CITY OF JACKSONVILLE

 

                                LAND USE AND ZONING

 

                                     COMMITTEE

 

 

 

 

 

                          Proceedings held on Tuesday,

 

                September 20, 2011, commencing at 5:07 p.m.,

 

                City Hall, Council Chambers, 1st Floor,

 

                Jacksonville, Florida, before Diane M. Tropia, a

 

                Notary Public in and for the State of Florida at

 

                Large.

 

 

 

                PRESENT:

 

                     REGINALD BROWN, Chair.

                     RAY HOLT, Vice Chair.

                     LORI BOYER, Committee Member.

                     DOYLE CARTER, Committee Member.

                     JIM LOVE, Committee Member.

                     ROBIN LUMB, Committee Member.

                     DON REDMAN, Committee Member.

 

 

                ALSO PRESENT:

 

                     BILL KILLINGSWORTH, Director, Planning Dept.

                     SEAN KELLY, Chief, Current Planning.

                     FOLKS HUXFORD, Zoning Administrator.

                     KEN AVERY, Planning and Development Dept.

                     DYLAN REINGOLD, Office of General Counsel.

                     JASON GABRIEL, Office of General Counsel.

                     JASON TEAL, Office of General Counsel.

                     MERRIANE LAHMEUR, Legislative Assistant.

 

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             1                 P R O C E E D I N G S

                September 20, 2011                        5:07 p.m.

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             3           THE CHAIRMAN:  Good evening.

 

             4           I'm Reginald Brown.  Today's date --

 

             5      chairman of the Land Use and Zoning Committee.

 

             6      Today's date is September 20th.  The time now

 

             7      is 5:07.  The meeting will now be conducted.

 

             8           If we if can go around, starting with

 

             9      Mr. Kelly, and everyone introduce themselves --

 

            10      will be great.

 

            11           Thank you.

 

            12           MR. KELLY:  Sean Kelly, representing the

 

            13      Planning and Development Department.

 

            14           MR. GABRIEL:  Jason Gabriel with the

 

            15      Office of General Counsel.

 

            16           MR. REINGOLD:  Dylan Reingold with the

 

            17      Office of General Counsel.

 

            18           C/M CLARK:  Richard Clark, District 3.

 

            19           C/M BOYER:  Lori Boyer, District 5.

 

            20           C/M REDMAN:  Don Redman, District 4.

 

            21           C/M CARTER:  Doyle Carter, District 12.

 

            22           C/M HOLT:  Ray Holt, District 11.

 

            23           C/M LOVE:  Jim Love, District 14.

 

            24           C/M LUMB:  Robin Lumb, Group 5.

 

            25           THE CHAIRMAN:  All right.  And then we

 

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             1      also -- did you introduce yourself --

 

             2           (Inaudible discussion.)

 

             3           THE CHAIRMAN:  Okay.  Good.

 

             4           Okay.  What we're going to do, we are

 

             5      going to go out of order -- well, we really

 

             6      don't have to now that I think about it,

 

             7      Mr. Dylan.

 

             8           If we could just look at item 1, 2011-341.

 

             9      Since we don't have any public speakers, we're

 

            10      going to open and continue until October 4th,

 

            11      2011.  Item 2 is deferred, 2011-363.

 

            12           Item 3, 2011-517, before we -- before I

 

            13      get -- you want me to go ahead and -- before we

 

            14      do the ex-parte, have the staff to speak?  And

 

            15      then I also have Councilman Clark here as well

 

            16      that may have something he would like to say.

 

            17           MR. REINGOLD:  We could start with the

 

            18      ex-parte and then we'll go to staff and then

 

            19      we'll go to the applicant.

 

            20           THE CHAIRMAN:  Okay.  Do we have any

 

            21      ex-parte?

 

            22           COMMITTEE MEMBERS:  (No response.)

 

            23           THE CHAIRMAN:  No.  Okay.

 

            24           Staff report, please.

 

            25           MR. REINGOLD:  (Inaudible.)

 

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             1           THE CHAIRMAN:  Okay.  Mr. Clark.

