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10-10-07 Min LPA CITY OF LONGWOOD Land Planning Agency ~ October 10, 2007 Minutes ATTENDANCE: BOARD: STAFF: Bruce Noyes, Chairman Johnnie Richardson, Vice Chair Paul Sizemore, Community Service Director John Prince, Member Marveen Kelly, Recording Secretary JoAnne Rebello,~Member Danielle Adzima, Community Development Coordinator ABSENT: 1. CALL TO ORDER: Chair Noyes called the meeting to order at 7:07 P.M. 2. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES: Regular Meeting of August S, 2007. Chair Noyes made a motion to approve the minutes, seconded by Member Prince, passed by a unanimous voice vote. Regular Meeting of September 12, 2007 Chair Noyes made a motion to approve the minutes, seconded by Member Rebello, passed by a unanimous voice vote. 3. PUBLIC COMMENT--NONE 4. PUBLIC HEARING A. LDC Longwood Development Code Amendment LDC Article IV, Adding Section 4.8.0 "Wekiva Study Area" Ordinance #07-1851 MOTION/RECOMMENDATION: Ms. Adzima stated the Community Development Division for the Community Services Department recommends the Land Planning Agency (LPA) recommend to the City Commission approval of the. Longwood Development Code Amendment LDCA ~ ~ Article IV, Adding Section 4.8.0 "Wekiva Study Area" Ordinance # 07-L851. LPA 10/10/07- 1 - Chapter 369 of the Florida Statues requires local governments to adopt land development regulations to implement the comprehensive plan provisions of the Wekiva Parkway and Protection Act. ~ The requirements of this section are applicable to property in the City that lies within the - limits of the Wekiva Study Area as delineated by the City's Comprehensive Plan. The new section is proposed to be added to Article Four: Resource Protection Standards. This section is proposed to be Section 4.8.0 entitled Wekiva Study Area. if you note on the screen the City is outlined in red and the Wekiva Study Area is outlined in black. Mr. Sizemore stated that the second step of requirements of the Wekiva Parkway and Protection Act as it was signed into law. The first step was to have the focal .governments - that were impacted by the Wekiva Study Area adopt policies into the Comprehensive Plan to - protect the Wekiva Study Area and we have complied with the time lines that the state set out for us. The last deadline was about a year ago for the Last section of the :Plan Amendment. This is an actual excerpt from the Comprehensive Plan; one of the requirements was that we - adopt a map showing the Wekiva Study Area in it. Mr. Sizemore commented that now the City would have to adopt Land Development - Regulations to implement the specific parts of the policies that relate to.private development in the area. A lot of the policies that were adopted were things that the City needed to cto. For example the City needed to consider using reclaimed water as the technology becomes - finically feasible. Along those lines there are policies that we adopted that have to do with private development and redevelopment that might occur in this area. For example if there was redevelopment over 5 acres in size then it would have to have 35% open space. That was something that was dictated by Florida statues. So now we have to have something; in the development code so that an actual development application comes through the City would be able to catch it in the development review process and make sure that was ~ implemented that it is not just a vague policy floating around out there in the Comprehensive Plan. That is what this amendment would accomplish. Chair Noyes called for a motion to close the public hearing seconded by member Rebello with a voice vote motion carried. Member Rebello, Mr. Sizemore, and the board discussed the meaning of the different shades of blue on the map. 2 of the shades of blue show utilities service area and that yellow shows City of Longwood utilities. Member Rebello questioned if any part of the City of Longwood is in Wekiva Study Area, at this moment. Mr. Sizemore responded that the red line is the city limits. Anything that is west of the black line on the map but in the red line in the city limits is in the City of Longwood and is in the Wekiva.Study Area. It is a relatively small area, when the city did a Compressive Plan Amendment was an analyzation done on the amount of vacant land in the area. It came to about 6 acres in the entire area. A lot of the study area extends beyond Longwood. Seminole County had some large areas and Casselberry had larger area involved than Longwood. LPA l0/10/07- 2 - Member Rebello and Mr. Sizemore discussed what areas were encompassed the