We're going to go ahead and call the Monday, April 28th commission meeting to order. If you would please stand for the invocation and pledge. Dearly Father, we come to you this evening. We ask that you give us wisdom to make the best decisions for our city. In your precious name, amen.
Amen. I pledge allegiance 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. Going to move on to proclamations. We
have a couple of those this evening. The first one would be for Child Abuse Prevention Month. I'll go ahead and read that into the record. Whereas children are essential to our city's future success, prosperity, and quality of life. and all children have a right to thrive, learn, and grow to their full
potential. And whereas in 1974, Congress enacted the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, the first major federal legislation addressing child abuse and neglect. And whereas in 2008, Prevent Child Abuse America designated the pinwheel as the national
symbol for child abuse prevention, representing the six protective factors that help reduce the risk of a child experiencing abuse or neglect. One, concrete support. Con concrete support. Two, social and emotional competence. Three,
resilience. Four, social connections. Five, knowledge of parenting and child development. And six, nutri nurturing and attachment. And whereas abuse and neglect can severely impact a child's physical, mental, and emotional well-being and can lead to learning and
behavioral issues that in return may cause lasting trauma and economic hardships that affect all of society. Whereas child abuse prevention is a community responsibility and finding solutions depends on involvement among among all people. Whereas effective child abuse prevention programs succeed
because of the community partnerships created with families, social service agencies, schools, businesses, faithbased organizations, nonprofit groups, law enforcement, and judicial systems. Whereas together we can work to ensure that Leburg children will grow to their full potential as the next generation of leaders helping to secure
the future of our city, state, and nation. Whereas the members of the Southside Looming Plus Club are advocates for child abuse prevention and encourage others to recognize the need for safe, healthy environments for children. Now therefore, I, Alan Reeseman, mayor of the city of Leburg,
Florida, do here proclaim April 2025 as child abuse prevention month in the city of Leburg, and call upon all citizens of Leburg to become involved in helping families raise their children in secure and positive surroundings. Thank you. If you would would come up, and we'll get a
photo with you. [Music] This is the pin wheel that the mayor was referring referring to. And in many states, for example, Texas, they actually decorate the public buildings in the different uh like in, you know,
in the different cities with the pinw wheels. And it's my hope that we can spread the word in the state of Florida. Currently, there are only six counties in this state which are part of the program of preventing child abuse, which
there are three agencies involved. I have given to your uh secretary uh your clerk the list of the three agencies and it is my hope and I am dedicated to trying to get to try to get the three
counties which involve the villages which is Marian Sumpta as well as Lake County to be represented in this great state of Florida and it's an upward battle but the most important thing is
the grassroots. It is you. There are many ways we can prevent child abuse. And I've had many commissioners in the different places I've been asking me what can I do. I did leave with the clerk what has been published from the
state of Florida and it is available to you and there also available to you is how you can get help from the state of Florida. She has those papers. So, I appreciate the warm welcome which I have received here in this wonderful city of
Leburg. I love your city. It's a beautiful city and you have so many beautiful resources. I don't know that many people in Leburg, but I'm sure you're as beautiful as your surroundings. So, thank you so much. And just remember,
there's plenty of help out there. But again, it's up to you. each of you can help prevent child abuse. So, thank you very much. Thank you for your attention. Thank you, love. Next, we're going to move to the Leburg High School boys weightlifting state champions. If we want to go ahead
and bring them in with coach Ber, how are you, sir? Metal clanking. Let it clank. Be proud of that. I'll go ahead and read the proclamation into the record. Whereas, the city of
Leburg offers heartfelt congratulations to the Leburg High School boys weightlifting team, including head coach Josh Buer and assistant coach Kevin Pierre on their exceptional performance throughout the 2024 and 2025 season. And whereas through the hard work and perseverance, the 2024 2025 team won
district and Olympic won class 2A region 2 and Olympic and won FHSAA class T2A Olympic weightlifting championship, making this team the first ever to to 3P in any sport in Lake County Public Schools history. Wow, that's awesome.
This legacy of success is a testament to the dedication of the players, coaches, and families, highlighting the value of sports as an avenue through which our students student athletes learn about commitment, teamwork, responsibility, and leadership while preparing them for
the future far beyond high school. And whereas the 2024 2025 FHSAA class 2A weightlifting championship, the following lifters meddled in their respective weight classes. Jamar Williams placed fourth in Olympic. Savian Latimore placed fifth in
traditional and third in Olympic. Ryan Thompson was state runner up in Olympic. Gage Anderson was state runnerup and Olympic. And Jeremy Lacy was state runner up in Olympic and state champion in traditional. And whereas while weightlifting is in many ways an
individual sport, the team environment is an integral part of each lifter success. And the members of the 2024 2525 LHS boys weightlifting team are as follows. Kaden Adams, Gage Anderson, Jeremy Lacy, Savon Latimore, Theo
Prader, Alexander Santa Maria, Ryan Thompson, Jamar Williams, Molle Agular, Legend Anderson, David Brown, William Campbell, Ian Carlos, Vincent Chen, Robert Claudio, Brendan Coffee,
Dakari Connor, Colin Coules, Tyler Davis, Tyrell Davis, Kobe Elland, Xavier Ford, Elijah Frasier, Josh Given, Troy Godwin, Trayron Hambury, Gustavo Hernandez, Tyler Cost, Donovan McCullen, Jeremy
Neely, Bion Porter, Wade Recctor, Jonathan Rivera, Brody White, Theas Williams, Anthony Wine. Now therefore, I, Alan Reeseman, mayor of the city of Leburg, Florida, do hereby proclaim the outstanding sportsmanship and extra
achievements of the 2024 2025 Leburg High School boys weightlifting team. Applaud their three repeat state championship, urge all citizens of Leburg to celebrate this extraordinary season, and wish them continued success. Go
[Applause] Jackets. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. [Applause] Last but not least, our very own Miss
Andy and Miss Anna for Municipal Clerk's Week. Whereas the office of the municipal clerk is a timehonored and essential part of local government that exists throughout the world. And whereas the office of the municipal clerk is the oldest among public servants. And whereas the office of the municipal
clerk provides the professional link between the citizens, the local government body, governing bodies and agencies of the government at all levels. Whereas municipal clerks have pledged to be ever mindful of their neutrality and impartiality rendering equal service to all. Whereas the
municipal clerk serves as information center on functions of local government and community. Whereas municipal clerks continue to strive to improve the administration of the affairs of the office of the municipal clerk through participation in education programs, seminars, workshops, and annual meetings
of their county, state, and international profession organizations. And whereas it is the most appropriate that we recognize this accomplishment of the office of the municipal clerk. Now, therefore, I, Alan Reeseman, mayor of the city of Leburg, do hereby proclaim this the week of May 4th through 10th,
2025 as municipal clerk's week. and further extend appreciation to our municipal clerks, Jay, Andy Pervvis, and Anna Roderman, and all the and to all municipal clerks for their vital service they perform in their exempl exemplary dedication to our community.
