roll call. Mr. Hart left >> um member Brown, >> please turn up. Call the role. Okay. >> Member Bobby >> present. Member David >> present. >> Member Axelrod >> present. >> Vice chairperson Risen
>> present. >> Chairperson Mendelson >> present. Town attorney Ruben. Thank you. >> Okay. I'll rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. >> Okay. >> Is there a call for a motion to accept the agenda as presented?
>> So move. >> Second. >> All in favor? I >> I >> uh for those giving testimony, please stand and raise your right hands to be sworn and provide testimony for the application you are affiliated with. Mr. Harp, please swear in those giving
testimony. >> By the authority vested in me as a notary of the state of Florida, do you swear or affirm that the testimony that you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Thank you. May be seated. >> Okay. Approval of the minutes from
January 8th. Did do we have minutes from Monday or what are we doing? No, no, that's just Okay. >> Um, are there any corrections to the minutes of January 8th? >> Hearing none. May I have a motion to approve the minutes of January 8th?
>> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Unfinished business. None. New business. Development order number PZ-2525-2. Anthony and Camille Der Pratt. Uh application by Andrea M. Kaiser,
Esquire, requesting site plan approval for a new one-story 4,248 ft single family residence with pool and spa for the property located at 4326 Inter Coastal Drive. Do any board
members have any exart communications to disclose? Okay. At this time, I now open the public hearing. Town Planner Allen, please present the application. >> Okay. Good morning. Uh, Ingred Allen, Town Planner. Uh, let's go ahead. Um, as
I usually do, start off with the current aerials of the subject property. Uh, these start on page 18 of your packets. So, here you have 4326 Intra Coastal Drive. Here you have the front of the home. Uh, according to the Palm Beach County
Property Appraiser, uh, this home was built in 1975. And here you have the rear of the existing home. So, what is before the planning board today? This is a site plan approval uh, request to construct a new one-story 4,248
single a square foot uh, single family residence with pool and spa. And let's go ahead and look at the plan sheets. These are the 11 by17 in your packet. Okay. So, here you have the site plan. I've just uh highlighted and read some
of the details. You can obviously follow along with your uh art copies. So, here you have uh the this is a covered patio. This is the pool spa here. This is the entry. Here you have the twocar garage. And obviously, this is the footprint of
the home. Uh here you have the roof plan. Keep in mind this is a s single story. And here you have the first floor. Again, I've highlighted uh some of the areas here. Here you have the primary bedroom. Um
here you have a oh gosh myself. >> This is the dining room right here. This is a home office. And then you have the other three bedrooms here highlighted in red. A little bit hard to see on the screen too. Um and then here we have the
um elevations. So this top one here, this is the front. This is how the front of the home will look. Okay. Then you have the right side elevation. And then here you have the rear elevation. So this is how the rear of the home is going to look. And then you have the left side um south elevation.
Uh here are the renderings that are provided by the applicant. Again, this is a rendering of the front of the home and this is a rendering of the rear. And here you have the uh tree disposition plan. Uh so they are removing two non-specimen trees and 14
palms. All these that will be removed are non-native or invasive uh with the exception of two uh thatch palms. I referenced that on page 10 of your packets. And then here you have the uh landscape plan. So they're going to install four
new native trees. These will be green buttonwood and uh 16 uh palm trees. All of these uh trees are either native or Florida friendly. Oh, stop that sharing.
So, uh the uh town code allows a planning board for a site plan approval to either approve or deny the site plan application. The approval may include conditions which clarify but do not exceed the requirements of the zoning code. Um, if this uh site plan approval is uh or site plan request is approved
by the uh planning board, obviously the applicant will have to get a building permit from the building department prior to initiation of construction and commencement of construction shall be initiated within two years following the date of approval of the planning board. staff reviewed the applicant's proposed
requests, including planned state stamp received by the building department on March 10th of 2026, and finds the project is consistent with the town code. Um, I'll be glad to address any questions. We do have the applicant's agent here, Andrea Kaiser, who I'm sure will be happy to address any questions as well.
>> Ingred, how do you know how big the existing house is? Just curious. Square. >> Um, I'll defer to the Apple Pool. Do you? >> Yeah, it might be on the property appraiser, right? They usually have a square footage. >> Just cur is just curious. Okay. >> Yeah, we don't typically ask for the
square footage of an existing home on the our application, but yeah, I'm sure Andrew could look it up for you. >> Okay. Does anyone else have any questions for Ingred the applicant? H any >> explaining the way because I'm reading Intercostal on both sides, but looking at the picture, it looks like it is not
really. >> No, it's just on. >> No, it says intercostal. Intercostal. >> What's that? Intercostal way. >> You see what I'm saying? What what she >> My question is it's it seems it says that there's intercostal waterway on both sides according to the sign. >> What sheep number is that?
>> This is you see on the bottom right >> 810 >> 810. >> Yeah, it says >> Okay. No, it's inter coastal waterway here and inter coastal drive. >> Oh, I'm sorry. I was going to read it. Sorry about my glasses. >> It's on there. Okay. >> Okay.
>> Anybody else have any questions? Um, do any members of the public have any questions? There's any members from the public here? >> Okay. Um, the public hearing is now closed. Is there a motion to approve, approve with conditions or to deny the
request? >> I move we approve the request. >> I'll second. Uh, Mr. Hart, member David, >> yes. >> Uh, chairperson Mendelson. >> Yes. >> Member Brown. >> Yes. >> Member Bobby. >> Yes. Member Axelrod.
