good evening we're going to start February 18th Commission meeting we'll have the invocation tonight by David Williamson from Central Florida free thought community and then we'll have this Pledge of Allegiance by commissioner Kennedy please stand good
evening coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together as success that's a quote attributed to both Henry Ford and Edward Everett hail regardless of the author tonight as we engage in discussion and decision-making
let us remember that real progress happens not in isolation but in cooperation with respect and with shared commitment to the common good may we approach our work with wisdom and fairness embracing both the responsibility and the privilege of
Public Service May our choices reflect Integrity foresight and a deep concern for those we represent and may we leave these Chambers tonight knowing that through our efforts we have helped move the city forward not just for today for this fiscal year or this term of office
but for the future that lies beyond our site thank you thank you K I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America the repic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all commissioner Kennedy here commissioner Wilson here Mayor Johnson here commissioner fer here commissioner Oliver here all righty we're going to
have presentations uh have presentation on energy Choice initiatives at Lake a papka natural gas District general manager CEO Brent Haywood come on up to the podium sir try to get the microphone set here a little tall on it um mayor Commissioners
thank you all staff thank you all for allowing us to come in here tonight and uh talk to you about our injury chce initiative uh first of all congratulations on the uh Centennial uh this year that's a that's a great thing to celebrate we just celebrated 65 years of service along with you um so uh uh
introduce myself I'm Brent Haywood I'm the general manager CEO at lake lake aoca natural gas I've been in the area for year now um so I'm I'm very pleased to be able to sad that it took a year to be able to get here before you to meet you but uh I'm glad to be able to sit here and present the energy Choice
initiative to you um I think you all have a copy of the presentation in front of you uh we'll we'll we'll go through this uh try not to make it more of a presentation make it more of a discussion than presentation but uh for those of you are not aware uh first slide there is uh Lake pop natural gas
we're the we're the local distributor of natural gas in in uh West Orange and and South Lake counties uh we currently serve about 29,000 customers approaching quickly towards 30,000 customers um in the city of aoy we right now we serve right at a thousand customers uh and we
hope to to improve our uh system to where we can serve a lot more um as far as the energy Choice initiative goes uh I got here about a year ago and started looking at the opportunities that the communities and that the local communities that the area had and I realized real quick that uh
the natural gas just distribution system wasn't reaching its full potential as far as uh being able to uh get into the communities and to uh expand into areas that that that really needed it um so um what this initiative is about is bringing the energy Choice it's it's
about having a choice in what your energy uh is right now a lot of developments and and again most of the city here only has electricity as an option available to it so we're wanting to try to bring forth some some some actions bring forth a grassroot effort
to make natural gas available to everybody that wants it um again we're not trying to to to change the landscape as far as what your energy uh choices are you as an individual but we also are trying to make sure that you actually do have a choice right now most people
don't have a choice in most of our communities um and and what happens when you don't have a choice uh there's there's what's called an electrification movement out there right uh you've probably heard it day in and day out you hear about the battles that are going on with fossil fuel fuels you hear about things that are they're going on about
the environment and most people have chosen a winner you know from the federal government down uh there's been a winner that's been chosen and and it's electricity well electricity is is a good choice depending on where you are and what you're doing uh but for the State of Florida for our local
communities it's actually when when you go through here in the presentation uh I'll show you that it's actually not the right choice for our communities um so what is electrification electrification is uh is uh an advocacy that that wants to have a single source of energy for
you and your communities whether it's a business whether it's your home um it's a single Source model well what does a single Source model means it means it's creating a monopoly for the energy and the energy landscape you know that's not necessarily a bad thing if the Monopoly
is controlled by the cities and it's in the best interest of the communities but a lot of times that's not the case um electrification lives on the misconception of electricity is equivalent to natural gas and affordability depend ability and cleanliness that's not true uh no matter what you hear in the media no matter
what you've read natural gas as far as the State of Florida goes is the best energy Choice um uh whenever it comes down to to to your needs in your home um why is that so uh so I want to talk to you uh starting at the national level so
the next slide starting at the national level and working down to the local communities electrification is a very very expensive model okay you hear all the times about when we have hurricanes come through whenever the power goes out everybody talks about why can't we just put all the power lines underground
because it's expensive right it cost you billions upon billions of dollars to take an electric distribution system and put it underground well that's exactly where we are you know electric companies want to be where the gas company is you you can't you can't compromise the fact that that natural gas is the most
reliable safest Energy Delivery uh uh Source out there so uh what does it mean if we were to Electrify all of our systems um electrification as far as the national level goes if we had an electric only option for us as far as the national level goes it would have
cost us an extra $1 137 billion to heat our homes this past winter okay at the national level $137 billion that's just in the winter that's not throughout the whole year when you know in the State of Florida we actually have a dual Peak we have a cold Peak which we had here in the past couple months and but in the
summer when we have a warm Peak that's actually a high demand for natural gas at that point as well so at the national level it cost 137 billion what does it cost us at the state level in Florida well Florida what most people don't realize is that Florida is a natural gas driven State
okay we're the number two generating electricity generating state in in the union Texas is number one Florida is number two all right but 83% of the electricity generated in the State of Florida is generated using natural gas okay so if you flip and you look at the
next slide 82% of electricity in in the State of Florida is natural gas okay the conversion rate from natural gas to electricity is a 60% loss what that means is is that 60 cents out of every dollar you spend for electricity in your
home you're losing 60 cents out of every dollar right you're throwing 60 cents away out of every dollar when you're using electricity where you could be using natural gas okay what does that mean in the state we're wasting $7.3 billion in the State of Florida every every year we're we're generating 44
million metric tons of excess carbon dioxide in the environment every year unnecessarily so how does that pan down uh into into the the state as well well it was recognized a few years ago that that the state when you look at uh July
2021 house build 919 the state said that we shouldn't choose a winner in the energy game okay there shouldn't be a there shouldn't be a winner or loser in the energy game we should have all energy choices available to us and that's what that bill was well what has
happened as is that at the local levels we have allowed developments to be built that only have electric utilities available in them natural gas is being excluded from those developments so what does that mean again we're building communities that have only one choice
and that's electricity I actually started out in the electric business I I did electric design for about 15 years moved over into the gas side of the business because I felt more compelled to uh to to work with with gas so what does that mean the families in our communities as our communities are being
built as they're being developed they're not they don't have a choice as far as their energy needs go they're not able to choose the lowest cost best best fitting uh alternative for them as far as energy Choice goes they can choose solar they can choose electricity but either one of those options is more
expensive than natural gas so as far as our local communities our local area go whenever we look at our service territory families in our service territory uh which again is is West Orange and South Lake County are losing up to $1,000 a
year using electricity only versus having natural gas available what does that mean in the service territory when I looked at it uh we've got about $127 million a year that we're wasting on energy cost I mean that's a huge number when you look at the city of aoy alone
there's 11,000 homes in aoy that don't have natural gas either in it or have it available to it and the worst thing is is it's not available um I know many of you probably don't have natural gas available to your homes but that's $1 million in your local economy that
you're losing every year in energy loss uh so so that's really what our energy Choice initiative is about is putting forth an effort to make sure that everyone has natural gas or has a choice in their energy uh available so what's our solution to that it's a solution
that I have seen across Across the Nation I worked at five utilities Across the Nation from Tennessee to Texas to Colorado and to Florida and I've seen it in many communities where they they made a choice that they were going to make sure that energy options were available and what they did was was they put
together uh ordinances that required natural gas be installed in uh developments as the developments were being built okay so that's what we're proposing here we're proposing that we put forth an ordinance that requires natural gas be included in all new developments um again if you make sure
that that ordin if we put that ordinance forth and you P you choose to pass that that ordinance we do believe that we're going to better not only the uh um uh the economy but we're going to better the lives of the people in the community here here at ooi um again energy Choice
it's a choice right we want to make sure that our people have a choice uh but if you flip a couple slides to the blue slide where it talks about uh Berkeley um one of the examples that that I always put forth is is that a lot of the energy policies and things that are coming from other places in the country
uh years ago uh they they started Banning natural gas usage in places like California they started Banning natural gas usage in other states as well and what has happened is is they chose a winter they chose electricity as a winter and then now here less than six
years later uh Berkeley California was actually the first city to pass a ban on natural gas and all new construction less than six years later they had to repeal that band because they realized one thing was that they chose a winner and there there was a clear winter and it was natural gas right it was it was
it was a choice that they made that that the communities can't afford the businesses don't like it and you just can't live without it anybody that's aware of the current political landscape at the federal level understands that natural gases is the true energy
Independence uh option for us and we would need to make that the energy Independence option for us here here locally as well so with that I'll I'll close any questions commissioner do anybody have any questions I have a question um you're talking about forcing
developers to provide the option the choice to each home individually yes sir of whether to have electric or natural gas is that correct well well so the developer will be required to install natural gas in the development and each
home owner would choose whether they want to have electric only or have El El and gas available right now the way the development works is the developer owns a property and and they control what goes on that property until the property is deed over well what happens is when they deed the property over the if it's
a public RightWay over to the city then that's the point where we could choose to go in but at that point they've cost us it cost us about three times the cost to actually put the the the gas in so again we're throwing money away at the at the whim of a developer that most of the time the developer doesn't even live
in our local communities but we're we're utility of the community we're we're we're part of the communities we're we're a state entity we're not here to make money we're here to provide service to the customer so what is that cost per lot so that cost U depend on the width
of the lot obviously but let's just say the average the average 60 to 100 foot lot it's it's initial construction cost if we go in during construction of the developments it's about $1,000 a lot if we were to do it after the development's closed out it's it's it's been great it
it's that's got the grass and everything in it cost us about $3,000 a lot to be able to put it in okay I just for your information and I don't have a source uh while you were talking cuz I this was slated as a
presentation we don't have it ahead of time so I wasn't able to research yes but I did a quick Google and it said that those costs are $2500 to $12,500 per lot in your experience which sounds extensive
could do you have a Layman's explanation for why I would get that sort of information and what that comes from so so if you Google it you know it all depends on where you're at and where you're putting it in if you're putting uh natural gas in an area that that has
Sandy lomy soils then then then the depth of construction cost like really the money in putting Utilities in is in the trench so it depends on the cost of uh to dig so if you got a Sandy sole easy dig things go pretty quick and that's pretty much what we have here
sandy lty somi soil uh but when you're in like Colorado which I was in I was in Denver for a while um if you're working in those areas and you've got rocky soil and you've got to actually use blad cut you can you could see $122,000 a lot cost on that and that's really the
extension cost in the utility but the piping itself is is it's it's the same pretty much regionally so it only cost you you know less than 20 to 30 cents a foot for the piping it's really the money's in the trench thank you it was educational thank you yes sir