 

             2           MR. CLARK:  Actually, I -- that's part of

 

             3      the reason I'm down here.  I have had ex-parte

 

             4      communication, obviously, with the applicant

 

             5      and their representatives.

 

             6           THE CHAIRMAN:  Yes, sir.  Thank you.

 

             7           MR. KELLY:  To the Chair and committee

 

             8      members, ordinance 2011-517 is a proposed

 

             9      rezoning from a PUD to PUD.  This development

 

            10      has had some multiple iterations over the last

 

            11      six years.  Originally, it was developed -- or

 

            12      proposed to be developed for a townhome

 

            13      development in 2005.  That was subsequently

 

            14      rezoned in 2007 to allow for apartments with an

 

            15      increase in the density.

 

            16           At that time, in 2007, an additional

 

            17      condition was added as part of the ordinance to

 

            18      require the developer to pay for $250,000 of

 

            19      off-site improvements in conjunction with the

 

            20      development, the intensity of the development.

 

            21      They felt -- warranted -- would degrade, I

 

            22      guess, the San Pablo roadway section, this

 

            23      being south of Atlantic Boulevard and north of

 

            24      Beach Boulevard.

 

            25           Subsequent to that, in 2008, there was an

 

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             1      amendment to the PUD which reduced that

 

             2      improvement by $35,000, from 250,000 to

 

             3      215,000.

 

             4           I do have to say for the record, the

 

             5      Department did not support that reduction, the

 

             6      original reduction.  At this time, the

 

             7      Department -- again, we've issued a report for

 

             8      denial; however, the Department opined during

 

             9      the Planning Commission meeting this additional

 

            10      fee goes above and beyond what would normally

 

            11      be required as part of a fair share development

 

            12      agreement, so we felt it was onerous of the

 

            13      development.

 

            14           Additionally, the Better Jacksonville Plan

 

            15      calls for the -- the future widening of this

 

            16      segment of roadway.  While it's currently

 

            17      unfunded, there is -- projected to go from a --

 

            18      a -- currently a two-lane to a three-lane with

 

            19      sidewalks and bike lanes, but that is unfunded

 

            20      at this time, but --

 

            21           So the Department -- there's no other

 

            22      changes to the PUD from the original change

 

            23      in -- or the most recent change in 2008.

 

            24           So, with that, the Department is

 

            25      supporting the -- the PUD with the elimination

 

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             1      of the -- the payment or that additional

 

             2      subsequent fee beyond the fair share, in

 

             3      conjunction, however, with the improvements

 

             4      that were also incorporated in 2008 underlying

 

             5      the Traffic memorandum that's dated February

 

             6      21st, 2008, which did require improvements in

 

             7      turn lanes and left-turn lanes and decel lanes

 

             8      as well as some other issues in landscaping.

 

             9           The Department is supporting with the

 

            10      condition to adopt the memo; however, we would

 

            11      delete, as -- as the previous council saw fit

 

            12      to delete the specific reference to -- and this

 

            13      is in the Traffic memorandum -- deleting item

 

            14      number 1 and item number 8 from the memorandum.

 

            15           With that, the Department is recommending

 

            16      approval subject to the conditions in the

 

            17      letter to Council President Joost.  I know

 

            18      Dylan is going to reword probably some of the

 

            19      way the written description is reading, but it

 

            20      is per the -- per the memorandum to the council

 

            21      president with the legal description dated

 

            22      June 16th, the site plan dated April 30th,

 

            23      2007, and with the condition for -- the subject

 

            24      property shall be developed in accordance with

 

            25      the Development Services Division memorandum

 

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             1      dated February 21st, 2008, specifically

 

             2      deleting items number 1 and 8 or as otherwise

 

             3      approved by Planning and Development.

