he showed up yes he He ain't going to miss a time on TV tell you that you guys give out all right probably time to go
all right we're gonna open the April the 15th meeting we'll have the uh all have invocation by Mr hart pledge of allegiance by Commissioner Fster and then roll call please stand give around some bags there there we go dear heavenly father we thank you
through your abundant grace and mercy you've allowed us to come together to work in the spirit of unity to conduct the city's business and father we pray that you help us to come in with the spirit of unity even though we may disagree let us not disrespect or disengage each other but treat each other as brothers and sisters we thank you for allowing us to live in this
beautiful part of your creation that we call a and we say a special prayer over our first responders lord watch over them on every call on every shift as they watch over us we're so careful to give you the praise the honor and the glory you do in Jesus name we pray amen amen i pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all never had Commissioner Kennedy
here commissioner Wilson here mayor Johnson here commissioner Fner here and Commissioner Oliver is absent all right we have the presentations and proclamations we'll start with the have a proclamation here for the
um Arbor Arbor ordinance um whereas in 1872 Jay Sterling Morton proposed to the Nebraska Board of Agriculture that a special day be set aside for the planting of trees and whereas this holiday called Arbor Day
was first observed with the planting of more than a million trees in Nebraska and whereas Arbor Day is now observed throughout the nation and the world and whereas trees can reduce the erosion of our precious top soil by wind and water cut heating and cooling costs moderate
the temperature clean the air produce oxygen produce oxygen and provide habitat for wildlife and whereas trees are a renewable resource giving us paper wood for our homes and countless other wood products and whereas trees in our
city increases property values enhance the economic vitality of business areas and beautify our community and whereas trees wherever they are planted are a source of joy and spiritual renewal there now therefore I Rusty Johnson mayor of the city of Okcoy do hereby
proclaim April the 25th 2025 to be Arbor Day in city of Okcoy and urge all citizens to support efforts to protect our trees and woodlands and to support our city's urban forestry program and I urge all citizens to plant trees to gladden hearts and promote the
well-being of present and future generations uh is Dan from recreation department here come on up front Dan i'll give you got a somebody here to take a picture i'm sure Tim will come out maybe
no that's all right hand me the real one there oh thank you hey I tried all right now we have 2025 Drop Savers Water Conservation
Poster Contest winner will the utilities department come up please right mayor and commissioners department contest winners uh this is a contest that we had probably maybe 10 years ago
uh that we have reinstated share with you our winners and we've got prizes for them so just real quick water bottles and puzzles in their
artwork division one was kindergarten and first grade and third place we have Mason Harvey [Applause]
might be easier if we just you do you can do each one if you want to second place Amelia Ramirez [Applause]
and first place Rebecca Stewart you reading off the school too which school they're at uh this was open to all public schools in AOE however the only school that participated was Thornberg Elementary okay all right we'll do it at the end because we have a long
agenda okay so we have second and third grade we have Elisa Bolock [Applause] that's true
amanda Bessa for second place first place was Thomas Hen but unfortunately he couldn't make it here tonight we've we've got one more division for fourth and fifth place uh third place goes to Tony Brown
[Applause] there you go second place Presley [Applause]
Kn you got this down perfect and first place Caitlyn Gokool [Applause] okay we'd like to take a quick picture with the commissioners behind there
stand behind jen you and y'all come up front with the kids okay and we'd like to thank Thorn Brook Elementary School Principal Bowen and uh Miss A for their participation i would like to say also Thornbrook's always involved in a lot of different things appreciate it
all of you come back up get your picture made with you okay teachers are here yes yep right here all right the best art teacher and the principal yeah our principal's here i can see you
we have all of our students it's still All right thank you for your participation we look forward to your entries next year once again I want to take say thank you to Thornbrook Elementary they they are always involved and always doing something out there i get to go every
year to the spelling be and it's it's a wonderful time to watch these young people participate in in in the school it's really great thank you again for being here appreciate it thank you all right we got a few Kelly Beck going in the uh public
comments staff reports i'm sorry you got any right now Craig uh yes sir I do hang on a minute Kelly go ahead about forgot him okay I'll try to be quick about this um item number three on the agenda is the approval of the management agreement
with Down to Earth who the commission picked at the last meeting as the interim operator for Forest Lake um as of this moment we have reached tentative agreement but we don't have the signed document and we have a few things to
words so I would ask the commission uh to allow it to remain on consent and change staff recommendation to authorize the city attorney and city manager to execute the agreement in its final
form okay so I think that's something that you all would probably need to vote on i'll make that motion commissioner Fer makes a motion for that do I hear a second i'll second second by Commissioner Wilson anybody have any more comments on
it let's vote motion carries unanimously with Commissioner Oliver absent all right thank you thank you um second item I have is at the request of the developer um item 10 we would like to pull off the agenda and bring back
um at a time of his choosing item 10 yes sir and that is the approval of the agreement between City of Akoi and Fuller's Crossing 429 all right and the last item I have is a little bit of good news um hopefully by
the next meeting we'll have it on the agenda for your um consideration and approval but we have reached a tenative agreement with Orange County Public Schools on the school resource officer contract and that will be announced
publicly tomorrow um it has to formally come before you for review and consideration and and a vote um but I will say that um a little special thank you to Randy Knight city manager Winter
Park um who served as a spokesperson for the cities of Akoi Winter Garden and Apopka and all of our police chiefs work very hard and Windermir Town of Windermir um but uh this this was this was a good process and I thank the
commission for their efforts and supporting uh us as we've been negotiating and that's all I have all right thank you so we'll start back on the public comments but will somebody one of the city employees Chief or Mike will y'all put that middle blind down
yes sir oh it's reflecting off the car blaring right in the eyes oh you It's all electric too I guess yeah somebody we'll just have to have somebody stand in front of the
