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Oh yeah, >> that's a lur Morning. >> Good morning. How you doing? Morning, Rene. [clears throat] >> I think they're tired of me this week. I got my driveway aprons

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roadway couldn't do moving and then I had to get a new roof. Check. Check. >> Keeping everybody >> the apron. Whenever you're ready. [clears throat] >> Let's call a meeting to order. Please rise and pledge the flag

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[clears throat] to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Would you call the role please? Rene.

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>> Commissioner Canfield >> here. >> Commissioner Orwine >> here. Vice Mayor Stanley >> here. >> Mayor Morgan >> here. >> Also present and participating today is town manager Nazaro. our town attorney, Laney Francisco, CFO, Bymaster, Chief Jones, and myself.

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>> Very good. >> Absent with notice is Commissioner Green. >> I didn't even look over there to see that he wasn't here. And he's so quiet, you never really know. U we've been presented with the minutes from our May meeting. Are there any uh questions, comments, corrections, or a motion?

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>> Uh motion to approve the minutes from the May 8, 2026 commission meeting. >> Second. Rene. >> Commissioner Campfield. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Orwine. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Stanley? >> Yes. >> Mayor Morgan? >> Yes. >> Uh, any changes to the agenda? >> Nazar?

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>> No, sir. >> Very good. Our next meeting will be July 10th at 9:00 a.m. for anyone who wishes to attend. We will have a budget meeting tenative one September 11th at 5:01 p.m. Final budget meeting will be September

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23 at 5:01 p.m. Uh before we do public comment, I want to uh just congratulate our clerk Renee Basil uh who was elected president of the Florida Association of City Clerks. She represents every town

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and city clerk in the state of Florida while still staying on top of everything in Gulfream. So, congratulations. I'm very proud of you. >> Thank you. >> Uh public comment. Anyone wish to speak? Then let's move on. Uh we have a hearing

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today with a couple applications. Anyone who will be speaking today, please rise on any application and be sworn. >> Just raise your right hand. Square, tell the truth, the whole truth and I think that will help you back.

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>> Uh any exparte communications on this application which is 4220 North County Road? >> None here. >> Very good. Okay. Who will be presenting? >> Good [snorts] morning. Patrick O'Connell um with Patrick Okonnell Architect

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representing the owners of Steve and Jenny Strit. Um, we have a project here. It's a couple lots over. Um, if you're familiar with the project, uh, location. It's a new residence, as you can see, twotory in the center

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portion of the lot and, uh, two one-story wings. So, essentially what we're here today to look at is the special exceptions for the uh, mechanical equipment. So if we go to the site plan, you can

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see the area in question. As you know, the the lot to the south is owned by the town and uh the golf course is immediately behind the project location to the west.

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So, um, in order to get the mechanical equipment away from the neighbors and in the most inconspicuous location that would, uh, benefit everyone in the town, we moved the mechanical equipment to the

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southwest corner of the lot, taking advantage of the special exception. you know, when it's a commercial um property, there's a reduced a reduction in setbacks by by special exceptions. So, that's that's what we >> So, closer to the golf course rather

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than >> Yes. closer to the golf course and closer to the town owned lot away from the neighbors, away from the street. Um, we also incorporated some steps in the southwest corner of the lot since the lot is sloping to get the equipment

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lower down lower away from the street and away from uh neighbors to help with noise. So, that's the existing plan. That's the the demolition plan. And then you can see in the proposed plan where the the mechanical equipment is is being proposed

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and the condensing units. Uh the architectural review board was, you know, very happy with the project we presented and they like the design. They like the the architecture and and we're supportive of the special exceptions as well. Um that that pretty much concludes the

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presentation unless you have any questions. Well, why don't you tell us a little bit more about the house? >> The house? Yeah, it's a beautiful house. It's um British colonial. We have uh a nice entry feature on the right with the uh

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pergola, a low stone wall, picket fence which would be beautiful from the street. Um double hung windows, hip roof, concrete tile. Um, >> do you have a street view?

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>> Street view. No, I mean uh if you go to the landscape drawings, he can you can >> I think that's that that's the concern of of the residents in the town. Okay. >> This is a very big house, >> right? >> On a very small street. All the other

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homes are pretty small. So the streetscape approach uh will be important. >> Sure. Yeah, it is it is a a large lot, you know. So we follow within the all the uh town standards for lot coverage

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and >> yeah you got you got you have dissimilarity in our code though. Uh so let's let's talk about the approach from the street. >> Sure. We have um two curb cuts uh with it is heavily landscaped in the front.

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We're keeping the original the tree on the north northeast corner is uh is is huge and helps helps sort of um screen the house. And then we are relocating a another huge tree

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uh to the southeast corner to sort of bookend the site and provide a lot of shade for the street and a lot of uh you know to help out with that. I have Valyria here from environmental design group who's with the landscape.

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Um the land section >> before we get into that uh are there any because we really haven't even seen the house any [laughter] questions about the home? >> Yeah, just about talking about the front. So how much uh how much sight? So

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the lot does slope down in its current with its current elevations. It slopes down. So the road sloping down the lot sort of has a little house which is going to be demoed and then it kind of slopes down towards the corner here. What uh right >> what type of sight work I mean maybe

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Trey can answer this too. What kind of sight work is involved? Are you bringing the lot up or are you just stepping it down with the foundation? Just kind of give me a mental picture here. >> We are but from the street not much will change. From the street it's going to it's going to feel the same. Um the

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house is going to be uh the floor the finished floor of the of the ground floor is going to match the existing house. So that's not going to change. >> Um and we're just working with the existing grade there in the front yard all the way up to the house. >> Now in the backyard, we are going to be

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doing some fill work and some terrace sight walls in the back on the golf course side, but that's from the street. You're not really going to recognize much change. >> So you'll be looking I mean, will you necessarily be looking down at part of the house or it will be

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more eye level? Because some of the other houses, you know, you'll kind of kind of the driveways kind of sloped down a little bit. >> It is lower than the street. It is lower than the street, which will also help with the height of the house. You know, the twotory portion of the house, it will be it will be sort of sunken down

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from the street. Just to paint a [clears throat] brief picture, the elevation of the property on the north side at the road is 20 feet sloping to 13 feet on the south prop south property line. Uh, and I think the house is proposed at 14 and it's approximately 16

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in the center of the road. So, it is not going to be elevated higher than the road. It like what we're seeing elsewhere in the core, it will kind of be at that level or sloping a little bit. Um, >> not going to be it'll be maybe down slightly, but it'll be pretty much street level. Correct. It almost looks to the eye. Now, it won't be, but it'll

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be street level, but not higher. >> I think the preservation and relocation of some of these mature trees is an important part to the look at this, too. So, I'm guessing we may get to that in a second, but I'd like to hear a little more about that and the logistics of that and >> right because that doesn't show up on the rendering. Right. Valeri has some

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renderings here to share that that can show some of the Maybe you just pass it around. >> Yeah. I don't know if this made it to the presentation, but it >> the first one on the top is the elevation inside the driveway and then the bottom one is from the road.