>> Yes. >> Vice Chairperson Rosen. >> Yes. >> Motion carries. Thank you. >> Okay. Well, that was easy. It's beautiful, by the way. >> Um Okay. Uh ordinance revising town's plating
procedures. That sounds ominous. Um recommendation to town commission. I refer this item to town attorney Rubin. >> Thank you, Madam Chairman. Chairperson, I'm sorry. Um this is another second or third I
I've lost track at this point. This is from the last legislative session statutory mandates um that came out of the 2025 session. So the legislature amended uh section 177071 which is the platting statute and they now require administrative approval of all plats.
Commonly municipalities would treat plats as any other sort of quasi judicial matter and it would go to this board and then it would ultimately go to the town commission for approval. They've eliminated the ability to have the governing body review it or any sort
of public hearing process. So what the statute now requires is that the governing body designate an administrative authority to receive and then do the initial review and then you have to have an administrative official which is a manager, deputy manager,
other highranking official make the final determination. It also requires that the municipality acknowledge receipt within seven business days and that you identify any missing materials. This is a kind of a common theme coming from Tallahassee lately is they keep
imposing these shot clock deadlines, you know, and it's so for building there's a lot of lot of things to keep track of, but this is yet another one of those sort of shot shotgun deadlines that they impose on us. So, um we probably won't have too many plats coming forward, too many subdivisions. We don't have any
large tracks of land. There might be some developments that come in, townhouse, whatever that might require a plat. So, we do have to comply with the statute. So, what this and that's why I really didn't do any sort of wholesale revision of our platting regulations because it just didn't seem worth it.
So, all we all I did was um amend them to comply with the statute. So, we've deleted the references to the town commission because we're not allowed to have them go to the commission anymore. The building department will be the administrative authority that receives the plat applications does the initial review and then once the building
department is satisfied and plat are very ministerial like there's statutory requirements never really understood why they would go through the whole quisition process. I don't really this is like one I don't even have a problem with because it sort of makes sense that they be treated administratively. Um, so and then once the building department
completes its review, everything's done, then it goes to the town manager and the town manager will have the final authority to approve approve, you know, deny or approve with conditions, whatever the case may be. And really, that's all it is. And then the town man, usually the uh mayor would sign off on plat. So now the town manager would be
signing off on plat. So that's the gist of it. Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. So, um I heard you say we don't have a lot of land left to plat and it could be for town houses. So, I'm of course thinking of my friend to the south to scana.
>> I do >> immediately popped into my head. >> What would that >> likely that would be platted? I mean, we don't know what he's going to do um for the permit. He showed those nine town houses or whatever the case may be if he went forward with nine town houses depending on and it all depends on how
you structure it. Like some of them are structured as condominiums or so many of the multifamilies around town and they're structured as condominiums. So there's common element that's a little different. But if they're going to sell them fee simple where they're going to so the person would actually own the
land underlying then it will need to be platted and it will have to go through this procedure. So >> okay, >> it just depends how it's set up, >> right? And and as far as I know know, he hasn't come in to see if he even qualifies with setbacks for nine of them. Right. Okay. That was just sort of
a conceptual to get those >> Florida to get his >> and so they took away the public's right to sit sit in on a hearing about that >> flat. Yes, they did >> that. I mean the state's always about
the public should be >> this is just there's a I don't know there's a very strong building lobby or something up in Tallahassee but as I said this has been there's what's what came out of this most re the 2026 legislative session it got way 10 times
worse about what you know the hoops that we have to jump through and basically they've set it up with all these time frames that if you don't comply with those time frames it's automatically approved so I think the perception in Tallahassee is that local governments have been holding up building you know
development applications building permit applications and maybe that's true in some I don't know but um it's funny we had uh Senator Burman and and Representative Gossman and you know that's sort of how they explained they said oh you know Highland Beach is a great municipality and you guys you know
do everything well but there's a lot of around a lot of municipalities around the state that's not so true And you know, like I think sometimes the uh the good get punished for the bad, whatever the case may be. But this is this is the trend in Tallahassee lately.
>> Okay. Um, anybody else have any questions? I mean, the next thing is, is there a motion to recommend? It doesn't seem like we have a choice. >> Yeah, there's not. There's not much to >> There's even less to this one than the last one. >> I move we recommend. I second.
>> Okay. Uh, can uh Mr. Hart, can you just call the role? Yeah, why not? It's for the record. >> So, just for clarification, you are recommending uh that the town commission approve >> the ordinance. >> Yes. >> Okay. Uh member David,
>> yes. >> Vice Chairperson Rosen, >> yes. >> Member Brown. >> Member Bobby? >> Yes. >> Member Axelrod? >> Yes. >> Chairperson Mendelson? >> Yes. >> Thank you. Motion carries. >> Okay. Um announcements.
May 14th at 9:30 our planning board meeting. I will not be here. I think it will be up to you if that's okay. >> Wait. Um, okay. Yeah, I lucked out last time when I couldn't come. I made it up. So, there you go.
>> So, you're full. >> Um, the meeting is adjourned at 9:44. >> Oh, good. >> Okay. >> You going to walk? You want back? >> I'm going to walk. I have to go to the building department first. >> Okay.
>> To have Mario's thing signed off on. >> So, no this print.