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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Council 033000CITY OF PALM BEACH GARDENS 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 CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL WORKSHOP MEETING, 3/30/2000 2 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 CTTY COUNCIL SPECIAL WORKSHOP MEETING, 3/30/2000 3 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. CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL WORKSHOP MEETING, 3/30/2000 4 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 CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL WORKSHOP MEETING, 3/30/2000 5 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. CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL WORKSHOP MEETING, 3/30/2000 6 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 J TEM CARL SABATELLO r COUNCILMAN DAVID CLARK ATTEST: PATRICIA SNIDER AS RECORDING SECRETARY