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ROLL CALL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION
CITY COUNCIL
WORKSHOP MEETING
CITY OF PALM BEACH GARDENS
OCTOBER 28, 1993
7:30 pm
The Workshop Meeting of the City of Palm Beach Gardens,
Florida, was called to order by Mayor Russo at 7:30 P.M.
in the Assembly Room of the Municipal Complex, 10500
North Military Trail, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida; and
opened with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
The Deputy City Clerk called the roll and present were
Mayor Russo, Vice Mayor Monroe, Councilman Jablin,
Councilwoman Furtado and Councilman Clark.
Mayor Russo stated that the announcements were as posted
on the City's Bulletin Board. Mayor Russo also announced
that the problems discussed at the City Council Meeting
on 10/21/93 in regard to the Festa Italiana were being
worked out and he anticipated this item would be placed
on the consent agenda at next week's regular meeting of
the City Council.
MINOR AMENDMENT TO
THE OAKS PUD FOR
LANDSCAPING This item was pulled from the agenda for discussion at
next week's meeting.
RESULTS OF PLANNING
FORUM Vice Mayor Monroe stated she would be willing to consider
all the items in the Policy Statement of the Northern
Palm Beach County /Southern Martin County Planning Forum
except Item IV, (C), (2), regarding disincentives to
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driving to promote transit, to which the other members of
the council agreed. Manager Herakovich suggested staff
Identify pros and cons of certain issues in the Policy
Statement and bring them back to the Council. It was the
consensus of the Council that the ideas within the policy
statement would be learning opportunities because of
their flexibility and since the interpretation of the
specific items would not be clear until a proposal was
presented, the Council would be willing to take the next
step as long as the entire Council approved specific
issues.
HARBOUR SHOPPES
COVERED PARKING Rich Walton presented a request by the Harbour Shoppes
retail center to install five covered parking area
awnings over 25 parking spaces. Concerns discussed by
the Council members about awnings were that currently
there are no provisions in the code to cover awnings;
awnings need to match the architecture of a project,
whether awnings can be viewed from the street; guidelines
are needed for maintenance and replacement to keep
awnings looking like new; and, hurricane provisions for
awnings. Larry Smith spoke for the Petitioner and stated
the proposed awnings would be perpendicular to the street
giving less exposure than if they were parallel and also
would be placed back from the street. It was the
consensus of the Council that research be conducted for
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guidelines in preparing additions to the code so this
request and future similar requests could be considered
under established guidelines.
GOOD SAMARITAN
MEDICAL COMPLEX
Based on a potential conflict of interest, Vice Mayor
Monroe excused herself from participation in the
consideration of the request by Good Samaritan Medical
Pavilions, Inc., for approval of a Planned Unit
Development on Parcel 27.10 within the Regional Center
Planned Community District for construction of a 4 -story
medical complex building at the corner of PGA Boulevard
and Fairchild Gardens Avenue. Ronald Kolins gave a
presentation of the project which incorporated nine
conditions required by Planning & zoning. Landscape
Architect Jeff Blakely stated the landscaping would be
done so that the parking garage would not be visible from
PGA Boulevard, and would be screened from traffic exiting
from the Mall. Mayor Russo stated that a provision would
need to be included that stated no satellite dishes
placed on the roof would be visible. It was the
consensus of the City Council that staff would prepare
language to define "temporary" as related to use of
water, and this item would then be voted on at the
November 4, 1993 meeting of the City Council.
COMPREHENSIVE LAND
USE PLAN AMENDMENT
V -1
Rich Walton summarized the Staff report on Comprehensive
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Plan Amendment #93 -1 and #93 -2. Amendment #93 -1, Jog
Road Related Density Reduction, was included in a package
with Palm Beach County Comprehensive Plan Amendment and
PGA National DRI Development Order Amendment. The
County, the City, and the Interveners have negotiated a
settlement agreement, advertised and to be adopted by the
County on November 15, 1993, whereby growth of Jog Road
would be restricted, with most of it to remain as it is
and never to be expanded to six lanes. After adoption by
the County, this agreement would be signed by all
parties, and would be placed on the agenda for the City
Council meeting for approval as a Resolution to
demonstrate that the City was comfortable with the
settlement. Adoption of the City of Palm Beach Gardens
Comprehensive Plan has been scheduled for the December 2,
1993 City Council meeting. Because the PGA National DRI
Development Order Amendment already adopted would be
inconsistent with this proposed amendment and with the
proposed Amendment #93 -2 (Annexed Lands Designations), a
Public Hearing would be scheduled to propose deleting the
development order and to then write a new development
order that would match both amendments. City Planner Kim
Glas gave a summary of the DCA's objections on Amendment
#93 -1, stating that most of the objections were
unwarranted because the new plan reviewer was unfamiliar
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with the plan. A land use designation of Recreation and
Open Space was recommended by staff along the right -of-
way to be retained by Northern Palm Beach County Water
Control District through the PGA National community.
