06-10-1996 - Workshop CITY COUNCIL OF EDGEWATER
WORKSHOP
JUNE 10, 1996
7:00 P.M.
COMMUNITY CENTER
MINUTES
CALL TO ORDER
Mayor Hayman called the Workshop to order at 6: 56 p.m. in the
Community Center.
ROLL CALL
Mayor Jack Hayman Present
Councilman Danny Hatfield Present
Councilwoman Louise Martin Present
Councilman Michael Hays Present
Councilman David Mitchum Present
City Attorney Krista Storey Present
City Manager George McMahon Present
City Clerk Susan Wadsworth Present
Police Chief Lawrence Schumaker Present
MEETING PURPOSE
The purpose of the Workshop was for the City Council to receive input
from staff and the public on business properties located on Hibiscus
Drive and Guava Drive. The discussions would include the three
employee cap, proposed changes of land use from Commercial to
Industrial, parking and outside activities on business property.
Mayor Hayman commented on how the workshop would be conducted. He
identified they were here to work together to solve problems .
Mayor Hayman identified he had asked City Manager McMahon to have
staff describe where they are now, what existing regulations were that
they were having differences with, to describe what the alternatives
were that had been identified and to describe some of the difficulties
they had met over the last month.
City Manager McMahon asked Council for the ability to respond to what
he considers an invitation from County Councilwoman Lynne Plaskett
that he received late this afternoon in response to the Wastewater
Plant and was relative to the next meeting. He recommended the
Council invite County Councilwoman Lynne Plaskett to their next
meeting as an item of discussion.
It was the consensus of Council for City Manager McMahon to invite
County Councilwoman Lynne Plaskett to the next meeting.
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Community Development Director Mark Karet commented on there being
what he felt were two separate but related issues; the first being a
land use issue and the second dealing with Code Enforcement.
Mr. Karet then commented on the land use issue with regard to the B-2
District having a three-employee cap which applied to light
manufacturing and machine shops . The restriction dated back to 1984 .
The B-2 District was the City' s neighborhood business district, which
was to provide an area for sale of goods and services that were
intended for household use. Manufacturing uses and machine shops were
inconsistent with the stated intent of the B-2 District. He further
commented on how those uses got there in the first place, which in
turn created the idea of the three employee cap.
Mr. Karet spoke of the general impression of most members of the
public being that Guava and Hibiscus was an industrial area. He then
identified three reasons why they didn' t just strike the words
"limiting the number of employees within the B-2 District" as being
they would be ignoring the intent of their Code, there were a number
of uses within the B-2 District that were incompatible with full
fledged industrial uses and the State requires their Land Development
Codes and Zoning Maps be consistent with their Comprehensive Plan.
Mr. Karet felt the remedy was they needed to change portions of the
Future Land Use Map in the Comprehensive Plan that applied to the
areas along Guava and Hibiscus, from their commercial designation to
an industrial designation and proceed with the actual rezoning once
DCA had approved the change to their Comprehensive Plan.
Mr. Karet then commented on the Code Enforcement issue. At the May
20th meeting, Council heard about his staff' s recent Code Enforcement
activities on Guava and Hibiscus. There were two areas that received
the most comment. One was outside auto repair which was prohibited by
the current Code . He felt there was some room for compromise in that
area. The second issue had to do with parking violations . Their
parking requirements were independent of the zoning. The zoning
categories for industrial or commercial districts did not contain
zoning requirements within those districts . The parking requirements
were in a separate part of the zoning ordinance and identified uses
independent of the overall zoning and set a certain amount of required
parking.
Mr. Karet further identified that most areas that have parking
problems have a shortage of customer parking. The typical solution
was for either a municipality or a business association to get
together and develop parking. There is a customer base that needs
that parking so there is revenue associated with charging for the
parking and improvements can be made and paid for through metering or
a number of other arrangements .
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Mr. Karet then commented on individuals being cited as a result of
their sites being over capacity due to vehicles that were being worked
on or stored onsite, which wasn' t a customer issue but a capacity
issue. That wasn' t a problem that easily lends itself to a public
solution. Those problems were associated with people that were
outgrowing their sites .
Councilman Hays commented on having an opportunity to stop by several
of the businesses . He thanked the business owners for spending time
with him.
Councilman Mitchum thanked everyone for coming and felt they all
needed to work together.
City Manager McMahon identified as of this time the City had not
issued citations to anyone in that area. What were issued were
notices based on the ordinances, which they were going to be
discussing tonight. He wanted anyone who received notices to
understand they were not citations .