 

             4           I'll leave the written description

 

             5      revision to Dylan because I believe it

 

             6      incorporates the three previous written

 

             7      descriptions.

 

             8           THE CHAIRMAN:  Mr. Dylan.

 

             9           MR. REINGOLD:  As Mr. Kelly explained, to

 

            10      the chair and to the full committee,

 

            11      essentially if the committee were in a posture

 

            12      to move this item and -- with the conditions, I

 

            13      would recommend, one, that you move an

 

            14      amendment -- or include in the amendment an

 

            15      incorporation into the bill of the original

 

            16      written description and the first amendment to

 

            17      the PUD so that the written description, the

 

            18      first amendment and the second amendment are

 

            19      all contained within this PUD so that anyone in

 

            20      the future who's looking at this ordinance

 

            21      could find all those documents together.

 

            22           In addition to that, I would recommend on

 

            23      item number 4 on the memorandum, that --

 

            24      instead of it saying deleting items 1 and 8,

 

            25      just say "except for items 1 and 8."  You can't

 

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             1      really delete them; they are on the memo.  So

 

             2      if we say that -- "except for," I think that

 

             3      would work out well.

 

             4           Other than that, I think we're ready to

 

             5      move on this item.

 

             6           THE CHAIRMAN:  Okay.  Before I open up the

 

             7      public hearing, two things.  Mr. Holt, did you

 

             8      need clarification?

 

             9           C/M HOLT:  No.

 

            10           THE CHAIRMAN:  You're good?

 

            11           C/M HOLT:  (Nods head.)

 

            12           THE CHAIRMAN:  Mr. Clark.

 

            13           C/M CLARK:  (Inaudible.)

 

            14           THE CHAIRMAN:  Just go ahead and open up

 

            15      the public hearing?

 

            16           We're going to open the public hearing.

 

            17      We have one card, Mr. Wyman Duggan.

 

            18           (Mr. Duggan approaches the podium.)

 

            19           THE CHAIRMAN:  Thank you.

 

            20           MR. DUGGAN:  Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

 

            21           Wyman Duggan, 1301 Riverplace Boulevard,

 

            22      Suite 1500.

 

            23           As the -- as Mr. Kelly explained, the

 

            24      Department is now in support of this, so I

 

            25      don't want to take up too much of your time on

 

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             1      this application.  I just want to give you a

 

             2      few background facts.

 

             3           Again, this project is approved for 399

 

             4      apartments.  We have two fair shares in place

 

             5      to pay for the impacts of those apartments.

 

             6      And, at the current rate, with the escalations

 

             7      that have come in every year, that would result

 

             8      in a payment of $772,000 to the City for the

 

             9      fair share payments.

 

            10           The PUD, in 2007, had this $250,00 payment

 

            11      over and above the fair share in conjunction

 

            12      with planned Better Jacksonville improvements

 

            13      to San Pablo.

 

            14           The 2008 amendment to reduce the 35,000 --

 

            15      to reduce that 250- to 35,000 was to give

 

            16      credit to my client for PD and E work that they

 

            17      did, that the City could benefit from in doing

 

            18      the BJP improvements to San Pablo.  That's what

 

            19      that represents.

 

            20           Well, as you all know, the BJP

 

            21      improvements didn't happen and they're unlikely

 

            22      to happen anytime soon.  It's still in the work

 

            23      plan but unfunded.

 

            24           My client is ready to develop this site

 

            25      with apartments and they're under contract for

 

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             1      that and I anticipate they would actually begin

 

             2      construction this year, and this amendment is a

 

             3      portion -- is actually a -- a condition of the

 

             4      sale to try and get rid of this 235,000 --

 

             5      excuse me -- $215,000 extra obligation.

 

             6           So that's the background.  And, with that,

 

             7      I'll just stand by for any questions.

 

             8           THE CHAIRMAN:  Okay.  I have no questions

 

             9      on the -- on the queue.

