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REGULAR MEETING
CITY OF' PALM BEACH GARDENS
JUNE 17, 1982
The Regular NeetinF of the City Council of Palm Beach Gardens,
Florida, tiiao called to order by Mayor Kiselewski at C:00 P.M. in
Lhe Assembly Room, 10500 North Military Trail, Palm Beach Gardens
Florida, and opened with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
!LULL CALL -
The roll was called by the Deputy City Clerk and present were:
Mayor K�.selewski, Vice Mayor Monroe, Councilman Kiedis, Councilman
Aldred, and Councilman Martino. Attorney Baldwin was also in
attendance. C7Ly : 4anager John Orr, was not in attendance due to
illness.
MINDI ES: The minutes of the Workshop Meeting of May 13, 1982, were unanimously
approved as written.
The minutes of the Regular Meeting of May 20, 1982, were unanimously
approved as written.
A:,N0U1;CEMENT3: Mayor Kiselewski announces that the City's Planning and Zoning
Commission will be meeting on Tuesday, June 22, 1962, at 7:30 P.:,1.
FRESENTATIOT] OF AWARDS i0 THE CITY'S "FIP,EMTICS" TEAM
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On behalf of the City, Mayor Kiselewski presented awards to the 11'
members of the City'c Fircmatzc': Team, who placed first in the I
3 -man ladder climb and set a new state record of 10:46 seconds, and
also placed third in the bucket brigade contest. This event was held
in Reddington Beach, Florida, in May, during the annual conference
of the Florida State Firemen's Association and the State Firemen's
Auxiliary. Also, the ?aim Beach Gardens Fire Department Auxiliary
again placed first in the annual fire department scrapbook contest.
The team members i::cluoed: Tom Vreeland, 'ream Coach; Ken Gordon,
Team Captain; Evan Bestland, Peter Bergel, Bill Koontz, Kris Martin,
and Larry Siehl, Nembers.
TTE• ;3 BI TrE CITY MANAGER:
Per the request of the City Manager, the members of the Council
unanimously consented to gave approval to allow the City Manager to
obtain out iae LegalttCounsel for a Civil Action Suit oeing brought
about by erpatrolwoman, Jane 1iiller.
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The Mayo- relayed to the Council that the City Manager is currently
looking into to potential expansion of a covered walkway with a
carte -ache over the driveway area, and is anticipating this expansion
to come in around .1,,10,000. Further details will be prevented by the
(;,_ty llanErer.
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VICE i1A'xOR Vice >;ayor PIonroe reported on the Merit Board Meeting hhld June 8,
MOilh)L Igbj�'. The minutes rcflectinr; this meeting, are on file an the City
Clerk's office.
IT) MS BY NAYuE AND CMJCIL:
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ter Lh�, request of Ccuucilr,,an Kiedis, mayor Y,iselewski advised him
that the median: o:. Ailitary Trail at P:orthlake Boulevard are the
numoer one priority as far a: the budCeting is concerned with the
County, in putting in the curbs a:ra additional lanes. However, he
did suggest that perhaps the City Planager can approach the County
Engineering Department regarding; this.
Councilman Kiedis requested the Police Department to check the traffic
on Gardenia regarding a request for a stop sLgn.
Councilman Kiedis also requested of the Building DeLart,en` to
l,et with the owner of Engles Appliance Store on Iror,wood Raid, and
inform tn•_, of the trash t;-,at is piled up in front of his store- rrat
needs to be removed.
CJ .;C1Li!dl. ALDRED Councilman Aldred stated ne has received comments from a resident on
E'lar° Drive :_tatinr, shc. hay true romains of a dead Palm Tree and would
like to have it removed.
ur;ralrr.iu IMarL!no, with ref,ards to t,:is, requested twat all dead
Pal-n Trees be remove,l by tt:e City, particularly in the area of Lake
Ca t1, erine .