Mayor Hayman summarized the previous discussion and identified he
wanted to focus on the three employee cap in the B-2 District. He
disclosed that some of the business people in the community had met
with City Attorney Storey and Mr. Karet last week to discuss
alternatives to how they can cope with this problem.
John Moore, 2354 Fern Palm Drive, representing the Edgewater Business
Association, which was a group of concerned business owners on Guava
and Hibiscus that came together so they could decide what they needed
to help all of them and not just each individual business . After
their meeting, he realized that just by dropping the three employee
cap they would still be in conflict with the comprehensive Plan. He
thought Mr. Karet was trying to get a package he has prepared to the
DCA so they could see what they had and get their feedback on it. He
still had concerns as to how it would be zoned once it was zoned
industrial. He felt what Mr. Karet was wanting to do was not to go
from B-2 to I-1 but to go from commercial to industry. Once they had
DCA' s approval, then they could determine the criteria. He stated
when 84-0-14 was enacted, it wasn' t a cure; it was just a mandate. He
felt they should get this on the Council agenda so they could proceed
with a Comprehensive Plan Amendment.
City Attorney Storey commented on the Comprehensive Plan Amendment
process being complicated. She thought it was important for her and
Mr. Karet to understand the confusion and felt everyone had a better
understanding as a result of the meeting. She then referred to
Ordinances 95-0-14 and 95-0-15.
Mr. Moore didn' t want Council to consider the 95-0-15 until they
prepared a second reading of 95-0-14 .
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City Attorney Storey stated one of the things they talked about at the
meeting was moving the Comprehensive Plan Amendment forward and then
use the 90 day period, which was what Tallahassee had to review that,
to then work on any changes in the language to the B-2 Zoning District
as well as Industrial .
Mr. Moore felt these were issues they could change once they heard
back from Tallahassee, which he felt would solve the three employee
cap and some of the outside working issues . He had no idea what they
were going to do about the parking.
Mayor Hayman wanted to put the three employee cap issue to bed before
they started discussing the parking.
Mayor Hayman clarified what City Attorney Storey had described with
regard to moving Ordinance 95-0-14 forward and then working on 95-0-15
while 95-0-14 was going through the process .
Mayor Hayman asked if there was anyone that had a question regarding
the suggestion made as an alternative solution to the three employee
cap problem.
Dominick Fazzone, present member and past Chairman of the LDRA, agreed
that was the proper procedure and pointed out that the LDRA worked on
the proposals for months and the solution presented was the solution
that City Attorney Storey and Mr. Karet came to originally.
John Browning, owner of All Storage, asked what the difference was in
95-0-14 and 95-0-15, which City Attorney Storey explained for him.
The other piece to this would be some changes to the I1 Light
Industrial District, which would be a third piece they needed to
follow up on.
Mayor Hayman questioned what would happen in the meantime to the
business people in the community, the government entity, and to City
staff. City Manager McMahon stated he was going to recommend tonight
that the Council approve the staff not enforcing the existing
ordinances until the ordinances have been reviewed properly through
the time process and bureaucracy process that was necessary. He felt
there was no need to cause a hardship to anybody until they have
resolved the issues . They could have a consensus tonight but the vote
couldn' t be taken until a regular meeting.
Mayor Hayman identified City Manager McMahon was asking for a
consensus of the Council regarding a moratorium of sorts and
enforcement of the ordinances that impact on 95-0-14 and 95-0-15 .
City Attorney Storey felt there might be some confusion and explained
the only thing that 95-0-14 would do was change the Future Land Use
Designation potentially of some of the parcels from commercial to
industrial . The other items of enforcement that Council had already
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directed staff to hold off enforcement on, she wasn' t sure that this
particular ordinance would make any difference one way or another.
Mr. Karet pointed out the parking requirements would apply
irrespective of the zoning change and that this was still an
outstanding problem that would have to be addressed. By rezoning it
from commercial to industrial the parking requirements would remain
the same and were in effect city-wide regardless of the zoning
district.
Councilman Hays spoke of the motion that passed unanimously at their
last meeting to hold on this with the exception of enforcing the
parking regulations on the rights-of-way. City Manager McMahon had no
problem like that and identified the rights-of-way were an issue unto
itself as they belong to the public and did not belong to any private
property owner. He didn' t want City staff to issue citations or even
notices to people when there was something under consideration.
