it's 9:30 and it's the planning board on April 10th 2025 at 9:30 a.m are we ready to move forward would everybody please silence their phones
it is my pleasure to welcome Evelyn David to the planning board thank you she brings a lot of expertise and knowledge about this community and how to protect us all can we have the roll call Mr hart member
Rosen member David here member Axelrod here vice Chairperson Mendelson here chairperson Goldenberg i think I'm here also okay pledge of Allegiance please stand 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 can I have a motion to approve the agenda second all in favor i all right we need
the swearing in of the public if we could have that Mr hart anybody that is going to be presenting 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 you may be seated thank you we have approval of the minutes for March 13 of 2025 could I have a motion second all in favor i uh is there any
unfinished business hearing none let's move on new business development order application number PZ-25-9 AJR Grand Highland Beach LLC David Nutter application for
BNM Marine Construction Inc requesting a special exemption to install 120 square foot fingerpring pile for the property located at 1006 Grand Court do any
members of the board have any exparte communications hearing none at this time the hearing is open miss Allen would you make your presentation sure good morning for the record Ingred Allen town planner um I was just advised by our our IT
consultant that um I won't be able to show you the PowerPoint uh there seemed to have seems to have been a power surge exactly everything I put on the PowerPoint is always in your packets anyway but um I do typically like to start with the aerials um so those do
start on page 15 of your packets um if you've looked through the plans you'll see that the proposed pier and mooring pile are actually located on the north side right of the property um so if you haven't had a moment to go through those areas I suggest you uh take a quick flip
it's pages 15 through 17 um I've gone ahead on page 10 of your packets in the staff report but I've given you a brief background on uh the excess marine facilities that were uh previously connected associated I should say with
this particular property um some of the board members may remember that there was a boat lift right that was approved uh back in 2017 the height of those lift pilings were at 4 feet applicant came back to get them higher at 12 feet that was not approved then they came back to
get them to seven feet the planning board did not approve that and then it went to um uh mitigation there was I guess a settlement there was a settlement agreement um I've gone ahead and did uh provided that documentation in your staff report and the pilings were removed now those pilings were on
the south side right they were sticking um out into the canal a bit further so that than this uh proposed uh fingerpring piling uh so again as indicated by the chair this is a special exception request to install a 100
square foot finger pier so that's 30 feet long by 40 feet four feet four feet wide and one mooring piling uh the applicant did get FD approval uh uh that's on page or starts on page 25 of your packets and in the FD approval it
indicates that a separate permit from Army Corps is not required i also included uh some additional correspondence that we received from FTP there were some initial some minor inconsistencies um and uh that was all taken care of uh
with some correspondence as I said that starts on pageuh 25 of your packets um so uh we have a code section uh 30-68G6A which this is the new regulations that were uh recently approved by the commission where water
in waterways regulated by the army corps we added the the phrase or other governmental regulatory agency moing facility should not extend into the waterway more than 25 ft or 25% however um we do have section
30-6AG7C4 which states that docks or accessory marine facilities for perpendicular docking of boats may exceed the uh maximum extension into a waterway allowed for excessive marine facilities on page 11 of your packets I provided those regulations in italics so
you could um see that now um those uh uh perpendicular docking um has cannot impede the navigation of the adjacent property owners and there are additional uh regulations for perpendicular docking again those are in italics on page 11 of
your packets now this request given its location um we did have our uh town marine expert ATM uh do a review um uh Dr michael Jenkins uh who is a coastal engineering principal provided uh again
his report which starts on page 18 he is also here today to address any questions that you may have um I'll remind the board for special exceptions uh the code uh allows you to uh approve approve of conditions or deny the requests and as always if the
planning board does approve the request uh the applicant will be required to obtain a building permit uh from the town prior to initiation of construction and commencement of construction shall be initiated within two years following the date of approval from the planning board um be glad to address any
questions we also have David Nutter here who is the authorized agent for the applicant the property owner thank you Ingred this was the infamous property that we had some major problems with before and we had always at that time
asked to have it relocated the dock relocated to where it is going at this moment which was a pleasure to hear do any board members have any questions of the staff i do of course good with both so could
you just tell me on um on these big sheep the one that is two of four so I see this property line and I
see this big boat drawn on it and then I see a little boat what like why are there two boats that is what the applicant is planning to put there there's no regulation in the code that limits the amount of boats a person can dock so they've gone ahead
and superimposed it it's not a requirement of the code that they superimpose it but I always ask the applicant if you know the type of boat you know put it in that's really more for the boat lift so you could see if the lift is not higher than the superructure of the boat uh but that they've gone ahead and superimposed it
just for some clarity so you could put from the where the property line is drawn to the property line extended you could put one big boat in that space so long as it doesn't go into the right you know past or past the property line yeah
too high got it thank you all right moving on any other questions all right are there any questions to uh to the applicant hearing none any members of the public have any
comment and hearing none public hearing is now closed is there a motion to approve motion to approve with conditions or a motion to deny the request motion to approve
second oh we have to have a roll mr hart Vice Chairperson Mendelson yes member David yes member Rosen yes member Axelrod yes chairperson Goldenberg yes
thank you approved say yes yes actually the whole thing was that we had asked to be moved originally and that's where the problem came in this is perfect this should be ideal
yes I understand that is this a new owner of the property by the way that's what I saw welcome it's a new owner i'm the property owner but all in all due respect the public hearing is closed
i just want I just want the board to know that I'm not the person that you got it i tried to All right we got it thank you the problem all right okay you're cool everything's
fine all right announcements april 15 2025 at 1:30 p.m the town commission meeting sorry Miss Evelyn you will not be there oh you could be there but uh May May 8th 2025 at 9:30 a.m is a
planning board meeting uh do I have a motion for adjournment all in favor i and and we're done at 9:40 i like looking at it