Councilman Aldred fated with re;;,rds to the City's proposed parking
ordinance and Stow it, is structured, lie would like the res?, of Lhe
Council to consider, the next time it is brought up, the fact that
the w?y tl.e ordinance is now written, it entitles an owner of a lot
immediately abutting property, to park a passenger car in their
cwale. Perhapc, the Council would consider, approval be required
Of {tt? t to allow anyone ei,e to hark in his /her sway ,
_ o>> r -r ', 1._T r 1 ,'..u.tou or car U.
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RESOLUTIONS:
RESOLUTION 23 Prior to the reading of Resolution 23, 1982, creating a 48.64 -acre
9 — multi - family PUD on the N -21 u M -22 tracts of the PGA National PCD,
11r. Ian1: SkcKowsl,i, President of Urban Design Studio, addressed the
change;, on the plans, reflecting the concerns of the Council
Councilman Aldred stated that certain federally funded programs are
in the process of being cut back, which require local participation
to keep the concepts going. Currently, there is an organization
which can help people put on local drug abuse programs, and if the
Council is interested, these people would like to give a presentation
to see if the City can help them.
Mayor Kiselewski requested this item be placed on the next agenda,
under "Items for Discussion ",
VICE MAYOR MCNROB
Vice Mayor Monroe stated the Annual American Planning Association
Conference, will be held in Boca Raton this year, on August 12 -14th.
If anyone is interested in attending, please let the City Manager
know before the next Council meeting, as there will be special rates
for group attendance in a public agency.
Vice Mayor Monroe stated several Ordinances are not being enforced,
and suggested, perhaps once a year, through the City Newsletter, a
Synopsis be given of the ordinances by the various department heads
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in the City, who enforces them, to let the residents be more aware.
Vice Mayor Monroe requested an update from the City Engineer
which would bring the members of the Council up -to -date on the
various activities /projects in the City.
Mayor Kiselewski suggested this matter be taken up with the City
Manager for his comments and suggestions at a later date.
Vice Mayor Monroe suggested that perhaps an up -to -date list be kept
on approved PUDu in the City, that would help her and the rest of
the Council when other similar PUDz get introduced to them. This
list should include things such as acreage, narking statistics,
unitz3 approved, densities, etc.
MAYOR KISELEWSKI
Mayor Kiselewski commented on the ad placed in the Weekday Newspaper,
by Ray Celendias re: the monies donated to the City by him for the
municipal swirnmine, pool.
RESOLUTIONS:
RESOLUTION 23 Prior to the reading of Resolution 23, 1982, creating a 48.64 -acre
9 — multi - family PUD on the N -21 u M -22 tracts of the PGA National PCD,
11r. Ian1: SkcKowsl,i, President of Urban Design Studio, addressed the
change;, on the plans, reflecting the concerns of the Council
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voiced at the previous meeting of May 27, 1982. Mr. Skokowski stated
they have added additional parking spaces at the clubhouse area,
totalling 26 spaces; provided 4 spaces at the south end of the site
for the tennis courts, designated on the master plan emergency access
routes, and received a letter from County Sanitation confirming their
services to the project.
A mechanism for reserved parking spaces has been incorporated, and
Mr. Goray, Owner /Developer, went over the formula to be used for
reserved parking stat?nC with regards to the .5 q)ace per unit, the
City Council will retain jurisdiction for a period of 6 months after
the last unit is sold. Anytime during that period, the Council may
hold a Public Hearing, and can direct the developer of PGA ;rational
to provide t1,e additional .5 spaces at the expense of PGA ;datioual.
Subsequent to further discussion, and by a unanimous vote of the
Council, the Deputy City Clerk rea full, Resolution 23, 1982,
creating a 48.64 -acre multi - family POD on the M -21 & M -22 tracts of
the PGA National.
Prior to the adoption of Resolution 23, 1982, the Council deleted,
the wording "6 months" in the second paragraph of Section 4, and
inserted in its stead, the wording 1112 months ".