Ed Fosler, 2835 Cow Creek Road, stated there was a broad spectrum of
violations and it wasn' t just the employee cap or the parking. There
were many other violations under this umbrella and they wanted time to
work on it and not just one issue. They needed time to resolve the
whole problem. He felt it sounded like it was limited to one issue
and they wanted the whole problem resolved.
Mayor Hayman stated he was partly responsible for that as he was
trying administratively to take care of one issue at a time but it was
very difficult to do.
Mayor Hayman felt they needed to address the entire City and not just
Guava and Hibiscus as they had issues elsewhere also.
City Manager McMahon identified that the process of going through DCA
was a lengthy process . He suggested they didn' t issue any citations
until the process was completed and back to Council for final
resolution.
Mayor Hayman spoke of it being the consensus of Council to establish
and continue the moratorium that was established at the last meeting.
He asked if they had a consensus that they were looking at the City
holistically and not just Guava and Hibiscus on matters of a similar
nature.
Councilman Hays described anything they did had to address the entire
City.
City Manager McMahon asked for clarification and identified they had
other Code Enforcement related issues that had nothing to do with the
problems tonight and wanted to make sure Council wasn' t suggesting
that be waived as well . Mayor Hayman explained it would be very naive
for them to focus their attention on Guava and Hibiscus when there are
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other interests throughout the City as well . What they work out here
tonight should apply to the business people in Edgewater in total and
not just Guava and Hibiscus .
Gary Roberts, 2411 Pine Tree Drive, commented on easing up on
enforcing citations or the problems with parking for existing
businesses not helping someone like himself who was now building. He
felt they couldn' t have double standards by easing up on ordinances
for existing businesses and anybody just moving in having to abide by
the book.
Councilman Mitchum asked for a for instance. Mr. Roberts spoke of
onsite parking being a big problem and only having a certain amount of
vehicle parking that was acceptable for each type of business . He
further spoke of being restricted as far as what he could do.
Mr. Karet further commented on the issue and identified he made him
comply with all the regulations going through the permitting process .
He questioned if after he receives his Certificate of Occupancy does
he fall under the moratorium in terms of the enforcement or not. The
parking requirements had been in place since 1986.
Councilman Hays identified they had gone from one item to another item
and wanted to finalize the three employee cap issue and address the
parking when they got to that issue.
Councilman Hays felt the way things were done 10 or 20 years ago was
different than the way they are done today because of different
federal and state regulations .
City Manager McMahon suggested, in the sense of fairness and equity
involved with people that were committed to spending money and that
were in the process of building that didn' t know what the outcome of
the zoning ordinance would be, that the portion that causes a
substantial or proportionate expenditure on behalf of the person with
the building permit be put in suspension at this time following the
conclusion of what Council does and whatever applies at that time
would be universally applied. When they come up with the land use and
parking requirements, they would be held accountable for doing what
everyone else had to do under the zoning ordinance.
City Attorney Storey spoke with Mr. Roberts last week and felt they
were mixing different sections of the Code. The sections Mr. Roberts
was talking about were not in the Future Land Use Element and were in
the Zoning Code but were in another section. The Future Land Use
issue and the B-2 were interrelated but the parking requirements were
a separate item. She didn' t know how they would proceed forward with
a building halfway and then try to figure out what they were going to
do later and staff trying to figure out how to issue a CO or not
without it being more confusing.
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Mr. Roberts identified the three employee cap would affect parking and
felt it was all tied together.
City Manager McMahon identified his main concern was moving ahead with
the Comprehensive Development Plan and whatever amendments were
appropriate. The City has to be sure the zoning ordinances were in
compliance with that language. Until the entire issue was resolved,
what they were doing was asking a man to commit to do something today
out of his pocket that tomorrow may change, which he felt was an
issue.
Mr. Roberts then commented on changing B-2 to Light Industrial and
taking some of the non-conforming businesses which would become
conforming when they become light industrial and winding up with a
reverse effect. He felt they were correcting some problems and
creating others and suggested modifying B-2 if possible.
Mayor Hayman agreed with Councilman Hays that they needed to complete
the three employee cap issue before discussing the other issues .
Councilman Hays felt everything they were discussing tonight was
intertwined. He felt if a business fit into the category of exceeding
the three employee cap that they had a business decision to make and
further commented on having to make hard decisions when you are in
business .
Bertha Morin, B & M Service Center, asked if they had three employees
if that included the owners as well. John Moore, Sr. informed her the
three employee cap was for assembly and manufacturing.
