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All right Good morning everybody Uh this meeting of the Escambia County Planning Board for April 8th 2025 is hereby called to order Uh if you would we've got uh what six members uh voting members present So we do have a quorum If you would please join me and standing for the pledge of allegiance I pledge 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 Thank you
staff Do we have proof of publication yes sir Did the publication meet all legal requirements yes sir I'll entertain a motion to wave the reading of the legal advertisement So moved Second Got a motion and a second All those in favor please signify by raising your right hand All those opposed Planning board meeting minutes for March 4th 2025 has been provided to the board members I'll entertain a motion to accept the planning board meeting minutes into evidence Do I have a motion got a motion Do I have a second second Second All those in favor please signify by
raising your right hand All those opposed Motion carries The planning board hearing package for April 8th 2025 has been provided to the board I'll entertain a motion to accept the planning board hearing package uh and the legal advertisement into evidence Have a motion and a second Second Motion We have a motion and a second Second Awesome All right All those in favor please signify by raising your right hand All those opposed All right Motion carries We have one case to be heard today uh a smallcale amendment application for consideration is case number
SSA-2025-01 which request a future land use change uh 9068 G beach highway from commercial to mixeduse suburban as requested by Philip Wong agent for Lauren Lux Group LLC the owner staff was notice of the hearing sent to all interested parties yes sir Was the notes of the hearing posted on the property yes sir Would the um let's see
Can I have the applicant please come forward or the representative uh state your name and address for the record please do we have I just got to ask you a couple questions You if you don't want to speak you don't have to but just got to check some boxes here Good morning Uh good morning Will you just state your name and address for the record uh yeah Uh I'm Philip and I come from the Tubalo Mississippi Okay And uh did you receive a copy uh of the information from the staff from the county uh yes sir You did okay Um All right And then
I think that's that's it for now We'll have the staff go into their presentation Okay So you can take a seat Yes sir All right Thank you All right Um yeah you can you can Thank you Uh staff I'll have you go through um the maps and photographs and uh go through your findings and facts Yes sir Andrew Homer Scami County Development Services This is smallcale amendment to uh 20251 Here we have our location map As you can see it is on north side of Gulf Beach
Highway just east of Dog Track The zoning on site is heavy commercial light industrial The current future land use is commercial and the requested future land use is mixeduse suburban This is showing the accident potential zone uh map that is overlaid uh scar I'm sorry airfield influence planning district map It is in
AIPD1 Here's our accident potential zone map This is why it's in AIPD1 This is in uh APZ2 and it is not in line with a runway The density restriction is three dwelling units per acre Is aerial of the site The notice of public hearing sign posted on site This is looking north to the property across Gulf Beach Highway That's looking
south Uh another view across Davis Highway or a Bolt Golf Beach Highway I say Davis Um this is an adjacent parcel which appears to have a house that is just to the west of the subject parcel on G Beach Um that's looking south along Gulf Beach Highway and looking northwest from Kepler and G Beach Highway Okay that's fine We don't need all
of them Um as to the findings um so again this is a smallcale map amendment It is 1.67 acres so falls within well within the 50 acre limitation on a small scale Um anytime you we're seeing a flu change where they're seeking to change from commercial and drop down into one of the mixeduse categories it's generally because they the limitation on HCLI's density residential density
is limited Thank you When you have a future land use of commercial it would be limited to uh primarily a commercial development with residential being secondary Obviously on a parcel this size there there would be some challenges there Um but the density that is sought with the future land use change is the same as commercial It's 25 units an acre but again in that accident potential zone 2 it's limited to three units per acre So as to the uh requirements so general
amendment conditions um a conversion to mixeduse suburban will allow for residential uses That is as far as saying is there a need it it will allow for those residential uses straight up residential uh professional practices proposed change will support the use of non-residential and residential uses The description of the proposed flu category includes the goal of providing residential development for f current current and future residents to the amendment conditions
Um this is based upon all analysis required by Florida statute and this com uh this complies with all three conditions One being the subject parcel is 1.67 67 acres and of course is lower than the 50 acre limitation on small scale It does not involve a text change to the comp plan but only proposes land use change to the map Uh and this property is not within a designated
area of critical state concern Other applicable comprehensive plan objectives and policies Uh it will be suitable for residential and commercial development The future land use categories in the surrounding area are commercial mixeduse urban and mixeduse suburban which support residential and non-residential development The change to mixeduse suburban would not change the area characteristics while allowing for residential development within the limitations of the APZ As far as
infrastructure portable water uh people's water is the provider of portable water for the area Solid waste collection is provided by ECUA Storm water management transportation Um as far as transportation yes uh FDOT has a resurfacing project for State Road 292 and funds are limited Um it will be just a portion of the road Transportation and traffic
