Yes, it is jacket. Good evening. This is the July 2nd, 2025th Seminal County Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. Please stand for the pledge of 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. This board is a seven member board appointed by the board of county commissioners. A quorum has been established to hold tonight's meeting. Public hearing items acted upon by this
board are referred to the board of county commissioners for further consideration. Board members present tonight are myself, Chairman Mike Loren, Commissioner Dan Lopez, Commissioner Carissa Lahan, Commissioner Lordis
Aguer, Commissioner Richard German. Staff present tonight are Joy Giles, Plan and Development Division Manager. Naya Borurt, deputy county attorney,
Jim Potter, professional engineer, development review engineer. Welcome. Annie Siloway, principal planner. Caitlyn Apagar, senior planner. Hillary Patton, planner. and Tammy Brushwood,
PNZ board clerk. Tonight's meeting will go as follows. Staff will introduce the item. The applicant will present their item. Audience members wishing to speak will then be heard. Audience participation requires each speaker complete a comment
card and give it to the clerk. Comment cards are located in the lobby. Please indicate on the comment form whether you would like to make oral comments. Written comments will also be accepted. Speakers should restrict their comments to information directly related to the
item being heard. When called, speakers should approach the microphone clearly stating their name and address for the record. The board may ask questions of the speaker. After all speakers have been heard, public comment will be closed. The applicant will then be given a chance
for rebuttal. Any items shown, such as videos, presentations, pictures, or maps, must be left with the clerk for public record. Items shown from electric devices should be emailed to the clerk. A motion will be made and seconded. Board discussion may occur and conclude
with a vote. I will request a roll call vote for any split votes. All right, let's get started with the agenda. Uh we'll start with the acceptance and approval of proof of publication. Do I have a motion? Still moved. Second. All right. I have a first
and a second. All those in favor? I. All those opposed? None. That motion passes. Next, we'll be approving the minutes uh from May 7th, 2025 PNZ meeting. Uh does the board have any changes to those me minutes? Move to approve. All right. Do
I have a second? All right. All those in favor? I. Those opposed? Seeing none, motion passes. All right. Next, we'll move to our technical review item of the day. Uh, Nodding Pines's preliminary subdivision plan and Siloway presenting.
Evening. Good evening. Um, Annie Siloway, uh, principal planner. I will be presenting the Nodding Pines PSP. The applicant is requesting approval of the Nodding Pines preliminary subdivision plan containing 31 single family residential lots on approximately
17.42 acres in the R1A single family dwelling zoning district located east of Nodding Pinesway approximately a/4 mile south of Redbud Bug Lake Road. The subject property has a low density residential future land use which allows
a maximum of four dwelling units per net buildable acre. The PSP proposes 31 single family residential lots with a maximum density of 2.45 dwelling units per net buildable acre. The development will have one access
point on Tonadian Pines Way and the proposed development is located within the Seminal County Utilities and will be required to connect to water and sewer. Staff finds a preliminary subdivision plan to be in compliance with all applicable provisions of chapter 35 of
the Simol County Land Development Code. And staff requests approval of the preliminary subdivision plan for the Nodding Pines subdivision containing 31 residential lots on 17.42 acres zoned
R1A located east of Nodding Pines Way and approximately quarter mile south of Redbug Lake Road. And that concludes my presentation. Thank you. Is there any uh questions from the board of staff? Seeing none, uh is the applicant
present? Yes. All right. Uh please come to the name and address, please. Hi, Ben Beckham. Ben Morhead Stokes, 431 East Raio Avenue, uh Mainland, Florida, 32751. U here to answer questions you might have. Great. Um, anything to add
as well or No, you're good. I think Andy did a great job. Excellent. Any questions from the board? Wonderful. See? See? None. All right. Thank you.
Are you open to a motion? Yeah. It's a technical review. Yes. a technical interview. Sorry. Yeah. Is there any was there any comment cards for this particular item? Okay. Um then I'll open and close public
comments. So uh Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion um to uh request uh preliminary approval of the preliminary subdivision, not preliminary approval, approval of the preliminary subdivision plan for the Nodding Pine subdivision containing 31
residential lots on 17.42 42 acres zoned R1A single family dwelling located east of Nodding Pines's Way approximately a/4 mile south of Redbug Lake Road. Second. All right, I have a first and a second. Um, all those in favor? I. All those
opposed hearing none. Motion passes. On to our public hearing item. First one up will be Mha Sushi and Habachi special exemption. Uh, Hillary Aiden presenting. Hi, Hillary. Good evening. Hillary
Peyton, Planning and Development. This item is a request for a special exception for Miai Sushi and Hibashi to allow restaurant within 1,000 ft of a church, sorry, of a school to obtain an alcohol license in the eour plan development on 9.51 acres located on the
south side of Westlake Mary Boulevard east of Sun Drive. The applicant currently operates a bonafideed restaurant and would like to serve beer and wine for on-site consumption. The restaurant is 2,000 square feet in size and seats 56 patrons with no
outdoor seating. The hours of operation are Monday through Thursday from 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 9:30 p.m. The restaurant located within an
existing planned shopping center is 544 feet from UCP Early Seinal Learning Center off of Sun Drive on the north, which does not meet the 10,000 ft separation from the school as required by section 30.6.6.2 to subsection D of the Semino County
Land Development Code. The land development code states that certain criteria must be met for the board of county commissioners to approve a special exception request. Staff finds that the request meets the four criteria. On June 8th, 2025, the applicant held a
community meeting in compliance with the land development code. Details of the community meeting have been provided in your agenda package. Staff recommends that the planning and zoning commission recommend the board of county commissioners approve the special exception request with the conditions
stated in the development order to allow a restaurant within a thousand ft of a school to obtain an alcohol license in the associated PD zoning district. This concludes my presentation on the bill for any questions. Thank you. Questions from the board?