commissioner question when you um are requiring our not requiring me having the gas in the new subdivision what's the cost to bring it to the subdivision I mean it's your your lines are not running in front of every subdivision I mean AR I'm in an older neighborhood
your line is not running close to my house yes ma'am uh so so we've had we've had uh we've had three of the ordinances passed so far we've had a popka winter garden and Claremont each one of the cities has put different requirements
relative to to that that very issue and so we we vary from a th000 foot that the developer required to pay to get to get it up uh to the development and then down to 100 foot but for us we look and say okay as far as the community investment goes we put our money back
into investing to get it to the development if it gets to the point to where it's an absorbent cost for the developer or for us us to be able to get it there then um then we wouldn't require it that's actually one of the outs of the ordinances that that if we agree that it's an absorbent cost to get it there um but for the most part here
in the city we're relatively close where we can get it there at a reason at a reasonable cost on our end how close are you let's say to down on our street so is at the end of your street there is gas it's on blueford it's on blueford I I don't know exactly where where you're
at but I know we we did an improvement project we started an improvement project here down to bring natural gas to downtown AO so the same thing I think that was like $60,000 project natural gas have been on the north side of town for 60 years yes north side yeah okay
thank you yes ma'am first do you have to have if you have a community that has some people interested in uh going with the gas route do you have to have a certain number of them before it's economically feasible for you to put a
transmission line into that area so say there's 500 homes but there's only 25 people that want natural gas so so that's that's one of the things that we're doing right now with the energy Choice ordinance it's actually a three-phase plan the first phase is is to stop new developments from being
built without natural gas the second phase of the plan is to go back and recoup a lot of the existing developments that didn't actually have natural gas available to them so so as far as we're concerned all of the money we make every year goes back into the systems to EXP expanding the system so
each one of the Cities we allocate a certain amount of money toand into those systems but also if you have if you're in a development and they they want to choose to bring natural gas in which we've had that several times that we we we work with the development to try to to to minimize that cost and that impact
U you know we that's what we call our our phase two of energy choices trying to recoup this 127,000 customers that we that don't have gas available they don't have the option um but but but back to the to the availability thing um we've actually got two communities here
locally that already have ordinances outside of the the district and the City of leeburg requires not only natural gas be installed but it has to be installed in the houses as well um and so developers haven't had any issues there and then of course the villages all of the developments in The Villages have
natural gas installed and they uh required in the houses as well we're doing it differently we're not requiring in the houses we're we're making it available but you feel like it's our our job to make sure that we expand the system appropriately so the money that we that we would be saving we will be
turning that money back around and investing as capital infrastructure back into existing homes and developments thank you yes sir Mr ol the the proposed ordinance that we're looking at here is this something that your company wrote or did the city write
this proposed ordinance so so this is something we actually drafted and we're we're sending sending it to the city for you to obviously review with the lawyers and review with your your uh your development uh group to see as far as um what you want to do with the ordinance
it it would actually be your ordinance it's not our our ordinance we we can't we can't cify anything uh being a special utility district so it's actually whatever the city wants to do in this proposed ordinance it states that the uh payments of cost of installation and the develop
installation of materials providing for a uh C share for the gas main extension under certain conditions cost sharing who's sharing the cost so it the the cost sharing would be between the district and the developer um and and and we left that
with pretty pretty liberal wide open language and and each city has develop that language differently uh for example the City of Winter Garden uh we actually work and in the language of it is the city management uh the city manager and the district work together to decide on
how far is too far how much is too expensive for for the development to do what it needs to do in Claremont they actually have a th foot requirement that the district has to extend up to a th000 feet and the developer has to extend the rest of the thousand feet um so so we can we can figure out what the what the
best option there is for for the city are you proposing a um this be a a actual requirement or this is a choice because are you are you giving the developers the choice to say um
the residents have the choice to choose natural gas or electricity or they won't have any choice when they move in or when they purchase their homes they'll only have just the one choice so so what we're what we're proposing is the the developer really wouldn't have a choice uh they would have be required to put
natural gas in um and then the homeowner or the home builder would choose whether they want whether they want natural gas in the house or not to to me it's our job to to to conin the customer to sell the customer on the value of natural gas the problem is that I've seen with
development and I've seen it across the State of Florida already is that you've got areas where developers are actually in my book they're short changing the customers and and not allow not having natural gas available it's kind of the same position we were in back in the the
early 1900s uh whenever electricity became available electricity became wiely available and now it's a requirement in every development back in the 1930s 1940s water was was something that wasn't required sewer wasn't required in developments but it became a requirement because it was in the best
interest of the of the of the cities to require developers to put it in well we're at a state now where where energy has become the next thing behind you know water behind sewer that we need to make a decision on whether we're going to require it or not and and we hope
that that you all will consider requiring it yeah um throughout the the uh proposed ordinance you mentioned uh call sharing would that that would that be the same as U again the district versus the developer uh throughout this uh um proposed I don't I didn't have time to really read all the way through
this but uh when you mentioned C sharing um I'm just I just want to make sure that I understand that c sharing will be between your company and the developer yes yeah no no none of the cost sharing and none of the burden is is on the city in any way whatsoever and then what we've done is is any incentive that we
put towards gas going in we're putting it towards the homes and instead of the developer right now what we've had to do in the past was we had to incentivize developers to put natural gas in and then a lot of the developers aren't local developers most of the developers we deal with aren't local developers and they take the money and they go back to
other states with the money that we're incentivizing but we're trying to incentivize the homeowners and the home builders so if you're not in a development we're going to give you incentives towards putting the natural gas in which means we're not going to turn a profit or be able to put money back into the capital whenever that's going so so we're actually changing our
model from incentivizing developers to incentivizing builders and homeowners to put natural gas in do your compan money local do your company absorb the all the costs and putting all the main lines uh throughout the different districts of the city so you absolve all that cost so so in new developments no that would be
on developers but but to to add new lines in phase two we're going to be working strategically on adding new lines into the existing developments into existing areas okay thank you we appreciate I I do know that it's been
on the north side of our town for about 60 something years I I know then we have the part on blueford I my neighborhood is some of them have signed up for it yes sir I know I have I grew up with it on the north side of town but the thing about it is you don't have a choice on
the power either the developer has got Florida Power Duke now so you don't have much choice you get what they put in there so and that's kind of a monopoly to me so but the gas gives you a choice where you can hook up your stove hot
water heater water to seeder and all that to the uh to the natural gas so it's to whatever your PR preferences is plus it also don't go out during the storms you can still cook and and and the biggest thing is is what we're
seeing as far as the community outcry is that the people that are coming into to to fill these new subdivisions and fill these New Lots or a lot of people are from up North who are actually natural gas customers and the biggest complaint get is that gas isn't there yeah I mean we we get calls every week with people
complaining that they don't have gas available to their development so we have to create a strategic plan that that's going to do that and this is a key part of that plan all right we appreciate it we'll get together and see when staff can bring back that and we can discuss it more of a meeting we can decide we going to do it or not do it so
I'll let you know we can get together with Craig consider out when you come in back to do that all right all right thank you'all we appreciate thank you appreciate it Mr a all right corre the staff reports none at this time all right
other comments Mr Moyer I mean Dr moer supervisor [Laughter] moer uhuh the first one yes of good evening thank
you my name is Dr Jim Moyer on the orange SE and wood Conservation District 2 supervisor what that basically means is our Board of Supervisors are elected
volunteers and I'm a volunteer that serves the cities of a poka and aoi and small areas of Western uh West Orlando um I'm here to talk for a couple minutes
about two finite resources water and that's how we say it in Philadelphia by the way w a t r water and time according to this one expert we uh
which was updated last year there are only 15 more years of drinkable water think about that for a second 15 more years now I'm not saying I agree with that but even during covid the
demand for water which is the population increases the population increased during Co the supply continually decreases now my personal
solution is that we must figure out a way globally to cost effectively desalinate the water which means take the salt water and convert it into
something that can be used uh for Humanity and to me that's of Paramount importance but in the meantime we need the best strongest Band-Aids in the world and we've been
put these Band-Aids on this for over 50 years in Florida the two Band-Aids are I'll get to the time in a minute but the two Band-Aids are Reclamation reclaiming water and
conservation and don't let anyone tell you differently there is no such thing as too much confor conservation I don't care if every human being on Earth has a sign in their home that says conserve it's still not enough we have to
conserve for the future of humanity the second one is Time Dr King said we must use time creatively last thing I want to say is help me help you you folks know this city better than me the mayor knows the
whole city the district Commissioners know their area the city manager knows his Department point me in the right direction thank you very much God bless you all thank you Mr uh all right the the other ones I have
is for the issue we doing a little later so I'll hold on to those so uh we go to um consent agenda oh you got one yeah you always late during them in always there's TV Crews here couldn't help but
get on TV tonight uh I I listen to that gentleman's uh proposal or whatever I thought it was very nice but uh that that a perfect case of not knowing your audience before you get here 34 of O Koy doesn't have a natural gas and we won a long time so
why in the world would we give them new business to set them up if they're not going to take care of the houses we already have um I live off of Orlando Avenue and White Road there's there's no uh main gas
going down that road build it down there first then we'll figure out something to get you to the new houses they have to take care of our residents here when they do have it it could cost we've seen people over there5 $6,000 to hook up it's ridiculous no way in the world what
I want to support giving them a monopoly to bring in natural gas if they're not going to help us where where we need help now and it's kind of funny they finished their their Spiel they all get up and walk out that's not a community parter so thank you very much Brad I'll
make a couple comments to that they have started they started on blueford Avenue it goes It goes down to U all the way downtown and the thing about it is if we started years ago and put it in the city where we should have done it would have been all over the city but like I said
too late when it happens and then you want to come back but they're not saying you got to put it in these areas they will try to they're going to try to fix it where if we build new houses which there's not a lot of land left to build new houses that it would be going in there at least they have a chance to get it so that's why that works that way and
it cost my neighbors 750 bucks is what it costs it doesn't cost $5,000 and it didn't cost $10,000 they run it down the street just like Florida Power if my son build a new house it cost him $3,500 to hook up to the power company so it's no different than
that whe you got the alternative you can do it or not do it so that's the way that works all right consent agenda I need a motion I would like to make a before we do I'd like to make a motion to pull item five for a brief discussion got to have a
second no second all right go ahead I need a motion for the for the uh consent agenda I I'll make the motion to approve motion made by commissioner Wilson do hear a second I'll second seconded by commissioner Kennedy any more comments
let's vote motion carries would commissioner Oliver vote no all right all right let's go down to First reading of ordinances first number 11 first reading of ordinance amending chapter 51 building code code of
ordinances providing for updated and new permitting and inspection fees concurrency and commitment coordinator McFarland or first reading tonight be lawyer thank you mayor an ordinance of the city of aoi amending section
51-18 51-42 51-47 51- 151 51-1 153 51-1 161 and 51-1 163 of chapter 51 of the city of aoi code of ordinances providing for