Resolution 23, 1982, was unanimously adopted by the City Council.
RESOLUTION 24, By a unanimouc vote of the Council, the Deputy City Clerk read, in
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full, Resolution 2v, 1982, Granting an easement for access from
:dorm Military Trail to Lots 1 -4, Block 1, 'CA National Golf Club
Ectates, Flat 'l.
Resolution 24, icK, was unanimously adopted by the City Council.
D=.N,ANCGS:
ORDINAINCE fc, Mayor Kiselewsici declared the Public Hearing open which was duly
1982 advertised on May 26, 1982, and held on the intent of Ordinance 10,
1982, amendln,, the res' ,actions on campaign signs in the City.
Mr. Bob Yeager, PEG, spoke from the audience stat—zg he was not in
favor of this ordinance, as he, in particular was not offended by
® campaigns cigns, and perhaps the best way to regulate is to limit the
time they are allowed to be up.
There being no further comments from the members of the public, Mayor
Kiselewski closed the Public Hearing.
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During their discussion, the majority of the Council indicated they
were not in favor of this ordinance.
By a unanimous vote of the Council, the Deputy City Clerk read, by
title only on second reading, Ordinance 10, 1982.
Ordinance 10, 1982, was defeated by a vote of 4 against the Ordinance,
and 1 in favor of the ordinance. Vote on Motion: Councilman Aldred,
Councilman Martino, Councilman Kiedis, and Vice Mayor Monroe voted
against passage of the ordinance, and Mayor Kiselewski vote in favor
of the ordinance.
ORDINANCES (FOR WORKSHOP)
ORDINANCE y, During the workshop session on Ordinance 5, 1982, providing for the
952 creation of a PUD with CG -1 usages on a 33.9 -acre parcel of land
located on the southeast corner of 1 -95 and Northlake Boulevard,
Attorney John Gary, representing the owners, Kroh Brothers, addressed
the concerns of the Council from the last meeting stating they have
redesigned the parking area to include more green area, they now have
only 3 drives off of Sandtree, to include a far south drive and
® combined the 2 center drives into 1, and moved the north driveway
down to maintain 330' from the stop bar on Northlake Boulevard to the
north side of the driveway. They've also indicated the overall
configuration of the Gulf Service Station, on the plans. With regards
to the 9' wide parking stalls in specialized areas, they've shown
33 spaces for hotel employee parking, and also shown the 9' wade spaces
around the pack of the 2 office towers. It also allowed to them, with
these smaller stalls to add thirty 10' ;: 40' planting islands to break
up toe long, roots of parking. The open space now is 36.28% of the
total site area, and they've also provided buffered areas from the
residential area, along with additonal landscaping on site.
Nr. Webber, Architect, went over the parking calculations for the
project, which now total 1,249 parking spaces.
The location of the Gulf sign was addressed, and it will be basically
in line with the 2 office towers, 46' in height. With regards to the
Gu-Lf 52t7- being turned off when the station closes at night, Attorney
Gary stated he dad not think there would be a problem, but would have
this confirmed by the representative of Gulf, prior to their next
meeting.
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In response to Mayor Niselewski, Attorney Gary stated de did not
® think there would be a car rental agency in connection with the
hotel, but would also have this confirmed.
The water retentions area was discussed, and Mr. Chaunce Wallace,
Project Engineer, stated this area will either be sodded or they
will be using seed and mulch, which will be reflected on the final
landscape plan.
The petitioners also stated they would be willing to partake in the
landscaping plan for the medians on Northlake Boulevard, across from
their project.
Subsequent to further discussion, the petitioners ware requected to
oubmit their revised plans to Cr. ::ar in Lill, Land Planner, and
Mr. David Plummer, Traffic Consultant, and also to the City Engineer,
Mr. Leonard Lindahl, for their col entc prior to a Public Hearing to
be held by the City Council, and if any of the above were not in
agreement with the revisions, they should be in attendance at that
meeting, otherwise, a letter, agreeing to the revisions, would be
® sufficient. Also, per the request of Vice Zlayor Monroe, the question
on the level of service C or D, regarding the traffic,to be addressed
at that time,
The petitioners will return for another workshop session on July 15,
1982, and a Public Hearing and the Council's consideration of
adoption of Ordinance 5, 1983, wyll be on August 5, 1982.