Let this city manager figure it out oh I think you do it here it's I didn't know it was going to be that complicated there you go there you go oh perfect right there come on down you haven't got the car covered yet i
was going to say There you go thank you all right all right Miss Beck yes sir so good evening uh my name is Kelly Beck i'm here tonight as the chair of the city of Okcoy's human relations diversity board so and I'm here to personally invite all of you to join us
to at our next meeting here at city hall on May 1st we um our meeting's at 6:15 we have a special guest speaker coming in from the University of Central Florida to facilitate a workshop on enhancing accessibility to build
community this session is about real people and real real barriers we're going to take a look at everyday situation that those with disabilities face and things that most of us may not even notice and discuss how we can do better how we can build events services
and spaces that are truly accessible to everyone um this is about more than a compliance activity it's about dignity and respect and belonging and it's about making sure that when someone shows up no COI uh they matter um and so the
human relations diversity board has been part of the city for nearly two decades and we're proud to be one of only five boards like it in the entire state of Florida and that speaks volumes about OKOE's commitment to equity and inclusion and we know there's always
more work that we can do so I'm here to invite you our leaders the city staff and the community to come join us your presence matters your voice matters and together we can keep building a community that works for everyone so thank you we hope to see you May 1st
6:15 here at City Hall for our guest speaker from UCF thank you thank you very much appreciate it um to Lup Edwards hello my name is Tulip Pay Edwards um I go by Sarah which is much easier to say
if you say that and I'm with the United States Small Business Administration and I'm here in your community today to let you know about our disaster loan program i know a while back Hurricane Milton and Helen impacted a lot of our communities and we recently extended our deadline
for our disaster loans to help anybody a homeowner renter a nonprofit or a business if they suffered any structural damage to their property and also of course businesses if they suffered any economic damage um our homeowners
anybody who suffered any uh damage to their property we offer up to $500,000 to repair uh any structure structural damage that you might have suffered um also for renters if you lost any property that includes furniture or your
car so even if you don't own a home you can um apply for one of our loans for up to $100,000 small businesses we offer a lot of resource up to $2 million for any structural damage and two million for any economic damage that you might have suffered that includes lost revenue or
lost wages if anybody is interested um and we we we've extended our deadline through April the 27th so we still have a couple of weeks um that people can apply you can go to our website that's at www.sba.gov/desaster we also have a physical location um in
Barnett Park that's in Orange County in the Pine Hills neighborhood if you wanted to go in personally and meet with one of our customer service representatives and they can help you fill out an application um again if you're interested that's www.sba.govaster and I encourage anybody
to sign up if they think that they might qualify thank you thank you very much appreciate it thank you awesome we have one other um I have one other one here with the small businesses um George Morning
good evening mayor members of city council uh my name is George Morning i'm the CEO for Small Business Advocates of Central Florida i have with me Mr dave Prasad who owns Sunshine Hauling Company here in Okoi i just want to take a couple minutes of your time to talk
about small business you know we we talk about small business a whole lot and how vital it is to our economy etc etc and the data indicates that about 99% of all businesses in the country are small business the majority of all employees
in the country work for small businesses we took a look at some of the data we have here i think in the city of Okoi we have approx based on the 2022 census there's about a thousand small businesses in Okoi we can conservatively
estimate that 80 to 85% of those firms are small businesses and those are the type of businesses that we're talking about when you look at large projects like what we did at the Orange County Convention Center uh what we're doing at the Orange County Convention Center what we did at the Greater Orlando Aviation
Authority and the youth sports complex that you're doing now those are type of projects that greatly impact your local communities by result of small business participation and just to kind of give you some examples uh we awarded about we
spent about 1.2 bill oh I forgot to say I used to work for go as a small business director for about eight or nine years but when we built the um train station out there the transmotal facility we have out there we spent about $1.2 billion with that we awarded
about 170 to $200 million to small firms that economic impact from those small firms created over a thousand jobs in Orange County alone i mean in city of Orlando and about 1,500 jobs just in
Orange County the tax revenues and benefits for that exceeded $7 million that flow directly to the county so when we look at other projects that are coming up the convention center it's going to be a 7 $800 million project
when you look at the small firms that are participating in that and you can kind of estimate that 160 million of that go to small firms that impact is going to be absolutely huge and so now when we go to the sports complex that
you're looking at here the small business participation is going to result if we just conservatively estimate and use the same numbers that we did for Goa you're going to end up with about a thousand new employments your small firms are going to grow greatly employment is going to increase
and those are permanent jobs that get created by small businesses so I'm out of time i just wanted to bring that up talk about it uh Mr brzad is here is also he worked with us at go and had a tremendous outcome for that so I'm available for any questions or comment
if anybody has any thank you excellent thank you sir appreciate it app appreciate the information all right we have uh Mr moyer is this the is this a 10-minute one or is this just a No this is three minute okay a
short one okay the 10-minute come May 20th okay uh my name is Dr jim Moyer i was elected November and sworn in January as the
orange soil and water conservation to supervisor uh and it's the areas of Papka COE and Northwest uh Orange here we've been working very hard since
uh I joined the board we have one vacancy right now we had four excellent applicants and we're still coming uh accepting applications so um our meetings are the
second Friday of every month at 3:30 at the county commission chambers and I welcome everyone to join us at at any of our public meetings open to everyone we had a good turnout last time
on the downside and hopefully it won't happen but there's a bill in the House right now it's CSHB973 and it would disband 35 soil water conservation districts in the