Congratulations, ladies. [Applause] We're going to move on to presentations and we have a special one tonight. We have County Commissioner Timothy Morris, District 5. He would like to say a few words. Welcome. You got about a half an
hour speech. Is that right? Uh Tim Moore, Sunny 605 Silverlike Drive, Leburg, Florida, 34788. Uh I'm your district 5 county commissioner. I'm going out to all the cities to introduce myself, let them know that I didn't have anybody run against me. So, a lot of people know I'm
a county commissioner. Uh, just wanted to say I'm available. I've left some cards over there. I think everybody but Jay has my personal phone number now. So, I'll make sure you get that. I got it. Okay, you got it, too. But anyway, um, I want to thank you for the lively
meeting we had two Mondays ago. Um, I was in the back, listened to most of it. Um, it was very positive, believe it or not, in my opinion. Uh, there were facts given and the county had facts, the city had facts. But the good part about it is
at least we are drilling down to the facts now. We're getting to what it really costs to run an operation, both the city and the county. And we all have the same problems. We all have infrastructure problems. We have growth problems.
So my ask of you, as it is with the 13 other municipalities, is let's let's get our future land use maps together. We have Kimley Horn working on them right now uh for the county for the 2050 comp plan. If we can get the future land use
maps from all the cities, we can all sit down and have a discussion. And I think it would be a very positive thing to have that discussion to see where the growth needs to go. Uh Al's a great numbers guy. I mean, his his numbers are he knows how to work them. The county
has great staff. All the other municipalities have very smart people also. So, I just want to get us all around the table to try to deal with the growth issues and infrastructure issues. Um, other than that, do you have any questions of me?
Well, that's even better. I think we're good. But you're welcome to come on any Tuesday morning and I'll introduce you and you can speak all you want to speak on Tuesdays. How about that? Commissioner Morris, we appreciate you coming out. Thank you very much. I appreciate what you all do today. Yeah, we appreciate you. Thank you, sir.
We're going to move to public comments. This section is reserved for members of the public to bring up matters of concern or opportunities for praise. Please note that issues raised during this time will not be discussed in detail during the current meeting. They will either be referred to the appropriate staff or scheduled for consideration at a future city commission meeting. Each speaker is
allocated three minutes to provide their comments, kindly adhere to this time limit to ensure equal opportunity for all participants and to support the efficient conduct of the meeting. Thank you. Do we have any public comments this evening? Yep. Yep. This is public comments. Yes, ma'am. If you would just state your name and
address for the record. Melissa McCracken, McCracken's Ash Pub. I live at 1350 Selman Road. I'm an unincorporated Leburg. Um, okay. So, Allan asked if I could come and talk about how I felt the the event went this weekend and I have lots of positive
things to say. They had a lot of growth. Um, my entire team is exhausted. I had six call outs today, which is why I am in my cooking uniform because I got to cook today because every all my employees were so tired they couldn't make it in. Um, I have talked to four businesses and they all said 20 to 25%
growth in sales over last year. So, that's very positive. Um, last year my restaurant didn't even go on a wait and I know I'm kind of on the way in down there by by uh 9th, but this year we were on a two-hour wait for several hours. We had a great turnout and I think that we're seeing a positive
growth as we're going away from COVID and and this and I think that the advertising Maggie did with the radio stations and all the other stuff was um to the benefit of all of the businesses downtown. I don't I don't know if I have any other comments unless anyone had a
question about how something went down because I was definitely there for the whole thing so I can answer any questions. I appreciate you coming on that feedback. Thank you, Miss McKelly. Any other public comments this evening? Yes, if you this Yes, you can come up. Yes,
ma'am. I'm not sure if this is the right if it's regarding an agenda item. We can get that later, but if this is something else, I'm just not sure. I couldn't find it on the agenda, so I'm just not real sure. Yes, ma'am. All right. Any other public comments? We'll close public comments. We're going to move on to the
consent agenda. Routine items are placed on the consent agenda to expedite the meeting. If the commission or staff wish to discuss an any item, the procedure is as follows. One, pull the item or items from the consent agenda. Two, vote on the remaining items with one roll call vote. Three, discuss each pulled item
and vote by roll call. Are there any items the commissioners would like to pull this evening? Go ahead. Yes. I'd like to um just have a question in reference to 5C6. I was going to pull that, too. So, okay. I just want to know the update because I think this morning was something. Are
I'll pull 5C6. All right. Is that the only item we're going to pull this evening? That's the only one I have. All right. Can I get a motion to approve all remaining items? So moved. We have a We have a motion in a second. Any discussion? Public comments? Seeing none, roll call.
Commissioner Connell? Yes. Commissioner Peterson? Yes. Commissioner Barry? Yes. Mayor Reeseman? Yes. Would someone please introduce 5C6? I'll introduce as be read by title only. Thank you. Resolution of the city commission of the city of Leburg,
Florida, expressing strong opposition for House Bill 1221 related to the use of local option taxes including tourist development taxes and discretionary sale tax and providing an effective date.
Motion to approve. We have a motion and a second. Um I I pulled this just so the city manager could give a brief rundown. I think this this bill would be detriment detrimental to not only our city but our county. We would never be able to do any capital
projects if this bill went through. So, I'll just pass that to you. Yeah, I appreciate that, Mayor. Um, previously we did a a couple of resolutions and and voted on them in reference to some of the ongoing legislation uh that's coming out of Tallahassee. This one was missed.