increase and new building permit application and inspection fees providing for separability providing for conflicts and providing an effective date when's the next reading what dat two weeks March the 4th the next meeting will be I think
it's is it March the 4th March the 4th we'll have the second reading then it'll be a public the public can talk all right item number uh 12 second reading of ordinance second reading and public hearings of an ordinance for oo Regional Sports Complex
large scale comprehensive plan future land use map Amendment from low density residential and conser conservation to Commercial and corresponding tax amendment to the Future land use
element Zone manager Whitfield thank you Mr Mayor Commissioners everybody um Mr Mayor I'm going to go ahead and in this presentation do it for the compl amendment and the resoning in the same presentation so this presentation tonight is for the complant amendment
and text Amendment as well as the rezoning um the issues before the the commission this evening is whether or not to change the future L use categories of 117 acres oh I'm sorry thank you got ahead
of myself um 117.5 Acres of low density residential and 32.3 Acres of conservation to 150 acres of commercial um there is a corresponding text Amendment to the Future land use element to create um a new northwest activity
center and some regulatory policies to help guide development in that area as well as the resoning of these properties from um City PUD r1a and um County A1 to the entire site being a PUD for the
purposes of developing a regional Sports Complex so this slide just shows a general location it's that area Southeast corner of um Fuller's Crossroad and aoya poaka Road there are nine Parcels total about 150 acres it's
generally vacant um some smaller Lots with some residential and some agricultural uses on them this is an aerial of the property this is a currently surrounding future Lanes map this is the currently surrounding zoning maps and uh just a
little bit of background um this portion here is about 132 Acres of Brownfield area that the city has designated as a Brownfield and the goal of the Brownfield is to help stimulate Economic Development Rehabilitation of the site job creation and environmental um
assessments this is what the applicant team is asking for you can see here the yellow is the low density residential the green is conservation areas and then what they're asking for is the entirety of the site to become commercial very briefly um the current future line use
allows up to 470 dwelling units um and about 140,000 square feet of of some type of non-residential use under the conservation C category the proposed commercial um in policy has an F 3.0
which will give you about 19.6 million square ft the tax amendment that's associated with this will limit the development to just an F or floor area ratio of 04 which translates to about 2.6 million square F feet um of that uh about half is for the
construction of parking facilities so the project will consist of 17 ball fields um 1.3 million of of gross leasable land area or gross leasable area for commercial mixed use um mix uses including including um
retail restaurants office space assembly space um athletic training facilities and things like that nature entertainment as well um and as I mentioned 1.3 million feet of parking both surface Podium and structured
parking and of course the development of a storm water facility and um more more importantly the maximum um cap of 17,9 60 net new daily Peak peak hour
trips I'm sorry net new daily trips not peak hour trips that's a m type so I'm not going to read all of this but this is essentially a summary of what is proposed in the text Amendment um development of the property regardless of of um if there were any change of
hands if anyone's concerned about that the property would be still limited to meeting the requirements that are established by policy and this slide shows the proposed rezoning um this is currently PUD r1a and County
area and then this is going to go to all PUD commercial very briefly this is the concept plan um looking North is to the right and South is to the left of the screen you'll see that on the right side of the screen which is the north there's hotels entertainment um the
Entertainment District here a lot of retail here horizontal and vertical mixed use a boutique hotel here um and an indoor sports and fitness facility a football field and 17 um 16 other fields
for baseball and also a legacy field here which be for inclusivity of all um uh players of various abilities um in addition to that this project would also have a dedication of uh land towards a
city park um I forgot to mention that this the stone water capacity here will be through this River Walk type facility that's going to be an active um nighttime daytime activity where it's
it's just not a storm water facility set tucked away in the side of the the the site is going to be integrated into the overall design of the facility so just to summarize um staff looked at this application for both the
compl and the resoning from um several perspectives um the first one being consistency with the current comp plan and consistency with the Florida Statutes um we we also looked at it for consistency with the joint planning area agreement um access and circulation
transportation again is capped at 17,9 60 so the entirety of their traffic impact analysis is based on at 17,9 60 we also looked at utilities capacities for water sewer and Wastewater storm water as I mentioned will be um via the
Riverwalk facility we also looked at it from an environmental resource protection uh perspective in terms of wetlands surface waters um natural um animal life and and plant life and also um looked in detail
as far as Public Safety from the perspective of police and fire safety so um this slide contains information for both the complant amendment and the resoning so the DRC uh met and discussed H the item for the comp plan on September 23rd and then the
resoning on December 15th um the conversations at both of those meetings dealt with making sure that the the the applicant team prepared a safety um and Emergency Management plan uh because of the complexity of the site the size of the site uh developing a construction
sequencing plan uh working with staff on that avoiding any impacts to an existing force mean on the site um developing a management plan to maintain the contaminated soils that are on the on parts of the property and then developing um a wetlands and
Environmental Protection strategy plan as well as timing the jpa approval timing of um transportation improvements and things of that nature so um just very quickly this slide shows um the result of of
coordinated meetings between the applicant team and our fire fire marshall office so this slide just basically basically shows this dash line here the routes that fire and emergency service Personnel can access and travel through the site um these little gray
text boxes here that you can't read um those are shelters for inclement inclement weather like if there's a ball game and there's lightning there's safe shelters for this the players um visitors everybody on the on the site can go and take shelter safely
um this is a look at their sequencing plan so the plan right now is developed north to south with the um Hotel Towers coming in first along with the storm water retention area and extension of the 17th Avenue um Road improvements all
the way so basically connecting Lakewood Avenue to AO poka Road the PCC heard this these items um the complant amendment and text Amendment were heard and considered by the planning zoning Commission on October 8th um at that meeting there are
no um no persons from the public who spoke in opposition and they made a recommendation of approval of the complant amendment and then subsequently on January 14th they heard the rezoning application and also um with no opposition heard at that hearing they
also made a recommendation of approval for the resoning and with that um tonight's hearing staff is asking the city commission to approve an ordinance for the comp plan Amendment and txt Amendment and then an ordinance for the corresponding resoning and um that
concludes my presentation Mr Mayor mayor can I may I speak um not can you for the benefit of the record go over the extensive review process associated with the comp plan amendment in two minutes or less yes sir for the benefit of the
record yes sir so um this is a what's classified as a large scale comprehensive map Amendment and text Amendment any any time you have a text Amendment it's automatically a large scale anytime you have 50 acres or greater having a map change it's a large scale and what that process is um it's
called a state expedited review process we look at it for consistency for Florida Statutes um that chapter is 163 in Florida Statutes 163 3177 um and then we also look at it for internal consistency with the city's currently adopted comprehensive plan we
have to look at all the aspects of the project um to make sure that we satisfy any comments from the Florida Department of State that deals with um archaeological and historic resources Florida Department of Transportation District 5 Florida Department of
Environmental Protection St John's Water Management District um the regional planning Council we also send it to our sister agencies the city of witer Garten Orange County um so we go through all of that review we've met with the applicant team over the past two years to work out
all the questions concerns that staff has in terms of timing for transportation improvements timing for um utilities where whether first off whether or not there's capacity um that's what is evaluated at the comp plan entitlement stage and then we're
looking now into looking at where um specific facilities and routes and things like that that the technical stuff could go as we transition um forward at the um November 5th public hearing for the complant amendment and
TX Amendment um the commission voted to um approve the transmittal to the state it got sent to the state the state has by statutes 45 days to review it and provide comments back we've received no opposition letters um or concerns from
any of the state agencies um and because we didn't receive any concerns from them we went ahead and scheduled this hearing so this is the adoption hearing which we are required by law to do within a 180 day time period so that's where we are
anything else great no I just wanted to get the fact that this is the most extensive review process that the Florida Statutes um purveys in growth management policy and all of those agencies that a
notch just listed gave consent to this land use Amendment staff recommends approval read both all right um we going have the City attorney read the ordinances all right there are two ordinances the first is for
comprehensive Lan's plan Amendment the second's for resoning an ordinance of the city of aoi Florida amending the city of aoi comprehensive plan as adopted in 1991 as amended amending the future land use map by the aoi comprehensive plan to change the future
land use map designation from low density residential and conservation to commercial for certain real property containing approximately 150 acres generally located in the Southeast corner of the full Crossroad and AO apka Road intersection and amending
provisions and policies within the future land use element providing for and authorizing the revision of the official City future land use map prevailing in the event of any inconsistency providing for separability and providing for an effective date and
the second is on the resoning an ordinance of the city of aoi Florida changing the zoning classification from City PUD plan unit development District City r1aa single family dwelling district and County A1 Citrus rural
District to City PUD planed unit development District on certain real properties containing approximately 1 15.9 Acres generally located in the Southeast corner of the Fuller Cross Road and AO Apopka Road intersection finding such zoning to be consistent
with the aoi comprehensive plan providing for and authorizing the revision of of the official City zoning map prevailing in the event of any inconsistency providing for severability and providing for an effective date all right we're going to open the public here and then first I'll ask the uh the
developer to come up if they want to do talk explain anything Mr Mayor Commissioners Mr manager um thank you for having us uh here tonight uh for the record Marcus basan
uh aom representing the um owner and developer um North Orange 20 North Orange sweet 1100 Orlando Florida um 32801 so I we debated if we should do a
presentation again and I will apologize in advance to all of you members of this board because you have seen this already several times so uh the reason we decided to present uh to provide as much information as we could is because uh as
we can see here we have a almost a full house and uh unlike any other party uh a full house usually uh represents concerns you know so we want to make sure that uh we give as much information as we can we want to make sure that we
answer any concerns or questions you may have and we're here to listen uh to any of your concerns because it is in our interest to make this the best project it can be I would like to thank everyone uh on
this board everyone on uh the city staff because uh as an not mentioned we've been working on this project since 2022 so uh we have um experienced a tremendous amount of collaboration with
the city and in coordination with everybody from your staff from uh different boards uh all members of the DRC utility staff Fire Marshal obviously Al PL and zoning and uh uh we have nothing but praise to uh the Excellence
of your staff now um I have this as a very generic timeline so it's by no means an exhaustive list of everything that has happened on this project but the reason I brought it here is because we wanted
to make sure that you understand everybody here uh understands that this project project has been um um in the works for quite a while right so um I'm going to divide the this timeline in about three or four different big chunks of time the first
one is kind of like the land acquisition process that started in 2022 and actually uh even before 2022 uh but the 2022 is the first kind of like public record of uh the memoranda of understanding that was
signed between montier uh our clients and the city uh with the intent of developing a multi uh use or a regional sports complex that would have multi-use and um uh entertainment retail uh
restaurants Sports and uh much more uh hotels in uh also and in 2023 uh in May of 2023 a development agreement uh was uh signed between montier and the city and then and uh by the end of that year
the First Amendment uh was signed as well and uh also in 2023 uh purchase and sales agreement for the lands that used to belong to Chevron and to the city uh were also um signed and uh by August of
2023 the city also designated the site as a Brownfield this is going to be important we're going to mention this uh we're going to discuss in a second with all of the entitlements process which which is what essentially we're closing tonight um is uh that
started about um nine or so months ago um in fact started about a year ago but our first filing was in May of last year and uh as a notch mentioned uh in that was transmitted to the state in um