state and there's only 47 of them and that would include Orange and several other in the area uh it is in the state affairs committee right now it's not on
the agenda that just came out for this Thursday because I checked I went over it five times um so uh I'm hoping it never gets on the agenda and just doesn't go anywhere
because I want to get back to basics just like uh chapter 582 soil and water conservation district and and follow exactly what we're supposed to be doing um I have about a minute i'm
switching hats putting on American Legion hat here i'm very proud to say uh we pulled something off the last second a young man and his uh uh person who advocated for him came
to us last minute to go to the 90th anniversary of the American Legion Boy State and we really pulled a rabbit out of our hat and it was a combination of Miss Sharon Cider who's the legislative
affairs uh chair for Akoi High School and Mr kirk Dials of American Legion Post 63 and Miss Becky Borman who's part of the
American Legion uh Florida Department uh thing so he'll be going to Tallahassee for the 90th um anniversary of Boy State and he's from Akoi High and I'm very very happy and proud thank you
very much god bless you all thank you sir mr m supervisor my one more just come in late nate Robson good evening how is everybody um I apologize for not being dressed more appropriately i'm running between
baseball games so just left Central Park where my little guy was playing T-ball and then I'll be headed over to Bob Sorenson for my older guy playing in the seniors in just a little bit so my just two quick things I had for tonight um and some maybe more for even the public than even for those in the room here is
um just thank you to the city of Akoi for what you're doing with the Akoi Little League and really trying to you know bolster that revitalize that so that's really good it's really great for our city and then I just wanted to highlight um and just maybe bring some attention to the recent municipal election and the concern that I have is
obviously not about anything that's happening in this room or anybody in this room but just about the amount of voters that are participating in our elections and how involved voters are or not involved if you're not aware there's over 29,000 registered voters in the city of Akoi and in the most recent
election 1,351 voted that is less than 4.6% 4.55% of our citizens our registered voters participated in the most recent election and of those it gets even more
alarming of those 55.59% or 751 of those votes were in district 4 alone my district i live in Ardan Park so that means that in the other three districts of the city only 600 combined people voted throughout the
rest of the city and those 1,351 people who voted made decisions that changed the city constitution of Akoi our charter and so I just want to encourage everybody in this room and everybody who might be watching the live stream or watching it later that we need
to as citizens residents and voters of Akoi to be engaged we've got to be because the future of Akoi depends on our engagement and how we are being involved in what happens i I think probably the most concerning part of all
that is that such a little bit of participation happened for those decisions that changed our charter decisions that I know were thought hard long and hard here about what should be put on that charter review and those decisions were made but again by such a
low amount of people so just really wanting to highlight that the last thing I'll highlight and I'll give you guys some time back is that of district 4 my district only 8.78% of registered voters voted and they elected a commissioner with that
few votes 751 votes decided the commissioner who would represent district 4 so again just wanting everybody to think about that remember that make sure that we're being engaged in our local communities and in the city as a whole that we would be encouraging people to be involved in every election
every election matters especially local elections thank you guys have a great evening thank you very much appreciate it Mr robinson i think a total of all our districts come up to about probably 32,000 votes somewhere in that area 32,000 we had district four was the main
thing because except for the charters we didn't get a lot of people to vote for the other so that was one of the problems and he's exactly right we need to have people come out and vote all right that's all the public comments I have right now so we're going to go down to the consent agenda we they they've
pulled 10 and three we've already voted on so we've got one two four five six seven eight and nine i'll make that motion to approve with those i'll make the motion to approve excluding number three and
number 10 all right motion made by Commissioner Wilson with three out and 10 out do I hear a second i'll second that seconded by Commissioner Ferter let's vote motion carries unanimous with Commissioner Oliver Absson thank you all
right first reading of words none second reading of ordinance public hearing number 11 second reading of ordinance for FY2025 budget amendment chief accountant [Music] hey come on up
good evening i'm Eileen Marwennena chief accountant um so after the budget was a was adopted um the city faced unexpected demands that have created a need for a budget amendment to continue our operations so tonight we are coming to
the commission to approve the proposed amendment to our current um fiscal year budget first for recreation program fund there is an increase of revenue of 42,000 and that is for the baseball
league an increase in expense which is 27,000 for general fund police operations um requested an additional budget for
80,92 for their contractual services and legal expenses we have 1,254,895 for employer health insurance contribution and that is due to escalating claims in the city's health insurance program which will be also
across all funds and also the interfund loan which is 4.5 million to implement the seventh amendment for Forest Lake Golf Club list agreement meanwhile the finance
department has identified 529,611 from a news available budget for those capital projects that have been completed and this will be returned to our general fund reserves which will
lower the budget requirement to 5,36,186 for water and wastewater fund we have a total of 675,000 where utilities department requested for additional appropriation for their reclaim backup consulting and
legal expenses 194,137 for employer health insurance contributions and then we have storm water fund additional appropriation for 43,323
solid waste fund for 11,92 and lastly for CRA 9,552 which are all for employer health insurance contributions that it yes it all right yeah we we need to read Hold on go
ahead read an ordinance of the city of Akoi Orange County Florida relating to the city budget amending the city budget adopted by ordinance 2024-28 8 for the fiscal year beginning October 1st 2024 and ending September 30 2025 by
providing for increase of appropriations providing for severability providing an effective date all right I'm going to open the public hearing anybody in the public have any comments on the uh item 11 second reading of ordinance public hearing for the budget amendment
all right I'm going to close the public here and bring it up to the dice anybody on the dice anybody commissioners have any comments uh I have a question can you explain uh what this budget amendment does in tangible terms
