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All right. Good morning everybody. Six of us. All right. This meeting of the Escambia County Planning Board for January 6, 2026 is hereby called to order with six members present. We do have a quorum. Just a reminder to turn off your cell phones or put them on silent um as we proceed with the meeting. And if you could please stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation
indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right. Uh did we have proof of publication? Yes, sir. publication meet all legal requirements. Yes, sir. I'll entertain a motion to wave the reading of the legal advertisement. Second. Got a motion and a second. All those in favor, please signify by raising your right hand. All those opposed? Okay. Motion carries. The meeting minutes from the previous meeting dated December 2nd have been provided to the board members. Uh are there any additions, deletions,
or corrections? And if not, I'll entertain a motion. So moved. Second. That motion is second. All those in favor, please signify by raising your right hand. All right. Reszoning hearing package for today's meeting with findings of fact has been provided to the board members. I'll entertain a motion to accept the resoning hearing package with findings of fact and legal advertisement into evidence. Do we have a motion? Motion to accept. Second. Got a motion and a second. All those in favor, please signify by raising your right hand. All right. Motion carries.
Will the court reporter please swear and members of the staff testimony you're about to give in this case will be the truth the whole truth and nothing. All right. And the planning board has previously qualified staff to offer expert testimony in the area of land use and planning. Uh if anyone has any questions regarding their qualifications and ability to offer expert testimony, please speak now. See none. All right. At this hearing, the planning board is acting under its authority to hear and make recommendations to the BCC to expate
this meeting. Do you want to make a motion to wave the reading today? We've got a motion to wave the reading. We've got a second. Any discussion? All those in favor, please signify by raising your right hand. Okay. All those opposed. All right. Um, so at the beginning of each case, as long as there's no objections from the applicant, uh, we'll allow staff to briefly present the location and zoning maps and photo of the property for the case. Next, we'll hear from the applicant and any witnesses they may wish to bring. Then, we'll hear from staff and any witnesses they may wish to to
bring. And finally, we'll hear from members of the public who have filled out a speaker request form. Uh there's one case to be heard today and that's resoning application for consideration. Case Z 2025-13 request reszoning of the 600 block of Cessna Road from MDR medium density residential district 10 dwelling units per acre to HDR high density residential district 18 dwelling units per acre requested by Meredith Bush the agent for Reoland LLC the owner. Members of the board,
have there been any exparte communication between you, the applicant of the applicant's agents, attorneys, or witnesses with fellow planning board members, or anyone from the general public prior to this hearing? Have you visited the subject property? And please also disclose if you are a relative or business associate of the applicant or the applicant's agent. I have visited the site and no to the rest. No to all. No to all. No to all. No to all. No to all. All right. staff. Was notice of the hearing sent to all interested parties? Yes, sir. Was notice of the hearing posted on
the subject property? Yes, sir. All right. And um Meredith, do you want them to go through the photographs or did you No. Um good morning, Meredith Bush. Uh 314 South Balin, sweet 108, Pensacola, Florida 32502. here on behalf of Renoland. We received staff's findings about a week ago, a little over a week ago, I think, and last week advised staff that we'd be pulling the application and withdrawing the request. You know, this is a case that started out as a commercial ask. We looked at HDMU. We met with the community. We thought coming in with an HDR would be um the
most likely or, you know, for any potential uh increase in uses. However, given staff's findings and the community outcry, we're withdrawing the request. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Bush. And um that was our only case that we had today for resoning. Members of the public, I appreciate you showing up and and force today. Um and uh Mr. Jones, if Yes, sir. Um um and again again again and we do want to say now for for the record um they for the for the community they can make a decision
to come back in if they want to. However the the same process will have to occur notification they pay for everything again but the the process is still available for them. the the layout of the land still would will not change. I just want to make that for the record clear that they still have their right as property owners to come back in and make another attempt if they do this if they do desire the process the facts everything will remain the same again. All right. Thank you,
Mr. Jones. And um so if they wanted to come back or if any of them would like to come and reszone their property, they could as well, but everybody would get notified just as it did. Okay. Great. All right. Um I guess there's nothing further on this. So we'll adjourn this resoning case and go into our regular board meeting. Um the meeting of the Escambia County Planning Board for January 6 is hereby called to order with six members. We do have a quorum. Do we have proof of publication?
