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07-17-1986 , ~ITY OF EDGEWATER PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD REGULAR MEETING JULY 17, 1986 9:00 AM COMMUNITY CENTER u . MINUTES Chairman Wheeler called to order a regular meeting of the Planning and Zoning Board at 9:00 A.M., July 17, 1986 in the Community Center. ROLL CALL: Members present were Jake Wheeler, Paul Loeffler, Billy Klein and Nancy Blazi. Also present were Lynne Plaskett, Planning Assistant, Carolyn Hollnon, Secretary and Jan Morris, Secretary. Board members excused were George Quaggin, Fred Finn and James Mackie. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: The minutes of July 3, 1986 regular meeting were pres~nted for approval. Mrs. Blazi made a motion to approve the_m~nutes as written. Mr. Loeffler seconded the motion. Motion CARRIED 3-0 with Mr. Klein stating he was not present at that meeting therefore he could not vote. ANNEXATION AND REZONING - THE RADNOR CORPORATION Mr. Glenn Storch, Attorney, Mr. Jack Lyon, Mr. Marty Berge and Mr. Al Davis, Engineer were present to represent the Radnor Corporation. This application was to annex a total of 156.62 acres into the City and to rezone the 138.93 acres in Tract I from County R-3 to City MH-2 and the 17.69 acres in Tract II from County B-4 to City B-3. Mrs. Plaskett read her recommendations which included "no septic tanks allowed, all costs of upgrading the sewer system be at the developers expense, limit greatly the amount of stormwater run-off to the river, save as many tress and natural vegetation as possible, maintenance of common areas and streets be provided in documented form and approved by the City Attorney, and that all state and federal permits be provided prior to any construction. Mr. Storch showed some plans for the property and said what they will be putting in there will be from medium density to commercial. He added what they are creating will be quality for the City of Edgewater. Mr. Lyons related to the Board who the Company was and what their philosophy of development is to the Radnor Corporation. He added the Radnor Corporation is the land development subsidary of the Sun Company (whom use to be known as the Sun Oil Company). Mr. Lyons stated in the ten years of their existence they had some eighty projects in thirteen states with their real estate holdings approaching a billon dollars. He said they develop their projects using many local people, therefore bringing their experience in that particular field in which they are going to be involved and the advantage of their local presence. Mr. Berge told the Board his principal background was engineering and marketing. He added he had developed several manufactured housing communities up north. Mr. Berge said he recently developed Floral Lakes in Bartow and right now he was associated with the Marion Landings in Ocala. He added that seventy percent of the residents of the Community that Radnor is developing will come from up north. "We have set up a budget just short of a half a millon dollars a year to market this product. " He added we will be princially marketing Edgewater as the ideal location. He said they won't be selling a home they will be selling a lifestyle. He explained what recreational facilities would be available to the residents of their community. He said the average price of their homes would be around sixty five thousand dollars. Mr. Berge said the manufactured homes of today are built according to a HUD Code and they will only handle Florida manufactured homes of the highest quality. He emphasized the residents will own their homes and lots, all Radnor will own is the unsold lots. He said the resident association will own the recreation center and all the common areas. u ~ Mr. Wheeler asked what the smallest units would be. Mr. Berge replied the srnallest will be approximately eight hundred and fifty square feet and there will be very few of them. He added the average home in the community will be around twelve to fourteen hundred square feet. Mr. Wheeler asked if the County had lifted the mortatorium? Mr. Storch replied they haven't lifted it, basically what they were asking for today is your approval contingent upon them lifting the mortatorium. He added they are undergoing the waiver process at this time. He said they had discussions with the County Planning staff and what they were requesting that be done was to go through the amendment to the comprehensive plan process which requires them to go through the Department of Community Affairs and get input from the various other governmental agencies. Mr. Storch added at this time the mortatorium is scheduled to be lifted in September. He stated they have a draft of the performance standards and they agreed to meet or exceed those standards. Mr. Storch stated they have engineered their stormwater so that less stormwater run-off will be going into the river after development than is going in now. Mr. Al Davis, Engineer, spoke to the Board in reference to the water retention areas and the elevations of the land. He said they had talked to St. John's Water Management, Corp of Engineers and Department