lost for development there's no way we're going to be able to reclaim those so our project is about acquiring those lands that are for sale if you drive down Bridge Road you see for sale sign for sale sign for sale sign and then notice of proposed development well our
initiative is to go in before those get turned into some sort of development and purchase them for conservation you see the criteria that we've got over there on the right restorable hydrology preventing urban sprawl restoring natural water flows all those kinds of
things our initiative has been successful in raising private donations to acquire three tracks uh you see them there in red our first acquisition was a two-mile long stretch on the north side of Bridge Road that we closed in October
of 2021 then our acquisition number two um is a smaller 20 acre tract there to the west and acquisition number three that we're in fundraising for right now um is a 20 acre property just that um AB buts
Jonathan Dickinson State Park so our U initiative to try to connect the two state parks is a little bit like a jigsaw puzzle you know we've got to be there we got to have the funds available when the properties come up for sale just briefly about our timeline we
got started from the uh Corona virus at the worst possible time we had to cancel our kickoff meeting for all of this this that was to been um in the spring of 2020 so instead we've given a lot of presentations um via zoom and one way or
another but we have been successful in indeed raising those funds through private donations to acquire those properties and I'll just say a word there about the bottom one uh Martin County voters approved the Martin County forever land conservation initiative
back in November of this past year and I think that was uh spurred in part to our challenges through the private sector we've been able to um raise a couple million dollars but some of these properties are tens of millions of dollars and we're never going to be able
to raise those in the private sector so uh the initiative the referendum was approved in November we expect over the 10 years of it um it will raise over $180 million and because many of these properties are on the state's list
either for Florida forever so there's matching funds there or from the south Florida Water Management District through the Ser project we're hoping that that 183 million will get doubled or tripled or even more than that so we have received endorsements
from a number of different kinds of groups I've got over there on the left column the governmental entities in the center column a variety of the environmental non-governmental organizations and then just other groups homeowners associations Garden clubs
Historical Society those kinds of things so if some of you in the audience are interested in supporting this we would love to uh have those sorts of endorsements and just in closing here again the three parties are the guardians of Martin County the treasured lands foundation and the conservation
fund I've got listed the 15 people or so that are um on our steering committee and you often hear about trying to herd cats we're not hting cats here this group gets along very well together and so although we've got different perspectives on things we've been
successful in raising these several million dollars uh to acquire those properties and hopefully a catalyst for even more that will improve both the lockah hatchee and the south fort so with that if we've got time I will answer any questions that uh that you might have either I will or Charles
Donaldson is again with the conservation fund they are primarily our Banker for this they're a nationwide nonprofit and so tax cble donations that go towards this initiative go to the conservation
fund and they've been engaged with the Alx haty River for years I first started working with mat Matt sexon when a lot of those lands out west uh were MacArthur Foundation lands and so we've been able to bring a lot of those into
to conservation thanks to the Nationwide reputation of the conservation fund any questions couple um so the voters Martin County voters approved $183 million that's for Mart
County residents or businesses it be a property tax uh no it's not a property tax it is a sales tax okay sales tax increase of a half perc on the sales tax for a period of 10 years so it started being collected on January 1 um three
months or so ago and um now there are certain uh items that are exempt from that uh you know medical supplies and food products and that sort of thing and after an initial couple of thousand dollars uh for like purchases of cars
and that sort of thing it doesn't uh it doesn't all go towards that but yes it's a half cent sales tax for 10 years and it was approved by 60 68% of Martin County's voters so you know you said when you went up to the state uh they were as they were kind of asking you to
demonstrate R um you know the interest in that certainly that sends a message have you been up after that passed um I haven't personally but yes the environmental administrator for Martin County uh the restoration ecosystem restoration division he has indeed been
in close dialogue with them and so we expect that they they've got several different tiers of properties in Florida forever and what our projects are is in the community based projects so there are different ones ones in different categories but yes we're expecting as
soon as the county gets through the process of we expect they're going to bond that money so that we can U start acquiring property right away rather than waiting several years till all the money comes in so um you indicated the
hope is is that you got the public money from Martin County you have hopefully State money that'll kick in and then you know private money that's being ra that's a great I appreciate leadership on that but one thing that caught my
attention you talked about uh um turning it over to the state um well I really want to be careful in how I say this but I'm not sure that I would trust that as the end result one thing that we've done in the town um on some Acquisitions like you
know we purchased a Delaware scrub the county Jupiter and then the state put in funds and it was left titled basically to two governments making it more
difficult you know to uh ever be you know taken out of its intended purpose so I'd be surprised if marttin County hasn't thought about that but anyway just just sharing that point well taken uh especially after the proposal last
year for things in Jonathan Dickinson um and yes we we do have those precautions in place and what you were mentioning Delaware scrub I believe the conservation fund was uh helped the town out with that acquisition back a number
of years ago uh but yes the parcels that are within the Florida forever project boundary are those that are within the unit management plans for the state parks and if you're following that legislation of what's going on right now
both Senator Harold and representative Snyder's bills that are being reviewed in Tallahassee now they are to amend the regulations regarding how those state parks are administered so there is this part of every state park has to have what they call a unit management plan
and in that unit management plan they're required to identify properties that um would help them control their own destiny so without any prompting by our initiative uh we're A Ware that the land
many of the lands that with that are within our oval there are within that optimal boundary for either Jonathan Dickinson or U Atlantic Ridge now some of them aren't and so those we probably would not be turning over to the state but so you're right a thirdparty
conservation easement holder on those is is necessary and uh I thank you for acquisition too uh you know which uh is the historic Western floa Kitchen Creek I I don't remember having heard about that but appreciate that thank you yes
okay and Martin County did get that started with a Sor water retrofit project on a a project a number of years ago they went in mined out the material that was there buil uh created a reservoir and a storm water treatment
area associated with that and then the property in our acquisition number three is on the easterly of those three flow ways into Kitchen Creek so thank you for that anyway thank you uh for coming out tonight and uh making this giving this presentation so we and the public can uh
can learn about it thank you uh anybody else J I got something yes please thank you very much for this and we really appreciate your effort um our citizens were surveyed not too long ago and they pointed out to us that a high priority is placed on the conservation of our our
