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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes P&Z 032498• CITY OF PALM BEACH GARDENS PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION March 24, 1998 MINUTES The Regular Meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, was called to order by Chair Diane Carlino at 7:30 P.M. in the Assembly Room at the Municipal Complex, 10500 North Military Trail, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and opened with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Growth Management Director Roxanne Manning announced that new City Council member Carl Sabatello had been appointed as City Council Liaison. Growth Management Director Manning introduced Principal Planner Marty Minor, who provided an update regarding floor area ratios. Mr. Glidden requested the site area also be provided so that by dividing the two, a FAR could be calculated. Mr. Nedvins requested information to show where the projects were in the approval process. ITEMS BY CITY COUNCIL LIAISON • City Council Liaison Carl Sabatello announced that he planned to provide feedback to the Commission regarding any problems the City Council had with projects, and stressed that more detail on sites and landscaping was needed. Mr. Sabatello reported that Council members had been concerned with introducing metal roof material on an office building along the PGA corridor and with the appearance of covered parking for that project. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Chair Carlino announced that Tom Paganini had submitted his resignation due to health reasons. During discussion of a replacement for Mr. Paganini, Mr. Glidden requested consideration of a qualified landscape architect. Chair Carlino announced that she would need to leave the meeting by 10:00 p.m. Minutes of March 10, 1998 - Mr. Channing made a motion to approve the minutes of the March 10, 1998 meeting as submitted. Mr. Solomon seconded the motion. Motion carried by 5 -0 vote. • Planning & Zoning Commission Minutes March 24, 1998 The roll was called by Planner Bahareh Keshavarz, Secretary for the meeting. Chair Diane Carlino, Chair Joel Channing, Vice Chair John Glidden, Chair Pro Tem John Nedvins Alternate Dennis Solomon Christopher Jones Thomas Pastore Alternate Richard Masters Also present at the meeting were Growth Management Director Roxanne Manning, City Attorney Carole Wallace, City Council Liaison Carl Sabatello, Assistant City Manager Greg Dunham, Principal Planner Marty Minor, and Planner Bahareh Keshavarz. r A request by Jay Grossman, agent for Seavest, Inc., for site plan approval of two office buildings totaling 176,618 square feet. The • 12 -acre site is located within the PGA National Planned Community District (PCD), at the southeast corner of PGA Boulevard and Avenue of Champions. (10- 42S -42E) Principal Planner Marty Minor reviewed the staff report dated March 18, 1998 and answered questions from the Board. Neil Merrin, agent for the petitioner, presented the project, which had been changed to a new five -story elevation, reducing the overall height by approximately 14 feet. A drawing was included showing height comparison with the proposed neighbor, Bascom Palmer. A rendering was included based on the new site plan. Comments by the Board indicated they considered the building too tall, and did not want the building taller than the 4 -story Bascom Palmer building. Mr. Glidden compared the FAR to the Bascom Palmer building, which he stated was the most conclusive indicator of any project. After comments were made regarding deleting the lake from the far calculation, Ray Royce, Attorney for the petitioner, spoke in favor of including the lake in the FAR figure, and having as much landscape area as possible. Mr. Glidden explained he was looking for a comparative number for intensity and height. Mr. Merrin explained that the lake was 1.85 acres and was a feature of this property. Mr. Solomon objected to the height rather than the intensity, and the possibility that others would want to equal or exceed the height granted to this applicant. Mr. Channing expressed his opinion that discussing FAR and intensities was subjective and he believed the Committee should be objective, and stated he only had a problem with 0 2 • Planning & Zoning Commission Minutes March 24, 1998 the height. Mr. Channing suggested building on top of the parking. Mr. Glidden suggested expanding the buildings into the parking areas; and explained that the penthouse expansion to the edges of the building added to the impression of height, which was working against the height problem. Bill Tracy, Architect, commented on the elevations. Mr. Nedvins commented that whether the building was four or five stories was not an issue to him, and requested proposed colors and materials. Mr. Merrin described the colors and proposed materials. Mr. Solomon requested ingress /egress information, which was provided by Mr. Merrin. Direction to the applicant was clarified that the height should not higher than Bascom Palmer. Mr. Glidden requested correct FAR figures. Hank Skokowski, agent for Northcorp Development, Inc., is requesting site plan approval for a 69,208 square foot office building within the South Park Center plat of the Northcorp Corporate Park, to be called South Park Plaza. The petitioner is proposing to utilize both existing lots 10 and 11 for the building site area. The site area is approximately 4.68 acres in area. South Park Plaza is located on East Park Drive, approximately 114 mile north of Burns Road. (7- 42S -43E) • Principal Planner Marty Minor reviewed the staff report dated March 18, 1998 and answered questions from the Board, which included lot locations, ingress /egress locations and ease of use, explanation of the FAR ratio, parking stall size reductions to create open space, a condition of a previous approval to extend East Park Drive as a public right -of -way between Northcorp Parkway and RCA Boulevard prior to issuance of a building permit. Mr. Channing