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>> The house is massive. >> Yeah. Yeah, I mean logistically Dustin Meiselda the landscape architect says that it it is possible to to move that fus tree that it it's gigantic but it's doable and that it will it will grow >> in the future. I need these a week ahead

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of time, not day of. Thank you. Yeah. >> Don't we normally have side by sides where the house is situated on the street and you see the homes next to it? >> Some some of them do that. Not everyone does it. We don't require it. If y'all

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would like for us to start requiring it, we can. >> What are the lot sizes next door short to this? I mean, this is going to be significantly larger than the other houses on the street. True. >> Uh, well, on the e on the west side of

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the road, yes. But remember on the east side of the road, all of the, you know, town home town homes and condos that are on those are pretty large structures. Um, and the lot is is maybe >> Trey can maybe speak to that a little better, but it is probably >> there it is

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>> twice the size of some of the other lots. So, >> it's quite larger than the other ones. >> That's correct. It's it's about twice the size of the lot immediately to the north. Uh, and one of the larger lots on County Road. >> We have very large side setbacks.

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>> You know, much lar much larger than is than required. >> You know, the house could be it could be much wider per the code. >> Does that everyone see this? Um let's hear about the landscaping then

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>> and before we get there u neighbors have been any comments from neighbors >> regarding this home? >> No. >> No sir. >> No. >> We had them some a couple came in and looked at the plans but that was it.

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[clears throat] >> Okay. Sorry. >> Okay. No problem. Yeah, as you know, there's a bunch of vegetation on the property. A lot of them are overgrown, not in good condition. So, we're clearing all the not important trees, but we're keeping all the major fus

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trees that are around the north side and some on the east. And as we mentioned, we're relocating one big fus that it's where the new driveway is going and we're putting it on the south so it flanks the property. Um, more from the landscape, we have a

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hedge on the row to mitigate some of the facade and it's very dense on the front with a lot of uh mixed vegetation um very formal and then in the back it's mostly long with a buffer and open views

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to the golf course and um just to give some space for the pool deck. Uh we have a pool with a spa and a sunbench and center on the north the pool cabana with a outdoor kitchen and

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an outdoor bathroom in the back with side access to the golf course in the north and in the south on that side. And next page >> and next >> that's it. That's all I got. >> Okay.

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>> Just once one page. Yeah. Yeah. Um, >> I don't quite understand. >> Why does it look different on the street? What are you looking at? >> That's supposed to be behind. You're

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supposed to be standing behind the hedge. >> That's what I thought. Yeah, >> the trees look different. >> [clears throat] >> I don't know if that's quite the >> Yeah, I don't quite understand this. Sorry. >> Sure. >> Normally we have this, you know. Yeah.

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Present. >> What's the difference between these two? You have from the street and from the driveway with >> Yeah. Because the bottom one is from the street and you see the street is sloped and you see all the trees that are covering the

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facade of the of the house. And the top one is just a clear view of the house with the landscape and how it's framing the house from the inside. >> So this big tree here >> is in front of these little palms. >> Um check.

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>> Yeah. Yeah. They that tree is on the street side. >> Yes. This is on the street. This big one. >> You step in front of that, you're looking at these >> correct. Yeah. >> Palms into the house. Okay. Yeah. All right. >> Okay. Okay, got it.

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>> The fus trees are there now or are you going to move them? >> No, they are there on site. >> You just frame the house with the fus >> the ones on the that is being relocated. We're preserving the one on the north and then relocating the other one in the south. So, it makes that like frame of

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the property. It's a pretty house. I think I mean it is. It's a big lot. I know it's a big house, but it's a big lot. So, I mean, I don't think that you, you know, >> it's well landscaped. >> It goes u I mean, our concern from the

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very beginning on this house is how it's desperate to the to the other homes on the street. And you're you're making an effort to to reduce the street visibility of this very large home >> which is appropriately set on a very

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large lot. >> Yeah. Uh that that's where we're going with our questions. Um because we hear it we hear it after it's built. >> Yeah. >> Um but you have condos on the other side. I mean it's a very mixed

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>> bag of the street too. So um I think it's a pretty house. >> So >> uh any any questions about the house or the landscaping? >> Just have a couple questions about the the last part we always deal with is the uh the driveways. So, it's kind of hard

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to argue because this plenty of plenty of uh hardscape for the driveways compared to all the other houses, but are we all right with it coming down the hill how it lays out tray and chief with the uh since it's one way? I know everyone sort of makes do on the street

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with the cars and whatnot. You've got no driveways, you've got larger driveways, you got step down driveways. We obviously had the house that had have the driveway that had to be closed. Um, this is probably the best one, but like like the mayor said, sometimes we don't hear about things until after it's

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already built. You know, someone's coming out of the the curb cut on the opposite side, the east side and whatnot. I mean, obviously, you've got to come down one way, enter the house uh from the top, I guess you or you can enter it from the secondary driveway to go to the

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garage. I mean, everything looks wide enough compared to where we've been before. Correct. >> Right. And all of the homes on the west side of County Road had that half circle driveway just because it's a oneway. It's easy to get in and out. >> Yeah. And just to add to the slope of

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the driveway, the south side that is closer to the garage is pretty much at the same level. The road is at the same level as the garage >> comes down. >> Yeah. Only the north is when you're coming on a slow slope, but we have the length to make it smooth and not a a

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visibility issue. I would consider an improvement from the driveway that's currently there because it's very small and and kind of tucked in. So, >> the house too. >> Yes, absolutely. >> Okay. >> Okay. I mean, it it looks nice. We just

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needed to get some more information on size, placement, trying to hide it with landscaping. Um motions. Who wants to take it? Make >> motions. You want to do it? Uh this is an a

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motion to for application 26-8. Uh first motion is a motion to approve a demolition permit for the existing 2435 ft twostory residence. >> Second. >> Miss Basel. >> Commissioner Canfield? >> Yes.

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>> Commissioner Orwin. Yes. >> Sites Mayor Stanley. >> Yes. >> Mayor Morgan. >> Yes. Second motion is a motion to approve a special exception to allow reduced side style setback 10 feet one and a half inches under section 70-75D for the equipment.