Flor and Fa and this Falls right into that obviously the wetlands aren't just nice they're the breeding grp around for most of the wildlife we have in Florida so these are critical it's critical we save these to save the floor and FAA that we have but I'm particularly
interested in the said the river quality and that's very touchy for all of us we're very concerned about River and water quality how is it that this will improve it are there are there uses along the the watersheds that are polluting the river that you think
you're going to eliminate and if so did you consider maybe just buying developmental rights instead of outright purchasing to spread your money further okay several part question and we could go on no doubt for quite a while talking about the
Myriad water related problems uh most of them are nutrient related which is why I focused on those and so yes even the many of the parcels that are in agricultural land use now have u h of catle on them the water that's coming
off of those lands is Flowing right into The Creeks with no pre-treatment it isn't required and so our initiative here um is to acquire those we'll take the cattle off of them and we will essentially plug up the ditches that
drain them right now and have led to the deterioration of the the Wetland sort of hydrology and so the way it will benefit the river is number one as the water table is staged up a little bit higher there's going to be more percolation down through the soil which is going to
take some of those nutrients out and number two and this goes to the flooding and the saltwater intrusion situation um right now with those ditches in place it rains that water flows out right away it doesn't have time to percolate down
recharge the underground aquifer and that sort of thing so by plugging up those ditches or putting in water control structures to raise the elevation it will number one address the nutrients but then number two allow the water to flow back in a much more
natural maybe not completely natural but a a more natural sort of hydrologic regime because right now in the rainy season it rains and that water goes out once we perch it up a little bit higher that water will stay in that Wetland as
it was intended to do for several months and then bleed down very slowly during the dry season and recharge the underground aquifer as well so uh I don't know that here in the town you have problems with uh personal Wells
getting salty but certainly in eastern Martin County it is a situation and it's because we're not allowing adequate uh groundwater percolation so that's one of the sort of tangential benefits of of the project well as a as a side to that
it's this isn't just fuzzy science the CMI River restoration where they took the natural Meandering CMI River and Army Corps Engineers turn it into a ditch and just pipeline all the crud from Central Florida into Lake oobe
which now pumps out into our waterways it worked they're restoring the river it's meering again the water quality is cleaning up the water tables are rising so this is this is stuff that works this is a viable uh decision here and I think
our citizens want something like this so again less although it's expensive to purchase these properties it's less expensive to purchase them now than to try to do restoration after they have been messed up like the CMI River was thank you thank you um what's the cost
on parcel 3 and how close are you to reaching that goal um I believe we're at about $ 800,000 in donations so far and we have a $3 million um campaign that we're in the middle of and that is for not only the
acquisition but also initial restoration you know we want to get the invasive species out of there we want to work with Jonathan Dickson who will be accepting the water from the property so we're partway through we're very pleased that a foundation has made one of those
pledge grants that um if we we raise X dollar they'll give in y doll so we haven't met that threshold yet we need to reach a million right uh but we're optimistic that with Community Support we will get to that so I'm not asking you for donations today and endorsement
from from your group would be great but if anybody else is interested get the wheel um so after parel through it are there more Parcels in that area that you want to acquire there certainly there there certainly are we've got an Excel
spreadsheet U that actually changes I won't say daily but you know market conditions change and so um as willing sellers come and go and that sort of thing um yes we certainly know which
ones we would like to purchase if you're following what's going on up in the State uh one of the programs that has been well funded by the state of Florida the legislature over the past couple years is something called the rural and family lands program and so for those
agricultural property owners who are really in it for a um they can um get money to put cons permanent conservation easements on their agricultural lands and so that's one of those tools and the tool Bo that we would like to use great
thank you great work appreciate it I want to say the same thank you so much for coming and speaking to us and thank you for identifying these parcels and for having a very coordinated campaign to raise money for them so it's a really wonderful effort thank you thanks thank
you again for coming and um I just want to just for us I know that uh a lot of other governmental agencies have endorsed this project um so I'd like to be able to uh direct staff to also send it endorsement letter uh for this project as well I'm good with great
probably should be a resolution that we pass yeah so we'll we'll bring it back and pass a resolution and hand it over to you guys that would be great we'd love to add you onto that list of endorsement thank you okay thank you thank you
I'll get this set for your next agenda item thanks for your time and interest thank you okay moving on to Citizen [Applause] comments this is the time for all non-agenda items and it's limited to 3
minutes anyone wishing to speak is asked to State his or her name for the record and address uh prior to addressing Town Council do we have any public comments yes first we have Beth dillinder after Beth is going to be Brett
Leone mayor vice mayor Beth delinger and Council I just wanted to state that my mother always said if you can't say something nice about someone don't say anything at all and a previous com bad
comment about C in May I really was sad about that thank you very [Music] much BR Leon mayor council uh for the record Brett Leone um 132 Barbados Drive um
about almost three years to the date I looked back through some of my notes and found that um came before you all to discuss the lock saly um initiative I had recently heard about it and so um thought it was fitting and wanted to come today um thank you Mr Braun for the
presentation learned a little bit more and and hope you all can uh continue the the great work that you all are doing and appreciate uh councelor May for putting up that support and the rest of you all for supporting that as well um you know I've I've read almost all
the stories in the lock sa lament and um the water quality the lock a river has really gone downhill you know over the last 50 60 years and so this project uh hopefully will continue to improve that and improve the quality of life for our residents as well as all the Flora and
Fauna in our area uh just a couple other items um wasn't able to attend the last meeting but just want to say a big kudos to staff and all of you for the Jupiter Jubilee and the 100 celebration um thought it was absolutely fantastic it was great having it back here on our
town hall campus and really showed off uh you know our community um also I'm part of the the business Community Committee um working with sea and Kate and others and uh you know the staff has just been amazing and really looking
forward to all the events it's great to see the the calendar of upcoming events to celebrate the 100th and there seems to be a lot of excitement throughout the town for that and then just on a closing note um councelor for thank you for your service for serving our town uh we serve together in the the Planning and Zoning
commission um enjoyed watching you up here and helping make our town better and I think your your expertise in in your field of engineering and environment and all that has really helped to uh to make our town better so thank you all so much thank you for everything you all do and happy birthday Jupiter thank
