well well good morning everybody uh I want to take a moment to just uh thank everybody for coming out today my name is John tanich I'm the County Administrator and we certainly appreciate everybody's involvement critical opportunity uh as
it relates to the future of Indian River County we have two I think two points of catalyst one we have the ocelo road interchange coming and then secondly we also had an urban Services boundary study where we looked and
evaluated uh where there could be potential adjustments and one of the the uh recommendations was you know targeted adjustments so and that was the Catalyst of having because this was one of the areas identified as a potential area for
adjusting theb service boundary so that was the uh reason why we're here today is because you know the only the best planning efforts start with the community and listening to what the community has to say and uh this is a
great OPP carefully plan and consider the implications of what could happen along this Corridor uh it's it's very important you know east of it and west of it the interchange but before I do get started I want to take a moment to
introduce you know we have our chairman uh commissioner Joe flesher here thank you we also have our vice chairman commissioner darl lore we have district one commissioner Susan
Adams and we have you we have a number of Staff here I mean I can go through them all if you would like but I think I think in the interest of time I think you want to get going but I do want to thank you for coming out today this is very important this is the first of many you know workshops on this issue uh we
value your input your feedback all ideas are good ideas uh do not be bashful share and uh so with that I'm going to turn it over to Chris Balter the director of Planning Development Services and uh again thank you very much for being here
today good morning everybody Chris Balter planning and development services director I want to thank everybody for coming today um as John said this is the first bite of the apple of looking at the Oslo Corridor study uh we how we got here is that this has been over a
25-year uh project fdot identified a location for a potential interchange and in 2027 as long as there's no setbacks we'll be opening that interchange um so for the agenda today we'll do a slight introduction we'll introduce the
study area the current conditions and then we're going to go through uh it's a workshop so there'll be different little areas to provide us input what you do and you don't like what you want to see um for if it was possibly expanded or uh
perfect answer is no we don't want an expansion that's an answer as well so the introduction uh IND River County planning and development services department is conducting obviously the Oslo Corridor study it's a targeted expansion possibly for the urban service
boundary so what that Urban service boundary is is a portion of the county that provides water sewer uh police fire and all of the services to be able to support actual development whether it be commercial residential multif family uh
industrial all of the things that provide for development so like I said fdot is constructing this interchange um they are also constructing improvements to the Oslo Road which will help the grid
network of our transportation Network it will also alleviate the existing Network to provide some uh travel on different roadways so here's a map of the current urban service boundary so I want to draw your attention to the purple so
everything in purple right now is what's in the existing urban service boundary that's where uh you can develop within the existing zoning and land use which we'll go through and I just want to draw your atten attention to all the purple areas cuz those are what are already
included so basically what is it it was established in 1990 and why was it established so in the county we our forefathers took the comprehens of plan very seriously uh they were very Progressive and ahead of their time they
wanted to manage growth strategically um and we wanted to be able to provide a good quality of life for all of our residents uh that's one of the best things that we have in Indian River County I like to say that for our neighbors to the North and South they have a whole different story but here we still value our quality of life uh and
that's something that in my department that's the main focus that we try to do we have strategic growth we Foster relationships with the development world but we also uh allow them to understand that this is a great place to live and we value our quality of life and we want
to see that continue for future Generations so like John mentioned uh how we got here today was we had an urban service boundary study and what did that study say so that study looked at all of the land uses and zonings within the
existing urban service boundary and it took into account uh a growth factor while also doing population projections and there was recommendations that were brought to the Border County Commission out of those recommendations uh one of the biggest things is that we are able
to support our current population all the way up into it not needing an expansion and one of the things that John brought to mention is also a need to obviously possibly expand do a targeted expansion for a new interchange um I want to draw your attention for a