Um, probably just because it was a little bit later to the game than some of the other ones, but it's equally it's equally obnoxious in its in its in its point at local government. Um, this bill specifically, uh, House Bill 1221 seeks
to limit local option taxes. So, local option taxes are really significant, uh, for both political subdivisions and municipal corporations in the state of Florida. Uh they concern the penny sales tax which obviously we use a good deal of. Um um they it concerns local option
gas tax which obviously we use a good deal with. Um those two issues um we do receive DST monies um and we do receive local option gas tax monies and the state kind of promulgates that in two ways. um our way is not the statutory
way but the way where we have a an interlocal agreement with the county uh where we split that revenue. Obviously those revenues are significant for our capital improvement projects. Um the most pointed one in this legislation though goes to the TDT dollars the tourist development dollars which is uh
commonly known as the head and bed tax whereby when you stay at a hotel there's a tax. The net tax ultimately comes back to the um political subdivision, the county, and then that money is then distributed by a TDC um to development committee or a
BOCC. Um we have been lucky enough in Leburg to to have those monies on a few occasions. Um one was uh this excuse me, one was the um the the walkways there in Ski Beach. Um and then
the other is Susan Street since since I've been here. So TDC's are significant dollars that go towards capital improvements um that help us bring in tourists and those type of things. So with the state looking to eliminate those or shift how those are done, they
definitely have an impact on local government. So this is another resolution where I would encourage the commission to to do approve this resolution and get this to the governor and the state legislature and our local delegation. Thank you all. Any comments from the
commission? I just have a question. Do you have any updates to the latest as of this morning or I I don't uh not as of this morning. Um I did have a conversation with our lobbyist Ryan Matthews. Um and he does think it it's getting some steam uh as far as some
type of passage. Uh but we'll know shortly, I guess. But the the be the most the best thing we can do is to pass the resolution and and get it up to the state and let our state legislators know. Um I will speak a shout out to Representative Cobb um when when you all
pass the resolutions um in opposition to a few other um actions. Nan has been working tirelessly keeping in communication with me um as well as far as kind of how stuff is progressing through committees and that kind of stuff. So, um I think you can rest
assured that that Nan's been looking out for us while she's up there. I also have another question. There was like 12, I think, missing votes for this on the last I think the last count was on the 25th Friday, was it? Yeah. Yeah. There there was some and I don't know the
details of it, but there there there was some interest in how the the bill kind of got walked in kind of late. Um the the some of the resolutions have have some lines in the in the whereas clauses that that speak to how it
quickly got on the agenda and swiftly move through some committees. Um, some of it is maybe in reference to some of the talk from the governor's office about trying to recreate advalorum revenues and trying to shift around
different local option tax to to subsidize differently than property taxes go. So in all honesty that this legislative I thought the the one about two years ago was bad uh when they started talking about creation of authorities and really affecting our our
transfers from enterprise funds. But honestly, this legislative session's probably been the worst I've seen in a long, long time. Um, and they really can't end session soon enough as far as I'm concerned. So, we just have to wait. So, we can't do any other with our res
the best you can do, you know, the resolution or make personal calls to our representatives, get to make personal hopefully if you guys have Senator True now and Representative Cobb's phone numbers, call them, let them know. It's the best you can do. Should we en
encourage our constituents as well? Absolutely. That's what I thought. Absolutely. Thank you. Any further comments? It seems like everything come out of this session is an attack on municipalities. I mean, I know the Avalor the Avalorum tax I don't believe
got any traction, but what what are we supposed to do? They're stripping they're trying to strip revenue everywhere we look. I just I'll just stop right there. It's just nuts. It's been a rough session, that's for sure. and and it the way this one is ending it looks like it will pick
up next year equally as brutal. Just another question just to just add to it. When will if the budget hadn't taken place that meeting yet? What happens then? Do they push it back further? Does it go past the actual date the the budget process when they
actually review that? I understand that hasn't taken place at all with reference to property taxes. Yeah. Um I I don't know. My guess is they'll probably like you see in this legislation a lot like this house bill for example, everything is effective October 1st. So they're
they're kind of gearing it up for the start of our fiscal years. Um so if if they do something as and I'm not going to mince words, if they do something as crazy as remove adorum revenues, you I
would hope we would get more than the summer to deal with that. Um, but we'll have to wait and see. Okay. Any other discussion? Any public comments? Seeing none, roll call. Commissioner Peterson, yes. Commissioner Barry, yes.
Commissioner Connell, yes. Mayor Reesemith. Yes. We're going to move on to public hearings and non-rine items. If our city attorney, if you would do the swearing in, sir. Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, everybody who's here this evening and
wishes to speak on either second reading item six uh 6 A3 which is the two votes resoning or first reading item 6B3 which is the old mill PUD reszoning. If you would please stand and raise your right
hand so we can get everybody sworn in. All right. Do you swear or affirm that all testimony you give tonight will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? All right. Thank you all, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, city. Would someone please introduce 6A1?
One, two, and three. Yeah, we can do one, two, and three. Yeah, I'll introduce 6A 1, two, and three. U be read. Not be read. Not be read. Oh, okay. Short version.
6 A1 an ordinance of the city of Leburg, Florida, annexing certain real property consisting of approximately 1.22 plus minus acres being generally located east of US Highway 27 and south of Howard Road lying in section 2, Township 20
South, range 24 East, Lake County, Florida. Provided that said property so annex shall be liable for its proportionate share of the existing and future indebtedness of said city. provided that such annex property shall be subject to all laws and ordinances of
said city as if all such territory had been a part of the city of Leburg at the time of passage and approval of said laws and ordinances providing that such annex territory shall be placed in city commission district 3 and providing an effective date. 6 A2, an ordinance
amending the future land use map of the comprehensive plan of the city of Leburg, changing the future land use map designation of certain property containing 1.22 22 plus minus acres from Lake County Urban Low to City of Leburg General Commercial for property
generally located east of US Highway 27 and south of Howard Road lying in section 2, Township 20 South, Range 24 East, Lake County, Florida, and providing an effective date 63, an ordinance of the city of Leburg, Florida, changing the zoning of
approximately 1.22 plus minus acres from Lake County C1 neighbor excuse me, neighborhood commercial to city leburg C3 highway commercial to allow for office and warehouse uses for property journey located east of US
Highway 27 and south of Howard Road lying in section 2 township 20 South range 24 East Lake County, Florida and providing an effective date. Motion to approve. We have a motion and a second. Dan,
thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Good evening. Dan Miller, Planning and Zoning. Uh, the overall proposal for this project is a property consisting of 1.2 acres plus or minus is generally located east of US Highway 27 and south of Howard Road. As
you can see on the screens, this is a request for an annexation smallcale comp plan and reszoning of the property. The future land use request is to go from county urban low to city general commercial. The zoning would go from city C uh excuse me from county C1
neighborhood commercial to city C3 which is highway commercial. The request for the use is future development of a 3000 foot warehouse. Currently the site contains a small parking area and a three suite office building which houses some small businesses. I think there's a
hair salon in there. Um as this is a straight reszoning to C3 highway commercial. There's no specific conditions. It's just the basic standard zoning. Um, and there will be, of course, standard review once they come
in for um a site plan and building permits and retention and so forth. Uh, Mr. Doug Wade is the property owner and he is here to represent uh the property if there are any questions. Thank you, Dan. Thank you, sir. Any questions from the
commission? Any questions from the or comments from the applicant? Okay. Any public comments? Seeing none, we'll vote on 6A1. Commissioner Barry, yes. Commissioner Conell, yes. Commissioner Peterson, yes.