you Linda mcdermit good evening Linda mcdermut 107 Chad book drive and candidate for district 2 Council um I'd like to say that the jtaa is extremely important to the children here
and uh back in August and then again in December I know there was some discussion because it was part of the 24 strategic plan to come up with um what the relationship is going to be and what have you there was I thought good discussion but there's been no decisions
made and here we are into March so I just would like to say I'm um parts and Rec did a wonderful job and presenting information uh but that's something I'd like to to be addressed so we know where we stand we need the other kids from the
Questa and and uh Jupiter Farms to make the teams basically so by bringing kids in from the outside they help us make the qualified teams that we make so if we're going to need to charge them let's make just make a decision so that's just
one thing but today four of us candidates were at a lunch in at The Rotary Club and I would just like to say three of us were quite civil cordial to each other but Mr kety you once again disparaged the
union and the way you looked at me with anger because I spoke before you for 90 seconds I spoke I said nothing about any of our issues I just introduced myself how long I've been here so did the others we were extremely cordial to each
other but you were mad your face was mad and you said the three other candidates have the union you continually continually do this okay and I'm just hoping that between now and the election
that this stops there's nastiness going around there signs being um destroyed um but I'm just asking you to please these Union people have supported us for years they live in our town their families live here their friends live
here here I am very proud to say that I'm supported by the iff the fire Union okay for $1,000 that they give me okay that's all they're allowed but if they want to support or the other people who want to support and send out a postcard
in my name I don't expect you to damn me for it and I'm tired of it I'm a professional and I didn't think I'd be up here saying this but I had no choice because of your behavior today Linda Smith
hello after that um Linda Smith Sierra Club executive committee chair representing over ,000 members and supporters in Palm Beach Martin St Lucy and okachobee counties also I live in Jupiter uh that's my post office it's
unincorporated Palm Beach I know but um I want to thank you tonight for recogn izing the importance of bicycle Network safety and what that does for the environment and also for human health I encourage everyone to vote Tuesday I was
going to try to keep it positive um and hopefully maybe some environmental candidates but please just vote on Tuesday March 11th I would also ask the council and I've asked some of these things well all of these things in the past please
consider installing EV chares chargers at Jupiter public buildings such as this one I know we've missed that opportunity a little bit here um I also encourage you to purchase PV vehicles uh I know
that the uh PV and cars in general with the tariffs are going to be a lot of discussion but I am voting for PV vehicles and so does the Sierra Club please um consider installing solar on
town buildings the new fire stations that are coming up would be excellent candidates for solar thermal which is the most cost effective form of solar and also solar PV I was dis disheartened to learn uh a
couple of weeks ago during the endorsement process that this Council may have ignored some recommendations by the town environmental Advisory Board I know that board has not been meeting lately but I hope in the future you will be more respectful and uh listen to
their recommendations since they are also volunteering just like me their time and talents to the town of Jupiter um Palm Beach county is placing all of their conservation lands and a third-party land trust that you guys were just talking about so that's good
news for Palm Beach County the palar meeting is this Thursday up in Martin County at 9:30 come join me uh I have spoken at the ark acquisition and resour Council meetings and you're right they don't pay attention to us so if anyone has any suggestions on
how I can make these messages stronger I would appreciate it and please work toward commercial recycling I have spoken before on this and actually brought in huge bags of recycled materials from a local gym where I am a member and I am discussing trying to get
that done on an individual basis but the business owner and the plaza owner would probably benefit from some Town Council support thank you for your time that was the last one okay
um moving on to uh Town council meeting minutes we have before us the minutes of the February 18th Town council meeting uh if there's no changes or Corrections I'd take a motion in a second to approve as submitted so moved second motion the
second uh all in favor signify by saying I I I motion carries unanimously moving on to the consent agenda um is there any member of the public that wish to pull a consent agenda item no mayor is any member around the Das wishes to pull a consent
agenda item you know seeing none I'll take a motion in a second on the consent agenda motion to approve consent agenda second Motion in a second all in favor signify by saying I I I motion carries unanimous
moving on to the regular agenda uh this is uh item eight uh the bevel voluntary annexation future landm amendments and resoning and I turn it over to the applicant
good evening honorable mayor mayor council members for the record Alec Dickerson with 2 gho here on behalf of Venus and Mars LLC the property owners um we were here about two weeks ago on first reading to present the um
three applications if you will once for a voluntary annexation for point2 3 Acre property from unincorporated Palm Beach County to the town of Jupiter b a small scale future land use Amendment from Palm Beach County's Commercial High with underlying medium residential mr5 to the
town of Jupiter's Inlet Village flex and C A rezoning from Palm Beach County's neighborhood commercial CN to Inland Village Flex South um the location here is along North A1A contexts um spe property to
the north um jup Inlet Condominiums to the Northeast Jason to the Jupiter Oxo um north of the inlet Waters development key development milestones uh tonight's request on second reading for the voluntary annexation future Lane use Amendment
rezoning um with the adoption tonight we will move forward to the certificate to dig which is already been submitted however um staff will continue their review Once it is formally in the town limit um and once that certificate to dig is
reviewed and approved by the hrb we will move forward to submit a small scale PUD site plan for multif family residential use a little overview on the property uh the property owners own two contiguous Parcels at totals approximately 0.52
Acres they purchased the subject annexation parcel in 2018 and the town of Jupiter parcel just to the east in 2022 the subject parcel is currently vacant um contains two non-conforming accessory
structures and if annexation is approved combined Parcels will yield multif family residential um they were issued um a code violation from Palm Beach County's environmental resources management division on December 13
2024 this was because they removed um an oak tree native vegetation from the property without a vegetation removal permit um as soon as this violation came down they quickly rectified it by paying the fee and Lou for
$2,880 uh violation was closed on December 23rd 2024 um the images before you are the subject tree um the reason why it was removed from the property was the owners um did determine that the the tree was
rotting out it was significantly damaged posed danger to the neighboring properties so they moveed forward with removing it however they do recognize that they did it without a permit and rectified it through Palm Beach County's arm
division so criteria for voluntary annexation um this proposal is consistent and complies with the necessary criteria it is contiguous to a subject municipality does not create an enclave it actually will eliminate an
enclave future development will result in a logical development pattern there very little to no impact in adopted levels of service and it yields potential for sensible infill development which is a um
prominent feature of the inlet Village sanation is also consistent with the town's annexation study with the annexation it's necessary to change the lane use and Zoning designations to assign them to town of