City Manager McMahon felt they were going to have to be specific with
the definition of what it meant when it got to that point.
Mr. Roberts asked if they removed the three employee cap, if they
would have unlimited employees or set a different cap.
Councilman Hays explained logistically they could only put so many
employees in one building. Mr. Roberts presented the scenario of
someone purchasing a whole block on Hibiscus and putting in a huge
factory and if they would want a business there with 50 employees next
to duplexes . Councilman Hays felt if someone wanted to buy a whole
block and put in a light industry business that would fit into that
area he wouldn' t have a problem with it.
Mayor Hayman identified they had agreed there were some solutions
regarding the three employee cap and they have accepted the
recommendation from the Edgewater Business Association that had been
worked out with staff and they would move that forward towards
resolution at a regular Council meeting with Ordinance 95-0-14 . City
Attorney Storey identified that number would change to a new 96 number
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and the earliest that could be on the agenda would be the first
meeting in July due to advertising requirements .
Mayor Hayman then moved onto the next item regarding outside
activities on business property and what was and wasn' t permitted.
Councilman Hays commented on discussions he had with some of the
business owners . He presented a scenario of work being done under the
hood of a vehicle and the need to wait until the vehicle cools down
before being able to work on it. He felt they needed to allow
reasonable periods of time. He then commented on seeing someone doing
wet sanding body work outside. He felt for some of the things common
sense would tell them that they needed to allow it.
John Moore felt the two issues Councilman Hays was referring to were
two different issues with regard to someone repairing a vehicle and
someone wet sanding a vehicle. Councilman Hays identified the topic
was outside activities on business property.
Mr. Moore felt the Code Officer should be looking as closely at Park
Avenue and Mango Tree Drive as she was on Hibiscus and Guava. He
further commented on cars that were being worked on at residences in
Florida Shores .
Councilman Hays felt Mr. Moore missed the intent of what he was trying
to say and further described he felt there were concessions that
needed to be made. He further explained he brought it up because he
felt there were certain things where they had gone too far with the
enforcement. Mr. Moore expressed concern with vehicles being worked
on in residential areas that weren' t being enforced but businesses
were.
Councilman Mitchum felt what they needed to do when looking at this
was to use common sense in what they were doing and felt the owners of
the business would also use common sense because of production. He
felt it might not be a bad idea to send the Code people by to spend
some time with the folks to see what John Moore or Eddie Clinton goes
through.
Bertha Morin, B & M Service Center, wanted to know why everyone was
stirring up a hornet' s nest with auto repair. She asked why it was
such a big issue here in Edgewater and what had brought it up. She
spoke of having limited space in their places of businesses and there
being certain things they have to do outside because they don' t have
the space inside . She expressed concern with not being able to take
all of the business that came in so they could make money to pay their
bills.
Councilman Mitchum spoke of there being many businesses on Guava and
Hibiscus and the auto repair business being the most prevalent in this
area and that it wasn' t being picked on. It just had to be at the
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forefront now of an issue they started looking at. They were trying
to find a solution to everyone' s problem.
Diane Mitchell, East Coast Cars, 1863 Guava Drive, wanted to know what
the intent was behind the outside auto law and if the concerns were
safety or environmental . She asked if it would matter if they had a
problem with a car and they had to get it handled in the span of one
day or were they mainly concerned about people who had vehicles torn
apart for long periods of time.
Mayor Hayman felt what they were trying to do was an honest attempt to
keep someone from trying to disassemble a bulldozer outside near a
residential area and leave it there for weeks on end. He spoke of
being in the 21st century and dealing with a 20th century ordinance and
they haven' t kept pace with that.
Councilman Hays spoke of the owners of the businesses finding they are
outgrowing themselves . He then commented on what would be considered
a reasonable period of time for a vehicle to sit as he saw vehicles
that had been sitting in the same place for years that had basically
been abandoned. He felt they needed to resolve the issue of what a
reasonable period of time was to leave something sitting on a lot and
asked the business owners to help the Council decide what that time
would be.
Ms . Morin pointed out there were laws that they could keep a vehicle
for 60 days, advertise a legal ad, go to the courthouse, get the
proper paper work and get rid of it.
Eddie Clinton, 2210 Hibiscus Drive, spoke of 50% of the work that
comes into a mechanic shop and body shop either don' t run or are
inoperable so they were going to be parked. He also spoke of the
number of cars that may be on a lot changing from week to week. He
spoke of Gary Roberts having a problem with his place but he knew his
place was there before he built his building and he felt that wasn' t
his fault.