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>> Second, >> Commissioner Canfield. >> Yes. >> Commissioner, yes. >> Vice Mayor Stanley, >> yes. >> Mayor Morgan, >> yes. Uh third motion is a special exception to a reduced rear west setback for for a

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10 foot 5 and a half inch uh uh reduced setback under section 70-75D for the equipment. >> Second, >> Miss Basel. >> Commissioner Canfield? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Orwin. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Stanley. >> Yes. >> Mayor Morgan. >> Yes. Uh third fourth motion is the uh level

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motion to approve a level three architectural site plan to permit the construction of a new 7,210 square foot two-story single family residence with new hardscape landscape pool and cabana as proposed. I think as always any minor modifications of landscape plan need to

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be approved by staff and any major modifications to the landscape plan need to be brought back before the uh the commission. Second, >> Rene. >> Commissioner Canfield, yes. >> Commissioner Orwin, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Stanley, yes. Mayor Morgan, >> yes. Thank you very much.

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>> Thanks so much. Appreciate it. >> All right, let's move on to uh the next application. 26-7143 North Ocean Boulevard. >> Uh, Mayor, I've had XRA a communication on this application. >> Okay.

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With >> with the applicant. >> With the applicant. Okay. Anyone else? N. Very good. >> Good morning. Um, good morningers. >> Uh, my name is Richard Sammons of Fairfax and Sammons Architects. I'm

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representing the Turners uh, Christy and Jay who are here in the here uh, as well um, in the reconstruction of this rather historic house. Um, it has Vanderbilt connections. Um, I'm

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sure you all know the house. Um, and uh, what we're doing is an imaginative reconstruction of the main house and landscape, heartscape, and and and the rest. Um, it was called El Mirido

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and uh, this is the the guest house as we are envisioning it. uh renovated next. So it's but what's interesting is if you look at the tower, this is the

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whole site. This is the um this is the original house and it's a unique situation and it's you know it's a very unique lot and very you know strange circumstance and that the house was actually cut the lot was actually

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cut in half and the house was cut in half. So the tower and bedrooms were on that side and the kind the living room was sort of in the middle and then the the big block on the other side really

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contained the uh one bedroom the the master bedroom and some staff rooms and the service wing and kitchen. Um it's a very big site but only about half of the site actually counts towards your

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um towards the calculation for your available F. Just another view of the house. Uh what one thing you might see is it has this enormous pool and next to it it's one of the it's like the biggest pool in the in

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the county. Um and there's a loia behind that and that's attached to an incredibly large garage. And there's also the guest house at the front of the house next which is here the guest house at the front of the house. So together, the

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garage and the guest house actually take up more than a third of the available F. And in fact, the the ensemble as it sits right now, because it's only half the lot and just weird >> cases of geometry, um

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uh are only a couple hundred feet under the existing F. Um but we only have half a house. So the concept was we would design the house on the ocean and make adjustments

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thereafter. The house uh retains uh has a um retains the the character and the imprint of the original house. That's what it looks like from the motor court. as a oceanfront

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house in this day and age. It's actually a rather modest house. You can see here in context with its neighbor. The existing uh living room, which will become the kitchen, are the three little arches in between the two houses. And that's actually attached to the other

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house. Um so it's a you know a strange party wall situation. And what you can see here and we probably should pchet this is that this garage and that's are actually you

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know as big as the house itself. The footprint of the garage is is about the size same size as the footprint of the house. So we have this amazing garage. The idea here was uh was to flip the

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service wing to the north side uh you know for better solar iration but also to provide a buffer to the next door neighbors with a thin wing uh which we're calling the range uh here on the north side

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and the main house you know stays on the ocean side um and we are canning it away uh so that it lines up with the ocean and that we're improving the situation there where it's actually over the U

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construction the old con construction line postal construction line just some existing conditions of the of the site today [clears throat] there is the garage. It's a It has a, you know, it's a piece

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of history. It has the, you know, the chauffeur's quarters and the mechanics, uh, you know, the mechanic things and the the drains in the floor for the, you know, it's it's a real, you know, you can put your Pierce Arrow in there and and the chauffeur works on it. And so, it's a real piece of history. Uh, but it

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does take up a vast portion of the available F. Um, this is the existing house. You can see it's kind of a rabbit horn because it's the service wing to the party house which really occurred in the living room

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and the other rooms to the to the north. And then upstairs, you can see that it has basically one bedroom on the uh ocean side and then the servants bedrooms in the wings. kind of a blocky thing. And this is the

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um our uh our renovation. Um the areas in pink are are new and the uh other areas are within the footprint of the existing building. Uh

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this is the upper floor. And you can see there's basically three bedrooms in this house that face the ocean. So it's a three-bedroom house on the ocean with a with the range having three other guest bedrooms, small guest bedrooms.

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Here's the Here's the range. And and its real purpose there is to screen the neighbor to the north. And it has a little twotory uh bump at the end for punctuation and a little uh beds set situation.

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Here's the front elevation. Uh we're retaining many of the elements of the old house. First of all, it's exact same. It's the same style and spirit of the house. Uh right below the chimney, there's a plaque. It's actually of San Gorgio which we're removing from

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the kitchen wing and reinsert inserting there. Uh the uh doorway and u the uh general style uh again is following the original house.

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And this is that sort of modesty wall. this rather this thin uh range of rooms that go off to the north that form the north side of the motorc court. And it's kind of a lovely arcade there.

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[sighs] And this is what one sees from the ocean with a loia and the the a double loia with a with a veranda above a loia. the uh back side of the range. This is

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if you're standing on the property line to the north looking back. Next. Oops. Well, the what we decided to do was to keep the garage and modify it and try to pretty

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it up uh to um to to to make it acceptable. And we've added basically uh cleaned up that what used to be a kind of a heavy and gigantic Loia. We've made it

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smaller and and more compact in the center. So we've given it a bit of a faceelift, but it's the same building. And it's the same from the garage side as well. the two flat roofed areas we added

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pitched roofs too. And although it's nice to have a fourc car garage with a chauffer's quarters and a and a mechanic's uh shop and and all that, it uh it does take up a lot of room, but it does have value. We could

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actually hide the generator inside this building for instance so that people don't hear it running and and uh and the likes. Next, and this is again a fairly modest

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renovation of the guest house. very simple, just new windows and and uh and just giving you a little bit of pretty up. And this is the the only completely new building on the site which is uh an artist studio which has a

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it's very small. 14 by 14 block in the center and um it's basically the the Christy Turner is a painter and this is her place to go and hide and paint. Um

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and uh so there it is again the view from the water and um this is good. We'll go to landscape now unless you have questions on the architecture. >> Well, I mean the the elephant in the room. >> Yes.

