good evening everyone welcome to the April 1st 2025 Sebring city council meeting you all staying with me the mayor is going to lead us in a prayer and a pledge God With Me Lord thank you once again for the wonderful City that we live in and giving us the blessings that
you've given us we also want to thank you for presenting two people you're going to join us again for three years and help guide them and make sound and right decisions along with the rest of the council we ask that you watch over all of our citizens all of our staff we allow you put your hands on top of our
first uh First Responders I'm sorry and uh and guide them through and and keep us safe and good we ask that all we do in your name Jesus Christ amen to the flag of the United States of
America to the repic for which it stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all call the RO please I should here here here here here
Bop here all right if anyone from the audience has something they would like to discuss that is not on the agenda you can fill out one of the forms here on the front table handed in to clerk Haley and we will get to that later in the meeting May's report uh just a few
things and thanks to the rotary in Art League for the sipping on a circle uh it was a great really good event had pretty decent weather got a little windy I think it lost a few tents they lost a few tents but um they did a good job in doing that brought a lot of more people
downtown uh soda Fest is this weekend the 5th and sixth both Saturday and Sunday should expect a big crowd I think last year they had over 25,000 or close to 30,000 people come um so it should be another nice event and then also if you
haven't seen any of the HGTV it's really cool to see that just to see the different people that are in it um our uh fearless leader back there Captain Austin Maddox or chief I can't remember what you are at the time
so but uh I think he's going to show up on the next one pushing cars down the ramp so but uh it's been good Hannah's done a good job everybody that we've seen so far it's kind of unique to see and fun to see the different people you can pick out that are that are in the program but uh they're so far doing a
pretty good job for us and if you haven't had a chance to walk downtown during the week and even on the weekends um it is loaded with people people from all over and it's just fun to talk to people and just see where they're here why they're here and what they think about our city and have not had one
cross comment from anybody uh about anything and they were just excited and and and everybody downtown the merchants are doing good but they're really taking care of the customers and uh people are just excited you know the stores that they go into the the restaurants and the
bars everybody's been very accommodating I want to thank the whole Community for stepping up and and being part of it so that's all I have all right Miss C CH welcome thank you big shout out to uh Jared for um I
think I can say that I tricked him into going to Tallahassee with me last minute um I didn't force his hand but I might have forced his hand so thank you I think it was a very good success learned a lot um looking forward to next year getting everything ready and planned out make sure that we can be very effective
and efficient um learned a lot we made a lot of good contacts think we were able to advocate well for the city so looking forward to see what happens with that um Legacy 1912 opened today down where coffee Vault used to be really good food so go check it out if
you can um it's also consent agenda just want to say on 8G with the fire station 15 thank you cap um thank you Captain thank you Austin thank you for everybody making the app looking forward to Renovations no report all right quick
and easy next up is the consent agenda does anybody have any questions or comments on the consent agenda any questions from the public I'll entertain a motion make a motion
second right P the board please from yes yes yes Stuart yes Bishop yes all right on to item 10A Dana Rell is going to come up and yeah we got to it
quick come up and uh present us a new potential development good evening as mentioned my name is Dana Rell I'm with Stonehenge Land Development Consultants tonight I also have with me Michelle carner with carner development services we're
working together on a project off of uh Beverly this Boulevard if we go ahead to the next side little information about the property it's currently owned by CTO real estate LLC
and it's located at 4260 Youth Care Lane with a size of approximately 9.31 Acres it has an existing future land use of medium density residential and a zoning of R2 which is one and two family dwelling
District on the next slide you can see the existing future land use map and the existing zoning map um as we continue to go through the slides i' just point out to you that the surrounding neighborhoods are comprised
of much smaller lots and denser development and what we're doing is rolling back some dense development that was originally um permitted on this particular property through development agreement and through
zoning so on the next slide and my slides might not fully match up with what you're looking at today I just went in and added a little bit more information after meeting with City staff on Friday um we show a a floor plan so
these particular developers are currently developing various properties throughout Highlands County with single family residential homes the picture unfortunately has a truck in front of it so you might not get the best image but so what I did was I also
included the 3D rendering under underneath this photo so you could see what the house is supposed to look like how it's constructed and there's actually two different models on this slide you'll see the floor plan it might be a little difficult to see but what we're looking at is a split plan with
the master suite on one side of the house two bedrooms on the other side of the house these floor plans are approximately 1,300 square fet in size has a really nice open living room and dining room room area in the middle and
they also show actually this plan has four bedrooms um because there's a bedroom right up in the front of the house and then there's also a single car garage so I wanted to show you a little bit about what kind of homes would be constructed in this neighborhood they'd be picking between this house and floor plan to the
next slide thank you which is just a another picture of a house that they've developed in Highlands County for some reason this this particular model is less frequently selected so I only included a picture of it but I wanted to
provide some information on what we're proposing and what is currently allowed as I mentioned it has an R2 zoning which allows single family homes and duplex homes and there is an existing development agreement on this property