This would help to alleviate PGA National residents'
concerns that Jog Road would be more than a two -lane
road. To accomplish this, the Recreation and Open Space
category in the Comprehensive Plan would need to be
modified to state: The ROS category is intended to
designate public parks and recreation complexes, and open
spaces. Of the DCA objections to Amendment #93 -2, one
pertained to the proposed change to potable water and
sanitary sewer level of service standards. Rim Bishop of
Seacoast Utilities is in the process of collating data to
demonstrate why today's adopted level of service standard
was not a true reflection of the City's water /sewer
needs. If, after DCA reviews this explanation, they
still have concerns, staff may recommend the proposed
amendment be withdrawn and the current level of service
be maintained. The other two objections by DCA to
Amendment #93 -2 pertained to the Commercial Recreation
land use category and the staff recommendation would be
to drop all reference to rural residential and just have
commercial recreation: golf course, hunting club,
wildlife amusement center—those uses that are spelled out
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in the language and this was acceptable to the property
owner. Vice Mayor Monroe questioned why this parcel of
land could not be designated rural residential since all
the land around it was designated rural residential. Kim
Glas responded that the direction of the City Council had
been to retain County designated uses until Planning
Forum results could be evaluated. Rick Warner, Planner
with the MacArthur Foundation and resident of Palm Beach
Gardens, requested that because the Foundation was
presently in discussions with the County Sensitive Lands
Acquisition Group over land acquisition that the land use
designation not be changed until their discussions were
finished, since it would be changed from commercial
recreation to rural residential and it would change
values, etc. Councilwoman Furtado commented that access
to the complete intermobile system was needed to attract
industry.
BALLENISLES
TEMPORARY LANDSCAPING
It was the consensus of the City Council to consider
approval of the petition of Nader Salour, agent for
MacArthur Holding A, Inc., to establish temporary
landscaping at the construction entrance for BallenIsles
Country Club at Northlake Boulevard and the existing
construction entrance without the condition which had
been recommended by staff of placing a three -year limit
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on the approval, since there were other triggers to
replace this temporary landscaping with the permanent
road and landscaping.
NPDES MONITORING
AGREEMENT
Mr. Lennart Lindahl gave a presentation to the City
Council regarding the NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System) Monitoring Agreement. Palm Beach
Gardens has been mandated to comply and to apply for a
permit because it owns and /or operates a system that
discharges into waters of the State and the U.S. and is
located, along with other municipalities and special
districts within one of the specified counties (Palm
Beach) required to apply for a permit which has a
population between 100,000 and 250,000 in the
unincorporated area. There is a mandate to start a water
quality monitoring program, of which there are seven
stations now located throughout the county, one being is
in the City in the main pump station at PGA National.
The cost for the operation of these stations would be
shared by all 44 applicants. The contract that will be
presented to the Council will call for $8,000 to be set
aside this year and will continue for the next five
DRUG FREE WORKPLACE
PROPOSAL
years.
City Manager Herakovich presented a proposal to enact a
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Drug Free Workplace which would result in $23,000 to
$25,000 savings per year on Workers' Compensation, and
would have the additional benefits of Dreventina
accidents when working with machinery, would protect the
public, and provide help for someone who needed
assistance in becoming drug free. Councilman Clark
commented a possible addition to the draft presented to
the Council could be that if someone voluntarily admitted
they had a drug problem and entered treatment they would
then be monitored and not be subject to disciplinary
action.
ITEMS BY THE
CITY MANAGER City Manager Herakovich announced that City Council
members interested in signing up for flexible benefits
policy should review their information on that subject so
that an information session could be scheduled. City
Manager Herakovich asked that an executive session
be held at 7 P.M. on November 4, 1993 to discuss union
negotiations re: lieutenants and dispatchers.
The City Manager stated the Circus has changed their
location to be on the south side of Northlake Boulevard
in the same location as last year.
ADJOURNMENT There being no further business to discuss, the meeting
was adjourned at 9:55 P.M.
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