of Environmental Regulations in relation to closing the ditches on the property and putting in extensive holding patterns for the water in conjunction to regulations they will materially reduce the amount of the water that will flow into the Indian River at all. Mr. Davis stated the access would be off of u.S. 1 at an existing crossover. He added they have attempted to put in a curvelinear type of development and they have made sure that the lots themselves will be able to perserve the trees as far as they possibly can. He said they have set out an environmental set back line that will be a walking trail and are planning a foot walk to spoil island which will be recreational only. He added there will be an environmental easement and buffer to the neighbors. Mr. Storch said the site plan is preliminary conceptual plan that the final plans will be much better. Mr. Storch went over Mrs. Plaskett's recommendations and the corporation agreed to meet each of them. Mr. Davis went over a few of their construction requirements for the manufactured homes. Mr. Berge stated their project will be finished ready to move in before they start selling. Mr. Klein said his main concern was the conditions that will flow into the river and into the lagoon. The present mortatorium that has been declared, I know that the paper this week said that on July 24th they are presenting to the County Council the land use recommendations. The City of Edgewater has nothing of this sort at this time. I am in favor of a work session where we have a copy. I don't want to sit here and read these today and make a decision as to whether I'll recommend or not recommend. Mrs. Plaskett replied we do have a future land use map that was done in 1979. Mr. Klein replied but the conditions that are existing now with state and county with the flow of stuff into the river, the concerns of the people now has become an issue and I'm very much concerned about it. Mr. Storch replied I can understand your concern that is why we ask the Board to make their recommendation contingent upon our meeting those requirements and if we don't then fine we are not in it, there is no problem. The Board and representatives discussed the water and sewer availability. They also discussed police protection and Mr. Berge stated they would provide and entrance guard and gate to the community. Mr. Clay Henderson spoke as a representative of the Friends of Canaveral. He stated they had been studying the development impacts on the Canaveral National Seashore anQ had caused several additional standards to be set for the area. Mr. Henderson said the change in the quality of the run-off is different in developed land than undeveloped. He added that is why we really have to look at the way the plans are set forth. Mr. Henderson said his concerns are that we keep the procedures in place to make sure these development standards are complied within their final form and that the County is allowed full comment through the process so that any rezoning be contingent on approval of the comprehensive plan. If you are going to go along with annexation and rezoning it be contingent upon amendment of the comprehensive plan compliance with the County performance standards and/or waiver of the mortatorium would be my recommendation. -2- Planning and Zoning - July 17, 1986 u u Mr. Lyons informed the Board that they would either comply with the performance standards and/or obtain a waiver of a mortatorium if it is continued or if something unforeseen comes that is going to cost us a small fortune to comply with and there is no economical way for it to be developed we will have to walk away from it. Mr. Storch said we are assuming the mortatorium will stay but there is a waiver process we are going through. Mr. Wheeler said the County could exempt this project. Mrs. Blazi made a motion to recommend to the City Council that they annex and rezone this property contingent upon amendment of the comprehensive plan, the plans with County standards and/or a waiver of the mortatorium. Mr. Loeffler seconded the motion. Upon roll call the Motion FAILED 3-1 with Mr. Klein voting no. Mr. Klein said he would like to sit down with a workshop. He would like to know what some of these regulations are, that his concern is still for the development and the overflow into the river and lagoon. I ask for a work session to sit down and talk about it with the other three members here. The Radnor representatives and the Board discussed the subject further and Mr. Wheeler asked Mr. Klein if he wanted to change his mind. Mr. Klein declined to change his vote. Mrs. Blazi asked Mr. Wheeler to poll the Board Members on setting a special meeting when more members would be here. Mr. Storch said if you can not change your mind we will take your recommendation as it is, even though it fails because of the technicality, and go before the City because we need to ~ continue along the process. Mr. Wheeler said yes, we can do that, we won't call a special meeting then. SUBDIVISION SKETCH PLAN: THOMAS J. KOVACS B-3 Mr. Thomas J. Kovacs, Developer and Mr. Richard Cuchetti, Owner, were present to discuss this sketch