minute to indrio so we know that indrio road is to the South that was an interchange that opened a while ago with not a whole bunch of planning involved in it um so it's has sat for many years uh kind of vacant and desolate and now
they're actually doing a plan for it to kind of get it revitalized and revamped I bring that to attention only because you know this is an opportunity for Indian River County to have a plan in place before we open if it's a targeted expansion and what that plan may be is
everything that comes out of today's Workshop all the input from citizens as well as our subject matter experts which is all the planners um we look into many different factors land use and Zoning uh environmental factors physical factors
whether there be canals or whether there be actual services to be able to provide and then the existing uh character of the neighborhoods what's around uh what's built out what's what's going to be compatible with existing units existing uses if we bring in New Uses to
that so I want to focus on this this map so here here is what staff has proposed as the uh targeted study area so this is what we're focusing on today um and this is what staff would like to bring forward to the County Commission to say this is a targeted expansion if we
choose to expand so you'll see that it goes all the way to the existing USB which is all the way to 58th and then all the way west to the solar farm so and I want to draw your attention obviously to the East and the West so there's two are
of possible expansion the west of the new interchange and the east of the new interchange so you'll see um on the existing current USB a lot of what's in that study area is already within the existing urban service boundary what
we're targeting here is that middle area which is all between uh 66 puts it right in the middle and then everything west of 95 all just to the solar Farms and how did staff come up with that study area like I said before we took
into existing factors whether it be zoning and land use and then physical factors canals um any ecological uh things that are on the land and then any uh Wetlands or natural resources
that could be preserved so the current conditions the current zoning surrounding the road improvements are provided foro obviously everything outside of the urban service boundary is A1 agricultural which is one unit per 5 Acres or A2 one unit per 10
acres there is existing industrial uh and commercial that is situated very close to the new interchange location and then you'll see A2 is in the brighter neon green and A1 is in that kind of teal
color and then the existing uh subdivisions that are in uh yellow are included in this the urban service boundary as well so you'll see here we have the future land use Around The
Interchange that's AB budding to it is uh commercial we have a commercial component and we also have our existing public uh land use which has our um landfill as well as it extends all the way down to our old jail
site hello um hi my name is Logan Woody uh I work in the special projects division of the planning and development services department um and uh thank you all for coming out to our first Workshop uh we also hope that you encourage others to
to join at a future one uh but now that we have some of the background of the Oslo study area um let's kind of move into the the fun interactive portion which is our workshops um so the the workshop portion is separated up into
five stations uh so we have types of centers once and don't once uh Corridor themes zoning and then questions comments and suggestions um at the end and so we'll do a deep dive into each one of those
stations uh so for the types of centers um and so that will be set up on on this um uh section of the room uh you'll be given uh three stickers uh you'll be given a green sticker a yellow sticker and a red sticker uh green is your most
favorite uh Center theme yellow is your slightly hesitant about it and then red is your least desirable theme and these types of centers um will the first one will be a city center um and so there'll be different characteristics um uh for
each Center um and all these descriptions will also be provided on the board there um for additional review but to go through a few of them is with a city center you'd be looking at uh higher quality public parks you'd be looking at a lot of mixed use um you'd
be looking at uh grocery stores and pharmacies and uh certainly um a higher level of of multif family uh if we go to the next uh Center it would be a town center uh a step down from the city center uh again the characteristics that
are provided we'll we'll spell out what the open space looks like the uh groceries the features the housing um shopping restaurants and entertainment and then jobs and into education uh for the Town Center um there's usually
smaller Grocery Stores um farmers markets at uh intersections with agricultural land uh you will still see some multifam and mixed use properties uh but not as much as you would in the city center and then our last Center is
our neighborhood center uh so this um will focus more on uh ground floor retail uh not as much mixed use uh less multif family and more single family um and uh the um local shopping restaurants
and entertainment will be uh focused more on on local businesses and and less nationally recognized Brands um and so that will be one of the um one of the stations and if we move on to the next um once and don't don't once as the uh
