 2149 28 Street Northwest Winter Haven Florida um I was raised over here in the Northeast section but what I think and say as for as with the Lord that each and every one of y'all need to have a relationship with the Lord because God said that hey he put people in places to govern his people and people that govern his people and mistreat his people going to be judged double time when it come time for judgment so I hope that y'all taking consideration of the things that y'all doing and the in the in the accusations and the and the in the position that y'all holding to make statements and make things move in our neighborhood um the property that I'm in concerned of is 609 Avenue S Northeast Winter Haven where the property was put into my brother's name and he drowned in 2000 uh along with that uh now since I been back in I'm a owner of Reserve limo and I'm also industrial electrician and I Serv as celebrities so I'm been back now about eight years uh I noticed from a little boy growing up in the Northeast area and still today is the sewage problem in the neighborhood the hold up on me with the transition of probate going into this which we have acquired R Randle blanking Shi as the attorney um the sewage problem in the neighborhood from I'm going to go just from 8th Street to 7th Street to Avenue S and Avenue R in Winter Haven down to the area coming down to um Lake Silver of the sewage problem uh especially when the rainy season and the hurricane season the middle of the road where the sewage comes in comes up and runs down the street can y'all fix those problems been worried about other people property thank you for your comments yes ma'am good evening my name is Kimberly Runner I reside at 1916 4th Street Northeast um I'm relatively new to the area but I did have some concerns with the letter we received um first and foremost um with the zoning I really wasn't clear um on the map that was in the letter would the rezoning be including displacing residents that are already in their homes along that area no okay so there would not be demolishing of the homes the first couple homes on each of those streets no okay um with it being Martin Luther King I'm on Fourth Street there's a lot of traffic mainly due to the school uh JWT Academy trying to get up and down the street during rush hours 7 to 8:30 and then again between 2: and 3:30 it takes for forever um with the increased traffic of new commercial businesses it would probably increase the traffic on Sear's Avenue as well and that is a bus route for children especially the elementary school children and it does not have sidewalks from I want to say it's Fifth Street to third um and over to towards First Street so that with the increased traffic on seers Avenue it would increase the danger to the children walking up and down those streets um also you know would there be an environmental impact with Lake mod being right there um within less than a quarter mile of the increased building would it affect the lake and also Lake Idle Wild which is not far from it as well sorry I can't read my own writing that's okay um if these businesses are to be put in how much parking would be included with these businesses and would they be ADA compliance with the compliance would that increase the parking requirement they any any potential new development that would fit in with this new mixed use zoning would still require site plan approval would still fall to the the the codes parking Ada you know requirements it doesn't negate any of those those items it just provides this this would just provide the op the opportunity for some of these businesses to expand if I'm you know different business types so so I know that there's we talk in planner e a lot up here in our staff reports and sometimes it's it's a little difficult if you're not familiar with it the big picture here is that um Martin Luther King Boulevard and First Street traditionally through the Florence Villa area were mixed use districts they were areas where people both lived and worked right now the way the zoning is set up on this particular stretch along MLK the future land use is inhibiting that mixed use um atmosphere within Florence Villa so in an effort to be um consistent with our Florence Villa Redevelopment plan and in an effort to facilitate um future development in the area um of a mixed use nature assigning a different future land use to this stretch along MLK will allow for True mixed use development to occur over time in this district and so as that happens um yes any new development as the the chair pointed out would have to meet all current code requirements Ada accessibility the required amount of parking and all of that as well but it's an effort to sort of bring back the true mixed use nature of Florence Villa as it as it was and how it h historically was and one other thing I'd like to point out too is any Redevelopment of these you know part of those site plan reviews includes adding sidewalks where there aren't sidewalks right when these commercial properties are redeveloped they're requiring sidewalks to be added so some of that helps you know expand the the the sidewalks and make those roadways safer would that expansion though include Sears Avenue it depends on what development was to was to come in the future okay because with the with what is looks like is being explained now is only off of Martin Luther King and so there's Martin Luther King then Sears is the next street next to the lake um and