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LPA02-10-10Min CITY OF LONGWOOD Land Planning Agency Minutes CITY COMMISSION CHAMBERS February 10th, 2010 - 7:00 P.M. 175 W. Warren Avenue Longwooal, FL 32750 ATTENDANCE: BOARD: STAFF: Bruce E. Noyes, Chair Sheryl L. Bower, Community Development Jolvi R. Prince, Vice-.Chair Director Bobby Roehrig, Member Chris Kintner, Planner Brian Fiore, Member Kelly Morrow, Planner Judy Putz, Member Jessica Pugh, Recording secretary Giffin Chumley, City Assistant Attorney 1. CALL TO ORDER Chair Noyes called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. 2. ELECTION OF OFFICERS A. CHAIRPERSON Member Prince moved to nominate Bruce E Noyes as Chairperson. Seconded by Member Putz and carried by a unanimous voice vote. B. VICE CHAIRPERSON Member Putz moved to nominate John R. Prince as Vice Chairperson. Seconded by Chair Noyes and carried by a unanimous voice vote. 3. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FOR A. Regular Meeting November 11, 2009 Chair Noyes moved to approve the November 11, 2009 minutes. Seconded by Vice Chair Prince and carried by a .unanimous voice vote. 4. PUBLIC COMMENT Land Planning Agency, Page 1, 02/10/2010 No public comment. Chair Noyes moved to close the publtc comment. Seconded bvMember I'iore and carried by a unanimous voice vote. 5. PUBLIC HEARING Chair Noyes opened the public hearing. A. CPA O1-10 Large Scale Comprehensive Plan Amendment Future Land, Use Map Change, Transportation concurrency Exception Area Ordinance 10-1913 Ms. Bower stated the Community Development Services Department recommends the Land Planning Agency recommend to the City Commission approval to transmit to the Department of Community Affairs an amendment to the Longwood Comprehensive Plan (CPA Ol- 10)~ by Ordinance 10-1913. Ms. Bower introduced herself as the Director of Community Development Services to the new members of the board. Planner Chris Kintner, Planner . Kelly Morrow, Assistant Attorney Giffin Chumley, and Recording Secretary Jessica Pugh were also introduced. Ms: Bower indicated in December there was a meeting with the City Commission about the Comprehensive Plan in which the direction was given to build more flexibility. This flexibility is intended to reduce the number of projects that will have to go before the referendum process. should Amendment 4 pass. Staff has made revisions mostly to the Future Land Use Element .and the Future Land Use Map to address those issues. Senate Bill 360 was changed which made the City of Longwood a Transportation Concurrency Exception Area (TCEA), this allows for the City to be exempt from state transportation concurrency requirements on projects. This is a positive because the reason developers go outside of urban areas is due to it being easier for them to provide for transportation impacts in a rural area. In order to promote development in areas that already have water, sewer and utilities services the state has eliminated transportation concurrency requirements in urban areas. Language was added into the Comprehensive Plan to remove the concurrency requirements for transportation consistent with Senate Bill 360. By August 2011, a mobility strategy will need to be in place to include fees for projects that impact roadways, and will also require other methods of dealing with impacts from transportation including pedestrians, transit, Land Planning Agency, Page 2, 02/10/2010 I bicyclists, and buses. The changes that were made are there to provide flexibility and to prevent large amounts of changes having to potentially go through voting procedures. The changes that were used are based on a super mixed used district that was applied to all the major corridors and around the proposed transit station. This provides a base intensity of 1.0. Currently, the intensities around those areas are .5 and only allow for commercial uses. This provides for up to fifty dwelling units per acre and can max out at a floor area ratio of 3.5. Chair Noyes asked for a def nition of Floor Area Ratio. Ms. Bower defined Floor Area Ratio as the equivalent of dividing the square footage of the building by the square footage of the land. Floor Area Ratio is the entire square footage of the building. Impervious ratios would only include the foot print of the building. Other areas along the corridors and the gateways would be allowable for 25 to 30 dwellings per acre depending on the location. The idea was to provide developers that would want to come in the city, the opportunity and ability to do different types of projects. Member Putz asked for the comparison of density and high intensity. Ms. Bower explained the density refers to the number of dwelling units