Mayor Reeseman, yes. Any questions or comments from the public on 62? Seeing none, roll call. Motion. Oh, we need a motion to approve that one. Motion to approve 62. Second. We have a motion and a second. Roll call. Commissioner Cono. Yes. Commissioner
Peterson. Yes. Commissioner Barry. Yes. Mayor Reeseman. Yes. Can make a motion for 683. A motion to approve 683. Have a second. We have a motion, a second. Any discussion? Public comments. Roll call. Commissioner Peterson. Yes. Commissioner
Barry? Yes. Commissioner Conell? Yes. Mayor Reeseman? Yes. Would someone please introduce 6 A4? I'll introduce. As be read by title only. an ordinance of the city of Leburg, Florida, amending or adding a PDO planned development overlay to the
existing R1A single family residential zoning on approximately 16.22 22 plus minus acres to allow for agricultural uses for property generally located east of number two road and south of County Road 48 lying in section 17 township 20
South Range 25 East Lake County, Florida and providing an effective date. Motion to approve. Second. You have a motion and second. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The overall proposal for this is a request for a
planned development overlay to an existing R1A zoning district to allow for agricultural uses on approximately 16.2 acres of land. As you can see, the property is generally located on the south side of County Road 48 and on the
east side of number two road. In this particular location and circumstance, um, agricultural uses would be compatible with the surrounding uses. The city of Leburg does not currently have an agricultural district. We have two or three properties left that are zoned under agriculture, but that is an
inactive district. So, you can't zone into agriculture. You have to zone out of it. So, what what we're doing here is just allowing the use time to take place. Eventually, the property will probably be developed, but at this point, it's probably better off to let the owner do agricultural uses. It's
just fine with staff. And we have reviewed it and found uh no negative impacts on the surrounding properties are anticipated. Thank you, Mr. Any questions for Dan? Would the applicant like to say anything? John McGee, 18 Lakeshore Drive,
Yalaha. And yes, I cannot vote for you. I don't live in the city of Leburg, but the property is in the city of Leburg. Um when Ivon and I purchased this property, it was to in the intent to try to keep some of the rural areas of that Lake County rural and uh when we found
out that u the rural use was not there, we went and talked to the good folks at the planning and zoning and asked and they came up with this uh plan to do a PDO plan development overlay to give us allow us to use uh the property for agriculture. Uh we don't intend to uh
build anything on the property. Uh I'm 80 years old. I doubt that anything will be built in my lifetime and uh we want to kind of leave it that way and leave it rural on that corner. So we I would ask the commission to approve our application. Thank you. Thank you sir. Any questions from the commission? Any
public comments? Seeing none. Roll call. Commissioner Barry. Yes. Commissioner Conell. Yes. Commissioner Peterson. Yes. Mayor Reeseman. Yes. Would someone please introduce 6B 1, 2, and 3 to be
read by title only? Yeah, I'll introduce uh 6B 1,2 and 3 as they be read by title only. 6B1, an ordinance of the city of Leburg, Florida, annexing certain real property consisting of approximately 37.48 48
plus minus acres being generally located east of Radio Road and north of US Highway 441 lying in section 1, Township 19 South, range 25 East, Lake County, Florida. Provided that said property so annex shall be liable for its
proportionate share of the existing and future indebtedness of said city. provided that such annex property shall be subject to all laws and ordinances of said city as if all such territory had been a part of the city of Leburg at the time of passage and approval of said laws and
ordinances providing that such annex territory shall be placed in city commission district 5 and providing an effective date 6B2 an ordinance amending the future land use map of the comprehensive plan of the city of Leburg changing the future land use map
designation of certain real property consisting of approximately 37.48 plus minus acres being generally located east of radio and north of US highway 441 lying in section 1 township 19 South range 25 east lake county
Florida and providing an effective date 6B3 an ordinance of the city of Leburg Florida changing the zoning of approximately 37.48 48 plus minus acres from Lake County Agriculture and R six urban residential district to city of
Leburg PUD planned unit development to allow for 32 town homes and 110 single family homes for property generally located east of Radio and north of US Highway 441 lying in section one township 19 South Range 25 East Lake
County, Florida, and providing an effective eight. This is first reading. Dan, Mr. Miller. I'm not sure. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This is for the old mill subdivision. The overall proposal of the property
consists of approximately 37 12 acres as our clerk pointed out, generally located east of Radio Road, north of Highway 441. It's a request for annexation, small-cale comp plan, and reszoning. Under the future land use, it would go from Lake County urban low to city of
Leburg estate, which are equivalent densities. And under the zoning, it would go from Lake County a agriculture and R six urban residential to city PUB, which is plan unit development. The back the request is for the future development of 142 single family units
in the form of both town houses, which are attached single family and then detached single family uses. Under the PUD requirements, this would be 110 detached single family units and 32 attached single family units, i.e. town
houses for a total of 142. That would be a two floor maximum height. No other uses permitted. For the lot sizes, there would there would be 67 lots at 50 by 120, which is 6,000 square ft, and 43 lots at 60x120 for 7200 ft². The house
sizes would be 1,700 and 1,800 square f feet respectively. And the front setbacks are a standard 25 in the front, 18 on the rear. Townhouse units would be 20 feet in width with 1,400 square foot sizes. Um, all homes have a minimum two
off- streetet parking spaces in the development. There extra spaces provided in the concept plan for the attached units. Under the design and architectural standards, the standard PUD architectural requirements will apply. There's a list in each PUB that gives them an option of selections that
they must take five uh different uh items from that list. 35% of the property must be an open space. Dark sky lighting is required. There is a split rail fence requirement where development is adjacent to the subject property and on the area where houses will be
constructed. Of course, BA and Bermuda grass instead of St. Augustine is permitted. Two trees required on each single family detached lot. The signage would be a decorative entryway feature of concrete brick or stucco. The access point will be from radio road in a
boulevard style entryway. And the applicants also offering a wall needed to which we will need to write into the pud. Under recreational requirements, there's a minimum of 28,400 square feet which will be devoted to a separate
recreation area which will be set aside for amenities such as children's playground, dog park, trails and pavilions. And in terms of trails, there are walking trails that are required to be provided around the retention ponds and the wetlands areas uh near the houses on the interior of the project.
We do have the phasing clause that requires the development move forward with substantial commencement within four years or it reverts to the RE1 zoning standards which is one acre per unit. And um Lake County Public Works
came back with some comments about need additional left and right turn lanes on Radio Road along with additional rightway. And let's see. And then they also asked for additional rightaway from their public works department and there would
be permitting required through um Lake County. Uh there was some significant public response to this project. Um the residents had significant concerns regarding the access to the site and the wetlands immediately to the south.
um their concerns regarded the 100 foot wide strip of land that you can see where it says subject property on the left. There's that 100 foot wide strip there. Uh they also were concerned about noise, flooding, privacy, property values, security, quality of life. Um
there was a neighborhood meeting. Staff did ask the applicant to do a neighborhood meeting. So they did that and both the applicant and neighbors probably have presentations and comments which they wish to provide the commission. I don't know if you want to hear those today or at the next meeting.