November for the comp plan and then in uh I'm sorry September for the comp plan and November for the Pud um we didn't get any comments from the state uh any comments of concern from from the Department of Commerce which is a good
thing and uh we also uh submitted the Pod uh in November and it has been in the review process since then the G the jpa agreement which The Joint plant agreement between Orange County and the city uh has uh been also uh in
discussions and it's now going to be voted uh next month by Orange County all of this time we have also been uh working in the background our team uh to actually provide the design you know we're we're designing all of these uh buildings all these fields and that's a
long time so concurrently with this approval process we have a lot of work that is going on that brings us to this evening so this evening what we're doing and I want to make sure that everybody here understands that this is not the closing of the project this is actually
what I jokingly called the end of the beginning right so we are now actually starting what is going to be the most palpable most visible piece of this project uh which is all of the side planning all of the design all of the permitting so if you're concerned that
um you haven't heard about you know about this project there's still a lot of ground to cover and there's still a lot of communication that we're going to have with everybody including our members of the public and and this board and from here until probably about
the middle of this year is when we go through the site review uh and approval process which is going to also come to this board uh and we are already working with environmental permitting uh both with St Jones and uh with the city and
uh also the mass grading so we can actually start um you know doing side work and two very important things with which is the site mitigation work and the uh and the site preparation work and that's important because as I mentioned this is a
Brownfield this is a contaminated site right so some of you might be aware that this this was land or part of this project was in land that was owned by Chevron by the Chevron Corporation and it has a layer of arsenic in it and so we have been working with diligently
with our environmental consultants and with uh staff uh and with all the reviewing agencies including um um DP to make sure that we're actually uh um remediating the site we're removing any contaminants and we're making sure that that uh that does not pose a a risk to
anybody in the future and of course at the end the end phases of this is that we go into vertical permitting that means that's when you start seeing things coming from the ground and uh and also to construction that's going to go uh for
at least 2027 so and if I my client looks at me here it says no longer than 2027 obviously we want to finish as as soon as we can but we're going to do it uh according to all of the open process that we've been doing so far now before
I continue to the actual design I just wanted to make sure that I understand that many of you here have concerned so I'll save a few minutes for that in the end um this is what you saw uh being presented in a uh the previous
presentation from from the planning man or the uh zoning manager and uh what you see here in green is all of the baseball fields and the gray is all of the buildings uh in the blue in the center is um a water feature that we are
doing to kind of create an amenitized Waterfront kind of like a um um a river if you will for the property and this this is a little bit more understandable you this the rendering that U it's a little bit more
realistic now the main component of this is obviously the Fields uh this is a it's a sports multisports and entertainment field and there are a couple of Towers Hotel Towers to the north side there's an Entertainment District
where um uh we're going to have several different uh destinations for restaurants and uh in entertainment and that extends into what we call the retail and and dining and uh district and that's going to be on top
of a a parking structure that is uh you know it looks like it's partially underground um and then we have Boutique Hotel in additional retail to the South uh closing with indoor sports an indoor sports facility where you have things that are like volleyball basketball that
type of uh project and uh with not less important but there's a city park component to this too that we're going to be designing with staff this is a a 3D view of Northwest from the site so what you're looking
here going across the site on a diagonal there is um okoya Paka is the big road and the smaller one there is Fuller cross so North is kind of to the bottom of the site um in the opposite view now looking
from Southwest looking to the Northeast uh this is looking from the indoor sport side so uh towards Apopka uh and Fuller cross on the northwest and finally Northeast looking to the
South so we see the hotels in uh in the foreground I have a series of pictures uh and I'm going to quickly go through them uh so this is the kind of hotel entrance this is kind of like the main entrance for the uh North Hotel uh um
along um Fuller cross on the oppos opposite side of the hotel you have the Welcome Center and you start seeing some of the baseball fields and the ities for the hotel this is the view from the
fields and this is a view looking uh towards the some of that retail experience a little bit more so um here you see kind of like towards the middle of of the development and uh at the top of your slide here
going from you know um left to right it will be the background is the okoya popka road the food Hall which is kind of like the central um Central Market and Central uh food for you know events and the
athletes uh additional retail there's also a smaller Hotel towards the south of the site uh that is we call that the boutique hotel but it's it's a fewer rooms and the indoor um uh facility the indoor sports facility
now I do have an animation here I'm not going to force that on anybody so if you guys would like to to uh U would like to suppl I do have it ready uh but I don't want to you know spend any more of your time than than we have already you want
to yeah go ahead okay sure um so thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]
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mention a few things um because this was part of our application and there's all the data is there if you'd like to take a look but our estimate is that this project during uh the construction phase Alone um is expected to generate almost 10,000 jobs these are jobs uh in all the
construction industry that will be involved uh with not only building the site but also with all the offsite improvements that we're going to have uh um during the construction um once it's completed the project will also generate 5,000
permanent jobs that that means 3,000 jobs that will actually be uh relating directly to the operation of this site in another 2,000 indirect jobs those are jobs ENT they are going to benefit the community uh but they're not being
hosted at this facility um and this is a conservative estimate but we estimate that there will be more than half a billion dollars in economic impacts to this region uh due to increased tourism
expenditures we're creating something here that doesn't exist right so this is supposed to be the number one facility faity in the entire nation for this type of uh programming right we're we're
changing the way that youth sports happens uh and I don't want to uh go into Jamie speech here because he'll get mad at me if I do uh that I cannot do as well as he can but the reality is that this is a lifechanging project right it
it doesn't happen um every day so but I also know that you have concerns you know like the the fact that you're here no you know nobody comes to a public meeting on a Tuesday night unless they they have something in their mind uh so I wanted to make sure that that we understand uh and I can I cannot read
Min but I can pretty much guess that a number of you here here have traffic uh as your primary concern and um as we have stated over and over during the public uh process public planning
process um Jamie has committed to um improvements to the existing roadway Network Way Beyond what any other developer would do if you take your average developer and I don't want to you know cast dispersions on anybody but
the goal of every developer when they do this uh is to minimize their their investment and maximize their maximize their profit uh Pro this project is different because without those improvements this does not succeed nobody wants to come to a CO to be stuck
in traffic so part of our Su success is to make sure that access in and out and flow through uh between the project and all these other destinations that will be created around the city is as frictional as we can now some of you may also be concerned with growth because
there's so much growth going on and yeah we understand you but um unfortunately that's the reality of your entire state right um I part of what I did in my you know previous 10 years was to work in Orange County where every we're dealing
with growth and with the expectation of growth that will not stop so all we can do here is try to direct it to better ways to do growth and this is going to create a destination that will be reachable not only to tourists but internally to everybody around the co
it's a facility that will be open to the public all the time um and finally some of you might have uh perhaps environmental concerns right uh because after all this is just a field today and now we're bringing buil stuff in to it well it's a contaminated field right so
we're actually improving the condition of that contaminated field that has been in the work since at least the 19 uh the the early 2000s right that Chevron was going to develop the site uh we're also going into a remediation plan uh that will make sure that there are no
contaminants on the site once we are developing uh because obviously it's not in our concern and finally we're also contributing to uh don't quote me on the exact number here but I believe it's about two 287 Acres of additional conservation planning for the city of
aoi because there's so much land around Lake Lake Apopka and other sites that the the city already own but they don't have a management plan we are creating a Perpetual management plan for almost 300 acres worth of environmental lands so uh
we have tried so far to be as responsible as we could and as open as we could and we'll be available to answer any questions so thank you Mr Mayor and yeah um i' would like to reserve anytime if if I have any left what I'm going to do is open the public here and I have two papers filled out
for two people to talk first one will be and then we'll come back to the D and let them ask the questions of you guys so J Jamie and his wife stay there and you can we'll get to you in just a second okay Ed Roberts you have five minutes total
under the public U thing good evening folks Ed Robert 713 at Co poka Road um my concern tonight is is I'm glad the Project's going to happen but there's a about a 5 acre track that
they showed that was all wooded uh in the Southeast corner of their track well that's our properties there's six families that live in there we're heavily we're going to be heavily impacted by this so is there some type of sound or visual barrier that they've
designed mind to be able to put up around us or could help us you know eliminate any potential problems that can come from thousands of people every week coming through our property so that's my question
yes absolutely and we we intend uh as we spoke before um you know we can we can discuss either acquisition of the land as we've discussed before but Absol absolutely we have various methods to uh make his life um as normal as possible
in this effect so oh I would just add that will be before you as part of the site plan process which would be the next thing that the commission would see do you understand that well yeah we back talked about the acquisition before
but this didn't happen they backed out of it so I'm just trying to make sure that we're have some type of barrier to protect us from you know I have a farm I have animals who who hasn't seen people stop and try to feed horses on the side
of the road so I don't need Little Tommy coming across the baseball field and get kicked by one of my horses so I think they'll try to work on all that too so they're going to be working on that also trying to make it that fits for the territory okay and then the 17th Street's going to come out on the
Southeast side of our property then too the new road so we going to have access points to get in in and out of our property also so all right other questions yeah we we'll commit to uh furthering those discussions throughout this whole process and make sure that
everybody's uh you know up to speed and happy with the whole scenario now that we've gotten this comp plan to where it is today we can take a step back and and revigor those conversations that we had previously or discuss what we're going
to do with the site plan to uh make that as you know feasible as possible all right Mr Roberts okay thanks sir next I have Judah Hal good evening uh my name is Judah how I'm here on behalf of Glad Tidings
church I serve as the pastor of administration uh for the church our church is located uh on Fuller's Crossroad right across the street from the proposed development uh here this evening to speak in favor uh of the project we are very excited uh for
what's to come glad tidings we purchased on Fuller's Crossroad uh 21 years ago uh we purchased because we believe in this specific section of okoi we believe uh in the growth that is coming uh so we're very excited for what the city and the
developer has has put together um so we're excited to see what's going to happen and we know as the develop velopment continues and and goes in further and we begin to work on infrastructure and things like that that we'll have good neighbors in that to
make sure that traffic flow uh is good for not only our congregation uh but our school so uh but we're very excited and we're looking forward to it thank you thank you all right that was the only two I had for the public to talk so what we're going to do is I'm going to close
the public bring it back up did you fill out a form yes sir all right bring it up up getting kind of late here when I do close it after this one we'll bring it up to the dce and I think you can hear what different questions will be asked about what's going to be
going on and what's happening before you start my time I was wondering if I could ask the developer one quick question um when we talk about the arenic in the you need to speak over to the we talk about the arsenic in the Brownfield that is oh you got to identify yourself Chris Atkins 606
Ridgefield Avenue aoi Florida 25 year homeowner and Resident when we talk about the Arsenic do we know exactly how deep and the amount of the Arsenic that is in place and if you could could you let us know we heard there was a layer that needed to be removed I just thought maybe we would like to hear you know the
extensiveness of what it is what it is if you could stop my time here yeah I stop my time why he speaks please oh you can finish it at all just finish and then I'll let him answer your questions sounds good sir thank you as in their presentation that they