title suggests uh we want to we want to get an idea of of what you all want to see and what you all don't want to see uh so you'll be given uh three green stickers and two red stickers uh the green is what um what you all would like the red is what you all would not like
uh and this list will also be provided on the um uh on the board as well but we'll be looking at things like affordable housing uh we'll be looking at um Workforce housing commercial industrial or the preservation of Farmland um multi- Office Buildings uh
and so on and so forth um that will be the once in built one station um the next will be the corridor theme uh so that will be set up uh over here and so there'll be um multiple themes to choose from uh for this uh you'll be given uh
two uh green stickers and one red sticker uh again as the previous stations the green is good the red is what you all do not like um and we have these uh broken up into multiple themes so we have an old floor theme um we go
that um and we've provided some photos to give an idea of what that um architectural standard um would look like uh the next one is walkability um so this would be designing a corridor around the mindset of it being very walkable uh the third is AGR tourism um
so if we you all would like to utilize the agricultural land that does exist there and um provide a a um a theme around that that is also an option we have an art Deco theme uh and then we have uh an industrial Edge Theme uh
again uh if you would like to see the industrial area of the corridor that already does exist to expand or have some architectural designs to it that is an option for you all um and then we have public spaces and Landscaping um so this would be both for the preservation
of public spaces that already exist and then also the implementation of more public space and Landscaping within the cor um and then uh the next uh Workshop station will be uh the proposed zoning
uh so there'll be a a map as shown here but much larger um in the corner and uh this is an opportunity for you all to um play around with uh with the the zoning that you all would like to see in this area um so we have a a few options uh
the stickers will be commercial Medical industrial single family multif family mixed use Agricultural and uh public Recreation we don't have a limit to how many stickers you can use um we do hope that you use uh each of them um but
certainly if there are areas that you'd like to see you know multiple agricultural or multiple single family uh please we do encourage you to to use um as many stickers as you would like uh and then the um fin station um is
relatively broad um this is for questions comments and suggestions uh Chris and I will be available throughout this entire Workshop to answer any questions that you might have about this study um but we we do realize that we can't get to everybody um so we want to
um leave you all with the ability to um write down any sort of questions or suggestions that you may have uh it is anonymous but if you would like those questions to be answered uh we do request request that you leave um your name and your preferred contact method
uh that way we can reach out to you sure and all of my staff members around the room have uh cards for the planner of the day office so if you'd like to instead of writing it down on a piece of paper you can shoot an email in and if you would just put in the subject
line Oslo Corridor that way it'll get addressed to the right staff member either myself or Logan to be able to answer those um I would like everybody to go towards their perspective stations and then we'll wrap it up at the end and do a little question and answer uh I
sure commissioner Laur yes sir and I thank you Chris for your time and Logan as well can you explain a little bit to the group before we break out about our natural if you will USB to the West uh and some of the concerns on
why it went to that point uh and we do have some obviously of a natural USB sure so when the USB was established in 1990 um it
followed the path of actual I95 so it followed I95 all the way down to our southernmost tip which at the time the only areas that we were providing service for was the actual jail and landfill so it followed I 95 all the way down from State Road 60 all the way down
to Oslo and then our actual jail and landfill and that's where it's stayed since uh 1990 there's been about in that time there's been two areas of expansion very very small uh not really much to even mention um but this was the first
time we've looked at it since 1990 through the urban service boundary and then more specifically taking it at a granular level this Oslo Corridor and and also Chris if you can explain the distance uh between 95 and 58th Avenue
uh which obviously 58th Avenues included so we're not really talking about a very large what is it a mile and a half two miles Ryan if you wouldn't mind bringing up the map again so there's the existing current
urban service boundary and you'll see there is 58th Avenue to the East to the east you'll actually see that the subdivisions are included there that's in the existing urban service
boundary um you'll see development where that study area says that's actually included into the urban service boundary right now so there's a little portion 66 brings it to the middle that we're including if you want to flip to the next slide next one
to the stud uh the study area the existing what's the West order so the West is all the way west to the actual um 9 998th Avenue and then it stops right at the