that has a lot of traffic when MLK is really backed up right um and that's where the children walk is where the bus stops are um you know we do have a lot of regentrification in the neighborhood lot of new houses are being built um so it's just we're trying to bring the neighborhood back and it's just very concerning that there could be a lot of traffic um and what is the sustainability of the companies that would come into the area if it would be one to two possibly 3 years how many of those businesses are going to remain open and the buildings themselves remain or not remain vacant um with vacancies there's an increased chance of you know dangerous situations put in for the residents of the area homeless people to come in and take over those buildings violence in um destruction of those buildings and it could compose unsafe areas for the children for the neighborhood people who walk and enjoy the area that is currently there um so that is a concern as well butting up to those new businesses that could or could not last thank you so so much I appreciate your time thank you for your comments good afternoon my name is Clayton coward and I'm with the Church of God the Bible Way of the apostolic faith and uh I was born and raised in W Haven in fact that uh area originally was called camel and Henry subdivision my grandfather and my Uncle Robert Henry are the ones that parted that land out to sell it and I remember when uh many of the citizens there remember when my uh Uncle Joe and my cousin Jimmy Henry Miss Rosa B all of those had little stores right on that main road uh and that was a very uh that was that that that property meant a lot to many of the black citizens in that area so a few years ago we purchased that property and it's our intent to put that small historical building back the Jimmy Henry grocery store and also a museum uh that's about 21,000 Square fet thre story and it's going to have a little bit of all of the uh uh neighborhoods pville First Street flon Villa somewhat like legol land where you can walk through and you'll be able to walk through and see what those neighborhoods used to look like so uh and also we want to uh you know bring back a central place that people can remember we only have two areas there where business was constructed avue 10 First Street and uh we just want an opportunity to bring back some of the memories we're not trying to crowd the area out but uh to us to to me and many others it's important that we have something and I understand uh the resident area but it's always been uh that way in the past and one of the concerns I have is being able to provide economic development for people that's in reach that they don't have to drive this way you many neighborhoods you know if I if I have a grocery store next to me that I can go next door and buy a loaf of bread for $2 uh rather than have to drive two uh five miles and I end up paying for gas to go get it it it it it hinders us economically go I want to put certain things in reach of the neighbor so uh hey I can walk out of my neighborhood and go somewhere and don't have to drive you know five or 10 miles to go get it so we've already started we had already started the plans uh and had set them forth and I guess then there were some changes or adjustment that were made we've already put I guess about 30 or $40,000 into this project with our engineers and I think when something happened within the process where the code might have been uh misinterpreted I I don't know what it was but anyway we we just want to uh you know do something in our neighborhood positive thank you thank you for your comments I didn't decide I needed to speak but I do do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give in this case shall be the truth yes hello my name is Teresa Herer and I'm at 1918 4th Street Northeast uh as Pastor Cowart indicated grew up in the neighborhood well I'm in the neighborhood from the existence of the neighborhood and uh I do understand what you're saying about the double planning where flance Villa and half of the street was mixed but I do understand it's different times now that we live in and the noise I hear noise all night long people speeding up and down the street so when you building these commercial buildings are they going to have curfew times or it's going to be limited to what type of businesses that are going to be open because residents do live in that neighborhood people moved in that neighborhood 1957 and people are still there my parents are still in their house in 1957 at 2214 Fourth Street Northeast down the street that I live on now so I just want to make sure that we're looking at the whole picture of making sure that the community is safe for everyone not just certain things I can't even cross the street from one part of Fourth Street to go to the other side of for street because there too much traffic and it's too fast I came back from Ohio a year and a half ago and I tried to find the closest speed limit sign well it's up on Buckeye the next one on the way going to Home Depot it's nothing in the area saying what the speed limit is it should be 35 nobody drives 35 down Marth Luther King nobody you either run and get ran over trying to cross the street so if you're going to put all this stuff into my community please keep my community safe for people like me because I'm a senior now now I've been in the neighborhood for over 60s something years thank you for your time yes ma'am thank you for your