 

            10           Okay.  Mr. Clark.

 

            11           MR. CLARK:  I just -- what neither the

 

            12      Planning Department nor Mr. Duggan has said,

 

            13      you know, this -- the project was -- was done

 

            14      during the boom, obviously.  2005 was when the

 

            15      date was, when everybody was saying we'll do

 

            16      whatever it takes, just let us get out of the

 

            17      ground.  And, at that time, it was, you know,

 

            18      what else can we do?  Can we help you?  Can we

 

            19      pay something?  Can we do something?  And,

 

            20      obviously, those times have changed.

 

            21           It is my understanding that they will

 

            22      actually go vertical if we do this, which is

 

            23      big for me.  It's an industry that's all but

 

            24      died, the construction industry.  So if it's

 

            25      really going to go vertical, then it's a --

 

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             1      it's a big win for us.  It certainly was simply

 

             2      an above and beyond -- we were trying to do

 

             3      some things out there.  San Pablo was nowhere

 

             4      in sight to date, as much as I haggle with

 

             5      every administration to try to get it back on

 

             6      the -- the list.

 

             7           I will also warn the committee, just fair

 

             8      warning, this is one of many in district 3 that

 

             9      were very aggressive in trying to get out of

 

            10      the ground and have a bunch of additional

 

            11      things -- additional burdens placed on them.

 

            12      There will be at least three or four more

 

            13      individuals that have already approached me

 

            14      that said, hey, we need to rework our deal to

 

            15      make this work for us.  And, you know, I say

 

            16      I'm more -- absolutely, let's work a deal.  If

 

            17      you're going vertical, I want to help you.  If

 

            18      you're just trying to do it to flip it and walk

 

            19      away, then -- you know, but if -- if we're

 

            20      talking about banging hammers again, then --

 

            21      then I'm in full support, so . . .

 

            22           THE CHAIRMAN:  Okay.  No other questions.

 

            23           We have no questions.  Close this public

 

            24      hearing.

 

            25           Thank you, Mr. Duggan.

 

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             1           MR. DUGGAN:  Thank you.

 

             2           THE CHAIRMAN:  Okay.

 

             3           C/M HOLT:  Move the amendment including

 

             4      Mr. Reingold's additional (inaudible.)

 

             5           C/M CARTER:  Second.

 

             6           THE CHAIRMAN:  Okay.  I have a motion by

 

             7      Mr. Holt, second by Mr. Carter.

 

             8           Seeing no discussion, all in favor of the

 

             9      amendment say yea.

 

            10           COMMITTEE MEMBERS:  Yea.

 

            11           THE CHAIRMAN:  Any nays?

 

            12           COMMITTEE MEMBERS:  (No response.)

 

            13           THE CHAIRMAN:  The amendment passes.

 

            14           Do I have a --

 

            15           C/M CARTER:  Move the bill as amended.

 

            16           C/M HOLT:  Move the bill as amended.

 

            17           THE CHAIRMAN:  Okay.  I have a motion to

 

            18      move the bill as amended by Mr. Holt, second by

 

            19      Mr. Carter.  Seeing no discussion, open the

 

            20      ballot, record your vote.

 

            21           (Committee ballot opened.)

 

            22           C/M BROWN:  (Votes yea.)

 

            23           C/M HOLT:  (Votes yea.)

 

            24           C/M BOYER:  (Votes yea.)

 

            25           C/M CARTER:  (Votes yea.)

 

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             1           C/M LOVE:  (Votes yea.)

 

             2           C/M LUMB:  (Votes yea.)

 

             3           C/M REDMAN:  (Votes Yea.)

 

             4           (Committee ballot closed.)

 

             5           MS. LAHMEUR:  Seven yeas, zero nays.

 

             6           THE CHAIRMAN:  By your actions, you have

 

             7      approved 2011-517 as amended.