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>> Uh the renderings are beautiful. It's in keeping with the original Miraido style did a tremendous job actually. However, the the variance of over 2500 square feet is the issue here. It's it came encumbered

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with these two large buildings and in order to get and the the our proposal is not a grand house even to get the program we looked at trying to get the you know the program into

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anything smaller just kind of doesn't work. So the all the function of the house, these are the things that have to happen to bring it up to standard. Um it came to the end and we were looking

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at the you know whether to tear the garage down or not. I just said what a waste. Why do we have why should we tear this down? We would have to provide a garage anyway. Um so we'd have to provide a something. And so that meant that the guest house

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would also have to go. And I'm thinking, you know, the guest house is iconic. It's on the street. It's, you know, it may be of marginal purpose for for the property as it functions, but to the

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community, it's it's an icon. It would be a shame to tear that down. And then you know the garage is the garage but I still have to have a garage. So the ask really is that we retain you we can tear

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them down. It's easy and we'd be fine. >> But isn't the issue that >> the variance came up essentially at the ARP. was not discussed with staff when this house was being designed. And had it had that been done because you you

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probably know we rarely ever have variances. They have to make they have to meet the standards of of of the law and the house could have been redesigned at that stage. Now you already have all the

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input into this home, this this beautifully designed home. And the only way to get it is to have this large variance >> or tear those these buildings down >> been designed somewhat differently to

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not require. I don't know that it could have been because given the program, it's literally this it's it's already a very tight and efficient plan and the house that's there now, you know, eats up all but a couple hundred feet of the

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available F as well. Um, >> yeah, but do you meet the requirements of a variance? Yes, which we can we can certainly get by tearing the garage down and tearing the guest house down. I'm just pleading

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with everybody not to do that, you know. Um >> I think your design's beautiful. Um I you know there's nothing incredibly redeem about the garage to me. So I don't know what your standards what are your what's your standards that you're

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requesting this variance? I mean legally legally you don't have a a preservation code here. And um we you know and so you you basically are here to say

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whether we going to tear these down or not. Um um so the um legally it's that the site is historic and it is encumbered by these you know fairly large buildings that eat up get

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more than a third of the F. Um so >> do you have anything to say? No, I mean the, you know, the ARPB felt similarly to the town commission were very complimentary of the entire

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project, the architecture, the landscaping. Um, you know, again, nothing but positive things to say. The issue was just the um the zone, the variance criteria and what the um you know, sort of what the hardship is. you know, they've indicated that they

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inherited um essentially a fully builtout lot, which is unique in that perhaps these buildings are, you know, are should be considered historic. Uh and how that may not apply to other properties in town.

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Most of the buildings that we u that we approve today sitting here on the deis that that you approve like we just saw are fully built out. So a subsequent purchaser would not be would not have caused um that F to be completely

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consumed by what was existing, but they would inherit that through the previous application. So we'd see that everywhere around town. The distinguishing, you know, point here is that, you know, the argument that they um they have, you know, historic buildings that have some

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sort of value, right? So that's how they're trying to distinguish um you and justify that it's, you know, it's it's difficult to look at whether 2600 square f feet is the minimum variance that will make reasonable use of the land. I don't know

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where that sliding scale ends if there could be some that's removed and still be reasonable and meet the needs of the of any owner of the property. Guess we're asking for relief from because it's just wasteful to to not use

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these things and yet the program of the house wouldn't fit in what's left over. Um but that's the point. It wasn't when you meet with staff. We we try to avoid all this at ARP and commission level. Um and this issue of the variance didn't come

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up until the application was filed. Normally you meet with staff, staff goes through >> and we met with staff several times. It never came up. >> We advised you through your agents multiple times and Mr. Faul can testify if he needs to that we advise against

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seeking any variances and he said to your architect do not call a special exception of variance because they don't grant variances. He was across the table. So there was a clear communication to this design team that we typically do not approve variances.

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>> So now everybody's in the situation where a lot of time and expense has been put into a a magnificent home, >> but one that would require significant variance that had been told previously, we don't grant those unless you meet

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every criterion. Mhm. Well, it's just that we're also looking at the potential for a text amendment that, you know, may put a lesser value, lesser square foot uh count to historic buildings at a

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lower square footage. That's um so that maybe the variance would go away in in that way. Um, one of the things that we have talked about with uh, representatives for the Turners is uh, floating a text amendment that would

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allow properties that have some sort of historic value in town. Uh perhaps those built before a certain date would get some sort of relief for floor area ratio or other things that would incentivize

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uh a benefit on the property um for redevelopment that would maintain that historic character. So, one of the things that um was floated by the Turner's representative was a reduced percentage for minor accessory

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structures or non-principal buildings. So, we do have a number of uh historic type properties that would qualify for that relief on the beach. I can think of, you know, half a dozen that do have accessory buildings that are fairly uh

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substantial would not qualify as minor accessory structures. But if their uh floor air ratio was reduced to, you know, a smaller percentage such as half, uh that that would allow redevelopment of the main house if the main house was was maybe not in keeping with what uh

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what would be an ideal use for today and the value of these properties and would incentivize uh the new purchaser to continue to develop those with that historic character in mind. Um I I see that as a

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a benefit only to the town if we were to do something like that, not a nothing detrimental. I know that historically historically um in the past the town has not uh has shied away from a historical designation with the thinking that that

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may reduce the value or have some sort of negative impact. Um whether that's true or not uh we sit here today without any historic uh ordinance uh or preservation u in our code this would

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as I sort of see it and as has been discussed with the applicants representatives this would be only something that would be a benefit that someone could take advantage of if they qualify uh based on the age of their property and however we uh we characterize it. But it would not

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require the the new purchaser to develop a property or to preserve an older property. So it would just be an incentive >> historic landmark too. Under this >> we would not do any sort of under this proposal. There would be no historic landmark. It would just be some relief

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for uh floor area ratio for those older properties to >> based on the year for >> I think that they should be historic landmark >> and that is something that we can if if that's what we wanted to do we could do that and and develop you know an or you

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know something but for right now the only thing that we're talking about was something that incentivized only. >> Okay. >> So we're not going to do either of these from the desk. No, today we >> So the the I talk to the applicant about

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this too is here Jay the um you we're looking at the building just in layman's terms the house so you're adding the wing because it's a three-bedroom house which typically is in commiserate with what you'd have on the beach right now we know the house to the north is a bit smaller and we're looking at the arc

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looking at the garage and you're looking at the uh the the uh guest house which is actually on road. What what year was the guest house built? >> Remember? >> 258. >> 28. [clears throat] Okay. >> But it wasn't Was it part of the original?