Jupiter districts so we are stated in the intro uh proposing a change from ch5 with underlying mr5 to Inlet Village Flex which is town of Jupiter's designation as far as zoning uh we propose going from Palm Beach County CN
to town of Jupiter's in Village Flex South graphical representations of that uh the existing land use is shown here you can see it is Inlet Village Flex surrounding the subject parcel and we
are proposing to match that um as shown here with the proposed Lane use map same thing with zoning uh see only parcel in that general area that is not Inlet Village Flex South we are proposing to match the surrounding
zoning District criteria for small scale future map amendments and zoning map amendments excuse me um we do comply we are consistent with the town's comprehensive plan we're consistent with
surrounding land use patterns uh we will not create an isolated land use designation um we will not have negative traffic impacts this amendment is also needed due to change circumstances and
conditions which is the annexation on first reading um it was discussed the owners did voluntarily agree to a trip cap not to exceed what's currently Allowed by Palm Beach County's F of 0
85 um there was some discussion with the council members about this trip cap and following feedback following first reading we got back with the owners we discussed with staff and we we came up with some Alternatives that we will will discuss in a
minute um but the intent is not to uh provide any negative TR traffic impacts with this amendment so in closing we're consistent with all necessary elements of the comprehensive plan and town studies does not negatively affect
adopted levels of service staff report indicates compliance with Comprehensive plan future development will be consistent with applicable sections of the town's code traffic analysis has been approved by the town's traffic engineer we received unanimous
recommendation 70 from the Planning and Zoning commission and approval on first reading 3 to zero um and with that I'd like to turn it over to Emily omy with 2 gho she will discuss some of the traffic
considerations for the record emo mahy with TG your traffic expert not so so when I look at this I have to get it down to some real basic numbers because that's
the only way I can understand it and you know every piece of land has a land use and by law you give it a land use and it has traffic associated with it so this piece of land went from the county or
upon this vote will go from the county to the town of Jupiter and the Let's see we am I let's do this where where are you pressing it to get to there we go so if
it goes if it goes and stays with the town of Jupiter and goes to the inlet Flex the numbers I've chosen to use are either the um the average daily trips and it can be net or gross but
let's just use gross for now um so you could have on this tiny little piece 23 Acres it's tiny um you could have 688 gross trips a day under Inlet
Flex so you know our our cap said well we'll use the county which it was you know that's what it was in the county and that would be 463 gross average trips a day okay less
trips but it came through you know the meeting that we had that that was too much and actually all that got taken out of the ordinance and it came to our understanding that we thought at first it was going to be an element of the
site plan and discussed then but then it came that that you guys wanted to discuss it and make it probably part of the um land use so we we looked at it further um and been talking to CJ and
our traffic um engineer who is here Johnny irvani um there was talk about the sketch tool that the town used back in 2018 to understand what was happening on the road in the inlet Village
because you wanted to keep it small we all did wanted to keep the inlet Village yet the the um how much you could develop on there was making it more and more difficult for that to happen so um
the numbers came up and said if you develop what hasn't been developed or in Redevelopment and you put a number on it this low which is that next number 35 and we don't know if that's a net or a
gross number um 35 trips a day average then then will the road will be good and that's based upon 2016 I believe or 18 2016 um and it's not it's just it was
just a study it's not required and we go wow that's taking away a whole lot of of um development rights on that property so understanding that you wanted to reduce uh traffic
on this property and understand there were some rights that should come with the property and that it's still a very small property um we also looked at CJ shared with us what was done on Love Street and Jupiter
Oxo and that it was by trips per acre and that going back is about 140 uh if it applied to our site or 116 so you're down you're down from the
463 to 140 or 116 um but that's more than the 35 and what we would like to propose to you is that maybe consider for this um a gross
of 250 which is about half of what it is in the county um yeah it's it is more than the love Street Jupiter roxb um but it's a voluntary cap it's something we'd just like to put on the table uh for your
consideration since is a way to look at this and once again it's a small small piece and we would not be working with this piece by itself it will be going with the other piece when it comes forward with a site plan so you will see
it again so that is what we are bringing forward currently the um the ordinance that's before you has no mention of any cap in it at
all and we're here once again our traffic engineer Alec myself and actually the owners of the land are also here thank you jez good time good evening mayor members of the
council my name is Martin Schneider I'm with the town's planning and zoning department um a couple items just to to add to what's been said um at their February 18th meeting on first Reading Town Council voted to approve the
voluntary annexation the future land use map Amendment without a trip cap and the resoning um related specifically to item 8 attachment B ordinance 3-25 which is the land use map Amendment there's
further clarification warranted related to discussion and questions at the first reading related to the trip cap the Inlet Village Flex land use that would be proposed on this property would allow almost twice the intensity of what was allowed under the county in order to
ensure consistency with the comprehensive plan that the transportation level Services met throughout the buildout uh period a trip cap of 463 external um daily traffic trips was initially agreed to by the
applicant based on the maximum f um floor area ratio um of the existing Palm Beach County land use designation so that's where that trip cap came from staff explained that the uh trip caps placed on the future land use map are critical tools to take
proactive steps to limit uh development intensity and have been used in other areas of the Town previously Steph also explained that the um Inlet Village traffic management uh sketch tool which was uh developed to be
used to forecast how future development may impact traffic capacity uh in the inlet Village in order to maintain the two-lane configuration of North A1A and to maintain the level of uh service capacity uh limitations throughout the buildout
period this resulted in a much lower number the 35 trips that Emily brought up for the 23 acre U subject parcel and that's much lower than the voluntary trip cap that was proferred um at the meeting the mayor
stated that the voluntary trip cap of 463 trip seemed too high to provide a meaningful limit and the Town Council amended the motion to remove the trip cap on first reading it is important to note that the incorporation of a trip
cap at the time of the future land use map amendment is a legislative decision um a trip cap also it sets the cap it sets the the Caps it caps the trip generation for the property it does not
create any entitlements for the property um if a trip cap is set during a uh development application it does not necessarily run with the land as it would if it's on the map uh it is possible that the owner may never construct the proposed project or they
may sell the property and then the trip cap would not apply um to a different project on that property so if the uh Town Council supports adding a trip cap then section two of ordinance 3- 25 would need to be
amended to add to the sentence on line 22 that ends with the subject property to add the wording with a maximum generation of whatever the number you choose external daily trip traffic trips and that would be what you would do if
you um chose to add a trip cap to the um land use Amendment and I can take any questions thank you any questions I do could you I'm sorry sorry the second you sat down I have a question for you could you give me that