does it increase taxes what what are we doing by amending this budget in in layman terms um it just so happened that we have um additional requirement um and majority
of this if you can see is the 4.5 million for the last city commission that was approved to run the seven amendment for the forest lake lease agreement and then others is to continue the operations for water wastewater and
police operations um to the uh commissioner's question we are not raising taxes with this budget amendment we are taking money that we have um and we're appropriating it in an
amendment to our budget but the tax rate remains the same thank you that's it the the only question I would say what happens with the medical the city manager is because of some of the um things that affect our medical
insurance goes up so that's does and that's something that I'm looking at right now um in great detail but as you all are aware we are a partially self-insured plan which means when
um things are good costs are low um we happen to have a lot of catastrophic claims on the plan and that is the reason for this proposed budget amendment thank you um anybody else up have anything to say
i don't okay we need a motion i'll make a motion to approve the ordinance uh for the FY 2025 budget amendment motion made by Commissioner Fen i hear a second i'll second seconded by Commissioner
Kennedy any more comments no more comments let's vote motion carries unanimously with uh Commissioner Oliver absent all right public hearing number 12 first reading transmitt and public hearing of an ordinance to envision 2045
Ocoy comprehensive plan large scale excuse me plan amendment to replace Okcoyy's comprehensive plan in its entirety zoning manager Whitfield all right mayor um if I may while um Miss Whitfield is getting set up here
um I wanted to introduce this effort and the comprehensive plan and is one of the cornerstone aspects of our community because it sets a land use vision and it creates a future land use map that we
are required to demonstrate how we are going to provide the facilities and services that we provide in order to meet the demand created by that growth um we haven't had one of these in a long
time so one of the things I want to point out um first of all is this effort was handled completely inhouse um I used to write comp plans as a consultant and we we wouldn't jump into
something like this for anything less than about $400,000 and this market value now and that was almost 20 years ago is much higher and we happen to have a a staff
that has the expertise and the knowledge in the industry to do a phenomenal job and I can't thank them enough what we've done here and you all have been a part of this all of you in in one way or another have been a part
of various studies that we've done over the years that had tremendous amounts of public participation and vision documents like the downtown master plan like the CRA target area development plan and this is our first opportunity that
we've had to kind of combine everything into a set of requirements that we're placing on ourselves in a good way to say we're going to grow better and this is based on commission input over the years as well as citiz tons of citizen
input tonight we're asking you to transmit this um to the department of commerce and what that means is we're getting ready to start the process by you authorizing transmitt it's going to go up to
Department of Commerce where it will be reviewed by other state departments for any comments as well as a peer review by all adjacent municipalities um to our citizens I would simply say if if you go online and look at this
document we've added a lot in here um to improve the quality of life over time it's a tangible set of goals that we intend to accomplish and in many of the policies we're committing to do things
case in point a parks master plan we're committing to continue to evaluate our park system so we have to do that now it's in the comp plan and we're going to continue to update that um just while I have parks on the brain um we've added
drive time criteria in the comp plan now you know so a citizen can relate very well to something like that i want to be able to drive to a park in a certain time frame um we've we've taken the same approach with the future land use
element we have a mixeduse land use category now that we're proposing that is for our our downtown and this is very exciting because it will allow many of the commission's goals and dreams relating to creating a downtown a better
environment um to be realized because the next thing that's coming and that is now um a staff effort as well is the land development code and that is your implementation arm of your of your
master plan which is your comp plan and so we're very excited about this because this is our one shot that we've had in a long time to really say okay things that are going to happen on the ground now are going to have to adhere to these
environmental goals these land use goals these open space goals and these transportation goals and utilities goals i I don't want to leave them out because um when I said all facilities and services we've got to be able to meet
the growth demand and um so I'm going to let a notch we've condensed her 130 slide presentation down to about 18 slides so we're going to try to get you out of here at least two hours earlier than you might have thought um and
reminder that you're going to get to come back and talk about this and ask more questions i'll extend this to the commission because this is a a big document and we have some time to to tweak things here and there i would encourage you to reach out to me and I'm
happy to sit you down with staff to have a deeper dive into this um as as our adjacent municipalities and state agencies are now doing um considering that we're recommending that you authorize
transmitt take it away thank you Craig good evening Mr mayor commissioners um members of the audience as Craig mentioned this is our Envision 2045 comprehensive plan amendment um oops it's not
working so the issue before the commission this evening is whether or not to approve the proposed ordinance to adopt Envision 2045 as Craig mentioned it repeals and replaces in its entirety the city's current 2002 comp plan um I want to point out that it would be even though it's a repeal and replace of the
comp plan it is still um following the state's expedited state review process um so if the commission chooses to approve tonight we would have to transmit it to the state and regional agencies within 10 days and then they have 45 days to review and provide comments back and then afterwards the
city would have 180 days to take action we are hoping to to bring this back to the commission in June um for the second reading and public hearing for adoption so very quickly a little bit of background um this is the 2002 comp plan
it's it's listed and organized by the different elements that are required by statutes um it was based on data that was in the late 90s early 2000s and has since expired and and does need to be updated um when we first started this we step
one was looking at the statues and any statutory changes that's occurred over the past two decades um and then this is just a summary of the statutory requirements uh statutes now require that the comp plan has a 10-year and a 20-year planning horizon so we have to