Mr. Logan Opsel is here uh from the firm Lounge Caner in Orlando to represent the project. Thank you, sir. Any questions for Dan Commission? I do. Yes, sir. And um you said the town houses or what is the width of the townous? 20 ft. They don't have garages. Yes, they they have
garages. The width of the townhouse is 20 feet, but they have a garage. The depth of the garage. The width is 20. A depth of a garage can be 12 ft. Well, yeah, I mean, understand. But what I mean, I'm trying to You're talking about you talking about the width that faces the road?
Yes. 20 ft this way. So, they're single car garagees, I'm assuming, I might assume. Yes, sir. So, the single cars are probably 8 or 10 foot. So, just it's 8 or 10 foot of the house and 8 foot or 10 foot of a garage.
It makes up to 20 fronting the road. Yes, sir. That's about That's about I don't know the exact width of a garage, but depends. You can make them any size. Yeah, that's correct. Say you at least need eight or 10. Yes, sir. Okay. I I have a question to ask. Ma'am, can
you tell me give a little more history for us the meetings from the minutes that I was reading just to be sure of the vote? I mean, just bring me up to date with planning and zoning meeting. I believe it was the March meeting. That's Yeah. And um so it was it was a long
meeting and the both the applicant gave their presentation which they have on PowerPoint or something like that and then the residents were there and they gave their input. Their biggest concern and I hope I'm speaking for them correctly here and if not I'm sure they'll want to correct that but they're
not concerned about development of the property so much as the area under the word subject property which is on the left. There's a 100 foot wide strip. Okay, that 100 foot wide strip was has been there for many many years, but most
of it is wetlands. Okay, and in order to get to that property, you either come down that 100 wide foot wide strip or you have to come up from the south somewhere or cut across the the rest of that property wetlands as well. So, it's
a very difficult problem to be in because you're either you're going to have to and no matter which way you come from, you've got to do some mitigation of the wetlands. The planning commission did eventually vote to approve it, but it
was after a very long discussion and the planning commissioner, one of the planning commissioners noted, well, they're going to have to mitigate to get through there one way or another. staff doesn't have a problem if they want to if they're able to come up from the south. I know that they have
contacted the owners. One of the owners, Lake County, one of the other owners is, I believe, the mall. So, the applicant has been in contact with them. Isn't Isn't the owner of this property the owner of Vaport? Um, the mall. Yes. This specific
property? I I don't know that one off the top of my head. I heard someone say yes. They may be correct. I got out and walked it. I can see over the I can see over the Stonegate wall and the homes are right up on the wall. Correct. I I would like to if this is going to happen, they need I was given renderings
by I'm assuming by um someone who lives in Stonegate. There's multiple other entrances I'm assuming that they could do and I can't support coming through that wetland and being right up on that wall. Understood. And if this does pass, um I think this is the only other
community that we have in the city is with a single entrance is Lake Denim Estates and that's a nightmare. I get a ton of calls on that that was approved back in 2005. Um if this does get approved, speeding is a there's a long stretch of road. There is. Obviously
speed humps or whatever would cause more noise, but I'm constantly getting calls about that. So, I would if this just gets approved, uh, I would like to see speed tables or some sort of speed. If if it does get approved, if you add that to your motion, we'll make sure.
Thank you. That's all for me. Any other commission comments? I've been vocal on a few developments that I would take landscape buffers over fences. That's just my one person's opinion. Uh, this one I see I see a wall up against a well potential wall up
against another wall and I just in my way there's got to be a better way to work through that if that road if they use that road. I mean I I I welcome the resident's input but uh if I was if I was them I would probably if I have a wall I think I would rather see that money spent on a bigger landscape buffer
versus two walls with a five six foot gap between them. That it just it just doesn't look right to me. But that's my only comment. Understood. Is the applicant here and would like to would they like to say anything? Yes, sir.
Mr. Mayor Logan Obsol 215 North Yola Drive. I do have a PowerPoint prepared if you'd like me to go through it substantively or we can just respond to some of the Okay, great. Go through that. I'll be brief because I I know we'll have another shot at going through this
and discussing um and and Dan did a great job of giving the overview, so I'll go through some of these rather quickly. Um but it's currently within the urban medium um future land use designation of the county. Uh I heard Dan say urban low,
but we're urban medium along with the surrounding areas. That's all right. Just So, as you can see from the Lake County zoning classifications, the A picks up the the wetland area, but we are within R six. And so, we'll get to this in a later slide, but under Lake County, uh
that future land use allows up to seven dwelling units an acre. R six brings it down to six. Um the PUD being proposed before you would cap it at four. Here's your city zoning map. This is the site plan. Uh the the mix of uh
units as outlined by Dan. There's the detached and then their attached. The attached is is much smaller portion is the 32 and that's what's there in orange on the southern uh portion of the property. This is the chart I was just talking about. It's the four dwelling
units an acre proposed uh as to the as opposed to the seven dwelling units an acre in the county. Again, that's under urban medium. the R six zoning would bring it down to six dwelling units an acre. So I think the next slides will be helpful for you too, Mr. Mayor and the commission because it gives a little
background on the access points because their points are are well taken what we've heard at the community meeting um and and what you you've seen, Mr. Mayor, walking the site. Uh we performed several site walkthroughs as well. Uh this is a bit of a flag lot which
provides that access road. Um, we heard the concerns. We had uh the meeting uh the neighborhood meeting. We also had correspondence uh with with some of the residents uh and uh pursued other
options trying to look at those. Uh unfortunately, where we stand right now is that what you see before you is the only property that we have under ownership. And I'll touch a little bit about uh some of the other items we discuss here like the wall and the pre-cast. And quite frankly, just so the
commission's aware, we are, you know, hearing those, fielding those concerns. I think there's some different preferences as related to the wall and the landscape and the different fencing. And I'm not trying to tell you what to do. I was just giving you my my thoughts. No, I I think it's a good thought because we've we've entertained
multiple and and would be would be happy to to further review those. Um these are I think this is an important slide because it shows that there was platted access access out there in in the past. Uh the areas shown
in yellow were old platted access roads that were vacated uh by the county. They're gone. Uh unfortunately there's really no legal there is no legal mechanism to to bring them back or resurrect them. those old platted access
uh rightaways were were vacated. And so that's kind of where we looked started the search of alternative access points. Uh this was another one being proposed through the southern portion of the property and then running uh excuse me east and west then running north and south up to the
property. Important to note this still does impact the wetlands. And when we looked at the looked at the differences between what's out there today for for potential access that's being proposed to this body from from the staff presentation of the PUD ordinance. This
proposal has two major issues. One, it does still impact the wetlands. Um we we ran the figures just to compare to understand and it's it's about 1.2 acres of impact to the wetlands as to about 6.635
635 uh acres of impacted areas uh as as proposed and as existing. But the most glaring one is that we don't own this property and we're told that they by the seller that they are not interested in selling that or otherwise granting access over those
areas. Now, there is another existing access point that's out there today. Of course, this is the least desired from the neighborhood uh because it's it's was part of their approval and uh when we're looking at things like a
property that needs legal access, this is something we talked about in planning commission, the only avenue outside of what's being proposed by virtue of the PUD is seeking judicial remedy to allow for uh
a easement by necessity, which uh is a common law and and statutory right in Florida. And and we we wanted to raise this because this is not preferred by anybody uh to go through here as a permanent access or otherwise. And so
one of one of the things we wanted to make clear uh to this concern is that we would not seek to utilize this access in any way for our proposed project. But I just raised the the the former issue because you know to the extent we would
need to go forward and get some sort of uh judicial remedy to get access uh this is something that would be looked at and certainly not preferred and and we just want to make clear that that's something that we looked at eyes wide open and communicated to the residents. We wouldn't be seeking that by virtue of
this project. And this is the alternative. This is the one that went through the the Lake County property and uh we have the email confirmation from the county that they would not be looking to surplus this area and would be not providing any access over the Lake
County portion of that wetland. And this is the one I think we probably talked about the most at planning commission, the uh the ability and the flexibility to move the access road either north or south as as able.
