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CCMtg01-12-10(WS)Min ®~~5~~~~ ~ Q.~~.~~~{~~~~~~ ll~~ ~~sir, W~n•~°~n .~~~IIdIld~ IL®~n~®®d, ~+'ll®rrnd~ ~ ~T.L~V71L~~~1Ln1LJI+J'~j ~1-~1 V liJ illlCS~ llmm~~~y 6 ~o®® ~~.1~~. Tt'n°~seIln~: Mayon• Bohan C, I~Yt1 ~iIla~oi= DepIlnty l~][ayorr foe ~lIlIl°5® lC®Il%IlIlIl1Il55ioIIIl~Il° ~o&~ Co~r~e~ ~oaaIlIlrIlIl~~noIlnerr LH[.~. 66fl~Iln~clmg9 ~IlIlIlndfy ~oaIlnIlIlnIl~snoIlIleIl° ]~rriaIlIl S~~:fl~~~>!~ I~~l<Il°iIlIl~. ~oweflfl, Cigy 1~dIlIlIliIlIli<,,trr~Ytoli S~Il'~flIl M. MiIl•ens, ~iicy ~fle~~ ShcIl~fl Ii~oweIl°,1<Dia•ec~oIl• of ~ocIlnIlriIlIlIlIlifly ICE;eeflo~IlIlneIlIlt ~flIlIl°i~ IL~IInIl>';flfl~n°, >~Y~nn~.Y°/~>~®Il'm~wait~Il~ I<. ~~ll.)t. T® ®1ft11D1E»~. Mayor Maingot called the meeting to order at 4:00 p.m. RIEV~flJ~/ ~1~1>ID ~J[S~USS T~ 1L®~d~W®®J[D ~®MPRIEJH[~I?I~l«1~ P]L~1~1. Ma. Bower said staff was in the process of looking at the Comprehensive Plan and will be bringing l:orth amendments to it. She stated they wanted to have a Work Sc,ssion for feedback and input :from th.e City Commission. She said they came up with some ideas on how they can change the Comprehensive :Plan to implement the Longwood Design Guidebook and make it more flexible, in light o:Fthe fact that >sl the future there may be a possibility that any kind of change to the Comprehensive Plan will have to go for referendum. She stated they wanted to make the Comprehensive Plan more o1.'a general document: and create the actual regulations and rules in the planning d:'.stricts. She affirmed Comprehensive Plans were supposed to provide an overall look at the City and the details go within the L,:cnd Development Regulations. In the Comprehensive Plan now t:Lzere are a number of mixed-use districts that coincide with the different plaruiing districts that were adopted in the Design Guidebook. She said these were pretty similar and the implementation will come at the Land Development Regulation stage. She stated they thought a better way of talc~.ng those districts and implementuig them would be to have one overall Ini'ill Mi:ced-Use District that they can apply to the major corridors of the City, the Transit: District area, and the Gateways. She said th.e way it is now leaves iiiLlexibility and if they desire to change it in the future, they may have to go to referendum. Sl:e stated they were trying to find ways to be more flexible. They took all of these different categories and. combined them into one. She explained an Infill Mixed=Us~~ category would have definitions of how to CC 01-a2-10/7 obtain t11e upper limits and the only way to get up to that limit would be tluough a bonus provision. Anything that goes through the bonus provision would come to the Coinznssion for approval. Ville said they will have to adopt a plan development type~dstriet in the Longwood Development Code so that there will be a process in place. She stated from what they hear from the Department of Conununity Affairs (DCA), they want to get rid of sprawl and one way to do this is to concentrate development in existing cities. They want development that is supportive of different types of transportation. She said this was not typically the way it was done, but from a planning standpoint it makes sense. She stated it builds in a lot of flexibility and attracts the kind of development the City would want. She said it will encompass all of the mixed-uses except for the Artisan District. It will reduce the need for fixture land use map amendments and will allow for full implementation of the Design Guidebook. She stated it provides incentive for good development and the bonus language can, also provide the City Commmission the ability to waive and reduce requirements. Commissioner Sackett questioned the verbiage use of "bonus". He suggested providing language that would allow the City Coirunission the ability to waive. or reduce. He said if the Commission Izas the ability to provide language to create different criteria then they could do that. Ms. Bower said she was differentiating that one could only get the bonus when the project fiu-thers the goals aiid vision of the City and it could not be just anywhere. Slie stated this was something DCA would look for. Commissioner Bundy said he has talked with some people that do commercial • development and they did not have a problem with the bonus or going above and beyond. He stated he didn't envision Longwood ever having the density of a twelve-story building, but the opportunities for mid-rise type buildings was perfectly within range of their achievements. Conunssioner Cortes said.DCA was in the process of receiving Comprehensive Plan amendments from most municipalities in the State. He inquired if Ms. Bower had seen anything that was coming back as either accepted or rejected or what most cities or counties were doing for preparation. Ms. Bower said most were on the same schedule as we were, but they were all .looking to do as much as possible