 

             8           Okay.  Let's go to page 3.

 

             9           Thank you, Mr. Clark.

 

            10           We're at the top of page 3, 2011-539.  We

 

            11      do have -- before we -- before we talk about

 

            12      the sub, I know that this is not a public

 

            13      hearing, but I do have a speaker that came and

 

            14      I would like to allow Ms. Devall to come down.

 

            15           (Audience member approaches the podium.)

 

            16           THE CHAIRMAN:  If you can give your name

 

            17      and address for the record.

 

            18           AUDIENCE MEMBER:  Okay.  Gloria Devall,

 

            19      7027 Alpine Street.

 

            20           I'm here to represent Preservation SOS.

 

            21      We would urge you to support whatever can be

 

            22      done to streamline the COA process.  More than

 

            23      50 houses have been demoed in Springfield in

 

            24      the last five years.  We've spent -- it's

 

            25      Preservation SOS's belief that we are spending

 

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             1      a lot of time in getting tangled up in minutiae

 

             2      and that we need to focus on the larger issue

 

             3      of saving the houses.  And in order to do that,

 

             4      we need to streamline the process and untie the

 

             5      historic planners' hands in some manner, so --

 

             6           Thank you.

 

             7           THE CHAIRMAN:  Okay.  Mr. Teal, would you

 

             8      like to come down?

 

             9           (Mr. Teal approaches the podium.)

 

            10           THE CHAIRMAN:  If you can also give your

 

            11      name and record -- name and address for the

 

            12      record.

 

            13           MR. TEAL:  Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

 

            14           Jason Teal, Office of General Counsel.

 

            15           I wanted to go over, first of all, the

 

            16      purpose of the legislation, and then I know

 

            17      that Councilmember Boyer has a substitute that

 

            18      she would like to introduce for consideration

 

            19      by the committee.

 

            20           But basically you should all have in front

 

            21      of you a summary of what we put together that

 

            22      kind of describes what the legislation does,

 

            23      and really it does three things:

 

            24           The first thing, as Ms. Devall mentioned,

 

            25      it streamlines the Certificate of

 

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             1      Appropriateness process for the property

 

             2      owners.  Right now what we've got is -- we

 

             3      don't have a -- really a comprehensive set of

 

             4      things that the -- that the administrative

 

             5      staff can do.  And as you guys may or may not

 

             6      be aware, anytime that you're dealing with a

 

             7      historic property, whether you are going to

 

             8      change -- you know, put -- repair the siding on

 

             9      it, whether you're going to change windows out,

 

            10      whether you're going to look at changing the

 

            11      roof, those kinds of things, put a new awning

 

            12      on it, you're required to come and get a

 

            13      Certificate of Appropriateness.

 

            14           What we don't have right now is a way that

 

            15      we can really kind of streamline that process

 

            16      to allow staff to have more discretion to

 

            17      approve things at an administrative level as

 

            18      opposed to having somebody show up at the

 

            19      once-a-month meetings and have the full-on

 

            20      Historic Preservation Commission consider every

 

            21      single one of those types of items.  So we

 

            22      wanted to -- to provide a mechanism to

 

            23      streamline the approval process for those minor

 

            24      types of alterations and then also identify the

 

            25      ones that were currently in the ordinance code.

 

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             1      Those will be included in the new list, but the

 

             2      commission sees certain things recurring all

 

             3      over -- over and over and over again.  There's

 

             4      no reason why those can't be done on an

 

             5      administrative level to help streamline that

 

             6      process and shorten the time frame.

 

             7           The second thing it does is it creates --

 

             8      it clarifies, rather, the situation as it

 

             9      pertains to the economic hardship provision

 

            10      that's in chapter 307 right now.