showed earlier you know they have self admitted that it's been multiple occasions that they've tried to accomplish this and actually the original date of completion was of the 25th the 2025 uh during the original conversations about this and preliminary
plans and stuff um it was brought up that it was a very quick um uh time frame and we didn't meet that and that that's okay things things things come up so I was curious if um if since we've shown a pattern that we weren't able to
accomplish a particular task that you guys have approved is there any kind of bond or any guarantee to the city that one this project will be completed within the time frame that it is and two if we go ahead and give them this rezoning and they don't complete the process do we have first rer refusal
where this property comes back to the city I mean I I I don't stand against this I didn't speak against it the times that it came up I did take my notes very much so from those meetings but you know mayor in this exact meeting you said you know we don't have very many places left
to build homes in the city of aloi he's right we need more single family homes we definitely don't have very many places to build to build single family homes with low density the Vib I need to let it before you go any further with that question I
want him city manager you want to answer that well I I can't on a contaminated land stop my time please if Mr Atkins wants to finish I can I'll go ahead then we'll answer okay excellent I mean that this is something you said here right in this meeting uh mayor um that it's low
low density residential there's not a lot of land left to build if it was me I person who would like to see it stay residential maybe two homes per acre resal you know help feed the downtown you know I don't have anything against this but we've tried a lot of different projects that haven't worked out and
once we lose and we give up our rights to the pro property whether it being ownership or agreements or zoning changes and then they follow through we get stuck with a bunch of property or something we no longer have any say in right now we still have a say I'm not saying not to approve it I would say you
should significantly consider ways to protect us that if it doesn't go through and it as as stated before that somehow we have an opportunity to either get the property back or work with finding somebody else that could do the project that you may want um
when it comes to the environmental aspects about it um I do have concerns in the size that it is now the scope you know there's a earth moving Earth creates a significant um potential especially when
you already know you're working with a polluted area right guys and we're now going to build huge and dig up huge amounts of it compared to what the original side plan showed is there anything we're going to do and I know that I heard Mr Shadrick say that the
state and nobody's had any oppositions and you guys have got plans in place but we have aquifers we have to be concerned about we have runoff we have to be concerned about we have residents in the area that we have to be concerned about um that road in that area is
dangerous has over a million square feet of industrial warehouses right now that's not even in full swing they're not the 18 wheelers aren't traveling yet it's a two-lane road it has a 6 in space go anyone here want to drive it it's a couple miles up the road it's
dangerous anything that we also do should be contingent on the fact that every bit of this infrastructure is done prior because when I go back to my notes from December 9th one of the things respectfully sir that you had mentioned is that the sports the sports Fields were going to be started immediately before a lot of the other infrastructure
stuff well I've traveled baseball I've been part of these facilities and once you get baseball field you get people and they come in droves and we have to be very concerned about the safety not only from the environmental potential impacts but from the traffic for anybody that travels
through that area there's a lot of schools including churches that I think you should really keep um keep in mind again I'm not saying not to go for this particular plan I would like to see it remain single family homes but if you
do so could you please protect us in any way you possibly can legally thank you for your time thank you Craig um thank you mayor um and and I do appreciate U Mr Atkins concerns because the city shares the same concerns and I
want to uh get a few things on the record um as far as the process um the first one the timeline you know um I I we never intimated to the commission that we were going to be open now um because the properties didn't even close
um until a little over a year ago and one of the primary reasons for that was Chevron and the city making sure that we did the environmentally responsible thing in working with this developer to make sure that we cleaned it up and in
addition to that U we required montier development to purchase a environmental indemnification uh policy for the city and we also agreed as three parties Chevron the city of aoi and Mont
development and these were all part of uh public meetings here held by the city commission to we we agreed to enter into what's called a Brownfield site Rehabilitation agreement with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection okay that does several things
it guarantees continuity with the cleanup of the property and all parties have to be all on the same page in agreement with the proper cleanup including D who is charged with the uh local responsibility for administering
contaminated sites um that process is ongoing and there's a very extensive you can Google it um there's a lot of U things on the Florida Department of Environmental Protection website that can further
educate you about what the bsra or bisra process is about so we have that um and they've actually gone through a large scale comp plan Amendment and one of the things and I think it's been said a lot
so I'll try to be brief but there's a reason why it goes through that many layers of review um when the city commission votes tonight on this they are going to either approve or deny this based on how the
applicant has demonstrated that he's going to provide the services and protections um that will be necessary based on the map um amendment that he's proposing the demand created by going
from low density residential to um his proposed Lan use and the state statute 163 do whatever Notch said and uh rule 9 J5 the growth management act requires
that a report be done for every facility the city provides and how this um project will be addressing all those facilities so there's a very extensive process there's a reason I wanted all the agencies that reviewed it on in the record because they cover the
environment Transportation fdot reviewed this land use Amendment um Florida Department of Environmental Protection reviewed this land use Amendment Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission the list goes on including our neighbor local governments and
Orange County and um so I wanted to get that established the environmental aspect is very important to us and um Marcos did not gloss over the fact that we we have kind of worked with the
developer to to protect and and manage a much bigger amount of acreage than what he originally um was going to be required to do and this is all in the lake of poka Basin um it's also in the okah waha Basin and it's very sensitive
environmentally so there's there's some benefits to doing this cleanup and getting rid of the um Arsenic and capping it in addition to there was there were some other contaminants and this you're talking three decades of environmental monitoring that Chevron
was required to conduct because of contam contamination um and this helps protect the AER um they've gone above and beyond with their storm water design of course it's going to be an amenity but um they are actually intending to
exceed some of the standards that the Water Management District requires for drainage and all of these things were U put in place to try to protect the citizens and try to manage all these aspects of growth and we would not be
recommending approval of it now it's taken him a year to get through that process from when he closed on the properties to now and one last thing I wanted to uh cover and I appreciate Mr Atkins again for identifying this because um we have very good degree of
confidence that montier is going to build this great project um but as stewards of the city's assets when when we agreed to sell the Rogers property um on a koi poka road to be used as part of
the project we actually covered our tracks in the event that some um anomalous event occurred and they're not able to complete the project the property reverts back to the city so um I I just hit the high points
there are way more points than I just covered but I wanted to get on the record for the the benefit of anyone watching that this is the the volume of materials they were required to provide to satisfy the land use uh Amendment
alone was was pretty thick it it was very thick and involved I'm certain the expenditure of a lot of money and consultants and things like that and I see Marcos is wearing a nice suit tonight um but I hope that helped answer the
Commission in and Mr Atkins as well that those were good good questions all right now Commissioners who your public J wanted to make a statement you how to fill out a form and
come to the to the ma'am you need to you have to fill one out but you can come up and talk can okay as I said we F we had that you fill those out to talk so after she gets
through I'm going to move it to the dice so you you fill the form out when you get through okay we need your name and all this stuff I I just want to say uh real quickly that you got to identify your your name sure Victoria Graver okay
706 Nicole Boulevard ooi Florida I've been a resident here since April 26 of 1982 so I've seen so much of okoi grow um no doubt some things pros and cons
but when I look at a project like this I look at the fact that this is going to give so much to our kids here this is going to put I think aoi on the map I think it's a great thing I for it I'm sure all the issues with the homes with
the roads it's all going to be taken care of I don't feel like obviously a project at this level is not going to be something that they haven't already considered into where we're going to need to widen roads what we going to need to do what we're going to do to
connect to the 429 I'm sure and I just think it's a good thing it's going to be a great thing for our our kids our community a fact that it's going to bring on 10,000 jobs I hope do I do hope that's going to include um for the construction and
construction to consider the people of okoi who are in construction let's consider them in in on this I think we should do and also as far as jobs to consider first the people of okoi that might want to come and be part of it so
I think see I think this is going to be fantastic thank you thank you you're welcome good to see you again my phone I'll make a quick statement on U on statement was made a while ago by Mr Atkins about a lot of not improved well
there's always some not that's not going to get approved when it comes to the system some of the things they bring forth will not get through so that's why some things get approved some things don't get approved one of the big projects didn't get approved so far it's got through a lot of infrastructure with City center now that's you talking about
a lot of money there and all that through the covid kind of put a quietus to that so this city runs through a lot of development just like all of them if anywhere in this Orlando area you'll see development so we try to make it the right development but that's some of the things will not get through development
so yeah you going to have ones that get disapproved that's part of the deal um all right so now we can have the questions up here I'll start with one um commiss all over
her put a piece of candy in my mouth hey you ever get told need the table he wanted to be ready huh he wanted to speak okay well you going get to speak now to go ahead if you want to talk before I let him do that I mean no I just wanted to
comment on on the concerns uh they're rightfully so you know we want to you all welcomed us into your community you know we feel like we're we're a part of the community now and and that's our main objective is to enhance your all's
lives we don't want to take away um in any manner so we're going we're looking at every single detail of this town and seeing how we can improve it and not at the cost of anybody we want to make sure everybody is in the best case scenario
as far as the travel and all those details will be um back in front of uh this committee with the PSP shortly so we're all these details are going to come out you know and and we put a lot of time and effort into it and it's and
just know that we've really kept everybody uh in mind as we move through this and to to speak on why it's changed from 2025 to 2027 is because during that process we tried to figure out ways to make it better you know we could have
come in here and just done a quick project and put a a lot of people in a bad situation but we spent the time we spent the money we've you know just absolutely tremendous job by your leadership here in aoi to work with us
and to create a scenario where it's it's the best case scenario for everybody and we're very confident and and very blessed and thankful for that opportunity but uh all those concerns are very warranted and we appreciate that thank you okay we'll we'll get back to the a
little bit more um commissioner Oliver you chewed a candy up well a lot of the questions that I had has already been answered when it comes to brownfields um soil contaminations um the plan to um
excavate um the contaminated soil and rules and regulations according to uh uh 9 J5 and how they're they're um playing a part in this and making sure that we are doing things the proper way when it comes to removing contaminated soil from
from the ground from the earth and uh replacing it with clean soil so a lot of the questions I get uh um from my district when it comes to this project are those concerns is it is uh the soil contaminated soil uh as well
as uh infrastructure infrastructure is always definitely going to be those two things are going to be on the top top of the list so I received U over the months few months um questions about it uh a lot of questions I had answers to some I did not have answers to so what I did do
I did invite a lot of the folks in my community to tune in to this meeting so just as as we have folks in the audience that want to know about this you may have um should maybe thousands that may be watching that want to know the aners to these questions so I encourage them to tune into this meeting for an educ an
education as to the process that we have uh work with City staff and work with mon here to get to where we are today it has been quite a process I've set it meeting with the city manager assist City Manager for almost 2 and a half hours just talking about this project answering all these questions and making
sure that we are doing things the way we should do things we are being good stewards of our environment good stewards to our citizens and um from what I've seen uh I'm I'm a fan of the project I i' like the project from the time I first heard this so again uh think that those those questions have