and intensity refers to the amount of commercial non-residential square feet. Chair Noyes inquired on the criteria that the City of Longwood needed to meet in order to meet the exception from the DOT: 1VIs. Bower responded that we had to be a dense urban area and that was defined as 1000 people per mile, which was an automatic designation for the City. Because of home rule, the city does not have to get rid of concurrency standards but for cities like Longwood it makes sense to become a concurrency exception area because if the city wanted the opportunity to do more intense projects this would be the way to do it. The state determined that the city met the criteria and decided what the criteria was, the state has a focus on directing development to all ready existing urbanized areas. The best way to do this was to give incentives to make it easier to develop in these areas. Discussion Ensued. Member Putz inquired on page 8 of the proposed amendment defining some of the service for the major roads as E, if further explanation of this determination could be explained. Land Planning Agency, Page 3, 02/10/2010 Ms. Bower stated the further in the alphabet the letter the worse the condition can be. A level "A" would have perfect road flow, a level "E" indicates more congestion which takes longer to diverse the road. The only changes made in the document were those underlined and indicated in red, the level of E was a previously standing rating. Discussion ensued. Member Putz commented that currently there was only low density and medium density residential properties within the city. 10 dwelling units per acre was the limit and. increasing that amount may be a good idea Ms. Bower responded that the department was more than willing to increase the amount of dwellings per unit but the only concern was the low density residential areas having single family subdivisions and the impact that may have. Discussion ensued. Chair Noyes expressed concem on raising the dwelling units on medium density residential and what type of transition that would create for the existing residents that live along the borders of those areas. Member Putz commented that this would be a vote for making the Comprehensive Plan possible, not a given that all the dwelling units would be allowed. Due to the fact that the city is built out this gives a developer or businesses better possibilities. Member Putz moved to amend the definition of medium densit)~ residential and neighborhood commercial from ten units per acre to fifteen units per acre. Seconded by Chair Noyes and carried by a .unanimous voice vote. Chair Noyes moved that the Land Planning Agency recommend to the City Commission approval to transmit to the department of Community Affairs an amendment to the Longwood Comprehensive Plan CPA Ol -10 by Ordinance 10- 1913 together the motion set and approved by this committee. Seconded by Member Roehrig and carried by a unanimous roll call vote. B. LDCA 01-10 Longwood Development Code Amendment Temporary signs and nonconforming development Ordinance Number 10-191. Ms. Bower stated the Community Development Department recommends the Land Planning Agency recommend to the City Commission approval Land Planning Agency, Page 4, 02/10/2010 of an amendment to the Longwood Development Code by Ordinance 10- 1914. Ms. Bower explained the Commission had a meeting concerning a temporary sign submitted from a charity that wanted to display a sign but could not due to the location all ready having a sign within the ninety days that was allowed. 'The proposed revision would allow the commission to waive the requirements within the temporary sign code when in the best interest of the city. This would include extraordinary circumstances or hardship. Another meeting was based on discussions of being more flexible on properties that are vacant for 180 days and requiring site plan updates. The revision segregates uses and structures and increases the amount of time that a property can be vacant before it needs to be brought into compliance. Discussion ensued. Chair Noyes moved that the Land Planning Agency recommend to the Ciry Commission approval of the amendment to the Longwood Development Code by Ordinance 10-1914. Seconded by Member Roehrig and carried by a unanimous roll call vote. Chair Noyes moved to close the public hearing. Seconded by Member Fiore and carried by a unanimous roll call vote. 6. DISCUSSION AND SCHEDULE FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS Next Regular Scheduled Meeting March 10, 2010. 8. ADJOURNMENT. Chair Noyes adjourned the meeting at 7:55 P.M. race Noyes, Ch r AT'CEST: Jess' a ugh, Recor ing retary ~ . Land Planning Agency, Page 5, 02/10/2010