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>> Yes. >> Yeah. So, we're you know, Jay and I talked about this and I disclose it on the record. We're talking about whether you're tearing the whole thing down, right? Because the guest house provides some relief because that's it's [clears throat] almost 2,000 square feet, isn't it?

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>> 2500. >> Yeah. I mean, that almost solves a whole thing. But that's that's a historic structure brings the >> character. Then you've got the garage which could be reduced, reconfigured, or torn down. >> I mean, I'm not >> you know, obviously you could take the

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wing off to the front, but then again, your house is, you know, not commiserate, but uh you know, but the the garage, you're looking at the square footages, the the uh artist studio and guest house on the front, which has been there a very long time. You see it from

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the road. Um, you know, that solves the whole thing, but again, the applicant like to preserve it and we've got a got a F issue. Obviously, it could have some modificated for the applicant, reduce the structure

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of the front and reduce the garage. Well, right, this is I think this may have been done earlier on, had the issue come up, right, during staff evaluation and rather than doing this full design at this point, bringing it to through

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the ARP to the commission seeking a large variance, changes could have been made to the to the plans. Um, so so if if I could staff great and they told us all along, highly unlikely you would get a variance. Um my thinking, our thinking

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was if there's any time you're going to grant a variance, it would be this one. The house was built a hundred years ago. There's not many of those left in Gulf Stream. So we very carefully design this to enhance and protect the historic

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nature of this property. And so yes, we are asking for variance. Um and [clears throat] we they told us that that it's unlikely you would get it. And I said, "Well, I want to try um because I've been in front of many bodies like yours. That's

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been my career. And if ever you were going to consider it, I would think this would be an opportunity." We hired an architect who is very well known nationally for protecting historic structures. Uh we spent a lot of time and effort trying to design something as

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[clears throat] we were told by many people in Gulfream, please do something special with this. That's what we've done and we're asking you please to consider a variance in this one instance. >> Yeah. I just wish it had been done earlier on. Um I think changes could

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have been made to this design that would have made it more palatable and the the issue the reason we don't grant variances unless the criteria are met is that it sets precedent and while that

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may be u a good idea here it will be used by others to seek and legally try to impose uh changes uh in in in in the in the code through variance. applications and that's why we're very

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very strict about it um having gone through plenty of litigation before. So I just wish this had been done brought up earlier on where perhaps we could have worked on it and made some changes that would be palatable to the code and

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and still maintain your desire for a larger home and and a beautifully done design. But I can tell you there's no way we're going to discuss and develop an historic

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preservation code amendment here on the day today. >> Yeah, >> we can discuss that with language brought to us to consider um but it's not going to happen today.

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>> Yeah, I understand that. And I just I just want to be clear that we we did talk to the staff and they told us that we would be asking for variance and it was unlikely. So we didn't just brush this off. Okay. We we spent a lot of time trying to come up with a carefully

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crafted argument for why if you ever were going to grant a variance, this would be it. >> Yeah. Um, and and I would contend that granting a variance in this instance does not open you up to everyone else coming in and saying, "We're exactly like that house that was built at the

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same time the golf club was built." >> Well, [cough] I'm not [clears throat] sure about that. Um, pretty familiar with the historic homes >> as Yeah. Well, I'm in other communities, so >> um, anyways.

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>> All right. Thank you. Thank you. >> Do you want to see the landscape plan? Because I think it might show why this didn't really come up because >> I I think we'd probably have to solve the variance problem. >> I think we have to solve this problem. >> Well, you asked why it hadn't come up

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before because when we look at the site, the site's enormous. It just never occurred to us that we were even anywhere near the the um because half of the site doesn't count because it's east of the coastal construction line and it didn't it doesn't feel crowded on the

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site. It's commensurate with the density of the other the sites around it. And so it didn't occur to us. It was our mistake. You know, it's a it's a it's a mistake. But when you look at the plan, you kind of go, well, you know, you just

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didn't dream that you're anywhere near it. So, it was there you have it. >> I still think we have to solve the variance problem before we look at all the landscaping. I mean, I don't know what the point of looking at landscaping if we don't >> just look because it may impact the al

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>> but I think your house is beautiful by the way. >> Yeah. I just don't know what harm leaving those two buildings causes. I mean, it causes it doesn't harm anyone if they were to stay there. >> Well, that I mean, that argument is made every day on variance requests.

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>> And we'll tear them down if we can't get it to work. >> Um I mean, as the vice mayor said, the uh the garage is humongous. I think it's 2500 square feet or so, isn't it? Um >> but it's kind of part of the story of the house, and once it's gone, it's gone. >> I know. >> So, it's really about, you know, this

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this was a great estate. was twice as big >> and it had a garage that was ski but it had a garage that was sized for a lot that was twice as big >> and a house that was twice as big and all. So these are the service buildings

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on this side that were encumbered with uh whereas the other side was the pleasure dome and didn't have all those things. They've since added all that stuff, but we have we have the, you know, the service part of the building.

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And yes, that building, this garage is enormous, but it it it goes with that the notion it's part of the original estate, and the original estate's cut in half, and then landscape's then cut in half again by not counting the land that

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they own, uh, Seawword. Um, and there you have it. I mean, it's just a uh I I know you want to stand firm, but again, it's I don't see the harm in

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leaving them. They can be I think they're assets to the community and assets and once they're gone, they're gone. I >> I think you should meet with staff again and try to resolve the variance and some of the issues around that. um because I

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don't see how this meets um all the >> legal I can't really design a house that's any smaller and and get the program in it. The wing to the north we could remove but that has the purpose of screening the next door neighbor. So

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it's actually >> I think you need to meet with the staff to figure all this out. I mean it's nothing we can fix right now. I mean >> yes. Well I just >> I'm sorry. I think it's a beautiful house. But I I just see that variance is a huge issue.

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>> Uh the neighbors support the project as well. I mean there are variances for murder, you know, self-defense. I mean the variances are granted, you know, it's not a and it's really more relief because these are historic things. We'd

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like to keep them. You know, they're enormous, but they eat up all the square footage that would otherwise be able to be used for the house. >> Thank you. [clears throat] >> Yeah, I I don't see how you get over the

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the the significant variance request here. >> It really didn't. >> Applications could be made to reduce that that number and perhaps eliminate it. Um and the precedent setting um nature of it is is is something that would bother

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me without as the town manager explained some sort of permissive ordinance that allows >> um >> I'm on the >> request to treat this property different from other properties >> but every property is unique and that's

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why we have boards so they can appine on them and make those decisions. Every project has to be seen in its own merits and should never create precedent for other jobs. And at ARCOM in Palm Beach, that's the way we address it, you know.

