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CITY COUNCIL
SPECIAL WORKSHOP MEETING
MARCH 30, 2000
The March 16, 2000, Special Workshop Meeting of the City
Council of the City of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, was called to
order at 7:00 P.M. 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 to the
Flag.
ROLL CALL The City Clerk called the roll and the following elected officials
were found to be in attendance: Mayor Joseph R Russo, Vice
Mayor Eric Jablin, Councilperson Lauren Furtado, and
Councilperson Carl Sabatello. Councilperson David Clark arrived
at 7:35 p.m.
ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION
Proposed Land Development
Regulations
Growth Management Director Roxanne Manning introduced
workshop discussion and review of proposed land development
regulations - Section 93, entitled Permitted Uses, Conditional Uses
and Prohibited Uses and Articles I -IV, and provided an update of
the process and sections already adopted, and possible future
workshop dates. Consultant Marty Hodgkins explained that the
code had been reorganized to be more user friendly, and requested
discussion of adult uses be discussed at a later meeting. Mr.
Hodgkins was requested to research whether an adult use of a
dancing establishment without alcohol was allowed by other cities.
Mr. Hodgkins highlighted substantive changes in order to address
policy changes.
Page 10, Sec. 19, Concurrency required. Allowing an application
to begin with a traffic concurrency certificate submitted later in the
process rather than before an application could be started was
discussed. Staff was requested to research how this process had
worked in other cities.
Page 15, (g) Preliminary review of large scale developments. Mr.
Hodgkins explained this would provide an opportunity for the City
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Council to review potential applications for large projects at a
workshop prior to the formal development review process. The
City Council agreed to this change.
Page 16, (h) Liens and fines. Language was provided so that a
development order application could not be considered unless all
liens or fines owed to the City for the subject property had been
paid. An example was discussed.
Page 38, Sec. 29, Conditional Uses. Mr. Hodgkins noted that
criteria had been added to help in making decisions in various
situations.
Page 50, (c) Time limitations, (3) Planned unit Developments. Mr.
Hodgkins explained this section tied project build -out to the traffic
impact analysis.
Page 65, (8) Drainage. Councilperson Furtado requested the
language be changed to contain more checks and balances.
Page 66, (9) Public utilities. Evidence of commitment for public
water and sewer service must be submitted as required or the
development order would be voided.
Page 67, Sec. 45, Concurrency reservations. Mr. Hodgkins
explained that this was additional wording to tie concurrency to
traffic impact studies. Councilperson Clark requested a verb be
added to the first sentence under this item. Councilperson Furtado
discussed traffic safety problems and requested staffresearch on this
issue.
Page 96, (3) Coa-ii-nercial development in residential PUDs. Mr.
Hodgkins suggested that the criteria requiring 50% of the total
dwelling units to be under construction before issuing a building
permit for construction of a commercial structure might be too high.
Discussion ensued. Staff was requested to research a density limit
for such projects.
Page 94, Sec. 88, (c) Zoning. It was noted that this section
proposed overlay zoning districts for PCDs and PUDs.
Page 99, (16) Criteria for a PUD waiver. Mr. Hodgkins explained
that criteria for requesting a PUD waiver was proposed. Discussion
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ensued regarding whether to establish criteria. Mr. Hodgkins was
directed to keep this criteria in the document.
Page 106, Sec. 91, Mixed Use Planned Unit Development Overlay
District. Mr. Hodgkins explained that this criteria met the intent of
the adopted Comprehensive Plan.
Page 114, Sec. 92, Waivers to planned unit development district
requirements. Mr. Hodgkins explained this language would be
amended based on action taken by the Planning & Zoning
Commission.
Page 117, Sec. 93, Permitted uses, Conditional, and Prohibited
Uses. Mr. Hodgkins explained that these items had been scattered
throughout the code and this section consolidated them into one
place, and the table beginning on page 119 presented the uses in
chart form. Councilperson Clark expressed concern regarding
similar uses, and requested review of these periodically. Areas
where changes had been made or items added were pointed out.
Page 129 -130, Home Occupations: items added since review by
Planning and Zoning Commission were discussed. Visits from
clients were changed to four per day except for academic
businesses.
Councilperson Sabatello referred to page 87, and commented that
reasons should be presented by an applicant as to why they wanted
a waiver, to which the response was that written justification would
be required in addition to compliance with the criteria. Page 94 was
noted to be a good general direction of what the City wanted.