plan. This application was to sub- divide part of lot four (4), Assessors Sub, Sheppard and Sanchez Grant. This property is located between Knapp and Yelkca, east side of U.S. 1. This request if to sub-divide this property into ten lots. Mrs. Plaskett said they need to comply with the subdivision rules and regulations which call for the street width right of way to be fifty foot and the street shown here is actually an existing thirty foot alley that people access to their property right now. Mrs. Plaskett continued what she was going to ask the Board members is decide whether or not they want to continue the thirty foot right of way as it is now laid out or must the developer change it to fifty foot right of way. Mrs. Blazi asked if it was a City alley. A thirty foot right of way from Riverside Drive was discussed. Mr. Kovacs said this piece of property was almost three acres, sitting back in an isolated area. He said Mr. Cuchetti was trying to sell the property and they wanted to put something together with the Board in order to have something to tell the prospects. Mr. Kovacs stated Mr. Cuchetti owns the thirty foot right of way all the way to the river. Mr. Loeffler wondered if they might not purchase a lot on Yelkca or Knapp and put in a new right of way. Mr. Kovacs asked if they would allow the right of way to be a private road. Mrs. Blazi said if it is a private road then the City can not go in to pick up garbage or anything. The Board instructed Mrs. Plaskett to find out if the Board of Adjustments may grant a variance as to the street width so that they may use the alley that is already there. Mrs. Blazi made a motion to recommend that the Planning Assistant research the ordinance and if that is the course of action, recommend that they go to the Board of Adjustment on the ingress, egress on this property. Motion seconded by Mr. Klein. Motion CARRIED 4-0. SITE PLAN REVIEW: SP-8612 JON DAVIS, D & D RACEWAY B-2 Mr. Davis was present to discuss this site plan which is to have a remote control electric car race track at 2322 Hibiscus Drive. Mr. Loeffler asked if this was not already built. Mr. Davis replied yes. Mrs. Plaskett said there was a misunderstanding when they went before the Board to get a special exception they went ahead and got a building permit. The minutes reflect that even the City Clerk was under the impression they could go at that point and get an occupational license because there was no actual building involved. -3- Planning and Zoning - July 17, 1986 u u . . Mrs. Blazi asked who approved this to start with. The secretary said they were at the Planning meeting to obtain a permitted use in that zone because it was an unclassified business. Mr. Wheeler said we only approved it as a permitted use. The secretary informed the Board that the City Council has approved it as a permitted use also. Mrs. Blazi asked there are no building~ no facilities, like bathrooms. Mrs. Plaskett said they have two chemical toliets approved by the County Health Department. , Mr. Loeffler made a motion to accept the site plan. Motion seconded by Mr. Klein. Motion CARRIED 4-0. NEW BUSINESS: REVIEW APPLICATION FOR SPECIAL EXCEPTION TO ALLOW GAS PUMPS IN B-2 Mr. Earl Wallace was present to represent Mr. Raymond Richards in his request to have gas pumps in the B-2 zoning district. This project is to be located at 811 Indian River Boulevard. The Board discussed reviewing this before and it was explained to them the City Council had approved this as a special exception in the B-2 zone, therefore they had made application for that and the Board must make their recommendation to the Board of Adjustment. 'Mr. Wallace stated they only planned on installing one set of pumps. Mrs. Plaskett explained they would have to put up a little structure for customers to pay for the gas because an accessory use has to be on the same lot as the principal use. Mr. Wallace said they are setting up their site plan in such way as to eliminate some of the traffic congestion. Mr. Klein explained how congested the area is now and asked about the twenty five feet to the pumps. Mr. Wallaces replied Section 713, Appendix A gave the setbacks for pumps. Mr. Klein was concerned with the traffic congestion. Mrs. Plaskett told the Board the whole reason for special exceptions was to set restrictions or limitations on a use if the Board desired to do so. The Board discussed the parking and the placement of the pumps. They informed Mr. Wallace to move the pumps over nearer the center and asked him to put post in between the Shop EZ. ' Mr. Klein made a motion to recommend to the Board of Adjustments that the application made by Mr. Wallace to locate gas pumps in the B-2 zone be approved. Mrs. Blazi seconded the motion. Motion CARRIED 4-0. There being no further business to corne before the Board, Mrs. Nancy Blazi made a motion to adjourn the meeting. Motion was seconded by Mr. Loeffler. Meeting adjourned at 11:45 A.M. Minutes Respectfully Re-submitted By: Jan Morris At request of Planning and Zoning Board by a motion made and carried at the September 18, 1986 meeting. Planning and Zoning Minutes Regular meeting July 17, 1986