prior to November. Commissioner Cortes inquired if the Guidebook would become Code. Ms. Bower said it was really implementing the vision. She stated they would have to loop at each of those districts and work with the Commission to determine what would apply where, when and how. Gomrnissioner Bundy inquired if the City would be able to get some assistance in getting it through bCA. CC O1-12-10/~ Ms. Bower said at this point she;Ceels confident they can g,et it tluough 11ie process. She stated State Statute does have a numbed of criteria as far as the review periods. She stated sornetliing tl:~.at was in the Comprehensive Plan. that will be removed was the end to the single map approach. Sloe said once the Couvnission adopted the Design Guidebook, they really did a~~ay with the single map approach. She affirmed they would keep the single snap approach to strictly residential districts: She said with this proposal they would get more density and intensity than they get now, even withouf a bonus. However, if a developer goes into the banus provision, or desires to get things waived, they tiyill go in with some uncertainty of whether the Commission will a gree with w17.at they are doing. Commissioner Bundy said when goingalu~ough to achieve the bonus provision, they will not be required to have all of their fiill engineered drawings an:d be able , to come to the Commission with a concept for approval with a proviso. He stated this way they will not have to spend the money it costs to have engineered plans done. Mayor Maingot said the City also has the Citizen Awareness and Participation Program (CAPP) in place. He stated what they would have, to present would be similar to what tlze;y prepare iiutially for it. Cominissioiier Cortes said this was encouraging acid attracting good development. He stated they needed to be more proactive with Sur~Rail coming. Ms. Bower said they were creating an e:avirorunent where a lot of flexibility was bui Lt-in and you can get-the higher density and intensity. Mayor Maingot suggested once this wa ;done using the City's webs:ite as a selling tool to potential investors of what this City has to offer by way of faciaitatirlg their development process and the flexibility to promote i:nteresi: for development within t:he City. Ms. Bower reviewed the lndustrial category. She said they now have the Artisan Mixed=Use category and on the n:rap the-re is a big h~dustrial Area. She stated instead of c:hanging the map, they were thinlci.ng fhe best way to approach adding the Artisan type uses into the Industrial area would be to tweak existing Industrial Land-Use category language by adding the Artisan uses, allowing retail, of:Eice, and residential when it is in conjunction with an Industrial use. She said this was a very important area to the City aiid they felt it would be better to tweak the language rather than changing the name. 51.ie gave some examples o:i :Industrial mixed with other types of uses. - Commissioner Bundy said the City's strong industrial base lids kept the City in goad shape. He stated they need to be careful so not to allow the Industrial area to be overtaken by retail or residential development. PIF; stated hP thought they were moving in the right direction with this in that any residential, retail, or office use would have to be ancillary to Industrial. He said U~uted Parcel Service (UPS) and CC 01-12~~10/9 Federal Express (FedEx)11ave not been significantly negatively :impacted by the economy and Lozlgwood was extremely lucky to have them here:. He declared this was going in the right direction. Mayor Maingot inquired how Adult Entertainment would~fit. Ms. Bower said the Comprehensive Plan does not provide for that type of use in the Industrial Area and that was a conflict. She stated she would assume the Commission would want to leave it in that Area, so they will zieed to tweak the language. Corrunissioner Bundy said he would want any changes to Adult Entertainment to be fully vetted by the City Attorizey prior to coming to the City Commission. Deputy Mayor Durso inquired if there was a way to. grandfather current businesses in, but when they go away, that property gets turned into something else. Ms. Bower said one of the things they took away from the Work Session on the Code was to make changes to the non-conforming sections of the Code. She stated because of those changes, they may be grandfathering adult uses that they don't want to. She said they were looking at some new language that would actually have the 360 day grace period not apply to adult uses. Deputy Mayor Durso said if the. new language doesn't allow for any growth in that industry and they grandfather what is cul~•ently in the City boundaries, once they go out of business, then that property would automatically fall back into the new rules. Commissioner Bundy said they currently do not have any adult entertainment in the City. He stated by law they have to have an area