Mr. Hodgkins discussed item 7, page 130, Community Residential
Home, Type 1, and page 131, Community residential home, Type
II, and explained that the State would not allow the City to prohibit
such homes in a residential zoning district. Councilperson Clark
suggested a note in the table of permitted uses on page 119
indicating if State law changed that these items shall be deemed to
conform to the new law. W. Hodgkins noted that on page 119 the
assisted living facilities had been moved to high density residential
and commercial zoning districts.
Mr. Hodgkins noted that definitions were located in a separate
section.
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Page 138 -139, Convenience Stores with Gas Sales. Mr. Hodgkins
cout-i-tiented regarding (e) co- location of fast food restaurants with
convenience stores that standards had been inserted to assure that
all impacts of those uses would be taken into account.
Page 139 -142 (22) Recreational Vehicle Park, was explained by
W. Hodgkins. It was suggested that bathroom facilities and
showers be centralized.
Page 142 -143 - Mr. Hodgkins explained that types of restaurants
had been listed so that some of the more impacting types of
restaurants would be located away from certain types of zoning
districts.
Page 143, (29) Thrift and Used Merchandise Stores. Mr. Hodgkins
explained this kept these types of stores small.
Page 144, (38) Family Day Care. Mr. Hodgkins noted this, was
controlled by State statutes. Adult and child day care —cc! ies were
assigned the same standards.
Page 148, (51) Churches and Places of Worchin. Mr. Hodgkins
reported Attorney David Kelley had expressed no problem with
regulating large churches and it was proposed to recognim churches
in two categories: those with less than 1,000 permanent seats to be
permitted in any residential zoning district as a conditional use; and
those with more than 1,000 permanent seats to be located in
specified zoning districts as a conditional use. The criteria
presented was reviewed. It was suggested church stores be
limited to religious items.
Page 151, (6 1) Auto, RV, and Boat Storage, Commercial had been
added because ofthe shortage of space to store such vehicles. Staff
was directed to consider making the percentage of storage to lot
area of the site larger.
Mr. Hodgkins noted that beginning on page 169, (68) Excavation
and Fill and Borrow Pit Operations reflected what the City Council
had recently adopted. It was pointed out that in (68 )(a)(3) `with
the proper planning' should be changed to `without the proper
planning'.
A resident of the Boston Company expressed concern regarding
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concurrency and timing between processing development order
applications and establishment of concurrency and urged the City
Council to allow concurrency at DRC review to speed the
application process and make plans more accurate. Also requested
was concurrent application processing to allow approval of pods
before the master plan was approved; clarification of Section 24(c)
and Section 25(b); Section 32 (c) and (d); as well as Section 75,
which were discussed.. The representative also expressed concern
regarding Section 88 (3) (b), and (c) which staff agreed to consider.
Dodie Glas, Urban Design Studio, noted they would continue to
work with staff regarding assisted living and consistency with the
Comprehensive Plan and also regarding conditional uses, and would
return if they were unable to work out these items with staff
Mayor Russo announced that another workshop on this subject
would be held, and requested that all concerns be addressed at that
meeting.
The Growth Management Director confirmed that the memo dated
March 27 regarding signage changes recommended by the Planning
and Zoning Coiii7iiiRsion would be incorporated into the code.
Councilperson Clark suggested definitions be placed in the front
instead ofthe back ofthe code, and that words that were defined be
capitalized within the document to alert users that a definition was
available.
Vice Mayor Jablin provided an update on the sound system and
monitors, and recominciended flat screen monitors, which would be
presented at the April 6, 2000 City Council meeting.
Growth Management Director Manning requested that the City
Council meeting scheduled for April 20, which was Passover, be
rescheduled.
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ADJOURNMENT There being no further business to discus, upon motion by Vice
Mayor Jablin, seconded by Councilperson, carried 5 -0, the
meeting was adjour d 9:20 p.m.
APPROVAL: �
/jVIaWAKEPH R. RUSSO
MAYOR ERIVJABLIN
COU/CILWQMAN LAUREN FURTADO
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TEM CARL SABATELLO
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COUNCILMAN DAVID CLARK
ATTEST:
PATRICIA SNIDER
AS RECORDING SECRETARY