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Economic Development Advisory Board
City of Palm Beach Gardens
Thursday - November 18, 2004
8:30 a.m.
Council Chambers - City Hall
Meeting Agenda
1. Call to Order
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Roll Call
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PALM BEACH GARDENS
A Signature City
Lou Gaeta, Vice Chair
Susan Bell, Public Information &
Recording Coordinator
4. Approval of Minutes Members
(October 21, 2004)
5. Staff Report Dolores Key, Economic Development
& Marketing Administrator
a. Economic Development Element for Comprehensive Plan
i. Transmitted to Department of Community Affairs on October 19, 2004.
ii. Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council has requested it be reviewed
by DCA
iii. DCA will, hopefully, issue comments by the end of December 2004.
b. Scripps - Florida
6. Discussion of change of EDAB meeting schedule (beginning in December 2004).
a. 2nd Thursday of each month.
b. 4"' Thursday of each month.
7. Discussion of Traffic Concurrency Issues in Relationship to Economic Development
a. Staff Resources — Natalie Wong, Senior Planner & Assistant to the City Manager
for the Scripps - Florida Project.
8. Next Meeting Topic
9. Next Meeting Date December , 2004
10. Adjourn
Dolores Key, Economic Development and Marketing Administrator
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY BOARD
November 18, 2004
Minutes
The Economic Development Advisory Board met on November 18 2004. The meeting
was called to order at 8:30 AM in the Council Chambers of the Municipal Complex,
located at 10500 North Military Trail, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and opened with the
pledge of allegiance.
L ROLL CALL
Present: Lou Gaeta, Eric Habecker, David Haysmer, Mark Murnan, Casey
Steinbacher, James Kissel, Elaine Beers joined meeting at 8:36 AM.
Also Present: Dolores Key, Staff Liaison and Economic Development/Marketing
Administrator, Amy Luetkemeyer, Alternate Staff Liaison and Public Relations
Director, Natalie Wong, Senior Planner and Assistant to the City Manager and
Susan Bell, Public Information/ Recording Coordinator
H. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
The board approved the minutes from the October 21, 2004 meeting.
III. STAFF REPORT
Dolores Key reported that the Economic Development Element has been
transmitted to DCA for comment. She is hoping to get an official letter from DCA
by the end of the week and then it will go before City Council to be adopted in
December.
IV. DISCUSSION ON CHANGING MEETING TIME
The board agreed in a 7 -0 vote to move the meetings to the 2d Thursday of each
month as opposed to the 3d Thursday. The next meeting will be held on December
9, 2004.
V. PRESENTATION BY NATALIE WONG
Natalie Wong gave a presentation regarding existing vacant property in the City.
This presentation was also given to City Council at a prior council meeting.
Natalie stated that on October 16, 2004 City Council unanimously approved staff
to prepare a more comprehensive scope City -wide economic development
initiative to include a more detailed analysis of City development. Some of the
goals for this plan included providing the citizenry of Palm Beach Gardens value -
added employment opportunities through:
• Expansion of companies already located in the City of Palm Beach
Gardens.
• Recruitment of new companies to Palm Beach Gardens.
• Sustainable value -added jobs in Palm Beach Gardens to increase money
• Flow in order to diversify the tax base and Provide more employment
options to residents.
Natalie also discussed the methodology and criteria used for the analysis. The
parcels that were discussed included: Parcel 5A, Parcel 5B and the Briger Tract.
She also discussed the staff recommendations which included:
• City initiated land use change to allow for initiated land use
• City - initiated zoning change
• Authorization to notify property owner of proposed changes
After the presentation the board asked Natalie questions and discussed the 3 parcels
mentioned above.
Dolores would like to bring back to the board a resolution that examines the parcels
within Palm Beach Gardens, specifically the Brigger development.
VL DISCUSSION ABOUT TRAFFIC CONCURRENCY ISSUES
The board discussed the traffic concurrency problems in the city and also included
the 3 parcels that Natalie discussed in her presentation. Elaine Beers expressed her
concern that value added businesses, such as Anspach, that are already established
in the City cannot grow any larger because of the traffic concurrency problems.
Traffic concurrency is limiting the economic development in the City. Lou Gaeta
stated that this is a very complicated problem and he feels that this board needs to
be educated on this issue so they can talk to City Council and explain the problems
to them. There was discussion as to how traffic concurrency works and businesses
that are affected by this problem including Anspach.
Lou Gaetta would like Charlie Walker, who is an expert on this subject to speak to
the board. The board agreed to ask Charlie Walker to give a presentation at their
next meeting.
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VII. ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business to discuss, the meeting was adjourned at 9:28
AM.
Approval:
Kenneth Kahn, Chairperson
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Lou Vaeta, Vice Chairperson
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Mark Muran, Board Member
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Susan ell
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