comments do we have anybody else that would like to speak for against this case no all right we will oh yes ma'am take your time hello everyone I'm Min carwise of 621 SE Avenue Northeast want to Haven and I see the uh trying to reone the section of town that I live in part of the SE Avenue and you want to make next business but why is that when we try to get everything and we can't get it we try it took us over 10 years to try to get a sidewalk and put the sidewalk down and the sidewalk was put down so Shar they had to come back and redouble it up to bring it up higher where you could walk on it and we we try to put in for different stuff we don't get it we go through hous and hoops and stuff and I like to know what's going to be done or what's planning on to be done and just don't switch it around and find out at the last minute and I have prob and I like to know what's going on but he caught me at the long time but I had two heart attacks between January and this this month here I'm trying to do the best I can I said I may be dead and gone but I still like to see some some stuff still the same we tried to get a black call it a museum hope to get it but the way things going look like we've been here back and stuff and it's not safe to walk the road I would even go to to the uh stop sign because I make SC can't get back and have music all night long if not noise all all night long and he said wait till 11:00 and call who you going to call when aen ain't coming out there at that time of night and if they come to come with the spotlights and that's messed up like that to get go but uh it's not safe scared to walk and that's my main thing that we need at least more more health things in the neighborhood and everything and some of the children and you got children that don't even go to daycare because the parents not working they have to stay that notice halfway notice the children now you got to notice the children also and then they turn the dogs will loose in the neighborhood you be scared to come come out the house when they turn the dogs Lo so it just get hard and harder and the and the speed bumps uhuh you need the speed bumps at the D Place those the kind you need in the road that's the only humps that I know stop a person and they got to stop to get cross but other than that we got to have and I don't know why my standing up talking thank you for your comments anyone else from the public all right we will close the public portion of the hearing and reopen the planning portion of the hearing any additional question questions from Commissioners or will entertain a motion question um so how how do the residents address the issue with uh getting some uh speeding signs and traffic calming issues yeah so if they want to leave their contact I'd be happy to get their contact information and um we could we can be in contact with um the streets department they they um have a policy around um traffic uh calming and I can I'd be happy to put them in touch with them to look at the areas that they're talking about and whether or not additional traffic calming would be um adequate yes sir go ahead okay so as controlling the speeding right I don't know how you can control the speeding on on Marth the king without a police presence or a police presence on patrolling it to do speed stops and stuff like that as far as um on Sears Avenue the traffic that cuts off of mar the king to come down to side street to go down Sears Avenue would be efficient with blanking lights on the stop signs okay thank you any additional questions no all right I will go ahead and make a motion to approve cas case number p- 24-38 an administrative request to amend the 2035 future land use map on 63 Parcels from traditional neighborhood area and neighborhood support future land use to primary mixed use Hub future land use General location 63 Parcels located north and south of Martin Luther King Boulevard and lying between Third Street Northeast Northeast and 8th Street Northeast the area covered by these requests is 14.9 for plus or minus Acres as presented in the fact sheet second we have a second all those in favor say I I all oppose same sign all right case is approved moving on case number p- 24-39 administrative requests to make a Citywide update to the official zoning map for consistency with the 2035 Winter Haven comprehensive plan if you want to take a minute I'll give an a [Applause] all right just don't understand all right I'll get started um the city adopted the 2035 Winter Haven comprehensive plan and corresponding 2035 future land use map in August 2023 most properties in the city retain their same future land use from the 2025 future land use map however some properties were remapped for various reasons including matching long-term existing uses or smoothing of boundaries in an effort to bring the city's official zoning map into to consistency with the adopted 2035 future Lane use map staff has undertaken an exercise to identify those Parcels which have zoning conflicts with the adopted future land use in addition to addressing conflicts with the future land use map staff reson some parcels to the following reasons smoothing of zoning District boundaries rezoning to reflect historical uses of property and resoning old or obsolete puds um proposed revisions to the official zoning map will bring several Parcels in into compliance with the adopted 2035 future land use map proposed revisions will smooth boundaries of zoning districts allowing