been answered and um I think for all those that are tuning in that's listening to this I'm hoping that you're getting the education that you need uh to be able to make up your mind as to this is a great project for the city so I think that we have an excellent opportunity here um young lady she mentioned that this would be an
opportunity for the city putting us on the map and I believe uh I I agree with her uh that this is an opportunity for us to be able to to uh um Elevate above uh other cities around us to say hey we have something that that everyone wants to come and participate in so again um
thank you so much for the presentation again I enjoy it every time I see it so um and and also thank you for the commitment you're making to our community uh uh you know the construction Community to to uh the commitment to our citizens for jobs so
thank you so much for uh making that commitment to the city thank you sir thank you uh commissioner perner as far as economic development goes this is one of if not the largest
economic booms to come to the city of okoi at least in my lifetime uh I followed this project right from the beginning was involved in discussions and all and I am very impressed how
montier is so willing to cooperate and address every last issue that has been raised your concerns are our concerns and we share those same concerns and if there are any that have not and
addressed I urge you to contact us and we will make sure that they are brought forward but uh this is a great project family oriented it touches on everything the infrastructure will be improved and
that was just glazed over tonight because it's very extensive roads are going to be widened added so uh it's going to help with the traffic and you have to remember that the traffic that this
project um you know brings forth is temporary it's while the sports activities are in progress It's not 24 hours a day but uh that being said I
think Mr Atkins said it best when he said if you build these baseball fields people are going to come and they're going to come in droves and I think you're going to see an economic boom to the city and to
montier we're all going to profit very handsomely from this project and it's going to be a one that's easily accepted by the community and and by the residents because it's a it's a good wholesome project there's there's no bad
side to it and with the way the developers have been working with the city I have nothing but good things to say for for them and I wish them the best of luck thank you sir commissioner fer commissioner Wilson I think I can't
disagree with I that's been said already said without repeating myself I wish that aoi town center I wish the mall I wish all those were moving as fast as I'm seeing you move because I realize when I hear that it's been this a certain timeline I really didn't expect it to even move this fast because
there's a lot involved there I mean just the brownfields alone that's quite a um undertaking and I think a lot of us have always been told there was something out there maybe not know exactly what it was but having it the remediation done is
very important and I believe this is a win-win for our community um yes I everything I read the roads you're going to again you've put a very interesting um paperwork already on this that we know that something's going to happen
you know you're close to the 429 hoping a lot of traffic will come off the 4 29 go back on the 429 We have got what 50 429 Turnpike um 48 we are in a great position here in aoi and this just adds
to it so I'm I'm again I'm excited about all that I've been seeing as we go along and I hope maybe these other areas of town that need to move a little faster will or we'll pick up take the speed that you're taking and um make some changes I'd love to see them allall
change these are private Enterprises the COI Town Center is a private Enterprise this is a private Enterprise but we see you moving along very quickly and everything again you want restaurants you've got restaurants coming out there which will be available to the community so um I can I look at
as a win-win for our community thank you thank you thank you commissioner Wilson commissioner Kennedy thank you um I I guess I'll start out by saying we
all I'm guilty of it uh we all say the baseball fields and the truth is this is much more than baseball fields this is even much more than a sports complex this is a multi-use you have as much square feet
of commercial and hotel as you do a baseball field probably looks about 50/50 um and this is going to be an economic Boom for the city um I already I don't know about other but I already receive phone calls from people who say
how do we apply for a job uh so there there is that excitement and I just want to say thank you for the detailed presentation again you've done it several times and I appreciate it because there is a lot of curiosity
there's a lot of interest in addition to concerns and unfortunately there's always a lot of bad information um fortunately and I'm I'm just going to say this I'm so glad that we have Craig
Shadrick um and the team he's assembled we hear I think I it must be in the book 101 you know when you make a presentation to a city government make sure you thank them for the competence of their staff um but I know it's true and I
think his explanation demonstrated um not everybody knows his background in the private sector um and I really appreciated uh the last part about the financial issues um what you're hearing the commission isn't asking a lot of
questions and and rosemary said it she said everything we've read we've read and read and read stacks of documents the land purchase agreements the contracts and those were things especially with my construction and finance background that
I said Okay show show me this show me that and every question I asked staff was able to yep it's right here yeah we have a clawback here's our payback schedule Etc so I've been very impressed with the thoroughness and I really like uh Craig talked about
demonstrated compliance and it's true this is not this has not been conducted as take my word for it and um so thank you for that I have two questions um first in the staff reports
it talks about the DRC recommendations pending agreements that you have and I just want to ask you in public on the record are there any disagreements with staff about taking care of those comments in the DRC any anything that we need to know
about not to date no sir okay the second thing I want to ask you is because it was brought up in your experience and we all have different business experience what is the probability that a trip party agreement
could be put together to clean up that Brownfield with a single family home builder well we actually went extensive research into this when we first started the project and and there's a long lineage of this scenario going on with this property over the years and several
home builders have tried to uh purchase this property um but the clean up is just too expensive and it would price the homes out of the market and on top of that you know it there's there's the risk uh the long-term risk on uh where
we will be capping any contaminants we'll be removing the requirements and we'll be capping the rest um so that will create a safe environment and actually enhance the water that's entering uh Lake a poka so we're not only capping contaminants and cleaning
up this site for future use but we're actually enhancing to the doctor's point we're enhancing the water system in this aspect and we're spending uh uh you know in a commercial aspect we can recoup those costs in a residential you're
recouping them from the homeowners okay we recoup them over time so they're affordable but I have to pass those on directly to the consumer because there's a one cell you know there's a there's a a you know B Toc that's it where is
business to business we can expand that and do the appropriate cleanup uh to to make this uh you know a very positive uh piece of land again uh we can't change what happened in the past but we could change how this uh how this piece of
dirt affects your City from now on and we intend to do that well said and you're going to operate whereas a home builder some home builders can get away with they come in they do a little clean up they build it up out maybe they do a 5-year Bond or something and they
disappear and 20 years later there's a problem yeah but you're still going to be there there's still going to be a functional business there with the obligation to monitor maintain and take care of any issues absolutely and and we've also uh shown that commitment to the city uh with the environmental
insurance that we did purchase it was it was a quite Hefty price tag and uh but we we felt that it was necessary for the safety of a Cod residents for this for the you know to make sure your your leadership um has the backing of what
whatever you guys are going to come to an agreeance on so it's we want to protect you guys we want to protect your leadership we want to come in and we want to execute and that's what we've done so far we don't want to talk about it we just want to execute and I'm so proud of our team I'm so proud of uh
your leadership the the local community aeom uh everybody you know mdsx everybody that's been involved is just a tremendous team and I'm just so blessed to be a part of it and very grateful for that so sorry I don't know if most people knows
or not that years ago they tried to put the high school there which they couldn't do because of the contamination the other thing is um in jobbers local contract contractors will be able to get a chance to work on this project that's a big thing for a lot of local
contractors and job for Citizens that live in the town they don't have to leave to go somewhere else they can they can work through our process here and work through this business and have jobs don't have to go any way out of town the the major thing to me is a is the is the
plus is for the tax benefits that we get for our city that'll help us take care of the citizens tax base where we don't have to raise it for projects and stuff we can keep the tax base down for Citizens which is a big thing that happens and most of the citizens you know and I know everything's gone
Skyhigh with insurance and every car insurance house insurance and everything else so this way this tax benefit will come to all of us which and one of the things that gets me upset is about the county even having to deal with them they built OKO poka Road they don't fix
it they don't they pave it but they don't do anything else now that road they put thousands of houses just like everybody else has on the north side of us on the popka and I've said this before they all feed into Old koi coming out of that coming this way they don't go back that way they come this way they really don't live in a popka but it's a
popka mill in the they all come down OK poka Road and then the process of us trying to deal with the county about taking that road over and making sure we could do the things we want to do they offered us what Craig $111,000 um $16,000
$16,000 now figure up in the last few years of all the developments going on there with the with the warehouses and millions of square foot how much tax dollars that was in Impact fee credits that went to the county they have not spent $1 dollar of that to come back set
the paven they won't fix anything so these these people come in first words out of your mouth and I remember back the first day we thought you brought up the road we said somebody said Road you said don't worry that's what we we're going to try to formate it from uh West Road all the way down to SilverStar road
so that's what kind of stuff you want to hear things and I will say that sitting in the different meetings over the last couple years with you guys and staff it's amazing to me you've hired perfect contractors to work on this job you've got great people that are doing their job and you you've been here coming
through and I know you've done a great job trying to buy the properties that you bought you'd have it equival with a lot of them so it's been a good thing so that's also been a benefit to some people so I I have no problem knowing that you're going to make sure that's a place that's going to be a safe place
there so I think we're lucky to have that project and if we can get that project here it'll be a great benefit for the city of ooy and that's what we want all right so thank you mayor Commissioners we we if you're not you through we need to vote on third we need
to vote on 12 for the U the first part you read yes I need a I need a motion for the first part for the U land use comprehensive plan use huh I did want to brought it up here okay I didn't know if you said okay all
right I'll make that motion motion May by commissioner Wilson for item 12 second H seconded by commissioner fer we'll do the next one after this one any more comments on those if not let's vote motion carries unanimously all
right number 13 sorry I need a motion uh I'll make the motion to approve the zoning motion by commissioner Scott Kennedy do I hear a second I'll second it second it by commissioner Oliver any more comments no
more comments let's vote this is your District isn't it motion carries you n okay sure it bubbles the balloons coming down from the top or anything like that well nobody flew Tomatoes at us
tonight so no oh I want to thank everybody one more time I mean this has been uh a true blessing of a a long journey and uh I just I want to thank everybody for their patience uh and over that time uh we feel like it's gotten a lot better it's going to produce a lot
more for you guys and all the local I I see uh all the local entities in the past or the sports entities that's going to uh really benefit from this that we could share with and grow with uh we're really excited for that and we want to thank that so thank you jam thank
you you got a drive back south tonight no we're sticking around okay all right we're at item number 14 second reading of ordinance updating chapter 45 Arbor code and chapter 163 trees on public lands code of ordinances
relating to the definition of a protected tree and tree protection tremond removal requirements Miss ctis director ctis thank you mayor um Ginger corz development services director and I'll be speaking to char to amendments to
chapter 45 of the arbor code and chapter 163 trees on public land I'm going to start you know trees are important and I can go on and speak all night but I won't mayor with this but they're not just important environmentally but they're also important for setting the community
aesthetic of aoi and I think it's very important because when we start speaking to tree removal and that's what we're going to speaking to what you ask us to do is relates to not just individual homes tree removal but also
the process for which homeowners associations and property own associations um can seek any removal of trees within their communities and the processes they need to go through since you asked us to do this we also took the opportunity to amend the code to address
the Florida legislature um changes it relates to addressing circumstances when trees can be removed without a permit as well as taking a look at development standards for Treat Street pruning well the first things we did is actually to