Ann Davis, 2427 Guava Drive, Performance Dynamometer Services,
Edgewater Business Association, stated they were taking into
consideration everyone' s circumstances involved with some of the Codes
and changing some of the wording for outdoor automotive. They were
willing to work together as a group and come to the Council with
possibly a very good solution with limitations of what could or could
not be on there.
Doug Jones, President, Chamber of Commerce, commended the group for
coming together so quickly and getting a response from the City
Council . He felt it was encouraging to see them working together. He
introduced the other Executive Board Members that were also present.
He informed Council the Chamber wanted to be a part of the solution
and offered their services.
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Mayor Hayman called a five-minute recess at this time.
Mayor Hayman suggested with the recommendation from the public and the
Edgewater Business Association to proceed as they describe and
presented by a vote and it ties into the Comprehensive Plan and the
ordinance that has to do with zoning that within that framework of the
verbiage of what is allowed and now allowed in zoning. The business
people want to work with staff to help address each of the issues with
regard to the specific zoning area.
Mr. Moore felt the Comp Plan amendment would take care of the problems
they have with the employee cap as well as some of the uses . He
identified they were zoned B-2 and there were a lot of uses that
didn' t fly with what the Neighborhood Business District was . Once
they heard back from DCA they would have to decide how they were going
to use the land as industrial .
City Manager McMahon spoke of the issue of insufficient parking and
making a verbal agreement with the party that owns property next to
you to use their land assuming the parking area was sufficient.
Mayor Hayman summarized they would follow the recommendation of the
Edgewater Business Association to proceed with the ordinances, for the
Comprehensive Plan Amendment and zoning changes and the business and
professional people in the community would be invited to work with
staff on addressing what was permissible in the various types of
zoning activity they had.
Councilman Hays spoke of the simple things the business owners may
know about on a day to day business and asked that they bring those
little things into play and felt that things that came up under their
routine umbrella were things they needed to allow.
Mr. Moore spoke of their being a lot of issues they could solve. He
further identified that automotive repair were governed by the State,
the County and the EPA.
Mayor Hayman then identified they would talk about parking in the
right-of-way.
City Manager McMahon explained there were situations in the community
where a business or property owner will have insufficient property for
what they were doing on their own property. The Code required someone
to have a signed agreement from another property owner allowing them
to use their property for parking. He believed the City was getting
into the civil business of two parties agreeing to something that
didn' t necessarily have to be done that way. He didn' t believe it
should be necessary to have a legal binding agreement for that purpose
and didn' t feel the City should get into requiring a signed agreement
of the party that consents to doing that.
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City Manager McMahon then commented on the issue of public right-of-
way, which he had a very restrictive feeling about. The public owns
the right-of-way. He spoke of the City recently putting substantial
money into the drainage. He also pointed out that the City mows and
maintains the rights-of-way and the drainage swales, detention ponds
and conveyance system. When there are cars parked there it restricts
the City of work and causes grief to the workers trying to do their
jobs . He again pointed out the taxpayers own the right-of-way and
that there were utilities in the rights-of-way as well as telephone
lines and cable wires . He felt if someone parked in the right-of-way
day in and day out and had been asked to move a vehicle by Code or the
Police that the City had an obligation to have the vehicle towed and
the person cited.
Mayor Hayman asked Mr. Moore if the Edgewater Business Association had
a position on this subject.
Mr. Moore thanked City Manager McMahon for his comments and his
approach to the parking problem. He appreciated the leniency they
have had so far. He pointed out since May 20th a lot of the parking on
the right-of-way had been cleaned up and some of the junk cars had
been moved and gone, which he felt was self enforcement . He felt
there must be an agency, DOT or the State that could help them come up
with a solid solution to solve the problems . He wanted to look at
some of the unbuildable lots on Guava and Hibiscus . He was curious
about the legality of using the City' s ten foot right-of-way that
abutted the FEC Railroad as parking on Hibiscus . He didn' t know that
they could up with anything quick enough to attach it to what they had
going on with the Comp Plan Amendment and wasn' t sure if it would be
necessary to have the parking problem solved before they amended it.
He agreed with 100% with the right-of-way parking as it related to
rescue vehicle access .
City Manager McMahon identified the City did not enforce the FEC
right-of-way restrictions and that that was up to the FEC.