I have one. Um, I noticed in the staff analysis that it says that the um that there are existing restaurants in the same shopping center that serve alcohol. Correct. Are those all also special exceptions that were previously granted by the county? No, there were um there
were some that were essentially grandfathered in. Um they existed prior to the school being there. Are there any special exceptions that have been issued in there by the county? No, not that I found. But there are already restaurants
operating. Yes. Y there's quite a few. All right. Um, is the applicant present? And would you come on up, please? Uh, state your name and address. My name is Gwen Chen. And your address,
please. Uh Orlando 6876 Lucas Street, Orlando, Florida 32819. Excellent. Thank you. Um is there anything you'd like to add or Yes. U as a special this whole baza they have a multiple restaurant they are currently
are already serving alcohol. I will see we have only come the next door actually have a liquor full liquor license and we only planning to sell like you know because it's a eight Japanese fusion so the saki or sushi
will be m perfect match you know right gotcha yeah so I think it's a bral but not affecting the community only bring this just helping the benefit got yeah and so you're almost next to Don Julio's
then right next to it Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Excellent. Uh questions from the board of the applicant. I do. There's currently no outdoor seating, right? No, we don't. Any plans to uh not no space because the the in front of us is just
it's like a entrance area, right? So there's no space for that. Don Julio does put a lot of outdoor but we can. Okay. Excellent. Okay. um like to open it up if there's any audience uh comment cards. Was there any for this as well?
All right. So, I'll open and uh close public comments then if there's nobody. Um yeah. Is there any more discussion from the board or a motion or Mr. Chairman? I uh move we recommend approval of the
special exception to allow the restaurant within thousand ft of school to obtain a alcohol license in the PD. district 9.51 acres located on the south side of West West Lake Mary Boulevard east of Sun Drive. Second motion second.
Um all those in favor I. All those opposed hearing none. Motion passes. All right. We will move on to item number three. Midway loop trail reszone.
Caitlyn Abgar presenting. Hello. Good evening. Caitlyn Abgar, Planning and Development Services for the record. Thank you. All right. The applicant is requesting uh approval for a reszone from A1 Agriculture to PLI
uh public lands and institutions for proposed trail and other future recreational facilities on approximately 106.96 acres located on the west side of Bristen Avenue north of State Road 46. The parcel currently has a future land
use of lowdensity residential and a zoning classification of A1 agriculture. The intent of the lowdensity residential land use is to provide appropriate locations for standard detached single family residences and allows for limited public uses including publicly owned
parks and recreational areas. The request for the reszone is to permit the proposed trail and recreation amenities which is currently not a permitted use in the A1 zoning district. The parcel currently exists at a as as a storm water retention pond and was historically utilized as a borrow pit.
The applicant proposes to develop the subject site as a public trail that is approximately 4,947 ft in length. The site will also contain exercise equipment and a pavilion. The subject the subject site is currently located within the city of
Sanford's utility service area. At this time, the trail project does not propose any utility services. Additional amenities constructed in the future may require utility connection and will be appropriately reviewed at that time. There is an existing sidewalk sidewalk
along Bristen Avenue that will provide pedestrian access to the subject property. The proposed trail project will modify some of the existing sidewalk to be incorporated into the proposed trail. The trail also proposes a connection into Rosland Park at a future phase.
The proposed PLI zoning designation has been evaluated for compatibility with the land development code of seminal county in accordance with chapter 30 part 8. The proposed zoning is compatible with the PLI zoned property to the south that currently operates as a school and the surrounding
residentially zoned property as the trail aims to serve those neighborhoods to the northeast and west. Publicly owned parks and recreational areas are considered special exception uses in the lowdensity residential use land use. However, parks are permitted
by right if included in a zoning district that is compatible with the LDR land use designation. PLI is an allowing zone an allowable zoning classification for LDR um per the comprehensive plan pursuant to SE seminal county land
development code section 30.3.5.1 the applicant previously conducted adequate community meetings and outreach initiatives. Thus the requirement for an additional community meeting was waved by the planning division manager. Um the the applicant conducted a community
meeting on August 22nd, 2024 and details of this meeting has been provided in the agenda package. Staff requests the planning and zoning commission recommend the board board of county commissioners adopt the ordinance enacting a reszone from A1 agriculture to PLI public lands
and institutions for proposed trail and future recreational amenities on approximately 106.96 acres located on the west side of Bristen Avenue north of State Road 46. And that concludes my presentation. Thank you. Uh quick question. Is the um
retention pond going to remain? It's you're just talking about a trail around there. It's not going to change the retention pond. Correct. Okay. Other questions? Yeah. Yes. Is it being presently used as a trail? No, there's no trail existing there. Um this is the reason to allow the development of the
trail. Any other questions for staff? See none. Is the applicant here? Please approach. And name and address for the record, please. Yes, sir. Uh Dan Hickok, uh Semino County Parks and uh Recreation
Project Manager. I live in Orange City, Florida. 32763. Excellent. Thank you. Anything you'd like to add? Obviously. No, just a simple straightforward. We want to turn this in. This is just a community that really hasn't seen a lot of investment in it and uh we think this will be a
valuable project for them. Excellent. Okay. Nice. All right. Um is there anybody from the audience that wanted to speak on this and turned in cards? No cards for or against it? No cards. Do have we do have a hand?