update the definition of a protected tree protected tree being 8 in or greater uh in diameter for our dbh diameter breast height which is basically 4 and2 ft or 54 in from that
as well as we have added any tree regardless of size and height that has been newly planted as part of construction project we want to make sure those trees have a chance to to grow and that as plants come in and getting approved that that we then know that there's
giving an opportunity to kind of create that aesthetic as they come through because they said this is what we're going to be able to do so with that a permit is required to move remove any protected tree except for trees on
single family detached residential lots that are determined to be of moderate or higher risk by landscape architect licensed landscape architect or certified Arborist and they have to Pro be able to provide this for and we'll go through this in a second more detailed so that
if you don't have a risk assessment report prepared by certified arbit or licensed landscape architect you must go through the removal process and what it means when I say tree removal without a permit it only applies and and I'm going to hit only to
actively occupied single family detach residential lots it does not apply to town homes it does not apply to the rideway in front of a lot it only replies basically to those single family
residents when this happens the if you have a tree that is dying of poor health or some other conditions going in there uh basically you can ask for that arborist or the landscape architect to do an assessment the form that you see is actually an assessment form that is
utilized by a certified Arborist it's an Isa which is the international Society of Arbor culture on tree risk assessment form and when they do that form they really look at is removal the only way
to mitigate any potential risk whether that is falling or doing damage to or potential of so it's it's the only mitigating way perhaps it has an in insect infestation you can treat some of those you can treat other mitigating factors through bracing and other
components so it really has to be this is the only way to predi you know really protect our lives of our residents as well as the structures to that so you if you find and they come out with that basically the certification St and yes
it needs to be removed then the tree can be removed but it has to be available when somebody goes to remove it that certification has to be on site if any of us asks for that it has to be provided and we are asking that that be
provided in this um update to the city within 10 days now we're going to have to do some Outreach when it comes to working with our tree um companies as well as the certified arbit and Landscape archex working within the community so they know to remind their property owners that they need to be
able to submit that to the city within 10 days now if you're using this process to remove a tree that is considered to be a dangerous tree it still must comply with what we have is our three or excuse me basically our minimum lot tree
requirements currently that is three trees per lot for single family detach residents one for town home or one for home that is on septic tank that is our current code with that and those are the only ways that that somebody can remove
a tree without permitting the process now the code in the update we actually outlined the application submittal procedures as well as continuing to update just cause for removal which really again going back is to the
disease that we're having damage the tree is risk of falling U utility line interference which is causing an unsafe condition and no other mitigating measures can reduce the risk but removal we also took a look then at HOA
and POA request to remove protected trees um especially if they come in with multiple trees that they want to remove we'll be able to take it in as administrative review under conditions that they don't
changed the aesthetic of the community when a community comes in for a development plan review they do so with a landscape plan but landscape plan during those process many times are then approved by this commission to move forward because you're trying to create that aesthetic that quality of life
within the community now the other reason is that we can see that in the landscape there may be an inconsistency to the approved landscape plan from the standpoint of they're not really meeting that landscape plan or they're treat replacement plan does not meet that plan
or we result in basically 100 ft or more without having shade trees so at that point the applicant will be requested to submit for a large scale site plan amendment process that will come before the board of here and for commission approval they came before to take a look
at what their landscape plan was when they first started their construction they'll have to do so again is what we're recommend to get that aspect to it when it comes to looking at trees on public land we were asked to take a look at pruning um and so we did update the
procedures of looking at 14.5 ft of clearance when a branch is overhanging a roadway and 8.5 clearance if it's overhanging a sidewalk the important thing is here is that the city is responsible for tree maintenance on those public roads um from that aspect
and we're going to be working with our parks and Public Works departments and creating standards of care when it comes comes to our landscape and tree maintenance so we're be going through those programs and updating those elements to that so what we're really
trying to move forward to is seeking your approval to make these amendments to the code and continue to start looking at processing applications that they come in as we just described any
questions questions yes sir um if if somebody doesn't use an arborist a certified Arborist or licensed landscape architect or they don't turn in the that
report within 10 days or they've taken out a tree but they don't have a replacement and they have less than three trees thank you what's the penalty for that and how is it enforced well it is a code violation so it would be
actually enforced by our code um officer they were to see that um if simple projects is they've actually used a certified Arbus or a landscape architect and they have the the summary report that states this is the only way
to mitigate the danger and they forget to turn that turn that in in 10 days that's just something to remind people we're going to have to also do our Outreach so people know what they're supposed to do when this case we have not had many cases in the city utilizing this process we've had have
had a couple with that um and when asked they they supplied the form so that has not been an issue if we find that a tree has been cut and we ask for you know again it has to be within that lot size a lot area
the trees been cut and we do asked if they had a certification by um on our landscape architect Oran arbas and they say no then I would say well we're going to have to go through the permanent process and we're have to take a look look at a replacement tree because if you're taking it down by
State Statute you don't have to do the replacement tree but if you don't use that process then you do for replacement stre for basically residential with that you still have to have three trees no that's the whole different issue it's whole compliance to Land Development
code you have to have three trees per lot so we find that okay they take down the trees the tree that actually is allowed to come down for a dangerous tree then we'll have to work with them and coming up with a replacement tree it's not a replacement for that tree it's replacement for losing one of their
minimum trees yeah because I don't I don't know if everybody knows this but there aren't developers who leave more than three trees on single family lives so if you're taking down a tree you need to replace it in more in most cases that is
true we do have lots that do have more than three trees and that have left natural areas you know and and that's one one thing yeah one thing we are looking the Land Development code update is actually changing the number of trees based on size of lot right now it
doesn't interesting any lot is basically three tree minimum is what goes in for Land Development code so we are going to be addressing that as well um so that it's more fairly somebody has a small lot doesn't have a room for tree it's kind of a fair argument perhaps it was you know they don't have the room for
three trees and I've had that happen um where we had to go through some discussion with that so yes is there any requirements for uh stump grinding Etc there is not a requirement in this
code for stump grinding is it is it relates to a private property I mean with that aspect because we're only addressing the tree removal process which takes it down to usually stump um now when it comes to public PL will be
addressing based on location and in the The Importance to either to grind that stump or in some cases based in Parks will leave that stump because it's becomes a different type of habitat so but from the standpoint this code does not uh basically address the the
requirement to grind the stump within a subdivision there's no requirement no what your HOA may do or your POA they may require that a stump be ground for aesthetic reasons uh with that aspect but this code people that live in a
subdivision but don't live in an HOA their neighbor can cut their tree down and leave at this point they can do that yes that's not a code violation that it's not a code violation based on the tree removal process okay and uh my last question in
the HOAs I I like some of that I I I certainly like the distinction being made that we're being thoughtful um that it doesn't significantly change the aesthetic char character sounds very subjective to me can you I you had some quantitative
factors the 100 feet shade can you explain is that the code enforcement board that will make decis developmental Services B that is basically when when a permit request comes in from through development services we'll be having our development review team take a look at
that that will look from the standpoint the information provided which would be which trees their location why are you requesting them to be removed D um photographs of that uh from the standpoint of the reasons for their
their removal process with that we'll also take a look for those subdivisions and communities that have approved landscape plans we'll be looking to say okay is it still meeting that intent of that aesthetic that quality of community that we approved so we will be looking
and making that determination now if we find that it doesn't mean that criteria that's when they come before you as a board to make that final determination as relates to whether they'll be approved or not to remove
those trees okay thank that's what I want to make sure of that it there's a a evaluation by professional staff and if there's a disagreement it comes to the commission right not to the citizen uh board no code enforcement
thank you good job thank you Commission no questions commissioner F yes will the city be contacting all the homeowners associations and Tre Service uh companies in the city just
making them aware that there has been changes to the arbor Cod yes we're going to do a community outreach which will be information we'll do it through a variety of different ways where is a mailing to the HOAs and poas as well as using social media and other methods to be able to get the word out we will be
contacting those tree companies that do operate within the city to let them know as well uh we know who they are and we work with them so again they're they're wanting to make sure that they do their job right as well and they're again
wanting to make sure from standpoint of the quality of the environment many of the trees companies are local tree companies too so they want to make sure we're own you know doing that very good you did a good job well thank you commissioner Oliver no question just a comment a couple years ago I was flying
from Detroit to uh Miami and I was looking out the window of the plane and I I looked at Miami and I saw a concrete jungle and I'm looking like wow there's no trees there's no green space so I want to thank you and thank the city for uh being responsible enough to maintain
balance between our ecosystem and our development that's one thing that um I can say that we proud ourselves on is M maintaining that balance and looking out for our trees and our ecosystem as well as our water Basin as well so thank you great job thank
you all right need a motion from well we need to read the you got to read he's going to read first we actually have a public hearing thank you an ordinance of the city of aoi amending chapter 45 section 45-4 of Article 1 and sections
45-13 and 45-15 of Article 2 and chapter 163 section 163-8 of the city of AO code of or es to clarify the definition of a protected tree to require just cause for removal of a protected tree to provide for a
process for review and additional considerations for approval of a tree removal permit by the development services director of the city of aoi and the city commission to establish standards for documentation when protected trees are removed on residential property without a permit to
establish standards for right of weight tree pruning and to identify prohibited activities and providing for conflicts separability and an effective date all right any more comments no more comments I need a motion we we need
public he I'm public hearing give me time public hearing anybody in the public nobody in the public wom minut you got to fill out a form y I guess so pize you
Francis Roberts get up where' you get up here to the mic okay Francis Roberts a CO of poka road is where I live for 30 years if you're going to do a tree ordinance why don't you make one of the trees have to be a fruit tree or something to provide for the neighborhood instead of just shade
trees well we actually can encourage fruit trees to be and part of your landscape but this is really to address those shade trees from the standpoint of the habitat Urban agriculture is important and I've actually had conversations with people and so people are welcome to do that but we do me to
make sure that this is addressing the shade component the shade trees so this is what this is doing however in landscaping plans they having the ability to have fruit trees can work question
when she get through with that all right who's going to make the motion I will um I'll make a motion to update chapter 45 of the arbor code AS as presented in
the ordinance motion made by commissioner Kennedy do I hear second second second by commissioner first I'm sorry can you also uh include in that motion of the change to chapter 163 Printing and chapter 163 PR thank you
okay all right no more comments let's vote motion carries unanimously all right commissioner Oliver your time uh clock road is actually almost done uh
so I have been uh watching this pretty much every single day and I've been calling the city staff every other day about this project so uh I've been assured that uh the road should be done and open up uh with all four lanes by
February 28th so um those that are anticipating we're getting a little anxious right now so um we're hoping that um it may be a little bit sooner than February 28th but I've been told February 28th um March March 11th is a Citywide