um to to maybe give a little distance. Now, we noted and your city attorney noted uh that we are fine with that kind of condition to look at that this needs to go through extensive review from the water management district and others jurisdictions as you know. And so to the
extent they tell us where it needs to go and to be permitted, we understand that uh we would we would put that in the appropriate portion as permitted. But uh the flexibility to move north and south, we would work with the with the city on that to give a little
separation. So this has six foot. What's being proposed is actually eight. So that's incorrect. It's eight. Um, and these are some of the concepts that that the mayor referenced, some of the renderings removing the sidewalk on that portion uh of the of the property so
that we could provide more landscaping um as well as the wall um that was being discussed and proposed today. So, this is just kind of a look down the street of what that would look like and then looking at it. So, there is an existing retaining wall uh and the proposed 8-oot
masonry wall. the gap there would be maintained by the HOA. Um, and that was another discussion point. We would work with their HOA. What'sever preferred uh to the extent they want to keep that natural or not maintained or have that
distance, that's understood, too. Um again on this front we we really want to work with the residents because we're aware I keep saying the words eyes wide open that this is not you know the most preferable access parcel to a property
but it's what we're left with and we're hoping to work on these options of of what would be most preferred uh for the residents. So this is looking behind the wall and I have one more here just to give a line of sight view uh as reference uh looking
through a potential second story window. Um this this is looking over what's being proposed is the 8 foot masonry wall. Again that's the access road. So the viewshed still picks up the wetland and the landscaping but of course there's the addition of of the wall as
well. And and again to the commissioner's point we we've offered several things. this seemed to be the one that that took the consensus because it added a bit more screening and blocking security prevents you know some noise things like that but we are open
uh to to those options so with that uh we do request in line with staff's recommendation uh approval and I'm happy to answer any specific questions and we have representatives from the project team here too if you have any others. Thank you. Any questions for the applicant?
All right. Good. I I'm just going to comment. I think it's an accurate statement, but by you trying to create more of a buffer, like do the wall, the fence, that's cheating you to the south, which is creating more wetlands mitigation. Is that correct?
I'm not sure I understand the question. I I guess you're I think you're you're work I appreciate you're working with the residents, but you're moving the road further south. It looks like maybe you're not. If if you're not, I'll stop right there. But in an effort to buffer with the wall, this is not a criticism. What I'm trying to say is a compromise
that save reduces wetlands mitigation by shifting the road to the north while keeping residents happy with wall landscaping, whatever. Yeah. So, we try to provide adequate room on both sides of the equation, right? And and allow for that landscaping. The removal of the sidewalk help helped a lot. Um I and I
think to your other point, what we were trying to do from from planning commission is we would show flexibility within our our property line if the if the water management district or any other permitting agency wanted us to push it south or would allow us to do that. Uh that was a condition that came
out of planning commission. We would we would Okay. Yeah. I probably didn't state my question very well earlier, but I was trying to help you stay out of wetlands as within reason, you know, because Yeah. It's it's a balancing beam, right? Yeah. But uh Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Any other commissioner comments? All right, we'll open the
floor for public comments. If you would like to come up, you have three minutes. Just state your name and address. Thank you, sir. [Music] Good afternoon. My name is Angela Chamblas and I live at 33144 Irongate Drive in Leburg. Um, I first would like
to have um the the developers to give you an accurate drawing of what it was supposed to look like. None of us live in a two-story home, so we're not going to be able to overlook anything. The drawings are inaccurate because of the wetlands. They're showing that that road
would be built at a ground level. That is inaccurate because of a hundredyear flood rule or whatever that law is. They have to build that road up 61 in. So therefore, the back of our homes are 61 inches. They have to build 61 inches. So
it doesn't matter if you have a wall. Doesn't matter if you have a b buffer. They're sitting on our back patios and our pool decks. So the the drawings were inaccurate at the resoning. It's inaccurate still today. And we've been a lifelong
residents. Our children have gone to school here. I'm sorry if I'm a little nervous and I'm a little upset because we have invested in our homes. these were our forever homes to now to be reszoned and the value that would decrease would be approximately we we're
going to take a huge hit on our our home values. So if I wanted to sell my home today, I can't sell it because of the potential of this coming in. We're not saying not to have the homes being built back there because that would be a little bit hypocritical. But the same people that owns the area
that goes directly behind our home is the same people that we're just asking. They've not listened to any of our concerns. The only thing that they've put in here is a wall and we don't want a wall. We don't want the road. If they want to put it in the driest area
because on when we have a hurricane that water is 30 feet off of our back wall and it's not just a little bit. You'll go out there and you'll sink knee deep in it. So, we're asking them to push further towards the mall. There are two viable entrances where they could come
in and build these roads. We don't, none of us, they've not heard any of our concerns. We do not want them directly behind our wall. It's literally 30 feet off of our wall where they will begin the building. There's there's two viable
options. And the same people that owns the the area behind our home owns the entire property. They've not done anything to try to mitigate that and to hear our concerns or to move it. This is not what we want. This is not what we've
asked for. They had a meeting, blew smoke up our our skirts, and didn't hear anything that we had to say. I've I've owned a pageant system here for a long time. I've invested into the city. I've been a friend to this
city and I hope that you're a friend to us today. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chamberl. Yes, Miss Chenny. Hi, Alan Chen. AD10 Treasure Island Road, Leburg, uh
34788. Um we have a just a couple of pictures here. The first is just showing um this y little yellow sliver here that appears to be owned by someone else and also this blue area on the left side uh
that also is uh appears to be owned by someone else according to the lake county the village uh lake prominade. Um so we're not sure does this require its own annexation if not owned by the owner of the old mill subdivision. Um and then
if we go to the second slide here. So as you mentioned and others have mentioned there are significant amounts of wetlands in the area. Uh one thing when we work with Lake County quite a bit on wetlands u and as you know we went through this with treasure
trove um last year or year before. Yes. Um which has a significant amount of wetlands. This is very similar in that respect. Uh Lake County doesn't really allow wetlands to be filled in. Uh but if you approve this, this would be kind of counter to what Lake County uh likes
to do regarding wetlands. And I understand there are credits and everything else that can be used to fill in the property, but that doesn't really help protect the environment. Um the neighbors or the neighbors and that's actually in the next slide. It can cause issues with the joining properties. So
on the next [Music] slide is kind of an elevation map um again from the county site uh showing the subject property to be higher than the adjoining properties to the to the south and to the east. Um the
whole property is currently wooded which takes uh in quite a bit of the runoff and obviously with all these developments you see clearcut every tree goes down. Um and once you clearcut Rough is likely to impact adjoining properties and despite how they uh do
their water mitigation uh systems and hydrarology uh simulations, we know from Silver Lake Point and we suspect in fighting Treasure Trove, we're going to see similar issues because of all the wetlands and runoff. Um there are properties that don't have wetlands.