quote again there was a quote you said that would need to be added to the resolution yes and I also um made copies of what language would be inserted in where in our packet no I'm going to I'm going to hand it to the clerk right now
but it's highlighted in yellow thank you is there a proposed development or is this still strictly not at this time they're going to come in after their certificate to dig and and bring the proposed development it's it's substantially a square piece of property
there the piece that we're talking about tonight is a small yeah rectangular piece than um the intention is that they would join it to the the property that's um adjacent to A1A so by itself it's not really a consideration it's going to definitely be incorporated into other
Parcels so they've sted that they will be joining the two pieces of property because it's so small that would be difficult to develop are there trip caps on the uh there are not that has the um in Village Flex land use is on there with no trip cap so that would be the
top row that we see on this chart the equivalent to the Chop top row yes equivalent that the the of trips that could and what are the what's the sizes of the adjacent properties the the subject parcel is. 23 Acres right and
the ad joining propy believe is 0. 28 29 2 point. 29 Acres so the overall would be 0.52 Acres if they join them together okay so there's so there's no limit on the the 0. 29 so all we're really talking about limits on the uh. 23
exactly and for a half an acre what would you expect maybe um 9500 Square F feet maybe it with back there there's well there's there's an F there's a sliding scale for f because you're allowed a mix of uses on the in the
inlet vage Flex so you can get quite a high f up to 1.65 theoretically theoretically you know when you do all the setbacks and the and parking but again parking can be offsite in the inlet Village if it's approved by Council so there's a lot of wiggle room
to to do what you want on on a piece all right thank you any other any questions uh the the question about the adjacent property being you know joined up down the road for a future application um no
um no no other questions right now count B no questions I guess I've got one actually um when when these are merged does the is it pro rated for the
overall uh parcel what a trip count Max would be what will happen to this trip count once it's merged with another parcel we'd have to see what the how it comes in for the the development that they want to put on there but there through this on this piece this piece
would only limit a certain portion of those trips the other parcel is not limited once this is joined is that limitation still imposed on this would be on this part yes so that's going to go with it even if it's merged with another property right okay thank
you so at last meeting I thought I heard from the applicant that they were primarily interested in residential yes sir uh multif family residential okay so I you know I had that perspective um and I didn't expect there would per
se be an issue but um so and thank you um so I want to State some things unlike staff that confirm that I'm correct so um first of all what's being
presented is a land use Amendment and Zoning Amendment and the analysis I challenge is not appropriate um and I say that because to state that it will not have negative
impact traffic impacts is an absurd statement please don't say that again because we have a comprehensive plan that includes level of service limits that we're bound to on traffic on
A1A is that correct staff yes the comp plan says you need to meet the level of service through the buildout period right and when those were added well we didn't always have responsibility for A1A but we do now it's a Town Road so consistent with the
Town Road in fact I'm not sure any government has we have on that roadway level of service for vehicles for bicycles and pedestrians and that's the reason why the sketch tool was created so we knew each one that we doing
you know kind of are We you know some up some down you know are we going to make level of service um and so you know for the two that weren't here last meeting what happened was um the number was so extraordinary high and they were
representing residential so on 0 23 Acres the sketch to was saying that's about four four units worth of traffic 35 drips so I'm thinking okay four units spread that on the. 3 acres that's 16
units an acre more than I would have thought the applicant needed so I didn't expect it to be an issue and um but I just want to make sure it's everybody here understands that because if we don't deal with this here and we chose
in first reading to take it out um but we're still going to have to deal with it on site plan because we're still bound comprehensive plan obligations so it's disappointing to me if in fact the intent is residential that we're being asked to establish a
trip cap that would result in something that can be built on the you know that wouldn't be built on the property if you put it into residential use so that's the Dilemma that I have um is that the 35 is consistent with what we were hearing the representations
were understand that uh you know that could change um but you know we certainly can't allow we you know somewhere you have to manage the trips and that's why our comprehensive plan has that you know as
an obligation so subsequent to last meeting you know I had gotten with the Mr sickler to reconsider you know um putting because ideally you would put it on land use because then everybody's got a level set on
expectations that'd be the ideal thing um and um so you know I left it with Mr sickler hey get with the applicant and you know see what they would propose so uh you know guess it's represented well it was
lower than it could have been well never could have been that number plus you can't physically build that on that property you know with the zoning code um so I just wanted to share that to my colleagues up here in the applican and staff is that's the dilemma here I'm
looking at uh I'm not sure you know the offer here um 250 units 250 on a quarter acre 250
trips per day and if it was residential that's like you know because on multif family it's less than 10 each is like eight or whatever so like that's like
120 residential units per acre it's crazy so is this what the applicant re seriously is willing to agree to may I speak go ahead yes as as an agent for the applicant I
know if they were he they bought they they bought property that while their initial intent may be to do multif family residential they also would like to if if they do not go ahead with that or whatever to be able to sell the land
um uh that they bought which has that capability today to do other things so it it seems to you know first of all there's not a site plan there's some sketches out
there um so they're looking at the the right potential for the land will it happen you know could it happen yeah in the future sometime so just looking at the potential that you bought this land
and and and what it had on it as far as land use and and Zoning um that's what we're trying to do is you know protect the potential of that land when it's tied together together with
others so um you do have the option you can uh you know do it all at site plan and you're you know very you will see very clearly exactly what will be done there and I don't think it'll be an
issue with with any of the traffic I have a question Emily uh so that property does it have I mean is is that a garage on that property that's the property north of the Dario property correct yeah it used to be part of his I believe I think
they're two would you say illegal or non-conforming little structures on it wasn't the many years ago when we were dealing with Dominic and some of the things he wanted to do wasn't there property there was unsure ownership am I remembering that
correctly yeah okay okay that that aside so are there util on this property is there is there water electric the reason I bring that up but for this to come into the town don't to be incorporated don't or you get utilities don't they have to come into
the town in this area as far as for anyone to do anything with that property yes they would have to come into the town right okay cuz you can't be a standalone the the PM Beach County will tell you but they're already being served by town of Jupiter utilities mhm
okay so they have utilities on the property so there's or in it you know cuz it's been broken up it used to be a bigger piece of land so but all the utilities have been served by okay I'm I'm just trying to wrap my my brain around when these two properties down the road potentially are joined for an