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>> No, I know Palm Beach grants them fairly easily. Uh we do not and we've not had issues as a result. Um my involvement with other towns where they have granted them has led to litigation and and it's something we try to avoid. So, uh, we're

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very very strict on it. I I think I don't uh a different position. >> There's no need to pile on. I feel like it's pretty straightforward. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. Yeah. >> All right. Um, let's uh

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I would suggest this be withdrawn so that perhaps it can be redone and resubmitted. >> I need to go thumbs up or thumbs down on the vote, Trey. So what we can do is we can refer back to the ARPB. Um they >> to give the applicant sufficient time to

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meet with staff, >> right? >> Uh we would meet during the July 23rd uh meeting. So that would give them enough time to meet with staff and and discuss >> because if we deny it, that puts them in a different position. Correct.

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>> They withdraw it. >> Well, where we send it back, >> right? We could keep that application >> modification. It's filed, >> right? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> I think it's better we not deny it. We just >> Yes. I I Yeah. >> As for modifications

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>> because we do, you know, the both the commission and the planning board have opined very positively on the design. So the question is just modifying that design. If we do deny it, then there would be a a prohibition on returning back with a similar application for a

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year or something like that. So we don't want to do that. We want to continue to, you know, move forward with this. >> All right. So, is there a motion to u send application 26-7 back to the ARPB for reconsideration for consideration? >> I'll make that motion. >> Is there a second?

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>> Second, >> Miss Basil. Mr. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. So, you're right. So, as far as meeting with staff, are we interested in entertaining discussion for a a text

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amendment to uh to the zoning code to allow some sort of relief for historic properties? Are we really just trying to scale down the project so it meets the code? I don't know if the intent of the

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commission is to preserve those two accessory buildings. uh it would seem to be difficult to add any F to the house. Even if you eliminate the artist studio, you're still looking at a big ask. Um the accessory buildings uh I believe

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total 3500 square feet. One of the things that um the applicant's attorney mentioned was well maybe we would count those half. So that' give them an extra 1,700 square ft. a lot more workable um adding 1700 square feet than adding

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100 square feet. Right? So I you know we can have a discussion about that bring maybe a text amendment back next next month for the July meeting to be considered or uh just you know have some sort of discussion in between or are we

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really just looking to um have the ARPB look at it and maybe the ARPB look at a potential text amendment that they recommend? I I'm not qualified right now to say I mean I don't I haven't known enough about I mean maybe we should look to Palm Beach but also I think if we're

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gonna start into this then we need to make historic landmarks. >> Um that's only my feeling. Um because if we're going to allow what there five more homes you said >> depends what year you set it at. >> Yeah. >> And what you know what do those properties look like? What's the impact

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of it geared to one application? What's its impact on those other homes? um needs would need to be studied and thought about and considered. >> The house at 1200 North Ocean, that was an older home, too, that they modifi they redeveloped and they've done a

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beautiful job with it. Yes. >> Um but it's um didn't need a 2600 square foot variance, too. I mean, I think to redevelop historic homes is important, but I think >> I don't know right now to answer what

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you're asking. >> Okay. I mean it does require further study even from staff >> having been involved in a lot of these discussions. I don't know what the way forward is. I'm just sort of asking for direction just general text amendment

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you know just explore. >> Yeah. If we're going to give things up I mean if they want something I think we should have historic landmarks. I mean that's only my belief. >> Um yeah what I don't know. I'm not famili [laughter]

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that's a long >> and an issue of timing if you start getting into landmarking and this that and the other that that takes a year >> takes a long time right now I don't know anything I'm not qualified what I would ask >> you give us as much flexibility to try

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to come back and comply whether it be with a text amendment or tearing down the structures which we really don't want to do staff has been great if we could work with them But I'm I I really beg you not to draw a hard line today that if it sets us back a year, I mean that's

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>> that's very detrimental. And it's not just that. I mean, it's the timing of when you can build here. We've done a careful critical path of how this is going to get built. >> Today's throwing it off significantly, but there's still a slight chance we can get started when we want to. Um, so if

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we could work with staff to try to either do the text amendment or if if we have to redesign the whole site, we can do that and probably get back to you um at the next meeting. Um, >> well, look, I mean, the only way you're going to do it, I'm just talking out

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loud here, town council and the town manager can chime in here, but >> the only way you're going to meet a timeline with the unique property without granting the variance is if the tax amendment is specific to the single property >> for a date. Yeah, I I don't see that

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happening in the time frame that you're looking at. We would need to right >> determine a year, evaluate every property impacted by that year, consult with council and design experts to see right what what is the upside, what's the downside of

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doing this because we're very careful about our code. >> As you know, it's very thick. We put a lot of time into it. >> The fastest way is to make changes to the to the property. Um Well, that's a shame. I mean, because that that backs us into a corner, we're

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gonna tear him down the whole thing. >> So, I'm sorry, but you've left us no choice. >> Um, well, I mean, >> I'm not waiting a year. I mean, I'm sorry. Yeah, >> you know, I'm I've only got so many years left down here and I got it

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>> and it's going to take three years whenever we start. So, wait another year is four years. So well well but I mean staff had indicated variances are probably not going to be allowed. So when this house was being designed and I don't know how many months ago that was because this is a complete design of the

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house perhaps thought could have been given at that time to make certain changes that keep the consistency of this mirida look without seeking over 2500 square foot variance on a property. Um, I was

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surprised to be quite honest, Jay, that that you all pursued ARP being commission when that time could have been used to make a more palatable. >> Yes. And in retrospect, that was a mistake, but I was I was hoping that

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y'all would grant a variance um because of the site. So, now that you won't, it backs us into a corner. We we were going to end up here anyway. I mean, the only way to get a house that's commiserate with the value of this land where it is,

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the size of our family, is to do exactly this. So, we were going to end up here no matter what. Um, and the hope was y'all would grant a variance. And so, now, yes, we have to go back to the drawing board. I really didn't want to do that. I've saved a lot of structures in my career, and I just didn't want to

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have to do that. So, >> you know, I'm sorry for the town. I and I and I feel for you because it's I mean it's a magnificent property. It's a magnificent home that's been designed. Um I think we are all sympathetic to

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your your position. Um and would try to do anything to help you and preserve this property. Um and perhaps that that can be done. My advice to you would be to to sit down

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with staff again and see where it goes. Okay. Okay. Uh All right. So, we >> I think we had a motion. >> We had a we had a motion. I don't know if it was second. >> It It was >> It was Call the vote, please.