Those are much better to develop as opposed to these types of properties. So um we we suspect there may be some flooding issues to those adjoining um developments. And then on the fourth slide here it's kind of a a
semi-proposal which is suggesting that we minimize the impacts. Put a 100 foot buffer all the way around. This could be a tree buffer or vegetative buffer but something that would help to protect against the runoffs.
Um let me see. Take a look at that. Yeah, and you can see that it also minimizes any impact to the wetlands uh in this property. So, having said all this, uh obviously we are against this annexation and we hope you are as well.
Thank you, Mr. Chen. Hi, I'm Louise Chen from 8010 Treasure Island Road. I'm the one that came up. I just drew this up this afternoon. Um this this whole lot has got existing trees. I look back um it's got the existing trees since 2004.
The flood map is done like 2012. So if this were to be completely clearcut, this would significantly change the flood zone. These people down here are only at 70 ft. This is at 70 75 ft. I don't know if this contractor would come
in and raise the whole thing up like they're going to do with um treasure trove, but this could have a catastrophic effect on the neighbors both this here and here where they're only at 17 feet. I'm just very afraid for the the neighbors the impact. So, and they don't really have, you know,
just where are they going to do it? Like you hear the forever homes. So, that's my my thing and I'm willing to help anybody who needs help. So, anyway, you have a nice day, everybody. Thank you, Miss Jen. Any other public comments? Hi, Ray Hayden. Uh 14 Buccaneer Drive,
uh Leburg, Florida. On this particular one here, the chance did cover uh my concerns, which is the runoff. They're higher. Water goes downhills. It's going to happen and they're going to flood. Now, for Buccaneer Drive, that's part of Lake Leburg uh mobile home park. We own a unit there at 14 Buccaneer Drive. And
um that area has been flooding when it had not previously been according to the owners of the uh community there, right? The uh the corporation that owns that. So, there have been issues of late with more recent, not right now with the dry
spell, but there have been issues with uh flooding into the mobile home park there. That's an issue. The other thing is the uh when looking at it today on uh on the maps and everything else, there are the two uh wetlands and of course everything down there where that road
needs to go is uh is wetland. It's get you're you're going to be dealing with that. They did show on on the presentation they show the protection and preservation of the wetlands with their water retention systems and things of that nature. Some of these things are
done well but the difference in the land elevations or height above ground uh the water tables that's going to be a problem. The other problem is yeah it is landlocked and yes a judicial remedy of uh by necessity to to get into the
property that would probably happen. It would probably happen. Nobody's going to be happy with that of the other land property because you can't have a landlocked property. You just can't that can't happen. So, there will be some forcible entry into get into that property. Now, on the two wall system
along the top end of that property, I can tell you and so can anybody else who has uh acorage or anything else. When you've got too, because we also do over there on the other side of town, outside of town, anytime you got that stuff, you have problems with growth, trees and
this and stuff like that. And as you wait, you know, as of my you know, civilization knows it. Yeah. Stuff grows up and covers your entire civilization. I have trees that push over fences. They happen. I mean, just last hurricane season, I still have a tripod of the
tree sitting over one of my fences, and I still have to get up there and remove it. Okay? So because it's it's the dead tree now, but the problem is going to be the same there between two concrete walls. If you want to go in a wall, that's going to happen. That growth is going to come up. Who's going to maintain that? I used to have on my
property, the other property, a road to nowhere. It was just chalk full of trees and other things. And there was no reason for that fence to be there. I couldn't figure out why it was there. So I removed both those fences. They were just barbwire fences, but I removed them because there were things growing in there that should not have been growing in there. There was just no way I could
maintain it. I couldn't even get my my mower in the gate to get there to that little road to nowhere. So, be careful with this. You annex this property, it's going to be lever's property going down the road. I swear it will. It's going to happen. I see it all the time. All right. Thank you. Thank you very much.
[Applause] John Shider 33136 on Gate Drive. I wonder if the young lady over there could bring up one of the slides that showed an aerial view of the artist rendering. Wait, go
back. One more there. Uh, no, one more. It's It's more of an There you go. That one there. All right. It shows the existing wall, which we moved in our property 2004. We were told the wetlands
could never be built upon. So, we've enjoyed the beauty of it. But I'm not going to talk about that. Other people have spoken to that. I'm more concerned about the wetlands. That picture you see there, very beautiful with the exception of the existing wall. That's all sitting
on wetlands in their proposal. What they haven't what you don't see is it's all beautiful. How do we protect the wetlands? There's grass, there's trees, there's fertilization
being put in there that can contaminate the water of the wetlands. Um, you have that looks like asphalt. You have runoff oils off the road. So, I'm I'm not I'm I'm not against
building. I'm against the access road and some of the damage it can do. Now, this is sitting on annex property. So now we're chipping away at the wetlands as it is now. That's kind of a slippery slippery slope so to speak.
So as I said, I'm concerned with the pollution that it will cause to the wetlands and the fact that now we're starting to compromise ourselves with the wetlands. So I ask you, I know you represent all all of Leburg. I want you
to be stewards not only for the community, for the people in the community, but also for the wetlands. So, I'm against this access road as it's currently planned. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Any other public comments?