so with the blessing of council if everything goes well tonight and if everyone's in favor we hope to come back to amend the existing development agreement I think I'm speaking fast so I'm going to slow down a little bit um there's the existing development
agreement allows 90 units which were supposed to be duplexes I was just looking at the site plan and maybe no one else will find this as funny as me but they said it was going to be a gated community and they were going to connect it to Beverly
Estates but there wasn't any cack so you you could get in but you couldn't get out um so I just found that funny but these are actually proposed to be single family residential homes and not duplexes the existing lot size permitted
through development agreement is 7,000 square foot per unit we are proposing 10,000 square foot which is that 129 by 80 number still have that slide up the maximum height would be 35t which
is consistent with the existing R2 zoning um I'm just basically proposing to follow the minimum standards in the R2 zoning but we increased the lot sizes and decreased the total allowable density to 29 units instead of 40 units
these will be served by Central water and sewer and it will be gravity sewer and we've had conversations with Bob bogas we have an engineer who's already put together a preliminary plat um Bob B sees no issues with the connections at
this time on the next slide there's a little bit more information regarding transportation and how the site is developed or proposed to be developed now we did originally propose
uh CIS act development so you could get in and out if you had the gate code um but in order to accommodate the city and and to encourage interconnectivity between youthcare and
kennworth we did go ahead and revise our plans to be a through street so it would connect directly to Beverly Estates bull I keep wanting to say Beverly Estates Boulevard it's just Beverly Boulevard um the road meets the
standards for the city standards which are also the Highlands County standard of 60 feet in width we're opposing 6-ft sidewalks on either side of Beverly there will be a 15ft RightWay dedication along youthcare
you can barely see it but on the very top of this image there's like a dotted line that's our dedication to Highlands County we'll also be providing type f curb and gutter so it will be curved
yes does it have to be curved yes in order to meet the standards per Highlands County Technical standards manual which the city uses to build their streets do the California sty if the city agrees if that's what
you would prefer may we want check that may impact storm just thaning for sweeping purposes sorry for sweeping purposes so for sweeping purposes this
would had a type f curve it would right more maintenance okay sorry go ahead absolutely no problem um and speaking of Maintenance because we are providing that interconnectivity we would ask the city of Sebring to take over maintenance
of this road after we const conct it but we have agreed to maintain the retention area which is going to take in the runoff from the road into our retention area and the there will be an HOA in place to maintain that retention area
keep it mowed and inspect the storm water systems every five years as required by the state or as you heard recently after legislative update that might happen every year but we'll make sure that they're inspected as frequently as they
need to be so on this slide we're just showing an overview with the aerial turned on so you can kind of see what's there um how does it oh it looks really good on this screen
so again just drawing your attention and your eye to the surrounding smaller lots and how we're really making them as affordable as they can be in today's economy while still really
increasing the property values and um just providing a really good product that we're we're really excited to offer this especially in this area so on the next page is the same image with the aerial layer turned off you can see
the area with the red red rings that is a proposed retention the next slide is simply our contact information if you have any questions or want wanted to reach out to us for any reason we're happy to answer any questions that you may have and tonight
we're just looking for a discussion to find out if city council would be supportive of this endeavor and if so we plan to move forward with that development agreement and preliminary plat what do you think that F of these homes are going to be is range 240,000
to 260,000 as low as we can get it right now anybody else I think it's perfect infill and it fits the neighborhood very well I think it's great like bigger lot too I think it's great for the
neighborhood thank you thank you very much we're super excited about this when do you think you would be able to break around pending approval oh they are they're ready okay yeah their feet are on fire they're ready the moment we can get our
final Cod approved which I think is going to take us maybe a month and a half to two months if everything goes smoothly then they'll be ready to go ahead and start permitting everything else and getting it all through so within the
year I think it's great thank you you know it's nice to see homes that aren't coming in on Wheels yes I hear that had one of those conversations before um the only the only question I would have
is the the gutters I don't think there's a whole lot of sweeping being done in Highland Homes so if we could just look into what it would be required so right if it's possible because I don't think there's any
curving so it would be a completely new area for the contract Cy what's that Beverly has no right I don't think any Street in the neighborhood has cury oh God I like maybe youth care but I make you wrong
so check proposed P okay all right okay do we need to take any action here today or no no all right thank you for your time than you yeah we need to approve it I think
they're there okay well good does anybody have any questions or comments on the public on this no all right I guess it's Mr attorney you don't have anything no business from the audience Scott you have
anything um there's nothing really material on the project report to report um I I have uh should be getting some looping estimates perhaps here in the next week or so 126 West Center and I
did reach elevator maintenance company that used to do maintenance and they also do assessments I'm waiting on proposal what that looks like from cost
perspective assessment is power turned on there yes it is okay Power the chillers working or no yeah I didn't think so okay thank you all right Miss Haley you got
a handful of items here bills please so move second the board yes yes yes yes
yeses the time of the election of the council president Nom make a motion with Josh St second a second that was
quick very excited and nominations nominations Bishop yes car yes yes yes [Laughter] sure thank you joh
open counc president pro I'll make a motion and we put Mr Havier for cl nomin Nom Bishop yes yes
yes yes steart yes all right nothing else