 

            11           When chapter 307 was originally adopted

 

            12      back in 1990, it was prior to the creation of

 

            13      any of our historic districts.  And what the

 

            14      council at that point in time was concerned

 

            15      about was that, eventually, if a district gets

 

            16      created, the regulations that are adopted for

 

            17      that district are going to be so burdensome

 

            18      that property owners aren't going to be able to

 

            19      have any kind of relief.  They're going to be

 

            20      forced to, you know, spend a lot of money to

 

            21      reproduce certain historic characteristics or

 

            22      alterations, those kinds of things, but what we

 

            23      found out since then is that what the

 

            24      regulations have actually done is they've built

 

            25      in the kind of options that the council was

 

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             1      afraid wouldn't be in there in the first place,

 

             2      such as you can use -- it already allows for

 

             3      use of alternative materials, less expensive

 

             4      materials than were originally part of the

 

             5      construction.  So it does give the property

 

             6      owner that -- that ability to do it anyway.

 

             7           What we're left with, however, is, because

 

             8      the provision is still in the ordinance code,

 

             9      it's creating a confusion factor and we're

 

            10      getting inconsistent results because property

 

            11      owners see that and they think, well, wait a

 

            12      minute.  That might apply to me; let me go

 

            13      ahead and ask for that, when, in reality, it's

 

            14      already built into the regulations, and so

 

            15      there's a confusion factor as far as the

 

            16      typical homeowner or property owner coming in

 

            17      and not really understanding exactly what they

 

            18      qualify for, what they don't qualify for.  So

 

            19      we're going to clarify that.

 

            20           The final thing it does is -- is it

 

            21      provides a mechanism for administrative -- I'm

 

            22      sorry, for modifying previously-approved

 

            23      Certificates of Appropriateness.

 

            24           Similar to the streamlining of the COA

 

            25      process itself, what this would do is -- right

 

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             1      now there's no mechanism in place where, if

 

             2      somebody gets an approved Certificate of

 

             3      Appropriateness and while they're actually

 

             4      doing the work, they realize, wait a minute,

 

             5      this -- this thing won't work, this condition

 

             6      won't work, instead of having to actually go

 

             7      back to the full commission, wait another

 

             8      month, go through the application process again

 

             9      to actually get it modified, this would allow

 

            10      certain things -- if it doesn't alter, you

 

            11      know, too much, the staff can approve it.

 

            12           If it is a -- more of a significant

 

            13      alteration, if it does have to go back to the

 

            14      commission but not under a full-on COA, or if

 

            15      it's so significantly -- such a significant

 

            16      change, they would have to get a brand new

 

            17      Certificate of Appropriateness application.

 

            18           So it creates kind of that -- you know,

 

            19      that middle ground, if you will, for dealing

 

            20      with the modifications that staff has seen come

 

            21      in over the course of the 20 years that -- that

 

            22      chapter 307 has been in place.

 

            23           So that is -- that's the legislation that

 

            24      we're offering.

 

            25           We did meet with Councilmember Boyer to

 

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             1      discuss some of the concerns that she had, and

 

             2      I did pass out a red-line version of the

 

             3      substitute that she has provided.  It shows you

 

             4      exactly what the modifications would be to it.

 

             5           And, if you want, Councilmember, you could

 

             6      go over the purposes behind the substitute.

 

             7           THE CHAIRMAN:  Yes Ms. Boyer.

 

             8           C/M  BOYER:  Thank you.

 

             9           Rather than asking Mr. Teal about them,

 

            10      I'll just report that I did meet with both

 

            11      Ms. Sheppard and Mr. Teal yesterday, and I

 

            12      think they have no objection to the

 

            13      suggestions.  These were really not changes but

 

            14      simply clarifications, and let me try to

 

            15      explain them real simply.

 

            16           With respect to the undue hardship

 

            17      provision, the idea of the original legislation

 

            18      that's before us was that we were going to

 

            19      include a provision that said you could

 

            20      consider self-created issues when you are

 

            21      looking at undue hardship.  So that if someone

 

            22      had created the problem for themself, that was

 

            23      one of the factors to look at in the undue

 

            24      hardship category.

 

            25           The change that we made in the substitute

 

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             1      is really just kind of a scrivener's change to

 

             2      put that back in the definition in a couple

 

             3      other places so that throughout the document,

 

             4      you're considering that, that the commission

 

             5      considers that and that's part of their overall

 

             6      approach.