designated that allows that type of business. Commissioner Sacleett inquired about the Island Lake District. Ms. Bower said the Island Lalce District really doesn't envision itself as being Industrial or Artisan, but it has an Industrial future land-use category. She stated they could take the Infill Mixed-Use or leave it Industrial with t ie provision they could do Industrial or Artisan. . Discussion was held regarding a large parcel of Land in this area.. and the access to the property. Ms. Bower said she would.need direction from the Commission. regarding the land-use. for this area. , CC 01-12-10/10 Deputy Mayor Durso said they all have had individual conversations at: on.e point or another with people concerrlirig this land. He suggested staff meet with appropriate people to try and get direction regarding this area before they set-up the district or la~.id-use for this area. Ms.:Bower said the enhanced I~idustri.a.l provides th.e most :flexibility to maintain the Inchistrial uses and to bring in othej~ types of usES snore so than t;he Infill Mixed.-Use. She suggested since they don't. lalow ~n~hat the future will hold and so not to .pinpoint any particular use that they leave it as enhanced. hidustrial. Mayor Maingot agreed that prior to locking themselves in that there should be some homework done on this ~uea. He ..said Phis area provides for a tremendous opportunity aiicl the research needs to be done. Vl:s. Bower said sie did riot know how much inforniatiorr they would be able to gather within the next couple of weeks and they were working with a tight timeline. Commissioner Bundy suggested a brief conversation with the property o~~rlers as to w11at they would prefer iiutially in r~;gards to the availability for uses. Commissioner Cortes said he agreed with Commissioner Bundy. He stated part of the eight steps of comprehensive plam::ing was stating the goals, collection of the data,. and using the data to get what the City wants. NJ:ayor Maingot said he agreed with th~~ consensus, but asked staff to review the documents and do the revitalized homework on it. N1:s. Bower reviewed the timeline. She said they had the City Conmzission VJor1c Session in January, it will go to Land Planning Agency (Ll?A) in February, and they Hope to take it to the second Com~nissiorl Meeting in :Cebruary with a late February or early March transmittal to:DCA. She stated Dt?A will have until the middle of May to provide their report, the City will respond and the adoption. hearing should be sometime in June. She said DCA. will review in Auo;ust and make their cornrrlents. She advised they were looking at the changes being effective in mid-September. Corrunissioner Cortes inquired if the City was doing anything regarding Senate B:i.ll 360 in the concui-~~ency of our Comprehensive Plan. 1Va. Bower said the way Senate Bill 3E;0 was set up, the City qualifies to be :Transportation Exception Area. She stated the only way we can. do that is by amending our Comprehensive P1a,1 to take out all of the concurrency requirements for transportation and ac-~:ually designate ourselves a Transportation Concur7•ency Exception Area (TCEA). She said they also plan on placing that language in this adoption. Slie stated tl.~.ere was still. the issue of mobility fees acid those have to be coordinated with the ~~ounty. She said they would put in all of the language the City needs to be a TCEA and she will include policy language that we will coordinate with the Cowlty on implementation of n~.ohility fees. Commissioner Cortes said several counties and municipalities were looking to get Senate Bill 360 repealed. He inquired how that might affect this after going through these changes. Ms. Bower.said they were planning oil removing the concurrency on transportation and adding a Transportation Exception Area which was a good thing for the City. the stated even if Senate Bi11360 is repealed, we still can designate parts of our City as TCEA. , Commissioner Bundy said he leas talked with a couple of the legislatures and the legislature is not going to repeal it. He stated they have heard some of the complaints and will tweak it. He said they are. hearing that in some cormnunities it is a good thing. He stated some parts are good for us and others are not. He said if it is struck down by the courts, then it would automatically remove that front the Comprehensive Plan. Mayor Maingot said in doing what has been proposed .gives the City a better marketable flexibility and opportunity to encourage developers to the City. Commissioner Buiidy said whether or not Amendment ITT passes, this will place the. City in a good position overall from a marketability standpoint. He stated if it does pass, any City that does not do this will be behind the curve once the economy improves. AI<?~®~Jl~. Mayor Maingot acljoLU7led the meeting at 4:59 p.m. e ®IlAIlIl (C, ~ ~®~9 ~Y®Il A~T~~~° ~~Il°~h lo%IC. I~IIl°IlIl~, I~1IM~, Ml~A9 entry Cfle~~ CC 01-12-10/12