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>> We didn't call. >> I did. >> You did? Okay. I I just wanted some additional direction for staff when we have our meeting, but we did reset that to the July ARP meeting. >> I'm sorry. >> We did defer it to the or send it back to the July ARP meeting. So, that's all

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been taken care of. >> Right. [clears throat] >> I I then reopened the discussion to get some information on how how to work with >> You don't need another vote. >> No, we do not. Okay. Good. Then then we're good. All right. Let's move on then. Town manager report CIP update.

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Mr. Nazaro. Thank you, mayor. Uh, so roadway is preparing to finish the project. I know I've said that for the last several months, but uh, we keep on getting closer and closer to that second lift of asphalt. We did a walkthrough yesterday afternoon, myself and uh our public

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works director and back woodman and roadway still has a few small items such as adjusting valve boxes which they're actually doing right outside of Bermuda and C road um to the proper grade. They're going to be flush with a second lift of asphalt uh and they also have some very minor valley gutter repairs,

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some of which are cosmetic. Uh we did want to wait u for that second lift for all of that to be taken care of. Obviously, uh once they're ready to replace the second lift, we'll have a meeting to discuss MOT and alert our residents to the schedule. Uh I have a follow-up meeting with our engineers on

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Tuesday, which will determine whether or not they will be able to start paving the week of the 22nd. So, it may happen in in June. Um but we'll we'll keep our residents uh apprised of the situation.

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>> Okay. Um, somewhat related to that, uh, property tax, uh, the proposed property tax legislation impact on GF stream. Mr. Nazaro. >> All right. Thank you, Mayor. So, on June 2nd, the Florida legislature in a

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special session passed a proposed constitutional amendment on property taxes. It will be on the November ballot and require 60% approval to pass. Uh it aims to significantly increase the homestead property tax exemption from the current level of $50,000 to $150,000

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starting in 2027 and $250,000 starting in 2028. It also directs the legislature to establish a schedule for the full elimination of homestead property taxes uh except as it relates to school districts. Um just as a snapshot of um a

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property tax bill for for all of uh all of our residents, about 40% of property taxes go to the state and local schools. 28% goes to Palm Beach County, 23% goes to the town of Gulfream and the remaining is split between other taxing authorities such as the children's

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services council, healthc care district, and South Florida Water Management District. Um as this is being discussed uh by all the municipalities across the state and counties, I want to let you know how it will impact our budget. So the good news is that initially there

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will be a measurable but very small amount to the uh 27 28 and the 2829 budget for the $150,000 and $250,000 uh exemptions. The $150,000 exemption would result in a reduction of about

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$135,000 from our Adalorum uh proceeds, which is about 1.9% of our uh of our adalorum revenue. The $250,000 exemption the next year will result in about a $270,000

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u reduction, which is about 3.9% of our budget. So, the reason this is such a minimal decrease on us, uh, is of our 373 homestead properties in town, the average taxable value is about $2.8 million. So, even with a $250,000

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exemption, the other $2.5 million is is being taxed and would not be exempt. So, that's kind of our our saving grace is having a a very large per property taxable value. Uh the problem that we will face over time is that we have a a

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singular tax base of residential properties and 373 of those residential properties are homestead and 213 are not. So that is actually uh more than half 54 and a half% of our taxable value

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is homestead. So for an as an example uh for this budget year if you eliminate and give everyone a full exemption from Gulfream taxes uh for homestead properties our current millage rate would have generated $3.18 million in advorum proceeds. Uh and to put that

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into context the police department and our contract for fire and EMS is $3.67 million. So that's a $500,000 shortfall under the current millage rate if we would lose that tax base of our homestead properties. Uh so we can

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anticipate a small reduction over the next two years. We will not know for some time what any schedule for full elimination as proposed by the legislature will look like. Uh as I continue to work on the budget, I'll be mindful of that. But for right now, we

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do have, you know, our current budget is going to be status quo uh because it will not even if it it does pass will not take effect uh until the following year. We'll then show a uh you know under 2% reduction and then under 4% reduction. So we've got the next few

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years mapped out uh and then it's just kind of really a lot of uncertainty what that phasing in will be uh regarding the complete exemption for non-homestead or for homestead properties. questions on this issue.

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>> Um, all right. Um, so we'll take care of it for the next year or so, but u need to keep an eye on on the impact of it. Uh, Australian pine maintenance program, Mr. Nazarum. >> All right. Thank you, Mayor. So [clears throat] recent high wind events

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resulted in Australian pine branches falling in front of two separate residences on A1A. Fortunately, nobody was hurt. Uh and our arborist from from Bartlett tree, Jonathan Frank, came out the following day to determine exactly what the cause was and whether any remedial action was needed. uh he

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determined that there was a column of decay in the heartwood of one of the branch failures that appeared to be caused by an old pruning wound and that branch weight combined with the wind velocity caused the branch to break. So that sort of uh reinforces the reason why we have our arborist take care of

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these trees and not uh just you know a land landscape maintenance company um for the individual property owners. Uh they were out this week, you may have seen yesterday and they were out today pruning these sets of Australian pines in front of those two homes. So I just

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wanted you to know first that's what was going on as you drove into town hall this morning. Uh second that you know that we're addressing those areas of down limbs and third arburist is performing his level one tree risk assessment in August which he does every year. That's at no cost to the town.

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It's kind of a it's it's called a kind of a windshield survey where you drive by and put your eye on all of our trees to see if any uh have any specific need. Uh and we're going to move forward with uh regular Australian pine mains as we have before. We had already approved a

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contract for them to do a lot of the pines uh down at the south end of town. Uh but um you know these pines at the north end of town needed some help as well. Um, I also want to let you know that June 23rd through 26th, we have someone trimming the A1A canopy of our

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non-Australian pines. So, when you see that, they're going to be coming through for about those four days. Uh, just making sure that we have sufficient clearance because we haven't gone through uh and done that work uh in some time, so it was needed. >> Very good. Thank you. Um, ARPB will be

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meeting uh on June 16th at 8:30 a.m. That's a different date for them. Uh for anyone who wants to attend July 23 is their July meeting and they have no August meeting. A finance report. Uh Mr. Nazaro, I just ask that you uh accept the report

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as submitted. Uh Mark did meet with our uh with the bank and you want to give an update on that? >> Yeah, they said they would give a sixmonth extension. So at least we have that option getting through the budget or any other economic changes. >> Okay, good. Uh, as of now, we don't need

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it. >> Yeah. >> And, uh, so we have a six-month window. Fine. Thank you very much, Mark. Uh, Chief, uh, activity report. >> It's been a busy week. However, the report that's before you, I just ask that you accept that. There's nothing unusual about that and then I'll give

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you a briefing on this week's um, incidents. >> Uh, comments on the, uh, >> here. >> Okay. Chief, update us on uh, our busy week. So, we started the week Monday morning with uh unknown to us that the