fact that most of the areas were residential subdivisions Slade Drive, The Winsor Manor Subdivision, Sleepy Hollow area except for on the south side of Highway 434. The Pic-n-Save property and the Township Plaza is just to the east of this line. When you get west to SunTrust and Arby's, in that area. West of-that isthe Wekiva Study Area. Member Rebello questioned if the large black line was Rangeline Road or close to Rangeline Road. . Mr. Sizemore stated that the thick line is the line that demarcates the Wekiva Study Area. The thinner black line is Rangeline Road. Member Rebello .stated that it looked like Tiberon was in the Wekiva Study Area. Mr. Sizemore stated that the first several houses were not but the subdivision was part of the Wekiva Study Area. - Member Rebello questioned if the basic reason for the Wekiva Study Area is to comply with the State Statue. Mr. Sizemore stated that was correct. Some of the regulations are very unlikely to occur or impact development in Longwood because they are directed at the Wekiva Study Area as whole. For example the 35% open space requirement that is included on page 2 of 6. If you . had anxition or land assembly for the purpose of redevelopment within the Wekiva Study Area if you are going to develop new property you would have to provide the 35% open space. On a piece of low density residential property you are already a maximum impervious surface ratio of 42% that is not going to impact low density properties. There is no - ~ commercial. property in that area that has a 75% impervious surface ratio. If someone went and bought a commercial site tore it all down. and started from scratch in stead of having 75% - they would have to have 65%° and follow that rule. A lot of the requirements for cisterns or finding ways to reuse storm water would only go into effect if someone amassed a lot of land and tore out an entire subdivision or a giant track of land and redeveloped them, which is very unlikely to occur. That section of town is so built out. Member Rebello stated that~it does make a comment about annexation. To the west of Tiberon is the Woodlands, which is not in the city, but in cases of annexation even though it is low density residential right now is it affected at all by the Wekiva Study Area and the 35% open .space. Mr. Sizemore stated that because those properties are already developed. They would n~~t be required to go in and retrofit their properties to meet the 35% open space requirement. This would only be applicable if open or vacant land was annexed in and then developed. Or if a property was anriexed in stripped down to the bare land and then redeveloped again. Member Richardson and Mr. Sizemore discussed the fact that the red area on the map that hugged the shore on the south side and when you get down into the residential area on Island Lake that is the county in the area of the Rolling Hills Golf Course, Palm Springs Drive those are located in Seminole county and the fact that that was part of the study area but not within . the City of Longwood. LPA 10/1.0/07- 3 - Mr. Sizemore stated that the City was only required to show the portion of the study are that is located within the City of Longwood. The other areas in the county are. included they are not shown on the City's map because they are located in the County, the Wekiva Study Area impacts 5 or 6 different jurisdictions. Discussion ensued that the Woodlands was in unincorporated ,Seminole County. So they would have to go to Sanford to the County Services Building and are subject to their regulations. Member Prince stated that if you have a Longwood mailing address; anything North of North street is City and South is County. Chairman Noyes moved that the Land Planning Agency (LPA) recommend to the City Commission approval of the Longwood Development Code Amendment LDCA Article IU, Adding Section 4.8.0 "Wekiva Study Area" Ordinance # 07-1851. Seconded by Member Richardson. Roll call vote with all members approving. 5. DISCUSSION AND SCHEDULE FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS Ms. Adzima stated that there would be a meeting scheduled for November 14, 2007. Mr. Sizemore Stated that he hoped that there would not be a meeting for that date because his daughter was due to be born on November 12, 2007. Congratulations were offered by the board to Mr: Sizemore and his family. 6. ADJOi)RNMENT: Chairman Noyes made the motion to adjourn, which was seconded by Member Prince and carried by a unanimous voice vote. Chair Noyes adjourned the meeting at 7:23 p.m. Bruce Noyes, Ch r ATTEST: G~-- Marveen Kelly, Recor in Secretary LPA I-0/10/07- 4 -