look out how we provide services in 10 years and then how we provide services in 20 years uh it also requires us to look at population projections uh the complaint is also required to have a map series to include the future line use map mixeduse categories and where they may be located historical and natural
resources and their current conditions as well as our transportation systems the comp plan is also required to have a capital improvements strategy which includes the 5-year CIP and uh a demonstration of how the city will grow in an economically sustainable manner
over the 20-year planning horizon uh we're also required to identify and protect our natural resources and generally the ability of the city to accommodate the projected growth um in terms of transportation water sewer solid waste drainage and protecting our
aquifer um the provision of housing schools and um recreational open space schools no longer legislatively required but we do have a commitment with Orange County Public Schools so envision 2045 will contain two volumes the first volume is um the
policy framework it is exhibit A to the ordinance the exhibit A so volume one will be adopted volume two the data inventory and analysis document serves as a resource of all the data analysis that staff has conducted over the past
year um after looking at the statutory requirements we then looked to the evaluation and appraisal report that was done in 2010 um as well as the various special area plans that the commission has adopted over the past 10 years or so including the downtown master plan the
um state road 429 overlay areas the three character areas um the CRA plan that Craig mentioned as well as various studies and efforts that the city participated in with DOT um so all of that is a compilation to create and
reorganize the comp plan into focus areas to sort of achieve the vision and the the um desires that was expressed in the year so we're now organized into essentially five chapters um and I'll go
into detail in those five in a moment so the entirety of the comp plan is intended to help the city achieve a vision that is an AOE that is vibrant that's attractive economically stable where our businesses thrive and
neighborhoods flourish we have a diverse compact and complimentary land use patterns where our policies produce quality developments and a safe connected transportation system but at the same time preserving our environmental resources and natural systems creating parks and open spaces
and promoting opportunities for social engagement because the end goal that you'll see as you read through the comp plan is to achieve a healthy community um and healthy is physical social um and and all aspects of health for humans and
for the environment so the future land use it's the first element in chapter 2 which is the chapter where we strive for a vibrant and an and attractive community the DIA for this element focused on historic and projected population growth
the goal as I mentioned is to achieve a balanced community there are eight objectives in this element the key updates are um they include two new future lines use categories um one is to encourage a transitional land use and then the second one is a mixeduse
category that Craig mentioned we're also um proposing adjustments in the density ranges in existing residential designations um establishing a density maximum within the current professional services commercial light industrial heavy industrial future lines categories
the current comp plan allows us to do that now except that provision lives in the DIA portion of the 2002 comp plan we're just moving it into the policies of the 2045 comp plan um also looking at creating very clear criteria for flume
amendments which doesn't exist now um and also putting an emphasis on urban design uh and architectural design for the built environment and um preserving natural and historic resources through sustainable practices so very quickly this table just lists all the existing
and two proposed future language categories the current density and intensities um and the proposed densities intensities and then their net change um and that's on the left hand the right hand side so for purposes of getting through the presentation I won't go into
detail um the comp plan um update in vision 2045 also proposes to apply the mixeduse category to the downtown area which is the middle image um it's a composition of the existing like parts of the some of the character areas the
downtown district um master plan and the downtown redevelopment area um boundaries and then also applying the mixeduse designation also onto the CRA boundary the housing element is the second element in chapter 2 um the data
analysis includes an extensive inventory of the city's housing stock um from the 2002 all the permanent history through 2022 and then projecting out housing demand based on the persons per household um in the current comp
plan the goal for the housing element is to build an attractive city where folks want to live here and grow here that's a a slogan that that uh the comp plan team is is putting forth the housing element has six objectives the key updates in
the housing element include um prioritizing quality and diverse quality and diversity and housing topologies for residents through all stages of life and ranges of affordability so ensuring that for first-time home buyers retirees divorcees small families
moving up to larger families we want to make sure that we're providing housing for all of our different population needs um and also the housing element has specific objectives and policies um focused on protecting residential character and historic
resources the last element in chapter 2 is recreation and open space um the DIA also included looking at existing parks parklands and trails and also looking at bringing the city to the meeting the national benchmarks that other communities um are using now the goal is
to provide a comprehensive and accessible and inclusive and sustainable park system and recreation system and inclusive here considers the ages of our you know of our users park users like children seniors um and their ability
various ability levels the recreation and open space element proposes six objectives the key updates here are to update the level service standard we're now at four acres per thousand we're wanting to increase that to 8 acres per thousand with a goal of 10.2 acres per
thousand by 2045 we're also looking at the number of parks per residents as well as the walkability as Craig mentioned of our residents ability to get to the park system by way of um the 10-minute walk which is a national program the recreation open space
element also puts forth policies to promote environmental stewardship through educational resources so that's chapter two chapter three is by itself is the infrastructure element we want to make sure that our infrastructure is efficient and reliable and wellmaintained it con this element
consists of two sub elements the first one is utilities the second is drainage the DIA for utilities u the team looked at historic consumption rates and trends and then projecting out the the customer and consumer demands um over the 20 the
10 year and 20 year planning horizons um just want to point out this is the city's service area which includes city and some parts out of the city that we're obligated to serving not the entirety of the city's geographic boundary um the goal for the utilities