for more consistency between adjacent property owners and proposed revisions will not reduce the number of permitted uses on any parcel therefore staff does recommend that the Planning Commission recommend approval of this case and its foring to the city commission for final action the um subject the maps are located in the published agenda packet since there are 22 they're not we're not showing them on the screen but it would be subject to it is reflected in the agenda packet I stand for any questions that you may have any questions from Commissioners no all right we will close the planning portion of the hearing and open the public portion anyone from the public wishing wishing to speak for against this case all right seeing none we will close the public portion and reopen the planning portion any additional questions no like the entertain a motion to approve case number p- 24-39 administrative request to make a Statewide update of the official zoning zoning map for consistency with the 2035 Winter Haven comprehension plan second all right we have a second all those in favor say I I all oppose same sign all right case is approved case number p-448 an administrative requests to amend the the pable water subelement of the 2035 Winter Haven comprehensive plan for the propo for the purpose of revising policy 1.1.2 two relating to portable water levels of Service Los standards and to amend sanitary sewer subelement policy one 1.1.2 relating to sanitary sewer Los standards all right within the infrastructure element uh of the comprehensive plan there are five sub Elements which address the provision of public infrastructure in the city each of these sub elements establishes level of service the Los standards which form the basis of concurrency Management in the city in the pable water sub element there um there are two types of Los standards with one addressing conservation and usage and the second addressing water system design based on a study of the utility system commissioned by the city's utilities department it was found that the Los standard containment inable water subelement policy 1.1.2 addressing water system design can be reduced from 350 gallons per person per day to 27 75 gallons per person per day likewise the study has determined the design Los standard for the sanitary sewer system as addressed by sanitary sewer sub Elm policy 1.1.2 should be 250 gallons per person per day these determinations were made through an analysis of per capita water consumption and wastewater treatment over the past several years uh staff does recommend that the Planning Commission recommend approval of this request and it's faring to the city commission for final action stand for any questions thank you heather any questions from Commissioners no all right we will close the planning portion of the hearing and open the public portion of the hearing anyone from the public wish wishing to speak for or against this case all right we will close the public portion and reopen the planning portion and I will go ahead and make a motion to approve case number p- 24-48 and administrative request to amend the pable water subelement of the 2035 Winter Haven comprehensive plan for the purpose of revising policy 1.1.2 relating to pable water levels of Service Los standards and to amend sanitary sewer subelement policy 1.1.2 relating to sanitary sewer Loos standards as presented in the fact sheet second all right we have a second all those in favor say I I all oppose same sign all right Cas is approved comments from Staff All right so first I'd like to welcome welcome to the Das Uh Kevin Tyson he's our new planning commissioner so we're thankful that uh you uh applied and you've been appointed and so hopefully we didn't scare you off with this first meeting so welcome a little bit update on past cases um from the July meeting the um land use and Zoning assignment for the property located south of lakes smart uh where Avenue will be going to the city Commission on August 12th for a transmittal hearing as it over 50 acres so it'll have to go to the state for review um and then come back for approval the other um code changes that were part of that meeting are working their way through and are getting um put on to uh City commission agendas as as we move forward the only other thing from staff would be to look at the September meeting it is um scheduled for September 3rd which is the day after Labor Day so we need to determine that this meeting if we be good and solid for a quorum or or if we need to move that meeting back so if you guys could look at your calendars I will be here I'm I'm available I will be here okay none of you none of you celebrate Labor Day all right all right good good sounds like it sounds like we won't have a problem so the next meeting will be on September 3rd oh and also we um uh still have a vacancy on the Planning Commission and applications are still open at this time so if you know anyone who um owns property in the City of Winter Haven or resides in the City of Winter Haven and would be a good fit tell them to fill out that board application and we'll consider it do we still have Rick we do not Rick Rick was appointed and then Rick resigned so um we have a that's the vacancy that we currently have all right all right understood um comments from planning Commissioners anything from anyone Kevin welcome thank you glad to have you on board thank you anything else no comments from the public no all right we are adjourned