solar farm so fpl's solar farm is right there they have some existing land to the south of the study area as well which hopefully in my lifetime will be another solar farm um to provide better service for our customers and hopefully cheaper
electric and Chris also the logic to high in the north and south bound so the logic between uh the North and South boundaries was obviously our forefathers didn't want to include the whole County because they wanted to do targeted expansion um they didn't want
to overstress our level of service and they wanted to provide an a good quality of life for our residents um and that's why it was very strategic when they placed the urban service boundary because they looked at what what are
existing uh landscape was at the time um obviously some stuff predates the county most of the county predates the county um when it was actually Incorporated we're hitting our 100th year this year in the summer um and there's a lot of things that they took into account when
they did this design um as we know all of State Road 60 is included in the in service boundary all the way to the Distribution Center which is the West portion where CVS has located um the reason why we're looking at obviously at
this expansion right now is because of the actual interchange opening up the services that are now provided to if you could go to the purple map please yes thank you uh to those two areas are
they sufficient to handle things to the west and are they sufficient to handle things to the west of the West because let's look at uh
100 and that's what you guys really have to do is what's it going to look like in 70 years uh I I know on 90th Avenue that there is 8 in water M that comes down that
converts to a 12 to make the corner at 8 street is that sufficient to handle what's in purple now plus what would go purple to the West Side
of5 so yes uh the short answer is yes so prior to actually even starting the study area when uh the County Commission directed staff staff sat down with all internals staff to take a look at where we could potentially if chosen to do an expansion so that brought into our
utilities Department Public Works Our IT department for fiber and uh anything that's there also speaking with FPL to see any expansions if their Network could handle it uh for the actual study area that we're looking at there were no
issues with capacity um obviously when development happens throughout the county uh it is on the developer to expand services but currently with what we have we would be able to do the expansion Without A Drop In level of service hen um you guys give maybe a few
examples of what might be allowed in a couple of those zoning situations [Music] industrial sure I would rather do that at the actual uh locations at the shet locations because they get a little
granular um and I'll specifically stand over by the proposed zoning idea of the scale of development for the city center on that site is there enough land for that so it first we'd have to decide if that
was first able to be a thought you know obviously this for this design of this Workshop it's to get first of all all the public input and to see if that's even something reasonable that any of the public would want then this isn't
the final public actual input going further once we receive the results we'll bring back all of the results from all of the uh workshops we'll have three workshops that are targeted throughout the county uh North County Library the IG Center in here today um and we're
going to bring all of that forward in a report to the County Commission that being said there's many more opportunities once we get the first public input to see what is actually appealing to the public and then we'll move forward and we'll do more workshops
after that to get on a more granular level and yes there is six workshops total uh they all start during the day at 11: and then they start at night time at 6:00 p.m. I do want to yeah I'll pull it
up I just want to say thank you to everyone for attending and we want to see more attendance we want to get this right we have a decision to make we have many constraints as uh Chris has pointed out but more importantly is we want your
input please visit all the stations please vote with your heart because we want to get it right and we are going to have to make multiple decisions the Commissioners we can't talk with each other we can't talk with each other at
any point more importantly even at the workshop so we can't address or answer anything uh we need your input please participate and look at the the other uh Vis visits we have the workshops in uh
Oslo we have the workshop in the in the Sebastian library and I really appreciate everyone attending we want to get it right we have a lot of work to do and we need you so thank you and please
participate every step of the way we only have about an hour okay so I'm going to release everybody to the prospective stations and then we'll do a wrap up and a quick amount of questions at the end no station so on the proposed zoning we'll
take into account every single sure so the proposed zoning shows the actual layout of the board all the rest of the boards play into what could possibly be in those areas whether types of uses whether it be a themed cor door
the characteristics um so nothing is split up by East and West the only thing is on the proposed map is what would possibly be East and West so I'm going to release input I'm going to release everybody and we'll take questions at
the end