element is to provide to plan for and provide a high quality water sewer reclaimed water service to our um residents and our users our customers there are eight objectives the key updates include updating the level of service um for water sew and reclaim
service reducing water consumption and improving water conservation as well as updating the water supply plan which we're required to do within 18 months of the regional supply plan being updated um the second sub element is
drainage um the inventory looked at all of the the drainage basins in the city as well as all the subbasins we went from 16 subbasins to 17 subbasins and also looking at the topography of the city in terms of soils um that is for purposes of protecting aquafer recharge
and high recharge areas the goal for the drainage sub element is to protect water quality and improve our city's resiliency to floods there are four objectives that's in this sub element the key updates um include creating a drainage level of service the current 2002 compressive plan does not have a
drainage level service this comp plan is proposing to have one um it also focuses on water quality basin protection and flood resiliency chapter four is the mobility element formally the transportation element um our team looked at existing
systems the operating levels of service for all the the railway segments that we currently monitor through the concurrency management system we looked at planned improvements in the 10-year and 20-year planning horizon a coordination between development services and public works and our
transportation consultant and then looking at what those planned improvements would yield in the 2034 and 2045 roadways transit and bike ped facilities um the goal for this element is to provide a resilient and
logically connected mobility system um five objectives are proposed the key updates here is a transition for our level service for roadways from a tripsbased roadway standard to a context classification base which looks at not just the trips on the road but also the
context of the land uses in that road system so a a four-lane road in a densely populated area is going to operate and function differently than a four-lane road um in more rural areas or more um less dense areas of the city so
we want to make sure that we're planning for the context to make sure that our residents and our visitors are moving safely another key update is creating a bicycle and pedestrian level service standard which doesn't exist now in the transportation element and that level of service is through a a um methodology
called the level of stress traffic stress and it basically evaluates the pedestrians or the bicyclist level of comfort as they travel along the roadway based on the presence of bike lanes sidewalks how far they are from the the travel lanes and things like that
whether there are spatial separation or physical um separations to protect them from vehicular um conflicts the the last thing is um focusing on transportation safety and transportation efficiency which considers system
connectivity circulation and access um and also the resiliency of all of these modes the chapter five is conservation so we want to make sure that how we grow is environmentally sustainable sustainable um and environmentally
friendly um the conservation elements DIA looks at all the inventory of existing wetlands riverines flood planes lakes aquifer recharge areas and also looking at the historic changes in each of those um resource types the goal for the conservation element is to preserve
re rehabilitate and construct natural and artificial ecosystems as well as protecting our flora and fauna biodiversity to protect both human health and environmental health so essentially if we protect our environment we're also protecting our own human health there are five
objectives that staff is proposing the key updates are to minimize development impacts through innovative sustainable design and engineering practices um and also prioritizing protection of natural resources um to the greatest extent possible
the last chapter in um envision 2045 is having a responsible accessible and open and open governance there are four elements in this um chapter public schools intergovernmental coordination capital improvements and private
property rights you'll see in this gra in this table that there are no changes to the private property rights element because we just adopt that in 2022 per the um that year's legislation the schools element has four objectives intergovernmental has five and capital
improvements has three the goals generally for all three of those elements is to continue and to coordinate and maintain positive relationships with federal state and regional agencies as well as Orange County the school board and our adjacent um sister municipalities
key updates in these elements basically is to achieve consistency with all the changes in the other elements that you just heard and then predominantly reorganizing consolidating and eliminating redundancies and policies that no are no longer relevant or that
uh reference state rules and codes such as the Florida administrative code that no longer exists um uh 9J5 to um comp planning so with that um the planning and zoning commission heard this item through a series of three meetings the
first one was um a presentation to them on the data analysis document which was a um a long workshop on just data um in March of 2024 and then the goals objectives and policies work session in March of 2025 that was the March 20th
meeting where uh we had to move it because of elections on April 8th last week PCC considered the item um and following one public comment they made a unanimous decision to recommend approval and with that staff is also um seeking a
recommend seeking city commission approval to transmit the ordinance to the state that is my presentation all right commissioners any comments i have some all right
um again very impressive um great job from what I could see and thank you for putting the acronyms at the end so we I have a real problem with that when I don't always follow what we're going what each one means um it's interesting when you just go to like one
I pulled out was the planned bike and pedestrian improvements it's amazing what's going to happen we anticipate happening between now and 2045 compared to what we have and the book is interesting i mean I don't know if anyone can see but it's quite thick and
it has a lot of maps in it this is the current book that's the Okay well I guess I have nothing to complain about huh okay um it was interesting most of I guess again interesting reading um I think you did a great job from what I can see thank you and I think it's
something that I hope our residents would like to look at because looking at where we will be in 2045 or anticipate when I'm my late 80s um but it's just something of again looking at that the bike pedestrian what we're going to have because a lot of our folks want you know
they want to travel like out to the bike trail in Winter Garden and we see where we're going to be and we know that Oakland Avenue is going to be an avenue that we're going to be able to use but sometimes we don't see the the grand plan yes and it's kind of nice looking
at it there's different areas I thought were very fascinating you're just looking at um what you have done with you can on one of the maps rental properties versus owner occupied yes and the other one is the values i mean I'm looking at it and I know we have a very