election for those that are at home still waiting on your your vote by mail ballot and it didn't show up well it's a good chance that you did not re-register for your ABC ballot that means that um December 31st of 2024 uh the State of
Florida has scrubbed the rols and you are required to re-register if you want to vote in this uh election for March March 11th you have until uh March the 1st to reregister you can contact the supervisor of elections office through their website you can also give them a
call at 407 83620 70 it takes about two to three minutes to re-register yourself to vote in this election earlier uh tonight I I requested that we pull item five from
the um consent agenda for a brief discussion I see that we're actually going to be taking over the little leag uh program for the city and I did read the uh the staff report on that and it looks like uh from the financial impact it was about maybe $177,000 that we'll
be making on this particular project but just reading the the staff report I don't have a full picture and that's one of the reasons I pulled that I want to see a full business plan if we're going to be actually taking over this business I would like to see a full business plan of
this particular project and what what it looks like when it f with all of the the revenue that's going to bring in Revenue sources as well as all the expense reports as well stop the clock stop stop the clock admit William if you'd have called up city hall or called that staff you have got that
report before for read that's why we put that there commission I'm reading the report right here I know but I'm saying you didn't knew what it was before that so well I read the report I'm reading it but I would like to see a full a full business plan as I was stating I I would like to see a full business plan if we're going to any take over any
business um you want to see the full business plan of this thing here so again uh it's already passed but that was just a concern that I had and I'm sure that uh if anyone looked at this they would probably want to see the same thing but nonetheless um I
digress let's see what else I have that's actually all that I have except for my my quote I'll leave you with my quote love is patient and kind love does not
envy or boast it is not arrogant nor rude it does not insist on its own way it is not irritable or resentful it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices with the with the truth love bears all
things believes all things hopes for all things and endures all things that's all I got thank you commissioner fer no I don't have any comments tonight thank you sir commissioner Wilson yes I won't
huh I'll be careful what I say so I don't mess up what you have on your oh go ahead okay I won mark it off Frid I did ask for the shred event um flly to be placed up on I think it's going to come up now um thank you the shred event will be
taking place on March 15th and and from 9:00 to 11:30 at the aoi police department it is an event that if you have more than five boxes we ask that you call and let us knows because once the truck is full um we won't be accept
anymore it is a fundraiser for the aoi Lions Club and the aoi women Women's Club the first box is free anything over that they do ask for a donation of $5 as they're working on this event we've been doing this for multiple years I am a member of both clubs
um again it's a wonderful event that you can get rid of all those things in your garage that you've been holding on to great way I see the yay um again if you have more than five boxes we do ask that you let us know in advance so that because that truck is does reach
capacity we've had that where it's very close a lot of folks have a lot of papers to get rid of and it's a great way to do it securely so March 15th from 9:00 to 11:30 hope to see you there the other event coming up up is the conservation event which is March 1st
it's going to be held here um behind us at Bill Brees Park and again the um theme is conservation and if you're interested in getting a rain barrel please call in advance because the city will provide rain barrels if you are a city of aoi
Resident and there will be plants that we have given away that they give away it's run by the utility department it's kind of a redesign of the Spring Fling that we've ran for years except now the theme is conservation and plants and rain barrels plants you don't have to
arrange in advance it's first come first serve but the other item the rain barrels we do require you to pre-register for them and again you must be a city resident because the money does come from a certain fund within the city so two great events looking forward
to them hope to see you there they're always um educational and they're also enjoyable thank you commissioner Kennedy thank you mayor um usually don't have comments but I'm
going to make a couple um we talked about misinformation bad information seems to happen continuously um on item
five the city is not taking over a business and there is no business plan there's no money um the board that runs the Little League dissolved and the city is taking over
control of the Little League operation and that's in all of the documents that we received to prepare there's a letter from is it the president of that board stating they're dissolving um and this is why we have the protocols that we've adopted
uh because it doesn't make any sense to sit up here and argue the facts um additionally I've made an issue over the years about professional courtesy and as a general
rule I second all those motions of Commissioners just out of courtesy to table an item Etc um and there's been disputes about that tried to table an item for commission when he or she was absent um
and didn't get agreement always on that um and I stayed silent tonight and um I just want to say because that violates my standard operating procedure that there was a reason for
that um I don't I don't think you know love is not irritable wow uh sometimes we get a little tired of it and uh and we have to make different
decisions um that said I was also receiving hand signals and I don't know mayor are you going to address it or Melanie I'd like to officially address and release the proper voter registration info for the coming election I'm going to read it not this
one not this one I'm I'm going to read that uh could we clarify the information given uh I'm told it's incorrect on when people have to register and what the polling locations are I don't have that she's could could you do that yeah thank
you so um the deadline for the book's closing is February was was February 10th um as far as the vote by mail there was an expiration um of the vote by mail
um cycle so if you're already registered to vote you would go to the supervisor of elections page to re-register but if you were not registered to vote it is too late to register for this election as the books close February 10th that
information is located on our website but as far as the vote by mail to re-register I would recommend going to the supervisor of elections website that's where we're directing everyone since they're handling that process and is that deadline February
27 reest to to request the vote by mail ballot I would have to check my timeline unfortunately I didn't bring that with me I would assume given was March 4th and she says it's I would assume it would be in February if you're already
registered to vote and youve you know you've met that book closing um timeline I think the moral of the story is is go to the Orange County Supervisor of Elections web page and find out if you're registered and if you're not see what you got to do to get registered and
where you have to vote don't take anybody's word for it it's your right to vote I'm done you done yes sir all right I got to some read off some uh different did you do
yours oh all right February 2025 the city is holding our 20th annual Black History Month essay contest the essay contest is for fifth grade students attending okoy schools the winners will be recognized and presented with prizes
at our city commission meeting on March the 4th additionally segments that highlight signant people and events from africanamerican history will air on ooy TV Spectrum Channel 493 March 20125 springing into conservation Saturday
March the 1st 9:00 a.m. through 1 p.m. Bill Breeze Park there will be activities such as rain barrel painting in which registration you probably said that too but is required and free Plants will be given to Residents with proof of residen municipal election day Tuesday
March 11th election of District 4 commissioner and for the purpose of voting on referendum ballot questions visit the city's website for ballot information and polling locations St Patrick's Day block party Friday March the 14th from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at
downtown o mcke Street join us for music games food vendors and more I will say if you didn't get to go to the last Friday night for the valentin's uh party for the children and the parents and the citizens it was great they were packed down at the Lakeshore center with a lot of kids
having a lot of great time and a lot of fun which the kids got to do all the rides and all that free and I'm going to read off I I I've said in the last few nights and last few days
and talked about some stuff some things with my wife about what I should do and shouldn't do of course she tells me that a lot but uh that's part of the part of the thing I I'm really upset that we went through this a few months ago when uh the
commissioner was on board but before I get into that I want to make a comment about what last last Wednesday night our our uh Woman's Club which is not the city is it's the Woman's Club a separate function put on the uh uh candidates
Forum after the Forum was over somebody one of the cand wise went to the people and wanted to know why the mayor was there well it's a open meeting for anybody that wants to go to even though I wasn't running for office I am a
citizen and I get to vote for things but I still go to them and my wife and I both we sit in the back and got out of the way but there there was no reason why I couldn't be there but for some reason they she wanted to know why I got to go but so I just want to get that straighten out that's that was opened by
the Woman's Club to put it on not a city deal the other thing is eligibility for residents required and proof I've got the new I'm going to read this off each candidate for the office of Mayor shall
for at least one year before it qualifying as a candidate for such office be bonafied resident of the city the mayor shall during the entire term of office be a bonafied resident of the city each candidate for the office of commissioner shall for at least one year
before qualifying as a candidate for such office be a bonafied resident of the single member district which such candidates seek to represent a candidate for mayor or commissioner shall F furnish such proof of meeting the one-year residency requirement as may be
prescribed by ordinance each candidate shall sent to a background check to verify the candidates qualifications to hold office no candidate shall be barred from running for office without notice a hearing and clear and
convincing evidence that the candidate is not required to hold office affected with each fullterm commencing following January the 1st 2022 the mayor or a commissioner who has held the same district office for two full term is prohibited from appearing
to the B for election to that office office back during the election time I was told after 2027 I wouldn't be able to run for mayor again that's not true they called me into the office about three weeks ago and read that to me and I think you can run again I can run
again and commissioner F can run again if he wants to so I will tell you after talking with my wife and my grandkids and my kids I'm going to run again after in 2031 20 whato 27 27
I won't be here 2000 I get mixed up in them dates anymore you get old but I I asked I I'll tell you something real funny I asked my wife about it my wife said well you know that guy on TV in Congress is 91 years old she says if you are to be Hadad go ahead and do it so just to let you know I've had a lot of
people I've talked to them about it had a lot of people ask me about it and I am going to run again the old boy said come hella high water I'm going to do it this is my life working for the city of okoy who I love my wife loves it she's been here all her life I've been here 70
years and I don't like politics and be involved in in things we do and bloody there's a lot of it I'm going to tell you tonight and when I'm done I'm going to hit the gabble because we're done tonight but I I sit and thought about this you got that paper which you you
can you put that up on there for me all right you can't see it but there's commissioner Oliver sitting up in a church on a Sunday tell them how bad we are about how bad we hired we had had project 25 or 22 whatever it's called I
don't even know what it is but we he told all the parishioners out of the pull pit that we as Commissioners set it up brought them in to do our Charter now we have citizens who put went on that board to do that not US citizens who
approved it they approved what happened with our Charter the charter is you have to live for a year in the city before you can run for office just like last time they brought in two people and move one of them said they lived on South side of town of commissioner first which
you didn't and then you had another guy moving to town on the North side who was a past felon or whatever he is and he run so you can't do that anymore and and and so and you get in I I I still for me
to be to be a uh I don't know what you call it a Christian person or what it is but when you go make falsification sit in a puet in the house of the Lord something worries me and that's what it was folks he went into the house of the Lord sit in the pulpit and told him exactly that we were doing things here
handing out development to the developers we wanted to hand it to so that's the kind of stuff that this goes on and just keeps doing up here we've only had that happen since one thing I don't need to tell you what it is so you can say what you want to say and
whatever you want to say my life has been where I speak out and say what I'm going to say and I don't keep it so I'm going to tell you that is what goes on on and I read some signs I was about yesterday leadership and integrity did anybody read what Integrity says cuz he
don't somebody don't know what it means I'll tell you somebody don't know what integrity means when you put it on your campaign board the quality of commitment being honest and having strong moral principles and to do what's right that's
the major thing strong morals which I don't think they have you communicating honestly taking responsibility for your actions making promises you keep supporting organization's values with or without
recognition you know what the big one is down at the very end being trustworthy don't seem to be so you can dislike it or like it or lump it I get 10 minutes and is my 10 minutes up okay so just to let you know that's a fact a
li folks you can look it up and after you said it you're going to have to live with it you said it he has to live with it have a good evening