application what's the appropriate trip count in conjunction with the with what we set up with on A1A with the with the traffic pedestrians and bicycles it may be something you have to solve at at site plan then if that's what the what
the issue is okay it's a unique situation yeah it is that's it for now thank you okay any more comments I'll just real quick I'll just make a quick comment I you know I think we without seeing the site plan it's hard to like
put trip caps on stuff and even still at 0 51 Acres even if they try to go to 250 there's no way you'd ever get 250 trips through a 0.51 acre parcel so you know I don't want to really deal with that right now I'd rather deal with it during
site plan because even looking at love Street at 140 at what they're sitting at I mean this property is way smaller than that so um I'd rather just deal with it at site plan and not not worry about trip caps right now any uh public comments no mayor are
we going to this this discussion we skip going from questions to discussion now well I was just making sure we didn't have public comments so now we were in discussion okay um I just want everybody at home and everybody in the audience to understand what we're wrestling over here is I think citizens have made it
abundantly clear that traffic is probably our biggest problem and our biggest challenge so what we're doing right now is struggling over trying to limit the increase in traffic so the all that we're discuss discussing now is
ways to prevent additional trips on uh A1A that's what this entire discussions about I think minimize the impact of traffic um I I'm with you uh Council or may it's inconceivable
and you uh mayor kritzky how they could possibly get those type of accounts from a residential structure I don't see how they could possibly get it from an intensive commercial abuse either so maybe that uh s plan it would be the best way to to squelch this um rather
than I if if we're going to be forced to do a trip count I think it should be very low but I think I would rather wait to see what kind of structure we're talking about and that site plan would be the best way to do that any other comments I would agree I think that was what we had decided at
the first reading so I was surprised to have this come back back uh with this uh further discussion I do believe it would be very difficult to do that um with the space that they're working with uh and think that that would be the best for this particular
property the um just a comment so you know what came to us um was a trip cap of 480 or something so
um we took it out but then reflected upon the fact that the applicant was talking about residential we thought that there'd be a possibility that we could reach agreement on that um and um and that's how this came
to be we didn't before we got here today I none of us knew what the offer was right um but um you know we could and you know I'm the person that brought the use of traffic caps to the
town we used it on paral 19 um and we've therefore used it a few times it makes sense generally you know on large sites um and you know I just wanted it so as a minimum what this
discussion does everybody on Council in the public sees how we're managing traffic on on A1A is we had we had to put a limit on level of service so we fulfill
our obligations to that that is part of the comp plan in addition to land use has to be taken into account and um probably probably at this point not being able to agree on this I go along with continuing what we did
last meeting is not included in here because to include a number that sets false expectations I think is wrong right it would set like oh you said it was 250 on a quarter acre no we didn't say that you know so that's
why um but but we're sending a message that please don't say there's not traffic impacts because if we do this on every quarter acre in what's left undeveloped the road will be way way over
capacity I I agree and then I also look at it you know setting it too low I don't want to just arbitrarily diminish somebody's property values also but knowing in the future they're going to be joined but it's just I guess just getting this tonight I'm not ready I'm
not ready to make a decision what that cap number would be I just are you no I'm said we we we can go but again I just want my colleagues to understand the public is having a conversation with our Planning and Zoning director yeah we thought well let's take a another run at
it let's ask what the applicant would be willing to live with and it's still way too high I we can't we can't approve that so we don't want to be bound by that as a representation right when it's so high MH so seems like we have a consensus on
Council as it was so uh but now the two that weren't here last meeting know why we took it out yeah and I'm glad you did for the discussion so cu yeah yeah okay Emily from what I'm here you guys are fine with us just taking it out for now we'll handle it as I plan
okay okay uh I'll take a motion and a second on ordinance 225 motion to approve motion a second I'd ask the town attorney to read ordinance 225 on short title an ordinance of the Town Council of the town of Jupiter Florida providing
for the voluntary annexation of A2 acre parcel of unincorporated land which is contig to the boundaries of the town of Jupiter providing for a revision of the town's boundaries to include the parcel Annex and providing for an effective
date have a motion a second ordance 225 all in favor signify by saying I I I motion carries unanimously I'll take a motion in a second on ordinance uh 325 motion
approve second motion a second and ask the town attorney to read ordinance 325 on short title an ordinance of the Town Council the town of Jupiter Florida amending ordinance 5789 which adopted the town's comprehensive plan providing for an amendment to the Future land use map to assign a future land use
designation of Inlet Village Flex to approximately 02 Acres of property located at 1 18019 Highway A1A providing for severability providing for the repeal of laws and conflict and providing for an effective
date there's a motion a second uh all in favor signify by saying I I I I motion carries unanimously moving on to ordinance 425 second reading I'll take a motion and a second motion to approve second motion a
second Mr de Barett please read ordinance 425 on short title an ordinance of the Town Council of town of Jupiter Florida amending the town's official zoning map which is incorporated by reference in section 27473 of the town code to assign the
inlet Village District Flex South Sou District zoning District to a 2 acre parcel of land located at 18019 Highway A1A providing for severability providing for the repeal of laws in conflict and providing for an effective date have a
motion to Second all in favor signify by saying I I motion carries unanimously moving on to reports Town attorney thank you mayor I have one report um you may recall the property on
an old North Dixie Highway uh owned by the REI family and it was part of a approval that involved other properties in that vicinity there had been a parking issue
there and there was a requirement as part of that approval um that the property owners get together and agree to build parking on land owned by the FEC which is on the
east side of Old Dixie um since that approval they did come back to the council asking to remove that condition um the council denied that um there have been changes to that area in that's the
other two businesses that were also responsible for that parking in fact the other properties were more responsible than this property owner for the parking and the construction of the parking but those owners have basically abandoned
whatever uses that they had and there are now uh New Uses on at least one of the other two properties um they this property own has been waiting for a building permit for some time based on that parking
issue um he has now lawyered up um I've had some conversations with his lawyer about the um situation I think what is best for the town in the situation is to find um
an administrative approval that staff can enact to remove that uh requirement as to that property owner with respect to their responsibility to build the parking on the FEC they meet under their
requirements the park their parking needs so this parking was anticipated to be to be solving a problem not for this property owner necessarily but other property owners as well um so I've I've