ITEMS FOR DISCISISON:
CREATION OF A 20.68 -ACRE MULTI -FAMi ,Y iIUD ON THE M -23 TRACT OF THE
pr:a H8TT(WAi pin —
Mr, Hank Skokowska, President of Urban Design Studio, representing
Lexington Homes, developers, was in attendance to address the members
of the Council, regarding their concerns at their previous meeting.
Hr. Skokowski stated they have revised their plans to reflect a
total of 27 reserved parking spaces, giving a total of 2.66 spaces
per unit. They have now provided a mechanism for the paving of these
reserved spaces, stating that within 1 year of the issuance of the
last C.O., more than 50% of the owners of the dwelling units have
filed for homestead exemption, the developer shall pave all of the
reserve spaces. The developer shall provide the City with financial
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40 security for the paving of these reserve spaces in a form acceptable
to the City Attorney.
With regards to the recreation for the site, Mr. Skokowski stated
they, along with the concurrance of PGA National, are providing a
paddle tennis court facility, instead of a full tennis court. The
pool has been relocated to the southwest corner of the lake, and
they are providing 10 additional parking spaces there.
During their discussion, the members of the Council were in agree-
ment with Councilman Martino's suggestion that instead of providing
an "on site" paddle tennis court facility, put monies in an escrow
account for 2 future tennis courts to be placed on the property to
the south of this project to be dedicated to the City. Mr. Skokowski
stated they would be agreeable to thas, if they get the permission
from the PGA National. Also, pryer to final adoption of this multi-
family PUD, the Council requested the Fare Chief and Police Chief to
review the revised plans for their comments, and to also have the
® approval from the City Engineer.
A resolution and the Council's consideration of adoption will take
place at the Regular Meeting of July 1, 1932.
LOCATION OF STOP SIG14S AT INTERSECTION OF' DOGWOOD AVENT AND LIGHT-
HOUSE DRIVE
Per the request of Mr. Geode Jacobs, 3552 Lighthouse Drive, the
t members of the Council were in agreement that a a -.:ay stop sign
be placed at the intersection of Dogwood Avenue and Lighthouse Drive.
In the meantime, the Police Department will De requested to patrol
the area more frequently with regards to speeders.
APPOINTING OF HEMBERS TO THE CITY'S MERIT BOARL SYSTEM To FTr.r. THE
UNEXPIRED TERM CF HURRAY KELLER
The members of the Council discussed the appoLntme*tts to the h;orit
System Board to fill the unexpired term of Murray Keller. It was
the consensus of the Council to elevate alternate member, George
® Duncan to permanent member, and appoint Mrs. Margie Kloske as an
alternate member.
A resolution confirming said appointments will oe consa,irred for
adoption by the Council at the Regular E•leeting of July 1, 1982.
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�j PETITIONS AND COfMMUNICATIONS:
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MICHAEL, FORD Mayor Kiselewski acknowledged receipt of a communication from Mr.
Michael Ford, 9722 Heather Circle West, PBG, commending Mr. Tom
Quinlisk, of the City's Recreation Department, for the excellent ,lob
he dial in handling the men's basketball league.
COUNCILMAN KIEDIS Councilman Kiedis requested the Public Works Department to take care
of the grass that is overgrown in the vicinity of Military Trail and
Northlake Boulevard.
ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business, the meeting adjDurned at 11:45 P.M.
MAYOR KISELEWSKI
VICE MAYOR MONJRE
Roberta A. Pearce, Deputy City Cleric
COUNCILMAN ALDRED
COUNCILMAN KIEDIS
COUNCILMAN MARTINO