 

             7           The second thing -- and there's really two

 

             8      things that kind of play into the same one.

 

             9      There were a list of enumerated exceptions,

 

            10      things like changing an awning, for example,

 

            11      that were in the actual ordinance code that you

 

            12      didn't have to go to the commission for, that

 

            13      the staff could approve.  We're deleting those

 

            14      in this ordinance.  We're deleting the

 

            15      exceptions.  And by -- we are -- what the

 

            16      intent is, is that we are giving the commission

 

            17      the right to approve a list that includes those

 

            18      same exceptions and some more and also gives

 

            19      the commission the right and the staff to

 

            20      propose some additional things that they may,

 

            21      from time to time, come up with that should be

 

            22      on that list.

 

            23           Since that purpose was not stated and what

 

            24      we were just doing was taking out the

 

            25      enumerated list of exceptions, I didn't want it

 

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             1      to appear by implication that we were

 

             2      eliminating the exceptions, so we added some

 

             3      whereas clauses that stated, no, it's actually

 

             4      the intent that the commission is going to

 

             5      adopt those and reenact those and, in fact,

 

             6      probably add some more, so that it was just

 

             7      clear as the legislative intent that that's the

 

             8      way this was going to proceed.

 

             9           A similar thing is true with respect to

 

            10      the 20 percent standard.  In the existing

 

            11      ordinance, as it exists today, if the cost of

 

            12      window replacement, door replacement, roof

 

            13      replacement, things like that, as required in a

 

            14      district, exceed the original proposal by more

 

            15      than 20 percent, then there's an exception and

 

            16      the applicant gets to put in what they

 

            17      originally asked for.

 

            18           That really is irrelevant nowadays because

 

            19      the district standards have taken care of that

 

            20      and, as Mr. Teal said, have provided less

 

            21      expensive alternatives.

 

            22           Again, by deleting the provision in the

 

            23      ordinance that says there's an exception, I

 

            24      didn't want to imply that that no longer

 

            25      applied, that there no longer was an exception.

 

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             1      We still want to take into consideration that

 

             2      there are less expensive alternatives and

 

             3      people should have that option.  It's just now

 

             4      going to be in the standards that the

 

             5      commission enacts and it's in the district

 

             6      standards.  So we weren't trying to say we're

 

             7      doing away with it by taking it out of the

 

             8      ordinance.  We're just giving that authority to

 

             9      somebody else.  That's in the whereas clauses

 

            10      also.

 

            11           Finally, we -- we provided -- I guess

 

            12      there's two more.

 

            13           Next, the substitute provides that --

 

            14      there were a list of minor items in here, and I

 

            15      already said that we intended that the

 

            16      commission could, from time to time, add to

 

            17      that list, so we put in a word that not only

 

            18      were they going to designate it but they could,

 

            19      from time to time, amend it so that they

 

            20      weren't limited to whatever list they adopt

 

            21      initially.

 

            22           And, finally, there was a provision in

 

            23      here that said if you were -- you apply for a

 

            24      certificate to demolish -- or applied for

 

            25      approval to demolish and you were denied, you

 

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             1      couldn't reapply within 12 months.  We were

 

             2      deleting that language.  By deleting that

 

             3      language, I didn't want to say, oh, well, now

 

             4      we're encouraging everybody that they can keep

 

             5      reapplying.  That was not the intent at all.

 

             6      Again, the intent was that you can only come

 

             7      back -- a decision is binding unless there has

 

             8      been a substantial change in your

 

             9      circumstances.  It doesn't matter if it's two

 

            10      months from now or three years from now, that's

 

            11      the criteria.  So we added that specific

 

            12      language.

 

            13           I wanted to make it clear to the public

 

            14      that if there had been a change of

 

            15      circumstances, they could come back.  And if

 

            16      there hadn't been a change in circumstances,

 

            17      they were bound.