small print here but again a lot went into this and there's those are just some of the things I've kind of was interesting to me and I think they're very interesting to our residents they may not the whole book may not be as fascinating maybe to them as it would be
to you but um it has a lot of information so I'm very I was impressed with what I was seeing thank you um when it's finally adopted to adoption stage the final publications that we'll have for the commission are the pull outs with the fuller sheets the bigger sheets
so you can see them all i'm sitting here trying to figure this out i might need a highlighter to go over it but um yes no I again to me had a lot of fascinating I'm not going to admit that I read word for word the whole thing at
all the pages i'm glad you condensed it but um as I was going through it I was very impressed thank you you have anything Commissioner S yeah I would just like to once again thank the staff for a wonderful job that they've done on
this compared to past uh uh comp plans and everything which were completely boring this is nice i mean it's a slick little production with the pictures and the maps and everything you did such an excellent job on that and it's ordered
fantastically you can go right through it from the front to the back and everything you know exactly where it is and it's just physically laid out great uh I went through it i looked at a lot of the elements and all but uh there's
still a lot to be digested at least on my part so I look forward to the future where we can ask some questions and and discuss some of the items but very good good job thank you Mr
ky um I agree completely with Commissioner Fner um I've been digesting it um uh going through in some detail i have a lot of questions later for staff sure um
but I wa I went back and watched uh I think it's a two and a half hour presentation you gave to P&Z yes sir um all of the members of staff and the different departments very thorough and what I really love is um the the change
or the push and I don't know whether those existed in 2001 or not uh but the the use of the metrics and the national standards some of that's a little technical but some of it uh as Craig
prefaced already is uh really relatable to citizens and I love that uh the 10-minute walk and the you know the entire city should be accessible within a 15 minute drive wow um because I know
my life I spend my life thinking gosh it should only take 10 minutes to get here why is it taking 30 and I think it's um I think those are the types of common sense goals
um that citizens want to see us working on and I think as much common sense as it may seem to us um it's clear the level of technical skill and planning that you're going to have to go through to to make it
achievable and um so again I I want to reiterate um I think staff's doing a wonderful job it's amazing how you can see all of the uh points of view of different groups and uh leaders in the community uh
brought to bear and I'm very excited um that this is going to be our guidepost as you finish up the land development code etc i really do believe that this is uh going to be uh one of the one of the greatest events in the history of
our city in the long run thank you so I'm very appreciative thank you over the years and different back looking at the comp plan I was going through uh through the book like I said going through the different things and you've done such a great job with laying
it out one of the one of the things I think we need to do is have have a city library where if a citizen wants to come down and spend a few day or not a few days but an hour or so and go and it could take a few days if you want to
really read it it will but really h have some kind of where they could come down we can't print out 50,000 books but if we could have it where they could come down and sit down in a in in one of our areas and go through this and see some of the different things that has to happen with the city to make sure the
city is keeping up with all the comp plan and everything that we do the the the different things of the water service uh the uh reducing water service is also a big thing because of trying to cut back on the water and make sure we have the water the other thing is the
safety on the roads making the roads safe for people to be on and uh and having being able to move around in the city like you said to be somewhere within a certain amount of time and in doing that i I think we're getting there i think you're right in the future this
is going to be a big help with what goes on in our city and I think I would love the citizens to It's hard to just sit down and tell somebody for a couple hours i think if we uh maybe u homeowners would want to come in when they do it we could give them a way to
read this mayor if I may um one of the things that we actually have been discussing today is that prior to final adoption um having a community open house in the Lakeshore Center where we would have displays set up that depicted the new
organization of the comp plan and we would have staff subject area experts standing by and then we would have one set time where we would give a presentation and take questions So that's something that we hadn't we
haven't vetted fully yet because like I said this is getting sent out to the state agencies as well as our our neighbors um but when we get it into when we get all the comments incorporated I'd like to do a a
community open house in the Lakeshore Center um with with a structure loosely following what I just um depicted i I think it gives the citizens availability to see the different things that is has to happen and is going to happen and things that have changed over the last
20 years or whatever and what in our city it gives them an opportunity to to see it visual and have ask questions of the of the different departments so I think that'd be a great idea all right can I add to that briefly uh one thing
it may not be clear if you go to the city's website if you go to the city agenda center and you pull up this meeting and you go to item 12 there are electronic copies PDFs of both volumes
of the comp plan that you can review over several days in the privacy of your own which is what I'm doing all right so all right we're at um we need a motion on the Before that first we have to read it i have to read it and but mayor if I may
just interject as as someone who's practiced in the area of Lanny's law for more than two decades uh just a tremendous job by by staff in putting this together i just have to echo everything uh just just one legal correction if I may uh and the old comp
plan has has not expired uh it remains in effect until the new one is adopted i didn't just didn't want any that hanging out there so an ordinance of the city of Akoi Florida amending the city of Akoi comprehensive plan is adopted in 1991 as amended to repeal the 2002 AOE
comprehensive plan in its entirety and replace such plan with a new updated comprehensive plan entitled Envision 2045 providing for transmitt to reviewing agencies providing for severability providing for an effective date all right well public hearing real
quick anybody in the public have any comments on the uh comprehensive plan 2045 don't forget to fill a form out i'm Doug Conber um president of the White Hill Homeowner Association i have