pointed out there were no sizes of landscaping shown on the plans. Henry Skokowski, agent for the petitioner, presented the project, and reviewed drainage, preservation of oak trees, and signage. Mr. Skokowski reported 28% open space was required, and this project had over 10,000 additional square feet of open space. Mr. Skokowski described loading spaces, and explained that waivers requested were reduction of parking space size and loading space size. Mr. Skokowski provided photographs of past projects where the petitioner had been able to preserve oak trees when placing parking areas nearby; and confirmed that in this project every effort would be made to keep parking areas and sidewalks as far as possible from oak trees to be preserved. Mr. Skokowski reviewed materials and design of the proposed monument sign, and reported that no signs were proposed on the building at the present time. Accessibility to handicap parking spaces was reviewed. Mr. Glidden complimented the petitioner on their site plan, and suggested signage to let drivers know there was only one lane going in and two going out, and also reducing the front drop -off area radius to gain width for two vehicles at the front of the building. Mr. 0 3 • • • Planning & Zoning Commission Minutes March 24, 1998 Glidden questioned that the rear sidewalk came right up against the glass of the building, and suggested pulling the sidewalk out to provide landscaping against the building. Mr. Skokowski responded to Mr. Nedvins that air conditioning equipment would be on the roof and would be fully screened with the same materials used for the building and the parapet. Mr. Minor verified that the lighting plan met code requirements. Mr. Solomon questioned access from the rear parking, to which Mr. Skokowski responded a walkway was provided. Mr. Nedvins suggested walkways toward the center and near the south entry. Mr. Glidden requested height of equipment be shown on the roof plan and suggested building signage be requested even though the names of tenants were not yet known, in order not to have to come back at a later date. In response to Mr. Nedvins' question regarding how the remainder of Lot 10 would be maintained, Mr. Skokowski explained that it would be the same as the other undeveloped lots which were not landscaped but were maintained as undeveloped land with grass and existing trees and shrubs. Jay Bridge, Landscape Architect, explained the placement of landscaping intended to show off the architecture of the building, and gave approximate tree heights. Mr. Bridge reviewed the landscaping for the parking areas. Mr. Channing objected that trees against the building were too small, although according to the City Forester they met code requirements. Discussion ensued regarding using pervious concrete near the oak trees. Chair Carlino reviewed comments which had been made to provide direction to the petitioner: Widening the area around the turn - around at the front of the building; adding additional sidewalks in areas where parking was far from the building; pulling sidewalks away from the building to provide landscaping space; showing roof - mounted equipment with screening and providing additional plans if required; providing signage at inc4resslegress because of single and double lanes; requesting generic signage on the building; and showing additional landscaping. +Z +__ +_ Uil 1111111 +_� • _ _•U Chair Carlino called. the roll: Chair Diane Carlino, Chair Joel Channing, Vice Chair John Glidden, Chair Pro Tem John Nedvins Alternate Dennis Solomon Christopher Jones Thomas Pastore Alternate Richard Masters Planning & Zoning Commission Minutes March 24, 1998 Land Design South, agent, is requesting a rezoning of a site from Planned Development Area to Planned Unit Development for the construction of 65 zero -lot -line homes. The 14.47 -acre site is located at the northeast corner of Lone Pine Road and Easterly Avenue, I mile west of Prosperity Farms Road. (32- 41S -43E) Principal Planner Marty Minor explained that this was a continuation of the meeting held March 10, 1998 for this petition and reviewed the staff report dated March 17, 1998. Chair Carlino inquired since Lone Pine Road is a private road with a public easement on the northern half but none on the southern half, what was to stop people from using that road. City Attorney Wallace responded that although no official conclusion had been reached, the situation was that on the easterly portion of the road there was a very convoluted ownership chain and each property along the southern half easterly from approximately the entrance to this parcel to Prosperity Farms Road had ownership of their own property and out to the center line of the road; and each of the owners has access for ingress and egress over the adjoining one so that each one could access their own home. In effect, a fence could be erected on the west, but not on the east, since the westernmost property owner had • access across all his neighbors to the east. Taking this into consideration, traffic concurrency had been met; therefore this was a non -issue in consideration of this project. Mr. Minor confirmed there was no depth requirement for lot size in a zero -lot -line development. Mr. Solomon suggested that in the future total square footage of lots be shown. Mr. Solomon recommended that the homeowners association documents should contain a condition that the three lot owners who were to use the dumpster so that the garbage truck would not have to back down their road must continue to do so unless approved otherwise by the City, so that the homeowners association could not change that at their whim. Joe Leolonek, agent for the petitioner, was present to answer questions. In response to Mr. Channing's question of who did the traffic study, Mr. Leolonek explained that Yvonne Ziel had done the study and was present to answer any questions. Yvonne Ziel stated her name for the record and that her company was Yvonne Ziel Traffic Consultants. Mr. Channing inquired what