office has no concerns regarding this proposed small scale amendment U TTO's review is solely based on the smallcale map amendments The middle packets of the comments hold no bearing on any comments that would be made in development review As far as the protected resources a subject parcel is not within a wellhead protection area based on Escambia County GIS The property is currently vacant and has not been identified as having any historic
or archaeological structures And as to natural indicators there are no indications from the available national wetland inventory map of any wetlands If any protected trees are located for future development they will be analyzed for compliance with all applicable environmental regulations before the issuance of development plan approval And that concludes the conditions and and thank you to for that Um and I do want to say um for the for the record um if the board
do decide to grant this small scale map amendment I want to be sure that the applicant understands that there are still other things that has to be reviewed when it come to the actual because the lot the lot is still constrained with the size setback requirements if he on he may be on D which they have taken over this uh the the septic tank issues and things like that So all of those things I don't want them to think that yeah the the planner board granted me now automatically think
I can get it there other things that still have to look into because the house size all of those things setbacks it still is a constraining the lot for 1.6 acres There's still some other things that our staff will have to look into that's known just car blocks Yes Do it Y'all got to do it because the BCC and the planning board told me I can have it Just want to All right Thank you horse Just a one step before anything really can get going First step in the process Uh board Are there
any questions that anyone has for um staff or or the applicant yeah U Mr Mr Speaker I'd like So this smallcale amendment would you like to guess or assume what would be following in the form of a zoning change so it would strictly be a guess but if they're seeking to put residential solely on the property HCLI zoning would allow for that as long as this smallcale amendment goes through
And so I and I also just want to refresh in my mind's eye the fact that back when zoning was initially implemented is how we got here with this strip going down Gulf Beach Highway in a number of areas because you couldn't take away anyone's property rights There's a swath of things which seem bizarre to most people driving down it why you have a car lot next to somebody's home And uh but because of that uh there's majority is or not majority but sections are strictly commercial
Uh is that an accurate yes recall of my memory and the the original zoning map that was done um essentially someone took a uh I don't know 100 yards or 100 feet on either side of the center line of the road and made it all C2 you know our heavy commercial zoning at the time Um the issue there was while Gul Beach goes at an angle those lots were all platted north south All right Or running east west frankly Uh so it sliced through a bunch of properties When
we did the conversion what we ended up having to do was without taking anyone's rights away if you were split zoned we went with the majority So you're going to still end up with a bunch of those that are now HCLI even though the the use on either side of them is residential So that was the only way to correct for the original error without taking away anyone's rights All right Uh any other questions from the board for staff or the applicant all right We
uh I see we do have a couple people in the audience I don't have any speaker forms Did y'all want to speak at all today we're just here to for information All right Appreciate it Um All right I don't think we've got anything else So um if there's no further discussion I will entertain a motion Sure Yes sir I I would just make a comment from NAS Pensacola because it is a APZ area Uh it's been captured in the analysis and and that's uh kind of stands on its own Just in addition it is you know it's on a downwind pattern There's
it's not in a noise zone that's prohibitive to residential although uh real estate disclosures and the standard uh if it's residential will have to be made and uh there's going to be overflight for sure Thank you for that Thank you Um all right with that I'll entertain a motion uh for this small scale amendment All right I motion for approval uh for SSA 2025-01 Okay we got a motion to approve Do we have a second second Any discussion on the motion if not all
those in favor of the motion please signify by raising your right hand All those opposed All right Motion carries for approval Um I don't have anyone signed up for public forum Uh that was the only item we had on our agenda staff Um do you have anything for us before we dismiss no just next month is going to be a little lengthier I'll have a possibility of two resonings
two small scales and possibly some FEMA ordinances coming as well All right Well sounds good As to those FEMA ordinances just to give you an update on where we are Um FEMA has finished their process finally It's it's been extensive Uh we now have our new flood maps which we have to adopt Um we don't that we are going to adopt them That's basically the what FEMA is telling us Uh some people it lessened their flood risk with the new map Some people it increased it Um there
was a challenge period We've been through that twice now Um so it's it needs to be adopted for our building code which I I know is separate from what you're dealing with but also in our LDC and San Rosa Island Authority is updating as well So we're going to we're kind of teaming up on this and trying to do it all together at the same timing so to speak We're going to the island authority first and then coming here before we go to the BCC just as an overview All right Are these
the 16 maps that we're finally adopting that is correct It's been a It's been a It's been a long time Yeah Good stuff All righty Well uh if there is nothing else we stand adjourned and we will meet again here in this room on Tuesday May the 6th Y'all have a good rest of your week