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federal government had deployed Customs and Border Patrol agents in the inter coastal on boats who ended up uh coming on shore and and detaining several individuals, two of which fled, which ultimately resulted in us having to support their needs, including the

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response of the uh Eagle from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. That went on for about two hours in the area of the big club golf course uh back north towards the school which is why the school was put on lockdown that particular day for a short period of time and also why we had the activity of

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the helicopter in the area. Ultimately those two individuals were not apprehended uh as we believe they were picked up and left the area. So that kind of resolved Monday's incident. Uh Tuesday uh no notice again. Customs and Border Patrol returned this time with vehicles and boats and actually

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responded to the west side of our community in the Bluewater Cove area, apprehended several uh individuals, did not re result in us having to really provide any additional support or services. So, that was a pretty quiet event overall. And then yesterday, u we

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had an individual, couple individuals enter our town in a vehicle with a temporary tag. The officers immediately spotted the vehicle, recognized it didn't belong here early morning hours, >> [clears throat] >> uh started trying to track down the vehicle. The vehicle was acting extremely suspicious. Ultimately, um the

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vehicle fled from officers and was later spotted entering the core of our community via license plate cameras. Um the officers tracked the vehicle down to a specific residence where the vehicle was backed in and as soon as officers approached, one of the suspects fled on

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foot. The other one was apprehended at the time. That individual fled on foot and ended up hunkering down in some vegetation behind us at that property between uh our maintenance facility and the property that was approved for demolition today. Um and the helicopter

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was dispatched again along with other resources from agencies around us. This all started uh 5ish in the morning. By the time we started deploying resources such as the helicopter, uh we were able to send out a notification to residents at about 6:00 a.m. just a few minutes

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after. Um I just wanted to obviously mention this incident and then I'll talk about the notification system as well. Ultimately, the suspect was not uh noticed by the helicopter or the ground units that were scouring the area,

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but uh hour or so later, one of our town hall employees uh was paying attention to the cameras and noticed the individual enter a vehicle and flee the area in that vehicle um or attempt to. Um we obviously initiated actions to try

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to apprehend them. Ultimately, by the time we were able to catch up to the vehicle, we were in the city of Boon Beach. Um, I was actually the first one that spotted the suspect. He spotted me and we ended up in a foot pursuit down SErest near the water tower. Uh, this went on for a short distance before he

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went into a wooded area and was ultimately apprehended by a canine. Um, so he was arrested and charged with many felonies and misdemeanors, but the notification system that was sent out or used to send out the initial notification was PBC alerts and that

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went out at about 6:09 in the morning. Uh, this went out by us, but as we were allowing these events to, you know, they were unfolding. We we obviously don't have the ability to kind of slow everything else down and get the notification done. So that was done by

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phone. uh very quickly through an operator that works for Palm Beach County that does that for us in those kind of situations. And they did a great job getting the information out. But ultimately when we lifted the initial notification just after 7 a.m. a

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secondary alert was sent out to let everybody know that the shelter in place order had been lifted. But we were still actively working the incident. We just didn't have a concern for public safety being sheltered in place at that moment. Um, but we were still working the

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incident and we continued working the incident until we apprehended the individual just before 11:00 am. So, this went on for hours and ultimately that's why notifications weren't sent out until later in the day because we did not have truly an opportunity to sit

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down and draft a notification that we could get out to all the residents as we were actively working on the ground to apprehend the suspect. And so I just want to remind everybody that in a small town like ours, uh, your police chief is actively involved and therefore I don't

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have the opportunity sometimes to get those notifications with that courtesy information out as quickly as folks would like, but we do our best to make sure we get that information out to you all as soon as we can. Um, our most important focus is your safety and making sure that the children at the

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school are safe. So those two notifications are most important. Um, our officers, Officer Tiarra Hawkins and Officer Josh Pasante did an amazing job at number one identifying the vehicle and then ultimately at at the way they responded. Uh, I can't give you

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specific details, but I will tell you that the individually apprehended was just released from prison a month ago. Um, and we don't definitely did not want them here in our community uh having the opportunity to commit crimes. And because of the officer's diligence and

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their quick response, he didn't have an opportunity to commit any crimes, we don't know what his intentions were, but they weren't positive. So, with that, I'll be more than happy to answer any questions the commission has. >> Well, it's just another example of the outstanding performance by our police

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department under your guidance. Chief, uh, please give um, you know, the town's congratulations to those those two officers. Um because you know who who knows what what this fellow had in mind and what could have happened. We have people here um he apparently was near

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near a home. I don't know if it was occupied or not but that could have could have been a a bad situation and their diligence prevented any sort of unoured event. So our our gratitude to them. >> Thank you. >> Uh okay questions?

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If not, let's move on to ordinance 26-2 that is brought to us on second reading from Miss Basil. An ordinance of the town commission of the town of Gulfream, Palm Beach County, Florida, amending the town code of ordinances at chapter 66, zoning, article 2, boards and commissions. Division 5, artic

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architectural review and planning board section 6672, board membership to adjust ARPB attendance requirements and decrease the number of meetings permitted to be missed in any 12-month period from 4 to three. providing for severability, providing for repeal of ordinances in conflict, providing for

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codification, providing an effective date, and for other purposes today, June 12th, on this second reading. >> Thank you very much. Is there a motion to approve? >> I'll move to approve ordinance 262. >> Second, Miss B. >> Commissioner Campfield.

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>> Yes. >> Commissioner Orwin, >> yes. Vice Mayor Stanley, >> yes. Mayor >> Morgan, >> yes. Uh, little club drainage pipe replacement. >> Thank you, Mayor. After discussions about the installation methods and location, I present for your approval a proposal from the Little Club's contract

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for installation of a 24-in drainage pipe that will collect water on the west side of Gulfream Road just south of Town Hall north of Old School Road and run into one of the lakes on the golf course. This replaces an existing corrugated metal pipe that has deteriorated over time with a high

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density polyethylene pipe. The engineers recommended approval of this proposal is noted in the attached letter. Uh uh the uh agreement would be for $93,100 and would not include the optional mandrel testing.

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>> Uh good. That was my question. Uh so it's $93,100 for that u new drainage piping. >> Yes, sir. >> Uh questions? If not, uh is there a motion? >> I'll move to um approve the new drainage

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pipe on the club property for 93,100. Second, >> Miss Basil. >> Commissioner Campfield. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Orline. >> Yes. Vice Mayor Stanley. >> Yes. >> Mayor Morgan. >> Yes. >> Uh, anything else? Comments for the good of the order? If not, thank you all for

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coming. >> Good job. 10:30. Come on. >> Almost. >> [laughter]