had a meeting with the town manager and Mr sichler in regards to this we think we have a pathway to an administrative change to that zoning approval that would allow them to move forward and obtain their building permit and proceed
um I think based on our discussion there's a feeling that if there are parking issues in the future that come from that area that it is primarily going to be a result of the other property owners in that area that are not meeting their needs um so what I'd
like for Council to authorize the manager and myself to proceed with is an administrative approval to remove that condition and allow that um and allow for a
planning solution to that property as necessary but um the bottom line here really is that the property owner is meeting its parking needs without the parking on the FEC right away assuming
he builds what has been approved which obviously he can't build until he gets a building permit so so if that's something the council would entertain it would um avoid what could be some fairly messy
litigation that would in all likelihood lead to the same solution which is working out something uh with respect to the parking in that particular area so question um you I'm in probably
General agreement for this applicant but and it didn't get a chance to look at the uh historical approval but uh the historical approval that we were dealing under everybody came together I'm asking you to confirm I understanding everybody
came together to support a property know they had two pieces of property he wanted to develop one he developed but then one he sold off correct correct so now it's a mess which is why you know those of us up here always have to consider the fact we do a development
order that person gets the development order and could be gone tomorrow so you really can't take well gee trust me um but so we still have that vacant parcel um so we we still have we're
you're asking us to agree to allow one of the overall Property Owners to proceed on an individual site basis that he's got an adequate parking correct yes and that doesn't mean that uh we may not
have recourse to get the parking shortfall approved when other like if the property owner comes in on the vacant parcel correct correct so um you know with that do we have a consensus up here uh to support directing allowing
staff to do that yeah that agreement evaporated a while ago so we're kind of holding him Hostage to it and did he purchase his property after that agreement was settled or I don't know okay but regardless we I don't believe so no since since the project was
approved right one of the key they been uh Property Owners business owners um has discontinued its business and that use has changed from a fairly High parking demand coffee shop to a a less
demand so okay um the bottom line seems to be it it's not worth the litigation that would be brought um in the event that the town continues to hold off on issuing the
building permit based on off-site parking right it it's not it's not fair to this property owner either so I'm I'm in excuse me agreement with the mayor so so I I think it would be appropriate to to just have a motion to uh authorize
staff to remove that condition and address parking in any other ways that it deems appropriate with respect to that property so move second give it Motion in second all in favor signify by saying I I motion
carries unanimously um with with that I'll just do a historical note Mr Brun Greg Brun that was here earlier um is a very fine environmental consultant and he was the town's environmental consultant
if you remember years ago now uh the bird Roger and Mna bird property where they removed the mangroves Mr Braun was our expert witness at that hearing which resulted
in a significant um victory for the town thank you mayor thank you Town manager thank you mayor um just a couple things for me uh first of all I'd like to thank our part and Rec staff
uh once again for doing exceptional work um as you know it's hard to believe but we had summer camp registration again already this past weekend and on Saturday we registered 374 campers more than 300 of whom were processed in the first three hours of
registration uh between the two summer camp sessions we now have 401 campers registered as of today we only have one spot in our 5-year-old group and one spot in our six to seven age group remaining open uh our staff made some process
improve improvements such as pre-checking residency and adding more registration stations that greatly reduced weight times and if you're like me I know some of you have seen emails from our residents expressing compliments about how seamless uh the
process was so kudos to our Parks and Rec staff that's a that's a pretty busy uh time and did a great job um I'd also like to congrat congratulate our Deputy fire chief Michael DeStefano who obtained his Doctorate in strategic leadership from Liberty University last
week and U and so kudos to him uh this past weekend the Jupiter Police Department partnered with the Palm Beach Gardens Police Department pomy County Sheriff's Office and the Florida Highway Patrol for traffic saturation Patrol to enhance roadway
safety with the focus on DUI enforcement jpd made numerous arrests and issued more than 100 citations and warnings and so the guys did a great job on that um just so you know the community relations staff is actually sharing uh content
about the upcoming election scheduled for next Tuesday March 11th including information that will help residents find their polling locations and know some of you were at the stadium this weekend so I'd like to thank Mike B and his staff at Roger Dean
Chevrolet stadium for a great weekend of celebrating the town centennials and I understand uh councelor May's Sons were hit out there with the Cardinals mascot so uh so U I want to thank the
folks there um in regards to the Centennial Celebration remind everyone that our jupu registration opens tomorrow popular program allows residents to experience and learn about a number of locations in town this year's Jupiter U tours include The Malt
Theater the police department Riverbend Park UF Scripts the town's water plant lrd Wastewater Plant the lighthouse and Town Hall meanwhile on March 19th the town will host the next of its centennial celebration history uh presentations this month presentation is
called preserving paradise and will focus on the towns focus on Smart development to preserve our small town fi and then just a few follow-ups in regards to the town's crosswalk projects as you know we have already completed
seven locations later this week the crosswalk on palmfield way will be completed additionally a crosswalk on Main Street and another on University Boulevard and the Third on Greenway we will be completed by the end of March and our location at Central Boulevard and Longshore Drive is scheduled to be
completed by the end of June and then finally a couple of uh updates about some items that some of our residents have raised and some of you brought to my attention uh the jet ski that was located in Jones Creek was uh removed by the owner uh over the
weekend thank you to Jupiter PD and their persuasive conversations in that regard um two derik vessels the obsession in the last fling have been removed from Jupiter's waterways again thank you to the jpd and the Marine Patrol unit and our Police Department
followed up on the email from Mr Myers concerning the crosswalk issues on A1A and our Police Department staff has increased patrols and enforcement of the law in that area and we have been in touch with him as well to follow up and that's my report mayor thank you Council
May uh just wanted to say you know again reiterate um the Roger Dean event this weekend was amazing uh I brought my kids to professional football games before and everything and by far they had more fun at that event than they've ever had at any sporting event and I actually was able to somehow convince them to sit
through eight and a half Innings so it was pretty uh it was a lot of fun so that's all that's all I got R mayor I actually want to bring up an item that I was made aware of so we've talked a lot about splash pads playgrounds Parks um and there's an opportunity with Tony
Penna Aquatic Center or um northern Palm Beach County Aquatic Center to um partner with the county on a splash pad potentially so my understanding is that it is County property there is a county master plan for improving this property
um however funds can only cover a portion of it not all of it planned County funds um so if we wanted to partner with them they would be maintaining the property and they have already designed the splash pad um but if we wanted to kind