Good afternoon. My name is Edgar Morales. I live in 33128. I'm going to try to be brief. Dear commissioner, we want to express our negative reasons why we should disagree with the road behind the stonegate
subdivision. The road will be developed in a wetland area. Like everybody mentioned, the proposed road is too close to the houses and backyards. Lack of privacy, lack of security. The increasing heavy traffic
of trucks can and will destroy the support of the wall that we have at this moment to create damage on the foundation of the pools of every house. So think about that. Who will pay
for that? The load, the the loud noise, the vehicles, the truck, the buses, everything in that area, the wetland damage. Section 44 404 of a clean water
act San John water management district identify wetlands by considering the water level soil saturation and type of vegetation in that area. The damage of the concrete wall retaining wall from
east to west. The most important reason is the decrease in value property. My daughter have the same situation in Texas. 25% of the house decreasing
value. It was bad to sell the house. The only reasonable solution for this project is to move the road south closer to Radio Road. There is a lot number 1703751 which is owned by the village
lake proid I forgot about yes thank you to enter to to the new subdivision. I urge the commissioner to explode the alternative solution that betters align with the community
needs. In light of the previous approval of the road by planning and zoning, I kindly request the commissioner to re reject the approval of that road closer to the stonegate subdivision. Thank you.
Thank you, sir. Any other public comments? Yes, sir. If we can get the first one, Dan, that you had up there. The first diagram, his his first one. I've got a flash drive that has a couple of couple
of maps on it, but I Yeah, that'll work. If you would just state your name and address. My name is Peter Katy. I live at 33148 Irongate Drive, which puts me If I Can I go over here? You gota stay You got to stay by
the mic. Okay. Right above uh selected property, the one on the left. He'll It's uh Mr. Katie's house is like right right there. Yes. Thank you so much. Now, the St. John's Water Management
District is going to either allow or deny a permit to put that uh road there. And I was told just recently that they have to permit it because there's
no other access. And the people that own that subdivision, which we have nothing against the proposed subdivision, they need to get out to Radio Road somehow. So, there is another way now right below. Boy, I wish I could get
over there because there's no way I can. You have a pointer? Anybody with a little Do they have pointer thing? I think Oh, there you go. That that red dot right there.
All right, beautiful. If I can just hold my hand still. Now, this is wetlands all in here and all the way down in here. Now, if they if they move this road south a little more, they're going to, as Mr. Person said, there's going to be more wetland
uh that are that's going to be affected. Now what I'm suggesting and what is possible here is that the boy the wetland goes across here like
this and then goes down and then comes along this little line right there. Well, I can't hold this hand straight. How about if I do this? This will help. Right there. So, right, this area right here
is dry. And that area up there is dry. So, we've got dry there, dry there, and the only real wet land area here would be right there. Now, what we could do or what and
they can get this property if they need to get it. They could run Here's the mall. They could run a road right across here. go right up this little strip and go right into that property. And they
would be using they would be uh the amount of wet land would not be very much compared to what they're going to do here if they run this road a little further south. So, this will work. They just have to get this property somehow
or they can run the road right across onto this private road and then they all then they have a light to get out already. Lakes of Leburg has a little inlet to this road. So there's no problem with that coming down that way.
Thank you for your time. Thank you, Mr. Katy. Any other public comments? Would the applicant like to say anything just for a minute? Yes, sir. Thank thank you all for your time. I mean, we know the challenge, right? It's it's very readily
identified. And Mr. Katy makes a good point, too. I mean, those there are alternatives that I know would make the residents a lot happier and make this project easier. And um the fact of the matter is we we only own that. Now, one of the things that
we've we've looked at and we can just present to your consideration as a condition to this approval is as we work through site plan final engineering, we would continue to diligently pursue alternative access points. one way or the other, whether it be resolution and
necessity, which doesn't give anybody much certainty, control over where it goes, um or uh finding, you know, alternative property to acquire, which we are diligently pursuing, uh to allow that to be administratively implemented
following uh adoption of the PUD would be something that we're if we're able to obtain it would make everybody a lot happier. where we're left with currently is is is this subject property and the the thought going into it uh above board
was that it gives you know through this avenue of the PUD the ability to provide things like the wall or extended landscaping if that's preferred um under under certainty of a of the PUD. And now if we can bake in alternatives, if we're able to acquire alternative access that
that be implemented, we'd be happy to do that because we are diligently pursuing. But right now, this is the only access that we have uh to the property. And when we when we look at again things like a resolution of necessity, although
we would present alternatives that would that would help some of the comments we heard tonight, most of the time most of the case law out there is straight shot, easiest access, less impacts to wetlands because although and Mr. Katy makes a good point, there are some dry spots
along there. We've we've run those wetland analysis because it's something that we have looked into uh that portion. um based on these comments and it would it would equate to to more wetland impacts. Now, notwithstanding,
if we could achieve it, then I I'm hearing loud and clear that would be preferred. But where we stand today, uh we are being told we cannot have that property. And so although we've pursued the options I outlined in my presentation, what's being presented to
you is is the property under our ownership with the most uh concessions possible to the residents of of some of the concerns along the access point. And and I'll finish on this, we'll continue to to hear those and if the if the wall
is not preferred, we know that there'll be piping underneath to allow flow. Um if there if it's additional landscaping, we are all ears on that. So I just want to conclude with that and thank thank you for your time because your points are very well taken. So thank you. Thank you sir. Dan, do we know when this will
lay over till Mr. Chairman? Since this is an annexation, it'll be 30 days. 30 days. That would be be May. So we count 30 days and then the next available meeting May 27th. Uh no, it would have to go to June because we wouldn't get the 30 days in if we go to May 27th. So it would be
first meeting June 9th. June 9th. All right, this will lay over till June 9th. All right, we'll move along to we have no non-rine items. Noneformational reports. Any updates or discussions on
those? Seeing none, city attorney items. No items this evening, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Thank you, sir. City manager items. Obviously had a super great bike fest. Um, great weather. Want to uh shout out to Travis and Maggie for doing an awesome job coordinating everything. Uh
at least for my end, it was pretty seamless. I don't have any numbers for you as of yet, but um hopefully they will be good and we'll get that report to you ASAP. Thank you, sir. Uh roll call. Commissioner Conell, nothing. Commissioner Peterson, nothing
tonight. Commissioner Barry, nothing. Nothing tonight. Mayor Reeseman, couple things. I just want to again thanks uh to Commissioner Morris for stopping by. Um I was out at Bikefest over the weekend helping out. Huge kudos to Maggie and the special events team, our public works. I think I saw people from
every department around the city from IT to finance to everybody out there helping. It was a joint effort making it a huge success. Um and without Maggie and her brains behind Bikefest, this wouldn't have been as huge as of a success. So, thank you to everyone who
came out and helped. And then lastly, the public works department along with our city beautifification board did Arbor Day tree giveaways. Um that was one of the most shared things on I think our social media. It grew I think the police had to be called in because it was backing up on Dixie. So many people
wanted trees. So huge kudos to public works and Cliff and his team. Uh look forward to growing that event and making it bigger next year. And uh with that I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Second. Move that we adjourn the meeting. And we have a motion in a second. Meeting
adjourned.