gone on the website Scott and it is interesting i'd like us make a suggestion Mr whitfield yes would it be possible to have 10 or 15 copies of this available in your office that we as as citizens could come in and use like a library come in and check one out bring
it back because I'm not going to sit at a computer and sit all day long looking at that i I just can't do that but if you have extra copies we could come in and check them out and bring them back to you then the rest of us could all use it that way because I don't know what it's you know if that's something that
could be done maybe um we can print out about a half dozen copies and see what the demand's like that's exactly what I'm and save a few trees and be available in her office absolutely and just so everyone knows and anyone um
from the public um the front area of of the planning and development department over here is a kind of a customer resource area where we want to encourage that we actually have little rooms that you can sit down with a hard copy and a
cup of coffee and you can just read until your heart's content and um that's what that's why that space was designed that way but that's a great idea absolutely happy to authorize you know printing some of that sure thank you
absolutely hey before you come up that's why I was saying what I said about coming up here and doing that you you come up take the time to have it in there and he's exactly right there's places spaces in the building department where you can sit in a alco and go through that
all right Mr moore supervisor Moore yes sir uh I I've been going to the last few uh Orange County meetings for several months now so this is just curious there may be a good good reason
for it but why did you choose 2024 i I know the county has vision 2050 i have sat in I'm not saying I absorbed
it but I have sat in to several of the meetings when it was being presented well it's 2045 um is the horizon ours yes ours is 2045 because our our current one was
adopted in 2022 we started this in 20 um we started the complent update process in 2023 24 so we just went up to the next closest um five-year digit orange County's 2050 vision is probably because
their comp plan was adopted on a a zero year so they just added 20 years to it okay thank you all right don't forget if you have it filled out if you're going to talk you have to fill the form out speaker form before you leave yes sir
good evening uh my name is Chris Chambers i'm a home president for the homeowners association in Forest Ridge at Okoi uh I heard mine is more of a question i heard you state in uh in the CPI that there is a uh a
component that deals with the historical uh sites within the city in my community stands the uh uh hollowed ground uh which is in city of Okcoy are there any plans within this uh CPI that will cover
that uh historical site so in objective six of the housing element um we added a brand new objective which is six to um the objective this is to preserve and protect historic structures and sites um and it lists all the historic resources
that our team looked through and we've mapped them um the cemetery and how grounds I believe is among those those that list um but it also puts in policies for um guiding how historic properties ought to be preserved and
maintained repaired because for example brick you can't treat historic bricks and old bricks the same way you can't clean them the same way as you do new bricks so um there is provision in the housing element that deals with that um Ginger do you have She's talking to me
from the audience so I'm going to ask Ginger to come up here is here yes sure ginger Coral development services director we also in the recreation and open space have um some policies that relate to our historic sites especially hollowed
ground and the cemeteries relates to being good stewards and and looking at those sites of where they may be able to be provided to public access so there's elements and policies based in the elements there are policies that we can build on there have been previous plans
in the past regarding that specific site and be glad to get with you on those and how those may be move forward thank you thank you okay okay all right um that's it i'm going to close the
public hearing bring it back up to the dice any more comments if not we need a motion i'll make that motion to transmit the that correct yes motion transmit commit
motion to transmit approve well approve and transmit approve and transmit okay I'll make that motion awesome motion made by Commissioner Wilson seconded by Commissioner Kennedy any more comments no more comments let's
vote motion carries unanimously with Commissioner Oliver absent thank you thank you very much appreciate all your work everybody's work thank you very much all right we're down to um before we get to the comments I'm
going to read off the different little things here one first thing I want to say is last Saturday uh we had Chick-fil-A and the city recreation department had the 5K race i was I I was the only mayor commissioners
there it missed a good day it had a lot of activities a lot of We had 364 65 runners they had a max they had to take cut it off and they also had a day of up to 12 o'clock with all the people could go around the different functions different things that the
cities offer like giveaways and stuff for children and all that so it was a great great morning the weather was pretty good too so it turned out great the race was I think the guy that won the race we did it in 19 minutes for the 5K so he was he was moving so we did it
in a new in a new uh way so it was great so uh April the 25th is breakfast with the Easter Bunny saturday April the 19th from 8:30 to 10:30 Oakco Lakes Shore Center the cost is $12 per person reservations are required for more
information and to reserve your spot contact Parks and Leisure Services Easter egg extravaganza saturday April the 19th from 11:30 to 2 Oak Lake Shore Center enjoy an egg hunt exciting games
crafts and visit with the Easter Bunny may the 25th Okcoy Community Market thursday May the 1st 5 5:00 p p.m through 9:00 p.m okcoy Lakeshore Center this month's market is focused on Mother's Day okcoy Police Department
Community Picnic saturday May the 3 11 a.m through 2:00 p.m vander Central Park 560 Fluellan Avenue centennial Celebration Friday May the 9th 5:00 p.m through 1000 p.m bill Breeze
Park time capsule installation tuesday May the 13th 6:30 p.m withers Maguire 16th East Oakland Avenue memorial Day ceremony Thursday May the 22nd 11:00 a.m
through 12:00 p.m oakway Lakes Center all right Commissioner Fner you have any comments i know you covered it all Mr mayor i don't have any comments commissioner Wilson yeah it's first time i'm speechless um
you I think you do that first i ain't gonna say that i know a lot of folks have been waiting for Wawwa to open i understand it's going to open the grand opening is on May 1st so all those who are just anticipating to go buy gas and whatever
at Wawwa so plan that and I have nothing else to say after that i'm one more thing oakland Avenue is open yes it part of it part of it first block beautiful go once again go look at that that is great thank you it's been a long time coming we're going to have nothing to
say by then go ahead you always beat me to I know i always try to beat you to it don't I um no I'm good thank you happy Easter Commissioner Kennedy no comments all right thanks everybody i I really don't have any more
comments have a safe safe week we'll see you back here on uh what is it