Yes. Chair. Yes. Would you like to explain to the audience? Okay. It looks like they got they Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Say thank you. [Laughter] Unless you just want to hang out. Yeah. Yeah. Thank y'all for coming out there on this one. There's a better way informing the public. Drew, you're the lone one back there. He's trying to hide. Actually, that's a great picture right there. I don't think we've ever had one kind of just sput out like that.
Yeah. Yeah. Thanks for saying that. Thank you for the brief one today. All right. So, we've got our regular planning board meeting with six members present. We do have a quorum. Do we have proof of publication? Yes, sir. The publication meet all legal requirements? Yes, sir. I'll entertain a motion to wave the reading of the legal advertisement. Motion. Second. All those in favor, please signify by raising your right hand. All those opposed? Motion carries. Planning board meeting minutes for November 4th have been provided to the board.
I'll entertain a motion to accept the planning board meeting minutes into evidence. Do we have a motion? Motion. Second. Motion and second. All those in favor, please signify by raising your right hand. Motion carries. Planning board hearing package for January 6 has been provided to the board members. I'll entertain a motion to accept the planning board hearing package and legal advertisement into evidence. Do we have a motion? Still moved. Second. All right. Motion is second. All those in favor, please signify by raising your right hand. All right. Motion carries. A public hearing concerning the review of an ordinance amending chapter 4, article 7,
supplemental use regulations to create section 4-7.18 relating to certified recovery residence and reasonable accommodation procedures. Staff, uh, if you would proceed with your presentation. I'll actually be the one who proceeding. Uh, and I I'll I'll read my spiel here on it and then answer any questions you guys have. So, a state certified recovery residence is a residential dwelling that houses individuals recovering from substance abuse disorders that holds a valid certificate of compliance under section 397487 Florida statutes. Uh, this ordinance
establishes a formal written process in the land development code for how the county reviews reasonable accommodation request submitted by these types of certified recovery residences. Uh this is due to state legislation requiring this in uh Senate Bill 954, now codified 397487 Florida statutes. Uh and and enables the county to have a formal process to follow the requirements of the Fair Housing Act and Americans with Disabilities Act, both federal law. Um it largely just formalizes a process for requesting a reasonable accommodation
for these types of residences. Uh, under the ordinance, an applicant submits a written request identifying the specific LDC requirement at issue and explaining why an accommodation is necessary. Examples include occupancy limits, parking requirements, spacing, uh, or similar development regulations depending on the facts of the request. Each request is evalu evaluated on a case-byase basis considering whether the accommodation is reasonable and necessary to provide equal housing opportunity and whether it would impose undue financial or administrative
burden on the county or result in a fundamental alteration of the county's land use framework. A written decision is issued with it within required timelines believe 14 days I believe uh with appeal rights to the board of county commissioners in a quasi judicial proceeding. uh any approval remains conditioned on continued state certification compliance uh with with the state certification requirements for certified recovery residences. It doesn't uh obviously guarantee approval of any request. It just provides a clear now required process for considering
uh limited flexibility in and code requirements consistent with that state and federal law. All right. Thank you. Uh board members, are there any questions for staff? All right. Oh, yep. Nope. Okay. Uh, seeing as we do not have any public comment, um, if there's no questions, I will entertain a motion on this ordinance amendment. Motion to approve. Motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. Second. Any discussion on the motion? All
those in favor, please signify by raising your right hand. All those opposed. Motion carries. Uh staff, do you have anything for us other than we'll be back here Tuesday, February 3rd? Right now, I do have three cases for next month. Okay. Very good. All right. Uh if there's nothing else, will you stand adjourned? That's a record at the time I've been here. That's a record. I can even cut mine down if I wanted to.
Peace and quiet, right? You didn't get to share. I didn't have to say that's the best kind, right? Yeah. They can't I mean recovery nobody's even asking so much work of a poem. Thank you, man.