support. There's another one. All right, I've got two here. Um, wishing to make roll comments in support. Oh, another one. Support. Let's start with uh Emory Green Jr. Welcome and name and uh address for the
record, please. Uh Emory Green Jr., address 2240 Church Street, Sanford, Florida. I'm the executive director of the Midway Coalition. Uh first, I'd like to recognize all the residents from Historic Midway that are here tonight.
There's quite a few of them. Um as you know this project has been underway for decades for quite some time. Uh to answer your question earlier uh it it has been a basically a eyesore in the past um
from dilapidated uh fences to um in and out of code when it comes to compliance for code enforcement. But the residents have remained steadfast in their focus to make sure that this becomes a a
beautiful green space for the thousands of residents that are now in our historic community. Um, one of the great things about this project is that uh, we've seen it come from a cow pasture to
producing the um, overpasses, taking the fielder for 417 to now becoming one of Simino County's most beautiful assets. Um, so with the support of uh our county commission and
specifically the residents, I can't thank them enough for empowering us. Uh, and if you just raise your hand, Midway residents that are here. Some are actually watching online. And our Midway now is not only Midway, but it's also a lot of the other surrounding
residents. Rose Crest, Riverbend, um, Celery City, Celery Lake, Celery Key, Celery Cove, and many more up along Celery, and even the Orlando Sanford International Airport, which is where Midway was um at first before the air
base game. So, there's a lot of history. Uh, there's this is the first step to where we want to go. There's been a a lot of conversation about how we um ensure that the preservation of this
park is enriched by the history from the migrants in which it was established for back in the 1920s. Uh and also there was a comment earlier about um potential utility uh within this particular area.
We've been before this board a number of times talking about utilities. As you know, we have a utility in Midway called the Midway Cananan Community Water Association. So we want to ensure that if the time comes or when it comes that all parties including the city of
Sanford Midway Kanan Community Water Association and the residents are at the table to figure out how we can envision this um majestic asset uh for uh the the long term, not just the short term but
for the long term. Uh but again uh we we had approved and we support this initiative to reszone this and we all agree uh and affirm that this will be a most uh treasured asset for Semino County. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate
you coming out. All right. And this one I should probably pass around. This is a nonverbal comment. in favor. Let's just pass it back down.
Uh this is another one that's uh not oral and just to pass around also also in full support. So those real quick. All right. Is there anybody else from the audience that would like to speak uh in favor or
against this item? I am seeing none. I'm going to go ahead and close public comment. I guess the question is, does the board have anything to discuss here or do I have a motion? Any questions? I have a motion.
We got Oh, I'm I'm sorry. Public comment was closed. I have a motion for you. Um, I'd like to make a motion to recommend the board of county commissioners adopt the ordinance enacting a reszone from A1 agriculture to PLI public lands and institutions for
a proposed trail and future recreational amenities on approximately 106.96 acres located on the west side of Bristen Avenue north of State Road 46. I'll second that. All right, I have a first and second there. Um, all those in
favor? I. Any opposed? hearing none. Uh motion approved. All right. Remind them that has to go to commission. Yeah, exactly. And by the way, just so everybody knows, this is a recommendation that will now go, you know, to our board of county
commissioners for, you know, their decision. So that's um that's the next step. So just so you're all aware, go ahead, chairman. If I may, um absolutely. Members of the public, if you have questions on this, you can either talk to Caitlyn or the county representative. if they can answer any
qu any specific questions that you have about the project. So if you'd like to do that, you're welcome to. Yeah. Sorry about that. I already closed public comments, so I apologize. It's refreshing to see so many people coming out. It's part of a project, right? Yeah. And also be able to attend the
meeting of the county commissioners where it will be heard. Do we can we tell them the date and time of that? Do we know yet? That will be August 12th of 2025. Yes, it's August 12th will be at I think it's 1:30, but should probably check.
Perfect. The time. All right. All right. So, I'm going to go ahead and close public hearing. Um, closing business, director's report. Um, Joy, do you have anything for the board tonight? Uh, we have nothing to report at this time. All right. Nothing to report. All right. Does the board have anything to
discuss? No. Everybody good? All right. Seeing nothing else, I'm going to go ahead and adjurnn. Outstanding.