 

            18           So I don't think any of those things

 

            19      change the intent or application of what was

 

            20      originally presented and I think it just -- I

 

            21      applaud them for doing the legislation.  I

 

            22      think the legislation is a great thing and

 

            23      something that needs to be done.  I know some

 

            24      of you live in historic districts.  I live in a

 

            25      historic landmark, so I too am bound by

 

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             1      Certificates of Appropriateness and have had to

 

             2      get them before.  So I think the idea that the

 

             3      process would be streamlined is great.

 

             4           Thank you.

 

             5           THE CHAIRMAN:  All right.  Thank you,

 

             6      Ms. Boyer.

 

             7           Mr. Teal, anything else?

 

             8           MR. TEAL:  No.

 

             9           THE CHAIRMAN:  Thank you, sir.

 

            10           Seeing no questions on the queue, do I

 

            11      have a motion --

 

            12           C/M HOLT:  Move the sub.

 

            13           THE CHAIRMAN:  -- and a second to --

 

            14           C/M  BOYER:  Second.

 

            15           THE CHAIRMAN:  -- move the sub to the

 

            16      bill?

 

            17           Okay.  I have a motion by Mr. Holt, second

 

            18      by Ms. Boyer.

 

            19           Any discussion?

 

            20           COMMITTEE MEMBERS:  (No response.)

 

            21           THE CHAIRMAN:  Seeing no discussion, all

 

            22      in favor of the sub to the bill say yea.

 

            23           COMMITTEE MEMBERS:  Yea.

 

            24           THE CHAIRMAN:  Any opposition?

 

            25           COMMITTEE MEMBERS:  (No response.)

 

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             1           C/M HOLT:  Move the bill as substituted.

 

             2           C/M CARTER:  Second.

 

             3           THE CHAIRMAN:  I have a motion to move the

 

             4      bill as substituted by Mr. Holt, second by

 

             5      Mr. Carter.

 

             6           Any discussion?

 

             7           COMMITTEE MEMBERS:  (No response.)

 

             8           THE CHAIRMAN:  Seeing no discussion, open

 

             9      the ballot, record the vote.

 

            10           (Committee ballot opened.)

 

            11           C/M BROWN:  (Votes yea.)

 

            12           C/M HOLT:  (Votes yea.)

 

            13           C/M BOYER:  (Votes yea.)

 

            14           C/M CARTER:  (Votes yea.)

 

            15           C/M LOVE:  (Votes yea.)

 

            16           C/M LUMB:  (Votes yea.)

 

            17           C/M REDMAN:  (Votes Yea.)

 

            18           (Committee ballot closed.)

 

            19           THE CHAIRMAN:  By your actions, you have

 

            20      approved 2011-539 as substituted.

 

            21           On that same page, 2011-550 is deferred,

 

            22      2011-551 is deferred.

 

            23           If you go to the top of page 4, 2011-552

 

            24      is deferred.  And if you look at pages 4

 

            25      through 7, items 8 through 20, read second an

 

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             1      rerefer.

 

             2           I think we've covered everything.

 

             3           Mr. Dylan, do we have anything else to

 

             4      discuss?

 

             5           MR. REINGOLD:  No, sir.

 

             6           I just want to note that I will not be in

 

             7      attendance at our next meeting; however,

 

             8      Jason Gabriel will be here to replace me.

 

             9           THE CHAIRMAN:  All right.  If no other

 

            10      questions, meeting is adjourned.

 

            11           Thank you.

 

            12           (The above proceedings were adjourned at

 

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             3  STATE OF FLORIDA)

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             7           I, Diane M. Tropia, Court Reporter,

 

             8  certify that I was authorized to and did

 

             9  stenographically report the foregoing proceedings

 

            10  and that the transcript is a true and complete

 

            11  record of my stenographic notes.

 

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            15            DATED this 24th day of September, 2011.

 

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