There was further discussion regarding there being a ten foot right-
of-way between Hibiscus and FEC that wasn' t ten feet all the way and
that there were some variances .
City Manager McMahon stated there was nothing that said that Council
couldn' t designate an area for parking that was rights-of-way and
restrict cars to a certain distance on the right-of-way so it would be
far enough off the road that it wouldn' t create a traffic problem. It
was a public right-of-way that could be designated for a public
purpose but it had to be common to everyone there.
Mr. Moore asked the Council and staff to look into what areas along
Guava and Hibiscus could be used for parking legally. He felt this
would solve a lot of the problem.
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Mr. Moore then commented on cars being stored on a lot and making work
for themselves if they store too many because then they have to move
cars to get to one particular car.
Mr. Moore then mentioned parking on Hibiscus on some of the streets
that had been blocked off for the retention areas . He agreed those
should be no parking, some of it because of the burmage.
Mr. Moore briefly commented on their water retention working as
planned.
Mr. Moore then described he felt the parking wasn' t that crucial of an
issue. He knew they got confused with the right-of-way parking and
some of the legalities of enforcing it.
Mr. Moore further commented on addressing the Council months ago about
the no parking signs on Guava which he didn' t have a problem with
until one was placed two inches from his bumper, dead center while he
was at lunch. He identified there was no pre-notice notifying them
the City was going to do that.
Mayor Hayman summarized what he felt Mr. Moore was recommending.
Councilman Hays commented on the delivery truck issue which Mr. Moore
touched on as it related to parking in the right-of-way. He then
commented on the changes to the parking situation on U. S. #1 as it
related to delivery trucks. He didn' t think the intent of the no
parking was for delivery trucks, as they are only at a location for a
few minutes .
Ed Fosler, Ed' s Bottled Water, believed this problem had been
addressed with the Florida Highway Patrol . They can make a delivery
on the right-of-way and didn' t have to pull into a parking spot and
park. They come under the FHP rules . He suggested they look into
that.
Bertha Morin spoke of having an incident one time when water was being
delivered to their place of business and the police informed her it
was not against the law for them to sit alongside the road, make their
deliveries and leave.
City Manager McMahon described the only time the police should be
involved was if there was a public hazard situation. He felt this
could be worked out very easily. If there was a specific area where
the City didn' t have a great concern about parking on ten-foot strip
of right of way immediately off the road and then contain the traffic
to that, he didn' t see any problem with designating a common area for
them to do that. He wasn' t aware of any legal precedence regarding
this . He further commented on public safety being the major concern.
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Councilman Mitchum spoke of the businesses that have don' t have
customers flowing in and out all the time as a lot of the work being
done was drop off work or towed in and the need for parking spaces
wasn' t as great. He further commented on looking at if one type of
business may require more parking than another type of business . He
also commented on having different types of parking spaces, parking
for customers and parking for vehicles that were being worked on. He
suggested they look at actual situations .
Mr. Moore felt there weren' t that many businesses on Guava and
Hibiscus that they couldn't address it on a per business basis, which
he felt would be the fairest and easiest way to go about it.
Councilman Mitchum pointed out the parking requirements for a
customer, storage and handicap accessibility weren' t the same and he
felt that needed to be addressed.
Councilman Hays agreed with City Manager McMahon that if someone has a
neighbor that says they can park on their property that it should be
none of the City' s business . The rest of the Council agreed.
Mr. Roberts didn' t see a problem with using adjacent land for overflow
parking. He asked if that would be considered part of a mandatory
parking space for an occupational license.
Mr. Karet commented on questions he had regarding how he needed to
enforce that. He presented a scenario which Councilman Hays felt
would be addressing overflow on an existing business . If someone' s
neighbor allows them to use their property, if the vehicles were off
the right of way and on private property that shouldn' t be considered
part of his business if that wasn' t his deeded property.
Mr. Karet identified the current language, in order to get credit for
it, said they had to own it or lease it long term, which would be in
effect for somebody qualifying for an occupational license .
Mayor Hayman felt if a property owner saw as an entrepreneurial
investment an opportunity to develop a common parking area and lease
or rent space to people that needed it, he was sure it could be
accommodated but didn' t think it would be cost effective.
Mayor Hayman then summarized the conclusions of what had been
discussed. He felt the items of concern should pertain to the entire
City and not just Guava and Hibiscus .
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business to discuss, Councilwoman Martin moved
to adjourn. The meeting adjourned around 9: 00 p.m.
Minutes submitted by: Lisa Bloomer, CMC
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