of get something moving more quickly for our residents given the need and what people have expressed it's an option to partner with them we had talked about that earlier partnering both on um the West Jupiter Community Center and Tony
Penna Aquatic Center so there is an opportunity now potentially they are going to move forward with those improvements so this year so it might be worth a discussion um I would just move to or ask for direction or some
consensus just to bring an item forward just to look at what are all the details of this um what are the opportunities the costs just to kind of understand it better because it is such an item you know that residents have really
requested um it may not be the best option but I I actually think it'll be great because of the regular maintenance done by the county so that will be helpful I think the uh I I'm sure we all agree to your suggestion and I want to
point out we get so many I'm sure all of us do complaints about the conditions at that pool so I do think even just the topic of what they're doing when they're doing it yeah and then the splash kit plad which which is in is important but
if we just did a splash pad and they didn't correct the problems with the pool then so I do think it make a topic interest interest for our public my understanding is they're doing the pool and they we could partner and cover the splash pad potentially for you know all
these improvements together and I've heard for a long time they're doing the pool but I don't know when is it going to happen you know I heard they're looking for input pretty soon so I'd love to bring it back sooner around rather than later I'd like to discuss it publicly and then maybe down the road get a presentation from someone from the
county yeah yeah I think it would be appropriate to have the county come that's true it's my understanding they might be pulling out the kitty pool yes soash you don't want to go in that kitty pool trust me so yeah I used to work there
you don't want to go in that K I spend a lot of time with them um I think would be a good alternative to that CU then you're not holding the the waste water I think you're worried about it it makes sense in two ways it's nice to have something like that it's a lot warmer than the regular pool kid can't
drown in a splash maybe due to its shallowness but so I think that's a good idea overall yeah yeah the the the designs that I've seen look really really good um it's something that's definitely needed that would you know hopefully put us close to on part with what Gardens has and that people are asking for and even though it's not just
like a passive Splash Pad like we're looking to add to our Parks um this one would be guarded by the lifeguards and stuff for some shallow water areas and whatnot for that when you think of the liability the staff all that goes into it the design the fact that it's near 100% complete design that there's a lot
of value to the town in that yep we'll bring that back to you good Park thank you counc Delany is this your last meeting nope or you'll be here I think I got one more maybe okay that's it other than that no comments one more and and
along those lines something I talked about before and didn't I failed to bring you guys packages for it was the window restrictors that I discussed several months ago to restrict the opening of Windows to 4 in on apartments uh two stories and above um all our
hotels have that now uh unfortunately my work as a forensic engineer I've investigated the fatalities of four children and it's a tough thing to go through when you see what happens and it can happen so quickly and there's really no valid reason for it um you can get
get plenty of uh ventilation with a window that opens 4 in again every Hotel you go in the most of them have them completely closed off um any of them that can't open are restricted to 4 in you can't fit a 4-in sphere through it a
size of a child so I'm going to be bringing each of you um a short presentation to show you the hardware to uh incorporate this is uh less than $10 $4 a window maybe very quick to install you could do just screws and just screw
the Windows shut but to keep a window operable uh a 4-in restrictor is very easy to accomplish and what I would suggest as well is um we incorporate it into an ordinance where the landlord is required to get a potential tenant to
sign off a a a writer that says they understand the risk and they understand it a screens aren't uh protected devices some people think screens will keep a child from falling through they are not um so I'll be bringing that shortly and
hopefully to get some positive feedback from everybody but I'll be providing you with that before I next meeting so hopefully we can all talk about in our next meeting um one final thing in regards to the um flood maps and flood uh prevention week I've said this before
too everybody out there listening everybody listens to this please whether you're in a flood zone or not and everybody's in some type of flood zone contemplate getting flood insurance at least get a quote it's free to get a quote and I can't tell you how how big a
difference that make if we I think we're due for one I hate to being the deput downer on this but we've been very lucky and we see what's happened to Florida all around our Coast flooding if we have a major event it's going to flood to the interstate and everybody who has no
flood insurance is not going to be covered it's different from your uh Windstorm Insurance which is horrifically expensive by the way mine is flood insurance is much much more affordable and I think it's much more likely you're going to need flood insurance than uh wind Insurance those
that have um mortgages obviously have to get wind Insurance um flood insurance is only mandatory if you have a mortgage and you're in a certain flood zone I recommend everybody in our area to at least get a quote for flood
insurance can't State enough out of this I've had several family members whose homes have been destroyed by flooding now just in the last couple of years it's very real here other than that seeing a couple weeks just um on topic
you're going to get back with us on um just something to make sure you include in there interestingly my daughter just move my youngest daughter just moved into a a new new house not a new house but a different house in Jupiter and um
we noticed and we were in my granddaughter 22 months old's new bedroom that um the prior owner which we knew you know used these clamp-on devices to keep the
window and this is only a one-story house but to keep it at about 4 in open and I commented my daughter number one is people that open their windows for cross ventilation I said I was hypothesizing that's probably why she
had it there different reason so actually she had one of the one of the uh mechanisms to lock the window was effective and it couldn't be locked so
temporarily you know she moved it down so you couldn't lift it but and of course I was concerned about that you know there's fire safety and whatever so we need to make sure whatever it is being proposed takes all uses into account so while I do appreciate on the
second floor you know you're worrying about you know saving lives um and you know maybe uh Council May will weigh in on this but we need to think about the totality of it because there are specific devices ASM devices
that are operable where you can override them okay but they can only be overridden by an adult certain ways where you could go ahead and open it completely understand but we need to make sure if we're going to be you know acting on that that we would make sure it takes into account all risk exposures
and whatever yeah I mean if if a firefighter is coming in from the outside we're breaking the window we're not going yeah we're not but if but from the occupant on the inside if they're trying to open that window from the inside in a case of emergency I would hope that the restrictor would have some sort of way to quickly quickly release
that device so that they can open that window and get out if they need to and there are okay but just for information even if that window restrictor is on there if if we're coming in from the outside we're we're going to be breaking the window so I'm going worried about escaping out than than getting in yeah and that's what I would hope that that
device would have something to quickly override it so absolutely agreed thank you okay the time is uh now 8:46 and we'll adjourn the meeting depends on what tool I'm bringing up if it's a hurricane no
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