Good evening and uh welcome to the Martin County Local Planning Agency meeting of uh October 2nd, 2025. Um we do have a quorum. Uh so I will call this meeting to order. Um, I would like to
get a motion to approve the minutes from August 7th and August 21st. I'll make a motion. We have a motion. Do we have a second? We have a motion and a second. All in favor, please signify by saying I. I. I. Um, even though I was not here at the
seventh meeting. So, um, the, uh, only piece of business we have this evening is a new piece of business. It's a quasi judicial uh piece of business. Does anybody have any expporteate communications to divulge? No,
I have none either. I have none. Um this is a uh 5000 Southwest Green Farms Lane resoning. Uh the the number on it is G091-00002. It's a quasi judicial hearing. It's a
request by Coulter and Herring on behalf of 5000 Green Farms Lane LLC for proposed amendment to the county zoning atlas to change the zoning district classification on approximately uh 111 acres or 111.11 acres of undeveloped
site from A2 agricultural district to A20 general agricultural district or the most appropriate zoning. The subject site is located at 5000 Southwest Green Lane in Palm City approximately 2 milesi south of the Martin Highway interchange with I95
and included a request for a certificate of public facilities exemption. George Messmer from Culter hearing is going to present this to Lewis Aguilar who is a principal planner. Mr. Aguilar, I need to swear. We need to swear in the witness. Oh
yeah, it is quasi judicial, isn't it? Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm that the evidence you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? I do. And there are no interveners in the audience. No interveners. Thank you, M. Mr. Chairman.
The copy of my work history has been filed with the clerk and there are no interveners. Good evening, members of the board. My name is Luis Aguilar, principal planner for the growth management department. I'm presenting a resoning application for a property owned by 5000 Southwest
Green Farms Lane LLC. 5000 Southwest Green Farm Lane LLC is requesting a signing change from A2 Agricultural District to AG2A General Agricultural District.
The subject site is located at 5,000 Southwest Green Farms Lane in Palm City, approximately 2 miles south of Southwest Martin Highway. This is an enlarged area of the site.
The property is undeveloped. The future land use destination is agricultural. The adjacent properties on Southwest Green Farms Lane are agricultural as well. The zoning district is A2 agricultural
district. A portion of the property is subject to a covenant agreement covenant number 286 to AG. Therefore, this request to resone is considered mandatory per section 3.401B. The proposed res area is approximately
111 acres. There is one standard category A zoning district available to implement the agricultural land use policies of the comprehensive growth management plan which is the AG2A
general agriculture district. This is the district that the applicant is requesting. For comparison purposes, the existing A2 category C zoning district is provided in detail on pages 2 through six of the
staff report. And these are the development standards for the AG28 district. The minimum lot area is 20 acres. Minimum lot width is 300 ft.
Maximum height is 30 ft and minimum open space is 50%. And these are the corresponding setbacks which is 50 ft for front, rear and side. These are the conditions supporting the
requested general agricultural district. The existing future land use destination of agricultural for the property and surrounding areas. The AG28 district aims to implement the comprehensive growth management plans
policies for agricultural density in areas exceeding 20 acres. and the AG28 zoning district is compatible with the existing agricultural uses in the area. Development review staff have found
5,000 Southwest Green Farms Lane Rson application to comply with all applicable regulations and the comprehensive growth management plan as detailed in the staff report. This concludes my presentation and the applicant is here to answer any
questions. Do do the board have any questions for staff? I have a few for the applicant. George Mamemer with Cotler and hearing on behalf of the applicant. I have been sworn in and I do have a copy of the public
uh for that was done for the property for this hearing. Is there any presentation you want to I have one. It's all the same information that Luis went over, so I'll spare you the time, but uh if you'd like to hear it, I can go over it, but again, same information as Lewis. He did a great job summarizing. Appreciate it. Are there any questions
for the applicant? Um, could you illuminate me a little bit about the covenant as well as the overdredging of the property and whether that has any impact on its future land use? Yeah. So, uh, doesn't have any impact on the future of land use itself. The dredging
that was done in the past on the property, obviously, there was a resolution and it's being filled the lake. There's permits. It's ongoing work. Uh, and that's not to be uh changed. So, we're complying with those regulations. The lake continues to be filled as part of that agreement that
was uh concluded with the prior property owner. Uh, and so we'll continue that process until the lake is filled. And the covenant. Yeah. So the covenant is a, you know, historical piece of the property. I don't think it impacts anything in terms of what we're proposing. It's, you know,
everything that we're doing is consistent with the future land use of agricultural as well as the proposed zoning of AG2A. Does is there what is the the covenant referenced? So the covenants were entered into between the county and um
the land owner I want to say in the early 2000s or maybe in the late 90s and they basically zone it was a way of that they zoned the property. So in the past few years we changed the code that if there is a covenant that has the zoning cuz those
aren't really appropriate anymore. You can't contract zone um that there's a mandatory rezoning to get rid of that covenant. So we make covenant will be removed. the covenant. Yes, the covenant will be removed. Thank you. Yep. Thank you. Um there's no public, so I'd
entertain a motion for I'll make a motion to approve it. A second. Okay. We have a motion and a second. All in favor, please signify by saying I. I. I. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Motion passes, by the way, unanimously. Um and that's the business we have
before us tonight. Uh Mr. Chairman uh Paul Schilling, growth management director for the record. Just and I realize that we had some words uh before about attendance um or lack thereof in the future, but I would uh stress that we do have a couple
applications for November 6th. So, if we could have a quorum, that would be fantastic. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I will not be available in October, but I may be in early November. Thank you. You said November, right? Yes, sir.
November 6. Cool. Make a motion to All right. We are adjourned. Have a great end of the week. All right.