criteria were required to be met, to which Ms. Ziel responded the criteria was Palm Beach County's traffic performance standards and the road in front of this development was designed to carry the local neighborhood traffic as well as that of the development site, and explained how her conclusions were reached. Mr. Minor explained that Cindy DiFilippo from Commissioner Marcus' office had informed him that the County had taken another traffic count on Lone Pine Road, which was 3500. Ms. Ziel confirmed that would make no difference in her report. Discussion ensued, and Ms. Ziel explained how her conclusions had been reached. Mr. Glidden questioned why all setbacks were not 8 feet, to 0 5 Planning & Zoning Commission Minutes March 24, 1998 which Mr. Leolonek responded that with 5 -foot setbacks the developer was trying to provide as much room as possible for pools, screen enclosures, etc. Mr. Nedvins discussed proposed lot size, which he stated was' approximately 21% less than any others approved in the City, and stated he could not support the density of 65 homes on 14.4 acres. Bob Bentz, agent for the petitioner, stated this was an inf ill development, a small parcel with a vast amount of open space to the north, and was located in an area of similar development density as their neighbors to the west. Mr. Bentz stated the petitioner believed with the compromises they had made to setbacks and other development regulations were very consistent with other developments in the City, and the open spaces around the development acted as additions to the lots. Discussion ensued regarding lot size. Mr. Glidden made a motion to recommend approval of Petition PUD -97 -02 to the City Council with the following conditions: 1. Prior to the issuance of the first Building Permit, the entry road and cul -de -sac cross - section details shall be revised to show the proposed type "D" curbing is included within the 22' and 401 median respectively. 2. Prior to the plat approval, the 10 -foot utility easement will • need to be shown at the truncated roadway and other internal roadways for utility service. 3. Prior to the Site Plan approval, a letter of authorization from the appropriate entity allowing the applicant to relocate the existing 20 -foot drainage easement and to pave and landscape within the relocated 20 -foot drainage easement shall be provided. 4. Prior to the Site Plan approval, the Topographic survey will need to be revised to show existing spot elevations at and around the preserve area. S. Prior to the issuance of the first Building Permit, the applicant will need to provide grading /swale details and water quantity /quality calculations. 6. Prior to the issuance of the first Certificate of Occupancy, a crosswalk /pedestrian signalization shall be provided to assist students who will attend D. D. Eisenhower school crossing over Lone Pine Road. 7. Prior to the issuance of the first Certificate of Occupancy, a bus stop pull off completely out of the right -of -way or bus stop turn around in front of any access control points or gated communities shall be provided. These bus stops shall be sufficient enough in size to accommodate a school bus. The size and location of all such school bus stops shall be coordinated 0 Planning & Zoning Commission Minutes March 24, 1998 with the Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning, and Engineering Departments, as well as the School District Planning Department. S. Prior to the issuance of the first Certificate of Occupancy, a 11 11x 17" sign provided by the School District shall be posted in a clear and visible location in all sales offices and models with the following: "School age children in this development may not be assigned to the public school closest to their residence. School District policies regarding overcrowding, racial balancing or other boundary policy decisions affect school boundaries. Please contact the Palm Beach County School District Boundary Office at (561)434 -8100 to verify the most current school assignment(s) for the house addresses in this development." 9. A developer /applicant claiming a School Impact Fee Exemption must file a School Impact Fee Exemption Application with the impact fee Coordinator's Office. The Impact Fee Coordinator has the sole responsibility for approving School Impact 'Fee Exemptions. All School Fee Exemptions not claimed and approval prior to the issuance of the Building Permit are deemed waived by the developer /applicant. The developer/ applicant has the sole responsibility for filing an application claiming a School Impact Fee Exemption. • 10. The approval of this petition is contingent with the approval of the following waivers: a. Minimum Building Setbacks - Sec.118- 200(g). b. Building Site Area - Sec. 118- 200(c). c. Building Site Width - Sec. 118- 200(d). d. Building Lot Coverage - Sec. 118- 200(e) e. Pavers - Sec. 114 -206 11. Identical models, elevations, and color packages cannot be next to each other or directly across the street from each other. 12. The number of trees along the streetscape on the interior roadway shall be double the number shown on the landscape plan. Mr. Channing seconded the motion. During discussion of the motion, Mr. Channing stated the objectors to this project were the people living next door where density was almost the same, and the objectors did not give up any common areas for lakes and preserves, which he believed to be the proper comparison. Motion carried by vote of 3 -2. There was no old business to come before the Board. There was no new business to come before the Board. is • Planning & Zoning Commission Minutes March 24, 1998 ADJOURNMENT There being no further business, upon motion by Mr. Glidden, seconded by Mr. Nedvins, and unanimously carried, the meeting was adjourned at 9:50 p.m. The next meeting will be held April 14, 1998. APPROVED: Diane Carlino, Chair J I hq n Glidden 7 (Absent) Thomas Pastore (Absent) Thomas Paganini (Absent) Richard Masters, Alternate �' /�� 1 IRV44100 Bahareh Keshavarz, Secretary 1* 10